Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 37

              a f jones d w cooper c g layman e weiss e hems y m white f l jackson e a lambert f n kemmer r c parsons d crary e.m 38 is not in picture brown and white photo by hammond national honorary engineering fraternity takes senior 10 juniors r d billinger outlines history requirements of organization will sponsor photo exhibit election based on scholarship and activities glee club concert given for alumni debaters are planning to leave thursday for perm state five members of delta omicron theta honorary debating society and j calvin callaghan director of debating will leave thursday for the third annual pennsylvania state debators convention to be held friday and saturday at perm state college heading the delegation will be richard phelps e m 38 who will serve as chairman of the commit tee on american foreign policy and war other members of the lehigh delegation on the commit tee are henry s heckman arts 39 russel kowalyshyn arts 40 robert stern eng phys 40 and henry werner eng phy 40 they will determine and draw up a statement of their position with respect to america's foreign policy before leaving all schools in the debating as sociation of pennsylvania colleges will participate in this session which includes a banquet on fri day evening other committees will discuss the solution of the employer - labor struggle and the subject of higher education the lehigh delegates have prepared for the session by taking a course in parliamentary proce dures which will be used through out the session shearer elected to senate group will include compositions by strauss brahms and schubert concert to be friday joseph bentonelli american ly ric tenor of the metropolitan opera association will present a program of 15 selections friday night at the broughal high school auditor ium in the fifth of the current se ries of student concert-lectures benton elli will sing composi tions by schubert brahms and strauss and also several songs still in manuscript one is the ape and the lady by alice de cevee which will be presented for the first time in public this season the first song on the program is an english folk song some ri val has stolen my true love away a traditional air from the little land-locked county of sur rey south of london schubert's contribution to the evening's en tertainment will be dv bist die ruh one of the songs which he dashed off in the intervals between his attempts to write for the stage to sing aria by giordano bentonelli will sing an aria from andrea chenier by umberta giordano the production in which he made his debut in rome at the teatro royale the title of the aria is come un bel di di mag gio it is taken from the last act of andrea chenier and is the main character's farewell to life as he waits for his french revolu tionist captors to come to take him to the guillotine another song to be presented is comu la samaritana by giovan ni camajani this is an original composition based on a sicilian le gend and is the latest from the pen of this young italian-ameri can born in new york and a graduate of new york university christmas eve is the title of another selection to be sung by bentonelli the music of this song is by richard hagerman and the j words by joyce kilmer author of trees the last selection of the program will be sea moods by mildred lund tyson this song is continued on page four dorney also unavailable committee seeks new dance location caller suggests 2 bands the coliseum will not be the site for the junior prom an nounced eugene caller i e 39 chairman of the prom committee negotiations are being made to secure the hotel bethlehem for the dance the present plan is to engage two well-known lower priced bands in place of one big name band the present owners of the col iseum have drawn up a lease to rent the building to a firm which intends to convert the dance hall and roller skating rink into a market place the lease will go into effect before april 22 and al though alterations may not be begun until after that date the prom committee has decided not to wait dorney park is unavoidable when it was known that the coliseum was definitely out castle garden in dorney park was con sidered and the manager was con tacted it was found however that the pennsylvania state motor pa trol had engaged the ballroom for the night of the dance the only other suitable place lor the dance is the hotel beth lehem said caller he believes that previous dances at the hotel have proved that one band is not successful because of the lack of a ballroom large enough to accom modate the crowds attending the junior rirom the only successful arrangement is to engage two bands one to play in each of the ballrooms horace heidt played at last year's junior prom and the hud son-delange and charles barnett orchestras played at the 1936 fall house party both dances were held at the hotel bethlehem prom committee is listed in addition to eugene caller the junior prom committee con sists of philip h smith bus 39 samuel r cox ch e 40 and frank l jackson ch e 39 the chaperons for the dance will be dean and mrs m c mcconn associate dean and mrs george b curtis and dr and mrs claude c beardslee obsequies of agnes sound death knell of fem-sem new york trip includes broadcast music program the first concert in seven years sponsored by a lehigh alumni club was given by the combined musical clubs under the direction of dr t edgar shields director of music friday evening at the town hall club new york city under the sponsorship of the le high alumni club of new york prospective lehigh students and headmasters and principals of nearby schools who as guests of the alumni club were among the audience that heard a program presented by vocal soloists a symphonic ensemble special chor us and the dance orchestra in addition to playing in the regular concert the orchestra furnished music for a dance held after the program the glee club earlier in the ev ening broadcast a 15-minute pro gram over the 7 5 station red net work of the national broadcasting company fifty-five men who made the trip were guests of the alumni club at dinner friday evening overnight at the hotel governor clinton and at saturday morning breakfast knight in armor try-outs are scheduled for thursday night publishers to get songs tryouts for the forthcoming musical comedy a knight in ar mor will be held thursday eve ning in drown hall following the glee club rehearsal announced albert a rights instructor in english the tryouts are open to all stu dents who possess vocal ability needed for the singing leads the show will have twelve or thirteen songs written by david hughes special student negotia tions are under way to have some of the music published by a new york firm which has handled mu sic for other college shows some of the ballads submitted to the firm are in walked you which was introduced by tommy dorsey at the interfraternity ball song of the sword after that afternoon out of a clear blue sky and only a dream of these two of the titles will have to be changed the words and title of in walked you are to be changed because of their similar ity to the current hit in walked love the title of after that afternoon will also be changed last year's songs revived some of the songs used in last year's production boy in babe land which will be used as or chestrations between the acts were also submitted for publication they are ashes on the floor ecstacy i'll try to forget at last afraid to fall in love other songs to be used in the show are somewhere in the night let's talk about spring and you never have fun the script is being written by william g dukek chem 38 it will have three settings six scenes and three acts the cast consists of two male and two female sing ing leads along with three non singing leads female parts will probably be taken by girls from moravian college for women the play is a satira aimed at the modern age it deals with a con flict of the conception of medieval chivalry with modern cynicism the story concerns an idealistic young college boy who in a dream returns to the middle ages be comes a knight and after falling in love finds his concepts of chiv alry shattered the performance will be given on may 7 or 4 music is to be fur nished by the university dance orchestra williams to speak club visits wjz camera club to display student faculty art starts april 18 the first student-sponsored ex hibition of creative art at lehigh will be held in the art gallery in the library from april 18 to may 8 when the lehigh camera club holds its first public photo exhibit the show is not restricted to mem bers of the society and any facul ty member or student is eligible to compete for the prizes and awards in each of the three classes originally scheduled for an ear lier date the exhibition has been postponed for a week to provide exhibitors more time for the pre paration of their exhibits and so that the exhibition will be on dur ing sub-freshman day requirements listed for prints technical requirements are few but rigid 1 all prints must be between bxlo and 11x14 inches in size 2 they must be mounted on standard 16x20 inch mounts which are to be had from mal colm simons che m 38 4780-j and samuel graf ton eng 41 704 at the cost price of eight cents each 3 each mounted print must bear on its back its title the name of its maker and the competi tion class in which it is en tered 4 all entries must be delivered to simons grafton harry hammond eng phys 38 or louis stoumen arts 39 on or before april 11 5 an entry fee of ten cents per print must be paid there is no limit on the number of prints per exhibitor the three classes of competition for the prizes and awards which have not yet been definitely deter mined are class a — candid shots recreation sports action class b — landscape seascape ar chitectural still life class c — formal or informal portraits the four judges are local profes sions — david mccaa charles den nis j j ryan and judson schaef fer besides the formal judges a student poll of gallery-goers will be taken during the exhibition will hold dances tau beta pi national honorary engineering fraternity pledged one senior and ten juniors at colloquium exercises yesterday morning in packard auditorium the senior was donald crary e m the juniors were eric weiss e e edward a lambert e e donald w cooper e e allen f jones m e earl hems ch e frank n keramer ch e vincent m white m e frank l jackson ch e charles g layman m e and robert c parsons met e r d billinger assistant profes sor of chemistry faculty adviser spoke at the exercises where he outlined the history and require ments of the fraternity and con gratulated the pledges he was in troduced by john a cooney e e 38 society president seniors may be elected to the fraternity from the first quarter of their class juniors may be el ected from the first eighth of their class integrity character and breadth of interests are considered for eligibility as well as scholastic ability the new men were elected following a smoker wednesday night 4 alpha chapter located here tau beta pi was founded here in 1885 there are now over 60 chapters in the united states a list of the activities of the pledges follows donald crary newtonian soc iety donald w cooper newtonian society eta kappa nu alpha phi omega electrical engineering so ciety charles g layman glee club newtonian society delta omicron theta robert c parsons cyanide pi tau sigma newtonian society photographic editor of the 1938 epitome letters in cross-country and track vincent m white alpha phi omega newtonian society edward a lambert pi mv ep silon eta kappa nu phi eta sigma electrical engineering soc iety newtonian society wilbur mathematics second prize in fresh man year eric weiss electrical engineer ing society phi eta sigma new tonian society pi mv epsilon pi delta epsilon eta kappa nu ed itorial manager brown and white allen f jones pi tau sigma award for highest ranking fresh man in m e earl hems newtonian society frank n kemmer editorial council of brown and white vice president and treasurer of phi eta sigma newtonian society frank l jackson newtonian society will elect officers debaters attend session at colgate university james l shearer arts 39 was elected to serve on the executive committee of next year's session at the model senate which was held friday and saturday at col gate university hamilton n y he served on the same committee for this year five members of delta omicron theta honorary debating society represented lehigh this year heading the delegation was dan iel q marshall m e 38 who served as chairman of the foreign relations committee which passed a resolution defining america's foreign policy also serving on this committee were morris mind lin arts 38 and bernard alt shuler eng phys 40 both of these men served on the sub-committees which drafted a bill modifying present taxes on business warren ache met 40 served on the judiciary commit tee which succeeded in defating the anti-lynching legislation each delegate took the name of a member of the united states senate those impersonated by le high men were marshall senator barkley of kentucky mindlin senator guffey of pennsylvania altshuler senator bone of wash ington ache senator neeley of west virginia the delegates did not express the political convictions of the senators but advocated their own personal opinions to address clubs radio group inspects transmitter station fifteen members of the radio club made an inspection trip sat urday to the wjz transmitter at bound brook n j the club held a meeting thurs day at which it was decided to buy material for a new auxiliary transmitter which will be built for code use only an inspection will be made in the near future to the marine sta tion at new brunswick n j this station is used to handle trans atlantic communications it is equipped with several alexander alternators which are dynamos used instead of tubes to generate radio waves at very low frequen cies harmeson cornelius plan talks at newark president c c williams will speak on educating for citizen ship at the annual dinner of the northern new jersey club to be held friday evening at the new ark athletic club glen harmeson head football coach will discuss the football outlook and robert f herrick assistant secretary of the alumni association will show movies of the 1937 lehigh-lafayette football game other speakers will be william a cornelius executive secretary of the alumni association and lieut richard aldworth superin tendent of newark airport aid worth will talk on the develop ment and future of airlines and airports on march 25 dr f a brad ford professor of economics and head of the department of finance will speak at a meeting of the central pennsylvania alumni club at harrisburg 2 fraternities planning for saturday affairs delta upsilon fraternity will hold its annual house dance on saturday with music by bob hor ton and his orchestra the chaperons will be harry osborn and mr and mrs john miller phi sigma kappa fraternity has engaged ken brader and his or chestra of easton for their annual house dance to be held saturday evening mr and mrs dacey will chap eron the dance blake society to discuss forms of collectivism sophomores compete for handbook positions 2 approved by board er upheld fine traditions les impressive funeral will snake no more that we might praise her would that we might point with pride at agnes — who might have been one of the most brilliant satellites ever to flit across the moravian sky alas it is not so the evil that men do lives after them — and so it is with women agnes has been nought but a fish out of wa ter here a thorn in our side a fly in our ointment she represents an era that is gone — done — fin ished — an era where wisdom was measured by the extent of one's dare-deviltry popularity by one's misdeeds she is a living exam ple — nay rather a dead one of what is definitely not the thing to do she drank she smoked — let me bring before your minds — agnes as she was nobody smok ed more than agnes nobody drank more than agnes she was always the first one lit and the last one out the smoking room was her boudoir the off-color joke her by-word she might have had an i q but she copied all her home work cheated in every exam and in fact never cracked a book she might have been lovely — but her lips were a bit too hard her eyes a bit to bright and the circles under them well past her arches she might have been a belle — but she couldn't play ball she might have had friends but she'd steal the powder off her roommate's nose to make a man she would and in the end she had no men — because she had no in tegral honesty no code no fair play although there is the maxim the appointment of henry t s heckman arts 39 as advertising manager of the lehigh review was approved by the board of publi cations at a meeting held thurs day in the office of dean c m mcconn harold selser jr e e 39 was approved as organization editor of the epitome at the same time a panel discussion on forms of collectivism will be held thurs day by the r w blake honorary philosophical society in the en gineers lounge of packard labora tory morris mindlin arts 38 will speak on communism william b ayers arts 38 fascism p e p white e e 38 socialism and john k montmeat bus 38 cap italism dr herbert m diamond head of the department of econom ics and sociology will act as chair man dean stoughton will visit 4 alumni groups bradley stoughton dean of the college of engineering will leave for california tomorrow afternoon by airplane from the allentown airport thursday he will stop in cleveland where he will address the lehigh club of that city fri day he will address the lehigh club of chicago after continuing to los angeles he will address the los angeles lehigh club on march 23 and will go on to san francisco where he will speak before the san fran cisco lehigh club on march 26 dean stoughton will be accom panied on the trip by mrs stough ton they will return monday af ternoon march 26 continued on page four alpha phi omega to hold fireplace dedication alpha phi omega national boy scout fraternity will elect officers at a business meeting at 7:30 to morrow evening in the arcadia room of drown hall the society will dedicate the out-door fireplace which was re cently completed at 5:30 p m sunday william lacy national field representative of alpha phi omega will be the speaker for the occasion the fireplace is situated on the top of south mountain about 200 feet north of the little theater which is used for dramatic pre sentations during the summer ses sion sophomore competition for next year's freshman handbook business staff began thursday night when 40 second year men met in the arcadia room in drown hall to learn the system which they will use for soliciting advertisements plans for the cover of the book have not been completed and will not be considered until the finan cial status of the publication has been determined aggie fem-sem has nev of institution for femal brings tears lehigh the girls of moravian this week showed a negatory attitude toward the practice of lehigh men who for generations have referred to the institution across the bridge as fem-sem performing a slight case of murder on agnes fem-sem a charlie mccarthy-like creation of two moravian students they had a whale of a funeral at chapel ex ercises at high noon on wednes day agnes it seems is or was the spirit of fem-sem which took on a more satan-like aspect in the minds of the girls who objected to the term thinking that their pub lic was misquoting itself by re ferring to their chimney corner including both the college for wo men and seminary as fem-sem an important occasion it is not surprising that the fu neral took on the semblance of a weighty occasion by holding a fu neral for agnes fem-sem the girls feel that they have emphati cally expressed their desire to dis continue permanently the use of this name for their institution authentic for after the organist without doubt the ceremony was had reached the second chorus of chopin's funeral march the pro cession came down the center aisle dressed in mourning and carry ing agnes in a coffin aggie was placed in state on the platform and the girls got down to the business of funeralizing her the eulogy was a gem of the first water struggling with inner emotion the chief mourner said we are gathered here together in a last gracious gesture to the de ceased — agnes fem-sem would lehigh university brown and white 11 men honored by tau beta pi at colloquium pledging exercises vol xlv — no 37 bethlehem pa tuesday march 15 1938 15 selections to be given by bentonelli price — five cents coliseum out as prom site hotel bethlehem considered hughes writes 12 songs for new musical 5 will attend state conclave all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612