Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 36

              class poll shows desire for endowment plan as university gift freshman hat improved harmeson makes survey of major and minor collegiate sports o.d.k inducts pledges arcadia to co-operate now advance to ist round boyer to meet hess of state bailey to meet peabody of yale hick takes richardson in overtime period upset quinn and masem on mats as results come in special to brown and white syracuse n v 3:30 p m march b—lehigh8 — lehigh university's wrestlers successfully opened their campaign to retain their eastern intercollegiate wrestling association title this after noon as harry boyer wrestling at 1 28 pounds and frank bail ey wrestling at 1 36 pounds defeated their opponents in pre liminary bouts boyer won by decision over redmon of harvard he now advances to the first round of the tournament to meet hess of perm state results pairings in e.lw.a meet the annual banquet given the varsity junior varsity and fresh men wrestling squads by r a lewis general manager of the bethlehem steel company will be held at 6:30 p m monday at the saucon valley country club the captain of next year's var sity team will be announced at the affair at this time also the fresh men wrestler judged most out standing in the recent competitions will be presented with r a lewis cup the banquet customarily held the monday after the eastern in tercollegiate wrestling champion ship is informal guests invited will include administrative and athletic officials of the university sports arena to be smaller because too few applicants for the student concert-lecture ser ies committee filled out question naires before the deadline last week richard c kelley chem 40 chairman of the committee has extended the deadline one week applications must be filed with the registrar before 5 p m monday six juniors will be selected by president clement c williams on the basis of recommendation by the present committee composed of six seniors and five members of the faculty applications for member ship on the 1940-41 committee will be considered at a meeting of the group on tuesday members of the present commit tee will work together w.'th the newly-selected upperclassmen to select the program for next year during the 1940-41 season the new committee will be in charge of ar rangements for all programs in the series grace hall will contain only those features most necessary plan dances for weekend arcadia and 3 fraternities will sponsor affairs collegians to play the president and vice president of the individual town sections will be elected this spring in con junction with arcadia elections in stead of next fall announced nor man l morse ch e 40 president of the town council the town council at a meeting tuesday evening in drown hall provided by a unanimous vote for this selection of council members so as to form a nucleus enabling the council to function more effi ciently the following fall the council also feels that freshmen who constitute a sizable portion of the section voters do not know in dividual candidates well enough to vote on their merits early in the fall to nominate by petitions individual ballots for each sec tion will be obtainable at the spring elections for the choosing of candidates from that section mem bers will nominate their candi dates for president through peti tions the runner-up automatically becoming vice-president election of the section secretary and athletic director will be held at the first meeting of the section the following fall as was done this year in the event that the section president or vice president should live in a different town section or living group the year after elec tion a new president and vice president will also be chosen at this meeting the council also voted to hold the final town dance of the year on saturday may 4 instead of on the saturday night of spring houseparty as was originally plan ned arcadia approved a plan for a distinction to be made between major and minor sports at lehigh at a meeting held wednesday ev ening in drown hall and also ap proved a change to be made in the freshman hat of the class of 1944 glen w harmeson director of intercollegiate athletics addressed the meeting and announced the re sults of his survey of several col leges and universities to determine their types of awards for intercol legiate competition harmeson made the suggestion that football basketball wrestling baseball and track be the major sports at le high and that soccer cross coun try swimming tennis golf fenc ing rifle lacrosse hockey be made minor sports with minor letters awarded a committee was appointed by arcadia to consider the above sug gestion of harmeson and also to make suggestions as to the size of the major and minor letters the committee is made up of alfred t cox c e 40 william b simpson arts 41 and carl r fittkau arts 40 arcadia also approved the pur chase of two bonds of the cosmo politan club at a value of ten dol lars each the money from the bonds is to be used to finance the furnishing of part of the club the freshman hat of the class of 1944 will be made of gabardine arcadia announced and will be of the same patern as that of the class of 1943 gabardine was chosen be cause it made a better looking hat in the opinion of arcadia members and will shrink less than the felt hat of last year princeton man to talk here pi delta chapters to meet jointly lehigh moravian societies will hear gramley when bids are let near the end of march for the construction of grace hall contractors will work from plans calling for a much smaller building than was origin ally intended according to president c c williams grace hall will house only the things most needed namely a sports arena and a dance and drill hall the difficulty of building a stage he said would prevent the construction of an au ditorium he added that a suitable stage would have to be more than one story in height this would differ from the basic plan of the building calling for two level floors for dancing drill and athle tics squash and handball courts ori ginally planned for construction in the basement of the building have been dropped from the plans a rifle range will be substituted the president announced that commencement exercises wo^ld henceforth be held in grace hall in preference to packer memorial chapel blake society to sponsor democracy discussion by professor stace 22 men initiated freshmen 3 sophs 3 fraternities induct 19 the first of three lehigh dances to be held over the weekend will get underway at 9 o'clock this ev ening when the lehigh collegians play for the second of a series of arcadia-sponsored dances in the armory according to wallace p wat kins bus 40 chairman of arcad ia committee on student activities admission to the dance in the ar mory tonight will be 50 cents per couple and 35 cents for stags he stated that unless the dance is bet ter supported than previous arca dia dances they will be discontin ued indefinitely the annual alpha kappa pi-pi kappa alpha formal dance will be held from 10 p m to 2 a m to morrow in the hotel bethlehem the harry romig-piff moore band will play for the affair for which more than 300 invitations have been issued captain and mrs benjamin s mesick and prof and mrs alex ander w luce will chaperone delta tau delta will hold an in formal dance tomorrow night at the chapter house dancing will be from 10 until 2 o'clock music will be furnished by george craig and his orchestra from philadelphia mr and mrs henry godfrey and mr and mrs langdon c dow will be the chaperones bailey defeated blackman of yale by a decision in an overtime period he will meet peabody of yale in the first round matches harvard wrestlers defeated by lehigh and syracuse were leading in scoring with two points the points were earned on victories by falls of shellenberger at 121 pounds and thomas at 145 pounds perm state university of penn sylvania and princeton were tied for second position with one point each no other falls have been scored in the only major upset of the afternoon's wi'estling hick of syr acuse defeated harvard's richard son by decision in an overtime period richardson who has been wrestling in the 145 pound divi sion was shifted to the lighter weight tischler of perm another strong contender in the 145-lb di vision has been advanced to the 155-lb class 2 state men fail to enter lehigh's chances to win the team title seemed enhanced by the fail ure of gensler and elliott 145 pounder and heavyweight on state's favored team to weigh in both were strong entries in their class columbia's 155 pounder holt a potential threat to masem's victory march also did not enter the draw another favored entry in the 175 division stickney of perm failed to put in his appear lehigh's charley edwards will meet vail of perm in the next 121 lb bout vail defeated king of perm state by decision in an over match ac results of this afternoon's matches were received captain hal masem and joseph quinn were on the mats with their op ponents masem's first round op ponent is barber of columbia at 155 pounds quinn drew chad wick of columbia for the first round at 145 pounds dick brenneman at 175 pounds will be pitted against kamars also of columbia ben schrader is to meet banker of yale in the 165-lb class lehigh's heavyweight en trant bill lehr will meet pickett of yale results 121-lb class — mathers of cornell de feated marasca of columbia by decision ; vail of perm defeated king of perm state by decision in overtime period ; schel lenberger of harvard threw swift of syracuse harding of princeton defeated ely of yale by decision 128-lb claw — eberle of princeton de feated parker of yale by decision ; boyer of lehigh defeated redmon of harvard by decision ; turner of cornell defeated xorris of columbia by decision ; leggan of perm defeated aptten of syracuse by decision 136-lb class — oleason of perm state defeated mount of cornell by decision bailey of lehigh defeated blackman of yale ; hick of syracuse defeated rich ardson of harvard by decision in over time period levering of perm threw mueller of columbia 145-lb class — thomas of harvard threw bond of perm scalzo of perm state threw white of cornell 155-lb class — baker of syracuse de feated livesey of princeton 165-lb class — bowen of princeton threw zarot of columbia in first overtime per iod 175-lb class — kern of cornell defeated mazejko of syracuse pairings unlimited — valla of state defeated hold of columbia by decision 121-lb class — edwards lehigh meets vail perm 128-lb class — boyer lehigh meets hess state 145-lb class — carothers princeton meets westcott syracuse ; quinn lehigh meets chadwick columbia 136-lb classs — bailey lehigh meets peabody princeton 155-lb class — masem lehigh meets barber columbia ; kyng harvard meets baker syracuse truesdall cornell meets alexander state ; tischler perm meets lntson yale 165-lb class — daughaday harvard meets stephenson perm rohrer state meets bowen princeton ; brown cor nell meets mathieson syracuse ; bank er yale meets schrader lehigh 175-lb class — rortz state meets al drich harvard ; dale perm meets kern cornell ; kamaras columbia meets brenneman lehigh jacobs princeton meets haver yale unlimited class — hooper syracuse meets wolf perm ; harrison cornell meets valla state ; bokum princeton meets gardiner harvard ; lehr lehigh meets pickett yale admissions staff to attend affairs lehigh to be represented by smiley and seidle the lehigh chapter of pi delta epsilon honorary journalism so ciety will hold a joint meeting with the chapter at the moravian college for women at 7:30 o'clock wednesday evening at the alpha epsilon pi sorority house on the moravian campus according to howard m conner arts 40 president of the lehigh chapter the meeting the first of its kind will be devoted to a dis cussion of the part which publica tions play in the campus affair of the two schools arrangements for the affair are being made by wallace p wat kins bus 40 vice-president of the lehigh chapter and miss jane burkholder president of the mor avian chapter lions hear debate military society elects 9 juniors during the past week three fra ternities held formal initiation among those initiated were 20 freshmen and three sophomores the men initiated were alpha chi illio john burrus bus 43 robert gastmeyer m e 43 robert haas ch e 43 claud leainan arts 43 kenneth norris i e 43 philip thomas ch e 43 delta sigma phi oakes colwell m e 43 edward davis ch e 43 william holberton bus 43 george paterson m e 42 john raymer uh e 43 george rothlisberger bus 43 edward starke ch e 43 lambda chi alpha robert barker bus 42 robert burroughs bus 43 warren chapin bus 43 edward dafter eng 43 robert fuller eng.'43 jos eph ketumer eng 43 donald krebs eng 43 william mcclenechan arts 42 william nelson bus 43 perm state is opposed by benedict meyer scabbard and blade plans dance next saturday 60 interviewed seniors talk to delegates of 5 corporations the results of a poll taken at the senior banquet which showed that the senior class favored a shortened graduation period an outdoor graduation and that the best class gift to the university would be an endowment plan was announced by alfred t cox c e president of the senior class at a dinner meeting last night of omicron delta kappa national honorary senior activities frater nity at the chi phi house charles f kalmbach m e 41 donald r schoen arts 41 and william e scott bus 41 were formally initiated into o d k in the arcadia room of drown hall last night before the dinner meet ing the plan for shortening the graduation period will be submit ted to president williams for ap proval by the university along with the plans for outdoor gradu ation favored by the class in case of rain however the graduation would be held in packer chapel with facilities for wiring packard auditorium for sound in order to accomodate the overflow of parents and guestt makes graduation monday under the new plan saturday would become class day an infor mal senior dance would be held saturday evening baccalaureate exercises would be on sunday and graduation on monday there is some doubt as to whether the hotel facilities in bethlehem could handle the alumni and parents at the same time and a committee will be appointed to investigate the situation previous years the alumni usually left bethlehem before graduation on tuesday a letter from dr wilbur h norcross national president of o d x was read at the meeting in which he stated his approval of the northern conference to be held at lehigh this spring it will be the first conference to be held since 1934 when dickinson college was the host there was a discussion of the possibility of obtaining steel field for athletics on sunday a com mittee composed of donald r lus ter m e 40 david r grinder arts 40 and wallace p watkins bus 40 is investigating these poss ibilities the rates paid for electricity by the on-campus fraternity houses were discussed walter r okeson vice-president of the university stated that these rates were lower than those paid in the city a com mittee made of john c gregg c e 40 and robert b palmer arts 40 are investigating rates of all fraternity houses at the next meeting of o d x to be held at the phi gamma delta house on april 3 a committee will make a report and a definite plan will be drawn up for the awarding of the cup to be given by okeson to the class which sponsors the larg est rally during next year's foot ball season the committee is made up of cox luster richard s gowdy bus 40 and charles r griffiths bus 40 faculty dramatic group reads the little foxes n y club to meet to plan dinner in honor of steel president william t stace professor of philosophy at princeton university will deliver a talk the philos ophy of democracy at 8 o'clock next friday evening march 15 in packard auditorium professor stace's talk is being sponsored by the robert w blake society hon orary philosophical group in con junction with the university lec ture committee as a part of the series of lectures on various cur rent ideologies according to percy hughes pio fessor of philosophy and faculty adviser to the blake society this lecture is viewed by the lecture committee as an answer to the talk on the philosophy of fascism giv en last fall by dr herbert schnei der professor of religion at colum bia professor stace before coming to princeton had been for 20 years the administrator of british rule in the dependency of ceylon professor hughes declared that stace's experiences make him es pecially fit to compare our concep tions of democracy with those of the british empire and that his principal purpose will be to try to distinguish between the lip-service of democracy and an intelligent appreciation of its essential mean ing and purpose the little foxes a play by lillian hellman was read at the semi-monthly meeting of the fa culty dramatic club wednesday night in room 201 packard lab oratory miss muriel kemp assist ant cataloguer in the library was in charge of the meeting on wednesday march 20 the group will read robert sherwood's reunion in vienna sophomores to discuss class banquet at meeting the staff of the office of admis sions will represent lehigh at four functions during the next few days it was announced today e kenneth smiley director of admissions will attend the pingry school conference today and to morrow at elizabeth n j more than 30 high and preparatory schools will be represented smi ley will address a men's group of the st john's episcopal church on monday night in palmerton on failures in and by colleges on wednesday evening the di rector of admissions will represent lehigh at a secondary school con ference in the dover new jersey high school charles a seidle assistant di rector of admissions attended col lege day programs yesterday at the elizabeth n j high school and the east orange n j high school on wednesday seidle will speak at a dinner to be held tuesday ev ening in the easton high school classicists to read play scabbard and blade national honorary military society elected 9 juniors to membership last night at a meeting held in the armory these men will be pledged at 4 10 p m next friday at company a drill the men elected were john c attwood arts charles h carter jr chem william k hodson i e anthony m karwacki e m willard m litzenberger arts roger j mcnamara i e john s pettibone ch e cephas c smith jr bus walter h vogelsberg e e plans for the military dance to be held next saturday night at the saucon valley country club were discussed tickets for the dance can be bought from any scabbard and blade member beaver to address club cosmopolitans will meet j lynford beaver head of the electrical engineering department will address the nazareth lions club next tuesday his topic will be municipal ownership versus public utilities forty engineers and 20 arts and business seniors were interviewed yesterday by representatives of the united states steel corporation this company was one of five who interviewed lehigh seniors this week announced e robins mor gan director of the placement bureau a representative of james s kemper and company today inter viewed business and arts seniors on tuesday representatives of the general motors corporation the farrel-birmingham company and the proctor and gamble dis tributing company talked with sen iors regarding placement according to morgan 24 engin eers were interviewed by kenneth a meade of general motors the vice president and chief engineer of the farrel-birmingham com pany manufacturers of large in dustrial machinery talked with engineers while 15 business and arts men were interviewed by proctor and gamble eta sigma phi honorary class ical fraternity will meet tonight at the home of dr horace w wright head of the department f latin a play andrea by ter rence will be read by robert b palmer arts 40 john r polin sky arts 42 and carl g konolige arts 42 the sophomore class will meet at 4 p m tuesday march 14 in packard auditorium it was an nounced yesterday by robert n gusdorff bus 42 class president the possibility of having a class banquet will be discussed a ban quet gusdorff said will pro mote class unity carry on the pre cedent set by the class of 41 and provide an evening of enjoyment and final get-together as sopho mores the board of governors of the lehigh club of new york will meet on tuesday evening at the murray hill hotel in new york plans for the girdler dinner in honor of tom girdler 01 presi dent of republic steel corporation will be made it was announced that wendel wilkie president of commonwealth and southern public utility company will be the guest speaker through the efforts of mr cor nelius lehigh alumni are being urged to gather for informal lun cheons and dinners today and to morrow at the hotel syracuse where the lehigh wrestling team is making its headquarters during the eastern intercollegiate cham pionships in syracuse frank l benedict jr bus 40 and charles f meyer bus 43 debated against two perm state students before the bethlehem lions club luncheon last tuesday the topic was resolved that adolph hitler is to blame for the current war in europe benedict and meyer supported the affirma tive side of the question lewis green and jonas kauff man the two debators from perm state supporting the negative of the argument maintained that tne versailles treaty caused germany untold suffering after the world war and also that this suffering gave hitler one of his strongest propaganda weapons no attempt was made to select the winning side of the debate and donald b sawyer chairman of the meeting told the members and guests that they would have to draw their own conclusions the versailles treaty isn't so bad when compared with the treaty that the germans are now impos ing on the beaten poles the le high men contended the cosmopolitan club will hold its march meeting at 7:15 p m wednesday at the cosmopolitan club john cochran ch e 40 will speak on all year vacation centers in new england lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday march 8 1940 deadline extended for applications lewis will give wrestling banquet vol xlvii — no 36 price — five cents town officers to be chosen in may ballot boyer bailey win ist e.i.w.a bouts seniors favor shorter period for graduation annual dinner to be held at saucon valley club concert-lecture positions to be filled tuesday arcadia plans to consider letter changes council will provide poll for section elections at spring voting member intercollegiate newspaper association z cl 2 vv rax * atrthe lehigh news first r gh university