Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 31

              honorary will admit two juniors in febru ary and ten in may no seniors m sept dies at sellersville after head on collision with fast moving bus when bound for bethlehem changes in by-laws provide scholarship requirements scabbard and blade unveils houdon statue in library academic procession preceeds convocation exercises at packer chapel 808 baird robt baird sr water color trends cited dr l m gilbreth woman phy chologist and industrial engineer will address the robert w blaks society honorary organization in the psychology philosophy and education departments at 7:45 p.m thursday feb 25 in packard au ditorium dr gilbreth's lecture which is open to the public will deal with motion study in job analysis prof ford head of the psycho logy department stated that mrs gilbreth has been unusually suc cessful in her field she received her doctor's degree from brown university in 1915 together with her late husband frank b gil breth a pioneer in motion study re search she rapidly achieved fame and renown in early experiments two cam eras were used which faced a worker on whose arm a flashing light was placed in this way third dimensional pictures were produced with the most minute in dications of movement efficiency microscopic study of crystals will be discussed crystals under the microscope will be the subject of an address which is to be given by clyde w mason professor of microscopy at cornell before the lehigh valley section of the american chemical society at 8 p m friday in marble hall lafayette college dr mason's lecture will be il lustrated by micro-projection with polarized light on a translucent screen it will include the use of the microscope in the study of the crystaline state of matter the ap plication and technique of micro scopical studies and the tests and determinations of the optical prop erties of crystals leading to their identification preceding the monthly meeting an informal dinner will be held at 6:30 p m professor paul b ea ton of the mechanical engineering department of lafayette college will speak to the gathering on the eastern situation he will discuss the social economic and technical conditions in the orient at pres ent dr t j wertenbaker to issue burr saturday noon enrollment is near complete mcmahon says artists show thought in pic tures miscellaneous number tells of r c fakin beer burp coefficient percentage of students leaving lehigh has not increased shields gives organ recital second concert in chapel features kenneth lam son celloist two juniors will be pledged to omicron delta kappa each feb ruary according to by-laws passed by the national senior honorary so ciety last friday night in drown hall the new by-laws also provide that 10 juniors will be pledged in may instead of the usual seven no pledging will be done in september at which time three seniors for merly were tapped other provisions provide changes in method of pledging and a definite scholarship requirement the pledging of the two juniors this year will be deferred until the society votes on a new system of points now being prepared by com mitteemen carothers hull and im hoff to be eligible for nomination and election a student must be a member of the junior class in good standing who has completed not more than five semesters in the university is the new provision taken directly from the by-laws pledging to be public \ the pledging will take place at a specified time and will be made public instead of the usual pledg ing being conducted in the chapel men will be tapped at their frater nity or other living group ac cording to r k serfass president of the society formerly the society was com posed of 10 students seven elected in may and three in september but the new provision provides for 12 students present enrollment in cludes two alumni members four faculty members and ten student members the purpose of pledging two juniors in february is to keep the continuity of the organization in tact from one year to the next according to carl f hull former ly an entirely new body was elect ed each year and the administra tion of affairs was greatly ham pered with the election of two juniors in february it is hoped that the policies of one administration can be continued into the next the committee in charge of the new by-laws included , dr caro thers carl f hull and edward b hildum at the meeting friday i new committee was appointed to re vise and modernize the point sys tem was composed of dr caroth ers carl f hull and rudolph e imhoff to issue catalogue for summer school a philip mcmahon spoke at the last exhibit of water color paintings in the library sunday afternoon the exhibit was composed of water color paintings by ¦ the royal so ciety of british artists and was sponsored by the fine arts depart ment of lehigh university professor mcmahon is professor of fine arts at new york university he discussed water colors and ex plained their principles professor mcmahon explained that the mod crn trend of water color paintings was not to show things in reality but that it was to show the thoughts and sentiments of the artist he pointed out features of different paintings and told the audience why the artist painted them as he did technique is different the characteristics of the exhibit differed greatly while all the paintings were water colors their technique was markedly different some were as transparent as pencil drawings with a suggestion of col or and some opaque as to resemble oil paintings the paintings varied in subject matter although landscapes seemed to predominate most of the saenes were english depicting such sub jects as famous cathedrals public buildings and rural views a com parative few are of scenes outside england those paintings which attracted the most attention include au tumn grove and morning in hampshire by john littlejohn and the matterhorn by hechle after the exhibit and talk pro fessor and mrs howland enter tained professor and mrs mcma hon members of the faculty and a few students at their home alumnus was o.d.k president and manager of basketball robert l baird jr e m 31 o d k president and honor grad uate died in the grandview hos pital sellersville pa at 6:30 a m yesterday as a result of a fractured skull and other injuries sustained sunday evening when the car which he was driving crashed head on into a bus bound for philadel phia miss elaine phillips 20 of stone hurst hills upper darby township who was accompanying baird to bethlehem died on the way to the hospital six passengers were shak en by the collision and miss alberta mcclair another passenger sus tained a fractured nose reported by bus driver the accident which occurred on a narrow bridge four miles below sellersville was reported to state highway patrol by bus driver ed gar eltz who claimed that baird swerved directly in front of the fast moving bus baird's car was badly damaged in the accident having been hurled to one side by the force of the impact funeral services will be held in the funeral parlors at 1820 chestnut street philadelphia at 11 a m to morrow interment will be made in a philadelphia cemetery as yet un decided there will be a viewing of the body tonight from 7:30-10 and shortly before the funeral to morrow morning he is survived by his father c e 92 and mother mr and mrs robert l baird and a sister varginia studied at yale since graduation in june at which time he was awarded high honors baird took a post graduate course at yale majoring in metal lurgy last monday he obtained a position with the union carbide company in new york city he had been rooming with jack b ander son 31 in new york whom he was coming to meet in bethlehem when he met his death while at lehigh baird managed last year's basketball team and played on the lacrosse team during his senior year he served on the senior cabinet sword and crescent tau beta pi arcadia and president of omicron delta kappa he was a member of pi mv epsilon honor ary mathematical society and had obtained honors during his fresh man and sophomore years the tau beta prize awarded to the highest technical freshman was won by baird he was born in lan caster dec 6 1909 grudin will study interest of students charles m schwab celebrates birthday the miscellaneous issue of the burr will appear saturday noon according to ralph benson editor in chief benson stated that this issue con tains jokes stories and features on a great variety of subjects and does not concentrate on any one idea the editorial and literary de partment of the magazine features martin reed's short story entitled she didn't say no one of the features of the humor department is a short sketch called prosper ity is just around the corner the frown and bite is to be continued as a permanent feature according to benson the current frown and bite contains a head line story on the burping coeffi cient of beer which is a story of laborious research by prominent members of the chemistry depart ment into reasons for these de vastating explosions of the aesopha gus this page also carries a scan dal-sheet story headlined bares love nest at lehigh the cover of the burr done in brown and white is entitled wrestling in the good old days and is a woodcut in the john held jr style executed by horl frei day numerous cartoons and sketches are included in the pages of this issue these are drawn by steinberg and alper of the art staff under the direction of carl giegerich the burr retains the same staff as it had last semester the length of the magazine is 28 pages and it retains the same general policies throughout according to benson the issue of the burr following the current one will be released on saturday march 28 and will be an exchange number it will fea ture cuts from representative col legiate humorous magazines ben son stated coming events t edgar shields director of mu sic gave the second of a series of three organ recitals in packer memorial chapel sunday afternoon he was assisted by kenneth w lamson associate professor of mathematics who is widely known throughout the east as an excel lent celloist according to mr shields mr shields was highly pleased with the size of the audience about 200 persons were present of which number nearly 50 were students mechanical difficulty with the or gan almost caused mr shields to stop in the middle of his program but after hastily remedying the sit uation he concluded the remaining selections without further trouble shields plans concerts in an interview following the re cital professor shields stated that he planned this series to appeal to the lovers of all kinds of good mu sic not just to those who liked only religious music i am con vinced that lehigh students do like good music said mr shields there is a large number of stu dents who come to these recitals rather than attend religious services at that time they share i believe my thought — that good music is re ligion the recital consisted of the fol lowing selections prelude and fugue in d major bach seren ade badine gabriel-marie the swan saint-saens mr lamson assisting choral prelude on o traurigkeit,'o herrzeleid brahms ariel bonnet clair de lune bonnet cantilene pierne pre lude in c minor rachmaninoff kol nidrei bruch mr lamson assisting ; and pomp and circum stance elgar two fraternities entertain at dances saturday night approximately 200 people at tended the phi sigma kappa dance saturday evening at the chapter house the virgilians a local or chestra provided the music while captain and mrs rice and mr scott chaperoned the affair theta kappa phi entertained 120 couples in the ball room of the ho tel bethlehem saturday evening from 9 until 12 the chaperones in cluded mr and mrs d h gram ley prof w e harvey and miss elizabeth glaser of washington there has been no percentage in crease in the number of students leaving lehigh as compared with last february p e schwartz as sistant registrar said yesterday registration which is practical ly complete had reached 1,350 by saturday 59 less than the number last february nineteen students who were not here last semester have registered of the 1,468 regis tered in september 137 failed to return 1,409 students in feb 1931 lehigh had 1,409 students last february 26 of whom had not been enrolled during the first semester as the total enrollment in septem ber 1930 was 1,529 the university had lost 146 men by f february last year this is nine more than the number lost this february of the 137 men eliminated by the end of the first semester this year one died 32 withdrew during the semester and 42 were dropped for scholastic failure seventeen freshmen were drop ped for failure to pass the required six semester hours according to information furnished at the dean's office twenty-five students on pro bation were dropped because they did not pass the amount of work prescribed no seniors fail no seniors were dropped failure to pass enough hours eliminated 4 juniors 9 sophomores and 12 mem bers of the class of 1935 r the last named are second year men lacking sufficient credit for sopho more standing there were 19 new entries at the beginning of the second semester as compared with 26 last february mr schwartz stated three entered as freshmen one as a special stu dent and seven transferred from other schools with advanced stand ing eight former lehigh students were readmitted i*a.st february seven men were admitted as freshmen two were given advanced standing and 17 former students were readmitted mr schwartz said dr slericker will speak to chemical society thursday dr william stericker of the phil adelphia quartz company will dis cuss the manufacture and uses of sodium silicates at the meeting of the chemical society at 7:30 p m thursday in the chemistry build ing the lecture will be illustrated with lantern slides and demonstra tions eats and smokes will be served after the lecture wednesday feb 24 4:15 a m meeting of pre-legal society in copee hall 7:30 p m meeting of pre-medical society at which dr c de schweinitz will speak in room 208 packard laboratory thursday feb 25 7:30 p m sophomore council meet ing in drown hall 8 p m meeting of robert w blake society in packard labora tory friday feb 26 r 7:30 p m meeting of the inter national refations club in pack ard laboratory dean maximo m kalaw of the university of the philippines will speak on de mand for philippine freedom relation of preferences to business to be found the psychology department is sponsoring an attempt to study the important occupational differences existing in the university in re gards to preferences and interests the students and faculty are be ing asked to cooperate in this pro ject the project is to measure the differences within the various groups tof the university ques tionnaires will be given to repre sentative groups of engineering arts and business students and will be ' distributed among the faculty neither students nor faculty mem bers will be asked to sign the ques tionnaires the investigation is being car ried out by a e grudin arts 33 under the direction of dr harris of the psychology department second oldest university trus tee noted for service charles m schwab lehigh trus tee and chairman of the board of directors of the bethlehem steel corporation celebrated his 70th birthday thursday the birthday was marked by a family breakfast in the morning a luncheon for the survivors of the 52 men who were andrew carnegie's partners and a party for the officials of the beth lehem steely all of which was add ed to a full day's work in his of fice schwab is the second oldest trus tee of the university in point of service and has long been noted for his devoted interest to lehigh at the dedication of the packard laboratory he was one of the prin cipal speakers he was awarded the honorary degree of eng d in 1914 by the university announcement will appear early next week the announcement of the sum mer session will be issued early next week according to vice pres ident n m emery admission is on the same terms as admission to the university's regular sessions except that women are admitted dr emery stated the staff consists of 41 mem bers exclusive of the administra tion of these 33 or about 85 per cent are of professorial rank courses are offered by the follow ing departments according to mr emery business administration chemistry civil engineering elec trical engineering fine arts history and government mathematics me chanical engineering music phil osophy and education physics psy chology and romance languages english will also be offered there are 19 post graduate courses the required courses in engineer ing are given june 6 to july 2 oth er courses are given july s to au gust 13 tuition is 10 per semester hour mr emery stated washington was the most'ardent unionist america has ever known the union and its future were always uppermost in his mind declared dr t j wertenbaker in his convoca tion address on washington the unionist yesterday at lehigh's bicentennial anniversary celebration of the birth of george washington the formal convocation exercises were held in packer memorial chap el and were preceded by an acad emic procession led by the univer sity band from the administration building to the chapel the faculty arrayed in academic gowns ad vanced r o t c students and representatives of the various cam pus societies joined in the proces sion satue unveiled a replica of jean houdon's sta tue of general washington was un veiled at 4 o'clock in the univer ' sity library by scabbard and blade national honorary military society a parade also preceded these cere monies dr wertenbaker stated that washington's great desire for un ion grew from his vast knowledge of conditions on the western fron tier and in the northern states as well as southern conditions he ob tained this broad knowledge through traveling both as a surveyor and as a soldier stated the speaker dr wertenbaker added that the long and bitter experiences of woes which came from disunion greatly influenced washington's unionistic viewpoint dr wertenbaker is the edwards professor of american history at princeton university and is a grad uate of the university of virginia he is a distinguished author and historian who specializes in virgin ian history with special reference to the activities of washington ac cording to prof l p gipson the speaker mentioned that washington on his own incentive in june 1783 addressed a circular let ter to the governors of the 13 states urging a national union the let ter said that they should sacrifice individualism for the supreme pow er of a confederated republic ac cording to dr wertenbaker this letter may have been the foundation of the constitution dr richards speaks introductory remarks were made by president charles r richards while the invocation was given by dr claude g beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy the rt rev frank w sterett head of the bethlehem diocese of the protestant episcopal church pronounced the benediction r w burk 32 president of scabbard and blade unveiled the statue while c r giegerich bus 32 made the acceptance address on the part of the society col m h thomlinson head of the department of military science and tactics made the introductory remarks giegerich stated that throughout washington's career he followed the principle that the best means of preserving peace was to be prepared for war colonel thomlinson sum marized his remarks by saying that we hsnor washington as a sol dier and as a soldier-rebel the leiigh copy of the houdon statue was purchased through pres c r richards and comes from boston the original was made while washington was still alive and it now stands in the capital continued on page four bethlehem pa tuesday february 23 932 chemicals to hear mason of cornell victim and father vol xxxix no 3 1 . price — five cents the lehigh university brown and white robert blake society to hear dr gilbreth robert baird meets death in auto crash o.d.k rules for pledging are changed noted woman psychologist speaks here thurs night unionist role of washington is exemplified lauds washinton dr wertenbaker lauds first president mon day at bi-centennial celebration member intercollegiate newspaper associat|on all the lehigh news first