Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 10

              bethlehem pa friday october 30 1931 fake prom tickets necessitate reprint price — five cents berlin recovering from acid burns sophomores shear six unruly frosh vol xxxix no 10 fall house party opens as 650 guests arrive prom to start activities estes traces development of surgery leads prom orchestra dormitories and twenty five fraternities are en tertaining fair visitors this week-end victim of council's hair cutting addresses class mates yesterday to rouse opposition dean mcconn and pres ident richards score recent activities of council smith ballew's orchestra plays for senior ball in upper gym tonight from 10 till 3 it was discovered today that counterfeit tickets had been print ed for the senior prom and as a result w e current chairman of the prom committee announc ed that he had ordered the print ing of new official tickets no tickets are to be distribut ed before the prom the new tickets will be available only at the entrance to the prom tonight and no other will be accepted so far as is known only a few fake tickets are out samuel berlin . ch e 32 who was burned by sulphuric acid tuesday oct 20 in the chemistry laboratory is rapidly recovering the acid entered his left eye and although the burn was severe he is now able to use both eyes the injured eye is temporarily insensitive to difference in color william taylor ch e 32 who had his face discolored by the acid in the same accident is also recovering and is regaining a natural complexion freshmen get heads clipped for disobeying regulations offenders will tie dinks around their necks to dis play soph barbers skill cabinet urged by criticism soph class president says mcconn suggests abolishment of freshman regulations to solve present problem rifle teams to be chosen dean refutes press error bulletin military department an nounces com p c t ltion plans for year brown university ad dress misquoted by news syndicate mc conn says smith ballew club secures musician's aid dean mcconn addressed the freshmen in chapel this morning and advised them to take no further action against the sophomore coun cil at least until after the ar cadia meeting which is to be held monday evening although insisting in a statement to the brown and white that the freshman class has no intention of dis regarding freshman regula tions hamil reidy chair man of the freshman com mittee was seen on the cam pus without a dink today an inaccurate report of what i said were the words used by dean c m mcconn yesterday in repu diating a syndicated statement of his brown university add ass the published article which quot ed dean mcconn as saying that college spirit is hokum omitted two-thirds of the speech context ac cording to his statement inciden tally the dean continues i said that the idea that a man who goes out for a team or some other stu dent activity is doing something for the college while a man who de voted himself chiefly to studies and attains high scholarship is not do ing anything for the college is ho kum the address delivered at the an nual honors day at brown univer sity explained the value of stu dies in moulding character as well as developing intelligence ford will address sigma xi meeting first public lecture of society tonight teams to participate in the rifle matches scheduled by the depart ment of military science and tac tics are in the process of selection according to information given out by the department these teams are the freshman section teams the interclass match teams the postal matches teams the corps area match team and the hearst trophy match teams the freshman section teams will consist of six men from each sec tion to be selected by the instruc tors in charge the team members will be announced not later than nov 7 in the interclass match competition will be decided by counting the three high scores in each of the eight sections of each class fired during the respective class iatersectional matches six men from each company to be se lected by the student company com mander will comprise the teams for the inter-company match the teams for the postal matches and the corps area match will con sist of 15 men each the ten high scores to count in each case in the hearst trophy match two or more teams of five men each may be en tered astronomers plan to admit outsiders c macßride elected president at reorganization pre-meds hear head of st luke's hospital de scribe advantages of aseptic surgery noted surgeon made honorary members of student society dr w l estes head of the st luke's hospital in bethlehem ad dressed the robert w hall pre medical society at its meeting held on wednesday evening dr estes is a graduate of the university of west virginia and has been in ac tive service at the st luke's hos pital for 45 years in his address to the society dr estes gave a detailed account of the developments in surgery practice that have taken place during his life time he stated that the antiseptic methods of surgery which prevailed at the time he entered the profes sion were noted for their high de gree of mortality in these methods the outstanding principle was to ap ply an antiseptic to everything that was used in connection with an op eration the air in the operating room was continuously sprayed with carbolic acid as was also the actual wound itself the effect of this acid on the body tissues in the wound was to cool the flesh and materially reduce the temperature of the patient this cooling taxed the heart and made the blood cir culation system sluggish the ex tra strain on the heart often proved fatal to the patient this source of fatalities was the greatest drawback in antiseptic surgery is leader in surgery dr estes has been a leader in the development of the aseptic methods of surgery which have al most entirely replaced the older an tiseptic methods he continued this is the method which grew out of the work of such men as koch and pasteur the postulation and growth of the germ theory is the basis on which dr estes has built his development work on as eptic surgery in this method the instruments and materials to be used in an operation are thorough ly sterilized and made germ free by heating or some other means this dispenses with the constant need for an antiseptic in the wefund and has done much toward cutting down the high mortality that was previously experienced in opera tions at the close of the meeting dr estes was made an honorary mem ber of the pre-medical society and a charm was presented to him epitome price reduced to 4 by publications board the price of the 1932 epitome was reduced to 4 at a meeting of the board of publications last tues day the board decided that this year's issue of the year book could be sold at 4 a copy and still enable the publication to meet expenses of make up and printing since epitomes have already been sold at 5 there is a refund of 1 due each of these purchasers ac cordingly c e green 32 business manager of the 1932 issue wishes to state that these refunds may be re -< ceived upon presentation of the re ceipts at the kappa alpha house epitome choses editors samuel j simmons arts 33 and james a tempest arts 33 were elected junior editors of the 1932 epitome staff at a meeting of the board of publications held tuesday simmons was chosen organizations editor and tempest faculty classes editor the budget for the epitome was also approved by the board at this meeting new york alumni to • have song contest en tries reharmonized the new york lehigh club sponsor of the lehigh song con test recently announced the ap pointment of dr henry t fleck of hunter college to reharmonize the compositions before the judges be required to make a final deci sion since many of the entries are poorly transcribed the committee has experienced difficulty in deter mining the writer's true desires in the music and the club believes that dr fleck's work will place the compositions on an equal scale for the final decision the song contest was announced during the past semester on the occasion of the musical club's con cert in new york and the final date for entries was set for foun der's day 1931 it was required that the words and music be orig inal and that the song show the spirit characteristics of the tradi tions of the university and be adap table for mass singing it is ex pected that the judges will come to a decision within a few weeks dr adelbert ford professor of psychology at lehigh will deliver a public lecture on the evolution of learning at 8 o'clock this eye ing in room 446 packard labora tory professor ford's address will include many lantern slides and motion pictures the meeting is un der the auspices of sigma xi na tional honorary research society sigma xi at the present time has a membership of 75 officers of the fraternity are prof tomlinson fort president prof m h peter son secretary and prof c d jen sen treasurer programs are under the supervision of prof h a ne ville the society will sponsor a pub lic lecture by professor bohn of the university of london at 8 p m tuesday nov 24 in packard labor atory house party burr out this afternoon includes humorous take-off on maennerchor mcfadden speaks at pre-legal meet society members to attend trial in easton that townspeople who show in terest in astronomy will be eligible for membership to the astronomical society of lehigh was decided by the members of the society at the meeting wednesday afternoon in packer hall at present there are only six members in the organization but the new plan for membership is ex pected to prove valuable in enlarg ing tjie society officers elected at the meeting wednesday were c macßride met e 32 president and h f carl eng phys 33 secretary-treasurer the society will have another meeting at 4 p m wednesday nov 4 in room 306 packer hall the feature of this meeting will be a talk by prof j h ogburn pro fessor of mathematics and astrono my scabbard and blade hearcol.thomlinson silver mesh bracelets selected as dance favors non-fraternity dance to be held at masonic temple tomorrow night school unofficially closed today at 4 p m as the arrival of 650 girls demanded the attention of the en tire student body books and slide rules went out of use as the festi vities of the season started house party is here with a bang six hundred and fifty of them is indeed cold phraseology to de scribe that varied host of feminin ity which swarmed to the campus this afternoon to participate in le high's eleventh fall house party for according to all rumors around the campus and numerous claims of individuals four out of every five of them must have it this evening at 10 o'clock the fair guests will first view lehigh hospitality at the senior prom in taylor gymnasium the ordinarily bare walls of the basketball floor are resplendent in their transforma tion to an autumnal background october yellows browns and reds have combined their festive hues to reveal the season of hallowe'en in such a brilliant setting the young ladies may dance to the syncopated selections of smith ballew's col umbia recording orchestra until 3 a m favors will be silver mesh brace lets with the university seal mount ed upon them according to watson e current chairman of the senior prom committee chaperones for the occasion will be dean and mrs c m mcconn dr and mrs neil carothers and prof and mrs.brad ley stougiiton dorms to dance nor will saturday evening be without attractions for the pleasant invaders for most of the fraterni ties and both the dormitories will hold house dances the dance for dormitory and town men will be held in the ma sonic temple being sponsored by the lehigh union it will be an in vitation function invitations are on sale at the union office in drown hall jay knell's of pottsville will furnish the music chaperones will be dr and mrs c c beardslee prof and mrs c d jensen and prof and mrs h g payrow the senior class adopted a new policy this year when it determined that the prom orchestra should be chosen by popular vote of the stu dents although the prom commit tee expressed disappointment at the small number of votes cast it attempted to procure hal kemp's orchestra when it was learned that kemp's orchestra could not be signed the commitee picked smith ballew who ran a close second to hal kemp in the te the is musicians of ballew's re cording group will present the vo cal and instrumental arrangements which brought them popularity at white's restaurant and the piping rock country club at saratoga prom tickets will be obtainable in the trophy room this evening h p mcfadden promient local lawyer gave a short address to the pre-legal society at their first meeting last night in room 208 packard laboratory the subject of mr mcfadden's speech was promlems of law students mr mcfadden was introduced by dan iel brener president of the pre-le gal society after the address mr mcfadden answered questions and promised to take the students to a trial in easton some time during december new headlines used in brown & white the house party number of the burr appeared today and is now on sale at the newstands copies will be available at tomorrow's foot ball game this issue is unusual in that it follows exclusively the house par ty theme throughout the contents according to ralph c benson edi tor in chief the cover in color designed by louis brettner last year's art edi tor portrays a couple dancing in an outlandish fashion the interior has another woodcut by horl freiday in the style of john held jr a humorous short story is fea tured it is entitled the menakor murder or philo vance and ath letes foot by randolph zonge one page is given over to a three column newspaper called the frown and bite this is a satirical expose of what happens on the campus during house party week end competition for the various va cancies in the burr staff is now go ing on william eyster managing editor is in charge of the editorial rivalry for positions carl gieger ich art editor conducts the compe tition for the art department activities discussed by mans back and baldwin ~~" ~~~ — ~" colonel tomlinson at the meet ing of scabbard and blade thurs day evening in packard laboratory spoke of the functions of the so ciety at lehigh captain russell burk opened the meeting and in troduced the colonel mr mansback who is very much interested in scabbard and blade enlarged on the topic of activities and a r baldwin 32 gave a short resume of what scabbard and blade was going to do about activities during the coming year the meet ing was held previously to get all the advanced military science and tactics students together for a short meeting to discuss the purpose of the military society at lehigh lafayette tickets coming events as a result of the haircuts which six freshmen received at the hands of the sophomore council on wed nesday evening hamel reidy one of the victims obtained permission to speak in chapel yesterday morn ing he called the freshmen's atten tion to the fact that the dean and the upper classmen were against the disciplinary actions of the soph omore council and suggested that the frosh organize a protective committee for their own good rei dy was subsequently nominated and elected chairman of the committee in his further remarks he started a movement on the part of the frosh to disregard any future outrageous demands made by the sophomore council a meeting of the freshmen was scheduled to be held after cha pel on friday morning to follow up the matter seven freshmen were hailed be fore the council and six received punishment of a gratis haircut the seventh was released with apologies when it was found that his black tie had slipped down under his sweat er incidentally he knew his songs and cheers when quizzed the kind of punishment for the chief offender occasioned much bit ter debate he was found guilty of not knowing his regulations songs or cheers not carrying matches wearing black sox with white clocks and for walking into the council meeting with his hands in his pockets when clipping his hair was first proposed as a punishment fitting the crime many sophomores demur red on the plea that it was too strict upper classmen too inter fered as they said that the action was unprecedented and beyond the powers of the council an actual vote however disclosed that more favored than opposed the motion when the first man had had his hair clipped the result was so lu dicrous that all present were car ried away by trie spectacle and the council voted unanimously for vis iting the same punishment on the remaining five despite protesta tions almost tearful in some cases where the unlucky freshmen had already invited a girl to the senior prom the committee carried out its artistic work on the guilty heads large l's will be the most popular sartorial feature in the dis obedient frosh's dress for the next few weeks although the sugar bowl haircut popularly attributed to inhabitants of the more countri fied districts will be a close second in order to display the talents of the sophomore barbers more effec tively the frosh must wear their dinks tied around their necks with big bows the council stated that this dras tic punishment was initiated at this meeting for the purpose of stamp ing out the laxity of the freshmen in observing the regulations laid down for their good as long as we have rules for their benefit they said they must be properly enforced if these ex amples do not curb the slothful ten dencies of the freshmen in regard to their duties we will continue the punishment until the class of 35 recognizes the fact that they must be obeyed carothers speaks at chapel as cyanide pledges five undergraduates wishing only cheering section seats for lafay ette game will not make applica 1 tion but present the lafayette game coupon in athletic book at the athletic office in drown hall after nov 14 and receive cheering section ticket in return undergraduates wishing seats outside of cheering section must make application on the regular card these are now available at the athletic office follows changes made in met ropolitan papers new headline type more modern and more attractive than that for merly used makes its first appear ance in this issue of the brown and white the new type was adopted after several weeks consideration by the executive council of the brown and white upper and lower case letters are being used instead of all upper case letters which were formerly used many of the daily newspapers of the country have also made this change recently the entire new system of head lines is modeled after that used by the new york herald tribune which is considered the best auth ority on newspaper typography the latter paper made an exten sive study of headlines several years ago and decided that upper and lower case letters in newspaper headlines were more legible and more attractive a silly and outrageous business was one of the terms used by dean c m mcconn in describing the hair-cutting exploits of the sopho more council wednesday evening the dilemna of the sophomores is a real one he believes which can only be solved by abolishing the whole system which belongs to the gay nineties rather than to the twentieth century pres c r richards expressed surprise when he heard of the action of the sophomore council the pre sident thought that lehigh students were above such boyish pranks i am shocked and surprised at this af fair he declared john k beidler president of the sophomore class feels that the ac tion on the part of the council was taken because they have been egged on by upper classmen and the cri ticism of the brown and white - the action was taken he declar ed to see if the upper classes were really in favor of more drastic ac tions by the council frosh to ignore council after the action of the sopho more council remarked hamil reidy one of the victims and chair man of the freshman committee the freshmen will in the future ig nore all demands on the part of the council to apear before that body reidy insisted however that the freshman class had no wish to dis regard freshman regulations plans for the immediate organization of a freshman governing body are being formulated the abolition of the sophomore council because of their incompen tency is advocated by c b peck president of the junior class said he the belief that freshmen are fresh and that they must undergo hazing and regulation to curb this freshness is purely a myth he also was of the opinion that the brown and white editorials were greatly responsible for the ac tion of the sophbmore council \ the full text of the dean's state ment follows i have discussed wednesday evening's hair cutting exploit of the sophomore council with several seniors who are angered by it and i agree with them that it is a silly and outrageous business sympathizes with council on the other hand i have dis cussed the matter also with mr beidler president of the sophomore council and can't help sympathiz ing somewhat with the situation in which the council finds itself we have this series of more or less ri diculous freshman regulations and the council is by tradition supposed to enforce them it is constantly urged by some upper classmen and even prodded by the brown and white to do so so they feel they have to do something what can they do i had asked them to abandon the practice of dressing men up in outlandish cos tumes thereby making the univer sity appear like a prep school they felt they had to find some kind of penalty and couldn't think of any thing effective except the haircut ting it seems to me that the dilem na of the sophomore council is a real one which can only be solved by abolishing the whole system which belongs to the gay nine ties rather than to the twentieth century abolition of council this would mean abolishing both the freshman regulations and the sophomore council which i am sure the faculty would gladly do on the recommendation of the ar cadia it will be remembered that omicron delta kappa in the plat form which it proposed last year has already recommended the abo lition of the sophomore council if freshman regulations should be abolished it seems to me we might well keep in the freshman handbook a simple request to the freshman class to wear the fresh man cap if the present regulation on this point should be changed to a mere request there would prob ably be this year and next year a number of freshmen who would dis regard the request but i believe that within two or three years the mere custom or fashion of wearing the freshman cap would prove to be more effective in inducing all freshmen to wear it than any regu lation with penalties attached can be friday oct 30 8 p m sigma xi meeting 446 packard laboratory prof adel bert ford head of the depart ment of psychology will speak on the evolution of learning 10 p m to 3 a m senior ball taylor gym saturday oct 31 2 p m varsity football vs muh lenberg taylor hall 9 p m dance for dormitory and town students masonic temple neil carothers head of the col lege of business administration gave a short talk at the chapel ex ercises wednesday oct 28 when five men were pledged to cyanide junior honorary society a parked car — a red ticket — a requested visit to the dean's office and then ... a jail term not as long as dean c m mcconn is judge of lehigh traffic law viola tions the first time a man is brought in explains the dean he gets a reprimand but the second offense brings him before the disciplinary committee and his car is barred from the campus should he persist in bringing the car onto the cam pus he would probably be expelled it seems to me that we get good cooperation from the students says dean mcc6nn and i hope that this cooperation will continue to be improved so that we may all enjoy the use of our cars on the campus the dean adds a warning note by observing that the board of trustees can close the campus and sayre park to motor traffic at a moment's notice should the traffic problem ever become acute in such a case it would be necessary for both the dean mcconn is lenient judge to offenders of traffic rules faculty and students to walk the presence of prepared post holes in most of the university drives adds a material touch to this statement " faulty parking is th^ahmost ex clusive cause for arrest by the cam pus police few if any reports of reckless driving are recorded with in the last three years only three cars have been ordered from the campus and the owners made no attempt to drive them back again there are spots on the campus where no parking signs have not besn erected and any student who parks his car in such a place is given a courtesy card which ad vises him of his error but does not place under arrest the lehigh campus is patrolled throughout the day and night by harry t klase roland w bauer and thomas f malone motorcy cle police who work in eight hour shifts to keep the roads open to traffic watch for incorrectly park ed cars and prot|ct the university property several houses to hold combined dances at clubs entertainment will include le high-muhlenberg game at taylor stadium tomorrow approximately 650 girls arrived this afternoon and evening to at tend lehigh's 1931 fall house par ty according to the lists received by the brown and white the girls are being entertained by 34 living groups of the university below are the lists turned in the various houses alpha chi rho the misses molly brett new york city claribel barry new york city ethyle hil denburger bethlehem helen ackerman al lentown carol mackinnon union n j ; marjorie lonnsbury monticello n v ; hel en slingerland millburn n j ; eosalie king reading constance white millburn n j ; evelyn smith wildwood n j ; nancy blackburne ridgewood n j ; kay thorpe orange n j anne macdonald new york city nan meek york mary lloyd chest nut hill georgia james cleveland heights ohio anne kirgan brooklyn n v ; mar guerite devaney beading louise tomp kins washington sally price rutherford n j ; sally darter philadelphia mr and mrs f b gongiver shaker heights ohio the chaperones are mr and mrs l b kingham east orange n j alpha kappa pi the misses doris h martin new york dorothy shisler harrisburg alice shugard baltimore md ; betty zart bethlehem mary williams bethlehem grace dare monroeville n j ; mary jayne birely al lentown marian braerman slatington ro salie grimes catonsville md ; martha ker aghan philadelphia margaret watson pittsburgh sally hanna warren 0 meg young elmira n v alice campbell phil adelphia alpha tau omega the misses mildred taylor philadelphia ella dareff philadelphia mary louise bur ton dover del edna langish philadel phia marth good bronxville n v ann gomery washington louise chapman phil adelphia sallie ackerman new york dor othy reichelderfer pottstown janet long flushing n v ; rita cliggett philadelphia sarah wyatt lewes del peggy crump cradell n j josephine bair harrisburg florence lyone philadelphia ; betty kane han phillipsburg rhoda jane anderson georgetown del helen alberts beverly hills cal ; jeanette schanely pottstown miss julia harper richmond va chi psi the misses helen tunnell pittsburg bet ty conlon washington peggy truxel wayne sherley tunnell wayne truddi bourke syracuse ellen eyster york katherine rea f york gretchen auf hammer pittsburgh agnetta hanson brooklyn lyn weber brooklyn lois whitehouse york helen brokaw bound brook n j ; lucie cantzlaar englewood n j grace john ston highlands n j ; patti bourke syra cuse florence bolgar norristown estelle hartshome new canaan conn gertrude brown new canaan conn the chaperons are mrs w t hanson brooklyn mrs c h aufhammer pittsburgh chi phi the misses cynthia newman porth wash ington n v ; genevieve hurd jersey city ; barbara housh port washington n v ; elizabeth mccaughan philadelphia miss helen elliot riverton n j ; jane coffin uniontown josephine parkhurst nashua.n h ; jane parrott jenkinetown ; ruth ben der patterson helen hudson baston ma rie heim reading miriam de journo al lentown margaret moser easton ; dorothy e maurer keyport n j ; elsie white bal timore and alice arndt pittsburgh delta tan delta the misses ruth hicks hazelton jane van alystyne bronxville n v ; nancy knight philadelphia ernestine sut'ton newark marion kleeman gloucester n.j ; harriet danser yardley ; mary young new burg n v ; dorys sloan williamstown n j eleanore magee kingston pa mil icent ward northampton mass mary si del summerville n j ; dorothy cave ruth erford n v ; betty augsbergen nutley n j ; ruth prosser hellertown marjorie huehl bethlehem mary louise bird jen kintown eleanor fountain easton md ; dorothy jelly swampscott mass louella cantley bethlehem olga whitfield ruth erford n j ; mrs paul preston bethlehem ; janet reinheimer nutley n j the chap erones are dr and mrs w e buller and howard godfrey delta upsilon the misses dorothy kinney allentown virginia barnhurst forest hills n v ; francis elser new haven conn marie lou renton maplewood n j ; gladys doyle new brunswick n j ; julia fox bethlehem toohy weichal scranton ruth eish scranton francis bradley plainfield n j ; kay ebberts buffalo esther mer ill new york elizabeth flook lebanon mary jane johnson cincinnati 0 betty packard taunton mass mrs belle hll continued on page four brown and white all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association