Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 52

              new arcadia members meet 24 glee club members sing despite his efforts to make them stop he described them as boys about 12 or 13 years old since sev eral of them were dressed in knickers thinking no harm had been done mr litzenberger let the mat ter slip his mind until the follow ing morning when he found that his wife's beautiful tulip patch had been desecrated by the little van dals upon actual count he discov ered that exactly 114 tulips were missing it wasn't that the flowers had been cut neatly so as to be useful but they had been clipped off nearly at the flower for mis chievious reasons only therefore mr litzenberger has built himself a fence not that he is afraid of having the flowers both ered again but it's always best to be on the safe side mr andrew w litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds has just built a fence yes those three strands of wire along the walk between packer chapel and christmas-saucon hall are supposed to be thief-proof it all started last thursday even ing just after sundown from the chapel across from mr litzenber ger's home on the corner of new street and packer avenue came the beautiful strains of johann sebas tian bach's music as the bach fes tival choir rehearsed it was quite warm outside and mr litzenberger decided to step out for a breath of fresh air as he walked out the door he heard a frantic scurrying from the direction of his flower garden and turned just in time to see six or eight furtive figures dash out of the garden and run down the street lehigh review out this week decision near on graduation to feature articles on coal bootlegging 77 bach festival dean says flag pole plan is acceptable if budget is met half-hour program given over station wor on saturday morning the glee club presented a half hour broadcast saturday morning over station wor and the mutual broadcasting company network from 10:30 to 11 o'clock the pro gram included morris dance by german-federlein waltz in a flat major by brahms hunting song from robin hood by de koven with a primrose by grieg autumn sea by gericke my home is where the heather blooms by dekoven and dance my comrades by bennett a special chorus of eight sang two novelty selections the clock and two little fleas by bogart this chorus consisted of james m phelan ch e 41 a george ue beroth bus 39 walter m hen ry bus 39 douglas h prideaux arts 39 wilson r pierpont arts 39 m clayton burgy ch e 41 quentin r g keith arts 40 and willard a litzenberger arts 41 donald r schoen artj 41 accom panied the group on the piano the broadcast was opened with hail to lehigh by van vleck 08 and was closed iwth alma mater by gibson 95 4 spring formals held by 5 houses four spring formal dances were given saturday night by five fra ternities the sigma phi epsilon and lambda chi alpha houses combin ed to hold their dance at the hotel bethlehem which was attended by 150 couples chaperones were thomas t holme instructor in mechanical engineering and mrs holme colonel joseph s leonard head of the department of military science and tactics and mrs leon ard claude lamarr from bethle hem and his band furnished the music forty couples danced at the kappa sigma house to the music of george sommers and his orchestra from philadelphia dr amos e ettinger associate professor of his tory and mrs ettinger were the chaperones the phi gamma delta dance was attended by 80 couples len mayfair's orchestra played mr and mrs c e muehlberg and mr james l clifford instructor in english were the chaperones the beta kappa fraternity held a radio dance attended by 20 coup les mr william d mccaa assist ant footbal coach and mrs mccaa chaperoned council discusses co-op coal buying committee to be picked in fall cane to change hands a handbook for freshmen will be prepared by the fraternities and sent to all incoming freshmen it was decided last night at the in terfraternity council meeting in drown hall the handbook will be published by the fraternities for their interests the committee appointed to pre pare the handbook consists of the following david r ginder arts 40 john f mcquillim m e 40 roy s zachary arts 41 and john h mathewson ch e 41 dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and reli gious philosophy was re-elected faculty adviser of the council the council also discussed the combined fraternity coal buying a committee to take care of the mat ter will be appointed in the fall appoint committee dr ward l bishop associate professor of economics and roy b cowin head of the department of accounting were appointed mem bers of the judicial committee the student members of the committee are as follows maynard l dia mond arts 40 clifford b heisler bus 40 chester c baldwin i e 40 roy s zachary arts 41 james m roberts jr arts 40 the council decided to ask the sponsors of the engineers ball to hold it a few weeks after pledging night as that time would be more convenient it was also announced that rushing lists would be avail able to anyone desiring them at the price of six cents each a discus sion of the fire hazard problem was held at the council meeting it was re vealed that there is only one soph omore competitor for the position of interfraternity athletic manager it will be necessary to appoint an other junior manager next semes ter it was announced that six houses had contributed a total of 40 to the community chest fund o community chest drive falls short of goal according to figures released last night by professor dale h gram ley a member of the bethlehem community chest committee le high failed to meet its quota in the recent community chest drive by 273 final figures showed that the university had raised 2,727 of a 3,000 quota set for them the amounts given by each individual living group could not be learned last night professor gramley added that the drive as a whole had been suc cessful in bethlehem and that 129,911 was raised in going over a 126,895 goal a debate on coal bootlegging will be featured in the next le high review scheduled to appear wednesday or thursday according to howard j lewis arts 40 as sociate editor since the anthracite coal con ference has been held at lehigh for the last two years the review editors considered it pertinent to publish the debate on this question of bootlegging there are possibil ities according to lewis that le high may become the center of the anthracite research the debate is written by john r polinski arts 42 and william h barnard e e 41 other features include an arti cle by quentin r keith arts 40 on the annual bach festival to be held here friday and saturday and an article for engineers by nor man l morse ch e 40 a page of caricatures of mem bers of the business department by richard s gowdy bus 40 and a page of mexican sketches by mer rill bernard arts 40 will also ap pear three short stories will also be featured the weaker sex by david c hughes chem 39 phreckles phrenology by joseph b boyle bus 39 and pool room by howard j lewis the cover theme will concern a contrast between final exams and summer vacation o summer books available howard s leach librarian an nounced that special summer read ing privileges may be secured by any one desiring them if desired books can be kept throughout the summer vacation mr leach an nounced that within the past few years the number of books taken out under special summer privileg es has been increasing continued on page foil junior managers will not be chosen sophomores to compete again will divide honoraria the three seniors and five jun iors who will aid robert good in editing the 1940 epitome and the two seniors who will manage its business affairs were elected yes terday afternoon by the board of publications at a meeting in the office of its chairman dean wray h congdon the election the first held since the reorganization of the lehigh yearbook one year ago made george c lennox i e art editor and first assistant to good wallace p watkins bus will be senior section editor and richard p ho miller ch e will be photographic editor all of these editors will be responsible for their sections of the book and will not be figureheads as senior board members have been in the past according to kenneth k kost faculty adivser the five junior editors will be donald r schoen arts classes henry d chandler bus frater nities charles f kalmbach m e organizations herbert p elliott bus photographic and richard l vockel i e sports otto v norvig i e was named business manager and warren g leonard i e will be his assistant junior managers unchosen acting on the recommendation of george ueberroth business manager of the 1938 epitome and of kenneth k kost faculty advis er the board decided not to fill tha two junior managerships all the sophomores who competed on the business staff of the epitome this year may compete again next year the competition next year will be opened to all juniors in college from the combined group of competitors the board will sel ect the business manager of the 1941 epitome the board ruled however that the points earned by sophomores this year will be addea to their cre dit next year and that the money usually paid to the junior mana gers will be impounded and divid ed equally with the two successful candidates at the end of the sen ior year in explaining the aciton of the board kost the faculty adviser said this ruling means that next year any junior who would like to become business manager of the epitome can enter competition with a very good chance of getting the position with one year's work naturally the sophomores who competed this year will have a slight advantage but the records show that this advantage is not go ing to be any too great watkins activities include the business managership of the brown and white for the first semester membership of cyanide o d x pi delta epsilon alpha kappa psi and chi psi leonard's activities include reiter cup will be among those awards to be given friday beardsleechosenadvisor the second annual award of the howard r reiter leadership cup the pledging of newly elected members by omicron delta kappa and cyanide honorary activities fraternities and the awarding of athletic trophies will be the high lights of the annual flag pole rally at 11 o'clock friday morning first awarded last year the rei ter cup a gift of archibald john son 89 is awarded annually in honor of howard bosey reiter profesor of physical education to the outstanding leader of the sen ior class according to the terms of the award the senior to be honored is chosen by a committee named by president c c williams and is awarded solely on the basis of leadership president's committee the committee which will choose the winner consists of dr claude g beardslee head of the depart ment of moral and religious philos ophy chairman dean wray h congdon and professor reiter the original cup will remain the property of the university and will have the winners names in scribed upon it annually seniors chosen for the award are given miniature replica cups alan s grant i e president of the class of 1939 will pass the sen ior cane to alfred t cox c e newly elected president of the class of 1940 franc burnett i e 39 will have charge of the meeting in his capacity as president of arca dia student governing body glen w harmeson director of athletics will award l certifi cates to the winners in fall and winter sports and professor reiter will award the cups for outstand ing ability in various athletics fay c bartlett director of intra mural sports will present trophies to winners of the dormitory fra ternity and town intramural ath letic contests doan gets patent apparatus uses inert gas to prevent arcing gilbert e doan professor of physical metallurgy has secured a patent on his new improvement new methods of and apparatus for non arcing circuit interrup tion according to professor doan wherever an electric circuit is made or broken frequently the switch contacts deteriorate rapidly due to the arc which forms when the circuit is opened this new de vice however prevents the forma tion of a stable arc by using an inert gas such as argon or helium in the highly purified condition 99 per cent purity was found to be unworkable 99.6 per cent works perfectly outdoor commencement will be held this year at the flagpole pro vided the definite estimate of ex penses does not exceed the gradua tion allotment of the senior class dean wray h congdon announced at noon today a preliminary budget has been placed in the hands of the dean by alan s grant i e 39 president of the senior class confirmation of the plan will be made by dean congdon and president williams after a final estimate has been sub mitted the dean stated that the plan would definitely be put into effect if expenses can be kept within the limits of the budget action on the matter is expected within a few days the budget must include plans for utilizing the chapel and pack ard auditorium in the event of rain last minute weather condi tions will determine the site of commencement exercises details of the budget will include the estimate of expenses of placing 2000 chairs in the flag pole area erecting a platform at the flagpole and installing a public address sys tem o discusses social security at i e meeting thursday the administration and objec tives of the social security pro gram was the topic of a speech presented by m d raynor au thority on social security programs and a representative of the inter national business machine corpor ation before a meeting of the in dustrial engineering society thurs day night in packard laboratory the newly elected officers of the society took charge of the meeting following the speech 9 of the 12 new members of governing body already elected at least six of the 12 new mem bers of arcadia are non-fraternity men according to the results of re cent elections of representatives to arcadia with nine of the men al ready elected at a meeting of arcadia held this afternoon in drown hall the new members already elected and the old members were present at this meeting reports from the out going committees were received as well as suggestions for new pro jects franc h burnett i e 39 president of arcadia presented a report on the activities of the body during the past year newly elected men the men already elected are the following alfred t cox c e 40 president of the class of 40 albert e lee jr ch e 41 president of the class of 41 robert n gusdorff bus 42 president of the class of 42 thomas e ricketts ch e 40 member at large norman l mor se ch e 40 town council repre sentative walter s russel ch e 40 interfraternity council repre sentative fred e galbraith jr chern 40 pi delta epsilon dele gate richard c kelley jr ch 40 combined musical clubs the new president of mustard and cheese who was elected this after noon will also be a member those organizations which have not yet selected representatives are omicron delta kappa senior hon orary activities society cyanide junior honorary activities society and the interdormitory council outgoing members the outgoing members are the following willet weeks jr arts 39 brown and white alan s grant i e 39 president class 39 alfred t cox c e 40 president class 40 and delegate of cyanide donald r schoen arts 41 presi dent class 41 george e hurst jr bus 39 omicron delta kappa walter a decker c e 39 allen town group james e patton ch e 39 tau beta pi malcolm car rington jr bus 39 mustard and cheese henry t s heckman arts 39 town representative george a albrecht bus 39 dormitory rep resentative milton h grannatt jr bus 39 interfraternity coun cil and franc h burnett i e 39 president of arcadia editors and business managers of next years publications reading from left to right are the seven seniors who will head publications for next year robert c good eng phys editor of the epitome otto v norvig i e business manager of the epitome donald g denison i e business man ager of the lehigh review wallace p watkins bus first semester business manager of the brown and white john h mathewson ch e second semester business manager howard m conner arts first semester editor of the brown and white and fred e galbraith ch e second semester editor lehigh university brown and white vol xlvi — no 52 no 11 o'clocks friday thieves raid litzenberger s garden now there's a fence bethlehem pa tuesday may 16 1939 frosh booklet to be issued by fraternities seniors to rehearse price — five cents flag pole rally will feature presentations all classes meeting at 11 a m friday will be suspended so that students may attend the annual flag pole meeting held at that time announced dean wray h congdon junior senior epitome staff heads chosen a senior graduation rehearsal will be held tomorrow after noon at 4 10 all members are to assemble in the faculty room of the alumni memorial build ing at that time it is important that all seniors who can poss ibly attend come for this rehear sal member intercollegiate newspaper 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