Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 54

              board agrees to revisions in constitution arcadia passes limitations plan by large vote second editor judson schaeffer who will be head of the brown and white for the first semester of next year senior class will banquet walter l finlay who will be head of the brown and white for the second semester of next year cyanide elects new officers m s and t men hold camp practice 65 shoot army pistols and rifles on readington range sixty-five junior and senior ad vanced m s and t students at tended the rifle practice held sat urday and sunday at the reding ton proving grounds under the so pervision of major j o green captain j k rice and captain w m tow • the shoot was to enable the men who will attend camp this summer to become familiar with the army rifle and pistol they fired four po sitions in slow fire and two posi tions in rapid fire at a range of 200 yards five shots were fired on the is yard pistol range using the 45 caliber army pistol the range was used through the courtesy of the bethlehem steel company who used the location as a proving grounds during the world war junior prom clears 403 statistics submitted to dean show receipts totalling over 2,849 the junior prom held april 27 netted a profit of 403.12 reveals a report of the finances submitted by george a voehl bus 36 chair man of the junior prom committee to dean c max mcconn expenses amounted to 2180.39 federal tax 266.20 and receipts totalled 2849.71 the balance has been de posited in the treasury of the class of 1936 voehl's report is as follows receipts 625 couples 4.40 2,750.00 45 stag 2.20 99.00 miscellaneous receipt 71 expenditures orchestra ray noble 1,500.00 decorations 300.c0 amplification 25.00 water and coolers 22.88 city police 80.00 printing : posters 9.35 tickets and programs 70.75 advertising lehigh review 25.00 brown and white 10.00 committ e e 35.00 insurance 15.00 piano cartage and damage 15.00 furniture cartage 33.25 salesgirls 2 10.00 maid service 2 6.00 chaperon corsages and committee ribbons 10.39 telephone and telegraph . . 12.77 2,180.39 $ 669.32 federal tax on tickets sold and comps 18 266.20 $ 403.12 balance deposited to the credit of the class of 1936 $ 403.12 j l walton chosen pres ident at banquet satur day as 1 4 are initiated j l walton met e 37 was elected president of cyanide junior honorary society at a cyanide ban quet saturday evening n j leon ard ch e 37 was elected vice president and m b lore chem 37 was elected secretary-treasurer twenty-one members and pledges of cyanide attended the banquet held at the waldheim in heller town saturday evening the four teen pledges who were tapped at the flagpole meeting friday were initiated at the banquet morton sultzer 12 the speaker told about the founding of the cy anide club by a group of students of taylor hall mr sultzer one of the first members of the club was presented with a charm at the ban quet the retiring officers of cyanide are r m eichner i e 36 pres ident w e austin i e 36 vice president and j w dietz bus 36 secretary-treasurer elected to phi beta kappa dr harvey a neville associate professor of chemistry was recently elected to the phi beta kappa chap ter of randolph-macon college saltzer green carothers to address graduates at alumni day dinner the banquet of the graduating class of 1935 will be held at the hotel bethlehem at 7 p m on saturday june 8 speakers will be dr neil car others major j o green head of the department of military science and tactics morton sultzer 12 president of the lehigh alumni as sociation and one other speaker as yet unannounced tickets will be on sale at drown hall and at all fraternity houses un til friday announces s r good rich chairman of the banquet com mittee the other member of the committee is w e mollenauer i e 35 the banquet is the first of its kind at lehigh and has been named a zero year reunion banquet it is customary for each class to hold a reunion every five years severs to return from yale jonathan b severs associate professor of english will return to lehigh next semester following a year's leave of absence professor severs has been at yale univer sity under a fellowship and has been working on material of the chaucer period staff of department here joins journal group a psychology journal club com posed of the staffs of the psychol ogy departments of lehigh and of five other colleges has recently been formed announces prof adelbert ford head of the department of psychology swarthmore temple bryn mawr lafayette lehigh and the university of pennsylvania are the institutions thus far affiliated with the club which plans to hold monthly meetings during the college year research work and original con tributions of the departmental staffs of each college will be discussed there will also be reports on ar ticles in psychology journals which are linked with the projects in hand the first meeting will be in the ear ly part of november and other meetings are to be held at the other schools in turn with the head of the department at each school as host frosh rules will be kept arcadia retains all reg ulations for next year with new enforcement all freshman regulations in oper ation last fall will be effective for the next semester arcadia decided last night at a meeting in drown hall there will be no disciplinary committee and offenders will be summoned before the governing body as a whole at one time a motion was on the floor to abolish all first-year control but it was defeated another plan advocated by president thomas k garihan jr bus.'36 was that fresh men should be advised and request ed but not compelled to comply with regulations however the mo tion passed provided for rules iden tical with those in force in previous years and implied that they would obtain until christmas the cooperation of all living group heads was asked by garihan in enforcing the regulations a slate committee of two frater nity men a town man and a dormi tory man was appointed its mem bers are paul s settle jr c s 36 lewis walker 111 bus 37 paul h weitzel i e 36 and william c freed ch e 36 sixty dollars was voted the le high union to cover the expenses of smokers in the fall athletic sea son o.d k takes ten juniors at banquet friday evening university of pennsylva nia history professor to address graduates on world in transition dr beardslee will deliver baccalaureate sermon june 9 annual class day exercises on june 1 0 to include tra ditional flagpole ceremonies dr william e lingelbach pro fessor of modern european history at the university of pennsylvania will deliver the main address at the sixty-seventh commencement exer cises tuesday june 11 on the world in transition * dr lingelbach is the author of several historical treatises and es says such a paradoxes of post war europe the doctrine and practice of intervention and control of foreign affairs a native of canada he received his bachelor's degree from the uni versity of toronto in 1894 he was a fellow of the university of leip zig in germany in 1895 and receiv ed his doctor's degree from the university of pennsylvania in 1901 he has been professor of modern european history and head of the department at various times since 1903 at this university degrees in course and honorary degrees will be conferred at the ex ercises the recipients of the hon orary awards will not be announced until the morning of graduation officer's commissions in the o.r.c will be awarded to r o t c stu dents beardslee to preach dr claude g beardslee chaplain of the university will deliver the baccalaureate sermon on sunday june 9 after the academic proces sion from the alumni memorial building the traditional class day exercises on monday will include the breaking the pipes planting of the ivy dr charles r richards presi dent of the university will give his annual reception to members of the graduating class and their families the trustees alumni and faculty monday afternoon in the evening the senior ball the last social event of the year will be held in drown hall included in the program is the alumni reunion on friday and sat urday preceding commencement the board of directors of the alumni association will meet at noon on june 7 at the bethlehem club in the afternoon the alumni council will meet in the alumni memorial building the alumni dinner and dinner for the wives of faculty and alumni will be held in the evening saturday june 8 will be alumni day the alumni association will hold its annual meeting in the morning after the luncheon in the armory at noon the reunion classes will parade news briefs douglas m stewart garrett lin derman hoppes research fellow in civil engineering will leave lehigh the middle of june to begin an eight months training course in prepara tion for a position in the sales en gineering division of the ingersoll rand company g l gray and w b mclean designers with the mcclintic-mar shall company spoke on rigid frame structures last night in room 466 packard laboratory be fore the lehigh valley section of the american society of civil en gineers word has come from harrisburg authorizing the continuance of the serb program from may 15 to may 31 states john a brodhead head of the placement bureau who is in charge of the serb work stormy session of govern ing body results in passage of plan pre venting monopoly action to be postponed so juniors will not suffer brown and white and review advocated plan for some time before arcadia action after a spirited discussion ar cadia last night approved the lim itation of offices plan advocated by the brown and white and the re view the system accepted will come into effect in the fall of 1936 and is designed to spread extra curricular activities offices among a larger group of individuals and pre vent monopolies on major posi tions control of offices for the year 1936-37 will be effected by the fol lowing system major group man may hold only one position in this group editors of brown and white epitome re view business managers of brown and white epitome review president of arcadia lehigh union editorial manager of brown and white news manager of brown and white minor group man may hold two positions in this group president of omicron delta kappa inter fraternity council mustard and cheese club robert w blake society delta omi cron theta tau beta pi business manager of mustard and cheese advertising manager of brown and white senior section editor of the epitome varsity or junior assistant manager of any team rules 1 man may hold only one position in ma jor group 2 man may hold only two positions in minor group 3 man may hold one position in each group that is a man cannot hold a major po sition and two minor positions with one exception : 4 a man with an aggregate 3.00 average for his undergraduate career to date may hold one major and two minor positions 5 the board of publications rule that a man cannot hold a major position on more than one publication will continue to be in effect it is unfair to other capable members of the senior class to have a few men monopolize the major positions said thomas k gari han jr bus 36 president of ar cadia and it is unfair to the inter ested and would-be active members of an organization which suffers from enforced idleness because the president is too busy with his many other duties to assume active lead ership other proponents of the new reg ulations pointed out that such plans are in effective operation at many colleges degray to leave lehigh on june 30 will choose one of three po sitions offered after 12 years as an instructor and student at lehigh richard j degray instructor in chemistry will leave the university on june 30 to accept an industrial position at present mr degray does not know definitely with what company he will work three positions are available a research job with the american cyanamide company sales promotion with the leeds & northrup company and a research job in the automotive laboratories of the socony-vacuum oil com pany mr degray will receive his doc tor's degree from columbia uni versity in october his work for the doctor's degree was begun in 1932 when he was given a fellowship in problems of higher education this was in recognition of the work done by him in organizing the student advisory system in the department of chemistry mr degray matriculated at le high in 1923 graduated in 1927 re ceived his master's degree in 1927 and was made an assistant in chem istry the following year in 1930 he became an instructor a position which he has held since bach festival inspires crowd of 3,500 with noble performance beardslee also initiated as students join senior honorary hoppock voted president eichner scobey austin also elected executive committee of brown and white sup plants student board governing since 1894 final financial statement of burr board is accepted control of the brown and white since the founding of the paper in 1894 in the hands of the board passed officially into the hands of the executive committee monday afternoon when the board of pub lications approved the new consti tution of the paper while the publications board which met in the office of dean c m mcconn was approving the ex pansion of the paper by sanctioning the equipping of a dark room it practically wrote finis to the history of the burr by accepting its final financial statement and allowing the burr board to close its accounts and distribute its profits robert b picking present local advertising assistant was approved as the new national advertising as sistant of the brown and white and philip l myers was approved as the advertising copy superviser of the paper board becomes honorary the board of the brown and white which formerly had the power to amend the constitution of the paper became officially an hon orary group by the adoption of a section of the constitution allowing the executive committee to amend the constitution by a four-fifths vote of its membership the change however is more in theory than in fact for the last meeting of the board was held in 1933 when mar tin m reed was editor in chief of the paper the board which from the found ing of the brown and white had consisted of approximately ten men declined when the brown and white was reorganized as a course in journalism in 1928 the board from that time consisted of at least 30 members and was too cumber some to transact the business of the paper it was replaced by the exec utive committee of five the editor in chief news manager editorial manager business manager and senior faculty adviser to rank with editor the business manager of the pa per is now equal in rank to the editor in chief but is no longer elig ible for election to the editorship the change was approved at the previous meeting of the board of publications the proposed dark room to be used by the brown and white pho tographers is the first step in the expansion of the physical property of the paper the development of news photography during the past semester under the direction of judson l schaeffer news manager and editor in chief elect necessitat ed equipment which would allow news pictures to be taken at the last moment and still be in time to appear in the paper the exact lo cation of the dark room has not yet been decided upon holds parents day stoughton discusses living groups at banquet fraternity life has the major dis advantages of leveling off individu ality in the college man declared prof bradley stoughton head of the department of metallurgical en gineering at the annual parents day banquet of the sigma nu fra ternity held last saturday evening at the hotel traylor in allentown confining himself to the disad vantages of fraternity life at the beginning of his speech he spoke of the leveling off of individuality in the fraternity man as a major defect the two roosevelts theo dore and franklin former and pres ent president of our country could never have shown the fine individ uality of character in office had they been under this leveling influence of fraternity life at college engineering robert b adams baseball coach john maxwell as sistant editor of the alumni bul letin howard bosey reiter head of the department of physical edu cation and other members of the faculty review editor the campus early in march was the guest of joseph ricapito 25 over the week-end dr raymond l walter former registrar of the university of cincinnati attended tascha seidel famous violin vir tuoso heard the mass there was the irate man in the audience who complained about the continued on page four omicron delta kappa national honorary society tapped ten men and one faculty member in their re spective living groups at 5:30 p.m friday may 17 and initiated them at the banquet held friday evening in the bethlehem club david w hoppock 1.e pledged to o d k last fall was elected president and robert m eichner 1 e also pledged last fall was elected vice president howell a scobey m e was elected secre tary and william bunny austin i e was elected treasurer the following men were initiat ed howell scobey m e william e austin i e john w dietz bus thomas k garihan bus walter l finlay ch e john a kornet ch e walter p crockett i e paul s settle c e william m smith ch e and bernard s weiss c e dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and reli gious philosophy was also initiated after the banquet at which speeches of welcome were made by dean c max mcconn dr george d harmon associate professor of american history and hamil reidy bus 35 retiring president initiation of the new members was held other guests present at the ban quet were bradley stoughton head of the department of metallurgical epitome editor by c y haas the bach festival is over and 3.500 music lovers have returned to their homes inspired and uplifted by the music of the seventeenth century german musician as a prelude to the general fes tival 1,000 men and women mostly local jammed the chapel entrance before 7 o'clock thursday evening at the public rehearsal within 15 minutes nearly every one of the 1,200 available seats in packer chapel was occupied one woman a festival patron who had just ar rived from pittsburgh came in at 8:15 and said she wanted to hear the rehearsal as well as the regular program the capacity of the chapel was taxed again friday and saturday when 1,200 patrons heard the st matthew's passion and the mass in b minor performed by 300 singers soloists and accompanists they did nobly in the passion de spite a little friction between or chestra chorus and conductor but by far the greatest triumph of all was the performance of the mass in which all units combined to pre sent an effect which brought tears to some eyes and smiles to some faces dr goldman attends the audience was not without its list of prominent persons dr ed win franko goldman noted band leader and composer who visited bernard s weiss r m eichner bethlehem pa tuesday may 21 1935 six colleges form psychology society price five cents the lehigh university brown and white first editor w e lingelbach to speak june 11 vol xlii no 54 commencement rehearsals tomorrow and thursday g b curtis has made the following announcement con cerning commencement exer cises rehearsal of seniors for the commencement exercises will be held as follows students in the engineering curricula and in business admin istration will rehearse at 1:15 p m tomorrow sturents in the curricula of arts and science will rehearse at 9 a m thursday publication is suspended with this issue the brown and white suspends publication until next semester member intercollegiate newspaper association all toe lehigh news first