Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 36

              it will take two or three years to build up lehigh football aggre gation says coach will change style of play from warner to notre dame mentor's staff will con sist of marty westerman and eb caraway end coach glen harmeson the new var sity football coach and the mem bers of the coaching staff will be the guests of the freshman un ion at the meeting to be held sunday evening march 11 at 7:30 in drown hall harmeson will be the princi pal speaker and will present his own program according to har old s ford bus 37 president of the union the meeting will not be a buf fet supper as usual and the at tendance is not limited to mem bers of the freshman class said ford liberty weekly to edit paper students from bethlehem high school to put out next brown and white dr james n rule a radio debate over station wcba in allentown between delta omicron theta lehigh debating society and the gettysburg debat ing team will be held at 8:30 p.m monday george t bell jr bus 34 and harry k ellis jr e e 35 will represent lehign by taking the af firmative side of the question,"re solved that the essential features of the nra should be retained as a permanent policy of the govern ment the freshman members of the so ciety will hold two debates tonight parker palmer arts and john g dwyer eng will take the nega tive side of the question resolved that the government own and op erate all banking institutions in the united states this debate will be held against the rutgers freshman team at 8 p m in packard labora tory the other debate will be against the gettysburg freshman team and will be held at gettysburg college eugene h uhler arts and stanley m kohler c e of lehigh will take the negative side of the ques tion resolved that the essential features of the nra should be re tained as a permanent policy of the government this is the same topic that will be discussed over the ra dio monday night mail delivery is curtailed bethlehem postmaster an nounces the limiting of campus service physics club hears petersen polarized light is com mon phenomena in na ture says professor there will be no delivery of cam pus mail the second tuesday and the fourth wednesday of each month for the next four months robert k ritter bethlehem post master announced to the brown and white yesterday the reason for the curtailment of the delivery service is due to a rul ing by james a farley postmaster general under the new law mail service is to be reduced to a min imum in strictly residential sec tions only one delivery a day will be made in residential-commercial sections two deliveries a day will be made and in commercial sec tions three deliveries will be made each mail carrier must take one full day off without pay each month last monday and tuesday there was no mail delivery on the cam pus because of the illness of the campus mailman according to a post office ruling there can be no substitute mail carriers in the mail service freshmen sent to the post office to get the mail were told that the postmen did not have time to assort the mail neville is lecturer at penn on colloids instructs chemists in series of ten weekly talks that the fraternity tutorial fel lowship put into effect last spring by the board of trustees has shown some measure of success has been proven by the fact that phi gamma delta the only fraternity in school thus far to have adopted the sys tem has raised itself in scholar ship among the fraternity group from twenty-third last semester to eighteenth this semester the plan which was presented last april to the board of trustees by president charles russ rich ards provides that any graduate with a bachelor's degree from a recognized college is eligible to ap ply for the position of tutor in one of the fraternities the fellowships amount to exmeption from tuition up to 150 a year for two years dean mcconn recently made the following statement regarding the fellowship the plan seems to me one which all fraternities might well consider but one which no chapter should embark upon unless it has a high grade man to nomin ate as a tutorial fellow and unless a fair majority of the group is sold on the proposition and is ready to co-operate one house adopts plan phi gamma delta was the only house in school to adopt this plan arthur l benson 33 was nomin ated by the fraternity last spring to president richards and was named for the fellowship for the following two years benson devised a plan by which the house should have an organ ized and supervised study hour ev ery night except saturday every member of the group who was on scholastic probation and every stu dent whose average was below that of the house average was com pelled to attend study hall four nights a week this plan was given a two-week trial in order to compare the two the original form of study hour was substituted benson feels that a combination of both — that is a non compulsory organized study hour for those who do not wish to study in their rooms — is the most effec tive plan i believe benson says that it is practically futile for a fraternity to adopt the tutorial system unless the fraternity is definitely certain that it is willing to sacrifice some of its accustomed liberties in order to co-operate with the tutor i am equally certain that a frater nity which seriously declares its in tention to raise its scholarship and is conscientiously willing to co operate with the tutor in a general plan for better study will be re warded m.&c club delayed in announcing cast polarization of light is perhaps the most common phenomena in nature stated max petersen asso ciate professor of physics at a meeting of the physics society last night in the physics building he gave a brief discussion of the principles of optics involved in the polarization phenomena the three methods of polarizing light are by reflection refraction and by the use of crystals professor petersen con fined his demonstration to the use of nicol's crystals he proceeded to demonstrate the varied construction of crystals of different materials by the use of polarized light this was accom plished by placing thin specimens of the substance to be studied in the lens system of an instrument bor rowed from lafayette college this same instrument is to be on display in the department of metallurgical engineering at open house professor petersen projected the polarized light beams on a screen where the several axes of polariza tion could be seen this phenomen on was varied by using a quartz fil ter with a quarter wave length re tardation many varied and beautiful color effects were prejected professor bidwell head of the physics department urged all mem bers of the society to attend the next meeting april 19 to prepare for their duties during open house several designs for keys for the society were presented and dis cussed members of the staff of the lib erty weekly newspaper of the lo cal high school will cover the cam pus tomorrow morning as the first step in writing and editing the tuesday issue of the brown and white high school editors will man the desk on sunday evening and will edit the copy and write the head lines for the stories written by their classmates the final step will be the proofreading on monday eve ning editorials and columns to appear on the editorial page were prepared this week under the direction of louis stoumen editor in chief of the weekly who will act as editor ial manager of the brown and white assignments for the high school reporters who will cover the cam pus tomorrow morning were ready at noon today meyer wolf news manager of the brown and white who prepared them declared he will turn them over tomorrow morn ing to don cressman of the week ly who will replace wolf for the coming issue reporters show ability wolf also declared that the high school reporters on their prelimin ary visits last saturday morning showed the initiative and reportor ial ability needed to make the com ing issue a success the members of the weekly staff and offices which they will hold on the brown and white are algernon rice sports editor mil ton spillberg news editor catelina panebianko assistant news editor carleton laubach and muriel wolfe columnists the reporters will be mitchell leskin llewellyn kemmerly dav id deutsch mary zweibel raphael scoblionko nathan horowitz and several others who have not yet been selected richard shorkey edwin krass ner william fox and dorothy chubbuck will be the sports writ ers catherin bender arlene seibert marjory miller and gertrude froe lich typists will aid the reporters in preparing the copy honesty best selection of leading character causes difficulty dr millstead to talk to pre-med society allentown pathologist will lecture at meeting speaking before the faculty in the afternoon and the public at night dr james n rule superintendent of public instruction for pennsylva nia will discuss the problems and crisis facing educational on mon day march 12 at lehigh dr har old thomas chairman of the speak ers committee announces dr rule will talk to the faculty at 4 p m in the faculty room he will discuss current problems in education placing particular em phasis on the relation of the depres sion to public schools the question of the school finances and the problem of training teachers he will show the relation of these problems to the colleges and uni versities monday evening dr rule will speak on the deepening crisis in public education in pennsylvania in packard auditorium at 8 p m he will explain the financial crisis in pennsylvania that has caused the closing of some school districts and the defaulting of teachers salaries in others offering as a possible so lution more state monetary aid and probably federal endowments he will point out that because of the present system of diving the state into classes the tendency has been to concentrate the wealth in the cities thus impoverishing the rural districts to such an extent that the school system has totally collapsed in some sections of the state principals to attend the lecture which is sponsored jointly by the northampton county educational club and the lehigh university lecture committee will be attended by high school principals school system superintendents and outstanding teachers in northamp ton and lehigh counties robert taylor assistant superin tendent of northampton county schools who has been co-operating with professor thomas declares dr rule to be the outstanding educator in pennsylvania profes sor thomas asserts that there is no one better qualified to discuss education dr rule will be the guest of the university at a dinner to be given in his honor monday night at the hotel bethlehem among those who will attend are president charles russ richards vice pres ident natt emery dean c m mcconn prof philip palmer prof tarold thomas prof h l gip son prof percy hughes prof adelbert ford and dr t t laf ferty was born in lowa dr rule was born at lanchest er lowa in 1876 and was graduat ed from lewis academy wichita kansas in 1893 he received his master of arts degree from washington and jef ferson college in 1901 since then he has done graduate study work at the university of wisconsin and grove city college he was national director of the junior american red cross from 1919 to 1921 and president of the association of col leges and secondary schools of the middle states and maryland in 1930 professor uhler emulates diogenes and succeeds a contest to secure a 600-word history of the united states to be placed on mount rushmore in the black hills of south dakota will be sponsored on the lehigh cam pus by the brown and white in conjunction with the hearst news papers authority to conduct the contest here was received yesterday morn ing in a telegram from kenneth m ellis director of the competition for the new york american who ex pressed appreciation of brown and white co-operation at lehigh the hearst newspapers who are sponsoring a nationwide contest to secure the best possible text to be used by the mount rushmore na tional memorial commission in de termining the inscription to be carved by gutzon borglum in the black hills of south dakota will award the prizes in the contest dr gipson is chairman dr lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and gov ernment has accepted the invitation of the executive committee of the brown and white to serve as chair man of the committee to judge the lehigh entries the other members of the com mittee are dr robert smith head of tne department of english and dr george d harmon associate professor of history who teaches the courses in american history rules governing the contest will be announced later while the prizes to be awarded are listed elsewhere on this page the winning essays from the lo cal committees will be sent to a na tional committee whose member ship will be announced later this committee will select the text most suitable and this will be carved in 13-foot letters on the entablature on the western slope of mount rushmore the mount rushmore memorial will consist in part of four colossal heads one of jefferson who con ceived the democracy — washington who forged it — lincoln who weld ed it — and theodore roosevelt who by the cutting of the panama canal and linking the two oceans realized the dream that sent colum bus westward memorial to be lasting the memorial which geologists declare will outlast our civilization has been approved by many patrio tic societies while the idea of hav ing the american people write the inscription to be used on this mem orial has been approved by many leading educators and historians in commenting on the competi tion dr george d harmon who will be one of the local judges de clared i feel that the mount rushmore project is one of the fin est and most gigantic undertakings in modern sculpture the work i feel sure will arouse the interest of thousands of american students in the constitutional and political history of their country and whet their appetites for a more complete knowledge of the lives of the great statesmen that america has pro duced dale h gramley head of the courses in journalism said this contest to secure an inscription for the mount rushmore memorial is especially suited to journalism stu dents coming events winner of hearst contest to get yearly scholarship dr harvey a neville associate professor of chemistry is giving a series of ten weekly lectures at the university of pennsylvania on the theory and application of colloid chemistry to members of the philadelphia section of the amer ican chemical society there are about 75 chemists en rolled for these lectures given on tuesday evenings the university of pennsylvania has made this one of its regular courses in chemistry the class includes research chem ists from medical laboratories chemistry teachers and professors and research workers engaged in the textile leather printing paint and varnish industries dr neville graduated in 1919 from randolph macon college he became connected with lehigh in chemistry he has been an asso 1927 as an assistant professor of ciate professor since 1930 colloidal chemistry has for years been his main interest larkin addresses initiates at lambda chi alpha banquet dr fred v larkin head of the departments of mechanical and in dustrial engineering spoke at the lambda chi alpha initiation ban quet monday night at the chapter house eight men were initiated at the banquet w w twitchel arts 35 g a horlacher ch e 35 f a stamp e e 36 j a red cay 37 k m jacobi 37 e m close 37 r n weller 37 and c f mccoy 37 prizes and awards in the col lege division of the competition inaugurated by the hearst pa pers in connection with the in scription for the mount rush more national memorial have been announced as follows by the new york american best in any college — 500 yearly scholarship for remainder of his or her college four-year course second best — 300 scholarship for remainder of his or her course third best gold medal fourtht best — silver medal fifth best — bronze medal best in each college — certifi cate of merit pathology and pre-medical edu cation is the subject of an address to be given at 7:30 tonight in room 316 packard laboratory by dr laurence milstead pathologist at sacred heart hospital allentown robert buchanan chairman of the activities committee announces dr milstead will be accompanied by dr payer 29 an interne at sa cred heart hospital who will give an informal talk on the life of an interne on march 23 pre-medical students from lafayette muhlenberg ur sinus and swarthmore will meet at lehigh to discuss plans for the formation of a state-wide pre-medi cal association tentative plans have been made to have dr theo dore reichbaum of easton address the meeting freshman members of the society recently attended a clinic at the state psychopathic hospital at al lentown regular clinics are now being held at st luke's hospital every other week although final trials for the com ing mustard and cheese produc tion of whistling in the dark have been given the announcement of the cast will not be available un til next week announces l r tra vis publicity manager the delay in picking a cast has been due to the difficulty of getting someone who would fit the part of wallace porter originally taken by ernest truex since the play is built around this character it is es sential that he be well chosen the supporting characters are un usual in that they had to be chosen according to physical appearance rather than acting ability alone with this in mind the mustard and cheese club has decided to give the men who tried out but failed to get parts another chance this spring in the production to be staged by the dramatic workshop english 62 admission credit will be given for this work states travis in the near future a call will be made for this play which is now being written by e h williams jr m e 35 and robert farn ham jr arts 35 members of the workshop and of mustard and cheese diogenes the greek philosopher sought an honest man with a lan tern and failed e h uhler assistant professor of civil engineering tried it with quiz papers this week and found five it all happened when five min ing engineers were given a quiz in structural design and several days later were given their own papers to grade professor uhler in charge of the class left the room while the men passed judgment on their own work when the self-graded papers were returned the marks were com pared with grades previously deter mined four men it was found had graded themselves lower than their professor while the fifth had mark ed himself one point higher in the latter case the grade was the ques tion of an incompleted problem and open to interpretation all grades ranged within a narrow margin of the marks given by pro fessor uhler friday march 9 7:30 p m pre - mcd meeting in room 208 packard laboratory 7:30 p m lehigh union meeting in drown hall saturday march 10 3 p m wrestling meet lehigh freshmen vs shamokin high school sunday march 11 7:30 p m freshman union meet ing in drown hall glen harme son speaker monday march 12 4 p m meeting of the faculty educational club in faculty room of alumni memorial building dr james n rule speaker 8 p m public lecture in packard laboratory dr james n rule speaking on the deepening educational crisis in pennsylva nia glen harmeson new head football coach promises no miracles on the lehigh gridiron in 1934 it will take a while he told a brown and white reporter who practically had to stand in line wednesday to see him but i hope to be able to accomplish something in the next two or three years in building up the lehigh football team we are changing systems using the notre dame system in place of the warner double wing back until this change is affected it will be a slow process a building pro cess co-operation and patience seem ed to be the things that harmeson wants most however he expressed his assurance in the co-operation of the students and faculty mr harmeson now has his com plete staff which will begin coach ing on the upper field tomorrow the coaching staff will consist of harmeson as head coach and back field coach marty westerman who worked last year with harmeson at purdue as line coach and caraway as end coach first practices routine the first few practices will be dedicated to the regular routine work and this will be followed by some intense practice in tackles and the learning of the new plays in order to help the learning of these new plays glen harmeson has is sued mimeograph sheets to all foot ball candidates containing about 25 plays these plays are from the notre dame system and will probably be used for the next three seasons this means that once having learn ed these plays he will not have to worry about the coach discarding them in the middle of the season harmeson requests that anyone come out who has any inclination to play football harmeson's main job in the spring practice will consist of fa miliarizing the football candidates with the new system which con sists of the famous shift and hard blocking tackling the schedule of next season will not include teams which are ob viously beyond lehigh's caliber as the schedule stands now it includes haverford john hopkins perm state gettysburg princeton muh lenberg and lafayette princeton was not on the schedule last season due to the clamoring of the alumni of princeton and dartmouth for a game between the two colleges as a result lehigh released princeton in order to let them play this game new coach is busy since his arrival in bethlehem on tuesday harmeson has been be sieged from all quarters he ad dressed the rotary club wednes day the gathering at the princeton wrestling meet and is to speak to the freshman union sunday in the mean time he has met the oth er coaches on the campus and oth er men connected with the depart ment harmeson began coaching at pur due in the fall of 1930 following his graduation from that university at that time he was head frosh football and basketball coach the next year he advanced to varsity backfield coach and continued to coach the frosh basketball team while at purdue he was very ac tive in sports he was a leader on the frosh football basketball and baseball teams and received varsity letters in all of these sports in his sophomore junior and senior years in 1929 the purdue football team won the western conference cham pionship and harmeson was elected captain of the all-western and all conference team as a halfback he played as forward on the purdue basketball team in 1928 1929 and 1930 purdue won the con ference championship in 1930 again he was elected to the all-confer ence and all-western teams he was outfielder on the purdue var continued on page six bethlehem pa friday march 9 1934 harmeson will be guest of freshman union sunday vol xli no 36 price five cents lehigh to debate over radio station harmeson seeks no miracle team lehigh paper will sponsor essay contest tutorial plan is successful records show delta omicron theta to op pose gettysburg monday rule to talk on problems of education to speak monday phi gamma delta rises from 23rd to 18th place scholastically under guidance of benson fellowship exempts recipient from tuition totalling 150 the lehigh university brown and white brown and white to join hearst publications in competition to secure 600 word u.s history inscription will be placed on mountain in south dakota will address faculty on monday afternoon public to hear speech about penna crisis superintendents principals and teachers are expected member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first