Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 2

              dean albert g rau eugene grace to pay honor to h drinker vol xlv no 2 70 men report for glee club sammy kaye library adds 1100 volumes 6 freshmen are arrested by local authorities for taking wood caper played wed eve six fraternity pledges were ar rainged before alderman joseph dinan tuesday morning charged with disorderly conduct and mal icious mischief when they were discovered removing a quantity of cord wood from the rear of a prop erty at the southeast corner of fairview street and mauch chunk road all pleaded guilty were fined 10 and costs and ordered to return the wood the frosh according to police records had rented a truck from a local agency and were arrested by officers ray rueter and char les gilbert as they attempted to haul the wood away the magistrate told the young men that he would not tolerate disorderly or malicious acts and warned them that no partiality would be shown between students and permanent residents all persons arrested and found guilty must pay for their folly he said marshall to head debating society three from faculty hold office ; members of chem dept in section three members of the chemistry department hold offices this year in the lehigh valley section of the american chemical society which met tuesday evening in the palmerton high school palmerton to hear dr c l mantell con sulting chemical engineer brook lyn n y speak upon plastic metal the faculty members and the offices they hold in the society are chairman c w simmons assoc iate professor of chemical engi neering vice-chairman j g smull instructor in chemistry and secretary-treasurer h a smith instructor in chemistry plastic metal as explained by dr mantell consists of metal powders used in industry with these powders alloy combinations which are not possible by casting procedures are readily producible and there is no liquid phase finished parts are made in dies to dimensions not unlike the molding of resinous materials in ten years metal powders has grown from an infant indus try to a tonage business at pres ent 150 or more auto parts of all sorts and descriptions are turned out from metal powders produc tion now reaches a half billion pieces annually the next meeting of the le high valley section will take place oct 22 in bethlehem when h s booth will speak upon chem istry through a microscope o lehigh officials guests walter r okeson university treasurer and william a cor nelius executive alumni secretary will be guests of honor of the wilmington del lehigh club oct 28 pi delta epsilon honorary jour nalism fraternity will elect new members at a meeting at 7:30 p m monday in drown hall iha list of points by which the pledges will be selected was de cided upon at a meeting last night in christmas-saucor hall points are to be submitted to j palmer murphy arts 38 at the chi psi lodge before 7 p m monday all men who submit points are requested to remain in their houses for tapping between 5:30 p m and 6 p m tuesday the point system is as follows the editors of the review brown and white and epitome m the chairman of the board of the handbook and the business man agers of all four publications are automatically eligible president - manager reads proposed constitution of musical clubs seventy singers turned out for the first regular rehearsal of the glee club on wednesday evening at drown hall the glee club is looking for ward to very successful year said george grow arts 38 presi dent-manager of the combined musical clubs dr shields direc tor of music is ordering many new musical selections and the clubs repertoire will be appreciably in creased after the rehearsal the new con stitution of the combined musical clubs of which the glee club is the nucleus was read copies are available at the lehigh union of fice in drown hall for all members of the musical clubs this includes not only glee club men but also members of the symphony and dance orchestras there will be a vote upon the con stitution at a business meeting of the musical clubs which will be held within the next month try outs for a double quartet will be held after the rehearsal next wednesday evening kenneth w lamson and clarence a shook associate professors of mathematics will act as judges to take photographs appointments for epitome pho tographs can be made at mccaa's studio lllwest fourth street or by phoning william mccaa 738 tallest and shortest frosh cornelius to meet alumni in 3 states prof john toohy's widow gives large gift ; alumni aid gifts of nearly 500 books were among the 1,100 volumes acquired by the university library since june 30 the larger gifts included 200 books in literature and history from mrs julia toohy wife of the late prof john toohy 42 technical dooks from w g schall 11 31 volumes from the late prof winter wilson 12 books from professor wilson's son al vin wilson 21 125 books in german from mrs john a bole wallkill n v and a complete set of the buck's county historical society publications in six bound volumes from dr b f facken thal jr trustee of franklin and marshall the toohy collection was com prised of both french and english works the gift from professor wilson was comprised mostly of technical books in the field of railroading it included works by mansfield merriman and mcnutt and wilson's own book on rail roading besides the larger gifts there have been several single pre sentations made five-month old deadlock finally decided a five-month deadlock was broken wednesday af tern oo n when daniel q marshall m e 38 was elected to the presidency of delta omicron theta honorary debating society marshall morris mindlin arts 38 and douglas edwards arts 38 were nominated for the presi dency of the society last april at the election meeting held the same month the three men found them selves in a deadlock that three additional ballots failed to break two subsequent meetings also failed to break the tie wednesday afternoon marshall broke the deadlock by defeating the other candidates by a margin of one vote further business at the meet ing consisted of selecting dele gates to the debating association of pennsylvania colleges conven tion which will be held tomorrow at harrisburg marshall mindlin edwards and j calvin callag han coach of debating will attend alumni secretary relives 85 days coliseum is reconstructed to improve acoustics and ventilation dance floor refinished dances and football game will entertain guests over week-end the swing and sway rhythms of sammy kaye and his orchestra will provide the musical portion of the senior ball which will be held on the evening of oct 22 at the revamped coliseum the signing of sammy kaye was announced last evening by robert v henning i e 38 chair man of the senior ball committee this committee consisting of mel vin s lord ch e 38 and samuel w maclachlan i e 38 and chairman henning is the first houseparty committee in a decade to have the houseparty plans formulated by the time the semes ter has started "" last fall the committee in charge completed their plans a full month later respectively than this year this saving of time is due to the fact that this year's committee worked on the plans during the summer dance floor improved the committee will endeavor to eliminate all the undesirable features of the coliseum as a dance site said henning the floors have been sanded and re varnished making an a-l dance floor by installing a number of ventilators we will be able to free the hall of offensive cigarette smoke and excessive heat both of which conditions have made the coliseum unattractive on former occasions also we shall decorate the hall attractively and through proper decoration we shall at tempt to eliminate defective acoustics mcl lord stated this year ar rangements have been made for the sale of bottled cocoa-cola also it is planned to have four large fans two near the orchestra and the others in far corners to in sure proper ventilation tickets now 4.40 since the pennsylvania state re lief tax was not renewed this year the tickets will cost 4.40 instead of 4.56 in the past two years sammy kaye began his career with more than a year's engage ment at bill green's casino in pittsburgh following this he played during the past summer at point pleasant n j he broad casted every sunday noon over a national hookup from this resort the houseparty weekend will be featured by 28 fraternity dan ces on saturday evening oct 23 and by the lehigh-gettysburg game that afternoon on taylor field officers elected alumni play hosts president of board of trus tees to give homage to late president to hold exercises wed the memory of two former ad ministrative officers of lehigh university will be honored by the university during the 59th founder's day exercises next wednesday oct 6 it was an nounced today by president clem ent c williams they are the late dr henry sturgis drinker 71 president of the university from 1905 until 1921 and president emeritus from 1921 until his death last july 28 and dr natt m emery former instructor registrar acting presi dent vice president and comptrol ler during periods of his 40 year service for the university which terminated in death oct 31 1935 while in committee meeting in honor of dr drinker dr eugene g grace 99 president of the board of trustees will speak an appreciation during the exer cises following the academic march to the campus after the ex ercises a 16-foot oak tree will be planted in the vicinity of the flag pole stewart j cort 06 presi dent of the alumni association will plant the tree and speak briefly tablet to be unveiled in memory of dr emery a bronze tablet recently placed on the rear wall of packer memor ial chapel will be unveiled during the exercises dean philip m palmer of the college of arts and science who was one of a small group with dr emery at the time of his death will speak at the unveiling dr drinker who was 87 years old at the time of his death was born in hong kong china nov 8 1850 before becoming president of the university in 1905 he was an engineer and later solicitor for the lehigh valley railroad he was noted for his interest in conser vation work and in peace through preparedness aided lehigh's growth he was largely instrumental in the erection of drown hall taylor stadium and the taylor dormitor ies the arboretum gymnasium and field house fritz engineering laboratory coxe mining labora tory in sayre park on the top of south mountain were outgrowth of his interest and efforts in be half of conservation dr emery who was 62 years old at the time of his death came to lehigh as assistant in english in 1896 after graduation from dart mouth in 1895 he became in structor in english in 1897 and served as registrar from 1899 to 1912 assistant to president drink er from 1907 to 1910 and vice president from 1910 to 1935 he served as acting president between the administrations of dr drink er and dr charles russ richards 1921-1923 and in 1923 added the post of comptroller to his duties as vice president the founder's day exercises will begin at 10:30 a m next wednesday dr a g rau 88 dean of moravian will give the principle address thirteen baccal aureate and eight masters degrees will be awarded scholastic prizes and honors will be announced by dean c m mcconn louisville alumni plan to organize new club william a cornelius 89 exec utive alumni secretary is plan ning to attend meetings of lehigh alumni clubs in three states during the next two weeks the cincinnati lehigh club will have cornelius as speaker on oct 4 when he will be in cin cinnati as alternate delegate from the pro cathedral church of the nativity to the episcopalin church convention being held there that week he will remain in cincin nati until oct 11 a new lehigh alumni club will be formed on oct 11 in louis ville ky when lehigh men of that district will meet with cor nelius to discuss organization plans mr cornelius will be the main speaker when the pittsburgh le high club will hold its regular luncheon meeting oct 13 in the yale-harvard-princeton club pittsburgh o simmons elected head of lehigh valley society charles w simmons associate professor of chemical engineering was recently elected chairman of the lehigh valley section of the american chemical siciety he has appointed three faculty members as committee chairmen judson g small instructor in chemistry was appointed chair man of the program committee thomas h hazelhurst assistant professor of chemistry was ap pointed chairman of the member ship committee and alpha a diefender urofessor of qualitative analysis and assaying was ap pointed chairman of the education committee brown to talk boston lehigh men greet football delegation the boston lehigh alumni club will be host to lehigh coaches and faculty men this evening at a dinner-meeting to be held at the university club in boston coaches glen harmeson martin westerman and carl heldt rob ert b adams assistant director of athletics and nelson a kel iogg director of athletics who are accompanying the football team to boston will be present o milton stuart to make steam turbine designs milton c stuart professor of mechanical engineering who is absent on leave since september 1 is now doing special work on practical steam turbine design in the turbine department of the westinghouse electric manufact uring company in south phila delphia while in philadelphia he is residing at the engineer's club professor stuart will remain in philadelphia until sept 1 1938 eta sigma phi plans cul tural lectures new officers were elected yest erday at a special meeting in coppee hall of eta sigma phi national honorary classical langu ages society john e sutcliffe arts 39 was elected president donald l davis arts 39 vice-president j k baiz arts 39 secretary nevin l fidler arts 38 treasurer and j palmer murphy arts 38 sergeant at-arms the names of prospective mem bers were presented the initiation ceremonies will take place in nov ember public and closed lectures are planned for the coming year fac ulty members are going to address the club on the various cultural phases of ancient civilization action was taken in awarding the eta sigma phi sophomore prize to d l davis arts 39 for maintaining the highest average in sophomore collegiate latin o first officers elected harry hammond eng phys 38 was elected president at the first meeting of the lehigh uni versity photographic society thursday evening sept 30 other officers elected were as follows edward p phillips m e 40 sec retary and samuel grafton eng 40 treasurer o professor of history will speak to blake society sydney m brown professor of history will speak on history as recreation before the robert w blake philosophical society at ite first meeting at 7:30 o'clock this evening at the home of frank c becker assistant professor of philosophy dr brown has recently returned form a year's leave of absence in england where he was at work revising a history of culture with the author of the book win field strattford preceding dr brown's talk there will be a short business meeting to consider program sub jects for the year says raymond k maneval bus 38 president of the society photo by xolan each incoming freshman class is a source of interest to the upper classmen but sel dom do we nd a combination such as this left herbert p sheffler 18 of hamden cons extends six feet seven inches in the air and weighs 264 pounds david kemper ilnd of baltimore md is likewise 18 is five feet one inch tall and tips the beam at 112 sheffler expects to report for freshman basketball while kemper is more in favor f a sedantry life cornelius tells rotarians of bygone days william a cornelius 89 exec utive secretary of the lehigh uni versity alumni association spoke about his recollections of bethle hem in 1885 yesterday at the ro tary club meeting lehigh as mr cornelius knew it when he entered consisted of christmas-saucon hall packer hall part of the present library and part of the present chemical building he recalled that the memorial chapel was just being built and chapel services were held in packer hall he also recalled the old covered bridge in bethlehem and the fact that he was on the first penn sylvania railroad train to pitts burgh which passed through johnstown during the time of the great flood pittsburgh at that time was just beginning to use natural gas he stated prof fred v larkin head of the department of mechanical and industrial engineering introduced mr cornelius who was followed by major carter collins of the department of military science and tactics major collins is a member of the fellowship committee and introduced several of the guests lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday october 1 1937 arcadia will meet founder's day speaker price — five cents sammy kaye signed for fall houseparty students fined by magistrate for disorder new members to be elected by journalists to play for ball arcadia will hold a meeting at 7:30 o'clock monday evening in drown hall james t ber gen chem e 37 president an nounced today the meeting will be held to consider constitutional changes and to elect committees for the coming year pi delta epsilon changes point system will meet monday night tapping to be tuesday chem society hears mantell brown and white editorial manager 6 news manager 6 financial manager 4 make up editor news editor 3 3 sports editor editorial council a a local advertising assistant 3 circulation manager national advertising manager 2 2 photography editor board 2 1 news competitions 1 review associate editor 5 assistant editor 3 financial manager i advertising manager 3 circulation manager 3 photography editor ait editor 2 2 board 2 assistant circulation manager 1 epitome senior section chief 5 junior editor 2 advertising manager 2 circulation manager 2 board 1 handbook kditorial manager 3 business board 1 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first