Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 26

              three societies attend many scores 24 points a million pound freight en gine will roll out of schenectady soon destined for a western road this gigantic engine is the largest in existence and was built for the northern pacific by the american locomotive co some idea of the size of this monster may be gained when it is realized that the locomotive with its tender will stretch over half a city block the locomotive is capable of hauling three ordinary freight trains over western mountain grades the engine is so long that it was necessar yto pivot the boilev on the front drivers lehigh alumni and fam ilies will see cam pus movies well dressed man col umn to be regular feature city victors over traction company the new plan of organization which has changed the course of the paper will go into complete effect it will remain only for the newly created boards and departments to work out their schemes the last vestiges of the old sys tem that carried the brown and white along ever since its estab lishment at lehigh pass out with the coming of the second semester brodhead trolley tracks rooted up after long fight dean max mcconn the examination which will determine the new board mem bers will be given at 7 p m tuesday january is in the brown and white room those men who have successful ly completed two semesters of work with the brown and white classes are eligible eligible mew should secure aplpication blanks from professor c d macdougall plans for the adoption of a col umn for the well-dressed man as a standard feature and plans for the publication ( of a pennsylvania dutch number next month formed the most important part of the bus iness of the burr meeting wednes day night in drown hall the new column is to be placed in the care of competent writers and is expect ed to prove a very valuable author ity on proper apparel for the col lege man it is hoped that this will in time develope into a popular de partment of the burr next month's comic is to be de voted to the humor of pennsylvania dutch work on this issue is al ready well under way and much valuable material has been handed in to the editors the board also decided to publish a travel number for march the election of new men to the art department of the magazine was postponed until the next meeting to allow the editors more time to ex amine the work submitted by the competitors the election had been scheduled for this meeting but lack of material on which to base their judgment forced the board to con tinue the competition further criticism of dean c m mc conn's recently published book col!ege ox kindergarten has even come out of the educational camp of alexander meikeljohn of the university of wisconsin in a three page article in the i new republic for this week dr i meikeljohn goes into a scholarly discussion of dean mcconn's ideas and although he is not in accord with much of what the dean sets forth he praises the book and credits the arguments in his book college or kinder garten dean max mcconn ot le high university discusses the prob lems of the liberal college in a way which cannot be ignored though the theme is old and much consid ered the book is fresh and startl ing writes dr meikeljohn dr meikeljohn still adhering to the democratic ideal in education is not ready to accept dean mcconn's contention that education cannot be democratic and that most men are not capable of receiving a liberal arts training dr meikeljohn while he admits that so far the democratic ideal has failed or rather has not succeeded firmly believes that it is merely because our methods are still wrong dean mcconn's college or kin dergarten is of course in variance with this idea by the time a man has reached college dean mcconff claims he is pretty much all that he ever will be and no ingenuity can open up the higher reaches of lit erature philosophy and science to any great percentage of the men and in the effort to carry out this democratic ideal dean mcconn further asserts the quality of work is degrading so that it has become impossible to succeed even with the capable students dr meikeljohn is en grossed in the work of conduct review increases editorial staff ing his experimental college within the university of wisconsin there he is seeking to prove his faith in democratic education he tries to secure a cross-section enrollment though the circumstances of the sit uation entirely in spite of dr meik eljohn's efforts seem to make this impossible for he admitted 100 freshmen into his college this year the selec tion being made in order of appli cation but from the very nature of the college which is based on the oxford system which teaches its freshmen nothing but the entire fifth century b c civilization of greece and its sophomores the nineteenth centry of america only those men interested — who would be the best men — would apply and under these conditions there is the exact reproduction of dean mc conn's ideal college a motion picture entitled driv ing the longest railroad tunnel in the western hemisphere and views of blasting operations were features of the program presented at a combined meeting of the min ing and geological society and the student chapter of the american society of civil engineers held in the lecture room of the physics building thursday evening w h lewis chief signal engin eer for the lehigh valley spoke on signalling 1 he traced the develop ment of automatic lines and describ ed their use on valley lines the motion picture showing the tun neling operations was obtained thru the courtesy of e.i du pont de ne mours co of wilmington del and showed the various phases of the driving of the seven and three-quar ter mile tunnel through the cas cade mountains in the state of wilmington the tunnel was the result of a plan devised by the officials of the system to cut down their operating costs by doing away with miles of snowsheds on the route over the mountains and going straight thru instead of over the mountains in driving the tunnel nearly 1,000,000 cubic yards of rock were blasted out and removed and 250,000 cubic yards of concrete were poured diagrams used in the film show how the correct use of ex plosives has been a great factor in the driving operations in fact so successful have been the contractors that three times in as many months in 1926 the tunneling forces estab lished new world's records in tun nel advance only to break them twice again in 1928 the cost of the new tunnel lined with concrete will be approximately 14,000,000 race exhausting mineral supplies alumni bulletin reviews events dr miller addresses ro tarians on phases of geology flonzaley quartet comes to bethlehem also suggests idea of liquorless home coming week a reception and dinner for pres ident and mrs charles russ rich ards to which all lehigh men and their families are invited will be giv.en at 6:30 p m friday janu ary 18 in the hotel aastor by the lehigh alumni club of new york the moving pictures of lehigh's campus and athletic life which have been taken throughout the past year will be shown for the first time following the reception and banquet these motion pictures were sponsored by c h boynton president of the new york lehigh alumni club and were taken at his expense to familiarize prospective students with college life at le high twenty-five guests at the dinner will include the presidents of all the colleges in greater new york as well as the president of stevens in stitute and president lewis of la fayette college two hundred peo ple are expected at the dinner entertainment and music will be furnished by an eleven piece under graduate orchestra led by dave fluharty which will be taken to new york for the occasion ar rangements for the banquet were made by a committee which in cludes w c dickerman 96 w.w mills 87 a t ward 13 j b rights 21 morton shultzer 12 and c h boynton chairman this meeting will be the first to include the wives and families of the alumni the date for this meet ing which is later in the month than formerly proposed was chosen to allow men outside of new york to attend who will be in the city for the annual meeting of the am erican society of chemical engin eers the 3000 feet of moving pictures after being shown at this banquet are expected to be shown in beth lehem at one of the local theatres and they will be shown at various alumni club meetings throughout the country new thief steals coat the lehigh review last night added four men to its editorial staff j j somerville david d hendlin juniors and neuwirth and rudolph imhof sophomores the review board will bring its next issue out immediately after the examination period the contents are of shorter articles than usual for this issue and presents a wider range of subjects one of the longer articles traces the history of wrestling at lehigh in a manner similar to the way in which football was treated in the fall issue several short stories will appear an editorial arguing for limitation of activities will probably elicit comment the present staff of the review will hoi their offices until after the third issue is published many books added to lehigh library the flonzaley string quartet will be the artists to appear in the second concert of the series spon sored by the bethlehem community center association at 8 p m wed nesday in the liberty high school auditorium the flonzaley quar tet is the best in the country and has been playing together for the past twenty-five years after this season the quartet will disband and it will be a distinct privilege for the people of bethle hem to hear these famous artists yalondo mero will be the accom panist there are still a few tick ets available for the concert which may be obtained from robert s taylor the university lawyer lehigh man ordained as episcopal minister another overcoat is reported missing whether the campus is again being invaded by an over coat thief or whether some student is playing a practical joke is not certain the fact remains howev er that when g m rust came out of his class in packer hall late yes terday afternoon he found his coat gone no other garment had been left to replace his missing one the coat is of an indefinite tan color of a wide herringbone design any one who has any information about the matter will get in touch with rust at the theta xi house or phone 1874 r.o.t.c students apply harry b sames a senior in the advanced r o t c has applied for admission to the aviation school of the u s air corps it is understood that edward m pascalhas made application for a commission of second lieutenant in the marine corps thirty-two men are eligible for board membership and selections will be made from these in pre paring the application blanks the men are required to state the po sition they are trying out for and their ideas as to the proper execu tion of that position applicants must also state what their other campus activities are to select new officers the election of the new officers of the board will be made by the board of publications from among the 32 eligibles recommendations will be submitted by professor mac dougall and the present officers according to recent rulings by the publications board four news editors will be elected to serve for one semester instead of two the sports editorship also becomes elec tive by the board and is to be placed equal in value with the news editor ships three new business man agers will be elected many new departments will be created second semester exper ience under the new system has re vealed to the editors that the def inite placing of responsibility in sures a better paper as a result of the new policy there will prob ably be executive positions for prac tically all of the 32 men the examination which will be given the men tuesday night will require thorough knowledge of the brown and white style book in cluding types of leads types of story treatment and headline writ ing seniors on editorial council although the old board officers along with other seniors on the staff have in the past dropped their connections with the brown and white at the close of the first sem ester the new plan will seek to pro fit to as great an extent as possible by their training these men will be asked to serve in ex-officio ca pacity on the editorial council for which one credit hour is given this council has grown in value during the past semester and has contributed numerous ideas to the editors the total membership of the brown and white classes this sem ester is 94—50 of whom are fresh men a membership of more than 100 is expected second semester since the men on the campus now realize that this is the required way of working up to board member ship the men who are not at present eligible for tryouts will con tinue as reporters until the next competition by which time they will have fulfilled the requirements frederick w trumbore class of 25 was ordained to the preisthood of the episcopal church at the pro cathedral church of the nativity on decmeber 5 t edgar shields director of music at the university was in charge of the musical part of the service reverend mr trumbore is a na tive of bethlehem and a graduate of liberty high upon his graduation from lehigh he attended the phil adelphia divinity school his cousin the rev clarke r trum bore was a member of the same class at college and is now curate of an episcopal church in pitch burg mass o d k initiates pledges miners add new units to chance separator john m blackmar edward f baker and charles webbe were formally initiated into the omicron delta kappa honorary fraternity last wednesday evening in drown hall install new chapter the lehigh alumni bulletin for january circulated wednesday con tains articles and editorials on stu dent activities results of the car negie foundation examinations tak en by the seniors last spring and a story of the ancient rivalry between lehigh and lafayette giving an explanation of how the relations both athletic and scholastic began in the carnegie examinations le high rates first with the mean score of 710.6 while the average mean for the eight colleges which com peted from pennsylvania was only s75.s further comparisons in re gard to lehigh's status is shown by graphs reminscences of a lehigh as tronomer by r h tucker 79 give in detail the history of astronomy at lehigh from 1869 on to the as tronomers of note today who re ceived their initial training at le high prohibition for homecoming week of the alumni is discussed in an editorial stating that at purdue a notice was prominently displayed in their alumni magazine stating no licker neded thanks this is to be a home-coming not a booze party leave your booze at home for these three days or else stay home and watch it the editorial of the lehigh bulletin goes on to suggest that the lead made at pur due would not be such a bad one to follow at our own home-comings further information about the buildings being constructed on the campus is given and states that the corner stone of the new library will be laid on february 22 during the mid-winter homecoming although man has been living on the earth approximately 500,000 years continually using some of its mineral products within the past 25 years we have exhausted more of our minerals than were consum ed in all previous time according to professor b l miller head of the geology department in a speech before the bethlehem rotary flub at their meeting wednesday noon in the hotel bethlehem dr miller gave an illuminating talk on geology discussing its value in reading the history of the earth the origin and evolution of life and its practical application to the discovery and exploitation of the mineral products on which mod ern industrial civilization is based although the efficiency of the present day geologist is highly praised he will probably be blamed and perhaps rightly for the scar city of these useful mineral prod ucts said dr miller he went on to sound a warning that there is not an oil district or a copper lead zinc silver or gold region known that gives promise of hav ing enough resources to last a hun dred years although new ones will be found there is a limit to the number and it is probable that the decline in production before many years will become noticeable we can only speculate as to what effect this will have upon the civilization a few hundrad years hence in the location of economic sup plies of oil gas ores and under ground waters the geologist has be come an extremely important fac tor continued dr miller and end ed his talk with several illustra tions of this statement appointments set for society pictures m army boots lost pre-meds hear dr wall anyone finding a pair of army bootswill notify heilman section b taylor hall the lehigh library has added to its now crowded shelves a valuable and interesting collection of books during the past month many have been donated by asso ciate college libraries and still oth ers have been gifts of outsiders approximately 125 volumes com prise the new addition a few of the more important are literature — empress of hearts beck d'artagnan berford jones best ghost stories french brook evans gaspell point counter point huxley iron and smoke kaye-smith son of earth leon ard the valiant porter boston 2 vols sinclair thaddeus vol taire history — whither mankind beard bryan long my autobio graphy mussolini mistory of can ada wittke art — american homes of today patterson effects of music sthoen architecture of human ism scott science — primitive art boss technology — l&an's supreme in heritance alexander hundred acre farm garratt sociology our relations to the nations hughes engineering as a life work lynn the intelli gent womans guide to socialism and capitalism shaw lehigh staged a smashing return to the winning column wednesday night in taylor gym by smother ing ursinus conqueror of lafay ette under a barrage of baskets the final score being 44-25 as ursinus just last week scored a close vic tory over the maroon the decisive ness of wednesday's victory natur ally causes great optimism among lehigh followers bob many was by far the out standing player on the floor he ac cumulated no less than 24 points consisting of 8 field goals and 8 tallies from the foul line his sparkling play both on offense and defense was the feature of the game and wednesday's performance should put him near the top of the leading scorers of the east schultz also played a sterling game and ac counted for ten points all of them field goals three of which he scor ed within two minutes after his en try into the game schultz nets fast score marcus opened the firing by cag ing a pretty shot in the initial min ute of play young a fast ursinus forward tied the count shortly after with a shot from under the bas ket ursinus then presented a strong five man defense and the scoring became infrequent the game slowing up preceptibly until the middle of the half with the scoring almost exactly divided at this point schultz went in for bak er and bennett for nemetz schultz scored immediately as play was re sumed and then pulled the remark able feat of sinking two more goals in rapid succession giving lehigh a 10-4 lead the game picked up and the visitors came back with a furious attack that netted them 6 points lehigh scored again and the half ended with the brown and white on the long end of a 14-12 count - ■ avalanche second half the second half opened with a foul tally by many and a basket by marcus ursinus led by young and sterner made a valiant attempt to take the lead and some fast bas ketball was witnessed by the large crowd that filled the gym how ever when the smoke had cleared away lehigh still had a two-point edge that was never overcome then started the avalanche of bas kets that completely buried the vis itors defense that seemed so im pregnable rn the early stages of the game many added 16 points to his total while schultz and bennett each contributed his share along with the steady game played by captain hess newcomer and young of the visitors showed up well both offensively and on de fense amassing 9 points each while sterner was not far behind with 7 tallies to his credit a large crowd was on hand for the contest and kept the gym in a continuous uproar during the sec ond half this victory gives cause for optimism regarding the out come of the swarthmore game sat urday summary of the game lehigh 44 ursinus 25 many lf sterner baker rf young hess c schirk nemitz lg newcomer marcus rg strine substitutions — lehigh bennett for nemitz schultz for baker ur sinus peters for sterner sterner for peters peters for sterner foul goals many 8 bennett 1 sterner 1 young 1 newcomer 1 hess 1 field goals many 8 schultz s marcus 2 hess 1 sterner 3 young 4 newcomer 4 bennett 1 a new chapter of the national fraternity phi kappa tau was re cently installed at lafayette col lege dr i m wright president of phi kappa tau and director of the department of education at muhlenberg college was present at the installation professor s c tanner of the department of econo mics at pennsylvania state college and c b horton founder of delta sigma also attended prof smail lectures to newtonian society the geat battle of brodhead ave enue has been fought and won un der the leadership of mayor james yeakle the city of bethlehem has won a signal victory over the forces of the bethlehem transit co the war has been a long and ar duous one but the enemy has sur rendered completely not a single trolley track remains to make driv ing on brodhead avenue and sum mit street a matter of taking one's life in one's hands the trouble started a long time ago when the trolley company built its tracks above the specified grad ings on part of brodhead avenue running south of packer avenue and part of summit street the city protested and in 1921 ordered the transit co to repair its right of-way but it was too busy run ning its cars over the tracks to no tice this demand in 1925 and again in 1927 the city fathers is sued similar orders to the company but again the order was not obeyed finally when motorists com plained that their cars refused to take wings and fly over the chin ese wall in the middle of the street the city officials became really peeved and assembled in a council of war to decide further action on monday december 10 they issued the famous manifesto to the enemy demanding complete surrender the repair of the tracks by the 29th of the same month threatening to re move the tracks if the work was not done in time the trolley com pany retaliated with the assertion that the city had built its street too low for the tracks and demanded that the streets be raised as the appointed time drew near er and neither side attempted to take action dire results were for seen in the conflict speculation ran rife as to whether the city would take the hill some thought the mayor and his cohorts were merely bluffing and would take no action but the mayor is not a man to bluff before sunrise he had mar shalled his forces for the battle placing himself at the head he be gan the advance upon the enemy behind him paraded nine stalwart policemen pledged to fight to the last in rear of the column were the trucks of the city bearing work me neager to attack the iron rails majestically the cavalcade strode up the hill ' evidently the enemy had made a hasty retreat or had feared to attempt to defend their stronghold quickly taking pos session of the field the city's forces proceeded io tear up the tracks which had caused so much dispute policemen were dispatched to watch for the offense while the workmen labored with picks and shovels in the midst of the work the cries that the enemy was approach ing arose as the company's trol ley car rumbled down the hill the car advanced unhesitatingly while the defense prepared to withstand the attack before the car could reach the enemy it stopped unable to proceed where its tracks were rooted out a battle seemed em inent but without tracks the car was powerless and it gracefully withdrew in celebration of its complete vic tory the city promised to repave where the tracks were when warm weather returns meanwhile mo torists crossing brodhead avenue can do so without fear of dislocat ing their necks meanwhile the transit co can run its trolleys only as far as the end of summit avenue the efficiency of the chance sand flotation machine for the prepara tion of coal in the cox laboratory has been greatly increased by the addition of a new centrifugal pump and a more powerful motor accord ing to professor howard eckfeldt head of the mining department the operation of this machine de pends on the difference in the spe cific gravities of coal and slate the sand suspended in water makes a mixture which is sufficiently dense to float the coal but allows the slate to sink these machines are used extensively throughout the hard coal regions dr van de wall chief of the bureau of mental health of penn sylvania will give a talk before the robert w hall pre-medical so ciety at 7 p m monday in wil liams hall a short business meet ing will precede the address fol lowing the talk refreshments will be served by members of the so ciety alpha kappa psi elects rotthaus want new anthem the following societies or organ izations have appointments for the taking of their group pictures at mccaa's studio during the coming week monday january 14 1 p m pi tau sigma tuesday january 15 12 o'clock noon pre-medical society wednesday january 16 12 o'clock noon brown and white staff thursday january 17 12 o'clock noon pi delta epsilon correction in the issue of the brown and white of tuesday december 18 1928 the article describing the boiler test conducted on the new boilers in the w a wilbur power house stated that these boilers had been manufactured by the combustion engineering co the article was in error in this statement as the boilers were manufactured by the bab cock and wilcox co however the coxe stokers with which the boilers are equipped were manu factured by the combustion en gineering co prof l smail lectured to the newtonian society last night on the geometric properties of com plex numbers his address com prised the regular talk given to the members of the society at each of the meetings by some faculty mem ber or person connectned with mathematical work several new members were taken in by the so ciety membership is determined by scholarship and the new mem ber is recommended by his teacher the next meeting of the newton ian society will take place after mid-year exams in answer to the many pleas for a ne wnational anthem mrs flor ence brooks-aten has sponsored a contest and she has offered prizes totalling 5,000 dr sigmund spaeth who recently spoke at chap el on music is one of the judges the contest which closes on feb ruary 1 is open to all american citizens frosh tea dance the freshman class will give its initial tea dance tomorrow afternoon from 4 to 7 dave fluharty's orchestra will fur nish the music w e rotthaus was elected to alpha kappa psi honorary bus iness fraternity yesterday at an in formal meeting of the society initial plans for the initiation ban quet were discussed nine men are to be initiated rotthaus having been elected to fill the vacancy made by a pledge who did not ac cept the bid gets a in 180 hours stanford university boasts of a student arthur f scotten who has attained a higher scholastic average than any other student in the history of the school scot ten has succeeded in graduating with a straight grade of a in ev ery unit of the 180 necessary units for a diploma he also made the varsity fencing team and was a member of phi beta kappa brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday january 1 1 1929 tunnel pictures shown engineers at combined meet price five cents engine stretches over half block brown and white to complete plan second semester vol xxxvi no 26 meikeljohn noted educator discusses mc conn s book calls college or kindergarten fresh and startling but disagrees in part lehigh smothers ursinus conquerors of lafayette break loose second half construction of hemis phere's longest railroad tunnel described 32 eligible men will take tryout examina tion tuesday next burr to be on pennsy dutch dr.richards guest of new york club 44-25 victory bolsters prospects for capture of lafayette series 94 men work for paper coming events saturday january 12 — 3:00 p m freshman swimming vs reading high school tay lor gymnasium , 3:00 p m varsity wrestling vs syracuse taylor gymnasium 4:00 p m freshman tea dance monday january 14 — 7:00 p m robert vv hall pre-medical society meeting address by dr van de wall chief of bureau of mental health of pennsylvania tuesday january 15 — 7:30 p m brown and white examination christmas saucon hall all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association