Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 42

              the committee on education al policy meeting yesterday decided on the following in re gard to senior commencement exercises 1 the committee on educa tional policy acting for the faculty ruled that commence ment exercises be held in packer memorial chapel 2 the committee addressed to the senior class a request for an expression of opinion as to the time of holding commence ment as between monday even ing and tuesday morning 3 the committee addressed to the senior class a request for an expression of opinion as to the desirability of issuing four extra tickets per senior admit ting to the grove or to the packard auditorium spellers lose to moravian phi eta sigma to pledge men in colloquim phi eta sigma honorary fresh man fraternity will tap 19 fresh men at colloquium exercises tomorrow morning they are albter e lee eng charles f kalmbach eng joseph w schall eng george m ritchie jr eng george e hesselbacher eng donald r shcoen arts hugh r davidson eng john t riley bus john s ferguson eng bernard stuber eng james w mannion eng samuel s cross eng stephen kowalyshyn eng leonard j mckinley eng richard m dietz eng frederick r gilmore arts august deschee maeker eng arnold h e grand age eng edwin a brown arts the society will hold a meeting at 7 30 thursday evening in room 466 packard laboratory kenneth smiley assistant director of ad missions will be the speaker initiation will take place some time early in may a picnic is also being planned dance location is transferred groups to offer luncheon bids lt col joseph s leonard head of the department of military sci ence and tactics will preside at a discussion on rearmament and peace at 8 p m tomorrow in packard auditorium this topic is the subject for the fifth annual in tercollegiate forum sponsored by delta omicron theta honorary debating fraternity representatives of new york university dickinson college la tayette college rutgers university and lehigh will present impartial summaries of various phases of the subject following an open forum discussion lt col leonard will present a short resume of the topic bowen addresses closing session meeting friday to decide insurance commence ment policies to announce class day an insurance plan whereby the class of 1938 might at the end of 20 years make to the university a gift of approximately 30,000 will be presented to the senior class for its approval in a meet ing at 4 p m friday in packard auditorium the problem of an outdoor com mencement will be discussed and voted on at the meeting the class day plaque and announcement committees will also be announced a report on the insurance plan was compiled by a committee ap pointed by harry c milbank i e 38 senior class president at a meeting on sunday afternoon the report follows to seek closer bonds the purposes of the plan studied by this committee are to form a closer bond between the class and the university to show our ap preciation of the years spent at lehigh and to express our confi dence in the work lehigh is doing the plan consists of individual 20 - year endowment insurance policies endowment insurance is a combination of life in surance and savings each year a fixed premium for example 10 is paid to the insurance company by the man who is insured and in 1958 the face value — in this case over 200 — plus accrued div idends is paid to the university should 150 seniors subscribe and complete their payments over 30,000 would be available for a class gift at the 20th reunion of the class as the plan is a class respon sibility an insurance reserve will be set up consisting of the pres ent class treasury plus dividends paid by the insurance company should the amount of the policy be 250 it may be possible through arrangements with the university authorities to have premiums for the first 10 years continued on page four beardslee heads schools division may give night in armor second time female characters drawn hughes completes songs broughal high school auditorium has been selected for the perform ance on may 6 of the musical comedy night in armor an nounces albert a rights instruc tor in english who is directing the play rights states that there will be a second performance on may 7 if there is a large demand for tickets rehearsals are now under way and female parts are being taken by students from moravian prep school moravian college for women and other bethlehem girls who have already graduated from college the following are the leading characters john raleigh galahad thom as w pulliam eng 41 peter wickley launcelot franklin r norton ch e 39 louise coverly miss helen mclnroy gwen arthur guinevere miss margaret ster rett dean george arthur king arthur , malcolm carrington bus 39 merlin wayne f o'neill arts 39 martha ramsey miss ruth pazzetti mrs merlin miss josephine loos butch norman hammer arts 40 marcelle miss june foering jim belvidere jac ob s hartzell bus 40 hughes fnishes 12 songs twelve songs written by david hughes special student have been completed they are song of the sword i've got what it takes let's talk about spring out of a clear blue sky only a dream after that afternoon you never have fun here's to the men somewhere in the night the wench is not am used in walked you and round table round act i scene i takes place in the social hall of coverly college act 11 scene i is in the bedroom of a college fraternity house scene ii of the same act follows in the medieval castle of king arthur's court act 111 scene i takes place in the castle and scene ii again follows in the fraternity house bedroom frosh-soph hop to be semi-formal ; will decorate floor the site of the freshman-soph omore dance to be held saturday may 14 has been changed from the masonic temple to the national guard armory announced william f carson eng 40 last night the committee has planned to make this a semi-formal affair stated carson with the hope that students who do not attend other university dances will attend this one the committee voted to establish 1.10 as the price of tickets for couples or stag no orchestra has been signed to this date but ne gotations are under way to secure an orchestra outside of bethlehem dancing will begin at 9 o'clock and continue until 1 a m a committee will be appointed to consider the possibilities of dec orating the dance floor in a way that would create a warmer at omsphere said carson confers with professors section a elects officers donald santmyers ch e 39 and fred e galbraith jr ch e 40 were elected section chief and secretary-treasurer respectively of section a taylor hall at a meeting held by the section on sunday evening the newly elected officers will assume their duties this september opponents take trophy for bee broadcast from allentown lehigh's spelling team was de feated last night by a team repre senting moravian college for men in a bee broadcast last night over station wsan in allentown the bee was the final one of a series in which all the colleges in the lehigh valley took part the score was 16 demerits for moravian and 17 for lehigh in recognition of its victory moravian received a trophy plaque from members of kappa phi kap pa honorary teaching fraternity at jvluhlenberg college which spon sored the bees donald r schoen arts 41 was given the book the proud heart by pearl h buck this book as well as two others won by lehigh's spellers will be presented to the university library team coached by riley members of the team which was coached by dr edgar h riley as sociate professor of english are donald r schoen arts 41 cap tain raymond h snyder c e 38 howard j lewis ch e 40 james w mannion jr eng 41 seymour margolis eng 41 and charles r kiefer jr arts 41 moravian's team consisted of messrs donchez getz polcrack lukens spiegel and stoerm the mis-spelled words included marriageability peruke pultace ous gnome heptastich schesis marchioness kymograph rodo montade denounement lachryma tory tachymeter tonsillotomy pericope hebdomadal monoph thong stiolist and catachresis meredith e johnson new jer sey state geologist spent friday conferring with dr benjamin l miller head of the department of geology and dr maurice ewing assistant professor of physics the discussion was about geophysical problems of new jersey victorious moravian and vanquished lehigh spellers favorable action on report by wilson herrick stone follows consideration of suggestion submitted recently by pi delta epsilon new system will go into effect in september controlling committee to give written examinations as basis of elections ruling group created scaled honoraria replace profit sharing by willet weeks jr a streamlined model of the brown and white organisation which in less than a decade has made the paper one of the lead ing college semi-weeklies in the country was approved for the epitome friday afternoon by the board of publications at a meeting in the office of dean c m mcconn chairman of the board the reorganization plan which is to go into effect in septem ber was drawn up and submitted to the board by herbert m wilson editor in chief of the 1938 epitome evans h stone business manager and robert f herrick faculty adviser after the board at its last meeting had considered acting upon a re quest of pi delta epsilon honorary publications fraternity that the board make serious efforts to reorganize the epitome reorganization has 6 points the main changes provided for by the reorganization are 1 the election of all officers by the board of publications upon the recommendation of the faculty ad viser and the editor in chief or business manager instead of by the epitome board as at present 2 written examinations for competitors conducted by the fac ulty adviser as a means of enabling him to give a better estimate of the competitors to the board of publications 3 regular monthly meetings of the faculty adviser officers and staff members for the purpose of training the younger men and of keeping everyone informed of the progress of the publication 4 the creation of the office of art editor who will more or less be a working assistant to the ed itor in chief 5 the creation of an executive committee similar to that of the brown and white consisting of the editor in chief business man ager art editor and faculty ad viser 6 substitution of a fixed sched ule of honoraria for both junior and senior officers instead of the old plan of dividing all profits among the seniors a constitution to guide the new organization is being drawn up by kenneth k kost secretary to the board in conjunction with wilson and stone turns to handbook with the epitome organization well under way the board will turn its attention at 4 10 p m tomorrow to a petition of pi delta epsilon that the board take con trol of the freshman handbook the only student publication not supervised by the board the handbook was once controlled by the board but for the last seven continued on page fou carothers ends radio talk series interfraternity council's constitution revised ; to elect officers fraternities will issue formal luncheon bids to preparatory and high school students attending sub-freshman day may 7 an nounced joseph a hopkins bus 38 president of the interfraternity council following a meeting of that organization last night registration cards will be sent to all those who have applied for admission and when returned will be available for each house group to make selections of luncheon guests prospective students will have the privilege of making a choice of the fraternity at which they will take lunch plan suggested by congdon this plan was suggested by wray h congdon director of ad missions e kenneth smiley as sistant director of admissions and dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and re ligious philosophy it is hoped that this plan will eliminate some of the haphazard methods employed by fraternities in contacting sub-freshmen in past years said congdon forty students will be chosen to act as guides for the visitors sel ections will be made on the basis of recognition of the importance of the duty of each guide constitution is revised election of officers duties of the judicial committee terms of office allocation of funds and penalties were items included in the re vised constitution of the inter fraternity council the new constitution was drawn up by joseph a hopkins bus 38 henry naisby ch e 38 william clark ch e 33 walter west arts 39 and dr beardslee faculty adviser of the council hopkins announced that a spec ial meeting of the council will be held monday to vote on the var ious parts of the revised consti tution the entire constitution will be voted upon as a whole at the next regular meeting of the coun cil local community chest reopens drive dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy has again been appointed chairman of the schools division of the community chest campaign the forthcoming campaign will be from april 22 to may 3 the goal will be 126,895 in support of 14 welfare health and character-building agencies bradley stoughton dean of the college of engineering has been appointed chairman of the men's division mrs harry m ullmann wife of the head of the depart ment of chemical engineering will head the women's division walter r okeson treasurer of the university will be the indus trial division leader and chair man of the budget committee dr harold p thomas head of the department of education will head the campaign executive committee dale h gramley associate pro fessor of journalism will be co chairman of the publicity com mittee mrs ullmann dr beardslee dr thomas and okeson are mem bers of the board of directors of the community chest heuttig given birthday party is 80 years old holy comunion service will be held in chapel a i £. £. convention held yesterday we are on the way to a new technique in dealing with high fre quency transmission in the field of communication stated mr e bowen engineer of the bell tele phone laboratories at the closing session of the convention spon sored by the lehigh branch of the american institute of electrical engineers yesterday in packard auditorium five students read 15 minute papers in a competition held yest erday morning as a part of the convention j n walter prince ton who presented a paper on the birth of a modern communi cation type receiver took first prize while d s pensyl haver ford received second prize with his paper on field strength measurements of low power radio transmission systems us ing horizontal radiators hoiiman reads paper charles m hoffman e e 38 read a paper on electricity and medicine saul taragin of johns hopkins discussed electrical re sistance welding and thomas ross lafayette presented a paper on construction and operation of vacuum tube voltmeters bowen executed nearly twenty experiments typical of those that have been done in the past ten year in the field of guided electro magnetic wave research he dem onstrated high frequency trans mission through hollow pipes and through di-electric materials such as rubber types of transmitted fields were pictured and the lengths oi waves were measured an inspection trip through the bethlehem steel plant was made in the afternoon previous to the evening session the soceity held a dinner at the hotel bethlehem henry huettig 78 who is in charge of the chemical supplies and an employee of the chemistry department for 56 years was given a birthday party saturday the event marked his eightieth birth day the most unusual of the cards received by huettig was one two and a half fe wide by three ft long sent by dr j s long for merly professor of inorganic chem istry and now head of the research division devoe reynolds paint and varnish company louisville ky the card was signed by a number of mr huettig's friends claims industrial distress due to economic laws dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administra tion presented his last radio talk monday night for the chase na tional bank program dean carothers expressed his thanks and enjoyment of the six months of radio work the fan mail he received proved to him that many americans are inter ested in economic principles there is no natural reason why we should suffer this industrial distress we have brought it on ourselves by ignoring the inex orable laws of economics he said by re-establishing cooperation between government business and labor on sound economic prin ciples we can solve our present economic problem by adopting sound economic principles we can restore prosperity he stated dr carothers spoke of the great enjoyment he had had in working on the program especially with the musical genius of eugene or mandy and leopold stokowski butterfield tells society of advances in aviation thomas e butterfield professor of heat power engineering spoke on various phases of the aviation industry at a meeting of the le high aeronautical society friday evening at the allentown y m c a professor butterfield stressed the advancement in safety design en gineering and technique during the past decade in observance of holy week there will be a celebration of holy communion at 11:15 a m on maundy thursday april 14 in packer memorial chapel all mem bers of the faculty and the student body are welcome the very reverend roscoe t foust dean of the pro-cathedral church of the nativity will be the celebrant dr t edgar shields university organist will give an organ recital immediately preced ing the service from 11 to 11:15 a m bniwn juhl white pboto by sclu-y and goodman left to right top row r lukens spiegel h j lewis ch e 40 hawk polcrack moravian cap tain d r schoen arts 41 captain c r kiefer jr arts 41 s margolis eng 41 r h snyder c e 38 bottom row stoerm getz donchez hertz j w mannion jr eng 41 lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday april 12 1938 frosh fraternity will tap 19 men group decides upon commencement program vol xlv — no 42 price — five cents group selects broughal high for play site senior class will consider future gifts publications board approves 6 point reorganization plan to eliminate epitome politics to preside at forum member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first