Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 23

              final draft of schedule released by dean g b curtis to extend nine days all conflicts must be reported to instructors by friday afternoon the chemical society will hold its christmas banquet thursday evening at six o'clock in the masonic temple president richards it is ex pected will give a short talk and andy buchanana will give a demonstration of lege demain as a magician andy is justly famous there will be the indispensible christmas tree and fireplace and santa claus will appear in conven tional garb he will distribute presents to seniors and mem bers of the faculty the chemical society is the oldest club at lehigh and its annual banquet has become fa mous mince pie has always been the outstanding part of the meal and again this year will supplement the chicken there will be about 200 members present a concert will be given at ce dar crest college by the combin ed musical clubs during the lat ter part of december or the early part of january according to j s harrison president of the or ganization as yet no definite date has been decided upon the glee club quartet and dance orchestra will all partici pate in the concert and are hold ing regular rehearsals in prepar ation for the first public appear ance of the organization this year the scene section of the epi tome will differ this year in that it will contain drawings of the university buildings creating the effect of fine line woodcuts ac cording to c o claus editor in chief last year the section consist ed of photographs of the build ings the sport section will be emphasized more than formerly instead of an art theme definite ly relating to lehigh a varied and decorative design has been selected the opening section of the book will be printed on laid paper usually seen in magazines pi delta epsilon to initiate five forrest speaks to newswriters featured in the december is sue of the alumni bulletin which will be issued dec 12 will be two addresses delivered by dr d jackson of the mas sachusetts institute of technol ogy and alfred l glancy of the general motors corporation at the dedication of the james ward packard laboratory dr jackson head of the depart ment of electrical engineering at m i t spoke on what the technical school expects of in dustry mr glancy who was graduated from lehigh in 1903 addressed the assembly on what the automotive industry expects of college graduates texts of both speeches will appear in this issue among other articles in the bul letin will be a resume of the le high football season with special emphasis on the lafayette game lehigh alumni news alumni let ters and obituaries will also be included in this issue m'conn supports modern college m and c to give play dec 17-19 will hold induction cer emonies before banquet thursday evening describes in rotarian benefits available for student noted war correspondent relates experiences in getting scoops fall presentation titled ten nights in a bar-room five men will be initiated into pi delta epsilon national honorary journalistic fraternity at 5:45 o'clock thursday evening at the psi upsilon house where the ini tiation banquet will be held after the induction ceremonies the publications men who will become members of the fraternity are emanuel a honig 31 editor ial manager of the brown and white president of the intercolle giate newspaper association of the middle atlantic states and board member of the review william e hoyer 31 news manager of the brown and white joseph a hun oval 31 editor in chief of the freshman handbook board mem ber of the brown and white ru fus l savage 31 assistant editor of the 1931 epitome and ralph c benson 32 fraternity editor of the 1931 epitome business manager of the freshman handbook assistant editor of the burr and board mem ber of the review these men were formally pledg ed by the fraternity on dec 2 at exercises in chapel dr e twitmyer to speak dec 10 in addition to approving the cap tain and awarding letters in foot ball soccer and cross country the board of control of athletics yes terday authorized application for membership to the i c a a a a national track organization rec commended by the spiked shoe so ciety the petition of the fencing club for recognition as a regular sport was referred to a committee w r okeson m l jacobs and j s long were elected to the foot ball advisory committee for the coming year no letter for neuwirth francis neuwirth captain of the cross country team failed to receive his letter an injured knee kept him out of all but two of the season's meets and in neither of these was he in good enough condition to fin ish among the leaders the following received varsity football letters j f mclernon captain a t ware captain-elect s l hall w e issel m j haas c f halsted george doering morton stein f a jones w p baker e a sindel e f evers r c clark g h bailey robert motion e b twiggar t e nora r s chess f a rushong f a stutz j e blood p b myers r e hoaster and p s davis manager soccer letters awarded were to w h schaub captain w.l mill er captain-elect h m chapin l c byers a e wiener w e bird j g williams l c gold w c french j h fountain g m montgomery r a g earich h h ousey and harry andrews manager cross country letters were award ed to l t chandler captain-elect r b engleman r g weldon e t meyers j p nichols and j d benedict manager no action was taken on the selec tion of an opponent to replace yale on the wrestling schedule manag ers of fall sports will not be ap proved until the next meeting s & b to hold military ball formal function will be giv en by r o t c so ciety dec 1 3 the first military ball ever to be held at lehigh will be given sat urday evening dec 13 in the main ballroom of the hotel bethlehem by the scabbard and blade hon orary r o t c military society r l baird president of co h scabbard and blade announced that the committee has secured the ser vices of the pied pipers for the eve ning this orchestra supplies the music for all the dances and other functions of the princeton triangle club the ball will be formal and the commissioned officers of the r o t c regiment will attend the func tion in uniform the committee in charge made its plans for the dance with the idea of making it such a success that it will become a reg ular feature tickets may be se cured from any member of the or ganization or at the hotel satur day night r w blake society to hear mental health expert socialism and communism are not fundamentally anti-democratic in nature and are not striving to send popular government to obliv ion democracy is not destined to disappear despite the fire directed against it but its institutions must undergo modifications these opin ions were expressed last evening by ernst b schulz assistant profes sor of political science in packard auditorium professor echulz who spoke on the subject democracy under fire gave the third lecture of the series on social problems of the machine age the fourth lecture of the series will not be given un til next semester over 300 persons heard the address in speaking of socialism and com munism doctor schulz declared there is plenty of evidence in support of the position that these movements are the logical result of democracy's principles and consti tute efforts to remodel economic and social life along what are be lieved to be more democratic lines disproves social unrest theory that those who believe that pri vate property private business en terprise and a narrow sphere of governmental activity to be the es sence of democracy can never see the democratic movement express ed in societarian movements was admitted by the speaker he dis proved the theory that contempor ary social unrest is anti-democratic in trend the dictatorships and revolu tions of recent years are pointed to by some doctor schulz asserted as convincing evidence that pop ular government is doomed but these are at the most temporary expedients and have not been mo tivated by fundamental anti-demo cratic purposes in some cases they indicate lack of faith in existing democratic forms and in other cases the revolutions have occurred in countries where democracy has either not existed or existed only to a slight degree says democracy will continue though professor schulz believes that demorcracy will not disappear he expressed the belief that it must be modified it is his opinion that false and unreal democratic dogma must be discarded governmental or ganization simplified and overhaul ed in the light of changed condi tions of life and the lines of poli tical responsibility be more clearly drawn he also expressed his de sire for a higher standard of citi zenship something which can be brought about anly by education the cynic will laugh the pro fessor of government commented at reliance upon education a port which all reformers seem to seek in a storm but the fact of the matter is that our educational systems of today provide no adequate training for citizenship and consequently education as a means of directly raising the standard of citizenship has never really been tried lehigh prerequisites discussed by faculty university entrance requirements considered at club meeting prerequisites or the qualifica tions of a student necessary for en trance to lehigh was the subject under discussion at the meeting of the faculty educational club yes terday in the faculty room of the alumni memorial building dr james l graham professor of psychology spoke on the psy chology of prerequisites while prof s s seyfert of the electrical en gineering department reported on the administration of prerequisites an informal discussion was held following the talks led by prof tomlinson fort head of the de partment of mathematics and prof f v larkin head of the depart ment of mechanical enginering the present system at lehigh which makes it necessary for en trance that a student's previous grades be passing was considered and compared with other plans dr edwin b twitmyer profes sor of psychology at the univer sity of pennsylvania and an auth ority on mental hygiene will ad dress an open meeting of the rob ert w blake society at 7:45 p m tomorrow evening in packard audi torium his lecture will deal with the relation of fundamental abilities of mental health dr twitmyer has had long prac tical experience in fields relative to his subject he is assistant direc tor of the oldest psychological clin ic in the world at the university of pennsylvania for some time he has conducted a hospital in phila delphia for children and adults suf fering from personality defects due to mental difficulties dr twitmy er's previous activities in bethle hem have been the conduction of clinics for remedy of speech de fects college life is not so bad after all according to dean max mc conn this opinion was expressed in his article is college really so bad appearing recently in the ro tarian as a reply to the statement by dr hendrik van loon that col lege life today is everything that it should not be dean mcconn also expressed the opinion that although colleges are far from ideal they still furnish the means of gaining know ledge which would be very difficult to obtain without the aid of trained instructors although dean mcconn admits that not all college instructors pos sess the ability to inspire their pu pils to their best efforts and not all college faculties are composed ex clusively of inspired geniuses still the student is able to gain some thing to benefit him in later life from his contact with instructors and professors graduates broadened to dr van loon's statement that the average college graduate cannot state any definite benefits derived from college life dean mccohn says that after many interviews with college graduates he has learned to expect on the whole reasonably satisfactory answers to his questions they will tell you he states they learned a lot of stuff most of which they have for gotten they will usually go on to say that they got a lot out of the social life of the college including the various student activities fi nally dean mcconn says they nearly always begin to talk about old professor so-and-so referring to the different teachers in the dif ferent cases in summarizing his statement he says that the social activities broaden the student and give him a very necessary bit of self-confidence and savoir faire as well as putting him in contact with one or two or three teachers who are not like socrates or abelard but who do give him to some degree that stirring up and awakening and inspiration to real thinking in the article dean mcconn points out that while dr van loon's statement that a student could get all his knowledge by reading encyclopedias and handy reference books is correct it is almost entirely impracticle because of the fact that the vast majority will not take the trouble to gain higher education by this method to conclude his reply dean continued on page four student conference at oxford discusses wine women and song breaks of the newspaper game gave wilbur forrest war corres pondent and by-line writer of the new york herald-tribune a dozen world scoops he told 50 college publication men and women from 17 schools at the banquet of intercol legiate newspaper association sat urday night at hotel bethlehem breaks enabled him to beat the world by 14 minutes in reporting to his paper the landing of lindbergh in paris may 21 1927 kind fortune he said permitted him to report details of byrd's trans-atlantic flight several hours ahead of all competing papers and news services and good luck smiled as he best ed opposition correspondents by days in reaching rome and cover ing the fascist achievement in gaining control of the government in 1919 but the college journalist gath ered from the speaker's narrative on news gathering throughout the world that nerve courage ingen uity and thorough knowledge of the foreign news field are the funda mental ingredients that have brought scoops and fame to wilbur forrest as a foreign correspondent and general reporter present cups mr forrest's talk followed the presentation of the news competi tion and editorial cups of the i n a to the dickinsonian of dickin son college and the phoenix of swarthmore college respectively the news competition cup was presented by john merrill city edi tor of the easton express the award of the editorial cup was made by vernon d heilman teie graph editor of the york dispatch walton forstall jr editor of the brown and white was toastmaster at the banquet emanuel honig editorial manager of the brown and white and president of i n a spoke following mr forrest's talk and officially closed the conven tion experiences in covering the world war exciting moments in turbulent mexico of the early 19205 and difficulties in reporting far eastern news were recited and explained by mr forrest the speaker took his hearers into four continents and onto the scene of a score of events of world wide im portance in his hour's talk cites readiness ability to get the news and then to send it he said are the big things in reporting foreign affairs he indicated that the correspon dent must be ready at an hour's notice to jump from chicago to paris from dublin ireland to continued on page four memorial services held for dog was used to predict lehigh scores plans for the semi-annual mus tard and cheese presentation ten nights in a bar-room have been completed the play will be pre sented dec 17 18 and 19 at the colonial theatre in conjunction with their feature picture full dress re hearsal will be held dec 16 mus tard and cheese does not plan to go on the road with this production but are in hopes of giving a musical show and tour it in the spring the play written by william w pratt is to be presented in five acts it depicts a domestic tragedy re sulting from excessive drinking it chiefly concerns joe morgan once a wealthy miller who becomes an habitual drunkard as the result of an unfortunate association through which he loses all of his money the plot is interwoven with the comic love element between sample swichel and metable cartright modernistic scenery the scenery is to be very modern istic with an unusual lighting ar rangement the desired effects will be obtained by changing the posi tion and color of the lights instead of by shifting the scenery the lighting will be of the indirect type the quartet of the glee club and an orchestra composed of lehigh students will render several musi cal selections at intermittent inter vals from off stage the music has been arrangedby jule booker 32 and byron breyley 33 there will be no reserved seats tickets will be sold at 1 sigma xi to hear research man professor merritt will discuss short wave phenomena wednesday prof ernest merritt head of the department of physics at cornell university will deliver a public lec ture on the propogation of ra dio waves at 8 o'clock dec 17 in room 466 packard laboratory the meeting is under the auspices of sigma xi national honorary re search society research in the radio field is yielding valuable information on the constitution of the earth's surface and mr merritt will discuss in his talk the discovery of an ionized or electrically conducting layer some 60 to 100 miles above the earth's surface the varience in height of this layer from day to night and from season to season and the manner in which radio waves are reflected back from it professor merritt will describe the skip dis tance phenomena by means of which short waves are often re ceived more strongly and clearly at a great distance from their source than at a short distance from it professor merritt is very well known in the scientific world being a past president of the american physical society and a member of the national academy of sciences he is also the author of numerous scientific papers discusses teletype over 500 people attended the meeting of the lehigh valley sec tion of the a i e e saturday night in the packard auditorium prof r g parker of the amer ican telephone and telegraph com pany presented an illustrated lecture on the development and technical principals of the teletype two tel etype machines set up on the plat form were connected to news agen cy wires during the lecture and col lected the night news dispatches of the agencies after the meeting the audience examined the machines and read the dispatches as they were sent out from new york coming events a final draft of the complete ex amination schedule has just been re leased by dean g b curtis all conflicts must be reported not lat er than friday according to the fol lowing announcement provision is made at all examination periods for students who have been prevented by conflicts in the regular examina tion roster from taking examina tions for which they are qualified in all cases of conflict the courses having the fewest number of ros tered sections takes precedence ex cept that in cases of conflict in courses having the same number of sections the courses having the fewest students shall take prece dence conflicts in the regular ex amination schedule must be report ed by students to the teachers con cerned not later than the third day following the publication of the ex amination schedule figures in parentheses indicate the number of sections in those courses for which there are more than one section indicates a course of two sections or more for which only one examination is scheduled indicates a two-sec tion course for each section of which an examination is scheduled monday 8 a m jan 19 3 bus 29 — money and banking 2 chem 195 — physical chem lab 4 e e 51 — elementary dynamo lib e e s—lntermediate5 — intermediate dynamo lab 5 engl o—composition0 — composition 3 engl 2 — composition 2 engl 3a — composition and lit 4 engl a — drama ger 115 — the german short story m e 114 — engineering laboratory met 62 — iron and steel met problems monday 2 p m jan 19 bus 49 — economic geography bus 113 — advanced accounting 2 chem 180 — chemical engineering lab c e 11 railroads c e 128 — sanitary engineering e e 11 — advanced dynamo lab engl 31 — milton and the 17th century geol 7 — economic geology 2 geol 16 — physiography sec i 5 ger i—elementary1 — elementary german 2 ger 3—lntermediate3 — intermediate german sec b ital i—elementary1 — elementary italian m e 113 — mechanical engineering met s—electrochemistry5 — electrochemistry met 139 — seminar mm i—mining1 — mining engineering 2 span 11 — inter spanish sec b tuesday 8 a m jan 20 2 bus 3 — economics lect i bus 123 — investments chem 98 — physical chemistry chem 163 — chemistry of dyes and drugl ed 7 prin of high school teaching e e 114 — electric stations engl 123 — shakespeare geol i—minerology1 — minerology geol la — minerology geol 115 — geological methods hist 25 — european history lat 33 — caesar lat 105 — satire m e 2 — elementary heat engines 2 met 21 — engineering met sec a 2 phil 3—lntroduction3 — introduction to philosophy 2 phys i—elementary1 — elementary physics 2 phys 122 physical optics tuesday 2 p m jan 20 astr 2 — general astronomy biol 4 — embryology 2 bus 3 — economics lect ii 2 bus 39 industrial man sec a bus 107 — advanced economics . chem 41 — quantitative analysis conf chem 44 — quantitative analysis conf chem 48 — quantitative analysis conf chem 78 — chemical engineering e e 4 — elementary alternating currents e e 113 — electrical design engl 43 — newspaper reporting engl 52 — sports writing f a 3 — history of architecture 2 fr 21 17 th & 18th cent lit sec a ger 9 — advanced german 2 govt 51 — american govt sec a hist 9 — history of england lat lb — vergil lat 13 — latin drama 2 met 21 engineering met sec b mm 2 — mining methods phys 160 — modern physical theories 2 span 11 — intermediate span sec a wednesday 8 a m jan 21 bus 131 — banking policfcs chem 190 — physical chemistry 3 math i—trigonometry1 — trigonometry 2 math la unified mathematics 3 math 2 algebra 2 math 3 — analytic geometry m e 19 — engineering laboratory m e 30 — mechanism met 33 — metallurgical laboratory 8 mil i basic i 8 mil 2 basic ii for those students taking math 4 5 6 16 met 131 or phi i phys 164 — advanced laboratory wednesday 2 p m jan 21 biol i—biology1 — biology bus 35 — public utilities chem 160 — organic chemistry c e 27 — contracts and specifications e e 21 — electric communication engl 33 — the bible as literature continued on page four the brown and white won sec ond place in the semi-annual news competition of the intercollegiate newspaper association of the mid dle atlantic states during the con vention here friday and saturday results in the news and editor ial competitions were news competition first place — the dickinsonian dickinson college second place — the brown and white lehigh university third place the student week ly franklin and marshall college editorial competition first place — the phoenix swar thmore college second place — the triangle drexel institute third place the gettysburgian gettysburg college the judges were wilbur forrest chief political writer of the new york herald-tribune vernon heil man telegraph editor of the york pa dispatch and john c mer rill city editor of the easton ex press they commended the dick insonian for its balanced makeups attractive art work and varied news coverage the editorial from the swarth more phoenix of nov 18 1930 which won the first award was en titled a charity football game it reads as follows prize winning editorial that the problem of unemploy ment is one of the gravest which the united states has to face cannot be denied that immediate meas ures are needed to aid present con ditions is also an accepted fact on the basis of these permises many football teams throughout the country are scheduling games with noted rivals and are donating the proceeds to the needs of char ity and unemployment the crisis has healed the break between the army and navy and has permitted the two elevens to meet in a tra ditional game a thing which seem ed impossible at the beginning of this season it has resulted in tem ple university villanova and num erous other football teams sched uling games for the sole benefit of unemployment in general whenev er possible colleges and universi ties of the country have responded to a practical crisis by allowing their football teams to compete in games where all the proceeds are turned over to needy causes swarthmore has been a leader in the study of unemployment and has conducted an investigation as to the causes the pheonix believes that it would be appropriate for the college to aid the immediate steps to remedy the unemployment cris is our suggestion is a game with haverford college on december 6 or on some convenient date the two quaker institutions have not met on the gridiron since 1925 last year students at both haverford and swarthmore foster ed a movement for renewal al though 222 haverford students and fifty alumni of the college and 271 swarthmore men and 64 alumni and ex-students favored a resumption no action was taken proponents of a haverford - swarthmore game pointed out that the two colleges meet in six sports that the feeling between the two student bodies is not one of hatred that the teams are evenly matched that many al umni favor renewal and that the game would form a natural clim ax for both elevens many of these arguments were admitted by both sides and yet haverford failed to appear on the 1930 schedule and there seems little likelihood that it will be present in 1931 the phoenix favors renewal on a permanent basis but under ex isting circumstances we believe it advisable to hold a game this sea son of course the gate would not compare with that of the army navy game or with that of other games between larger institutions nevertheless the proceeds would be fairly large why should not swarthmore lead the way among the smaller colleges and aid unem ployment by attempting to arrange a renewal of what sport writers calle a national classic one of the big little battles in the east two day convention the two day fall convention of the intercollegiate newspaper as sociation of the middle atlantic states closed saturday evening with a banquet at the hotel beth lehem during the convention 19 proposed amendments to the con stitution of the association were ap proved walton forstall editor in chief of the brown and white was continued on page four long before chic meehan made his first football prediction over the radio lehigh had its own dopester on the campus here was a case of a prophet not without honor in his own country his name was clar ence a brindle dog of uncertain breed and he held the enviable post of university mascot clarence came into his own in the fall as the lafayette game ap proached several days before the annual game students would paint the anticipated score on his sides with red or green paint in the 14 years he graced the campus he was seldom wrong although lafayette was stronger than his simple faith during his last five years the freshmen of his day regard ed him as a necessary evil for theirs was the job of caring for him and washing him suitable intervals he was a good sport but he under stood the dignity of his position and stood for no trifling clarence figured in many campus episodes in his day and was prob ably the most sold dog in history students would frequently sell him to inebriated dog lovers but clar ence always returned a few days after the sale eager for the next transaction he died in the fall of 1923 and was buried on the terrace directly below taylor hall a student fund was raised to provide a marker for his grave and a stone slab with the following inscription was placed over his final resting place here lies clarence aged 16 years died may 23 1923 university mascot for 14 years this fall during their annual tea party the taylor hall freshmen held memorial services at his grave carrying burning candles and a daisy chain made of knotted blan kets they circled the grave and wept copiously assisted by paddle wielding sophomores one frosh knelt before the grave and closed the ceremonies with a prayer in german for das hund clarence wednesday 7:45 p m lecture relation of fundamental abilities of mental health by edwin twitmyer before robert blake society in packard auditorium thursday 6 p m chemical society banquet in masonic temple 7:30 p m mechanical engineer ing society meeting room 466 packard laboratory 7:30 p m civil engineering so ciety meeting packard auditor ium students from every nation met at oxford last july at the inter national student service confer ence the great and universal inter est in american conditions is evi denced by the following series of questions compiled by the delegates at the conference 1 is it true that as a result of higher education the american wo man is highly strung and nervous from ceylon 2 america is a land of capital ists money interests are said to control education and politics is this control excessive from ger many 3 what does the american stand for in life the european has-pic tures of american prosperity un employment big business and so cial life as portrayed in the films is there a typical american life stu dent or otherwise from hindus tan 4 is there a policeman in the united states who cannot be bribed 5 prohibition how does it work what are its repercussions 6 are women the real rulers of the united states from ger many 7 what is behind the great in crease in the number of registra tions in american universities is it inspired by the desire for learning for its own sake or as an aid to economic advancement from ger many 8 what effect has standardiza tion in the big industries had upon the workers the student representatives also drew up a list of opinions held by americans to which they objected contrary to general belief in the united states 1 holland does not walk around on wooden shoes 2 europeans actually like to meet americans from england 3 europeans have lived and do live together in peace without the formation of a united states of europe from germany 4 impressions made by kather ine mayo's book mother india are not generally tmae 5 the league of nations can never be a reality without the united states adherence to it from china 6 heidelberg is not the only uni versity in germany bethlehem pa tuesday december 9 1930 alumni bulletin to be out dec 1 2 chemical society to give banquet examination period set for jan 18-28 price — five cents brown and white b & w second in i.n.a contest vol xxxiii no 23 socialism is not anti-democratic schulz asserts athletic board awards letters for fall sports epitome is revised clubs to play apply for track mem bership neuwirth not awarded letter okeson on committee democracy under fire is topic of third col lege lecture over 300 hear address eleventh fall convention closes with banquet saturday night 17 papers represented dickinsonian receives first prize in all around competition all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association