Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 36

              lehigh ready for national mat matches hockey excursion tickets must be bought by noon on monday march 10 if the event is to be run this deadline is necessary as insufficient ticket sales will necessitate cancellation of the game and the special train 413 colleges are invited to send participants to annual meet many headaches caused by draft constitution to be ratified following acceptance by dean congdon hamilton college official to talk on problems of student service lehigh chapter will hold annual joint banquet with lafayette men to investigate funds system regulations will be set is personnel authority series tickets are 3.00 site is hotel bethlehem induction ceremony will be held on march 20 in alumni building sub-committee is chosen for study of problem by activities group william h cowley frosh banquet sets record 293 hear dietz speak congdon compliments class scholarship the draft is causing the office of admissions many headaches e kenneth smiley director said to day not knowing how many men will be called to duty this sum mer he stated that it will be diffi cult to determine how many men to admit mr smiley announced that he expects a class of 550 but this de pends entirely upon the number of lehigh men grabbed by uncle sam there is a 15 per cent increase in the number of applications re ceived compared to this date last year a portion of this rise is ex plained by the new ruling requir ing applications for scholarships to be submitted by march 1 the increase in applications is cheifly in the business and engineering colleges mr smiley explained that high school students are worried about the new international situation and fear that their education will be interrupted by the draft there fore they wonder whether to get a job instead of going on further he added that a large increase in applications due to improved business conditions can not be ex pected for several years as there is always a lag during which time savings are accumulated 10 men initiated by pi tau sigma larkin talks on history of society on campus everything is in readiness for lehigh to be host to the largest number of contestants in the his tory of the national intercollegiate wrestling championships paul e short assistant director of intercol legiate athletics said in an inter view wednesday invitations were sent to 413 colleges and universities in 26 states to enter wrestling teams in the 14th annual tournament to be held march 20-22 in taylor gym in 1935 when the championships were last held here 142 wrestlers from 32 schools competed reserved seat tickets for all four sessions will be 3.00 general ad mission for the first two sessions on friday afternoon and evening will be 75 cents for each session general admissions for the semi finals on saturday afternoon will be 1.00 general admission for the finals to be held on saturday evening will be 1.00 to begin march 20 the tournament will open on thursday morning march 20 with a rules interpretation clinic for coaches officials and wrestlers this will be open to students and the public without charge a dinner honoring billy sheri dan will be held at the hotel bethlehem thursday evening march 20 and a special wrestling issue of the lehigh bachelor will be published for the occasion assisting short with the ar rangements for the tournament are glen w harmeson director of intercollegiate athletics john w maxwell secretary of the east ern intercollegiate wrestling asso ciation e kenneth smiley direc tor of admissions william sheri dan wrestling coach and charles j moravec director of sports pub licity the interdormitory council brought uniform dormitory sec tion organization one step closer tuesday night by approving the newly drawn interdormitory con stitution if the measure is approved by dean wray h congdon it will be submitted to each of the 20 dormi tory living groups for ratification the constitution must be ratified by a majority vote in three-quar ters of all the sections before it is declared in force for all dormitor ies acceptance of the final draft of the constitution ended a long ser ies of writings and revisions which started near the beginning of last semester purpose of the constitu tion is to provide uniform rules regulations and organization for every dormitory unit many of which have no written rules or or ganization plans at all the measure was drawn up by a committee composed of donald a bender ch e 41 chairman charles b seib jr arts 41 and howard o schroeder m e 42 council met with dean the council met with dean congdon on tuesday night and various sections of the constitution were discussed with him the ar ticle establishing a student disci plinary committee which held up approval of the entire measure for several meetings was accepted and written into the final draft the constitution in its final form contains 10 articles which provide for election and duties of officers meetings room drawings athletics finances freshman duties and dis cipline the council voted to buy plaques similar to the plaques awarded section championship football and basketball teams to be awarded the winning teams of the wrestling tournament and bowling league discuss student activities budget the student activities commit tee appointed a sub-committee wednesday afternoon to study the problem of allocating money to student organizations from the ac tivities fee this action followed a discussion with representatives from arcadia and the internation al relations club concerning the granting of student money to the latter organization representing arcadia at the hearing were its president albert e lee ch e 41 frederick r gilmore arts 41 and charles f kalmbach m e 41 the delega tion from the international rela tions club consisted of richard a ware arts 41 john f hamblin arts 41 and welles r bliss arts 42 earlier in the year the club had petitioned to the activities com mittee for the use of two per cent of the student activities fund for several years a portion of this fund has been granted to the club upon recommendation from arcadia but last year arcadia granted some of its own activities funds to the i r c the student activities commit tee has three student members appointed by the president of ar cadia and three faculty members it controls the distribution of funds from the activities fee this year the members are dean wray h congdon george d har mon associate professor of history and government john g roberts assistant professor of romance languages george j gabuzda arts 41 donald r schoen arts 41 and walter h vogelsburg e e 41 14 are pledged to tone society 7 juniors are inducted into marketing honorary 74 reports are studied by finance committee dr william h cowley presi dent of hamilton college who re cently declined to accept the presi dency of the university of minne sota will meet for question-and answer discussion of student per sonnel problems with members of the lehigh university facutly at 3 p m friday march 14 in the faculty room of the alumni mem orial building dr cowley will be the guest of a faculty sub-committee which is studying student personnel ser vices it is in this field that dr cowley has won reputation as the nation's leading authority at 6 15 p m next friday dr cowley will address the faculties of the colleges of the lehigh val ley at their annual meeting to be held this year at lafayette college his subject will be student per sonnel smiley will preside the afternoon question-and answer discussion to which all faculty members are invited will be presided over by e kenneth smiley director of admissions who is chairman of the host sub committee other members of the committee are claude g beards lee head of the department of re ligious philosophy thomas h hazelhurst associate professor of chemistry herbert m diamond head of the department of eco nomics and sociology milton stu art professor of mechanical en gineering h white assistant pro fessor of education this sub-committee has been active for months in a survey of student personnel services at le high and other institutions when it completes its work it is under stood it will report to the educa tional policy committee of the faculty under which it is now working the actual tile under which dis cussion will be conducted at the session next friday afternoon is personnel work at the college level this it is understood in cludes practically all phases of student life except instructional included are admissions health living conditions financial aid counselling matters of the dean's office and student activities ten mechanical and industrial engineers were initiated into pi tau sigma last night at a smoker industrial engineering juniors ini tiated were harry jones frank r thaeder paul w marshall and hugh r davidson junior me chanical engineers who were ini tiated were edward f bodine william e gheen james f pfeff er william j skinner robert g taylor and john d van blarcom mr walton forstall instructor in mechanical engineering spoke on his travels in europe and fred v larkin professor and head of the department of me chanical engineering talked on pi tau sigma on the campus professor james v eppes and professor arthur w klein both of the department of mechanical en gineering will be invited to be initiated as honorary members dean hanley president of the a s m e will be contacted to see if it is possible for him also to become an honorary member hanley to discuss defense twenty-one seniors have been elected to phi beta kappa nation al honorary scholastic fraternity philip m palmer dean of the col lege of arts and science announ ced yesterday the initiation cere mony will be held on thursday afternoon march 20 in the facul ty room of the alumni memorial building the annual banquet of the phi beta kappa chapters of lafayette and lehigh will be on april 24 at the hotel bethlehem the place of the banquet alternates from year to year the speaker for the banquet is thomas r powell professor of law at the harvard law school professor powell is a member of phi beta kappa as well as many other honorary and social societies he has written several books on legal subjects and is a contributor to legal periodicals students in the senior class in the college of arts and sciences the college of business adminis tration the curriculum of chemis try and the curriculum of physics may become eligible if they have a scholastic average of 3.00 for seven semesters however the total number of men to be chosen in any one year is limited in the college of engineering not more than four men may be elected en gineers must have a high general average at least 3.00 and must have done work of high grade in the humanities fourteen arts men two business men two physics majors and three engineers were chosen this year the arts men are john c attwood pi delta ep silon omicron delta kappa cya nide scabbard and blade editor ial manager of the brown and white board of publications and an officer of sigma nu edwin a brown phi eta sigma david w burke jr alpha kap pa psi and treasurer of alpha tau omega jerome r dorkin phi eta sig ma tone society secretary of al pha epsilon delta cut and thrust mervin j fry vice president of tone society and member of the symphony orchestra george j gabuzda secretary of r w hall pre-medical society arcadia town council student activities committee and histor ian of alpha epsilon delta frederick r gilmore phi eta sigma president of robert w hall pre-medical society president of alpha epsilon delta omicron del ta kappa vice-president of tone society president of the combined musical clubs student concerts lectures series robert w blake w a hanley president of the american society of mechanical engineers will speak on why national defense the engineers part in it at an open meeting march 17 in packard auditorium continued on page four phi beta kappa 1941 seven junior business students were initiated into lambda mv sigma honorary marketing fra ternity at the first initiation of the society last night at the pi kappa alpha house herbert m diamond head of the department of economics and sociology was initiated as an honorary member phile saulnier dr diamond addressed the group on the future expansion of the organization and thomas f jones assistant professor of eco nomics spoke on the american marketing association each of the initiates gave a short speech after the banquet on march 18th the fraternity will take a trip to the provident mutual life insurance company in philadelphia financial reports of 74 student organizations were checked by the committee of student club fin ances yesterday at the first meet ing of the committee this year included in the organizations whose first semester reports the committee examined were 20 dor mitory groups three student coun cils 12 course societies 13 honor aries and other miscellaneous groups the 74 organizations handle ap proximately 25,000 each year these funds are obtained from such incomes as fees a financial budget from the treasurer of each organization is required each fall by the commit tee as well as a financial account ing at the end of each semester with a record-breaking attend ance of 293 the banquet of the class of 1944 passed into history last night the freshmen showed remarkable spirit both as a class and as members of lehigh univer sity william lone star dietz foot ball coach and professor at al bright college was the main speaker he emphasized particu larly the fact that man has a des tiny a purpose in this universe the conclusion of his talk was ex tremely impressive dietz who is part indian don ned the colorful head-dress of his forefathers under dimmed lights he related the tale in verse of his own composition of the invasion of america by the white men and of the subsequent subjugation of the indian e kenneth smiley director of admissions was toastmaster and he called upon several of the guests from the university to speak walter r okeson vice president and treasurer a cope land callen dean of engineering charles j moravec assistant in journalism and dr claude g beardslee chaplain were among these glen w harmeson director of athletics stated that mediocrity in athletics at lehigh is due chiefly to a definite lack of spirit in the stu dent body he felt however that in the class of 1944 there seems to be a renewal of spirit as evidenc ed in part by the showing of fresh man teams this year's freshman class ac cording to wray h congdon dean of undergraduates is a record breaking group not only in ban quet attendance but scholastic ally also this semester there is a smaller number and also a small er percentage of freshmen on pro bation president clement c williams complimented the banquet com mittee and its chairman e lyster frost met e 44 on its perform ance he also congratulated the office of admissions and the facul ty for their effort to reduce the percentage of mortality of stu dents tone honorary musical society pledged 14 men last friday night in the chapel those pledged were carl neuendorffer m e 43 kenneth h smith e e 42 robert w rouse m e 43 fred f berman e e 44 hugh r da vidson phys 41 alvin l breen chem 41 preston parr jr ch e 43 alfred w pedrick bus 43 paul schlenker graduate student a bruce brown phys 42 fran cis h rockett jr e e 42 will iam r williams arts 43 james k binder arts 41 and irving b remsen ch e 43 max petersen professor of phy sics was pledged as an honorary member the next meeting will be march 14th with the music soci ety at the moravian college for women « john c attwood frederic n bahnton james h bricfcer edwin a brown david w burke jr hugh r davidson jerome r dorkin mervin j fry george j cabu*ta jr frederick r gilmore frank v hertzog thomas r hunt charle f kalmbach john a kaufmann stephen kowalythyn jr albert e lm jr willard a litzentosrger raymond r myert john h qumn donald r schoen lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday march 7 1941 will address faculty ticket deadline monday vol xlviii — no 36 price — five cents 21 seniors elected to phi beta kappa faculty invite pres cowley to discussion uniform rules approved by dorm council coming up . . . today 7:30 p m — phi alpha theta drown hall saturday 7 p m — j v and freshman wrestling princeton 8 p m — v ars i t y wrestling princeton 10 p m — military ball masonic temple monday 6 p m — a s c e meeting faculty dining room drown hall member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first