Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 49

              invitation orders now being received board of trustees an nounce faculty promo tions and appointments hughes gets new title stanley thomas made acting head of biology de partment all sophomores interested in becoming members in the cy anide junior honorary activities society are requested to turn in a complete list of their points to j m lyons at the phi sigma kappa house 437 west third street by 6 p m wednesday april 9 the names of the new mem bers will probably be announced at the college meeting may 6 pi delta epsilon awards prizes harrison and little win nation-wide journalis tic competition rev d wilmot gateson gilboy explains building failures university fetes alumni sub-frosh wednesday afternoon at 5 p.m the order lists for senior invita tions and announcements will be closed according to a statement issued today by james r hew itt chairman of the committee whose headquarters is in drown hall this senior class committee on invitations and announcements for the commencement exercises has been busy for the past five days taking orders from mem bers of the senior class they are acting as agents for the charles w elliot co in phila delphia leather bound program book lets cardboard bound programs engraved invitations and an nouncements are available for or dering the price of the leather bound programs is 1 while 75c is being asked for ones covered with cardboard invitations and announcements are 25c each in addition to mr hewitt john w macartney and frank a rushdng make up the com mittee foundation expert deliv ers lecture at civil en gineering meet 450 prospective students and 75 graduates are present m.and c practice for spring show small cast to give the play's the thing many professorial hearts are cloy ing with apprehension on the eve of the gridiron banquet to be given thursday evening at the hotel bethlehem students as well will find many of their choicest and heretofore secret boners aired in public members of pi delta epsilon the sponsors of this reputation busting fiesta have prepared a program of skits songs and in the face of which banqueter's self re spect will be worth a shovel full of lehigh mud why do elections go the way they do and how does the faculty man age its interdepartmental didoes what is the story behind the chapel exercises and what is the truth about house parties the perform ers at the banquet have had their reportorial ears close to the ground for the past year and plan to ex pose every existing foible of univer sity life information withheld the management of the banquet refuses to divulge anything further concerning the program except that they all know their stuff and are prepared to do it those who at tended last year's debacle will re call the testing of tubby miller's intelligence and the altitude-distri bution method of marking test pa pers another high light of last year's banquet was the series of tlephone conversations emanating from the supply bureau which proved that the most loquacious members of the faculty can be stopped — on the tel ephone the first gridiron banquet was held at lehigh»last year after sev eral miscarried intentions during the two previous years the gath ering emulates the annual gridiron dinner given in washington to which are invited the president of the united states and many of the highest officials of the country idea is old the idea is not new at lehigh since in spirit it is a reincarnation of the six years defunct calculus cremation for many years the sophomores gathered in taylor sta dium at the completion of the cal culus courses to conduct a mock trial for galculus after which he was always sentenced to death and subsequently cremated the evi dence at the trial curiously enough consisted in exposing and roasting the more prominent members of the faculty the sophomore class banquet scheduled for tomorrow evening has been cancelled according to a statement issued last evening toy d h anderson chairman of the banquet committee lack of in terest in the affair makes the ex ecution of plans for the banquet financially unsound dean c m mcconn approves the action more than 100 tickets have al ready been sold for the banquet to be given by the freshman class thursday evening it was stated by h w mcdowell chairman of the freshman committee the failure of the sophomore dinner to take place will not affect the plans of the freshman he said thirty-one juniors attended the annual class banquet friday eve ning in the ballroom of the hotel bethlehem prof herbert m diamond of the economics department spoke on the present transition taking place on the college campus an increasingly sensible attitude toward hazing and studies is now being taken he said stating that regardless of faculty guidance the college its life and its reputation are entirely what the students themselves make it girls god bless them were the words of prof bradley stoughton the other speaker of the evening prof stoughton entitled his short talk girls and presumed to de fine the term entertainers perform nickey clewel annetta rau jean mills and lucille alngren did solo and ensemble dancing dur ing the dinner ted saylor and gus bold took turns on the ac cordian banjo guitar and saxo phone the radio lassies ra chel houser laßue giering and phyllis lobst accompanied by kathleen lobst on the piano sang several popular numbers no further arrangements have been made for a senior banquet ac cording to john a engel chair man of the committee dean c m mcconn capt john k rice capt percy sadler dr neil carothers prof fay bartlett and prof james long will speak at the freshman banquet thursday evening in the ' hotel bethlehem h w mcdowell chairman of the committee predicts a large atten dance from the number of tickets already sold rehearsals for the the play's the thing spring show of the mustard and cheese club have been in progress for more than a week a small cast consisting entirely of players with previous club ex perience is being used john r lee president of the club plays the only female part the cast sondar turai bertram j friedman 31 mansky simon askin 32 albert adam john a aufhammer 33 johann dwornischek stewart a shimef jr 32 ilona szabo john r lee 31 almady francis neuwirth 31 mell .... samuel j simmons jr 33 the play was written by ferenc molnar a hungarian but was translated by p g wodehouse and produced originally in 1927 in eng lish with holbrook blinn playing the part of sandor turai the play's the thing had a long broadway run ft women's club elects the annual election of officers of the lehigh university women's club was held at 3 o'clock this af ternoon in drown hall at a short business meeting which preceded the regular meeting education club to meet here keyser to talk on mathematics northampton county society will be university guests noted scientist will address pi mv epsilon wednes four hundred and fifty sub-fresh men and 75 alumni registered for sub-freshman and alumni day in the alumni memorial building sat urday morning since the infe'rest of the prospective freshmen and the graduates were rather diversified the groups had different programs arranged for the morning as in their undergraduate days each alumnus was assigned a roster of classes in various subjects under professors yho are well known to those of other years as well as those of the present generation the first class was held under the direc tion of prof john l stocker of the mathematics department from packer hall the alumni were assign ed to a class under dr h h ull mann well-known to the graduate body for his chemistry lectures the third assignment was in the library under the supervision of h s leach librarian who conducted a tour of rthe new building the program for the visiting high school and prep school seniors dif fered materially from that arranged for the graduates they were taken on tours of the campus by student members of the reception commit tee after the registration procedure in the memorial building was com pleted the entire group was welcomed by dr natt m emery vice pres ident of the university at 11 o'clock in packard auditorium addresses were made by dr neil carothers head of the college of business ad ministration prof phillip m continued on page four president secretary-treasurer only two positions to be allowed next year by student governing body hope to solve political problem all class presidents in avor of resolution present class elections approved as conforming to principles of parliamentary law freshmen reg ulations will continue until moving-up day all class offices with exception of president secretary-trea surer to go into effect next elections were abolished by an ar cadia ruling at a meeting last evening in ( drown hall this ruling also put an end to banquet committees and class cabinets j d benedict president of arcadia declared that these motions were passed with the intention of reducing the present class politics and with the hope that tkey will do away with combines arcadia approved all of the present elections stating that they had followed all of the principles of parliamentary law hereafter the freshman regulations will continue until mov ing-up day according to another ruling of arcadia last evening lyons makes motion the motion for the abolition of class officers was made by j m lyons it was carried almost unan imously there being only one neg ative vote dean mcconn favored arcadia's action by saying the plan of re ducing the number of officers is a good thing it is the best they could have done to cut out politics as it reduces the number of gifts no statement was made by the dean concerning the abolition of the sophomore and freshman cabinets statements issued by president and presidents-elect of the classes showed opinions nearly universally in favor of the action winton l miller president-elect of the senior class called it a very good move and a step in the right direction that should have been made long ago in the opinion of allen ware president of the class of 32 it's a good idea the of fices said ware are unnecessary and hay little use other than as honor evers favors move it has its points said francis evers president of the class of 31 beyond this statement evers de clined to approve or disapprove the move the president of the sopho more class george doering was enthusiastic fine he said it will do away almost entirely with political parties c b peck pres ident-elect of the class on the oth er hand stated his belief that ar cadia's action will reduce the pow er of the combines but will not en tirely effect the abolition of poli tics something should have been done to better the political situation he said and the abolition of offices while not entirely approved by peck he views as being unavoid able that it is the reasonable way to do away with combines is the opinion stated by daniel ivins freshman class president the pres ident-elect of the class of 34 john beidler declined to give an opinion on the action ' phi club to award loving cup may 6 will favor frosh with two sets of numerals each year phi club awards a lov ing cup to the freshman who has distinguished himself as the best athlete of the class this year the cup will be awarded at the college meeting held on may 6 the members of phi club ask those freshmen who have a possi bility of earning two or more sets of numerals to submit their activi ties together with their last sem ester's scholastic average to w p baker sigma phi house before next wednesday club elects officers the international relations club history and government society elected new officers thursday eve ning april 16 the officers elected are donald s sawyer 32 pres ident henry p krusen 32 vice president henry l klippert 32 treasurer and clinton a feissner 32 secretary the new officers will be installed april 30 at a banquet at hotel bethlehem building foundations pile founda tions and earth dams were discus sed in the light of repent research done by the earths and founda tions committee of the american society of civil engineers by dr glenon gilboy asst professor of soil mechanics at massachusetts in stitute of technology he gave the lecture before an open meeting of the civil engineering society last evening in packard laboratory dr gilßoy has done extensive work in this field and now holds a promin ent position in his line of study the reason for failure in build ings he explained is that the build ing cannot adjust itself to deforma tion in the soil dr gilboy explain ed that we need more knowledge of the physical properties of soil so that we may determine the settle ment of a building the process known as consolidation was de scribed with special reference to clay soil clay introduces certain complications as it is almost imper vious to water the effects of a load on clay is a longtime adjustment dr gilboy illustrated by means of an analogy that the rate of consol idation depends upon the permeabil ity of the soil piles weaken foundations dr gilboy said the soil which you build on before^piles are driven into it is not the same after the piles are driven he illustrated by means of slides that a foundation is usual ly weakened by use of piles due to rupture of the sdil the importance of keeping soil in an undisturbed condition was emphasized the lecture was concluded by an explanation of some of the hydraul ics and soil qualities desirable in an ordinary earth dam continued on page four two students of journalism at lehigh university and members of the staff of the brown and white are among the six winners of prizes in the annual writing and editorial writing contests sponsored by pi delta epsilon national honorary journalistic fraternity no official announcement of the contest results has been received locally according to prof c d macdougall head of the courses in journalism but an associated press story from cin cinnati ohio where the . pi delta epsilon national convention was held friday and saturday con tained the information the students are james stuart little bus 31 a member of trft editorial council of the brown and white and clifford harrison ch e 33 makeup editor of the brown and white mr little won third place in the editorial writing con test and mr harrison third in the news writing contest no other col lege won more than a single prize contest covered 1929-60 entries in the contest were edi torial and news stories which ap peared in undergraduate newspapers during the school year 1929-30 last year when george h keak ins bus 30 won second prize in the editorial writing contest there were over 500 entries professor macdougall expressed great pleasure at learning of the success of messrs little and har rison i feel tha,t the brown and white and the entire university should be very proud of these stu dents he declared practically ev ery college and university in_the country including many with long established coures in journalism are represented in the contest the board of judges furthermore is ex ceptional it includes karl bickel president of the united press kent cooper general manager of the as sociated press russell kent washington correspondent of the birmingham post and former pres ident of the national press club david lawrence editor of the united states daily richard v faculty dramatic club presents aren't we all 1931 epitome is undergoing ultimate stages of printing capt and mrs john rice lead strong cast in play club's tenth offering pi delta epsilon pledges 13 men art discussed by a.m brooks arrangement has been altered to facilitate reading competitors wanted journalistic fraternity taps campus editors in chapel swarthmore professor speaks in library browsing room that drawing is the fundamental aft of all arts was emphasized by prof alfred m brooks head of the department of fine arts at swarthmore college at a lecture sunday afternoon in the browsing room of the library going back to the time of the early egyptians professor brooks pointed out with the help of slides that even stone engravings had to be first outlined or drawn this drawing was the first of the fine arts he claimed a valuable drawing is usually one that is penciled while the idea or inspiration is still hot there are many good drawings that have been ruined by being painted because the artist had lost the original in spiration of the drawing approximately so people attend ed the lecture half of whom were students coming events the board of trustees appointed the rev claude gillette beardslee of brown university to the profes sorship of the department of moral and religious philosophy at a meet ing held saturday april 18 he will supercede the rev d wilmot gateson arid david braun dr adel bert ford was appointed professor of a new and independent depart ment of psychology and several promotions and grants of leave were approved the board of trustees completed their action of a year ago when they authorized the appointment of a professor of moral and religious philosophy who should be respon sible for the coordination of the re quired instruction in present-day ethical ajid spiritual problems rep resented by the chapel exercises and several courses which may be sub stituted for them and in the work of the lehigh union by appoint ing the reverent beardslee to the position through this appointment pro fessor beardslee will act as chap lain will teach the courses alterna tive to attendance at chapel and will give advanced elective courses in history and religion comparative religion and other subjects he will serve as a general adviser to the lehigh union and as personal ad viser to students for their ethical and spiritual problems graduates from yale professor beardslee graduated from yale in 1909 and received the degree of bachelor of divinity from the hartford theological seminary during the world war he served at the front rising from the rank of private to that of lieutenant he was a member of the department of philosophy at the university of southern california and received his m a while there after hold ing a professorship in the depart ment of psychology at rhode is land state college for four years he entered brown university and will receive the degree of doctor of philosophy at june commence ment at the present he is national chaplain of the veterans of for eign wars dr adelbert ford who was ap pointed professor and head of the department of psychology is a graduate of the university of mich igan where he received his ph d degree he has served in the de partments of psychology of drake and michigan universities for sev eral years he has been adviser on personnel problems to the detroit edison company he is author of numerous articles on psychology and of a book treating industrial personnel problems it is planned that professor ford will develop specialized courses for students in the college of engineering and bus iness administration promotions announced the board of trustees authorized the following promotions sydney m brown from associate professor to professor of european history ward l bishop from assistant professor to associate professor of economics edgar h riley from assistant professor to associate professor of english george d harmon from assistant professor to associate professor of american history ernst b schulz from as sistant professor to associate pro fessor of political science preston b carwile from assistant profes sor to associate professor of phy sics gilbert e doan from assis tant professor to associate profes car of metallurgical engineering wilbur e harvey from instructor to assistant professor of metallur gical engineering and lt harold r emery from instructor to assistant professor of military science and tactics approval was also given the pro motion of prof stanley f thomas as acting head of the department of biology during the absence granted prof robert w hall and of prof milton c stuart as acting head of the department of mechanical en gineering for one year during the absence which has been granted prof f v larkin prof jacob l beaver of the de partment of electrical engineering who has been absent on leave of ab sence for advance study at harvard university during the current , year has been given an extension of leave for another year to enable him to complete requirements for a doc tor's degree in accordance with provisions of continued on page four wednesday april 22 4 p m varsity baseball vs ur sinus taylor field 4 p m varsity tennis vs muhlen berg steel field 8 p m open meeting of pi mv epsilon honorary mathematical society in packard laboratory.c j keyser will speak thu^day april 23 7 p m gridiron banquet hotel bethlehem - the 1931 epitome will be out sometime during the next week says carl claus jr the editor in chief and business manager of the year book the epitome is now un dergoing the final stages of print ing and binding and is scheduled to be shipped from pittsburgh early next week a semi-modernistic design is b ing used the color scheme is a light shade of blue and black the opening section of 16 pages and di vision pages are being printed on paper and in this section are five pen sketches by a commercial ar tist of the buildings on the campus arrangement altered the arrangement of the material in the epitome has been altered somewhat this year in order to fa cilitate in locating the write-ups and pictures of the various organ izations and events the athletic section has been enlarged and more illustrations are being used through out the book than before the competition of freshmen for the business board of the epitome was started yesterday afternoon with a meeting in drown hall any freshmen who have not already done so and who desire to enter into the competition should get in toucji with art thornton at the beta theta pi house immediately aren't we all a drawing room comedy in three acts by frederick lonsdale was,presented by the fac ulty dramatic club to an apprecia tive audience in drown hall last saturday evening the play opens in the drawing room of an english country home in grenham court in the begin ning it seemed to lag a bit but soon gathered speed and towards the end of the first act when margot tathham played by lucy-ord rice returns from egypt to find her husband the honorable willie tathham clasping another wo man in tiis arms becomes as in teresting and attention-gripping as a mystery novel john rice really the husband of lucy-ord rice act ed the part of willie tatham hus band of margot tatham and it is perhaps due to the fact that they are husband and wife that they were able to perform so splendidly saturday night adah ewing who played the role of kitty lake the other woman left no doubt in the minds of the audience as to her abil ity as an actress so effectively did she display her charm and person ality before the lonely willie-tath am that her ultimate success was never for a moment in doubt things happen after margot tatham's return things begin to happen unfortun continued on page four pi delta epsilon national jour nalistic honorary fraternity pledg ed 13 men this morning in fehapel following an election held last thursday evening the following men were tapped raymond k serfass business man ager of the burr george j bien fang circulation manager of the burr william l arthur advertis ing manager of the burr carl r giegerich art editor of the bwr and the epitome carl f hull business manager of the brown and white robert h raring editorial manager of the brown and white james b rather jr news manager of the brown and white harry b osborn jr national advertising manager of the brown and white william h spath local advertising manager of the brown and white charles e green advertising man ager of the epitome william m eyster circulation manager of the epitome edward b hildutn phd tographic editor of the epitome and rudolph e imhof former edi tor in chief of the review the date of the initiation cere monies has not been definitely set although it will follow the annual gridiron banquet sponsored by pi delta epsilon dale h gramley instructor in journalism will be the speaker at the initiation banquet fol lowing the formal ceremonies the northampton county edu cational club will meet to discuss the following topics relation be tween college entrance require ments and high school english dramatisation and teaching of high school english and eng lish as a coordinating medium at 3 p m saturday april 25 in the alumni memorial building the speakers will be prof robert m smith head of the department of english at lehigh dr t s rowland roxborough high school philadelphia w l fink director of secondary english reading sen ior high school and e b rich ards head of the english depart ment easton high school the program has v been arranged largely through the efforts of dr percy hughes head of the department of psychology at lehigh members of the club are to be guests of the university at a din ner which will be served at the ar mory at 6 p to dean mcconn will speak / educational systems compared by dr patri educator discusses modern teaching at local high school . df angelo patri noted educator and writer on educational topics stressed the necessity of a sympa thetic understanding and patient attitude of the teacher towards the pupils at a lecture friday evening at the south , side junior high school modern education said dr patri strives to find expres sion for the individuality of each student he compared old and new meth ods of teaching and claimed that the modern system arouses the pu pil's interest in everything he stu dies and makes all his learning a vital jjart of his interests humanism in mathematics and science will be the subject of a lecture given by professor emeritus c j keyser of columbia univer sity wednesday april 22 at 8 p.m in packard auditorium professor keyser is one of the best public speakers among amer ican scientists he is a scientist mathematician and philosopher said prof tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics this is the second year that pi mv epsilon has held an open meet ing of this type last year the speaker was claude bdagdon not ed new york architect and design er he was the designer of the ro chester terminal building and has written many books on architec ture pi mv epsilon holds one open meeting each year in an effort to create interest in mathematical sub jects this will be the last meeting of the year before the annual ban quet of the society physics club to show love among atoms demonstration of expirements to be given after performance / the lehigh physics society in its last meeting of the year will a comic opereta love among the atoms at 7:45 p m thursday april 23 in drown hall the operetta will be followed by a demonstration of^a number of ex periments in the main lecture room of the physics building these will include the transfer of music over a beam of light an experimental television set and the faraday ef fect of distinguishing a beam of light with a magnetic field each of these demonstrations will be preceded by a brief explanation of the principles involved and ex perimental layout and will be fol lowed by an open discussion this will be an open meeting brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday april 21 1931 vol xxxiii no 49 campus leaders will be on grid at annual dinner diamond speaks at junior feast 31 men attend arcadia overthrows minor class officers to abolish combines price — five cents gateson and braun to go beardslee is appointed as religious supervisor professor stoughton also gives short talk on girls frosh plan banquet bulletin gridiron banquet to be held thursday at ho tel bethlehem secrecy prevails no longer chaplin cyanide wants points competitors to meet wednesday night all sophomores interested in competition for business manag er and assistant business manag ers of the freshman handbook will meet at 7 p m wednesday in drown hall all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper 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