Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 47

              arcadia elects jacobi president bradley stoughton council elects peet as head election of officers to be held may 5 dr neil carothers there ought to be a moon light saving time so i could love that gal of mine ..." enough cried father time indignantly houseparty or no houseparty daylight saving time goes into effect midnight to morrow and that translated into the language of the occa sion means one less hour of star light one less hour of soft night — and one less hour of sleep ah father time were you always ageless and never young hour purloined passing plea of prom prancers trustees appoint 3 deans to head lehigh's colleges price — fire cents to start plan for criticism chooses 3 other officers garihan reports karl jacobi arts 37 was elected president of arcadia wednesday evening to succeed thomas gari han other officers chosen are gardner van duyne bus 37 vice leonard elected chem president neihaus mccoy barnum are other leaders chosen for year at the meeting of the interfrater nity council monday night knox peet bus 37 was elected president to succeed walter crockett 1.e.'36 other officials elected were thomas niehaus bus 37 vice president charles f mccoy arts 37 secretary and donald c bar num i e 37 treasurer a committee was also appointed headed by robert g werden i e 37 to draw up the new rushing rules and present them at the next meeting of the council tentative plans for the revision of the rushing rules include a plan whereby incoming freshmen would submit a list of the three fraterni ties of their choice to a committee and would receive bids only from those fraternities of their choice this plan would prevent much embarrassment to the freshmen and enable the prospective fraternity member to choose his fraternity more carefully o bethlehem archaeologists meet at home of stoughton the bethlehem chapter of the archaeological institute of america held its final meeting of the year at the home of professor and mrs bradley stoughton at wydnor professor stoughton is director of curriculum in metallurgical engin eering dan fellows platt of new york city a trustee of the institute and a well known art collector ad dressed the group on the subject through italy with car and cam era the talk was accompanied by screen pictures of scenery paint ings and statuary karl jacobi tau beta pi and phi beta kappa to hear student complaints the plan for criticism of faculty members and university courses by undergraduates that has been under consideration in various forms for two years will go into effect on wednesday may 6 under the joint auspices of tau beta pi honorary engineering fraternity and phi beta kappa honorary scholastic frater nity announces bernard weiss c e 36 president of the former organization under the plan adopted students bringing forth complaints will re main unknown to the faculty and their criticism will be treated in a confidential manner the purpose of the plan is to improve the various curricula by forwarding such crit ticism as seems justified by a two thirds vote of the committee to the head of the department concerned and to president williams should write to bickel those wishing to make such complaints are urged to do so im mediately by president weiss the complainant should write a bill of particulars to the secretary of tau beta pi harold bickel e e 36 and then appear before the commit tee at its may 6 meeting to discuss the course in question protection from possible faculty reprisal is guaranteed since no fac ulty members will be present at the meeting all transactions will be strictly confidential and no record of the proceedings will be kept the plan was originally introduc ed by the review in november 1934 and endorsed by the brown and white hale of picatinny arsenal addresses society the chemistry society last night elected the following officers nel son j leonard ch e 37 pres ident ralph s heller ch e 37 vice president benjamin k dau benspeck ch e 37 treasurer and william g dukek ch e 38 sec retary dr g c hale of picatinny ar senal outlined relation between the munition and the chemical indus tries at the meeting it requires the products of about nine major indus tries to produce one 75 mm shell he declared some of these indus tries are cotton paint and varnish wood pulp potash alcohol acids and nitrogen he indicated where the products of each one of these industries is used in the 75 mm shell by means of slides showed statistics and graphs he gave numerous statistics and showed graphs on nitrogen produc tion in the united states indicating the surplus capacity of nitrogen plants now as compared with ten years ago he showed the tendency of other vital munition industries to increase capacities making the united states independent of other nations in case of war fio rito's features president guy anderson bus 38 secretary and fitzhugh hardcastle i e 38 treasurer jacobi appointed the following slate committee charles b allen met e 37 charles f mccoy arts 37 frederick a cook bus 37 and richard l schmoyer m e 37 before relinquishing office for mer president garihan read a report by the elections committee on spring clas selections it was decided that these elections will be held within the next two weeks probably may 5 arcadia appropriated 50 as a do nation to the lehigh union to de fray expenses of that organization's smokers held throughout the year engineers could talk greek 70 years ago at lehigh junior prom featuring ted fio rito to open festivities tonight coliseum will be site program to include frater nity dances and baseball game list of houseparty guests on p 3 the annual spring houseparty will officially start at 4 p m this afternoon and will swing into full stride at 10 p.m with the opening of the junior prom featuring ted fio rito and his orchestra playing at the coliseum the full houseparty program in cludes a baseball game between le high and villanova at taylor field at 2 p m saturday tea dances at the various chapter houses follow ing the game and formal affairs at 28 living groups in the evening departing from its usual custom of holding houseparty proms at the hotel bethlehem the prom com mittee headed by luther upton selected the coliseum for its big ger floor space and better acoustics tickets for tonight's affair are on sale at 4.56 a couple comes from new yorker ted fio rita who until last month has been featured at the ho tel new yorker in new york city comes to lehigh after an extended tour through pennsylvania his en tertainment includes the well known three debutantes muzzy marcel lino and candy those fraternities holding dances saturday night include alpha chi rho alpha kappa pi alpha tau omega beta kappa beta theta pi chi phi chi psi delta tau delta delta upsilon kappa alpha kap pa sigma lambda chi alpha phi delta theta phi gamma delta phi sigma kappa pi kappa alpha pi lambda phi psi upsilon sigma alpha mv sigma chi sigma nu sigma phi epsilon tau delta phi theta delta chi theta kappa phi theta xi according to the list compiled by the brown and white 504 girls are expected to attend houseparties these are represented in a total of 34 living groups the sale of tickets at drown hall will be closed this evening at 6 o'clock but the prom committee has announced that tickets will be sold at the door contrary to the original plan over 700 couples attended the junior prom last year and danced to the music of ray noble booths for each living group will be set aside the decorations for the affair will not follow any definite motif other than serving to accentuate the band stand around which most of the at tention will be centered because of the novelty numbers to be staged by ted fio rito a decorations company from trenton n j was employed to do this work dean raps tardy class dismissals muzzy marcellino and the three debutantes who will sing t night at the junior prom in the coliseum urges prompt closing of 4 o'clock sections in a letter sent to all members of the faculty wednesday dean mc conn reprimanded those instructors who had delayed the dismissal of their 4 o'clock classes causing students to be tardy for military and band drills the dean said this loss of five or ten minutes is a serious matter for the department of military sci ence just as a similar invasion of any other university exercise would ment concerned he requested that the faculty be be a serious matter for the depart scrupulous to bring 3 o'clock classes and afternoon laboratory periods to a close promptly at 4 o'clock he reminded them that when 4 o'clock class closing was inaugurat ed there was fear that this diffi culty might arise because the inter val between 3 o'clock classes and drill was cut in half lehigh union heads class officers cheerleaders will be selected arcadia announces rules single alternative vote system will be used for second year nominations for the annual elec tion of class officers lehigh union officers and cheerleaders will of ficially close wednesday april 29 announces lewis walker chairman of the arcadia elections committee election day will be may 5 nom inations to be official must be made by a minimum number of sponsors the election system under which nominations and the actual election is being held is known as the single alternative vote system which was adopted for the first time last year in order to secure a fairer selection of officers this plan assures the choice of a majority candidate in stead of a plurality candidate as hitherto has been the custom allows nomination by petition ballotting on may 5 will take place in drown hall from 10 a m until 6 p m the complete rules governing the election as promulgated by arcadia are as follows 1 there shall be one general election 2 there shall be a period ex tending from april 23 to april 29 at 6 p m for the nomination and registration of candidates the nominee shall be understood to be competing for president of his class the nominee who received a majority of votes ac cording to the ware preferen tial voting system will be de clared to be elected president the office of secretary-treasur er will be awarded to that can didate chosen by the majority from the list of candidates for the presidency 3 each nominee shall have ten men no more or no less to sponsor and represent and cam paign for said nominee this group of sponsors shall be com posed solely of men from the nominee's respective class sponsors are limited to one from each living group not more than 40 percent of the to tal number of a nominee's sponsors may be from any one of the following groups men pledged or members of fraterni ties by not living at their hous es shall be considered in group a b and c not in b or e group a alpha tau omega beta theta phi chi phi chi psi delta tau delta phi delta theta phi gamma delta sig ma nu theta delta chi group b : alpha chi rho beta kappa delta phi delta upsilon kappa sigma phi kappa alpha psi upsilon sig ma chi sigma phi epsilon group c alpha kappa pi delta sigma phi kappa alpha lambda chi alpha phi sigma kappa pi lambda phi sigma alpha mv sigma phi tau del ta phi theta kappa phi theta xi group d taylor hall price hall group e leonard hall we're pikers at lehigh today we discuss the advantages of the en gineers taking more english and social sciences but the lehigh en gineers studied greek ... 70 years ago in addition to greek they had latin french german astronomy industrial jurisprudence and chris tian evidences arts men had to study leveling analytical geometry differential and integral calculus mechanics of fluids and solids and freehand and mechanical drawing those engineers mind you are the ones which we so often refer to as the tobacco chewing engineers back in the good old days when lehigh had two buildings five cur ricula forty students five professors a president and a janitor students were instructed in mathematics language chemistry drawing ele mentary physics physiology his tory rhetoric logic declamation and composition president also taught the president had more work than just ordinary administration those days henry coppee lehigh's first president was also professor of english literature and history in this capacity he instructed the fresh men and sophomores in universal history physical geography logic composition declamation the struc ture of the english language and stoughton palmer and carothers to assume new titles sept 1 to coordinate methods action only formalizes present practice says president williams each of lehigh university's three colleges will formally be reorgan ized under the supervision of a dean president c c williams announced today the change will become effective sept 1 when bradley stoughton now head of the department of met allurgy will assume in addition the duties of dean of the college of en gineering dr neil carothers now head of the college of business ad ministration and philip m palmer head of the college of arts and sci ence will continue in their respec tive capacities with a change of title terming the change as merely formalizing present practice pres ident williams said that the powers of the deans will be restricted to the coordination of instruction and the consideration of such other group interest as might arise there will be no change in the present duties of dean c m mc conn who will continue as dean of the university will report to deans after the reorganization depart ment heads will make all recom mendations concerning their de partments to their college deans in stead of to the president the dean of each college will advise with the president of the university in mat ters pertaining to budgetary allot ments for that college each col lege faculty is also to form its own organization and hold regular meet ings at present each college has a council whose powers are more or less restricted to arranging curricula and courses of study professor stoughton came to le high in 1923 after spending nearly 25 years as an engineer from 1902 to 1923 he was in business as a con sulting engineer part of the time 1902-98 he was adjutant profes sor and head of the department of metallurgy at the school of mines columbia university previous to that he was chief of the cost statis tics division of the american steel and wire company at cleveland and he also had experience as a metallurgist with the illinois steel company at south chicago 111 helped end 12-hour day professor stoughton took an ac tive part in the abolishment of the 12-hour day in the iron and steel industry and in 1929 he was award ed the grasselli medal by the so ciety of chemical industry pro fessor stoughton has served on nu merous national engineering com missions and is a member of many engineering societies dr neil carothers is a noted writ er and lecturer on economic prob lems since 1923 he has been head of the college of business admin istration and for two years 1925-27 he was acting head of the depart ment of industrial engineering im mediately before coming to lehigh he was engaged in banking in new york city before that he was a professor at princeton from which he had obtained his doctor's de gree during the war he served as a captain on the general staff was rhodes scholar a rhodes scholar himself he now serves as a member of the rhodes scholarship selection committee greatly interested in tennis he coached at lehigh until the close of the 1935 season his book fractional money written in 1930 led to his recogni tion as an authority in this field professor palmer a veteran of 34 years service is now second pro fessor in seniority since 1921 he has been head of the college of arts and science in addition to his duties as head of the department of german he was professor of mod ern languages from 1906 to 1910 and professor of german since that time he studied at several universities in germany and has written several books continued on page six outlines of the united states con stitution he instructed the engineers in in dustrial jurisprudence which dealt with methods of employing men and handling accounts he also conducted courses in civil engineer ing all this teaching of course was done in his spare time when the affairs of administration did not keep him occupied student chooses special courses after two years of elementary branches in which every young man should be instructed the student selected a special course by this method he avoided the overpower ing and confusing study of those branches for which he has no taste and pursues with cheerfulness the course which he has selected and for which he is suited by inclina tion and intelligence students who entered the school of general literature continued the study of languages these men were required to write theses and declaim original pieces in english french and german they might substitute if they chose spanish and italian for latin and greek during the last two years moral and intellectual philosophy mechanics physics astronomy po litical ethics christian evidence and civil policy completed the pro gram oil painting was offered at the option of the student newly appointed deans bethlehem pa friday april 24 1936 lehigh university brown and white vol xliii — no 47 spring houseparty commences today full program planned for houseparty guests the annual spring houseparty week-end began today at 4 o'clock and the program for the prom trotters is as follows april 24 10 p m junior prom with ted fio rite and his or chestra april 25 2:30 p m baseball game lehigh vs villanova at taylor stadium 4 to 7 p m maennerchor tea dance 10 p m house dances at the fraternity houses april 26 4 p m houseparty week-end is over philip m palmer all the lehigh news first tickets on sale tonight tickets will be sold at the door for the junior prom this evening announces l j upton chairman of the committee member intercollegiate newspaper association