Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 39

              class presidents discuss union's plan cabinet advocates abol ishment of many tra ditional customs no action started arcadia will decide question at its next meeting in april an exhibition of foreign rail way posters will be held some time in april in the art gallery according to garth a howland head of the department of fine arts until then the gallery will remain closed the winners of the contest sponsored by the college art association have not as yet been announced the association of fered five prizes for the best written criticism of the contem porary american art exhibit which was exhibited in the le high art gallery feb 17 to march 1 inclusive george c doering president of sophomore class i person nally am opposed to the abol ishment of freshman regulations i believe that the regulations help the freshmen to get into the spirit of things when he enters college daniel f ivins jr president of the freshman class i natur ally am in favor of such a move however i believe that a fevf of the regulations should be kept because tradition should be up held but the present custom of wearing dinks seems rather useless blake society to hear smith a mock trial will be a fea ture of the next meeting of the \ pre-legal society at 7:30 p m wednesday march 11 in room 416 packard auditorium the subject of the trial will be the solution of a murder mystery which will be enacted before the trial by members of the pre-legal society or i members of mustang and cheese the lawyer in the case jer ome mayer counsel for the de fense and sidney snitkin prosecuting attorney will pick their witnesses ffoin members of the pre-legal society bas ing their selection on the way in which the witness version of the case corresponds with and materially aids their side of the question this trial is the first under taking by the pre-legal so ciety it will be judged by prof ernest b schu iz assistant professor of political science aided by a jury con sisting of members of the so cif ty tht society is planning to attend a session of either the lehigh or northampton county court in the near future lafferty talks at physics meet reality gained only through experience says instructor hughes declares speaker is coming man in philosophy theme contest opened by o.d.k members o f freshmen class eligible to / enter for the fifth time in as many years the freshman chemistry classes have made possible the es tablishment of two university re search fellowships by donating the refund of their chemistry deposit the freshman student chemistry fellowship is awarded each year to two senior chemical engineers or chemists by a committee complse of the head of the chemistry de partment twrf members of the chemistry faculty and two student members this year probably due to the general financial and business de pression of the entire country only 47 per cent of the class of 34 sub scribed this is the lowest percen tage since the foundation was estab lished freshman deposits to cover lab oratory fees in general chemistry and qualitative analysis amount to 40 annually at the end of the end of the courses the remainder is returned to the student the amount that a student may receive depends upon how careful or lucky he was in his laboratory periods with the class of 1930 it was de cided to ask the freshmen to re turn these refunds back to the de partment to establish fellowships the freshmen responded so well that it was decided to make it a permanent tradition at lehigh these fellowships pay a stipend of 750 annually besides tuition they are among the best fellow ships available here because it gives the recipient ample means to pro vide for himself lehigh is the first college to es tablish a freshman ' fellowship leading educators and professors of the country have expressed their approval of the idea commenting on the fine and generous spirit of the freshman class miami triad to give dance endicott shoe radio hour or chestra will furnish music the boulder dam project will be the subject of dr elwood meade's lecture at an open meeting of the lehigh valley section of the american society of civil engin eers at 8 p m monday in packard auditorium doctor meade is commissioner of the bureau of reclamation in the department of the interior we was professor of institution and practice of irrigation at the of california from 1898 to 1907 when he was appointed state rivers and water supply commissioner in australia he is consulting engin eer for various irrigation and water work companies and was appointed to his present position by president coolidge in 1924 the boulder canyon project is probably the greatest engineer ing enterprise being undertaken anywhere in the world today ac cording to prof m o fuller of the civil engineering department hoover dam is part the hoover dam is a part of the boulder canyon project and will be constructed on the colorado riv er on the state line between arizo na and nevada the estimated cost of the dam and power plant alone is approximately 108,000,000 while the total cost of the entire project will be about 165,000,000 the dam will be 700 feet high which is nearly twice as high as any dam now built the reasons for build ing the dam are threefold namely flood control water supply for ir rigation and power development the project has been under stu dy since 1904 but was not acted upon until it was approved by president coolidge in december 1928 it should be completed in sev en years bids for construction of the dam were opened last wednes day and the work is expected to be started by may 15 doctor meade has done a great deal of irrigation work and has written two books irrigation in stitutions and helping men own farms the meeting is a joint assembly with the lehigh valley engineers club and student chapters at la fayette and lehigh mcconn will discuss college conference faculty education club to hear report next tuesday a report on the conference of prominent educators which was called recently by rollins college winter park fla to formulate new principles for college education in america will be made at a meet ing of the faculty educational club by dean c m mcconn le high delegate to the conference at 4 p m tuesday march 10 in the faculty room in the alumni build ing the conference was attended by many nationally-known educators and resulted in many suggestions to improve educational systems em ployed at present by american uni versities an ideal arts college was outlined and an ideal curriculum for the same college formulated talkies came to packard audi torium for the first time wednes day evening when d c mcgal liard 15 director of instruction for the western electric company demonstrated and lectured on the development of the talking picture two hundred members and guests of the lehigh valley section of the american institute of electrical engineers attended included in the six reels of sound pictures were shown two on the technique of talkie production these were lecture filmy showing the affects of sound absorption re flection overloading and speed va riations and an antimated cartoon talkie finds his voice plans for reproduction of sound accompaniment had already been considered when the first motion picture the great train robbery was produced in 1903 mr mcgal liard said but it was almost 25 years later in august 1926 before they were practically possible alumnus speaks w h schlasman 20 also of the western electric company spoke on the installation of equipment in the theater and some of the diffi culties encountered equipment is jeased to the theater by western electric company and is installed by company engineers who keep in constant touch with the theaters and keep the machines in running order because of the great variety of conditions and types of power in different sections of the country talkie machines must be con structed to operate under these va rying conditions mr schlasman said other pictures illustrated the te chnique of football the use of im agination in geometry and a bible lesson appearing as a scene of biblical times the audience were noticeably impressed y the clear tone value of one film recorded by a new noiseless method mr mcgilliard showed samples of the two forms of sound produc tion the phonograph record which is synchronized with the projector and the sound film which is printed on the picture itself okey helps in film the football picture had as ac tors the coach and team of the uni versity of pennsylvania among the group of footbalt coaches and offi cials who collaborated in the pro duction of the film was walter r okeson treasurer of the university 34 smoker to be held the second freshman smoker will be held at 7:30 o'clock monday evening march 9 at drown hall dean c m mcconn will give a short talk and a quartet will sing some popular songs smokes and eats will be furnished graham to speak prof james l graham of the department of psychology will lead the discussion sunday night at 7:30 o'clock in drown hall the subject of his talk will be relation of crises to progress the discussion is open to all students t v smith professor of philoso phy at the university of chicago will lecture on philosophy as a way of life before art open meet ing of the robert w blake society at 8 o'clock this evening in pack ard auditorium professor smith received his doctor of philosophy degree at chicago university in 1922 and has been a member of its faculty since 1927 dr percy hughes head of the department of philosophy at lehigh speaks of professor smith as one of the coming men in philosophy well known both for his effectiveness as a public speak er and also for the substantial char acter of his writings preceding his lecture dr smith dean c m mcconn prof p m palmer and student guests will at tend a dinner given by the blake society at drown hall prospective members of the society will be in troduced has written three books professor smith has been asso ciate editor of the international journal of ethics since 1924 he has written three books the dem ocratic way of life the amer ican philosophy of equality and the philosophic way of life and is,also co-author in several oth er volumes of a philosophical na ture dr smith has won and long held at the university of chicago the warm esteem of students and faculty alike professor hughes said i hope many will take this opportunity to become acquainted with a vigorous personality and a profound thinker after the lecture dr smith will conduct a seminar discussion of his topic with members of the blake society and their guests the lehigh union through david braun its secretary was instrumental in ob taining dr smith for this occa sion fraternity to give tea delta upsilon will hold a tea from 4 to 6 p m sunday march 8 the attendance probably will be limited to 25 couples there will be dancing bridge and refreshments reality is gained only through experience declared theodore t lafferty instructor in philosophy and psychology in a speech wed nesday evening before the\physics society mr lafferty spoke on some philosophies of modern science he developed the theory of clem ent of ronje tr>at the world is to be used and not enjoyed this was the most important theory of the medieval philosophers and it has been adopted to some extent by modern philosophers after the breakdown of the greek nation the concept of skepticism arose this was followed by the concept of du alism declared mr lafferty this concept was sharply divided into two classes materialism and ideal ism the materialists who were the scientists thought the world was to be used while the idealist thought the world was to be en joyed world value • tht scientific world is not a world of value said mr lafferty the scientist measures everything in terms of mass space and time mass becomes the most important thing in nature according to the scientists . mr lafferty said that the con cept of dualism changed from god and caesar to god and science the early philosophers were greatly in fluenced in their thoughts by the church the man who says that the world is not all it seems has not gone beyond experience but instead he has lost innocence by exper ience sfated mr lafferty the present limitation of the social world is due to the fact that many people are unable to get the per spectives of others criticizes works mr lafferty criticized the works of modern philosophers such as lovejoy and discussed contem porary thought in relation to the significances of modern develop ments in revolutionary sciences after mr lafferty's speech a discussion took place and refresh ments were served before the speech the regular business meet ing of the society was held h c kelly president presiding sigma chi beta theta pi and phi delta theta will hold their annual celebration of the founding of the miami triad saturday eve ning march 7 in the ballroom of hotel bethlehem jack leach and his orchestra entertainers for the endicott shoe radio hour will play for the dance prof and mrs eric s sinkinson will be the chaperones three hundred guests are expected at the dance the miami triad is composed of sigma chi beta theta pi and phi delta theta three fraternities founded approximately at the same time at the university of miami at oxford ohio phi delta theta will hold a tea dance saturday afternoon after the wrestling meet with columbia at its house jack leach and his orches tra will furnish the music / chi phi will hold its annual win ter dance tomorrow night at its house one hundred invitations have been sent out guests will be served with a buf fet supper from 7:30 to 8:30 o'clock julian booker and his brown and maroon orchestra will furnish the music the chaperones will be lieu tenant and mrs harold emery students enter prize contest reynolds tobacco company offers 50,000 reward for essays many lehigh students have en tered the 50,000 prize contest spon sored by the reynolds tobacco company of winston-salem n c the contest calls for answers to the question what significant change recently has been made in the wrapping of the camel pack age containing 20 cigarettes and what are its advantages to the smoker thousands of letters have flooded the contest office hourly and many more are expected until several days after the contest has closed practically every college in the country is represented in the an swers more than 400 campuses have been buzzing with the con test since student newspapers an nounced the competition albert einstein believes world unskilled in science skipper eckfeldt's ancestors worked at philadelphia mint 1 the annual theme contest spon sored by omicron delta kappa national honorary activities frater nity opened wednesday the contest which is being held under the direction of h g rhoads assistant professor of eng lish is to be given as a class exer cise in all freshman english courses any freshman is eligible for the contest the purpose of the contest is to promote freshman interest in col lege issues to secure suggestions for improvements which the frater nity may accomplish and to honor the freshman who is keenly awake to college problems the winner will receive a suitably engraved sil ver cup to be presented at college meeting in the spring and his theme will be published in the brown and white the themes that de serve it will receive honorable men tion announce rules the following rules for the con test were announced by walton forstall chairman of the commit tee the general topic of the themes shall be some change in custom regulation or organization which will result in improvement in un dergraduate life and the pursuit of education at lehigh this change may be either the elimination of an existing order the installation of an entirely new plan or the com bination of both it should be prac tical immediate and something that omicron delta kappa can hope to accomplish the theories may be as long as the writers choose but none may be shorter than 300 words the themes will be judged on the basis of the change suggested the plan for its accomplishment and the skill in presentation of the writ er's ideas the committee in charge of the contest is walton forstall chair man john w maxwell and fran cis neuwirth howland o speak garth a howland assistant pro fessor of fine arts will speak on how shall we judge modern art before the fine arts club of liberty high school march 11 at the liberty high school professor howland plans to illustrate his lec ture with slides of modern art rep resentation reconsidering its decision made several weeks ago the special joint committee on sub-freshman day changed the date of this annual event to saturday april 18 in place of the date previously select ed which was april 11 this change was made after several factors were taken into consideration at a com mittee meeting wednesday eve ning it was found that the annual springf meeting of the board of trustees probably will be held in conjunction with this april 17 and 18 a new alumni fund committee will convene for the first time the latter is composed of some 25 leading alumni of the uni versity so that combined with the alumni members of the board of trustees there will be quite a sub stantial representation of promin ent graduates present at that time sjnce eugene g grace 99 pres ident of the board of trustees will be on hand for the meeting of that body there is every possiblity that be will be available for an address to the prospective students prob ably at the luncheon to be given in the armory as part of the day's program it is also hoped to have walter r okeson give a short talk on lehigh athletics at the same event committee desires names the committee desired to remind undergraduates to turn in names of additional high and preparatory school seniors whom they would like to have invited to sub-freshman day blanks for this purpose are available at the registrar's office a number will also be distributed to the various living groups the time for reporting additional names is limited because it is necessary to send out the invitations from this dean's office well in advance in making the change from april 11 to april 18 it was found thayhe athletic program is about equal with a baseball game and track meet scheduled with swarthmore for the latter date since the la crosse team is scheduled to play the same college away from home graduate manager petrikin agreed to open negotiations to have the game transferred to taylor sta dium if agreeable to the garnet this would mean a full afternoon of sports and give the visitors an op portunity to see three lehigh teams in action home coming planned the annual mid-winter homecom ing of alumni which had been held on washington's birthday for the past four years has been transfer red to this date there will be a special program arranged for the alumni on that day which will be dovetailed with the sub-freshman activities quite a number of alum ni other than those mentioned above are expected to return for this occasion many of whom will bring prospective students to the campus to get acquainted with le high the members of the sub-fresh man day committee present at the meeting on wednesday were al umni secretary a e buchanan jr chairman registrar g b cur tis graduate manager j g pet rikin coach austy tate john maxwell r l baird david braun frank rushong douglass reed and assistant registrar paul e schwartz smith gets requests for pamphlet copies dr r m smith head of the de partment of english has received requests from several universities and many private individuals for copies of the pamphlet shakes peare allusions and parallels of which he is co-author with a bruce black of bloomsburg the pamphlet published by the lehigh institute of research covers a period from 1599 to 1701 illustrat ing the influence of shakespeare on the seventeenth century literature tucker brooke professor of eng lish at yale and general editor of the yale shakespeare considers the pamphlet a valuable addition to munro's collection of shakespeare allusions and in a letter to pro fessor smith he declares many of the allusions sem to me so re markable that i wonder they have not long ago been pointed out varsity baseball all candidates for positions on varsity baseball team and assistant manager apply at taylor gym bonday march 9 at 4 o'clock coming events the lehigh union advocated the abolishment of all freshmen regu lations except the*wearing of black socks and ties at a meeting of the senior cabinet wednesday evening in dave braun's apartment of course said frank stutz secretary of the cabinet we can take no definite action at the pres ent time but the lehigh union wishes to go on record as being it favor of abolishing freshmen regu lations this question will be brought before the arcadia at their next meeting dave braun re marked that there was an earnest desire to start something and the cabinet believed in this action the spring house party dance for non-fraternity men sponsored by the lehigh union will be held sat urday evening may 2 the assess ment will be 50c a committee composed of w f mcgarrity as chairman and w a furman was appointed to take charge of fi nances a motion was passed to turn ov er the freshman handbook to the board of publications placing it on the same basis as other lehigh pub lications the supervision of its publication will be in charge of the board but it will be distributed by the lehigh union as usual vote 50 for smokers the cabinet voted to subsidize three freshman smokers assuming all expenses up to 50 the move to decrease the num ber of freshmen regulations is the third to be made since sept 1929 the first attempt resulted in the abolition of all forms of hazing and rushes the announcement of this policy of the class of 1932 then sophomores was made in a letter to the brown and white from john angle president of the class the customs abolished at that time included the chapel rush held after the opening exercises in sep tember the packer hall rush held the first time the sophomores could catch the majority of the freshman class assembled in c*e place and running on the campus the latter custom grew out of the tendency of the freshmen to disregard fresh man regulations during the first weeks at college as a reminder the freshmen would be compelled to run between classes with their trou sers rolled above the knees for a usual period of three days banquet fighting was abolished last spring at a combined meeting of the freshman and sophomore classes the action was taken as a result of the kidnapping and severe fighting which resulted between the classes of 1931 and 1932 during the 1929 banquet season guest chapel speaker talks on methodism rev l h zerr discusses topic at exercises wednesday the rev l h zerr of the fritz memorial m e church spoke on methodism at the chapel exer cises wednesday morning the rev zerr told how the name of methodists originated while a student at oxford univer sity john wesley interested a group o students in facing spir itual matters squarely giving the group the name of the holy club later this name was changed to the methods due to the methodi cal manner in which the group worked some of the largest methodist institutions in the country are northwestern university ohio university and boston college albert einstein famous mathe matician and physicist believes that the world has not yet learned to properly use applied science so that it will bring to all rich and poor alike the maximum of happiness this was brought out in a speech made by the great german before students at the california institute of technology professor einstein sailed wednesday on the deutsch land for germany shaking of applied science the professor said in wt£t it serves that we may poison and mutilate each other in peace it has made our lives hurried and uncertain instead of freeing us in great measure from spiritually exhausting labor it has made men into the slaves of ma chinery who for the most part complete their monotonous long day's work with disgust and must continually toil for their poor rations thus dr einstein strikes at the machine-age evil but he does not entirely condemn america's ex treme machine-civilization just as he finds fault so does he realize and commend the good which applied science has done for the american working man a man who deals with the abstract he is fully cogni zant that the american middle-class has a higher standard of living than any similar group in the world i could sing a hymn of praise with the refrain of the splendid progress in applied science that we have al ready made and the enormous fur ther progress that you will bring about we are indeed in the era and in the native land of applied science dr einstein's address tends to show him slightly cynical as re gards the benefits of civilization ac cording to an article in the new york times to him there seems to be some question whether or not modern man for all his comforts despite his culture is more happy than he would b.s if he never knew these advantages he includes him self as one of those who might be satisfied with less material comfort less of the intricacies of modern life and says just consider a quite uncivilized indian whether his experience ts less rich and hap py than that of the average civil ized man i hardly think so there lies a deep meaning in the fact that the children of all civilized coun tries are so fond of playing in dians / the great physicist was address ing an audience composed mainly of students whose chief interest and education lay in the field of applied science and at the termination of his talk warned them it is not enough that you should understand about applied science in order that your work may improve man's blessings » by ben d beach there was an eckfeldt connect ed with the united states mint in philadelphia when it was establish ed in 1792 and there has bedn an eckfeldt in the mint from then un til dec 31 1929 the brown and white reporter after asking just one question sim ply sat back and listened to prof howard eckfeldt head of the de partment of mining engineering tell the interesting story of the eckfeldt succession that has he|d interesting positions in the phila delphia mint for 137 consecutive years the succession started with skipper eckfeldt's great-great grandfather he and his son adam eckfeldt operated a blacksmith and machin shop in philadelphia while the mint was under construction they made a large part of the ma chinery that was to be used for the coining of money these two men made the original screw coining press that turned out the first coins made in the philadelphia mint after many years of service this press was replaced by a more mod ern machine but it has always been kept as a valuable relic it was on display at the sesqui-centennial ex position held in 1926 at philadel phia and is kept now in the new mint building adam eckfeldt was assistant coiner from 1792 until 1814 when he was appointed chief coiner of the mint by president madison he held this position until 1839 when j*fe resigned in the meantime his son jacob r eckfeldt had been working in the mint and in 1832 had been appointed assayer by pres ident jackson he held this office until he died in 1872 father was assayer his son jacob b eckfeldt prof howard eckfeldt's father started working with his father as an assis tant assayer in 1865 and continued in this office until 1881 when he was appointed assayer by president ar thur he was the last of the eck feldts to hold office in the philadel phia mint and held the position un til dec 31 1929 when he retired after 64 years of service this brought to an end the line of eckfeldts that had held positions in the philadelphia mint for 137 consecutive years professor eck feldt said that many people had asked him why he didn't follow in the steps of his forefathers if for no other reason than to continue the succession and had answered the question by saying that he was more interested in the procuring of the bullion than in the coining of the money tonight 8 p m meeting of robert w blake society packard auditor ium dr t v smith will lec ture on philosophic ways of life saturday march 7 1 30 p m freshman wrestling ver sus cornell frosh in taylor gym nasium 3 p m varsity wrestling versus columbia in taylor gymnasium 7 p m freshman basketball ver sus lafayette frosh in taylor gymnasium 8 p m varsity basketball versus lafayette in taylor gymnasium monday march 9 8 p m lecture by elwood meade before lehigh valley section of the american society of civil the arrferican society of civil en gineers in packard auditorium brown and white bethlehem pa friday march 6 1931 pre-legal society plans mock trial vol xxxiii no 39 meade will discuss hoover dam mar 9 price — five cents april 18 named for meeting day of sub-freshmen talking pictures introduced here by d.m'galliard posters to be shown in local gallery committee decides to change date from april 1 1 alumni to be here construction of project expected to take seven years work to start may 15 government commissioner to speak in packard audi torium two alumni speak be fore a i e e in packard lab two hundred attend freshmen give chemistry fees for fifth time 47 per cent of yearling class aid research foundation depression fis felt union favors plan to free freshmen from regulations attends convention carl o claus jr '$, secre tary of the xi circle of omicron delta kappa left on wednes day for lexington ky to at tend the annual convention of the national honorary activities fraternity being held march s 6 and 7 at the university of kentucky correction the interview with dr j r bierman on results of fraternity initiations which appeared in the brown and white tuesday march 3 is incorrect in stating that there were rn^ny cases of intoxication according to dr bierman all of the incidents described in the interview were authentic but the report of many cases of intoxication was not true and such information was not given the reporter at the time of the interview according to doctor bierman member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first