Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 2

              union will use carehart set for concerts all students who have changed their addresses since registra tion are requested by registrar g b curtis to report their new addresses to him immediately in order that they may be correct ed for the student directory which is to appear shortly registrar curtis also requests all societies to report to him the names of their officers to be en tered in the directory the brown and white wishes to acknowledge an error which appeared in the list of pledges appearing in the last issue xhe following men were pledged by theta kappa phi and not theta delta chi as the story stated john appendino northvale n j paul a beauchemin new york city john f custin sun nyside n v john b dawney moorestown n j joseph ko tanchik ranshaw raymond e kolarsy maplewood n j vin cent j montesano larchmont n v john c pangburn hag erstown md ferdinand a flory clifton n j frank j washabaugh chrisobal canal zone martin j fisher mont clair n j gipson to fete yale historian economic reform needed-carothers economics head declares beaurocracy is bad dr neil carothers urged social betterment and political reform in a speech before the opening session of the new york herald-tribune's fourth annual conference on cur rent problems last wednesday mrs franklin d roosevelt and mayor fiorello h laguardia of new york city were among the other speakers at the conference it is not our purpose here to discuss the vexed issues of regula tion he said it is obvious that a proper regulation of this great economic force is not only desirable but imperative if there are abuses in financing they must be extri pated if there is discrimination in charges for service it must be elim inated but to have this mighty power for social betterment strangled by bureaucratic interference would be a grievous injury to progress to have it fall into the hands of polit ical spoilsmen would be a national calamity to have the freedom of research and experiment on which the future depends blighted by par tisan prejudice would be a social wrdng bull may use x-ray in exams dispensary now uses apparatus to locate fractures and diseases x-ray photographs of every stu dent at lehigh may be included in future physical examinations if the plan of dr raymond c bull di rector of the student health service is successful the x-ray equipment and fluro scope were acquired last spring and were put into operation at the close of last semester they are now be ing used in connection with the reg ular dispensary treatments numerous applications can be found for the apparatus states dr bull in addition to examining stu dents for chest disorders it can be used to find bone fractures and for eign bodies under the tissues and to diagnose bone diseases stones in the gall bladder and kidneys and many other internal disorders the apparatus is a watpaler em pire model using fully rectified 220 volts with 110 volts to heat the ele ment of the coolidge tube and de veloping 90,000 volts it is equip ped with an overhead high tension system to facilitate photographing any part of the body dark room equipment enables rapid development of the x-rays so that immediate treatment can be made when necessary 25,000 spent for repairs new heating system for taylor gymnasium is among improvememnts a 25,000 improvement program was completed by the university over the summer anonunced an drew w litzenberger superinten dent of buildings and grounds un der whose direction the program was carried out the most expensive item on the list was the construction of a tun nel to carry steam lines from the power house to taylor gymna sium and field house by way of the physics building and the arrange ment of the heating system in the gymnasium and field house this job alone cost close to 10,000 considerable work was done on various roads about the campus for the first time in the history of the university all roads are paved the paving a mixture of small stones and a tar-like substance was used in filling small crevices and ruts as well as for surfacing the roads in sayre park smaller roads on the lower campus and the drive ways leading into the delta tau delta sigma nu alpha tau ome ga and phi gamma delta frater nity houses extensive painting was done on packer hall taylor hall and price hall a cement floor was laid in the cellar of packer hall this will be used in the future by the depart ment of psychology as an additional laboratory a rearrangement of offices was affected in the alumni building to provide space for the offices of the new director of admissions dr wray h congdon samans to present paper on brasses met instructor to propose theory to a.i.m.m.e dr c h samans instructor in metallurgy will present a paper entitled an x-ray study of orien tation changes in cold-rolled single crystal 70-30 brass before a meet ing of the american institute of mining and metallurgical engineers on thursday in new york dr g e doan associate pro fessor of physical metallurgy will preside at the afternoon meeting of the society doctor samans explains that when a single crystal of brass is cold rolled a definite arrangement of its parts results his research was an endeavor to account for this regularity of arrangement and is the experimental background for the theory he proposes it was necessary to build single crystals as large as four inches in length in order to observe the ef fect satisfactorily the work was carried on at yale university under the direction of c h matthewson professor of met allurgy dr samans received the degree of doctor of philosophy last june at yale severs prepares for degree j burke severs assistant pro fessor of english now on leave of absence has a fellowship at yale where he is preparing for his de gree of doctor of philosophy hav ing already passed his examinations mr severs will be eligible for his degree upon the completion of his thesis representative here monday a representative of the horst mann . uniform company of philadelphia will be at the ar mory monday oct 1 from 9 a m to 4 p m to fit first year advanced course r o t c students for uniforms testimonial dinner to be held tuesday in hon or of prof andrews the lehigh department of his tory and government will honor charles m andrews professor of history at yale university at a tes timonial dinner to be given at 7 p.m tuesday in the hotel bethlehem announces lawrence h gipson head of the history department invitations have been sent to ap proximately 30 members of the fac ulty and their wives and to prom inent citizens in the section the dinner will take place in the ball room professor andrews is renowned throughout historical circles as the foremost authority on colonial his tory stated professor gipson he was born in ' wethersfield conn feb 22 1863 and was graduated from trinity college in 1884 sub sequently he took post-graduate courses at johns hopkins and yale university he first taught history at bryn mawr college then at johns hopkins and finally went to yale in 1910 where he has taught ever since in 1931 he became director of historical publications at that uni versity he was a member of the public archives committee from 1901 to 1915 and president of that organization in 1925 he is a mem ber of many state historical so cieties and a fellow in the american academy of arts and sciences professor andrews is also an his torical writer he is the author of historical development of mod ern europe contemporary eu rope asia and africa colonial self-government the colonial period of american history the colonial background of the amer ican revolution and many other noted history books thursday is course society meeting time friday set aside as date for honorary and other organizations through joint action students and faculty group eliminate many conflicts plans to make thursday a reg ular course society meeting night and friday a regular meeting night for honorary and other societies were partially formulated at a meet ing of the faculty lecture commit tee with representatives of most of the course and honorary societies last evening in the alumni mem orial building for the first time in the history of the university an organized at tempt was made by the cooperation of faculty and student representa tives to eliminate conflicts between society activities and university lectures a final decision was made to plan a tentative thursday night schedule for course societies which is to be approved by the various societies the other societies will be filled into the schedule later prob ably on a friday schedule of some kind of course the final completed schedule will be subject to change or exception but it is hoped that all society meetings will be con fined to thursday and friday nights a movement for combined engineering society meetings on a large scale in order to prevent con flicts and also to give the meetings a wider scope was started the chief purposes of this regular so ciety evening idea is to leave mon day and wednesday evenings free for special lectures and to give the various departments a chance to ar range their work so that there will be no continued conflict with stu dent society meetings introduces members the meeting was opened by prof n s hibshman who introduced the other members of the lecture com mittee present messrs curtis crum h p thomas and bradford next he outlined the policy of the lecture committee with regard to bringing speakers to the campus he advocated coordination in the selection of speakers in order to avoid conflicts in order to carry this through hibshman suggested that all tenta tive engagements for speakers in the various societies be submitted to the lecture committee for ap proval with the possible exception of faculty speakers in doing this the embarrassment of unnecessary expense and confustion in appoint ments may be eliminated although the funds of the committee are lim ited they will use them as efficient continued on page six tests show lehigh men are educated ? ? ? * * * * * * senior engineers make great gains in english literature first of series will be sunday evening at 7 knutson will prepare program frosh invited dance on founder's day will be in drown hall plans for the first of a series of informal music appreciation con certs on the carehart electric pho nograph presented to the univer sity by the carnegie corporation of new york and for the founder's day hop were formulated at the le high union cabinet meeting mon day afternoon in drown hall the concert will be held at 7 o'clock this sunday evening in the arcadia room in drown hall it will be conducted under the supervision of henry c i knutson instructor in electrical engineering mr knut son will be prepared to play selec tions of his own choice but will nevertheless welcome requests from student listeners freshmen may attend all who desire to attend will be welcome although the concert is primarily for students freshmen will be allowed to attend the con cert as it will be planned so that it will not last more than 45 min utes unless a special request is made for it to be prolonged there has been quite a demand on the campus explains l r travis president of the union for such an informal meeting on sun day evenings then too there seems to be a growing demand for good classical music the union is conducting this first concert pri marily to test the force of this movement at lehigh it is purely an experiment its continuance will depend largely on the attendance and interest sunday evening although the concerts will be held on sunday evenings the stu dents are at perfect liberty to oper ate the machine and borrow the rec ords and scores at any time that dr beardslee's office is open dance founder's day eve the informal founder's day hop will be conducted by the union again this year as has been the tradition in the past on tuesday night the eve of founder's day the ten lehigh collegians under the direction of lyle m geiger ch.e.'36 have been engaged by howard w seeley c e 35 chairman of the dance committee dancing will be from 9 to 1 o'clock in drown hall tickets on sale at the union office until 5 p.m tuesday will cost 1.10 a couple and 55c stag refreshments will be served the chaperones for the hop will be dr and mrs c.g beardslee and mr and mrs a a rights as there will no classes on wed nesday the freshmen will be al lowed to attend the hop tuesday night states seeley to present papers lehigh men will report at weld ers convention two papers will be read by le high men at the fourteenth annual convention of the american weld ing society meeting oct 1-5 at the hotel new yorker new york the two lehigh papers inves tigation of welding seat angle connections by ingle lyse asso ciate professor of civil engineering and n g schreiner research fel low and photo-elastic studies of seat angle^preblems by douglas m stewart research fellow and inge lyse will be presented at the tuesday morning session oct 2 these papers are the result of a year's investigation in cooperation with the american welding society athletic books being issued students who have not yet re ceived their athletic books will please do so as soon as possible nelson a kellogg director of athletics requested yesterday there are so many books yet to be issued that the athletic of fice may not be able to handle them next week speaker next wednesday is provost of university of pennsylvania exer cises slated for 10:30 lower classes will contest in afternoon on upper field provost josiah h penniman of the university of pennsylvania will be the speaker at the fifty-fifth annual founder's day exercises to be held at 10:30 a m wednesday in packer memorial chapel approximately 40 degrees will be conferred during this meeting three of the six honorary degrees which the university is allowed to confer in one year will be awarded during these exercises in the afternoon the annual ath letic contests between the sopho mores and the class of 38 will take place on the upper field if the first year men win this series of five contests they will be able to doff their dinks and black ties on sun days penniman provost at penn dr penniman has been provost of the university of pennsylvania since 1923 he received his a b degree in 1890 at penn since that time he received his doctor of phil osophy degree in 1895 doctor of laws in 1922 doctor of laws from the university of alabama in 1906 from washington college mo 1907 ursinus college 1921 jun iata college 1925 the degree of doctor of laws was also conferred upon dr penniman at swarthmore in 1924 at muhlenberg college in 1929 and at franklin and marshall in the same year since his first connection with the university of pennsylvania in 1890 dr penniman has acted in the ca pacity of professor of english fac ulty dean vice provost and pres ident he served his term as pres ident from 1923 to 1930 shields to play the exercises will begin with the academic procession from the ad ministration building to packer chapel mr t e shields will play several organ selections during the services after the address by dr penni man the degrees will be awarded and those winners bf honors and prizes will also be announced fol lowing the benediction the proces sion will march to the flagpole and sing the alma mater to the accom paniment of the lehigh band approximately 40 degrees will be conferred states registrar cur tis of this number there will be three honorary seven mastersf and the remainder bachelors degrees the names of those who receive the honorary degrees will not be re vealed until the presentation on founder's day of last year honorary degrees were conferred upon dr hans zinsser professor of bacteriology and immunology at harvard university also speaker of the occasion joseph becker of the kopper's construction company and edwin j prindle patent at torney there were seven master's 38 bachelor's degrees 35 prizes and 48 honors awarded prof mrs stoughton entertain prof and mrs bradley stough ton entertained all metallurgy stu dents at tea last sunday afternoon at their home in wydnor profes sor and mrs stougton have pre viously entertained the various classes in metallurgy coming events saturday sept 29 2 p m football frosh vs varsity taylor field 7:30 p m meeting of arcadia drown hall sunday sept 30 7 p m phonograph concert drown hall monday oct 1 4 p m faculty meeting faculty rpom alumni building talks on fire prevention will be in packard lab fire prevention will be the sub ject of four lectures to be held in packard laboratory oct 9 and 10 prof f v larkin chairman of the fire prevention committee of the bethlehem chamber of commerce announced today lectures and moving picture programs will be supplemented by demonstrations of spontaneous com bustions dust explosions flame pro pogation gasoline flares etc in addition there will be exhib ited in the laboratory such equip ment as fusible plugs water screens extinguishers of various kinds special alarm apparatus sprinkler systems standard connec tions and hoses the plan which is being sup ported in the city by the various in surance companies and national bo dies interested is a new departure heretofore the speakers traveled to the different service clubs to lec ture and demonstrate the program is as follows 12:00 noon oct 9 lnter - service clubs 7:45 p m oct 9 open public meeting of the chamber of com merce 4 p m oct 10 — upper classes in high schools 7:45 p m oct 10 — open public meeting for parent-teachers asso ciations etc will test steel in fritz lab lyse to supervise work of four graduate stu dents in new year four investigations by graduate students are being carried out in fritz laboratory under the super vision of inge lyse associate pro fessor of civil engineering who is in consultation with the technical research committee of the ameri can institute of steel construction ingvold nadsen m i t 33 has recently started his research work on steel floor construction and ex pects to continue it for two years his investigation involves the de sign of battle-deck floors made of flat steel plates welded to steel beams which will carry concentrat ed live loads nadsen is the recipient of a two year fellowship endowed by the american institute of steel con struction which specified the type of work undertaken during the past few years the national bureau of standards car ried on a comprehensive research for the american institute of steel construction on battle-deck floors which developed valuable data re garding fireproofing and behavior under distributed loads the fel lowship at lehigh will continue this work and develop it in the par ticular field of bridge floors another man who expects to stay for a period of two years is fran cisehasz who received a bachelor of science degree from new york state university in 1933 and a di ploma from the royal joseph in stitute of technology in hungary in 1934 ehasz is experimenting with the application of soap film in struc tural analysis d m stewart a graduate of massachusetts instiute of technol ogy in 1933 is conducting an inves tigation on photoelastic analysis stewart came to lehigh in 1933 and will not leave until 1935 ' n g schreiner lehigh 28 is conducting an investigation o n welded seal-angle connections for the structural steel welding com mittee of the american welding society schreiner came to lehigh in 1933 and plans to stay two years deptula former instructor joins university of wisconsin simon deptula former instruc tor of english has accepted a po sition as director of polish lan guage and literature at the exten sion branch of the university of wisconsin milwaukee mr deptula originally intended to continue studying at columbia university but upon receiving this offer changed his plans he was a member of the english faculty here for four years iors one as college sophomores and one as college seniors grades easily compared first-hand wrestling with this type of test has made all lehigh students quite familiar with its charac teristics numerous questions and statements of in disputable fact whose truth falsity or answers may be rapidly indicated by simply writing yes or no a plus or minus sign or the underlining of one of sev eral alternative words or phrases the large mass of material which can thus be covered and the pure ly objective stenographic manner of its grading makes this type an admirable test for comparative purposes the results of those tests are now well-known says dean mcconn of lehigh the results taken at their face value seem to show that college stu dents learn practically nothing that seniors within a month of graduation are nearly as ignorant as fresh men and in some important fields even more so a representative table of statistics which prompted this statement is given here it tabulates the result of the sophomore test of 1930 which consisted of over 3,000 new-type questions given in five three hour sessions on five days six colleges gave the test to all four classes and i the table shows a typical re result but the serious student may object all this is simply ridiculous are the 5,000 i spend all the classes and lectures i attend the hours and hours i continued on page six are you by any chance a graduate of or connected with lehigh at south bethlehem pa if so you may be proud even though that college furnished no can didates for last season's ail-american football team lehigh did something better if the carnegie foun dation test is any criterion it produces educated men . of the 179 seniors tested at lehigh 168 or 94 percent made better scores as seniors than as sopho mores the majority did far better than this only two actually fell off in the two-year interval here is a curious fact lehigh is an engineering college yet a large proportion of the senior engineers made their greatest gains in english literature thus betraying an intellectual quickening not only in their own field but in non-allied subjects also apparently this col lege is doing a first-class job of turning out men who have been tainted with an education such was the conclusion of john r tunis in his article human waste in the colleges which ap peared in the september 1934 issue of scribner's magazine investigation took six years and this conclusion was based neither on idle spec ulation nor sketchy statistics it was one of those reached after the completion of a six-year investiga tion by the carnegie foundation for the advance ment of teaching to inquire into the relations of secondary and higher education popularly known as the pennsylvania study the investigation followed the educational progress of several thousand students through the high schools and colleges of pennsylvania forty-nine of the s3 pennsylvania colleges cooperated in the study and among the more familiar ones were bucknell car negie institute of technology cedar crest drexel institute franklin and marshall haverford lafay ette lasalle lehigh moravian perm state temple university of delaware university of pennsylvania university of pittsburgh ursinus villanova wash ington and jefferson and westminster the educational progress of the college group was evaluated by giving the entire group three exhaustive i new-type or objective tests one as high school sen bethlehem pa friday september 28 1934 curtis requests students report address changes paper corrects an error in listing t.k.p pledges price five cents vol xlii no 2 larkin heads local lecture committee j h penniman to give talk founder's day the lehigh university brown and white rreshman i ntelligence test 56 english total 227 spelling 31 grammer 30 punctuation 31 vocabulary 60 literature 73 mathematics 53 ieneral culture total 265 general science 74 oreign literature 58 r ine arts 56 list & social studies 81 bopr homore 57 218 30 31 29 58 71 52 285 77 64 55 81 junior 57 211 28 29 29 58 70 51 302 87 69 59 80 senio 58 221 30 29 31 58 72 49 289 86 68 60 79 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the 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