Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 38

              lehigh's opening round opponents j l coolidge to explain geometry origin tonight dr j l coolidge professor of mathematics at harvard uni versity will explain where geometry came from at 8 o'clock tonight in room 466 packard laboratory in the annual public lecture sponsored by pi mv epsilon honorary mathe matics fraternity dr coolidge has published several works on geometry and other branches of mathematics he was awarded the cross of the legion of honor for service during the world war as a ma jor princeton march 13 — the drawings of lehigh's wrestlers for the preliminaries this afternoon are as follows chem society hears miller phi eta sigma taps 9 frosh two to attend model session misses meyers and gehman to play in chapel a recital featuring the works of liszt will be presented at 3:30 o'clock sunday afternoon in packer memorial chapel mrs ruth beck er meyers concert pianist and ac companist of the bach choir miss anna gehman instructor of music at moravian seminary and college for women and dr t edgar shields head of the department of music at lehigh university and moravian seminary and college for women will play because of the death of mrs j upton meyers mother of the solo ist and the measles epidemic at lehigh the concert marking the fiftieth anniversary of liszt's death has been postponed on two occa sions mrs meyers will play toden tanz and miss gehman will pre sent les preludes on the piano both accompanied by dr shields at the organ in addition dr shields will play an interesting prelude and fugue written by liszt on the let ters bach shows forest ruination evils society may send plea to head chapter to lower grades for entrance nine students were added to phi eta sigma honorary freshman so ciety at yesterday's chapel exer cises briefly tracing the history of the organization harold v anderson associate professor of chemistry and faculty adviser of the local chapter said that the lehigh chapter was founded in 1930 the national chap ter was founded by the late thomas a clarke dean of the men's col lege in the university of illinois in 1923 there are now 36 chapters dr max petersen associate pro fessor of physics addressed the club last night on some types of spec tra by means of illustrations he showed that more complicated atoms have more complicated spectra the club will hold elections of officers at the next meeting and will decide whether it will send a peti tion or not to the national organ ization requesting that the lehigh chapter's entrance requirements be lowered r w hall pre-med society hears health service head at meeting lauds dr j letterman at the meeting of the robert w hall pre-medical society last eve ning in packard laboratory dr raymond c bull director of the students health service spoke after a short business meeting the topic of dr bull's speech was the medical tactics in the battle of gettysburg he told with the aid of lantern slides how the army of the potomac used the plan for the treatment of the wounded of dr jonathan letterman a ser geant of the medical corps in all the civil war battles after freder icksburg and chancellorsville the entire system of hospitaliza tion was planned for these battles and the facilities and supplies were adequate in the battle of gettys burg however preparations were made for only 10,000 another han dicap presented itself with the or der of general meade forbidding any material to reach the front ex cept ammunition trains and ambul ances one company ignorant of this order made a record for itself because of its ample supplies acting in accordance with the plan however the entire force was efficient in caring for the wounded despite the lack of supplies military hospitalization provides many difficulties which must be sur mounted said dr bull the wound ed drop everywhere provisions must be made for bringing them to the base hospital emergency hos pitals must be established supplies must be brought and cared for ac tion must not be delayed all these points were taken care of in dr letterman's plan in the battle of gettysburg there were over 20,000 wounded all the medical elements used in that battle were copied in the battles of the world war although some changes had to be made dr letterman was a general practitioner both before and after the war a san francisco hospital now bears his name o dr bradford will discuss new deal politics banks dr frederick a bradford pro fessor of economics will speak be fore the cosmos club faculty dis cussion group at its regular meet ing 6 p m monday march 16 in drown hall to acquaint his audience with the fine points of one of our major problems dr bradford will dis cuss the government and banks under the new deal buy dynamometer edwards uhler to partici pate in student parli ment at perm state douglas edwards arts 38 and eugene uhler arts 37 will rep resent lehigh at the model par limentary session to be held today and tomorrow at perm state thirty colleges and universities will be represented at the session each school sending two delegates who will have the privilege of vot ing and taking part in the open de bates and discussions edwards and uhler are members of the neutrality committee four teen students from six other schools will be represented on each com mittee of which there are three the other committees are the su preme court and the committee that will discuss should married women have positions the coaches of each university will be unofficial members of every committee the presiding officer of the mod el parlimentary session will be dr frizzel a member of the perm state faculty saturday morning there will be an open session of parliment at which unlimited debate and rebut tal will be permitted during their stay at perm state the delegates will stay at the old maine hotel a banquet will be given for them friday evening o howland to talk on nature the robert w blake ' society will hear an address by prof garth a howland head of the depart ment of fine arts on the topic a changing view of nature tonight at 8 o'clock the meeting will be held in room 416 packard labora tory lecturer speaks on pro cesses in the manufac turing of glass the history and developments of the manufacture of glass were de scribed by r a miller sales en gineer of the pittsburgh plate glass company in a lecture before the student chemical society last eve ning in the chemistry lecture room various new types of glass such as tempered glass crystallex a heat-absorbing glass and glass which absorbs a high percentage of ordinary light but permits the passage of infra-red or ultra-violet rays were discussed by mr miller the manufacture of plate glass from the preparation of the molten material to the final annealing cut ting and polishing was illustrated during the lecture mr miller explained that the real advances in the manufacture of glass had come within the past so years he gave a short history of glass be fore describing the manufacture process preceding the lecture john l kornet ch e 36 president of tne society presented the nominations for officers for next year as decided by the nominating committee those nominated are president n j leonard 37 and l j upton 37 vice president r r ashman 37 and t e brookover 37 secre tary c y haas 38 and w g dukek 38 and treasurer w c riedell 37 and b k dauben speck 37 ballot boxes will be placed in the chemistry building and members of the society may vote on self en dorsed ballots the results of the election will be announced at the next meeting trembley tells monarch club disadvantages of unbalanced nature man has unbalanced nature to his own disadvantage stated fran cis j trembley instructor in bi ology in an address monday eve ning before a dinner of the mon arch club at the sun inn in the primeval world said mr trembley plant life supported ani mal life and animal life supported that of plants in a natural balance and early humans lived and were lived upon in much the same way now he declared men have de stroyed the balance by destroying forests and game explaining further the idea of unbalanced nature trembley said that the destruction of forests has resulted in vast soil erosions and displacements and that the de struction of game has taken food from plant life the two actions have served to make food for man kind scarcer for man and all ani mals are dependent ultimately on plant life for food according to an estimate which he quoted the population of the united states having risen rap idly will reach the mark of 140 millions by 1950 this he said will be the high point in the nation's population and in order to support it the nation must halt soil erosion clear streams of sewage and effect a strong co-operation among the farmers will be candidate rigorous hazing period is opposed by 27 of 29 houses 2 still retain missions presidents of 19 houses promise complete abolishion by p e p white hell week at lehigh is today a thing of the past surviving only in ritual mis sions still used by two fraternities the relic of a younger day in amer ican college history has joined in terclass riots calculus cremations and the rah-rah boys in the list of outgrown customs nineteen chapter presidents have notified dean c m mcconn that their houses will no longer have a hell week eight others reported that hell week had already been abolished at their chapters before the dean's persuasive inquiry let ter was sent out and the remaining two fraternities sigma chi and chi phi are retaining no more than missions i believe that missions are re quired as part of the formal initia tion ritual of these fraternities said the dean yesterday pleased with the results of his campaign dean mcconn feels that a clear majority of fraternity heads are glad this step was tak en basing his judgment on the men he has talked with he added a majority of fraternity members may regret it this majority is composed predominately of sopho mores poor students oppose act in three specific cases heads of houses have said to me that nearly all the men in their houses who were opposed to the change are poor students some of them on scholas tic probation it is the less mature less intelligent college student to whom hell week has always ap pealed * fraternities that had abolished hell week before the dean's letter was announced were alpha chi rho alpha tau omega chi psi delta phi delta upsilon phi delta theta psi up silon sigma alpha mu fraternities that have now abol ished hell week alpha kappa pi beta kappa beta theta pi delta sigma phi delta tau delta kappa alpha kappa sigma lambda chi alpha phi gamma delta phi sigma kap pa pi kappa alpha pi lambda phi sigma nu sigma phi sigma phi epsilon tau delta phi theta delta chi theta kappa phi theta xi fraternities that will retain a modified hell week missions on ly chi phi sigma chi civilized sidewalks save modern men from mud faculty members make 5 speeches group to present unusual concert m e department acquires new equipment ——————— the mechanical engineering de partment has just acquired a new dynamometer from the bethlehem fabricators who used it on work on truck engines equipped with gov ernors in order to carry on this work they borrowed one of the mechanical engineering depart ment's automobile engines after the completion of tnese tests the dynamometer and engines were idle for several years and the bethlehem fabricators lack of use of the dynamometer induced them to sell it to the university the dynamometer is a general electric cradle-type of approxi mately 75 horsepower capacity it can be used as driving machine for pumps and fans or as a load-absorb ing machine when it is driven an interesting side-light is that the electrical grids used for absorbing loads will be used in dual capacity thus they will also serve to load up or absorb the electrical output from the westinghouse electro-tur bo generator now installed in the laboratory o cornelius convalescing william cornelius alumni secre tary has been confined to his home in ardmore pa for over a week recuperating from an attack of grippe mr cornelius contracted the illness while visiting lehigh alumni chapters in pittsburgh re cently perm state and princeton are strong but lehigh is favored finals to be tomorrow scobey and ashman de fend crowns in heavy weight and 118-lb class bulletin princeton n j march 13 in the sub-preliminary inter collegiate wrestling bouts this afternoon wesley clow the only lehigh man to wrestle won a referee's decision over zullo of columbia in the 118 lb class after two extra per iods cornell and perm state hold a temporary lead in point scor ing with one fall each o by randolph s young with a powerful group of en trants from the largest universities in the east the thirty-second an nual wrestling tournament sponsor ed by the eastern intercollegiate wrestling association got under way this afternoon at princeton members of the various teams weighed in this morning and the drawing for the opening round bouts was completed at noon pre liminary matches were run off this afternoon and will be followed by the semi-final bouts tonight the final will start at 2 o'clock tomor row afternoon and the place bouts will go on immediately afterward lehigh the defending champion left bethlehem last evening at 6:41 o'clock in quest of its ninth eastern title and its sixth straight mat crown due to the showing that the big brown team has made in the east this season it enters the matches as the favorite and will consequently be the main target for the eight other entries competition to be keen competition will be extremely keen this year due to the powerful teams that are entered by the mem bers of the association perm state over whom lehigh has the distinc tion of being the only victor was the favorite last year and the nit tany lions will make a competent bid for the title again princeton the host for the championships has entered an undefeated team thor oughly coached by lehigh's former champion jimmy reed upsets in the past meets have been made the task of picking cham pions practically an impossible one teams which have fought their way through a victorious dual mat sea son with a finely balanced lineup have lost to an apparently weaker aggregation comparative team scores are rendered worthless due to the high premium on individual championships lehigh undefeated in east to date lehigh is undefeated in the east and has lost to only one team this season that to indiana in an intersectional match the brown and white team is very well bal anced and its chances for the cham pionship lie in the fact that prac tically every man on the team has an excellent opportunity to pick up points in all the weight divi sions lehigh has its outstanding stars but the possibility that every man will add to the score is its continued on page four new play chosen admission office arranges talks for schools five faculty members are out of town today on engagements arrang ed by the office of admissions in the morning dr wray h congdon director of admissions spoke to the asbury park n j high school on how to stay in college c wesley phy instructor in english addressed one assembly of the west philadelphia high school on early english songs and ballads and the other parallel assembly heard sydney m brown professor of history describe me dieval school boys edgar h riley associate profes sor of english spoke of poetry of wit and humor this afternoon to the south side high school of rockville center n y in the eve ning e k smiley assistant direc tor of admissions represents le high at a college night in norris town o miss helms gets b s miss myrtle helms assistant desk attendant of the library staff has just received the degree of b.s in library service from columbia university miss helms completed her course last summer shannons of broadway replaces cyrano a a rights instructor in eng lish and coach of mustard and cheese dramatics club has an nounced that the play shannons of broadway will be produced by the club this spring in place of the postponed cyrano de bergerac the cast will be announced mon day night mr rights stated fol lowing a rehearsal wednesday all men who attended wednes day's rehearsal are requested to re port to drown hall at 8 p m mon day scoblionko 31 announc es aspiration for post attorney emanuel g scoblionko bus 31 has recently announced his candidacy for the lower house of the pennsylvania state legisla ture from this district mr scob lionko a native of bethlehem was graduated from lehigh in 1931 with honors the candidate who was appoint ed to the wickersham crime com mission in 1931 has announced that his platform will be in line with that of president roosevelt and governor earle scoblionko was president of the pre-legal and international rela tions societies while at lehigh 1q bishop to speak on taxes at regular meeting of i.e.'s the industrial engineering so ciety will hear a talk by dr ward l bishop associate professor of economics at its regular monthly meeting at 7:30 p m thursday march 19 in room 466 packard laboratory recent legislation on the sur plus tax one of the national econ omic problems will be dr bishop's topic after the discussion a bus iness meeting will be held followed by refreshments stated william l schnabel i e 37 president of the society snow sleet rain hail and snow five weeks of it below freezing then slowly a return to normal as the thermometer climbs under a cheerful sun snowbanks four feet high soften and run glistening icicles drip and dwindle the river swells and washes long-dry banks plodding students heads bowed with worry and care miss their footing on the mountain slopes and faw down — kerplunk and then say all sorts of unpleasant things about the weather hush o soft and pampered col lege youths conserve your ire for matters more deserving than the mere inconvenience of a snappy skid on a bit of wet ice time was and not so long ago either when melt ing snow really meant trouble for lehigh men the streets and side walks on the campus have not al ways been paved with nice strong macadem and nice hard concrete as a matter of fact they were once not paved at all — just dirt paths and several thousand cubic feet of water soaking into a few dirt paths can make walking to classes a herculean task riding an impos sibility witness a letter written in march 1887 to the editors of the then-in fluential burr harvard obtains sidewalks up at harvard lately they have had considerable trouble with the overflowed grounds and after an editor of the crimson had fallen into three feet of water and wandered off the main channel of the side walk twice in one evening when according to all accounts he was in a perfectly sane and sober turn of mind the crimson appealed to the residuary powers and beseeching either lights raised sidewalks or gondolas at length obtained the sidewalks now here at lehigh we are not in pressing need of the lights we could not make the gondolas climb the hill but during the past few months as the army of students marched laboriously up the hill of learning each morning through mud and slush and puddles and rivulets of melted snow making frantic ef forts to keep their feet and fruit less endeavors to find drier paths they have become convinced that we need sidewalks yes anything in the shape of sidewalks stone wood asphaltum or even pennsylvania brick — any thing to keep us dry from our knees down and save some of those colds which cling so persistently and which are of such exceeding incon venience at times the newly-erected railing was one improvement in the right di rection and now that we shall be presedved hereafter from becoming moist in our upper extremities by sudden descents to mother earth during the wintry weather we hope by the time that it comes again we will be able to keep dry below to play 17th century mu sic on rare instruments a concert by the american so ciety of ancient instruments will be given in packer memorial cnapel at 8 p m on march 24 the con cert is under the auspices of the albert n cleaver foundation for music all instruments to be used are museum pieces authentic works of master craftsmen of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but in perfect one and condition the harp sichord a faithful reproduction of the forerunner of the piano is the only instrument of modern make during the hour and a half con cert the audience will be transplant ed into the romantic atmosphere of two centuries ago this is the only permanent en semble in the united states which specializes in the music and rare old instruments of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the instruments on which the five artists perform include the quinton played by jo brodo the viole d'amour played by ben stad the founder of the ensemble the viole de gamba played by josef smit the basse de viole played by maurice stad and the harpsichord played by flora stad lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday march 13 1936 fraternities agree to drop hell week vol xliii no 38 price — five cents pianists will give recital of liszt bull describes medical corps tactics in war lehigh tries for sixth title in row in eastern wrestling opening today at princeton lehigh class opponent low 118-lb zullo columbij lshman 126-lb reed princetor erry 135-lb light perm state ionzales 145-lb morgan cornel ishop 155-lb ruggerio penr crockett 165-lb lindeke yale terngold 175-lb peters syracuse cobey heavyweight jochum columbia to continue indoor drill until week of march 30 the military department an nounces that the winter drill schedule will be continued un til the week of but not including march 30 outdoor drills may be started before that time if the weather is favorable member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first