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top was lined with them the whole effect was so surprising that i found difficulty in saying anything but i did begin with what do you think of the orchestras for the sen ior ball the veteran filled his pipe delib erately ... lit a match . . . paused . . . laid the pipe aside then hook ing a leg over the arm of his chair he began to speak in a slow drawl i've been at lehigh quite some time i've been a social member of three different classes and i'm not sure but what i like 37 even bet ter than the rest in all that time i can remember only twice that there wasn't some big howl about dance orchestras even when most of the boys were satisfied there was still some griping some of the boys thought ray noble had been terribly over rated and others didn't like ozzie and harriet but say listen to this the music wasn't loud but it seemed to fill the room i could close my eyes and imagine myself by judson l schaeffer it was in a bull session that i heard about him off and on he'd been at lehigh seven years he was on pro four times and had flunked most every subject he didn't like and yet he always kept within the regulations when he had to he could pass off any course some of the fellows called him the old man of the mountain and it wasn't long before i knew i'd have to see him — once any way the seven years gave me an idea . . . he lived near the top of the hill on the old philadelphia pike by the time i found the place i had made several mental notes to begin training on the next day hello he said without even asking who i was without listen ing to my explanation he shoved me ahead of him and started up the stairs one . . . two . . . three floors his room was a nightmare ap paratus mostly radio — all over the place and pictures — the walls were covered with them the desk one is a mormon in fact one man who was admitted originally as a baptist has since become atheist taoist holy roller and holy jumper that is on the registration ticket mr bohning says there are less men registering under pseudonyms this semester but he reminds us there are still some students who become episcopal just for the first semester merely with a pecuniary object the local episcopalian church holds a dance card party and dinner for lehigh episcopal ian students during the first month of school sophomores the figures show are the worst offenders along this line not all of the would-be dinner guests get invitations though mr bohning and his staff check back to the admissions record where the student is most likely to have re corded his true religious preference thus all intruders are removed be fore the church committee goes over the records continued on page four presbyterian episcopal catholic and lutheran students form the ma jority of lehigh's enrollment this semester statistics released monday by william h bohning assistant registrar show two hundred eighty men of pres byterian preference form 19.7 per cent of the entire undergraduate en rollment episcopal students follow with 227 or 16 percent registered catholic and lutheran men num ber 164 11.5 percent and 144 10 percent respectively there are 121 methodists hebrew enrollment has dropped in the past five years this semes ter there are 83 while five years ago this number was tripled eight other denominations listed are reformed congregational bap tist christian science quaker mo ravian evangelical and unitarian twelve men wrote none on the line provided for religious prefer ence on the registration ticket of the 18 listed as miscellaneous on the report some are holy rol lers holy jumpers or taoists and club to meet c c williams faculty lauds emery's life 22 press men trade stories state director to talk nov 12 speakers and athletic ex hibitions included in proposed program williams asked to talk dean c m mcconn howard r bosey reiter head of the depart ment of physical education paul r calcert freshman football coach and earl k smiley assistant direc tor of admissions will be the speak ers at a freshman smoker to be held in the gym dec 6 president c c williams will also be asked to speak king to wrestle included in the evening's program will be exhibitions of boxing fenc ing and wrestling one of the wrest ling bouts will be between thomp son king jr and henry matthes king held the maryland interscho lastic 145-lb championship and matthes won the detroit interscho lastic 175-lb championship last year wrestling 20 pounds under that weight plans for the rally were made at a recent meeting of the union the freshmen sponsored a smoker and a dance last year dean cm mcconn declared that the smoker was one of the best class gatherings that he had seen on the campus band to march on armistice day will compete for prizes in legion parade the university band will march in the county armistic day parade in bethlehem announces arthur s anders commander of the harry f w johnson american legion post no 379 and general chair man of the armistice day commit tee a list of awards ranging from 50 to 5 has been drawn up by the awards committeemen of post 379 the units eligible for these prizes however include parading patriotic units only and do not include the university band o art exhibit opens garth a rowland presents two canvases an exhibition of paintings draw ings and water colors by allentown and bethlehem artists opened sun day afternoon at the art gallery in the library most local artists are represent ed including garth a howland head of the department of fine arts howland has two canvases on view one of which depicts the magazine and light lunch stand on north new street near broad the gallery will be open sunday wednesday thursday and friday afternoons from 3 to 5 and on fri day evenings from 7 to 9 the ex hibit will remain until nov 24 o astronomy club will hear wheeler on variable stars donald b wheeler eng phys 38 will talk to the earnest w brown astronomical society on variable stars at 4:15 p m to morrow in room 402 packer hall squier,'3b leaves hospital robert squier ch e 38 who was injured on oct 24 in the auto mobile accident in which charles h gaetjens ch e 38 was killed was discharged from st luke's hospital saturday he had been undergoing treatment at the hospital for a frac ture of the skull and contusions of the chest and hip bach tryouts to be held tryouts for next year's bach fes tival will be held this friday an nounces harold towne arts 37 george condit arts 37 and towne are the only students singing on the choir at present students desir ing to participate can receive fur ther information from towne leonard hall u of p botanist to address chemists at 7:45 p m wednesday taught chemistry here dr edgar t wherry of the de partment of botany at the univer sity of pennsylvania will speak on flowers in relation to the reac tion of soils at the chemistry so ciety meeting at 7:45 p m wed nesday nov 13 in packard audi torium dr wherry is a former lehigh teacher of chemistry mineralogy geology and crystallography he has served on various governmental bureaus and was a lecturer of chem istry at the wagner free institute in philadelphia he also was editor of the american mineralogist from 1919 to 1921 will bring slides in his letter of acceptance as speaker dr wherry said that he will bring about 75 colored slides and tell of his experiments in test ing soil acidity and growing plants according to this acidity the chemistry society says dr h m ullmann director of the cur riculum in chemistry consists of 250 members including 21 graduate students and 18 staff members after the meeting the chemists will re turn to the chemistry laboratory for refreshments and a short social meeting mcconn presides at conference appoints committee to define its duties from those of union recognizes frosh union arcadia at a regular meeting last evening heard the report of the ar cadia-union merger committee sus pended freshman regulations during houseparty week-end recognized the freshman union and punished a vi olator of freshman regulations dean c max mcconn spoke on house party the arcadia-union merger com mittee reported as follows that the duties of both organizations were not clearly defined or separated that the duties of the union are of such nature that sub - committees would not receive enough prestige and that the merger would deprive one senior of a chance to get prac tice in leadership reappoints committee arcadia reappointed the commit tee to draw up rules to distinguish between the duties arcadia and the lehigh union dean mcconn spoke of the neces sity of everyone's being on his best behavior at dances and houseparties he expressed the wish that there be no drinking not because of excess but because drinking leads to mis conduct he suggested that the sub ject be brought before each frater nity robert templeton 39 was brought before arcadia for failure to wear a dink he is to wear a red ribbon around his dink for a week dean favors time change student istrumental group to play at new york reception president c c williams will be introduced to the alumni club of new york at a reception and ban quet on nov 20 at the hotel wal dorf-astoria new york city the newly-formed student instrumental group will play at the function the group has been augmented for the occasion and will consist of eight musicians the affair will begin with the per sonal presentation of each alumnus to president williams grace to preside eugene g grace 99 president of the board of trustees will pre side and colonel willard cheva lier will speak for the american so ciety of civil engineers of which he is president other promient alumni and officials of lehigh uni versity are expected to attend the musicians who will play are as follows albert osman leader and string bass elmer biro albert snyder and charles moesel viol inists robert hale cellist george grow clarinetist william trump ler flutist and carstens haas pian ist elmer biro first violinist played with the beethoven sym phony orchestra at a concert given sunday at the boyd theatre the orchestra is expected to leave wed nesday for new york city and will return the same day will demonstrate new oil tester dean attends meetings in new york harrisburg dean c m mcconn attended the fourth educational conference thursday oct 31 at the hotel roosevelt new york city he was presiding officer at the discussion of four papers dealing with personel methods and educational testing the conference was sponsored by the education records bureau of which lehigh is a member the co operative testing service the am erican council on education com mittees on personel methods and educational testing and the com mission on the relations of schools and colleges of the progressive educational association dean mc conn is a member of the last two committees saturday he attended the pennsyl vania secondary school conference at harrisburg he was one of the leaders of the discussion of educa tion testing and the relation of school and college on thursday dean mcconn will attend the meeting of the commis sion on secondary schools of the middle atlantic association of col leges and secondary schools the work of this conference is to estab lish a list of accredited secondary schools moran 25 is engaged the engagement of miss marie j staud of brightwaters l 1 to eugene f moran jr 25 was an nounced recently mr moran is now with the moran towing and transportation company passes minute on death of vice president approves course changes the faculty at its meeting yester day afternoon in the faculty room alumni building approved and re corded a minute " on the death of natt m emery who until his death on wednesday evening was vice president and comptroller of the university after recording the life and ac complishments of dr emery the minute continues in part as follows a day catalog of a man's ca reer and accomplishments can but present a very inadequate picture of the man himself there is lacking the vital ele ment which distinguishes a real personality in dr emery's case the outstanding qualities were an engaging affability and a conscientious devotion to duty towards faculty and students he was always kindly fair courteous and sympathetic without in the least being gul lible he demanded a great deal of himself and expected much from others he was an able ad ministrator an excellent com mittee man and a capable pre siding officer his knowledge of business methods and parlia mentary procedure was supple mented by a generous fund of common sense and an almost uncanny faculty of getting at the crux of a situation to those who knew him well it was no surprise to hear that he had died in service and that his last effort was an endeavor to do something constructive for thpeßf(t)oße^lpy ( he sjo loved for lehigh univer sity was dr emery's life work fftßm : jj«l^r*itir he irew t - hiifc^feyl^toht mr i without stint all that was in hiofc—jln the seventy years of lemk^s^e^eja j^q have served longer none with more devotion more selfless ness or more loyalty a copy of the minute was sent to mrs emery regiment to parade the faculty authorized the accep tance of an invitation to the r o t c unit to participate nov 11 in continued on page four to speak on iron and steel bradley stoughton head of the department of metallurgy and me tallurgical engineering will speak on the manufacture of iron and steel before a meeting of the educational course of the american society of metallurgists nov 11 at temple university coming events wednesday nov 6 7:30 p m observatory open to the public thursday nov 7 7:30 p m radio society room 416 packard laboratory 7:30 p m i r society packard auditorium friday nov 8 4 p m houseparty begins 10 p m senior ball hotel beth lehem c v kirby will be second of speakers in lec ture series c valentine kirby state director of art education will lecture on art in society and industry at 8 p.m nov 12 in packard auditorium this lecture which is the only one spon sored by the arts department is the second in the faculty lecture series kirby attended union college receiving an honorary a.m in 1922 he was a teacher of fine and in dustrial arts in denver director of an art institution in buffalo and later in pittsburgh and since 1920 has been the state director of art in pennsyl vania he has lectured at various univer sities and is a member of american federation of arts eastern arts as sociation and other similar associa tions he is also a member of psi upsilon he is the author of the business of teaching and super vising the arts and co-author of graded art textbooks the first lecture of this year's series was given by dr thomas c poulter second in command of the recent byrd antarctic expedition on oct 21 the lecture committee has made an appropriation to bring dr christian gauss dean of the college princeton university here sometime this winter o bradford questions value of banking act of 1935 dr frederick a bradford pro fesor of economics has written an article on the banking act of 1935 which was published in the econo mist a publication of the invest ment bankers association the ar ticle was entitled banking act of 1935 is not a fundamental re form and in it dr bradford ques tioned the constructive value of the act and expressed a belief in bank ing reform along prosaic lines rath er than by experimentation this issue of the economist was the convention daily of the invest ment bankers convention at white sulphur springs w va o congdon tours virginia dr wray h congdon director of admissions left yesterday on a two-weeks tour of secondary schools in virginia will form orchestra for musical comedy an orchestra which will play for an original musical comedy to be presented by mustard and cheese in the spring is to be organized after tryouts are held at 9 p m tuesday in drown hall announced albert a rights faculty adviser of the dramatics group students who play trumpets trombones altos tenor or bari tone saxophones violins or the piano are invited to try for places in the first all-student or chestra to play for the first orig inal musical comedy to be at tempted by mustard and cheese flower freaks approves petition starting afternoon classes ten minutes later dean c m mcconn yesterday approved the petition circulated by beta kappa and theta kappa pi requesting the university to length en the lunch hour by having the afternoon classes meet at 1:10 rath er than at 1 dean mcconn had previously stated the change in periods could be made and still conform with university regulations the request is to be presented to the faculty committee on educational policies tjasjt if the petition is passed by this committee it will be forwarded to the faculty for consid s^fieißs3eirnyeting dec 2 if the change is to be made it will not g*)-«it effect until next semester ytu bm^aloli&nated by alfred getz eng 38 of beta kappa and joseph kotanchik eng 38 of theta kappa pi the purpose is to change the present system by which members off campus living groups and stu dents earning their board have to rush their dinner hour to be on time for one o'clock classes the petition was signed by all off campus fraternities sectionsa b c d of taylor hall price hall leon ard hall and three campus fraterni ties theta delta chi phi delta theta and phi gamma delta daughter born to alumnus an 8-pound daughter was recent ly born to mr and mrs arthur herman of mt lebanon pitts burgh mr herman was graduated from lehigh in 1922 as a metallur gical engineer and now holds a po sition with a pittsburgh concern purchases new oscillator the department of electrical en gineering recently purchased a ra dio frequency oscillator and fre quency modulator h c knutson assistant professor of electrical en gineering explained that the instru ment is to be used in connection with a cathode ray oscillioscope to adjust the tuning circuits of receiv ers fireside smoker reveals unusual reporting meth ods prize given seated in easy chairs grouped around the glowing fireplace 22 men lit their after-dinner cigars and ex changed tall stories and experiences with the editor of the bethlehem globe-times following the initiation of 12 publication executives into pi delta epsilon honorary publica tions fraternity friday evening in the faculty room of drown hall the banquet which preceded the smoker and followed the initiation ceremonies was unique in that no after-dinner speakers were allowed the table cloth consisted of three sheets of printed newspaper ten feet long and three to six feet wide the editor of the bethlehem globe-times harold b farquhar was the guest of the evening and enlivened the smoker telling how re porters had hidden in dumbwaiters kidnaped men and gone to other unusual lengths to scoop rival pa pers judson schaeffer arts 36 editor of the brown and white mentioned that one method of getting a girl's picture was to ring her doorbell and snap the picture when she answered the door although he exposed an actual incident where the picture turned out to be that of the maid hoppock wins david w hoppock i e 36 a member of the editorial board of the brown and white won the prize for the best story of the evening with his rather lengthy but pointed criticism of the royal bengal bi cycle club asa packer founded lehigh in stead of enlarging lafayette as was his original intention because the presbyterian church had refused to admit him in his youth stated john w maxwell 26 honorary member of the society relating some of the early history of the university saxtan tells tall one george t saxtan bus 36 pres ident of the society told of the web-footed dog who used to chase fish up trees while luther j up ton ch e 37 circulation manager of the lehigh review explained how a home-run batter split a ball in half one half going over the fence and one half being fielded and the final score being one and one-half to one a bill for an appropriation to a west virginia college explained dale h gramley faculty adviser to the society was killed when an op position state senator claimed that the male and female students there not only matriculated but also prac ticed collusion q carothers talks on finance dr neil carothers director of the college of business administration completed a series of two lectures today when he spoke before a meet ing of the trenton state teachers association on international finance he made the first speech of the se ries last tuesday on national finance before the same group these speeches were made in the central high school auditorium men from atlantic com pany to check oils a new machine for testing lubri cating oil will be demonstrated at 3 p m thursday in packard lab oratory representatives of the at lantic refining company have charge of the machine and will run their own test specimens as well as any that students or faculty members may bring the mechanical and industrial engineering senior classes will wit ness the demonstration as part of their work all students and faculty members interested are invited to witness the tests says prof fred v larkin head of the department of mechanical engineering professor larkin explained that the machine consisted fundamen tally of a shaft revolving in a bear ing upon which various loads can be put the oil to be tested is put into the bearing the lubricating value of the oil is determined by in creasing the load on the bearing with a poor oil the bearing will freeze under a relatively light load club to read the old maid the faculty dramatic club will read the old maid a pulitzer prize play by zoe aikens at its meeting at 7:45 p m wednesday in the student engineering societies room in packard laboratory re freshments will be served to mem bers after the reading unusual plants displayed at bill hall rare and unusual are the strelit zia regina and the aechmea mariae reginae bird of paradise flower and air plant to you which are in bloom in the vivarium in williams hall the bird of paradise plant a na tive of south africa has large blue and orange flowers which resemble birds about to take flight its scien tific name favors the wife of king george 111 charlotte sophia of the family mecklinburgh-strelitz a patroness of botany the air plant scientifically known as an epiphyte is a native of florida where it growns on trees it is not however a parasite but obtains its food by means of rain water which it is especially adapted to collect since the period of flowering of both plants is short interested bo tonists should see the exhibit at once brown and white price — five cents bethlehem pa tuesday november 5 1935 brown and white reporter tracks campus sage to lair holy rollers holy jumpers among lehigh's religions vol xliii no *#/£ e t wherry will discuss soil reaction arcadia hears adverse union merger report frosh group plans smoker dec 6 in gym all the lehigh newt first member intercollegiate newspaper association
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FullText | top was lined with them the whole effect was so surprising that i found difficulty in saying anything but i did begin with what do you think of the orchestras for the sen ior ball the veteran filled his pipe delib erately ... lit a match . . . paused . . . laid the pipe aside then hook ing a leg over the arm of his chair he began to speak in a slow drawl i've been at lehigh quite some time i've been a social member of three different classes and i'm not sure but what i like 37 even bet ter than the rest in all that time i can remember only twice that there wasn't some big howl about dance orchestras even when most of the boys were satisfied there was still some griping some of the boys thought ray noble had been terribly over rated and others didn't like ozzie and harriet but say listen to this the music wasn't loud but it seemed to fill the room i could close my eyes and imagine myself by judson l schaeffer it was in a bull session that i heard about him off and on he'd been at lehigh seven years he was on pro four times and had flunked most every subject he didn't like and yet he always kept within the regulations when he had to he could pass off any course some of the fellows called him the old man of the mountain and it wasn't long before i knew i'd have to see him — once any way the seven years gave me an idea . . . he lived near the top of the hill on the old philadelphia pike by the time i found the place i had made several mental notes to begin training on the next day hello he said without even asking who i was without listen ing to my explanation he shoved me ahead of him and started up the stairs one . . . two . . . three floors his room was a nightmare ap paratus mostly radio — all over the place and pictures — the walls were covered with them the desk one is a mormon in fact one man who was admitted originally as a baptist has since become atheist taoist holy roller and holy jumper that is on the registration ticket mr bohning says there are less men registering under pseudonyms this semester but he reminds us there are still some students who become episcopal just for the first semester merely with a pecuniary object the local episcopalian church holds a dance card party and dinner for lehigh episcopal ian students during the first month of school sophomores the figures show are the worst offenders along this line not all of the would-be dinner guests get invitations though mr bohning and his staff check back to the admissions record where the student is most likely to have re corded his true religious preference thus all intruders are removed be fore the church committee goes over the records continued on page four presbyterian episcopal catholic and lutheran students form the ma jority of lehigh's enrollment this semester statistics released monday by william h bohning assistant registrar show two hundred eighty men of pres byterian preference form 19.7 per cent of the entire undergraduate en rollment episcopal students follow with 227 or 16 percent registered catholic and lutheran men num ber 164 11.5 percent and 144 10 percent respectively there are 121 methodists hebrew enrollment has dropped in the past five years this semes ter there are 83 while five years ago this number was tripled eight other denominations listed are reformed congregational bap tist christian science quaker mo ravian evangelical and unitarian twelve men wrote none on the line provided for religious prefer ence on the registration ticket of the 18 listed as miscellaneous on the report some are holy rol lers holy jumpers or taoists and club to meet c c williams faculty lauds emery's life 22 press men trade stories state director to talk nov 12 speakers and athletic ex hibitions included in proposed program williams asked to talk dean c m mcconn howard r bosey reiter head of the depart ment of physical education paul r calcert freshman football coach and earl k smiley assistant direc tor of admissions will be the speak ers at a freshman smoker to be held in the gym dec 6 president c c williams will also be asked to speak king to wrestle included in the evening's program will be exhibitions of boxing fenc ing and wrestling one of the wrest ling bouts will be between thomp son king jr and henry matthes king held the maryland interscho lastic 145-lb championship and matthes won the detroit interscho lastic 175-lb championship last year wrestling 20 pounds under that weight plans for the rally were made at a recent meeting of the union the freshmen sponsored a smoker and a dance last year dean cm mcconn declared that the smoker was one of the best class gatherings that he had seen on the campus band to march on armistice day will compete for prizes in legion parade the university band will march in the county armistic day parade in bethlehem announces arthur s anders commander of the harry f w johnson american legion post no 379 and general chair man of the armistice day commit tee a list of awards ranging from 50 to 5 has been drawn up by the awards committeemen of post 379 the units eligible for these prizes however include parading patriotic units only and do not include the university band o art exhibit opens garth a rowland presents two canvases an exhibition of paintings draw ings and water colors by allentown and bethlehem artists opened sun day afternoon at the art gallery in the library most local artists are represent ed including garth a howland head of the department of fine arts howland has two canvases on view one of which depicts the magazine and light lunch stand on north new street near broad the gallery will be open sunday wednesday thursday and friday afternoons from 3 to 5 and on fri day evenings from 7 to 9 the ex hibit will remain until nov 24 o astronomy club will hear wheeler on variable stars donald b wheeler eng phys 38 will talk to the earnest w brown astronomical society on variable stars at 4:15 p m to morrow in room 402 packer hall squier,'3b leaves hospital robert squier ch e 38 who was injured on oct 24 in the auto mobile accident in which charles h gaetjens ch e 38 was killed was discharged from st luke's hospital saturday he had been undergoing treatment at the hospital for a frac ture of the skull and contusions of the chest and hip bach tryouts to be held tryouts for next year's bach fes tival will be held this friday an nounces harold towne arts 37 george condit arts 37 and towne are the only students singing on the choir at present students desir ing to participate can receive fur ther information from towne leonard hall u of p botanist to address chemists at 7:45 p m wednesday taught chemistry here dr edgar t wherry of the de partment of botany at the univer sity of pennsylvania will speak on flowers in relation to the reac tion of soils at the chemistry so ciety meeting at 7:45 p m wed nesday nov 13 in packard audi torium dr wherry is a former lehigh teacher of chemistry mineralogy geology and crystallography he has served on various governmental bureaus and was a lecturer of chem istry at the wagner free institute in philadelphia he also was editor of the american mineralogist from 1919 to 1921 will bring slides in his letter of acceptance as speaker dr wherry said that he will bring about 75 colored slides and tell of his experiments in test ing soil acidity and growing plants according to this acidity the chemistry society says dr h m ullmann director of the cur riculum in chemistry consists of 250 members including 21 graduate students and 18 staff members after the meeting the chemists will re turn to the chemistry laboratory for refreshments and a short social meeting mcconn presides at conference appoints committee to define its duties from those of union recognizes frosh union arcadia at a regular meeting last evening heard the report of the ar cadia-union merger committee sus pended freshman regulations during houseparty week-end recognized the freshman union and punished a vi olator of freshman regulations dean c max mcconn spoke on house party the arcadia-union merger com mittee reported as follows that the duties of both organizations were not clearly defined or separated that the duties of the union are of such nature that sub - committees would not receive enough prestige and that the merger would deprive one senior of a chance to get prac tice in leadership reappoints committee arcadia reappointed the commit tee to draw up rules to distinguish between the duties arcadia and the lehigh union dean mcconn spoke of the neces sity of everyone's being on his best behavior at dances and houseparties he expressed the wish that there be no drinking not because of excess but because drinking leads to mis conduct he suggested that the sub ject be brought before each frater nity robert templeton 39 was brought before arcadia for failure to wear a dink he is to wear a red ribbon around his dink for a week dean favors time change student istrumental group to play at new york reception president c c williams will be introduced to the alumni club of new york at a reception and ban quet on nov 20 at the hotel wal dorf-astoria new york city the newly-formed student instrumental group will play at the function the group has been augmented for the occasion and will consist of eight musicians the affair will begin with the per sonal presentation of each alumnus to president williams grace to preside eugene g grace 99 president of the board of trustees will pre side and colonel willard cheva lier will speak for the american so ciety of civil engineers of which he is president other promient alumni and officials of lehigh uni versity are expected to attend the musicians who will play are as follows albert osman leader and string bass elmer biro albert snyder and charles moesel viol inists robert hale cellist george grow clarinetist william trump ler flutist and carstens haas pian ist elmer biro first violinist played with the beethoven sym phony orchestra at a concert given sunday at the boyd theatre the orchestra is expected to leave wed nesday for new york city and will return the same day will demonstrate new oil tester dean attends meetings in new york harrisburg dean c m mcconn attended the fourth educational conference thursday oct 31 at the hotel roosevelt new york city he was presiding officer at the discussion of four papers dealing with personel methods and educational testing the conference was sponsored by the education records bureau of which lehigh is a member the co operative testing service the am erican council on education com mittees on personel methods and educational testing and the com mission on the relations of schools and colleges of the progressive educational association dean mc conn is a member of the last two committees saturday he attended the pennsyl vania secondary school conference at harrisburg he was one of the leaders of the discussion of educa tion testing and the relation of school and college on thursday dean mcconn will attend the meeting of the commis sion on secondary schools of the middle atlantic association of col leges and secondary schools the work of this conference is to estab lish a list of accredited secondary schools moran 25 is engaged the engagement of miss marie j staud of brightwaters l 1 to eugene f moran jr 25 was an nounced recently mr moran is now with the moran towing and transportation company passes minute on death of vice president approves course changes the faculty at its meeting yester day afternoon in the faculty room alumni building approved and re corded a minute " on the death of natt m emery who until his death on wednesday evening was vice president and comptroller of the university after recording the life and ac complishments of dr emery the minute continues in part as follows a day catalog of a man's ca reer and accomplishments can but present a very inadequate picture of the man himself there is lacking the vital ele ment which distinguishes a real personality in dr emery's case the outstanding qualities were an engaging affability and a conscientious devotion to duty towards faculty and students he was always kindly fair courteous and sympathetic without in the least being gul lible he demanded a great deal of himself and expected much from others he was an able ad ministrator an excellent com mittee man and a capable pre siding officer his knowledge of business methods and parlia mentary procedure was supple mented by a generous fund of common sense and an almost uncanny faculty of getting at the crux of a situation to those who knew him well it was no surprise to hear that he had died in service and that his last effort was an endeavor to do something constructive for thpeßf(t)oße^lpy ( he sjo loved for lehigh univer sity was dr emery's life work fftßm : jj«l^r*itir he irew t - hiifc^feyl^toht mr i without stint all that was in hiofc—jln the seventy years of lemk^s^e^eja j^q have served longer none with more devotion more selfless ness or more loyalty a copy of the minute was sent to mrs emery regiment to parade the faculty authorized the accep tance of an invitation to the r o t c unit to participate nov 11 in continued on page four to speak on iron and steel bradley stoughton head of the department of metallurgy and me tallurgical engineering will speak on the manufacture of iron and steel before a meeting of the educational course of the american society of metallurgists nov 11 at temple university coming events wednesday nov 6 7:30 p m observatory open to the public thursday nov 7 7:30 p m radio society room 416 packard laboratory 7:30 p m i r society packard auditorium friday nov 8 4 p m houseparty begins 10 p m senior ball hotel beth lehem c v kirby will be second of speakers in lec ture series c valentine kirby state director of art education will lecture on art in society and industry at 8 p.m nov 12 in packard auditorium this lecture which is the only one spon sored by the arts department is the second in the faculty lecture series kirby attended union college receiving an honorary a.m in 1922 he was a teacher of fine and in dustrial arts in denver director of an art institution in buffalo and later in pittsburgh and since 1920 has been the state director of art in pennsyl vania he has lectured at various univer sities and is a member of american federation of arts eastern arts as sociation and other similar associa tions he is also a member of psi upsilon he is the author of the business of teaching and super vising the arts and co-author of graded art textbooks the first lecture of this year's series was given by dr thomas c poulter second in command of the recent byrd antarctic expedition on oct 21 the lecture committee has made an appropriation to bring dr christian gauss dean of the college princeton university here sometime this winter o bradford questions value of banking act of 1935 dr frederick a bradford pro fesor of economics has written an article on the banking act of 1935 which was published in the econo mist a publication of the invest ment bankers association the ar ticle was entitled banking act of 1935 is not a fundamental re form and in it dr bradford ques tioned the constructive value of the act and expressed a belief in bank ing reform along prosaic lines rath er than by experimentation this issue of the economist was the convention daily of the invest ment bankers convention at white sulphur springs w va o congdon tours virginia dr wray h congdon director of admissions left yesterday on a two-weeks tour of secondary schools in virginia will form orchestra for musical comedy an orchestra which will play for an original musical comedy to be presented by mustard and cheese in the spring is to be organized after tryouts are held at 9 p m tuesday in drown hall announced albert a rights faculty adviser of the dramatics group students who play trumpets trombones altos tenor or bari tone saxophones violins or the piano are invited to try for places in the first all-student or chestra to play for the first orig inal musical comedy to be at tempted by mustard and cheese flower freaks approves petition starting afternoon classes ten minutes later dean c m mcconn yesterday approved the petition circulated by beta kappa and theta kappa pi requesting the university to length en the lunch hour by having the afternoon classes meet at 1:10 rath er than at 1 dean mcconn had previously stated the change in periods could be made and still conform with university regulations the request is to be presented to the faculty committee on educational policies tjasjt if the petition is passed by this committee it will be forwarded to the faculty for consid s^fieißs3eirnyeting dec 2 if the change is to be made it will not g*)-«it effect until next semester ytu bm^aloli&nated by alfred getz eng 38 of beta kappa and joseph kotanchik eng 38 of theta kappa pi the purpose is to change the present system by which members off campus living groups and stu dents earning their board have to rush their dinner hour to be on time for one o'clock classes the petition was signed by all off campus fraternities sectionsa b c d of taylor hall price hall leon ard hall and three campus fraterni ties theta delta chi phi delta theta and phi gamma delta daughter born to alumnus an 8-pound daughter was recent ly born to mr and mrs arthur herman of mt lebanon pitts burgh mr herman was graduated from lehigh in 1922 as a metallur gical engineer and now holds a po sition with a pittsburgh concern purchases new oscillator the department of electrical en gineering recently purchased a ra dio frequency oscillator and fre quency modulator h c knutson assistant professor of electrical en gineering explained that the instru ment is to be used in connection with a cathode ray oscillioscope to adjust the tuning circuits of receiv ers fireside smoker reveals unusual reporting meth ods prize given seated in easy chairs grouped around the glowing fireplace 22 men lit their after-dinner cigars and ex changed tall stories and experiences with the editor of the bethlehem globe-times following the initiation of 12 publication executives into pi delta epsilon honorary publica tions fraternity friday evening in the faculty room of drown hall the banquet which preceded the smoker and followed the initiation ceremonies was unique in that no after-dinner speakers were allowed the table cloth consisted of three sheets of printed newspaper ten feet long and three to six feet wide the editor of the bethlehem globe-times harold b farquhar was the guest of the evening and enlivened the smoker telling how re porters had hidden in dumbwaiters kidnaped men and gone to other unusual lengths to scoop rival pa pers judson schaeffer arts 36 editor of the brown and white mentioned that one method of getting a girl's picture was to ring her doorbell and snap the picture when she answered the door although he exposed an actual incident where the picture turned out to be that of the maid hoppock wins david w hoppock i e 36 a member of the editorial board of the brown and white won the prize for the best story of the evening with his rather lengthy but pointed criticism of the royal bengal bi cycle club asa packer founded lehigh in stead of enlarging lafayette as was his original intention because the presbyterian church had refused to admit him in his youth stated john w maxwell 26 honorary member of the society relating some of the early history of the university saxtan tells tall one george t saxtan bus 36 pres ident of the society told of the web-footed dog who used to chase fish up trees while luther j up ton ch e 37 circulation manager of the lehigh review explained how a home-run batter split a ball in half one half going over the fence and one half being fielded and the final score being one and one-half to one a bill for an appropriation to a west virginia college explained dale h gramley faculty adviser to the society was killed when an op position state senator claimed that the male and female students there not only matriculated but also prac ticed collusion q carothers talks on finance dr neil carothers director of the college of business administration completed a series of two lectures today when he spoke before a meet ing of the trenton state teachers association on international finance he made the first speech of the se ries last tuesday on national finance before the same group these speeches were made in the central high school auditorium men from atlantic com pany to check oils a new machine for testing lubri cating oil will be demonstrated at 3 p m thursday in packard lab oratory representatives of the at lantic refining company have charge of the machine and will run their own test specimens as well as any that students or faculty members may bring the mechanical and industrial engineering senior classes will wit ness the demonstration as part of their work all students and faculty members interested are invited to witness the tests says prof fred v larkin head of the department of mechanical engineering professor larkin explained that the machine consisted fundamen tally of a shaft revolving in a bear ing upon which various loads can be put the oil to be tested is put into the bearing the lubricating value of the oil is determined by in creasing the load on the bearing with a poor oil the bearing will freeze under a relatively light load club to read the old maid the faculty dramatic club will read the old maid a pulitzer prize play by zoe aikens at its meeting at 7:45 p m wednesday in the student engineering societies room in packard laboratory re freshments will be served to mem bers after the reading unusual plants displayed at bill hall rare and unusual are the strelit zia regina and the aechmea mariae reginae bird of paradise flower and air plant to you which are in bloom in the vivarium in williams hall the bird of paradise plant a na tive of south africa has large blue and orange flowers which resemble birds about to take flight its scien tific name favors the wife of king george 111 charlotte sophia of the family mecklinburgh-strelitz a patroness of botany the air plant scientifically known as an epiphyte is a native of florida where it growns on trees it is not however a parasite but obtains its food by means of rain water which it is especially adapted to collect since the period of flowering of both plants is short interested bo tonists should see the exhibit at once brown and white price — five cents bethlehem pa tuesday november 5 1935 brown and white reporter tracks campus sage to lair holy rollers holy jumpers among lehigh's religions vol xliii no *#/£ e t wherry will discuss soil reaction arcadia hears adverse union merger report frosh group plans smoker dec 6 in gym all the lehigh newt first member intercollegiate newspaper association |
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