Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 12

              prof h p thomas dean sketch in new review metallurgists to exhibit cen tury old hand forged chains an extensive exhibition is being arranged in the museum room of the metallurgical department the most interesting exhibit will be that of six bridge links 108 years old each four feet long and weighing 180 pounds which were taken from the old lehigh gap bridge said prof bradley stoughton head of the department of metallurgical en gineering these are the chain links of the original bridge which were pur chased by the university last aut umn when the bridge was razed the old lehigh gap bridge was the only one of its kind in amer ica since 1826 the bridge spanned the lehigh river about 18 miles north of allentown suspended by a chain the links were hand forged at the old lehigh dinkey and maria furnaces their durability with standing the elements in a fashion which left no rust and only a pol ished surface where there was fric tion has impressed the men in the iron industry some of the links were placed in other national insti tutions as relics and others are be ing used for analysis debate nira at model meet perseverance is no longer in the packard lab five prevention week has passed and she's back home resting solidly on the cement floor of the bethle hem firehouse on broad street two blocks east of main it's a good many blocks to the firehouse from the new street gate and before you drop in on persy consider our advice the sight isn't worth the trip after all she's only a very black pedler's cart under a clumsy super structure of heavy wood and fitted with a pumping arrangement more in place on a railroad car she's not streamlined in the least and her wood is deeply wrinkled and fur rowed bare of charm she squats on the floor with an air of perpet ual lassitude that's all you'll see for your trip but perhaps you feel a deep re spect for a heroic figure that has unflinchingly seen centuries roll past and now must needs taste the bitter dust of the march of prog ress perhaps you feel the beauty of a voiceless object eloquent in tragic dignity perhaps you appre ciate the quiet pride of this cast off servitor which carries a glor ious valiant history like a scarlet cloak about its shoulders ache guards machine if you feel these things — respect dignity and glory — then walk or ride the short blocks to bethlehem fire company no 1 and learn persy's history first introduce yourself to irvin ache who has driven a fire truck longer than you've breathed he'll say sure i'll be glad to show you all the stuff on the machine sit down and i'll be back in a min ute while he's gone you'll notice a framed series of statements sketch ing the early history of the oldest fire-fighter in the united states here are the facts as you will see them built in london 1698 bought by moravian society for l77-12s-2d arrived in new york city r october 1763 first trial in bethlehem — no vember 22 1763 threw a stream over a building 75 ft high ten years later — after repairs a stream 100 ft high flow 78 gallons per min ute but irvy ache is back with a large cardboard box in confusion are scattered sheets of yellowing paper the product of many early historians who were intrigued by the various accomplishments of perseverance fed by water buckets but now get him to show you persy's innards notice the double receptacles on both sides into which water can be poured the perfor ated metal screens that remove troublesome bits of wood and stone the tank of metal from which water is forced to the top by the two giant arms you'll think that water rushed into the tank from some convenient pipe but you'll be continued on page four faculty to aid scout council 24 paintings in art exhibit house party number of literary magazine will appear nov 16 in the house party issue of the lehigh review appearing on nov 14 will appear a write-up and char acter sketch of dean c m mc conn announces walter deemer editor in chief there will also be a picture of dean mcconn for the frontispiece among the articles which will appear in this issue are a history of the lehigh-lafayette rivalry george yanko arts 37 a humorous sketch on the letters of a freshman by jttraa^^wvart^^-a ketch john neely arts 35 and an editor iftkv^fhjcb-iayll advscafe several mr wt&-tetefijel inl^eltfijvsj&la£j there will also be an article by hoppock i e 36 on re 2^ne^y]n£|n oi^w campus a story about a beacn comber by melvin lord eng 38 and an article entitled the muni tions racket by judson schaef fer arts 35 illustrations drawings and photagraphs will accompany the articles will reduce bonds pi tau sigma and eta kappa nu to pay 13 holders thirteen bonds which were pur chased to finance the establishment of the engineering societies room will be redeemed in the near future it was announced by pi tau sigma and eta kappa nu the societies which sponsored the project the bonds which were drawn last tuesday are 4 71 c c her tel 86 robert landis 97 wilbur jurden 51 paul weitzel 110 d d evans 81 wayne rogers 96 e s williams jr 4 walter w kin singer 8 r b swope 15 c c shackford 17 dion weiss and 34 malcolm e cooper several bonds belonging to alum ni have been resold to students a campaign will be started soon to resell more of the bonds to students prof a w luce says free tickets to be given for lecture 61 5 students will be ad mitted to sigma xitalk by dr raymond det mars friday nov 16 strange animals i have known is title of address free tickets for the lecture strange animals i have known by raymond l ditmars to be spon sored by sigma xi on nov 16 will be available tomorrow at the le high union office in drown hall the time for the lecture has been set at 8 p m so that students and their house party guests may at tend and still have time to attend the senior prom the lecture will be held in packard auditorium f j trembley instructor in bi ology chairman of the program committee of sigma xi announces that 615 tickets will be available to students for this illustrated lecture not more than two tickets will be issued to each student after 8 o'clock the doors will be opened to those who do not hold tickets expects large crowd mr trembley states that a very large attendance is expected because of the popularity of dr ditmars and the general interest in his sub ject he advises students to obtain their tickets early for this reason dr ditmars is curator of the new york zoological gardens and according to mr trembley is a natural born naturalist dr ditmars has written books on his experiences as a naturalist one of them bears the same title as the lecture which he will present i this summer dr ditmars re turned from his vacation in afric with a bushmaster a rare and ven omous snake he is now engaged in research work with vampire bats which infest some portions of south tnest bats will severely bite any animal and cause it to bleed to death they have also been known to attack human beings their bite contains a poison which causes the wound to remain open the bats are also carriers of rabies preceding the lecture dr ditmars will be entertained at a dinner in the hotel bethlehem by sigma xi frosh conferences begin in arts college purpose is to investigate work freshmen are doing freshman arts conferences began recently announces prof p m palmer head of the department of arts and sciences the purpose of these conferences is to find out how the freshmen are getting along in their work wheth er they are suited for the work which they have chosen to pursue and to see if they are satisfied with their place of residence in bethle generally there are three confer ences held before the end of the first semester and by the end of the semester the students and members of the departments are better ac professor jennings awarded guest membership in society as a result of his research work in the field of refrigeration engineer ing burgess h jennings assistant professor of mechanical engineer ing has been awarded a guest mem bership in the american society of refrigeration engineers professor jennings summarized his work in an article entitled measurement of carbon dioxide in refrigeration systems which was published in the april issue of of the refrigeration engineer magazine at present he is work ing on various modifications of the absorption refrigerator investigat ing its feasibility for certain appli cations instead of the conventional compression system delegates hear carothers the economic outlook for 1935 was the subject of an ad dress delivered by neil car others head of the department of economics before 2000 or more del egates of the national association of gas industries thursday morn ing at atlantic city eight parade hibshman will supervise course beardslee will also speak to group two members of the lehigh fac ulty will aid the bethlehem coun cil boy scouts of america in con ducting a course in elementary scout leadership this winter announces j wilcox executive of the local council nelson s hibshman associate professor of electrical engineering will supervise the course in which the fundamentals and basic prin ciples of leadership will be stressed the object is to provide fully trained leaders to work in the scout organization development of the patrol system will be one of the topics dr claude beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy is included among the speakers who will address the class the course is open to students interested in scout leadership any such students should call on pro fessor hibshman in his office in the packard laboratory the meetings will be held weekly in the armory beginning wednesday evening nov 7 at-7 p m this elementary course is one of those required for a scout masters key m e faculty will attend engineers club meeting the entire staff of the mechanical engineering department will attend the meeting of the engineers club and the anthracite lehigh valley section of the american society of mechanical engineers states pro fessor fred v larkin director of curricula in mechanical and indus trial engineering the meeting will be held at 8 p m friday in the au ditorium of muhlenberg college dr walter rautenstrauch pro ftssor of industrial engineering at columbia university philip b sto vin economic statistician of the new jersey bell telephone com pany and dr w d ennis pro fessor of economics at stevens in stitute of technology will be the speakers coming events friday nov 2 7:30 p m meeting of blake society room 201-251 packard labora tory saturday nov 3 2 p m varsity soccer haverford vs lehigh lehigh field monday nov 5 4 p m faculty meeting faculty room alumni memorial building prof hp thomas talks on professional leaders in secondary schools at bucknell thursday scientific learning is quite necessary he says prof h p thomas spoke last night at an educational conference at bucknell on the topic profes sional leadership in . secondary education the talk was to determine the status of the high school principal insofar as the position is affected by the training requirements estatr lished by the states and by the dis trict of columbia he pointed out that those prin cipals who were exposed to scien tific knowledge could secure better results than those who were not for this reason it should be neces sary for the high school principal to turn his attention to the required organized educational knowledge needed professor thomas pointed out that according to statistics issued by the department of education in washington d c there are only seven states in 1924 that had pro fessional requirements for princi pals of high schools in 1928 how ever this number was increased to 12 the statistics of 1930 showed that there was no increase the latest data collected by prof thomas shows that 20 states per mit individuals to become princi pals without any experience and that 27 states require from one to five years experience state asks training — he also showed that there was aji increase in the number of states which demanded training require there are 24 states that have no rep ments on the part of the principals quirements and 20 that do of this latter group 14 states accept train ing of the undergraduate level and the other ten indicate special grad uate training work professor thomas discussed the three types ol planned course work the first is the specific job ideal the second the academic ideal and the third the professional ideal while there is an advance stated professor thomas it is an advance only as far as the law is concerned but the system is very confused be cause in many states anyone can secure a position in others exper ience is required but no training in some training is required but no experience while in others both are required in conclusion he pointed out three factors to be considered in professional training program 1 removal of the training pro grams from an undergraduate to a graduate level 2 limiting to a number of col leges and universities giving train i ing for administrative positions in education by the adoption of a set of worthwhile standards 3 defining a program of train these are important because in many cases those doing the training have no conception of the require ments for training parkhurst 93 dies e e alumnus held position of consulting engineer charles w parkhurst e e 93 died at his home in bala cynwyd pa on sept 30 at the age of 64 he was the consulting engineer for the bernwind-white coal mining company of philadelphia from 1917-1922 he was consulting engin eers for perm and marshall of new york city on work in india and russia mr parkhurst was a member of delta upsilon fraternity and since his graduation has been a member of the american electro-chemical society a fellow of the american institute of electrical engineers he was formerly president of the association of iron and steel elec trical engineers some of his more important work has been installation of the electri cal equipment on several boats for the union iron works and on ferry boats for the pennsylvania rail road he also had charge of track design for the metropolitan street railways of new york he is survived by his wife metropolitan display to open sunday in li brary lasts until may an exhibition of 24 paintings from the metropolitan museum will open sunday in the library this exhi bition will continue until may 1935 and contains the works of artists from the british dutch flemish and italian schools the paintings that will be on ex hibition are british school elizabeth rey nolds formerly attributed to rey nolds master mckenzie former ly attributed to raeburn dutch school mother amusing child by quieringh gerritsz van brekelenham view of harlem by jan van goyen still life by jan davidsz de heem grand mother's treasure by jozef is reals marine by ruysdael por trait of a man by gelder scene in antwerp by berckheyde flemish school children of charles i by school of van dyck kitchen interior by adriaen van nieulandt christ's blessing by an unknown artist italian school venice by mar tin rico view of the place san marco venice by marieschi french school village street by jean chas cazin cavalryman by edouard detaille fontaine bleau by narcisco virgilio dias de la pina falconer by eugene fromentin the father's curse by jean baptiste greuze land scape by emile lambinet the spy by alphonse de neuville meadow bordered by trees by theodore rousseau coffee house at cario by gerome promenade of the comedians by pater chemists buy camera has 2,000 magnification power and quartz lenses a new micro-photographic cam era capable of taking pictures en larged 2,000 times has been secured by the chemistry department for use in research announces dr e r theis associate profesor of chemical engineering th new camera and microscope combined is being set up in the chemistry laboratory this week it is equipped with standard lenses and also with quartz glass lenses for taking pictures under ultra vio let light in order to get samples of leath er thin enough to use it is neces sary to soak the sample to be mag nified for ten days in liquid para fine at the end of ten days it is removed and cooled and then may be sliced as thin as tissue paper formerly it was necessary to freeze the samples in liquid carbon diox ide at extremely low temperatures before pieces of the required thick ness could be obtained giant testing machine in fritz laboratory used to prove strength of tri-boro span wire port engineers inspect work approve lehigh equipment engineering heads of the port of new y«rk authority and the tri boro bridge authority wednesday afternoon visited fritz laboratory to inspect the steel cables that will be used in the construction of the tri boro bridge austin a dana designing engin eer and colonel harry w hud son construction engineer were present with h r seely resident engineer g l lucas engineer of inspection for the port of new york authority and his assistant e p pitmann o h ammann designer of the george washington bridge and chief engineer of this project was the only absent member of the committee specimen cables are now being tested for their tensile strength by a machine in the laboratory capable oi exerting 800,000 pounds pressure on the strands this wire work a product of the american steel and wire company trenton n j will suspend the roadway of the bridge if it successfully meets the struc tural requirements of the contract by a gradual increase in pressure one of four cables will be broken each day and regular readings will be taken to determine the probable reaction of the steel in the finished structure borough joined the city of new york started work on the bridge some years ago but later discontinued construction until recently the bridge will join the island of manhattan to the bronx and queens according to mr seely the strand of the cables which fritz laboratory is testing will weigh 2,500,000 pounds and will be almost 14,000 miles long enough to circle half the earth the project will take two years to complete spinning will begin some time in may of next year mr seely believes the project should be finished in july 1936 the american steel and wire company which is doing the metal work for the general contractors the american bridge company sent its product to lehigh univer sity's research department rather than to the testing laboratories of the port of new york authority because it felt the university's equipment and mechanics are es pecially well suited for the work in the past contractors of the san francisco oakland bay bridge largest of its type in the world have sent samples of its wire cables to lehigh regularly building is inspected during the committee's stay they toured the building all showed in terest in the various appliances es pecially in the photoelastic and soap-bubble machines in the for mer % douglas stewart fellow in civil engineering showed how bakelite models of steel structures strained by pressure are examined on a screen through the medium of lenses and polar light the effects of stress at various points is thus graphically illustrated francis crasz fellow in civil en gineering then demonstrated the soap-bubble apparatus which esti mates torsional strength of sections of beams by measuring the volume and contour lines of the bubble both instruments are used coordin ately wonderful exclaimed mr lu cas during the demonstration i only wish i were young enough to go back to school and learn to use all these modern engineering aids o'rt?s will defend bacon before blake society tonight register george b curtis will present the evidence for the ba conians in the shakespeare-bacon controversy to the robert w blake society which will meet at 7:30 this evening in the engineers loung room in packard laboratory prof robert smith head of the department of english will present shakespeare's side of the question at the second meeting next tues day a business meeting will be held before the lecture at which plans for coming programs will be present ed admission will be by invitation band members exhibit gay ety after march eight members of the band held an impromptu parade of their own tue.sday evening following the fountain hill hallowe'en parade it started about a half hour after the regular parade the thought was conceived by one of the band members after he had been entertained for some time by the members of the volunteer fire department of fountain hill as the parade moved down dela ware avenue they were cheered by the different fraternities and joined by several automobiles containing students they entertained with the old silver goblet hail the college lehigh will shine hats off to le high and several other composi tions that sounded original residents of fountain hill and bethlehem who witnessed the par ade believed that it was a group of freshmen up to some hallowe'en pranks under the guidance of upper classtnen h koller and e uhler support negative side h k ellis affirmative resolved that the essential features of the nira should be adopted as a permanent policy was the topic of the model debate held before 20 members of the debating society at the regular meeting of the organization in room 466 pack ard laboratory yesterday after noon h koller ch e 37 spoke for eight minutes as the first of the two speakers for the negative h k ellis e e 35 next upheld the af firmative argument with a 12-min ute discussion and e h uhler to arts 37 concluded the constructive argument of the debate in the rebuttal uhler spoke for five minutes and ellis concluded the debate with five minutes of re buttal for the affirmative mr ehrsam the society's coach then spoke on how to gather ma terial in the library everyone pres ent was given a preliminary assign ment to find articles on munitions in definitely assigned issues of the following periodicals reader's di gest international index education index and the new york times index on tuesday the regular meeting of the society will be held in room 410 in the library and an attempt will be made to collaborate and or ganize the material on munitions found by the various members in the above-mentioned periodicals d o t will meet in room 466 packard laboratory immediately after the regular meeting of the debating society on nov 15 a week from thursday packard lab gets new ford motor internal combustion depart ment is now complete the internal combustion labora tory has added a new ford v"8 mo tor to its row of engines in pack ard laboratory the ford motor company sent it as a gift to lehigh due to the ef forts of prof fred v larkin di rector of the curricula of mechani cal and industrial engineering the ford company was the only firm that had not sent a motor upon the first request of the university pro fessor larkin received a letter from the president of the company stat ing that the motor had been shipped last week the internal combustion labora tory has been outfitted with various types of automobile engines at a cost of 2.50 the la salle firm required this sum to pay crating charges most of the motors in the laboratory however are there on a consignment prof larkin ex plained bethlehem pa friday november 2 1934 perseverance returns home after sojourn in packard lab willshowoldlinks of lehighgapbridge addresses educators price five cents school heads training needs are discussed bridge cables for new york examined here vol xlii no 12 the lehigh university brown and white member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehighnews first