Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 6

              at least once every two years since 1894 there have been move ments on the campus toward drop ping at least one sport from the list of recognized activities in february 1894 an article ap peared in the first volume of the brown and white reporting a col lege meeting held to discuss the financial position of the athletic association the predecessor of the present board of control at that time the association had a debt of over 2,000 and the al umni offered to pay off half of it if the student body would pay off the other 1,000 in ten days the asso ciation announced that unless the entire debt was paid off it would be necessary to drop either baseball or lacrosse from the schedules students subscribed 1,000 eight days later 858.75 had been secured by subscriptions from stu dents university clubs and class funds two days later the sopho mores voted to contribute half of the balance due and the same day the freshmen donated the amount necessary to complete the fund in the next issue of the brown and white it was revealed that this sum of 1,000 represented a volun tary contribution of 2 per man as only 500 students were registered at that time an editorial in the same issue condemned the practice of retaining sports equipment for personal use after the season ended until this time funds for each sport were handled by the team managers individually with only the profits being turned over to the as sociation — or the deficit reported for even then football was about the only sport showing a consistent profit association criticized all financial matters were turned over to the athletic association and from that date on this body or its successors caught the burden of student criticism in 1898 the same question of abol ishing either baseball or lacrosse came up and again the student body saved the situation by sub scribing over 770 in one day to balance the budget but that was in the good old days when bud gets were balanced by securing money then came the new era culmin ating in the modern finance meth ods used this year to balance the budget without calling on the stu dents for additional funds a few little changes on a sheet of paper with a soft pencil and presto — the day is saved for sports the results are the same but the methods used in the depression of 1932 are certainly less painful to the students than those offered to the campus victims of the budget-bal ancers of 94 and 98 seniors to pay 10forepitome new members to be initiated music of duke elling ton and rudy vallee rank second and third in recent ballot ball will be held in taylor gymnasium from 10 to 3 a.m programs will be distributed this year instead of favors as in the past ted black's orchestra proved it self most popular among the stu dents in the poll conducted tues day and efforts are being made to engage this orchestra according to pierce flanigan chairman of the senior dance committee among other orchestras to rank high in the voting were duke ellington's second and rudy vallee's third the music played by ted black is similar to that of guy lombardo said flanigan chaperones for the dance are to be dean and mrs charles m mc conn and prof and mrs neil car others both of these couples also served last year the decorations which will be of a modernistic cast are to be fur nished by zollinger-harned co of allentown the walls are to be covered with cloth and flood lights of different colors will be played on the cloth the dance which will last from 10 p m until 3 a m will cost 3 per couple and 2 per stag last year 5 per couple was charged instead of favors which have been given in the past a small pro gram will be given this change in custom flanigan stated enables the dance committee to lower the price of admission the dance committee is compos ed of pierce j flanigan chairman frederick d keck and henry c scheer bulletin describes placement bureau football and eclipse reviewed in alumni publication the organization and work of the university placement bureau under its newly appointed head j a brodhead m e 07 are described in the october issue of the alum ni bulletin the placement bureau is or ganized primarily for those students who are in actual financial need ra ther than to help increase the in come of ambitious men with suf ficient financial resources stated the bulletin a review of the football situation this fall and class notices composed a major part of the bulletin a picture of the recent eclipse with packer hall in the foreground is included in the publication a picture and article concerning the apparatus taken by dr max peter son of the physics department to fryeberg maine to view the eclipse are given board of control committee to meet to examine budget the budget committee of the board of control of athletics will meet soon to examine re ceipts from the student athletic fee which have fallen below the estimated amount and the re ceipts from the columbia game the proposed student budget will be adopted in the main and no sport will be dropped when the investigation is completed a contingent fund is provided for in the balanced budget house party burr to feature fems first of series about walter windshield to appear a subject never before treated by any lehigh publication will appear in the girls number of the burr according to j j roessle editor in chief this issue which will appear just before house party will be de voted to the discussion of lehigh's flaming ferns in this number will be found a co-ed's startling expose of lehigh's fraternity life also there will ap pear the first of a series of articles looking around with walter windshield a picture of a blase debuntante will make up the front cover in accordance with the new pol icy the make-up of the magazine will start on the first page rather than on a later page as was the case previously the issue will con tain a minimum of borrowed mater ial said roessle positions on the art and the edi torial boards of the staff of the burr are open for competition candidates are asked to get in touch with roessle at the sigma nu house beach elected editorial head harrison resigns position as manager at execu tive council meeting important changes were made in the officers of the brown and white at the executive council meeting wednesday afternoon martin reed editor in chief of the brown and white announced the following changes in the staff ben d beach former make up edi tor was appointed editorial man ager upon the resignation of c e harrison r f herrick a member of the editorial council was ap pointed make up editor h j o'brien was made sports editor upon r f bavington's resignation from that position mr bavington and mr harrison will continue to serve as members of the editorial council there are now 101 men working on the brown and white staff no more will be allowed to register for the course this semester at the executive council meeting wednesday it was decided that the brown and white will conduct a straw vote for the coming presi dential election it was also decided that a six-page issue will be pub lished the friday before house party deposits of gold found worthless lehigh geologists make tests along delaware reports that paying deposits of gold were discovered at upper black eddy on the delaware river proved to be false recently when investigated by dr b l miller head of the geology department according to philadelphia news papers joseph e weaver com bined artist newspaperman and chemist discovered a gravel deposit 50 feet deep on the land of glen farm inn a 150-acre plot owned by albert ewald proprietor of the inn after essaying the ore approx imately 300 times he concluded that it would yield from 18,000,000 to 23,000,000 worth of yellow metal when a party of six men from the geology department consisting of doctor miller two professors and three students visited the spot they found a deposit of gravel peb bles and clay the same type found all along the river on further investigation they de cided that contrary to the predic tions of weaver the mantle rock contained on the surface of our own south mountain would yield more gold than this would-be bonanza on the flood-plain of the delaware river invested funds o f university maintain yield income from endowment drops only 2,000 as resources increase 165,962.81 net returns on investments have decreased 21 per cent while lehigh's income from tui tion and similar sources decreased both last year and this year as a result of the drop in enrollment the university's income from en dowment funds has held up well comparative figures for the year ending august 31 1929 when se curity values and income were about at their peak and for the past fis cal year which ended on august 31 show that the income from endow ment has decreased only by an amount of slightly over 2,000 for the year ending aug 31 1929 the endowment was 5,219,315.45 yielding an income of 277,576.66 which is at the interest rate of 5.32 percent for the year ending aug 31 1930 the endowment was 5,385,278.26 yielding an income of 275,204.02 which is at the interest rate of 5.11 percent these figures have just been an nounced in the south mountain eer a quarterly published in the in terest of the alumni fund this maintenance of a steady in come from endowment has been principally the result of the efficient and conscientious management of samuel d warriner 90 of phila delphia president of the lehigh navigation coal company and the l and n e railroad warriner has been chairman of the finance com mittee of the board of trustees since 1923 few new donations the figures given above show that there has been but little increase in additional gifts during the past three years in addition to the total endow ment shown above lehigh has an interest in the james ward pack ard estate of approximately one and a half millions in spite of efficient management of this estate the uni versity's income from it has fallen off by a third which is largely due to the discontinuing of dividends on the packard motor car company's stock which represents a portion of this estate in the case of many colleges and universities whose income has dropped materially during the pres ent decline much of their endow ment is invested in common stocks which are more or less conspicuous by their absence in lehigh's port folio the present budget allows for a drop of 15,975 or 6.03 percent in income from endowment r max goepp,'2b visits bethlehem was first lehigh student to be rhodes scholar r max goepp chem 28 le high's first rhodes scholar has been visiting friends at lehigh this week upon his return from queen's college oxford england where he received his doctor of philosophy degree in chemistry goepp who was graduated mag na cum laude in 1928 was doing research work as a new jersey zinz company fellow when he was awarded the rhodes scholarship from pennsylvania he entered queen's college in the fall of 1929 while at lehigh goepp was elected to phi beta kappa and tau bet pi he was the second editor of the lehigh review a publica tion which he helped found he was a member of pi delta ep silon sigjma xi the combined musical clubs and the band al though not an athlete while at le high goepp rowed on the varsity crew at queen's college mustard and cheese will present plays by shaw and dunsany in drown hall before dance w g fletcher has difficulty in selecting characters a night at an inn and pas sion poison and petrifica tion are plays chosen the first fall production of mus tard and cheese which will consist of two one-act plays will be pre sented on friday oct 28 in drown hall to fill in the time between din ner and the senior prom the plays are a night at an inn by lord dunsany and pas sio poison and petrifaction or the fatal gazogene by george bernard shaw tryouts were held on wednesday and thursday evenings at drown hall a large number of aspiring ac tors turned out making the final de cision very difficult according to warren g fletcher coach the plays will be given oct 28 before the senior prom to fill in the time between dinner and the dance when students have been in the habit of attending local movies this is being done as an experiment to see if students will grasp the op portunity for getting good enter tainment at a resonable price action takes place in inn the cast of characters for a night at an inn includes the toff a dilapidated english gentle man three companion merchant sailors three priests of klesh and the idol klesh the action of this play takes place in an english inn where thieves are hiding from their pursuers all of whom are later killed the action is very tense and tragic according to mr fletcher the cast of passion poison and petrifaction includes lord fitz tollemacher lady magnesia adol phus bastible her lover phylus the maid the landlord a police man a doctor and several angels it involves the eternal love tri angle with all the keen wit of shaw in the dialogue the play is a bit fantastic but very humorous mr fletcher stated last semester when beggar on horseback was given women were included in the cast of the play members of the faculty dramatic club and the junior women's club cooperated in taking the female roles in the comedy students are admitted free to the play their student activities fee entitles each of them to one ticket tickets will be available at the le high union office in drown hall to address a i.e e westinghouse engineer to discuss electrons dr phillip thomas research en gineer of the westinghouse elec tric and manufacturing company will speak on electrons at work and play tonight at a joint meet ing of the engineers club of lehigh valley and the american institute of electrical engineers in allen town doctor thomas known through out the scientific world as the master of magnetic magic will demonstrate his lecture by means of a half-ton of paraphernalia accord ing to a o griesemer of the le high portland cement company it is dr thomas belief that re liance on science as the force which will beat down the barriers of mis understanding between the nations of the earth is the only influence that can justify hope for ultimate and permanent world peace the meeting will be preceded by a dinner at 6:30 p m electrical power praised by seyfert torch club hears discussion at first meeting no other power medium is so well understood or easily controlled as electrical power declared prof stanley s seyfert head of the de partment of electrical engineering in speaking to the first fall meeting of the lehigh valley torch club monday briefly tracing electrical power development over the last century professor seyfert gave several dem onstrations to emphasize his topic and explain the principles underly ing power transmission t h c amount of power consumed by a race is a good measure of the de gree of its civilization said pro fessor seyfert the torch club is an organiza tion of professional men of allen town bethlehem and easton which meets monthly to hold discussions on present day topics this winter it is sponsoring a series of talks by local men whose work enables them to speak with authority on certain subjects according to prof m c stuart of the mechanical engineer ing department health service issues report 1 4,000 students faculty and employees treated during last year the students health service treated about 14,000 students fac ulty members and employees last year according to dr r c bui director during the scholastic year ending june 1932 about 80 percent of the student body reported to the medi cal office for advice or treatment of the 16,106 treatments given 9,530 were in the medical dispen sary and 6,576 were in the physio therapy division of the health ser vice the dispensary visits by the stu dents numbered 8,585 by the fac ulty 549 and 162 by the employees 1081 surgical dressings were given to the students 83 to the faculty and 87 to the employees there were 6,146 medical treatments given to the students 455 to the faculty and 71 to the employees advice only was given to 686 students 15 faculty members and to 6 em ployees figures were compiled as to the average age weight and height of the students the average age of the class of 1932 was 21.99 weight 147.48 pounds height 68.70 inches the average age of the class oi 1933 was 21.03 weight 147.10 pounds height 68.92 inches in the class of 1934 the average age was 19.90 weight 145.56 pounds height 68.60 inches the class of 1935 had for its av erage age 18.95 weight 142.75 pounds height 68.58 inches the average for the entire university was age 20.15 weight 145.02 pounds and the average height was 68.68 inches b c johnston is awarded fellowship in civil engineering president c r richards recently announced the award of the law rence calvin brink research fel lowship in civil engineering to bruce gilbert johnston b s in civil engineering university of il linois 1930 while studying for his m s de gree mr johnston will engage in research work in fritz laboratory in collaboration with the bethlehem steel company his work will deal with torsion on structural steel president richards at purdue president charles russ richards who is beginning his fortyfirst year of professional work this fall is now attending the annual home coming exercises at his alma mater purdue university major green to speak following scab bard and blade banquet scabbard and blade national honorary military society will hold a formal initiation of new men at the m s and t drill monday oct 17 a banquet at the bethle hem club monday evening will follow the initiation major j o green jr head of the department of military science and tactics will address the mem bers of the society following the banquet according to r b wall 32 president of the society the new men were pledged at drill monday oct 10 by the old members of the society the new were called out of ranks and given pledge ribbons at that time the informal initiation will take place on sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock in the armory the initiates of the scabbard and blade are capt w m tow r e bangsberg e e 33 r t dean ch e 33 d h freiday m e 33 r n laftman m e 33 a t bailey m e 34 j j bosak m e 34 c c hertel m e 34 c k okuno ch e 34 l o stutz arts 34 e l wildman m e 34 w h c webster met e 34 and j k beidler i e 34 freshman returns p singer was injured in auto mishap philip singer a freshman who had been missing since sept 25 is back in school after a stay at his home in peoria 111 where he was recuperating from an automo bile accident the faculty after singer had registered but failed to pay his tu ition conducted a search for him singer had been in an automobile accident in south norwalk conn before the opening of school goehring 32 marries william h goehring jr bus 32 was married to miss anna pauline bouditch last saturday in bethlehem goehring is the son of mr and mrs william h goehring of marion farms new brighton pa and is a member of the delta sigma phi fraternity miss bouditch is the daughter of mr and mrs thomas bouditch 1530 easton ave nue city and a graduate of liberty high school and of st luke's hos pital cooperation of seniors with staff makes re duction possible the epitome staff has reached the senior assessment to ten dollars in view of the financial status of the majority of students according to j a tempest editor in chief of the epitome such a reduction is possible if the seniors will cooperate with the staff in regard to payments the ballots to be distributed shortly will have the assessments place.d at twelve dollars to be paid in three install ments the two dollar discount will be given on the final payment if made before feb 20 the cooperation of the seniors is absolutely necessary in order to fa cilitate work for the staff and to expediate the publishing of the epi tome tempest stated it is the purpose of the staff to present an epitome of university activities rather than an illustrated university register the fulfillment of this aim rests upon the coopera tion of all the students in the uni versity tempest continued members of the senior class will make the epitome more valuable to themselves by submitting interest ing incidents met with by individual seniors lower classmen will aid mater ially the production of the book by submitting informal and interesting incidents and snapshots to the staff 1,353 are enrolled sixty percent of students are reg istered as engineers a total of 1,353 students are now registered at lehigh according to g w eley assistant registrar the enrollment by classes is seniors 249 juniors 291 sophomores 371 freshmen repeaters 97 new men 336 the enrollment by colleges is arts and science 214 business administration 333 and engineer ing 800 the new students represent 19 states and three foregn countries the entering class in 1931 repre sented 25 states and three foreign countries the number of students from pennsylvania new york and new jersey is fewer by 85 and from other states it is fewer by 31 the number of men entering with advanced standing is decreasing there being 25 this year as compar ed with 36 in 1931 and 48 in 1930 bethlehem pa friday october 14 1932 move to abolish sport has arisen about every two years since 1894 vol xl no 6 price five cents the lehigh university brown and white ted black wins student vote as prom orchestra member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first j