Brown and White Vol. 70 no. 28

              ant professor of history in a lecture discussion sponsored by the residence hall opening the lecture portion of the program dr dowling cited a pas sage from revolt of the masses in which the spanish-born author pointed out that a lack of balance gaisifies nature all trends of the west are ex aggerated in america the ideals of america were once accepted as accurate dr dowling stated since the 1880's the ideals others set in america began to fade away because of the fear of pulto cracy this he explained was caused by the inability of america to achieve anything constructive and imagina tive and the debilitation of will and the ability to act the english view of america was i noted by dr dowling in the writ j see american page 3 plans to reduce on-campus mili tary instruction by about 20 per cent and authorize the substitution of university-taught subject during the junior and senior years were announced by the army yesterday the announcement which came in a department of the army release said that the changes will take effect with the fall semester of 1960 such subjects as marksmanship and crew served weapons will be deferred until the voluntary sum mer camp normally attended be tween the junior and senior years advanced students will be able to substitute regular university courses in such fields as science comprehension general psychology effective communicaiton and poli tical institutions and development for rotc studies relative to a compulsory basic rotc course versus an elective course the department of the army recognizes that this is an institutional deter mination but strongly favors a compulsory basic course the place of the training in weapons use will reportedly be taken by expanded military history see army page 7 greeks ousted at canadian u thirty fraternities and eight sor orities were disassociated from the university of toronto earlier this month discrimination was indirectly given as the reason for this action by the university's senior see segregation page 7 vol 70 — no 28 brown and white tuesday february 16 1960 un 6-0331 rathbone issues detailed plans on development a complete report of the plans for the 22 million development program was issued last week by monroe j rathbone president of the standard oil company of n.j and chairman of the university board of trustees the trustees have set as a minimum goal the raising of 5 million in endowment for faculty salaries during the next seven years sufficient money to endow at 100,000 each 20 distinguished serv ice professorships is included in the primary objective of the fund raising campaign return of winter — any hope last week for a continuance of spring-like weather vanished this weekend as snow covered the campus the flurries began saturday evening at 7 scene above is from the lookout overlooking south mountain ' dear liar delights large scl crowd see cornell page 6 street the three sisters an tigone and st joan miss cor nell's name is synonymous with superb theater following an absence from the stage of a few years it was a delight to see that miss cornell had lost none of her charm her elegance her wit the estimated cost of a new metallurgy and chemical engineer ing laboratory is set at 2,750,000 incorporated in the plans for this building of 1,239,550 cubic feet are classrooms drawing rooms a small auditorium offices and 34 instructional and research labora tories containing laboratories class rooms and offices the cost of a new chemistry laboratory wing is 400,000 the college of arts and science building is expected to cost 1 500,000 to provide additional space for the general collections and better facilities to house rare books a new library wing is planned at a cost of 1,500,000 expenditures of 1,600,000 will be required for the program of relocation and construction of the saucon valley playing fields sayre field has already been laid out and will be ready for use next fall with an anticipated increase of see salary page 5 dowling talks at m-m attacks mass morality graduate school draws approval of accreditors lehigh has no real danger of losing its accreditation for the quality of the university is well known the chairman of the mid dle states assn evaluation team said yesterday dr carter davidson — who is also president of union univer sity—told a wlrn interviewing learn that lehigh has im pressed him as being a very fine small university with a rabidly developing graduate school he pointed out in his unofficial remarks that he finds the grad uate school based on a strong un dergraduate college we are primarily interested in the changes which have occurred as a result of the offering of doctorates in several departments which were previously undergrad uate departments dr davidson noted the chairman stressed the importance of accreditation and pointed out the disadvantages graduates of non-accredited in stitutions incur should they apply to graduate schools and attempt to obtain business po sitions universities in order to obtain accreditation dr davidson said submit themselves voluntarily to the evaluation and also compile comprehensive self-studies giving a careful survey of hteir problems president davidson stated a great deal of attention is paid to the comments and opinions of un dergraduates with regard to the operations of the university our report certainly will reflect atti tudes of the students . . . students will have an opportunity to ex press their opinions he said publications are an indica tion of the students concern over what is happening in the world about them he said members of the team will strive to sit in on various classes in order to find out what the general method of instruction is and the see msa page 7 arriving at lehigh prior to its broadway opening in march dear liar provided the capacity audi ence in grace hall with an eve ning of unusual but fine theater the show reunited in memory shaw and mrs campbell but per haps most important it reunited on the stage the great acting team of katharine cornell and brian aherne miss carnell is almost a legend in her lifetime she must be ranked with the great actresses of the cen tury indeed with mrs campbell herself renowned throughout the world for her fine performances in the barrets of wimpole ifc food plan results termed unencouraging several telephone calls to mora vian college women's dormitories by supposed lehigh fraternity pledges requesting women's under garments prompted moravian's dean of women to protest to pres ton parr associate dean of stu dents dean parr sent a letter to ifc urging all fraternities to clean up pledging practices president william horton 60 stated that despite a few in stances such as this pledging practices are generally improv ing discussing the disappointing re urn of group food buying ques tionaires ifc treasurer douglas pleasanton 60 asked all houses to turn in their replies pleasanton reported only 13 fra ternities had returned the ques tionaries ten of these houses noted they were in favor of the plan to get their food jointly through a single firm in order to obtain a cost reduction the first delivery by the firm will be made feb 25 horton told ifc members he did not send a reply to the brown and white anti fraternity editorial of feb 9 because it was foolishness see ifc page 7 rotc to be cut 20 weapons skills dropped by george keiser a move away from objective standards for judgment of achieve ment beacuse of an emergency democracy and the rise of the masses characterizes the moral decline of american culture explained dr joseph a dowling to a group of approximately 100 residents of mcclinlic-marshall house thursday night what most feel is correct becomes correct noted the assist queen of the ball — president martin d whitaker places j crown on pretty susan hill the queen of saturday night's military ball she is the date of edmond walters 61 scabbard and blade | members form traditional arch see story page five