Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 17

              the lehigh calendar which has not been published since 1935 has been revived and will come from the press after the thanksgiving holidays donald walp m e 38 editor of the calendar announced today the calendar will contain pic tures of familiar lehigh scenes and of the first lehigh football team of which richard harding davis who scored lehigh's first touchdown was a member photo by juer chemistry department head expresses gratitude for honor of having is name attached to new annex president williams looks on chodoff saniel talk on spain alumni have home-coming war indicated says heckert meeting thursday afternoon in dean g b curtis's ofiice to plan for the appearance here on dec 3 of aldous huxley and gerald heard the student concert-lec ture series committee decided not to limit public attendance at fu ture series programs under the new policy general admission tickets will go on sale at 7:30 o'clock the evening of the performance when the doors open season ticket holders and those who purchase tickets at the door will be given equal opportunity to find seats in the auditorium until 8:15 o'clock no one will be admitted after the program begins at 8:15 student interest lacking in removing the restriction on general admissions the committee was prompted by the compara tively small student attendance at the first program by blanche yur ka explains chairman carstens y haas ch e 8 we are going to give the townspeople a better opportunity to attend the programs as long as student interest is not great enough to fill the auditor ium says haas the student concert-lecture series is a lehigh institution intended primarily for the benefit of the university stud ents but it would be unjust not to admit outsiders who are very anxious to come as long as there is room the new arrangements will go into effect at the joint lecture-dis cussion by huxley and heard roads to peace to be given in broughal high school auditorium senior chemists are on field trip four sessions per week to be held for first year students equals 3 hour course freshmen who received valen tines in nine hours or more will be invited to try out for a course designed to teach proper study methods all such students will re ceive a notice from dean mcconn instructing them to report for the first two exercises of the course at 7:30 on tuesday nov 30 and wednesday dec 1 in room 466 packard laboratory at those exer cises they will be given a set of diagnostic tests to ascertain their difficulties dean mcconn stated we find that some do not need the course and couldn't be especially helped by it but the 25 freshmen about one half of the original group whose difficulties are the kind that can be most probably helped in this way will be invited to enroll in the course which will then meet at 4:10 p m on tuesday wednesday thursday and friday ior the rest of the semester may drop course each of those students will be permitted though not required to drop one of his regular courses education 0 the number of the course does not carry credit for graduation but is counted equiv alent to a three hour course for the purpose of staying off pro bation this is the third year for the course in the preceding two years it has been reasonably successful by the testimony of students tak ing it that they have shown more improvement in the second half of the semester than other failing groups and also more improve ment in the second semester than other comparable groups speak at dinner of alumni groups present government side of civil conflict plea for american aid dr richard chodofl represen tative of the philadelphia chapter medical bureau to aid spanish democracy and miss ethel saniel presented the situation of spain today to a gathering sunday in drown hall dr chodoff discussed the atti tude of the spanish people toward the present government and to ward the unwanted fascism of italy and germany several in cidents of the war were related by dr chodoff who returned from spain six weeks ago calls for aid to loyalists miss saniel who has also been in the spanish area discussed the need of all americans to come to the aid of the spanish people in their struggle for democracy she stated that the loyalist faction wuold eventually drive out the franko forces because of its pol itical military and economic sup eriority dr chodoff presented the per sonal and human side of the sit uation while miss saniel gave the commercial issues after the lectures several ques tions were raised by members of the audience the speakers were introduced by dr bradley stough ton dean of the college of engi neering large gathering attends smoker registrar's office notifies 53 percent of school of deficiencies 646 engineers warned total exceeds number sent in past 3 years student gets 8 failing notices were sent to 923 out of the 1738 students enrolled in the university announced reg istrar g b curtis yesterday this is the greatest percentage to re ceive valentines in november since 1933 two per cent more students re ceived notices than in the past three years the number however was much less than those of 1930 and 1931 when 63 and 59 per cent respectively were notified the greatest number of warn ings received by any one student this year was eight only one stud ent received this number sev eral however were sent seven notices the average number of valentines per person of the 923 was two and a half 89 in dorm failing eighty-nine dormitory men re ceived valentines while approx imately 411 fraternity men and 423 of the town group are fail ing in subjects the later figures are not definite due to the number of changes since founder's day and also the men who live in town but belong to fraternities students enrolled in chemistry received the lowest per cent of notices with only two of the twenty-five getting letters the two students enrolled as sanitary engineers were notified the chemical engineers and industrial engineers had large percentages with 151 out of 201 and 99 out of 143 respectively frosh engineers improve the number of valentines re ceived by freshmen engineers was less than that of last year even though the enrollment is larger this year the number is 184 last year 313 were failing the remaining curricula the number of valentines and the number enrolled are as follows curriculum valen enroll tines ment states economics is self-operating versailles treaty scored by blake lecturer in peace talk the treaty of versailles solved nothing in fact it created more problems and has created con ditions that will eventually lead to another war declared robert s heckert 24 in his public lecture last night in packard auditorium his talk on the topic is it to be war or peace in europe was sponsored by the r w blake hon orary philosophical society of which he is a charter member during the past ten years heckert has travelled extensively in france germany czechoslovakia italy and russia and has studied the social and economic problems of these countries spoke of hitler heckert's main topic was hitler and germany the general feeling in western europe is that war will be brought on europe by hitler who is looked upon as an anar chist german military strength is as strong if not stronger than it was in 1914 and the krupp plant is employing 100,000 men in the construction of armaments despite all these indications of war german people do not want war germany's policy is grad ually to encroach upon surround ing territory gradually consoli dating alty central europe under the control of a national socialist germany but they definitely do not wish to precipitate another disastrous war in the opinion of heckert there is little probability of war in europe until at least 1940 heckert spoke to the philosoph ical seminar and members of the faculty yesterday afternoon on the totalitarian state cort presents annex gift to university praises work of dr ullmann graduates raise fund the cornerstone of the harry m ullmann annex was unveiled saturday afternoon following the lehigh-lafayette football game before alumni and under-grad uates w a cornelius secretary of the alumni assocaition unveiled the cornerstone of the new annex the money for which is being raised by the alumni association stuart j cort 06j president of the alumni association presented the gift of the wing to president c c williams in presenting the new addition cort said on behalf of the al umni of lehigh university i have the honor of formally presenting this the harry m ulimann annex to the william h chandler lab oratory as a gift to the univer sity cites previous gifts he continued by lauding the work of dr ullmann director of the curricula in chemistry and chemical engineering and cited the previous gifts to the university he concluded by saying tne alumni are truly proud of the ac complishments ot lehign and 1 know of no better way that we can get a greater satisfaction than by giving her our whole-heartect moral and financial support so thai the trustees and faculty can keep the university in the foreground ot the field of education for the young men of our nation williams accepts annex president c c williams in ac cepting the gift spoke of chemistry as the key to one of the main doors leading to a more abundant life he also spoke on the value of chemical experiment and pro phesied many chemical experi ments of great importance coming from the new annex which will be one of the finest laboratories in the country dr ullmann reviewed the his tory of the chemistry laboratory and expressed his gratitude for the honor of having his name at tached to the new annex he also spoke on the advantages of hav ing a place where advanced work on chemistry can be carried on following dr ullmann's ad dress the band played the alma mater as cornelius pulled away the lehigh banner which covered the corner stone inscribed on the stone is the legend addition erected 197-38 from gifts of alumni suggests display victors get spoils home club holds dinner alumni directors meet saturday morning many social affairs featured the lehigh home-coming held over the week-end thousands of alumni visited the campus to participate in the activities the home club of the alumni association held a dinner friday night at the bethlehem club mem bers of the faculty alumni their guests and lehigh supporters at tended the affair saturday morning the board of directors of the alumni association held a meeting at the bethlehem club plans for the coming year were discussed with reference to activities of alumni clubs dodson gives luncheon a c dodson 00 was host to 160 alumni and their wives at a luncheon at the hotel bethlehem prior to the lehigh-lafayette foot ball game the affair was in honor of president c c williams dr william mather lewis president of lafayette college was a guest other guests in attendance were eugene grace 99 president of the bethlehem steel company and president of the board of trustees thomas girdler 01 president of the republic steel corporation stuart j cort president of the lehigh alumni association and cadwallader evans jr past pres ident of the alumni association have tea dance the annual tea dance was held at the bethlehem maennerchor saturday after the game alumni their wives and friends attended following the lehigh-lafayette football game the unveiling of the cornerstone to the harry ullman annex of the chandler chemical laboratory took place following the unveiling cere monies many alumni took supper at the armory this was in charge of the alumni association various fraternity houses also held dinners for the returning alumni ewing to speak harmeson okeson reiter at annual affair glen harmeson head football coach walter okeson chairman of the football rules committee and treasurer of the university and h r reiter professor of physical education were among the speak ers at the annual lehigh-lafay ette shore dinner held by the philadelphia alumni club at book binders in philadelphia thursday night others who spoke were marty westerman and carl heldt assis tant coaches of football paul cal vert freshman football coach col nelson kellogg director of athlet ics robert adams assistant dir ector of athletics robert herrick editor of the alumni bulletin and william cornelius secretary of the alumni association the ceremonies were arranged by tom conley 24 who greeted the gathering said to be the larg est ever to attend the dinner as sisting conley in the arrange ments were pi shipherd 21 president of the club and morris bernstein 96 secretary industries in philadelphia will be inspected fifty-six senior chemists and chemical engineers went to phil adelphia yesterday for the yearly industrial inspection trip which will last until wednesday the group will make its headquarters in the benjamin franklin hotel and will travel in the city in char tered buses the trip includes the inspection of the city's major chemical plants yesterday morning they visited the plant of the sharp and dohme company manufacturing chemists they lunched at hotel lorraine and in the afternoon inspected the atlantic refining company this morning they visited the franklin sugar refining company after lunch at bookbinder's res taurant they inspected the gras selli chemical company manufac turers of heavy chemicals and acids tomorrow morning the group will travel to the j t lewis and brothers plant manufacturers of pigments and paints three members of the chemis try department faculty are with the seniors they are alpha a diefenderfer professor of assay ing and quantitative analysis charles w simmons associate professor of chemical engineering and harry b osborn instructor in chemical engineering the trip is a requirement of the senior curriculum in chemistry and chemical engineering a.s.m.e to hear eney directs concert freshmen stage parade dressed in pajamas displaying the same spirit that was evident at the game on sat urday almost the entire student body turned out for the lafayette smoker on friday evening in tay lor gymnasium e k smiley assistant director of admissions introduced the speakers who were col nelson a kellogg director of physical edu cation bosey reiter coach har meson walter okeson and the co-captains of the football team fritz bayer and jack hoppock after the smoker the freshmen dressed in loud-colored pajamas proceeded down new street to broad from broad and new the procession marched to main street and up main to moravian semin ary and college for women facing the dormitory windows the paraders sang most of the uni versity songs from the seminary the parade continued home with the chanting of to hell with la fayette l r schwartz to marry miss helene rosenberg carothers explains system in radio talk that our economic system runs itself is self-starting self-steer ing and self-operating and that although it works badly in places it can be corrected by public en terprise was brought out by dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administration in his nation-wide radio speech last night our living he said comes from three basic agents land labor and capital brought to gether by management to bring about the most productive use of those three agents three basic in stitutions have been developed private property free enterprise and competition dr carothers disproved the be lief held by many that our land is unsound and unhappy by stating that if a few men could control this economic system they would decide that we should have no more depressions no more busi ness failures and no more low wages the lehigh valley section of the american society of civil en gineers will meet at 6 p m fri day in the faculty club room supper will be served william j eney instructor in civil en gineering will speak on some applications of models and struc tural analysis using performeter gauges w s hutchinson to wed william s hutchinson jr ch e 36 will marry miss sara stauf fer daughter of mr and mrs charles m stauffer of 926 pros pect aye bethlehem at 4 p m tomorrow in holy trinity luther an church leslie r schwartz 37 now working in new york city for twentieth century fox motion picture company will marry miss helene d rosenberg of new york it has been announced schwartz was a member of the varsity wrestling squad and a member of pi lambda phi fra ternity miss rosenbloom attended new york university dr shields leads annual bach recital dr t e shields director of music directed the annual bach concert of the pro-cathedral church of the nativity male choir on sunday afternoon at the church the all-bach program was the fifth program presented by the choir of 70 men and boys the choir featured a rendition of an eight part motet entitled sing ye to the lord the concert represented the thirty-fifth anniversary of dr shield's directorship at the nativ ity church take goal post but le high returns football to the victor belongs the spoils did not hold true for laf ayette saturday the lafayette men went to considerable trouble to take the football home and dis play it at their victory dance several lehigh men attended the dance and the football disap peared it seems that lafayette not hav ing the intestinal fortitude to take the goal posts after the game sat urday revenged the pigskin in cident by quietly and secretly stealing our goal posts sunday morning while all the lehigh stud ents were sleeping they probably didn't want to dirty their hands fighting the brown and white brigade after the game a couple of sons of the marquis entertained ideas to rip the goalposts out by the roots des pite the lehigh phalans but a couple of smart raps to the jaw changed their minds and they peacefully left the field chamber head requests yule decorations vernon k melhado president of the bethlehem chamber of commerce has requested the in terfraternity council to consider the possibility of decorating all fraternity houses during the christmas holidays announced joseph a hopkins jr bus 38 president of the council melhado reported that the townspeople were very favorably impressed by the decorations which were used during home coming and suggested that the fraternities might be willing to cooperate with the city in dec orating bethlehem for the holiday season hopkins reported that he favors the plan which could be inex pensively carried out in accord ance with the general plans of the city it was tentatively sug gested that decorations in the form of lights and similar displays could be employed from early in dec ember until the beginning of vac ation the interfraternity council will discuss the suggestion at its next meeting will give paper on geo physical exploration maurice ewing assistant pro fessor of physics will present a paper on marine gravimetric methods and surveys as one of the nine speakers at a symposium staged by the american philo sophical society friday afternoon at the hall of the society in phila delphia this symposium on the geophysical exploration of the ocean bottom will be a part of the society's annual meeting nicholas h heck 03 will also speak at the meeting on the role of earthquakes and seismic rec ords in submarine geology captain heck who received an honorary degree of doctor of sci ence from lehigh in 1930 is chief of the division of terrestrial mag netism and seismology of the u s coast and geodetic survey in washington d c ewing's talk will be based large ly on his work last winter on the naval submarine barracuda brown and white ullmann talks at cornerstone laying bethlehem pa tuesday november 23 1937 vol xlv no 17 price — five cents 923 undergraduates receive valentines alumni watch w a cornelius dedicate wing study course will be given to freshmen change policy for admission to concerts lehigh calendar revived after 2 years of silence committee will let public have same opportunity as students for seats next lecture december 3 arts and science ... ... 91 22 business adm 186 39 civil engineering electrical eng eng phys mech eng ... 27 ... 56 8 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