Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 2

              dmitri semenovich dudchen ko one of 52 young russian en gineers chosen in a competitive examination for scholarships to american universities has reg istered at lehigh in the curri culum of metallurgical engineer ing the other members of the group have enrolled at harvard cornell columbia wisconsin massachusetts institute of tech nology purdue carnegie insti tute of technology and colo rado school of mines student body shows decrease lehigh students wi n honors in markman ship and wrestling freshman class estimated at 435 lighter enroll ment in upper classes braun ordained despite protest pick your own orchestra that is the policy of the senior class as outlined yesterday by w e current 32 chairman of the senior ball committee no longer will lehigh students be able to complain of the choice of bands for they themselves will make the choice this is expected to quell the criticism which has heretofore been a regular part of spring and fall houseparties orchestras available this fall are listed in the ballot below the committee declares that the band re ceiving the greatest number of votes will be engaged unless they sign another contract during the few days in which the poll is in prog ress former union secretary charged with inade quacy of faith were spent by our men on the rifle and pistol range where many of them received badges for proficien cy with the service pistol and the rifle not all of the time was spent at camp in the pursuit of of knowl edge for the amusement of the ca dets was well provided for two bathing beaches on the chesapeake bay were within easy reach of the camp and a nine hole golf course and tennis courts were also avail able one whole day was given ov er to a field day and a complete series of athletic events were stag ed between the various companies including such affairs as the three legged race sack race and pack race a tug of war between two companies with a fire hose playing on the center of the rope ended the day company a which included a good representation from lehigh won for the day shortly after the beginning of camp the officers of the grounds gave a dance for the cadets this was followed by other dances given each week by the cadets them selves a few days before the end of camp the men were assembled and marched out on the parade grounds where commissions as second lieu tenants in the ordnance reserve were issued to those who had prov ed worthy lehigh ordinance students operate big aberdeen guns the ordnance unit of the lehigh r o t c sent 12 men to the aberdeen proving ground during the summer where they completed the six weeks army camp require ment of their course the aber deen proving grounds are equipped with the latest ordnance appliences for it is here that all the new guns and ammunitions are brought to determine their general suitability for the army service here also all of the ballistic work of the ar my is carried out and research is conducted for the developement of new defense instruments at nine o'clock each morning these students went with their re spective companies to the different parts of the grounds and received instruction in the use of all types of ordnance materials they learned to operate many experimental types of tanks and armored cars the men also made their own ballistic tests on all of the types of guns from the small arms such as rifles ma chine guns and the various service cannons up to and including the sixteen inch seacoast guns these are the largest guns used by the army and fires a projectile a ton and a quarter in weight a distance of 31 miles they calculated the data for these guns and fired them themselves under the supervision of the regular army officer in charge of that section of the grounds one and a half weeks of the camp glancy to speak before engineers lehigh to honor noted historian university enrollment this week indicates that the student body is approximately 35 less than during the second week of school last year the statistics which have not been completed will be available next tuesday enrollment in the freshman class is estimated to be 435 while the number of men in the other classes is thought to be smaller than last year administrative authorities be lieve the lighter registration in the upper classes is due to financial dif ficulties five extra checking clerks speed ed up the registration this year and made it possible for men to get through the checking lines more quickly than before review extols c w m'farlane columbia professor to speak on history and the time-spirit carothers summarizes benefac tor's life in october alumni bulletin three are engineers five lehigh students succeeded in obtaining perfect averages last semester according to p e schwartz assistant registrar of the men who got a's in every subject giving them straight 5 averages two were enrolled in arts two in engineering physics and one in chemical engineering the men who obtained perfect averages are j e freehafer eng phys 31 c a harding arts 31 harry miller arts 31 w c el more eng phys 32 and w k griesinger ch e 32 freehafer had obtained a 5.00 average for the last four semesters one hundred and ninety-two le high students obtained averages of b or better of these 59 were sen iors 53 juniors 40 sophomores and 40 freshmen below are the names of those standing in the first ten in each class seniors j e freehafer eng phys 5.00 c a harding arts 5.00 harry miller arts 5.00 w h ticehurst e m 4.75 t g ehrsam jr arts 4.60 francis neuwirth arts 4.53 a o kant ner e m 4.47 r s chess jr bus 4.41 walton forstall jr m e 4.40 s h goodman bus 4.33 juniors w c elmore eng phys 5.00 w k gsiesinger ch e 5.00 d l macadam eng phys 4.95 benjamin rabinowitz ch e 4.80 r i fluck c e 4.56 wilton altman arts 4.50 r i imhof arts 4.07 s l lancit arts 4.05 g w ely bus 4.00 m b rosalsky arts 4.00 sophomores j c rhoads m-e 4.67 m b ulrich c e 4.00 g m dewees ch e 3.95 j w langhaar i e 3.95 e w glick arts 3.94 r s taylor ch e 3.75 g h keller m e 3.72 j h fountain bus 3.71 w de f hickman e e 3.63 r t dean ch e 3.63 freshmen d g wright eng 4.58 r l riley eng 4.50 h y miller eng 4.35 milton meissner eng 4.22 e l wildman jr eng 4.00 g w paterson bus 3.94 leonard hirsch bus 3.94 w h bohning arts 3.88 isadore mar covitz eng 3.83 j j procopio eng 3.75 this public vote was first advo cated by the arcadia officials elect ed in last spring's turbulent elec tions and this is the first time that such a vote has been conducted at lehigh all students are requested to vote in order that the committee may obtain correct information on exactly which orchestra is desired the ballot box will be placed in the hall-way of christmas-saucon hall tomorrow morning and as the balloting closes this coming mon day noon all students are asked to give this matter their immediate at tention and get their votes in promptly new burr has colored cover this summer 38 students in the advanced r.o.t.c course at le high spent their six weeks in train ing at fort george g meade maryland various improvements made at the camp this year consisting of new tent floors and a better equip ped mess hall made living condi tions much better and mare habi table all the lehigh men were assign ed to one company there being three companies in the camp of about 120 students each in order that students would know the offi cers who were in charge instruc tors from their own schools were placed with them lehigh's repre sentatives in company b were commanded by captain maximilian clay as company commander cap tain john k rice executive offi cer lieut h r emory platoon commander and sergt t j la vin first sergeant all from lehigh sergt george gasda also assisted in the conduct of camp mess in military training the students acted in various capacities as offi cers and non-commissioned officers these being rotated daily so as to giv every student several opportun ities to have charge of other men and develop the habit of taking command the training consisted largely of combat problems and ex ercises in the field made more re alistic by simulating actual combat conditions as closely as possible while emphasis was placed on military training athletic events and contests were encouraged with much interest being displayed in swimming baseball boxing and wrestling lehigh made a good showing in all the events partic ulary in the wrestling contests en tirely outclassing the other institu tions and receiving many first places with valuable belts as prizes steel treaters to hear s lewis how to succeed will be topic of lehigh alumnus alfred r glancy m.e 03 vice president of the general motors corporation will address a combin ed meeting of the engineering so cieties at 8 p m thursday oct 8 in packard auditorium mr glan cy's talk how to succeed is spon sored by the industrial engineer ing society after graduating from lehigh in 1903 mr glancy spent 14 years in mining and general construction work since 1919 he has been asso ciated with the dv pont company and general motors corporation mr glancy is president of the oak land motor car company and of the glancy malleable corporation he is an alumnus trustee of the uni versity and chairman of the alum ni fund committee at the dedication of packard lab oratory last october mr glancy delivered an address on the subject what the automotive industry expects from the technical schools review solicits special stories a summary of the career of the late charles w mcfarlane c e 76 whose will provides lehigh with 500,000 for the establishment of two professorships one in pure philosophy and one in theoretical economics features the october is sue of the lehigh alumni bulletin the summary written by dr neil carothers traces macfarlane's career after transferring from la fayette to lehigh picturing the de velopment of a man trained in en gineering and successful in indus try and business who retired at 35 to follow intellectual pursuits and attain prominence in economic the ory and social philosophy pick wick papers is a series of imaginary letters to and from a freshman the first installment de picts his difficulties in entering le high descriptions of campus and build ing improvements and opening ac tivities an article on football pros pects and alumni notes complete the issue eta sigma phi pledges seven will address engineering so cieties on pennsylvania state highways dr bull introduces special exam staff editors will ask leaders of student activities to con tribute articles degrees will be award ed and scholastic hon or roles announced frosh to battle sophs thomas s gates president of university of pennsylvania will be the main speaker at the foun der's day exercises to be held 11 a m wednesday in the chapel the athletic events between the sophomores and freshmen will take place in the afternoon degrees will be awarded at the morning exercises to students who have completed their courses dur ing the summer session honors and prizes won by the undergrad uates last year will be announced neither the list of those to receive degrees nor those to receive honors is yet complete mr gates besides being president of the university of pennsylvania is a prominent banker in new york *¦ and philadelphia mr gates is a partner in j p morgan and com pany and is a member of drexel and company he is also a member of the board of directors of the baldwin locomotive works mr gates was graduated from the university of pennsylvania in 93 in addition to this he holds honorary degrees from several oth er colleges the athletic events will begin at 2 p m on the lower field the first event will be the tug-of-war the sophomore-freshman football game will follow this event the pants-tearing rope-typing and the relay will take place on the upper field while the football game is in progress the freshmen picked their teams this afternoon at the class meeting following the pep rally the arcadia is in charge of the athletic events the annual dance sponsored by the lehigh union will be held in the lower gymnasium from 9 p.m till midnight tuesday the night be fore founder's day nick nichols and his arcadians will furnish the music this orchestra played at the tau beta pi formal last spring and has been heard on the radio the admission is 1.00 a couple program academic procession from memorial hall organ prelude march lemmens t edgar shields a.a.g.o hymn — o god our help in ages past . reading of the scriptures — ecclesiasticus xliv:i-5 prayer — claude g beardslee s.t.m.,ph.d organ solo — northern lights torjussen t edgar shields address — the faith of our founders thomas s gates president of the university of pennsylvania conferring of degrees announcement of prizes and announcement of prizes & honors benediction organ postlude toccata • • boellmann t edgar shields new publication issued by alumni south mountaineer published in interest of lehigh alumni fund promotion of interest of lehigh alumni everywhere in the meaning workings past accomplishments and future prospects of the lehigh alumni fund is the aim of the south mountaineer a quarterly is sued by the board of governors of the lehigh alumni council the first issue which appeared in august contains a letter from a r glancy chairman of the alumni council setting forth the plans for recording every gift or legacy to the university a list of contributions by classes during the year 1931 a comparison of the alumni fund year by year since 1871 and an account of the will of the late charles w macfarlane carothers cites business needs the four conditions which must be met by american people if they wish prosperity to return were cit ed wednesday by neil carothers head of the college of business ad ministration the speech was de livered at a dinner in allentown as a part of the fourteenth annual con vention of the pennsylvania district of the kiwanis club the four conditions which dr carothers gave as being necessary for recovery of normal conditions are the interest rate must be low ered prices of commodities must be lowered insolvent and expensive businesses must be eliminated and wages must be reduced david braun former secretary of the lehigh union has recently been ordained to the presbyterian minis try at syracuse n v by the syra cuse presbytery a minority of the ministerial members of the presbytery who call themselves conservatives caus ed a stir during the semi-annual meeting in an effort to block braun's ordination on the grounds of inadequacy of faith the trouble began when mr braun concluded his reading of a statement of faith several prom inent clergymen asked for more clearcut statements on his belief which to ministers are fundamen tals mr braun was quizzed par ticularly on his conception of the virgin birth of jesus christ un successful attempts were made to commit the candidate more definite ly on doctrines than stated in his papers the examination was continued in the evening session when ques tioning on faith was ended braun and other candidates were exam ined on policy and church govern ment despite the objections because of his splendid promise and conse cration to the church the presby tery voted braun into the presbyte rian ministry the rev mr braun was gradu ated from yale university in 1930 with a bachelor of divinity degree and now is pastor of presbyterian students at syracuse university he was very active and well known in his associations here as secretary of the lehigh union in this position he succeeded fred trafford who resigned that post to become super intendent of police of bethlehem braun did much to enlarge the scope of the lehigh union by lead ing discussions groups conducting sings and smokers and even aid ing students to find employment and living quarters reiter speaks at pep meeting frosh hold last cheering prac tice before p m c game evarts boutell greene dewitt clinton professor of history at co lumbia university and historian of note will be the guest of honor at a dinner at 7 p m tuesday oct 6 in hotel bethlehem the dinner will be sponsored by the department of history and gov ernment the graduate students history club and the international relations club dr greene will speak on the subject history and the time-spirit born in koke japan in 1870 dr greene was educated in the united states he has been very active in all historical fields in 1930 he be came president of the american historical society an honor which dr l h gipson head of the de partment of history and government at lehigh asserts is the highest which an american historian can receive dr green was educated at north western university where he receiv ed his a b degree in 1888 he spent the next three years at har vard and received the degrees of master of arts and doctor of phil osophy after studying a year at berlin university he joined the history department of the univer sity of illinois where he remained until 1923 when he went to colum bia wrote many books the columbia professor is the author of many books the most recent of his works are a new englander in japan and guide to sources for early american his tory in new york city the latter written in colaboration with r b morris prof sydney browh of the his tory department mrs charles s fox of the graduate students his tory club and donald s sawyer 32 president of the international relations club are in charge of the arrangements for the dinner on tuesday evening tickets for the event may be secured at the office of the department of history and government the price is 2 a plate women's club to hold fall reception oct 13 the lehigh women's club will hold its fall reception for new mem bers at 4 p m tuesday oct 13 in drown hall refreshments will be served and a program of entertain ment is being arranged the officers of the club are mrs robert m smith president mrs frank c becker and mrs m o fuller vice presidents mrs a r miller recording secretary mrs h d gruver corresponding secretary and mrs earl l crum treasurer nine men pledged sigma phi has pledged eight men instead of three as was stated in the last issue of the brown and white this error was due to an in complete report the men pledged are richard a stockton john a frick jr rob ert b jackson charles c shack ford william gummere jr john b diefenbach and andrew n phil lip phi delta theta announces the pledging of john milton jester eng 35 washington d c leaders of student activities at lehigh will be invited to write spe cial informational articles for the lehigh review according to mau rice rosalsky editor in chief after reducing the yearly sub scription rate of the magazine from two dollars to one dollar the edi tors feel assured that the circula tion this year will reach a new height a more sophisticated magazine is being planned according to edward fleischer managing editor featur ing stories of a lighter vein and containing articles of special inter est to undergraduates according to ben minifie bus iness manager the first issue will appear late in october competi tion for position on the editorial and business boards are open to any student in the university harriers hold trials time trials will be held this aft ernoon to determine which men will represent lehigh in the first cross country meet of the season against manhattan college this meet is scheduled for oct 10 the manhattan harriers are led by jack crowley former allentown prep track star last year crwoley ran the fastest mile of the outdoor season his time was 4:14 the rest of the team is practically the same as that which won the mid dle atlantics last year only three men remain from last year's brown and white cross country team the other veterans besides capt chandler are bob weldon and jimmy mills jerden is the most promising of the new can didates he transferred from the university of montana where he was a two miler on the track team rorty and warren of last year's varsity track team are showing up well and should clinch places on the team samuel s lewis pennsylvania state superintendent of highways will address an open meeting of the engineers club of the lehigh val ley and the american society of steel treaters on pennsylvania state highways at 8 o'clock this evening in packard auditorium mr lewis was graduated from the law department of columbia university he was appointed post master at york pa by president roosevelt and held that office for eight years he served as auditor general from 1921 to 1925 and was elected state treasurer in 1924 he was appointed superintendent of highways by governor pinchot before his speech mr lewis will be entertained at a dinner in his honor given by the american so ciety of steel treaters at the ho tel bethlehem according to prof bradley stoughton head of the metallurgical department there are about 20 members of that society connected with the university profs t e butterfield and w a slater are officers of the engin eers club of the lehigh valley scouts hear bidwell television was explained by dr c c bidwell head of the depart ment of physics at the monthly court of honor of the bethlehem boy scouts held recently in the physics building doctor bidwell assured that the basis for all television work is the photo-electric cell and expressed a belief in the perfection of exper imental apparatus in the near fu ture experiments were performed with the telsa coil and the transmission of sound through the medium of light waves honorary classical fraternity will initiate oct 25 at butztown seven students were pledged to membership in eta sigma phi honorary classical fraternity at a meeting of the society on wed nesday evening the members elected to the club are monroe lewis joseph straw bridge sam solomon ernest rit ter william bohning louis feit and thomas burke the new men will start pledging oct 5 for one week an initiation banquet will be given oct 23 at the butztown ho tel a social hour was held at the meeting which took place at the home of dr horace wright head of the latin department the officers for this semester are as follows edgar a collins pres ident sidney l lancit vice pres ident ben slade corresponding secretary john j magyar record ing secretary martin m reed treasurer and george bowden ser geant-at-arms board opens competition for membership with this issue a post vacation number of the lehigh burr was placed on the news stands wednesday this first issue of the campus comic continues the policy decided upon last year by the burr staff the issue will emphasize art work and will con tain a larger assortment of humor ous cuts than is usually run features of the art work are a color cover by the art editor carl geigerich depicting a college boy haunted by dreams of girls and the pleasures of the summer past an illustrated poem of a pretty bar maid by frank wise is print ed for the smiles and tears of the reader a short correspondence be tween a college boy and his girl is a surprise the short jokes and quips together with exchanges from the leading american college com ics fill several pages with this first issue of the burr the board opens competition for men who aspire to the editorial and art staffs competitors who have material printed in at least three consecutive issues will be consid ered for board membership and the work is graded on a strictly fixed point basis the lehigh burr following an agreement with college humor now offers a combined double sub scription for the year 1931-32 sub-freshman dies in collision s s seyfert to head engineering council the first pep meeting of the school year was held at 4 o'clock today in preparation for the p.m.c football game the pep meeting which was to have been held last friday for the ursinus game was postponed because the band had not ample time for practice the program was the same as of former years this consisted of a short rehearsal of cheers mostly for the benefit of the freshmen the principal address was given by bosey reiter after the gathering at the flag pole the student body fell in be hing the band and marched down to the stadium to witness the final practice of the lehigh team before the p m c game boy hurt crashing stadium saturday 1,392 students were served during three-day period this fall dr raymond c bull director of the students health service aided by a special staff of ten doctors and a dentist and given more time by the elimination of the customary chapel exercises wednesday afternoon was able to give physical examinations to the record number of 1392 students dur ing the three days of registration the physical examinations given this year says doctor bull are more searching than ever before in order that he may discover and remedy minor physical defects be fore they become an obstacle to the student in his college career the eye examination this year for instance has been augmented by an additional test with the use of a po sitive lens for the student's eye to aid in determining even trifling weaknesses the records of the examinations are now being examined carefully by doctor bull and his staff and students who need corrective treat ment of any kind will be summoned to the dispensary for such treat ment an extra audiometer was used and an extra doctor was assigned to the eye tests this year to elim inate congestion where it was most prominent last year during the phy sical examinations soccer star weds william v dixon 27 who play ed varsity soccer at lehigh was recently married to miss margaret d healey daughter of mr and mrs thomas f healey of brook lyn mr dixon is a resident of bethlehem the marriage was per formed at st mark's church sheepshead bay n y by the rev d mccafferty g e loomis 27 a classmate of dixon's was an usher lous nagy 942 morton street is recovering from an injury received in falling from a rain pipe orr the side of taylor stadium during sat urday's game nagy according to bystanders was trying to gain a free entrance to the game by way of the drain pipe when he slipped and fell to the ground motorcycle officer wil liam reichl was summoned and took the boy to saint luke's hos pital where the injury was deter mined and cared for bayley payrow stuart and hib sham elected prof stanley s seyfert acting director of the curriculum of elec trical engineering was elected chairman of the engineering coun cil for 1931-32 at the annual meet ing monday in packer hall dr paul l bayley associate professor of physics was named en gineering college representative to the arts college council profs h g payrow and m c stuart were elected engineering college repre sentatives to the business college council prof nelson s hibsham of the electrical engineering depart ment was elected to the committee on professional degrees t j ingram jr 1 8 loses life companion injured as cars crash thomas j ingram jr 18 of pittsburgh was killed about the middle of august while on his way to enroll at lehigh it has been learned ingram with a companion lee dauter also of pittsburgh col lided with a car driven by harry e riddlemoser of mcknightstown pa near gettysburg dauter's father h n dauter who was in new york at the time of the accident flew to gettysburg to visit his son who suffered only from minor injuries and shock in gram's body was removed to pitts burgh for burial riddlemoser was uninjured brown and white bethlehem pa friday october 2 1931 five receive straight a's last semester russian engineer will study here lehigh students win rifle honors dr gates to be chapel speaker on founders day vol.xxxix no 2 price — five cents freehafer makes 5.00 av erage for fourth con secutive time war department reports state that robert l davis i.e 33 and robert b wall 1.e.'33 each won honors in rifle shooting at the national rifle matches held recently at camp perry ohio davis made a score of 262 out of a possible 300 and was award ed an expert rifleman's medal wall scored 241 in the same match and qualified as a sharp shooter r.o.t.c.men at six weeks camp prom orchestra will be selected by popular vote senior class inaugurates new policy to avoid criti cism by student body — idea originally proposed by arcadia — balloting to close monday many good bands among those available students are requested to place their ballots in the labelled box in christmas-saucon hall orchestra ballot check the orchestra which you prefer then put ballot in box at christmas-saucon hall ballot box open till noon monday oct 5 smith ballew casa loma fletcher-henderson hal kemp tal henry blue steele charles dornberger jack pettis happy felton name class to take senior photo the senior class picture will be taken at noon tuesday oct 6 in front of the alumni mem orial building all members of the class are asked to be present promptly at noon member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first