Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 2

              dollars sent to the nya by the wpa is determined by the total registration in the university the funds for 1935-36 show an increase over those for 1934-35 outside of the increased job and fund allotments lehigh part-time workers will not be affected ex plains mr morgan by the reorgan ization wages remain at 40 cents an hour and the average pay of all students is not to exceed 15 per month work on the campus in cludes employment as assistants in the various departments draftsmen clerks and workers on campus main tenance community jobs consist of leadership in boys clnbs and boy scouts of bethlehem three hundred men have applied for part time student-aid positions estimates e robins morgan direc tor of placement in charge of the local federal allotment there are but 170 positions available for needy students 10 more than the number of last year for this the second year when federal funds have made possible part-time student employment on the lehigh campus the national youth administration a division of the works progress administration will control all funds the work was originally organized and conducted by the federal emergency relief administration and later by the state emergency relief board student aid in colleges all over the country is one of a four-fold policy of the nya which president franklin d roosevelt organized late in june the state youth ad ministration in pennsylvania is part of the department of education lehigh's share of the 50 million pidelta epsilon petitions due isk family ot ur clement c williams who arrived by motor in bethlehem last evening top row left to right they are louise and ellen lower row webb and mrs williams they will temporarily stay at the hotel bethlehem until the pres ident's house on the campus is ready richards gives away library cafe renovated in drown hall mcconn seeks safer motoring dr eisenhart to speak about research and graduate study williams to be installed dr luther p eisenhart dean of the graduate school at princeton university will deliver the founder's day address wednesday morning in packer memorial chapel dean eis enhart will speak on graduate study and research president-elect clarence c wil liams will be inducted formally into office during this program eugene g grace president of the board of trustees will introduce the new president and present him with the keys to the university dean eisenhart born in york in 1876 received his bachelor of arts degree from pennsylvania college in 1896 his doctor of philosophy degree from johns-hopkins in 1900 and an honorary science doctorate in 1921 from pennsylvania college in 1926 he was made a doctor of laws by the same school dr eis enhart is a member of phi kappa psi phi beta kappa the national academy of science and the french mathematical society shields to play the program of the day will start with the usual academic procession at 10:30 a m from the alumni memorial building dr t edgar shields chapel organist will be at the organ opening the formal exer cise with the university hymn dr claude g beardslee chaplain will read the scripture and offer the prayer there will be at least one honor ary degree conferred and about 50 degrees on students who have com pleted their work since june there will be no classes during the day in the afternoon there will be the customary sports between the freshmen and sophomores alpha kappa psi to hold convention set of six to seven hun dred volumes present ed to lehigh dr charles r richards retiring president of lehigh has presented his private library of between 600 and 700 volumes to the university library states howard s leach li brarian approximately half of the collec tion is technical engineering books the rest consisting of fiction books of economics poetry and miscel laneous volumes charles f zimmerly 87 recent ly presented four pictures which will be added to the university col lection they include an 18th cen tury engraving of washington after a painting by le paon a reproduc tion of whistler's carlyle another etching of carlyle and an etching by albert rosenthal rifle team expects successful season journalists highest in new point plan will be in ducted in october points for membership in pi delta epsilon honorary journalism fra ternity should be handed in by monday sept 30 at the english of fice third floor christmas-saucon hall announced george t saxtan president of the society after a meeting wednesday since several men have been elected to publicational positions this semester it was decided at wednesday's meeting to allow these men to submit their points and be pledged along with the group infor mally pledged late last spring plans were proposed and dis cussed in the meeting for this year's activities the program considered included an award for the best en gineering article published in this year's review the drawing up of a plan for revising the relations of the lehigh review and the epitome with the university to more or less coincide with the relations of the brown and white and the univer sity and a series of public lectures the new petitions will be consid ered at a meeting early next week continued on page four dr samans leaving bud rader's orchestra to play at affair on oct 12 in drown hall exclusive date granted the second annual informal en gineers ball will be held on satur day in drown hall to the music of bud rader's dance orchestra and two vocalists the admission price is 1.14 per couple and 85 cents stag as last year the ball is being con ducted by pi tau sigma honorary mechanical and industrial engineer ing society and eta kappa nu honorary electrical engineering so ciety both floors of drown hall will be used for dancing and the arcadia room will again be used as a lounge decorations are planned that will include the insignias of all the en gineering societies in its motif re freshments will be served tickets may be procured from members of the dance committee and in the union office in drown hall the number of stag tickets will be limited to 50 the couple tickets to whatever the committee deems the comfortable capacity of drown hall dance committee meets the dance committee met mon day night in packard laboratory and hugh j rosenbery m e 36 gen eral chairman appointed the fol lowing duties to the members of the committee decorations donald waidelich e e 36 tickets rich ard w provost m e 36 and frank k pierson m e 36 ampli fication william taddeo e e 36 refreshments verne r wilson m e 36 checking b s s ulak e e 36 and theodore r daddow m e 36 and publicity dudley l healy e e 36 the dance has been granted an exclusive date by dean mcconn who has notified all living groups that no other social functions will be permitted on the evening of the dance last year the dance > had a deficit of over 50 because of com peting social events on the same evening this marked the turning point that determined the commit tee on student activities to grant exclusive dates to all open social events the committee will meet mon day to discuss the plans of each member of the committee and ren der decisions on them o bader receives scholarship donald william brader a grad uate of bethlehem high school in the class of 1935 is one of the eight pennsylvania boys to receive a 1,000 scholarship from the penn sylvania state association of elks for outstanding scholarship during the four years of high school he will study engineering here the local chapter of elks gave him a testimonial dinner at the elks home wednesday evening at which time three men were appointed as guardians who will look after brad er during his four years at lehigh six changes advocated by brown and white are accepted adopting the six plank platform advocated in spring by the brown and white the university during the summer modernized and reno vated the cafeteria in drown hall the department of buildings and grounds headed by andrew w litzenberger installed a new soda fountain built a solid partition be tween the kitchen and dining room improved the flooring repainted the walls and tables installed lights of higher wattage and made several minor changes collaborating with the university in this bid for more extensive stu dent trade mr lagouros the les see stated his intentions of raising the standard of food and service and lowering the prevailing prices the brown and white editorial of last march which lagouros at that time disregarded included six points of necessary improvement they were 1 the walls should be repainted a lighter color 2 lights of higher wattage are needed 3 new flooring of linoleum is desir able 4 tables seating not more than four are necessary 5 a par tition between kitchen and dining room should be erected 6 a soda fountain should be installed will mail driving regula tions to students urg ing cooperation to insure safe driving on the le high campus university motoring regulations will be mailed tuesday to every student driver dean mcconn who has arranged the circular explains since the university was built long before the present era there were no arrangements for cars and from the standpoint of the hilly grounds the campus is unsafe for driving the university has spent thousands of dollars to make it safe by building new roads and parking spaces but there is still the element of danger for the past five years of driv ing regulations the student cooper ation has been splendid several times the prohibition of driving has been considered but as long as the rules are obeyed the privilege of using cars on the campus will be retained the regulations include instruc tions as to parking and one way streets on the campus reckless driving is forbidden and the penal ties for offenses are explained the gravity of the violation shall de cide whether the offender is to be denied the privilege of driving or suspended from school dean mcconn's action coincides with the present nation-wide cam paign for safer driving faculty meets monday dr carothers will address fifty delegates here plans for the district convention of alpha kappa psi professional fraternity of commerce to be held on oct 11-13 at lehigh were dis cussed at a meeting of the frater nity yesterday afternoon at the akppa alpha house the convention will include a public lecture by dr carothers sev eral conferences and some enter tainment about 50 delegates and alumni are expected to attend the lecture by dr carothers will probably concern the relationship of the businessman to the federal government and the part he can play in determining national poli cies collegians add 4 says clear understanding of program by both factions shows educational plan definite knowledge and clear understanding of the social secur ity act by both the workers and the employees is the necessary criteria for the success of the act stated roderick olzendam at the lecture sponsored by the industrial engineering society last evening in packard laboratory explaining his plan for educating the workers and the management mr olzendam who is research di rector for the metropolitan life in surance company told of the help which could be received from such organizations as the workers edu cation bureau and the national uni versity extension course spiritual nature real mr olzendam who has worked with the league of nations and mingled with people in all walks of life opened his lecture with a piece of advice to college graduates for get that you ever went to college when attempting to get your first job and afterwards as well he said start as a common laborer and mingle with the others this will form contacts that will prove valuable in later life in turning to the problem of so cial security mr olzendam defined it as including all such plans as old age pensions unemployment com pensation and other forms of as sistance to health services and re lief the keynote of his talk was struck in a quotation of calvin coolidge in which the president stated that men must work for more than wages and factories must turn out more than merchandise coolidge added that man has a spiritual nature strike it and it must respond as the magnet re sponds to the pole plan must be understood in dealing with the social sfcur ity bill which was signed by pres ident roosevelt last august mr olzendam said that the plan could be worked out only with coopera tion between the government em ployer and employee he outlined the objections raised to the bill they include the belief that it will cause the nation to lose its sense of thrift that the worker will lose his character that rugged individualism will be a thing of the past and that all profits will be obliterated he cited england's case as an ar gument that thrift actually increases with social security mr olzendam said my faith in the american character is so strong that i can not believe that old age pensions and unemployment compensation will cause a deterioration he impressed upon the audience the fact that the plan can be work able only through complete knowl edge of it according to him the place of work can be a means of distributing this necessary informa tion a special meeting of the faculty will be held at 4 p m monday in the faculty room alumni memor ial building for the approval of list of degrees honors and prizes to be awarded on founder's day an nouncements concerning the inaug uration of president williams will also be made will instruct in theoretical metallurgy at rensselaer dr samans former instructor in metallurgical engineering has ac cepted a similar position in the newly organized metallurgical de partment at rensselear polytechnic institute the metallurgical department will be headed by dr matthew hunter well known electro-metallurgist and director of research for driver-har ris corporation dr samans will in struct in theoretical metallurgy and in two years will construct a 200,000 volt radiographic outfit three new members of lehigh faculty blind pupil enters congdon addresses fem-sem assembly woodring captains corps area team at camp lehigh's rifle team hopes to have a very successful season according to maj theodore gerber who with sergt george gasda will coach the team all of last year's team is back and many promising men have come up from the freshman class it is hoped that this year the team will have a regular practice period like any other sport since in the past the members have had to prac tice individually team practice would help them do better work w b woodring spent a week at camp perry ohio as captain of the third corps area team wood ring's team placed second in the national matches other members of the team are ohmer linden hayn butterfield and perrine man ager the finances of the rifle club this year are exceptionally good owing to the splendid support of the fresh man class freshman members of the rifle club will receive previous instruction in the handling of the rifle o mrs emery will entertain mrs natt m emery will enter tain wives of the faculty members at a tea to meet mrs clement c williams wife of the new president on oct 4 at her home 41 east market street five veterans play on 3 week trip to europe having added four freshmen to its number the lehigh collegians official dance orchestra of the mu sical club is preparing to entertain at a number of university functions the new men harold breiden bach william j stewart charles g hub and arthur g blomstrom with five veterans will make their jazz debut at the founder's day hop albert e osman alvin a swen son clinton f miller robert brotzman and herbert g wyman of the collegians earned a three week trip to europe last summer by playing on the liner president harding during the trip the men were given a week's stay on the continent and elected to visit paris o hughes and lafferty give papers inßesearchßulletin two papers naturalists old and new by percy hughes head of the department of philosophy and the material world by t t lafferty instructor in education were pub lished in the july issue of the le high institute of research bulletin the papers were originally given before the lehigh chapter of sigma xi honorary research society in march 1934 mustard and cheese plan to present three plays discusses changes between home life and college dr wray h congdon director of admissions was the first speaker in a series of college convocations inaugurated at moravian seminary and college for women on wednes day taking as his subject how to remain in college and make the most of it dr congdon spoke of the difficulty of bridging the gap between a life of dependance and one of independence between imma turity and maturity with emotional balance and adjustment he urged students to acquire freedom through self-imposed restraint composed of initiative self-direction and self control o haring to speak at perm in an address before the retail conference sponsored by perm state college dr h albert har ing assistant professor of econom ics will take as his topic state legislatures are trying to prevent price cutting anthony manone is here on scholarship anthony manone of hellertown totally blind entered lehigh this fall with a full four-year scholar ship awarded by the university he is the first blind student to win a university scholarship and is be lieved to be the first blind student ever to attend lehigh in addition to his scholarship manone was awarded 250 by the american federation for the blind with which to engage someone to read his assignments for him he is a graduate of st mary's institute for the blind and is their first grad uate to qualify for college entrance the physically handicapped freshman is fond of music has mas tered the piano has accompanied school and professional orchestras and has appeared in concerts in philadelphia he is enrolled in the college of business administration here o daylight saving ends clocks are moved back one hour at 2 a m this sunday as daylight saving time officially ends and eastern standard time goes into ef fect the racket and salt wat er will be presented this fall by the mustard and cheese club in conjunction with the dramatic workshop plans for a presentation of cyrano de bergerac are also being considered stated william hutchinson president of the so ciety after a meeting yesterday afternoon dr hilton albert smith instructor in chemistry received his bachelor of arts degree at oberlin college in 1930 he obtained his master of arts degree from harvard university in 1932 and in 1934 received his doctor of philosophy degree from the same place he also served as dr william leroy jenkins instructor in psychology is a graduate of brooklyn polytechnic institute where he received his degree of bachelor of science in chemistry in 1921 he served in the army during the world war and later became engaged in the business of advertising dr william c mcdermott who is taking the place of dr earl cram asso ciate professor of latin while the lat ter is away on leave of absence was engaged in study and research at johns hopkins prior to his coming to lehigh lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday september 27 1935 president's family arrives price — five cents 170 nya jobs available 300 students already apply vol xliii no 2 societies plan second annual engineers ball olzendam talks before i e.'s on security act princeton dean will give talk founder's day same wage schedule kept by new youth organization replacing serb administration for allotment of part - time work member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first