Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 24

              interfraternity council asks permission to hold dance a petition was presented to dean mcconn recently by the interfraternity council asking permission to hold an interfra ternity dance in the armory or taylor gymnasium sometime af ter the mid-term examinations and preferably on feb 4 a popular new york dance orchestra has already been sug gested for the occasion civils to hear dr ridgway member of engineering board on plans for hoo ver dam to speak here the construction of the hoover dam which when completed will be the largest dam in the world will be discussed in an illustrated lec ture by robert ridgway former chief engineer of the new york city transit commission at 8 p m thursday in packard auditorium the lecture is under the auspices of the civil engineering society but all students are invited to attend mr is a member of the engineering board of review on ba sic plans for the hoover dam and has been a leader in subway and water supply projects in new york for many years he was awarded the honorary degree of doctor of engineering at lehigh university in 1929 and has received other degrees from har vard and new york universities as division engineer he was in charge of the location and construc tion of the catskill aqueduct from 1905 to 1912 and from 1912 to 1921 was in charge of rapid transit con struction projects in new york city costing over 300,000,000 the hoover dam which is now being constructed will be 730 feet high and 1180 feet wide there will be 4,500,000 cubic yards of concrete used in its construction the top width will be 45 feet and the bot tom width 650 feet the lake form ed behind the dam will be about 115 miles in length and have an area of 145,000 acres it will be the largest artificial reservoir in the world philadelphia alumni to hold convention clubs to mark anniversary on january 27 several anniversaries will be cel ebrated in the meeting of the phila delphia lehigh club to be held jan 27 in the bellevue-stratford hotel according to a report received by a e buchanan secretary of the le high alumni association recently this year marks the fortieth an niversary of the establishment of the philadelphia club the report said this is a record among lehigh clubs and with the exception of a few schools a probable record among american colleges mr buchanan said charles russ richards tenth con secutive term as president of le high university will also be cele brated at the meeting president richards is to be a guest of the club he will be accompanied by wtilliam mather lewis president oi lafayette college in addition the event will mark the thirtieth anniversary of moriz bernstein's inauguration as secre tary of the club a trophy will be awarded to the perm charter academy of philadel phia this school headed the acad emic football league of philadel phia preparatory institutions in the recent gridiron season mattice will speak on electric welding a i e e meeting to be held friday at pottsville col royal mattice president of the mattice engineering company of philadelphia will discuss the merits of electric welding friday at a meeting of the american institute of electrical engineers in potts ville in the paper which colonel mat tice will present he will describe the reclamation and repair of brok en parts of machinery which he believes is the most important ser vice furnished by electric welding because it keep the machinery in operation to the mutual benefit of employer and employee a film entitled buried sun shine will be shown through the courtesy of the stone and webster engineering company and the phil adelphia and reading coal and iron company it will picture the inter esting features of the coal industry from the time of formation of the coal to the time of marketing will discuss shooting stars boothroyd to give illus trated public lecture on astronomical research research in the field of solar and interstellar meteors will be discussed by dr s l boothroyd professor of astronomy at cornell university in an illustrated public lecture me teors and shooting stars to be given by sigma xi honorary re search fraternity at 8:30 p m to morrow in packard auditorium dr boothroyd stated max pe tersen associate professor of phys ics last year made a study of me teors at the lowell observatory at flagstaff ariz where he was in charge of the field work for the harvard and cornell meteor expe dition the work done by the ex pedition included the determination during the few seconds of incan descence of the orbits and speeds of meteors the determination of the composition of meteors by spec troscopic methods and measure ment of the proportions of solar and interstellar meteors striking the earth and their angular velocities by means of conical motion mirrors dr boothroyd graduated from cornell in 1893 he has since served as assistant astronomer at the lo well observatory assistant surveyor on the alaska boundary commis sion 1905 to 1909 teacher of navi gation at the university of wash ington naval training station dur ing the world war associate pro fessor of astronomy at the univer sity of washington and professor of astronomy and geodesy at cor nell university gipson speaks to historians on act of 1750 terms british iron bill example of economic planning in paper read at meeting in toronto edict forbade construction of mills and steel furnaces l h gipson head of the depart ment of history termed the british iron act of 1750 an example of im perial economic planning in con cluding his paper on the british iron act of 1750 before a meeting of the american historical society held during the christmas vacation at the university of toronto the objectives of the iron act professor gipson said in his paper were by no means unworthy seek ing as they did to avoid certain dangers to an old established and important british industry while offering every encouragement to co lonials to take over the production of crude iron hitherto supplied from europe act had two purposes professor gipson said that there were two reasons for the passage of this bill the first was that there was a strong feeling in england that the british iron industry was in a state of dangerous dependence on swedish and russian sources of supply for bar iron british statesmen he stated in this connection were thinking in terms of realizing the ideal of a completely self-contained empire and sought to escape the conse quence of reliance upon other na tions for this particular commod ity the second reason was that eng lishmen by the second quarter of the eighteenth century were per suaded that the british iron indus try was rapidly declining while the industry in the american colonies was rapidly developing iron industry limited the bill forbade the further erec tion of rolling or slitting mills or of steel furnaces in america it provided for the importation into great britain of pig-iron and bar iron from america free from all duties although the free importa tion was limited to the port of lon don those who were responsible for the act seem to have realized the injustice also the impracticability of preventing the manufacture and sale of iron ware and steel ware on the part of american mills and furnaces then in existence pro fessor gipson stated the act therefore had the effect as was an ticipated in mariy quarters of giv ing those industries in america that already had been established a de cisive advantage body of dead man lands in path of lehigh student at philadelphia committee investigating by-laws of interfrater nity council suggests plan of reorganization resolutions suggest that membership be compulsory new plan designed to extend work and usefulness of liv ing group governing body the constitution and by-laws of the interfraternity council may be discarded as the result of investiga tions completed by a committee of that organization yesterday in drown hall the committee appointed dec 19 1932 to consider plans for a rad ical change in the organization of the council and including george hagstoz 34 george brumbach,'33 robert nisbet 33 richard mc leod 34 and robert decker 34 drew up the following resolution the interfraternity council shall instill a feeling of friendship among fraternities at lehigh university will impose fines membership in the council shall be compulsory for all social frater nities both local and national each fraternity shall send two delegates one delegate to be a ranking officer in his respective fraternity each fraternity shall have only one vote three-fourths of the membership shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business each fraternity shall be represented at all meetings by its duly elected repre sentatives failure to have two rep resentatives at one meeting or the absence of either of the official del egates from two consecutive meet ings shall be punished by a fine of five dollars meeting of the council shall be called at the discretion of the pres ident officers of the council shall be nominated and elected at the last meeting of the college year the annual dues of this organ ization shall be 10 dollars per mem ber any member in arrears of dues or assessments shall not be permit ted to vote until all arrears are paid in full to elect faculty advisor one faculty member shall be elected to serve the council in an advisory capacity and to furnish a connection between the faculty and the fraternities a fraternity handbook shall be published by the council to aid the incoming men in understanding fra ternity life the manual to contain only facts rushing rules shall be enforced by the council at the first meeting of the new school year each frater nity shall post a bond of 25 dollars for the rushing season the bond in whole or in part shall be forfeit ed for any violations of the rushing rules the bond in whole or in part shall be turned back to the respective fraternities at the close of the rushing season dr crum gives talk latin professor addresses lions club wednesday dr e l crum associate pro fessor of latin traced the history of portugal wednesday at the weekly meeting of the bethlehem lions club he visited portugal during his european tour last sum mer tracing the country's history po litically and economically from the early times dr crum showed that it has emerged from a period of po litical upheaval with a republican government which has been in ex istence for more than 20 years despite the fact that the country has lost most of its glory and prom inence which it held during the middle ages today it has arrived at a happy condition among its peo ple without strife and turmoil with a republican form of government dr crum concluded musical clubs to hold annual concert and dance the annual concert and dance of the combined musical clubs will be held at 8 p m jan 14 in drown hall the glee club orchestra otherwise known as the lehigh collegians will fur nish the music for dancing from 9:30 to 12 admission price will be 55 cents including federal tax stu dents may obtain their tickets free of charge at drown hall g a howland gives address discusses american art ists and their work before d.a.r chapter that rembrant peale an ances tor of the rembrandt peale 83 who was recently a member of the board of trustees at lehigh out lived any of the painters of george washington's portrait was indicat ed by garth a howland assistant professor of fine arts friday in an address before the bethlehem chap ter of the daughters of the amer ican revolution in his talk professor howland distinguished between the primi tive and provincial painters of the early american period the primitives he said were un known men without training or background but who often pro duced work of charm and charac ter explains provincials the provincials painted land scapes allegorical scenes figures and flowers and fruit pieces on silk velvet and glass they were largely of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the speaker continued professor howland said that the pre-revolutionary painters were chiefly portraitists and did no re ligious painting he stated that they had little aesthetic feeling among these ' painters he num bered gustavus hesselius a swede the first painter in america john smibert john singleton copley and benjamin west names west's pupils the pupils of the west profes sor howland went on were mat thew pratt charles wilson peale father of rembrant peale robert fulton and samuel f b morse fulton and morse he said prob ably would have made a good name for themselves if they had not gone into scientific work charles wilson peale was a very versatile man he stated before tak ing up painting he was among oth er things a harness maker jeweler and dentist rembrant peale is best known for the porthole portrait of washington peale made 79 copies of this portrait among the painters of the early republic professor howland named gilbert stuart whom he called the real artist of the period john trumbull washington allston john vanderlyn thomas doughty and thomas cole the last two he classed under the hudson river school of painters re-examinations to be given in freshman hygiene jan 27 re-exams in freshman hygiene will be given at 2 p m friday jan 27 in room 216 williams hall dr stanley j thomas professor of bacteriology announced grades are posted in williams hall on the second floor bulletin board men receiving f and those failing to take the re-exam are re quired to register for biology 16 second semester all men receiving e are entitled to take the re-exam dr thomas said carnegie examination dis proves here the belief that college men do not show improvement university gets second place in mathematics and intelligence datum show gain in general culture and english total score 11 1 points higher the contention that college stu dents evidence little general im provement after four years of schooling was proven groundless as far as lehigh men are concerned by the carnegie examinations re sults of which were read by prof percy hughes to the members of the faculty at a meeting yesterday in the alumni memorial building the examinations given in penn sylvania every two years since 1928 by the carnegie foundation to de termine the cultural values of col lege education dealt with subjects common to all curricula these are mathematics english and general culture including general science foreign literature fine arts history and several studies in sociology an intelligence test was also included lehigh second in math although no comparison had yet been made between total scores of the several institutions participating in the examinations dr hughes re vealed that in mathematics lehigh ranks second in general intelligence also second in general culture fifth and in english eleventh haverford students rank first in general intel ligence in 1930 lehigh held sixth place he pointed out that in every sub ject and in each section of every subject lehigh ranks above the average in that section or subject for the entire state this is true of only two other colleges dr hughes said one individual honor was cap tured by lehigh university in the examinations last year when david macadam took second place in mathematics he received a total of 208 points in that subject the highest score in the state was made by a lebanon valley student whose total was 209 macadam was graduated last june vocabularies are improved it is significant that many men at lehigh who were specializing in mathematics scored less in mathe matics in 1932 than in 1930 the philosophy department head told the faculty this is because their studies took them beyond the range covered by the carnegie examina tion in mathematics he explained contrary to the supposition that college men fail to improve their vocabularies the carnegie examin ations have shown according to dr hughes report that all but six of the 176 lehigh men who took the examinations in 1930 and 1932 gave evidence of a more proficient use of words ,_ thirty-seven arts men improved their vocabularies on the average from 64 to 72 a gain of 8 points 40 business men showed an improve ment of 9 points and 99 engineers made a gain of 5 points students gain in english in english the average gain of arts students was 35 points of bus iness students 37 points and of en gineers 28 points the average gain in points of arts students in general culture was 73 of business students 34 and of engineers 33 the average total score of the students in the arts college improv ed in two years 111 points the gain among the business men was 73 points engineers scores showed an increase of 77 points in addition to the reading of this report a meeting of the faculty educational club was announced for next monday in the alumni mem orial building the speakers will be a e buchanan secretary of the lehigh alumni association who continued on page four and i know lots of better ways of spending new year's eve con cluded carlos denarvaez eng 36 denarvaez who lives in bogota columbia was spending the holiday week-end in philadelphia and was on his way to a dance with friends when the body of a man landed in front of the car in which he was riding while passing under a bridge on lincoln drive in philadelphia a yellow roadster suddenly shot past them and the body of james pierce 68 a philadelphia steelworker was hurled into the path of their auto mobile donald mcfarland the driver of the car in which denarvaez was rid ing swerved sharply to avoid hitting the man and then stopped quickly to see what was the matter two philadelphia policemen appeared and with shrilling whistles cleared the way for a fast run to the rox borough memorial hospital where doctors pronounced the man dead as almost every bone in the man's time limit extended on senior pictures epitome staff requests prompt return on ballots the time limit for senior picture sittings has been extended several weeks so as to include all those men who desire to take space in the epitome j a tempest editor in chief announced yesterday in order that the production of the book will not be delayed it is urged that all seniors make their appointments with mccaa studios immediately tempest also requests that the senior ballots be turned in prompt ly special emphasis should be placed in filling out the page de voted to humorous and witty say ings the staff is in need of a large number of informal snapshots all snapshots that depict some sort of lehigh life are acceptable tempest announced that if the first payment which is due now the second payment which is due jan 20 and the third payment of the epitome assessment which is due feb 20 are paid on schedule a two dollar discount will be made power official to give talk glen appleman to speak at e.e society meeting in packard laboratory the problem of grounding power lines and equipment will be dis cussed by glen appleman ground ing engineer of the pennsylvania power and light company at the electrical engineering society meet ing at 7:30 p m thursday in room 416 packard laboratory mr appleman a graduate of perm state in describing the char acteristics of good ground connec tions will show how safety protec tion of apparatus and protection of operators are obtained he will describe advanced prac tice in obtaining small differences of potential between the ground wire and the ground in the vicinity of the wire when a large current flows this is important in order that no danger will be incurred when the operator touches ground ed equipment mr appleman has been studying and experimenting with grounding and grounding devices for several years and is in charge of the grounding problems of the penn sylvania power and light com pany robert p lee e e 33 will de scribe the watt hour meter for measurement of electrical energy its ioperation correction and test ing he will also relate some ex periences in the matter of dealing with customers by public utility companies 100 apply for office director of athletics may not be chosen before april with approximately 100 applica tions received to date in the office of the president of the university the search for a director of ath letics is under way many of the applicants have sig nified their willingness to coach le high football in addition to direct ing athletics stated a e buch anan director of university publi city definite action toward the se lection of an athletic director will probably not be taken before april he said austin tate whose contract as football mentor expires in february is to continue in his present capa city until the director is chosen whether or not he will remain coach will then rest upon the direc tor's decision mr buchanan stated body was broken and police dis covered he had been unemployed for some time it was at first de clared that he had committed sui cide by leaping from the bridge al most 100 feet over the drive the doctors claimed however that the man had been dead for almost two hours before he was brought in and pointed to deep cuts in the head evidently inflicted with an axe this coupled with denarvaez statement that the body had been thrown from the car ahead and had not come from the bridge above led the coroner to declare the case to be one of murder although oth er witnesses seemed confused and could not agree on this fact denarvaez and his companions were questioned until almost mid night before they were allowed to go and were again questioned sev eral days later when the coroner's verdict was made known no clues to the identity of the murderer have yet been discovered bethlehem pa tuesday january 10 1933 asks revisions for constitution vol xl noo 24 lehigh students improve in test price five cents the lehigh university brown and white member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first