Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 6

              jimmy brown tommy ryan frosh officers to be elected siggie schelly and his or chestra will play at the semi annual dormitory dance spon sored by taylor and price hall from 10 to 2 o'clock on the night of oct 23 in drown hall the dance will be open without charge to all students and their guests dress is to be optional the committees in charge of the dance are headed by robert davenport e e 38 harry hammond eng phys 38 charles titus e e 38 william fine bus 38 and warren sawyer eng 40 sig schelly will play cyanide alters points system plans election vol xlv no 6 moran displays glass technique to revise laws of musical club groups of german poetry and prose foremost in new collection mrs myron luch wife of the late professor of english recent ly presented 400 books to the uni versity library which will be known as the myron jacob luch collection the majority of the volumes are on religion philosophy edu cation and history while the rest cover varied aspects of literature most outstanding is the group written in german sets of heine goethe lessing and schiller are complete as is meyer's konver sations lexicon and an ency clopedia in 21 volumes many ger man philosophers are represented besides these groups are indi vidual works of poetry and prose the oddest book is one written in sanskrit dialect of which pro fessor luch was a scholar the main body of the books are in english and are those not need ed in the english seminar sheppard is head gives illustrated lecture to chem society before 120 members and guests of the chemical society j j mor an of the kimble glass company spoke on glass and its uses last evening in the lecture room of the chemistry building the speaker discussed the man ufacture history various chemical properties and different oddities of glass illustrating the features of his talk by exhibits and mov ing pictures he traced the manu facture from the mixing of chem ical ingredients to the finished product to live without glass would be a sorrowful existence con cluded mr moran for then we would have no mirrors to see our selves with o national rifle association enrolls 400 freshmen four hundred freshmen have joined the national rifle associa tion and are volunteering for pre liminary instruction in range fir ing this instruction will start to day at 4 o'clock and will continue for two hours daily up to and in cluding wednesday oct 29 after instruction the new mem bers will be permitted to fire on the 22 caliber range the range will be open to new members to morrow a team from each sec tion will be chosen later in the year each team will consist of seven men the five high scorers counting when in competition the inter-section rifle competition starts nov 9 and will end nov 19 the inter-class rifle compe tition will start oct 28 combined group will vote on new constitution a revised constitution for the combined musical clubs will be discussed and voted upon at a special business meeting at 9 p m wednesday in drown hall the symphony orchestra the glee club and the dance band which comprise the combined musical clubs will meet after the glee club rehearsal the present constitution went into effect during the days when the club boasted a mandolin club and is now out of date however george c grow arts 38 presi dent-manager of the combined musical clubs and chairman of the revision committee announced yesterday that every effort was being made to bring the constitu tion up to date anyone desiring to inspect the revised constitution may do so at the lehigh union office at drown hall to benefit groups executive council of 7 is to be chosen from union delegates an executive committee and the officers of the freshman union are to be elected at the first general meeting of the group which is to be held at 7:30 o'clock wednes day evening in the faculty dining room in drown hall all living groups on and off campus are to send representa tives and as usual off-campus non fraternity delegates are urged to attend the union is the only fresh man organization at lehigh and it is through this union that the freshman class may sponsor smok ers a dance or have a voice in student government an executive committee of seven men will be elected at the meeting and the committee in turn will elect from its members the offi cers of the union the preliminary plans for this year's organization were discus sed by richard strode 41 frank slate 41 james beauchamp 41 and melvin lord ch e 38 pres ident of the lehigh union at a meeting last monday " ¦ " ' o durkee guest lecturer discusses pier work e l durkee of the fabrication department of the bethlehem steel company presented an illustrated lecture on the design and con struction of a steel pile pier in ocean waters at puerto arnuelles r p to the civil engineering society wednesday evening in room 466 packard laboratory in his lecture the speaker stated earthquakes transportation and labor troubles were impediments in building a pier in canal zone waters frosh warned brown and white reporter is granted interview by sammy kaye band started at ohio u orchestra leader admits guy lombardo's music is his favorite by d g de beauchamp girl vocalists are a bother just when they reach their peak the love bug bites them and they fly away that is the explanation sammy kaye gave last night for not hav ing female warblers in his or chestra which will invade lehigh on oct 22 for the senior ball this prince of swing and sway rhythm who has labored for two years without a day's rest is anticipating his stay at lehigh for two reasons first of all he himself is a graduate of ohio universtiy with a degree in civil engineering he also prefers play ing at college proms to the movies or on the public dance floor was good athlete definitely established on the road to success this truly charm ing maestro started at the uni versity of ohio because an attrac tive athletic scholarship was given him in high school he was known for his prowess on the gridiron his skill as a courtester and his fleet ness on the cinder path it was here that he organized his or chestra in his sophomore year for saking all glory which must have been his due as an athlete from the time he joined theta chi fraternity his success as a band leader became more and more evident the fact that he and his orchestra members were the dominating personalities of his campus is not an exageration excelled valee's mark once you meet the likeable mr kaye you will readily see why he is so heartily acclaimed wher ever he plays this fact is sub stantiated by the attendance rec ord which was established this summer when this 12 piece or chestra excelled the three year mark set by rudy vallee at roton point conn mr kaye in the interview admitted that this was his greatest thrill shifting the conversation from music to this and that i discovered that he is a great golf enthusiast i dare you to tell me what you shoot was fired at him his modest answer—"in the 90s by the way i understand that you have quite a few boys who like to play the game if i were stay ing over for a few days i'd like to challenge some of them when asked what orchestra he preferred to listen to when he himself was not occupied with continued on page four accredits courses rifle club elects officers gerber to be coach w a sheppard e m 38 was elected president by the rifle club for this year in election held dur ing military science and tactics classes friday and saturday the other officers elected were r s porter jr arts 39 vice president a c crane bus 38 secretary treasurer and varsity manager j r bright m e 39 freshman manager major t c gerber has been appointed faculty adviser and coach for the rifle team major f w adams and sergeant g f gasda are the assistant coaches o bidwell to attend meeting c c bidwell head of the de partment of physics will attend the annual meeting of the penn sylvania physics teachers associa tion at state college on oct 29 professor bidwell will speak on undergraduate curricula in en interf raternity group will occupy office with arcadia union homecoming discussed the interfraternity council voted to participate in the proposed council-union-arcadia plan for the creation of a student govern ment office in drown hall to aug ment the present lehigh union office at a meeting last night in drown hall discussions were also held in regard to the cooperative buying scheme which has been under con sideration since last spring the date of the interfraternity ball and of spring house party the advisability of a fixed pre-initia tion week the possibility of a mid-winter house party the dec orations for homecoming day nov 20 and the entertainment of par ticipants in next spring's inter scholastic wrestling meet plan is approved the student government office plan has now been approved by arcadia and the council it po vides for the pro rata distribution of expense in the upkeep of the office which will be able to under take a wider scope and the joint occupation by the three groups of the present arcadia room jos eph hopkins bus 38 president of the council explained that the proposal would increase the pres tige and efficiency of lehigh's student government the plan for cooperative buying among the fraternities was pre sented and referred back to the committee committees named committees were named to set the date for the interfraternity ball and junior prom clinton strang bus 38 chairman arthur cox ch e 38 d'arcy roper eng 40 and robert duenner e m 38 constitute the committee to set the ball date while the prom date committee is composed of james d mack arts 38 chair man herbert wilson arts 38 lyman j craig bus 38 and malcolm carrington bus 39 a limitation of 10 per house was placed on the fraternities for decorations for the first annual homecoming day the date of the lafayette football game nov 20 displays will be judged for orig inality taste and effectiveness by a judging committee composed of three faculty members sheridan speaks wrestling coach william billy sheridan spoke to the council asking for their cooperation in en tertaining the participants in the interscholastic wrestling meet next march the council voted to assist the athletic office in this respect although a mid-winter carnival at the time of the interfraternity ball and the fixing of a set time for fraternity initiations were pro posed no action was taken o stoughton to be inducted as national treasurer bradley stoughton dean of the college of engineering will be in ducted as national treasurer of the american society of metals dur ing the convention to be held in atlantic city n j from oct 18 to 22 dr george l kehl n j zinc research fellow will present a pa per entitled fatigue resistance of steel as affected by some cleaning methods this lecture will be de livered on wednesday john h frye jr former professor of met allurgy collaborated with dr kehl this work was used last june as kehl's thesis for the mas ter of science degree o dr reynolds addresses mathematics society dr j b reynolds professor of mathematics addressed pi mu ep silon honorary mathematical soc iety on wednesday evening in packard laboratory on the sub ject of fun with mathematics wilbur j schmidt ch e 38 spoke on exterior ballistics preceding the talks irving lem pert e e 39 was elected treas urer no trumpets heralded them celebrities ride frosh wave professional group recog nizes curricula official announcement of the curricula which have been ac credited by the engineers council for professional development was made public yesterday by dean stoughton the following courses constitute the accredited list of e c p d chemical engineering civil en gineering electrical engineering industrial engineering mechanical engineering metallurgical engi neering mining engineering and sanitary engineering lehigh harvard the naval academy and other prominent colleges were not included in the accredited list last year because they did not apply for recognition o new testers acquired by mining laboratory new equipment acquired by coxe laboratory during the past month includes an ash-fusion test furnace and a thurston oil tester the fusion test furnace will be used to determine the melting point of coal ash and similar ma terials the oil tester which was imported from england will be used to determine the lubrication value of oil honorary to select new junior members at next meeting will record activities cyanide junior honorary fra ternity held a meeting wednesday at the chi phi house and decided to continue recording all activities of student organizations on the campus in addition several changes were made in the point list from which members were elected in the past according to g edward hurst bus 39 secretary-treasurer of the fraternity cyanide will elect about ten new members at the next meeting to be held on wednesday oct 27 points must be turned in to hurst at phi delta theta before oct 26 the point list is 7 points 3.50 average varsity letter junior manager of any recognized sport 6 points president of any class office on the staff of any publication 6 points is the maximum for any one pub lication 5 points 3.00 average head of a living group intercollegiate individual championship in any sport 4 points secretary-treasurer of any class brown and white assistant officer mustard and cheese assistant officers 2.5 average 3 points mustard and cheese membership temporary freshman chairman president of freshman union sophomore representative to lehigh union delta omicron theta freshman numerals two years in musical clubs junior member of lnterfraternity council possessor of a college record 2 points member of golf fencing rifle or lacrosse teams junior cheer leaders membership in robert blake society eta kappa nu eta sigma phi international re lations club pi mv epsilon or pi delta epsilon interfraternity council athletic directors board of brown and white or review staff of handbook officers in any course society president of phi eta sigma or newtonian society pi tau sigma 1 point competition all season for freshman or varsity managership competition all season for freshman or varsity teams competition for staff of any publication president of brown key society member of freshman cabinet student concerts group o officers elected council posts are filled for all 3 colleges election of officers for the coun cils of the three colleges was held at the engineering council meet ing tuesday with bradley stough ton dean of the college of engi neering presiding s a becker associate professor of civil engineering and v s bab asinian associate professor of or ganic chemistry were elected for the council of the college of busi ness administration b l miller professor and head of the depart ment of geology was chosen for the council of the college of arts and sciences dr r d billinger assistant professor of chemistry was selected for the post of sec retary of the engineering council in addition to the election new courses for succeeding years were approved however they await dean stoughton's ratification new rules for the conduct of the coun cil were also adopted o gramley talks at meeting prof dale gramley head of the department of journalism ad dressed the journalism section of the western pennsylvania educa tion conference in pittsburgh this morning the subject of his talk was headaches of the faculty adviser i faculty lecture committee announces new plan the faculty lecture committee will not sponsor any lectures this year announced george b cur tis registrar last wednesday the committee will however make its funds available to the various course societies at lehigh the societies may obtain funds to be used for lecturers and speakers by applying through formal petition to the faculty lec ture committee dean curtis also announced that all societies would have an equal opportunity to benefit from the new plan and that the lectures would have to be open to the uni versity public o capehart set in chapel available to student body the capehart music set in the chapel is now available to all members of the student body and faculty comprising a collection of recordings and scores this set the gift of the carnegie foundation fund provides an opportunity for learning and studying great musi cal works regular n y a attendants will be in the chapel at the following hours to introduce the set to any one desiring to avail himself of the opportunity offered monday 2 to 4 p m tuesday 4 to 6 p m wednesday 2 to 5:30 p m thursday 2 to 5:30 p m o to select bid on new dorm in near future andrew w litzenberger super intendent of buildings and grounds announced tuesday that all bids had been taken for the construction of the new dormitory the most acceptable bid will be chosen at a meeting which will be held in a few days an increase of 50 over last year's new arrivals although the number of activi ties represented was the same as last year in twenty of the twenty nine interests this year's devotees outnumbered the addicts of the class of 40 the increase was most marked in football but baseball was not far behind jumping from 23 to 47 the smallest gain was credited to the crewmen this fall's yearlings total number being one greater other increases were basketball 53 to 58 track 51 to 57 soccer 27 to 34 swimming 21 to 23 wrestling 15 to 17 golf 6 to 11 lacrosse 3 to 8 boxing 1 to 7 instrumental music 93 to 116 debating 39 to 68 military men 19 to 32 glee club members 79 to 105 and dramatics 100 to 119 the greatest deficiency of the freshmen is in former sports man agers the number of which fell from 46 to 38 in comparison with last year other comparisons re vealed that the numbers had also dwindled in tennis cross country hockey cheer leaders and hi-y members one king from chessland one ace from the polo fields of new york one duke from the rugby kingdom of oxford one emperor from the bowling alleys of penn sylvania and one champion of interscholastic debaters from new jersey . . . unusual fellows every one of them but nevertheless they are full fledged members of the class of 41 that this onslaught of celebri ties arrived this fall with the freshman class to try their luck at lehigh was revealed in a sur vey conducted by the publicity deparment directed by prof dale h gramley assistant professor of journalism to be sure none of us have heard military music or witnessed grand salutes becoming such dig nitaies for these men of royal blood descended upon us minus propaganda and trumpet noise in contrast to these rarities 109 former high and prep school jour nalists registered here on sept 21 to form the largest block of activity interest among the neo phites the success of the year ling football team was foretold by the entrance of 89 grid lettermen vigilantes plan drive on regulations freshmen beware the vigilan tes have decided to become more uncompromising in their dealings with 41 lawbreakers at the meeting held wednesday night at the lambda chi alpha house the committee under alfred bodine eng 40 agreed on this course of procedure the sopho more class is rapidly organizing as a body to perform the duties of the vigilantes disobeying fresh men will be brought to the meet ings and given a fair opportunity to plead their case after the pros and cons of the case are justly heard the fresh man on trial will retire and the committe will act as a jury and render a verdict freshmen are warned to carry their handbooks at all times the class of 40 hopes to show the freshmen and the rest of the school some novel ideas in forms of punishment these can not be disclosed as yet the vigilantes will meet at 7:30 wednesdays at the lambda chi alpha house the following soph omores are included on the com mittee : c budd heisler bus james richardson eng walter russel eng ray wall bus richard pierce eng richard homiller eng maynard diamond arts richard gowdy bus ralph buchsbaum arts alfred cox eng charles dorsey eng stew art hartshorn eng richard fin cke eng richard jeffery eng hollie mccormac bus and ai red bodine president lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday october 15 1937 superstitious maestro tells why female vocalists are bother it's the love bug requests notification of address changes price — five cents a kaye vocalist feature artist council votes to participate in joint plan all students who change their local or home addresses must notify the registrar im mediately failure to do this dean george b curtis an nounced yesterday is a vio lation of university regula tions and the violator may be penalized this information is also needed for the student dir ectory and for the circulation department of the brown and white which makes up its de livery lists from records sup plied by the registrar books donated by mrs luch member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first