Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 27

              lehigh considered as site of national wrestling meet bethlehem pa and roan oke va are the two locations under consideration of the na tional collegiate athletic asso ciation as probable sites for the national wrestling champion ships stated dr r g clapp of the university of nebraska chairman of the wrestling rules committee of the association a questionnaire was mailed to all colleges and universities in terested in wrestling to deter mine the possible number of en tries if the meet is held and the decision of the wrestling associa tion depends upon the response received from these question naires lehigh alumni hold banquet in philadelphia club members honor dr richards on the tenth anniversary of his ap poinment as president head of lafayette college is guest speaker at dinner the tenth anniversary of dr charles russ richards presidency of lehigh university the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the philadelphia lehigh club and the thirtieth anniversary of moriz bern stein 96 as secretary of the club were celebrated at one banquet at the bellevue-stratford hotel on jan 27 the william perm charter school was presented with the inter-acad emic athletic association football trophy donated by the club to the local preparatory school with the year's best football team there were six schools competing for the cup dr richards in addressing the banquet said it will be a catas trophe if the depression continues to a point where the work of edu cational institutions is seriously im paired nowhere else can men be adequately trained to conduct re search which is necessary to de velop the new industries which must be found to absorb the unem ployed the alumni memorial building packard laboratory the remodeled christmas-saucon hall and the en larged library as well as the beau tification of the campus are among the material improvements consum mated during his term that graduates from technical schools must have better impressed upon them their social responsi bility in giving attention to the problems of fair wealth distribution and the promotion of human wel fare was stressed by dr w m lewis president of lafayette col lege and guest speaker team to debate debt situation war reparations will be issue discussed with cedar crest tonight a debate between lehigh and ce dar crest college will open the sea son for delta omicron theta hon orary debating society at 8 o'clock tonight in drown hall where le high will present the affirmative side of the question resolved that inter-allied war debts includ ing reparations should be can celled lehigh's team will consist of s l graw arts 36 maurice bern stein arts 33 and s d leibowitt arts 33 chairman the debate will be non-decisive with no judges said leibowitt as an effort is being made to give as many men as possible an opportunity tp participate in inter collegiate debating to do so many of the debates this season will be followed by an open forum where the audience can participate in a general discussion no decisions will be made at such debates debating is placed on a higher and much more profitable plane leibowitt explained when a de bate is open to forum discussion on pertinent topics of the day in do ing this lehigh is following the oxford system of debating as prac ticed in many leading colleges w o borchardt will describe flotation process to miners a discussion of the flotation process of ore extraction will be given by walter o borchardt at the next meeting of the mining and geological society ¦ mr borchardt is assistant superintendent of mines for the new jersey zinc company the meeting will be at 8 p m thursday feb 9 in the geology lecture room in williams hall doan tells rotarians of ray properties describes uses of radiations well known to science the properties and uses of the va rious rays known to modern science were discussed by gilbert e doan associate professor of physical metallurgy in his lecture to the bethlehem rotary club on new uses of radiation wednesday evening jan 25 at the hotel beth lehem dr doan spoke mainly of x-rays and radium the sensitivity of pho tographic plates to the invisible rays emitted by diminutive capsules of radium has been put to use in de tecting cracks and flaws in steel of as much as ten inches thickness he declared bradley stoughton head of the metallurgy department allison butts associate professor of metal lurgy wilbur e harvey assistant professor of metallurgy and fred v larkin head of the department o mechanical and industrial engin eering were also present at the meeting submit reports at convention professors present work done in research at a i e e meeting lehigh men presented several pa pers at the annual convention of the american institute of electrical engineers held jan 23 to 27 in new york the meeting was attended by profs s s seyfert j l beaver f creedy a r miller and n s hibshman of the department of electrical engineering and graduate students from lehigh the papers were synchronous mechanical rectifier-inverter by professor seyfert performance and design of electric welders with controlled transients by professor creedy transients in arc welding generators by pro iessor miller and new studies of the afc*'discharge by j l mey er former research fellow the pa j£§^£p.-\t.fee results of researches conmteied^at lehigh and are pub lished with the other papers pre r^njtg^-dft-the record of the conven during the convention several in spection trips in the vicinity of new york were conducted and many points of interest to the engineers were visited j w barker former head of the electrical department of lehigh and present dean of engineering at co lumbia university was elected pres ident of the illuminating engineer ing society at the convention news staff positions approved by board sawyer herrick klatzkin win managerial posts the election of ten men to posi tions on the staff of the brown and white were approved by the board of publications at a recent meeting these men have been in competi tion for the past month the newly elected managers whose terms last one year are e a sawyer 35 news manager r f herrick 34 editorial manager and charles klatzkin 34 business manager the new officers in the revised advertising department of the brown and white who were elected are w h mac donald 35 adver tising manager and v a knipe 35 circulation manager for one year e s lloyd 34 national advertis ing assistant and c h stamm 35 local advertising assistant for one semester the remaining men who were elected to positions for one semes ter are h w mcdowell 34 makeup editor m wolf 35 news editor w r merriam 34 sports editor and g s alleman 34 ed ward fleischer 33 harry j o'brien 34 members of the edi torial council ted black and don red man play for interfra ternity dance largest ever held at lehigh two gymnasiums decorated with modernistic bunting record attendance placed at twice that of senior prom held here last autumn that the formal ball sponsored by the interfraternity council and at tended by 800 couples saturday night in taylor gymnasium will be come an annual affair is the hope expressed by j a aufhammer president of the interfraternity council lehigh needs another important social activity between rushing sea son and sub-freshman day and the council is the organization which can make it possible aufhammer said the ball was the largest event of its kind ever held at lehigh two orchestras furnished music simul taneously that of ted black in the lower gymnasium and that of don redman on the upper floor both bands are from new york city redman broadcasts from connie's inn harlem black plays with the mills brothers from station wabc the gymnasiums were decorated modernistically in black white and silver a canopy lead from the low er gymnasium across to the trophy room which was used as a lounge the decorations were furnished by sloer and company of trenton n.j contrary to former plans to ad mit only members of the fraterni ties represented in the interfrater nity council the council opened the dance generally there were 1,000 guest cards issued a e buchanan alumni secretary commenting on this generosity shown by the council says it was the true lehigh spirit of good fel lowship and the affair was a suc cess congeniality marked the whole evening that the number of people who attended the ball saturday night is the largest on record for lehigh dances is shown by data obtained from the dean's office as against the 1,600 people gathered at the af fair there were only half that many at the most recent senior ball the ball cost approximately 1012 according to aufhammer the council president of this sum about 40 percent was subsidized by the council the rest was collected from member fraternities if this activity is looked upon with favor next year the interfra ternity council will probably con tribute the same percentage of the costs aufhammer stated of the 32 fraternities at lehigh 27 are now represented in the inter fraternity council group plans to place men as teachers committee is appointed to aid students who wish to enter educational fields after graduation requirements of three states may be met in four years the policy and procedure in plac ing lehigh students who are plan ning on entering the field of edu cation with teaching or administra tion work as a goal was considered at a meeting of the teacher place ment committee recently the committee is composed of h p thomas chairman and head of the department of education dean c m mcconn h m ullmann head of the chemistry department percy hughes head of the depart ment of philosophy p m palmer head of the department of german and j a brodhead director of placement this group has been ap pointed as a special committee by president richards to deal with teacher placement in conjunction with the new placement service bu reau the work of the committee and the placement bureau can function efficiently only when a student plans his work somewhat ahead mr brodhead said men who are con sidering entering the teaching field should therefore secure an inter view with dr thomas head of the department of education through the judicious use of elec tives at lehigh the teaching re quirements of the states of pennsyl vania new york and new jersey can be met in a four year course stated mr brodhead five years of preparation is not necessary nor is a student forced to distract his attention from his major subjects to secure certification for teach ire>^^@njl>9fev-*ba i th^matics lan guage sciencer'tw ffccat rp?v eighteen hours work in educatior ja^wu^ihrep fyeurs in general psychology^"^we sicifc^n&laßjffei t fc frequently there are opportuni athletics in a public high school or a private preparatory school another important phase of teacher preparation is well provid ed for at lehigh training in ath letic coaching and music for those prospective teachers who desire to occupy one of the many high or preparatory school teaching posi tions which include directors of certain extra-curriculum activities work taken in lehigh's depart ment of physical education can be offered as partial credit toward a state teacher's certificate since educational courses are offered in lehigh's summer school this of fers an excellent opportunity to gain nine hours credit per summer coming events tuesday feb 7 7:30 p m varsity wrestling vs syracuse taylor gymnasium 8 p m delta omicron theta de date with cedar crest in drown hall wednesday feb 8 7:30 p m meeting of the faculty dramatic club at the residence of prof and mrs robert w hall 37 e church street to read the second mrs tanquery by pin ero friday feb 10 3-10 p m meeting of the lehigh valley section of the american institute of electrical engineers packard auditorium 8 p m meeting of spanish club at the residence of r a soto 318 w north street saturday feb 11 2 p m varsity swimming vs la fayette taylor gymnasium 3 p m varsity wrestling vs yale taylor gymnasium 1,210 register for semester undergraduate enrollment shows decrease of 284 since september term undergraduate registration a s announced in the registrar's office saturday showed that 1,210 students had received their registration tick ets but only 1,059 of these had paid their fees this is a decrease of 284 from last semester when 1,353 under graduate students had completed registration the corresponding february sta tistics of one year ago reveal that 1,314 students checked through and 1,194 paid their fees the lowest enrollment in recent years was 979 in the year 1922 since then there has been a steady increase until 1930 when 1,529 stu dents registered since 1930 there has been a decrease dean mcconn reports that a smaller number of men flunked out last semester than any semester since 1920 this was caused he said not by a lowering of scholas tic standards but by a better qual ity of work on the part of students who know that the depression has made it difficult to secure an edu cation lehigh ranks sixth in pennsylva nia colleges in number of students enrolled a survey by the state de partment of public instruction dis closed recently the university of pennsylvania ranks first with a total of 7,911 full time and graduate students the university of pittsburgh is second with 6,359 and temple university is third with 5,586 pennsylvania state college ranks next with 4,745 villanova college is next and pre cedes lehigh with a total of 1,439 some of these institutions have a much larger net enrollment which includes part time extension and summer session students chemists entertain prof h a neville gives skit to engineers club a comedy skit kindergarten kemistry was presented by har vey a neville associate professor of chemistry and charles a jean son student chemistry foundation fellow at the annual dinner-dance of the lehigh valley engineers club on friday evening jan 21 at the americus hotel in allentown the skit consisted of experiments of so-called chemical magic dr neville explained and were con ducted mainly with water t e butterfield professor of heat power engineering and pres ident of the club served as toast master at the dinner news briefs charles a gosztonyi 10 was elected to the bethlehem school board at a special meeting held re cently to fill the vacancy in the board caused by the death of l j broughal who had acted as a direc tor for over 30 years mr goszton yi is treasurer of the gosztonyi savings and trust company of this city professors hale sutherland and m o fuller of the civil engineer ing department attended the an nual meeting of the american so ciety of civil engineers held in new york from jan 18 to 21 seven lehigh students were present among a group of about ten people who met jan 31 at the home of r a soto assistant professor of romance languages 318 w north street to discuss informally span ish literature science and music the marriage of j b severs in structor in english to mrs edith nogle perdunn daughter of mr and mrs william franklin noglc of kingston took place jan 25 in trenton technocracy lecture plans are completed walter rautenstrauch of c o 1 v m bia university will give talk feb 15 in packard auditorium tickets may be reserved at union office by students the purpose and progress of the movement known as technocracy will be the subject of discussion by prof walter rautenstrauch head of the industrial engineering de partment of columbia university at 8 p m feb is in packard audi torium the address will be spon sored by the engineers club of le high valley and student societies of lehigh university dr neil carothers director of the college of business administration will be among those invited to give short discussions after the lecture the meeting will then be opened for general discussion by the audi ence professor rautenstrauch until re cently identified with the movement of " technocracy at columbia as headed by howard scott has brok en away from scott whose leader ship has been repudiated by colum bia university rautenstrauch plans to continue v ith the research work that was being carried on under the movement with the sanction of the university a graduate of the university of missouri professor rautenstrauch is a member of tau beta pi and sigma xi he belongs to the amer ican society of mechanical engin eers american academy of politi cal and social science and frank lin institute he was one of the co founders of technocracy with scott at noon on feb 15 will speak on technocracy to the bethlehem ro tary club at the regular weekly meeting of the club in the hotel bethlehem three hundred tickets to the lec ture in packard auditorium will be available to lehigh students it was decided last night in allentown at the meeting of the executive com mittee of the engineers club of le high valley which is one of the so cieties cooperating in bringing rau tenstrauch here student tickets may be reserved now at the offices of the lehigh union in drown hall none will be available until later in the week fifty tickets will be available for faculty members and may be re served now at the registrar's office fifty tickets may be had by alum ni through the secretary of the alumni association and 300 more will be reserved for members of the engineers club the lecture will begin at 8 p m in packard auditorium and the doors will be opened to the public at 7:50 student ushers are wanted and may obtain the position by calling martin reed 2909 ralph goepp jr 28 to speak on oxford first lehigh rhodes scholar will talk here feb 1 3 ralph max goepp jr 28 first lehigh student to receive a rhodes scholarship will address the fac uly educational club on the subject of oxford as an educational cen ter on monday feb 13 it was an nounced last evening at the faculty meeting the association of colleges of the lehigh valley it was also an nounced will meet here friday march 17 the speaker for the after noon meeting will be dr w s lerned of the carnegie founda tion who will give a talk relative to pennsylvania colleges and secon dary schools a lecture will be given on the apotheosis of the rebel by ram say traquair professor of architec ture at mcgill university in the evening in packard auditorium dr miller discusses norseland forms fjords waterfalls described to women's club geological formations in the scandinavian countries were dis cussed by dr benjamin l miller head of the geology department at a meeting tuesday evening jan 24 qf the bethlehem junior woman's club with the aid of slides dr miller described the fjords waterfalls and glaciers of norway denmark and sweden his material for the lecture was collected on a trip through these countries last summer dr miller said that norway den mark and sweden had once been on a ten thousand foot plateau over which ice moved slowly southward seeping through the valleys to the ocean and cutting them into fjords with bare rock walls rising to sev eral thousand feet he substantiated the report that water running from caverns under the glaciers was colored milky white because of suspended rock powder formed by the glaciers art exhibition opens sunday howland gives comments on various drawings now in library gallery drawings of elaborate seaside re creation centers theaters institu tions homes and c"harcoal sketches by architectural students feature the art exhibit which opened sunday afternoon in the university art gal lery practically all of the drawings are colored and many of them have won awards in competions the exhibition is open from 2 p m to 5 p m on weekdays and from 2 p m to 5:30 p m on sun days it will close feb 19 in commenting on the exhibition garth a howland assistant pro fessor of fine arts said that the work on the whole impresses one with the care taken in details professor howland called atten tion to a group of quick sketches in pen and ink and said that they were very good he pointed out a char coal sketch of a torso which he con sidered the best work in charcoal which he has ever seen the free hand drawings from perm state he considered the best of that type of drawing the university of pennsylvania drawings emphasize design the perm state drawings emphasize structure and the illinois drawings are between these two professor howland indicated he also called attention to the in terest which the exhibition should hold for students who have had me chanical or freehand drawing prof crum traces development of art latin professor describes por tuguese architecture e l crum associate professor of latin traced the history of por tugal in art and architecture pay ing particular attention to the de velopment of architecture in that country from the eleventh century on in an address before the beth lehem chapter of the archeological institute of america jan 20 at the home of mrs james s dodson 36 east church street the slides which dr crum used in his lecture which was entitled the history of portugal in art and architecture he made from photographs which he took while visiting portugal last summer among the slides were pictures of the temple of diana at evora which dr crum termed the most impor tant monument of roman times on the iberian peninsula there were also slides of a tower built on the tejo river by manuel i to mark the spot from which vas co dagama sailed for india in 1497 this tower is in the village of blen the portuguese form for bethle hem a suburb of lisbon vol xl no 27 bethlehem pa tuesday february 7 1933 price five cents 1,600 attend ball council reports the lehigh university brown and white member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first