Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 42

              re-exam rules made harder frank l palmer john erskine pidelta epsilon to pick men 150 juniors are amused by coach dietz phi beta kappa guest vol xlvi no 42 review poem causes plaint to hold joint banquet with lafayette group at hotel bethlehem takes place tomorrow john erskine professor emeritus of english at columbia university will speak on " a city exists in hope at 6:30 p m tomorrow at a banquet at the hotel bethlehem sponsored jointly by the lehigh and lafayette chapters of phi beta kappa national scholastic honor ary fraternity this will be the sec ond appearance of dr erskine be fore a lehigh audience he addressed a large group on dec 2nd 1930 in packard auditor ium when eta sigma phi national classical society celebrated the virgil bi-millenium his topic was virgil after 2,000 years he has written over 35 books dealing with problems of poetry and literature several of his nov els have been black-listed in var ious cities has received many degrees three years following his grad uation from columbia university in 1900 dr erskine received his doctor of philosophy degree he was a member of the columbia staff 35 years before retiring in 1937 he has received honorary de grees from ten american colleges and universities and one from the university of bordeaux in france during the world war he served as education director of the a e f he is a member of the american academy of arts and sciences the national institute of arts and let ters the players club phi beta kappa delta upsilon and the poe try society of america he is also a trustee of the julliard musical foundation a member of the man agement committee of the metro politan opera association a mem ber of the board of directors of the silvermine guild of artists and member of the modern langauge association lehigh and lafayette students who were admitted to membership of phi beta kappa last month will be guests of honor at the banquet the faculty and administration officials of both institutions are in vited to attend o to speak in wilkes-barre dr hale sutherland head of the department of civil engineering will speak on the engineer's place in the world of tomorrow on april 21 at the g a r memorial high school at wilkes barre 2 social workers protest against photo caption no action taken two social workers mrs e h gumbart and mrs r l kift com plained to dean congdon on wed nesday that the welfare work they had done for the mexican settle ment on bethlehem steel company property had been ruined by a line in a poem entitled coco-a and a picture of a mexican named gomez with his family with the caption have you met the greasy dirty lousy drunken mexican under neath it that was published in the march issue of the lehigh review the poem was written by frank norris c e 41 and louis stou men arts 39 and joseph b boyle bus 39 were responsible for the pictures no official action has been taken by the university according to norris the offend ing line in the poem was written to express the american attitude to wards mexicans he declared it to be an attempt to give a picture of a type of people living in bethlehem with the absence of any attempt at reform of the conditions under which these people live and that it was intended purely as satire the picture aroused the anger of gomez and he complained to a teacher in a school run by social workers for the mexican children which his children were attending the complaint to the dean result ed speakers praise group on spirit evidenced at class banquet al cox is toastmaster by albert thalhamer using humorous incidents glean ed from his 30 years association with collegiate and professional football william lone star dietz commanded the undivided atten tion of close to 150 juniors at the class banquet held last night at the hotel bethlehem although keeping his audience in almost a continuous state of laughter as he related comic stories about the carlisle indian teams as well as about several of his out standing players dietz closed in a serious vein he advised his listen ers to become men of destiny by living an honest truthful and well-rounded life he praised the class on its ex pression of unity and spirit the factors of unity and spirit are es sential in college life you will re member this more vividly in the years to come he closed his 45 mintues of rambling with a recita tion of an indian poem which por trayed the return of an indian to the modern america harmeson reiter speak glen harmeson head football coach and howard bosey reiter head of the department of physical education congratulated the class upon the revival of class banquets both stated that the meeting was a renewal of a spirit which has been lacking on the lehigh campus for many years they urged that jun iors instill in undergraduates the desire for class and university loy alty spirit and tradition alfred t cox president of the class was master of ceremonies captains elect of various fall and winter athletic teams who spoke briefly were charles griffiths bas ketball harold masem wrestling john o'meara swimming edward phillips soccer and walter russel soccer the committe that planned the event after cyanide junior honorary activities fraternity sug gested the renewal of class ban quets was headed by alfred v bo dine he was assisted by cox preston f marshall james l richardson clifford b heisler and albert e ponter 2 blind musicians will give concert tenor pianist to perform in chapel on sunday two blind musical artists luigi boccelli dramatic tenor and harry j ditzler organist and lecture pianist will give a concert at 4 p m sunday in packer memorial chapel the concert is free and open to the public boccelli will present the follow ing vocal numbers where er you walk by handel per la gloria d'adorarvi by buonon cin4 celeste aida by verdi the pearl fishers by bizet la dan za by rossini the hills of gru zia by mednikoff my love's an arbutus old irish air arrang ed by stanford sing a while longer by o'hara the last hour by kramer and hills by la forge ditzler will present the follow ing organ numbers toccata and fugue in d minor by j s bach before thy throne i now ap pear by j s bach beyond the aurora by banks scherzo sym phonique by miller and varia tions de concert by bonnet ditz ler will also accompany boccelli on the piano both young men have studied extensively under famous teachers according to dr t edgar shields director of music boccelli having studied under david bispham and frank laforge and ditzler under russell king miller and rollo f maitland journalist to give talk on headlines and news dispersal conference on may 13 frank l palmer who has work ed for leading newspaper chains in all sections of the nation has been secured as the principle speaker for the opening session of the sixth annual scholastic press confer ence which will be held on satur day may 13 twisted headlines is the sub ject of palmer's address which will be delivered in packard auditor ium announced dale h gramley head of courses in journalism and director of the conference he will discuss the meanings of headlines and will explain the business of bringing news of the world to the attention of readers he received his college education at the university of denver fol lowing the world war he served as industrial y m c a secretary in south carolina after that he covered important national news assignments for such chains as scripps - howard hearst and stern for five years he was head of the federated press and during the years 1936-38 he built a chain of 37 newspapers with a circula tion of 300,000 worked on silicosis expose while working as a newspaper man he was instrumental in bring ing about the sensational exposures of silicosis deaths at gauley bridge west virginia largely through his efforts which involved the bringing of dying victims to give their testimonies at a con gressional investigation both state and federal laws were enacted to prevent a recurrence of such a tra gedy he was selected national vice president of tau kappa alpha na tional honorary collegiate debating fraternity while at the university of denver he was editor of the colorado labor advocate for five years and is the author of a vol ume dealing with labor conditions entitled spies in steel at the present time he is completing the manuscript of a new volume de voted to the interpretation of news by the press of the nation during the past three months he has ad dressed college audiences at co lumbia and new york universities and has spoken at the ford open forum considered the nation's lar gest public forum junior officers greet lone star dietz at banquet many alibis eliminated ; faculty increases committee's scope the university has stiffened its regulations concerning late re examinations according to the re port of the committee on petitions given at the faculty meeting on april 3 the new regulations rule out alibis for failure to take re examinations given in freshman week that have to do with require ments of jobs insufficient time for study delay caused by mechanical troubles of automobiles fraternity rushing duties and the like such excuses as serious illness deaths in the family and conflict ing summer school attendance are valid and will allow the student to take second re - examniations which are given on saturday after noons of the following semester the jurisdiction of the commit tee on student activities was ex tended to include student clubs by action taken at the faculty meet ing formerly the committee did not have jurisdiction over athle tics or student publications j lynford beaver professor of electrical engineering and member of the chapel committee announ ced that a vesper service will be held in packer memorial chapel at 4 p m sunday april 23 robert e speer missionary secretary who has done extensive missionary work and written 30 books will preside over the annual affair o 2 motorcyclists injured in crash receive cuts and bruises in collision with car john p troy eng 42 and phil ip w saitta jr bus 42 were in jured last night when a motorcy cle owned and operated by troy collided with a car driven by ste phen luckansky of allentown the accident occured at the corner of front and susquehanna streets in allentown both students were rushed im mediately to the sacred heart hos pital in allentown troy suffered contusions of the face and a poss ible fracture of the jaw saitta re ceived lacerations of the head troy and saitta were taken to the hospital by wendell szakaly of bethlehem and charles hess of allentown o patton made chairman of criticism committee james patton ch e 39 was appointed chairman of the criti cism committee of tau beta pi national honorary scholastic fra ternity for engineers irving e lempert e e 39 was appointed secretary to the committee mr patton asked that any student hav ing any criticism or suggestion about anything connected with the university should give it to any senior member of tau beta pi or phi beta kappa charles l eichenberg e e 39 was selected chairman of a com mittee to plan for an alumni ban quet to be held sometime in the beginning of may o tone to hear violin talk master violins is the title of a talk on old violins to be given at 8 15 p m tomorrow in drown hall lounge by carlton l murphy pro fessor of music at beaver college at a meeting of tone honorary musical society the meeting is to be held in combination with the musical society of the moravian college for women 510 engineers warned dormitory men achieve best group record ; 182 arts men listed the number of valentines given out this semester was the largest for any second semester in eight years dean wray h congdon an nounced yesterday 798 students were notified of their scholastic de ficiencies this semester in 1931 when the enrollment was 300 less than it is at present 819 students were warned at mid-semester by the dean's office men in the college of business administration received the lar gest umber of any of the curricula receiving 182 although the total number of notices sent to engineers was 510 arts men were sent 106 warnings of the three living groups the fraternities were given the largest number of valentines with dormi tory men having the least number only three engineering physi cists and six chemists were warn ed the engineering curriculum having the largest number was that of industrial engineering the distribution acording to cur ricula is arts and science 106 business administration 182 chemical engineering 50 chemistry 6 electrical engineering 50 civil engineering 21 engineering physics 3 freshmen engineering 181 industrial engineering 89 mechanical engineering 68 metallurgical engineering 29 mining engineering 13 total 798 the tabulation of valentines as compared with the total enrollment over a period of 9 years is as fol lows the valentine distribution by living groups this year is fraternity men 375 dormitory men 149 town group 274 total 798 joint session held blake society meets with swarthmore group thirteen members and guests of the r w blake society honorary philosophical group were enter tained at swarthmore college at their annual joint meeting by the philosophical society on friday af ternoon during the meeting john e sutcliffe arts 39 and frank v n hertzog arts 41 debated the affirmative of the topic of emer gence a tenable alternative for mechanism and vitalism fank c becker assistant pro fessor of philosophy and theodore t lafferty mcfarlane associate professor of philosophy attended the discussion along with members of the society and guests students who attended were frederick n bahnson phys 41 bernard berkowitz arts 40 ber nard altshuler phys 40 hugh r davidson eng phys 41 frank v n hedtzog john e sutcliffe rob ert c kelley jr ch e 40 char les r kiefer jr arts 41 arthur s mickley e e 40 jules l mor eau arts 40 norman l morse ch e 40 donald r schoen arts 41 and stephen weinrib arts 41 journalism society will elect men according to point system pi delta epsilon national colleg iate journalism honorary frater nity will elect new members at a meeting 4 p m next tuesday in drown hall a list of points by which pledges will be selected was approved at the march meeting point lists are to be submitted to eric weiss e e 39 president of the society at price hall before 7:00 p m mon day although editors and business managers of the brown and white the lehigh review and the epi tome are automatically eligible for election they must indicate desire for membership by submitting qualifications in writing to the president of the society before 7 00 p m monday the tapping of the new members will take place the following week and the society banquet will be held toward the end of april or early in may the point system is as follows brown and white editorial manager 8 news l\f anagor 6 financial m|im|w 5 make-up editor 4 news editor 3 sports editor 3 editorial cornell 3 local advertising assistant 3 circulation manager 2 copy supervisor 2 national advertising manager 2 photography editor 1 hoard 1 review associate editor 3 assistant editor 5 financial manager 3 advertising manager 4 circulation manager 3 photography editor 2 art editor 2 national advertising manager 1 board , 1 executive secretary 1 assistant circulation manager 1 freshman handbook editorial manager s business board 1 epitome senior section chief 5 assistant business manager 5 senior editors 8 junior editors 2 junior business manager 2 member of five man epitome board 1 sportsman's club to hear gun talk a talk on guns will be given by edwin a fisher arts 40 at the regular meeting of the lehigh sportsman's club at 8:00 p m thursday in room 466 in packard laboratory fisher whose hobby is the study and collecting of guns will trace the history of fire-arms from early times he will trace the develop ment of the modern sporting rifle a trap shoot will be held by the society on friday members meet ing at the main gate at 2 p m the club will also go on a fishing trip the first day of trout season on sat urday other activities scheduled during april and may include a trap shoot and fishing trip april 30 a hike and camera trip may 6 the final meeting of the year may 11 and the final outing and picnic may 14 all of these events are subject to change by members and will be cancelled in case of rain dian and rose bowl champions pictured above are left to right alfred v bodine chairman of the ban quet committee dietz the principal speaker alfred t cox president of the class and harold masem secretary treasurer of the juniors v & w staff photo juniors revived spirit and unity at the first class banquet held since 1930 last night at the hotel bethlehem close to 150 third-year men listened to william lone star dietz albright college mentor who amused his audience with tales of carlisle in bethlehem pa tuesday april 11 1939 press conclave speaker price — five cents 798 undergraduates receive valentines phi beta kappa will sponsor john erskine press meet will feature news writer meeting to be held dean congdon notifies half of student body of deficiencies lehigh university brown and white all seniors are reminded that there will be a meeting of their class at 4 o'clock tomorrow af ternoon in packard auditorium val t't 1 enrou arch 1931 819 140 iarch 1932 743 135 i arch 1933 700 127 iarch 1934 541 124 arch 1935 580 125 iarch 1936 620 135 arch 1937 728 153 i arch 1938 698 164 arch 1939 798 177 member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first