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elias w sangler john m swalm jr philip d pearson and henry c langer jr juniors richard m lord nelson j leonard edward m mount ed ward j broughal and john drury jr sophomores james r oberholtz er ralph f howe william g du kek jr nelson m kennedy earle russell raymond maneval charles f glick and joseph parmet freshmen irving e lempert nelson w lewis walter m uhler franc burnett jr eric weiss frank n kemmer edward a lambert carl f brown and nor man l morse team to meet girl debaters power foreman of plant will give paper the problem of generating and distributing electricity in a large steel plant will be discussed at the meeting of the electrical engineer ing society to be held at 7:30 p m thursday in room 416 packard laboratory the discussion will be led by david m petty e e 09 in charge of service at the bethlehem steel corporation after lee h fister the leading speaker of the evening has delivered a paper on the genera tion and distribution of electrical power in a steel plant mr fister is the foreman of power at the local plant there will also be a short talk on frequency standards by freder ick w king e e 36 200 attend frosh dance five students attained averages of 4.00 for the past semester william h bohning assistant to the regis trar announced yesterday they are john p butterfield i e 36 walter r f guyer ch.e 36 clar ence 8 welch c e 37 charles h hoffman e e 38 and fred erick c moesel eng 39 forty-eight students attained a averages for the semester an a average constitutes a grade of 3.50 or better a total of 258 students made b averages which consti tute a grade of from 2.50 to 3.49 this means that 406 students attain ed b averages or better or over one-fourth of the enrolled student body other men attaining a averages are seniors donald l waidelich ernest w thorn lancey thom son peter masiko jr carl f hen singer gates b stern joseph k stone jr bernard s weiss albert c zettlemoyer paul p ziegler theodore r daddow jr earl l gerlach david w hoppock rob ert j schatz edgar b mancke stephen j wantuck charles moran glee club sings over radio dr maurice ewing instructor in physics who will read a paper on prospecting for an thracite by the earth resistivity method at the annual meeting of the american institute of mining and metallurgical engineers to morrow morning in new york city development of this new geo physical method of locating anthra cite coal veins was begun in the summer of 1934 and verification by drilling has just been completed the project was made in the western middle coal field near mahoney city dr ewing was as sisted by a p crary and j w peoples formerly of lehigh andj a peoples jr gallery shows new paintings hotchkiss to address n y club during conclave of a i m m e stoughton to be guest the new york lehigh alumni club will hold a special meeting this evening at the hotel martinique in new york city in conjunction with the annual convention of the amer ican institute of mining and metal lurgical engineers being held feb 17 to 21 in new york dr w o hotchkiss president of rensselaer polytechnic institute will give an address on present day economics from an engineer ing standpoint callen 09 to speak other guest speakers will be a c callen 09 head of the school of mines at the university of illinois and c e lawall 14 head of the mining school at the university of west virginia prof howard eckfeldt head of the department of mining engineer ing prof bradley stoughton di rector of the curriculum in metal lurgy and prof benjamin l mil ler head of the department of ge ology will be faculty guests from lehigh william a cornelius exec utive alumni secretary will speak professor eckfeldt was the guest of honor last year when the new york club held its first coopera tive meeting with the a.i.m.m.e sessions held this week convention sessions of the amer ican institute of mining and metal lurgical engineers are being held this week at the engineering so cieties building on west 39th street and members of the new york le high club have been invited to take part in the technical discussions and social events a smoker and dinner was held last night at the hotel commodore and the annual dinner of the society is scheduled for tomorrow evening at the hotel commodore 2 debaters attend senate at rutgers glee club double quartet offer second broadcast of semester the glee club gave its second broadcast of the current season sat urday afternoon over station wor of the mutual broadcasting system thirty-eight men who rode to new york in a bus and several private cars took part songs rendered included hail the college by kinsey land sighting by grieg shadow march by protheroe alma mat er by van vleck and ye watch ers and ye holy ones by canon a newly organized double quar tet sang two songs bells of saint mary's by adams and deep river by burleigh the members of the double quartet are g c crow arts 38 w a lobst ch e 38 n j leonard ch e 37 w r pierpont arts 39 h e towne arts 37 j m swalm eng 39 and v r wilson m e 36 c y haas ch e 38 is the accompan ist the club felt the effect of the music feud between motion picture producers and radio interests when one of their numbers john peel by mark andrew was not permit ted to be sung because of copyright complications dean describes affair as one of best social successes in years it was one of the best social successes i've seen in a great num ber of years stated dean mcconn after the freshman dance saturday evening at the masonic temple in addition the affair was dry and well conducted george e hurst jr chairman of arrangements committee estimated that 100 couples danced to the mu sic of bubby johnson and his 13 piece baltimore colored orchestra johnson's engagement saturday marked his fourth appearance at le high said johnson lehigh stu dents are fine during the several times i've been here the boys couldn't have treated me better johnson will appear at lehigh again this spring when he plays at the alpha tau omega house during spring houseparty the attendance at the freshman dance said nat whitman pres ident of freshman union and chair main of floor committee was quite commendable if one takes into con sideration the fact that the same evening there was a debutante dance a fem-sem dance and a maennerchor dance the members of the arrangements and floor committees were george e hurst jr bus 39 nat whit man eng 39 and william e lies man eng 39 dean and mrs c m mcconn and dr and mrs c g beardslee were chaperones to give reading of twelfth night g eseobedo wins amateur contest will argue question of supreme court veto power thursday the lehigh debating team will meet the pennsylvania state college girls team thursday to argue the question resolved that congress should be empowered to override by a two-thirds vote decisions of the united states supreme court de claring acts of congress unconsti tutional the debaters on the lehigh team will be howard roller ch e 37 vice president of delta omicron theta and norman l morse eng 39 lehigh will take the negative side of the question there will be no decision on the debate the lehigh freshman debating team met the liberty high school debating team last night in room 466 packard laboratory to debate the question resolved that the united shall enter the league of nations the lehigh team represented by norman l morse eng 39 and john f herr eng 39 took the negative side of the question no decision was made on the debate the liberty high team was com posed of jeanette titlow margaret waldschmidt robert stern and woodrow eisenhart a debate between lehigh and the university of pennsylvania on the question resolved that the thirty hour week should be adopted by in dustry was broadcast from radio station wcau at 2 p m saturday the lehigh team took the negative side of the question howard roller ch e 37 and eugene h uhler arts 37 com posed the lehigh team the deci sion is to be made by radio ballot and will be announced next satur day the debate which was to be held friday with lincoln college was postponed brown and white budget rejected points out that education should include eco nomics aesthetics talks to engineers club president c c williams stressed the need for training engineers in economics and aesthetics at a lunch eon of the engineers club of phil delphia today he spoke on the topic new demands in engineer ing education engineering may be an exact science but engineering education is not stated president williams after many years of observation i can tell with considerable accuracy how long an alumnus has been out of college by hearing him discuss engineering education for five min utes any time during the first year he will voice the lack of training in how to write effective letters of ap plication for a position if two or three years out of college he will bewail the lack of training for mak ing estimates and in the details of some particular kind of work in five years out he will begin to feel a deficiency in his grasp of theory in ten years he will be es pecially conscious of his need of fa cility in english composition and in public speaking in twenty years he will be convinced that more of bus iness and economics should be in troduced into the course and in forty years he will feel that his course was wanting in those contacts with the great men the great ideas and the great emotions of the world's history commonly called culture which would enable him to enjoy life and to mingle com panionly with educated men in all callings . lists 2 demands dr williams went on to say that the new demands in engineering education may be grouped under two headings economic and aesth etic the engineer cannot shirk re sponsibility for the economic sound ness of the works in their domain the second demand considers the aesthetic aspects of the work the chief of which are cleanliness quiet and beauty president williams stated that the time has come when the american people will not want to endure the din of the elevated railroad he suggested that this matter of quieting the elevated is a simple matter of engineering re quiring a ballasted and insulated roadbed the demand for beauty is making itself shown in the beautiful tear drop designs of automotive engin eering dr williams concluded with a suggestion that the engineering student should be subject to instruc tion only in the fundamentals of the new developments the rest of the training should be left to the stu dent himself would curb disease unify all currency if made ruler writes in detroit news as dictator i should make war on those conditions in life which cause cruelty and misery and more especially on those monster social evils which have caused suffering in all ages the chief of these are war poverty disease crime mis government and sexual vice and frustration writes dr neil caroth ers director of the college of bus iness administration in an article in the feb 9 edition of the detroit news plans no revolution dr carothers is planning no rev olution to seize the government but as one of the nation's leading think ers he was asked by a newspaper syndicate if you were made dic tator of the world with absolute powers what would you do acting on this assumption dr carothers declares my philosophy would be that in the present prim itive state of man's knowledge the only practicable objective of life is a social order in which every indi vidual has an opportunity to develop to the maximum his own interests capacities and usefulness subject only to the proviso that it should not be at the expense of the wel fare and freedom of others i should also install a new world currency unit he adds in time the dollar if it is not ruined by de basement will be the world's unit in deference to the currency pre judices of nations i would select a new unit expressible in both centi grams and grains and different from all existing units this com mon standard would be a gold coin proposes pension system there would be a frugal pension system inaugurated for the unem ployables such as the infirm and the aged and all forms of public char ity public and private pension sys tems and compulsory insurance would be abolished slowly in in dustrial countries 50 per cent of the future increase in the retail value of all land would be taken by the gov ernment private enterprise would be forbidden to issue bonds and mortgages thus eliminating one of the great causes of depressions dictator carothers would im mediately remove all other dicta tors but would also encourage everywhere the establishment of the american system of representative government with its three branches legislative executive and judicial the legislatures however would be unicameral instead of bicameral freedom of speech would make the carothers dictatorship an unusual one divorce would be granted with out trial where both parties made application after one year of mar riage divorced persons would not continued on page four brunn to discuss law school work speaks at banquet isochromatic work sculp tures will be exhib ited until feb 23 an exhibition of isochromatic paintings and international sclupture is on display at the university art gallery in the library the paintings circulated by the college art asso ciation will remain until feb 23 isochromatic paintings resulted from a commercial venture to test the durability of a new type of oil colors developed by m grumbacher of new york city the showing is unique in that all the paintings are uniform in size and framing on the same type of can vas perhaps the most striking fea ture of an isochromatic painting is the complete lack of shading usual ly obtained by differentiation of tone in steel workers by charles zeller we have an isochromatic painting done in brilliant colors with large surfaces of single shades many of the others are not as rep resentative including the work of a local artist city limit by e batchelder of easton other artists submitting their work to this experiment are kather ine s dreier r helbert clifford young a berkman j gross r van zandt and b h porter the sculpture work though large ly european includes several pieces by americans both bronze and wood are represented by such sculptors as koble maillol belling clark g ruiz sava bosaris jer ome and thomas la medice included with the sculpture are several sketches the most numerous being those of bordelle the gallery will be open at the regular hours sunday wednesday thursday and friday afternoons from 3 to 5 and friday evenings from 7 to 9 i e.'s will meet p potochney and w guyer engage in discussion the annual meeting of the model senate held at rutgers university from thursday to saturday was at tended by walter guyer ch e.'36 president of delta omicron theta and peter john potochney arts 37 as lehigh representatives guyer served on the agricultural committee and potochney served on the judiciary committee political questions were discussed and voted upon by the senate one of the bills discussed was resolved that congress should be empowered to override by a two-thirds vote deci sions of the united states supreme court declaring acts of congress unconstitutional the question was defeated by a vote of 39 to 42 another bill which was debated was one drafted by the bar rela tions committee along lines of the present nye bill this act was also defeated by a vote of 41 to 43 pro fessor fenwick a well known lead er in neutrality and a bryn mawr professor had a surprising influ ence on the outcome of this bill said potochney the pure foods act regulating false advertising of foods was also discussed by the model senate the senate was attended by 31 schools this year it was held at vassar col lege last year arrangements were not made for the meeting place of the senate for next year although lehigh was mentioned as a possi bility radio club to hold party friday at knutson's home prizes of interest to radio bugs will be given at the annual party of the radio club to be held at 7:30 p m friday at the home of prof and mrs henry c i knutson 636 16th avenue knutson assistant professor of electrical engineering is the faculty adviser of the club donald t cooper e e 36 pres ident of the club stated that the party would take the place of a christmas party to avoid conflict with the parties of other societies he also said that this would be a purely social affair with no speeches and that refreshments would be served shakespeare to be read by dramatic club the faculty dramatic club will give a public reading of william shakespeare's twelfth night at 8 o'clock wednesday evening in the lounging room of packard labora tory the reading will be under the supervision of mrs stewart s cairns the part of orsino duke of illy ria will be played by prof john m toohy sebastian brother to viola carl f strauch antonio a sea cap tain prof arthur w klein valen tine clyde a harding sir toby belch uncle to olivia prof james l graham sir andrew theodore g ehrsam malvolio steward to olivia prof edgar h riley a priest and a clown prof stewart s cairns olivia mrs sidney brown viola mrs edgar h riley maria olivia's woman mrs cyril d jen sen all students and members of the faculty are invited to attend the reading a s m e to hear adlam on steam heating aspects t n adlam vice president and chief engineer of the sarco company will speak on modern aspects of steam heating at a meeting of the student branch of the a s m e thursday in room 466 packard laboratory a technical motion picture mod ern trends in turbine design will be shown is awarded first prize by ray perkins gilberto escobedo c e 36 who broadcast at 6 o'clock sunday eve ning on the feenamint amateur hour won the first prize in this week's contest and was awarded a 100 gold watch the program which includes ray perkins and arnold johnson and his orchestra escobedo sang a new song en titled havana heaven with his guitar he accompanied the first chorus which he sang in spanish the second chorus which he sang in english was accompanied by the orchestra escobedo received his chance to sing on the feenamint hour when he won the three local amateur con tests sponsored from october 1935 february 1936 by a brewery in al lentown as part of his first prize for winning the final contest es cobedo was sent to new york where h,e was given the chance to sing on the feenamint hour his next appearance on the radio will be at 7:45 p m saturday when he will broadcast over wip phila delphia he has been on the wip sustaining program since novem ber herrick represents lehigh robert f herrick assistant edi tor of the alumni bulletin repre sented the lehigh university pub licity department friday and satur da at the district 2 meeting of the american college publicity associa tion at the hotel willard in wash ington d c honoraria and bonuses approved by board honoraria and service bonuses for the officers and staff of the brown and white during the past semester were approved yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the board of publications in the office of the chairman dean c m mcconn because the budget of the brown and white did not show a true pic ture of the financial activities of the publication the board rejected the budget and ordered it returned to the executive committee for correc tion it will be considered at the next meeting of the board on feb 27 the board approved a change in the constitution of the paper which makes the term of office of the cir culation manager and financial man ager one semester instead of one year final approval of the officers of the paper who began their terms at the beginning of the semester was given ottens to speak friday the application of the photoelec tric cell in determining stellar mag nitudes will be discussed by edwin f ottens ch e 38 during a meeting of the ernest w brown astronomical society to be held at 7:30 p m friday in room 353 packard laboratory to speak to law class seniors invited herbert t brunn bus 34 of the cornell university law school will discuss the conditions and oppor tunities of law school work before the class in business law at 9 a m thursday in christmas-saucon hall all seniors who are interested in law school are invited to attend the class this is part of the program of the cornell law school under which students in the school return to their old colleges to speak to seniors about law schools it is not a sell ing campaign for cornell but a plan to assist seniors uncertain about law school matters states dr neil carothers director of the college of business administration while at lehigh brunn was a phi beta kappa a member of the newtonian society and a member of the soccer team for three years o 45 at father-son dinner forty-five people were present at an informal father-son dinner sat urday evening at the alpha chi rho fraternity house fifteen of the boys fathers attended the dinner the group witnessed the perm state - lehigh wrestling meet later in the evening brown tells section d of medieval schools in the old days at the univer sity of heidelberg a student was fined 25 cents if he was caught when about to throw a stone at a profes sor if he threw it and missed he was fined 4 while if he hit the professor the fine was at the dis cretion of the president stated s3'd ney m brown professor of history in addressing the annual taylor hall section d banquet thursday eve ning at the sun inn professor brown compared the conditions at the old universities with those at the universities of to day he contended that in the old days when the students did not have frequent entertainment such as dances they were forced to resort to rough and tumble forms of en tertainment in addition to brown's speech eight freshmen from section d competed for a prize in oratory harold p wilson won with a speech entitled reasons for found ing a society for the protection of buffalo calves abandoned during stampedes walter l finlay ch e 36 chief of dormitory ¦ section was toastmaster connelly to demonstrate watt steam engine midget auto racing air-condition ing and railroads will be discussed at a meeting of the industrial en gineering society at 7:30 p.m thurs day in room 360 packard labora tory j r connelly assistant profes sor of mechanical engineering will demonstrate a recently made model of one of the original watt steam engines following this david w hop pock i e 36 president of the so ciety will talk on the growing political significance of industrial relations brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday february 18 19&6 five men get 4.00 average one-fourth students above b e.e.'s to discuss electric problems price — five cents physicist to read paper on coal prospecting vol xliii — no 31 williams sees new demands for engineers alumni to meet with institute in new york dr carothers imagines rule as ' dictator all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association
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FullText | elias w sangler john m swalm jr philip d pearson and henry c langer jr juniors richard m lord nelson j leonard edward m mount ed ward j broughal and john drury jr sophomores james r oberholtz er ralph f howe william g du kek jr nelson m kennedy earle russell raymond maneval charles f glick and joseph parmet freshmen irving e lempert nelson w lewis walter m uhler franc burnett jr eric weiss frank n kemmer edward a lambert carl f brown and nor man l morse team to meet girl debaters power foreman of plant will give paper the problem of generating and distributing electricity in a large steel plant will be discussed at the meeting of the electrical engineer ing society to be held at 7:30 p m thursday in room 416 packard laboratory the discussion will be led by david m petty e e 09 in charge of service at the bethlehem steel corporation after lee h fister the leading speaker of the evening has delivered a paper on the genera tion and distribution of electrical power in a steel plant mr fister is the foreman of power at the local plant there will also be a short talk on frequency standards by freder ick w king e e 36 200 attend frosh dance five students attained averages of 4.00 for the past semester william h bohning assistant to the regis trar announced yesterday they are john p butterfield i e 36 walter r f guyer ch.e 36 clar ence 8 welch c e 37 charles h hoffman e e 38 and fred erick c moesel eng 39 forty-eight students attained a averages for the semester an a average constitutes a grade of 3.50 or better a total of 258 students made b averages which consti tute a grade of from 2.50 to 3.49 this means that 406 students attain ed b averages or better or over one-fourth of the enrolled student body other men attaining a averages are seniors donald l waidelich ernest w thorn lancey thom son peter masiko jr carl f hen singer gates b stern joseph k stone jr bernard s weiss albert c zettlemoyer paul p ziegler theodore r daddow jr earl l gerlach david w hoppock rob ert j schatz edgar b mancke stephen j wantuck charles moran glee club sings over radio dr maurice ewing instructor in physics who will read a paper on prospecting for an thracite by the earth resistivity method at the annual meeting of the american institute of mining and metallurgical engineers to morrow morning in new york city development of this new geo physical method of locating anthra cite coal veins was begun in the summer of 1934 and verification by drilling has just been completed the project was made in the western middle coal field near mahoney city dr ewing was as sisted by a p crary and j w peoples formerly of lehigh andj a peoples jr gallery shows new paintings hotchkiss to address n y club during conclave of a i m m e stoughton to be guest the new york lehigh alumni club will hold a special meeting this evening at the hotel martinique in new york city in conjunction with the annual convention of the amer ican institute of mining and metal lurgical engineers being held feb 17 to 21 in new york dr w o hotchkiss president of rensselaer polytechnic institute will give an address on present day economics from an engineer ing standpoint callen 09 to speak other guest speakers will be a c callen 09 head of the school of mines at the university of illinois and c e lawall 14 head of the mining school at the university of west virginia prof howard eckfeldt head of the department of mining engineer ing prof bradley stoughton di rector of the curriculum in metal lurgy and prof benjamin l mil ler head of the department of ge ology will be faculty guests from lehigh william a cornelius exec utive alumni secretary will speak professor eckfeldt was the guest of honor last year when the new york club held its first coopera tive meeting with the a.i.m.m.e sessions held this week convention sessions of the amer ican institute of mining and metal lurgical engineers are being held this week at the engineering so cieties building on west 39th street and members of the new york le high club have been invited to take part in the technical discussions and social events a smoker and dinner was held last night at the hotel commodore and the annual dinner of the society is scheduled for tomorrow evening at the hotel commodore 2 debaters attend senate at rutgers glee club double quartet offer second broadcast of semester the glee club gave its second broadcast of the current season sat urday afternoon over station wor of the mutual broadcasting system thirty-eight men who rode to new york in a bus and several private cars took part songs rendered included hail the college by kinsey land sighting by grieg shadow march by protheroe alma mat er by van vleck and ye watch ers and ye holy ones by canon a newly organized double quar tet sang two songs bells of saint mary's by adams and deep river by burleigh the members of the double quartet are g c crow arts 38 w a lobst ch e 38 n j leonard ch e 37 w r pierpont arts 39 h e towne arts 37 j m swalm eng 39 and v r wilson m e 36 c y haas ch e 38 is the accompan ist the club felt the effect of the music feud between motion picture producers and radio interests when one of their numbers john peel by mark andrew was not permit ted to be sung because of copyright complications dean describes affair as one of best social successes in years it was one of the best social successes i've seen in a great num ber of years stated dean mcconn after the freshman dance saturday evening at the masonic temple in addition the affair was dry and well conducted george e hurst jr chairman of arrangements committee estimated that 100 couples danced to the mu sic of bubby johnson and his 13 piece baltimore colored orchestra johnson's engagement saturday marked his fourth appearance at le high said johnson lehigh stu dents are fine during the several times i've been here the boys couldn't have treated me better johnson will appear at lehigh again this spring when he plays at the alpha tau omega house during spring houseparty the attendance at the freshman dance said nat whitman pres ident of freshman union and chair main of floor committee was quite commendable if one takes into con sideration the fact that the same evening there was a debutante dance a fem-sem dance and a maennerchor dance the members of the arrangements and floor committees were george e hurst jr bus 39 nat whit man eng 39 and william e lies man eng 39 dean and mrs c m mcconn and dr and mrs c g beardslee were chaperones to give reading of twelfth night g eseobedo wins amateur contest will argue question of supreme court veto power thursday the lehigh debating team will meet the pennsylvania state college girls team thursday to argue the question resolved that congress should be empowered to override by a two-thirds vote decisions of the united states supreme court de claring acts of congress unconsti tutional the debaters on the lehigh team will be howard roller ch e 37 vice president of delta omicron theta and norman l morse eng 39 lehigh will take the negative side of the question there will be no decision on the debate the lehigh freshman debating team met the liberty high school debating team last night in room 466 packard laboratory to debate the question resolved that the united shall enter the league of nations the lehigh team represented by norman l morse eng 39 and john f herr eng 39 took the negative side of the question no decision was made on the debate the liberty high team was com posed of jeanette titlow margaret waldschmidt robert stern and woodrow eisenhart a debate between lehigh and the university of pennsylvania on the question resolved that the thirty hour week should be adopted by in dustry was broadcast from radio station wcau at 2 p m saturday the lehigh team took the negative side of the question howard roller ch e 37 and eugene h uhler arts 37 com posed the lehigh team the deci sion is to be made by radio ballot and will be announced next satur day the debate which was to be held friday with lincoln college was postponed brown and white budget rejected points out that education should include eco nomics aesthetics talks to engineers club president c c williams stressed the need for training engineers in economics and aesthetics at a lunch eon of the engineers club of phil delphia today he spoke on the topic new demands in engineer ing education engineering may be an exact science but engineering education is not stated president williams after many years of observation i can tell with considerable accuracy how long an alumnus has been out of college by hearing him discuss engineering education for five min utes any time during the first year he will voice the lack of training in how to write effective letters of ap plication for a position if two or three years out of college he will bewail the lack of training for mak ing estimates and in the details of some particular kind of work in five years out he will begin to feel a deficiency in his grasp of theory in ten years he will be es pecially conscious of his need of fa cility in english composition and in public speaking in twenty years he will be convinced that more of bus iness and economics should be in troduced into the course and in forty years he will feel that his course was wanting in those contacts with the great men the great ideas and the great emotions of the world's history commonly called culture which would enable him to enjoy life and to mingle com panionly with educated men in all callings . lists 2 demands dr williams went on to say that the new demands in engineering education may be grouped under two headings economic and aesth etic the engineer cannot shirk re sponsibility for the economic sound ness of the works in their domain the second demand considers the aesthetic aspects of the work the chief of which are cleanliness quiet and beauty president williams stated that the time has come when the american people will not want to endure the din of the elevated railroad he suggested that this matter of quieting the elevated is a simple matter of engineering re quiring a ballasted and insulated roadbed the demand for beauty is making itself shown in the beautiful tear drop designs of automotive engin eering dr williams concluded with a suggestion that the engineering student should be subject to instruc tion only in the fundamentals of the new developments the rest of the training should be left to the stu dent himself would curb disease unify all currency if made ruler writes in detroit news as dictator i should make war on those conditions in life which cause cruelty and misery and more especially on those monster social evils which have caused suffering in all ages the chief of these are war poverty disease crime mis government and sexual vice and frustration writes dr neil caroth ers director of the college of bus iness administration in an article in the feb 9 edition of the detroit news plans no revolution dr carothers is planning no rev olution to seize the government but as one of the nation's leading think ers he was asked by a newspaper syndicate if you were made dic tator of the world with absolute powers what would you do acting on this assumption dr carothers declares my philosophy would be that in the present prim itive state of man's knowledge the only practicable objective of life is a social order in which every indi vidual has an opportunity to develop to the maximum his own interests capacities and usefulness subject only to the proviso that it should not be at the expense of the wel fare and freedom of others i should also install a new world currency unit he adds in time the dollar if it is not ruined by de basement will be the world's unit in deference to the currency pre judices of nations i would select a new unit expressible in both centi grams and grains and different from all existing units this com mon standard would be a gold coin proposes pension system there would be a frugal pension system inaugurated for the unem ployables such as the infirm and the aged and all forms of public char ity public and private pension sys tems and compulsory insurance would be abolished slowly in in dustrial countries 50 per cent of the future increase in the retail value of all land would be taken by the gov ernment private enterprise would be forbidden to issue bonds and mortgages thus eliminating one of the great causes of depressions dictator carothers would im mediately remove all other dicta tors but would also encourage everywhere the establishment of the american system of representative government with its three branches legislative executive and judicial the legislatures however would be unicameral instead of bicameral freedom of speech would make the carothers dictatorship an unusual one divorce would be granted with out trial where both parties made application after one year of mar riage divorced persons would not continued on page four brunn to discuss law school work speaks at banquet isochromatic work sculp tures will be exhib ited until feb 23 an exhibition of isochromatic paintings and international sclupture is on display at the university art gallery in the library the paintings circulated by the college art asso ciation will remain until feb 23 isochromatic paintings resulted from a commercial venture to test the durability of a new type of oil colors developed by m grumbacher of new york city the showing is unique in that all the paintings are uniform in size and framing on the same type of can vas perhaps the most striking fea ture of an isochromatic painting is the complete lack of shading usual ly obtained by differentiation of tone in steel workers by charles zeller we have an isochromatic painting done in brilliant colors with large surfaces of single shades many of the others are not as rep resentative including the work of a local artist city limit by e batchelder of easton other artists submitting their work to this experiment are kather ine s dreier r helbert clifford young a berkman j gross r van zandt and b h porter the sculpture work though large ly european includes several pieces by americans both bronze and wood are represented by such sculptors as koble maillol belling clark g ruiz sava bosaris jer ome and thomas la medice included with the sculpture are several sketches the most numerous being those of bordelle the gallery will be open at the regular hours sunday wednesday thursday and friday afternoons from 3 to 5 and friday evenings from 7 to 9 i e.'s will meet p potochney and w guyer engage in discussion the annual meeting of the model senate held at rutgers university from thursday to saturday was at tended by walter guyer ch e.'36 president of delta omicron theta and peter john potochney arts 37 as lehigh representatives guyer served on the agricultural committee and potochney served on the judiciary committee political questions were discussed and voted upon by the senate one of the bills discussed was resolved that congress should be empowered to override by a two-thirds vote deci sions of the united states supreme court declaring acts of congress unconstitutional the question was defeated by a vote of 39 to 42 another bill which was debated was one drafted by the bar rela tions committee along lines of the present nye bill this act was also defeated by a vote of 41 to 43 pro fessor fenwick a well known lead er in neutrality and a bryn mawr professor had a surprising influ ence on the outcome of this bill said potochney the pure foods act regulating false advertising of foods was also discussed by the model senate the senate was attended by 31 schools this year it was held at vassar col lege last year arrangements were not made for the meeting place of the senate for next year although lehigh was mentioned as a possi bility radio club to hold party friday at knutson's home prizes of interest to radio bugs will be given at the annual party of the radio club to be held at 7:30 p m friday at the home of prof and mrs henry c i knutson 636 16th avenue knutson assistant professor of electrical engineering is the faculty adviser of the club donald t cooper e e 36 pres ident of the club stated that the party would take the place of a christmas party to avoid conflict with the parties of other societies he also said that this would be a purely social affair with no speeches and that refreshments would be served shakespeare to be read by dramatic club the faculty dramatic club will give a public reading of william shakespeare's twelfth night at 8 o'clock wednesday evening in the lounging room of packard labora tory the reading will be under the supervision of mrs stewart s cairns the part of orsino duke of illy ria will be played by prof john m toohy sebastian brother to viola carl f strauch antonio a sea cap tain prof arthur w klein valen tine clyde a harding sir toby belch uncle to olivia prof james l graham sir andrew theodore g ehrsam malvolio steward to olivia prof edgar h riley a priest and a clown prof stewart s cairns olivia mrs sidney brown viola mrs edgar h riley maria olivia's woman mrs cyril d jen sen all students and members of the faculty are invited to attend the reading a s m e to hear adlam on steam heating aspects t n adlam vice president and chief engineer of the sarco company will speak on modern aspects of steam heating at a meeting of the student branch of the a s m e thursday in room 466 packard laboratory a technical motion picture mod ern trends in turbine design will be shown is awarded first prize by ray perkins gilberto escobedo c e 36 who broadcast at 6 o'clock sunday eve ning on the feenamint amateur hour won the first prize in this week's contest and was awarded a 100 gold watch the program which includes ray perkins and arnold johnson and his orchestra escobedo sang a new song en titled havana heaven with his guitar he accompanied the first chorus which he sang in spanish the second chorus which he sang in english was accompanied by the orchestra escobedo received his chance to sing on the feenamint hour when he won the three local amateur con tests sponsored from october 1935 february 1936 by a brewery in al lentown as part of his first prize for winning the final contest es cobedo was sent to new york where h,e was given the chance to sing on the feenamint hour his next appearance on the radio will be at 7:45 p m saturday when he will broadcast over wip phila delphia he has been on the wip sustaining program since novem ber herrick represents lehigh robert f herrick assistant edi tor of the alumni bulletin repre sented the lehigh university pub licity department friday and satur da at the district 2 meeting of the american college publicity associa tion at the hotel willard in wash ington d c honoraria and bonuses approved by board honoraria and service bonuses for the officers and staff of the brown and white during the past semester were approved yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the board of publications in the office of the chairman dean c m mcconn because the budget of the brown and white did not show a true pic ture of the financial activities of the publication the board rejected the budget and ordered it returned to the executive committee for correc tion it will be considered at the next meeting of the board on feb 27 the board approved a change in the constitution of the paper which makes the term of office of the cir culation manager and financial man ager one semester instead of one year final approval of the officers of the paper who began their terms at the beginning of the semester was given ottens to speak friday the application of the photoelec tric cell in determining stellar mag nitudes will be discussed by edwin f ottens ch e 38 during a meeting of the ernest w brown astronomical society to be held at 7:30 p m friday in room 353 packard laboratory to speak to law class seniors invited herbert t brunn bus 34 of the cornell university law school will discuss the conditions and oppor tunities of law school work before the class in business law at 9 a m thursday in christmas-saucon hall all seniors who are interested in law school are invited to attend the class this is part of the program of the cornell law school under which students in the school return to their old colleges to speak to seniors about law schools it is not a sell ing campaign for cornell but a plan to assist seniors uncertain about law school matters states dr neil carothers director of the college of business administration while at lehigh brunn was a phi beta kappa a member of the newtonian society and a member of the soccer team for three years o 45 at father-son dinner forty-five people were present at an informal father-son dinner sat urday evening at the alpha chi rho fraternity house fifteen of the boys fathers attended the dinner the group witnessed the perm state - lehigh wrestling meet later in the evening brown tells section d of medieval schools in the old days at the univer sity of heidelberg a student was fined 25 cents if he was caught when about to throw a stone at a profes sor if he threw it and missed he was fined 4 while if he hit the professor the fine was at the dis cretion of the president stated s3'd ney m brown professor of history in addressing the annual taylor hall section d banquet thursday eve ning at the sun inn professor brown compared the conditions at the old universities with those at the universities of to day he contended that in the old days when the students did not have frequent entertainment such as dances they were forced to resort to rough and tumble forms of en tertainment in addition to brown's speech eight freshmen from section d competed for a prize in oratory harold p wilson won with a speech entitled reasons for found ing a society for the protection of buffalo calves abandoned during stampedes walter l finlay ch e 36 chief of dormitory ¦ section was toastmaster connelly to demonstrate watt steam engine midget auto racing air-condition ing and railroads will be discussed at a meeting of the industrial en gineering society at 7:30 p.m thurs day in room 360 packard labora tory j r connelly assistant profes sor of mechanical engineering will demonstrate a recently made model of one of the original watt steam engines following this david w hop pock i e 36 president of the so ciety will talk on the growing political significance of industrial relations brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday february 18 19&6 five men get 4.00 average one-fourth students above b e.e.'s to discuss electric problems price — five cents physicist to read paper on coal prospecting vol xliii — no 31 williams sees new demands for engineers alumni to meet with institute in new york dr carothers imagines rule as ' dictator all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association |
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