Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 11

              bethlehem pa tuesday november 3 1936 newtonian society installs 27 men vol xliv no 11 lehigh's choice price — five cents dean carothers completes trip 1,000 dance at senior ball friday night group selects n j leonard as candidate 33 men named to 9 teams for debating concert group is recognized by committee returns after 2 months as knox's advisor math club hears ogburn speak on astronomy each team with varsity leader to represent college curricula callaghan is director dean curtis impressed by decorum of prom held at hotel bethlehem two orchestras play senior will compete for rhodes award as lehigh representative is o d k president is preparing to present musical concert series in packer chapel give program sunday dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administration returned to lehigh saturday after covering 24,000 miles in 37 states as economic advisor to cal frank knox republican vice presidential candidate since july 29 dr carothers and a party of about 60 correspondents and advisors have been with col onel knox on his private railroad car living on it entirely except for occasional week-ends in hotels at the most important stopping places in the 62 days of the trip they made two complete swings across the u s during this time colonel knox made 59 major speeches and 200 minor ones speaking to almost a million people it was the most in tensive campaign ever put on by any vice presidential candidate states dean carothers n j leonard who has been se lected as lehigh's rhodes scholar candidate writes study on manuscript monograph deals with very ancient manuscript in lehigh library the newtonian society honorary mathematical society recently in stalled 27 new members at a meet ing held in packard laboratory the new men are walter w reid arts 39 alan w smith bus 39 jules l moreau arts 39 paul h bartholomew ch e 39 don old w cooper e e 39 edward e lukens met e 39 robert j mccurdy e e 39 norman l morse ch e 39 james e pat ton ch e 39 robert c parsons met e 39 albert s raff ch e 39 and eric weiss e e 39 james e bright met e 39 ad dison d draper ch e 39 stan ley e giulio e m 39 alan s grant i e 39 robert w grub meyer e e 39 rea c helm e e 39 john f herr jr ch e.'39 frank l jackson ch e 39 emil karpowich c e 39 charles g layman ch e 39 donald mc kenzie c e 39 thomas v mur to jr m e 39 robert h stettler m e 39 moran v trexler ch e 39 vincent m white m.e.'39 john b ogburn professor of mathematics and astronomy and fac ulty adviser of the society address ed the group he took as his sub ject newton and astronomy all freshmen who receive an a grade in their first semester mathe matics and all sophomores who at tain this average during their sec ond semester are eligible to become members in the newtonian society lockers entered football players robbed during rutgers game the student concerts group the society which ' was formed last spring to further music appreciation on the campus received formal rec ognition as a university organization from the committee on student ac tivities when they met in dean mc conn's office this afternoon the group is preparing to present a series of concerts throughout the year the first of these will be held on sunday afternoon at 4 p m in packer chapel the trumpler trio consisting of violin flute and piano will present a recital of orchestral music forms committee a committee of organization has been formed for this year the members are raymond k mane val bus 38 general director harry a snyder ch e 39 pro gram director carstens y haas ch e 38 publicity director fred erick c moesel ch e 39 com mitteeman at large and james e patton ch e 39 recording secre tary dr claude g beardslee pro fessor of moral and religious phil osophy is the faculty advisor gave concerts the student concerts group was formed last spring by frank r mallalieu eng physics 36 the society was organized to foster talent and appreciation of music among the student body by perfor mance composition and listening operating under a temporary rec ognition the group presented a se ries of eight concerts which were given in the chapel on sunday eve nings the singers and players were all chosen from the student body as will be the case this year the concerts are free one thousand students house party dates and chaperones danced to the strains of the hudson-dc lange and the charles barnet dance bands friday evening as the senior ball opened the annual fall house party program commenting on the ball dean g b curtis said the affair proceded in perfectly decorous order with no untoward incidents to mar its suc cess diverging from the procedure used last year the committee ar ranged for the barnet band to be stationed on the balcony in the ho tel bethlehem dining room thus allowing the dancers to have the lower floor entirely to themselves the hudson-delange orchestra played in the regular ballroom mcconn absent although most of the various fra ternity chaperones attended the af fair the official chaperones were dean and mrs curtis president and mrs williams and dr and mrs beardslee dean c m mc conn who usually is on the chap erone list was unable to attend be cause of an out of town conference robert w reifsnyder bus 37 member of the dance committee said that very nearly 480 couples bought tickets for the ball this fig ure ranks the 1936 senior ball as the second largest lehigh dance ever held at the hotel bethlehem the 1934 junior prom with ozzie nelson holds attendance records at the hotel the committee in charge of ar rangements consisted of henry s battin bus 37 chairman karl m jacobi bus 37 and robert w reifsnyder bus 37 nelson j leonard chem 37 was selected friday as the only representative from lehigh this year to compete for a rhodes schol arship the lehigh rhodes schol arship committee comprising deans palmer carothers and mcconn made the award one or more students showing some definite quality of distinction whether in intellect character or personality are appointed an nually among the societies of which leonard has been a member are phi eta sigma newtonian so ciety cyanide and pi mv epsilon he belongs to tau beta pi and is president of omicron delta kappa the chemical society and vice president of delta tau delta fraternity he is a member of the soccer and track teams he has re ceived several prizes among them the wilbur prize for the highest average during the sophomore year to study chemistry leonard hopes to continue the study of chemistry and govern ment at oxford and to further his interests in singing at present he is baritone soloist for the glee club candidates for the rhodes scholarships will be interviewed dec 17 by the state committee of selection two of those interview ed will be chosen to appear before the district committee which will elect four of twelve chosen as rhodes scholars milton meisner ch e 34 is at oxford now as a rhodes scholar max goepp ch e 28 and dud ley harley arts 30 are former rhodes scholars whether or not leonard receives this scholarship the mere appointment to quote dean palmer is the highest honor a university can pay a student kaesemeyer 35 marries doan discusses rays of spectrum graduates ' jobs show increase night and day — fall houseparty 1936 charles c kaesemeyer e e 35 of hazleton married miss marjorie allison couch of bethlehem on saturday in the old moravian chapel mr kaesemeyer is a mem ber of beta theta pi fraternity and is affiliated with the fuller com pany of catasauqua a monograph dealing with a very ancient manuscript of alchemy in latin catalan and italian was compiled and copied at naples be tween 1473 and 1490 by arnaldus de bruxella a famous neapolitan printer the author j w wilson first came to lehigh in 1933 in search of material for a census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the united states and canada at the same time mr wilson was engaged upon a work entitled a catalogue of latin and vernacular alchemical manuscripts in the united states and canada recognizing the value of the manuscript the author requested that mr leach lend it to him the manuscript was then loaned to the manuscript division of the library of congress for study the result is this 185 page mono graph giving a study of the manu script and its relation to others in the same field the work is pub lished as volume 11 part 8 of osir is studies on history and philos ophy of science by george sar ton thirty-three me n have been named for intramural debating teams representing nine curricula in the colleges of engineering business and arts j calvin callaghan in structor in english and director of debating announced recently the forming of these teams each of which will be led by a member of last year's varsity marks the in auguration of lehigh's newest de bating program intramural debat ing for the time being said callag han the men will devote their time to research in various phases of the several topics selected for collegiate debating this year on nov 18 we will hold an open for um discussion to pool the material which the teams have dug up to do research the research done on the col legiate questions will be merely a form of experience for the new men there will be only one intramural question and it will be of a much lighter nature than any of the var sity topics at the forum the intra mural question will be announced the present set-up of the intra mural program calls for three de bates between the teams from the arts and the business colleges the team winning two of these debates will meet the team representing the engineering college to determine the school champions being repre sented by a team in almost every curriculum the engineers will have to have elimination debates to de cide which team will represent the engineering college in the contest for the campus supremacy to have leaders the leader and assistant leader of each team are varsity debaters the teams are composed of the following men arts team — morris mindlin 38 leader w i freeman 40 j h hageny 40 e h miller 40 business team — r g scoblionko arts 39 leader r s bothe 40 j b levy 39 b a smith 40 m e team d q marshall 38 leader h t s heckman 39 s continued on page four four members of the football team were robbed of 23 watches and wallets during the rutgers game on saturday their lockers were opened with a master key and were closed after the theft the men who were robbed are andrew j stanchick e e 39 who is missing 10 and a watch eugene b caller i e 39 who lost 3 and a watch and robert f lath am i e 39 and michael l ma rano bus 39 who lost their wal lets which contained 7 and 3 re spectively police and detectives have been assigned to the case and will work with colonel nelson a kellogg director of athletics in trying to solve the mystery to use x-ray for research chemistry department to use new apparatus in graduate study the recent addition of a new type x-ray tube to the equipment of the chemistry department is making possible new research of great im portance states harold v ander son associate professor of chemis try and supervisor of the x-ray di vision the new apparatus consists of the complete high powers unit neces sary for the operation of an x-ray generator with a valve-tube recti fier capable of operation on 75,000 volts the x-ray tube known as the phillips metalix structure research tube provides the highest intensity copper x-radiations which are avail able at the present time these rays are being used in the graduate school for the research work in the examination of the changes of the ultmiate structure of various ma terials aids in study william h graeff ch e 35 holder of the william l heim chemistry research fellow under the direction of professor anderson is aiding in such work as the study of the reinforcement of vulcanized rubber the determination of the continued on page fou talks at philadelphia meet ing of metals society gilbert e doan associate pro fessor of physical metallurgy dis cussed the known electromagnetic rays of the spectrum and the new uses of them in modern engineer ing at the regular monthly meeting of the philadelphia chapter of the american society for metals fri day at the engineers club in phil adelphia his subject was invisible rays in moden engineering which was illustrated by slides of photographs taken by rays from a radiator that is x-rays gamma rays and radio waves dr doan's talk was an account of the application of x-rays and gamma rays to problems of metal lurgy and engineering he related some of his experiments in the use of gamma rays in testing metals and x-rays in the study of metallic structure the discussion intended primar ily to stimulate thinking and to cor relate and organize developments which are scattered and abstract in the lay mind will be repeated at 8 p m friday at the hotel traylor allentown for the lehigh valley chapter of the american society for metals this lecture will follow a dinner for members and guests at 6:0 o'clock at the hotel david mccaa hurts back in fall at senior prom 96.2 per cent of class of 1936 are placed of the 241 men who graduated in 1936 232 or 96.2 per cent have se cured employment or are doing graduate work says e robins morgan director of placement these figures show an increase over those of preceding years using the october figures of each year as a means of comparison in 1935 225 out of 264 or 85 per cent were placed in 1934 201 out of 252 or 80 per cent were placed in 1933 185 out of 247 or 75 per cent found jobs in 1932 134 out of 263 or 51 per cent were placed of the 47 graduates of the arts college 44 or 93.6 per cent have been placed about 93 per cent or 47 of 50 men who graduated from the college of business administra tion are working of the 143 en gineers all but two or 98.6 per cent have been employed eight of the ten engineering cur ricula placed every man these cur ricula are chemical engineering with 37 chemistry with 7 engineering physicists with 2 industrial engin eering with 20 mechanical engin eering with 18 metallurgical engin eering with 8 mining engineering with 7 and sanitary engineering with one thirteen out of 14 or 92.9 per cent of the civil engineers are em ployed and 96.5 per cent or 28 out of 29 electrical engineers are work ing dean c mcconn returns from new york meeting david mccaa proprietor of the mccaa studio and official photo grapher for epitome sprained his back in a fall last friday night while attending the senior prom mr mccaa was descending the stairs from the second floor in the hotel bethlehem when he tripped and fell he was rushed to st luke's hospital where the injury was de clared a back sprain he has re turned to his studio although his back is still bandaged returns from philadelphia dean c m mcconn returned late saturday from new york where he attended the fifth annual edu cational conference of the amer ican council on education from oct 29 to 30 at the roosevelt ho tel he presided at an evening session of the conference on thursday which was devoted to informal ques tions and answers lead by e f lindquist associate professor of education state university of lowa and richard d allen assistant su perintendent of providence r 1 public schools president c c williams returned to his office and duties saturday morning after attending the inaug uration of dr merle m odgers as the new president of girard college philadelphia night the brown and white's choice of houseparty queen surrounds herself with mystery a she day — game time doings with the bandmen's parade and the gridmen's repeated marches across the watches hudson-delange and charlie barnet and goings-on at the hotel bethlehem president and mr rutgers goal interact date and their escorts — and the glamour girl of saturday afternoon c 0 williams smile their approval also brown and white member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh i\eiv first