Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 14

              thus with the completion of the great structure this engineer takes his place with men as — emil diebtisch 89 builder of the grand central terminal new york city j w richards 86 father of the aluminum industry who made possible the commercial applica tion of aluminum george w wickersham 77 who headed the committee which made the famous wickersham report on prohibition edwin j prindle 90 who devel oped the patent system now in use by the national government and who is a former attorney-general of the united states e a grissinger 94 who invent ed the telephone relay h m byllesby 78 who helped to found the westinghouse com pany richard harding davis 86 fa mous author h h mcclintic and c d mar shall both 88 whose company will soon be credited with construction of the golden gate bridge in san francisco thousands of people turned out in antwerp belgium recently to see king albert open a new tunnel under the scheldt river they watched him perform inauguration ceremonies at both ends of the gi gantic structure and inside it ... afterwards they saw the cathe dral of antwerp illuminated and heard a carillon concert played on the cathedral chimes in honor of the event they danced all night to the music of bands in every pub lic square and besides that they saw an other lehigh man win his place in the university's mythical hall of fame that man is walter j douglas c e 94 consulting engineer with parsons klapp brinkerhoff and douglass of new york city along with ole singstad chief engineer of the holland tunnel and corne lius f cahalane of new york city douglas supervised the entire de sign and construction of the bel gian under-river thoroughfare for his services the king of belgium decorated him with the insignia of officer of the crown lacrosse club ends practice bert lown daughter of famous alumnus weds at age of 1 8 the secret marriage of miss hope harding davis daughter of the late richard harding davis the famous war correspondent and writer of short stories member of the lehigh class of 1886 to m jean louis frank kehrig of st jean de luz france was recently an nounced miss davis gave her age as 18 and her husband gave his as 26 the marriage ceremony was per formed by the rev frederick f voorehees of the summerfield methodist episcopal church in port chester n y early this year miss davis an nounced the breaking of her en gagement to the viscounte jacques de riviere son of the count and countess de riviere of st jean de luz by mutual consent her father richard harding da vis was probably the most glam orous alumnus of lehigh says the october issue of the alumni bul letin while an undergraduate he organized mustard and cheese the arcadia club and many drinking clubs he constantly contributed to the epitome and the burr in his college writing he created the character conway maur who was later to take broadway by storm as van bibber dorm dance is an open affair students form new orchestra students talk to newtonians roper 35 osman 35 and koranye 35 , lec ture to society treas urer encourages banquet j _______ bull session follows meeting humorous quiz answered optics was the theme of the the talks given at the meeting of the physics society on thursday evening during the business meeting the treasurer w s galloway eng phys 35 stated that the dues were coming in so well that the society may have a banquet at the end of the school year c g roper eng phys 3s spoke on the refraction of various liquids in his demonstration he showed how light was refracted in passing through water ether and carbon bisulphide a e osman eng phys 35 demonstrated the principle of mir ages on a desert he explained how the light is refracted through the layers of air of different densities over the hot sand to illustrate this effect a large iron beam with sand spread over it was heated and an artificial image was placed at the one end explains absorption t d koranye eng phys 35 explained and showed the results of selector absorption by means of a system of lights and colored glasses he illustrated how white light is composed of proper combinations of red green and blue light he showed the results of color fatigue and how defects of the eyes cause various phenomena following the talks a short an swer quiz of a humorous nature was given to those present the answers to the questions were names of promient physicists substances and units used in the study of phy sics some of the questions and an swers were a dire affliction boyle a gem joule a very small container milli kan one mug einstein fraternal group lodge the berries current to lift rays stays in expectation weights collossal nerve brass to take feloniously steel one who never pays a bill charger vends cells ringlet of hair coil burr appears today dormitories and twenty five fraternities are entertaining visitors at annual fall affair frosh game with lafayette to begin at 2 p m tomorrow band and cheerleaders will appear saturday for fresh man football contest taylor gymnasium will resound tonight with the melodies of bert lown and his band as approximate ly 400 couples dance to his music at the senior ball initial entertain ment of lehigh's fifteenth annual fall house party week-end danc ing will begin at 10 p m and end at 3 a m the gym is decorated in modern istic style the walls and ceiling are in black and white and the band platform is covered with a silver arch the dance will be chaperoned by dean and mrs c m mcconn dr and mrs c g beardslee and dr and mrs neil carothers tomorrow lehigh's band which has received much favorable com ment as a result of its work at var sity football games will play at the football game between the le high and lafayette freshman teams in taylor stadium the game will start at two o'clock and no ad mission will be charged band to appear arrangements to have the band and the cheerleaders present at the game were made by the interfra ternity council ben adler and his plaza grill or chestra will play at the dormitory house party dance in drown hall to morrow night the affair is spon sored by taylor and price halls twenty-five fraternity house dances will be held tomorrow night eighteen of them will be open to other fraternity men and their guests after midnight in this group are alpha chi rho alpha tau omega chi psi delta tau delta kappa alpha kappa sigma lambda chi alpha phi gamma delta phi sigma kap pa pi kappa alpha psi upsilon theta delta chi tau delta phi delta sigma phi theta xi and pi lambda phi sigma chi chi phi sigma phi ep silon alpha kappa pi and sigma phi will hold closed dances beta theta pi and phi delta theta will hold a closed dance at the latter house delta upsilon and sigma nu will combine in a dance at the sigma nu house which will be open after midnight long to discuss oils t edgar shields to con duct symphonic group forty-one men try out forty-one candidates were on hand for the lehigh symphony or chestra tryouts thursday night in drown hall edward b frazee chem 35 was elected manager t edgar shields director of music will conduct the orchestra the following men have signified their intention to try out for the or chestra violin — l raring p d strubhar w c freed c t olof son c w hoffman c h nei man a m seybold p palmer g h kalb a h schell s t scoo per d c bomberger g o brown base viol — a e osman cello — k c badger g s eisenstadt clar inet — a b lovett l j oster houdt r k yotter d c clark f j ritter bass g l reid alto oboe — l k klingerman flute r h raring e b frazee w e trumpler trumpet — m h hutt e b mancke j w math ers h g wyman h fehr w w pedrick w porter trombone — r n moffett s a musser tuba a white j baillie saxophone — p goldsmith french horn v kil dare c r musselman piano — r h hayman mr shields requests that stu dents who can play stringed instru ments or other instruments suitable for a symphony orchestra appear at the rehearsal to be held at 4 p.m friday nov 17 in drown hall tickets on sale at union office until noon sat urday 50 cents for two the dormitory dance in drown hall sponsored by taylor hall and price hall will be open to down town men john a gilmore head of the dance committee announced last night tickets are 50 cents per couple ben adler and his plaza grill or chestra have been engaged to play at the dance gilmore estimates that at least 60 couples will attend the affair at which prof and mrs h g pay row and mrs j j ryan will be the chaperones the dance commit tee plans to utilize novel lighting effects as the motif in decoration until a late announcement last night it had been planned that the affair was to be a closed dormitory dance at the request of c r hocker newly elected representa tive of downtown group no 5 an effort had been made to secure the support of the organized downtown men the necessary financial aid was not forthcoming and the dormi tories determined to carry out their original intention of a closed inter dormitory dance last evening however gilmore decided that while organized groups as a whole had failed to manifest interest in the affair individual of fers of support merited recogni tion downtown men may purchase tickets for the dance in the le high union office there will be no reduction in price for stags tickets will be sold saturday night for 55 cents the dance will last from 9 p m to 1 a m rifle teams meet exhibitopensnov 12 squad of 26 closes fall session wildman de clares prospects good fall practice for the lehigh la crosse club ended last friday for two weeks 26 men many of them freshmen practiced fundamentals of the game on the tennis courts be low the physics building eugene wildman president of the club says the prospects for a successful season next spring are good the new candidates are promising and especially outstand ing is eric reed a transfer from navy and william bailey a trans fer from johns hopkins plans are being formulated for the coming season to date games with princeton perm state stev ens and monclair a c have been arranged and maurice faulkner secretary and manager of the club is trying to arrange satisfactory dates with swarthmore and sev eral other colleges the club lost very few men by graduation last june so the team should not suffer lack of material says wildman the men who play ed last year and who are still in college are wildman hill jacobi charlton purdy short groff prall gates wait hickok hutton dor nin smith gruen gummere and root colonel kellogg decided recently that members of the lacrosse team will receive minor l's last year the members of the team received lacrosse charms donated by arcadia as awards wildman has been writing to alumni interested in lacrosse ask ing them for financial aid since the university has dropped lacrosse as a varsity sport the team depends on membership dues guarantees from other schools and donations from arcadia to finance the run ning of the team junior rifle team defeats freshmen 1,394 to 1,226 the junior rifle team defeated the freshman team last friday by a score of 1,394 to 1,226 the high scorer for the winenrs was p l hooper with a total of 374 points out of a possible 400 the high scorer for the freshmen was t r brown who had a score of 326 this was the fourth of six sched uled interclass shoulder-to-shoulder rifle matches held in the past four weeks in the three previous matches the seniors defeated the juniors and the sophomores defeat ed both the juniors and the seniors in the two remaining matches the freshmen must shoot against the sophomores and the seniors open letter invites mac west for prom week-end the house party issue of the burr was placed on sale today and issued to subscribers norman alper burr managing editor drew the cover design a silhouette of someone holding cards the center one a joker with a freshman on it the issue includes an open let ter to mac west inviting her to a houseparty this is by l m lake bus 36 an article entitled to the la dies by princess isadora terri toff a linguist friend of the infa mous in bethlehem and descen dant of pithecanthropus erectus burlesques a liberty magazine fea ture on the order of the map beth lehem in retrospect in a pre vious issue a page entitled the world in retrospect has been drawn by alper lehigh guests have danced to tunes of famous bands three lecture to honorary mathematical society at meeting wednesday three talks by students were giv en at a meeting of the newtonian society honorary mathematical or ganization wednesday evening in packard laboratory the speakers were j w math ers e e 36 f e stump e e 36 and j p butterfield e.e 36 the topics of their talks were eclipses archimedes and cy cloids and hypocloids respec tively j l kornet ch e 36 president of the society stated that in the future all speakers other than stu dent speakers must be approved by the dean he also urged that all of the members pay their dues as promptly as possible mathers gave the definition of an eclipse and stated that eclipses also occur on other planets the eclipse is of most interest to astronomers and the oldest eclipse known oc curred in china during the year 2231 b c he said however math ers continued the complete records of this eclipse were destroyed by one of the early conquerors of china refers to confucius mathers also stated that in a book written by confucius there were 36 eclipses mentioned of which only 32 were true eclipses the other four were merely fabri cated by the followers of confu cius he said although there is a mention of eclipses in almost all of the his tories of ancient countries there is nothing in the egyptian history that deals with eclipses because the egyptians were practical minded and didn't care about astronomical disturbances mathers stated stemp stated that although ar chimedes wrote many books deal ing with mathematical principles he refused to write about his me chanical inventions because he be lieved them to be of no impor tance the speaker stated that during the war between the romans and the sicilians archimedes invented many war machines that kept the roman forces in check the ro man generals issued an order de claring that the life and property of archimedes should be spared butterfield stated that cycloids were discovered by galileo an an cient halian astronomer he at tempted to prove the usefulness of cycloids and hypo cycloids by means of various drawings shields marks anniversary t edgar shields director of mu sic at lehigh marked his thirty first anniversary as organist of the pro-cathedral church of the na tivity with an hour's program of music last sunday afternoon in the church chemistry professor will talk to research council prof james s long professor of inorganic chemistry will speak before the meeting of the national research council on tuesday nov 14 at the university of pennsylva nia on vegetable oils dr long will discuss the appli cation of this oil to the field of electrical transformer insulating mediums under the sponsorship of the archer-daniels-midland com pany dr long and his staff have developed several synthetic prod ucts from linseed oil which are adaptable for use as transformer in sulators dr long was elected to the na tional research council in recog nition of his contributions to the field of oils and paints over a per iod of several years at present he is serving as a member of the com mittee on electrical insulation blake society hears becker prof frank c becker of the department of philosophy read a paper on knowledge and right at the meeting of the r w blake so ciety at 7:30 p m last friday in room 403 packard laboratory two paintings of each scene will show contrasts comparisons and contrasts is the title of a group of 40 paintings which will comprise lehigh's sec ond art exhibit of the season beginning sunday nov 12 and continuing until nov 26 the ex hibition in the library will be open from 2 to 5:30 p m on sundays and from 3 to 5:30 p m on week days prof g a howland head of the fine arts department says that the paintings will be arranged two by two in juxtaposition the two paint ings of each scene are treated in an entirely different manner to illus trate the diversion in tendencies the collection belongs to the college art association with selec tions from private collections and galleries inter-sectional matches started ; woodring high scorer the inter-sectional rifle meets got under way this week each section of basic students is represented by a team of six men the teams were selected last week in open competi tion w b woodring the captain of the section f team was leading the sophomores thursday with a score of 187 out of a possible 200 e w spengler captain of the section d team was second with a total of 183 r lindenhayn who has not completed all his targets still has a chance to beat woodring's score among the freshmen t r brown captain of the section c team was high scorer with 171 points g h weaver and l a ramsey were tied for second place with 158 points according to sergt g f gasda the range instructor all the shooting must be completed by saturday morning during the last six years le high men and their guests have danced to the tunes of many fa mous dance orchestras the 1927 fall house party brought nat shilkret charles dornberger played in 1928 and ben pollack in 1929 austin wy lie entertained in 1930 and smith ballew was here in 1931 last year don bigelow and his 12-piece orchestra rendered the tunes for the senior ball profs carothers and brad ford make public let ter to roosevelt con demning devaluation signers of document engaged in study of currency problems dr neil carothers head of the department of business administra tion and frederick a bradford associate professor of economics have made public a letter to pres ident roosevelt advocating a pol icy of non-inflation this letter was written prior to the president's announcement of the administration's plan in regard to the purchasing of gold the let ter was mailed at noon of oct 22 and the president's address was given that evening many university professors signed this letter which condemns infla tion the letter to president roose velt was as follows the undersigned have long been engaged in connection with acade mic work with writing with bus iness or with government service in the study of money and curren cy problems we know that in this time of crisis and conflicting views even the most able leaders may be misled in regard to the attitude of the group of which we are a part we do not presume to urge upon you a course of action we do not suggest that you accept our views in preference to those of others we do wish you to know that we be lieve the following statements to be true 1 inflation of the currency will injure the country 2 the degree of public confi dence essential for the economic re covery will be attained most quick ly by a return to the gold stan dard respectfully e e agger rut gers university b m anderson jr chase national bank james w angell columbia university don c barrett haverford college ben jamin haggott beckart columbia university james washington bell northwestern university jules i bogen journal of commerce fred erick a bradford lehigh univer sity william adams brown brown university neil carothers lehigh university t n carver harvard university john m chapman co lumbia university edward h col lins new york herald tribune geo w dowrie leland stan ford university eleanor lansing dulles university of pennsylvania j f ebersole harvard university geo w edwards college of the city of new york d.w ellsworth the annalist herbert f fraser swarthmore college roy l garis vanderbilt university e c har wood massachusetts institute of technology john thorn holds worth university of miami f cyril james university of pennsylvania e w kemmerer princeton uni versity e a kincaid university of virginia david kinley pres ident emeritus university of illin ois james d magee new york university wesley c mitchell co lumbia university h g moulton brookings institution marcus nad ler new york university ernest m patterson university of pen sylvania h h preston university of washington george e roberts national city bank r g rodkey university of michigan william a scott university of wisconsin w e spahr new york uni versity w h steiner brooklyn college leonard l watkins uni versity of michigan russell weis man western reserve university ray b westerfield yale univer sity h parker willis columbia university max winkler new york city ivan wright university of illinois john parke young occi dental college bethlehem pa friday november 10 1933 belgium honors lehigh engineer who built river tunnel in antwerp hope harding davis marries frenchman vol xli no 14 the lehigh university brown and white week-end plans are completed to play tonight price five cents non-inflation is advocated by economists optics theme of talks given by physicists i member intercollegiate newspaper association i all the lehigh news first