Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 56

              claus elected as chair man o f executive committee 3 graduates speak appoints cabinet the 16 senior cabinet officers appointed by the lehigh union wednesday evening are ray mond k serfass john e an gle james e maharay ray g shankweiler william j jackel william c simpson charles e marks carl r giegerich al len t ware philip b myers henry h fryling william o roth edward w voit robert j wilson rudolph e imhof and louis l brennesholtz senior honorary proposes the reorganization of arcadia suggests union go plan calls for abolition of in terfraternity council and cyanide % booker elected glee club president witemeyer named publicity director journalism men will edit paper 20 students to publish al lentown morning call faculty members sing in bach choir ' several of the member of the faculty and their wives and one student sing in the bach choir today and tomorrow they are arthur w klein professor of mechanical engineering milton c stuart professor of experi mental mechanical engineering and richard m degray instruc tor in chemistry who will sing first bass john sickels e e 34 sings first tenor and mrs edgar shields and mrs richard m degray sing first alto julian booker bus 32 was elected president of the glee club for next year last evening b d witemeyer ch e 32 was elected manager and publicity director s d allison bus 31 retiring manager of the musical clubs in a verbal financial statement reported a profit of 115 this year this sum with the 750 from the activities fees will give a greater opoprtunity for trips next year julian booker was elected leader of the band harry osborne ch e 32 and stuart hoyt bus 33 were elected manager and librarian respectively at a recent meeting . underwood head of e e society gallery exhibit to open may 15 four of lehigh staff to leave all will study for doc tors degrees at var ious schools club elects new officers papers presented at meeting water colors by amer ican artists will be shown in library , fifty members of the class oi 1931 gathered last night at the bethlehem club and after electing an executive committee a class cor respondent and discussing several matters of class business listened to a c dodson 00 a e buch anan jr.f 18 and walter r oke son 96 tell about the organization and aims of the alumni association after the meeting the class was the guest of the alumni association at a typical dutch lunch the following men were elected unanimously to the executive com mittee cad o claus jr chairman harry andrews jr robert l baird jr john d benedict e francis evers ex officio samuel c ful ler and harry w ruggles jr ar thur w thornton was elected class correspondent it was agreed to assess every member of the class seventy-five cents to cover the cost of a bronze tablet for the chapel it was also agreed that instead of giving the university a class gift the class should attempt to enroll its entire membership in the alumni associa tion before june 9 a large special committee of the class will solicit memberships until university day sheridan favors equaling sports holds same idea since a writer on local paper improvements to campus proper ty to be made during the summer months will complete the present plans for reconstruction and reno vation according to a statement is sued by dr c r richards pres ident of the university the greatest project the widen ing and repaying of roads on the lower campus will be completed before next fall the main road into sayre park will also be widen ed and repaved as far as the fork in front of the phi gamma delta house this wwill be practically complete the repaying of the road in the lower part of the campus the work was started last summer and considerable amount of work was done the improved roads will average 27 feet in width and 10 inches in thickness cost 1.75 per square yard and according to the contractors will last 20 years tarvia roads chosen the university chose the new type of roads in preference to the concrete for the reason that on side of south mountain tarvia will of fer better traction for automobiles when the roads are icy also this black type of road looks better in a forest setting such as we have here mr litzenberger explained the terrace at the north side of drown hall ¦ will be repaved and the stone railings reinforced with concrete improvements ¦' on university buildings will include the installa tion of new heating and ventilating equipment in the chemistry build ing williams hall and packer hall the entire plumbing system of the chemistry building will be renewed and new floors will be laid in the laboratories improvements in plumbing will also be made in tay igr gymnasium where the shower baths will be renovated acoustics altered an attempt will be made to im prove the acoustic properties of the chapel the auditorium in packard laboratory and several lecture rooms in christmas saucon hall at this time the interior of the chapel will be redecorated dr richards stated that the avail able funds will put all of the older buildings of the campus in good condition and that any repairs made after this summer will be merely for maintenance r c smith awarded research fellowship robert c smith ch e 31 has been awarded one of ten competi tive research fellowships at the carnegie institute of technology for graduate work in the depart ment of mining and metallurgy conducted in cooperation with the united states bureau of mines the fellowship is worth 750 for ten months research and leads to the master's degree at the expiration of the period to be entertained members of the lehigh faculty and their wives will be the guests of the faculty of moravian college and seminary for women and mo ravian college and theological sem inary for men at a reception to be held from 4 to 6 p m may 20 at the moravian seminary on church street the band of the moravian colleges will play at the affair which is in the nature of a general get-together l f underwood 32 was elect ed president of the electrical en gineering society wednesday eve ning at a meeting in packard lab oratory otl^er officers elected were j d brown vice president c w banks secretary g m kaleda treasurer james f miller 31 presented a paper on developments in the electrical industry in 1930 he traced the advances made by elec trical engineers in the past year and showed how these advances have helped industry and com merce papers read james m bisbee 31 delivered another paper on the history of the electrical industry b spons ler 31 and c a rosecrans 31 performed several interesting exper iments with lighting arresters they showed the way in which the bolt of lightning is conducted through the arrester to the ground i believe that student societies are one of the most important forms of college activities stated professor hibshman who was named councillor of the society college sports are becoming more and more professionalized but stu den societies will always remain in the control of those who are inter ested in their college work after the meeting refreshments were served and the time was spent in social functions tau beta pi elects j e angle president officers selected by society at final meeting of year j e angle met.e 32 was elect ed president of the lehigh chapter of tau beta pi national honorary engineering society at its last meet ing of the year wednesday eve ning other seniors were elected as follows r x serf ass i e vice president t k kellner c e corresponding secretary w k griesinger ch e recording sec retary h h fryling i e treas urer a g rohrs i e catalog uer - an innovation in journalistic circles at lehigh will take place monday when approximately 20 journalism students will edit the may 19 issue of the allentown morning call the edition will be in charge of the four seniors majoring in jour nalism who will do this work as part of their final comprehensive examination william e hoyer will serve as city editor william v port feature editor frederick h morhart sporting editor and ken neth k kost telegraph editor three more brown and white men have been added to the list published recently in the brown and white robert h raring editor ial manager of the brown and white will act in the same capa city for the morning call he will take the place of james s little who was formerly assigned to that position william wood will help charles a milson edit the city of bethlehem easton page matthew thomlinson brown and white li brarian will have charge of the al lentown morning call's morgue for the tuesday issue lehigh page feature the paper will be edited in the call style and will not contain-any radical changes except an extra feature page containing a few cuts of journalism students and a group picture of the brown and white board at present the editors are pre paring a date book so that they will be able to issue the proper as signments to the reporters the editors will report to the call of fice at noon but the reporters will not arrive until six o'clock that evening all the news will be ob tained and written before midnight as the paper goes to press at one o'clock most of the editors have gone to the call's office and have watched them edit the paper some of the reporters have gone along with the regular reporters so that they will be familiar with the beats lehigh review appears may 18 four members of the english de partment will not return to lehigh next year according to prof r m smith head of the department of english all of these men are leav ing to take studies leading to the ph d degree four instructors and one assistant have been appointed to fill the places left vacant one of the instructors and the assistant are lehigh men c d macdougall assistant pro fessor of journalism will study for the ph d degree at the university of wisconsin while at wisconsin professor macdougall will serve as assistant in journalism g a finch instructor in english will serve as part time assistant in english at new york university while taking work leading to the ph d degree a r braunlich instructor in eng lish will take work leading to the ph d degree at columbia r b parks instructor in english will work for a doctor's degree at the university of michigan j b severs former instructor in english will return from yale after what professor smith char acterized as a very brilliant year of study in which he made some important discoveries in chaucer research other appointments in the grade of instructor include charles w phy graduate of wesleyan uni versity m a from university of pennsylvania arthur p helms b a lehigh 30 m a columbia and cedric gale graduate and m a from new york university ken neth k kost 31 has been appoint ed assistant in journalism professor smith will serve as vis iting professor of english this summer at northwestern univer sity summer school he will teach courses in shakespeare and literary criticism e r theis measures \ activity of pepsin a physico-chemical method of measuring the activity of pepsin is the title of a research paper pre pared by dr edwin r theis of the department of chemistry which appeared in the april 1931 issue of the journal of the american phar maceutical association an exhibition of water colors by contemparary american artists will open may 15 in the art gallery of the university library the paint ings can be viewed from 10 a m to 5 p m may 15 and 16 there are about 40 water colors in all painted by well known artists the paintings are distinctly modern with varied subject matter how ever the majority of the paintings are sea views several well known painters whose works are to be exhibited are john f carlson chauncey ry der and eugene higgins the ex hibition contains three of the wa ter colors of john f carlson and two of the works of chaucey ry der a peculiar feature of this ex hibit is the fact that the best wa ter colors in the exhibit are paint ed by lesser known artists arizona exhibited the most striking water color said garth a howland assistant professor of fine arts is arizona by einil j bistran this painting portrays the idealized landscape of that beautiful state professor how land also stated that the most un usual work is the water color by birger sandzen called birches by flic sea in this picture the bril liant colors combined with the bold treatment of material make the re sult most unusual and effective eugene higgin's last of the vestrisj is probably the most real istic work of the exhibition this picture portrays a shipwreck scene with the prisoners clamoring and climbing for safety this work re minds one of the gericaulth paint ing of the raft of medusa professor howland announced that there would also be a group of portraits done in oil by edwin early brother-in-law of joseph max andress instructor of electrical engineering exhibited with the wa ter colors » dr r c bull honored dr r c bull director of the student's health service served on the clinical problems committee of the national conference on college hygiene may 5-9 at syracuse uni versity summer edition has new de partments board meeting monday arcadia may refuse to vote on the question the board of control may refer it to the major l wear ers but there is one man at le high who holds a definite opinion as to whether or not there should be a distinction between major and minor sports he is wrestling coach billy sheridan most popular of lehigh athletic supervisors and his answer is an emphatic no and it has been no for some time as the following article writ ten while he was a sports writer on the bethlehem times illustrates the date of the article is june 13 1925 major and minor sports the distinction that colleges preparatory schools and high schools place on the various sports by designating same as major and others as minor sports is no doubt the result of the popular demand those who participate in the sports that are known as minor feel that the distinction in unfair they claim that a sport that is worth recognition should be rated in the same class as any other sport and they also claim that the distinction makes men who are good at a sport that is in the minor class give up the sport in an effort to get their letter in a major sport that they are not suited for no doubt there is considerable truth in this claim and the general standard of all-around athletic excellence is bound to suf fer accordingly in any institution where there are two different stan dards the average football and base ball enthusiasts will regard this claim as presumptious on the part of the devotees of minor sports claiming that the general public in terest is the main factor to be con continued on page four lehigh receives new volumes r l raeder 72 presents 59 books to university mo r a v ian trombonists open 25th affair hon oring composer 228 voices in chorus celebrities attend gatherings today and tomorrow in chapel music lovers from all parts of the country are flocking to pack er memorial chapel this week-end for the twenty-fifth observance of the annual bach festival held today and tomorrow the famous choir of 228 voices will be directed by dr fred wolle acknowledged author ity of the music of johann sebas tian bach a trombone choir placed in the belfry of the chapel opened the fes tival this afternoon the choir sang four cantatas directed by dr wol le o god from heaven look be low we thank thee o god we thank thee see now what great affection and praise ye the lord o my spirit the sojo parts were sung by ernestine hohl eberhard soprano mabel beddoe alto arthur kraft tenor and charles trowbridge tittman tenor a feature of the sessions this after noon and evening is the mass sing ing of ancient hymns of the church the trombone choir will play again this evening at 8:30 o'clock five cantatas are to be sung this evening at 9 o'clock there is naught of soundness in all my body through great tribulation we enter the kingdo mof god o jesus christ light of my life to this end appeared the son of god and god's peace be with you all dr wolle has done much to pro mote interest in bach in this coun try in 1888 he returned from ger many after an exhaustive study of the works of the master he be came conductor of the bethlehem choral union of 115 members at that time and began the prepara tion of the st john's passion it was sung in this country for the first time on june 5 1888 another goal in the mind of dr wolle was the celebrated mass in b minor it was not until 12 years later that this mass made its debut in the united states sung by the bach choir since that time the mass in b minor has been given at every festival and this year marks the twenty-fifth rendition bethlehem has been famous as a musical center since colonial days hayden's creation the first ora torio to be given on american soil was given here the mass in b minor will be given at the sessions tomorrow at 2:30 anl 5 o'clock esther dale so prano amy ellerman alto ar thur hackett tenor and charles trowbridge tittman bass will ren der the chorale parts celebrities attend musicians and music lovers from all parts of the country are pres ent at the celebration some of the more prominent people present are dr lewis perry president of phil lips eexter academy exeter n.h ; miss marion e park president of bryn mawr college bryn mawr harold gleason of the eastman school of music rochester n v walter hanson organist of the calvary presbyterian church cleve land o ivor jones organist and director formerly assistant to sir henry wood of london ; # and dr rollo f maitland a member of the american guild of organ ists the following is the program for today and tomorrow friday may is 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 nowl what great affection praise ye the lord o my spirit 8:30 p m trombone choir 9:00 p m cantatas there is nought 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 2:30 p m mass in b minor kyrie and gloria 5 p m mass in b minor credo bishop and diamond plan summer teaching h m diamond professor of economics and w l bishop assis tant professor of economics will teach this summer at pennsylvania state college summer session pro fessor diamond will teach courses in labor problems and economic geography professor bishop will teach a course in elementary econo mics and a graduate course in municipal management coming events the summer edition of the le high review will appear monday several new departments will be added to the magazine the new review will have a department for book reviewers art science and plays in addition to the existing departments of stories essays and poems according to maurice b rosalsky editor in chief the short stories are those lips for instance by harry war rendorf a tale of sophisticated long island life as shadowed by a cub reporter and high life in new york by william i port the essays and articles include today or yesteryear by theo dore g ehrsam an impressionistic psalm of modern life god only knows by h e norwood a sa tire depicting god like the critics as failing to understand shakes peare's hamlet jacob seeking in the calumet by kenneth k kost the social status by c brooks peters and walks and moods by prof fay c bartlett there will be a meeting of the review board at 7:30 monday in drown hall charms will be given to members of the board jand elec tion of new members to the board will take place a secretary will be elected and the policy for next year will be discussed stirred to indignation by a bread and critical view of campus affairs the xi circle of omicron delta kappa made public yesterday morning a list of 11 reforms which it believes are urgently needed at lehigh heading the list are the re organization of arcadia and the abolition of the interfraternity council other recommendations are the abolition of the lehigh union cy anide phi club all class offices ex cept president ttie sophomore cab inet and sophomore and junior class banquets it is also proposed that the athletic fee be raised to 25 that uniform letters be award ed for all sports and that there be fewer and better lectures by out side speakers reforms discussed proposed reforms were first dis cussed at a meeting of the frater nity on april 29 they were later drawn into a unified plan by a committee of five and presented to the members at a meeting wednes day night after some revision and addition the circle approved the recommendations unanimously these proposals which because the threefold membership of o d x have behind them the weight of the united opinion of representa tives from undergraduates alumni and faculty are as follows o d k recommends 1 that arcadia be made the su preme undergraduate governing body 2 that the interfraternity coun cil be abolished and its duties taken over by arcadia a membership in arcadia shall consists of the head of each living group one representative for each 30 non-living group men elected in the spring at a meeting of this group called by the president of the arcadia the four class presidents the editors in chief of publica tions the presidents of mustard and cheese and the combined musi cal clubs a representative elected from and by the letter men in the univer sity b meetings shall be open and given full publicity c no proxies shall be recogniz ed the roll shall be taken by names of members instead of by living groups and advance no tice of probable business shall be given d the following standing com mittees shall be organized to cov er student activities in publications athletic control social activities student glubs booster activities fraternities intra-mural sports deputations freshman welfare elections e)a slate committee compos ed of two fraternity representa tives one non living group rep resentative and one dormitory representative shall be appointed by the president of the arcadia this committee shall propose the membership of the committees under d f the chairmen of committees under d shall constitute on ex ecutive board which shall meet twice monthly to formulate poli cies the president of arcadia shall be chairman of the execu tive board g a representative may only be chairman of one committee or a member of two h the president of arcadia shall be elected at the first meet ing of the new body as set forth under a 3 that cyanide be abolished and be replaced by an organization to be known as the brown key con sisting of assistant managers to be host to the visiting teams a all assistant managers shall automatically be members with out fees health service is beauty parlor coat of tan not hard to procure the student health service is now maintaining a beauty parlor at least that is the sign that hangs on one bf the doors in the department billy burkehardt has charge of the apparatus in that room which includes machines for the ultra-vio let light treatment of skin diseases and body bruises this ray treat ment hes become very popular students rejoice now at having to come to the infirmary and even look for excuses such as bangs and bruises nor it is hard to guess why at this time of the year a dark coat of sun tan is very much to be desired and just a few min utes under those ultra-violet rays does the trick that is the explana tion of the long line waiting for this treatment and that is also now the sign beauty parlor came to be placed on the door the students are not the only ones to unwarrantedly invade the health department for light treat ments while the reporter was there two instructors came into the office making a similar request for a claimed branchiel trouble the doctor who examined them said there mjght be a chance that neded treatment but that they prob ably came for the same reason as many of the students — to get an early tan the equipment of the department is adequate for the light and heat treatment of most body ailments that can be thus treated there are several violet ray machines for ap plication to different parts of the body there is a diathermy mach ine which heats internal parts of the body by the means of special invisible high frequency rays this machine is successfully used for the treatment of charlie horse the infra-red and zoalite rays are used for the treatment of cintus ions and bruises apparatus of this nature is a distinct asset to le high and of great benefit to our athletes who are often in need of treatment for severe sprains and bruises it is undoubtedly true that the coat of tan which can be secured is the reason for the unusual popu larity of the health service how ever if the pre-season tan is to be come known as the college boy complexion let others take warn ing from those who stayed too long under the light and got royally burned tonight 4 p m varsity tennis vs dart mouth lehigh courts 5 p m opening session of the bach festival packer memorial church saturday may 16 2:30 p m bach festival packer memorial church 2 p m varsity baseball vs penn sylvania taylor field 4 p m varsity lacrosse vs new york university taylor field the library was recently present ed with 59 volumes from the pri vate library of william l raeder 72 of scranton among the books which are largely on art and history is english literature by henry coppee former lehigh president for whom coppee hall was named there are also several rare books of limited edition in the collection one of the thousand copies of the white house gallery of official portraits of the presidents and copy number three of the the hun dred copies of recent ideals in american art are in the collec tion other notable books in the collec tion are elementary treaties oh natural philosophy by deschan el hoofs claws and antelopes of the rocky mountains a travel book by theodore roosevelt a complete copy of hogart's works on art and volumes four to nine of the green bag a law periodi cal the small boy in the outer of fice seems to be % quite worried mr trafford can you enlighten me as to what could be troubling him so much inquired a brown and white reporter as he leisurely strolled into the superintendent's office he has to recite lincoln's get tysburg address to me this morning and i am afraid that he is not en tirely familiar with it replied the former union secretary isn't it a trifle ridiculous to de mand so much from an innocent youngster inquired the reporter fred straightened in his chair raised his head and glared at me innocent nonsense he is a thief and wha is more a desperate and haughty one all told he has stol en approximately 75 on various occasions two years ago his par ents separated after quarreling for many years and as a result he was sent to live with his mother's rela tions in the slums the sixteen year old youngster does not like his aunt and his uncle is cruel to him in other words he is alone in the world without friends or home last month he ran away from his relatives and started to steal until we caught him i am confronted with cases similar to this each month it is deplorable and path etic that anyone should be given such a start in life probably the youngster who you refer to as in nocent will be a gangster and mur derer i plant to teach the boy fred trafford uses psychology in disciplining young criminals clean manly habits lincoln's get tysburg address is only one of sev eral things which i plan to make the boy learn he has to report to me twice a week and already i have noticed a decided improvement in him an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure concluded the police superintendent the rev mr trafford believes heartily in this method of reform and he is opposed to the idea of sending young potential criminals to jail the boys club which has an enrollment of over 100 is a step in that direction according to mr trafford since the opening of that club the number of boys assigned for misdemeanors has diminished 70 percent how do you go about your re form do you treat each boy the same asked the reporter each boy analyzed no not at all each one is treat ed differently as s«on as he is cap tured he is given a psychological examination then we investigate his school record and look into his home training in a great number of the cases we have discovered the parents to be worse than the boys we visit the neighborhood in which he lives and obtain a fair estimate of the environment after we have obtained all this information we then try to reform him some boys have to report to me twice a week for a year in case they do not ap pear we have a way of making them come the former lehigh un ion secretary replied bethlehem pa friday may 15 1931 price — five cents seniors learn aims of alumni at class meet brown and white bach choir begins annual festival vol xxxiii no 56 university plans summer repairs roads included o.d.k lists 11 reforms claimed urgently needed in many campus affairs plumbing system will be renewed in chemistry building to redecorate chapel member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first