Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 35

              price — five cents vol xliv — no 35 miss manogue chosen queen of military ball junior prom may be held on hotel floor 176 men receive 3 averages or better for first semester term results announced by registrar g b curtis show that frosh lead with 66 getting high aver age juniors seniors and sophomores trail committee negotiating for new site as dean thinks temple inadequate will hold dance april 9 miss irene rich expresses gratitude for being invited to attend 800 attend dance the results of the first semester examinations as announced by reg istrar g b curtis reveal that 176 men got a 3.00 or better average in their scholastic records the distri bution by classes is as follows sen iors 30 juniors 49 sophomores 31 freshmen 66 senior class e j broughal bus 4.00 n j leonard chem 3.78 r m lord jurist differs with reforms j alfred fleming judge james f henninger tells allentown group of views on plan j a fleming to speak here a s m e to sponsor talk on fire-proof air con ditioning thursday met e 3.74 c b welch ch e 3.68 j d houck arts 3.67 t e brookover ch e 3.53 j drury arts 3.50 r t craig met e 3.50 g l bowden arts 3.50 d t stevenson arts 3.44 j l wal ton met e 3.35 g.h colby bus 3.33 h s levenson ch e 3.30 w h turnbull jr m e 3.28 m l jackson eng phys 3.28 k k kennedy eng phys 3.24 c cit ret arts 3.20 j c bogert e m 3.19 s j lewis arts 3.19 e h uhler arts 3.17 n s elder bus 3.17 r g buerschaper eng phys 3.12 j h thomas jr ch e 3.10 t r brown e e 3.05 h r hutchinson 1 e 3.00 e r ever itt bus 3.00 a conti arts 3.00 g a barker jr chem 3.00 r j kins arts 3.00 k s dunlop eng phys 3.00 junior class c h hotfman e e 4.00 w j schmidt ch e 4.00 r g phelps e m 3.95 r f howe ch £„ 3.49 s c bunce chem 3.89 c f glick ch e 3.83 j parmet ch.e 3.64 j r oberholtzer e e 3.61 b k daubenspeck ch e 3.60 w g dukek ch e 3.59 continued ou page tour will lecture on education dr lester ade will speak at open meeting tonight in packard lab negotiations to secure the hotel bethlehem for the junior prom april 9 are being made this after noon by c w strang bus 38 chairman of the junior prom com mittee the committee had previously chosen the masonic temple for the dance but dean mcconn after ob serving the crowded conditions at the military ball friday night stat ed i doubt if it would be physi cally possible to hold the junior prom in the masonic temple the only alternative would be the ho tel bethlehem as i believe the col iseum has been previously schedul ed for that night the prom committee chose the masonic temple in a petition sub mitted to dean mcconn friday for his approval the dean is waiting for an official attendance report of the military ball from major green head of the department of military science and tactics to determine more accurately the capacity of the temple he stated the matter will be acted on in the course of a week horace heidt and his brigadiers will play for the prom he will bring a 14 piece orchestra and is feature artists members of the committee are : c w strang chairman frank lu card ch e 38 robert dean i e 38 and harry milbank i e 38 president of the junior class top honorary colonel maude monague is escorted by vincent j pazzetti 111 scabbard and blade captain stage and screen star miss irene rich by major james 0 green jr head of the lehigh r 0 t c upper center presented for social honors in the usual order are captain mary malloy moravian colonel maude manogue beaver and captain sally bird cedar crest their escorts are ned elder first lieutenant vincent j pazzetti and albert b schwarzkopf second lieutenant lower center general perry l miles crowns colonel maude as queen of the ball bottom may i have this dance asks student captain pazzetti after the coron ation curtis lectures to blake society uses slides to illustrate bacon's secret code j alfred fleming director of conservation of the national board of fire underwriters will speak on fire-proof air conditioning at the march meeting of the lehigh branch of the american society of mechanical engineers to be held at 8 o'clock thursday evening in room 466 packard laboratory mr fleming will be the guest of honor at a dinner to be given at the sun inn preceding the meeting f v larkin director of the curricula in mechanical and industrial en gineering and burgess h jennings associate professor of mechanical engineering will attend the board of fire underwriters released the following statement concerning mr fleming's subject the ever growing application of air conditioning equipment makes this discussion timely interest to all engineers the society has issued an invita tion to the student body the fac ulty and the general public to at tend this meeting judge james f henninger jur ist of the lehigh county court does not agree entirely with president roosevelt's plan to alter the su preme court while answering questions after his lecture to the lehigh allentown club friday in the allentown y m c a build ing he declared himself in favor of retirement of aging justices be cause age creates prejudice he also stated that the grand jury sys tem is not outmoded and should not be changed judge henninger expressed his belief that the present court is packed by the justices themselves who are purposely refraining from retirement to prevent the president from appointing any new justices approves banquet a banquet which is to be held early in the spring was definitely approved by the club in the bus iness session a committee which consists of joseph rossetti bus.'37 chairman richard h heil bus.'3b herbert l hilton bus 38 james h hensinger ch e 37 was ap pointed to make plans for the ban quet the contact of sub-freshmen from allentown high school was placed in the hands of a committee in cluding wilbur schaffer jr eng 40 thomas f jacoby ch e 38 and robert f korn eng 40 c j schaefer held for auto accident brown key aids in housing guests miss maude manogue of beaver college was crowned first queen of a lehigh ball when at midnight saturday in the masonic temple members of scabbard and blade formed on arch of sables through which she was escorted to the throne by vincent j pazzetti cap tain of the society miss monague was crowned by brigadier general perry l miles earlier in the evening major green head of the department of military science and tactics present ed irene rich as the guest of honor of the ball she was awarded an honorary membership in scabbard and blade by v j pazzetti awards colonelcy prior to the actual crowning of the queen a a swenson chair man of the dance committee award ed miss manogue the title of hon miss malloy of moravian college and miss bird of cedar crest col lege honorary captaincies in scab bard and blade melvin s lord c e 38 head of the publicity committee for the ball stated that 800 people danced to the music of jan savitt and his top hatters miss rich talks miss rich gave a short talk in which she expressed her gratitude in being invited to attend such a function she stated that she did not come to give a personal appear ance but rather came to enjoy her self and to witness the dance she thanked everybody for the grand reception which was bestowed upon her dean mcconn approved of the ball and said my impression of the ball was that it was well con ducted and scabbard and blade should be congratulated on their ef forts swenson announced that between 200 and 250 was cleared on the affair in giving his impression of the ball pazzetti stated the efforts of the committee were gratified by the large attendance and enthusiasm of all who attended everybody seemed to have a good time 90 scholastic wrestlers stay at fraternities 43 clubs submit audited accounts injures woman saturday on broadway dean praises promptness of organizations dean g b curtis spoke on ba con the dean of cryptographers at a meeting of the robert w blake society philosophical society fri day evening in packard laboratory dean curtis explained the secret code of francis bacon illustrating his points with slides and compar ing bacon's writings with works of other authors after the talk c f becker assistant professor of phil osophy criticized and a general de bate by the society resulted it was decided at the meeting that the bryn mawr trip will take place on april 30 the group plans to leave shortly after lunch arriy ing at bryn mawr in time for tea when a student from each of the two colleges will present a paper in the evening the group will hear a talk by a professor from bryn mawr the election of officers for the coming year and of new members will take place at the april meeting of the society talks scheduled charles j schafer ch e 39 was held under 500 bail bond sat urday evening when his automobile hit mrs homer bachert of beth lehem schaefer was driving east along broadway near the intersection of wyandotte at 9 o'clock when he heard a thump against his car when he investigated he found mrs bachert lying in the street she had been hit apparently by the right front fender of the car after taking mrs bachert to st luke's hospital schaefer reported the accident to the police mrs bachert was treated for lacerations and bruises about the head and re mained at the hospital for observa tion faculty members to talk to school groups through the efforts of the brown key 90 scholastic wrestlers rep resenting 15 prep schools participat ing in the second interscholastic wrestling meet were housed in var ious fraternities last week-end an nounced j h roberts jr met e 38 winter sports director of the society each of the 29 fraternity houses was host to approximately three wrestlers the wrestlers were met friday noon by nine members of the society and taken to drown hall for lunch after lunch the guests were taken to the various houses the brown key is organized for the purpose of welcoming all vis iting athletic teams to lehigh and to assist in accommodating the vis itors p j welch m e 37 is president j d mack had charge of all fall sports and a spring di rector will be named from the soph omore class to meet the visitors of the spring sports the society con sists of three members grads go to party radio club holds annual social meeting the audited accounts of 43 stu dent organizations were submitted to dean mcconn at a meeting of the committee on student clubs feb 26 in the dean's office the reports were received in the best shape in which we have ever had them stated dean mcconn of the 43 organizations all but 4 reports were in on time three of the remaining four have since been submitted and the other is expected to be in shortly the dean has accepted 40 of the reports but these will require modi fication the promptness of the re ports exceeds past years and is highly praised by the dean the organizations which are audited by this committee include all except publications 300 attend tea dance at chi psi lodge saturday to hold smoker dr lester k ade pennsylvania state superintendent of public in struction will present an open lec ture on a philosophy of educa tion of modern times at 8:15 o'clock this evening in packard auditorium dr ade was also to address the faculty education club this after noon on the new education the regular meeting that was scheduled for yesterday being postponed by professor becker assistant profes sor of philosophy the chairman of the club gives dinner the university is giving a dinner at the hotel bethlehem this evening in honor of the educator among those who will attend the dinner are the superintendents of the public schools of bethlehem allen town and easton the lehigh and northampton county superinten dents of schools and members of the staff of the department of edu cation in the address prepared for de livery before the faculty club this afternoon dr ade said whether we welcome it or not the schools are changing nothing in science is fixed nothing in education can be he added large units of subject matter should be presented instead of fragments and scraps as was the practice so often in the old school in the new education there are ultimately no superior and no in ferior humans but just more exper ienced and less experienced persons interacting and being changed by the interaction in explaining the characteristics of the new education he said there is a minimum of competition among individuals the individual is en couraged to compete with his own record he concluded let our school organization be less rigid — more flexible and more easily modi fied from day to day and hour to hour so that it may mold itself into the needs and interests of the chil dren tau beta pi to entertain four new members over 150 couples attended the tea dance saturday afternoon at the chi psi lodge dean and mrs c m mcconn dr earl l crum acting head of the department of greek and mrs crum and prof howard reiter head of the department of physical education and mrs reiter were chaperones stoughton will address camden foreman's club collins to lead forum top major green escorts irene rich to the front of the ballroom where she was in troduced said hello and was kissed by pazzetti left center the non-militarists enjoyed things thoroughly right center eight hundred danced in the space designed for half that number insert irene rich swings with the major seconds later somebody cut in bottom left a few of the 800 swinging with the top hatters bottom right somebody's aide and hit lady friend found savftt and bon-bon quit interesting tau beta pi national honorary engineering fraternity will hold a smoker at 7:30 tomorrow night for 20 prospective members all of the junior class it will be held in the faculty club room in drown mem orial hall the men were chosen from the upper eighth of their class elections will be held during this week and those elected to mem bership will be pledged in packer chapel early in the week of mach 15 a regular business meeting of the society was held last night in room 451 packard laboratory the following speeches have been scheduled by the admissions office for the following week in connec tion with the current interviewing of prospective freshmen dr w h congdon director of admissions spoke on the topic our heritage from roman law this morning at the dwight school new york city dr c g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy also spoke this morn ing he talked on life is an honor system at the pingry high school elizabeth n j h c knutson assistant profes sor of electrical engineering will talk on the subject electron tubes in and beyond the laboratory to morrow afternoon at new hope high school new hope f j trembley instructor in biol ogy will give a speech thursday morning at the chestnut hill acad emy chestnut hill his topic will be facts and suppositions about snakes major carter collins assistant professor of military science and tactics will address the lehigh dis cussion forum 8 p m friday on spain a military laboratory it has been tentatively announced that the address will be given in the en gineering laboratory in the packard building charles a roencrans e e 31 and ray g shankweiler e e 32 now employed by the radio cor poration of america in camden n j attended the annual social meeting of the radio club which was held friday evening at the home of henry c knutson assis tant professor of electrical engin eering rosencrans constructed the radio transmitter w3aeq which is owned by the radio club a treasure hunt was held as part of the evening's entertainment in which contestants hunted for a num ber of small radio parts paul bru baker e e 38 and charles de huff e.e 38 won the prizes while charles sayko e e 38 was awarded the booby prize a number of other games were played and refreshments were served bradley stoughton dean of the college of engineering has been in vited to speak to the camden fore man's club thursday evening in camden n j he plans to talk about the manufacture of steel and its different uses this club was formed to ac quaint the foremen of camden's fac tories with different industries sharpshooting the military ball brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 9 1937 will address a s m e all the lehigh is etc first