Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 13

              this apparatus is used by william e somers c eemble beldwin reseacb fel low in his work on farm efficiency the results which data taken from the above exhauster fan have established may lead to a revision of the code on fans of this type senior civils inspect plant mcconn congdon smil ey attend meet held thursday and friday successful says dean educational measurements are discussed by group three members of the faculty dean c m mcconn wray h congdon director of admissions and his assistant earl k smiley represented lehigh at a conference of educators held thursday and fri day in new york city at the hotel roosevelt the convention which was at tended by approximately 300 secon dary school and college teachers was for the purpose of discussing educational measurements said dean mcconn the meeting was successful in its purpose and was conducted in an efficient manner said the dean no decisions of a general charac ter were reached although nearly everyone benefitted from the ex change of ideas on examinations and their uses mcconn presides dean mcconn presided over the final session of the conference fri day afternoon when professor r w tyler of ohio state university read a paper on a new type of test for use in a group of schools form ing the progressive educational as sociation general discussions fol lowed on the both days proceed ings at last year's gathering the dean talked on the advantages and dangers of testing the progress of educational experiments measurements such as those af forded by standard psychological tests have a value no longer dis puted by anyone stated the dean achievement tests such as the educational records bureau spon sors aptitude tests and the effects of those and other tests are more open to opinion the general tone of the meeting was favorable tow ards scholastic measuring methods of this description however sutherland has tea for staff at home professors wives and others are presented hale sutherland head of the de partment of civil engineering and mrs sutherland gave a tea for the wives and members of the staff of the civil engineering department on saturday between 4 and 6:30 p.m at the sutherland home several faculty members who co operate with the civil engineering department in the maintenance of their summer surveying camp were also present namely natt m emery vice president of the uni versity raymond c bull director of the student health service stan ley j thomas professor of bacter iology and stewart l rankin as sistant director of the student health service mrs stewart mother of douglas m stewart research fellow poured the tea is one of two held annually by professor and mrs sutherland the second is held in the spring releases statistics bohning issues graduate student numbers the following statistics of first semester attendance for graduate students has been issued from the office of assistant registrar wil liam bohning senior civils will inspect mcclintic - marshall plant civil engineering seniors under eugene h uhler assistant profes sor of civil engineering will motor friday to pottstown to inspect the fabricating plant of the mcclintic marshall company the inspection was arranged through the courtesy of john n marshall c e 20 the plant is at present working on the towers for the golden gate bridge cables for this bridge are now being tested in fritz laboratory committee on student activities to consider limiting certain day to only one function proposed plan would require petitions five weeks ahead the policy of granting completely exclusive social function privileges on saturday nights to undergrad uate groups will come before the committee on student activities at its meeting tomorrow afternoon in the administration building if the proposed policy is accept ed the committee will be empow ered to refuse all petitions for so cial gatherings on a certain date ex cept that of one organization when a student organization shows that it deserves the support of the entire university and that the function for which it is petition ing will concern the university the student activities committee may assign an evening for that function and refuse all other petitions for functions to be held on that eve ning explained dean c m mc conn ex-officio member of the committee will avoid conflicts should this scheme be adopted however it would be necessary for the group concerned to petition at least five weeks ahead of time this would allow time for consideration of conflicting petitions continued the dean the night of oct 20 when the engineers ball and the dance held by the union triad both took place was an example of the parasitic ef fect meetings of two major organ izations can have upon each other when held concurrently said dean mcconn there is a petition from scab bard and blade military society asking that the date of dec 15 be reserved for them he added this will be a test case if the new pol icy wins the petition will be grant ed should it be defeated the peti tion will be granted but without the exclusive night clause at least one student member of the commit tee is opposed to the proposition coach invites men to talk it over harmeson asks students for chat with him come around and talk it over this invitation was extended yes terday afternoon by glen harme son varsity football coach to all lehigh students and faculty mem bers who are interested in football the former purdue backfield ace whose office is in the old trophy room in taylor gymnasium may be found there after 9 a m and except for the lunch period or the times when he has engagements else where remains until 3 p m when he leaves for the stadium the calls will be most welcome in the morn ing the invitation is not a new one harmeson said as some of the stu dents and faculty members have been in to talk things over it mere ly serves to remind the others that they are welcome to drop in and discuss football football at lehigh or even the coaching system i want everyone on the campus to feel that he can come and air his opinions and that my interest is not only in men on the teams we will will all gain by getting together princeton chemistry head to talk on heavy hydrogen dr hugh s taylor will speak on heavy hydrogen and its use as a tool of research at the meet ing of the chemical society to be held at 7:30 p m thursday in packard auditorium dr taylor is chairman of the chemistry department at princeton university he was among the first to become interested in heavy hy drogen and is considered an out standing authority on its prepara tion and uses council meeting postponed a meeting of the engineering council scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed until late december announces hale sutherland head of the department of civil engineering sutherland and 20 stu dents see cement plant under construction twenty civil engineering seniors under hale sutherland head of the department of civil engineering on wednesday afternoon inspected the plant of the national portland ce ment company being built near hecktown five miles north of beth lehem the plant to cost 1,500,000 is in the center of a rich deposit of high lime cement rock which will be able to supply raw material for the annual output of 1,125,000 bar rels of cement for more than 200 years features of the construction of the plant are the use of sliding-con crete forms and the pumping of concrete from the central mixing plant to the forms distances to be 800 feet horizontally and 55 feet vertically the cement to be produced will be an high early strength port land cement which in concrete at tains in three days the strength that ordinary cement concrete attains in 28 days the cement will be pro duced by the wet process in a kiln 300 feet long and 10 feet in diamet er the extra length of the kiln will make it necessary to drive the gases out of the stacks by a blower sys tem result of concrete research published s lyse proves strength of light weight material the results of a series of tests on lightweight slag concrete begun during october and november of 1933 in fritz laboratory has re cently been published by inge lyse associate professor of engineering materials in the journal of the am erican concrete institute using as the aggregate a porous slag made by spraying water over molten slag as it comes from the furnace professor lyse was able to produce a concrete which weighed only 113 pounds to the cubic foot ordinary concrete weighs from 145 to 160 pounds to the cubic foot the concrete made with the por ous slag has almost the identical properties of the odinary concrete using crushed stone as the aggre gate with the additional property of being a better sound and heat in sulator using a slag concrete it will be possible to build lighter and there fore cheaper concrete structures publications board to discuss unethical business practices the board of publications will meet at 4 p m today in the of fice of dean c m mcconn the board will discuss unethical business practices of lehigh publi cations and examine routine finan cial reports of the brown and white the burr and the lehigh re view fraternity honors parents pi kappa alpha held its annual parents day last sunday with an attendance of 36 guests dinner was served at one o'clock after which the gamma lambda mothers club which is composed of the mothers of fraternity members held a meet ing faculty action further limits extra hours approves suggestion to prevent students with heavy schelules from adding brown & white adopts resolution regretting death of prof h c brown the faculty approved the recom mendation of the committee on pe titions which limits extra hours at a meeting held yesterday in the alumni memorial building at the same time the date for the next meeting of the faculty educational club was announced and a resolu tion regretting the recent death of prof h c brown was adopted the recommendation of the com mittee on petitions that students taking hours in excess of a normal roster by special permission of the committee on petitions shall not be allowed to add brown and white or courses in moral and religious philosophy except as these are of fered in satisfaction of the require ment in moral and religious phil osophy to their rosters nor shall students taking extra hours by right on a basis of a two point av erage register for brown and white or courses in moral and religious philosophy except as stated above beyond the number of hours per mitted by rule was passed by the faculty ford announces meeting prof adelbert ford president of the faculty educational club an nounced a meeting of the club at 4:15 p m monday in the faculty room of the alumni memorial building the subject to be discussed is liberalization of engineering cur ricula following this discussion dean c m mcconn will head a panel discussion vice president natt m emery reported to the faculty members that he had sent flowers for the funeral of prof h c brown in the name of the members a resolution concerning the death of professor brown was read and adopted by the faculty the resolu tion reads in part professor brown was admired by his students and fellow teachers for his personal and scholarly traits not content with the work of the classroom alone he had already completed in collaboration with a colleague the preliminary work toward a textbook edition of one of anatole france's novels he had prepared a paper on the dramatic works of marcel pagnol which was to be read at the coming de cember meeting of the modern lan guage society of america his quiet helpfulness ready friendliness and scholarly efficiency will be sorely missed by his col leagues while his students genuine ly deplore the loss of his sympa thetic guidance in class and cam pus activities will examine folios dr smith to inspect shakespearean work at auction dr robert m smifh head of the department of english will examine a set of four folios on shakespeare from the library of the late rev roderick terry of newport r 1 when they are auctioned on thurs day by the american art associa tion in new york the first folio of shakespeare is the most famous collected work in all literature and as none have been offered for sale in the past few years it will be of interest to note the value in depression times the lehigh library has one first two second one third and two fourth folios the sale will there fore gauge the value of these coming events wednesday nov 7 8 p m tau beta pi smoker facul ty club room drown hall thursday nov 8 4 p m philosophical seminar fac ulty club room drown hall 7:30 p m chemical society heavy hydrogen and its use as a tool of research dr h s taylor packard auditorium friday nov 9 4:15 p m faculty volley ball le high field gymnasium 7:30 p m robert w blake society room 201-251 packard labora tory groups include trenton phil adelphia california the lehigh alumni clubs of trenton philadelphia and southern california will hold their pre-le high-lafayette banquets on nov 20 22 and 23 respectively the lehigh club of trenton on nov 20 will hold a joint meeting with the alumni clubs of lafayette and rutgers of that city the meet ing place has not yet been decided okeson sheridan maxwell and buchanan will go to the meeting as representatives from lehigh the philadelphia lehigh club will hold its annual beat lafay ette dinner on nov 22 at book binder's restaurant in philadelphia all the football coaches and sports writers for philadelphia and beth lehem papers have been invited okeson buchanan kellogg and sheridan will also be there the lehigh club of southern cal ifornia will hold a joint meeting with the lafayette alumni club in los angeles on the eve of the le high-lafayette game nov 23 s e lambert 89 president of the le high club will show moving pic tures of lehigh today to represent relations club musser c.e 35 gipson two others will at tend perm state meet the lehigh international rela tions club will send three students and one faculty adviser to the mid dle atlantic conference of interna tional relations clubs to be held nov 23 and 24 at perm state col lege the topic to be discussed is re cent trends in nationalism this topic will be supplemented by two round table conferences of two ses sions during which national and international trade relations po litical aspects of recent national ism and national defense will be discussed the students to represent lehigh will be shelton musser c e 35 and two others who will be chosen at the next meeting of the club the faculty adviser will be dr lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and govern ment there will be elections of mem bers at the next meeting and one of the new members will be chosen to represent lehigh at the conference the conference last year was held in washington d c among the colleges represented were la fayette new york university george washington university uni versity of delaware bucknell uni versity university of pennsylvania rutgers university new jersey col lege for women st lawrence uni versity elmira college vassar col lege and lehigh university group picks dewey columbia professor to speak some time in march the committee on lectures met on friday in the office of registrar g b curtis to take action on pro posed lectures prof percy hughes suggested prof john dewey of columbia uni versity as a suitable lecturer for the students the lecture is planned for sometime in march no definite date has been set as yet preceding the evening lecture it is expected that professor dewey will hold a round table discussion with the afternoon class in philos ophy seminar carothers to talk to new york engineering women's club neil carothers director of the business college will address the engineering women's club of new york city on the financial policy of the government tomorrow night at the club headquarters the society is composed of wo men engineers among whom is mrs lillian m gilbreth the country's foremost woman engineer said dr carothers the meeting was arrang ed by edwin j prindle m e 90 patent attorney and university lec turer on patent law senior mets to visit refining companies annual new york field trip slated for nov 27 28 plans for the annual inspection trip of senior metallurgical engin eers have been completed an nounces allison butts associate pro fessor of metallurgy the field trip to be taken by about 11 or 12 sen iors in metallurgical engineering will be on nov 27 and 28 they plan to visit the plant of the u s metals refining company in carteret n j the first day where they will study the methods of copper and lead refining in the refining of these copper and lead ores gold and silver figure largely as by-products professor butts says on the second day they will vis it the nichols copper company in laurel hill n v a plant wholly devoted to copper refining definite arrangements as to where the men will stay and other activi ties have not been completed as yet art exhibition opens sunday wanda gag may visit here at display of her prints and drawings the exhibition of 24 paintings from the metropolitan museum and 22 prints and drawings by wanda gag opened sunday in the library it is believed that miss gag will visit the exhibit says garth a how land head of the department of fine arts in the art gallery there is found for the first time paintings by well known artists of the 17th and 18th centuries says professor howland the best known of these is the painting of the children of charles the first by a pupil of van dyck if this painting was found to be a van dyck by those working on its history the value would be ap proximately 500,000 according to the prevailing prices for one of the works of that artist the painting the spy is remarkable because of the life-like expression of the characters portrayed stone crusher shown among the works of wanda gag the best known print is the stone crusher which has appeared in many magazines throughout the country it is because of its resem blance to a dinosaur that it is well known says professor howland the print lamplight won first prize in the exhibition of american prints last year the drawing old barns has the highest value of any of the drawings exhibited by miss gag the works of miss gag that are being shown in the library are lamplight franklin st o v c lantern and fireplace chicago fireplace snowy fields spring in the garden evening stone crusher studio still life land scape snow drifts grandma's kitchen stairway at macy's the forge cats at window mushrooms grandma's parlor backyard corner mandrake egg-beater and old barns this exhibit of prints will run through november to present paper hughes will review whitehead's nature and life the discussion of whitehead's recent work nature and life will be brought to a close at the philosophical seminar which will meet at 4 p m thursday in the faculty club room dr percy hughes head of the department of philosophy will read a short paper summarizing white head's doctrine in a way aimed at clearing up the points which pre sented the most difficulty at pre ceding sessions a general discus sion will follow this paper the nature of the topic allows those who were not present at the earlier sessions to follow the paper and take part in the discussion at a third meeting on thursday nov 22 frank c becker assistant professor of philosophy will read a paper on dewey's recent work a common faith somers plans code revision research fellow works on exhauster fans for necessary facts revision of certain parts of the code on exhauster fans is the ob ject of william e somers research work in packard laboratory he is a c kemble baldwin research fel low the results necessary to furnish the facts for the revision of the code are obtained as follows says mr somers three gauges are used for the readings on the fan the results of the gauge readings indi cate the energy in the air at the point where the readings are taken men who worked on fans prior to this lost sight of the fact and thought that the primary factor of the final results was these gauge readings the efficiency of the fan is the ratio of the difference in energy at the inlet and the discharge ducts to the input to the fan this input is measured by means of a dynamo meter a calibrated motor or var ious gauges tube replaces gauges when the gauges on the inlet and discharge ducts are replaced by the pitot tube a tube which takes the place of both gauges the pressures measured indicate the kinetic en ergy at the point where readings are made the kinetic energy is found by taking the quantity of air meas ured by the nozzle at the end of the wind tunnel and calculating the vel ocity required to have the rate of flow pass through the point for which the calculations are made all gauge readings are taken at a distance from the fan so that the turbulence created by the fan is eliminated in order to get equival ent values for the inlet and dis charge ducts various corrections for speed friction and density refer red to as standard density are made from this data results are cal culated arid fan characteristics in the form of curves are plotted on graph paper milton c stuart professor of mechanical engineering is prepar ing a paper which will be a report on an analysis of the tests on the energy basis will hold concert tidd arts 37 to conduct recital tomorrow the sixth informal phonograph concert will be held from 4:15 to 5:30 tomorrow in the arcadia room in drown hall elbert tidd arts 37 who is in charge of the concert has arranged the following program beethoven egmont overture dvorak new world symphony in e minor and beethoven em peror concerto in e flat major this is the second wednesday afternoon concert since the sunday evening series has been discon tinued it is felt that wednesday afternoon is a more convenient time to hold these concerts but if the attendance is not large enough to justify their continuance they will be changed to some other time tidd states exhauster fan in packard laboratory bethlehem pa tuesday november 6 1934 three alumni clubs will hold banquets vol xlii no 1 3 price five cents the lehigh university brown and white to fix policy for granting social dates three present at conference of educators non-candidates cand's for degrees rear l928-29 1929-30 1930-81 1931-32 for degrees 5 1 16 16 m.a 17 25 38 48 m.s 40 29 41 62 1932-33 1933-34 10 * 17 55 50 52 58 12 42 51 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first