Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 5

              lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday october 12 1937 new domitory to be built on site of university dump game tickets available price — five cents vol xlv — no 5 brunetti awarded scholarship key issue carries drinker story williams bans drown hall as play site 1,738 enroll in 3 colleges is new high alumni bulletin has story of sino japanese war by dr theis the life story of dr henry s drinker late president emeritus whose life was lehigh history in itself is featured in the october issue of the alumni bulletin re cently released death over shanghai by dr edwin r theis associate professor of chemical engineering at lehigh university depicts the experiences of the writer in shanghai this past summer gives enrollment article other articles in the current bulletin include 1736 strong an explanation of the record figure in lehigh s 37 student enrollment fall homecoming by william a cornelius executive secretary of the lehigh alumni association and rolling drops from an inter view with dr harvey a neville associate professor of chemistry and thomas h hazelhurst assist ant professor of chemistry pres c c williams in his col umn the prexy's pen accounts for the large enrollment in the university this year tickets for the perm state game are now on sale at the athletic office reserved seats are priced at 2.20 tickets for the gettysburg game will be sold on monday after 9 a m reserved seats are available at 1.00 booth will give lecture on microscopic chemistry the lehigh valley branch of the american chemical society will meet fri oct 22 in the wil liam h chandler chemistry lab oratory dr h s booth of western reserve university will speak on chemistry through the micro scope his lecture will be illustrated by motion pictures and lumiere lantern slides in natural color showing crystals as they appear under the microscope by various means of lighting including pol arized light and fluorescent illum ination o miners to hear miller dr bradford willard 21 will talk on geology notes at the first meeting of the mining society the meeting will be held on thursday evening oct 14 at williams hall freshmen interested in geology or mining are urged to attend registration is increased by 136 students over last year 7 from other countries the total undergraduate regis tration is 1,738 according to fig ures released saturday by regis trar g b curtis this is an in crease of 136 over last year's reg istration of 1,602 this number is the largest registration in the his tory of the university seven new undergraduates are from foreign countries three from cuba one from the dominican republic one from mexico one from nicaragua and one from egypt this is an increase in new foreign students of three over last year the freshman class numbers 517 the freshman irregulars in cluding special students 128 the sophomore class 460 the junior class 346 and the senior class 287 this is a decrease of two from last year's freshman class an in crease of 32 in freshman irregulars an increase of 12 in sophomores an increase of 28 in juniors and an increase of 67 in seniors 8 more arts freshmen in the college of arts eight more freshmen entered this year than last year eighteen less entered the college of business administration and eight more entered the college of engineering there are nine less upper classmen in the college of arts 49 more in the college of business adminstation and 98 more in the college of engineering there is a total of 220 students in the college of arts 391 in the college of business adminstration and 1127 in the college of engi neering the number of students in the various curricula of engi neering is as follows chemical en gineering 198 chemistry 25 civil engineering 44 electrical engi neering 99 engineering physics 26 industrial engineering 142 mechanical engineering 109 met allurgical engineering 85 mining engineering 21 sanitary engineer ing 2 freshman engineering 376 most from pennsylvania the greatest number of new students from one state is 247 from pennsylvania new jersey sends 120 and new york 93 further tab ulation by states is as follows al abama 1 california 1 connect icut 20 delaware 3 district of columbia 7 illinois 2 indiana 1 kansas 1 kentucky 2 mary land 15 massachusetts 4 michi gan 6 minnesota 5 north da kota 1 ohio 4 oklahoma 1 rhode island 1 virginia 3 wash ington 1 and west virginia 1 will hold dinner new york club to hear okeson glick kelly the lehigh club of new york will hold its annual all-star foot ball dinner at 6 30 p m tomorrow in the murray hill hotel 41st and park avenue new york city walter r okeson secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees and czar pi eastern football will be the toastmaster scheduled speakers include george daly sports editor of the new york herald tribune larry kelley all american end from yale frank glick former lehigh foot ball coach coach glenn harme son pete morrissey trainer and swimming coach billy sheridan wrestling coach and dick meehan an all-american story teller as an added feature movies in technicolor of the 1936 lehigh lafayette football game will be shown with a play by play des cription music will be provided by the lehigh club orchestra o a.s.m.e to hold meeting the student branch of the am erican society of mechanical en gineers will hold its initial meet ing at 7:30 p m thursday in room 466 packard laboratory the speaker will be c c franck de signer in the turbine division of the westinghouse electric and manufacturing company franck's topic modern steam turbines will be illustrated honor bestowed at league meeting saturday dr cledo brunetti instructor of electrical engineering was awarded the national scholarship key of the italian american league of minneapolis for his out standing work in electrical engi neering at the university of min nesota at a dinner given last sat urday night in minneapolis al though the dinner was in his hon or dr brunetti could not attend because of his teaching duties dr brunetti received the first doctor of philosophy degree in el ectrical engineering given by the university of minnesota in june 1937 he was graduated from min nesota in 1932 with the highest honors in his class and taught there from 1932 to 1937 for eight years he maintained a scholastic average of a he is a member of sigma xi honorary scientific fraternity eta kappa nu honorary electrical en gineering fraternity tau beta pi honorary engineering fraternity pi tau pi sigma honorary signal corps military fraternity and scabbard and blade honorary military fraternity says dramatic group may not use building for public shows glee club not affected drown hall will no longer be used for the performances of the mustard and cheese club accord ing to a decision of pres c c wil liams made at the end of may and announced saturday this decision was made because drown hall is not fire proof and does not have the exits required by the law gov erning theaters and similar build ings this ruling the president's state ment said will not affect the use of the building for the glee club concerts or for the student dances held there only events which the public attends in large numbers fall under the prohibition the president emphasized the fact that the ruling was not made by mun icipal authorities but the action was taken by the university in a desire to comply with the state law that restricts audiences in structures of this type to 400 persons would limit audience it would be possible for mustard and cheese to give performances in drown hall provided that the audience is limited to 400 and in cludes only students according to the statement the text of the president's state ment follows owing to the fact that drown hall is not fire proof and does not have the exits re quired by the law governing the aters and similar buildings it be came necessary to discontinue its use for the performance of must ard and cheese to which the public is invited and attends in large numbers may use for class for class or laboratory use in dramatics when the attendance is limited to students interested pro vided the number does not exceed that prescribed by law for the floor area of the room the room might safely be used this law was enacted to protect life and it is very important that the university comply with its provisions the president stated that the law regarding fire exits must be complied with when the public is invited and admission is charged mustard and cheese is attempting to secure the use of either broug hal or liberty high school audi torium for its performances a letter concerning this was written by dean c m mcconn and albert a rights coach of dramatics to the secretary of the bethlehem school board the board will meet oct 18 engineer to give lecture on bridge club to be shown film of golden gate span jonathan jones chief engineer of the fabricated steel construction division of the bethlehem steel company will give an illustrated lecture on building the golden gate bridge at the engineers club meeting at 8 p m monday oct 18 in packard auditorium prof f v larkin head of the department of mechanical engi neering in announcing this meet ing writes everyone interested in engineering achievement has watched with great interest the newspapers and technical litera ture concerning the progress of the golden gate bridge moving pic tures of the building of the struc ture will be shown by the speaker the film includes the erection of the golden gate bridge from the time the first material left the eastern fabricating shops until the formal dedication of the span on may 28 1937 each fundamental step in procedure will be demon strated and explained from the methods adopted for securing the towers against earthquake shocks to the cantilever scheme for stif fening truss erection devised es pecially for this project tickets for this lecture may be secured by students at drown hall next september 138 men will be living in an enormous new dormi tory where now there is nothing but the smoking university dump the 236 by 42 foot building auth orized by the board of trustees at their meeting wednesday is to be located on the hill south of price hall and east of the delta tau delta fraternity house the dormitory is to include not only rooms for students but also a dining room 50 by 14 feet with attached kitchen and pantry will run along half of the back of the building the lounging room 54 by 14 feet will also be on the first floor and extend along the back of the other half to have pine finish both rooms are to be finished in i knotty white pine and the lounging room is to be provided with a stone fireplace in one wall in the center of the first floor a lobby 18 by 18 feet will open on the hall and two 10 by 10 feet reception rooms the halls on all four floors will run from the stairway at one end of the building straight through to the stairway at the other end the halls will be four and a half feet wide and will be equipped with drinking fountains at intervals the rooms on the first three floors will be arranged with a 14 by 14 foot room between each pair of 11 by 14 rooms the setup is such that the larger room may be used by the occupants of adjoin ing rooms as a suite room if des ired this can be provided for by breaking through the walls if the suite arrangement is not wanted the walls will be left intact and the center room used as a bed room rooms along front on the first floor the students rooms will run along only the front of the building but on subsequent floors the rooms will be both at the front and the rear of the dorm itory on each of the three upper floors a 16 by 14 foot room with private bath will be provided for a tutorial fellow on each floor studies are to be provided in each of the four corners of the build ing ceilings on the first three floors are to be over nine feet and on the fourth floor are to be eight feet six inches high rooms on the fourth floor will measure about 16 by 12 feet and will have dor mer windows a 1,000 gallon hot water storage tank will supply water for the showers on all floors elevation and floor plans of section of new dormitory unit all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association