Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 10

              mustard and cheese to present journey's end dec 7 8 mustard and cheese has selected dec 7 and 8 as the dates for their first representation sherriff's jour ney's end to be followed on dec 15 by the dramatic workshop's production outward bound the cast selected for the first play includes w r wolfe as cap tain hard w s hutchinson as lieutenant osborne charles tracy as private mason jack taussig as lieutenant raleigh robert farn ham as captain stanhope c.f mc coy as lieutenant hibbert john williamson as the colonel j deß cornelius as lieutenant trotter and w b maynard as the german soldier alternates are george d grogan john b tupper malcolm h bax ter edward h land and leonard feinblatt theodore h ehrsam ehrsam trains new debaters health center not approved reorganization of brown and white business staff approved new elections sanctioned kost apopinted secretary of board of publications reorganization of the brown and white business staff election of several officers of the paper and of the epitome and all financial statements and budgets of student publications were approved yester day afternoon by the board of pub lication in a two-hour session in the office of dean c m mcconn kenneth k kost junior faculty adviser of the brown and white was appointed secretary of the board by the dean who retains his office as chairman of the board the appointment of kost the dean said was made with the con sent of president charles russ richards and dr robert m smith to march tuesday and wed nesday evenings the band will participate in the fountain hill and bethlehem hal lowe'en parades on tuesday and wednesday evenings next week harold g fehr band leader an nounced this will be the first time that the band has paraded in the bethlehem celebration joseph ricapito a for mer lehigh student and now mu sic director at liberty high school is chairman of the band commit tee for the parade he states that eight bands will participate the band will form for the parade at 7 p m wednesday evening at carl ton avenue and broadway tuesday evening the band will parade as they have for the past six years with the fountain hill schools in their hallowe'en cele bration a s wright fountain hill councilman and parade chair man stated that the parade will last about one hour the band will head the parade members will meet at 7 p m at the stevens school sen eca and hoffert streets for the parade fehr states that the band has been practicing a new type of for mation this week to use at coming games mcconn lauds college press kenneth k kost letter from w r okeson corrects erroneous im pression about building certain erroneous impressions created by recent news stories in the brown and white in regard to the so-called health center for lehigh university are corrected in the following communication from walter r okeson secretary of the board of trustees to the editor of the brown and white would you be good enough to allow me to correct certain erroneous impressions created by references in your issues of oct 5 and oct 19 to the so called health center it is true that an infirmary was one of the buildings listed in dr richards needs of le high which he compiled over eleven years ago but no plans for such a building have ever been authorized much less ap proved by the board of trus tees if the trustees were con sidering such a building at this time which they are not the plans would of course be drawn by the university's ar chitects messrs visscher & burley of no 51 e 42nd street new york city whether their conception of this building would bear any resemblance to the picture published in the brown and white is a question as to the site of such an in firmary — if lehigh is ever for tunate enough to secure one — this would be determined by the board of trustees no site has been chosen nor has there been even informal discussion of a site by the board yours very truly walter r okeson secy board of trustees band to form at armory the band will assemble at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon at the armory for the lehigh-rutgers football game two california students carry plea to highest tribunal to avoid taking army training outcome to affect colleges with government subsidies the supreme court of the united states will be asked to decide next month whether or not college stu dents can be compelled to take mil itary science and tactics against their will if the court decides that military training cannot be made compul sory the entire r o t c program of the war department faces col lapse two students at the university of california have carried the case to the highest tribunal they demand exemption from training on the grounds that they are conscientious objectors to war the outcome will affect 15 land grant colleges who draw subsidies from the government as long as they maintain an r o t c unit if the two students ard upheld it is feared that so many will with draw from the military courses that the government will withdraw its financial aid similar cases pending six of these land grant colleges have similar cases pending they are ohio state university kansas state college massachusetts insti tute of technology pennsylvania state college university of new hampshire and the university of illinois conscientious objectors in each college have filed similar suits as the one now awaitifig dis position an unusual angle of the case is that both of the boys who will ap pear before the supreme court are the son's of methodist ministers quakers have always been excused from the r o t c work because it is recognized that they have re ligious scruples against anything miltary but this is the first pro testant appeal if the students are exempted every methodist student in the country and the methodists are the largest protestant denomination will have grounds to demand ex emption training to continue no matter what the outcome of this case military training f will continue at lehigh according to maj james o green head of the department of military science and tactics major green said that such cases as the one now before the supreme court are not unusual a similar case was started at the university of maryland recently which reach ed the supreme court where it was ruled that military training is compulsory other cases have all been decided in the same way whenever such a case comes up it can usually be traced back and found to be receiving financial back ing and support from the commun ist party claims major green lehigh university is not a land grant college and military training here can be abolished only by ac tion of the board of trustees philadelphian explains construction methods to students ; lehigh alumni built bridge talk illustrated by slides audience quizzes lecturer the technical structure of the new market street bridge and the incompleted market street subway was explained yesterday evening at packard laboratory to a group of engineering students by charles h stevens chief engineer of the department of city transit of phil adelphia his lecture was illustrated by slides of the 4,000,000 project dur ing the description the audience ac cepted the invitation of mt stev ens to ask questions and made in quiries on the mechanical methods of the engineers the contractors for the bridge as well as the immediately adjacent pennsylvania railroad crossing were the dravo brothers graduates of lehigh the bethlehem steel com pany supplied the metal work for the structures details of the bridge and itunnel both of which cross the schuylkill river at market street near the city post office were carefully explain ed mr stevens especially warned the future engineers against the use of faulty waterproofing in sub marine subways only too o^ten he commented did contractors fail to employ the proper workmanship on such insulation in an effort to re duce operating costs this faulty condition was discovered by city officials on the market street tun nel the entire coating had to be ripped off and rebuilt both the bridge and the subway were begun at the same time only the former has been finished the unsighthly and ancient crossings at this point of the schuylkill made it necessary to erect the two elabor ate roadways the bridge is sur faced in pennsylvania sandstone to match the nearby pennsylvania rail road terminal designers had considerable trou ble with the railroad tracks at one point it was necessary to detour the tube under the raidroad's own sub way mr stevens spoke at ¦ lehigh three years ago he has never at tended college but he remarked it is of good advantage if you can have a sound foundation his sons are engineers grad uated from pennsylvania university howard w seeley c e 35 president of the civil engineering society opened the meeting by complimenting the club on its com parative rating with the other schools he requested freshmen to leave their names with robert da venport eng 38 secretary richard r mcclintic c e 35 vice president was then introduced professors sutherland fuller pay row and jensen members of the faculty staff were presented dean quotes report to prove writing helps student in later life students who are successful in publication work are more likely to succeed after they have left col lege than students who are success ful in other extra-curricula activi ties relates a report of the amer ican telephone and telegraph company quoted by dean cm mc conn at the pledging exercises of pi delta epsilon yesterday morn ing in chapel dean mcconn chairman of the board of publications spoke on the work of the fraternity in the past few years he stated the society has discussed the policies and prac tices of the publications at lehigh and has made recommendations to the board of publications on the basis of these discussions the investigation of the ameri can telephone and telegraph com pany showed a high correlation be tween scholarship in college and success in the company the re port appeared in harpers weekly an unpublished part of the inves tigation told by the personnel di rector speaking at a banquet here several years ago showed how men engaged in publication or in man agerial positions in college have the most success in the industrial world dean mcconn then asked e s chickering i e 35 vice president in the absence of j d neely arts 35 president of the fraternity to read the names of those to be pledged the initiation and banquet will be held in about two weeks at the sun inn an allentown newspaper man will be the speaker the eight men pledged were da vid w hoppock i e 36 walter l finlay ch e 36 judson l schaeffer arts 36 daniel r pros nit bus 36 george t saxtan bus 36 william e austin i e 36 kent s putnam arts 35 and wil liam v toffey arts 35 concert wednesday new schedule for music set is announced the fifth informal phonographic concert will be given wednesday af ternoon from 4:15 to 5:30 p m in the arcadia room of drown hall there will be no sunday evening concerts henceforth the sunday evening concerts have been discontinued explained the committee in charge of the carnegie set because the atten dance at previous concerts has not been large enough to justify their continuance it is felt that the su perior radio programs on this eve ning have conflicted with the drown hall series attendants will operate the cape hart phonograph of the carnegie music set at the following hours until further notice sunday 7-10 p m tuesday 9 10 a m 11-12 a m 4-6 p m wednesday 4-6 p m 7-9 p m thursday 9-10 a m 11-12 a m 4-6 p m friday 4-6 p m 7-10 p m mule frosh seek assistance in subduing upperclassmen kidnaped sophomore brought to lehigh head of the english department kost who will be a non-voting member of the board will relieve dean mcconn of the routine duties connected with the publications which have in the past few years become exceedingly heavy he will also be called upon to advise the board on management of the stu dent publications hawks resigns the resignation of frank c hawk manageing editor of the burr was accepted hawk also gave up his position on the bun board the reorganization of the bus iness staff of the brown and white by the abolishing of the office of advertising manager and the crea tion of the offices of financial man ager and copy supervisor was ap proved by the board after a letter from william h macdonald jr business manager of the paper ex plaining the duties of the new of ficers had been read the financial manager macdon ald explained will be in charge of the acocunting for the paper and will relieve the business manager of routine duties so that he can de vote more time to his executive du ties the copy supervisor will di rect the work of the staff in pre paring better copy for local mer chants that lehigh student publications are solvent was shown by the finan cial reports for 1933-34 submitted by the business managers every publication made a profit budgets for 1934-35 based on these reports were approved by the board for the burr epitome and the review the budget of the brown and white is presented for approval in february audits sanctioned the audits of the accounts of the publications were also approved the audits of all the books except those of the brown and white were made by charles r chambers bus 34 the books of the newspaper were audited by dr roy b cowin who drew up the system used by all of the publications walter l finlay ch e 36 was approved by the board as the new feature editor of the brown and white the office had been abol ished several years ago but the re storation of the office was approved yesterday the election of john d neely arts 35 editor of the 1934 epitome to the office of editor of the senior section of the 1935 epitome was also approved the financial report for the first issue of the review was accepted well gentlemen dean mcconn questioned two obvious participants of the evening's fun there seems to have been some disturbance^here this evening disturbance what on earth could the dean mean but dean mcconn rates pretty highly as a cross-examiner and soon the story was out at 10:30 p m 30 muhlenberg frosh in five cars drove up to the lambda chi alpha house on del awar avenue and with what they had left of one chester rettew muhlenberg 37 they played j'cat and mouse with him all night and were now willing to swap him in for a lehigh soph the lambda chi frosh thought this was a swell idea they had just the right sort of a tough over-bearing sophomore in their house who in their opin ion needed a good hard softening up but the upprclass lambda chis couldn't see that at all undismay ed however the muhlenberg con tingent proceeded over to taylor dorms the dorms had been warned by phone that muhlenberg was coming over and the ners foreig continued on page six symposium to include presidents of technical societies to correlate functions and meetings similar organizations are at illinois and minnesota generally favorable comment was expressed toward the forming of a students engineering council by heads of the engineering depart ments plans to have such an organiza tion on the campus evolved from the formation of the dance mittee composed of presidents of the engineering course societies who were in charge of arrangements for the engineers ball a w luce associate professor of machine design who was one of the faculty advisors to the commit tee remarked at one of its meet ings that a student engineering council had been established several years ago at the university of illin ois and at the university of minne sota in general the plan calls for the establishment of a council com posed of the presidents of the en gineering course societies which will hold monthly meetings functions of the group might in clude regulating the time of course society meetings arranging social functions and holding meetings of general interest to all engineers meetings would be arranged at which one society would act as host to the others a friendly spirit be tween the societies would arise and discourage cliques and clannishness and the societies would tre knit closer together as an engineering organization offers no opinion h m ullmann head of the chemical engineering department did not venture to express himself believing that the proposal was not yet sufficiently concrete to admit an opinion he was much in favor of the engineers ball which took place last saturday s s seyfert head of the electri cal engineering department favored the plan unreservedly there is no harm in it it gives the men prac tice at that sort of thing no mat ter how much work there is to it it is beneficial he said bradley stoughton head of the metallurgical engineering depart ment suggested a plan similar to the engineers club of the lehigh val ley program this organization provides non-technical lectures on subjects interesting and common to all engineers professor stoughton suggested also a big yearly meet ing as an example for these meet ings he offers subjects such as the new stainless steel and aluminum high-speed trains fred v larkin head of the me chanical engineering department also suggests the engineers club or american engineering council as models he thinks monthly meet ings of the entire engineering coun cil entirely feasible rivalry among the societies each striving to pre sent the biggest blowout would de velop he said to include honoraries the council would also include heads of the honorary engineering fraternities such as eta kappa nu pi tau sigma and tau beta pi the council with the backing of all the engineering societies could secure important speakers or na tionally known figures to speak be fore large student audiences the council would be analogous to the interfraternity council as it now rep resents the fraternities in this connection can be men tioned the duties of the american engineering council whose function is to further the public welfare wherever technical and engineering knowledge and experience are in volved and to consider and act upon matters of common concern to the engineering and allied pro fessions in commenting hale sutherland head of the civil engineering de partment said it's a pretty good plan all the departments will be working together and there will be better understanding between en gineering societies it will tend to unify the engineering colleges of the university howard eckfeldt head of the mining engineering department said i'm all for the plan i think it would be a good thing it would serve as a clearing house for the troubles of the various course so cieties model contest planned to instruct freshmen in proper methods theodore ehrsam instructor in english met with the freshman members of the debating society yesterday afternoon in the reading room of the library and gave in structions on how to gather mater ial for debates with special refer ence to the topics to be debated this year he also gave preliminary directions on the preparation of briefs at the next meeting of the so ciety on thursday at 4:15 p m in room 466 packard laboratory four members of last year's group will present a model debate in order to acquaint the newer members of the group with the methods employed here ehrsam plans to employ a system similar to that used by the wrestl ing team because members will be required to debate with other mem bers of the society before each meet in order to determine those who will comprise the team for that particular contest thus freshmen if they show sufficient ability will have as much chance as the older members to place on the team nobody states g d harmeson 35 publicity manager of the so ciety will be cut all will stand an equal chance for the team with a good group from last year's so ciety and the fine showing made by the freshmen prospects look bright pre-legal society discusses future plans to invite harvard law professor to lecture the pre-legal society appointed committees and agreed upon a ten tative program at a recent meeting prof e l crum faculty adviser made several suggestions to the so ciety on its activities which were unanimously adopted professor magruder professor in the harvard law school is a classmate of pro fessor crum and there will be an attempt made to secure him for a lecture r a dreyer arts 37 was ap pointed temporary chairman until elections are held on the first thursday in november louis weinstock bus 36 was appoint ed temporary secretary a committee of programs con sisting of herbert woronoff arts 37 chairman herbert tillapaugh arts 37 and m c porazzi arts 37 was appointed to present a pro gram for each meeting of the year the pre-legal society will hold all its meetings on the first thursday of each month a constitution committee was ap pointed and includes leonard fein blatt arts 37 edward g oppen heimer bus 37 and samuel k blumenthal arts 35 arcadia disciplines frosh the judiciary committee of ar cadia met wednesday evening to discipline freshmen guilty of violat ing freshman regulations those disciplined were r s porter r e conrad m p smith s h burrin r h greenwell d w jones j c ford and r e smith these men failed to wear their dinks and black socks and to say hello those who refused to wear dinks and black socks must now wear a red band around their dinks those who would not say hello must now carry a hello sign on the second floor various college men would have been seen whis pering and peeping around corners at him and in a car directly below the dean and in back of the dorms a bedraggled and thoroughly miser able muhlenberg sophomore would have been seen securely held and sileflced by walter l finlay packer hall pealed 11:30 p m last tuesday night just as dean charles maxwell mcconn flanked on the one side by the redoubtable roland and on the other by the trustworthy tommy two of le high's campus cops sternly survey ed the taylor dormitory quad rangle h'm said dean mcconn as his — were they twinkling — eyes took iin the torn-up sod the scattered | white patches of ripped shirts and the pools of water and broken waste-paper baskets of the taj^lor hall volunteer bucket brigade h'm said dean mcconn com pressing his lips and leading the way into section a shall we in vestigate further gentlemen as the little party proceeded to the second floor of section c the tumult and the shouting died the captains and the warriors of the quad fight hastily departed and the hallway was left to silence and to dean mcconn if at thst time we were to have taken a cross-section of taylor hall at section c dean mcconn would have been discovered holding court bethlehem pa friday october 26 1934 dramatic societies select play dates the lehigh university brown and white band will join city hallowe'en parade new debate coach vol xlii no 10 course heads favor council for engineers supreme court must decide r.o.t.c case engineer tells of new span and subway board accepts all statements of publications price five cents all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate 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