Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 43

              professorship of education is established students may secure free tickets for luckner lecture in order that students and members of the faculty may be assured of seats for the lecture by count yon luckner in the university chapel on the evening of april 22 tickets will be issued at the office of the lehigh un ion these can be secured free of charge and must be presented for admission to the lecture each student must call for his own ticket no student can pro cure more than one ticket ac cording to a r baldwin pres ident of the lehigh union benson asks for publication activities lists election of new members to pi delta epsilon honorary journalis tic fraternity will be held soon according to ralph c benson pres ident of the organization eligibility for membership consists mainly in extent of journalistic activity he said the purpose of pi delta epsilon is to foster develop and elevate the profession of journalism by ad mission to membership and by re warding journalists for their efforts and accomplishments according to benson there are 43 chapters of the fraternity which is national all but two of the current mem bers of the local chapter are gradu ating in june members are chosen from the junior and senior classes benson requests that all men en gaged in publication work in these classes give him a record of their activities before thursday pi mu epsilon elects officers count felix yon luckner sophs to take tests april 25 von luckner will lecture professor lloyd smail speaks on early pro gress of calculus lehigh union to sponsor speech friday by ger man naval raider former editorial manager leads 251 contributors in journalism contest at washington breaks record by winning two pi delta epsilon prizes honig's work praised called equal to that of profes sional writer emanuel a honig b.a 31 won first prize in both the news writing and editorial contests sponsored by pi delta epsilon honorary colle giate journalism fraternity this is the first time in the history of the fraternity that one man has won both honors honig competed against 251 con tributors from all parts of the coun try the winners of the contest were chosen at the annual convention of pi delta epsilon which took place in washington april 12 to 15 the judges for the contest were george authier of the minneapolis tribune g gould lincoln of the washington star russel kent of the birmingham news a.m palm er managing editor of the wash ington daily news and courtland baker professor of english at george washington university mr kent told the editor of the epsilog the organ of the fraternity that honig's work was equivalent to that of a professional writer with ten year esxperience he also praised the quality of lehigh news paper work while at lehigh honig was news editor of the brown and white and was editorial manager from feb 1930 to feb 1931 he was president of the intercollegiate newspaper association of the mid dle atlantic states secretary of the international relations club chair man of the lehigh liberal club and a member of pi delta epsilon and delta omicron theta cites dangers to new spain board of trustees names h.p thomas of spring field college to head new department budget shows no necessity to cut salaries of faculty harold proscott thomas of springfield mass is to head the new department of education which was established at the meeting of the board of trustees last saturday in the alumni memorial building the report of the budget as pre sented by president charles russ richards showed that the finances of the university balance and that there is no necessity for a cut in any salaries no promotions resigna tions or leaves of absence were an nounced the present department of edu cation is combined with the depart ment of phisolophy under prof percy hughes next september when the new department of edu cation will go into effect professor hughes will be at the head of the separate department of philosophy graduated from colgate professor thomas is now a lec turer on education at springfield college and the international col lege in springfield he is a gradu ate of colgate university where he received his bachelor's degree in 1920 later he studied at ohio state and then at harvard where he has been granted the degree of doctor of education which will be conferred this june from 1919 to 1922 professor thomas was a junior engineer with the osborn manufacturing com pany of cleveland ohio from 1922 to 1924 he was superintendent of schools at petersburg michigan and he has taught in summer ses sions at the university of missouri and at rutgers professor thomas is co-author with dean c e partch of rutgers university of a text-book on oc cupation and he is the author of numerous articles in educational journals toohy says provinces demand for autonomy menaces unity plan to extend key societies pi mv epsilon national mathe matical honorary elected new of ficers and extended bids to 15 men at its meeting friday the new officers elected for the new year are faculty director prof l l smail president mel vin dresher vice president j w langhaar secretary w c bach man treasurer alvin tempest and librarian a w dewees the new men who have been pledged at chapel exrcises and who will be initiated at a banquet are d c bomberger 34 w b cole man graduate student k l hon eyman 34 e n hower 34 s l lancit 32 r n lindabury 34 milton meissner 34 r l riley 34 k p shannon graduate stu dent e e weldman 34 j g williams 34 g l wolcott 34 r s taylor 33 w j taylor 33 and f l snavely 33 pi mv epsilon has chapters in 25 universities and its members must have taken calculus and must have a high average in mathematics two faculty members were taken in at the same time they are mr s s cairns and mr e h cut ler prof lloyd smail spoke at the meeting on the history of cal cutus famous signatures obtained by leach stoughton addresses tau beta pi friday at initia tion banquet in hotel bethlehem formal initiation of society will be held on wednesday knowledge and ability to organ ize coupled with leadership and in telligence are essential to an en gineer's success said prof brad ley stoughton head of the metal lurgical department in his address to members of tau beta pi honor ary engineering fraternity at the annual initiation banquet friday evening in hotel bethlehem professor stoughton also enlarg ed upon lord brice's four rules for success which are industry initia tive independence and personality defines success success according to the speak er is a ratio of what a man ac complishes to what he wanted to accomplish he is not a success un til he has contributed something useful to society an engineer to be successful must keep all these facts in mind in setting a high stan dard today men in industry are seek ing college graduates who have character and personality as well as scholarship the depression has proved one thing — that they are not seeking grinds he continued men elected to tau beta pi are not grinds since one of the re quirements is that the students have an important outside activity like tau beta pi they recognize that there are indications of success oth er than the a's attained by the mere grind professor stoughton continued babasinian speaks dr vahan s babasinian profes sor of organic chemistry addressed the group after professor stough ton finished and urged the members of tau beta pi to set high ideals of living and to hold to these through thick and thin seven engineering juniors were initiated in packard laboratory by members of the society immediate ly before the banquet those ini tiated are k f borden p j flan igan r h garre1;t c e harrison e w laschober h.s walker and r b wall john angle announced that elec tion of officers for next year will take place at 7:30 p m wednes day april 20 in packard labora tory comprehensive exams for engineers to show stu dent's progress the comprehensive examinations for all engineering students of sec ond semester sophomore standing prepared by all the eight engineer ing departments and consisting of 90 questions in chemistry mathe matics and physics will be given monday april 25 in packard audi torium according to prof c w simmons chairman of the compre hensive examination committee instead of the afternoon examin ation given by the separate depart ments in former years the examin ation this year will be given in three one hour and fifty minute periods the questions were ap proved by the department of chem istry mathematics and physics this year an analysis of the ques tions has been made to eliminate those that are too easy too hard or catchy each will be allotted four mintes professor simmons stated the examinations have been de signed to show each department what its students are doing indi vidually and as a whole it will show if a man can retain and ap ply what he learns should a stu dent be found to be ill-fitted for the course he is pursuing he will be ad vised to change his course and will not be expelled from it as was done previous to last year there is no compulsion attached to the advice which will be given as a result of the examinations each student will be interviewed by his department head asteroid receives name of university r w blake society to visit swarthmore count felix yon luckner who is to tell of his adventures as comman der of the german seeadler dur ing the war will speak at 8 p m friday april 22 in the university chapel count yon luckner who comes to the campus under the auspices of the lehigh union is the famous sea devil of the late w^r who sank 500,000 tons of ships took hundreds of prisoners without kill ing a man and fed his prisoners champagne and cake he is an aristocrat who as a youth is said to have run away to become a common sailor aboard windjammers in the merchant mar ines of the united states england and other countries he is the only man who had risen from a sailor's bunk to become a high official of the imperial germany navy experiences varied his experiences before the war were varied in rangoon he assist ed a hindu fakir in new zealand he was a salvation army recruit in queensland he became the cham pion prize-fighter in three years he educated himself by studying at night then he tackled the intricate problems of the mariner — the tech nical education that one must have to be an officer was reported dead he returned to germany secret ly took the naval examinations and was given his commander's papers before anyone knew he was the felix yon luckner who had short ly before been reported dead after a shipwreck during the war count yon luck ner's raider tricked its way through the blockade sank millions of dol lars worth of allied ships kept all the prisoner crews aboard as friend ly guests and was finally wrecked in the south sea islands coming events lehigh paper leads 25 journals in editorial and news divisions at haverford convention brown and white wins cups to establish new record swarthmore phoenix and the dickinsonian gain second places in competition for the first time in the history of the intercollegiate newspaper as sociation of the middle atlantic states one newspaper was awarded both the cup for editorial excellence and the cup for general news ex cellence this newspaper was the lehigh brown and white the awards were made saturday evening by dr george douglas chief editorial writ er for the philadelphia evening ledger at the banquet which brought to a close the spring con vention of the i n a at haverford college dr douglas represented the competition committee which was composed of himself and two other leading newspaper men of philadelphia phoenix second in news the swarthmore phoenix was second in the news competition and the dickinsonian of dickinson col lege was third the dickinsonian placed second in the editorial rank ings with the haverford news third commenting upon the judges de cision dr douglas said the brown and white seems to be writ ten and edited by professional jour nalists these awards are a tribute to the kind of english they teach at lehigh the awarding of the cups at the banquet was followed by speeches by will irwin well known writer and dean carl ackerman of the columbia school of journalism the speakers were introduced by david hinshaw leader of the na tional hoover for 32 movement described his experiences mr irwin after narrating many of his experiences in europe dur ing the world war and describing incidents leading to his expulsion from stanford university in his sen ior year said journalism today is more finished tolerant and far sighted likewise it has better taste but discriminating use of the eyes and accuracy are still the prime pre requisites for able newspaper re porting according to dean ackerman we are witnessing the dawn of public service journalism newspa pers of the present era are gradual ly acquiring the initiative for doing public good the ethics of the press today cannot be codified but they are real and tangible interviewed royal family mr ackerman who was the first man ever to interview a member of the japanese royal family and who gave to the world the first actual story of the last days and assassin ation of the family of the russian czar told of these experiences and also drew some conclusions from the expulsion of reed harris from columbia friday afternoon the delegates at tended a general business meeting after which w b littell of littell murray and barnhill addressed them on national advertising in the college newspapers saturday morning the editors heard harry g proctor star re porter and ex-managing editor of the philadelphia evening bulletin while the business managers were addressed by clifton mcdowell and james e hanna managers of two large advertising companies new officers elected saturday afternoon at a general business session the so delegates representing 25 colleges elected the following men as the officers of the association for next year du relle continued on page four letters of each president are in library collection three hundred and thirty letters and signatures of famous literary men scientific men inventors and statesmen have been catalogued re cently by howard s leach li brarian included in the list of signatures are those of 13 of the presidents of the continental congress mr leach revealed that this is an un usual number because the signa tures are rare among the collec tion are nine letters of signers of the declaration of independence in cluding two of john hancock the library has at least one let ter of each president from wash ington to hoover there are also four letters of justice of the su preme court two of speakers of the house of representatives 14 of secretaries of state four of secre taries of the treasury two of sec retaries of war two of attorney generals and eight of ambassadors to great britain mr leach said the library was unfortunate in having but one let ter of asa packer founder of the university this letter was given to the library by robert e wilbur son of the late warren wilbur for mer trustee of the university kaufmann keck attend discussion conference at rutgers plans for extending the purposes of key societies were discussed at a meeting of such organizations of about nine colleges of this vicinity held last saturday at rutgers j h kaufman c e 33 and fjd keck bus 33 represented lehigh's cy anide club at the meeting there were about 25 men present at the meeting with two from each college represented possibilities for forming a na tional organization were discussed and will be taken up again at the next meeting which will be held at lehigh sometime in the latter part of this semester the colleges which were repre sented at the meeting were those which are associated with rutgers in athletics it was decided at the meeting to extend an invitation to many colleges and universities to organize key societies it was the feeling of the lehigh representatives at the meeting that the organization of the rutgers key society the scarlet key was espe cially efficient it is believed by keck that the lehigh brown key society should be formed on a plan after that of the rutgers society wednesday april 20 - 4 p m varsity tennis vs wash ington and lee university lehigh courts 4 p m freshman baseball vs ur sinus taylor field 7:30 p m tau beta pi meeting room 167 packard laboratory 7:30 p m meeting of the faculty dramatic club thursday april 21 8 p m blue key meeting in drown hall friday april 22 8 p m address by count felix yon luckner in packer memorial chapel orbit of body was computed by prof reynolds another example of lehigh prom inence has just come to light one of the asteroids of the solar sys tem bears the name of this school in 1909 joel metcalf of taunton mass made photographs of a sec tion of the sky and found markings of an unknown asteroid on the plates he sent them to prof j b reynolds of the mathematics de partment for investigation arid professor reynolds who inciden tally furnishes us with our inforv mation comptited the orbit of the body metcalf in appreciation of this work named the asteroid le high and thus it remains minor planet number 691 of the asteroid group the body is of the 13th magni tude and according to professor reynolds js about 25 miles in dia meter with a gravitational force one fifteenth hundredth that of the earth it cannot be seen with the university telescope students will view physics laboratories friday members of the robert w blake society will visit swarthmore col lege friday april 22 it was an nounced at a meeting of the society friday evening they will be the guests of dean raymond walters former professor at lehigh and president-elect of the university of cincinnati > the society will leave bethlehem in two groups one leaving at 10 a.m and the other at 12 a m they will visit the astronomical and physics laboratories where research on the atom is in progress the recently elected new mem bers were formally introduced into the society and three officers were elected for next year the officers lected are abraham grudin 33 president alvin tempest 33 vice president and harold tichenor 34 secretary-treasurer the main danger to political unity and stability of spain is the present movement of some of the provinces toward complete inde pendence said john m toohy as sociate professor of romance lan guages in a speech on political and economic conditions in spain at the meeting of the international relations club in packard labora tory friday evening more important than the politi cal situation however he contin ued is the economic trouble of the new republic he also pointed out that the present government is faced with the increased costs of governing under a republican re gime it has been handicapped by the fall of the peseta to half its for mer value the spanish industries are backward and unemployment has become a serious problem professor toohy said the present government was es tablished after alphonso had been defeated in the municipal elections last april by the socialist party ac cording to professor toohy a modern constitution was adopted and new laws were passed many of which violated time-worn spanish traditions woman suffrage and di vorse by mutual consent were made lawful the new constitution is uni que in that the president of the re public may declare war only with the consent of the league of na tions professor toohy added bethlehem pa tuesday april 19 1932 honorary will elect new members soon speaks friday vol xxxix no 43 price — five cents brown and white tells of needs of engineers for success brown and white wins two i.n.a first prizes honig receives awards member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first