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              the letter further stated that lehigh has been beaten ten years straight by lafayette making a new record of the number of con secutive wins between any great rivals of the country but yet le high adherents had filled their side of the stadium to overflowing and cheer after cheer resounded from them even when victory was impossible as in the closing minutes of play with the score hope lessly against them they were still back of their team — and not very far back either in closing the letter the senior whose name is not known wrote lafayette can be proud of their so-called arch rival our hats off to lehigh plans completed for musical clubs long eastern trip robert w blakes hear dr barry in nature lecture news editors of the brown and white will serve for one semester only beginning with the second semester this change in the consti tution of the paper was passed by the board of publications thursday afternoon news editors will be eligible for re-election under the new plan a second amendment approved by the board elevates the posi tion of sporting editor to equality with news editorship hereafter sporting editors will be elected by the board of publicationsvin the same manner that other major officers are now chosen these changes serve the purpose of intesifying competition for the two major eritorial positions by keeping six men eligible instead of but two as at present it also makes possible advanced training for more students enrolled in the brown and white course the board devoted its wednesday meeting entirely to problems of the brown and white a third amendment admits the business manager advertising manager and circulation manager to member ship on the editorial council which gives one hour english credit a semester lecture commitee cooper ates with society in procuring speaker dean g b curtis interprets rules three rhodes men face committee although the competition for the rhodes scholarship is keener than ever this year lehigh has still three men in the running this was learn ed after the meetings of the state boards last week thomas brennan a new york competitor and john kirkpatrick and max goepp penn sylvania applicents will be in keen competition with other institutions this week for highest honors thomas brennan will take his first test in albany since he is competing in new york state to gether with representatives from colgate and n y u john kirk patrick and max goepp will take their first test in philadelphia this saturday competing with men from haverford and pennsylvania the final selection of pennsylva nia's representative will also be made on saturday the competi tors will be brought before the board and one man will be elected dr neil carothers head of the bus iness department and on the penn sylvania board expects the compe tition to be extremely keen the exhibition of paintings which opened in the alumni memorial bldg nov 29 and will continue until december 12 contains works by many outstanding living ameri can painters these modern artists may be divided into conservatives and progressives the line is not clearly drawn however and what one critic might assign to the pro gressives a more radical critic might class as conservative ac cording to professor g a how land most of the paintings in the present collection are moderates for while none are reactionary neither are there any of the other extreme possibly the most radical paint er represented is guy pene dv bois the small canvas by him called the billobard is amusing rather than provocative it shows a short skirted flapper — none to slender trying to figure out the intricasies of a placard in contrast to this with its red against a yellowish background is the soft manno-tint ed interior by frieseke this paint ing also contains a young girl idle moments is painted in fries eke's free impressionistic manner another painting labelled simply summer is by maurice prender gast this is typical of his style and it is suggestive of some ancient hand-embroidered fabric the harbor by gustav ver beek could have as a sub-title art in the commonplace for when one stands on a windy wharf breath ing in coal smoke from the noisy tugs one is not thinking of beauty in the surroundings in this paint ing however the gray smoke gives a velvety effect which is quite pleasing ernest lawson belongs to the more conservative type in land scape painting whereas john cos tigan is of the more modernistic type even the titles of their paint ings suggest their differences hill side on the one and barnyard on the other the other paintings were secur ed through the courtesy of the fer argil kraushoar and macßeth galleries in new york an especially interesting feature of the exhibit will be the inclusion of a painting by bethlehem's own artist emil gelhaar mr gelhaar's landscape strikes something of a new note indian summer is higher key and somewhat gayer than many of his other paintings science has always tried to make nature intelligible according to dr e w barry of columbia univer sity in an address wednesday de cember 5 before a meeting spon sored by the robert w blake so ciety in conjunction with the lec ture committee dr barry's sub ject was the scientific interpreta tion of nature historically consid ered he defined nature as being the totality of experience and trac eddevelopments from early pre-so cratic philosophers to the present time dr barry's talk provoked a good deal of discussion afterward which participated in by faculty and tudents * the officers of the robert w blake society and several members of the faculty dined with dr bar ry preceding the lecture after the dinner the society held a short bus iness meeting during which it was decided that future meetings should be conducted entirely by the stu dents that is their own members will address them and they will carry on their own discussions when it is possible they intend to have another speaker such as dr barry the robert w blake society was the first to take advantage of jhe lecture committee's offer to cooperate in defraying the expense of bringing prominent speakers to lehigh when the compulsory lec ture system was abolished the com mittee adopted this means of con tinuing the lectures for those more deeply interested briton addresses l v metallurgists cup awards and tutors suggested at interfrat ernity conference the refinement of fraternity ini tiations and the advancement of fra ternity scholarship were seen as the present trends in the development of fraternities at the intercollegiate interfraternity conference held at the hotel pennsylvania n y on friday and saturday fraternities f r o m universities throughout the entire country were represented dean c m mcconn and richard b johnston acted as delegates from lehigh the awarding of scholarship cups was decided to be an invaluable ex pedient in fosterin ga proper atti tude towards study several frater nities reported that experience had demonstrated the wisdom of main taining resident tutors at chapter houses selected and employed by the fraternity their function is to give help to members and to coun cil the fraternities in other matters on request it was pointed out however that no authority need be vested in such a tutor the conference declared itself ov erwhelmingly opposed to rough house initiations in commenting on this dean mcconn declared since the sentiment of the interfra ternity conference is so strongly against rough house initiations as a relic of barbarism and as a practice which brings fraternities into dis repute and since rough house ini tiations have been abandoned by leading chapters at most colleges it c evident that i.ehigh frater nities are seriously lagging in this matter in his report to the interfrater nity council at lehigh which he represented at the conference mr johnston recommended that a method of awarding a scholarship cup similar to the method outlined at the conference be adopted at le high he also commented favorab ly on the suggestion made at new york that a pledge who breaks his pledge with a fraternity be prevent ed from accepting the bid of anoth er fraternity for one year howev er in the matter of rushing mr johnston reported that the sugges tions made at the conference were in no case more efficient than those now in use at lehigh senior ballots due dec 10 group includes two or chestras glee club and quartet plans have been completed for the combined musical club's trip which will take place in february there will be a preliminary concert in january in allentown and a home concert at the college thea tre just before the trip coach lukenbach who made a final selec tion of the men for the symphony orchestra last wednesday at the regular rehearsal said there are only three more rehearsals and all men must be present a number of men who have been consistently absent were dropped and p e get tys and m a briggs were noti fied to turn in their music the trip will be through new jersey and new york state with stops in montclair patterson newark rockville center cam den haddenfield and trenton the whole club consisting of glee club symphony orchestra dance orches tra and quartet will rnake_the trip the men selected for the sym phony orchestra are david fluhar ty fred anderson h anderson h gerth a achilles a dow a deschnik t such h saylor j wightman j meharg w mccalla p meyers w a furman w j sette r alder w h ticehurst v connell carl banks b fried man c cleveland e f hanson g barnes p middleton a eisen stadt j boltz w c elmore fred emhart f mafer p f kohler j v wert w lynn d mcgar rity r brick k eckrote dan bar rows and george motter an important rehearsal will be held next wednesday at 8 p m in drown hall mathematician gives lecture at lehigh the new scholastic probation rules adopted by the faculty in sep tember have been explained very carefully in a catechism prepared by george b curtis associate dean and registrar at the request of the brown and white which is making an effort to clarify the situation since these rules have gone into effect many men have called at the dean's office for interpretations of them and they have also doubtless been the chief topic of many bull sessions in order to clear up the matter from every angle the brown and white asked 23 questions which dean curtis answered after having carefully considered each one dean curtis answers to the ques tions follow 1 question will men now on probation be dropped in february answer yes probationers who fail to pass in more than three hours of work on their rosters or more than a single four-hour course will be dropped from the university 2 question are students now on probation who are dropped in feb ruary dropped parmanently answer the new rules do not affect students now on probation a student dropped in february for the first time will be permitted upon petition to re-enter after rus tication for one semester students who are dropped for the second time in february are of course dropped permanently 3 question will any student not now on probation be dropped in february as formerly continued on page four answer since no students ex cept first-semester freshmen will henceforth be dropped from the university without first having served a semester on probation a second-semester freshman or soph omore or upperclassman now in good standing may fail every hour and not be dropped from the uni versity he will simply be placed on probation for the following semes ter but if he then fails to meet the terms of probation in june he will be dropped permanently senior ballots for the 1930 epi tome must be in the hands of the class book committee by december 10 if possible the 14 assessment which includes a subscription to the epitome in addition to the cost of the engraving and printing the sen ior section should accompany the ballot the assessment however may be paid any time before jan uary 10 each senior should hand his bal lot to and refer any question to the committeeman assigned to his course this assignment is as fol lows arts t m brennan s u phares business j m blackmar r b sax civil and electrical en gineering j g conrath chemical engineering and engineering phys ics w o heilman mining and in dustrial engineering w b adams metallurgy and mechanical engin eering a l roberts jr high-speed steel will be dis cussed by frederick c a h lants berry president of william jessops & sons inc sheffield england at a meeting of the metallurgical society at 8:00 p m thursday de cember 13 in the chemistry build ing high-speed steel or tool steel was invented and developed by f w taylor and maunsel white at the bethlehem steel plant in beth lehem it is now made and used in all parts of the world mr lantsberry is one of the foremost living authorities on this subject and is familiar with english ger man and american practices he brings a wealth of information and a new view-point for discussion preceding the talk there will be a dinner at the phi gamma delta fraternity at which the professors of the metallurgical engineering de partment instructors senior metal lurgists officers and influential members of the more important stell companies will be present the talk will be open to the pub lic changes in the rules and regula tions of the university with respect to discipline of students advanced standing students and the depart ment of military science and tactics were adopted at the monthly meet ing of the faculty on december 3 the 1929 repor the 1929 sports schedules and two new courses in meteorology and di electric phenomena were also ap proved dr h f hoffman lectur er on psychiatry addressed the fac ulty on changes in psychiatry under the new and amended reg ulations adopted on the recommen dation of the committee on disci pline any student who is convicted of cheating either in a final exam ination or in an hour quiz shall be on disciplinary probation through out the remainder of his course and may not at any future time repre sent the university in any student activity or hold office on any stu dent organization dent publication changes in advanced standing changes in the rules governing advanced standing of students make it possible for transfer students to raise the amount of credit which they receive by doing good work here advance standing is in every case subject to revision on the basis of the student's record in the uni versity a student who remains in good scholastic standing through out his first year in the case of a senior his first semester shall have his advanced standing confirmed however if a student is placed on probation in the course of his first year in the case of a senior his first semester his advanced stand ing will be re-evaluated by the com mittee a student from a college in class b or class c who makes in his first year an average grade of c with out conditions or failures shall have his advanced standing revised up ward on the basis of the next high er rating that is a student from a class c college who received one half credit shall be given two thirds credit and a student from a class b college who received two-thirds credit shall be given full credit a student from a col lege in class c who makes in his first year an average grade of b without conditions or failures shall have his advanced standing revised upwards on a class a basis and he shall be given full credit new m s & t regulations under the new rules on military science and tactics foreign students who are not permitted under the rules of the war department to take military science are relieved of this requirement and are not re quired to substitute academic sub jects for the 8 hours of military sci ence which are required of physi cally qualified freshmen and soph omores who are citizens of the united states transfer students entering with sophomore standing are required to take only one year of military science and those enter ing with junior or senior standing are relieved of the requirement en tirely and need not substitute acad emic hours for the military credits continued on page three rules governing advanced stand ing in military science were amend ford airplane expert speaks to engineers lyter meets convening journalists in georgia john a lyter president of the lehigh chapter of pi delta epsil on left wednesday for atlanta ga to attend the national conven tion of the society which is being held at georgia tech the conven tion will last until saturday night covering a period of three days the meeting held under the com bined auspices of the georgia tech and emory chapters presents a va ried and complete program which includes a football game luncheons business sessions barbecue dance and the convention banquet the speaker at the banquet will be sen ator walter f george while at a special luncheon noted men such as grantland rice lawrence perry bobby jones young stribling and ed hamm will speak the leading entertainment fea tures of the convention are the georgia - georgia tech football game a dance to be given friday evening and a barbecue at the fa mous stone mountain on thursday afternoon a smoker will be held in addition to the luncheons many local fire fighters entertain l u students faculty and students attend new power show lehigh will be represented at the annual meeting of the american society of mechanical engineers that is held this week in new york in conjunction with the power show at the grand central palace professor f v larkin left wed nesday and will stay until friday and professor m e stuart is at tending ever ysession most of the men in the department have arrang ed to spend one day at the show charles webbe president and john marshall secretary have been sent as delegates from the student branch the meeting of the american so ciety of mechanical engineers brings forth the newest inventions and methods that have been devel oped all over the world during the past year an interesting sidelight to the meeting was an inspection to the swedish - american liner kulgholm this boat has just been launched and has 45000 horse power diesle engines being one of the largest boats of its kind built prof butts publishes book allison butts assistant professor of metallurgical engineering le high university has prepared for publication of methods in non ferrous metallurgical analysis by robert keffer late chief chemist of the aanaconda copper mining company theatre to applaud and deride the fire eaters technique despite cries of how about turning on the wa ter and later there's still a win dow you haven't broken chop a hole in the wall chief anderson's cohorts by dint of much squirt ing water over the building on the crowd managed to extinguish the blaze an overheated flue is supposed to have caused the fire no one was injured seriously but both hbuses and much furniture that could not be gotten out were prac tically ruined no longer warmed by the genial heat from the conflagration paja mas and slippers became suddenly insufficient against the cold and the motley crew plodded homeward to books and bed let's have one like that every night seemed to be the general sentiment a fire which broke out at 11 o'clock tuesday night in the ad joining frame houses 642 and 644 ontario street owned by john gottwalds caused a general ad journment of lehigh students from bridge games and bull sessions to cheer the bethlehem firemen into action aroused by the persistent bleat ing of that most melodious of fire whistles someone discovered flames shooting skyward near the sea food emporium of miles keating then from out the doors and windows of fraternity houses and dormitory sections tumbled groups of scan tily clad students to combine in one wild stream stumbling down the smoothest ruts of eighth street — a veritable cecil b de mille mob scene arriving simultaneously with the firemen they swarmed onto the nearby porches like box seats at a william b stout will address the engineers club of the lehigh val ley on tuesday evening december 11 in drown hall the subject of his talk will be air transporta tion and airports dinner will be held in the cafeteria at 6:30 fol lowed by the address at 8 o'clock in the assembly room mr stout is the vice president and general manager of the stout met al airplane co a division of ford motor co he has just returned from europe where he has been studying foreign air lines and equip ment mr stout has had a very wide experience with aircraft and engines he was the chief engin eer of the aircraft division of the packard motor car co the design er of the all metal torpedo planes built for the united states navy mr stout is a well known author of many technical books as well and until a short time ago was the aviation and technical editor of the chicago tribune tional union of scientific workers 1924 to 1926 president of the math ematical association 1924 to 1926 honorary secretary of the london mathematical society correspond ing member of the gesellschaft der wissenschaften zu gottingen and the academy of sciences of vien na foreign member of the ameri can academy of arts and sciences the danish academy of sciences the polish academy of science and letters the russian academy the deutsche akademie der naturfor scher halle and the royal so ciety of sciences of upsala hon orary member of the mathematical society of stockholm the czecho slovakian society of mathematics and physics and the indian math ematical society among his publications are a book entitled a course of pure mathematics now in its fifth edi tion and cambridge mathematical tracts numbers 2 12 and 18 be side a very great number of re search articles on mathematics in various mathematical journals , the society of the sigma xi is a national honorary society whose primary purpose is the encourage ment of scientific research the le high chapter of this society was officially organized last spring one program meeting has already been held on october 1 at which pro fessor w a slater research pro fessor of engineering materials at lehigh gave an illustrated lecture to which the public was invited on the testing of an experimental dam the chapter considers itself very fortunate to secure for its second program meeting of the year so il lustrious a research scientist as professor hardy early in january professor g h hardy the distinguished english mathematician will give a lecture at lehigh university under the auspices of the local chapter of the scientific society of sigma xi pro fessor hardy is everywhere regard ed as one of the most distinguish ed of the living mathematicians his lecture will be on mathemati cal logic this year prof hardy is residing at princeton university as visiting professor professor hardy has been selected by the american mathematical society to give the gibbs lecture at the annual meet ing of the american association for the advancement of science in new york during the christmas holidays this lecture is one of the important events of the american association meetings professor hardy holds degrees and titles of m a d sc l.l.d f r s and f r a s from the english universities of cambridge oxford manchester and birming ham he was fellow and lectur er in trinity college cambridge for a number of years and cayley lecturer in the university of cam bridge for five years he is now a fellow of new college oxford and is savilian professor of ge ometry at oxford some idea of the esteem in which professor hardy is held in the sci entific world may be gained from the following list of honors which have been bestowed upon him royal medalist of the royal so ciety 1920 fellow of the cam bridge philosophical society pres ident of section a of the british association for the advancement of science 1922 president of the na convicted before he had been permitted to say a word and re convicted after he had presented a clear case irving siegel last eve ning was made the eighth student donator of 27.50 to the common wealth of bethlehem but an ap peal is being made by siegel to a higher court not in bethlehem where h p mcfadden attorney for the defendant is seeking a non predestined decision , seven others of the 16 jailed were forced to permanently leave half of their 52.50 bail each a sum of 192.50 with the local police moi day evening this was the best the efforts of robert taylor university attorney and dean mcconn could accomplish for the boys ' and in their own meaningful words that was a lot in my opinion declared dean c m mcconn the compromise which was reached was as satisfac tory as could be expected and the students concerned are out less money than i feared fines extravagant according to men who worked on the case the results of the af fair show that four innocent men were fined three men were fined double what they should have been fined one man was fined just about justly and the other eight innocent men were graciously excused the eight men who were fined the 27.50 each are morris born stein for carrying a red lantern from its post henry p kruesen blake b hound and frank mer rick freshmen who entered the globe theatre without purchasing tickets robert brick fred under wood and antonio vaccaro charged with disorderly conduct and irving siegel charged with re moving a bus-stop sign from its proper position in announcing to the eight men who were called that a compromise demanding a fine of 27.50 from each had been reached mr tay tor told tfieni that tliej fined as representatives of the stu dent body and that the wisest course for them to follow was to pay the fine ' seven of them did siegel deciding to carry the matter further it has been rumored that a sug gestion will be placed before ar cadia to the effect that these men having been fined as representa tives of the student body be reim bursed the question to be raised at the next meeting siegel makes appeal siegel's case will be taken to easton where judge stotz is ex pected to preside in the hearing last night alderman frank kaeh ler pronounced a verdict of guilty and imposed a fine of 25 before siegel himself had been called upon to speak when attorney mcfad den declared why you haven't heard the defendant yet kaehjer said oh well what's he got to say at the close of the hearing after a g gorlin emanuel scablianco and i shermer witnesses had tes tified that fresh and not siegel had removed the bus-stop sign and that siegel had not been guilty of any thing that could be called a disor derly act under the information submitted to police kaehler reiter ated well i still find him guilty 25 and costs in drawing up his appeal for the higher court mcfadden listed the following objections 1 the de fendant was arrested illegally in asmuch as the arrest was made without warrant away from the scene of the alleged offense and a day before the information leading to the arrest was sworn to 2 no evidence was shown to justify con viction under the city ordinance parade authorized fred trafford asserted that per mission had been received from the mayor's secretary for the right to hold the parade though no permis sion had been obtained for the bon fire the fact that police led the parade was admission of this the police had asserted that permission had not been granted but no one was present who could refute them mayor yeakle informed the men monday night that what the town was doing in this matter was pure ly in the interests of the students and that the town really held them in deep affection continued on page four there is of course as the mayor and the police pointed out another side to this matter for two hours the police did not interfere with the students beyond putting an end to certain manifestations of disor derly conduct such as pulling trol ley poles off the wires and rock ing cars as police declared and as many students and other observers declared a great deal occurred that b rown and white lehigh spirit praised by lafayette senior lehigh university bethlehem pa friday december 7 1928 vol xxxvi no 2 1 . price five cents american artists show paintings in memorial build'g 220 given to city by eight students hearing appeals to high le of bethlehem many styles of modern art exhibited this week irving siegel after special er court outsid faculty approves changes recommended by committee regarding student standing publications board revise b & w council discipline rules made stringent delegates debate rough initiations and scholarship next year's athletic cal endar approved and courses added the intense spirit that lehigh manfested in the lehigh-lafay ette football game has aroused such considerable comment on the easton campus that a senior of that college wrote a letter to the editor of the lafayette which was printed in the last issue and complimented lehigh saying that lafayette rooters can learn a i great deal from lehigh in regard to cheering and the support of their team coming events monday — 7:30 p m drown hall ar cadia meets 8:00 p m drown hall pro fessor g a howland will speak on art and human ism senior ballots must be hand ed in tuesday 2:30 p m lehigh university womens club meets in drown hall 8:00 p m william b stout will address engineers club of lehigh valley in drown hall wednesday — 2:00 p m first basketball game with stroudsburg nor mal 7:30 p m drown hall o.d k meets to elect new men 7:30 p m drown hall sym phony orchestra meets 7:30 p m mr edward c ul man will speak in the physics lecture room on the method of floating bonds for large engineering projects member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first