Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 8

              awards made in spring plan entertainment food entertainment and speakers are listed for members of the class of 1932 at their smok er which will be held this eve ning at 7:30 in drown hall dr neil carothers head of the college of business administra tion and professor j l beaver of the electrical engineering de partment will address the sophs the committee in charge is en deavoring to have music for the occasion due to the instability of the class treasury caused by the pro longed banquet season a fee of 25 cents will be charged for the smoker this fee will be collected at the door keck brennan riviere aufhammer bailey and kesser elected pi delta epsilon national hon orary journalistic fraternity will give a dance in drown hall to morrow evening from 8:30 to 12 o'clock it has secured the ser vices of ted reichardt's nine piece orchestra from easton to supply the syncopation prof and mrs c d macdou gall will chaperon the dance the subscription is 1.50 for couples and 1 for stags his little book store is visited fre quently by book collectors from philadelphia and new york who always buy up books that strike their fancy during the time that pete has been selling books to lehigh men he has seen many events and chang es in university life he remembers the time the boys burned the old wooden bleachers after defeating lafayette in football 66-0 he also recalls the old brewery just off the campus which the boys fre quently visited between classes pete has come into personal con tact with many well known lehigh men of the past and his memory for faces and names is unfailing it is not unusual for him to recognize a person he hasn't seen for 20 years art exhibition opens on monday peter koch has been selling books to lehigh students for 40 years lehigh graduates from all over the world write to pete ask ing sometimes for the very books they had sold him after graduation these calls sometimes come from south africa south america china japan mexico and canada pete's trade in books is not con fined to text books many of his books are fiction on more than one occasion he has bought books for the next collegiate year only to find when college opened that another book was to be used fortunately pete never loses out because he can send the books back to the people from whom they have been pur chased pete cannot hold on to rare or valuable books very long because carolina players ten years of age o.d.k criticizes no parking signs debaters pledge seven students majority of pictures shown lean toward radicalism three more members will be selected later in year pass motion that fresh men wear small num erals on dinks members write and act own presentations and design scenery statistics compiled from a survey made by the chemical and metal lurgical engineering magazine in dicate that the highest percentage of chemical engineers from any single institution were graduated from lehigh in 1929 about 55 collegesand universities in the united states are giving courses in chemical engineering in most cases the comparison of the number of chemical engineers to the total student enrollment is very small columbia university being a noteworthy example graduated but 26 chemical engineers from 36,000 students massachusetts institute of tech nology in 1929 graduated 49 chem ical engineers the university of michigan 45 ohio state 43 pur due university 31 lowa state col lege 28 in each of the preceding schools the student enrollment ranges from 3,000 to 10,000 lehigh graduated 36 chemical engineers with a student body of only 1600 regarding the growth of chemi cal engineering it has been found that the registration in this curri culum increases yearly also there has been a marked increase in the number of chemical engineers pur suing graduate study at the uni versity of minnesota 65 percent sought graduate degrees in 1929 anderson clark write on x-rays articles are result of experiments by lehigh professors an exhibition of modern amer ican art will be on display in the faculty room of the alumni mem orial building from october 21 to november 9 students and faculty may visit the exhibition during the regular library hours and the pub lic from 2 to 3 o'clock in the after noon and from 7 to 9 o'clock in the evening on saturdays and sundays variety of paintings the next exhibition will be held in december and will be one of etchings done in black and white by l o griffith the exhibition will include 30 oil paintings 50 water colors a few drawings and some prints the ex hibition will include the works of chapin chase kent and orozco the latter a mexican artist who has established quite a reputation in his own country but who has never be fore shown in this country the majority of the work leans toward radicalism and are done in a bold and daring manner showing a great of color the types of paintings vary from still life to landscapes seniors planning to enter the competition for williams prizes should consult the respective de partment heads at once regarding the choice of subjects and the plan of work in order that they may re ceive the approval of the commit tee by december 1 six prizes awarded senior prizes of 75 first prize and 25 second prize are awarded annually in each of the three de partments of economics english philosophy and psychology and for dissertations submitted by regular members of the senior class on or before may 1 the committee upon the approval of the head of the re spective departments will permit a candidate to submit a dissertation on any subject in that particular field subjects are suggested the awards will be made by the faculty upon recommendation of the committee this standard will include such points as excellence in thought plan development argu ment and composition typical subjects suggested by departments economics and social science the economic situation of the anthracite coal industry the taxation system of pennsylvania the problem of the feebleminded by the department of english classical influences upon the ro mantic poets the modern social drama theories of tragedy real ism in the novel by the department of philosophy psychology and education individ ualism in american thought tests of intelligence pennsylvania nor mal schools seniors planning to enter the competition should consult at once the head of the respective depart ments regarding the choice of sub jects and plan of work in order that these may receive the approval of the committee by december 1 monarch club holds meet in packard lab freshmen hear psych results of welcome dr natt emery delivers address lehigh combines again scored a victory when the entire independent party swept into office in the fresh man elections held from 8 to 4 o'clock wednesday voting was held as last year in drown hall but balloting was slow and while there are 470 members enrolled in the freshman class but 228 votes were recorded the complete returns were president f.keck 117 a mcandless 86 c peck 25 vice president e brennan 129 h grande 97 treasurer e riviere 127 a.graham :'. 71 c keiffer 29 secretary j aufhammer 122 g dorvin 79 w mason 25 sergeant at arms h bailey 135 j baker 63 w rubin 30 historian c kesser 11l a doering 100 j mathews 12 the cabinet members are k bor den s hanna j heller r kreit ner r kugler and c vanderhorst the only close race of the elec tion was for the office of historian in which kesser gained the office by securing a plurality of only 11 votes over doering his nearest op ponent although there were two com bines numerous individual men ran c peck candidate for president whose slogan was don't be the tool of a combine received a sum total of 25 votes seven new men were pledged to delta omicron theta at a meeting held monday evening in the pack ard laboratory auditorium of some 25 men who were invited to attend the meeting seven were se lected for membership eight other men were placed on a list from which three will be pledged later in the season seven men elected the men elected were jorn w watters h n schwartz h b saler g w parsons b wyckoff jr h p krusen and e blum berg the initiation will take place at the next meeting to be held in the laboratory auditorium at eight o'clock on monday octo ber 21 professor c d macdougall coach of the debating team ad dressed the society on the subject of debating at lehigh in which he outlined the plans for the coming season the coach was followed by professor m j lvtch who discuss ed the formation of a lehigh speak ers bureau members of this bu reau will be given opportunity to address the meetings of the various local service clubs debate to be held with the complete reorganization of the society delta omicron theta will begin to put into effect its plans for bringing lehigh to the front in forsenic competition these plans include a series of intercolle giate debates an inter-living group debate and the formation of a speaker's bureau phila graduates to hear richards stoughton to deliver address for st lukes university club to meet in quaker city after perm game graduation exercises dr natt emery to preside at the regular sessions of the thir ty-sixth annual meeting of the american mathematical society will be held at lehigh on friday and saturday december 27-28 research men to talk one of the special features of this meeting will be the two ses sions devoted to the engineering symposium some of the most dis tinguished research engineers of the country will attend these sessions the general topic chosen is differ ential equations of engineering and it is proposed that on each of the sessions on saturday half hour pa pers be given by men who are em inent in their respective fields the men and their topics are as follows professor h w march university of wisconsin the problem of diffusion professor vannevar bush massachusetts in stitute of technology integraphs for differential equations dr t h gronwall columbia university numerical intergration of differen tial equations dr a nadai westinghouse elec tric and manufacturing company formerly professor of applied me chanics university of gottingen plasticity and related problems of non-rigid bodies mr r h park engineering department of general electric company analytic deter mination of flux plots and pro fessor s timoshenko university of michigan problems in elasti city there will also be between 50 and 75 research papers read at various other times during the meetings elections to be held the annual business meeting of the society will be held on friday afternoon december 27 in packard laboratory at which time balloting for the election of officers will close dinner will be held in the hotel bethlehem at 6:45 o'clock friday night professor j l coolidge will act as toastmaster special musical entertainment and a mathematical tableau and skit are being planned for this occasion by the committee on arrangements there will be a charge of 2 per plate for this din ner math research promoted the american mathematical so ciety is an organization of about 2000 mathematicians its purpose is the promotion of mathematics pri marily through research it affords an opportunity for the presentation of research papers not only at its annual meeting held each year in december but at some 12 or 13 oth er meetings held throughout the year at various places the society publishes two research journals and aids in the publication of two oth ers as well as being a party to many international mathematical enterprises the carolina playmakers drama tic club of the university of north carolina and one of the best known dramatic societies in the country is to celebrate its tenth anniversary november 21 at liberty high school in a performance sponsored by mustard and cheese consisting of a cast of 15 mem bers all of whom are students at the university of north carolina the club has made 21 tours in its decade of existence playing in ev ery nook and corner of north car olina and into georgia tennessee south carolina and several north ern states in the selection of ab raham's bosom for the pulitzer prize in 1927 the highest recognition that can come to a playwright in america was accorded paul green one of the playmakers today since the simple beginnings of the society three other native north carolinians lulu volmer hatcher hughes and anne bridgers have made an important contribution to american folk drama on broadway have own theatre the playmakers under professor frederick koch write their own plays act them design and build and paint their own scenery they have their own well-equipped thea atre on the university campus the first state-owned theatre to be de voted to the making of its own na tive drama two volumes of carolina folk plays written by members of the club have been published and a third volume is now in the press these plays have been widely read and produced in towns and cities all over the united states during last november while on a northern tour the playmakers made their first bow to a new york audience playing at colum bia university according to reviews in leading theatre magazines the presentation was received with en thusiasm and a return trip is be ing contemplated in the near fu ture the monarch club of bethlehem held a meeting in the new packard laboratory tuesday evening octo ber 21 dinner was served in the lobby by a staff from the hotel bethlehem dr natt emery vice president of the club gave a short address of welcome he also showed the im portant part that the university plays in the social and financial life of the community professors j w barker and s s.seyfert conducted the club mem bers through the electrical depart ment and professor f v larkin conducted them through the me chanical department of the build ing john maxwell assistant alumni association secretary was also a guest at the meeting blakes hear becker lehigh entertains dwight school men sinkinson talks to cosmos club for visitors fred trafford and union play host severe criticism of the abundance and placing of the new no park ing signs was expressed at the reg ular meeting of o d k held last night in drown hall the opinion expressed was that some of the signs which were erected last week were placed in advantageous places while others were not especially those which now adorn the mem orial trees near the entrance to the gym the placing of the signs on these trees which stand as memor ials to lehigh men who fell in the world war was the object of the greatest criticism the question was also raised as to the advisability of placing the signs where they are absolutely not needed such as the ones placed on the trees border ing the drive from the chapel past the president's residence a motion was proposed and pass ed that the board of control of athletics be recommended to auth orize the placing of class numerals on freshman dinks it was the opin ion that many freshmen do not wear their numerals after winning them because they do not care to buy a sweater and if the small nu merals were placed on the dinks it would be a distinctive and practical way of wearing them frosh rules changed the sophomore class was criticiz ed for the new rules which go into effect today of making all freshmen walk and run backwards to and from classes it was considered wholly unnecessary and almost an impossibility in cases whore a man is required to get from one end of the campus to the other in ten minutes a last minute change was made in these rules this morning by the sophomore class the freshmen must reverse their coats and dinks but do not have to go backwards a strong effort will be made this year to induce the faculty to al low two or three college meetings a semester this custom of college meetings with regularly scheduled hours was abolished by the faculty two years ago because of interfer ence with class schedules since the exodus of this custom it has been almost impossible to get the whole student body together for college functions such as pep meeting pledgings and the awarding of ath letic honors professor bradley stoughton head of the metallurgical depart ment will deliver the address at the 44th annual commencement of st luke's hospital training school for nurses at 8 tonight in the south side high school auditorium hos pital or infirmary will be the title of professor stoughton's address dr natt emery vice president of lehigh university and president of the hospital's board of trustees will be the presiding officer mrs natt m emery and mrs r c bull are on the reception committee associate members of the robert w blake society will meet at 7:30 o'clock october 18 in packer hall dr max mennes and robert stone will perform psychological experi ments and frank c becker will speak an open discussion will take place after the experiments individual results of the freshman psychology examination were made known to each freshman who at tended a meeting held for that pur pose thursday october 9 each freshman received his grades on a typewritten sheet seventy - five freshmen attended the meeting professor hughes said that these examinations are frequently called intelligence tests but that this term is misleading as they really test the methods of attack and re flection of the student in compari son with other lehigh freshmen these tests are given with the pur pose of aiding those responsible for the guidance and advice to the stu dent throughout his college career the test was given in four parts geometrical analogy completion artificial language opposites and mathematics dr hughes stated that according to the results obtain ed lehigh had more well trained freshmen than the average college the 50 percentile lehigh freshman has an ability equal to the 64 per centile at all colleges and to the 95 percentile man in the population at large negligent freshmen feel wrath of sophs engineering society to meet in november larkin attends meet professor larkin director of the department of mechanical engineer ing was in new york city monday and tuesday of this week attend ing a meeting of the publication committee of the american society of mechanical engineers long to direct lecture series shaking members of new class meet 1932's council valley railroad official speaker will probably be lehigh x-ray study of the zonal structure of silica brick from the roof of a basic open-hearth fur nace and application of x-rays in the classification of fibrous sil icate minerals commonly termed asbestos are the titles of the two articles by h v anderson and g l clark which have appeared in august and october issues of the journal of industrial and engineer ing chemistry these articles are the results of experiments in the application of x-ray diffraction methods to indus trial materials conducted at the university of illinois by h v an derson assistant professor of chemistry at lehigh diffraction data given the most recent articles gives x-ray deffraction data on 30 differ ent specimens of absestos minerals and contains 77 x-ray photographs diffraction patterns were obtained for natural fibres for the same fibres after digestion with concen trated acid after ignition to con stant weight at 9000 c the funda mental identity period in angstrom units 10-bcm along the fibre axis has been determined for each speci men reference is also made to the fact that x-ray photographs reveal the stage of metamorphism from the country rock the unit crystal cell dimensions for chrysotile asbestos calculated from x-ray data are in cluded the fact is also established that x-ray fine structure analysis will give more valuable and funda mental information as to the ulti mate structure of these minerals and of other materials as well the first article deals with the application of x-ray diffraction methods to ceramic materials to reveal the ultimate structure after actual service engineering council elects five officers the visitors were taken first on a tour of the campus they watch ed football scrimmage and were then taken to drown hall where they remained until 6 o'clock at this time members of different fra ternities met them and entertained them at dinner lehigh entertained 78 students of dwight school who arrived here thursday afternoon the students drove to bethlehem from new york city where the school is sit uated they were met by fred trafford r p lentz and members of the lehigh union who had pre pared a schedule of events for them during their visit held october 17 first meeting since reorganization the speaker will probably be an official of the lehigh valley rail road and it is expected that his top ic will be on the business phase of railroading president john e spangler of the civil engineering society announces that the first meeting of the society will be held on either the 7th or 14th of november the date is to be chosen at the convenience of the speaker at attempt is being made to hold the meeting jointly with the business administration department after the football game with the university of pennsylvania grid ders saturday october 26th the lehigh university club of philadel phia and the philadelphia sections of the association of iron and steel electrical engineers will convene jointly in the engineer's club 1317 spruce street philadelphia the meeting has been scheduled for 6 p m a number of honored guests will be present some of whom are pres ident charles russ richards of le high joseph w barker professor of the department of electrical en gineering in the university nevin e funk lehigh 05 vice president of the philadelphia electric com pany and a a tate 17 head coach of the lehigh football team dr richards and prof barker will discuss new phases of electri cal engineering and describe briefly the new packard laboratory the session will be non-technical and a large attendance is looked for a diner at six o'clock will be suc ceeded by the meeting during which the addresses will be given arrangements are in the hands of a joint commitee composed of nor man c bye chairman linn o morrow secretary w c kennedy e p burns and h p muehlberg er of the a.1.5.e.e and c f lin coln president moriz bernstein secretary h a white chairman w forstall and william carson of the philadelphia lehigh club president charles russ richards will represent lehigh university at the inauguration of dr clarence a barbour as tenth president of brown university today richards at brown glee club rehearsal brings large turnout coming events new desks installed additional new laboratory desks are now being installed in the va rious laboratories of the chandler chemical laboratory in all about 14 new desks will be in place after the installation work has been completed several new desks will go in the rooms vacated by the re moval of the metallurgical engin eering department to packard hall new desks are also being added to the quantative organic and physi cal chemistry laboratories the desks are similar to those already in use in the laboratories contrasts and comments was the topic discussed by professor eric sinkinson at the cosmos club meeting held in drown hall on tuesday evening october is professor sinkinson related the manner in which he had criticized the english for their pronunciation of some words and thus lead to his being criticized by english news papers the papers did not wholly approve of an american criticizing the english pronunciation of words professor sinkinson pointed out the fact that radio broadcasting in england has an unforseen influence on the language in order that all announcers would use the same pro nunciation a committee was ap pointed to decide on a uniform method of pronunciation in this way professor sinkinson pointed out that radio broadcasting has been an aid in bettering the pro nunciation of the english people following this talk professer stewart was elected secretary-treas urer to succeed professor j b reynolds the other business of the meeting consisted of increasing the membership of the club from nine to eleven members tet tryouts made new songs given out and quar class of 1932 to have tea dance no dances allowed during vacations more than one hundred men have signed up for the proposed lecture course to be given under the aus pices of the paint and varnish su perintendent's club of philadelphia district general chairman kiehel stated today that he expects to have at least 300 enrolled when the class begins on october 29 the twelve lectures on paint varnish and lacquer will be held in the lecture hall of the harrison chemistry laboratory university of pennsylvania under the direction of dr j s long of lehigh univer sity who is chairman of the lecture committee hughes to read paper freshmen behold once again that august and omnipotent vigil ance committee the sophomore council has convened once again the humble frosh wrestles with temptation a dark room a blood thirsty aggregation of knicker-clad 325 a puny shaky first-year man all tend to produce an admirable setting for the direst of shakespear ian tragedies yea the king of dramatists himself could not have done better enter frosh a surly menacing utterance pierces the silent black ness of the chamber timidly even cautiously he crawls in ten min utes elapse yet no sound penetrates the walls of the^stronghold of 32 eleven twelve thirteen fourteen sinister sixty second units — a shuf fle the rumble of muffled voices the opening of the fateful door and here he is panting disheveled wor ried enter frosh that same surly continued on page four naw i ain't yet gotta go back and get my sentence a classmate approaches the fin ished victim much whispering orchestra needs men one hundred men are needed to fill up the vacancies in the sym phony orchestra and all men who play instruments and are interested are asked to sign up as soon as pos sible only 32 men were present at the first rehearsal thursday night in drown hall and no definite work can begin until vacancies are filled mr luchenbach the conductor stated that there was a lack of the following instruments oboes cellos bassoons flutes clarinets and drums dr percy hughes will read a paper on cooperation or conflict in psychologies of learning at the meeting of the philosophical club of the lehigh valley to be held friday evening at the home of frank c becker members of the psychological department of the various colleges in the lehigh val ley are associated with this so ciety following the football game with st john's the class of 1932 will hold a tea dance from 4 to 6:30 p m in drown hall art mickley's hotel traylor orches tra of allentown has been ob tained chaperones for the dances are dr and mrs r c bull and dr and mrs w t fedko girls from moravian seminary have been invited subscription is 1 stag or couple petitions for school dances to be held during vacation periods with the exception of founder's day and the period between sem esters will not be granted was the decision of the student activi ties committee at their meeting held last tuesday in former years such petitions were granted tonight saturday october 19 7:30 p m sophomore smoker drown hall 1 00 p m varsity soccer vs swarthmore college lehigh steel field 2:30 p m varsity football vs st john's college taylor field 4:00 p m sophomore tea dance monday october 21 drown hall 8:30 p m pi delta epsilon dance drown hall 8:00 p m college lecture prof b l miller will speak on the en vironment of primitive man packard laboratory the council of the college of en gineering convened at 4 p m oc tober 17 in the packard laboratory for the purpose of electing its an nual officers and appointing repre sentatives to other councils chairman f v larkin took charge of the meeting and read the regulations passed last spring re garding the reorganization of the council necessitating the election of more representatives to other coun cils then professor r j fogg was elected chairman and professor j b reynolds secretary of the coun cil for this year the new chairman took charge of the meeting and con ducted the election of representa tives to the other councils profes sors f v larkin and s s seifert were elected representatives to the council of the college of business administration and professor h v anderson was elected representa tive to the council of the college of arts and sciences lehigh is practically assured of an excellent glee club this year said t e shields the director aft er thursday evening's rehearsal there were 65 men present at the meeting and after running through a few songs they were dismissed mr shields then tried out aspirants for the quartet the club's next meeting will be on thursday evening of next week there are still possibilities for any one who wishes to try out brown and white bethlehem pa friday october 18 1929 peter koch book seller serves students 4o years carothers to speak at smoker tonight vol xxxvii no 8 lehigh highest in percent of chem graduates competition for williams prizes open to seniors price five cents independents win 1 933 class election mathematicians will meet here december 27-28 pi delta epsilon has dance tomorrow combine places every man in sweeping frosh victory dissertation on subject se lected must be in by december 1 columbia with largest enrollment has few chemicals research men will con duct engineering symposiums one half cast votes 39 get degrees here member intercollegiate newspaper association i all the 1 lehigh news first