Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 4

              frosh-soph tussle began in early 80's institution as summer school being unknown at that time founder's day was not the only time for which a set date was made when a general rough house be tween freshmen and sophomores was to be indulged in after chapel was over on the opening day of college the sophomores waited for the freshmen to come out of chapel and when they did both classes fought wildly until not a man was left on his feet too many arms and legs were broken however and the traditional fight was gradually ev olved into friendly pushings and shovings the custom was abolish ed this year for the first time so too with the original cane spree by faculty decree a much milder form of cane spree was in augurated but which too was dis continued many years ago organ ized sports on founder's day then put in their appearance among the foremost of which was a standing broad jump remnants of the traditional class fights were observed today as wit nessed in the rope tying and pants tearing contests but these contro versies are between a small and chosen body of students and a short time limit is adhered to since the establishment of foun der's day in the early 80's fresh men and sophomores have battled uninterruptedly for class suprema cy on that holiday it was not un til 1916 however that the outcome of the fights and contests decided whether or not freshmen should wear dinks on sunday our earlier predecessors at lehigh fought merely for the sport of the thing the first form of contest was the cane spree a sophomore appeared on a prominent part of the campus with a cane when the freshmen en masse rushed upon him to take it away from him the sophomores of course protected him there was no gouging or biting but ev ery other rule of civilized warfare was observed while the battle spread all over the campus it last ed for several hours during which time many noses were bloodied and clothes were ripped off the backs of most of the embattled students the morning were devoted to ex ercises in the chapel they started at 11 a m as they do at the pre sent time the principal address of the day was printed verbatim in the brown and white and covered the whole first page there were no commencement exercises such an the first break in the curfew rule requiring all freshmen to be off the streets by 7 p m will be tues day with the annual founder's day hop by a special dispensation freshmen will be allowed out pro vided they attend this dance the dance is sponsored by arca dia which has secured del defor ests oregonians of portland ore the orchestra spent four weeks this summer at rye beach long island and has a winter engage ment at club parody new york city it is an eleven piece orches tra which has many special novel ties the chaperons for the dance will be mr and mrs david braun and prof and mrs j s long the committee in charge of the dance includes graham b camden chair man john e angle jr and fran cis e evers touchdowns — ware halstead substitutions — ursinus egge for paul smeigh for hess her ron for levin lodge for soed er soeder for lodge frick for sterner herron for levin thor ogood for egge lodge for soe der lehigh gormley for nora stein for twiggar chess for robb jones for doering twig gar for stein robb for chess reed for ware platskjr for twiggar king for robb rush ong for issel referee — e c taggert ro chester umpire c a reed springfield head linesman — f r gillender perm field judge — l j korn swarthmore time of periods — 12 minutes frosh to oppose sophs tomorrow braun plans new union activities fire in armory causes uproar young aviator circles campus new head to provide speakers for discussion groups founder's day sports to be held in taylor stadium sergeant gasda discovers small blaze friday morning r.n buck 16 year old flier saluates lehigh friend sydney m brown associate pro fessor of history and government who last fall received the degrees of bachelor of literature in history and doctor of philosophy in history from brasenose college oxford england has resumed his work at lehigh professor brown who had been granted a year's leave of absence spent 15 months in england and italy most of his time was spent in writing the two theses required for his degrees the one theses was on the history of milan and the other on the manuscript of an elev enth century chronicler both»have been published in italian they may be published in english at a later date , the lehigh professor also spent considerable time studying the devil or evil spirit of the middle ages in addition he uncovered ad ditional information on the life of pope alexander 11 saw goepp at oxford r max goepp 28 the first rhodes scholar from lehigh is be ginning his second year at oxford where he is working for the de gree of philosophy in chemistry ac cording to professor brown geopp the professor added is rowing number 4 on the crew of queens college professor brown was accompan ied in his travels by his wife and son who was enrolled as a student in oxford city high school during his stay in england a s e e to aid research here fellowship given for study of electric arc welding of pure iron i nan effort to bring the lehigh union to the position it should oc cupy on the campus david braun secretary of the union plans to call a meeting of the senior cabinet within a wek to discuss plans for the coming year tentative plans place particular emphasis on the sunday sings and on the discussion groups which were popular several years ago it is his plan to provide interesting speakers to give short informal talks on modern subjects teaches psychology mr braun is conducting a new substitute course for chapel psych 19 and has placed several interest ing books on the reserved shelf of the library which deal with the course one in particular the great american band-wagon a biting satire on american culture is expected to prove popular mr braun received his b a from york college in 1927 and last june he received his b d degree at yale in july he was married and he and mrs braun are now liv ing in the drown hall apartment taylor made concert head lehigh legal counsel to or ganize community programs members of the m s and t de partment were almost deprived of the honor of wearing their new uni forms when fire broke out in the armory at 9:30 a m friday friday morning sergeant a d gasda supply sergeant and five students were in the supply room in the basement of the armory when they suddenly noticed a large cloud of smoke issuing from a cor ner of the room fearing that a box of high power explosives was on fire they dashed from the building once outside and at a safe dis tance away they waited for the ex plosion that would send the ar mory roof upward after waiting some time the sergeant suddenly remembered that there was a cel luloid box containing maps in the corner where the blaze had been seen dashing into the building ser geant gasda entered the supply room and much to his relief found that his assumption had been cor rect it was the box of maps that was on fire he quickly extinguish ed the blaze box of maps burns upon investigation it was found that the celluloid box containing maps had been placed near an ex posed lght bulb and that the heat from the lamp had set the box on fire the loss was not as great as at first had been feared only several maps and the box having been de stroyed new treasure room open for visitors the treasure room of the library will be opened to students and vis itors tomorrow from 9 a m until 3 p m excepting the period start ing at eleven in the morning in which the founders day services are to be conducted according to howard s leach university libra rian the library building will be closed during the exercises but otherwise will keep its regular hours 8 a m to 10 p m the contents of the treasure room including manuscripts prints and rare books are of immense his toric interest and intrinsic worth due to this and to the fact that entrance is possible on very few oc casions according to librarian leach large numbers of vistors are expected to take advantage of this opportunity of visiting the trea sure room a fellowship to aid in research in the properties of the electric welding arc and particularly in the basic study of pure iron electrodes is being sponsored at lehigh by the engineering foundation of the a s e e the action is the re sult of a suggestion by the electric welding committee of the a s e e to the board of directors of that organization last may f.j whitney e.e.'3o is now car rying on this research under the direction of dr gilbert c doan of the metallurgy department it is believed that observation of an arc between pure iron elec trodes in an inert gas such as he lium and in the presence of phos phorous sulphur carbon mangan ese silicon and the like will show the effects of these customary im purities upon the welding properties of iron the university laboratories offer perhaps the most comprehensive fa cilities for investigation in welding in the country equipment for elec tric resistance butt and spot weld ing thermic welding electric arc welding with metal automatic met al and carbon electrodes and oxy acetelyne welding has been donat ed to the university by the manu facturers flying the first lap of his attempt to better the junior transcontinen tal speed record bob buck 16 year old flyer of elizabeth n j circled the flagpole several times at 7:56 a m yesterday the drone of his high power wright motor attracted the atten tion of scores of students as buck literally stood the blue and orange plone on one wing in a series of tight banks before continuing his flight and while spectators waved him greetings he throttled his mo tor down and shouted a greeting to jack bradin arts 31 who was standing on the campus only a hundred feet below then he lev eled his ship off gracefully waved and gave it the gun as he zoomed off in the direction of allentown on our campus at 7:10 a m buck took off at 7:10 a m from newark airport after five previous attempts had been halted by ad verse weather conditions poor visibility and head winds prevented hm from starting thursday but ideal weather yesterday assisted him in the dangerous crossing over the allegehenies he landed at columbus ohio yesterday ahead of schedule and still ahead of the previous record established by edward schneider of jersey city he stopped over night at indianapolis ind as the conditions of junior flights require one overnight stop he hopped off for albequerque n mex on the final lap this morning and is ex pected in los angeles tonight buck is expected to attend the lehigh-p m c game next week if he returns in time he is a student at the pingry school in elizabeth n j and expects to enter an en gineering college next year to stu dy aeronautical engineering scholastic prizes and honors won by undergraduates during the school year 1929-30 will be an nounced at the founder's day exer cises tomorrow morning in packer chapel the wilbur scholarship of 200 for the sophomore with the best record will be awarded to william cronk elmore montour falls n y he will receive the wilbur sophomore prize in physics of 10 and two mathematics problem prizes as well as sophomore honors pi lambda phi for the second successive year will receive the phi sigma kappa scholarship cup awarded each year to the fraternity in the interfraternity council hav ing the highest scholarship aver age for the preceding year omega phi sigma a local fraternity will receive the trustees scholarship cup awarded each year to the living group having the highest scholarship average for the preced ing year sophomore honors will be award ed to 32 men while freshmen hon ors will total 43 last year 35 soph omores and 41 freshmen were sim iliarly honored but 18 of these 41 freshmen were able to win honors in their sophomore year many prizes given the winners of prizes and hon ors are wilbur prizes freshman year mathematics first prize 15 mel vin dresher hackensack n j second prize 10 george malcolm dewees west chester english 15 john williamson langhaar allentown german 15 elmer william glick bethlehem french 15 david davis goldenberg new york n y wilbur prizes sophomore year mathematics 10 roger illick fluck bethlehem english 10 william chamberlain warner montrose;physics 10 william cronk elmore montour falls n.y williams freshman prizes in oral composition first prize 40 mat thew john murphy atlantic high lands n j second prize 15 ed ward fleischer bethlehem english prizes awarded williams sophomore prizes in english composition first prize 50 maurice binion rosalsky new york n v second prize 25 ed ward barkdoll hildum plainfield n j third prize 15 samuel kap lus newark n j williams junior prizes in english composition first prize 40 clyde albert hearding pen argyl sec ond prize 15 kenneth karl kost gary ind alumni prizes in public speaking awarded in february 1930 : first prizes 25 emanlel george scob lionko bethlehem william how ard shellenberger bayonne n j second prizes 15 everett arm strong fay cranford n j rob ert howard swoyer hazleton third prizes 10 libert theodore chandler bethlehem john o'neill jr tenafly n j mathematics problem prizes william cronk elmore 2 mon tour falls n v robert edgar cohl 2 harrisburg george aus tin hottle bethlehem henry louis langhaar allentown david continued on page four the first physical clash between members of the freshman and the sophomore classes will take place when the two lower classes come together in founders day sports at 1 30 p m tomorrow on the lower field because of the re cent ruling of arcadia deferring freshman class elections the sports which include a football game tug of-war pants tearing rope tying and a relay race will be run off wth arcadia supervising the frosh approximately 125 freshmen at tended a meeting sunday afternoon in drown hall when members of arcadia instructed the frosh in the sports and compiled a list of en trants for the different events ar cadia announced that a member of either class may participate in the tug-of-war and only one other event sophomores have been or ganizing for the past week in prep aration for the contests george c doering president of the sopho more class has appointed a com mittee to gather names of sopho mores desiring to participate any sophomore who has not signed up for any of the events may do so by handing his name to any of the following members of the com mittee william haas football burt riviere track and fritz keck pants tearing rope typing or tug of-war arcadia in charge this year arcadia will have charge of the contests since the freshmen have not organized in announcing the events arcadia an nounced that the football game will be the first on the program with the tug-of-war coming between the halves then come the rope tying pants tearing and the relay race in the order mentioned thus far not many freshmen have handed in their names for the contests those desiring to do so can communicate with john e an gle at the phi gamma delta house for pants tearing to russel hoas ter at the kappa sigma fraternity for rope tying and to robert har ris at the lambda chi alpha house continued on page four students answer woman's cries later receive bill for damages r s taylor legal advisor for lehigh university has been ap pointed chairman of the committee in charge of the bethlehem com munity concerts these concerts will be given under the plan which has been in use here for several years this plan involves a paid season subscription from which the proceeds go directly to the paying of the artistic talent provided the committee has not decided on the program for this season as the drive for membership in the community plan has not yet been closed the nature of the concerts given will be governed by the number of memberships obtained members are now being received at the offices of r s taylor in the first national bank building some of the prominent artists who have appeared in recent con certs held here in bethlehem in clude the flonzaley quartet eliza beth kethberg mischa elman new york theatre guild barrere little symphony harold bauer albert spaulding and gina pin nera cyanide elects seven seven new members were elected to cyanide junior honorary society last friday evening in drown hall hhey are edward m gormley william l arthur carl hull hen ry j forsyth william 1 m may berry james e maharay and ju lian n booker allen ware was elected to the executive committee to take the place of w j hutchinson who did not return to school this year thir teen members attended the meeting with george d reed president presiding psi upsilon announces the pledg ing of robert ransom gordon jr of pittsburgh delta phi announces the pledg ing of william brydon of scran ton coming events the brown and white football team only partially dispelled fears of a weak line in the opening game of the season with ursinus the team defeated the collegeville ath letes 12-0 beating back a determin ed rally in the final quarter the individual prowess of russ sterner who sported number 54 all over the field and a successful passing attack almost made good a desperate attempt to score ends break up plays ursinus had a pair of ends who brought memories of the perm game last year neither nora nor ware seemed to make any gains on end runs our backs were thrown for repeated losses no one touching their ends until jones was substi tuted for doering the lehigh line weakened in the last quarter ster ner of ursinus gained repeatedly through guard and made two first downs first quarter lehigh received a low kick which was fumbled by halstead and re covered by mclernon a series of line plays followed and then a short pass to ware which he dropped seemed to disappoint the rooters halstead took the ball for 10 yards on the next play two incompleted passes followed and ursinus took the ball on the next play haas stopped the ursfnus back with the neatest tackle of the game an exchange of punts followed and lehigh was left in midfield issel broke the butter finger jinx and caught the first pass of the game ware and halstead took turns carrying the ball but a fifteen yard penalty gave it to ursinus ware and nora could not get beyond our line on the next play our ends and backs were not getting the ursinus ends second quarter in the second quarter lehigh tried and completed a placement an offside penalty brought the ball one yard from the goal and hal stead took it through center on the next play for a touchdown on the next kick-off nora ran the ball to the 35 yard line ware took it to the 25 yard line on the next play then a clipping penalty placed the ball on the one yard line ware crossed the goal with the second touchdown lehigh kicked to ursinus and a passing attack followed black of ursinus got beyond doering and caught a 30 yard pass but was downed by gormley two short passes brought the opponents with in scoring distance halstead inter cepted the next pass and ware ran the ball around right end for a beautiful 40 yard run third quarter the second half started with dotterer of ursinus gaining stead ily he looked like a dangerous ball carrier for a time lehigh received a punt and doering and ware gain ed some ground through the cen ter the remainder of the third quarter was an exchange of punts jones and gormley were consis tent ground gainers fourth quarter ware was injured in the begin ' ning of the fourth quarter the brown and white passing defense was green and the line started to weaken under the reorganized ur sinus offense a series of subs didn't seem to help our line was getting across too slow and the ursinus backs had too much time to pass the barrage of passes was stopped by halstead who intercepted a pass and ran for 35 yards it was the most thrilling run of the game an other davvy appearing from the squad a passing attack followed but it was ursinus ball in midfield at the closing toot of the whistle coupons accepted students holding thrift books is sued by the various business houses of bethlehem must present coupons at the time of their sitting in or der to secure proper credit on pho tographs taken at mccaa's studio the coupons must not be detached from the book but must be pre sented intact baker 30 to wed robert a baker e e 30 will be married by the very rev d wilmot gateson at 9:30 a m wednesday oct 1 in packer memorial chapel thirty-eight degrees will be awarded tomorrow morning to sen iors and members of the graduate schools who have completed their courses during the summer the degrees will be presented to the men at the founder's day exercises in packer chapel the number of degrees to be awarded this year is greater than last year when 23 degrees were awarded and 1928 when 24 men d w gateson chaplain of the uni received diplomas the very rev versity who will receive the degree of master of arts is one of the six members of graduate schools to be awarded a degree the candidates for degrees are master of arts john luther eisenhard b a muhlenberg college topton da niel wilmot gateson b a trin ity college bethlehem henry moeller prentiss ph b muhlen berg college pottsville master of science michael anthony farrell b s pennsylvania state college wa verly aral miles hollenbach b.s muhlenberg college allentown bachelor of arts john allen bohner catasauqua roland carman philadelphia ste phen paul coates brooklyn n v albert cohen brooklyn n v william high geib rearing zig mont j letowt jr hazleton os car ralph miller brooklyn n v richard small myers york bachelor of science in business administration john curtin jr bellefonte george scott dixon butler benja min leon getz allentown ed ward thomas gorman allentown milton lawrence heyman dan bury conn hugh homer bath paul joseph lembeck jersey city n j william stran mccurley jr baltimore md ; gordon prentis ogden great neck n v carl joseph proebstle atlantic city n j edward nicholas small west bury n y.j clarence thomas thompson morristown n j bachelor of science in chemical engineering dustin yach miller lyndhurst tj j bachelor of science in chemistry hugh nevins hokendauqua bachelor of science in civil engineering john hawkins auten corbett md ; john richard leader shamo kin james anthony scavo old forge bachelor of science in electrical enginering joseph thomas danko mckees port julian anthony kiep joliet 111 conrad mclaughlin philadel phia edwin raphael roberts ma hanoy city william wynkoop scranton bachelor of science in industrial engineering robert feucht lambertsville n j bachelor of science in mechanical engineering willard beisel stettler allen town lafayette abolishes saturday chapel recent agitation by student news paper wins new ruling lafayette has abandoned satur day chapel due to agitation begun by students in the lafayette the semi-weekly newspaper the an nouncement was made friday by william mather lewis president of the college who at the same time announced that a half hour organ recital will be given at 5:30 p m every wednesday in the chapel dr lewis stated that the wis dom of the arguments advanced by leading undergraduates had been instrumental in bringing about the change campus is policed twelve patrolmen of the bethle hem police force kept order satur day afternoon in taylor stadium while lehigh was playing ursinus headed by capt jack kennedy the following officers were on duty sergeant ted brogan george eckhardt charles walker rudolph mitman ray rueter earl borman harry pittenger william haney alfred kern jack durner and ralph fleming ley by this time two men had ar rived on the scene and thus re inforced the student rushed down the alley a door and they were confronted by the woman i awoke due to a noise in my room she explained and saw a shadow moving against the wall i screamed somebody ran out and later i heard footsteps on the roof then came a frantic searching under beds and looking into clos ets from out of the darkness on the roof one of the students re ceived a thump on the chest from something he muffled a desire to shriek struck out with his fist and struck a radio aerial wire which he had inadvertantly bumped into the intensive search revealed nothing however so the woman finally calmed down to such an ex tent that she told the student who had broken the window pane in the door that they would have to pay for it they received a bill at least two lehigh students have lost their faith in the s s van dine methods a piercing cry for help in the middle of the night does not neces sarily mean that a murder is being committed this little lesson was learned by two lehigh students one night last week when as they were driving through allentown they were alarmed by hysterical cries for help from a second story window on hamilton street they stopped their car and jumped out the nightgown attired woman who had been shrieking cried that there was a robber in the house one of the students ran for an offi cer while the other tried to get into the house the door did not re spond to pushing so he shattered the window pane with a well di rected kick as the glass shattered tb the street the woman reappeared indig nantly at the window and shouted get away from that door you fool the entrance is on the al lehigh and lafayette professors once battled at football game 20 years ago and that their surplus energy has been sublimated and intellectualized into other channels if there was a big crowd at a football game most of the specta tors had to stand in those days professor reiter said there were just a few rows of wooden bleach ers on both sides of the field there was no gymnasium next to the field only a little field house 20 by 40 feet and there was no tipper field the original gymnasium was on the site where coppee hall is now located it was one of the first col lege gymnasiums to be built in this country the two gymnasiums pre ceding it being at amherst and harvard all it contained was a bowling alley on the first floor and a short narrow room on the second floor with a gallery running around it lehigh used to win every bas ketball game that it played at home because the baskets were placed so close to the walls that members of opposing teams were afraid to shoot from under the baskets for fear of bumping into the wall lehigh players however would rush boldly in brace them selves by putting one foot against an end wall and then shoot it wasn't much of a job clear continued on page four tuesday 9 p m founder's day hop in tay lor gymnasium wednesday 11 a m founder's day exercises in packer memorial church 1 30 p m founder's day sports at taylor field thursday 12 noon junior class picture at ad ministration building 8 p m o d k meeting at delta phi house saturday 2:30 p m varsity football vs pennsylvania military college at taylor field 2:30 p m varsity soccer vs syr zacuse university at lehigh field not only has student enthusiasm at football games and pep meet ings diminished at lehigh since 1910 but professional dignity has increased since that time accord ing to howard bosey reiter head of the department of physical education he cited how a lehigh professor now deceased becoming over excited during a particularly hot phase of a lehigh-lafayette game with his walking stick knock ed off the top hat of a lafayette professor the lafayette professor rightful ly indignant returned the discour tesy with a punch at the lehigh professor's jaw both men then lus tily emphasized the superiority of their respective colleges by fisti cuffs until they were separated by students the lehigh professor accepted the incident as a good joke on him self however continued bosey bcause afterwards at a faculty meeting i heard it recounted in his presence bosey does not deplore the fact that turnouts for pep meetings have become smaller and that oth er manifestations of student foot ball enthusiasm have diminished he attributes this to the fact that students now have more outlet for their surplus energy than they had brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday september 30 1930 12-0 victory opens season vol xxxviii no 4 brown resumes teaching duties after year away price — five cents lehigh-ursinus lineup ursinus bows in first game at taylor stadium both teams use passes penalties twice place ball on opponents one yard line 38 baccalaurate degrees to be presented tomorrow 75 honors will be awarded associate history profes sor receives two de grees at oxford visits england & italy graduate ceremonies will be held in pack er memorial chapel gateson receives m a 23 degrees awarded at same exercises last year curfew rule off for frosh at hop elmore 32 wins 200 wilbur scholarship for best record pi lambda phi gets cup sophomore and freshman honors announced for 1 929-30 ur sinus lehigh s aul le issel rfcßath lt haas ulen lg twiggar ulo c mclernon less rg a robb ewin rt motion zoble re hall otterer qb nora iterner lhb doering filler rhb ware loeder fb halstead member intercollegiate 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