Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 51

              pass in review bethlehem pa tuesday may 11 1937 commencement speaker vol xliv no 51 10 will compete for cash prizes price . . . five cents fraternities hold spring formals o.d.k points due may 17 says leonard 4 houses are hosts to 440 couples c c morgan well pleased with r.o.t.c 1000 attend dramatic club musical show 12 candidates seek 6 offices in 3 classes williams speech contests to be tomorrow inspecting officer watches units annual field day competitions guest majors judge tests audiences jam drown hall for 2 presentations of 6 boy in babeland 13 songs in comedy lists rules and require ments for membership to senior society no changes in system senior junior and sopho more presidents being chosen today ware system to be used dr francis p games games to talk at graduation three spring formal dances were given saturday night by four so cial fraternities lambda chi alpha and sigma phi epsilon combined for a dance in the main ballroom of the hotel bethlehem which was attended by 200 couples chaperons were harry b osborn assistant in chemical en gineering mrs osborn and mrs jenny vye dacey nurse in charge of the dispensary ken brader and his orchestra of easton furnished the music forty couples attended the beta kappa dance at the chapter house robert d billinger associate pro fessor of chemistry and mrs bil linger were the chaperons claude lamarr and his orchestra of beth lehem played the kappa sigma dance at the chapter house was attended by 200 couples dr j peters assistant di rector of the students health ser vice was the chaperon harry ro mig and his orchestra of allentown played the williams contest in oral composition for freshmen and the williams contest in extemporan eous speaking for seniors and jun iors will be held at 7:30 p m to morrow in packard auditorium prizes of 40 and 15 will be of fered in the freshman contest top ics which are as yet unknown will be drawn in the afternoon the fol owing men will compete warren w ache eng carl r fittkau eng fred e galbraith eng rus sell kowalyshyn arts and edwin rl miller arts sidney j lewis arts 37 mor ris mindlin arts 38 richard g phelps e m 38 michael c por azzi arts 37 and charles f zell bus 38 are competing in the other contest which will be held after the freshman competition prizes in this contest will be 75 and 25 topics concerning the european situation will be drawn in the afternoon judges for the contests will be dale h gramley associate profes sor of journalism carl f strauch instructor in english joseph c callaghan instructor in english elmer e leppert fellow in eng lish and glen h shepler fellow in english williams announces selec tion of washington and lee president relations club hears i lyse 500 delegates at press meet professor discusses devel opment and origin of scandinavians russ westover addresses fourth annual scho lastic conference president clement c williams has announced that dr francis p games president of washington and lee university in lexington va will give the commencement address on tuesday morning june 15 the subject of the address has as yet not been determined dr games is at the present time on a vacation abroad and plans to return in the early part of june he received his b a degree from richmond college m a degree from university of chicago ph d degree from columbia university and his litt d degree from duke university and columbia he was president of wake forrest college from 1927 to 1930 when he became the president of washington and lee university military society taps 10 pledges ceremony held in armory after field day drill one thousand people attended the two performances of the mustard and cheese musical comedy boy in babeland on friday and satur day nights in drown hall the to tal gate receipts amounted to 110 according to joseph a hopkins bus 38 program manager there were 13 songs presented in the show 11 of which were writ ten by david hughes ch e 38 james reed who wrote the other two songs did all the arranging and also conducted the mustard and cheese club orchestra during both performances people were turned away at the door all available seats were taken and many persons had to sit on the window sills or stand the story written by judson schaeffer assistant in journalism revolves about a country boy homer bortz played by nel son leonard chem 37 who goes to an engineering college once there he is sought after by doris doolittle played by gene vieve giering homer then meets cynthia played by isabel mat thews and falls in love with her in the end homer wins the hand of cynthia and doris finding herself cast off marries her old lover frank played by frank norton ch e 39 pazzetti offers comedy the comedy is furnished by pro fessor doolittle played by vincent pazzetti bus 37 and his three fel low scientists who are doing re search work on the relative space living things theory the tango and waltz specialty numbers were per formed by jeannette seiter and her pupil george montgomery the play consisted of two acts and 13 scenes eight of which were in the first act the play ended with homer and cynthia overcome with their new-found love singing a ro mantic duet on the balcony of pro fessor doolittle's home surrounded by the whole cast albert rights instructor in english was the di rector starts campaign for subscriptions review increases price for next year election of class officers lehigh union officers and cheerleaders are being held today from 8 a m until 6 p m three juniors have been nominated for the presidency of the senior class four sophomores for president of the junior class and hve freshmen for president of the sophomore class the list of nominees for senior president are harry c milbank i e frank vernon i e and frederick b bayer bus those competing for junior president are robert g yingling i e eugene b caller i e wilson r pier pont arts and frank rabold e.e the nominees for sophomore pres ident are alfred v bodine eng j robert whitmeyer eng clif ford b heisler bus frank elliot eng and alfred cox eng 5 running for cheerleader those running for cheerleaders for next year are robert duenner e m 38 delta phi richard par sons i e 38 kappa alpha rob ert titlow arts 38 sigma phi ep silon charles d couch bus 38 kappa alpha and james lodge arts 39 delta upsilon the candidates for president of the lehigh union are melvin s lord ch e 38 charles f zell bus 38 robert berg bus 38 the candidates for secretary-treasurer of the union are philip j welch m e 38 and eugene c fleming bus 38 the nominees for junior represen tative to the union all of the class of 39 are allan s grant i e marcus e wertz e e court land f carrier i e and george b rheinfrank i e the nominees for sophomore representative to the union both of the class of 40 are william j o'brien eng and al fred t cox eng the ware preferential system of voting is employed whereby one votes for the candidates in order of his preference in counting the ballots they are first distributed in the order of the first choices the man with the lowest number of votes after this distribution is then declared defeat ed the ballots that are cast for him are then distributed to the re maining candidates according to the second choice preference two highest selected this is continued until the two highest remain the man with the highest number of votes being de clared the president and the other man the secretary-treasurer in the event that a second choice vote is cast for a man already defeated the third choice is used professor inge m lyse research associate professor of engineering materials talked on the develop ment of the history of the scan dinavian countries at a meeting of the international relations club held sunday evening at the sun inn professor lyse told of the origin and development of the scandina vian peoples which include the danes fins norwegians and swedes the history of these peo ples and the historical backgrounds of each was discussed the new officers of the club who were recently elected were installed into office they were melvin s lord ch e 38 president ran dolph s young arts 38 vice pres ident john e suttcliffe arts 39 secretary and john k montmeat bus 38 treasurer captain william m tow retir ing assistant professor of military science and tactics gave a farewell address to the group also at the meeting dr amos a ettinger as sociate professor of history was presented with a gift by the delega tion which he advised at the model league of nations meeting an an nual affair held this year at cor nell university glee club gives concert saturday buff et dinner held radio program presented by 40 members house heads guests of phi gamma delta nelson j leonard chem 37 president of omicron delta kappa senior honorary activities fraternity announced today that points tow ard membership in o d k must be submitted to him at the delta tau delta house before noon mon day may 17 the general rules and eligibility requirements of the society have not been changed from last sem ester's and are as follows group 1 scholarship 3.5 average 5 semesters 15 3 average 5 semesters 12 2.5 average 5 semeseters 6 2 average 5 semesters 2 w a wilbur scholar 3 tau beta pi 2 tau beta pi prize 2 alpha kappa psi 2 alpha epsilon delta 1 eta kappa nu 1 eta sigma phi 1 international relations club 1 newtonian society 1 phi eta sigma 1 pi mv epsilon 1 pi tau sigma 1 robert blake society 1 class honors 1 other scholastic prize 1 group 11 publications brown and white business manager 5 editorial manager 5 news manager 5 circulation manager 4 editor in chief 4 financial manager 4 board 2 copy supervisor 2 local advertising assistant 2 make-up editor per semester 2 news editor per semester 2 photographic editor per semester 2 sport editor per semester 2 editorial council 1 columnist per semester 1 review editor in chief 6 business manager 5 assistant editor 4 advertising manager 3 circulation manager 3 art editor 2 board 2 handbook chairman of the board 2 business manager 1 editorial manager 1 epitome editor in chief 9 business manager 7 chairman senior section 5 advertising manager 3 circulation manager 3 junior editor 3 assistant business manager 2 senior section committee 2 pi delta epsilon membership 1 group 111 social leaders class officers president senior class 6 president junior class 4 president sophomore class 4 secretary-treasurer senior class 3 president freshman union 2 secretary-treasurer junior class 2 secretary-treasurer sophomore class 2 interfraternity council interfraternity council 2 president 2 societies president of any society listed in group i 1 president course society 1 arcadia head of living group 8 president 5 dormitory chief 4 town group representative 4 scabbard and blade honorary military fraternity tapped ten pledges yesterday in the armory af ter the field day review at which pledges were announced v j paz zetti 111 bus 37 former captain of the organization presided over the pledging scabbard and blade pledges twice yearly taking in juniors and seniors in the fall and juniors in the spring recent elections of the organiza tion voted the following officers for next year m s lord ch e 38 captain r a dean i e 38 vice president m r collins m e 38 treasurer and l o travis bus 38 secretary the men pledged were edwin m bradway arts 38 allan c crane bus 38 milton c enstine i e 38 eugene c fleming bus 38 william d lucas ch e 38 mel vin r mesoroll i e 38 george l schiel met e 38 evans h stone bus 38 philip j welch m e 38 russell r winters bus 38 i came here expecting to find a superior organization said major charles c morgan infantry officer representative of the commanding general of the third corps area while watching the field competi tions preceding the final regimen tal parade and review and i don't believe that i shall go away disap pointed asked at the conclusion of the review if it could be said that he had not been disappointed major morgan laughed and said i have not been disappointed i'm very well pleased president c c williams stated major green is to be congratulat ed for having such a splendid unit in turn major j o green head of the military department said that he was very pleased with the work and thought that it was the best that he had ever seen he added that every one commented favor ably company e with g h beck m e 38 captain won the com pany drill and was awarded the as sociation of the u s army cup and three streamers for the com pany guidon by the field judges major george r hedge infantry officer and major milton b good year infantry officer the com panies representing the other two battalions in the competition were l and c headed by w c riedell ch e 37 and m l jackson eng phys 37 the first platoon of company f under the command of lieut r w vogelsberg m e 37 won the scabbard and blade cup and one streamer for its company guidon in the platoon drill competition pla toons representing the other two battalions were the first platoon of company c under lieut c b till son e m 37 and the first platoon of company x with lieut h s krauter ch e 37 out of 18 men participating in the manual of arms elimination the gold instructors medal was awarded to w e young bus 39 and the sil ver instructors medal to s n lewis m e 39 of three squads selected from each of the battalions the squad drill competition was won by the first squad of the third platoon of company b under corp l p elly e e 39 j u truslow i e 39 and j c rebert m e 39 both of company l were the first pair able to get their tent set up and equipment in order in the tent pitching contest the novelty contest of the after noon was the equipment race start ing at one end of the field the two men from each company shed right shoe cap necktie and left shoe as they dashed to the end of the field where pack equipment was laid out v s gray eng 40 company c and c f carrier i e 39 com pany g came in first and second the men were not kept in ranks for long periods this year and the band was even given folding chairs to sit upon while they relaxed and played a few numbers group will meet building committee to give annex contract maurice darling chairman of the national interfraternity council gave an informal talk at a buffet dinner held friday evening at the phi gamma delta fraternity house the two ranking officers from all the university fraternities were guests at the supper the supper was similar to one held last year by the phi gamma delta fraternity in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the lehigh chapter jack hoppock i e 38 said that the supper had been so successful that the fraternity would probably make it an annual event mr darling's informal talk dealt with the problems with which fra ternities are confronted and solu tions to these problems delta upsilon entertains parents on mother's day delta upsilon fraternity enter tained approximately 50 parents professors and their wives sunday afternoon at a mother's day tea those attending from the uni versity were president and mrs c c williams prof and mrs bosey reiter prof and mrs p m pal mer and prof and mrs stoughton the building committee of the board of trustees planned to meet today in the offices of the univer sity architects visscher and bur ley in new york city to award the contract for erection of the chem istry addition the committee has twice post poned awarding the contract due to the inability of the members to meet as scheduled the ground has been prepared for immediate work by the contractors and work will start as soon as one of the bids is accepted by the committee c d marshall is chairman of the committee a drive for subscriptions to the 1937-38 lehigh review was started today those who subscribe before the end of this semester will get a reduction of 25 cents this is the first time in the his tory of the review that a drive for circulation was started during the preceding semester the price of the review will be 1.50 regularly but for those subscribing before the end of this semester the price will be 1.25 next year the review will be mailed to subscribers instead of being delivered by student carriers plans are also being formed to have colored covers next year candidates for the position of as sistant circulation manager are sell ing subscriptions under the direction of robert seabrook e e 39 cir culation manager and george rheinfrank jr i e 39 business manager r o t c unit drills in field day exercises continued on pane four forty members of the glee club presented a 15 minute concert at 1 o'clock saturday afternoon over station wcau from philadelphia dr t edgar shields professor of music directed the club hal e towne arts 37 president-manager was in charge of arrangements and carstens y haas ch e 38 was the accompanist the program was as follows hail the college van vleck the dagger dance herbert from natima the flowers that bloom in the spring sullivan from mikado dedication franz sung by the double quar tet two russian folk songs fireflies and at father's door and the alma mater juniors take theme test fifty-two members of the class of 38 took the annual junior im promptu theme test recently of these 38 students successfully pass ed the test and 14 failed two jun iors were absent when the test was given the test is given to all arts men to check up on their writing ability over 500 delegates from high schools and preparatory schools of pennsylvania and new jersey at tended the fourth annual scholastic press conference held here satur day seven pennsylvania and three new jersey schools received first place awards in the contests held in connection with the meet the guest speaker was russ westover creator of tillie the toiler who stressed the impor tance of original and novel ideas in newspaper scoops he illustrated his lecture with drawings of his comic strip characters mac and tillie and also characterizations of dale h gramley associate profes sor of journalism and dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administration president c c williams gave the opening address to the gathering in which he welcomed the guests to the university following this dr carothers addressed the group re lating some of his experiences with newspapermen he also spoke on the cartoon phase of journalism newspapermen judge in addition to the first place win ners ten second place plaques and 39 certificates of merit were award ed the awards were announced by professor gramley judges for the contest were harold b far quhar editor of the bethlehem globe-times harry k trend for mer manager of the bethlehem of fice of the allentown morning call and john neely member of the staff of the allentown chronicle and news first place awards were as fol lows class a newspapers the york high weekly william perm senior high school york class a magazines the high school rec ord camden senior high school camden n j class b newspapers the spotlight coatesville high school coatesville class b mag azines the el delator cheltenham high school elkins park class c neswpapers the blue and white news west york high school york class c magazines the glen-nor crier glen-nor high school glenholden class d news papers the jeannette high school dispatch jeannette mimeographed papers the student voice flem ington high school flemington n j prep school newspapers the mercersburg news mercersburg academy mercersburg prep school magazines the aster prospect hill school newark n j in the afternoon eleven round table discussions were led by jour nalism students and practicing newspapermen the brown and white pitch shelter tents stand at ease member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh newt first