Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 35

              living groups will handle tickets for national meet all tickets to the national in tercollegiate wrestling meet will cost 2.35 including tax j g petrikin graduate manager of athletics announced yesterday tickets for lehigh students will be handled this week through the living groups he said each ticket is good for the four ses sions of the meet to be held on the afternoons and evenings of march 24 and 25 no seats are reserved ' undergraduates not belong ing to a fraternity or living group who wish to be consid ered in the allotment of tickets to the national intercollegiate wrestling meet must leave their names at the athletic office be fore march 10 petrikin stated seniors have high average freshmen rank above sophomores ely shows in compiling record by vincenzina deßellis that the freshmen received a higher average than the sophomores last semester is shown in the dis tribution of individual averages compiled recently by g w ely assistant to the registrar the average for the freshmen is 1.699 a high d there were 419 students in the class the average for the 364 sophomores is 1.677 after consulting statistics collect ed annually since 1928 mr ely ad mitted he has no records to show that the freshmen were ever before rated higher than the sophomores this is a significant fact he said the seniors received the highest average they are rated at 2.121 a ow c the class included 247 men the average for the 284 jun iors is 1.917 the grades of the 1,314 students of the university average 1.820 the averages above which stu dents in each class place in the highest quartile are as follows freshmen 2.28 sophomores 2.17 juniors 2.40 and seniors 2.79 those who received 2.33 or above place scholastically in the upper quarter of the student body the averages above which stu dents in each class place in the highest decile are as follows fresh men 2.78 sophomores 2.74 jun iors 3.001 and seniors 3.20 the registrar's assistant pointed out that the change in the value of a makes comparisons between the scores of last semester and sem esters previous impossible he ex pects to have the rankings and av erages of the separate living groups fully compiled next week news briefs ernst j klinger lehigh insti tute of research fellow in chemis try was severely burned about the face and neck by nitrate acid last thursday klinger was distilling concentrated nitric acid when the liquid foamed and exploded he was treated at the dispensary by dr bull several members of the electrical engineering department are plan ning to attend the meeting of the american institute of electrical en gineers lehigh valley section on friday at scranton r n van arnam instructor of mathematics and astronomy will give an illustrated lecture on stars and planets at 8:15 p m thursday march 9 in franklin school audi torium the lecture is sponsored by the parent-teacher association of franklin school a e buchanan executive sec retary of the alumni association will speak this evening at a meet ing of the northern new jersey alumni club in the steuben raths keller in newark by virginia mortimer this little opinion went to the market this little opinion stayed horne — but children this little opin ion became a dandy feature this little opinion in question is the opinion of the libertas staff of the brown and white staff can did and sincere for better or worse gentle reader here it is strange as it seems before they came the libertas staff had fanci fully conjured a picture of tall earnest awe-inspiring students — quite formal business-like and en tirely unlike the typical wise-crack ing rah-rah lad of college hu mor with his be-lettered sweater wide trousers white shoes and dashing manners in fact young imaginations — always prone to run wild — had even supposed that the brown and white staff would re sent the intrusion of a frivolous bunch of high school students — vainly trying to be serious and blissfully ignorant of the ludicrous appearance they might be creating libertas staff enlightened somehow the thought of newpa per staffs and honor rolls always frosh union meets sunday dr beardslee stresses class spirit in speech before student group by agnes hrubenak twenty-five freshmen heard dr c g beardslee head of the depart ment of moral and religious phil osophy speak on wisdom at the second dinner meeting of the fresh man union sunday evening in drown hall shared devotion in a common and commanding cause unites dr beardslee said the moral equiv alent for war is that other war called peace to promote class spirit there must be a substitute for the common cause formerly supplied by class fights and the substitute is seeking wisdom in peace under wisdom he added may be classed character and personality a survey of 7,000 engineers proved that character and wisdom were more important in later life than the technical knowledge which is stressed in college he stated how ever he added that knowledge is an essential foundation for wisdom and character r m eichner president of the freshman union announced that president c r richards will speak at the next meeting to be held sun day evening march 19 the poor attendance eichner stated was due to the fact that the meeting was not published all of the living groups will be notified before the next dinner and the up perclassmen will be asked to urge the freshmen to attend the freshman union is looked upon as the opportunity for the freshmen to organize and develop the class spirit which dr beards lee believes has been somewhat less in the last few years than it should have been along with class spirit should be developed the college spi rit which has been noticably poor during the last few years dr beardslee said seeks athletic czar president richards narrows choice to five men a report to the effect that pres ident richards search for a director of athletics is now narrowed to five prospects was given out last week by a e buchanan director of university publicity he would not divulge the names of these prospects since as he ex plained none of them had made any definite statement of acceptance each of the prospective directors of athletics was interviewed by president richards when he recent ly made a trip through new eng land and the middle west the men will visit lehigh some time this spring mr buchanan said new blazers will be fitted on march 13 deposit of one half to tal cost required to be delivered by special order in three weeks coat to be of white flannel with brown facings and seal by john hilpert the new senior and junior blazer will be fitted from 9 a m to 5 p.m monday march 13 at the lehigh union office in drown hall by the representatives of john wanamaker company a deposit of four dollars one-half of the total cost must be made at the time the order is given the blazers will be delivered in three weeks or sooner by a special or der although john wanamaker com pany expressed its willingness to take orders after march 13 if all fittings cannot be held on this date students who desire their blazers before easter and possibly before the national intercollegiates should arrange for their fittings next mon day to have optional style the company's representatives stated that the garments would be pre-shrunk and individually tail ored the blazers may be had with or without bellow backs inverted pleats or belts perspiration pro tection and sleeve linings are also provided the combination of brown and white adapts itself to the tailored lines of the blazer white with brown facings with the lehigh seal woven into the breast pocket according to martin reed pres ident of arcadia the cost compares favorably with that of similar gar ments of other colleges haverford and brown universities have or dered blazers of the same general type cornell is also paying eight dollars but at the university of pennsylvania the cost is two dollars more the committee believes that a better quality of material and style can be obtained at these prices bids were submitted by nine companies in philadelphia new york and allentown but it was decided by the committee that the best blazer for the price was the one that john wanamaker submit ted the blazers are hand tailored coats of 16 ounce flannel manufac tured by the american woolen com pany students to conduct physics experiments light phenomena to be shown thursday march 9 experiments on light with special emphasis on interference optics and phosphorescence will be con ducted at the meeting of the phy sical society in the main lecture room of the physics building 7:30 p m thursday march 9 howard f carl 33 will be in charge of a demonstration on light interference phosphorescence and fluorescence charles f bock 35 william s galloway 35 and rohn truell 35 will assist carl in an added demon stration on geometrical optics since the usual procedure in ex periments of this type would neces sitate observance by small groups the procedure will be changed and the action of the light will be pro jected in such a manner to enable the entire audience to observe the experiment john m lohse 33 will give a demonstrated lecture on magneto striction all the apparatus for the performance will be set up by the students a business meeting will follow the demonstrations and after this refreshments will be served dr richards will address sub-freshmen visitors are to observe demonstrations by me chanical electrical and chemical engineers president will greet men fraternities will entertain by mary james sub-freshman day exercises to be held on saturday april 22 will be enlivened this year by having the various engineering laboratories in full operation the program com mittee announced prof s s seyfert head of the electrical engineering department announced that students will oper ate the motors and generators in the packard laboratory a telsa coil ap paratus is being constructed and its effects will be inspected by the sub-freshmen the radio club is working on a new transmitter and expects to have it completed in time for exhibition to operate machines the mechanical engineering de partment will have its steam en gines in operation throughout the morning prof f v larkin said dr h m ullmann head of the chemistry department said that ex periments will be performed for the visitors in the resarch and stu dent laboratories the schedule practically the same as last year will begin with registration at nine a tour of the campus with students as guides will follow during this tour the sub-freshmen will inspect the va rious buildings and meet members of the faculty dr charles r richards pres ident of the university will greet the visitors at 11 o'clock in packard auditorium luncheon will be served at noon in the armory a baseball game between lehigh uni versity and dickinson college will conclude the program houses to invite quests after the game it is expected that the fraternities will invite some of the sub-freshmen to dinner and probably to stay for the week-end several houses have already signi fied their desire to entertain the guests the committee stated that this part of the program is a mat ter to be settled by the houses and the boys the program committee includes g b curtis registrar a e buch anan secretary of the alumni as sociation c g beardslee secretary of the lehigh union and the re spective department heads men attend meeting of honorary society o d k delegates return from convention at duke burt k riviere and clifford e harrison president and secretary respectively of the lehigh chapter of omicron delta kappa national activities honorary society returned sunday afternoon from the national convention of the society held at duke university the lehigh dele gates brought back several valuable ideas riviere said among the suggestions submit ted by the lehigh delegation that were accepted was that the society expand to the better schools in new england and the midwest lousia na state and denison university were mentioned the main speaker frank shep ardson a phi beta kappa official and president of the american as sociation of colleges spoke on the symbolisms and idealisms in omicron delta kappa's rise to great heights the national officers elected were dr george long alabama univer sity president dean fanders ohio state university vice president and william m brown secretary re elected the lehigh chapter of o d k will meet at 7:30 p m thursday in drown hall president riviere announced bank closure is discussed by carothers legal holiday to end next monday is view given at faculty meet ing by business head offers three plans to deal with present emergency by betty miller checks from home will probably mean little to their student posses sors before monday if the possibil ity intimated by neil carothers head of the college of business ad ministration in an address to the faculty yesterday proves well founded discussing the present banking situation in the regular meeting of the faculty in the alumni memor ial building dr carothers express ed the opinion that the four-day bank holiday announced sunday morning by president roosevelt would be prolonged until monday complicating circumstances in the settlement of the currency problem will probably make this action a necessity he explained the conclusion of the business college director is that the recent recapitulation movement was caused by the suspension of activities in financial institutions of detroit he pointed out that when the detroit banks were closed tradesmen and workers of the city were forced to draw money from neighboring sources michigan banks closed this withdrawal necessitated the closing of banks all over the state of michigan financial institutions in surrounding districts were then drawn upon with the jeopardizing of their separate status it was found advisable to close them the move ment spread finally resulting sun day fn action by the president • dr carothers offers three tenta tive solutions to the banking prob lem 1 temporary guarantee of bank deposits by the national gov ernment 2 liberalized loan policy by the reconstruction finance corporation and 3 broadening of the rediscount powers of the fed eral reserve system in the same meeting of the fac ulty a recommendation was passed to allow for the appointment of li brary committee members by the president the committee composed of four faculty members has been elected the committee on educa tional policies recommended the change also president richards read an announcement to the effect that there are 20 scholarships now avail able for men of promise who want to go on with their education psittacosis is called most deadly disease dr thomas tells pre-meds danger of parrot fever psittacosis commonly known as parrot fever is one of the most elu sive and contagious diseases com municable to man stated dr stan ley j thomas professor of bacter iology in his lecture to the pre medical society on friday evening the invisible enemy was the subject of dr thomas talk dr thomas substituted for prof r w hall head of the department of bi ology dr thomas began his talk by telling of the part bacteria played in the life of primitive man and followed this by commenting on the progress of modern science in bacteriology in a short business meeting be fore the lecture a new constitution was adopted r w buchanan arts 35 was elected chairman of the ac tivities committee whose duty it is to arrange visits to nearby clinics this is done to enable the mem bers of the society to become bet ter acquainted with hospital work new highway is described at c e meet twenty million motor vehicles yearly will cross new jersey via duct approaching tube final cost of construction shows saving of 1,500,000 by francis zavis within a year twenty million mo tor vehicles are expected to use the new jersey express highway which leads traffic from the lincoln high way into the holland tunnel stated h w hudson engineer in charge of its construction last night in packard auditorium mr hudson guest speaker at the joint meeting of the american so ciety of civil engineers and the lehikh valley engineers club de scribed the erection of the viaduct and bridges the total cost of the viaduct was 19,900,000 approximately 1,500,000 under the estimated figure he said prof lynn perry of lafayette college who introduced mr hud son recalled the days of narrow of ten impassible highways legislated in 1927 the viaduct which is part of the highway system planned by the new jersey legislature in 1927 is one of the most important links connecting new york city with the lincoln highway under existing conditions the deck truss type of viaduct was considered the most servicable and economical it was necessary to put the piles through ten feet of mud before meeting sand and clay which would afford the necessary support ap proximately 3600 piles were used in the construction of the three and a half mile viaduct erect two bridges the caissons for the bridges crossing the hackensack and pas saic rivers were sunk 25 and 70 feet respectively to hard-pan orig inally it was intended to build mov able bridges across the two rivers but this plan was vetoed by the war department it was finally decided to erect permanent bridges of suf erty of the public service com pany mr holland added the roadway is 50 feet wide and is practically straight between new ark and jersey city swerving only to avoid some very valuable prop erty of the public service commis sion mr holland added the curbs are 16 inches high and the fences which are unusually high and sturdy are designed to prevent motorists from going off the high way in case of accident six hun dred candle-power lights fitted with refractory lenses are placed three hundred feet apart new lehigh pictorial will be issued soon magazine to be distributed by brown and white the lehigh pictorial a 12-page magazine in rotogravure to be used for publicity purposes will be pub lished within the next fortnight the magazine will contain the pho tographs of buildings sports acti vities trustees administration offi cers and campus personalities of the 50,000 copies to be print ed 20,000 will be used immediate ly and the remainder retained for future use copies will be distri buted to the students through the brown and white the lehigh pictorial with its cover changed and re-entitled the south mountaineer will be sent out with the alumni bulletin a similar publication was issued in 1928 by pi delta epsilon but was not so complete as the present pictorial went hand in hand until — now having been pleasurably enlightened on the subject the li bertas staff presents its new im pressions presents new impressions strangely the brown and white staff is quite human and on the whole a pleasant surprise various individual opinions range from a disdainful the bunk to breath taking oh's and ah's of isn't he a dream or my ideal business man !" the size and enthusiasm of the staff impressed the liberty high group but it was subsequently re vealed that many men who had not been active on the staff for the past year were suddenly possessed of a remarkable interest in the good old brown and white just why has not been definitely explained seriously the libertas staff ad mires the informality the friend liness and the patience of the brown and white staff collec tively they're quite a normal or dinary group — a pleasant surprise debaters meet dayton team ellis and miller discuss question of war debts ; no decision is given by john hilpert war debt cancellation was the subject of discussion in a no-de cision debate between teams rep resenting lehigh and dayton uni versity of dayton 0 last saturday evening in drown hall h k ellis e e 35 and c f miller chem 34 were the lehigh representatives melvin hudes and robert cowden represented day ton the speeches were each of 12 minutes duration and were followed by six minute rebuttals no deci sion was rendered as is the custom of delta omicron theta honorary debating society who sponsored the debate the dayton debaters are on a 13-day trip during which they have met teams at toronto university and boston university maurice bernstein arts 33 and sol leibowitt arts 33 will repre sent d o t on a three day trip during which they will meet co lumbia on march 8 and rutgers on march 9 the subject of debate with both schools will be re solved that capitalism as a sys tem of economic organization is the most sound in principle yet de vised delta omicron theta is attempt ing to make debates of greater in terest to the audience by holding open discussion afterwards this is expected to give greater force and clarity to the question under dis cussion coming events wednesday march 8 7:30 p m meeting of the newton ian society room 208 packard laboratory thursday march 9 7:30 p m meeting of o d k in arcadia room drown hall 7:30 p m meeting of the physical society in the main lecture room physics building 7:30 p m eta sigma phi will hold a joint meeting with the muhlen berg chapter in the muhlenberg library friday march 10 7:30 p m meeting of the robert w blake society at the home of prof f c becker 323 center street address by mr k e heim on humanist's viewpoint towards philosophy and reli gion bethlehem pa tuesday march 7 1933 college reporters at work shatter illusions of libertas co workers vol xl no 35 price five cents the lehigh university brown and white special bethlehem high school issue special bethlehem high school [ issue