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lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday december 20 1935 enjoy leisurely lunch classes begin at 1:10 pre-med seniors study injected pigs vol xliii — no 24 price — five cents m.e.'s i.e.'s hold christinas party 85 per cent of 1935 class now employed may engage tom dorsey to play at ball clewell makes unique model of watt egine t k garihan elected head of news men scale replica to be shown at bicentennial in january only in existence the only model of its kind a scale replica of a watt walking beam engine is now nearing com pletion in the packard laboratory built to a scale of 1-16 and hand made in its entirety it is a tribute to the craftsmanship of w s gentlemen you have attended your last afternoon classes be ginning on the hour when you return next year jari 6 is the date you will help to make his tory at lehigh all afternoon classes will begin at 10 minutes past the hour including military drills never before in the his tory of the university have after noon sessions started at any time other than the even hour avoid the noon-hour rush men eat leisurely and health fully shun acid-mouth and in digestion come to classes mon day afternoon at 10 minutes aft er the hour remember 10 after eagle scouts elect sturgis alpha epsilon delta sees unusual experiment an experiment in anaphylaxis or hypersensitiveness in guinea pigs was performed before a meeting of alpha epsilon delta honorary pre medical fraternity tuesday after noon at williams hall seniors working for honors in bi ology met with mediocre success in demonstrating the reactions of pigs which had peen sensitized to horse serum on dec 3 at the demonstration the sensi tized guinea pigs were injected with serum and the reactions recorded symptoms of hypersusceptibility are ruffling of fur scratching of the nose and death in cases where the pigs had been highly sensitized by large injections two weeks before when abdominal injections prov ed insufficient further injections were made intravenously and the desired results were obtained enjoy games in drown hall wednesday night a christmas party attended by a group of 100 was held for the stu dents of the mechanical and indus trial engineering courses wednes day evening in drown hall a session of gambling games by students and faculty followed the opening of the meeting by david w hoppock president of the in dustrial engineering sociay the awards for the winners of the gambling games went to arthur croll m e 36 who received first prize and to warren p fairbanks i e 37 and henry }. brucker eng 39 who were tied for second place christmas carols led by the dou ble quartet and joined in by the en tire gathering were sung after the presentation of these awards gifts from santa claus played by hugh j rosebery m e 36 were dis tributed to members of the faculty on behalf of student classes of the past and the present 250 children attend party will present concert jan 11 society names wheeler 36 gordon 38 schick 37 as other officers robert sturgis m e 38 was elected president of the lehigh eagle scout association thursday dec 12 at a meeting held in drown hall other officers are william wheeler bus 36 vice president david gordon bus 38 secretary and leonard h schick arts 37 treasurer these officers will serve for the current school year the main purpose of the organ ization of this society is to petition alpha phi omega national hon orary scouting fraternity the peti tion has already been presented to the dean for the approval of the student activities committee there are 12 charter members who have signed the petition for the local chapter but if the petition to the national fraternity is granted the society will expand to around 30 men the next meeting of the society will be on wednesday jan 8 at 7:30 in the arcadia room of drown halt those men who are interested and have not attended any of the last meetings are urged to be pres ent continued on page four spare the owl williams speaks at e e banquet placement office reports an increase over previous years met e.s and e.e.s high of the 264 men who graduated in 1935 225 or 85 percent have se cured employment or are doing graduate work says e robins mor gan director of placement these figures show an increase over those of preceding years using the june figures of each year as a means of comparison in 1934 201 out of 252 or 80 percent of the class were placed in 1933 185 out of 247 or 75 percent were placed in 1932 134 out of 263 or 51 per cent were placed and in 1931 192 out of 305 or 63 percent were placed there are still 13 of last year's class that have not sent any re port to the placement office the chances are very much in favor that the 13 unreported are placed oth erwise they would have responded with the requests for services with the placement office said mr mor gan if such be the case the per centage of men placed would be raised to approximately 90 48 arts men placed of the 52 graduates of the arts college heard from 48 or approx imately 91 percent have been placed about 85 percent or 52 of the 61 business men who have reported to the placement office are now work ing the chemical engineers have placed 28 out of 34 or approximate ly 83 percent while 66 percent of the chemists or 4 out of 6 have been employed the electrical engineers and the metallurgical engineers have both placed 100 percent with 17 of the former and 9 of the latter receiv ing jobs approximately 89 percent of the civil and industrial engin eers are working with 16 out of 18 civils placed and 26 out of 29 in dustrials placed three of the four engineering physicists or 75 percent have been placed of the mechanical engin eers 94 percent or 16 out of 17 have been placed while 88 percent of the mining engineers or 7 out of 8 are working will give paper on coastal study interfraternity council is negotiating with lead er for february 1 has not yet selected site tommy dorsey and his orchestra will probably play for the interfra ternity ball stated walter p crock ett i e 36 president of the coun cil the site for the dance has not been definitely selected as yet the coliseum will likely be the choice but the hotel bethlehem is still a possibility there has been some discussion of securing the armory on the west side but the distance has been a serious objection feb 1 has been chosen as the date for the ball each fraternity member will be assessed through the interfraternity council and the charge will be 2.28 per couple tom dorsey began his career when he and his brother james formed the original dorsey broth ers band which played at the palais royal in new york sandt's point casino on long island and the glen island casino in addition they made several national tours and one foreign tour three years ago directs haymes orchestra last year the brothers broke up and tom dorsey took over joe haymes orchestra after securing edythe wright to sing for his new band he accepted contracts to play at the french casino in new york he had been selected to play at the lehigh senior ball this year but lafayette secured him first for the lafayette interfraternity ball the band has made records for both victor and n b c tom dorsey himself is consid ered one of the best trombone play ers in the country and has been fea tured on the rudy vallee program o pre-med society holds annual christmas dinner the robert w hall pre-medical society held its annual christmas banquet and party wednesday eve ning at the hotel bethlehem james p sell instructor in biology pre sented a humorous paper entitled a classification of the species found in bill hall in which he satirized well known members of the faculty and students following the paper humorous gifts were giv en to members of the faculty and the officers of the society combined musical clubs to feature double quartet and ensemble the double quartet and the sym phonic ensemble both newly organ ized will make their debuts sat urday evening jan 11 at the an nual combined musical clubs home concert and dance the program to be held at 8:30 in drown hall will include solos by gilberto escobedo c e 36 baritone and by carstens y haas ch e 38 pianist dr t edgar shields university organist will lead the men in six songs as announced by h e towne arts 36 president they are hail the college land seiting grieg ; brown october ale andrews ; clipper days parry ; shadow march pro theroe by request and alma mater mr escobedo will sing several mexican songs and accompany himself on the guitar the negro spiritual deep river and the bells of st mary's are featured by the double quartet mr towne also announced that arrangements are being completed for a half hour broadcast by the club over station wor some time early next semester the entire personnel is urged to attend the special rehearsals jan 7 4 p m jan 8 7:30 p m and jan 9 4 p m says towne m e.'s i e.'s fete santa buchanan bartlett stu dents entertain at an nual christmas affair the second annual christmas party for the children of faculty members was held tuesday after noon from 4 to 6 o'clock at drown hall two hundred and fifty chil dren attended accompanied by their parents a tumbling act presented by stu dents under the direction of fay c bartlett assistant professor of phy sical education proved of great de light to the children those stu dents appearing were edwin fish er eng 39 justin glide eng 39 frank j washabaugh eng 38 joseph j peraino e m 36 and martin wittstein arts 39 who ac companied at the piano bartlett exhibits professor bartlett gave an exhi bition of club swinging a e buch anan executive secretary of the alumni association gave a half hour exhibition of feats of magic after which santa claus appeared and presented gifts to all of the children mrs t h hazlehurst jr headed the committee of arrangements as chairman and was assisted by the following mrs morris e kanaly mrs c d jensen mrs r b cowin mrs d m fraser mrs h d gruber mrs robert w hall mrs h d keiser mrs n a kellogg mrs neil carothers mrs a a rights mrs e h ril.ey mrs e r theis mrs warren ewing mrs e h uhler mrs harvey neville w s clewell clewell mechanician and laboratory assistant in the mechanical engin eering department the model is to be exhibited at the watt bicentennial exposition which will be held at lehigh jan 19 20 and 21 under the auspices of lehigh university the franklin inistitute of pennsylvania the am erican society of mechanical en gineers and the newcomen society of england every part of this model was made by mr clewell or by one of his assistants r m coates eng 39 and e e hagerman eng 39 among the many problems pre sented by the construction of the model was the construction of the fly wheel it seems that the wheel on the original engine was built in sections to facilitate its transporta tion around england the model flywheel is also built in sections and the entire thing is held together by bolts all of which are made with square heads duplicating the bolts in the oirginal engine have glass sections various parts of the engine have glass sections through which the operations can be watched inside the lower cylinder is a small elec tric light which can be run on pow er from a generator operated by the engine itself at present the engine is being run by compressed air but its construc tion is such that it can be run by steam by which pqwer it will be operated during the exposition i was sorry not to be able to make it more exactly like the orig inal said mr clewell great only are graduated write-ups in epitome show f j trembley finds birds useful hunter spare that owl partic ularly if it is a barn owl proof that this uncommon owl should be spared has been furnished by francis j trembley instructor in biology who has recently made a study of the diet of the barn owl discovering the presence of a pair of the birds in the tower of the alumni memorial building mr trembley gathered and studied the pellets of undigested material left by the owls in 110 pellets were found the skulls and jaw bones of 193 meadow mice 11 shrews 22 house mice 10 english sparrows 1 barn rat 1 deer mouse and 2 un known birds the fact that all of the bones with the possible excep tion of the unknown birds are the remains of harmful animals proves the usefulness of the barn owl mr trembley explained that the barn owl strix pratincola is its scientific name is one of our most beautiful owls having a white breast and a rich golden-brown back o soto and luch recovering but will not teach soon myron j luch professor of eng lish and rafael a soto assistant professor of romance languages both of whom were taken ill sun day have been reported by their nurses to be doing well professor luch suffered from a heart attack and is recuperating at home where he will probably be confined from the next month pro fessor soto is in st luke's hospital with an attack of pneumonia we are not yet able to say how long professor soto will have to remain in the hospital said his nurse last night mrs a w wright dies mrs aubertine woodward wrigt mother of prof horace w wright head of the department of latin died thursday morning in her home at 41 wall street after a four year illness fem-sem troupe and sen iors present skits president c c williams told members of the e e society that those men who graduate in times of financial stress have a better chance of great success than those who start their careers during times of prosperity in a talk given at the society's christmas party which was held on wednesday evening at the d a r log cabin this fact he said has been shown by studies made by himself and by purdue university of the classes which graduated at the depths of the worst depressions of the last 75 years the seniors presented comic char acterizations of the electrical engin eering professors and about 16 stu dents from fem-sem presented a sort skit based on popeye which they had written the prize for winning the who's who identification game at the start of the evening was presented to r n weller e e 37 directors meet ewing miller to attend geological meet dec 26 geophysical investigation in the emerged and submerged at lantic coastal plain is the topic of a paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the geological society of america held in new york dec 26 dr maurice ewing instructor in physics a p crary former assistant instructor in phy sics dr b l miller head of the department of geology and h m rutherford of the university of pittsburgh will cooperate in giving the paper dr ewing will present part one on methods and results while dr miller will present part two the geological significance of the results these papers sum up the seismic work dr ewing carried out from on board the ships ocean ographer and atlantis in june and this fall vibrations from dynamite explo sions on the ocean floor were picked up by geophones and interpreted to indicate the depth to bed rock o probability is discussed at combined meeting the monthly meetings of pi mv epsilon honorary mathematics so ciety and the physics society were combined in a program wednesday night on the topic of probability mathematical problems in proba bility were presented by student members followed by demonstra tions of the occurrence of probabil ity in physical phenomena by dr max petersen associate professor of physics everything he does he does with a remarkable thoroughness he is possessed of a great driving force which he applies to those things which interest him — and he makes them click runs another truism ah to be a senior and to have your real value recognized at last but facts are facts and if you scratch far enough you're bound to be bitten by one thus one analysis goes what have the four years done well there's no type of woman he hasn't had an affair with what bet ter recommendation does the out going graduate need happy must be the parents perusing that son's achievements t his alma mater another student claims a more profitable four years than those spent by his colleagues so reads his character statements student philosopher respon sible senior devoted lover and an adherent of self-discipline so take courage all ye meek souls who are about to leave le high you are sure to leave a glam orous record behind you regardless of what you have done — or have not done so you're writing your friend's biography for the epitome surely then you realize that he is nothing less than a casanova caesar lincoln and grantland rice rolled into one potential leading lawyer doctor statesmen or bank er and why shouldn't he be after all the class of 36 is at least as good as the class of 35 and the class of 35 contained such hidden ability as to make us who must follow quivver with apprehension prove it just ask the last year's seniors just look a their individual records as set forth in last year's annual verily we're living in an age of giants a flagrantly glamorous and dis armingly seductive personality has helped b attain an envious po sition as one of lehigh's most dis tinctive sons reads one modest eulogy eugene grace will please look to his laurels the feminine population should powder their noses for this one as a lover he has unsual intensity but the usual purpose non-pater nal non-maternal non-platonic and a list of love nests that sounds like a train crier's mouthings nor is the all-american lacking from this group witness a touch of da vinci . . . the poesy of walt whitman . . . the erudition of his vaterland . . . the dialogues of noel coward ..." can't anyone recognize him dear god what's an inferiority complex upper dice lure students faculty into game — but it's only for fun lower : when they learned they couldn't lose everyone wants to gamble — brown and white fotofeature curriciilum heads discuss senior placement nine directors of curricula met with president c c williams and e r morgan placement director wednesday afternoon to discuss problems of senior placement fred v larkin head of the departments of industrial and mechanical engin eering is chairman of the commit tee it was the first meeting of the group since dr williams and mr morgan have taken their respective offices the same relation and co operation between the curricula heads and the placement office in the past under john a brodhead former director will continue pi delta epsilon adopts proposal for faculty adviser to epitome would reassign profits thomas k garihan jr business manager of the epitome was elect ed president of pi delta epsilon national honorary publications fra ternity at a meeting yesterday af ternoon in drown hall a plan for faculty supervision of the epitome was adopted which will be given to the board of pub lications for their consideration preparing the budget would be one duty of the editorial adviser stated george t saxtan former presi dent of the society he would be a permanentn ent member of the epitome board with an equal vote and would be appointed or discharged at the will of the board of pub lications lne budget would determine the income expenses and profit of the epitome the total profits would be close to 1,000 and would be dis tributed according to the ratios giv en below any additional profits over the original budget would be distributed among the board on the same ratios editorial adviser 13 percent edi tor in chief 32 percent business manager 22 percent senior sec tion leader 12 percent section lead er 1 4 percent section leader 2 4 percent section leader 3 4 per cent assistant business manager 4 percent the present distribution of prof its is editorial adviser none editor in chief 40 percent business man ager 25 percent senior section lead t k garihan jr member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first next issue jan 10 with this issue the brown and white suspends publication un til friday jan 10 1936
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FullText | lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday december 20 1935 enjoy leisurely lunch classes begin at 1:10 pre-med seniors study injected pigs vol xliii — no 24 price — five cents m.e.'s i.e.'s hold christinas party 85 per cent of 1935 class now employed may engage tom dorsey to play at ball clewell makes unique model of watt egine t k garihan elected head of news men scale replica to be shown at bicentennial in january only in existence the only model of its kind a scale replica of a watt walking beam engine is now nearing com pletion in the packard laboratory built to a scale of 1-16 and hand made in its entirety it is a tribute to the craftsmanship of w s gentlemen you have attended your last afternoon classes be ginning on the hour when you return next year jari 6 is the date you will help to make his tory at lehigh all afternoon classes will begin at 10 minutes past the hour including military drills never before in the his tory of the university have after noon sessions started at any time other than the even hour avoid the noon-hour rush men eat leisurely and health fully shun acid-mouth and in digestion come to classes mon day afternoon at 10 minutes aft er the hour remember 10 after eagle scouts elect sturgis alpha epsilon delta sees unusual experiment an experiment in anaphylaxis or hypersensitiveness in guinea pigs was performed before a meeting of alpha epsilon delta honorary pre medical fraternity tuesday after noon at williams hall seniors working for honors in bi ology met with mediocre success in demonstrating the reactions of pigs which had peen sensitized to horse serum on dec 3 at the demonstration the sensi tized guinea pigs were injected with serum and the reactions recorded symptoms of hypersusceptibility are ruffling of fur scratching of the nose and death in cases where the pigs had been highly sensitized by large injections two weeks before when abdominal injections prov ed insufficient further injections were made intravenously and the desired results were obtained enjoy games in drown hall wednesday night a christmas party attended by a group of 100 was held for the stu dents of the mechanical and indus trial engineering courses wednes day evening in drown hall a session of gambling games by students and faculty followed the opening of the meeting by david w hoppock president of the in dustrial engineering sociay the awards for the winners of the gambling games went to arthur croll m e 36 who received first prize and to warren p fairbanks i e 37 and henry }. brucker eng 39 who were tied for second place christmas carols led by the dou ble quartet and joined in by the en tire gathering were sung after the presentation of these awards gifts from santa claus played by hugh j rosebery m e 36 were dis tributed to members of the faculty on behalf of student classes of the past and the present 250 children attend party will present concert jan 11 society names wheeler 36 gordon 38 schick 37 as other officers robert sturgis m e 38 was elected president of the lehigh eagle scout association thursday dec 12 at a meeting held in drown hall other officers are william wheeler bus 36 vice president david gordon bus 38 secretary and leonard h schick arts 37 treasurer these officers will serve for the current school year the main purpose of the organ ization of this society is to petition alpha phi omega national hon orary scouting fraternity the peti tion has already been presented to the dean for the approval of the student activities committee there are 12 charter members who have signed the petition for the local chapter but if the petition to the national fraternity is granted the society will expand to around 30 men the next meeting of the society will be on wednesday jan 8 at 7:30 in the arcadia room of drown halt those men who are interested and have not attended any of the last meetings are urged to be pres ent continued on page four spare the owl williams speaks at e e banquet placement office reports an increase over previous years met e.s and e.e.s high of the 264 men who graduated in 1935 225 or 85 percent have se cured employment or are doing graduate work says e robins mor gan director of placement these figures show an increase over those of preceding years using the june figures of each year as a means of comparison in 1934 201 out of 252 or 80 percent of the class were placed in 1933 185 out of 247 or 75 percent were placed in 1932 134 out of 263 or 51 per cent were placed and in 1931 192 out of 305 or 63 percent were placed there are still 13 of last year's class that have not sent any re port to the placement office the chances are very much in favor that the 13 unreported are placed oth erwise they would have responded with the requests for services with the placement office said mr mor gan if such be the case the per centage of men placed would be raised to approximately 90 48 arts men placed of the 52 graduates of the arts college heard from 48 or approx imately 91 percent have been placed about 85 percent or 52 of the 61 business men who have reported to the placement office are now work ing the chemical engineers have placed 28 out of 34 or approximate ly 83 percent while 66 percent of the chemists or 4 out of 6 have been employed the electrical engineers and the metallurgical engineers have both placed 100 percent with 17 of the former and 9 of the latter receiv ing jobs approximately 89 percent of the civil and industrial engin eers are working with 16 out of 18 civils placed and 26 out of 29 in dustrials placed three of the four engineering physicists or 75 percent have been placed of the mechanical engin eers 94 percent or 16 out of 17 have been placed while 88 percent of the mining engineers or 7 out of 8 are working will give paper on coastal study interfraternity council is negotiating with lead er for february 1 has not yet selected site tommy dorsey and his orchestra will probably play for the interfra ternity ball stated walter p crock ett i e 36 president of the coun cil the site for the dance has not been definitely selected as yet the coliseum will likely be the choice but the hotel bethlehem is still a possibility there has been some discussion of securing the armory on the west side but the distance has been a serious objection feb 1 has been chosen as the date for the ball each fraternity member will be assessed through the interfraternity council and the charge will be 2.28 per couple tom dorsey began his career when he and his brother james formed the original dorsey broth ers band which played at the palais royal in new york sandt's point casino on long island and the glen island casino in addition they made several national tours and one foreign tour three years ago directs haymes orchestra last year the brothers broke up and tom dorsey took over joe haymes orchestra after securing edythe wright to sing for his new band he accepted contracts to play at the french casino in new york he had been selected to play at the lehigh senior ball this year but lafayette secured him first for the lafayette interfraternity ball the band has made records for both victor and n b c tom dorsey himself is consid ered one of the best trombone play ers in the country and has been fea tured on the rudy vallee program o pre-med society holds annual christmas dinner the robert w hall pre-medical society held its annual christmas banquet and party wednesday eve ning at the hotel bethlehem james p sell instructor in biology pre sented a humorous paper entitled a classification of the species found in bill hall in which he satirized well known members of the faculty and students following the paper humorous gifts were giv en to members of the faculty and the officers of the society combined musical clubs to feature double quartet and ensemble the double quartet and the sym phonic ensemble both newly organ ized will make their debuts sat urday evening jan 11 at the an nual combined musical clubs home concert and dance the program to be held at 8:30 in drown hall will include solos by gilberto escobedo c e 36 baritone and by carstens y haas ch e 38 pianist dr t edgar shields university organist will lead the men in six songs as announced by h e towne arts 36 president they are hail the college land seiting grieg ; brown october ale andrews ; clipper days parry ; shadow march pro theroe by request and alma mater mr escobedo will sing several mexican songs and accompany himself on the guitar the negro spiritual deep river and the bells of st mary's are featured by the double quartet mr towne also announced that arrangements are being completed for a half hour broadcast by the club over station wor some time early next semester the entire personnel is urged to attend the special rehearsals jan 7 4 p m jan 8 7:30 p m and jan 9 4 p m says towne m e.'s i e.'s fete santa buchanan bartlett stu dents entertain at an nual christmas affair the second annual christmas party for the children of faculty members was held tuesday after noon from 4 to 6 o'clock at drown hall two hundred and fifty chil dren attended accompanied by their parents a tumbling act presented by stu dents under the direction of fay c bartlett assistant professor of phy sical education proved of great de light to the children those stu dents appearing were edwin fish er eng 39 justin glide eng 39 frank j washabaugh eng 38 joseph j peraino e m 36 and martin wittstein arts 39 who ac companied at the piano bartlett exhibits professor bartlett gave an exhi bition of club swinging a e buch anan executive secretary of the alumni association gave a half hour exhibition of feats of magic after which santa claus appeared and presented gifts to all of the children mrs t h hazlehurst jr headed the committee of arrangements as chairman and was assisted by the following mrs morris e kanaly mrs c d jensen mrs r b cowin mrs d m fraser mrs h d gruber mrs robert w hall mrs h d keiser mrs n a kellogg mrs neil carothers mrs a a rights mrs e h ril.ey mrs e r theis mrs warren ewing mrs e h uhler mrs harvey neville w s clewell clewell mechanician and laboratory assistant in the mechanical engin eering department the model is to be exhibited at the watt bicentennial exposition which will be held at lehigh jan 19 20 and 21 under the auspices of lehigh university the franklin inistitute of pennsylvania the am erican society of mechanical en gineers and the newcomen society of england every part of this model was made by mr clewell or by one of his assistants r m coates eng 39 and e e hagerman eng 39 among the many problems pre sented by the construction of the model was the construction of the fly wheel it seems that the wheel on the original engine was built in sections to facilitate its transporta tion around england the model flywheel is also built in sections and the entire thing is held together by bolts all of which are made with square heads duplicating the bolts in the oirginal engine have glass sections various parts of the engine have glass sections through which the operations can be watched inside the lower cylinder is a small elec tric light which can be run on pow er from a generator operated by the engine itself at present the engine is being run by compressed air but its construc tion is such that it can be run by steam by which pqwer it will be operated during the exposition i was sorry not to be able to make it more exactly like the orig inal said mr clewell great only are graduated write-ups in epitome show f j trembley finds birds useful hunter spare that owl partic ularly if it is a barn owl proof that this uncommon owl should be spared has been furnished by francis j trembley instructor in biology who has recently made a study of the diet of the barn owl discovering the presence of a pair of the birds in the tower of the alumni memorial building mr trembley gathered and studied the pellets of undigested material left by the owls in 110 pellets were found the skulls and jaw bones of 193 meadow mice 11 shrews 22 house mice 10 english sparrows 1 barn rat 1 deer mouse and 2 un known birds the fact that all of the bones with the possible excep tion of the unknown birds are the remains of harmful animals proves the usefulness of the barn owl mr trembley explained that the barn owl strix pratincola is its scientific name is one of our most beautiful owls having a white breast and a rich golden-brown back o soto and luch recovering but will not teach soon myron j luch professor of eng lish and rafael a soto assistant professor of romance languages both of whom were taken ill sun day have been reported by their nurses to be doing well professor luch suffered from a heart attack and is recuperating at home where he will probably be confined from the next month pro fessor soto is in st luke's hospital with an attack of pneumonia we are not yet able to say how long professor soto will have to remain in the hospital said his nurse last night mrs a w wright dies mrs aubertine woodward wrigt mother of prof horace w wright head of the department of latin died thursday morning in her home at 41 wall street after a four year illness fem-sem troupe and sen iors present skits president c c williams told members of the e e society that those men who graduate in times of financial stress have a better chance of great success than those who start their careers during times of prosperity in a talk given at the society's christmas party which was held on wednesday evening at the d a r log cabin this fact he said has been shown by studies made by himself and by purdue university of the classes which graduated at the depths of the worst depressions of the last 75 years the seniors presented comic char acterizations of the electrical engin eering professors and about 16 stu dents from fem-sem presented a sort skit based on popeye which they had written the prize for winning the who's who identification game at the start of the evening was presented to r n weller e e 37 directors meet ewing miller to attend geological meet dec 26 geophysical investigation in the emerged and submerged at lantic coastal plain is the topic of a paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the geological society of america held in new york dec 26 dr maurice ewing instructor in physics a p crary former assistant instructor in phy sics dr b l miller head of the department of geology and h m rutherford of the university of pittsburgh will cooperate in giving the paper dr ewing will present part one on methods and results while dr miller will present part two the geological significance of the results these papers sum up the seismic work dr ewing carried out from on board the ships ocean ographer and atlantis in june and this fall vibrations from dynamite explo sions on the ocean floor were picked up by geophones and interpreted to indicate the depth to bed rock o probability is discussed at combined meeting the monthly meetings of pi mv epsilon honorary mathematics so ciety and the physics society were combined in a program wednesday night on the topic of probability mathematical problems in proba bility were presented by student members followed by demonstra tions of the occurrence of probabil ity in physical phenomena by dr max petersen associate professor of physics everything he does he does with a remarkable thoroughness he is possessed of a great driving force which he applies to those things which interest him — and he makes them click runs another truism ah to be a senior and to have your real value recognized at last but facts are facts and if you scratch far enough you're bound to be bitten by one thus one analysis goes what have the four years done well there's no type of woman he hasn't had an affair with what bet ter recommendation does the out going graduate need happy must be the parents perusing that son's achievements t his alma mater another student claims a more profitable four years than those spent by his colleagues so reads his character statements student philosopher respon sible senior devoted lover and an adherent of self-discipline so take courage all ye meek souls who are about to leave le high you are sure to leave a glam orous record behind you regardless of what you have done — or have not done so you're writing your friend's biography for the epitome surely then you realize that he is nothing less than a casanova caesar lincoln and grantland rice rolled into one potential leading lawyer doctor statesmen or bank er and why shouldn't he be after all the class of 36 is at least as good as the class of 35 and the class of 35 contained such hidden ability as to make us who must follow quivver with apprehension prove it just ask the last year's seniors just look a their individual records as set forth in last year's annual verily we're living in an age of giants a flagrantly glamorous and dis armingly seductive personality has helped b attain an envious po sition as one of lehigh's most dis tinctive sons reads one modest eulogy eugene grace will please look to his laurels the feminine population should powder their noses for this one as a lover he has unsual intensity but the usual purpose non-pater nal non-maternal non-platonic and a list of love nests that sounds like a train crier's mouthings nor is the all-american lacking from this group witness a touch of da vinci . . . the poesy of walt whitman . . . the erudition of his vaterland . . . the dialogues of noel coward ..." can't anyone recognize him dear god what's an inferiority complex upper dice lure students faculty into game — but it's only for fun lower : when they learned they couldn't lose everyone wants to gamble — brown and white fotofeature curriciilum heads discuss senior placement nine directors of curricula met with president c c williams and e r morgan placement director wednesday afternoon to discuss problems of senior placement fred v larkin head of the departments of industrial and mechanical engin eering is chairman of the commit tee it was the first meeting of the group since dr williams and mr morgan have taken their respective offices the same relation and co operation between the curricula heads and the placement office in the past under john a brodhead former director will continue pi delta epsilon adopts proposal for faculty adviser to epitome would reassign profits thomas k garihan jr business manager of the epitome was elect ed president of pi delta epsilon national honorary publications fra ternity at a meeting yesterday af ternoon in drown hall a plan for faculty supervision of the epitome was adopted which will be given to the board of pub lications for their consideration preparing the budget would be one duty of the editorial adviser stated george t saxtan former presi dent of the society he would be a permanentn ent member of the epitome board with an equal vote and would be appointed or discharged at the will of the board of pub lications lne budget would determine the income expenses and profit of the epitome the total profits would be close to 1,000 and would be dis tributed according to the ratios giv en below any additional profits over the original budget would be distributed among the board on the same ratios editorial adviser 13 percent edi tor in chief 32 percent business manager 22 percent senior sec tion leader 12 percent section lead er 1 4 percent section leader 2 4 percent section leader 3 4 per cent assistant business manager 4 percent the present distribution of prof its is editorial adviser none editor in chief 40 percent business man ager 25 percent senior section lead t k garihan jr member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first next issue jan 10 with this issue the brown and white suspends publication un til friday jan 10 1936 |
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