Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 35

              bethlehem pa tuesday march 8 1938 vol xlv — no 35 price — five cents series places available miss sigmond chosen queen at army ball committee selects coliseum as site for junior prom u s unable to avoid war nathan fears houseparty weekend tentative play date juniors who wish to apply for membership on the student concert - lecture series com mittee for the 1938-1939 season should apply at the registrar's office before friday march 18th they will be asked to fill out a short questionnaire re garding activities musical clubs plan concert april 20 or 21 has been sel ected as the tentative date for the presentation of men in white by mustard and cheese dramatic society joseph hop kins bus 38 head of the bus iness staff announced yester day in addition several new fem inine characters have been sel ected mrs laurence whitcomb will play the part of mrs smith mrs albert rights will take the part of barbara denin a nurse mrs william macder mott will play the part of mary mrs william jenkins will play the part of mrs jamison wife of a doctor miss diehl will play the part of louise a nurse will present play thursday may sign band name chaperones by end of this week , eugene b caller i e 39 pres ident of the junior class announ ced last evenng that the coliseum has been selected as the site of the 1938 junior prom to be held on april 22 at present the band is indefinite said caller but will be verified ; along with the names of the chap j erons and committee members within the next few days in comparing the sites of the past interfraternity ball and the approaching junior prom caller said that the coliseum had been chosen over dorney park because the rental charge would be lower at the bethlehem site and because holding the dance in town would eliminate any transportation prob lem the committee feels caller continued that the prom is more of a school function than the in terfraternity ball and as such is more democratic for that reason the dance should be held in a spot accessible to all caller promised that the ven tilation in the coliseum this year will he improved upon in addition to caller the jun ior prom committee is comprised of phillip smith bus samuel cox i e and frank jackson ch e n y hearing to include glee club soloists and orchestra a varied program that will pre sent vocal soloists a symphonic ensemble special chorus a wood wind quintet and the dance or chestra has been announced by george c grow arts 38 presi dent for the combined musical clubs concert friday evening at the town hall new york both the quintet and the en semble will be heard for the first time this season and at the re quest of the alumni committee david g fluharty 27 chairman the dance orchestra will play dur ing the regular program as well as for dancing following the con cert concert program announced the program is as follows hail the college by kinsey 07 and van vleck 08 and a song of victory by berlioz the glee club hungarian dance no 5 by florida debaters to meet varsity queen of the constitutional ball continued on page four clinton and life's camera share in spotlight with moravian student 500 couples look on from among 500 girls present miss helen sigmond junior at moravian college for women was chosen queen of the constitution ball at midnight saturday in the national guard armory selected from live princesses picked by the majors of the le high r o t c faculty miss sig mond was crowned by lieut gen eral r l bullard after the prin cesses had been escorted by the majors to the stage through an arch of sabers formed by mem bers of scabbard and blade four selected princesses the girls chosen as princesses were miss odette young trapha gen school of art new york city miss evelyn lindner dumont n j betty jane sohn cedar crest college and miss virginia ed wards of bethlehem captain william e lewis beth lehem captain l c atwood bethlehem and col kenneth p lord port hamilton n v made the choice of queen from among the princesses queen made honorary colonel the queen who was made belle of the ball at a recent moravian prom was made an honorary col continued on page four adopt absenceßesolution diamond announces course enrollment williams names group omicron delta kappa's sugges tion that the commencement this spring be held out of doors was referred back to the committee on educational policy yesterday after noon by the faculty a resolution concerning exam ination absences was passed by the faculty at the meeting in the fac ulty room of the alumni mem orial building the official deter mination is as follows when a student is absent from a final examination the grade of absence submitted to the regis trar's office shall be followed by a letter grade in parenthesis to represent the department's estimate of the student's work at the close of instruction in cases where de partments do not feel justified in reporting an estimated grade a grade of abs-x may be returned 38 freshmen in reading course dr h m diamond professor and head of the department of economics and sociology acting as chairman of the general educa tional advisory council reported that 28 freshmen had enrolled in the reading program under the ad visership of members of the coun cil these twenty-eight consisting of eighteen engineers six arts men and four business men com bined with those continuing from last year brings the total number of men in the program to 50 president c c williams ap pointed a committee for nominat ing candidates for the faculty elec tions to committees this group consists of roy b cowin profes sor of accounting and head of the department of accounting and chairman of the committee dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religous philosophy and dr paul l bailey professor of physics dr bradley stoughton dean of the college of engineering an nounced that dr inge m lyse research associate professor of en gineering materials had been awarded the james r crocs medal at the annual meeting of the am erican society of civil engineers for his paper entitled torsion in beams will meet frosh national fraternity honors seniors who attain high scholarship will initiate march 21 phi beta kappa national hon orary scholastic fraternity an nounced yesterday that the initia tion of 19 seniors elected to that society will take place at 4:00 p m on march 21 in the faculty room of the alumni memorial building the group consists of five men from the college of arts and science five from the college of business administration two maj ors in chemistry four engineering physicists and three men from the college of engineering according to their constitution phi beta kappa can elect to reg ular membership those from the above curricula who have attained an average of 3.00 in accordance with the system of grading in all their studies at the middle or end of the senior year certain engineers eligible they may also elect not more than four seniors from the college of engineering who have attained an average of 3.00 in all their studies and an average of 3.00 in at least 30 semester hours of lin guistic or philosophical studies no election from the college of engi neering can be made on the ground of excellence in purely technical work the following men have been elected to membership william b ayers arts fresh man and sophomore honors treas urer and secretary of alpha ep silon delta eta sigma phi r w hall pre-medical society raymond f feilbach arts freshman and sophomore honors awarded wilbur german prize in freshman year awarded wilbur english prize in sophomore year tuesday news editor of brown and white r w blake society tennis captain chosen herbert l hilton bus sopho more honors alpha kappa psi tennis captain gerald j reilly arts awarded alumni junior prize to highest ranking arts junior treasurer of eta sigma phi morris mindlin arts freshman and sophomore honors awarded williams freshman prize in oral composition awarded williams sophomore prize in english com position awarded first of williams prizes in extempore speaking del ta omicron theta r w blake society vincent f acri eng phys freshman and sophomore honors pi mv epsilon tau beta pi treas urer and presdent of physics club raymond k maneval bus freshman and sophomore honors alpha kappa psi secretary-treas continued on page four e e institute to elect new officers at meeting an election of officers will be held at a meeting of the lehigh branch of the american institute of electrical engineers at 7:45 p m thursday in room 416 pack ard laboratory two students charles h hoff man e e 38 and charles h titus e e 38 will speak economist tells of need for more knowledge of current events praises foreign policy the united states may not be able to keep out of a european war even if it wants to stated dr otto nathan associate professor of economics at the new york uni versity graduate school in a lec ture friday night in packard audi torium sponsored by the interna tional relations club he also praised the american policy of avoiding entangling alli ances with oth^f nations but he said that united states citizens should become better informed on current events and their underly ing features hitler favors expansion the crucial problem in europe today the speaker stated is the question of exactly what germany wants in hitler's recent speech he declared himself for expansion and the return of colonies which ger mans heretofore have been glad to be rid of since they were only an expense to the country but even with this declaration hitler had not said whether he will turn east or west to expand the peace of europe hangs on this at the present time it looks as though he were preparing for an attack on russia he has been try ing to ally austria though not very successfully and he has many interests working in rumania and other small eastern european countries as well as italy all this points toward russia that may be why england is willing to consider a contract with germany and italy germany desires provinces but it is my own belief that this move is simply a trick on the part of hitler and that his real plan is to strike a blow at ger many's age-old enemy france and get her rich northern provinc es as well as some valuable co lonial possessions this would make the case entirely different for england but i also expect to see italy again turn from germany and go with france in such an event just as she did in the world war there are too many economic antagon isms between germany and italy for them to unite o aero club to see film on aviation the aero club will present a picture flying the lindbergh trail at their meeting at 8 p m wednesday in packard auditorium the picture was prepared under the direction of the pan-american airlines and depicts the operations of the line on their difficult routes all those interested in seeing this picture are invited to attend faculty rifle club chooses team for competition the faculty rifle club will meet the freshman team at 8:30 o'clock tonight in both standing and prone positions this will be the fourth annual meeting of the two teams the freshmen have won all three previous meets eliminations have been held and the following will shoot for the faculty gregory c lee chemistry research fellow lawrence whit comb assistant professor of ge ology william s lanterman graduate assistant in physics mrs frey mr bordeaux prof austin r frey assistant professor of phys ics miss lux prof john r con nelly assistant professor of mech anical engineering john c mertz instructor in chemistry mrs soto miss reidline and mrs maurice ewing wife of professor ewing powers of labor board to be challenged the second intersectional inter collegiate debate of the season will be held before the regular wed nesday luncheon meeting of the bethlehem rotary club at the ho tel bethlehem when the lehigh varsity team meets the debaters of the university in florida resolved that the national labor relations board should be empowered to enforce arbitration of all industrial disputes will be the question debated warren w ache met e 40 and henry g werner eng phys 40 will represent the university in upholding the negative case the university of florida speakers who are senior law students will be george amathers and ben krentzman other opponents met on the trip by the florida speakers are duke university washington and jef ferson college university of penn sylvania university of pittsburgh rutgers university and pennsyl vania state college dr wray h congdon director of admissions will preside a vote of opinion will be taken before and after the debate to determine the winner 4 pelleas and melisande is free to faculty and student body students will be admitted free to the production of the fantasy pelleas and melisande at 8:30 p m thursday in drown hall by showing their bursar's receipts at the door there will be no advance sale of tickets faculty members and their wives are to be admitted free and the general public will be charged 25 cents the production is being given by the dramatic workshop a course in advanced english and drama which is conducted by albert a rights instructor in english the play is based on the theory of maurice maeterlinck the auth or that true tragedy occurs not in violence or activity but in sil ence and retrospect of man's life real soul conflict and struggle is perceived only when we take time to think and study our inner selves said mr rights plot deals with triangle the plot deals with a triangle situation in which the older man golaud played by quentin r g keith arts 40 marries the young er woman melisande portrayed by barbara jacobs a graduate of wellesley besides her experience in school miss jacobs has ap peared for three years with stock companies pelleas the younger brother of golaud played by john b sabol arts 39 falls in love with melis ande with tragic results in illus tration of maeterlinck's use of symbols one of the scenes rep resents symbolically the warning of death to pelleas who has trans gressed upon the marriage of gol aud and melisande miss helen sigmond moravian seminary and college for women as she reigned over 500 couples saturday night photo by grafton members of senior class elected into phi beta kappa national honorary scholastic fraternity vincent f acri william b ayers stanley c bunce william g dukek jr raymond f feilbach william p gottlieb william g hempel herbert hilton jr charles h hoffman byron r kelley eng phys arts chem chem arts bus bus bus e e arts nelson m kennedy raymond k maneval morris mindlin albert s ogden joseph parmet gerald j reilly walter j schmidt evans h stone donald b wheeler eng phys bus arts eng phys chem arts ch e bus eng phys phi beta kappa elects 19 men as members lehigh university brown and white faculty meet discuss o.d.k outdoor plan