Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 32

              o.d.k honors three pledges with initiation bishop lindabury beach inducted into society at ceremonies in sigma chi fraternity house long speaker at banquet tells value of honoraries richard n lindabury chem 34 ben d beach e e 33 and ben l bishop arts 34 were initiated last night into omicron delta kap pa national honorary senior frater nity the three men were pledged at their respective homes about 6:30 p m and were taken to the sigma chi house where they were for mally initiated the ceremony was followed by a dinner and a meet ing at the meeting dr j s long professor of inorganic chemistry gave a short talk on the signifi cance which organizations like o d k have in creating college spir it he also explained the important part college spirit played in a man's college life and later life tells of activities during the meeting b.h riviere president welcomed the new mem bers and c e harrison secretary gave a brief account of o d x.'s activities during the past few years the meeting was adjourned about 8:30 p m it is the custom of o d k to initiate the twelve juniors having the highest number of points each year two are initiated in febru ary and ten in the early part of may an exception was made this year in the case of beach since he is a three-year man riviere said bishop is eastern intercollegiate wrestling champion in the 145-lb class and a member of the n a a u during his freshman year he made numerals in wrestling baseball and football he is a mem ber of the newtonian society the chemical society and arcadia he is president of the phi club cyan ide and the junior class he has worked on the brown and white and was captain of the freshman football team n has received honors lindabury is a member of tau beta pi pi mv epsilon cyanide glee club and mustard and cheese he was a member of the rifle team he made freshman and sophomore honors he is assistant manager of swimming and is president of the brown key society he has re ceived a b average for the last five semesters beach is a member of eta kappa nu the newtonian society glee club pi delta epsilon tau beta pi cyanide and the advanced r o t c he received freshman and sophomore honors and is president of the e e society he has held several positions on the brown and white including news editor and editorial manager he is on the burr board and is senior section editor of the epitome women's club gives musicale and tea mrs scott and mrs formhals present songs the university women's club presented a musical program which was followed by a tea last tuesday afternoon in drown hall mrs david scott sang three bal lads who'll buy my lavender cherry ripe and look down dear eyes mrs w h formhals sang three selections from light opera silver moon alice blue gown and auf wiedersehn mrs tomlinson fort played a prelude from chopin and three of mac dowell's marine sketches mrs harold thomas and mrs a a diefenderfer poured dr gipson speaks to southern society discusses history of georgians at annual dinner dr lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and gov ernment was the speaker at the eighth annual dinner of the lehigh valley southern society given wed nesday evening at the hotet beth lehem the society which is composed of people of southern parentage or relationship gave the dinner with the object of honoring former president woodrow wilson a na tive of virginia prof tomlinson fort head of the mathematics de partment was the toastmaster dr gipson who really substi tuted for dr neil carothers who was unexpectedly called to detroit by the illness of his mother spoke on the history and development of the state of georgia the entertainment program was concluded with music for dancing furnished by the lehigh colle gians four dances will be held chi psi alpha chi rho lambda chi alpha and sigma nu to entertain two lehigh fraternities will give their mid-winter dances tomorrow night and two others will hold their annual affairs saturday evening march 4 the chi psi fraternity will hold an open dance tomorrow night with the music of bud reeder of al lentown two hundred and seventy five invitations have been issued the fraternity stated capt and mrs p l sadler will chaperone alpha chi rho fraternity will hold a closed dance tomorrow night in conjunction with the pennsylva nia chapter the lehigh collegians will furnish the music approxi mately 60 couples are expected to attend the dance mr and mrs f j trembley and dr lawrence whit comb will be the chaperones an open dance will be held by lambda chi alpha on saturday march 4 the lehigh collegians will play and mrs f v larkin and prof and mrs m o fuller will be the chaperones the sigma nu fraternity will hold its annual mid-winter dance at its chapter house saturday march 4 nick nichols and his masters of melody from lansford will furnish the music the chaperones will be mr and mrs neil sullivan and mr warren fletcher more than 125 bids have been extended dr thomas speaks at school meeting discusses school failures with parent-teacher group dr h p thomas head of the department of education spoke tuesday evening to the edgeboro jefferson and lafayette parent teacher associations at a joint meeting in the edgeboro auditor ium his topic was school fail ures the speaker urged parents to build the right attitudes in the child toward school pointing out that many failures come from poor health handicaps too much home work too little rest and faulty methods of study with too much parental help and too little self help dr thomas emphasized the fact that teachers sometimes fail to un derstand the individual abilities of the pupil he spoke of the set-up of a number of criteria for the schools including the marking system and suggested a study of repeated failures from the view point of the individual differences of children national intercollegiates will be held at lehigh the national intercollegiate wrestling tournament will be held on march 24 and 25 at lehigh it was announced yesterday by dr raymond clapp chairman of the rules committee in charge of the arrangements for the wrestling tournament of the national collegiate athletic association lehigh as host will enter a complete team in the tournament to be held in taylor gymnasium stated coach william sheridan it is expected that the 1933 entry list will be at least as large as that of last year's tourney which numbered about 90 contestants sheridan says that the only other college likely to enter a complete team is oklahoma a and m 1932 national intercollegiate champions since the bouts last year were staged also as olympic trials the title holders are classed according to the olympic weights sheridan said this year the bouts will be held according to the intercollegiate weights starting with the 118-lb class last year the nationals were held at the university of indiana captain pete peck and frank shaw 1932 eastern intercollegiate 135-lb champion were the only lehigh wrestlers entered and they were both eliminated in the preliminaries which automatically barred them from olympic competition libertas staff to edit paper school magazine report ers will write march 7 brown and white issue the staff of the libertas bethle hem high school publication will edit the march 7 issue of the brown an^l white under the supervision of the brown and white staff the libertas journalists will ob serve the editing of next tuesday's issue of the brown and white to see how a college publication is run the libertas reporters will ac company brown and white report ers in covering their beats on sat urday march 4 the news will be written up by libertas reporters and turned in sunday night the news will be copy-read and edited by the staff of the libertas under the supervi sion of the brown and white staff the libertas is a combination news and literary magazine it is a member of the columbia scholas tic press association and competes in class a with schools of 1501 students or more in 1929 it won first prize in 1930 it placed third and in 1931 and 1932 it won second prize the faculty advisor is paul s christ the staff of the libertas for the lehigh issue will be as follows news editor betty bishop editorial manager edward shaffer sports editor paul bauer assistant sports editor robert watkins news edi tor helen konolige assistant news editors jeanette kaessler and gretchen maloney feature editor virginia mortimer columnists phil lip mcleon and jane kemmer news briefs earl serfass 33 was burned in the face and neck yesterday morn ing during a test on an evaporator in the wilbur engineering labora tory he was immediately taken to st luke's hospital for treatment the german reading club will meet tonight at 7:30 at the home of prof f o kegel 1028 west north street dr philip m palmer head of the college of arts and sciences an nounced that up to the present time 16 arts seniors have signified their intention of attending graduate schools next year there will be a meeting of the council of phi beta kappa on fri day afternoon at 4 o'clock in the office of dr palmer in coppee hall at a meeting of the international relations club held tuesday eve ning it was decided to accept the invitation of temple university to attend a conference on international relations to be held at temple on march 24 and 25 the club is also contemplating several important changes in its constitution alumni group to hear mystic professor long to explain true state of affairs on south mountain medieval meretricious mysticism and metamorphosis and modern meritorious melioration and mag nanimity will be discussed at a meeting of the lehigh home club at 6:30 p m wednesday march 1 at the bethlehem club john w maxwell 26 assistant editor of the alumni bulletin and secretary of the home club announced recently as explained in the announce ment sent out by maxwell a mes senger of the great master aureo lus philipus theophrastus bombas tus paracelus yon hohenheim will demonstrate to this generation of unbeleivers and those who scoff at true philosophy and alchemy that black is sometimes white miracu lous conversations spontaneous ig nition putrefaction solution ablu tion sublimation cohobation cal cination certain and fixation of metals and other substances dr j s shorty long 14 pro fessor of inorganic chemistry will explain what the present genera tion of lehigh students and faculty are thinking about in terms of the university the status quo of le high athletics how our graduates of last year and this fare in getting jobs what lehigh is doing in re search the general morale on the campus what the future holds in store for lehigh how alumni can perform a genuine service to le high right now without spending a dime or in other words the true state of affairs on south moun tain new issue of burr will appear soon bethlemite issue will imitate the new yorker the next edition of the lehigh burr will appear the beginning of next week as the bethlemite is sue c n crichton managing edi tor announced yesterday the contents of the publication will pertain to bethlehem and there will be no features the column looking around by walter windshield has been resumed and will reappear in this issue the cover and first part of the maga zine will be an imitation of the new yorker starting march 20 the date of the following issue there will be news of new social and political movements contained in the burr the magazine will contain stories of campus news socialism techno cracy and all the other ocracies crichton said material for this issue will be due march 8 and should be sent to crichton at phi delta theta richards is seeking head for athletics interviews several applicants on middle west trip pres charles a ßuss richards left last friday for a trip through the middle west where he will inter view three or four applicants who have applied for the position of di rector of athletics a e buchanan jr director of publicity said that if dr richards finds an applicant who meets with the necessary requirements he will be invited to the campus in order to size up the situation at first hand and to become acquainted with the men with whom he will have to work if he is accepted buchanan denied that the pres ident's trip will result in a final selection of a director of athletics from more than a hundred men who have expressed their interest in the job the president has tenta tively selected six or eight who seem to have the desired qualifica tions of personality and experience he hapes to interview all of these possilnlities within the next few weeks alumni attend mining meet lehigh man reads paper before a i m..m e conference in n y the recent meeting of the amer ican institute of mining and met allurgical engineers held feb 20 21 22 and 23 in new york was well attended by lehigh alumni ac cording to benjamin l miller head of the department of geology who attended the meeting of the coun cil of economic geologists caleb s kenney 10 vice pres ident of weston-dodson and com panay inc of bethlehem read a paper prepared by congressman william r coyle of bethlehem at the luncheon on feb 20 of the coal division of the meeting mr ken ney took the place of alan c dod son 00 who was unable to attend the meeting a e buchanan jr 18 execu tive secretary of the alumni associa tion executed several sleight of hand tricks for the entertainment of those present at the dinner and smoker on feb 20 bradley stough ton head of the department of met allurgical engineering also attend ed the meeting students warned not to mistake fire alarms for vending machines no fella those little red boxes around school aren't candy vending machines and there's no chance of getting 20 nickels for one just fire alarms fella just fire alarms what's more one musn't pull the hooks or tamper with the little gadgets in them such a deed is a state offense and is attendant with jail sentences fines and all those other nasty things that law break ing incurs dean c m mcconn issued the following statement just as a hint to any who love to hear fire-bells any student discovered tampering with the new alarm system or turning in a false alarm will be turned over to the discipline com mittee in less than 24 hours and in my opinion he will probably be expelled from school for a period of not less than one semester but in case one should discover a bona-fide fire with smoke and flames and all of the other charac teristics of a real fire he may turn in the alarm in fact he is politely requested to do so break glass pull knob by smacking the glass door with the little hammer attached to the side of the box and pulling the hook thus disclosed all the way down he will soon have all the bells in the building competing in no uncertain tones with all the pro fessors lecturing in the place andrew w litzenberger super intendent of grounds informed arcadia scorns lacrosse action arcadia secretary urges attendance of class agents the senior junior and sopho more classes are not being rep resented at arcadia meetings e h robb secretary of arcadia announces that the representa tives of these classes have not been attending recent meetings of that body new constitution states that the secretary of arcadia shall notify any group tba it is not being represented in that body after three consecutive ab sences of the group's represen tative and that by such absences it is losing its voice in student affairs house parties are planned weekend of april 29 set by interfraternity coun cil for spring dances that spring house parties will be held the week-end of april 29 was decided at the last meeting of the interfraternity council tuesday afternoon feb 21 the council rejected the new con stitution that was drawn up and placed before the body saying that the old constitution was satisfac tory to the council the only rushing rule according to pres j a aufhammer that is obeyed to any extent by any of the fraternities is the 9 o'clock rule the suggestion was made that if any freshman be caught out after 9 p.m during rushing season accompanied by a fraternity man he should automatically be barred from being rushed by any fraternity until aft er the second semester this sug gestion was placed before a com mittee for future discussion complete information about the fraternities at lehigh will be placed in the lehigh union office in drown hall and is to be open to the inspection of anyone at any time this information will include the standing of every fraternity both financially and scholastically incoming freshmen are to be in formed as to the nature and re strictions of all the rushing rules at a lecture held during freshman week said aufhammer press representatives that the alarms are merely to notify the occupants of a building that things are be coming hot in their territory the bells summon no fire apparatus this is to be done by phone after the alarm has been sounded complies with state law litzenberger says the alarms were installed merely to comply with a state law to the effect that all school buildings containing more than four class rooms must be ade quately equipped with fire alarms the law specifies adequate equip ment as that in which the boxes are no more than 100 feet apart this explains the fact that the memorial building drown hall the armory the gym and taylor and price halls have not been equipped with alarms litzenberger says that university officials were not in fa vor of the expense and did not con sider the fire hazards sufficient to warrant alarm installation but that the passage of the law necessitated the action for this reason all buildings which could possibly be exempted under the provisions of the law that is buildings which do not ac tually contain more than four class rooms were not equipped the approximate cost of installa tion was 5,000 all in all the campus has been dressed up with 45 of these little red law-requirements disapproves use of eligi bility committee as ex isting board of control of athletics at meeting recast constitution adopted may 10 will be election day bids for new blazers will be submitted on march 2 ; smo ker to be held march 23 arcadia expressed its outright dis approval of the dropping of lacrosse and of the use of the eligibility committee as the existing board of control of athletics at the meeting held last night in drown hall arcadia will ask for an explana tion of the dropping of lacrosse it also expressed the desire that no other sport be dropped at lehigh and that a complete explanation of the situation be advanced by the authorities the recast constitution was placed before arcadia and ap proved general college elections are to be held may 10 with nomin ations scheduled for may 3 and 4 bids to be submitted bids for the new blazers will be submitted to the executive blazer committee on thursday march 2 at which time the various bids from merchants of bethlehem and al lentown will be considered the bids will be considered as to qual ity and workmanship the blazer committee will then place the best bids before arcadia for final ap proval and acceptance arcadia agreed to donate 125 to the lacrosse club to be used to ob tain equipment that is needed for the team part of the old equipment that the athletic department al ready has on stock is available for use by the team new equipment however is need ed to properly equip the team these items will be bought by arcadia and a lacrosse charm will be giv en to the members of the club who are not already letter men disapproves action disapproval as to the action of the eligibility committee which is functioning at the present time as a faculty control bpard of athletics was expressed at the meeting a committee consisting of m m reed president of arcadia chair man j s mcelwain and h a voss was appointed as a deputa tion committee to interview pres ident richards acting head of the athletic control board and pxpress the sentiment of arcadia the committee will ask for an explanation of why the eligibility committee is functioning as an ath letic control board and why lacrosse was dropped smoker to be held a smoker will be held thursday evening march 23 just before the national intercollegiate wrestling meet which will be held at lehigh on march 24 and 25 this smoker will be under the direction of ar cadia arcadia also agreed to buy robes for the wrestling team these robes will probably be of mole skin or flannel and will replace the sweat ers with which the wrestling team has been attired a committee consisting of c w continued on page four coming events friday feb 24 7:30 p m meeting of the e e so ciety in 416 packard laboratory speaker n e funk 05 on the conowingo power plant 8:30 p m spanish club meeting at the home of w l deemer 130 main street quakertown pa saturday feb 25 3 p m varsity swimming vs del aware taylor gymnasium 8 p m varsity wrestling vs navy taylor gymnasium vol xl^no 32 bethlehem pa friday february 24 1933 price five cents the lehigh university brown and 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