Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 54

              cites team work in em pire state building construction thomas to speak before sigma xi sword and crescent cy anide tap men cheer leaders selected dean mcconn speaks bishop awarded phi club cup as outstanding fresh man athlete aubrey weymouth 94 who engineered the construction of the empire state building which was opened this week prof stanley thomas will speak on impressions of eng land at the annual initiation banquet of sigma xi honorary scientific research fraternity to be held at 6:30 p m monday may 11 at the saucon valley country club frank l beat who graduated from the university of michigan last year will be initiated by the lehigh chapter at this meeting mr beal was elected to mem bership recently by the michi gan chapter members of the faculty who will be initiated are g f beal w e harvey t h hazlehurst jr e just f j trembly and l whitcomb other members of the faculty who will be initiated to associate membership are g l bull f b buie w s mc carter j l myer and l c shugart cannay predicts synthetic air aid healthier air in city pro phesied by alumnus last evening h.c haupt wins theme contest o d k prize paper suggests large campus bulletin board because of widespread campus discussion concerning the activities of the junior promenade committee the brown and white publishes the following financial report as sub mitted by alvord hoyt committee chairman to dean c m mcconn expenses orchestra $ 800.00 favors 272.44 decorations 150.00 gymnasiumj platform etc 87.05 punch 45.00 burr adv 30.00 brown and white adv -. 6.40 corsages for chaperones .. 4.75 piano 10.00 2000 paper cups 6.90 printing • 12.25 police protection 10.00 prom committee 100.00 . total expenditures 1534.79 income 309 couples at 00 1,545.00 25 stags at 3.00 78.00 total income 1,623.00 profit $ 88.21 618 admitted at 5.00 a couple 26 stags 8 hampton-sydney tennis team admitted free 75 chaperones admitted free 727 people in attendance alvord hoyt chairman this is to certify that i have re viewed the financial report of the junior promenade committee and have checked a.ll the reported items of expenses against the receipted bills submitted by the committee and to the best of my knowledge and belief this is a true and correct report c m mcconn . signed dean may 6 1931 bowie lectures on quake survey many disturbances not recorded geodetic head states the annual field day of the le high r o t c unit will be held monday afternoon on the upper field according to the list of events just issued by lieut colonel m.h thomlinson head of the military department the unit's tank which provided much interest and amuse ment last year will again make its appearance under the supervision of capt c h keck and lieut h r emery an equipment race is also to be one of the feature events this year prizes and trophies will be award ed partly on the basis of the after noon's work and partly on the basis of work done by various sections of the unit throughout the year these prizes will be awarded to the captains of the winning organ izations or to individual winners as follows best drilled company best shooting company the sophomore rifle team the best drilled platoon the varsity rifle team the winners of individual shooting trophies the winner of the manual-of-arms com petition and the winners of class awards after receiving awards each winner will take his post on the left of the staff of the review ing officers and watch the final re view among the guests that probably will be present include dr henry s drinker president emeritus of the university capt john r wood and herbert may who will present the whitten rifle cup roland r lynn and g william eberman who will present the american le gion rifle cup and william f mc glade who will present the veter ans of foreign wars cup as well as the officials of the university the field day is open to the public the program of events issued is as follows assembly at 1:30 p m on the upper field the platoon com petiition the manual of arms elim ination contest the eqiupment race the machine gun 37mm gun and tank demonstration assembly of the unit the award of trophies and prizes and the final review oratorical prize won by w.g wood successful entree dis cusses united states nicaragua relations pi mu epsilon pledges 17 men the health of the general public will in the near future be greatly improved by creating air and liv ing conditions in the city home sim ilar to that at seashore and moun tain resorts ccording to a war ren cannay speaker at a meeting of the mechanical engineering so ciety last evening in the packard laboratory mr cannay former student at lehigh is now consulting engineer for the carrier engineering cor poration new york he has been associated with such buildings as the metropolitan home office build ing in new york and the waldorf astoria hotel conditions similar to the seashore or the mountains may be produced by the use of the present system of air refrigeration with the aid of lamps that emit rajjs similar to the sun's hospitals today use the car rier system with great satisfaction and it is probable that when the high cost of refrigeration can be lessened all hospitals will adopt this system after his talk was concluded mr cannay exhibited blue prints and drawings of the methods by which air conditions such as humidity temperature and pressure can be controlled refreshments were serv ed following an election of officers for next term the president is lawson v britton m e 32 and vice president richard a lodge m e 33 a r baldwin was elected pres ident of the lehigh union at the college meeting wednesday ove r k serfass and j e angle ar cadia officials refused to disclose the official vote to the brown and white the other officers are g h ril ey vice president j d brown secretary t w drobeck treasur er the candidates defeated are r e imhoff and j e maharay for vice president r g shankweiler and w j jackel for secretary w c simpson and l l brennesholtz for treasurer senior cheerleaders elected are a m thorne jr head cheerleader r j sirnes jr and h f casselman the meeting opened with moving up exercises fran evers president of the class of 31 presented the cane to wint miller president of the class of 32 dean praises society dean mcconn introduced as an educator who believes that studies are not everything spoke about the sword and crescent honorary society we have many different types of honorary societies pur sued the dean in different fields of activities and in different courses sword and crescent is an honor ary society for the all-around man fifteen men are chosen in the spring and five men are chosen in the fall the society is based on the point system and for the first time equal credit is given for ma jor and minor sports the 15 men tapped in the order of points re ceived are a t ware w l mil ler r e imhof c f halsted r c benson c f hull r k serfass r h enscoe e b hild um r c clark j e angle p b myers w m eyster h j for syth and g d reed g d reed announced the names of the men elected to cyanide club junior honorary society they are j a aufhammer w p baker a b crichton g c doering l c dow g b hagstoz c e harri son s m hoyt p j flanigan j h kaufman f d keck c b peck p rauch b h riviere and j j roessle the phi club cup presented to the outstanding freshman in the field of athletics was given to ben bishop w p baker president of the phi club made the award special cups awarded prof h r reiter representing the department of physical educa tion presented cups to the following men for special interest in athlet ics a mestre for fostering inter est in interclass fencing . g me harg for supervising dormitory athletics a t mcelroy for fos tering interfraternity sports and mr r j degray of the chemistry department for conducting red cross activities interfraternity council cups were awarded by f rushong to the championship teams in the various intertraternity sports . basketball sigma nu bridge pi lambda phi pool alpha tau omega bowling phi sigma kappa wrestling alpha tau omega touch football theta xi phi gamma delta pi lambda phi and delta upsilon in their re spective leagues repairs to buildings nearing completion repairs on the cornice of wil liams hall and trie substitution of a hanging gutter for the box gutter will be completed by the end of the month according to a w litzen berger supervising architect the repairs will cost about 2,000 repainting of the interior of christmas-saucon hall begun last week will be finished before june 1 according to mr litzenberger about three quarters of the inter ior of the building is to be repaint ed the cost will be approximately 1,800 mr litzenberger stated honorary society to initiate 13 men formal initiation of 13 new mem bers to pi delta epsilon national honorary journalistic fraternity twii take place preceding the spring banquet of the society sunday eve ning at 7 o'clock in the hotel bethlehem prof c d macdougall of the english department will be the speaker at the dinner which will be given in honor of the new men is well known author the savages solution of adoles cent education will be explained by dr margaret mead noted anthro pologist at 8 o'clock this evening in packard auditorium dr mead has spent much time in the south sea islands studying the social conditions there she is not only a trained field worker in an thropology according to prof per cy hughes head of the department of education but also a person of broad insight and a charming and forceful speaker she is the author of two well known books coming of age in samoa and growing up in new guinea the latter was published last year after dr mead had spent six months of concentrated field work among the primitive peoples on admirality island off new guinea it definitely points out the significance of the savages solution to social problems in relation to our own complex questions whereas her book on samoa makes only cas ual references to the possible bene fits we might gain by observing the rapidly vanishing primitive races her studies have directed special attention to the life and customs of the people and to the develop ment of children particularly adol escents books are popular professor hughes stated that her two books have aroused world-wide interest by the novelty of the ma teral collected and the way in which she has correlated this ma terial with problems in america she is expected to treat her subject tonight in much the same manner that has characterized her books in speaking of her recent work and the importance of anthropology dr mead writes isolated on small pacific islands in dense african jungles or asiatic wastes it is still possible to find untoched societies which have cho sen solutions of life's problems dif ferent from our own which can give us precious evidence on the malleability of human nature such an untouched people are the brown sea-dwelling manus of the admirality islands nofth of new guinea in their vaulted thatched houses set on stilts in the olive green waters of^the wide la goon their lives are lived very much as they have been lived for unknown centuries theirs is es sentially a primitive society with out written records without econo mic dependence upon white culture preserving its own canons its own way of life i made this study of manus edu cation to prove no thesis to sup port no preconceived theories many of the results came as a surprise to me this description of the way a single people dwelling in the shallow lagoons of a distant south sea island prepare their children for life is presented as a picture of human education in miniature its relevance to modern educational in terest is first just as it is such a simplified record in which all ele ments can be readily grasped and understood finally these manus people are interesting to us because the aims and methods of manus society al though primtive are not unlike the aims and methods which may be found in our own immediate his tory dr mead is assistant curator of the ethnology at the american mu seum of natural history she did her work in new guinea as a fel low of the socal science research council her talk tonight is spon sored by the department of educa tion william g wood a mechanical engineering student won first prize of 40 in the freshman oratorical contest wednesday evening mr wood dealt principally with the re lations between united states and nicaraugua he pointed out the people in nicaraugue disregard all laws and that americans there do not receive adequate protection from the natives second prize 15 harold silverstein won the sec ond prize of 15 his topic dealt with the alliance in europe at the present time and he pointed out the great effect that alliances have oh international relations other contestants and their respective rankings were as follows third sidney t e stern fourth irving g schleimer fifth robert f herrick sixth alexander welter jr the men were given topics at 7 p m and were allowed 6"ne hour in which to prepare their speeches the judges were prof c d macdougall dr m j luch si mon deptula prof e h riley and warren fletcher lehigh women's club plans reception may 14 the lehigh women's club will give its annual faculty reception at 8:30 o'clock next thursday evening in drown hall mrs augustus fretz chairman of the reception committee will have charge of the preparations for the reception coming events tonight 8 p m public lecture packard auditorium savage solution of problems of adolescent educa tion by dr margaret mead saturday 3 p m freshman baseball vs la fayette freshmen taylor field 3 p m varsity track vs haver ford upper field sunday 7 p m pi delta epsilon banquet and initiation hotel bethlehem monday 1 30 p m r o t c field day upper field 6:30 p m sigma xi banquet and initiation saucon valley coun try club lehigh receives cleaver books commencement for class of 1931 will be held june 9 program completed approximately 250 members of the class of 1931 will receive diplo mas at the commencement exercis es tuesday june 9 in packard memorial chapel it was learned to day these men remain from the 450 freshmen who enrolled four years ago the commencement week pro gram will open with a meeting of the board of directors of the alum ni association at 12 o'clock friday june 5 and will end with the actual graduation ceremonies at 11 o'clock tuesday june 9 the rt rev frank william ster rett bishop of bethlehem will deliver the baccalaureate sermon sunday morning in the university chapel class day is june 8 class day exercises will be held at 2 o'clock monday june 8 on the university campus at 4 o'clock there will be the president's recep tion in drown hall for members of the graduating class and their fam ilies the trustees alumni faculty and friends of the university the senior ball will be at 9 o'clock monday in drown hall the academic procession from the alumni memorial building will start at 10:45 o'clock tuesday morning and the commencement exercises will begin at 11 o'clock john dewey professor of philoso phy at columbia university will de liver the graduation address the degrees and commissions in the of ficers reserve corps will be award ed by capt p l sadler the complete program follows friday june 5 12:00 m meeting of the board of directors of the alumni associa tion bethlehem club 3:00 p m baseball lehigh vs muhlenberg 7:00 p m alumni dinner hotel bethlehem dinner for the wives of the alumni and of the faculty blue fountain room hotel bethlehem saturday june 6 10:30 a m annual meeting of the alumni association faculty room alumni memorial building 1 00 p m alumni luncheon drown memorial hall and the armory 3:00 p m parade of the reunion classes 3:30 p m baseball lehigh vs lafayette 7:00 p m reunion banquets sunday june 7 10:45 a m academic procession from the alumni memorial build ing 11:00 a m baccalaureate sermon by the rt rev frank william sterret bishop of bethlehem ad mission by ticket until 11 o'clock monday june 8 10:00 a m meeting of the board of trustees alumni memorial build ing 2:00 p m class day exercises uni versity campus 4:00 p m president's reception to the members of flic graduating class and their families the trus tees alumni faculty and friends of the university drown hall 9:00 p m senior ball drown hall tuesday june 9 10:45 a m academic procession from the alumni memorial build ing % 11:00 a m commencement exer cises in packer memorial chapel address by john dewey profes sor of philosophy columbia uni versity conferring of degrees award of commissions in the of ficers reserve corps by capt p l sadler admission by ticket until 11 o'clock ministers to discuss sects in chapel talk religious beliefs will be ex plained by local clergymen two of a series of five chapel talks on religious beliefs of various denominations will be given next monday and tuesday mornings in chapel monday the rev stephen podlusky priest of st nicholas or thodox church will speak tuesday the rev e g n holmes dean of leonard hall will address the stu dents during the past week three talks have been given by preachers rep resenting the catholic baptist and evangelistic churches the follow ing spoke wednesday the rev elmer m stapleton rector of the st simon and jude catholic church friday the rev m e det terline minister of olivet evangel ical church fort speaks at honorary so ciety exercises in chapel seventeen men were tapped by pi mv epsilon national honorary mathematical fraternity yesterday morning in chapel exercises prof tomlinson fort head of the depart ment of mathematics gave a brief talk on the history of the fraternity and stressed the point that the men tapped were chosen not entirely because of merit in mathematical work at school but because they showed promise of developing along mathematical lines in the fu ture men chosen were w c bach man i e 33 c w cooper e.e 33 g w dewees ch e 33 m dresher ch e 33 r h gar rett c e 33 o graziana ch e 33 w b hickman e e 33 g keller m e 33 j w langhaar 1.-e 33 r j meyers eng phys 33 e h poggi jr i e 33 j.c rhoads m e 33 a j rickards ch e 33 mrß uhrich c.e 33 r l willis c e 33 j j grine vich kb 33 j a tempest arts 33 students trained here in library practice the drexel institute library school has sent edith l kuntz and alta s kribel for two weeks prac tice work in the lehfeh library this training is part of their reg ular library course each one has worked one week in the cataloguing department and one week at the loaning desk they have received experience in check ing the receipt of current periodi cals and the making of short biblio graphies phies more than 8,000 earthquakes are recorded every year and between 20,000 and 30,000 escape notice ac cording to data compiled by the de partment of geodesy of the united states coast and geodetic survey of which dr william bowie c e 95 lecturer at lehigh university is chief of staff dr bowie in his annual trip to lehigh last monday and tuesday on isostasy to students in geolo gy and held a round table confer ence with civil engineering students on the work of the coast and geo detic survey in discussing earth movements dr bowie concluded that the unit ed states as a whole is in a high degre of equilibrius after analyz ing all of the suggested causes for earth movements he has come to believe that the most important cause is the result of the transfer of material from one part of the earth to another by running water earth sinks under load dr bowie explained that as the earth sinks beneath the accumulat ing load of sediments there is a pushing jut of plastic material 60 or more miles beneath the surface and an upward motion of the re gion subject to earth tremors he said as the material of any par ticular area is elevated by pressure from below earth quakes occur in the rigid rocks near the surface when the adjustments take place frequently the quakes are of minor character but where they are long delayed the movement is violent dr bowie in his investigations is furnishing quantitative data for the explanation of the uplifts of mountains and continents he does not accept the theory of floating continents dr bowie besides his position with the government has been president of the international geo detic association since 1919 he is also chairman of the division of surveying and mapping of the am erican society of civil engineers he lectures at many universities and writes frequent articles one of his books isostasy being in the lehigh library mrs palmer elected dramatic club head mrs p m palmer was elected president of the faculty dramatic club wednesday evening at a meeting held at the residence of prof r w hall prof a w klein secretary and morris kan aly treasurer were re-elected to their positions mrs palmer suc ceeds a r braunlich of the eng lish department who was president of the society this past year harry crickard haupt eng 34 won the o d k freshman theme contest with the suggestion that a large bulletin board which would contain news of all campus activi ties be erected on the campus the award of a silver loving cup was presented wednesday at the col lege meeting honorable mention was received by the following seven men wil liam h bohning norman a car lile warren w friedel james o fuller harry c martin francis e nemzek and alfred j stand ing the winning theme follows the brown and white an nounces most of the events which take place on the campus but in spite of this many of the stu dents are often unaware of the activities of the school societies or departments sponsoring speeches of general interest ad vertise these events by means of posters these posters however do not often get beyond the bul letin boards of the departments concerned of course the per sons interested will find out about the occasion for themselves but i am not concerned with these persons there are those however who take a genuine interest in attend ing lectures outside of their own sphere as well as those persons who would attend more lectures if they knew when and where they were being held it is incon venient to go from building to building to get information on these subjects this trouble could easily be averted by putting a report of the activities of each department in some easily accessible spot on the campus a large board sim ilar to that situated near coppee hafl but on a larger scale could be used it should be protected from the weather by means of glass or other covering some means of supplying the reports could be decided upon by the various heads of the departments and the reports placed upon the board at a set time each week in this way a condensed report of the activities could be sasily obtaiae,d it would not mean that the boards in each building would be discarded it would mean that the boards of each department could be solely for subjects of in terest to the department while the larger board could be used for topics of interest to the students in general this is of course only a minor point the real pur pose being to supply a condensed report of the acitivities of each week i feel that this alone would be of sufficient value to warrant the erection and use of such a board seniors order gowns more than 150 seniors have or dered their caps and gowns from the university supply bureau ac cording to e h baderschneider manager orders were taken up to noon today the caps and gowns are of the ordinary type that were use last year approximately half of the senior class has filed orders at the supply bureau 1 200 volumes in collection presented to library by estate the library has received a gift of 1,200 volumes from the state of mrs a n cleaver through mrs a c dodson and mrs r r hillman neices of dr william chandler first director of the library the collection has not yet been filed and catalogued but a large number of the books to be classi fied under literature according to howard s leach librarian there are complete sets of stevenson balzac ruskin and meredith the remainder of the literature volumes are one and two-volume editions of dramas and fiction a lehigh university song book which was published in 1918 and is now out of print is in cluded in the collection there are two copies of the history of le high by percy mackaye and two books on the history of bethlehem tower is 85 stories highest skyscraper symbolic of modern american architecture it was the fine spirit of cooper ation among the workers which made the erection of the empire state building a record-breaking ac complishment aubrey weymouth 94 chief engineer on the steel con struction work told 400 persons who attended the meeting of the civil engineering society last eve ning in packard auditorium it's a noble monument dedicated to the spirit of cooperation and team work he declared in speak ing of the 85 story mammoth struc ture it has been named the most beautiful building constructed dur ing the year and represents in its architectural features a type which is truly american and quite as symbolic of this age as the greek architecture was of its civilization is lehigh graduate mr weymouth is vice president and chief engineer of post and mc cord inc and has been associated with that firm during the construc tion of such buildings as the chrys ler irving trust western union chase national bank ritz tower hotel pennsylvania and many oth ers he graduated from lehigh as a civil engineer in 1894 his first position with post and mccord was chief draftsman on the con struction of the waldorf-astoria hotel which was razed to make way for the empire state building i am proud to know he said that i am one of the few men who have worked on two such outstanding buildings constructed on the same site enough steel was used in the skyscraper to make a three track railroad from bethlehem to new york that is over 58,000 tons were needed the building proper reach es 1043 feet above the curb and the apex of the mooring mast is 200 feet higher the great struc ture weighs approximately 300,000 tons and rests on a 84,000 square foot site which cost 200 per square foot mr weymouth stated erected in six months the steel construction was erect ed in less than six months three drafting rooms and three steel shops were kept constantly busy as there was no room on the site to store materials and they had to be deliv ered as needed the owners of the building have consented to allow the construction companies to use the skyscraper as an experimental lab oratory to investigate the effect of wind pressure on high towers a sway in the tower of one quarter of an inch can be detected the workers got much thrill and joy out of the work mr weymouth believes they constantly kept in mind the inspiring magnitude of the construction and entered into the spirit of the job slogan a story a day mr weymuth who was intro duced by prof hale sutherland head of the civil engineering depart ment was vice president of the alumni association in 1919 elected president in 1922 and has been an alumnus trustee of the university since 1922 ntw officers for the civil engin eering society were announced as follows c h robson president j p antioniotti vice president r i fluck secretary j d st|achan treasurer freshman surveying camps to open june 1 assignments will be posted soon men to form parties all freshman engineers except those who have elected chemical engineering or chemistry must reg ister on the morning of june 1 at either shawnee or mineola survey ing camps assignments to camps will be posted soon on the bulletin board in packard hall prof s a becker of the civil engineering de partment has announced students should arrange parties of six men and report their names to professor becker as soon as pos sible he requested the men in these parties will be allowed to live and work together all of these students will take the course in to pographic surveying men who have elected civil or mining engin eering are required to take in ad dition a course in railroad survey ing mineola camp is located on lake mineola brodheadsville and shaw nee is on lake shawnee shawnee on-delaware students must provide their own transportation to these points professor becker said brown and white bethlehem pa friday may 8 1931 empire builder cooperation vital weymouth says vol xxxiii no 54 250 to receive lehigh diplomas at graduation mead to explain savages answer to sex problems dean receives prom report lehigh military unit schedules annual field day price — five cents baldwin elected president of union at college meeting noted anthropologist will discuss adoles cent education r.o.t.c students will vie for honors on up per field monday tank to participate member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first