Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 10

              prof m j luch luch to speak monday night english professor opens college lecture series in packard auditorium finding our way through the twentieth century is the subject of the first university lecture of the year prof myron j luch of the english department will deliver the lecture at 8 p m monday oct 31 in packard auditorium professor luch will show that the twentieth century has inherited unhappiness and futility from 1,900 years of civilization beginning with the conquest of rome over western europe he will trace the gradual accumulation of pent-up energy among the teuton peoples of europe in 1914 this energy was released in an orgy of fear and vindictive resentment to temporarily over throw all vestiges of rational civili zation which the teutons had car ried down from the romans pro fessor luch will show how the world war with its lowering of all standards glorified the spirit of severe competition which was com mon among the teutons professor luch believes that we ought completely to reorganize our standards of life giving more stress to rational and tactful living taking as an example the early greeks lindabury to head brown key society assistant managers adopt of ficial insignia officers were elected for the coming year and an official key was adopted at the first meeting of the brown key society wednesday night in drown hall the senior managers attended this meeting to assist in organizing the club officers elected are r n lind abury chem 34 president fred lambert bus 34 secretary-treas urer f r hammer bus 35 direc tor of fall sports the spring and winter directors will be elected later ,. the brown key society is com posed of all junior assistant mana gers of all recognized varsity sports who have been approved by the board of control of athletics the meeting at their arrival and the entertainment while in beth lehem of visiting teams are the chief duties of members any mat ters pertaining to the athletic policy of the university concerning man agement of various teams should be dealt with officially by this so ciety mechanicals postpone meet the meeting of the mechanical engineering society scheduled for oct 26 was postponed until 7.30 p m nov 3 in room 466 pack ard laboratory to take vote for president brown and white will publish student ballot in nov 1 issue the brown and white will spon sor a university-wide presidential poll on election day for this pur pose the issue of nov 1 will contain a ballot which all students and faculty members are privileged to fill out the ballot will endeavor to de termine the students political sen timent and their stand on the pro hibition question all balloting must take place between the time of issue on tuesday and 7.30 p m the following day four years ago lehigh held a straw vote ballot which turned out 3-1 in favor of hoover al smith the democratic candidate polled only 241 votes out of a total of 1027 ballots cast some of the eastern colleges that have conducted their own straw votes and have received returns in clude rutgers amherst williams wesleyan roanoke and muhlen berg at rutgers as well as at muhlenberg hoover and prohibi tion repeal were favored the amherst williams and wes ley%n results showed 1086 votes for hoover 279 for thomas and 202 for roosevelt roanoke was the only college that leaned toward the democratic candidate roosevelt led there with 171 to 72 for hoover thomas polled only 26 votes governors to meet alumni executive board convenes here next saturday the board of governors of the lehigh alumni council will hold its annual meeting at 11 a m to morrow in the alumni build ing provided that at least 18 mem bers can attend according to a e buchanan executive secretary of the alumni association it is at this yearly meeting th.at the board plans the alumni fund campaign of the following year mr buchanan stated about 27 members were invited but only ten acceptances have been received thus far one member lives in pasadena cal if a sufficient number cannot attend the meeting will be postponed until the week end of the lafayette game mr buchanan stated stacks will not close librarian revises plans for pro tecting books the stacks in the library will not be closed for the present ac cording to howard leach librar ian this statement was given after an announcement was made of the considerations to close the stacks the threats were made neces sary because so many books are kept overtime or not returned at all and periodicals are often mu tilated mr leach said if it is true that figures don't lie the depression is about over for a recent survey shows that 314 le high students own or have the use of cars or motorcyles which repre sent an original cost of over 250,000 a tabulation of the car registra tion cards in the dean's office last week showed that there are 303 automobiles and six motorcycles registed this year of these cars four are jointly owned by two or more men last year there were about 15 motorcycles registered and prob ably another ten or more were un listed and while the number of list ed cycles has dropped to six it is believed that there are about is on the campus today letters were sent out recently to the six cycle owners warning them that unless the motorcycles were kept more quiet they would be barred from the campus during class hours as the noise interferes with lectures and recitations 211 are from pennsylvania the record files reveal that 211 or about 70 percent of the cars car ry pennsylvania licenses with 42 will sponsor military ball scabbard and blade to give dance on nov 1 2 in hotel bethlehem scabbard and blade honorary military society will give its annual military ball on saturday nov 12 at the hotel bethlehem from 9 to 12 p m r b wall 32 president of the society stated after the meeting of the group on thursday night the lehigh will fur nish the musical part of the enter tainment admission to the affair will be 2.20 a couple and 1.10 stag the dance will be chaperoned by major and mrs j o green jr and capt and mrs j k rice the lafayette and rutgers companies of the scabbard and blade have been invited to attend plans for a series of military lec tures to be given during the year were also discussed at the meeting thursday the society will try to make the talks interesting to a civilian as well as a military audi ence an attempt will be made to secure major general paul b ma lone commander of the third corps area and the speaker at the field day exercises of the lehigh r o t c unit last year for one of the lectures graduate enrollment is 117 this semester mathematics department has most students graduate registration for this semester has reached 117 prof robert p moore executive secre tary of the graduate board stated recently this number although slightly lower than the first semes ter last year shows an increase over all other years of those enrolled 93 are men and 24 are women most of the students are teachers in the lehigh valley scholarship students and graduates of various universities who are taking gradu ate work because of inability to pro cure employment professor moore stated the greatest number of men is in the department of mathematics the departments of chemistry and edu cation each have 23 students university gets print the carl schurz memorial foun dation has presented a lithograph a worker by kathe kollwitz to the university garth a howland assistant professor of fine arts an nounced last week this print re ceived the largest student vote at an exhibition of german prints here last spring from new jersey and 27 from new york the remaining 34 come from states as widely separated as wis consin and florida analysis of the cars by makers shows that ford leads the manu facturers with 120 chevrolet sec ond with 57 buick third with 31 and packard and studebaker tied for fourth at 11 apiece variety of cars listed the cards show that there are two students at the university who own two packards apiece and one man who owns a ford and a buick thirty-eight different makes of cars are listed including twelve makes no longer produced the estimated original purchase price of the 303 cars and motorcycles is in the neighborhood of 250,000 or an av erage of 800 per car the last few years have seen a large decrease in the number of campus wrecks purchased for 25 or 30 and held together with bailing wire and pa per clips the typical campus car of today is in good condition averages about two and a half years of age and is state inspected and approved prof r s lull will lecture authority on evolution and dinosaurs will ad dress geology students the horned dinosaurs will be the subject of the lecture tonight at 8.30 by dr richard swarm lull of yale university in packard lab oratory the lecture will be illus trated by lantern slides it should be of general interest to the public as well as of particu lar interest to students of biology and geology as it is to be non technical according to j p dean president of the mining and geo logical society dr lull is one of the foremost authorities on evolution and a lead ing authority on dinosaurs he is sterling professor of paleontology at yale university and director of the peabody mu§eum his alma mater is rutgers uni versity but he received his degree of doctor of philosophy from col umbia yale and rutgers have awarded him honorary degrees he is the author of several scien tific and biographical books out standing among which is organic evolution a textbook and refer ence he began his career with the division of etymology of u s de partment of agriculture later he was professor of zoology at massa chusetts agricultural college and lecturer on paleontology at the university of california the lecture is under the auspices of the local chapter of the ameri can institute of mining and metal lurgical engineers and the lehigh mining and geological society special invitation has been extend ed to students of lafayette muh lenberg and moravian colleges to attend the lecture math club to meet members will discuss complex numerals and variables complex numbers and varia bles will be discussed by pi mv epsilon honorary mathematical society at the first few meetings of the year melvin dresher 33 president announced yesterday the elementary treatment of this subject will be taken up at the meeting of the society at 7:30 p.m tuesday nov 1 in room 308 packard laboratory at this meeting three members will speak john w langhaar will discuss the mapping of imaginary numbers walter b coleman will speak on pairs and robert j meyers will explain imaginary numbers 39 on faculty now included in who's who three trustees chosen with eight members of teaching staff for in clusion in new edition university is represented in many fields of activity the addition of eleven members of the faculty and board of trustees raises the number of lehigh admin istration men listed in who's who in america to 39 this fact is shown in the new who's who for 1932-33 which has just been published roughly figuring two-thirds of the board of trustees and one-sev enth of the faculty are listed the new men added since the last edi tion are aubrey weymouth trustee caldwallader evans trustee alfred r glancy trustee philip m palmer head of department of german and director of the college of arts and science neil carothers head of department of economics sociology and business adminis tration and director of the college of bus iness administration charles c bidwell head of the department of physics herbert m diamond professor of econo mics james s long professor of inorganic chemistry stanley j thomas professor of bacteriol ogy frederick creedy research associate pro fessor of electrical engineering charles m mcconn dean the following men were listed in the previous edition and are also in the new one charles m schwab trustee samuel d warriner trustee eugene g grace trustee harry c trexler trustee william c dickerman trustee henry sturgis drinker president emeritus and honorary trustee tom m girdler trustee charles russ richards president natt m emery vice president and comp troller charles l thornburg professor emeritus of mathematics and astronomy charles j goodwin head of the depart ment of greek howard eckfeldt head of the department of mining engineering benjamin l miller head of the depart ment of geology robert w hall head of the department of biology charles s fox head of the department of romance languages fred v larkin head of the department of mechanical and industrial engineering bradley stoughton head of the depart ment of metallurgical engineering lawrence h gipson head of the depart ment of history and government robert m smith head of the department of english joseph b reynolds professor of mathe matics and theoretical mechanic tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics and astronomy edward h williams special lecturer edwin j prindle special lecturer thaddeus merriman special lecturer william bowie special lecturer percy hughes head of the department of philosophy frank w sterrett trustee howard s leach librarian next art exhibit to be placed on view in library dec 4 native element in american painting is the collective title of the next group of paintings to be shown in the art gallery beginning dec 4 and closing dec 21 accord ing to g a howland assistant professor of fine arts the exhibit will include 50 oil paintings and will be arranged in groups each group pertaining to a particular section of the nation professor howland stated pat pazzetti frosh quarterback whose collar bone was broken in the perkiomen prep game was re leased from the st luke's hospital early this week don bigelow to play at prom following plays presented by mustard and cheese tonight annual game with muhlenberg to begin at 2 p m tomorrow most of the fraternities and living groups will hold private dances saturday houseparty week-end that long anticipated glamorous fleeting and expensive occasion begins this af ternoon with the arrival of nearly 400 girls as the guests of the living groups don bigelow and his 12-piece or chestra will play at the senior ball from 10 to 3 tonight in the gym this orchestra has been playing this summer at young's chinese and american restaurant in new york zollinger-harned co of allen town have decorated the gym in modernistic style dean and mrs c m mcconn and prof and mrs carothers will be the chaperones at the ball mustard and cheese will present two short plays a night in an inn and passion poison and petrification in drown hall to night immediately preceding the senior ball the curtain will rise at 9 p m instead of 8.30 p m as originally planned plays precede ball presentation of the plays before the ball is expected to fill the need for entertainment that has been felt at previous house-parties between dinner and the ball the football game between le high and muhlenberg saturday af ternoon will begin at 2p m last year this game was also played during house-party week and le high was 33-0 most of the fraternities and liv ing groups will hold private dances saturday evening jay knell's or chestra from pottsville will play at the dorm dance in drown hall this dance is sponsored by the le high union the private dances are the cli max of house-party and prepara tions for them have been made by fraternity men far in advance pool to be opened by tuesday nov 1 swimming team will begin practice soon the installation of the chlorinator today will make it possible for the university pool to be opened to students by nov 1 according to a w litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds the pool has been closed be cause of the prevailing epidemic of infantile paralysis and because of a law passed by the pennsylvania legislature last winter requiring all public pools to be equipped with chlorinators this law was not enforced last semester but went into effect at the opening of schools and col leges this fall further delay was caused by the legislature's neg lect to approve types of chlorina tors with the pool open the swim ming team will begin its regular practice those of the team who have not been out for any fall sports have already been working out in the gym according to pete mor rissey swimming coach the team has also had the privilege of using the allentown y m c a pool without charge through the courtesy of paul c kramer physical direc tor of the association scientist reviews work in seeking an explana tion as to origin and na ture of cosmic rays dr richards gives dinner for speaker before lecture physicist says dispute among authorities is only concoc tion of newspaper writers measurements of energy of the order of 500,000,000 volts released by the bombardment of the atom by cosmic rays were discussed by dr millikan during his lecture wednes day evening in packard auditorium an audience of approximately 800 people including a representa tion from lafayette college and members of the lehigh valley sec tion of the a i e e filled the auditorium to capacity the audi ence was welcomed by ben beach chairman of the electrical en gineering society dr c russ richards then introduced dr milli kan the lecture was illustrated with slides which showed the different kinds of equipment used by dr millikan in his researches many actual photographs were shown which revealed the tracks made by the electrons as they pass ed through the photographic field after they had received energy due to the impact of an actual cosmic ray dr millikan pointed out that it was the curvature of the paths of the electrons that enabled him to calculate the energy they possessed and thus get a direct measure of the force of the cosmic rays reviews scientific work dr millikan reviewed his work in seeking an explanation of the cosmic rays from the time he started it before the war up to last summer his first success in determining the nature of these waves was found in the different degrees of absorption of the the waves by varying depths of water the strength of these waves was measured in each instance by a delicate electroscope which the waves discharged at varying rates depending on their power these experiments first revealed the tre mendous energy of these radiations for it was found that they had a penetrative power far greater than that possessed by any other known radiations by taking measurements in differ ent parts of the world and at dif ferent times di millikan found that the concentrations of matter in different parts of the universe had no measurable effect on the strength of the cosmic rays dr millikan stated that this fact was the basis for the hypothesis that the cosmic rays might originate in inter-stellar space although he declared that other observations did not agree with this supposition and that the definite source of the rays was still unknown observations made by automatic recording instruments sent into the upper regions of the atmosphere by means of pilot balloons showed that the rate of absorption of the cosmic rays did not vary according to the exponential curve which had been expected if the rays did ori ginate entirely outside of the earth's atmosphere says no dispute exists dr millikan stated that the dis pute between himself and many other scientists as to the nature of cosmic rays was entirely a concoc tion of the newspaper writers he said that wherever he and other scientists had taken measurements in the same part of the world they had substantially agreed on the re sults and that so far no one really claimed to know definitely how or where the rays originate dr richards entertained dr millikan at a dinner in the hotel bethlehem before the lecture the dinner was attended by the heads of the departments of the univer sity bethlehem pa friday october 28 1932 more than 300 motor vehicles used by lehigh men this year the lehigh university brown and white lectures monday large audience hears millikan vol xl no 1 0 price five cents plans complete for houseparties mustard and cheese show to begin at 9 tonight the houseparty presentation of mustard and cheese a night n an inn and poison passion and petrification will begin at 9 p m tonight instead of at 8.30 as announced in the tuesday issue of the brown and white tickets may be obtained at the lehigh union office by students on presentation of their bursar's receipt and guests will be charg ed 35 cents member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first