Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 54

              ren appearance in many places the terrain was covered with beautiful flowers at the oasis of gabes roeber and his companion celebrated eas ter sunday with a banquet of roast ed grasshoppers they were the guests of the commander at the italian military post beni-gardane arriving there in the rain they ac cepted his cordiality and for the first time in many night slept in beds among the other highlights of their journey were a day of sponge fishing at the village of zuara-mar ina and a contemplated swim that was abruptly postponed by the pres ence of sharks roeber past his letter at the oasis of gabes on easter sunday for him and his companion there still remained over 250 miles of travel on foot before they would reach tunis their destination from the sands of northern afri ca comes an unusual account of the adventure of a lehigh student wil liam roeber arts 33 who is stu dying this year in germany roeber was enrolled at a univer sity in munich preparatory to en tering lehigh again next fall be cause of illness he discontinued his studies early in march and with a companion journeyed southward they reached tripoli early this spring and decided to travel the 500 miles to tunis on foot as equip ment for their long hike roeber and his companion had a tent a map balnakets films and a few in cidentals according to roeber's account the natives and the europeans they encountered were friendly and hos pitable hiking was most enjoyable in the morning but in the afternoon the heat and swarms of insects be came oppressive to their surprise the sandy wastes belied their bar meeting of the board of directors of the alumni association bethlehem club 4 p m meeting of the alumni council alumni memorial building 7 p m alumni dinner ball room hotel bethlehem dinner for the wives of the alumni and faculty blue fountain room hotel bethlehem alumni day saturday june 11 10:30 a m annual meeting of the alumni association faculty room alumni memorial building 1 p m alumni luncheon drown memorial hall and the armory 3 p m parade of the reunion classes 3:30 p m baseball lehigh vs muhlenberg 7 p m reunion banquets baccalaureate sunday june 12 10:15 a m academic procession from the alumni building to the chapel 10:30 a m baccalaureate sermon by claude gillette beardslee chapel class day monday june 13 10 a m meeting of the board of trustees alumni building 2 p m class day exercises university campus 4 p m president's reception drown hall 9 p m senior ball drown hall university day tuesday june 14 10:15 a m academic procession from the alumni building to the chapel 10:30 a m commencement exercises in packer memorial church ad dress by the rev charles reynolds brown conferring of degrees miller speaks to sigma xi burr adopts new policies tempest made epitome editor senior picnic held thursday illegal straw vote con demned by mcconn is confirmed in elections s j thomas elected to presidency of national research honorary mechanical and industrial engineers clash in two baseball games commencement issue will have original material and a new type face the commencement issue of the lehigh burr placed on sale last week is representative of the efforts of a new editorial policy adopted by the publication staff according to a statement made by j j roessle editor of the magazine a few days ago up to this time roessle said the burr has contained too much ma terial from other schools the com mencement issue on the other hand uses a minimum of borrowed mater ial other features of the new pol icy include a different printing type and an earlier makeup of each num ber of the magazine roessle ex pects to have the freshman number on the stands by the end of fresh man week of next semester the new policy extends also to the art department according to norman alper the art editor in the future he said contributions of car toons will be accepted from any member of the student body the burr is unique in the fact that its officers are elected from among the contributors to its pages any student in the university is eligible for staff positions james b rather ch e 32 has been elected to the publication staff news briefs james a tempest who was chosen editor-in-chief of the epi tome last week in an election de clared illegal by dean mcconn was made head of the lehigh yearbook monday evening in the regular elec tion held in drown hall the place men of tempest had been decided by a secret straw vote in which some members of the publication board did not take part according to edward hildum present editor the vote was taken in order to make sure that tempest would merit admission to pi delta epsil on journalistic fraternity tempest when asked his views on the election stated that he felt the brown and white had made it self rather ridiculous in following up the story as it has done k f borden being the other candidate for editor-in-chief was automatically elected senior section chairman the men composing the senior board are c e harrison s j simmons and j j roessle who filled the position of fraternity edi tor left vacant by f b wise f a kolyer was elected business manager and a s widdowfield as sistant business manager the ad vertising and circulation managers elected are w a peterson and c e schaub respectively the junior editors for next year are r f bavington athletic edi tor g e goodrich organizations editor j d neely faculty and classes editor c b peters frater nity editor and h m strub pho tographic editor the art editor is not elective the choice being at the discretion of the editor in chief dr stanley j thomas acting head of the department of biology was elected president of sigma xi national research honorary at a dinner meeting of the society last night in the sun inn prof m o fuller was elected vice president and dr r d billinger was elect ed treasurer dr max peterson re tains his position as secretary for next year lack of mineral resources and soil over the greater part of the scandinavian peninsula along with a remarkably rugged and varied topography do much to make this one of the most interesting regions in the world said dr b l miller head of the geology department in addressing the society on his trip last summer through norway sweden finland and denmark scenes of the countries were shown by 50 slides at falun doc tor miller visited the 700-year old mines famous in history for their great economic importance robert farnham c e 99 chief engineer of the philadelphia im provement of the pennsylvania rail road was initiated as an alumnus member of the society nine mem bers of the faculty were initiated as full members five associate mem bers were also initiated members initiated are leonard m bennetch allison butts ken neth g chesley r j degray mi chael a farrell arthur w goetz inge m lyse alfred n rogers and ralph w van arnam associates initiated are james burger william s miller hill r nettles robert h raring and francis p shannon r t dean to head geological society review to appear the uniform l award for all sports to go into effect in the fall of 1932 was adopted and letters and numerals for freshman and var sity spring sports were awarded at the meeting of the board of control of athletics yesterday afternoon five major l's were awarded to varsity track men for establishing new lehigh records permission was also granted to 11 men to play amateur summer baseball the following men received the major l award varsity baseball t w burke e c graham f r liggett a t ware g l grier m w henricks c w cooper c f halsted d j layton jr e w glick c f hull manager varsity lacrosse w p baker h e britton w v duke w j gamble g s hagstoz e b hil dum h l hill w m jacobi f a kolyer a b rawn c.f schier p e short r a sykes e l wildman r l o'brien w m eyster manager varsity track fuller received a major l for making a new pole vault lehigh record of 12 feet 6 inches and a new high hurdle rec ord of 15 feet 8-10 inches chand ler received a major l for mak ing a new lehigh record of 50 and 2-5 seconds in the 440 meissner re ceived a major l for winning the high jump championship in the m a s c a a gold received a ma jor l for making a new lehigh record of 178 feet 10 and 1-4 inches in the javelin rothenberg received a major l for making a new shot put record of 41 feet 8 inches the following received the minor l award varsity track w l jurden r m earl h hoffman r a pang burn h j forsyth f c ruhf r g weldon h f garber w b warren h l klippert j j hol ahan manager varsity tennis d w haff l f bomhoff c g hollister r.h gar rett f w gadd w h charles h f allen manager freshman baseball h b osborn jr manager freshman track r g shank weiler manager numerals were awarded as fol lows freshman baseball p l myers m c miller w r thropp p bu dura g e witt w f kuhl p preston h e lore c c sherill f a groff m koman r g schrope a n baker l c black assistant managers in freshman baseball e d smith f r lauer a r smith r l riley l rob erts a l schaffer w h mcdon ald freshman track h reidy j a peipper r b jackson d w gor don c v polk r w lillies c i case c f bayer m hader e s chickering p berg r w mant r a stockton assistant managers in freshman track t d cook e collins 111 c h nieman l r travis d a zimmerman r p jackson was awarded a cup for breaking the lehigh 220-yard low hurdle record forty-four r.o.t.c students to camp at meade and aberdeen of the 73 advanced r.o.t.c stu dents 18 junior advanced ordnance students and 26 junior advanced in fantry students will spend six weeks at summer camp according to col m h thomlinson head of the department of military science and tactics the advanced ordnance students will go to aberdeen proving grounds for practical work in con nection with big guns the infan try students will spend six weeks at camp meade near baltimore a picnic for senior industrial and mechanical engineers given by the industrial and mechanical engineer ing departments was held last thursday afternoon at lehigh community park near fogelsville the chicken and waffle dinner served at 6 p m was preceded by a baseball game between the i e efficiency experts and the m e boiler makers the big feature of which was the prolonged question ing of the close decisions made by prof m c stuart acting head of the industrial and mechanical engin eering departments who officated as umpire the industrial engineers captain ed by h f casselman 32 defeated the mechanical engineers captained by c f schier 32 by a score of 20-10 at the same time this main game was in progress members of the department staffs and those who were left over from the main game played a little world series of their own the score being 33-15 in three innings when the game was called because of dinner this game was umpired by mr brown mechanician of the mechanical en gineering section of packard labor atory in the championship game be tween the seniors of the two de partments professor stuart was asked by the efficiency experts to pitch for them in the final jn ning professor stuart then showed how it should be done by pitching a shut-out inning thereby earning from both teams the nickname of spit-ball stewey prof b h jennings acted as toastmaster at the supper and in troduced various staff members and students each of whom gave a brief talk h e haber graduate assis tant in mechanical engineering gave a performance of sleight-of hand his demonstration was fol lowed by the report of the stand pipe committee consisting of c f schier w l jurden m l long i t stoneback and l.t chandler the significance of this committee being known to members of the two departments alone alpha kappa psi will award medallion to highest junior alpha kappa psi will award a medallion to the highest scholasti cally ranking junior in business it was decided at the meeting of the organization last friday night at the kappa alpha fraternity house formerly the society awarded a cup to the highest ranking freshman in the business college it was de cided at the meeting that juniors are more representative of the business course and reserve award more than freshmen among those to leave lehigh this yeare are paul e schwartz assis tant registrar and dr kerwin m marcks assistant director of the health service according to a list of resignations and appointments released recently by president c r richards mr schwartz will teach commer cial subjects in the poughkeepsie n y high school while dr marcks will open a private practice in emaus pa dr stewart l rankin of lansdowne pa has been ap pointed to replace dr marcks four members of the present senior class have received advanced positions emerson w kaufman has received the appointment of graduate assistant in chemistry p b meyers received the institute of research fellowship in geology h b osborn jr the henry marison byllesby research fellowship in chemistry and a m thome jr the institute of research fellowship in physics and metallurgy two men granted leave a h fretz assistant professor of geology and h.g rhoads assis tant professor of english will go on leave of absence during the coming year the resignations of the following members of the faculty have been received by the president m a farrell instructor in biology je rome m miller instructor in chem istry alvin j frantz graduate as sistant in chemistry william s miller graduate assistant in chem istry h r nettles instructor in civil engineering l r drown as sistant professor of education j m andress instructor in electrical en gineering w p wills graduate assistant in electrical engineering a j ciastkewicz graduate assis tant in geology g w hartzell instructor in german h s stan ley instructor in mathematics e h brink instructor in mechanical engineering h e haber graduate assistant in mechanical engineering lt col m h thomlinson profes sor of military science and tactics captain maximilian clay assistant professor of military science and tactics j a osteen instructor in physics f t holmes instructor in physics h h carter instructor in romance languages new appointments made the new appointments in the faculty are lt col george r har rison professor of military science and tactics and his assistant cap tain william tow j w peoples princeton instructor in geology and f e sweer princeton instruc tor in german the following resignations have been received from research fel lows j a lutz and w j brand archer-daniels-midland fellows in chemistry a n rogers student chemistry foundation a w goetz hunt-rankin leather company re search fellow 8 f buie gelogy j m holme civil engineering a l smith eavenson and levering fellow c l kreidler civil engin eering l m bennetch h m byl lesby fellow international relations club elects anderson president james e anderson 33 was elected president of the interna tional relations club for the com ing year at the last meeting the only business transacted at the meeting was the election of of ficers the club has as yet no plans for next year but these will be drawn up early next fall the other officers elected were as follows c brooks peters vice president w w bolton treasur er g s bowden secretary lehigh will send four men to the intercollegiate tennis matches at haverford the men to play in the tournament are captain gadd d w haff l f bomhoff and c g hollister a short business meeting of tau beta pi national honorary engin eering society was held last eve ning in packard laboratory n s hibshman assistant profes sor of electrical engineering and chairman of the community chest committee lehigh division an nounces that 3,323.70 has been col lected the quota was 3,300.00 earl l crum associate professor of latin will sail june 10 for a two months stay in portugal where he will study the history and trace the development of architecture found in the portguese towns especially that of cathedrals george r schal bus 34 was treated at st luke's hospital early saturday morning for injuries re ceived in an automobile accident he received painful lacerations about the face and neck when his car a chevrolet roadster was struck by a sedan driven by julio zumeta m e 35 two hundred and fifty men will receive degrees at lehigh univer sity's sixty-fourth commencement exercises june 14 this is 62 per cen of the 405 men who entered in september 1928 the student activities will start at 10:15 p m sunday june 12 with an academic procession from the alumni memorial building to the chapel where the baccalaureate ser mon will be given by dr c g beardslee class day exercises will be held on the university campus at 2 p.m monday followed by the president's reception at 4 p m in drown hall and the senior ball at 9 p m on university day the academic proces sion will march at 10:15 a m from the alumni building to the chapel where the commencement exercises will be held the exercises will con sist not only of the conferring of degrees and the award of comirks siohs in the officer's reserve corps but also an address by the rev charles reynolds brown s t d d d l h d dean of the divinity school yale university who will speak on a straight word from the roadside dr brown to speak dr brown is the author of sev eral books among which are young man's affairs faith and health the quest of life and the modern man's religion he received his doctor of divinity de gree from oberlin university he has received degrees from the uni versities of lowa boston yale brown and wesleyan dr claude gillette beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy will give the baccalau reate address on baccalaureate sun day using the spirit of man as his topic this is the first time that dr beardslee has made the bacca laureate address at lehigh seniors to receive tickets admission to the commencement exercises and to the baccalaureate sermon will be by tfcket until 10:30 a m tickets will be distributed to the seniors and the faculty class day exercises will be held monday june 13 at 2 p m on the campus john angle jr will give the ivy oration william lownie will read the prophecy and robert clark will deliver the class gifts which are to be the surprise of the day after the exercises president c r richards will receive the members of the graduating class and their families the trustees alumni faculty and the friends of the university the senior ball will be held mon day night june 13 from 9 p m to 1 a m the maroon and brown collegians will furnish the music the price of admission will be 2 to award commissions after the receiving of degrees by the graduating class on commence ment day lieutenant colonel thom linson will award commissions in the officers reserve corps twen ty-two men will receive commis sions as second lieutenant in the infantry reserve corps and three men who are under the age limit of bility seven men will receive com 21 will receive certificates of eligi missions as second lieutenant in the ordnance reserve corps and one man will receive a certificate of elig ibility the alumni will celebrate the oc casion by an alumni dinner friday evening in the ball room of the ho tel bethlehem a luncheon saturday noon at the armory and drown hall and a parade saturday after noon from the armory to the sta dium where they will witness a baseball game between muhlenberg and lehigh and by numerous class banquets saturday night new issue of year is first under new staff the last issue of the lehigh re view for this semester will be on sale tomorrow according to ed ward fleischer editor of the pub lication the contents of the number in clude several articles and stories and two poems breasted notwith standing by martin reed is a short story based on the shortcom ings of the world's historians an article by george wolcott called ticker tape deals with the work ings of the stock exchange other writings include obser vations of a senior by james b rather engine trouble by ivy ivy the death of conversation by h a fallend lehigh tall stories by francis nemzek and death of a parlour pink a poem by j h fulweiler lawrence whitcomb speaks at meeting friday officers for the coming year were elected at the last meeting of the mining and geological society in williams hall last friday night officers elected are as follows r t dean 33 president s d michaelson 34 vice president e l heller 34 secretary h e hin kle 34 treasurer lawrence whitcomb instructor in geology gave a talk on the geo graphical aspects of the world war he explained the geographi cal reasons why germany chose to go through belgium on her way to france dr whitcomb showed how the condition of the terrain was the deciding factor in several campaigns of the war dr whitcomb spent several months in france where he studied the geology and geography of the land bethlehem pa tuesday may 24 1932 lehigh student and companion visit nations of northern africa price — five cents complete program for commencement friday june 10 vol xxxix no 54 the lehigh university brown and white 20 instructors will assume new positions athletic board has accepted uniform letter 250 students to graduate at exercises activities to begin on sun day june 12 with academic procession and sermon 50 varsity awards made in four sports frosh receive 39 numerals in baseball and track paul e schwartz takes position in poughkeep sie k m marcks to start practice in emaus dr c r brown will give address at commencement four seniors have been granted advanced positions 5 men awarded major l for excellent track record classes end wednesday classes will end at 12 noon to morrow according to g b cur tis associate dean member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first