Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 26

              ted black and don red man will play at closed dance promoted by interfraternity council trophy room to be used as lounge instead of booths affair to occupy both floors of athletic building and will have modern decorations plans for the largest formal ball ever held at lehigh were completed by the interfraternity council last night in a meeting held in drown hall with the granting by the com mittee on student activities yester day of the petition to hold the ball the council met and decided to pro mote separate dances on both floors of taylor gymnasium saturday feb 4 beginning at 9 p.m with music by the new york broadcast ing orchestras of ted black and don redman the dance will be strictly closed to members and guests of the frat ernities belonging to the interfrat ernity council j a aufhammer president of the council announced to finance the ball each of these members will be assessed an enter tainment fee he said the fee admits members and guests who will receive guest cards aufhammer stated there are to be no paid admissions both dance floors will be decor ated modernistically in black white and silver a canopy is to be placed in the building from the lower gym to the trophy room which will be used as a lounge the decorations are being furnished by shoer and company trenton n.j don redman's band which has been selected to play on the upper floor broadcasts from connie's inn harlem new york at present they,are touring the western states they have arranged to be here in time for the ball ted black and his orchestra who play with the mills brothers will occupy the lower floor of the gym nasium next art exhibition to show drawings will contain work of students from four colleges about 50 drawings by students of architecture at the massachusets institute of technology university of pennsylvania university of il linois and pennsylvania state col lege will be shown in the next art exhibit to be held feb 5 to 19 garth a howland assistant pro fessor of fine arts announced last week the drawings will be freehand conventional and competion draw ings done in charcoal and water colors he indicated this exhibition should be of general interest to students because they will be able to see what stu dents in other colleges are doing along these lines professor how land said it should be of particu lar interest to those who have studied mechanical drawing and freehand drawing he continued the exhibition will be open from 2 to 5 p m on weekdays and from 2 to 5:30 p.m on sundays none of the drawings will be for sale meeting of college faculties to be held march 17 here the annual meeting of the facul ties of the various colleges in the lehigh valley will be held on mar 17 at lehigh in the afternoon the members will be addressed by dr w s lerned of the carnegie endowment for the advancement of teaching who will discuss the results of the carnegie tests in the state of penn sylvania columbia man will discuss technocracy professor rautenstrauch to talk before engin eers club and student societies here feb 15 stoughton asks co-operation of organizations in meet a public discussion of techno cracy by one of its leading and most active advocates will take place wednesday evening feb 15 in packard laboratory auditorium walter rautenstrauch professor of industrial engineering at col umbia university will lecture on technocracy to a joint meeting of the engineers club of the lehigh valley and the student engineering societies of lehigh university professor rautenstrauch is the leading technologist among the ad vocates of technocracy in the opin ion of bradley stoughton professor of metallurgical engineering pro fessor stoughton has been active in securing the speaker to lecture in bethlehem editorial urges lecture the brown and white first sug gested a lecture on technocracy in an editorial last week urging that some student society arrange to bring to the campus a man fit to lecture authoritatively on the sub ject at one of its meetings in order not to duplicate efforts on the part of those contemplating the sponsor ing of a technocracy lecture the editorial suggested that the editorial manager of the brown and white be notified as soon as possible yesterday the editor in chief of the brown and white received a letter from stoughton stating that he had received word from profes sor rautenstrauh to the effect that the latter would remain in bethle hem wednesday evening feb 5 to lecture to the engineers club on technocracy earlier in the day professor rautenstrauch will de liver an address to the bethlehem rotary club suggests joint meeting professor stoughton stated in his letter that the lecture on tech uocracy could be given before a joint meeting of the engineers club and student societies if the societies would cooperate by show ing their interest in the project the following societies on the campus have made known their willingness to aid in making the lecture a success the metallurgical society the mining and geological society the electrical engineering society the lehigh union and pi tau sigma crum to tell history of portuguese art illustrated lecture to include study of architecture e l crum associate professor of latin will trace the development of art and architecture in portugal from the roman period through the gothic and renaissance period in an address before the bethlehem chapter of the archeological in stitute of america on jan 20 at the home of mrs james s dodson 36 east church street in his lecture the title of which will be the history of portugal in art and architecture dr crum will pay particular attention to the manuelino type of architecture which he says is peculiar to por tugal this type of architecture dr crum explains developed in the sixteenth century during the reign of manuel i and introduced realism to an extensive degree portugal was always a nation of crusaders and churches and monas teries were built in large numbers under the various rulers he said in explaining the large numbers of such buildings which were found in portugal new frosh union will be organized group plans to hold sunday night supper meetings for the purpose of promoting greater friendship among freshmen robert m eichner eng 36 with the help of edwin m lincoln pres ident of the freshman class and charles w cooper president of the lehigh union will draw up plans for the freshman union an organ ization open to all freshmen dean c m mcconn and dr c g beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy have indi cated their approval of the plans of the organization which provides for sunday night supper meetings once or twice a month in drown hall the cost of the supper would be about 35 cents eichner stated a definite date has not been set for the first supper meeting al though sunday feb 5 has been tentatively chosen pending the dean's approval one of the features of the pro grams will be talks by members of the faculty lehigh hires publicity man e n sullivan to follow up prospective students and answer inquiries in conjunction with a new plan to avert a possible decline in stu dent enrollment this year the re cently appointed committee on pros pective students has procured the services of mr edward n sullivan a graduate of perm state in engin eering to carry on follow up work on prospective students and to as sist in an attempt to present to them personally the advantages le high offers mr sullivan will answer inquiries about lehigh from high and prep aratory school students and will arrange for them to be interviewed by undergraduates and alumni mr sullivan as a member of the de partment of promotion and publici ty will also assist in the work of distributing literature concerning lehigh to schools throughout the country the committee on prospective students consists of vice president n m emery chairman dean c m mcconn associate dean g b curtis a e buchanan alumni secretary and dr h d thomas head of the education department in furtherance of this plan as sociate dean g b curtis will vis it high and preparatory schools in the territory from which lehigh draws students and will attempt to acquaint the principals and head masters with lehigh's curricula in the various schools she maintains and to give them a concise idea of lehigh's advantages undergraduates will be requested to take an active part in this cam paign and will be asked to look up fellows from their home towns or prep schools the idea being that through intimate contact with the student body and by visiting the school prospective students will be better able to judge the merits of the university than through here say former graduate assistant is married to bethlehem girl miss frances m steckel daugh ter of mr and mrs e m steckel 926 delaware avenue and former secretary to j d petrikin became the bride of e raymond binkley former graduate assistant in phy sics in the first reformed church on christmas day the rev a h schuler pastor of the church per formed the ceremony after a short wedding trip mr and mrs binkley will make their home in cleveland ohio where mr binkley is a member of the faculty of western reserve university mr binkley is a graduate of franklin and marshall and lehigh he was awarded his master's degree in science in 1931 last year he taught physics at lehigh delta omicron theta picks six for team men are selected to prepare subject matter for debate six men of delta omicron theta honorary debating society were se lected to prepare subject matter on both sides of a debate resolved that all inter-allied was debts in cluding reparations be cancelled last friday at a meeting in room 466 of packard laboratory the society has tentative plans for debates on that subject in in tercollegiate meets with cedar crest college on feb 7 a double meet villanova college feb 9 away temple university feb 10 away and st joseph's college feb 17 away stated maurice bernstein vice president of the society the 13 members who attended the last meeting voted unanimously to have a club picture taken for the epitome the matter was put off until the opinion of all the 22 mem bers could be polled bernstein said the society invites everyone who is interested in debating to attend the debate with cedar crest on feb 3 wolle funeral held in chapel shields tells of struggles of bach choir founder in memorial service the funeral of dr j fred wolle the founder and director of the bach choir was held saturday aft ernoon from his residence 46 east church street and was followed by a brief service in packer memorial chapel where the bach festivals were held a memorial service for dr wolle was held friday morning in chapel t edgar shields organist and di rector of mfosic in a talk on dr wolle's life told of the many strug gles the young leader had had in organizing the bach choir in th fage of many discouraging predic tions as to its failure • - was authority on bach dr wolle strove to bring to the american people a deeper apprecia tion of the works of bach and in so doing mr shields said earned the reputation of being one of the greatest authorities on this com poser mr shields then played three bach chorales favorites of dr wol le alle menschen mussen ster ben the passion chorale and jesu joy of man's desiring during the funeral service the chapel was completely filled by rel atives close friends and associates of the noted choral leader and members of his choir bishop conducts service the rt rev j taylor hamilton bishop of the moravian church read the opening words of the ser vices and the words of the anthem he leads us on for which dr wolle composed the music the rt rev f w sterrett bishop of the bethlehem diocese of the epis copal church offered a prayer and pronounced the benediction burial was made at the nisky hill ceme tery the honorary pallbearers includ ed paul de schweinitz d d for mer moravian missionary and lead er charles m schwab member of the board of trustees of lehigh uni versity and honorary president of the choir dr charles r richards president of lehigh university eu gene g grace president of the board of trustees dr raymond w walters president of the univer sity of cincinnati and former regis trar of lehigh and t edgar shields organist and director of music an examination of the charter and regulations of lehigh univer sity gives an answer to most of the problems of grades credits and pro bation current at this time of the year in order to clear up any dif ficulties and false rumors g.b cur tis registrar has suggested that extracts from the regulations be published with some corrections and additions made recently in competing the averages of students the semester grades are weighed according to the number of credit hours in the course con cerned on the basis a equals 4 b equals 3 c equals 2 d equals 1 and e or f equals 0 the regula tion states students who do not appear at the first scheduled re-examination are graded f and must repeat the course in which they are condition ed students who do not pass a re examination are graded f and must repeat the course e counts 0 in all cases an e counts the same as an f the registrar said those who are in good standing in the university are allowed a re-ex amination for a grade of e all students are in good standing who are not on probation dean curtis added those who are on valentine probation for getting nine hours or more of valentines must meet the same requirements of good standing as any other students the university requires that a first-semester freshman who passes six hours but fewer than eleven hours shall be put on probation a first-semester freshman who passes fewer than six hours shall be drop ped from the university any stu dent other than a first-semester freshman who passes fewer than 12 hours shall be put on probation business men hear kirkman grand national president tells aim and purpose of alpha kappa psi the aim and purpose of alpha kappa psi national honorary bus iness fraternity is to promote bus iness as a profession rather than as a stepping stone to quick success declared o arthur kirkman grand national president of the fraternity at a dinner held friday by the lo cal chapter in the delta tau delta house the dinner followed the initiation of 13 new members in drown hall g b curtis registrar and associate dean professor neil carothers r b cowin w l bishop and h a haring of the department of bus iness and daniel borth jr in structor in economics attended the exercises mr kirkman who was the guest speaker at the dinner was formerly connected with the university of north carolina he pointed out that the idea of the fraternity is to make the members keep business as a profession and not to use it to get rich quick he asked the new men to take his attitude toward the fraternity in this respect the local chapter should have programs with professional speakers and should have bull sessions in the meetings he suggested the men initiated are william r lathrop,'33 samuel t rhodes 33 donald c pierce/33 john r taft,'33 samuel t harleman,'33 fred lambert,34 garret l grier 34 willard c k6rn,'34 robert f bavington,'34 walter a peterson 34 richard e olwine,'34 gordon w paterson,'34 and charles r chambers/34 any student placed on probation shall be dropped permanently if in the next semester he fails in four hours made up of two or more courses the preceding rule is not applied automatically to students who have attained the classification of seniors the cases of seniors will be considered individually by the committee on standing of students must pass re-exams in order to get off probation a student must pass all of his re-ex aminations those students who go on probation at the end of the sec ond semester may get off by pass ing all courses in which a grade of f was received in summer school and by passing all re-examinations in the fall before registration the registrar stated a student placed on scholastic or disciplinary probation may not represent the university in any stu dent activity or hold office on any student publication during the term of such probation no student who has matriculated at any other college shall represent the university in any freshman in tercollegiate contest no student shall represent the university in any varsity intercollegiate contest until he has been in residence as a stu dent one academic year the regu lations state social probation defined any organized living group which for two successive semesteps fails to attain an average of 1.6 shall be denied social privileges for the succeeding semester and thereafter until it has attained a semester group average of 1.6 or better"*the university decrees the classification of undergrad uates shall be based on the success ful completion of the following numbers of credit hours dr worcester tells of lehigh says students petitioned once to make chapel attendance compulsory that student petition once caused the board of trustee to make chapel attendance compulsory is revealed in bethlehem and lehigh univer sity a chapter in life's adven ture the autobiography of dr el wood worcester professor of men tal and moral philosophy and uni versity chaplain from 1890 to 1896 extracts from dr worcester's book and an editorial on scholastic standards and the athletic policy or included in the january issue of the alumni bulletin dr worcester pays lehigh a compliment when he says the packer memorial chapel in spite of its windows was and is one of the most beautiful college churches in america the ideas that lehigh upholds the purity policy and is a tough school where only super-intellects may hope to survive are purely imaginative terrors is the opinion expressed in an editorial in the bul letin the trouble is explains the editorial that we have talked so much about them that we have come to believe that they are real there is one alumnus however who is not afraid tof these two im aginative terrors the editorial states and he is responsible for the pres ence of five of the best football players in college including the captain-elect all five are getting along fine in college working hard and liking it the bulletin says what would be the result on tay lor field it asks if ten of the ten thousand alumni followed this ex ample second term registration to be held jan 31 and feb 1 lehigh students will register for the second semester of this school year as follows freshmen tuesday jan 31 8-12 a.m sophomores tuesday jan 31 1-5 p m juniors wednesday feb 1 8-12 a m • seniors wednesday feb 1 1-5 p.m graduates saturday feb 4 the last day for undergraduate registration will be monday feb 13 graduate registration will close saturday feb 25 musical clubs give concert 200 attend home recital and dance held satur day night drown hall about 200 students and their friends attended the home concert and dance of the combined musi cal clubs directed by t edgar shields director of music last sat urday evening in drown hall the program opened with the singing of hail the college by the glee club this song which was written by r w kinsey 07 and a n van vleck 08 was followed by viking song by o'hara lassie o mine by walt was sung by the quartet composed of g a horlacher 35 first tenor f s roberts 35 second tenor e s lloyd 34 first bass r j penning ton 34 second bass to the sea by kramer and john peel by andrews sung by the glee club closed the first part of the program following the intermission dur ing which the dance orchestra un der the leadership of c ward kel sted president of the club played a few popular selections the glee club sang i've never been to fris co by flagler and sylvia by speaks r j pennington sang two solos when big profundo sang low c by botsford and home on the range by guison as an encore he sang asleep in the deep by pet rie following the soldiers chorus from faust by gound the program was closed with the singing of the alma mater by the entire glee club there was dancing to music by the musical clubs dance orchestra from 9:30 until 12 c.e.'s to hear talks on structural work research reports to be given at new york meet five members of the civil engin eering department will attend the annual meeting of the american society of civil engineers which will be held in new york city jan 19 to 21 those who will attend are hale sutherland head of the department of civil engineering m o fuller and s a becker associate profes sors of civil engineering h g pay row assistant professor of civil en gineering and i m lyse research assistant professor of engineering materials over 1,000 civil engineers are ex pected to attend the meeting which will be held at the united engin eering societies building reports will be given on research activities and engineering problems wednesday afternoon on thurs day morning talks will be given on highway structural and sanitary engineering problems followed by discussions on city planning and waterways in the afternoon bethlehem pa tuesday january 17 1933 vol xl no j the lehigh university brown and white price five cents survey of rulings explains grades credits and probation a counts 4 points in computing averages under revised regulations failure to appear at re-exam means repetition of course plans approved for formal ball feb 4 in gyms classification sophomore ist semester sophomore 2nd semester junior ist semester junior 2nd semester senior ist semester senior 2nd semester -. arts 26 43 60 75 90 105 m.b met.e bus i.e e.e chem chem c.e eng.phys eng 26 32 32 28 28 34 43 50 51 47 47 52 60 68 70 70 70 70 78 86 88 88 88 87 96 104 106 106 110 105 114 122 123 123 127 124 e.m 34 53 76 94 112 129 no paper until feb 7 with this issue the brown and white suspends publication until feb 7 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first