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              will automatically be come president at elec tion time juniors select men peck and clark will run for head of 1933 class autographed letter of george washington's also donated publications selected twenty men were initiated in to phi beta kappa national scholastic fraternity yesterday afternoon at 5 p m in the fac ulty room of the memorial building a g rau president of the local chapter beta of penn sylvania presided the men ini tiated are l b frutkin c a harding f neuwirth m walt man h miller j g meharg c a lowenstein h mayer e a sindel e f underwood g w parsons k k kost s h goodman b j friedman j e freehafer h c kelly j c mertz w forstall r l baird e c easton lehigh delegates represent spain one hundred and twenty-five lehigh blazers comprising half the original order have been de livered to drown hall up until thursday evening more than 90 had been distributed while 15 new orders had been received according to sol t nevins agent mr nevins who will be in drown hall until saturday to dis tribute blazers and receive or ders stated that the remainder of the order will be ready within the next few weeks the lehigh blazer is a short jacket made of white flannel edged with brown piping the lehigh university seal is worked in silk on the breast pocket mr nevins also supplies sim ilar blazers to syracuse and cornell universities and union college r.c benson gets burr editorship many colleges present at model league of nations new officers are elected at meeting wednes day evening allen t ware was automatically elected president of the senior class wednesday noon when no one was nominated to oppose him approx imately 50 members of the class at tended the meeting clarence b peck jr and jess f clark were the nominees for pres ident of the class of 1933 chosen at a meeting of the sophomore class thursday noon in packard auditor ium daniel e best and charles f halsted were nominated for vice president of the senior class while junior nominees for that office were frederick d keck william p ba ker and john s skelley jr the senior nominees for treasurer were william h sachs william a lownie and george e brumbach the junior nominees were burt h riviere s mcelwain and charles w cooper those nominated for secretary of the senior*class were philip b my ers armand r baldwin and john m lyons those nominated for the junior office were john w shel sart john a aufhammer and paul j ko^p john angle was the only nominee for historian of the senior class while henry c scheer samuel j hanna and edmund t sergott were nominated for junior histor ian senior nominees for sergeant-at arms were winton l miller l theodore chandler melville c bingham harry b osborn and james e duncan jurlior nominees for the same office were richard a andrews and george c doer ing university elections will be held saturday april 11 freshman class nominations for sophomore offices were made at noon today b & w members to attend meet hull rather raring dele gated for i n a con vention ralph c benson 32 was elected editor-in-chief of the burr william eyster 32 managing editor ray mond seffass 32 business mani ager james roegsle,'32 and c n crichton,'33 assistant editors carl giegrich,'32 art editor william ar thur 32 advertising manager george bienfang 32 circulation manager and j h booker 32 sec retary at a meeting held last eve ning the april fool issue of the burr will be placed on sale monday the cover by julian booker por trays a jester in fancy dress horl freiday contributes another wood cut in this issue a surprise short story entitled chocolate cake is by harry warendorf there is also a page of cartoons entitled lehigh racket drawn by carl giegrich which depicks the sneak and snake at college james roessle has written the ed itorial them were the good old days the usual number of short skits puns jokes and cracks will add to the issue definition is unknown no satisfactory conclusion on the definition and scope of social sci ence was reached last evening at th,e monthly meeting of the phil osophical club of lehigh valley several alternative definitions were offered by professors from lehigh and neighboring institutions the group held its meeting at the home of prof f c becker of the phil osophy department 850 men receive dean's warnings no valentines sent to omega phi sigma alpha kappa pi jumps to second place ; leonard hall is third omega phi sigma alpha kappa pi and leonard hall lead the uni versity in valentine rating for mid-semester omega phi sigma a living group of 19 students ranks first having received no valentines alpha kappa pi jumped from position 23 which it held last mid-semester to second place only faur men in that living group were below passing in subjects phi sigma delta has the lowest rating nine out of ten men in that house were given warnings the total number valentines sent out was 810 in contrast to the 967 last semester the 38 living groups received 523 valentines whereas 287 were sent to town students 1 according to notices sent to heads of departments 203 men in the department of business administration received valentines 159 in the arts and science curricula 135 in the mechanical and industrial engineering departments 88 irr the department of chemistry and chemical engineer ing 64 in the electrical engineering department 51 in the civil engineer ing department 44 of the undeclared freshmen 39 in the metallurgical engineering department 16 in the mining engineering department and 11 in the department of engineering physics the following are valentine rating statistics — an autographed letter signed by george washington and a ten vol ume edited set of shakespeare's works have been received by the li brary as a gift from the estatcof mrs a n cleaver the letter wriich is addressed to a mr foster 3 high street alexan dria virginia is a short note ask ing for a competent person to su perintend packing the large paint ingsul wish forwarded to bait the set of shakespeare's writings was edited by singer and published in 1826 v the library lacked this edi tion and is very glad to acquire it to help complete its series of edited editions of shakespeare since dr smith of the english department is an authority and specialist on shakespeare it is desirable to have as much apparatus as possible to settle points of dispute which arise from time to time in his classes selects publications the library which is a partial de pository for united states govern ment periodicals is now selecting and rechecking the publications that it desires to receive in the future dr howard leach librarian in consultation with the heads of the various departments is designating the periodicals wanted in a pamph let entitled classified list of unit ed states government periodical publications available for selec tion by depository libraries " formerly the depository libraries received everything that the gov ernment departments printed but within recent years the depositories have been permitted to select the publications they desire gets 65 magazines the governmental periodicals contain reports and results of the numerous activities of the depart ments lehigh subscribes to 65 ma gazines of which 20 are issued by the department of corrimerce the interstate commerce commission is second with 13 of their periodi cals being received and the depart ment of agriculture sends nine of their magazines to the jjbrary two of the better periodicals are the monthly summary of cur rent business and the monthly labor review club hears carothers dr neil carothers director of the college of business administration discussed prospects for better bus iness thursday evening at the reg ular meeting of the catasauqua rotary club musical clubs to give concert tau beta pi taps seven new men program will be held in hack ensack ne\v jersey march 27 engineering fraternity pledges group in chapel yes terday lehigh is representing spain at the model assembly of the league of nations today and tomorrow at princeton university the lehigh delegates are clinton a feissner arts 32 leo f keefe arts 32 emanuel g scoblionko arts 31 jerome mayer arts 32 donald s sawyer arts and henry p krusen arts 32 delegates from colleges in penn sylvania new jersey and new york are v attending the assembly the following colleges have groups of delegates representing particular member nations in the league bar nard india and new zealand bryn mawr germany columbia eng land cornell nicaragua and china haverford canada hoba rt greece lafayette jugo-slavia mo ravian honduras new jersey col lege for women denmark new york university uptown belgium new york university downtown sweden university of pennsylva nia roumania princeton france rochester hungary rutgers po land skidmore holland syracuse austria temple chile union ja pan vassar italy wellsley cze choslovakia william pitt norway tomorrow afternoon at a general meeting committee suggestions and decisions will be voted upon by the entire assembly this evening there will be a ball and tomorrow evening a final gath ering and banquet the lehigh delegates entire ex penses are being paid by the uni versity and the international rela tions club a view of the criminal lineup in new york police headquarters will be given students of journalism during the annual field trip next monday tuesday and wednesday in new ' york city the visit to headquarters will be made as guests of police commissioner mulrooney the trip has all been planned to include station wjz of the na tional broadcasting company the offices of the heraldfctribune as sociated press scrjbner's maga zine and the mcchire newspaper syndicate and a newspaper play five star final three members of the faculty the assistant editor of the alumni bulletin and 16 students will make the trip the faculty members are prof c d macdougall head of the courses in journalism dr robert m smith head of the department of english dale h gfamlpy in structor in journalism and john w maxwell assistant editor of the alumni bulletin the student members are james b rather news manager of the brown and white clifford e har rison makeup editor william h goehring jr news editor edward fleischer news editor harry war endorf feature editor william ho yer former news manager fred erick morhart sport columnist kenneth kost copy reader chas a milson copy reader ralph c benson editorial writer maurice bogart former makeup editor frank murphey former news edi tor john lloyd assistant news edi tov albert jacobs reporter man uel ruderman and harry kane visit herald plant after the trip to police head quarters the members of the group will go to the offices of the new york herald-tribune and spend the day inspecting the plant stu dents will accompany reporters on their assignments on monday the group will be luncheon guests of james w brown publisher of editor and publisher at the luncheon mar len pew editor of editor and publisher will speak on public relations . at each place visited question naires containing information about the various organizations will be given to the students and confer ences have been planned with offi cers of these organizations s the following is the complete itinerary of the trip monday march 30 10 a m meet in lobby of hotel time's square eighth avenue and 43rd street 10:30 a m mcclure newspaper . syndicate 345 hudson street 12:30 p m luncheon at town hall continued on page four former german naval officer relates dangerous experience carl f hull 32 business man ager james b.^rather jr 32 news manager and robert h raring/32 editorial manager are the delegates from the brown and white to the intercollegiate newspaper associa tion convention april 24 and 25 at the brooklyn polytechnical insti tute in brooklyn n y these men were appointed by the executive council at its meeting last tues day lehigh university will also be represented by the following offi cers of the intercollegiate newspa per association emanuel a honig 31 president prof c d macdou gall executive secretary and irv ing e gennet 31 secretary-treas urer houses to dance saturday night alpha chi rho phi gamma delta fraternities plan festivities j c hodge of the babcock and wilcox company will discuss the qualities of arc weld metal at the evening session of the welding symposium at 8 p m today in packard auritorium the babcock and wilcox company the most im portant manufacturers of boilers in the world has developed a new pro cess for the manufacturing of a re liable and high-grade weld for boil ers prof g e doan of the depart ment of metallurgy will exhibit the radiographic films made from the afternoon's tests professor doan ha developed a new process for the testing of welds by gamma rays of radium in the naval research lab oratories at washington gamma rays of radium vill penetrate four times the thickness of metal that ordinary x-rays will lee h miller chief engineer of the american institute of steel construction will discuss battle deck construction the institute is a society that has been formed to advance the interests of the man ufacture and use of structural steel mr miller will discuss the use of structural steel in building - j f lincoln to speak j f lincoln president of the lincoln electric company will speak on the shielded arc a de vice which has been developed ex tensively by this company the in terest of the lincoln electric com pany in this subject is such that it offers numerous prizes annually to persons who do the most to ad vance the art of welding and also to students who offer the best theses on the subject prizes are also giv en every year to the persons offer ing the best suggestions to increase the amount of welding that is being done or new articles that can be welded the welding symposium opened this morning at 9:30 in packard au ditorium with a welcoming address by pres c r richards prof com fort a adams director of the am erican bureau of welding lectured on welding engineering prof g e doan of the department of met allurgy discussed his experiments on the examination of welds by gamma rays william f carson . structural engineer spoke on shop and field welding of the dallas power and light company's office bi|ilding at dallas texas while john j bowman of the aluminum company of america discussed the welding of aluminum demonstrations given the entire afternoon session from 1:20 until 5 o'clock was given over to the demonstrations of va rious types professor doan demon strated the radiographic examina tion of welds by gamma rays weld tests and welding processes includ ing automatic hydrogen butt gas and thermit as well a~s oxygen cut ting radiograph cutting and weld ing of alloy steels were demon strated in packard laboratory demonstrations af arc welding and of the mechanical testing of weld specimens were given in fritz lab oratory while automatic arc weld ing and spot welding were demon strated in williams hall motion pictures were shown dur ing the entire afternoon session in various rooms in packard labora tory they demonstrated mainly the processes which were actually in progress in other laboratories of the university fraternity to give scholastic award business freshmen with highest average will get cup the lehigh chapter of alpha kappa psi national professional fraternity of commerce will present a silver cup annually to the fresh man in the college of business ad ministration who has had the high est average during his first year this decision announced by w a lownie 32 president of the frater nity was reached wednesday eve ning at the theta delta chi house the cup will be presented during founder's day ceremonies and will be given for the first time next october to a member of the class of 1934 sutherland to speak professor hale sutherland will lead a discussion on everyday religion before the lehigh val ley society of friends sunday mar 28 11:15 a.m at the y.w.c.a the society will meet for worship at 10:30 before the discussion alpha chi rho and phi gamma delta fraternities will hold dances tomorrow evening at their respec tive houses charlie woehle's orchestra from philadelphia will furnish music from 9 until 12 at the phi gantfna delta house mr and mrs william lewis of bethlehem and dr rfel fred brown assistant professor of romance languages will be the chaperons approximately 200 invi tations have been sent out guests will dance from 9 until 12 at the alpha chi rho house to the music of the easton sirens the chaperons will be mr and mrs w f payne and s b meade about 150 invitations have been sent out for the dance to hold smoker a presbyterian smoker will be held at 7:30 p m monday marchj 30 at drown hall the smoker is held to organize the presbyterian students at lehigh into a club for fellowship and social purposes all students are invited pennsylvania alpha of tau beta pi nation honorary engineering fraternity pledged seven members of the junior class on thursday morning in packer memorial chap el the new men will be formally received into the fraternity at an initiation to be held next semester the seven men wtho were pledged are william c elmore eng phys 32 roger illick fluck c e 32 henry heyward fryling jr i e 32 william kenneth griesinger ch e 32 edward barkdall hild man m e 32 theodore r kel ner c e 32 and arthur george rohrs i e 32 dr benjamin l miller head of the department of geology gave a short address preceding the pledg ing of the new men in which he presented a summary of the his tory aims and accomplishments of the society just 45 years ago 3&r edward h williams professor of mining engineering and geology at lehigh 1881-1902 organized the first hon orary engineering fraternity in america said dr miller since that time 1885 tau beta pi has grown to include 44 other chapters in the leading engineering schools in the united states trte fraternity membership of 17,000 includes some of the most important men in the colleges and engineering circles of america the combined musical clubs will give a concert in hackensack n j friday evening march 27 the pro gram is being sponsored by the women's club of hackensack and will be held in the y m c a building the musicians 42 in all will leave drown hall at 1 30 friday afternoon and go by bus to hackensack where they will be entertained in private homes over night they will return to bethlehem leaving hackensack at 9 o'clock saturday morning add new songs the 42 men are the members of the glee club the vocal quartet the saxophone quartet and the jazz orchestra the glee club has added two new numbers to its repertoire they are keep goin " and the surrey song the vocal quartet consisting of f w baxendale first tenor f s roberts w g alcorn first bass and j £. harrison will sing the three clocks and at last i'm happy the saxophone quartet consisting of s,h b os borne jr soprano saxophone w.c pollacek alto saxophone a h jacobs tenor saxophone and e r lanahan baritone saxophone will play good night the jazz or chestra under jule booker has sev eral comedy skits among them a special arrangement of the king's horses in which the mem bers of the orchestra dressed in fancy hats carry the air of the mu sic booker adds the comic effect after the musical program there will be dancing until 1 o'clock mrs s l hall mother ofsam hall 31 and chairwoman of the ticket com mittee reports that more than soo tickets have been sold pre-med class visits biological laboratory the class in immunology com prised of senior pre-medical stu dents today visited the h k mul fold biological laboratories at glen owen pa the class watched the prepara tion of smallpox and typhoid vac cines coming events chemistry department gained its reputation by research tion of gelatin and the relation of hydration to swelling is the title of k'burg's thftsis the results of k'burg's work established an en tirely new view of the role of wa l;er in the swelling of a colloidal such as gelatin applications of the knowledge acquired on the subject have been extended to the action of soaking and tanning of leathers by means of x-ray defraction data obtained in the chemistry x-ray laboratory and other methods charles t oswald freshman fel low in 1929-'3o was able to prove that blue copper hydroxide is a dis tinct compound of different char acteristics from hydrated copper oxide methods of stabilizing the compound were devised and colloi dal solutions were prepared john z miller other freshman fellow in 1929-'3o worked on the elab oration of an adiabatic calorimeter of highest degree of precision and measurement this was the foun dation of the work being carried on this year by alfred n rogers freshman fellow this year arthur l smith freshman re search fellow 1930-'3l is studying the phenomena involved in the set ting of plaster of paris and the re lationship of various forms of gyp sum methods of controlling the setting are being carried on accord ing to entirely new methods rog ers study is entitled thermo-re lations of the hydrates of calcium and strontium nitrates this sys i tem of hydrates is the most remark able ever developed it is expected that the research led to understand ing of energy relations of water of crystallization in compounds a field of great importance of which noth ing is known it is expected that x-ray analysis accompanying the work be of great assistance the work is of importance not only in dealing with inorganic salts but also with minerals agricultural soils and geological changes the chemistry department has gained its reputation of one of the best in the country largely due to the research work carried on by the men in the department grad uates of the department are able to obtain excellent positions and the attention of various industries have been attracted because of the high quality of the research study under taken prof j s long makes the statement research is the life of the chemistry department the freshmen research fellowships have made it possible for much desired information to be acquired research work done by the fresh men research fellows has been de cidedly successful papers on the studies carried on have been read before various learned societies and have been published as part of the enduring research literature of chemistry and chemical engineer ing results obtained relating to calcium nitrate have been adopted as the authoritive ones for interna tional critical tables the first men to receive the fresh men fellowships were richard j de gray and hugh c jones of the class of 1927 de gray worked on the vapor pressure of the-sys tem strontium nitrate water jones made a study of the hy dration of portland cement and allied substances the setting of portland cement is similar in prin ciple to that of plaster of paris a knowledge of volume change in setting of cement is very impor tant in use of concrete for structural purposes one was able to obtain accurate measurements cubical in value rather than linear of the ef fect of various added materials in accelerating and retarding the set ting of cement in 1928-29 richard b ; . k'burg and edward w mcgovern held the fellowships mcgovern studied the vapor pressure of the system cal cium nitrate water the hydra three months after the naval vic tory described in the last issue of the brown and white by chief ste ward loevenich he was transferred to a training school for submarine warfare he spent six months here and left for his first real submarine service in january 1916 at this time he held the rank of lieutenant in charge of torpedoes it was his duty to take care of the torpedo dis pensing mechanism and in times of attack he had complete chaise of all that went on in the business end of the submarine one experience that i never will forget said the present hotelman came to us in a little war port on the irish coast we had a mine lay ing submarine at that lime jmd we were ordered to lay our mines in side this port we approached at night and entered the port very far under water in order to miss the steel nets hat we knew guarded the entrance we had no difficulty in laying our mines and before dawn we were headed out of the port thankful for having accom plished our purpose with no mishap then our boat gave a violent lurch and we could hear the ominous sound of heavy steel cables scrap ing along the outside of our steel hull we were in the net some how there had been a miscalcula tion as to how far the tide had gone out and we were not as far under the surface of the water as we had expected we tried to back out of the net but it held us fast grimly we made the boat lunge forward and backward trying to shake our selves loose but it was no us.c at dawn we stopped our efforts for fear the floats which were fastened to the net would be seen moving around we lay still all day but sent a diver out through one of the torpedo tubes to investigate our chance of getting loose his re port was not encouraging we were all tied up in the net we had been under water now for almost three days and the air was very bad our batteries were fast being used up and could not last much longer several men had broken under the strain gone insane and been placed in straight jackets everyone's nerves were shot there was just one last hope for us around the bow of the ship back over the top and under the bottom was arranged an insulated metal rod with saw teeth cut in its outer edge we could connect all of our batteries to tbts insulated rod heat it white hot even under water and if the current lasted long enough finally melt the strands of the net that held us it was our last hope and we decided to wait for darkness and then make the attempt night came the batteries were thrown across our cutting bar the motors were turned full speed ahead we lurched against the net struggled strained and after moments that seemed like ages during which we watched our batteries approach the very end of their charge the strands of the net parted and our ship flip ped through there was just barely enough electricity left in our bat teries to blow out the water in one of the ballast tanks and let us up to the surface it was impossible for us to stay down any longer we had known that we would have to come to the surface as soon as we got loose from the net and so had waited for the darkness to cover us and prayed for luck we were lucky once on top we started our diesel engines and headed for home.^no one spotted us and we made our escape tonight 7:30 p m meeting of the indus trial engineering society room 466 packard laboratory 8 p m evening sessions of the welding symposium in the pack - ard laboratory tomorrow 3 p m varsity lacrosse vs long island university taylor field bethlehem pa friday march 27 1931 hodge to discuss arc weld metal price — five cents brown and white ware unopposed for senior office vol xxxiii no 45 cleaver estate gives library set of books journalism trip to start monday in new york city phi beta kappa initiates 20 men boiler manufacturer will speak at symposium tonight doan to exhibit films afternoon session given over to various demonstra tions blazers delivered more orders given police headquarters wjz and herald-trib une will be visited twenty men to attend no of men living group omega phi sigma alpha kappa pi leonard hall chi phi pi kappa alpha phi sigma kappa sigma alpha mv phi delta pi delta phr delta tau delta taylor hall b taylor hall d '. pi lambda phi .'. taylor hall c theta delta chi phi beta delta alpha tau omega ¦*¦ taylor hall a : . taylor hall e ... chi psi phi gamma delta kappa alphp kappa sigma price hall delta upsilon phi delta theta tau delta phi alpha chi rho • theta xi •'• theta kappa phi lambda chi alpha i psi upsilon i sigma phi epsilon sigma phi » 5 receiving valentines 0 4 3 8 8 15 is 7 9 13 v 13 15 14 16 10 10 14 13 17 14 13 13 15 17 17 17 28 11 20 14 22 16 , i r f i percent of membership 00.0 20.0 ' 21.4 i 33.3 33.3 44.1 45.4 46.7 47.4 50.0 50.0 50.0 53.8 55.2 55.6 55.6 56.0 58.3 ... 59.2 60.7 60.8 61.8 61.8 62.5 62.9 62;9 65.4 66.6 68.3 68.7 69.0 70.0 70.9 72!6 i rank \ 2 3 4 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 9 10 11 12 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 18 19 20 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 beta theta pi sigma nu sigma chi phi sigma delta .... 22 19 18 9 75.9 76.0 78.2 90.0 29 30 31 32 competitors wanted all sophomores interested in competing for assistant man ager of baseball report at the up per field saturday at 2 p m all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspafer association