Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 50

              paul young 31 writes original operetta giv en last night television set-up seen pi delta epsilon sponsors riotious banquet last evening sheridan gets derby many skits entertain promin ent men who attend prominent musicians se cured for annual spring event tickets to go on sale gymnasium decorations will be symbolic of spring blazers at drown hall spring festival will at tract gay colorful week-end crowds the university will officially go on eastern daylight saving time monday morning the sunday afternoon brown and white class will begin at 4 o'clock daylight saving time seniors and juniors who have not received their blazer should call for them at drown hall be fore 5 p m saturday according to sol t nevin who will take orders this week prom friday evening assortment of events and dances to furnish en tertainment musical clubs to give concert journalists at i n a meeting hull raring and rather attend convention in brooklyn new york engineers club will entertain next tuesday the junior prom orchestra this year will be ace brigode and his fourteen virginians alvord hoyt chairman of the prom committee is enthusiastic ov er the choice of the archestra he states that this prominent orches tra has been recorded by five com panies and has also played at yale princeton syracuse and cornell during the past year the junior prom is on may 1 the first day o f houseparty in the up per gym prom tickets will cost 5 for couples and 3 for stags black and white schaeffer pencils of the type carried by girls in their hand bags will be the favors a complete change in he decora tions will be effected by the zol linger and harned company of al lentown the theme will be sym bolic of spring ace brigode formerly played at youngstown and cleveland and is now in st louis he has broad cast from radio stations wtam cleveland and wjz and weaf new york the orchestra world official magazine of the jazz world recent ly dedicated its january number to ace brigode and his orchestra the class of 1934 held its first banquet at the hotel bethlehem last evening ninety-eight freshmen were represented at the function the sophomore banquet has been indefinitely postponed according to donald h anderson chairman of the committee and the seniors have definitely abandoned the idea of a class banquet dave braun capt john k rice capt percy lee sadler prof fay bartlett shorty long and dr neil carothers were guests at the freshman banquet and address the group braun as toastmaster introduced each speaker with a story about him prof neil carothers and shor ty long commended the fresh men on the attendance and stressed the necessity of future class gath erings dr carothers characterized lehigh men as men who could give and take with equal spirit no le high man has ever whined when he met defeat he asserted shor ty pleaded for class spirit and spoke of the value of class unity captain rice captain sadler and prof fay bartlett gave the briefer addresses of the evening professor bartlett began by saying that the only funny story he knew was that a physical director should talk about culture he did insist that students should attempt to get this intangible thing called culture after they first made sure of their physi cal fitness the freshmen were entertained during the dinner by a quartet of young women faculty club hears report wool research to open in fall c a shook and l l smail give talks on studying eavonson and levering fel lowship available in ¦ september one week from today at 4 p m friday may 1 to be exact lehigh university's spring festival spring house party will be officially opened by dinner time the fraternity houses and dormitories will be seething with sparkling feminine humanity the outstanding event of the so cial period will be the junior prom enade held from 10 until 3 o'clock friday evening in taylor gymna sium ace brigode and his virgin ians will furnish music for the dancing zollinger and harned company of allentown is in charge of the decorating and promises something entirely different to please the eyes of lehigh students and their guests chaperons for the prom will be dean and mrs c m mcconn and dean and mrs g b curtis - saturday afternono will offer an assortment of events there will be a track meet with rutgers on the upper field and a lacrosse game with the same school on the lower field the mustard and cheese club will present the play's the thing at 2 o'clock saturday afternoon in the auditorium in drown hall the sophomore class will sponsor a tea dance from 4 until 6:30 p m sat urday in taylor gymnasium music for dancing will be furnished by julian booker and his orchestra the final feature of the week end will be the private dances in which all the dormitories and most of the fraternities will participate rosalsky fleischer new review officers members promoted on magazine staff imhof resigns maurice b rosalsky 32 has been promoted from the position of managing editor of the lehigh re view to that of editor in chief tak ing the office left vacant by the resignation of rudolph e imhof 32 edward fleischer 33 news edi tor of the brown and white has been appointed managing editor of the review succeeding rosalsky these promotions are subject to approval by the board of publica tions the last issue of the review f or the present term will go to press next week and will appear early in may chemical engineers hold annual banquet ullmann and babasinian are guests wednesday at guthsville dr h m ullmann and dr v s babasinian were the principal guests at the annual banquet for senior chemists and chemical en gineers held wednesday evening at the guthsville inn short humor ous speeches by everyone featured the informal affair a chicken-waffle dinner was served in addition to the students and principal guests the following members of the chemistry depart ment were present a a diefen derfer r j dcgray w w ew ing h huetig c s simmons and e r theis senior cap and gowns to be ordered may 9 deadline set placements due at supply bureau now orders for the senior cap and gown are placable with mr bader schneider manager of the supply bureau on or before may 9 ac cording to president c.r richards the charge for the use of the cap and gown is 2.50 payable when the order is placed orders placed after noon of may 9 will be special and will require an additional charge of 1.25 each a deposit of 10.00 is required from each student upon receipt of his cap and gown which will be refunded upon its return after the commence ment exercises are over an imaginative visit to atomo the land of the atoms was witness ed last evening by nearly 200 per sons who attended the meeting of the lehigh physics society in drown hall atomo was a strang country peo pled with negative and positive ions and their enemies the electrons with such a setting in mind paul young 31 wrote the comic oper etta love 1 among the atoms picturing the little atoms as a gay people whose actions and behav iors which science attempts to ob serve so precisely are merely the daily movements of this mysterious and invisible little tribe not con tent with his tiriy emotionless pro genies mr young endowed them with the power to love and evolved a story rich in romance neo-minus the girl in the case is attracted to and becomes infat uated with neo-plus the gallant hero but before they are united in their orbits hydrogen a rival of neo-plus comes whirling within attracting distance of the heroine and so debonair was hydrogen neo-minus was breathless she just adored those gallant men so brave so strong so reckless meanwhile neo-plus who is roaming afar is beset by three in vading electrons nucleor the cop rushes to the hero's aid so great is his hurry that he collides with neo-minus and sends her flying to finally fall fainting into the arms of her lover poor hydrogen unknow ingly steps into the path of the fleeing electrons and loses his at traction while neo-plus and neo minus fly away to new orbits unit ed in inert bliss mr young also wrote music to accompany his play including a theme song the cartoons which were thrown on the screen illus trating the operetta were drawn by alf malmros 31 an experimental television set up and a demonstration of the transfer of music over a beam of light were shown by paul a beh ney 32 and william o bennett 32 after the operetta the classical experiment of faraday which help ed to establish the magnetic theory of light was demonstrated by da vid l macadam 32 those who helped with the mu sical part of the program were robert young guest artist w c elmore 32 paul young 31 a.m thorne 32 m g young 32 pi delta epsilon pledges 1 3 men dale gramley speaks to jour nalists at chapel exer cises the combined musical clubs of lehigh university including 40 members of the band 30 members of the glee club and 10 men com prising the dance orchestra will give a concert tuesday evening april 28 at the engineers club in new york city complimentary tickets to the concert have been issue to students in high and pre paratory schools in and around new york who are interested in lehigh and who were unable to attend the sub-freshman day exercises special features of the entertainment will be moving pictures of life at le high and a demonstration of leger demain by a e buchanan 18 alumni secretary o thjp university the musical clubs will leave bethlehem early tuesday afternoon and will return in time for classes on wednesday afternoon while in new york they will be the guests of the new york lehigh club having dinner and spending the night at the fraternity club the program will be i moving pictures — life at le high 11 glee club a hail to lehigh b keep in the middle of the road c keep a-goin 111 band a march a la turka b gavotte from mignon iv glee club a now sleeps the crimson petal b moonlight here and yonder v quartette vocal refrains vi magic a e buchanan jr.,'lß vi glee club a a song of ships b surrey song vii dance orchestra popular selections viii solos william g alcorn 31 ix glee club and band a the battle of jericho b man of the hour c lehigh medley d alma mater x dancing music by the musical clubs dance orchestra dramatic club will give show mustard and cheese to present molnar play thursday evening the real elements of truth-seeking are paramount in the spirit of mathematics and science prof c j keyser of columbia university told an audience of about 200 persons who attended the annual open meet ing of pi mv epsilefn honorary mathematical fraternity wednes day evening the spirit of mathematics and science demands fearlessness cour age and freedom from prejudice the spirit is magnanimous non-sec tarian and non-tribal it has the astureness of religion and yet is filled with friendliness professor keyser stated speaking with the fervor and enthusiasm of a devo tee of this religion uses no notes professor keyser used neither manuscripts nor notes throughout his speech on humanism in math ematics and science he an nounced that he depended wholly on his familiarity with his subject for the content of his lecture hu manism is one of the greatest words we have he said if"is entirely too extensive to encase in any def inition and can at best be only rather incompletely described he accepts the words of walter lipp man noted author that humanism signifies the intention of man to dis cover the good life on this planet by human faculties humanism is a way of life the sense of man standing on his own pegs is worthy o f the dignity of man and where such a sense is alive there we find humanism he stated science professor keyser be lieves is an enterprise which is characterized by its aim which is the establishment of categorical propositions mathematics aims at the establishment of hypothetical propositions and is dependent upon man's deductions no deductions no mathematics 1 he claimed observation first observation is the primary fac tor in science mathematics alone can never prove anything of the world but can only make deduc tions from hypotheses and these deductions may lead to investiga tion by observations of physicists in deductions the implier may not be mathematical and the implica tion may not be mathematical but the transition from one to the oth er is mathematical professor keyser said he differentiated between real questions and pseudo-questions the latter he claimed admit of no possible answer while the former must be rationally answerable he exemplified the pseudo-questions with the familiar catch question what would happen if an irresis table force should encounter an un moveable object a genuine ideal is never ob tainable he commented such an ideal is that of humanism prof thomlinson fort head of the mathematics department ques tioned dr keyser's broadness of definitions and also the separate ness of catagorical and hypotheti cal propositions during the discus sion following the lecture other members of the audience support ed professor keyser's distinctions pi mv epsilon held a short bus iness meeting after the lecture william sheridan varsity wrestl ing coach was awarded the tradi tional brown derby by pi delta epsilon honorary journalistic fra ternity at its annual gridiron ban quet last night for rendering the most distinguished service to le high university during the school year 1930-31 the banquet opened with the ap pearance of asa packer portrayed by walton forstall 31 president of pi delta epsilon who was es corted by andrew buchanan editor of the alumni bulletin and toast master of the banquet in a chron ological review of the lehigh cam pus during the past school year skits presented many skits in which practically every notable on the campus went for the proverbial ride were pre sented by members of the frater nity among these skits was a foun der's day speech given by emanuel honig 31 who portraying the part of charles m slob gave a verbatim extract from speeches giv en at commencement and foun der's day exercises for the past three years another interesting skit was the presentation of the depart ment of business administration marking a fill-in examination dr carothers portrayed by sam ful ler professor bradford enacted by blackier camden professor dia mond sketched by james little professor cowin enacted by frank veale4 and professor bishop por trayed by alf malmros had a ter rible time figuring the answer to an examination question containing five blanks other skits which were presented were no beer rushing at regis tration football practice dedica tion of packard laboratory house party lehigh cut system board of control of athletics percy hughes english department freshman regulations convention wrestling and mustard and cheese groups mimicked a trio composed of rufus sav age ralph benson and phil da vis enacted the parts of the com bined musical clubs the bach choir the band and the manner choir quartet they sang original songs about campus leaders and members of the faculty the banquet committee was com posed of phil davis chairman james little emanuel honig sam uel fuller and prof c d mac dougall other men appearing in the short skits were robert stap ler frank veale rufus savage ralph benson carl claus g black ford camden erwin underwood and alf malmros george w schoenhut 30 chair man of the committee last year helped during the last week of re hearsal for the banquet and gave a short talk on campus graft the banquet was attended by many prominent men on the le high campus and a large number of faculty members austy tate addresses knights of columbus football coaches night observed by local council coach austy tate spoke at football coaches night at the bethlehem council knights of co lumbus tuesday evening other speaker's were leo f prendergast coach of football at liberty high school john finn coach at mora vian college and frank o'shea one of the owners of the o'shea knitting mills chicago coach tate spoke on the differ ent systems of offensive and defen sive play which are used by fa mous coaches he pointed out that there are two prominent systems in use the rockne 1 system and the warner system austy emphasized that a knowledge of the fundamen tals of blocking and tackling were essential if a team is to play out standing football john trimble who officates at many intercollegiate games was toastmaster o f the meeting appro ximately 200 members of the coun cil and their guests were present fretz to entertain members of the faculty and sev eral neighbors will be entertained at a reception april 28 29 and 30 at the home of prof harry fretz 42 w market street bethlehem the eavenson and levering fel lowship for graduate research and study in the wool industry will be evailable for the first time in sep tember 1931 prof h a neville of the chemistry department and j a levering graduated student in chemical engineering will have charge of the fellowship to be open annually for one man alban b eavenson president of the eavenson levering wool com pany camden n j was graduat ed from lehigh in 1891 with a de gree of bachelor of science in chem istry mr levering is connected with the eavenson levering wool com fany and was instrumental in ringing this fellowship to lehigh dormitory drawing to be held may is drawing for rooms in price hall and taylor hall will be held at 4 p m friday may 15 in drown hall according to bursar f r ashbaugh students now in dormi tories who , wish to retain their rooms for next year must file leases before noon on the day of the drawing according to mr aush baugh lease forms for this pur pose are now ready at the bursar's oice an advance payment of 10 must be made when the lease is filed miniature broadway comes to town as league holds rehearsals three delegates from the brown and white are now in brooklyn n v attending the intercollegiate newspaper association convention which is being held at the brook lyn polytechnical institute and which will last until tomorrow carl f hull 32 business manag er robert h raring 32 editor ial manager and james b rather jr 32 news manager are the three men representing lehigh emanuel a honig president of the association and ormer editorial manager of the brown and white also is attending the meeting and will preside at the various ses sions others from lehigh who are at the convention are irving gen net former business manager and prof c mcdougall executive sec retary of the organization and fac ulty adviser of the brown and white professor macdougall will wel come the delegates and make sev eral speeches professor macdou gall was elected to the chair of ex ecutive secretary just a year ago at the i n a convention to present papers tomorrow morning papers will be presented for discussion at 9:30 o'clock papers will be presented as follows organizing the news paper for efficiency by mr louis n rowly jr brooklyn polytech nic institute eliminating politics f rom the staff elections and the scope of editorial topics by raymond b counsellor dickinson columns by mr merle boyer gettysburg representatives of the business staff will present methods of competition for business board positions by dunelle gage jr haverford consolidating campus publications by lester m gates george washington cooperation with the printer by cleon went zel drexel good will advertis ing by burton slease thiel in the afternoon balloting on committee reports made today ad ditional committee reports new business and some announcements will be made formal banquet at 7 o'clock tomorrow evening a formal banquet is to be held at the hotel pierrepont the program will include the awarding of a news competition cup by edwin b wil son city editor of the brooklyn daily eagle awarding of an edi torial competition cup by joseph p early associate editor brook lyn standard union and finally an address by mr john h finley editor of the new york times will be presented dr smith speaks to woman's club women poets of the ages subject of recent talk modern women poets are ex pressing with greater freedom than ever before the woman's way of feeling and thinking dr robert m smith head of the department of english told 200 members of the allentown woman's club re cently professor smith's speech was entitled women poets of the ages doctor smith discussed the de velopment of poetry created by wo men beginning with sappho and concluding with sarah teasdale one of the best known contempor ary women poets he emphasized the part these singers of poetry have played in reflecting the so cial and moral tendencies of the ages in which they lived this point he illustrated by reading se lections from the poets o whom he spoke professor smith spoke at length of elizabeth barrett browning and told something of the life and achievements of lawrence hope whose east indian lyrics have been set to music by stanhope incentives to study was the subject of a report given by prof c a shook of the mathematics de partment at the meeting of the faculty educational club monday afternoon in the faculty room pro f . l l smail of the same de partment spoke on inducing stu dents to study mathematics professor shook spoke about a report which was originally made by a w crawford of yale this report is based on the replies to a questionnaire circulated in the spring of 1926 concerning the fac tors which contribute to success in college professor shook stated that the first of these factors is mental ca pacity in examinations it was found that students of low mental capacity made an average grade of 71 while those of high mental ca pacity made 83 a second factor is orjentation those students who knew what they were going to stu dy in college made an average grade of 76 while those who did not made 73 lastly the parent's occu pation was considered to have an effect on the student for example the sons of doctors and lawyers re ceived very high grades in the ex amination prof smail spoke on inducing students to study mathematics although he was pirmarily con cerned with the study of mathe matics he gave a general applica tion to all studies according to professor smail the primary requisite of a teacher is to arouse the student's interest in the subject professor smail ex plained that it is very advisable to present the general aim of the sub ject in outline form so that thf students can get a general view of what they are doing along with this he considered the complete discussion of fundamental concepts and the use of practical problems to be of great importance in help ing the student from getting lost in the subject he also said that the students should do some recit ing and some original work in the course williams to speak prof e h williams jr former professor of mining engineering and geology and donor of wil liams hall will be a guest at the university wednesday and thurs day of next week professor williams will lecture to students of geology discussing in particular the methods and re sults of investigation of glacial de posits in pennsylvania stoughton in alabama prof bradley stoughton head of the department of metallurgical en gineering is attending the conven tion of the american electrochem ical society at the hotel tutwiler in birmingham ala professor stoughton who is vice president of the society will return to bethlehem sunday evening newspapermen wield a controll ing influence on world movements dale h gramley instructor in journalism stated last tuesday at the pi delta epsilon honorary journalistic fraternity pledging ex ercises in packer chapel the printed word is a danger ous weapon if put in wrong hands wars may be caused or diverted and a person may be driven to com mit suicide by what the newspa per man may write he pointed out 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 burr 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 hildum pho tographic editor of the epitome and rudolph e imhof former^edi tor in chief or tfie review carothers addresses high school students college is worthwhile — for some dr neil carothers direc tor of the college of business ad ministration told york pa high school students last week dr carothers talk on the gene ral topic is college worthwhile was sponsored by lehigh alumni of york this talk one o a series to interest high school students in lehigh was heard by 1,500 york high school students and 150 stu dents of york collegiate institute the mustard and cheese spring play the play's the thing by ferenc molnar will be given thursday evening april 30 and saturday afternoon may 2 in drown hall the tickets will be 1 and 1.50 thursday evening and 1 saturday afternoon with no re served seats members of the mustard and cheese club paid a 75 bond to the board o f publications who acted as controller of funds for the club for the past year and were therefore allowed to hold the play this is the first play given under the little theatre movement in augurated last year the cast chos en has had previous club exper ience the play's the thing is a com edy farce and was translated from hungarian of ferenc molnar by p g wodehouse and produced or iginally in english in 1927 ' the play ran for 27 months on broad way starring holbrook blinn and catherine dale owen coming events saturday april 25 3 p m freshman baseball vs rut gers at taylor stadium sunday april 26 12:01 a m daylight saving time begins monday april 27 deutcher verein banquet faraday banquet every one lines up the piano starts ans away they go this he tells me is the tiller girls number a perfect riot of kicks bends dips and what have you whoops one of the girls is out o step she throws the rest of them off and mr mckenney calls a halt once more he demonstrates how it's done this time he gets himself all work ed up off comes the sweater off the tie bang goes the piano and now they're all doing it with mr mckenney as premiere danceuse this time it runs more smoothly all right girls once more they go through it again this time its perfect lehigh men in dance that'll be all girls calls the di rector while the hard-working junior leaguers were resting mr mckenney found a few minutes to tell me what was what this is only one of the numbers he said there are eight more besides this all equally good in some of the numbers lehigh will be represent ed fritz frederick d keck edward h robb ted olmstead 30 and charles f nassau will take part in several of the chorus routines the affair is being given for the benefit of several bethlehem chari ties which are partially supported by the junior league strange music echoes from the university room at the hotel bethlehem these days strange sounds are heard here and there one may see a beautiful young lady clad in rompers or lounging paja mas flitting about the corridors here bethlehem's fairest is hard at work rehearsing for the coming production of the junior league this year there is going to be a beach ball so called because of the beach pajamas worn by the feminine members of the cast re hearsals have been going on for five days under the direction o f tor rey t mckenney an independent producer from new york who be sides directing junior league pro ductions for the past three years has had a hand in university pro ductions all over the country he is assisted by j rees smith rehearsals are fun rehearsals the girls say are great fun to the casual obser ver's eye it looks like a lot of work but it's an interesting sight it looks for all the world like a slice of broadway brought to bethlehem like a peep behind the scenes at a rehearsal of the follies i arrived in the middle of a re hearsal at the front of the room was director mckenney showing the ladies of the ensemble how to do their stuff at his let's go brown and white vol xxxiii no 50 celebrities roast at gridiron feast atoms present musical drama at physics meet price — five cents frosh banquet draws 98 men braun resides pi mu epsilon hears keyser bethlehem pa friday april 24 1931 ace brigode's orchestra to play for junior prom houseparty begins may 1 truth seeking paramount in science declares co lumbia professor university to run on daylight saving long rice sadler bart lett and carothers ad dress group dined last evening member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first