Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 25

              first row ritter rohn couch peck mccarty munoz and hemphill second row dickenson ellis haas accompanist putnam president-manager t e shields director escobedo assistant manager browne phillips and bonkemeyer third row allen osterhoudt tuttle leonard christie carlson grow denarvaez cromwell and kripenski fourth row cooper reis swalm drury williams lodge washabaugh ewing and manson price five cents this is the apparatus being used by douglas m stewart research fellow in civil engineering at fritz laboratory in his research on wire-rope cables the gauges which measure the strain in bending around the top of the wheel are huggenburger tensometers the ma chine in which the cables are being tested is an olsen universal screw pow ered testing machine capable of exert ing a force of 300,000 lbs the man on the left is john m berutich c e 37 who is assisting stewart in the tests tickets for the combined mu sical club's first concert may be obtained from the lehigh union office any time before 5 o'clock saturday afternoon announces kent s putnam manager of the clubs those students who do not ob tain their tickets within the re quired time will be admitted upon showing their bursar's re ceipt others will be charged the regular admission of 40c at the door students who have examina tion conflicts should report them to their instructors says w h bohning assistant to the regis trar the instructors will report the conflicts to the department head in the case of examination con flicts the course with the small er number of sections will have precedence in case of conflicts with courses having equal number of sections courses with the lesser number of students will have precedence attend convention of pi lambda phi delegates from lehigh chapter take part in assembly the lambda chapter of lehigh university was represented at the 39th annual convention of the pi lambda phi collegiate fraternity held in new york from friday dec 28 until tuesday jan 1 sam uel k blumenthal rex of the lo cal chapter was the official dele gate to the convention accompany ing blumenthal were ira trivers and herbert simpson one of the outstanding events of the assembly was the presentation of the pi lambda phi annual award for tolerance to honorable james g mcdonald high commissioner for refugees coming from ger many the assembled delegates of the chapters concluded their business meeting by adopting a resolution condemning the inteference of sen ator huey p long and the atti tude of the authorities of louisiana state university days for bus 29 f.a 1 latin 33 and met 81 are only ones altered states registrar curtis quiz in c e 1 is eliminated 21 students are on conflict list these changes have been made in the examination schedule an nounces george b curtis registrar bus 29 and latin 33 have been moved from 8 a m wednesday jan 23 to 8 a m friday jan 18 at 2 p m f a 1 and met 81 have been advanced from 8 a m wed nesday jan 23 to 2 p m tuesday jan 22 there will be no examina tion in c e 1 the revised sched ule follows 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 exam ination is scheduled 8 a m thursday jan 17 bus 29 money and banking engl 2 composition engl 3a types of world literature engl 4 drama e e 53 intermediate dynamo lab math ill differential equations 2 p m thursday jan 17 bus 45 statistics chem 144 radiation methods lab sec.b chem 169 industrial biochemistry lab math 4 elementary calculus math s—lntermediate5 intermediate calculus math 6 advanced calculus met 135 electrochem lab sec b mil i—military1 military science basic i mil 3 military science basic 111 8 a m friday jan 18 lat 33 caesar geol 114 structural geology phys 4 & s—mechanics,5 mechanics light and sound phys 6 & 7 electricity magnetism heat phys 110 electric laboratory bus 29 packard auditorium 2 p m friday jan 18 biol i—elementary1 elementary biplogy chem 192 electrochemistry met 21 engineering met sec b m e 33 thermodynamics 8 a m saturday jan 19 astr i—descriptive1 descriptive astronomy biol 104 vertebrate embryology bus 3 economics lecture i bus 135 public utilities c e b—mechanics8 mechanics of materials c e 125 reinforced concrete design - educ i—lntroduction1 introduction to teaching e e 144 electric stations engl 123 shakespeare fr 93 french oral composition geol 7 non-metallic economic geology govt 157 problems of municipal mgt hist 9 history of england 1603 to date hist 13 u s history sec a lat la pliny met 21 engineering metallurgy sec a met 131 metallography mm i—mining1 mining engineering 2 p m saturday jan 19 biol 54 bacteriology continued on page four meissner rhodes winner tells his luck to carothers oxfordian fellow reports on seat angles is conducting flooring tests madsen is managing research on battle de c k constructions the plans for the steel battle deck-flooring research by ingvald madsen m i t 33 research fel low in civil engineering at fritz laboratory were approved by the technical research committee of the american institute of steel con struction which is financing the re search the approval was given by jonathan jones chief engineer for the mcclintic-marshall company and chairman of the technical re search committee the purpose of the research is to establish factors useful in applying battledeck-flooring to the construc tion of bridge floors which are un der stress of live loads heretofore this type of flooring which consists of steel plates welded to supporting beams has been used largely on battleship decks the advantages of a steel bridge flooring lie in the lighter weight longer durability and the smaller cost of upkeep as compared to the concrete flooring now in use model systems to be used the work is to be done in two phases it will begin with two sys tems of one third size models for test purposes to these as many systems as are necessary will be added after sufficient knowledge has been gained from the behavior of the models under live loads the facts will be correlated with a full size speciment measuring 10 ft by 40 in the steel for the construction properly machined and ready for welding will be furnished by the mcclintic-marshall company the welding will be done by c c key ser fritz laboratory assistant civil engineering sets new standard sutherland tells rotary club of curriculum rating the bethlehem rotary club heard hale sutherland head of the civil engineering department speak on civil engineering at lehigh univer sity at its meeting wednesday noon in hotel bethlehem the department of civil engineer ing at lehigh said sutherland ex emplifies two purposes of the mod ern college instruction and re search after explaining briefly the origin and study program of civil engineering professor sutherland continued we are engaged in a comparative study for the curri culum at lehigh and those of 20 or more schools from coast to coast our present conclusion is that where our plan deviates from the normal curriculum it sets a higher and bet ter standard others among the lehigh fac ulty members who were present at the meeting were dr n m em ery dr s s seyfert fred v lar kin inge m lyse and capt wil liam m tow g d ogden of pennsyl vania railroad explains the economic phase of long short hauls industrial engineers elect david hoppock president competition and methods used by the pennsylvania railroad in deal ing with it were the themes of an address on the economic phase of the long short haul by rail by george d ogden assistant vice president in charge of traffic of the pennsylvania railroad at the meet ing of the american society of me chanical engineers last night in packard laboratory the industrial engineering so ciety attended the meeting follow ing a brief business session of their own at which officers for 1935 were elected david w hoppock 36 was elected president william l schabel 37 vice president harold a gibbs 36 treasurer and reg inald a lenna 36 secretary wil liam h mac donald the retiring president reviewed the work of the past year and offered suggestions to the incoming officers mr ogden introduced his talk with a brief outline of railroad his tory and their present situation in his introduction he quoted eu gene g grace chairman of the board of trustees of lehigh and president of the bethlehem steel company concerning the value of hand to mouth operation of all businesses including railroads he also quoted w c dickerman a member of the board of trustees of lehigh who once declared war develops railroads the railroads are fighting a bat tle for progress and better service under more economical conditions the great work the railroads have done for this country is not appre ciated by the public the two per iods of greatest development of rail roads in this country were the ten years following the civil war and the ten years following the world war mr ogden pointed out in his ad dress that the chief competition to the railroad on long hauls came from steamship service since the interstate commerce commission was established in 1887 it has fav ored the water transports to the railroads • public shifts stand public opinion has concurred in this action stated mr ogden ar ticle four of the interstate com merce act compels the railroads to charge the same aggregate rates for short hauls as for long hauls and this has caused constant loss in rev enue to the railroad companies public sentiment however has shifted recently to the favor of the railroads and the speaker predicted that the present congress would take some action to give the rail roads relief in conclusion mr ogden sketch ed briefly the future of railroading faster trains lighter equipment new freight equipment and electri fication are improving rail service the speaker claims a day will come when all air water and highway transportation will be controlled by the railroads after the address a forum was conducted in which mr ogden an swered many questions refresh ments were served does research smith does work in shakespearean library during vacation dr robert m smith head of the department of english spent the greater part of his christmas vacation doing research work in the folger shakespearean library in washington d c the library houses 80,000 volumes on shakespeare and is the greatest collection of shakespearean books and manuscripts in the world says dr smith dr smith will examine the 79 first folios of shakespeare's plays that are there with the purpose of pre paring descriptions of them to head latin department mrs edgar riley wife of e h riley associate professor of eng lish will hfcad the latin department at moravian preparatory school starting jan 31 she has a bachelor of arts degree from cornell and a master's degree from illinois k w beatty proves theory of relativity math instructor supplements student's explanation members of pi mv epsilon na tional honorary mathematical so ciety heard an explanation and proof of the theory of relativity by kenneth beatty jr ch e 35 at a meeting wednesday night in packard laboratory beatty told of the michelson morley experiment in this field which gave negative results thus demanding an explanation beyond newtonian physics lorentz fits gerald explained this by a contrac tion einstein generalized this in 1905 using relative time in place of newtonian absolute time kenneth w lamson associate profesor of mathematics who was to have supplemented beatty s talk was unable to appear on account of sickness edward h cutler instruc tor in mathematics substituted for professor lamson pi mv epsilon is to secure pro fessqr courant of new york uni versity as a speaker at an open meeting sometime in march pro fessor courant has worked on the theory he was one of the famous mathematicians of germany says william s weil jr e e 35 president of the society eight members of language departments at conference eight members of the english german and romance language departments attended the 51st an nual meeting of the modern lan guage association of america from dec 27 to 29 at the benjamin franklin hotel in philadelphia they were philip m palmer direc tor of the college of arts and sci ence robert p more friedrich o kegel associate and assistant pro fessors of german respectively john m toohy associate professor of romance languages edgar h ril ey associate professor of english myron j luch professor of eng lish charles w phy and carl ferdinand strauch instructors in english schremer develops new theory of design after year of research work norman g schreiner c e 28 american bureau of welding re search fellow in civil engineering at fritz laboratory finished his report on a year of research on welded seat angles during the christmas holidays the report will be pub lished in the journal of the amer ican welding society by this research schreiner be lives that he has developed a the ory for design of seat angles which is more rational than previous meth ods of design the research de veloped factors concerning the thickness of the angle plates length of the vertical weld size of the weld concentration of the load and the direction of the stress lines the physical tests were conduct ed on 30 specimens of two angles welded along the ends of the verti cal legs to either side of a plate the outstanding leg of the angle was 4 in while the vertical leg was 4.6 or 8 in the thickness var ied from % to 1 in in test the load was applied at three different places on the outstanding leg full size angles tested in addition to these specimens four full size connections were tested they consisted of angles welded to steel columns supporting a 20-in i-beam held in place by rivets or tack welds between the angle and outstanding leg the angles were cut to a length of 8 inches joseph b reynolds professor of mathematics and theoretical mech anics differentiated the equations which were set up to determine the angle of greatest stress on the seat angle the law of elasticity and rigid bodies could not be applied to the problem hence there is no mathematical proof schreiner will now start on a re search into weld connections to study the usefulness of electrical welding in structural steel it will be a practical study of how to make welds of ultimate strength with most economy he intends to em ploy sections of steel plates weld ed together schreiner will use both coated and bare wire elec trodes welch discusses probability laws explains to newtonian society their business use , the use of mathematical proba bilities in engineering was discuss ed by clarence b welch c e 37 at the newtonian society meeting last night in packer hall he ex plained how insurance and tele phone companies also make use of probability in their businesses richard m lord met e 37 demonstrated a method of deriving the value of pi making use of prob ability the relation between the number of times a match is tossed and the number of times it will fall across any crack in the floor can be expressed by an equation which involves pi j h ogburn professor of mathe matics and astronomy told the so ciety that a gamblers manual was the first publication dealing with mathematical probabilities he ex plained some experiments made by students in math 124 theory of errors musical clubs first concert is tomorrow program will include newly organized gil bert and sullivan chor ; us dance to follow shields will direct music trumpler to give flute solos the final program for the first concert and dance by the combin ed musical clubs at 8:15 o'clock tomorrow evening in drown hall was announced by president-man ager k s putnam last night the newly organized gilbert and sullivan chorus will sing for the first time william e trumpler will play two flute solos prof t edgar shields will di rect and carstens y haas eng.'3b will be accompanist following is the complete program hail the college kinsey and van vleck on the sea dudley buck selections by the quartet w l hemphill j m swalm g escobedo w r williams selec tions gilbert and sullivan chorus j a frick r a stockton cole man citret s bradbury j e tra cey paul munoz maskel ewing r s putnam swing along w m cook glee club laudamus protheroe glee club flight of the bumble bee rimsky-korsakov " serenade schubert w e trumpler flute soloist spanish duet traditional gilberto escobedo m denarvaez song of the flea moussorgsky coleman citret baritone soloist ye watchers and ye holy ones 17th century alma mater glee club following the program the dance orchestra of the clubs will play for dancing the chaperones are dr and mrs claude g beardslee and mr and mrs t edgar shields the floor committee as appointed by putnam is h e towrie g es cobedo c citret e van r crom well s bradbury stoughton describes problems of work addresses cyanide at dinner wednesday night bradley stoughton professor of metallurgical engineering was the guest at the banquet and meeting of cyanide junior honorary so ciety held wednesday evening at the delta upsilon fraternity the dinner was followed by a short bus iness discussion professor stoughton addressed the group on the problems con nected with securing employment and retaining it he presented some of the data collected by the place ment bureau he also gave several hints for prospective job-seekers stressing the importance of a strong personality about is members of cyanide at tended the meeting given gold charm mrs wilbur dormer of cup is presented with medal mrs rollin h wilbur wife of colonel r h wilbur 85 was pre sented with a gold baseball charm by prof h r reiter head of the department of physical education the presentation was made in be half of n a kellogg and the mem bers of the lehigh baseball teams on dec 16 at the old stone house st david's the daughter of a former pres ident of lehigh robert a lamber ton mrs wilbur is the donor of the gold medal and cup which is presented to the outstanding base ball player each year the cup and medal were the first awards to ke made in recognition of athletic abil ity at lehigh the presentation of the charm to mrs wilbur was made during the observance of the golden wedding anniversary of colonel and mrs wi'bur at their home blake society to hear palmer prof philip m palmer head of the department of german and di rector of the college of arts and science will speak on the new plans for arts colleges at a meeting of the robert w blake society at 8 p m friday in room 201-251 packard laboratory pro fessor palmer's topic will bring out what education means in the in tellectual climate of today the united states next fall as well as students from every other eng lish-speaking country under the rhodes scholarships the united states is divided into eight districts each permitted four scholarships each of the six states in the district sends two applicants for examina tions and four or chosen from these 12 meissner was one of the two sel ected from 37 applicants in penn sylvania new york had over 70 applicants and new jersey about 30 delaware maryland west vir ginia and the district of columbia are also in this district candidates for the rhodes schol arships must show a wide knowl edge of cultural subjects in addi tion to his courses in the chemistry curriculum meissner took several courses in the arts and sciences de partments and was elected to^^hi beta kappa tau beta pi and om icron delta kappa he was award ed the theodore h myers field cup last may for his work on the track team t.wo journalists win two journalism students were among the four winners from this district samuel g welles jr an undergraduate at princeton is spe cializing in journalism in his eng lish major and is on the princeton ian m gordon knox graduate of yale is now employed by news week magazine he was sent from maryland , delaware only sent one candidate harvey maguigan a medical stu dent at the university of delaware was the other winner from this district milton meissner b s 34 le high's third rhodes scholar visit ed lehigh wednesday to discuss his new good fortune with dr neil carothers himself a former rhodes scholar i believe that it was a case of luck said the 20 year-old winner of the scholarship to oxford all the rest of the 12 applicants seem ed likely to win meissner will be the second grad uate of lehigh's chemistry depart ment to study at oxford on the rhodes scholarship r max goepp b s 28 was also graduated from the chemistry course dudley l harley b a 30 who was an eng lish major was the second this year meissner is attending the princeton graduate school and expects to receive his master's de gree in june at oxford he hopes to be able to work for a doctor's degree specializing in the study of molecular structure under prof nevil v sidgwick foremost auth ority in that subject i don't know just what to ex pect at oxford explained meiss ner it all happened so quickly that i haven't had time to read up on the life there during his summer vacations he hopes to obtain work in the labora tories of a german university through the recommendation of his professors at princeton to get 400 pounds a year the scholarship meissner ex plained totals 400 pounds a year for two years study at oxford and a possibility of a third year to be spent at any english institution thirty-two men will represent members of glee club to sing tomorrow bethlehem pa friday january 11 1935 test cables final schedule of exam dates is released official gives railroad talk before i e.'s vol xlii no 25 bohning requests conflicts be reported immediately the lehigh university brown and white student tickets for concerts obtainable at lehigh union all the lehigh news first coming events friday jan 11 7:30 p m r w blake society room 20-251 packard laboratory speaker prof p m palmer the new deal for arts col leges saturday jan 12 7:00 p ni wrestling varsity vs syracuse taylor gymnasium 8:15 p m musk clubs concert and dance drown hall member intercollegiate newspaper association