Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 13

              tickets for the lehigh-rutgers football game which is to be played saturday on neilson field new brunswick n j will be on sale only at the athletic office in drown hall the tickets are available daily from 8 a m to 5 p m until saturday the office will be open between 8 and 9 a m saturday undergraduates wishing to go to the game may secure a ticket for 1 on presentation of their athletic book with coupon s pi delta epsilon honorary journalistic society would like all juniors and seniors who have been in publication work at le high for at least two years to hand in their points to r c benson chi psi not later than 6 o'clock friday evening pi delta epsilon held its meeting last friday evening in drown hall the purpose of the meeting was to discuss plans for the current year suggestions were made that pi delta epsilon should either consider publish ing a pictorial or give the an nual gridiron banquet this year no decision was reached at this meeting hughes talks on education slate analyzed by chem dept the military science and tactics department announces two changes in the fall drill sche dule a motion picture in the packard laboratory will be sub stituted for the regular drill per iod dec 7 instead of the drill period capt john v lowe will present a motion picture and lec ture on the chemical warfare service dec 14 in the same build ing the commanding general of the third corps area has author ized the lecture and pictures anderson and chesley show errors in previous work lured by a mysterious telephone call john k beidler president of the sophomore class walked into the well laid trap of six masked freshmen friday evening confident of a date because of a phone call from an unknown girl johnny set out for the nativity dance dressed for the occasion but was met at the church door by a group of masked attackers who seized him beidler fought desper ately but was soon overpowered and forced into a nearby automo bile taken to new jersey after his capture the sophomore was bound painted with mercuro chrome and taken . for a hectic ride which terminated in the vicin ity of phillipsburg n j in this town the car was stopped and the captured student released to walk home fortunately beidler was able to catch the last street car and reached his home shortly after mid night it proves that the freshmen are j.k beidler sophomore president given ride and mercurochromed on their toes and showing a little spirit stated beidler commenting on the attack i took it only as a good joke and a lot of fun he also confides that much of the night was consumed in removing mecuro chrome attack a repraisal it is possible that the attack on beidler was a repraisal for the racketeer tactics used by the sopho more council last week when a freshman offender was taken for a ride in the neighborhood of allen town it is at least evident that the freshmen are taking an increased interest in the action of the sopho mores and are introducing a type of banquet feeling between the two classes which has not existed for some time the fact that beidler considers the entire incident mere fun indi cates that the ride had no serious motive but was merely a joke at the expense of the sophomore pres ident dean mcconn declined to make any comment on the incident frosh loans are increased hughes visits state congress shields gives organ recital scholarships for upper classmen show only slight gain represents lehigh at ded ication of penna edu cational building 350 attend first of series on sunday in packer church addresses faculty club on philosophy of uni versity instruction the philosophical aspects of uni versity instruction were explained yesterday yesterday by prof percy hughes head of the department of philosophy and education in an ad dress before the faculty educa tional club in the alumni building professor hughes read a paper on the subject in which he con trasted 1 the instruction that consists of feeding facts with that which educates 2 the instruction which empha sizes information reproduced with that which aims at practical wis dom 3 the instruction that exalts the view of a specialist with the conse quence that the student gets from some of his instructions a varied negation of many of the really es sential aspects of life the philoso phical aspects of instruction said professor hughes tends to break clown these negations and to affirm all the essential aims of life's knowledge the reforms instituted at the university of chicago will be dis cussed at the november meeting of the faculty educational club plans for subsequent meetings are as yet unsettled and will be announced at a later date dr beardslee uses conference system chapel alternate lectures ' abandoned for seminars there are 768 students receiving instruction in ethics and moral phil osophy this year chapel exercises account for 613 while 155 receive instruction in regular classes until recently the 155 students taking class work were divided into five lecture groups dr beardslee has started the use of the seminar system where the student merely at tend informal discussions around a table instead of going to lectures the seminar system is the ideal way to teach declares dr beards lee but highly impractical in a university this system makes it possible for students to receive in dividual instruction and also en courages more creative thinking the engineer's opportunity will be subject of address roy v wright president of the american society of mechanical en gineers and editor of railway age magazine will be one of the speak ers at a joint meeting of the le high university and lafayette col lege mechanical engineering socie ties and the lehigh valley section of the a s m e to be held nov 19 in packard laboratory mr wright will speak on the engineer's opportunity w c dickerman m e 96 president of the american locomotive company and a trustee of lehigh university will speak on the locomotive on the railroads battlefield mr wright born in 1876 re ceived the degree of mechanical en gineer at the university of minne sota in 1898 he is a member of sigma xi he received his early training in locomotive shops and began his editorial career in 1904 has many positions since that time mr wright has held several positions on the staff of railway age at present he is managing editor he has been edi tor of three engineering cyclope dias and is at present a director and secretary of three publishing companies chairman of the board of publications of the national council of the y m c a a mem ber of two human relations com mittees and director of a bank al together mr wright holds posi tions on nine boards and commit tees he has been on seven differ ent committees of the a s m e he contributed a chapter on transportation in the symposium toward civilization and has de livered many addresses on this sub ject mr wright's early work brought him into personal contact with en gineering practice and his duties as editor have acquainted him with engineering ploblems lehigh met society will hear liddell prof percy hughes head of the department of philosophy and edu cation attended the state educa tional congress held in harrisburg last thursday at which time the new educational building of penn sylvania was dedicated the new educational building is a plain massive structure 472 feet long explained prof hughes and contains eight acres of floor space its cost was 5,500,000 the for um of the building which seats 2,000 persons is a marvel from acoustic and artistic standpoints the ceiling represents the heavens and is dotted with over 1,000 illum inated stars while the walls are dec orated with huge maps of human history there is also a library in the building with accommodations for 900,000 volumes this large ex penditure exemplifies the steps be ing taken in the advancement of pennsylvania's educational system an important meeting during the convention was one concerning a new plan of high school instruction for prospective college students the main item in this new form of instruction is a system of self-di rected study which would be very helpful to the college student physics society now in new quarters harold v anderson associate professor of chemistry and ken neth g chesley lehigh institute of research fellow are the authors of an article on ' x-ray analysis of slate in a recent issue of the am erican journal of science evidence is given to show that former anlyses of slate reporting kaolin or andalusite are in error and that the probable aluminum sil icate present is cyanite the pre ponderance of quartz corundum cyanite and mica in slate is estab lished and small quantities of oth er materials are indicated this study of the composition of slate was carried on through the use of x-ray diffraction of finely powdered slate and by passing x rays through a thin slab of the ma terial x-ray diffraction by fine powders is based on the principle that the extremely small crystals have a random orientation and can make all possible angles with the inci dent primary beam of x-rays so that all orders of reflections from all possible atomic planes will take place all the families of atomic planes in the specimen send out their diffracted beams simultaneous ly on a photographic film thus re cording the entire diffraction pat tern characteristic of that particular material the photoghaphic regis trations have the appearance of a line spectrum and from these the constituents of the material can be determined a correlation of the structure of slate as revealed by x-ray analysis to the various physical properties of slate is in progress in the chem ical laboratory schulz discusses sources of legality there was no remarkable increase in the number of applications for scholarships and loans among the upperclassmen at lehigh this year according to natt m emery vice president of the university and chairman of the committee on scho larships and loans there were however unusually many applica tions for financial aid by incoming freshmen twenty-seven free and 75 deferred scholarships were awarded in july by the committee on scholarships and loans which is composed of vice president emery dean c m mcconn and walter r okeson secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees fifty-nine students were granted loans to be paid with in a specified length of time after graduation this number is almost the same as last year although the number of scholarships is slightly greater than that of previous years it is the policy of the university to award scholarships only to those students who otherwise could not afford to obtain a college educa tion several alumni and friends of lehigh have created endowments which permit the university to give this aid to deserving students the slight decrease in enrollment at lehigh this year dr emery stated is largely dut to the inabil ity of students to secure part time employment in bethlehem in for mer years many students were thus able to work their way through college but this year due to bus iness conditions few were able to secure such positions student in collision 75 damage to car approximately 350 students and citizens orßethlehem attended the first of a series of organ recitals presented in the university chapel sunday afternoon by t edgar shields director of music mr shields was assisted by miss mar garet marie preuss contralto included in professor shields program was the irish air and the finale from widor's fourth or gan symphony the outstanding se lection rendered by miss preuss was bohm's still wie die nacht the program in full was as fol lows : 1 10th organ concerto handel 2a nur wed die sehnsucht kennt tschaiokowsky b still wie die nacht bohm miss preuss 3a andantino franck b spring song shelley c melodic friml d northern light , torjussen c irish air from county derry arr by lemare 4a the bending birch the peddler russian folksongs b litany :... schubert c volksliedchen schumann miss preuss 5 finale from 4th organ sym phony widor professor shields expects to present his next recital some time before the close of this semester he is planning a program which will particularly appeal to the stu dents in this next recital he will be assisted by an instrumentalist probably a violinist or a cellist supply bureau organized in 1908 and carried on as student activity mrs catharine morris wright will personally attend the exhibition of her paintings at the art gallery of the university library at 3 p m sunday nov 15 garth a how land assistant professor of fine arts announced today these paintings valued at more than 15,000 will be exhibited every afternoon this week the 44 paintings a collection of oils water colors and pastels are traveling a circuit of eastern cities having been lately exhibited in bos ton they will go to philadelphia from here the art gallery will be open to the public from 3 to 6 p.m weekdays and from 2 to 6 p m sunday mrs wright was born in 1899 in philadelphia where she later stu died lanscape under henry b snell portraiture under leopold seyffert and etching under joseph pennell she is a member of the new york water color club american water color society philadelphia water color club baltimore water color club newport art association and american federation of arts mrs wright has also written a book of poems the simple nun uses telegraph poles mrs wright has often been crit icized for including unattractive features such as telegraph poles in her paintings professor howland said she does not paint telegraph poles for the sake of painting them but if she thinks they will add real ism to the scene she includes them in water scenes of other painters the water appears as a hard glassy surface mrs wright gives the impression of depth to the water she paints harvey m watts in the august art and archaeologly says of mrs wright when it comes to figures in portraits her view would seem to be that of sargent and the am erican school generally that the re velation of character comes from presenting the thing observed with keenness and not too much fuss over the actual interpretation soul mr watts a graduate of lafayette has for years been mrs wright's critic his portrait the critic is in the collection mrs wright's father harrison s morris was formerly director of pennsylvania academy of fine arts and american commissioner of fine arts at the international ex position at rome in 1911 oil paintings on view the oil paintings in the collection are modonna with girl child mud midsummer evening anna and kit big rock the green garage irish jean gossip in the garden winter wave sleet storm por trait of mrs edward p moulinier the critic ingoing surge spring at our house gully mildred in blue rocking and mildred in the big blue coat the water color paintings are the old landmark brick and ivy clad in white oil sail loft new port the hospitable door tene ments on duke st winter sun shine the alley horsehead cave sunny fishing snow white sea gull deep quarry us fishing pirate's delight cormorant cliff stormy fishing afternoon sun light rocky rift autumn mist outgoing wave swirl brick house st michael's and green dress the three pastels in the collec tion are mildred joan and water ing crum becker speak bailey 34 and four other le high men involved a new chevrolet driven by ben jamin bailey 34 collided with an other car in clinton n j at 6:15 p m.'last saturday causing a dam age of about 75 to bailey's car the chevrolet was following a sec ond car which made a sharp left turn causing a buick that was com ing downhill in the oposite direc tion to put its brakes on and turn left immediately in an effort to avoid striking the second car the second car escaped but the chev rolet and the buick collided damag ing both cars wrecking the right front wheel and fender of bailey's car the students were not involved in any court proceedings as the owner of the buick agreed to han dle the whole situation four other lehigh students besides bailey were in the car at the time bidwell to give lecture prof c c bidwell head of the department of physics will speak on demonstrations with electric waves at a meeting of the lehigh valley amateur radio league at 8 o'clock friday evening in the main lecture room of the physics build ing knutson and easton in charge of rearranging equipment the short wave station of the radio society will be placed in op eration very soon the equipment has been moved from the physics laboratory to an apparatus room on the fifth floor of packard laboratory and has been entirely rearranged h c knutson instructor in elec trical engineering and e c eas ton graduate assistant in electrical engineering are in charge of the re arrangement of the equipment and are assisting in renewing interest in the meetings of the society the first of these will be held at 7:30 p m thursday evening and all those who are interested in radio are invited operation of the short wave sta tion will begin shortly and code classes will be held speakers for the monthly meetings of the so ciety are now being secured the primary purpose of the so ciety is to experiment with wireless telephony but regular schedules with other colleges and prep schools in the country have been formed in this way the society will be able to exchange news with these insti tutions and will advertise the uni versity subject is half cejitury of metal production trends donald m liddell prominent en gineer will address the lehigh metallurgical society at 8 p m nov 12 in room 301 williams hall mr liddell will address the so ciety on a half century of metal production trends president j.e angle met.e 32 announced yester day mr liddell has been associat ed with nine companies in the course of 30 years in metallurgical engineering and was selected as chief engineer on the war credits board during the world war he has invented several processes for copper refining and stucco work he is the author of three widely used works on chemical and metal lurgical engineering and was for merly editor of the engineering and mining journal he is a mem ber of phi beta kappa and beta theta pi he is also the author of over 100 mining articles newtonian society members to give speeches at meeting the newtonian mathematical so ciety will have its monthly meet ing 7:30 p m wednesday in room 208 packard laboratory two stu dents and an instructor will give short sketches of the lives of famous mathematicians e l wildman 34 will speak on copnerico j j pro copio on galileo and h s stan ley of the mathematics department on kepler chem society to hear bunce dr e h bunce chief of the re search division of the new jersey zinc company will address the members of the lehigh students chemical society at the regular monthly meeting at 7:30 p m thursday nov 19 in the chemis try lecture room dr bunce has chosen zinc pigments as his sub ject larkins enjoying cruise in a letter to the members of the mechanical engineering department staff prof fred v larkin said that he and mrs larkin were en joying summer weather aboard the liner javanese prince bound for yokohama japan after visiting japan the larkins will tour china india and europe omicron delta kappa will initiate three men thursday states that non-political asso ciations have rights the state is not the sole source of legality but various non-politi cal associations of men such as trade unions have the rights and duties not dependent upon recgoni tion by the state was part of the address delivered by ernst b schulz associate professor of po litical science to a group of history majors friday evening at the home of prof charles fox professor schulz quoted various theories of political thought from such writers as g d cole guild so cialist hugo krabbe and leon duguit jurists and harold laski professor of political science these men have advanced criticism of the traditional doctrine of state sover eignty which is supported by the orthodox political monists their chief concern is to demon strate that the state is not the sole source of legality but that is the organized sense of right of individ uals of the community the state is under the law instead of above the law according to these writers approximately is graduate stu dents in history many of whom are studying for their masters degree in history attended the first monthly meeting of the year deutscher verein will initiate at butztown hotel thursday deutseher verein honorary ger man society will initiate thursday evening nov 12 at the butzetown hotel professor palmer head of the german department will be in charge of the initiation ceremonies and will give a talk on his trip in germany thirteen men were elected to the society but the names of the men will not be announced until they have definitely signified their inten tion of accepting the bid at pres ent there are 11 active members of the society coming events m address blake society pre-meds and eta sigma phi prof e l crum spoke on the practical philosophy of seneca and prof e c becker gave a talk on the practical import if atyj of modern philosophy at a com bined meeting of the robert w blake society pre-medical and eta sigma phi honorary classical fra ternity the combined meeting was held at the home of prof percy hughes 819 tioga avenue about 30 students and nine mem bers of the faculty attended includ ing prof a ford prof e h riley prof p m palmer prof l p lafferty prof h w wright prof r h crum prof j l gra ham prof f c becker and prof e l crum new directory on sale the 1931 edition of the univer sity directory was put on sale at the supply bureau in the alumni mem orial building yesterday morning the new edition sells for 50c at the bureau and ssc if sent by mail so when drown memorial hall was dedicated in 1908 and the store was • moved from its original posi tion to a new location in the base ment of that building the student body voted to have the university take the management this trans ference of authority over the bureau was totally voluntary on the part of the student body profits were now directed to the maintenance of drown memorial hall sales amounted to 56,184.90 at that time sales in the bureau amounted to an average of 13,000 per year last year sales in the supply bureau amounted to 56,184.40 mr ashbaugh was the first man ager of the store for the university in addition to his other duties he served in that capacity from 1908 to 1919 variety was gradually add ed to the merchanside offered for sale at first only books were sold later functions of the bureau were increased to include the sale of pennants fraternity jewelry sta tionary etc in 1920 e h baderschneider was installed as manager and the store was continued under the su pervision of the business depart ment of the university four years later in 1924 the bu reau was again moved this time to its present location in the alumni memorial building earliest mention of the supply bureau can be found in the epitome of 1894 officers that year were charles j o'neil president james e brooks treasurer and dixon h kautz secretary franklin bak er jr 95 is listed as manager robert raring 32 charles hal sted 33 and carl giegerich 32 will be initiated into omicron delta kappa national honorary fraternity thursday night before dinner at chi psi lodge a regular meeting of o d k will follow the dinner alumni will hold pep meeting the northeastern pennsylvania alumni club will give a dinner meet ing nov 18 at the hotel casey scranton the program will be in the form of a pep meeting for the dfefayette game the speakers from bethlehem will be dr neil car others andrew buchanan alumni secretary chuck hess assistant football coach and bill sher idan trainer by edward fleischer a ringing of telephone bells frederick r ashbaugh bursar and purchasing agent of lehigh university calling natt m emery vice president and comptroller calling walter r okeson secre tary and treasurer . . . calling john e stocker associate profes sor of mathematics and astronomy . . . calling calling and it all began with a simple query can you tell me when the lehigh supply bureau was first or ganized can you by whom where why and how huh organized dec 9 1892 it was founded by a group of students who thought they were being over charged in the local book store after much agitation and repeated requests the university finally granted the students a rqom free pi charge on the east end of the first floor of what is now christ mas-saucon hall book store was activity the book store was run in its in fancy as an organized student ac tivity twelve students elected by the student body were directors of the bureau this number included a manager and an assistant manager the assistant was always a mem ber of the junior class in his sen ior year he was automatically pro moted to the managership as for the profits — well they were merely divided between the manager and his assistant with such a luscious prize serv ing as temptation it wasn't long before the organization ran into dif ficulties — due principally to inef ficient and political handling sixth consecutive convention at which paper wins award 23 out of 30 association mem bers represented at dickin son first place in the editorial com petition and second place in the news excellence competition were awarded brown and white satur day at the semi-annual convention of the intercollegiate newspaper association at dickinson college this marked the sixth consecu tive convention at which the brown and white has won an award it is the first time the paper has won a first place robert h raring 32 burt h riviere 33 and clifford e harri son 33 were the local delegates twenty-three of the thirty member papers were represented the complete results of the edi torial competition were announced at the convention banquet saturday evening at the molly pitcher hotel in carlisle by allen thompson editor of the carlisle sentinel first place brown and white second place pitt weekly third place bucknellian honorable mention juniatan brown and white praised mr thompson praised the brown and white for the variety of its editorial topics and especially com mented the paper for its editorial on thomas a edison v h berghause jr managing editor of the harrisburg evening news and judge of the news excel lence competition selected the fol lowing winners first place pitt weekly second place brown and white third place f & m weekly honorable mention bucknellian the convention included two business sessions a meeting for the presentation of student papers and the discussion of mutual problems a smoker at the sigma chi frater nity the dickinson - gettysburg football game and the formal ban quet at different sessions spoke fred fuller shedd editor of the phila delphia evening bulletin mor ton s rutsky of the collegiate special advertising agency john r hood director of the bureau of publications commonwealth of pennsylvania and mr thompson and mr berghause mr gilbert malcolm treasurer of dickinson college was the toastmaster of the banquet college man essential mr shedd was the main speaker of the convention he stated em phatically that contrary to popular belief the newspaper profession of today realizes that college-trained men are absolutely essential for the advancement of journalism journalism may be likened to engineering he stated just as the day of the self-taught engineer is over so is the day of the self taught journalist in a few years only college - trained men will be accepted for even the minor reper torial positions on the paper he also exploded the fallacy that newspapermen are a carefree hap py-go-lucky bunch attracted to a profitless profession by its fascina tion and adventure journalists of today are the greatest force in the world for forming public opinion he explained and it is public opin ion not laws that is necessary to bring about the social political and economic reforms that are so sorely needed today advocates originality mr hood who until recently was an associated press official strong ly advocated originality among the college papers the newspaper world is ruled by traditions he explained there have been no great changes within the past ten years and unless college newspapers will experiment with their make-up headline construction and writing style there will be no change for the next ten the convention elected william s maulsby head of the department of journalism at the university of pittsburgh as executive secretary to succeed reese l sewell of george washington university haverford and swarthmore will combine as hosts to the spring con vention of the association wednesday nov 11 7:30 p m meeting of the newton ian society room 208 packard laboratory 7:30 p m meeting of the physics club physics lecture room talk by dr bidwell followed by so cial hour thursday nov 12 7:30 p m meeting of the radio society packard laboratory bethlehem pa tuesday november 10 1931 vol xxxix no 1 3 brown and white rutgers football tickets now on sale at drown hall journalism society requests junior senior point lists artist to see her picture exhibit here price — five cents roy v.wright will address me societies brown and white wins two prices atl n.a meeting lafayette and lehigh me chanical engineers com bine with lehigh val ley a.s.m.e m.s & t changes schedule lehigh gets first place in editorial division and second in news com petitions catharine morris wright will visit 1 5,000 dis play of her paintings in library nov 1 5 art gallery open 3 to 6 p m daily and 2 to 5 p.m sunday member intercollegiate newspafer association all the lehigh news first