Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 22

              gen frank d beary as the christmas season ap proaches many of the university living groups are getting into the spirit of the holidays by giving par ties and dances despite the finan cial burden which is harder to bear this year than ever before three fraternities will hold formal dances and 27 groups will give informal christmas parties within the next week of the 38 living groups in the university only nine of them will not have some sort of celebra tion with but few exceptions the houses will hold the standard christmas party at which time the freshmen get an opportunity to show their dramatic ability and to express their opinions of the mem bers of the fraternity it is the duty of the freshmen to get the trees however they choose and to decor ate them most of the houses ex change appropriate gifts while some have the pledges air their po etic natures by characterizing the upperclassmen santa claus would be surprised to see how well the freshman can play his part in many new styles of dress alpha kappa pi was the first to celebrate the season with a party wednesday night taylor hall a and kappa alpha will hold their parties tonight the majority of the houses will celebrate tuesday tomorrow night will find many students dancing at the alpha chi rho kappa sigma and lambda chi alpha houses only two dormitory groups will hold parties taylor hall sections a and e the freshmen in taylor hall a must prove their mathemati cal ability by learning the value of pi to the one hundred and first place while price hall has decided not to have a party their freshmen will arouse the christmas spirit by ser enading their elders they will par ade between price hall and the ar mory singing carols draped with sheets and carrying lighted candles this is an old brewery custom the chi phis are having an in formal party monday for active members and a dinner on tuesday for their alumni at the delta tau delta house the sophomores buy the presents the freshmen perform and the house as a whole buys the food and beverage andrew e buchanan jr editor of the lehigh alumni bulletin will entertain with his slight-of-hand tricks several houses are having ban quets for the active members and alumni beta theta pi is holding its dinner tuesday night at which time alumni and faculty members will join with the students the sigma nus will celebrate with a feast of turkey and everything that goes with it on monday sigma phi ep silon delta upsilon and theta xi are also holding banquets will sponsor yuletide hops physics club holds meeting will present show tonight mustard and cheese aid ed by wives of faculty to stage comedy costumes worn by the belles of bethlehem in the gay nineties will be used in the play lady winder mere's fan to be given at 8:30 to night in drown hall by the mustard and cheese club and the faculty dramatic club these costumes have been donated by the residents of bethlehem lady windermere's fan was written by oscar wilde an english playwright some of his other suc cessful plays are an ideal hus band and the importance of be ing ernest although these plays were written approximately 50 years ago they still hold claim to being chosen in the more popular revivals of the present day wilde is noted in the literary field as a writer of social comedy especially the comery of manners lady win dermere's fan is a comedy of man ners and ridicules the artificiality of london society of that day friday night will mark the sec ond occasion on which the mustard and cheese club has solicited the aid of the faculty dramatic club and the junior women's club in choosing the cast several changes have been made in the cast of the play the role of lady plymdale will be played by miss alice r lewis instead of mrs m l liggett who because of ill ness was forced to leave the cast miss jane knight will play the role of mrs cowper-cowper which was to have been taken by miss lewis says students avoid specialized training dr walters makes survey of nation's universities that students are turning away from specialization in favor of a broader knowledge in several sub jects is indicated in a survey of the nation's colleges and universities by dr raymond walters b a 07 president of the university of cin cinnati dr walters who received from lehigh his master of arts degree in 1913 and his doctor of laws in 1932 gathered his statistics from 99 uni versities 280 colleges and 59 tech nical institutions he stated that the liberal arts sections dominate more than ever of the professional courses teaching engineering com merce law and medicine are pre ferred in the order name dr walters held the positions of instructor professor of english and registrar while at lehigh he was dean of swarthmore college from 1921 to 1932 when he was elected president of the university of cin cinnati dr walters has written a num ber of articles on the life in beth lehem and the bethlehem bach choir he is a member of phi beta kappa and pi delta epsilon blast effects are explained by rockwell lafayette professor of civil engineering ad dresses local society on results of dynamite cites his experiences in blasting stone quarries the damaging effect of blasting operations on buildings in the vi cinity does not usually exceed the effect caused by the vibrations pro duced by a man walking across the floor stated e h rockwell pro fessor of civil engineering at la fayette college speaking at a meet ing of the civil engineering so ciety last evening professor rocwell has been mak ing an extensive study of the effects of quarry blasting since 1919 this was the first time that he has lec tured on the subject he said he cited several instances of ex periences he had had while engaged by quarries to disprove testimony made in suits against the company by people seeking damages for al leged injuries tjj structures as a re sult of blasting operations using vibration testing instru ments and having a double charge of dynamite set off at the quarry professor rockwell was able to show that blastings never did vi bration damage beyond a 60-foot radius exhibits equipment he exhibited a set of steel pins ranging in length from five to eigh teen inches the force necessary to topple these pins was determined mathematically by noting which pins fell when set up vertically in the vicinity of the blasting a per son is able to calculate the vibra tions resulting from the blast sets of similar pins are used in many quarries and the effect of each blast is noted rockwell said the talk was illustrated by slides of quarry blasting vibration testing apparatus and graphs and tables of vibration data calculated by profes sor rockwell he emphatically de clared that contrary to popular en gineering belief damage results more from frequency of vibration than from the amplitude he showed that a man raising and lowering himself on his toes created nine times as much vibra tion in the house as a 10,000 pound charge of dynamite set off 100 yards away this amount of dynamite normally blasts 40,000 tons of stone since the problem of earthquake damage is similar to that of blast ing but on a much larger scale rockwell discussed some phases of the tokio earthquake he showed that vibration cracks formed at an angle of 45 degrees and that they occured in pairs one crossing an other thus vibration cracks can be distinguished from settling cracks which consist of lines at various angles civils hear address by colonel crocker president of a s c e speaks to students wednesday col h s crocker president of the american society of civil en gineers spoke to an informal gath ering of the civil engineering stu dents last wednesday mr g t seabury secretary of the society spoke on the accomplishments eth ics and requirements of the society colonel crocker who is a con sulting engineer of denver col said that he believed engineers would find ample employment in a few years he stressed the advan tages of membership in such an old and influencial society as the a s c e it was pointed out by mr sea bury that the reconstruction fi nance corporation was established largely by the efforts and influence of the society three fraternities to hold christmas dances to morrow at their houses alpha chi rho lambda chi al pha and kappa sigma will hold christmas dances tomorrow night the dances will be held in their respective houses and decorations will be appropriated for the yule tide season one hundred and fifty invita tions were issued for the alpha chi rho dance music will be furnished by the eastern nomads an 11-piece band the chaperone will be dr lawrence whitcomb the lambda chi alpha dance will be informal but closed the lehigh collegians a dance orches tra composed of lehigh students will furnish the music chaperones will be prof and mr-s f v lar kin and prof and mrs m o fuller the district conclave of the kap pa sigma fraternity is being held at the lehigh chapter dec 16 and 17 delegates from the following chapters are robert young swarth more w c montz perm state t o o'neill pennsylvania r sweet bucknell f r manlove dickinson j alexander lafayette f a mantz franklin and mar shall and e w voit lehigh kappa sigma will hold its closed dance directly after the business meeting bud fisher and his 11 piece band will furnish the dance music the chaperones will be mr and mrs robert adams newtonian society hears three talks by members three speeches were given by members at a meeting of the new tonian society honorary freshman and sophomore mathematical so ciety wednesday evening william s weir e e 35 ex plained archimedes cattle prob lem the life of leonhard euler swiss mathematician was outlined by earl c olafson m e 35 and charles j rife e e 35 spoke on the prismoid formula arcadia meets tonight arcadia will meet tonight at 7:30 in drown hall due to the failure to obtain a quorum at the last scheduled meeting stated c f halsted president members are urged to be punctual as the mustard ajid cheese play is at 3:30 prime object of designing is explained g f nordenholdt tells industrials and mechan icals worth of prod uce is public appeal states ford v-8 presented real problem to engineers the primary object of designing all modern machines is to make them appeal to the public the suc cess of a designer depends solely on his ability to meet this demand stated g f nordenholdt associate editor of the product engineering magazine before a combined meet ing of the industrial and mechani cal engineering societies last night in packard auditorium the topic of mr nordenholdt's address was the commercial aspect of ma chine design to illustrate his point he cited several examples in the industrial field until recently the machines used in the textile industry were quoted as being at least 100 years behind the times modern engineers tackled this problem and improved the mach ines in several ways the chief im provement was the elimination of the many complicated moving parts which the earlier designers thought necessary this enables them to be constructed and assembled more cheaply and to present less oppor tunity for breakdowns all frames with fancy design made with the idea of decoration were replaced by those of more severe and more sim ple construction states ford problem the v-8 motor of the new ford car presented a real problem in ma chine design mr nordenholdt stat ed the engineers designing the mo tor were required to construct an eight cylinder engine which could be produced in the same price class as the four cylinder car the method by which the design ers overcame this difficulty was first to cast the cylinder block and the crank case in one piece dis pensing with the use of several costly machines and second to make one part serve for two or even three uses in order to cut down the total amount of material mr nordenholdt brought forward several other devices with which modern designers are improving machines they use aluminum and its alloys extensively these mater ials although they are much more expensive are lighter and practical ly rust proof which means that they are cheaper in the end for the con sumer because of reduced repair bills and longer life commercial ar tists assist in making products more attractive to the eye thereby increasing their sales value over ar ticles more homely the lecture was illustrated with lantern slides graduated from lehigh in 1914 mr nordenholdt returned in 1920 to be an instructor in mechanical engineering he was made assistant professor of mechanical engineering in 1922 and remained at lehigh un til 1926 pi mu epsilon meets members discuss complex func tions wednesday further discussion of the map ping of complex functions took place at a meeting of pi mv epsil on honorary mathematical frater nity wednesday evening three members explained the mapping of three functions john g williams m e 33 da vid c bomberger e e 34 and francis p shannon research fel low were the speakers they spoke on the cases when w=z when w=l/z and when w=z x 1/z re spectively the society voted to send melvin dresher president of the chapter as a delegate to the meeting of the american association for the ad vancement of science to be held dec 26-30 in atlantic city beary speaks on true spirit of christmas henry c huettig receives 100 gift from fac ulty of chemistry de partment a t banquet commissioner urges hearers to promote good-fellowship gen frank d beary commis sioner of police of allentown ad dressed the chemical society at the masonic temple last night at their annual christmas banquet on the true spirit of christmas and the du ty of good-fellowship descendant upon everyone at this time of the year in recognition of his so years of service henry c huettig better known as just henry was pre sented with a gift of 100 from the faculty of the chemistry depart ment by charles a buck class 87 general beary in his address cited the passage in the bible peace on earth good-will toward men just so long as people fail to observe the latter part of this message said mr beary just so long will the former be unattain able the commissioner urged his audi ence to employ the exuberance and the enthusiasm of christmas to a material end good-fellowship and the act of helping others is not to be looked upon as an obligation he stated but rather as a duty to be done willingly and cheerfully in these trying times more than ever before there abideth these three faith hope and charity and the greatest of these is charity buck gives history mr buck in presenting the award to henry gave a brief sketch of henry's history at lehigh mr huettig entered the university as a freshman in 74 stated mr buck and was listed in the directory of that year as a member of the class of 78 because of financial diffi culty he was forced to leave the university at the end of his first year said mr buck he worked for a time for the bethlehem steel company and in 1882 he was employed by the uni versity in the stock room of the chemistry department here he has worked for the past half-century buck said that there were only five buildings on the campus in 1882 packer hall the old library christ mas hall and saucon hall which were then dormitories and the ob servatory i also recall the time when hen ry served beer and german cheese at chemistry meetings mr buck declared instead of the sugar-cake and coffee of today henry thanks faculty henry thanked the faculty and members of the society for their loyalty and cooperation and wished them all a merry christmas and a happy new year clifford e harrison 33 pres ident of the society acted as toast master and introduced president c r richards dean c m mcconn dr h m ullmann and prof a a diefenderfer who each expressed his congratulations to henry and extended christmas wishes to the members of the society a short play entitled all wet was presented by charles jeanson 31 and kenneth glace this was a bit of scientific nonsense concern ing water with professor vacuum and his assistant herr tonic as the principal characters explosion at tau delta phi forces evacuation of house the explosion of a heating boiler at the tau delta phi house 618 delaware avenue last evening re sulted in damage which necessitat ed temporary evacuation of the house by fraternity men the boiler which was reported to have been an old one exploded suddenly flooding the basement with water to a depth of several inches the fraternity men will re turn to the house as soon as a new heating unit has been installed exam roster is announced by registrar tentative schedule has been approved by fac ulty quizzes will start 8 a.m thurs jan 19 conflicts must be reported to instructors before dec 21 a final draft of the examination schedule was released today by g w ely assistant registrar after the tentative schedule had been ap proved by members of the faculty the examinations will begin on thursday this year instead of on monday as formerly to try to elim inate late registration next semes ter conflicts must be reported by students to the instructors con cerned not later than dec 21 the university ruling on conflicts is as follows provision is made at all examination periods for students who have been prevented by con flicts in the regular examination roster from taking examinations for which they are qualified in all cases of conflict the course having the fewest number of rostered sec tions takes precedence except that in cases of conflict in courses hav ing the same number of sections the course having fewest students shall take precedence conflicts in the regular examination schedule must be reported by students to the teachers concerned not later than the third day following the publication of the examination sche dule () figures in parentheses indi cate the number of sections in those courses for which there are more than one section indicates course of two sections or more for which only one exam ination is scheduled indicates a two section course for each section of which an ex amination is scheduled thursday 8:00 a m jan 19 2 c e 9 — mechanics of materials c e 128 — sanitary engineering 4 engl o—composition0 — composition 3 engl 2 — composition 2 engl 3a — types of world literature 4 engl 4 — drama met 83 — metallurgical engineering probs psych ill — minor research thursday 2:00 p m jan 19 chem iso — chemical engineering lab e e 113 — electrical design 3 math 4 — elementary calculus 3 math s—lntermediate5 — intermediate calculus 3 math 6 — advanced calculus 8 mil i—military1 — military science basic i 8 mil 3 — military science basic ii for those not taking math 4 5 or 6 friday 8:00 a m jan 20 2 chem 195 — physical chemistry lab 2 hist 41 — nineteenth and twentieth century diplomacy section b 2 lat 105 — satire section a 2 math o—mathematics0 — mathematics review 3 math i—trigonometry1 — trigonometry 2 math la — unified mathematics 3 math 2 — algebra 8 math 3 — analytic geometry m e 114 — engineering laboratory 2 met 35 — electrochemical laboratory 8 mil i—military1 — military science basic i 8 mil 3 — military science basic ii for those taking math 4 5 and 6 m r phil 7 phil 109 — the theory of art and beauty friday 2:00 p m jan 20 4 biol i—biology1 — biology bus 123 — investments c e 118 — structural theory 2 e e 52 — general alternating currents e e 121 — electrical communications geol b—historical8 — historical geology 5 ger i—elementary1 — elementary german 2 govt 51 — american government sec tion b 2 math 41 — mathematics of finance section b 2 m e 22 — heat engines section 3 mm 7 — construction saturday 8:00 a m jan 21 2 bus 3 1 — economics lecture i bus 135 — public utilities c e b—mechanics8 — mechanics of materials 2 chem 41 — quantitative analysis con ference section a chem 44 — quantitative analysis conference chem 48 — quantitative analysis conference educ i—lntroduction1 — introduction to teaching e e 114-electric stations engl 128 — shakespeare geol 7 — non-metallic economic geology govt 157 — problems of municipal manage ment hist 25 — european history lat la — pliny m e 2 — elementary heat engines 2 met 21 — engineering metallurgy sec tion a # 2 phil 3 lntroduction to philosophy section a span 148 — seminar saturday 2:00 p m jan 21 biol 54 — bacteriology 2 bus 3 — economics lecture ii bus 49 — economic geography bus 118 — advanced accounting c e 27 — contracts and specifications chem 78 — chemical engineering 2 chem 144 — radiation methods lab oratory section b e e 4 — elementary alternating currents engl 43 — newspaper reporting and writing f a 3 — history of architecture fr 33 — contemporary french literature ger 9 — advanced german 2 govt 51 — american government hist 9 — history of england — 1603 to date continued on page four dresher pangburn bock osman show bernoulli principle of hydraulics demonstrations of phenomena of hydro-dynamics were presented at a meeting of the physical society in the physics laboratory last night melvin dresher phys 33 pres ident of the society was in charge of the demonstrations he was as sisted by charles bock phys 35 albert e osman phys 35 and robert a pangburn phys 34 experiments on the balancing of a ball on the crest of an upright stream of water the reflections of cross jets of water and the suction between two metal discs despite the downward stream of air from one of them were given as examples of bernoulli's principle using a charged metal rod to de flect a jet of water osman showed how water was subject to magnetic attractions this phenomena is of fered as a theoretical explanation of why rain collects in drops rather than descending as fine mist at a short business meeting pre ceding the demonstrations dresher stated that at the next meeting of the society in february john m lohse phys 33 would give dem onstrations on magnetic striction men seek positions on brown and white 12 vacancies must be filled before february competition for positions on next semester's brown and white staff opened tuesday there will be 12 vacancies to be filled february by men who have served on the paper for two semesters during the remainder of the pres ent term the 14 applicants will act in the positions for which they are competing the men competing for sports editor are g l wolcott arts 34 h j o'brien bus 34 w r mer riam arts 34 the following men are out for make-up editor e a sawyer bus 35 and h w mc dowell bus 34 those trying out for news manager are e a saw yer bus 35 and r f bavington bus 34 the applicants for news editor are w v toffey phys 35 g t saxton bus 36 c g rop er phys 35 r w schwartz arts 35 p h loughran c e 34 j l schaeffer ch e 35 and m wolf mm 35 bethlehem pa friday december 16 1932 27 groups celebrate christmas with informal dinner parties banquet speaker vol xl no 22 price five cents the lehigh university brown and white member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first