Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 18

              nearly two-thirds of stu dent body get ad monitions students dropped from university can no longer re-enter wallis milam again to coach musical show princeton holds public ceremony to open building beat lafayette banner is raised the beat lafayette banner was raised sunday afternoon by the frosh at taylor hall this is an annual occurrence the sun day preceding the big game the frosh will guard the banner from 7 a.'m to 7 p m each frosh tak ing a three hour shift edifice lehigh representatives attend dedication of 500,000 engineering change adopted for sophomore comprehensives easton train service extra coach service for the la fayette game on trains to and from easton has been arranged by the lehigh valley railroad to accommodate students addi tionals cars have been placed on train 30 leaving bethlehem at 1 1 04 a m and for the return trip on the trains leaving eas ton at 4:45 and 6:33 p m extra cars have also been ar ranged for trains from new york to bethlehem next friday and saturday and from bethle lem to new york saturday and sunday new review will appear saturday certain courses required for admission to exams novel headings and art designs improve its appearance the annual lafayette smoker and all that it means — pcp — noise — songs — speeches — cheers — and p rade will be staged as usual friday night at 7:30 in the lower gym once a year and only once is there a night such as that before the lafayette game has tradition ally become and for the benefit of the freshmen who knowing nothing of the spirit of the affair might con sider other diversions for the eve ning compulsory attendance dress ed in pajamas and with towel shomled heads has been decreed two former lehigh stars all-am erican selections in their day okey and pat pazetti will join with h d wilson 01 the speakers of the affair pat and okey are too well known to lehigh men to need fur ther introduction for no lafayette smoker would seem complete with out them wilson on the other hand is little known to the present generation of lehigh men but comes from syracuse for the oc casion with a reputation as a pep speaker of more than usual merit it goes without saying that the band will keep things more than a little enlivened with its presence both in the gym and while parad ing through town l u publications receive approval accounts of burr b & w epitome and re view are accepted the scarlet jerseyed rutgers eleven invaded taylor stadium last saturday to defeat their ancient brown and white rivals by a small 7-3 margin when chase rutgers left end snatched up a loose ball and ran 99 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter although the hard tackling of the l#high line which featured the early games of the season was lacking the backfield showed a great deal of improvement the tackling of van blarcom and el liott the alertness of the whole backfield at intercepting pssses and the hard running of elliott fritts and trantum stopped many an on rush of the scarlet team which might otherwise have proved disas trous the eventful first quarter was marked by many breaks for both teams lehigh kicked off and aft er an exchange of punts rutgers started an attack which brought them to the brown and white 47 yard line before they were halted elliott punted after several unsuc cessful attempts at hitting the line rosen fumbled and twigger fell on the ball after several more at tempts at hitting the line for small gains davidowitz toed a placement kick between the bars for lehigh's only score score on fumble lehigh again kicked off green failed to gain through center and rutgers punted on second down davidowitz ran the ball back to the opponents 40-yard line and then a beautiful pass from davidowitz to elliott placed the ball on the five yard line fritts made a yard around left end elliott added three more off left tackle on the third play the ball was passed back into space where a surprised rutgers end scooped it up and was half way down the iicld before anyone realized what had happened with a cast and chorus of 50 to 75 men and a longer road trip in prospect than ever before the spring show of the mustard and cheese club will be produced on a much larger scale than any pre vious production of the club all designing of costumes and scenery will be entirely under the care of club members the monday fol lowing easter has been set for the start of the road trip which will include new york philadelphia pittsburgh cleveland buffalo reading and york pa the production committee is now engaged in working out the plot and continuity of the story and will shortly begin upon the dia logue music is under the super vision of g f mottor milam to coach wallis milam formerly stage di rector of george white's scandals and the greenwich village follies and director of the mustard and cheese show two years ago has again been engaged to pilot the dra matists through their production mr milam belongs to the direc tor's service guild of new york city and is an honorary member of mustard and cheese unique programs are being plan ned with several views of college life at lehigh to stimulate outside interest advertiesments from mer chants in cities on the prospective route will be solicited for presenta tion in the programs all sophomores wishing to com pete for the business staff should report thursday evening at 7:30 in drown hall and men interested in writing music for the show should notify george mottor at the delta upsilon house electricians prop erty men assistant stage managers and other helpers will be called for when needed cast tryouts will be held immediately after mid-terms the first issue of the lehigh re view will appear by the end of the week it will contain a reprint of part of dean c m mcconn's col lege or kindergarten an article tracing lehigh's football past by john m blackmar and two short stories by lehigh students the cover will no longer have the titles of the leading articles printed upon it but will be of green stock decorated with a black border and carrying only the usual title and monogram novel headings for the various departments are the work of the new art department and j leland myer art editor has drawn a full page pen and ink sketch with somewhat modernistic effect the editorial science book and play departments will be con ducted as usual subscriptions may be given to j g conrath theta kappa phi house at the rate of 2 for the four issues the review will also be on sale at local news stands the editorial department is anx ious to have more contributors from the student body anyone interest ed in writing for the lehigh re view should get in touch with au gust j wiesner jr editor-in-chief telephone 1275-j senior chemicals visit factories week inspect five large plants in philadelphia this president c r richards pro fessors f v larkin m c stuart and s s seyfert attended the of ficial dedication of the new 500,000 princeton engineering building last week more than 200 engineers and scientists including representa tives frbm 38 technical and engin eering universities were present charles z klauder the architect presented the key of the building to president john grier hibben who later spoke of the development of engineering at princeton and the future possibilities as a result of the new building and its equip ment dean arthur m greene jr de scribing the engineering curricula said that scientific subjects formed nearly half of the courses required and engineering about a third cul tural subjects filled the rest of the prescribed curriculum at princeton inn following the dedication carlton s proctor of new york city president of the princeton engineering association described the activities of the alum ni association mentioning science and engineer ing dean augustus trowbridge head of princeton graduate col lege said i see that more and more the engineers and scientifically trained nien will direct the great social ac tivities of government and the large industrial corporations dean trowbridge considers mass production as the greatest achieve ment of the american engineer in so far as it has affected the living conditions of the majority of our population dexter s kimball dean of the engineering school at cornell uni versity made the final address of the meeting on the relations of the engineering school to indus try the new rules governing scho lastic probation adopted by the faculty at its september session and which appeared in the first issue of the brown and white this fall are again printed below for the benefit of those men who have re ceived some of the 900 valen tines mailed by the dean yester day the new rules under the new rules students will not be placed on probation as easily as before but failure to meet the terms of probation will be far more severe no students now in good standing will be dropped in february 1929 except first semes ter freshmen who pass fewer than six hours any students dropped from the university in june 1929 except first semester freshmen will be dropped permanently 1 a first semester freshman who passes fewer than 5 hours shall be dropped from the university in such a case the student may be readmitted on probation after the lapse of one semester provided he passes entrance examinations as follows for arts and science or business administration english 3 units algebra 1 1-2 units plane geometry 1 unit and latin ger man french or spanish 2 units for engineering english 3 units algebra 1 1-2 units plane geometry 1 unit solid geometry 1-2 unit and plane trigonometry 1-2 unit 2 a first semester freshman who passes 6 hours but fewer than 11 hours shall be put on probation 3 any student other than a first semester freshman who passes few er than 12 hours shall be put on probation 4 any student placed on proba tion shall be dropped permanently if he fails four hours made up of two or more courses 5 rule no 4 is not applied au tomatically to students who have the classification of seniors the cases of seniors will be considered individually by the committee on probation on standing of students 6 any student who is put on probation a second time shall re main on probation throughout the remainder of his course industrials hold initial meeting burr board plans for dutch issue the accounts of the brown and white burr epitome and review for september and october were audited and approved at the meet ing of the board of publications friday in the commitee room of the alumni memorial hall according to dean mcconn chairman of the committee the gen eral condition of these publications is good and no criticism can be made either as to their editorial pol icies or their financial management the board of publications func tions as an advisory committee to the business and editorial heads of the five student publications it is composed of dean c m mcconn professors e h riley and d s chamberlin and three student mem bers not connected with any pub lication s p coates w miller and l d trantum senior civils on inspection tour h m gano speaks on in vestment banking in vestigations bowling teams advance struction work return tomorrow after visiting new york con the results of the interfraternity bowling contest thus far reported are as follows kappa sigma de feated psi upsilon phi sigma kap pa defeated delta upsilon chi psi defeated delta tau delta al pha chi rho defeated theta delta chi sigma nu defeated delta phi and lambda chi alpha defeated sigma phi epsilon bethlehem red cross drive going smoothly suggestions were received and plans were made for the next issue of the lehigh burr at the board meeting wednesday evening it was suggested that there be a penn sylvania dutch number written en tirely in pennsylvania dutch-eng lish the question of having a what the well dressed man will wear and a movie review column were also discussed no definite action was taken additional board members will be elected in a few weeks and their names announced in the january issue board meetings are now be ing held every other wednesday evening in the burr room in drown hall classical society holds discussion amendments to the rules govern ing comprehensive examinations for sophomore engineers were made at a meeting of the council of the college of engineering wednes day november 14 in the commit tee room of the alumni memorial hall the rules were amended so as to specify more accurately when a man might be fitted to take the examinations the system of holding compre hensive examinations was adopted last year and in june all men who had completed their second year's work in an engineering course at lehigh were required to take them although many men had not passed the courses in which they were be ing examined in the future how ever no students will be allowed to take the examinations unless they have passed three semesters of mathematics three semesters of physics and two semesters of chem istry and engineering drawing the amendments as adopted fol low 1 no student shall be entitled to promotion to the junior year in the college of engineering i c to reg ister for technical subjects given in the junior year in his curriculum until he has taken and passed the comprehensive examinations 2 no student shall be admitted to the comprehensive examinations unless he has passed the following courses * math 2 3 and 4 physics 1 la 2 3 4 and 5 chem 1 11 20 and 8 c e 1 and 2 for classes after the present sophomores physics 1 math 20 physics 4 and 5 \ next june all eligible men will be required to take the comprehensive examinations in mathematics phy sics chemistry and drawing after having taken the examinations three avenues are open to the students 1 they may continues the cur riculum elected provided a that they have acquired the necessary scholastic record b that they passed the required comprehensive examinations c that they have exhibited the necessary aptitude for the work of their choice 2 they may transfer to other curricula in engineering to the college of arts and science or to the college of business adminis tration provided a that they have acquired the necessary scholastic record b that they have exhibit ed the necessary aptitude for the work of their choice 3 they may withdraw with a certificate of completion of two years work provided that they have satisfactorily completed all of the work of the first two years the rest of the game was hard fought and closely disputed rut gers seemed to gain at will through the center of the line and around ends and had it not been for the greatly improved offensive and el liott's long high kicks the result of the game would probably have been very different score — lehigh 3 0 0 o—3 rutgers 7 0 0 o—7 lehigh rutgers many re chase miller rt shelden twigger lg fairchild stutz : c crowe lehr rg harris kirkpatrick rt moscowitz hall re dalton elliott qb rosen fritts rhb sweel trantum lhb cronin davidowitz fb greenberg touchdowns — chase field goal — davidowitz substitutions — le high ayres for stutz bennett for trantum van blarcom for ben nett waldman for twigger haas for kirkpatrick rushong for many beachler for fritts evers for waldman badgley for lehr johnston for elliott harris for beachler flynn for johnston han son for rushong rutgers irwin for cronin carney for chase tre letz for dalton referee — tom thorpe lasalle umpire fcann n y u headlines man — hollenbach perm field judge geiges temple h m gano spoke on financial and industrial investigation service for bankers and industrialists at the meeting of the industrial en gineering society friday evening in williams hall he declared that in vestment bankers require more in formation than that given on finan cial statements which are valuable only as a guide and not as a fore cast for future development and that an investment banker before marketing the securities of a large business must investigate the finan cial legal accounting and operat ing phases of a business mr gano taught management classes at the university of cincin nati and then became head of the mechanical engineering department at the university of idaho he is now employed by the emerson en gineers and is acting as temporary manager of the trenton folding box company in an attempt to place that company on a sound footing the senior chemical engineers are spending the first three days of this week inspecting industrial plants in philadelphia professors d s chamberlain a diefenderfer c w simmons e r theis and dr h m ullman are in charge of the trip the party is using the benjamin franklin hotel as head quarters the trip itinerary includes inspec tion of five plants monday the seniors visited the kimbal glass co in vineland n j manufactur ers of chemical glass ware this inspection consumed the full day tuesday morning they inspected the refineries of the franklin sugar refining co where they saw the purification of raw sugar into gran ulated sugar powdered sugar and syrups in the afternoon the party continued its tour to the atlantic refining co manufacturers and re finers and petroleum products on the final day of the inspection trip the first stop will be the harrison plant of the dupont de nemours co where heavy acids alums paint pigments etc are manufactured the last plant the chemical engin eers visit will be that of the cer tain-teed products co where the seniors will view the manufacture of varnishes linoleums oil cloths and wall covering rutgers fans rush lehigh goal posts more than 900 students received mid - semester reports yesterday which informed them of the sub jects in which they were below passing dean curtis valentine team of 28 honor students worked five hours sunday to record the grades parents department heads and living group heads were also notified of the studants deficien of the 918 valentines delivered 444 were received by fraternity men 109 by dormitory men and 368 by men not affiliated with any living group although price hay holds the scholarship cup award ed by the university to that living group which attained the highest scholarship record 2.43 last year more valentines were sent there than to any other non-fraternity living group the phi delta theta fraternity which holds the phi sigma kappa scholarship cup awarded annually to that fraternity having the highest scholarship rec ord in the interfraternity confer ence was honored with 15 valen tines the largest number of valentines sent to any living group went to the phi sigma kap pa fraternity which received 27 engineers received most nearly two-thirds of the number of men in school received warnings some men were reported low in seven subjects and many had three or four subjects on their list but the average number recorded on each valentine was two the per centage in each class was practi cally the same in the se«ior class 135 received valentines 1 ; juniors 174 sophomores 264 and fresh men 196 nearly 500 of these men are engineers 230 business and 198 arts and sciences marks were particularly low in freshman mechanics mineralogy and physical education the following statistics compiled by the brown and white classify the valentines according to the liv ing groups of the men who received them living group number alpha chi rho 22 alpha tau omega 18 beta theta pi 20 chi phi ■ 15 chi psi 24 delta phi 15 delta tau delta 17 delta upsilon 15 kappa alpha 10 kappa sigma 11 lambda chi alpha 13 phi beta delta 8 phi delta pi : 6 phi delta theta ■■■■ 15 phi gamma delta v 19 phi sigma kappa 27 pi lambda phi 7 psi upsilon 19 sigma alpha mv - 20 sigma chi ; 15 sigma nu 21 sigma phi 12 sigma phi epsilon 18 tau delta phi 16 theta delta chi 12 theta kappa phi 19 theta xi 22 zeta chi 5 all fraternities 441 taylor hall a 12 taylor hall b 12 taylor hall c 16 taylor hall d 14 taylor hall e 13 warren square 6 price hall 18 leonard hall 9 howard hall 9 all dormitories 109 scabbard and blade meets the plans for the initiation of the new members of the scabbard and blade were completed at a meet ing last evening in the armory the informal initiation will be held december 8 while the formal ini iation will come on december 10 armistice day inaugurated the opening of the twelfth annual roll call of the american red cross the campaign for new members will continue until november 29 the goal of the bethlehem chapter this year is 7,000 members an in crease of 1,000 over last year's en rollment mrs alva burton chairman of the local executive committee stated that the first week of the drive for membership had been ex tremely successful and that expect ed later reports would undoubtedly swell the bethlehem membership to the desired quota w m smith lectures to mathematics club mcconn addresses the tome school pre-med society to meet thursday the senior civil engineers this afternoon inspected construction work on the new hudson river bridge now being erected between fort lee and fort washington when completed this will be the world's longest suspension bridge the group arrived in new york last night after visiting the plain field sewage co plant and the fac tories of the american cable co at dunellen and newark the par ty stayed at the hotel pennsylva nia last night this morning they visited the new york stock exchange the federal reserve bank and the sewage screening plant at canal street tomorrow they inspect the section of the subway construction near city hall that lazarus white described in his lecture before the c e society two weeks ago they will also visit the claremont yards of the lehigh valley r r and the coal dumps of the c r r of n j . " professor h g payrow is in charge of the trip which will end tomorrow r w hutchinson will speak on story of antevenin company f team wins rifle shoot dean c m mcconn visited the tome school port deposit md last week and addressed the stu dents at chapel sunday morning nov 18 he also held private conferences saturday evening this is the sixth time that dean mcconn has spoken at tome in four years tome is a national col lege preparatory school for boys and is located on the susquehanna river it has an enrollment of 200 and sends men to lehigh every year m mathematics society elects two new men after the final whistle at the rut gers game saturday afternoon about 50 rutgers enthusiasts rushed onto the field and launched an attack on the goal posts at the east end of the stadium tearing them down part of the lehigh cheering section dashed onto the field and retreived the posts after a ten-minute fight two rutgers men and one lehigh man were knocked out one of the rutgers men taking five minutes to regain consciousness no arrests were made the lehigh band of 72 pieces created the first stir of the after noon when it entered taylor field in an l formation heralded by eight trumpeters and marched the length of the field dance after rutgers game well attended romanticism and classicism was the subject of an informal dis cussion at the eta sigma phi meeting friday evening in drown hall classicism is restrained ro manticism was the definition of classicism finally agreed upon homer's odessy and virgil's aen eid were assigned to the classic be cause the authors had made an ef fort to tone down and temper their subject matter it was also pointed out that classicism does not neces sarily mean copying the form of greek and latin authors but it does mean adhering to their high ideals and principles romanticism on the other hand is the effort to present the unsual the striking and the colorful side of life this school encourages free and unrestrained use of the imag ination it abhors conformity and has no regard for tradition or con vention in the business meeting dr pauli announced that dr w s messer chairman of the latin and greek departments at dartmouth college will not lecture to the society de cember 3 as previously announced dr messer is expected to speak here immediately following the christmas holidays how fundamental the concept of transformations and invariants is to life was the theme of a talk by prof w m sniith of lafayette college to the mathematics club last week mathematicians have refined these concepts and given them exact meanings where for merly there only existed vague in terpretations of their value the many places in mathematics where transformations and invariants play a fundamental part were also point ed out by prof smith a n rogers 30 presented a pa per embodying some original re search on the theory of radical equa tions in algebra rogers expects to submit this paper to the amer ican mathematical monthly j e ellick 29 explained his successful solution of the first mathematics prize problem the prize for the best solution to the third problem has been awarded to david macadams 32 substantial ly correct solutions were also turned in by benjamin rabinowitz and john w schneider r w hutchinson secretary of the antivenin institute of america will give a lecture at the r w hall pre-medical society meeting at 8 p m thursday in drown hall a motion picture the story of anti venin will be shown this film shows the extraction of the venom from poisonous reptiles the inocu lation of horses with it and the completed serum there will be several live specinjen on display and interesting points of each will be discussed the entire staff of st luke's hos pitol will be present it well as many professional men and women from this district the society will hold no business meeting at this time and all stu dents and faculty members are in vited to attend approximately 50 attended the musical club's tea dance held in drown hall following the rutgers game the musical club's 12-piece dance orchestra under the direction of dave fluharty supplied the music captain and mrs f w hyde were chaperons coming events pi delta epsilon pi delta epsilon will pledge new members thursday in chapel mustard and cheese mustard and cheese will hold a business meeting at 7:30 p m thursday in drown hall sayre observatory sayre observatory will be open from 7-10 o'clock thursday eve nings , pre-med society the pre-medical society will attend a clinic at the sacred heart hospital in allentown at 9 a m wednesday an open meeting of the society will be held at 8 p m thursday in drown hall company f rifle team won the company rifle championship last week by defeating the team of the ordinance group in winning the match company f team compiled 2996 points out of a possible 4000 this record is exceptionally high for company rifle teams and exceed ed that of the ordnance team by over 100 points nason of company f shot the highest score which was 367 the teams were made up of 15 men with the highest ten scores counting each of the men shot ten shots in each of the four posi tions prone sitting kneeling and standing most of the contestants shot their highest scores from the prone position play at south side high the comedy drama take my advice will be given by the swarthmore chatauqua players at 8:15 p m thursday december 6 at the south side junior high auditorium prof f w weida will give the history of the slide rule and dem onstrate its use at the meeting nov 27 talks on the life of newton by e rosenbaum the history of tri gonometry by j shultz and the origin of logarithims by d macadams were given before the newtonian society last thursday evening in packer hall r i fluck and s hottle were voted in to the club brown and white tuesday november 20 1928 lehigh university bethlehem pa annual lafayette smoker and parade arrangements made for friday night vol xxxvi no 1 8 fumble loses rutgers game price five cents scholastic pro rules explained by dean curtis m & c arranges plans for long tour in spring dean warns many with valentines at mid-semester lone tally only scarlet threat in 7-3 defeat member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first