Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 47

              name f w sterrett of bethlehem diocese of episcopal church au brey weymouth 94 replace late w a wilbur and r peale 83 resigned eight of ten corporate mem bers lehigh graduates ; weymouth was trustee the following is the program of events for houseparty week end — fri 8 p m william beebe lec ture in packard auditorium 10 p m junior prom in the upper gym sat 1 p m varsity lacrosse vs swarthmore on taylor field 1 30 p m varsity tennis vs cornell at steel field 3 p m varsity baseball vs rutgers on taylor field 9 p m non-fraternity dance in the ' masonic temple 9 p m house dances aubrey weymouth william beebe will review r.o.t.c unit union controls frosh bible adams speaks on advertising alpha kappa psi elects officers thursday night in packard lab three of the fourteen groups have elected their presidents wil liam h sachs president of arca dia stated wednesday the mcii elected are h j o'brien jr bus 34 group 1 ; r london of group 6 and h a andrews i e 33 of group 13 each of the 14 groups consist of 30 men living in the same neighborhood each president will represent his group in arcadia the groups that have not already elected their presidents are psedided over by temporary chairmen the new 1932-33 arcadia will meet monday night at 8 o'clock in drown hall to elect a president secretary and treasurer at this time a com mittee consisting of two fraternity representatives one representative of the living groups and a dormi tory representative will be appoint ed by the new president of arcadia to propose members of the arca dia committees the men who should be present at the meeting are all heads of living groups four teen presidents of town groups the four class presidents the editors in chief of all publications the pres idents of the mustard and cheese and the combined musical clubs and a representative of the l club police seize student cars 25 automobiles are clas sified as relics and un fit to operate adventures in a bathysphere will be recounted tonight strange fish as thin as paper as transparent as glass and as many colored as the rainbow will be flashed on the screen during wil liam beebe's lecture two miles down which he will deliver at 8 o'clock tonight in packard auditor ium dr beebe will recount the mys teries of the unknown world which he penetrated sealed in a steel ball or bathysphere in connection with his lecture he will show a series of animated cartoons which are auth entic reproductions of his discov eries two miles down the 800 tickets for the beebe lec ture were all given out by monday april 18 three days after they were released for distribution after 7:30 p m any remaining seats will be opened to the public according to dr max peterson secretary of sig ma xi honorary research frater nity which is sponsoring the lec ture writes for layman dr beebe through his writings has brought to the layman a series of pictures of birds insects and an imals of tropical lands from the jungle he turned to the mysteries of the sea choosing the ocean depths for his next exploit he went to the waters off haiti the gala pagos islands and the sargasso sea he made his headquarters on non such island which was formerly bermuda's quarantine station there he transformed the old government buildings into offices dormitories dining hall work-shops and labor atories dr beebe catches his deep sea specimens with scoops seines and nets attached to a seagoing tug by two miles of cable every day's catch is examined and classified and all specimens of scientific in terest are photographed this is done as soon as the catch is brought in because the great decrease in pressure soon destroys the speci mens dorizas describes athletic programs former perm athlete speaks to lehigh home club army officer to conduct annual inspection next monday and tuesday the annual inspection of the le high r o t c unit by the war department represented this year by major a m weyand infantry will be held monday and tuesday may 2 and 3 according to the program releas ed by lieut col im h thomlin son professor and head of the de partment of military science and tactics major weyand will inspect the senior students of infantry and the senior and junior students of ordnance on monday during the regular class periods the junio infantry students and basic mili tary students will be inspected on tuesday major weyand will also inspect the armory army property and records the company inspection will be held monday at 4 p m at which time the companies will present mass calisthenics and close order drill by company platoon section and squad on the upper field and tent-pitching and extended order drill on the lower field these ex hibitions will be followed at 5 p.m by regimental review major weyand is now on duty as an instructor with the headquarters of the 79th division of the national army stationed at philadelphia he inspected the unit last year on monday may 9 the drill per iods will close with the annual field day exercises at which time there will be demonstrations and presen tation of awards the state highway patrol towed to the automobile graveyard 25 stu dent-owned cars tuesday morning these cars were classified as relics and unfit to operate on streets and highways of this city one of the cars that of tv h clauss bus 33 was confiscated by the police most of the cars had license plates fram other states other than pennsylvania they were declared to be in a poor condition because of bad brakes mad steering me chanism and no horns clauss's automobile was taken in because of defective lighting equipment the police claim that the reflectors of his car do not focus according to the regulations clauss said that the police were not able to judge the condition of his car's lights during the day the police then said that they would take charge of his car until it was properly lighted clauss has not gotten his car yet but hopes to get it in the near future sergeant mcclarin one of the inspectors said i would not give 50 for the 25 machines explains shipping of raw material stoughton and butts return from meet casa loma orchestra will play tonight at formal dance in taylor gym nasium baseball lacrosse and tennis to entertain guests on sat dormitory dance will be held tomorrow evening in masonic temple house parties will officially open tonight with the junior prom to the strains of the well-known casa loma orchestra casa loma's 14 piece orchestra played this past summer at the steel pier in atlan tic city and this year has played at the yale princeton and vassar junior proms many specialty numbers are listed on the program of mr knoblauch the leader the casa loma orchestra originated in canada and has entertained at many university and college dances the halls of the taylor gymnasium will resound with music from ten to three the decorations will resemble a forest with trees painted on the sil ver paneled walls the lights will be lowered to just above the ala bama smilax ceiling and will give the appearance of the sun shining through the leaves in back of the orchestra there will be a ten foot waterfall with various colors tickets to be sold jit door all tickets will be sold at the door and there will be two chap eron tickets for each fraternity house at the gymnasium dean and mrs charles mcconn and dr and mrs neil carothers are to be the chaperons at the prom the favors will be pen and pencil sets with white leather cases on which is a gold lehigh seal lehigh's baseball team opposes rutgers on taylor field saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock the lehigh stickmen play the swarthmore la crosse team on steel field at 1 o'clock just before the baseball game the cornell netmen play le high on the • steel field courts at 1:30 o'clock dorm dance saturday night the dormitory dance will be held saturday night at the masonic tem ple this non-fraternity dance will last from nine to twelve and the music will be by jay knell from pottsville the chaperons of the dance will be prof and mrs david scott and prof and mrs harry payrow the lehigh union is co operating with the dormitory in this dance in the evening 1 , 31 fraternities are having dances some fraternities are combining their dances but most of them will be independent and closed board of publications turns back handbook to original editors the freshman handbook is again under the control of the lehigh union according to e r wisner co-editor of the handbook two years ago the handbook was turn ed over to the board of publications the lack of advertisements the handbook's only source of income might have caused its operation under a loss and the board of pub lications was unable to assist at a meeting of the lehigh un ion last monday night it was de cided that the union would again undertake that editing managing and distributing of the handbook a comm.ttee was chosen to inves tigate competition and minor de tails the board of publications ap proved of the union's action tugs day afternoon dean mcconn said that the university would stand the expense of the distribution ac cording to e r wisner 33 co editor of the handbook this would be a great aid l to replace seal on cover the union decided to print 800 copies of the handbook of which will be sent to prospective fresh men this year a large white l will replace the familiar university seal the cover will again be of brown leather the book which is to be larger will contain three sec tions these three sections are to be divided between the fraternities athletics and administration a large section has been set aside for the fraternities in order to allow the freshmen adequate room to make out a schedule of the fresh man week activities these changes were made to allow for an easier rushing season the handbook will be co-edited this year by e r wisner i.e 33 and robert l davis i.e 33 com petition for next year is now being held according to wisner advertising offers great opportun ities for students with self-inia tive james p adams of the per sonnel department of batten bar ton durstine and osborn told members of alpha kappa psi hon orary business fraternity last night in packard laboratory mr adams speech was entitled advertising as a profession alpha kappa psi elected the fol lowing officers e h robb 33 president w b crouse 33 vice president w b warren 33 sec retary j h fountain treasurer f k kolyer 33 master of rit uals try to eliminate chance old type advertising was a mat ter of chance present day adver tising strives to eliminate the chance factor by surveys and scientific re search the idea is to make adver tising an exact process mr adams stated timing is the first factor in the starting of an advertising cam paign investigators determine the demand for goods before the cam paign starts advertising cannot make a pro fit in a failing business according to mr adams advertisers must de termine what the public wants ad vertisers prepare their campaigns on facts much to the displeasure of the manufacturers according to mr adams the basis of any advertis ing campaign is an ¦ idea which comes from the mind of the users not the manufacturers adams ex plained the picture serves to awaken the readers interest the headline appeals to his intelligence speed in reading is required in good advertising according to the lec turer ewing to present papers to society the rt rev frank william sterrett bishop of the protestant episcopal diocese of bethlehem and aubrey weymouth 94 vice president and chief engineer of post and mccord structural engineers of new york city were elected to cor porate membership on the lehigh board of trustees at their recent meeting the new men will fill the places of warren a wilbur hon 20 de ceased and rembrandt peale 83 whose resignation from , the board was accepted the election of wey mouth means that eight of the ten corporate members of the board are lehigh graduates bishop sterrett was bornin mid dleport n v jan 21 1885 in 1902-1903 he was a student at ho bart college in 1904-1905 he attend ed the law school of the univer sity of buffalo and in 1908 he re ceived the degree of a b from the university of pennsylvania in 1911 he received the degree of b d and in 1924 the degree of d d from the philadelphia divinity school in 1924 hobart college gave him an honorary ll d elected dean in 1912 in 1911 bishop sterrett was elect ed a deacon and in 1912 a priest in the episcopal church in 1911-1912 dr sterrett was vicar of the grace chapel at st stephen's parish kingston pa and from 1912 to 1914 assistant and from 1915 to 1925 rec tor of saint stephen's church wilkes-barre dr sterrett was consecrated bish op coadjutor of bethlehem.on nov 9 1923 and was made bishop of bethlehem on feb 27 1928 after the retirement of bishop ethelbert talbot bishop sterrett is a mem ber of the board of trustees of the philadelphia divinity school and is a member of phi delta phi and the phi phi delta fraternities mr weymuth was born at rich mond va nov 18 1872 he was graduated from lehigh in 1894 with the degree of c e and has for many years been chief engineer of post and mccord recently becom ing a vice president of that con cern his firm has designed and erected the steel work for many of new york's largest and most im posing structures such as the em pire state and chrysler buildings and the new rockefeller radio city weymouth a former trustee mr weymouth served as an alumnus trustee of the university for eight years he is a director of the american society of civil en gineers and an officer in the amer ican institute of steel construction he is a member of the alpha tau omega fraternity and of the tau beta pi and sigma xi honorary so cieties luch to lead meet attends convention news briefs claude b hagy 06 head of the physics department in central high school in philadelphia and a teach er of science in that school for 26 years died tuesday in his office the annual drawing for dormi tory rooms will be held at 4 p m monday may 16 in drown hall ac cording to f r ashbaugh bursar prof r m smith head of the english department attended the dedication of the folger shakes peare memorial library last satur day this library at washington d c contains the greatest collec tion of shakespeare folios in the world the library occupies an en tire city block and is considered a very beautiful building according to professor smith hughes represents richards at harrisburg dr percy hughes professor and head of the department of philoso phy and education represented president c r richards at the april meeting of the association of college presidents held wednes day april 27 in harrisburg the meeting was given to a dis cussion of the changes proposed in pennsylvania regulations that gov ern the training of high school teachers dr rule state superintendent of public instruction was present and outlined plans of that department in a way that may encourage le high to take more seriously the training of students for the teach ing profession lehigh professors attend bal timore convention prof bradley stoughton head of the department of metallurgical en gineering and allison butts asso ciate professor of metallurgy re turned saturday night from the sixty-first annual meeting of the electrochemical society held april 21-23 in baltimore md during the three days papers were read before the society on va rious electro - chemical subjects thursday and friday were devot ed to the reading of papers on the electro-refining of copper and the electro-furnace in connection with these papers trips were made to various plants around baltimore which employed the methods de scribed among them were the u s industrial alcohol company the davidson chemical company the baltimore copper smelting and rolling company the revere cop per and brass company the general cable company and the bethlehem steel company c a buck addresses chem society wednesday the mining and shipping of the raw materials of the steel industry was explained to the lehigh chem ical society wednesday evening by c a buck president of the beth lehem bureau of mines the path of the ore was traced from the mine to the steel mill . mr buck illustrated his lecture with motion pictures loaned by the bethlehem bureau of mines these pictures showed in detail the meth ods used in mining the ore loading ore into suitable conveyances and unloading at the site of the foun dry it was explained that america leads in the steel industry is because the geographic position of ore pits and the strategic location of railroad and steambot lines keep the price of the raw material low c e harrison chem e 33 was elected president of the society it was announced other officers elect ed were r h frederick chem.e 33 vice president j j mcgovern chem.e 33 secretary f rights chem.e 33 treasurer a brief history of the develop ment of the gates plan for the ad ministration of athletics and physi cal education at the university of pennsylvania and a portrayal of conditions in russia were discussed by dr mike dorizas well-known perm athlete of several years ago and now a member of the faculty there tuesday evening at a meet ing of the lehigh home club at the bethlehem club dr dorizas has circled the earth three times and has traveled exten sively in virtually every country in the world he has visited russia periodically during tha past decade and consequently has had an oppor tunity to watch the development there the lehigh home club is the le high valley organization of lehigh alumni in the election of officers for the ensuing year the following men were chosen warren w york 24 president alvin t wilson 21 vice president and john maxwell 26 secretary-treasurer president c r richards roy a lewis general manager of the bethlehem steel company and coach billy sheridan and his championship wrestling team were the guests of honor delta omicron theta to discuss argumentation myron j luch professor of eng lish will lead a discussion meeting of delta omicron theta debating society 7:30 p m wednesday may 4 in room 466 packard laboratory the topics discussed will be tak en from two books both entitled argumentation by winans the other by utterback the list of topics will be the nature of ar gument and debate expository analysis proposition its nature and phrasing anlysis of propo sition proving a proposition re quirements and method and top ics of argument president edward fleischer an nounces that the elections of delta omicron theta will be held on fri day may 6 strong motion seismographs to study severe shocks dr maurice ewing instructor of physics will present two papers be fore the meeting of the seismologi cal society of america to be held in philadelphia may 2-3 the first paper a study of the phases of explosion records was prepared jointly by dr ewing and l don leet director of the seis mograph station at harvard the second paper by dr ewing deals with the theory of a new strong motion seismograph dr ewing state that ordinary seismographs are wrecked by strong shocks caused by earthquakes which occur very close to the instrument an accu rate device for recording strong shocks will be useful in studying earthquake shocks at their source he says bethlehem pa friday april 29 1932 speaks tonight price — five cents three town groups choose presidents prom will open spring parties trustees board adds two men vol xxxix no 47 william beebe will describe deep sea life o'brien london and andrews are elected elected trustee the lehigh university brown and white lecture to open houseparty followed by junior prom mysteries of ocean's floor to be revealed by not ed author at 8 p m in packard lab i all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association