Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 52

              flag pole's 1909 journey was by boat 12-mule team most outstanding senior to receive 4th annual h r reiter trophy committee now arranging remaining programs in sixth series first concert on oct 10 cyanide to tap 15 men lee to pass senior cane in traditional manner to new president more than 100 seniors have signed away their cap and gown deposits as the first pay ment of the 20 they will make in the senior class gift plan of endowment insurance this is the highest number of men from a lehigh class to take the insurance plan however it falls short of the goal of 150 subscribers set by the class gift committee the first set of contracts will be sent to the home insurance office tomorrow according to charles k zug 26 but there is still a limited time for seniors to contact committee men to sigu up for the plan annual parley attracts 400 critics praise sound set-up paul robeson ifor jones is conductor 34th presentation of mass by choir to feature saturday session bach festival will be given this weekend vol xlviii no 52 hawley godshall address school press session saturday morning hail knutson's equipment used at bach festival for amplification by raymond d czapko twelve mules labored two weeks to haul an 85-foot oregon pine log from new york city to bethlehem in 1909 now in 1941 students will gather around this same log for the annual flag pole day exercises this friday according to a 1914 issue of the brown and white the log later to be the university flag pole was shipped by boat from oregon to new york city around cape horn because the first boat to pass through the panama canal did not go through until 1914 since the pole would have necessitated the use of several freight cars for its transportation here freight costs were considered excessive and 12 mules spent two weeks to cover the 90-odd miles distance between the two cities laying of the foundation for the concrete four feet thick and was built around a wooden form the exact size of the outside diameter of the pole in the bottom of the hole left by the wooden form a steel shoe was set to receive the pole and three granite tiers were set on top of the concrete much care was exercised to keep the hole at center plumb the 1914 article stated the cen ter form was then removed and by means of a gin pole and guy ropes the huge pole was raised over the hole the fit was so tight that in order to be sure of the pole reaching the bottom it was greased the bronze cap-ring was then bolted on completing the op eration the pole must have been set very straight since the civil engin eering department of the day made elaborate tests to check it for any pole was begun on may 5 1909 the foundation was constructed oi continued on page four to rehearse services of academic exercises rotc society elects dudley bawley compares tactics of germany's army at military dinner seniors will meet at 4 p m tomorrow in packard auditor ium before beginning their re hearsal for baccalaureate and university day services col adrian r brian assis tant professor of military sci ence and tactics as adjutant for the exercises will explain the procedure of academic pro cession for the services col joheps s leonard head of the military department will be marshal for the exercises bac calaureate services and univer sity day will be held sunday and monday june 8 and 9 the annual flag pole day rally will feature the fourth annua presentation of the howard r reiter leadership trophy to the member of the senior class who has been most outstanding in lead ership during his four years at le nigh at 11 a m friday at the flag pole all classes are to be excused for the 11 o'clock hour by a facul ty ruling of dec 2 1940 eight juniors will be tapped by omicron delta kappa national senior society and will be initiated at a banquet sunday evening at the saucon valley country club cyanide junior honorary acti vities society will tap fifteen jun iors at the flag pole exercises they will be initiated at a banquet fri " day evening in the hotel bethle hem forty-one athletic leadership and all around attainment trophies will be awarded by various mem bers of the faculty to individuals living groups and classes albert e lee ch e 41 presi dent of arcadia and president oi the senior class will pass the tra ditional senior cane to archie d tifft bus 42 president of next year's senior class the howard r reiter cup is the gift of archibald johnson 89 in honor of howard bosey reiter professor of physical education it will be presented by dr claude g beardslee head of the depart ment of moral and religious phil osophy to the outstanding mem ber of the senior class solely for continued on pagu four the sound system designed and installed for the bach festival last year by henry c knutson associa ate professor of electrical engin eering has been hailed by sound critics as one which is destined to revolutionize the technique of making and showing sound motion pictures c l strong information super visor for the western electric company last week wrote to the directors of the bach festival that knutson's system is well in the forefront of the scientific parade throughout its conception the system will be in operation for the second time on friday and saturday when the 34th annual bach festival is presented in pack er chapel the current public address or amplifying systems writes strong when compared with the equipment in packer memorial chapel and packard laboratory are as outmoded as a model-t ford 12 faculty men elected to offices music clubs give pottsville concert 7 frosh initiated by phi eta sigma paul robeson internationally famous negro baritone will open the sixth concerts-lectures series on friday evening oct 10 it was disclosed today by grendon k se bold e e 42 chairman of the committee the committee is planning to complete arrangements for a series of six outstanding programs final negotiations and the signing of contracts are expected to be com pleted before the end of this sem ester robeson will appear in a new role before a lehigh audience when he steps on the stage of broughal high school auditorium twenty years ago he was the star threat for rutgers university when lehigh and rutgers clashed in taylor stadium in football began career as actor following his graduation from rutgers robeson attended colum bia university law school in the meantime he consented to act in a play being given by the y m c a by chance eugene o'neill was in the audience and immediately insisted that robeson should act in the emperor jones other dramatic successes fol lowed in all god's chillun porgy black boy and show boat in the spring of 1930 he appeared in london in a produc tion of shakespeare's othello robeson made his debut on the concert stage with a recital of negro spirituals in new york a concert tour of europe followed and his return to america in the fall of 1929 was in the nature of a triumphal entry two recitals in one week in carnegie hall com pletely sold out the house since then he has appeared in the lead ing musical capitals throughout the world has been in movies brilliant triumphs on the screen have added to robeson's fame he appeared in the cinema version of the emperor jones sanders of the river and song of free continued on page four four hundred high and prepara tory school delegates to lehigh's eighth anual scholastic press con ference received practical advice from a working journalist and an authority on international affairs saturday morning as hudson haw ley news editor of the interna tional division national broad casting company and dr wilson l godshall associate professor of diplomatic history and internation al relations addressed them in packard auditorium mr hawley's talk replete with anecdotes of journalistic occur ances and people gave the aspir ing newspapermen and women a down to - earth unromanticized picture of the profession they may some day enter he told them of the over-crowd ed conditions the strict require ments the unbelievably hard work attached to such a career but he also told them of the fun the thrill that comes when a good story breaks the exciting adven tures and interesting people that a top-flight newsman gets to know journalism is a profession although this ex-newspaper man now head of nbc's foreign broadcast department addressed himself primarily to those who are seriously considering entering the journalistic profession and it is continued on page four standing committee heads announced recently collegians play for dance after school recital smith chosen president anderson gives talk mongrel clarence honored . . . campus mascot foe of janitors reposes under marble stone donated by admiring taylor dorm residents of 20 years ago by raymond d czapko since the advent of the hitler and blitzkrieg warfare bayreuth and salzburg both german mec cas of bach enthusiasts have pass ed into temporary musical obli vion according to present indica tions packer chapel will become the center of bach festivities of the world with the presentation of the 34th bach festival here friday and saturday germany has been the source of all music which the bach choir has used and since the war has broken off communication between the united states and that country copies of those musical scores have been unavailable the choir can very easily repeat prior year's can tatas but its purpose is to present different programs of the great composer's music every year with the exception of the b-minor mass which will be sung for the 34th time the problem of offering a new program to bach listeners who often travel great distances to hear the festival was left to dr ifor jones youthful conductor of the choir jones must copy the music from the complete works of the great master as published by the bach gesellschaft in germany and which have been filed in the pub lie library in new york city in addition he must edit the scores since bach in his manuscripts gave no indication as to how the music should be performed interpreta tion was passed on to other con ductors of his work by tradition jones started his musical career by studying at the royal academy of music of which he was later appointed assistant conductor he became co-conductor of the british national opera company in 1928 he came to america where he taught harmony and composition at the new jersey college for women in 1939 he assumed the directorship of the bach choir in all jones has copied and edi ted seven cantatas for this year's festival which will be presented during the afternoon and evening sessions friday saturday's pro gram will be devoted to the com plete rendition of the b-minor mass dr t edgar shields professor of music will preside at the or gan fifty members of the phila delphia orchestra will comprise the orchestral accompaniment to the choir president clement c williams serves as an officer of the choir in the capacity of a vice president is offered award john h dudley m e 42 was elected captain of scabbard and blade honorary military society yesterday afternoon in the lehigh armory the other officers elected are theodore g scott jr met e 42 ist lieutenant joseph a arnold ch e 42 2nd lieutenant and ar chie d tifft bus 42 ist sergeant at the semi-annual banquet held last thursday night at hotel beth lehem loyal v bewley major in the u s army reserves and head of the department of electrical en gineering discussed the german military situation of world war no 2 as compared with that of world war no 1 he said that the pincer move ment was and is being used in both campaigns dr claude g beardslee head oi the department of moral and religious philosophy spoke on the normal phases of the war he said that the man in the first war fought for a purpose despite the post-war phrase to make the world safe for democracy nine juniors were inducted into the society they are john t green bus a bruce phys charles b dutton i e albert clark jr chem henry j olson jr c e allen h zane i e alan h conklin arts and wil liam g willman chem john a tifft bus 41 captain of the society served as toastmaster robert caemmerer m e 41 headed the banquet committee ware gets scholarship for political studies collect 75 books technical aid committee campaigns for books seven freshmen were initiated into phi eta sigma national hon orary freshmen scholastic frater nity friday evening at trainer's robert l smith c e was elected president lynn c bartlett arts 43 re tiring president reported on the recent national convention at dal las texas which he attended jesse f beers arts 42 was elect ed senior advisor for next year frank j fornoff instructor in chemistry addressed the initiates and harold v anderson associate professor of chemistry welcomed the new members theodore peters jr ch e was named vice-president and treasur er david f cox e e was elect ed secretary and robert s milten berger met e was voted histor isn other freshmen initiated were roderick w link e e david p scoblionko arts and franklin j rhodes i e the three men who were not present will be initiated at a later date they are arthur j white i e john e gehr bus and i reid collman arts the glee club and the lehigh collegians presented a concert and a dance friday evening at the pottsville high school pottsville the concert program included the following songs by the glee club on parade by victor her ert we sail the ocean blue from h m s pinafore by gil bert and sullivan couldn't hear nobody pray by curtis and bur lin the ardent huntsman by katherine davis farewell to summer by brahms desert trail by blakeslee dance my comrades by r bennett and the lehigh songs hail the college campus dreams and the alma mater the double quartet under the direction of willard a litzenber ger arts 41 sang hey robin jolly robin by g shaw then and now by f s smith on to the desert by lily strickland chorus of the pirates from the pirates of penzance by gilbert and sullivan and student logic by smith a dinner and an entertainment preceeded the concert dates were arranged for glee club members with girls of pottsville and sur rounding communities the colle gians played for dancing from 10 until 2 in the school gymnasium richard a ware arts 41 was recently offered a fellowship by the detroit bureau of government research after nation-wide com petition for the award the fellowship a 15-month in ternship in municipal research was one of five offered ware in the field of political science in addition to a stipend of 900 tuition is supplied for the academic year and two summer school ses sions in wayne university in de troit marines select 4 seniors as candidates for classes rifle club to hold banquet the rifle club will hold a ban quet at trainer's restaurant at 6:30 p m friday members of the rifle teams are invited to at tend the banquet which will be fol lowed by an election of officers william j fiegley ch e 41 will be toastmaster tickets will be 1.00 a m belcher missing hall won clarence in the raffle for 17 cents thereafter clarence be came everybody's dog and at mealtime he was usually found at the commons waiting for a hand out wherever students gathered clarence was present he could al ways be seen at rallies riots foot ball games or frosh-hazings as each football game came up le high's mascot appeared with a new coat of paint clarence paid for his keep with free advertising he was a rough and ready free and easy well-liked dog at football continued on page four the following four students have been selected for the candidates of platoon leaders classes in the united states marine corps wil liam b simpson arts 41 candi dates principal wilbur chase jr bus 41 candidates principal william r frederick bus 42 candidates alternate and charles t robertson 111 bus 42 platoon leaders alternate liason officer e ellsworth sut phin 111 second lieutenant u s marine corps will make a final visit on may 15-16 at which time he will enlist the above men in the marine corps reserve dogs like lehigh lehigh likes dogs this relationship with the canines has existed ever since le high was founded clarence a mongrel mascot of the university for 14 years was so attached to the students that they bought a marble tombstone for his grave in taylor quad when he died at the ripe old age of 16 not many people at lehigh re member clarence for he was brought to lehigh when still a pup by joseph i vela 11 he clar ence was not a one-man dog and vela raffled him off according to jimmy mahoney who works at the gym a student from taylor anybody having seen alfred m belcher eng.'44 after 8 a.m on monday may 12 please communicate with 7-9091 nearly 75 used technical books have been delivered to the arca dia office so far as a result of the current campaign of the lehigh branch of the committee for tech nical aid to china to collect old technical textbooks to be sent to china for use in schools and col leges according to joseph m sex ton arts 42 chairman the books ranging from high school mathematics texts to works on advanced technical subjects will be taken to new york and then shipped to the chinese min istry of education which will util ize them in the present chinese engineering training program the program has been instituted ex plained sexton that china may have thousands of trained techni cians to maintain the country in the midst of the present war and to build a more industrialized coun try after the war at a faculty meeting held re cently 12 men were elected tv standing committees of the fac ultj 1 -. the men and committees fol low committee on admissions earl l crum head of the department oi greek committee on advanced standing frederick a bradford head of the department of finance committee on discipline charles r larkin associate professor oi physics committee on education al policy robert p more associ ate professor of german committee on honorary degrees allen j barthold head of the de partment of romance languages committee on inspection trips john r connelly associate pro fessor of industrial and mechan ical engineering committee on petitions joseph b reynolds pro fessor of mathematics and theore tical mechanics committee on the board of publications carl e al len associate professor of account ing committee on roster howard d gruber assistant professor oi electrical engineering committee on student activities j calvin callaghan director of debating committee on summer session william j eney assistant professor of civil engineering and the committee on the faculty ed ucational club allison butts pro fessor of electrometallurgy and wilson leon godshall associate professor of diplomatic history and international relations president clement c williams reported the following additions to committees the committee on athletic eligibility bradford wil lard profesor and head of the de partment of geology commit ee on lectures george d harmon associate professor of history and government and harold v an derson associate professor of chemistry and the committee on library elmer c bratt associ c professor of economics brown and white price — five cents to be first scl artist 100 seniors sign up for class insurance bethlehem pa tuesday may 13 1941 s c l signs paul robeson for opening annual flag pole day rally to feature leadership prize coming up . . . today 7:45 p.m — physics society room 310 physics building wednesday 2:30 p.m — varsity tennis tem ple away 4 p.m — varsity baseball muh lenberg home 9 p.m — public night at the uni versity observatory thursday 3:30 p m — freshman tennis muhlenberg freshmen home friday 11 a.m — flagpole meeting