Brown and White Vol. 58 no. 5

              dads and scouts will invade the campus tomorrow the occasion is the coincidence of scout visitation day and university dad's day going going gone will be escorted through the buildings on the lower campus with special emphasis on labor atories and testing equipment commenting on dad's day general sadler said from here on in the event is in the hands of the students if the event gains widespread interest among the students i see no reason why it cannot be elaborated upon and conducted annually as in the past earlier this year dean seidle and general sadler conferred with student representatives and decided to revive the event which prior to the war was held annually after a lapse of several years dad day will be revived to morrow when students will be hosts to their dads at the get tysburg-lehigh football game renewal of the day is due to the combined efforts of percy l sadler director of athletics charles a seidle associate dean of students and the various student governing bodies on campus the boy scouts and their leaders will arrive on the cam pus at 10 a.m when they will be divided into groups each to be conducted by an apo mem ber at the latest count 735 senior scouts from a 50 mile radius will be at lehigh they 49 party makes splash at sokol by hugh craig the class of 1949 held its first beer party of the semester wed nesday night at catholic sokol hall attended by hundreds of seniors and any number of free loaders who posed as spotlight shiners loudspeaker technicians sheet music turners and even as bartenders the party was a roaring success after an hou of preliminary tonsil-wetting by the early ar rivals class president ed lea ton got the festivities officially under way at 9 p.m with a welcome for everybody and a vote of thanks to all the men who worked on the entertain continued on page 5 col 4 miracles of the mind a program of telepathy memory feats and mass hypnotism conducted by dr franz polgar will unfold tonight in grace hall at 8 o'clock as the first scl pre sentation of the season dr polgar is billed as the world's great est mental wizard students will be admitted or coupon a but must be sure t present entire athletic book a the gate the committee reversing i former policy announced tha individual tickets for each pro gram for faculty faculty wives student wives and dates wil be available at the door fo 60 cents general admission for tht public will be 1.20 all chil dren's tickets will sell for 6c cents these tickets will be available only at the box office in a recent article on polga written by pence james for thi saturday evening post the men tal wizard is described as on who puts you to sleep anc can find any hidden object in eluding one secreted under s man's upper plate polgar employs a great dea of audience participation in his hypnotism exhibitions often in ducing participants to giv speeches or engage in similai conduct the story is told of a grouf of editors and reporters in new york who got together in s newspaper library with polgai outside and looked over tht shelves of hundreds of volumes and decided they would have the radio mind come in anc take a copy of who's who from its resting place and open it tc a biography of alfred e smith he did it ground-breaking to follow game the new gymnasium annex will get its start tomorrow at the ground-breaking ceremonies which will be held following the gettysburg - lehigh football game authorization for con struction on the 500,000 gym nasium annex was granted last week by the board of trustees mike cunningham veteran taylor gymnasium employee for the past 30 years will pull the handle on the power shovel at the site of the new building other participants will be presi dent whitaker charles w nicholls pitman n j senior president of arcadia and percy l sadler director of athletics features of the new building designed by jens fredrick lar son new york n v include a new swimming pool with a seat ing gallery for 600 spectators locker facilities for 2600 stu dents trophy room boxing fencing and wrestling rooms and new administrative offices for athletic coaches and offi cials financing of the new annex will be made possible from funds secured during the current lehigh progress fund dr kinsey's report to get profs view the lehigh university brown and white students flock to auction for bargins john j head auctioneer for the arcadia lost and found sale knocks down this mercury hub cap for 40c to humphrey gebhardt third from right in front row sexual behavior in the human male popularly known a the kinsey report will be the subject of a symposium to be pre sented wednesday oct 27 at 7:30 p.m in 466 packard lab sponsored by pi gamma mv social science honorary the symposium will have as speakers professors francis j trembly biology department john e jacobi sociology james l graham psychology and elmer c bratt economics dean charles a seidle will serve as mediator the kinsey report is the result of nine years work by dr alfred c kinsey wardell b pomeroy and clyde e martin all of indiana university one of the most widely discussed books of its nature the 804 page volume has been the sub ject of controversy since it ap peared in january of this year some have acclaimed it as the most significant contribution to science since darwin's the origin of species others have condemned it as misleading an harmful brief comments by the faculty speakers in the light of tin specialized fields they represen will provide a basis for evalu ation of kinsey's book accord ing to prof raymond g cow herd faculty advisor of pi gam ma mv the critique was en couraged by active campus in terest the commentary will b followed by a period of discus sion in which the audience ma participate this is pi gamma mu's firs venture on the campus scene the chapter received its char ter last may preliminary or ganization work having beei done by dr w leon godshall head of the department of in ternational relations and chan cellor of the eastern region o the society john a christie arts 49 is president and johi w maxwell jr university bur sar is secretary-treasurer interesting no real bargains nothing worth hanging around for still it was a way to kill the afternoon next year it'll be the same thing but any thing different is fun even if it's a half cuckoo auction and i'll probably be there bidding a half a buck for a notebook i could get in the supply bureau for a quarter oh incidentally we musn't forget the news among the things sold were rubbers books on every con ceivable subject raincoats hats cigarette lighters and the usual things that usual people lose on a usual campus til next week fol-de-rol and don't ever be a journalism major gave out with a spiel that would have put clem spudfoo the american tobacco man to shame the beauty of head's auction eering was his injection of a bit of humor into the otherwise mercenary proceedings when trying to scalp the unwary buy ers with a gi scarf he sighed the label says virgin wool better take it there's not an other one on campus scarfs john but on to facts and statistics the highest price was paid for a broken crystaled hamilton watch twelve and a quarter the lowest price was expended on a pencil or some damn fool thing that was worth about that on the whole it was barely arcadia held its annual lost and found auction wednesday in drown hall they raked in 117.35 in about as many min utes now it was on the whole a pretty humorous affair at an auction people should be mak ing off with hope diamonds and sevre vases for the price of a couple of beers not this auc tion people were shelling out 85 cents for 35 cent slide rules they were cutting each other's throats trying to give up three frogs for a pair of gloves that looked like they'd seen the napoleanic wars john j head sometime ar cadian erstwhile auctioneer friday october 15 1948 vol xviii no 5 bethlehem pa polgar performs tonight greatest mental wizard dads and scouts guests for gettysburg contest thanks to seidle sadler pep rally tonight contest for queen houseparty queen contest entries must be in by october 20 to enter your date select a good picture of her attach your name class and campus address and the girl's name to the back of the picture put the photo in an envelope address it to your particular iving group and leave it in he arcadia office drown hall