Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 55

              langhaar leads class in comprehensives bethlehem pa tuesday may 12 1931 receives grade of 78.8 percent class aver age is 48 lowest man gets 28 o d k requests points dr mead discusses prob lems of youth in samoa epitome wants men associate dean lists stu dents eligible for dip lomas in june one mechanical named competitions held to de termine efficient mili tary groups prizes are awarded genius discouraged all juniors interested in elec tion to omicron delta kappa are requested to hand their points in to robert baird at the delta phi house or to carl claus at the delta upsilon house before thursday night major l men to vote on award all freshmen interested in the epitome editorial board compe tition should report at 7:30 o'clock wednesday evening to the epitome room on the second floor of drown hall men desir ing to enter the competition for art editor of the epitome should get in touch with e b hildum at the delta upsilon house intolerance hit by macdougall french kellner and kaufmann approved as varsity managers the alumni association will give a smoker thursday evening at the bethlehem club to the members of the senior class talks about the alumni activities will be given by walter r okeson treasurer of the university and an drew e buchanan secretary of the alumni association e francis evers president of the class of 31 will speak on behalf of the seniors the main purpose of the smoker is to form the class of 31 into a permanent organization as has been done in the past an execu tive committee and class officers for the coming year will be elected after the meeting social func tions will be held all seniors are invited to attend pi delta epsilon elects officers at initiation banquet sigma xi holds annual banquet research fraternity ini tiates members of fac ulty at dinner john langhaar i e 33 receiv ing a grade of 78.87 percent in the sophomore comprehensives was the highest man of the 143 sophomore engineers who took the examina tion the lowest student made a grade of 28 percent and the average is 48 percent approximately although exact statistics have not been compiled as yet it is believed that the civil engineering students made the best average grade there were 80 questions given on this year's comprehensives includ ing ten from each of the eight engineering curricula the majority of the questions concerned mathe matics physics and chemistry and they were compiled from a list of questions which were submitted by the various departments prior to their incorporation into the exam ination general statement unavailable according to professor larkin he is not prepared to make a gen eral statement about the results of the comprehensives until more com plete statistics have been compiled professor larkin who believes that comprehensives are very worth while to the student states that the committee on sophomore compre hensives will have to make a de tailed study of the papers before they will be able to state whether or not some of the low marks are a result of the difficulty of the ex amniation or whether the students are at fault professor larkin stated that there are two main reasons for giv ing the sophomore comprehensives one is to help engineering teach ing and to bring out a better con ception as to the ability of the stu dent and the other being to meas ure the respective capacities of dif ferent students as applied to a uni form test wright cites vergil's aeneid latin professor addresses 1 500 students at newark school the annual initiation and ban quet of sigma xi honorary re search fraternity was held last night at the saucon valley coun try club with 71 members present prof stanley thomas spoke on impressions of england gained from his recent tour of that coun try dr c c bidwell president of the society gave a brief resume of the work done by each of the newly members of the faculty who were initiated members of the faculty initiated into the society are g f beal w e harvey t h hazle hurst jr e just f j trembly and l whitcomb frank l beal a graduate of the university of michigan was also initiated by the lehigh chapter mr beal was recently elected to membershi pby the michigan chap ter of the fraternity other members of the faculty who were initiated to associate membership are g l bull f b buie w s mccarter j l myer and l c shugart new officers of the society elect ed for the coming year are tom linson fort president gilbert e doan vice president max peter son secretary and cyril d jen sen treasurer students plan for new policy astronomy group to spend weekly hour in obser vatory intolerance based on ignorance and fear can best be dispelled by liberal thought under the natural leadership of college men stated prof c d macdougall of the journalism department speaking at the initiation banquet of pi delta epsilon national journalistic hon orary last sunday evening at the hotel bethlehem the 13 men tapped april 21 in chapel were initiated and officers for the coming year were elected following the initiation they are r c benson president r k serf ass vice president c f hull secretary and william arthur treasurer no action was taken on a report of the committee on the proposed consolidation of the review brown and white and burr a e buch anan executive secretary of the alumni association and d h gramley instructor in journalism spoke briefly ideas discussed a fair chance for minority ideas and better opportunities for ex pression in art literature and jour nalism according to professor mcdougall are to be desired to day when intolerance is evidenced by suppression through blue laws aud censorship and by misrepresen tation through misconstruing and deliberate fabrication tolerance has however developed since the days of religious wars and perse cutions said the speaker as he outlined the part of prejudice in his tory the initiates are r k serf ass g j beinfang w l arthur c r giegerich c f hull r h rar ing j b rather h b osborn w h spath c e green w m eyster e b hildum and r e imhof members of faculty announced engaged head of mathematics department and biology instructor betrothed the engagements of two mem bers of the faculty those of dr tomlinson fort and francis j trembley were announced within the past week mr and mrs j w scott an nounced the engagement of their daughter miss madaline kean scott to dr tomlinson fort miss scott teaches music at bishopthorpe manor dr fort came to lehigh in 1927 as head of the mathematics department the announcement of the engage ment of miss isabelle boone as sistant cataloguer at the university library to francis j trembley instructor in the biology depart ment was announced sunday eve ning at the home of michael a far rell miss boone is the daughter of mr and mrs charles p boone and is a graduate of wilson col lege they will be married june 20 and will live in bethlehem scholarship offered a scholarship for seniors inter ested in christian leadership and possessing scholastic ability has been offered to the university by the biblical seminary in new york all major l men in school will be asked within the next week by the board of control of athletics to give their views on the question of whether or not lehigh should adopt a standard or uniform letter award for all sports it was decided yes terday afternoon at a meeting of the board in drown hall according to jack petrikin grad uate manager of athletics many schools are adopting uniform let ter awards and find that it is a more desirable method of reward ing school athletes the board will probably send letters to all major lettermen asking for their vote on the question before school closes next week arcadia recently tabled a sugges tion by the new york alumni club that all distinction between major and minor letters be abolished ' managers elected f french was elected varsity wrestling manager t r kellner was elected varsity soccer manag er and e w kaufman was elect ed manager of varsity swimming at the meeting f delano and j j mcgovern were elected assistant managers of wrestling m graham was elected manager of freshman wrestling s m hoyt and r e bangsberg were elected assistant managers of swimming and w j jackel was elected manager of freshman swimming harry walker eastern intercol legiate breast-stroke champion was awarded a major l a.l thorne carl f hull and w f casselman were awarded cheerleader's insig nia the entrance of lehigh into the middle atlantic intercollegiate soc cer league composed of princeton cornell swarthmore pennsylvania haverford and lehigh was ap proved wrestlers to meet v.m.i lehigh will not meet columbia in wrestling next year this iteam will be replaced by the virginia military institute which has one of the strongest teams in the south the following varsity schedule was approved continued on page four e e society to meet the electrical engineering so ciety will elect officers for next year at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening in room 416 packard laboratory james f miller 31 will deliver a paper on developments in the electrical industry in 1930 ac companied by illustrative movies james m bisbee 31 will deliver a similar paper on the history of the electrical industry jay b spensler will present a paper lightning arresters refresh ments will be served in room 214 after the meeting adolescence is a painless period of growth in new guinea and sa moa dr margaret mead told a large audience last friday evening in packard laboratory when she lectured on savage solutions of adolescent education in samoa the field of her studies was problems of adolescence miss mead states that children begin to work at three years of age but nev er very hard and as they grow older there is a steady improve ment in their social status and an easing in their economic burdens consequently there is no stress at the age of adolescence on the other hand in new guilea where dr mead also has lived there is found the community whose people live under great economic stress depending on the fish they catch for their livelihood here things are managed in a way oppo site to that which prevails in sa moa children are allowed to live ir responsible lives until they are mar ried to someone who has been chos en for them many years before then they must begfh a life of ar duous labor to pay the riebt incur red by their marriage the labor greatly shortens lives in which there is no affection the wife is simply a business partner in a desperate economic struggle originality discouraged genius and originality are dis couraged in both communities dr mead stated the two communities are alike however in the absence of what we call romance and also in the denial to the individual of freedom of choice in matters such as marriage religion and voca tion without written traditions they are bound to customs that must be followed strictly or the community would dissolve dr mead made amusing comparisons between the insolence and irrespon sibility of youth among the manus and that which prevails among young people of this country espe cially of college fraternities following the lecture dr mead answered several questions directed to her the questions concerned the absence of marital jealousy among the two peoples which miss mead described but it is impos sible to generalize for primitive peoples she said since it is the absence of common tradition which is their salient feature dr mead was introduced by dr herbert m diamond chairman of the faculty committee on lectures unfortunately dr mead was forc ed to remain in a clfair during her lecture as an injury to her leg forc ed her to remain sitting she is the author of two famous books which have attracted worm-wide attention coming of age in samoa and growing up in new guinea council admits alpha kappa pi national fraternity successfully petitions interfraternity group vergil's chief purpose in writing the aeneid was to glorify the character of augustus and to praise the fallen republic according to prof h w wright head of the department of latin in his lecture aeneas in italy which he deliver ed thursday before 1500 teachers and students of the south side high school in newark n j in describing the character of aeneas a mythical ancestor of augustus vergil gave aeneas nu merous similar traits of character to those of augustus and thus de veloped a similar character as he went along after all said profes sor wriglit the biggest thing that vergil did in his aeneid was to glorify rome itself in its union with italy by the story of the mythical ancestors of augustus and by bringing in the fate of the founding of rome and the rule of augustus the lecture was illustrated with 55 slides of places in italy which figured in the story professor wright took these pictures person ally during his last trip to italy prof charles bidwell shows features of new television set a new policy has been proposed by the department of mathematics in the course known as astronomy 2 or general astronomy offered as an elective for juniors and seniors the new plan makes provision for one hour every week at the obser vatory for which scholastic credit is given this observatory period will be devoted to viewing the prin cipal celestial objects making drawings mapping star groups de termining the correct time one hour each week will be known as conference period utiliz ed in preparation for the observa tory work according to john h ogburn professor of mathematics and astronomy the formal recita tion period will include the study of the arrangement of the solar system from the sun outward to the new planet pluto four billions of miles distant how it works and why the study of the stars in their courses and the methods of deter mining the limit of the universe will be studied collins re-elected eta sigma phi head arts freshmen to be guests of society tomorrow evening edgar a collins arts 32 was unanimously re-elected president of eta sigma phi honorary classical fraternity at a recent meeting other officers elected are sid ney l lancit 33 vice president benjamin slade 33 corresponding secretary john j magyar 32 re cording secretary martin m reed jr 33 treasurer and george s bowden 34 sergeant at arms the last meeting of the society for the year will be held at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening at the home of prof h w wright members of the society will be the hosts to the arts freshmen who will be eligible for membership next year dorm drawing saturday the drawing for dormitory rooms will be held on ffiday may 15 at 4 o'clock in drown memorial hall f r ashbaugh bursar coming events the petition of nu chapter of alpha kappa pi national social fraternity for admission to the in terfraternity council was accepted by the council last night alpha kappa pi was formerly a living group known as howard hall they successfully petitioned alpha kap pa pi for admission in february 1930 and became nu chapter of that fraternity the group became a junior member of the national in terfraternity council in february 1931 this was the second petition since becoming a national organiza tion the tie election between george riley and arthur rohrs for vice president of the council was settled in riley's favor by the flip of a coin the new executive commit tee elected was p b myers h j forsyth g e brumbach and j g mcmullen the treasurer's re port showed a balance of 600.00 this fund is to be donated to some worthy cause in keeping with the constitution of the council robert c clark president of the interfraternity council announced that the rushing rules will be distri buted soon there has been no change in the make-up of the rules wednesday may 13 7:30 p m pre-legal society meet ing room 46 packard labora tory thursday may 14 3:30 p m meeting of r w hall pre-medical society in williams hall election of officers 8:30 p m lehigh university fat uity woman's club reception drown hall friday may is 4 p m varsity tennis vs dart mouth lehigh courts 5 p m opening session of the bach festival packer memorial church wolle director for 25th annual festival honor ing noted composer trombone choir plays large audience of music crit ics expected at affair with an audience that will great ly outnumber the seating capacity of packer memorial chapel and compel the remainder to find seats within hearing distance a chorus of 17 trombonists will usher in the twenty-fifth celebration of the an nual bach festival under the di rection of dr j fred wolle which will be held friday and saturday may is and 16 since 1912 this festival has been held on the lehigh campus music lovers and famous critics travel from far and near to hear the can tatas of bach as in the past there will not be enough seats within the chapel to accommodate all who wish to attend many will have to listen to the festival from the near by parts of the campus after many difficulties dr wolle organized a group of singers to give the first complete rendition of the festival in america on march 27 1900 this choir had sung the st john's passion in june 1888 it was at that time that dr wolle returning from his studies under rheinberger in germany became enthusiastic on the work of the master of the masters he be came conductor of the choral un ion bethlehem's big choir of that day numbering 115 members twelve years later the rendition of the mass in b minor was first given in its entirety in the united states nine cantatas friday the festival this year will open with two sessions on friday nine cantatas in all will be sung with ernestine hohl eberhard sopra no mabel beddoe alto arthur kraft tenor and charles trow bridge tittmann bass as the solo ists one of the most impressive features of the friday session is the singing by the entire audience of ancient hymns of the church at two sessions saturday after noon beginning at 2:30 and 5 p m the mass in b minor the consummation of the entire festival will be rendered for the twenty fifth time by the bethlehem bach choir esther dale soprano amy ellerman alto arthur hacket ten or and charles trowbridge titt mann bass will be the soloists it is expected that among the many persons socially and musically prominent who will attend the fes tival will be mrs theodore roose velt who has missed few of the festivals since 1900 the following is the program for the two days of the festival friday may 15 4:30 p m trombone choir 5 p m cantatas o god from heaven look below we thank thee o god we thank thee see now what great affection praise ye the lord o my spirit 8:30 p m trombone choir 9 p m cantatas there is naught of soundness in all my body through great tribulation we enter the kingdom of god o jesus christ light of my life to this end appeared the son of god god's peace be with you all saturday may 16 mass in b minor 2:30 p m kyrie and gloria 5 p m credo engineering society honors w e harvey lehigh professor elected to a s t executive committee wilber e harvey assistant pro fessor of metallurgy was elected to the executive committee of the le high valley section of the ameri can society for steel treating at a meeting held recently in reading professor harvey was recently elected an active member of sigma xi he is also a member of the le high valley engineer's club grad uated in 1927 from lehigh univer sity with the degree of metallurgi cal engineer he was stationed at the naval testing laboratory annapolis md he returned to lehigh and re ceived his masters degree in 1930 while working for his master's degree professor harvey wrote several papers on corrosion fatigue his paper zinc as a protective coating against corrosion fatigue of steel which appeared in the april issue of metals and alloys created a sensation among men working in the field of fatigue and fatigue stress and was highly com plimented by the magazine itself in an advance print sent out to en gineers a regimental review on the up per field brought the annual r o t c field day to a close yester day afternoon led by the university band the companies marched past the stand and were reviewed by the men who have completed the advanced cours es in military science and tactics and the men who were chosen to receive honors for their work in the past year bhese last evolutions marked the dismissal of the students from military drill until next year at 1:30 the companies formed on the upper field and participated in company drill after their exhibi tion all except two crack platoons stacked arms and found seats in the grandstand the platoon competi tion consisted of manual of arms close order drill and extended or der drill the judges decided that the best drilled platoon was the one representing company f un der the leadership of phillip w regar the manual of arms competition was won by bradford c lynch the competition took place be tween three picked men from each company and the snap and deci sion with which they handled their rifles necessitated a close decision by the judges as to the winner hold equipment race one of the most amusing events of the afternoon was the equipment race the men participating strip ped to the waist and the clothes were thrown on a heap each man made a mad scramble for his clothes and as long as he could not find his own he was at liberty to throw away his neighbor's as far as possible richard a lodge fi nally managed to don his equip ment first a sham battle between the ma chine guns and 37-mm guns on one side and the army tank mounting a 37-mm gun followed the tank did not come dawn on the field but maneuvered on the road behind the fence in this rather accurate por trayal of war-time conditions the tank was for some unknown reason finally forced to hoist the white flag the r o t c students in the grandstand entered into the spi rit of the combat and started a miniature war huge clumps of grass with clots of mud were used as bombs and deposited forcefully on the heads of the unfortunate ones on the lower seats it seemed very amusing to all except those who happened to receive one of these missies on the back of his neck a free-for-all seemed to be imminent but the officers quelled the upris ing with a firm hand presentation of honors for the year followed a cup and three stream ers for the best drilled company during the year was presented by colonel thomlinson to company b the american legion cup and two streamers for the best shoot ing company in the annual com petition was presented by r r lyner commander of the bethle hem post of the american legion to john m hazen team captain of company"c captain j r wood of philadelphia a friend of captain whitten presented the captain r q whitten memorial cup for the freshman sophomore shooting competition to john m hazen the sophomore team captain the minus-nine cup for the marks man who placed the least number of shots outside the nine ring in competition was presented by co lonel thomlinson to william van kirk arts 33 gus concilio com mander of the veterans of foreign wars presented the veterans of foreign wars cup to jerome e hirtle e e 34 richards gives awards president c r richards pre sented the following awards scab bard and blade cup and one stream er for the best drilled company on field day to company f the moss cup to robert f gadd jr m e 32 manual of arms competi tion b c lynch gold medal d strachan silver medal varsity rifle team awards gold medals robert f gadd jr charles a jeanson william k van kirk john m hazen jerome e hirtle silver medals oliver g lewis olaf otto richard c ruhf karl r schneck william k laird bronze medals austin k long victor b hertlet ralph h fred erick richard n lindabury wil liam b learned joseph j bosak charles r howitz clifford k okuno horace e britton wilson s kistler awards were made to the follow ing men for excellence in class work and general value to the unit second year advanced course in continued on page four plate is another disc of identical size and shape both discs have the same number of apertures and are synchronized on one drive shaft in this experiment the object whose image is transmitted is placed be tween the first revolving disc and the photo-electric cell the outline of the object will appear on the large metalic plate of the neon tube the person viewing the trans mitted picture looks through the small pin holes of the second disc and notes the outline the holes are arranged in a spiral so that they will cover the entire area of the pictur eto be transmitted in one revolution the photo-electric cell is extremely sensitive a flash of light against it will produce a cur rent the minute the light vanishes the current vanishes now the question is asked what holds television from commercial use one of the main objections is the fact that the two discs cannot be synchronized properly the picture will be distorted unless the holes of one disc match perfectly with the holes of the second disc to transmit pictures a long dis tance it would be impossible to have them conected to^the same drive shaft however synchronized motors connected to the same pow er station will remain in step and it is hoped that these stations will be placed about the country the dark sparkling eyes of prof charles c bidwell head of the physics department and a former profesor at cornell glistened sat urday morning as he addressed a group of freshmen engineers in a darkened lecture room in the phy sics building he was demonstrat ing to them the essential features of a new television set in conjunc tion with mr rodgers an assistant who had arranged the hookup and prepared it for demonstration mr bidwell put the sensitive instrument into operation the television set consists of an intensive light source directed up on a revolving disc which has pin hole apertures arranged in a spiral around the periphery 48 in num ber directly in back of the disc is a sensitive photo-electric cell which picks up the rays of light as they pass through the small holes in the high speed disc the light rays cause a current to flow through the diminutive cell the strength of which is four tenths of a microam pere 0000004 of an ampere an amplifier connected to the cell in creases the current many times and is so arranged that it can be varied from there it is relayed to a neon tube with a large metalic plate when a current flows the plate of the tube glows brightly directly in front of the neon one hundred sixty-three senidrs are clear for graduation upon satis factory completion of this semes ter's work according to the report issued saturday by g b curtis associate dean and registrar the list of those clear includes 75 en gineers only one mechanical en gineer is listed the following are clear for grad uation arts and science william gaston alcorn revere beasley lean berg charles justus bishop maurice stanley bogart james daskin boyd jr lester james daskin boyd jr jesse bay liss bronstein jr lester canton max carlin leslie cohn nachman davidson monroe manning edel stein theodore george ehrsam jr richard jenkinson essick daniel solinger ettlinger anderson force evans michael friedman clyde albert harding seymour paul jaslow irving koondel jacob joel levy charles raymond lowen stein hyman mayer jerome may er edward clark mcconnell john george meharg malcolm thomas metzger harry cyril meyers jr harry miller frederick henry morhart francis neuwirth louis posnak richard rogers robinson harold benjamin saler irving schaffer samuel richards shipley francis shoemaker elias allie sin del sydney raymond snitkin les lie milford sobo joseph probst stroman theodore homer swan erwin frederic underwood rich ard weston vannatta frank read veale jr moses richard waltman frederick nathaniel zabriskie ro bert zoble . business administration charles augustus austin thom as ayre jr william young brady jr herbert hertgen busch rob ert sterrett chess jr charles ho race cleaveland william james clegg stephen hobart condit kenneth eugene eldred robert barnard engleman everett arm strong fay charles otto frederick jr bertram jacob friedman sam uel harry gooeknan david james grubbe jacob henry haldeman louis b g hamburger james hel ler russel eugene hoaster cal vin brewer huntoon henry brill jaggard daniel pierson johnson gilbert westmore king samuel henry landy thomas richard lewis john william macartney jr streckfus william manning fraz ier lewis o'leary jr auranus miles oppenheim herbert mervin perlmutter lucien henry platt clinton draper rankin arthur alan sullivan gibson dunlop tay lor harry louis thompson george boyer turn walter burgess war ren jr ellis wein donald elver son wilkinson howard dalton wood chemical engineering harry andrews jr albert camp bell baur george ellsworth coo iper elmer benjamin cyphers james neal dow frank barnard freese samuel lindsay hall the odore phillip hindson charles august jeanson 111 william fish er mcgarrity john clewell mertz leon sylvester millelot allen ese keil myra rufus llewellyn sav age jr robert tilton sheen har old edwin sincock robert clifford smith jr walter john thomlin son jr walter august wach holtz civil engineering milton alver briggs dexter bullard howard edward datwyl er benjamin miller davis william oliver engle howard becker grimes lester earl jordon wil son goodwin klein alexander thomas mcelroy robert motion edward henry savastio george richard shoemaker walter abram swanger edward vernon twig gar norton charles wilde electrical engineering frederick henry altland paul albert bahr wilfred george beard leroy stanley billman james mc vey bisbee jay harold boltz george mullen cooper elmer charles easton stephen lincoln gregg joseph jeffries jr ansley lewis kime milton paul latsha robert james lincoln ernest hen ry noedel charles arthur rosen crans paul wesley seal raymond eugene snyder edward preston sordon robert arthur sylvester weston wightman valentine louis raymond wanner theodore al len wolfe engineering physics samuel challes coroniti john ed win freehafer harry charles kel ly alf malmros industrial enginering ernest jesse cresswell george f motter paul john weimar robert curtis yocum continued on page four vol xxxiii no yjt alumni to hold senior smoker curtis reports 163 men clear for graduation adolescence is period of ease lecturer avers graduating class will be en tertained at bethlehem club brown and white price — five cents bach celebration will begin friday review closes annual field day for r.o.t.c unit exam date changed the examination for competi tors for brown and white posi tions will be held at 4 p m thursday in the journalism lab oratory the examination was previously scheduled for 4 p.m wednesday member intercollegiate newspaper association i all the lehigh news first