Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 33

              douglas booth will lecture c douglas booth mustard and cheese lehigh dra matic association last thursday elected a committee to select ithe next group of plays to be presented by the society some time in the lat ter part of april these plays will be selected some time this week it was decided that the organiza tion may depart from tradition by including women in the cast the suggestion will be sent to cedar crest college moravian college for women and to the junior wom en's club in bethlehem for their approval the idea is considered as a novelty and not as a necessity fe male parts have been very well por trayed in the past by members of mustard and cheese according to s a shimer jr secretary all students are eligible for parts in the next plays announcement will be made later concerning try outs honorary society alters point system to equalize sports at a meeting of the cyanide club junior class honorary society last thursday minor changes were made in the point system of mem bership in the organization the changes in the system in clude one by which all letter sports will receive the same recognition for membership in the society ac cording to p j flanigan jr c.e 33 president cyanide is unable to do very much at present due to the doubt about the organization of a brown key club which is now awaiting the approval of the faculty it is felt however said flanigan that wheth er or not the brown key club is organized cyanide will probably function muc has it has in the past international rel a 111 1 ons club will back lecture wed in packard lab educators hear pres richards phi delta pi joins national new aspects of education treated by carothers mcconn and palmer we pride ourselves that we have conducted our campaign for independence peacefully stated maximo m kalaw dean of the col lege of liberal arts at the univer sity of the philippines in a lecture sponsored by the international re lations club friday evening feb 26 in packard auditorium dr kalaw outlined three current methods of obtaining freedom the first is by revolting against the mother country the second is by civil disobedience the third is by peaceful methods as the filipinos are using the philippine republic of 1898 was the first of the continent of asia dr kalaw said w^hen the philippines declared themselves in dependent of spain they were ready to become a republic spain had done many good things for the islands they abolished the ancient philippine nobility and reformed the country freedom was promised our chief motive for freedom stated dr kalaw is based on the jones law which states that we should be set free when we have established a government elected by the people which rules the island dr kalaw explained that their government is as efficient as that of any country and is one of the few which has been able to balance its budget during the depression our trade relations with the united states is our most impor tant problem today said dr ka law tariffs which would be lev ied after independence would affect greatly the prices of philippine ex ports and imports leonard hall heads college in first semester averages leonard hall for the second time in three semesters has the highest scholastic average 2.372 among the living groups according to a state ment issued yesterday by paul e schwartz assistant registrar delta upsilon fraternity which ranked nineteenth and fifteenth re spectively for first and second term last year placed first among the fraternities and fourth among the living groups with 2.092 average taylor hall section d always placing high in tfie scholastic rating ranked second with an average of 2.206 third place rating went to sec tion b with a 2.186 average most significant and surprising thing to be found from these re sults is the large number of living groups with a c average or better nine groups obtained a 2 or better compared to four for the first sem ester last year declared compiler schwartz alpha chi rho winner of interfraternity scholarship cup awarded by the council each year to the fraternity that places the highest for two semesters dropped to twenty-sixth place with an average of 1.775 ' the results for the first term are as follows c douglas booth writer lectur er traveler and authority on bal kan affairs will address the inter national relations club at 8:15 p m wednesday march 2 in room 466 packard laboratory mr booth according to a bullet in issued by the carnegie endow ment for international peace is well known in this country and abroad as an expert on international affairs he spent a number of years in the balkan countries collecting political and economic material he is a member of the royal in stitute of international affairs in england to whom he submits fort nightly reports on his findings and before whom he often delivers lec tures upon international questions he has also spent some time study ing at the academy of internation al affairs at the hague and has re sided or traveled in morocco egypt rhodes patmos athens and belgrade the carnegie endowment for international peace under whose guidance nearly 300 international relations clubs have been formed in as many universities and col leges in the united states is re sponsible for mr booth's visit to lehigh university e engel describes german schooling stericker speaks on sodium silicates lowe gives lecture on chemical war deutscher verein limits mem bership to 20 modern literature placed in drown hall research society addresses students chemical society that changes in the present cut system of lehigh are being contem plated was revealed saturday when several members of the administra tion voiced their approval of some of the points brought forward in an editorial on the cut system in last friday's brown and white - when interviewed dean c m mcconn said there is a good deal in that editorial with which i agree thoroughly while associate dean g b curtis branded the men who complain most about the pres ent system as those individuals who lack respect for college as a place for study but consider it a place for sleep greater freedom considered indicating that measures are now being considered which would per mit greater freedom in the matter of cuts but would still limit stu dents dean mcconn explained fur ther while dean curtis and i recognize that in a number of details of the rules and their administration decided im provements can be made we stand fast and believe that the faculty will stand fast on the general prin ciple underlying the present sys tem which is the principle of no recognized and conceded quota of allowed cuts dr c r richards and dean curtis both expressed the same opinion as that of mcconn on the idea of unlimited cuts dean cur tis when interviewed said that asking for unlimited cuts is like asking for unlimited time off on a job and we consider that work in lehigh should be like a job for each individual student abolition of e favored among the proposals for changes in the system most favorable among the administrators of the university are the abolition of the flukey e and reduction to a one week period of sickness before excuses for cuts are allowed according to dean g b curtis in speaking of the possibility of changing the present system dean mcconn said that dean curtis has just completed an exhaustive report on the working of three different methods of handling attendance which we have had here at lehigh during the last nine years this report will go to the president and to the committee on standing of students in the course of the pres ent spring president c r richards was the guest of honor at a dinner giv en by a group of philadelphia alum ni headed by c f lincoln 11 for 18 principles and head-masters of high schools and preparatory schools around philadelphia last friday night in the bellevue-strat ford hotel philadelphia dr richards dean mcconn dr neil carothers and prof p m palmer gave speeches at the din ner dr richards spoke on chang ing ideals in american education palmer tells of arts college dean mcconn spoke on the personal movement in higher ed ucation he explained the various experiments which are being made in training boys and young men in college along the lines of general advisory work in physical and men tal health professor palmer spoke on the liberal arts education telling of the improvements which have been shown in the arts college dur ing the past few years professor carothers in speaking of the de velopement of education in com merce and business emphasized the necessity of foundations and principles as well as training in culture this meeting of college men and preparatory school men was of par ticular interest in that these two groups seldom have such an op portunity to discuss their relations in spite of the natural connection between colleges and preparatory schools it is often difficult for them to agree on the methods of training their students said dr richards in an interview local joins delta sigma phi in formal exercises held at hotel phi delta pi fraternity became beta theta chapter of delta sigma phi fraternity saturday evening at the hotel bethlehem the formal initiation was followed by a ban quet and dance the president general secretary and district deputy of delta sigma phi national organization were on hand to help install the new chap ter there were visitors from neigh boring delta sigma phi chapters of pennsylvania perm state and franklin and marshall 37 men 20 of whom were active members were initiated into the national frater nity among those present were the following members of the lehigh faculty charles russ richards president of lehigh university dean c m mcconn registrar g b curtis and professors p m palmer r p more e r theis r b cowin hale sutherland and m c stewart the faculty members initiated are professors r p more and ed win r theis the undergraduate members ini tiated are h a kreible bus 32 i t stoneback m e 32 r j simes jr i e 32 l j stow i e 32 r i fluck c e 32 w h goehring jr bus 32 w s james bus 32 a l sinclair ch e 32 m m reed arts 33 t.p doubleday bus 33 e l ar nold jr bus 33 r n moffat c e 34 e t deforest m e 34 s r stiles ch e 34 w j wil liamson bus 35 s r baldwin bus 35 a b lovett i e 35 and m l hader arts 35 new art exhibition in library gallery water colors and etchings of gill and hutty shown houseparty favored at arcadia meeting dickerman donates band arrangements gift to make possible playing of prize songs describes military use of gases and smokes that this country needs men who can think and that these men are to be found in universities was the opinion of capt john v lowe of the chemical warfare service u.s a in a lecture given to students in the r o t c yesterday in pack ard auditorium captain lowe showed that the use of poison gases in warfare is not as inhuman as many people be lieve it to be figures compiled by the surgeon-general in washing ton show that of all men gassed two percent die whereas 25 percent of men who receive bullet wounds die gas is effective in putting men out of action but it causes relative ly few deaths captain lowe traced the use of poison gas in war and described the use and effectiveness of the chemi cal used he traced the development of the gas mask from the simple hypo solution of the british army to the modern american mask the latter portion of his speech was given over to a short resume of the peacetime activities of the chemical warfare service coming events at a meeting of deutscher vere in honorary german society held friday evening in drown hall ed win a engle met e 34 spoke on the secondary school system of germany mr engel outlined the 13 years of scholastic training necessary be fore a student may enter a german university he also described the leading sports in german schools which are gymnastics soccer and a game similar to baseball f o kegel assistant professor of german showed a series of slides procured from the university of wisconsin entitled the life of goethe some changes were made in the organization of the society at a bus iness meeting held before the lec ture according to j l boughner president the membership of the society has been limited to 20 a member will lose his privileges if he misses two consecutive meet ings without a legitimate excuse several new members were voted into the society but have not been announced geology instructor will receive columbia degree donald mccoy fraser instructor in geology was notified last week that he will receive a ph d degree from columbia university he has forwarded copies of his dissertation to that university and as soon as they are put on file in the columbia library the degree will be granted the varied and important uses of sodium silicates in industry were discussed by dr william stericker director of research of the philadel phia quartz company before a meeting of the students chemical society held last thursday evening in the lecture room chemistry building probably the greatest amounts of sodium silicates are used in the pa per board industry according to dr stericker the application of sodium silicates in the manufacture of paper board has caused an im mense advancement in the use of pa per for all kinds of packing boxes the ability of these containers to withstand large pressures has brought about their wide use in this line the soap industry also employs large amounts of sodium silicates it has been found that soaps which have had some silicates added to them produce a much larger amoujit of suds than ordinary soaps the speaker also mentioned the application of silicates in the pre serving of eggs in weighting silks in silicate paints as binders in ce ment and as protective coatings for metals tomlinson fort addresses mathematics research club tomlinson fort head of the mathematics department talked on difference equations at a meet ing of the mathematics general re search club held tuesday at 4 o'clock in room 306 packer hall w c dickerman m e.'96 made a gift to lehigh of the band ar rangements of the three prize songs which were produced in the con test sponsored by the lehigh club of new york the songs are the victory march words and music by ken net l hoffman e m 26 men of lehigh words by arthur b achilles e e 28 and music by david j grumbbe bus 30 and a toast to lehigh words and music by a n vanvleck c e 08 mr dickerman president of the american locomotive company and a trustee of lehigh made it possible through his gift to prof t edgar shields director of the band to have the music written by a composer expert in band music wednesday march 2 4:30 p m pre-legal society will meet in room 23 coppee hall 7:30 p m tau beta pi honorary engineering societies room pack ard laboratory 8:15 p m lecture on balkan con solidation by c douglas booth room 466 packard laboratory thursday march 3 7:30 p m pi delta epsilon meet ing in drown hall an exhibition of over 60 water colors and etchings by paul l gill and alfred hutty opened in the lehigh library gallery sunday and will continue until march 21 ac cording to garth a howland as sistant professor of fine arts the exhibition will include 30 examples of gill's work mostly on american subjects especially a group treating steel mill subjects there will also be many paintings done in europe and africa gill has won many prizes for his work notably in the philadelphia sesquicentennial in the n y wat er color club and in the philadel phia water color club alfred hutty also an american artist is a resident of charleston s c • the seco*hd group consists of et chings of charleston buildings par ticularly old spanish houses al fred hutty will be represented by about 30 etchings according to professor howland freshman regulations will be continued indefinitely spring house party should be held as usual this year was the recom mendation of arcadia at the meet ing held last night in drown hall it was also recommended that freshman regulations be continued a large majority of the members of arcadia expressed themselves as being in favor of continuing the custom of having a full weekend houseparty some time after spring vacation it was mentioned that in order to reduce expenses it might be advisable to discontinue the buy ing of favors for the guests the petition of the sophomore council to discontinue freshman reg ulations was rejected in its entirety the general opinion being that of the few traditions now remaining at lehigh this should be one of the last to go both parts of the peti tion were discussed at some length by the members and voted on se parately english department gives 1 50 volumes to union a new addition to the main read ing room of drown hall is now open for use by the student body it contains approximately iso vol umes of the best of the modern novels as well as biographical and religious works we hope that these books will form an addition to the reading mat ter such as periodicals and news papers already in the drown hall reading room stated prof claude g beardslee advisor to the lehigh union these books may be bor rowed temporarily for perusal in the reading room or may be taken out over night by leaving your name with the secretary the idea of the additional read ing room originated with myron j luch professor of english and robert f herrick bus 34 at the end of each year the english de partment found itself with about 50 books on its hands that had been sent or had been left over from dif ferent contemporary literature courses the english department was about to dispose of these books when herrick and professor luch hit upon the idea of presenting them to the lehigh union for use in the reading room of drown hall ar mand r baldwin president of the union cooperating with professor luch and herrick had a room di rectly off the main reading room placed at their disposal bethlehem pa tuesday march 1 1932 cyanide modifies admission system speaks tomorrow price — five cents m c may include women in next play vol xxxix no 33 survey shows ruling on cuts may change local college girls will be asked to participate lists reasons for freedom of philippines the brown and white dr kalaw describes fili pinos struggle for inde pendence friday in packard laboratory praises island government for its financial stability mcconn says greater freedom in system is considered ; curtis scores complainers dean believes concession of cut quota unlikely however ank 1 2 3 ' 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 f average 2.372 2.206 2.186 2.092 2.051 2.042 2.011 2.003 2.000 1.995 living group leonard hall taylor hall section d taylor hall section b delta upsilon sigma alpha mu chi phi lambda chi alpha . pi lambda phi taylor hall section a taylor hall section e 11 12 13 1.968 1.945 1.935 town group theta xi delta tau delta 14 15 16 1.935 1.934 1.925 theta delta chi psi upsilon price hall 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 1.913 1.899 1.895 1.850 1.846 1.832 1.831 1.817 1.812 1.775 1.742 1.733 1.708 1.681 1.672 1.663 1.660 1.618 1.608 1.522 1.498 1.434 1.968 taylor hall section c kappa sigma sigma phi epsilon phi gamma delta phi delta theta theta kappa phi sigma phi sigma chi alpha kappa pi alpha chi rho chi psi omega phi sigma alpha tau omega phi sigma kappa kappa alpha sigma nu tau delta phi , delta sigma phi phi sigma delta beta theta pi pi kappa alpha delta phi town group member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first