Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 34

              b & w wants report donate refund money for advancement of research work barker is honored plan four years old all those not receiving their copies of the brown and white regularly are requested to leave notice at the brown and white office room b-l saucon hall winners to get cup meet bethany tonight approximately 1440 students registered at the beginning of this semester according to paul e schwartz assistant registrar included in this number are 33 men who did not register in sep tember of the new men five are fresh men 12 transferred from other colleges and 16 are former stu dents of lehigh seventy-five new men registered for the spring semester of 1929 but 53 of them were old lehigh stu dents most of whom had flunked out and were returning after a half year's absence under the old flunk-out rule long is author of essay on oil article on linseed films appears in meallurgi cal monthly senior chemists are interviewed representatives of lead ing organizations meet prospective grads prof c d macdougall ed press and found out from where the original information came and what all the quotations really meant that i understand why the farmers valued it radio was different then smiled the tall journalist reminis cently i used to write letters to my friends and tell them to listen in and then i would talk to them an announcer could get away with murder at times i made dates with girls over the air that added a little romance to the job the thing that seems oddest to me today in announcing added the former announcer is standing di rectly in front of the mike i used to sit in a rocker the mike on one side of the room and i on the oth er and rocking away 1 would tell the farmers about the crops the weather and the happenings of the day memories of a summer eight long years ago when he was a radio an nouncer in a little station in wis consin were brought back to cur tis d macdougall assistant pro fessor of journalism last wednes day evening when he served as guest announcer at station wcba allentown on the occasion of the lehigh-cedar crest debate the little station was wfiz at fond dv lac wis and the future lehigh professor was acting as sporting editor of the fond dv lac dea'ily commonwealth part owner of the station in addition to his du ties as radio announcer radio was then in its infancy no station had continuous programs and a chain hook-up was unheard of there were very few radio sets in existence and most of these were the old fashioned crystal sets equip ped with ear phones the usual time for kfiz to broadcast was at 4 p m and the usual program consist ed of the resume of the days news stock quotations reports of the live stock and grain exchanges and the weather fond dv lac declared the pro fessor is in the center of one of the best farm and dairy districts of the country and these announce ments went over big with the far mers when they came in to renew their subscriptions to the common wealth they would tell how they would have their wives listein when they were out in the fields so as not to miss the information broadcast personally 1 did not have a very high opinion of the program and it was not until several years later when i began working for the unit the next round of the inter-fra ternity bull session's competition sponsored by delta omicron theta will be held monday march 17 the subject to be discussed is lehigh improvements it has been found that the best method of conducting the meetings is in an informal reg ular bull session style with no re quired lengthy speech much criti cism greeted the outcome of the first round but most of it praised the idea and hoped that the frater nities would spend more time in preparation those fraternities still in the com petition by reason of previous vic tory or default are sigma chi lambda chi alpha theta kappa phi alpha tau omega kappa al pha phi sigma delta sigma nu psi upsilon and the winner of the postponed phi delta theta versus sigma alpha mv session two rounds are now needed to determine the winner of the lehigh discussion cup offered by profes sor a h fretz the remaining fraternities will be given an oppor tunity to drop out if they care to immediately in order to assure no more last minute defaults the delta omicron theta ban quet for the winning team is sched uled to be held wednesday april 2 b & w to give charms chase discusses sinus troubles picture exhibit to be held soon all brown and white board members desiring charms should notify irving gennet telephone 9294 st luke's otology head speaks to pre-medical society water color display set for march 16 to april 4 bade unearths ancient tombs fourteen alumni instructors graduates and students were re cently initiated into associate and full membership of sigma xi hon orary research fraternity those elected to associate mem bership are l m bennetch ch.e a j frantz chem ; m a kise chem a n rogers ch.e a l smith ch.e w w ten eyck ch.e c r woll chem j d h long graduate student in chemis try c.l kreidler c e 30 eliz abeth p macdougall graduate stu dent in biology m a farrell as sistant in bacteriology d c lewis instructor in mathematics graduates seniors eligible full membership of the society will be conferred on the initiates when they have been successful in scientific research graduates and seniors in the scientific courses only are eligible for election the new members were elected because of their excellence in one or more sci entific branches and because of their giving promise for accomplish ing some achievement in research prof j w barker head of the department of electrical engineering was elected and initiated to full membership g w home ch.e lehigh 99 former president of the american society of refrigerating engineers and at present vice pres ident of the merchant's refrigerat ing company of new york was elected to alumni membership sigma xi has been in existance at lehigh since 1928 and has about 55 active chapters at the major in stitutions the lehigh chapter con sists of about 125 members includ ing both active and alumni mem bers its object is the promotion of scientific research on the campus the freshman student chemistry fellowship has been made a perman ent traditional part of lehigh uni versity by the recent action of the present freshman class when each member of the class donated the re fund of his chemistry laboratory fee to themaintenance of two chem istry research fellowships estab lished by the class of 4930 • the fellowships pay a stipend of 750 each annually and there are no charges for tuition they are among the best fellowships available giv ing the recipient ample means of providing for himself during his year of graduate work awards made annually each year two senior chemists or chemical engineers are awarded these fellowships by a committee which consists of the head of the department of chemistry two mem bers of the chemical engineering faculty and two student members the two fellowships were estab lished by the class of 1930 in 1927 and each succeeding freshman class donated its chemistry refunds to ward mantaining this fellowship plan now that the fellowships have been maintained by each class in freshman chemistry for four years the chemistry department regards these fellowships as traditional and permanent institutions leading educators and professors of the country have expressed their approval of the idea commenting also on the fine generous spirit of the first year men last year j z miller and c t oswald both of the class of 1929 were awarded these fellowships c t oswald has just completed his work for his master's degree and has arranged for a graduate fellow ship at brown university where he will do research work in the field of organic and physical chemistry ketcham gives more pictures lehigh graduate archae ologist makes important finds in holy land colleges name oratory entries 81 institutions enter na tional intercollegiate speaking contest senior chemical engineers and chemists have been interviewed during the past few weeks by rep resentatives of leading organiza tions who wish to secure men for their technical staffs there are 23 men in the senior chemistry class and each man will probably be placed before the beginning of may according to the chemistry depart ment the union carbide company of new york eastman kodak com pany of rochester combusion en gineering company of chicago and rohm and hass of philadelphia have already sent their representa tives to interview the senior chem ists roesseler and hasslacher manu facturing chemists of niagara falls have sent in requests for graduate students with master degrees and graduates they will interview the men at their plant in niagara falls paying the traveling expenses of the men who will go up the atlan tic refining company of philadel phia will also interview three or four men at their own expense at their offices in philadelphia the director of the federal phos phorus company of birmingham alabama who at the present time is pursuing his companies interests in southern france has requested that two men be reserved for his com pany representatives from proctor and gamble of new york bethlehem steel company standard oil com pany of new jersey grasselli chemical company e i dv pont company will interview the men in the near future tawresey to speak at mechanical meet address will be illustrated with prof f v larkin head of the department of mechanical engineer ing has received ten framed photo graphs of the campus of the uni versity of wisconsin presented to lehigh university by henry h ketcham lehigh 09 this is mr ketcham's second gift of pictures this year four of the pictures have been given to the electrical engineering department for their offices one has been given to dean c m mcconn and one to prof philip m palmer director of the college of arts and science professor larkin who is an alumnus of the university of wis consin has placed the other four in his office the pictures were obtained in keeping with a plan of decorating the offices and rooms of packard laboratory many pictures have been placed in various parts of the building already and more pictures are being received almost daily newcomb to address mental health group i s tawresey of the s k f industries inc will speak on bearings at a meeting of the le high student branch of the amer ican society of mechanical en gineers to be held at 7:30 p m thursday march 6 in room 466 packard laboratory tawresey's address will be illus trated by lantern slides and the meeting will be open to the public refreshments will be served at the close of the meeting psychology professor will dis cuss problem children tonight an exhibition of water colors by a conservative groups of contempor ary american artists will be held in the faculty room of the alumni memorial building march 16 to april 4 the pictures come from the american federation of arts washington d c and were last shown in the memorial art mu seum oberlin college oberlin o lewis o griffith whose pictures were recently shown at lehigh won a 500 prize at the hoosier salon chicago for the outstanding paint ing in the exhibit the hoosier sa lon is an annual exhibition for all artists who have ever had any re mote or close connection with in diana the artists in the coming exhibi tion are emil j bistram gertrude b bourne john f carlson julius delbos george pearse ennis w emerton heitland eugene higgins margarete lent thornton oakley jane peterson chauncey f ryder birger dandzen elizabeth sawtelle tabor sears william starkweath er and john whorf with the ex ception of one these are all artists from eastern states continued on fage four emil bistram is a new york ar tist and was represented by six wa ter colors in the recent exhibition of the pennsylvania academy of fine arts philadelphia mrs bourne is a boston artist who stu died under henry b snell and the late henry w rice she is a mem ber of the copley society boston the new york water color club lehigh's debating team won two debates this week and will partici pate in a third tonight the first contest held wednesday evening was with cedar crest college and took place at station wcba in al lentown the second was with ur sinus college and was held last night at the brith sholom com munity center tomorrow evening at 10 p m the debaters will meet representatives from bethany col lege bethany w va in another radio debate at station wcba the subject of last night's de bate with ursinus was resolved that the united states should withdraw from the kellogg peace pact lehigh took the affirmative side a change-of-opinion vote de cided the result of the contest the final score being 12-10 in favor of the lehigh orators this type of deci sion is carried out by the audience themselves an audience vote is taken immediately preceding the contest and immediately afterward the final result is obtained by counting only the votes of those who have changed their minds the lehigh team was composed of mathew murphy 33 george parsons 31 and emanuel honig 31 prof c d macdougall head of the department ofjournalism and coach of the team introduced the debaters 150 people attend the ursinus team included free man swartz albert scirick and david schantz with aram para nuk as alternative harvey carter was coach members of the team were entertained at dinner before the debate by the tau delta phi and beta theta pi fraternities approximately 150 people attend ed the contest after which a ban quet was held at the hotel beth lehem for the participants meet bethaany tonight the debate with bethany college tonight will mark the lehigh team's second appearance before the mi crophone the subject will be re solved that the evils of the ma chine age outweigh its benefits lehigh will take the affirmative side judges will be a g rau dean of moravian college for men l f hess principle of the south side high school and a third man as sistant superintendent of schools in the county the lehigh team defeated cedar crest college wednesday evening in a contest broadcast over station wcba allentown the judges heard the debate by radio and tele phoned their decision to the sta tion the question was resolved that the united states should withdraw from the kellogg peace pact cedar crest took the affir mative while lehigh upheld the negative the judges were prof a s corbiere head of the romance language department at muhlen berg attorney daniel mccarthy of bethlehem and thomas w pomeroy coach of debating at la fayette the lehigh team was emanuel g scoblionko 31 captain edward fleischer 33 and manuel l rud ernian 33 the cedar crest debat ers were miss sarah biddle cap tain miss louise harrison and miss kathryn sweeney initiate causes row by inspecting bridge dr william bade 02 foremost archaeologist led a successful expe dition into the holy land last year as a result of which tombs were unearthed one tomb contained an assort ment of jewelry beads and pottery which are believed to date back to the second iron age of palestine around 600 b c the contents of the second tomb were of importance to students of christianity since the coins and other small articles found in it are thought to be contempor ary with the boyhood of christ the third tomb a relic of the early iron age 1200-800 b c yielded the best assortment of pottery found this season the work was done under the auspices of the pacific school of religion of whicii dr bade is a di rector dr bade has made other ex cavations of note at tel-en-nesbeh a large cave was also explored in the center of which is a huge cistern hewn out of the rock it is covered with a lid which apparently has not been touched since 160 b.c a coin and a lamp found among the ruins indicates that this group be longs to the maccabean period the cave was sealed to await further explorations next season as youth counts planks suspicious onlookers call police best students honest dean mcconn declares history society to be organized sinuses are the long cavities in the skull which are directly con nected with the nose by small open ings declared dr w d chase head of the department of otology at st luke's hospital before the robert w hall pre-medical so ciety last evening in williams hall dr chase who has spent sev eral years abroad studying at vien na and budapest is an authority in his field and is interested primar ily in sinus troubles the sinuses are lined by the same mucous membranes that line the nose and may be thought of as small annexes to the nose whose function is to give resonance to the voice and help moisten and warm the air which passes to the lungs the sinuses are frequent foci of infection and very often become in fected through scarlet fever influ enza measles diptheria and.whoop ing cough diving and swimming are in great part responsible for much sinusitus because the water is forced to pass through the nose often causing pressure irritation and infection bad teeth are also in strumental in causing sinusitus at the conclusion of his address dr chase answered questions ask ed by dr hall and other members of the society there are two main classes of sinusitus — the overgrowth and the pus-forming dr chase by the use of five carefully prepared slides of various sections of the skull illus trated the different sinus i spaces types of infection likely to arise from any abnormality of them and their treatment the society hopes to hold a ban quet this year probably at the ho tel bethlehem and some effort will be made to secure an executive of ficial of a prominent medical school as the guest of honor rifle team slated to meet six schools prof t m newcomb of the de partment of psychology will adress the lehigh valley mental health conference on the subject treat ment of problem children at a meeting to be held at 8:15 tonight in packard laboratory dr max meenes of the psychol ogy department will preside at the meeting professor newcomb has made a careful study of problem boys in summer camps and will emphasize points of his lecture with stories of his actual experiences in dealing with these boys an article entitled the mechan ism of transition of drying oils into protective coating films by prof p ■ s long professor of in organic chemistry was published in the february number of the cana dian chemistry and metallurgical magazine professor long who has done extensive research work on linseed oils gave a concise picture of the so-called drying processes of linseed oil films although investigations on protective coatings have only begun to be conducted scientifically during the last decade protective coverings date back many centuries the egyptians used a varnish not unlike that of the present for cov ering some of their furnishings the egyptian coffins found today still possess a protective coating in an excellent state of preservation al most any object made today is cov ered with some kind of a coating consisting of paint varnish shellac or a lacquer these coverings are of great industrial value because of their preserving properties much still unknown professor long admitted in his article that there is still much to be learned about the drying processes of linseed oil however his corps of research workers have a good idea of what makes it click when a drying oil is sprayed or brushed over a surface in a thin film it soon begins to change in nature and in the course of a few days it passes through various stages of sticki ness and then finally becomes a solid film this drying stage has been divided into four steps or stages the first is the induction stage during which the oil orients itself and in some way gets rid of impurities the second stage may be called the formation stage where the complex molecules link togeth er and form structures this stage may be likened to the building of a steel structure the girders being oriented to form a definite stable structure following this stage the structures set up begin to absorb oxygen from the air and get rid of some volatile products this stage subjects the oil to oxidation the last stage is the solid stage during which the film still undergoes changes when an object is painted the impression is given that the paint is tdry when it can be touched without getting the finger full of paint it has been shown however that part of the film still contains some liquid in its makeup paints which have dried for a year have been known to still be wet inter nally driers speed work automobile manufacturers must have a quick drying paint in order to meet present day demands in order to meet their requirements nature is speeded up by means of driers manganese cobalt or lead are added in very small percentages to the oil and acelerated drying is the result just why these metals sped up the drying is not definitely known the canadian magazine in which dr long's article appeared is sim ilar to the chemical and metallur gical engineering magazine of the united states and is an organ of the canadian institute of chemistry scheduled matches will precede intercollegiates to be rfeld march 15 although march 25 is the closing date for the entries in the sixth national intercollegiate oratorical contest on the constitution already 81 colleges and universities from 29 states have written to p casper harvey national director liber ty 80 northwestern university evanston 111 national winner in 1925 was the first schpol to enter the 1930 contest although april 15 is the closing date for each school to select its representative the distinction of being the first orator to win his lo cal contest goes to f b farr a and m college of south carolint clemson the competition for the greatest forensic honor open to college stu dents in america foreshadows bring ing together this year the largest group of colleges and universites in any project of the kind in the his tory of american higher education according to the announcement made this week at the national headquarters a total of 5000 in prizes will be awarded and the win ner who will become the national intercollegiate champion orator for 1930 will be awarded a prize of 1500 second place will give a prize of 1000 scaling down to 400 for seventh place the national director is sending this week to 902 colleges and uni versities an urgent request to make their entries early even if the schools may wait until april is to choose their contestants police gazette burr to appear march 7 coming events gipson explains film on washington's life new issue will be modeled after famous new york weekly history department head supple ments picture with short talk the easton police were called early saturday morning to investi gate the actions of an individual who unaware of the excitement he was causing seemed intent upon determining the structure of the old suspension bridge in south easton his actions were of an unusual na ture and were such that several per sons reported them to the police one of the pedestrians actually reported that the individual who preferred crawling around on his knees to walking had made a grab for him many of the onlookers were of the belief that individual was mentally deranged all apprehension was dispelled when police arrived for the youth reported that he was a lafayette college student and was counting the number of boards in the bridge as part of his fraternity initiation a dinner will be held by the grad uate students in history at 6:30 sat urday evening march 1 in drown hall this will be the first get to gether of this group and will sig nify the formation of a graduate student's society approximately 20 students are now taking graduate work in his tory at lehigh the majority en rolled in courses under professor gipson the others although not doing any regular com se work are gathering material for theses a feature of the dinner will be the reading of a paper entitled the ileonias whartons by miss mary dwyer miss dwyer will de scribe the activities of two noted philadelphians of revolutionary times cousins both named ileon ias wharton one of whom is a tory the other a patriot council to meet want grid candidates the sophomore council will hold its first meeting of the semester at 8 o'clock wednesday evening in drown hall for the purpose of re newing enforcement of freshman regulations sophomores are requested to re port to the council the names of all freshmen caught violating freshman rules the opening of the west a picture showing the activities of george washington in trying to solve the difficulties arising between the french and indians prior to the revolutionary war was shown at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the auditorium of packard laboratory this picture was the fifth of the historical series that were shown here this year dr l h gipson head of the de partment of history and govern ment supplemented the picture with a short talk emphasizing many important points which the picture touched upon lehigh students do not cheat to win honors according to dean c m mcconn ex-officio member of the committee on discipline in commenting on the statement of prof r l lyman of the depart ment of education at the univer sity of chicago that if the fear of disgrace is a universal incentive to dishonesty so also is the inor dinate desire for high honors the chicago educator was one of the speakers at the annual session of the department of superintendence of the national education associa tion at atlantic city this week i find that most students who are just charged with dishonesty fall in the group known as poorer students dean mcconn said the a or the b student usually finds it very difficult to find someone from whom it is of value to copy an honor student is too intelligent to resort to dishonesty in my time at lehigh i do not remember a sin gle honor student who was brought before me on a similar charge the cases of most students who are called before the committee on discipline ' the dean added reveal the utmost stupidity a certain freshman copied a theme from the current number of the herald trib all candidates for assistant manager of varsity football should report at 4 p m wed nesday march 5 in the trophy room of taylor gym these can didates must be freshmen une book review a magazine which nearly all english instructors read another student copied the answ ers in a mathematics examination without changing his calculations to account for them pitifully enough all the answers which he copied were wrong and in the one in stance had he completed one addi tional step he would have gotten the correct answer to the problem of course the dean continued there is one bad point to honors and prizes it is that students may become more interested in them than in the studies themselves the only real education must come from a love of learning and not from any outside incentive here at lehigh we have freshmen sophomore and graduation honors and some stu dents do make an endeavor to at tain them honors may not seem important now but after gradua tion when a firm asks for informa tion concerning an alumnus and we say that he was an honor man for four years he usually gets the job i agree with professor lyman that there should be a sensible re striction in prizes and rewards declared the dean but here at le high we do not have to worry about that matches with the university of pittsburgh davidson college lowa state college washington state college university of nebraska and the kansas state college are sched uled for the lehigh r.o.t.c rifle team these matches will precede die intercollegiate meet for the hearst trophy held during the week ending march 15 lehigh won the trophy last year the team has just completed con tests with rutgers de pauw university of wichita uni versity of north dakota univer sity of wisconsin university of delaware and washington univer sity of st louis mo the rifle team is composed of students in the lehigh r o t c unit and is coached by the staff of ! tn department of military science and tactics today 8:15 p m mental health lecture by prof t m newcomb pack ard lab 10 p m debate with ursinus sta tion wcba allentown tomorrow 2 p m freshman wrestling vs newton high school 3 p in varsity wrestling vs cor nell 3 p m varsity swimming vs uni versity of delaware 4:30 p nii cyanide dance at drown hall the police gazette number of the lehigh burr will appear friday march 7 this issue of the burr will be modeled after the police gazette signstealing mysteries will be un tangled for the readers and they will be given an insight into alleged bethlehem beer houses holes in the wall and speakeasies « artists will depict the rejuvenat ed bethlehem police force in action as well as give their critics inter preptations of the new tickets the bigger and better night sticks and the speeding pie wagon used by the police in their alleged universal dry cleaning vol xxxvii no 34 1440 registered for second term research group adds fourteen to membership bethlehem pa friday february 28 1930 radio veteran recalls western broadcasting fraternity men plan informal discussion soon brown and white price five cents freshmen give chemistry fees to fellowships debaters triumph over two teams sigma xi selects new members at a recent meeting defeat cedar crest and ursinus colleges in local contests " lehigh improvements " bull session topic for march 1 7 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first