Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 51

              brown and white places second with editorials price — five cents larkin and hall to have vacation vol xxxiii no 51 engineers join in remembering michael faraday curtis releases tentative draft of examinations lehigh paper scores m i.n.a contest for fifth time honig gives address dialogue puzzles censors in the play's the thing new york critics questioned sophistication in orig inal performance m and c to present show thursday and saturday associate dean issues preliminary plans for spring finals to be held may 21-30 papers to be presented by students of societies wednesday eight clubs entered carl schier named secre tary meyer shanker is treasurer committees appointed prof fred v larkin head of fehe department of mechanical engineering and prof robert w hall head of the department of biology have been granted leaves of absence for next year by the board of trustees professor hall will do research work in biology although he has not decided definitely where prof and mrs larkin expect to take a trip around the world al though no defnite plans have been made as yet during the absence of the professors dr stanley t thom as professor of bacteriology will be the acting head of the depart ment of biology and milton c stuart professor of experimen tal mechanical engineering will act as head of the department of mechanical and industrial en gineering dr e.h williams at initiation eighty men of the combined musical clubs will give a con cert tuesday evening april 28 at the engineers club in new york city complimentary tick ets to the concert have been is sued to prospective students in the vicinity of new york who are interested in lehigh but were unable to attend sub freshman day exercises special features of the entertainment in clude moving pictures of life at lehigh and a demonstration of sleight-of-hand by a e buch anan 18 executive secretary of the alumni association the musical clubs including 40 members of the band 30 members of the glee club and 10 men comprising the dance or chestra will leave bethlehem early this afternoon and will return for classes tomorrow af ternoon while in new york they will be guests of the new york lehigh club having din ner and spending the night at the fraternity club plans complete for house party tau beta pi takes in son of founder saturday junior prom orchestra and ace brigode highly praised w h sachs arts 32 beta theta pi was elected president of ar cadia af the annual election held last evening in drown hall other officers elected were c f schier secretary and m w shanker treasurer the following committees were elected booster committee e w kaufman chair man d k may and j d brown publicity h a kriebel chairman p b myers and e w voit dance committee f n fisher chairman w m schuck and s solomon student activities m e cooper chairman c h robson house committee r a stabler chairman d l mac adam board of control of athletics j e rothenberg chair man a l duncan and j j hola han student clubs h f cassel man chairman r a stabler and w o roth election of cheerleaders and le high union officers and the tap ping of sword and crescent men will take place at college meeting on may 6 pre-meds to see dental picture dr j f connelly will address society meeting thursday evening is describing off stage some claim it is one thing some another . . . but just what it really is you will have to judge for yourself because even the script doesn't say richard harding davis brain child has become quite a factor in lehigh life these past few years and the present members have ac cording to reports been rattling the timbers of drown hall for over a month in their efforts to perfect themselves in their parts with the help of warren fletcher of the department of english and john toohy of the department of ro mance languages who themselves appeared only last week in the fac ulty play on the same stage re hearsals have gone forward with as mr loony termed it gratify ing results last night's rehearsal seemed to bear out mr toohy's statement there were besides the three al ready mentioned jack lee as ilona szabo john aufhammer as al bert adam walt shimer as jo hann dwornitschek who besides being all that also takes the parts of two lackeys in his off mo ments and charles simmons as mell friedman whom you re member as the arch-villain in ten night in a barroom has had a de cided softening of the heart in this production he is a soft-speaking handkerchief-in-the-sleeve play write who gazes at the moon and misin terprets almady's poetic off-stage description of what is perhaps the rose flush skin of a peach by harry warendorf on thursday evening april 30 or on saturday afternoon may 2 when all the campus is aglow with the colorful pageant of houseparty you will undoubtedly be an inter ested spectator at mustard and cheese's spring production the play's the thing in case you don't already know it the plays the thing is a three-act comedy by ferenc molnar and translated from the hungarian in which it was originally conceiv ed by p g wodehouse who is known all over the world as the creator of jeeves and other com ic english characters holbrook blinn with herbert druce edward crandall and two owens catherine dale and reginald supporting him achieved a smash hit when it was presented at henry miller's thea tre in new york city nov 3 1926 it ran in the metropolis for sev eral seasons snd then was equally popular on 4he road and when you see it thursday or saturday with bert friedman as sondar turai the part played by holbrook blinn and cy askin as mansky his partner in the bus iness of creating musical comedies you will see a show which sophisti cated new yorkers went gaga over and which had the censors guessing for a while even in little old new york where men are men and wo men try their best the censors ap parently didn't quite approve of a certain scene in which there is some doubt about just what the juven ile lead , francis neuwirth to you 1931 epitome is due tomorrow richards to open classical meet columbia professor will speak at annual ban quet may 1 year book produced by senior class for first time this year lehigh is joining other engineering schools and scientific societies throughout the world in commemorating th~e centennial of the discovery of the laws of electro magnetic induction by michael faraday in august 1831 the combined engineering clubs will do homage to the great scien tist wednesday evening by pre senting the life and work of fardaay this presentation will take the form of a symposium on all of his fundamental researches the fact that faraday contributed to the basic knowledge of nearly all of our modern sciences will be emphasized this is a presentation given en tirely by the student members of eight engineering societies in school there will be absolutely n o faculty supervision the program will consist of five 15-minute papers delivered with illustrations by student engin eers every effort is being made to secure apparatus which is as near ly as possible the apparatus used by faraday in the demonstrations of his experiments students to talk f w matchett m e 31 will deliver a paper on faraday — the man w j tomlinson ch e 31 and l s millelot ce e 31 will discuss faraday's contributions to chemical science faraday dis covered benzine and other coal tar products which are a great source of wealth to us today w h wag ner met e 31 and j s harrison met e 31 will deliver a paper on the discovery of the laws of electrolysis these laws make possible the storage battery and the electrolytic separation of metals the laws of electro-magnetic in duction will be discussed by r e snyder e e 31 and l r wan ner e e 31 these laws are the basis of motors generators trans formers and devices for geo-physi cal prospecting d l mcadam eng phys 32 and w c el more eng phys 32 will talk on faraday's researches in optics schier studies conical springs mechanical department de velops own apparatus for work the relation of nutrition to dental health a motion picture will be presented by the robert w hall pre-medical society at 7:30 o'clock thursday evening in room 466 packard laboratory dr j f connelly a local dentist will pre face the picture with some remarks and will read an original paper at the conclusion of the picture this motion picture willj be of special interest to dental and med ical societies and colleges depart ments of anatomy physiology path ology and hygiene of universities and colleges public health officials and others interested in public health the film visualizes the research that has been carried on in the past few years in the field of diet and its relation to the structure of the teeth and gums and in combating diseases of the mouth it illustrates the work that has been carried on in the field of dental hygiene at several of the leading universities in the united states shows scientific prograss the film commences with illus trations of skulls and teeth of an cient peoples and then advances to the dreaded scourge of the seas scurvy and how science has over come this once prevalent disease the picture shows the content of a properly balanced diet and ex periments conducted in diets of animals and the application of the results to clinical uses the concluding scenes illustrate in natural color healthy tissue dis eased mouths spongy tissue that bled when the teeth were brushed and several cases of pyorrhea show ing pus pockets the society obtained the picture from the castle films company r w blake members take annual trip visit different departments and museums at princeton uni versity members of the robert blake society took their annual field trip last friday to princeton university accompanied by prof gorth a howland assistant professor of nine arts the members of the so ciety visited the departments of psychology art museum museum of natural history and the depart ment of at princeton in the evening the society gave a dinner at the byard lane coffee house at which professors fite greene and wever of the depart ments of philosophy and psycolo gy at princeton university were guests professor fite lead the dis cussion after dinner his subject was arts and science and how they are related the elections of the robert w blake society were held last friday morning before the society left on its field trip the following officers were elected for next year winton altman president william h spath vice president and abraham grudin secretary-treasurer president c r richards will formally open the twenty-fourth annual meeting of the classical as sociation of the atlantic states at 3:15 p m friday in packard audi torium the convention will con tinue saturday the annual dinner will be held at 7 p m in the ballroom of the ho tel bethlehem prof charles knapp of barnard college columbia uni versity will lecture on observa tions on plautus at an open meet ing following the banquet profes sor knapp recently lectured at le high under the auspices of eta sig ma phi honorary classical society saturday morning at 9:15 o'clock five papers will be read earl le verne crum assistant professor of latin at the university will speak at this time on diet in ancient medical practice as shown by cel sus in his de medicina guest at luncheon association members will be guests of lehigh at luncheon sat urday in drown hall three papers will be read at the final session sat urday afternoon the association consists of mem bers of schools and colleges of new york pennsylvania new jersey delaware and maryland the an nual meeting will be held with the cooperation of the classical league of the lehigh valley dr horace w wright head of department of latin is one of the vice presidents of the association prof earl le verne crum is vice president of the classical league of the lehigh valley scabbard and blade initiate new men honorary military society elects officers for next year scabbard and blade national honorary military society initiated 10 men at a recent meeting they are lieut h r emery a r baldwin g n beckwith t w drobeck c r giegerich e w kaufman g h riley a g rohrs c n warnick e m.gormley and p j weimer forty men attended the banquet and business meeting held after the formal initiation the new officers elected are r w burk president g h riley vice president george beckwith secretary and carl gieg erich treasurer plans were made to present a cup to the best platoon and individual pins to members of the best com pany in the coming regimental in spection fraternity pledges pi kappa alpha announces the pledging of f j whitney e e 30 graduate student in metallurgy through its own development of a current-resistance method of heating springs while they are be ing wound the mechanical engin eering department has complete ap paratus for research work on con ical springs this new method of heating gives a uniform heat throughout the spring formerly all springs us ed in tests were heated and wound by the bethlehem steel company with an acetylene torch this lat ter method is not very good be cause all parts of the spring are not heated at th.c same time the result is that various conflcting stresses are set up which tend to weaken certain sections according to c f schier 32 schier is carrying on the pres ent research for thesis work in conjunction with prof j b rey nolds prof f v larkin head of the mechanical engineering depart ment and prof m c stuart pro fessor reynolds has been preparing graphical results by mathematical formulas so far these theoretical results have checked with the ac tual results of tests made by schier bull thomas to take trip the 1931 epitome will first ap pear on the campus tomorrow pro viding weather conditions are fav orable to distribution arrange ments have been made to set up a booth on the campus in front of packard laboratory and all those who have purchased books are re quested to secure their copies at this place in the event of rain the books will be withheld until a more favorable day of the 600 copies printed 400 have been sold seniors who desire ad ditional copies are requested to make their application early all men with the exception of seniors who have already subscribed are requested to bring their receipts the present volume of the book is dedicated to prof augustus hen ry fretz and the words of the ded ication are in recognition of the friendship generosity and good fellowship that have won for him the admiration and affection of all those connected with lehigh this dedication was made by unanimous vote of the senior board it is the first time an epitome has been ded icated to professor fretz fifty-fifth edition the present epitome is the fifty fifth volume of the year book for the first time it is being published by members of the senior class the class of 78 published the first edition as a sophomore year book for a number of years the epitome was published by sophomores un til 1885 when it became a junior publication and continued as such until the present volume membership to the board was formerly determined by class elec tion but is now obtained through competition the purpose of the new policy is to attempt to improve the book by selecting experienced men to do the work freshman competition for the business board is now under way and any men interested are request ed to get in touch with a thorn ton at the beta theta pi house im mediately club plans banquet the international relations club will hold its annual initiation ban quet at 6 p m thursday april 30 at the bethlehem club bruce bliven editor of the new republic who will speak at 8:15 o'clock the same evening in packard auditorium on the chak lenge of russia to american civil ization will be the guest of honor pre-legals elect the pre-legal society meeting last wednesday evening in pack ard laboratory elected officers for the coming year new officers are as follows president manuel l ruderman 33 vice president ben jamin slade 33 secretary martin m reed 33 and treasurer abra ham w sobel 32 with houseparties only three days off final preparations are be ing made for the outstanding so cial function of the year the jun ior prom ace brigode will bring his 14 virginians into a beautifully decor ated taylor gymnasium the boys from thet sunny south will have with them many outstanding musi cal arrangements including sing ing and entertaining numbers of ace brigode one press article says truly an ace among men truly an ace among leaders of a group of ace musicians alvord hoyt chairman of the committee states that ace has played in over 17 broadcasting sta tions and in all the leading ball rooms of the country forest decorations taylor gymnasium will be dress ed up to represent a forest in full bloom the effect will be worked up by the zollinger and harned company of allentown mr hoyt states that the decorations will be a great improvement over those of the past two years black and white schaeffer pen cils of the type carried in lady's handbags will be the favors enough have been ordered so that the late comers will be sure to get them julian booker's orchestra will furnish the music for a tea dance to follow the mustard and cheese pro duction of the play's the thing saturday afternoon in drown hall a track meet and lacrosse game both with rutgers also will take place during the afternoon individual house dances and a dorm dance in the masonic temple will conclude the dance functions saturday evening oratorical contest tryouts scheduled competition to open tomorrow finals set for may 6 preliminary tryouts for the e.h williams freshman prizes in oral composition will be held at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening in room 466 packard laboratory the con test is open to all members of the freshman class the winner will re ceive a prize of 40 and the runner up a 15 prize the preliminary speeches will be of four minutes duration on a sub ject of the student's own choice and are to be judged by g.a finch w fletcher r b parks and d h gramley of the english de partment the final speeches for the con test to be given at 7:30 p m may 6 in room 466 packard laboratory will be extemporaneous and of ten minutes duration entrants in the contest will receive their subjects an hour before the speeches are given judges of the final contest will be prof g h rhoads simon deptula prof e h riley prof c d macdougall and prof m j luch of the english department coming events lehigh men to attend na tional hygiene con ference dr r c bull director of stu dent's health service and dr stan ley thomas professor of bacter iology will leave on mdnday may 5 to attend the national conference on college hygiene to be held from may s to 9 in syracuse n y this conference is sponsored by pres ident hoover's committee of fifty on college hygiene the american student health association the na tional health council and the na tional tuberculosis association by winning second place in the editorial contest the brown and white last week-end won its fifth successive prize in the semi-annual news and editorial contests of the intercollegiate newspaper associa tion of the middle atlantic states this record is believed to be un equaled by any other member of the i n a the brown and white was represented at the semiannual convention friday and saturday at brooklyn polytechnic institute by seven delegates emanuel a hon ig former editorial manager of the brown and white and retiring pres ident of the intercollegiate news paper association presided at all sessions mr honig and prof curtis d macdougall executive secretary spoke at the opening session fri day afternoon at the meeting of the business representatives carl hull business manager of the brown and white spoke on good will advertising saturday morn ing j b rather news manager of the brown and white was appoint ed chairman of the constitution committee irving gennet former business manager of the brown and white arid retiring secretary treasurer of the is n a presided at the saturday morning session of the business group the other lehigh representatives were rob ert h raring editorial manager of the brown and white and r c benson member of the editorial council stevens wins cup the cup for editorial writing went to the stevens stute of stevens institute of technology at hobok eu n j the brown and white won second place and third prize went to the dicklnsonian of dick inson college carlisle honorable mention was given the reporter of brooklyn polytechnic institute in news competition the cup was won by the haverford news the only tabloid newspaper in the association second place went to the muhlen berg weekly of muhlenberg col lege third place was awarded to the gettysburgian of gettysburg college honorable mention was given the red and black of wash ington and jefferson college an important business transac tion of the convention was the af filiation with the newly-formed national collegiate press associa tion the purpose of which is to form a national advertising agen cy the convention passed a reso lution condemning any faculty censorship of student publications a poll showed that only two mem ber papers those of gettysburg and susquehanna colleges are sub ject to any form of faculty cen sorship it was the hope of the convention that this resolution will help these papers in their fight against censorship awards of cups to the winners of the editorial and news contests were made at a formal banquet saturday evening in the hotel pierrepont brooklyn edward b wilson city editor of the brooklyn daily eagle and one of the three judges awarded the news competi tion cup mr wilson spoke of the importance of appearance in news paper publication he told the del egates that the reason the brown and white did not place in the news competition was in large part the poor quality of the printing he cited the new york herald-trib une as an outstanding example of topography among metropolitan newspapers early lauds b & w joseph p early associate editor of the brooklyn standard union in awarding the editorial competition cup praised the variety and num ber of editorials of the brown and white the third judge was rob inson webster of the brooklyn daily times the speaker was phil ip wilson former members of the british house of commons and present political writer and review er for the new york times his topic was journalism as a car eer a man should not go into journalism as a career unless he is vitally interested in the work as serted mr wilson the man who graduates from an arts college and who has worked on the college newspaper is qualified to go into journalism as well as a man who has gone to a journalism school according to mr wilson officers elected for next year are raymond b counsellor man aging editor of the dickinsonian president lester m gates of george washington university vice president wynfield cook business manager of the dickinsonian sec retary and treasurer and reese se well of george washington uni versity executive secretary " wednesday april 29 4 p m varsity baseball against city college of new york 7:30 p m combined engineering meeting in honor of michael far aday in packard laboratory thursday april 30 8:15 p m international relations club meeting in packard audi torium bruce bliven editor of the new republic will speak on the challenge of russia to american civilization dr edward h williams jr founder of tau beta pi attended the initiation of his son amory l williams and seven juniors by the lehigh chapter into the national honorary engineering fraternity on saturday in packard laboratory ' mr williams received the de gree of bachelor of arts from wil liams college in 1914 and was grad uated from massachusetts institute of technology four years later he is at present practicing architecture in cleveland the undergraduate initiates all from the junior class were wil liam c elmore eng phys roger i fluck c e henry h fryling jr i e william k griesinger ch e edward b hildum m e theodore r kellner c e and arthur g rohrs i e following the formal initiation a banquet was held in the private dining room of the hotel bethle hem speakers at the banquet were dr williams mr williams prof b l miller head of the depart ment of geology and prof n s hibshman associate professor of electrical engineering met i—general1 — general metallurgy met 30 — physical metallurgy mm 6 — mine surveying phys 124 electric discharge in gases ** 2 psych s—lntroduction5 — introduction to psychology sec b ** 2 psych 16 applied psychology sec.b monday 8 a m may 25 1.5 engl 2 — composition 2 engl 3b — composition and literature 4)m e 23 — heat engines met 81 — problems engineering metallurgy met 84 — non-ferrous metallurgy problems met 164 — non-ferrous metallurgy prb'ms monday 2 p m may 25 3 bus 46 — business cycles 2)phil 12 — president day ethical prob lems mil 6 — advanced inftnary mil b advanced infantry mil 16 — advanced ordinance mil 18 — advanced ordnance 3)phys 4 — mechanics heat and light 7)phys s—physics5 — physics laboratory * 2 phys 6 electricity and sound 2)phys 7 — physics laboratory psych 19 — psychology and conduct tuesday 8 a m may 26 biol 153 — advanced bacteriology bus 12 — accounting bus 16 — accounting systems bus 126 — public finance chem 179 — history of chemistry c e 123 — railroads and terminals 2)e e 54 — electrical engineering sec b fr 94 — french oral composition geol 108 — metallic economic geology gov 158 — muncipal management 2)hist 14 — united states history.sec.b math 20 — elementary mechanics m e 120 — general aeronautics met 6 — electrometallurgy 2)min 11 — fuel technology sec a phil 11 — present day ethical problems phys 165 — advanced laboratory tuesday 2 p m may 26 2)bus 40 — industrial management sec b bus 162 — sociology c e 12 — hydraulics c e 125 reinforced concrete design e e 6 — advanced alternating current 2)e e 54 — electrical engineering sec a f a 2 appreciation of fine arts 2)geol 4 — general geology sec b 2)geol 17 physiography sec ii ger 114 — lessing gothe schiller m e 6 — mechanism met 61 — general metallurgical problems met 152 advanced ferrous metallurgy 2)phtf 3—lntroduction3 — introduction to philosophy sec b wednesday 8 a m may 27 s)c e 2 — engineering drawing 3)c e 13 hydraulics 3)fr 2 — elementary french | 3)fr 12 — intermediate french # 2)fr 22 — 17th and 18th century lit 2)m e 25 — engineering laboratory * 4 span 2 — elementary spanish wednesday 2 p m may 27 3)bus 30 — money and banking a tentative draft of the spring ex amination schedule has been releas ed by dean g b curtis students who find that they have two ex aminations scheduled for the same hour are requested to report the conflict immediately to their pro fessors such conflicts will of course necessitate changes in the present schedule figures in parenthesis indicate the number of sections in those courses for which there are more than one section indicates a course of two sections or more for which only one examination is scheduled indicates a two-section course for each section of which an ex amination is scheduled thursday 8 a m may 21 biol 3 — comp anatomy of vertebrates biol 9 — genetics 2)bus 4 — economics sec i bus 34 — labor problems chem 181 — chemical engineering & e 124 — high strtuctures ed 10 — supervision of teaching e e 2 — direct current machinery e e 118 — electric power transmission engl 45 — feature and magazine writing engl 124 — shakespeare fri 11 — intermediate french 2)geol 4 — general geology secy a ger i—elementary1 — elementary german hist 26 — european history lat 23 — roman law lat 34 — cicero math 50 — projective geometry math 112 — advanced differential equa'ns math 124 — theory of errors m e s—elementary5 — elementary heat engines met 4 — non-ferrous metallurgy 2)min b—oil8 — oil field philosophy sec a phil 14 logic 2)phys i—elementary1 — elementary physics sec i phys 125 heat 2)psych 16 — applied psych sec a span 11 — intermediate spanish thursday 2 p m may 21 ' biol 158 — immunology 2)bus 4 economics sec 2 2)bus 40 — industrial manag't sec a bus 108 — advanced economics c e 131 — advanced sanitary engineering engl 53 — history of american journalism f a 4 — history of architecture ger 3—lntermediate3 — intermediate german 2)gov 52 — american government(state sec a hist 10 — history of england 1603 to date lat 2 — horace lat 4 — livy lat 106 prose writers m e 29 — heat engines mm s—mining5 — mining engineering phys 161 — modern physical theories psych 2 — educational psychology 2)span 12 — intermediate spanish sec.a friday 8 a m may 22 bus 2—lndustrial2 — industrial evolution bus 36 public utilities chem . 7 — advanced chemistry chem 191 — physical chemistry c e 15 roofs and bridges ed 2 — history of education e e 20 — electric traction 2)e e 52 — general alternating cur rents sec b . engl 40 — report writing engl 42 business news writing engl 128 — chaucer 2)ger 4—lntermediate4 — intermediate german sec.a math la — elementary analysis math 2a — elementary analysis 2)math 42 — mathematical statistics sec a m e 116 — advanced machine design met 24 — non-ferrous metallurgy psych 4 — social phychology j*x2 psych s—lntermediate5 — intermediate calculus friday 2 p m may 22 3)math 4 — elementary calculus 3)math s lntermediate calculus 2)math 21 — analytic mechanics 2)math 6 advanced calculus 7)mil 2 — basic 1 i 6 mil 4 basic 2 ii mm 9 — mine administration 3)phil 2 — history of philosophy saturday 8 a m may 23 biol 112 — history and technique 4)chem 20 qualitative analysis 4)chem 21 — qualitative analysis * 2 chem 196 physical chemistry lab oratory 3)e e 50 — general dynamos and mo tors engl 44 — advanced newspaper reporting geol 110 — stratigraphic geology govt 172 — mediaeval political theory m e 4 — elementary machine design . psych 6 — abnormal psychology span 136 — spanish-american literature bus 56 — business law chem 161 — organic chemistry * 6 chem b—stoichiometry8 — stoichiometry c e 132 — advanced highway engineering e e 26 — electrical communication ii engl 10 — introductory public speaking 2)engl 41 — business correspondence sec b geol s—petrology5 — petrology geol b—historical8 — historical geology 2)gov 52 — american government(state sec b 2)hist 14 — united states history , sec.a # 2)math 42 — mathematical statistics sec b brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday april 28 1931 sachs elected arcadia head for next year music clubs take 80 to new york concert member intercollegiate newspafer association b & w board to meet changes of the brown and white constitution will be dis cussed by the board at a meet ing wednesday at 4 p m in the brown and white office cyanide wants lists all juniots are requested to hand in their list of points for cyanide to j m lyons phi sigma kappa before april 29 all the lehigh news first