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norman thomas ex-minister who is now the leader of the socialist party in the united states will speak at an open meeting of the international relations club in the near fu ture it was announced recently mr thomas was a presby terian minister until 1931 when left the church to devote his time to political writing and speaking he ran for president in 1928 32 and 36 on the so cialist ticket since 1918 when he left the church to devote his morrow he has contributed to socialist and labor publications biology topic of sigma xi dick himber pi belt offers prize awards dent's wife broke a bottle of cham pagne over the bow of a transport somebody bought thursday lith uania's boy scout day with many many speeches friday was the commemoration of latvia's 20th year of independence and satur day was celebrated with a parads for something or other in which janulis trudged over four miles of cobbled streets however he says that they are all fun because there is always a band and everybody wears a uni form and they treat me like i had a mortgage on the president's pal ace in the way of private entertain ment he also makes out all right he at the time of writing had seen three operas aida traviatta and faust in the past two weeks among the interesting people he has met is an eccentric sculptor rimsa who sleeps in a coffin and entertains his friends by lowering nuts fruits and drinks from the ceiling where dishes are suspended on pulleys there is a dominican monk whose gratitude he secured by teaching him the big apple and there is an american-born ad venturer who has been a citizen of a half-dozen assorted countries and who was with lawrence in arabia there are about a dozen ameri cans at the university and on thanksgiving day they got to gether and had a old-fashioned american turkey dinner with stuffing pumpkin pie and even ice cream in case you have ever wondered what the life of an american stu dent in lithuania is like your question was answered in a recent letter from keiste janulis 37 janulis when he sailed in the fall envisioned a lazy man's para dise in which nothing would be done but dabbling in the lithuan ian language and vodka sipping on long winter evenings however he soon learned that the government had a far different program outlined for him at the university he must carry 22 credit hours of lithuanistica this in cludes general lithuanian gram mar lithuanian language con versation general fonetica an cient lithuanian history modern lithuanian history history of lithuanian literature history of lithuanian art lithuanian folk lore lithuanian poetry the lith uanian press and german good work expected and he is expected to do work as good as that that is done by those lithuanian students who have prepared for the course moreover as the guest of the government he is expected to at tend all the official functions such as parades receptions teas and so forth in a recent week his schedule ran like this monday a tea to benefit the lithuanian orphans tuesday the newly reelected president took the oath of office which he should know by heart by now wednesday the presi wife of trustee dies in new york editor to publish photos and poetry newswriting and editorial trials to be directed by dale h gramley prof dale h gramley head of the department of journalism has been appointed director of the edi torial and newswriting contests sponsored by pi delta epsilon na tional honorary jornalism frater nity he was appointed by robert h mcneil grand president of pi delta epsilon and director of pub lications at virginia tech professor gramley is now select ing college teachers of journalism and practicing newspapermen for judges the contests are being re sumed after a lapse of five years herrick fleischer win honors the last editorial writing contest was won by edward fleischer 33 with an editorial entitled whith er engineering fleischer also shared second and third prizes with warren gardner of st law rence university in the newswriting contest rob ert f herrick 34 present grand vice president of pi delta epsilon won second prize with his story richards enters 40th year in his prize-winning editorial fleischer advocated six year en gineering courses with four of the six years devoted to acquiring an understanding of social economic and cultural problems o to give concert tone to present shields walmsley and myers tone honorary musical society will present a concert sunday af ternoon at 4 o'clock in the chapel the program will consist of four parts the first part will be given by dr edgar t shields director of music and it includes the following toccata in c by pachelbel chorale by pachelbel suite by purcell and chorale by bach in the second part elizabeth walmsley pianist will offer three numbers by schumann dcs abends aus der nacht and aufschung the liberty high school glee club under the direction of marian graham will offer three numbers now let every tongue by bach aye verum by mozart and in these delightful pleasant groves by purcell the final part of the program consists of a piano and organ duet by ruth becker myers piano and dr t edgar shields organ they will offer the slow movement and finale of g minor piano concer to by mendelssohn o dine at psi upsilon house pi tau sigma honorary indus trial and mechanical engineering society held a dinner and business meeting wednesday in the psi up silon house courtland f carrier i e 39 president of the lehigh chapter of the society gave a report of the national convention which he at tended plans were discussed for a supper dance in the spring research society hears 3 faculty men talk subjects varied sigma xi honorary research society held a meeting last wed nesday night which dealt with var ious phases of biology the meeting was presided over by the president of the society thomas e butterfield professor of heat power engineering after a short business meeting the speak ers of the evening were introduced by dr stanley j thomas profes sor of bacteriology and head of the department of biology the next talk was presented by dr robert w hall professor of biology whose subject was mus eum specimens dr hall demon strated various methods of dis playing specimens illustrating his point with several pieces he ex plained a new method for procur ing skeletons which produces as good ones as the old method and is more economical he places larvae of a certain carniverous species of insect upon the body and they devour the flesh cleaning the bones trembley describes lizards dr frank j trembley assistant professor of biology under the subject some south american lizards discussed the varying types and peculiarities of speci mens he had brought to the meet ing the next speech delivered by dr sidney c bausor instructor in biology was on the subject plant growth substances he told of various chemicals which are bene ficial in accelerating the growth of plants although he was unable to demonstrate he outlined methods for producing out-of-the-ordinary plant and root structures the meeting was attended by approximately 30 members of the lehigh faculty digest will print amateur photos to give recognition to the out standing photographs taken by col lege and university amateur pho tographers collegiate digest will again this year publish an annual salon edition editors of the pub lication announced all students and faculty members of lehigh university are invited to enter their photographs in the annual competition fur this special edition colle giate digest's editors will select two or three prints in each of the divisions listed below to the first place winners in each division collegiate digest will present a cash award of five dollars to the second and third place winners three dollars and two dollars will be awarded the following are the rules for the salon edition 1 all material must l>e sent in not later than i!<li 1 1939 address packages to salon editor ooßegc digest 323 fawkes building minneapolis minn 2 send technical data about each photo submitted and live the college year or the faculty standing of the photographer in formation about the subject of the photo will be helpful •'!. the following division have been set tor mm contest a still life b scenes c action and photos ; d portraits a spe cial division t be called college life has in en added this year to give recognition to ttoac photographers who take a special inteimt in recording the life and activities of students and faculty members 4 there is no entry fee photos will be returned if postage accompanies entries mrs charles m schwab succumbs to illness early yesterday morning mrs charles m schwab wife of the only charter member of lehigh's board of trustees died at her home just off riverside drive new york city mrs schwab had been ill for a long time and her death came after nearly a month of ill ness which came as a result of a heart attack suffered on christmas day among her charitable work was the building of a home on staten island for foundling children a memorial church in her birth place west perm a church at braddock in memory of the pastor who married mr and mrs schwab a church at braddock in memory of her mother and a carmelite convent at loretto mrs schwab came from a family that was well known in the steel world her father reuben din key was the first steel works chemist in the united states and her brother alva c dinkey was president of the carnegie steel company and later president of midvale steel and ordnance com pany now at the bethlehem steel plant at johnstown pa mr and mrs schwab had been married 55 years last may and all through their lives they were con stant companions mr schwab has served longer than any other member on the lehigh board of trustees o ewing presents paper before geological forum seismic studies of the coastal plain was the title of a paper de livered by dr maurice ewing as sistant professor of physics before the geophysical union at its sym posium on geological studies of the coastal plain held in richmond va during the christmas holidays dr ewing is now in bermuda measuring the depth of the silt de posits on the ocean floor off ber muda he has set up a seismograph for the geophysical union and has made preliminary studies at sea the paper dr ewing presented will be reprinted in the bulletin of the lehigh institute of research according to dr charles c bidwell head of the physics department o harry brown reelected harry h brown i e 39 was reelected to a second term as head of the psi upsilon house at a meet ing tuesday leslie p mahony bus 39 was reelected secretary and t t gray arts 39 will con tinue as vice president improvements and com mittees announced by dance head band not yet selected the annual military ball spon sored by scabbard and blade hon orary military society will be held again this year in the na tional guard armory and the probable date will be march 4 an nounced courtland carrier i e 39 chief of staff in charge of the ball the national guard armory was chosen this year because it has the largest single floor space of any available site in town and also because of the favorable com ments received from those who at tended the affair last year one of the few complaints re ceived however was that the ar mory was too warm for comfort last time the chief of staff an nounced that this year special ef forts will be made to remedy that condition price still indefinite no orchestra has been signed as yet but a definite decision will be reached within a few days tick ets will sell for 3 or 3.30 de pending upon the orchestra sel ected the following are the names and committees to assist in preparation for the ball as announced by grant b stetson bus 39 com manding officer deputy chief of staff john mc nabb i e assistant chief of staff g-l william bruning arts in charge of programs g-2 george rheinfrank i e publicity g-3 robert mcquail bus decorations g-4 frank norton ch e ticket sales g-5 harry harchar arts special features all the men are seniors junior assistants to the commit tees are franklin p glueck i e richard s gowdy bus clifford b heiseler bus adolph haffen reffer bus joseph b keely bus otto v norving i e and clifford f lincoln met request local union banch the committee on student activ ities considered a petition for a lehigh branch of the american student union at a meeting held in the dean's office on tuesday dav id c hughes chem 39 and louis c stoumen arts 39 presented the petition to the committee action was deferred until more information and a more adequate petition are presented according to dean wray h congdon mean time the committee will conduct a further study into the constitution and program of the american stu dent union the american students union emerged in 1935 from the national student federation an organization composed of college groups inter ested in the study of national prob lebs — social economic and politi cal two left-wing groups of the federation the national student league and the student branch of the league for industrial democ racy combined to form the pres ent american students union publishes article moravec writes of debate for the speaker charles j moravec assistant university news editor wrote an article in the current issue of the speaker quarterly publication of tau kappa alpha national debat ing honorary entitled forensics in the press the article was concerned with a discussion of the debating of news with publicity and with schedules it closed with a plea for cooperation between directors of debating and publicity in schools and colleges and newspaper men to give to the reading public in formation concerning debating that they desire and prefer in accurate and brief accounts carrier seeks formation of honorary council to award alumni 10 groups j represented the formation of an interhon orary council to coordinate the functions of certain scholastic so cieties on the campus was proposed yesterday by cortland f carrier i e 39 to a group of nine in the dean's office among the proposals which the group heard were the presentation by the group of an award to an alumnus who accomplishes some notable position or recognition during the year although no defi nite action was taken at the meet ing carrier said that this and the other plans were well received the arrangement for a semi-an nual convocation of the honoraries a meeting at which pledging exer cises for all would take place was another point which carrier pre sented for consideration this plan he said would tend to make the ceremonies more impressive wants arcadia seat he also said that the group if it is formed might consider the ar rangement of social functions such as a dinner and dance for seniors during the week before graduation he also hoped that the council might gain a place if only as a non voting member on arcadia the representation was as fol lows james e patton ch e 39 tau beta pi honorary engineer ing courtland f carrier 111 i e 39 pi tau sigma honorary in dustrial and mechanical engineer ing robert p mcquail bus 39 alpha kappa psi honorary busi ness robert s grubmeyer e e 39 eta kappa nu honorary elec trical irving e lempert e e 39 pi mv epsilon honorary mathemati cal richard m dietz m e 41 phi eta sigma honorary freshman thomas e butterfield professor of heat engineering sigma xi honor ary research robert b palmer arts 40 eta sigma phi honorary classical and eugene r l gaug hran arts 39 alpha epsilon del ta honorary pre-medical dr al bert haring associate professor of economics who would have repre sented phi beta kappa honorary scholastic fraternity was unable to attend phi beta kappa will com plete the group making the tenth society plan still an idea dean wray f congdon empha sized the fact that nothing definite has been accomplished as yet the plan is still merely an idea and the functions only possibilities he said carrier said that the admission of other societies whose require ments for admission were not so strictly scholastic might be asked to join febrauary 21 was set as the time for the next meeting of the group we shall undoubtedly know at that time whether or not the council will be formed car rier said he will seek the advice of wil liam a cornelius executive secre tary of the alumni association on the plan to award the annual prize to an outstanding alumnus in making this award carrier added the advice of members of phi beta kappa and sigma xi both of which societies are composed of graduates to some extent will be valuable o sportsman's club sees motion pictures of game four reels of motion pictures illustrating trapping beaver life crow shooting and deer hunting were shown last night at a meeting of the sportsman's club by mr varner of scranton his son wil liam p varner bus 42 described the pictures as they were shown in a short business meeting it was decided by the members to have the club picture included in the epitome the picture will be taken on wednesday jan 18 at twelve o'clock on the steps of the alumni memorial building no more activities have been planned until after the semester examina tions another will be chosen soon by grannatt for interfraternity ball dance to be at hotel richard himbnr and his rhyth mic pyramids orchestra have been signed to play at the interfrater nity ball on feb 18 at the hotel bethlehem at a cost of 1050 mil ton h grannatt bus 39 presi dent of the interfraternity council announced yesterday a second band will be chosen soon the rhythmic pyramids which were developed by himber several months ago consist of a chord bro ken up into six different notes with each of himber's six brass instru ments playing one note in the chord with different mutes the effect has been popular ever since its introduction started at 14 himber started his career as a band leader at the age of 14 when he directed sophie tucker's kings of syncopation for two years following his tour with the tuck er band he played in a vaudeville act which had engagements in many parts of the country after four years with the vaude ville act he played a violin in the orchestra of the paramount thea ter in new york here he met rudy vallee and joined him as his band manager two years of this and he founded his own band his idea of harp interludes in dance music immediately made him popular he soon was playing on commercial radio programs and he then moved his band to the ritz-carlton hotel soon after he was engaged to play on the stude baker radio program and was se lected as one of the country's five most popular band leaders in sev eral polls awards available for graduates appointment of recipients for 22 research fellowships and graduate scholarships wil be made on or before may ist announced presi dent c c williams today of the total number the univer sity will award 12 exempting graduate students from payment of tuition for one year seven william c gotshall scholarships provided by a be quest from the late william c gotshall for worthy students in any branch or course of engineer ing offered at lehigh university are valued at 500 no duties other than graduate study are required of the holders appointment to either of two henry marison byllesby memorial research fellowships in engineer ing an endowment for which has been provided by the widow of col henry m byllesby m e 75 will be for the period of two aca demic years with an annual value of 750 half of the time of the holders of these fellowships must be devoted to research work on some problem in electrical me chanical or hydraulic engineering the other half to graduate study leading to the degree of master of science at the end of the two-year appointment providing that all university requirements for this degree have been satisfied the garrett linderman hoppes research fellowship in civil engin eering appointment for which is for a period of two academic years has a value of 600 a year o when ladies meet given by faculty dramatic club a play when ladies meet was read by the faculty dramatic club at its meeting wednesday in packard lounge faculty members and their wives who read parts were dr edgar h riley associate profes sor of english as james crothers mrs riley as bridgett eric s sinkson associate professor of ore dressing and fuel technology as rodgers mrs ewing as may george p winship fellow in eng lish as walter and mrs kemp as claire stoumen review head writes for young a book entitled speech for the young written by louis stoumen arts 69 will be off the press sat urday and will be on sale the week of jan 23 the book will consist of 70 full page photographs 12 poems and a preface the photographs are divided into four sections namely six picture photographs 19 portraits two stories told by photographs and ten photographs of social scenes there are seven full page portraits of aldous huxley a british novel ist who spoke at lehigh on dec 3 1937 ten of the photographs have le high subects such as a portrait of former dean mcconn a view from the lookout a picture of a lehigh football game and others the editor of the lehigh re view has included in his twelve poems a title poem entitled " speech for the young of amer ica the poem consists of four parts which are what i find good in america what i find bad in america what young are doing to remedy situations and a final statement o find one eligible for extra degree two men of the class of 1933 were considered by the committee on professional engineering de grees at its meeting on tuesday for the professional degree of me chanical engineer according to howard eckfeldt professor of mining engineering only one of these was found technically ac ceptable to qualify for a professional de gree a candidate must submit evi dence of having had since gradua tion at least five years of accept able experience in his engineering field one of the candidates lacked sufficient years of this experience a graduate of the engineering college receives the degree of bachelor of science in his engin eering curriculum to attain a pro fessional degree in his engineering field in addition to five year's ex perience the candidate must sub mit to the committee a thesis the subject of which the committee must approve in advance o john l becker engaged john l becker jr bus 39 be came engaged to miss margaret bonsell of hasbrouke heights n j during the christmas holidays brown and white bethlehem pa friday january 13 1939 interfraternity selection price — five cents vol xlvi no 25 norman thomas to speak at open meeting proposes plan for combining of honoraries student life in lithuania is not all vodka and caviar council head picks himber as one band military ball march 4 set for armory all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association 7 fil2
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norman thomas ex-minister who is now the leader of the socialist party in the united states will speak at an open meeting of the international relations club in the near fu ture it was announced recently mr thomas was a presby terian minister until 1931 when left the church to devote his time to political writing and speaking he ran for president in 1928 32 and 36 on the so cialist ticket since 1918 when he left the church to devote his morrow he has contributed to socialist and labor publications biology topic of sigma xi dick himber pi belt offers prize awards dent's wife broke a bottle of cham pagne over the bow of a transport somebody bought thursday lith uania's boy scout day with many many speeches friday was the commemoration of latvia's 20th year of independence and satur day was celebrated with a parads for something or other in which janulis trudged over four miles of cobbled streets however he says that they are all fun because there is always a band and everybody wears a uni form and they treat me like i had a mortgage on the president's pal ace in the way of private entertain ment he also makes out all right he at the time of writing had seen three operas aida traviatta and faust in the past two weeks among the interesting people he has met is an eccentric sculptor rimsa who sleeps in a coffin and entertains his friends by lowering nuts fruits and drinks from the ceiling where dishes are suspended on pulleys there is a dominican monk whose gratitude he secured by teaching him the big apple and there is an american-born ad venturer who has been a citizen of a half-dozen assorted countries and who was with lawrence in arabia there are about a dozen ameri cans at the university and on thanksgiving day they got to gether and had a old-fashioned american turkey dinner with stuffing pumpkin pie and even ice cream in case you have ever wondered what the life of an american stu dent in lithuania is like your question was answered in a recent letter from keiste janulis 37 janulis when he sailed in the fall envisioned a lazy man's para dise in which nothing would be done but dabbling in the lithuan ian language and vodka sipping on long winter evenings however he soon learned that the government had a far different program outlined for him at the university he must carry 22 credit hours of lithuanistica this in cludes general lithuanian gram mar lithuanian language con versation general fonetica an cient lithuanian history modern lithuanian history history of lithuanian literature history of lithuanian art lithuanian folk lore lithuanian poetry the lith uanian press and german good work expected and he is expected to do work as good as that that is done by those lithuanian students who have prepared for the course moreover as the guest of the government he is expected to at tend all the official functions such as parades receptions teas and so forth in a recent week his schedule ran like this monday a tea to benefit the lithuanian orphans tuesday the newly reelected president took the oath of office which he should know by heart by now wednesday the presi wife of trustee dies in new york editor to publish photos and poetry newswriting and editorial trials to be directed by dale h gramley prof dale h gramley head of the department of journalism has been appointed director of the edi torial and newswriting contests sponsored by pi delta epsilon na tional honorary jornalism frater nity he was appointed by robert h mcneil grand president of pi delta epsilon and director of pub lications at virginia tech professor gramley is now select ing college teachers of journalism and practicing newspapermen for judges the contests are being re sumed after a lapse of five years herrick fleischer win honors the last editorial writing contest was won by edward fleischer 33 with an editorial entitled whith er engineering fleischer also shared second and third prizes with warren gardner of st law rence university in the newswriting contest rob ert f herrick 34 present grand vice president of pi delta epsilon won second prize with his story richards enters 40th year in his prize-winning editorial fleischer advocated six year en gineering courses with four of the six years devoted to acquiring an understanding of social economic and cultural problems o to give concert tone to present shields walmsley and myers tone honorary musical society will present a concert sunday af ternoon at 4 o'clock in the chapel the program will consist of four parts the first part will be given by dr edgar t shields director of music and it includes the following toccata in c by pachelbel chorale by pachelbel suite by purcell and chorale by bach in the second part elizabeth walmsley pianist will offer three numbers by schumann dcs abends aus der nacht and aufschung the liberty high school glee club under the direction of marian graham will offer three numbers now let every tongue by bach aye verum by mozart and in these delightful pleasant groves by purcell the final part of the program consists of a piano and organ duet by ruth becker myers piano and dr t edgar shields organ they will offer the slow movement and finale of g minor piano concer to by mendelssohn o dine at psi upsilon house pi tau sigma honorary indus trial and mechanical engineering society held a dinner and business meeting wednesday in the psi up silon house courtland f carrier i e 39 president of the lehigh chapter of the society gave a report of the national convention which he at tended plans were discussed for a supper dance in the spring research society hears 3 faculty men talk subjects varied sigma xi honorary research society held a meeting last wed nesday night which dealt with var ious phases of biology the meeting was presided over by the president of the society thomas e butterfield professor of heat power engineering after a short business meeting the speak ers of the evening were introduced by dr stanley j thomas profes sor of bacteriology and head of the department of biology the next talk was presented by dr robert w hall professor of biology whose subject was mus eum specimens dr hall demon strated various methods of dis playing specimens illustrating his point with several pieces he ex plained a new method for procur ing skeletons which produces as good ones as the old method and is more economical he places larvae of a certain carniverous species of insect upon the body and they devour the flesh cleaning the bones trembley describes lizards dr frank j trembley assistant professor of biology under the subject some south american lizards discussed the varying types and peculiarities of speci mens he had brought to the meet ing the next speech delivered by dr sidney c bausor instructor in biology was on the subject plant growth substances he told of various chemicals which are bene ficial in accelerating the growth of plants although he was unable to demonstrate he outlined methods for producing out-of-the-ordinary plant and root structures the meeting was attended by approximately 30 members of the lehigh faculty digest will print amateur photos to give recognition to the out standing photographs taken by col lege and university amateur pho tographers collegiate digest will again this year publish an annual salon edition editors of the pub lication announced all students and faculty members of lehigh university are invited to enter their photographs in the annual competition fur this special edition colle giate digest's editors will select two or three prints in each of the divisions listed below to the first place winners in each division collegiate digest will present a cash award of five dollars to the second and third place winners three dollars and two dollars will be awarded the following are the rules for the salon edition 1 all material must l>e sent in not later than i! |
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