Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 30

              frosh union plans smoker bradley stoughton why bradley stoughton first — because he is the most talked about man on the lehigh campus second — because he proved his true crys tal structure as a regular lehigh man and a very gracious one too by uncloaking proverbial pedagogic aloofness in a letter of extreme good nature to the brown and white lehigh showed a strong pessi mism on the possibility of the country's staying out of a future war more than most colleges and universities but in the event of such a conflict lehigh students would conform to popular concep tions of patriotism by being inor dinately willing to fight if this country were invaded but unwill ing to bear arms if the united states were the invader lehigh believes firmly in univer sal conscription of capital and labor in wartime governmental control of arms and munitions but not an air force and navy second to none as a means of insurance against war oppose league the most strongly contested question was the one on whether the united states should enter the league of nations in which the op ponents won out by a one per cent majority lehigh students respond ed in the negative to this question by a vote of 1.9 to 1 against en trance in the national poll 55 col leges voted for entrance and 63 against in comment the literary digest states in general those colleges which have well establish ed reputations for liberal educa tional policies are the colleges in which a majority of undergraduates voted in favor of entry into the league of nations all the wo men's colleges voted in favor of en try into the league all the cath olic colleges which voted opposed entry the 118 colleges balloted 4.6 to 1 in favor of bearing arms against a foreign invader lehigh cast their votes in the proportion of 11 to 1 in favor of fighting vote against invasion lehigh students voted 4.6 ballots against engaging in a war in which the united states would be the in vader to every one in favor of fight ing the average of the other col leges shows an identical proportion not one of the colleges participat ing in the poll indicated a student willingness to fight an aggressive war lehigh undergraduates in the ra tio of 1.6 to 1 believe that the united states can keep out of a fu ture war decidedly pessimistic in view of 2.2 to 1 ballots of the other continued on page four rifle team gains victory over p.m.c scores 1,862 points to oppon ents 1,690 at armory meet the veteran lehigh rifle team opened its season last saturday by defeating the pennsylvania mili tary college rifle team 1,862 to 1,690 in a match on the armory rifle range by lindenhayn when he scored over 908 in ihe four qfi£&sflr 3 6a$pr nigher scores have been fired in pos both teams were composed of eight men the scores of the five highest men counting the lehigh team is preparing for its major shoulder-to-shoulder matches with the service academies in the near future lehigh prone sit kneel stand t'tl brodhead going to convention john a brodhead director of the placement service leaves tomor row for atlantic city n j to at tend the convention of the associa tion of college personnel and placement officers the convention is meeting from wednesday until saturday confidence appearance of prime importance in good speech says al umnus at chem meeting stresses strong opening and emphatic close the importance of confidence and personal appearance were stressed by joseph gray jackson ch e 26 in his talk on quantitative analy sis of speech before the chemical society last evening in packard au ditorium mr jackson is a member of tau beta pi and phi beta kappa and was a student at lehigh after leav ing here he attended the university of pennsylvania law school from which he received an l.l.b degree in 1928 while at the university of pennsylvania he was on the edi torial staff of the student law mag azine he was active in extra curri cular activities at lehigh according to dr v s babisinian who intro duced him after leaving the uni versity of pennsylvania he studied public speaking and then became as sociated with the firm of william steel jackson and son patent law yers in philadelphia of which firm he is now a member mr jackson also pointed out the importance of such things as the ability to deliver an extemporaneous speech the application of applied psychology the necessity of voice control memory training and the desirability of using the yes ap proach in all public speaking he developed all these points quite ful ly and even gave examples of the necessity of correct dress by show ing the effect of various neckties on the attitude of the audience gives rules for success the order of importance of a speech according to mr jackson is opening ending and then the body in parting mr jackson presented four rules which he believes infal lible for success in public speaking they were always speak when giv en the opportunity never apologize to an audience prepare the speech but never memorize it and stop be fore the audiance wants you to a picture of the society being addressed by mr jackson was tak en by john w maxwell 26 assis tant editor of the alumni bulletin following the address dr billinger of the chemistry department solic ited the aid of the students in the preparation and presenting of the open house displays refreshments were served to members of the societjr in the chem istry laboratory following the meet ing seniors interviewed by socony oil co manager is optimistic about college employment fifty-five seniors were interview ed by p w boynton employment manager of the socony vacuum oil company new york city tues day in the placement bureau office both mr boynton and the gen eral electric company's personnel representative who was here two weeks ago were optimistic about the employment situation for col lege graduates this spring many of the men with whom mr boynton spoke were interested in a marketing career for domestic ser vice sponsored by the socony com pany john a brodhead director of placement spoke to seniors in the college of business administration tuesday reviewing the job outlook and explaining their individual re sponsibility and that of the place ment bureau in securing employ ment he gave a similar talk to the senior civil engineers this morn ing tanning laboratory rewired because of the newly installed battery of soxhet extractors the tanning laboratory in the chemistry building had to be rewired to make possible quicker research work on leather and silk the old 110-volt line could not carry the required additional load of 100 amperes at 200 volts the old line will be used to run six tanning drums which the chemistry department is going to install registrar says four new men enter in february ; figures show slight gain over last year arts college shows gain business and engineers lose the enrollment at lehigh this semester totals five more than it did last february according to the figures released on wednesday by registrar george b curtis four new men who were not here in september are registered the en rollment is now 1,247 last feb ruary 1,242 men registered of the 1,323 undergraduates reg istered for the first semester of this scholastic year 76 men did not re turn this semester the number of men who returned for the second semester is 1,243 as compared with 1,218 last year 1,243 in 1933 1,305 in 1932 and 1,409 in 1931 the lowest enrollment in recent years was 979 in 1922 since then there has been a steady increase un til 1930 when 1,529 students reg istered since 1930 there has been a decrease arts college shows gain the registration in the college of arts and sciences this semester showed an increase of twelve over the first semester the enrollment is now 244 four seniors two sopho mores and thirteen freshmen en tered while seven juniors left the figures for the college of business administration revealed a decrease of one student the loss of six seniors five juniors and one sophomore was balanced by the ad dition of 11 freshmen two hundred and seventy-two students are now taking the business curriculum the heaviest losses were in the engineering departments where 87 students were lost eight hundred and eighteen registered as engineers in september but only 731 regist ered in february the enrollment in the various departments is as fol lows freshman engineers 248 a loss of 27 chemical engineers 123 a loss of 16 industrials 77 a loss of 16 mechanicals 66 a loss of 11 electricals 67 a loss of 1 civils 47 a loss of 12 metallurgists 39 a gain of one chemistry 20 a loss of 5 mining engineering 26 a gain of 3 physics 15 a loss of 4 san itary engineers 3 a gain of 1 senior class smaller the senior class now numbers 242 a decrease of 6 per cent since september fifty-two of them are arts men 57 business men and 133 engineers there are now 249 juniors 4 1-2 per cent less than last term forty continued on page four brown and white appoints eleven new board members eleven new members were added to the board of the brown and white by the executive council at their meeting tuesday evening all men taking the courses in brown and white for the third semester are eligible for board membership the board now contains 42 men thirty-one men were re-elected and the following eleven new mem bers were chosen donald t coop er e e 36 donald j hunt bus 36 palmer h langdon arts 36 john r mccomb arts 35 ben k daubenspeck ch e 37 bernard n gates arts 35 george a bar ker chem 37 w brice kimball bus 37 louis weinstock bus 36 leonard silverberg bus 36 john drury bus 37 spelling errors business men commit bon ers in final lehigh business men however adept they may be at balancing a budget floating an issue or calling in a mortgage have their troubles when it comes to spelling that first c in interest for example has a habit of eluding the business man's pen reveals dr donald l kemmerer instructor in economics dr kemmerer finds the french idiom laissez-faire spelled at least a dozen different ways lazy-fair lacy-faire lese-fair were some of them the proper name malthus ap pears as maltheus malthu maltu and maltehers among a number of variations thirty-three undergradu ates make survey on system directed by psychology department ford says some comments are constructive in character students criticisms compiled in the survey of lehigh educational methods under the direction of dr adelbert ford head of the depart ment of psychology have been re ferred to the faculty of the 100 students selected to criticize the methods only about 33 appeared these men all above the median in scholarship were select ed at random from the last half of the student directory the following are some points which they were asked to criticize 1 methods of marking students work grades etc 2 types of ex aminations 3 classroom and lab oratory procedures 4 prerequisites and curricular requirements 5 competence of instruction although professor ford thought that some of the opinions were without educational foundation or justification he felt that many of the criticisms were very construc tive in character many of the fac ulty commented favorably on the value of the criticisms points called worthy the following five points were deemed worthy of consideration by the faculty 1 the need of more careful planning in work layout and subject matter especially in the lab oratories 2 the equating of grad ing standards among the several men collaborating in the presenta tion of large courses 3 a sharper examination of the needs for prere quisites 4 collaboration between instructors in order to eliminate needless overlap in subject matter 5 a need for a much sharper analy sis of the reasons why students fail and the consideration of steps for correcting undesirable condi tions the last three points are already under consideration by general and special committees of the faculty and the first two will be presented shortly states professor ford although many remarks were directed against uninteresting class es and lectures professor ford says that interest is most generally a matter of personal differences even among students few derogatory remarks there were many more voluntary citations of faculty personalities and their geniality and sympathetic treatment of student trouble than there were derogatory citations in commenting on the latter situation professor ford points out that when we meet these occasional dis agreeable personalities we must en deavor to get along with them as best we can especially when they represent men of high scholastic at tainment in conclusion professor ford states that the faculty committee wishes to thank the students who participated and for the several very constructive points raised points which every faculty man should face with respect to his own methods of teaching the specific criticisms are being sent to each member of the faculty educational club discusses poll of 100 up per classmen the faculty educational club on monday discussed the results of the poll conducted among upperclass men to elicit criticisms on lehigh's educational policy dr adelbert ford head of the department of psychology who conducted the poll presented the results and led the discussion the questionnaire which was giv en to 100 upper classmen selected at random from the higher 50 per cent in scholarship asked for sug gestions and criticisms on such top ics as laboratory procedure class procedure methods of teaching homework quizzes examinations and other topics directly connected with school life physics meeting postponed the physics club will not hold a meeting this month the february meeting originally scheduled for last night was postponed when a speaker could not be obtained an nounced william s gallaway 35 president committee investigates possible class dance and banquet in spring a smoker will be sponsored by the freshman union within the next two weeks it was decided at a meeting of the union wednesday evening in drown hall plans for a spring formal and banquet were also discussed randy s young eng 38 pres ident of the union appointed a committee of seven and karl r schultze eng 38 chairman to ar range for the smoker an effort to have alonzo stagg grand old man of football as speaker is being made schultze's helpers are norman c odell matthew r collins luke o travis charles f zell alan d rosenbloom and william h gill all eng 38 to investigate orchestras another committee is investigat ing orchestras places and dates for the proposed dance john w welk er robert w kirkpatrick richard h greenwell and carstens y haas all eng 38 compose this committee if sufficient interest can be aroused in the dance and enough profit realized from it the union may hold a freshman class banquet late in spring no definite action was taken on the dance or banquet since the cab inet feels that the entire class must support both affairs as well as the smoker before money will be spent on either president young and the com mittee on the dance will present plans for the dance to the class at the smoker young urges all fresh men to attend the smoker for with out the cooperation of the entire class it will be impossible to hold any successful social affairs he says miller to address mining engineers processing of limestone to be subject of talk dr benjamin l miller head of the department of geology will ad dress two classes of the anjpkßit institute of mining and metallurr gical engineers on monday and tuesday in new york c iw-,t^t<t a pamphlet entitled hrtotation processing of limestone prepared by dr miller will be t * l it i jtg'f of his address on both otrastonsr charles h breerwood vice pres ident and general manager of the valley forge cement company west conshohocken is the co-auth or of this report aside from being a study of the processing of limestone the report discusses the advantages and dis advantages of the process and con cludes that the advantages are su perior the report suggests that each concern can best evaluate its own debits and credits the address on monday will be to the milling and concentration class while the audience on the fol lowing day will be the non-metal lic minerals group states dr mil ler faculty wives are elected mrs robert m smith wife of professor smith head of the de partment of english and mrs stanley s seyfert wife of profes sor seyfert head of the department of electrical engineering were re cently elected to the positions of first vice president and second vice president respectively of the local y w c a board of directors more than half of hous es will not divulge ar rangements hell week in progress initiates announced formal initiation dates given of the 29 fraternities connected with lehigh 13 have completed or are now completing the initiation of their neophytes the other 16 re fuse to give final plans the reports that have been an nounced to date are as follows chi phi fraternity last monday night initiated the following g hewlett eng 38 j m reed eng 38 j e long eng 38 f a lucard eng 38 r f conrad eng 38 m s lord eng 38 beta kappa last sunday initiated vincent f acri eng 38 murray c udy eng 38 william j wis wesser ch e 36 peter j potoch ney arts 37 delta upsilon to initiate tomorrow afternoon delta up silon will initiate w s nutt c e 36 d r berg eng 38 r b cluley eng 38 w l houck bus 38 h m wilson arts 38 s rand bus 38 j p frey eng 38 g.w getzoff bus 38 j.t lodge eng 38 phi gamma delta initiated at a banquet sunday the following men h hutchinson i e 37 f leland eng 38 f snyder bus 38 c kohl eng 38 f stanley bus 38 c leland arts 38 last saturday night tau delta phi initiated edward m pollack eng 38 harold katz eng 38 stanley p eysmann bus 38 alpha kappa pi initiated at the sun inn j o bishop m e 37 w t dyre eng 38 w.s wheel er bus 36 h g naisby eng 38 m p smith eng 38 h j tella pauch arts 37 j w welker eng 38 h c young eng 38 d s blankship a m jhan pi lambda phi initiates pi lambda phi initiated sunday night the following theodore r rosenberg eng 38 myron stern gold bus 38 lee socks bus 38 irwin harvey eng 38 aaron goldstein eng 38 william gott lieb bus 38 w bunin eng 38 lambda chi alpha will initiate on march 3 the following robert bard arts 38 martin baumann arts 38 robert weaver bus 38 robert williamson bus 38 wil liam morgan eng 38 thomas graham bus 38 russell cramer eng 38 william zillger eng.'3b alpha tau omega initiated har ry snavely arts 36 last tuesday and will initiate on march 2 harry milbank eng 38 charles gaet jens eng 38 john h barry bus 38 layman j.craig bus 39 wil liam klingensmith bus 38 phi delta theta initiated last saturday the following r hen continued on page pour no decision given in mt mercy debate vote withheld because of 3k^r small audience lehigh's debating team met the tea-ai of mt mercy girl's college of ißpflfsburgh last night in packard laboratory the decision which was to have been made by the audience was not given due to the few num ber of person who attended the question debated was resolved that the nations should agree to prevent the international shipment of arms and munitions lehigh upheld the negative side and was represented by walter guyer ch e 36 and thomas but terfield arts 35 mt mercy on the affirmative was spoken for by miss mary ursula o'hara 36 and miss mary katherine helbing 37 this evening lehigh will meet seth low of brooklyn on the same topic but will uphold the affirma tive side the debate will be held at 8 p m in room 466 of packard laboratory there will be no deci sion given prof j b reynolds to lecture prof joseph b reynolds profes sor of mathematics and w f guy er ch e 36 will lecture on math ematics and engineering at a meet ing of pi mv epsilon honorary mathematics society at 7:30 p m feb 20 in room 208 packard laboratory kirk's stories are published metallurgists collect works of alumnus engineer and author the department of metallurgical engineering has recently collected and published a group of stories en titled valley tech and stories of steel ralph g kirk met e os is the author of the various stories appearing in the book mr kirk better known as shine kirk is a contractor in harrisburg according to allison butts associate profes sor of metallurgy shine kirk's stories have ap peared in the saturday evening post colliers and several other magazines the stories selected by the metal lurgical department are of primary interest to anyone that has ever at tended lehigh and more especially to any inhabitants of the valley 30 odd years ago says professor butts most of the tales concern old le high students and old time workers at the bethlehem steel company the author has visited bethlehem many times since his college days and has never lost contact with the doings and the environment at le high many lehigh students of today would probably enjoy this collec tion of stories says professor butts as they pertain to persons and places that still symbolize col lege life i library gets books history of lehigh included in list of gifts several new volumes have been presented to the library announces h s leach librarian chas f zimmele 87 presented a group of about ten books among which are gordon's america published in three volumes in 1789 a limited edition of gulliver's trav els and the history of lehigh university written by catherine drinker bo wen the daughter of the former president of lehigh dr drinker dr drinker himself has given the library a copy of the novel captain dionysios which his sister c a janvier wrote two of the others are a copy of the limited edition of harry wearne a beautifully illustrated collection of wallpaper designs and a small pamphlet presented by asa e phillips 90 giving a biograph ical account of his progenitor abel de boyer author of many books including the first french-english dictionary and the life of queen anne bethlehem pa friday february 15 1935 best-dressed man vol xlii no 30 lehigh opposes entrance to league in peace poll price five cents 1,247 students are enrolled this semester jackson calls for bearing i n elocution faculty hears group opinion on education 13 fraternities complete plans for initiations students in digest survey pessimistic on possibilities of country to avoid future war lehigh voted decidedly against the entrance of the united states into the league of nations as is indicated in the final re turns of the literary digest peace poll to which the university contributed 902 ballots the lehigh university brown and white final results of peace poll b and w staff photo yes no dan u s stay out of war 550 fight if u s invaded 822 fight if u s invader 160 352 75 738 largest navy and air force 379 control munitions 698 522 202 universal conscription 650 251 league of nations 315 585 lmdenhayn r 96 97 96 93 sb2 woodring w b spengler e w hooper p l warmkessel c.a 100 96 91 89 376 97 98 96 80 371 97 95 94 84 370 100 97 86 80 363 490 483 463 426 1862 p m c prone sit kneel stand t'tl scarlett l c 98 96 86 73 358 beckett c 98 96 76 72 342 metzger h 97 86 90 69 342 metzger p turner w 93 98 81 60 382 96 88 67 70 321 482 464 400 344 1690 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first