Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 12

              leader holds high posi tion in cleveland mu sical world band has 11 pieces drummer a jazz clown to entertain dancers on nov 14 25,000 witness brown and white defeat at franklin field meeting will be held in packard laboratory tonight public is invited lectures our greeks the second issue of the remodeled burr will appear on the campus thursday or friday of this week declared p s davis editor in chief this issue will contain mostly wise cracks about lehigh frater nities but the faculty and publica tions will receive their share of hu morous criticism it will contain more localization of humor than the first issue one feature will be the cartoons of faculty members with appropriate verses of humor under them this policy of localizing the hu mor was recently adopted by the burr upon dean c m mcconn's suggestion the purpose of this new policy being to revive and stimulate interest in the publica tion although many lehigh students are suffering from dysentary at the same time the particular form that it is now taking among the students is not of the infectious or epedemic type according to dr joseph r bierman assistant director of the students health service it is due rather to change in weather and errors of diet one consequence of the change in weather is that the students are drinking colder water than they were accustomed to drinking before the cold spell fifteen cases of dysentery were treated at the dispensary during the past week and not one of them showed any trace of infection as to their cause dr bierman suggested that a good home cure for dysentery is to adhere to a liquid diet for a day or two and to avoid the malady a lax ative should be taken about once a month during the winter frosb riflemen to oppose sophs librarian tells of indian relics sydney marvin spector arts 32 of the phi sigma delta house was the successful guesser in the sen ior ball orchestra contest according to frederick morhart chairman of the committee austin wylie and his radio ar tists was the slip turned in by spector the second day of the con test some of the 194 returns said anything from paul whiteman ruddy vallee and paul tremaine to the lehigh musical clubs the day following the announce ment in the brown and white that a concert would be held 102 bal lots were handed in one of these arriving by special messenger was postmarked konigsberg germany bhis seemed rather sudden in view of the distance and time involved for mail to traverse the atlantic on opening the letter the contest ant was found to live not more than 100 yards from the delta tau del ta house where the ballots were being received one of the taylor hall freshmen had been costumed as a messenger and sent over with the letter captain rice sets nov 3 15 for interclass matches lehigh review to appear soon masquerade ball opens state meeting leach attends pi delta epsilon to give banquet first issue to contain new and interesting fea tures society will hold an nual gridiron dinner next march christian gauss dean of prince ton university will speak at an open meeting under the auspices of the robert w blake society at 8 o'clock thursday night oct 30 in the auditorium of packard labora tory dean gauss subject will be the dead past and the living present he calls this a caution against our attempting to solve too many problems by historical or archeological methods dean gauss received his a b and m a degrees from the uni versity of michigan his litt d from washington university and his l h d from lehigh in 1928 he was an instructor of romance languages at lehigh from 1901-03 assistant professor of modern lan guages from 1903-07 and profes sor of romance languages in 1907 after leaving lehigh he went to princeton and became dean in 1925 he is now literary editor of the princeton alumni weekly • meeting open to public the meeting thursday night will be open to the public and a large attendance is expected as the dean's talk and articles are well known his articles in the satur day evening post caused much comment he discussed the stu dents of today as compared to those of yesterday his point was thawthe students were no different from those of former days even if they do commit acts never heard of be fore among gauss works the follow ing books are prominent the ger man emperor through college on nothing a year and why we went to war the books that he edited are selections from j jj rousseau democracy today and an american interpretation held lecture positions the dean has had numerous lec turing positions such as lecturer on ropes foundation for compar ative literature at the university of cincinnati lecturer at new york.university and lecturer at the columbia institute of arts and science dean gauss is a member of the kappa sigma fraternity and phi beta kappa j s long talks at penn smoker stresses decline of hello habit about 500 at tend for the first time since the in auguration of the r o t c rifle team at lehigh the freshmen and sophomores are having team match es to determine the relative stand ing of the two classes in gallery marksmanship this step is being taken as part of the training in the military courses offered by the uni versity and to select material to represent the • unit in the postal and shoulder-to-shoulder matches with other colleges and universi ties in the country as in previous yea>s capt j k rice coach of the rifle team has set nov 3-15 for the freshman - sophomore interclass match following this match will be the intercompany match between the respective companies of the r.-o t..c unit on dec 1-20 with the completion of the inter company match the men will be se lected to represent lehigh in the regular weekly intercollegiate matches beginning jan 23 and con tinuing until march 7 after these competition have been completed the team will practice for the an nual hearst trophy match which has been won by the lehigh team for the past two years in addition the third corps area rifle competi tion will be held the range firing will be conduct ed under the rulings of the na tional rifle association governing rifle competitions and each man will fire a string consisting of one sighting shot and five shots for record in each of the prone sitting kneeling and standing positions to post hygiene grades the grades of the freshman hy giene examination biol 15 which was given during freshman week will be posted on the bacteriology bulletin board on the second floor of williams hall beginning nov 5 beginning with that day those freshmen whose names are from a-f may find out their marks sub sequent dates will be g-k nov 12 h-p nov 22 q-z dec 8 plans for the annual gridiron ban quet were discussed last night at the meeting of pi delta epsilon national honorary journalistic fra ternity in drown hall last year the custom of an annual banquet was inaugurated and as far as it is known at the present time the sec ond banquet will be given in march a bid to the gridiron banquet is considered a very high honor in all prominent universities throughout the country invitations are sent only to out standing students on the campus and to the faculty a few town people who are interested in jour nalism and lehigh's activities are also included last year the atten dance at the banquet almost reach ed the 100 mark efforts will be made to secure a prominent journal ist to address the fraternity at that time to elect new men the election of new men will take place nov 13 hereafter the regular meetings will be held the third monday of each month in drown hall the members present at the meeting last night were r a stabler e f underwood f r veale jr g a malmros l a brettner p s davis c o claus j s tuttle d h gramley c b camden w forstall jr and c d macdougall diamond to outline issues of free trade economics professor will speak before debating team prof h m diamond professor of economics will outline the is sues in the age-old debate concern ing free trade to members of the debatin gsquad at 4 p m thursday in room 303 christmas-saucon hall prof c d macougall debate coach announced today the lehigh debaters will meet several schools this year on the proposition resolved that the nations should adopt a policy of free trade tryouts for the team will begin tuesday nov 11 when each candidate will support either side of the proposition in an eight minute talk about 20 men have signed up for the tryout prof fort the dangers thrills and joys ex perienced in climbing the highest mountain in africa seeing the fa mous victoria falls and viewing the gold and diamond mines at johannesburg and kimberley will be related to the sigma xi society this evening by tomlinson fort head of the department of mathe matics the lecture will be given at 8 p m in room 466 packard lab oratory and will be open to the public ( tours through africa professor fort spent two months of the past summer in an extended • trip through africa and travfeled the length of the contin e n t he started his trip from cape town a mo d c m city with traffic lights and paved s t re ct s from here i c traveled to the well known dia mond cen ter kimber ley where the world's diamonds are mined the largest hole made in the earth by man is also at kimberly it is 38 miles wide and averages 6,000 feet deep the great gold mines at johan nesburg were also visited by pro fessor fort ojhannesburg is the largest city on^he african contin ent and produced 54 percent of the world's gold during 1929 ice forms here at night and as far north as the victoria falls so that an im pression of africa having a tropical climate is often misleading saw victoria falls professor fort also saw the great victoria falls on the zambezi river these falls art twice as large as niagara but are not well known because of their inacessibility he was the only one of a party to suc cessfully reach the peak of mr kil ima the highest mountain in afri ca it is 19,527 feet high or almost a mile higher than the highest mountain in the united states four and one half days were required to reach the summit of this mountain and two and one half days to de cend the nights were spent in tents pitched on the mountain side mcconn visits penn state dean c m mcconn represented lehigh at the 75th anniversary of pennsylvania state college thurs day at state college on sunday morning the dean preached the sermon at the church services at the tome school port deposit md this was the eighth time in as many years that he has been invited to speak the first issu,e of the lehigh re iew will be out the latter part of this week a new cover design will be one of the interesting features of the issue and will be more of a collegiate nature than the old one the upper right and left hand cor ners will be filled by sketches of the packard laboratory and the memorial building and the univer sity seal will be placed in the cen ter of the page contains prize essay this issue contains a number of interesting articles including one by frank a merrick president of the westinghouse electric and manufacturing company on what the electrical industry expects from the technical schools the other articles are maurice rosal sky's williams prize essay entitled the shakespearean and classical theories of tragedy william g alcorn's short story entitled what the king saw in the moonlight a short historical sketch of the old opera house by ralph ben son a paper called religion of plato by sydney walters an ar ticle on hazing in colleges entitled defense of hazing by lykos and an article named hiking by harold e sincock in addition to the above mentioned articles there are several short essays poems books reviews and dramas included in the issue austin wylie and his 11-piece band will furnish the music at the senior ball friday nov 14 ac cording to frederick h morhart chairman of the senior ball com mittee for the past ten years mr wy lie has held a high place in the oeveland musical world and dur ing that time played at all the lead ing cafes hotels and society affairs in that city wylie and his band are well known throughout the cen tral state region he may be heard over station wtam cleveland be tween 10 and 11 o'clock any day of the week except sunday last win ter he was a feature at the music box cafe and golden peasant cafe in cleveland this past spring he opened the famous chippewa lake park near cleveland playing there the entire season although wylie has not such a name in the bast during the month of september he made a tour of pennsylvania where he drew large crowds wylie has only appeared in this section of the state once and that was in easton at a private party however he is booked to j)lay in allentown this december seek to blend tones mr wylie's conception of jazz music links it with the symphonies he feels that orchestral effects which are produced through the blending of his instruments in va rious peculiar combinations are the keynote of the newest type of jazz while stressing the musical side of his organization wylie has not neglected the entertaining features several outstanding members of the band are exceptionally clever in comedy singing and hokum work his drummer will perhaps prove to be the most talked of feature when he appears at the senior ball as many years with the original al katz orchestra has justly won him the title of jazz clown his an tics are certain to keep the dancers in continuous uproar and furnish good entertainment for the specta tors lehigh dancers and music lov ers certainly should not miss this chance to hear one of the country's well-known and finest dance bands to have fall decorations the decorations are being done by zollinger and harned of allen town and will follow a fall theme the programs will be in the form of a leather case of brown and blue with a peacock design and a metal lehigh seal these cases may after wards be used as a combination card and cigarette case also as a purse this fall danceing will be from 9 to 2 instead of from 10 to 3 as has been the custom in former years the subscription is 3 for stags and 5 a couple prof t fort outlines concepts of geometry traces history of science from egyptian period the fundamental concepts of ge ometry and the history of ge ometry from thd time of the egyp tians down to the present day was discussed by tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics at a meeting of pi mv epsilon na tional honorary mathematical fra ternity the meeting was held last fri day evening in the packard labor atory following professor fort's talk h c kelly 31 demonstrated several proofs which attack the parallelism of euclidian geometry a general discussion on mathemat ics by the members of the society concluded the meeting two professors play in concert brown and white reporter crashes plumbers dance obtains scoop three hundred pots and dishes once used by the algonquin in dians have been found according to andrew j cadzow of the penn sylvania state museum in an arch eological paper concerning the ed at a meeting of the state library american indians which he present association held last week in galen hall wernersville pa howard s leach lehigh librar ian arid miss cora k dunnells cataloguers were among the 200 representatives present at the open ing meeting tuesday night a masquerade ball was given the opening night and the costumesr e presented books miss dunnells was dressed as a patient in agony to represent t he operation many other amusing dresses also were seen among them being three girls dressed with large sheets of newspaper pinned about their knees their book being the bige low papers big low papers seeks more relics mr cadzow is engaged at the present recovering the remains of american indians at safe harbor pa he stated that the work in progress there must be finished in less than two years as a dam is now being constructed which will cover the excavated area with wat er the algonquin pots and dishes are very valuable as only ten speci mens had previously been found the new specimens now will make a complete collection the meeting closed after the banquet thursday night at which time president lewis of lafayette college gave a very interesting talk on the opportunities of libraries and college to raise the public taste in america newtonians elect rhoads president succeeds c e harrison melvan speaks on greek mathematics james rhoads 33 was elected president of the newtonian society at its meeting last night in pack ard laboratory rhoads was elected to succeed c e harrison who re signed from that office two talks were given at the meeting rhoadsj the newly elected president spoke on the life of new ton and melvan dresher talked on greek mathematics the next meeting of the society will be held nov 10 and refresh ments will be served at that meet ing coming events approximately 500 students at tended the first football smoker of the year last friday evening in taylor gymnasium prof j s long of the depart ment of chemistry was master of ceremonies amf introduced the fol lowing speakers dr w l estes 05 capt p l sadler h j hart zog 04 and w w springsteen 23 the talks in general were giv en to % arouse enthusiasm for the game with the university of penn sylvania and for the remaining football season professor long concluded the smoker with the main talk of the evening he expressed regret for aparent lack of spirit around the campus as examples he cited the rapidly dying hello spirit which in some cases has dropped to the point that when one speaks to a fellow student he receives a queer look in return the fact that detri mental gossip often carries some unimportant thing too far is anoth er hindrance to campus spirit de clared professor long in closing he told of the recent quiz which was given to the students of chem istry which included students in all the colleges of the university the question was to write the le high alma mater out of the 100 students who took the quiz 19 knew the alma mater 40 had a general idea of it and the rest were a to tal failure chapel list is posted all students taking chapel can check their attendance up to oct 24 on the list posted on the bulletin board in front of the registrar's of fice the record will be brought up to date every fortnight notice a light brown topcoat was lost last thursday in the chemistry building or williams hall finder please notify m r waltman phone bethlehem 2053 mrs bradley stoughton speaks on history of musical society two members of the lehigh fac ulty took part in the first program of the present season given by the bethlehem friends of music sat urday afternoon in the auditorium of moravian seminary and college for women max peterson associate professor of physics played violin solos he was heard for the first time in this city presenting six short numbers melody gluck - sgambati minuet paderewski - kreisler bird as prophet schumann aver cradle song reger slumber song schumann and canzonetta tschaikowsky lamson plays cello kenneth lamson associate pro fessor of mathematics played cello in a string quartet the other three members of which were mrs mir iam lees harold hammond and ralph ruch all of allentown this was the quartet's first public ap pearance during an intermission mrs bradley stoughton wife of dr stoughton head of the department of metallurgical engineering spoke briefly'on the aims and history of the bethlehem friends of music the organization she said was formed some time ago to stimulate interest among young people in the study of music and to afford them opportunities for appearances as well as to sponsor occasional pro grams by more mature players sigma nu pledges man sigma nu fraternity announces the pledging of foster l gear hart 34 of palmerton p.a tuesday oct 28 4 p m d o t meeting room 303 christmas-sau'con hall all men interested in debating in vited 8 p m meeting of sigma xi so ciety room 466 packard labora tory prof tomlinson fort will give an illustrated address on observations in africa thursday oct 30 4 p m debating squad will hear prof h m diamond professor of economics outline issues in tar iff debate men interested in de bating invited 8 p m open meeting of the rob ert w blake society packard auditorium dean christian gauss of princeton will speak on the dead past and the living rres ent by ed fleischer are you a plumber asked a menacing figure flourishing a pitch fork as a brown and whife re porter and his fair companion ap proached him • he intends to be one replied his companion before the reporter recovered his breath and with this exchange of words the brown and white representative crashed an other gate and scooped a feature for his paper saturday night while ctfuples swayed on the floor ab6ve to strains of sweet mel ody other couples swayed on the floor below to the tune of clinking steins and flowing streams of beer — real beer the ladies auxiliary master plumbers association knows how to throw a party and proved it to the reporter's satisfaction — although they didn't know a report er was present the affair was a masquerade ball and took place at the cetronian band hall which is located in the same building with the cetronian fire company near dorney park allentown and when firemen and plumbers get together in a festive spirit fires must wait and pipes leak to their heart's con tent many of the plumbers sat on the sidelines unable to dance for they had forgotten their pumps — an old plumbing custom others took ad vantage of the opportunity to guz zle beer while their wives were cavorting on the dance floor with the firemen but there was more to this party than dancing and drink ing there was plenty of food heaping dishes of tempting pork trays of roast beef slices of ber muda onions lowly hot dogs steaming rolls and what not ad mission cards were sold at two dol lars apiece the reporter learned from his companion who had sug gested going to the affair she be ing a plumber's daughter but that did not alter his appetite nor did his conscience smite him the manner in which food and beer dis appeared before him denoted the true lehigh spirit that had sent him there things became hazy after 2 a m and it no longer mattered to the re porter whether he was dancing with a girl or a married woman a plumber's wife of a fireman's wife that is it did not matter until an indignant husband pointed out the fact to him the manner in which he swung his right arms denoted him to be a plumber the reporter left in a hurry aft er that and when consciousness dawned upon him many hours lat er he learned to his sorrow that he had forgotten to escort home the girl wot brurig him many substitutes used a sweeping hard-hunning later al-passing university of pennsylva nia football squad overcame the brown and white team saturday at franklin field by score of 40-0 some 25,000 shivering spectators sat huddled together in the huge stadium and witnessed the defeat of the bethlehem eleven the rout which commenced late in the first quarter continued up to the last minute the perm gridders scoring a total of six touchdowns lud wray's charges registered at least one touchdown in every per iod ware makes good kick only for the first few minutes of the game did lehigh appear to have a chance aided by the terri fic blast sweeping behind his back allen ware got off a beautiful kick which drove perm back within the shadows of their own goal line this was the only time during the massacre that perm really appeared to be at a disadvantage and from the waning moments of the first period to the final whistle the outcome of the game was never in question it was only a matter as to what heights the perm score would mount just once after those heartening moments in the first quarter when it seemed as though the brown and white might duplicate last year's moral victory did lehigh penetrate sacred perm territory this occured late in the fourth quarter when ted blood snared gormley's long pass to register le high's only earned first down of the entire day advance ball 431 yards detailed statistics even more than show the superiority of the quakers over the lehigh squad the red and blue advanced the ball 431 yards by rushing earned 21 of 23 accredited first downs and completed four of nine forward passes for a profit of 98 yards after the opening kick-off le high managed to keep the quakers well back in their own territory by virtue of ware's great kicking but this superiority over the red and blue was short-lived with on ly a couple of minutes of the open ing canto left perm opened its first successful drive of the day starting from their own 32-yard line the quakers dashed off 68 yards for the opening score the longest run in this march was a 22 yard sprint by captain dick gentle this dash placed the ball on lehigh's 21 yard line here lehigh rallied and held gentle masters and com pany without gain for three straight downs but on the fourth down gentle tossed a neat pass to walt er masters who was tackled as he fell over the^ast wide stripe changes backfield immediately following this as tonishing score wray sent in a complete new backfield and several other substitutions coach tate sent in a complete new line at this time the second quarter was only a few minutes old when the quakers with their new backfield of mung er graupner perina and ford op ened a second 60 yard drive which resulted in another touchdown ford plunging over from the one yard line after graupner had made a spectacular 20 yard run on a lat eral pass perm's third touchdown came on a spectacular long forward pass ford to riblett with the quakers on their own 47 yard line jerry ford faded back and heaved a 33 yard pass to the star end who rac ed along the sideline unmolested for a score wray uses third team the second half opened with both coaches using second and third string players wray used his complete third team while tate replaced many of his battered and injured varsity men with fresh men reed took ware's place and sin dell was in nora's place in the backfield while haas hall kug ler twiggar stutz zakorka and platsky made up the line a blocked kick led to the fourth score and a continuance of the rout of the brown and white tanseer recovered gormley's blocked kick on the 21 yard line behind perfect sweeping interference smith circled left end for the fourth touchdown after a series of lateral passes had advanced the ball once again deep into lehigh territory to start the fourth quarter spike collis found a wide gap in the brown and white line and raced madly down along the side line side stepping the safety man for the fifth score but the final touchdown of the even half dozen was one of the people do not usually shout with glee at a funeral but this unusual thing happened last friday evening when old man business depres sion was sent to davey jones lock er off the hill to hill bridge into the cold black waters of the le high river along with him to his watery grave went his wife dame pessimism their daughter miss fortune and the hated easton high school jinx this novel burial was reported friday evening by the main and broad street business men's association as a highlight of a parade celebrating the opening of their two day harvest home fes tival old man business d pression and the rest of his family along with the easton high school jinx were placed in suitable coffins and carried in the parade by two hears es when the parade after travers ing most of the principle streets of bethlehem reached the midde of the bethlehem business association downs depression jinx buried hill to hill bridge it was stopped and the buriol ceremony began the rev reveler in charge of the ceremony gave an elaborate el egy on the short lives of the de ceased after this the four unde sirable reposed in wooden coffins were unceremoniously dumped over the bridge wall into the lehigh riv er shouts went up from the eager crowds as the coffins hit the wa ter and sank a large three and one-half million candle-.power army light aided the spectators in see ing the burial completed the hearses carrying the ficti tious characters were the main at traction along the routs of the par ade it was continually surrounded during its ravel and experienced trouble in moving bands from the moravian men's college and le high furnished the funeral dirge music while numerous elaborately decorated floats added to the col or of the occasion vol xxxviii no 12 burr to razz fraternity men spector wins guessing match bethlehem pa tuesday october 28 1930 many treated at dispensary price — five cents aus wy lie's band to play at prom dr j r bierman advises simple method of home treatment fort to discuss tour of africa before sigma xi picks correct orchestra for senior ball 194 enter contest our greeks will be title of second issue to appear soon christian gauss to speak before blake society brown and white lehigh eleven loses to stronc penn team 40-0 to lead orchestra dead past and living present to be the topic is princeton dean austin wylie member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first