Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 14

              parsons alumni head asks open criticism from graduates cites f letter in article mediocre athletics at lehigh was discussed in an article by floyd w parsons 02 president of the alumni association which appears in the new alumni bulletin the article is called football policy mr parsons gives the opinion that close attention and a large meas ure of sympathetic help could b given to boys who are willing to take the time and make the effort to go out on the field and fight for us the alumni as well as the stu dents dislike having their friends kid them about the punk teams and naturally want to see our ath letics measure up to the best in the country the alumni at the meet ing of the lehigh club of new york in october have requested a complete analysis of past and present conditions respecting ath letic conditions received letters in sounding his preliminary note however mr parsons empha sized the fact that in the many let ters received from alumni not one criticized the coaches is conclusion mr parsons re quests lehigh men write their thoughts as such letters would be extremely helpful and appreciat ed in this issue are also two per sonality stories the first is that of david randall 28 head of the rare book department at charles scribner's sons in new york written by avery strakosch it is the story of a lehigh man who fol lowed his hobby into the field of enterprise and found a paying pro position has success story the second is a success story of leon mart 13 who coming upon a problem in his every day work recognized it as a relatively un charted new world for service to industry sees chances for bettering football team vol xlvi no 14 alpha kappa psi taps 9 students will compete for awards r.o.t.c unit to get plaque investigating group names committee to study athletic facilities to probe dramatic club no action was taken on the monopolistic activities of scabbard and blade honorary military soci ety and mustard and cheese dramatic society by omicron del ta kappa honorary senior activi ties society at the meeting wednes day night at chi psi the recom mendations made by the investiga ting committee regarding athletic managerships were rejected the report of the committee in vestigating the monopolies of the living groups in campus offices was accepted however and a commit tee was appointed to examine the athletic facilities of the university reject suggestion the investigation committee's recommendation that sophomores having the same living group affil iation as the incumbent of the managership be not permitted to compete for that managership was not accepted by the society but the committee was instructed to examine the present voting system for the election of managers and to recommend improvements the tabulation of living group affilia tions of managers assistant man agers and captains from 1930 to 1938 is printed in full on page 2 the committee's recommenda tion that freshman managers not be awarded their letters until the end of their period of service as managers was also rejected by the fraternity the committee was in structed to investigate the possibi lities of the setting up of a merit system to be used as a basis for el igibility to scabbard and blade the committee for the investi gation of the athletic facilities of the university consists of harold selser e e 39 alan grant i e 39 and franc burnett i e 39 at this meeting the society sug gested to arcadia that some kind of a clearing house be set up and a day set aside on which all mater ial borrowed from the various university departments might be returned and no questions asked lake inventor to give talk conclave here dec 2 and 3 mustard and cheese club decides to produce play at high school leading actors selected the forthcoming mustard and cheese production brother rat which is to be given on dec 2 is to appear on the liberty high school stage instead of in the broughal high school auditorium as it has in previous years an nounced john n mcnabb i.e 39 business manager of the club greater seating capacity to conteract the increase in cost for renting the stage and the cost of transporting students to the play by bus the players will de rive many benefits from the use of the newer auditorium said mc nabb he also added that the lib erty high school selection was made because the newer school affords a seating capacity for ap proximately 1600 people liberty's stage is equipped with modern electrical apparatus and has a pulley system by which the stage crews will be able to raise and lower sets onto the stage thus reducing time betwen acts requir ed to change scenery brother rat centers around the capers of the students of vir ginia military institute john monks jr and frederick f fink lehoffe two v m i alumni wrote the comedy which had a long run on broadway and which has so re cently taken the country by storm in its movie version bing edwards is a typical col lege hero not much good at his studies chemistry in particular , but an excellent baseball player he is plagued with two very good friends billy randolph and dan crawford without whose wild schemes he might have been a suc cess it is his ambition to win the financial prize of the season for unknown to the authorities he has a wife and needs money badly brilliant billy helps him into fur ther predicaments with a couple of co-eds thrown in for good measure barnard to play lead leading parts in the production are to be played by william bar nard e e 41 malcolm carring ton jr bus 39 and robert n gusdorf bus 42 others in the cast include rob ert s bothe bus 40 jacob s hartzell bus 40 anthony fam ighetti bus 39 harry gunnison arts 41 william davey arts 42 robert dech arts 41 abram samuels bus 42 conrad klu ger arts 42 and stephen weinrib arts 41 the feminine roles in the play are to be taken by virgina ed wards dorothy longnecker leila stoughton and ruth brown o will hold annual football banquet alumni club to meet nov 16 in wilkes-barre the annual football dinner of the northeastern pennsylvania le high club will be held on wednes day nov 16 in the hotel sterling wilkes-barre the program includes talks by billy sheridan lehigh wrestling coach paul short assistant direc tor of athletics william a corne lius executive secretary of the alumni association and robert f herrick editor of the lehigh alumni bulletin movies of the lehigh-p m c and the lehigh-boston university games will be shown the philadelphia lehigh club will meet on the following day at the new bookbinder's restaurant this gathering will be attended by h r reiter professor of physical education nelson a kellog direc tor of the division of athletics and physical education r f herrick and w a cornelius among the attending sports wri ters will be f s nonnemacher sports editor of the bethlehem globe-times the lehigh-lafayette night of the northern new jersey lehigh clubs will be held at 8 p m nov 15 at the suburban club morris aye union n j frosh to seek prizes for best costumes at lafayette rally at the annual lafayette smoker to be held next friday a prize will be awarded for the most ori ginal pajamas or sleeping equip ment and for the most effective and appropriate sign for the pa jama parade the contest for this award a cup similar to those pre sented for intra-mural champion ships is open to all freshmen the cheerleaders will introduce some new cheers to be used in the lafayette game and the band will be present to accompany the sing ing of school songs the speakers will be walter okeson treasurer of the board of trustees howard r reiter pro fessor of physical education glen w harmeson head football coach and possibly andrew e buchanan alumnus trustee who spoke at the perm state smoker all freshmen eligible the rules for the contest for the arcadia trophy are as follows 1 all freshmen groups are eli gible 2 judging will be based upon originality of costumes which must be sleeping equipment of some kind and upon effectiveness of the placards used in the demon strations ingenuity will be re garded more highly than elabora tion and expensiveness 3 the judging committee consists of okeson dr claude g beards lee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy dr bishop associate professor of economics reiter and franc bur nett i e 39 the decision of the judges is to be final 4 a cup similar to those pre sented for intra-mural champion ships will be awarded to the win ing group 5 those groups desiring to com pete for the arcadia trophy must call the arcadia office and leave their addresses on or before nov 17 6 the winners will be announc ed at the pa jama parade which is to follow the smoker o receives 2,000 grant for geological research dr maurice ewing assistant professor of physics has received a grant of 2,000 and a seismo graph for the research he will do this winter off bermuda the money was given by the geological society of america from the penrose fund the seis mograph which will supplement several that are being built at le high is from the peabody museum of natural history at yale univer sity plans to appoint tribunal to discuss group ways and means work toward the completion of the constitution of the newly formed inter-dormitory council and the planning of a competition to be held at the lafayette smoker was the main accomplishments of the council at a meeting held last tuesday in drown hall the council which is composed of 13 delegates heads of the indi vidual dormitory sections had pre viously appointed a committee to draw up a framework or basic constitution which was then re ferred through the delegates to the men in their respective sections for suggested changes or additions council to be tribunal of the suggestions brought in only a few major ones were dis cussed in the meting the original draft outlined the purpose of the council as a tribunal for discussing dormitory matters the further de velopment of dormitory social and intramural functions and an effort to bring dormitory men together it set the second tuesday of each month and the arcadia room as the time and place respectively for regular meetings and stated that the council would elect a faculty adviser and establish dues to be paid by every dormitory member at 50 per semester add to foundation the major additions to this foundation decided on at the meet ing are that the purpose of the council will include augmenting the ties between the dormitories and the other living groups and the university in general very impor tant matters especially those of a financial nature will be referred to the dorm men themselves through the section chiefs dr claude g beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy was elected faculty advisor of the council the vote of each member of the council will be counted in proportion to the number of men that he represents a great many sugesstions could not be touched upon in the meet ing therefore those remaining were referred to a new constitu tional committee that was appoint ed the old committee having been dissolved on the completion of its work the new committee consists of andrew s morrow ch e 40 chairman george a albrecht bus 39 president of the council john d sausseman met e 39 o muhlenberg pep smoker to be held by alumni a pep smoker for tomorrow's game with muhlenberg will be held tonight at the bethlehem club under the direction of both muh lenberg and lehigh alumni wil liam a cornelius executive secre tary of the lehigh alumni associ ation announced this week admission to the affair will be 1.00 and all are welcome whether they are alumni of lehigh or muh lenberg scabbard and blade gives memorial in honor of former major the james o green jr mem orial plaque will be presented monday at drill by h alan sny der ch e 39 vice president of scabbard and blade student hon orary military society joseph s leonard head of the department of military science and tactics will accept the plaque on behalf of the r o t c regiment major green who died in de cember 1937 was head of the de partment of military science and tactics for six years prior to his transfer to the panama canal zone in august 1937 as a captain of the 23rd infan try during the world war he was awarded the distinguished service cross for gallantry in action when his machine gun company had been practically wiped out he continued to push forward to his objective with only two enlisted men where he remained for 30 hours under artillery gas and machine gun fire was severely gassed the three retained the ground that his organization had gained until reinforcements arrived ma jor green was severely gassed in the encounter he was a member of the general staff eligible list in 1931 the major graduated from command and general staff school and from the infantry school company officers course in 1923 six years later major green was graduated from the infantry school advance offi cers course at west point major green played varsity football in 1916 and 1917 before being appointed to west point his son james was a mem ber of the class of 1939 at lehigh invitations have been extended to mrs green and her daughters to the military officers in the vi cinity and to all contributors to the plaque fund all members of the faculty are also invited to at tend inscribed on the plaque are the names of all the captains of h company third regiment of scab bard and blade contemporary with major green's tenure in the le high military department o patents subject of talk joseph g jackson patent at torney of philadelphia will speak on patents — the chemist's viewpoint at a meeting of the chemical society to be held at 7:30 p m thursday in the main lec ture room of the chemistry build ing he will illustrate his lecture with slides 3 seniors and 6 juniors pledged last night alpha kappa psi honorary bus iness fraternity formally pledged three seniors and six juniors at a meeting held last night at the beta theta pi house the fraternity intends to initiate its pledgees some time during the week of thanksgiving those to be initiated are william bernasco 39 walter wells 39 joseph boyle 39 charles griffiths 40 albert collins,'4o willard thomas 40 richard gowdy 40 clifford heisler 40 and wallace wat kins 40 faculty members present were prof roy b cowin head of the department of accounting george b curtiss registrar and univer sity editor and dr robert w mayer assistant professor of eco nomics george e hurst jr bus 39 gave a short talk on the history of the fraternity leonard h dud man bus 39 spoke on profes sional fraternities discussions on jobs after graduation the impor tance of a business fraternity bus iness trends and other matters were held o bethlehem doctor to speak nov 17 dr royal h mccutcheon beth lehem physician will address the r w hall pre-medical society at 8 p m nov 17 in packard lab oratory tuberculosis will be the subject of the discussion and sta tistical charts will be used to show the trend in the death rate from the disease the age groups and oc cupations affected most seriously and the means used to control as well as prevent tuberculosis for the first time in bethlehem the film diagnostic procedures in tuberculosis prepared espec ially for medical groups by the national tuberculosis association will be shown at the meeting four authorities on the subject do the talking in the film dr kendall emerson managing direc tor of the national tuberculosis association new york dr ralph s muckenfuss director of the bureau of laboratories of the new york city department of health dr esmond r long director of henry phipps institute philadel phia and dr edgar mayer assis tant professor of medicine cornell medical college new york o dean returns from trip dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administra tion returned yesterday from a trip to rochester n y where he spoke wednesday on the outlook for business prosperity before the rochester chamber of com merce simon lake the inventor of the modern submarine will address the engineers club of the lehigh valley wednesday evening n0v.30 in broughal high school his lecture will be illustrated with slides and motion pictures showing his submarines and div ing apparatus in use on the sal vage and treasure hunting expedi tions that he has conducted throughout the world in announcing today that plans for this lecture which have been under way for several months had finally been completed l g spra gue president of the club said hibshman on committee although the engineers club has brought many interesting and talented speakers to the lehigh valley we have never been pri vileged to present one of own pro fession whose work has so influ enced the history of the world and whose career has been so colorful as that of simon lake faculty members who served on the committee that arranged the meeting are nelson s hibshman associate professor of electrical en gineering and merton o fuller associate professor of civil engin eering lake is responsible for the mod ern submarine according to mr sprague twenty-five of his 111 uatents are still in use on every submarine in the world that the submarine on which lake started work as a boy of 14 would become an engine of de struction was not his intention he tried to promote it as an instru ment of salvage and exploration holds other patents lake holds many other patents including the airlock used in dig ging the under-river tunnels in new york the steering gear used on modern automobiles and sever al of the earliest on prefabricated houses the national convention of pi delta epsilon honorary journal ism fraternity will be held at le high on dec 2 and 3 announced henry t s heckman arts 39 chairman of the convention com mittee today a tentative program has been arranged it includes registration on friday afternoon followed by a campus tour in which the group will inspect civil war newspapers in the university treasure room a tea and reception in the engin eers lounge in packard laboratory planned and served by members of the first women's chapter of pi delta epsilon established at mor avian seminary for women and a dinner closing the day's activities to appoint committee a general conference session will be held saturday morning in packard laboratory the site of all business sessions committees will be appointed at that time frater nity business will then be trans acted followed by committee meetings lunch will be served at either the old sun inn or at some frater nity house on the campus a gen eral session will follow at which time action will be taken concern ing the installation of pi delta epsilon chapters at beaver college gettysburg college and muhlen berg college all of which are being sponsored by the lehigh chapter a closing banquet will be held at the hotel bethlehem robert f herrick editor of the alumni bul letin and grand vice-president of pi delta epsilon will speak efforts are being made to secure a nation ally known speaker from the new york times or the herald tribune a dance on saturday night will complete the program 3 seniors and 6 juniors pledged thursday bethlehem pa friday november 11 1938 new decision limits parking price — five cents brother rat to be given on new stage o.d.k defers action against 2 monopolies the road south of fritz labora tory has been made a one-way load and parking on it has been limited to faculty members and heir guests dr wray h congdon dean of undergraduates announc ed yesterday the new rule will become effec tive monday morning the dean nnnounced and the campus police have been instructed to tag all student owned cars found parked on this road offenders will be re ported to the dean the zone barred to student cars includes all parking places outsid the health bureau those west of fritz lab and the entire road from the health service to the intersec tion of that road with the one from the chemistry buildng campus workmen under the su pervision of andrew w litzen berger superintendent of build ings and grounds will erect signs designating the faculty parking spaces all cars will enter the cam pus at the adams street entrance and all westbound traffic will be forbidden p watkins back row — c r griffiths a j collins w wells w j thomas and c b heisler b & w staff phott lehigh university brown and white dorm council sustains work seated left to right after an alpha kappa psi banquet at the beta theta pi house are front row — w c bernasco j b boyle r s gowdy and w member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first