Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 22

              haymes band will play for military dance mysteries give value to life states curtis the heads of all living groups have been warned by dean c m mcconn to be on the lookout for a light florid man who had been robbing lafayette dormitories the policy of this thief has been to knock at one door after another with the hope that his knock would be unanswered in this case the thief would enter the room and take whatever cash he could find he has been described as a man around 28 to 30 years of age about five feet six inches tall weighing about 135 pounds he speaks good english and is very self-possessed and assured in his bearing and demeanor major says preparedness necessary for peace war is inevitable as long as the human mind is unable to determine that which is right and that which is wrong declared major james o green professor of military sci ence and tactics before the allen town lions club wednesday eve ning major green said that the only way to secure a maximum of peace is by preparedness according to him the army is composed of prac tical pacifists who realize this fact he said that as long as radicals continue their activities there will always be the danger of war ma jor green also discussed the radical problem and its influence on war mermen voted florida trip o.d.k offers new hell week joseph walton woman's club has yule party ball will be held in hotel bethlehem tomorrow evening tickets 1.14 a person joe haymes columbia broadcast ing band will supply the music for the annual military ball which will commence at 10 p m tomorrow in the ballroom of the hotel bethle hem joe haymes band began their new york career playing in the roseland ballroom since then he has filled engagements at the nut club the steel pier at atlantic city the hotel mcalpin and the mea dowbrook in cedar grove n j he has been called one of the fore most arrangers of popular music in the country the chaperones for the dance will be the officers of the military de partment and their wives the committee in charge of arrange ments consists of tom gearhart philip hooper and donald fouse although the sabre drill will not be presented at the ball this year other forms of entertainment are planned tickets are priced at 1.14 per person and may be bought at the armory drown hall or at the door releases schedule of frosh debates to enact salt water to night and tomorrow in drown hall bradley 3b to play lead salt water written by dan jarrett and john golden will be presented by mustard and cheese at 8:15 p m on friday and satur day in drown hall the play the second produced by the dramatic society this year was adapted to the screen recently and appeared as his first mate star ring slim summerville and zasu pitts in the leading roles it has appeared several times on the new york stage the plot of this comedy centers around a man who having saved his money hopes to buy a boat in which he would sail across the ocean his wife violently opposed to the idea forestalls the plan by buying a ferry with his money to the amazement and chagrin of her husband the situation then after several complications unfolds and is solved bradley plays lead miss peggy sterrett daughter of bishop sterrett and d c bradley ch e 38 will play the leading roles in salt water the rest of the cast includes miss muriel rob erts a greenfield arts 39 l weinstocn bus 36 mrs m j rights r a dreyer arts 38 w g dukek ch e 38 d r pros nit bus 36 and e tidd arts 37 free student tickets for both per formances are available at drown hall fraternities mark birth of horace arcadia grants 100 to send swimmers to southern meet arcadia voted to give 100 to the swimming team for a christmas va cation florida trip at a meeting of the governing body wednesday night at drown hall it was also de cided that freshman regulations would be removed at the beginning of next semester and would be sus pended during the christmas vaca tion because this fund which arcadia had originally planned to be used to send a representative to the na tional convention at kansas has been diverted to swimming team expenses the former plan has been abandoned the meeting decided that arcadia would be doing a greater service by entering several members of the team in florida competition than by sending only one man to the national conven tion explained frank g smith bus 36 secretary of arcadia the money will be entrusted to coach pete morrissey the decision to suspend fresh man regulations during the vaca tion resulted because of the mis understanding of freshmen who live in town and feel obligated to con tinue to observe them cedar crest president speaks to chemists at christmas party williams mcconn talk if there were no mysteries and amazements life would have no meaning and would therefore not be worth living said william f curtis president of cedar crest college in a message given at the annual christmas party held by the chemical society on wednesday evening at the masonic temple comparing the oriental education to american methods president curtis showed that the oriental col leges do not confer degrees until they feel that the work has mas tered the pupil while american uni versities graduated a pupil when they feel that he has mastered his work williams speaks clement c williams president of the university addressed the meet ing and compared the field of chem ical engineering of 50 years ago with the present he explained that it was necessary for one to give all of his ability to chemistry if he wished to become a chemical en gineer since there is always so much advancement being made in the field he also pointed out the similarity between christmas and chemistry saying that the world has benefitted from each walter r okeson treasurer of the board of trustees expressed his admiration of the interest taken by the undergraduates in fellowships and their financial support of them dean c m mcconn and a a diefenderfer profesor of quantita tive analysis also addressed the so ciety members after the banquet the senior members of the society enacted a skit written by walter finlay ch e 36 which was a burlesque on the faculty alonzo white dressed as santa claus then distributed gifts to the seniors during the evening songs were sung and entertainment provided by an orchestra 26 of faculty included in the who's who for 1935 250 persons attend an nual affair tuesday in drown hall two hundred and fifty persons attended the annual christmas party of the lehigh university woman's club tuesday evening in drown hall mrs ruth becker myers pian ist for the bach choir gave an in terpretation of pastels by gretch aniow and bells by liatounow gilberto escobedo c e 36 sang amatola nostalgia and mar imba he accompanied himself on the guitar miss mary hutchinson presented several dancing exhibitions they were a parade brahms waltzes renunciation a ballet dancer's daily exercise and a swan dance harold samuel world famous pianist who gave a recital in pack ard laboratory tuesday evening made a few remarks he was in troduced by t edgar shields uni versity organist mrs c c williams poured cof fee and those on the committee were mrs s m brown chairman mrs s s seyfert vice chairman mrs c e allen mrs r b cowin mrs m o fuller mrs j m beav er mrs a r frey mrs c w phy mrs t e shields mrs c a shook and mrs c w simmons pledges cooperation to coaches team at home club dinner 23 men receive medals williams congratulates coaches and team at club dinner joseph walton met e 37 var sity end and high scorer for the season is lehigh's football captain elect after being introduced and con gratulated by captain howell sco bey the leader of the next brown and white grid team pledged his cooperation to the coaches and the football team for the coming year at the annual home club banquet which was tendered last evening to the football squad at the hotel bethlehem continuing the precedent of pre senting teams victorious in the le high-lafayette games with gold footballs col nelson a kellogg director of athletics gave the awards on behalf of the home club to the following men scobey hel ler pennauchi peet jamison mil bank rozell snyder frey may shark brown bayer bennett wolcott smull walton sterngold vincent pazzetti 11 vin cent pazzetti 111 hoppock mccaa mcnally berg walker billy sher idan football trainer eb caraway assistant football coach martin westerman assistant football coach and glen harmeson head football coach the seniors were also given sweaters okeson is toastmaster paul ganey 16 introduced wal ter okeson secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees as toast master of the evening as the first speaker of the evening president c c williams stated that it was very gratifying to him to see such a team during his first year at le high and concluded by saying i wish to congratulate the football team of this year on the sportsman like manner in which they have represented lehigh on the field david petty 09 h r reiter di rector of physical education west erman and caraway were unani mous in their agreement that the cooperation and sportsmanship of the team were largely responsible for the success of the squad addressing the team glen har meson said i want to congratu late you on the splendid work you have done during the last two years on behalf of everyone interested in lehigh fraternity offers 5 objec tions and 4 suggestions for improvements omicron delta kappa national senior honorary activities frater nity believes that the institution of hell week should be abolished at lehigh in a statement sent re cently to the head of each of le high fraternities o d k sets forth its objections and suggestions for improvement the objections cited are five-fold declaring that physical punishment is dangerous to the freshman phy sically and scholastically that it cre ates hostility to upperclassmen that it makes it impossible for the fresh man to receive serious impressions from the ritual and that public in itiations bring fraternities into dis repute the statement advocates the abolition of physical punishment and public initiations as substitutes for these practices it proposes four general methods of private non physical initiations the text is as follows the lehigh circle of omicron delta kappa has devoted several meetings to a careful consideration of the pre-initiation practices commonly comprised under the name of hell week and has reached the unani mous conclusion that the time has come when many of these practices traditional from an earlier and cruder stage of college and fraternity development should be abol ished at an institution like lehigh objections our specific objections to these practices are as follows 1 some of them involve more or less physical danger to the freshmen from acci dents or from illness resulting from expo sure 2 prolonged hell weeks do serious damage to scholarship for four or five days both the freshmen and the sophomores and upperclassmen may get little or no sleep and do practically no studying this results in getting off to a very bad start in the second semester many students are unable to overcome this initial handicap and low call them john continued on page four edwards says yearlings to meet six schools the tentative freshman debate schedule as released by douglas w edwards arts 38 assistant manager comprises dual debates with six local colleges and schools the topic that the freshmen are de bating this year is resolved that congress should be empowered to override by a two-thirds vote deci sions of the supreme court declar ing acts of congress unconstitu tional the question for the debate with bethlehem high school is re solved that the united states should enter the league of na tions other colleges and schools are de bating the same topic as the lehigh freshmen bethlehem high school allentown preparatory school and rutgers debates are no decision de bates the schedule is as follows feb s—muhlenberg5 — muhlenberg feb 14 — bethlehem high school at bethle hem feb 19 — cedar crest at lehigh feb 27 — lafayette at lafayette mar 6 — allentown prep school at lehigh mar 9 — rutgers at rutgers mar 11-muhlenberg mar 19 — cedar crest at cedar crest mar 25 — bethlehem high school at lehigh mar 30-aliento\vn prep school at allentown april 3 — lafayette at lehigh o board approves accounts financial accounts of the brown and white epitome and the re view were approved wednesday at a meeting of the board of publica tions in the office of dean c m mcconn the reports according to the dean showed that all of the pub lications are being operated at a profit ehrsam discusses plays in dramatic club broadcast kieser discusses mining abroad harrington tells of poet's villas at sun inn banquet describing the villas in which the roman poet horace lived and composed his poetry and illustrat ing his descriptions with slides karl p harrington professor emeritus of latin in wesleyan university spoke to members of eta sigma phi national honorary classical society and phi beta kappa national hon orary scholastic society wednesday evening the occasion was a dinner dedicated to the 2000 th anniversary of horace's birth which was held in the george washington room at the sun inn the members of the classical league of the lehigfo valley were among the invited guests fifty four persons were present lehigh faculty members and stu dents who attended included prof frederick a bradford president of the lehigh chapter of phi beta kappa prof horace w wright head of the latin department jud son g smull jr arts 36 president of the lehigh chapter of eta sigma phi and howard b freed arts 36 national president of eta sigma phi o e e.s receive sample cable as present the department of electrical en gineering has just received a quan tity of samples of the new simmons cable used in the boulder dam-los angeles transmission line the sam ples are the gift of d m simmons chief engineer of the general cable corporation and the designer of the cable simmons recently spoke in pack ard laboratory on taking boulder dam to market in his talk he described the production of the cable and some of its properties the samples will be presented to the senior electrical engineers they will be used in laboratory problems next spring in place of the usual cables that are used by the depart ment , o read lehigh messages messages from president c c williams a e buchanan secre tary of the alumni association and w r okeson secretary and treas urer of the board of trustees were read before a meeting of the southern california lehigh club wednesday evening at the univer sity club in pasadena history and government eugene g grace president of the board of trustees robert w hall head of the de partment of biology percy hughes head of the department of philos ophy fred v larkin professor of mechanical engineering howard s leach librarian charles m mc conn dean archie r miller as sistant professor of electrical en gineering philip m palmer direc tor of the college of arts and sci ences and head of the department of german joseph b re3'nolds professor of mathematics charles r richards president emeritus charles m schwab trustee rev frank w sterrett trustee bradley stough ton profsesor of metallurgical en gineering hale sutherland profes sor of civil engineering stanley j thomas professor of bacteriology charles l thornburg professor emeritus of mathematics and astron omy clement c williams pres ident of the university mustard and cheese presenting its weekly program over station wcba allentown at 9:30 p m on wednesday presented a talk by theodore g ehrsam instructor in english on two war plays jour ney's end and what price glory music was furnished by the le high collegians the program was announced b albert s ogden eng phys 38 who's in lehigh who's in who's who in america who well to be exact there are 26 lehigh men trustees faculty and administrative officers in that well known volume the adminis trative officers lead the list with five names trustees and mathemati cians are next with three names each and the oconimists are third with two names the complete list follows vahan s babasinian professor of organic chemistry charles c bid well head of the department of physics charles a buck lecturer on procurement of raw materials neil carothers head of the college of business administration herbert m diamond professor of econom ics natt m emery late vice pres ident and comptroller tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics and astronomy charles s fox head of the department of romance languages lawrence h gipson head of the department of mustard and cheese tells of separation and boat buying in salt water william comes second in name popularity if you see a lehigh student and do not know his name just call him john chances are in your favor that you will be right for john is the first name of 103 lehigh stu dents in addition to the 103 students who have john as a first name there are 100 who are called william while 97 answer to the name rob ert other popular first names are charles 56 george 48 james 37 richard 34 and edward 31 in the matter of second names the most popular is william which is the second name for 29 students other popular second names are john and henry 25 edward 22 francis 19 and george 16 of the 1,421 students listed/smith replaces miller as the most popular family name with 14 lehigh men answering to that name the miller family comes second by sending 10 of their sons here the brown fam ily is represented by 8 students while at the same time there are 6 students from each of these fam ilies cooper davis and hoffman luch suffers heart attack myron j lnch professor of eng lish suffered a heart attack sunday he is recuperating at his home and will be confined fo an extended period probably lasting about a month dr e h riley associate nrofessor of english and dr r m smith head of the department of english are taking his advanced courses and theodore g ehrsam instructor in english is teaching his course in public speaking values and disadvantages of foreign work listed experiences gained during two years of mining work in australia and south africa were used by h d reiser 16 to illustrate his dis cussion should a mining engineer seek his initial experience abroad before the mining and ge ological society thursday night in williams hall mr keiser now associate alumni secretary compared the advantages and disadvantages of foreign work mr keiser presented slides of his trip as well as maps showing the course of a two years mining trip which included work in brok en hill australia tasmania and on the rand in south africa o okeson to be speaker at dinner for mccracken walter r okeson secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees will be one of the guest speakers at the farewell dinner to herb mc cracken former lafayette football coach to be given by the lafayette alumni association this evening at the northampton county club mr mccracken is retiring from active work to take up a closer in terest in the two publishing com panies he owns in new york city his coaching career at lafayette for the past 12 years has been most successful he succeeded doc sutherland now varsity coach at the university of pittsburgh david bradley and miss peggy sterrett who play the leads as cap tain-to-be john homer and his wife pansy are shown in the end panels other pictures show peggy and mrs m t rights as wife and sister hattie left they are battling with head of the house right who munches celery while the genial middleman sam bowen played by ar thur greenfield attempts to straighten things out lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday december 13 1935 01 xliii — no 22 1936 gridiron captain dean c m mcconn warns fraternities price — five cents dramatic club will produce second play walton is elected football captain green tells lions war is inevitable — brown and white fotofcature member intercollegiate newspaper association all 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