Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 27

              karl darrow bell laboratories physicist who will lecture to chem istry and physics societies thurs day evening atomic nuclei is topic of bell laboratories phy sics authority wrote book on changes karl darrow will lecture to 2 societies vol xliv — no 27 dr h p thomas who recently accepted the position as adviser to the superintendent of education of the bethlehem school board musicale set for saturday glee club dance band soloists to perform in annual recital p morrissey slightly better swimming coach injured when automobile runs up on sidewalk the lehigh union opened a two week drive for red cross flood re lief contributions yesterday morn ing at chapel when alvin a swenson bus 37 president of the lehigh union spoke in behalf of the thousands of flood sufferers swenson asked that every lehigh student make some donation in re sponse to the red cross call for aid from every american citizen the brown and white will publish an honor roll of the donors to this drive in a letter to the heads of living groups swenson stated that al though the flood is receding it is necessary that the red cross work be supported in this emergency in order to check the disease and pes tilence now threatening the unfor tunate flood refugees the lehigh union office in drown hall will act as a receiving station for flood relief contributions the town group is requested to place all donations in the box in drown hall labeled red cross flood relief simultaneous with this latest red cross emergency drive announce ment came the report that the le high christmas seal sales sponsor ed by the lehigh union for the first time approximately doubled the re turns the previous year this year's receipts totaled 153.60 harold p thomas head of the department of education formally accepted his appointment as educa tional adviser to the acting super intendent and to the school board in a letter to clifford f frey sec retary of the school board received last week he will be an impartial adviser on the educational and professional problems facing the school board he is outlining steps to make a survey of the local schools but he will have no part in the actual sur vey he will also review all appli cations for the position of school superintendent recently vacated by william c weiss not interested in superintendency according to his own statement dr thomas is not interested in the school superintendency himself i am interested in remaining at le high university he stated dr thomas hopes that this will end ru mors that the school board plans to appoint him superintendent he will be adviser to acting su perintendent john snyder former principal of washington junior high school he added in his letter that pres ident c c williams to whom i have submitted this letter is will ing for me to undertake the work as outlined he will resign the position when a new school superintendent is elected unless definitely asked by him and by the board to continue for a limited time he stated in the letter brown and white officers named dr karl k darrow who will lec ture in an open meeting at 8 p m thursday in packard auditorium under the auspices of the physics and chemistry societies is one of america's foremost authors in the field of modern physics according to max peterson associate profes sor of physics he is the author of the recent book the renaissance of physics he is now connected with the bell laboratories dr darrow will talk on the gen eral topic of atomic nuclei this topic has in the last few years far outgrown the earlier concepts of physics and chemistry the numerous experiments with the transmutation of atoms and the relative roles of electrons and posi trons neutrons and photons depend on further explanation of atomic nuclei well qualified says peterson it is safe to say that no other is so well qualified to pre sent such technical material to a college audience whose training is not yet that of scientific special ists says dr peterson darrow has for a number of years devoted his time almost exlusively to the task of interpreting to the technical staff of the bell laboratories the significance and the relations of the physical research of the world it was more than a year ago that the request was first made to dr darrow to talk before a lehigh audience dr darrow was gradu ated from the university of chi cago and studied at the university of paris and the university of ber lin he has been physics professor at stanford chicago and columbia universities and was formerly with the engineering department of wes tern electric he has frequently contributed to scientific journals beebe's illness prevents lecture yanko assumes duties as editor in chief gottlieb to speak at forum meeting bathysphere diver still sick with infection review's music critic will discuss jazz the technique of getting a job was explained by o w eshbach 15 personnel director of the amer ican telephone company and h l davis personnel director of the new york telephone company last thursday night in packard auditor ium the meeting was sponsored by the electrical engineering society and attended by 350 students both mr eshbach and mr davis held demonstration interviews with seniors the interviews were con ducted on the platform as if no audi ence were present but the assembly heard the sample interviews over a public address system the seniors who took part in the demonstration were warren fairbanks i e 37 clay lewis e e 37 and john raff e e 37 meeting divided in 4's the entire meeting was divided into four parts the first part con sisted of introducing the two inter viewers to the gathering at that time mr davis explained the pur pose of interviews the second part consisted of the three demonstra tions in the third part the three interviews were explained and the faults and errors were pointed out the last part consisted of an open forum after the introductions were over mr davis stated in his discussion that interviewers come to buy brains mr eshbach then briefly explained the various ways of rat ing a man on his physical intellec tual and social qualifications he stated that college men hired are expected to rise to supervisory posi tions inside of ten years in the three interviews each man was asked what he liked to do best and what he could do best each senior who was interviewed had filled out application blanks from which questions were asked mr davis interviewed fairbanks and raff while mr eshbach talked to lewis men not prepared after telling the errors and faults of the interviews mr davis said that 95 per cent of the men who come to be interviewed are not pre pared and they do not know what they want to do he finished by saying they do not realize that they are selling brains the two men then held an open forum answering questions asked from the audience dean mcconn speaks due to a prolonged illness dr william beebefi underseas explorer will not be able to lecture at his scheduled time in the student con cert-lecture series he was to speak saturday a substitute speak er has not as yet been secured dr beebe has a sinus infection which forced him to go to florida he was originally supposed to ap pear here on jan 16 but because of his illness he traded lecture dates with h v kaltenborn his con tinued illness caused another indef inite postponement sidney j lewis chairman of the series committee is in new york city in an attempt to obtain another speaker or artist lehigh will innovate a new course in general education this semester that is believed to be unprecedent ed throughout the united states and is designed to broaden the under graduate's educational program on a basis diametrically opposed to the present system of study first proposed by dr percy hughes head of the department of philosophy the course will consist of directed outside reading for in terested students and will be con ducted on a non-credit no examina tion principle the course each year will be open to freshmen only so that in four years this new program will be in full swing details not complete while details of the course have not yet been completed the gen eral mechanism consists of ten fac ulty members who have volunteered their time to direct the extra-curri cula reading of enrolled students and discuss at length the results of such readings with their pupil known as the program in general education this course permits any freshman to take a preliminary test in culture and general information and then proceed on the basis of such an analysis to read books rec ommended by his faculty adviser there is no requirement as to the amount of reading to be done no obligation to write and no examin ations to be given should a student find he cannot properly spend time on outside reading he may drop the course whenever he so desires on the other hand he may be dropped for doing insufficient work in short declares dean max mcconn this course will be con ducted on an entirely different basis than the regular school course which is held in the formal class room manner to gain a designated number of credit hours diamond heads council heading the ten faculty members who have been organized into an advisory council is herbert dia mond professor of economics he estimates that about 40 students could properly be handled by the present council of ten should more enroll however there are an addi tional number of faculty men who have volunteered their services and will be added to the staff while this course was by no means designed to furnish the an swer to the problem of culture for engineers it probably will act as lehigh's partial solution to this question when it is considered that more than 900 of the present 1,600 students in the undergraduate body are registered in the college of en gineering this new course will also put lehigh in step with president dean c m mcconn and e k smiley assistant director of admis sions attended a meeting of the student body of lansdowne high school lansdowne pa yesterday continued on page four interfraternity ball attracts record-breaking attendance the condition of pete morrissey swimming coach who was injured in an accident jan 18 was describ ed as slightly improved by hos pital authorities last night during morrissey's absence karl jacobi bus 37 swimming captain will di rect the varsity swimmers and jim my mahoney assistant in swim ming will coach the freshman swim mers morrissey's accident occurred so suddenly that its origin is not cer tain two cars were traveling tow ard an intersection and one car in order to avert a collision ran over the sidewalk along which mor rissey was walking whether he was struck by the car or injured in a fall trying to avoid the car is not known reported to work morrissey reported for work the next two days complaining of only a few bruises he considered minor he was unable to come to work the third day after the accident and following x-rays on jan 24 he was taken to st luke's hospital a blow received in the accident bruised morrissey's spinal column and broke a blood vessel which formed a clot causing pressure on his spinal column the pain was so intense that opiates were necessary a specialist from philadelphia was summoned to aid in prescribing a remedy however rest is the main requirement and the recovery will probably be slow visitors are not admitted as morrissey is too weak the annual winter home concert and dance of the combined musical clubs will be held saturday evening in drown hall announced hal e towne arts 37 president the glee club soloists and the dance orches tra will perform the program to be given is sim ilar to that which the club present ed jan 8 at the episcopal church of the intercession new york city three new songs by the club and a new soloist are included in the pro gram three instrumentalists and two vocalists are listed leonard to sing elbert mahla met e 38 and nelson j leonard chem 37 will sing trumpet solos by h r beucler eng 40 flute solos by william e trumpler m e 37 and xylophone solos by d k swarthout eng 40 are to be given dr t edgar shields will direct the singers and towne will lead the school songs carstens y haas ch e 38 and raymond k mane val bus 38 are accompanists free to students saturday's concert is the first of two annual home concerts presented by the club ordinarily one of these is given toward the end of each semester due to conflicting dates however it was impossible to sche dule this program during the first semester students are admitted free of charge to both concerts tickets for outsiders saturday night will be 50 cents after the program the combined musical clubs dance orchestra will play for dancing which will last un til 1 a m the final rehearsal for all members of the clubs will be held at 7:30 p m thursday in drown hall towne also announced that the second of the club's nation-wide broadcasts will be presented over the mutual system from wor newark n j 3 to 3:30 feb 27 system works changes in registration prove efficient george yanko arts 37 with this issue assumes his duties as the new editor in chief of the brown and white he will head the new staff of officers who were chosen by means of the regular system of competitions the remaining members of the executive committee are as follows francis hunsberger c e 38 bus iness manager j palmer murphy arts 38 news manager william dukek ch e 38 editorial man ager other officers are nevin fidler arts 38 makeup editor alan grant i e 38 sports editor keiste jan ulis arts 38 friday news editor eric weiss e e 39 tuesday news editor joseph roberts met e 38 financial manager john weigel i e 38 national advertising assis tant and george rheinfrank i e 38 local advertising assistant john handy bus 38 copy su pervisor william klingensmith bus 38 circulation manager louis stoumen arts 39 and robert reif snyder bus 37 received positions tn the editorial council soloists perform at series concert dean c m mcconn rates dance as second best of series of 5 relations delegates meet jazznocracy is the title of a talk to be given by william p gottlieb bus 38 before the lehigh dis cussion forum at 7:45 p m tomor row in the arcadia room in drown hall gottlieb who is music critic for the lehigh review and a devoted swing enthusiast will illustrate his talk by playing a group of num bers from his collection of modern recorded music which includes such modern classics as old dixie land recordings and selections by the late bix beiderbeck who had such men in his band as tommy dorsey george hall and hal kemp gottlieb will attempt to trace by means of the recordings the devel opments of modern music from the old classics to the present days of swing and will explain such terms as gut bucket in the groove corn and long underwear boys a brief closed business meeting of the forum is scheduled to be held before gottlieb's talk which is open to the public c a shook plays piano mrs j u scott sings society to meet phi eta sigma to discuss letter on entrances the international relations club committee for delegates to the model convention and the league of nations will meet at 7:30 p m thursday night in drown hall posts schedule musical show tryouts to be held tomorrow health service will inoc ulate against typhoid mustard and cheese club will hold final trials for male singing parts for the musical comedy at bp m tomorrow evening in drown hall girls interested in the musical comedy are invited to come for first trials for femin ine parts twelve songs for the musical comedy have been written and accepted for production james reed arts 39 has submitted three songs for the play while david hughes ch e 38 is re sponsible for nine of the melo dies of which song ashes on the floor has been selected as the tentative theme song the script under the direction of judson schaeffer assistant in journalism is well under way the schedule for typhoid innocu lations has been announced by dr r c bull director of the student health service the injections will be given in two series one this month and the other in april in the first series innoculations will be given on feb 13 20 and 27 the dispensary will be open on these days from 9 a m to 1 p m there will be three innoculations which will be seven days apart dr bull has suggested that those who are interested in winter sports should take the april series while those who will participate in spring sports should take the series this month if anyone cannot arrange to have the injections at these times other arrangements can be made with the record smashing atten | dance of 1800 the interfraternity ball held saturday evening in the coliseum achieved the distinction of having been the largest prom ever held at lehigh university the music played by hal kemp and his band seemed to excite a greater amount of collegiate appro val than that of any other band en gaged at lehigh in the past several years said dean c m mcconn who described the dance as one of the two best conducted interfrater nity balls since their inception four years ago playing from ten to three o'clock kemp offered a great variety of old and new dance tunes most of which were vocalized by skinny ennis who sang an encore number of kemp's own composition i've got a date with an angel among the feature numbers of the evening were a special arrangement of the bolero with kemp swinging the gourds and a vocal-dramatic rendi tion of the seven little bottles the band ended the dance by play ing the lehigh alma mater realizing the possibility of an unusual attendance the committee arranged to open an extra check room accommodating 300 persons so as to relieve the confusion which usually accompanies checking at the coliseum this was the fifth interfraternity ball in the history of the univer sity the first several however met with the disapproval of the admin istration and for some time the fu ture of the dance was very shaky prior to the inception of the ball several of the various fraternities sponsored private mid-winter dances but because of the modest nature of the dances large bands were out of the question at the first interfraternity ball in 1933 ted black and don redman furnished the music in 1934 don bestor and jean cardo were engag ed the following year mai hallet and emerson gill played for the first interfraternity ball to be held at the coliseum the coliseum was again the site of the dance last year when tommy dorsey played the committee for this year's dance consisted of knox l peet bus 37 charles f mccoy arts 37 donald c barnum i e 37 [ and thomas e niehaus bus 37 programs in the current series sponsored by the student concerts group were resumed sunday after noon joan upton scott sang and clarence a shook associate profes sor of mathematics gave several piano solos this seventh sunday afternoon concert of the group was given at 4 p m in packer mem orial chapel the program listed four groups of numbers professor shook open ed with a group of five piano com position of johann sebastian bach mrs scott's soprano solos followed she sang two groups each consist ing of three songs professor shook then closed with a modern group of songs by chopin rachmaninoff and schumann he accompanied mrs scott in all her songs sunday's program opened the second half of the second annual series of concerts sponsored by the group programs will continue weekly for the remainder of the school year the lehigh chapter of phi eta sigma freshman honorary society will meet at 7:45 o'clock this eve ning in room 367 packard labora tory to discuss a communication from national headquarters answer ing their proposal to lower the en trance requirements the letter stated that the society may reduce the entrance require ments from a 3.5 average to a 3.25 average the highest 20 freshmen with an average of more than 3.25 will be accepted those among the highest 20 above a 3.25 average for the second semester who are not already in the society will also be allowed to enter the group will also consider sending a representative to the na tional convention which is to be held at the university of alabama march 26 and 27 at present the new list of eligible freshmen has not been received registration for 1937 got off in fine forum this semester as plans advanced by the lehigh discussion forum for reducing individual reg istration time were adopted by the registrar's office registration has long been con sidered a necessary evil and such it remains — only less so it used to take anywhere from one to three hours to register last week reg istering students found that their usual registration time was cut from one third to one half suggestions for improved regis tration advanced by the lehigh dis cussion forum and successfully em ployed by the registrar's office in clude a new system of dividing the student body into alphabetical groups in order to even out the in flux of students into the lines re organization of the departmental booths on the first floor of the reg istration hall and an increase in the number of checkers on constant duty registrar curtis expressed his pleasure with the new registration system and extended his thanks to the discussion forum for its in terest and help lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday february 9 1937 speaker on atoms accepts position price — five cents dr h thomas appointed to school board seniors told how to land future work lehigh union opens drive for donations lehigh does pioneering in starting novel course diamond heads non credit reading program for freshmen to be conducted on entirely different basis than class work head of department of education will act as an adviser will stay at lehigh o w eshbach 15 and h l davis lecture at £. e meeting open discussion held a a swenson requests students to contribute for flood relief donors on honor roll member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first