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              as though it were nothing for them to enter browsing rooms which had been closed for three long years they stood on the steps leading down into the room and casually inspected the place as one might in spect — well a horse show few enjoy privileges strangely enough out of the 11 who came to look only three stayed to browse these three seemed a little self-conscious of the fact that they were the first to enjoy the newly-restored privileges of would be browsers two of them selected different books and browsed through them they were indeed true browsers but the other individ ual a studious looking freshman spent an hour and a half actually reading — sh ! — certain passages in mourning becomes electra the books which received the honor of being the first to be thum med by students in this room were don juan the return of sher lock holmes mourning becomes electra and balzac's works one lad enjoyed a few minutes with an 1889 lehigh pamphlet all who entered were graciously received by the attendant who presented them with a mimeograph ed sheet of the elaborate new rules which have been formulated so as to insure the successful operation of the room so this is the famous browsing room just as one might remark apropos of nought that this is pittsburgh upon seeing it for the first time so did a lehigh student utter the quoted irriverent phrase upon first crossing the threshhold of the new ly-awakened drowsing room and it is this expression the only spok en sentiment on the opening day that will go down for posterity for as the clock in the old pack er tower chimed the hour of ten the doors of the famous browsing room were flung wide to students in the short space of 20 minutes 11 awe-stricken students entered the room of closed doors cau tiously like explorers entering a long-sealed egyptian tomb and fearful lest the curse of those who had sealed the door some thousand years ago would descend upon them the little groups filed into the softly-lighted room students very reserved most of them made haste to gain the safety of the shadow of the shelves and after apparently searching for a book they began to steal fearful glances around the place some entered with an un mistakable air of apology and seemed duly grateful when no one ordered them out others however were more self possessed they carried themselves gridiron date waits sanction debaters win at muhlenberg omicron delta kappa men to be pledged at homes omicron delta kappa senior honorary fraternity will pledge new members at 6 p m thurs day as the names of the pledges will not be announced those who may have been selected should remain at that time in their respective houses where they will be pledged they will be immediately taken to the sig ma chi house where initiation and a dinner will follow men changed on slate body arcadia head appoints sheer silver roessle to nominating committee completion of the changes in committees of the arcadia were ef fected yesterday when president martin m reed announced the re placement of three members of the slate committee these changes were h c sheer jr i e 33 replacing r r bach man bus 33 h i silver bus.'34 replacing h j o'brien jr bus 34 j j roessle arts,33 replacing w m hendricks m e.,'33 c n crichton arts 33 the fourth man on the committee retained his position t*he new constitution provides that the committee consist of two fraternity men one dormitory man and one downtown man the ap pointments were made with this in view w b crouse bus.'33 chairman of the blazer committee sent let ters saturday to town and out of town merchants who might be interested in submitting bids for the new blazer the blazer com mittee will meet with the executive committee at 4 p.m thursday mar 2 in the arcadia room to examine the materials and styles submitted the merchants have been invited to at tend this meeting the bidding is to be open plans are being made by t p doubleday bus.'34 chairman of the booster committee to hold one or more smokers before important wrestling meets doubleday will make a report at the executive meeting 4 p.m wednesday in the arcadia room okuno is selected to head rifle team scabbard and blade committee to draw up by-laws the scabbard and blade society organized a rifle team set a date for the election of new members appointed a committee to draw up new by-laws and elected a new first sergeant at its meeting last fri day night the rifle team was organized to compete with other chapters of the scabbard and blade and clifford okuno,'34 was elected captain the first shoot will be held in the week prior to march 21 new members will be elected at a meeting at 4 p.m wednesday feb 22 in the armory r l davis,'33 f l snavely 33 and p j flanigany'33 were appointed as a committee to draw up new by-laws and t b jordan 34 elected as first sergant in place of a b rawi^'34 rifle team wins over drexel as woodring scores 286 lehigh's rifle team defeated the drexel team 1362 to 1276 last sat urday at the armory the individ ual scores for the lehigh team were w b woodring,'36 286 r lindenhayn,'36 272 p h oh mer 36 271 r s cranmer'36 270 and j m hazen/33 263 r b wall 33 and c k okuno 34 alternates finished sixth and seventh respectively woodring's scores were prone 100 kneeling 94 and standing 92 open house will be held friday apr 21 departments will have machines running and experiments are to be in progress during day guides will meet visitors as they arrive on campus open house will be held at lehigh on friday april 21 as an nounced in a statement issued by a e buchanan director of pub licity last week visitors will be provided with an opportunity to visit the various buildings and laboratories on the campus and to make the acquain tance of members of the faculty all the departments will have dis plays calculated to show the nature and scope of their special work the engineering laboratories will be kept in full operation with all machines running and experiments in progress students and faculty to aid students and faculty the state ment said will cooperate in show ing visitors around the campus and acquainting them with the many varied interesting phases of le high's activity both in instruction and research guides will meet vis itors as they arrive on the campus and will conduct them around a circuit of the most important build ings allowing sufficient time in each department for the visitors to witness demonstrations and inspect exhibits most of the exhibits will be con tinued through the following day which is sub-freshman day thus enabling the prospective students to get a comprehensive view of the educational facilities offered by le high president charles russ richards has appointed a committee of fac ulty members with f v larkin head of the department of mechani cal engineering as chairman to handle the arrangements for the open house all the academic departments are cooperating to provide as attractive a program as possible parents and alumni invited the-vpuxßqse of a the plan for an p<w h&ufie'-l to enable the people of bethlehem and vicinity jtcl finjd^out exactly what is going fenv atlthemsije'ae^jjtfthe statement indicated the parents of a num ber wsut-of-town boys are ex in^s elves of this opportunity to inspect the educa cation facilities the alumni are specially invited to attend all interested persons will be in vited to visit the university and to inspect the buildings and labora tories on the afternoon and evening of the day designated invitations will be extended through all the social civic and religious organ izations throughout the lehigh valley rules given for use in browsing room no books may be removed smoking is permitted the purpose of the browsing room and rules pertaining to its use were outlined in a circular dis tributed to users of the room yes terday the circular states that the room is not provided as a place to study or to loaf but is to be used solely for recreational reading and for that purpose masterpieces of litera ture history and biography have been provided no books will be permitted to be brought in by readers and no books are to be taken from the room the books are largely duplicated in the main library for borrowing pur poses smoking in the browsing room is permitted but the library officials request that students do not leave the room with lighted cigarettes cigars or pipes since a quiet at mosphere for reading is desired no conversation will be permitted ellis and miller argue on war debt issue st joseph meet unjudged the lehigh debating team de feated muhlenberg at muhlenberg college last thursday at the fri day debate with st joseph's in packard auditorium no decision was rendered the subject of both de bates was resolved that war debts including reparations be can celled harry k ellis and clinton f miller of lehigh taking the nega tive side were the two lehigh men responsible for the 2-1 victory over muhlenberg ray and heist argued the affirmative for the losers con rad raker was the chairman of the evening and the judges were david miller solon segely and russell hudders the st joseph's debate was argu ed for lehigh by two winners of the previous evening their oppo nents again on the affirmative were o'brien and mallory maurice bernstien of lehigh was chairman of this debate on which it was agreed to have no judging mr louis m stamberg of allen town is the coach of the lehigh debaters six debates remain on the schedule on march 4 the team will engage dayton on march 9 rutgers and on march 10 colum bia the remaining three debates are with gettysburg washington and lee and brooklyn to submit statement board of publications to meet at end of this week the financial statement of the brown and white for the fiscal year ended feb 15 and the new plan for publishing the review will be submitted for approval at the next meeting of the board of publications dean c m mcconn announced last week this meeting will be held proba bly the latter part of this week dean mcconn said edward fleis cher editor-in-chief of the review will present the new plan for the publication of the magazine as pre sented in the last issue the next issue will be out on march 15 fleischer said the last date for material to be handed in is march 7 frosh choose r w eichner head of union marsden lincoln elected secretary - treasurer at sunday supper meeting in drown hall cafeteria men hear talk by mcconn and songs by double quartet robert eichner eng was elect ed president and marsden lincoln bus was elected secretary and treasurer of the freshman union at its first meeting which 70 attended sunday evening in the drown hall cafeteria dean c m mcconn spoke on the complete student and a double quartet from the glee club sang two selections a dinner held before the meet ing marks the first attempt of the class of 1936 to organize the af fair was pronounced a success by eichner dean mcconn and dr c g beardslee head of the depart ment of moral and religious phil osophy the meeting was organized by eichner with the help of dr beards lee and dean mccorrn the 70 freshmen present voted to hold similar meetings every two weeks in the cafeteria on sunday evenings dean mcconn speaks in his speech dean mcconn stressed the fact that students should take care to develop the es thetic side of their lives because he believes a thorough enjoyment of esthetic pleasures is the only way to stave off the boredom of middle age which attacks so many people after the age of thirty commenting on the meeting dean mcconn said i feel that mr eichner mr lincoln and the fresh man class are to be congratulated on getting off to a fine start in their project for a freshman get-togeth er organization their idea of centering the freshman meeting around a sunday night supper is likely to be much more successful than the smokers and pep meetings on weekday nights which earlier freshman classes have tried i am sure that sunday night the 70 freshmen pres ent enjoyed the abundant and sat isfying supper and the good fellow ship of the occasion dr beardslee made the followng comment the purpose of the freshman union is to promote ac quaintance and friendship among the members of the freshman class i attended the meeting sunday evening and felt that it was appro priate to the purpose beardslee notes spirit the tone of the meeting was splendid and class spirit was evidenced by the voluntary atten dance of 70 freshmen the value of the meeting was materially in creased by two selections by a dou ble quartet from the glee club and its success was assured by the ad dress of dean mcconn the freshman union has good leadership and it has the support of the lehigh union this fresh man group is making a constructive contribution to university spirit and has the good wishes of all the uni versity's friends registrations fewer undergraduates number 1269 as 108 fail to return figures compiled by the regis trar's office last week reveal that there are 1269 undergraduates • re gistered at lehigh for this semes ter twenty-six men are registered who were not here during the first semester of the 1351 undergraduates re gistered for the first semester of this scholastic year 108 men did not return to school this semester the number of men who regis tered for the second semester of last year was 1350 and in 1931 there were 1409 undergraduates re gistered for the second semester the graduate registration is not yet completed committees appointed to prepare for dinner dance of journalists the date of the gridiron supper dance which has been tentatively scheduled for saturday march 11 awaits the approval of the dean edward fleisher president of pi delta epsilon honorary journalis tic fraternity said yesterday the committee on invitations in cludes edward fleischer editor of the review james j roessle ed itor of the burr james a tem pest editor of the epitome and martin m reed editor of the brown andt w^hke „ , _ the mernbefs^y-ithe^^eitiev and supper committee are robert l da<tfs ia^s^rie^ss manaker-jofythe review*-¥v*ifti*t r.vmaropujielhj ber of the board of publications c brofta peters assistant editor of the m&islcsjm:2xiejhps%i board member of the brown ana white the program and orchestra com mittee includes martin m reed pierce j flanigan advertising manager of the burr arthur l benson former news manager of the brown and white clarendon n crichton managing editqr of the burr james j roessle and ben jamin minifie former business manager of the review burt h riviere former business manager of the brown and white has been appointed as a committee of one to petition for the date these committees met last week and have drawn up tentative plans to be submitted at a general meet ing of pi delta epsilon this after noon at 4 p.m in drown hall coming events tuesday feb 21 3 p m meeting of the lehigh university women's club in drown hall the members of the teaching and administrative staff are invited to tea at 4:30 p m wednesday feb 22 7:30 p m meeting of the faculty dramatic club at the residence of prof and mrs robert w hall 37 east church street to read as you desire me by piran dello thursday feb 23 7:30 p m meeting of pi mv ep silon room 258 packard labor atory 7:30 p m meeting of arcadia in drown hall neville tells colloid uses and qualities chemistry professor ex plains twilight zone of matter responsible for many daily phenomena 175 persons attend fourth of university lecture series the colloidal state or twilight zone of matter is responsible for many natural phenomena and ev eryday processes such as the diges tion of food washing treatment of disease and the tanning of leath er stated dr harvey a neville associate professor of chemistry last night in packard auditorium the lecture attenden by 175 stu dents and faculty members was the fourth of the university lecture se ries in accordance with the request of the lectures committee that sci entific terms be left out of the title dr neville called his lecture the twilight zone of matter he was introduced by prof joseph b rey nolds of the committee on univer sity lectures dr neville said that although col loidal particles in their finest state have diameters less than the wave length of light and hence are in visible to even the strongest micro scopes they reflect light especially at right angles and thus their pres ence can be noted by the human eye colloidal gold shown he exhibited a pint bottle of col loidal gold suspended in a liquid the liquid appeared red due to the reflectoin of light by the gold par ticles dr neville declared that the amount of gold causing the colora tion would not cover the head of an ordinary pin matter in the colloidal condition produces the half-light of twilight and dawn when the san is below the horizon it also accounts for the color of sunrise and sunset and the blue of the sky if it were not for the presence of colloidal dust par ticles in the atmosphere sunlight would come and go suddenly as if an electric light were turned on and off dr neville stated explains diamond test he said that oil displaces water from carbon surfaces and that wa ter displaces oil from glass sur faces since diamond is a form of carbon it is possible to distinguish genuine diamonds from imitations by observing whether or not water will displace oil from the surface of the specimen it is possible to electrolytically plate rubber from latex on a sur face since rubber occurs in latex in the form of negatively charged particles of colloidal size dr ne ville said by means of lantern slides he showed several pictures of emul sions the effects of light dispersion by colloidal particles and the ef fects of colloids on surface tension cures rubber latex dr neville cured rubber latex by mixing it with hydrochloric acid he said that milk which also con tains colloidal particles tends to do the same thing but to a much less er degree when it comes in contact with the dilute hydrochloric acid present in the intestinal tract one per cent of gelatin added to cows milk by reducing the milk's ten dency to curd makes it as disges table as human milk he said when pigments are mixed to gether to form paint colors the col or of the mixture depends more on the relative fineness of the compo nents than on the percentage com position the color of the mixture tends to that of the fined ground component dr neville proved this by exhibiting several bottles of blue and white powdered mixtures of different percentage compositions and of varying degrees of fineness industrials to join national association plans for student branch are nearly complete for the purpose of reorganiz ing a lehigh student branch of the american society of industrial en gineers the industrial engineering society will meet at 7:45 p m thursday in room 466 packard laboratory the national organization has granted permission to the local group to organize a student branch and arrangements for establishing this chapter are almost complete frank l snavely president of the local society said yesterday snavely is planning to have sev eral short speeches by students on current problems of industrial en gineering attempts are also being made to have a visiting speaker at tend and to discuss some phase of engineering practice the society has up to the pres ent time had no connection with the national organization under the new plan members will receive copies of the a s l e magazine national membership cards and pins and other advantages not enjoyed formerly by the members snavely said r.o.t.c staff is announced assignments for student officers are issued by military department the following assignments in the lehigh r o t c unit were an nounced recently by major j o green head of the department of military science and tactics regimental commander r t dean colonel regimental adjutant p j flan igan captain battalion commanders r b wall major first battalion c a van billiard major second bat talion battalion adjutants t b jor dan ist lieutenant ist battalion e v schuyler ist lieutenant 2nd battalion color guard staff sargeant r s cranmer company b staff sergeant r a hopping com pany a color corporal r b jackson company e color cor poral m b rae company b » ist battalion first battalion company a captain a d robb ist lieut j c khoads 2nd lieut r m neihaus 2nd lieut w s kistler first sergeant a t bailey pla toon sergeants j k beidler b l bishop c k okuno sergeants h c martin r a hopping w f ridge guide corporals h n bieter s r goodrich c b pharo corporals w a johnson j b saxman m anderson t t holme m roman c r beeson b d beacher j e braunberns k s putnam l c black c a warm kessel h e lore guidon bearer r rick first battalion company b captain w h c webster ist lieut e v schuyler 2nd lieut r a lodge 2nd lieut j m hazen first sergeant h w mcdowell platoon sergeants w r taylor f b mor gan w s miller guide sergeants r s cranmer e h henry c t olofson guide corporals m reidy p f preston m b rae corporals s b whitney f g allen p berg w b stallings s r ellison h k ellis w r neiman r c prall r l swope w r williams l r cooper r b lenna guidon bearer r h wagoner first battalion company c captain f d keck ist lieut f l snavely 2nd lieut e m eddleman 2nd lieut e f jenny first sergeant l 0 stutz platoon sergeants j j bosak a cottrell b f witmer guide sergeants h h ford j w heiney p e short l j holmes guide corporals a f houston r p allison e stefko corporals e s chickering j h kress a s cohen c w lueders f a groff j j nilan c h neiman v rand t d cooke j e grimwood s b helms r h kampshulte guidon bearer f c schneider * 2nd battalion second battalion company e captain j a aufhammer ist lieut w p baker 2nd lieut r m laftman 2nd lieut h a voss 2nd lieut b d beach first sergeant e l heller platoon sergeants d d evans c c hertel g c konolidge guide sergeants b g fortman e n hower c m denise guide corporals c c kaesemeyer c a heiberger c b porter corporals r b jackson f j hollister f m pittinger j g cornelius w s gal loway j a piper d l hemphill a m webb r m blythe g r morrison p budura r r mcclintic guidon bearer j lisle second battalion company f captain e h robb ist lieut t b jordan 2nd lieut r l willis 2nd lieut r m fitz patrick 2nd lieut r l snyder first ser geant w c winblad platoon sergeants j r fugard g l billheimer w am bruster guide sergeants g e goodrich j e gross f t taylor guide ocrporals c f bayer w f kuhl c g sherill cor porals w y bilger a h loux b m root c h kuhns h p george l trav ermina c r hocker r w buchanan a continued on page four bethlehem pa tuesday february 21 1933 eager students explore mysteries of newly opened browsing room vol xu-no 31 price five cents brown and white member intercollegiate newspaper association 11l all the lehigh news first