Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 52

              ten new members from the jun ior class will be initiated into the omicron delta kappa national senior honorary fraternity thurs day evening at a dinner-meeting at the bethlehem lehigh club dr c g beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy and faculty ad visor of the fraternity will speak at the meeting a point committee consisting of nelson j leonard chem 37 pres ident of the fraternity alvin a swenson bus 37 and p m pal mer dean of the college of arts and science will go over the points of the applicants and then submit them to the society at a business meet ing at 8:30 tonight at the delta tau delta house officers for next year will be elected at the meeting thursday which will be the final meeting of the year the names of the new members will not be announced un til the initiation men who have submitted points for admission are requested to re main in their living groups at this time honorary society to initi ate 10 men at dinner to investigate new system of purchases o d k will tap juniors thursday price .. . five cents 160 seniors have positions the body of kenneth k kost destructor of journalism was found this morning in a sewer on new street george yanko editor in chief of the brown and white william g dukek editorial manager j palmer murphy news manager and charles zell sports editor were arrested shortly after the coprse was found and all pleaded guilty after a hear ing before dean maxwell mcconn all were acquitted on the grounds of justifiable homicide this report which was published friday in the first issue of the clown and gripe recent addition to the list of university publications was denied today by most of the principals in the story kenneth k kost refused to confirm or deny the report of his death devil issues statement the article continued in part the devil issued the following statement this afternoon we are pleased to have with us again our former earthly representative mr kost he will immediately take over the advertising management of the hades daily asbestos kost when reached for a state ment said this is just like home 70 per cent of graduating class accept offers from concerns hurst schafer on handbook named chairman of board and business manager respectively everything here reminds me of the brown and white office except that the devil has a better disposition than yanko according to the masthead of the clown and gripe the editor in chief is yorge jerko poor lamb phi yorge when asked for a statement concerning the sheet said itsafine thing doris downs proms the lead editorial said to be writ ten personally by the editorial man ager doris duke was headlined down and went on to say down with prom com mittees down with prom committees down with prom committees down with prom commit tees down with the editorial page also includes an editorial ascribed to paul e p e p e p member of the editorial council ah which said the phy sics society will hold a meeting we commend them the physics society will not hold a meeting we still commend them will the physics society hold will we p refused to make a statement ed gets letter a letter from a local boy was printed on page two it said in part dear ed i ar a senyir here now and i am very much interested in yer paper this is my last chance to say anythin befer the scool kiks me oud so i thot this wud be a good oppertunty to do it ... i wold like verry mouch for you to print this for it is the first time i ever wrote something and i wud lie to see my name in print yers trully george yanko editor in chief the sports page reported a vic tory of the knucklers lehigh's ace marbles team led by the interprid captain dick larkin scored another smashing victory down the home stretch yesterday winning 10 gates continued on page four agocs describes siesmic method gulf oil geophysicist talks to society over 70 percent of this year's graduating class has already been placed according to placement fig ures released yesterday by e rob ins morgan director of placement out of the 226 seniors 160 have accepted offers from various bus iness or industrial concerns or are going to take graduate work in law and medicine in comparison with last year's placement there are 64 more men placed now than a year ago at the same time placement in the engineering cur ricula is more than 82 percent of the total number and the arts and business college totals are only slightly lower mining engineers were the first to secure 100 percent employment salaries higher the starting salaries are more than 10 percent higher than last year and average approximately 125 per month a greater number of firms con ducted interviews with seniors this year than in any year since the de pression stated mr morgan this together with the greater placement indicates that general business conditions are much bet ter and the outlook for the college graduate much brighter this year's employment almost doubles that of four years ago and in several instances demands for men in certain lines exceeded the number available announcement has been made of the appointment of george e hurst bus 39 and franklyn f schafer bus 39 as chairman of the board and business manager for the 1938-39 freshman handbook these men were approved by the lehigh union at its last meeting competition for positions on the handbook is based on a point sys tem points given for each dollars worth of advertising solicited the two men with the highest number of points after being approved by both the business manager of the previous handbook and the lehigh union are appointed chairman of the board and business manager re spectively hurst and schafer were each approved by a william jes sup arts 38 business manager of the 1937^38 handbook samuel r cox ch e 39 syl van g bushey bus 39 and john s gardner bus 39 the three next highest men in the competition were appointed additional members of the board 575 in advertisements was solic ited this year of which 375 will be used for publication of the hand book military society honors officers 2 undergraduates in auto accident alumni will return to lehigh on june 11 and 12 to take part in alumni day activities and class re unions the board of directors of the alumni association and the pres idents of all lehigh alumni clubs will hold a luncheon meeting june 11 when reports will be read and alumni matters discussed cadwallader evans jr 01 will preside at the meeting of the alum ni council on the afternoon of the eleventh in the faculty room of the alumni building committees on the alumni bulletin placement clubs directory and alumni funds will re port on their work for the year and a c dodson 00 chairman of the building committee will report the progress on the chemistry lab oratory addition dinner at hotel the alumni dinner will be held that evening at the hotel bethle hem with the class of 87 celebrat ing their 50th reunion as guests of honor following the dinner the bethlehem home club will hold a party at its club rooms president c c williams will speak to the alumni at their meet ing at 10 o'clock the morning of june 12 in the alumni building and the class of 1937 will be welcomed into the alumni association the new officers of the alumni asso ciation for the coming year will also be announced at this time luncheon will be served to all alumni in the armory and drown hall at noon and the classes will get ready for the parade to the base ball field the university band will lead the parade scheduled for 2:30 o'clock and will play before the baseball game between the alumni and the varsity in case of rain a program of wrestling boxing and a band concert in taylor gymna sium has been arranged officers will meet all the club officers and class agents will meet at 5:30 saturday afternoon at the 96 class room in hotel bethlehem when robert farnham 99 chairman of the club committee will preside class re union banquets will be held satur day night at various places in beth lehem or nearby alumni have been invited to at tend the baccalaureate service at 10:30 sunday morning in the chapel preceded by the academic procession from the alumni build ing the right rev frank w ster rett bishop of the diocese of beth lehem will deliver the sermon scabbard and blade gives bags to green and tow discusses steels escape injury as car go ing 70 upsets meeting last night in drown hall the interfraternity council elected athletic representatives and decided 1 to recommend that fall house parties be held oct 22 23 and 24 2 to give up plans for a univer sity fathers day 3 to send out a questionnaire rel ative to cooperative buying 4 to make no changes in the rushing rules for next fall athletic representatives who were elected were senior walter c west arts 38 juniors samuel r cox ch e 39 and arnold moyer jr i e 39 recommend ball date friday night oct 22 will be rec ommended to the senior class as the date for their ball and a petition will be sent to the dean to have houseparties at that time saturday afternoon will be the gettysburg football game harry milbank i e 38 president of the senior class expects to announce his prom com mittee appointments for the ball within the next week he stated last night the rushing rules for the rushing period starting sept 14 will be the same as the rules that were in force last fall the judicial committee of the council which judges infractions of the rushing rules will consist of dr ward l bishop associate pro fessor of economics dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy lyman j craig bus 38 clinton strang bus 38 james d mack arts 38 myron i sterngold bus 38 and joseph hopkins bus 38 president of the council to circulate questionnaire within the week a questionnaire will be sent to each fraternity in re gard to a cooperative buying system which the council is considering adopting although the question naire covers only the food problem it was also suggested that coopera tive buying of other articles might prove effective although plans for the fathers day were adopted at the april meeting of the council it was de cided last night that it was not feas ible for all houses to conduct such a celebration at the same time and the plan was abandoned two other motions were present ed but were tabled for later action one was to hold all fraternity ini tiations on the same day next year and the other was to make all fra ternity heads automatically the house's senior representative to the council the next meeting of the council will be held on sept 13 the night prior to the beginning of rushing week stoughton explains manu facture to a.i.m.m.e the cyanide pledging of ten new sophomore members an informal address by president c c wil liams and the awarding of 17 ath letic trophies will be the highlights of the annual college day at 11 o'clock friday morning around the tiag pole president emeritus henry s drinker is among lehigh's active alumni who have been invited to personally present the cups and trophies they have donated for ex cellence in athletic and scholastic at tainments the meeting will be the only general university gathering of the year vincent j pazzetti bus pres ident of the class of 37 will pass the senior cane to harry c mil bank 1 e newly elected president of the class of 36 karl m jacobi bus 37 will have charge of the meeting in the capacity of president of arcadia student governing body sponsoring the gathering will award letters colonel nelson kellogg director of athletics will award l certi ficates to their winners in fall and winter sports howard bosey reiter head of the department of athletics will introduce the persons who will present the 17 cups for outstanding ability in various phas es of athletics thomas b hand bus 40 will receive the cup offered by the brown and white to its best freshman reporter for the first sem ester this year the athletic cups to be awarded their donors and those who will present them are the physical edu cation department interfraternity leadership cup and the dormitory leadership cup presented by f c bartlett assistant professor of phy sical education the dr earl buller cup by dr earl buller 23 the fritz mercur tennis cup and the freshman tennis tournament cup by frederic mercur assistant phy sical education the frank dravo interclass swimming cup by pete morrissey swimming coach the h r reiter interclass soccer cup by harry carpenter soccer coach the interclass track and field cup the phillip mcgarth track trophy and the theodore h h meyers field cup by morris kanaly track and field coach to present cups the john w maxwell jr cross country cup by john w maxwell the nannie lamberton wilbur baseball cup and medal by bob adams baseball coach the archi bald johnston football cup and medal by archibald johnston m.e 89 the ernesta drinker lacrosse cup and medal tentatively by dr henry s drinker the r a lewis freshman cup by mr roy a lewis the lehigh home club wrestling cup and medal by mr paul ganey c e 16 president of the home club and the william paul starkey cup and medal in hon or of beta theta pi by william p starkey m e 00 all 11 o'clock classes will not be held friday plan 2 concerts alumnus cites fair problems maguire kresge write technical articles for bulletin descriptions of the general theme and proposed buildings for the new york world's fair to be held in 1939 are given by walter j ma guire 12 in his article all's fair in 1939 appearing in the may is sue of the alumni bulletin issued yesterday mr maguire is on the engineer ing staff of the new york world's fair board and previously was op erating manager of madison square gardens he explains the engineer ing problems involved in building the fair on the 1216 acre site at flushing meadow park at an esti mated cost of 125,000,000 writes on steel homes homes of steel and their methods of fabrication is the subject dealt with by robert e kresge 96 of the metallurgical department of the american rolling mill company in another article of engineering inter est pre-fabricated homes represent a transition in housing and mr kresge believes that they will rev olutionize the low-priced housing field for years summer school has been a threat but now it's an in ducement this statement by dr h p thomas professor of educa tion and director of the summer ses sion opens his resume of changes made in the summer session so as to include more courses and offer more social and recreational events president williams continuing his series of articles on university problems presents a survey on the enrollment problem and states that the present limit of 1,500 paying stu dents is suitable if departmental en rollment is integrated so that the number is adjusted to the physical plant and teaching facilities avail able the cover of the bulletin is a pho tograph of the library taken by da vid mccaa double quartet will sing at convocation larkin in detroit calls rehearsal curtis announces practice for commencement the seismic method of determin ing underground geological struc tures for the search for oil in ven ezuela was briefly described by w b agocs e m 34 gulf oil com pany geophysicist to 42 students and faculty members of the mining and geological society on friday evening in williams hall elections were held at the same meeting junior e m.'s who will hold of fice in the society for next year are r g phelps president d crary vice president w r graham sec retary and a v moggio treas urer agocs explained that the siesmic method is used in finding salt domes and anticlines under the savannas near the orinoco river which are favorable locations for oil agocs spoke of the living condi tions habits and customs of the spanish and indian population al though the locality of which he spoke is only about eight degrees north of the equator the people there can sleep under blankets be cause of the cool trade wins which sweep up the river valley after spending two years in ven ezuela agocs is now located at the gulf oil company laboratories in pittsburgh to deliver discussion be fore a s m e see game movies southeast pennsylvania alumni meet bradley stoughton professor of metallurgical engineering discussed the manufacture of alloy steels at a meeting of the local chapter of the american institute of mining and metallurgical engineers saturday night in packard laboratory the society met at the hotel bethlehem saturday afternoon and several groups inspected the differ ent parts of the bethlehem steel company's plant following the tours a dinner was held at the ho tel after which the society met in packard laboratory professor stoughton's talk was supplemented by a sound motion picture depicting the various stages in the process of making alloy steel o lehigh discussion forum will elect new officers the election of new officers of the lehigh discussion forum will be held at 7:30 p m tonight in room 258 packard laboratory a president and a secretary-treasurer will be elected for next year plans for the annual spring ban quet will be made this meeting will be the last meeting of the semester the speaker for the final meeting will be chosen tonight traveling bags were presented to maj j o green head of the mil itary department and capt w m tow assistant professor of military science and tactics by scabbard and blade national honorary military society at a dinner dance saturday evening in their honor at the hotel bethlehem v j pazzetti bus 37 , retiring president of scabbard and blade who acted as master of ceremonies made the presentation both major green and captain tow who leave this year expressed their apprecia tion to the society and said that their years spent in the department were the happiest that they had had in the service during the dinner the 45 couples who attended danced to the music of george doddy's orchestra according to l o travis bus 38 secretary of scabbard and blade the society will initiate the ten recently elected pledges at 6:15 o'clock tomorrow evening at the armory a banquet at the sun inn will follow the initiations ash to marry in august the engagement of william j ash jr i e 37 to miss jean ellen burns of maplewood n j was announced by mrs a e burns today at saratoga springs n y the wedding will take place late in august miss burns is a student at skidmore college movies of the lehigh-lafayette football game with a play-by-play description of the game by robert f herrick alumni bulletin editor were shown last friday evening to members of the southeast pennsyl vania lehigh club glenn harmeson football coach bob adams baseball coach and w a cornelius alumni secretary also spoke at the meeting which was held in the iris club at wyomissing o v green 22 president of the club was toastmaster a supper party for the lehigh guests preceding the meeting was held at the home of mr and mrs george potts mr potts 23 is the secretary of the club robert grubmeyer e e 39 and daniel frantz e e 38 were in volved in an automobile accident at 10:30 o'clock saturday night a mile east of pottstown on the philadel phia pike one person was killed and another seriously injured the students a sophomore and a junior were returning from a dance at sunnybrook park when the car in which they were riding swerved turned over several times struck a low wall and landed right side up in the road howard williams 29 of pottstown riding in the front seat died in pottstown hospital and mrs eunice delong wife of the driver suffered possible frac tures of the skull and back doctors at the pottstown hospital said she had a fair chance to recover the students thumbed a ride from the car near sunnybrook the auto a 1937 plymouth contained the driv er his wife and his brother-in-law in the front seat and three girls from ursinus in the back seat the car was going at about 70 miles per hour when another car drove out of a side road in front of it the plymouth swerved to avoid a collision turned over a num ber of times and struck the wall the car was badly damaged but the two students suffered only minor cuts harry e delong driver of the car was slightly injured and was held by the police on a charge of involuntary manslaughter on 2,500 the first commencement rehear sal will be held at 4 p m tomorrow announced george b curtis regis trar all seniors are requested to meet in the faculty room of the alumni building at that time major james o green head of the depart ment of military science and tactics will be marshal of the exercises the seniors will practice proces sion formation to the chapel and seating arrangements in the chapel this year the seating arrangement will be so set up that those seniors who will not be present for the ex ercises will not be assigned seats the commissions of second lieu tenant in the reserve officers corps will be given during the exercises at that time those receiving the commissions will remove their caps and gowns and receive the commis sions in their uniforms all seniors have been notified of the scheduled rehearsal by letters sent out by the office of the registrar the double quartet of the glee club will present their last appear ance of the year 1936-37 on wed nesday may 19 when they will sing in two concerts one in the forenoon and one in the evening the glee club having closed its sea son last week with a program on the radio from the studios of wcau in philadelphia the morning concert will be pre sented at 11:30 at the convocation exercises of the moravian seminary and college for women this con vocation is held weekly at the school and musical performers of the vicinity are invited to sing and play said carstens y haas ch e 38 in the evening the double quartet will be the guests of the new york city alumni of lehigh at their club rooms at 2 park aye this concert was arranged by morton seltzer alumni trustee of lehigh e bert ram mahla met e 38 and nel son leonard chem 37 will be soloists prof fred v larkin director of the curricula in mechanical and in dustrial engineering left saturday for detroit mich to attend the semi-annual conference and techni cal session of the american society of mechanical engineers professor larkin will deliver a discussion written by john r con nelly associate professor of mechan ical engineering of a paper entitled oil film thickness at transition from semi-fluid to viscuous stage which was written by professors kariletz and kenyon of columbia university professor connelly's discussion deals with the rate of wear of various metals being lubri cated professor larkin will also attend the meeting of the committee on relations with schools and col leges of which he is a member he will return on saturday vol xliv no 52 bethlehem pa tuesday may 18 1937 baccalaureate speaker death of k kost reported in newest college publication class reunions will be held onjunell,l2 junior society will pledge 10 on college day 17 athletic trophies to be awarded williams to speak classes to be waived class of 87 to be guests of honor at banquet in hotel bethlehem to announce officers the right rev f w sterrett the brown and white interf fraternity council ad vises fall ho use party be held oct 22-24 drops fathers day plans all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association