Brown and White Vol. 67 No. 22

              lehigh university brown and white vol67 — no 22 friday dec 16,1955 university 6-0331 merry christmas o come all ye faithful—the stained glass window of packer chapel beckons to christmas worshipers photo by whitaker seniors smash record with 243 subscriptions returns of 140 signed applications monday and 35 more wednesday have given the senior class gift fund drive a boost which pushed it far above all previous records ac cording to william luce 56 chair man of the gift committee two hundred and forty-three subscriptions worth almost 73 000 have been collected in this first phase of the campaign well over 37 per cent have pledged a total that sets the class of 56 ahead of any previous class the earliest this goal has ever been achieved before was in febru ary 1953 the success of the drive has been attributed by luce to the large force of solicitors employed while 80 members of the senior class are do ing the job this year in former years it was the senior senate about 30 that usually did the work ten teams have been devised each with a captain top team head ed by bob mcgrory has 34 subscrip tions to its benefit with george mason and his second place team holding 28 the gift plan employed by the four-year-men was first used successfully at princeton in 1938 and since then has found in creasing use each senior pledges 14 a year for 20 years to an in surance policy at the end of that time the university will re ceive 300 from each policy while it is not known how high the total will go luce expressed optimism bartlett added to solon post edward h bartlett 58 is now a member of arcadia filling the posi tion vacated by the ousting of philip m lotke 58 a week ago bartlett who finished 16th in last year's elections was auto matically selected for the posi tion he will hold office until feb 8 1956 when the new body takes office he is a candidate for re-election in the elections which terminated at 4 p.m to day arcadia will hold a short meeting at 12:15 monday in drown hall to ear the election committee report trib sportswriter scl speaker of 8 walter red smith famed sports writer of the new york herald tri bune and many other papers will appear in the scl program in grace hall at 8 tonight the nationally-famous columnist will recreate sports golden mo ments before an estimated crowd of 1,200 all lehigh students will be admitted free with id cards ford donates 534,000 to hike salaries lehigh is one of 615 privately-supported liberal arts and science col leges and universities to receive grants from the 500,000,000 ford foun dation gift to america's private colleges hospitals and medical schools lehigh is the recepient of a 534,000 grant to be used to help increase faculty salaries the half-billion dollar sum the largest single appropriation in the his tory of philanthropy will be distributed during the next 18 months with 218 million allocated to the 615 private colleges for salary increases commenting on the grants president martin d whitaker stated it is most gratifying to learn that the college of arts and science has been designated by the trustees of the ford foundation to receive a grant for the increase of faculty salaries it is equally heartening to know that our sister institutions of the lehigh valley are all to share in this challenging recognition of the work m-—-mmm of the liberal arts colleges the addition of area hospitals to the list of those receiving grants at this time is another in dication of the high statesman ship of those responsible for administering this great humani tarian fund perhaps the most significant fea ture of the ford foundation an nouncement is the increase in its planned grants for 50 million to a total ten times that amount and the inclusion of all privately endowed and accredited liberal arts colleges among the list of recipients the precedent-setting scope of the ford foundation's action more than provides its expressed desire to emphasize the cardinal import ance of the college teacher to our the ford foundation's gift to the independent colleges and universities of the country is the most dramatic as well as overwhelmingly the most ge nerous contribution yet made to private education by private en terprise commented dean glenn j christensen associate dean of the college of arts and science the huge dimension of the gift may however cause us to forget that ultimately the influence of the award may prove more beneficial than the immediate financial assist ance the vision and open-handed ness of the ford foundation points up sharply the enormousness of the task of financing of private higher education undoubtedly the ford foundation will continue its aid as will the concert band h s musicians to play sunday works of beethoven bruckner mendelssohn hoist and prokofieff will be included in sunday after noon's band concert at broughal junior high school auditorium sponsored by the department of music the program of con cert marches will feature guest band conductors and musical delegates from 15 high school and preparatory schools in new york new jersey and pennsyl vania director of the affair which begins at 4 will be prof william h schempf head of the department the concert first to be presented by the lehigh concert band this se mester is open to the public free of charge the high school musicians will ar rive tomorrow for initial rehearsals and following a university tour will be entertained at a buffet supper later in the evening they will at tend the perm wrestling meet as guests of the athletic department hoppy holiday the brown and white would like to wish all its readers a very merry christmas and happy new year this is the last edition before the holidays and the next issue will be on jan 10 the advertising deadline for the jan 10 edition will be 2 p.m on sunday jan 8 college infirmaries common a survey of medical facilities in other colleges and universities com pleted recently by an arcadia com mittee headed by president f bruce waechter shows that 80 per cent of the schools answering the query possess infirmary service the 80 per cent represents some 69 schools of which 33 boast 24-hour-seven day-a-week service questionnaires were sent to 136 institutions and 86 replies were received added to 70 schools having an enrollment corresponding to lehigh's were 33 with a greater number of students and 33 with a smaller number of students in addition to the 33 with full 24 hour service are 11 who have a qua lified person on duty at all times to take care of emergencies the av erage number of beds in the health centers was found to be 17 with a high of 100 beds and a low of two for those schools reporting no in firmary service the average number of hours facilities were available was nine forty-three colleges in dicated that they have residence visitation and eight others said that such visitation is available in case of emergency arcadia undertook this survey according to waechter to dem onstrate not only what lehigh needs in the way of health ser vice but also to determine what comparable institutions offer their students in the way of such sedvice the figure showing that 80 per cent of comparable colleges have infirmary service would seem to indicate that le high service is lacking said the arcadia president a run-down of some of the col leges their enrollments the type of service the hours of operation and the number of beds follows princeton 2,800 students 24-hour infirmary service 100 beds lafa yette 1,500 students 24-hour in firmary service 21 beds albright 725 students infirmary service 7 a.m to 9 p.m six beds delaware 2,000 students 24-hour infirmary service 10 beds gettysburg 1,350 students 24-hour infirmary service 15 beds carnegie tech 3,000 students has hospital serve as an infirmary from 10 a.m to 4 p.m bucknell 2,000 stu dents infirmary service from 9 a.m to 9 p.m with emergency service at all hours 10 beds dartmouth 2,800 students 24-hour infirmary service 30 beds moravian 650 students infirmary service seven beds clemson 2,980 students 24-hour infirmary service 50 beds westminster 1,000 students 24-hour infirmary service 11 beds tufts 2,000 students infirmary ser see whitaker page 7 see waechter page 7