Brown and White Vol. 56 no. 45

              candidates must attend a meeting in the arcadia office at 4:15 p.m may 12 where a group picture will be taken and rules and regulations governing the campaigning will be discussed poll clerks are needed to at tend the ballot boxes and will be paid at the rate of fifty cents an hour applicants for poll clerk positions must report to the arcadia office in advance of the election dates with a sched lue of their free hours b&w foto by john e traise as a part of the university's long-range roadway development plan this road the preliminary excavation for which is shown in progress above will carry traffic between dravo house and sayre park road it will replace the temporary road now in use for trucks vol lvi no a 5 may 16 is set as deadline for nickname don't miss your big chance to cash in on the prize money in the lehigh nickname contest all you have to do to win over fifty dollars is to submit the name most suit able for use in connection with the lehigh university athletic teams here are the rules i the contest is open to all undergradu ates faculty and alumni of lehigh university 2 there will be two prizes awarded one for first and one for second place the prize money at this date totals 100.00 50.00 do nated by the interfraterniry council and 50.00 by the brown and white 3 all entires muit be accompanied by the reason your particular name was chosen 4 there is no limit to the number of en tries one person may submit 5 in case of a tie for either first or second place the awards will be divided among the winners 6 if no name is deemed suitable by the iudges no prizes will be awarded the de cision of the judges will be final 7 entries may be placedtin boxes situated in the library supply bureau and the arca dia office entries may also be mailed to the promotion department brown and white drown hall 8 the deadline for all entries will be may 16 1948 veterans must get additional va certificates of eligibility ceremonies planned for flagpole day boig congdon speakers sadler to give trophies including reiter cup the annual flagpole day cere monies will take place thursday may 13 at the flagpole classes will be dismissed from 11:00 to 12:00 on that date so that students can attend the function the first talk will be given by charles boig president of arcadia who will give a report on student government for the preceding year he will then introduce the new president who will conduct the rest of the program following an address by dean wray congdon percy sadler di rector of athletics will present several trophies and cups to out standing athletics the band will conclude the program with several pieces including the alma mater one of the cups to be given is the bosey reiter cup to be award ed on the basis of high qualities of leadership and character the leadership shall be such as to con tribute to the best interests of the university high character will be inter preted from the definition of theo dore roosevelt his definition calls for extreme resolution courage energy self-control fearlessness justice and an unflinching deter mination to succeed besides high intelligence theo dore roosevelt stressed the too often lacking gift of common sense he said character must ever out rank genius and intellect intellect is a useful servant but an evil master unless itself mastered by character neither high scholarship nor athletic achievement alone will be considered necessary or sufficient to receive the bosey reiter cup but both will weigh heavily in the presentation glee club boys meet song-girls students take women to dinner and dance forty girls from the centenary junior college choir were the guests of the lehigh university glee club last saturday afternoon they were escorted by their glee club blind dates to dinner and a dance the schedule for the day listed a concert by the girls upon their arrival at 3:00 p.m the concert was composed of several choral selec tions and solos by two pianists following the concert the girls and their dates attended either the baseball game with drexel the tmck meet with ursinus or the lacrosse game against drexel th group dined at howard johnson's in allentown following two and one half hours of free time the couples were to attend a dance in the upper floor of grace hall from 9:00 until 1:00 however the collegians music makers for the evening were not all informed about the engagement neither were arrangements made to use grace hall or to supply a piano when the hall was finally open ed and several volunteers had carried a piano up from the lower floor only four men from the collegians were present but the combo alternating with canned music furnished the dance rhy thms from 9:50 until 11:00 when the girls had to leave again for home the ruling is based on the de cision that the time spent in train ing under one law must be charged against total eligibility for training under the other law limit to benefit the decision holds the length of combination training courses to four years since the maximum eligibility for training under either law generally is limited to four years simultaneous with the total training notice the veteran's ad ministration has announced that effective immediately the va rep resentative on campus will be re moved for veterans under p.l 16 only a representative wil be available at the placement bureau office in the alumni building the second wednesday of every month from 8:30 a.m to 5:00 p.m veterans under p.l 346 will continue to have access to informa tion concerning their problems through the va contact unit 1124 turner st allentown phone 3-5277 or by writing the va guidance center on 136 north st reading penna trustees establish religion department new york minister appointed as head old testament thought among courses offered the rev arthur m sherman jr assistant at the church of the incarnation new york city n.y was appointed as head of the de partment of religion effective september 1 according to a state ment released by president whita ker monday mr sherman is a graduate of the kent school and trinity college he received his bachelor of divin ity degree from the virginia epis copal theological seminary in 1942 at the present time he is completing work for his doctor of philisophy degree at columbia university served in navy he was assistant as st mark's episcopal church shreveport louisiana before entering the ser vice as chaplain in the u s navy in 1943 while in the navy mr sherman was at one time sta tioned in scotland where he met and married the present mrs sherman several new courses will be of fered in religion by the newly formed department an eighteen hour curriculum will be available for the coming year the two new courses taught by mr sherman will be old testament fall semester and great religious thought spring semester the latter course is intended to deal primarily with great religious thought as expressed in contemp orary and classical books chapain bean will continue to teach the new testament course courses expanded also offered in the first and sec ond semesters respectively will be great living religions com parative religion and introduc tion to judaism and christianity mr sherman will teach these courses the department of religion was instituted by an act of the board of trustees last year and became effective on july 1 1947 four courses were offered by the de partment this year and this num ber will be increased to six for the next academic year chaplain bean disclosed that there has been a fairly large pre-registration for the religion courses next semester symphony to play brahms and bach a series of three concerts by the detroit symphony orchestra under the direction of dr karl krueger will be presented on may 19 and 20 henrietta schumann pianist who will play concerto no 2 in c minor by rachmaninoff will feature the opening concert on wednesday evening may 19 other selections will include brahms symphony no 4 in e minor wagner's prelude to lohengrin and waltzes from the opera der rosencavalier by richard strauss at 3 o'clock thursday may 20 a school-children's concert will be presented with walter poole con ducting the detroit orchestra prokofieff s peter and the wolf with narration by hale pharris will feature the program bach's chorale jesus joy of man's de siring and tschaikovsky's nut cracker suite will also be includ ed in this program a public concert which will be presented thursday evening may 20 will include tschaikovsky's symphony no 6 in b minor ex cerpts from a midsummer night's dream by mendelssohn and the overture to tannhaeuser by wagner wlrn now on 640 kc wlrn will broadcast the le high-rutgers baseball game at 3:00 p.m saturday may 15 on its new frequency of 640 kc this frequency was chosen be cause it offered the least amount of interference post-concert session historians to hear talk lucca city of silks ... a study in medieval capitalism technology and art is the title of an illustrated lecture to be deliver ed thursday evening by dr florence e de roover head of the history department of cedar crest college the lecture will be given 7:30 p.m in room 466 packard the talk will be preceded by a regular business meeting of phi alpha theta honorary history so ciety which is sponsoring the pro gram everyone is invited to join the historians to hear dr deßoover who has spent 7 years traveling and studying in europe and has recently completed a book on the subject of her lecture music clubs receive key members of the combined musi cal clubs are going to receive re cognition of their participation in the form of a key men are eligible for the key who have been in the glee club the symphony orchestra or the colle gians for two or more semesters william h schempf head of the department of music approved the final plan and the keys are now on order delivery is expected with the keys going directly to the men cyanide elects sixteen members cyanide lehigh's honorary junior society announces the elec tion of sixteen new members to its organization the men were selected from the june and feb ruary classes of 1950 on the basis of outstanding leadership and scholarship the selectees are edward b boyle jr douglas l carlton robert w courtney joseph h dowling eric r ericson carl w fleischer jr james e hilde brand william j hunt paul loewenwarter leland e maines jr john j martin jackson a ransohoff james a saum theo dore g schwartz norman l stone and leonard e van duyne these men will be tapped offic ially in a ceremony at the flag pole at noon tuesday may 11 they will be initiated into cyanide at a banquet to be given in their honor on monday may 17 cyanide also wishes to announce the cancellation of its plans for a freshman banquet the reason given is that freshman response to the idea was insufficient supplements needed only if man will attend different institution veterans attending colleges and universities under the g-i bill must obtain supplemental certifi cates of eligibility from veterans administration if they plan to en roll in a new school this summer or next fall the certificates should be req uested from the va regional of fice at least 30 days before the date the term opens at the new school advance requests will help speed prompt payment of subsist ence allowances after the start of the new term supplemental certificates to the original certificate of eligibility issued by va are necessary only when a veteran changes from one school or training establishment to another apply now veterans who will attend a dif ferent school this summer from the one in which they are now enrolled should apply immediately for their new certificates if they will not enter the new school until the fall term they may wait until later on this summer veterans changing schools for the summer term and planning to return to their present institution next fall will need a second sup plemental certificate to enable them to re-enter their present school at that time the veteran's full name correct address va claim number and present training establishment should be included in any request for new certificates disabled veterans disabled veterans eligible for education or training under both the vocational rehabilitation act public law 16 and the g-i bill public law 346 do not increase the period of training they may re ceive if they combine their train ing program under both laws the veteran's administration has an social science group installed national president is dinner guest speaker installation ceremonies for the 22 undergraduates and 34 faculty members who became charter members of university chapter of pi gamma mv national honorary social science society were held at the hotel bethlehem friday evening may 7 dr s howard patterson national president of the fraternity was the guest speaker dr patterson urged the need for meetings of people to discuss points of agreement instead of stressing differences he stated that great strides have been made in industrial techniques and harness ing physical force but that we lag far behind in getting along with people members of council john a christie arts 48 was elected president of the new chap ter the office of secretary-treas urer will be filled by john w maxwell bursar and dr raymon g cowherd assistant professor in history will be the faculty ad visor and chairman of the execu tive council members of the council are dr robert a bream associate pro fessor of education charles g hafner assistant in international relations thomas t holmes as sociate professor of mechanical engineering dr finn b jensen associate professor of economics dr kurt f leidecker assistant professor of philosophy and dr henry d meyers assistant pro fessor of psychology student members seven bethlehem students ad mitted to the fraternity were na than cohen richard c davis john j enright samuel i connor frederick c sabler donald n love and richard m smith in addition to these local stu dents were the following frank tatem frank brenner allen phillips walter h ayers arthur defenderfer harvey g hallen beck donald k weber robert h widmer william b eagleson warren l smith samuel w croll harry b walton albert h ruben stein and grier b mujer pi gamma mv is open to stu dents majoring in business eco nomics sociology industrial engi neering history government in ternational relations psychology philosophy and education to be eligible for membership a student must have at least twenty hours in his social science field with an average of 3.5 or better miami triad has annual gathering sigma chi beta theta pi and phi delta theta held their annual maimi triad party may 9 at the beethoven waldheim with the aid of twelve half kegs of beer and an afternoon of hiking softball and volleyball over 300 students and their dates attended the function tra ditional with the three fraternities in commemoration of their found ings at miami university oxford ohio high-point of the day's activities was a dance held after the picnic supper behind a hastily impro vised stockade of empty beer kegs designed to protect the musicians from the surging mob a five piece orchestra provided music for those capable of dancing a hayride was available to those guests not wish ing to dance arrangements for the cuting were under the supervision of the fraternity's three social chairmen john flippen jr phi delta theta richard n doster sigma chi and ray congdon beta theta phi class insurance free of solicitation question has arisen among members of the senior class as to whether participants in class in surance are subject to solicitation for the progress fund in a letter to richard bodine john i kirkpatrick university treasurer said i should like to assure you that participation in class insurance means that the al umnus is in the best of standing as far as the alumni association and the university are concerned for the first 10 years of alumnhood the insurance holder has his alumni dues and bulletin subscription paid by the university and is not subject to solicitation for contribu tions to the alumni fund or special campaigns like the progress fund since the class of 38 established the class memorial gift plan it has become a tradition at lehigh with every class since 1938 adopt ing the system if the class of 48 subscribes to the plan lehigh will receive a gift in excess of 100 000 accumulated over a period of 20 years bean sets fall schedule chaplain bean announced that next year's chapel speakers will include the rt rev g brom?ey oxnam d.d bishop of the new york area of the methodist church dr t o wedel warden of the college of preachers na tional cathedral episcopal washington d c dr elton true blood professor of philosophy earlham college and dr daniel poling minister the temple baptist philadelphia this year's last speaker was dr paul hutchinson managing editor of the christian century dr hutchinson talked on how can we tell right from wrong he stressed that moral law helps to keep the community and men to gether he briefly traced then the history of moral law from the ancient stoics through cicero locke to jefferson letters nounced the total training they may take in such combination courses ap proved by veterans administration is limited to the maximum train ing time available to them under the law which provides the great er period of eligibilty va ruled b&w foto by chisholm these young ladies from centenary junior college and their lehigh hosts are shown above in an informal swing session after the concert last saturday though very disorganized it nevertheless proved to be fun dean honors arcadia plans have been made by wray h congdon dean of undergrad uates for a dinner in honor of the new and retiring members of ar cadia the dinner will be given at 6:00 p.m wednesday may 26 in the trustees dining room in lam berton hall the dinner is in recognition of the work the members of arcadia have done in their first year under the new constitution it is also a congratulatory dinner for the new members of the organization following the dinner there will be a forum discussion by the mem bers of arcadia and invited guests from the faculty and administra tion twenty-nine students and eleven faculty members will at tend the dinner and forum odk admits new members george b horneck baldwin n,y was elected president of the lehigh university chapter of omi cron delta kappa national hon orary senior society following the annual spring initiation five students were admitted to membership lay ton e butts wyomissing robert h korkegi jackscn heights n v edward k leaton mount vernon n v al bert h rubenstein and walter t senkowski both of philadelphia other officers elected were lay ton e butts vice-president al rubenstein treasurer and john d leith associated dean of students secretary new road goes in bethlehem pa tuesday may 11 1948 brown and white price — 5 cents file officer petitions all candidates for class of ficers in the elections of may 19 and 20 must have their peti tions filed at the arcadia office on or before may 12 arcadia has announced ■ all june and october graduates must pay the 2 assessment between may 12 and 19 in the arcadia office in drown hall lehigh team-naming contest closes on sunday may 16 at midnight act now 100 in prize money make lehigh history