Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 13

              dr wrank h congdon director of admissions left this week for a two weeks trip into the new eng land states to visit various high schools and preparatory schools dr congdon expects to speak to students in some 20 secondary schools as his itinery will permit on his return trip the admissions director will attend college-choos ing programs at schools in and about new york city they are the abraham lincoln high school new york city mamaroneck high school rye neck high school and valley stream high school to hold tests for pre - meds returned to their rooms to celebrate over a bottle of root beer which they had secured for the occasion a short time later the chaperones discovered that the door was firm ly and permanently closed their cries for aid were answered by the same group of freshmen who marched solemnly down to the door and spent half an hour open ing it by the aid of a screwdriver a hammer a bottle opener and a book of trig tables that however was houseparty week-end when anything goes now that we have returned to normalcy taylor hall would like to have its doorknobs back the constant fear of being locked out is making the taylorites neurotic and if the guilty party will return the booty there will be no questions asked houseparty may be over but its memory is lingering vividly in the minds of taylor hall's harassed and inconvenienced inhabitants perhaps the hallowe'en influence was manifesting itself at any rate it was saturday oct 31 between the hours of 8 and midnight when taylor hall was despoiled of its six most strategic doorknobs by an unknown marauder or marauders equalled in infamy only by the fiend who put the overalls in mrs murphy's chowder the first discoverers of the out rage were the houseparty chaper ones in section a who put a wedge in the front door to hold it open for the returning celebrants the next to come along were several of the sections own frosh staying home for the evening in a spirit of fun they removed the wedge slammed the door and seniors must take exam for entrance to most medical colleges lafayette game tickets available at gym office dean g b curtis will give talk on india steel plans to hold charity dance five lutheran students represent ed lehigh at an informal organiza tion meeting of the local lutheran students association sunday aft ernoon in st mark's church west fourth street three bethlehem pastors were in charge representing the minister ial association in addition mora vian college and seminary for wo men had two delegates it was decided to hold an infor mal reception for lutheran students at lehigh moravian college for men and moravian college and seminary for women next sunday from 5 to 7 p m in the social rooms of st mark's church beth lehem students among this group will cooperate with the local luth er leagues in being hosts for the affair following the welcome and speeches there will be a social hour the men attending were c b welch c e 37 j c w worsley arts 39 carl f brown arts 39 h m schmoyer eng 40 and c y haas ch e 38 committee will give pro ceeds to lehigh union for local distribution e l durkee of bethlehem steel to address c e.s on construction student tickets for the lafay ette game will be available at the gym office starting thursday upon presentation of the student ticket book there is no charge for the tickets public sale of tickets will not start until mon day the price of reserved seats will be 2.28 3 houses plan parents day beta theta pi delta tau delta theta delta chi plan programs tour conducted for blake society leach shows displays in treasure room twenty - five students faculty members and business men met saturday evening at drown hall to organize a statistical society prof h jerome assistant professor of economics at the university of wis consin was the guest speaker of the meeting professor jerome spoke on the work that the national bureau of economic research is carrying on emphasizing their work on the anal ysis of prices and showing how the bureau presents facts that are un biased following professor jerome's talk the group unanimously voted to form a statistical society of lehigh the purpose or function of the so ciety as dean g b curtis express ed it is to gather to pool informa tion so that problems arising in sta tistics could be solved more readily explains methods dean curtis explained the statis tical methods used in the registrar's office for the classification of stu dents a committee was chosen for the purpose of further organizing the society prof e c bratt assistant professor of economics was the chairman other members of the committee are dr f s beale as sistant professor of mathematics dean curtis and mr greene of the lehigh and new england rail road the committee will make plans for the next meeting deciding when it will be held and who the speaker will be dr harry f hoffman assistant superintendent of the allentown state hospital spoke of the need of individual examinations to discover psychiatric troubles in students at the meeting of the faculty educa tional club yesterday the subject of the talk was psychiatric service in the universities dr hoffman spoke of the work of psychiatrists in universities he said that the normal development of the individual showed troubles de veloped in childhood which come into the open in later life many times these troubles are in a dis guised form and hard to identify he further stated that to have good health a person must be sound of mind and body alike the question was asked what examinations could be taken to de tect these troubles in the early stages dr hoffman answered by saying that each person is a prob lem by himself requiring individual study there is no general formula for anyone the troubles in individual per sons can come from many sources he continued they are sometimes caused by fear and dread the ner vous system is responsible for the majority of these troubles dr hoffman finished his speech by extending the invitation to stu dents and faculty members who have some problems to get in touch with the members of the mental hygiene committee which consists of prof percy hughes dean c m mcconn dr r c bull and dr h e hoffman wire manufacture shown in movie the aptitude test of the associa tion of american medical colleges will be given for pre-medical stu dents at 3 p m friday dec 4 in room 204 williams hall this will be the only time that the test will be given at lehigh this school year approximately 90 per cent of the approved medical schools in the united states use this test as a normal regulation for admission all senior students expecting to apply for entrance to medical schools before or in the fall of 1937 must immediately apply to take the test to dr hall professor and head of the department of biology the examination will last one and three-quarter hours a one dollar fee is required for all students who take the test last year the examination was taken by nine students at lehigh and 10,662 students at 623 other colleges in the united states film showing arranged by beck e e 17 mining lab gets new conical mill to transmit game e l durkee assistant engineer in the fabricated steel construction branch of the bethlehem steel com pany will speak to the civil engin eering society at 7:30 p m tomor row in room 466 packard labora tory his talk will be on steel construction in india mr durkee spent two and one half years in india recently help ing in the construction of the tata iron and steel company plant in tatanagor walter e jessup field sec retary of the american society of civil engineers will be present to address the student members about society happenings he has been travelling through the coun try contacting student chapters of the organization refreshments will be served after the meeting 40 attend concert alumni arrange broadcast from lafayette hardinge company do nates grinding device during a meeting at the psi up silon house sunday evening the tea dance committee decided to hold the first charity tea dance in honor of president c c williams and wife the dance will be held from 4 to 7 o'clock saturday afternoon at the chi psi lodge proceeds from the affair will be distributed to local charities by the lehigh union tickets will not be sold but an admission fee of 1 per couple and 50 cents stag will be collected at the door george doddy and his local dance band will play for the affair the dance will be the first of a series of four charity tea dances sponsored by a special committee and held at the chi psi lodge the next affair is to be given in decem ber with the remaining two fol lowing in the second semester the committee plans to serve tea with cream or lemon student group sponsors musical programs obtains minerals geology department ana lyzes specimens three fraternities will hold par ents or fathers day this saturday programs have been arranged to en tertain the students parents during the day beta theta pi is one of the frater nities which will revive its old cus tom of holding a parents day at the chapter house the program for the day includes attending the lehigh muhlenberg football game after which a tea will be served at the house later in the evening a din ner will be served in honor of the parents states m.w wolcott pres ident of the chapter the local chapter of delta tau delta will hold its annual fathers day the program for the day in cludes entertaining the dads at the football game in the afternoon and holding a banquet in their honor that evening at the chapter house theta delta chi will entertain the fathers of 15 or more members at the football game dinner will be served in the chapter house after the game to visit conclave howard s leach university li brarian conducted a tour through the treasure room for the members of the robert w blake philoso phical society which held its reg ular monthly meeting friday in the philosophical seminar in the li brary among the more outstanding dis plays were the possessions of asa packer founder of lehigh a num ber of early bibles a first folio of shakespeare and several 15th cen tury philosophical works at the business meeting preced ing the visit to the treasure room it was learned that the philosophi cal society of swarthmore college would be unable to visit lehigh this winter however dean c m mc conn and dr taeusch former pro fessor of professional ethics at har vard university have agreed to speak to the group in the near fu ture it was also decided to invite dr f h green a recognized auth ority on american literature to ad dress the society 4 from lehigh will go to a i e e meeting seminar to meet combined lehigh - lafayette alumni groups in cleveland chi cago and detroit are planning to listen to the lehigh-lafayette foot ball game by means of a leased wire telephone broadcast the group will be connected with eas ton by telephone wire loudspeakers will be installed in the club headquarters of the respec tive groups to give a play-by-play description of the game from the lafayette stadium on nov 21 a special type close-range mouth piece will probably be used by the announcer to eliminate side-noise and provide clear transmission arrangements for the transmis sion of the game are being made through the cooperative efforts of the lehigli and lafayette alumni offices and the bell telephone com pany forty people attended the hour of music given by the student concert group in packer memorial chapel on sunday afternoon the concert consisted of selections by the trumpler trio next sunday at 4 p m the pro gram will include trumpet solos by h r beucler bus 40 and tenor solos by e m ma'hla met e 38 both will be accompanied on the piano by c y haas ch e 38 these music concerts will be giv en every sunday afternoon while for the remainder of the school year all students are invited and may bring their friends stuart to talk on energy and show diagrams talks on health thursday senior ball oct 30 1936 financial report a new hardinge conical mill a gift of the hardinge company york was set up last week in the cox mining laboratory the conical shaped mill which is used for fine grinding of ores has a diameter of two feet at its base prof howard eckfeldt head of the mining department explained that wet ore is fed into the large end of the cone where it is ground by three inch steel balls which are tumbled about with the ore in the revolving cone as the steel balls wear down more are placed in the mill because of the conical shape the smaller balls have a tendency to go to the narrow end of the cone where they grind the finer ore in some types of work cobble stones are used instead of steel balls to prevent the introduction of iron into the finished product receives snakes the department of geology has recently been analyzing unusual prehnite mineral specimens ob tained south of bethlehem and gos larite specimens obtained from the friedensville zinc mines says d m fraser assistant professor of geology these prehnite specimens are formed by very fine individual crystal development which con trasts with the large crystals of the usual prehnite doctor fraser states that samples of these minerals will not be ready for approximately a month for ex change purposes with other collec tors individuals or groups the department wishes to study the composition and formations more thoroughly before allowing any to be distributed a talking motion picture the manufacture of wire which was produced in the plant of the beth lehem steel company was shown to the sophomore chemical engineer ing conference on saturday morn ing in the main lecture room of the chemistry building the showing of the film was arranged by w a beck e e 17 who is a member of the advertising staff of the steel company the picture dealt with all phases of the manufacture of wire showing the process from raw material to finished product the method of rolling the rods from which the wire is later drawn was shown and was explained by the commentary to the picture a description of the bethaniz ing of wire was given this is an electrolytic method of coating wire with zinc the coating produced is 99.99 per cent pure zinc the high est possible purity commercially practical the processes shown in the picture are used in the bethle hem steel company plants at johns town and at sparrow's point md will pledge 30 vivarium gets reptiles from noted hunter neville at textile meeting is on research committee mrs p m palmer wife of the dean of the college of arts and sci ence gave a talk on health last thursday before the wpa sewing project mrs palmer is associated with the board of the maternal health center alpha phi omega to take new members jacob l beaver professor of electrical engineering and three students will attend the convention of the student branches of the american institute of electrical engineers friday and saturday at ohio state university columbus ohio the students who will attend the convention are theodore brown e e 37 chairman of the student delegate branch john z linsen meyer e e 37 and clayton lewis e e 37 the group plans to leave bethle hem thursday night by car and re turn late sunday night men get togas pre-med society to hear talks by easton doctors latin honorary pledges 5 arts students m c staurt professor of me chanical engineering will trace briefly the development of the en ergy concept discuss the nature of the various manifestations of ener gy and present a categorical classi fication of energy as a basis for the meaningful consideration of the conservation principle at the phil osophical seminar meeting thurs day at 4 p m in the faculty club room in drown hall professor staurt will prepare dia grams that will clarify the mechan ical models that physicists use he proposes to present his subject in such a manner that it can be understood by those who are not versed in physics or thermodynam ics the department of biology receiv ed five snakes for the vivarium last week from ross allen noted wild animal hunter of florida the group consists of a southern corn snake a red rat snake a yel low chicken snake an indigo snake and a water moccasin the last two are the largest in the group being three and one-half feet respective ly the water moccasin is one of the most deadly of american snakes luce invents distributor handles student papers harvey a neville associate pro fessor of chemistry attended the annual meeting and research con ference of the united states insti stute for textile research last week at the waldorf-astoria in new york dr neville is a member of the institute's research committee the purpose of the meeting was to discuss the latest methods and processes involved in the various aspects of the textile industry rep resentatives from colleges and tex tile corporations attended the meet ing industrials offer new course in time study dr correll attending surgeon and dr zillessen pathologist both of the easton hospital easton pa will speak at a closed meeting of the robert w hall pre-medical so ciety at 8 p m thursday nov 12 in room 466 packard laboratory they will discuss the problems of duodenal ulcer carcinoma of the stomach and carcinoma of the breast their talk will be supported by slide pictures and specimens van arnam talks on stars dr miller to give dinner thirty new members of alpha phi omega will be chosen when the honorary scouting fraternity meets at 7:30 tomorrow night in the arcadia room in drown hall r s sturgis president of the fraternity requests that all prospec tive pledges attend this meeting all sophomores juniors and seniors who have maintained a 2 average a preceding semester are eligible candidates must have attained the rank of a tenderfoot scout and are requested to bring to the meeting a record of their extra-curricular ac tivities an invitation card to the meeting is not required freshmen will be admitted to the fraternity next feb ruary geologists given collection the department of geology re ceived the philip pearson collection of ores and not the department of metallurgy as stated in the tuesday nov 2 issue of the brown and white reccpits nov 9 1936 483 couples 2,202.48 14 stags 31.72 miscellaneous receipt 3.20 2,237.40 expenditures orchestras charlie barnet hudson de lange 1,300.00 hotel rental 800.00 police 40.00 water and coolers 6.25 telephone & telegraph 10.20 amplification 45.00 corsages 6.00 committee under arcadia rule 35.00 programs 80.60 printing 12.60 advertising lehigh review 40.00 brown and white .. 19.50 ticket sellers 8.00 dixie cups 4.20 miscellaneous 2.45 federal tax 208.20 state tax 81.62 2,199.52 profit to the class of 1987 37.88 signed henry s battin countersigned c g beardslee this is to certify that i have re viewed the foregoing financial report of the senior ball and have checked all the supporting receipts and vouchers and that to the best of my knowledge and belief the report is complete and correct c m mcconn dean r n van arnam instructor in mathematics and astronomy discus sed the history of the observation of visual binary stars and the in struments and methods used in this work at the meeting of the e w brown astronomical society friday in packard laboratory he com pared the orbits of these stars and pointed out the practical applica tions of this science this may be valentine week but nevertheless the white-robed indi dividuals seen around the campus are not ghosts of their former selves quite the contrary they are soon to be inducted into eta sigma phi honorary classical fraternity for the benefit of the credulous freshmen the ghost-like costumes are really ancient togas despite the fact that they are held together by modern safety-pins dr horace w wright professor of latin and fac ulty adviser of the society draped the ancient roman garb about five prospective members they are as follows donald da vis arts 39 john sutcliffe arts 39 john baiz arts 39 jules mo reau arts 39 and robert myers arts 38 the ceremonies of induction will take place on friday at schank weiler's inn allentown a problem distribution box has recently been invented by prof alexander w luce associate pro fessor of machine design this box is made to distribute the test pa pers after being corrected and to collect the home-work handed in by students it is composed of special alum inum plate pockets where papers are placed and kept in order this box takes care of the classes of fred w walker professor alexander w luce and prof john r con nelly it takes care of 91 students and professor luce states that it will be a great time saver a new course in time study is being introduced into the industrial engineering curricula this week for trial announces prof f v lar kin head of the mechanical and in dustrial engineering department this course is a practical exercise in time study and is an extra cur ricula course professor larkin will have charge of the class which will accommo date seven men at one time men interested must sign for the hour of their choice on the east bulletin board third floor packard labora tory dr benjamin l miller head of the department of geology will give a dinner friday evening nov 13 in the hotel bethlehem for the members of the department of ge ology guests beside the depart ment will include president and mrs c c williams mrs steel mother of a harry fretz asso ciate professor of geology and dr miller's daughter and son in law mr and mrs otto spillman price — five cents bethlehem pa tuesday november 10 1936 explains purpose dorm doorknobs disappear taylor's doors despoiled vol xliv no 13 congdon lectures director of admissions tours new england lutheran students form organization shows need of psychiatry in universities 25 men meet to organize statistical club to hold informal recep tion at st marks jerome speaks on work of national bureau of eco nomic research curtis addresses group hoffman says individual examinations are need ed to find disorders addresses faculty club brown and white 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