Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 50

              maroon players take ad vantage of lehigh s weird exhibition brown and white because of the college meet ing friday section b of the brown and white will meet this week at 4 p m thurs day by george a finch seniors occupied with novel exams tapping will mark college meeting two day carnegie compre hensives for prospective graduates sword and crescent to sel ect juniors friday afternoon last friday evening the combined musical clubs jour neyed to cedar crest college in allentown where they pre sented a diverse and highly en tertaining concert consisting of classical semi-classical popular and dance music the symphony orchestra presented some of its newer numbers which were well received the glee club and quartet proved their continued popularity and the dance or chestra with their little novel ty act received a great ova tion great difficulty was encoun tered in maneuvering the clubs due to the small size of the stage the symphony orchestra consisting of 42 members barely had enough room to manipulate their instruments the dance which followed the concert soon had every one's feet moving in rythm to the in triguing strains of the thirteen piece dance orchestra the annual sword and cres cent tay day has been definite ly set at 4 p m friday may 11 the meeting will take place at the flagpole and at this time the newly elected members will be formally tapped in the pres ence of the entire student body it was hoped that the faculty would dispense with all eleven o'clock classes that day but as this was not possible 4 o'clock was decided upon as the best hour the award of letters and ath letic certificates to members of the various teams and their managers will also be made at this time a large attendance is expect ed as the election of cheerlead ers and student officers of the lehigh union will also be held at this meeting rifle team elects nason as captain twenty-four free and 75 de ferred tuition scholarships for the collegiate year 1928-1929 will be awarded by the com mittee on scholarships and loans on july 1 the regula tions governing the award are given on pages 201-202 of the university register application blanks may be ob tained at the vice-president's and the dean's office notices saturday may 12 will be moving up day on this greatly anticipated day 500 freshmen will cast aside their insignificant roles and assume airs of sophistication as they don knickers and loud socks and ties freshmen do not stand alone however in anticipation of this great event sophomores have waited with impatience for their turn to walk across the campus grass and to act and assume the dignified bearing of upper classmen although they would not on account of their dignity admit it to anyone the juniors also have a dream com ing true on that day when they will be allowed to swing canes and wear mustaches seniors wise and worldly will offcially begin the greatest era of their lives for only commencement and the outside world day exercises lie between them beginning last saturday and continuing until this saturday all seniors are supposed to car ry canes presented to them by the juniors and to wear hats with their class colors for a band juniors wear no personal adornments sophomores are to wear brown and white ribbons m the lapel of their coat and the freshmen will cut a triangle out of their dinks each day saturday the student body will gather on the athletic field at which time the freshmen will have a snake dance which will terminate in throwing their dinks and ties in a bonfire at this time the seniors will give the canes back to the juniors heat instruments on exhibit here a record of the total number of chapels attended by each stu dent up to and including april 27 is posted on the bulletin board outside the dean's office the number of chapels re quired in order to pass is 44 it didn't do lehigh any good to knock out murburg star la fayette righthander in the first game of the annual series in taylor stadium saturday for lafayette took advantage of a weird exhibition of baseball and laughed to themselves as they watched the final reading 9-4 or maybe they did all the laugh ing during the game when mort strauss who deserved better fortune had to watch scratch singles be kicked around for ex tra bases by the outfielders as one fan remarked in the seventh when thompson went all the way around on a single to left that fielder seems to have on a pair of boxing gloves and wood en shoes so it seemed and meanwhile lafayette laughed some more likewise the home fans for by this time they were thor oughly disgusted especially aft er the exit of murburg in the fourth inning it was the same murburg who beat strauss in the freshman tussle last year porky flynn and bill ster rett were on the bags as a re sult of passes at this juncture poor coaching at third base so evident in the second inning came into prominence hibbard who followed murburg while in a hole with but one out caught flynn off second as the catcher tried to get back to safety and overslid some more laughs the prize one was to follow when kelly proebstle singled to rightfield sending sterrett to second and on to third half way between the sacks the run ner was sent back by the coach er only to be easily tagged by the shortstop who had taken the relay from the outfielder continued on page four meanwhile lafayette turned in errorless ball behind the air tight relief work of hibbard who allowed two hits for the re mainder of the game in addi tion he struck out four men sayre observatory will be open may 8 at 8 30 p m day light saving time for the pur pose of viewing star clusters and nebula these announce ments hold only in case clear weather prevails the captaincy of the rifle team was recently awarded to l b nason 29 at the last meeting of the emblem men of the team nason who is an officer in the cadet corps and member of scabbard and blade is a very accomplished rifle man in addition to his high standing on the university rifle team he is qualified as an ex pert rifleman with the 30 cal rifle and expects to be able to meet the qualifications neces sary for a gallery expert as laid down by the national rifle as sociation as a result of scores recently fired by him new epitome makes appearance soon seven of the nine members of the bethlehem athletic club composed of former and present lehigh students succeeded in qualifying for the american olympics to be held in july at grand rapids mich when they took four first ajid three second places in the middle at lantic states a a u wrestling tryouts held in philadelphia last friday night princeton franklin and mar shall perm and lehigh men were represented in the com petition the brown and white wrestlers won a majority of the 45 bouts for which they receiv ed the championship cup the seven finalists also received gold watches the team was composed of jimmy reed former lehigh captain and twice intercolle giate champion bill heilman captain of this year's team tubby miller ben levitz an dy lehr captain-elect art lan dis joe letowt bill shanker and francis evers the winners of first places were reed heil man letowt and miller while lehr levitz and shanker won second places two members of the team evers and landis failed to place landis develop ed a severe nose bleed in the midst of his bout with hender son of mercersburg and had to default he was wrestling cut of his class in the 178-pound di vision jimmy reed bethlehem's favorite entry for the olympics succeeded in winning from bish op a former f and m student who lost but one bout in his four years of college wrestling reed took him to the mat in 30 seconds and from then one the outcome was never in doubt lehigh won a total of 23 bouts distributed as follows no bouts place reed 3 first letowt 4 first heilman 4 first miller 2 first shanker 4 second landis 1 defaulted woltemate 2 third levitz 2 second lehr 1 second juniors should get their mov ing-up day canes from fred trafford as soon as possible price 50c house parties have been dis placed as a topic of general conversation on the campus and in town now it is the senior comprehensives given by the carnegie foundation for teach ing and just finished this after noon each meal has buzzed with arguments of men in dif ferent curricula as to who had been most favored in the most recent set of questions in par lor living room dining room and ice cream parlor the under graduates have talked of their allied interests or been bur dened with the tales of foolish questions or more foolish ans wers even the heated argu ments over a highly contested bridge game have been slightly damped and made to look like only slight differences of opin ion since the advent of this more recent subject for debate the exam opened monday morning with part one the physical world this con tained five subdivisions dealing with science its tools investi gation and observation in this section the engineers had the ad vantage gloating over the arts men when the exam was over but even as engineers they dis covered that there was more to science than they had ever re alized monday afternoon part two the social world was given here the arts men held sway passing the engineers with a rush and a scurry psychology languages ancient civilizations and cultures were the main top ic heads of this group tuesday the exam was whol ly on western civilization divided into pre-industrial and modern the subject matter dealt principally with the art literature civics ethics and education innovations will add at tractiveness to year book drawings for rooms in ihe dorms will be held at 4 p m tuesday may 14 in the fac ulty room alumni memorial building art display attracts widespread interest annual bach festival rendered this week in the production of the circle by w somerset maugh am given friday and satur day evenings at drown hall the faculty dramatic club put on one of the ablest amateur performances that this review er has ever witnessed direct ed with well nigh professional skill by mrs isobel chance and with every part competently taken the whole production had a remarkable degree of finesse an almost complete illusion of the urbanity and whimsicality of this one of maugham's most adroit social comedies is given the circle is a clever and in some ways wise comedy of contemporary society the characters of maugham's plays always talk in pretty much the same manner the characters here are not refreshingly new except that there is a whimsical touch in the lovers that seems to be or iginal ; the real excellence of the comedy lies in the situation that the author has conceived here maugham finds the con tradictions of life amusing — but he is not bitter as in our bet ters — instead although the young girl is following the path of her absurd old mother in law he seems to be with her and not against her in her revolt against the conventions of mar riage in the role of elizabeth the revolting wife mrs chance making her last of several ap pearances with the faculty club is restrained and sincere she is a competent maugham hero ine for she wins the sympathy of her audience as an unconven tional woman sydney h brown as clive champion-cheney is especially deft in his characterization of a wicked middle aged eng lishman who was once a nice young husband lord porteous as played by c harold nord strom is petulant and noisy in spite of an atrocious henna wig that is even impossible for lady kitty mrs eleanor brown gives a diligent perfomance in a difficult part arthur w klein and morris e kanaly as husband and lover respectively caught the spirits of their parts well mrs jeanne - elizabeth riddle is a conventional eng lishwoman and george w rid dle in a frog-gren outfit is an obsequious butler two new courses in math offered collection of french im pressionistic art contains distinctive pictures dr wolle to direct fam ous musical recital fri day and saturday historical course and ad vanced analytics to be given next semester an instrument which will control the temperature of a machine within one degree far enheit was prominent in the ex hibition of heat measuring and regulating apparatus by the taylor instrument co thurs day friday and saturday in the boiler room of the wilbur power house d j mcquaid company rep resentative explained the oper ation of the machine to mem bers of various mechanical en gineering and physics classes bores in the thermometers on display varied in size from one third the diameter of a human hair up to the diameter of three hairs but the shape of the glass tube magnified the mercury col umn so that it could be read at considerable distance the medical profession ac cording to mr mcquaid is still in a quandry regarding the function of the human body which keeps its temperature so constant although a man can tolerate an external temperature between 60 degrees below zero to 140 degrees above zero his body heat remains within one degree of 98.1 except in time of illness nominations made for lehigh union an extra section containing a pictorial review of the year from last spring until this spring has been added to the 1929 epitome which will be de livered from the press within the next two weeks several changes have been made in the epitome this year which will contain 514 pages the color work and part of the printing has already been finished and the covers completed the opening page in the fra ternity section has been chang ed so that colors have been worked around the greek let ters the joke section in the back of the book has been changed entirely and it will have a new makeup and will be printed in different type as a burlesquing of the entire book the administration section has also been changed but the sport section will remain as in pre vious years r k pfleuger business man ager of the epitome plans to conduct a special sales cam paign this week a feature of which will be the display of different pages from the new edition on the campus bulletin boards public sale will begin as soon as copies are delivered from the printer these men will be voted upon at the college meeting friday and those elected will later choose a cabinet of 16 men nominations for officers of the lehigh union were made at a meeting of that body last thursday as follows presi dent don roe jack kirkpat rick and tom brennan ; vice president harry hesse george hebbard and bob sax secre tary paul coates al lewis and oogie chamberlin treasur er john blackmar bob hertz ler and henry adams the electrical society will meet at 7 30 p m friday may 11 in the physics building w w hoeke 28 will read a pa per on fire alarm systems f f leilich of the baltimore consolidated gas electric light and power co will talk on steam electrical station design and european developments in the electrical field sung by the various sections of the choir this year the or chestration of this work will be played according to bach's or iginal score by members of the new york symphony orches tra the oboe used in this score is known as the oboe d'amoure since the time of bach however musicians have discarded this instrument in favor of the mod ern oboe of lower pitch like wise the score for the trumpets was too high for trumpeters to play safely in the early years of the festival dr wolle real ized this somewhat to his em barrassment whereupon he was forced to re-write the orchestra tion for these instruments this arrangement has been used ev ery year until this one when dr wolle was able to secure a man who could play the oboe d'amoure as well as one who can play the higher trumper notes mr t edgar shields organist of the packer memor ial church will play the organ accompaniment and the morav ian trombone choir will play chorales before each session from the tower of the church many out-of-town visitors will attend the festival and in the audience will be found many prominent musicians mrs theo dore roosevelt wife of the for mer president is a regular at tendant on these occasions the annual four session festi val of music by john sebastian bach will be given by the bach choir of bethlehem friday and saturday of this week in the packer memorial church the choir is under the direction of dr j frederick wolle who be gan the festivals many years ago while an organist in the moravian church the first session will be at 4 p m friday when the numbering about 300 will sing the cantata shout for joy ye ransomed of the lord the translation used will be one made especially for the choir by the late dr alfred g lang ley a concerto for two pianos played by miss ruth becker of bethlehem and earl laros of easton and three chorales will conclude the afternoon session in the evening the choir will sing two cantatas a strong hold sure our god remains whose words are ascribed to martin luther and the mag nificat the saturday sessions of the festival will consist of the an nual rendition of the mass in b minor bach's greatest work the solo parts of which will be nominations for new officers of the lehigh student chapter american society of civil en gineers will be made at a spe cial meeting of the society at 4 p m wednesday may 9 in room 12 packer hall ing the picture the murky heaviness of atmosphere is re lieved by the contrast of a girl wearing a yellow dress seated at a table with a longshoreman or stevedore the other picture by canals cigarieres has also received exceptional attention by the same impressionistic means the artist has shown a cigar fac tory a deep dimly lighted room occupied by a mass of spanish women garments hanging on the walls add to the effect of the heaviness of atmosphere although the figures in the fore ground are at rest the artist has given the impression of fig ures moving in the background with suggestive yet complete ef fect the paintings in this exhibit belong to the period of the six ties and eighties of the nine teenth century modernistic painters now consider impres sionists as belonging to the past but when these pictures were first exhibited they were considered a definite and radi cal break with the style of the artists of that period one of the most boldly paint ed pictures of the group is pont aven sortie de la messe de 7 heures by loisseau the artist with full bold brush strokes has shown a group of persons leaving a church and scattering as they reach the foreground of the picture over 800 people have at tender the exhibit of the works of the french impressionists in the faculty room alumni alumni memorial building up to and including monday after noon it is estimated that as many more will attend before the close of the exhibition may 12 the display has attracted widespread interest because it is unusual to be able to see the works of so many of the french impressionists together at the same time on saturday morn ing g a howland assistant professor of the fine arts lec tured to psychology classes on the aesthetic approach to the pictures while percy hughes head of the department of phil osophy spoke on the psychologi cal approach the painting which has prob ably proved the most popular is le bar by canals it is a picture of a man and a girl dancing together in the fore ground of a cabaret filled with a dim blue haze of tobacco smoke which is faintly pierced by the yellow glow of a few artificial lamps although the spectator receives an impres sion that the girl's dress is white the artist has used only a few specks of white in paint two new courses the history of mathematics and a second course in analytic geometry will be offered by the mathe matics department next fall to students of sophomore standing the history of mathematics will be taught by carl arthur keeler who has been chosen be cause of his especial fitness to teach the subject he has done graduate work at the univer sity of california under pro fessor florian cajori one of the greatest students of the sub ject mr keeler has been do ing research work in mathemat ical history for the past several years his course is of great importance in orienting the stu dent in furnishig ' a human background for his work in mathematics and other sciences the second course in analytic geometry will be a three hour course designed for those stu dents who wish a more thorough knowledge of analytics than is given in the required freshman course particular stress will be placed on general methods and on solid analytic geometry varsity nine s wamped lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday may 8 1928 concert presented by musical clubs moving up day is set for saturday price five cents seven qualify for american olympics vol xxxv no 50 brown and white faculty presents play by maugham glee club quartett and orchestra entertain at cedar crest freshmen to assume soph omore responsibilities at end of week lehigh wrestlers to go to grand rapids in july the circle given two night to small crowds a moying-up day tea dance will be staged by the class of 31 at 4:30 p m saturday in drown hall the 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