Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 48

              tietjens will speak before mechanicals consulting engineer to discuss new hydrofoil boat dr o g tietjens consulting en gineer for the westinghouse elec tric and manufacturing company will discuss the new hydrofoil boat at a meeting of the lehigh student branch of the american society of mechanical engineers at 7:30 p m thursday in room 466 packard laboratory dr tietjens has spent four years in developing the hydrofoil boat tests are being carried on at pres ent and improvements are being made on the boat before it is in troduced to the public besides describing his new speed boat dr tietjens will also discuss new methods of streamlining in connection with water resistance in general his lecture will be illus trated with a few reels of motion pictures and several slides it is expected that the hydrofoil boat when perfected will be ca pable of attaining great speeds the boat has parallel planes on its bot tom set at an angle to the surface of the water driven by its pro peller the boat skims along the top drawing a minimum of water in order to further reduce retardation by friction effects of air resistance are cut considerably by the appli cation of the latest methods of streamlining veiller drama will be staged the trial of mary du gan to be played with polly smith in big role the trial of mary dugan in which ann harding reached the height of her stage career will be the annual spring play to be pre sented by mustard and cheese this friday at 8:15 p m in drown hall this play which is a melodrama of new york life in three acts was written by bayard veiller who is also the author of within the law and the thirteenth chair it was staged at the national thea tre in new york during the fall of 1927 at that time it was considered a daring experiment to portray a complete court room scene of a murder trial all the action takes place in the new york supreme court most of the interest in the play is derived from the testimony which the brother of the defendant man ages to extract from the witnesses while acting as attorney for the de fense this is a delicate task as mary dugan a follies girl has been accused of the murder of a rich new yorker who has been found stabbed in her apartment played in new york in the original new york per formance the part of mary dugan was played by ann harding her brother's part being taken by rex cherryman who has since died it was after this stage success that she first turned her talents to the screen the part of mary dugan in the present performance is being play ed by polly smith who will be re membered by lehigh students as the dutchess of berwick in lady windemere's fan which mustard and cheese gave last fall leonard m lake bus 36 will act as her brother who eventually solves the mystery in her favor lake made his first appearance on the lehigh stage as adolphus the lover of lady magnesia in shaw's passion poison and petrifica tion the district attorney will be played by sidney stern bus 32 that of the judge by j j berber bus 34 and that of the first de fending attorney by charles yaffe bus 33 the tickets for the friday per formance may be had free of charge by all students by calling at the lehigh union office in drown hall guests and faculty will be required to pay the regular admission price of 55 cents all seats will be re served junior prom report shows large profit surplus will go to class treasury 700 persons attend dances frater nities entertain guests dramatic clubs perform lehigh teams seen in action a surplus of 217.95 is revealed in the report submitted to dean mcconn yesterday in connection with the junior prom held satur day night in taylor gymnasium with music by claude hopkins and his colored band the money will be placed in the class treasury nearly 700 persons attended the junior prom as shown by the re port the next evening 28 fraterni ties held house dances the com bined dance of delta phi and kap pa alpha announced previously as being given at the hotel traylor allentown was held instead in the hotel bethlehem phi gamma delta and sigma nu also combined for their dance approximately 450 girls came to lehigh as houseparty guests three one-act plays the moon of the caribbees the rising of the moon and passion poison and petrification were presented saturday night in drown hall by the dramatics clubs of muhlenberg lafayette and lehigh there were also two athletic events saturday afternoon on tay lor field lehigh defeated ursinus 10-5 in a baseball game and lost a lacrosse match 4-1 to the mont clair athletic club of montclair n j all but three fraternities held exclusive dances which were open ed later in the evening in accord ance with a recent ruling of the in terfraternity council the detailed report of the junior prom committee as submitted by willard korn chairman is as fol lows junior prom report may 1 1933 income 333 couple tickets 3.30 1,098.90 13 stag tickets 2.20 28.60 1,127.50 expenditures orchestra 500.00 decorations 85.00 taylor gym 63.00 lehigh union 3 men 5.00 15.00 campus policeman 5.00 check room 2 men 5.00 10.00 committee sls 10 10 35.00 punch 25.00 town policemen 2 men 5.00 10.00 federal tax 112.75 printing burr 10.00 brown and white 5.00 irvington herald , 8.50 piano rental 10.00 checking tags 3.75 telephone expenses 5.57 ribbon and pins 98 $ 909.55 surplus deposited to the credit of the junior class $ 217.95 this is to certify that as chairman of the committee on student activities i have audited the foregoing report of the vouchers and funds submitted therewith and that to the best of my knowledge and belief it is a correct and true report c m mcconn dean art exhibit to open daniel garber to show paintings in library may 13 about 25 paintings and as many drawings by daniel garber will be shown in the rft-xt art exhibit to be epened may 13 in the library garth a howland assistant pro fessor of fine arts announced this week mr garber who professor how land considers as one of the out standing landscape painters of the day is the father of j f garber ch e 33 his paintings portray the beauty of the countryside of bethlehem and vicinity but pres ents them with greater beauty than most of us recognize in the scenes stated professor howland mr garber's home is in lam bertsville pa he studied at the cincinnati art academy and at the pennsylvania academy of fine arts where he has been a member of the faculty since 1909 he is represented in the corcoran gal lery of fine arts and the art in stitute of chicago freshmen will hold dance on saturday committee engages collegians for closed affair the freshman dance the first of its kind ever to be given at lehigh will be held this saturday evening in drown hall the lehigh col legians will furnish the music the fact that the class dance is a closed affair as well as that it is sponsored by the freshmen makes it an innovation in the social history of lehigh the freshman union which is backing the dance intends that the affair shall further social relations among the members of the class the dance will start at 10 p m dean c m mcconn stated that he approves of the motives of the dance and will be very interested in its outcome the chaperones will be captain and mrs w m tow and profes sor and mrs claude g beardslee tickets will cost 1 per couple the dance committee expects that this price will be enough to cover merely expenses since the dan<;e is not given with the idea of making money bernard s weiss is chairman of the dance committee on which are also sanford manheimer marsden lincoln william dunlap david fentress and william m white r.o.t.c men to meet here army officers and civil ians from 14 colleges will attend convention president charles russ richards and maj james o green head of the department of military science and tactics will represent lehigh at an r.o.t.c convention to be held here on monday and tuesday may 8 and 9 the convention will be composed of professors of military science and tactics civilian representatives of eastern colleges and universities and representatives of the war de partment subjects concerning the r o t c will be discussed with the view of taking constructive ac tion the convention is sponsored by the civilians military education fund fourteen colleges and universi ties in the east will send men to the two day conferences these are the university of delaware the university of pennsylvania ohio state university the university of maryland western maryland col lege lafayette college georgetown university drexel institute penn sylvania state college rutgers uni versity princeton university new york university and cornell uni versity in addition the following mili tary offices and headquarters will be represented the second and third corps areas and the offices of the chief of infantry the chief of the field artillery the executive of reserve affairs and the r o t c secretary of the war department to visit bryn ma wr blake society will hear talk by professor leuba the journey of the blake society to bryn mawr will start from the library at 11 a m friday may 5 leaders of the society have an nounced the program will begin at 1:30 p m with a tour of the buildings and grounds of the bryn mawr campus during this tour the visi tors will hear a short lecture from professor helson of the bryn mawr psychological department at 4 p m tea will be served by members of the student body at bryn mawr at this time professor leuba distinguished psychologist will hold a lecture and discussion for the delegates professor rhys carpenter will address the gathering at the annual dinner to be held at 6 p m this address will probably deal with some phase of aesthetics probably that in connection with greek art another test is suggestion of dr . hughes comprehensive would be given entering frosh ford and broadhead each present reports changes made in courses at faculty meeting monday that a new comprehensive exam ination be included in the bank of placement tests given entering freshmen each year is the sugges tion of dr percy hughes head of the department of philosophy and chairman of the faculty committee on cooperation with the carnegie foundation as presented yesterday in the monthly meeting of the fa culty the suggestion came as a result of a study of student achievement recording methods by the commit tee along with dr hughes ad dress the members of the faculty hdard reports by dr adelbert ford head of the department of psychol ogy on the results of the freshman entrance psychological test and by j a brodhead head of the place ment bureau on lehigh placement statistics the faculty also con ducted elections to various of its in ternal posts offers reasons expanding the reasons of the carnegie foundation committee for recommending the new freshman test dr hughes said such an examination as this . . . giving a clear picture of the new students intellectual equipment . . . may in time by its significant find ings stimulate high schools to give prospective college men an educa tion comparable to that obtainable in european schools dr hughes himself went directly from the lower fourth form of an english school to the junior class of an american university he con tends that college students lose t,wo years of preparation through the confused administration of high schools in addition to the test he recommended that a simpler sys tem of personal record compilation be put into effect both recommendations are as yet tentative of they are found ac ceptable the committee will be ad vised to devise working plans compares results of tests dr ford compared the results of the freshman psychological test giv en here last september with those of the same test presented in 55 other colleges of more than 300 freshman registration he found that lehigh ranks seventh highest in the level of test scores mr brodhead stated that among 33 leading colleges lehigh was among the highest in the percentage of graduate placements effected during the years 1931-32 he also outlined on attempt he is making this spring to insure work for grad uate job-seekers next fall changes in courses by the fac uly in the same meeting include a transfer of met 21 and 81 from the first to the second semester a list ing of latin 10 as latin 110 the addition of education 121 diog nosis and adjustment of reading difficulties to the group of sum mer courses and the addition of m e 124 advanced engineering laboratory this last course is a continuation of m e 24 coming events wednesday may 3 12 noon nominations of student of ficers in auditorium packard laboratory 3 p m track team opens season against rutgers on upper field thursday may 4 7:30 p m a s m e meeting in room 466 packard laboratory friday may 5 8:15 p m mustard and cheese play the trial of mary du gan in drown hall history group elects drafts new by - laws pennsylvania association assembles friday and saturday for adoption of formal constitution richards welcomes guests during convention banquet historians from all parts of pennsylvania at a meeting last sat urday in packard auditorium for mally instituted the pennsylvania historical association by adopting a permanent constitution and electing officers for that organization these historians were the guests of lehigh university for the dura tion of the convention friday and saturday april 28 and 29 pres ident charles russ richards wel comed the convention delegates at a banquet friday evening in the hotel bethlehem the association was formed to provide a single body capable of coordinating supplementing and promoting state historical activities it will publish a quarterly magazine to act as a medium of communica tion between the association mem bers the constitution adopted em bodies the necessary regulations for the conduct activity and election of officers of such an organization permanent officers elected since the movement for found ing the association was instituted last year at two conferences at pennsylvania state college three temporary officers have conducted its affairs these men were elected permanent officers at the conven tion they are a boyd hamilton secretary of the state senate pres ident dr roy f nichols profes sor of history university of penn sylvania vice president and dr paul w gates professor of history bucknell university secretary ross pier wright of erie a member of the state historical commission was elected treasurer nine members of the council chosen for periods of three two and one years respectively were chosen in the order named dr s j buck university of pittsburgh dr w f dunaway pennsylvania state col lege h h spenk state archivist dr l h gipson lehigh univer sity c m sullivan state teach ers college dr f a godcharles milton former state librarian dr henry mueller muhlenberg col lege and dr a p james buck nell university after registration of the delegates friday the convention began with a meeting in packard auditorium for the reading of papers prepared by various delegates pap«rs are read those who read papers were dr paul w gates present research projects in the field of pennsylva nia history miss ruth kistler history teacher allentown high school chief justice william al len and dr russel j ferguson associate professor of history uni versity of pittsburgh albert gal latin in western pennsylvania pol itics at 5 o'clock t edgar shields university organist gave a vesper organ recital of selections from bach in the chapel the formal dinner took place at 7 p m dr dixon ryon fox pro fessor of history at columbia uni versity and president of the new york historical association ad dressed the diners the following papers were pre sented at the meeting saturday morning in packard auditorium at which mr wright treasurer pre sided w a itter of the depart ment of history university of pennsylvania early coal mining in pennsylvania with special ref erence to schuylkill county mr spofford librarian of the historical society of pennsylvania some of the manuscript resources of the historical society of pennsylva nia mrs j upton myers bethle hem vice president of the north ampton county historical society memoirs of the sun inn class officer nominations slated for tomorrow noon nominations of general stu dent officers including those of all classes and the cheer leaders squad will take place at noon to morrow in packard auditorium as decided at a meeting of ar cadia on april 24 h a voss chairman of the elections committee will be in charge of the nomination meet ing he announced fhat nomina tions for class officers will be re ceived from the floor from mem bers of the respective classes nominations for • head cheer leader may be made by any stu dent and all men named for of fice must be seconded he stated election date set at may 10 class and union officers to be selected under recent arcadia rules the general college election will be held on wednesday may 10 in the lehigh union office in drown hall at this time each class will elect a president and a secretary treasurer from the nominees to be named tomorrow at the college nomination meeting in packard auditorium the head cheer leader will also be voted for at the general election as well as officers of the lehigh union lehigh union nominations will be made by the union and the names placed on the general elec tion ballot four union officers are to be elected president vice pres ident secretary and treasurer h a voss chairman of the elec tions committee will superintend the elections next week voss was authorized by arcadia to spend a small sum for placards to advertise the elections martin m reed president of ar cadia announced that arcadia will rigidly enforce the regulations passed by that body tending to prevent electioneering combines spreading of printed propoganda and vote-getting tactics in gen eral these regulations were print ed in the last issue of the brown and white arcadia states that any infrac tion of the regulations governing the elections will mean the auto matic disqualification of the candi date involved if the misdemeanor is sufficiently serious the entire election will be declared illegal womens club elects officers at meeting mrs curtis is chosen president of faculty wives mrs g b curtis was elected president of the lehigh women's club at its annual business meeting and election of officers in conjunc tion with a tea tuesday afternoon in drown hall she succeeds mrs f c becker other officers elected are as follows mrs h a neville first vice president mrs g a howland second vice president mrs c w simmons recording secretary mrs j l beaver corresponding secre tary and mrs e c firatt treas urer mrs bradley stoughton and mrs h m ullmann poured tea the committee in charge of the meeting was headed by mrs g e doan as chairman assisted by mrs h a neville vice chairman other mem bers are mrs g d harmon mrs p l sadler mrs w w ewing mrs m j luch mrs e b schulz miss myrtle helms mrs h c brown mrs g £>. scott mrs c w phy mrs t b carwile mrs h w wright and m e kan aly for third time in two . years paper receives award for distinction in writing editorials sawyer and stamm elected delegates to convention reed presents article on prob lems of local advertising during saturday session for the third time in the last two years the brown and white was awarded the cup for editorial distinc tion at the spring convention of the intercollegiate newspaper associa tion last friday and saturday at muhlenberg college the editorial cup which is awarded to the paper having the best editorial page was won by the brown and white in the fall con vention of 1931 and then again in the spring of 1932 one of the judges of the editorial contest in explaining his choice of lehigh's editorial page rated the brown and white page at 98 per cent with four other papers finish ing second with 90 per cent follow ed by the balance of the papers in the association which were ranked 35 per cent the pitt news publication of the university of pittsburgh was awarded the cup for the best news pages and the george washing ton university hatchet was given distinguished recognition in news the brooklyn polytechnic received honorable mention in editorial work the westmin ster holcad was given distinguished recognition and the bucknellian gained honorable mention hopkins to be next host johns hopkins university was chosen as the place for the next convention of the association which will be held in the fall of this year hyman levin of johns hopkins was elected president of the asso ciation for the coming year suc ceeding dv relle gage of haver iord college other officers chosen by the convention delegates are jerame h lentz haverford vice president and mary l harris drexel secretary the lehigh delegates to the con vention were c h stamm local advertising assistant and e a sawyer news manager dale h gramley instructor in journalism k k kost assistant in journalism and martin m reed editor in chief also attended the convention business sessions of the associa tion were held on friday and sat uray afternoons and a dance for convention delegates was held in the muhlenberg library friday night saturday morning was devot ed to sessions of the news-editorial and business divisions banquet held saturday a banquet in the muhlenberg commons saturday evening brought the convention to a close frederick s bigelow former associate editor of the saturday evening post was the speaker mr bigelow in tracing the career of cyrus k curtis publisher of the saturday evening post showed how mr curtis has always dealt honestly with the public and with those with whom he comes in con tact in this way the speaker pointed out the importance of the moral obligations of the journalist lehigh men took considerable part in the sessions of the conven tion reed read a paper on prob lems of local advertising to the bus iness group on saturday morning and stamm was one of the nomin ees for the office of secretary of the association mathematicians will meet pi mv epsilon honorary mathe matical society will meet at the home of prof tomlinson fort head of the department of mathe matics at 7:30 wednesday evening for the election of officers and new members only upperclassmen who have distinguished themselves in mathematics are eligible for mem bethlehem pa tuesday may 2 1933 vol xl no 48 brown and white wins i n a cup price five cents the lehigh university brown and white member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first