Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 25

              spring houseparty omission causes wide controversy classes to end may 13 jacques fray and mario braggiotti world famed piano duo are well known for their versatility ib playing popular and humorous music in addition to classical works at 8:15 tonight in broughal high school they will present take-offs on famous composers using the theme of yankee doodle o.d.k offers aid to faculty will address senior banquet magoun will talk to class on happy marriage plans to assist committee in semester speed-up and reorganization jan 29 the semester's opening day they also claim it is a big factor in campus morale congdon defends action dean wray h congdon today defended the faculty's action in stating that the present emerg ency situation means that we must intensify our efforts to keep on the job the shortened semester he said will require more concen trated work he cited the elim ination of the ten day exam period as a loss from study time and that any further loss of time from work would be inadvisable classes on houseparty week end and for some men several days before and after are lost motion the dean said and are a serious academic interruption dean congdon said that all the other social functions have been willingly retained that interfra ternity ball military ball and the various other saturday night continued on page four athletic needs are discussed by john m roach elimination of spring house party from the social calendar for second semester has effected ve hement student reaction to that one provision in the faculty's plan to establish a shortened semester and general accelerated academic program students and the administra tion's respective arguments against and for the action have taken nearly opposite stands as bits of the faculty's action jumped from mouth to ear over the entire campus men bewildered by lack of proper information on the faculty's proposed action accepted in the spirit of the war-time emer gency final word of what would be done most campus comment appears to be concentrated on the forth coming details of the summer sem ester procedure and the absence of the regular houseparty weekend boisterous criticism is asking why such an opportunity for re laxation and change from a rigor ous academic schedule made all the longer by the absence of any vacation period should be done away with students arguments run along the vein that the big so cial weekend is needed to break up the long stretch between now and may 13 when the semester will end without having a single vaca tion period between that date and lilzenberger outlines plan for converting 2 sites into playing fields music clubs plan concert dance symphony vocal groups collegians included dr f alexander magoun pro fessor of human relations at the massachusetts institute of technol ogy will be the guest speaker at the senior banquet on feb 11 an nounced james j donahue jr bus 42 business secretary pro iessor magoun has chosen as his topic happy marriage professor magoun is making his second apperance before the class of 42 having been the speaker at last year's banquet he spoke on now what is love the class was so interested in the talk that the group left the hotel bethlehem with magoun and assembled in drown hall to form a general discussion which did not break up until 2 a m the next morning so successful was his talk that copies have been printed and are presently available to seniors at drown hall the place for the senior banquet has not been chosen but it will probably be either the hotel beth lehem or the masonic temple harry james and his orchestra have been signed to play for in terfraternity ball on feb 14 on the drill floor of grace hall a second band will be signed before the end of the week to sup plement james on the lower floor it was announced by ralph f moss president of the interfrater nity council johnny long first choice of the committee is not available he said the interfraternity ball hereto fore open officially only to frater nity men may be made a univer sity-wide function due to the re cent faculty edict banning spring houseparty the committee will release ticket regulations soon said moss james who gained his original renown as a member of benny goodman's brass section has re cently attained the national spot light with his own group reaching a new high with his recording of you made me love you which has been a best seller for several months with james come corky cor coran well known tenor saxophon ist and as featured vocalists helen forrest and jimmy saunders cor coran will share solo spotlights with james james will come with his recent ly augmented band of increased versatility and size by the addition of strings corcoran too is new in the band last fall he played with sonny dunham at the engineers ball this is the first engagement for james at lehigh in the short time since his band was organized james has played many outstanding engagements in cluding chicago's college inn new york's hotel pennsylvania and the victor hugo in los angeles nya funds cut may be stopped students should find jobs in industry — morgan first aid courses now being given bartlett havoch trembley plan regular drills the possibilities of expanding the university's athletic field fa cilities by the spring of this year through the utilization of two un occupied campus sites was discuss ed by andrew w litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds at the meeting of cyanide junior honorary activity society thursday evening at the delta up silon fraternity house plans include converting a field approximately 600 by 200 feet near the top of the campus so as to provide three additional base ball fields and four football fields for intramural use construction of five tennis courts on the upper and lower fields sit uated between the sigma nu and delta upsilon fraternities was also discussed david h schaper c e 43 president of the society an nounced removable wooden curbs would be placed around the courts in the winter so that they could be flood ed and frozen for ice skating with this plan one of the courts could be utilized by the hockey team as a practice rink the annual winter concert and dance sponsored by the combined musical clubs will be held from 8 to 2 o'clock saturday evening at drown hall lasting about an hour and a half the concert will be featured by numbers by the symphony or chestra under the direction of dr t edgar shields director of music and by the glee club four selec tions by the octet and violin and flute solos will be offered captain samuel pierce jr assistant pro fessor of military science and tac tics and james w woods chem 42 will sing solos following the concert the lehigh collegians will provide music for the dance robert mcgregor ch e 42 manager of the glee club is in charge of the arrangements and is assisted by william r williams arts 43 junior manager courses to instruct students fa culty members and townspeople in first aid for air raid victims were started by the first aid com mittee headed by fay c bartlett director of physical education it was announced by dr raymond c bull director of the students health service a night course in first aid drill has been started by dr francis j trembley associate professor of biology the course will be held regularly additional courses for students and townspeople are being plan ned by professor bartlett and dr emil a havach intramural train er in physical education jensen snavely will leave to assume defense posts by george j bleul varied and far advanced classi cal music with witty and humorous caricatures from the yankee doodle variations will be the pres entation of jacques fray and mario braggiotti famed duo-pian ists at the student concerts-lec tures series program at 8 15 to night in broughal high school the meeting and subsequent partnership of these two men was quite by chance eleven years ago they were each in separate studios in a paris music store — fray play ing a current gershwin hit and braggiotti interpolating fragments from the rhapsody in blue when finished both were aware of the composite melody and immedi ately left their studios to congrat ulate each other they met in the hall shook hands and formed their famed internationally-known team these duo-pianists are the only ones on the concert stage to pre sent music which is nothing ex cept their own transcriptions each year they are transcribing music to the limited library suitable for two pianos believe in humor fray and braggiotti present a wide variety in all their programs they contend that no music is too complicated for 20 fingers whe ther it be choral orchestral or operatic also their belief is that humor has a definite place in music by acting as relief braggiotti's witty caricatures of famous com posers serves as such and is one of tonight's selections swing-music has been defend ed by both men with the argument that those who seek to become fa miliar with great music in the eas iest way will eventually turn to its source they believe the popular music of today has a chance oi becoming the basis of the sym phonies of tomorrow this evening the program will be divided into three parts bach's ' organ fantasy and fugue in g minor is the opening selection following is wagner's liebestod irom tristan and isolde reflect ing the emotion and drama con tained in the greatest love-epics depicting the tsar boris after his coronation being hailed by the people's voices and the bells of the kremlin is coronation — scene from boris godounoff the anda lusian folk song and dance mala guena ends the first part caricatures end concert a waltz medley with the vien nese waltz wien wien by sle la cathedrale engloutie the submerged cathedral of debussy tells of a gothic cathedral in which the choir is trapped when a flood approaches after the storm sub sides the cathedral is submerged but the choir voices still persist lisle joyeuse the island of joy by debussy pa vane pour une infante defunte pa vane for a deceased princess by ravel and bolero by ravel compose the second group of selections the lehigh circle of omicron delta kappa national senior honor society acted last night to offer its assistance to the faculty's emer gency committee on education policy in the problems which have risen and will arise in establish ing the details of the university's proposed three-semester plan of operation odk also approved a motion to appoint a committee to request the present emergency committee to reconsider the faculty's action in abolishing spring houseparty as part of its plan for shortening the coming semester meeting last night at the phi gamma delta fraternity house odk spent the entire evening in discussion of the various problems brought forth by the university faculty's adoption of the acceler ated academic program the first topic considered was the student objection to the removal of house party from the social calendar general opinion of the undergrad uate members of the organization was that the faculty should recon sider its action appoints committee president frank s mckenna met e 42 will appoint a commit tee to discuss the houseparty as pect with the faculty group odk members at the meeting stated that it is very probable that a large part of the faculty is still in favor of houseparty as a regu lar social event they felt its elim ination was passed in the heat of the desire to accomplish something definite in the emergency academ ic setup dean wray h congdon stated the committee's reason for in cluding the elimination of house party in its report to the faculty on monday a motion to offer odk's service to the emergency committee to study university and student prob lems which will arise under the proposed three-semester plan was passed after lengthy discussion of the future status of social fraterni ties extra-curricular activities athletics enrollment and student new courses to be given for prospective ensigns continued on pagu four due to a cut in nya funds stu dents would be wise to investigate part-time employment opportuni ties in industries e robbins mor gan director of placement cau tioned recently the decrease in nya funds to gether with the government's ten dancy to reduce non-defense ex penditures may well be regarded as a warning to those who have benefited by the nya program the government has not given any official notice however that the nya program will be discon tinued during the next scholastic year but there is the possibility that it may be done students should bear this in mind morgan believes that with the rapid development of a labor shortage students can possibly find work in industry and trade looking for these opportunities may prove to be a wise precaution continued on page four chances of being married greater in graduate school of the 1,727 undergraduates and 92 graduates 22 have the name of smith 14 the name miller and 10 have the name williams and clark other family names at lehigh hav ing 6 or more bearers are johnson davis evans thomas moore and foster the student body is unusually colorful this year as might be ex pected at lehigh there are nine browns and 6 whites listed in the directory this year other colors of the spectrum are represented by four greens one black one gold and one blanc animals to trees are represented in this years enrollment listed is a dove two elmes a diamond two stones a brooks one apple a moss and three bergs by harry brindle if you are a member of the grad uate school your chances of being married are 57 times greater than if you were a student in the under graduate school this was but one of the facts revealed by studying a copy of the recently published 19 41-1942 student directory figures bearing out this pertin ent tact show that 43.3 per cent of the graduates are married as com pared with the 75 per cent of the undergraduates there are only 13 undergraduates listed as married in the directory they include one freshman two sophomores three juniors and seven seniors while 38 graduates are recorded as hav ing taken similar vows to assist students who wish to qualify for the naval re serve the mathematics depart ment will offer math 1 trigo nometry during the second semester registrar george b curtis who made this announ cement yesterday requests all students who wish to take this course to report at once to his office so that the course may be scheduled to suit the rosters of the students the university is prepared he said in the coming semester to offer students planning to enlist in division v-7 of the naval reserve and who are de ficient in mathematics the ne cessary mathematics courses to meet the requirements of the v-7 program students needing such additional work in mathe matics should confer with mr curtis so that a schedule of classes may be arranged university within the next three weeks in the interests of national : defense jensen has been granted leave of absence effective jan si to do welding research for the united states naval engineering experi ment station at annapolis he will serve as a welding engineer at the experiment station which is un der the united states bureau of ships jensen who teaches both grad uate and undergraduate courses in structural welding has engaged in welding research at lehigh since 1928 he has written more than a dozen papers on welding perhaps the most spectacular re search conducted by professor jensen in the field of welding was his experiments with prof nel son s hibshman of the department of electrical engineering on electric arc welding under water the two lehigh professors engaged in this research over a period of four years and on one occasion did some welding while encased in divers suits under the surface of the cyril d jensen two lehigh faculty members cyril d jensen associate profes sor of civil engineering and ben jamin l snavely assistant pro fessor of physics will leave the continued on page four continued on page four the faculty opened wide the academic throttle in its monthly meeting on monday and came out with a greatly accelerated educa tional program designed to meet the speed-up requirements of the war-time emergency the new system under which students may grind through the usual four-year university course in two and two-thirds year by studying through a third or sum mer semester will have its imme diate effects on the present student body points which strike hardest at lehigh students are elimination of the annual spring houseparty weekend and the middle of the - semester spring vacation cutting of the week's vacation and further elimination of second semester examination period will permit ending of classes on wed nesday may 13 graduation exer cises for the class of 1942 will con sequently be held on the following sunday may 17 every point approved action of the faculty on monday followed the report of an emer gency committee on educational policy which devised the new aca demic set-up at conferences held during the christmas holiday va cation every point recommended by the committee was approved at the general faculty meeting most significant portion of the faculty action from the academic standpoint was the adoption of the committee's proposals to expedite graduation of future students and those now in college this is the plan to establish a program of graduating students within a per iod of two and two-thirds years by conducting university work on the basis of three semester periods per year the new program which has not been finally adopted in all details proposes the addition of a 16 week semester to the regular school year this new term would run from late in may until early september de tails will be worked out by the emergency committee on educa tional policy and presented for final action at a special faculty meeting later this month as a result of the new plan members of this year's junior class will be able to complete their work in february of 1943 sophomores in september of 1943 and fresh men in may of 1944 for this lat ter class the revised program will cut a full year from its members college careers the faculty according to regis trar george b curtis does not contemplate making the summer semester of 16 weeks compulsory the regular four year plan of ac ademic work will be maintained for those students who wish to continue under the present sys tem although no definite program or schedule has been set up for the summer semester plans under consideration provide for the off ering of sophomore and junior courses which will fit into the aca demic schedules of the following semesters — i c providing sets of courses which will give the sopho mores and juniors the prerequi site subjects which will permit them to take advance junior and senior courses respectively this system according to mr curtis would permit the students to take their advance courses in the regularly scheduled semesters allowing them time in addition to pick up later the required and optional collateral courses which do not have the set prerequisite courses the basis on which linked sets of courses would be given accord ing to mr curtis would be to offer the first subject six days a week for the first eight weeks of the summer session and its following course six days a week for the final bethlehem pa friday january 9 1942 to present piano concert tonight vol xlix — no 25 varied music on program of duo - pianists price — five cents james to play for if dance in grace hall faculty speeds up program omits houseparty vacation to meet war requirements ball committee to select 2nd band next week for lower floor lehigh university brown and white fray braggiotti to feature classical program in scl presentation affair will be feb 14 plan permits graduation in less than 3 years by summer terms starts at 8:15 tonight coming up . . . today 4:10 p m — meeting of commit tee on standing of students 7:30 p m — pi tau sigma formal initiation packard lounge 8:15 p m — varsity basketball dickinson away 8 p m — scl series fray and braggiotti broughal high school saturday 8 p m — glee club concert and dance drown hall 8 p m — varsity wrestling kan sas state grace hall sunday 3 p m — tea for senior m e.s home of professor and mrs larkin 135 wall street monday 7:30 p m — interfraternity coun cil meeting drown hall member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first