Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 33

              open house day dropped this year price — five cents junior prom is to be held at coliseum basic toop course urged for engineers eckfeldt plans new courses in geophysics over 13,000 attended open house last year the third and last annual open house held at lehigh last spring was characterized by prof fred v larkin director of the curri cula in mechanical and industrial engineering at its conclusion as the most successful attempt ever made at putting lehigh on parade despite inclement weather 13,964 persons attended this af fair the success of which lived up to the fondest expectations of the executive committee add courses for summer seniors can obtain hints for getting jobs a booklet entitled preparation for seeking employment by how ard l davis director of technical employment and training for the new york telephone company is available for seniors at the place ment office the article is a reprint from the november 1935 issue of the journal of engineering education mr davis gives a personnel man ager's viewpoint on college men who are trying to find employment and outlines the points by which he would judge a prospective em ployee this should aid many of the seniors who may find that although they have prepared themselves for a certain occupation they are un able to convince an employer that they are suitable for a particular type of work states e robins morgan director of the placement bureau will address allentown club e k smiley lehigh team wins debate will enable miners to elect curriculum with physics work ewing to instruct course prof howard eckfeldt head of the department of mining engin eering and dr maurice ewing in structor in physics are planning a curriculum in mining engineering which will enable the mining stu dents and others who are interested to prepare themselves for special work in geophysics it will not replace the present cur riculum but will be offered as an alternative for mining engineers the course will also be open to arts men majoring in geology provid ing they have the required prere quisites in mathematics miners want course prospecting for mineral re sources by geophysical methods has become greatly developed in the last few years and several mining stu dents have already expressed a de sire to major in geophysics professor eckfeldt hopes to have the new course in operation for the first semester next fall such a course will find a parallel in very few colleges in the united states the university of colorado being about the only school having a sim ilar course in geophysics he said dr ewing will be the instructor in geophysics the course he says will require quite an extensive knowledge of higher mathematics as a prerequisite dr ewing has re cently been conducting research work in coal prospecting by the geophysical method jan garber or ozzie nelson may play for dance on april 24 chaperones announced the coliseum has been selected as the site of the 1936 junior prom to be held friday april 24 luther j upton ch e 37 chairman of the prom committee announced yesterday the orchestra has not been definitely decided upon but the committee is in favor of signing jan garber providing he will lower his price we do not feel that we can meet the price garber quoted us said upton however if he can be brought to terms we will sign him this week should the committee fail to obtain garber it will meet march 2 to decide upon another band as second choice we favor oz zie nelson or isham jones stated upton johnny green and ted fio rita are also being considered green plays on tne lucky strike hour announces chaperones upton also announced that the chaperones will be dean and mrs c m mcconn dean and mrs george b curtis dr and mrs c g beardslee and mr and mrs paul r calvert last year ray noble was en gaged for the junior prom this appearance at lehigh marked noble's first engagement at an am erican college and 1,300 dancers turned out for the occasion noble will play at the lafayette junior prom march 13 the prom orrangements commit tee consists of upton morris b lore chem 37 c glenn van til berg ch e 37 and nelson j leonard ch e 37 elect secretary 150 hear recital in chapel sunday govt 170 aftermath of war english 161 dra matics to be given several innovations in the 1936 summer school session courses have been made although the work will be carried out on the same basis as in previous years the new courses to be offered are govt 170 the world war and its aftermath and engl 161 dramatics govt 170 will be taught by profes sor gipson head of the department of history and government it will deal with the causes of the war the chief areas of conflict the causes for the collapse of the central pow ers the peace of versailles and the problem of world construction the prerequisite is junior standing engl 161 dramatics is being in troduced to carry a student into more advanced work than could be obtained from engl 61 the course previously offered the college of business adminis tration has abolished the so called combination course whereby a student could register for either bus 3 or 4 both being the same course and get credit for either one if a student should want to take bus 157 marketing the prerequisite of bus 4 will be considered as secon dary o to select tennis managers the freshman tennis team will select two managers at its final meeting at 5 p m friday in the drown hall auditorium fritz mer cur varsity tennis coach will pre side until after the election of a captain for the team e k smiley accepts post of adviser to newly formed group pl-k smiley assistant director of admissions will give an informal talk on some aspects of personnel work at the regular monthly meet ing of the lehigh-allentown club at 7:30 friday evening on the third floor of the allentown y m c a smiley who officially accepted the post of adviser to the club said it has been and i am sure will continue to be a pleasure to work with the group it is my firm con viction that suqh an organization can be useful to both the university and the members of the club a s watson bus 36 will also address the club watson whose topic will be swimming as an ex tra-curricula activity was former ly a member of the university swim ming team in addition to the regular bus iness stated walter r guyer ch e 36 president of the club the club will set a policy in regard to the scouting of allentonian candi dates for sub-freshman day after the regular meeting the group will be photographed the corresponding secretary e a dieter arts 36 mailed circular let ters today informing members of the meeting harmon presides at annual banquet astronomers name hoff man at meeting friday charles h hoffman e e 38 was elected secretary of the ernest w brown astronomical society at the meeting of the society 7:30 p.m friday in room 353 packard labor atory hoffman was president of the society last year development of the photo-electric cell and its use in determining stel lar magnitudes was discussed by edwin f ottens ch e 38 the second annual social meeting of the e w brown astronomical society will be held saturday after noon at the some of ralph h van arnam instructor in mathematics and astronomy 705 first avenue washington breaks silence gives secret of longevity j l bray purdue ch e head here on survey lauds soph tests would cut quantitative cultural subjects are highly de sirable but faced with the hard fact that we have to turn out engineers for a highly specialized branch of industry and have to do it in four years engineering school educators all over the country seeking to meet the demands of industrial executives and employers find their inclusion an impossibility stated dr john l bray professor and head of the department of chemical engineering at purdue university during an in terview last thursday dr bray is conducting a series of investigations at the leading chem ical engineering universities and in the east and chemical engineering concerns before visiting lehigh he interviewed the chemical engineer ing faculties at cornell massachu setts institute of technology and the sheffield school at yale in the light of the knowledge gained from these investigations dr bray plans to revise the chemical engineering curriculum at purdue the most valuable thing i am taking away from lehigh dr bray said further is the idea of a sophomore comprehensive examina tion which furnishes a very impor tant index to a student's fitness for a given course quantitative not vital with regard to quantitative anal ysis the consensus among executives of chemical engineering concerns was summed up by dr bray as forget all the quantitative analysis you ever learned at the university we are after working information — not the fourth decimal place dr bray stated that his conception of the proper proportion of quantita tive in a balanced chemical engin eering curriculum is a four hour course for one semester comprising six laboratory hours a week in the time gained thus dr bray con tinued the boy should acquire more physical chemistry or something equalfy essential german dr bray felt might well be left to the graduate school sure ly he said it is an invaluable tool for engineers but the undergraduate cannot take enough to give him suf ficient confidence in his transla tions to act upon them however he added an experiment will be tried at purdue whereby the under graduate engineer will be given six hours of german not as a cultural subject but as a pure engineering tool another change which purdue will inaugurate in its chemical en gineering curriculum dr bray said is a summer laboratory course in unit operations designed to give un dergraduate engineers the more complete technical education de manded by employers and execu tives in industry expense loss of time same spectators given as reasons curricula heads concur faculty favors period of 3 or 4 years between programs president c c williams in an official statement to the brown and white last night stated that lehigh university will not sponsor open house this year the practice of making open house an annual affair became too much of an expense and too much of a drain on the time of the faculty and students stated williams we also found that the same group of people were coming back to see the show to hold their interest it would have been necessary to revise our program a step whicn we are not prepared to take at this time prof fred v larkin director of the curricula in mechanical and in dustrial engineering who has been chairman of the committee in charge of every open house held at le high agreed with president wil liams said larkin i think the de cision is right in fact i concurred in it a consistent repetition year in and year out is quite likely to wear those things out may substitute industrial exhibits in december the lehigh valley engineers club sponsored an in dustrial exhibit in packard labora tory this affair was highly success ful and was attended by a large number of students i believe that if an exhibit of this type were spon sored each year by various societies and clubs and open house were held once every four years we would have an ideal arrangement offering variety without inflicting an unnecessary strain on the univer sity prof s s seyfert director of the curriculum in electrical engin eering prof hale sutherland di rector of the curricula in civil en gineering and sanitary engineering prof philip m palmer director of the college of arts and science and dr h m ullmann director of the curriculum in chemistry and chem ical engineering all of whom have acted on open house committees in the past were unanimous in the opinion that the lehigh open house as an annual affair was not desir able the consensus was that the show should be held only once every three or four years it got to be quite upsetting and put the university out for about a week said dr ullmann we catered to the same clien tile every year — professor suther land i do not think we should dis continue it altogether — professor seyfert bahy those lehigh profs are be neath my notice i see say did you ever throw a silver dollar across the rappahan nock congressman sol bloom says you couldn't have but last satur goes to st louis dr bull inspects dormitory groups preuss wilkins shields join in program one hundred and fifty persons at tended the first of a series of stu dent concerts held last sunday in the aapel an informal hour of music was presented by miss mar garet preuss contralto frederick wilkins flautist and t edgar shields organist miss preuss fiance of mr wil kins is a pupil of dr shields a member of the bach choir and a graduate of moravian seminary and college for women and the juil liard institute of music mr wil kins is a protege of barrere the em inent american flautist dr shields opened the program with bach's toccata in f major and the chorales ich ruf zu dir herr jesu christ and christ lag in todesbanden miss preuss sang largo han del fioca la neve cimara lungi dal caro bene secchi and la girometta sibbella dr shields followed with cantilene a composition of his own mr wilkins played tambourin gossec maid with the flaxen hair dubussey and varia tions on the carnival of venice briccialdi dr shields played the prelude allemande sarabunde gavotte and gigue movements of the suite in f major corelli noble the three artists appeared togeth er in the closing numbers of the program nymphs and shepherds purcelli aye maria schubert and to the birds hue radio club meets defeats muhlenberg on question of supreme court veto power the teim of the debating society defeated by a score of 71-54 the muhlenberg team last night in room 466 packard laboratory the debate was the first of a series of film tn be held this week on the question 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 the lehigh team which took the negative side of the question was composed of daniel q marshall m e 38 and norman l morse eng 39 muhlenberg was repre sented by john hoyne and harmon hem the debate was judged by mr david randall coach of de bating at liberty high school the debating team is scheduled for four more debates this week to night the team will meet the st francis debating team in room 466 packard auditorium to argue the same question warren t jablow ch e 38 and morris mindlin arts 38 will be the lehigh debaters and will take the affirmative side of the question tomorrow the lehigh team will take the affirmative side of the supreme court question in a debate with muhlenberg college to be broadcast over radio station wcba from 9:30 to 10 p m the decision will be made by radio ballot if enough votes are received said theodore g ehrsam coach of the debating team walter r guyer ch e 36 president of delta omi cron theta and raphael scoblion ko arts 39 will represent lehigh in this debate on thursday the lehigh fresh man team will take the negative side of the supreme court question in a debate with the lafayette fresh men at lafayette the team has not yet been appointed friday the lehigh varsity debating team will meet the albright team at albright college the team which has not yet been appointed will take the negative side of the supreme court question the lehigh debating team lost the radio debate with the university of pennsylvania on the question resolved that the thirty-hour week should be adopted by indus try the debate was broadcast over radio station wcau on feb 15 and the results which were de termined by radio ballot were broadcast over the same station sat urday afternoon the lehigh team took the negative side of the ques tion coming events thomas to evaluate debate on supervision prof h p thomas head of the department of education left for st louis to speak at the meetings of the national vocational guidance association and the national edu cational association he will evaluate a debate on su pervision should have the final word in curriculum construction to be given at the meeting of the depart ment of superintendence the national vocational guid ance association met from feb 19 to 22 the national education as sociation is holding its sixty-sixth annual meeting from feb 22 to 27 the convention theme is the function of the schools in the de mocracy o 58 not yet vaccinated there are still 58 men in the uni versity who have not had their re quired vaccination said dr . ray mond c bull director of the stu dents health service of the 58 stu dents 12 are r o t c men who had their last vaccination more than three years ago the remaining 46 are freshmen or transfers from oth er schools vaccination for these men started yesterday said dr bull play games at social affair at knut son's home games of chance were played at the meeting of the radio club on friday evening at the home of prof and mrs henry c i knutson 636 16th avenue mr knutson assistant professor of electrical engineering is the faculty adviser of the club prof s s seyfert head of the department of electrical engineering was also present prizes were given to the men making the highest scores in the evening's games the party took the place of the regular meeting of the society southern society honors first president a dinner in honor of george washington was held by the south ern society on saturday evening in the hotel bethlehem dr george d harmon associate professor of american history was toastmaster and dr neil carothers director of the college of business administra tion spoke on a new and indus trialized south the southern society is an organ ization composed of 60 bethlehem ites who were either born or raised in the south dad pickard and his son were entertained in a variety program of song and patter with mouth organ jew's harp and guitar accompani ment songs were sung by ralph kroboth virginia edwards wil lard billheimer and a trio com posed of mary louise jenkins caroline drumhiller and marjorie king following this musical program dr carothers presented his speech he said that the south has become industrialized in the past few years to the point where it competes with the north in the production of lum ber textiles iron steel and cherry icals dr carothers went on to say the south has unfortunately ab sorbed the problems of the north — corruption in city politics labor strikes divorce mills and subsidized college football teams dr carothers concluded hi s speech by saying out of all this will come a new south with a new attitude toward the north and tow ard economic issues and out of the two will come i hope a better na tional government declares no need for alarm in measles cases several mild cases of german measles have appeared among stu dents but they are all slight and of fer no cause for worry said dr raymond c bull director of the students health service last night after making an inspection of the dormitories on the campus one case was discovered in this inspection and dr bull plans to ex tend his investigation to all the liv ing groups all students suffering from the disease will be removed to the hospital if it is deemed neces sary there are 17 student cases of measles at present in the hospitals one in the care of a private physi cian and two reported last night at fraternities in the event that furth er cases are discovered drown hall may be equipped as a temporary in firmary said dr bull the first case of the disease among the faculty was reported yesterday afternoon when joseph c callag han instructor in english was tak en to the sacred heart hospital in allentown he will be out in about a week says dr bull tuesday feb 25 4 p m committee on educational policy — office of the dean 8:15 p m debate lehigh vs st francis — room 466 packard lab oratory question supreme court wednesday feb 26 6:30 p m alpha kappa psi meet ing — alpha tau omega house 7 p m lambda chi alpha banquet sun inn day walter johnson cleared it by 20 feet oh is that what it's all about i thought that walter johnson bus iness was just another roosevel tian scheme to throw the nation's currency overboard into the river then george clamped his lips shut for his yearly silence any rooseveltian desiring to argue with him will now have to wait until feb 22 1937 hi there george we came to take your birthday picture this is feb 22 you know how's your constitution these days don't ask me son ask roose velt he's been kicking the consti tution around shamefully these days no no george we mean you yourself — are you just as rugged as ever yessir and you can bet a contin ental on that i'm just as tough as granite you know george you don't seem to have aged a bit what's your secret well my boy i owe it all to my ancestors — they were a rock ribbed lot and it's cropped out all over you hasn't it but don't you get lonely up here in sayre park you're a good quarter of a mile above the campus aren't you well it was a good deal lone lier before 1908 when dr drinker then president of lehigh discov ered me but even so i don't get the attention i should i can under stand it though one fat fellow puf fed his way up here and sat down to rest just about where you are george he said i will lift up mine eyes to the hills from whence com eth my help but in the future i will not lift up my carcass to the hills unless it is absolutely necessary but if you're lonely george why do you stare at the sky why don't you look down on the campus you're faced right in its direction lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday february 25 1936 booklet available on employment new club adviser vol xliii no 33 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first