Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 53

              will attend meetings of geologists in russia to study mines proposal to be considered by faculty at june 7 meeting will concentrate credits dr robert w hall retiring head of the department of bi ology has returned to his duties in williams hall after recovering from a recent illness when interviewed about his plans for next year dr hall said that he would continue teaching advanced biology courses he also intends to be gin the identification of campus and arboretum trees which are to be labeled melvin s lord ch e 06 was elected president 01 u*c chemical society at the la&t meeting of the society tor me current year he succeeds isi el son j leonard ch e 61 and will take omce at tne beginning ot the next school year other ohicers elected were harold a calkins ch e 66 vice-president frank norton ch i 69 secretary ana kaipn howe cn e 68 treasurer choir to give bach festival carey to direct 39th fete in packer chapel may 28 and 29 crum addresses research group talks at annual reunion of the cosmos club j palmer murphy board names murphy editor also approves recent elec tions of epitome and review officers three hundred voices and an or chestra • of 50 will unite to present the 39th bach festival on may 28 and 29 in the packer memorial chapel bruce carey director of the bach choir is now working with his choristers to put the finishing touches on the music doctor shields to play dr t edgar shields who has been organist of the bach festival since 1901 will play again at the festival mrs ruth becker meyers of bethlehem will be at the piano the soloists for the festival are for the most part metropolitan stars this year they will be so prano louise lerch altos grace lamar and lilian knowles tenor arthur kraft bass julian huhn about 20 members of the choir were in sunbury last night where they assisted a newly organized bach choir in that city in singing the b minor mass postpone action on consolidation benjamin l miller head of the department of geology will leave new york on june 2 on a trip that will take him around the world he will be on a ieave of absence from the university on landing in europe dr miller will make his way slowly through belgium holland german and poland and will visit and make a study of points of geologic interest by the end of june he expects to be in moscow from the first of july to the lat ter part of august the international geographical society which in cludes members from almost every country will be in session dr miller will attend the sessions of the society and go on some of the excursions which are designed to include a study of mines and points of interest to geologists toward the end of august he will go across siberia by railroad to china where he will stay for a month or six weeks then he will proceed to japan to visit the uni versities and other points of interest to him dr miller will leave japan in november and cross the pacific ocean to the united states he will then return to bethlehem to resume his teaching duties he ex pects to be here by thanksgiving dr donald m fraser assistant professor of geology will be the acting head of the department in the absence of dr miller criticisms made dr e l crum associate pro fessor of classical languages and head of the department ot greek was the guest speaker at the an nual reunion meeting oi the cosmos club tuesday evening in the r acuity club room of drown hall doctor crum's subject was portu guese architecture and he illustrat ed his lecture with slides of photo graphs which he took while on a sabatical leave in portugal during the year 1935-36 the cosmos club is composed oi eleven members of the faculty who have published research works in their fields it is a rotating body members being elected for a two months term said dr c a shook associate professor of mathematics secretary of the club eighteen former members of the club were guests of the active mem bers at the dinner meeting dr f a bradford professor of econ omics was the presiding officer m c stuart professor of experi mental mechanical engineering ad dressed the society in behalf of the past members committee draws report to submit to williams get fellowships arcadia refers revision to joint committee napravnik and fetterman receive awards ten members of the junior class were tapped this morning at the college flagpole meeting by onii cron delta kappa national senior honorary activities fraternity these men were william b clark ch e william p gottleib bus robert v henning i e archibald l jamieson met e melvin s lord ch e harry a milbank i e ; j palmer murphy arts john h weigel i e paul e p white e e and charles f zell bus the tapping was conducted by nelson j leonard chem 37 pres ident of the honorary the twelve senior members and the two junior members elected last march the men were tapped in a body and red carnations were attached to their lapels at the pledging the honorary will hold its ban quet next sunday night at 6:30 at the bethlehem club at which time the ten new men will be ini tiated and officers for next year will be chosen election to o d k is based on a point system these men were selected at last tuesday night's meeting from a large group of candidates at this meeting several changes in the point system were made effective next year and a change in initiation procedure was ap proved a committee consisting of dr claude g beardslee secretary of the honorary president leonard william g dukek ch e 38 and john s hoppock i e 38 the two juniors selected in march sub mitted its plan for a change in ini tiation which was approved the tapping at the flagpole this year was contrary to custom due to the fact that the date for the banquet was changed from last night to the coming sunday and a vote of the fraternity determined to eliminate private pledging in the hour preceeding the banquet as has been formerly practiced o society outing cancelled the proposed outing of the rob ert w blake society honorary philosophical society to the summer home of professor hughes head of the department of philosophy has been cancelled because of lack of time to make the trip before exam inations 2 the student criticism committee composed of the senior tau beta pi and all the phi beta kappa mem bers drew up a report on the crit icisms submitted by students for presentation to president c c wil liams b k daubenspeck ch e 37 secretary of the committee will make the report president williams will pass the criticisms to the heads of the de partments which are concerned nelson j leonard chem 37 chairman of the committee said that the criticisms which were submit ted were constructive and worthy and that if possible they help to improve conditions at lehigh j palmer murphy arts 38 will be editor in chief of the brown and white for the coming year he was elected to succeed george yanko arts 37 at a meeting of the board of publications wednesday after noon in the office of the chairman of the board dean c m mcconn the board also approved the re cent elections of officers of the 1938 epitome and of the review action on the pi delta epsilon plan to eliminate all advertising from the epitome was deferred until thurs day may 27 when the board will hold a special meeting at 8 p m in the office of dean mcconn board accepts reports financial reports of all student publications were accepted and the brown and white was given per mission to pay its regular honoraria and service bonuses to the officers and staff as soon as the final edi tion is published forty-eight staff members will receive honoraria or bonuses murphy who will be the sixty first editor in chief in the history of the brown and white is now news manager he served previous ly as news editor and makeup editor he is a member of cyanide junior honorary and the robert w blake society he is president of pi delta epsilon honorary publications fra ternity and of his fraternity chi psi during the past year he was vice president of eta sigma phi honorary classical fraternity he is majoring in journalism and was fra ternity editor of the 1937 epitome august napravnik ch e 37 has been awarded the gotshall fellow ship and will do research in the kin etics of gas reactions under the di rection of dr hilton a smith in structor in chemistry jay v fetterman ch e 37 re ceived the raybestos manhattan in dustrial research fellowship he will work under the direction of charles w simmons associate pro fessor of chemical engineering both fellowships are for two years with an annual remuneration of 500 and 720 respectively president c c williams speaks and awards made at rally this morning the proposed constitution of ar cadia student governing body con solidating the powers or arcadia the interfraternity council and the lehigh union was referred back to the constitution committee for ac tion next fall at a meeting of the heads of the organizations involved and the faculty advisors wednesday night at the chi psi lodge the group composed of james t bergen ch e 38 president of arcadia joseph a hopkins bus 38 president of the council melvin s lord ch e 38 president of the union j palmer murphy arts 38 dr claude g beardslee faculty advisor of the union and dean c m mcconn expressed satisfaction with the work done so far the constitution committee con sisting of bergen murphy charles zell bus 38 and archibald jamie son met e 38 will incorporate the plans of the group which met wednesday in its report which will be submitted in october o eta kappa nu will meet to elect national officers eta kappa nu national honorary electrical engineering fraternity will hold its last meeting of the school year at 7:15 this evening in the engineers lounge in packard labor atory the purpose of the meeting is to mail out ballots for the officers of the national organization the lists of nominees together with the qual ifications of each have been sent to the group and individual choices will be made from these lists o newtonians hear eler w b eler eng 40 and r b cobb graduate assistant in math ematics addressed the last meeting of the newtonian society honorary freshman mathematics society wed nesday night eler spoke on the life of newton and cobb spoke on magic squares after the meeting refreshments were served if the faculty approve the unani mous recommendation of the fac ulty educational policy committee two years of compulsory chapel as a means of fulfilling a university requirement will become past his tory at lehigh the committee gave a one hun dred percent endorsement tuesday to a brown and white plan that would permit students to satisfy the moral and religious philosophy re quirement by any of the three fol lowing methods 1 — one year of chapel atten dance at an average of at least four times a week or 2 — one semester of chapel at tendance at least four times a week and one semester of a moral and religious philosophy course or 3 — two semesters of moral and religious philosophy courses this revised plan was formulated jointly by dr claude beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy and the brown and white at the instigation of the campus newspaper its effect is to limit compulsory chapel to one year instead of two and to increase the minimum attendance requirement from 60 percent to 80 percent for that one year power of the educational policy committee is purely recommenda tory points out dean mcconn final approval of the proposal lies with the faculty who next meet monday june 7 dr beardslee favors it while the revisions of the present system were suggested by the brown and white it was largely through the wholehearted 1 coopera tion of dr beardslee who express ed himself before the committee as believing the proposal has sufficient merit so that in my opinion i heartily favor trying it that the plan has been successfully advanced thus far conferences on the plan were started before the spring va cation and finally culminated in the present suggestions in the latter part of april if the recommendation of the educational policy committee meets with the approval of their parent body on june 7 incoming freshmen will operate under the new setup while the present freshman class will be the last to operate under the old the last change in the moral and religious requirements was effected in 1931 when the university adopt ed the policy of maintaining non devotional instruction for those electing chapel previous to this chapel consisted of devotional exer cises under the new plan an under graduate electing chapel would at tend approximately 120 chapels dur ing the one year instead of approx imately 90 chapels each of two years thus it is felt freshman work will be concentrated in that period when chapel is of most ben efit to the new student while soph omores will be relieved from a course which experience has shown contains little value from their standpoint o dean palmer to preside at freeland graduation philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science has been asked to be chairman of the evening at the graduate exercises of the mining and mechanical institute of freeland this school has a great inter est for lehigh founded by mr eckley b cox for many years a trustee and benefactor of this uni versity the school sends a large number of its graduates to lehigh the present headmaster of the school is a lehigh graduate said dean palmer ten juniors were tapped to omi cron delta kappa senior honorary and ten sophomores were tapped to cyanide junior honorary and 17 athletic trophies and varsity let ters and cups presented to students this morning at the annual col lege day flagpole meeting president c c williams spoke briefly on the tradition of the flag pole rallies he emphasized the spirit of individual enterprise as symbolized by both the american flag and the lehigh flag the only two colors permitted to fly from the lehigh pole the following men were tapped for cyanide milton grannatt jr bus robert g yingling i £.; george rheinfrank 1 e h al lan snyder ch e alan s grant 1 e frank rabold e e walter c wells ch e robert c par sons met e arnold r moyer i e and george hurst bus kellogg awards l's colonel nelson kellogg director of athletics awarded l certifi cates to the winners in fall and winter sports h r bosey reiter head of the department of physical education introduced the persons who were presented the 17 cups for outstanding ability in various phases of athletics thomas hand bus 40 received the cup offered by the brown and white to its best freshman reporter for the first semester of the year vincent j pazzetti bus presi dent of the class of 37 passed the senior cane to harry milbank i e newly elected president of the class of 38 the meeting was opened by karl jacobi bus 37 president of arcadia student governing body which sponsored the gathering who turned it over to james t bergen ch e 37 the new president 17 cups awarded the athletic cups which were awarded their donors and those who presented them are the physi cal education department interfra ternity leadership cup the dormi tory leadership cup presented by f c bartlett assistant professor of journalism the dr earl buller cup by dr earl buller 23 the fritz mercur tennis tournament cup and the freshman tennis tournament cup by frederick mercur tennis coach the frank dravo interclass swimming cup by peter morrissey swimming coach the h r reiter interclass soccer cup by harry carpenter soccer coach the inter class track and field cup the philip mcgarth track trophy and the theodore h meyers field cup by morris kanaly track and field coach the john w maxwell jr cross country cup by john w maxwell the nannie lamberton wilbur baseball cup and medal by robert adams baseball coach the archi bald johnston football cup and medal by archibald johnston 89 the ernest drinker lacrosse cup and medal by dr drinker the r a lewis freshman cup by roy lewis the lehigh home club wrestling cup and medal by paul ganey 16 and the william paul starkey cup and medal in honor of beta theta pi by william starkey 00 bradway has accident a car driven by edwin w brad way arts 39 collided with that of h a fowsen of harrisburg in an accident which occurred at 2 a.m monday at easton avenue and west union boulevard both cars were damaged slightly bradway who was alone at the time was not injured myrtle fowsen riding in the other car received lacerations of the nose left — dr williams as he stands at base of the flagpole informally addressing the college day gathering right — trophies awarded this morning and those who received them brown and white editor price . . . five cents faculty committee favors one year chapel bethlehem pa friday may 21 1937 vol xliv — no 53 the brown and white cyanide pledges sophs at rally hall returns to duties to continue teaching 0 d k taps 10 juniors at flagpole policy group approv es plan of newspaper melvin lord elected chem society head initiation banquet to be held sunday evening at bethlehem club point system changed miller to take extended tour milbank receives senior cane from pazzetti at college day meeting trophies letters cups presented hand gets newspaper award all the lehigh new first member intercollegiate newspaper association