Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 39

              resign from faculty bethlehem pa tuesday march 21 1939 honor society picks erskine for speaker majors named for transfer this summer collins gerber included on list for transfer from m s and t will talk at joint banquet of lehigh lafayette phi beta kappa mr william h bohning dr william c mcdermott town group meets votes drama staged friday night prof batcman edward 3 professors resign from faculty posts vol xlvi — no 39 official orders pending the names of majors carter col lins and theodore c gerber as sistant professors of military sci ence and tactics have been placed on the list for transfer this sum mer announced lt col joseph s leonard head of the department of military science and tactics orders for transfer and replace ment have not been received by the local post but are expected within three or four weeks both of the majors have been at lehigh since the fall of 1935 ma jor collins is a graduate of stan ford university where he received his bachelor of arts degree in 1917 during the war he served as ma jor of the 12th regiment bth divis ion regulars he has been active in scabbard and blade honorary mil itary society major gerber recevied a b s in civil engineering from the univer sity of missouri in 1928 previous to his position at lehigh he was assistant to the commanding officer of the pratinny arsenal at dover n j he has been coach of the rifle team and an active member of the faculty rifle team summer session pamphlets ready special courses offered ; plan lecture series announcements of the 1939 sum mer session will be distributed to students and faculty members within a few days dale h gram ley associate professor of journa lism announced today the session will have many spe cial features this year courses will be offered dealing with vocational guidance reading difficulties su pervisory work public finance contemporary political thought and the world war and its after math a program of lectures will be given evenings and a series of mu sical recitals will be presented sun day afternoons the top o the mountain theatre will present a group of plays directed by albert a rights director of dramatics facilities will be available for ten nis golf and swimming maj theodore c gerber dean warns houses about fire hazards price — five cents 5 chapter houses sponsor dances edwards mcdermott and bohning to leave at end of semester announced last night president c c williams an nounced last night that the resig nations of dr william c mcder mott assistant professor of latin dr bateman edwards head of the department of romance languages and william h bohning assistant to the registrar and assistant in romance languages have been re ceived to take effect at the end of the semester dr mcdermott came to lehigh in september 1935 after serving as instructor of latin at allegheny college for three years he gradu ated from dickinson college in 1928 received his masters degree from johns hopkins in 1930 and his doctors degree from the same school in 1934 he is a member of phi beta kappa eta sigma phi american philological society and the archaeological institute of america came here in 1937 dr edwards came to lehigh in 1937 after teaching at princeton for 13 years he graduated from bowdoin in 1919 and received his doctors degree from princeton uni versity in 1924 he is a member of the modern language association mr bohning graduated from le high in 1934 and received his m a in 1936 he has been assistant to the registrar since 1934 and an assistant in romance languages since 1937 he is going to the uni versity of pennsylvania as an as sistant in romance languages while there he will work for his doctors degree release statistics on health service dispensary attendance tops previous year a total of 17,989 visits to the dis pensary last year was recorded in the annual report of the students health service released on satur day by dr raymond c bull di rector of the student's health ser vice this total represents all visits including students fauclty and employees with a total of 21,280 treatments the greatest number were treated in march with 2,730 making use of the dispensary the report covers the fields of sanitation physical examinations dispensary service and educational measures the erection of new buildings and enlargement of old ones has improved the general sanitary condition of the campus according to the report the total number of students ex amined last year was 1761 of which there are 513 who were giv en follow-up examinations of this number 116 were brought back for hearing defects and 108 with de fective vision the increase of the work of the ambulatory dispensary for the year was 6 percent over that of the pre vious year which was approxima tely the same as the increase in enrollment during the year 1,490 or 84.3 percent of the student body visited the dispensary for an aver age of over 11 visits per student of the 378 students who took the examniation in freshman hygiene 326 or 85 percent passed and 15 percent failed in biology 16 two thirds of the 27 who took the course passed in concluding the report dr bull discussed the necessities of improving and enlarging the facili ties of the health service o prof bishop will speak leslie bishop associate professor of economics will address the al lentown chapter of the national association of cost accountants next friday in allentown initiation held yesterday john erskine american author will speak at the joint initiation banquet of the lehigh and lafay ette chapters of phi beta kappa national scholastic fraternity to be held on april 2 in the fountain room of the hotel bethlehem initiation of the 20 new mem bers that were recently elected at lehieh was held yesterday in the faculty room of the alumni mem orial building among the books that erskine has written are the brief hours of francois villon young love my son bachelor of arts uncle sam penelopes man and the private life of helen of troy erskine has received decrees for his work in english literature from norwich university amherst ho bart university of bordeaux in france rollins new york state normal college cornell wesleyan boston university and columbia dr erskine who graduated from columbia university in 1900 re ceived his degree as doctor of phil osophy in 1903 and his master of arts degree a year earlier trustee of julliard foundation he is at present a trustee of the julliard musical foundation a member of the management com mittee of the metropolitan opera asociation he is also a member of the modern language association of america and the silvermine guild of artists and was president of the poetry society of america in 1922 erskine is a member of the na tional institute of arts and let ters the american academy of arts and sciences and is chairman of the army educational commis sion a joint banquet of the societies of the two colleges is held each year the odd year in bethlehem and the even year in easton dr w w comfort of haverford col lege was the speaker last year in easton lehigh moravian in clash debate new type of forens : cs to be used thursday a direct clash debate a new form of debating will occur be tween lehigh and moravian col lege for men at 7:30 p m thurs day in the engineer's lounge in packard laboratory the subject of the debate is resolved that the united states should folow a policy of economic and military isolation toward all nations involved in international or civil conflict outside the western hemisphere lehigh will be represented by fredric n bahnson e phvs 41 henry t heckman arts 40 and norman l morse ch e 40 the moravian debaters will be martin getz stanley goldenburg and john groenfeldt the lehigh de baters will take the negative the debate is an experiment to test the direct clash type of debat ing which is a new type exempli fied by each team alternately pre senting its points in short speeches and direct answers the judge will be stanley pritze an allentown attorney the debate is open to the public o graduate assistant to talk at m e society meeting the student chapter of the american society of mechanical engineers will meet at 7:45 thurs day evening according to john f mcquillin m e 40 vice-president of the society at the meeting joel f bailey graduate assistant in mechanical engineering will speak on solu tion cycles five social fraternities held dan ces this week end at their respec tive chapter houses delta upsilon theta delta chi and alpha chi rho held formal affairs while delta sigma phi and delta tau delta held informal dances george craig's orchestra played at delta tau delta while mr and mrs godfrey chaperoned at delta upsilon george doddy's orchestra played and dr and mrs harry b osborn chaperoned piff moore and harry romig played at the theta delta chi affair while pro fessor and mrs bartlett chaper oned the alpha chi rho dance featured the nomads and was cha peroned by professor and mrs simmons dr and mrs reynolds were the chaperones at delta sig ma phi pied piper of the jitterbugs has earned his reputation fraternities are asked to fix protection within one year 3 are already approved if adequate fire protection in 26 fraternity houses is not provided within a year's time definite action will be taken by the state fire au thorities andrew w litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds stated last night this statement was made in comment on a letter sent out by dean wray h congdon warning all but three lehigh fraternities that insufficient fire protection con ditions must be remedied dean congdon pointed out that the state fire chief has the authority to close and padlock any living house where these requirements are not met dean congdon said that the state fire chief has been aware of the situation at lehigh and has already stepped in wherever alterations to a fraternity have been made this applies to only three houses sigma phi epsilon delta sigma phi and theta delta chi which have been approved minimum requirements listed the minimum of protection re quires a fire doors and fire walls shutting off the stair walls which become flues with an up draft carrying the fire throughout the building and cutting off all es cape b outside fire escapes to which there is a direct and pro tected access from all sleeping quarters besides this a fire ex tinguisher should be accessible on every floor and an extra one in the kitchen the state requirements go beyond the minimum requirements stated above fraternity houses are inspected every year lehigh houses have been warned for a number of years that the fire protection is inade quate the fact that the university is powerless to compel steps to be taken and that individuals or cor porate groups not students are the actual property owners combine to delay direct action said dean congdon however by the state law protection requirements must be met after proper warning by the state fire chief the time ten tatively given in this case is ap proximately a year dean congdon wrote each year at least one catastrophe oc curs in some college living group in this country where students have been caught in a fire trap and lost their lives every step that will avert the possibility of any such tragedy in our midst must be taken to pick students for air training 3 air corps officers to interview applicants three members of the u s army air corps have been selec ted for an inspection tour of penn sylvania colleges and universities and will interview lehigh students interested in aviation within the near future heading the group to select le high students for the nine month training period will be captain m s white of the medical corps from barksdale field la his assistants will be captain r l easton and second lieutenant c n true of the air corps stationed at maxwell field ala officials in washington disclosed over the week-end that the inten sified training program embraces employment of about 15 commer cial flying schools to provide pri mary schooling the output of fin ished military fliers from randolph and kelly field texas will be more than doubled the recruits will have three month polishing course at kelly field the training course thus will be shortened from 12 to 9 months winterset acclaimed by capacity audience in drown hall by roy s zachary what was probably lehigh's best and most successful theatrical ex periment was staged friday night when the dramatic workshop and mustard and cheese combined to present winterset before an au dience of over 350 people the ex cellent results which albert a rights instructor in english and director of the play and his cast obtained show what can be done by the university dramatic clubs when they have time for complete preparations plaudits and praises go to sylvia mellner miriamne who turned in one most finished feminine por trayals yet to be seen in a lehigh production perfect as her diction was it was overshadowed by her subtle movements and pantomime which gave addde punch to her al ready powerful part actors all good it would be tremendously diffi cult to name any one or two out standing male characters in the play for each part was well cast and interpreted raymond ro senstein arts 39 nathaniel bris ker bus 40 ralph buchsbaum arts 40 merrill david bus 40 edwin miller arts 40 and wayne o'neill arts 39 all deserve praise and congratulations for their fin ished acting it was o'neill's first part in a lehigh production which gave him opportunity to display his talents in a serious role he had heretofore been cast in completely comedy parts rosenstein displayed the same sort of ability to handle difficult characters which was seen and praised in last year's production of men in white brisker was con vincing in his developement of mio audience contributes to success an audience which acted a great deal more maturely than the aver age lehigh gathering was so com pletely carried along by the inter pretation of the play that it con tributed much to the success of the dramatization a prime factor to the importance of staging winterset which may not in the least be overlooked was the splendid job done by rights in the developing of the talent at his disposal credit is also due to stu dent directors louis c stoumen arts 39 and norman m hammer eng 2 realistic and timely sound effects aided the production those who did not see the play can only regret that due to its length and the many other sched uled events for saturday evening a second performance was not giv en o filial weekly concert is given by tone on sunday tone's weekly concert the last of the season consisted of a pro gram of orcestral music performed by the symphony orchestra assist ed by mrs ruth becker meyers pianist the concert was attended by about 200 persons who heard mrs meyers rendition of the concerto in d minor by haydn and selec ted orchestral works after the program members of tone and of the orchestra were entertained at a tea at president c c william's home free reign constitution approved by council suggestions urged free reign was unanimously voted its arcadia representative by the town council at a meeting last night in drown hall announced henry t s heckman arts 39 this policy is contrary to the vote of the interfraternity council last week which requires its pres ident to consult the council before voting at an arcadia meeting the constitution of the town council was also unanimously rati fied by the council as it was presen ted by the constitution committee headed by milton spilberg arts 39 the possibility of having a town dance houseparty weekend will be put up to the approval of all town members before thursday night through the efforts of the social committee headed by robert h gallagher bus 39 suggestions by town members to town council representatives of their districts for improvements were strongly urged by the council it was also voted to hold council meetings the third monday of ev ery month in the arcadia room in drown hall students to apply for dorm rooms town group asked to file applications town students who wish dormi tory rooms next semester are re quired to file applications before spring vacation on forms obtain able at the bursar's office the drawing scheduled for tomorrow has ben abandoned because of a new plan adopted thursday the new dormitory drawing plan as drawn up by v edward stopp arts 41 president of rich ards house was accepted by dean wray h congdon the interdormi tory council and frederick r ashbaugh bursar at a joint meet ing held in the dean's office according to the new plan room assignments arranged before the annual drawings conducted by the bursar will be under the direct supervision of the section chiefs for all men occupying rooms in their respective sections with the ap proval of the university officials the plan provides that all men in a section shall have priority in obtaining rooms in that section at any time a vacancy exists during the school year but that all room transfers during the school year must have the written approval of the section chief the names of those men present who wish to take part in the draw ing shall be placed on ballots and drawn in the following order graduates and seniors juniors sophomores and freshmen within 10 days after final section assign ments have been made signed lea ses must be on file at the bursar's office with the necessary deposits of 10 each symphonic teachers and has re cently astonished swing addicts by playing the solo part in mozart's clarinet quintet although goodman is a real stu dent of classical music and has won acclaim for his renditions of symphonic classics his true love and his favorite hobby is swing at a loss for a better way of denning this thing called swing goodman merely describes it as a simple state of ecstasy swing can mostly be traced to the musically illiter ate but inordinately gifted negroes at the beginning of the century who not knowing how to read mu sic had to make it up as they went along when the musically talented whites who possessed feeling and imagination became attracted to swing they lifted it to new heights and goodman was the leader of this group today benny goodman is riding the crest of the wave in popularity and performance behind him he leaves an ever increasing enthu siasm a host of very thoroughly shattered traditions and many years of colorful experience for his future there seems little to fear from the many bands who copy goodman's style for they make him appear all the greater this is the man who will hold forth at dorney park in an effort to satisfy the lehigh jitterbugs and to con vert the remaining few conscien tious objectors benny goodman the man who packed them in the staid and red brick carnegie hall last year who caused near riot in the metropoli tan theatres at which he appeared and who will play a mighty big part at houseparty next month has colorfully and legitimately earned for himself the title pied piper of the jitterbugs this man goodman is the one mostly responsible for making swing the free-for-all rhythm born in the jungle nourished in the gin joint and worshipped from park avenue to the golden gate america's official contribution to the world of music his sheer abil ity and technique and the enthusi asm that his music has inspired in his many followers have made both swing and goodman tops when it comes to rhythm and they'll both be at dorney park on the 21st of april it is not at all surprising to note that goodman's entire life has been a life of music — not all of it swing but music just the same while benny was still attending high school in chicago he with four of his pals formed a dance band all five are top swingsters in the coun try today at 16 he and his clari net were featured with ben pol lack's band and he has played that same instrument with isham jones red nichols johnny green and paul whiteman he learned harmony and counterpoint under lehigh university brown and white maj carter collins to be 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