Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 37

              interfraternity council gives group until va cation to pick house week-end apr 28 ?? will decide on orchestra may co-operate with lafayette mcleod asks dry dance council will pay 99.50 property losses on last ball state supervisor cites school problems sal aries needs misman agement and taxes says overcrowding is evil asks expansion of curricula member of former byrd expedition to address i e society thursday evening in packard lab speaker was chief officer and navigator to little america lieut henry adams of the united states navy retired chief officer and navigator on the first byrd expedition to the antarctic will speak on his ex periences with byrd in the antarc tic at an open meeting sponsored by the industrial engineering society at 7:30 p m thursday march 15 in packard auditorium the first regular rehearsal of the cast of whistling in the dark the forthcoming mustard and cheese play will be held at 4 o'clock wednesday afternoon in drown hall although the cast is not defin itely picked as yet the following men are requested to be pres ent wallace c riedell william s hutchinson robert farnham jr albert zuckerman coleman citret richard mcleod mal colm baxter samuel blumenthal john b . tupper bernard s weiss john r mccomb and edward h land paper edited by liberty staff liberty high school students put outu t brown and white the above cartoon was drawn especially for this issue of the brown and white by richard shorkey cartoonist for the liberty high school weekly captain bishop has just completed his second successive dual meet season without a defeat this year he scored eight falls and won one decision to gain a total of 43 points prindle talks on patent law rifle team wins at easton attorney says purpose of law is to benefit public by granting monopoly defeats lafayette 1,887 1,878 in shoulder-to shoulder meet saturday by raphal scoblionko dr james n rule supervisor of public education in pennsylvania lectured to an audience consisting of over 350 people last night in pack ard auditorium on the problems and questions arising in pennsylvania school systems dr rule presented six major problems which confronted educa tion in this state the first problem was that of teachers salaries he pointed out that the teachers in pennsylvania were being underpaid the average salary ranking far be low in comparison with other states increasing demands in the high schools was the second problem discussed dr rule stated that the nra by releasing child workers under 16 was creating over-crowd ing in the schools every type of society is now be ing represented in high school he said to cope with the situation an increasing of our school curricula must take place in his third problem dr rule pointed out the controversies aris ing from non-district tuition of the high schools this system he claimed was hindering both the giving districts and the receiving districts dr rule discussing his fourth problem of increasing local revenues said that 60 per cent of school taxes will be collected this rep resents a pretty serious question — it must be curbed said dr rule mismanagement and needless overhead was the next problem dis cussed by dr rule he claimed that if the school districts would economize on the right lines a half million dollars could be saved faculty club hears education lecture rule explains scientific teach ing methods by milton spilberg this issue of the brown and white has been written and edited by the staff of the liberty weekly the news publication of liberty high school the reporters for the weekly have covered the various beats of the lehigh men high school edi tors manned the desk sunday eve ning and have edited copy and writ ten headlines editorials and columns which ap pear on the editorial page were edited by louis stoumen editor in chief of the weekly the members of the liberty staff and offices which they held are william fox sports editor milton spilberg news editor catelina panebianko assistant news editor carleton laubach and muriel wolfe columnists the reporters who covered the different buildings on the campus were rahpael scoblionko david deutsch mary zweibel mitch les kin alfred swift loretta fischer llewellyn kemmerly and edwin krassner algeron rice nathan horowitz leon shane richard shorky and dorothy chubbuck wrote the sports stories donald cressman wrote sports forum the editorials and their writers are as follows education and de pression rheta miller co-educa tion eleanor dartt writing and self expression donald cressman still life louis stoumen the features are around other campuses by muriel wolfe and old man of the mountain by carleton laubach alumni club elects the choice of a date for the jun ior prom and spring houseparty has been left to the discretion of the junior prom committee in order that the best possible arrangements may be made for securing a suitable orchestra the interfraternity council in vested this power in the committee at its meeting last night in drown hall with the reservation that the committee choose either the week end of april 28 or that of may 5 before the beginning of easter va cation an effort is being made to co operate with the lafayette interfra ternity dance committee so that bet ter terms may be secured for the orchestra on a dual engagement since lafayette cannot hold a dance after midnight on saturday and lehigh has the authority to do this on the campus it would be neces sary to hold the prom here on sat urday night c c sherill chairman of the committee assured the council that this night would give the members of athletic teams a better chance to attend the dance and would also make the week-end more profitable for those girls who can only be present on saturday night must be dry r e mcleod president of the council urged the representatives to impress upon their respective fraternities the need of making this dance a dry one he continued by warning that all university dances in the future may be suspended if this one should prove the equal of the interfraternity ball in reference to the ball mcleod reported that all claims for prop erty lost would be paid in full as soon as the treasurer could send out the checks claims to the extent of 99.50 have been reported to the council the report of the committee in charge of the interfraternity ball was read and accepted at this meet ing the miscellaneous item includ ed in the original report published in the brown and white was clari fied at this time the 70.25 went to pay mike and jimmie for their services and for minor expenses at the gym the president asked all living groups to have their new members present at the meeting of the coun cil on the second monday in april the council will be organized for next year at this time forstall chosen treasurer thirty second time by loretta fischer the actual coaching of the team is the simplest part of our job the more important things are the ac tive support and co-operation of the student body the faculty and the townspeople said glen harmeson at the meeting of the freshman union sunday evening in drown hall especially is the support of the students necessary in the face of defeats he said mr harmeson asked that the students get out and talk up foot ball as much as possible and try to get all available material out for the team the task of installing a new system will not be an easy one but will be a slow process the new coach warned the students not to expect too much from the team the old ideas of most of the fellows will have to be changed somewhat but the fundamentals of the game remain the same the notre dame system which we are introducing has an advantage over the warner system in that there is a possibility of every play going for a touchdown mr harmeson said as he went on to tell some thing of the new style of play he outlined the work being done during spring practice and stated that the coaching staff wants every body to come out and watch the practice and see what is being done rigid training rules we will concentrate on the games we feel that we have a chance of winning next fall in or der to build up the morale of the team he stated he said that dur ing spring practice no rigid train ing rules would be adhered to but that in the fall any member of the squad who did not keep training would be promptly dropped if dis covered the training is up to the men and no checkup will be made on the members of the squad he added mr harmeson reminded the fresh men that the chief object is to keep one's scholastic standing and that as many men as possible must re main eligible for athletics he also expressed approval of lehigh's ath letic policy and stated that every effort would be made to maintain it mr harmeson introduced the other members of the coaching staff who each said a few words to the freshmen paul calvert the head freshman coach is to coach the var sity tackles until baseball practice starts the meeting was opened by h s ford bus 37 the chairman of the freshman union after mr harme son's talk ford asked for sugges tions from the freshmen present who numbered about 50 lieut harry adams adams enlisted in the ranks of the united states navy worked up to the rank of lieutenant and saw service in the spanish-american and world wars he was on board the new orleans at the sinking of the merrimac at santiago com manded the mine sweeper curlew and served on the battleship okla homa throughout his thirty-odd years experience as a sailor he has visited every portion of the world serving on board more than 30 dif ferent vessels of all sizes and types in 1909 lieutenant adams estab lished a record depth of 288 feet as a deep sea diver the present record of 304 feet is now held by one of his pupils who made the record while salvalging the submarine f-4 lieutenant adams has been awarded the congressional medal as well as other numerous medals for personal valor and various deeds of service aside from being a sea man and navigator he is the holder of 27 patents most of them being on electrical devices upon returning from the byrd antarctic expedition in 1930 lieu tenant adams made an extended lecture tour in which he told about the voyage to the south pole be sides being a lecturer he has writ ten a number of magazine articles stories and a book on his exper iences entitled beyond the barrier with byrd a small advance in an art does not disqualify an application for a patent if it is of great significance dr e j pindle 90 new york pat ent attorney said to 140 members of the lehigh valley section of the a i e e at their bethlehem meet ing last friday evening in packard laboratory dr prindle said that the purpose of the patent law is to encourage persons with inventive ability to give the public the advantage of their inventions by letting the in ventors have a 17-year monopoly on their product all the applications of the patent law center around this principle a patent is granted on a device only if it has been publicly used in this country or if the idea has not been published in this country or abroad thus the fact that one small company had been using a secret process to make wired glass for eight years did not prevent a pat ent being taken out by another per son who later developed the same process because the company had resorted to the doctrine of trade secrets and the public might nev er have benefitted by the process likewise the fact that a process has been used in a small section of europe does not disqualify an ap plication for a patent here in short a patent may be granted if the art in this country had no previous knowledge of the process four fraternities entertain at dances phi beta kappa to initiate fourteen phi sigma kappa holds affair at hotel bethlehem honorary will tap candidates in chapel friday the philadelphia lehigh club at its annual election chose rob ert farnham 99 president w a cornelius 89 first vice pres ident j j shipherd 21 second vice president w forstall treas urer w bernstein 96 secretary the directors are cornelius j h pennington 97 r a wahl 10 a c shand 12 and e l for stall 20 both farnham and cor nelius have sons at lehigh at the present time the lehigh rifle team took its third consecutive victory of the sea son by defeating lafayette 1,887 1,878 in a close shoulder-to-shoulder match at easton saturday taking the lead early in the match the brown and white team came close to losing the match in a rally by the lafayette team shooting from the standing position seven men shot from each of three positions prone kneeling and standing in the prone position per fect scores were shot by woodring and bosak of lehigh and by thorn of the home team the brown and white team led at the end of the first round by a score of 688 to 678 this lead was increased to 19 points after the second round the lafay ette team came back to turn in some exceptional tallies in the stand ing position and lessened the breach to a margin of nine points woodring tied with thorn of the maroon team for scoring honors with a tally of 282 out of a possible 300 they were followed by warm kessel and bock of lehigh with scores of 275 erhardt of lafayette turned in a record tally of 90 in the standing position the meet was similar to that of last year when lafayette staged a rally in the standing position to lose by only four points the individual scores follow the teams were received at tea following the match by lieut and mrs a t wilson at their home at 321 bushkill street in easton lieu tenant wilson is an assistant of the m s and t department in charge of riflle practice at lafayette newtonian society to hear student papers at meeting three student topics will be pre sented at the meeting of the new tonian society to be held at 7:30 p m tomorrow evening in room 203 packard laboratory announces j l walton president they will be the history of pi by r m lord the life and works of isaac newton by e g oppenheim and eclipses of the sun by m l jackson each top ic will be discussed after its pre sentation by the members of the society the importance of science and scientific methods in the educational policies of secondary schools is be coming more and more pronounced said dr james n rule superin tendent of public instruction for pennsylvania in an address deliver ed before the faculty educational club yesterday afternoon in the faculty room in the alumni mem orial building dr rule did not discuss current problems in education as he had previously planned but confined his remarks mainly to the history and development of science and scien tific teaching in the schools of pennsylvania the teaching of science in the state of pennsylvania is traceable to benjamin franklin who recom mended instruction in nature as one of the requirements of a good citiz en dr rule stated the type of public instruction needed today is highly complex compared to the type prevalent in 1810 in the last century more advances in all fields have been made than in all the pre ceding centuries combined these advances have necessarily demand ed a new system of public educa tion there have been two methods of education in the past continued dr rule one of these was the scholastic method based on the in terpretation of the thoughts of men in the past and the application of these principles to present situa tions without attempting to formu late any original ideas the modern scientific method on the other hand begins with experience and reasons through to the truth president richards leaves for florida vacation president charles russ richards left for a three week vacation in florida with his wife and daugn ter miss lenore richards of min neapolis minn sunday morning he will be back at the univer sity following the easter holidays dr natt m emery vice president says by catalina panebianco four fraternities held dances last saturday evening three were open and one was closed the largest dance was held at the hotel beth lehem by the phi sigma kappa fra ternity at the phi sigma kappa open dance the lehigh collegians offered music to 150 couples the chaper ones were dr and mrs robert billinger and prof and mrs bur gess jennings dancing was from ten to two the delta upsilon fraternity en tertained 100 couples at an open dance given at their chapter house the music was furnished by george doddy and his orchestra of bethle hem the dance was chaperoned by mr and mrs george thorn al hollander and his orchestra of york entertained at an open dance at the chi phi house for 75 couples mr and mrs robert adams were chaperones dancing was from ten to two at a close dance following their first anniversary banquet the delta sigma phi fraternity entertained 35 couples music was furnished from 9:30 to 2 by the virgillians of bethlehem by catalina panebianco formel pledging of 14 candidates for phi beta kappa will take place at 7:45 a m friday in chapel the annual meeting of the chapter is scheduled for 4:10 p m wednesday march 21 in the faculty room the pledgees will be initiated at this time in 1932 the greatest number 25 men was pledged at this event prof edgar h riley president of the lehigh council of phi beta kappa stated nineteen per cent of who's who in america are members of phi beta kappa forty per cent of the justices of the su preme court since 1800 have worn the key as well as 40 per cent of our secretaries of state phi beta kappa is an honorary scholarship society of the college of arts and science and the col lege of business administration students who up to the middle of the senior year maintain high scho larship may be elected to mem bership a limited number of en gineering students whose work is philosophical scientific and whose language studies are of high grade are also admitted in packer hall the room in the southeast corner of the third floor was used for this purpose for a few years prior to 1903 the present office of the department of mathe matics was the room used and it was here that professor eckfeldt began his work up to this time the department had no equipment even the surveying instruments used in mine surveying were bor rowed from the civil engineering department the first complete mining transit was given to the de partment by the late prof edward h williams in 1902 the miners occupied williams hall in 1903 the office of the de partment was the one now occu pied by prof b l miller the lecture room was on the opposite side of the hall a large basement room was used for the mining equipment which was slowly being acquired by 1909 the department had out grown its quarters in williams hall mrs eckley b coxe gave the uni versity the present mining labora tory as a memorial to her husband the building was occupied in 1910 and was completely renovated in 1930 three buildings occupied by mining dept since founding by catalina panebianco though the department of mining engineering dates back to the found ing of lehigh it has occupied its own building only since 1910 its beginnings were very small and for many years the department was known as that of mining and metal lurgy wm t roepper was the profes sor of minerology and geology from 1866 to 1869 he also taught mining part of the time prof richard r rothwell was demonstrator in mining and metallurgy from 1868 to 1873 prof benjamin w frazier was professor of mining and metallurgy from 1871 to 1880 and professor of minerology and metallurgy from 1880 to 1903 edward h williams jr was professor of mining and ge ology from 1881 to 1892 in 1900 geology metallurgy and mining were all made distinct and separate departments howard eckfeldt was instructor in mining from 1900 to 1902 assis tant professor in charge of the de partment from 1902 to 1904 and professor of mining engineering from 1904 to the present time the instruction in mining engin eering was given in the early days special liberty weekly issue vol xli no 37 price five cents bethlehem pa tuesday march 13 1934 prom committee to choose date harmeson asks active support of students leads team in undefeated season rule declares teachers pay is insufficient the lehigh university brown and white lieut adams will describe antarctic life rehearsal for m & c cast is called for wednesday actual coaching of team is simplest part of job says football coach to freshman union mentor will introduce notre dame system here jlehigh kneel stand prone ing ing woodring 100 95 87 lindenhayn 97 92 85 bock 98 92 85 spengler 97 85 68 warmkessel 99 91 85 bosak 100 92 68 evans 97 89 85 totals 688 636 563 lafayette kneel stand prone ing ing etrika 96 91 83 thorn 100 94 88 swart 94 92 76 lof strom 99 84 69 erhardt 96 86 90 judlum 96 87 81 lawton 97 93 86 totals 678 627 573 t'tl 282 274 275 250 275 260 271 1887 t'tl 270 282 262 252 272 264 276 1878 coming events tuesday march 13 4 p m faculty rifle club rifle range armory wednesday march 14 4 p m faculty volley ball lehigh fiield gymnasium 7 p m newtonian society meeting room 208 packard laboratory 8 p m tau beta pi smoker fac ulty room drown hall thursday march 15 7:30 p m illustrated lecture — byrd in the antarctic by lieu tenant h a adams packard auditorium sponsored by the in dustrial engineering society 8 p m debate banks — ursinus vs lehigh odd fellows lodge friday march 16 8 p m lecture by prof william peperell montague columbia uni versity ancient hopes and new directions packard auditorium member intercollegiate newspaper association this issue edited by liberty weekly staff — — — «^— «— —^—^— . .^_^_ _ __ __ mmmm mm j