Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 11

              vol xxxix no 11 o.d.k pledges three men initiation to be held nov 1 1 o d k plan favored bethlehem pa tuesday november 3 1931 i.n.a meeting will be held at dickinson price — five cents parties over routine begins university directory to be on sale at supply bureau arcadia votes for reforms sophomore cabinet remains uniform l award approved slater praised in resolution read to faculty bulletin gives civils advice alumni magazine cites weaknesses in present curriculum radio station to be opened festivities include prom football game frater nity and dorm dances interfraternity council le high union and cyan ide retained ; brown key and l club in stituted phi club will be abolished society's new apparatus capable of communi cating with russia omicron delta kappa national senior honorary society on nov 11 will initiate the following men charles halsted bus 32 carl giegerich bus 32 and robert raring e m 32 omicron delta kappa elects to membership the ten most out standing men on the campus dur ing the school year seven men are elected at the end of their junior year and the other three are honored at the beginning of their senior year the election is based on scholarship leader ship athletic ability and student publication work lists steps in learning the 1931 university directory will go on sale at the supply bu reau in the alumni memorial building wednesday or thurs day of this week the price at the bureau is 50c or by mail 55c the directory contains the name class course bethlehem telephone number and home ad dress of every lehigh student it also contains the names and ad dresses of the trustees officers of all student organizations heads of all living groups and the ad dresses and office hours of mem bers of the faculty prof a ford addresses sigma xi at open meeting chemists hear michigan man dr h h willard dis cusses * new reagents before lehigh valley section of a.c.s insufficient instruction in ness subjects english jqompositton and literature history government and social science is the greatest weakness of the civil engineering curriculum at lehigh according to questionnaire results obtained by prof hale sutherland head of the civil engineering department re cently reported in the november is sue of the alumni bulletin last january the department of civil engineering sent letters to for mer c e graduates asking for sug gestions and critcisms regarding the present curriculum the replies were not numerous but convincing a lehigh graduate is at a dis tinct advantage . professionally be cause of ignorance in accounting the the general procedure of the business and financial world was the criticism of one graduate a large majority of alumni felt that the instruction in history gov ernment and social science was woefully deficient others felt that the instruction in english was en tirely too inadequate many engin eers are unable to cope with suc cessful men of affairs because of their faulty diction . for those who can afford it the answer seems to be a four year col lege course specializing in cultural subjects followed by two years in an engineering school four years is a short time in which to master the essential rudiments of civil en gineering and also gain a wide background of social and economic life the civil engineering department is earnestly engaged in an attempt to change its curriculum to confprm more to the present day require ments of a college graduate the questionnaire has aided the depart ment nateriahy intramural sports unaffected by rules college life resumed its regular routine monday after the 650 house party guests of the 34 living groups departed although friday dawned with rain presaging that this week end would be a wet one as the ma jority of house partie week-ends have been in the last few years the weather cleared up for saturday and sunday the festivities started friday night with supper at the several fraternity houses a progressive dinner was given by the alpha chi rho theta xi and phi sigma kap pa fraternities the senior prom closed the night about 300 couples danced to the music furnished by smith ballew and his columbia recording orches tra in taylor gymnasium where the the bare walls had been covered by gay decorations in the autumn spir it the yellows browns and reds of the decorations adding to the fes tive-atmosphere of the prom dean and mrs c m mcconn dr and mrs neil carothers and prof and mrs bradley stoughton chaper oned . saturday afternoon most of the guests saw lehigh defeat muhlen burg 33 to 0 in a game held in al most perfect football weather that night the living groups held house dances most of the fraterni ties had their dances at the chapter houses although six combined in pairs to hold point house dances the two dormitories and the town group of students held their dance sponsored by the lehigh union at the masonic temple where jay knell and his orchestra provided the music the chaperones of the occasion were dr and mrs c c beardslee prof and mrs c d jensen and prof and mrs h g payrow all the dances ended at 12 sunday the guests departed house party wee-end officially clos ing at 3 p m the short wave station of the ra dio society will soon be placed in operation with the new equipment added to the old station which will be moved on thursday nov 5 from its former location in the physics building to packard labor atory the new station will have modern apparatus and will be constructed like a commercial station more power will be available than in the case of the old station which was able to communicate with russia and austria in the code system and as far as oregon by means of tele phony h c i knutson instructor in electrical engineering and e g easton graduate assistant in elec trical engineering will aid the so ciety in the construction and oper ation of the new station the chief work of tho~society will be to experiment with wireless tele phony of a 20-meter wave-length however the station will have a regular schedule with other colleges and universities and some prep schools for the purpose of exchang ing news and advertising lehigh code classes will be held for be ginners and speakers will be ob tained for the meetings of the so ciety which will be held about once a month membership in the radio society is open to all students who are in terested in radio car racket ended by police officials r.o.t.c announces winner in shoot dr h h willard professor of chemistry at the university of michigan spoke before the mem bers of the lehigh valley section of the american chemical society at an extra meeting friday evening in the gayley chemical laboratory lafayette college according to a a diefenderfer professor of assay ing and quantitative anlysis at le high dr willard is the outstanding analytical chemist in the country the subject of dr willard's ad dress was new reagents in quan titative anlysis he included the use of urea periodates eerie sul phate and perchloric acid in his own research as well as in other re search projects dr willard has been able to precipitate metallic hy droxides such as aluminum hydro xide in a highly crystalline form thus permitting easy filtration and washing the testing of vanadium and chrome steel and its alloys was also discussed by the speaker a number of the lehigh faculty members and several students in quantatitave analysis attended the meeting prior to the regular meeting din ner was served in hotel easton collegian's biography and love adventures feature issue prof adelbert ford head of the psychology department explained the evolution of learning at a public meeting of the sigma xi honorary research society friday evening in the packard laboratory the talk consisted of a discus sion of several topics in order which professor ford considered the va rious stages in the evolution of learning simple chemical reaction the ability of the amoeba to adapt itself to its environment was the first step in the evolution of learn ing a multiple cell animal with an endless nervous system came next the characteristic of this animal was that it responded in total to a stimulus where as in the next stage there is the development of localized adjustment by means of synapses or nerve endings following this stage came rote learning as shown in experiments with snails with the coming of the vertebrates trial and error learning appeared at this point professor ford presented motion pictures of experiments on rats in relation to their ability to get through a maze logical learning and finally reason ing are the last two steps in the evolution prof tomlinson fort made the introductory address and announced the future meetings of the sigma xi society on nov 24 professor bohn of the university of london will address the society at a meeting in january several members of the fa culty will present research papers on which they have been working for the second semester professor tay lor of the chemistry department at princeton university will talk at a meeting of the society at a later time more research papers will be read repairs to continue on campus grounds intercollegiate omitted in first eligibility story in the announcement of the new elibility rule for those participating in intercollegiate athletics publish ed in tuesday's issue of the brown and white the word intercolle giate in referring to participation in certain sports was omitted since all eligibility rules refer solely to playing in intercollegiate contests and have nothing to do with any other activities the word omission of the word either in the announcement or in the rule itself would in no way affect any activi ties other than play in intercolle giate contests the actual wording of the rule is as follows no student who at mid semester is defiicient in courses to taling nine 9 hours or more may during the remainder of the semes ter represent the university in any freshman or varsity intercollegiate sport whose first scheduled contest is played after mid-semester deutscher verein elects 12 members supervising architect's department unusually busy this fall due to their hurry to leave the university in june many depart ment heads failed to report needed minor repairs which could easily have been taken care of during the summer months a w litzenberg er supervising architect said today as a result his department is ex ceptionally busy during the first months of the fall semester fewer men than usual were em ployed by the university on the grounds this summer most of the work could be done 20 per cent cheaper if done under contract it was found the work of the few men employed was of a better grade than formerly . okeson's mother-in law hurt while visiting in bethlehem mrs a w bray mother-in-law of water r okeson treasurer of lehigh university is ¦ con fined to her home in old zions ville with an injury to her arm which she suffered through a falj while visiting friends in bethlehem wednesday mrs walter r okeson is ex pected home soon from the uni versity of pennsylvania hospital philadelphia where she has been a patient for a month harrison riviere and rar ing will represent le high at convention nov 6 and 7 delegates will be guests of dickinson fraternities burt h riviere 33 and clifford e harrison 33 will represent le high university at the twelfth an nual convention of the intercolle giate newspaper association of the middle atlantic states friday and saturday nov 6 and 7 at dickin son college carlisle the brown and white will again enter the competitions for excel lency in news and editorial writing riviere national advertising man ager of the brown and white will represent the business staff of the paper and will also speak at the convention harrison a member of the editorial council will represent the editorial staff r h raring editorial manager will also attend the meeting met here last fall the members of the association were the guests of lehigh univer sity at the convention last fall the results in the news competitions af that convention were first place — the dickinsonian dickinson college second place — the brown and white lehigh university third place — the student week ly franklin and marshall college the results in editorial competi tion were first place — the phoenix swarthmore college second place — the • triangle drexel institute third place the gettysburgian gettysburg college last spring the semi-annual i.n a convention was held at the brooklyn polytechnic institute brooklyn • where the brown arid white was represented by seven delegates in this contest the brown and white won its fifth consecu tive prize in the semi-anmii news and editorial competition of the in tercollegiate newspaper associa tion taking second place in the edi torial division program starts friday the program opens friday noon with registration immediately fol lowing this the delegates will be given the opportunity to use the university swimming pool on sat urday morning there will be a meet ing at which student editors and news managers will speak on the problems they face in their work the delegates will be guests at the annual homecoming game between dickinson and gettysburg in the afternoon on saturday night there will be a banquet at which the awards in news and editorial com petitions will be announced the representatives of the various pa pers will be entertained through out the convention by the dickin son fraternities the colleges whose papers are members of the i n a include washington and jefferson buck nell gettysburg westminster sus quehanna franklin and marshall albright stevens tech swarth more haverford juniata lebanon valley cooper union delaware drexel brooklyn tech cedar crest muhlenberg ursinus and lehigh the officers this year are ray mond b counsellor managing edi tor of the dickinsonian president lester m gates george washing ton university vice president wyn field cook business manager of the dickinsonian secretary and treas urer and reese sewell george washington university executive secretary section e wins soph shoot frosh to compete this week section e of the sophomores won the annual class shoot the scores announced last week wer as fol lows section e 884 points captain lindabury section a 883 points captain learned section b 836 points captain hammer section f 803 points captain ruhf sec tion c 799 points captain evans section h 794 points captain okuno section g 751 points cap tain bosak section d 645 points captain laird the average score per man was 133 points scores of the eight highest men are : ruhf 173 points laird 171 bozak 171 okuno 165 britton 165 learned i6sv hiril£i 164 evans 157 these men were awarded their sectiofi prize the high scores of each position wseije^niade by the following men prone peterson 49 points sitting laird 46 kneeling ruhf 43 standi ng ruhf 39 the freshmen will compete in a similar competition this week each of the eight sections will form a team of six men to shoot among themselves and later against the sophomores lehigb-lafayette societies to have joint meeting here the lehigh university and lafay ette college mechanical engineering societies and the lehigh valley section of the american society of mechanical engineers will hold a joint meeting nov 19 in packard laboratory the speakers will be roy v wright president of the a s m e and editor of railway age and w c dickerman m e 96 pres ident of the american locomotive company and a trustee of lehigh university metallurgists plan trip on monday afternoon nov 9 sophomore students in the metal lurgical department will take a trip to the coke plant of the bethlehem steel company in northampton dr gilbert e doan of the metallurgi cal department will go with the sec ond year students officers selected by debating society trafford stations extra police and detectives fewer small boys engaged in the watch your car racket at sat urday's football game as a result of the warning issued by superinten dent of police fred t trafford this warning came after many complaints of outsiders and an edi torial in the brown and white stating that before home games in recent weeks small boys would col lect around the stadium and extort money from visiting motorists for watching their cars if refused they threatened the motorist with flat tires and scratched paint this racket is going to be brok en^up and the work of cleaning up the guilty parties will start tomor row afternoon trafford said fri day i am going to have the pa trol agon close to taylor field a number of extra policemen ajkfail the detectives on duty along the thoroughfares they will be in structed to arrest all persons en gaged in this form of graft i pro pose to make bethlehem a safe place for all motorists and patrons of football games trafford also stated that crashing the gate by the many youngsters will also be stopped and that no one will gain admittance to the grounds without tickets frosh in auto collision both parties freed by judge a coupe driven by frederic a brett 35 collided with a milk truck which was making a short left turn at the corner of fourth street and brodhead avenue at 8:30 p m wednesday the total damage to both cars amounted to 60 brett was driving west on fourth street at about 25 miles per hour when the truck shot out of brod jiead to make a left hand turn the cars came together about the mid dle of the street and the front fen ders and radiators of both cars were damaged in police court monday night each party was ordered to stand his own expenses brett's car was cov ered by insurance the truck was not the autumn number of the re view having gone to press wed nesday will appear some time dur ing the week of nov 9 according to maurice b rosalsky editor in chief the leading story is he shaves more often by bert j friedman 31 it is the biography of a college man and leads up to a startling epi sode in his amorous adventures • platonic love by hayden nor wood 32 relates an imaginary con versation between plato and god this story follows the vein of his last story in which shakespeare talks with god up from piety by invectous is another outstand ing story according to maurice ro salsky the main article the battle of the bottle by john procarp is a revelation of the liquor ring other articles are engineers and writ ing by james b rather jr 32 and oddities of europe by m b rosalsky editorials book reviews art cri ticisms and poems round out the issue prof hughes to represent university at harrisburg widow will receive copy of eulogy and letter from former as sociates at illinois vacancies on committees filled by uhmann and loch a memorial letter eulogizing the late prof w a slater was adopt ed at the regular monthly meeting of the faculty held yesterday after noon in the ahimni memorial build ing the letter as submitted by the committee composed of professors sutherland and stoughton reads as follows : the sudden death of prof wil lis appleford slater on oct 5 1931 has removed from the faculty of lehigh university one of its most distinguished members since his leaving us many expressions of sor row and regard have come from his friends and professional associates all bearing witness to the high place he had attained in the field of struc tural engineering research and to the high place he held in the affec tion and respect of all from his former associates at the university of illinois comes this appreciation admired by co-workers " slater's friends and co-workers admired him for his intense thor oughness and intellectual integrity which permitted him to pass judg ment on no question which he did not completely understand and which carried him on to seemingly tireless efforts in an investigational task he possessed an indomitable will which drove him to perform an amazing list of professional accom plishments carried on through per iods of ill health " but most of all his friends lov ed him for the kindly and unselfish spirit which was an outstanding characteristic of the man thought ful considerate and generous in his professional as well as his per sonal relations he leaves a host of friends who mourn the passing of his friendly spirit his wholeheart ed cooperation and his good sound judgment in the three years he spent with us in bethlehem we came to per ceive the truthfulness of this judg ment he brought the research work of his laboratory to a high plane of excellence which contribut ed greatly tti the good name of le high university we too have felt the charm of his friendly simple way we have lost from our midst an eminent engineer and a good friend whose memory will always be an inspiration to excellence in work and to all that is fine and true in human relations it was resolved that this memor ial be spread on the minutes of the faculty and that a copy of it be for warded to mrs slater two appointments made two appointments were also made at the meeting prof myron j luch was appointed to the com mittee on chapel the vacancy hav ing been left by professor hall who is travelling in europe while on leave of absence prof harry m uhmann was chosen to take pro fessor slater's place on the com mittee on honorary degrees permission for the publication of three theses was also granted by the faculty one of these theses was written by edward p sordon 31 ' and paul w seal 31 on a subject pertaining to electrical engineer ing another entitled judge wil liam allen was written by miss effie kistler a student in the sum mer school the third was written by several students of the chemis try department greek prize problem president richards announced that the university has accepted a small gift from the alpha society an organization composed of indi viduals of hellenic descent the gift to be used as a prize which will be awarded to the student with the best standing in greek for the year 1931 1932 prof percy hughes head of the department of philosophy and edu cation will address the faculty educational club at 4:15 p m mon day in the faculty room of the alumni memorial building on the subject the philosophical aspect of university instruction astoronomical society to meet will plan for visit of scientist the discussion of plans for the entertainment of prof e.w brown noted english astronomer will be the main business of a meetiirtg of the ernest w brown astronomi cal society to be held at 4 p m wednesday nov 4 in room 306 packer hall prof j h ogburn faculty ad visor will dis;uss the sextant and its applications to navigation and exploration coming events honorary german society will initiate nov 1 2 fourteen men were elected to deutscher verein honorary ger man society at its first meeting oct 22 in coppee hall the names of the men will not be announced until they have definitely signified their intention of accepting the bid these men were selected from those who have completed work in the first part of geothe's faust and who have maintained an aver age of b in two years of college german the period of pledgeship will be gin on monday nov 9 and endure until thursday nov 12 when the students will be initiated as a means of recognition during this time the candidate will wear a flow ing red tie a wing collar and a red ambassador sash the formal initiation willbe at a dinner on nov 12 at 6 p m at the butztown hotel prof p m palmer head of the german department will be in charge of the initiation ceremonies and will address the club on his trip abroad this past summer at present there are 11 active members of the society officers of deutscher verein are j l bbugh ner 33 president j j magyar 32 vice president and cecil sobo 32 secretary-treasurer d.o.t choses edward fleisch er president at a meeting of d.0.t honorary debating society held last thurs day the following officers were elected for this year edward fleischer president solomon leib owitt vice president john heiney secretary maurice bernstein man ager of debates the selecting of a coach for the club was discussed but no definite action was taken requests for de bates with numerous colleges in the east have been received among them are william and mary col lege and st joseph's college all men who are interested in competing for positions on the team are requested to attend the next meeting of the club to be held this thursday at 4 p m in room 303 christmas-saucon hall wednesday nov 4 7:30 p m tau beta pi meeting 165 packard laboratory 7:30 p m faculty dramatic club meeting at residence of prof and mrs j l graham 37 e church street reading of it pays to advertise by megrue and hack ett resolutions adopted will be presented for faculty sanc tion after next meeting arcadia acted upon the resolu tions proposed by omicron delta kappa in its reform bill at a meet ing last monday evening the proposals that the uniform letter award the brown key club and the l club be established were carried arcadia voted that the phi club be abolished and that the interfraternity council the sophomore cabinet the cyanide club and lehigh union be retained in regard to this action r k serfass president of omicron del ta kappa stated that the intent of the senior honorary society was not to push the reforms through but to educate the student body as to campus problems in order that they would insist on the reforms through arcadia omicron delta kappa he said has no actual powers but could recommend only that unnne cessary societies and party politics which might give lehigh an unsav ory reputation be abolished cabinet not abolished after extensive discussion it was decided that arcadia was in favor of retaining the sophomore cabinet the reason given for this action was that freshman regulations ne cissitated a body to see that they were enforced as the mere recom mendation that freshmen observe certain rules was not deemed suffi cient to insure obedience william sachs president of ar cadia stated that the uniform letter bill was passed as the members felt that the consensus of the student body the men who have already received a major award and of the alumni was that it was the effort put forth for lehigh and not the box office attraction which should govern the award of letters the interfraternity council was retained because it deals with fra ternities alone through the coun cil the fraternities are already rep resented in arcadia the member ship requirements for arcadia how ever were enlarged upon arcadia resolved that membership shall con sist of the head of each living group one representative for every 30 non-living group men to be elected at the meeting of this group in the spring called by the president of arcadia the four class presi dents the editors-in-chief of publi cations the presidents of mustard and cheese and the combined mu sical clubs and a representative elected from and by the letter men in the university open meetings planned the arcadia meetings shall be open and given full publicity no proxies will be recognized and the roll call will be taken by names in stead of living groups standing committees ahall be organized to cover student activities in publi cations athletic control social ac tivities student clubs booster acti vities mtra-mural sports freshman welfare and elections a slate committee composed of two fraternity men one non-living group representative and one dor mitory representative shall be ap pointed by the president of arca dia to propose membership a man may only be the chairman of one committee or a member of two the president of arcadia shall be elect ed at the first meeting of the new body each year because the lehigh union gives the founder's day dance and be cause although the union has no specific duties it has served in im portant capacities during freshman orientation week it was not abol ished cyanide was preserved as a need was felt for a purely honorary jun ior society however a new so ciety the brown key club made up of assistant managers to assume cyanide's former duty of entertain ing visiting teams was approved phi club abolished the phi club was abolished as the members of arcadia thought that the beginning of the sophomore year was too early a time to award athletic honors the newly organ ized l club will to some extent take the place of the phi club the membership in this society will be automatic with the reception of a continued on page four lehigh will be represented by percy hughes head of the depart ment of philosophy and education at the american state educational congress which will be held wed nesday thursday and friday at harrisburg the purpose of the meeting is to associate the high schools and ele mentary schools of the state with e%ch other and with the institutions of higher learning and to remedy the defects and unify the progress of education the speakers will be gifford pinchot governor of penn sylvania and dr rure state super intendent of education brown and white all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association