Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 5

              smith ballew orchestra will probably be secured will study industries wright has exhibit burns to discuss auto electricity demonstrations of electri cal apparatus at e e meet thursday lehigh enrollment figures as reported by the registrar's office show a total of 1,468 undergrad uates as compared-to 1,529 last year the freshman class drop ped from 458 to 442 but the sophomore class is the largest in the history of the university the senior attendance numbers 480 in comparison with 509 last september the juniors also showed a decrease of 14 men over last year's enrollment the largest drop was in the college of arts and sciences re gistering 42 less students than in the year before the engineering enrollment shed a decrease of 18 while the college of business ad ministration lost but one student the present freshman class represents 21 states and three foreign countries the sophomore council meted out punishment to many offend ing freshmen at their meeting friday night most of the guilty students were appointed assis tant-assistant football managers for the week although yard wide black crepe-paper neck ties red bows on dinks mam moth match boxes and mega phones will be the style for many for the ensuing week two who were guilty of insub ordination will be compelled to wear pants rolled up to their knees and their coats inside out and backwards one unfortunate frosh happened to have a name resembling that of one of the of fenders published in the friday issue of brown and white dis regarding his protestations of innocence he was quizzed and found guilty of not knowing the lehigh songs and cheers he and others guilty of the same of fence must attend the next meet ing 200,000 spent during summer ford addresses blake society heating plant roads and chemistry pipe sys tem cost most ario wear 11 dean c m mc conn fred v larkin head of the department of mechanical engineer ing and bradley stoughton head of the department of metallurgy among the names of the instruc tors appear ben l bishop 34 wrestling andrew f mccandless 34 boxing raymond w weiker 34 junior games and william h bohning 34 arts and salvatore c marino 32 biology these stu dents live at the boys club and devote all their spare time to the instruction of the youths when it is realized that 20,548 boys are in structed in the combined depart ments the importance of their job is more apparent the results of the boys club work in other cities where crime has been reduced substantially and unfortunate boys have been given af new chance serve as a brilliant goal for the local organization through organized sports new codes of living and better environ ment wortny citizens have been produced from rowdies of the slums in the carrying on of this work the men of lehigh have faithfully upheld the policies of the founders of the project and have materially aided the bethlehem of tomorrow according to mr john ston lying in the business district of bethlehem south side is the boys club an organization which has been founded aided and personal ly directed in part by lehigh men founded in the interests of lo cal youth the boys club has sub stantially reduced juvenile crime and delinquency and plans to ex tend its scope of activities to all parts of the city within the near future the crime problem in bethle hem is a youth problem states a b johnston vice president of the club there has been a 30 per cent decrease in the number of boys tak en to the bethlehem police station and police authorities declare that the newly-organized boys club is responsible for this reduction in its organization and opera tion the boys club has enlisted the aid of the lehigh alumni faculty and students the founding of the club rests mainly upon fred t trafford the assistant president former head of the lehigh union and present superintendent of po lice included among the officers is m l jacobs 10 treasurer while on the board of directors are archi bald b johnston 89 robert s taylor 95 charles a gosztonyi 10 eugene g grace 99 alan c dodson 00 jaul j ganey 16 beardslee also speaks at initial fall meet ing richards speaks on ideal college lehigh students inspect big guns faculty educational club hears university president see latest improvements in nation's armament at aberdeen autumn decorations although the majority of the lehigh students preferred hal kemp and his orchestra as the play ers for the annual senior prom it is probablye that the regular smith ballew orchestra at present play ing in new york city will be se cured watson e current chair man of the senior prom committee stated that hal kemp had been open for an engagement when bal loting commenced but had already signed a contract to play for sev eral weeks in detroit when ap proached by the committee six days ago the second choice of the student body as indicated by their votes was the orchestra of smith ballew it is probable that these players will be engaged and tentative ar rangements for securing their ser vices have already been made how ever if it so happens that the reg ular smith ballew orchestra of new york cannot be obtained the committee will endeayor to get casa loma it has been decided that the or dinarily bare walls of taylor gym nasium will be transformed into an autumnal background for this fes tive occasion the predominating colors being september reds yel lows and browns the committee has not yet signed a contract with any firm of decorators but are still soliciting bids from several com panies the dancing will commence at 10 p m and end at 3 o'clock as has been customary in late years the subscription per couple will be 5 while stags will be charged 3 chaperones and favors have not yet been decided upon mr current said i am very grateful to the student body for co operating in their choice for the prom orchestra and am very sorry that it was impossible to secure the players they most desired they may be sure however that we will do everything possible to make the prom this the best ever 32 epitome pictures now being arranged seniors will receive class ballots for euitome soon senior pictures for the 1932 epi tome are now being taken at mc caa's studios a fee or 2 will be charged at the time of the sitting this fee will be credited if any ex tra pictures are ordered senior class ballots for the epitome will be distributed to all seniors within a few days appointments for the pictures may be made through the follow ing members of the epitome board r imhoff chairman of the commit tee r c benson chi phi arts and science and civil engineers h h forsythe delta upsilon bus iness administration students en gineering physicists and metallurgi cal engineers r h raring sec tion b taylor hall mechanical en gineers industrial engineers chem ical engineers electrical engineers and mining engineers lehigh woman's club in annual reception wives of new faculty members to be entertained the meeting of the lehigh wo men's club at 4 p m today was a reception to the wives of the new members of the faculty at the re ception in drown hall the officers of the club were to be in the re ceiving line to officially welcome these women who will be new mem bers of the club present members of the lehigh women's club and many friends will attend the officers of the club who will welcome the new members are as follows mrs r m smith the president of the club mrs frank becker mrs c r richards mrs a r miller mrs e l crum mrs h d gruber and mrs m o fuller the committee which has charge of the reception is composed of the following members of the club mrs r b cowin chairman mrs h m diamond vice chairman mrs p l sadler mrs f c bart lett mrs b h jennings mrs r.d billinger mrs e c bratt mrs c d jensen mrs j s long mrs g b curtis mrs j l graham mrs j m toohy mrs h v an derson and mrs j a mease g a burns testing engineer of the mack international motor truck corporation will speak on automotive electricity at the electrical engineering society meeting to be held at 7:30 p m thursday oct is in room 416 packard laboratory the lecture will be illustrated with diagrams and slides mr burns will also have some automo tive electrical apparatus with him at the meeting and he will demon strate the practical use of these ap pliances the discussion will cover the elec trical devices used on motor cars trucks and buses mr burns will describe the design problems in volved in providing generators starting motors and ignition sys tems for modern automobiles a part of the lecture will be about the design characteristics and test performances of the gas-electric buses and rail cars also a comparison will be made between the gas-electric type and the conventional type of bus the solution for the electrical prob lems presented by these various ma chines will be discussed from their particular automotive electrical viewpoint l b huntington e e 32 will speak on high tension insula lators mr huntington has had ex perience in this field with the locke insulator company of baltimore md following the technical session refreshments and smokes will be served for the members of the electrical engineering society there will also be several surprise features prof l h gipson addresses lions dr a ford and dr.c.g beards lee were the speakers at the first meeting of the robert w blake so ciety held in packard laboratory oct 9 at 7:30 p m the following new men were elected j.l bough ner arts 32 p e herb arts 32 and d s sawyer arts 32 the following warning of dr ford permeated his entire address anyone who so emphasizes a spe cific phase of a subject as to exclude from his views any other phase of the subject will certainly find him self barking his shins sooner or later dr fords admits that psy chology is in the throes of conflict and internal dissension says dr ford is this an unhealthy sign quite to the contrary this argu mentation these different and con trasting views that are held forth only go to prove that the psycholo gists are all conscientiously criti cally and honestly examining the would be facts dr beardslee lehigh's new head in the department of philosophy and religion talked as follows lehigh university requires that every undergraduate be given some information in moral and religious philosophy the purpose of this training is not to teach the student to think along definite lines but to stimulate him to thought nativity to entertain episcopal students episcopal students of lehigh will be invited to the annual recep tion and dance sponsored by the director's guild and given by the church of the nativity from 8 to 11 p m oct 16 at sayre hall in the " parish house students from the senior class of liberty high school and moravian college will also be invited this is the first of a series of dances to be held each friday evening until further notice smails have daughter prof and mrs lloyd l smail announce the birth of a daughter sunday oct 4 the baby has been named helen ailene y prof fred viall larkin head of the department of mechanical en gineering accompanied by mrs larkin will leave new york on oct 17 for a nine months tour of the world professor larkin is on a leave of absence this being his sabbatical year the trip will not be entirely a pleasure tour for professor larkin will study technical points of pow er and industry in foreign countries he will call at the principal uni versities and interview the secre taries of engineering societies aboard the furness liner javan ese prince the larkins will sail to the panama canal and from there northward along the american coast to los angeles after stop ping a short time at los angeles they will cross the pacifiic ocean to yokohama japan christmas at davan the larkins will travel overland through japan from nov 20 to dec 1 christmas day will be spent at davan philippine islands and new year's day at sourayaba ctrait settlements a few days will be spent in shanghai where the larkins will visit several lehigh graduates a e buchanan secretary of the al umni has written letters to these alumni and a dinner will be plan ned from shanghi a liner will take them to indian cities of calcutta agra bombay and madras anoth er voyage through the red sea will land them at naples where their car will be waiting their arrival with the car the larkins will make a four months tour of europe their itinerary including naples rome florence nice venice budapest vienna berlin dresden and mu nich their trip continues down the rhine valley through coblentz and cologne to amsterdam brussels and astend here the larkins will board a steamer with theif car for england one week in london after spending a week in lon don they will travel northward to edinborough and glasglow and by the western route southward to land's end and southampton sail ing from southampton the lar kins will return to france and spend a week in paris two weeks iri switzerland and a short run to naples will complete their euro pean motor tour returning from naples by steamship the larkins expect to arrive in new york about the middle of next june during the absence of professor larkin professor stuart will take over the duties of head of the me chanical engineering department mr a w litzenberger super vising architect of lehigh univer sity reports that approximately 200,000.00 was spent or the cam pus and building improvements during the past summer forty-five thousand dollars of this amount was used on the roads and walks alone in sayre park and on the campus the cost of the three new heating systems in williams hall packer hall and in the chemistry building reached a total of 33,000 00 a new high pressure pipe system in the chemistry building added 18,000.00 to the expenditures in the power house 9,500.00 was spent on a new ash conveyor mr litzen berger states however that this will pay for itself in a short time because it decreases the number of emyloyees the acoustics improvements and redecorations in the chap el cost approximately 10,000 00 many other minor improve ments on the grounds and in the buildings ran the total cost to a figure between one hundred and fifty and two hundred thousand dol lars mr litzenberger declared that the present economic conditions are what prompted the university to grant such a large budget of im provements two years ago or even a year ago the cost of this work would have been about one half of a million dollars or two and a half times as much as the cost was this year health service to give re-exam students fight faculty english largest groups include can didates for r o t c exemptions dr c r richards spoke on the problems of a modern col lege at the first meeting of the faculty educational club held in the faculty room alumni memor ial building 4 o'clock yesterday aft ernoon in his informal address he stated that the college of today should aim to the highest stan dards modern colleges should have the very latest tools for their students to worth with they should also have teachers who teach effectively the ideal college consists of a group of outstanding teachers and schol ars with a group of oustanding stu dents who by undergoing intensive training and study will profit by a college of this type every effort should be made in advancing the physical plant of the college the surroundings should be such that they will appeal to the aesthetic sense of those who seek to develop their intellectual knowl edge students must not read about culture in books they must actually live in a cultured atmosphere le high offers such an atmosphere its founders selected a beautiful and attractive mountain side as a site on which to build a university the campus at the present time blends very well with every effort in the advancement of learning and culture prof percy hughes head of the department of philosophy psycholo gy and education is chairman of the club and prof f c becker is secretary professor hughes will be the speaker at the second meeting to be held in november he has chosen as his topic the philoso phical aspect of university instruc tion the two thousandth anniversary of the birth of the poet vergil which the world celebrated in 1930 was celebrated one year too soon reckoning from the ides of october oct 15 70 b c the date of the poet's birth the cycle of two thou sand years was not completed un til 1931 after all it makes little difference but lehigh is peculiarly fortunate in having something to contribute this year to the memory of this world famous poet the university library has recent ly acquired a considerable collec tion of rare old editions of vergil many of them beautifully illustrat ed and thursday oct 15 two thousand years to the day since the poet was born an exhibit will be opened in the treasure room these new and valuable acquisitions of the library as well as several rare editions of vergil owned by prof horace w wright of the depart ment of latin will be displayed dr wright is also lending for the exhibit a number of photographs and pictures pertaining to vergil or the subject of his poems besides these he is lending three ancient coins and a set of postage stamps issued by the italian government in honor of the vergilian bimille nium one of the most notable treasures to be displayed is a page of the 1471-1472 edition of vergil con tamed in one of the five portfolios of hoebler's collection of leaves of incunabula or books printed during the 15th century presented to le high by mr robert honeyman jr 20 this edition of 1471-72 is one of the very first printed editions of vergil after the invention of print ing as the first edition was pub lished in 1469 a notable feature of the exhibit is the large folio print ed in 1741 of copper plate reproduc tions of the famous fourth century manuscript of vergil which con tains beautiful ancient roman illus trations of his poems the manu script itself although in a frag mentary condition is today one of the chief treasures of the vatican library in rome a modern facsim ile of the so-called augustan manu script thought by some eminent scholars to be the oldest existing manuscript of vergil is also shown the lehigh library is rich in translations of vergil among those displayed is an 18th century edi tion of which all but five copies were destroyed by fire of the earl of surrey's translation into blank verse of the second and fourth books of the aeneid surrey's trans lation first published in the 16th century was the beginning of blank verse in english another of the prizes of the ex hibit is the fine specimen loaned by professor wright of the first edi tion of dryden's translation of ver gil published in 1697 the beok which is a folio is in the original binding and contains one hundred magnificent illustrations each ded icated to a separate member of the english nobility three other famous volumes in the collection are baskerville's edi tion of 1757 which is considered one of the most beautiful examples of early printing in the history of art ogilby's translation of ver gil's work into english and ante continued on page four 25 lehigh men at reception christian endeavor society of presbyterian church en tertains students four members of the faculty and ten advanced ordnance students of lehigh university witnessed an im pressive demonstration of the ar my's newest war material on thurs day oct 8 at aberdeen proving grounds aberdeen md the nation's latest improvements for defense from the smallest auto matic rifles to the mighty 14 and 16-inch coast defense guns were given a trial run on the ranges among these the operation of a battery of three-inch anti-air craft guns against a target towed by an airplane at a speed of 90 miles an hour and at a height of 10,000 feet was demonstrated one of the principal features of these guns is the fact that they require no sight ing the fire control is from a single director which has delicate instru ments-for observing the position of the target and predicting the posi tion at which it will be at the end of flight all of this is transmitted electrically to the guns another feature was the demon station of the christie tank this tank has been developed to such a point that it can travel 40 miles per hour across the country and 70 miles per hour on the open field armored cars that will travel 50 miles per hour over open country were also exhibited the demonstration was climaxed by firing the huge coast defense guns the largest of these was a modern 16-inch gun on a high angle barbette carriage it uses 702 pounds of powder at a firing and throws a 2,100 pound projectile 30 miles those who attended the display from lehigh included lt col mat thew h thomlinson head of the department of military science and tactics capt charles h keck as sistant professor of military science and tactics capt john k rice as sistant professor of military science and tactics dr raymond c bull director of the students health ser vice r l willis r e snyder b p berger c a chase r h rar ing g h hottle e w kaufmann r a lodge j m hazen and f l snavely observatory to open for student visitors instruments will be explained next thursday evening the observatory will open for the first time this year at 7:30 p.m wednesday oct 14 arrangements have been made to have the visitors shown about and the instruments explained to them it is expected that many of the students interest ed in astronomy will be present at the first meeting the meetings will be held every wednesday evening until thanksgiving cease for the winter and then commence again next spring £: ' legion to give circus lehigh students are invited to at tend the american legion circus during the week of oct 17 the entertainment is to be in the audi torium opposite central park at 8:15 week day evenings until the 24th 26 columbia professors are called verbal regicides the students of columbia uni versity are attempting to force the faculty to use correct english and they have written to the student daily the spectator demanding its support in their campaign reed harris editor of the spectator an nounced that 26 professors were listed as verbal regicides and added that the managing board of the spectator was contemplating an investigation of the speech of the faculty to determine whether it might be advisable to start a class in elementary english for profes sors who don't know any better one senior counted 17 don'ts used for doesn'ts in one lecture even the freshmen have taken up the cry one letter received by the spectator reads we are eight mad freshmen we are tire of sitting in at lectures where the english lan gauge is murdered with immunity the spectator has pledged its edi torial support of the campaign club plans frolic after penn game supper revue and dance in pro gram at girard hotel the annual l u club frolic will be held in philadelphia saturday evening following the perm game at the steuhen girard hotel 2027 chestnut street the frolic will con sist of a supper revue and danc ing phil adley's orchestra will fur nish music for the dancing which will be from 9 p m until 2 a m subscription is 10 per couple the frolic is informal reservations may be made through d e best r w phillips or john oldham color blindness will bar students from military courses this year other people call it green you like wise have learned to call it green however when it is mingled with other colors especially red you are unable to differentiate it from the rest people afflicted with color blind ness find it more difficult to dis tinguish between rad and green than any other colors a person is said to have red color blindness when it is ompossible for him to distinguish red from other colors as a result the people so afflicted cannot discriminate between a red traffic light and a green traffic light accordingly today in order to assure safety all red traffic lighte have to have a certain per cent of yellow coloring to them and all the green lights have to contain a shade of blue i know of only one man who has a case of total color blindness continued dr bull to him every color seems identical when he drives a car at night someone must always accompany him as traffic lights mean nothing to him his wife even has to select his proper wearing appareil so that his tie will be in constrast with his suit quite a peculiar thing isn't it pennsylvania before the american revolution topic of history head « prof l h gipsott head of the department of history and govern ment spoke yesterday afternoon at the opening meeting of the lion's club professor gipson's topic was pennsylvania before the american revolution he dealth with the conditions under which pennsylva nia was settled by the various ra cial groups emphasis was laid on the german emigration into the quaker state and the part the ger mans played in the civilization of the province in the eighteenth cen tury society to hold meet an organization meeting of the mining and geological society will be held at 7:30 p m tomorrow in the geology lecture room in wil liam hall proposed programs will also be discussed coming events the exhibition of currier and ives prints will continue through sunday oct 18 lehigh univer sity art gallery lehigh library open daily from 2 to 5 p m tuesday oct 13 4 p m meeting of the lehigh uni versity faculty women's club drown hall members of the teaching staff and administrative officers are invited to tea at 4:30 p m wednesday oct 14 7:30 p m meeting of the mining and geological society in the geology lecture room in williams hall thursday oct 15 7:30 p m meeting of the electrical engineering society room 416 packard laboratory mr g a burn of the mack international motor company will speak on automotive electricity stu dent speaker mr l h hunt ington 32 high tension in sulators turn to the next to last page take this white stick and follow the green dotted line from x to xl ha you can't do it and what's more you will never be able to do it be cause you are color blind since that is the case you will not be per mitted to take advanced r.0.t.c declared dr r c bull director of students health service to a stu de«t trying to qualify for r.o.t.c why doctor i can see perfect ly and certainly that little test wouldn't hinder me from taking infantry it's just the fact that those green dots mix me up a lit tle said the student yes i am aware of that but i am sorry to say that i wouldn't trust your decision if some officer signaled to you with a red flag and then a green flag because you are unable to tell the difference you are color blind concluded the doc tor then the doctor began to explain to the student and a reporter the distinctive features of color blind ness doctors know what it is but so far no one has ever been able to remedy it the green dotted liries which you tried to follow appears as a different color to you since approximately 300 to 400 stu dents will have to be re-examined for major physical defects during the next four weeks according to dr r c bull director of students health service every evening from 7:30 to 10 p m during the next week we will examine students who have defec tive hearts declared the physician in an interview saturday notices have been sent to the students and it is essential that they report at the dispensary at the ap pointed time the students have been divided itno three groups ac cording to their defects the most important examination is that which deals with the heart and lungs sec ond in importance is the examina tion of that group who desire to be exempt from r o t c on account of some physical disability the third group includes those with oth er defects such as defective vision the number of students to be re examined is approximately the same as the number last year the exam ination period will last for appro ximately four weeks those desir ing to be exempt from r o t c include the largest group ac cording to dr bull the first physi cal examination although hurried to some extent affords a general knowledge of the student's physi cal condition the outcome of the re-examina tions will be known immediately if the student has a weak heart he will be put in a special gym class under the supervision of prof f.c bartlett each case will be treated individually and advice and warn ing will always be given twenty-five lehigh men were guests of the christian endeavor society of first presbyterian church south side at its annual re ception to students friday evening oct 9 the rev james robinson pas tor of the north side presbyterian church opened the brief devotional service with prayer representatives of the various organizations of the church were introduced by john ramsey president of the christian endeavor society the rev paul cotton pastor of the church wel comed the students into the fellow ship of the church he said that one of the best things for a young man to do when he is away at college is to become affiliated with a church prof howard eckfeldt head of the department of mining engineer ing at lehigh told of some of the problems he had to face when he enrolled at the university 40 years ago gar a rousch former asso ciate professor of metallurgy at le high also spoke a few words of welcome a period of entertainment follow ed the formal reception after which refreshments were served by the ladies aid society brown and white vol xxxix no 5 bethlehem boys club directed b y lehigh men bethlehem pa tuesday october 13 1931 enrollment smaller 34 shows increase sabbatical year granted larkin for world tour lehigh library owns valuable vergil editions sophomores punish freshman offenders price — five cents hal kemp unable to play at prom nine months trip plan ned by mechanical head treasure room opened for bimillenium of poet's birth to take class photos sophomore class picture wed nesday noon oct 14 alumni memorial building junior class picture thursday noon oct is alumni memor ial building member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news iprst