Brown and White Vol. 57 no. 6

              according to a survey by the national industrial conference board of new york city lehigh university was rated as the second most popular source of recruits in the united states among non-manufacturing com panies harvard was rated as the most popular source with le high as second among the ten leaders others listed in order were princeton yale massa chusetts institute of technol ogy illinois purdue pennsyl vania northwestern and pitts burgh the report covered the college employment practices of 46 top ranking companies such as utilities insurance firms transportation and communica tion services banks and retail stores a parallel survey of manufacturing companies found neither lehigh nor harvard among the top ten in the course of its report the conference board states there are approximately one thousand well - established col leges and universities in the united states with the excep tion of the women's colleges all are potential sources for train ees from the company view point some are better than others the size of the college is an important factor the na ture and quality of the train ing offered are others for prac tical reasons most companies tend to call on the large good schools which are within easy access some colleges are so much in demand that they re ceive thousands of inquiries an nually from all parts of the country 5 robins morgan director of placement at lehigh university in commenting on the report said it is indeed gratifying to find lehigh's name rated so high in popularity by the non manufacturing companies which recruit at the various colleges especially since lehigh is the smallest college listed it is also encouraging to note that the conference board re ports were prepared prior to the recruiting season for 1948 graduates during which season there were over 60 more in terview programs held on the lehigh campus than there were during the previous scholastic year photo by stern m.s from lehigh in 1931 and his ph.d from pennsylvania in 1936 one of the east's foremost naturalists dr trembley has conducted biological surveys aimed at increased fish pro duction of inland waters for numerous private organiza tions he has spent three summers in an advisory cap acity with the n y state conservation commission at present dr trembley is engaged as consultant in a departmental project headed by dr stanley j thomas and dr thomas h grainger find ing ways and means of chang ing characteristics of bac teria is the aim of this pro gram a survey asking the question are you in favor of the name packers begun last week by douglas whittaker 50 drinker 111-a has reached approxi mately half the present body of 1037 students of 492 men approached 420 expressed their dissatisfaction fifty-eight students voiced their satisfaction whittaker's disapproval of the manner in which the name picking contest was conducted prompted him into initiating the present survey although he feels that a better name might have been chosen whit taker is primarily concerned with the fact that the name packers should have been sub mitted to the student body for approval with this in mind he began the present survey with the in tent of proving that enough in terest can be aroused to cause the student body to act on a matter which results tend to prove the student body must decide on feeling that the disapproval voiced thus far is indicative of future possibilities whittaker plans to continue his survey un til a majority of the student body is reached see editorial page 2 u.s relations with russia is subject of dunlap radio series dr bruce g johnston die research engineer and re search assistants c h yang jan ruzek and c h chen the study is being sponsored by the welding research coun cil the american institute of steel construction and the united states navy office of naval research at an estimated cost of 13,000 cooperating in an advisory capacity will be the column research council earlier testing programs at fritz lab have suggested the possibilities of greater strength in welded frames of buildings and bridges than is indicated in present design formulas commenting on the program dr johnston explained that in the usual design procedure for welded structures the factor of safety is based on theories which fail to consider the unique ad vantages of welding the ac tual strength of a welded frame may thus be much greater than is now calculated noted drug authority heads lehigh penicillin research see show of force can avert war . . ." in the july 23rd issue of the brown and white for the berlin crisis as seen by professor auric n dunlap — the editors trembley warns of dangers in neglecting conservation destruction of the soil has left man two alternatives either he must resort to a process of natural selection if there is to be perpetuation of the species or he must limit his population growth dr francis j trembley associate professor of biology in commenting on the supreme importance of conservation ex plained that the former choice entails an abandonment of scientific and medical knowledge aimed at increasing the span of life — an altogether unpleasant prospect — while the latter in volves a full-fledged attack upon destruction of the soil in con junction with the voluntary control of population by any means known the growth curve of man can be compared to that of any living organism following the long-trend population rise there develops as a result of saturated environment a plateau during which predatory forces keep the population within its food supply these forces act as checks which if removed will weaken the strain and lead to a orocess of deterioration man as a species has been the first to modify his environ ment in 1600 at which time man was a relatively rare or ganism the species numbered 400 million today as a result of an intervening reproductive explosion the species numbers approximately 2 billion 200 mil lion by the year 2000 it is ex pected that this figure will go over the 4 billion mark zooming birth rate even more alarming is the fact that the rate of population increase is zooming today the rate of births over deaths in the united states stands at f roughly 50,000 and there is no indication that the present trend will not continue this terrific increase can be traced to many factors control of con tagious diseases improved com munication and transportation and extended knowledge of the soil are among the most im portant of these factors unfortunately warns dr trembley there exists the com mon fallacy that progress along these lines can continue indefi nitely although for a long time there were new lands avail able for agriculture the amount of new land that can be opened today approximates the amount retired each year because of abuse in addition we are faced with the problem of restoring ravaged lands a process which takes anywhere from 100 to 2000 years starvation check today 80 per cent of the world's population is in a state of malnutrition and starvation it is ironic to know that this suffering is a necessary check trying to feed many of these people is a useless and harmful task such a practice on our part only leads to a population increase which in turn leads to more misery the solutions that have been offered are many and varied some are extremely faulty in their logic in such a category falls the theory that the tropics can produce a potentially un limited food supply the tropics contrary to popular belief are not suited to agriculture for ests must be cut down this done rain and wind will com pletely denude the soil of min erals another such solution is the theory that science will hasten to the rescue science cannot perform the impossible i cont on page 4 col 1 nection with attempts to in crease the productivity of the mold from which penicillin is derived various strains of peni cillin mold and media are under observation and investigation since the middle 19305 when the drug potentialities of peni cillin were first recognized the industry has succeeded in in creasing productivity 450 per cent dr parker has to his credit cont on page 3 col 5 most of the research being carried en at lehigh is in con extensive penicillin research is being conducted at lehigh university under the direction of dr basil parker one of the nation's foremost authorities on penicillin dr parker who was head of the united states gov ernment's extensive penicillin research division during the war is now associated with the heyden chemical company of princeton new jersey co-spon sor of lehigh s research project listant professor of interna la relations at lehigh uni he series entitled united tes vs russia — a post-war presented by auric n dunlap in a series of radio talks which started at 7 pm last night over wgpa a thorough analysis of the united states relations with russia will be struggle will consist of four fifteen-minute programs to be held on tuesday and thursday evenings in the course of the talks prof dunlap will cover three of the basic factors in the relationship of the two powers the programs are be ing presented by the lehigh university workshop in cooper ation with the university de partment of international re lations cont on page 3 col 2 last night's talk was entitled can the u s and russia talk the same language on tues the lehigh university brown and white vol lvii — no 6 bethlehem pa friday august 13 1948 five cents student reaction to packers negative survey reaches 492 lu ranks second as source of employees for industry new design procedure in welded structures aim of fritz project dr francis j trembley associate professor of biology and a member of that depart ment for the last twenty years graduated from hobart college in 1928 received his dr bruce g johnston direc tor of fritz engineering labora tory will be in charge of a five-year project for the study of welded continuous frames for building and bridge construc tion assigned to the laboratory it was announced this week by dr harvey a neville director of the institute of research assisting dr johnston in the new program titled ultimate strength of welded continuous frames will be mr lynn bee b&w photo by stern pictured above is douglas whittaker 50 author of the are you in favor of the name packers survey un able to contact personally every member of the clamor ing multitude whittaker re sorts to a recent invention in an attempt to complete his work this is the final issue of the summer edition of the brown and white watch the bulletin boards shortly after the opening of the fall semester for announce ment of the next issue off the press