Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 17

              alumni board gives money to pay expenses of d.o.t granting the petition present ed by delta omicron theta campus debating society for a sum to cover the expenses of this season the directors of the lehigh alumni board in a meet ing held saturday at the north ampton country club agreed to forward 100 to the society in the same meeting john a brodhead director of the student placement service outlined the progress of his department following the meeting the board members were guests of a c dodson 00 at a luncheon in the club rooms howland cites influence of art on human life painters give true picture of history and society in their work art professor states lantern slides of paintings used to illustrate lecture how the artist exhibits a two fold gift of prophecy in one in stance portraying the historical sig nificance of his age by developing its tastes and its beliefs and in the other by suggesting the trend of art in the future was pointed out by garth a howland assistant pro fessor of fine arts last evening in the packard auditorium we have come to look upon the artist as a kind of subsidiary his torian since we realize so com pletely that an age and its motive forces are often more distinctly mirrored in its art than its litera ture howland declared howland presents theory it is professor howland's theory that the artist whose work is val uable for the student of history is the one who preserves the spirit of his own age an age of which he unlike the historian must have been an integral part to supple ment his theory professor how land introduced a slide of one of hogarth's scenes of english life this painting gives an insight into the economic social and mental conditions which lie beyond and be neath the graphically presented fashions in dress and interior dec oration and gives the foibles and fads more minutely than any writ ten document professor howland explained on the opposite side we can see that pictures like gerome's thumbs down depicting the de feated roman gladiator are value less unless we have all the facts he said among the artists to whom we have failed to accredit a full pro phetic quality is watteau his paint ings inspired a change in dress but also in a freer gayer life than that to which the people of his time had been accustomed but technically watteau was even more important and phophetic because in addition to surveying the route for the ap proach of a native french school his technique hints at what the im pressionists were yet to do pro fessor howland stated impressionists prophesied another system as prophetic as watteau's was that of john con stable which prophesied the sys tem that the impressionists were to use 50 years later insofar as the romantic movement was concerned it too had its prohpets in gericault and delacroix it was the latter who under the influence of con stable added to the romantic move ment the element of brilliant and startling color professor howland explained speaks monday prof g a howland house group makes offer drown hall committee will turn over top floor to publications the house committee of drown voted unanimously to turn over tne floor of drown hall to the jb*&i£2nl(mrl oljfrslry both at the discretion of president to 1 ' change of location of the cafeteria was expressed by the student mem bers of the house committee in a letter to president richards the letter dated nov 17 reads as fol lows : the student members of the house committee of drown hall firmly oppose the contemplated change of cafeteria accommodations for the following reasons 1 we feel that no guaranteed or even estimated increase of patron age has been assured the proposed new cafeteria 2 no plan of utilizing the vacated space in the basement has been forthcoming from the sponsors of this plan 3 the expense incurred by the university in making alterations would be too great in comparison to the doubtful advantages derived 4 we feel that effort in the di rection of securing better food in the present accommodations would be more beneficial to the student body as a whole and that the pres ent room in the basement could be adequately improved in such mat ters as lighting panelling and paint ing for much less expense than that necessary for the contemplated changes signed j m shelhart chairman w h webster r o t c company is repulsed by boys football teams monday they came they saw . . . and then they hid behind the bushes major green's proud f company manned with over 100 of lehigh's prospective reserve officers was re pulsed on the crest of south moun tain monday ... by two boys foot ball teams everything might have been all right if major green hadn't decided to drill on the day that the title of mountaintop was being determin ed the drill field however is the best of all possible gridirons for the mountain boys and there they de cided to battle to a finish major is annoyed when f company marched on to the field ranks bristling with rifles the two football teams said boo to major green and showed even less respect for his forces ma jor green looked annoyed the position was critically sur veyed from a military standpoint and ensuing orders indicated that the three platoons had better play war in the bushes beyond the field it was clearly a moral victory for organized athletics lehigh men harassed meanwhile the lehigh men watched the start of a football game as it is played on south moun tain the 15 men on each side pa tiently waited during the five at tempts at a kick-off then engaged in a game that was foreign to most of the recognized rules the substi tutes deployed as tin can kickers and harassed the lehigh ranks with well directed if accidental flank maneuvers the frequency of these attacks and the nature of the squad orders extended the lines so far into the underbrush that the second squad of the third platoon could not be found after a reconnoissance had failed and army leaders were be coming anxious the forgotten men reappeared out of the south west still pursuing their figurative enemy committee accepts offer to hold next assembly at lehigh university this spring 200 delegates of 25 colleges expected to attend meeting the model assembly of the league of nations will be held sometime next april at lehigh as guests of the international rela tions club and of the department of history and government j e an derson 34 president of the club announced yesterday the continuation committee of which anderson is secretary ac cepted his offer to hold the spring meeting at lehigh at a meeting held saturday in new york approximately 200 delegates from about 25 eastern colleges will at tend the assembly which will last two and one half days the interfraternity council has granted the request of the interna tym^l relations club to house the niln-fellliates in the various fra ternity houses the women will stay at hotel bethlehem xvisjieese^nd night of the as sembly a banquet and dance will be ijeld at hotel bethlehem at least jbtij^ipffihjent speaker will address the plenary sessions anderson stated agenda is discussed an agenda for the assembly was discussed at the meeting of the con tinuation committee which was held saturday in the league of nations association building in new york the agenda will be made up from the following topics the man churia affair and the lytton re port international tariffs dis armament reorganization of the secretariat the league of na tions radio station the current bolivia-paraguay trouble the current chile-peru trouble and the polish corridor question l h gipson head of the depart ment of history and government will attend a meeting of faculty ad visors at a conference of interna tional relations clubs to be held dec 9 and 10 at bucknell univer sity e b schulz associate professor of political science has accepted an invitation to act as financial ad visor for the model league j e anderson is secretary-gen eral of the assembly his duties are to see that the organization func tions properly to see that the del egates are entertained and to send invitations to the colleges and to send bulletins and information rel ative to the assembly the model league assembly is sponsored by the league of na tions association in connection with the carnegie endowment for inter national peace it is conducted in a way similar to that of the league of nations at geneva intersectional meet won by freshmen sophomore riflemen defeated ; fail to complete scores the freshman section rifle teams defeated the sophomore teams in the intersectional rifle matches con ducted recently by the rifle club under the auspices of the depart ment of military science and tac tics with a total score of 6,147 to 5,484 the victory of the freshmen which was the first in a number of years was attributed by major j o green jr to the negligence on the part of the sophomores in completing their scores the sophomore sections amassed higher scores than the freshman sections section c ranks first with a score of 929 section g second with 913 sections a b d e and h have incomplete scores the freshman sections rank as follows section c 870 section h 862 sec tion f 849 g with 837 a 804 section b with 775 section d 709 and section e with 468 gives lecture on light rays sigma xi conducts ex periments on photo cell phenomena phenomenal experiments with in visible light musical • arcs floating rings fluorescent teeth ultra-violet rays and electrons chasing each other around were among those performed by members of the phy sics department at the first meeting of sigma xi honorary research so ciety friday evening in packard auditorium max petersen associate profes sor of physics demonstrated the fluorescent effects of ultra-violet light the dye fluorescene certain minerals and mercurochrome glow ed brilliantly when exposed to ul tra-violet light when the source of the invisible ultra-violet rays was turned toward the audience a pur ple haze seemed to descend upon the room experiments with cells charles r larkin assistant pro fessor of physics performed the ex periments with photo-electric cells a neon tube was connected to an amplifier and phonograph pick-up so that the vibrations of the phono graph needle were transformed into corresponding variations in the in tensity of light from the neon tube the tube was placed at the focus of a parabolical reflector and a pho to-electric cell was placed at the fo cus of a similar reffector at the op posite side of the room the light variations were then transformed into sound waves by the cell dr larkin also demonstrated the application of a thalofide cell to a burglar alarm an organ was play ed by generating tones by the inter ruption of light to a photo-electric cell p b carwile associate professor of physics demonstrated the in duction of electronic motion from one metallic ring to another the ability of a tesla coil to light lamps or cigarettes to dis charge tubes and to generate a current with a potential of 200,000 volts and frequency of 200,000 cycles was demonstrated by a r frey assistant professor of physics brown makes highest grade on answers to quiz yourself s m brown professor of his tory made the highest mark of anyone answering the questions in the pre-publication issue of quiz yourself a question and answer book which was sent by the pub lishers to prominent men and wo men with the request that they answer as many questions as they could william lyon phelps writer of the as i like it column in scrib ner's magazine mentions the feat of professor brown and also de scribes the book as a terrifying display of questions which in most cases will reduce one's self-re spect short gives outstanding performance for brown and white eleven de spite knee injury ability to handle punts shown by polk o'brien and reidy crowd of 10,000 sees game staged in mud and rain at lafayette stadium saturday by langdon c dow lafayette splashed and skidded its way to a 25 to 6 triumph over lehigh saturday afternoon in the mud of memorial stadium in the sixty-sixth game between the two valley rivals a steady downpour held the at tendance to 10,000 but the usual enthusiasm and spirit of a lehigh lafayette struggle was evident on all sides lafayette's two sophomore backs charley stabley and frank bialek did not seem to mind the slush and mire of the playing field as they returned punts skirted the brown and white ends or went spinning and smashing through their ancient rival's forward wall with surpris ing speed lehigh's captain paul short filling the position left vacant by chick halsted played throughout the game with a decided limp the result of his knee injury in the princeton game his punting saved the brown and white eleven from several tight spots as two of his boots started behind the lehigh goal line short dangerous short's dashes proved as dan gerous to opposing tacklers as ever although his knee injury and the mud combined to cut down the spectacular footwork and shiftiness of the lehigh star's performance early in the first period stabley took a lehigh punt and splashed 60 yard through the entire lehigh team for a touchdown despite the condition of the field the maroon backs had little difficulty in speed ing around their foe's ends and secondaries for substantial gains throughout the four quarters in the second period lehigh had one opportunity to score george wolcott broke through the lafay ette line to block irwin's punt on the maroon 20-yard line wildman lehigh right end recovered the ball on the 13-yard strip on the first play paul short broke through lafayette's right tackle and although touched by five maroon clad tacklers managed to fight and slide his way over the goal line for lehigh's only score a placement was attempted for the extra point but a bad pass from center forced short to run with the ball coach tate's halfback sprinted through the mire and the lafayette backfield again to the goal line but the point was not allowed as the referee ruled that short's knee was on the ground when he received the ball from center punting is good the 25 to 6 score does not tell the true story of the struggle with so much mud and water every where the kicking on both sides was expected to be below form but the long graceful spirals of cletus polk and paul short lehigh backs and bob irwin maroon punter brought the 10,000 drenched specta tors to their feet more than once polk and short punted 19 times for an average of 37 yards while irwin and maass averaged 31 yards for lafayette in only 17 boots another amazing feature of the game was the clean handling of punts by harry o'brien reidy and polk for lehigh in the safety posi tion stabley and harry wright had more trouble in bringing down the lehigh punts irwin sent his punts to the side lines in the second half one kick left irwin's toe on lafayette's 48 yard line and lazily rolled through continued on page 3 lehigh paper wins mention at i.n a meet brown and white re ceives award for eighth time at semi-annual convention saturday local delegates are beach benson gramley and klatzkin by receiving honorable mention in both the editorial and news ex cellence competitions at the semi annual convention of the intercolle giate newspaper association of the middle atlantic states saturday at gettysburg college the brown and white placed among the winners for the eighth consecutive time the cup awarded for general news excellence was won by the reporter of brooklyn polytechnic institute the pioneer of cooper union was awarded the cup for general editorial excellence while the pitt weekly 1 ' was named for second place in both competitions the gettysburgian host paper tc the convention won third prize for its news last spring the brown and white won first place in both competitions b d beach e e 33 a l benson arts 33 c klatzkin bus 34 and d h gramley faculty ad visor were the lehigh delegates of the 30 member papers of the as sociation 16 were represented gramley elected treasurer mr gramley was elected execu tive treasurer of the association un til the spring meeting in 1934 from that time on the office which was created at the suggestion of the constitution committee to facilitate bookkeeping of the association will be held by a faculty advisor of a member paper for a period of three years the johns hopkins news letter was admitted to the association af ter the report of the extension committee of which m m reed arts 33 is chairman was read permanent possession of the prize cups was indefinitely postpon ed when it was decided to ratify the constitution so that when all the nameplates on a cup are filled the paper having won that cup mos often will become its permanent possessor formerly a cup was to have become the property of the paper which won it three times in succession has won cup twice the brown and white was the only paper having won either cup two consecutive times having been awarded the first place in the edi torial competition at both conven tions last year members of the constitution committee stated that because of the varying standards of different judges they doubted that any paper could win a cup thres times in succession it was also decided that in the future the judges of the competi tion preferably be not from the same city this year all three judges were from pittsburgh gen eral discontent with the system of pooling the traveling expenses was reflected in a long discussion which resulted in discarding the old plan in favor of each paper paying its own transportation to the conven tions business meeting held with president durelle gage jr business manager of the haverford news presiding a short business meeting was held in the y audi torium friday evening in the course of a brief talk on problems of local advertising mr gramley announced that the brown and white has printed ads for 92 local merchants this semester m s rut sky of college publishers repre sentatives explained the plan of his organization to get national com panies to advertise by mentioning the local merchant in the ad and splitting the fee between the com pany and the local man advising young journalists to re main in reporting because of the experience and enjoyment which cannot be found on desk jobs gordon mackay former sporting editor of the philadelphia record continued on page four four men pledged to pi delta upsilon mcconn praises journalism as college activity addressing students assembled in chapel yesterday morning in behalf of pi delta epsilon honorary jour nalistic fraternity dean c m mc conn recommended newspaper work as one of the most worthwhile ex tra-curricular activities on the campus the occasion of his address was the formal pledging by the frater nity of four men r f bavington 34 b peters 34 harry warren dorf 33 and l benson 33 ed ward fleischer president of the or ganization named the pledges the date of the supper-dance to be given by pi delta epsilon was changed from friday dec 16 as was originally announced to sat urday dec 17 this supper-dance is replacing the gridiron banquet which the fraternity had intended as an annual feature of its activities endowment is 37th in country educational survey shows lehigh has fund of more than 5,000,000 with a fund totalling 5,368,843.50 lehigh university has the 37th larg est college endowment in the coun try this information comes from the tabulations of the biennial sur vey of education for 1929-30 as compiled by the united states bu reau of education of this sum n m emery vice president of the university states that the income from 4,767,582.74 of the fund is used with no restric tions as to purpose for mainten ance expenses the remainder to taling 601,251.76 is set aside with specified instructions in its use for scholarships loan funds fellow ships and prizes there is a special fund to cover the costs of main taining sayre park explains endowment commenting on the survey of the bureau of education president c r richards said that although le high is fortunate in having so large an endowment the school has not yet acquired a sum great enough to finance a complete department for graduate study he pointed out that a university in the true sense of the word consists not onjy of colleges for undergraduate work but of a graduate school as well small classes he stated are pre ferable to the method of mass pro duction and lehigh following the former policy invests as much on each of its students as any school in the country therefore if the present policy is to be maintained a department of graduate study would cost more than the present endowment fund can cover lafayette college not included in the survey which lists only schools with over 5,000,000 endowments has a fund of 3,485,139 according to the world almanac of 1932 plan fund campaign at alumni breakfast lehigh graduates hold second meeting at hotel bethlehem plans for the annual alumni fund campaign were discussed at the second yearly breakfast of the lehigh alumni council held sun day morning in the hotel bethle hem the alumni fund to which all the lehigh clubs of the country are contributors is presented in june of each year as a gift to the university it amounts according to a e buchanan executive sec retary of the lehigh alumni asso ciation to a sum ranging from 50,000 to 100,000 he does not ex pect the fund to reach a high figure this year a r glancy arts 03 was chairman of the meeting about 35 men including members of the board of government and agents of the classes were present vol xl no 1 7 bethlehem pa tuesday november 22 1932 lehigh defeated by maroon 25-6 price five cents the lehigh university brown and white model league will convene here in april member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first