Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 35

              senior honorary society devises new method for choosing candi dates juniors to submit ratings before thursday 1 p m two men will be pledged in february and ten in may in succeeding years tau beta pi will discuss selection of new members seniors will take carne gie com p r c hensives may 3 4 5 cultural subjects are stressed tung yuan e m 24 revisits university on trip tung yuan e m 24 an official of the peipiao coal mining co ltd of tienstin china is spend ing several days at lehigh visiting his old friends and teachers mr yuan left china about a year ago to travel around the world and study mining methods for his com pany mr yuan studied mining condi tions in germany and england he arrived in new york last week and came to bethlehem immediately he is leaving today for western pennsylvania and west virginia coal mines prof howard eckfeldt head of the department of mining engineering has prepared an itin erary list for mr yuan which will enabled him to visit the grand can yon and yellowstone national park on his way west mr yuan will leave for his home on april 9 tau beta pi national honor arj engineering society will dis cuss the choosing of new mem bers at 7:30 p m tomorrow in the student's honorary societies room in packard laboratory elections will be held before the easter vacation although the exact date has not yet been set according to john e angle president members will be chosen en tirely on their marks personal ity and activities without regard to the department with which they are affiliated stated john e angle hughes ford debate mar 3 professor ford calls psy chology a science stresses need of scien tific methods three students of lehigh suc ceeded in obtaining perfect aver ages last semester according to the report given out by p e schwartz assistant registrar of the three who made straight 5.00 averages two are seniors one taking engin eering and the other arts and one freshman enrolled in engineering the men who obtained the per fect averages are d l macadam eng phys 32 w c warner arts 32 and w a johnson met e 35 frosh lead in b's one hundred seventy-eight stu dents obtained b averages or bet ter last semester of these there were more freshman b average men than in any other class with 49 seniors 45 juniors 30 sopho mores and 54 freshmen r%rrt this is the first year in'the^ttis tory of lehigh university history that the freshmen haveihad_a ijisli er scholastic average th4n/t6v soptf omores according to g b curtis registrar despite the faotthat more freshmen flunked out thjeseß&cbe fore the class average bettered that of the sophomore class by 007 university average high the university average is the highest since 1923 associate dean curtis stated and the number of flunks is less than in previous years this attributed by the faculty to the student's realization of the in creased burden his parents must bear to keep him in college the class and general group av erages for the first term are as fol lows seniors 2.212 dormitory men 2.036 juniors 2,015 nori-fratrnity men 1.993 university average 1.895 fraternity men 1.815 fresh men 1.769 and sophomores 1.762 resolved that a biographical approach is of primary importance in psychology was the topic of a debate between prof percy hughes head of the department of philos ophy and education and prof adel bert ford head of the department of psychology at a monthly meet ing of the robert w blake society last friday evening in the packard laboratory professor hughes spoke affirma tively on the subject he said that we must be conscious of a synthe sis before we attempt an analysis we must study human behavior as an integral activity of brain and body the human organism reacts as a rounded whole which is not necessarily the sum of its parts professor ford stressed analysis saying that synthesis comes after analysis continuing he said we cannot attempt to solve our prob continued on page four o d k will choose its members this year by a new point system every point gained by a candidate for admission will be counted by the new system a football player who played on the freshman team and two years on the varsity has earned 13 points similarly the president of mustard and cheese has earned eight points o d k requests that members of the junior class in good scholas tic standing submit their points as reckoned by the point system to r j imhof or r k serfass by 1 p m thursday the activities and corresponding points should be ar ranged in groups with individual points recorded and totaled for each group first semester points counted all points gained before the be ginning of the second semester of this year should be recorded if a candidate is out for a winter sport of which the schedule continues into this semester a statement should be made as bo the number of con tests in which he has taken part this season under the new plan adopted re cently by o d x two juniors will be pledged in february and 10 more will be pledged in may for merly seven juniors were pledged in may and three senior's were pledged the following september three fraternities entertain at dances ullmann believes unlimited cuts would cause failures the abolition of the flukey e is generally favored by the various departments this conclusion was reached through a survey of opin ions of a majority of the directors of curricula the dean's office interprets the cut rule much more liberally than is generally believed by the stu dents stated dr harry ullmann director of the curricula in chemi cal engineering and chemistry for this reason the present sys tem of cutting is very satisfactory in comparison to the old system of total and partial exclusion he added ~* unlimited cuts opposed under the old cut system a stu dent who cut more than 15 percent of his classes was excluded from his examinations seniors and other students with a or b averages should never be allowed unlimited cuts dr ullmann said the aver age student would take unneces sary advantage of this rute which cause his partial if not to t&l failure dr ullmann stated that the aver age college man's parents did not send him to college to cut as much as he pleased the present-day freshman who attained a high aver age would take advantage of this new freedom to such an extent that he would probably ruin his chances of getting a good education and taking full advantage of his mental powers said dr ullmann eckfeldt approves of editorial tie seniors and high average juniors should undoubtedly have un limited cuts said prof howard eckfeldt director of the curriculum of mining engineering " r am in favor of all the suggestions made by the brown and white and i think that they will have a decided advantage over the present cut sys tem he added the consideration of these changes should undoubtedly be dis cussed by the faculty stated dr charles c bidwell director of the curriculum of engineering physics i do not favor the abolition of the e as a final grade but it should be abolished as a class grade dr bidwell stated that there are cases in which the student may not be able to do his best on the exam in this case the student should be able to take a re-examination if his work has proven that he is capable of passing the course dr bidwell believes continued on page four council makes no revision interfr aternity group proposed changes so action was taken by the inter fraternity council 9ji_lhel proposed \ wnfcsajmbisto&hix at a meeting 7:30 last evening in drown hall the suggested am endments were read and discussed they will be voted on at the next meeting the suggested changes would give every fraternity the right to membership on the council only one representative from each fra ternity a ranking officer would be granted membership on the council another amendment em bodies rules for the withdrawal of a fraternity from the council a copy of the proposed amend ments together with the old con stitution will be sent to the various houses for consideration before the next meeting according to g h riley bus 32 vice president of the council it was suggested at the meeting to do away with prom favors but the order has already been sent it could be canceled however ac cording to a member of the coun cil a reducfion in the price of prom tickets and the institution of fur ther economies were advocated april 30 was definitely settled for houseparty according to frank fisher arts 32 treasurer of the council the petition of delta sigma phi for membership on the council was discussed by the members and will be voted on at the next meeting comfort speaks to eta sigma phi coming events two parties held on campus one at hotel bethlehem alpha kappa pi chi psi . and delta tau delta were the sponsors of dances held last saturday eve ning the alpha kappa pi dance was at the hotel bethlehem the brown and maroon orchestra played for the 250 guests chaperones were prof and mrs r d billinger and george b thorn of the mechanical engineering department parke b fraim grand president of the fra ternity was present at the dance delta tau delta's dance at the fraternity house was attended by 100 couples about 14 couples were from the university of pennsylva nia chapter chaperones were prof and mrs sidney m brown and mr and mrs wilson f payne reich ardt's orchestra from easton play ed for the guests chi psi also held its dance at the house about 200 couples danced to music played by the hotsy totsy boys from coatesville capt and mrs j k rice were the chaper ones fifty-one students receive typhoid fever inoculations fifty-one students have received their first two innoculations for ty phoid fever dr r c bull direc tor of the students health service reports of this number 18 were re quired to be innoculated for their work in the r o t c camps this summer while the remainder re ceived the treatment for personal reasons revision of o d k membership point system group i—scholarship1 scholarship group 2 publications 4 average 5 sem 15 brown and white pi delta epsilon 1 3 average 5 sem v 12 editor-in-chief 4pi delta epsilon pres 2 „,, „ „ business manager s epitome 2 average 5 sem 8 . 6 " . . editorial manager 5 edltor-in-cluef 9 2 average 5 sem .... 4 news manager j business manager 7 tau beta pi 2 sports editor 4 senior class book ed . 5 alpha kappa psi 2 news editor 4 advertising manager ... 3 robert blake society 1 make-u p editor 4 circulation manager ... 3 circulation manager .... 4 junior editor 3 deutscher verein 1 ', advertising manager ... 4 art editor 3 eta kappa nu 1 editorial council 2 senior section editor ... 2 eta sigma phi 1 feature editor 2 ass't bus manager 2 intern relat club 1 columnist 2 review newtonian society 1 board 2 editor-in-chief 6 burr business manager 4 phi eta s.ggma 1 editor.in.chief „ managing editor 4 pi mv epsilon 1 business manager 6 advertising manager ... 3 pi tau sigma 1 art editor 5 circulation manager ... 3 scabbard and blade .... 1 managing editor 4 art editor 2 class honors 1 circulation manager ... 4 board 2 w a wilbur prize 3 advertising manager ... 4 handbook tau beta pi prize 2 ass't editor 2 senior editor 4 other scholastic prize 1 staff 2 associate editor 2 group 3—3 — group a group s—athletics5 athletics social leaders other activities varsity letter 7 pres senior class 12 varsity manager 5 additional letter pres junior class 8 varsity ass't manager 6 in same sport 3 pres sophomore class 8 frosh team mana ber ••• 2 varsity captaincy 4 brown key 1 rres freshman class .. 8 „ „ tt . numerals 3 president union 3 other class offices 4 senior cabine 3 frosh captaincy 1 president arcadia 4 head cheer leader 2 sectional championship 5 arcadia 8 senior cheer leader ... 3 nat intercollegiate v p ' arcadia ' junior cheer leader ¦¦¦ 3 championship 10 sec.-tr arcadia 1 band leader 2 board of control z band manager 2 new c°"ege record 4 faculty committee 1 senior band 2 pres interf council ... 4 junior band 2 interfraternity council . ¦% pres m and c 5 alpha kappa psi officer 1 manager m and c 4 tau beta pi officer i mustard and cheese ... 3 l club officer i pres musical clubs ... 5 pres of course society 1 man musical clubs .... 4 dormitory chief 6 musical clubs 3 faculty adopts two arcadia suggestions without change freshman and sophomore cab inets are abolished brown key is established the plan for reorganization of arcadia as proposed by o d k and presented in a petition to the faculty by arcadia was approved at the meeting of the faculty held monday afternoon arcadia also presented a second petition which was in the form of additions to the o d k plan the petitions which were passed in whole by the faculty read as fol lows i the arcadia shall be the supreme un dergraduate governing body a membership in arcadia shall consist of 1 the head of each living group 2 one representative for each thirty non living group men elected at a meeting in the spring called by the president of arcadia 3 the four class presidents 4 the editor-in-chief of publications 5 a representative elected from and by the lettermen in the university in case one man holds more than one position allowing him membership in arcadia he shall appoint another man to represent the other organization his name appointee on the roll-call b meetings shall be open and given full publicity c no proxy shall be recognized the roll shall be taken by names of mem bers and advance notice of probable business shall be given d the following standing committees , shall be organized to cover student ac tivities in 1 publications 2 athletic control 1 3 social activities 4 student clubs 5 booster activities 6 intramural sports — 3 7 freshman welfare — 3 8 elections — 3 c a slate commitee composed of two fraternity men one non-living group representative and one dormitory rep resentative shall be appointed by the president of the arcadia this com mittee shall propose membership in committees under d f the chairman of committees under d shall constitute an executive board which shall meet twice monthly to for mulate policies the president of ar cadia shall be chairman of the execu tive board g a man may be a chairman of only one committee or a member of two h the president of arcadia shall be elected at the first meeting of the new arcadia the secretary and treasurer shall be elected at this time 11 there shall be an organization known as the brown key society it shall con sist of all assistant managers which shall be host to all visiting teams ta all assistant managers shall automati cally be members without the payment of fees b the president shall be directly re sponsible to the chairman of the board of control of athletics 111 the phi club shall be abolished iv sophomore and junior class banquets shall be abolished and the freshman ban quet if held shall be in the fall v ah class officers except president and secretary-treasurer shall be abolished freshman and sophomore cabinets shall be abolished vi an '%'* club shall be organized the petition presenting amendments to this plan read as follows i the prom committee shall be appointed as heretofore 11 the prom chairman shall be held re sponsible for the details pertaining to proms iii for their labors the committees shall receiver 100 provided receipts warrant payment of said amount continued on page four wednesday march 9 7:30 p m faculty dramatic club meeting at 37 east church street green grows the lilacs will be read 7:30 p m tau beta pi meeting room 167 packard lab 7:30 p m newtonian society meet ing room 208 packard lab thursday march 10 7:30 p m pi delta epsilon meet ing drown hall 8:00 p m physical society meet ing physics lecture room 8:00 p m scabbard and blade lec ture packard auditorium major carlos de zafra will speak on tools of modern warfare friday march 11 7:30 p m electrical engineering society meeting room 416 pack ard lab 7:30 p m civil engineering so ciety meeting room 466 pack ard lab roman ruins in germany subject of lecture howard comfort professor of history at haverford college ad dressed eta sigma phi classical fraternity on friday evening in coppee hall the subject of pro fessor comfort's speech was ro man ruins in germany professor comfort studied . two years at the american academy in rome as a research fellow he travelled extensively throughout europe during that period'studying roman ruins professor comfort is now taking his ph d degree at princeton stated e a collins arts 32 president of eta sigma phi professor comfort's lecture con cerned mostly roman ruins in the rhine valley of germany he show ed slides of the ruins which were made from pictures taken by him during his travels good marks in examinations mean exemption of finals faculty approves three new courses for next year his tory l , 12 dropped the carnegie comprehensives for seniors are to be held again this year this decision was reached by the faculty at 4 p m monday the faculty also approved three new courses to be taught begin ning next year the aeneid of virgil in english translation to be taught in summer school nine teenth century diplomacy — his tory 41 — to be taught first semes ter twentieth century diplo macy — history 42 ¦ — to be taught second semester history 11 and history 12 american and colonial history were dropped the following resolution concerning the examination was adopted by the faculty a the carnegie comprehensive examina tion will be held this spring at the fol lowing times 8:30-11:30 a m tuesday wednesday and thursday may 3 4 and 5 b 1 this examination is required 1 of all students who under faculty rule have senior standing this sem ester 2 by all oth^js in the university who took the carnegie comprehensive high school examination in 1928 and ( 3 ) by all others who took the carnegie sophomore comprehensive examination in 1930 2 the examination may also be taken by any other students who will be graduated in june providing they no tify the registrar by april 15 c the examination shall be confined to the common subjects english mathematics and general culture literature history etc d the following arrangements with re spect to exemption from final examina tions for students who do well in the carnegie examination were adopted by the faculty 1 those who rank in the first quarter of the participants of their college arts business or engineering shall be excused from all final examinations this semester in no case shall a man be exempt from a course in which he does not have a passing grade at the end of the semester s 2 those who rank in the second and third quarters of the participants from their college shall be excused from all final exams except six hours to be designated by the director of the cur riculum concerned no man shall be exempt from a course in which he does not have a passing grade at the end of the semester 3 students who rank in the lowest quar ter of the participants from their col lege will be required to take semester exams in the usual manner 4 these exemption arrangements do not apply to the comprehensive exam inations in the arts college e 1 all students who are required to take the examination will be notified by the registrar in good season and each director of curriculum will be fur nished with a corresponding list for the students in his curriculum 2 a student thus notified by the regis trar who absents himself from the ex amination without reason approved by the committee on standing of students will incur the following penalty a in the case of those who would oth erwise graduate in june graduation will be deferred until the following founder's day b in the case of those who would oth erwise graduate on founder's day graduation shall be deferred until the following june bethlehem pa tuesday march 8 1932 chinese alumnus returns to lehigh price — five cents the brown and white faculty passes arcadia petition exam dates set vol xxxix no 35 three students got 5 grades last semester survey shows abolition of e is approved o.d.k members to be admitted by new system two seniors and one freshman have perfect averages for first term frosh higher than sophs for first time in history revision of student gov ernment provided by acceptance of o d k proposal majority of curricula di rectors favor its discon tinuation ; palmer re fuses comment member intercollegiate newspafer association all the lehigh news