Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 27

              brodhead states 35 le high men are engaged in state relief projects 1 5 are in near vicinity university considers plan for hiring undergraduates students taking compre hensives to be excused from classes during week preceding finals rules governing presentation of honorary degrees revised epitome senior ballots and 3 assessments should be turned in to the members of the senior sec tion committee in charge of the various departments or to miss clouse at drown hall imme diately j d neely editor in chief of the epitome announces any senior not yet photo graphed who intends to be in the book must have his photograph taken at mccaa's studio this week he stated it will be abso lutely impossible for any senior not photographed by feb 10 to appear in the 1934 epitome those seniors who have not yet returned their proofs to mr mc caa should do so before feb 10 neely added the expenses for the interfra ternity ball as reported by wil son w bolton chairman of the ball committee are as follows expenditures don bestor's orchestra $ 550.00 jean cardos orchestra 300.00 policeman 10.co checkroom men 10.00 checkroom women 8.00 decorations 150.00 i'lano 10.00 ticket man 3.00 microphones 3.00 cleaning 8.00 telephones 8.35 committee 40.00 miscellaneous 70.25 total 1 170.60 receipts 737 fraternity men at 1.60 51,179.20 one lafayette man 1.60 total 1,180.80 surplus 10.20 harvey takes industrial job assistant professor o f metallurgy is employed by roebling company 800 couples attend dance a copy of pickwick papers a pure ly'incidental choice and aimed his threads one-two-three in a twinkl ing 25 strings rested securely in the almost imperceptible eye of the needle just like that the oddest angle to the story of magyar's rise to needle-threading fame is the fact that while he at tended lehigh he spent his spare time heaving the javelin and putting the shot although javelin-throwing might be said to improve one's aim there is no accounting for the effect of shot-putting upon the new champion's success triumph should be recognized and at any rate it might be best for school authorities to recognize his triumph as soon as possible magyar is apt to lose his crown at any time now for only a few days ago a woman resident of new york city heard of the contest and placed 300 threads in the eye of a needle magyar's retort to that was a complacent denial of her qualifica tions because she had used he con tended another of the prohibited darning needles the champion is living at present with his parents at 106 washington place new york city during the years he attended lehigh he resid ed at 944 evans street with the discovery last week of a lehigh man who can beat any one in the east at threading needles the versatility of lehigh's gradu ates is well-nigh proven beyond a doubt john j magyar education major and graduate of 1932 is the needle threading man he was lionized by a new york newspaper after the publication of national thread rec ords and an interchange of corres pondence between magyar and the newspaper the claim of the potential school teacher according to accounts is that he grew tired of reading about self-pronounced champions who used darning needles to achieve their ends so to squelch idle boasters for all time he collected the smallest needles on the market and went to work imposters present now while imposters put 100 seperate wisps of cotton through the gaping eye of shoe-makers needles and such magyar manages to shoot 25 of the same into his midget targets he says his pro cedure is far more difficult and should be so recognized how does he do it interviewed by a reporter from the new york paper he demonstrated he stuck one of his tiny needles upright upon men assigned to new posts don bestor and jean car dos provide music for interfraternity ball hyde to speak on olympics brown and white execu tives elect 14 to fill vacancies on paper u of p professor will lecture thursday on historic greek games thirty-five lehigh graduates at the present time are engaged in c w a work in pennsylvania j a brodhead placement director an nounced yesterday fifteen of these men are working in northampton county in the vicinity of bethlehem most of the jobs that are open to college graduates deal with civil engineering work in the unemploy ment relief projects sponsored by the civil works administration help for needy college students has been promised in the recent c w a act that set aside over 5,000,000 to provide employment for students in need of financial aid this is designed to help 100,000 students or one-tenth of the college students in the united states the fund would give jobs in the uni versities at clerical and other forms of work the amount received by each student engaged in this work would range from 10 to 20 a month absolute need essential the student would have to prove his absolute need of this sum in or der to be eligible for a position mr brodhead stated the university would also have to waive all tuition and laboratory expenses in the case of these students the adoption of this plan is be ing considered at lehigh at the present time but no definite action has been taken on it as yet mr brodhead said the graduates who are engaged in c w a work in the vicinity of bethlehem are t h coxe e e 28 and creid ler c e engineering work in bethlehem j m holme c e 29 chief of party in construction work on the hill-to-hill bridge s h thatcher e m 29 and j l sprecher e.e 34 feb surveying in bethlehem k w barthold arts 32 c w a employment agency at saylors lake g r waltz c e 10 super intendent in construction work w a van fleet c e 28 and j e illick c e 29 chiefs of survey ing parties and e j whims c e 22 transitman the interfraternity ball on sat urday night proved to be one of the largest dances ever held at le high states wilson w bolton jr chairman of the ball committee the affair was attended by over 1,600 people don bestor's and jean cardo's orchestras furnished the music for the affair jean cardo's orchestra on an extended tour recently play ed at boston don bestor in addi tion to playing regularly on the nestles program on the radio has played recently at the hotel bilt more in new york the decorations in the gym were furnished by the sloer decorating company of trenton n j the lower gym was decorated after the wrestling meet attendance at the ball was limit ed to members of the interfrater nity council so that the dance would not be too crowded as it was last year last year the interfraternity council held their first formal ball ted black and don redman were the leaders of the orchestras at that time this year don bestor played in the upper gym and jean cardos in the lower gym the chaperones for the dance were dean and mrs c max mcconn dr and mrs claude g beardslee prof and mrs fred v larkin and capt and mrs john k rice lehigh men to act in local operetta prof s.m brown to have lead in pirates of penzance the contrast between the ancient and modern olympic games will be discussed by dr walter w hyde professor of greek and an cient history at the university of pennsylvania at 8:15 p m thurs day in room 416 packard labora tory the speech is sponsored by eta sigma phi honorary classical fraternity dr h w wright professor of latin and a former pupil of dr hyde stated that dr hyde is the author of several books and many magazine articles he is also a rec ognized authority on greek sculp ture especially on statues of olym pic victors dr hyde is a graduate of cor nell university he received his doc tor's degree at the university of halle germany he has studied with feme of the most prominent classical scholars of modern times professor wright said doctor hyde has ascended mont blanc and the matterhorn his fa vorite sport is mountain climb ing he published an article on the matterhorn ascent in the national geographic magazine in 1914 he has traveled extensively in europe and the orient said dr wright while studying abroad he spent some time in the near east russia and turkey doble will address electrical's meeting wilbur e harvey assistant pro fessor of metallurgy has been granted a leave of absence from his teaching duties to assume the duties of assistant director of metallurgy of the john a roebling's sons company at trenton n j manu facturers of steel cables professor harvey graduated with the b s degree in metallurgical en gineering from lehigh in 1927 aft er spending 15 months in research work at the naval research labora tory at annapolis he was appointed instructor of metallurgy here and occupied that position from 1928 to 1931 when he became assistant professor of metallurgy during this period he continued his special interest in research on the subject of corrosion fatigue begun at an napolis obtained degree here he obtained his degree of mas ter of science here and his gradu ation thesis on corrosion fatigue was published in the magazine metals and alloys professor harvey has become a specialist in the subject of corrosion fatigue and the protection of met als against corrosion and corrosion fatigue failures and the cpating of steel with zinc in a critical ab stract by the editor of metals and alloys harvey and five others are listed as the world's leading author ities on corrosion fatigue professor harvey has also pub lished papers on welding and the properties of alloy steels he has taken an active part in the affairs of the lehigh valley chapter of the american society for steel treat ing for some months professor har vey has been contemplating chang ing from teaching to industrial work for at least one day out of the week professor harvey will be here to continue some research work insulation expert to speak fri day in pottsville prof howland plans international exhibit display to be opened feb 1 1 in library gallery eta kappa nu inducts six new men are initiated ban quet follows fourteen new men have been elected by the executive council to positions on the brown and white staff as the result of competition during the last six weeks of the past semester the list of offices except for that of editor in chief which will continue to be filled by roniert f herrick snows a com plete change in personnel the new men with their offices are as follows editorial manager e a sawyer bus 35 news manager meyer wolf e m 35 business manager w h macdonald i e 35 makeup editor l o travis arts 35 sports editor d w hop pock i e 36 news editors dion weiss e e 35 and f h groff arts 35 advertising manager e w thorn bus 36 focal advertis ing assistant d r prosnit bus 36 national advertising assistant jerome minskoff bus 36 circula tion manager l s stout bus 36 and assistant sports editor j a gilmore arts 35 two new members were elected to the editorial council they are r e slonaker arts 35 and w l finlay ch e 36 the election of the offices of edi torial manager news manager bus iness manager advertising manag er and circulation manager are for a term of one year's duration for some time the editorial coun cil had realized the need for a better balanced sheet this improvement has taken place with the printing of this issue after the signing of a new contract with the printer the new size of 16"x21 permits a column one inch and a half longer than the old size of 16"x19y 2 ". this will mean that a four page paper will have a total of 42 inches more of column space lehigh to meet muhlenberg on banking question will debate friday changes in the comprehensive examinations for seniors in the col lege of arts and sciences and in the regulations governing the pre senstation of honorary degrees were voted by the faculty at the monthly meeting yesterday after noon specifically the total duration of the written part of the compre hensive examination is not to ex ceed 12 hours and seniors will be excused from classes during the en tire week preceding the final exam ination period the comprehensives will extend one extra day this year they will start on saturday before the final exam period instead of on monday as was the case in former years in the past seniors have attended classes up to and including satur day and had only sunday free to study for the examinations the new ruling is designed to give senior arts men a brief breath ing period in which to prepare for the comprehensives honorary degree system changed . new regulations governing the awarding of honorary degrees were also promulgated the committee on honorary degrees is to consist of the president of the university and six faculty members one of whom is to be elected annually the degrees of doctor of laws doctor of humane letters doctor of science doctor of music and doctor of engineering only are to be awarded as honorary degrees the recipients of the honorary de grees must be present at the exer cises not more than six honorary degrees are to be awarded in any academic year it was decided five affirmative votes are neces sary for nomination for an honor ary degree as soon as possible aft er the first of december of each year the committee on honorary degrees is to prepare a list of per sons who have been nominated for an honorary degree and whom the committee considers worthy of an award president to submit list the president of the university is to submit this list to each mem ber of the board of trustees re questing his opinion of the individ uals named on the list after the committee has recom mended to the faculty that an hon orary degree be awarded with a statement of the credentials of the nominee a letter ballot is to be sent to each voting member of the faculty ballots are to be sealed in a blank envelope and enclosed in an other envelope addressed to the secretary of the faculty and en dorsed by the voter the secretary is to verify the names of the vot ers before delivering the ballots to the tommittee of tellers the tellers are to count the bal lots and certify the result to the president an election is to be de clared when three-fourths of the to tal votes cast for any one nominee are favorable the result of the election is to be certified to the board of trustees for their approval and confirmation as provided by the charter of the uni versity three lehigh students and two faculty members will assist in the production of the gilbert and sulli van operetta pirates of penzance to be staged on feb 10 at the broughal high school the cast for this operetta has been assembled by the young peo ple's society of nativity church the moravian seminary and college for women and members of english 61 at lehigh sidney m brown professor of history plays the leading role j f brownlee 35 j a frick 36 and r c kain 34 of lehigh are also in the cast kenneth e heim 28 of the nativity church in charge of the production is assisted by albert a rights instructor of english rehearsals for the operetta are being held at drown hall the pro ceeds of the operetta will revert to a fund for the liquidation of the band debt of the nativity church six members were formally ini tiated by eta kappa nu honorary electrical engineering fraternity last friday evening in the tau beta pi room in packard laboratory they are f j hollister b d beacher w s weil f t ritter r i case and e s tinley all class of 35 six active and four faculty members were present after the ceremony a banquet was held in the sun inn at which the faculty members spoke briefly prof thomas attends annual meeting of college presidents coming events deadline for o.d.k points is feb 11 says lindabury a group of 30 spanish mexican and central and south american paintings from the international ex hibition at rockefeller center will be on display at the art gallery from feb 11 to 25 announces garth a howland associate professor of fine arts this exhibit was shown at rocke feller center during its opening professor howland stated that there it was received enthusiastical ly and excited a great deal of in terest after being shown at various mu seums last year it has now been broken into small groups each group is composed of the works of artists of the same or related countries the spanish group is to be shown at lehigh it will include represen tative works of south american as well as spanish artists professor howland says that from the standpoint of showing racial characteristics it will be especially interesting kellogg on olympic committee colonel nelson a kellogg direc tor of athletics at lehigh was hon ored by being placed on the american olympic men's swim ming committee at a meeting held last week resolved that the government should own and operate all banking institutions in the united states will be the subject of a dual debate with muhlenberg this friday eve ning lehigh will take the negative here at 8 p m in packard auditor ium and the affirmative at muh lenberg h s dando instructor in economics at liberty high school will be the judge at lehigh muh lenberg will pick the judge for the debate there teams will be chosen from tryouts to be held on tues day and wednesday afternoons jeanson 31 quits position charles a jeanson iii former freshman student foundation fel low resigned his position with the united color and pigment com pany newark to take a position at rutgers which will allow him to get his ph.d in two years frank c doble president of the doble engineering company med ford hillside mass will speak on the doble power factor tests of insulators and bushings at the meeting of the a i e e friday evening at 8 o'clock in the necho allen hotel pottsville mr doble is the inventor of the doble method of testing high vol tage line insulators in service and the doble power factor method of testing insulators and bushings his company manufactures equip ment for both kinds of tests and operates a testing service for power companies in the power factor tests the condition of the insulation is de termined by the amount of power a given potential will pass through it h c smith chairman of the meet ing said while this was primarily developed for use on porcelain in sulators it is being successfully ap plied to insulating oils and other insulating mediums he added the meeting will be preceded by a dinner starting at 6:30 p m and costing 1.25 tickets may be se cured from s s seyfert professor of electrical engineering president richards is 111 president charles russ richards will be back to work shortly natt m emery vice president of the ! university believes president rich ards is recovering from bronchitis which he contracted two weeks ago wednesday feb 7 * 7:30 p m faculty dramatic club reading liliom by ferenc mc inar at the home of prof and mrs robert w hall 7:30 v m pre-legal society meet ing room 208 packard labora tory 7:30 p m varsity basketball vs p m c taylor gymnasium thursday feb 8 7:30 p m physics society meeting lecture room physics building 8 p m olympic games ancient « modern by dr w.w hyde loom 416 packard labora the worst general college dance we have had at lehigh in eight years was the way dean mcconn characterized the interfraternity ball in a letter sent yesterday to each fraternity placing the blame for this disgraceful occasion upon the individual fraternity chapters and their heads dean mcconn stated that unless the fraternities assume the responsibility for main taining lehigh standards the inter fraternity ball will have to be drop ped from the social calendar dean mcconn asked the frater nity presidents to read the follow ing letter at their next chapter meeting the interfraternity ball last saturday night was the worst general college dance we have had at lehigh for eight years it was distinctly and flagrant ly wet contrary to the tradi tion we have built up and main tained at lehigh many are intoxicated a t our general college dances for the last five years at least there have regularly been not more than two or three individuals who could be plainly identified as being in toxicated and usually one or more of those two or three have been alumni or visitors it has been a simple matter to have those two or three quietly escorted out and thus to go on with a thoroughly decent dance but on saturday night the sit uation was hopeless i had something to do personally with having four drunks put out and then gave it up as a bad job there were from 12 to 20 more who ought to have been put out and whose continued presence was an annoyance and insult to the rest of the couples on the floor it seems to me the entire lehigh fraternity group should experience some shame at hav ing staged such an affair if what some few of our frater nity men want in the way of a social occasion is one where they can stagger while they dance and dance while they stagger there are plenty of pub lic dance halls and night clubs where the esthetic and social requirements of such men can be more conveniently met and those individuals would better go there for their celebrations they should not expect lehigh university to lend its campus or its name for that kind of fes tivity they should under stand that a lehigh dance can not be that kind of dance blame placed on houses i do not feel that the blame for this disgraceful occasion rests in any large degree on the small committee in charge they did not anticipate any more than i did any such sud den let-down of our social stan dards and after the affair got under way there was little or nothing that could be done about it the blame goes back to the individual fraternity chapters and their heads many of whom evidently took no responsibility for the condition or conduct of either their members or their guests if we are ever to have an other interfraternity ball it must be organized under an en tirely different set-up under which every chapter will as sume the responsibility for maintaining lehigh standards if the fraternities do not care to assume such responsibility or if after proposing to as sume it they prove unable to discharge it effectively the in terfraternity ball will have to be calendar as is customary each febru ary omicron delta kappa sen ior honorary society will elect to membership the two most out standing juniors on the basis of their point system r n linda busy president states the copies of the point system now in use may be obtained in the lehigh union office men should hand their points to ben l bishop sigma nu or to c brooks peters chi psi on or before sunday feb 11 linda dr harold p thomas head of the department of education repre sented president charles russ richards at the annual meeting of the association of college pres idents of pennsylvania which con vened recently at harrisburg others who attended the meeting were dr william n schwarze president of moravian college and theological seminary and mrs mildred c johnstone dean of mo ravian seminary and college for women who represented dr ed win j heath and was accompan ied by miss marjorie darling field representative bethlehem pa tuesday february 6 1934 alumnus achieves fame as champion needler vol xli no 27 price five cents brwon white ballots and assessments for epitome are due now ball is wettest in years-dean c w a jobs are occupied by graduates faculty eases senior exams for arts men committee reports expenses for interfraternity ball mcconn brands affair as disgrace to lehigh tradition in letter to fraternity presidents blames houses lrresponsibility ; exonerates dance committee threatens discontinuance if standards are not main tained in the future member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first