Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 15

              the library has been given trouble by students keeping books after they are due in the future the library will mail one notice only the second notice will come from the dean books are placed on the re served shelf by various profes sors for the use of an entire class such books when taken out at night should be returned by 9:00 a m the following morning lehigh men apply for scholarships rhodes state committees will select winners during winter a good concrete and macadam highway to lewisburg via ber wick 0.0 bethlehem take allentown pike to 6.0 allentown u s highway no 309 through 30.0 palmerton 36.0 lenighton 39.5 mauch chunk 55.3 hazleton 71.9 nescopeck 72.6 berwick take u s high way no 11 through 85.0 bloomsburg 94.7 danville 106.4 northumberland take u s highway no 111 through to 115.0 lewisburg a map with the complete route traced is posted on the bulletin board in christmas saucon hall hall to be host to faculty club the brown and white eleven is determined to break into a winning stride again when it lines up against bucknell tomorrow afternoon at 2.30 in the memorial stadium at lewisburg the lehigh men are in excellent physical condition and de parted for lewisburg this morning for the past years bucknell has regularly defeated the lehigh foot ball teams last year's score being 20-6 but this season's game prom ises to be another story in spite of the fact that the bisons have a powerful offensive bucknell held lafayette to a scoreless tie in the early part of the season and de feated perm state 6-0 but the bi sons went down before the villanova aerial attack last week and crum pled before the gettysburg offen sive the bucknell team was badly bruised and battered in the villa nova game last saturday and many of the players are suffering from minor injuries ellor giant guard from bloomfield n j has been confined to the infirmary till today due to a serious internal injury and it is not likely that he will be able to play more than a half of tomor row's game captain haliicki has a mage training men in excellent condition after week of scrim damaged nose but he will be in the line-up when the opening whistle sounds coach snavely has given his charges an intensive workout this week and scrimmages have been a daily occurrence in the bi son camp the lehigh coaches and men have also been busy correcting the faults which appeared in the har vard game last saturday tuesday afternoon austy gave the men a talk in the dressing-room when he announced that he would start from the beginning again and that no man was certain of his berth on the varsity team he also severely criticised the men for passing up tackles at harvard after this talk several new plays were given to the men and then a long scrimmage fol lowed on wednesday the freshmen scrimmaged the varsity and suc ceeded in scoring a lone touchdown on the first string men while the varsity took the ball over the line twice lamb who was promoted from the jayvees on monday was the star of the game and time after time broke away for large gains scoring both touchdowns another player who was promoted from the continued on page four steel man talks on raw material white addresses civil engineers many difficulties in sub way construction ex plained pi delta epsilon national honor ary journalistic fraternity held its second meeting of the present school year wednesday night in the brown and white room drown hall preparatory to fall initiation four men were approved by the so ciety for membership formal pledging of these men will occur within the next week although initiation will not be held until sometime in december the discussiorpwhich had been started at the first meeting a week previous to this meeting concerning the possibilities of holding a ban quet in the spring similar in nature to the gridiron banquets held at many other universities was con tinued it was decided that such a banquet honorary in nature with invitations extended only to those who had been particularly active and outstanding among students faculty and perhaps towns people who had maintained a high interest in lehigh affairs would be a wel come addition to the social events of the lehigh campus a committee was delegated to obtain information on banquets of this nature from the schools at which they are held and to recommend to the society what action should be taken if such a banquet is to be held the date will probably be set for late spring other business discussed at the meeting was of a minor nature and pertaining to the society alone j a lyter was elected delegate to at tend the national convention of pi delta epsilon to be held at atlanta georgia on december 6 7 and 8 bethlehem plant statistics given at mining and geology meeting football review in new number criticism by spectators at har vard new england alumni and boston newspapers declare that the lehigh band of 64 pieces made a very favorable impression when it played and paraded at soldiers field last week the boston trav eler made special comment in its write-up of the excellent work of the lehigh band and the - alumni pointed with pride to the musicians who had journeyed from bethlehem to cambridge to represent lehigh that lehigh set a record while at harvard is evident in reading th account in the boston globe the swank lehigh drum major more than six feet tall not measur ing a gorgeous lid made of white bearskin and at least two feet high who led the band through its paces resplendent in white was bill kel let of philadelphia statisticians are agreed that he is the tallest thing that ever wielded a baton on the harvard turf the lad walking along next to him was bob baker of reading who did the leading while kellet was doing the stick twirling the lehigh supporters were exhorted to vocal effort by ed ward gott carl boynton and tom chandler the band followed its usual cus tom while at harvard it marched upon the field paraded and played between the halves the band formed the letter h for harvard and the letter l for lehigh and played the alma mater while in the l formation the trip from new york to provi dence was made by boat at the request of the ' captain the band gave an hour's concert on the boat which was received enthusiastically by the fellow patrons of the provi dence line steamer a new england alumnus was heard to exclaim well we showed them we had a fighting college team and an excellent college band the faculty dramatic club will read rosmersholm by henrik ib sen on wednesday evening no vember 14 at professor hall's home mrs r m smith is in charge of this meeting reading parts have not yet been assigned professor f w chandler in his aspects of modern drama says of rosmersholm among the many meanings of this complex play one at least is clear sheer individualism defeats itself with a growth of a sense of moral respon sibility he who wills must more and more will to renounce he must develop the altruism of a higher love which is contrasted with the fierce individualism of the animal ibsei throughout his works lays the changes upon this dualism the con flict between nature and spirit it is the story of the love of a wo man who to win the man she loved tricked his wife into suicide then as her passion became more steady he learned of her deed and she had lost all together they leaped into the mill-race because one woman's nature overcame her spirit library is recipient of autographed book library ignores book week lehigh has reason to be especial ly interested in the rhodes schol arships his year three of her stu dents thomas m brennan 29 r max goepp jr 29 and john i kirkpatrick 29 are applying for the honor as well as the opportuni ty this scholarship affords the first is making his claim as a resi dent of new york state the latter two as students in pennsylvania the university has yet to have one of her sons win ' the coveted scholarship and each of these three men has much that may make le high realize this hope me nare se lected because of four primary qualities i literary and scholastic ability and attainments 2 quali ties of manhood truth courage de votion to duty sympathy for and protection of the weak kindliness unselfishness and fellowship 3 ex hibition during school days of mor al force of character and of in stincts to lead and to take an in terest in his schoolmates 4 fond ness for and success in manly out door sports such as cricket football and the like the rt hon cecil john rhodes exhibited all of these traits and it was his hope in set ting up the rhodes trust that such men might be benefited by three years training at oxford so that they might be the best men for the world's fight it will be no small task to win these places at oxford against the best students that the other colleges and universities have to offer the appointment will be made during the winter months when the state committees convene bus resumes old route over 80 people attended the lec ture of h g whitaker on gyro scopes last night at the meeting of the mechanical engineering society in the chemistry building mr wfihitaker representing the sperry gyroscope co makers of the world famous gyroscope compass stabiliz er and automatic helmsman dis cussed the origin and history of the gyroscope mr sperry head of the company was the first man to put the gyro scopue to a practical use which was to direct a torpedo along a straight course after 17 years of experi ment and research the gyroscopic compass was put in condition for dependable service this compass was first put on battleships to en able them to streer straight in bat tle practice after that they were adopted together with the automatic course indicator by merchant ships all over the world the compass consists of a bronze wheel turned by either a squirrel cage from alter nating current or by a direct cur rent motor and all mounted on a device which allows it to swing in any direction the wheel weighs 55 pounds and rotates at a speed of 6000 revolutions per minute the effect of gravity is offset by a mer cury tube the whole compass de pends on the ability of the rotating wheel to always maintain the same position with respect to some fixed body outside the earth slides were shown giving an idea of the size and shape of the var ious apparatus similar to the compass is the sta bilizer which keeps ships from roll ing the action is essentially the same as that of the compass in recent years an airplane stabilizer has been developed which will hold a plane steady in bumpy air and even allow the pilot to leave the controls for long periods of time the ford airplane co has recently given this a most satisfactory test the turn indicator for planes has long proven successful and is one of the many products manufactured by this company metal mike is an adaption of the compass it is so arranged that the slightest deviation of a ship off its course induces an electric current which starts the steering machinery bringing the ship back on the course an auto matic course registering machine is often run in conjunction with met al mike to keep a record of the course steered at all times the society voted to adopt charms and secretary marshall was directed to take orders and send for them at once a complete review of the foot ball season thus far is the text of okey's article in the november issue of the alumni bulletin just off the press okeson does this with a thoroughness giving the high spots of each game by words and pictures he sizes up the situa tion giving a prediction for better things as the green wears off the bulletin continues the same policy inaugurated in the october number the cover is modernistic in design the editorials are listed in the same manner and the alum ni article is continued this time by walter okeson a new department is started giving the activities of the various alumni clubs through out the country piles and underbracings in sub ways was the subject of lazarus white's address at the civil engin eering society meeting held last evening in the physics lecture room mr white is president of spencer white prentis co consulting en gineer and a leading authority on subway construction mr white showed that the three main difficulties in subway con struction are narrow streets soft ground and existing obstacles such as buildings gas pipes sewers etc the streets must be kept open to traffic thus necessitating the cut and cover type of construction the surface excavation is done at night and covered with wooden deck further excavation is carried on under this decking mr white showed slides of sev eral important undebracing jobs in cluding the brooklyn bridge under pinning this bridge was built on some old wine vaults of which all records had been lost after the lecture mr white answered many questions asked by the audience library adds new books to shelves debating society elects members clubs petition . for speakers m a de wolf howe well known author graduate of the class of 1886 has presented an autographed copy of his latest book classic shades to the lehigh library the inscrip tion on the fly leaf reads to the library of lehigh university the first classic shades known to m a de wolf howe the book contains five essays one on timothy dwight yale mary lyon mt holyoke mark hopkins williams james mccosh prince ton and one on charles william elliot of harvard this book will be in the collection of the library and a standard copy will be placed on the shelves for general use senior civils will inspect new york city structures next week will be national book week but the lehigh library is not going to do anything about it while the underlying idea of na tional book week is probably more concerned with the sale of books than with the lending of them de clared librarian leach in an inter view it is a good plan to have peo ple think a little more about books and their value and it is appro priate that the list of the many fine books acquired by the library during october should appear si multaneously with the announce ment of book week i should be glad to see an increased circulation during this period but book week or no book week the lehigh li brary stands ready to serve the stu dents at any time the lehigh valley transportation company last wednesday resumed a twenty-minute bus schedule be tween broad and new streets and the five points this twenty-min ute service will take the place of the thirty-minute service which has been in effect during the past few months between the five points and goepp and center streets the service was extended to cen ter street about a month ago in re sponse to a request by the people living in that section the officials of the lehigh valley transportation company decided to give it a fair trial hoping that the extended serv ice would increase the revenue on this line however just the oppo site turned out to be the case c r mcßride speaks . on ileeman effect a plea that technical students be informed that there is a human problem in industry as well as a technical one and that personnel and management have assumed larger proportions than technical questions was made at a meeting of college and business executives at tended by president richards in new york city recently the meeting was arranged by samuel a lewisohn vice president and treasurer of the miami copper company who felt that there was a need for greater co-operation be tween technical schools and col leges and larger business concerns other industrial leaders present were owen d young chairman of the board of directors of general electric corporation g dunn president of j g white engineer ing corporation mr cheney a new york banker and general rees one of the assistant vice pres idents of the american telephone & telegraph company owen d young stated that at present the general electric co had ten positions of a managerial character open with salaries of from 50,000 to 100,000 which they would be glad to fill if competent men could be found but they can't find the men he said that colt leges train the students so well that most of the men take technical po sitions president richards how ever believes that probably two thirds of the technical graduates get into business rather than tech nical work after they have been out of college 15 years dr richards called mr young's attention to the cadet courses given by many concerns as a means of training college men for large in dustries mr young replied that these courses were in charge of technical men and consequently the cadets are trained for technical po sitions dr richards maintained that if such was the case industry itself was responsible for the situa tion mr young admitted that it was president richards believes that a man without inborn ability can not become a good manager through education and that if col lege men taking cadet courses are given managerial instruction the personnel and technical men could be determined the president said two problems should be made clear to the student besides the technical problem they are the economic problem that is will the undertaking pay and the organiza tion and management problem nothing definite was agreed upon at the meeting except to instruct the board in charge of survey of en gineering education to investigate what is being done and what might be done to train college men for managerial positions the following colleges were repre sented at the meeting massachu setts institute of technology brown university new york uni versity yale cornell university of michigan ohio state state uni versity of lowa university of mis souri and harvard university soccer men must report electricals visit conowingo plant four undergraduates societies were represented at the meeting of the lecture committee held yesterday afternoon in the committee room of the memorial building each of the societies represented petitioned for support from the committee in order to enable them to bring a lec turer of some renown to lehigh the four societies represented were the mathematical society the civil engineering society pi delta epsilon and eta sigma phi the committee heard the request of each society but decided nothing definitely merely taking the matter under advisement for future con sideration the soccer team and squad pic tures will be taken tomorrow at 1 o'clock all men who signed up for soccer are asked to be present as pictures of the squad and freshman team will be taken as well as that of the varsity eta sigma phi to meet the first of the senior civil inspec tion trips is being planned for the week of nov 19 the entire time will be spent in and around new york city the iternary now being made will include inspection of the new hudson river suspension bridge the american cable co building the federal reserve bank the stock exchange and several construction jobs now in progress about 30 men will take the trip which will be in charge of profes sors r j fogg and h g payrow of the civil engineering depart ment delta omicron theta elected to membership s w rounds e f underwood e j stack l g e hamburger and f m brown on monday night at the regular meet ing of the society f j whitney jr was chosen for corresponding secretary to succeed p angelies vice-president a i davies in a short speech said that the respon sibility rested on delta omicron theta to so prepare for the coming series of intercollegiate debates that lehigh will win many debating candidates were present they were given a trial by a short im impromptu debate on the relative merits of smith and hoover at its conclusion the audience voted 11 to 5 in favor of hoover regular meetings of the society will be held every other monday night in christmas-saucon hall all men interested in debating dis cussion or oratory are urged to at tend campus follows election many students have vote the library has added 157 volumes to its shelves in october according to h s leach librarian the re ports as issue by the librarian state there were 15 books on journalism 11 on philosophy 14 on religion 20 on the subjects of pure science 19 on technology 6 books on art 28 history books and 44 volumes on history a few of the more important and interesting bookc to the average lehigh student are en mcconn ancient society mor gan open conspiracy wells literature fiction destiny bay byrne age of reason gibbs cha viler of tennisee nicholson bam bi salten the children wharton and they were married wil liams drama three last plays greg ory two plays o'casey plays of protest sinclair essays pipefulls morley history travels in philadelphia sociology college or kindergart dr messer of dartmouth col lege will address the members of eta sigma phi on monday decem ber 3 dr messer who is a member of the department of latin at dart mouth has not as yet decided on his subject mid winter homecoming larkin visits princeton a collection of mycenae pottery will be on display today and tomor row in the office of f l santae acting head of the departmen of latin the zeeman effect was th topic used by charles r mcßride at the meeting of the ernest l brown astronomical society wednesday mr mcßride explained the zeeman effect and showed how it can be used to predict the formation of sun spots and prominences which are the basis of long time weather pre diction mr mcßride obtained his knowledge of the zeeman effect which is a change observed in solar or stellar spectra because of the presence of a magnetic field by work in the dominion astro-physi cal observatory the ernest l brown astronomi cal society with the assistance of leland s barnes sponsors the usual open nights on thursday evenings at the lehigh observa tory to which all interested students are invited professor f v larkin head of the mechanical engineering depart ment will attend the regular meet ing of the publications committee of the american society of me chanical engineers to be held to morrow morning in the new me chanical laboratory at princeton university an inspection trip to the cono wingo hydro-electric development of the philadelphia electric co will be made sunday by the senior elec trical engineers and their profes sors the trip will be made by auto mobile as it will take considerable time to drive the distance of about 100 miles those who will make the trip are asked to be on hand early sunday morning at young's drug store the trip will start at seven o'clock the conowingo power plant is the best example of modern hydro electric plant construction in the east it contains several of the largest electrical machines of their kind the trip has been arranged by roger taylor whose father is in charge of the conowingo develop ment pi tau sigma pledges addenda due to a very serious error in notification the name of r s taylor 29 e e was omitted from the list of names of men pledged to tau beta pi both in the formal pledging by dr rich ards last monday in chapel and the subsequent list published in this paper the society and this paper take this means of correct ing this omission coming events college lecture . dr neil carothers will speak on primitive man 8:00 pm monday in drown hall burr burr board will meet 7:15 pm wednesday in drown hall senior electrical engineers inspection trip to conowingo sunday varsity soccer lehigh vs cornell 1:00 pm saturday on bethlehem steel field engineering council th council of the college of engineering will meet at 4 p m wed nesday november 14 in the committee room second floor alumni memorial hall mathematics club the lehigh university mathematics club will meet at 7.30 p m wednesday november 14 in room 31 packer hall faculty dramatic club the faculty dramatic club will meet wednesday evening novem ber 14 at the home of professor robert w hall 37 east church st the unprecedented interest with which the nation has followed th recent presidential campaign in which herbert hoover overwhelm ingly defeated his democratic ri val governor alfred smith mani fested itself with unusual vigor here last night when both students and faculty members forsook their beds until the early hours of morning to learn the final results over 60 students took advantage of the opportunity to miss classes to vote most of these were resi dents of nearby cities but several went a considerable distance to cast their ballots baltimore and columbus ohio were the two most distant places travelled to by vot ers excited groups crowded about radios from early evening when the first reports began to come in until well after midnight when the reports showed that hoover had swept the country those who had no radios watched the progress of the election in front of the globe-times office where sectional results were posted as they came in although the school had favored hoover in the straw vote conducted by the alexander hamilton society the complete victory of the repub lican candidate even in usually strong democratic states came as a surprise to most and precipitated lengthy discussions everywhere faculty members have perhaps been even more interested in the election than have the ' students two factions one led by dean mc conn and one by dean curtis have engaged in verbal debate on the major issues ever since the cam paign began in view of the out come it might be best not to reveal which factions the deans support ed however the faction whose convictions were rebuked will un doubtedly be the subject of consid erable-banter according to the lead er of the victorious group mr cummings of the bethlehem steel company addressed a meeting of the mining and geology society last night on raw materials used in the steel industry purchasing department figures show that one or two cars of brok en crockery are bought each month to line the bottoms of the pipe mill furnaces three to five hundred tons of middling flour for cleaning tin plates are required in the same period of time while five or six cars of peanut shuck meal are also need ed for the tin plate 200,000 is spent each year for palm oil 100.000,000 bricks are used 3,000 dozen brooms and 10,000 is re quired to pay for the supply of toil et paper and towels three kinds of iron ore is suitable foruse namely hemitite magne tite and limestone none of the ore is pure however and of the im purities silica phosphorous sulfur zinc and lead must be controlled of these phosphorus is the most important as it changes a bessimet ic to a hon-bessimetic product silica can readily be removed but sulfur is very hard to separate ex cept in large amounts ores from north africa carry small amounts of zinc and lead but not in great enough quantity to pay for their removal and concentration as a by product as the impurities are troublesome the ores are not sought by the steel industry the first raw material of the bethlehem steel company was pro cured in cuba and this ore started an operation that has continued un der the same company for forty four years it commenced the man ufacture of steel in conjunction with the pennsylvania steel company under a twenty year agreement at the expiration of the time one of the concerns was to sell its interest to the other and in this manner the bethlehem steel doubled its size only on the south coast of cuba is ore mined for the bethlehem steel although the north coast con tains mirea ores in great quantity mirea ores are mud ores and as yet are not economical for commercial use the south coast has furnished 20,000,000 tons half of which went to bethlehem in chile the topo mine was se cured and has become one of the main sources of supply furnishing one and one-half million tons a year the cornwall mine opened in 1741 is the largest mine in the east magnetite is obtained in new jersey and new york and the company also holds interests in the lake superior mines one of the vitally important ma terials for the operation of a steel plant is an abundant supply of both coking and gas coals limestone and dolomite are required for the furnaces two of three million dol lars are spent each year for tin that is used in tin plating the lecture was well attended and refreshments were served after ward . tentative plans for the mid-win ter homecoming to be held the lat ter part of february ire being for mulated by the alumni association with many changes from the pro gram last year the program for 1929 is expected to include talent of the under graduates in athletics dramatics and musical clubs with speeches by prominent alumni during the ban quet according to present plans this meeting of the alumni will be more for the purpose of a get-to gether of old classmates than a father and son gathering such as has taken place in former years the student body will be asked to cooperate with the alumni associa tion for the entertainment of the alumni suggestions and opinions are in vited and will guide the alumni di rectors in planning a successful winter home-vcoming af the close of the mechanical meeting last night pi tau sigma honorary mechanical engineering society pledged harry j zimmer harold w semar and donald l wright president pelizzoni spoke briefly on the merits of the men se lected brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday november 9 1928 bucknell trip covers 115 miles determined squad faces bison offense tomorrow vol xxxvi no i 5 price five cents richards attends new york meeting on human problem whitaker speaks upon gyroscopes before m e meet l u band draws friendly comment from newspapers pi delta epsilon planning banquet for football men society also arranges to pledge four men next week large gathering of mech anicals hears sperry co representative new england alumni impressed by musical organization hears plea for college industry co-opera tion dean enforces library rules member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first l