Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 18

              is fourth student chosen from lehigh during past eight years gets oxford scholarship will continue studies in chemistry and in gov ernment in england interfraternity dance will be held at coliseum committee says tickets priced at 2.28 kemp has played at penn sylvania and astor ho tels in new york dean c m mcconn announced this afternoon that hal kemp had been signed for 1,150 for the in terfraternity ball dr felix iserman of the berlin institute of technology will give an illustrated lecture of the leipzig fair on tuesday jan 12 at 1:30 p m in room 466 of packard labor atory this lecture is being spon sored by the lehigh student branch of the american society of mechan ical engineering the public and student body are invited to attend this lecture the leipzig fair has a history dating back more than 700 years and it is of world importance man ufacturers and buyers from all over the world present the latest im provements and designs in a large variety of manufactured articles re cently as many as eight thousand exhibitors from twenty-four coun tries have made use of this fair dr iserman will also tell of some of the difficulties faced by engineers in europe as contrasted with con ditions in this country a five reel film will be shown giving the latest european developments in indus trial machines and equipment hal kemp new courses are approved nelson j leonard award given by cornelius dr beebe iii cancel speech faculty also sanctions changes in present en gineering subjects committee negotiating to secure h.v kaltenborn for january 16 lehigh university chicago uni versity and the california institute of technology are the three colleges that have come to the front recent ly in american education says john r tunis in an article in the jan uary issue of the american mer cury magazine tunis in his article who cares about amateur sport states that although these colleges stand low on the gridiron they have jumped far ahead of other colleges in at tendance endowments and espe cially in prestige these colleges deserve credit for preserving their purely amateur teams according to tunis representa tives of northwestern university and rollins college have urged that other colleges abandon their pre tense of amateurism and come in the open about professionalism two typical examples of the pro fessional collegiate football team can be found in princeton and min nesota other colleges of this type are temple university ohio state and alabama university tunis adds that american youth in colleges are acquiring a profes sional attitude towards sports and football in particular if colleges all over the country continue to keep football on a professional basis they should admit their profes sionalism and not try and hide it behind a veil of a false amateurism alumni secretary donates 100 for outstanding senior m £. w.s franklin given award plaque presented posthu mously by american physics teachers hal kemp and his orchestra have been secured for the interfraternity ball which will be held feb 6 in the coliseum it was announced at meeting of the interfraternity coun cil monday evening in drown hall every fraternity member will be taxed 2.28 per couple for tickets the dance is closed to all but fra ternity men the sloer company of trenton which has done the work for pre vious proms will decorate the hall for the dance charles mccoy arts 37 in charge of the decorations announces that plans for decoration have not been made dean and mrs c m mcconn will be chaperones at the prom with dean and mrs george b curtis and dr and mrs claude g beards lee it was announced by d c barnum i.e 37 in charge of chap erones thomas niehaus bus 37 will have charge of the loud speaker sys tem he plans to have installed six amplifiers instead of the four usual ly used for dances in the coliseum the contract for the system is to be awarded next week kemp has just finished an en gagement at the arcadia interna tional restaurant in philadelphia previous to this kemp played at the hotels astor and pennsylvania in new york he broadcasts every sunday evening at 9:30 but is oth erwise unemployed at present last year the music for the ball was supplied by tommy dorsey and his band it is reported that kemp will be paid 1,150 for this engagement the committee chairman however refuses to disclose the official fig ures the institution of the cornelius prize for mechanical engineering was announced by president c c williams the award of 100 has been donated by william a cor nelius m e 89 executive secre tary of the lehigh alumni asso ciation and will be made to a senior mechanical engineer annually the recipient of the prize must be judged to have profited most from his opportunities at lehigh the basis for selection of the senior will be 70 per cent on scholarship attain ment 20 per cent on development of general culture and 10 per cent on personality to be eligible for the award the senior must also have attained a scholarship ranking in the upper quarter of his class in the engin eering college mr cornelius has been secretary of his class since graduated and alumni secretary since february 1936 he has three sons who grad uated from lehigh george 34 robert 29 and john 35 ewing to resume duties student concert to be postponed sunday's program will be held on feb 14 dr w w ewing associate pro fessor of physical chemistry now absent on leave to accompany the united states naval gravity expe dition as chief scientist will land in philadelphia jan 14 he will re turn to the university next semes ter fifty-two members of the com bined musical clubs left by train this morning for new york city where they will give a concert this evening at the church of the inter cession episcopal broadway and 155 th street the program to begin at 8:15 o'clock marks the first pub lic appearance of the club this sea son dr t edgar shields will lead the singers in a group of six songs and two school songs the program will feature solos by two vocalists and two instrumentalists elberta mahla met 38 and nelson j leonard chem 37 will sing d k swarth wout eng 40 xylophonist and carstens y haas ch e 39 pian ist will play haas is also accom panist for the program tonight mahla is new soloist of the four soloists leonard and haas have both appeared on club programs previously while mahla and swarthwout will be newcomers the latter two however have both performed in the series of sunday afternoon concerts sponsored by the student concerts group mahla's solos are leetle ba teese o'hara the ringers lohr and romany honeymoon charles leonard will sing with out a song youmans the trum peter dix and little bit of hea ven ball swarthout's numbers are nola arndt parade of the wooden soldiers jessel polichinelle rachmaninoff romance sibelius and polonaise in a chopin are haas's selections to sing 8 songs h e towne arts 37 manager announces the following program by the entire club hail the college van vleck on to the desert strickland this merry festival day from the bartered bride smetana two russian folk songs fireflies and at father's door bachelor's song andrews and chorus of bacchantes from phile mon et baucis gounod and alma mater following the concert the jazz orchestra of the combined musical clubs will play for dancing all men making the trip will be guests of the church for dinner and over night the first annual home concert of the club will be presented feb 13 says towne it was found impos sible to schedule it before the end of the first semester a previous pro gram was the nationwide broadcast on the national broadcasting com pany from radio city dec 5 the next radio program is that from wor and the mutual system feb 27 a bronze plaque presented post humously to william suddards franklin professor at lehigh from 1898 till 1916 and for some years head of the department of physics and electrical engineering was ac cepted for the university by dr c c bidwell director of the curri culum in engineering physics at a meeting of the american associa tion of physics teachers held at atlantic city dec 29 the award stated dr bidwell was made for outstanding contri butions in the teaching of physics a similar plaque was presented massachusetts institute of tech nology where mr franklin taught for 12 years the plaque will prob ably be displayed on the second floor of the physics building the tablet read as follows wil liam suddards franklin 1863-1930 able physicist — inspiring teach er — gifted writer first recipient of the award for notable contri butions to the teaching of physics bestowed upon him posthumously by the american association of physics teachers 1936 a serious sinus infection caused dr william s beebe curator of natural history at the american museum of natural history to can cel his lecture on the evening of jan 16 at broughal high school sidney j lewis arts 37 chair man of the committee of the stu dent concert-lecture series an nounced that negotiations are being made to secure h v kaltenborn a radio news commentator for sat urday evening arrangements for the program will be completed dur ing this week-end and will be an nounced later dr beebe has had previous trou ble with this ailment but only once before has he had to cancel an en gagement because of illness he will leave shortly for a vacation of two or three weeks in florida it is ex pected that the committee will be able to secure dr beebe for a lec ture sometime in february his lecture will be accompanied by mo vies slides and animated cartoons of deep sea life a complete new program of the concert-lecture series will be an nounced early next week by the committee in charge mr kaltenborn will present as his subject the european situa tion he has had recent experience in the spanish civil war having broadcast proceedings of the war fare from the scene of battle he is a regular commentator over the co lumbia broadcasting system registrar's office releases schedule of examinations nelson j leonard ch.e 37 was selected by the middle atlantic dis trict committee from pennsylvania to receive a rhodes scholarship to study at oxford england the committee announced its choices monday dec 22 students from three other states in the dis trict new jersey new york and maryland were also named to re ceive awards the scholarships they will receive will entitle them to ap proximately 2,000 a year for two years at oxford leonard is the fourth lehigh stu dent to win a rhodes scholarship since 1928 he is the third of this group to have studied chemistry or chemical engineering as a student of lehigh for three of the six semesters leonard has been at lehigh he has had a perfect scholastic average on the other three occasions he has never ranked below 3.65 out of a possible 4.00 as a result of his high averages he has ranked at the head of his class three times third dur ing one semester fourth during an other semester and fifth in his first freshman semester won wilbur scholarship leonard has won freshman and sophomore honors and also five scholarship prizes these prizes were second place in the wilbur prize in mathematics in his fresh man year the w.h chandler soph omore prize in chemistry the wil bur scholarship of 200 to the high est ranking sophomore the w h chandler prize in chemistry in his junior year and the alumni junior prize for engineering while maintaining his high scho lastic average leonard has taken a leading part in student activities he won his letter in soccer for the season just completed took the leading part in the mustard and cheese musical comedy prom trotters given last spring and is an active member of the glee club member of tau beta pi his list of activities also includes president of his class in his junior year a member of tau beta pi cyanide newtonian society o d x chemistry society and the r w blake philosophical society in addition he was a member of phi eta sigma freshman honorary fra ternity leonard is also a member of the concert lecture committee which has arranged the series be ing held this year he is a member of delta tau delta social fraternity he prepared for lehigh at mount vernon high school mt vernon n v where he resides leonard intends to continue his study of chemistry and government at oxford lehigh students previously named to rhodes scholarships are max goepp ch e 28 dudley hartley arts 30 and milton meissner ch e 34 meissner is now studying at oxford several new courses were ap proved and other revised at the meeting of the faculty monday af ternoon in the faculty room of the alumni building a new elective course c e 100 entitled engineering evaluation will teach the determination of probable life earning power and present worth of public and private prop erties another civil engineering course c e 135 is a study of structural welding the design of welded steel structures and includes the practical work in annual opera tion of making welds railroad survey c e 7 for merly a summer course has been discarded in favor of route survey c e 31 which will be taught in september on the campus during the two weeks prior to registration the new course will be required of the civil engineers between the sophomore and junior years and mining engineers must take the course at the end of the freshman year tennis team to go south qualitative organic analysis a study of classifications of reactions of pure organic substances has been approved for the chemists and chemical engineers m e 113 in ternal combustion engines and tur bines and m e 117 air condi tioning and refrigeration were also approved the faculty authorized the ten nis team to make a southern trip during the spring recess playing matches which will not be included in the 15 matches to which the team is limited during the season a new register was adopted which will be larger than the present and will have a paper cover it will be printed in a different style type and will give course titles in bold face type the faculty of each of the three schools of the university will be listed separately in the new reg ister president c c williams called the attention of the faculty to the celebrating the 125 th anniversary of the academy of natural sciences at philadelphia during march the subject will be a symposium on early man club reads play faculty dramatists give dangerous comer 9 crisis discussed ettinger talks on past present in britain two hundred and twenty-seven fi nal examinations will be given in the period starting thursday jan 21 and ending saturday jan 30 according to the examination sche dule released this week by william h bohning assistant registrar two examinations will be given daily at 8 a m and 2 p m there are four conflict examinations on the schedule bohning stated mak ing it necessary to provide special examinations n chem 195 engl 2 psych 1 and phys 22 anyone finding a conflict in courses other than these should report it imme diately to the registrar's office dates for examinations not in cluded on the schedule will be an nounced by the instructors in those courses the schedule is indicates a course of two sec tions or more for which only one examination is scheduled indicates a two section course for each section of which an exam ination is scheduled thursday jan 21 8 a m bus 45 packard 466 chem 195 conflict examinations only engl 1 christmas-saucon 109 williams hall 301 packard 416 coppee 1 phys lec ture room chem lecture room phys 23 packard auditorium phys 24 packard auditorium thursday jan 21 2 p.m e e 61 packard 416 s e 67 packard 416 engl 0 engl 2 engl 3a engl 4 packard auditorium 466 and christmas saucon 109 met 172 friday jan 22 8 a m bus 123 packard 416 chem 1 chem 3 packard auditorium chem lecture room coppee 1 m e 21 packard 466 met 83 met 163 psych l conflict examination only friday jan 22 2 p.m math 4 math 5 math 106 pack ard auditorium 416 466 mil 1 regular examination mil 3 conflict examination only saturday jan 23 8 a m astr 1 biol 104 bus 135 physics lecture room c e 8 eco 8 lecture i packard auditorium christmas-saucon 109 educ 1 e e 62 section a packard 416 e e 66 section a packard 416 e e 114 engl 123 fr 21 section a coppee 1 geol 1 ger 3 section a coppee 34 govt 157 williams hall 301 hist 13 williams hall 301 hist 25 williams hall 216 lat la math la math lb section a packard 466 math 61 m e 33 packard 360 met 3 met 21 section a met 28 dangerous corner a play by j b priestly was read by the fac ulty dramttics club at their bi weekly meeting held wednesday evening in the lounge of packard laboratory mrs elmer c bratt wife of dr bratt assistant profes sor of economics took charge of the reading those who read parts were mrs william mcdermott dr mcder mott instructor in latin mrs cyril d jensen wife of dr jensen assistant professor of civil engin eering and miss reynolds daugh ter of dr reynolds professor of mathematics others were mrs j l graham and dr graham assistant profes sor of psychology and dr w l jenkins instructor in psychology the play to be read at the next meeting of the group will be white guard by bulgakov due to the indisposition of mrs ruth becker myers who was to have appeared as piano soloist sun day's program of the student con certs group will be postponed un til feb 14 at that time mrs myers and dr t edgar shields will pre sent another concert in the series of piano and organ recitals there will be no concert this sunday next week jan 17 the group will present a special program with the liberty high school symphony orchestra as the guest organization joseph ricapito 25 director of in strumental music in the local public schools will lead the group of 68 musicians in a program of five selec tions the concert open to students and the public free will be held in the chapel beginning at 4 p m programs will be suspended dur ing examination period but will be resumed by an all-student recital sunday feb 7 in the second sem ester says r k maneval bus 38 director they will then continue weekly for the remainder of the term junior honorary group to hold dinner meeting mine 1 span 1 section b coppee 1 saturday jan 23 2 p.m biol 54 section a chem 195 chem lecture room c e 125 eco 3 lecture 11 packard auditorium 416 e e 4 engl 43 f a 3 coppee 1 fr 11 section a physics lecture room govt 51 packard 466 hist 9 hist 27 m e 34 section a met 21 section b williams hall 301 met 153 mine 10 section a mine 101 phys 160 psych 101 monday jan 25 8 a m bus 11 packard 550 560 bus 25 packard 466 y chem 163 \ chem 168 eco 1 packard auditorium eco 107 christmas-saucon 109 e e 1 packard 416 e e 52 section b engl 10 geol 112 lat 4 math 20 williams hall 301 and packard auditorium m e 34 section b m e 119 mil 7 section b mil 17 section b phys 14 phys 22 phys lecture room chem lec ture room coppee i monday jan 25 2 p m biol 7 section b bus 21 packard 466 eco 133 christmas-saucon 109 engl 6 engl 41 section a packard 416 engl 60 geol la ger 7 coppee 1 govt 01 gk 1 i e 2 packard auditorium lat 21 coppee 84 math 3 section b math 11l m e 2 packard auditorium met 1 mil 7 section a mil 17 section a mine 7 tuesday jan 26 8 a.m biol 7 section a chem 6 packard auditorium bus 157 packard 466 c e 9 section a packard 416 c e 128 educ 51 e e 112 engl 10 section a engl so fr 1 section a geol 3 williams ball 301 lat 31 math 3 section a math 41 m e 29 m e 33 section a m e 121 mil 5 section a mil 15 bection a mine 8 phys 182 continued oa p*ge fov cyanide honorary junior activi ties fraternity will hold a dinner and meeting at 6:30 p m monday jan 11 at the alpha tau omega fraternity house announces harry c milbank i e 38 student pres ident of the organization dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and re ligious philosophy will speak at the meeting his subject has not been announced the british constitution and the immediate past and the present sit uation was the subject of the ad dress given last night to the inter national relations society by dr amos ashbach ettinger acting as sociate professor of history dr ettinger traced the growth of the unwritten british constitution the gradual limitation of the pow er of the king and the supremacy of parliament resulted in the fact that the british king reigns rather than rules dr ettinger stated that he be lieved the present situation was not due solely to the divorce and reli gious question but to the king's criticism of the ministry in power after his visit to wales bethlehem pa friday january 8 1937 to discuss fair before a s m e to play at ball leonard selected as rhodes scholar vol vliv — no 18 price — five cents hal kemp chosen to play for ball praises lehigh's educational policy musical clubs include 52 men in recital trip iserman to tell problems of leipzig exposition tunis article acclaims purely amateur teams wins scholarship brown and white combined groups will give concert in new york church tonight leonard to be soloist member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first