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route to harvard outlined by a.a.a autoists will have 335 miles with one detour girls galore tall and short fat and thin blonde and brunette amer ican french english and latin girls 375 of them all graced bethlehem and the lehigh campus during the week-end and four out of every five had it and now out over the slope of old south mountain rolls and rever berates the war-cry of sleep sleep as thje panorama of color and the odor of powder and perfume which has permeated the atmosphere of south bethlehem for the last three days slowly weakens and disappears there comes in their places the usual unostentatious parade of mere mas culinity tired and drooping from two nights on the dance floor and all having three desires — sleep rest and the hope that dad's next check soon arrives conversation once more reverts from blind dates pul chritude and plans for the realization of long cherished hopes to the more staid topics of football professors jokes frosh freaks and the lo cal theatres and in spite of it all every one always looks forward to the tion next house party season with the greatest of enjoyment and anticipa house dances gala senior ball the longest football trek in re cent years for lehigh men will be gin thursday afternoon when the team pushes off for cambridge shortly after the rooters will like wise take the road many are go ing by means of the train and boat but for the benefit of those who plan the trip by automobile the bethlehem motor club has sub mitted the following route as being the best available at this time the route given below calls for 355 miles each way one way traf fic will be encountered from old lyme to east lyme conn and there will also be a short detour at norwood mass just before enter ing boston with these exceptions the going is good and the roads outlined offer the least amount of construction all men in the sophomore jun ior and senior classes who are in terested in making the debating team or speakers bureau of the uni versity are requested by delta om icron theta to be present at the meeting of the society next monday evening at 7:30 in christmas-sau con hall d o t issued this general call for debaters and speak ers at their meeting held in christ mas-saucon hall last evening the society plans to sponsor the first debating team to officially rep resent lehigh in recent years ten tative debates with lafayette and muhlenberg to be held this fall are still under consideration debates with teams from boston univer sity temple university loyola college of chicago and carelton college to be held next spring are also pending whether or not these debates will materialize de pends largely on how the general appeal for men is answered albert davey a member of the society initiated the activities of the speakers bureau at reading to day when he spoke to the rotary club on a college man's opin ion of the business world mon day november 12 davey will speak to the rotary club of king ston at their weekly luncheon in de fense of the younger generation and wednesday november 14 he will speak to the lion's club of wilkes-barre on the same topic faculty dramatists will meet tomorrow vantage of this chance to cast a bal lot for either hoover smith thomas or other regular candidate the returns will be carefully checked and tabulated and the le high vote will be published in fri day's brown and white the idea to conduct the straw vote originated from an interesting open forum of the national politi cal situation which followed short prepared speeches by three club members at the initial 1928-9 meet ing of the alexander hamilton so ciety thursday evening in coppee hall a motion to the effect that the club conduct the election was passed unanimously lyle jones expounded on al smith's qualifica tions for the presidency and max bachtell and bill figoni advanced the merits of herbert hoover the current of the discussion indicated a slight partizanship for the repub lican nominee at the next meeting of the organ ization which was set for monday dec 10 six new members will be elected to bring the membership to the limit of 20 faculty recommen dations of particularly juniors who have exhibited outstanding interest and ability in courses in history government and international rela tions will receive serious considera tion in the selection just when the entire nation is oc cupied with political speculation lehigh students will unofficially cast ballots in a presidential straw vote sponsored by the alexander hamilton society the scholastic honorary for the department of his tory and government effort has been exerted to make available to every undergraduate the opportun ity to cast a vote so that the con sensus will accurately reflect le high's preference for president cards have been sent to every living group of any appreciable size the head of every group has been asked to record the representative statistics after colling a formal vote at either the regular weekly meet ing tonight or at a well-attended meal the proper attached return card is then to be remitted to sec retary sidney p simons section c taylor hall by not later than wed nesday night polls open all day tomorrow inasmuch as at least one-third of the student body is not affiliated with an organized living group polls will be maintained from 8 a.m until 4 p m tomorrow in fred trafford's drown hall office mem bers of the organization will serve as watchers and election clerks and it is hoped that many of the town group and commuters will take ad sj.brown speaks of medieval life harvard send-off to be pep smoker trio of speakers an nounced for thursday at 4:45 second of the university lecture series given last night the senior ball is again a thing of the past friday night marked the first epochal affair for this year of the class of 28 should all the affairs of the senior class be as en joyable as the dance friday then will the year be most successful taylor gymnasium where the dance took place presented an en tirely new appearance to the many students and guests who attended where formerly nothing but bare walls and gymnasium apparatus greeted the eye there was one of the most elaborate decorative dis plays ever seen in taylor gym in line with the season of the year hallowe'en the walls were tastefully disguised with many col ored crepes and buntings vari sized jack o lanterns leered from all corners and huge pumpkin gourds added an effective touch to the scene softening the intensity of the ceiling lights were streamers of colored crepe the music was furnished by dornberger's ore hestra and straight's orchestra they proved popular with the dancers and there was never a lack of music the orchestras seated at opposite ends of the gym were placed under two large open-front paper pumpkins presenting quite a novelty the ball was well attended and in all respects a successful occasion the autumn night was ideal for the dance with a nearly full moon and a cold snap in the air scabbard and blade holds tea dance and there was music everywhere as ten orchestras on south moun tain and along fraternity row closed the two-day festival with the customary house dances saturday night out of 29 fraternities 18 en tered into five combinations five houses ran private dances and six held no dances phi delta theta delta tau del ta psi upsilon and phi gamma delta held a dance at the phi gam ma delta house and art zel ler's merrymakers furnished the mu sic chi psi sigma nu and beta theta pi gave a dance at the beta house art zeller's arcadians providing the necessary syncopa tion alpha chi rho theta xi and lambda chi alpha held a dance at the theta xi house to the tune of music furnished by the easton ramblers alpha tau omega kap pa sigma and sigma phi epsilon held a dance at the alpha tau omega house where white bro'.h ers ginger band kept things mov ing lew chapman's interfra ternity band provided the entertain ment for sigma chi and chi thi at the latter's house delta phi and kappa alpha danced at the sig ma phi house as the plainfield prolicers provided the music steed weidner's cardinals pro vided the music for a closed dance at theta kappa phi syncopation by the allentown harmony kings entertained phi sigma kappa and tau delta phi entrusted to the wil liam perm night owls the task of providing music pi lambda phi with the lafayette leopards and sigma alpha mv with the sheriff wanamaker orchestra also spon sored closed affairs g e fagan's and so to bed a comedy which completed a suc cessful run on broadway last spring will be read by the faculty dramatic club at their semi-month ly meeting tomorrow night pro fessor e h riley will be in charge of the meeting which will be held at 7:30 p m at the residence of professor r w hall at 37 east church street the play was suggested to its author by samuel pepy's diary the action of the comedy takes place after pepys has written the last word of his famous diary and fol lows closely along lines suggested by the book g e fagan the playwrite is a former oxford player who gained quite a reputation from his acting in the cherry orchard and oth er productions of the players , ridiculing of frosh at football games should be discontinued de cided the board of athletic con trol at their regular october meet ing in the graduate manager's of fice in drown hall yesterday after noon in the way of routine bus iness track and football schedules were approved and pete morrissey varsity and frosh swimming coach for the first time last winter was reappointed the consensus of the board dis countenanced such incidents as the veil dance which three freshmen were forced to perform between the halves of the muhlenberg game saturday inasmuch as the board alone has not the power to restrict such undiginified conduct the matter will be referred to arcadia for action the schedule for next year's foot ball season was approved with two newcomers listed perm and johns hopkins in place of harvard and bucknell the jays are booked for the curtain-raiser through courtesy of st john's of brooklyn who have been the first opponents for the last three years but accepted a later date that between the g-burg and perm contests lehigh has not met perm in football for many years but gets its chance on franklin field oct 26 differing also from the schedules of the past three years is the position occupied by princeton lehigh will meet the tigers in palmer stadium ostensib ly as a sandwich game in late season muhlenberg rutgers and lafayette appear as the november attractions with the last coming to taylor stadium to close the season despite rumors that the leopards were desirous of playing their tra ditional arch rivals earlier in the season to permit the booking of an opponent more in their gridiron caste for the nightcap four major games of the nine gettysburg perm princeton and rutgers are to be played on foreign fields the track schedule released for the 1929 season is more inclusive and more difficult than those of re cent years six dual meets against the leading colleges in the middle atlantic states collegiate athletic association and the perm relays are scheduled noticeable is the fact that the actual competitive sea son lasts only one month lehigh for the first time in several years is not officially entered in the m.a.s c.a.a championships as a team be cause of the proximity of that meet annually to spring term final exams which usually discourages about half the lettermen from competing continued on page four musical club dance is well attended prof stoughton attends meeting interesting papers present ed at iron and steel institute scabbard and blade ushered in fall house parties with a tea dance friday afternoon in drown hall although there were many late ar rivals due to the fact that many of the girls had to come long distances the dance was in full swing shortly after the orchestra played the first number and continued in a lively manner until seven o'clock the dance hall was uniquely dec orated with machine-guns and mil itary banners symbolic of the scab bard and blade society the mu sic was furnished by dave fluhar ty's orchestra and the chaperons were col and mrs e e mccair mon capt and mrs t r taber and capt and mrs j h rodman primed to meet the second mem ber of the former big three within the month the football men will receive a gala send-off from the entire student body as they leave for harvard late thursday afternoon plans are now completed for the pep smoker at 4:45 that afternoon with good speakers smokes cheers and plenty of pep the team will leave for new york at 6:20 from the lehigh valley station and after disbanding at the gym the pep meeting will follow the team to the station and there reconvene for the final send-off bill wilson 07 pat pazetti 15 former all - american and okey czar of eastern football and former all-american consti tute an unexcelled trio of pep speak ers for the occasion pat pazetti and okey need no introduction to lehigh followers and bill wilson procured by okey although little known to the present generation of lehigh men is reputed for his elo quence the combined musical clubs sponsored the best attended tea dance of the season saturday im mediately after the muhlenberg game in the upper gym the dance which attracted more than 250 rivaled the senior ball in popularity music was supplied by the musical club's dance orches tra under the direction of dave fluharty chaperons were pro fessor eric s sinkinson dr and mrs raymond c bull and mr and mrs cyril d jensen decora tions were the same as those of the senior ball october 30 1928 freshmen do you know how to keep off the grass who's who at lehigh the school songs how to say hello your place if not your names should be in cluded in this list of men who must report to the sophomore council on wednesday october 31 at 7:30 p m in drown hall fred damm albert cunningham fuhrer zevitz butterly diamond expert speaks at lehigh section a c.s bethlehem to cambridge mass via bethlehem to 11.1 easton easton to hackettstown via 0.0 easton northampton & third sts at center square east with trol on northampton st across delaware river 0.3 phillipsburg n j irreg 4-cor beyond r.r bear left from trol and immediately right 7.0 new village 8.7 broadway 12.9 washington 16-0 anderson 21.7 beatyestown 23.4 end of rd left 24.8 hackettstown n j hackettstown to denville via 0.0 hackettstown keep ahead onto main st 0.4 fork at monument right 5-8 budd lake 8.8 netcong right hand street right 9.1 4-cor right 11.3 end of road right 12.3 ledge wood fork left from trol 13.7 kenvil 15.0 mine hill 17.2 dover 20.8 rockaway 22.3 denville denville to mtn view via 0.0 denville fork left with trol leaving h'way 5 1.6 left-hand rd left leaving h'way 12 1.9 fork left ■3.1 mtn lakes 4.0 fork right with trol 5.1 boonton keep ahead on main st over r.r 5.2 myrtle aye at bridge left 7.1 montville end of rd left 9.2 towago 9.7 right-hand rd right over r.r and next left 11.4 lincoln park right-hand rd right 13.7 end of rd right 13.6 mtn view mtn view to suffern n v via 0.0 mtn view avoid left 2.2 right hand at school right 3.9 fork left 4.3 fork right 5.9 pompton right-hand st at p o right continued on page four dean mcconn defends fraternity system coming events burr there will be a meeting of the entire b-urr staff wednesday evening at seven-thirty in the burr room at drown hall epitome there will be a meeting of the sophomore competitors for the business staff of the 1931 epit ome at 7:30 p m thursday in drown hall king paget bus iness manager of the 1930 epit ome makes it imperative that all competitors attend sigma xi the lehigh chapter of the so ciety of sigma xi will meet at 8 p m tuesday october 30 in drown hall professor w a slater will speak on the test ing of the concrete arch dam sixty feet high and two feet thick the public is cordially invited over half the diamonds now be ing mined and cut are coming into the united states declared dr george f kunz at the meeting of the lehigh section of the ameri can chemical society at muhlen berg college friday october 26 to a mixed audience of members and wives and students of lehigh and muhlenberg dr kunz is a gem expert of the tiffany co and more over a leading united states auth ority in this special field accord ing to dr ullman his address on the precious stone past pres ent and future proved interest ing and entertaining the discus sion included not only chemical re lations but also the cultured place of precious stones in history in so cial anecdote and in commerce the talk was amply supplemented by illustrated slides pr-legal all pre-legal students are in vited to join the members of the pre-legal society in an open meeting to be held at 7:30 p m friday in drown hall there will me a meeting of the council of the college of engin eering at 4 p m wednesday oc tober 31 in the committee room second floor alumni memorial hall lecture committee student organizations which desire aid in procuring promin ent men to address them should send representatives to the lec ture committee meeting at 4:15 p m thursday november 8 in the committee room in the al umni building y w c a to present play the life of a peasant in a medie val village was the life of a human animal wholy without ambition or even hope of progress in the opin ion of professor sidney m brown who presented the second of the series of university lectures last night at drown hall according to professor neil car others who presided the research work of professor brown in the field of medieval life has made him one of the foremost present-day au thorities on the subject professor brown told of the bestial life of the serf in a vivid manner forced by the lord of the manor to live in a dirty hovel with his poultry and cattle to work from dawn to dusk in the fields and to bring his grain to the lord's mill and his cattle to the lord to be slaughtered his bon dage was greater than that of the egyptian slaves three days of his six were devoted to the lord's lands and he had to provide his own food the other three he never had more than twenty acres under cul tivation at a time and even that land was scattered in small strips over the countryside frequently his whole village was not worth more than thirty-five dol lars the manor house itself was often poorer than most pioneer am erican farmhouses in speaking of the serf's religion he said the tilling of the soil is the oldest and most unchanging of human occupations and supersti tion clings to it pagan charms and incantations were used to promote god crops the serf's sunday was a day of vice and evil and the ignorant stu pid clergy could not control the situation the few intelligent cler gymen were lax and more interest ed in abstract learning following the custom inaugurat ed at the last lecture an open for um was held at the close of the talk and the audience was free to question the lecturer in answer to a query about the brighter side of the peasant's life professor brown said i have not been able to find the slightest bit of evidence for an optimistic view of life in a medieval village pi delta epsilon new members will be elected at a meeting of pi delta epsilon wednesday afternoon at 4:30 p m in the brown and white room at drown hall students have failed to take full advantage of the arrangements made by the arcadia for the har vard trip only 50 have responded so far symphony orchestra the symphony orchestra will hold its regular practice tonight at 8:00 instead of tomorrow night the glee club will meet as usual at 7:30 p m thurs day both meetings will be held in drown hall educational values of activities and book learning but as alumni lat er having tested their training in the hard post-graduate school of business life they express no re grets and no change of view they still maintain years afterward that in giving preference while in col lege to activities rather than stu dies they chose the better part and the acid test of their sincerity in such expressions comes when they send sons to college and are open ly more concerned that the boy should make a fraternity and a team should become a student leader than that he should pay any particular attention to books in short the great majority of fraternity men — though they give only the compulsory minimum of attention to those aspects of high er education which are represented by the faculty and the curriculum — are neither idle nor frivolous they are earnestly at work on an other course of training devised and developed by themselves which they select for its superior educa tional advantages personally i have become con continued on page four when lehigh defeated muhlen berg 13-7 last saturday afternoon on taylor field before a colorful gathering of fall house party guests it marked the brown and white gridders first triumph over an al lentown team in four years but the fourteenth lehigh victory in the series of eighteen games for three quarters of saturday's game lehigh had the ball well in cardinal and gray territory only to weaken at the end when a substitute muhlen berg backfield ran wild in a final quarter spurt which netted seven points and near victory lehigh scored first in the second period on a beautiful pass stand ing in lehigh territory art davido witz took one of chapman's punts and raced back 25 yards to the muhlenberg 28-yard line on the first play davidowitz heaved a pass to cowboy elliott shaking off tackier after tackier elliott stumbl ing falling and knocked off balance knifed his way over the necessary distance for the touchdown davvy kicked the extra point after an exchange of punts early in the second half davidowitz ran the ball back to muhlenberg's 30 yard line lehigh started marching down the field ripping off three first downs to reach muhlenberg's 5-yard line muhlenberg threaten ed to hold but on the third play and with but two yards to go da vidowitz slashe doff tackle and just carried the ball across his at tempt for the extra point was mar red by a hasty pass cardinal takes to air muhlenberg resorted to the same means of attack that won them their first game against lehigh sev en years ago just as the cardinal and gray adopted a reckless for ward passing in the game that brought victory over lehigh in 1921 14-13 so did they take to the air in the final quarter of saturday's game with little less success playing with reckless tion toward the end of the game muhlenberg heaved pass after pass and although quite a few were suc cessfully executed there was no further scoring muhlenberg had the ball deep in lehigh territory when davidowitz intercepted a pass and ran it back 40 yards to muh lenberg's 45-yard line muhlenberg lost the ball on downs on her own 1-yard line line-up slightly changed coach tate sent back in the line up the same warriors who started against princeton with the excep tion of rushong resuming his old post at left end in place of levitz and jimmy fritts and van blar com who replaced bob harris and dewey trantum both jimmy fritts and ellis oiler who relieved jimmy when he was taken from the game dazed in the third quarter performed notably on the defense fritts also ploughed through the muhlenberg line frequently for gains of five or more yards on one of these plunges he lost the ball but redeemed himself on the very next play by snatching up a muhlenberg fumble lehigh reduced its number of substitutions to a minimum using but four throughout the game both backfield stars davidowitz and el liott remained in the line-up dur ing the whole game although dav vy's performance of running back punts was not as brilliant as in pre vious games on taylor field and cowboy elliott's punting averaged no better than that of chapman the big center who took care of the punting assignment for the cardin al team lehigh managed to keep the ball well in the allentown boys territory all through the first half scoring punch missing the brown and white backs failed on no less than four attempts to cross the muhlenberg goal line when witkin the twenty yard line lehigh scored five first downs to muhlenberg's none in this first half onslaught the cardinal and gray however rallied desperately in the second half by scoring six first downs mainly on slashing advance ments through the air while le high on the defensive most of the time registered only two for a to tal of seven continued on page four early in the first quarter muh lenberg had been penalized 15 yards and chapman dropped back to punt his kick was blocked and recover ed by lehr on muhlenberg's 11-yard line lehigh opened with passes bradley stoughton professor of metallurgy attended a meeting of the american iron and steel in stitute held in the hotel commo dore new york friday october 26 it was the thirty-fourth gen eral meeting of the institute the meeting consisted of three sessions a forenoon session held in the grand ball room beginning at 10 a m an afternoon session held in the east ball room beginning at 2 p m ; and a banquet in the grand ball room at 7 p m among the most interesting pa pers delivered were an acoustic laboratory for the testing of mu sic and other steel wires by w b white acoustic engineer amer ican steel and wire co chicago 111 in this paper mr white ex plained how wires could now be tested by photographing their me sial notes when under tension h j french senior metallurgist bu reau of standards washington d c delivered a paper on steel re quirements of the aircraft indus try in this he told of the increas ing demand for light yet sturdy metal for aircraft during the war wood was used entirely for the wings and fusilage while now 75 per cent is made from metal he also pointed out the difference in the growth of aircraft as compared with railroads 25 years after each was started in 1927 the united states had 8,556 miles of commer cial airways and in 1850 it had 9,021 miles of roadways in 1927 europe had 31 137 miles of airways and in 1850 it had only 14,217 miles of railroads a cast of 250 under the auspices of the local y w c a will pre sent babes in toyland at liberty high school november 1 2 3 the production will be directed by june lyle lake of new york and is an operetta with music by victor herbert fashioned around a story of adventure and intrigue miss sarah derhammer will take the leading part dean c m mcconn in his ar ticle the tired business men of the campus published in the north american review november issue defends the present fraternity sys tem in modern colleges the dean contends that the men in fraternities are more interested in their all-important outside acti vities than they are in the older type of education namely learning — book learning but dean mc conn draws a conclusion from this premise that is favorable to the fraternity system moreover the dean says these multiform outside activities are educational in a very high degree the students them selves realize this fact and insist upon it with an almost pathetic in sistence to the usually deaf ears of deans and professors indeed these students maintain that their own activities are more important educationally than their studies — that they in their own phrase get more out of them more train ing of mind and character than their books afford we may say of course that these young undergraduates are not competent to judge the comparative brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday october 30 1928 d.o.t issues call fordebatingteam campusenjoys house parties vol xxxvi no 1 2 price five cents board of control frowns on hazing / port at society meet ing nov 6 forensic candidate to re football and track sched ules approved at oc tober meeting two day social event attracts more than 375 fair guests presidential straw vote on campus this week for students muhlenberg bows first time in four years 13-7 cardinal stages rally of desperate forwards alexander hamilton society plans tabulation of undergraduate opinion harvard smoker thursday 4:45 member intercollegiate newspaper association 1
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FullText | route to harvard outlined by a.a.a autoists will have 335 miles with one detour girls galore tall and short fat and thin blonde and brunette amer ican french english and latin girls 375 of them all graced bethlehem and the lehigh campus during the week-end and four out of every five had it and now out over the slope of old south mountain rolls and rever berates the war-cry of sleep sleep as thje panorama of color and the odor of powder and perfume which has permeated the atmosphere of south bethlehem for the last three days slowly weakens and disappears there comes in their places the usual unostentatious parade of mere mas culinity tired and drooping from two nights on the dance floor and all having three desires — sleep rest and the hope that dad's next check soon arrives conversation once more reverts from blind dates pul chritude and plans for the realization of long cherished hopes to the more staid topics of football professors jokes frosh freaks and the lo cal theatres and in spite of it all every one always looks forward to the tion next house party season with the greatest of enjoyment and anticipa house dances gala senior ball the longest football trek in re cent years for lehigh men will be gin thursday afternoon when the team pushes off for cambridge shortly after the rooters will like wise take the road many are go ing by means of the train and boat but for the benefit of those who plan the trip by automobile the bethlehem motor club has sub mitted the following route as being the best available at this time the route given below calls for 355 miles each way one way traf fic will be encountered from old lyme to east lyme conn and there will also be a short detour at norwood mass just before enter ing boston with these exceptions the going is good and the roads outlined offer the least amount of construction all men in the sophomore jun ior and senior classes who are in terested in making the debating team or speakers bureau of the uni versity are requested by delta om icron theta to be present at the meeting of the society next monday evening at 7:30 in christmas-sau con hall d o t issued this general call for debaters and speak ers at their meeting held in christ mas-saucon hall last evening the society plans to sponsor the first debating team to officially rep resent lehigh in recent years ten tative debates with lafayette and muhlenberg to be held this fall are still under consideration debates with teams from boston univer sity temple university loyola college of chicago and carelton college to be held next spring are also pending whether or not these debates will materialize de pends largely on how the general appeal for men is answered albert davey a member of the society initiated the activities of the speakers bureau at reading to day when he spoke to the rotary club on a college man's opin ion of the business world mon day november 12 davey will speak to the rotary club of king ston at their weekly luncheon in de fense of the younger generation and wednesday november 14 he will speak to the lion's club of wilkes-barre on the same topic faculty dramatists will meet tomorrow vantage of this chance to cast a bal lot for either hoover smith thomas or other regular candidate the returns will be carefully checked and tabulated and the le high vote will be published in fri day's brown and white the idea to conduct the straw vote originated from an interesting open forum of the national politi cal situation which followed short prepared speeches by three club members at the initial 1928-9 meet ing of the alexander hamilton so ciety thursday evening in coppee hall a motion to the effect that the club conduct the election was passed unanimously lyle jones expounded on al smith's qualifica tions for the presidency and max bachtell and bill figoni advanced the merits of herbert hoover the current of the discussion indicated a slight partizanship for the repub lican nominee at the next meeting of the organ ization which was set for monday dec 10 six new members will be elected to bring the membership to the limit of 20 faculty recommen dations of particularly juniors who have exhibited outstanding interest and ability in courses in history government and international rela tions will receive serious considera tion in the selection just when the entire nation is oc cupied with political speculation lehigh students will unofficially cast ballots in a presidential straw vote sponsored by the alexander hamilton society the scholastic honorary for the department of his tory and government effort has been exerted to make available to every undergraduate the opportun ity to cast a vote so that the con sensus will accurately reflect le high's preference for president cards have been sent to every living group of any appreciable size the head of every group has been asked to record the representative statistics after colling a formal vote at either the regular weekly meet ing tonight or at a well-attended meal the proper attached return card is then to be remitted to sec retary sidney p simons section c taylor hall by not later than wed nesday night polls open all day tomorrow inasmuch as at least one-third of the student body is not affiliated with an organized living group polls will be maintained from 8 a.m until 4 p m tomorrow in fred trafford's drown hall office mem bers of the organization will serve as watchers and election clerks and it is hoped that many of the town group and commuters will take ad sj.brown speaks of medieval life harvard send-off to be pep smoker trio of speakers an nounced for thursday at 4:45 second of the university lecture series given last night the senior ball is again a thing of the past friday night marked the first epochal affair for this year of the class of 28 should all the affairs of the senior class be as en joyable as the dance friday then will the year be most successful taylor gymnasium where the dance took place presented an en tirely new appearance to the many students and guests who attended where formerly nothing but bare walls and gymnasium apparatus greeted the eye there was one of the most elaborate decorative dis plays ever seen in taylor gym in line with the season of the year hallowe'en the walls were tastefully disguised with many col ored crepes and buntings vari sized jack o lanterns leered from all corners and huge pumpkin gourds added an effective touch to the scene softening the intensity of the ceiling lights were streamers of colored crepe the music was furnished by dornberger's ore hestra and straight's orchestra they proved popular with the dancers and there was never a lack of music the orchestras seated at opposite ends of the gym were placed under two large open-front paper pumpkins presenting quite a novelty the ball was well attended and in all respects a successful occasion the autumn night was ideal for the dance with a nearly full moon and a cold snap in the air scabbard and blade holds tea dance and there was music everywhere as ten orchestras on south moun tain and along fraternity row closed the two-day festival with the customary house dances saturday night out of 29 fraternities 18 en tered into five combinations five houses ran private dances and six held no dances phi delta theta delta tau del ta psi upsilon and phi gamma delta held a dance at the phi gam ma delta house and art zel ler's merrymakers furnished the mu sic chi psi sigma nu and beta theta pi gave a dance at the beta house art zeller's arcadians providing the necessary syncopa tion alpha chi rho theta xi and lambda chi alpha held a dance at the theta xi house to the tune of music furnished by the easton ramblers alpha tau omega kap pa sigma and sigma phi epsilon held a dance at the alpha tau omega house where white bro'.h ers ginger band kept things mov ing lew chapman's interfra ternity band provided the entertain ment for sigma chi and chi thi at the latter's house delta phi and kappa alpha danced at the sig ma phi house as the plainfield prolicers provided the music steed weidner's cardinals pro vided the music for a closed dance at theta kappa phi syncopation by the allentown harmony kings entertained phi sigma kappa and tau delta phi entrusted to the wil liam perm night owls the task of providing music pi lambda phi with the lafayette leopards and sigma alpha mv with the sheriff wanamaker orchestra also spon sored closed affairs g e fagan's and so to bed a comedy which completed a suc cessful run on broadway last spring will be read by the faculty dramatic club at their semi-month ly meeting tomorrow night pro fessor e h riley will be in charge of the meeting which will be held at 7:30 p m at the residence of professor r w hall at 37 east church street the play was suggested to its author by samuel pepy's diary the action of the comedy takes place after pepys has written the last word of his famous diary and fol lows closely along lines suggested by the book g e fagan the playwrite is a former oxford player who gained quite a reputation from his acting in the cherry orchard and oth er productions of the players , ridiculing of frosh at football games should be discontinued de cided the board of athletic con trol at their regular october meet ing in the graduate manager's of fice in drown hall yesterday after noon in the way of routine bus iness track and football schedules were approved and pete morrissey varsity and frosh swimming coach for the first time last winter was reappointed the consensus of the board dis countenanced such incidents as the veil dance which three freshmen were forced to perform between the halves of the muhlenberg game saturday inasmuch as the board alone has not the power to restrict such undiginified conduct the matter will be referred to arcadia for action the schedule for next year's foot ball season was approved with two newcomers listed perm and johns hopkins in place of harvard and bucknell the jays are booked for the curtain-raiser through courtesy of st john's of brooklyn who have been the first opponents for the last three years but accepted a later date that between the g-burg and perm contests lehigh has not met perm in football for many years but gets its chance on franklin field oct 26 differing also from the schedules of the past three years is the position occupied by princeton lehigh will meet the tigers in palmer stadium ostensib ly as a sandwich game in late season muhlenberg rutgers and lafayette appear as the november attractions with the last coming to taylor stadium to close the season despite rumors that the leopards were desirous of playing their tra ditional arch rivals earlier in the season to permit the booking of an opponent more in their gridiron caste for the nightcap four major games of the nine gettysburg perm princeton and rutgers are to be played on foreign fields the track schedule released for the 1929 season is more inclusive and more difficult than those of re cent years six dual meets against the leading colleges in the middle atlantic states collegiate athletic association and the perm relays are scheduled noticeable is the fact that the actual competitive sea son lasts only one month lehigh for the first time in several years is not officially entered in the m.a.s c.a.a championships as a team be cause of the proximity of that meet annually to spring term final exams which usually discourages about half the lettermen from competing continued on page four musical club dance is well attended prof stoughton attends meeting interesting papers present ed at iron and steel institute scabbard and blade ushered in fall house parties with a tea dance friday afternoon in drown hall although there were many late ar rivals due to the fact that many of the girls had to come long distances the dance was in full swing shortly after the orchestra played the first number and continued in a lively manner until seven o'clock the dance hall was uniquely dec orated with machine-guns and mil itary banners symbolic of the scab bard and blade society the mu sic was furnished by dave fluhar ty's orchestra and the chaperons were col and mrs e e mccair mon capt and mrs t r taber and capt and mrs j h rodman primed to meet the second mem ber of the former big three within the month the football men will receive a gala send-off from the entire student body as they leave for harvard late thursday afternoon plans are now completed for the pep smoker at 4:45 that afternoon with good speakers smokes cheers and plenty of pep the team will leave for new york at 6:20 from the lehigh valley station and after disbanding at the gym the pep meeting will follow the team to the station and there reconvene for the final send-off bill wilson 07 pat pazetti 15 former all - american and okey czar of eastern football and former all-american consti tute an unexcelled trio of pep speak ers for the occasion pat pazetti and okey need no introduction to lehigh followers and bill wilson procured by okey although little known to the present generation of lehigh men is reputed for his elo quence the combined musical clubs sponsored the best attended tea dance of the season saturday im mediately after the muhlenberg game in the upper gym the dance which attracted more than 250 rivaled the senior ball in popularity music was supplied by the musical club's dance orches tra under the direction of dave fluharty chaperons were pro fessor eric s sinkinson dr and mrs raymond c bull and mr and mrs cyril d jensen decora tions were the same as those of the senior ball october 30 1928 freshmen do you know how to keep off the grass who's who at lehigh the school songs how to say hello your place if not your names should be in cluded in this list of men who must report to the sophomore council on wednesday october 31 at 7:30 p m in drown hall fred damm albert cunningham fuhrer zevitz butterly diamond expert speaks at lehigh section a c.s bethlehem to cambridge mass via bethlehem to 11.1 easton easton to hackettstown via 0.0 easton northampton & third sts at center square east with trol on northampton st across delaware river 0.3 phillipsburg n j irreg 4-cor beyond r.r bear left from trol and immediately right 7.0 new village 8.7 broadway 12.9 washington 16-0 anderson 21.7 beatyestown 23.4 end of rd left 24.8 hackettstown n j hackettstown to denville via 0.0 hackettstown keep ahead onto main st 0.4 fork at monument right 5-8 budd lake 8.8 netcong right hand street right 9.1 4-cor right 11.3 end of road right 12.3 ledge wood fork left from trol 13.7 kenvil 15.0 mine hill 17.2 dover 20.8 rockaway 22.3 denville denville to mtn view via 0.0 denville fork left with trol leaving h'way 5 1.6 left-hand rd left leaving h'way 12 1.9 fork left ■3.1 mtn lakes 4.0 fork right with trol 5.1 boonton keep ahead on main st over r.r 5.2 myrtle aye at bridge left 7.1 montville end of rd left 9.2 towago 9.7 right-hand rd right over r.r and next left 11.4 lincoln park right-hand rd right 13.7 end of rd right 13.6 mtn view mtn view to suffern n v via 0.0 mtn view avoid left 2.2 right hand at school right 3.9 fork left 4.3 fork right 5.9 pompton right-hand st at p o right continued on page four dean mcconn defends fraternity system coming events burr there will be a meeting of the entire b-urr staff wednesday evening at seven-thirty in the burr room at drown hall epitome there will be a meeting of the sophomore competitors for the business staff of the 1931 epit ome at 7:30 p m thursday in drown hall king paget bus iness manager of the 1930 epit ome makes it imperative that all competitors attend sigma xi the lehigh chapter of the so ciety of sigma xi will meet at 8 p m tuesday october 30 in drown hall professor w a slater will speak on the test ing of the concrete arch dam sixty feet high and two feet thick the public is cordially invited over half the diamonds now be ing mined and cut are coming into the united states declared dr george f kunz at the meeting of the lehigh section of the ameri can chemical society at muhlen berg college friday october 26 to a mixed audience of members and wives and students of lehigh and muhlenberg dr kunz is a gem expert of the tiffany co and more over a leading united states auth ority in this special field accord ing to dr ullman his address on the precious stone past pres ent and future proved interest ing and entertaining the discus sion included not only chemical re lations but also the cultured place of precious stones in history in so cial anecdote and in commerce the talk was amply supplemented by illustrated slides pr-legal all pre-legal students are in vited to join the members of the pre-legal society in an open meeting to be held at 7:30 p m friday in drown hall there will me a meeting of the council of the college of engin eering at 4 p m wednesday oc tober 31 in the committee room second floor alumni memorial hall lecture committee student organizations which desire aid in procuring promin ent men to address them should send representatives to the lec ture committee meeting at 4:15 p m thursday november 8 in the committee room in the al umni building y w c a to present play the life of a peasant in a medie val village was the life of a human animal wholy without ambition or even hope of progress in the opin ion of professor sidney m brown who presented the second of the series of university lectures last night at drown hall according to professor neil car others who presided the research work of professor brown in the field of medieval life has made him one of the foremost present-day au thorities on the subject professor brown told of the bestial life of the serf in a vivid manner forced by the lord of the manor to live in a dirty hovel with his poultry and cattle to work from dawn to dusk in the fields and to bring his grain to the lord's mill and his cattle to the lord to be slaughtered his bon dage was greater than that of the egyptian slaves three days of his six were devoted to the lord's lands and he had to provide his own food the other three he never had more than twenty acres under cul tivation at a time and even that land was scattered in small strips over the countryside frequently his whole village was not worth more than thirty-five dol lars the manor house itself was often poorer than most pioneer am erican farmhouses in speaking of the serf's religion he said the tilling of the soil is the oldest and most unchanging of human occupations and supersti tion clings to it pagan charms and incantations were used to promote god crops the serf's sunday was a day of vice and evil and the ignorant stu pid clergy could not control the situation the few intelligent cler gymen were lax and more interest ed in abstract learning following the custom inaugurat ed at the last lecture an open for um was held at the close of the talk and the audience was free to question the lecturer in answer to a query about the brighter side of the peasant's life professor brown said i have not been able to find the slightest bit of evidence for an optimistic view of life in a medieval village pi delta epsilon new members will be elected at a meeting of pi delta epsilon wednesday afternoon at 4:30 p m in the brown and white room at drown hall students have failed to take full advantage of the arrangements made by the arcadia for the har vard trip only 50 have responded so far symphony orchestra the symphony orchestra will hold its regular practice tonight at 8:00 instead of tomorrow night the glee club will meet as usual at 7:30 p m thurs day both meetings will be held in drown hall educational values of activities and book learning but as alumni lat er having tested their training in the hard post-graduate school of business life they express no re grets and no change of view they still maintain years afterward that in giving preference while in col lege to activities rather than stu dies they chose the better part and the acid test of their sincerity in such expressions comes when they send sons to college and are open ly more concerned that the boy should make a fraternity and a team should become a student leader than that he should pay any particular attention to books in short the great majority of fraternity men — though they give only the compulsory minimum of attention to those aspects of high er education which are represented by the faculty and the curriculum — are neither idle nor frivolous they are earnestly at work on an other course of training devised and developed by themselves which they select for its superior educa tional advantages personally i have become con continued on page four when lehigh defeated muhlen berg 13-7 last saturday afternoon on taylor field before a colorful gathering of fall house party guests it marked the brown and white gridders first triumph over an al lentown team in four years but the fourteenth lehigh victory in the series of eighteen games for three quarters of saturday's game lehigh had the ball well in cardinal and gray territory only to weaken at the end when a substitute muhlen berg backfield ran wild in a final quarter spurt which netted seven points and near victory lehigh scored first in the second period on a beautiful pass stand ing in lehigh territory art davido witz took one of chapman's punts and raced back 25 yards to the muhlenberg 28-yard line on the first play davidowitz heaved a pass to cowboy elliott shaking off tackier after tackier elliott stumbl ing falling and knocked off balance knifed his way over the necessary distance for the touchdown davvy kicked the extra point after an exchange of punts early in the second half davidowitz ran the ball back to muhlenberg's 30 yard line lehigh started marching down the field ripping off three first downs to reach muhlenberg's 5-yard line muhlenberg threaten ed to hold but on the third play and with but two yards to go da vidowitz slashe doff tackle and just carried the ball across his at tempt for the extra point was mar red by a hasty pass cardinal takes to air muhlenberg resorted to the same means of attack that won them their first game against lehigh sev en years ago just as the cardinal and gray adopted a reckless for ward passing in the game that brought victory over lehigh in 1921 14-13 so did they take to the air in the final quarter of saturday's game with little less success playing with reckless tion toward the end of the game muhlenberg heaved pass after pass and although quite a few were suc cessfully executed there was no further scoring muhlenberg had the ball deep in lehigh territory when davidowitz intercepted a pass and ran it back 40 yards to muh lenberg's 45-yard line muhlenberg lost the ball on downs on her own 1-yard line line-up slightly changed coach tate sent back in the line up the same warriors who started against princeton with the excep tion of rushong resuming his old post at left end in place of levitz and jimmy fritts and van blar com who replaced bob harris and dewey trantum both jimmy fritts and ellis oiler who relieved jimmy when he was taken from the game dazed in the third quarter performed notably on the defense fritts also ploughed through the muhlenberg line frequently for gains of five or more yards on one of these plunges he lost the ball but redeemed himself on the very next play by snatching up a muhlenberg fumble lehigh reduced its number of substitutions to a minimum using but four throughout the game both backfield stars davidowitz and el liott remained in the line-up dur ing the whole game although dav vy's performance of running back punts was not as brilliant as in pre vious games on taylor field and cowboy elliott's punting averaged no better than that of chapman the big center who took care of the punting assignment for the cardin al team lehigh managed to keep the ball well in the allentown boys territory all through the first half scoring punch missing the brown and white backs failed on no less than four attempts to cross the muhlenberg goal line when witkin the twenty yard line lehigh scored five first downs to muhlenberg's none in this first half onslaught the cardinal and gray however rallied desperately in the second half by scoring six first downs mainly on slashing advance ments through the air while le high on the defensive most of the time registered only two for a to tal of seven continued on page four early in the first quarter muh lenberg had been penalized 15 yards and chapman dropped back to punt his kick was blocked and recover ed by lehr on muhlenberg's 11-yard line lehigh opened with passes bradley stoughton professor of metallurgy attended a meeting of the american iron and steel in stitute held in the hotel commo dore new york friday october 26 it was the thirty-fourth gen eral meeting of the institute the meeting consisted of three sessions a forenoon session held in the grand ball room beginning at 10 a m an afternoon session held in the east ball room beginning at 2 p m ; and a banquet in the grand ball room at 7 p m among the most interesting pa pers delivered were an acoustic laboratory for the testing of mu sic and other steel wires by w b white acoustic engineer amer ican steel and wire co chicago 111 in this paper mr white ex plained how wires could now be tested by photographing their me sial notes when under tension h j french senior metallurgist bu reau of standards washington d c delivered a paper on steel re quirements of the aircraft indus try in this he told of the increas ing demand for light yet sturdy metal for aircraft during the war wood was used entirely for the wings and fusilage while now 75 per cent is made from metal he also pointed out the difference in the growth of aircraft as compared with railroads 25 years after each was started in 1927 the united states had 8,556 miles of commer cial airways and in 1850 it had 9,021 miles of roadways in 1927 europe had 31 137 miles of airways and in 1850 it had only 14,217 miles of railroads a cast of 250 under the auspices of the local y w c a will pre sent babes in toyland at liberty high school november 1 2 3 the production will be directed by june lyle lake of new york and is an operetta with music by victor herbert fashioned around a story of adventure and intrigue miss sarah derhammer will take the leading part dean c m mcconn in his ar ticle the tired business men of the campus published in the north american review november issue defends the present fraternity sys tem in modern colleges the dean contends that the men in fraternities are more interested in their all-important outside acti vities than they are in the older type of education namely learning — book learning but dean mc conn draws a conclusion from this premise that is favorable to the fraternity system moreover the dean says these multiform outside activities are educational in a very high degree the students them selves realize this fact and insist upon it with an almost pathetic in sistence to the usually deaf ears of deans and professors indeed these students maintain that their own activities are more important educationally than their studies — that they in their own phrase get more out of them more train ing of mind and character than their books afford we may say of course that these young undergraduates are not competent to judge the comparative brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday october 30 1928 d.o.t issues call fordebatingteam campusenjoys house parties vol xxxvi no 1 2 price five cents board of control frowns on hazing / port at society meet ing nov 6 forensic candidate to re football and track sched ules approved at oc tober meeting two day social event attracts more than 375 fair guests presidential straw vote on campus this week for students muhlenberg bows first time in four years 13-7 cardinal stages rally of desperate forwards alexander hamilton society plans tabulation of undergraduate opinion harvard smoker 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