Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 49

              retiring president d m hom er congratulated the council as a body on the success of the past year and expressed his appreciation of the cooperation he had received he reported a criticism by dean mcconn of the too apparent wetness of house party fort and stoughton attend meeting the sessions which were at tended by 75 representatives of the various plants in the lehigh valley began in easton wed nesday the lookout well known to all lehigh men and after the past week-end well known to many feminine visitors as well was the spot where the min erals conference delegates had their first comprehensive view of lehigh and of bethlehem last friday afternoon when they concluded a three day's confer ence with a visit to the univer sity and to the bethlehem steel co plant friday morning the mem bers arrived in this city and came directly to the campus where they inspected the various engineering buildings followed by the trip to the lookout at noon the entire conference pro ceeded to the " bethlehem steel offices where a special moving picture depicting interesting phases in the manufacture of steel was exhibited after a luncheon served in the steel ca feteria the members were guid ed through the many depart ments of the plant by a g wil liams sales agent of the com pany at the conclusion of this trip the conference officially dis banded prof howard eck feldt head of the mining de jartment was in charge of the local program delegates to the industries conference told of an enlighten ing trip last wednesday to the martin's creek plant of the al pha cement co when they were shown the operation of a modern cement plant that evening after a dinner furnish ed through the courtesy of the alpha co l a anderson chief engineer of the company spoke on the history and manufac ture of portland cement and dr h f bain secretary of the american institute of mining and metallurgical engineers told how cooperation has im proved the industrial situation in this country continued on page two slate day thursday opened with a technical session at par dee hall lafayette when pa pers relating to the quarrying and preparation of slate were read the delegates then at tended the ground breaking ex ercises for the markle mining building recently given to la fayette by john markel million aire mine owner afterwards the members went by automo alpha kappa psi pledges five men excavation begun on packard lab despite a continual battle against adverse weather condi tions and an accident which prevented the orchestra scheduled for the junior prom from appearing until one o'clock the spring house party was fully as great a success as its predecessor last fall the rain which began to fall last friday afternoon was no obstacle to the many couples who had decided to attend the scabbard and blade tea dance and the work of the sponsors was well rewarded phil napoleon's victor recording orchestra which had been engaged to play at the junior prom friday night was delayed for three hours by the rain but dave fluharty's orchestra turned out on short notice and played until one o'clock during the night the college flag entering into the spirit of the occasion became a pink chemise and floated gayly during saturday morn ing classes taylor gymnasium which had always been amply large enough to accomodate junior prom crowds was jammed to the doors with five hundred couples perambulating up and down the room the committee in planning the decorations to re semble those of a night club outstripped anything that has yet been done at lehigh all the sport events except lacrosse scheduled for saturday afternoon were cancelled by rain but thek-rpi^sr was taken by the interfraternity council tea danee^iem in the gym this owing possibly to the factj^act was free was auwost as well attended as the proni-*lis3a!ght before artjsgttfi'svmeerrymakers supplied the repfe^-viw the crowd last dance eleven open dances on s%t>iibay night concludedjjhe dance program of fne week»qgjdr»-most of the jratieqßitlesf formed into groups of thfee^ervrour and gave jbeh dmicfes at a single house delta tau d%ffa chi psi siggka rffi theta delta chi alpha tau omega lambdafpinaipha phi sigma kappa pi lambda phi sigma aljjfexlwu and phi delta pi were all hosts at their houses sunday morning church services were crowded with couples in evening clothes who refused to let pleasure interfere with their devotions outbound trains all day sunday were loaded with girls too tired to move as the house party officially closed beds in fra ternity houses did double duty as soon as the feminine occupants were sped and weary students tried to make up many lost hours of sleep lafayette entertained the faculties of lehigh the two moravian colleges muhlenberg cedar crest and keystone teachers college last night at the annual meeting of the fac ulties of the lehigh valley following a dinner and the presentation of the play at eight o'clock the educators heard dr vinenezo nitti son of the former italian prime minister and samuel s mc clure founder of mcclure's magazine debate the rule of mussolini — is it injuring italy dr nitti acted as prosecu tor claiming that all personal liberty and the freedom of the press and speech has been stifl ed he said that all opposition to the mussoloni regime has been declared unlawful and he likened italy to a prison with ii duce as the warden following the dinner presi dent lewis of lafayette gave a short speech of welcome to the 150 professors present dr nat emery vice-president of lehigh university also gave a short talk » in the defense of italy mr mcclure basing his statements upon a recent eighteen months stay in italy said that musso lini has brought order out of chaos he presented a series of illustrations showing that some thing of a national and civic pride has been developed al though no actual vote was tak en the census of opinion seemed favorable to dr nitti dr tomlinson fort head of the mathematics department and bradley stoughton head of the metallurgy department at tended the meeting of the sup ervisory editorial board of the american year book last week at the engineer's club in new york prof fort has been on the board for the past three years writing articles on mathematics while prof stoughton has been affiliated since the inauguration of the board four juniors and one sen ior honored by business fraternity prom attracts capacity crowd military society gives tea dance hoch company effects progress ; cornerstone laying june 9 civil seniors take inspection trips dr wright speaks to archaeologists twenty-five famous paintings by pre-eminent french impres sionists will be on exhibition free of charge from 4 to 6 and 7 to 9 p m week days and 3 to 6 sundays until may 12 in the faculty room alumni mem orial building the exhibition opened sunday afternoon with a private show ing to faculty members their families and friends about 100 members of the faculty attend ed monday evening the paint ings were privately exhibited to the women's clubs of bethle hem easton and allentown these paintings are the prop erty of durand-ruel a descen dant of the durand-ruel who patronized the early impression ists in their first attempts and encouraged them in their orig inal style one of the most im portant and interesting of all the paintings is waterloo bridge by monet at first glimpse the canvas seems noth ing but a pale grey mist but as the eyes are focused on the pic ture objects gradually emerge and fade back as they do when one is trying to peer through-a heavy drifting fog this was the artist's intention to create the effect of a fog through which objects are barely discer nible then become clear and distinct and finally fade back into the grey mist the second picture by mon et la seine a vetheuil is in his earlier manner with more intense color the scene of wa ter sunlight and dense foliage is developed by thousands of small individual brush strokes the two pictures by andre bouquet de roses devant une bibliotheque and la tour de l'horloge a bangols are espe cially striking the first a still life of roses is so vivid that at a distance it seems realistic but upon close scrutiny one realizes that it is in the impressionistic mode and appreciates the bold ness of the color development the second is a street scene viewed from a window gazing out the window the spectator sees a long winding hilly lane part in deep shadow and part in brilliant sunlight the tea dance friday after noon in drown hall sponsored by scabbard and blade honor ary military society was so successful that it is to become an annual affair taking place the friday afternoon preceding either the fall or spring house party the dance friday was well attended in spite of the incle ment weather the hall was decorated in military manner machine guns and trench mor tars playing their usual impor tant roles in any military af fair the embryo generals at tired in their dress uniforms including their spurs seemed to find that it was not as easy to dance with spurs on as one might think several near-dis asters occurred but no serious injuries resulted alpha kappa psi honorary business fraternity will pledge one senior and four juniors in chapel tomorrow morning the pledges natt morill emery jr 28 samuel garwood 29 thomas moran brennan 29 james edward schaefer 29 and harold charles eschen lauer 29 will be the last group of men to be admitted in the spring since it has been decid ed that hereafter pledging will take place in the fall the chapter has been granted the privilege of enlarging its membership to 20 men no more than 11 of whom may be sen iors with this plan in effect the outgoing seniors will leave at least half of the active so ciety to carry on the work of the organization noted hungarian speaks to members of hamilton club inter-frat dance the city of kings will be the subject of an illustrated lec ture that dr horace wetherill wright head of the latin de partment is to deliver to the bronx new york chapter of the archaeological institute of am erica wednesday evening may 2 at new york university in his speech professor wright will attempt to show that rome was inhabited as ear ly as the eleventh century 8.c 300 years before the traditional founding of rome by romulus it is the firm conviction of the author that there is consider able authenticity in the legends myths and beliefs of the primi tive romans and that modern scientific investigations are sub stantiating this theory rather than destroying it scabbard and blade holds convention notices dr paul de lipovicsky de livers lecture at hotel bethlehem juniors are requested to turn in a list of their activities for o d k to john denise ken neth chickering or donald straub before monday evening may 6 junior prom decorations proved as attractive by day light as at night saturday after noon when a majority of the week enders got in trim for the evening at the interfrater nity tea dance the lebanon merrymakers furnished music for several hundred couples from 4 to 7 p m in taylor gymnasium admission was free phi club requests all mem bers of the freshman class to submit a list of athletic activi ties to fred trafford before friday noon despite inclement weather conditions students and their fair guests crowded taylor gymnasium at the annual jun ior prom for one of the best at tended dances ever staged at lehigh the prom committee found it self in an embarrassing position when word was received that phil napoleon and his band the feature of the evening were marooned in harrisburg a college orchestra quickly or ganized rose to the occasion un til midnight when the london criterions of allentown sup plied the rythm for the terpsi chorean artists disappointment over the inability of the original orchestra to appear was soon forgotten and a festive house party atmosphere prevailed the unusual decorations more than fulfilled the expectations of those who had heard the prom ises of the prom committeemen the cold looking gym was transformed into a veritable summer garden — pink and white streamers hung in profu sion from the ceiling and faint rays of light penetrated through booths along the walls bearing names suitable to the occasion offered a retreat from the dance floor and the flow ing bowl contained cool re freshment the orchestra was perched on one end on a stage decorated in keeping with the remainder of the hall j h courtney a cornell man is superintendent of con struction on packard hall mr courtney who is with the ir win-leighton company of phil adelphia the contractors re cently completed the construc tion of several buildings at georgetown university wash ington d c he graduated from cornell university in 1917 as a civil engineer ground was broken for pack ard hall recently and the work of excavating and laying the foundations has been sub-let to the hock contracting com pany of allentown which placed a half-yard steam shovel into operation another steam shov el will begin work shortly the excavated earth is being dump ed into several depressions on the campus the top-^oil is being removed from in front of the steam shov el by a scraper and is being piled on the side of the build ing site this rich soil will be spread back over the ground after the building is completed some sod was also transplanted to other parts of the campus a fence will be built around the construction work sometime this week the foundation work is ex pected to be completed by june 9 in order to have a corner stone laying ceremony on that date civils hear f h gilpin exhibit is held in boiler house snavely gets award there will be a freshman class meeting friday noon in packer hall for the purpose of nomin ating officers for the ensuing year the senior civil engineers left monday on their annual spring inspection trip accompanied by professors fogg payrow and uhler headquarters are the hotel benjamin franklin at philadelphia construction work on the broad street subway in phila delphia was viewed yesterday at noon luncheon was served at the philadelphia engineers club in the afternoon the par ty inspected the port rich monds yards of the reading railroad company this morning was spent in specting the large welded steel building of the general electric company recently constructed in west philadelphia and the manufacturing plant of the john b stetson company this afternoon the entire inspection party boarded the boat john wanamaker of the depart ment of wharves docks and ferries to inspect harbor faci lities of philadelphia wednesday the party will be taken to conowingo maryland by motor bus there the large hydro-electric plant recently completed will be inspected on the way to conowingo a brief stop will be made at longwood to view the conservatory of hierre dv pont where 28 acres are under glass the party will return to philadelphia by bus and thence by train to bethle hem arriving here wednesday night benjamin l snavely senior engineering physicist has been awarded a scholarship in scien tific research by princeton un iversity mr snavely is a mem ber of tau beta pi phi beta kappa and omicron delta kappa the faculty dramatic club will present the circle by somerset maughan in drown hall at 8:15 friday and satur day evenings george lloyd schoen attend ed the sixteenth biennial con vention of the scabbard and blade society april 26 27 28 at ohio state university as a delegate from the lehigh com pany about 150 cadet officers and five alumni post delegates from more than 40 states at tended the convention major-general dennis a no lan commanding general fifth corps area addressed the meet ing on the history of the r o t c at ohio state university and a plea for action against subversive organizations was made by edward h hunter executive secretary industrial defense association new national officers are second lieutenant john hays alumnus of ohio state colonel ; lieutenant claude c skates in fantry reserve lieutenant-col onel captain harris c mahin was re-elected executive offi cer chemical society elects dr c r richards pamphlet what about college which gives and answers questions on what college offers a young man is now in great demand by prep schools and high schools thru out this section of the country an additional supply of 50,000 will have to be printed to meet the demand president richards would like lehigh stu dents to give this pamphlet to their friends who are thinking of going to college ' d o t society meets f h gilpin engineer of the texas company addressed classes in highway engineering on highway maintenance by the use of oil on unimproved roads last friday and saturday in packer hall mr gilpin stated that two thirds of the 600,000 miles of paved roads in the united states need maintenance and that if you protect the surface you ex tend the life of the highway the lecture were illustrated with slides showing three meth ods of maintenance ; cold patch cold oil and hot oil a reward of 50 is offered for a diamond brooch pin con taining three emeralds which was lost either on the campus or at the junior prom friday evening information concern ing it should be communicated to william s clark psi upsil on house the new hungary and the hungarians was the topic of the address that dr paul de lipovicsky delivered to mem bers of the alexander hamilton club and guests at noon today at the hotel bethlehem dr paul de lipovicsky is an electrical engineer mechanical engineer and a journalist of high renown in hungary he was born at komoron hungary fifty-one years ago his educa tion was received in pozsony hungary at the senior high school vienna austria and through technical studies in london england and at winchescter college dr de lipovicsky has traveled in asia egypt balkan states russian chile mexico and the united states among his num erous publications are geograph ical economical and scientific treatises the carnegie endowment for international peace institute procured the services of this man ' for the alexander hamil ton club which is affiliated with the international relations club of america the carnegie in stitute are sending these good will messengers throughout the colleges of america in order to effect international amity elections for junior class offices were called off today and re-nominations will be held thursday noon in pack er hall letters and petitions from two national oratorical societies were read and it was decided that no action could be taken this spring to have the delta omicron theta society's peti tion for chapter membership acted upon at the meeting last night in christmas saucon hall all sophomores desiring po sitions on the epitome edi torial staff must turn in a list of their qualifications con sisting of their past literary activities either at lehigh or prep school to john lyter theta xi before may 9 the senior miners leave to morrow morning on a two-day inspection trip to iron mines lo cated at wharton n j and cornwall penna officers of the lehigh chem ical society were elected at a special meeting wednesday ap ril 25 the men chosen to lead the organization for the ensu ing year are walter h salz enberg president william j urban vice-president clement f stanton secretary and james 0 witaker treasurer these will be installed into of fice at the first meeting next semester a valuable educational exhib it consisting of various types of engineering instruments will be held in the engineering labora tory of the boiler house may 3 to 5 this exhibit is conducted by the taylor instrument com panies makers of the tycos brand instrument whose repre sentative mr d j mcquaid of denver will be present to explain the instruments ; how they are calebrated how they function ; and to tell where and how they are used in industrial plants the taylor exhibit consists of nearly 100 pieces which in clude various types of thermo meters hydromometers hygro meters barometers automatic temperature control instru ments an anemometer asphyg momanometer a flash and fire test apparatus lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday may 1 1928 inter=frat body elects officers unique paintings in art exhibition vol xxxv no 49 brown and white mineral delegates inspect university and steel plant price five cents house party guests strike bad weather local faculties are entertained public showing of pictures by french impressionists in faculty room trantum president of coun cil dean criticises drink ing at house party visitors at three-day con ference conclude pro gram in bethlehem rain and snow fail to affect gaiety of festivities — all sports events but lacrosse cancelled lehigh valley professors hold annual meeting at lafayette officers for the ensuing year were elected by the interfrater nity council at a meeting mon day evening in drown hall these men leland d trantum president j a lyter vice president a b lewis secre tary and e m bachtell treas urer will assume the responsi bilities of their offices imme diately an executive committee con sisting of t e chamberlain l c crewe a h hesse and r l meyers was also elected member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news ' first