Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 5

              new law requires faculty to pay at mat meets an overwhelming sentiment in favor of keeping all sports was shown in the poll taken of the students over the week-end by the brown and white at a special meeting yesterday the board of control of athletics definitely announced that no sport would be dropped of the 495 ballots cast 454 opposed abolishing a sport to balance the budget submitted by the board of control and only 1 8 votes were recorded for dropping an activity there were 23 ballots in which this question was not answered orchestra ballot after carefully considering the various orchestras check the one you desire to ke engaged for the senior ball give your second and third choice also ted black paul specht tal henry paul sabin ipana troubadors duke ellington meyer davis howard lanin rudy vallee austin wylie don bjgelow the ballots will be collected tonight from the living groups by a representative of the arca dia election committee accord ing to p j flanigan chairman of the senior ball committee non-living group men will de posit their ballots in the ballot box in christmas-saucon hall e e society hears beaver hickman presents paper on airport lighting at meeting friday evening declaring harvard to be the best equipped engineering school he has ever seen j l beaver professor of electrical engineering related his experiences and the course of his study while at harvard and m.1.t friday at the first meeting of the e e society professor beaver has been on leave of absence from the faculty of lehigh for the last two years to take graduated work under the di rection of professor adams of har vard lighting equipment in the best and largest eastern airports was de scribed by w d hickman 33 who presented a student paper requirements of good airport lighting are uniform illumination of the field as seen from the air sufficient illumination and a beam of light which is as close to the ground and as nearly horizontal as possible hickman stated during the meeting b d beach president of the society appointed a membership committee of which r l bangsberg e e 33 is the chairman every man enrolled in the curriculum of electrical en gineering will be interviewed with in the next week in an attempt to get 100 percent membership in the society actors to report for m c.tryout mustard and cheese practice will begin wednesday all men interested in trying out for the mustard and cheese show a review of college life to be given friday oct 28 will report in drown hall wednesday at 7:30 p m according to john aufham mer president of the club fresh men especially are invited to at tend the play is to be given in drown hall before the senior ball all members of the university are in vited to attend the admission price for guests will be lower than it has been in recent years not since musical comedies were abandoned by the mustard and cheese has the first production been given so early in the year there will be no women in the cast all female parts will be taken by stu dents aufhammer stated o d k to meet wednesday a meeting of the omicron delta kappa senior honorary society will be held at 7:30 wednesday night at the delta tau delta house accord ing to burt riviere president appointments are approved control board confirms spring sport managers for four teams the board of control approved a petition for permission to sell re freshments in taylor stadium con firmed elections of managers and assistant managers rejected prgpo sals for junior varsity games with lafayette and newton school in football at its regu4ar meeting fri day the student employment bureau was granted permission to sell can dy hot dogs and soft drinks in taylor stadium on condition that paper cups and not bottles be used for the soft drinks permission was also granted to sell university stickers at the stadium gates a proposal for a swimming meet between the albright college var sity team and the university fresh man team was not approved and plans for a junior varsity football game with a junior varsity from lafayette were dropped as were plans for a game with newton school of newton n j election of the following manag ers and assistant managers were approved baseball manager s t harleman freshman manager j t alexander assistant managers g n paterson and b f witmer tennis manager b c fenner as sistant managers f r hammer and a t bailey track manager j j roessle freshman manager g h mitchell assistant manager r k yotter lacrosse manager r.a nisbet assistant manager e r english students arrested at game saturday five men seized for loitering on stadium wall five students were arrested dur ing the closing minutes of the foot ball game last saturday when they refused to leave the wall above the north stands of taylor stadium the men arrested left their seats before the last quarter ended and were watching the last few plays from the wall above the stands when they were ordered to move by the police stationed there they refused to leave and after some ar gument they were taken to the po lice station on third street and were locked up after about ten minutes super intendent of police f t trafford arrived and explained that the board of control of athletics had requested the police to keep people from the wall above the stands the students arrested—p f schol ia f b morgan l tavormina e guyer and c c branda were re leased after mr trafford had ex plained his position to them blake's work as a teacher is commended brodhead praises influence exerted by former pro fessor in development of arts college dr thomas gives address on public school education latin which was formerly mere drudgery became a delightful ex perience under the guidance of prof robert w blake said j a brodhead director of the student placement bureau at a meeting of the robert w blake society friday evening at the home of dr percy hughes head of the department of pmbperty ok dr h b thomas head of the department of edu«itk>n spoke on feittlowrh\:rfcji jh in lie school education influence of robert \¥. make on his life told of his memories of the late professor of latin when he was a student taking the latin scienti fic course previous to his entering mechanical engineering praises blake's leadership robert w blake said mr brodhead was a man whose per sonality and quality of leadership made a lasting impression on all those who came in contact with rim in his lectures he made the old romans live again and brought out most clearly their contribution to modern life and civilization in his closing words mr brodhead congratulated the society for hon oring robert w blake and said i feel quite sure that professor blake played a large part in the develop ment of the arts courses at le high at the present time there is a particular emphasis to be placed upon both educational and voca tional guidance in the public schools dr thomas said iin his talk on the tendencies in public school education special attention must be paid in helping a student to find the position and study that would fit him most readily he must be taught first of all how to study what courses are most advantageous for him and what these courses mean to accomplish this an education al counselor should be attached to each junior and senior high school that is a teacher who is specially trained to instruct classes in guid ance also definite mental and achievement tests should be carried on by this method of procedure a pupil can choose from the large namber of available subjects by ex ploring those in which they are in terested and by finding to what they are best adapted both dr thomas and mr brod head were elected honorary mem bers of the society campus is improved 15,000 is spent in remodeling buildings and grounds about 15,000 was spent on the university buildings and grounds during the summer according to a w litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds the work was divided between williams hall the chemistry laboratory drown hall the alumni building and pack er hall a new cornice was put on wil liams hall and the exterior of the building was painted the qualita tive and quantitative laboratories in the chemistry building each re ceived a new flooring of asphalt mastic and acid-proof mixture the retaining wall of drown hall was rebuilt and a new terrace was installed all the executive offices of the alumni building were re painted in packer hall the floors in the first and second stories were refinished and a new cornice is now under construction the student budget drawn up at the meeting thursday night in the packard auditorium was approved by a vote of 446 to eight by the stu dents and was submitted to the board yesterday afternoon the board discussed this budget and adopted several of its features the amount allowed for deprecia tion was cut from 1,250 to 750 the office expenses were reduced by 100 and the item for upkeep on taylor field and lehigh field was cut by 700 estimates reduced it is believed that the estimated receipts from student athletic fees placed at 20,935 by the comptrol ler's office office last week will be reduced to around 20,300 as only 1,354 students have registered so far this figure is to be investigat ed by the board under the new state regulations covering wrestling meets the fac ulty will be required to pay admis sion to all meets and for this rea son the item marked faculty in the budget has been deducted from the wrestling deficit and has been deducted from the wrestling deficit and has be_en raised to 400 as a compromise between the board's figure of 500 and the committee's figure of 300 the results of the preferential ballot on varsity and freshman sports is given below the totals were secured by adding the rank ings given by the students so the high scores indicate the least pop ular sports varsity football 933 wrestling 1,306 basketball ?. 2,607 baseball 2,661 swimming 2,761 track 2,777 lacrosse 3,197 soccer 3,219 tennis 3,509 cross country 4,404 freshman sports football 725 wrestling 1,236 baseball 1,889 basketball 1,915 swimming 2,000 track 2,060 chemicals to meet f o case of anaconda copper company to speak electrolytic zinc and white lead in the anaconda plants will be discussed by f o case of the anaconda copper company at the meeting of the chemical society at 7:30 p m thursday oct 20 in the main lecture room of the chemistry laboratory mr case will explain the advance of the application of electrochemi cal processes to large scale indus try and will be illustrated accord ing to h m ullman head of the chemistry department electrolytic processes have reached a high stage of industrial and commercial im portance and therefore the discus sion will be practical and interest ing scabbard and blade pledge 14 new men dr beardslee addresses mili tary fraternity fourteen new men were pledged to scabbard and blade honorary military society following the smoker last friday night in drown hall the prospective pledges were entertained by a program with capt p c sadler acting as toastmaster the men pledged are capt w m tow r e bangsberg e e 33 r t dean ch e 33 d h freiday m e 33 r n laftman m e 33 a t bailey m e 34 j j bosak m e 34 c c hertel m e 34 c k okuno ch e 34 l o stutz arts 34 e l wild man m e 34 w h c webster met e 33 j k beidler i e 34 and r a hopping arts 35 it was decided to have a military ball nov 12 at the hotel bethle hem the activities of the scabbard and btajiersppiety the campaign for na tional preparedness and other top ics relating to the r o t c were jd^hjsfied^as-jpart of the social pro tn"jrm m-hhe^smoker . the speakers were dr c g hb£ards / le v professor of moral and pw%ibu capt j k rice capt c h keck and major j o green indoor range is remodeled ten targets to be used by military students daily from 9 to 4:30 the remodeled indoor rifle range in the armory was officially opened for general use thursday this summer the capacity of the range was doubled from five to ten tar gets by using the basement of the armory to better advantage ac cording to capt p l sadler the range will be open to stu dents from 9 a m to 4:30 p m daily and from 9 a m to 12 noon on saturday at other times the range may be opened by special ar rangement with maj j o green or capt j k rice for the firing of special matches or for additional practice by members of the rifle team or other organized groups until oct 15 the use of the range will be restricted to members of the senior junior and sophomore class es and to those freshmen whose shooting qualifications have been approved by capt w m tow during the period of oct 17 to nov 5 however the freshman class will be given exclusive right to the use of one-half the range in order to prepare for the freshman-sopho more intersectional match the fall schedule of caliber 22 rifle matches includes oct 3-nov s—practice.5 — practice nov 7-nov 19 — sophomore-fresh man intersectional match for the whitten trophy dec 5-dec 10 — inter-company match for the american legion cup dec 10 1:30 p m lnter-class shoulder match each week beginning oct 10 a free - for - all individual handicap match open to any qualified club member will be fired and individual prizes of 1.50 for first place and 1.00 for second place will be awarded faculty search for p singer freshman missing since sept 25 philip singer a freshman who registered but failed to pay his tui tion is being searched for by the faculty singer who is from peo ria 111 is missing since about sept 25 it has been reported that he was involved in an automobile accident but when and where cannot be as certained a telegram from the boy's father philip a singer ad dressed to the university said that singer was returning to school af ter the supposed accident since then he has not been heard from arcadia representatives will collect student votes on ten orches tras tonight house party is scheduled for week-end of oct 28 senior ball admission price reduced to 3 per couple by elimination of favors following last year's custom a ballot will be held to select the or chestra for the senior ball the ballots will be collected tonight from the various ljving groups by a representative of the arcadia election committee according to p j flanigan chairman of the senior ball committee non-living group men should place their ballots in the ballot box in christmas-saucon hall the week-end of oct 28 29 and 30 is to be set aside for fall house party by the students activities committee according to dean c m mcconn about 25 fraternities and their guests are expected to take part in the affair senior ball is feature the admission prices for the sen ior ball to be held from 10 p m to 3 a m in taylor gymnasium on friday night will be 3 a couple or 2 stag according to p j flani gan chairman of the senior ball committee it was the feeling of the faculty and students that the usual senior ball fee of five dollars was too high for the present finan cial conditions flanigan stated the reduction in price is to be made possible in two ways programs will be given out instead of favors and the cost of decorating will be re duced the features of the week-end will be the senior ball of friday night the football game with muh lenberg on saturday afternoon and the various house dances on sat urday night house party begins 4 p m friday and ends 3 p m sun day the list of ten orchestras to be voted upon and the senior ball committee's comments on them are as follows ted black and his victor recording or chestra whose style is similar to that of guy lombardo broadcasts from wjz he has just finished an engagement at the vil lage barn in new york city paul specht's internationally famous or chestra played at the presidential ball held by the republican party in 1929 he has traveled considerably and played recently at the walton hotel in philadelphia and the hotel governor clinton in new york city tal henry's victor recording orchestra toured the south last summer ¦ the ipana troubadors are an eighteen piece radio broadcasting orchestra duke ellington has a famous colored band which played at the cotton club in new york city this orchestra also records for victor meyer davis played at the bellevue-srtat ford in philadelphia howard lanin played at the pennsylvania athletic club in philadelphia he conducted the atwater-kent program and recently broadcast on the columbia broadcasting system rudy vallee recently played on the cunard line steamships austin wylie who was recently engaged at rochester n v played at the lehigh senior ball in 1930 don bigelow spent the summer at the hotel adelphia in dallas texas he was previously engaged at youeng's chinese american restaurant in new york city classes to be photographed for epitome this week class pictures for the epitome are to be taken this week accord ing to h m strub 34 all pictures will be taken out at noon on the east steps of the alumni memor ial building pictures will be taken as follows seniors wednesday oct 12 jun iors thursday oct 13 and soph omores friday oct 14 the date for the freshman picture will be an nounced later large sums donated by alumni in decade graduates have contributed 4,500,000 four and one-half million dollars of the five and one quarter million contributed to lehigh in the past ten years was contributed by alum ni according to the latest issue of the - south mountaineer the alum ni's financial bulletin the erection of the new univer sity library was made possible by the lehigh alumni fund lehigh's finances and alumni contributions are listed in the south mountaineer president charles russ richards gives his opinion of the alumni or ganization in a letter to the lehigh alumni in an account of how lehigh is weathering the depression the state ment is made that dr richards was able to balance his budget for the past year in spite of a reduction in income of 82,719 and without any reduction in salaries artist writes for journals w e baum former free lance edits sel lersville herald describing himself as a free lance writer and country newspaper edi tor as well as artist walter e baum 25 of whose paintings now on exhibition in the art gallery informally surveyed his life sunday afternoon mr baum belongs to the impres sionistic school of painters he said he sometimes delves into the mod ernstic school for diversion and variety besides painting landscapes he sometimes does portraits also for diversion and pleasure he as serted after studying at the pennsylva nia academy of fine arts and un der trigot a famous painter of mil itary subjects mr baum edited the sellersville herald and did free lance writing for bucks and monroe county papers in order to make a living he still edits the sellers ville herald although his son re lieves him of most of the work mr baum writes the art column in the saturday issue of the phila delphia evening bulletin baum's scenes are taken from the country around sellersville bethle hem easton and allentown he is particularly interested in autumn landscapes six prize problems will be published mathematics department starts contest this friday six prize problems in mathemat ics will be published this year ac cording to prof tomlinson fort head of the mathematics depart ment the first problem will be published oct 14 and solutions must be in the hands of the com mittee not later than oct 21 the problems will be printed ev ery friday in the brown and white and solutions must be in the hands of the committee before the following friday the prizes each week will be a book in math ematics or a related field selected by the winner the cost of the book not to exceed 5 no person who already has won three prizes in the series at any time shall be eligible to compete while in no one year will more than two prizes be awarded to the same person otherwise all students are eligible professor fort stated the committee on problems con sists of prof j b reynolds prof tomlinson fort dr f s beale dr s s cairns dr v v latshaw j w langhaar i e 33 and mel vin dresher eng phys 33 bethlehem pa tuesday october 11 1932 the lehigh university brown and white ballot to choose prom orchestra vol xl no 5 price five cents board of control favors retention of every sport students choose to keep all teams by vote of 454 to eight in poll conducted over week-end by brown and white i all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association