Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 53

              epitome election entirely illegal states mcconn two non-fraternity dances are sponsored during year leach plans to open room the total profit on the junior prom amounted to 40.55 accord ing to the financial report sub mitted by p j flanigan jr chairman of the junior prom committee and made public by dean c m mcconn the statement of income and expenses is as follows income 296 couples at 5.00 1,480.00 6 stags at 3.00 18.00 total income 1,498.00 expenses orchestra $ 750.00 favors 34l at 1.00 341.00 decorations 100.00 platform & incidentals 87.50 punch 30.00 police 10.00 advertising & printing 30.75 piano 10.00 pom committee 100.00 total expenses 1,457.45 net surplus 40.55 total expenses and net surplus 1,498.00 this is to certify that the fore going statement of income and expense has been audited and ap proved by the committee on stu dent activities and that the net surplus of 40.55 has been de posited in the student activities fund to the credit of the class of 1933 . c m mcconn dean may 18 1932 cites changes in fraternities dean mcconn tells of transformation of so cial group at banquet ten new members were pledged by omicron delta kappa national senior honorary society last night at their homes and initiated at the sigma phi epsilon house the members elected were c.n crichton arts p j flanigan jr c e edward fleischer arts r h garrett c e c e harrison jr ch e f d keck bus j c rhoads m e j a tempest arts h s walker i e w b warren bus the officers elected for next year were burt h riviere president w c cooper vice president c e harrison jr secretary and c n crichton treasurer bradley stoughton head of the department of metallurgical en gineering was elected as faculty member and howard r reiter was elected to serve the remaining two years of the term of a h fretz assistant professor of geology who has leave of absence next year the present faculty members now in clude professors reiter carothers palmer and stoughton dr neil carothers head of the college of business administration will continue as faculty advisor and a e buchanan and j w maxwell will be the alumni members carothers addresses pledges o d k is the most interesting campus organization said dr carothers in addressing the pledges at the banquet at the sigma phi continued on page four b h riviere was elected pres ident of sword and crescent at a meeting held wednesday evening in the brown room of the guths ville hotel other officers elected were pierce j franigan vice pres ident frederick d keck secre tary and c n crichton treasurer dean c m mcconn delivered a talk to the society on the moral code — the four main points in the moral code are courage integ rity cleanliness in sexual matters and kindliness he stated back in the good old days in his youth everybody believed in the fire and brimstone of youth he ex plained today youth is in a tran sitory period where it hasn't rea lized the natural walls of nature dean mcconn went on mcconn speaks dean mcconn said that there were two possible solutions to the problem of morals the first is the drifting policy which is rapidly proving inadequate the second is the formation of a new code using the four points named above as a base the men initiated to sword and crescent were john a aufham mer bus c william cooper e.e c n creighton arts pierce j flanigan c e ; edward fleischer arts james fountain bus rob ert g garrett c e mark w henricks,._jml e jack h kauf man c e fritz d keck bus clarence b peck bus burt h riviere bus john a tempest arts harry s walker i e and william b warren arts d.o.t elects nine new men seventy-five attend talk sponsored by lehigh union wednesday eve ning in drown hall samuel chatzinoff describes ways of appreciating music there is not a single person who does not have a musical ear sam uel chatzinoff music critic claimed in his talk given under the auspices of the lehigh union wednesday evening at drown hall there are two ways of enjoying music first to listen to it second to produce it mr chatzinoff stat ed in addressing about 75 students and faculty members who attended the first recital to be held by the carnegie foundation for the ad vancement of music appreciation mr chatzinoff who succeeded deems taylor as music critic of the new york world and who is also a music critic for the new yorker and vanity fair gave a talk which was augmented by the use of various types of chords and har monies he told of the difference between symphonies and sonatas and how easily they can be appre ciated by hearing the same ones often repeated wrote life of beethoven mr chatzinoff chose the works of beethoven by which to illustrate his talk he has published a life of beethoven under the title of eroica he played parts of the first and fifth symphonies of beethoven with de scriptive interpolations many incidents in the lives of such famous pianists and composers at mozart schubert damrosch toscanni and hofmann were re lated by mr chatzinoff the speak er stated that the contemporary composer irving berlin was not able to read music but could play only by ear says exhibit is interesting professor howland says final exhibition is most attractive of year s leibowitt named as president bernstein is vice president hughes to give data on carnegie exams 1,000 worth of books to be placed in browsing room in fall efforts are being made to open the browsing room of the library next semester according to librar ian h s leach the university has spent about 1,000 during the past year for books which will be placed in that room we now have about 500 fine modern books for the browsing room mr leach stated but since the room holds about 2,000 it probably will not be filled when it is opened the library will be open during the summer months from 8 a m to 5 p m week days and will close noon saturdays mr leach an nounced the library will not be open on sundays the building will close at 5 p m june 4 requests books to be returned the library requests that all per sons having books out return them by june 4 several books have been pur chased by the library during the past week among them were the following biographies voltaire by brandes beethoven the man who freed music by schouffler a gallery of eccentrics by bish op the auto-biography of lin coln steffens and memoirs of prince yon bulow by bulow two of the novels were susan spray by kaye - smith and mary's neck by tarkington a descriptive narrative by the author of red hills was added it is the wissohickon hills by wey gandt this morning h s leach gave the last of a series of four lectures on the proper methods of using the library the lectures were given to freshmen engineers in the browsing room of the library college social fraternities will have to change radically if they want to remain prominent in the changing american college was the opinion of dean c m mcconn in a speech before the parents and members of the lehigh chapter of the sigma nu fraternity the func tion at which the dean talked was a parent's day banquet which was held in the fountain room of hotel bethlehem last saturday night dean mcconn has noticed in his ten years at lehigh a change in the activities of the students from social and athletic to intellectual this change is typical of most american colleges today the na tional social fraternities who have been leaders in social and athletic activities in the past will have to change this policy if they wish to maintain their position of promin ence in the american college in the future scholarship campaigns started some national social fraternities have already started scholarship campaigns in their chapters large and extensive libraries have been in stalled in the various chapter houses and reading has been encouraged learned young men have been hired as tutors and as leaders in intel lectual discussions dean mcconn stated more than 50 diners were present charles f halsted captain-elect of the football team and president of arcadia and the head of the fra ternity was the toastmaster coming events recent results will be com pared with those of 1930 students who took the carnegie examination can get more detailed information concerning their re sults by attending a meeting at 4:30 p m next tuesday may 24 in room 466 packard laboratory the 1930 results will be compared with those of 1932 in each field of the examination considerable data will not be available for some weeks but it should be worth while for all stu dents interested to get the infor mation which will be outlined at this time according to prof percy hughes it is also possible for responsible students to get from percy hughes chairman of the committee on co operation with the carnegie founda tion copies of the examination for the purpose of group discussion for this purpose the hour of the discussion must be arranged before hand and the return of the papers thus loaned must be assured pro fessor hughes stated epitome is being printed officers elections postponed the epitome is in the hands of the printer in pittsburgh and will be placed on sale as soon as it arrives according to e b hil dum editor in chief of the epi tome the exact date is not yet known the meeting at which new of ficers were to have been elected to the epitome board was post poned from wednesday until this coming monday or tuesday sol d leibowitt was elected pres ident of delta omicron theta hon orary forensic society at a meet ing held yesterda y afternoon in packard laboratory other officers are m bernstein vice president f e nemzek manager h.f eng lish secretary and t liggett 3d treasurer announcement was made of the following elections to the society m m reed j.a branegan t lig gett 3d h f english f e nem zek g t saxton b e tucker and b schwartz outline plans for next year leibowitt the new president gave a brief outline of the plans for next year and advised debates with local colleges to provide greater in terest he also stated that he would prepare a constitution for the so ciety to be passed on at the open ing of school next semester louis m stamberg debating coach told the men to read some standard debate book during the summer and master the cardinal points of college debating i am much enthused he said over put ting out a good debating team for lehigh next year this does not de pend wholly on the coach as every man must exert himself debating requires a considerable amount ol work but so does anything worth while debating will provide the polish and finish which lehigh men should have there is no reason why at the end of next year we cannot look back upon a successful season the present art exhibit is by far the most attractive and interesting of the year said g a howland assistant professor of fine arts recently when the last exhibition of the year opened the exhibit con tains many interesting works in both oil and charcoal according to professor howland a group of oil paintings which has been exhibited in all parts of the country was loaned by the am erican federation of fine arts and is the property of phillips memor ial art gallery washington d c this group is modern but not mod ernistic professor howland stated criticizes style of paintings the most popular painting is glen ridel by william chadwick according to professor howland this painting is popular because the scene is at chester the home of some students and has been viewed by many students a painting which is well liked is apple blos soms by walter griffin this painting is of the french impres sionistic type said professor how land another painting of this type is gypsy wagon by moonlight by henri le sklemer a group of charcoal works by mrs j h riley has been loaned to this exhibit this collection shows buildings and grounds of the mo ravian school this exhibition will be open on sundays only after this week until june 11 during graduation the ex hibit will be open all day for the benefit of the guests the first report of the lehigh union's activities and finances was submitted to the committee on stu dent activities recently this is the first year that the union has had a definite policy according to dean mcconn the report summarizes organiza tion and the activities of the union during the current year these ac tivities include handling and direct ing assemblies during freshman week conduct of a founder's day dance conduct and subsidy of two non-fraternity dances running red cross and community chest drives in bethlehem sponsorship of a lecture by count yon luckner printing and distribution of the freshman handbook and maintain ing a small library financial report made the financial report shows re ceipts of 2,901.73 and expenditures of 1,904.49 of the expenditures 447.55 was spent on non-fraternity dances 247.94 on the founder's day dance and 309.50 for the yon luckner lecture salary to union stenographer was 51?.35,and5134.55 was expended for new office equip ment amounts received as fees total led 1,054.53 receipts at non-fra ternity dances were 165.34 up to this school year the union paid 1,000 toward the salary of a permanent secretary employed by the university whose work was to take care of all the housing details search for part time employment for needy students distribution of handbooks etc for the union this year the university created a new department that of mor and religious philosophy whose professor serves as a permanent secretary to the union with his of fice in drown hall he is entirely paid by the university the union employs a full time stenographer who in addition to the work of the department and the union does clerical work for all other student organizations on the campus she is paid entirely by the union to the amount of 750 for the school year union is subsidized the lehigh union is an under graduate organization of which ev ery student becomes a member upon payment of registration fees the union is subsidized by a stu dent tax amounting to 75c per man and also by yearly donations of alumni and friends of the univer sity the union is an entirely local campus organization it holds no membership in the y m c a or other central body but its work is mainly that originating from the wants and will of the students it strives to work in the best inter ests of the student body and the university as well the administrative body of the union consists of four officers president vice president secretary and treasurer also 16 cabinet mem bers all seniors all the defeated candidates for the four offices two for each office automatically be come members of the cabinet the remaining eight members are elect ed by the four officers to insure an even distribution no two men are chosen or nominated from the same living group elections are held sometime ir may and they are absolutely free of any political influence nomin ations for office are made by the retiring cabinet and the nominees names are kept in absolute secrecy until the day of elections continued on page four john h ogburn professor of as tronomy spoke at the weekly lun cheon meeting of the exchange club at noon today in the comfy restaurant west broad street michael anthony fa/rell b s m s instructor in bacteriology and mr kies 30 have received scholarships in the yale graduate school for 1932-33 mr farrell will do research work in the bacteriol ogy of the respiratory system he will work for his ph d degree at yale senior class announcements and invitations will be given out at drown hall monday may 23 from 10 a m to 12 noon and from 2 to 5 p m a few extra have been or dered so that any man who did not place his order before may procure announcements now friday may 20 4 p m varsity tennis vs perm state steel field 8 p m mining and geological so ciety meeting lecture room williams hall saturday may 21 3 p m varsity track vs lafayette upper field 3 p m freshman track vs lafay ette upper field monday may 23 6:30 p m sigma xi meeting and dinner sun inn 7:30 p m l club meeting drown hall straw vote conducted by hildum before meeting of board of publications ; tempest given credit for editorship by sword and crescent and pi delta epsilon on unofficial ballot several editors not consulted on vote the recent election of editor in chief of the epitome was il legally conducted investigation by the brown and white dis closed yesterday characterizing the vote as highly irregular and entirely un official dean c m mcconn explained that it was not binding and could be reversed at the regular elections monday evening no formal announcement was ever made of the election of james a tempest *' 33 as editor in chief but after credit for the position was given him by arcadia pi delta epsilon and sword and crescent his election was accepted throughout the campus kennard f borden 33 was similarly accepted as edi tor of the senior section the dean also confirmed the brown and white's contention that the elections were illegal in three ways 1 the vote was held before the board of publications approved the candidacy of the two men nominat ed a distinct constitutional viola tion 2 the vote was not conducted at a meeting as required but by tel ephone and personal canvass 3 all of the is eligible voters were not consulted when asked by the dean to ex plain the irregular proceedings edward b hildum 32 present editor in chief said it was done be cause pi delta epsilon national journalistic fraternity had asked the name of the new editor in time for its election of new members on may 6 at the time of this request it would have been constitutionally impossible to have the epitome elections until after the may 18 meeting of the board of publica tions since it was practically certain that both candidates would be ap proved we decided to take an early unofficial vote so that we might give pi delta epsilon the informa tion they desired hildum stated the vote was to be kept secret but somehow it leaked out when asked why all eligible vot ers were not consulted hildum ex plained that after he got a major ity vote 8 in tempests's favor he felt that was sufficient for pi delta epsilon the paragraph ruling on the method of electing a new editor in chief follows he the editor in chief shall be elected at the end of the junior year by a majority vote of the business and editorial staffs fifteen in number jun iors and seniors recommendation for the position shall be made by the retir ing editor in chief from among the jun ior members of the editorial staff and the art editor if he be a junior the recommendation of the retiring editor in chief shall consist of two men from among this number the man gaining the majority vote to become the editor in chief and the other man recommend ed to become senior class book editor first questionings of the early epitome election came about may 1 when after one senior editor ad mitted that a vote had been taken others flatly denied the truth of the statement the uncertainty was apparently cleared when tempest attended the first meeting of the new arcadia may 3 was tapped by pi delta epsilon may 6 and sword and crescent may 12 in all these or ganizations — and in omicron delta kappa last evening — he was recog nized as the officially-elected editor of the epitome wednesday's meeting of the board of publication revived that uncer tainty when the board approved the candidacy of both tempest and bor den for editor investigation in the dean's office disclosed the irregu larity of the earlier elections news briefs vol xxxix no 53 riviere elected president of two senior honoraries total profit reaches 40.55 junior prom report shov bethlehem pa friday may 20 1932 price — five cents the lehigh university brown and white lehigh union makes report of activities no one lacks musical ear critic claims sword and crescent holds annual initiation ban quet at guthsville carothers addresses omi cron delta kappa at sigma phi epsilon first account presented to faculty extra-curricu lar committee ; finan cial statement made mcconn speaks on solution of present moral problem stoughton reiter elected as new faculty members member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first