Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 8

              penn state collegian in editorial protests football players are exploited the perm state collegian in a homecoming day issue yesterday protested vigorously that football players at state are exploited the editorial published just before alumni began to return to the campus for tomorrow's game with lehigh outlined five protests 1 the athletic association pays players nothing for four hours of hard work a day 2 players unable to finance their schooling themselves are forced to hunt jobs for their room board and college fees 3 except for evening meals at football training table they are forced to shift for themselves for food 4 other colleges whose athletic policies are not so rigid draw big gates for football games 5 what started out to be a system of decency and progress in all athletics has been converted into an intolerable and unjust exploitation of athletes coaches and alumni the college abandoned scholarships to athletes in 1927 and adopt ed the plan proposed by bezdek former football coach who is now athletic director eta sigma phi elects 6 men arcadia calls town elections lehighcontrols western mine t c poulter explorer will relate thrills of polar life vol xliii no 8 jennings succeeds luce as faculty adviser a f schwender of the westing house electric and manufacturing company pointed out the very ex acting requirements necessary for present day turbines before the meeting of the american society of mechanical engineers last evening in room 466 packard laboratory his talk the requirements of turbine governing systems ex plained the value of exactness and precision in the mechanism of gov ernors and showed the improve ment made in that type of machine during the past few years a motion to award prizes to the two best papers turned in by any members of the society was accept ed with the first award paper to be read at the national convention of the society of mechanical engin eers the vacancy in the position of faculty adviser to the society caus ed by the resignation of alexander w luce associate professor of ma chine design has been filled with the acceptance of the position by burgess h jennings assistant pro fessor of mechanical engineering barney rapp pi mv epsilon hears lamson two chosen to play for fall houseparty after much delay coliseum site of dance efforts to secure one na tionally famous band prove futile george hall's orchestra and bar ney rapp and his orchestra have signed contracts to play at the sen ior ball nov 8 announced robert b picking arts 36 chairman of the senior ball committee yesterday many orchestras were considered including eddie duchin hal kemp ray noble ozzie nelson and tom dorsey the committee finally de cided on george hall and barney rapp due to the fact that larger orchestras were already engaged barney rapp has been playing at various places around boston george hall has been playing at the grill room of the hotel taft in new york city the ball will be held at the coli seum ray noble played in the same building last spring for the junior prom al katz and johnny hamp played at the senior ball last fall at the hotel bethlehem tickets for the ball are not yet on sale but the price has been def initely fixed at 4.56 per couple the motif for decorations has not as yet been decided upon article on grace in new review poulter to tell of life with byrd monday in packard lab faculty sponsors talk dr thomas c poulter second in command of the recent byrd antarctic expedition will speak at 8 o'clock monday evening in pack ard auditorium on the adventures of an explorer scientist during two years in antarctica the faculty lectures committee is sponsoring dr poulter's visit to le high president williams at the fac ulty meeting oct 7 stated that he knew dr poulter personally and called him a genius in his field beside being second in command of the byrd expedition dr poulter was also senior scientist and physi cist at little america he spent most of his time in astronomical and meteorological observations of the most unfrequented area of the earth's surface dr poulter by seismograph soundings discovered land under a part of the antarctica hitherto thought to be water-bound ice he was in command of the party that made the dangerous journey to meet up with admiral byrd in his isola tion at the advanced base over 100 miles from little america he is an authority on high pres sure research and is now head of the division of physical science mathe matics and astronomy at lowa wes leyan college ticket holders will be given pref erence to admittance until 8 o'clock when the general public will be al lowed to fill the remaining seats tickets which are free should be obtained at the union office in drown hall students may have one ticket each and faculty members two tickets krizin murphy fidler myers reilly and mc dermott admitted the names of five students and one faculty member who were elect ed to eta sigma phi honorary class ical fraternity at a recent meeting were released wednesday by dr horace w wright head of the de partment of latin the men elected were elmer f krizin arts 38 j palmer murphy arts 38 l nevin fidler arts 38 gerald j reilly arts 38 and rob ert l myers arts 38 dr william c mcdermott instructor in latin was chosen an honorary member plans for the celebration of the bimillenium of horace's birth have been made dr wright is serving as chairman of the committee on pro gram and arrangements for secon dary and high schools in the united states in this capacity he is mak ing several tours to high schools in the eastern states delivering ad dresses on horace he is accom panied by several students who dra matize horace's ode on the lov er's quarrel moore to speak e e.s to hear inventor of vacuum lighting d mcfarlan moore e e 90 will speak on contacts with gas eous conduction at the meeting of the electrical engineering society to be held at 7:30 p m thursday in room 416 packard laboratory moore is noted as the inventor of the vacuum light the forerunner of the neon tube used in advertising he was a pioneer inventor in the field of vacuum lighting and was formerly associated with thomas edison he is a fellow of the american institute of electrical engineers and is vice president of the illuminating engineering society until his re tirement in 1928 he was consulting research engineer for the general electric company at harrison nj military society elects pledges is told circumference of circle is less than 2 pi r c a lamson associate professor of mathematics addressed the initial meeting of pi mv epsilon honorary mathematics society wednesday evening in room 208 packard lab oratory professor lamson spoke on relativity theories of newton and einstein his presentation was based solely on those assumptions and state ments set forth by scientifically prominent men one of the topics that he quoted revealed that the cir cumference of a circle is less than 2 pi r another disclosure was that time is slower on the sun than on the earth to illustrate the latter the wave length of sodium was measured on the earth and then compared with the wave length of a similar spec trum of the sun complicated meas urements of the wavelength on the sun's spectrum showed that it was longer than that of the earth by this the variation of time on the two bodies was shown budgets are approved by board of publications a complete consideration of the publication contracts and affairs since the last meeting may 20 was made by the board of publications wednesday afternoon in the dean's office the 1935-36 budgets of the brown and white the review and the epitome were approved thomas k garihan business manager of the latter presented his budget in per son barney rapp and his bandmen come to lehigh after a tour of some of the country's outstanding dining and dancing spots among the most notable of these engage ments has been his series of repeat perfor mances at the hotel new yorker in new york city other spots which have featured rapp and his musicians at various times include the netherland - plaza hotel and the castle farms in cincinnati the book-cadillac ho tel in detroit the chase hotel in st louis the claridge in memphis the pavil ion royale in new haven and the forest club in new or leans direct from the hotel taft in new york city at which the orchestra has been fea tured each season since july 1931 george hall and his musical aggregation will in clude in their program many specialized ar rangements hall has been featured at such prominent hotels as the arlington in hot springs ark the elitch gardens in denver col and the claridge hotel in memphis term altogether he played engagements in 150 towns a year during this tour on his re turn to new york in june of 1931 the or chestra was engaged to play at the taft hotel where it has been heard every fall and winter season since then geologists obtain new collection gold company now yields 400 percent says okeson walter r okeson 96 secretary and treasurer of the mining and ge ology society explained how gold mines keep lehigh out of the red in an address delivered before the society at a meeting held in con junction with the lehigh valley section of the american institute of mining and metallurgical engineers last evening in williams hall interest in the london mining and milling company which oper ates a gold mine in london col was deeded to the university by harry packer son of asa packer the founder many disputes arose over the possession of the property the majority of the controversies re sulting from conflicts with the claims of other gold mines the tunneling system is employed by the company in its operations mr okeson described general meth ods in use in the production of gold by the mine at one time ore val ued at 400 per ton was produced by the corporation during the last few years the increase in price due to federal gold laws has provided a steady increase in payments made by the london company at the present time a dividend of over 400 percent is being paid club budgets approved the faculty committee on stu dents clubs approved the 1935-36 budgets of 28 student organizations at its meeting tuesday afternoon in dean mcconn's office sixteen re ports will be acted upon at the next meeting while one was deferred pending revision proposes changes in selec tion of junior assistant managers of sports plans for an election oct 30 and 31 of town group representative to arcadia were discussed at a meeting of arcadia wednesday night in drown hall this election to be held at drown hall is in charge of an elections committee consisting of lewis walker chairman v.e eng strom r a lenna w j wilkens and a v parassio it is important that the men in the town groups take more inter est in the arcadia representations said t k garihan president fail ing this it was proposed that the quota of town representatives be de creased so as to have a larger per centage of members present at ar cadia meetings the governing body proposed to present a resolution to colonel kel logg to amend the present method of electing junior assistant manag ers of sports to eliminate the pos sible action of politics at the pres ent time the election of a deserving man to the assistant managership can be prevented by the action of two men it was agreed that the heads of the various living groups should be responsible for the observance of freshman regulations by freshmen within their respective groups and report offenders to arcadia george a voehl was elected to the intramural sports committee to replace l p calhoun who recent ly left school the financial committee reported the approval of the budgets of the brown and white the review the 1 epitome and arcadia as well as other organizations attend electrical meet stanley s seyfert head of the department of electrical engineering and nelson s hibshman associate professor of electrical engineering attended the meeting of the amer ican institute of electrical engin eers held oct 11 at the hotel ca sey in scranton issue also includes tale of mexico and short stories the october issue of the lehigh review which appeared today contains a feature on eugene g grace president of the board of trustees by charles mccoy and an article chicken itza by mel vin lord who traveled extensively in mexico this summer and has written about some of the adven tures he had there included also are short stories by george yanko and sidney lewis and an article reprinted by special request from the readers digest entitled and sudden death an article about table tennis by wil liam gottlieb also appears and one discussing the coming perm state football game by davis scott frosh will meet major barn dollar wel comed as new adviser the election of new members was the chief action taken at the first regular business meeting of scab bard and blade national senior r o t c society wednesday names of prospective pledges were voted on and the men chosen will be pledged at drill monday oct 28 major barndollar was welcomed as new faculty adviser of the so ciety replacing major green both major barndollar and major ger ber will be taken into the society as associate members the status at which officers of the regular army are initiated initiation ceremonies will be held nov 17 okeson broadcasts pre-medical society pledges four hears obstretrician speaks over wor before new york lehigh club walter r okeson head of the national football rules committee mai stevens head coach at new york university chick meehan head coach at manhattan college and jim crowley head coach at fordham college spoke before the lehigh club of new york wednes day evening the speeches deliv ered prior to a meeting of the club at 2 park avenue were broadcast over station wor there were more than 200 mem bers present the meeting consisted of a discussion of football from many angles q dean mcconn addresses new york convention dean c m mcconn spoke on academic vs individual differences at the seventy-first con vocation exercises of the university of the state of new york albany this afternoon other leading educators who ad dressed the meeting were dr wil liam m lewis president of lafay ette college dr h g campbell superintendent of the new york city public schools and president d r fox of union college volcanic products skull in williams hall the newest exhibitions in the ge ological displays in williams hall are a collection of volcanic products and the skull of an oreodont an extinct pig-like animal through the courtesy of the na tional park service the department of geology has received the collec tion of representative volcanic prod ucts from the custodian of craters of the moon national monument at arco idaho arrangements for the collection ware made during a recent visit to the park by dr ben jamin l miller head of the depart ment of geology and dr paul l bayley associate professor of phys ics an additional find by dr miller on the same trip is the fossil skull of an oreodont an even-toed hoof same pro ftoaiofts ava-lpig h#e jfckd in the eocene period but is now extinct ff he soecimen,which has been pre penb^tessftjifolkß in structor in geology is the first fos sil skull olthr extinct vertebrates an i3»edvvt imij1 mij i 9b ollec tiori it was found by dr miller in a hotel in south dakota where it was being used as a door stop as four are pledged coming events friday oct 18 combined faculties of the lehigh valley will meet at muhlenberg during the afternoon and evening saturday oct 19 freshman football lehigh vs muhlenberg taylor field monday oct 21 lecture by dr thomas c poulter second-in-command byrd ant arctic expedition 1933-35 audi torium packard laboratory pearson advises two year spacing of children control discussed children are best spaced at an interval of two years stated dr frederick j pearson 26 special ist in obstetrics before the robert w hall pre-medical society last evening in packard laboratory explaining that there are two types of control of reproduction before and after conception dr person went into an analysis of each type speaking of the pre-conception types dr pearson explained the more important methods of contra ception now in use and gave reasons why the best method is 90 percent effective but he advised even then it is best to consult with an ob sterician first dr pearson pointed out the disadvantages of the safe period method which is a guess at the best concerning the post-conception type dr pearson pointed out that the therepeutic method was legal only under certain circumstances and that other methods which had become an industry among mid wives and quack doctors were ille arcadia to advise union of first-year men a freshman union operating under the guidance of arcadia will meet at 7:30 tuesday evening in the arcadia room drown hall the representatives from all liv ing groups should be present at the meeting as the principles and by laws of the freshman union will then be explained to them in detail thomas garihan president of ar cadia will act as advisory member o cylinder plant inspected by group of engineers an inspection trip to the taylor wharton plant manufacturers of high pressure oxygen cylinders in easton was made wednesday and thursday by the senior industrial and mechanical engineers under the supervision of fred v larkin di rector of the curricula in mechanical and industrial engineering small groups of students from the industrial management course and the m e 114 engineering labora tory course visited this plant for two-hour periods of study of the entire process library assistant dies w v lehman an assistant un der the late peter f stauffer for mer librarian succumbed on tues day mr lehman's career was event ful noteworthy among his exper iences were three separate enlist ments in the civil war from each of which he returned home unscath ed by rebel bullets gal and dangerous one-fourth of maternal deaths are due to illegal abortions he exclaimed birth control which is a move ment to make available to married couples knowledge of the control of reproduction and thereby allow them to space their children in a sane manner stated dr pearson is not a new subject it was used by the egyptians greeks and hin dus as far back as 1550 b c giving from his personal exper iences instances where doctors had boucher wolcott oiler trembley honored by alpha epsilon delta william f boucher arts 38 mark w wolcott arts 37 jose a oiler arts 37 and francis j trem i i • • tct d v v t~s 1 bley instructor lmnbjsvjgyjbvaebej pledged to alpha epsilon delta na tional honoraryt"pr*-ui£dical4ra.ter nity before tne*rol)ert w ifill pre-medical society last evening in packard laboraßf james h hufctf jftlwefttvf jflje fraternity gave a short talk on the history purpose and ideals of the organization he explained that the meetings were held every tuesday afternoon in william hall and that every student in the university was welcome to enter into their discus sions of modern medical problems explaining the method of elec tion huyck stated that there were four requirements all of which were available to the average man first a two point average for the two semesters directly preceding elec tion second membership in the robert w hall society third ac tivity in some extracurricula work and fourth interest in the work of alpha epsilon delta carefully kept instruments out of his sight while treating him he stated that there was a technique in the profession of eliminating un necessary worry or excitement by the patient dr stanley thomas professor of bacteriology spoke on the require ments of medical schools stating that if a man could obtain a 2.5 av erage and then added to that some extra-curricular activities he was in a far better position than the 2.5 average man lehigh university brown and white price — five cents bethlehem pa friday october 18 1935 a.s.m.e hears schwender speak band leaders rapp hall chosen senior prom bands arctic explorer geo hall member 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