Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 19

              william g alcorn pre-medical seniors to be tested friday examinations will cover en tire four years work lehigh pre-medical seniors will take a test covering their four years work at 3 p m on friday dec 9 these tests are given under the direction of the american asso ciation of medical colleges of washington d c medical schools of late have made the examinations almost a re quirement for admission dr rob ert b hall professor of biology said the test will take about an hour and a half to complete those tak ing the examination will receive a chart describing an anatomical fig ure the students will study the figure for a given length of time the chart will be taken away and questions will be asked about the figure studied this part is to test the student's ability to concentrate and remember details the other parts consist of comparing words and organizing material dr hall remarked ' last year ten lehigh men took the test dr hall investigated the results of the tests and found that lehigh men made good grades this year seven men are taking the exams faculty group favors principles of brown and white proposals the faculty committee on lec tures at its december meeting ex pressed its approval of the principle of the brown and white's plan for bringing prominent speakers to the campus but pointed out several faults in the proposal to solicit funds from honorary and course so cieties the brown and white's plan pro posed in substance that each of the organizations on the campus con tribute a small sum each year to the lecture fund the additional money thus secured to be used for the pur pose of getting several exception nally qualified speakers during the year each society would have its turn in bringing to the campus some out standing man in its field and would be the sponsoring organization for the lecture find flaws in pian during the discussion of the plan it was brought out however that the proposed system would allow each organization to sponsor its lecture only about once every five or six years prof sidney m brown chairman of the committee explained to the brown and white representative that the university sets aside a fixed sum each year to assist the dif ferent organizations in securing speakers for their meetings this fund under the administration of the lecture committee is ample for the purpose but it would not be large enough to support lectures of the magnitude desired it was further explained that men of the calibre wanted could not be secured for less than 500 or 600 for a lecture and any funds contrib uted by the student groups plus the surplus from the lecture fund would only be sufficient for one or two talks of the quality desired un der the plan curtis suggests fee dean curtis suggested that the opinion of the students be sought on the question of presenting lec tures by men of the type of dr milliken and dr beebe with a nom inal admission charge not to be more than 25 cents to help defray the expenses he pointed out that although this admission would not cover the cost of the lecture it would help out the fund in a more equitable manner than would be possible under a plan of contribu tions by student groups leaders of all living groups will be requested in the near future to canvass their organizations on this question and the opinions express ed will be studied for a possible working plan the members of the committee declared that they were greatly pleased by the expression of stu dent interest in the problem of se curing lecturers and offered their cooperation in formulating a work able plan will address eta sigma phi m.e.'s in favor of open house w.g alcorn dies saturday lehigh graduate was at tending theological in stitute in new york city william gaston alcorn 31 of bethlehem died saturday night in the neurological institute new york from a tumor on the brain he was 24 years of age since last spring alcorn had been troubled with what was supposed to be sinous trouble and was hav ing treatments for this ailment a few weeks ago it was found that he was suffering from a tumor on his brain he underwent two unsuc cessful operations last week alcorn was studying for the epis copal ministry and was in his sec ond year at the general theologi cal seminary in new york while at lehigh alcorn lived at leonard hall he was a member of the football squad arcadia the quartet and the glee club eta sig ma phi and president of the deut scher verein alcorn was a member of mus tard and cheese and acted in the club's presentation of ten nights in a bar room he was well known as a singer he took solo parts in the lehigh university glee club and also sang in the church ot the nativity choir he was a mem ber of the glee club of bethlehem high school from which school he was graduated in 1927 he was graduated from lehigh with a de gree of bachelor of arts funeral services were held today at the pro-cathedral church of the nativity faculty approves curricula change greatest revision made in engineering departments suggested revisions in the various curricula of the university wert approved by the faculty in a meet ing held monday afternoon in the alumni memorial building the most drastic changes will be made in the curricula of the de partments of mechanical and indus trial engineering and in the de partment of education g b cur tis associate dean announced revisions in the engineering de partments will be effective for pre sent freshmen they are to be an nounced later the curriculum in the depart ment of education is being changed with the view of building up a de finite educational preparation for certain types of teaching positions h p thomas professor and head of the department stated minor changes were made in bio logy mathematics philosophy phy sics and psychology gives lecture on electrical shock fatality engineering club hears discussion by dr w b kouwenhoven o f johns hopkins friday tells of research on effects of electricity on the body death from electric shock is usually only apparent declared dr w b kouwenhoven professor of electrical engineering at johns hop kins university at the electrical engineering society meeting in packard laboratory friday night emphasizing the necessity of ap plying artificial respiration in cases of electric shock and of continuing its application until rigor mortis set in dr kouwenhoven stated that in only about one-third of the shocks resulting from contacts of 110 volts or more is death imme diate and certain in one case he said a life was saved after eight hours of artificial respiration had been administered used animals in work dr kouwenhoven has studied the effects of shocks on rats and dogs that have been given anesthetics with the two-folds purpose of find ing out what happens in case of a shock and of improving methods of resuscitation in his experiments he has considered the time of contact the voltage applied the amount of current which flowed the current path through the body the resis tance of the body and the type of circuit whether ac or dc and what frequency the shorter the time of contact the greater is the chance of living stated dr kouwenhoven low voltage is dangerous particularly when wet contact is made when contact is made with a high voltage the contraction of the muscles is so great that the contact is usually broken quickly shock blocks nerves in his experiments in conjunction with the medical and hygiene schools at johns hopkins dr kouwenhoven found that the dang er in a shock depends upon the cur rent destiny through the body and especially upon the current through the vital organs after a severe shock the nerve system is tempor arily blocked for from one-half to several hours if death does not re sult immediately he stated the cathode ray oscillograph as used to show the wave form of an electric potential was explained in a student paper by vance f rig ling e e 33 two types of appar atus were described the soft cath ode rays produced by 3000 volts cannot be used for high frequencies or for making films the hard rays produced by about 60,000 volts can be used in these cases by the use of hard rays waves can be timed to one millionth of a second the lafayette student branch of the american institute of electrical engineers sent a representation to the meeting to hear prof kouwen hoven who is vice president of the american institute of electrical engineers german group meet palmer heads society interested in teutonic a group of undergraduates grad uate students and faculty members numbering about ten persons who are interested in german has been meeting at the home of p m pam er head of the department of ger man on wednesday night every other week the purpose of these meetings is to read and discuss german stories and plays and sing german songs the group has taken the place of the deutscher verein it was indi cated by p m palmer head of the department of german the last meeting was held on nov 9 and the next meeting will be held on dec 14 arcadia selects commit tee to formulate senti ment on athletic policy and coaches votes for abolition of l club because of l/ttle interest reorganizes junior and senior prom committees and re duces honorarium the appointment of a deputation committee to ascertain the student opinion on the athletic situation at lehigh and convey it to the alumni and the abolition of the l club developed in a meeting of arcadia last night a discussion was held concerning the retention of the lacrosse coach it was finally decided that the board of control of athletics had done nothing towards getting men who were stars in lacrosse or who had a good coaching experience and unless the board had the writ ten applications of several such men arcadia favored the retention of charles i lattig as coach of la crosse the junior and senior prom com mittees were reorganized with the reduction of recompense due to each of the members to give student opinion arcadia will try to present to the alumni student sentiment rather than student sentiment which has been conditioned by faculty senti ment stated martin m reed editor of the brown and white last night in order to do this representa tives of arcadia will approach each living group with questions con cerning the retention of the purity policy the retention of the present coaching staffs and the advisabil ity of lehigh's playing teams of higher calibre students will also be asked their opinion as to increasing the athletic fee to take care of the deficit in sports endowments of athletics and whether or not they wish the athletic policy presented by the ex ecutive committee to be accepted reports given to committee the representatives will report the desires of each group to the deputation committee who will present it to the alumni the mem bers of the committee are martin m reed 33 charles f halsted 33 clifford e harrison 33 arcadia voted to abolish the l club because of the lack of interest of its members the prom committees as recog nized by arcadia will be composed of three members instead of four the recompense formerly received by the members of the committees has been scaled down to a lower level charles halsted was elected to represent lehigh at the meeting of the american federation of stu dents to be held in new orleans during the latter part of the christ mas vacation e l crum honored elected president of classical league of lehigh valley e l crum associate professor of latin was elected president of the classical league of the lehigh val ley at a meeting of the league sat urday afternoon at muhlenberg col lege horace w._wright head of the department of latin was re-elected to the executive committee dr wright founded the league in the spring of 1922 its members are teachers and people interested in the classics and who live in the vi cinity of the lehigh valley dr crum gave an illustrated lec ture on portugese architecture at the meeting dr horace w wright to give lecture tonight on horace's sabine farm dr horace w wright head of the latin department will address eta sigma phi honorary classical fraternity at a meeting at 7:30 to night at his home 1051 delaware avenue his topic will be horace's sabine farm the same lecture will be given by dr wright on friday evening at the home of j a frick 03 moun tainville before a meeting of the bethlehem chapter of the archeo logical institute of america the local chapter of the archeo logical institute furnished the funds for completing the excavation of horace's sabine farm the work was completed in march 1931 the chapter will frame the photographs from which the slides to be used by dr wright in his lecture were made these photographs will be hung in the office of the latin de partment the excavation has caused a con siderable stir among people inter ested in latin and greek because of the literary importance of the work dr wright said prof bradley stoughton is pres ident of the chapter r s taylor 95 is vice president and dr wright is secretary-treasurer the chapter was started by dr wright jorgensen to speak consulting engineer to lecture be fore mining society discussing his experiences in the far corners of the earth e l jor gensen consulting engineer of the irvington smelting and refining company wilt speak before the mining and geological society at 8 p m thursday dec 8 in room 102 williams hall mr jorgensen who has studied engineering both here and in ger many will illustrate his lecture with a series of slides the meeting will be open to all students john p dean president of the society stated refreshments will be served after the meeting pi tau sigma plans to operate laboratories on sub freshman day sub-freshmen may observe le high's engineering laboratories in operation as a result of action taken by pi tau sigma national mechan ical engineering society at its for mal initiation held last night in the hotel bethlehem president richards who was in strumental in the founding of p : tau sigma while dean of illinois university addressed the members and the six initiates at the fifth an niversary of the founding of the lo cal chapter the open house plan for sub freshman day was favorably re ceived by the faculty said pres ident richards it is a fine tradi tion and i heartily indorse it pi tau sigma cannot organize such a plan without the co-opera tion and aid of the other depart mental societies according to k f borden president of the local chap ter it is hoped that we will receive the cooperation of tau beta pi and eta kappa nu as well as that of each departmental society in car rying out the plan of open house on sub-freshman day he concluded e a pellizzoni m e 29 char ter member of the honorary society attended the banquet which was preceded by the formal initiation in packard laboratory the following mechanical engin eers were initiated r a lodge 33 r k knipe 33 w f cook 34 e l wildman 34 c c her tel jr 34 and s m rust jr 34 university publishes 50,000 copies of engineering booklet to compensate for the demand by eastern high school heads for the booklet why go to college pub lished by the university 50,000 co pies of the booklet will be printed this year according to andrew e buchanan executive secretary of the lehigh alumni association this pamphlet he said is only sent out upon request in recent years administrators in many sec ondary schools have found it desir able to distribute the pamphlet among the members of graduating classes a like number of booklets on engineering business and arts will also be printed buchanan stated four will go to conference delegates of international relations club to at tend meet at bucknell the lehigh chapter of the inter national relations club history and government society will send four delegates to a conference of inter national relations clubs to be held dec 9 and 10 at bucknell univer sity over 30 colleges will send del egates the lehigh delegation will con sist of prof l h gipson head of the department of history and gov ernment and faculty advisor of the club james e anderson arts 34 president of the club john b die fenbach arts 35 who will repre sent lehigh in a discussion on the quota system and ernest f rit ter arts 34 who will take part in a discussion of the attitude of the united states towards japan's pol icy in manchuria professor gipson will be chair man of a meeting of the faculty ad visers who will discuss the develop ment of a more effective means of cooperation between the faculty ad visers and the clubs anderson will preside over a number of meetings of the contin uation committee of the model as sembly of the league of nations at which the program of the assembly will be discussed a meeting of the committee will also be held in con nection with the faculty advisers to discuss the program the speakers at the conference will be dr ernest minor patterson and dr george hubbard blakes lee dr patterson is president of tho american academy of political and social sciences and head of the de partment of ecomonics at the uni versity of pennsylvania dr blakeslee is head of the de partment of history and internation al relations at clark university and has assisted the department of state in formulating its policy in relation to japan and manchuria radio club will try to send christinas greetings by air the radio club will attempt to send christmas greetings for all who wish to avail themselves of the club's service morton r evans president announced today unless the message is to be sent more than 1.000 miles mail service is more ef ficient he said messages should be sent to evans at price hall or to robert c driscoll at sigma phi the radio club will hold its usual meeting at 4 p m friday in room 514 packard laboratory society initiates 11 at meeting friday international relations club holds banquet the international relations club history and government organiza tion initjated 11 men friday eve ning at a banquet at the chi psi house l h gipson head of the department of history and govern ment and faculty advisor of the club and e b schulz associate professor of government were guests the revised constitution was signed and the new members were formally introduced to the club professor gipson told the history of the club j e anderson pres ident of the club and professor gipson explained the character of the model league of nations which will meet here next april the new members are fred r hammer bus 34 leonard h flisher arts 34 nathaniel s rothenberg arts 34 charles e schaut arts 34 martin m reed arts 33 roy a reabuck arts 34 ernest f ritter arts 34 walter t plumb bus 35 floyd t tay lor bus 35 john b diefenbach arts 35 and frank d schilling arts 34 dean favors uniform tests mcconn supports stand ardized measurements of student aptitude supporting the american coun cil on education in its attempt to make nation-wide the educational guidance of prospective college stu dents dean c m mcconn ad dressed two groups in meetings held last week in new orleans in connection with the annual meeting of the association of colleges and secondary schools of the southern states in his addresses to members of the southern commission on sec ondary students tuesday nov 29 in the hotel roosevelt and the southern association of college deans the following day in the same place the dean described the activities of the co-operative test ing program service and the re sults of the 1932 nation-wide col lege sophomore tests and various state testing programs commenting on the plans of the american council on education for the furtherance of which he made the trip to the louisiana city he said i am hopeful that partly as a result of these addresses and con ferences held later new state test ing programs will be inaugurated in mississippi and texas the purpose of the tests recom mended by the american council on education he stated is to obtain objective and comparable measure ments of student aptitude and achievement with such measurements accept ed throughout the nation those high school students whose abilities make them good college material may be better recognized as deserving of the opportunities now being wasted on some of the present day college students whose intellectual capaci ties are not sufficient for successful participation in the work of higher institutions the dean explained one fourth of all the persons who enter college each year never become sophomores and one-half of them never graduate dean mc conn stated state-wide testing programs such as those advocated by the american council on education have been un dertaken in both high schools and colleges in minnesota wisconsin ohio colorado and on a smaller scale in kentucky alabama and north carolina dean mcconn attended the meet ings in new orleans as a member of the advisory committee on co operative test service this com mittee is a sub-committee of the american council on education bethlehem pa tuesday december 6 1932 price five cents plan to procure speakers considered by committee vol xl no 19 graduate dies will ascertain student opinion brown and white all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association