Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 42

              students and members of faculty to hear famous sea captain speak in chapel bishop and ruth named for president of junior class at meeting held on thursday annual affair sponsored by lehigh alumni of new york attended by sub-freshmen three new lehigh songs presented by glee club editorial and business staffs will hear newspaper men nominations for senior class officers held at noon today in packard auditorium resulted in the nomination of f d keck and c b peck for president of the class and the nomination of b h riviere and a robb for secretary approximately so men were present at the nominations which were supervised by e w kauf man 32 of arcadia shows change in rectifiers professor seyfert describes features of new use of electricity president richards tells of financial policies the budget matter for next year will be considered at the annual meeting of the board of trustees at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning in the alumni memorial building according to president charles russ richards the university is in an excellent financial condition the board of trustees has pro ceeded very cautiously and as a re sult there has been no deficit for many years however the board will be particularly concerned this year about the effect of the contin uation of the present trend of bus iness on the future enrollment of the university said president rich ards a dinner will be given in the ho tel bethlehem to those members of the board who will arrive this eve ning stoughton will speak at ban quet at hotel bethlehem prof bradley stoughton head of the department of metallurgical en gineering will speak on what price success at the banquet which follows the formal initiation of tau beta pi pledges to be held in packard laboratory at 6 o'clock the banquet whteh will be held at the hotel bethlehem will begin at 7 o'clock those who were given an exam ination on wednesday night at the informal initiation and who will be accepted into membership tonight are k f borden m e 32 p j flanigan jr c e 33 r h gar rett c e 33 c e harrison jr ch e 33 e w laschober jr met e 33 h s walker i e 33 and r b wall i e 33 in his talk professor stoughton will discuss , whether college can contribute to a young man's suc cess in life and if so how he will deal especially with extra-curricular activities in this connection poster exhibit will be held burk attends military meet second annual travel display will open in library on april 1 5 the features of a mechanical rec tifier for changing alternating cur rent to direct current and direct current to alternating current auto matically without making any change in the apparatus were ex plained by s s seyfert acting head of the department of electrical en gineering before the meeting of the physical society thursday night this rectifier was developed by prof seyfert who has been stu dying mechanical rectifiers for elec tric current for some time ttiis rectifier is expected to find impor tant uses in industry because of its efficiency and the fact that it trans forms either a c to d c or d c to a c electricity advantages cited the advantages of direct current over alternating current for elec tric power transmission were also discussed by professor seyfert whose rectifier will probably lead to the use of direct current for pow er transmission instead of alternat ing current which is now in general use as was further explained by prof seyfert prof seyfert was introduced by prof c c bidwell head of the de partment of physics who pointed out the close relation between elec trical engineering and physics the lecture was illustrated by means of slides which showed the rectifiers studied the diagrams of the recti fier circuits apparatus used to stu dy the currents produced by recti fying graphs of the currents and photographs of the wave forms of the electricity before and after rec tification an exhibition of travel posters will be held in the art gallery of the university library april 15-30 inclusive the gallery will be open from 2-5 p m sundays and week days this is the second annual ex hibition and is given wi^h the in tention of stimulating foreign travel among the undergraduates the posters have been secured through the courtesy of charles goszontyi m e 10 of the gosztonyi bank the pictures were selected from a large number with a view to their artistic merit in subject matter and coloring there are posters from chili australia scotland ireland england france germany po land holland russia and the scandinavian countries according to h s leach librarian the most beautiful posters are from austra lia poland and scotland there will also be many interesting fold ers of travel literature which the students may take twith them to read at their leisure *•• h s leach who has been in europe believes that a trip abroad can most conveniently be made during a student's undergraduate years after graduation he says the student will be working and will not have the time " disciplinary committee drops student from physics course as a result of action taken by the disciplinary committee at a meeting wednesday afternoon a sophomore student has been drop ped from a laboratory course in physics and has been denied credit in the course according to..dean cm mcconn the student was disciplined for turning in a laboratory report which was copied from a report turned in by another student last semester in the same course honorary to elect officials tonight lafayette elected to membership in scab bard and blade lafayette and two other colleges were elected to scabbard and blade honorary military society at the national convention at st louis last week-end russel burk student officer represented the lehigh chap ter about 75 schools from 46 states attended the conference during one of the sessions major general parker of the sixth corps area spoke on national defense oth er speeches were given by brig general reilly and major general haygood the lehigh chapter will probably initiate the newly elected lafayette chapter the initiation will take place before school closes in june the members of the convention attended a military ball and inspect ed scott aviation field the propos ed air show was cancelled because of bad weather in addition to lafayette peti tions were accepted from colorado school of mines and delaware at a recent meeting of the local chapter the following were elected to membership j c rhoads r a lodge j m hazen j a aufham mer,and a b rawn honorary fraternity elects new officers blake society will discuss an nual trip to swarthmore ellison preston and sherrill nominated for soph head in the junior class nominations held under the direction of carl f schier 32 at noon on thursday ben l bishop arts and george c ruth bus were nominated for president and lewis h eichelberg er jr m e and richard e mc leod i e were the nominees for secretary-treasurer bishop in his freshman year was awarded numerals in wre»tling football and baseball he was also a member of the newtonian society in his sophomore year he won the 145-lb division title in the eastern intercollegiates and played varsity football he was a member of the recently abolished phi club ruth played varsity and frosh basketball eichelberger held the position of treasurer in his sophomore and freshman year mcleod nominated mcleod was engaged in frosh football basketball and track in his sophomore year he took up var sity football and track and is a member of the interfraternity coun cil and the phi club stanley r ellison eng paul f preston e e and clarence c sherrill bus were nominated for president of the sophomore class at the nominations held wednesday noon under the supervision of how ard f casselman 32 john a gil more i e and hugh m jamison bus were the nominees for secre tary-treasurer august h baum was also nominated for secretary treasurer but he later declined ellison is a member of the glee club and was captain of the frosh swimming team preston a freshman star preston has received his numerals in freshman football and basketball at present he is a candidate for the frosh baseball team sherrill received his numerals in frosh football and swimming he also is at present a candidate for the frosh baseball team gilmore was a member of section b taylor hall basketball team winners of the intramural league and at present is a candidate for the frosh baseball team jamison was captain of the frosh wrestling team wrestling in the 155-lb division and winning the lewis cup german officer destroyed allied shipping during war final arrangements for a lecture to be given by count felix yon luckner german naval captain under the auspices of the lehigh union on april 22 in the univer sity chapel have been definitely completed according to a r bald win president of the union according to baldwin special ar rangements are being made to seat approximately 1500 in the chapel in order that every student and faculty member will be assured of a seat the lecture will be purely a stu dent lecture and will be run for the benefit of the students and faculty of the university it had been for 1 merly intended to have the lecture open to the public but the union was informed by the managers of count luckner that a special rate was given us with the understand ing that the lecture was to be sole ly for the benefit of the students if the lecture should be thrown open to the public they would be obliged to raise the rate stated baldwin destroys many ships count luckner was commander of a german cruiser during the world war he fitted out an old american clipper ship as a man of war disguised it as a merchant ves sel and succeeded in slipping through the british blockade sail ing along the coast of northern af rica and south america count yon luckner did considerable damage to allied shipping he destroyed dozens of sailing vessels and small steamers without the loss of a sin gle life his methods of capture were based largely on clever trick ery and deception union elections on april 22 at the meeting of the union wed nesday evening in drown hall the announcement was made that the union elections will be held at the same time as the class elections april 22 the nominees will not be announced until the time of elec tion this will keep politics out of union elections stated a r bald win plans were also drawn up for the adoption of a definite constitution for the union the committee which is now drawing up a tentative con stitution and a definite policy of the union for the future consists of r e imhoff arts 32 chairman w c simpson met e 32 and r j wilson bus 33 harvey completes research on metals the combined musical clubs presented the three prize songs victory march by hoffman pep song by grubbe and a toast to lehigh by van vleck which were chosen by the new york lehigh club in their recent prize song contest at a concert tuesday night sponsored by the new york lehigh club in the en gineer's club of new york city the concert is an annual affair and is held to create a lehigh at mosphere for the high school and preparatory students in the new york vicinity glee club sings first the program of musical numbers opened with the singing of hail the college and sea-fever by an drews by the glee club the band played the selection captain an derson by brokenshire two so los asleep in the deep by mack and the armorer's song from de koven's robin hood were pre sented by r e pennington and were followed by a quartet compos ed of p b myers f s roberts j b brown and j f perry the quartet sang a novelty of sea songs including sailing sailing over the bounding waves and the mer maid song and a popular selec tion entitled put that sun back in the sky the glee club in the second part of their program sang sleigh ride by kountz-baldwin love ly or not by seechi-moore and the bell man by forsyth the band played egyptian ballet by ringini a legerdemain performance was given by a e buchanan al umni secretary and the orchestra played a group of popular numbers during the intermission a motion picture of scenes of lehigh grounds and buildings was shown sing irish air after the singing of the galway piper an old irish air by the glee club the three prize-winning songs were sung to the accompaniment of the band a general reception was held aft er the concert in order that high school and preparatory instructors and students might meet president richards and dean mcconn who were present at the concert after the reception a dance was held in the ball room of the en gineers club with music supplied by the lehigh dance orchestra besides president richards and dean mcconn those present in cluded g b curtis p e schwartz w r okeson and mr and mrs w w mills mr mills 87 for mer commissioner of plants and structures was chairman of the concert news briefs coming events finances of eta sigma phi to be investigated at a meeting of eta sigma phi honorary classical society held wednesday afternoon benja min slade 32 was chosen president the other officers chosen were jos eph k strawbridge 33 vice pres ident george s bowden 33 cor responding secretary william h bohning 34 recording secretary ernest f ritter jr 34 treasurer and thomas w burke 34 sergeant at-arms the election was followed by a business meeting at which a com mittee was made up to investigate the financial conditions of the club this committee is composed of martin reed chairman g s bow den and jerome p lewis allentown alumni attend dinner of j a frick 03 a dinner was held for the mem bers of the allentown alumni as sociation of lehigh university tuesday evening at the hotel americus by j a frick 03 plans were made for promoting the col lection of the alumni fund similar meetings are being held in various cities throughout the country and are a continuation of similar activity of previous years attend rutgers meet keck and kaufman represent cy anide at conference the cyanide club junior honor ary society will be represented at a conference today and tomorrow held at rutgers university by f.d keck and j h kaufman approximately 20 schools having athletic relations with rutgers will be represented including lafayette pennsylvania new york university city college of new york frank lin and marshall and princeton the purpose of this gathering is to discuss possible plans of organiza tion and the various activities of junior honorary societies new alumni bulletin contains feature by morris kanaly the new issue of the alumni bul letin which came out on wednes day contains a feature by morris kanaly track coach other features are a voice from the catacombs which tells of the philosophy of success and an ar ticle on the purpose of education both of which were written by alumni a review of the intercolle giate wrestling matches concludes the number of features the next alumni bulletin will appear may 4 professor percy hughes head of the department of philosophy and education has announced a meet ing of the robert w blake society to be held tonight in room 410 packard laboratory at 7:15 p m to elect new officers the new president will be elect ed from the following juniors f biro m dresher e w glick a e grudin c m sandwick j a tempest p e herb c e harri son s d leibowitt b minifie r j myers and m reed the incoming vice president and secretary will be elected from the above juniors or from the follow ing sophomores b i basch d eckstein l h flisher b m nead h w tichener and d g wright the annual pilgrimage to swarth more will be discussed after the elections this trip will take place on april 22 pi mv epsilon to elect officers and new men at 7:30 tonight pi mv epsilon will hold its an nual election of officers and new men tonight at 7:30 in the arcadia room drown hall prof tomlinson fort director of the organization announced that prof l l smail of the mathemat ics department will address the members on the history of cal culus fifty delegates representing about 25 member college newspapers are meeting today and tomorrow at haverford college for the annual spring convention of the intercolle giate newspaper association of the middle atlantic states the hav erford news and the swarthmore phoenix are the joint hosts to the 50 delegates martin m reed 33 and jay l alexander 34 will accompany dale h gramley instructor of jour nalism as lehigh's representatives at the convention the registration of the delegates took from 1 to 3 o'clock this after noon and following the registra tion was a business meeting at which president w w comfort welcomed the delegates and com mittee reports and a general dis cussion of the problems facing col lege papers filled out the rest of the meeting r b counsellor of dick inson college presided over this meeting there is nothing planned for this evening but all delegates are invited to attend the picture at the ardmore theatre as guests of the i n a hosts h j proctor to speak tomorrow morning at 9:15 the real work of the convention will start with group conferences of represen tatives of the editorial and business boards the editorial board group will be headed by r b counsellor and the main speaker will be harry j proctor of the philadelphia eve ning bulletin who will discuss the general work of the editorial board mr praetor has occupied several positions on the bulletin staff and has decided recently to spend his full time on reporting at the business board conference mr c w mcdowell resident manager of the philadelphia branch of the lafrentz accounting com pany will discuss the need of bud geting expenses in face of the pres ent lack of advertising and the ne cessity and methods of cutting down expenses in production an other speaker in the business board conference will be mr james e hanna a representative of n w ayre and son inc the largest na tional advertising company in the united states he will speak on the college newspaper and na tional advertising he will tell how to get more national advertis ing for the paper and will give some hints on copy-writing and ad makeup new officers to be elected starting at 11 30 there will be an other joint business meeting at which more committee reports will be presented and officers for the coming year will be nominated del egates will be served their lunch in the college dining room and the business meeting will be resumed immediately afterward the new of ficers will be elected at that ses sion the athletic association has in vited the delegates to be its guests at either of the athletic events sche duled for 3 o'clock saturday after noon these are a track meet with lehigh and a baseball game with muhlenbe.rg saturday night the formal ban quet will be held many prominent men will speak on various subjects david s hinshaw founder of the haverford news will act as toast master the principal speaker will be dean carl w ackerman of the columbia school of journalism another guest will probably be will irwin famous war correspondent and magazine contributor several prominent philadelphia editors will act as judges for the cups awarded by the association new alloys to replace zinc in water-proofing of steel wilbur e harvey assistant pro fessor of metallurgy has just had his most recent research work pub lished in the march issue of met als and alloys the research work which deals with cadmium plating versus corrosion fatigue and pickl ing versus corrosion fatigue took professor harvey also pointed out in the conclusion of his experi ment professor harvey brought forth the fact that each of the plat ings used gave a very decided pro tection and that there are other metals besides cadmium and zinc that would present as good if not better water-proofing for steel professor harvey also point out that there is a great chance of re search work in the problem of elim inating a pickling bath for some particular purposes which involve simultaneous corrosion and fatigue the bethlehem steel company sup plied the steel needed for the ex periment friday april 15 2 p m exhibition of travel posters will be held in the art gallery of the university library 7:15 p m robert w blake society will elect new officers at a meet ing in room 410 packard labor atory 7:30 p m pi mv epsilon will hold its annual election of officers in the arcadia room drown hall 7:45 p m prof j m toohy will address international relations club in room 208 packard lab oratory saturday april 16 10 a m the board of trustees will hold its annual meeting in the alumni memorial building 3 p m freshman baseball vs west philadelphia high school in tay lor stadium sigma phi epsilon announces the pledging of william m qualey jr bus 35 of woodhaven n y dr kerwin m marcks assistant director of the students health service will leave the university at the close of the school year to practice in emaus it was revealed yesterday by dr r c bull direc tor of the students health service a red cross life saving class is being conducted in the swimming pool by r j degray instructor in chemistry students who enroll in this class will be eligible for a sen ior red cross life saving examina tion at the end of the year accord ing to mr degray the class is held tuesdays and thursdays at 4 p.m • brown key society met last eve ning and appointed a committee to draw up a constitution bethlehem pa friday april 15 1932 keck and peck nominated for senior class president vol xxxix no 42 board of trustees meets tomorrow tau beta pi to hold initiation tonight musical clubs hold concert in new york price — five cents yon luckner will lecture here april 22 two classes nominate men for officers fifty delegates are to attend i n a meet the brown and white reed alexander and gramley will repre sent lehigh at spring convention member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first