Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 28

              mas party called up the registrar's office to learn the percentage of catholics at lehigh when told that there were approximately 12 per cent he ordered one-eighth of the dinners that friday night to be fish registration costs 325 registration is a weighty thing to go about in more than one sense of the word it was discovered that over 36 pounds of registration tick ets were used and that the surpris ing total of 40 pounds of class cards were consumed incidently the university paid over 75 for all the printed material which was used add to this the 250 spent in wages for the checkers and one easily sees where registration fees go many a student received a none too welcome surprise in the form of a mimeographed sheet informing continued on page four blake society meets tonight the business of the registration again brought forth such incidents as would normally appear in the burr for instance there is the case of the senior who in the space marked religious preference filled in holy roller the irresponsi bility of the man was shown how ever when on checking up it was discovered that he started out his freshman year as a presbyterian and since that time has passed through the stages of buddhism mohammedanism and confucian ism it was not until his junior year that he finally did return to the oc cidental variety of religions used data for banquet the proof of the value of these references comes from none other than the sage of the chem depart ment a.a diefenderfer who at the time of the chemical society christ in correction of a misleading statement concerning employ ment of graduates of 33 and 34 made in the tuesday issue the brown and white regrets that an incorrect interpretation was made of the data appearing in john a brodhead's article le high alumni and the job mar ket in the january alumni bul letin in comparing the percentage employment of arts graduates with that of businessmen and engineers no account was taken of the fact that about 50 per cent of the arts graduates in 33 and 34 entered professional and graduate schools the data referred to was com piled by the placement service under mr brodhead's direction from questionnaires sent to graduates of 33 and 34 an aver age of about 74 per cent of these was returned coaches debate affirmative group meets opponents at radio station wcb a audi ence to be judges society meets st joseph's tonight in packard laboratory lehigh's debating team arguing the negative side of the question resolved that the state of penn sylvania should adopt a system of socialized medicine was defeated last night by the muhlenberg team at a meet at muhlenberg college the affirmative team also debated muhlenberg's team over radio sta tion wcba in allentown the de may present yellow jacket seniors vote for banquet theodore g ehrsam arts men and engineers high ; business men low 33 colleges in cluded in check up questionnaires employed in securing information lehigh graduates generally are faring better than those of most other colleges and universities in the struggle of man vs employment recently announced john a brod head director of the placement ser vice data received from a study made a year ago by a large industrial concern of 1931 and 1932 graduates from 33 eastern colleges and univer sities reveals that in the com bined engineering curricula and in the arts curriculum lehigh's per centage of men in jobs was consid erably higher than that of respec tive totals in each class in bus iness we were a little below the to tal group percentage bureau aids graduates since august 1932 when the placement office was opened 153 men of those registered have se cured jobs 66 of them through their own initiative this number repre sents a total of 44 per cent of those graduates registered the figures quoted thus far are for the classes up to and including 1932 mr brodhead's office including help fram several serb student workers has compiled more com plete data for the classes of 33 and 34 questionnaires were distributed among the alumni in these classes and from them were prepared a number of large charts one for each of the engineering curricula and one for each college of the university each graduate is followed close ly by the director by means of these charts during the important first few years after graduation ex plains mr brodhead even though but 66 per cent of the 1933 class and 82 per cent of the 1934 class re turned questionnaires enough in formation was gathered to present a fair crass section of the classes data received from various sources including the returned ques tionnaires shows that five months continued on page four philadelphia alumni hold lehigh night matmen quartet to entertain escobedo to sing lehigh night at the meeting of the men's club of the memorial church at st paul's episcopal and the presbyterian church of over brook philadelphia on monday feb 25 will include entertainment by the university glee club quartet and soloists together with several exhibition wrestling matches it is through the influence of sev eral prominent lehigh alumni in the congregations that the clubs are sponsoring a lehigh night clif ford f lincoln 11 and john h opdyke 23 are in charge of ar rangements made through john w maxwell alumni office and kent s putnam arts 35 president-manag er of the combined musical clubs gilberto escobedo and m de narvaez who sang spanish songs at the recent home concert of the glee club will repeat them and the quaret will sing three numbers car stens y haas eng 38 is accom panist billy sheridan varsity wrestling coach plans to bring four men from the team to give exhibition bouts the names of those to participate will be announced later a general invitation has been ex tended to all members of the le high club of philadelphia to attend andrew e buchanan alumni sec retary and mr maxwell will also make the trip the entire group from the university will have din ner as guests of the clubs lehigh invited to send delegates to moravian lehigh lafayette and six other colleges are invited to send repre sentatives to moravian fem-sem on feb 11 for the second seminar of the student christian movement dean thomas wesley graham of the graduate school of theology at oberlin college will speak on the world mission of christian ity he is a well known and force ful speaker often heard by student groups mustard and cheese will meet sunday to decide on spring production the mustard and cheese club at its meeting yesterday afternoon de cided to produce only one play this spring and that in conjunction with the dramatic workshop the play suggested by a a rights direc tor is yellow jack the story of yellow fever the club will meet again on sun day evening feb 10 at 7 o'clock in the mustard and cheese room in drown hall to hear the play and to make the final decision so that try outs may begin immediately at the meeting yesterday direc tor rights pointed out to the club the necessity of better organization for the spring show than was evi denced in journey's end and outward bound to stimulate this interest and make the various technical departments more coher ent president robert farnham jr announced that hereafter the club will meet every other week on wed nesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in drown hall at these meetings the project of writing a travesty on lehigh's life and history will be taken up several men in the dramatic work shop are now composing scenes which will be discussed at these meetings although the original plans were to produce the travesty this sem ester it was considered best by the club to spend the entire semester at composition to improve its quality music to be composed by members of the musical clubs will also be in cluded plansreorganisation of handbook staff pi delta epsilon approves of extra review issue a plan for the reorganization of the freshman handbook staff to include a managing editor was drawn up by pi delta epsilon hon orary journalism fraternity at its meeting wednesday in drown hall the plan which is designed to raise the quality of the editorial matter in the handbook will be sub mitted to the lehigh union which has jurisdiction over that publica tion the society voted its approval of the lehigh review's petition to publish monthly for the remainder of the semester so as to be able to take over the national advertising of the suspended burr dr claude g beardslee secre tary of the lehigh union discussed the problem of the freshman hand book with the society dean finds copy for june in january issue unsuitable and unsatis tory to publish review granted permission to produce extra number the burr campus humor maga zine suspended last monday was ordered to close its accounts sub mit its books for audit by march 1 and refund 65 cents of the subscrip tion price to its paid up subscribers by the board of publications at a meeting yesterday afternoon in the office of dean c m mcconn this action was taken after dean mcconn had announced that acting in his capacity as dean he had ex amined a large part of the copy for the june in january number which was to have been printed in time for the interfraternity ball and had found it unsuitable and unsatis factory it had been hoped by mem bers of the burr board that this is sue could be published the review now a literary quar terly was given permission to pub lish one extra issue this semester this practically makes the review a monthly magazine walter deemer editor of the publication who was present at the meeting indicated that the review would add a comic de partment after he had been assured that no ruling had ever been made probihiting the review from pub lishing humorous material audit accepted the audit of the books of the brown and white for its fiscal year was accepted and a budget for the coming year based on the audit re port was approved the audit had been made by roy b cowin pro fessor of accounting fairness both to the members of the burr staff and to those who had transacted any business with it was the policy adopted yesterday by the board of publications when it met to liquidate the financial affairs of the burr this problem had been referred to the board monday by the faculty when it suspended the burr until further notice and at least until the end of the semester for overstepping the limits of de cency in the december keep sex out of it issue and because of the inability of the present board to maintain the burr on a sufficiently high standard burr to make refund in line with its policy of fairness the board ordered the burr to re fund 65 cents to every paid up sub scriber in place of the six issues which they would otherwise have received since most of the sub scribers are students it is most likely that the refund will be made in cash at some later date at either the office of the lehigh union or the dean the printing bill for the sup pressed january issue will be paid by the board out of its sinking fund it was felt that it would be unfair to penalize the officers of the pub lication financially as they had re ceived no warning before copy had been sent to the printers seven attend meet sutherland tells society of con crete research seven members of the engineer ing department attended a recent meeting of the american society of civil engineers held in new york city they are prof hale suther land head of the department of civ il engineering ingle lyse research associate professor of engineering materials eugene h uhler harry g payrow cyril d jensen assis tant professors of civil engineering douglas m stewart and norman g schreiner research fellows in civil engineering as chairman of the structural di vision of the commission on mason ry and reinforced concrete profes sor sutherland presented the prog ress report the commission is working on continuous slabs sup ported on four sides reinforced concrete columns stresses dut to wind loads designs of rigid corners in reinforced concrete and the in fluence on the structural design of volume changes and plastic flow of concrete students want united states to avoid war current literary digest tabulates semi final returns of lehigh bal lots for peace poll 92 per cent would defend country in case of invasion over three-fifths of lehigh stu dents think the united states can stay out of war according to the semi-final returns of the literary digest college peace poll an nounced in this week's issue of the magazine of the 834 lehigh ballots tabulat ed so far 763 or nearly 92 per cent state that the voters would defend the united states in case of an in vasion by some foreign power over 82 per cent would bear arms in the american invasion of a for eign nation all voting except that on the united states entry into the league of nations of which 65 per cent of lehigh men disapprove corres ponds closely with the nation wide decisions the latter group is al most evenly divided on the league question with a very slight major ity one-half per cent in favor of joining balloting on the question of main taining the largest navy and air force in the united states is close with the negatives leading by 8 per cent three-fourths of lehigh men favor both government control of munitions and universal conscrip tion in time of war the editors of the literary di gest are pleased with the large re turns made thus far more than 91,000 students out of the 300,000 originally solicited have already re turned their ballots says the maga zine green discusses causes of war human instinct is to fight to preserve interests maj james o green professor of military science and tactics was the speaker at a meeting of scab bard and blade honorary military society last night in the armory major green's subject was the cause of the war the inability of the human mind to determine accurately and invar iably that which is right and that which is wrong that which is fact and that which is not fact that which is best and that which is not best is the basic cause of the war major green stated he said that there were two classifications of contributing causes in the first group he included passion greed dishonesty and honest error in the second classification were politicl economic social and primitive causes the human instinct is to fight by every conceivable means rather than surrender an interest which justice error passion greed self preservation or dishonesty leads us to believe is vital the major added a business meeting preceeded major green's address an attempt is being made to bring lieut john lee of philadelphia as speaker to the next meeting cision for this debate will be de cided by the radio audience who will send their decision to harry k el lis e e manager and president who acted as chairman for the ra dio debate howard c shimer arts special and peter j potochrtey arts 37 made up the affirmative team and douglas w edwards arts 38 and warren t jablow ch e 38 de bated the negative side of the ques tion lehigh's negative team debated at muhlenberg against the affirma tive team made up of james coyne and john brokhoff luther ziegler from muhlenberg presided at the meet rev raymond heckman mr frederick meckley and mr wood row de lawter acted as the judges both debates were the american style of debating each side gave two twelve minute constructive speeches on the radio one rebuttal speech was given and at muhlen berg there were given two five min ute rebuttal speeches from both sides team debates tonight tonight in room 466 packard laboratory lehigh's negative team will meet st joseph's from phila delphia debating the question re solved that the nations should agree to prevent the international ship ment of arms and munitions de bating for lehigh will be walter f guyer ch e 36 and thomas butterfield arts 35 joseph c young 35 and john f carson 35 will take the affirmative for saint joseph's the judges for this debate will be e e meyers and david randall coach of liberty high school de bate team the third vote will be from the audience wright to lecture on horace's odes friends school glee club to give selections prof h w wright head of the department of latin will give a lec ture on horace one roman who never grows old at a presenta tion of horace's lovers quarrel ode which will be a feature pro gram to be presented jointly by the lehigh university club of philadel phia and the germantown friends school at germantown on monday evening feb 18 characters who will be heard are horace taken by john cornelius arts 35 and lydia taken by jud son smull jr arts 36 costumes and make-ups will be in charge of roy travis business manager of the mustard and cheese club sleigh ride will discuss philosophy of joseph conrad at session in packard lab the philosophy of joseph con rad will be the subject for discus sion when dr w w bancroft in structor in philosophy at ursinus college addresses the robert w blake society this evening at 8 oclock in room 201-251 packard laboratory the meeting however will be called to order at 7:30 p m so that the members maw decide whether or not they will take part in open house again this year last year the society presented a program consisting of contrasts typical of this era of extreme specializa tion prof percy hughes head of the department of philosophy has sug gested that members of the society read one or two of conrad's works so that they may be better pre pared to appreciate doctor ban croft's lecture this evening some of these works are lord jim typhoon the nigger of the narcissus and victory dr bancroft is attempting a phase of philosophic study that is usually pursued by students of lit erature sculptures by finta in library exhibit drawings and woodcuts also being displayed the drawings woodcuts and sculpture of alexander finta are now on exhibition in the library be tween 3 and 5 p m and will remain until the end of february the majority of the drawings are illustrations from the artist's two recently completed books herd boy of hungary and chico both stories are prize winners the latter being voted the best short story for children of 1934 alexander finta is noted for his versatility as an artist and is well known as an author painter and sculptor of hungarian birth he studied for two years in paris un der the master craftsman rodin and was his assistant for a number of years of particular interest are two woodcarvings done by mr finta in hellertown last summer which were carved from stumps taken from a nearby farm one is titled spirit of the air the other faun and driad the largest figure is the statue of a woman reading a bible which mr finta calls the spirit of bethlehem and for which he used a local woman as a model among numerous other pieces in the collection are small models of large bronzes which the artist has erected for two governments one a hungarian war monument stands 42 feet in height the other pur chased by brazil for rio de janiero is 37 feet in height and typifies strength brown and white urges new men to report sunday preston believes class has enough funds date is not decided the senior class will hold a ban quet sometime before graduation it was decided wednesday noon at a meeting in packard laboratory financial backing for the banquet will be supplied by the class treas ury with 250 available and with 254 members in the class paul preston president said he believed that a good banquet could be ar ranged the date and place of the ban quet have not yet been arranged but a suggestion that it be held on class day in june was favorably re ceived by the class last year the senior class turned its money over to the epitome so that individual assessments would be reduced it was believed that the class this year would follow the same procedure until the suggestion for a banquet came up and was al most unanimously received the banquet said preston will provide a good opportunity for the class to get together for a last time the committee has not yet been ap pointed but announcement will be made as soon as possible tau beta pi scans student complaints discuss college engineering magazine for lehigh members of tau beta pi met last evening in the tau beta pi room in the packard laboratory to con tinue their discussion of the advisa bility of initiating some plan by which lehigh students would be able to present their views on in struction methods and their instruc tors to the faculty tau beta pi has been deliberating this question since the plan was first advocated several months ago at their meeting last evening the society took definite steps toward the formation of some body to re ceive such complaints by appointing a committee to look further into the possibilities and to act for the fraternity the committee consists of the following l.p struble pres ident of tau beta pi c e col lander c e and arts 35 p f preston ch e 35 b s weiss c e 36 a w luce associate professor of machine design and b l miller head of the department of geology the fraternity took no definite stand on the question nor has it formulated any plan which it in tends to suggest it has been left to the committee named above to act for the fraternity on these mat ters and to present their findings to the other members at an early meeting the question of the possibility of a student engineering magazine at lehigh was discussed it was point ed out that many engineering col leges publish their own technical student magazines the lowa state engineer is a well known magazine of this class smull speaks to moravians judson gray smull instructor in chemistry delivered a lecture re cently at a meeting of the bethle hem south side moravian men's league pi lambda phi's ride to school on sleigh three pi lambda phi's rode or better attempted to ride to school yesterday in a sleigh drawn by a brown horse a costly substitute for the freshmen the horse and sleigh were rented from papp's riding academy every thing progressed smoothly until the driver attempted to reach the south side of the river without crossing the bridge undaunted the men turned the sleigh and set out for le high via the hill to hill bridge the sleigh stopped abruptly at the sec ond avenue ramp investigation showed that the snow free street was not the proper place for a sleigh now never let it be said that any member of pi lambda phi is not a lover of dumb animals whether a horse or a freshman these hu mane men thought so much of the horse that they pulled the animal across the bridge any student wishing to join the news staff of the brown and white should report at 7:30 p.m sunday in room b-l christmas saucon hall arrangements can also be made at the office of the faculty advisers prof dale h gram ley and kenneth k kost all students are eligible for staff membership bethlehem pa friday february 8 iss survey on registration reveals polytheist now holy roller vol xlii no 28 arts graduate employment is compared incorrectly price five cents survey shows high standing of graduates board orders burr to make 65 cent refund negative team loses debate to muhlenberg the lehigh university brown and white coming events friday feb 8 7:30 p m robert w blake so ciety meeting rooms 201-251 packard laboratory 7:30 p m varsity swimming meet lehigh vs virginia lehigh pool 8 p m debate lehigh vs st jos eph's room 466 packard labora tory saturday feb 9 7:30 p m varsity basketball le high vs p m c taylor gymna sium monday feb 11 6 p m meeting of cosmos club faculty club room drown hall 7.30 p m interfraternity council meeting arcadia room drown hall member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehighnews first