Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 46

              president richards hopes for annual open house president charles russ rich ards expressed the hope sunday that open house will become an annual affair whether or not it will be held every year or every other year is a question he said but it is my present be lief and hope that it will be held annually the first open house was a great success had but a few few thousand attended i would have been gratified the atten dance of 15,000 to 20,000 people was beyond my wildest specula tions i was tremendously inter ested in and delighted at the way which the visiting people en joyed the open house i was also delighted with the coopera tion the students showed on fri day they did a fine job prom to start house party claude hopkins will pro vide music 20 frater nities to hold dances the junior prom 20 fraternity dances three one-act plays spon sored by the mustard and cheese dramatics club and a baseball game between lehigh and ursinus will contribute to the entertainment of lehigh's feminine guests during house party week-end next friday saturday and sunday the prom will start at 10 p m friday night on the upper floor of taylor gymnasium with music by claude hopkins and his 12 synco pators from the roseland ballroorr new york city hopkins has be . playing for the past two years at the ballroom his band was con sidered the sensation of the mo tion picture ball at the waldorf astoria some time ago decorations have not yet been chosen for the gymnasium stated w c korn chairman of the prom committee the dance is to be open ed to the student body and its guests and will last until 3 a m price of admission is 3.30 per couple to present plays the three plays the rising of the moon poison passion and petrification and another the name of which has not yet been divulged are to be presented friday night at 8:15 in drown hall by the dra matics clubs of lafayette lehigh and muhlenberg tickets are on sale today in drown hall students will be admitted free general ad mission is 55 cents most of the fraternity dances will be closed however it was decided at a recent meeting of the interfra ternity council that all house party dances should be open after 12 m the fraternities having dances open all evening are kappa sigma omega phi sigma theta delta chi and theta kappa phi the dance in leonard hall will also be open delta phi and kappa alpha will combine to hold a closed dance at the hotel traylor allentown sat urday night red cross planning course here in senior life saving the american red cross in co operation with the physical educa tion department is planning a course in senior life saving to be held in the pool during may registration may be made with the swimming director any after noon from 4 to 6 p m on may 2 3 4 or 5 approximately 15 hours of instruction will be offered and will be followed by examinations given by richard j degray in structor in chemistry and examiner for the american red cross frosh union hears discussion by long plans are made for dance and kellogg's address dr james s long professor of chemistry addressed the freshman union sunday evening in drown hall in an informal talk he dis cussed his research work and told of some of his experiences in re search at the business meeting which was held after the buffet supper and before dr long's talk ber nard weiss chairman of the dance committee for the freshman dance announced that the lehigh colle gians had been engaged for the freshman dance which will be giv en saturday evening may 6 and that tickets are now on sale it was announced that col nel son kellogg the new director of athletics who will arrive at lehigh to take up his active duties during the first week of may will speak at the meeting of the freshman union which will be held on sun day evening may 7 since this will probably be colonel kellogg's first address to any group of lehigh stu dents the freshman union will welcome any other students in the university who care to come the meeting will include a buffet sup per and will start promptly at 6 p^m robert eichner presideut of the union stated mccoy to talk on diseases sigma xi to hear medical authority give lecture on illness prevention dr george w mccoy director of the national institute of health of the united states public health service since 1915 and an authority on bubonic plague and leprosy will address the lehigh chapter of the sigma xi society on the subject our national defense against disease at 8 p m thursday april 27 in packard auditorium dr stanley j thomas head of the biology department in inviting the faculty and student body to the lecture emphasized the high stand ing which dr mccoy holds in na tional and international medical circles and said dr mccoy as di rector of the national institute of health which is composed of over 5,000 scientific workers constantly warring against disease holds a po sition somewhat analogous to that which general pershing held as leader of the american forces dur ing the world war professor thomas stated further that some idea of dr mccoy's in ternational reputation might be gained when one considers that al though the united states is not a member of the league of nations dr mccoy has been appointed chairman of the committee on bu bonic plague of the health com mission of the league of nations professor thomas also pointed out the importance of the work which dr mccoy carried on at the leper colony in molokai where the heroic missionary father damien gave his life the more recent work of dr mccoy on parrot fev er said professor thomas has made medical history and is the subject of paul dekruif's essay should generals die in bed dr mccoy graduated from the university of pennsylvania in 1898 and received the degree of doctor of medicine from the same university coming events wednesday april 26 4 p m freshman baseball vs rut gers taylor field thursday april 27 8 p m sigma xi meeting pack ard auditorium address by dr g w mccoy on our national defense against disease friday april 28 2 p m first meeting of the penn sylvania historical association in packard auditorium 5 p m organ recital by t edgar shields packer memorial chapel 400 prospective freshmen visit campus saturday as guests of university and local fraternities attendance at the sub-freshman day exercises here saturday gives promise of a decidedly larger en rollment in the freshman class next september than there was last year nearly 400 men signed up tenta tively for courses at lehigh the attendance in may of 1932 was 322 arranged according to depart ments the enrollment up to noon saturday in the alumni memorial building was as follows mechanical and industrial engineering 66 elec trical engineering 46 chemical en gineering 56 civil engineering 42 metallurgical engineering 24 min ing engineering 22 arts and sci ences 62 business administration 60 and engineering physics 15 the total registration is 393 beginning with registration at 9 a m the sub-freshmen made a tour of the campus various fraternity men acted as guides they convened in packard audi torium at 11 o'clock to hear wel coming addresses by president charles russ richards and walter r okeson treasurer of the univer sity from there the visitors separ ated into department rooms to hear explanations of the courses they have chosen they also viewed the open house displays held over from the day before luncheon served a buffet luncheon was served the sub-freshmen and their parents and friends in the armory at 1 p m approximately 550 persons attend ed the luncheon afterwards frater nities took charge of the men and escorted them to the baseball game played between lehigh and dick inson at 2 o'clock on taylor field sub-freshman day ended officially after the game it was reported that the prospec tive freshmen cheered the home team even more than the students of the university two students now at allentown prep came all the way from cuba and columbia to consider lehigh they are joseph r martinec of santiago de cuba and gilberto ga vivia of medellin columbia most of the sub-freshmen come from secondary schools of pennsyl vania new jersey and new york the university has for some time been in correspondence with these men acquainting them with lehigh curricula facilities and activities four groups take senior field trips chemists with 35 have larg est number of men the senior electrical engineers journalism majors and mechanical engineers and the infantry seniors all took field trips monday tues day and wednesday april 10 to 12 prof j l beaver of the depart ment of electrical engineering took a party tof 17 senior electricals on their inspection trip and visited the r k o roxy music hall and the main office building of rockefeller center other events of the trip in cluded inspections of the american telephone and telegraph company the westinghouse lamp company and the pennsylvania railroad ter minal a a diefenderfer e r theis and c w simmons professors of chemistry accompanied 35 stu dents of the chemistry department on an inspection trip which visited seton leather company the proc tor and gamble soap factory the dupont viscoloid company the manhattan rubber company and the westinghouse lamp works thirteen journalism students ac companied by dale h gramley in structor in journalism and kenneth k kost assistant in english vis ited the plant of the herald-trib une the scribners magazine office the city news association and the international news service history group plans to hold meeting here pennsylvania society will convene two days to deliver papers and to adopt constitution dr richards will welcome gathering in hotel bethlehem many of the leading historians of pennsylvania and the other middle atlantic states will gather at le high on april 28 and 29 for the meeting of the recently organized pennsylvania historical associa tion the session will extend over a two day period starting friday af ternoon and continuing up to and including saturday evening dr charles russ richards pres ident of lehigh university will for mally welcome the historians at a dinner to be given in the hotel bethlehem on friday evening the program will also include musical features in the form of a vesper organ recital in the chapel by t edgar shields the recital will include selections from bach many papers listed the list of papers to be given at this gathering most of which will deal with various phases of penn sylvania history include those by dr paul gates bucknell univer sity miss ruth kistler allentown high school dr russell j fergu son university of pittsburgh dr d r fox columbia university dr w a itter of the university of pennsylvania dr ernest spofford philadelphia historian mrs j up ton myers vice president of the northampton historical society and dr w n schwarze president of the moravian college and theolo gical seminary professor lawrence h gipson head of the department of history will act as chairman of the com mittee on general arrangements the temporary officers of the so ciety are a boyd hamilton of the state senate president dr roy f nichols professor of history univ of pennsylvania vice president dr paul w gates professor of his tory bucknell university secretary permanent officers will be chosen at the business session on satur day morning moravian choir to sing the final session on saturday evening will include the rendition of a program of anthems composed during the eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth century by bethlehem musicians and sung by the choir of the central moravian church commencing at 9:30 on satur day morning the day will be taken up by the business session for adopting a constitution in packard auditorium followed by a period in which the papers will be given by the representatives of the several historical societies in pennsylva nia at 1:30 lunch is to be served at the sun inn an address on mem oirs of the sun inn will be given by mrs upton myers of this city delegates are named sawyer and stamm to attend news paper convention edwin sawyer of the news staff and charles stamm of the business staff were named delegates from the brown and white to the inter collegiate newspaper association convention which will be held this week-end at muhlenberg college the convention will open friday afternoon there will be a dance that evening the business and edi torial boards will meet saturday morning there will be another business meeting in the afternoon at which the new officers will be elected there will be a second dance saturday evening dale h gramley instructor in journalism will attend as the fac ulty representative from lehigh and the executive treasurer of the asso ciation kenneth k kost of the lehigh faculty martin reed edi tor in chief and several other mem bers of the staff of the brown and white plan to attend most of the sessions lehigh plans tutor system for graduates fellowships to be granted to students who will aid members of frater nities boarding them men will secure exemption from 300 tuition or less several fellowships of a rather novel sort will be offered by the university next year if the plan ap proved recently by the board of trustees is put into effect the fellowships amount to ex emption from tuition fees up to 150 per year for two years graduate students with a bachelor's degree from any recognized college are eligible the plan presented by president charles russ richards and approv ed by the board of trustees in its annual spring business meeting fri day april 21 in the president's of fice provides that students working for a master's degree in arts or sci ences shall receive the tuition ex emption in return for services ren dered fraternities of the school as tutors the fraternities supply the stu dent with room and board the stu dent puts in one-half of his time as a general tutor to the members of the fraternity in which he stays and the other half to his own studies the full name of the offer is the fraternity tutorial fellowship some provisions of the plan are as follows any chapter which may desire to have such a fellowship estab lished for its benefit shall file a for mal raquest to that effect with the president of the university not later than april 1 preceding the contem plated two-year period to begin the following september nominated by president the candidate for the fraternity tutorial fellowship shall be nom inated to the president of the uni versity by the cooperating chapter the head of the department in which he proposes to do his major study and the dean of the university con jointly "... he shall be exempt from tuition fees . . . but shall pay the matriculation health service and li brary fees and laboratory fees from the fraternity he shall receive a suitable furnished room in the chap ter house and table board with the chapter he must be qualified to give tutorial assistance in a consid erable range of subjects including as many as possible of those reg ularly taken by lehigh freshmen and it is obvious that he will need to combine high scholarship with excellence of character and a per sonality at once forceful and attrac tive some teaching experience is necessary the plan has been effective president richards states in a sim ilr way at harvard and yale uni versities the members of the board who met and approved the new fellow ship arrangement are e g grace 99 chairman president richards w r okeson treasurer of the university the rev f w sterrett bishop of the protestant episcopal diocese of bethlehem f r coates 91 cadwallader evans 01 t m girdler 01 and e f johnson o7 and gen h c trexler the budget for next year was also discussed at the meeting lehigh men to debate debt cancellation with brooklyn c f miller chem 34 and h k ellis e e 35 will represent lehigh in a debate with the brook lyn college team on friday evening at lehigh lehigh will take the negative side of the question resolved that the war debts including the reparations should be cancelled the student body and the public are invited to attend this debate equipment of departments is placed on display faculty members give illustrated lectures lehigh university played host to thousands last friday as visitors from all over this part of the state swarmed to the campus for lehigh's first open house the open house program in cluded demonstrations exhibits and lectures by every department in the university every building on the campus was a scene of activity from early afternoon to late at night the first scheduled event on the days program was a photo-play and lecture the declaration of independence by lawrence h gipson head of the department of history at 11 a m in the physics building shields gives recital the afternoon's program opened with an organ recital by t edgar shields university organist sev eral hundred persons heard mr shields play a selection of eight numbers other entertainment in the afternoon included a latin play mostellaria directed by earl l crum associate professor of latin in drown hall - a symposium/poets painters and musicians of the romantic era illustrating the moods and thoughts of romantic times was given be fore a large group in coppee hall by robert m smith head of the department of english sydney m brown professor of history garth a howland assistant professor of fine arts and t edgar shields in christmas-saucon hall f a bradford associate professor of economics spoke on the banking situation he discussed the bank reform bill which he said is sound but would be better if na tional banks were permitted to oper ate branch offices throughout the state a band concert of six num bers was heard by about 100 per sons on the north side of packer hall as the conclusion of the after noon program carothers speaks an address what is a college of business administration by neil carothers head of the college of business administration was given at 7:30 p m among the visitors were eugene grace 99 president of the bethle hem steel company who was ac companied by president charles russ richards gen harry c trexler of allentown bishop frank w sterret of the protestant episcopal diocese of bethlehem henry s drinker 71 president emeritus of lehigh caldwallader evans 01 general manager of the hudson coal company earle f johnson 07 vice president of the general motors corporation thom as m girdler 01 president of the republic iron and steel corpora tion and f r coates 91 assis tant to henry l doherty about 150 undergarduate engin eers from 18 middle atlantic col leges and universities who were at tending the student conference of the american society of mechani cal engineers were also visitors at open house president charles russ richards expressed himself as extremely gratified with lehigh's first open house had only a few thousand attended he would have been pleased he said but the attendance of fifteen to twenty thousand de lighted him beyond his wildest speculation sword and crescent is abolished by unani mous decision because of its lack of purpose general student elections will take place on may 10 college meeting to be held next month to make intra mural and varsity awards one of the lehigh societies went into the back pages of university history last night when arcadia members after a lengthy discus sion decided without a dissenting vote to abolish sword and cres cent senior honorary society the reason given for terminating the activities of an organization that has lived on the campus since 21 years after the founding of the uni versity is that it has outlived its purpose of recognizing student scholarship leadership and char acter sword and crescent had been cast into virtual discard by the ac tivities of omicron delta kappa so its formal abolition by arcadia was well-advised while it did no tan gible harm other than to place a premium upon a white hat it did absolutely no good moreover it was a menace for it was a subtle incentive for the utilization of cor rupt politics this is the explana tion given by martin reed pres ident of arcadia for the abolition of the organization founded in 1886 the sword and crescent was founded in 1886 or thereabouts no definite date is given in any of the lehigh publication files the ear liest mention is made of it in the epitome for 1887 during that year the organization included 11 mem bers arcadia was organized two years before omicron delta kappa did not come into existence until 1925 although no data is immediately available on the real purpose of the sword and crescent at its founding a e buchanan alumni secretary advances the suggestion that the body was formed spontaneously as a social organization among the juniors of the university it be came a senior society some years later the action which brought sword and crescent into collision with omicron delta kappa came about in the year of the latter organiza tion's beginning john w max well assistant editor of the alumni bulletin remembers the consterna tion with which lehigh students viewed the v coming of the second honorary in 1925 * no necessity for two the fellows couldn't see the rea son for two such societies said maxwell but there they were and since sword and crescent was looked upon as the more difficult club to get into many of the men welcomed the opportunity to join one of the same nature but newer and easier the adoption last year of a point system similar to that of omicron delta kappa made the duplication all the more evident and so last night came the action upon which many alumni will look with some sadness the abolition of cyanide junior honorary society was also consid ered by arcadia but since this or ganization stands alone as a means of recognizing endeavor in the jun ior class and furnishes distinction to those who are outstanding in campus activities but not eligible for omicron delta kappa it was allowed to stay it was also decided by arcadia that the nominations of general student officers including those of all classes lehigh union and the cheer leaders squad should take place at noon may 3 in packard auditorium the elections are to be held may 10 h a voss chairman 1 continued on page four vol xl no 46 open house exhibits viewed by visitors and sub-frosh bethlehem pa tuesday april 25 1933 price five cents senior society is discontinued by arcadia vote the lehigh university brown and white r.o.t.c will not parade contrary to reports in local newspapers the lehigh band and r o t c unit will not march in the bethlehem military parade scheduled for this eve ning major j o green head of the m s and t department stated last night member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first