Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 14

              is corporation president author of several text books address will discuss rise and development of industry dean sanctions haircutting for making third offense tickets for the freshman one act plays to be presented mon day nov 23 at drown hall may be obtained at the office of the lehigh union starting monday nov 16 the plays to be given under the sponsorship of the mustard and cheese club are he by eugene o'neill at the telephone by andre de lords and the great kather ine by george bernard shaw under the subsidation plan of the university one ticket is given to each student in the school free of charge a bursar's receipt will be necessary to obtain this ticket the annual fall inspection of the lehigh r.o.t.c unit will be held monday and tuesday nov 16 and 17 col ralph h leavitt third corps area in spector will inspect the unit on monday during the drill period at drill companies e f and g will do close order drill com panies a and b will do extended order drill and company c will pitch tents colonel leavitt will visit both the basic and advanced classes on monday and tuesday he will also inspect the military property and records chemists get new device bucknell fetes new president how about class honors ap proximately 70 members of the freshman and sophomore classes will be cited for high scholastic standing next founder's day and far-sighted students are already working toward this goal each year all first and second year men who have had average grades of b or above are upon the recommendation of the dean and the vote of the faculty given class honors and have their names read at the founder's day gradu ation exercises the names of the honored students are also written in the university register and no tices are sent to the student's home as well as to the principal of his preparatory school the man who gets honors is a man who has a natural aptitude for scholastic work states associate dean g b curtis not all stu dents are endowed with the ability to go to college and win honors the dean continues if a given individual has that ability regular habits of study and punctuality in regard to his home work sustained honor men have natural aptitude for scholarship curtis says throughout the year it will result in honor grades dean curtis believes that persis tent application and concentration upon one's work is often more fruitful than the spontaneous ef forts of a brilliant individual who devotes very little of his time to actual study but depends upon his ability to pull him through a brilliant student who will apply himself he explains always comes out on the top but one of the greatest tragedies of college life is the number of brilliant men who fail because of a lack of study of the 144 students to receive class honors during the past two years 103 were engineers while arts students held second place for the upper classmen gradu ation honors are the goal for the harder scholastic effort graduates who average grades for the final two years of work have been 3 4 or 4.5 receive their degrees with honors with high honors or with highest honors respectively all honors are computed on the scale a equals 5 b equals 3 c equals 2 and d equals 1 birth of poet is not feted to form l at final game president richards repre sents lehigh at installa tion ceremony pres charles r richards repre sented lehigh university at the in auguration of dr homer p rain ey as president of bucknell univer sity at lewisburg this morning presidents of 42 colleges together with delegates from 70 other col leges and universities including 30 schools in pennsylvania marched in the academic procession preceed ing the installation ceremony rep resentatives from various learned societies and foundations also at tended judge j warren davis of tren ton acting president of the buck nell board of trustees inducted dr rainey into the presidency dr henry w a hanson president of gettysburg college and dr albert w beaven president of the col gate-rochester divinity school spoke at the exercises a college breakfast opened the day's activities this afternoon the visiting delegates made an inspec tion tour of the campus after which an informal tea was given in honor of dr and mrs rainey this evening dr and mrs rainey hold their annual reception for visiting alumni and representatives from the various colleges the rise and development of the south since pre-civil war days will be described by george d harmon associate professor of history in a lecture on the new south at 8 p m monday in packard auditor ium professor harmon's lecture will be the first of the fourth annual se ries of college lectures given by faculty members the lectures are public and usually attract large numbers of people from bethlehem and vicinity man ynortherners believe that it is only recently that the south has made any progress in manufactur ing and industry declared dr harmon in an interview but such is not the case the south is man ufacturing but a few per cent more of the nation's manufactured goods than it produced in 1860 the south has progressed but so have the oth er sections of the country misconceptions cited many misconceptions about the south will be discussed by dr har mon who will consider the south from political educational and ag rictultural angles as well as from the industrial side professor harmon is a southern er he was born in north carolina and spent his early years there he was educated at duke university at durham n c one of the leading universities of the south from this university dr harmon receiv ed the degree of bachelor of arts in 1921 and the degree of master of arts in 1921 and the degree of mas ter of arts in 1928 he received his doctorate from the university of pennsylvania in 1930 in 1925 dr harmon came to le high as instructor of political sci ence in 19x9 he became assistant professor of iiistory and in septem ber of this year associate professor of history deutscher verein initiates four men chinese lehigh club to receive larkins laboratory receives wheatstone bridge valued at 600 the physical chemistry laboratory has recently received a new wheat stone bridge valued at 600 which will be used in precise temperature measurement the bridge together with a platinum resistance thermo meter is almost identical to the temperature measuring apparatus of the united states bureau of stan dards the new wheatstone bridge is an elaborate model of a simple lab oratory instrument the entire equipment is immersed in oil which is kept at the same temperature a temperature of about 25 degrees centigrade is maintained by a ther mostat which controls light bulbs to furnish the heat a metallic case effectively shields the equipment from electric disturbances works in calorimeter all measuring work must be done in an adabiatic calorimeter a combination of a sensitive thermo couple a galvanometer and a pho to electric cell this keeps an ex ternal bath of water within one tenth of a degree of the tempera ture of the reaction chamber the instrument will be used mostly by the student research council fellowship foundation with this apparatus the chemistry department expects to make great strides forward in the field of hy dration physical chemistry accord ing to prof w w ewing this field covers practical chemistry from the setting of plaster of paris to the sticking of salt in the salt shaker special cheering section to use colored cards at lafayette contest - an innovation in cheering meth ods at lehigh will be used at the lafayette game a large group of men sitting in special positions in the cheering section and pro vided with large brown and white cardboards will form a huge living letter l according to a m thorne head cheerleader j g petrikin graduate manager of athletics has set aside a block of seats six places wide and runn ing the entire height of the stand and three rows one section wide running across the base of the stand to be used for this purpose the seats are in the midst of the cheering section to accomplish the undertaking 186 men will be needed the men volunteering for this work will have a short practice at 4 p m friday nov 20 in the stadium any man may participate in this work by placing his name and ad dress upon the lafayette game coupon in his athletic book and giving it to a m thorne taylor hall section d or to any of the other cheer leaders before monday nov 16 lines guide drivers the continual rise of the produc tion of the metals copper iron lead and zinc from 1871 to 1930 has been phenomenal according to donald m liddell who addressed the metallurgical society last evening in williams hall he displayed a number of graphs to illustrate the upward production trends of these metals copper has received more atten tion from the statisticians than any other metal d m liddell said it has been found that during the 15-year period between 1898 and 1913 the production of copper has been doubled zinc was found to have the most regular upward trend and was most affected by the world war holds many offices mr liddell is president of the calvert court company vice pres ident of the jorden stabler com pany and he holds offices in many other cencerns he is the author of several books on metallurgy and chemistry he is a consulting en gineer and was the chief engineer in the war credits building in wash ington during the world war lead suffered the least during the war mr liddell stated the production of zinc dropped sharply as a result of the war while cop per was more constant than either the production of steel fell during the war the reason for the fall of the manufacture of steel seemed to be caused by the lack of a civilian market he remarked leads discussion at the close of his speech mr liddell invited an informal discus sion on current metallurgical top ics one of the questions asked mr liddell was if china and japan declared war what would be the effect on the consumption of these metals mr liddell responded that there would be a marked in crease in the consumption of cop per and a decrease in the consump tion of iron one of the finest steel plants in the world has been built in russia far from the borders of foreign countries if the russian five year plan is successful there will prob ably be a great increase in the out put of steel mr liddell said john angel president of the me tallurgical society introduced mr liddell two lehigh clubs plan football rallies senior class ballots mailed yesterday bimellenium of vergil not formally recog nized although 1931 is actually the 2000 th anniversary of the birthday of the poet vergil lehigh will not hold any celebration other than the exhibition of vergilian works and material of corresponding interest in the university library a celebration was held last year featuring an address by john er skine professor of english at columbia university and well known novelist his topic was ver gil after two thousand years and his talk was sponsored by eta sigma phi national classical fra ternity the exercises were held last year because of a discrepancy in our modern calendar between 1 b c and 1 a d there is no year zero the makers of our calendars for got to take this fact into consid eration consequently the error the present exhibit in the treas ure room consists of early manus scripts original editions in latin modern illustrative material and books published in connection with vergil a large part of the dis play is composed of rare old edi tions of vergil recently acquired at a cost of 5000 an interesting feature of the ex hibition is a large folio of copper plates printed in 1741 which is a reproduction of the famous fourth century manuscript of vergil this folio contains beautiful roman il lustrations of vergil's poems scranton and philadelphia to meet on nov 1 8 and 1 9 report corrected a committee of five sophomores and five freshmen met last wed nesday with dean mcconn to for mulate plans for the fair and rea sonable handling of the matter of freshman regulations it was decided at the meeting that offenses of the freshmen should be punished according to the ser iousness of the offense there will be three different punishments for a first offense a freshman up be fore the council for the first time may either be severely warned given work to do in the gym at the time of a game or he may be ob liged to wear green socks and a green tie for a definite length of time for a second offense any one of the first three penalties may be in flicted or the defendant may be taken for a ride and left to his own means of returning home for committing a third offense or for refusing to submit to the punish ment of a previous offense the pen alty will be any one of the first four or a freshman may have an l shaved in his hair propose punishments the dean at first explained the purpose of the meeting and pointed out the need of some definite pun ishments for certain offenses he proposed a list of punishments as suggestions and opened a general discussions on the problem of when to use there punishments it was finally after much discus sion that the council should have the privilege of dealing out punish ment according to the seriousness of the offense as the council sees fit this proposal was unanimously favored by all those present at the meeting j k beidler president of the sophomore class a f list vice president l e robbins secre tary c a turner jr and d g wright were on the sophomore committee those representing the freshman class were r a stock ton freshman class committee chairman parker berg j f brownlee hamil reidy and lewis roberts jr the new system of punishment was formally approved by the council at the meeting last night the freshmen who will attend the meetings will have the right to speak but no right to vote they will be permitted to express their opinions if they think that the pun ishment dealt out by the council is too severe the freshman class committee will attend the council meeting next week the representatives of the freshman class at future meet ings will be appointed later three freshmen were arraigned before the council meeting last night on the first offense and were warned all three freshmen were accused of not saying hello union will conduct red cross drive te-ching yen c.e.'ol has arranged gathering plans are now being carried out by the chinese lehigh club for a reception for prof and mrs f v larkin according to a letter re ceived in the alumni office recently ' in response to a suggestion made by a e buchanan alumni secre tary te-ching yen c e 01 minister of railways in the repub lic of china has arranged for a gathering of all lehigh graduates now living in china in addition to the reception planned for the larkins who are now enjoying a world cruise it is hoped that they may be shown the new capital nanking the chinese lehigh club is under the direction of s k haung e m 11 president and h tsai e m 19 secretary improvement will be extended to all campus turns a w litzenberger superinten dent of buildings stated that white lines will be used to direct traffic away from the alumni memorial drive he said next summer the university expects to paint white lines on all the turns in the roads through sayre park the alumni memorial drive is to be used by pedestrians only and if it is necessary a sign will be put in front of the white concrete balls to guide drivers at night traffic is to be directed to the right along side the library instead of through the drive officers for the coming year elected by physics society prof c c bidwell director of the curriculum in engineering phy sics described the machines and tools used by the ancients in a talk to the physics club wednesday night in the physics building the talk was illustrated with slides showing machines used by the egyptians greeks and romans the stone age man used the ax hammer saw chisel and drill the most common tools today accord ing to professor bidwell the mill stones we use today are no more advanced than those used in the stone age the stone age man had some knowledge of both spinning and weaving although he did not have the potter's wheel the stone age man made a great deal of pot tery according to professor bid well pottery is ancient pottery which dates back to about 8,000 b c has been found in turkestan and in susa about 100 miles north of the persian gulf pieces have been found which prove that the potter's wheel came into the world at the dawn of history according to professor bidwell about the same time the wheel was first used as a means of trans portation pictures of carts have been found on tablets dating back to 3,500 b c the egyptians used the inclined plane rollers ropes and wedges in the building of the pyramids ac cording to professor bidwell the block and tackle invented by the greeks between the 6th and 4th century b c was first described by aristole about 400 b c in his mechanics during the building of the temple of ephesus nothing was known of the use of the block and tackle the use of the block and tackle wheel and axle and the windlass was first described by vitruvius the great roman engineer accord ing to professor bidwell vitruvius also described archimedes prin ciple and the application of the wa terwheej as a means of hoisting wa ter to a higher level water clocks used " the romans told time by sun dials and water clocks the water clock was a simple device in which a pointer was moved by a float which slowly rose as the jar was filled by dropping water these were the earliest accurate ways of telling time according to dr bid well professor bidwell described the development of roman machinery and showed pictures of their cata pults these catapults could project an arrow weighing more than half a pound 2,000 feet at the normal range of 1,200 feet the arrow would penetrate a two-inch board after the speech of the physics club elected officers for the com ing year the men elected are d.l macadam 32 president a m thorne 32 vice president melvin dresher 33 secretary and j m lohse 33 treasurer competitions open for b & w staff with the football spirit of the coming lehigh-lafayette game as a background the scranton and philadelphia lehigh clubs will hold meetings november 18 and 19 re spectively the meeting of the philadelphia lehigh club will be in the form of beat lafayette lobster dinner and will be held at bookbinder's restaurant this annual gathering will be addressed by billy sheri dan wrestling coach and promi nent lehigh graduates the scranton group of alumni will meet at the hotel casey to discuss the alma mater sing a few songs and do a little bulling according to announcements from the banquet committee neil car others head of the college of busi ness administration billy sheridan and chuck hess assistant football coach will address the meeting gym class forms fine of 1 to be imposed if not returned by dec 5 senior class ballots were mailed to all members of the senior class yesterday the ballots are to be returned to the epitome office by december 5 in the event that the ballots are not in by december 5 there will be a 1 fine and if they do not come in before february 6 there will be as 2 fine no ballots will be accepted after february 20 up to the present time nearly all the engineering students have had their pictures taken the ap pointments for the business stu dents are being filled at present and those of the arts students will be taken care of some time next week all seniors are asked to cooper ate with the epitome board in making the epitome a success any snapshots of seniors will be greatly appreciated by the board prompt attention to the ballots will not only help the board but will be a saving for every senior e schulz explains misquotation of political view the article in the tuesday issue of the brown and white reporting the address by ernest b schulz as sociate professor of political sci ence to the graduate students his tory club last friday erroneously attributed to professor schulz a view which is held by some of the writers whose political theories were presented that the state is not the sole source of legality but various non political associations of men such as trade unions have the rights and duties not dependent upon rec ognition by the state is a doctrine advanced by g d cole h j las ki and others of the pluralistic school of political thought this does not represent the view of the speaker newtonians meet mets visit coke plant wildman procopio and stanley speak to society two students and a faculty member addressed the newtonian society wednesday evening in room 208 packard laboratory eugene wildman spoke on copernicus a great mathematician j j procopio also spoke on gali leo and his works hugh s stanley an assistant in the mathe matics department gave a short talk on kepler life saving emblems ready all students who passed the american red cross life saving tests last spring can obtain their emblems from r.s degray chem istry instructor in the electro chemistry laboratory organization aims at 1 00 per cent student membership the lehigh union will assume entire responsibility for the red cross drive on the campus accord ing to a r baldwin president of the union an effort will be made to gain 100 per cent student mem bership the drive which will begin soon in conjunction with the bethlehem red cross activities will be organ ized with the aid of the heads of the living groups buttons and membership blanks wil be distri buted early next week mr bald win announced members of the senior cabinet will be designated to approach all heads of departments in the univer sity in order to assist the union to gain a high percentage of subscrip tion among the faculty the mem bership fee is to be 1 although any contribution will be welcomed and merit a button mr baldwin sated r p taylor chairman and g.l brossman vice chairman of the bethlehem chapter of the american red cross announced that the or ganization was assuming much greater responsibility than usual in grappling with the present unem ployment situation of the current depression theta xi initiates two arthur j allen i e 34 and walter t plum bus 34 were for mally initiated into the theta xi fraternity last friday evening dr g e doan conducts sopho mores on inspection trip sophomore students in the metal lurgical department made a trip to the coke plant of the bethlehem steel company northampton this afternoon dr gilbert e doan as sociate professor of metallurgy conducted the tour the students were shown the un loading of the coal cars and the ex traction of the white-hot coke from the ovens as well as the other pro cesses in the conversion of coal into coke sigma chi pledges two sigma chi announces the pledg ing of thomas w burke arts 34 and john t schleid bus 35 - the open season for question naires is on last year this form of pastime reached unprecedented heights and it was common to see grown men wend their way along the highways and byways of great metropoli mumbling to themselves in an effort to solve the momentous question of who originated the phrase aw nerts ", or and this was asked by a famous and alleg edly intelligent literary luminary what are the names of five makes of english motor cars this year the first gun was fired by the messrs l l and gwinn thurston of the university of chi cago aided and abetted by prof lewis o anderson of the univer sity of south dakota the exami nation was sponsored by the amer ican council on education al though no data is available to prove whether or not the results justified the statement attributed to that body which was quoted in a phila delphia paper as having lent its aid to the proposition because it believed the questionnaire would test the intellectual attainment of first year college men the ques tions speak for themselves according to the quiz one has reached the height of intelligence if he can tell what the phrase rel sixen talbec means in english actually it means that was im pressive and there is little ques tion according to contemporary commentators about the intelli questionnaire season opens who originated aw nertz gence of any who could dope this out not only say some is the successfuf answer an indication of a high intellectual standard but is undoubtedly combined with this an amazing imagination similarly does the interpretation of ga toyo to mean he agrees place one on a mental plane far above the man on the street the questions were not all as simple as this mathematical abil ity also was tested consider then the importance of the following if a crib had contained three times as much corn and the corn had been used only one third as fast as it was used the corn would have lasted eleven weeks and four days how many days did the corn last it is aid that in the main the answer to this question read too long or not long enough many of the students asked the question proved their intellectual superiority by refusing to be bothered at all with it and answered not at all one school of thought affirms that the latter plan is by far the most intellectual or intelligent course a second test of mathematical and reasoning ability to the com petitors of which there were 35,000 read if nine apples are worth seven peaches and five peaches are worth three oranges what per cent of an orange is worth an apple the answer is one half of one per cent by volume new men will fill 1 2 positions to be open in february twelve positions on the brown and white staff will be opened to competition next week all of these offices will be vacant in february any man who has served for at least two semesters on the paper is eligible for the competitions and can receive application blanks from the present news manager james b rather the elective positions open to competition are news manager editorial manager make up editor sporting editor and two news edi tors the men to fill these positions will be elected from those who com pete by the brown and white ex ecutive committee the elections be ing approved by the board of pub lications the appointive positions open are four assistant news edi tors and two assistant sporting editors the men for these posi tions will be selected by the brown and white executive committee the rulings for the competitions in the news department will be for mulated by j b rather and will be posted in the brown and white room next week the rules for the competition as editorial manager will be formulated by r h rar ing and will also be posted next week bartlett to instruct men in leader ship activities professor bartlett of the physi cal education department is form ing a class for the instruction of gymnasium leaders men inter ested or experienced in teaching apparatus stunts tumbling and jumping should see professor bart lett and arrange hours classes will be held every afternoon and if necessary in the morning those who serve diligently throughout the year will be awarded gold medals for leadership the subjects studied will include apparatus stunts tumbling strength tests posture exercises safety skill medicine ball exercises game fundamentals running and jump ing and management of sports at least 35 good men are wanted for training three groups will be formed consisting of fraternity dormitory and independent lead ers german society honors stu dents at banquet nov 1 2 four students were initiated into deutscher verein honorary ger man society last evening at a ban quet in the butztown hotel the new members are j c lewis 33 d c stein 34 k r schneck 33 r e imhof 32 additional candidates will be pledg ed at the next meeting of the society on thursday december 10 in coppee hall prof p m palmer head of the german department and faculty advisor of deutscher verein was in charge of the initiation cere monies he addressed the club on his trip to germany this past sum mer welcoming speeches were given by robert p moore asso ciate professor of german f o kegel assistant professor of ger man g w hartzell graduate as sistant in german there are now 13 men in the society including the initiates officers of deutscher verein are j l boughner 33 president j j magyr 32 vice president and cecil sobo 32 secretary-treasurer the club is planning an active season and expects to provide some entertainment at each monthly meeting according to cecil sobo lehigh men attend a i e e meeting will hear talk on power sys tem interconnections six lehigh seniors and three pro fessors are attending the meeting of the lehigh valley section of the a i e e at reading this eve ning the meeting will open with din ner at the berkshire hotel follow ing the dinner george m keenan superintendent of the new jersey and pennsylvania power intercon nection company will address the assembly on interconnections of power systems at 9:15 p m the meeting will adjourn to the metro politan edison company where the members of the institute will in spect the service station and load dispatch equipment of this com pany the following lehigh men are at tending the meeting prof s s seyfert prof h d gruber prof n s hibshman john brown carl banks lloyd underwood george kaleda and joseph grinevich bethlehem pa friday november 13 1931 col r h leavitt to inspect r.o.t.c unit next week vol xxxix no 14 bidwell tells of machines ancients used liddell cites marked rise in production group meets to formulate frosh rules tickets for m and c plays on sale at drown hall price — five cents brown and white prof harmon will describe new south tells metallurgical socie ty of increased metahc output last night in williams hall committee of freshmen and sophomores con vene with mcconn on standardized penalties fourth annual college lecture series to begin monday evening in packard auditorium attributes early origin to potter's wheel inclin ed plane block and tackle member intercollegiate newspaper association all the i lehigh news first