Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 22

              price five cents football men attend party of n.y alumni firm willinterview seniors on dec 18-19 reading from left to right malcolm h baxter as tom pryor william b maynard as scrubby george grogan as henry mrs josephine meixell as ann william wisswesser as rev william duke edwin carlson as mr lingley john coventry as rev thomson mrs marion etter as mrs cliveden-banks and mrs ruth whitcomb as mrs midget conception of life after death is theme of outward bound tickets for outward bound are on sale at drown hall professor addresses parents and teachers prof adelbert ford head of the department of psychology ad dressed a meeting tuesday of the parent-teachers association of the nitschmann junior high school bethlehem on the formation of habits in childhood professor ford narrating inci dents prevalent to habit formation among children of various families spoke first on the value of helping the child form correct habits of living of discipline of cooperation of respect for law and order and of living with those about him the second portion of the talk was devoted to pointing out dan gerous habit formation and the means of correcting it once the child has become accustomed to it as an instance the speaker select ed the case of a child who has ac quired the habit of playing with matches professor ford suggested that if such a child is given an op portunity to light the fires at home and to light the gas range and do any other duty in which he comes in contact with matches as a piece of work the novelty soon wears off following the conclusion of his talk the audience participated in discussion and comment on various phases and excerpts of the lecture rader to play at military ball tickets for outward bound may be obtained in the union office drown hall at any time until saturday noon admittance will be granted at the door on presentation of bur sar's receipt however student tickets have been distributed to heads of living groups admission for other than stu dents will be 50 cents tickets will be sold at the door petition sent to arcadia asking for suspension of freshman regula tions during next term officers to serve as executive committee and social staff randolph s young eng was elected president of the freshman union at its meeting last wednes day night in drown hall other of ficers elected were arthur c cox eng vice president harry c.•mil bank eng secretary ivan a ku ryla bus treasurer joseph c tracy eng steward carstens y haas eng publicity director and norman c odell eng entertain ment director these seven officers will serve as an executive committee which will be responsible to the union the union is composed of fresh men representatives from every living group at lehigh its duties are to act as an agency for the freshman class to run banquets dances smokers and other social events in addition to electing of ficers the union voted to request arcadia to suspend the freshman regulations after the close of this semester randolph young served as tem porary chairman of the meeting and melvin lord eng was the acting secretary about 50 repre sentatives were present carstens y haas representing the town men asked that this group get to gether before the next union meet ing and select more delegates m e i e societies hold joint party contests between two groups show good spirit about 100 industrial and me chanical engineers were present at the combined christmas party of the two course societies in drown hall on wednesday night ah those present were dressed in old clothes so that they might par ticipate in the games played be sides contributing to the refresh ments for the evening the students brought some article of canned goods which were given to the american welfare agency f v larkin head of the m e department opened the evening with a tall story competitive contests between m e.s and i e.s were staged a cracker-eating whistling contest and a juicy pie-eating contest dis guised as athletic events were features of the evening the joint committee was com posed of william h mac donald jr i e 35 richard wilson i e 35 david hoppock i e 36 paul ohmer m e 36 and tho mas holme m e 36 prof alex ander luce was the faculty adviser yule music played concert is last unless students request another , christmas music of many na tions was played during a phono graph concert presented in the ar cadia room of drown hall wed nesday afternoon at 4:14 the pro gram was directed by elbert def tidd arts 37 the following yuletide numbers all from the carnegie set formed the program academic festival overture brahms hodie chris tus natus est by palestrina in dulci jubilo by pearsall the holly and the ivy an old english carol schlafendes jesuskind by wolf the famous shepherds christmas music of bach and nine excerpts from the messiah of handal the hallelujah chor us from the latter number com pleted the program wednesday's concert was the last these informal musicales have been discontinued the directors of the music set announced because student support is not strong enough to justify the preparation of special programs for the mid week afternoon if popular request is • sufficiently strong however the series may be continued after the christmas holidays faculty women to play santa harmeson caraway wes terman adams max well and hawks are at christmas dinner gotham graduates hold fete wednesday as celebration a group of six men from the campus represented the university at the annual christmas dinner and party of the lehigh club of new york wednesday night at the build ing trades employers association park avenue john w maxwell assistant edi tor of the alumni bulletin robert b adams assistant director of ath letics varsity football coaches glen w harmeson eb caraway and marty westerman and man ager f c hawks i e 35 made the trip after a turkey dinner interspers ed with lehigh songs the music played by david fluharty 29 and his orchestra santa claus imper sonated by w k smith 13 dis tributed a number of gifts to prom inent members of the club each gift was satirical or humorous in nature a tribute was paid to the football coaches and team for their record this season especially for the vic tory over lafayette mr harmeson responded by praising the boys on the team caraway and westerman each spoke briefly and outlined the situation here all the coaches praised the team for their work this season augustus parker-smith 84 read a resolution on the death of rem brandt peale 87 former trustee of the university president l earl wilson 14 ap pointed albert maginnes 21 chair man of the committee of five to draw up recommendations concern ing football to be presented to the club board of governors this is an endeavor to clarify the club's policy regarding athletics at the university about 125 men attended the dining room was decorated with christmas trees and wreaths christmas banquet held by electricals ackerson in rote of santa presents quaint gifts the electrical engineering so ciety and eta kappa nu the hon orary electrical engineering society held their christmas banquet and party in the d a r hall wednes day evening cornelius ackerson e e 35 in the role of santa claus presented ridiculous gifts to the members of the faculty present and to many of the students edmund collins bus 36 gave a talk on the history of fencing col lins william g turnbull m e 37 and daniel q marshall eng 38 members of the fencing team gave exhibitions of fencing with foils epees and sabres those present then tried their luck at various gambling games such as roulette horse-racing and bridge edward s tinley e e 35 won the contest by increasing his purse from 1,300 to 29,000 stage money and was awarded a prize for his skill eta sigma phi meets e a collins reads paper on pos tal system of rome edgar a collins graduate stu dent read a paper on the postal system of rome at a meeting of the eta sigma phi national classi cal society last evening at the home of professor and mrs earl le verne crum augustus was the first to estab lish the postal system of rome as an imperial organization certainly of delivery rather than speed was the chief object mr collins ex plained that 50 miles per day was the average distance covered by a post rider although there are in stances of much faster rides julius caesar travelled from gaul to rome in eight days at 100 miles per day at next month's meeting william bohning 34 assistant to the reg istrar will talk on romance ety mology morning call man tells pi delta epsilon at ini tiation banquet that comic is in discard shows campus papers have same problems as daily papers donald miller of the allentown morning call told pi delta ep silon national honorary journalistic society that the trend of college publications has been away from the comic at the initiation banquet wednesday evening at the sun inn college students have been de voting their time to more serious publications mr miller predicted that college annuals will be pub lished earlier in the college year the material contained in these annuals will be more adapted for reference use the emphasis which year books have placed on external trimmings will be reduced and more effort will be spent in order to make the contents more valuable as a source of information discusses problems mr miller showed how the prob lems of the campus publications are identical with those of the daily papers newspaper work fur nishes valuable experience for en trance into the business world smiley tells of admissions dept earl k smiley assistant direc tor of admissions outlined the pur poses of the admissions depart ment the primary object of the department is the solicitation of new students under this head is included the furnishing of infor mation on any college whatsoever to whoever wants it the second function of the de partment is to expand the advan tages of lehigh as an institution of learning in the first place the sce nery of the lehigh valley furnishes cultural advantages in the second place because lehigh is a small college the teaching program has been so arranged so that the stu dent is treated as an individual and not as a seat number lehigh has a prestige which has been carefully built up the insti tute of research has been so ex panded that it is outstanding in the advances it makes in new scientif ic knowledge and last lehigh is represented by many many men in the industrial and executive world the third function of the depart ment of admissions is to establish a definite selective technique so that the right kind of student ap plies for admission chem party tonight will hear rev p deschweinitz and possibly j s long the chemical society at its an nual christmas banquet at 6:30 this evening in the masonic temple will hear an address on historic beth lehem by the rev paul deschwei nitz of the moravian church dr h m ullmann head of the chemical department says that dr j s long who taught here for many years and is now with the devoe-williams paint company in louisville may attend doctor long was in new ok today and will make an attempt to get here in time for the banquet dean mcconn and a e buchan an alumi secretary will attend president richards for several years a regular attendant at these banquets will be absent because of his recent illness grace 99 elected president of iron and steel institute eugene gifford grace 99 pres ident of the board of trustees of lehigh university and president of the bethlehem steel corporation has been elected president of the american iron and steel institute it was announced yesterday mr grace was formerly a vice president a position that has been assumed by tom m girdler chair man of the republican steel cor poration william a irvin pres ident of the u s steel corporation continued as first vice president of the institute scabbard and blade spon sors dance tomorrow at hotel bethlehem the annual military ball spon sored by scabbard and blade will be held tomorrow evening in the hotel bethlehem the dance will start at 10 p m and last until 2 bud rader's orchestra will fur nish the music for the evening a saber drill to be held during the in termission will be given by 12 of the senior members of scabbard and blade the drill will be com manded by cadet captain stanley ellison those in the chosen squad which has been practicing under the su pervision of capt j k rice as sistant professor of military science and tactics are robert buchanan stanley goodrich phillip hooper george grogan bradford smith richard rick morton rae ed ward chickering mark hoover charles leuders howard seeley and ralph brown decorations will constist in part of the colors of lehigh university the military department and the local national guard robert bu chanan in charge of the decorating has completed the plans maj james o green head of the department of military science and tactics at lehigh has invited the regular army and navy officers in the lehigh valley to the ball as his guests in the receiving line which will form on the left side of the entrance will be major and mrs green captain and mrs p l sadler catherine law cadet captain el lison commander and mrs grea tham u s n retired lieut com mander and mrs thompson u s n dr and mrs natt m emery dean and mrs charles mcconn and dr and mrs claude beardslee tickets are being sold by mem bers of scabbard and blade and will be available at the door they are 1.65 a couple and 1.00 stag okesons move to bethlehem walter r okeson secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees and his family have moved from their home old stone house old zionsville to bethlehem for the winter and are occupying the apartment of mr and mrs lewis johnson in the sayre apartments mr and mrs johnson have gone to florida for the cold season curriculum representatives have senior epitome ballots seniors who have not ob tained their ballots may do so according to their curriculum as follows business — vandervoort rand delta upsilon chem ch e eng phys met e and e m bradford k smith sigma phi epsilon i e e e m e and c e george d grogan sigma chi mustard and cheese dramatics workshop to act vane's play tonight and tomorrow setting is on ocean liner with unknown destination cast includes wisswesser baxter howard grogan maynard carlson coventry through the medium of out ward bound a comedy drama the dramatic workshop in conjunction with mustard and cheese will give one author's interpretation of life after death at 8:15 o'clock tonight and tomorrow night in drown hall in his interpretation sutton vane the author has thrown char acters from all paths of life onto a small ocean liner bound for an un known destination throughout the play he has maintained a quality of vagueness and mystery about the whole trip malcolm h baxter plays the part of tom pryor the habitual drunk around whom the action of the play centers this character was portrayed by leslie howard in the moving picture outward bound howard was also in the original stage production playing the part of henry henry in the present cast is played by george grogan he is one of the lovers around whom the story centers ann mrs josephine meixell is the other lover how ever henry is bound by a previous matrimonial tie the world is left behind as love seizes these two un fortunates mrs etter is society matron society is well represented by mrs cliveden-banks the snobbish matron played by mrs marion et ter mrs cliveden-banks considers it an extreme misfortune that she should have to associate with a charwoman mrs ruth whitcomb in the part of mrs midget while on the ocean voyage scrubby the bartender played by william d maynard finely sheds light on the whole situation as the plot develops the ministry is well represented on this ill fated voy age for rev william duke wil liam wiswesser is on the ship which is finally met by john co ventry as rev thomson a repre sentative of god to add to the unpleasant feeling aboard the ship there is the boring mr lingley as portrayed by ed win carlson english financier who has advanced and become wealthy by hard work and who is also a former employer of tom pryor the play is being directed by a a rights instructor of english and is part of the regular work for men in dramatics 61 the female roles are taken by friends of mustard and cheese and the dram atic workshop in town coming events friday dec 4 8:15 p m outward bound pre sented in drown hall by dramat ics workshop saturday dec 15 8:15 p m outward bound pre sented in drown hall by dramat ics workshop 10 p m scabbard and blade ball in hotel bethlehem monday dec 17 7:30 p m tau beta pi banquet at hotel bethlehem will entertain children tuesday in drown hall ; buchanan to act santa claus will be one of the guests at a children's christmas party to be held tuesday at 4 p m in drown hall the party is being planned by the faculty women's club and besides saint nick an drew e buchanan executive sec retary of the lehigh alumni asso ciation will be present to perform with sleight of hand tricks the party is planned especially for children of faculty members but there will be fun for guests of all ages and members of the faculty are invited mr buchanan with his tricks is first on the list of performers santa will bring his sack and in it will have a gift for each boy and girl he also will lead the grand march after which ice cream and christ mas cookies will be served debate club divided groups selected to argue ques tions first meet feb 8 the debating society at its meet ing yesterday was divided into two groups each group is to discuss one of the two questions to be de bated this year namely resolved that nations should agree to pre vent the international shipment of arms and munitions and re solved that pennsylvania should adopt a system of socialized medi cine t e butterfield arts 35 and h roller ch e 37 took the negative side of a practice debate on the munitions question m mind lin arts 38 w g dukek eng 38 debated the affirmative the members of the socialized medicine group all gave five minute speeches the first varsity debate is sche duled with st joseph's feb 8 at lehigh rutgers will be the first opponent of the freshman team newtonian society will meet the newtonian society freshman honorary mathematical society will meet monday evening at the home of prof tomlinson fort at 1749 easton avenue the meeting will be featured by a debate on the advisability of le high's adopting a curriculum lead ing to a bachelor of science degree in engineering with specialization in mathematics various members of the society will uphold both sides supply company man to con fer with three croups r w dassow a representative of the national theatre supply company new york will interview seniors concerning prospective po sitions with his company tuesday and wednesday dec 18 and 19 an nounces john a brodhead director of the placement bureau according to mr brodhead the national theatre supply company is the first concern to send a rep resentative to the campus this year it is a large organization with many branches throughout the country and has given positions to lehigh graduates in the past several years mr dassow will confer with sen iors from the curricula of business administration electrical indus trial and mechanical engineering most of the appointments schedul ed for interviews on the two days have been filled mr brodhead also announced that the business training division of the general electric company schenectady n v has requested interview dates with seniors some time during the second semester i am of the opinion that other companies are going to arrange for interview appointments earlier than in previous years says mr brod head displays antics ofliquifiedair w s gallaway freezes and revives goldfish sayer brettell talk a vaudeville act with liquid air which included freezing goldfish to death and bringing them back to life freezing a rubber ball to the extent that it would shatter when bounced and shooting corks with the pressure obtained from expand ing liquid air was presented by william smith gallaway eng phys 35 president of the physics club at the regular meeting last night the liquid air obtained through compressing air to a temperature of 180 degrees below zero centi grade was put through a set of experiments of such a nature that spectators were obliged to move away from the experimenters table of apparatus william hallock sayer jr eng phys 37 started the meeting with a talk on radio beacons he demon strated on the blackboard the dif ferent methods of sending directions to fliers who were out of the range of the light beacons george alvin brettell jr eng phys 36 gave a practical demon stration of sound waves and elec trical vibrations as they were pic tured on a magnified screen he showed how the beats of the heart vibrated in the same recur ring wave lengths and then con cluded by demonstrating the differ ent vibrations that could be made by hitting a piece of taut piano wire in several different manners there was also a short explana tion of the browian movement the action of small particles or mole cules in colloidal suspension steam engineer-talks r m hardgrove addresses lehigh valley a s m e ralph m hardgrove engineer of babcock and wilcox company ad dressed a meeting of the anthracite lehigh valley section of the amer icon society of mechanical engin eers in packard laboratory last night mr hardgrove spoke on pul verizing for steam generation and cement manufacture about 75 members of the society were pres ent alexander luce associate pro fessor of machine design was in charge of the arrangements for the meeting which was preceeded by a dinner in sun inn the lecture was illustrated with slides showing various pulverizing plants and with graphs which gave the figures for pulverization mr hardgrove traced the history of pulverizing in his talk and also dis cussed the problems of grinding ce ment coal and clinkers and the uses of kilns after the speech mr hardgrove answered questions asked him by the members bethlehem pa friday december 14 1934 scene from outward bound vol xlii no 22 ford speaks about formingchildhabits college press more serious miller says frosh union elects young as president the lehigh university brown and white all the lehighnews first member intercollegiate newspaper association