Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 22

              top hatters will play at annual scabbard and blade affair ball to be held mar 6 holds modern industry preserver of america's highest values carothers praises jtalk 6 paths of glory actors among those in story by keiste a janulis david m scott directs speaker says birth of christ should be inspir ation toward peace dean lauds department seniors who have not yet hand ed in their ballots must give them along with the assessment to donald c barnum i e 37 at the delta upsilon fraternity house before noon tomorrow should any senior find it im possible to do this he should let barnum know by that time dis regard of these instructions will mean that the senior's name will not be included in the epitome students seek free speech lafayette paper endeavors to escape faculty interventions the fourth sunday afternoon con cert of the student concert series was presented on sunday in the packer memorial chapel about 50 persons attended the recital denton k swarthout eng 40 presented two xylophone solos nola arndt and moonlight and roses lemare quentin t keith eng 40 baritone who is sylvia schubert hear me ye winds and waves handel when the roses bloom reich ardt raymond k maneval bus 38 organist played the gothique suite by boellmann the second part of the program consisted of three additional bari tone solos by keith men of har lech all through the night and once to every man welsh traditional the next program will be a piano organ recital on jan 10 this pro gram will renew the student con cert series the following week the group will have as its guest the bethlehem high school symphony orchestra dean agrees to alterations garth a howland head of the department of fine arts gave an il lustrated lecture on the art of the renaissance wednesday eve ning to the renaissance history class of dr amos a ettinger act ing associate professor of history the lecture was open to the public mr howland said that the art of the renaissance was influenced by two movements humanism and individualism humanism in this sense meant a revived interest in antiquity in this period of the re birth of learning characteristics of the architecture of ancient buildings were incorporated into medieval structures there was a change in the em phasis on life in the hereafter to life on the present day world through this idea there grew an at tempt to express personality in art said howland artistic impulses were given great liberties this in terest in the personality anatomy psychology social and political en vironment of man lead to an inter est in nature thus the art of the renaissance was in direct contrast to the life of the middle ages the new thought was a stimulus to art this stim ulus changed the entire previous conceptions of art and its influence is still felt today inaugurating a grand march to be headed by the queen of the ball scabbard and blade's annual military ball will be held at the armory of the bethlehem national guard march 6 with the top hatters supplying the music cedar crest swarthmore and beaver colleges are conducting beauty contests individually the winners from these three schools will compete for the queenship of the ball the scabbard and blade society will be judges of the finals vin cent j pazzetti bus 37 captain of the society will escort the win ning beauty at the head of the grand march jan savitts top hatters have risen in the past two years to the ranks of philadelphia's finest dance bands according to pazzetti for over a year they have been broad casting over the nbc network alvin swenson bus 37 is chair man of the dance committee and is assisted by david scott bus 37 carl kohl bus 38 and frank simmons m e 37 the price of the tickets will be 3 per couple phi eta sigma proposes reduction of scholastic entrance standard doctor talks to pre-meds palmer and more write on faust rothrock gives humor ous speech on baldness at christmas party publish book tracing his tory of legends the students of lafayette college are making a determined effort to escape the confines of faculty cen sorship of the student newspaper the lafayette much comment has been aroused on lafayette's campus recently due to the seeming lack of inter est shown in major campus activi ties by the lafayette the pa per has not been able to take a forceful stand on these activities be cause of faculty intervention this matter reached a climax last week when the faculty board forbade a student editorial to be printed a freedom of speech panel was held monday evening dec 7 at which t a distler dean of la fayette admitted that such censor ship did exist he justified it on the ground that the college paper is a house organ and as such cannot be permitted to wield complete edi torial freedom another faculty member profes sor rogers immediately protested dean distler's statement and said that the student editors should be allowed complete freedom of the press at the meeting of the student council a vigorous resolution was unanimously passed condemning the existing faculty censorship of the lafayette student interest in the problem at lafayette has grown several statues about the campus have been attired in modern clothing with pla cards ridiculing the faculty action posted on them at the present time no agreement has been reached the solution is expected after the christmas holi day presenting the second installment of collegiate headlines go to press the mustard and cheese club went on the air with a cast of eight at 9:30 o'clock on wednes day night over station wcba in allentown the play one in the second an nual series given by the dramatic club was written by keiste a jan ulis arts 38 and directed by da vid m scott bus 37 six mem bers of the cast were players in mustard and cheese's most recent stage production paths of glory wednesday night's story was one in which a butch mcgee a small time new york racketeer came to landown the site of landown col lege a fictitious school in the mid west he planned to scalp tickets for a football game but ended by marrying a miss weatherbottom the school's old-maid librarian those in the cast were miss olive mills former secretary in the registrar's office as sally a quick witted co-ed who outwitted the new york gangster miss genevieve giering secretary in the placement bureau as miss weatherbottam and albin dechnik bus 38 as buttermilk butch mcgee dech nik played the part of private ferol in paths of glory others were malcolm carring ton jr bus 39 the captain san vey of the war play as jefferson smith a landown student who was to help mcgee scalp tickets but failed andrew r martin bus 38 and robert both bus 40 as irish detectives edmund osbourne arts 40 as lan down's dean and wil liam butler eng 40 a waiter martin played the part of captain renourt in paths of glory bothe played lieutenant herbillon and osbourne played general deguer ville the first play in this year's series of mustard and cheese radio pro grams was presented on dec 2 also written and directed by keiste janulis it dealt with the adventure of three reporters on the green and gold landown's weekly paper who became entangled with a cow and the police the next program will not be presented until jan 6 business students invited by macy's philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science and professor of german and robert p more associate professor of german have published through the medium of the oxford univer sity press a book entitled the sources of the faust tradition from simon magnus to lessing the book begins with the fore runners of faust namely simon magnus cyprian of antioch and theoplius of adana the faust le gends in-so-far as they affect the person of faustus do not antedate the protestant reformation in lessing's work the desire for knowledge and the search for truth are regarded as among the highest ideals of humanity faust as cre ated by lessing is a character which cannot be damned dean palmer and professor more state that in goethe's drama the faust tradition finds its loftiest and perhaps its final expression invents rectifier civils have dinner dorsey 08 corrects high current feed the birth of christ two thousand years ago should be the inspiration to lead the pioneer of today to hope and work for eventual peace on earth stated the rev r s haupert professor of biblical liter ature at moravian college at the chemical society christmas party last evening at the masonic temple stating that humanity has really made progress when viewed over the span of thousands of years rev haupert showed that the possibility of obtaining progress in human re lations to the point of eventual world peace is conceivable if con sidered from the standpoint of fu ture ages the scientist must often work alone upon ideas which are incon ceivable to the minds of the ordin ary persons stated rev haupert in the same way a person seeking international concord must pursue his ideals alone in a world of oppo sition and misunderstanding dean praises chems dean c m mcconn dean of the university lauded the chemistry department for their splendid re search activities and the teaching ability of its staff he also praised the advisory system for freshmen as operated by the department the record which the chemistry department has made in the place ment of its graduates is unsurpassed by an other department on the campus stated the dean he also commended the fine l'esprit de corps exhibited by the members of the group however stated dean mcconn there is possibility that due to its fine record the chemistry depart ment has attracted students who in reality should not pursue the chem istry curriculum if such is the case i advise such students to discuss this matter with their advisers williams speaks other speakers of the evening were clement c williams pres ident of the university dr harry ullmann head of the chemistry de partment dr alpha a diefender fer professor of quantitative analy sis and nelson leonard chem 37 a play entitled ten knights un der a barroom table or how love come to general grant was pre sented by members of the society students in the cast were thomas hughes chem 38 john manley ch e 38 george ueberroth ch e 39 frank norton ch e 39 william dukek ch e 38 william cowell ch e 38 george kelley ch e 39 william shel drake ch e 39 lester erich ch e 39 and william lobst ch e 38 will have tours during christmas holidays larkin gives talk at annual party sutherland and barndol lar speak at banquet dr h a rothrock pathologist at st luke's hospital gave a hu morous talk on baldness at the annual christmas banquet and party of the robert w hall pre-medical society last night in the university room of the hotel bethlehem dr rothrock discussed the rela tion between baldness and the men tal and physical attributes of the following faculty members dr robert w hall head of the de partment of biology dr stanley j thomas professor of bacteriology and james p sell assistant in bac teriology dr rothrock stated that one of the advantages of baldness was that it was one thing which a man could acquire without assistance or inter ference from his wife in spite of all her efforts to the contrary furth ermore baldness gives a distinct appearance of intelligence humorous gifts were presented to student and faculty members of the society other physicians present were dr l c milstead of the sacred heart hospital allentown dr paul b kreitz of the bethle hem tuberculosis society and dr raymond c bull director of the student health service engineer clubs feature gambling in affair gallery to show works of artists lehigh art alliance ex hibits in library dean c m mcconn approved the proposal of phi eta sigma freshman honor society wednesday to change the entrance require ments of the local chapter to en large the membership and agreed to confer with h v anderson as sociate professor of chemistry fac ulty adviser of the society prepara tory to corresponding with the na tional office i think that the plan is a very good one and i will do what i can to gain the sanction of the national society said dean mcconn the proposal to resign membership should efforts to get the approval of the head of the society prove futile was also approved by the dean in view of the restricted mem bership of the local chapter i hope that the new policy will meet with approval since the ac tivities of the society at present are limited and ineffective commented charles moesel ch e 39 pres ident of the lehigh chapter would have 20 men the new plan of entrance re quirements unanimously approved by the society would mean that membership of the society would be always at least 20 members since the scholastic average required was reduced from 3.5 to 3.25 the policy is unconstitutional after the first semester of last year nine men were initiated into phi eta sigma but since that time no students have met the require ments of having a 3.5 average for the entire year the new requirements would per mit initiation of the top 20 ranking men in the freshman class for the first semester provided each man at tained at least a 3.25 average at the end of the second semester the freshmen at that time who rank in the upper 20 in the class with a 3.25 average and who were not ad mitted the first semester will be ini tiated " supply america is the new motto in american business said w j cameron radio spokesman for the ford motor company as he ad dressed the lehigh valley engin eers club tuesday evening in the auditorium of packard laboratory mr cameron began his address by lauding the modern philosophy of business which he credited to henry ford defending industry as a tremendous and indispensable asset to society he stated that in dustry is preserving the highest values in our american life con tributing to goodness which is a so cial value to truth through its pur pose of producing more and better things for the american people and to beauty through its constant improvement in design points out motto our job in america has not fairly begun until the last family on the last acre has been able to get what it ought to have and live at a decent standard of living he said that should be our great mo tive and it is not antagonistic to the profit system our job is to fill the country with all things — food houses bathtubs radios — everything which contributes to hu man comfort needs and enjoy ment he believes that these things can be accomplished because he has real faith in the stamina the sound ness and the ability of the amer ican people consequently he pre dicts that we are coming to a pros perity such as we have never known not a get rich quickly prosperity but a prosperity of pro duction traces history of industry then cameron proceeded to trace the history of industry in the eng lish - speaking nations through its 250 years of progress showing that it has brought about a great rise in the economic status of the people he dispelled the idea that industry has ruined home life and that the system of manufacturing in the home was beautiful productive and happy illustrating that by taking industry out of the home a great blessing has been brought to home life in closing he stated that nature and destiny are casting out the threads of false ideas as fast as they get into this country of europe and emphasized his belief that america is going to new heights in his economics lecture last wednesday dr neil carothers dean of the college of business ad ministration stated that although the speaker was neither an engineer nor an economist his talk was un biased and technically correct carothers introduces speaker dr carothers introduced the speaker and nelson s hibshman associate professor of electrical en gineering presided at the meeting prior to the lecture a dinner was given for mr cameron at the sun inn following the meeting there was a general discussion in which mr cameron answered the ques tions of the audience e.e club dines ettinger to talk before 2 societies the civil engineering society held its annual banquet last night at drown hall the meeting held in the faculty room was the so ciety's last of the semester dr hale sutherland professor of civil engineering and major m a barndollar assistant professor of military science and tactics were the guest speakers at the dinner following the dinner gifts were presented to the faculty members present later in the evening games were used for added entertainment clarence b welch c e 37 president of the society presided over the meeting will address faculty on higher learning 9 society has informal ban quet wednesday math society postpones meeting until next year students interested in discussing opportunities for a career in retail ing interested in viewing the func tions of a large department store from behind the scenes or who wish to arrange for placement in terviews with macy and company in new york city are invited to visit that company during the christmas holidays tours will be conducted through out the store between 11 a m and noon from today until thursday jan 7 those interested in arrang ing for interviews will see mrs a l williams representatives will be sent to lehigh shortly after classes are resumed it is a particularly good time to come for during the christmas sea son we are operating at a peak in all divisions of the store stated e b lawton assistant general man ager in charge of personnel the tours will begin from the seventh avenue building a new rectifier which will per mit transmission of alternating cur rent to reach approximately 600 miles heretofore impractical has been developed by john w dorsey 08 a professor at the university of manitoba although the new inven tion has been patented in this coun try in 1923 it is only recently that research has proved its practicabil ity by dorsey's new method high voltage direct current will be fed through a single wire showing its increased efficiency over present methods which require three wires and greatest line losses the new invention also cuts down the ca pacity effect of present systems wherein the lines act as condensers and decrease conductance the invention consists of a com mutator with six insulated disks one trio of which picks up the po sitive peaks and the other the nega tive it rectifies three-phase alter nating current to direct current and will handle up to 200,000 volts selections contributed by the members of the lehigh art alliance comprising groups from bethlehem allentown and vicinity will be ex hibited in the university art gal lery from jan 3 to jan 24 water colors pastels pencil and charcoal drawings done in various media and block prints will be ex hibited the exhibitions displaying local talent have proven more pop ular than imported works the gallery will be open on week days from 3 to 5:30 p m with the exception of friday when the hours will be from 7 to 9 p m and sun day from 2 to 5:30 p m hausman play read by faculty dramatic club ford to talk on tests in determining grades prof fred v larkin head of the department of mechanical and in dustrial engineering was guest speaker at the annual christmas part held by the combined indus trial and mechanical engineering societies tuesday night in drown hall the evening's entertainment con sisted of various gambling games stage money was equally distribut ed to those attending at the open ing of the contest to see who could accumulate the most money the prize went to willis dut ton i e 37 presents were awarded to various members of the mechanical and industrial engineer ing faculties by the master of cere monies lloyd ramsey i e 37 cider ice cream and cake were served to conclude the meeting this week's meeting of the new tonian society honorary mathemat is society was postponed until jan 13 at the meeting edward lukens bus 39 and james patton ch e 39 will speak as previously plan ned this meeting will be the last one before the february pledging and the entrance of new members to the society h c milbank appoints junior prom committee palmer more to attend association conference christmas presents were distribut ed to members of the electrical engineering society at an informal dinner party held wednesday eve ning at the d a r log cabin both students and faculty mem bers received gifts of a humorous nature distributed by a santa claus following the presentations a mock gambling party was held those on the committee were t r brown c e lewis and j z linsenmeyer all e e 37 o.d.k to meet jan 4 suspends publication dr amos a ettinger acting as sociate professor of history will address the faculty philosophical society on higher learnings in america at 4:10 p m jan 7 at the faculty club dr ettinger will speak on storr's edition of dr robert hutchins theories of education at 7:30 p m on the same day dr ettinger will address the in ternational relations society in packard laboratory the talk will be on the british constitution and the immediate past and present situation dr ettinger and dr l h gip son head of the department of his tory and government will attend the meeting of the american his torical association dec 29 30 and 31 at providence r i victoria regina by a e haus man was the play read by the faculty dramatic club wednesday evening at 7:30 p m in the en gineers lounge of packard labora tory miss helms secretary of the or ganization was in charge the club is composed of faculty mem bers and wives interested especially in dramatic plays each member has his own book and follows the read ing dr adelbert ford head of the department of psychology spoke on predictive factors for engineering scholarship in the psychology examination at the faculty educational club at 4 p m monday in the faculty room of the administration building dr ford demonstrated that it is possible to tell from the results of the psychology tests given to entering freshmen the minimum in telligence score required for an in dividual to do a grade work in an engineering course philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science and pro fessor of german and robert p more associate professor of ger man will attend a conference of the modern languages association of america on dec 29 30 and 31 the conference will be held at the university of richmond va and the college of william and mary at williamsburg va with this issue publication of the brown and white is sus pended during the christmas holidays until jan 8 clinton w strang bus 38 franklin a lucard ch e 38 and robert a dean i e 38 were appointed the junior prom com mittee announces harry c mil bank president of the junior class the committee with strang as its chairman will have its first meet ing the first week after christmas vacation omicron delta kappa senior honorary society will hold its first regular meeting of the new year at 7:30 p m monday jan 4 at the delta upsilon fraternity house an nounces n j leonard chem 3 president of the society vol xliv no 22 howland explains renaissance art bethlehem pa friday december 18 1936 seniors must return ballots by tomorrow price — five cents student concert sunday afternoon radio cast of 8 gives 2nd play in new series addresses class in history on wednesday 50 persons attend recital held in chapel brown and white beauty queen to command military ball chem society hears haupert talk at dinner cameron cites business motto to engineers member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh newt first