Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 35

              district attorney to tell group of hauptmann case john h diefenderfer 14 district attorney of lehigh county will ex plain points of interest in the recent hauptmann trial in a discussion on criminal law before the pre-legal society at 8 p m wednesday in room 466 packard laboratory mr diefenderfer graduated from the university of pennsylvania law school in 1921 and was assistant district attorney here for four years before becoming district attorney he will present the technical side of the evidence of the proposition in the hauptmann trial especially to interest engineers and business men forty give program friday at little neck l i forty members of the combined musical clubs gave a concert fri day night at little neck l 1 un der the auspices of the women's auxiliary of the community church the concert was under the direction of t edgar shields carstens y haas was the accompanist after the concert the club or chestra furnished the music for a dance the members of the club who had been the guests of the aux iliary at the member's homes made the trip home by bus the next concert will be held saturday april 6 in drown hall navy defeated by rifle team two admitted to blake club ray noble will sponsor essay contest play's 32 characters are all male with excep tion of jeanette cleave land as miss blake seventy men try for parts rights pleased with turnout the names of the tentative cast for yellow jack historical play to be presented by mustard and cheese were released yesterday by albert a rights instructor in eng lish and director of the dramatic so ciety the cast all male with one excep tion that taken by jeanette cleave land numbers 32 and was selected from nearly 70 applicants at the tryouts monday and thursday of last week both president farnham and myself were pleased with the turnout of students says mr rights the response was very gratifying although the cast as now chosen is not likely to be much altered fi nal decisions are yet to be made in some cases any men interested are urged to come out for the rehearsal at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night in drown hall and to the two follow ing rehearsals adds mr rights cornelius to meet staff john deß cornelius 35 stage manager will meet with his staff to morrow evening in drown hall the scenery for this sidney howard paul dekruif play is of an unusual nature the tentative cast is as follows stacpoole j s williamson official of kenya colony walker major in the r a f j b tupper george mullins e w coulton ; harkness n j leonard ; kraemer c m white also adrian stokes e a dreyer o'hara j e mccomb mcclelland b b smith busch e m wolcott brinkerhof pfaff miss blake j cleaveland also water eeed h e towne james carroll d c bradley agramonte e j hertz lazear w s hutchinson colonel tory c f mccoy william gorgas e h land also major cartwright e def tidd eog er ames d m steinberg dr finlay d w eeynolds william dean w b may nard army chaplain c citret commis sary sergeant s h brisker orderlies w g dukek a dechnik soldiers v f acri e j kins f c lane e peck a m seybold f t taylor club plans 20-mile hike along appalachian trail the hiking club is now making plans for a 20-mile hike some time in the spring the hike will be along the appalachian trail the club organized last fall has a membership of 13 students and meets every week at 4:30 p m on friday in the upper gym it has sponsored hikes this year to the reddington caves the hexenkoff and barr rock the hikes are on sunday and usually last from 2:30 o'clock until 5:30 p m hughes and becker dis cuss dewey's philoso phy in preparation talk two new members john r mc comb arts 36 and frederick e thalman arts 37 were admitted to the robert w blake society fri day evening at the meeting at the home of f c becker assistant professor of philosophy percy hughes professor of phil osophy and frank c becker assis tant professor of philosophy ad dressed the members on the teach ings of john dewey in preparation for his visit here friday professor becker spoke on the distinctive and valuable features of dewey's philosophy and professor hughes as devil's advocate spoke on the errors and deficiencies of dewey's philosophy becker explains advances professor becker dwelt upon dewey's transformation of modern thought by showing how the ad vances in biological science throw fresh light upon the problems of education and morals professor hughes pointed out dewey's relative lack of apprecia tion of the emotional aspects of life and his inability to realize fully the importance of his great prede cessors in philosophy in reply professor becker reminded the so ciety that two united states su preme court justices stone and cardozo as well as former justice oliver wendell holmes were fol lowers of john dewey a general discussion followed and refreshments were served van arnam to discuss time ralph n van arnam instructor in mathematics and astronomy will address the e w brown astrono mical society on the differences be tween sidereal and solar time and the practical and theoretical aspects of each at their meeting at 4 p m on thursday in room 402 packer hall courier service to offer cash prizes and new york week-end trips an essay contest on what i would like to see when i visit new york is open to all lehigh students announces the courier service a new york travel agency a cash prize of 50 with one weeks stay at beekman tower will go to the writer of the paper ad judged best and week-end trips to gether with prizes of 35 and 15 will reward the second and third place winners in this nation-wide collegiate competition individuality and integrity will be considered of more importance than value as a mere travelogue the sponsors say the essay is to be confined be tween 500 and 1,000 words and must be sent to the contest head quarters at beekman tower mich ell place new york city before june 15 two hundred suggestions for itineraries are given in a list which may be obtained from the contest headquarters british orchestra leader has written popular song hits including goodnight sweetheart band leader will bring al bowley original singer group has made recordings in london studio disks are popular on campus ray noble and his orchestra will play for the junior prom april 26 at the coliseum it was announced yesterday this will be the first college en gagement here for the world-fa mous english dance band says george voehl 36 chairman of the prom committee the leader has been in america since sept 14 of last year but had not assembled his players until recently they are now broadcasting at 2 o'clock every wednesday afternoon until march 27 over wjz and its network and at 10:30 wednesday night over weaf and affiliated stations noble brought the nucleus of his new mayfair recording orchestra with him from london his pianist drummer and soloist disappointed in his expectations of building it up to a full-sized band and playing at rockefeller center he went to cal ifornia conducted pick-up bands and returned to new york in de cember he was feted by rudy val lee and other popular leaders at a reception in that city noble is composer composer of the very thought of you goodnight sweetheart and love is the sweetest thing ray noble is noted for his distinc tive arrangements of dance music his recordings made at his mast er's voice studios in london and distributed here by victor are very popular on the lehigh campus states voehl the soloist al bowley was the first crooner in england he is as well-known there as rudy vallee in america and has sung with the best british bands including henry hall's british broadcasting com pany dance band ticket sales for the prom will be limited voehl said last night the coliseum has more floor space than any other hall in town he replied to a suggestion that the location of the dance might be changed to ac commodate more people tickets are 4.40 per couple 2.20 stag famous music master praises lehigh band campus on visit undergraduates granted greater credit hour leniency activities positions are affected residence requirements for degree are changed greater leniency to students on probation was granted by the fac ulty at their regular meeting yes terday under the new ruling these students must pass all but four hours to avoid expulsion under the old method any student was drop ped if he failed in three hours made up of two or more courses this change was made to elimin ate the inequity that previously ex isted when a student failing a three hour and one hour course was drop ped whereas one failing a four hour course was allowed to continue ex plains registrar curtis failure in cludes marks of f e and absence and withdrawal from a course a new reading barring a student on probation from holding extra curricula offices was adopted those activities affected by the new ruling are managerships and assistant managerships of athletic teams staff membership on a student publica tion presidency and business man agership of mustard and cheese participation in any performance of the combined musical club or the presidency or business managership of the club leadership or manager ship of the band managerships in the debating society and presidency of arcadia or the lehigh union students on probation could for merly hold these offices residence rule changed a rule changing the residence re quirements for candidates for a de gree was adopted under the new reading candidates for any baccalau reate degree must have earned in residence either a total of 90 hours or the last 30 hours offered for that degree exceptions to this rule may be made only by the committee on standing of students seven courses in the department of business administration were raised to the 100's thus making them open to graduate students they are cost accounting formerly bus 15 accounting systems for merly bus 16 labor problems,.for merly bus 33 labor problems formerly bus 34 business law formerly bus 56 marketing for merly bus 57 and advertising and selling formerly bus 8 dr natt emery chairman of the committee on scholarship and loans reported that 332 students had been assisted at a cost of 97,514 permission was granted for the publication of the senior thesis of walter h kellogg jr on repre sentation on statistical distribu tion this thesis was proposed and prepared under the direction of dr t h hazlehurst and presented by him at the fall meeting of the am erican chemical society a.t.o holds formal george doddy plays for 100 cou ples on saturday over 100 couples attended a for mal dance given by alpha tau omega saturday night music was supplied by george doddy and his orchestra the dance committee was composed of m r furman bus 35 and w a bailey jr i e 36 the dance was chaperoned by f j trembley instructor in biology and his wife mrs isabel b trem bley neville to address society on chemistry and advertising dr harvey a neville associate professor of chemistry will address the engineering society of york on chemistry and advertising the arrangements were made by j wil liam stair who holds a position with the b m root machine com pany of york last night dr neville addressed the science seminar of cedar crest college on colloid chemistry over 200 attend affair mcconn hails largest gathering in 12 years dance to be march 30 kellogg urges freshmen to seek athletic students two hundred and twenty-five freshmen attended the first gather ing of the class since freshman week at a smoker last night in drown hall dean mcconn stated that it was the largest turn-out at a class smok er that he has seen in 12 years announcement was made that the freshman dance will be held satur day evening march 30 at the ma sonic temple dancing will be held from 9 o'clock until 1 a m with music by eddie davis and his 14 piece orchestra the dance will be open says r s young 38 class president tickets will be 1.10 per couple and 75 cents stag buchanan presides a e buchanan secretary of the alumni association acted as master of ceremonies the speakers were dean c m mcconn col n a kellogg coach g w harmeson p r calvert and captain j k rice dean mcconn complimented the class on its splendid turn-out he said that the class of 1938 has al ready attracted the favorable notice of both the faculty and the upper classmen by its scholastic ability its extra-curricular activities and its spirit two exhibition boxing bouts and three fencing exhibitions were in cluded in the program lyse tests alloy for ship material steel naval shipping officials watch investigation inge lyse research associate pro fesor of engineering materials con ducted tests on the ductility strength and elastic properties of four specimens of cromansil a new high strength steel alloy manufac tured by the lukens steel company of coatesville before representa tives of the navy and lloyds bu reau of shipping on thursday and friday in fritz laboratory the pur pose of the tests was to induce the shipping interests to recognize the alloy as a suitable material for ship building the steel company was repre sented by w g humpton the navy by mr shilington naval in spector at the bethlehem steel company and lloyds by mr ben nett of philadelphia the tests were made on the 50,000-lb riehle and the 300,000-lb olsen testing machines following the tests the machines were imme diately calibrated to find out the accuracy of the results three years ago riveted croman sil plates for boiler construction were tested in fritz laboratory speaks to miners w b agocs 34 interprets data from texas oil fields william b agocs 34 who sailed saturday for venezula south am erica spoke before the meeting of the mining and geological society on his work in the pittsburgh office of the gulf refining company he interpreted the geographical field data from the texas costal oil fields mr agocs will do field work in geographical prospecting by the seismic method which is the method used to discover oil by means of explosives ix h hickok 34 is also em ployed in the oil fields of south america and was the first member of the class of 34 to be sent there pi kappa alpha initiates two pi kappa held a formal initiation banquet on saturday evening at the hotel bethlehem those initiated were walter c allen eng 38 and kramer j schatzlein eng 38 stocker 95 leaves library to lehigh collection contains 1 00 vol umes 200 others added the private library of the late john e stocker 95 former asso ciate professor of mathematics was recently presented to the lehigh li brary by the estate the gift con tains about 100 volumes of miscel laneous literature including poetry art history and mathematical books over 200 other books have been added to the lehigh library dur ing february among these are vol umes on journalism philosophy ed ucation physics engineering bio graphy and fiction the additions include the first american edition of shakespeare and a new edition of newton's principia beaver talks to church club on bernoulli's principle jacob l beaver professor of electrical engineering recently de livered a lecture on the practical aspects of bernoulli's principle to the men's class of the central mo ravian church the principle states that the ve locity of the molecules in flowing liquids and gas is universely pro portional to the pressure with the aid of the physics department pro fessor beaver designed 15 simple experiments with which he demon strated his lecture inspects ordnance in lehigh armory mclaughlin armament fore man begins check the bi-annual inspection of the ordnance equipment that has been issued to the military science and tactics department began last wed nesday the work is being done by m v mclaughlin armament fore man of the third corps area ord nance department mr mclaughlin will inspect every piece of ordnance in posses sion of the lehigh r o t c unit those found defective will be re turned to be placed in a satisfactory condition every rifle automatic rfle ma chine gun and field piece will be checked to prevent any accidents from the use of worn out equip ment states mr mclaughlin mr mclaughlin will be at the armory until march 14 when he will report to the commander of the third coprs area in baltimore p h ohmer will head student branch of a.s.m.e five officers of the lehigh stu dent branch of the american so ciety of mechanical engineers were elected for a term of one year at a meeting thursday those elected were as follows p h ohmer president w h shank vice presirent e p cooper secre tary v r wilson treasurer and g h beck chairman membership committee varsity wins by point to set new record for shoulder matches the lehigh rifle team established a new lehigh shoulder-to-shoulder record saturday when they defeat ed the united states naval acad emy team at annapolis by one point 1397-1396 woodring shooting a 91 stand ing for a total of 286 tied his record of 286 made two years ago against drexel ohmer was the only le high man to shoot a 100 prone the navy score of 1396 was the highest shot this year by that team rutherford of navy was high man of the match scoring a 287 navy won the national intercol legiate match last year and in 1930 and 1931 beat cincinnati after losing two matches to west virginia and carnegie tech in the allegheny nra postal league the rifle team defeated the univer sity of cincinnati last saturday 1380 to 1344 woodring high man for the match scored a 100 prone for a to tal of 282 hooper was second high in the match his 97 kneeling help ing the team to victory west virginia cornell and car negie tech are the only undefeated teams in the league freshmen lose the freshman rifle team lost last saturday to the university of mary land freshmen by 51 points 1757 1806 this was the third postal match for the frosh the first match was lost to valley forge military academy and the second was won by lehigh defeating washington and lee university sprague was high man for the frosh scoring a 100 prone and a to tal of 358 the maryland freshmen placed three men higher than the best lehigh man the freshman team will shoot its fourth postal match against perm state this week the varsity and freshman teams will also participate in the national hearst trophy matches this week the freshmen entered are w r sprague r duenner a m bloss r w kil patrick w a sheppard and a c crane the summaries for the navy match are as follows lehigh prone kneel stand total faculty club to present play may stage a variety night alien corn will be presented by members of the faculty dram atic club at 7:30 p m wednesday in room 201 packard laboratory the cast is composed of prof a w klein mrs s c cairnes c a strauch prof e h riley prof h p thomas t g ehrsam prof c j goodwin and prof r m smith a c harding is in charge of casting the probability of a variety night to be staged by the club will be discussed at a meeting before this week's presentation by carstens y haas any band that can play a march well can also play classical concert music declared dr edwin franko goldman noted american band master and composer leader of the famous goldman band in an inter view with a brown and white re porter saturday evening dr goldman spent the week-end in bethlehem as the guest of joseph ricapito former lehigh undergrad uate organizer of the lehigh band and now director of instrumental music in the bethlehem public schools he was guest conductor at the annual winter concert of the 112-piece liberty high school band friday evening saturday afternoon he visited the lehigh campus with mr ricapito laments college rah-rah band dr goldman often called the successor to john philip sousa talked quite freely and informally about band music in colleges all over the country he lamented the fact that too many college bands are organized and maintained solely for football games — the so-called rah rah type with the wealth of material available college bands should and could easily give con certs throughout the school year he said too much harm is done and too much time is wasted in practicing for stunts and drills at football games more time should be spent in preparing and presenting con certs emphasized the white haired bandmaster colleges and universi ties owe it to the student body and the band members to sponsor and support classical concerts interest greater in west interest in college bands is much greater in the west and middle west he said he gave as examples the university of illinois band with 400 members and the university of lowa with 250 numbers he said are not of prime importance for they do not make a band but they are evidence of the general interest in the west and middle west in music as a whole high school mu sical organizations are divided the same way bethlehem can justly be proud of its splendid high school band dr goldman was optimistic about the future of college bands with re gard to concerts he believes there is a growing interest in concert bands and that the time of empha sis upon huge expensive spectacles on the football field is nearly over the indications are that bands will continued on page four vol xlii no 35 bethlehem pa tuesday march 5 1935 brown and white priced five cents ray noble to play for junior prom april 26 musical clubs play at church concert trial to be explained by diefenderfer 14 dramatic club makes public tentative cast engagement is first for college function in the united states to play at junior prom frosh class holds smoker in drown hall faculty eases student rule on probation poodring w b 99 96 91 286 varmkessel c a 98 93 ihmer p h 100 94 92 283 85 279 ooper p l 95 96 lindenhayn r 98 92 87 278 81 271 490 471 436 1397 navy prone kneel stand total tutherford p o 99 97 91 287 ynch r b 100 95 llenman w 98 96 88 283 87 281 urdick r s 99 90 85 274 hcholson r p 98 94 79 271 494 472 430 1396 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first