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              smoker at 7 p m thursday at bethlehem club illustrated lectures are also part of open house plans 155-lb champion wrestlers win e.i.w a title in close meet professor of philosophy at columbia urges drop ping of ascetic atti tude of present day believes people consider virtue morals in wrong light nelson to play at junior prom saturday , may 5 will entertain sub-freshmen hotel bethlehem selected for affair ; three floors including two-thirds of lobby to be used tickets are 4.40 and 2.20 none to be available at door hotel will sell no liquor house dances will be held on friday night sheridan's men gather 24 points to retain mat championship fourth consecutive time three lehigh men in finals ellstrom defeats meixell bishop has advantage over hooker from beginning until latter is thrown undergraduates to guide prospective students and conduct exhibits captain ben bishop illustrated lectures by prof george d harmon and sidney m brown and a display of old history text books will feature the open house display of the history and government department prof law rence h gipson head of the de partment announces the south in the civil war will be the subject of the lecture by professor harmon to be held at 3 p m on april 21 in packard audi torium professor harmon a south erner by birth will speak of the war from the southern viewpoint and will te!l of the problems that arose after the war professor brown will talk on witches and witch hunting in europe at 8 p.m in packard audi torium he has written a book on medieval history that is being used in many high schools and will il lustrate his lecture with tales of old practices in witchcraft in medieval europe the history text book display will be presented in conjunction with the library and will consist of old books used in schools in this country in early days professor gipson stated matmen elect case captain winter sports awards made an opportunity to get acquainted with glen harmeson lehigh's new football coach and his assistants will be presented at a smoker and reception sponsored by the lehigh home club to be held at 7 p m thursday at the bethlehem club 524 n new street pat pazzetti 15 chairman of the affair said that there were no formal speeches scheduled the authorities are expecting to have a just a good party and bull ses sion efforts are being made to have fritz crisler princeton herb mc cracken lafayette johnny utz muhlenberg and george little and wilder tasker from rutgers as guests tickets must be purchased in advance everyone is invited he need not be affiliated with the club or lehigh the price of the tickets are 1 and will be mailed on re quest to john maxwell alumni of fice or phone 3250 tickets may also be purchased from the following pat pazzet ti 15 robert adams lee bar thold 22 george rupp 28 c m denise sr 98 al schwarzbach john marshal 20 pete rems 13 mitchell van billiard 27 frank smith 87 robert billinger 21 lennox bray 23 robert taylor jr 25 warren york 24 and rob ert harrier 27 mark wolcott is award ed roy a lewis fresh man wrestling cup abell to talk on art study kellogg announces 66 letters and numerals given to competitors acadia professor will discuss appreciation in lecture thursday that spring house parties will be held the week-end of may 5 was decided yesterday by the junior prom committee states c c sher rill chairman the committee was authorized by the interfraternity council to set the date ozzie nelson's orchestra has been booked for the prom which is to be held on saturday night of the week-end house dances will there fore be held on friday night in other years proms have been on friday nights and house dances on saturday nights the committee felt that it would be best to reverse that arrangement this year in order that a better orchestra might be se cured sherrill says finding that there is no available floor space on the campus adequate for the junior prom the committee has selected the hotel bethlehem for the affair dean c m mcconn has approved the committee's se lection sherrill says tickets prices have been set at 4.40 a couple and 2.20 stag all tickets must be bought in advance as the committee plans to have none sold at the door orchestra in dining room according to present plans three floors of the hotel will be used for the prom the orchestra will play in the main floor dining room two thirds of the lobby and the upstairs ballroom will also be used for dancing snerrill says the lobby will be partitioned off so that hotel guests may reach their rooms with out crossing the dance floor punch will be served over the bar in the cocktail room and soft drinks will be sold in the tap room in the basement no liquor will be sold by the hotel during the dance a public address system will be installed to provide music for the dancers in the lobby and on the second floor the university room in the basement will be converted into a cloak room to be run by the management of the hotel ozzie nelson has played recently for dances at yale bucknell and lafayette he appears with joe penner sunday nights on the bak er's radio program working with sherrill on the prom committee are d a diefen thaler and j j nilan life-saving course to start thursday roy skipper case runner-up in the 126-lb class in the eastern in tercollegiate wrestling champion ships was elected captain of the 1935 wrestling team last night at the eleventh annual wrestling din ner held at the spring valley inn at the same time mark wolcott was presented with the roy a lewis freshman wrestling cup which is annually awarded to the man who shows the greatest im provement in wrestling during his first year the dinner was attended by more than 75 men the guests of roy a lewis general manager of the bethlehem steel company they in clude members of the lehigh var sity and freshman wrestling squads several members of the lehigh ath letic staff and local wrestling fans and those interested in the univer sity walter okeson university treas urer acted as toastmaster those le high representatives who spoke briefly included capt ben bishop coach billy sheridan roy case manager richard olwine bosey reiter head of the physical educa tion department nelson a kel logg director of athletics glen harmeson head football coach roy case e e 35 has just completed his third season of wrestling at lehigh his career since his appearance of the frosh squad has been one of great im provement in his first year he was only moderately successful it was only at the close of the season that he began to find his place red cross senior instruction to last until april 1 2 coming events undergraduates will have almost complete charge of conducting and entertaining visitors on sub-fresh man day as a result of the decision of the sub-freshman day commit tee at a meeting yesterday after noon a e buchanan jr chair man of the meeting announced that all the open house exhibits will be open to the visitors members of arcadia the lehigh union and the interfraternity council will have charge of con ducing the sub-freshmen around the campus and of showing them the displays in the various depart ments the brown key society will handle the registration of the men which will take place in the alum ni memorial building there will not as many invita tions sent this year as there were last sub-freshman day mr bu chanan said two types of invita tions will be sent personal and im personal the registrar's office will accept lists of prospective students from undergraduates and will send personal invitations to these men the program for the day will start with registration from 9 to 10:30 a m each man will register and be given a card assigning him to a certain group these groups will be taken around the campus by members of arcadia richards will welcome at 10:30 the men and their par ents will assemble in packard audi torium where president richards will give a speech of welcome dean mcconn will preside over the as sembly at the conclusion of the meeting the sub-freshmen will again be divided into groups according to departments representatives of these departments will speak to these men about the work in the course and will take them to the different buildings a buffet lunch will be served in the armory at 12:30 at which no speeches will be made student and faculty guides will be present at this point to direct the sub-fresh men after lunch the visitors will have the choice of attending a track meet at 2:30 and a baseball game at 3:30 or of making a further inspection of the campus members of the le high union and of the interfrater nity council will act as guides in the afternoon fraternities have been asked to delay rushing activities until after lunch but may invite men for din ner mr buchanan stated the faculty members of the sub freshman day committee are pro fessors p m palmer hale suther land s s seyfert f v larkin bradley stoughton howard eck feldt neil carothers h m ull man c c bidwell c g beards ee and dr n m emery nelson a kellogg g b curtis g w ely glen harmeson j w maxwell student members are r f her rick r n lindabury l h eich elberger r e mcleod b l bishop and d w hoppock repudiate your asceticism cease to be monks advised dr william pepperel montage professor of philosophy at columbia university friday evening in his lecture in packard auditorium in answering his own question why is religion being given up he explained his own viewpoints on this matter he said that religion is taken as an escape from life and that it is a substitute for interest in this world authoritativeness asceticism and other worldliness are the three fail ings of present day religion said dr montague in america people follow a liberal policy of protestant ism our religious systems are based on a policy of considering virtue as obedience and morals as commands according to dr montague such a life had an intrinsic value only in ancient athens but man has ad vanced materially since that ancient time approves of chemists dr montague criticized the belief which is held by present day biolo gists and psychologists that the mind varies with the body and therefore depends on the body bi ologists and psychologists obtain their information only at second hand it is the chemists and the phy sicists who obtain firsthand infor mation on such matters he stated he also criticized a minority group of scientists who believe that the soul goes along with the body he regarded any attempt to intro duce animistic factors in the con ception of mind as sterile and mis chievious conceptions that do not belong in the explanation in contrast to their beliefs dr montague conceives the mind in physical terms as a form of energy and revives a conception of the soul in congruity with the principles of physical science according to his conception the soul consists of superposed strains in a medium in which matter has its existence it is easy the doctor told his audience to see how atheists can disregard the beliefs in the presence of an almighty spirit in this world but it is impossible to see how they could be happy in doing so in his opinion atheists are self-contradic tory in their beliefs when they claim that they are happy in discarding their faiths religion enhances life religion should enhance life and not be an alternative for it said montague human lives go on at the expense of others in view of this fact montague claims that it is impossible to conceive the world to be the work of all-powerful being he defined an atheist as one who saw no alternative from the above explanation doctor montague wishes to think of god as an eternal being having all characteristics there is a cos mic mind in nature claims mon tague but he considers him more unified than finite he considered his god as an om nipresent but not an omnipotent be ing to comprise with the physical scientists he would think of god as a general personality rooted in the cosmos not the creator of the world and hence not responsible for its ac tions a r small to speak to engineers club underwriter expert will lec ture tomorrow two dances held lambda chi alpha and omega phi sigma entertain 450 letters and numerals for the winter sports have been won by 66 students director kellogg reports varsity men will receive 28 letters for basketball wrestling and swim ming competitions freshman ath letes and managers will be given 38 sets of numerals letters awarded for varsity bas ketball are to the following f l gearhart i e 34 e h henry bus 35 r l riley i e 34 c b pharo bus 35 c r cham bers bus 35 f w blanchard m e 35 w b stallings bus 35 c a turner met e 34 w a peterson bus 34 managers w c korn bus 34 j n roper ch e 34 freshman numerals for basketball go to j f connors arts w p fairbanks eng y f hardcastle eng f m krapf eng s lake eng w m lincoln bus a s mckraig eng l a ramsey eng d t stevenson arts l j upton eng j l walton eng managers r w boarman eng c w firling eng r b miner eng bishop wins letter letters for varsity wrestling go to b l bishop arts 34 r i case e e 35 w p crockett m e 36 f a gonzales bus 36 m d meixell c e 34 h a scobey m e 36 m k peck bus 35 w j pelizzoni m e 34 w r taylor c e 34 manager r e olwine bus 35 freshman manag er j m charlton bus 34 freshman numerals for wrestling go to r r ashman eng g h beck eng f g carey bus j w carlin eng w g conrad eng l feinblatt bus c w hart eng j h perkins eng l pennauchi arts w c riedell eng t f reider eng h p scheuerman i e r c squier eng m w wolcott eng varsity swimming letters go to f s kennedy c e 34 c a collins arts 36 w s hutchinson ch e 36 g t bell bus 34 p g nickerson i e 34 h g hol lor bus 34 managers l h eich elberger m e 34 r n linda bury chem 34 freshman swimming numerals go to h c archer arts a b carpenter eng c citret arts e r everett bus h s ford bus k m jacobi eng r g l miller bus t r stewart arts a a swenson bus and f.t win ters eng snyder 27 dies of peritonitis charles s snyder 27 of 749 n fourth street allentown died last wednesday afternon of peritonitis in the allentown hospital where he un der went an operation for appendi citis snyder was in the employ of the universal atlas cement com pany at northampton he is sur vived by his wife and two children a key to art is the title of a talk to be delivered by professor walter abell of acadia university nova scotia at 8:15 p.m on thurs day in packard auditorium professor abell believes that any great work of art can stand on its own merits and is capable of being understood and appreciated for what it is quite apart from any his torical or literary interests this theory is distinct from the usual method of discussing art in amer ican colleges says prof g a howland head of the department of fine arts in most college instruction a painting or a work of sculpture is considered expressive of the life and culture under which it was pro duced and that it may be best un derstood by studying contemporary conditions there has been a grow ing dissatisfaction with this accept ed method of procedure and several outstanding american leaders have taken up the championship of prof abell's method modern painting confused the vagaries of modern painting further confuse the issue and many people feel uncertain as to how to approach present day art the old principles of what constitutes good art seem to have been suspended and no new ones appear to take their place in his lecture professor abell will probably suggest that this con fusion toward art might be avoided if we were to follow some definite line of approach professor how land believes professor abell is not an advo cate of the unusual or the bizarre his own preferences tend toward the older masters but he feels that any work of art ancient or modern can be considered from a common start ing point this is his key to art professor abell is head of the de partment of fine arts at acadia uni versity wolfville nova scotia he did his undergraduate and graduate work chiefly at swarthmore and spent several years in intimate study of the masterpieces of painting and sculpture in the galleries of europe he is the author of the elements of art criticism at the end of the month he is to make an address be fore the meetings of the college art association in new york city phi beta kappa to initiate the 14 men who were pledged to the phi beta kappa at the chapel exercises last friday will be initiat ed at 4 p m tomorrow in the fac ulty room of the alumni building announces prof p m palmer di rector of the college of arts and science and secretary of the chap ter instruction in american red cross senior life saving will begin at 4:15 p m thursday in the swim ming pool the course which teaches the fundamentals of life saving is open to all students whether they be ex pert or mediocre swimmers red cross membership is not required and there are no tuition fees men who have already passed the course are welcome for practice or review the instruction will be given daily from 4:15 to 5:15 until april 12 when examinations will be held at least ten hours of instruction are required for eligibility to examina tion there will be no men admit ted to the course after april 5 senior hit saving is often speci fied by summer camps in recruiting their life saving corps those pass ing the test at this time will be elig ible for the examiner's course when the captain for this district again makes his rounds the instructors will be r j de gray instructor in chemistry e w kaufman graduate assistant in chemistry and g t saxton pool director tau beta pi holds banquet profs a w luce and j l beaver addressed 50 student and faculty members of tau beta pi at a banquet last night at the hotel bethlehem by john a gilmore the lehigh wrestlers in defend ing their eastern intercollegiate championship last friday and sat urday at state college managed to amass a total of 24 points to regis ter their fourth straight champion ship or six out of the last seven led by captain bishop lehigh's team was greatly handicapped in en tering the finals having only three possible chances of men becoming champions this outlook was dark ened when meixell was defeated by ellstrom defending 118-lb cham pion in a closely fought bout ellstrom started the match by taking the offensive and managed to bring milo to the mat after 50 sec onds ellstrom continued his work by putting meixell in a bad spot using a figure-four scissors which very shortly almost brought about ellstrom's downfall a quick twist on the part of meix ell brought ellstrom's shoulders dangerously close to the mat this was repeated a few other times in the bout but ellstrom managed to avert the disaster and finally emerg ed with a time advantage of 1 50 to retain his title this victory put perm state ahead of lehigh with the count at nine to six lehigh remained at a dis advantage until the second place bouts were run off bishop meets hooker the match between bishop and hooker with the exception of the one between hurwitz and rosen berg was perhaps the most inter esting one of the evening these two men had encountered each oth er three times in the past two years with bishop having two victories to hooker's one from the beginning of this con test bishop enjoyed the advantage he brought hooker to the mat and kept him underneath until able to work him into a fall the bout was very similar to the one fought in the dual meet between lehigh and princeton with the exception of the fact that hooker put up a much better fight saturday bishop in winning this cham pionship displaced hooker and brought his total of points scored to the maximum of eight combin ing three falls with a first place scobey lehigh's other entry in the finals was defeated by snow den 1931 heavyweight champion bj r the small time advantage of 1 59 the bout see-sawed back and forth with first one and then the other holding the upper position lehigh's heavy was greatly handicapped by the size of his opponent and by in experience throughout the bout snowden had a difficult time holding scobey down but when howell gained the top position he found it impossible to make any progress in any of his attempts to throw the yale man the second position bouts found meixell faced with the job of dis posing of frankel of harvard who had thrown lustbader of cornell to qualify for the opportunity of fight ing for second place meixell threw frankel to bring his total points up to six the same number ellstrom the champion had scored case places second case defeated messenger of syra cuse in the qualifying bout for sec ond place in the 126-lb class in the short time of 1 39 he was award ed second place honors in this class when valas of yale defaulted this brought the total of lehigh's points to 21 which made lehigh the leader in the race this amount would have allowed the lehigh team to carry off the honors for the evening but scobey fighting for second place against hordines of syracuse won a close referee's decision to gain another second place for the burros the bout was too close for a time advantage to be declared but be fore the run-offs were started it continued on page four tuesday march 20 7:30 p m faculty rifle club rifle range armory 8 p m faculty dramatic club pub lic reading of molieres a doc tor in spite of himself drown hall wednesday march 21 4 p m faculty volley ball lehigh field gymnasium 4:10 p m phi beta kappa initia tion faculty room alumni mem orial building 7:30 p m faculty dramatic club residence of professor and mrs hall 37 east church street adam the creator by karel and josef capek will be read 8 p m joint meeting of engineers club and the lehigh valley sec tion of the american society of civil engineers auditorium pack ard laboratory speaker a r small vice president underwrit ers laboratories new york city purpose organization methods of the laboratories thursday march 22 7:30 p m tau beta pi meeting room 451 packard laboratory 8:15 p m lecture the key to art by prof walter abell of acadia university wolfville no va scotia packard auditorium a r small vice president of the underwriters laboratories will lec ture before a joint meeting of the engineer's club and the lehigh valley section of the american so ciety of civil engineers at 8 p m tomorrow in packard auditorium he will talk on the purpose or ganization and methods of the lab oratories his lecture will be sup plemented by descriptions of equip ment and procedure employed in several investigations of out of the ordinary significance the investi gations to be discussed are re tardent classifications of fire walls and partitions fire department hose explosion-resisting electrical equipment in hazardous locations propagation of flame in pipes fire protection of building columns and distribution of automatic sprinklers omega phi sigma and lambda chi alpha held dances at their re spective chapter houses saturday night the omega phi sigma affair was a closed radio dance attended by 25 couples prof and mrs s s cairns were chaperones and s b helms ch e 35 was chairman of the committee the lambda chi alpha dance was attended by over 200 couples the gondolier's orchestra of beth lehem furnished the music and the chaperones were mr and mrs el bert caraway and mr paul calvert the dance committee was composed of the following sophomores w s martin jr david samuels and norman godfrey bethlehem pa tuesday march 20 1934 lehigh home club to fete harmeson the lehigh university brown and white price—five cents history department willshowoldtexts vol xli no 39 montague cites modern faults of religion member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first