Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 31

              wrestling smoker planned for 7:30 tonight bosey reiter will leave bethlehem sunday bound for florida via new york in search of health and renewed strength wrestling 3:00 tomorrow contrary to university bul letin the lehigh - cornell wrestling meet will be held in taylor gym at 3:00 tomor row afternoon students without their coupon books will not be admitted exams condition 219 flunk 127 men eighty-five men work off probation — 57 others fail because of additional duties entailing considerable time wal ter r okeson will tender his resignation as secretary of the lehigh alumni association when the board of directors of that organization convenes in bethlehem tuesday mr oke son recently appointed commis sioner of football officials feels that the obligations created by that appointment will not per mit him to continue in the ca pacity of secretary a position he has held since 1917 in a statement made to the brown and white okey not wishing to influence the execu tives in their choice declined to discuss his possible successor many conjectures may be cited but until the board of directors makes public its decision every thing remains indefinite the resignation will take effect upon the selection of the new official commenting upon the football changes none of which are drastic mr okeson stressed the clarifications to which the rules were subjected lhere are no radical differences which will necessitate the introduction of a different brand of football simplification of the rules will lessen the possibility of de cisions which appear question able to the stands questioned of the support which the eastern colleges are rendering to the recently organ ized football association mr okeson emphasized the lack of moral financial and co-opera tive aid which was prevalent under the central board sys tem with the exception of the 12 universities which were un der the jurisdiction of okeson last year the board had little control of the other colleges while questionnaires mailed to the eastern institutions have not been returned okeson spoke of the fact that membership is voluntary if they desire offi ciating services the new organ ization will be ready to serve them with neutral appointments of officials varsity defeats p m c dribblers physics research begun by bidwell take first place in middle atlantic league by decisive win bosey reiter since new year's day bosey has been in a very dangerous state of health the particular heart ailment which is respon sible for his confinment is very tenacious and only with many months of care will he be him self again physicians say heart specialists who have been in attendance for many weeks despaired of his life and it was only because of the utmost med ical skill combined with bosey's game fish attitude that the popular professor of physical education is now on the road to recovery bosey's condition demands a change of atmosphere upon medical advice he and mrs reiter have obtained an apart ment in miami where they plan to spend several weeks investigations being made by every member recognition of lehigh's un defeated wrestling team will be made in a smoker at 7 30 o'clock tonight in the lower gym its purpose will be to arouse pep and enthusiasm for tomorrow's meet with cornell the entire student body is expected to at tend the event is unusual in that it is the first smoker to be held for wrestling three wrestling bouts are in cluded on the evening's pro gram jimmy reed captain last year will wrestle in one of the exhibition bouts saxton and price two very good tumbl ers will also give a tumbling act capt bill heilman and coach billy sheridan will give short talks r a lewis gen eral manager of the bethlehem steel company and father of al and dick lewis will also speak mr lewis has done a great deal for the wrestling teams at lehigh he gives a banquet annually to the team the band will be out and there will be the usual cheers and songs lehigh's wrestling team is un defeated so far this season with victories over syracuse prince ton columbia and navy how ever the rest of the schedule is hard particularly the cornell and yale meets there will be the usual smokes and corn-cob pipes to night z c hopkins in charge of arrangements reg vests please don't rush the pipes as a considerable number were broken at the last football smoker new geology specimens suggests altered training methods prof hughes thinks young teachers need more supervision the public speaking contest sponsored by the lehigh alum ni association will be held in packer memorial chapel at 11 a m wednesday february 22 the six candidates have been divided into two groups one consisting of engineering stu dents the other b a and bus fness students the candidates and the topics they will present are engineering group david pendrill griffith e.e 30 our next president richard douglass chapman i e 30 a better engineer b a and business group elmer hughes talbert m.e 28 #< the by-product coke and its manufacture carl john heyser jr bus 29 trading on equity arthur fairchilds searing bus 28 accountancy educa tion jacob james longacre b.a 28 the problem of popula tion there are three prizes in each group first prize 25 second prize 15 ; third prize 10 the judges selected by the executive committee are a g rau 88 r s taylor 95 and h j hartzog 04 the contest will probably be of exceptional interest to return ing alumni because it will be the first opportunity they will have had to see and hear the new amplifiers recently installed in the chapel the public is cordially invited to attend the contest a musical program will ac company the speaking program it will open with an organ re cital by t edgar shields in the interlude between the two parts of the contest mr shields will play will o the wisp by nevin while the judges are confer ring the symphony orchestra will play the raymond over ture the alma mater will conclude the program dramatic society names show dates several interesting specimens were added to the geology mu seum tuesday when a farmer from terry county brought in examples showing fish scales of the oldest vertebrates of the silurian period ever found in pennsylvania dr b l miller head of the geology department intends to exhibit these specimens with him next monday before the meeting of american associa tion of mining and metallurgi cal engineers feb 20-21-22 in new york latest methods of discovering ore deposits by geo-physics will be discussed at the meeting a concerted effort is being made to bring high and prep school students to bethlehem april 21 for sub-freshman day coach austie tate sees no reason why every lehigh man cwmot suggest the names of at least two men who might be in terested in lehigh coach tate who has undertaken the active work connected with sub freshman day says undoubt edly the most important thing to be secured before sub-fresh man day is a list of seniors in preparatory schools and high schools who may in any way be considered prospects for le high coach tate has furnished in formation cards which are to be filled out with the name ad dress high or prep school ex tra-curricular activities and athletic activities of each pros pective freshman when these cards are returned to coach tate's office he will write to the prospective freshmen inviting them to be guests of lehigh on sub-freshman day it makes no difference tate continued whether the pros pective athlete is a football play er or not i will be only too glad to follow up the prospect in any event in order to provide accommo dations for the sub-freshman day guests who are to be in vited tate has been in confer ence with f l clayton presi dent of sword and crescent and l c crewe president of cyanide clayton has appoint ed a committtee to assist in the formulation of plans this committee is composed of j c morrison chairman d m homer and l m horton a similar committee of cyanide has been named with crewe chairman j m blackmar and j a lyter as soon as the number of guests can be roughly ascertained arrange ments will be made for their accommodation at fraternity houses all trains will be met and the two committees acting together will escort the guests to drown hall where they will register at coach tate's office at 1 30 p m on the after noon of sub-freshman day the continued on page four inspirational address given by judge wells nine new men elected to mustard and cheese — try-outs to be held soon statistics dust compiled in the dean's office indicate that 127 students were dropped from the university at the end of the first semester this num ber includes 57 men who were on probation and failed to meet the terms that is failed to pass 0 per cent of their credit hours sixteen freshmen were drop ped at the end of their first college term because they failed to pass as much as six hours thirty-five other freshmen were put on probation because of failure to pass at least half their hours the casualties in the three other classes totalled 54 under university rule sophomores juniors and seniors are dropped if they fail to pass a minimum of nine hours these same classes contributed 132 names to the probation list the total number of men on probation is 219 this figure includes nine men who were continued on probation from last semester because of unusual circumstances such as sickness and six others who are listed by the faculty as special cases men who re-entered college on probation number 37 the to tal of 167 students are now on probation number 37 a to last semester last semester there were 151 men on probation of this num ber 85 succeeded in working off and are now in goog scho lastic standing dean mcconn said that included among these students were a group who made higher averages last term than they had for any other period in their college careers fifty-seven of last term's probationers however failed to meet the requirements and were dropped this figure is greater by three than the total of up perclassmen who flunked out in january dean mcconn com menting upon these figures pointed out that the probation rules have reduced the number of men who fail and tends to prevent a continued low aver age with the advent of prof charles c bidwell as head of the physics department a new policy became effective in that department that of having ev ery member of the teaching staff actively engaged in con structive research prof bidwell while assisting in several other investigations is specializing in the study of the effect of magnetization of an ionized gas composing the diel ectric of a condenser which is part of a high frequency cir cuit to explain his investiga tion prof bidwell stated cer tain critical frequencies are found to occur at which there is an abnormal absorption of energy due to resonent oscilla tions of ions these particular frequencies depend upon the mass of the ion its velocity the charge it carries and the strength of the magnetic field there should be a critical fre quency for each type of ion or charged particle present the study is expected to give infor mation as to the size and charges upon the various ions present new courses in met lab union pledges due a new course in metallurgi cal laboratory will be given for m e.s next fall the course will be known as met 33 with one hour credit the structure of metals heat treat ment of metals corrosion of metals and the treating of steel and other alloys will be the main feature of the course the many students who have subscribed to the union but who have been lax in fulfilling their pledges are urged to make their payments immediately fred trafford reports that many pledges are numbered in this category and asks im mediate action going to meeting scoring over 40 points for the third time within a week lehigh forged into first place in the pennsylvania middle atlan tic league when they swamped the pennsylvania military col lege passers 48-13 in taylor gymnasium wednesday eve ning out-classed from the opening whistle the visitors pro vided little opposition to the homesters who led by many hesse levine and billmeyer tallied at will after a poor start typical of the muhlenberg and annapolis struggles was the splendid defense which the brown and white displayed limiting the soldiers to five goals from the floor while they were chalking up twenty through the nets in spite of the score of doubledeckers the beth lehem quintet missed many easy opportunities thereby failing to appease the cries of we want 50 while many the heavy-scor ing forward of the homesters ran wild in the opening half billmeyer hesse and levine who substituted for berman annexed honors for the final canto when they totalled 28 points during these minutes the majority of their baskets resulted from the beautiful passing game which the home sters exhibited continually with billmeyer playing in rare form and many returning to the deadliness which he showed last year on the frosh club the lehigh athletes seemed to function in the style with which they opened the season berman returning after an ab sence of almost two months ap peared in his old position at guard and while not scoring from the field eliminated any fears that the lay-off had af fected him levine substitut ing for berman added ten points on five sensational field goals to captain billmeyer went the high scoring honors of the evening when he rang ten points after being held to four in the opening half many hesse and levine followed closely in a continued on page four dates for the spring produc tion of mustard and cheese were set for march 23 and 24 at a meeting of that club mon day evening at the same meet ing j k covey j a lyter j g conrath e g quinlan a v marsh m e remaley h b bellringer m j daly and f b jester were elected to club membership although for the past few years mustard and cheese has elected members only in the spring the innovation of a fall show has made elections neces sary at this time plans for the spring show were discussed and a committee on production consisting of h e snodgrass chairman t m brennan and e g quinlan was appointed this commit tee has secured professor h p pfander of the english depart ment to coach the next play although the type of presenta tion for this spring has not yet been decided a majority of members seem to favor a mys tery play a list of candidates and data concerning their dramatic ex perience and possibilities was secured at a short meeting on wednesday evening a tryout for parts will be held in the near future the greatest waste in pres ent-day educational systems is teaching non-essentials accord ing to prof percy hughes head of the department of psychology and education who spoke wednesday evening be fore the lehigh chapter of the american association of uni versity professors prof hughes urged more pedagogi cal training for college instruc tors and a close supervision of the early teaching of graduate assistants while prof hughes has achieved considerable success in research work he said that the training of future teaches should be centered upon the hu manizing of knowledge with more attention being paid to liberal subjects than to prepar ing them for extensive research he pointed out that the pres ent college is torn between teaching and research culture and vocation breadth and spe cialization such an atmos phere is not altogether favor able to the preparation of new teachers in the opinion of prof hughes the proper type of instruc tor may be developed from men who like teaching are inter ested in the immature and have breadth of foundation and of so cial vision however prof hughes suggested that depart mental seminars in method a college committee on teaching and extensive pedagogical in struction in the post-graduate years of those who will teach in college should be employed as aids for the new and inexper ienced instructor wednesday evening's meeting was attended by members from practically all departments in the university who engaged in a lively discussion of prof hughes recommendations o d k meeting thursday evening at theta delta chi - notice the brown and white is endeavoring to better its cir culation and in so doing has engaged new men to take charge of the delivery on account of this change many errors have undoubtedly been made and the business staff desires the cooperation of the subscribers in reporting any failures in delivery make complaints t o circulation manager ward wiegand at the sigma phi epsilon house sophs elect secretary george c vaughn former sophomore cabinet member was elected class secretary to suc ceed former secretary george b matt and howard e dat wyler was elected to the cab inet to succeed vaughn at a meeting of the cabinet last night no one will be admitted to the wrestling meet without an athletic book professors bradley stough ton gilbert e doan and alli son a butts of the metallurgy department will attend the 136 th meeting of the american institute of mining and metal lurgical engineers in new york city during the week of feb 20 professor doan will con tribute to the discussion which will be held on the atomic structure of metals professor stoughton will attend the sec tion on iron and steel keep going keep smiling keep working not for yourself but for others was the key note of the inspirational address delivered yesterday by judge harold b wells of borden town n j at the college lec ture held in the university chapel the services of judge wells as a speaker were secured through his friendship with bosey reiter since the two men were college friends there are two words he said which in my earlier days i thought synonomous money and success since then i have changed my ideas about them it is a mistake too frequently made by young men who fail to take account of the actual cost of making money for as he said money won't buy love respect decency happiness friendship or character the speaker then expounded his doctrine of aims in life and ways to success success is not a matter of innate talent but is merely the fruit of thoroughness in the performance of daily tasks — according to chauncey depew it is dig dig dig ac cording to edison not inspira tion but perspiration thus george w childs and john d rockefeller both penniless lads achieved success kind not spe cified through incessant intel ligent labor college men would do well to follow their example and not insist upon positions paying 10,000 a year at the start the speaker embellished his argument with an apt quo tation from edgar guest the success of most great men nalopeon webster cool idge is all due to the tireless energy with which they per formed their tasks coupled with the steadfast holding to high principles the moral pre cepts and christian virtues with which everyone is familiar and without which the best in life cannot be attained general grant's greatness as a general was due to the fact that he was licked five times and hadn't the sense to know it yet working for ourselves is not the true end of existence only by living for others work ing helping cheering onward by voice and look and deed do we reach the full life he who adds to the gloom is unworthy there is joy in the world piles of it let us go out and gather it in for ourselves and for others for as the speaker expressed it he was still old-fashioned enough to believe in the homely virtues that everyone should strive to make the world a bet ter place to live in and that virtue is its own reward and he urged the audience to do like wise lehigh university bethlehem pa friday february 17 1928 bosey reiter goes south for health vol xxxv no 31 brown and white okeson will resign alumni secretaryship pep gathering in taylor gym price five cents orators compete in prize contest next wednesday prospectic frosh to be entertained tate seeks names new duties compel him to relinquish position faculty member 111 for two months will take trip six candidates divided into two groups with three ■ prizes for each plans complete for sub ' freshman day april 2 1 ; cooperation urged member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first