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              alpha epsilon delta chapter will be established by dr maurice moore of harvard university 18 members to be initiated at banquet pennsylvania alpha chapter of alpha epsilon delta national hon orary pre-medical society will be installed at the theta kappa phi f d carman representative of the philadelphia district of f w woolworth and company will interview seniors interested in a merchandising career wed nesday may 15 interviews in the placement of fice will begin at 1 30 p m says john a brodhead director of placement notices have been sent to the various curricula di rectors civil engineers hear merriman dr maurice l moore students to aid at conference c william duncan the eighteen charter members the chapter will be installed by dr maurice l moore of harvard university former grand president and present director of expansion and grand historian of the frater nity dr moore was elected to the so ciety while studying at the univer sity of florida he received his ph d while teaching at northwestern university use point system election to the new fraternity is based on a point system a two point average for two consecutive semesters being a primary prere quisite the men pledged are r w buchanan 35 paul budura 35 g t saxtan 36 b k smith 35 l o travis 35 e g miller 35 a m webb 35 jackson e kress 35 j cornelius 35 j h huyck 36 w c cooke 36 i l mess more 36 c a collins 36 f a groff 35 j d houck 37 e d shaffer 37 the men are all from the arts department except saxtan the following faculty members will be installed also dr r.c bull director of student health service dr stanley j thomas professor of bacteriology and dr robert w continued on page six house on sunday night robert w buchanan president-elect announc ed last night at the pre-medical banquet when he formally pledged six freshmen still in contest dramatic club elects 21 men g e official describes unusual electrical ma chines features gen erators and motors officers are elected h c bickel is chosen president robert w wieseman 16 head of the special machine department of the general electric company described four different types of unusual electrical machines at a meeting of the lehigh university branch of the american institute of electrical engineers last night in room 416 packard laboratory wieseman discussed high fre quency generators he explained that the ordinary type of pole struc ture such as the detachable pole was effective up to only 500 cycles the common tooth type pole was effective to 2,000 cycles describes generator he then described the inductor generator which is designed for higher frequencies than 2,000 cycles this machine provides for twice as many poles with a given spread and a given diameter there are no windings at all on the rotor both the armatures and field coils being on the stator the sine-wave generator is used to give a pure sine-wave for test ing purposes under all conditions the speaker showed why conven tional machines were not good enough for this purpose the sine wave generator is a machine with non-salient poles and a uniform air gap it will give a pure sine-wave output pole gets efficiency two speed salient-pole synchron ous motors were described next one half speed is obtained by using two poles pieces per pole and re versing the polarity of one pole piece to get good efficiency at both speeds a specially shaped pole must be used election of officers preceeded the lecture h c bickel e e 36 was chosen vice president c o bart lett e e 36 vice president g.h shinn e e 36 secretary and f a stemp e e 36 treasurer sigma chi wins collects 1,450 cigarette packs in old gold contest a heap of 1,450 empty old gold packs won first prize a ping pong table and set for sigma chi in a contest sponsored at lehigh by the makers of the cigarette the con test which lasted six weeks closed saturday pi kappa alpha with 657 packs took second place and a bridge table and four chairs third place and a table lamp went to tau delta phi which turned in 98 packs mar tin j hildenberger e e 36 took the individual prize of 10 he turned in 227 packs if hildenberger smoked all of the cigarettes that came in the packs submitted in his name he would have had to smoke five and one-half packs a day under a sim ilar condition the sigma chi's would have had to smoke over 34 packs a day candidates for admission into honorary frater nity must hand in points before monday students will be chosen thursday or friday all points for admission to omi cron delta kappa national honor ary society must be handed in to hamil reidy bus 36 at the chi phi fraternity before 4 o'clock mon day afternoon it was decided at the last meeting of the society the students who are chosen will be notified on the following thurs day or friday the points for activ ities are as follows scholarships 3.5 average 5 sera 15 a average 5 sera 12 2.5 average 5 sem * 2 average 5 sem 2 tail beta pi 2 alpha kappa psi 2 hubert blake society l etu kappa nu * eta sigma phi l intern kelat club * newtonian society * i"hi eta sigma 1 pi mv epsilon * pi tau sigma l class honors x w a wilbur scholar 3 tau beta pi prize 2 other scholastic prize 1 publications brown and white editor in chief business manager " editorial manager 4 news manager * sports editor per sem 2 news editor per sem 2 make-up editor per sem 2 circulation manager 4 financial manager • & editorial council 2 columnist per sem x feature editor per sem 3 copy supervisor • " review editor in chief business manager managing editor -• advertising manager 8 circulation manager 3 art editor 2 board 2 epitome editor in chief 9 business manager ' advertising manager 3 circulation manager 3 ch sen sec 5 q junior editor sen sec committee 2 asst business manager 2 handbook editor i business manager 3 editorial manager 3 pi delta epsilon membership l alpha epsilon delta membership * social leaders president senior class 6 president junior class 4 president sophomore class 4 chairman freshman class 2 secretary-treasurer senior 3 secretary-treasurer junior 2 secretary-treasurer sophomore 2 arcadia president 4 secretary 1 treasurer ¦*¦ continued on page six cadets to receive marine commissions lehigh becomes contributing institution for officers lehigh university has been added to the list of institutions selected to contribute to the officer personnel of the united states marine corps according to an announcement made by major green head of the department of military science and tactics the information was re ceived by president richards from headquarters 3rd corps area u s army baltimore and also by a communication from the p m s and t under this ruling one principal and one alternate will be selected annually from among the members of the graduating class who have completed the military course these choices will be recommended by the head of the department of military science and tactics to the president of the university and then to the secretary of war the individuals selected from this and other institutions will be given regular commissions in the united states marine corps the selection will be from among students of high standing who by reason of their qualities of leadership person ality and scholastic attainments are considered fitted for commissions in the service 1 9 brown and white men and faculty members to address delegates nineteen lehigh journalism stu dents four lehigh faculty men a new york newspaperman the fac ulty advisers of two competing pa pers and a representative from a mimeograph machine company are scheduled to discuss problems of secondary school journalism at the eight round table discussion groups on the afternoon of the press con ference the round table groups leaders and speakers are as follows headlines and makeup — leader judson schaeffer 36 a journalism major and managing editor of the lehigh brown and white who will also speak on planning the make up r a kemmer 36 dont's for the headline writer b k daubenspeck 37 headline forms and counts j a croushore 36 last-minute troubles at the printer's general news writing — leader john d neely 35 journalism ma jor and member news and editorial staff of the brown and white george yanko 37 writing the lead b.n gates 35 newspaper english and style w f roth 36 identification in the news story sports writing — leader robert w schwartz 35 journalism major and sports writer for the brown and white a gilmore 35 the pre-game story r s young 38 slang euperfluities and other things editorial writing — leader edwin a sawyer 35 editor of the brown and white w l finley 36 structure of the editorial f j snyder 36 typography of the editorial page w v toffey 35 column writing k s putnam 35 handling the exchanges problems of the magazine — lead er walter l deemer 35 editor of the lehigh review literary month ly magazine who will also speak on getting students to write b s weiss 36 planning the layout d malcolm smith 26 faculty ad viser at lansdowne high school the theme the legend and the sponsor mimeograph problems — leader prof c w phy of the lehigh fac ulty demonstration of mimeograph and.mimeoscope by c e mussel man allentown faculty advisers — leader prof d h gramley head of courses in journalism at lehigh and adviser of the brown and white and the le high review j kenneth snyder adviser the york collegiate insti tute chronicle methods of train ing the staff dion weiss 35 building a morgue and reference library business staff problems — leader k k kost junior faculty adviser the brown and white dr h a haring jr of the lehigh faculty ending racketeering in advertis ing solicitation j a barnett of the new york herald tribune circulation problems of secon dary school publications 191 papers entered in 9 classes of contest ; 1 07 schools will send rep resentatives to sessions program for conference lists talks discussions carothers duncan barnett emery farquhar haring will be among speakers a total of 465 delegates from 107 high schools and preparatory schools in pennsylvania and new jersey were reported today as planning to attend the sessions of lehigh's second annual scholastic press conference to be held to morrow in packard laboratory at the same time 191 newspapers magazines and mimeographed pub lications from schools in the two states had been judged in the nine classes of the contest being con ducted in connection with the con ference announcement of awards will be made at the closing session of the conference of the 465 delegates planning to attend 303 are from 76 schools in pennsylvania and 162 from 31 schools in new jersey of the to tal number 56 are faculty advisers and sponsors send more than three delegates schools planning to send more than three delegates are as follows pennsylvania — orangeville gettys burg latrobe lehighton pine grove coal township shamokin oxford glenolden south wil liamsport dallas jersey shore bethlehem new jersey — west wood paterson central freehold rahway paterson eastside ver ona swedesboro boonton point pleasant beach seton hall prep north plainfield the 191 contest entries include 35 papers from class a schools en rollment above 1,000 ; 43 from class b schools 500-999 44 from class c schools below 500 51 mimeo graphed papers 18 preparatory school entries the completed profram for the conference shows activities to be divided into five parts registration from 9:30 to 10:45 a m opening session 11 a m luncheon at 12:30 p.m round table discussion groups at 2 p m and closing general ses sion with announcement of contest awards at 3:45 p m duncan is speaker among speakers at the general sessions will be william duncan columnist for the philadelphia eve ning ledger dr natt m emery vice president of lehigh dr neil carothers director of lehigh's col lege of business administration and writer for the new york herald tribune and harold b farquhar editor of the bethlehem globe times mr duncan dr emery and dr carothers will speak at the opening session mr farquhar one of the contest judges will announce the awards at the closing session mr duncan who conducts the column now my idea is this on the editorial page of the eve ning ledger will speak on close ups of famous people his ad dress will deal with some of the 1,700 prominent people whom he had interviewed on subjects they know best the list includes such persons as president roosevelt al smith senator borah jimmy walk er al capone rudy vallee dolly gann george m cohan bebe daniels connie mack babe ruth knute rockne jack dempsey and wiley post carothers will talk dr carothers who has some very definite ideas about newspa pers will speak on newspapers as an economist sees them dr emery will extend the university's greetings to visiting delegates lehigh students and faculty members are invited by prof d h gramley director of the confer ence to attend the opening session in packard laboratory auditorium luncheon will be served in drown hall at 12:30 visiting secondary school students will eat in the audi torium on the second floor visit ing faculty advisers will be served in the faculty club room the le high collegians will play for the students during luncheon the speakers at the eight round table discussion groups at 2 p m will include besides 19 lehigh stu dents j a barnett manager col lege department of the new york herald tribune dr h a harincr continued on page six nine plaques designed as shown above will be awarded to the first-place win ners in the nine classifications of the lehigh press conference contest the printing press casting the wreath and the identification plate are of bronze mounted on a mahogany board six inches wide by eight inches deep the nine second-place plaques are much similar to the winners plaques the only differences are the absence of the wreath and the size of the mahog any board which it 5"x7 first place plaque mustard and cheese mem bership is largest in last thirty-nine years twenty-one men were elected members of the mustard and cheese club tuesday evening the sophomore class led with thirteen men the juniors had five and the freshmen three for the first time in 39 years the total membership will exceed 25 the first step in revising the con stitution now under way was to increase the quota to 30 members the 21 men elected tuesday came in under this new ruling there is still one vacancy for the member ship will be 29 at the beginning of next semester election of officers for the season 1935-36 will take place at the an nual club banquet monday evening in the university room hotel bethlehem all members are urged to be present says j h jacobs bus 35 secretary of the club plans for next season will be outlined by albert a rights director of the club the following juniors were elect ed clark o bartlett e e george a brettel eng phys irving l lawton bus frank r mallalieu eng phys john b tupper arts sophomores chosen were george a barker chem coleman citret arts yellott f hardcastle ch e william m lincoln bus charles f mccoy arts edwin g mcnair bus hubert d peck i e thom as f reider ch e ezio r rista ch e william l schnabel i e elbert def tidd arts lewis walker bus john s williamson bus the three freshmen were perry bingham eng john h weigel eng and russel r winters bus survive field of 1 3 who competed in prelimin ary oratorical trials six men were chosen to com pete in the finals as a result of the preliminary freshman oratorical contest held tuesday evening in packard laboratory these six men are george c grow jr eng who exponded the reasons for coming to college car stens y haas eng who exposed modern dishonest advertising roy j hertz arts who compared the greek trilogy oresteia with eu gene o'neill's modern counterpart mourning becomes electra mor ris mindlin arts who discussed tragedy as dealing with the unsub dued howard c shimer arts who gave an appreciation of music week and the new american cul ture and richard d tayloe who commented on man's conquest of sleeping sickness the judges all members of the english department were myron j luch professor of english t g ehrsam c gale c a harding instructors in english and k k kost assistant in journalism the judges for the final contest which will be held in the auditor ium of packard laboratory tuesday evening at 8 o'clock may 14 are myron j luch professor of eng lish dale h gramley assistant professor of journalism edgar h riley associate professor in eng lish charles w phy and carl f strauch instructors in english seven other men competed in the contest they are r f conrad eng l r diehl arts w g du kek eng w t jablow eng j c tracy eng h r weaver bus and c f zell eng this oratorical contest is held annually for those freshmen who are interested in public speaking the first prize is 40 and the sec ond is 15 j h toohy is recuperating from auto accident the condition of john m toohy , associate professor of ro mance languages who was injured in an automobile accident during the easter vacation is reported im proved he was discharged last sunday from the new milford hospital where he was received after the ac cident and is now recputerating at his summer home in marbledale conn s r kaufman 21 is engaged the engagement of dr samuel r kaufman 21 of wilkes-barre to miss martha davidow also of wilkes-barre was announced re cently dr kaufman attended le high and lafayette before he re ceived his degree at the jefferson medical college he is affiliated with the general hospital in wilkes barre miss davidow is a graduate of barnard college officers nominated by debating club topic of illustrated lec ture is water supply hydraulics at fort peck thaddeur merriman c e 97 lecturer on hydraulics and water supply gave an illustrated talk on the fort peck dam at a meet ing of the student chapter of the american society of civil engineers last night in roam 466 packard laboratory fort peck dam is being built across the missouri river 20 miles southeast of glassglow montana its purpose is to store up enough water to provide a constant flow at a point one thousand miles away the project will cost 84,200,000 it is 3,000 feet wide at the base 8,000 feet long and 260 feet high it is the largest hydraulic fill ever at tempted the section surrounding the dam contains an unusual quality of soil that is very firm when moist in drilling four thirty foot diversions it was necessary to coat the inside with asphalt to keep the rock and soil firm the fort peck dam is mainly a navigation project which upon com pletion will permit boats of nine fot draft to sail up the missouri river as far as sioux city lowa 395 sub-freshmen here last saturday statistics released on last week-end's activities statistics released by john w maxwell assistant editor of the aluumni bulletin show that 148 high schools and 20 prep schools were represented by 395 prospective students on sub-freshman day saturday may 4 two hundred ninety-one of these sub-freshmen plan to enter college in september 1935 sixty-six of them stated that they would not enter college until 1936 35 in 1937 or after delegates came from 54 high schools in new jersey 50 in pennsylvania and 32 in new york the remaining 12 schools repre sented were in vermont washig ton d c maryland delaware connecticut massachusetts and wisconsin bethlehem led in the individual groups with 32 boys 28 of whom came from liberty high school rahway headed the new jersey list with 14 present most of whom were recruited by an alumnus prin cipal white plains was high in the new york representation having eight sub-freshmen here in the prep school division mc burney and blair academy were tied for first place with three rep resentatives each there was a noticeable increase in the number of parents and rela tives here this year one hundred were counted not including alumni who brought boys band officers to be elected officers for the band will be elected monday after r o t c inspection announces harold g fehr leader of the band lyle m geiger ch e 36 and edgar b mancke ch e 36 are nominees for president robert b picking arts 36 is the nominee for man ager conference calendar 9:30-10:45 a m registration packard laboratory 11 a m opening session auditorium packard laboratory 12:30 p m luncheon drown hall 2:00 p m — round table discussions class rooms packard laboratory 3:45 p m closing session announcement of awards auditorium packard laboratory revisions of constitution dis cussed by society nominations for next year's of ficers of delta omicron theta honorary debating society were made at a meeting of the society held thursday afternoon in room 466 packard laboratory walter r guyer ch e 36 and howard koller ch e 37 were nominated for president peter j potochney arts 37 and douglas w edwards arts 38 for secre tary-treasurer the corresponding manager assistant manager and so cial manager will be appointed by the new officers < the club also discussed several revisions to the constitution and adopted a new key d o t will meet thursday afternoon in pack ard laboratory to elect the new of ficers and pass upon the revisions of the constitution bethlehem pa friday may 10 1935 pre-med honorary chapter to be installed on sunday vol xlii no 51 priced five cents the lehigh university brown and white woolworth representative will interview seniors 465 will attend press conference conference speaker o.d.k to use point system for new men e e society is addressed by wieseman member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first