Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 18

              dr george d harmon 3 to interview for placement aldous huxley huxley has been hailed in a review of his novel as having made one of the most successful efforts to express the life of values with the least possible dilution of time that exists in english the 180,000 words of this novel are of such a choice and are ar ranged in such a way to give the combination the nature of an in vention a creation it is not an ordinary creation but one pro duced in the same way as a paint ing a sculpture a piece of music or a chair the elements are so by c f kalmbach with me travelling is frankly a vice states aldous huxley british novelist poet and essayist who will be the next lehigh stud ent concert-lecture series guest this evening at broughal high school auditorium huxley in addition to writing about one book a year since 1916 along with countless poems and essays has travelled widely in india burma malaya japan the united states mexico guatemala and the west indies alexander henderson in the only biography of huxley yet to be published writing about this modern author states there is not much for the biographer to make play with for his life has not been picturesque in the ob vious ways attended eton and balliol the third son of leonard hux ley and julia arnold he was ed ucated at eton and balliol college oxford while at the latter insti tution he wrote a good deal of poetry his first volume the burning wheel being published in 1916 when he was twenty two two years later a second volume the defeat of youth appeared in 1919 and 1920 huxley worked on the editorial staff of the athenaeum and was dram atic critic of the westminstei gaz ette in 1920 and 1921 continued on page four chems victors in debating drive started to sell seals company representatives will meet seniors of all 3 colleges three representatives of major companies in the east will hold senior placement interviews at le high in the near future the representative of the bur roughs adding machine company will see business and arts seniors either today or tomorrow morning on dec 14 the standard oil company of new jersey will inter view men preferably in the me chanical and chemical engineering curriculum the day of dec 17 will see the representative of the socony vacu um oil company of new york here to offer both foreign and domestic work mechanical ana electrical engineers as well as arts and bus iness men may hope for positions in india as tho former group along with chemical engineers are needed in this country for geologists with master's degrees or the equivalent train ing jobs in venezuela are open to appear in montclair and on columbia system on following day will be church guests the lehigh glee club and the combined musical club's dance orchestra left this afternoon for montclair n j where they will give their first concert of the year at the george innis junior high school the concert is being spon sored by the st john's episcopal church of montclair dr t edgar shields director of music will lead the club in six selections and all of the accomp animent will be done by r k maneval bus 38 a trio consisting of r h marstens eng 41 a l trumpler i e 40 and r k maneval bus 38 will contribute to the program as will soloists e m mahla m e 38 q r g keith arts 40 w r pierpont arts 39 and g c grow arts 38 the manager of the glee club reception held an informal reception was held this afternoon at the church's par ish house so that the singers might meet their dates for the dance which will follow the concert c g hub bus 39 will direct the orchestra which will play for the dancing over-night accomoda tions for singers are being pro vided by the church members tomorrow the entire group will journey to new york where they will give a concert over the col umbia broadcasting system from 12:30 to 12:45 p m the same sel ections which are being presented tonight will be sung tomorrow the eight songs which the club will sing are hail the college memories from the merry widow waltz by lehar roll out ranger by chalmers and harlow the song of victory by berlioz precious wee one by forsyth two russian folk songs fireflies and at father's door and finally the lehigh alma mater a small chorus not yet selected will sing two songs sea fever by andrews and bachelor's song by the same composer the glee club's annual winter concert will be given here on dec 11 commemorative issue to be published by brown and white on friday will contain 16 pages the 150 th anniversary of the ratification of the united states constitution by pennsylvania will be commemorated by the univer sity next friday with a special constitutional issue of the brown and white george d harmon as sociate professor of american his tory and chairman of the faculty committee on the sesqui-centen nial celebration announced yester day the issue will be published two days before the actual date of the signing which was dec 12 1787 the staff of the paper is working in cooperation with representative sol bloom's congressional com mittee on the constitution sesqui centennial it is expected by the committee that the special issue will contain at least 16 pages and will include articles by president c c wil liams dr harmon dr h l gip son head of the history depart ment and dean albert g rau of moravian earle sends statement gov george h earle of penn sylvania sent the brown and white a statement for this issue before he left last week for a trip abroad similar statements are expected from president franklin d roose velt chief justice of the united states supreme court charles evans hughes and vice president john n garner the issue is being put out by the regular brown and white staff with the assistance of the students in the journalism 13 and 17 classes articles to be printed articles will be printed on the constitutional convention the signers from pennsylvania and on transportation journalism educa tion women prices labor the arts drama sports population and bethlehem at that time pictures of the signers of , the convention and other appropriate art work will be published members of the faculty commit tee working with dr harmon are dr frederick a bradford head of the department of finance and milton c stuart professor of me chanical engineering photos on glass show home use lectures on hoaxes military society pledges 15 men lehigh union will conduct distribution and sales for 200 goal the annual lehigh christmas seal drive will begin on monday at which time seals will be dis tributed to all fraternities and dormitory sections it was an nounced today by m s lord ch e 38 president of the lehigh union the seals will also be placed on sale at the union office for non-fraternity and non-dorm itory men the drive will officially extend from monday until the christmas vacation begins and the goal set by the union is 200 locally the sale of the seals is put on by the bethlehem tuber culosis and health society which is entirely supported by this meth od of fund raising this society points out that the need for tuber culosis work in the bethlehem dis trict is very great as this district has a high rate of cases activities of the organization in clude reaching patients early enough for cure and finding the disease before there are outward symptons which would send the person to his doctor through the society more than 1000 tuberculin tests were given in the past ten months and those who were ill have been taken care of says lord prof dale gramley speaks in faculty series dale h gramley associate pro fessor of journalism and wray h congdon director of admissions spoke yesterday at two pennsyl vania high schools in connection with the faculty lecture service professor gramley spoke on newspaper hoaxes and frauds at easton high school and dr congdon lectured on gliders or skyliners at midway high school midway dr congdon will talk on the same subject dec 7 at dwight high school in new york city and on dec 10 professor gramley will repeat his lecture at northampton high school o international problems discussed at meeting the international relations club met last night in packerd labor atory to hear a talk by sidney brown professor of history on england and its relation to the international situation brown was introduced by r s young arts 38 president of the club an open discussion followed the lecture has broken arm dechnik and carrick head cast with experience in new production will advertise by plane by d g de beauchamp mustard and cheese will present its first dramatic offering of the season next friday with the recent hit of stage and screen ceiling zero by frank wead there will be no lack of ex perienced actors in the cast as the three leads of the play will be por trayed by such old timers as albin dechnik bus 38 malcolm car rington bus 39 and miss mar geret sterrett dechnik takes the part of dizzy davis a devil-may-care aviator who is no respecter of rules and regulations miss sterrett will rep resent the heart-interest in the person of tommy thomas an air liner hostess carrington will ap pear as jake lee a retired flyer who is in charge of the airport flying methods convict the play has for its theme the old story of new methods against the old and the old ways of flying against the new scientific oper ation of planes by schooled pilots dizzy davis comes out of the west to disrupt the order and system of the airport the manager of the airport is an old friend of his who gives him the job of fly ing the air-liners because of his rashness dizzy causes the death of a pilot and what he does to atone for his mistake brings the play to a smashing climax dechnik has appeared in many mustard and cheese productions among which are paths of glory counselor at law and the racket peggy sterrett will be remem bered for appearing in such plays as salt water promtrotters and boy m babeland carrington will be best remem bered for his part in counselor at law in which he played the lead broughal to see rehearsal the scenery will be all set up in broughal high school tomorrow a dress rehearsal will be held thursday evening and on friday afternoon dress performance will be given for the benefit of the students of the high school an extensive publicity campaign was planned out at a mustard and cheese meeting wednesday evening next wednesday a plane will fly over the town and campus towing a sign advertising the play cards telling of the production will be fastened on cars a full quota of members of the club were present at the meeting held wednesday because of the initiation of clinton strang bus 38 and harry brown i e 39 at the previous meeting seats are reserved for the first time in the history of mustard and cheese all seats will be reserved students may get their tickets next monday at drown hall the prices of tickets to be sold to outsiders will range from 50 to 75 cents approximately 1200 seats will be available the doors will open at 7:30 p m and the play will start at 8:30 no one will be admitted without a ticket to fete gridders intramural meets begin under oregon system before 100 persons the chemical engineering team a affirmative and the business b team affirmative were the win ners of the first set of intramural debates which were held on wed nesday evening in packard audi torium before an audience of over 100 before the debate started dean mcconn who was chairman ex plained the oregon system which was used in the debate resolved that the state of pennsylviania should adopt a uni cameral system of legislation was the question under discussion the first debate took place be tween the chemical engineering team a consited of the following men r e metzger 41 and f novitiski 41 who defended the affirmative and the business team a which included the following men f d pierce 41 and j levy 39 who defended the negative arts men defend negative the second debate was between the business b team which in cluded h sondheim 41 and b a smith 40 who defended the affirmative and the arts team which included r kiefer 41 and j shearer 39 who defended the negative the judges were j c callaghan instructor of english h d ran dell coach of debating at bethle hem high school and z bairo coach of debating at fountain hill high school the oregon style of debating which was used proved very pop ular to the audience and provided many humorous incidents doors open at 7:30 for huxley lecture faculty students aid 1937 red cross drive plans dinner at sun inn and formal initiation pledging exercises were held last evening in the armory by scabbard and blade national hon orary military society plans were made for the formal initiation and banquet which will be held wednesday dec 15 at that time the following honorary members will be initiated into the society lt col joseph leonard head of the department of military science and tactics major r r bacon assistant professor of mil itary science and tactics and major f w adams assistant pro fessor of military science and tac tics the initiation is to be held in the armory and the banquet will follow at the sun inn the following men were pledged last evening s w maclachlan i e 38 henry j mack arts 38 robert w zachary arts 38 john manley ch e 38 w boucher arts 38 richard gorisse arts 39 robert porter arts 39 s h reuwer met e 38 malcolm car rington bus 39 a s grant i e 39 g b stetson bus 39 w e bruning arts 39 h a snyder ch e 39 f juer ch e 39 and c f carrier i e 39 clifford plans lecture alumni to hold luncheon for school stars the alumni club of northeastern pennsylvania will entertain var ious high school football stars from scranton and vicinity at a luncheon today at the scanton club col nelson a kellogg director of athletics and earl k smiley assistant director of admissions will speak after luncheon the alumni will attend a football game which will be played by teams made up of the high school stars which will be witnessed by many prominent coaches from all parts of the coun try heard unable to appear with huxley tonight a broken arm suffered recently at cornell college lowa caused gerald heard who was to appear with aldous huxley on the second student concert - lecture series program this evening at broughal high school to cancel his part of the program heard author of several phil osophical novels and noted an nouncer of the british broadcast ing company will be in the hos pital three weeks with his broken arm fractured between elbow and shoulder in a cast huxley's lecture this evening will be his first personal college appearance in the east he ar rived in bethlehem this afternoon after a speaking engagement wed nesday in toronto canada he has been in america since early spring when he left england to escape the coronation of george vi his latest book ends and means was published two weeks ago the doors of broughal high school will open tonight at 7:30 for the second in the series of student lecture concerts which will be given by aldous hux ley author huxley will talk on the next step in religion students of lehigh univer sity will be admitted free of charge their ticket of admis sion being coupon b in the back of the athletic book gen eral admission tickets will be on sale for 1 after 7:30 james l clifford instructor in english will speak before the eng lish graduate union on wednes day at the faculty club of colum bia university he will talk on his experiences in england searching for unpublished manuscripts federation of arts photos display latest forms one hundred photographs of examples of the use of glass in modern architectural enterprises will be exhibited during the next two weeks by the lehigh art gal lery the exhibit which is spon sored by the pittsburgh glass in stitute was first shown last june at rockefeller center in addition to the photographs a collection of wood carvings will be shown according to garth a howland head of the department of fine arts the carvings are in teresting both because of technical dexterity and the subject matter the exhibit of photographs being circulated by the american federation of arts will go from lehigh to harvard on dec 16 the subjects are the various prize winning arrangements of glass in its various forms as submitted in the pittsburgh glass institute com petition shows glass brick stressing the use of glass in building many photographs in clude glass brick a new devel opment in building materials others show the advances made in the manufacture of large plates of glass for the modern sunporch an unheard of use of glass 50 years ago fireplaces walls and entire rooms have been paneled with mirror glass mantles tabletops and other horizontal surfaces are also covered with this new mater ial mirror glass made in a var iety of colors forms many of the subjects of this collection of photo graphs interfraternity association holds annual conclave at new york hotel west present at meeting joseph hopkins bus 38 presi dent of the lehigh interfraternity council was elected last week chairman of the national inter fraternity conference which held its twenty-ninth annual conven tion at the hotel commodore in new york he is the first under graduate ever to preside as chair man of the association hopkins and walter west arts 39 were among the 300 delegates from 18 colleges and universities representing every section of the country attending the four-day session earl kenneth smiley assistant director of admissions represented the dean at the conference and was appointed to a committee to issue a fraternity manual discusses local councils the newly-installed president led a general discussion on the question how to strengthen local councils and make them more effective at one of the closing sessions during the conference delegates submitted questions vital to the interests of their respective fra ternities these were discussed at length at the various sessions hopkins during discussions brought up the question of co operative buying of the best rep resentation in local interfraternity councils and how to strengthen local interfraternity councils one of the highlights of the closing session was the adoption of a resolution criticizing social security board rulings with re spect to fraternities paying social security of their various em ployees further action was aban doned when delegates were as sured that a bill is now before congress in respect to the statis of fraternities on this question to strengthen councils commenting on the results of the convention hopkins said the whole idea was to find ways and means to strengthen the councils and the fraternities themselves all the delegates came with def inite ideas in mind they brought with them questions confronting their fraternities and discussed them at length on the whole i believe the conference accom plished a great deal the opening sessions of the con ference were divided into graduate and undergraduate group meet ings the former included 26 deans from colleges and universities presidents of the executive coun cil of national and college fraternity secretaries the undergraduates were presidents of interfraternity councils from the various colleges and universities during the final sessions the combined groups heard talks on such issues as rushing internal organization chapter activities and the relation of the fraternity to the educational program hopkins leads meeting at a banquet held friday even ing attended by deans of colleges and universities and past and pres ent officers of national interfra ternity council hopkins was the only undergraduate present graduate chairman darling at a session saturday morning in troduced the new undergraduate officers hopkins took over the meeting from this point further problems were discussed and men prominent in fraternity organiza tions spoke on questions confront ing fraternities according to hopkins officials of the national council comple mented lehigh on its system of fraternities lehigh has one of the most ideal situations for frater nities he was told the causes outlined were the sound financial standing and the fact that dorm itories are not absorbing fraternity material the lehigh union office an nounced yesterday that the total amount contributed to the red cross drive here was 123.27 of this amount fraternities donated 40 and three sections of taylor dormitory gave 17.05 the balance of 66.22 was con tributed by faculty members administrative members and individual students bethlehem pa friday december 3 1937 heads constitution issue vol xlv no 18 price — five cents lehigh university brown and white aldous huxley noted novelist finds that travelling is vice elect hopkins council head at conference glee club plans radio program and concert dramatic club will present ceiling zero paper marks historical date of constitution poet will be guest speaker tonight at high school for lecture series member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first