Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 44

              price — five cents soph aptitudes to be given on thursday engineers to take tests in 2-hour sessions in packard lab cooke is vice president reuwer treasurer milbank secretary biggs beowulf was buster - pet of crippled girl new survey by kirkpatrick gives needs problems of student groups 4 seek handbook helm fraternity aid praised 245 men are eligible 1941 epitome makes quota finals for the living group sing ing contests in which only two groups will compete will be held on the afternoon of may 3 sub freshman day according to rob ert f eferrick secretary of the alumni association rules of the contest call for a minimum of 12 to a maximum of 16 members to be prof f erred in the contest the group must sing three songs one of which must be taken from the lehigh song book the other two songs are optional but all songs must be sung in harmony not unison the winning living group will be the recipient of a cup donated by the new york le high club judges for the contest will be t edgar shields professor of mu sic kenneth w lamson associate professor of mathematics max peterson professor of physics clarence a shook associate pro fessor of mathematics and james l clifford assistant professor of english the contest has been run for the past two years the winner of both contests was pi kappa alpha which is also competing for this year's cup delta tau delta is the only other competitor leonard hall would have been a strong competitor herrick said but was disqualified because only eight men were able to enter for competition which is less than the minimum requirement must sing ( in harmony only pi kappa alpha and delta tau delta will compete for cup new interf raternity head living group singing contest will be may 3 vol xlviii no 44 350 volumes to be sold by deadline tonight publication may 12 drama society postpones play cancels 4 3 men on horse due to busy season large expenses the anglo saxon's had their beowulf until he met a glorious but tragic death mac biggs e e 42 and the rest of section iv-b richards house had their beowulf until late riday afternoon when he met his real owners who ended his career at lehigh beowulf was the devoted pet of biggs for all last week he is now back with his own family the hap piest member of which is probably a cripple girl in whose care the dog is left on weekdays when its owner an f b i agent is in washington the dog beowulf gained local prominence last week one of the campus cops found him lost on the grounds monday night and gave him to biggs when unable to find to whom it belonged beowulf moved into the dorm while his new master started a search for the owner a lost ad in the globe times brought quick results by coinci dence two representatives of the owner's family accosted biggs on the campus near the university li brary and asked directions to richards house the men spotted biggs dog shouted here buster and that was the end of beowulf mac has lost whatever title he had to buster but he has gained several new friends he also has a standing invitation to dinner whenever he wants to see the dog buster lives at buchanan and selfridge streets that the university is indebted to fraternities for solving some of its housing problems for the past 30 or more years was one conclu sion reached by john i kirkpat rick assistant to the president in a report to the faculty education club yesterday various aspects of student living conditions at lehigh were review ed in detail in the report the re port was based on an extensive survey conducted by kirkpatrick of all lehigh living groups in the period between the con struction of taylor hall and the richards and drinker house dor mitory systems no new construc tions or additions to provide more room for students on the campus were provided the work of fra ternities in absorbing the increased number of students during this period of university growth was commended by the president's aide he compared the lehigh living groups system with the systems employed by many of the nation's outstanding collegiate institutions and traced the history of student living conditions at lehigh the majority of off campus fra ternities would move on to the campus as soon as they have ne cessary funds according to kirk patrick's report this would entail approaching the university for mortgage funds which can be dance plans laid by pi tau sigma the sophomore engineering ap titude test will be given in three sections of two hours each on thursday in room 416 and the auditorium of packard laboratory two hundred and forty-five soph omore engineering students will take the test this examination and the scho lastic average of each student will be the basis for determining whe ther he will be allowed to contin ue in engineering during his jun ior year those who are denied continuation in engineering will be free to transfer to the arts or business college of lehigh or any other institution of their choice all those eligible to take the examination including social soph omores will be notified by letter should any questions regarding eligibility arise students are to consult a copeland callen dean of the college of engineering the examination which consists of 88 questions requiring an aver age of four minutes each for ans wering will be given in three parts 8-10 a m 10-12 a m and 2-4 p m the test is compiled and administered by a committee of the engineering faculty it con tains questions primarily in math ematics physics and chemistry that cover the material the teach ers believe should be retained and carried into the junior year two hundred forty-five men will take the test this year as compared to 260 last year of whom 33 were denied continuance in engineering the highest man last year received 90 per cent the lowest man 19 per cent with the median 45 per cent aiee to hear former prof ralph f moss jr bus 42 was elected president of the interfra ternity council for the coming year at a meeting of the council last night in drown hall other officers elected last night were oakley w cooke jr bus 42 vice-president john h mil bank bus 42 secretary and hen ry reuwer e e 42 treasurer four students have tossed their hats in the ring for the editorship of the fraternity handbook they are jesse f beers jr arts 42 sidney b bowne jr c e 42 frank s mckenna met e 42 and john p stupp bus 42 the election will take place sometime after houseparty plans were also discussed con cerning the contest for the national fraternity council cup the inter fraternity council will furnish guides at the sub-freshmen day activities it was announced moss a member of phi gamma delta social fraternity earned let ters in swimming he recently was elected captain of next year's swimming squad he is a member of cyanide cooke who belongs to beta kappa social fraternity was a member of the glee club two years ago he is the business manager of mustard and cheese milbank of alpha tau omega won a letter in soccer in the fall and is a member of the baseball team he is also a member of al pha kappa psi honorary business fraternity and the advanced r o t c reuwer of sigma chi is captain of next year's football squad he is taking advanced r o t c train ing banquet initiation is held for 10 new men pi delt lists due april 22 fraser takes geology post formhals returns to talk before joint meeting thursday evening members will be elected at april 23 meeting at chi psi house management students reach mutual agreement resignation as professor to take effect in june 10 year stay ended the 1941 epitome will make the quota of 350 volumes required by the budget when about ten more books are sold according to will iam l archer bus 41 business manager deadline for ordering the book is tonight and it will be published may 12 the results of the competitions for editorship and business man agership will be announced when the board of publications meets within the next few weeks those eligible for editorship are jesse f beers arts 42 a bruce brown phys 42 frank s mc kenna met e 42 william j meikle arts 41 and robert n simonsen ch e 42 twelve soph omores are competing for junior editorships editor - in - chief for 1941 is donald r schoen arts 41 those competing for business managership are theodore g scot jr met e 42 john r penn bus 43 and e m biggs jr e e 42 these men compete by selling copies of the epitome today is the last day for the sell ing contest the second highest man in the contest will take the position of financial manager the above two offices for the 1941 year book were respectively archer and allen m paget bus 41 lehigh bachelor to feature song issue to include articles on houseparty dates in keeping with the tradition started last year a committee of students and representatives of the hotel bethlehem man agement have reached an agree ment to insure satisfaction to both groups during houseparty weekend the desire of the students is the consideration of the rights of the transient and permanent guests of the hotel the desire of the hotel is to cooperate as far as possible with the students and their guests the hotel however has as its greatest concern the prevention of noise in the early hours of the morning and to this end only registered students and their invited guests will be al lowed to enter the upper floors three men on a horse mus tard and cheese's final production scheduled for may 2-3 has been postponed it was announced by albert a rights director of dra matics the high expenses incurred in preparing the broughal high school stage for the past year's productions and the fact that two plays will have been given within a short period of time were the reasons given by rights the play will be rehearsed this spring and will probably be the fall produc tion for next year as an added attraction to house party weekend the dramatic workshop will present ; i killed the count a three act mystery comedy by alec coppel at 8 p m saturday in drown hall the cast for the play is henry e de jongh e e 44 as count mattoni jean post as polly geo rge w wolfsten jr arts 43 as inspector davidson william d gorman arts 43 as detective raines martin a weil arts 41 as martin ann ellis as louise rogers myrtle goodman as renee la lune lynn c bartlett arts 43 as samuel diamond joseph h heller bus 42 as johnson ira l fisher bus 43 as mullet sam uel r walker bus 42 as ber nard k froy and william r sult zer arts 43 as viscount sorring ton the play will be open to stu dents their dates and friends upon presentation of suitable identifi cation i.n.a conference invites newsmen haff string recital witnessed by 125 dr donald m fraser associate professor of geology has resigned his position to accept appointment as geologist for the bethlehem steel company the resignation will be effective at the close of the present school year dr fraser who came to lehigh 10 years ago from the pre-legal division of the new jersey law school had previously taught at hunter college occidental col lege and the university of ore gon he had also served as a fel low at columbia university he holds his a b and m a degress from the university of oregon 1925 and 1926 and his ph d degree from columbia uni versity 1932 he is a native of pueblo colo fraser has had wide experience in geologic field work and consult ing work he is now a co-operat ing geologist with the pennsylvan ia topographic and geologic sur vey having been appointed to rare instruments used in chapel program provides talks by experts for session april 26 w h formhals design engin eer industrial motors division westinghouse manufacturing com pany will speak on electrical equipment for machine tools at the a i e e meeting at 7:30 thursday evening in room 416 packard laboratory formhals was a member of the lehigh university faculty from 1930 to february 1940 leaving as assistant professor in electrical en gineering to re-enter westing house where he had been pre viously employed he has had much experience in the design and application of elec tric motors including those of navy submarines much of his present work deals with the ma chine tool industry which is vital to national defense a delegation from the lafayette branch of the a i e e will be present as guests of the lehigh branch they will come in the af ternoon in order to inspect pack ard laboratory the nominations for new officers will take place at this meeting and a new system of balloting will be explained to be broadcast 100 publications enter conference friday at four to be aired by quartet tonight pi tau sigma mechanical engin eering national honorary society will hold its third 3"r>m«l infor mal spring houseparty dinner dance for members 6:30 to 9 o'clock friday evening april 18 in the fountain room of the hotel bethlehem the townsend trio will supply music the spring initiation banquet was held at trainers following the formal initiation thursday ev ening april 10 in packard labor atory ten men were inducted edgar h riley associate pro fessor of english spoke on hum orous verse he recited excerpts from different types of humorous poetry — love life satire and sar casm edward f bodine m e 42 was appointed chairman of the committee for the engineer's ball to be held founder's day as the climax to the 75th anniversary celebrations in grace hall harry w jones jr i e 42 and john d van blarcom m e 42 will aid him arthur w klein professor of mechanical engineering and james v eppes instructor in mechanical engineering were initiated into the society as honorary members the ten juniors initiated were edward f bodine charles p da vidson i e william e gheen m e harry w jones i e james f pfeffer m e paul w marshall i e william j skinner m e robert g taylor m e frank r thaeder i e and john d van blarcom the spring hfcuseparty issue of the lehigh bachelor which is com ing out tomorrow or thursday will feature friday at four an original composition by james k binder arts 41 according to editor-in-chief edwin h klein arts 42 carrying out the feature on houseparty there will be a scien tific rating scale for one's house party date entitled you rate em also snake that date by a anonymous arts 41 which will give a complete instruction for getting a date for houseparty there will be an article on re search work going on in various departments by albert l thal hamer phys 42 there is to be a comment on the effect of the world situation on the youth of today entitled quandry by charles b seib arts 41 and a satire out of limbo by stephen weinrib arts 41 cartoons will as usual be from the staff under roger a tambella arts 44 the musical and vocal arrange ment of friday at four will be printed on an insert in the bach elor larry clinton has agreed to play an arrangement of the song at the junior prom the collegians will also play it at a saturday tea dance practicing newspaper men of the lehigh valley have been invit ed to attend the saturday after noon session of the intercollegiate newspaper association convention on april 26 in packard auditorium two experts in the newspaper geld will be the speakers the first speaker john n jack son of the bureau of advertising of the american newspaper pub lishers association will talk on the continuing study of news paper reading and will show slides to illustrate his lecture he will be followed by john e allen editor of the lintoype news who will speak on newspaper make up a feature of the session will be a short program of moving pic tures lehigh matmen and highlights of football for 1940 the ina convention will be held at lehigh april 25-26 point lists of juniors and sen iors desiring to be considered for election to pi delta epsilon na tional honorary journalism fra ternity will be due at 6 p m tues day april 22 they must be hand ed to charles f kalmbach m e 41 president of the society at sigma nu new members will be elected at a dinner meeting on wednesday april 23,at chi psi preceeding the motion picture show to be spon sored by pi delta epsilon editors and business managers of the brown and white epitome and bachelor are eligible for elec tion because of that position alone but must signify their desire for election by written statement the point list to be used by can didates is as follows brown and white editorial manager 6 news manager 6 financial manager 6 make-up editor 4 news editor 8 sports editor 3 editorial council 3 local advertising assistant 3 circulation manager 2 copy supervisor 2 national advertising manager 2 photograph editor 2 board 1 freshman handbook editorial manager 3 business board 1 epitome art editor 6 senior section editor 4 photography editor 3 financial manager 3 junior editor 2 review assistant editor 5 associate editor 3 financial manager 3 advertising manager 4 circulation manager 3 photography editor 2 art editor 2 national advertising manager 1 board 1 executive secretary 1 assistant circulation manager 1 bachelor managing secretary 4 continued on page four more than 100 entries have been received for the eighth annual lie high scholastic press conference it was announced by dale h gramley head of the department of journalism the conference will be held may 10 with s'essions in packard labor atory and christmas-saucon hall closing date for entries is april 19 the judges recently named for the conference are fred e gal braith jr 40 of newsweek carl fittkau 40 of the harrisburg bureau of the united press and howard s lewis 40 on the copy desk of the bethlehem globe times the judges have all had experience in school and college journalism the first public performance of the song friday at four com posed by james k binder arts 41 for this spring's houseparty will be made at 8:45 o'clock to night by the lehigh double quartet over station wsan-wcba in al lentown the quartet under the leader ship of frank a zimmerman bus 41 will sing during the semi weekly brown and white news broadcast the program will deal mostly with the history of lehigh house parties the quartet will feature several other songs besides the one by binder ivey elected by league floyd e ivey ch e 42 was elected president of the lehigh valley epworth league at its 44th convention on april 11 in easton he is a member of the wesley church chapter one hundred and twenty-five persons attended a recital of the haff string quartet sunday in the chapel the quartet presented by tone society played quartet in d min or by hadyn quartet in e flat major by dittersdorf ; and quar tet in g major by beethoven the personnel of the string group headed by dr charles a haff of northampton included john kline violin of bethlehem fred wavrek violin of catasau qua and paul wavrek cello of fullerton haff played the viola the instruments used in the re cital are part of a collection be longing to dr haff they include a violin made in 1540 and the four instruments have a combined age of 1,141 years they were collect ed by dr haff because of their individual merit and their fine blending tone and quality in quar tet work lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday april 15 1941 lists due tomorrow report shows many issues about housing moss elected to presidency of if council houseparty date lists for pub lication in friday's brown and white must be submitted by noon tomorrow to room 304 christmas saucon hall studies housing