Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 49

              class of 38 reverses action on commencement decision 9-11 a m — registration alum ni memorial building in spection of campus 11 a m — assembly packard laboratory conferences 1 p m — luncheon armory 1:30-3 p m exhibits and demonstrations 2:30-5 p m — athletic events 3 p m — tea and informal re ception lounge drown hall willet weeks jr arts 39 b and w editor in chief arcadia picks dr beardslee points for omicron delta kappa national honorary sen ior activities fraternity must be submitted to john s hoppock o.d.k president before 6 p m monday at the phi gamma delta house sophomores seeking election to cyanide honorary junior ac tivities society must give their points to george e hurst cy anide secretary before 6 p m monday at the phi delta theta house pi delt to go to moravian russell e stevens ch e 39 b and w business manager first semester after hearing mcconn and ullman speak they vote again to hold chapel service had previously decided to have exercises in taylor field reversing its previous action after hearing speeches by dean c m mcconn and dr harry ull mann director of the curriculum in chemical engineering and chair man of the faculty education com mittee the class of 1938 voted 57 32 yesterday afternoon in packard auditorium in favor of holding the commencement exercises in the chapel the class had previously voted to hold the graduation on monday evening june 13 in taylor stad ium but after learning that the faculty administration and trus tees favored indoor exercises the class vote favored the chapel site with the date set as tuesday morning june 14 by a vote of 50-14 the class adopted the insurance gift plan by which the class will present 35,000 to the university in 1958 the treasury of the class will be used as a reserve fund in case an emergency arises in the admin istration of this fund professor writes against u s plan grant cox and schoen are chosen leaders of upper classes over 50 per cent vote arcadia was retained as the name of the new student govern ing body consisting of the old ar cadia and the lehigh union last tuesday in drown hall at the class elections franc h burnett i e 39 was chosen head of the new organiza tion by a 50 percent majority the office of senior class pres ident was won by alan s grant i e who led his nearest oppon ent by 26 votes nearly 54 percent of the stu dent body voted as 911 ballots poured in george e hurst bus was chosen secretary treasurer of the class of 39 the class of 40 elected alfred t cox c e president and har old j masem arts as secretary treasurer cox led the voting by 90 ballots freshmen elect schoen the freshmen elected donald r schoen arts for next year's pres idency and augustus a riemon dy eng for the position of sec retary-treasurer schoen's nearest opponent was 104 votes away from election the dormitory and town groups elected george a albrecht bus 39 and henry t heckman arts 39 respectively as representatives to arcadia arcadia as the name of the new student body was chosen by 286 votes out of a total of 750 the next three in order of their pop ularity were arcadia union stu dent council and union one vote was discovered for utopia malcolm carrington jr bus 39 was chosen to head the cheer leaders for next year carring ton's biggest opposition came from charles w sheldrake ch e 39 carrington carried the election by 483 votes out of a total of 850 bal lots george b rheinfrank i e 39 b and w business manager second semester reelects former adviser flag pole day may 12 set up committee arcadia the new student gov erning body named dr claude g beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy faculty adviser appointed temporary com mittees and completed arrange ments for the annual college flag pole meeting at its first meeting last night in drown hall dr beardslee who was also named secretary pro tern has been serving as adviser to the old ar cadia and the lehigh union henry s heckman arts 39 was named chairman of the freshman handbook committee other mem bers will be g edward hurst bus 39 and franklyn f schafer bus 39 murphy named chairman a constitution and historical committee consisting of j palmer murphy arts 38 chairman arch ibald l jamieson met e 38 and alan s grant i e 39 was ap pointed to bring up to date and file the records of the arcadia and union merger committees a committee to draw up a bud get and determine the financial standing of the organization was named members are alfred t cox c e 40 philip j welch m e 38 and john w welker e e 38 the flag pole meeting will be held may 12 the program is be ing arranged by franc h burnett i e 39 president of arcadia who will preside members of the new cabinet present were burnett alan s continued on page fou r to give lectures marshall honored brown and white officers selected at meeting in dean's office review head is elected willet weeks arts 39 was elected editor in chief of the brown and white by the board of publications at a meeting yester day in the office of dean c m mcconn the board split the bus iness managership by electing russell e stevens ch e 39 for the first semester and george b rheinfrank i e 39 for the sec ond the election of henry t heck man arts 39 as business manag er of the review was confirmed by the board the names of review editorial officers and of all epitome officers will be submitted to the board at a special meeting held this afternoon weeks succeeds murphy weeks a journalism major suc ceeds j palmer murphy the new editor has served on the paper for six semesters has been news edi tor and since february news man ager he is president elect of pi delta epsilon honorory publica tions fraternity and a member of the student concert-lecture series committee he is a member of chi psi fraternity stevens has served as local ad vertising assistant and as finan cial manager of the brown and white he is a member of cyan ide alpha chi rho and treasurer of pi delta epsilon he will also be manager of next year's bas ketball team serves in advertising rheinfrank present business manager of the lehigh review has served the brown and white as copy superviser and local ad vertising assistant he will be fi nancial manager during the com ing semester he is a member of cyanide phi gamma delta and is historian of pi delta epsilon heckman who was elected town representative to arcadia on tues day has been active in publica tions work he is advertising man ager of the review makeup editor of the brown and white and will be editorial manager of the fresh man handbook sigma xi's hear 3 faculty papers number of sub-freshmen to arrive tomorrow will exceed 400 exercises sta»-t 9 a m over 400 sub-freshmen have registered by mail for the exercises to be held tomorrow beginning at 9 a m with registration at the alumni memorial building stated dr wray h congdon director of admissions and chairman of the sub-freshman day committee the new system of advance reg istration is expected to speed up the registratoin of the visitors the guests have been mailed programs of the day's activities and will merely have to sign the register in the memorial building upon com pletion of the registration the vis itors will be met by committee men and fraternity men who will show them about the campus con gestion within the building will be avoided by having the fraternity men meet their guests in front of the alumni memorial building where markers will be placed des ignating the individual fraternities president to speak at eleven o'clock there will be an assembly in packard auditor ium where president c c wil liams will speak a few words of welcome to the guests dean c m mcconn and dr congdon will also speak music will be furnished at this time by the combined mus ical clubs a buffet luncheon will be served at 1 p m in the armory after which the visitors will be free to attend any of the many home ath letic contests which are being held in the afternoon and the demon strations and exhibits being held by the different departments of the university the courses which are giving exhibitions are arts bacteriology biology chemistry chemical engineering civil engi neering electrical engineering geology journalism mathematics mechanical engineering metal lurgy mining engineering physics and psychology at 3 p m a tea and an informal reception will be held in the drown hall lounge tea will be served by the faculty women's club to the ladies not interested in the athletic events and any other guests who would enjoy a sociable time business men e e.'s are interviewed for jobs are to pledge women at chapel service next tuesday members of the lehigh chapter of pi delta epsilon national hon orary publications society will pledge qualified students of mor avian seminary and college for women tuesday morning at 11:45 in the chapel exercises of that school the grand national convention held by the society at steven's in stitute of technology hoboken n j granted a petition for the establishment of a new chapter at the women's college this will be the first woman's chapter to be founded since it was decided by pi delta epsilon last fall to admit women to the society initiation at hotel bethlehem the pledges will be initiated at a banquet to be held saturday evening may 14 at the hotel bethlehem at this banquet ed ward e mcdonald grand execu tive secretary and treasurer of the society and robert f herrick national grand vice president will speak tentative plans have been made for the pledging of representatives of the moravian college and theo logical seminary on thursday those pledged at this time will also be initiated at the banquet on saturday members of the la fayette have been invited to at tend the intiation exercises the committee in charge of the pledging and initiations are hen ry s heckman arts 39 chair man milton spilberg arts 39 and russell e stevens jr ch e 39 dr bratt heads meeting of production managers pump-priming rebuked by dr bradford labelling the government's pump-priming plan as unsound frederick a bradford professor of economics and head of the de partment of finance writes in the united states news states that if fundamental conditions are satis factory business will recover with out this stimulus there are certain conditions when a moderate amount of pump-priming might be econom ically sound and desirable wrote dr bradford however the pres ent government plan is highly un sound and dangerous the goal has already been tried once with re sultant failure dr bradford in his article said that if pump-priming is used the public debt thereby created should be returned as soon as the im provement in private business per mits the failures that resulted when this plan was previously tried were caused by too great expenditures and activities along other lines which interferred markedly with sound business recovery stated dr bradford o to hold dance tomorrow beta kappa fraternity will hold its annual spring dance tomorrow at 10 p m at the chapter house dr and mrs amos ettinger will be the chaperons karl fischer and his orchestra will furnish the mu sic brown astronomical club to present founders each of the founders of the pres ent e w brown astronomical so ciety will give talks at the last meeting of the society for the school year to be held at 8 o'clock tonight in room 353 packard lab oratory the astronomical society will also hold the elections for pres ident and vice president for next year at this meeting the nomin ees for the offices are william f carson ch e 40 john giacobbe ch e 40 and george h reuss ner jr arts 40 the society has been recondi tioning the sayre observatory un der the personal direction and work of allyn c vine graduate assistant in physics vine was aid ed by members of the physics de partment dr elmer c bratt associate professor of economics was chair man at a meeting of the american management association on thurs day morning april 21 at the hotel william perm pittsburgh this was one of the four conferences held for production executives professor bratt read an intro ductory paper for the conference of the morning which was gear ing operations to quick changes in the business outlook the sub ject of professor bratt's paper was advance danger signals and how to act on them henry t heckman arts 39 review business manager leaders read reports on research work allison butts associate professor of metallurgy opened the meeting of sigma xi tuesday evening in packard laboratory with a paper on the six students doing research in metallurgy the fellows are shang-shoa young vittro denora charles m offenhauser gerald r van duzee and john w frame prof tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics described the papers that have been published by the department since january dr fort dr joseph b rey nolds professor of mathematics dr george e raynor associate professor of mathematics dr frank s beale dr vovis v lat shaw and dr derrick c lehmer assistant professors of mathe matics wins prize for paper on load variation daniel q marshall m e 38 was honored with second prize of 25 for a technical paper delivered april 25-26 at the annual confer ence of the eastern central division of the american society of me chanical engineers at the univer sity of pennsylvania the subject of his paper was release pressure in internal combustion engines as an index of load variation prof fred v larkin director of the curricula in mechanical and industrial engineering spoke at the luncheon following the meet ing at which the prizes were awarded ten senior electrical engineers and two business men were inter veiwed wednesday by representa tives of the electrical storage bat tary company the hartford elec trical company and the valley coal company at the placement bureau r w green of the elec trical storage battery company in terviewed four men k p applegate of the hartford elec trical company interviewed the other six engineers e c bradford brother of prof f a bradford head of the department of finance represented the valley camp coal company in an inter view with the two business men leaders elected tuesday by student body to head cheerleaders governing body and classes for coming year george e hurst jr bus sec.-treas of class of 1939 alan s grant i e president of class of 1939 malcolm carrington bus 39 head chaw leader franc h burnett i e 39 new arcadia president alfred t cox c e president of class of 1940 harold j masem arts sec.-treas of class of 40 approved officers donald r schoen arts president of class of 41 lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday may 6 1938 vol xlv no 49 sub-frosh day outline price — five cents willet weeks chosen to be editor in chief new system of registration will be used 911 men vote retain arcadia as new name honoraries require points monday night all the lehigh news first