Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 54

              price — five cents arcadia adopts freshmen rules for next year epitomes to be distributed by end of week says neely the 1934 copies of the epitome will be ready for distribution the latter part of this week an nounces j d neely editor in chief copies will be distributed in the epitome room on the second floor of drown hall those who have paid for them in full or in part must appear there to re ceive them copies will also be on sale at 3 each insured men work better says speaker faculty plans summer work recreation hall will be used for social and athletic events lehigh local goes national 250 expected to graduate on june 12th vol xli no 54 invitations are ready now seniors who ordered com mencement invitations announce ments and booklets may obtain them now in drown hall burr to edit senior issue omega phi sigma is in stalled as alpha sigma chapter last saturday the nationalization of omega phi sigma to beta kappa last sat urday marks the final changing of local fraternities to national frater nities at lehigh university the chapter was installed as alpha sigma chapter and has 15 members at the present time omega phi sigma has been in ex istance since 1927 and has been lo cated for the past three years at 527 montclair avenue in the fall the chapter will move to 821 delaware avenue the initiation of the members and the installation of the chapter took place at 3 p rfi saturday in the societies room in packard labora tory the chapter was inducted by dr harry w church of alleg heny college grand arkon of the fraternity and horace f mccon nell of philadelphia grand coun sellor of the middle atlantic prov ince the installation team was from the alumni club of new york banquet at hotel bethlemem following the initiation and in stallation a banquet was held at the hotel bethlehem guests of honor at the banquet were dr r d bil linger dr w l bishop dr max petersen r mcleod past pres ident of the interfraternity council a list president of sigma phi ep silon and h martin president of pi kappa alpha beta kappa was founded in 1901 at hamline university st paul minn the fraternity has at the present time 38 chapters the offi cers of the local chapter are paul j stickler arkon louis osterstock deputy arkon william j calahan chancellor samuel b helms scribe albert h meyer treasurer and lawrence j ertle guard the following are members of the local chapter herman hasler lind say rowland warren freidel blair b deale lewis frauenfelder claire h timmens henry p george gerard l browne and casper r musselman geologists to meet in pittsburgh year's final issue will appear this friday new officers elected the senior and graduation issue of the lehigh burr will be out this friday m h baxter editor in chief announces this the last is sue of the burr this year will have a cover depicting graduates seeking jobs drawn by d m steinberg art editor the burr staff decided to cut the price of the magazine for next year at a meeting last sunday in drown hall the price set will be 15 cents a copy or 1 for a year's subscrip tion which includes nine issues previously the burr had been sell ing for 25 cents a copy or 2.25 for a year's subscription says s b whitney business manager new officers announced the new officers of the burr richard lindabury this year's bus iness manager announces are m h baxter 35 editor in chief s b whitney 35 business manager f k hawk jr 35 managing edi tor d m steinberg 35 art editor f a groff jr 35 advertising manager r mcclintic 35 circula tion manager and r c colbaugh jr 35 secretary the following men were elected to the business board r a len na 36 h j roseberry 36 e m taussig jr 36 r h perrine 36 f stillwell jr 36 w j wilkens 36 and j l davis 36 all freshmen who wish to com pete for the business board of the bur next year should get in touch with s whitney phi sigma kappa or r mcclintic chi phi these competitors will sell subscriptions for one year and are elected to the business board at the end of their sophomore year whitney ex plained a special offer with some other magazine such as colliers life or judge will be made to lehigh stu dents with each subscription to the burr whitney added frank graves to deliver address at sixty-sixth annual commence ment topic unknown exercises to last five days commissions to be conferred at the sixty-sixth commence ment since the founding of the uni versity approximately 250 men will receive degrees on june 12 in the packer memorial chapel as a cli max to five days of commencement exercises frank pierrepont graves a.8 a.m ph.d litt.d l.l.d pres ident of the university of the state of new york and commissioner of education of new york will de liver the commencement address at present the university authori ties have not been informed as to the topic of dr graves address after the speech the degrees will be formally conferred and the com missions will be awarded in the of ficers reserve corps to those m s && t students who have success fully completed their four year course alumni directors to meet the program will begin as it has in former years with the meeting of the board of directors of the alumni association at 12 noon on friday june 8 at 4 p m there will be a meeting of the alumni council in the alumni memorial building the annual alumni dinner will be held at 7 p m at the hotel beth lehem and at the same time a din ner will be given for the wives of the alumni and the faculty at the hotel bethlehem the faculty room in the alumni memorial building will be the scene of the meeting of the alumni asso ciation on saturday june 9 at 10:30 a m the meeting will be followed by an alumni luncheon at 1 p m in drown hall and in the armory at 2:30 p m the various alumni classes will stage their parades in which they compete for honors in showmanship the parade will end up at taylor stadium where the baseball team will play its final game of the season with muhlen berg in the evening reunion ban quets will be held these affairs mark the high point as far as the alumni reunions are concerned on sunday june 10 at 10:15 a.m there will be an academic procession from the alumni memorial building to the chapel where the baccalau reate services will be held dr claude g beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy and chaplain of the university will preach the baccalaureate sermon the topic on which dr beardslee will preach will be the spirit of growth board of trustees meets june 11 the board of trustees will hold its meeting in the alumni memor ial building on monday june 11 at 10 a m the annual class day ex ercises will be held on the campus at 2 p m following these at 4 p.m in drown hall the president will give his reception to the members of the graduating class and their families the trustees alumni and friends of the university the sen ior ball will be given at 9 p m in drown hall the final academic procession will start on tuesday june 12 at 10:15 a m from the alumni mem orial building to the chapel where the commencement address will be delivered the degrees conferred and commissions awarded tickets are required for admis sion to both the baccalaureate ser vices and the commencement exer cises until 10:30 a m when admis sion will be thrown open to the general public give interviews improvement made in employment situation says brodhead eleven firms eight of which were not present last year gave 308 in terviews to lehigh seniors during the past two months mr j a brodhead placement director an nounced today mr bradhead viewed this show ing as very encouraging inasmuch as all of these firms are either plan ning to or have already given bids to several students apiece this number of interviewing firms was the largest in several years club has reception judiciary committee will enforce regulations and draw up punishments to be fixed next fall arcadia will police campus upperclassmen to co-operate prescribe saying hello smok ing and hands in pock ets are forbidden freshman regulations for next year were adopted by arcadia at its meeting last evening in drown hall president l p struble present ed a plan which had been worked up with the help and approval of dean mcconn the plan which he presented was adopted after little argument the problem before arcadia was to provide for adequate policing of the incoming men to insure their obedience to the regulations that have been adopted and the estab lishment of a suitable judiciary authority to punish offenders it was decided that the members of arcadia themselves will police the campus it should be under stood however that any one sophomore or upperclassman is eligible to report a freshman and the sophomores should feel it an ob ligation to report offenders said struble sophomores on judiciary arcadia approved the plan of having a judiciary committee to deal out justice to offenders the committee will be made up of the presidents of the senior junior and sophomore classes the presidents of arcadia and the lehigh union the captain of the football team and one junior and three sopho mores to be chosen and approved by the executive committee of ar cadia at the beginning of next year the judiciary committee will draw up definite punishments for each of fense the list of which will be pub lished shortly after college opens the dean said that he would not allow any plan which permitted punishments to be dealt out on the spur of the moment the freshman regulations which were adopted are the following 1 every freshman must say hel lo to everyone he meets on the campus and about college 2 the freshman must at all times wear a dink black tie and black socks 3 no freshman shall be allowed to smoke on the campus or in build ings about the campus 4 a freshman must keep his hands out of his pockets when walking about the campus 5 no freshman is allowed to sit on the various walls about the cam pus 6 no freshman shall walk on the campus grass 7 all freshmen shall sit in the freshman cheering section at ath letic contests 8 all freshmen are required to learn all the major school songs and cheers 9 as soon as a freshman team defeats the freshman team of la fayette or if the freshmen win the majority of the founder's day sports the class as a whole will not be required to wear dinks on sunday duration of regulations undecided arcadia did not decide last eve ning how long the regulations are to run but it was stipulated that the minimum length of time will be to the end of the first semester at that time the judiciary committee will decide whether the regulation have run long enough to accomplish their purpose and whether they shall be continued s r goodrich vice president of arcadia suggested that there should be some kind of insurance to take care of men who receive injuries while participating in in tramural athletics his suggestion was approved and he was asked to investigate the situation another suggestion for the polic ing of the campus was that cyan ide should take charge however arcadia felt that since cyanide is a class honorary it is not representa tive enough of the university as a whole many will do research work others look to travel and recreation hard work seems to be the main occupation in store for members of the faculty of the engineering school at lehigh this summer a few however have signified their intention of making the most of the vacation and expect to travel and rest harry fretz has planned a trip to hawaii dr donald fraser will be one of the summer school faculty and in tends to work on pre-cambrian rocks of the vicinity dr robert hall head of the department of bi ology will vacation at west bald win n h while dr stanley thomas will work together with mr trembly on serology and morphol ogy respectively in the bassler collection of reptiles in the metallurgy department dr bradley stoughton head will take a month off for a trip to new eng land prof wilbur harvey will be on leave of absence to the john a roebling sons company long plans research professors long and ullman in the chemistry department are plan ning research work as are j g smull and c w simmons profes sor diefenderfer will conduct an assaying course in june along with assistant professor beck r j de gray instructor in chemistry will attend the r o t c camp at fort meade while e r theis as sociate professor of chemical engin eering will work for a leather firm in peabody mass t h hazle hurst assistant professor of chem istry expects to spend the early part of the summer at lake oko boji lowa and later conduct sum mer school howard eckfeldt head of the de partment of mining engineering has no definite plans for the summer while e s sinkinson associate pro fessor of ore dressing will do some research work at the university professors luce larkin and al len of the department of mechanical engineering are yet undecided about vacation plans sutherland to attend convention prof hale sutherland head of the department of civil engineering will attend a conference at cornell and intends to spend the remainder of the summer at ipswich mass s a becker and cd jensen will both attend surveying camp at canadensis while e h uhler will direct camp shawano for boys in the pocono mountains professors seyfert hibshman and gruber of the department of elec trical engineering expect to do re search work while professor beav er will take courses in mathematics economics and farming at pennsyl vania formhals and hibshman will teach summer school four of the faculty members of the physics department c c bid well c f berger max petersen and maurice ewing are planning research work and two p b car wile and m ewing will teach sum mer school professors larkin and frey will vacation r olzendam of metro politan life believes group protection should be initiated by firms outlines co-operative plan for security of employees alone and unaided an employee cannot set up a sound security plan against each risk to which he and his family are subject stated rod eric olzendam research director of metropolitan life insurance com pany last friday night at the a s m e meeting he said further that if an em ployee does have complete econom ic protection for himself and his family he is a better worker a bet ter husband and father and a bet ter citizen than one who is unpro tected against accident illness old age unemployment and death since an employee cannot main tain a sound security plan alone mr olzendam believes very strong ly in group insurance in connec tion with the idea of group insur ance mr olzendam gave his idea of what he considered the ideal plan for a company to adopt gives many reasons he stated many reasons for such a plan among the most important of which was that the matter of employee security is a business matter and should be kept strictly within the field of business financially a sound plan of se curity differs little in cost under any particular form of administration consequently no loss will be suf fered but rather will be gained in the supplementary advantages to be realized by establishing on the company's own initiative a plan suited to the company's own needs the main parts of his plan for an employees security system are the following an employee must be employed at least a year before he may re ceive benefits from the system in the case of death the em ployee's family will receive the amount of the employee's earnings during the previous calendar year the nearest 100 half the amount will be paid at the time of the death and the rest in six equal monthly installments 5 per cent for illness if an employee is sick or has an accident he will be paid 5 per cent of his salary a minimum payment of 15 and maximum of 40 he will not be paid for the first week and the payments will last for one year only unemployment is not insurable said mr olzendam in order to better the conditions of unemploy ment he gave certain restrictions 1 the management agrees to co operate and abide by the decisions of an adjustment committee com posed of equal numbers of its own representative and those of em ployees 2 the management agrees to adopt and install in its operations the principle of work sharing and to eliminate layoffs un til production drops to 35 per cent of normal 3 the management agrees not to increase its working staff until it can guarantee perman ent employment to the additional workers hired 4 the manage ment agrees to hire first only those former employees who have been laid off when it becomes necessary to hire more workers proposed building on site of old tennis courts will have stage bas ketball court and track dancing area 105 x 137 feet will constitute main floor plans for three story 7 1 74 by 202 feet auditorium are now complete plans for the proposed recreation center to be erected on the corner of packer avenue and taylor street and which will include a stage bas ketball courts dancing space and a runnink track have been complet ed states andrew w litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds the building which will be three stories high will extend 174 feet along taylor street and 202 feet along packer avenue on the sit of the old tennis courts on the main floor provision is being made for an unobstructed floor space of 105 by 137 feet with a stage extending along the west end the stage will be 72 feet long and 26 feet deep it will extend to the roof above the balcony 22 feet from the stage floor for wrestling meets and basket ball games the open floor space will be cut down to a playing court measuring 92 by so feet running east and west this court will be surrounded by temporary bleacher seats on three sides and additional seats on the stage the bleachers will seat 1,680 per sons with the permanent seats in the balcony 3,458 spectators can be accommodated for athletic events with the removal of the bleach ers 14,385 square feet will be avail able for dancing and banquets capacity is 4,200 by placing additional seats on the floor proper a capacity crowd of 4,200 can be accommodated for plays concerts commencement cer emonies and lectures the balcony surrounding the main floor on three sides will have 1,778 permanent seats the roof.ex cept for a large sky-light in the cen ter is to be flat to permit the con struction of an oval out-door run ning track eight laps to the mile in the basement provision is be ing made for three courts for ten nis handball or squash an under ground passage will connect the building with the taylor gymnas ium showers and locker rooms for the home and visiting teams will run along the packer avenue side of the building an entrance with ticket office facilities is to be on the basement level facing packer avenue a ramp will connect this entrance with the main floor another entrance open ing on the campus opposite the physics building will be construct ed on the main floor level to include offices the basement will also contain offices for four coaches a first aid dispensary extra dressing rooms connected to the stage by indepen dent stairways and storage space a kitchen for banquet service is to be on the taylor street side of the main floor dressing rooms will flank the stage on each side and office space will be provided on the south side of the building continued on page four women entertain 350 at affair in drown hall about 350 persons attended the annual reception given by the le high university women's club fri day evening in drown hall during the evening music was provided by a string quartet from allentown directed by robert hel frich paintings were loaned for the occasion by the lehigh art gallery the decorations were of dogwood honeysuckle and iris guests included members of the faculties of moravian college and theological seminary and morav ian seminary and college for wo men miller to attend field trips in pittsburgh this week dr benjamin l miller dr donald fraser dr lawrence whit comb and philip myers of the le high geology department will at tend the fourth annual field confer ence of the pennsylvania geologists in pittsburgh may 25 to 27 the sponsors of the conference this year will be the carnegie mu seum of pittsburgh the gulf re search and development corpora tion the university of pittsburgh and the carnegie institute of tech nology members of the conference will attend several field trips in the vi cinity of pittsburgh several of the trips will be a visit to the wild wood mine of the butler consoli dated coal company of wildwood pa a trip to inspect the topography stratigraphy and structure of the vicinity of pittsburgh a tour of the carnegie museum a tour of the lower valley of the beaver river and a trip to uniontown pa bethlehem pa tuesday may 22 1934 architects view of proposed recreation hall the lehigh university brown and white member intercollegiate newspaper association publication is suspended with this issue the brown and white suspends publication until the beginning of next semester all the lehigh news first