Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 8

              m'conn praises value of studies raps activities r.o.t.c review to be held monday jones explains uses of dry ice to chem society prof rockwell explains failure of quebec bridge richards enters 40th active year president accepts penn stadium offer has had experience in three universities be sides lehigh declares carbon dioxide snow twice as ef fective as water ice famous span collapsed twice cost 20,000 000 and 80 lives speaks at brown univer sity on annual hon ors day 200 attend meet thurs student prizes given likes instruction work president says realization of cherished plans gives thrill it was announced today that president richards had formal ly accepted the offer of the perm stadium for the lehigh penn state charity football game to be played in philadelphia on nov 28 j g petrikin is going to phil adelphia tomorrow with a repre sentative from perm state to make the final arrangements re garding the reserved seats and the price range of the tickets this year's first regimental re view of the lehigh r o t c unit will be held during the reg ular drill period monday oct 26 the officers for the review will be : regimental commander captain green battalion com manders ist — captain clay 2nd captain keck regimental adjutant captain rice battal ion adjutants 1st — g h riley 2nd — j f leach during the period normally devoted to instruction of the reg iment by the reviewing officers shooting medals will be present ed to ist sergeants davis and wall for qualifications at camp perry psychology dept orders machines engineers plan inspection trips a shower of sulphuric acid last tuesday in the physical chemistry laboratory solved a problem the taylor twins both junior chemical engineers are no longer identical william may be recognized from his brother robert because unfor tunately the acid was hurled in his direction it all began when the hydrogen gas in a sulphuric acid absorption tower reached too high a pressure for the apparatus an explosion oc curred the acid was thrown on taylor's face and into the eyes of samuel berlin ch e 32 who was standing nearby berlin fortunate ly was wearing glasses at the time of the accident otherwise a more serious injury would have resulted as it is he cannot see out of his left eye both of the students were trated immediately by dr c r bull who declared that he could not tell how serious berlin's injuries were luck ily the acid did not get into tay lor's eyes but only on his face a sulphuric acid burn furnishes mark to easily distinguish taylor twins lotion of picric acid was applied to counteract the effect of the sulphu ric acid as a result of that treat ment an orange hue has been im parted to william's face distinguish ing him quite definitely from his brother the color might be inter preted as being an extended sun burn at least temporarily it will be unnecessary for william to re sort to dr bull's violet ray equip ment for the purpose of acquiring a high color the taylor twins dress alike they walk alike they comb their hair alike they shave alike they are both juniors in chem ical engineering they have identi cal rosters and attend the same classes but no longer can each one answer present for his brother because they no longer look alike they may now be definitely dis tinguished for it is william that got the sunburn berlin who was excused from classes left wednesday for his home in wilmington del to be ex amined by a specialist chemical seniors to see industrial plants dur ing week elementary classes to use new demonstration apparatus soon gallery exhibits art photographs alumni give 100 to debate team buchanan announces gift for financing inter collegiate debates 150 pictures of ancient sculptures on display until oct 28 in refuting the argument in fav or of activities that activities de velop character while studies only develop the intellect dean max mcconn told faculty and students of brown university that studies usually change a man's point of view thus developing and chang ing character and conduct the occasion of this address was the annual honors day at brown university providence this day dean mcconn says is similar to our founder's day for all the hon ors and prizes won by students during the academic year are awarded at this time no honorary degrees are awarded and the day being wholly given over to the award of honors and prizes dean mcconn was the guest speaker at these exercises one has heard among students and alumni of many universities stated dean mcconn that activi ties are of more value than studies on the ground that activities train character while studies only train the intellect now if a man really applies himself to his work his 1 , character is modified and changed for when a man acquaints himself with a new point of view his char acter and conduct obviously ac quires a certain finesse dean mcconn attempted to dis prove another fallacious argument namely that a college man displays a certain altruism in competing for college activities the dean insist ed that this is a selfish motive as there are always rewards to be gained in this field if a student really applies him self to his studies avered dean mcconn and prepares himself for distinction in later life and ever at tains this distinction he has done more for the college that any ath lete or activities man ever did this type of man will never be forgot ten by his alma mater and in addi tion has distinguished himself the department of chemical en gineering has made plans for the senior field trip on n0v.23-25 thir ty-seven senior chemical engineers will make the trip accompanied by professors diefenderfer simmons and theis the industrial plants to be visited 1 re franklin sugar refining com pany arthur h thomas chemical supply company grasselli chem ical company sharp and dohne pharmaceutical chemical company all in philadelphia in vineland n j the group will visit the kimble glass company the seniors will make their headquarters at the ben jamin franklin hotel in philadel phia senior metallurgical engineers will make their trip on approxi mately the same date definite plans have not yet been made but pro fessor stougjtiton announced that the trip would include industrial plants in wilmington and balti more brown depicts feudal life students view saturn's rings planet observed by 100 peo ple at sayre observatory wednesday addresses faculty woman's club at meeting held last tuesday one hundred and fifty of the fine details of some of the most fa mous sculptures of ancient times and of the renaissance are being exhibited in the art gallery in the library until oct 28 the exhibit is open to the public daily from 3 to 6 p m and will be open sunday from 2 to 5 p m the exhibit is at lehigh in con junction with a private meeting of the archaeological institute at which prof clarence kennedy of the fine arts department of smith college who is the owner of the photo graphs will be the principal speaker this meeting will be held oct 28 at the home of one of the lehigh faculty and will not be public close range photos obtained professor kennedy visited the principle museums ofiheurope dur ing the past few-years and by spe cial arrangement with museum of ficials was allowed to take pho tographs at a close range thus securing pictures of small sections of the sculptures visitors who view the photographs carefully will ob tain an entirely new impression of sculptural art professor kennedy will be pres ent at the exhibit at 10 a m wed nesday oct 28 to answer any questions which visitors may ask the public is invited to discuss the pictures with him at that time mustard and cheese prepares for plays members to direct and stage one act dramas on nov 23 the mustard and cheese club in conjunction with students taking the course in dramatics engl 61 is preparing three one-act plays for presentation monday evening nov 23 students enrolled in the course will coach direct and stage the plays under the supervision of warren fletcher acting advisor of the club at present the class is doing laboratory work at drown hall in an effort to prepare the stage for the show mr fletcher states that tryouts will be held soon and that it is de sirable that freshmen take part in the plays this is being done in or der to develop experienced men for plays in future years numerous changes were recently made in the psychology department at lehigh several classrooms in packer hall were remodeled and the department was made a unit separate from the philosophy and education department many new pieces of apparatus have been or dered dr adelbert ford formerly of drake university and the univer sity of michigan is the new head of the psychology department at present several basement rooms are being altered and when completed will serve as apparatus rooms and research laboratories an optical machine which is used to project color spectra and a gal vanometer used to determine the conductivity of the skin have been ordered a sphygomanometer a ma chine used to measure the diameter of blood vessels especially in states of great emotion is expected to arrive soon a pneumograph used to determine the changes which occur when a person is in a state of emotion has also been or dered apparatus for demonstra tions in elementary classes will be ready for use in classes soon a new phase of the course to be developed this year is the study of reading license plates which move on a machine similar in movement to that of an automobile with the addition of these var ious instruments the courses in psy chology will be vastly improved and the laboratories will rank among the best in the universities of the country according to profes sor ford scabbard and blade to procure speakers a series of lectures was planned by the scabbard and blade society at a meeting held last thursday russel w biirk commanding stu dent officer of the r o t c unit presided at the meeting the lec tures will be given for the benefit of the entire r o t c the speakers will be army offi cers from the corps area in which lehigh is located probably the first speaker will be colonel macantee w^o spoke last year on the subject of the dardanelles campaign the varsity debating team will receive 100 from the alumni as sociation to assist it in preparing arid carrying out a schedule of in tercollegiate debates according to andrew e buchanan alumni as sociation secretary no coach has been named yet for the debaters in former years mem bers of the faculty have held that position last year professor c d macdougall of the english de partment directed the team his transfer to the university of wis consin has left them without an ad visor delta omicron theta honorary forensic fraternity has represented the team for the past several years in attempting to gain financial back ing from the university the society will sponsor debating at lehigh again this year according to ed ward fleischer 33 vice president of the chapter dozen debates last year last year because of the team's failure to obtain a subsidy from the administration the intercollegiate schedule of debates was confined largely to home contests members of the team were required to pay their expenses on . the few short out of town trips that were made about a dozen debates were sche duled delta omicron theta also spon sored an inter-fraternity bull ses sion tournament last year manual ruderman former president of the debating society did not return to school this year and his work is be ing taken over by vice president edward fleischer other officers of the society are as follows matthew murphy secretary barkley wy koff treasurer maurice bernstein assistant manager of debate dr miller talks on summer trip describes things of geological interest seen in scanda navian countries the manufacture and use of dry ice was described by dr charles l jones vice president of the dry ice corporation of america thurs day evening at the first meeting of the chemical society in the chem istry lecture room dr jones took the place of miller laughton met 23 who was originally scheduled to speak carbon dioxide dr jones ex plained has twice the heat ab sorbing capacity of ordinary ice but since ice from water sells for 3 to 12 a ton solid carbon diox ide would have to sell at 6 to 24 a ton instead of 80 the current price to displace water ice in 1924 research workers found that a mar ket could be created at 5c a pound for example if dry ice can cause a saving of 60 pounds in an ice cream package the manufacturers are willing to pay a higher price the product has many different uses according to dr jones for refrigeration it is used in trucking ice cream and meats crepe rubber used for sound insulation can be cut only after it is frozen by car bon dioxide snow aluminum alloy rivets must be preserved in it to keep them soft even airplane man ufacture uses dry ice movies use dry ice the motion pictures also use this product boiling tea kettles are fak ed by puttujg some carbon dioxide snow in a kettle of water in a re cent south pole picture the conden sation of actors breath was repre sented by placing some solid car bon dioxide in each man's mouth rubber lips were used for protec tion in spite of the extremely low temperature of dry ice about minus 80 degrees centigrade the company has had no claims for accidents due to its use although 300 million pounds have been consumed since its introduction carbon dioxide dr jones stat ed is one of the commonest sub stances on earth occurring both free and as a by-product of many industrial processes even in its solid form the gas is not new al though many papers were written about it during the middle of the eighteenth century up to the last decade it had no commercial use no good source of gas due to the bewildering group of industries that leave carbon dioxide as a by-product there is no good source of this gas the value of the gas depends mainly on the source and purity although there are several natural gas wells that pro duce carbon dioxide none are used because of their inaccessible loca tion the first well drilled in mex ico frightened the natives by spouting forth carbon dioxide snow the meeting attended by about 200 was opened by b d witemey er president of the chemical so ciety following the address plans were discussed for a banquet to be held dec 14 in the maconic tem ple george hottle 32 was ap pointed chairman of the banquet committee refreshments were then served at drown hall faculty club to read play at meeting soon feudalism the medieval substi tute for the state arose from the failure of the central government to provide services which the mod ern taxpayer takes for granted as the business of the state sydney mr brown professor of european history told members of the le high university woman's club tuesday afternoon in drown hall land which provided food clothing and shelter for all men was the basis of feudalism posses sion of land determined a person's social and political position said professor brown as feudalism de veloped into an institution it set up for itself a standard to which feu dal society at least tended to con form this standard was attained in the phenomenon known as chi valry the position of woman in the middle ages far from servitude and far from ideal was probably about on a par with her husband's girls were continually warned against the folly of fashion the use of mir rors stays to produce the illusion of slimness painting their faces and dying their hair gentlemen and women too preferred blondes in the middle ages professor brown stated marriages were permitted only as the lords of the manors approved many of these marriages were forc ed peasants had to marry the wo men their lords selected or pay a fine peasants were looked upon with contempt by the chronicler and the poet what we know of them is not attractive and stand in sorry contrast to the idealism of the church and the accomplishment of the cathedrals professor brown concluded prof crum writes poem f©r latin publication prof earl lev crum of the t-a tin department has written a poem entitled bilillennium vergilianum for the first edition of the auxili um latinum a periodical publish ed for the promotion of the study of latin the poem which was written in connection with the ver gilian celebration appears in the october issue of the publication dr b l miller head of the de partment of geology described a trip he made last summer to the scandinavian countries before members of the mining and geolo gical society wednesday evening in williams hall dr miller interested in the geo logical phenomona of the region visited several glaciers and mines and made a general study of the topography of the section while in norway he made a visit to north cape the well-known land of the midnight sun in sweden he visit ed upsala university one of the oldest colleges in the world found ed in 1477 dr miller's talk was il lustrated with slides and pictures that he had taken showing the fjords and topography of the region officers for the coming year were elected at the meeting the men elected were robert h.'rar ing president stephen canonico secretary;^and frank l fisher treasurer coming events the planet saturn was observed by approximately 100 people wed nesday ev.ening at sayre observa tory under the direction of prof j h ogburn although the telescope is capable of greater magnification a power of 14,000 times was used visitors were shown the astronomic cal clock accurate to within two seconds photographs of the world's largest telescope were also on exhibition according to professor ogburn saturn the ring planet is 9,000 million miles from the earth al though it is 100 times larger than the earth its density is so slight that a chip of wood would not float on its surface saturn says professor ogburn was discovered by galileo who used a very crude instrument ac cordingly he was unable to distin guish the ring but instead thought it was a group of three planets seven to be initiated into eta sigma phi ceremony and banquet will be held tonight at bttztown eta sigma phi honorary classi cal fraternity will initiate seven men at 6 p m today at hotel butztown following the initiation a banquet will be served dr ho race w wright head of the de partment of latin will be in charge the following will be initiated t w burke 34 w h bohning 34 lewis feit 34 ernest ritter 34 monroe lewis 33 samuel so lomon 32 and w strawbridge 34 the officers of the fraternity for this semester are edgar a collins president sidney l lancit vice president ben slade correspond ing secretary john j magyar re cording secretary martin m reed treasurer and george bowdqn sergeant-at-arms directory out soon the lehigh student directory will be prepared and printed by next week according to g b cur tis associate dean proofs have been prepared and are now being checked before the final printing prof claude gillette beardslee who assumed the chaplainship of the university upon the departure of david braun at thjg beginning of this semester disagrees with the man who goes about calling his re ligion best dr beardslee is re sponsible for the recent chapel in novations which have characterized morning services this year there is truth in all religions says the rev mr beardslee they are just different roads leading to the same place what the man of this university needs is to be made acquainted with the literature of broadmirtdedness no member of one religion has the right to call another man's religion wrong this is not only my idea but the belief of any religion you can name lehigh's chaplain is polytheistic in his beliefs to him no one man no one religion is more truthful than any other his morning exer cises cater no more to one religion than they do to another moreover they are not always religious in character he is familiar with all religions and reconciles his philo sophy with the hindu religion by quoting that creed heaven is a place with many doors and each may enter in his own way simil arly the buddhist faith says he faulty design blamed in 6,000 years of engineering only the last iso may properly be termed scientific as before that per iod engineering was entirely empi rical stated prof edward n rockwell head of the engineering department of lafayette college in his illustrated address the classic engineering failure before the civil engineering society last eve ning professor rockwell who has pre viously served in the capacity of head of engineering department at tufts college and dean of the same department at rutgers university continued that the modern engin eering school dates from the begin ning of that same period he opened the lecture with slides of various bridges such as the firth o forth bridge the old que bec bridge and the memphis bridge all of which are cantilever structures professor rockwell com pared these in strength and size to the proposed quebec bridge it is this last named structure which may be termed the classic engin eering failure he said both from the amount of money needlessly spent and the number of lives lost bridge planned in 1880 the bridge was originally plan ned in 1880 he said but it was not for seven years that a consult ing engineer was hired and the ac tual construction work did not be gin until 1900 there was much trouble in financing the structure a private concern undertook the project and issued bonds but mon ey was not forthcoming finally 53,000 was gotten together of which half was spent before actual construction took place at this point the canadian government de cided to finance the project and is sued government bonds to cover the cost of the bridge professor rockwell said that the cantilever arm on the american side was almost completed when an engineer discovered that the base of one of the supporting columns was one and one-half inches off cen ter the engineer went to new york city to discuss the situation with the consulting engineer only to receive a telegram that the struc ture had collapsed and had killed 0 people three men in a steel cage were the only ones injured and they had suffered a 300-foot fall from one of the columns construction was flimsy investigation later showed that the collapse was partly due to the compression members of the lower arch between the main pier and an other pier off shore the bridge was of very flimsy construction the inquest showed and the engin eers had underestimated the dead weight of the structure by 30 per cent actual tests of the rivets used in the work showed that they were subjected to five times as much strain as they were capable of sustaining the webbing was also of faulty design and the angle iron was but one-fifth the area necessary for construction work of the type in which it was employed it was proved that the construc tion engineers were not paid enough to carry out the proper research the bridge in falling was twisted into the figure of a double s and a model made to the same specifica tions under stress gave way at the same point middle span lost in river the new bridge was constructed a short distance down stream it employed another design of web bing and the strength of its mem bers was materially increased all the work went on successfully un til it was time to place the middle span this they attempted to do by raising the span from barges one of the hoists broke and the span sunk in 250 feet of water when a new span was put in place and the bridge finally completed the ca nadian government found that in stead of paying an estimated cost of 5,000,000 it had expended 20,000,000 on the structure ever in human history profes sor rockwell stated the engineer has played a great part now one cannot go five miles without de pending on the engineer for one's safety the engineering profession assumes a great responsibility probably the greatest responsibility of any profession because in every structure built the people whose lives might be endangered by faul ty construction must always be con sidered beardslee expounds doctrine there is good in all religions who is beloved of god honors ev ery form of the faith confucius says dr beardslee also illustrates this point by saying in his writings the broad-minded see the truth in different religions the narrow minded see only the differences hebrew religion also takes cogni zance ot this truth when it says who gain wisdom he who is will ing to receive instruction from all sources mohammedan and christian reli gions alike prescribe tolerance in the writings of the mohammedan priests we find the saying whatev er be thy religions associate with men who think differently than thee and the christian dogma warns us to judge not that ye be judged in commenting on the person who sets up his religion as the only right one and relegates all others to the fold of heresy dr beardslee said i don't know why it is but for some reason many in dividuals take their religion as they take their politics they feel that they have to make every one accept their way of thinking they forget that in the case of religion everyone has the right to do his own think ing and that there is good in all re ligions it pays to advertise is sche duled for nov 4 the next meeting of the faculty dramatic club will be held nov 4 at the home of prof and mrs j l graham it pays to advertise by roi cooper megrue was chosen at the last meeting on wednesday oct 21 although the club tries to vary the type of play read it also endeavors to include a greek play and one by shakespeare the ma jority of the plays however con sist of modern plays and those pop ular 20 or 30 years ago field god written by paul green jvas read by the club at its first official meeting wednesday evening at the home of prof and mrs j l graham the meeting was presided over by prof a w klein in the absence of the presi dent mrs p m palmer the main parts were read by prpf and mrs r m smith prof and mrs m j luch prof c j goodwin mrs a w luce d h harris and prof l r drown field god the play presented dealt with the poor white class of north carolina arflfr de scribed their hardships and miseries in gaining a living saturday oct 24 2 p m varsity soccer vs univer sity of delaware at lehigh field , oct 23-28 exhibition of protographs of sculp tural details ancient and modern by prof clarence kennedy of smith college lehigh art gallery university library open from 3 to 6 p m weekdays and from 2 to 5 p m sunday oct 25 although a bit more sophisticat ed the college man of today is practically the same as the college man of yesterday president charles russ richards said in commenting on his experiences in college teach ing and administration work at 1 this the start of his fortieth year of p r c s ident 14icha r d s , whose exper ience includes work at the colorado ag ricultural col lege the un i v c r s i ty of nebraska and the univer sity of illin ois as well as 10 years now a t lehigh's helm was tracked down in his office after ad ministrative duties had enabled him to elude an interviewer for more than a week in admitting that the college men of today are the same as in his early teaching years president richards observes that we still have two broad classifications students in college for a good time the so called rowdy group and the earn est type who start in college with a definite aim he believes that dur ing the present depression period the latter group is gradually gain ing ascendency student life merely reflects the life of trie world at large the pres ident believes and since reports in dicate that the student body is get ting down to business there must be a general realization of the ser iousness of the times recalls panic of 1893 president richards recalls the panic of 1893 which he believes to have been worse than the current financial trouble and cites an in creased enrollment for the colleges during that period depressions al ter college attendance very little the president explains but cause a change in alignment generally in favor of the engineering and bus iness administration curricula rath er than the liberal arts courses which seem to be considered a lux ury during depression times in spite of the depression pres ident richards points out that if a man is ambitious enough to dream dreams and persistent enough to do hard work he has in his hands the means of accomplishment any boy who thinks the world owes him a living is mistaken the world will do homage to those who fight their way to success but not to those who wait for success edison was lauded as the type of man who worked for all that he gained and president richards par ticularly acclaims his vision and ability to see things in a practical way enjoyment in instruction in commenting on his work in the fields of teaching and adminis tration president richards said that most enjoyment was found in the fields of actual instruction where personal contact with the students brought many life-long friendships and research to the boundaries of knowledge made a goal for intensive labor there is no life to give satisfac tion as college teaching does the president believes if the instructor has a liking for young men if stu dents like a teacher he explains they will work their heads off for him no matter how strict he may be but if they dislike him they have no inclination to do their work there is not much pay he confides but the teaching profes sion is peculiar in its freedom from the financial cares and worries of the outside world a life of successful dreams well pictured the colorful career of president richards who in a space of 30 years held promient positions in three universities and became managing executive of the fourth was graduated from purdue when charles russ richards was graduated from purdue univer sity in 1890 he was 19 years old and immediately took up the in struction of mechanical engineering at the colorado agricultural col lege he held this position until the fall of 1892 and then transferred to the university of nebraska where he served as adjutant professor of mechanical engineering the future lehigh president continued on page four brown and white vol xxxix no 8 price — five cents bethlehem pa friday october 23 1931 pres c r richards -¦•¦ | member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first