Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 7

              tau beta pi to announce fall pledges in near future notice the phi club will meet at 7:15 p m monday october 17 for the purpose of elect ing the new sophomore rep resentatives week-end of october 29th selected as date for so cial event brown and white team works hard to perfect aerial defense mechanicals to hold open meet many dances notice there will be a meeting of the spiked shoe society monday at 4 p m in the trophy room all lettermen in track and cross country are urged to be present elec tion of officers squad limited arriers to open against cornell noted speaker to address society on interesting topic tonight are prepared to give itha cans real battle in debut for both teams immediately at the close of the last quarter of the swarthmore game saturday the junior class will sponsor the lehigh-s warthmore dance at drown hall those in charge of the dance feel that they have been fortunate in securing such an excellent orchestra as the lehigh mountaineers this band has remained in tact for several years and for the last two summers has had engagements at budd's lake new jersey invitations have been ac cepted by the deans of cedar crest fern sem and bishop thorpe to have their girls at tend the swarthmore football game and the ensuing dance the dance will be informal and will end at seven o'clock an admission of a dollar will be charged for eiftier a cou ple or a stag it is expected that the junior class in par ticular will be back of this dance freshman eleven play muhlenberg team after vigorous practice ready for game the first meeting of the tau beta pi fraternity was held in drown hall on october the 10th at seven-thirty the meeting was called to order by presi dent e w mcgovern and the business of the meeting imme diately undertaken at this time of year it is customary for several new members to be tak en into the society and since one of the major requirements for admittance to this frater nity is a high scholastic aver age the primary business of the meeting was to give assign ments to the various members to look up the averages of the senior class and thus find out who is in the first quarter from eight to ten men will be chosen from among these and there will also be one or two of the highest ranking juniors taken in at this meeting there was also some discussion of the plans for the various functions of the present year but as yet nothing definite has been de cided upon it was also decid ed that president mcgovern should represent the lehigh chapter of tau beta pi at the national convention to be held this year at ohio state uni versity from october the 13th to the 15th another meeting of the so continued on page six soccer team leaves on three-day trip to cor nell and syracuse last night coach harry car penter accompanied by four teen soccer players and the manager alden gee embarked on a three-day trip into new york state after their disas trous defeat at the hands of princeton the booters are an xious to make a comeback this is a tough assignment however because lehigh meets two eas tern intercollegiate league op ponents cornell and syracuse on successive days the last scrimmage was held wednesday after which the coach told seventeen men to pack saying that his final choice would be made thurs day captain damiani was out with a bad knee for the first two days this week and may not be able to make the trip in which event john blackmar will assume the position of varsity goalie the coach made his se lections with the thought of good condition because of the closeness of the two games two new men made their ap pearance this week and were given varsity positions howard datweiler a sophomore was out for the team last year and o nhis turning out was given a fullback position he is a strong kicker and is of great assistance in the backfield val connell is the other new var continued on page six faculty discuss plans for exams class committee reports progress the varsity football squad made up for the monday hol iday when head coach wendell sent his charges through sev eral long and hard sessions of practice during the remainder of the week in preparing for the swarthmore game here saturday afternoon while scirmage was eliminat ed this week the players went through some gruelling funda mentals and then were drilled in passing by the form of practice resorted to by coach wendell it is apparent that the coaches are quite disappointed with the defense against an aerial attack in which prince ton was highly successful in hopes of bolstering the de fense a greater part of the time was spent in this work and it is probable that this will be evident in the game tomorrow every member of the var sity squad with the exception of two or three injured men was out for the practice tues day seemingly none the worse for the hard game against princeton on saturday al though a bit stiff when they re ported after the preliminaries they were limbered up and ready to follow out the coaches commands continued on page six while there is little hope of galanos being ready for the swarthmore game there is a senior class book to pre sent several new features opening college smoker tonight prof palmer explains com prehensive exams at club meeting the inter-fraternity council held its second meeting of the year last monday evening in drown hall for the purpose of making the necessary arrange ments for the annual fall house party the dates brought up for consideration were the week end of the twenty-ninth of oc tober and that of november fifth the former date was chosen as most of the teams would be at home during that time while on the fifth of no vember three of the four teams are scheduled to play away from lehigh the council announced that house party will begin at four o'clock on friday the twenty eighth and will last till three o'clock sunday the thirtieth on friday afternoon there will be a tea dance at the phi gam ma delta house which will be open to everyone on the cam pus in the evening the class of 28 will give their senior ball this affair is something new in campus activities and will be held in the gym in place of the annual cotillion on saturday after the varsity and frosh football games there will be an inter-fraternity tea dance in the gym and the round-robin house dances in the evening will conclude the festivities continued on page six the various fraternities are already at work on their own house programs and several of them have combined to give dances there is a great deal of enthusiasm among the men radio club to hold meeting the senior class book com mittee reports favorable prog ress in the work on the publica tion several novel features have been added and much time is being spent in making the senior section of the 1929 epi tome a decided success too much emphasis cannot be placed on the necessity for senior sup port of this project those who have not yet made appointments for having their pictures taken should do so without further delay any snapshots of sen iors will be greatly appreciated the senior class ballots which have been distributed to every member of the class must be turned in typewritten before october 29 together with the assessment of 14.50 for any further details all sen iors should see tne committee man assigned to their course who will also receive their bal lots c 0 carlson section b taylor hall has recently been added to the committee all seniors irrespective of courses residing in dormitories are re quested to turn in their ballots to mr carlson the other mem bers of the committee are richard c sickler chairman of committee phi sigma kap pa clifton w johnson opin ion editor 440 brodhead aye continued on page six the arcadia has planned the first smoker of the year for to night at 7 30 all plans at pre sent indicate that the affair is going to be a huge success ev ery one is asked to attend and it is promised that every one who does come will thoroughly enjoy themselves there are to be three speak ers bosey reiter coach tate and percy wendell in addi tion to the speakers the guests of honor will be the varsity and frosh football teams who will be there in full force one item which will add to the entertainment and amuse ment of the crowd will be a freshman pa jama parade all frosh are instructed to appear in pajamas for the smoker in addition to the usual program of cheers and songs a new fea ture has been suggested and will be tried out friday night this is cane wrestling a stunt never before tried at lehigh there are going to be several bouts of this new sport as well i&s two boxing matches as usual pipes and tobacco will be furnished to all attend ing for the benefit of the frosh we may say that these smokers are not solely for those who smoke but also for anyone who is interested in lehigh come and show your college spirit a good time is assured on monday at 4 o'clock the faculty educational club met in the memorial building to discuss the new plans for com prehensive examinations at le high university this subject is one which deeply concerns every student except those in the departments of business administration for success in this type of examination de mands different preparation throughout one's college carreer professor hughes presided at the meeting professor palmer explained the plan in the college of arts and science for comprehensive examinations in the subject which the student has selected as his major professor larkin described the plan of the com prehensive examination which is to be given to engineering students at the close of their sophomore year continued on page six the comprehensive examina tion for students in arts is sim ilar to that given at oxford and in certain american colleges but the plan of comprehensive examinations adopted by the engineering college is unique and constitutes an educational experiment which is attracting wide attention the speaker emphasized the necessity of putting before the students at the first regular meeting of the mechanical engineering so ciety of lehigh university will be held in the geology lecture room in williams hall tonigh at eight o'clock an especially interesting program has been arranged the meeting is an open one and it is urged tha all those who are interested at tend this meeting whether they are members of the society or not the speaker of the evening will be mr norman g rein icker general superintendent of the pennsylvania power and lihgt company who will ad dress the meeting concerning the 220 kilowatt transmission line from the philadelphia elec trics hydroelectric power plant at conowingo maryland be cause of his long and intimate connection with this work mr reinicker is in a splendid posi tion to make an address of a highly interesting and detailed nature and the opportunity to hear him should not be neglect ed mr reinicker is a lecturer on the staff of the mechanical en gineering department in which capacity he is scheduled to give four lectures a year on the sub ject of power plant engineer ing as a part of the mechani cal engineering course the pennsylvania power and light company of which mr rein icker is general superinten dent and its allied companies have recently completed nego tiations with the public ser vice corporation of new jer sey with the united gas im provement company and thru the latter with the philadelphia electric thereby bringing into existence the largest super power combine in the world thus mr reinicker is in the thick of modern super-power development he is an attrac tive capable young man of an extremely pleasing personality and his address will be well worth the while of any and all lehigh students as this is the first meeting of the mechanical engineering society it is especially urged that all sophomores in the m e course and who are not mem bers of the society come to this meeting and get acquainted with the student organization of their department it is also pointed out that freshmen are 1 most welcome and that the at tendance at these meetings of any first year men who have an inclination toward mechanical engineering will do much to help them make up their minds definitely eats and smokes will be served and the prospect is a splendid meeting the freshman team which will line-up against muhlenberg on saturday in the opening game of the schedule will differ in some respects from the one which the sophomores held to a scoreless tie on founder's day the line-up has not been definitely announced and a great deal depends on the showing made by the players in the va rious scrimmages which were held this week however it is quite certain that the backfield will be shifted around ostey ttate has been having elliott play the quarter-back position nearly the entire week and it seems almost certain that he will play in this position against muhlenberg butler one of the backs show ing the most promise was de clared inelligible because he had played with the freshman team of drexel institute his ab sence will be missed in the back field but the coaches are prin cipally concerned with the line at present the ends and the centers are causing no worry but the guard and tackle posi tions are not as strong as they might be continued on page six the team has been undergo ing vigorous practice during the week in preparation for sat urday's match monday was devoted to a very thorough sig nal drill and on tuesday the frosh scrimmaged the junior varsity the showing of the team was not as good as the previous one in which they de feated the scrubs and when darkness prevented further playing several of the reg ulars were on the sidelines due to minor injuries and this may have been the cause of the me diocre showing the squad was put through another vigorous scrimmage on wednesday and in this practice television will be the subject of c francis jenkins wash ington d c noted inventor who will personally appear at the first open meeting of the radio club in the physics lec ture room this evening at 7:30 p m radio television the transmission of stationary or moving pictures by radio or wire which revolutionized the radio world in 1922 owes its discovery to this distinguished inventor mr jenkins is a radio engin eer who has contributed much to the advancement of moving pictures radio and aeronautics his most recent accomplishments embracing four inventions im proving aviation conditions the elliott cresson gold medal has been awarded to him by the franklin institute of amer ica for his original contribu tions to motion picture mechan icism the lecture will be illustrated with motion pictures and will undoubtedly be entertaining as well as educational as the seating capacity of the physics lecture room is limited inter ested students are advised to come early a hard fight is expected at cornell tomorrow when le high's cross country team runs against cornell's harriers though cornell has at least one star and two of lehigh's men are not in the best of con dition still lehigh is conceded an even chance to win gadd who came in fifth in the trial run has lately been bothered with his feet and as a result has been forced to ease up in practice this week duffy aitken acquired a cold at princeton and chickering is suffering slightly from the same affliction as a whole however the team seems to be in excep tionally good shape for this early in the season at present not much is known of cornell's team as a whole a big asset however is benson who is considered next to cox of peftn state the best cross country man in college ranks coach moakley is known to turn out exceptional hill and date teams at cornell so he probably has developed several other near-stars that cross country is a popular sport at cornell is proved by the fact that more than a hundred men are out daily for practice the course at ithaca is four and one-half miles long and though it has no long climbs it has several short steep and difficult hills only two of the brown and white men have run the course before two years ago when lehigh ran against cornell there was an inch of snow on the ground and the course was very muddy in spots and the temperature was hovering around the freezing point at that time cornell beat lehigh 21-34 it is expected that with different conditions this time the score will be much closer the two men on lehigh's team who ran then are captain chickering and aitken who finished fifth and second re spectively the men besides coach kan aly and manager wilson who will make the trip are captain chickerjng sames aitken gadd lang laird and fiscus they left at eleven o'clock this morning and will spend the night in willard-straight hall the new student center at cor nell which has gained national fame for its beauty and they will return sunday evening bethlehem pa friday october 14 1927 lehigh booters to play two games honorary to elect ten new members swarthmore will oppose varsity here tomorrow price five cents brown and white tea dance after football game inter-fraternity council arranges for house party vol xxxv no 7 improve the cheering tomorrow get to the smoker tonight