Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 15

              the exchange of tickets for the lehigh-lafayette football game started today with seniors and juniors receiving their paste boards for ticket number 6 in the athletic book sophomores and freshmen will be able to secure reserved seat tickets tomorrow by calling at the athletic office in the gym nasium beginning at 9 a m additional tickets may be purchased for 2.20 per ticket seniors and juniors who have not exchanged their coupons will be able to get their tickets tomorrow or thursday soph omores and freshmen who fail to get their tickets tomorrow will be able to get them thurs day there will be no charge whatsoever for student tickets costume prize to be given tablet presented to unit by military society mrs green attends the james o green jr mem orial plaque was presented at drill yesterday by h alan snyder ch e 39 vice president of scabbard and blade honorary military soci ety lt col joseph s leonard head of the department of military science and tactics accepted the plaqua on behalf of the r o t c regiment mr snyder brought the plaque forward from behind the troops and col leonard came forward with president c c williams members of the faculty and friends of major green present at the ceremony were mrs green and her two daughters charlotte and margaret mrs wil liams and mrs leonard bradley stoughton dean of the college of engineering and philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science mr snyder's presentation speech follows snyder makes speech the scabbard and blade soci ety of lehigh university is honored in being able to present to our re giment a plaque as a memorial to major james oscar green jr our late professor of military science and tactics major green was graduated from the u s military academy in april 1917 shortly thereafter he proceeded with his regiment to france where he participated in all battles of the world war in review issue due thursday the lehigh review comes out on thursday with a cover theme of football action and the female spectator in two photographs by harry a harchar arts 39 and louis g stoumen arts 39 editor of the review featured will be a full page of caricatures of the football team by one of its own members richard s gowdy bus 40 and a poem by william sheridan wrestling coach entitled a coach's dream among the articles is an anal ysis of war attitudes by dr james l graham assistant pro fessor of psychology who relates his experiences as a soldier dur ing the world war and draws psy chological conclusions from them traditions are related included also is that controver sial issue is jazz art in an ar ticle of that title by raymond m rosenstein arts 39 and aaron finger ch e 40 the first of a series of articles on lehigh and its traditions by robert c muir jr bus 40 will feature the life of billy burkhardt genial tender of the ultra violet and infra red rays at the dispens ary fiction consists of bermuda cruise by frank norris c e 41 a short story based on norris ex periences as a fireman on the monarch of bermuda snake job by eric weiss e e 39 the adventures of two men ani a maid in weehawken n j anci the sec ond half of weiss serial gun for felipe fee to be paid by seniors dec 1 all seniors who wish to have their pictures appear in the 1939 epitome must have them taken at mccaa's studio on w fourth street before the thanksgiving holidays they must also pay their assess ment of 6 before dec 1 after that date the assessment will be 8 harold i selser editor in chief who made the announcement added that each senior is expect ed to make his own arrangements with mr mccaa and that the sit ting fee of 1.50 is to be paid when the photographs are taken if photographs are purchased credit will be given for that amount senior ballots can be secured at mccaa's but they are to be filled out and returned to the placement bureau along with the assessment fee within one week after the pic ture is tr'ien which his division the 2nd was engaged for extraordinary hero ism in battle he was awarded the distinguished service cross after the war he served in various capacities in the infantry and as an instructor at his alma mater major green was graduated from the command and general staff school at fort leavenworth after which he joined the r o t c instruction staff at lehigh uni versity in 1931 in 1932 he was promoted to be professor of mili tary science and tactics upon completion of his tour of duty at lehigh university in 1937 he de parted for service in the panama canal zone where he met his un timely death on dec 13 1937 joins scabbard and blade through his radiant personal ity his fairness and his fine sol dierly qualities he became endear ed and respected by all who knew him while at lehigh he became an associate member of scabbard and blade and by his deep interest and friendly guidance was instru mental in materially assisting our society in all its efforts as an humble effort of scab bard and blade and a number of his friends to do honor to major green we have had this plaque prepared to be affixed annually with the name of the cadet com mander of the r o t c regiment we present this plaque to the re giment through the professor of military science and tactics with the fervant hope that it will serve as a fitting memorial and an in spiration to all who serve in the regiment mrs green gets flowers after col leonard's speech of acceptance of the plaque from scabbard and blade flowers were presented to mrs green immedi ately afterwards the troops passed in review the aides in presentation were raymond laubenstein m e 39 william burning arts 39 and edwin fisher m e 40 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 mili tary department of lehigh annually the name of the cadet commander of the r o t c regiment will be added to the plaque j t rae to speak before a s m e williams favors request to use lots around broughal high university owns land president c c williams in a letter to the bethlehem city coun cil recently announced that it would be possible for the city to pool the area bounded by packer avenue birkel avenue morton street and broadhead avenue v/ith the area to the north of broughal high school if it were provided that the recreational space so created could be used jointly by university students and school children this open lot de sired by the city is owned by the university dedication of this area to re creational purposes was advocated by councilman fred kline at the city council's meeting yesterday this site was formerly occupied by the bethlehem shipbuilding com pany offices will use property jointly dr williams suggested that the property be used jointly he point ed out that the university students would not use the field until four p m leaving it to the school pu pils before that time and that the land would be available to the city for full-time recreation during the summer councilman kline's plan embra ces the closing of brodhead aye from morton st to packer aye during the use of the playground the dimension of the vacant plot between birkel and brodhead av enues now used for unorganized play is 328 by 152 feet extending the play area to morton street would increase the length to 600 feet the area in question is the only lot on the south side of the river that is readily accessible to all areas councilman kline said he also pointed out that the area does not have the necessary depth east from birkel avenue to be used for softball or touch football everybody who drives an auto mobile has to continually dodge children chasing footballs and soft balls which may finally result in serious injury or death to the par ticipants he declared council to make decision i ask this council to hold de cision until my plans which i am having prepared are placed before you these plans will show that by pooling the above-mentioned area we will create an area comparable to the present lehigh university athletic fields in other words we have here an athletic field which will take care of lehigh needs in the future as well as the children of the south side in fact two athletic football fields east and west can be laid out with lehigh having control of one football field and broughal high school control of an additional field on motion of councilman kline and robert hinkle city clerk ber tram nagle was authorized to in form dr williams that the city officials wish to study the question and confer with university author ities o talks at banquet congdon guest at delta sigma phi dinner dean wray h congdon was guest speaker at the annual father and son banquet of the delta sig ma phi fraternity held saturday evening in the washington room of the sun inn l r thigpen char lotteville n c representing the national fraternity also spoke robert p more associate pro fessor of german was presented with a plaque and a key in ap preciation of his services to the fraternity brief talks were made by morton sultzer member of the moard of trustees dr r b hess and the reverend c s leinbach pastor of st paul's reformed church bethlehem during the afternoon the fathers accompanied their sons to the le high-muhlenberg football game dean cites three main hazards for superior college students anderson gives history dean wray h congdon and seven sophomores were pledged by phi eta sigma national honorary freshmen scholastic fraternity at the group's first meeting of the year held last evening in packard laboratory honorary-pledge congdon ad dressed the society on the haz ards of superiority he named pride intolerance and selfishness as the three great dangers accom panying intellectual superiority the men pledged are dean congdon richard buser eng wilbur chase eng philip foust eng edward d hems eng john metier eng raymond meyers eng carl s stotz eng michael temoshok eng these pledgees are men who were not taken in the first semester but who attain ed the requisite 3.5 average the second semester cites pride as hazard in his talk dean congdon stated that intellectual superiority as a goal is an excellent thing as an attainment it has serious hazards in citing the first hazard he quo ted ruskins assertion that pride is at the bottom of every disaster and pointed out the pride of a su perior intellect is a pride of po ssession something totally unjus tifiable in discussing the second pitfall for superior students that of intol erance the dean stated super ior intellects should of all people be most tolerant and broad-mind ed dr congdon emphasized his be lief that outstanding students tend to become selfish in their outlook and that it is of vital importance that their acheivements all be ac complished in the spirit of service he showed in addition that the spirit of phi eta sigma should be one of service and that its mem bers should be alert to the possi bilties of rendering aid to the uni versity dr anderson associate profes sor of chemistry introduced and welcomed the new members and recited for their benefit a brief sketch of the fraternities history founded at illinois phi eta sigma was founded ori ginally as a national honorary freshman scholastic fraternity at the university of illinois in march 1923 thomas a clark dean of men of that college at the time was largely responsible for its in ception and growth its funda mental purpose it to promote a higher standard of learning the lehigh chapter was the eighteenth to be given a charter and was founded on may 15 1930 under the direction of dr ander son membership is limited to those who in their freshmen year attain a semester average of 3.5 or better at present there are 41 chapters of the fraternity through out the country the one at the university of pittsburgh being the youngest last night's meeting was in charge of the president richard dietz eng other officers elected last year are charles f kalm bach eng vice president and trea surer john t riley bus secre tary and james mannion eng historian o youths committed to jail for looting gymnasium charged with burglary the three bethlehem youths who ac cording to police were involved in the looting of the gymnasium in september were committed to the county prison friday by al derman t r moffat pending a hearing most of the equipment stolen from the gymnasium has been re covered according to police part of the loot was found in one of the homes of the young men while another portion was found in a field where it had been hidden by one of the trio voluntary reading course will be given here for third year diamond heads group invitations for participation in lehigh's third yearly self-educa tion program will go out within two weeks offering students an opportunity for selected reading in the subjects of their choice the voluntary cur riculum will be under the direc tion of 15 professors who will work individually with those sign ing for the course according to dr herbert m di amond head of the department of economics and sociology and direc tor of the program there will be no grades no quizzes and the amount of work covered will be entirely up to the individual stu dent no credit will be given for the work the general education program was begun three years ago by a group of professors who saw the need for a broader personal de velopement than could be provided by the regular college curriculum open to all classes although the number of stu dents accepted is necessarily limi ted by the number of professors available the course is to be open to students in all classes because upperclassmen and sophomores are familiar with the work notices will be sent only to freshmen having free choice in the selec tion of subjects for specialization students will work with the pro fessor teaching in that field as when the course was founded fa culty services are offered volun tarily the purpose of the program as outlined in preliminary notice to freshmen follows it is supposed that through this program there will be a broadening of interest and of in formation but aims not less im portant than are attitudes and me thods of thought the disposition to take into account all the factors of a situation to question one's as sumptions and prejudices thor oughly to understand the thought and viewpoint of others and to appreciate the varied fruits of civ ilization moreover during the crucial years of his life the student should attain the fullest possible realiza tion of the problems that now con front society and he should culti vate effective expressions of his views whether in conversation or in writing all these purposes it is hoped the program in general education will serve in some con siderable measure fifteen professors volunteer those professors taking part in the program are chairman her bert m diamond head of the de partment of economics and soci ology claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy frank c becker assistant professor of phil osophy and chairman of the de partment of philosophy allison butts professor of electrometal lurgy earl l crum associate pro fessor of greek gilbert e doan professor of physical metallurgy lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and govern ment thomas h hazlehurst assistant professor of chemistry percy hu ghes professor of philosophy har vey a neville head of the depart ment of chemistry and chemical engineering philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and sciences clarence a shook as sociate professor of mathematics eugene h sloane assistant pro fessor of english robert m smith head of the department of english and hale sutherland head of the department of civil engineering o pi mv epsilon to meet prof kenneth w lamson as sociate professor of mathematics and robert f koenig met e 40 will speak on sir isaac newton at a meeting of pi mv epsilon hon orary mathematics society at 7:30 p m tomorrow in room 208 packard laboratory a talk on complex numbers will be given by vincent m white m e 39 ex - professor to discuss graduate problems joseph t rae assistant superin tendent of bethlehem steel com pany and former instructor at le high will address the american society of mechanical engineers on the topic industrial problems of the engineering graduate at 7:30 p m thursday in room 466 packard laboratory mr rae who taught mechanical engineering here in 1917 and 1918 is a graduate of ohio state univer sity and vice-chairman of the local section of the a s m e he an nounced that a large part of his talk would deal with the earning capacity of the engineering grad uate the trained engineer who goes into the enginering field rather than in some other branch of in dustry will earn less in his early years however as he grows older his income will be larger and more steady than if he had chosen the latter course explained mr rae the student branch of the american society of mechanical engineers was organized here in 1911 one of 117 chapters in lead ing technical schools throughout the united states and canada the object of this society is to form a bond between the practic ing engineers and students and to stimulate interest in mechanical engineering o heads red cross drive alan c dodson a member of the university board of trustees is chairman of this year's annual red cross campaign for bethle hem the campaign began friday and lasts until thanksgiving day esquire subscription cup to be awarded at arcadia smoker a year's subscription to esquire will be given to the dormitory freshman group costumed most originally at the lafayette smoker friday night in taylor gymnasium it was announced by the interdor mitory council this prize is in addition to the cup offered by ar cadia competition which is open to all freshman groups prizes will be given at the end of the smoker according to eugene b caller i e 39 and courtland f carrier i e 39 who compose the arcadia rally com mittee they will be awarded to the groups with the most original costumes and placards and will be judged by three faculty members and one student to give cigars at smoker cigars will be given out at the smoker something entirely new and different which has never been done before at any lafayette smoker or any smoker for that matter announced carrier he also said that pictures of the win ing freshman groups will be taken for the brown and white and the alumni bulletin all the dormitory groups will send representatives and over 30 percent of the fraternities have definitely indicated that they will participate fraternities already having made preparations for the smoker are phi gamma delta psi upsi lon sigma phi tau delta phi chi psi delta tau delta and kap pa sigma each dormitory section in rich ard's house and taylor hall will be represented in the contest sportsmans club bags small game one pheasant three rabbits and four crows were the trophies of the hunt held by the sportsmans club saturday morning the blue rock shoot scheduled for sunday morn ing was called off because of ad verse weather robert p stoudt president of the club announced that many members could not participate in the hunt because of saturday classes the club plans to go on an overnight deer hunt early in december and will pitch tents loaned by the department of mil itary science and tactics they also intend to build a temporary leanto on their land grant near hellertown some time during de cember which will be used until they construct a permanent cabin next year those who attended the hunt were major reginald r bacon assistant professor of military sci ence and tactics mr james w varner and his son william p varner bus 42 and robert p stoudt bus 41 o okeson to speak on radio walter r okeson secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees will speak on the eddie dooley football program at 6:30 p m thursday the program is spon sored by a nationally known cig arette firm representatives to attend i f conference in new york city adopt decoration rules the intrafraternity council last night picked milton h grannatt jr bus.'39 and samuel r cox ch e 40 president and treasurer re spectively as lehigh's delegates to the national intrafraternity con ference to be held in new york nov 25-26 the meeting held in drown hall also approved a set of recommendations tor the conduct of alumni day decorations in the future proposed decoration plan d'arcy w roper 11 i e 40 as head of this year's committee in charge of decorations proposed the following 1 the decision to sponsor or not to sponsor a contest in fraternity decorations should be made at the council's first meeting in septem ber 2 if the council decides to spon sor such a contest a letter contain ing tne rules governing the compe tition ana specifying tne exact date of homecoming should be mailed to each fraternity in the council at least two weeks in ad vance of the day 3 through the arcadia office each fraternity should notify the council by 10 o'clock in the morn ing of homecoming day whether or not it is entermg the contest and if entering whether it wants to be judged in daytime or at night 4 a limit of 15 should be set as the maximum amount any house may spend in decorating and this amount should include gifts ren tals and borrowed equipment 5 the committee should be ap pointed by the executive commit tee of the council and should con sist of a council officer who should act as chairman and two faculty members 6 the judging should be done on two occassions between 11 a m and 1 p m and after 7:30 p m 8 it would be to the advantage of the fraternities and the judges if each competing fraternity would submit to the committee in care of the arcadia office by 10 o'clock saturday morning a brief state ment of the theme of its decora tions these statements should be held in confidence until the con clusion of the competition seek banner's return president grannatt asked for co operation of the fraternities in location and return of the banner which was stolen from the hotel bethlehem during houseparty he also reported the letter of thanks which dr claude g bear dslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy and advisor to the council re ceived from william a cornelius executive secretary of the alumni association thanking the organi zation for cooperating in home coming day it was reported that nelson a kellogg director of the division of athletics and physical education had asked for an exclusive date for march 3 and 4 when the pre paratory school wrestling tourna ment will be held here grannatt urged cooperation asking that fra ternities have no social events during the tournament ball orchestra not picked a proposal that fraternities hold a group discussion following the thursday-night town hall meet ings which are broadcast by the national broadcasting company was submitted it will go to the in dividual house meetings for action grannatt said that contrary to rumor he has not picked the or chestra for this year's interfra ternity ball methods of indenti fication for members of the fra ternities to insure that the dance be closed to them were discused but no definite plan was decided upon the discussion arose from the fact that last year's affair was attended by several who were not only non-fraternity men but were not lehigh students bethlehem pa tuesday november 15 1938 vol xlvi no 15 price — five cents green memorial plaque given to r.o.t.c at drill yesterday lafayette game tickets available at gym today council picks cox grannatt for conclave local council makes plans for play field self education program to be offered soon lehigh university brown and white phi eta sigma taps congdon 8 sophomores member intercollegiate newspaper association mi all the lehigh news first