Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 20

              earle lauds pennsylvania delegates commonwealth of pennsylvania governor's office harrisburg november 18 1937 dear mr murphy this will acknowledge receipt of your letter of november 16 1937 in regard to the brown and white observance of the sesqui centennial of pennsylvania's ratification of the constitution of the united states no delegation played a more significant role in that able assemblage than that from this commonwealth these men contributed much of the far-seeing wisdom which solved the problem of the future organization of the re public in such fashion as to guarantee stabil ity and permanence immediately following the publication of the proposed frame of government pennsylvania took vigorous steps for approval through the energy of its leaders this commonwealth be came the second state to ratify the instrument and the first of the large states to approve consequently it is singularly appropriate that the commonwealth of pennsylvania the keystone state be as fervent and faithful in leadership in these anniversary proceedings as were the makers and framers of the great charter of the republic a century and a half ago sincerely yours george h earle mr j palmer murphy signed editor in chief brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pennsylvania urges spirit of good will cyanide hears social appeals o d k names committee to look into change in commencement declines part in merger a committee to investigate the possibilities of an outdoor com mencement site was named last night by omicron delta kappa senior honorary fraternity at a dinner meeting at the delta tau delta fraternity house the fraternity also appointed a committee to draw up a new set of freshman regulations as out lined in recent issues of the brown and white and rescinded its ac tion accepting the invitation to serve as a slate committee in the proposed arcadia-lehigh union merger the committee for the outdoor commencement site consists of harry c milbank i e 38 pres ident of the senior class chairman melvin s lord ch e 38 and charles f zell bus 38 by moving the commencement from the chapel to some outdoor site such as the stadium or ar boretum milbank stated a larg er audience can be accomodated which will increase the number of tickets permitted to each grad uate murphy to head group the committee on freshman reg ulations consists of j palmer murphy arts 38 chairman rob ert v henning i e 38 and wil liam g dukek chem 38 both of these committees will report at the january meeting of the fraternity dukek vice presi dent of omicron delta kappa who presided at the meeting stated in regard to the rescinding of the invitation to serve as a slate com mittee omicron delta kappa while in sympathy with the proposal and grateful for the confidence ex pressed by the merger committee in inviting it to hold this im portant position under the pro posed organization believes that because it is a non-political group and has always refrained from political action on the campus it would be an undesirable change of policy to undertake political nominations therefore the fra ternity felt it necessary to decline brown and white assists in 150 th anniversary of ratification faculty comniittee aids to use 566 lbs of paper in 3400 copy edition 135 compose staff by j palmer murphy editor in chief lehigh university today joins in the nationwide celebration of the sesqui-centennial of the united states constitution marking especially the 150 th anniversary of the ratification by the commonwealth of pennsyl vania the brown and white has responded to a request by presi dent clement c williams that the publication represent the univer sity in commemorating the sesqui centennial the celebration throughout the country started in september and will extend over a six month's per iod as far as is known the brown and white is the only college pub lication in the country issuing a special edition for the event faculty assists aiding the paper in getting out the special issue has been the fac ulty committee on the sesqui-cen tennial celebration consisting of dr george d harmon associate professor of american history chairman dr frederick a brad ford head of the department of finance and milton c stuart pro fessor of mechanical engineering and representative sol bloom's congressional committee on the subject this is the second largest issue ever published by the brown and white in its 44 years of existence the largest issue 24 pages was published jan 19 1934 to mark the 40th anniversary of the pub lication the number of copies of this edition printed totals 3,400 five hundred and sixty-six pounds of newspaper were used in its com position if all the pages of all the copies were laid end to end lengthwise they would stretch 110.1 miles or from here to phila delphia and back nine members of the faculty and more than 125 students worked on the issue which has been entire ly student-edited the faculty committee has is sued the following statement more than 160 years ago our forefathers declared them selves to be a free and inde pendent nation — conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle of democracy after seven years of fighting the revolutionary heroes succeed ed in obtaining from eng land the recognition of the new nation and secured what they considered an advantag eous treaty meanwhile in march 1781 the articles of confederation had been ratified by the 13 state with independence achieved and a constitutional government in operation the optimism of the nation was soon dimmed by stern realities — pessimism seized the land the government under the articles proved to be a league of sovereign and independent states wholly inadequate to meet the needs of the new nation the attempts made to strengthen the articles by amendments proved discour aging if not impossible with power to tax foreign and domestic credit exhausted a depreciated national cur rency interstate commerce at continued on page nineteen pre-meds plan banquet and program at hotel the annual christmas banquet of the r w hall pre-medical society will be held thursday evening dec 16 at the hotel beth lehem walter m uhler arts 39 is in charge of arrangements a definite program will be formulated early next week by c c williams one of the vital race quests of mankind is satisfactory government the farthest ad vance in that quest is govern ment by law rather than by man — chief king or dictator government by law in recent civilization has evolved con stitutions those fundamental laws which prescribe the func tions of governmental agencies and the relations of the citi zen to his government until 1787 no nation had formul ated in a single writing the essential principles of those relations the colonies had ex perimented individually and with the federation collec tively using six centuries of constitutional history of the mother country as back ground it was a time when philosophers were delving deep in fundamental issues out of many conflicting views derived from these or igins the constitutional con vention composed of the wisest and sincerest forged a wonderful document which gladstone pronounced the greatest instrument of govern ment ever struck off at one time by the hand of man ratifying on december 12 pennsylvania gave an impetus which helped to carry the other states since then re publics the world over have patterned their constitutions after this model thus mak ing our constitution an epochal achievement in political or ganization based on the great principle from roman law that the source of all govern mental powers is the people governed its supreme purpose is justice protection and the welfare of the people it is not a rigid frame but a living or ganism of government bud ding and branching through amendments and decisions as new needs arise its wisdom and strength are confirmed by a century and a half of suc cessful operation well may a president who would seek to take an oath to support it and traitorous the president who would seek to circumvent it by indirection it is a noble instrument a magnificent her itage worthy to be cherished and treasured along with home and honor deep in the heart of every citizen 4 elected to tone bm howard dtuudltr dwiafr conflicting activities cause discussion delay four freshmen were elected into tone musical society last night at the regular monthly meeting in the packer chapel they are d r schoen arts m c burgy eng r c marsten eng and t w pulliam eng because so many of the members had conflicting activities it was decided to postpone the reading of the constitution and the round table discussion on the psychol ogy of music until a later meet ing committee is appointed to discuss changes in regulations swimmers to get 100 arcadia student governing body appropriated 100 to the swim ming team for its southern train ing trip during the christmas vacation and 50 to the photog raphy society for equipment at a meeting last night in drown hall a committee to recommend changes in the freshman regul ations was also anmed by pres ident james bergen ch e 38 with alfred v bodine eng 40 as chairman two additional mem bers will be named later the changes which were pro posed in a recent editorial in the brown and white and which will be discussed by the arcadians at their next meeting are would allow smoking freshmen will be allowed to smoke on campus a freshman will be permitted to put his hands in his pockets while on campus freshmen will be allowed to sit on the few walls about the campus all freshmen must sit in the freshman cheering section at ath letic contests and shall be held responsible for the management and cheering of that section all students not just freshmen shall be required to learn all of the school songs and cheers all freshmen shall be required to carry a new and improved handbook with them freshmen shall wear a mark of distinction not of opprobrium in the form of a brown and white tie or hat the proposal for the merger of arcadia and the lehigh union was discussed and will be voted on at a special meeting next year to buy enlarger the photography society will spend its 50 for a new enlarger which will be placed in the soc iety's dark room in drown hall peter morrissey coach of the swimming team says that the 100 will be used for the team's trip to fort laureldale fla during the vacation it was also voted to make no change in the system of manager ships now in vogue theme painting of the celebration honor society will assist in offering advantages to bethlehem boys mrs eugene grace wife of the president of the board of trustees and mrs carter collins president of the ladies auxiliary and wife of major collins assistant profes sor of military science addressed cyanide honorary junior society wednesday evening at a dinner meeting at the delta upsilon fra ternity mrs grace and mrs collins dis cussed the problems of social up lift in bethlehem appealing to cyanide members to aid in this work the ladies auxiliary is trying at present to establish a method to interest the officials of major industrial concerns in the vicinity in offering advantages to the children of the employees discuss sponsorship the specific endeavor offered to the society was in connection with the bethlehem boy's club the plan to sponsor several groups of young boys and supervise in a manner similar to the big brother plan was discussed by the 15 members present and a start in the work was made the members are planning to bring these boys to athletic events at lehigh and gradually widen the sphere of influence of cyanide until it acts in a completely super visory capacity over a group of 75 boys club members senior ballots should be filed by wednesday dance to follow program of chorus with 63 solo numbers special chorus to sing seventy-five members of the combined musical clubs will pre sent their annual winter home concert and dance at 8:30 o'clock saturday evening in drown hall dr t edgar shields professor of music will direct the chorus of 63 men charles g hub bus 38 will lead the orchestra for dancing following the program george c grow arts 38 pres ident-manager has announced the program to include six glee club numbers in addition to two school songs as well as solos by three glee club members a violin flute and piano trio will play and a special chorus is to sing three songs elbert m mahla met 38 tenor is singing for the first time at a glee club concert the cloths of heaven by dunhill and quentin r g keith arts 40 basso will be heard for the first time in a glee club concert he will sing schumann's zwei grenadieren the grenadiers wilson r pierpont arts 39 is to sing a bari tone solo three for jack at this his fourth glee club concert ap pearance new trio to play herbert alfred l trumpler arts 40 violinist richard o marsten eng 41 flutist and raymond k man eval bus 38 pianist comprise the new trio their selection is exerpts from the fortune teller operetta by victor herbert the special chorus composed of the leading singers in each voice group of the glee clifb is trained by dr shields it is an outgrowth of an original quartet two years ago and the double quartet of last season their songs are to be sea fever and bachelor's song by mark andrews and student's logic by f s smith as usual the program opens with hail the college by kinsey 07 and van vleck 08 and closer with the alma mater words by gib son 95 grow will lead these songs the other choral selections are memories or the merry wid ow waltz by lehar-moore roll out ranger chalmers-marlowe victory song berlioz precious wee one by forsyth and two russian folk songs at father's door and fireflies shields will chaperone carstens y haas ch e 38 and raymond k maneval are the club accompanists pierpont and d h prideaux arts 39 are assistant managers dr and mrs shields will chaperone the dance under the recent ruling pres c c williams regarding the use of drown hall attendance at the affair will be limited to members of the lehigh family and their guests this group includes all students faculty members and their families and nearby alumni students are admitted free of charge for all others tickets cost 55 cents now on sale at the union office drown hall o is still in coma hartshorn's condition is slightly improved stewart hartshorn eng 41 was still unconscious late last evening as a result of injuries re ceived last friday when his car collided with another car driven by henry goldstein of long is land n y his condition how ever was slightly improved the accident occurred at the intersection of routes 229 and 22 in auentown both cars were badly damaged margaret moyer one of the oc cupants of hartshorn's car was also reported in an improved con dition reads school invocation dr c g beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy read the invocation and dedication last night at ceremonies for the opening of the new fountain hill high school bishop f sterrett speaks at annual chem dinner at masonic temple in the troubled world today there is nothing more important than the spirit of good will said the rt rev frank w sterrett in his christmas address to the student chemical society at its an nual christmas banquet held at the masonic temple yesterday chemistry is a very important field said bishop sterrett but he added referring to the use of chemicals in war time i hope that chemistry will build up in stead of destroying things that are worth while dr harry m ullmann direc tor of the curricula in chemistry and chemical engineering deliv ered the first speech following dr ullmann a a diefenderfer pro fessor of quantitative analysis and assaying gave a short talk on the history and development of the chemical soceity dean c m mcconn and president c c wil liams guests at the banquet also spoke to the students present comedy following bishop sterrett's ad dress the chem society presented a musical comedy this year's crop of hisses written by frank kemmer ch e 39 and nelson lewis ch e 39 contained in this skit was a song what's your reaction baby written by dave hughes ch e 38 after the play santa claus ap peared and distributed gifts to members of the faculty and the senior class singing was inter spersed throughout the program present besides dean mcconn and president williams were dr c g beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy and members of the faculty of the chemistry department society initiates 6 wednesday will be the last day for accepting senior ballots her bert m wilson arts 38 editor-in chief of the epitome announced today after wednesday an addi tional 2 will be charged ap pointments should be made with mccaa at once all money is payable at the placement bureau where the bal lots are to be turned in per sonal writeups are not to be in cluded on the ballots as they have been abolished by an overwhelm ing majority vote of the senior class mustard and cheese won't repeat show eta kappa nu honors men at the old sun inn eta kappa nu honorary elec trical engineering society form ally initiated six electrical engi neering students wednesday night at the old sun inn each of the initiates was called upon to speak a few words to the society members prof s s seyfert professor of the electrical engineering department also ad dressed the group the following men were initi ated william roadstrum 38 donald w cooper 39 robert s grubmeyer 39 edward a lam bert 39 irving e lempert 39 frank c rabold 39 and eric weiss 39 o haring to address club dr albert haring associate pro fessor of economics will speak at the atlantic city rotary club meeting during christmas week mustard and cheese will give no second performance of ceil ing zero which will be pre sented at 8:30 tonight at broug hal high school according to a a rights director of the production rights said that although the orchestra was practically sold out the play could not be re peated saturday night because the broughal high school audi torium is taken and in addition saturday is the exclusive date for the glee club concert lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday december 10 1937 constitution is living flexible says williams price — ten cents vol xlv no 20 arcadia group to investigate code of frosh constitution issue joins celebration musical clubs will present home concert to investigate outdoor site of graduation 1 5 o 4nni vercfaiy of tno •••*••••••••* •* constitution lsp^fcravgrcfaiy of trie *************" constitution