Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 18

              richards opens anniver ersary of poet classi cal league joins miss mary hess speaks contrary to the custom in pre vious years there will be no bon fire on the friday evening be fore the lafayette game this year arcadia decided at a meeting held tuesday however in the case of a win over lafayette there will be a victory bonfire at the lookout on monday evening all freshmen will be required to contribute fuel for this bonfire and the usual attendance will be taken eleven loses fourth suc cessive game to scar let gridmen ware and issel score grossman gains two touch downs before 4,000 spectators 500 guests attend over 200 couples hear austin wylie's band at senior ball arcadia plans student parade arcadia plans a short meeting at 4 p m at the flag pole on fri day the student body is request ed to meet at that time for the purpose of organizing a march down to taylor field where the group will witness the final prac tice of the lehigh gridimen prior to their departure to allentown this will be the final ovation to the team before the lafayrtte game lafayette smoker will be held friday eve ning librarian leach to attend meet will visit new york for annual eastern li brary conference touchdowns grossman 2 issel ware goals from touchdowns harris placement ; halsted line buck ; pass grossman to stager referee g s k wheeler haverford head linesman h n merritt yale field judge b f mcginley perm umpire l campuz ano p m c substitutions lehigh — sindel for blood hall for issel chess for evers issel for hall hall for clark blood for sindel chess for bailey rut gers — karakas for harris stager for dunlop horton for prisco prisco for horton hickok for karakas millard to speak on city charters address is sponsored by history and govern ment department postponement of the house par ties until after midsemester exam inations brought no relief to 967 stu dents who received valentines yes terday morning though adequate statistics are lacking representa tives of the registrar's staff are cer tain that the number of valentines was slightly higher than usual of the men who received valen tines 406 received but one and 261 received two in other words but 300 men are flunking in three or more subjects an additional cheer ing note is found in the fact that many of the valentines were e's and intended merely as a reminder of the danger of flunking the worst showing of any of the three colleges of the university was made by the college of business ad ministration more than 68 percent or 247 of the 360 students enrolled in that college on founder's day received valentines the college of engineering sent out valentines to 564 engineers or to 65 percent of the 866 men enrolled arts men made the best showing with 51 per cent or 156 men out of 303 getting the warnings freshmen receive most freshmen as usual received the most warnings 334 members of the class of 1934 which entered in sep tember received valentines another group listed as 1934 repeaters consisting of men lacking more than eight hours of sophomore standing received 68 valentines of the re maining 565 valentines 271 went to sophomores 172 to juniors 121 to seniors and 1 to a business spe cial the large number of valentines this semester created a little sur prise to both dean c m mcconn and dean g b curtis since house parties usually used by students as an alibi for low grades were not held this year until after mid-sem ester neither of the deans would make any statement three men a freshman engineer a freshman business man and a jun ior engineer received valentines with the warning that they were failing in seven subjects six men received warnings to be careful in six subjects while 50 men will have to be very careful in five subjects all other valentines went to men who were failing in four subjects or less journalists try for offices three compete for news managership ; two seek editorial position a short and snappy smoker at 7:30 friday evening in taylor gym will begin celebration for the com ing lafayette game at 2 o'clock saturday afternoon in the lafayette stadium in easton the booster committee of arcadia has conclud ed all plans for the smoker and completed arrangements for the parade which is to follow the smoker dr neil carothers head of the department of business administra tion will act as toastmaster at the smoker dr carothers acted in the same capacity last year at the la fayette smoker at which time austy tate walter r okeson and prof j l beaver gave short talks again this year walter r okeson uni versity treasurer and austy tate head football coach will give short speeches to the group assembled for celebration andrew e buch anan alumni secretary will say a few words as will joseph e mc lemon captain of the team which faces lafayette saturday the uni versity band of 75 pieces will fur nish music for all songs and the alma mater immediately following the smok er the student body headed by the band will assemble directly in front of taylor stadium for the cus tomary parade through the streets of bethlehem the right of way on all streets has been secured by the booster committee which together with the other members of arca dia will act as officials freshmen will not be required to don pajamas and towels for the parade this year although they will be required to march as a class at the rear of the column arcadia announces that a sufficient amount of noise may be made but that no rowdyism will be allowed to eliminate friday bonfire in conection with the elimination of the friday night bonfire the booster committee edecided to drop it because the bonfire is not a le high tradition this preliminary cel ebration has replaced a victory bon fire during the absence of lehigh victories and this explains why many students think the bonfire the night before is a tradition arcadia contends that under the new plan there will be more interest mani fested in case of a victory whereas there will still be an equal amount of preliminary celebration at the smoker and parade gramley to give speech dale h gramley instructor in journalism will address the york adams regional press group com posed of high school students from those respective counties at a con ference to be held on the afternoon and evening of friday nov 21 at the york collegiate institute in york pa mr gramley plans to outline the various problems occuring in jour nalistic work and offer suggestions for their remedy senior ballots are due only three more days remain for those seniors who wish to take ad vantage of the special price of 12 on the epitome all material must be in by nov 23 according to a w thornton senior class book chairman seniors in the college of arts and science have until dec 12 to hand in their material since nine-tenths of college stu dents are interested in economic success and not in learning for its own sake colleges should seize upon this motive and build their educational scheme upon it this declaration was made by dean c m mcconn in his lecture last evening on the dilemma of the colleges the idea of many educators that students should be given the train ing which college educators think is best for them without any con sideration for the desires of the students themselves was spurned by the dean what 90 out of 100 students are seeking declared dean mcconn is in brief vocational training whether for a profession for bus iness or for a trade well let us give them that let us cease allow ing them and their parents to imag ine as we now too often encourage them to do — that a liberal arts course will contribute in some esot eric way to that economic end and direct them plainly and honestly to what they are after dean defines dilemma the dilemma of the colleges in the opinion i the dean is whether they shall give the students what is commonly called a liberal education or whether they shall give the stu dents what is often called a prac tical or vocational education his solution is the establishment of vo cational departments or colleges in universities which will train men for chemistry journalism educa tion and other vocations we need to create also assert ed dean mcconn a great number of other vocational schools at the secondary and junior college levels — all carefully adapted to different kinds of degrees of capacity and fitting for success and advancement in varying occupations dean mcconn asserted that he believed that this plan of educa tion would not only be ideal from the economic but also from the edu cational point of view he based his conviction on the fact that the only real students is one who is study ing something for which he has a real capacity and interest stresses points in plan under this plan the speaker asserted all our children and youth would be more alive intellectually and happier than most of them are now and we should be little trou bled with truancy shirking or fail ure for all would be getting real education of some kind and at some level and real education is always delightful to the recipient all vocational schools should of fer liberal courses as electives the lecturer asserted he gave lehigh as an example where engineers who elect arts courses frequently put many of the arts students properly to shame i venture a confident guess he added that if we had thrust some of these engineers into arts courses to begin with we should have made nothing of them but football fans dana to discuss bridge project the city manager plan with pro portional representation which is recommended by many students of city government as the most effec tive way of ending political corrup tion will be explained by walter j millard field secretary of the pro portional representation league at 4 p m tomorrow in room 466 packard laboratory mr millard will speak on the model city charter the talk will be sponsored by the department of history and government the lecture will be open to the public political and business lead ers of the city have been invited to attend to talk on new bills bills allowing cities and boroughs of pennsylvania to adopt the city manager plan and proportional rep resentation will be introduced at the next session of the legislature it is in the interest of these bills that mr millard an experienced civic cam paigner will speak the success of the proposed leg islation will mean that any city in pennsylvania can adopt the city manager plan and elect a city coun cil by the proportional representa tion method this method will give parties and other groups in a com munity representation in the council in proportion to their numerical strength the council will select a city manager who is an expert in civic affairs mr millard who is now touring pennsylvania on behalf of the pro portional representation league is also field secretary of the national municipal league born in england he was educated to be an engineer he followed electrical and mechan ical pursuits even after his arrival in this country in 1901 the lack of scientific manage ment in the field of government turned mr millard into a civic campaigner he has taken part in campaigns to adopt new city char ters in 27 cities including cincin nati and cleveland vergil roman poet of the time of christ was honored friday when lehigh joined with the classical league of the lehigh valley in cele brating the birth of the poet 2,000 years ago two sessions afternoon and evening of the celebration were held in the . auditorium of packard laboratory miss mary l hess head of the latin department of liberty high school who spoke on the vergil ian pilgrimage and the aeniad cruise and horace w wright head of the department of latin at lehigh who spoke on the epic of rome and united italy were the speakers of the afternoon session charles r richards president of lehigh made the address of wel come at the evening session earl l crum associate-professor of latin at lehigh spoke on story of the georgics edgar h riley assis tant professor of english at le high closed the program his speech was entitled the later tradition of vergil league elects officers prof george h allen of lafay ette college was elected president of the classical league of the le high valley at an election in drown hall held during the dinner hour other officers elected were earl l crum lehigh university vice president miss mary l hess lib erty high school secretary-treas urer and horace w wright le high university member of the exe cutive committee the legends of vergil which at tribute to the poet the miracles usually attributed to all great lead ers of the past were related by pro fessor riley in his talk when a certain professor visited naples professor riley said the neapolitans told him of a bronze fly placed on one of the fortified gates which while it remained drove away all flies from the city and of a butcher's block which kept meat fresh for an indefinite time there were many other legends of a similar nature which profes sor riley related as having grown up about the poet whose works liv ed on during the dark ages among these works were the georgics whose story was told by doctor crum roman life is discussed in the georgics professor crum asserted vergil calls the roman people from their tendencies toward luxuries and their migration from city life back to the simple life on the farm and to agriculture the pursuit of the romans in the good old days rome asserted doctor wright in his speech friday afternoon was looking to vergil to write the supreme poem that would interpret to herself and to all future time her character her achievements and destiny of the great emperor who had given her rebirth particularly to be emphasized was the unity of rome and italy only for the first time reaching its true accomplish ment under caesar augustus the result was the aeneid miss hess in her speech told of her experiences during the summer on a trip on the steamer city of paris the itinerary of the vergil pilgrimage took the tourists over the course traveled by aeneas in the aeneid and to places significant in the life of vergil new alumni bulletin is largest published commemorates the dedication of packard laboratory oratory the largest issue of the alumni bulletin ever published came from the press last week its 48 pages commemorate the dedication of the james ward packard laboratory the old cover of brown paper with a white design is replaced in this issue by a white cover with a cut of the entrance to the packard laboratory printed in brown dedication of the packard lab oratory is covered in detail other articles relate the events of foun der's day and walter okey oke son tells the alumni what's wrong with the football team fort to speak prof tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics and astronomy will address the annual meeting of the philadelphia section of the mathematics association of america nov 29 at the university of pennsylvania almost periodic functions will be professor fort's subject his speech will be one of several delivered at that time to the association whose meetings take place each thanksgiving holiday civil engineers will hear lec ture on kill van kull span doctor outlines nerve anatomy a b hamilton local physi cian speaks to pre-medi cal society competitions for editorial posts on the staff of the brown and white started yesterday and will continue until the end of the semes ter this competition takes the form of actual trial in the position for which the applicant is compet ing three semesters work is re quired of candidates for news and editorial managerships and two for those of news editor makeup edi tor and sports editor robert h raring and edward fleischer are applicants for the editorial managership and the posi tion of news manager is sought by james b rather jr ralph c ben son and frank murphey there are eight competitors for news edi tor edward fleischer walter kin singer franklin b wise william h goehring jr harry warendorf jerome barney john a lloyd and william v port clifford e har rison is out for makeup editor and myron e whitney and carleton lord for sporting editor a separate competition is being held for positions in the business department e e society hears earle a paper on railroad electrifica tion by r e earle of the west inghouse electric and manufactur ing company presented at a meet ing of the lehigh valley section of electrical engineers of the american institute of electrical engineers at the necho-allen hotel in pottsville friday evening nov 14 dynamic america a sound mo vie was shown through the cour tesy of the westinghouse electric and manufacturing company the film illustrated the development of the electrical industry in america the meeting opened with a dinner in the ballroom of the hotel at 6:30 fraternity pledges man tau delta phi fraternity an nounces the pledging of edward fleischer 33 of bethlehem howard s leach lehigh univer sity librarian will attend the eigh teenth annual conference of eastern college librarians to be held at columbia university new york city saturday nov 29 1930 the saturday following thanksgiving is the date selected each year for the conference which is always held at columbia university the morning session will be un der the direction of charles w spencer of colgate university c b shaw librarian of swarthmore col lege and originator of the carnegie corporation's list of books for col lege libraries will discuss the cor poration's list more fully at the morning session another address of interest announced mr leach will be that of h g bausfield washington square librarian new york university when mr baus field will discuss the administra tive control of book losses van hoesen to preside dr henry b van hoesen of brown university will preside at the afternoon session the most im portant topic will be librarian leach's discussion of the place of rare books in a college li brary the weekly circulation of books from the library reached the lowest mark in six weeks during the week ending saturday nov 15 announc ed mr leach the total for the week was approximately 300 less than the usual number and mr leach stated that house party week end caused the decrease pi delta epsilon appoints committees will elect new members at spe cial meeting thursday new members will be elected to pi delta epsilon honorary journal istic fraternity at a meeting to be held at 8 p m thursday in drown hall this will be a special meeting as at the meeting held last eve ning a quorum was not present very little took place at last night's meeting with the exception of the following committees which were appointed speaker's commit tee c d macdougall frosh hand book r a stabler committee on consolidation of publications c o claus f r veale d h gramley gridiron banquet p s davis a e buchanan jr l a brettner j s little a f malmros g b cam den publication of a song sheet s c fuller j w maxwell o d k initiates three omicron delta kappa junior and senior honorary society initiated three men at their last meeting held thursday evening nov 13 at the delta phi house the men initiated were warren h schaub robert h harris and samuel c fuller fol lowing the initiation the society was entertained at dinner at the delta phi house after dinner a short bus iness meeting was held followed by a discussion on the type of football teams that lehigh should play after the discussion was concluded there was a general concensus of opinion that lehigh was playing a few too many teams out of her class a n rogers to speak a graduate student will address pi mv epsilon national honorary mathematics society at its monthly meeting 7:30 p m tomorrow in room 400 packard laboratory a n rogers student chemistry foun dation fellow is to speak to the so ciety on the principle of duality lost articles are found " one large rhinestone shoe buckle one large rhinestone bracelet and one silver chain set with stones were found in taylor gymnasium after the senior ball phone 1936 for f h morhart at the delta tau delta house for information con cerning these articles coming events lehigh's tenth fall house party has come and gone the color of the briefly brilliant week-end was little dulled by the mist and drizzle that came to bethlehem along with the some 500 guests from florida to new england the young ladies came as guests of 32 of the univer sity's living groups friday evening saw the bare up per taylor gymnasium transformed for the senior ball the decorative scheme was done in the modernis tic-turkish style the colors of the sparkling draperies the hangings and the escutcheons covering the walls were blended and subdued by a lighting effect that threw an azure glow on the ceiling where white stars glittered guests see comedian more than 200 couples attended the ball with nearly half as many stags austin wylie's orchestra playing until 3 a m began well the establishment of their reputation in the east mr wylie who has here tofore led his 11 pieces in cleveland and the middle west presented ex cellent and well diversified types of popular music his clever comedian and drummer jimmie sullivan add ed immensely to the band's effec tiveness by mixing his antics with the more dignified harmony and rhythm frederick h morhart was chair man of the senior ball committee and dean and mrs c m mcconn and dr and mrs raymond c bull were chaperons of the affair m and c holds tea dance after the st john's soccer game and the muddy loss to rutgers on taylor field about 50 couples went to the upper gym for the tea dance sponsored by the mustard and cheese club the maroon and brown orchestra composed of le high and lafayette undergraduates offered their advertised sophisti cated syncopation the decora tions of the previous evening were again utilized dancing lasted until 7 p m j h booker 32 headed the tea dance committee prof and mrs p m palmer and dr halfred brown were chaperons hiring every orchestra within striking distance many of the fra ternities held house dances satur day night several grouping togeth er and having combined affairs the houses holding dances and the orchestras providing music for the guests were as follows alpha chi rho entertained 100 guests the cardinals supplying the music alpha kappa pi entertained with fred minson's band alpha tau omega and sigma phi epsilon held a combined dance attended by approximately 80 guests at the a t o house where bert mansfield and his orchestra supplied the har mony stewart's band plays ted stewart's band played at the beta theta pi fraternity while al rose's columbians took the stage at the combined gathering of chi phi and sigma nu attended by 50 guests chi psi had 25 guests at a closed dance at which the sirens furnished the music and delta tau delta had 30 guests attending a dinner dance with the terrace gar den orchestra entertaining three fraternities delta phi with 50 guests sigma phi with 17 and kappa alpha also with 17 held a combined dance at the sigma phi house 75 guests attended a party at the delta upsilon frater nity and danced to the music of the easton saracens bud rader and his band played at the kappa sigma house to 26 guests lambda chi alpha leonard hall phi beta delta and phi delta pi each entertained 30 guests the four orchestras playing at these fraterni ties were respectively the para mount rau's arcadians george frankel's band and walter kem merer's melody makers george doddy's orchestra supplied the mu sic at the phi sigma kappa house where 35 guests were entertained to discuss examinations the engineering council will dis cuss the report of its committee on comprehensive examinations at 4 p m tomorrow in the faculty room of alumni memorial building the committee of which prof e.s sin kinson of the mining department is chairman reported at the last meet ing of the council friday afternoon nov 14 several minor changes and addi tions in courses were submitted and considered friday but there was no discussion of the examination com mittee's report at that time kill van kull th c world's largest steel arch bridge will be the subject of allston dana's lecture to the civil engineering society at 7:30 p m thursday nov 20 in pack ard auditorium mr dana is design ing engineer of the port of new york authority and of the hudson river suspension bridge , clearing the mean high water of the kill van kull by iso feet the great 1677 foot single steel span is longer by 25 feet than any similar structure in the world its length is more than double that of the fa mous hell gate bridge sixteen million dollars are being spent in its construction by the port of new york authority staten is land and bayonne n j are con nected by the span over the kill van kull work on such an arch is started at the extremeties and approaches the middle until the junction is made while construction of the bridge is by no means complete the arch itself recently has been joined mr dana has had a part in the designing of the structure his lec ture which will be illustrated will be open to all students for the best poster advertising this or any of its meetings the stu dents branch of the american so ciety of civil engineers is offering a prize of 500 to be awarded at the last meeting in the spring wednesday nov 19 4 p m meeting of the engineering council faculty room alumni memorial building 4 p m lecture by walter c mil lard on the model city char ter room 466 packard labora tory 7:30 p m meeting of pi mv ep silon room 400 packard labor atory thursday nov 20 7:30 p m meeting of the lehigh university chemical society in chandler chemistry laboratory illustrated lecture by dr charles c nitchie 7:30 p m meeting of pi delta ep silon journalistic fraternity in drown hall saturday nov 22 2 p m varsity football vs lafay > ette at easton anatomy of the nervous system in relation to varying symptoms was discussed by dr a b hamil ton affiliated with st luke's hos pital as an adjunct in neurology at a meeting of the r w hall pre medical society thursday evening in packard laboratory dr hamilton described the man ner in which the virus which caus es infantile paralysis destroys cells of the anterior horn in the brain and causes paralysis and wasting of muscles he traced the neurological action in lock-jaw locomotor atax ia and various muscle reflexes dr hamilton concluded his talk with the hope that it may have awak ened the interest of several of the group in neurology several who in due time shall contribute much to the advancement of science and to the relief of suffering a regular business meeting of the society was held previous to the discussion and maurice bogart 31 president outlined the program of surgical and psychological clinics to be held in the near future for mem bers of the society the rutgers football team led by jack grossman nosed out le high 14-13 saturday before 4,000 wet fans on a very muddy taylor field a brilliant offensive rally in the waning minutes of play resulted in a touchdown for the brown and white but when a line plunge from a fake placement kick formation fell short by inches of scoring the ex tra point lehigh was denied a tie and rutgers registered its fourth successive victory over the brown and white in as many years the wet muddy conditions fail ed to mar a bitter and exciting game nor did the weather dampen the mad enthusiasm of a colorful house party crowd lehigh gains touchdowns twice during the hard and bril liant game lehigh came through with touchdowns after rutgers had scorer before them only to lose aft er their try for touchdown failed on another occasion the brown and white gridmen were checked on the very goal line when ware attempted to dive over the wide stripe on a fourth down he was checked in mid air and the referee awarded the ball to rutgers at the start of the game coach tate elected to play a kicking with the hope that rutgers would fum ble the wet ball in their own terri tory and thus put his own eleven in a scoring position but this strate gy failed when grossman preced ed to out-kick ware and drive le high back against its own goal one beautiful kick by grossman rolled to the one yard line ware was compelled to kick from behind his own goal line rutgers then ad vanced the ball to within one yard of the goal line when the brown and white took the ball after a cou rageous stand again ware was forced to kick from the end zone this time aided by a is yard pen alty for unnecessary roughness and great ball carrying by grossman rutgers managed to tally just be fore the end of the first period grossman went over on an off tackle thrust and harris scored the extra point with a placement scarlet holds lehigh in the second period lehigh changed its tactics and opened with an offensive which kept them in rutgers territory most of the per iod here the scarlet made a great stand and held the brown and white on the very goal line grossman tossed a pass on the first play following the second half kick-off which halsted intercepted and dashed 33 yards through the mud before being stopped on the second play ware threw a neat pass to issel who raced along the side line unmolested for lehigh's first score the extra point was awarded when a scarlet linesman was de clared off-side but once again the tide of the bit ter battle changed and rutgers took the kick-off following lehigh's score and marched straight down the field to break the tie and to re main in the lead once again gross man scored this time he carried the ball over from the 12 yard line on a thrilling run around his right end grossman tossed a quick pass to stager for the extra point the point which later proved to be the margin of victory stuart helps publish thermodynamics book mechanical engineers using text this semester milton c stuart professor of mechanical engineering at lehigh is the co-author of a new book called principles of engineering thermodynamics which was re leased from the press of john wil ey & sons new york recently the other author is paul j kiefer professor of mechanical engineer ing at the united states naval post graduate school in speaking of the book prof stuart said prof kiefer and i conceived the idea of writing this book while working together at the naval postgraduate school since the emphasis of the book is on the fundamental principles only no at tempt has been made to describe in detail the current forms which the machines take in application the only applications which are treated quite fully from a theoreti cal standpoint are flow of liquids steam turbines steam engines pow er plant cycles combustion inter nal combustion engines compres sors and blowers and refrigeration the mechanical engineering stu dents are using the book this sem ester brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday november 18 1930 bonfire date changed price — five cents fall house-party festivities end vol xxxviii no 1 8 commemoration of vergil's birth is held at lehigh 967 men receive reports for low scholastic work students seek economic gain declares m'conn rutgers defeats gridmen 14-13 dean favors consideration of student's choice of subjects about 400 attend lehigh-rutgers football lineup hold flag pole meet 32 university living groups observe social functions approximately 68 of business students get valentines arts men rank highest oursen le clarl inauss c lt even harris lg stein viley c stub vnderson rg bailey jmoyer rt baket . cronin re issel valdron qb blood 3 risco lh halsted unlop rh wire jrossman fb doering score by periods ehigh 0 0 7 6—13 utgers 7 0 7 o—l4 all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association