Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 48

              preston wins sophomore elections for second time curtis announces revised draft of nine days schedule for spring finals classes suspended for sophomores and fresh men monday afternoon because of field day director of zoological re search lectures under sponsorship of local chapter of sigma xi new society adopts rules and decides to petition arcadia for subsidation committee is named to select key for assistant managers established a world record by quarter mile descent conflicts must be reported to instructors before may 6 free tickets will be given le high students who wish to at tend the next mustard and cheese play the beggar on horseback by marc connelly and george kaufman to be giv en in drown hall friday may 6 all seats are reserved and students are urged to apply early for choice places those who cannot attend the showing may 6 are invited to see the dress re hearsal thursday evening tickets will be ready for dis tribution this afternoon at the of fice of the lehigh union r o t c unit is inspected paul preston remains the choice of the present freshman class for president next year as was revealed by the corrected election returns of last friday he received 66 votes of the 87 cast defeating clarence sherrill and stanley ellison the revote for president of the class was found necessary be cause in the regular election of april 22 the name of ellison was omitted from the ballot through an error in the printing halsted heads new arcadia eight new men are elected at recent meeting j a aufhammer was elected president of mustard and cheese at a meeting held last thursday in drown hall other officers elected are p j franagan vice president j h kaufman secretary and b h riviere treasurer eight new men were also elect ed to the club p g nickerson r f bavington j r fugard g e goodrich r e mcleod r n lindabury c e schaub and w c korn the following were also appoint ed to fill various offices p g nick erson stage manager c e schaub program manager g e goodrich property manager r e mcleod costume manager and r f bav ington publicity manager will entertain 300 sub frosh e h robb chosen sec retary c e harrison treasurer lehigh to receive pro spective students sat urday morning major weyand reviews lehigh regiment at tends classes the first day of the annual inspec tion of the r o t c unit at le high was completed yesterday after noon with a regimental review ma jor a m weyand infantry the representative of the war depart ment was the reviewing officer earlier in the day major wey and inspected the senior students of infantry and the junior and sen ior students of ordnance in the reg ular class periods the drill period opened with the companies lined up for individual inspection by the inspecting offi cer after this the companies as sembled for 15 minutes of mass cal isthenics which was followed by close order drill by company pla toon and section companies b c e and g marched in regimental review following this companies a and f were inspect ed on taylor field company f pitched tents and displayed equip ment and company a did extended order drill major weyand is now on duty as an instructor with the headquar ters of the 79th division of the na tional army stationed in philadel phia he inspected the r o t c unit here last year major weyland inspected junior infantry students and basic stu dents today in the regular class room exercises he also inspected the armory records and army prop erty schurz foundation will present picture students to select most worth while painting charles f halsted was elected president at the first meeting of the new arcadia held in drown hall last evening halsted was the only man nominated for the position george s hagstoz and edward h robb were nominated for secretary and robb was elected clifford e harrison john w shelhart and robert r bachman were nominat ed for treasurer harrison was elected william h sachs retiring pres ident of the organization opened the meeting by reading the new by laws of arcadia as recently revised by a petition to the faculty im portant changes in the by-laws pointed out by sachs were that roll call from now on will be call ed by the names of the representa tives instead of the names of the living-groups as formerly there will be no voting by proxy arca dia is to consist of the heads of all living-groups including a represen tative from each of 14 groups heads of publications head of mustard and cheese head of musical clubs and a representative from the l club,*a new organization consisting of all the letter men in the univer sity a slate committee was appoint ed consisting of fritz keck and c n crichton fraternity men rob ert bachman dormitory man and harry o'brien from the town group this committee will recom mend all other committees to ar cadia who will vote on them the last meeting of the old ar cadia will be held next monday evening in drown hall and the next meeting of the new ruling body will be held monday may 16 last review issue to appear may 20 more than 300 prospective stu dents will come to the university for sub-freshman day saturday according to a e buchanan chairman of the sub-freshman day committee although lehigh was host to 416 sub-freshmen last year mr buch anan believes fewer will come this year because undergraduates and alumni submitted fewer names of boys interested than in 1931 how ever 2,200 invitations were sertt to boys who had applied for catalo gues or were recommended by oth er sources while most of the sub-freshmen who will attend are from high schools or prep schools within a radius of 150 miles from bethlehem one is coming from wisconsin of the 300 or more who will at tend probably about half will en ter lehigh in the fall according to mr buchanan last year 418 came to the university for sub-freshman day and 162 entered lehigh in sep tember the program for the day will in clude an address of welcome by president charles russ richards curricula talks by the heads of va rious departments lunch in the ar mory a pep talk by walter r oke son a varsity baseball game with lafayette and a varsity lacrosse game with washington college of maryland the committee in charge includes a e buchanan chairman g b curtis p e schwartz w h sachs r c clark a a tate j g petrikin j w maxwell and profs c c bidwell c g beards lee neil carothers howard eck feldt p m palmer s s seyfert bradley stoughton m c stuart c h sutherland and h m ull mann president of arcadia to be put on discipline committee permission for a college meeting to be held at 11 a m thursday may 12 was granted by the faculty at their regular meeting held yes terday afternoon in the alumni memorial building according to g b curtis registrar the faculty also adopted the reg ulation that in the future the pres ident of arcadia shall be an ex-of ficio member of the committee on discipline dean mcconn and three members of uhe faculty shall re main members of the committee due to r o t c field day which will be held next monday the faculty suspends all classes monday afternoon for all freshmen and sophomores and those taking advanced r o t c degray wins prize announcement was made at the meeting that richard j degray instructor in chemistry has been awarded the higher education scholarship of 200 for the summer session at columbia university for his excellent work in connection with the student advisory system at lehigh it was also announced at the meeting that a n rogers student chemical foundation research fel low has been awarded one of 24 fellowships created for textile re search these fellowships for which there were 700 applications repre senting nearly every college in the country 1 arise out of confiscated german patents in the possession of the united states alien proper ty custodian amounting to a value of two million dollars committees appointed the following members were elected to membership to the var ious faculty committees admis sions dr a ford advanced stand ing dr m j luch athletics prof j l beaver chapel dr e l crum discipline prof t e but terfield educational policy prof s s seyfert honorary degrees prof f v larkin house commit tee prof g c beck inspection trips prof e s sinkinson library dr t fort petitions prof a w luce publications prof c d jen sen roster dr g e doan stu dent activities dr h m diamond student clubs prof h v ander son and summer session prof j e stocker the entire faculty educational club which is completely changed each year is as follows dr c g beardslee prof f c becker dr c c bidwell dr r d billinger dr l h gipson prof f o ke gel and g b curtis secretary to the faculty professors n s hib sham and r m smith were pre viously appointed members of the lectures committee by president richards news briefs dr william beebe described his descent into the ocean to a world record depth of a quarter mile to 975 people friday night in packard auditorium he told of the lives and habits of fish who live two miles below the surface in a region dark er than midnight where the pressure is a pound per square inch dr beebe director of the new york zoological society's tropical research has conducted 33 expedi tions his illustrated lecture was sponsored by the lehigh chapter of sigma xi if the windows or door of the bathysphere gave in we wouldn't drown we'd be shot by the first drops of water which would pene trate us like bullets the lecturer said of the steel sphere in which he and otis barton its designer de scended near nonesuch island ber muda to a depth of 1,426 feet at this depth the pressure was 650 pounds per square inch and the weight of the water on the sphere 3,100 tons could see fish life the sphere designed to enable beebe to see marine life as man to fish had an inside diameter of four and a half feet and weighed two tons there were three windows of fused quartz telephone communi cation was maintained with the ship the amount of life he saw at this depth amazed beebe he saw fishes approaching illuminated like steam ers at night by their lights then they passed in range of his search light where he could see them dis tinctly and then passed on in the distance he saw creatures larger than any that had been taken at that depth the light outside was a brilliant blue the lecturer said but tnere was not enough in the sphere to read the instruments used 1350 nets dr beebe's work at nonesuch is land was confined to an imaginary cylinder eight miles in diameter and two miles deep so that he might gain an extensive knowledge of a certain region here he took 1,350 nets of fish obtaining the best results at depths of 2,500 to 6,000 feet all classification had to be done within a few hours after the day's catch for deep sea fish can not live long at higher levels the lecturer explained fish below a mile and a half eith er develop organs producing cold light or become blind and acquire feelers with which to find their way in the total darkness according to dr beebe there are five distinct color zones as to depth the lecturer stated these are blue transparent silver scarlet and black as one de scends new staff of burr discusses changes tuitions and loans granted to students the carl schurz memorial foun dation will present the university with the picture selected by lehigh students as most worthwhile of the present exhibit in the library art gallery according to miss yvonne johnsen of philadelphia miss johnsen will be in charge of the exhibit and will discuss the ex hibition of contemporary german etchings lithographs and wood engravings the prints adhere to no particular school of artistic thought but range over many some prints are ab stract to a mathematical degree others are representational others symbolical miss johnsen stated in feeling they range from the delica cy of technique evident in the ath letic figures by karsch to the stark life conditions expressed in bock stiegel's study of russian child ren there is great variety in subject according to miss johnsen max kraus attacks the art problem of modern construction work jansen offers a study in rich tones and tex tures in his besigheim on the neck er naven produces captivating sil houettes in the poplars jaeger's rhythmic composition of four horses drinking though strong in design achieves an admirable sense of fine ly balanced repose the brown key society adopted a constitution elected officers de cided to petition arcadia for subsi dation and appointed a committee to select a key for the society mon day night april 25 at the meeting of the organization held by the junior assistant managers p j flanigan c e 33 was elected president of the society and f e delano bus 33 was elected secretary-treasurer the constitution was presented by flanagan chairman of the consti tution committee it was fully dis cussed and approved with minor changes the constitution is as fol lows article 1 the name of the organization shall be the brown key society the official insignia of this society shall be a key of standard design article 2 the purpose of this society shall be to extend to the members of all teams visiting lehigh all possible courtesy and hospitality to this end members of the brown key shall meet teams when they arrive in beth lehem and provide for their entertainment during their stay it shall be the purpose of the society to promote a friendly spirit among its mem bers to discuss questions pertaining to the athletic policy of the school in so far as this policy concerns the management of the var ious teams and to present its opinion to the board of control of athletics an ap propriate occasions article 3 membership in this society shall be com pulsory and automatic on the part of all junior assistant managers of all recognized varsity sports provided that these manag ers have been approved by the board of control of athletics every junior assistants manager shall be come an active member of the society im mediately upon the announcement of his election by the board of control of athlet ics he shall remain an active member until the announcement in the following year of the succeeding junior managers of his par ticular sport at which time he shall auto matically cease to be a member of the so ciety article 4 quorum — two-thirds of the entire mem bership of the organization shall constitute a quorum article 5 amendments — any provisions of the con stitution shall be amended only by a three fourths vote of the entire membership of the society the by-laws grant the president general supervision of the society and make him responsible to the board of control for the success of the society three directors are pro vided to supervise sports as far as the brown key is concerned each director to be manager of a sport not in season at that time the sec retary-treasurer is required to se cure estimates and negotiate pur chase of insignia dues are author ized the constitution committee was selected by p j flanagan who was appointed chairman of the commit tee by w h sachs arts 32 pres ident of arcadia the body that cre ated the brown key society the committee drew up the constitution and called the meeting of organiza tion a committee consisting of p j flanagan w s miller g e good rich f e delano and s t har leman was appointed by f e de lano to select an appropriate key for the society full page of advertising to be in center of magazine the newly elected editorial and business staff of the lehigh burr discussed plans for improvement of the magazine in a meeting held last thursday in drown hall among the changes to be made are a different position of the mast head and a full page of advertising somewhere in the middle pages of the book election of new mem bers to the publication board will take place next semester the staff of the burr now in cludes james j roessle editor in chief c nelson crichton manag ing editor g j merritt business manager pierce flanigan adver tising manager john kaufman circulation manager john auf ham mer secretary ralph snyder and c brooks peters assistant editors and norman alper art editor a revised draft of the final exam ination schedule has been issued by g b curtis associate dean the exams will start thursday may 26 and will continue until saturday june 4 figures in parentheses () indicate the number of sections in those courses for which there are more than one section indicates course of two sections or more for which only one exam ination is scehduled conflicts must be reported by students to the teacffeys concerned not later than friday may 6 indicates a two-section course for each section of which an ex amination is scheduled 8 a m thursday may 26 engl o—composition0 — composition s)engl 2 — composition 2)engl 3b types of world literature engl 4 — drama 4)engl s—drama5 — drama s)geol 6 — geology field trips mil 6 — advanced infantry mil a — advanced infantry 2 p m thursday may 26 bus 38 — public utilities chem 7 — advanced chemistry chem 191 — physical chemistry c e 12 hydraulics c e 124 — structural theory educ 2 — history of education e e 20 — electric traction 2)e e 52 — general alternating currents . section b engl 42 — writing for business engl 126 — english literature of victorian age geol 18 — meteorology and climatology 2)math 42 — mathematical statistics section a 2)m e 23 — heat engines section a m e 116-advanced machine design met 24 — non-ferrous metallurgy met 61 — general metallurgical problems met 164 — non-ferrous met problems 2)mus 4 history and appreciation section i phil 14 — logic and scientific method 2)phil 102 — history of philosophy ses tion a phys 120 — electric waves 2)psych i—elementary1 — elementary psychology sec tion a span 2a elementary spanish 8 a m friday may 27 biol 158 — immunology 2)bus 4 — economics section ii bus 108 — advanced economics chem 45 — quantitative analysis conference c e b—mechanics8 — mechanics of materials c e 9 — mechanics of materials c e 121 — hydraulic and w p engineering c e 131 — advanced sanitary engineering engl 19 — the novel engi 47 — the headline and makeup educ 3 — educational psychology f a 4 — history of architecture fr 34 — contemporary french literature geol b historical geology ger 116 — the german short story 2)govt 52 — american government sec tion a hist b—history8 — history of england to 1603 2)1 e 3—lndustrial3 — industrial management sec tion a lat 2 — horace math 51 — advanced algebra m e s—elementary5 — elementary heat engines m e 29 — heat engines met 152 — advanced ferrous metallurgy 2)min 11 — fuel technology section b phys 161 — modern physical theories psych 101 psychology of industrial person nel 2 p m briday may 27 biol 3 — comporative anatomy of vertebrates 2)bus 4 — economics section i bus 126 — public finance chem 181 — chemical engineering e e 2 — direct current machinery e e 118 — electric power transmission educ b—the8 — the political aspect of school sys tems engl 124 — shakespeare fr 11 — intermediate french 2)geol 4 — general geology section a oer i—elementary1 — elementary german continued on page four francis j trembley of the biol ogy department will give a talk on reptiles at the monarch club dinner at hotel bethlehem this evening dean c m mcconn will speak on going to college before the student body of the asbury park high school tomorrow claude b hagy c e 06 drop ped dead in his office in central high school philadelphia where he was head of the physics department hagy who was 48 had been a teacher of physics at the school for 26 years he was seated in his of fice with several members of his de partment when he fell to the floor a doctor said death was probably due to a stroke fleischer predicts poli c y change next year the last issue of the lehigh re view for this semester will be plac ed on the newstands some time be fore may 20 according to the newly elected editor edward fleischer among the articles received up to the present in the editorial de partment is a satire entitled god and the depression by hayden e norwood in which the author points out that all economists even tually end in hades ralph e slon aker's satirical essaj the queen of the cats places the fair sex in a rather naturalistic light other material in the form of short story poem and essay is still being col lected according to fleischer this issue of the review is the first to be published by the new staff although the policies of the magazine in use in the past will be followed in the compiling of the present issue fleischer promises the adoption of new policies next semester lehigh university gives fin ancial aid to 2 1 0 men during the current year 210 stu dents received monetary assistance from the university through schol arships and loans according to n m emory vice president this aid amounting to 72,888.50 was extended to five graduate stu dents 57 seniors 55 juniors 56 sophomores and 37 freshmen administration of the free schol arships deferred tuition and loans is in the hands of a committee con sisting of t>ean c m mcconn w r okeson and n m emory the chairman t4iis committee awards annually 24 free scholarships and 76 deferred payment scholarships the recipients of which give notes payable after graduation or on leav ing the university vol xxxix no 48 students to get free tickets for mustard cheese play bethlehem pa tuesday may 3 1932 faculty grants college meeting price — five cents the lehigh university brown and white auf hammer to head mustard and cheese examinations begin may 26 end june 4 deep sea life is described by dr beebe p j flanigan elected head of brown key member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first