Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 44

              speakers and wrestlers enter tain in philadelphia over 100 prospective freshmen were entertained at a rally on fri day night by the philadelphia alumni club the rally was held in the new auditorium of broad street station of the pennsylvania rail road and was in charge of moriz bernstein 96 secretary of the club the speakers included dean c m mcconn dr c g beardslee wal ter r okeson and andrew e buchanan who spoke on different aspects of lehigh shorty long gave an exhibition of chemistry and billy sheridan together with ben bishop johnny beidler johnny engle and roy case gave a dem onstration of wrestling preceding the rally a banquet was held at kugler's restaurant which was attended by members of the club at this meeting robert farnham 99 chief engineer of the philadelphia division of the p r r and president of the philadelphia alumni club presided the prospective students were all invited to attend open house this week will demonstrate glasswork machine at exhibit a complete demonstration of making vacuum tubes for research projects will be the main feature of the open house program to be sponsored by the physics depart ment c e berger associate pro fessor of physics will be in charge of this demonstration the stem of the vacuum tube which holds the lead wires is sealed to the wires by a heat treatment by a number of special gas flames this stem is then cooled in a spe cial oven at this stage the plates grids and filaments to be used are weld ed to the supports by a small elec trical welding machine the stem is then ready to be fused to the bulb and the air evacuated again this fusing operation is done by re volving the tube in a series of gas flames that vary in heat intensity the air is extracted by the mercury vapor method lecture demonstrations will be given hourly the department will also have on display a tesla coil in operation the foucault pendulum the photo-electric cell interference of light and many other interesting features thursday april 19 at 6 p m is the deadline for nominations for class officers by this time nominees and their sponsors who shall number at least ten per candidate must have regist ered for the primaries in drown hall the lehigh union office will be open from 4 to 6 p m each afternoon for this purpose names of nominees and their sponsors will appear in friday's brown and white interest in the elections has so far been high ben bishop chair man of the arcadia elections committee says he adds how ever that since it is the purpose of the new plan to have many men run in the primaries more candidates should register be fore thursday the primaries will be held wednesday april 25 the three candidates in each class receiv ing the highest number of votes will be voted upon on thurs day april 26 says body has every element seniors visit site of battle relations club acts as austria program in drown hall friday will feature musical clubs address by president richards to be on air from 8 to 8:30 over wcba in auentown open house visitors will be able to see a modern broadcast go on the air friday evening when the brown and white will present a half hour program from the stage in drown hall the program which will be broadcast from 8 to 8:30 over wcba auentown will feature a program by the entire musical clubs and an address of welcome by president charles russ rich ards the doors of drown hall will be closed at 7:50 to allow time for a quiet period preceding the broadcast all visitors must enter before this time during the musical part of the program the glee club will give two selections and several solos will be sung the three musket eers consisting of g a hor lacher k s putnam and j f brownlee and the musical clubs orchestra will give several special arrangements of popular numbers second in series this broadcast which is the sec ond of a series of brown and white programs is being produced in drown hall by special arrange ment with wcba and will be run in the same manner as a regular commercial broadcast wcba oper ates on a frequency of 1440 kilo cycles the program of the brown and white will be supplemented by a practical demonstration of news paper work in the brown and white laboratory in christmas - saucon hall here members of the staff will edit news received over a teletype machine of the associated press newspapers over 100 years old and copies of first issues of lehigh pub lications will also be on display the brown and white program is regularly broadcast from 8 to 8:15 friday evenings the last one consisted of a resume of the work done by the brown and white by r f herrick editor in chief com ments on lehigh news by jud schaeffer and a program by the three musketeers immediately following the open house broadcast the program of the philosophy department will be presented in drown hall seven give talks at a of s meeting delegation given honor able mention at model assembly at bucknell a delegation of seven members of the lehigh international relations club represented austria at the model league of nations assembly held april 12-14 at bucknell univer sity harold silverstein arts 34 was chosen by dr capper johnson of syracuse critic of the assembly as the best speaker the lehigh dele gation was given honorable mention in the choice of the best delega tion rutgers representing poland was judged the best dr joseph kunz professor of in ternational law at vienna univer sity opened the assembly thursday evening with a duscussion entitled the crisis of the league of na tions silverstein who was the only lehigh delegate to speak discussed austrian internal conditions and foreign relations one of the most important reso lutions adopted by the assembly was the recognition of soviet russia there were 175 delegates repre senting 16 different colleges the lehigh delegates were shelton a musser c e 35 head of the del egation charles e schaub arts 34 president of the club harold silverstein arts 34 john b dief enbach arts 35 john w tuton arts 35 roy a reabuck arts 34 and bernard s weiss c e 36 dr lawrence e gipson head of the department of history and gov ernment was the faculty adviser 400 prospective students are expected to at tend annual exer cises states buchanan to inspect campus buildings will witness sports events lehigh will play host to approx imately 400 sub-freshmen on sat urday announces andrew bucha nan chairman of the sub-fresh man day committee prospective lehigh students will spend the morning under the guid ance of the faculty viewing the aca demic side of the university in the afternoon the guests will be enter tained by the student body the program of the day as re leased by mr buchanan follows 9-10:30 a.m — registration in the alumni memorial building will take place a lapel card and room as signment will be given to each vis itor as he registers room assign ments will be given according to the course the sub-freshman expects to pursue in college student guides under the supervision of profes sors haring and hibshman will then escort the sub-freshmen in small groups around the campus route of campus tour the route to be taken by the guides is through packer hall cop pee hall drown hall the armory coxe mining engineering labora tory the library and williams hall the groups will then walk along memorial road and cover the lower campus where the chemistry building and christmas-saucon hall will be pointed out the tour of the campus will end with a view of the chapel after which the groups will disperse to the rooms assigned in packard laboratory 10:30 a m — president richards will deliver an address of wel come to the visitors in packard auditorium after the address fac ulty guides will conduct them to points of especial interest around the campus 12:30 — a buffet luncheon will be served at the armory student guides are invited for lunch after the luncheon fraternities may take personal charge of men for rush ing purposes 1-5:00 p m — there will be exhib its and demonstrations in the fol lowing departments bacteriology biology chemistry civil engineer ing electrical engineering geology journalism mathematics mechani cal engineering physics psycholo gy and the students health ser vice guides will be under the su pervision of the interfraternity council and the cyanide club 2:00 p m — track meet lehigh vs west chester state teachers college on the upper field 3:00 p m — baseball game le high vs rutgers lower field letters by the publicity commit tee have been sent to all the heads of fraternities requesting them not to withdraw rushees from the general program until after lun cheon any student who wishes to serve on the hospitality committee may do so by registering with dr beardslee who will supply instruc tions and arm bands will show pictures of army conveyance mccomb studies part gettysburg field trip made by 40 members of m s & t classes the annual gettysburg field trip was made last friday and satur day by 40 members of the second year advanced infantry and ordin ance classes the trip was under the direction of capt p l sadler senior infantry instructor friday afternoon captain sadler gave a general orientation talk about the terrain following this a lec ture on the entire battle of gettys burg was made at the post office by john e slaybaugh a member of the historical research society all troop movements and positions were pointed out on a large topo graphical map a detailed study of the battle was made on saturday all of the main positions and points of military im portance were visited the emplace ments of both the union and con federate armies for the three days of the engagement were gone over and studied those parts of the bat tlefield that could not be visited di rectly were studied from five high towers situated at various positions on the field marked turning point of war this battle marked the turning point of the civil war with this failure of the confederates to gain a victory over the northern troops their last chance of winning the war vanished in three days of fighting they lost many men that could no longer be replaced their supplies and munitions were also running out due to their failure the south now could not get any help from foreign nations this assistance was needed if men and supplies were to be gotten for the southern army most of the aggressive action in the battle was taken by general robert e lee the union forces under general george g meade took up a good defensive position and held it meade did not even take advantage of his opportunity of completely defeating the southern army and ending the war by pur suing the confederates as they re treated across the potomac the study of this battle is in con junction with the course in military history that is being taken by the second year advanced infantry class this course covers a study of all the wars in which the united states has been a participant coming events dean w h pearson of the hahnemann school addresses pre - meds every known element may be found in the human body stated dean william h pearson of the hahnemann medical school in a talk before the robert w hall pre medical society last friday night taking for his subject the hu man body from the point of view of the biochemist dr pearson claimed that even radium could be found in every human being he went on to explain that if there were not one two-hundredth of a percent of potassium present the heart would stop beating after going into a detailed study of the complicated structure of ery throcytes red blood corpusles the dean computed the number of ery throcytes which the body must gen erate every second to be over 12,000,000 this generative ability of such a complex organism was considered by him to be one of the wonders of the human body organs provide energy another wonder of the body pointed out by dr pearson was the power of the supraremals two small organs just above the kid neys these organs give out ener gy to the body and enable a person to act quickly and with unheard of strength in cases of emergency he stated that in the path of a speeding automobile there are two types of persons the quick and the dead the quick being those with a good ad renalin secretion in spite of the rumored passing of the general practitioner the dean stated that these men were going to become increasingly important in the next ten years because they can efficiently treat 90 percent of the cases brought before the doctors of today the socialization or government control of medicine will not take place in america the dean thought because of the very independent character of the american people the dean advocated homeopathic medicine and advised every medical student to take at least one course in homeopathic medicine during his medical school days during the business meeting nominations were made for next year's officers leßoy travis arts 35 and robert buchanan arts 35 were nominated for the presidency the elections will be held at the next and last meeting geiger 36 and fehr 36 tie in election for band leader the election of officers by the band ehld yesterday afternoon re sulted in a tie for leader between l m geiger 36 and h g fehr 36 r b picking 36 was elected manager to succeed e l l10yd 34 the candidates tying for leader to succeed j h mcconnell met 34 , will be voted on next monday whistling in the dark major character sees truex j r mccomb who is to take part of wally porter in the mus tard and cheese production,"whist ling in the dark on april 27 and 28 recently went to new york to study the original ernest truex in a radio skit the farce button button who's got the button was given by truex at this time on a radio pro gram truex is now also appear ing in sing and whistle at the fulton theatre in new york when the mustard and cheese club decided to produce whistling in the dark l r travis publicity manager states that samuel french used this fact to advertise the play since then cornell and johns hop kins have made arrangements to produce it board of publications meets the board of publications meets this afternoon in the dean's office to audit the financial reports of the four publications and to appoint the editor-in-chiefs of the brown and white and the review for next year m s & t department to illus trate war transportation motion pictures of motor trans portation in realistic warfare will be one of the military department at tractions at the armory for this year's open house says maj j d green head of the department in the armory a miniature dis play of an infantry unit advancing in extended order formation will be shown another miniature attrac tion will be a trench display every thing in it is to be worked out to scale in order to give the audience a fair estimate of the size of those used in the world war in the display of military arma ments the united states army rifle will occupy a prominent position among the war weapons used in the great war by both the allied troops and the central powers light and medium artillery will also be dis played featuring the tractor and the tank the latter will be open for the inspection of the public there will be a drill on the up per field at 5:30 p m in which all the m s and t students will par ticipate organization of displays in various departments to be handled entirely by the undergraduates ford larkin and billinger discuss purposes of exhibit many new developments to be featured in math and psychology departments approximately 1,300 students will take part in the displays of the various departments of the univer sity at open house says prof fred v larkin chairman of the open house committee in many departments the stu dents themselves are organizing the work of preparation the pro fessors merely supplying sugges tions and advice professor larkin states on april 20 the professors will act only as assistants the stu dents will handle the actual work of displaying the exhibits professor larkin terms it a time when lehigh goes on dress parade open house is intended to stimu late interest in higher education and in lehigh in particular declares dr billinger assistant professor of chemistry in charge of open house for the chemistry department it gives many people outside the uni versity who are interested in le high an opportunity to come in and see what a university is like says dr ford head of the department of psychology new psychology apparatus there will be many exhibits that were not shown last year over half of the apparatus to be shown by the psychology department has been built during the past year for use in the elementary laboratory the department of mathematics will occupy the east end of pack ard laboratory and will show many displays of popular interest includ ing slot machines and calculating instruments a series of half-hour lectures will be given which will explain principles of higher mathe matics such as einstein's theory of relativity to the layman the mechanical engineering de partment will illustrate develop ments invented during the past year the department of electrical engin eering will include in their exhibit a demonstration of the elementary principles of electricity the radio club under the direction of mr knutson instructor in electrical en gineering has changed the trans mitter from code to phone and will operate it on friday a p news by brown and white the regular day and night news service of the associated press will be received over a teletype machine in the brown and white laboratory in christmas-saucon hall as a part of the journalism exhibit the lino type machine which had been sche duled for display and operation during the day will not be shown due to difficulties in moving and in stalling it says dale h gramley assistant professor of journalism in charge of journalism work old newspapers some more than 100 years old and copies of first issues of lehigh publications will be on display the chemistry building will be running in full blast under the di rection of dr billinger many stu dents have been working for the past month on the displays which will include models of the labora tories of priestley and lavoisier the laboratories will be filled with students demonstrating spectacular experiments such as explosive soap bubbles exhibits of rayon and bakelite will be included uni formed guides who will conduct groups of visitors through the build ing are an innovation complying with the suggestion of president richards part of open house this year will show the hun dred-years progress in education in pennsylvania since the establish ment of the public school system in 1834 declares prof tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics a collection of the mathematics and chemistry books of that time will be shown includ ing a set of the mathematics texts used at lehigh during its first years open house will be between the hours of 2:30 and 5 p m and 7 and 10 p m friday tuesday april 17 7:30 p m faculty rifle club ar mory wednesday april 18 4 p m varsity baseball lehigh vs villanova taylor stadium 7:30 p m pi tau sigma room 353 packard laboratory thursday april 19 5 p m pi tau sigma room 451 packard laboratory friday april 20 2-5:30 7-10 p m open house results of geological studies presented at reading results of geological and meteoro logical studies in and around the lehigh valley were presented dur ing the spring recess by seven men from the geology department at a meeting of the pennsylvania acad emy of science at reading dr b l miller professor of ge ology presented two papers va rieties of limestone silicification in the lehigh valley which mentions four types of silicification and dis cusses different contingent features and is there any definite trend in eastern pennsylvania weather which covers a period of about 75 years and shows that there has been a definite trend toward higher tem peratures two papers were presented deal ing with the burden carried by the lehigh river a h fretz associate professor of geology presented one on the burden of the lehigh riv er and carl a warmkessel arts 35 presented the other on the burden of the lehigh river dur ing the flood of august 1933 the spitzenberg conglomerate was the subject of a paper written jointly by dr l whitcomb in structor of geology and j engel graduate student in geology in this paper a novel method of obtaining the age of different beds was pre sented j osborn fuller arts 34 pre sented a paper on preliminary staining studies of the lehigh val ley limestones a paper on the origin of jasper in lehigh and northampton counties was pre sented by philip b myers institute of research fellow in geology this paper tells of the probable origin of the jasper in this locality and the method of deposition head of education de partment outlines evo lution of school systems in university lecture calls able faculty a requisite hits state laws as archaic the struggle to establish our pres ent systems of education their de velopment and the results of so cial pressure upon the emergence of our school systems were out lined by dr harold p thomas head of the department of educa tion last evening in the fifth of the series of university lectures in ad dition to tracing the developments of the school systems dr thomas presented five principles that should be present in every educational sys tem no single enterprise transcends the importance of the education of youth dr thomas told his audi ence the first requisite for a sys tem that can provide efficient edu cation for youth is an understand ing board of directors whose sole interest is to set the stage to ob tain the best education for them next in importance dr thomas stated is the requisite of able teach ers a general philosophy of edu cation and a scientific appraisal of research data together with proper publicity for the systems is needed in order that the future of educa tion be not impaired fads in curricula dr thomas considered the re quirements that state laws demand as archaic he believes many pres ent principles of education today are mere fads and frills and should have no place in curricula he favored a multiple curricula that would be sufficiently large and flex ible to meet the requirements of all types of students many systems are not flexible enough fo provide for the exceptionally bright stu dents and in some cases the major ity is sacrificed in favor of a select few in either case the educational system collapses and does not ren der an efficient service to the com munity extra-curricular activities should be encouraged said dr thomas in behalf of such training he be lieves that preparation for senior citizenship should be characterized by preparation for junior citizen ship and should be the objective of student government training in his belief school is not only the prep aration for life but is life itself efficient teachers needed to insure the best education of the youth its training must be in the hands of an efficient profes sional personnel dr thomas be lieves that every teacher should possess a fine personality a true character human interest and a love of pupils with a sympathetic understanding of their conditions he said that many of the faults of our school systems can be traced to inefficient teaching staffs too often politics personal preferences and local interests place people in positions as teachers who are not capable of discharging their duties properly individual fitness should be the first requirement for an ef ficient teaching staff the future of education will be determined by the attitude that adults shall assume toward it said dr thomas in explaining the im portance of parental interest in school policies if adults do not as sume greater interest in education the control of it will shift entirely to the state governments he as serted that unless the parents take a greater interest a two-class sys tem of education will flourish in such cases the wealthy will provide the best of education for their chil dren in private schools and the or dinary citizen will have his children educated under mediocre circum stances dr thomas also emphasized the importance of better municipal elec tions to insure a finer type of di rectors for the schools he advo cated that municipal elections for school directors be held on separ ate days from general elections in order to allow the citizens to chose honest and intelligent directors to carry out the management of the school systems dr thomas received his degree of doctor of education from har vard in 1922 since that time he has served in various capacities dealing with school administration before coming to lehigh in 1932 to be come head of the department of education bethlehem pa tuesday april 17 1934 physicists to make own vacuum tubes alumni club fetes 100 sub-freshmen vol xli no 44 price five cents thomas cites present needs of education b w.to put on broadcast for visitors sub-freshmen to visit lehigh on saturday 1300 students will participate in open house brown 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