Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 50

              may issue includes parody on modern poetry many stories concerning house party incidents and womankind in general are included in the house party issue of the lehigh burr which was issued friday the cover design drawn by d w fentress was used previously inside the burr but on account of the demand for it as a cover by many other college magazines it was re-used as a cover in this is sue some of the features that appear in this issue as burr-lesque a story entitled house party ad venture and review of review which deals with modern poetry and its faults two of the full page cuts in the issue were taken from esquire and there were two from the wis consin ski-u-mah and the cor nell widow point changes are adopted chem student gets 87 grade merian is higher w r f guyer chem 36 made the highest grade on the sophomore comprehensive exam which was giv en to all sophomore engineers on april 25 1934 his mark was 87.4 percent when the median for the class was determined it was found that it had improved somewhat over previous years this may be one answer to the current question as to whether the university stu dents of today are more serious minded than those of other years says c w simmons head of the sophomore comprehensive commit tee much valuable information is ob tained from these tests according to professor simmons most of which may not be divulged only the committee the departmental heads and the individual student know of the results of the examination the objective of the test is to determine how much fundamental knowledge the student has retained after two years in the university and to as certain in which fields of engineer ing his ability lies elected president at meeting held over week-end prof e l crum associate pro fessor of latin was elected pres ident of the classical association of the atlantic states at the twenty seventh annual meeting of the so ciety held may 4 and 5 at the col lege of the misercordia dallas pa membership in the association is made up of residents of new york new jersey pennsylvania dela ware maryland and the district of columbia the meeting was also attended by dr h w wright head of the department of latin and william h bohning arts 34 bohning president of the lehigh chapter of eta sigma phi national honorary classical fraternity at tended the national convention of the society with dr wright and professor crum at the university of lowa before going to the c a a s meeting dr wright gave his well known lecture horace's sabine farm at both meetings professor crum presented a paper on the myth ology of lusiadas also included in the itinerary of the trio were visits to the univer sity of michigan and the univer sity of indiana faculty alters adm credits will hold 27th bach festival dean praises fraternity and committee heads for dance manage ment 1,350 attend ozzie nelson heard on two floors of hotel bethlehem i was very much pleased with the junior prom in every particu lar said dean c m mcconn yes terday in a statement to the brown and white he said that it was as much a credit to the university as the lnterfraternity ball in february was a disgrace the dean said that he was very much satisfied with the manner in which the heads of the fraternities carried the responsibility for the houseparties and the prom he said that he especially wanted to congratulate c c sherrill bus 35 chairmon of the prom committee on the excellent manner in which he managed and conducted the prom according to harold d ock bus 35 president of the junior class the crowd in attendance in cluded 550 couples and 250 stags these 1,350 persons constituted one of the largest crowds that has ever attended a dance at lehigh nelson in main dining room two floors of the hotel bethle hem were used for dancing satur day night ozzie nelson and his or chestra provided the music from a raised platform in the main dining room the music was broadcast by a public address system through loudspeakers in the lobby the mez zanine and the crystal ballroom the ballroom the main dining room and one-half of the lobby were used for dancing harriet hil liard who appears on the broad casting program with the orchestra and joe penner sang a number of duets with ozzie nelson punch was served in the cocktail room the taproom was wide open for soft drinks the entrance to the prom was through the taproom door fred trafford bethlehem chief of police collected tickets it was reported that there was no such thing as a successful gate-crasher the floors were crowded after the main bulk of the patrons arrived in spite of the fact that saturday was the hottest day this spring the west part of the ballroom floor was cool throughout the evening being kept breezy by the strong wind the chaperones for the prom were dean and mrs cm mcconn registrar and mrs g b curtis captain and mrs j k rice and dr and mrs c g beardslee new york commissioner of education to be commencement speak er 300 to graduate beardslee to give sermon exercises are june 8-12 the sixty-sixth annual commence ment exercises will be held this year from friday june 8 to tues day june 12 inclusive while the number of graduates will not be definitely known until the saturday before graduation it is expected to approach 300 in cluding those receiving master's and honorary degrees says j w max well assistant editor of the lehigh alumni buletin the commencement address will be given by dr frank pierrepont graves president of the university of the state of new york and new york state commissioner of edu cation at albany dr graves grad uated from columbia in the class of 1890 he received the degree of doctor of philosophy from colum bia in 1912 he has received the degree of doctor of laws from 11 colleges and universities he has been president of the university of the state of new york and commis sioner of education since 1921 he is now ex-officio trustee of cornell university n y state nautical school n y state college of for estry n y state teacher's college and six state agricultural schools his subject has not yet been an nounced baccalaureate sunday june 10 dr claude gillette beardlee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy will deliver the baccalaureate sermon on sun day june 10 this will be the third successive commencement that dr beardslee has served in this capac ity this service as well as all the other formal graduation exercises will be held in packer memorial chapel friday and saturday will be de voted principally to the alumni ex ercises among which will be the meeting of the alumni association the alumni luncheon the class par ade and reunion banquets on monday june 11 class day exercises will be held in the after noon and the senior ball in the eve ning the commencement exercises proper will be held on tuesday at 10:30 a m dr graves will give the address the degrees will be con ferred and commissions in the of ficers reserve corps will be awarded inscription contest ends saturday noon lehigh men to talk mackay of philadelphia transcript to describe experiences before 200 delegates on saturday richards mcconn carothers gramley haring to speak gordon mackay former sports editor of the philadelphia record will be the principal luncheon speak er at the first annual lehigh scho lastic press conference on satur day he will talk on his journalism experiences dale h gramley assis tant professor of journalism ex pects about 200 delegates from 136 schools from pennsylvania and new jersey to attend mr mackay has been in newspa per work for the past 30 years he is now the sports editor of the philadelphia transcript he went to battle harbor labrador in 1909 to meet admiral robert e peary on his return from the north pole in 1913 he met the survivors of the titanic disaster and the next year accompanied the pennsylvania na tional guard on its pursuit of pan cho villa he has covered every championship fight in recent years and has attended every world series president richards dean mc conn and dr neil carothers will address the conference at the open ing session at 11 o'clock dr rich ards will extend greetings to the delegates dean mcconn will talk on how does journalism rate as an extra cur ricular activity dr craothers will speak on students and the newspaper to hear music at luncheon the luncheon program will in clude vocal and instrumental selec tions by student organizations and a talk and demonstration of sleight of-hand by andrew e buchanan alumni secretary dr n m em cry will be the toastmaster the afternoon sessions will be held in packard laboratory at 2:15 the news and editorial representa tives will be addressed by profes sor gramley while the business del egates will hear a talk by prof h a haring jr who is in charge of advertising and marketing courses his subject will be how adver tisements are made at 2:45 the news and editorial delegates will meet in small round table conferences led by student journalists the business represen tatives will hold a session under the leadership of kenneth k kost as sistant in journalism the closing session will be held at 3:45 when the awards will be presented by dr p m palmer di rector of the college of arts and sciences the registration period will be from 9 to 11 a m in the lonuging room in packard laboratory civil war newspapers will be on display in the library during the conference delegates are asked to park cars at the parking space of the alumni memorial building this arrange ment has been made because of the large number of people who will be here for the bach festival on the same day also changes ruling on playing of home gam es on motion a change in admission require ments allowing prospective stu dents to present fewer credits in prescribed subjects was passed yes terday afternoon as a faculty meet ing in the alumni memorial build ing the faculty also repealed on the motion of nelson a kellogg di rector of athletics the rule pre scribing that all home games other than those played on saturday be played on wednesday and friday afternoons the director of athlet ics was also authorized to schedule games before 4 p m whenever he thinks it wise or necessary members of the various commit tees which handle the majority of the work of the faculty were also elected the change in the admission re quirements which led to a discus sion making yesterday's meeting the longest of the present year allows students to enter lehigh without presenting a year's credit in his tory the new rules also allow stu dents to enter the colleges of bus iness administration and engineer ing without presenting credits in foreign languages in all cases en tering students may present history and foreign language credits as op tional the change in admission require ments registrar george b cur tis declares is in line with the modern trend though our re quirements are not so radical as those of some colleges they will allow us to evaluate more fairly the entrance credits of many of our students who come to us from a dozen states whose state require ments vary greatly the results of the election to the faculty committees will be an nounced later in the week gipson tells society of criminal codes to receive artists bruce carey to direct choir in performance friday and saturday music lovers from far and near will come to packer memorial chapel friday and saturday for the twenty-seventh bach festival two of the most famous works of bach will be presented the mass in b minor which will be sung here for the twenty-seventh time and the christmas oratoria the first three parts of the christmas oratoria will be sung friday at 5 p m daylight saving time and the last three parts will be presented at the second session which will begin at 9 p m the rendition of the mass will also be divided into two sections kyrie and gloria will be sung during the first session which will begin at 2:30 saturday afternoon the rest of the mass from credo to the end will be presented at 5 p.m the first part of the mass will be broadcast over wabc and associat ed stations the final rehearsal will be held in the chapel thursday at 7:30 p.m at this time the choir will cover nearly all of the two works and will be accompanied by the orches tra an admission fee of 50c will be charged bruce carey who was appointed conductor to succeed the late dr wolle will lead the choir in the presentation of the two numbers the choir consists of 46 first so pranos 39 second sopranos 34 first altas 38 second altos 24 first ten ors 25 second tenors 33 first bass es and 27 second basses a total of 264 singers the soloists at the festival will be ethyl hadyn soprano bertha mac starner soprano rose bamp ton alto don gridley tenor and julius huehn bass t edgar shields organist and a section of the philadelphia symphony orches tra will accompany the singers new cyanide system is non-cumulative limit ing candidate's total a new point system for admission to cyanide junior honorary so ciety was decided at a meeting of the society last night the system as a whole does not differ material ly from last year's system the present system is non-cumulative thus limiting the number of points which can be obtained from any specific society the complete system is as fol lows seven points 3.5 average any three semesters varsity letter or sufficient time played in current season to earn a letter election to junior managership of any recognized sport six points presidency of any class office on the staff of any publication maximum of 6 points allowed for any publication five points 3.0 average for any three semesters head of a living group intercollegiate individual champion in any sport four points 2.5 for any three semesters secretary-treasurer of any class brown and white assistant officers mustard and cheese assistant officers alpha kappa psi freshman numerals three points temporary freshman chairman delta omicron theta members of mustard and cheese president freshman union sophomore representative to lehigh un ion election to board of burr brown and white or review two years service in mustard and cheese junior member of lnterfraternity council possession of college record two points member of golf fencing or rifle team membership in robert blake society eta kappa nu eta sigma phi international relations club pi mv el silon officers in any other course society officers of brown key staff of handbook one point competition for any freshman or varsity team one season competition for assistant manager for one year competition for the staff of any publi cation member of freshman cabinet any scholastic prize captain of any freshman team phi eta sigma all points must be turned in to h e lore delta upsilon by noon saturday may 12 cyanide will meet in drown hall at 7:30 p m monday may 14 in order to select the sophomores turn ing in the highest number of points the men selected will be tapped at the college meeting on thursday may 17 chickering to speak coming events luch gramley buchanan to par ticipate in book week dr myron j luch professor of english dale gramley assistant professor of journalism and a e buchanan secretary of the alumni association are included on the pro gram of moravian seminary and college for women's annual book week to be held may 14-18 dr luch will speak may 16 on educational advantages of the modern novel mr gramley will speak may 17 on points on jour nalism and mr buchanan will en tertain at a banquet may 18 with sleight of hand tricks clyde lytel profesor of english at keystone state college will also speak during the week six frosh orators to try for prizes in contest final six finalists in the freshman ora torical contest will compete for the prizes tomorrow afternoon when the finals will be held in packard laboratory the freshmen compet ing are j d demsey h koller p palmer j silverstein c spohn and george yanko the judges for the finals are m j luch professor of english e.h sloane assistant professor of eng lish c w phy instructor in eng lish and t g ersham and c a harding assistants in english first prize to the winner of the contest is 40 and the second prize is 15 music director outlines life and character of composer in last of university lectures musician was own critic genius not early recognized bach was not a born composer but had to become proficient in the art through training declared mr t edgar shields director of mu sic in the last university lecture johann sebastian bach his life and letters last evening in pack ard auditorium the lecture origin ally scheduled for a previous date was postponed so that it might co incide with the date for the bach festival in packer memorial chapel mr shields stated that the bach family record was very long and contained histories of many famous musicians he believes that the fame of many of the bachs was overshadowed by the noted johann sebastian as bach was born on march 21 1685 next year will be the 250 th anniversary of his birth mr shields expressed the belief that there would be many celebrations of the famous composer's birth throughout the year gives history of bach's life the lecture concerned itself chiefly with a history of the life of the composer and the works which he produced bach laid the founda tions of his education at the gym naesium at eisenach in addition to his education he occupied his time with singing in the choir and earn ing money by serenading bach was left an orphan at the age of ten and was sent to his brother at ordruff it was here that he obtained his strict lutheran training and was inspired to devote his life to the writing of church music after leaving the church school at ordruff bach started to earn his living on his own resources he journeyed from place to place be ing appointed as organist at several churches in succession the composer entered into a very different atmosphere when he was appointed chief organist at weimar said mr shields he remained there for nine years during which time he wrote several important compositions he occupied much of his time by teaching when he taught his pupils organ playing he was patient but severe in teaching composition he avoided all purely theoretical work and instead that all composition be thought out be fore any notes were written al though bach earned quite a repu tation for his playing he was not noted for his composition among hi s contemporaries professor shields pointed out improvised system of music the composer improvised a sys tem of music in which the octave was divided into 12 parts this en abled him to write in every con ceivable key he was appointed organist and school inspector at leipzig he took charge of the music of four churches there he remained at leipzig for 20 years writing 265 cantatas during that time bach showed a great deal of ob stinacy he was not always wise he was his own critic writing as his artistic soul dictated mr shields declared bach was a most religious man he was a kindly father and was kindly toward contemporaries and looked for the best in their mu sic mr shields declared that very few contemporaries realized his ge nius it was not until mendelssohn revived bach's work that he became popular bach did not write music to please the people he suited only hi s artistic temperament mr . shields asserted faculty to meet wright and baum thursday the artists catherine morris wright a n a of glenside pa and walter emerson baum of sel lersville pa will meet the faculty members and their friends at a for mal reception on thursday from 8 until 10 p m in the gallery of the library states garth a howland head of the department of fine arts this reception will precede the formal opening of an exhibit by the artists which will begin on friday may 11 the exhibition will be the final art exhibit of the year and will show all the latest work of the two painters upperclass sports jackets will be dilevered friday committee in charge warns writers to read rules read the rules before you write is the last warning of the commit tee in charge of the mount rush more national inscription contest to lehigh students the contest which ends at noon saturday is being sponsored at le high by the brown and white in conjunction with the new york american and the hearst newspa pers the rules of the contest are brief 1 each entry must write a his tory of the united states not over 600 words in length 2 the history must include the nine events in american history listed elsewhere in this paper 3 each entrant agrees as a con dition of his entry to accept the decision of the local and national judges without protest 4 no entries can be returned 5 the national committee will publish awards on july 4 or as soon thereafter as possible 6 entries must be delivered be fore noon saturday to one of the following dr l h gipson dr r m smith or dr g d harmon scholle wed to allentown girl hazen 33 is also married paul e scholle 35 was married to miss lois thomas of allentown sunday morning alderman ryan r raidline officiated at his home in allentown the marriage of john hazen 33 to miss elizabeth fondarvest of bethlehem was also announced re cently hazen is employed at the bethlehem steel company o.d.k to meet to elect will tap new men friday reviews pennsylvania laws before history group dr lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and gov ernment addressed a meeting of the pennsylvania association on early pennsylvania criminal codes saturday at harrisburg dr gipson is a member of the council of the association which was organized last year at lehigh the association now has a mem bership of over 300 states dr gip son and publishes a magazine pennsylvania history dr gipson presented a history of the development of the modern criminal codes of pennsylvania from the earliest codes established by the swedish and dutch settlers he described two distinct steps in the evolution of present pennsylvania laws the first was a period of len iency during which all sorts of crime flourished the second stage was an era of extreme severity characterized by barbarous punish ments dr gipson said the meeting was very well at tended declared dr gipson next year's meeting will be held at the university of pittsburgh a meeting of the o d k will be held on thursday at 7:30 p.m in drown hall for the purpose of electing new members all men who handed in points should be at home at 6 o'clock friday when tapping will take place says r n lindabury president wednesday may 9 4 p m faculty volley ball lehigh field gymnasium 8 p m freshman oratorical con test packard auditorium thursday may 10 4:10 p m faculty pholosiphical seminar — universe of life by professor hall faculty club room drown hall 7 p m newtonian society room 317 packard laboratory 7 p m physics society dinner dr ridwell's home 7:30 p m o d k meeting drown hall 7:30 p m public rehearsal of bach choir chapel admission 50c 7:30 p m i e society meeting room 416 packard laboratory friday may 11 3:30 p m varsity tennis lehigh vs duke lehigh courts 1 5 p m bach festival chapel representatives of wanamak er will be in drown hall from 2 to 5 p m friday to deliver upperclassmen's sports jackets personally and to make any ne cessary alternations new jack ets may also be ordered at that time the representatives were here last friday but due to the late ness of the advance notice were not able to meet any students will discuss gliders at last i e meeting the industrial engineering so ciety will hold its final meeting of the year on thursday at 7:30 p m in room 466 packard laboratory william mac donald 35 president of the society has announced edwin s chickering i e 35 will address the society on glid ers and their construction chick ering will explain the process of building gliders and the science of their manipulation following his talk the society will close the business of the year plans for the annual i e society picnic scheduled for may 16 will be com pleted since this will be the final business meeting of the year it is desirable that every i e should attend this meet states mac donald bethlehem pa tuesday may 8 1934 house party stories featured in burr vol xli no 50 graves to give main address at graduation price — five cents brown and white prof e l crum is new c a a s head guyer rates highest in comprehensives mcconn calls prom credit to university sports editor to address press group bach trained self as artist says shields member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first