Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 40

              schlegel shows orrery to group joint meeting hears talk on motion of planets ralph schlegel an employee of the bell telephone company ad dressed the astronomical societies of the moravian college for wom en the moravian college for men and the e w brown astronomical society of lehigh at a joint meet ing tuesday evening the lehigh society members were the guests of the moravian women's society mr schlegel gave a short re sume oi the history of astronomy and then described an orrery an instrument to show the relative motions of the naked eye planets which he had constructed the speaker used the instrument to il lustrate the retrograde action of mars the short motion from west to east occasioned by the relative motions of the earth and that plan et the members of the moravian college for women's society accep ted an invitation to inspect sayre observatory wednesday april 6 which is the first of the open nights sponsored by the e w brown soc iety to be held this spring the observatory will be open every clear wednesday evening until may 18 according to norman r bell e e 39 president of the society dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administra tion was recently appointed a member of the bethlehem safety commission by mayor robert pfeifle carothers appointed purdue lecturer speaks of success factors in later life dr lillian gilbreth guest of the mechanical and industrial en gineering society spoke on new opportunities in management at a meeting of the society on thurs day evening in packard auditor ium she was introduced by prof fred v larkin head of the de partment of mechanical and in dustrial engineering in her talk dr gilbreth men tioned the need for logic ethics an esthetic sense and a under standing of economics in order to expect success she also said that the engineer must have a philosophy of work in discussing the field of activity in management she described the need for the engineer to be ac quainted with the handling of materials dr gilbreth holds degrees from the university of califronia the university of michigan brown university rutgers university and russell sage college she is a lecturer on industrial engineering at purdue university acts as a consulting engineeri and writes for leading periodicals libertas sob sisters are indifferent to journalism honorary society pledges 6 juniors engineers club sponsors lecture on locks the engineers club of lehigh valley will present a lecture by maxwell c maxwell assistant to the president of the yale and towne manufacturing s company on loxology or the history and science of lockmaking at 8 p m on april 4 in packard auditorium fred v larkin head of the de partment of mechanical engineer ing was chairman of the meeting committee which arranged the lec ture for which tickets will be available in drown hall maxwell will speak on the his tory of locks methods of keying and the problems involved in the construction of cylinder locks he will illustrate and demonstrate the principals involved by the use of models and slides as an interesting exhibit he will bring with him the oldest known lock in the world it is clamied that this lock was constructed be fore the birth of christ picture presented mrs brown chosen head jenkins is reelected mrs sidney brown was elected president of the faculty dramatic club at a recent meeting of the or ganization mrs warren ewing as sumed the office of secretary and dr william l jenkins instructor in psychology was reelected treas urer there is to be an open reading on april 6 in packard laboratory of shakespeare's king henry iv on april 23 in drown hall the club will present gilbert and sul livan's operetta pinafore the cast of the production is being di rected by mr howard alexander instructor in mathematics mrs william mcdermott is to act as stage manager mrs tomlinson fort will accom pany the vocalists throughout the opperetta mrs david scott is to sing the leading female role and mr james l clifford instructor in english will deliver the male lead other members of the cast will in clude dr w wray congdon di rector of admissions mrs c w simmons mrs hilton smith mr howard alexander instructor in mathematics and dr edgar riley associate professor of english 93 courses to be offered faculty will include 52 professors dr harold p thomas head of the department of education and director of the summer session has announced that the regular 1938 session will last from july 5 to aug 13 there will be 93 courses offered during the session 36 of them be ing for graduate students these graduate courses may be applied toward master degrees three additional courses re quired of undergraduate engineers will be given between june 6 and july 2 there will also be a course in route surveying from septem ber 7 to 21 52 to be on faculty there will be 52 men on the ses sions faculty including besides dr thomas president c c wil liams dean charles m mcconn and george b curtis registrar some of the special features for 1938 are an educational clinic a dramatic workshop nature study landscape painting and a school publication the students health service the university library and all other campus facilities will be available for the summer students night in armor leads have been delayed in talent search hartzell gets male lead tryouts for the coming mustard and cheese musical comedy nights in armor were held wednesday evening in drown hall because of the lack of applicants for the female leads the tryouts for girls has been postponed jacob s hartzell bus 40 franklin r norton ch e 39 and thomas w pulliam eng 41 have been selected to take the male singing leads in the musical show the glee club will form the nucleus for the chorus this year and all those men who have tried out have been referred to george c grow arts 38 13 men selected there were 20 men who tried out for the chorus and the follow ing 13 men were selected for a iurther trial with the glee club in ivan a kuryla bus 38 wal ton m henry bus 39 clifford b rieisler bus 40 quentin r keith arts 40 william b todd arts 40 james t bergen ch e 38 william a miller jr bus 40 william i freeman ch e 40 frank j gibbons bus 39 frank j washabaugh jr met e 39 eugene b caller i e 39 norman hammer arts 40 and harry a leidich jr bus 40 all men interested in trying out for the chorus are urged to at cend another tryout at 7:45 p m april 6 in drown hall this will oe the final chance to try for a male singing part in the show search for talent ihere will be a further call for female leads and the mustard and uheese club has appointed a com mittee to investigate the respec tive campuses of moravian and ceaar crest colleges for talent there is a possibility that the show will be given on may 5 and o instead of only on the 6 as previously announced ticket sales will be the determining factor ac cording to john h weigel i e 08 business manager of the club songs for the coming musical production will be published but no definite arrangements have been made as yet david hughes special student has written the j.yrics and composed the music for all the songs and william g dukek chem 38 has written the dialogue aero club meets humphrey speaks presents concert pi tau sigma exercises held in colloquim pi tau sigma national honor ary mechanical and industrial en gineering fraternity pledged six juniors at an exercise held wed nesday morning at colloquium preceding the actual pledging john robert connelly assistant profes sor of mechanical engineering spoke on the purposes and scope of the fraternity the following men were pledged robert m easton i e 39 brian d evans i e 39 thomas m hamill m e 39 wil liam irwin i e 39 charles g layman m e 39 stuart n lewis m e 39 and robert g yingling i e 39 the theta chapter of pi tau sigma was organized at lehigh in 1927 and is one of the sixteen ac tive chapters located at leading engineering schools within the united states okeson to speak will visit newark b and w staff shown technicolor movies the scenic beauty of pennsyl vania was the title of a motion picture shown to the brown and white staff wednesday evening by harold a macneilly representa tive of the state publicity com mission the technicolor pictures which were shown were taken in all sec tions of the state the purpose of the pictures was to show the beau ty which is found within the bord ers of the state mr macneilly has shown the pictures in several of the eastern towns in pennsylvania and has been to albright and ursinus col leges he went to lafayette thurs day to show the movies there kelly talks to members on career in aviation opportunities for the industrial engineer in aviation are as good as those for the aeronautical en gineer howard a kelly grad uate assistant in mechanical en gineering told the aero club at a meeting last wednesday night in packard laboratory the fields of industrial and aeronautical engineering are sim ilar in many respects he said the aviation industry is divided into three main groups research pro duction and transportation fraternity robbed of 56 early saturday morning weather bureau physicist illustrates lecture sigma xi presented dr w t humphrey u s weather bureau physicist last night in the pack ard auditorium dr humphrey gave a illustrated lecture on clouds among the slides shown were a few of the pioneers in the study of clouds they were john ailken a scotchman who proved how clouds were formed and luke howard the earliest classifier of the names of the different types of clouds previous to howard the only notable work on an organized listing of clouds had been made by a frenchman and this list proved impractical in as much as the french names were too hard for people in other countries to hand le howard gave the clouds latin names and since latin is an in ternational language this new list became the international standard last of tone programs features edwards in the final program of the current series of sunday con certs sponsored by tone honor ary musical society dr bateman edwards head of the department ol romance languages presented a piano recital on sunday afternoon in packer memorial chapel orig inal student compositions were also performed dr edwards played two groups of selections the first being taken from bach's the well tempered clavichord book one and the second being composed of a suite by maurice ravel le tombeau de couperin raymond k mane val bus 38 president of tone played four dances written for the piano by members of dr t edgar shields 1936-37 harmony class this concert formally closed the second annual tone series but the society will welcome anyone who wishes to attend the regular sun day afternoon rehearsals of the bethlehem bach choir commenc ing early in april beardslee will speak on student philosophy eleven members of theta xi fraternity were robbed early sat urday morning of a total of 56 while they were asleep in their rooms fountain hill police are contin uing investigation of the robbery they believe that it was an inside job since no evidence can be found of how entrance had been made american alumni council to hear treasurer walter r okeson treasurer of the university will relate his ex periences with the old 413 club at the annual convention of the american alumni council to be held from march 30 to april 2 in the hotel dashler-willick col umbus o lehigh alumni in the vicinity of columbus will have the opportun ity of attending the intercollegiate night to be held on april 2 william a cornelius executive secretary of the alumni associa tion and robert f herrick as sistant alumni secretary will ac company okeson to this conven tion 619 seek admission for september session competitions now open classical society meets latin as a living language was the topic of a paper presented by prof bateman edwards head of the department of romance lan guages at a meeting of eta sigma phi honorary classical fraternity friday evening at the home of dr horace w wright head of the de partment of latin 14 chemical engineers to take field trips a three day field trip commenc ing on april 4 is to be taken by a group of fourteen senior chem ical engineers accommodations will be had at the essex house in newark n j included on the schedule of the trip are to be visits to the proc tor and gamble company the i seton leather company the gor i don distillery and the manhattan rubber company accompanying the students will be charles w simmons associate i professor of chemical engineering i harry b osborn instructor in | chemical engineering dr edwin jr theis associate professor of i chemical engineering and alpha a diefenderfer professor of quan titative analysis dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy will speak wednesday morning at cedar crest college his topic will be student philosophy and the lec ture will be a coninuation of the series of talks on this subject given throughout the eastern col i leges by dr beardslee cedar crest holds regular chapel , exercises every morning and in ; place of their compulsory daily assembly the student body will hear dr beardslee competition for all positions on the lehigh review editorial board is now open all men who desire to compete should contact the review editor and submit work to him before april 20 competitors for the posts of photographic editor and music jazz reviewer are es pecially urged to come out the names of 619 prospective lehigh students were released last week by dr wray h congdon director of admissions the pros pective members of the class of 42 are from twenty-two states the district of columbia and ger many five have been fully admitted 47 have advanced standing and 99 have been admitted tentatively by robert h clark you read the last issue of the brown and white which they put out now meet some of the lib ertas sob sisters and staff you pronounce the word libertas with accent on the ber didn't you ever take latin most centralized figure in any news room is the news editor in this instance it was mary virginia ernest who came all the way from bath to take her place in the slot of the copy desk this is not mary's first year with the lib ertas she would have come over last year only seeing an article in the newspaper was her first intimation of the affair vitally in terested in the libertas and per haps journalism mary emphati cally stated when questioned no i'm not domestic i'm never at home always in bethlehem trains for life's work on the desk was betty erney who plans to chuck journalism for the nursing profession further plans depend upon the kind of patients she gets one of the libertas four male staff members was also grinding out heads lynn bartlett is rather looking toward lehigh and journ alism smart boy he is getting himself in training for low wages by learning to enjoy ten cent cig arettes fred galbraith generously re leased mary luch for a moment and she contributed about some students they think they can take the girls for a ride but the girls take them for a ride it's a vicious circle she's to be a secretary just a bit to one side sat mur - phy with one of cedar crest's fin est mr moravec looked interested so the editor-in-chief carefully explained that this was miss el eanor rager who is way up on | the libertas staff mr moravec i still looked interested murphy | then asked him who put out the better paper the liberty high ! school girls or cedar crest al ! ways the perfect gentleman mr ¦ moravec replied gallantly well ! the liberty high school girls of i course prefers shorthand last year helena lamson held i down the desk and later gave the summer session tabloid its only coed this year sister barbara was ! holding up family traditions in journalism when asked about tak ing a course in summer brown and white she admitted a slight ' preference for shorthand and typ ing then if some editor wanted a trial covered o k then there was bernice brisker a black haired bundle of energy who is nat brisker's sister she's bound for syracuse that's known as a matrimonial college carefully explained the mascot of sigma alpha mv but not for her a ca reer comes first seated on the typewriter table distracting bill carson and char les connors was irene bragg like a maid on a bar everything is fun to her a lover of the meta phore she described lehigh boys as intoxicating but will not suffer a hangover da ros is editor irene bernice and frances da ross managing editors are quite enthusiastic about working on le high's summer session tabloid a drop more of persuasion and they would have signed up frances daßos had the best job all she had to do was stand around and talk to bill weeks she is an affable blonde who can be pinned down to no definite state ments freshman cup winning reporter charles kalmbach walked off with another prize when he took marie gushen home no summer journ alism for her she can't stand sum mer in bethlehem but it's differ ent in winter with a lot of people around tony carcione left the blonde marjorie wright alone for a mom ent asked for her prime reason of existence she finally admitted tennis i'm nuts about tennis all right miss wright local op inion carl konolige says you're pretty good diehl wrote editorials attractive enough to be con vincing lois diehl typing an ed itorial was asked if some of the girls didn't come over here with the hope of making these casual relationships more than just a one night stand don't be silly said she or the equivalent and just when i was writing such a nice editorial about lehigh the spirit of journalism finds vindication in dot barhhart she wants to be a magazine writer if not a newspaper woman on the side write romanticism not she dot sticks to realism the things and persons she knows well she also doesn't believe in draw ing characters so faithful that they can be recognized again art is forsaken betty i barrett likes journalism but she i likes chemistry just a bit better but miss barrett with all your | girls taking up careers what will j become of the american home i'm going to be a doctor won't that help the american home your round kid lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday march 25 1938 next issue april 8 tryouts held on wednesday for musical price — five cents with this issue the brown slid white suspends publication until friday april 8 gives pointers for engineers loxology topic of maxwell talk summer term opens july 5 faculty thespians elect 3 officers group widely known for its reformation in church music praised by gabrilowitsch the oberlin a cappella choir which is traveling through the east during easter vacation and which will sing on april 8 in the packer memorial chapel is at tempting to restore music in tiie church to its original purpose and at the same time to make it in spire and still be satisfying artis tically of the singing of this choir the late ossip gabrilowitsch conduc tor of the detroit symphony or chestra said i was greatly im pressed by the unusual beauty of tone the impression made on me by the a cappella choir will not soon be forgotten christiansen directs choir according to prof olaf c christ iansen director of the choir choral music for the past half century has been enjoying a renaissance after two centuries during which the emphasis was placed on instru mental advancement professor christiansen came to oberlin conservatory of music in 1929 as a teacher of choral sing ing choral conducting and mad rigal singing he has literally grown up in the traditions of his profession a son of dr f melius christiansen of the famous st olaf's choir olaf himself began to conduct church choirs at the age of 16 he graduated from st olaf's college in 1925 after four years in the st olaf's choir under his father's direction with additional study and research in church music in new york city he began to teach in oberlin oberlin choir to give recital here april 8 vol xlv — no 40 the oberlin a cappella choir composed of forty-five men and women of oberlin col lege and conservatory with a program covering four centuries of choral music is making an extended tour through ohio pennsylvania and new york during the easter holidays some of the women in the choir directed by mr olaf christiansen were pictured recently as they ascended one of the spiral stairways on the oberlin campus member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first