Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 3

              mccaa studio to handle pictures for year book business men do well the fleeting wings of time will have to repeat one golden hour of flight and bethlehemites will be enabled to bask 60 more dia mond-studded minutes in glor ious sleep when bethlehem re turns to standard time at 2 a m sunday sept 28 at that time the clock will be set back one hour classes will be run on stan dard time and the usual excuse that a student was unaware of the change of time will not be accepted for monday's classes the university directory for the year 1930-31 is being prepar ed and will be printed as soon as late registration has been completed registrar g b curtis requests that all students who have changed their addresses since registration notify him of the change immediately this can be done by telephone by letter or by filling out a change of ad dress card at the dean's office a new traffic rule will be ef fected during football games this year starting tomorrow a w litzenberger supervising ar chitect announced today the new street entrance to the cam pus will be left open during games while the broadhead ave nue entrance will be closed the main road through the campus and up into sayre park will be open thus giving access to fraternity houses on the cam pus during the games all other roads through the campus will be closed action started to curb frosh m.s t uniforms to be replaced library to open first artexhibit infringement of rules to be punished by council 100 new outfits to be is sued to advanced men 50 prints of graphic art to be shown the lehigh art gallery in the uni versity library will open its first exhibition sunday afternoon when fifty prints of the year an ex hibition of the american institute of graphic arts will be shown to the public the collection represents the choice of all the prints of the past year in continuance of the plan adopted last year the effort to give numerical equality to new and old school tendencies has been disre garded and the 50 prints have been chosen by a single juror this year the judge is john sloan a man of such eminence and such broad sym pathies that the institute feels proud in having secured him for this arduous task garth a howland professor of fine arts who is sponsoring the ex hibition at lehigh is very enthu siastic and promises the public some rare treats among the noted contemporary artists whose work will be shown are peggy bacon adolph dehn pop hart emil ganso jose c orazco wanda gag mabel dwight and pauline blake the art gallery will be open dur ing the regular library hours daily and from three to six o'clock sun day afternoon the exhibition will continue for two weeks ballots for senior elections in the epitome will be out within two weeks it was announced at a meet ing of the senior section committee wednesday evening in drown hall appointments for pictures which are to be taken at mccaa's may be made through this committee a deposit of 2.00 will be required at the first sitting if the pictures are later made up the deposit will be credited toward the order should the order be placed before nov 1 it was also announced that the assessment for senior ballots turn ed in by nov 23 will be 12.00 for ballots turned in between nov 23 and feb 6 the assessment will be 13.00 the last possible date for ballots will be feb 20 with a charge of 14.00 for those turned in between feb 6 and the final date all members of the class of 31 wishing to be certain of pictures in the publication are urged to turn in their ballots before nov 23 as sessments are due at the time the ballots are turned in appointments for pictures may be made through the following men who have been chosen to represent each department of the university a w thornton engineering phy sics j h boltz electrical engin eering g b camden industrial engineering w forstall jr me chanical engineering w a fur man chemical engineering f d job civil engineering f c stutz metallurgical and mining engineer ing e a fay business adminis tration j s little business admin istration f p veale arts and sci ence the mining engineers have al ready ghosen the week of sept 29 oct 4 for their appointments oth er dates will be assigned later immediate action will be taken to discipline unruly freshmen de clared george doering president of the sophomore council at its meet ing wednesday evening in drown hall the council already has a list of 57 names of freshmen who have been accused of flagrantly violating the university curfew and regula tion rules unless there is an imme diate change in the attitude of the class as a whole these individuals will be brought before the council and disciplinary measures will be taken it was decided for this purpose a special disci plinary meeting will be held at 7:30 o'clock monday evening in drown hall and every monday evening thereafter until further notice me thods of punishment were discussed and it was determined that while there is to be no horseplay all infringements of the rules will be punished by stringent measures hereafter there will be posted on the bulletin board outside of cop pee hall the names of those fresh men who are wanted by the coun cil as a means of checking up on the nocturnal prowling of the fresh men raiding parties will be organ ized to scour the town in search of curfew violators such a group was organized wednesday night stationing itself outside of the theatres and cruising the hill to hill bridge aviation course begins at lehigh freshmen hear benedict speak eleven hundred m s and t uni forms have arrived and will be dis tributed as soon as they are un packed and numbered according to a statement made by lt col mat thew h thomlinson one hundred of the new uniforms are for ad vanced men all the old uniforms have been salvaged and are being replaced the new uniforms are of khaki with long trousers and overseas caps the caps are trimmed with black piping and the coats have turn-down collors with dark blue lapels the insignia and all buttons are gilt the blue lapels on the coat indicate a college r o t c unit it is expected that officers will receive their uniforms before the next drill the first m s and t drill was held at 1 o'clock tuesday afternoon on the upper field the men were assigned to platoons and drilled in the fundamentals of facing drills will be held every tuesday during the year from 1 p m until 2 p m in former year drill was held dur ing the fall and spring of the year from 4 p m until 6 p m it has been announced at the ar mory that a freshman rifle team will be formed this year this is the first time this has been done at le high the freshman team is being formed in the hope of developing better varsity rifle teams in the fu ture many freshmen seek places on lehigh band a b rawn jr will lead march ing at ursinus game one hundred new applications for the band seem to indicate that the frosh are musical the fortunate ones of this number combined with the 50 men remaining from last year's band will comprise that or ganization for this year however only 60 men will be on the field band at saturday's game the band will be led in marching by andrew b rawn jr i e 32 drum major and charles h cleave land bus 31 will be student direc tor erwin f underwood arts 31 manager assures the band of ev ery trip except the one to balti more which is not yet certain wil liam c elmore eng phys 32 has been elected librarian of the band health service vaccinates 350 three other subjects also added to university studies about 75 men attended the first meeting this semester of the musi cal clubs held yesterday evening in drown hall there were about 50 men to try out for the glee club under the direction of t edgar shields another group numbering about 25 were present to try out for the new jazz band that is be ing organized by jules booker 32 and david broun secretary of the lehigh union the symphony orchestra that has been one of the large units of the musical clubs for nre past several years has been disbanded the om mitting of the symphony orchestra from the programs was deemed ad visable because public opinion does not seem to favor such form of en tertainment from a college group of men in place of the symphony or chestra will be the new jazz band which will be directed by jules booker 32 and guided by david braun who has had several years of experience with jazz orchestras at yale university mr braun be lieves that a very fine band can be organized to represent lehigh although the orchestra will play for-trot rythm they intend to have in their repertoire about six songs in symphonic arrangement and sev eral special numbers the combined musical clubs have tentative plans for six trips away from the campus after the final ex ams this january it is hoped that arrangements can be made for a concert in new york city under the auspices of the lehigh club of new york haddenfield and rock ville center the latter the scene of a most successful concert two years ago are two other prospec tive concerts as are hackensack baltimore and newark plans are also being made for the club to broadcast over radio station wor in december the lehigh musical clubs will give combined concerts with the clubs of cedar crest col lege and fern sem respectively the officers of the combined musical clubs elected last may are jack harrison president s d al lison manager and j c mertz publicity manager lehigh student fined for moving lantern freshman discovered in act of taking danger light that the removal of red danger lanterns constitutes a charge of malicious mischief was discovered by a lehigh student tuesday after noon when jack white a fresh man was fined 10 and costs by alderman thomas f gaffney of bethlehem white and walter robinson his roommate who having failed to pass his entrance examinations left school were arrested several nights ago by sergeant brogan of the lo cal police the two men were ar rested while removing lights placed on materials to be used in repair work on benner avenue epitome seeks men sophomore competitors for the business board of the epitome are to report to rufus savage sigma chi house new multiple-pressure method used this year doan perfects ray to picture steel's quality lehigh man aids naval scientists look through girders developed welding dr gilbert e doan assistant professor of metallurgy at lehigh university in collaboration with robert f mehl of the naval re serve laboratory at washington d c and charles s barrett assistant to dr mehl has accomplished an innovation in scientific photography known as the gamma ray with the use of a bit of radium no larger than a 22 calibre bullet engineers can put a photographic plate behind a steel girder and see whether or not it is sound work men can take pictures of locomo tive wheels and determine if all is sound within and submarine crews will be able to study vital points of their craft for suspected weak nesses created welding department dr doan one of the foremost authorities on welding in america is a graduate of lehigh and attend ed the university of berlin where he earned a ph d upon his return from germany dr doan developed the welding department at lehigh which now has the reputation of being one of the finest welding lab oratories among the engineering schools several important papers of dr doan have been published by the welding society of ameri ca in addition dr doan is well known as a consulting engineer in the welding field dr doan has spent the past four months in anacosdia d c where the tests and photographs which re sulted in the perfected gamma ray were held a noteworthy advantage of the gamma ray is that it does not destroy welding when directed upon it heretofore all attempts to penetrate welding have resulted in its decomposition better than x-ray until now the x-ray has been the sole means of inspection for de fects in metals and there are three distinct disadvantages to them which the gamma ray of radium has overcome the x-ray cannot penetrate deeper than four inches within reasonable time research experts of a large electric com pany have estimated it would cost 100,000 to develop an x-ray ma chine capable of penetrating the 10 inches reached by the gamma ray another advantage of the new method is its easy portability fin ally there is the matter of simpli city technicians can group the objects they want photographed and leave word for the night watch man to drop the radium into the tube when he starts work the ra dium will operate during the night and the technicians can pick up their plates in the morning lehigh women's club to hold reception to receive faculty members sept 30 in drown hall the lehigh women's club will hold its annual fall reception and tea from 4 to 6 p m tuesday sept 30 in drown hall members of the faculty graduate students research fellows and new faculty members have been invited to attend officers who were elected last april are mrs p m palmer pres ident mrs r m smith vice pres ident mrs c c bidwell recording secretary mrs w a slater cor responding secretary and mrs h g turner treasurer regular meetings will be resum ed on the first tuesday in october a a u w to meet the american association of university women will hold its first meeting of the year on tues day oct 6 this year the meetings will be held at the bethlehem wo men's club instead of the y.w.c.a lecture body to meet the college lecture committee will meet next monday to decide who the speakers will be for the annual lectures given by members of the faculty dates will also be selected glasses and case found a pair of horn rimmed glasses and a case are being held in the dispensary for whoever lost them they were found sept 14 in dr r c bull's office becomes class officer miss margaret shields daughter of t edgar shields director of mu sic at lehigh has been chosen president of the class of 34 at the moravian seminary and college for women eleven men were pledged on wednesday morning in chapel to tau beta pi national honorary en gineering society of the number elected to the fraternity nine are seniors and two are juniors the new members will be formally ini tiated as the national convention next month the pledges are carl o claus jr i e 31 h w cushman i e 31 stephen l gregg e e 31 robert g hess jr m.e 31 james r hewitt jr met e 31 wil liam f mcgarrity ch e 31 war ren h schaub e e 31 william h ticehurst e m 31 paul j weimar i e 31 john e angle jr met e 32 raymond k ser fass i e 32 will meet oct 9-11 the organization plans to hold its convention this year oct 9 10 and 11 in bethlehem and will celebrate the 45th anniversary of its found ing last year the meeting was held oct 10 11 and 12 at lowa state university at lowa city lowa the main feature of the ceremo nies will be the dedication of a memorial to the founder of tau beta pi edward h williams le high 75 who will be present on the occasion the memorial will be a bronze tablet placed on a boulder on the terrace in front of williams hall dr williams organized the first chapter of the society at lehigh in 1885 and it has since expanded to include 58 chapters at the leading technical schools with a member ship of over 17,000 the founder of tau beta pi was professor of min ing engineering and geology at le high from 1881 to 1902 and is the donor of williams hall and the williams prizes in english econo mics philosophy and psychology at the university large attendance expected an attendance at the convention is expected of over 100 and the del egates will stay at the hotel beth lehem the tentative program fol lows thursday oct 9 12:30 opening luncheon 2:30 — business meeting 6:3o dinner 7:30 — smoker friday oct 10 b:oo breakfast 9:00 — business meeting 12:30 — luncheon 2 : 00 — trip to bethlehem steel co 6:30 — formal initiation of new members 7:30 — initiation banquet saturday oct 11 8:00 — breakfast 9:00 — business meeting 12:30 luncheon for dr e h williams 2:30 — dedication of memorial to dr williams 6:3o dinner 9:00 — formal dance lehigh hiking club to elect officers prof f c bartlett fixes oct 1 for first meeting in order to elect new officers and to form a new program the hiking club will hold its first meeting about oct 1 prof f c bartlett announced yesterday hikes will be held on sundays and will vary from three to five miles long distance hikes are also planned and medals will be given to the winners professor bartlett stated that hiking is becoming a popular sport and that clubs have been organized in new york baltimore philadel phia and boston lafayette also has an active club men interested in hiking are re quested to see professor bartlett at taylor gymnasium arcadia president tells of founders day traditions mediocre freshman enthusiasm was shown by the attendance at the first formal meeting held under the direction of the arcadia wednes day noon in packard auditorium scarcely 100 first-year men were present to hear president j c ben edict of the arcadia explain the significance and traditions of foun ders day sports the spokesman explained the fact that freshmen should they win a majority of the events would not be compelled to wear dinks on sundays it was an nounced that coach bob adams has already chosen his football team and the relay team will be selected at an early date the fol lowing supervisors were appointed for the remaining events russ hoaster rope tying bob harris tug-of-war luke platt pants tear ing it is distinctly understood that men on the football or relay teams are not eligible for any of these other three but it is desired that other freshmen sign up for the events general aeronautics m e 119 is one of the four new courses of fered by the university this semes ter it is a three credit hour course and offers an introduction to the technical side of aviation any en gineer with senior standing is eli gible to take the course the mathematics department has two new courses listed for this term a course in mathematics of life insurance math 43 is the new one hour course which will be giv en as a continuation of mathematics of finance math 41 and mathemat ical statistics math 42 functions of complex variables math 215 is the other course listed by this de partment geology 116 a one hour seminar course for students majoring in ge ology will be added this term and psych 19 psychology and conduct is the other one hour course added this term which may be elected in place of chapel library treasure room contains 16 original hand printed works lehigh stickers adorn plane of r n buck junior musketeer the arts and engineering stu dents of lehigh held their average and scored decidedly above the average for the state in the carne gie comprehensive examination giv en last spring the man who was 50 percent from the bottom at le high was 66 percent from the bot tom in the state at large the examination given two years ago by the carnegie foundation was recognized to favor the arts colleges rather than the engineer ing schools the arts college at le high had to be compared with oth er arts colleges and the engineer ing schools with other engineering schools this year it is supposed that the sophomore examination equally favored arts and engineer ing students business students high the examination did not favor equally the students in the business college and there is no separate data this year for any of the bus iness schools in the state the av erage of the sophomores in bus iness administration at lehigh slightly exceeded the average for the state at large and may be tak en as an indication that this year as two years ago lehigh's business students surpassed in a marked de gree business students in other in stitutions - direct information withheld prof percy hughes of the psy chology department stated that while the reports of the carnegie examinations were strictly confiden tial the president of each college and university using the examina tions was informed as to the rela tive standing of his school in each of the three divisions of the tests this he implied was done to avoid possible detriment to schools fall ing in the low scoring section ranked fourth in 1928 the examinations held may 8 and 9 1928 were tabulated and graphed thus showing that there was not as wide a divergence as first thought at that time about 25 percent of the lehigh students examined were registered in the college of arts which was rated third of 40 institutions giving a b.a degree thus the entire university rating was lowered to fourth out of 49 colleges and universities in spite of first places in both engin eering and business administration lehigh was rated in engineering along with seven other colleges giving engineering degrees like wise for the business men who were classed with seven other places that bestowed business de grees young men score high a question in psychology was raised as to why for the fact that 18 year old seniors rated the highest generally with a marked de crease in scoring ability as the chronological age increased up to 24 years this point ha's not as yet been clearified for us sociologists would probably give as a reason for women having a better knowledge of language lit erature and fine arts than men the fact that these subjects are empha sized more in a woman's education than in a man's in other subjects of the examination the men had a decided edge over the fair sex the freshmen surpassed the aver age for the country at large to the extent that the 50 percentile man at lehigh is equal to the 67 percentile man elsewhere there is no mark ed difference in the psychological rating of the freshmen in the sev eral colleges though the engineers slightly excel the figures given by the american council on edu cation shows that this year's fresh man class slightly excels that of last year bishopthorpe given many improvements students return to redecorated rooms and hard wood floors new improvements at bishop thorpe manor confronted the young women students returning wednes day to school for the 1930-31 term rooms have been redecorated hard wood floors have been constructed in hallways and old beds have been replaced by new showers and a new gymnasium floor have been added teachers arrived wednesday to aid in the organization of classes thursday recitations begin today principal c n wyant declared this morning that the enrollment for the year has shown an increase over last year coming events the student health service vac cinated 350 freshmen recently the vaccinations were performed by dr r c bull his assistant dr j r bierman and two former lehigh men c m leister and j j long acre they used the multiple-pres sure method a simple but effective technique enabling them to tell whether or not the individual has retained immunity from previous vaccination all freshmen returned on the sec ond day for readings those who retained immunity were discharged within three or four days others returned for from ten days to three weeks until they showed the stig mata or take a few suffered from malaise or vaccination sick ness but were cured when placed on a proper diet candidates for freshman football exempt from vaccination will be vaccinated at thanksgiving or at the beginning of the second semes ter men for founders day needed by sophomores council seeks names of contest ants for athletic events _____ all sophomores interested in founders day sports are requested to see the committee chairmen ap pointed by the sophomore council the council requests that no time be lost in making known to these men the intention to partake in the events football practice started today and there are still several positions open all sophomores are eligible who do not play in tomor row's game against ursinus the committee heads are as fol lows football william haas beta theta pi track burt riviere chi psi tug-o-war pants tearing and rope tying fritz keck sigma chi mcconn given degree dean c m mcconn was award ed the honorary degree of doctor of letters at the annual commence ment of ursinus college on june 9 the lehigh dean delivered the main address at the graduation ex ercises on the same occasion president edwin j heath of mor vaian college for women received the honorary degree of doctor of divinity howard s leach librarian of the lehigh university library smiled almost sardonically when he was asked what the monetary worth was of the books and manu scripts which are kept in the treas ure room we have not evaluated their value in terms of dollars he replied they are kept in the trea sure room because of their utility to the man who is seeking knowl edge or recreation of the mind from their contents every book in the room does have value however apart from the knowledge that is contained in it three factors of this value are if the book is autographed if it is of a limited edition and its age which implies its scarcity there are 16 original manuscripts which were printed by hand before the printing press was invented by gutenburg in the 15th century fifteen are in latin and one in ar abic this latter is part of the ko ran the bible of the mohamme dans four were books of prayer which were printed by catholic monks each one of these books took months of infinite patience and skill to complete they are plentifully illustrated and the print ing is done in many colors eighteen books on another table were printed between 1472 and 1530 they were all writ ten in latin because that was the only language in which scholars would deign to write and at that time only scholars wrote anything at all at another table are the first four editions of shakespeare's plays the frontespieces of the first edi tion is rather intriguing over a picture of shakespeare is printed mr william shakespeare comedies histories and tragedies published according to the true original copies this book was published in 1623 by two of the men who had been in shakespeare's dramatic company their purpose was that his plays might be left to posterity mr leach observed that if they had not done this we would have only half of his plays today several years ago a philadelphia collector paid 62,000 for another book of the same edition lehigh's book cost only 650 but it was bought in 1887 among the early american col lection one finds books written in many languages describing our country the first was written in 1509 by americus vespucci for whom our continent was named a swede in 1702 was apparently en continued on pagt four saturday 2:30 p m ursinus-lehigh football game in taylor stadium monday 6 p m seniors are requested to turn in their activities for sword and crescent by this time to e francis evers at the psi upsilon house 7:30 p m election of one man to sword and crescent to fill vacan cy left by richard b johnson will take place at a meeting of the society in the psi upsilon house tuesday founders day dance in lower gym held by arcadia two huddled figures squatted on the little stone island surmounted by a single stately pine around them as far as the eye could see in the pre-dawn blackness was a rolling sea of green from time to time one of the two would puff lies urely on his pipe while the other scanned the eastern sky with anx ious eyes except for the occasional sound of water splashing the night was still the taller of the two men took a last puff at his pipe before tap ping it out on the stone beneath his feet he too turned his eyes to the now dim-lit east he searched the horizon hopefully and carefully for several minutes but was unreward ed finally he looked at his watch and then with a hopeless expres sion on his face he stepped off the rocky island to the rolling green his dawn vigil at the rain drench ed flagpole unrewarded a brown and white reporter learned much to his disappointment that because of unfavorable weather conditions the attempt of robert n buck 16 year-old flyer of elizabeth n j to break the junior trans-continen tal air record yesterday was post poned buck who is known as one of the three junior musketeers is flying a pitcairn mailwing with lehigh stickers pasted on the fuselage he had planned to hop off from new ark airport yesterday for albequer que n m the stop-over point for junior record attempts and he was to have flown over the campus in a salute to friends in the university however when the eastbound air mail arrived four hours late and reported a strong head wind and only a fifth o fa mile visibility in the allegehenies he decided to wait for more favorable conditions he probably will start by the end of the week the time of the present record holder eddie schneider another of the three junior musketeers is about 32 hours although he has only held a license since march of this year he has over 125 flying hours to his credit he is the for mer holder of the junior altitude record -~ buck's ship is powered with a wright whirlwind of the same type lindbergh used in his atlantic flight it has a top speed of 140 miles and a cruising speed of 120 it is a sport type with orange wings and a blue body a letter from mayor walker of new york to the california boost er — will rogers and a letter from the mayor of newark to the mayor of los angeles will be carried on the flight brown and white bethlehem pa college directory to be printed soon friday september 26 1930 time changes sunday traffic to be limited price — five cents 11 men pledged to tau beta pi on wednesday 75 men attend first meeting of musical clubs vol xxxviii no 3 lehigh students high in carneg ies group of 25 compete for places in jazz band six trips are planned epitome to hold senior elections nine seniors and two juniors honored in chapel to convene oct 9-11 arts and engineering stu dent compare equally in conprehensives all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association