Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 27

              kuehmann german uni versity professor will lecture on works of german poet marino calls conditions better than pre-war lauds leadership of mussolini harmon describes prog ress initiated by lee fort delivers eulogy before southern club addresses faculty women's club tuesday in drown hall celebration will be held on april 1 in packard lab society has annual dinner tuesday in hotel bethlehem measurements for senior blaz ers will be taken at the supply bureau monday tuesday and wednesday feb 8 9 an 10 from 9:30 a m to 5 p m mr stanford^canter of the stanford tayloring company will be there to take the measurements per sonally the deposit necessary to place the order is 4 on the total price of 7.25 delivery and fittings of the finished blazers will be made about march 1 registration for tlje second semester will begin friday feb 5 with the registration of the freshmen in the morning soph omores will register in the after noon of the same day juniors will register saturday at 8 a m and the seniors at 10:30 a m the semester's marks will be released on feb 4 one copy be ing sent to the home and one to the living quarters of each up perclassman freshmen will re ceive their marks when they re gister festival gets new soloists club selects victory song new york alumni group picks hoffman's piece from 23 submitted eight concert singers to make first appear ances in bach choir colonel deems will give illus trated talk scabbard and blade national honorary military society will spon sor a lecture to be given by col clarence deems jr at 8 o'clock thursday evening feb 11 in pack ard auditorium the lecture will be illustrated colonel deems was graduated from west point in 1900 as a lieu tenant of artillery and retired in 1929 as a colonel of artilleyy due to physical disability he had the usual service of an army officer prior to the world war during the war he commanded a regiment of artillery in france after the war he went to fort leavenworth as a student and then to the war college at washington he returned to fort leavenworth at the head of a sec tion where he specialized in mili tary history at the time of his retirement he was on duty as an r o t c offi cer in the third corps area colonel deems is now in charge of instruc tion at the alexandria high schools in alexandria va free concerts to be given at a meeting of delta omicron theta debating society in christ mas-saucon hall yesterday it was decided that the debating schedule was planned for next month should be postponed until march or april this postponement was caused by the team not having a coach last year's coach prof curtis macdou gall faculty advisor of the brown and white was unable to return this year dr neil carothers head of the college of business administration was unable to address the society a meeting detained him in drown hall dr carothers was to discuss the plans of the society of this year plans for reinstating the course in argumentation and debate were also discussed although nothing definitely was decided this course was dropped several years ago if reinstated it is very probable that more interest would be taken in de bating according to maurice bern stein social secretary of the so ciety when a coach has been obtained for the society a great deal of at tention will be given to the fresh men debating team for whom a schedule has been planned legal society plans changes glee club will have five performances next semester revision of constitution visits to county court slated for next month the victory song composed by kenneth l hoffman e m 26 lawyer in new york city was judged the best of the 23 songs submitted in the contest spo-nsored by the lehigh new york club tuesday night the second choice was men of lehigh a pep song in which ar thur b achilles e e 28 and david j grubbe bus 30 both of staten island collaborated the former composing the words and the latter the music the third selection was a toast to lehigh words and music of which were arranged by a n vanvleck c e 08 of new york city the victory song was offi cially repudiated by the arcadia last spring but at a meeting in october the decision was changed the group then voted 50 to t edgar shields director of music to print a supply of the song to be distributed with an edition of the brown and white the song was first introduced to the student body at a pep meeting for the p m c football game and was used for the first time at the lehigh-lafayette game the judges of the contest were dr henry t fleck profeisor of music at hunter college t ed gar shields director of music at lehigh and dr j fred wolle director of the bach choir that italy has taken hold of the principles of fascism all for one one for all as the right medicine for its ailments is the opinion of salvatore charles marino arts 32 who was the main speaker at the meeting of the faculty women's club on tuesday afternoon in drown hall mr marino who was born in italy compared present conditions in italy with those of pre-war war and post-war times particularly from a social point of view he pointed out that under the leader ship of mussolini italy has been going through an experimental stage the experiment has by this time advanced successfully so far that its abandonment cannot be conceived marino stated he also emphasized the educational system saying that advanced education has wrought wonders the results of the present administration were favorably compared with conditions existing in italy before the war foreign relations better the outstanding accomplish ments of the fascist principles ac cording to mr marino are these a better international understanding particularly with neighboring coun tries an improved financial condi tion more railroads and cheaper fares in an effort to bring about a perfect harmony between north ern and southern italy public edu cational system through which more children are given schooling than before destruction of rooted hypocrocies and superstitions and banishment of ignorance on a large scale working conditions provide work for nearly everyone — only 1,0000,000 out of a population of 47,000,000 are unemployed accord ing to marino malefactors such as gangs mafia and other evil influences have been destroyed and lazy people have been to a large extent eliminated he stated the meeting of the club was held to continue the study of italy which has been the topic for meet ings this year the program opened with a reading by mrs s s cairns who gave the translation of an italian story from the works of roberto bracco entitled for the saving of souls at the close of mr marino's ad dress tea was served fire chief to talk on modern methods union appoints new visitation committee eight will be seen among new vocal soloists who will take part in the bach festival friday and sat urday v may 13-14 in packer mem orial chapel all of these artists have had a great deal of experience in the musical world according to t e shields eight new vocal soloists will take part in the bach festival fri day and saturday may 13-14 in packer memorial chapel all of these artists have had a great deal of experience in the music world according to t e shields charles trowbridge tittmann bass has sung in more engage ments at the bach festival than any other singer he together with ernestine hohl eberhard soprano who has sung in these festivals for the last five years will sing a solo part in the mass for the first time other new artists appearing are amy ellerman contralto ruth shaffner soprano and robert m crawford baritone these singers have demonstrated their concert ability taking part in programs with the new york boston chi cago and philadelphia symphony orchestra the vocalists have also sung with various oratorio societies throughout the east rose bampton contralto and dan gridley tenor are two com paratively young artists who have risen to fame rapidly m-iss bamp ton has already been engaged by leopold stowkoski for a role in schonberg's gurreleider with the philadelphia orchestra mr grid ley has appeared in eight concerts for the new york philharmonic symphony mr shields stated the pre-legal society is plann ing a complete reorganization to take place shortly after the examin ations there will be a thorough revision of the constitution to gether wifh the formation of pro gram plans for the semester ac cording to m m reed secretary the society expects to make several trips to the county court house at easton which is now re garded as a clinic for pre-legal students according to reed the officers of the society expect to obtain several prominent lawyers to address the meetings last year the most important work of the club was the develop ment of a complete murder plot and trial reed stated a murder play was first presented with the help of professor luch who coach ed the cast at the next meeting a mock trial was held the audience of the play being impressed for witnesses d a brenner president of the society will announce the first meeting which will probably be held early in february tentative plans for a series of spring concerts by the lehigh glee club indicate that approximately five performances will be given by the singers during the next semes ter according to b f witemeyer president according to university regula tions dealing with the subsidizing of the glee club two free concerts must be given at lehigh the other engagements being at the option of the club the first of these free concerts was scheduled for jan 20 • but has been postponed until the beginning of the second semester the programs to be offered by the glee club this year will be made up of the following selec tions the sleigh by kountz baldwin sea fever by mark andrews the galway piper and hey robin solly robin by geoffrey shaw numbers to be presented by the quartette will include the negro love song by paul lawrence dunbar and a surrey song by h alexander matthews the mem bers of the quartette are p b myers 32 h i silver 33 j f perry 35 and lewis roberts jr 3 final arrangements are being made for the annual glee club band trip to new york where a performance is given under the auspices of the new york lehigh club tentative arrangements are also being made with the junior women's club of maplewood n j at the women's club should plans for these concerts materialize a group of 28 voices will be chosen to make the trips five men initiated into pi tau sigma neil carothers tells of efforts being made to overcome effects of legal interference gathering of 100 attends banquet given by n.y club the wrestling law which was passed in 1923 is unfortunate for intercollegiate comeptition and we are doing all we can to have it re pealed or modified said dr neil carothers director of the business college at the meeting of the n y lehigh alumni club in new york last tuesday evening many matches will be taken out of the state as a result of this law con tinued dr carothers the meeting was held at the railroad club hudson terminal building and was attended by over 100 enthusiastic alumni we have gone before the attor ney general of the state of pennsyl vania and we will know saturday whether the law is unconstitutional or not a l edwards deputy general of the state says that there is hope of modification according to dr carothers carothers cites marks academic conditions have never been so good as they are at the present time at lehigh said dr carothers the men who gradu ate from lehigh to-day are able to hold their own among gradu ates of other schools he stated since the complete reorganiza tion of sports at lehigh in 1925 which abolished the subsidizing of sports we have been paid large dividends dr carothers stated these dividends have not been in gate receipts but in dividends of honor wholesomeness and fair play it has brought about a feeling of sane clean and manly sportsman ship the deficit that was shown in sports this year is a minor problem there have been deficites of from 1,000 to 7,000 in the past the alumni and trustees have absorbed these debts in the past but they cannot be expected to do this all the time according to dr caro thers reports on deficit the three ways of doing away with this deficit to abolish fresh men sports abolishment of a num ber of major sports or raising the athletic fee 5 will not have to be resorted to the present plan is to put all sports on a strictly econ omical basis it is believed that this plan will prove sufficient dr carothers stated if the state board of athletics finds that the wrestling law is con stitutional all the schools and col leges in the state will send a peti tion to the state assembly to ask for it's repeal if this has no effect we will have to get along as best we can continued dr caro thers billy sheridan dean of wrest ling coaches said lehigh stands high in the sport of wrestling and will come out on top if the faculty does not put the strength of the team on probation at the end of this semester the navy meet is the most important meet this sea son bishop will be put in the 155 lb class instead of the 145 lb class to reciprocate for the treatment that we received from the navy last year woman psychologist will speak jan 18 engineers club to show moving pictures of fires thomas f dougherty acting chief of the new york city fire de partment will address the engin eers club of the lehigh valley fri day jan 29 at 8 p m in packard auditorium his subject will be modern fire fighting methods and equipment r harold mcquade fire protec tion engineer for mather and com pany philadelphia will also pres ent his views on the prevention of fire besides the speeches the officers of the club expect to present a demonstration of some of the small er fire fighting equipment and mov ing pictures of some recent major conflagrations the public is cor dially invited to this mid-year meet ing of the club wrestlers warned no phase of southern develop ment has a more hopeful outlook than its amazing educational prog ress which was initiated by gen eral robert e lee who helped to direct the youth of the south in the direction of higher education prof george d harmon associ ate professor of history told the members of the lehigh valley southern society at its annual din ner tuesday evening in the hotel bethlehem prof tomlinson fort head of the mathematics depart ment delivered a brief eulogy in commemoration of general lee both lehigh professors had the highest respect for the southern general flower of the south was what professor . fort called him while professor harmon stated that lee was probably the greatest military genius that the anglo-saxon race has produced he was one of the greatest military commanders in the history of the world even though he lost in a bitter struggle educational advance rapid professor harmon told of the souths rapid rise in educational methods especially in the past twenty years throughout his talk he linked general lee as an im portant contributor to this great advancement the true test of a man's great ness appears either in victory or in adversity said the speaker during the remaining five years of lee's life after his surrender he never complained never dis heartened others never quarreled with the doom of fortune professor harmon said that dur ing the days of reconstruction in the south education had retro gressed he stated that in these times 20 years of advancement in education were lost to the south . he continued that it was not until after the public schools had again been given into the hands of south erners that progress was made and thaf ever since this progress has been steady and continual after the south had its own educational plans it endeavored to establish two efficient systems one for the whites and one for the negroes when it was impossible with reduced taxation to support one therefore both systems were necessarily inadequate said mr harmon ¦ decadent period cited the lecturer fully described this decadent period and then told of the latter part of the nineteenth cen tury education which was domin ated by academies and private schools he said that the twentieth century thus far has been the age of colleges with drastic educational reforms speaking of negro education professor harmon continued ne gro schools have improved more slowly than white schools this may be partially accounted for by the lack of funds and because of the indifferent attitude of some ne groes the speaker added that there are some outstanding institutions of the south institutions that will bear a favorable comparison with any universities in the country there are others that have made and are making an honest effort to raise their standards without a great deal of success stated professor harmon sigma chi will hold dance sigma chi will hold a closed dance on the evening of feb 5 from 9 p m to 1 a m this dance will be their annual bowery brawl charles lanterman and his stroudsburg orchestra will furnish the music captain and mrs j k rice and mrs v e ellstrom will be the chapcrones at the dance men will visit sick students and faculty members a new committee to be known as the visitation committee was es tablished at a recent meeting of the senior cabinet of the lehigh union according to a r baldwin pres ident of the union the members of the committee are r k serfass chairman j e angle e w voit l l brennesholtz and j e ma haray the main function of the com mittee will be that of visiting sick students and sick members of the faculty it will be informed by dr bull as to the students who are sick in the case of the death of any student member of the faculty or any person closely connected with the university the committee is authorized to send floral tributes as an expression of sympathy from the entire student body the funds for this purpose will be furnished by the lehigh union stated mr baldwin phi beta kappa will sponsor a commemoration of the one-hun dredth anniversary of the death of the german poet goethe this spring the commemoration will take the form of a lecture by eu gene kuehnemann professor of german literature at the university of breslau in germany on april 1 in the packard laboratory the carl shurz memorial foun dation for t?ie development of cul tural relations between the united states and germany will collabor ate with the local chapter of phi beta kappa in sponsoring this commemoration said prof p m palmer secretary of the local chap ter in making the announcement the foundation is conducting this tour of lectures by professor kueh nemann to various colleges through out the country there is an added possibility that some plays or individual parts of plays will continue the commem oration exercises on the next day presented by the german depart ment the fifteenth annual banquet of the lehigh and lafayette chapters of phi beta kappa will be held on march 17 probably at the hotel bethlehem archibald henderson professor of mathematics at the university of north carolina will be the speaker of the evening elections in february the annual election of new mem bers to the local phi beta kappa chapter will not take place until late in february this delay said professor palmer is due to the ne cessity for compiling the average grades that the seniors have made during this semester johann wolfgang yon goethe the great german poet and philoso pher whose death on march 22 1832 will be commemmorated on aprill was the author of iphige nia egmont wilhelm meister and faust a course in goethe's faust which is given at lehigh during the second semester is one of the more popular german courses professor palmer com mented professor henderson a.8 a.m ph.d of the university of north carolina and fellow and tutor of mathematics of the university of chicago student of cambridge uni versity the university of berlin and the sorbonne paris research student on kenan research foun dation cambridge university and university of berlin d c l uni versity of the south and li.d tu lane university will address the group at head of class in acquiring his bachelor of arts degree at the university of north carolina in 1898 professor hender son graduated at the head of his class also winning the holt math ematics medal besides his work on mathematics being the author of quite a few books on that science he has also published numerous biographies and histories quoting professor palmer he writes more literature than mathematics sigma xi phi beta kappa and sigma nu beside a great number of other clubs and societies embrace his membership at the last meeting of the local chapter dean a g rau of mora vian college was elected historian of the chapter professor riley of the english department was appointed as local correspondent to the new quarterly which phi beta kappa is publishing the title of this new magazine will be the american scholar it will have as distin guished an editorial board as there is in the country said professor palmer heresy-hunter died in 1263 not heresy says s m brown it was the heresy-hunter ber thold of regensburg and not heresy whose downfall in 1263 may have been caused by sickness laughed sydney m brown pro fessor of european history in com menting on the report of his lec ture orthodoxy of berthold of regensburg delivered dec 28 at the forty-sixth annual meeting of the ' american historical associa tion at minneapolis the last paragraph of the report on the lecture appearing in the brawn and white jan 8 should have read in 1263 something happened that silenced forever the heresy-hunter of a thousand ser mons no explanation is vouch safed us it may have been sick ness it may have been a diversion into the field of crusade preaching it may have been the fearsome art talk postponed banquet at spring valley fol lows ceremonies pi tau sigma national honorary mechanical engineering fraternity iriitiated five new members last night the formal initiation took place about six o'clock in the regu lar meeting room of the mechanical engineering society a banquet at the spring valley hotel followed faculty members of the fraternity gave some talks the five men initiated are ar thus w home 32 kirkland g gardner jr 32 james c rhoads 33 richard l willis 33 and kenneth f borden 33 the initiation took the place of the regular mechanical engineering meeting coming events state commission objects to intra mural meet at perm the state athletic commission took its first active step early this week in an interference program which will ultimately bring all col legiate intermural wrestling and boxing under the supervision of the board the commission which has al ready taken over active control of intercollegiate wrestling and box ing sent a tersely worded objec tion and warning to the athletic di rector at the university of pennsyl vania after his department had held an interclass and intergroup wrestl ing meet last week without the con sent of the state body blake and industrial societies to meet jointly mrs lillian m gilbreth a psy chologist of accredited standing as well as an industrial engineer will be the guest speaker at a meeting sponsored by both the robert w blake society and the society of industrial engineers according to adelbert ford head of the depart ment of psychology the meet ing will be held at 8 o'clock thurs day feb 25 in room 466 packard laboratory mrs gilbreth will talk on motion study she was associated with her husband in this work until his death and is now carrying on alone s_he is also one of the foremost efficiency engineers in the country stated dr ford by making use of the motion picture machine mrs gilbreth can study the movements of workers and by analyzing the picture later can tell how to conserve energy by avoiding waste movements and thereby increase efficiency mrs gilbreth has her home and laboratories in monclair n j saturday jan 23 3:00 p m freshman swimming vs montclair y m c a taylor gymnasium 4 p m varsity wrestling vs navy annapolis friday feb 5 8 a m freshman registration 1 p m sophomore registration saturday feb 6 8 a m junior registration 10:30 a m senior registration thursday feb 11 6:30 p m edwin h engel met e 34 to speak on the school sys ten in germany at deutscher verein dinner butztown inn prof philip mcmahon's lecture in definitely deferred the lecture on primitive art which was to have been given by prof philip mcmahon head of the fine arts department of new york university on thursday feb 18 has been postponed until an indefin ite later date according to g a howland professor of fine arts prof mcmahon w"as to have giv en this lecture illustrated with lan tern slides in packard auditorium in conjunction with the present art exhibit he was to speak in the art gallery the same day on water colors prof mcmahon according to professor howland is a well-known authority on fine arts and has re cently written a book the mean ing of art in which he discusses art from every angle the rustle of spring birds flitt ing lightly hither and yon bull frogs croaking to their mates green grass growing like the treasury de ficit yes yes spring was here and winter does seem far be hind due to peculiar prevailing winds and other meteorogical conditions beyond the ken of this writer na ture in a absolute reversal of win ter form went completely goofy last week turned in its winter longies for a set of beach pajamas and with a prodigous effort made here tofore chilly sullen citizens doff their winter raiment and display symptoms of spring fever cats dogs yea and even humans felt the surge and urge of spring back fences played to standing room capacity as the feline element of bethlehem's population took to moonlight serenading in the ap proved mid-april manner statis tics hurriedly compiled by mathe matically-minded students of such subjects showed the fraternity date rate to have risen approximately forty per cent over past mid-jan uary figures with six outlying pre cincts still to be heard from in other words bethlehem as well as new york and practically the en tire east was deluded into believing that spring had arrived a few months earlier must be short lived now any reasonably sensible per son must know that such an un toward spell of weather must of necessity be short-lived and col lege-men with their allegedly su perior intellects certainly should not have been taken in by the tem porary smiling of a summer sun however and this is the impor tant part hundreds literally hundreds of lehigh men trotted out the old summer haberdashery and paraded around coat and hatless like so many floridians attempting to prove the mildness of their wide winter suffers reversal of form as lehigh men swim in lake ly advertised mild winters and the result is indeed a sad one the man who today walks the campus without a handkerchief in one hand and a doctor's excuse for missing classes in the other is rare a few remain with their voices intact but the harsh croaking of raw throats resounds like thunder from the ramparts of old south moun tain he-men football heroes skinny journalists with horn-rim med glasses not one has re mained unscathed listerine la voris and like remedies are at a premium rumor has it that alas kan huskies are travelling south ward from nome with huge quan tities of serum to ward off the fast growing plague of sniffles students went swimming but the prize goes to two lehigh men who went swimming in say lor's lake one day blithely they set out their silken bathing suits in their vest pockets and happily they plunged into the icy waters of our nearby lake resort a dive and a splash and two frozen le highites emerged blue with cold bystanders gasped a committee of fourteen convened in a secluded corner of the bath house and ar gued whether to call the ritter's ville ambulance or the more com fortable conveyance from st lukes it was decided to test the sanity of the two swimmers which was done in the approved method they were apparently sane then why this tomfoolery wondered an old saylorsburg native say he asked the two shivering nattators who be you and when the two an swered in a trembling shivery chorus we're from lehigh calm descended upon the old native a look of fulfillment suffused his wrinkled face oh he said not really crazy just college boys and the crowd dispersed leaving the two polar bears to shiver in silence unbroken but for the chattering of teeth bethlehem pa friday january 22 1932 d.o.t postpones debating schedule scabbard and blade to present lecture phi beta kappa to sponsor goethe anniversary lecture price — five cents brown and white vol xxxix no 27 italy has gained through fascism says lehigh student carothers unable to address society meeting yesterday registration will be held friday & saturday feb 5,6 measurements for blazers to be taken on feb 8,9,10 wrestling law scored before alumni group depicts gains in education of new south errors in exam schedule the schedule of examinations as published in the brown and white on dec 11 contained two errors the last item for mon day 2 p m jan 25 should read mil 3 — military science basic if for those taking chem 169 195 engl 61 math 0 1 2 3 m e 114 the last item for friday 2 p m jan 29 should read mil 17 — advanced ordin ance no paper until feb 12 with this issue the brown and white suspends publication until after the mid-year examin ation period the next issue will be published friday feb 12 all the lehigh news first t member intercollegiate newspaper association