Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 53

              bowley sees r.o.t.c drill at field day editorial commencement practice to be held tomorrow the first and only rehearsal for the seniors for commencement exer cises will be held tomorrow after noon at 4:10 announced g b cur tis registrar the seniors are re quested to meet in the faculty room of the administration building only one rehearsal is to be held this year because it will avoid break ing into the schedule of seniors tak ing the arts comprehensive exam inations since the senior instruction period closes tomorrow at 4 o'clock the practice is held immediately thereafter the 10 graduation fee is due by 5 p m friday may 15 if this fee is not received by that time it will be necessary to postpone the man's graduation until founder's day next fall flagpole rally set for thursday classes to be dismissed cyanide will tap the annual spring flag pole rally sponsored by arcadia undergrad uate governing body will take place at 11 a m thursday all classes will be dismissed so that the entire student body may attend thomas k garihan president of arcadia will open the meeting and will then turn it over to the arca dia president-elect carl m jacobi bus 37 fay m bartlett assistant professor of physical education and his staff will present cups for in tramural and interfraternity sports and for physical education also on the program will be the tapping of the men recently elected to cyanide robert m eichner i e president of the senior class will hand the senior cane to vincent j pazzetti 111 bus 37 president of next year's senior class change rules for rushing scout society is inaugurated the time for gossip is over the time for action is now when the judge of class elections finds it necessary to bitterly de nounce the work of illegal combines that have proven themselves too smart to be conclusively exposed an investigation is in order candi dates for office have openly admit ted the existence of combines that are outlawed by arcadia effrontery has gone far enough arcadia meets tomorrow ex president garihan will present two resolutions for enactment these suggestions by the retiring ranking officer mark a distinct step forward in the abolishment of combines they are not offered as a perfect plan they will be presented as an improvement over the old situation over a situation that never more clearly demonstrated its worthless ness as it did last week now is the time for arcadia to act failure to pass the proposed resolutions will mean a repetition of the evasion policy in dealing with combines passage will give the election committee a real club to enforce arcadia's dictum at election time o o d k candidates must turn in points tonight all candidates for omicron delta kappa must hand in their points some time today to david hoppock 1 e 36 at the phi gamma delta chapter house university campus ten candidates will be chosen at the business meeting of o d k at 7:30 tomorrow night at the phi gamma delta house next monday night from 5:30 to 6 o'clock ten candidates will be tapped all candidates are to re main within their living groups at that time the tapping will be fol lowed by a dinner o is dropped for copying a sophomore has been dropped from and denied all credit in com parative anatomy biol 3 for dis honesty in laboratory work stated dean c m mcconn yesterday the student had been copying the drawings of other men instead of drawing direct from his own dis sections to deliver commencement address here on june 9 in packer chapel class day is on june 8 dr walter a jessup president of the carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching will de liver the commencement address at the sixty-eighth commencement ex ercises tuesday june 9 in the packer memorial chapel friday june 5 a meeting of the board of directors of the alumni as sociation will be held and on the same day the alumni council also will meet the annual alumni din ner will be given friday evening a baseball game between the le high varsity and a team made up of alumni will feature alumni day sat urday following the alumni lun cheon that day the annual parade will proceed about the campus and end in the stadium just before the opening of the ball game beardslee to speak the academic procession of sen iors faculty and trustees will move from the alumni memorial building to the university chapel sunday for the baccalaureate sermon to be de livered by dr beardslee university chaplain the following day the board of trustees of the university will meet and at the same time the annual class day exercises will be held in the afternoon the president will hold a reception for the graduates and their families faculty alumni and friends the commencement exercises will begin tuesday with the academic procession to the chapel at this program the university will award the degrees to the graduates and probably confer several honorary degrees forum discusses liberty league council revises fraternity regulations on fresh men and houseparty the interfraternity council made three revisions in rushing rules set two tentative dates for next semes ter's houseparty and named the ju dicial committee at a meeting on monday evening in drown hall in a change of ruling the council voted that freshmen should be re quired to be in at 10 p m instead of 9 p m as the rule formerly stated the rule stating that the judicial committee should act upon com plaints sent in by fraternities was changed to state that the committee should consider those complaints a third revision provides that fra ternities may invite freshmen stay ing at other houses through mem bers of those houses the rule for merly stated that invitations must be sent through the president of the house in which the freshmen were staying the council selected oct 30-31 and nov 6-7 as tentative dates for houseparty week-end knox l peet president of the council appointed the following as the judicial committee dr c g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy dr w l bishop associate profes sor of economics l j upton ch e 37 r g werden i e 37 m w wolcott arts 37 h j mc nally c e 38 and a b schwarz kopf m e 37 alpha phi omega chooses sturgis for head 24 are initiated alpha phi omega national eagle scout society was formally install ed here thursday in drown hall dr ray wyland national educa tional director of the boy scouts jay wilcox scout executive for bethlehem and the lafayette chap ter of the society attended the in stallation twenty-four men were initiated r p sturgis m.e 38 was elect ed president of the fraternity other officers are d w gordon bus 38 vice president a p g mc ginnes i e 37 secretary frank nelson e e 38 treasurer harry harcher arts alumni secretary and henry naisby ch e 38 his torian the men initiated were v a barnhart c e 38 c b dehuff e e 38 j g ehlers ch e 38 b r ellis e e 38 s p felix arts 38 d w gordon bus 38 h a harcher arts w jablow ch e 38 m s mcdowell eng 39 a p g mcginnes i e 37 c b miller bus 38 h g naisby ch e 38 f s nelson i e 38 l h schick arts 37 m p smith e e 38 r h sachs bus 37 r h snyder c.e 38 d n stern arts 38 e h stone bus 38 g s stone ch e 38 r p sturgis m e 38 r d walp ch e 38 p j welch m.e 38 c f zell bus 38 and w s wheeler bus 36 o club hears wood lt commander wood inspector of navy orders at the local plant of the bethlehem steel corporation addressed the international rela tions club at its final meeting thursday in packard laboratory h c archer and g yanko to head brown and white 24 awards made for com petitions 71 individual prizes given lafayette officers judge major general a j bowley u s a commanding officer of the third army corps area reviewed the ninth annual field day and military exercises at the taylor field yester day twenty-four awards were pre sented to competition winners and outstanding members of the unit major george r hedges and ma jor milton b goodyear members of the lafayette faculty judged the competitions after assembling at 1 30 the field day competitions were run off the manual of arms elimination contest was won by h j hauser 39 and w a sheppard 38 squad drill competition was won by the first squad third platoon company x which was commanded by cadet corporal j kotanchik wins platoon drill the platoon drill competition was won by the second platoon com pany x cadet lieutenant v r wilson m e 36 commanding cadet captain c e bennett bus 36 commanded company b of the first battallion to win the company drill competition cadet captain j p mayshark eng 37 then led company i through various extended forma tions showing how attacks are made two basic students from each company then entered the tent pitching contest which was won by f c rabold e e 39 and g rheinfrank 39 make 71 awards following the field day competi tions 71 individual awards were presented to various men for being outstanding the association of the united states army cup was pre sented to company b for maintain ing the highest standard of efficien cy in drill throughout the year the american legion cup was won by company g for being the best shooting company in the unit the scabbard and blade cup was won by company x for being the best drilled platoon of the day the army ordnance medals were pre sented to f j biondi ch e 36 and w g turnbull eng 37 for scholastic standing and interest in ordnance affairs present sabers the scabbard and blade sabers were presented to v j pazzetti bus 37 and m l jackson eng 37 for high scholastic standing and general ability an r o t c medal was presented to w b woodring ch e 36 for placing on third corps area r o t c team in the national matches at camp perry ohio arcadia judge scores ille gal tactics used by class president criticizes d u members will present resolutions to arcadia to eliminate use of combines thomas garihan judge of the re cent class elections scathingly de nounced the present system of le high politics and accused students of illegality in methods of cam paigning to a brown and white re porter yesterday garihan who held the position of judge by virtue of being ex-president of arcadia who supervises the spring elections ad mitted that positive proof was lack ing to prove the existence of ille gal combines but was straight-for ward in his criticism of the conduct of certain individuals when the president of a class finds it necessary to campaign dur ing the election right in drown hall that's bad he declared an un dergraduate in his position should be better acquainted with election procedure and should know that what he was doing is forbidden by arcadia indicts d u men he next indicted several members of the delta upsilon fraternity that helped several voters fill out their ballots while they gave them a quiet pep talk on certain candidates qual ifications this also occurred in drown hall the scene of the elec tion declares garihan he affirmed that he had another witness besides himself to the above mentioned proceedings who would substantiate his testimony campaigning by seniors and students other than sponsors is ille gal under election rules garihan commented on the inter esting facts disclosed in the l u say column in the may 5 brown and white in which seven candi dates for office admitted the exis tence of combines to offer plan at arcadia's meeting tomorrow night he will present two resolu tions for adoption into the election code in an effort to prevent a re currence of this year's combining tactics the resolutions which will be laid before the student council are resolved that all general elec tion ballots should be signed by the voter as to living group affilia tion in order to be valid this rule would enable the election judge to detect the existence of a combine which leads to the second resolu tion resolved that any candidate judged by the president of arcadia and the election committee of se curing his election by use of the combine system shall be automati cally disqualified and the next high est candidate shall assume office 160 high and preparatory schools represented at third annual meet maulsby talks on polls five hundred delegates represent ing 160 pennsylvania and new jer sey high and preparatory schools were the guests of the university at its third annual scholastic press conference saturday the conference proper was open ed by dale h gramley associate professor of journalism and direc tor of the conference who welcom ed the delegates and introduced president c c williams williams welcomes guests president williams extended the welcome of the university to the visitors whom he addressed as the future interpreters of national con ditions in their field of journalism c m mcconn dean of the uni versity rated journalism as an ex tra-curricular activity basing his opinion on a survey of the amer ican telephone and telegraph com pany of its employees with college educations in a survey by the american tel ephone and telegraph company on the topic does business want scholars results showed that col lege men who had high scholarship invariably received the higher sal aries based on the years of service this proves the importance of scholarship but the survey was also taken of extra-curricular activities and this did not have the same de cisive results said dean mcconn it did conclusively prove that the group of employees who had been in the field of journalism eventually received the larger salaries and achieved greater success illustrating the power of public opinion as expressed by prominent american statesmen william s maulsby editorial director of the american institute of public opin ion addressed the delegation of students on measuring public opinion explains value of poles mr maulsby explained the value and operation of polls of the nation on questions of current importance maulsby discussed some of the questions which had been put to public vote citing the aaa politics in relief and most frequently the popularity of roosevelt after the morning session of the conference the group lunched in the armory the delegates then at tended ten round table discussions on topics of interest to secondary school publication officers the round tables were addressed by 28 lehigh journalism students and k k kost faculty adviser to the business staff of the brown and white and secretary to the board uf publications the awards were announced by philip m palmer dean of the col lege of arts and science at the clos ing session in the afternoon freshman contest opens tomorrow barnum made editor in chief of epitome for next year pre-med society elects houck 37 members argue definition of word liberty diverse opinions concerning the definition of liberty were expressed at the symposium on the ameri can liberty league sponsored by the lehigh discussion forum in packard laboratory friday night frederick snyder arts 39 stu dent member of the liberty league and guest speaker of the evening presented the program of organiza tion emphasizing the league's non political basis and its antagonism to governmental bureaucracy a long open discussion followed snyder's address during which nu merous questions were asked of the speaker many of the audience ex pressed the opinion that the liberty league was not representative of true american democracy and that some of the publications of the lea gue were not only misleading but untrue the last discussion forum meet ing will be held 8 p m friday may 15 at the maennerchor's wald heim in hellertown arrangements are being made by member carl palmer to have dr r p hummel speak on chinese culture dr hummel former secretary to dr richards has spent nine years as head of the mercer expedition for historical research in china harry c archer george yanko season is ended norman h halliday donald c barnum donald c barnum i e 37 was elected editor in chief of the epit ome for the coming year at a meet ing of the board of the epitome staff held in drown hall last night the new division of profits proposed by the board of publications was also adopted by the staff except for a minor change other officers elected were james d mack arts 38 sports editor herbert m wilson jr arts 38 fac ulty and class editor john p mur phy arts 38 fraternity editor stanley rand jr bus 38 organiz ations editor paul e white e e 38 photographic editor richard j baiter bus 37 chief of business staff and norman h halliday arts 37 business manager the change made by the staff in the division of profits was that two percent is to be taken off the bus ines smanager's profit and added to the salary of the assistant business manager the proposed change will have to be approved by the board of publications before it will go into effect candidates for prizes to give 5-minute talks ! the preliminary trials for the freshman oral composition contest will be held at 7:45 p m tomorrow in packard auditorium when candi dates are to give five-minute talks on a topic of their own choice any freshman may enter the trials the men remaining in the contest will compete for the first and second prizes of 40 and 15 respectively at 7:45 p m monday in room 466 packard laboratory the judges tomorrow night will be calvin callaghan theodore g ehrsam instructors in english and edgar h riley associate professor of english mr ehrsam is in charge of the contest mcnair to head honorary in the meeting of pi delta ep silon honorary journalistic society held last tuesday the following officers were elected for the coming year edwin g mcnair bus 37 president harold s ford arts 37 vice president robert a dreyer arts 38 secretary and harry c archer arts 37 treasurer there was no other business at this meet ing 2 spring formal dances given by fraternities the 1935-36 social season ended saturday night as the phi delta theta and kappa sigma fraterni ties held their spring formal dances at their respective chapter houses nat hyle and his lehighton band put in their third appearance at phi delta theta having been engaged by that fraternity for the last two dances previous to this year phi delta theta sigma chi and beta theta pi had annuallly combined to present a spring dance known as the miami triad godfrey muth and his band from allentown played at the kappa sigma dance where major and mrs carter collins chaperoned dr w w oliver speaks on trip at meeting john houck arts 37 was elected president of the robert w hall pre - medical society it was an nounced at a banquet held by the society thursday at the hotel bethlehem other officers chosen were mark wolcott arts 37 vice president william boucher arts 38 secre tary william ayers arts 38 treas urer and halvey marx arts 37 recorder dr wade w oliver acting dean of the long island medical school addressed the society on his recent trip around the'world he described his experiences in various countries he visited and told of a visit to a native village in the philippine is lands this village he claimed was almost as primitive now as it was at the dawn of civilization president c c williams philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science dr stanley thom as professor of bacteriology and dr robert hall head of the de partment of bacteriology also ad dressed the group harry c archer news manager of the brown and white and george yanko editorial manager will share the office of editor in chief for the coming year the board of publications decided at a meeting friday afternoon in the of fice of the chairman dean c m mcconn archer will hold office during the first semester and yanko will suc ceed him on feb 1 yanko will continue next semester as editorial manager an office which he as sumed recently when sidney j lewis resigned in order to become editor in chief of the review archer has been sports editor of the brown and white and now holds the office of news manager he received his numerals and letter in swimming is a member of the board of the lehigh review and was a member of the board of the burr now extinct he is treasurer of the lehigh chapter of pi delta epsilon national honorary journal istic fraternity and is the vice pres ident of the eastern intercollegiate newspaper association yanko has held the offices of news editor makeup editor mem ber of the editorial council and will be editorial manager of the brown and white until february he is a member of cyanide hon orary junior activities fraternity and is president of pi lambda phi he is a member of the board of the lehigh review this is the second successive year that the board has split the term of office which is normally one year to give the two leading candidates an opportunity to hold the highest position on the editorial side of the paper archer will be the fifty-ninth editor of the paper which was founded in january 1894 lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday may 12 1936 curtis announces senior rehearsal vol xliii — no 53 price — fire cents t garihan flails election combines dr w jessup to be speaker at exercises 500 present at conference here saturday member intercollegiate newspaper 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