Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 9

              instead of another smoker be fore the rutgers game there will be a cheering and song practice at 4:15 p m friday at taylor field announces l r travis president of lehigh union since it was obvious at the perm state game last saturday that the undergraduates fresh men and upperclassmen do not know the lehigh songs and cheers states travis it is felt that this practice will be more effective than a smoker provided that the students have enough in terest to want to learn them glee club has 53 members deturk will speak before electricals electrical manager to talk on effect of storms storms and their effect on elec tric service will be the subject of an address by elmer f deturk e e 22 before the lehigh uni versity branch of the american in stitute of electrical engineers at the first meeting of the year at 7:30 thursday oct 25 in room 416 packard laboratory mr deturk is at present manager of transmission and distribution in the metropolitan edison electric company of reading he is not en tirely unknown to lehigh students for two years ago he delivered a similar lecture to the lehigh val ley section of the same society his specialty is sleet storms he will present slides and moving pictures in illustration of his lecture a student paper will also be pre sented by cornelius ackerson e e 35 treasurer of the society on modern trends in p;ower plant design frank j hollister pres ident of the society asks all fresh man electrical engineers to attend this meeting refreshments will be served and informal discussion will take place after the meeting . speaks before two meetings carothers talks on eco nomic topics at harris burg and indianapolis neil carothers head of the de partment of business administration discussed current economic topics on thursday and friday in harris burg pa and indianapolis ind respectively professor carothers addressed the general federation of women of the state of pennsylvania at harrisburg on thursday night his topic was the new economics he discussed the various phases of economics and dwelt on the sdcial phase in particular his talk on friday was given at a mass meeting held under the aus pices of the sound money associa tion of the state of indiana at this meeting he discussed the monetary policies of the government the as sociation is a group of the leading businessmen of indiana who are op posed to inflation second talk of series professor carothers talk at in dianapolis was the second in a se ries of seven meetings which this association is sponsoring at which the monetary situation will be dis cussed the first speaker on the hst was prof edwin w kemmerer of princeton who has served on the committee of financial advisers to colombia union of south africa chile poland ecuador bolivia peru and china in this county he was the expert on currency and banking to dawes he has also been professor of economics and fi nance at cornell and princeton the third speaker will be ogden l mills former secretary of the treasury under the hoover adminis tration students are fined 25 break physical examination appointments twenty-five students will be fined a total of 51 by the health de partment for having missed their physical examination appointments dr raymond c bull has an nounced one of the students who has twice broken his appointment will be fined 14 it is a unievrsity requirement that all students must undergo a physical examination the fines are only imposed in an effort to have students keep their appoint ments the sum was practically the same last year however several years back the fines amounted to over 500 these figures show that some progress is being made toward hav ing less students break their ap pointments the money collected will be placed in the university funds kegel speaks at fem-sem on literature of germany friedrich o kegel assistant pro fessor of german spoke to the modern language club of moravian seminary and college for women wednesday evening the subject of the lecture was german literature in his talk professor kegel brought out the importance of the ballad and read several selections to the assembly austin finlay hoppock prosnit putnam sax tan schaeffer toffey picked for fraternity publication group opposes unethical business practices eight publication men were elect ed to pi delta epsilon national honorary journalistic fraternity monday evening at drown hall the fraternity also went on record as being opposed to unethical bus iness practices by publications and the method of electing the editor of the freshman handbook was dis cussed those elected are david w hop pock i e 36 walter l finlay ch e 36 judson l schaeffer arts 36 daniel r prosnit bus 36 george t saxtan bus 36 william e austin i e 36 kent s putnam arts 35 and william v toffey arts 35 the men will be pledged thurs day morning at chapel exercises and dean c m mcconn has been art exhibit closed after month's run next display to include works or foreign schools the exhibition of the paintings of contemporary american artists loaned to the university by the whitney museum was brought to a close sunday after being open a month the next exhibition to be held will be the works of the british dutch french and flemish schools this exhibition will be held from nov 4 until may 1935 the out standing work of this group is the painting of the children of charles i by the renowned van dyck flemish portrait painter who lived from 1599-1641 said prof garth a howland head of the department of fine arts in conjunction with this exhibi tion there will be a display of prints and small oils which will be chang ed monthly the first group run ning through the month of ' nove mber will be prints by vanda gag the december group will consist of small oils by local artiists in connection with the coming exhibition there will be several lec tures but as yet there have been no definite dates selected _________ %' 11 debaters give speeches seven freshmen and four upperclassmen present arguments eleven men of the debating so ciety gave two-minute talks on cur rent events at 4:15 p m thursday in room 466 packard laboratory ten of these speeches were given to determine roughly the voice quali fications and speaking ability of the new candidates for the debating teams the other speech was given as a demonstration seven of the speakers were fresh men and three were upperclass men of the talks seven were on the subject of munitions shipping and one each on the international air races farm relief advantages and disadvantages of war and gen eral economic conditions james a branegan chem 35 corresponding manager of the de bating team presented a tentative varsity schedule which calls for trips to new englaid central penn sylvania and philadelphia he also discussed a tentative freshman sche dule t g ehrsam debating coach spoke on the use of the library for gathering debate material he in vited candidates for the debating team to meet him at 4:15 p m thurday in the reading room of the library for further study in tne use of reference sources g d manson bus 35 was ap pointed publicity manager for the organization there are now 26 members of the debating society 15 upperclassmen and sophomores and 11 freshmen blythe says choice is tentative since orches tras may not sign contracts immediately previously considered bands have other engagements hamp has played at cornell and in london katz is now on tour throughout country johnny hamp's and al katz's or chestras have been tentatively cho sen for the senior prom friday nov 16 announces ralph m blythe chairman of the prom com mittee the orchestras previously an nounced as possible candidates could not be obtained on account of long term contracts which they have recently signed blythe stated this choice is tentative according to blythe since the orchestras may not be willing to sign contracts im mediately johnny hamp played at the sen ior prom at cornell last year he has played at the kit kat club in london the westchester-biltmore club at rye n v the ambassador hotel in atlantic city and the ho tel new yorker in new york he is now at the drake hotel in chicago katz now touring al katz is now on tour he has played at the four hundred club in paris the chicago beach hotel in chicago the cocoanut grove ballroom in new york and young's million dollar pier in atlantic city the prom will be held at the ho tel bethlehem where ozzie nelson played for the junior prom last spring this will be the second time that the hotel has been used for a prom since the gym was condemn ed for dancing as a fire trap in obtaining two orchestras for the prom the public address system as used last spring to supply mu sic to the ballroom on the second floor will be eliminated it will also give dancers a choice of music states the committee tickets on sale now tickets for the prom are now on sale at the lehigh union office de spite the fact that two orchestras will be obtained instead of the one at the junior prom last spring the price per couple has been reduced from 4.40 to 3.30 although 1,350 attended the jun ior prom last spring 550 couples and 250 stags blythe expects to have a smaller number this year because the prom will be on friday instead of saturday and fewer will be able to attend the dance will not be as overcrowded as last year he believes bert lown played for the senior prom last year which was the last prom to be held in taylor gymna sium judiciary committee to discipline frosh will elect four members at meeting tomorrow the judiciary committee of the arcadia will meet at 7:30 p m to morrow in drown hall to discipline freshmen who have violated rules and elect four new members the committee consists of p f preston l o travis r m eich ner h d ock w p fairbanks and l p struble the members to be selected will be one member of the junior class and three from the sophomore class the following freshmen are re quested to report tomorrow to the judiciary committee at 8 p m promptly to be disciplined for the violation of freshman rules r s porter r f conrad m p smith s h brown and r h greenwell lehigh represented thomas seyfert at installation of kutztown head harold p thomas head of the department of education and prof stanley s seyfert director of the curriculum in electrical engineering represented lehigh last friday at the installation of dr quincy rohr bach as president of the kutztown state teachers college dr rohrbach was formerly pro fessor of school administration at the university of pittsburgh rep resentatives of lehigh lafayette muhlenberg haverford and other colleges in pennsylvania and new jersey marched in the academic procession john d neely president of pi delta epsilon asked to speak arrangements for the initiation will be made later oppose unethical practice unethical practices of the bus iness staffs of student publications were condemned and a request that the board of publications take ac tion to eliminate these practices was approved the method of electing the editor of the freshman * handbook was discussed but no action was taken a meeting will be held later to which members of the handbook committee of the lehigh union will be invited in order to devise a better system hoppock is a member of the edi torial board of the review and burr he is in competition for the epitome and is a former sports edi tor of the brown and white finlay is the feature editor and a columnist of the brown and white he is on the editorial board of the review and is in competition for the burr schaeffer on council schaeffer is a member of the edi torial council of the brown and continued on page six . campush2ostudiedscientifically temperature microbes are noted student activities com mittee decision makes d o t governing body over society former is to be honorary latter open to all students a new debating society setup was approved by the student activities committee last saturday the plan ned arrangement calls for two dis tinct though interlocking organiza tions one delta omicron theta an honorary and to some extent a governing body the other the de bating society of lehigh univer sity open to any student who wants to join membership in delta omicron theta will be provided by mem bers of the debating society who have represented lehigh in at least two intercollegiate debates delta omicron theta will nom inate candidates for the offices of the debating society two for pres ident and two for secretary-treasur er the entire society will then vote in the election the defeated can didate for president will automati cally become vice president these officers will also serve delta omi cron theta approved by mcconn the constitution of the two groups which was submitted to dean^c m mcconn last spring and approved and amended by the com mittee on student activities in may was adopted by the societies 1 on oct 4 the petition requesting the adop tion of this constitution was pre sented by h k ellis jr e e/35 g j bell chem 34 c l heller ch e 37 t e butterfield jr arts 37 h roller ch e 37 j a branegan chem 35 and d w hoppock i e 36 the need was felt states ellis president of the combine for an or ganization in which any students who were interested in debating would have an opportunity to take part previous to this year it has been possible for a non-member to regularly attend meetings and even to participate in a debate the requirements for member ship though varying slightly from year to year have always failed to i recognize men who had not repre sented lehigh in at least two de bates interest necessary the section on membership now shows that all regularly enrolled students of lehigh university shall be eligible for membership provid ed they show an active interest in the work of the society unexcused absence from three consecutive meetings shall be suf ficient evidence of lack of interest of any person the name of any member who is absent without ex cuse . . . may be dropped from the rolls by a vote of the student mem be"rs of the cabinet delta omicron theta has decid ed to get a key which shall be sel s ected and paid for by the individual members of the society who wish to order it no initiation fee will be charged by either society treasurers asked to submit budgets auditing committee wants reports by friday in a recent letter to the treasur ers of student organizations dean c m mcconn on behalf of the student clubs committee requests that a budget of estimated receipts and expenditures for each orgaiv ization be submitted on or before friday the student clubs committee consists of three students chosen by arcadia two members of the facullty elected by the faculty and the dean ex-officio it is re quired under university regula tions to audit the accounts of all student organizations handling stu dent monies the committee requires three re ports a year from the student or ganization treasurers namely 1 a budget of estimated receipts and expenditures in october 2 a mid year report as of jan 15 3 a fi nal report as of may 15 richards improving according to reports from the president's office dr c r rich ards is making constant and grati fying improvement in health dur ing his convalescence more tenors needed ; rehearsals held tues day thursday evenings fifty-three men have been finally selected for membership in the glee club announces kent s putnam president of the combined musical clubs more first tenors can be used if they care to come out he said rehearsals are now being held on tuesday evenings at 8:30 and on thursday evenings at 7:30 all mem bers who can are expected to at tend both these weekly rehearsals in the event that a member of the club cannot attend both rehearsals he should come to either one he can the idea of holding two rehear sals a week putnam says is to prepare for the engagements which are now pending we are planning on a number of local concerts be sides one or two trips of some ex tent plans are now being made to hold a tri-club concert with the la fayette and muhlenberg organiza tions with these prospects in view it is necessary that we start work ing immediately to prepare for them may enter competition he also intimated that a song fest might be held with all the col lege glee clubs in allentown beth lehem and easton participating there is also the possibility that the club might enter the intercol legiate glee clubs association com petition the glee club is now composed of the following members first tenor — h l beidler g a horlacher n j leonard h e towne w l hemphill a denar vaez and j b taussig second tenor — g l browne h k ellis jr j m swalm k s putnam f l sharpe c a mc carty e j peck w a rush meyer c y haas m ewing j t lodge and g d manson first bass — a c bonkemeyer c citret r couch r l dickerson j drury g escobedo w r wil liams g e condit f 1 washa baugh c e kelly t c treacy w bakker v w reynolds p munoz l silberberg w g hem pel h k hammond r christie e a butz and r w coulton second bass — c b allen e b tuttle w r wolf w porter f b stieg r reis e o carlson g c grow s bradbury f t krupinski f c ritter r e wil liams and l j osterhoudt cosmos club elects gilbert and neville chosen group hears thomas two new members dr gilbert doan associate professor of physi cal metallurgy and dr harvey ne ville associate professor of chemis try were elected to the cosmos club oct 15 dr stanley j thom as professor of bacteriology gave the principal address a bacter iologist looks at some biological theories the paper the result of research work by dr thomas concerned the modern tendencies to overthrow old biological dogma it was criti cized and discussed by members of the club afterwards the cosmos club which was es tablished on april 21 1926 is com posed of those members of the le high faculty who are actively en gaged in research work its pur pose is to discuss current research problems in which the members are engaged e h riley is re-elected secretary ; goodwin and ford represent group on engineering council 37 students are registered to major in biology courses fifty-seven freshjnen have en tered the college of arts and sci ence the arts council was told by its head prof p m palmer di rector of the college of arts and science at its meeting yesterday in the alumni memorial building with 26 men transferred from oth er courses and colleges a total of 73 men of freshman scholastic standing will take the arts courses this year there are 56 sophomores 52 jun iors and 46 seniors in the college for the coming semester it was also an nounced edgar h riley associate pro fessor of english was re-elected secretary of the council charles j goodwin head of the department of greek was elected a representative to the council of the college of engineering adelbert ford head of the department of psychology retained his position as representa tive to the same council robert p more associate pro fessor of german myron j luch professor of english tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics and astronomy and sydney m brown professor of his tory who have represented the council on the council of the col lege of business administration during the past two semesters were all re-elected the members of the committee on courses are herbert m dia mond professor of economics er nest b schulz associate professor of political science lloyd l smail professor of mathematics harold p thomas head of the department of education and john m toohy associate professor of romance lan guages upperclassmen majoring in bi ology lead the arts college list there will be 37 biology majors during the next semester business and economics follows with 21 men and history and government are close behind with 18 fifteen students will take the chemistry course and 14 will major in journalism men in the remainder of the 20 courses offered by the college are distributed as follows nine students in geology nine in english four in latin four in ro mance languages three in mathe matics three in fine arts two each in education german philosophy physics and psychology and one each in bacteriology civil engin eering greek and metallurgy 200 attend dance harry john's orchestra plays at engineers ball over 200 persons attended the first annual engineers ball given last saturday evening in drown hall harry john and his colonial serenaders provided the music both floors of drown hall were used for dancing the place was lighted with red and blue lamps in stead of the usual white ones en gineering pictures an illuminated sign and spotlights completed the decorations prof and mrs a w luce and mr and mrs w h formhals were the chaperons heads of the en gineering departments were invit ed by the dance committee as hon orary chaperons coming events thursday oct 25 4 p m philosophical seminar fac ulty club room drown hall 4:15 p m meeting of candidates for freshman debating team library reading room 7:30 p m lecture storms and their effects on electrical ser vice by e f deturk room 416 packard laboratory spon sored by electrical engineering society 7:45 p m lecture market street subway construction by c h stevens room 466 packard lab oratory sponsored by civil en gineering society friday oct 26 4:30 p m freshman soccer lehigh vs liberty high school liberty high school athletic field chance of getting a drink as any other man on the campus but the student who delights in gadgets is advised to concentrate his courses in christmas-saucon hall there just outside of the bus iness administration office is a fountain beautifully calculated to stimulate dr carothers readily roused amaze at things engineer ing the semi-circle of jets around the top is designed to wash the nip ple of the main jet and the main flow itself maintains after the han dle is released a 1.27 centimeter jet for 7.37 seconds just to keep the nipple and bowl sanitary jet heights vary the heights of the water jets of the various fountains range from a full six inches all the way down to the infinitesimal six inch ones are to be found in packer hall the chemistry building and fritz lab in the hope that among the brown and white's readers there are some who have not yet been hardened by advertising and are still easily scared it may be added that these fountains are contamin ated with the vicious little strep tococci who skedaddles up and down one's oesophagus causing colds when you realize that there are germs of every kind in any food that you can find you must readily agree that drinking water's just as risky as t;he so-called deadly whiskey water water here and there with lots of microbes to drink might well be lehigh's slogan for her drinking fountain system but when as often happens the pierian spring of some professor's knowledge goes plumb dry these old-fashioned fountains still serve to moisten the throats of students parched from their feverish thirst for knowledge for the incoming freshman whose mother has prescribed the morning cup of hot water we would recom mend the fountain on the second floor of the physics building here the water trickles forth at a temper ature of 35 degrees centigrade which is just one degree hotter than normal body temperature water at 16 degrees on the other hand if the student who is accustomed to spring water is feeling home-sick for a good cold drink he will do well to ex plore nothing less than the power house itself where in a remote cor ner of the basement the water gushes forth continually at a tern perature of 16 degrees centigrade in all fairness to the chem build ing however it must be mentioned that water there may be obtained just one degree warmer of the 33 fountains at lehigh 17 or over so per cent are located in packard lab for this reason the continually thirsty student would do well to elect electrical or me chanical engineering where he will at least have 17 times as much bethlehem pa tuesday october 23 1934 vol xlii no 9 the lehigh university brown and white hamp and katz to play at prom price five cents approves plan for dependent debate groups press society chooses eight for pledging 57 freshmen enter in arts council hears song and cheer practice will be held 4 p m friday member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first