Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 11

              gymnasium decorated in hallowe'en effect dorn berger's victor recording orchestra to furnish music game at harvard interests alumni articles in new york pa pers stir up investi gation new england club ex pects close contest — is anxious to see band define house party rules students absenting themselves from school to go home to vote next month will be excused from cuts according to a notice published by the dean the notice is as follows i have been authorized by president richards to announce that students over 21 years of age who go home to vote on tuesday november 6 may re ceive excuses for the classes missed on this account students who apply for such excuses must of course be pre pared to show that they made the trip within the shortest pos sible time so as to miss as few classes as possible a student for example who goes home on saturday or sunday and stays over will not receive excuses for classes missed on monday signed c m mcconn dean williams essay topics proposed john gerke roger taylor an drew horgan seniors and b o steinert and j brotzman juniors were elected and pledged to eta kappa nu honorary electrical en gineering society last night a meet ing of the electricals in the physics lecture hall professor s s seifert and the old members leon sowers arthur achilles stanley serroca horace wiest cecil guyatt and phile reeves pledged the new mem bers eta kappa nu was founded at lehigh in 1909 twenty chapters now exist in engineering schools in the country david m petty chief electrical engineer at the lehigh plant of the bethlehem steel company spoke before 138 lehigh electricals last night on electrical engineering in the steel industry the entire group of electrical en gineers witnessed the pledging of the eta kappa nu men .. seniors must submit plan of work by de cember i harvard send-off smoker tuesday after new york papers had an nounced the recent appearance of several fake copies of the wallpaper edition of the vicksburg citizen an investigation by h s leach li brarian has definitely proved that the copy belonging to the lehigh library is genuine spufious copies are readily dis tinguishable by the type of column formation and space lines and the absence of fists at the beginning of each paragraph by comparison with an imitaton mr leach has shown that the lehigh copy con tains the type spacing and paper of an original it is now on display on the first floor of the library printed upon the reverse side of wallpaper after all other paper sup ply had been exhausted this last edition of the vicksburg citizen was published while the guns of grant's army were crushing the city now a valuable curio lehigh is indebted for its copy to miss clara b sayre whose father was a lehigh trustee from 1864 to 1909 stinging with the memories of the two recent defeats the brown and white eleven is determined to av enge itself on the muhlenberg elev en at two-thirty tomorrow afternoon in taylor stadium this game is one of the traditional clashes of the season and as such it promises to be full of thrills and fight coach haps benfer has prim ed his men for the game and al though the allentown boys were badly defeated in the early game of the season they staged a comeback last saturday by winning over franklin and marshall and are ex pected to be at their peak when they meet the tate machine tomor row muhlenberg is rather crip pled at this point since it is likely that seifert the best backfield man on the squad will have to stay on the bench because of an injured knee on the line are evans spatts chapman veterans and the minka brothers chapman's play at guard last fall was noteworthy he is regular center this fall and in addi tion drops behind the line to do the punting as his kicks carry consid erable distance there is still a bor elli in the cardinal and grey line up but he is not the threat that his elder brother was bennie play ed against lehigh last year but he is just a mediocre back investigate ore by new method three years ago the board of trustees prohibited automobile traffic and parking on the campus during athletic contests the cause of this action was the danger to pe destrians before and after the games and the property damage at big football games by cars driving over the grass the prohibition of traf fic on the campus has been a great inconvenience to students and fac ulty members living on the cam pus causing them to walk up the hill on saturday afternoons ac cording to dean c m mcconn this condition will be remedied begin ning tomorrow the new entrance and the entrance from brodhead avenue will remain open during athletic contests allowing access to sayre park by the drive going up past the president's house all roads leading east from this drive will be blocked by chains the chain at the east end of drown hall will be moved to the west end so as to prevent parking in rear of drown hall the parking space in rear of the memorial building will also be closed by a chain across the entrance dean mcconn states that this concession to students living on the campus does not in any way effect the existing rule prohibiting park ing no parking will be allowed on this drive which is to remain open to traffic the customary red tag will be attached to cars violating this rule a student who is tagged is required to report to the dean in the case of non-student a second of fense is reported to the police muhlenberg record 3 drexel 6 0 lafayette 56 0 dickinson 6 8 f and m 0 dr long to speak at new york club when the football team takes the train for harvard thursday eve ning it will be given a send-off at the station by lehigh . supporters who will follow the team from the pep meeting at the lower gym ac cording to plans made by the boos ter committee of arcadia the pep meeting and smoker at the lower gym will begin at 4:45 o'clock thursday afternoon although the names of the speak ers will not be disclosed until tuesday's brown and white it is understood that the committee has secured at least one outside speaker and two local speakers the meeting at the lower gym will disband in time for everyone to go to the lehigh valley station to cheer the team as it leaves on the 6:20 o^clock train for new york professor j b reynolds addresses cosmos club the following regulations gov erning house parties have been issued by the committee on stu dent activities 1 closing time house parties may begin at at 4:00 p m on the first day thursday or friday and must close in the sense that the guests shall be out of the house at 3:00 p m on sunday house party dances on thursday and friday nights shall close at 2:00 a m 2 chaperones for house parties at least two chaperones are required one of whom shall be either a faculty chaperon or the mother of a member of the active chapter 3 the dry pledge ' any violation of the agree ment in the petition signed by the head of the organization and the chairman of the social com mittee that the occasion shall be strictly dry will subject the organization guilty of such viola tion to university discipline 4 report as soon as possible after each social event the president of the fraternity or other organization concerned shall call on the dean and make a personal report on the conduct of the affair this report shall cover such items as promptness of closing the pres ence of chaperones and the suc cess of the organization in living up to the pledge with respect to dryness signed by the presi dent and the chairman of the so cial committee in petitioning for the affair . 5 breakfast dances not permitted breakfast dances are not per mitted either at roadhouses at country clubs or in the chapter houses the department of geology and the department of physics are co operating in the investigation of a number of physical methods for prospecting ore bodies these meth ods devised during the last few years are of several types such as electric seismic and magnetic they are grouped under the gen eral term geophysical as involving recognition and determination of ge ological and physical features in some sections these methods have proved helpful in dealing with con cealed deposits of oil and ore the work being done at present concerns an iron sulphide deposit near coatesville that is being pros pected by a steel company it is being carried on by professor b l miller of the geology department and h.-c palmer and o f ritz mann of the physics department observatory open thursday nights stoughton attends meet much interest is being shown by the lehigh club of new england in the coming game between le high and harvard and the club is especially eager to see the lehigh band appear on the field with the team a d bach secretary of the club has issued a letter which shows that true lehigh enthusiasm has been aroused in and about bos ton the letter is as follows lehigh-haryard game tickets for the above game may be secured by writing to the har vard a a cambridge mass checks should be enclosed with your application at the rate of two dollars per ticket you can have as many tickets as you want and i have been assured that they will be in the middle of the field lehigh luncheon in order to talk over the game and the possibility of having a le high gathering after it there will be a short luncheon at the university club octobev 17 at 12:15 help to humble harvard here's where you do your bit to beat harvard i haven't the slightest idea how good a football team we have this year but they beat st john's and pennsylvania military college and good or bad they will put up a scrap worth see ing there is however one thing i can guarantee and that is the le high band we old timers pointed with pride at the bethlehem steel band when they played at the la fayette game but now lehigh has a band composed entirely of students that has any college band in the country stopped a million ways yours for lehigh a d bach 17 mr bach might be interested to know that the full lehigh band of 65 pieces is going to harvard man ager r p black has been working hard and by monday he will have enough funds to transport the band to soldier's field and return the men will leave at 10 p m on fri day and return at 2 p m sunday m'cammon lauded by colonel deems how newton's laws of motion have withstood criticism based on later scietific discoveries was dis cussed by professor j b reynolds at the monthly meeting tuesday of the cosmos club a group of nine professors engaged in research professor reynolds topic was the foundations of hechanics he is in charge of classes in fresh man mechanics the cosmos con sists of professors t s fort b j miller c c bidwell percy hughes e s sinkinson m c stu art stanley thomas v s babasin ian and j b reyonlds lehigh - muhlenberg line-up at the convention of the federa tion of paint and varnish clubs of america held last week at detroit dr james s long of the depart ment of chemistry read two papers one of which was a non-scientific article and one which he wrote on a research made by the philadelphia paint and varnish club dr long's paper was an argument in favor of allowing the chemists and chemical engineers employed in paint and varnish plants to devote more of their time to constructive research instead of production this paper attracted the attention of many of the executives present at the con vention and dr long was request ed to report his talk at the n y cluj on nov 22 the second paper representing the annual research conducted by the philadelphia club of which dr long is a member was entitled further work on the solvency of mineral thinners this paper dealt with the arrangement of the paint molecules resulting from the addi tion of dryers such as iron cobalt manganese and lead dr long was elected to the plant managers committee and j m san derson lehigh 07 was elected to the executive committee there were many other lehigh graduates present who are now prominent in the paint and varnish world the rules governing the wil liams senior prizes and typical sub jects for the essays have been an nounced by the williams senior prize committee consisting of pro fessors r m smith chairman percy hughes neil carothers and p m palmer senior prizes of 75 first prize and 25 second prize will be awarded annually by departments of economics and english philosophy and psychology for dissertations submitted by regular members of the senior class the essays must be turned in on or before may 1 the committee is publishing a list of subjects suggested for disserta tion but a senior may submit a dis sertation on any other subject he desires provided it is connected with his respective field and has received the approval of the committee every senior entering the com petition must submit his choice and plan of work to the committee by dec 1 the awards will be made by the faculty upon the recommendation of the committee but the committee will recommend that no award be given if a dissertation does not meet its standards this standard will include such points as excel lence in thought plan development argument and composition some subjects suggested by the different departments are as fol lows economics and social science 1 the anthracite coal strike of 1925 2 the taxation system of penn sylvania 3 legal sterilization in the unit ed states 4 old age insurance english 1 the relationship between arts and morals 2 edmund burke and eighteenth century literature psychology and philosophy 1 individualism in american thought 2 tests of intelligence 3 pennsylvania normal schools mustard and cheese fails to find coach bradley stoughton professor of metallurgy is attending the general meeting of the american iron and steel institute today at the hotel commodore new york the papers read at the meeting were unusually fine including steel requirements of the air craft industry by h j french senior metallurgist bureau of stan dards washington d c the present status of structural steel welding by f t llewellyn president american welding so ciety new york and steels used by the automotive industry by w j mackenzie vice president in terstate iron and steel co chica go 111 the meeting will consist of three sessions a forenoon session pegin ning at 10 a m an after*noon ses-t sion at 2 p m and a banquet in the evening at 7 p m last year the brown and white team was disagreeably surprised when nick borelli led the allentown team to its fourth successive victory over lehigh borelli scored two touchdowns against the wendell machine and when the final whistle sounded the score was 13-3 in fav or of the visitors borelli is sadly missed by the muhlenberg team but although they have made only a mediocre showing so far this sea son they cannot be taken lightly their line is nearly as heavy as that of the brown and white team and averages approximately 185 pounds while the backfield tilts the beam at 165 pounds defense against pass stressed the brown and white team has been busy this past week in perfect ing a forward pass defense which was so lacking in the game with princeton last saturday last wed nesday the varsity scrimmaged against the yearlings who used a forward pass offense and in spite of the intensive training which austy has given his ' charges to break up this sort of an attack the frosh were able to score a touch down on the first string men how ever it is unlikely that any team will be able to attempt another aer ial attack similar to that of the tig ers with so much success the varsity has been put through an extensive training program and is in excellent condition for the coming clash cowboy elliott will again be in uniform and will lead the brown and white team as quarterback the backfield has been changed considerably and it seems certain that jimmy fritts will replace lee trantum and that bob bennett will play fullback lehigh muhlenberg f rushong le evans w miller lt spotts a waldman lg e minka t ayre c chapman w badgley rg jacobs f haas rt a minka j kirkpatrick re smith r elliott q witwer a davidowitz hb borelli j fritts hb pascal r bennett fb greenburg musical clubs meet tues about 50 people took advantage of the first visitors night at the sayre observatory thursday to look at the moon c r mcßride in charge of the telescope told how the daily tem perature on the moon ranges from above the temperature of boiling water during its sunlight to 400 de grees below zero during the period of darkness he also explained how the walls of the craters were huge mountains through the tel escope shadows cast by these mountains are clearly visible downstairs t f fisher showed photographic plates of various celes tial subjects such as halley's com et the craters of the moon certain nebulae the cluster of hercules and a beautiful picture of the sun's carona during the total eclipse of 1925 the observatory will be open to the public every thursday evening from 7 to 9p m subjects for ob servation will be so chosen that regular visitors may systematically become acquainted with the heav ens • musical clubs will practice tues day at 8 p m all members are ex pected to be there as concerts will be given soon black and blue feelings cover frosh daring rush student health defective plant research discussed an illustrated report on plant re search in the open hearth was pre sented by dr c h herty jr at the meeting of the metallurgical advisory board of carnegie tech and the u s bureau of mines fri day oct 19 in pittsburgh dr herty is the physical chem ist of the u s bureau of mines he illustrated his report by lantern slides and laboratory experiments many leading metallurgists consider his work as epoch making contend ing that he has done the best work in that connection during the last 50 years the work of col e e mccam mon and his associates was lauded in a letter written to the headquar ters by lt col deems who was greatly impressed when he inspect ed the department of military sci ence and tactics here last week a portion of his report is printed be low to professor of military science and tactics lehigh university i the following extracts from the report of inspection made at lehigh university by the r.o.t.c officer on october 17 and 18 1928 are furnished for your information and guidance in all classes and at all exercises the interest of students was keen the output fine and a strong impres sion was left upon the inspecting officer that this represents the high est type of r o t c activity in a civilian center of education the support of the unit by the univer sity authorities is always marked and the spirit of the unit good ex cellent results have been attained by the professor of military science and tactics and his assistants in the event of war department inspec tions being resumed for the dis tinguished college rating this r o t c unit is recommended for the inspection by command of major-general sladen out of 3000 students examined at the university of california infir mary recently there were only ten perfect specimens the society has been correspond ing with the sponsors of the spring show and very favorable returns have been received from philadel phia york and hartford conn the mustard and cheese so ciety has been unable to make any definite plans for their annual show due to their inability to procure a coach to direct the production sev eral members of the faculty have been asked and all have been per fectly willing to give the time but all express inability to do the work properly until a coach is engaged no definite plans will be made publications issue budgets budgets for the current school year were presented by the respec tive business managers of the five student publications to the board of publications at their meetings last monday and the previous mon day all of the budgets were ap proved english department acts on plagiarism parents of fraternity men at the university of illinois are objecting to the large sums of money being spent by their sons for the building of fraternity houses professor brown will lecture monday night professor sidney m brown of the history department will lec ture monday night in drown hall interchanging dates with professor neil carothers who will lecture monday nov 12 professor brown will speak on life in the medieval village with the scabbard and blade tea dance this afternoon another house party was ushered in in rapid suc cession comes the senior ball a football game another tea dance and the crowning events of any house party the fraternity dances saturday night when the sun sinks over south mountain sunday the last of our guests will have gone and once more the familiar routine will start drown hall was decorated in a militaristic fashion befitting a scab bard and blade tea dance while dave fluharty and his orchestra furnished the music although many of the house party guests are not here as yet a large gathering for a friday afternoon dance was present this evening in the gymnasium charles dornberger's victor re cording orchestra will supply tunes that have delighted the jazz loving public ever since the orchestra was first organized if they give their famous rendition of tiger rag it will be well worth the price of ad mission to be there to secure the effect of hallowe'en the decorations follow the seasonal scenic creations pumpkins autumn colors and var ious other unusual and intricate de vices a striking and novel attrac tion will be the orchestra stand built in half a pumkin after the weary students have dragged themselves from their sat urday classes they will take their guests to the lehigh muhlenberg game following this the proces sion will go from taylor stadium to drown hall where the third dance of house party will be held again dave fluharty and orchestra will render the music finally come the house dances scattered about the campus and in town almost every fraternity is in some combine that will give a dance tomorrow night at the phi gamma delta house one of the three art zeller orchestras the merrymakers will play while at the beta house another of art's bands the arcadians will be pres ent white brother's ginger band will play at a dance at the alpha tau omega house and across town the sigma chi's have lew chapman's interfraternity band to supply the music the new theta xi house will be the scene of another dance with music by the easton ramblers the orchestra for a dance to be given at the sigma phi house is not known as the brown and white goes to press alpha chi rho the misses ada russell rich mond hills n v eleanor wilson clarion pa clementine gibson swarthmore pa katherine fasten rath richmond hills n v emily loury ventor n j mary hoff man lebanon pa kitty licata new york city eleanor fernon phila ; bobby white meadows pa heten giles newark n j edythe russell richmond hills n v ellen stackhouse roselle park n j evelyn horton brooklyn jerry butz bethlehem katherine fritz bloomsburg pa carol lar son yonkers n v helen deem er wilkes-barre evelyn reed pottsvillt pa marion doorley bronxville n v ; regina martin ridgewood n j the chaperons will be mr and mrs charles h is rael mr j c clark and mrs mar tin beta theta pi the misses majories mccormick and agnes gunny easton helen wilson and lillian peterson new york city miriam reese freeport l i edith melville baltimore mary ellen rheutan richmond va ; anne cochrane irma brow ther gladys burr and barbara bos ton philadelphia ruth carrell al lentown lucile brown washing ton d c vera bennett johns town chaperons mr and mrs fritch allentown and mr kitchell chi phi the misses nevada tinkham lutherville md ; naomi partridge and eleanor partridge salt lake city utah jean booth maplewood n j margaret keyser german town netty brown bethlehem elsa vail binghamton n v eliz abeth frost pittsburgh margaret brown cleveland ohio caroline lewis overbrook florence tomp continued on page four one student was dropped from the university and three others were dropped from the course and denied credit in it when they were convicted of plagiarism in themes in the english department at the meeting of the committee on disci pline last week a fifth student who was accused of having notes at a quizz in the mechanical engineer ing department was acquitted the names of all the students were with held by the committee tickets to harvard on sale all persons wishing tickets for transportation to the harvard game via the lehigh valley railroad and the providence line boat at special rate of 11.40 each may get their tickets at once at the lehigh valley tick et office reservations for state rooms on the boat may be made at the same place round trip tickets are 11.40 and the train is to leave bethlehem at 3:10 p.m friday issue no 29 wanted one copy of the brown and white is needed to com plete last year's files will any one having a copy of issue no 29 january 24 1928 please bring it to the brown and white office in christmas saucon hall c halstead president of freshman class complet results of the fresh man elections monday follow president c halsted 238 m fairchild 27 e gormely 27 vice president n nora 180 n cunningham 48 r kreuger 28 j nolan 23 secretary w vanßesse 149 h moorehead 75 h elliott 32 r neihaus 26 a kruser 10 treasurer j angle 97 g hutchinson 41 d miller 40 j duncan 30 j stone 23 a boyd 20 g mcdonald 20 j rachel 20 historian a magee 91 h forsythe 73 e snyder 58 s rowell 50 w current 18 sergeant-at arms : v witmey er 144 m cooper 43 j holla han 39 a cook 34 j ogden might have dropped indeed they looked very feelingly for such ob jects . now for some mysterious reason the freshmen began to romp about the campus in a very childish man ner they rolled up their trousers and commenced to play leap-frog along the road past the chapel up packer aye to the gym the sophomores declined to play in this game but aided the freshmen by vig orously pushing along anyone who grew tired at the gym the game ended but the entertainment was not conclud ed until fhe frosh staged a cap rush for the enjoyment of the onlookers although the sophs did much to make the program a successful one the freshmen did not seem to ap preciate their aid at all at any rate many mantlepieces were put to unsual uses that evening at din ner time the freshmen have tasted of ar cadia supervision a perfectly good frosh meeting last tuesday after noon turned itself into a sophomore and upperclass assembly and what an assembly for support several of its members leaned on barrel staves and broomsticks seniors were freshman-heatrted however and did their best to relieve the sophs of their heavy artillery ac cording to popular opinion they did not succeed very well in this un dertaking just what the grounds for this opinion are the sophomores can't imagine the freshmen on the whole were very obliging knowing well their inferiority they would not face the sophomores as they left packer hall instead they proceeded to back the whole length of the soph omore line and at the same time looked very carefully on the ground for anything that an upperclassman vol xxxvi no 1 1 . lehigh university bethlehem pa friday october 26 1928 girls to color stadium tomorrow price five cents faculty to a how cuts for voters auto regulations permit students on hill saturday electrical honor society pledges five new members program for house parties crowded with big events gala senior ball tonight squad guards against pass d m petty addresses 138 electrical en gineers but no cars allowed east of drown hall during games brown and white librarian proves citizen genuine lehigh mindful of last two defeats chances „ are bright member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first