Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 39

              athletic board of control passes on sport schedules the board of control of ath letics passed on five sport sched ules for the next year these schedules were submitted to the faculty for ratification no action was taken on the re cently passed national tax law that requires the colleges to pay the government ten percent of all admissions at each athletic event according to j g petri kin graduate manager of ath letics dr e kuehnemann class elections will be held on friday april 22 from 9 a m to 5 p m in drown hall arcadia decided last evening a commit tee was appointed to take charge of the nominations and elections of the various classes howard f casselman will su perintend the elections of the freshman class carl f schier those of the sophomores and carl r giegerich will take charge of the senior elections 68 students survey plants prom's choice is casa loma state geologist will lecture miners inspect zinc co senior chemists study methods in five mills mining and geological so ciety to hear talk by dr george h ashley junior prom committee chooses 1 4-piece band to play fri april 29 calls striving not knowledge the key to man's strength ethical striving not theoretical knowledge is the key to man's strength this statement was made by eugen kuehnemann professor of philosophy at the university of breslau germany in a lecture on goethe's faust and the german mind given last friday in pack ard auditorium how shall man find a foundation on which he can stand before god and his conscience this was the question which goethe asked him self in living and in writing faust the answer lies in action moral social and political according to professor kuehnemann there were four great epochs in goethe's life according to the speaker in all of these and in faust he strived to reach the ul timate goal of the german mind perfect unity of freedom and piety his early life shows the affects of the german frontier at that time germany was being influenced by new political standards and a new literature and art was being formed emigrated to weimar the second period of the poet's life began when he emigrated to the duchy of weimar where he enter ed into political life here he showed a soul of devotion loyalty and self-sacrifice said professor kuehnemann for a period of two years goethe toured italy in this his third epoch he had three objects for explora tion nature art and human life in the every-day sense on his return to weimar goethe formed a lasting friendship with schiller the world owes it to schiller that faust was complet ed stated professor kuehnemann it was at this point in his life that goethe's philosophy was brought to classical^form the lec turer stated he did not show traits of godliness but made striving the leading idea for faust at the conclusion of professor kuehnemann's address three songs were sung by the bethlehem bee thoven maennerchor under the di rection of ernest edwards the titles were wandelier laudamus and am bach the casa loma orchestra has been engaged for the junior prom according to an announcement made today by p j flanigan c e 33 chairman of the prom commit tee the prom will be held during the week-end of spring house party on friday evening april 29 in the taylor gymnasium the admission will be 5 per couple the orchestra is one of 14 pieces which has been very popular at college dances this year although not so prominent in radio it has played at proms at yale princeton peun state washington and lee boston college rutgers and oth ers according to p j flanigan chairman of the junior prom com mittee preparations for this annual af fair are rapidly being completed flanigan stated the decorations the details of which have not yet been decided upon will be handled by zollinger and harned a decor ating firm in allentown which has done this work for the past several years alex robb is chairman of the committee favors will be dis tributed at the door to each lady guest as is the usual custom like the decorations the exact nature of the favors has not been deter mined dr george h ashley state ge ologist of pennsylvania will speak on the mineral resources of pennsylvania before an open meet ing of the mining and geological society at 8 p m thursday in the geology lecture room williams hall the talk will be illustrated and will deal in a comprehensive and non-technical way with the mineral wealth of pennsylvania as to its method of origin age importance and extent says robert h raring president of the society graduate of cornell dr ashley was graduated from cornell in 1890 and received ' his doctor's degree from stanford uni versity in 1894 since then he has held positions on the state geologi cal surveys of arkansas indiana and tennessee he became a mem ber of the staff of the united states geological survey in 1901 he re signed from this body in 1919 to become head of the newly-created pennsylvania geological survey dr ashley is the author of num erous books and papers on geologi cal matters and has written exten sively on pennsylvania's coal he is a member of the american insti tute of mining and metallurgical engineers the coal mining insti tute of america and the washing ton academy of sciences committee to draw up order of business for meetings investigation shows prices quoted by most publishers same as charged at bureau plans for the submission of a pe tition for the final college meeting of the year were rather fully dis cussed at the meeting of arcadia in drown hall last evening although arcadia was given to understand that it would not be passed by the faculty it was de cided to submit a petition for the college meeting before the end of the term after a shortening and general revision of the proposed program the program will include tapping of members for sword and cres cent senior honorary society the award of letters for the sports of the year and the award of cups for intramural and interfraternity com petitions the reason for the disapproval of the faculty is said to be the extreme indifference that the student body shows in college meetings it does not seem worthwhile to suspend classes for a meeting at which there is liable to be such a small atten dance organization discussed there was also some discussion of the organization of the new ar cadia a committee was appointed to draw up a regular order of bus iness for arcadia meetings and to present it for approval at the next meeting this will probably include a suggestion of regular reports from the committees connected with arcadia in the report of the committee appointed to investigate the high prices in the supply bureau it was stated that all the publishers heard from so far had given prices iden tical with those of the supply bu reau except for one exception in favor of the bureau there were no student discounts offered the first meeting of the new ar cadia will be held on the first mon day in may and the last meeting of the old organization on the second monday the new bdoy will include the newly elected presidents of the classes graduates address a.s.m.e meeting tests in fritz lab completed recently professors publish new class books steel columns prove capable of holding 75,000 pounds the senior metallurgists and miners the senior chemists and ad vanced ordnance students went on inspection trips before the easter holidays accompanied by allison butts associate professor of metal lurgy 23 senior metallurgists and miners visited the plant of the new jersey zinc company at palmer'ton on tuesday march 22 their main point of interest was the research laboratory of the company where research is carried on in relation with the use of zinc for paints the senior chemists spent march 21 to 23 in visiting different indus trial plants in the vicinity of new york profs a a diefenderfer c w simmons and e r theis were in charge of the 34 students on monday they visited the seton leather company at newark and the dupont viscoloid company at arlington n j inspect lamp works tuesday and wednesday the students inspected the lamp works of the westinghouse lamp com pany at bloomfield n j the man hattan rubber company at passaic and the proctor and gamble com pany on staten island the proctor and gamble company and the wes tinghouse lamp company feted the students at luncheon eleven advanced ordnance stu dents accompanied by capt charles h keck assistant professor of mil itary science and tactics inspected the picatinny arsenal at dover n j on march 18 they viewed the loading of t n t into airplane bombs and the manufacture of fuses and fuse loading the stu dents also observed the fire of 3 inch coast defense guns and ended the day by going through the re search laboratories robberies thwarted at fraternity homes macdougall's books mention lehigh men faculty authorizes three extra drills this sem ester approves sched ules of spring sports late registration penalty changed at meeting monday new calendar provides holi day at end of first semester exam period changes in next year's univer sity calendar made at the faculty meeting yesterday afternoon discon tinued the holiday on the day of the lafayette football game asso ciate dean g b curtis stated after the meeting the faculty also authorized the military department to hold three additional drills this semester to make up for drills lost an account of inclement weather sport schedules approved the final schedules of the spring sports were approved by the fac ulty at the meeting yesterday according to the new calendar approved by the faculty the ex amination period for the first sem ester begins on thursday and closes on saturday of the following week the monday following this exam ination period is a holiday regis tration for the second semester takes place on tuesday and wed nesday and instruction is resumed on thursday at 7:45 a m this change in examination per iods makes one less saturday for the first semester thus making it necessary to use the lafayette foot ball game day for classes said dean curtis late penalty changed it was also decided to change the penalty for late registration ac cording to the new rule the pen alty for late registration is 1 a day up to a maximum of 5 a day for each day of delay beyond the reg istration days in taking out the reg istration ticket and a registration not completed within three days after the date on the registration ticket is subject to a late registra tion fee of 1 day up to a maximum of 5 no registrations will be ac cepted later than the tenth day of instruction it was announced that the next faculty education club meeting will be held next monday afternoon at 4:15 in the alumni memorial build ing several topics will be discussed at this meeting by members of the faculty several changes were made in chemistry courses in the study of radiation methods for which the prerequisite is senior standing makes new plan for selection of official senior blazer arcadia moves editor-in-chief of brown and white be placed on board of control a reform program that nearly ri valed the wholesale plan instituted by omicron delta kappa last spring was instigated by arcadia at its meeting last evening in drown hall sharp criticism of the board of control's policy of suppressing news of the student self-aid asso ciation's method of awarding the contract for the freshman dink and of its own relation to the blazer situation marked the most torrid meeting of lehigh's student gov erning body this year a definite reform for jsach criti cized policy was passed athletic secrecy condemned a strong under-current of disap proval marked the discussion of the board of control's activities while admitting that certain information discussed by the board of control should not be published arcadia disapproved of that body's secrecy about the proposed abolition of varsity sports and of other athletic matters vitally connected with the student body to insure adequate publicity in the future arcadia moved that the edior-in-chief of the brown and white automatically be one of the four arcadia representatives on the board of control bidding on dinks proposed arcadia failed to see why silver berg and goldberg official head quarters for the freshman dink for the past three years should be awarded the contract annually with out the formality of a bid criticism grew especially severe when it was stated that the self aid association an unofficial body organized to earn money for needy member students was obtaining only seventy cents for each dink sold when other local merchants of fered one dollar arcadia moved that the self-aid association open the contract to bidding by all local merchants the bids to be taken in may while school is still in session notice shall be given in the brown and white for three weeks prior to the award ing of the contract blazer contracts revised a new plan for awarding the con tract for the official senior blazer was passed student members of the committee on student activities will invite bids adequate notice shall be given in the brown and white at least three weeks before bids are called the recommenda tion of the committee will then be presented to arcadia for approval news briefs police arrival prevents thefts during easter vacation coming events professor milton discusses nomination of officers talks were given by three grad uate students at the meeting of the student branch of the a s m e in packard laboratory wednesday evening march 23 francis p shannon spoke on temperatures in internal combus tion engines james f houser on research in the field of mechan ical springs and james b hart man gave a talk on heating by means of refrigeration there were many interesting points dis cussed by all these men in speaking on their respective topics following this part of the pro gram there was a short business meeting during which prof miltoa c stuart head of the mechanical engineering department spoke brief ly on the nomination and elections of new officers in the society dr smith edits shakespeare's triolus and cressida " dr robert m smith head of the department of english is the edi tor of a recently published edition of shakespeare's troilus and cres sida dr frederick a bradford associate professor of economics has recently published a book en titled banking the text by dr smith in addi tion to the play proper contains a history of the different shakespear ean editions of troilus and cres sida its sources stage and history dramatic structure and various in terpretations by authorities on shakespeare the work also contains a glos sary copious notes and biographies of the many characters in the play who were prominent in greek and roman mythology dr bradford's book is supple mentary to his earlier work mon ey and is designed as a separate text book written for classroom purposes but it is so compiled as to be of use in all banking problems wednesday april 6 4 p m varsity baseball vs man hattan college at taylor field 7:30 p m r w hall pre-medical society will meet in room 208 packard laboratory dr j hunt wilson will speak on sorensic chemistry 7:30 p m tau beta pi meeting in honorary engineering society room in packard laboratory thursday april 7 8 p m dr george h ashley state geologist will give an illus trated lecture on mineral re sources of pennsylvania before the mining and geological so ciety geology lecture room wil liams hall open to the public friday april 8 8:30 p m faculty dance drown hall saturday april 9 3 p m varsity baseball vs villa nova at taylor field former journalism professor publishes two texts curtis d macdougall former as sistant professor and head of the courses in journalism at lehigh who is now at the university of wisconsin published two books on journalism recently they are re porting for beginners and a teacher's manual in the latter book there are many hypothetical stories used as exam ples and the names appearing there in are those of lehigh students alumni faculty members and local residents there is a fictitious riot story whose setting is laid at the delta tau delta house in 1930 the riot is the result of an attempt made by an irate father and a policeman to enter the delta house in search of a cat which a delt pledge has sup posedly stolen from the man's little boy a robbery was narrowly averted march 25 at the sigma chi frater nity when patrolman golab of the bethlehem police fired at four young men who attempted to enter the house and routed them a search squad was later sent out to find marauders but failed in the attempt search of the house revealed noth ing missing on the same night a housebreak er forced his entrance into sigma phi epsilon by way of a cellar door and made off with a quantity of food stuff superintendent of police trafford stated today that fraternity houses are being closely guarded by the police who have been instructed to fire upon anyone found breaking into the building who fails to halt upon command tests were made recently in fritz laboratory upon twenty steel columns designed and manufactured by the remington-rand company of buffalo for use in library stacks according to inge m lyse assis tant professor of civil engineering the tests which proved the col umns able to withstand weights ranging from 22,000 to 75,000 pounds occupied three days and were witnessed by charles a fin ley production engineer of rem ington-rand and robert e walk er new york consultant tests are being conducted in the laboratory by h j godfrey re search fellow in civil engineering on rolled and welded steel i-beams for the bethlehem steel company he is also investigating beam con struction which may enable the de duction of new formula a test made last week proved the method of investigation correct he stated an unusual feature of shear test ing is the measurement of shear directly instead of the torsion meth od for determining the shear mo dulus of elasticity the engagements of miss ruth m ellicott to robert demoyer c e 29 and miss frances m steck el secretary in the athletic office to raymond binkley graduate as sistant in physics last year were announced recently the offices of the alumni mem orial building are being repainted the work is expected to be com pleted by next thursday dean c m mcconn has returned to work after having been confined to his bed for part of last week with an attack of influenza alfred n rogers ch e 30 instructor in qualitative analysis has recently been appointed a quar ter-time assistant at syracuse uni versity lauds goethe bethlehem pa tuesday april 5 1932 price — five cents vol xxxix no 39 poet praised on centenary of his death lafayette game holiday refused for next year arcadia decries secrecy surrounding proceedings of athletic control board breslau professor calls goethe expression of german mind shows ethical solution class elections to be held on april 22 in drown hall the brown and white scores self aid associa tion's method of awarding contract for freshman dinks petition for revision of program discussed in spite of faculty's de termination to refuse it a seniors to order invitations orders for commencement in vitations announcements and programs may be placed up to and including friday april 8 in drown hall no order will be taken after this date according to w l miller president of the senior class all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association