Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 6

              board discusses first unit of greater lehigh dor mitory projects tojjbe approved in april cafeteria and recreation hall will be included may start next year students 21 years of age or over who desire to go home to vote may do so and will be ex cused from classes on election day nov 3 upon application to either dean curtis or dean mc conn dean c m mcconn an nounced today c e.'s hear talk on roads dr claude beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy glen harmeson head football coach and joe walton captain of this year's eleven will speak at 7:30 tonight in taylor gymnasium at the perm state smoker fay bartlett assistant professor of physical education will direct cane-wrestling championships in the 145 and 155-lb classes champions of the freshman and sophomore classes will be matched senior members of the varsity football team and the band will be present lehigh meets the nittany lions at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon neumeyer 90 describes construction of bethle hem-philadelphia pike glee club split into 2 groups charles burton woods a.b 29 western reserve m.a 30 west ern reserve ph.d 35 harvard recently appointed instructor in english senior section will make every trip and do all broadcasting chemists hear about nitrogen dr landis emphasizes im portance of element to all forms of life the 100,000 bequest to lehigh by william c gottshall a graduate of washington university an nounced last spring will be used to create scholarships for graduate en gineers it was decided by the uni versity trustees at their recent meeting it is expected that at least seven scholarships annually will be re alized on the income from the will stated walter r okeson univer sity treasurer the scholarships will be given in addition to tuition fees the exact number to be given will vary with the return on the money mr okeson said receives one-fifth lehigh receives one-fifth of mr gotshall's estate as does union col lege schenectady n v washing ton university st louis and rens selaer polytechnic institute troy n y there is a possibility that lehigh's proportion may be in creased but okeson declares there is nothing definite on this subject as yet the board of trustees authorized the president and treasurer of the university to prepare a memorial tablet in recognition of mr got shall's gift the plaque will be placed in packard laboratory george doddy will provide the music for the annual engineers ball to be held tomorrow evening in both the upper and lower rooms of drown hall indirect lighting will feature the decoration of the rooms white cloth rectangles upon which will be painted the insignias of the various honorary engineering societies will enclose the wall fixtures the stage and orchestra will be lighted by lights enclosed by cloth columns against a blue background the word lehigh will be dis played in large letters on the oppo site wall by various colored tubes of rare gasses electrically lighted this part of the decorations will be supplied by the department of chem ical engineering spotlights placed at various angles will complete the lighting effects to use both floors george doddy has played in the vicinity of bethlehem on many oc casions he has played at several of the tea dances at the beethoven maennerchor club this is the first university dance on the campus at which doddy has played an amplifier will be used to pro vide music for dancing in the lower room of drown hall refreshments of cider soda and cookies will be served on the second floor photo-electric cell control of the cider tap will be used both for novelty and to eliminate waste and spilling tickets are priced at 1.14 per couple and 85 cents stag outing club starts hiking activities plans to arrange snow trains for winter philosophy group hears beardslee the first unit of the greater le high dormitory group was tenta tively approved and given direct encouragement by the university board of trustees at its founder's day meeting states a w litzen berger superintendent of buildings and grounds the final decision will be made by the board at its april meeting upon completion of drawings and plans if the plans are passed work will be started next year the dormitory is to hold 142 stu dents as the plans now stand dr williams and the board feel that in view of the increased number of students the dormitory is an abso lute necessity the building will be erected di rectly east and a little to the south of the delta tau delta fraternity it is one of a series of dormitories to be built under the greater le high plan instituted by president emeritus richards and continued under the leadership of dr clement c williams university president to be privately financed the present plan points to a re sumption of the original idea to erect a group of seven dormitories states architect litzenberger the possibility of a still greater build ing project wil naturally be influ enced by the demand the cost and the available financial support the money for the project will not be campaigned for it is ex pected that the entire work will be privately financed it is hoped that the dormitory will be self supporting a cafeteria will be a special future of the new building as will be a large recrea tion hall robert e neumeyer 90 division engineer of the state highway de partment spoke on the construction of the new super-highway across lehigh mountain before the civil enginering society last night mr neumeyer at present is in charge of the construction of this road stated that it is progressing at the rate of 18,000 square feet of roadway per day when com pleted the entire construction will have cost approximately 600,000 and will consist of one and one-half miles of four lane and three and one-half miles of three lane high way by means of extensive cuts in places through solid rock the steep est rise is only an eight per cent grade this new super highway will shorten considerably the route from bethlehem to philadelphia presents slide slides showing the methods used in the construction of cement bound macadam roads were presented by richard a wahl c e 09 who is connected with the portland na tional cement association this type of roadway is used in the building of second rate highways for about 50 per cent of the cost of the ordin ary concrete road during the short business meet ing preceding the discussions an announcement was made to the ef fect that the dues for freshmen will be one dollar instead of the usual two all freshmen interested in civil engineering are invited to attend the next regular meeting of the so ciety the overproduction of wheat can be partially attributed to the fact that nitrogen has been used to greatly increase production stat ed dr walter s landis met 02 at a meeting of the lehigh chem ical society last night in packard auditorium dr landis speaking on the sub ject chemical engineering in the nitrogen industry emphasized the importance of nitrogen to all life at one time he showed ex perts were afraid that there would not be enough wheat to feed the people of the western hemisphere but due to the use of nitrogen in the fields the people were spared the ordeal of living on rice chile was originally responsible for most of the world's supply of nitrates he stated but the war forced the european countries to find other methods of obtaining ni trogen dr landis illustrated his lecture with slides showing and explaining the different processes of obtaining nitrogen and also told a few of his experiences in the field of nitrogen in foreign countries as well as in this country cyanide to take 6 more juniors membership to the university glee club will be divided into junior and senior groups stated dr t edgar shields director of the club at rehearsal last night in drown hall the senior section will be com posed of 35 to 40 men who will make all the trips and do all the broadcasting membership in this unit will be open to competition by all men and its personnel will be arranged so as to maintain the best possible balance and performance explained h e towne arts 37 president of the club the larger junior section will be required to attend all the rehear sals its members will serve an apprenticeship of one year dur ing which time they are to receive training and experience it is plan ned to have the entire group of sing ers participate in all home concerts towne also announced that ar rangements are being completed for two broadcasts the club will sing either over the combined networks of the national broadcasting com pany wjz-weaf or over the mutual system chain wor some time during the first semester if possible the annual winter home concert will be presented before the christmas recess soph vigilance group planned nominating group selected by o.d.k faculty discusses uniform courses honorary society point system changed committee will enforce freshman regulations reviews book before fac ulty seminar beyond conscience a book by t v smith was reviewed by dr claude g beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy at the faculty philosophy seminar thursday aftennoon in the facul ty room of drown hall mr smith will be a speaker at the university in the spring when he will lecture on the promise of american politics the philosophy meeting is pre sented with a review of any book in the field of philosophy by one of its members at each of its meet ings every two weeks stoughton gives advan tages of curricula will select successor to andrew buchanan gahatma roams with a hike to the pinnacle near lenhartsville the hiking division of the outing club began its activities last sunday the hiking division of the club takes weekend hikes over trails and to points of geological interest within a 25 mile radius the geology department assists with plans for hikes and maps occasionally a member of the department goes with the party some of the local points of inter est likely to be visited are wind gap haexenkopf rock formation pulpit rock devil's pulpit hel lertown caverns and sunfish pool near the wind gap snow trains similar to the ones which transport new yorkers from grand central to lake placid are to be arranged with the railroad the destinations will be snowbound upstate inns which provide winter sports w a stauth e m will give instruction in skiing about the cam pus stauth qualified as an instruc tor in the army mountain climbing division in the swiss alps election of officers and directors of the divisions will take place this week mandi leaves d u never to return jeep s p e.'s new mascot is a ? gov alfred m landon repub lican nominee is the choice of the student body of lehigh for pres ident of the united states accord ing to the poll conducted wednes day by the brown and white governor landon received 629 of the 813 votes cast 136 votes were cast for president franklin d roosevelt 19 for the commun ist candidate browder 18 for so cialist norman thomas 10 for union candidate lemke and one for prohibitionist colvin this gives landon a majority of almost five to one over his leading presidential rival six hundred seventy-two votes were cast by fraternity men giving landon 529 votes roosevelt 110 thomas 16 lemke 9 browder 7 and colvin 1 the town group cast 100 votes for landon 26 for roose velt 12 for browder two for thomas and one for lemke seniors favor landon in the tabulation according to classes the seniors gave 115 votes to landon 20 to roosevelt 2 to browder 2 to lemke and 1 to thomas there were a total of 140 senior votes cast of the 199 votes of the junior class 162 were cast for landon 22 for roosevelt 4 for browder 5 for thomas and 1 for lemke the sophomore class like wise favored landon casting 180 of their 233 votes cast for the re publican nominee they cast 40 votes for roosevelt 5 for thomas 4 for browder and 4 for lemke the freshman class while favor ing governor landon gave pres ident roosevelt more votes than the other three classes of the 241 votes cast president roosevelt received 54 while landon received 172 of the remaining votes 7 were for norman thomas 4 for browder 3 for lemke and 1 for colvin half of school votes it is significant that the 813 votes cast represent over half of the stu dent body of lehigh which now numbers 1601 this fact shows great interest in the brown and white poll and especially in the presidential election the comparison of the faculty poll and the student poll shows that while both students and faculty fa vor governor landon the students have given him an even greater majority his majority being five to three with the faculty and almost five to one with the students an interesting feature of the poll is the fact that one junior cast his ballot for charlie the janitor charlie is charles wasser the republican janitor of packard lab oratory who attracted attention last friday when he gave an address to the lehigh discussion forum fea turing the wpa the republican domination among the undergraduates this year shows a slight gain over the 1932 figures landon with 629 votes won 78 per cent of the votes cast a gain of four per cent over the 1932 election roosevelt polled 17 per cent this year and 18 per cent in 1932 the greatest difference is found in the socialistic vote two per cent of the students voted for thomas this year as compared with nine per cent in 1932 a system of three uniform years of engineering curricula was the topic for discussion of the faculty educational club at its meeting on monday in the faculty room of the administration building the discussion was led by brad ley h stoughton dean of engineer ing who pointed out the advantages of the system of three uniform years of engineering as practiced at rutgers and several other schools he stated that rutgers has suc ceeded in placing all of its engin eering graduates for several years the faculty educational club meets once a month for the pur pose of presenting the latest ideas in the educational field for the con sideration of the faculty cyanide junior honorary society voted to elect six additional juniors at a meeting wednesday evening in the alpha tau omega house those competing for membership must submit their points to jack hoppock i e 38 before 7:30 p.m monday at the phi gamma delta house several changes were made in the point list which appeared in the oct 13 issue of the brown and white interfraternity council membership will count two points instead of three captaincy of a major athletic team will count four points and of a minor team golf fencing or rifle two points one point will be given for each year of competi tion for mustard and cheese only points earned during the freshman and sophomore year will be counted plans for the formation of a soph omore vigilance committee were announced wednesday evening by frank rabold eng 39 president of the sophomore class acording to rabold this action became necessary because of fla grant violations of the traditional regulations by members of the freshman class the committee will conist of rep resentatives from living and town groups and will meet once a week to consider complaints made by up perclassmen concerning violations of freshman regulations among the punishments for diso bedience of regulations will be the wearing of conspicuous red ribbons and the use of the sunbonnet dink lehigh professor will speak at state smoker chemical society will hear lange omicron delta kappa senior honorary society held its first meet ing of the term wednesday evening at the delta tau delta house a nominating committee was ap pointed consisting of charles ford e e luther uton ch e and donald barnum i e to nominate a new alumni member to take the place of andrew buchanan for mer alumni secretary of lehigh and an active faculty member to replace bradley stoughton dean of the col lege of engineering the attention of the society was drawn to the lack of sportsmanship of some of the students as witness ed by the booing accompanying the umpires decisions in saturday's game with johns hopkins the next meeting will be a dinner meeting at the chi phi house the date will be arranged later carothers to remain with knox until nov 1 music set open coming events member of berlin institute will speak on cell capehart records are of fered to students gahatma mandi an embalmed head left the d u house last week taking with him rumors of murder throughout the town it seems that gahatma had at last found the way to an ash can there being no more hell week and the colored cook became quite at tached to him he liked him so much that he found a place for him in one of his friend's cars finding the uninvited guest in his car he threw defenseless gahatma into a lot where he was found by the neighborhood children whose parents reported a murder after trying to solve a mystery of murder the police decided that someone from the university was cutting capers and soon found ga hatma's home he did not return and so the last of hell week has finally left the university dean palmer to address perkiomen student body dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administration has postponed the date of his re turn to lehigh until about nov 1 dr carothers has spent the sum mer on a tour of the mid-west as economic adviser to col frank knox republican vice presidential candidate n s hibschmann associate pro fessor of electrical engineering and a graduate of perm state will talk on the relations between perm state and lehigh at a perm state smoker to be held tonight at the hotel bethlehem marty mcandrews a member of the perm state coaching staff will also speak the smoker is being sponsored by the lehigh valley alumni branch of perm state there are about 400 state alumni living in the lehigh valley mrs cairns to speak mrs stewart s cairns wife of s s cairns assistant professor of mathematics will preside at a meet ing of the bethlehem league of women voters tonight at the sun inn the league will discuss demo cratic and republican platforms physicists to hear larkin dr bruno lange of the kaiser wilhelm institute of berlin ger many will address the october meeting of the lehigh valley sec tion of the american chemical so ciety at 8 p m tonight in the chem ical lecture room dr lange's sub ject will be the theory and ap plication of the photo - electric cell the meeting will be preceeded by a dinner served at 6:15 p m in drown hall the dinner speaker will be dr e l crum head of the department of greek profes sor crum who spent last year in portugal will talk on portugal students are invited to attend the main meeting in the chemistry building friday oct 16 7:30 p m perm state smoker gym nasium 7:30 p m lehigh valley section of the american chemical society dr lange speaker main lecture room chemistry building saturday oct 17 2:30 p m varsity football perm state vs lehigh taylor gym 10 p m.-2 a m engineers ball drown hall monday oct 19 8 p m engineers club of the le high valley capt randolph p williams will speak on 13 miles above the clouds packard auditorium prof f v larkin head of the department of mechanical and in dustrial engineering will be one of the speakers at the conference of physics teachers to be held today and tomorrow at pennsylvania state college the subject of his paper will be industry looks at a physi cist philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and sciences will speak on personal work in col lege before the members of the perkiomen school at 1 p m oct 21 in the auditorium of the institution the purpose of the speech will be to impart a clearer understandin of the methods employed by the modern college to reveal the capa city and fitness of the student in order to guide him in the selection of a more suitable life's work the capehart music set in the chapel is now available to all le high students every student inter ested in music is invited to take advantage of the opportunity to lis ten to the best works of music there is a wide range of selection for both records and scores in the university music set attendants will be in the chapel at the following hours tuesday 11 to 12 a m 2 to 4 p m 7:30 to 10:30 p m wednesday 4 to 6 p m 7:30 to 10:30 p m thurs day 11 to 12 a m 2 to 4 p m friday 11 to 12 a m 7:30 to 10:30 p m for the luvva mike what is it gasped 15 sig eps when is other sig eps brought her in on tuesday thirty sig eps watched her and wondered as she sniffed along the hall of the chapter house at 61 west market street sure enough . . . there she was a long long tail . . . like a mon key a very very wet snout . . . like a fur-covered pig sometimes she looked like an ant-eater and then as she ducked her head be tween her paws and elevated her stern she looked very much like . . . "... like a jeep yelled some one look look at the jeep so the boys at the sig ep house find themselves the puzzled but proud owners of a jeep no one can say what she really is all they know is that she doesn't demand orchids for lunch . . . that she's happy eating bananas and grub bing for worms . . . that she enjoys gnawing white paint off the floor . . . and that she makes a swell mas cot incidentally her name is archi bald brown and white bethlehem pa friday october 16 1936 vol xliv no 6 trustees tentatively approve new dorm price — five cents beardslee will talk at smoker gotshall gift to be used for 7 scholarships cane-wrestling to be stag ed by bartlett student choice gives landon majority of 445 new faculty member engineers ball is to feature doddy's music roosevelt receives 136 votes in student poll communist gets 19 all classes elect landon 100,000 bequest sete t aside by trustees to aid graduate study other schools are aided voters may be excused two floors in drown hall will be used — lighting to be indirect to serve refreshments member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first