Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 28

              price — five cents mcnair resigns as society head bethlehem pa friday february 12 1937 neighbors ask change in site of coming ball presents 4 point plan to pi delta epsilon mary akeley to be signed for program dean will enforce hell week abolition jungle explorer speaks concert - lecture series choses explorer to re place w beebe military dance shifted after complaints on other armory affairs masonic temple chosen will talk february 26 in letter to all heads of houses he gives warn ing to offenders social pro to be penalty clear case necessary be fore starting prosecu cution says dean glen harmeson head coach lehig-h university edwin g mcnair bus 37 re signed as president of pi delta ep silon honorary journalism frater nity at a meeting of the society at 4 p m today in drown hall pres sure of school work was given as the reason for his retirement mcnair former business manag er of the brown and white sub mitted the following four point plan to the fraternity for consideration 1 that a mimeographed news paper containing information on the publications of lehigh be distrib uted among the prospective fresh men on sub-freshman day 2 that pi delta epsilon investi gate the possibilities of a closer re lationship between the existing pub lications 3 that pi delta epsilon obtain speakers for their meetings 4 that a revision of the fresh man handbook be presented to the lehigh union has held position since march 1934 was star at purdue university won 3 major letters lehigh gives new contract to harmeson vol xliv — no 28 to announce song winners mary l j akeley congdon made head of group wingless victory read by faculty pres williams names com mittee to plan for sub freshman day lopez will name play best song of contest on columbia network prouty and mrs ewing take leads col nelson a kelloog di rector of athletics issued the following statement early to day i expect coach glen har meson to sign his new contract within the next few days speculation as to whether or not glen harmeson head football and basketball coach would have his contract offered by the university was closed yesterday afternoon when a university official announced that the university had sent a new contract to harmeson harmeson in connection with coaching at lehigh next year said i would like to be back here next fall as football coach and i hope that things can be arranged that will be suitable for both the administra tion and myself so that i may come back harmeson has not had time as yet to sign and return the con tract the salary stipulated in the contract was not disclosed coached since 1934 glen harmeson has held the po sition of head basketball and foot ball coach since march 1934 pre vious to his position here he was assistant coach at purdue univer sity for four years after graduation from the school he graduated with a bachelor of science degree in 1930 harmeson is a member of the phi delta theta fraternity and also a member of the gimlet club at purdue won 3 major letters he was prominent in purdue ath letics winning his numerals in foot ball basketball baseball and ten nis for three years he was on the varsity teams of the same sports and in 1929 he played on the unde feated purdue football team he won the big ten high-scoring cham pionship in basketball one year and he tied for high honors the previous year in 1935 under the new head coach glen harmeson the football team finished the season with five victories against four defeats in 1934 the team broke even with four wins and four losses last fall the team won six out of eight games faculty addresses school students lehigh representatives at college nights wingless victory the latest of maxwell anderson's plays was read at the last meeting of the faculty dramatics club wednesday evening in packard laboratory mrs w w ewing wife of war ren ewing associate professor of physical chemistry read the part of the malay princess while charles prouty instructor in english acted the role of nathaniel the return ing son the scene of the dramatic tragedy was laid in early new eng land other parts were played by john toohey associate professor of ro mance languages miss elizabeth hay library desk attendant miss myrtle helms assistant desk at tendant mrs p m palmer wife of philip palmer head of the de partment of german mr william c mcdermott instructor in latin eric sinkinson professor of fuel technology arthur w klein pro fessor of mechanical engineering mrs richard cobb and mrs wil liam eney mrs sutherland wife of prof hale sutherland director of the curriculum of civil engineering was in charge of the business meeting which discussed plans for a play counselor at law to be given in the near future in conjunction with the workshop of a a rights in structor in english schaffer speaks mrs mary akeley explorer for the american museum of natural history will be signed during the next week for the next student con cert-lecture program announced the committee at their meeting thursday afternoon at this meet ing plans were laid for the next program which will be presented on feb 26 in the broughal high school auditorium mrs akeley will appear at le high in place of william beebe ex plorer of deep sea life who had been previously scheduled dr beebe again cancelled his appear ance because of a reoccurrence of a sinus infection hunted with camera her topic will be the restless jungle illustrated by slides and motion pictures she has recently returned from an exploration trip through the african jungle and gorilla paradise mrs akeley hunts with a camera numerous times she has hesitated to use a gun facing death so she could photograph the habits of wild beasts at close range the motion pictures will depict the last of the game herds and constitute a visual record of the old africa which she believes to be rapidly decreasing the trip took her through kenya and uganda the congo region and tanganyika providing her with first hand knowledge of the beasts in habiting the veldt mrs akeley is one of the few living women who can speak authoritatively on the pygmies who populate belgian con go agree fellow explorers decorated by king albert studies of anthropoid apes in their nest lions awaiting their prey and charging bull elephants were taken for the african hall of the museum upon returning from the expedition mrs akeley was decor ated by albert king of belgium and was honored at home the expedition found that since 1918 the game herds have been steadily increasing much of the work in photography was done in kruger national park which is one of the greatest and most populated game preserves in an article in the natural his tory magazine mrs akeley says i was completely fascinated by the natural beauty of a new land and by the rare opportunity to study unfamiliar species of wild life i studied both the white and black rhinos pictured leopards and lions at the scene of their kill and have taken innumerable photos of herds of elephants alpha epsilon delta an nounces dinner plan dean c m mcconn announced this week that he is ready and will ing to enforce the discontinuance of hell week the dean stated that his defini tion of hell week was clearly stat ed in his letter to the fraternities last year and that any fraternity which directly violates the rules of the pledge will be disciplined 1 will not take up a case of hell week violation against a fraternity unless a clear case exists violation of the non-hell week pledge oc curs when a fraternity disobeys the regulations during the pre-initia tion period defines hell week hell week is defined in dean mcconn's edict as including the fol lowing practices missions or errands send ing freshmen out to count the planks in a bridge to get sig natures to bring back specified articles or on any other pre texts ; the so-called walk taking freshmen out of town singly or in a group to walk back paddling and all other kinds of exposure humiliation torture or endurance test the threatened custom does not include the following any educational program of study recitation and written or oral examinations special house duties such as scrub bing floors washing windows painting and the like ; or en tertainment stunts by fresh man at or after dinner com prising speeches songs plays and vaudeville acts gives warning in a letter to the fraternity heads this year the dean said if any chapter should state that it has elim inated hell week continued dean mcconn's letter and should later be found engaging in hell week practices any such chapter would be liable to university discipline probably social probation for a year or more for misrepresentation of facts to a university officer and through him to the public i will also notify the national chapters of the culprit fraternities and such fraternities will be black listed wednesday afternoon the dean stated to date i do not know of any violation of the hell week pledge but the moment a clear case of violation of the pledge pre sents itself i shall take the oppor tunity to make an example of the fraternity women to give fashion showing dr wooley to address valley college association as announced on his wabc broadcast from the hotel astor grill last sunday at midnight vin cent lopez will name the winners in the song-writing contest he has been sponsoring at lehigh new york university columbia and rutgers this sunday night on the same program he will orchestrate publish and feature the winning songs all rev enue derived from marketing the songs will go to the composers the contest which ended wednesday feb 10 has afforded lopez a first hand view of the amateur song-writ ing situation and he is convinced that the production of song hits does not necessarily have to be con fined to tin pan alley may organize agency at the close of the contest lo pez stated when i started this contest i felt that only a few weeks time was necessary to receive and pass upon the works of the com peting collegiate tunesmiths but there were so many good numbers on a par with each other that i had to extend the time an addi tional two weeks lopez hopes to organize an agen cy to act as a commercial outlet for other amateur composers the announcement of the winners was scheduled for last sunday evening but lopez was unable to accom modate because of the extension of the time for the contest lehigh students entered a total of 13 songs in the contest there will be a winner in each university the site of the military ball for which jan savitt and his tophat ters orchestra are to play was re cently changed to the masonic temple from the national guard ar mory pat pazzetti bus 37 captain of the scabbard and blade society stated the scene of the military ball has been changed because we met with some insurmountable dif ficulties there have been corn paints by residents against other dance held at the armory and the committee in charge together with dean c m mcconn decided it wisest to change the scene of the ball from the armory to the ma sonic temple to choose queen a beauty contest to choose the queen of the ball will be held about a week and a half before the dance the girls who will compete will be chosen from the student bodies of moravian seminary for women cedar crest college in allentown beaver college in jenkinstown and swarthmore college swarthmore the queen will be chosen through pictures in the brown and white and by a canvass of lehigh stu dents the winner will be announc ed the evening of the dance and she will be made an honorary cadet colonel miss mary malloy college stu dent at moravian seminary has been chosen to represent the school in the competition with girls from the oth er colleges the two runners-up of the contest will be awarded hon orary cadet captaincies of the scab bard and blade society army men to attend mrs carter collins wife of the assistant professor of military sci ence and tactics is arranging a pro gram which will include a number of notable army men the committee in charge of the ball includes a a swenson bus 37 chairman f g simmons m.e 37 c w kuhl bus 37 d m scott bus 37 w.h glander eng 39 and m s lord ch e 38 the subscription to the dance is 3 per couple is nbc orchestra at present jan savitt and his or chestra may be heard regularly every sunday at 6:30 p m over station kyw of the national broadcasting system acording to swenson his orchestra is considered one of the best in philadelphia and is in demand for many large dances held at hotels in the city last summer savitt was featured at the steel pier in atlantic city he may be occasionally heard over station kyw at 6:30 p m during the week as he is chiefly a studio or chestra will present previews of spring cloths gottlieb shows differences in popular and swing music e d schaffer arts 37 was the speaker at the meeting of al pha epsilon delta honorary pre medical fraternity which was held tuesday afternoon in williams hall the talk was followed by an open discussion new pledges will be elected at a closed meeting next thursday the pledges from last semester and this semester will be initiated at a com bined banquet the date and loca tion of this banquet has not been determined the speaker at the next meeting will be william b ayers arts 38 except on special notice open meetings are held every tuesday afternoon usually in room 218 williams hall the association of colleges of the lehigh valley will meet on friday feb 19 in the hotel bethlehem under the auspices of the moravian seminary and college for women dr mary e woolley retiring pres ident of mount holyoke college will speak on the subject the old order changeth before dr woolley's talk an in formal dinner will be served at 6:30 p m the price of which will be 1 per person members of the faculty and ad ministrative officers and their wives are invited and all other guests will be welcome revision of point system planned by senior society the lehigh university woman's club will entertain members of the american association of university women and the moravian college and seminary faculty and wives at a fashion show to be held at 3 o'clock tuesday afternoon in the hotel bethlehem h leh and company of allen town will present a preview of their regular spring fashion show some 40 models will introduce the newest styles in feminine apparel for early spring wear spring flowers will compose the decorative scheme mrs cyril jensen is chairman of the committee for the tea to be given following the entertainment mrs jensen plans to have five tea tables spilberg to lead services dr wray h congdon director of admissions has been appointed by president c c williams to act as chairman of a committee on ar rangements for the 1937 sub-fresh man day the committee will be composed of a group of faculty members and students who will plan the program for the visiting sub freshmen the events during the day states president williams will be on the same order as formerly the sub freshmen will register in the alum ni building and will then attend the opening assembly they will then be conducted through various de partments of the university in past years the morning program has been followed by luncheon in the armory a tour of the campus and the conclusion of sub-freshman day by attendance at a track meet and baseball game in the afternoon appoints 15 men members of the committee ap pointed by president williams are dr w h congdon director of ad missions e k smiley assistant director of admissions p m pal mer dean of the college of arts and sciences dr neil carothers dean of the college of business adminis tration hale sutherland director of the curricula in civil and sanitary engineering h m ullmann direc tor of the curriculum in chemistry and chemical engineering s s sey fert director of the curriculum in electrical engineering c c bidwell director of the cur riculum in engineering physics f c larkin director of the curricula in mecnanical and industrial engin eering bradley stoughton dean of the college of engineering howard eckfeldt director of the curriculum in mining engineering c.g beards lee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy g b cur tis registrar and associate dean n a kellogg director of athletics and physical education glen harme son head football and basketball coach r l herrick assistant alumni secretary j w maxwell manager of the supply bureau and dale h gramley head of the journalism courses and in charge of publicity for sub-freshman day student members of the commit tee are k m jacobi bus 37 president of arcadia george yan ko arts 37 editor in chief of the brown and white v j pazzetti bus 37 president of the class of 37 h c milbank m e 38 pres ident of the class of 38 frank ra bold eng 39 president of the class of 39 maynard diamond and ray mond wall co-chairman of the class of 40 students head de molay ettinger honored at dinner for service at muhlenberg six members of the faculty spoke to the student bodies of several high schools this week and another member of the faculty will speak at a boy scout banquet tomorrow eve ning wray h congdon dean of ad missions and dr neil carothers dean of the college of business ad ministration attended college night monday evening at the garden city high school gorden city n v as representatives of lehigh univer sity e k smiley assistant direc tor of admissions and dean c m mcconn attended a similar meeting on the same evening at the lans downe high school lansdowne pa dale h gramley head of the courses in journalism discussed a century of progress in journalism wednesday at the wilmington friends school wilmington del r d billinger associate profes sor of chemistry lectured on the chemistry of the air before the students of slatington high school this morning at slatington n j electron tubes in and beyond the laboratory will be the topic of a lecture to be given by h c i knutson assistant professor of elec trical engineering at a boy scout anniversary banquet tomorrow at ' palmerton pa shepard talks on steel nathan spilberg arts 39 will officiate at the services friday night in brith sholom community center when the a z a fraternity is given charge of the services in the absence of rabbi jerome marx attorney e g scoblionko 31 adviser to the a z a will deliver the sermon b f shepard chief metallurgist of the remington rand typewriter company addressed the metallur gical society thursday in william hall his talk was titled p f characteristics of steel which deals with the hardenability of steel in connection with heat treatment when a guy like shep fields blows through a straw into a bowl of water to get that bubbling ef fect punned jazznocrat william p gottlieb bus 38 at a meeting of the discussion forum wednes day evening in drown hall that's the last straw gottlieb addressed the student group and visitors on jazzflocra cy and illustrated his remarks by playing a group of recordings from his collection of modern recorded music highlights of his informal talk were his unconditional censure of the long underwear corn boys and those like paul whiteman who seek to make a lady out of swing his criticism of the recent interfra ternity ball orchestra of hal kemp as stylized and his suggestion that fletcher henderson's band one of the best and most dance able swing bands in the country could have been secured for the af fair one thousand dollars or less contrasts music types he defined the essential differ ence between classical and swing music as being the fact that in the former the important thing is the composer and his paper music and in the latter the emphasis is placed upon the spontaneous expres sion of the individual player he drew a sharp distinction between popular music and swing pop ular music being in his opinion played in the groove or spontan eous and unaffected modern swing originated in the deep south according to the speak er and is perhaps the most char acteristically american contribution to the art of the world recordings played and discussed include an original dixieland disc bix beiderbeck fatz waller's passwonky blues in c sharp and paul whiteman's corn following the swing session a brief business meeting was held at which william p gottlieb the speaker and paul e white e e 38 were elected to membership in the club three lehigh students were in stalled as officers of the wilbur chapter order of demolay tues day evening at the masonic temple the officers are elmer biro arts 39 senior councillor robert wit meyer eng 40 junior councilor and john lagouros eng 40 sev enth preceptor a dinner meeting of omicron delta kappa senior honorary so ciety held at 6:30 p m last eve ning at the beta theta pi frater nity house after dinner there was a discus sion on revision of the present point system used for admission the planned discussion of the pledging of gilbert e doan associate pro fessor of physical metallurgy and c c williams president of the university was postponed until the next meeting dr george t ettinger formerly associated with muhlenberg as a student and member of the faculty for 63 years was honored by muh lenberg men by a testimonial dinner given him by eta sigma phi hon orary classical fraternity at the americus hotel allentown dr ettinger is the father of a a ettinger acting associate pro fessor of history at lehigh receives contract lehigh university brown and white member intercollegiate isetcspapei association all the lehigh news first