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ford will visit in oregon fretz will tour in europe freshmen who had a b av erage last semester or who at tain a b average this semester are requested to send in their names to p e schwartz assis tant registrar if they wish to ap ply for next fall's registration team mr schwartz expressed the belief that b average men do better work on the registration team and that he would like to get freshmen who might do the work each semester arcadia picks 5 committees cyanide elects new officers chairmen to form execu tive board that will meet twice monthly reiter addresses society at annual banquet at bethlehem club it was a girl from moravian fem-sem that started the whole thing glancing aimlessly over the great crowd at the bach festival she noticed a man who looked strangely familiar why it's george arliss the movie actor she said to her friends there was a hum of excited com ment among the moravian girls as they turned to see the distinguish ed visitor . . . sure enough they de cided it was george arliss and wouldn't mr shields introduce them ? t edgar shields lehigh music director and organist glanced at the man and then smiled of course i'll introduce you he said and then as the visitor approached he an nounced girls i would like you to meet an old friend of mine wil liam c carl a well known new york organist is used to mistake mr carl laughed as the girls re marked about his strange likeness to george arliss ... he was used to that mistake and he assured them that his counterpart was not in america at the present time but in mid-ocean on his way to his home in england wilson f payne didn't know this however and tipped off three brown and white reporters that george arliss was visiting the bach festival the news men excited at the information decided not to rest until the important mr arliss had girl starts search for arliss while movie actor is at sea made a statement for the lehigh pa per missing the celebrity at the fes tival the reporters tried every ho tel in bethlehem and allentown the bach headquarters and the ticket window but found not the slightest trace of their man they did find however that h l men ken editor of the american mer cury was in town and stopping at the hotel bethlehem when cornered in the lobby of the hotel mr menken gave a few words obviously for publication and a few words obviously not we didn't see much of lehigh university said the editor but we climbed a hill to the cafeteria and being old and puffy got out of breath we tried to get some food but the students were all eating and eating it all so we left called chapel a barn mr menken who last year refer red to the lehigh chapel as a barn in his syndicated column has been a visitor at the bach festival for years but due to a lack of time has never seen the whole campus he was accompanied by alfred a knopf a prominent new york publisher after returning to the chapel in another attempt to find the elusive mr arliss the reporters listened to a few chorals masses and cantatas and again searched the departing crowds ... in vain while the ac tor's ship plowed through the at lantic not so many miles out of liverpool pianist to give informal talk musical clubs give concert orchestra furnishes mu sic for dancing after program samuel chatzinoff will tell students qualities of good music committees for the coming year were nominated and elected at the last meeting of arcadia last evening in drown hall this was the first official meeting of the new ruling body committees elected were as fol lows publications j a tempest chairman w lathrop and h j o'brien athletic control c n crichton chairman and j s skel ly social j.s mcelwain chairman h p zabriskie and f f rohrer booster r r bachman chairman g s hagstoz and r n laftman intramural sports h stender chair man t claus and b l frick elections w w henricks chair man d j layton and e h robb the roll was called by name in stead of by the names of the living groups and the new order of bus iness was followed as adopted at the last meeting of the old arcadia the chairmen of the committees elected last evening will form an executive board which will meet twice a month according to c f halsted president of arcadia asks merger with lafayette major cattell suggests muhlenberg be includ ed in union grades made by lehigh students tend to approach a common distri bution it was revealed in speeches made yesterday by p b carwile assistant professor of physics and a w luce assistant professor of machine design at the regular meet ing of the faculty educational club professor carwile spoke on the proposition of changing the numer ical value of the letter grades now passed in from departments to the registrar's office and then reinter pretated by the office to another in stitution there was a long dis cussion on this topic reports on grade study professor luce reported on h comprehensive study of the grades awarded in all courses departments and curricula in the university he said that while the general distri bution of grades is usually the same some departments depart from this distribution quite widely th c distribution of grades throughout the university has in the past ten years moved toward the general distribution throughout the country and is in accordance with the mathematical law of prob ability said prof percy hughes chairman of the club professor hughes announced at the meeting that the faculties of colleges of the lehigh valley are invited to take dinner at lafayette college thursday at 6 o'clock some of the french guests at the lafayette centennial celebration will speak to the assembled representa tives of the colleges at this dinner the annual initiation banquet and election of officers of cyanide junior honorary society was held last night at the bethlehem club prof h r reiter and p j flani gan retiring president were the speakers the officers elected for the year 1932-33 are as follows president b l bishop vice president r e mcleod secretary-treasurer g l grier the executive committee for the new year will consist of r n lindabury j k beidler and p e short the initiates pledged at the col lege meeting last thursday were r f bavington b d beach j k beidler b l bishop b p eggles ton l h etchelberger r n lin dabury r e mcleod b g fort man j r frugard g e goodrich g l grier c b peters p e short r r snyder professor reiter director of the department of physical education spoke informally p j flanigan re tiring president of cyanide delivered a speech in which he expressed the need of some organized activity which should be sponsored by the organization he suggested that cyanide might give a dance and award a cup to the most outstand ing freshman athlete pi mu epsilon taps 17 men in chapel lehigh union meets last time this year the largest audience in history according to s l laciar music critic for the philadelphia public ledger heard the great mass in b minor of johann sebastian bach sung friday in packer memorial chapel at the twenty-sixth festival of the bach choir directed by j fred wolle nearly 3,000 music lovers from all parts of the country filled every seat and crowded the lawns adja cent to the chapel under the leadership of david dubinski 40 members of the phila delphia orchestra played the accom paniment at the four sessions of the choir the moravian trombone choir directed by george sigley announced each performance from the belfry of the chapel is choruses in mass the choral work was the princi pal feature of the mass there being 15 choruses out of 24 numbers which make up baches masterpiece among those who attended were mrs theodore roosevelt who has been present regularly since the or ganization of the choir in 1900 mrs goffard pinchot senator emerson richards h l menken editor of the american mercury hey ward broun author alfred knopf pub lisher geraldine farrar singer mrs john hubbard of paris france the soloists were ernestine hohl eberhard a member of the choir soprano aly ellerman alto charles stratton tenof robert m craw ford a member of the choir bari tone charles trowbridge tittman basso organ recital given an informal organ recital was given by the many organists who attended this recital held saturday noon was attended by many bach admirers visitors were made acquainted with the places of historical inter est in the vicinity through a tour conducted by local alumnae of the moravian seminary and college for women youngquist speaks at council meeting the fourth and final concert by the combined musical clubs was held saturday evening in drown hall following the concert a dance was held the music being furnish ed by the club's dance orchestra with julian booker as leader the program as arranged by t edgar shields leader of the glee club included four new numbers which had never before been sung in public by the club love me or not my home land ven etian love song and soldier's chorus the bellman sung by special request was received with approval by the audience the senior band made up of those who went with the club to new york played one number egyptian ballet the dance orchestra played several numbers as part of the reg ular program one number by the orchestra was lord you made the night too long a special ar rangement by julian booker with f s roberts e e 34 singing the vocal refrain robert j pennington arts 34 sang two solos the big base viol and smiling through as a special feature of the concert the chaperones for the dance in cluded prof and mrs a a die fenderfer and dr and mrs r d billinger samuel chatzinoff pianist and ac companist will appear in the lounge room of drown hall tomorrow at 7:30 p m to discuss with lehigh students in an informal meeting the qualities of good music he will il lustrate his talk with selections on the piano a r baldwin president of the lehigh union states that mr chat zinoff here under the auspices of the lehigh union is one of a num ber of musicians sent to various universities by the carnegie foun dation for the advancement of teaching in an endeavor to stimu late appreciation of good music among american college students chatzinoff was born in russia in 1889 and came to this country at the age of seven he studied in a new york high school and spent three years at columbia university in the school of music chatzinoff became music critic of the new york world a post he held until the paper was sold to the scripps-howard interests last year chatzinoff has written articles on music and musicians in vanity fair the new yorker and has pub lished a life of beethoven under the title of eroica describes acqueduct a survey made among members of the lehigh faculty has disclosed that many of them will spend the hot summer months in bethlehem teaching or doing research work some however will hasten to dis tant points to forget the drudgery of the year's work at lehigh in the chemistry department sev eral of the members will be occu pied in teaching assaying during the month of june dr harvey ne ville associate professor of chem istry and dr thomas hazelhurst assistant professor will teach in the regular summer session jud son smull instructor in chemistry will carry on research work and harold anderson associate profes sor in addition to his research work will revise his text on quali tative analysis richard degray in structor in chemistry will attend the summer session at columbia university ford to go to oregon dr adelbert ford head of the department of psychology will drive to waldport oregon to visit his father on his way he will visit several universities dr percy hughes head of the department of philosophy and education dr tomlinson fort head of the de partment of mathematics and oth er members of the faculty of pack er hall will teach in the summer ses sion the biology department is plan ning an extensive program this summer dr stanley thomas act ing head of the department of bi ology is going to make a sanitary survey of the delaware river james w burger assistant in bi ology will make an animal collec tion trip to mexico for the biology department's museum michael a farrell instructor in bacteriology will work with the new york san itary board francis j trembley instructor in biology will study the animal life on presque isle in lake erie fretz to travel abroad harry fretz assistant professor of geology is contemplating a trip abroad leaving on the roma he will tour italy southern france switzerland and england dr ben jamin l miller head of the depart ment of geology will remain here and complete geologic field work in lehigh and northampton counties donald m frazer instructor in ge ology will devote part of his sum mer to teaching geology in new jersey law school dr gilbert e doan associate professor of metallurgy and dr donald m lydell intend to com plete an elementary metallurgy book other members of the faculty of the metallurgy department will for the most part be occupied with research and consultation work dorm drawings held coming events major w cattell a lafayette alumnus in a recent letter to david d skillman secretary of the board of trustees of lafayette college ad vised uniting lafayette college with lehigh university the letter to mr skillman took issue on several points brought out in skillman's book the biography of a college — lafayette which has recently been published writing on the union of lehigh and lafayette major cattell stated but why not let us forget all these differences and formulate at once a working plan for the union of le high and lafayette taking in muh lenberg if thought best this has to come sooner or later and why not now major cattell is the son of james m cattell president of lafayette from 1863 until 1882 major cattell received his degree of bachelor of arts at lafayette his master's at the university of leipzig and his doctor's degree at the university of pennsylvania from 1892 to 1897 he was demonstrator of morbid an atomy at pennsylvania he has served as pathologist and expert in many murder trials he became a major in france 1918-19 and had charge of the post mortem records of the a e f n ews briefs dale g gramley instructor in journalism will speak on the bus iness man and his newspaper be fore the optimist club at doyles town wednesday evening dr b l miller head of the de partment of geology addressed the cosmos club last night in drown hall james e anderson 33 who was injured in a motorcycle accident at friedensville last tuesday was dis charged from st luke's hospital sunday afternoon few rooms left reports bursar ashbaugh drawings of dormitory rooms were held yesterday afternoon in drown hall under the supervision of f ashbaugh bursar and e ba derschneider director of the supply bureau out of a total of 171 rooms in both taylor hall and price hall two suites and four single rooms are left vacant in taylor hall and two suites and a total of twelve rooms are left vacant in price hall mr ashbaugh expressed the be lief that although most of the rooms are signed for there will be more vacancies in the future due to fail ures and changes in leases freshman handbook board to be selected soon the last meeting for the year of the lehigh union was held friday evening in drown hall the plans for the freshman handbook was the principal business transacted this was a joint meeting of the two cabinets the one which was in charge of the union this year and the cabinet which will direct the lehigh union for 1932-33 the new cabinet consisting of c w cooper president r l davis vice pres ident b h riviere secretary and d j layton jr treasurer was instructed in the running and financing of the lehigh union ac cording to a r baldwin retiring president the committee appointed for the new handbook which will be pub lished in the future by the lehigh union was as follows p b my ers chairman j e angle and r k serfass although no definite program for the issuing of the handbook can be made known until later in the week baldwin stated that the handbook board would probably consist of an editor and a business manager working on a competitive basis the winner to be elected to the cabinet of the union wednesday may 18 7:30 p m meeting of the faculty dramatic club at the residence of prof and mrs j l graham 37 east church street to read be linda by milne annual election of officers 7:30 p m freshman oratorical contest packard auditorium 7:30 p m piano recital and discus sion of classical music apprecia tion by mr samuel chatzinoff of the carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching in drown hall under the auspices of the lehigh union thursday may 19 4 p m varsity tennis vs lafay ette steel field friday may 20 4 p m varsity tennis vs perm state steel field . dr fort addresses society on history of honorary pi mv epsilon national honorary mathematics fraternity tapped sev enteen men for membership friday in packer memorial chapel the society was addressed by dr tom linson fort head of the department of mathematics and astronomy dr fort talked on the history and purpose of pi mv epsilon he stressed the fact that pi mv epsilon is not merely an honorary organiza tion but is also a working organiza tion affording students and profes sors an opportunity for discussion on the same plane according to dr fort no mathematical society would be tolerated if it were solely honorary dr fort traced the development of pi mv epsilon from its earliest days to the present the society has 25 chapters ranging from the uni versity of california to columbia which is the latest chapter those men tapped were d c bomberger 34 w b coleman graduate student k l honeyman 34 e n hower 34 l lancit 32 r n lindabury 34 milton meissner 34 r l riley 34 k p shannon graduate student e e wildman 34 j.g williams 34 g l wolcott 34 r s taylor 33 and f l snavely 33 two faculty members were tap ped dr s s cairns and dr e h cutler merriman 97 tells civils of water project water from the colorado river near hoover dam will be conveyed to los angeles by a proposed aque duct which was described last sat urday by thaddeus merriman c.e 97 to a group of the students and faculty of the civil engineering de partment mr merriman is consult ing engineer on this project the aqueduct will discharge wa ter at los angeles at the rate of 15,000 cubic feet per minute it will cross country of unusually varied geologic and topographic condi tions the greater part of the aque duct will be a tunnel of horseshoe shape dr merriman said that giant pumps will lift the water at the colorado and power for these pumps will be derived from the hoover dam traveling secretary discusses fraternity problems r c youngquist traveling sec retary of lambda chi alpha ad dressed a special meeting of the in terfraternity council on current fra ternity problems scholarship de layed rushing and the house plan mr youngquist had interesting comments to make on all of these situation according to j a auf hammer president of the interfra ternity council the scholarship of fraternities has been in past years several points below the all univer sity average in most institutions mr youngquist said the national interfraternity council has lately been making efforts to remedy this situations according to j a auf the scholastic standing of frater nity men has shown a decided im provement fraternities have been getting plenty of publicity but of the wrong kind stories that are detri mental to fraternities in the public eye are usually printed while those that reflect credit are barely no ticed mr youngquist suggested that the present undergraduate members help this state of affairs in years to come bethlehem pa tuesday may 17 1932 schwartz requests names of b frosh for registration price — five cents senior honorary to initiate at guthsville inn weds large crowd hears singing of bach choir faculty men outline plans for summer carwile and luce address faculty club vol xxxix no 52 several instructors will spend vacation travel ing while others will conduct research the initiation and banquet of the sword and crescent senior honorary society will be held at the guthsville hotel guthsville on wednesday may 18 at 6:30 p m officers will be elected at this time and dean mcconn will address the banquet information concerning the banquet can be obtained from p e myers sigma phi epsilon chorus under direction of dr wolle accom panied by orchestra of 40 pieces the lehigh university brown and white lehigh grades approach the universal average taken from curricula of american colleges faculty are invited to attend lafayette college centennial informal organ recital given by organists who attended all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association
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FullText | ford will visit in oregon fretz will tour in europe freshmen who had a b av erage last semester or who at tain a b average this semester are requested to send in their names to p e schwartz assis tant registrar if they wish to ap ply for next fall's registration team mr schwartz expressed the belief that b average men do better work on the registration team and that he would like to get freshmen who might do the work each semester arcadia picks 5 committees cyanide elects new officers chairmen to form execu tive board that will meet twice monthly reiter addresses society at annual banquet at bethlehem club it was a girl from moravian fem-sem that started the whole thing glancing aimlessly over the great crowd at the bach festival she noticed a man who looked strangely familiar why it's george arliss the movie actor she said to her friends there was a hum of excited com ment among the moravian girls as they turned to see the distinguish ed visitor . . . sure enough they de cided it was george arliss and wouldn't mr shields introduce them ? t edgar shields lehigh music director and organist glanced at the man and then smiled of course i'll introduce you he said and then as the visitor approached he an nounced girls i would like you to meet an old friend of mine wil liam c carl a well known new york organist is used to mistake mr carl laughed as the girls re marked about his strange likeness to george arliss ... he was used to that mistake and he assured them that his counterpart was not in america at the present time but in mid-ocean on his way to his home in england wilson f payne didn't know this however and tipped off three brown and white reporters that george arliss was visiting the bach festival the news men excited at the information decided not to rest until the important mr arliss had girl starts search for arliss while movie actor is at sea made a statement for the lehigh pa per missing the celebrity at the fes tival the reporters tried every ho tel in bethlehem and allentown the bach headquarters and the ticket window but found not the slightest trace of their man they did find however that h l men ken editor of the american mer cury was in town and stopping at the hotel bethlehem when cornered in the lobby of the hotel mr menken gave a few words obviously for publication and a few words obviously not we didn't see much of lehigh university said the editor but we climbed a hill to the cafeteria and being old and puffy got out of breath we tried to get some food but the students were all eating and eating it all so we left called chapel a barn mr menken who last year refer red to the lehigh chapel as a barn in his syndicated column has been a visitor at the bach festival for years but due to a lack of time has never seen the whole campus he was accompanied by alfred a knopf a prominent new york publisher after returning to the chapel in another attempt to find the elusive mr arliss the reporters listened to a few chorals masses and cantatas and again searched the departing crowds ... in vain while the ac tor's ship plowed through the at lantic not so many miles out of liverpool pianist to give informal talk musical clubs give concert orchestra furnishes mu sic for dancing after program samuel chatzinoff will tell students qualities of good music committees for the coming year were nominated and elected at the last meeting of arcadia last evening in drown hall this was the first official meeting of the new ruling body committees elected were as fol lows publications j a tempest chairman w lathrop and h j o'brien athletic control c n crichton chairman and j s skel ly social j.s mcelwain chairman h p zabriskie and f f rohrer booster r r bachman chairman g s hagstoz and r n laftman intramural sports h stender chair man t claus and b l frick elections w w henricks chair man d j layton and e h robb the roll was called by name in stead of by the names of the living groups and the new order of bus iness was followed as adopted at the last meeting of the old arcadia the chairmen of the committees elected last evening will form an executive board which will meet twice a month according to c f halsted president of arcadia asks merger with lafayette major cattell suggests muhlenberg be includ ed in union grades made by lehigh students tend to approach a common distri bution it was revealed in speeches made yesterday by p b carwile assistant professor of physics and a w luce assistant professor of machine design at the regular meet ing of the faculty educational club professor carwile spoke on the proposition of changing the numer ical value of the letter grades now passed in from departments to the registrar's office and then reinter pretated by the office to another in stitution there was a long dis cussion on this topic reports on grade study professor luce reported on h comprehensive study of the grades awarded in all courses departments and curricula in the university he said that while the general distri bution of grades is usually the same some departments depart from this distribution quite widely th c distribution of grades throughout the university has in the past ten years moved toward the general distribution throughout the country and is in accordance with the mathematical law of prob ability said prof percy hughes chairman of the club professor hughes announced at the meeting that the faculties of colleges of the lehigh valley are invited to take dinner at lafayette college thursday at 6 o'clock some of the french guests at the lafayette centennial celebration will speak to the assembled representa tives of the colleges at this dinner the annual initiation banquet and election of officers of cyanide junior honorary society was held last night at the bethlehem club prof h r reiter and p j flani gan retiring president were the speakers the officers elected for the year 1932-33 are as follows president b l bishop vice president r e mcleod secretary-treasurer g l grier the executive committee for the new year will consist of r n lindabury j k beidler and p e short the initiates pledged at the col lege meeting last thursday were r f bavington b d beach j k beidler b l bishop b p eggles ton l h etchelberger r n lin dabury r e mcleod b g fort man j r frugard g e goodrich g l grier c b peters p e short r r snyder professor reiter director of the department of physical education spoke informally p j flanigan re tiring president of cyanide delivered a speech in which he expressed the need of some organized activity which should be sponsored by the organization he suggested that cyanide might give a dance and award a cup to the most outstand ing freshman athlete pi mu epsilon taps 17 men in chapel lehigh union meets last time this year the largest audience in history according to s l laciar music critic for the philadelphia public ledger heard the great mass in b minor of johann sebastian bach sung friday in packer memorial chapel at the twenty-sixth festival of the bach choir directed by j fred wolle nearly 3,000 music lovers from all parts of the country filled every seat and crowded the lawns adja cent to the chapel under the leadership of david dubinski 40 members of the phila delphia orchestra played the accom paniment at the four sessions of the choir the moravian trombone choir directed by george sigley announced each performance from the belfry of the chapel is choruses in mass the choral work was the princi pal feature of the mass there being 15 choruses out of 24 numbers which make up baches masterpiece among those who attended were mrs theodore roosevelt who has been present regularly since the or ganization of the choir in 1900 mrs goffard pinchot senator emerson richards h l menken editor of the american mercury hey ward broun author alfred knopf pub lisher geraldine farrar singer mrs john hubbard of paris france the soloists were ernestine hohl eberhard a member of the choir soprano aly ellerman alto charles stratton tenof robert m craw ford a member of the choir bari tone charles trowbridge tittman basso organ recital given an informal organ recital was given by the many organists who attended this recital held saturday noon was attended by many bach admirers visitors were made acquainted with the places of historical inter est in the vicinity through a tour conducted by local alumnae of the moravian seminary and college for women youngquist speaks at council meeting the fourth and final concert by the combined musical clubs was held saturday evening in drown hall following the concert a dance was held the music being furnish ed by the club's dance orchestra with julian booker as leader the program as arranged by t edgar shields leader of the glee club included four new numbers which had never before been sung in public by the club love me or not my home land ven etian love song and soldier's chorus the bellman sung by special request was received with approval by the audience the senior band made up of those who went with the club to new york played one number egyptian ballet the dance orchestra played several numbers as part of the reg ular program one number by the orchestra was lord you made the night too long a special ar rangement by julian booker with f s roberts e e 34 singing the vocal refrain robert j pennington arts 34 sang two solos the big base viol and smiling through as a special feature of the concert the chaperones for the dance in cluded prof and mrs a a die fenderfer and dr and mrs r d billinger samuel chatzinoff pianist and ac companist will appear in the lounge room of drown hall tomorrow at 7:30 p m to discuss with lehigh students in an informal meeting the qualities of good music he will il lustrate his talk with selections on the piano a r baldwin president of the lehigh union states that mr chat zinoff here under the auspices of the lehigh union is one of a num ber of musicians sent to various universities by the carnegie foun dation for the advancement of teaching in an endeavor to stimu late appreciation of good music among american college students chatzinoff was born in russia in 1889 and came to this country at the age of seven he studied in a new york high school and spent three years at columbia university in the school of music chatzinoff became music critic of the new york world a post he held until the paper was sold to the scripps-howard interests last year chatzinoff has written articles on music and musicians in vanity fair the new yorker and has pub lished a life of beethoven under the title of eroica describes acqueduct a survey made among members of the lehigh faculty has disclosed that many of them will spend the hot summer months in bethlehem teaching or doing research work some however will hasten to dis tant points to forget the drudgery of the year's work at lehigh in the chemistry department sev eral of the members will be occu pied in teaching assaying during the month of june dr harvey ne ville associate professor of chem istry and dr thomas hazelhurst assistant professor will teach in the regular summer session jud son smull instructor in chemistry will carry on research work and harold anderson associate profes sor in addition to his research work will revise his text on quali tative analysis richard degray in structor in chemistry will attend the summer session at columbia university ford to go to oregon dr adelbert ford head of the department of psychology will drive to waldport oregon to visit his father on his way he will visit several universities dr percy hughes head of the department of philosophy and education dr tomlinson fort head of the de partment of mathematics and oth er members of the faculty of pack er hall will teach in the summer ses sion the biology department is plan ning an extensive program this summer dr stanley thomas act ing head of the department of bi ology is going to make a sanitary survey of the delaware river james w burger assistant in bi ology will make an animal collec tion trip to mexico for the biology department's museum michael a farrell instructor in bacteriology will work with the new york san itary board francis j trembley instructor in biology will study the animal life on presque isle in lake erie fretz to travel abroad harry fretz assistant professor of geology is contemplating a trip abroad leaving on the roma he will tour italy southern france switzerland and england dr ben jamin l miller head of the depart ment of geology will remain here and complete geologic field work in lehigh and northampton counties donald m frazer instructor in ge ology will devote part of his sum mer to teaching geology in new jersey law school dr gilbert e doan associate professor of metallurgy and dr donald m lydell intend to com plete an elementary metallurgy book other members of the faculty of the metallurgy department will for the most part be occupied with research and consultation work dorm drawings held coming events major w cattell a lafayette alumnus in a recent letter to david d skillman secretary of the board of trustees of lafayette college ad vised uniting lafayette college with lehigh university the letter to mr skillman took issue on several points brought out in skillman's book the biography of a college — lafayette which has recently been published writing on the union of lehigh and lafayette major cattell stated but why not let us forget all these differences and formulate at once a working plan for the union of le high and lafayette taking in muh lenberg if thought best this has to come sooner or later and why not now major cattell is the son of james m cattell president of lafayette from 1863 until 1882 major cattell received his degree of bachelor of arts at lafayette his master's at the university of leipzig and his doctor's degree at the university of pennsylvania from 1892 to 1897 he was demonstrator of morbid an atomy at pennsylvania he has served as pathologist and expert in many murder trials he became a major in france 1918-19 and had charge of the post mortem records of the a e f n ews briefs dale g gramley instructor in journalism will speak on the bus iness man and his newspaper be fore the optimist club at doyles town wednesday evening dr b l miller head of the de partment of geology addressed the cosmos club last night in drown hall james e anderson 33 who was injured in a motorcycle accident at friedensville last tuesday was dis charged from st luke's hospital sunday afternoon few rooms left reports bursar ashbaugh drawings of dormitory rooms were held yesterday afternoon in drown hall under the supervision of f ashbaugh bursar and e ba derschneider director of the supply bureau out of a total of 171 rooms in both taylor hall and price hall two suites and four single rooms are left vacant in taylor hall and two suites and a total of twelve rooms are left vacant in price hall mr ashbaugh expressed the be lief that although most of the rooms are signed for there will be more vacancies in the future due to fail ures and changes in leases freshman handbook board to be selected soon the last meeting for the year of the lehigh union was held friday evening in drown hall the plans for the freshman handbook was the principal business transacted this was a joint meeting of the two cabinets the one which was in charge of the union this year and the cabinet which will direct the lehigh union for 1932-33 the new cabinet consisting of c w cooper president r l davis vice pres ident b h riviere secretary and d j layton jr treasurer was instructed in the running and financing of the lehigh union ac cording to a r baldwin retiring president the committee appointed for the new handbook which will be pub lished in the future by the lehigh union was as follows p b my ers chairman j e angle and r k serfass although no definite program for the issuing of the handbook can be made known until later in the week baldwin stated that the handbook board would probably consist of an editor and a business manager working on a competitive basis the winner to be elected to the cabinet of the union wednesday may 18 7:30 p m meeting of the faculty dramatic club at the residence of prof and mrs j l graham 37 east church street to read be linda by milne annual election of officers 7:30 p m freshman oratorical contest packard auditorium 7:30 p m piano recital and discus sion of classical music apprecia tion by mr samuel chatzinoff of the carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching in drown hall under the auspices of the lehigh union thursday may 19 4 p m varsity tennis vs lafay ette steel field friday may 20 4 p m varsity tennis vs perm state steel field . dr fort addresses society on history of honorary pi mv epsilon national honorary mathematics fraternity tapped sev enteen men for membership friday in packer memorial chapel the society was addressed by dr tom linson fort head of the department of mathematics and astronomy dr fort talked on the history and purpose of pi mv epsilon he stressed the fact that pi mv epsilon is not merely an honorary organiza tion but is also a working organiza tion affording students and profes sors an opportunity for discussion on the same plane according to dr fort no mathematical society would be tolerated if it were solely honorary dr fort traced the development of pi mv epsilon from its earliest days to the present the society has 25 chapters ranging from the uni versity of california to columbia which is the latest chapter those men tapped were d c bomberger 34 w b coleman graduate student k l honeyman 34 e n hower 34 l lancit 32 r n lindabury 34 milton meissner 34 r l riley 34 k p shannon graduate student e e wildman 34 j.g williams 34 g l wolcott 34 r s taylor 33 and f l snavely 33 two faculty members were tap ped dr s s cairns and dr e h cutler merriman 97 tells civils of water project water from the colorado river near hoover dam will be conveyed to los angeles by a proposed aque duct which was described last sat urday by thaddeus merriman c.e 97 to a group of the students and faculty of the civil engineering de partment mr merriman is consult ing engineer on this project the aqueduct will discharge wa ter at los angeles at the rate of 15,000 cubic feet per minute it will cross country of unusually varied geologic and topographic condi tions the greater part of the aque duct will be a tunnel of horseshoe shape dr merriman said that giant pumps will lift the water at the colorado and power for these pumps will be derived from the hoover dam traveling secretary discusses fraternity problems r c youngquist traveling sec retary of lambda chi alpha ad dressed a special meeting of the in terfraternity council on current fra ternity problems scholarship de layed rushing and the house plan mr youngquist had interesting comments to make on all of these situation according to j a auf hammer president of the interfra ternity council the scholarship of fraternities has been in past years several points below the all univer sity average in most institutions mr youngquist said the national interfraternity council has lately been making efforts to remedy this situations according to j a auf the scholastic standing of frater nity men has shown a decided im provement fraternities have been getting plenty of publicity but of the wrong kind stories that are detri mental to fraternities in the public eye are usually printed while those that reflect credit are barely no ticed mr youngquist suggested that the present undergraduate members help this state of affairs in years to come bethlehem pa tuesday may 17 1932 schwartz requests names of b frosh for registration price — five cents senior honorary to initiate at guthsville inn weds large crowd hears singing of bach choir faculty men outline plans for summer carwile and luce address faculty club vol xxxix no 52 several instructors will spend vacation travel ing while others will conduct research the initiation and banquet of the sword and crescent senior honorary society will be held at the guthsville hotel guthsville on wednesday may 18 at 6:30 p m officers will be elected at this time and dean mcconn will address the banquet information concerning the banquet can be obtained from p e myers sigma phi epsilon chorus under direction of dr wolle accom panied by orchestra of 40 pieces the lehigh university brown and white lehigh grades approach the universal average taken from curricula of american colleges faculty are invited to attend lafayette college centennial informal organ recital given by organists who attended all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association |
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