Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 7

              honorary initates 12 men at banquet scabbard and blade to have military ball nov 1 2 scabbard and blade national honorary military society formally initiated 12 men at a banquet mon day evening at the bethlehem club informal talks were given by major meyer major j o greene jr capt p l sadler capt j k rice capt w m tow and lieu tenant burk concerning the scab bard and blade its purposes and other subjects relative to the so ciety it was decided that a military ball would be held nov 12 at the hotel bethlehem those initiated are capt w m tow r e bangsberg e e 33 r t dean ch e 33 d h frei day 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 0 stutz arts 34 e l wild man m e 34 and w h c web ster met e 34 seeks snakes for collection trembley wants replace ments as rattler is eat en by smaller snake contributions of snakes are wel comed by the department of biology according to francis j trembley instructor of biology and custodian of the snakes who is very anxious to add to the growing collection any variety except garter snakes and water snakes will be accepted mr trembley said up to a month ago the depart ment also had a large black dia mond rattler this snake died and mr trembley is mounting it for exhibition in williams hall the black diamond rattlesnake is the most venomous snake in north america according to mr trem bley of the snakes in williams hall the most vicious is the king snake which is found in kansas the king snake feeds on other snakes last week the one in the biology collec tion ate a rattlesnake six inches longer and a half inch larger than itself the poison of the rattlesnake has no affect on the king snake the reptiles are fed mice and grasshoppers once every two weeks contrary to popular belief a snake only sheds his skin when he grows too large for the present cover ing and not after every meal snakes hibernate like the bear dur ing the winter months mr trem bley stated the department excepts to add a coachwhip snake and a bull snake to the collection this will raise the total from 14 to 16 snakes the collection includes six timber rat tlesnakes one copperhead snake one water snake one corn snake one king snake one black snake two garter snakes and a deqay snake butts publishes book metallurgical text used in eight schools a textbook of metallurgical problems by prof allison butts of the department of metallurgical engineering was published in july of this year the text has been adopted by the following colleges lehigh univer sity pennsylvania state college stanford university university of pittsburgh washington state uni versity montana school of mines new mexico school of mines and university of idaho students at a number of universi ties and colleges that have not of ficially adopted the text are also buying the book don bigelow alma mater honors le high president at an nual fall home-coming of alumni oct 5 degree awarding postponed from last june to present dr richards enters forty-first year as educator in college engineering field president charles russ richards received the honorary degree of doctor of engineering from purdue university his alma mater satur day morning oct 15 the degree was to have been con ferred last june but because of his administrative duties dr richards was unable to leave lehigh the awarding of the degree was then postponed until the meeting of a special fall academic convocation held in conjunction with the annual fall home-coming of alumni president richards is beginning his forty-first year of professional work this fall his experience in cludes work at the colorado agri cultural college the university of illinois and the university of ne braska he is now entering his eleventh year as president of le high graduating from purdue univer sity in 1890 with the degree of bach elor of mechanical engineering dr richards earned the degree of me chanical engineer the following year he also holds the degree of master of mechanical engineering from cornell university doctor of engineering honorary from the university of nebraska and doctor of laws honorary from lafayette college the latter having been con ferred in 1922 spent 19 years at nebraska after his graduation at the age of 19 president richards was an instructor in mechanical engineering in the colorado agricultural college until 1892 he spent the next 19 years at the university of nebraska where he rose through the positions of professor of mechanical engin eering associate dean of the indus trial college and dean of the college of engineering in 1911 president richards be came professor of mechanical en gineering at the university of il linois and six years later was made dean of the college of engineering his administrative duties as dean caused him to give up his teaching at that time he has never returned to instruction work in the fall of 1922 the former il linois dean became president of le high university his ten years guid ance of the university has seen much growth in the endowment and in the physical plant of the uni versity the greatest thrill of his admin istration here and elsewhere pres ident richards said last year was the materialization of his cherished plans for building construction several structures at the universi ties with which he has been asso ciated remain as tribute to his 40 years of successful administration buildings improved packer hall cornice repaired coppee hall painted coppee hall is being painted on the outside and the stairway be tween the second and third floors is being strengthened according to a w litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds the stairway had had practically no support and the constant vibra tion of feet had loosened the plas ter on the underside this fault is being corrected by supporting the staircase by a tie-rod from the ceil ing only a few hours a day may be spent on the new cornice in pack er hall in order to prevent inter ference with classes explained mr litzenberger tests viewed by engineers thomas demonstrates ability of light beam to carry messages the ability of a beam of light to transmit messages was demonstrat ed by dr phillip thomas before an audience of 500 people at the joint meeting of the american in stitute of electrical engineers and engineers club of lehigh valley held last friday night in the ho tel traylor allentown t e butterfield professor of heat power engineering in the me chanical engineering department and president of the engineers club of lehigh valley opened the meeting and welcomed all present dr thomas was formerly pro fessor of physics at princeton and is now a research engineer for the westinghouse electric and manu facturing company through the medium of a beam of light he was able to turn on lights of various colors by dialing as on a telephone a number which corresponded to the color of the light which he de sired shows voice wave forms another demonstration which dr thomas performed was the show ing of voice wave forms on the os cilloscope a tyjpe of instrument which is possessed by the electrical engineering department of lehigh a stroboscope made moving objects appear to stand still by giving tim ed views of the object a breath relay in which con densed moisture from the breath was used to provide a path for cur rent between two wires stretched over a piece of pyrex glass turned off a light and a match held before a photo-electric call generated a current which turned it on again other uses of the photo-electric cell were shown professors seyfert beaver hib shman gruber and miller of the electrical engineering department were present at the meeting american chemical society to meet friday at palmerton faculty members and research fellows of the chemistry department will attend a meeting of the lehigh valley section of the american chemical society to be held friday evening oct 21 in the high school building at palmerton pa accord ing to h m ullmann head of the department the speakers will be f c schutz of the new jersey zinc company who will discuss exter ior house paints and norman shephard director of chemical re search for the firestone tire and rubber company who will talk on a century of technical progress in the rubber industry plan to move college cafe is approved student leaders favor changes suggested in brown and white edi torial of last friday litzenberger says alterations may be effected cheaply campus comment on the plan for moving the university cafeteria to the second floor of drown hall is almost universally favorable an un offcial poll of student leaders shows the plan as outlined an an edi torial in the brown and white fri day is to move the tables to the auditorium in drown hall keeping the kitchen in the basement and to build a dumb-waiter to carry the food to the second floor the tables and chairs can be easily moved from the auditorium when neces sary for dances plays or other functions and they can be stored in a large back room on the same floor j a aufhammer president of mustard and cheese has absolutely no objection to the plan as long as the stage is not disturbed he de clared that his organization uses only the stage for its practices and rehearsals and would not be af fected by the use of the auditorium for a dining hall in speaking of the plan aufhammer said a din ing hall upstairs would certainly be better than that hole-in-the-wall they're using now when it was explained to c w cooper head of the lehigh union that the plan would not involve placing steam tables upstairs he declared himself in favor of the project a letter from cooper ap pears on the editorial page in this issue glee club would cooperate the glee club through its pres ident c ward kellstedt has de clared iits willingness to cooperate by holding its practices in the ar mory instead of in drown hall if the plan is adopted the proposed changes could be made very easily and without much expense according to a w litz enberger superintendent of build ings and grounds in his opinion the entire change could be accom plished in two or three weeks time as all the present equipment is to be retained in the basement the only necessary changes would be the installation of the dumb waiter and the placing of two or three new tables near it to take care of food and dishes after being taken from the lift the present dining tables and chairs would be moved upstairs however a survey of dormitory men and others who eat regularly at the cafeteria shows that they are more concerned with the qual ity of the food than with moving the dining hall many of these men have indicated that they believe an improvement in the cooking would be of more real value to them than an improvement in the conditions under which the food was eaten dr n m emery vice president and comptroller of the university told a brown and white reporter last night that the cafeteria is run as a concession by e j lagouros under an annual contract with a percentage of the profits going to the university boughner 32 nominated here for rhodes scholarship jackson leroy boughner b a 32 has been nominated by the university as a candidate for elec tion to a rhoades scholarship from the state of minnesota p m palm er director of the college of arts and science announced last week boughner completed his course at lehigh in three years he was pres ident of the deutscher verein cap tain of the fencing team a member of the psi upsilon fraternity and of phi beta kappa casts picked for two plays auf hammer announces results of sunday and monday night trials the casts for the plays a night in an inn and passion poison and petrificatron which are to be presented by the mustard and cheese club friday oct 28 were selected on sunday and monday nights according to john a auf hammer president of the club the cast of characters for the first play a night in an inn a melo drama by lord dunsany is as fol lows the toff a dilapidated english gentleman sidney stern 34 bill a sailor jerme n scher 36 sniggers a sailor samuel graw 36 albert a sailor david h paul 36 klesh a hindu idol h woodward mcdowell 34 three priests jay rodgers 36 herbert a mcnally 36 and richard r mcclintic 35 men participating in passion poison and petrifaction a comic sketch by george bernard shaw are lady magnesia john evans 34 lord fitztollemacher husband of lady magnesia c brooks peters 34 adolphus lover of lady mag nesia leonard m lake 36 phy lus maid samuel k blumenthal 36 landlord william weil 35 doctor albert zuckerman 34 and policeman charles leuders 35 the price of admission to these plays will be 35 cents for guests student tickets may be secured by presentation of the bursar's receipt at the bursar's office the plays are being presented at 8 p m in drown hall the mus tard and cheese in presenting the plays during the interval between dinner and the senior prom in an effort to provide worthwhile enter tainment for students and house party guests according to aufham mer long making trip through mid west returns monday j s long professor of inorganic chemistry is making a trip through the mid-west the purpose of his trip is to visit the w o goodrich company at milwaukee and the ar cher-midland company at minneap olis from minneapolis dr long will go to kansas city mo where he will lecture on the drying of lin seed oil he will return to lehigh monday oct 24 ted black not available because of previous en gagement at university of virginia prom orchestra is playing engagement in philadelphia p j flanigan condemns pres ent methods of selection be cause of time lost don bigelow and his band from youeng's chinese-american restau rant will play at the senior ball friday evening oct 28 p j flanigan chairman of the prom committee announced last night that because of a previous engage ment at the university of virginia ted black could not be secured flanigan stated last night that the present method of chosing or chestras by student vote is a fail ure because of the time it takes to get the student decision it was explained that booking agencies will not release the names of available orchestras more than a month or so in advance because they do not know which bands will be available when the list is finally received by the committee and the prices are arranged the orchestras are sub mitted to the student body for a vote through the brown and white by the time a decision has been reached through the vote many of the orchestras on the original list have already been engaged flani gan said others also booked after it became known that ted black was engaged an attempt was made to secure duke ellington or rudy vallee but those two bands were also booked for the date bigelow the fourth on the pref erence list is now playing in phil adelphia after a 25 weeks run at youeng's chinese-american restau rant in new york during the sum mer he was playing at the hotel adolphus in dallas texas last fall this 12-piece orchestra made a tour of the new england colleges playing at dances at ara herst bowdoin the university of vermont toronto and mcgill uni versity in canada as was previously announced there will be no favors at the prom this year and the price has been reduced from 5 to 3 per couple last year the stag admission price was 3 and this has been reduced to 2 this fall the decorations are being prepared by zollinger-harn ed of allentown and will emphasize a modernistic motif freshman campus run on wednesday course is one and one-quarter miles long a campus run open to the fresh man class will be held at 4 p m wednesday the course that the runners will cover will be approx imately one and one-quarter miles long the entrants will start from tay lor gym thence go down past the physics building past christmas saucon hall and to the chapel they will then swing over to the pres ident's house around the psi up silon curve to drown hall from this point the racers will turn down toward williams hall then back to the library and finally into mem orial walk to the gym medals will be awarded to the first three who finish entries will be accepted in professor bartlett's office in the gym on oct 26 a similar race open to the school at large will be run over the same course dramatic club will meet the faculty dramatic club will read outside looking in a play by anderson at its meeting wed nesday at the home of prof r w hall concert ticket sale ends friday oct 22 allentown community group sponsoring recitals subscriptions for the allentown community concert association which during the coming winter will present three or more concerts by nationally known musicians and musical groups will close friday oct 22 subscription prices for season tickets will be 6 for main floor and 4 for balcony seats though the subscriptions must be made by friday no payment is required un til nov 1 subscription blanks may be obtained from miss elizabeth hay at the circulation desk in the library or from prof p l bay ley of the physics department proposed concerts will be selected from the following five groups no two from the same group 1 cleve land symphony orchestra 2 gab rilowitsch jose iturbui and niko lai orloff pianists 3 hans kind ler celloist and toscha seidel vio linist 4 grace moore soprano sigrid onegin contralto and kath erine meisle contralto 5 hall johnson choir from green pas tures testing engine to be shown a.s.m.e meeting will feature exhibit of new gasoline machine the first public demonstration and exhibition of a newly develop ed gasoline testing machine will be made at a joint meeting of the le high valley section of the ameri can society of mechanical engin eers and the engineers club of le high valley at 8 p m thursday nov 10 in packard auditorium the machine will be operated from 9 a m to 6 p m thursday nov 10 in packard laboratory by its manufacturers the waukesha motor company a committee composed of mem bers of the bureau of standards the society of automotive engin eers and the american petroleum institute designed the machine as an apparatus to carry out standard ized tests of internal combustion engine fuels h k cummings chief of the automotive power plants section of the bureau of standards will speak at the meeting on the sig nificance of motor gasoline tests k t winslow of the wauesha mo tor company will speak on the c f r knock testing engine the student m e and i e so cieties will participate in the meet ing bethlehem pa tuesday october 18 1932 brown and white richards given purdue degree vol xl no 7 awarded degree price five cents bigelow to play at senior prom to play at prom coming events wednesday oct 19 7:30 p m meeting of faculty dra matic club at home of prof and mrs robert w hall 37 e church street to read play out side looking in by m ander son thursday oct 20 7:30 p m meeting of lehigh uni versity students chemical so ciety in the main lecture room of chemistry laboratory with lec ture electrolytic zinc and white lead in the anaconda plants by f c case assisted by mr anderson of the anaconda cop per company 7:45 p m meeting of the lehigh university student branch of the american society of civil engin eers in packard laboratory with address by b collier on the ce ment gun and gunite saturday oct 22 1 p m varsity cross country vs ursinus 2 p m freshman football vs rut gers freshmen taylor stadium 2 p m varsity soccer vs haver ford lehigh field member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first