Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 4

              frosh win four out of five may doff dinks because they won four out of five of the founder's day events held wednesday afternoon the freshmen will not have to wear their dinks on sundays the frosh have not been beat en in these founder's day sports since 1930 when they lost four of the events however in 1932 they tied with the sophomores and were not permitted to go without their dinks on sundays fills vacancy left by trex ler helped develop l.v william jay turner has been elected to the board of trustees as a member of the committee on fi nance and investments mr tur ner fills the vacancy caused by the death of general harry c trexler in november 1933 mr turner is a graduate of the law school of the university of pennsylvania and was admitted to the bar in 1891 in 1895 as a mem ber of the reorganization commit tee of the pennsylvania poughkeep sie and boston railroad company he was instrumental in reorganiza tion of the properties of that com pany under the name of the lehigh and new england railroad com pany of which he was the first pres ident and with which he has since been connected continuously as an officer and director pi tau sigma pledges twelve bishop flails administration is his first association with student affairs beardslee chosen ad faculty members present president clement williams was elected to honorary membership to the xi circle of omicron delta kappa at the first meeting last eve ning of the senior honorary society for activities his election is the first association with student affairs the new president has had since his inauguration the fraternity chose clyde a collins arts 36 as a new member at the same meeting because of a technical error col lins was not considered for mem bership last year and was elected this year only after the by-laws which specify that the group shall be composed of only 12 students had been temporarily suspended for the purpose uusually the frater nity inducts two juniors in febru ary and 10 in june during the business of the meet ing dr claude beardslee was se lected as the faculty adviser and sec retary of the society the members of the fraternity decided to hold a dinner meeting each month the members of the faculty at tending were prof philip palmer dr natt emery dr claude beards lee dean c m mcconn prof harry fretz and prof howard reiter the officers of the fraternity elected last may are david w hoppock president robert m eichner vice president howell scobey and william austin secre tary and treasurer respectively o senior reprimanded by recent action of the faculty committee on discipline a member of the senior class has been repri manded for drunkeness and disor derly conduct on the campus and has been placed on disciplinary pro bation for 1935-36 this involves his relinquishing all extra-curricular ac tivities explains dean c m mc conn cooperative research con tracts with three in dustrial concerns bradford is professor nine promotions of faculty mem bers were voted three contracts far cooperative research with industrial concerns were approved and the budget tentatively approved last spring was adopted by the board of trustees of the university at their annual founder's day meet ing wednesday afternoon in the alumni memorial building three promotions were approved in the mathematics department clarence a shook and george e raynor assistant professors of mathematics became associate pro fessors of mathematics and frank s beale instructor in mathematics becomes assistant professor of math ematics two advancements in the depart ment of mechanical engineering make burgess h jennings now as sistant professor of mechanical en gineering associate professor of mechanical engineering and in structor ohn r connelly an assis tant professor in mechanical engin eering establishes fellowship frederick a bradford advances from associate professor of econom ics to full professor of economics h albert haring assistant profes sor of economics becomes asso ciate professor of economics dale h gramley faculty adviser for the brown and white moves from assistant professor of journal ism to associate professor of jour nalism instructor henry j knut son becomes assistant professor in electrical engineering the president and secretary of the board were ordered to sign the articles of agreement with william l heim 02 to establish a william l heim research fellowship here the department of education re ceived a grant to undertake an ex periment to salvage freshmen stu states worth of graduate schools lies in scholars they produce fort presents degree visitors and wives guests of trustees at luncheon in hotel bethlehem dr luther p eisenhart dean of the graduate school of princeton university delivered an address en titled graduate study and re search at the founder's day exer cises held wednesday morning in the chapel dr eisenhart first spoke on the development of graduate schools in this country two types he said have developed one of which is a continuation of the undergraduate school the other set apart and un der a different faculty one frequently hears that there is no limit to the number of new courses introduced into the college curriculum and that ordinarily courses are introduced not with ref erence to any well thought-out plan of their relationship to the training of the student but because various members of the faculty desire to give particular courses this obser vation frequently applies equally well to the graduate school stated dr eisenhart i understand that lehigh is con sidering what part it should have in graduate instruction a graduate school does not have to be big in order to be good any more than it is good because it is small it is not a question of a large number of the courses in any subject nor of many higher degrees the fundamental question is what kind of scholars are produced honorary degree for dean dean eisenhart was presented with the honorary degree of doctor of continued on page four continued on page four 6 seniors and 7 juniors tapped at chapel exercises pi tau sigma mechanical engin eering honorary society pledged six seniors and six juniors tuesday morning at chapel exercises the men honored are harold t brooks 36 john p butterfield 36 reginald a len na 36 richard a stockton 36 philemon k wright 36 william j ash jr 37 robert w boar man 37 arthur t curren 37 warren p fairbanks 37 edward h ackson jr 36 winston k mathias 37 william p patter son 37 prof fred v larkin head of the mechanical engineering department outlined the aims and the history of the society in a short talk before the presentation of the buttons pi tau sigma was founded about 20 years ago at the university of il linois by ex-president richards and has expanded since to almost every recognized engineering school in america procession of educators marks founder's day calls present monetary policy unsound and a big fallacy high prices never have and nev er will bring about recovery de clared dr ward l bishop asso ciate professor of economics in a talk reviewing the present mone tary system he spoke at the week ly meeting of the lion's club tues day at the hotel bethlehem dr bishop who was introduced by m c schrader assistant district attorney of northampton county began his discourse with a brief re view of the monetary set-up before the new deal came into being in continuing he stated that much of the scepticism of the bus iness and industrial figures of to day has been brought about by the novelty and revolutionary charac ter of the many new deal policies remarking about the inflation and devaluation of the dollar he said that even a sophomore student of economics knows that high prices never have and never will bring about recovery he termed the need for these two policies a double barreled fallacy favors four measures economists do not consider ne cessary the policies adopted by the present administration toward mon ey according to dr bishop who in concluding advised that four measures alone would bring about recovery namely to restore the gold standard even at its present devalued basis to balance the federal budget to repeal all sil ver and greenback legislation insti tuted by the roosevelt administra tion and finally to take the two and a half billion dollars profit which was brought about by the in flation of the currency and use it to retire government bonds to be introduced seven per cent increase brings total to high est since 1931 peak year was 1930 statistics released yesterday by william h bohning assistant reg istrar show that the undergraduate enrollment numbers 1418 students an increase of 95 over last year or 7.18 percent this figure the highest since 1931 when the total was 1,468 is still under the peak number of 1,529 reached in 1930 the distribution by classes shows that the freshmen led with 463 and sophomore junior and senior follow in that order with 371 249 and 240 respectively the new students in cluding not only freshmen but also special and transferring students number 496 as against 441 in 1934 three hundred and forty-eight of these new men enrolled in the col leges of engineering the largest in lehigh's history eight-six are reg istered as business administration students seven more than last year and sixty-two are listed as arts men a decrease of five since 1934 the high number of new men in the college of engineering helps to swell the total for the university to 905 business administration stu dents number 282 an increase of nine while the total enrollment of art students dropped from 232 in 1934 to 231 this year increase in old students the number of old students re turning shows an increase this year of 24 in engineering two in business and three in arts an increase for the university of 39 against a de crease of 41 in 1934 there was also an increase in upper classmen in cluding freshman irregulars of 29 men the number of new students ad mitted with advanced standing reached a new low of 32 this year figures comparing the enrollment since 1931 with the years imme diately preceding show that there is a gradual swing upwards in the number lehigh's figures are char acteristic of those in colleges and universities all over the country an unofficial press survey recently in dicated a 12 percent increase in col lege enrollments this year over 1934 represent 20 states the 496 new students represent 20 states and one foreign country as against 18 states and six foreign countries in 1934 there are 49 more new men from pennsylvania new york and new jersey lehigh's hea viest contributors than last year 12 more from other states and six fewer individuals from foreign na tions entering students from new jersey increased from 76 in 1933 to 91 in 1934 and to 130 this year this is the largest enrollment we have had from new jersey mexico is the only foreign coun try listed this year besides the at lantic seaboard states noted there are men from illinois kansas michigan minnesota missouri ohio texas and wisconsin colo rado oklahoma and tennessee each lost one representative since last year debating representatives will attend conference five representatives of delta omicron theta honorary debating society will attend the meeting of the association of debating so cieties of pennsylvania colleges on saturday at harrisburg the lehigh delegates will be theodore ehrsam coach of the so ciety walter guyer ch e 36 president of d o t howard kol ler ch e 37 vice president pe ter potochney arts 37 secretary treasurer and eugene uhler arts 37 corresponding manager the association will decide the question for debate for the season at the meeting which will open at 2 p m in the perm-harris hotel heads red cross roll call mrs eugene grace wife of the president of the board of trustees has accepted the chairmanship of the 1935 red cross roll call of the bethlehem chapter the roll call will run from nov 11 to 28 praises beauty of campus and pays tribute to former administration talks of graduate school says setting here is ap propriate for education of twentieth century clement c williams was installed as president of lehigh wednesday morning at the founder's day ex ercises in packard memorial chapel in his speech of acceptance dr williams said in accepting the trust of the presidency of lehigh university i pledge whatever ability that in me lies to the continuation of the life and work of the university to meet new conditions as they may arise in a manner worthy the great tradi tion that has been forged through two-thirds of a century the speaker continued with praise for the beauty of the lehigh campus and tribute for the admin istration of his predecessor dr charles russ richards he said that dr richards work represents a sound educational structure that may serve as a solid foundation for building in the future the span of life of lehigh uni versity corresponds to a period when college education as it is today was taking form lehigh's advantage comes from the fact that it had no inertias and retardants to overcome from the older school of education its very setting is appropriate for education designed for the twen tieth century tells of aims of education if education is aimed only at men tal power it may be as dangerous as unleashed physical forces if it is intellectual or philosophical only it may be detrimental to social or ganization we laugh at th,e effort of the mathematically deficient solon in the indiana legislature a generation ago to change the value of pi to an even fraction yet some of the nation's elect are even now holding out the hope to the multitude that the sum of many parts equals more than the whole and are endeavoring to peg prices by amending the law of sup ply and demand no man is wise enough to war rant his being a social or economic radical in fact the wise are con servative the radical are only adroit and clever social and economic re lationships are too intricate too del icate and too extensive to admit of any one man being competent to redesign them in continuing his discussion of so sial and political relationships dr williams explained how the man on the street who is ready to accept the marvels of scientific invention is sometimes reluctant to accept the corresponding advances in economic relations twentieth century educa tion should recognize these advanc es and attempt to adjust them to their social function a function of college education in the industrial realms he con tinued might well be to inquire into the means by which the demon strated advances of large scale or continued on page four eichner announces plans for epitome books will be delivered after easter vacation innovations in the epitome sen ior yearbook were announced wed nesday evening by robert mills eichner i e 36 editor the books will be delivered im mediately following the easter va cation the books will be larger this year being 9x12 inches there will be new fraternity pictures a sec tion of full page campus views and more art work including pen and ink sketches on the divider pages the senior section will be divided into the three major colleges in dividual pictures will be larger than before in this issue the faculty will appear in a separate section any fraternity desiring its picture in the epitome should deliver the picture to eichner president and mrs wil liams will attend tea president and mrs clement c williams will be introduced to the members of the lehigh faculty and their wives at a tea to be held by the faculty woman's club tues day oct 8 in drown hall dr and mrs williams will be in the receiving line with mrs clar ence shook president of the club who will present the president and his wife mrs natt emery mrs eugene grace mrs allan dodson and mrs c l thornburg will pour at tea mrs howard reiter is chairman of the committee for arrangements she is assisted by mrs john toohy the tea is the first of the club's monthly meetings senior ball committee picked nov 9 is date the senior ball committee was picked wednesday evening by rob ert mills eichner i e president of the senior class the members are robert boyd picking arts chair man frederick john snyder arts and richard austin stockton i e the tentative date for the ball was set for saturday nov 9 the day of the muhlenberg football game — brown and white fotofeature top left the procession files down the gers right center the procession leaves the pole for exercises avenue of trees to the chapel top left center dean mcconn and vice chapel bottom right marching from the alumni top right center professor carothers president emery pass the brown and white center carrying the colors building marches with president clothier of rut cameraman bottom left gathering around the flag lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday october 4 1935 board of trustees elects w j turner vol xliii no 4 o.d.k elects c c williams to fraternity price — five cents enrollment up 95 students frosh lead trustee board promotes nine passes budget i 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