Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 10

              vol xliv no 10 reviews supply bureau c.c williams hits president on new deal 543 guests arrive for fall houseparty subscribers to the lehigh re view living in the town groups are requested by stanley ford business manager to obtain their copies of the houseparty issue at the supply bureau 4 tea dances to be given for charity full program planned houseparty week-end list shows 32 less dates than attended the sen ior ball last year soto interprets spanish situation says roosevelt's implica tion tends to obscure cause of depression f d r urges training first to be given nov 14 after muhlenberg game at chi psi lodge dean supports plan 26 houses f participate educational trends bring permanent liberal stand program includes prom football game and liv ing group dances left to right gill young bayer lightcap enstine wilson voting students may go home on election day 6 are inducted into honorary cyanide taps bayer en stine gill lightcap wilson and young students twenty-one years of age or over who desire to go home to vote on election day nov 3 are permitted and en couraged by the university to do so and will receive needed ex cuses for classes necessarily missed for this purpose on ap plication to dean curtis or to me c m mcconn dean of the university kyle crichton jibes parties a series of tea dances for the benefit of the lehigh charity fund will be held during the winter sea son it was decided at a meeting of the heads of the various living groups held wednesday evening in the chi psi lodge four dances will be given the first is to be nov 14 following the muhlenberg football game at the chi psi lodge george doddy and his orchestra will play tickets will cost 1.00 per couple the second dance will occur in december and the final two affairs will be held in the second semester all profits will be given to the lehigh union for distribution in its charity fund president favors plan president c c williams dean c m mcconn and dr c g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy and advisor to the lehigh union spoke in favor of the plan dr beardslee explained that for the past several years the student donations to charity had been de clining until last year the average donation to the community chest drive was less than three cents per student he said that he believed combining the social aspect with the drive would be a painless meth od of extracting more funds dean mcconn pointed out the lack of social activities between fall houseparty and the interfraternity ball dean gives support i give my full support to the tea dance plan for two reasons dean mcconn stated besides the social aspect i believe that it has an edu cational value in that it gives the students work in the field of philan thropy president williams said that he was pleased with the plan and would lend his support to any scheme which provided wholesome enjoyment for the young people one of the most pleasing parts of this idea the president added is the interest and willingness to cooperate which everyone shows lehigh its students faculty alum ni and everyone connected with the university is like a big family so cial events such as the one planned serve to strengthen the family ties a student committee will be named within the next week to ar range other details miller lectures discusses purification of limeston by flotation basing his article on a statement that houseparties in our day were something to write home about — but we didn't dare kyle crichton 17 editor and author for collier's magazine has released his latest ar ticle entitled houseparty in the alumni bulletin published today while crichton admits that he attended very few houseparties through choice he points out some of the duties that fell upon one who acted as headmaster for lafayette guests and gives more observations of weary williams knock-em breen and doc edwards in their palmy days harry c archer 37 writes on the houseparty scene from a present-day standpoint other article in the current bul letin include a picture of the mod ern paint industry by dr j s shorty long 14 director of re search for the devoe & raynolds company and an explanation of the work behind band maneuvers by d w gordon 37 leader of the le high band dr harry m ullmann head of the department of chemistry has written the factors of our need an article devoted to the improve ments planned for the new chem istry laboratory addition and how ard s leach librarian pictures the demand for new books to supply in creased graduate study a guest editorial by president c c wil liams is an opening feature an exclusive engraving of the first dormitory unit reproduced from the plans of james l burley 94 university architect is repro duced on pages 18-19 of the issue clubs committee approves budgets 6 lists deferred 9 are not presented the committee of student clubs approved 30 of the 36 budgets sub mitted on tuesday at a committee meeting in the office of the dean nine of the student organizations have failed to present their esti mate of expenditures to the com mittee those budgets which were not approved were deferred until a meeting of the treasurer of each organization and the dean could be arranged the committee is a joint faculty and student body dean c m mc conn ex-officio chairman of the committee robert d billinger as sistant professor of chemistry and carl e allen assistant professor of accountancy are the faculty representatives prof b l miller head of the geology department presented an illustrated lecture on the purifi cation of limestone by flotation at the first meeting of the mining and geological society wednesday in williams hall dr miller explained the origin of limestone deposits and the oc curence of fossils in deposits he also described some of the methods employed in purifying the sub stance pointing out that the flota tion process is the most efficient and economical this process of limestone purifi cation has won much recognition dr miller stated and it is prob able that in a few years the le high valley will begin commercial operation along this line dr miller has long been asso cited with the valley forge ce ment company in capacity of geo logical adviser this company has the only flotation plant that is in operation today several are near completion in argentina while oth ers are planned for france and south africa after dr miller's address donald crary e e 38 was elected sec retary of the society it was an nounced that at 4 p m thursday john m lohse mining engineer will show motion pictures of oil prospecting in the mississippi delta gives humorous story of fraternal activities in alumni bulletin six members of the class of 1938 were pledged to cyanide junior honorary society at the chapel ex ercises wednesday morning the new members are frederick b bayer bus milton c enstine i x william h gill c e rob ert j lightcap i e herbert m wilson jr arts and randolph h young chem prof howard bosey reiter head of the department of physical education spoke on the aims and ideals of cyanide at the exercises continued on page four an interpretation of the current situation in spain was given by prof raphael a soto assistant professor of romance languages before a cultural meeting of alpha zadech aleph wednesday evening at the brith sholom community center the speaker pointed out that edu cational trends have brought liber alism to spain to stay he expressed little hope of success for the gov ernment forces however spain's history from the napo leonic era was analized by profes sor soto in order to show the de velopment of the liberal movement in that country he attributed the current civil war directly to the re sentment felt by the military forces as a result of the treatment they have received from the popular front and also to reactions against the curtailment of their privileges by the current regime raphael scoblionko 31 intro duced professor soto to the group which was composed of members of the a z a and membeds and chapter advisors of the center jun ior girls auxiliary the meeting was presided over by morris mind lin arts 38 president of the a z a the full text of dr williams letter to the president may be found on page four dr c c williams president of lehigh university criticized the new deal recently in his reply to president roosevelt's letter of oct 22 in which the president urged educators to train prospective en gineers more fully in social and economic problems dr williams stated that this question had engaged the serious attention of educators in the field of engineering for some years and that the president's request would serve to re-emphasize its impor tance however the failure of social and economic progress to equal technol ogical advances wrote dr wil liams is not due so much to de fects in the system of engineering education as to governmental in terference with economic machin ery blames elections the fact that popular election and executive appointment have not put men with a knowledge of scientific matters in positions of economic and scientific importance is the im portant cause of economic malad justment rather than science itself he also stated that engineering education has always been opposed to extravagance and will always continued on page four the annual fall houseparty week-end began today at 4 p m and the program for the partici pants is as follows friday 7-9 p m opening of art and craft exhibition lehigh art gallery 10 p m senior ball hotel beth lehem saturday 10-12 a m art and craft exhi bition lehigh art gallery 12:30 p m varsity soccer le high vs haverford at lehigh 2:30 p m varsity football le high vs rutgers at taylor stadium 4-7 p m tea dance at the maen nerchor 9 p m house dances sunday 2-5:30 p m art and craft exhi bition 3 p m houseparty week-end ends 4 p m organ and piano recital by mrs ruth meyers and dr shields in packer chapel statistical group to be organized an organization meeting of the lehigh valley statistical society be held at 6:30 saturday evening nov 7 in the faculty room of drown hall george b curtis registrar and associate dean and harry jerome chairman of the department of eco nomics of the university of wiscon sin will be the speakers alphabet wizard leads baud inserted l pouring over the side to give the effect of flowing beer so far this season the band has performed quite creditably much of this credit belongs to dave gordon the master mind of the band it is gordon who plans the maneuvers conducts the drills and sees that everything is perfectly executed an example of his blackboard drills can be found in the ac companying pictures band is improved the band this year is a greatly improved organization members for the first time in many years are taking a genuine interest in band activities they point with pride to their performances at the perm state and gettysburg games and look forward with interest to the formations they will use for the remaining games the slacker is out no one in the band will tolerate the fellow who doesn't care seriousness in their work is the dominating characteristic of ses*-s men with such an attitude predominating the band will reach those heights at which former bands of the university have"aijret.^p band members are not the only enthu siasts the student body is beginning to look upon the band with pride wasn't that a swell layout the band used saturday is only one of the many remarks that pass be tween students on the campus newspaper men in the press box also have praise for the work of the band one press agent in formed the writer that the formations used at the state game were the first formations in eight years that won applause from any one in the press box on this play you fellows go around left end and these men will circle right end you four men go through center the play is outlined here on the board if you fellows follow instructions that are given here you will have no difficulty in executing the play properly no dear reader this is no a story of the blackboard drill to which members of the football team are exposed but a general sur vey of the tuesday afternoon blackboard drill of the university band blackboard drills are becoming a matter of weekly routine for the band the first of these drills preceeded the perm state game and the results were so pronounced that similar drills have been used for the succeeding games the most intensive of these drills was held tuesday in preparation for the rut gers game tomorrow for two and one half hours the 96 men in the marching band list ened to the instructions of dave gordon student band leader and watched him out line the band maneuvers on the blackboard in room 109 christmas-saucon to use script tomorrow according to the maneuvers outlined by gordon the band will spell le high in script before the game begins dur ing the half there will be three separate bands one at the east end one at the west end and one in the center of the field these three bands will unite to form the rutgers r from that formation they will form the silver goblet with a huge l on the side not satisfied with those formations gordon intends to tip the goblet with the to the left it teen the lehigh band learning itt abc't at the gettysburg game with a complicated routine after serenading the home stands with a large g they moved to the lehigh tide spelling l-e-h-l-g-h in rapid succession they finished with a large l and the alma mater the formation shown in the bottom picture it the silver goblet found at the perm state game below are in order dave gordon matter mind of formations a page from hit notebook showing hit plan for tipping the goblet sat urday and charles moesel drum major by k a janulis houseparty week-end began offi cially at 4 p m today with the ar rival of the first 543 girls who will be the guests of participating living groups until sunday afternoon well over 1,000 students guests and chaperones will hear and dance to the music of charles barnet and his orchestra and the hudson-dc lange orchestra at the senior ball from 10 p m to 3 a m tonight at the hotel bethlehem the full houseparty program in cludes a football game with rutgers university at 2:30 tomorrow after noon a tea dance at the beethoven maennerchor directly after the game and formal dances at 26 fraternity chapter houses tomorrow night the lehigh band has planned a se ries of novel marching formations especially for the houseparty foot ball game played at casino charles barnet and his orchestra comes to lehigh from a summer - long engagement at the glen island casino in westchester county on long island sound before obtain ing the highly coveted glen island casino engagement he and his men have played in the grill room of manhattan's paramount hotel in the cocoanut grove of the park central hotel and at numerous col lege proms throughout the nation m hugh panassie author of hot jazz and critic of modern jazz pronounced barnet one of the three best saxophone players in the world panassie writes his play ing exhibits an astonishing verve and feeling and imagination the hudson-delange orchestra holds the unique position of being one of the youngest and yet most seasoned aggregations of musicians in the world today it has just com pleted a twelve month engagement at the roadside rest on long is land from where they broadcasted over station wor three times a week the orchestra is conducted by ed die delange who has made a name for himself through his popular ly rics some of which are the words to such song successes or moon glow i wish i were twins haunting me and solitude he is also widely known for his antics a character acfor for rtve years fn l hollywood before he turned to mu xeputed to be one of the country's teadijje arrangers of d^ncf music jlmvt^ca^l&powffc jefej r numbering among his contributions to modern music such compositions as jazznochracy white heat nit-wit senerade yankee in hanava moonglow and by the great horn spoon the latter two were written in collaboration with delange tickets for the senior ball will not be sold at drown hall after 5 o'clock this afternoon but they will be sold at the door of the hotel bethlehem for about an hour or two announced henry s battin 11 bus 37 chairman of the dance commit tee every living group at lehigh will hold dances tomorrow night but sigma alpha mv theta xi theta delta chi and the dormitory groups on the campus coaches assemble republicans are hosts to football mentors football coaches of lehigh val ley assembled as the guests of the washington republican club wed nesday night at their home on brodhead avenue lehigh was represented by glen harmeson head football and basket ball coach marty westerman el mer red sleight paul r calvert and paul short assistant football coaches and robert b adams as sistant athletic director this was the second annual af fair sponsored by the club brown and white bethlehem pa friday october 30 1936 cyanide pledges 6 juniors 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