Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 49

              20 men seek presidency in tuesday vote price — fire cento military group takes 15 men o d k makes 2 altera tions during meeting omicron delta kappa honorary senior activities society made two important changes in their entrance point system thursday at a dinner meeting held as the residence of bradley stoughton director of the curriculum in metallurgical engin eering ten juniors will be selected by the society for pledging in the near fu ture states d hoppock,l.e.'36 pres ident two juniors nelson j leon ard ch e and joseph walton met e were selected in the fall the first important change in the point system prohibits a man from having more than 75 per cent of his points from one major group the major divisions are scholarship publications athletics social lead ership forensics debating and mis cellany the second important change will give a candidate a five point bonus if he has more than one fourth of his points from three different ma jor groups murphy heads eta sigma phi tau beta pi to celebrate cyanide alpha kappa psi and interf raternity coun cil to act as guides williams to greet visitors tomorrow lehigh will be host to about 500 sub-freshmen the final arrangements for the day were completed monday at which time it was decided that alpha kappa psi honorary business fraternity cyanide honorary junior activities society and the interfraternity coun cil would cooperate in acting as guides for the guests dr wray congdon director of admissions and chairman of the sub freshman day committee urges that the students aid in the day's pro gram he also requests that the fra ternities in entertaining their guests at their houses cooperate in seeing that those guests get to the assem bly and respective department con ferences on time the sub-freshmen will register from 9 to 10:30 a m in the ad ministration building after which there will be an assembly in pack ard auditorium at which time pres ident clement c williams will wel come the visitors on behalf of the university the remainder of the morning will be taken up with de partment conferences and inspec tion of these departments luncheon to be served lunch will be served at the ar mory after which the guests will have an opportunity to inspect any of the departments desired until 2:30 p m at this time the band will lead the visitors from the flag pole to taylor field where they will be able to witness the afternoon's ath letic events blake members visit swarthmore scabbard and blade in ducts new members monday evening the lehigh chapter of scabbard and blade national military society initiated 15 monday evening a banquet was held afterward at the sun inn dr clement c williams pres ident of the university was made an honorary member as were dr t t lafferty assistant professor of education b h jennings assistant professor of mechanical engineer ing a r miller assistant profes sor of electrical engineering and j r connelly instructor in me chanical egineering the new student members are w h mapes jr i e 38 m l jack son phys 37 r w vogelsberg m e 37 g l snyder c e 37 m c reed arts 38 r e crispen c e 37 r p wascher ch e 37 and h s krauter ch e 37 major james o green head of the military science and tactics de partment was the banquet speaker in his address on military pre paredness and national defense he advocated an act whereby more men would be trained for military service major green said that possibly by means of a two week training per iod for all youths of 18 or over the factor of safety from the danger of war could be furthered he stated that with good defenses here other nations would be hesitant before in volving this country in war election to be held upon last year's single al ternative plan polls to open at 10 a.m twenty-five men exclusive of the nominees for the lehigh union have qualified for the various posts to be filled at the annual elections next tuesday of this group 20 are can didates for the presidency of the three classes the candidates for the presidency of the class of 38 present the great est number with nine men compet ing for the two positions open for the presidency of 39 six men are competing and five seek election to the presidency of the class of 37 five men will compete for the three cheerleading positions the entire affair nominations and elections is being conducted under what is known as the single alter native vote system a plan adopted last year to insure more fair elec tions this plan insures the selec tion of a majority candidate rather than a plurality candidate two officers selected the two officers selected in each class are the president and the sec retary-treasurer the candidate with the majority of votes is declared to be president the next highest can didate is declared to secretary-treas urer nominations for the lehigh union will not be announced until the bal lots are given out the polls will be open in drown hall on may 5 from 10 a m till 6 p m the complete list of candidates follows class of 1937 charles f mccoy v j pazzetti harry j mcnally nelson j leon ard warren p fairbanks class of 1938 robert e bard harry c mil bank charles f zell joseph a hopkins arthur s briggs william r fine william b clark john p frey robert beban class of 1939 milton h grannott thomson king jr l henderson dudman w freeland dalzell frank rabold norman c scarpula cheerleaders donald c barnum william g shoemaker carl d becker joseph ratway gardner van dyne fidler stevenson reilly and krizen also win honorary offices j palmer murphy arts 38 was elected president of the lehigh chapter of eta sigma phi honorary classical fraternity at a meeting yesterday in coppee hall he suc ceeds judson g smull arts 36 other officers elected were nevin l fidler arts 38 vice president dean t stevenson arts 37 sec retary gerald j reilly arts 38 treasurer and elmer f g krizen arts 38 sergeant at arms the new officers will be installed on thursday following the installation of of ficers may 7 the fraternity will hold a hot dog roast at the friedens ville camp of william h bohning assistant to the registrar prospec tive members will be entertained at this meeting howard b freed arts 36 na tional president of eta sigma phi and retiring treasurer of the local chapter presided at the national convention held april 23 24 and 25 at the university of chicago starts programs by campus talent renew contracts larkin discusses cosmic ray study by r n larkin the final offering of the mustard and cheese club dramatic society will be the shannons of broad way a comedy by james gleason stage and screen actor the show will be presented on may 8 and 9 in drown hall is a picture of the life of the author's family before their success on the legitimate stage playing me part of mr shannon which is written about james gleason is c f mc coy arts 37 mccoy who has played important parts in jour ney's eend yellow jack and the racket former productions of mustard and cheese is charac terized by a a rights instructor in english who is supervising the production as being particularly fitted for the role the plot is concerned with the inside of the show business in which two stranded actors attempt to run a suburban hotel and get into all sorts of difficulties mr shannon the hero of the piece is a hard flippant irishman whose callousness is but a covering for the underlying sentimentality the part of mrs shannon is taken by miss jeanette cleaveland who has appeared in many other mustard and cheese productions play very popular according to rights the play is one of the more populor stock bills in the theater in its new york presentation it had a run of about 32 weeks after which it was taken on the road with success its com edy is derived from situations with in the play and from the type of people who about whom it is writ ten the smart vaudeville set witty and debonair dialogue is featured throughout the play during its stay at the martin beck theater in new york the show attracted much favorable com ment from the critics alexander woolcott noted critic said of it i had the best time the night i went to see the gleasons who are entertaining this fall in the shan nons of broadway another scribe brooks atkinson of the new york times said un commonly fine fun and deeply mov ing good lord what a dialogue this reporter enjoyed it im mensely all of the five feminine parts in the play are filled with several new comers among the ladies jeanette cleaveland will have the feminine lead leonard pierpont haas escobedo to be soloists in program tomorrow lehigh collegians to play the glee club will present its annual spring concert and dance at 8:30 tomorrow evening in drown hall special selections will include songs by the new double quartet which just returned from trips to baltimore and harrisburg as well as solos by carstens y haas ch e 38 piano accompanist and nel son j leonard ch e 37 and wilson r pierpont arts 39 bar itone soloists gilberto escobedo c e 36 manager will sing his last concert for the club dr t edgar shields will direct the chorus of singers in hail the college van vleck the bell man forsyth ; ye watchers and ye holy ones 17th century ger man canon on the sea dudley buck ; dagger dance from na toma victor herbert and al ma mater new numbers offered the club presented both the bell man and ye watchers in the radio broadcast april 4 on the sea and the dagger dance are new songs this year the latter is taken from natoma the only na tive american opera written by victor herbert it is an arrange ment of an indian war dance made effective by the use of a constant tom-tom drum beat on the sea is one of dudley buck's best known songs for male voices the double quartet will sing two new songs chloe modern ar rangement and a hit tune from ralph skedgell's prom trotters if you were the earth robert e herrick assistant alumni secre tary has made a special arrange ment of the song in the waring style his arrangement of where is the moon was first heard when the double quartet sang it before 2,400 students of baltimore poly technic high school two weeks ago c y haas will play sibelius ro mance on the piano 3 broadcasts made during the past season the club has made three broadcasts over as many national networks and four appearances by the double quartet as well as two broadcasts by them play for dancing following the pre the lehigh collegians will gram says h e towne arts 37 president students will be admitted free and can obtain tickets in the union office by presenting their bursar's receipts admission for guests will be 50 cents taxes in cluded will close season math group taps 15 new members philosophical society to debate hear lecture members of the robert w blake philosophical society left this morn ing on a trip to swarthmore univer sity at swarthmore the feature of which will be a debate between two lehigh and two swarthmore stu dents moral relativity will be upheld by manual deperez lorenzo arts 36 and william b ayers arts 38 while the two swarthmore students will argue for moral objectivity after the debate the subject will be open for a general discussion the trip will include visits to the physical laboratory the astronomi cal observatory the library and oth er points of interest about the cam pus this will be followed by din ner at the college commons in the evening the group will be addressed by brand branshard swarthmore professor of philosophy whose subject will be the poet and mystic william blake choir rehearses i j heikes,'bs will speak at 50th anniversary banquet tonight in celebration of the founding of tau beta pi honorary engineering fraternity 150 members from the lehigh valley will attend the fif tieth anniversary banquet at the ho tel bethlehem tonight irving j heikes 85 the prin cipal speaker will present the his tory of tau beta pi r c hesk 93 and h t morris 91 will dis cuss the immediate problems of the society an informal initiation was held on wednesday in packard labora tory those initiated were d c barnum i e 37 t e brookover c e 37 t r brown e e 37 b k daubenspeck ch e 37 w p fairbanks i e 37 m l jack son eng phys 37 c e lewis e e 37 r n lord met e 37 m b lore chem 37 a b schwarzkopf m e 37 a r spaulding i e 37 l j upton ch e 37 and c.b welch c.e.'37 fred v larkin professor of me chanical engineering and director of curricula in mechanical and indus trial engineering will be the official lehigh representative at the meet ing j p butterfield i e 36 is chairman of the committee in charge of the banquet 2 chapters meet brown and white votes to continue with services the executive committee of the brown and white voted to renew the publication's contracts with the national advertising service inc of new york and chicago and with collegiate digest at the meeting wednesday in the office of dale h gramley head of the journalism courses the national advertising ser vice is a firm representing the brown and white and over 800 col lege papers in the national adver tising field the collegiate digest is the rotogravure distributed with the issues of the brown and white extra issues of today's edition of the brown and white have been printed for distribution to the visit ing sub-freshmen tomorrow concerts group hears maneval and lamson the fifth presentation of the stu dent concert group heard by an audience of about 40 in packer memorial chapel sunday evening was the first of a new series of mu sic performed by student and fac ulty artists the series of programs just completed running from the first on march 22 to that of april 19 consists of recordings on the college music set the program for sunday evening included organ solos of bach bor owski mendelssohn and becker by r k maneval bus 38 and cello selections by k w lamson asso ciate professor of mathematics pro fessor lamson was accompanied on the piano by mrs lamson four students carstens y haas pianist nelson j leonard vocal ist william e trumpler flutist and frederick c moesel violinist will present the next concert at 8 p m sunday postpone council meeting until wednesday may 6 the meeting of the council of the college of engineering has been postponed for one week the meet ing will be held in the faculty room alumni memorial building on wed nesday may 6 at 4:10 p m the council will act upon recom mendations of the committee on courses is on chest committee mrs harry m ullmann wife of the director of the curriculum in chemical engineering has been ap pointed chairman of the woman's committee of the bethlehem com munity chest women's club to sponsor reception and dance the faculty women's club will close its social season on may 12 with a reception and dance in drown hall it was decided by the executive committee of the club at a luncheon wednesday at the home of mrs nelson s hibshman pres ident the dance will be closed to all but faculty members the club will start activities for the year 1936 - 1937 with a lawn party on the lawn in front of the president's home following the first faculty meeting in september mrs james l graham is chair man of the flower committee which is in charge of sending flowers to all members of the club who are ill o discusses new water source of new york city thaddeous merriman 97 dis cussed the new water supplies for new york city from the tributaries of the delaware river before the student chapter of the american society of civil engineers yester day in packard laboratory mr merriman also spoke to the senior civil engineering seminar yesterday afternoon at this meet ing his topic was flood control tells astronomical society history detection charles r larkin assistant pro fesor of physics discussed the his tory of the study of cosmic rays and told of the methods for their detec tion at the opening meeting of the e w brown astronomical society on wednesday night april 22 in the physics lecture room professor larkin explained the properties of the rays and empha sized their enormous penetrating power he commented upon the var ious theories of their origin and demonstrated the instruments used for their detection his lecture was illustrated with several slides the regular business meeting of the society was held in room 310 physics building prior to the speech n r bell eng 39 was appointed publicity manager and it was decided that the observatory will be open tomorrow evening 2 provided the weather is clear assignments were made for the other open nights of the observa tory which also if the weather is provided the weather is clear clear will be may 6 and 13 o dean cm mcconn speaks at high school in media dean c m mcconn spoke at a meeting of the parent-teachers as sociation wednesday in media at the nether providence high school the subject of his talk was who ought to go to college dean mcconn was also out of town thursday and friday when he attended a meeting of the na tional association of deans and ad visors of men in philadelphia woman student is among pi mv epsilon pledges fifteen new members were pledged to pi mv epsilon honorary mathematical society yesterday morning in the university chapel the following men were pledged charles moran arts 36 paul m brubaker e e 38 james r oberholtzer e e 38 frank g smith ch e 38 charles h hoff man e e 38 walter j schmidt jr ch e 38 donald b wheeler eng phys 38 vincent f acri eng phys 38 homer t mantis cr e 38 richard l schmoyer m e 37 william a sheppard e m 38 william g turnbull m e 37 nathan j palladino m e 38 and graduate students paul f cauffman b s in ed and jane n reynolds b a miss reynolds daughter of dr joseph b reynolds professor of mathematics and theoretical mech anics has the distinction of being the first woman student to be elect ed to an honorary society at le high address newtonians frank kemmer marius x stav ros and frederick moesel all freshman engineers addressed the meeting of the newtonian society honorary freshman mathematics club tuesday evening in packard laboratory carey leads practice for bach festival a two hour rehearsal of the bach choir was led by its director dr bruce carey sunday afternoon in packer memorial chapel dr carey is a teacher at the girard music school in philadelphia although all rehearsals are open to the public not many students were present townspeople and friends of the singers comprised the audience according to t edgar shields director of music the re hearsals offer the students an op portunity to become acquainted with the best works of bach further rehearsals will be held monday evenings at 7:30 in the moravian college for women thursday evenings at 7:30 and sun day after noons at 3 in the packer memorial chapel two weeks before the festival all rehearsols will be held at the chapel is dropped for plagarism a first semester freshman was dropped from english 1 composi tion by action of the committee on discipline at a meeting recently stated dean mcconn the student was refused credit for the course on a charge of plagiarism for a theme most freshmen choose chemical engineering a total of 248 ballots have been returned by freshmen indi cating which engineering curri cula they intend to study there are about 100 not returned william h bohning assistant to the registrar stated that it is important for those freshmen who have not yet turned in their ballots to do so as soon as pos sible the division of the election so far is as follows chemical en gineering 79 chemistry 3 civil engineering 12 electrical engin eering 42 engineering physics 4 industrial engineering 38 me chanical engineering 41 metal lurgical engineering 21 mining engineering 7 sanitary engineer ing 1 arts honorary to hold annual joint banquet the annual joint banquet of the chapters of phi beta kappa na tional honorary scholastic frater nity of lehigh and lafayette will be held at 6:45 p m wednesday at the hotel bethlehem the speaker of the evening will be dean christian gauss of prince ton university dean gauss was a professor of romance languages here from 1900 to 1907 after which he went to princeton the dean is the author of sev eral books which include the german emperor through col lege on nothing a year and why we went to war speaks to bible class dr clement c williams pres ident of lehigh university spoke monday evening to the major weiss bible class in wesley methodist episcopal church in his address the unemployment problem he discussed government restriction operating against confidence and in itiative in industry lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday may 1 1936 pi mu epsilon pledges 15 vol xliii no 49 honorary changes entrance system 500 sub-frosh to be guests here saturday dramatic club will give play may 8 and 9 musical club will sponsor concert dance shannons of broadway written by actor to be shown may 8 9 written by j gleason c b welch president of the honorary mathematics society and x w lamson faculty adviser to the group congratulate miss jane n rey nolds on being the first woman to be pledged to a lehigh honorary all the lehigh news first joint criticism meeting postponed until may 13 the tau beta pi-phi beta kappa joint meeting for the criticism of faculty members which was to be held may 6 will be postponed may 13 stated bernard s weiss c e 36 chairman of the committee under the plan students may offer what they consider justi fied criticism of faculty members to the committee upon justifi cation by the committee such criticism will be reported with out possible reprisal on the part of the faculty member intercollegiate newspaper association