Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 31

              chem society to hear talk prof j s long professor of inorganic chemistry delivers fourth talk in uni versity series last night method of application im portant add no raw oil low humidity best for paint says dr long vol xli no 31 dr c w mason to lecture thursday on chemical microscopy under a university ruling there are no unexcused absences better known as cuts permitted but in spite of that fact the total number of cuts excused and unexcused tak en last semester amounted to 13,347 if this number is distributed among all students it averages 10.3 cuts per man the average number of unexcused absences was 7.9 per man this number may seem very high for a college that allows no cuts at all and it might indicate that the rule was not enforced were all the facts in the case not known but this is not true as any student will re gretfully tell you the figures indi cate that a comparatively small number of men take most of the cuts and this raises the average for the university as a whole quite con siderably 519 had less than 5 the statistics compiled by the registrar's office find that 519 stu dents took five or less than five cuts during the last semester this is the largest group among the divisions that have been arbitrarily set up for grouping the number of men taking cuts four hundred and seventy seven men took six and not more than ten cuts and the number of men who took from 11 to 20 cuts is 306 forty-nine men took over 21 cuts last semester this group said dean curtis is the one which gives me my reputation in order to save you the mental effort of the arithmetic we can say that out of over 1,300 students 996 took less than 10 cuts these figures are of course actual re ported absences and no attempt has been made to estimate the num ber of cuts that were happily for gotten by the faculty even if each student went unreported once this would not raise the general average a great deal and at the same time it is probably an exaggeration only one dismissed the actual sufferers under the present cut system were not very numerous twenty men were placed on cut probation but only one was dismissed the number of cuts has not varied much in the past few years last semester the average number was 7.8 cuts per man and the number the semester before that was between these two averages before the present system was in operation 14 and 15 cuts per man was the rule frosh union hears ganey to describe radio station there will be more seniors in the senior section of this year's epitome than have been in any previous epi tome in the history of lehigh uni versity claims j d neely editor in chief more than 260 seniors have signi fied their intention of being in the epitome by having their photo graphs taken for the senior section by way of comparison it may be noted that last year's book con tained 194 seniors stated neely the class of 1934 will have an other reason to feel proud of itself if the epitome is published on may 1 obviously a desirable time for seniors to have their college year books asserted neely neely added that this is possible only if the seniors have turned in their ballots and 3 assessment on or before today although it takes less than an hour to fill out a bal lot the seniors have been extreme ly reluctant to set down the re quired information and surrender their ballots to the senior section committee it should be remembered by ev ery senior said neely that any ballot turned in after today is sub ject to a 2 fine and no ballot will be accepted after march 1 election of vice president is postponed because of small gathering o.w eshbach ls will tell e e.s of trans atlantic telephony will discuss bridge cables sterling johnston to ad dress c e society at thursday's meeting hamil reidy bus 35 and park er berg arts 35 were tapped and initiated yesterday by omicron delta kappa national senior hon orary society the tapping occur red just before 5 p m at the men's living groups and the initiation and banquet followed immediately at the chi psi fraternity lodge preceeding the dinner a short meeting was held at which the pos sibility of making minor changes in the present point system was dis cussed and the endorsement of a pe tition of a college for an o d k charter was considered reidy and berg were elected to the society last thursday on a strictly point basis r n linda bury president says a partial list of the activities for which they scored points follows reidy is head of his living group and has been re-elected for next year he is a member of arcadia chairman of the intra-mural sports committee and a member of the executive council he has won freshman numerals in track and let ters in varsity football and track and is a co-holder of the lehigh mile relay record he won second place in the 100-yd dash in the m a s c a a meet last spring in his freshman year he won the j a buller cup for having shown the greatest improvement in physical development berg is soccer captain berg is a member of the inter fraternity council mustard and cheese the international relations club the robert w blake society and is advertising manager of the epitome he has won a letter twice in soccer and is captain-elect for next year he is a varsity letter man in track and won freshman numer als in wrestling and track his av erage for five semesters has been 2.81 and he took sophomore honors the pledging of these men is in accordance with the by-laws passed in february 1932 which provide for the election of two juniors each february and ten juniors every may to be eligible for nomination and election the by-laws state a student must be a member of the junior class in good standing who has completed not more than five semesters in the university all for art chemical microscopy will be the subject of a lecture by dr clyde w mason professor of chemical microscopy at cornell university at the meeting of the chemical society at 7:30 p m thursday in the main lecture room of the chemistry build ing the lecture will be of general in terest with a particular appeal to analytical chemists and those inter ested in the physico-chemical phe nomena of crystallization it will cover the use of the microscope in the study of the solid or crystalline state of matter dr mason will out line the application and technique of microscopical studies along with determinations of the optical prop erties of crystals leading to their identification dr mason received his a b and his master's degree at the univer sity of oregon after which he went to cornell where he received his ph d in 1924 for a while he was assistant and later instructor in chemistry at oregon at cornell he has been successively assistant instructor assistant professor and now professor of chemical micro scopy teaches metallography besides chemical microscopy dr mason also teacses metallography and does considerable consulting work in these fields he is probab ly best known as the co-author with dr e m chamot of the hand book of chemical microscopy al though he has published many pa pers and articles on the subject and has spoken before several section meetings of the american chemi cal society the lecture will be illustrated by micro-projection with polarized light on a translucent screen spe cial apparatus and a room entirely free of outside light are required dr mason says to produce the demonstration in the proper man ner metallurgists hold new office hours sterling johnston engineer of the mcclintic - marshall construction company will lecture to the civil engineering society on the topic suspension bridge cables at 7:30 p m thursday in room 466 pack ard laboratory mr johnston will discuss the his torical development of the suspen sion bridge and theoretical and practical aspects of modern con struction problems he will treat the latter topics with the aid of a seven foot model of a suspension bridge made by himself by plac ing loads at various positions on the model he will show how cables flex under strain mr johnston was an engineer for the canadian bridge company for 15 years and has been employed as engineer by the mcclintic-marshall company for the past five years he has specialized in suspension bridge work for the past four years he worked on the maumee suspension bridge and the erection details of the golden gate bridge he de signed erection travellers for the george washington bridge in new york city bruce johnston son of the engin eer is the lawrence calvin brink research fellow in civil engineering at fritz laboratory he is working on the torsion problem using soap bubbles as an aid in his experi ments a short business meeting pre sided over by walter r taylor c e 34 president of the society will precede the lecture the cwa was the subject of a talk given before a freshman un ion audience by paul j ganey c.e 16 at the first meeting this semes ter sunday night in drown hall since less than 30 freshmen at tended the election of a new vice president was postponed until the next meeting when it is hoped by h s ford president that more members of the class of 37 will avail themselves of the opportunity to become acquainted with their classmates and at the same time to hear speakers on topics of the day mr ganey employed as a safety engineer by the cwa gave a his tory of civil works in northamp ton county stressing how slow the work has been in getting under way because of the immense amount of legal proceedings involved in each project requirements listed each job according to mr gan ey must fulfill five requirements be fore it can be started these are 1 possession of social and eco nomic desirability 2 ability of completion before sept 15 1934 3 beneficial to state or local gov ernment 4 not a substitute for any other kind of employment 5 work must involve no contracts cwa constructions in the vicin ity of bethlehem include the repay ing of the hill to hill bridge to provide run-off drains omitted in its original design the laying of many miles of sewers on the north side of town and improvements in the new franklin park along the le high river he said at the close of his talk mr gan ey answered questions as to the ef fect of the attempt to raise com modity prices and predicted that we are about to enter an era of high wages brown and white suggestion is accepted dr pearl will speak on human life coming events telephone communication with european countries will be ex plained by ovid wallace eshbach 15 in a description of the trans-at lantic short wave station at law renceville n j before a meeting of the electrical engineering society at 7:30 p m thursday in room 416 packard laboratory at the same meeting richard m byers e e 34 will speak on in sulation testing with a million volts the lawrenceville station is own ed by the american telephone and telegraph company and is used by them to transmit telephone mes sages by short wave radio to a re ceiving station in rugby england jacob l beaver professor of electrical engineering secured mr eshbach to describe this particular radio station because the senior elec tricals are anticipating an inspection trip in the spring to lawrenceville there is to be a student branch meeting of the american institute of electrical engineers about april 20 at princeton university it is ex pected that the lawrenceville sta tion situated only a few miles from princeton will be on the trip sched ule of the convention as the main at traction for the student delegates ex-lehigh instructor mr eshbach at present assistant personnel director for the a t and t taught at lehigh for seven years after his graduation he entered here from perkiomen preparatory school in 1911 took the course in electrical engineering and was grad uated with high honors in 1915 he was engaged in the fall fol lowing his graduation as instructor in electrical engineering in 1920 mr eshbach received the degree of master of science in electrical en gineering and was promoted to the rank of assistant professor mr eshbach left lehigh in jan uary 1923 to work for the bell tel ephone company of pennsylvania as as member of the personnel depart ment he was later sent to the a t and t offices in new york to become a special assistant in the personnel department hopkins man to lecture fri day as guest of sigma xi burr out march 1 cornell-lehigh wrestling lineups to be featured clustered in a corner of the art gallery were several gaping males obviously students whether engin eers or not one could not tell but certainly they had good taste be cause the object of their rude gaze was the best female nude ever to grace those walls incidently it was one of the few paintings of the ex hibit that a simple mind could un derstand or appreciate just to get an eyeful of what mexican and spanish painters are doing to uphold the traditions of velasquez murillo and rivera one should visit the gallery some of the paintings are good others look like the wanderings of a brush of one with a severe case of the d.t.'s several persons were in evidence who seemed to appreciate the ex hibit in toto one department head was observed to walk in and walk right out again with only a glance evidently that glance had shown him the folly of expecting to get anything out of the exhibit with only an engineer's training to aid him typical of the extremes of the exhibit were the nude mentioned above and an abstract depicting either a sea-horse wallowing in the black sea or a lap dog baying at the moon innoculations to be given tuesday feb 20 3 p m dr h a neville on fal lacies in advertising before fac ulty women's club in drown hall 4 p m meeting of open house committee wednesday feb 21 7 p m freshman basketball vs rutgers in taylor gym 7:30 p m pi mv epsilon in room 258 packard lab 7:30 p m faculty dramatics club at the home of prof and mrs hall 8:30 p m varsity basketball vs rutgers in taylor gym thursday feb 22 7:30 p m chemical microscopy by prof c w mason at the chemistry society meeting in the chemistry building 7:30 p m electrical engineering society in room 416 packard laboratory listening to o w eshbach is 7:30 p m civil engineering society in room 466 packard laboratory with sterling johnston the speaker emphasizing the fact that low humidity is absolutely essential to good painting dr james s long professor of inorganic chemistry spoke on paint last night in pack ard auditorium this lecture the fourth of the university series was attended by a large audience of stu dents professors and local men in terested in painting beginning with an historical ac count of the composition of various paint products dr long stated that for years linseed oil and a pigment have been the main components because of the agitation against adulteration bills were passed against the use of any material but linseed oil and white lead as the bulk of the body dr long said that paint coatings varied in their results in different parts of the country ultraviolet rays from the sun and climatic con ditions are the determining factors in durability and beauty no matter what materials are used the life of a paint is determined largely by the manner in which it is applied dr long asserted the first rule of good painting according to dr long is that no work should be done when the wood is not com pletely dried or the humidity ex cessively high temperature affects paint the effect of temperature result ing in alternate contraction and ex pansion although not as serious as the effect of humidity should be guarded against it is suicide dr long said to add indefinite quantities of oil to make the paint spread more easily many professional painters make this error merely for the sake of ex ercising their art first class paints need no additions as they are so manufactured as to remedy the de fects of poor spreading and high viscosity one of the best formulas for this region he said is composed of cryptone leaded zinc oxide asbes tine and silex in this locality that coating should wear efficiently for approximately four years although dr long added the period varies dr long attacked the theory that a good paint job must pene trate the wood if the oil of the main body penertates more than two woods cells deep it becomes separated from the pigment result ing in cracking and a short life for the coating dr long stated that painting on galvanized iron has thus far proven unsatisfactory although ordinary iron responds excellently to paint less caution dr long said need be exercised in interior painting as it is not subjected to the rigorous conditions an outdoor coating meets there is very little difference in the quality of indoor paints he said and the results are practically the same no matter what brand is used resins have recently been used to make paint glossier and harder which helps to prevent the accu mulation of dust on walls explains varnish test since the formulas for varnish are legion dr long said a simple test has been devised to test for quality when the varnish to be tested is applied to a thin metal sheet the coating should not crack when the sheet is bent he explained dr long told the audience that it used to take 27 days to paint an automobile with the new quick drying lacquer however the work may be done in as little as three hours the reasons advanced by dr long for the development of the new lacquer were the excessive amounts of nitro-cellulose the es sential ingredient on hand after the the war and the insistent demands by the automobile manufacturers for a rapid process after the lecture dr long ex hibited awnings painted with a new coating which will not rub off pa tent leather which will not crack and wood and metal panels painted with the new spray gun the lecture was attended by sev eral members of the master paint ers association of the lehigh val ley dr joseph b reynolds pro fessor of mathematics introduced the speaker in response to an editorial in the feb 9 issue of the brown and white requesting aid for the student who following the first semester di rectory seeks the professor in his rooms only to find the man busy the brown and white has received this notice of changed hours from the department of metallurgy mondays — bradley stoughton 1:30-5 p m tuesdays — gilbert e doan 11-12 a m john l burns 11-12 a m wednesdays — allison butts 3-4 p m thursdays — allison butts 11-12 a m gilbert e doan 11-12 a m gilberts e doan 2-4 p m fridays — john l burns 11-12 a m saturdays — allison butts 11-12 a m each officer of the department will be available to any students from 4 to 5 p m on any day pro vided the officer in question is at the university and not prevented by faculty meetings committee meetings etc states professor stoughton at other times students are requested not to attempt to see officers when they are at work in their offices because interruptions seriously interfere with creative work all seniors desiring typhoid innoculations must register at the health service before satur day feb 24 dr raymond c bull head of the service an nounced yesterday the first in noculation will be given satur day and the others will be given at intervals of a week human longevity will be the subject of a talk by dr raymond pearl professor of biology at johns hopkins university at a lecture un der sigma xi sponsorship at 8:15 p m friday in packard auditorium dr pearl will outline the work that has been done in safe-guard ing children's health and the result ing increase in the adult's life span he will also trace the effect of modern high-tension ways of living upon the human system and espe cially on the nervous system professor pearl is an expert on poultry breeding for the united states department of agriculture and a member of the executive board of the national research council he is editor of the quar terly review of biology and of hu man biology and has published many books in his field besides con tributing numerous papers to bio logical journals the lineups for the cornell-le high wrestling meet on march 2 will be featured in the next number of the burr norman alper managing editor says this issue is expected to be out on march 1 or 2 the lehigh lily will make its second appearance this is a tabloid section that will be found on the pink pages in the center of the purr this department was initiated in the january number and has met with unexpected success alper states a third sectimi to be featured in this next number of the burr is walter windshield alper says that this section appears to be liked by some people over 150 part-time jobs have been created by the faculty in re sponse to a request by john a brodhead placement director re garding the student aid plan of the federal emergency relief adminis tration nearly 100 men turned in appli cations for these jobs yesterday mr brodhead is seeing other appli cants at 4:10 p m today and to morrow in the faculty room of the alumni memorial building stu dents are urged to apply on these days as all later applications will have to be made at mr brodhead's office the jobs should start about mar 1 as soon as word of the federal allotment is definitely received employment for 135 men is pos sible under lehigh's allotment the pay will range from 10 to 20 a month averaging about 15 the time will range from 8 to 12 hours a week work to be varied the part time work will include clerical library research building and grounds not repair or con struction and laboratory assistance the work will be directed and su pervised by departmental officers after the assignments have been made mr brodhead states that anyone in real need should apply as char acter and scholastic requirements are fair and reasonable work about buildings and grounds 1 floor work cleaning waxing polishing unskilled 2 filling aud varnishing floors skilled 3 fainting exterior wood trim of dormi tories skilled 4 drafting revising campus maps skilled 5 labor on lockers seating desks chairs etc unskilled 6 labor on waxing staining varnishing etc skilled 7 labor on forestry thinning out under brush unskilled 8 fainting university buildings skilled library 9 cleaning books with vacuum cleaner — two men 10 clerical assistance in cataloguing new and old books — two men 11 arranging duplicate books listing — one man 12 typing bibliographics — two men 13 heading inventory of shelved books — three men civil engineering department 14 research photoelastic studies 12 hours per week — three men 15 research torsion investigation 12 hours per week — three men 16 research-seat angle investigation 12 hours per week — three men 17 research — size and shape experiments i 2 hours p«r week — three men 18 research — concrete investigation 12 hours per week — three men iy research — preparations for experimen tations 12 hours per week — four men 20 clerical filing sorting material on highways 10 hours per week — one man 21 cleaning windows in laboratory 10 hours per week — two men 22 clerical blue printing etc 10 hours per week — two men biology department 2.3 chart making one man to draw and letter electrical engineering department 24 shop work on apparatus — two men 25 experimental research three men jun iors seniors or graduates only physics department 26 research job for one man geology department 27 clerical preparation of topographical maps lists — one man 28 washing and classifying fossils — one man 2u cleaning minerals writing labels tray work — one man 30 drafting graphs diagrams charts rec ords — two men government history department 81 compiling bibliographics — two men psychology department s2 technical workers for assembly of re search apparatus — two men 33 typist clerical worker — one man department of physical education and athletics 34 care of fields and running track two hours in morning — four men 35 supervision of wrestling boxing fenc ing one and one-half hours — four men m officiating at intramural sports two hours — four men 37 ruling and lettering large schedule cards etc — one man dean and registrar's office 38 indexing special clerical work — one nan 39 clerical sorting stuffing envelopes etc — twelve men 40 clerical pulling out entrance creden tials etc — one man chemistry department 41 waxing floors varnishing work on p letups frames — one man 42 research assistants — two men m e and i e departments 43 clerical assistants to faculty members detail men — six men 41 hesearch assistants — two men 4.1 inventory work office and shop — four i wen m lay out man one man mathematics department 47 buildinp t'eoim-trical models — five or nix men 4 working in observatory — two men miscellaneous lettering signs compiling statistics odd jobs — one man bethlehem pa tuesday february 20 1934 13,347 absences were recorded last semester for average of 7.9 price five cents 260 seniors sign for 1934 epitome o.d.k initiates two juniors reidy p berg talks on paint largest section in history indicated says neely senior honorary taps and fetes new mem bers ; considers changes in point system at meet both men have track letters reidy holds relay record 150 cwa jobs are created by university the lehigh university brown and white federal emergency relief administration to pro vide funds under student aid plan men interested may register at 4 p.m today or tomorrow j " "" ! member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first