Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 23

              tau beta pi holdslnitiation of 11 pledges tentative draft of exam dates is announced vol xlii no 23 among the other diners half an hour passed twelve doughnuts had gone down none had come up bloss felt the need of exercise he took a four min ute run around the block came back sat down and looked at the remaining rings in the next 15 minutes he slowly ate two more doughnuts decided he could not go on paid for the large desert and went home bets were paid off and bloss was not seen until breakfast the next morn ing at which time he stopped at two doughnuts an ordinary mor tal portion after eating a hearty lunch at alex's friday noon frosh arnold bloss finished up with four dough nuts for desert the table talk turned to comments about dough nuts and how many somebody that somebody knew could eat in a cer tain time young bloss gulped down the last delicious morsal of the fourth doughnut pushed back his chair and stated that he all alone could consume 20 more in one hour if somebody would pay for them he was immediately taken up twenty brown fluffy cake tori were brought to the table bloss started numerous side bets were made relations club initiates ten math students debate course the following questions will be asked on the peace poll bal lots which will be mailed with return postage to each student on jan 6 the peace poll is being con ducted in 150 american colleges and universities by the literary digest with the cooperation of the association of college edi tors the final results of the balloting will be tabulated ac cording to colleges by the liter ary digest and published during the winter and simultaneously by the brown and white 1 do you believe that the unit ed states can stay out of an other great war • a if the borders of the unit ed states were invaded would you bear arms in de fense of your country b would you bear arms for the united states in the in vasion of the borders of an other country 2 do you believe that a national policy of an american navy and air-force second to none will insure us against the pos sibilities of another great war 3 do you favor government con trol of armament and munition industries 4 do you approve of the con scription of capital in time of war just as has been our his toric procedure in drafting man-power in time of war 5 do you think that in the pur suit of the stabilization of peace it would be a wise pol icy for the united states to enter the league of nations military ball attracts 300 banquet at hotel beth lehem follows formal induction last night in packard laboratory d m petty 09 reminisces fathers of three are present tau beta pi national honorary engineering society formally ini tiated 11 new men last evening the initiation took place at 6:15 p m in packard laboratory and was fol lowed by a banquet at the hotel bethlehem eight seniors and three juniors were admitted the seniors admitted were k.o beatty ch e h k ellis e e w fruehan met e w s gal laway e phys h p george ch e g a hprlacher ch e c keim m e and f t ritter e.e the juniors elected were r m eichner i e d w hoppock i e b s weiss c e david m petty 09 related his experiences as a practicing engin eer he also told of his experiences as an undergraduate mr petty graduated from a southern college then taking two years of work at lehigh he graduated with the class of 1909 larkin gives short talk short talks were also given by prof f v larkin head of the de partments of mechanical and indus trial engineering j l beaver as sociate professor of electrical en gineering and prof benjamin l miller head of the department of geology those who were present included 40 members of the faculty and the fathers of three of the members who were present were louis p struble sr c a hoppock and h k ellis sr all are of the class of 1909 the men who were initiated last evening were pledged at the chapel exercises on friday morning nov 20 at that time prof stanley s seyfert head of the department of electrical engineering outlined the standards by which the members of the society are elected he showed that the candidate must first have a scholastic average of 3.0 or better and have reached junior standing this requirement is lowered to 2.5 for the second semester secondly the candidate must show an inter est in his field arid in activities out side his particular work a mini mum of one extra-curricular activ ity will qualify a man for the sec ond requirement thirdly the stu dent must show a willingness to help others and be willing to do things for the benefit of others diamond is opposed to 30-hour week economics professor speaks to the men's club the 30-hour week proposal of the american federation of labor seems to be based on the theory of raising mass purchasing power and does not seem practical is the opinion of dr h m diamond pro fessor of economics who spoke thursday evening at a meeting of the men's club at the brith shol om community center section 7-a of the nra dealing with labor unions the 30-hour week proposals collective bargaining and a number of other problems that have come up during the new deal were explained by professor dia mond who pointed out that the whole issue is controversial due to the difficulties of the employers and unionists to interpret the meaning of the term collective bargaining it is inevitable that unions will be controlled by government should they continue to enjoy gov ernmental privileges dr diamond claimed benjamin black president of the organization was in charge of the meeting litzenberger asks houses to lock windows doors all fraternity houses are re quested by a w litzenberger superintendent of grounds to lock securely all windows and doors before leaving for the christmas vacation mr litzenberger states that in spite of many warnings in the past various houses always lose valuables to petty thieves who break in over the vacation per iod interfraternity group sets individual assess ment at two dollars feb 2 is date of dance executive committee named to secure first class band the coliseum was voted the place of the forthcoming interfra ternity ball and the individual as sessment was fixed at 2 by the in terfraternity council last night in drown hall the ball will be held from 10 p m to 2 a m feb 2 the executive committee of the council robert b jackson bus 35 millard r furman bus 35 william bamert bus 35 and eu gene h henry bus 35 was com missioned to secure a first-class or chestra not under contract that night if that is impossible two oth er good bands under the assessment voted any orchestra in the country open that night can be secured and a substan tial sum applied toward decora tions the prevalent opinion in sel ecting the coliseum was that it had the only available floor space low rental left money for decoration and that a first class orchestra would condone the atmosphere at the hotel bethlehem rental was too high police protection too obvious and floor space too small the masonic temple and cross-town armories were rejected as being too small the inconvenience of using two floors of drown hall and the armory eliminated these possibili ties dean accepts coliseum the coliseum has been accepted by dean mcconn it has only one entrance and the vicinity will be kept free of town people that night because of the wetness of pre vious interfraternity balls the dean has insisted upon control similar to that of houseparties in which the heads of the houses are responsible for the conduct of their members last year the assessment was lower since no rental was paid on the gym this year in addition to a good band decorations will be more extensive the canned music of amplifiers will be eliminated the date is the first one after re turning to school the second sem ester a varsity wrestling meet with the new york athletic club is sche duled for the same day last year don bestor and jean cardos provided music for 800 couples in the gym dean mcconn called it the wettest ball in eight years and threatened to discon tinue it unless higher standards were maintained the assessment was 1.65 and a 10 profit was made ted black and don redman performed in 1932 will sponsor dance musical clubs to hold concert be fore ball on jan 12 the combined musical clubs of lehigh will present their first home concert and dance this year on jan 12 in drown hall states kent s putnam arts 35 manager of the clubs since the concert is a school function it will be an exclusive date as yet the program is very ten tative alfonso denarvaez bus 38 and gilberto escobedo c e 36 will sing a duet in spanish esco bedo and coleman citret arts 37 will sing several solos a gilbert and sullivan chorus of about ten members is a new part of the club this year it is compos ed of students who have previously taken part in gilbert and sullivan opertettas and will render special selections at the concerts the club dance orchestra will play for the dancing after the pro gram the chaperones for the occa sion will be dr and mrs claude g beardslee and mr and mrs t edgar shields relations club books moved to library browsing room the books of the international relations club which deal with in ternational problems have been placed in the browsing room of the library the books which were formerly kept in the office of prof h gip son are available for reference work only and cannot be taken from the browsing room palmer discusses in fluence of germany in sa a r plebiscite ten new members were admitted to the international relations club at a formal initiation banquet on sunday evening at hotel bethle hem the main speaker of the evening was prof philip m palm er director of the college of arts and science who addressed the club on the saar professor palmer gave a short history of the saar and discussed its present status stressing the type of propaganda used by the french and germans to influence the peo ple in the plebiscite to be held in 1935 by which the saar will either become french or german or re tain its status quo both nations use propaganda professor palmer pointed out the various types of propaganda being employed by both nations of which newspapers are the most widely used means france stresses the fact that the people would have a better economic status if the saar becomes french territory and that they would have a less democratic government under the germans the men taken into the group were melvin s lord eng 38 russell p sullivan arts 38 ja cob blumenthal ch e 37 fred erick e thalman arts 37 dean t stevenson arts 37 harry l snavely arts 36 glenn j gibson c e 35 john e mueller c e 35 charles a mccarty arts 35 and charles g hollister e m 35 bud rader plays for scabbard and blade dance saturday night bud rader's orchestra furnished the music for the annual scabbard and blade military ball on satur day night at the hotel bethlehem about 150 couples attended the ball dancing was held from 10 to 2 in the intermission a sabre drill was given by 12 senior members of scabbard and blade commanded by cadet captain stanley ellison the members of the sabre drill squad were robert buchanan stan ley goodrich philip hooper george grogan bradford smith richard rick morton rae edward chick ering mark hoover charles leu ders howard seeley and ralph brown they practiced under the direction of capt j k rice assis tant professor of military science and tactics colors displayed machine guns the colors of the university of the military depart ment and the local national guard were part of the decorations rob ert buchanan arts 35 was in charge of decorations the ball was very much of a success in every way everyone seemed to enjoy himself stated maj j o green head of the de partment of military science and tactics capt william m tow de clared that it waff the finest mili tary ball which i have attended since coming to lehigh the music spirit and general attitude were bet ter in the receiving line were major and mrs green captain and mrs p l sadler catherine law cadet captain ellison commander and mrs greatham u.s.n ret lieut comm and mrs thompson u.s n dr and mrs natt m emery dean and mrs charles mcconn and dr and mrs claude g beards lee other guests who attended were two r o t c officers from la fayette six or seven reserve offi cers from allentown roger brooke accidentally wounded as gun hits floor roger brooke m e 37 was wounded in his left knee and shoul der when the revolver he dropped was discharged as it struck the floor while brooke was packing to go home to washington d c about 10 a m saturday he picked up his model 1898 revolver and it slipped his friends at the sigma chi house heard the shot and rushed into his room they carried him to an automobile and rushed him to st luke's hospital his condition is reported as much better he ex pects to be out this friday newtonians discuss pro posed math curriculum at home of prof fort the members of the newtonian society honorary freshman mathe matics society discussed a proposed curriculum in mathematics engin eering at their meeting last evening in the home of prof tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics the discussion was introduced by a debate in which five members of the group presented arguments for and against the proposed course e h jackson i e sp'l read a pro posed curriculum which would lead to the degree of bachelor of science in engineering majoring in mathematics leonard cites long n j leonard ch e 37 speak ing for the affirmative showed that the course would be broader than any other engineering curriculum he cited the statement given by j s long at the recent chemistry banquet to the effect that engin eers need more mathematics and said that this course would give it to them he showed that m i t the university of wisconsin and michigan had already adopted such a curriculum t e brookover ch e 37 speaking for the negative showed that lehigh university committees had already turned the proposition down he said that too much math would ruin a good engineer and distinguished between an engineer and a mathematician more accomplishments claimed r a buerschaper eng phys sp'l cited letters which professor fort had received from professional engineers to prove that such a math curriculum was needed the engin eer supervising development at westinghouse said the more mathematics an engineer has the more will be his accomplishments r p wascher ch e 37 showed that the curricula on the campus which graduate the most students are those which do not have the ad vanced math proving that it is not essential to success in engineering he quoted dr frey of the bell telephone laboratories as saying,"l am sure that the demand for math ematicians as such is negligible but the regular engineering curri cula need a fuller foundation in mathematics in leading the general discussion that followed professor fort men tioned that all the expert mathema ticians in this country must be im ported from abroad and that there seems to be no reason why europe should have a monopoly on the supply after a long discussion mrs fort served refreshments to close the meeting publication is suspended with this issue the brown and white suspends publication until tuesday jan 8 registrar curtis com piles trial schedule of finals slated for ten days starting jan 1 7 233 final examinations to be given this semester a tentative draft of the examina tion schedule was released monday by g b curtis registrar exams will start thursday jan 17 and will continue through saturday jan 26 a total of 233 examinations will be given indicates course of two sections or more for which only one exam ination is scheduled indicates a two-section course for each section of which an exam ination is scheduled 8 a m thursday jan 17 bus 29 — money and banking engl 2 — composition engl 3a — types of world literature engl 4 — drama e e 53 — intermediate dynamo lab math ill — differential equations 2 p.m thursday jan 17 bus 45 — statistics chem 144 — radiation methods lab sec.b chem 169 — industrial biochemistry lab math 4 — elementary calculus math s—lntermediate5 — intermediate calculus math 6 — advanced calculus met 135 — electrochem lab sec b mil i military science basic i mil 3 — military science basic 111 8 a m friday jan 18 geol 114 — structural geology phys 4 & s—mechanics,5 — mechanics light and sound phys 6 & 7 — electricity magnetism heat phys 110 — electric laboratory 2 p m friday jan 18 biol i—elementary1 — elementary biology chem 192 — electrochemistry met 21 — engineering met sec b m e 33 — thermodynamics 8 a m saturday jan 19 astr i—descriptive1 — descriptive astronomy biol 104 — vertebrate embryology bus 3 — economics lecture i bus 135 — public utilities c e b—mechanics8 — mechanics of materials c e 125 — reinforced concrete design educ i—lntroduction1 — introduction to teaching e e 144 — electric stations engl 123 — shakespeare pr 93 — french oral composition geol 7 — non-metallic economic geology govt 157 — problems of municipal mgt hist 9 — history of england 1603 to date hist 13 — u s history sec a lat la — pliny met 21 — engineering metallurgy sec a met 131 — metallography mm i—mining1 — mining engineering 2 p m saturday jan 19 biol 54 — bacteriology bus 3 — economics leet ii bus 49 — economic geography bus 113 — advanced accounting chem 41 — quan analysis conf sec a chem 78 — chemical engineering c e 27 — contracts and specifications e e 4 — elem alternating currents e e 113 — electrical design engl 43 — newspaper report & writ f a 3 — history of architecture fr 21 — french classics sec a fr 133 contemp french literature govt 51 — amer govt national sec a hist 25 — european history i e 2—lndustrial2 — industrial management sec a lat lb — vergil m e 22 — heat engines sec a mm 10 — fuel technology sec a phys 160 — mod physical theories span 11 — intermediate spanish sec a 8 a m monday jan 21 biol 7 — elementary biology bus 21 — corporation finance bus 33 — labor problems chem 134 — radiation methods c e 13 — hydraulics engl 10 — public speaking sec b engl 41 — bus correspondence sec a engl 50 — editorial writ and mod probs . fr 31 — 19th century literature geol i—mineralogy1 — mineralogy ier 7 — german of chemistry ger 9 — advanced german hist 27 — european expansion and empire building ital 11 — intermediate italian lat 21 — ancient history met i—gen'l1 — gen'l metallurgy mil 7 — advanced infantry sec a mil 17 — advanced ordnance sec a mm 7 — construction sec a phil 101 — history of philosophy span 21 — novels and plays phys 22 — mechanics and light lect ii 2 p m monday jan 21 bus 57 — marketing chem 6 — advanced chem c e 9 — mechanics of materials sec a c e 128 — sanitary engineering educ 51 — principles of h s teaching e e 112-alternating current machinary engl 10 — public speaking sec a engl 42 — writing for business v geol 3—lntro,3 — intro to geology m e 29 — heat engines ger 3—lntermediate3 — intermediate german sec a math 41 — mathematics of finance m e 112 — advanced machine design met 23 — ferrous metallurgy continued on page four . i two caught cheerful pair borrow sign then test police cots in the stage of beer-drinking that cheers before inebriating two cheer ful lehigh students inadvertently appropriated a bulletin board which if they had realized its significance might have saved them an embar rassing visit to bethlehem's police headquarters not to say an uncom fortable sleep on iron cots difficult explanations to the dean and more difficult ones at home in a short time the bulletin board belonged to the st mark's lutheran church on west fourth street and the letter ing read the wages of sin are costly john bishop m e 37 and wil liam s wheeler bus 36 after leaving a local tavern last friday night decided to use this three by five foot board for a souvenir of the evening it was too big to car ry away and they called a taxi se dative effects were now taking place but the stubborn determina tion of a single thought took pos session of them for when the sign would not fit in the cab they put it on the running board and took it away they were spied by a policeman and soon after they arrived at the alpha kappa pi fraternity house the police car arrived to take them to headquarters to sober up on hard beds president richards is made life member of society group sends hjm a watch charm mcconn long emery and de schweinitz give talks two hundred sixty-five members of the chemical society and chem istry staff were addressed by dean charles m mcconn dr james s long dr natt.m emery and the rev paul de schweinitz of the moravian church at their annual christmas banquet on friday night in the masonic temple president charles richards was made a life member of the society and a watch charm with the insig nia of the society was sent to him long outlines career shorty long former professor of inorganic chemistry and present director of research for the devoe williams paint company prefaced his remarks with a brief history of his own college career he told the assembly how his present position afforded him a comparison between other universities and lehigh that lehigh men are in a very select en vironment and should use its pos sibilities was the gist of one part of his address with the generality in the south they don't learn to think dr long said he was opposed to the trend for liberalization and urg ed students to take as much mathe matics as possible as the means to learn how to think straight i would rather see a man take three years of math than one year of eng lish one year of history and one year of something else dr long expressed his pleasure in reading the brown and white but remarked that the discordant note was struck in the editorials he acknowledged that editorial writing was of benefit to the stu dents writing them but he urged the assembly not to take them too seriously he remarked that they were written by one man who hur riedly scribbled them off emery gives history dr emery related a brief history of the society which whs formed in 1871 as a literary chemical and natural history society be also told of some of the college rules which were then in effect and dared dean mcconn to duplicate them today some of the hilariously greeted re strictions were the rules of no smoking gambling drinking swear ing or noise-making on the cam pus the rule which required writ ten permission from the president before a man could enter a restau rant where liquor was sold a sim ilar requirement for permission to leave bethlehem and the ruling against firearms which mercifully precluded r o t c when put to a vote by the students the rules were decisively voted down dr emery's remarks follow in full the chemical society of lehigh university wos organized in the fall of 1871 the university register for that year states the society meets weekly for literary exercises it was energetic from the start the next year's register says this so ciety was organized in the fall of 1871 as the chemical society but was afterwards expanded as its present title indicates into the chemical and natural history so ciety the reading room is well supplied with scientific periodicals including 18 of the principal eng lish and american journals possess collections the collection of chemical prep arations and of botanical and zoo logical specimens belonging to the society are already important dur ing the past year parties have been sent to texas and brazil to collect specimens for these cabinets the list of lectures of the society for 1873-1874 includes the follow ing titles the giant planets the land of the midnight sun bessemer steel alchemy and chemistry polarization of light curiosities of insect life and the gorilla and other monkeys contrasted with man in those days the faculty con sisted of an even dozten the pres ident who was also professor of history and english literature six professors and five instructors the student attendance when the chemical society was founded was 72 composed of 13 seniors 10 juniors 15 sophomores 34 fresh men the entrance requirements were continued on page four eighteen down six to go bethlehem pa tuesday december 18 1934 literary digest will send students peace poll ballots chemists hold xmas banquet friday night price five cents council votes coliseum site of annual ball brown and white member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first