Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 29

              lehigh team loses debate the interfraternity ball held on the first of february made a profit of 24.91 the complete expense account is as follows assessments 1,687.20 government tax 148.20 state tax 59.20 expenses orchestra 900.00 deiorations 300.00 amplification 300.00 police protection 54.00 hall 40.00 piano 15.00 trucking and furniture 17.44 labor 22.70 committee salaries po.oo printing tickets 4.00 water and coolers 14.75 insurance and furniture 7.50 miscellaneous 8.50 amusement permit 1.00 total expense 1,455.09 net profit 24.91 dr g h ashley will discuss state geology urges seniors to file cards st joseph's gets decision team will meet ur sinus and lincoln the lehigh debating team lost a debate to st joseph's college of philadelphia friday night the de cision was awarded to the phila delphia team by professor tal madge said that the debate was a very close match but that st jos eph's had a slight advantage over the lehigh team in manner of pre sentation according to the judge's scoring system the result was 54-51 the lehigh debaters were how ard koller ch e 37 and norman morse eng 39 the contestants representing st joseph's were h p riiey and m.p bowes the ques tion was resolved that congress should be empowered to override by a two-thirds vote decisions of the united states supreme court de claring acts of congress unconsti tutional announces two debates p j potochney arts 37 secre tary-treasurer of the debating so ciety announced today that there would be two more debates this week one will be at 7:30 p m to morrow in room 4b6 packard lab oratory with ursinus college and the other at 7:30 p m friday with lincoln college a negro institu tion potochney also announced that he and w guyer ch e 36 president of the debating society would at tend a convention and model sen ate friday at rutgers they are to represent senators morris and burke of nebraska to feature story of old bethlehem tickets on sale at lehigh union cooperation asked for freshmen price to be 1.14 couple tickets for the second freshman dance which will be held feb 15 in the masonic temple are now on sale and can be procured from any freshman union representative or from the lehigh union office in drown hall price 1.14 couple 85 c stag bubby johnson and his colored orchestra will play from 10 to 2 johnson stated nat whitman president of the freshman union is well known in baltimore during houseparty last spring and fall he played at the alpha tau omega house and was so well received that he has been engaged again for houseparty this spring played at chi phi johnson made another appearance at lehigh when he played at the chi phi house although the chi phi's weren't exactly sure for what affair they had engaged him they remembered that he had made a tremendous hit last year in planning the first freshman dance the committee re ceived little encouragement and practically no pubilicity despite the pessimism surrounding it the dance turned out to be as dean c m mcconn said afterwards cer tainly one of the best conducted dances i've ever seen in all my 12 years at lehigh mcconn favors idea dean mcconn is decidedly in fa vor of a freshman dance said whit man and we're going to do our best to make this affair as success ful if not more so than the one last year all we need is the coopera tion of our class members on the committee in charge of the dance are nat whitman wil liam e liesman and george e hurst jr a floor committee will be chosen friday at the freshman union meeting dean and mrs c m mcconn and dean and mrs c g beardslee will be chaperones phi sigma kappa brothers say breakdown of frosh due to low grades young flees fraternity it's a fine example of the work ing of hell week said dean c m mcconn in reference to the disap pearance of wilbur e young eng 39 on the eve of his formal initia tion into phi sigma kappa frater nity friday night young jumped from the second story of his fraternity house and hitch-hiked to his home in jamaica n y his parents de scribe him as suffering from a ner vous breakdown which they attrib ute to his loss of sleep during hell week the members of phi sigma kappa say that young's breakdown was not due to his informal initiation which was completed at the time of his flight but was rather because of worry over some final examina tions which he had not passed was blindfolded in room friday evening at about 8:30 young was alone and blindfolded in a second story room of his frater nity house waiting to go through the rites of formal initiation he had completed his informal ini tiation the day before having been sent on errands on tuesday and wednesday and taken for a walk to hellertown on thursday he was said to have taken this part of the initiation almost with enjoyment after having waited for some time in the room young took off his blindfold climbed out on the roof of the porch and dropped into a pile of snow he took a trolley to easton and then hitch-hiked to jamaica where he arrived saturday at 7 p m brothers notify police at about 10:30 friday evening the members of his fraternity became worried over his disappearance and notified city police young's par ents say that he has been sleeping most of the time since he got home according to young's father the flight was made quite suddenly and without premeditation young will return to bethlehem today but it is not definite as to whether he will remain in college the members of his fraternity want him to return and remain a mem ber of phi sigma kappa william j wilkens bus 36 said that young's initiation included no paddling or similar treatment and stressed the fact that hell week was over at the time of young's flight placement bureau needs records to find jobs for graduates the placement bureau requests all seniors to fill out senior record cards at the placement office as an aid in placing them if the place ment bureau has records stating that a man has been placed it can concentrate on the men who need help states e robins morgan di rector of placement this will let us avoid unneces sary effort in attempting to place men only to find they are already employed explains morgan the placement office is interested in every man until he is placed and complete records especially of the graduating class are necessary he stresses the fact that record cards should be filled out by those who now have jobs ready for them or who are going to do graduate work so that complete files will be available and those not employed can be better aided to know about our men is im portant to the university since our figures are frequently included in national surveys and good place ment figures give a favorable im pression of lehigh to employers and others interested in these sur veys morgan says if placement figures are incom plete the records are not clearcut and convincing records of all sen iors are needed to show the place ment percentage of the graduating class with complete records avail able employers will rely more on lehigh as a suitable place to secure men plotinus affected modern thought piper will speak on paper making riley speaks on poetry ashley to address mining society thursday is authority on coal the geology of pennsylvania will be discussed by dr g h ashley at a meeting of the mining and ge ological society at 8 p m thursday evening in williams hall dr ashley is one of the world's best known authorities on coal said benjamin l miller head of the de partment of geology he holds de grees from several universities and colleges he obtained his m e de gree from cornell in 1890 and his a m degree from the same school in 1892 in 1894 he received his ph d degree at stanford from 1889 to 1891 dr ashley was a paleontologist at rochester n.y from 1891 to 1893 he was assistant geologist on the geology survey of arkansas dr ashley has taught in several leading american institutions he was professor of bi ology and geology and curator of the museum at the college of char leston s c he was also profes sor of pharmacognosy at medical college of the state of south caro lina and acting professor of geology at vanderbilt university dr ashley is a member of num erous societies among which are the geology society of america the geology society of washing ton the washing academy of sci ences the american institute of mining and metallurgical engin eers the coal mining institute of america and many others he is an honorary member of the tennessee academy tne indiana academy of science and the south carolina pharmical association dr ashley is the author of numerous geology reports and articles in lit erary and technical journals senior honorary society will select 2 juniors this month 10 to be chosen in may all juniors interested in compet ing for membership in omicron delta kappa national honorary fra ternity for activities must hand their point sheets to david w hoppock i e 36 by feb 16 at the phi gamma delta house the election committee will meet during the early part of next week to select the two juniors who will be tapped this moath stated tt&p pock the committee consists of dr c g beardslee faculty adviser david w hoppock president and prof philip m palmer director of the college of arts and science twelve juniors are elected to o d k annually two in february and ten in may the selection is based upon the following point system which was adopted in 1934 scholarship 3.5 average 5 sem 15 3.0 average 5 sem 12 2.5 average 5 sem 6 2.0 average 5 sem 2 tau beta pi 2 alpha kappa psi 2 robert blake society 1 eta kappa nu 1 eta sigma phi l international relations club 1 newtonian society l phi eta sigma l pi mv epsilon 1 pi tau sigma l class honors i w a wilbur scholar 3 tau beta pi prize 2 other scholastic prize l publications brown and white editor , in chief 4 business manager 5 news manager fi sports editor per sem 2 news editor per sem 2 make up editor per sem 2 circulation manager 4 financial manager 4 editorial council 2 columnist per sem 1 board 2 review editor in chief 6 business manager 4 managing editor 4 advertising manager 3 circulation manager 3 art editor 2 board 2 burr now extinct editor in chief 8 business manager 6 art editor 5 managing editor 4 circulation manager 4 advertising manager 4 staff 2 epitome editor in chief *. 9 business manager 7 advertising manager 3 circulation manager 3 ch sen sec 5 junior editor 2 sen sec committee 2 asst business manager 2 handbook editor 4 continued on page six dr edgar h riley associate pro fessor of english spoke yesterday afternoon on the poetry of wit and humor before the students of the william perm charter school germantown williams analyzes work of teaching list includes beta kappa tau delta phi pi kappa alpha chi psi rites follow hell week sixty-eight pledgees were initiat ed by nine fraternities on saturday sunday and monday after their respective hell weeks seven men were formally induct ed by pi kappa alpha at the initia tion banquet saturday evening in the hotel bethlehem george d harmon associate professor of american history was the guest speaker john male head of the house was toastmaster tau delta phi informally intiated seven fresnmen at the house on fri day evening sidney adler of phil adelphia district chief of the fra ternity was the speaker and the head of the house robert a drey er arts 36 presided on saturday the chi psi frater nity formally inducted five fresh men the speakers were major carter collins assistant professor of military science j d denise 29 and senator g a rupp 28 clyde collins arts 36 was toast master herrick speaks at banquet robert f herrick 34 assistant alumni secretary of the university spoke at the initiation banquet sat urday for six alpna kappa pi fresh men george b thorn former me chanical engineering instructor gene laschober 33 and albert jahn of philadelphia were additional speakers beta kappa conducted a semi formal initiation for their six pledges at their house sunday a banquet was held at the sun inn in the evening dr max petersen associate professor of physics was the speaker he was introduced by the head of the house gerald browne who acted as toastmaster twelve men including one soph omore and one junior received the first of three degrees of initiation at the lambda chi alpha house sun day night the second degree will take place next sunday and the third on the following sunday on the monday after the third degree the initiates will be the guests of honor at a banquet phi gams initiate 11 phi gamma delta formally initiat ed eleven men at their house on sunday morning there were no speakers sunday afternoon saw the initia tion of nine pledges at the phi sigma kappa house a banquet was held monday evening the frosh were called upon to speak at the same time as they initiat ed five freshmen pi lambda phi installed fraternity officers at the banquet held at tne hotel bethle hem on sunday evening ira triv es bus 36 retiring head of the house presided and introduced the banquet speakers nathan sontag president of the sontag silk cor poration allentown and david da vis from new york c e instructor discusses plans for more talks lehigh review will be released this week the next issue of the lehigh re 1 view will be released either wed nesday night or thursday morning said harold stanley ford arts 37 business manager of the review the feature story hammer sickle and cross a story of colonial beth lehem was written by louis c stoumen arts 39 the magazine will contain a short story by sidney joseph lewis arts 37 entitled mr bean goes to bed there will also be a com mentary on social and political events by p e p white e.e 38 the over by jacob blumenthal ch e 37 will be a photograph of the snow-covered chapel the re view will contain several other fea tures and items of interest said ford stuart discusses design of fans 28 are elected brown talks on philosoph er at blake society sidney m brown professor of history attributed to plotinus a third century philosopher a large influence on contemporary philoso phical thought at the meeting of the robert w blake philosophical so ciety friday evening during his discussion on ploti nus the philosopher of alexan dria professor brown said that he felt we have not sufficiently recog nized the importance of this third century philosopher many of the faculty took an in terest in the subject and came to hear professor brown's impressions of the wosk of plotinus befoe this talk the society held its business meeting to speak on king dorr company engineer to stress chemical aspects w e piper an engineer with the dorr company will present an il lustrated talk entitled some chem ical engineering aspects of pulp and paper manufacturing before the meeting of the chemical society to be held at 7:30 p m on thurs day in the main lecture room of the chemistry building dr h m ullmann head of the department of chemistry says that the dorr company inc engineers of which mr piper is a represen tative is one of the greatest engin eering concerns in the world and is of international renown the company has distinguished it self particularly for its work with machines which perform contin uously and mechanically many of the unit operations of chemical and industrial processing two of its greatest projects are the giant sed iment removers from the mississip pi river at st louis and the large removers on the colorado river which remove 10,000 tons of silt from a flow of 8 billion gallons a day tuttle m.e.'33 is engaged to miss josephine laubach the engagement of miss jose phine laubach a teacher in frank lin school to norman j tuttle m e 33 was announced last sunday at miss laubach's birthday party held at ncr home on dewberry street tuttle is at present employed by the continental diamond fibre company in bridgeport no date has been set for the wedding divides job into instruc tion study administration dr c c williams in an address before the faculty educational club yesterday afternoon presented a mathematical formula whereby the teaching load of the college profes sor can be measured in estimating the teaching load the first step should be an alloca tion of time to these recognized functions of teaching research and adminitration tated williams al though a small number may devote their attention singly to one func tion it is probable that most mem bers will participate in two or per haps in all three of these functions to varying degrees williams estimated a heavy teach ing load to be 45 hours a week a moderate standard 40 hours a week and a light standard 35 hours a week these standards include not only actual teaching hours but also time spent in preparation for recitations in supervising theses in conferences and in general faculty administrative work o anderson to discuss x-rays harold v anderson associate professor of chemistry will speak this evening before the technical association of the fur industry of new york on fiber srtuctures as revealed by x-ray analysis tau beta pi appoints com mittee to study ideas the proposed plan for student sponsorship of a cultural lecture se ries was discussed at the meeting of tau beta pi friday evening in pack ard laboratory at the meeting a committee was appointed to make an investigation of the project the committee con sists of bernard s weiss c e 36 chairman nelson j leonard ch e 37 and robert a kemmer ch e 36 a w luce associate professor of machine design ad vocated a plan providing for a book of tickets to be sold during the sum mer previous to the lectures or tne separate sale of tickets at the door this series of lectures is to en large the lecture program of the university and would arrange for several nationally prominent speak ers to appear at lehigh no definite action will be taken on it until the beginning of next semester changes in the by-laws of tau beta pi were discussed but since a quorum was not present no fur ther action was taken william j eney eney became instructor in civil engineering replacing john d wat son who resigned to work for his doctorate in hydraulics at the har vard engineering college eney was graduated from johns hopkins uni versity in 1927 and since then has been employed by the baltimore and ohio railroad in the baltimore office gipson to speak on death of george fifth dr lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and gov ernment will talk on the implica tions of the death of king george at the monthly meeting of the in ternational relations club meeting at 7:30 p m thursday in packard laboratory in view of a recent international complications in europe this talk will be of intense interest to all stu dents states fred thalman 37 secretary anyone is invited to at tend the international relations club which is getting under way for the second semester meets once a month usually the first thursday the requirements for admission is that a student give a three-minute talk on any international topic makes first of lecture series on engineering the type of fan necessary for a particular ventilation problem is de pendent on the specific speed of the fan which is determinable from other conditions explained milton c stuart professor of mechanical engineering at the first of a series of technical lectures on mechanical engineering subjects which are be ing sponsored by the local group of the american society of mech anical engineering department the talk entitled fans their charac teristics and applications was pre sented to about 35 of the society's members last night in packard lab oratory professor stuart who has served as an instructor at rensselaer poly technic institute as an assistant steam engineer at the cambridge steel company as a mechanical en gineer at the united states naval academy experimental station and as a professor of mechanical engin eering at the united states naval academy post graduate school is tne originator of the idea of con ducting this series of lectures brown and white names board members last wednesday the brown and white elected the following men as additional board members g a barker chem 37 h j baumann arts 39 t r brown e e 37 a crane bus 38 w g dukek ch e 38 r f feilbach arts 38 d p goldsmith ch e 38 w p gottlieb bus 38 r j hertz arts 38 e f krizin arts 38 c e lewis e e 37 j g mccleary bus 38 j k montmeat bus 38 others are r h moore bus 38 d r prosnit bus 36 e r rista bus 37 j h roberts met e 38 w f roth arts 36 j h scanlon arts 37 l h schick arts 37 r e skedgell arts 36 l s stout bus 37 l weinstock bus 36 p e white e e 38 h m wilson arts 38 w woron off arts 37 g yanko arts 37 r s young chem 38 to be eligible for the board a man must serve two semesters on the paper lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday february 11 193"6 vol xliii no 29 will speak tomorrow price — five cents interfraternity dance shows profit of 24.91 fraternities are asked to send initiation lists o.d.k asks point totals before feb 16 68 pledgees initiated to 9 fraternities bubby johnson to serenade frosh dancers dean blames disappearance on hell week fraternities who wish to have the names of initiated pledges published should send to the brown and white lists of these names immediately before or af ter the initiation ceremonies the brown and white office is in the basement of christmas saucon hall member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first