Brown and White Vol. 57 no. 2

              football squad will train in poconos for two weeks philharmonic to play concert here in 1949 for the first time in mori than a decade the lehigh foot ball squad will begin its train ing grind away from the cam pus percy l sadler director o athletics has announced tha this fall the packers will trair at vacation valley echo lake in the pocono mountains the team under the tutelagt of william b leckonby will as semble at taylor gymnasiun august 29 for a week of drill preparatory to encamping fo echo lake september 7 th squad will remain there for ar additional two - week traininj period prior to the commence ment of the fall semester sep tember 23 coach leckonby and his as sistants had their first look a this year's charges wednesdaj after a successful freshmai season the sophomores are ex pected to provide the veterai lettermen with some stiff com petition in the battle for start ing berths the nine-game season wi open saturday september 2 at lancaster pa with frank lin and marshall college pre viding the opposition this year's team stacks up a a speedy aggregation th coaching staff agrees that i great deal depends on the abil ity of the sophomores to prov themselves should they do sc lehigh opponents can look for ward to some tough encounters urgent the editors of the brown & white are in urgent need of six copies of the april 30th issue anyone having one of these copies in his possession is requested to contact the b & w offices in drown hall or call 6-0331 b & w photo by stern providing keen competition for the brown and white is shop talk weekly news paper of the summer workshop group going over last minute details before publica tion arc 1 to r miss mary marsh printer dr w george hayward proofreader miss dorothy chubbuck reporter miss martha dimmick reporter summer workshop weekly offers teachers unusual opportunity the rochester philharmonic orchestra will give two concerts april 23 1949 the student con certs-lecture series committee announced a special school children's concert will be presented that morning in grace hall guy fraser harrison conducting the evening concert for le high students will be presented under the direction of erich leinsdorf only a limited num ber of tickets will be available to the public the children's concert was made possible through the com bined efforts of the orchestra officials and joseph ricapito director of instrumental music in the bethlehem public schools there was a great demand for such a program on the part of school children following the successful appearance of the detroit symphony orchestra oldtimecomediesdelighttwo large audiences wednesday tribulations of the poor fresh man who makes good.in the end lloyd kept the audience eithe in stitches or on the edge o their seats as he got himself ii and out of the kind of funn situations that modern com edies seem unable to approach behind his traditional horn rimmed glasses he comes t college determined to take thi popularity title away from th current personality king h falls in love with a sweet youns thing who happens to be hi landlady's daughter after tw reels of making a fool out o himself before the whole stu dent body it is she who give him the courage to go on h redeems himself as a footbal hero in the last minute of thi last game of the season the same show was put oi to a responsive audience at j 2:30 p.m matinee the studen concert-lecture series commit tee is planning a similar pro gram later in the summer t be composed entirely of old tim western films wednesday night was hiss the villain and cheer the hero night for a near capacity audi ence of summer students facul ty and friends who roared their approval of a program of me morable american comedy films sponsored by the student con certs-lectures series committee in packard laboratory the highlight of the evening was the freshman starring harold lloyd in the trials and the two-hour program was made up of old time films taken from the museum of modern art film library dating back to 1908 the films included the doctor's secret a comedy cen tered about a reducing machine designed to make fat men slim gertie the dinosaur one of the first cartoon pictures the skeleton dance another car toon and the sex life of the polyp a pointed lecture by robert benchley on the life of the sponge shop talk weekly publication of the summer workshop for teachers affords teachers an opportunity rarely encountered during their professional ca reers after handling young sters with amazing self-control for nine months out of a year teachers attending the summer workshop good-naturedly turn on the principal dr w george hayward director of the work shop and principal of elmwood elementary school east orange n j their favorite comments are aimed at the color of dr hayward's ties edited by a staff composed of nine women and one man with dr robert a bream associate weekly editions are resumes of lectures delivered by visiting specialists summaries of new teaching techniques announce ments of coming events and lecture schedules covering ap pearances of persons specializ ing in educational theory and practice besides dr bream members of the editorial staff are marian colver and ada zellner co-edi tors kay behrens art editor and edith boyd dorothy chub buck margaret chubbuck mary mahoney martha dimmick jane morris and howard deis cher reporters professor of education at le high acting as advisor shop talk combines friendly humor with the more serious aspects of the training program lec tures delivered by prominent persons in the education field as well as a survey of problems which arise during the course of handling pupils are discussed these are tempered with such features as shock talk in which no member of the class or instructor escapes unscathed this feature quips dr hay ward really gives me a play considering the limited cover age available to the staff mem bers shop talk manages excel lent variety included in the bell telephone of pa will hold interviews for e e.s m.e.s and i.e.'s monday july 19 arts and business students interested in merchandising and retailing will be interviewed by repre sentatives of j c penney and company wednesday july 21 m-e.'s and le.'s who feel they will be put on drafting boards will be relieved to learn that the hamilton watch company of lancaster pa will be inter viewing october graduates dur ing the week of july 19 for openings in time study produc tion schedule process engineer ing and mechanical problems ( continued on page 3 six vacancies appeared in the laurel street housing unit re cently and almost immediately there were 100 applications for the apartments the set-up at lehigh remains tight with no relief predicted the campus bureau blames con tinued crowding on three fac tors 1 many recent lehigh grad uates have remained in bethle hem 2 the competition of indus try for housing 3 a coming increase in en o^ment there is a need at present for accommodations for married and single persons individuals can help by notifying the hous interviews scheduled for fill graduates commenting on last semes ter's record-breaking average dean congdon added that there has been a definite upward trend during the last six semes ters this has been primarily due not only to the return of the veteran with his more ma ture outlook but also to the tre mendous number of applications received the later have made possible a finer selection be cause of thorough screening methods employed topping the list was tau del continued on page 3 those students who recognize the necessity of doing a good job out of school are mainly responsible for the highest scholastic average ever compiled in lehigh history said dr wray h congdon dean of stu dents highest average in history vets screening responsible vol lvii no 2 the lehigh un iversity brown and white bethlehem pa friday july 16 1948 no relief in view for lehigh homeless help from students needed william b leckonby 5 cenfcj i ydjfl leon mcgrady graduate i'm a graduate student you ejjf don't want to ask me anyway £ i'm here all the time i've been l^y here now for five years and tot i still have some time to go see mountain views on page three