Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 3

              to discuss o.d.k plan funeral time not set only 160 ballots cast voting to end thursday morn ing smith ballew tops list the annual founder's day hop an informal fall dance spon sored by the lehigh union will be held in the lower gymnasium tonight nick nichols and his arcadians the same orchestra that played at the tau beta pi dance in the hotel bethlehem last winter will play tonight the freshman curfew will be lifted for the benefit of any freshmen wishing to attend the dancing will last from nine till twelve and the admission charge is one dollar per couple n y lehigh club host to faculty municipal ferry will make trip around manhattan island the sophomore council will hold a meeting thursday oct 8 at 7:30 this meeting the second of the year is to be held at drown hall enforcement of freshman reg ulations which occupied the at tention of the council at the pre vious meeting will l>e the bus iness to be discussed at this meeting members of the sopho more class will be asked to see that freshman regulations are obeyed they will be requested to hand in names of freshmen who are found disobeying these regulations to the sophomore council rigid enforcement of the hello habit will be advocated for freshmen because the prac tice of saying hello on the campus seems to be dying out the names of freshmen who are delinquent in this respect will be taken the big-town freshmen who miss their dates and movies will feel relieved when tuesday night at the founder's day dance the curfew rule which sends the frosh away from the evil influences of bethlehem's streets after 7:30 every night but saturday officially ends it is ta ken for granted that with the training acquired so far in the quaint science of studying any frosh should be able to outlive the year the frosh pledges at the dif ferent fraternities however must obey their respective house rul ings limiting the frequency of their nocturrnal ramblings or they become liable to take part in very instructive games of in door polo and golf a r glancy 03 to address meet the ballot to determine the dance orchestra for the senior prom has been continued until noon thurs day watson e current chairman of the prom committee announced yesterday only 160 votes had been cast at the time the ballot was sche duled to close yesterday this action mr current stated is taken because we do not feel that 160 votes can truly represent the opinion of 1500 students perhaps greater interest will be shown by allowing more time for the stu dents to vote smith ballew with 57 votes and hay kemp with 40 were far head of any other of the nine orchestras on the ballot not a single vote was cast for the bands of charles dorn berger jack pettis or happy felton sixty-five now in lehigh band will draw from personal experiences in his talk to attend all football games except one with brown one of the main topics of discus sion at the first meeting of arcadia last night in drown memorial hall was the new victory song this song was officially repudiated by the body last spring but at this voting the decision fell the other way after some discussion the group voted 50 to prof t edgar shields to print a larger supply of the song to be distributed with an edition of the brown and white it was also decided that a freshman rally would be held to teach all of the new men the words and tunes of the song another interesting discussion was held on the matter of the sen ior blazers last winter there were many complaints as to the price and quality of the jacket and the cloth ing company had promised to im prove the quality and cut the price at this meeting of the arcadia however a suggestion was made and adopted to the effect that the arcadia should receive bids for the current contract to ascertain if the blazers could not be had for less money several smaller matters were also taken up at the meeting everyone received a copy of the o.d.k plan which will be discussed next month due to the paucity of returns the balloting for the senior ball orches tra will be held open until thurs day austy tate made a suggestion to the effect that each living group should endeavor to have its fresh men present at the station when the football team entrains for the brown and perm games the arca diad decided to discuss the letter awards at the next meeting the arcadia also renounced its backing of the founder's day hop which has been officially taken over by the lehigh union the new york lehigh club will entertain high school principals of the new york district thurs day oct 8 with a boat ride around manhattan island and part of new york harbor pres charles russ richards dean max mcconn al umni secretary andrew buchanan and profs percy hughes and a roscoe miller plan to attend a municipal ferry has been se cured and it will leave the bat tery around 10 o'clock returning late that afternoon according to andrew buchanan 300 alumni and their wives will attend luncheon will be served on board it is strictly an alumni affair and affords an opportunity for the va vious high school principals to be come acquainted with prominent lehigh men alumni secretary an drew buchanan describes it as a so cial affair for the new york alumni other members of the faculty who will attend are associate dean curtis vice president natt m emery prof bradley stoughton prof neil carothers prof p m palmer prof howard eckfeldt reiter talks to freshmen prof willis appleford slater 8.5 m.s c.e research professor of engineering materials and direc tor of fritz engineering laboratory died of a throat condition at 9:20 o'clock last night in st luke's hos pital he was 53 years and one day old professor slater who came to lehigh from the united states bu reau of standards in the spring of 1928 had been ill only five days an abscess is said to have developed in his throat following tonsolitis he leaves his widow and one daughter ruth who is now a stu dent at illinois his local address was 1721 elm street professor slater was born at polo 111 and was educated at the university of illinois where he re ceived the b.s degree in 1906 his other degrees were also received at illinois he was a former professor at the university of illinois and served as faculty representative on the com mittee in charge of the construction of illinois 2,000,000 stadium during the world war professor slater was an authority on the con struction of concrete ships since coming to lehigh he has specialized in concrete research he was a member of the amer ican society of civil engineers of sigma xi honorary research frater council nity and of the national research funeral arrangements had not been completed today mrs slater was awaiting the arrival of her daughther ruth and of mr slat er's brother who is dean of the university of illinois gibson writes history book houseparty set for october 31 class of 1935 holds meeting after cheering practice friday lehigh professor announces completion of eight year task interfraternity council picks week-end of muhlenberg game the lehigh band will attend all football games this year with the exception of the contest with brown according to a statement by t edgar shields the director of the organization the band must be commended for its excellent performances so far this season the men have gone on the field with only a short per iod of drill sixty-five men were on the field in full uniform last sat urday for the game with p m c mr shields predicts that he will be able to put a band one hundred strong on the field if he is able to get more uniforms the incoming freshman class has been a great aid to mr shields in organizing the band this year fif ty per cent of the members of the band are new men the additions have shown surprisingly good ma terial particularly in the brass in strument division most of the drummers are veterans from last year andrew b rawn jr i.e 32 drum major is leading the band on the field and julian h booker bus 32 is the student director under their leadership and in view of the excellent material available mr shields expresses great hopes for a very successful season faculty bans college meet professor lawrence h gibson ph.d head of the department of history and government has an nounced the completion this fall of a book entitled internal aspects of the old britishjejaftjß it rjertaiftj^tojhre history of eng la&if 3©>t'rand irelancll?i<3&nada sjcl sjcl various par^<ea^vt"e united states but na^fysrayty stresses the sockt 4i^3secoiiomic phases ef the hrifjsfl i empire jpfet&fimgr the . american rev^ufi^n^he has sum madzodj v^ie inter-relation among and the empire hav 1 ing spent eight years in its prepara tion prof gibson completed the writing recently but the date of publication has been unannounced new post for gateson the very reverend d wilmot gateson chaplain of the university for the past nine years left the church of the nativity last tues day afternoon wyandotte and third streets for his new post in the church of the saviour west phil adelphia e m gormley awarded haines scholarship medal in mechanical engineering the class of 35 held their first meeting friday oct 2 immediate ly following the college pep meeting around the flagpole on the campus bosey reiter gave an inspiring talk which was directed mainly to the freshmen he told them this was the turning point in each of their lives that during the following year they would bete volved in a process-of rii'gjiwjji^i-ot remoulding of chaiaptsylirra that for this reason thejjjsrrould be care ful this talk as followed i|s a cheering practice-^jckri^-were very few upper tlaj^s*icti present at this exercise their attendgjjce*uat being required the sttrdeujs then marched to the stadnfe?j>v at the class meetfng the fresh men learned that they must win three out of five of the founder's day events from the sophomores in order to be able to lay aside their dinks on sundays the events as they were enumerated were pants tearing contest rope tying contest tug of war relay race and the annual freshman-sophomore football game october 31 was the date approv ed for fall house parties at the first meeting of the interfraternity coun cil last night in drown hall at which george riley vice president precided in the absence of robert clark this date however has to be approved by dean max mcconn before it is permanently fixed the question of uniform letter award was brought up before the council but no action was taken as various members felt that it was the duty of arcadia to decide it ac cording to the july issue of the al umni bulletin the alumni associa tion met in june and voted in fa vor of uniform letter awards for all sports the executive committee of the interfraternity council will meet later in the month for the purpose of revising the present rushing rules according to the present by laws of the council rushing cannot be discussed at the meetings until after april first many members felt the executive committee should suggest an amendment to this law prominent men received hon orary degrees on this anniversary tomorrow wednesday oct 7 the undergraduate body alumni and the faculty will celebrate the 52nd anniversary of founder's day in honor of asa m packer founder of the university during the 13 years from 1866 to 1879 that the hon asa m packer was closely affiliated with the uni versity lehigh flourished and grew rapidly he was personally active in the administrating of the affairs of the university and on account of his keen business ability and pleasing personality endeared him self to all those with whom he came into contact the founder of the university died on may 7 1879 and in october of the same year was held the first memorial ceremony from which has grown the custom of celebrating the second wednesday after the opening of school as founder's day this ceremony has continued uninterrupted through the decades with the exception of 1918 when it was abandoned on account of the pressure of war work in recent years it has become the custom to set aside founder's day as a holiday at which time an ad dress by a prominent citizen is made to the assembled student body freshmen and sophomore honors are awarded and degrees conferred later in the day the freshman and sophomore classes vie with one another in football and other sports on founder's day in 1923 max mcconn a.m was installed as dean of the university at the same date william spnecer murray e e was awarder the honorary de gree doctor of engineering jose ramon villalon c.e of the class of 1890 was awarded the honorary degree of doctor of laws on founder's day 1924 there were no honorary degrees confer red samuel w parr m.s of the university of illinois delivered the annual founder's day address likewise in 1925 no honorary de grees were conferred the found er's day address being delivered by eugene grace president bethlehem steel company on oct 6 1926 owen d young a.8 ll.b d.h l ll.d of new york city was awarded the honorary degree of doctor af laws the degree of doctor of science was conferred upon karl taylor compton ph.d professor of chemistry at princeton university robert culbertson hays heck m.e was awarded the de gree of doctor of engineering on founder's day oct 1 1930 the de gree of doctor of science was con ferred upon edward wilber berry of baltimore dean of john hop kins university and horace mal com westergaard despite the fact that lehigh stu dents have continually criticized the selection of prom orchestras direct vote suggested by arcadia seems to have done little to awaken interest only slightly more than one per cent of the student body voted on the first ballot the students will be unable to grumble this year the prom chair man points out because they will select the orchestra themselves however we want enough of them to vote to make the selection a tru ly representative one ... juniors cast the greatest number of ballots in the first vote forty six of them voted with the other classes ranging from 36 to 40 smith ballew led in all the classes except the sophomore where hal kemp was far ahead of any of his rivals the complete returns follow smith ballew 57 hal kemp 40 fletcher henderson 23 casa loma 21 tal henry 15 blue steele 4 charles dornberger 0 jack pettis 0 happy felton 0 richards will address club decrease in large cars on campus this semester first meeting of the faculty educational group monday 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 glancy in his talk how to succeed will cite many personal incidents from his own experience on the road to success the meeting will be spon sored by the industrial engineering society this is the second attempt to bring together all the engineering societies of the campus in combin ing the societies can hold larger meetings acquire greater atten dance and secure much better speakers according to h f cas selman president of the industrial engineering society all students are invited there will be a short meeting of the industrials following the talk after graduating from lehigh in 1903 mr glancy spent 14 years in mining and general construction work for the past 13 years he has been associated with the dupont and general motors corporations he is president of the oakland mo tor car company and the glancy malleable corporation mr glancy is a member of the boards of trustees of the university and chairman of the lehigh alumni council a committee formed last spring to raise money among the alumni he donated a display model of the oakland motor car now in the packard laboratory and was in strumental in securing a number of automobile engines for testing pur poses in the mechanical testing room mr glancy delivered an address on the subject what the automo tive industry expects from the technical schools at the indus trial conference held following the dedication of the packard labora tory last october mr glancy will be in bethlehem founder's day oct 7 to attend the fall session of the board of trustees print exhibit . . will continue tryouts to be held for musical clubs pictures were loaned by the • library of congress coming events arcadia's petition to hold a col lege meeting at 11 p m nov 4 was refused by the faculty yester day at a meeting in the alumni building on the ground that the pro posed meeting would interfere with scheduled classes edward m gormley m.e 32 hazleton was awarded the henry stevens haines scholarship in me chanical engineering the scholar ship carries with it an award of 200 gormley is a halfback on the varsity football team minor changes in the titles and prerequisites of various courses were made journalism students visit the globe-times men watched manipulating of world series score board will hold two free concerts this year the combined musical clubs will hold their tryouts in drown hall thursday oct 8 at 7:30 sharp as announced by b d whitmeyer president of the club all freshmen talented or not are urged to come out as this is going to be a big year for the club there is a special and urgent request for as many pianists and accompanists as can be gotten two free concerts will be given for the student body this year this being required of them by the uni versity the first of these will take place in drown hall before the close of this semester the other will be held sometime next semester the place to be announced later the large program which the musical club is undertaking is made possible by the student activities fee of which this club gets 50c from each # fee whether the student is a mem ber of the club or not this is 25 per cent of the total student activi ties fee paid to the university f l payrow dies the father of prof harry gor don payrow died last thursday in lynn mass professor payrow has left town to attend the funeral cer emonies at his father's deathtplace the art exhibit which opened saturday oct 3 in the art gallery of the library will continue until the 18th as announced by profes sor howland this exhibit contains 100 prints of the civil war period many of which are humorous and itneresting the originals of these prints were by currier and ives the prints were obtained after much difficulty by professor how land from the library of congress where the copyrights of them are kept an interesting fact is that when these were first printed they were considered commonplace and were put on the market at a very low price lately however antique collectors have gotten hold of these prints creating such a demand for them that they are only within the reach of the very wealthy fraternity initiates pi kappa alpha initiated the fol lowing men last saturday evening jerome whiteney john p dean edmund poggi and arthur web ber the initiatory ceremony was followed by a banquet at guthsville the band wagons are leaving the lehigh campus no longer are the roads graced with the mamouth cars which have been so evident in past years at least this is the con clusion to be drawn from owner's statements and data of automobile registration they're all leaving the campus you don't see any of the big cadil lacs around any more state carl e kirchman one of the few to re gister a stately old model this sem ester for practical commuting pur poses and real fun however kirch man owns a popular priced road ster he believes that the business depression has caused the more thrifty students to object to the gas consumption of the larger char iots the mighty daniels property of the coxe brothers had become al most legendary on the campus but it too became a victim of economy and was driven with due reverence to the junk yard we made about three to five miles on the gallon states nelson coxe so we traded it in as junk the records of the university seem further to indicate that the smaller and more economic cars are riding in on a wave of popular ity nine makes of the larger cars which were represented on the le students taking coures in english 43 reporting and english 46 copyreading were taken friday af ternoon oct 2 on a tour of inspec tion of the bethlehem globe times publishing co fourth street and brodhead avenue the men followed the progress of news from the city news room through the composing room stereotyping department and on to the press the mechanical process of news publishing was explained the students watched the mani pulation of the score board from the inside during the world series game then in progress dale h gramfey instructor in journalism and kenneth k kost graduate as sistant in journalism were in charge of the group thirty-two sophomores and thirty-six freshmen re ceive honors thomas sovereign gates recent ly elected president of the univer sity of pennsylvania will deliver the founder's day address he re ceived the degrees of ph b and ll.b from the university of penn sylvania and has honorary ll.d.'s from villanova and allegheny col leges since being admitted to the pennsylvania bar in 1896 he has successively held the positions of trust officer and vice president of the pennsylvania company for insurance on lives and granting annuities president of the philadel phia trust company a partner in drexel and company and a partner in the firm of j p morgan and company of new york president gates is a director of numerous industrial and trust com panies and a member of the board of managers of the philadelphia savings fund society the leamy home the university museum and the council on athletics and fi nance committee of the university of pennsylvania he is a trustee of the university the academy of na tural science and of various chari table associations fifty-six degrees will be award ed tomorrow morning to seniors and members of the graduate schools who have completed their courses during the summer the degrees will be awarded to the stu dents at the founder's day exer cises in the packer memorial chap el the number of degrees presented this year is greater than in the last three years when 38 24 and 23 were awarded the candidates for degrees are master of arts nevin john cook b.a lehigh university bethlehem benjamin laubach,b.s muhlenberg college catasauque guy sylvester schrope b.s muh lenberg college allentown rob ert norman taylor ph.b muh lenberg college hellertown wil liam john transin b.s moravian college catasauque agnes ger trude shields 8.8 moravian col lege for women bethlehem james neal b.s lehigh univer sity philadelphia oscar bernhardt schier m.e lehigh university baltimore md robert kready mowrer b.s franklin and mar shall college lancaster bachelor of arts james daskin boyd jr bayonne n j louis al len brettner allentown max car lin brooklyn n v john augus tin engel stamford conn joel manuel flaster brooklyn n v pearson morris scudd scranton leon francis keefe rutland vt julius lawrence leitzer brooklyn n v abbot ross monness new york city harry wyndham rug gles jr wilkes-barre sydney marvin spector new york city edward john stack brooklyn n v frederick stewart tuxedo n y.j jack david wallace new york city bachelor of science in business administration philip ernest al bert trenton n j william hen ry everitt bethlehem eben fran cis evers east aurora n.y mau rice alexander felson jr easton john henry halzshu cumberland md joseph andreas hunoval ir vington n j frank joseph mc carthy jr bethlehem abel mes tre santiago cuba henry spencer sahm scranton kalil paul trab ulsi brooklyn n y bachelor of science in chemical engineering harry jeremiah boy er egypt edwin thompson clock er bethlehem theodore phillip hindson freeland pa james ro bert wiegner bethlehem bachelor of science in chemis try john michael glover st mary's pa francis collins scho field lanham md bachelor of science in civil en gineering john elmer knecht col lingswood n j edward henry savastio philadelphia robert al len stabler williamsport pa theodore john walton tiedeken camden n j emery lamartine van horn sayre pa william bond warwick upper darby pa bachelor of science in electrical engineering john wilson hamp staunton va charles a rosen crans warwick n v arlington laverna razelli carbondale pa bachelor of science in industrial engineering william h dorsey new britain conn continued on page four high campus during the past spring are not registered for the fall term and the popular priced cars one and one-half times outnumber the total of the more expensive group approximately 300 cars were re gistered this fall and tabulations showed particular reductions among the packards mercers and wills st claires the fords outnumbered the chevrolets almost four to one and the recently popular plymouth had but one representative on the campus seven students were ad dicted to motorcycle riding while one man boasted of two packards the joint ownership of cars has proven to be a popular feature this fall and many of the student cars seem to be supervised by a crew of owners rather than one comman der whether this system has been intiated to insure the arrival of the chapel special or to reduce oper ation expenses is yet to be deter mined the fact that the registration number of cars for the fall term lags somewhat behind the total of the past year seems to indicate that the students or their parents are more carefully guarding the ex pense of the smaller cars and dis carding the glorious crates as too expensive playthings for the depres sion period president c r richards will ad dress the faculty educational club at 4 p m monday oct 18 in the faculty room of the alumni mem orial building on the problems of a president the address will be followed by an open forum dr percy hughes head of the department of philosophy and edu cation is head of the club and frank c becker assistant prof«e sor of philosophy is secretary pre legals to meet the pre-legal society will hold its first meeting of the current year thusrday at 7:30 p m in room 208 in the packard laboratory the chief purpose will be to elect a new pres ident as the former president has not returned to school this year beardslee to speak the robert w blake society will hold a meeting on friday evening in the ackard laboratory for the purpose of selecting candidates professo albert ford of the psy chology department at lehigh and rev dr beardslee will say a few words at the meeting tuesday oct 6 7 p m dinner at the hotel beth lehem under the auspices of the department of history and gov ernment the graduate students history club and the interna tional relations club address by dr evarts b greene dewitt clinton professor of history co lumbia university on history and the time-spirit wednesday oct 7 11 a m founder's day exercises packer memorial church address by president thomas s gates of the university of pennsylvania on the faith of our founders thursday oct 8 8 p m meeting of the student branch of the industrial engin eering society packard auditor ium 7:30 p m meeting of the pre-le gal society room 208 packard laboratory friday oct 9 7:30 p m meeting of the robert w blake society room 303 packard laboratory bethlehem pa tuesday october 6 1931 price — five cents abscess fatal to w a slater fritz lab head dance balloting to be continued vol xxxix no 3 union will give first campus hop arcadia adopts new lehigh song at first meeting 56 degrees to be awarded at founder's day exercises gates will give address sophomore class enforces rules research director age 53 dies suddenly at st luke's prom committee takes action because of small returns bids to be solicited for senior blazer con tract freshman curfew will end tonight brown and white first observed by the uni versity in october 1879 omitted during war president of u of p will speak in chapel to morrow morning alpha chi rho wins cup senior prom ballot voting on the orchestra for the senior prom will continue until noon thursday votes may be cast in the ballot box on the main floor of christmas-soucan hall blue steele tal henry casa loma fletcher henderson hal kemp smith ballew charles dornberger jack pettis happy felton name class all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association