Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 5

              who's who lists 27 faculty men at lehigh for ' 3o gets d s degree e w berry delivers address at founder's day exercises 38 receive lehigh degrees alterations near end in mining lab 1 00 guests and 60 dele gates are expected for convention change in program ingersoll-rand air com pressor now being installed lehigh's faculty student body and campus organizations will be taken for the proverbial buggy ride in the first issue of the burr next wednesday en titled around the campus it will be entirely devoted to sub jects localized on south moun tain above packer avenue the following issue oct 30 will be a fraternity number with a section not unlike college hu mor's hall of fame in which prominent campus personages will be depicted freshmen wi n pants tearing contest lose all others arcadia in charge football game won by second year men 12-6 judge comments on m'conn's book dr h m westerguard mathematics authority becomes d.s prizes given students freshman and sophomore honor men announced for 1929-30 e w berry h m westerguard student number shows increase alpha kappa psi plans to elect 12 enrollment this year ex ceeds 1924 figure by 21 percent numerous improvements have been made in the mining engineer ing laboratory the installation of working tables for the experimental ore dressing laboratory was com pleted yesterday and it is expected that the chemistry tables for the fuel technology laboratory will ar rive soon alterations in the plumb ing of the building are now about ' finished an ingersoll-rand air compres sor is listed among the new pieces of equipment being installed it is said that the machine will operate several small drills when working it is a type air compressor of su perior efficiency to the older mod els the building is being painted on the inside and the outside work on the latter being about completed the brick walls of the building are being thoroughly scrubbed down an elevator is being installed and this is about ready for use by the middle of next month it is expected that all the various im provements wjti have been com pleted when finished the building will be one of the best equipped of its kind in this country business fraternity to se lect two seniors and ten juniors alumni bulletin to be out soon magazine favors dean's idea concerning su perkindergarten dean mcconn's superkindergar ten with no recitations grades or magazines would be a delightful place comments an editorial in judge magazine of last month the editorial agrees with mcconn in the idea that the majority of the students in universities are intel lectuals who are seeking book knowledge lots of games dances publications clubs and lots of run ning around and making contacts are what they crave they should have their own college because they interfere with the intellectuals who are seeking education for its own sake all we need is a certain amount of guidance necessary for a min imum of discipline and a friendly participation in the faculty of the various activities who should say that such an institution might not contribute even more to the present college to a vigorous abundant and salubrius national life says dean mcconn in part and the judge writer entirely agrees 6,000 lehigh graduates will receive copies next week nativity dances to begin oct 10 reception for episcopal stu dents to be held tonight the original plans for the 45th anniversary of tau beta pi honor ary engineering fraternity have been alterede in several cases as will be observed in the complete program below the convention will be held october 9 10 11 in bethlehem last year the annual convention was held at the university of lowa lowa city lowa an extensive pro gram has been prepared the fea ture of which will be the dedication of a memorial tablet to professor edward h williams jr founder of the fraternity dr williams was a professor of mining engineering and geology while at lehigh from 1881 to 1892 he organized tau beta pi at lehigh in 1885 since that time there have been 58 chap ters established with a membership of 17,000 100 guests expected there are approximately 100 guests and 60 delegates expected at the convention the hotel beth lehem will be the convention head quarters during the three days of the anniversary celebration the program is as follows — thursday oct 9 12:30 a m opening luncheon 2:30 p m business meeting 6:30 p m supper 7:30 p m smoker friday oct 10 8:00 a m breakfast 9:00 a m business meeting 12:30 p m — luncheon 2:00 p m trip through bethlehem steel plant 6:30 p m supper 9:00 p m formal dance saturday oct 11 8:00 a m breakfast 9:00 a m business meeting 12:30 p m luncheon in honor of dr e h williams jr 2:00 p m soccer game freshman football game 4:00 p m dedication of tablet to dr e h williams jr 6:30 p m formal initiation 7:30 p m initiation banquet robert baker e e 30 weds miss reber oct 1 groom was leader of university band in 1929 robert alt baker e e 30 and sara elizabeth reber were married wednesday morning in packer memorial chapel by the rev d w gateson the couple were attended by the mother of the bride and the father of the groom the bride's father gave her away in marriage bob baker graduated from the reading high school and while at lehigh was active in band mustard and cheese orchestra and the elec trical engineering society price set for class book under the reorganization of the epitome by the board of publica tions the cost of the pictures and writeups in the seniors section will be 12 instead of 14 as last year is announced by a w thornton ed itor of the senior class book this change is due to the decision to have the same company do the en graving for the entire book alpha kappa phi honorary bus iness fraternity will pledge twelve new members during the next two weeks two of these men will be seniors and ten will be selected from the present junior class last year the fraternity carried out successfully a plan of bringing to lehigh lecturers who were ex perts in commercial fields and dur ing the coming term expects to se cure at least two speakers of merit arrangements are being made at present to have the economist of the new york stock exchange talk on some phase of the stock market this is being made possible by the cooperation of professor diamond of the business department to be eligible for alpha kappa psi a student must have an aver age of not less than c during his first two years at lehigh and must be a student of business ad ministration lehigh observatory initiates open night first of the thursday night fall series of openings approximately 50 persons were present last evening for the first of the fall series of open nights be ing held every thursday night un til thanksgiving in the lehigh as tronomical observatory l s barnes instructor in mathematics and astronomy explained the use of the various instruments to the visitors each thursday evening the tele scope will be focused on a differ ent object last night it was focus ed on the moon when the obser vatory was constructed the tele scope was one of the largest and finest in this part of the country in past year as many as 200 have visited the observatory in one eve ning the first issue of the lehigh alumni bulletin is now at the press and will be distributed to over six thousand alumni some time next week the alumni bulletin was first pumished in 1913 by the alumni association at that time it was on ly a quarterly and consisted of but sixteun pages the pages were four and one half by seven inches in size and they contained no adver tisements at the present time it is published monthly from october to july its size has increased to forty pages which includes advertise ments the pages are now seven by ten raymond walter 07 the first editor is at present dean of swarth more college succeeding him in editorship was w r okeson trea surer of lehigh university the third and present editor is a e buchanan jr 18 the monthly dis tribution of the alumni bulletin keeps lehigh graduates in touch with campus news giegrich to be editor carl r giegrich 32 was selected art editor of the epitome at a meet ing held last wednesday students from all four classes competed for this office by submitting model layouts the art theme for the first issue has not been selected but it is expected to be of descriptive type macdougall to speak curtis d macdougall assistant professor of journalism will address the monarch club 6:30 p m oct 16 at its regular supper meeting at hotel bethlehem the regular weekly friday eve ning dances for students will begin next week at the parish house of the pro-cathedral church of the nativity tonight from 8:30 till 12 o'clock there will be held the annual recep tion for episcopal students at le high to which the girls of bishop thorpe manor moravian seminary and college for women and the nurses training school as well as girls of the parish are invited this particular dance or reception is limited to members of the episcopal church beginning next friday evening oct 10 the parish house dances will be thrown open to all lehigh students who secure invitation cards from david braun secretary of the lehigh union 400 attend hop on founder's day don deforrest and his oregonians furnish music for dance approximately 400 persons at tended arcadia's founder's day dance held last tuesday evening in the lower gym the committee john e angle e francis evers and graham b camden chairman secured don deforrest and his oregonians for the music which lasted from 9:30 p fn to 1 a m the decorations by zollinger and harned of allentown were on an oriental plan with tapestries and persian rugs h"anging from the raft ers and on the walls futher gar nishings included shawls and frost burnt leaves which gave the gym a subdued but colorful setting be neath the shaded lamps the chaperons prof and mrs j s long and mr and mrs da vid braun agreed that the dance was one of the best early season dances held at lehigh in some time e l earle will speak at first m e meeting dynamic balancing of rotating machinery to be topic the first meeting of the mechan ical engineering society will be held at 7:30 p m on oct 9 in room 466 of the new packard laboratory the speaker for the evening will be mr e l earle from the re search laboratory of the general electric company who will speak on dynamic balancing of rotat ing machinery during the course of his lecture he will demonstrate with a balancing machine the mechanical engineering so ciety invites all the students to at tend and especially would like to have all the freshmen out who have just signed up for mechanical en gineering the enrollment at lehigh univer sity has increased 21 percent since 1924 according to the records of the registrar in that year there were 1205 students in the school statistics of oct 1 1930 show a to tal registration of 1529 the senior class is the smallest of the four classes with 276 mem bers in september 1927 425 fresh men entered lehigh and of that number only 65 percent have sur vived the first three years the class of 1931 however has just about 15 percent more men reach ing their last year than did the class of 30 there are 292 members of the junior class or about 72 percent of the original freshman class three hundred and five students are enrolled in the sophomore class with a mortality of about 14 per cent since last year the class of 1934 has a total membership to date of 458 the entire university registration figures of 1929 as well is divided as follows showing the pennsylvania new york and new jersey are represented by about 85 percent of the freshman class at lehigh this year the re mainder is made up of about 14 percent from 17 other states and one percent from foreign countries reporter chaperons girls party becomes gigolo to obtain scoop lehigh's football eleven ranked with leading east teams in 80 s twenty-seven members of the faculty are listed in the 1930 who's who of america this number in cludes the teaching faculty the board of trustees and special lec turers professor percy hughes who was born in peshwar india has apparently traveled the greatest distance from his birthplace to land on the campus of the university and the pages of who's who president emeritus drinker was born in hong-kong and also traveled a long distance to reach the same goal general harry c trexler uni versity trustee is listed in the book as trustee of lehigh university and of franklin and marshall college he is one of the few men in the country to be on the boards of two major colleges a rough computation of the list reveals that 50 percent of the board of trustees and 49 percent of the faculty is included in the volume the complete list with the original collegiate degrees follows — william bowie sc d special lecturer william c dickerman m e trustee henry s drinker e m presi dent emeritus tom m girdler m e trustee howard eckfeldt b s head of mining department natt m emery a 8 vice pres ident and comptroller tomlinson fort a 8 head of department of mathematics charles s fox a 8 head of ro mance languages department . lawrence h gipson a 8 head of history department charles j goodwin a 8 pro fessor of greek eugene g grace e e trustee robert w hall ph 8 head of department of biology fred v larkin b s head of the departments of mechanical and industrial engineering howard s leach a 8 librar ian thaddeus merriman c e spe cial lecturer benjamin l miller a 8 pro fessor of geology rembrandt peale trustee eugene j prindle m e special lecturer joseph b reynolds a 8 pro fessor of mathematics charles r richards b m e president charles m scewab honorary dr eng trustee robert m smith ttb head of english department bradley stoughton ph 8 head of the department of metallurgy charles l thornburg b s ma thematics professor emeritus harry c trexler trustee samuel d warriner a 8 trus tee edward h williams a 8 spe cial lecturer lehigh women's club has first reception string trio furnishes music for large social gathering one of the best attendance rec ords in recent years was made at the annual reception of the lehigh university women's club tuesday afternoon from 4 to 6 in drown hall the president of the club mrs philip m palmer and the vice president mrs robert m smith introduced new members of the club to a large number of the fac ulty tea was served at five o'clock with mrs natt m emery and mrs t edgar chields presiding at the tables which were decorated with pink candles and autumn flowers * music for the afternoon was fur nished by a trio composed of miss catherine koffel violinist miss noami kunkle harpist and mrs earl wink celloist committee men named dr charles russ richards has announced that the committee in charge of the dedication of the james ward packard engineering laboratory oct 15 will consist of profs f.v larkin stanley s sey fert milton c stuart nelson s hibshman and mr andrew e buchanan secretary of the lehigh alumni association the founder's day sports at le high have proved disastrous to the freshman class four of the five events scheduled for the day went to the sophomore class thus prov ing its athletic superiority during the halves of the football game the tug-of-war was held the sopho mores won the event they also won the football game the track events and the rope tieing contest losing only the pants-tearing tus sle the sophomores defeated the freshmen by the score of 12-6 in football the feature athletic event of the founder's day sports both teams were held scoreless through out the first half although the sec ond year men clearly outplayed the yearlings as to number of first downs early in the third quarter a frosh fumble itwo successful for ward passes placed the sophomores in scoring position with good in terference by the line metzgar left halfback dove through right tackle for the first touchdown a forward was attempted for the point after touchdown but was knocked down the second tally came as the result of an intercepted pass by jack stra chan who ran 55 yards for the score frosh score touchdown the frosh came back to outplay their opponents in the final quar ter through the fine performance of the line and the consistent gains of short the right halfback the yearlings were able to bring the ball to the 12 yard line short skirt ed the end for the touchdown but the kick for the extra point was blocked throughout the game the sopho more line functioned perfectly on the receiving end of the aerial at tack metzgar made several spec tacular catches while strachan was outstanding for ground gaining the frosh defense was marked by the playing of kight at left end and lynch at right tackle short in ad dition to his fine ball carrying got off several commendable punts sophs win tug-of-war although the freshmen greatly outnumbered the sophomores in the tug-of-war which was staged be tween the halves of the football game the sophs got the jump and began a steady pull back into their own territory soon ending in a complete rout of the yearlings the contest lasted but a few moments and the poor showing the the frosh may have been partly due to their excess number which made it dif fiicult for them to really grip the rope moving to the upper field after the football game an enthusiastic crowd saw a group of 10 sopho mores tie up a similar number of frosh without much ado working in a systematic way the second year men had little real trouble in sub duing their foes within a few min utes there were nine surviving sophs and the freshmen had all been care fully tied the mile relay race run by two teams of eight men each resulted again in victory for 1933 by a 15 yard margin with the crack of the gun the first soph stepped into a substantial lead which was never closed by the frosh despite their game efforts the race was a fast one and the first year men refused to concede defeat until the last lap had been completed pants tearing event exciting next in order come the most exciting spectacle of the afternoon the pants-tearing contest the frosh outnumbered the sophs 2-1 and had their trousers greased and taped in a fashion that defied any strategy to remove them the second year men never had a chance and before the final whistle had blown all of them were without pants and oth er particulars cameras clicked steadily as the crowd shouted sug gestions and encouragement to the frosh who had won sympathy by their game but unsuccessful at tempts to vanquish the class of 1933 arcadia handled the events smoothly and satisfactorily each contest was run off without delay and without interference from the spectators art exhibit — fifty prints of the year an exhibition of the amer ican institute of graphic arts in the art gallery of the university library open daily during regular library hours and from three til six o'clock on sunday afternoon coming events there was a time believe it or not when football games with cor nell and perm state were set ups for lehigh that however was in the years 84 85 86 and 87 when football had its inception here on the other hand during those years princeton was once held to a 75 to 0 score the burr said a number of lehigh men accompan ied the eleven and returned greatly pleased with the work of the team and the prospects for a successful season these facts along with many others were printed in an issue of the lehigh review of several years ago by john walter maxwell assistant alumni secretary he cull ed most of his material from the burrs of the period about which he wrote from mr maxwell's article we learn that perm was once defeat ed in bethlehem by a 28-0 score the pennsylvanians were appar ently dissasisfied by the decision because it was remarked in the burr to say the least we think it rather small of the pennsylvania team to go home and try to lay the blame for losing the game to a large extent on the referee indeed to obtain unprejudiced referees was a considerable difficul ty of a lehigh-lafayette game which ended in scoreless tie all of lafayette had come up and we have yet to find the lehigh man who was not there the ardor of the latter was considerably damp ened however on learning that the lafayette manager was to act as referee up to the time the game was closed no points were scored by either side at one time in the second half the referee with his back to the players allowed him self to become engaged in a dis pute with some of the bystanders in regard to the distance advanced since the preceding play the lehigh team knowing that according to all the customs of football playing the ball was dead naturally relaxed its vigilance for a moment the lafayette team seeing this seized the opportunity to carry the ball to within a few yards of lehigh's goal the captain of the home team very indignantly insisted that the ball be taken back justly claiming that it was not in play and upon the refusal of the referee to so direct withdrew his men from the field when referees failed to satisfy they were often ejected in the mid dle of a game and others chosen continued on page four * saturday oct 4 2:30 p m varsity football vs pennsylvania military college ( taylor field 2:30 p m varsity soccer vs syra cure university lehigh field some philosophers and latter day prophets are inclined to see dis aster ahead for humanity declar ed edward wilber berry dean of johns hopkins university in his ad dress at the founder's day exer cises wednesday in the university chapel thirty-eight degrees were award ed by lehigh university and an nouncement was made of those un dergraduates who had earned fresh man and sophomore honors for the year 1929-30 two honorary de grees were given in recognition of outstanding scientific work founder's day at lehigh was es tablished in order to pay fitting tribute to asa packer who found ed lehigh as an engineering school in 1866 it has been the custom to award diplomas to those who had fulfilled the university require ments for graduation to award the honorary degrees upon those men selected by lehigh as deserving and to make announcement of scho lastic honors and prizes it has also become an established^custom at lehigh to have the traditional sports between the freshman and sophomore classes on founder's day nature of progress is subject the commencement exercises were preceded by the usual acad emic procession from the alumni memorial building to the university chapel which is a memorial to asa packer commencement was for mally begun with the singing of the university hymn o god our help in ages past and with the reading of the scripture and a prayer i>y the very rev d wil mot gateson chaplain of the uni versity dean berry then delivered his address the nature of prog ress and the degrees and honors were presented the ceremonies and honors were presented the ceremonies were concluded with an assembly at the flagpole and the singing of the alma mater led by the university band praises founder's day it is a fine thing for a univer sity to pause in its routine activi ties once a year to observe a found er's commoration or memorial day not merely to perpetuate the mem ory idealism and beneficience of that founder but to renew for our selves the faith in the future which he exemplified so conspicuously in all the walks of life to glance at the past and endeavor to visualize our aims for the future somewhat as a business organization takes ac count of stock some philosophers and latter day prophets are inclined to see disaster ahead for humaniay they seem to feel that material man is in the process of eliminating spir itual man but i do not believe this is true nor do i believe it would be wise even if we jpere to declare a ten-year moratorium in research as the bishop of ripon suggested in his sermon before the british asso ciation in 1929 the world can have no quarrel with the physical sci ences what confronts us today is a deplorable lack of understanding or any approach to a scientific meth od in what for my purpose may be grouped together as the physical sciences speaks of ancients the question has frequently been raised as to whether man is to continue to remain more or less the master of civilization or is de stined to become its miserable vic tim the great war was responsible for much of this searching of heart as to thing flesh and blood man is surely a less efficient machine than were bis ancestors 5,000 years ago but as masters of our fate we have gone a long way in rationalism as we have also in understanding our environment as i have suggested man can not live and grow as human society is organized by science alone the task of ge^tig us on our way i believe falls largely on what are usually though incoherently call ed the social sciences we need pa tience and wisdom we need to un derstand human relations we all long for an international under standing but who is there who knows the real basis of understand ing in the way a geologist knows his fossils or an engineer knows his structures and fundamental laws progress in the development and continued on page four grave dangers to which the young men of today are exposed little do parents reck when they send their sons to college what dangers may befall them and so it was with this reporter when the editor said cover the moravian party he went with a light heart not knowing that before the night was out he would have sold his soul for a barbecue sandwich and a coke with lemon daniel in the lion's den had a sinecure compared with the fate which faced the representative of the press therf he was accenting the hospitality of so girls and un der obligation to dance with them all — he who had two left feet it was the crisis in his career could he fail his paper n of his not to question why his but to do or die it was his duty and he did it large girls small girls beautiful girls a pleasure not such beautiful girls and others dancing the whole night through with a smile on his lips and a tear in his eye that was it dancing with tears in his eyes human endurance can stand just so much and when the limit is reached everything goes black al continued on page four by h w ii it is a familiar saying in amer ica that a good reporter is afraid of nothing with this truism ringing in his ears a brown and white reporter undertook to chaperon so colle gians from the neighboring institu tion so aptly flamed fern sem at a party given by the class of 33 for the freshmen miss valence townsend presi dent of the sophomore class thought that a reporter should be useful as well as ornamental accordingly five true daughters of moravia were assigned to ride in the reportorial car whether miss townsend wish ed to prevent the reporter from be coming lonesome or whether she thought the moravianites would serve as an inspiration is still a question the voting so far is three to two in favor of the latter suppo sition with four outlying precicnts yet to be heard from after a short but profitable edi torially speaking drive the re porter arrived with his precious cargo at the red pig an hosterly located about three miles west of easton the world has seen fit to look down upon the gigolo and rightly so but little does it realize the brown and white discuses progress vol xxxviii no 5 burr to be out oct 8 bethlehem pa friday october 3 1930 price — five cents sophomores defeat freshmen in annual founder's day event fifty percent of board of trustees recognized 1930 volume 17 professors included 45th anniversary of tau beta pi set for oct 9=ll 3us zh e ihem :. c i e ingr d hys . e a e act e klin e 319 353 99 11 107 102 284 21 58 79 42 43 303 360 121 8 79 77 297 23 83 90 49 39 fotals 1528 1529 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first