Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 9

              dr maurice ewing assistant professor of physics inspects the instru ments he will use on the navy gravity expedition sidney j lewis chairman of the concert-lecture series committe elcomes alexander woollcott who spoke last night lists due tomorrow club to hear dr bradford fraternity houseparty lists in cluding the names of guests chaperones and orchestras must be handed into the brown and white office before 7:30 p m tomorrow will present sound movies forum finds hearst guilty young republicans will be addressed by local congressional candidate w hodge will give johns manville anti-noise dem onstration thursday students accuse publisher of ln americanism after talk by d h gramley models show atom packing four exhibits acquired by departments of geology and metallurgy tau beta pi national honorary engineering fraternity pledged nine men this morning in chapel the six seniors and three juniors chosen are wilbert bakker e.e 37 rob ert w boarman m e 37 harold s krauter ch e 37 john z linsenmeyer e e 37 stanley s paist jr e e 37 richard l schmoyer u e 37 william b clark ch e 38 john a cooney e e 38 william g dukek jr ch e 38 clarence b welch c e 37 president of tau beta pi introduced dr benjamin l miller head of the department of geology who made the pledging address speaking on the history aims and ideals of the society dr miller mentioned the fact that tau beta pi was founded 50 years ago on the lehgh cam pus and that its recognition of scholarship leadership and charac ter among the engineers is defintely in keeping with the lehigh tradi tion election held friday the students chosen were elected at a regular meeting of the society which was held friday evening in the tau beta pi room in packard laboratory previous to this a smok er had been given by tau beta pi for the 16 seniors and 25 juniors who were elegible for membership eligibility is based scholastically on a 2.5 average for six semesters in the case of seniors and a 3 aver age during four semesters for the juniors in addition participation in activities is taken into account the formal initiation and ban quet will be held early in decem ber in addition 14 or 16 juniors will be pledged by the fraternity in the spring list omits lehigh classification of accredited schools is incomplete w j hodge graduate of the le high physics department will pre sent the johns-manville anti-noise demonstration at a joint meeting of the american society of mechani cal engineering and the physics club at 8 p m thursday in pack ard laboratory the demonstration will consist of sound motion pictures experimental displays and a lecture on noise measurements sound proofing methods and materials and acous tical oddities the public will be admitted free of charge quotes from tests in showing the harmful effect of noise mr hodges quotes from tests given by a large eastern uni versity that typists use 19 per cent more energy and lose a little more than 4 per cent in speed working under noisy conditions noise also causes deafness among factory workers and sudden loud noises create a rise in brain pressure blood pressure and rate of respiration ac cording to further experimentation it is by no means accidental therefore that each of us instinc tively seeks a quiet place to work eat rest or play because noise takes its toll mr hodge says dr frederick a bradford pro fessor of economics and walter f coyle republican candidate for congress in this district will pre sent short talks to the members of the lehigh branch of the young republican club which will hold its first open meeting at 7:15 to morrow evening in packard auditor ium professor bradford who has re cently returned from a tour of the western states with colonel frank knox republican candidate for the vice-presidency and neil car others dean of the college of bus iness administration will speak on travelling with knox he in tends to present the inside story of a political campaign to outline platform coyle who was previously elect ed to congress for northampton monroe and carbon counties in 1924 1928 and 1932 will give a short speech on campaign issues presenting the important planks in the republican platform the president of the club mat thew o troy e e 38 has urged that as many as possible of the 800 members attend the meeting the young republican club plans to hold a political demonstration in bethlehem on the eve of the elec tion mets will dine metallurgical society to hear a h fosdick 400 freshmen attend smoker billinger demonstrates li quid air to frosh dr maurice ewing assistant pro fessor of physics will leave nov 4 to be chief scientist on the navy gravity expedition the object of the expedition is to gather data about the acceleration of gravity at sea the expedition will end in the latter part of january covering a period of about three months for which period ewing has been grant ed a leave of absence the sponsors are the u s navy department the american philoso phical society and the american geophysical union dr ewing will be assisted by dr h h hess instructor in geology at princeton and lieut a j hos kinson of the u s coast and geo detic survey they will first go to the canal zone on the u s s christobal late in november the expedition will leave the canal zone for the neighborhood of the west indies in the submarine u s s baracuda go down 80 feet at 50 different stations from panama to trinidad along the windward islands and to porto rico gravity accelerations will be measured 80 feet below the surface of the sea these measurements are made possible by the special pendulum perfected by dr f a vening meinesz of the university of am sterfoort holland the submarine will be used to permit measure ments beneath the disturbance from waves thus enabling the establish ment of a steady base for pendulum swings time measurements will be con trolled by radio signals from the u s naval observatory it has been found that the measurements of gravity give information about the equilibrium of the crust of the earth in the region surveyed found correlations earlier measurements by dr vening-meinesz in the east indies showed correlation between normal values of gravity and the occur rence of volcanoes and earthquakes the present survey is expected to yield similar information about the west indies by use of certain formulas de veloped by the english mathemati cian stokes the figure of the earth may be deduced from gravity meas urements alone the data provided by this expedition and others like it in future years will ventually per mit application of the theory of stokes and determine the figure of the earth flotation method will be discussed dr b l miller will talk on limestone process the departments of geology and metallurgy jointly acquired four structure models showing the ar rangement of atoms in crystals re ports r d butler instructor in geology these models are pack ing models as contrasted to the usual lattice or spacing models the structures have been determined by x-ray analysis the models have been built on a scale of one inch to two angstrom units or an approximate magnifica tion of 125,000,000 times a concep tion of the magnification may be ob tained by realizing that for a min eral crystal three inches long the corresponding model on this scale would have to be about 6,000 miles long to display models models of copper alpha-iron dia mond and halite nocl common table salt will be displayed in the exhibit case in williams hall this week copper shows a face-centered structure with the atoms as tight ly packed as is possible in cubic crystals alpha-iron is one of the thermal modifications of iron and is body-centered the diamond structure illustrates the great amount of interatomic spaces char acteristic of certain types of crys tals the structure of halite readily shows it breaks or cleaves into tiny cubes more of these models which are useful in the fields of metallurgy mineralogy chemistry and crystal physics will be obtained by the de partments in the future lehigh university's omission from a list of accredited engineering schools made public on sunday by the engineers council for profes sional development is because the list is not yet complete states pres ident c c williams the representative of the coun cil has not yet visited lehigh but will probably do so shortly said president williams composed of the seven leading national engineering societies the council is drawing up a more strin gent list of accredited engineering schools and curricula based on standards set by themselves to re place the lists drawn up before by government officials to facilitate the granting of engineering licenses landon to speak here members of the lehigh discus sion forum and visitors found wil liam randolph hearst guilty of un-american activities of fas cist leanings and of atrocious bad taste following a talk by dale h gramley head of the department of journalism on hearst and the freedom of the american press given last friday night in packard laboratory the students faculty members and vistors from moravian college for women participated in an open forum which followed professor gramley's talk professor gramley spoke on the freedom of the press and on hearst's life and work he pointed out the difference in censorship be tween american and european newspapers showing that there are no restrictions affecting the content of newspapers before publication in this country he then stated that hearst's activities gained for him a net annual profit of 15,000,000 prior to the depression he added hearst has always been a man of mystery many of his actions have revolutionized american journalism he made many contributions to the mechanical excellence of newspa pers from the floor hearst was call ed individually responsible for the spanish-american war and the as sassination of president mckinley professor gramley revealed that hearst has been the object of pub lic censure from at least two pres ident of the united states carl palmer arts 38 president of the forum announced that at the forum's meeting next wednesday in packard laboratory will feature representatives of four of the poli tical parties who will discuss the party platform in this year's politi cal campaign the public is invited to the meeting will give concert to teach police gov alfred m landon repub lican candidate for president will arrive in bethlehem at 10:30 a m friday he will pause for a brief address at the lehigh valley rail road station german artists to play in packer chapel experts to be brought to training school w j hodge the metallurgical society will hold its initial dinner and meeting of the year at 6 p m and 8 p m respectively thursday oct 29 the dinner will be held at the sun inn dinner tickets may be obtained at the metallurgical office for 75 cents the meeting will be held in room 301 williams hall a h fosdick superintendent of blast furnaces bethlehem steel company will speak on blast fur nace operation during the meet ing election of officers will follow directly after mr fosdick's talk attendance at the meeting is com pulsory for sophomores juniors and seniors in metallurgical engin eering publish houseparty issue of lehigh review today two comic articles on houseparty week-ends by p e p white e.e 38 and william dukek ch e 38 are featured in the november issue of the lehigh review which came out today the photographic cover also follows the houseparty theme the recent geophysics research of dr maurice ewing instructor of physics is described by melvin lord ch e 38 leonard schick arts 37 writes about the new foot ball coach at muhlenberg also in cluded in the issue is a campus quiz o shields to give concert prof t e shields director of music and mrs ruth decker my ers pianist for the bach choir will present a concert of the music of handel at 4 o'clock next sunday afternoon in the packer memorial chapel the concert will be free four hundred freshmen saw the demonstrations on liquid air per formed by dr robert d billinger assistant professor of chemistry at the closed smoker friday night in the gymnasium dr billinger first gave a short talk on liquid air and then gave several demonstrations showing the possible use of the material as a means of refrigera tion dr c g beardslee head of the department of moral and relgious philosophy spoke on the great possibilities of the class of 1940 w r okeson university treasurer talked on the lehigh freshman of forty years ago paul calvert coach of the freshman football team spoke on the possibilities of his team and asked for support in the stands for the game the next day after the speeches myron ka pec bus 40 and robert girdler ch e 38 wrestled to a draw the fencing team put on an exhibition showing the various types of inter collegiate fencing the new fresh man union served refreshments the first of the albert newton cleaver memorial concert founda tion concerts will be given at 8:15 p m thursday nov 8 in packer memorial chapel by the young ar tists group of germany the concert will be similar to the one given last year by the so ciety of ancient instruments ex cept that the group will also sing the concert will be free for all students and the admission charge for the public will be 50 cents will hold math seminar former assistant coach commits suicide in home dr benjamin l miller head of the geology department will talk on purification of limestone by flotation at the first meeting of the geological society at 8 p m tomorrow in room 102 williams hall motion pictures showing the flotation process used at the val ley forge cement company west conshohocken will supplement the talk the material for dr miller's talk is taken from a paper upon flota tion processing of limestone which was prepared by charles h breerwood vice president and gen eral manager of the valley forge cement company and by dr mil ler for the american institute of mining and metallurgical engineers meeting in february 1935 in new york clement b sheridan arts 37 president of the geological society announced that a secretary will be elected at the meeting paul munoz e m 38 former secretary did not return to school this semester e grace gives 5,000 by henry snick heckman employing colorful language in teresting anecdotes and brilliant witticisms alexander woollcott last night commanded the undivid ed attention of a near capacity crowd of one thousand persons in broughal high school while he rambled for an hour and a half on the highlights of his life and exper iences relative more or less to the invisible newspaper although keeping his audience in an almost constant state of laughter by his exceedingly humor ous treatment of his subject wooll cott was nevertheless able em phatically to present his main points which were even more striking be cause of their serious mem in an otherwise light talk his manner casual from the be ginning and his brilliant choice of phrases more than compensated for his none-too-good speaking voice he had not spoken for five minutes before he struck the collegiate chord by subtly referring to a rather vol uptous actress as being richly put together could pick climax continuing in this same strain woollcott revealed his method for determining the right point at which to dash out of the theater and write his criticism in time for the first edition i would wait until the highest paid actor on the stage would converge toward the highest paid actress then i would know that the biological struggle was about to begin and i would jump out of my seat trample over women and children and retreat to the western union office that woollcott held the unmiti gated interest of his audience is ex emplified by the fact that he had spoken for a full 20 minutes before he mentioned his topic once and no one seemed to have noticed the absence of his main theme ap parently the journalist-critic could have rambled for the entire evening and still retain his hearers absolute attention leading up to his main theme woollcott related an experience which occurred when he first was with the new york times at that time the tribune was not very suc cessful having a circulation of only 40,000 in new york city one day when a reporter was about to tel egraph a big story in to the office a sun reporter edwin c hill laughingly remarked why not tele phone your subscribers and tell them what is happening and that said woollcott is exactly what we are doing today i am referring to the invisible news paper the radio today from the invisible news paper we receive all the news from what time the aquitania lands to whether or not mrs simpson will ..." supports free speech at this point woollcott hit the high note of his entire lecture he pointed out that no country has even been harmed by speech and that the united states of america was founded upon a doctrine of free speech in this light then it is utterly absurd for the citizens of terre haute and tampa to deny a pres idential candidate the right to ad dress the invisible reader by their actions the nit wit townsmen of these two cities are doing their best to elect browder president roosevelt realizes the disadvantages of radio speaking for because of the frequency with which his voice has been brought into the average american home it will ap pear to many that he has been in office far more than four years a striking point about wooll cott's manner of delivery is that he secured the maximum of effect with the minimum of arm waving using phrasing for emphasis all in all he presented a most interesting talk which should unquestionably serve to start off the new lecture series with a bang will give anti-noise demonstratio thursday in packard laboratory hyman goldman ch e 21 for mer star center and assistant foot ball coach was found dead at his home last friday the coroner's certificate stated death by suicide mr goldman played three years of varsity football later becoming assistant varsity coach under aus tin tate he was also a member of tau beta pi national honorary engineering society e g grace president of the board of trustees and president of the bethlehem steel company is listed as having contributed 5,000 to the republican campaign fund according to the report filed in washington lehigh will soon be the site of lehigh valley's first police school if plans now being formulated are completed this school was chosen because of its convenient location motion picture facilities and equipment for class room work the instructors will be experts from the federal bureau of investigation the state highway patrol state police and the district attorney's office it is also intended to invite several pro fessional men and experienced po lice officers to act as guest in structors those present at the recent plan ning conference were mayor joseph morrison of easton mayor robert pfeifle of bethlehem councilman piel of easton f v larkin direc tor of the curricula of mechanical and industrial engineering h p thomas head of the department of education and dean c m mc conn a seminar in differential geom etry will be held at 1 30 p m fri day in room 306 packer hall k w lamson associate professor of mathematics j l vanderslice instructor in mathematics and dr e h cutler instructor in mathe matics will conduct an informal discussion on advance work in geometry all members of the mathematics department and grad uate students are invited to attend brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday october 27 1936 student lecture series is opened dr ewing checks his apparatus vol xliv — no 9 price — five cents 1,000 people are amused by woollcott dr m ewing will be chief of expedition tau beta pi taps 9 men during chapel to leave nov 4 on navy gravity exploration trip in west indian waters dr b miller lists aims and ideals of honorary engineering society pledges at exercises tells of his life and ex periences relative to the invisible newspaper speaker uses anecdote will return in january member 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