Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 50

              interfraternity council will give intramural cup awards head of corps area reviews final drill of lehigh units miller will make speech and present senior cane to in coming president r c youngquist traveling secretary of lambda chi alpha will address the interfraternity council at 7:30 p m friday in drown hall the speaker was recommend ed by the national intrafrater nity council as a man who has had great experience in the or ganization and running of a na tional fraternity according to j a aufhammer bus 33 pres ident of the council lafferty talks on philosophy general malone courtesy allentown morning call elects officers for next year discusses developments of universals at home of professor hughes beggar on horseback a fantasy in two acts and ten scenes by george kauf man and marc connelly staged and direct ed by warren fletcher musical score ar ranged by julian booker produced and pre sented by the mustard and cheese club and the faculty dramatic club by special per mission of samuel french with the follow ing cast dr albert rice samuel simmons jr 33 cynthia mason adah s ewing neil mcßae john a aufhanimer 33 mr cady joel e rothenberg 32 mrs cady lucy ord rice gladys cady evelyn billinger homer cady david d goldenberg 32 jerry robert j pennington 32 miss hey dorothy hess miss you nancy soto an author fred lambert 34 a poet {. john f perry 36 head dance man simon askin 32 seven dance men earl r english 34 j h kress 35 charles w leuders 35 leßoy travis 35 paul van wulven 35 edwin s williams 35 charles yaffe 33 by fritz bavington george kaufman and marc con nelly's dream fantasy beggar on horseback was given excellent treatment friday evening in drown hall by the mustard and cheese and faculty dramatic clubs before one of the largest audiences that has witnessed a dramatic presentation in the university in many a year neil mcßae the young composer losing sleep making little money living in a general atmosphere of poverty and in love with cynthia mason is tempted to marry wealth — wealth that is newly gained hence rather dangerous just as he has promised to marry gladys cady — over the telephone — he falls asleep and has a rather convincing night mare — principally about widgets and the cadys upon awakening he decides he wants cynthia mcßae's dream is the hilarious part of the play he marries gla dys night-club parties and friends of the family are inflicted upon him he takes part in a business confer ence and is presented with several million dollars by this time a gen eral feeling of disgust pervades the young composer he kills the whole family he is tried found guilty and sentenced to write popular songs for the remainder of his life and so continues the fantasy messrs kaufman and connely have the necessary technique to make the satire of the dream predominate plot and settings are inconsequen tial joel rothenberg as mr cady typifies the american business man he is particularly adapted to the part and certainly no one had any difficulty in hearing his lines dav id goldenberg as the ill-tempered homer cady says little and makes himself extremely effective mrs rice portraying the character of mrs cady is about as amusing as anything i have seen lately armed with a conspicuous pair of horn rimmed spectacles and a monstrous hand-bag every move that she makes is well timed she has cer tainly mastered the technique of stage business satire is expressionistic the dream idea in effecting sa tire called — by common concensus of opinion — expressionism is a bit more acid than any oth er method of satire the play was inspired by hans sonnentoesser's hohlenfahrt a short play by paul apel produced in germany some ten or twelve years ago the auth ors did not follow the original very closely but applied the idea in an american atmosphere messrs kaufman and connelly have achieved some potent satire direct ed towards everything american including radios mass production politics and the general american tendency to do everything in a big way it is a play writes one crit is written in distaste than can be inspired by the viewpoint the com placency and the very idiom of ro tarian america sub-freshmen visit campu oil paintings are exhibited modern artists to show pictures in library art gallery sword and crescent senior hon orary society and cyanide junior honorary society will each tap 15 men at the college meeting to be held at 11 a m on thursday at the flagpole the names of those men being awarded letters for fall and winter sports will also be read charles f halsted newly elected president of arcadia will conduct the last college meeting of the year the petition for this meet was final ly granted by the faculty after a great deal of discussion according to william h sachs president of the old arcadia the objection raised by the faculty to another col lege meeting was due to the very small attendance and the lack of interest shown by the students at the last meeting the interfraternity council and the physical education department will award cups to the winners in intramural activities which have been played off the interfraternity council requests that a represen tative from each living group be ing awarded a cup be present to receive it the men being tapped for sword and crescent and cyanide will be chosen at the meetings of the re spective societies which will be held in drown hall tomorrow evening the university band and cheer leaders will be present at the meet ing which will also be the official moving-up day of the classes the president of the retiring senior class w l miller will give a short speech and present the senior cane to the newly elected president fritz keck 33 as an official indi cation of the moving up of the classes the twenty-sixth annual bach festival given in commemoration of the great composer will take place friday and saturday may 13 and 14 in packer memorial chapel practically all of the 1200 seats in the auditorium have been sold ac cording to prof t edgar shields director of music at lehigh and or ganist for the festival bach's mass in b minor themost beautiful and difficult work in mu sical literature will again be sung this year on saturday at 2:30 p m and 5 p m eastern daylight saving time people are attracted to the festival yearly by this masterpiece its beauties and effects are not ob vious and concentration is neces sary to fully appreciate them ac cording to professor shields the highest point in this kind of music was reached when john sebastian bach 1685-1750 wrote his mass seven cantatas to be sung on friday at 5 p m and 9 p m seven of bach's most popular can tatas will be rendered these are shorter works and of a sacred type preceding each performance chor ales will be played from the tower of the chapel by the trombone choir the untque instruments include so prano alto and f bass trombones which are the only ones in the country shields will play accompanying the chorus will be about 35 members of the philadel phia symphony orchestra mrs ruth becker myers of bethlehem will again be pianist while profes sor shields will accompany on the organ dr j fred wolle at one time organist at lehigh will direct the choir the soloists will include miss ruth shaffner soprano miss er nestine hohl eberhard soprano miss rose e bampton alto miss amy ellerman alto mr dan grid ley tenor mr robert m craw ford baritone mr charles trow bridge tittmann bass and mr charles stratton the ability of an individual to call out in himself by a gesture the tendency to the same act that he would call out in another is ne cessary for the capacity to arrive at accurate conclusions said dr t t lafferty instructor of phil osophy friday evening before the meeting of the lehigh valley phil osophical society at the home of prof percy hughes universal occurs in group speaking on social develop ments of universals and objects dr lafferty pointed out that when an individual finds that his sign sound or gesture produces in him self the tendency to the same act as it would in another he then has use of a universal and may respond to it himself the universal first oc curs in a group and is a means of accurate communication between in dividualsfl but also the individual responds to his own communication hence before proposing an idea a person by use of universals is able to forsee the response of the group to the idea according to dr laf ferty children discover universals in their play dr lafferty stated play periods become a socializing part of life simmons to address a i e e meeting brown key society will be subsidised pi delta epsilon initiates new members choses fleischer president initiations and elections were conducted by pi delta epsilon honorary journalistic fraternity last evening in drown hall and in the guthsvitle hotel where the mem bers of the fraternity went to at tend the annual initiation banquet the men elected are edward fleischer editor in chief of the le high review president burt ri viere business manager of the brown and white vice president martin reed news manager of the brown and white secretary and robert davis business manager of the review treasurer after the banquet dale h gram fey-j instructor in jojjujrjjnajijijsm m^ph^ructor in journalism gave a talk on politics in school publica j^nsjin which he took a stand k sfe*in£t this tendency the retiring president ralph rfip^gnjin a congratulatory address mafk.jeo.me suggestions concerning future plans of the fraternity in cluding a wish that the annual grid iron banquet omitted this year may be continued those men initiated into pi delta epsilon are j a tempest m m reed burt riviere k f borden e h poggi william lathrop j h kaufman p j flanigan j al exander b d beach j j roessle c n creichton and g j merritt john maxwell assistant editor of the alumni bulletin attended the meeting ewing determines vibrations in stone news briefs a new art exhibit will be opened friday may 13 in the lehigh li brary art gallery this exhibit con sists of oil paintings which belong to the conservative-progressive group according to g a howland assistant professor of fine arts the exhibit will be open from 10 a m to 5:30 p m friday and saturday for the benefit of those who come here for the bach festival this group of oil paintings is unusually attractive stated profes sor howland it has been exhibited in all parts of the country the canvasses belong to the phillips art gallery in washington d c and are circulated by the american federation of art professor howland describes the conservative-progressive group as modern but not radical the paint ings are modern but not modernis tic he explained two landscape canvasses by er nest lawson will be exhibited he is an american artist he is bold in his treatment of pictures profes sor howland said coming events tapping of the 14 newly elected members of pi mv epsilon mathe matical honorary will take place friday morning may 13 in the chapel states tomlinson fort head of the department of mathe matics professor fort will deliver a brief talk dr william bowie c e 95 chief of the division of geodesy u s coast and geodetic survey spoke last thursday to the civil engineer ing students on the work of the survey miss beatrice fox daughter of dr charles shattuck fox head of the department of romance lan guages was married last saturday to william r greyer jr of new york city a short meeting of eta sigma phi national honorary classical fra ternity was held last evening at the home of dr wright faculty ad visor members of the senior class in engineering physics will perform demonstration experiments at the physics society meeting thursday may 12 at 8 p m in the physics lecture room arcadia also adopts new or der of business the brown key society an or ganization of the assistant manag ers was subsidized and a new order of business for the conducting of future meetings was formally ac cepted at the last meeting of the old arcadia in drown hall last eve ning the new order of business will include a report from each of the committees conducted with the body arcadia voted to give the brown key society 25 if the board of control will donate the same amount a constitution and copy of the by-laws will be drawn up for the approvel of the living groups a motion was also passed to the ef fect that any member of arcadia who misses two meetings will be sent a notice stating that if he misses one more meeting he will be dropped from the organization this motion will probably be in cluded in the by-laws a copy of which will be sent around to all the living groups for signature speech on high voltage cables will follow banquet the lehigh valley section of the american institute of electrical engineers will hold its last meet ing of the 1931-32 season at 8:30 p m this friday evening in the hotel traylor in allentown accord ing to o greisinger publicity man ager of the lehigh valley section the meeting will be preceded by a dinner which is to start at 7 after dinner those attending the meeting will hear d m simmons give his talk on high-voltage cables — their manufacture and application mr simmons who is a past chairman of the pittsburgh section of the a i e e is the chief con sulting engineer of the general cable corporation he graduated from princeton and has specialized in cable engineering since 1913 ex cept for two and a half years in the world war when he was one of general pershing's staff the talk will cover the manufac ture and"use of insulated cables to gether with recent advances and developments which brought into the realm of poscibility the trans mission of 220.000 volts by means of undergraund cables in the hands of the young men of the country america places her destiny said paul b malone com mander of the third corps area to the r o t c students assembled yesterday in packard auditorium after the field day exercises general malone stressed the fact that the founding of the r o t c by means of the national defense act of 1920 was the greatest step in a century in safeguarding our coun try he startled his audience with the prophecy that some of them would some day lay down their lives in defense of their country america's military unprepared ness prior to the world war caused her to rely to a great extent on her allies said the general he added that he would have given over the command of a platoon during the war to any man with as much mil itary training as any one of the stu dents in the audience had had to date dr drinker present henry sturgis drinker president emeritus and honorary trustee of the university was present on the platform with col m h thomlin son and president richards it was through the efforts of dr drinker that the first students mil itary camp was established in 1913 he was responsible for the estab lishment of the r.o.t.c in schools and colleges especially at lehigh congratulates cadets pm&jhe xonclusion of the assem leaves the r^y^jcjgthfr~|_let ij*fjh"*ai the end of the schaßmreaffy toftgfcaktltfcdf thr cadets on their fine work durmg%i!t^^j .^ i jg/£hefield day exercises degaifi tfalall^qttspar ned with platoon drill comp^*tog»^j£jltm tbj|||dj>ge doering's platoon third ptasbojl company f competed against first sergt r b wall's platoon third platoon company b ser geant wall's platoon won the con test in the manual of arms competition con ducted by captain clay floyd t taylor of company g merged the victor with carl e estabrook of company b second the equipment race was won by carl t thomas of company b second the equipment race was won by carl t thomas of company g with charles kuhns of company c second following this was a demonstration of machine guns a 37 millimeter gun and tank conducted by captains keck and rice the judges for the contest were major charles b meyer and capt l c atwood during the demonstration three planes of the penn sylvania national guard flew over the field the cadets lined up at their stacked rifles and the various prizes were distributed by president richards at 4:15 the entire unit passed in review before general malone and colonel thomlinson the best drilled company during the year was company e which received a cup and three streamers the best shooting company was company c which received the amer ican legion cup and two streamers the freshman-sophomore shooting competition was won by the sophomores r n linda bury team captain the prize was the whit ten memorial cup the rifle team awards were as follows sweaters and letters j m hazen j bo sak w a johnson n lindabury c oku no and r c ruhf silver watch charms were given to o g lewis d d evans w a haller and f j hollister bronze watch charms were awarded to k r schneck w m schuck r l davis r b wall j e fugard f m pittenger n beiter and j e fay corps area shooting medals were awarded to w a johnson and r c ruhf the vet erans of foreign wars cup was won by r c ruhf with w a johnson and j m ha zen runners up the following awards were made in the continued on page four wednesday may 11 4 p m varsity baseball vs uni versity of delaware 7:30 p m meeting of newtonian society room 208 packard lab oratory thursday may 12 11 a m college meeting at the flag pole 7:30 p m meeting of physics so ciety physics lecture room friday may 13 4 p m varsity tennis vs dart mouth 5 p m opening session of bach festival packer memorial chapel develops method of measuring velocity of wave motion maurice ewing instructor in phy sics has developed a new method of accurately determining the vel acity of elastic waves in granite as a result of the research he has been doing in the field of geo-physics the method developed by dr ewing is being carried out under his direction by w o bennett jr eng phys 32 and r l snyder jr e e 33 a vacuum tube cir cuit is employed the frequency of which is controlled by the vibra tions of a granite rod by measuring the frequency of vibrations of the rod it is possible to calculate the velocity of the elastic waves in it dr ewing states that this meth od of studying elastic vibrations may find many applications in stu dying vibrations in many different substances dr ewing is studying the velo city of vibrations in granite in con junction with a study of earthquake vibrations the velocity of wave motion in granite is desired to enable judg ment from the observed speed of earthquake waves how much gran ite is under the continents states dr ewing 322 prospective studeiso and parents are guests of university saturday three hundred twenty-two fresh men representing most of the lead ing preparatory schools and high schools in the middle atlantic states were guests of the univer sity saturday at the annual sub freshman day according to the of ficial statistics obtained from the registrar's office after an inspection tour of the university the sub-freshmen were addressed by president richards who described lehigh's function in the academic world and urged the prospective students to select their college after considerable deliber ation sub-freshmen and parents total ing 400 were present at luncheon during luncheon dean mcconn spoke on the various welfare ad juncts of the university of a non academic nature such as the health service the library the union and many other phases of life at le high after the luncheon walter r okeson spoke on the athletic stan dards at lehigh and the traditions behind the brown and white teams part of the morning was taken up by demonstrations by various departments explaining in some de tail their work some of the de partments especially the electrical had a grotip of upper-classmen working in laboratories in order that the sub-freshmen might see the students at work there was a substantial represen tation of all the high schools and preparatory schools in the lehigh valley with the exception of easton according to p e schwartz assis tane registrar amnog the more dis tant cities and town represented were oberlin ohio rutland vt east providence r l milwaukee and corning n y bethlehem pa tuesday may 10 1932 speaks monday mustard and cheese presents fantasy beggar on horseback vol xxxix no 50 price — five cents two honoraries to tap 30 men 1,200 to hear bach festival may 13 and 14 malone talks to r.o.t.c on field day r c youngquist to address interfraternity council fri preparedness as keynote of national defense plan is stressed bygen eral in address the lehigh university brown and white sword and crescent and cyanide will select men at last college meeting thursday large chorus trombone choir and symphony orchestra to present works of composer seven cantatas and mass to be sung during sessions member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first