Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 29

              limited to six hours fourth straight victory for sheridan's men operatic soprano pleases audience alumni to watch library ceremony junior smoker tonight a junior class smoker will be held at 7:30 o'clock this evening in drown hall austy tate and dean c m mcconn will give short talks the entertainment will be furnished by mr berk hard traffic manager of the pennsylvania power and light company who is known for his humorous sketches and talks eats will be provided for all final score 15-12 homecomers to see initial showing of campus movie elizabeth rethberg ex cells in dramatic lyrics at liberty high theta delts disturbed by nocturnal prowler it was 4 o'clock wednesday morning in the theta delta chi house into the room on the third floor where a score of boys were soundly sleeping crept a muffled figure he crept about the room stopping at each bed to peer intently at the sleeper but there was one who was awakened suddenly bob davis sprang up slammed the door and switched on the lights at once all awoke and there was a tense moment as the stranger in a sheepskin coat found himself trapped fortunately for the intruder the explanation was satisfactory he was a kappa sigma fresh man from lafayette sent for the house president's signature as a pre-initiation stunt when judge stotz reversed the decision of alderman f w kah ler bethlehem against i m siegel one of the lehigh students arrested on the eve of the lehigh-lafayette game four or five other students similarly arrested and who believe they are entitled to the same deci sion were encouraged to the extent that they are consulting lawyers as to the feasibility of appeal prints exhibited american artists slow enrollment opens semester hold speaking contest wanda gag's fantastic paintings attract great attention woodcuts also shown accurate statistics will not be available for several weeks fewer men dropped a moving picture acted by le high students and made for the al umni clubs will be produced by the mustard and cheese club this spring plans have also been made for the presentation of a play sometime in april students will try out for membership in the casts of both the picture and the show about march 1 the moving picture scenario which deals with the hardships and pleasures of a young man during his college career is being written by h m adams and t m bren nan of mustard and cheese togeth er with a e buchanan secretary of the lehigh alumni club the plot will be interwoven with the main events of the four years spent in college such as orientation week class rushes lafayette game and graduation in order to make this picture as true as possible actual shots of the above happenings will be taken so that the production cannot be finished until fall if successful the lehigh movie will be shown to the alumni clubs in hope that they will buy the pic ture the money obtained will be used to defray the expenses of the mustard and cheese club this will be the first moving picture by a collegiate dramatic club as the plans of the princeton triangle club in this field were never con cluded elizabeth rethberg metropoli tan opera company soprano sang before 1500 people many of whom were lehigh students and profes sors tuesday evening in the lib erty high school auditorium as miss rethberg stood before her au dience it was clearly evident that she was not accustomed to the con cert stage the soloist's effort to overcome her dramatic tendencies made itself visible in vissi d'arte from tosca the closing selection her program after the fourth num ber was definitely an operatic one miss rethberg is a native of ger many she was born in saxony and studied at the conservatory of dres den six years ago she made her american debut singing aida in the metropolitan opera house new york city since she has be gun to sing miss rethberg has participated in more than 100 operas the program was sponsored by the community chorus of bethle hem and is the third of a series of five concerts dances brighten mid=year interval bouse party may last three days by series of nine new semester ushered in titions dean interfraternity council pc a revision of the rules and regul ations of the university with re spect to the summer session was effected at the regular meeting of the faculty monday february 4 this revision is largely a restate ment of rules already in effect and hence will have but little effect on students according to the new regulations the committee on summer session will have supervision of required summer courses in engineering cur ricula and of optional curricula the required summer courses in engin eering curricul begin the week day following the last day of the exarination period of the second semester the optional summer courses ordinarily are to begin four weeks later and will extend over a period if six weeks the optional summer courses in clude the required courses of the freshman year those courses of the sophomore year which are prerequi site for the courses of the junior year and such other courses as are likely in the judgment of the com mittee to be of interest to teachers and advanced students summer session courses are open to prospective freshmen and others who present 15 acceptable units of credit including three units of eng lish students at least 21 years of age may be admitted as special stu dents on approval of the director of the summer session women are also admitted to the optional courses the tuition fee it was agreed is to remain at 10.00 per credit hour new students will be subject to a matriculation fee of 5 registration for required and op tional courses will be held the morning of the day such courses be gin the penalty for late registra tion will be 2 a day for each day of delay beyond the registration days in taking out the registration ticket no registration will be ac cepted later than the fourth day of continued on page 4 board of control approves meets for the first time in two years the interfraternity council will pe tition dean mcconn for a three-day house party instead of the usual two-day affair a plant to hold the house dances either thursday or friday evening instead of saturday night was shelved for further dis cussion the date set by the coun cil was april 18-21 last fall the committee on student activities vot ed to prohibit combine dances of more than two fraternities and this season will be the first to be affect ed by this ruling after some discussion the coun cil voted against a proposal to reg ulate the second semester rushing season the last word in the legal fracas between i m siegel lehigh soph omore and the city of bethlehem was said tuesday morning at the northampton county court house when judge robert a stotz smil ingly reversed the decision of al derman frank w kahler bethle hem made following the student arrests on the eve of the lafayette game last fall there is not a thing against this man but he should have been arrested for lehigh's not having a better football team said judge stotz as he made his decision he then ordered the court costs to be paid by the county and the 55 bail returned to siegel by the gity of bethlehem when called to the stand officer george hebble admitted he had seen siegel do nothing but that he had been ordered by superiors to arrest him after having been given the necessary information to take him into custody this testimony combined with that of lawrence delp a bus driver who had seen the arrest brought out clearly that the evidence available was insuffi cent for a conviction delp said that although he had seen the bus stop sign on siegel's car it was not sieg el who interferred with him when he tried to obtain the license num ber of the car judge stotz did not think it necessary to call on siegel and his witnesses who were in court ready to testify but made his decision immediately in favor of the defendant siegel made his appeal on the grounds that he had been fined without knowing the nature of the complaint against him and charged the arrest was illegal because of lack of evidence the latter com plaint was justified when the city failed to bring out a single fact which could be used to convict him the attorney for the defendant was hugh mcfadden bethlehem h w cushman enters metropolitant jr swim ming championships an exceptionally slow enrollment marked the usual activity and bus tle of registration last week in packer hall many students did not register until yesterday when re-enrollment closed and cards kept pouring in all this week although statistics are not yet ready it is evident that the number of men dropped from school this irear will be definitely less than in previous years this is of course due to the new rules which permit none but those on probation to flunk out however there has been a corresponding increase in the number of men placed on proba tion since all those who ordinarily would have been dropped are now on probation although the new rules are now in full effect those men who were dropped last semester will be per mitted to return next september in accordance with the old regulations meanwhile their places are being taken by a large number of return ing men who were forced to leave previously the enrollment will be but little augmented by new fresh men since only a small number were admitted this semester as a result of flunk-outs and transfers several rooms are now va cant in price and taylor halls which can be obtained by applying to the bursar immediately actual statistics regarding regis tration cannot be obtained for sev eral weeks because the dean's office is still overloaded with the work of registration the bursar too will be unable to give accurate fig ures concerning the payment of tu ition for several weeks debaters arrange dates of contests musical societies prepare for trip washington's birthday for the third time will mean more to le high undergraduates and alumni than the mere natal anniversary of the father of our country for the day has been set aside as the an nual homecoming of alumni the day this year will take on special interest over that of other years in that the cornerstone of the new library made possible through the gifts of alumni will be laid that afternoon the names of the speak ers for this event will be announced later except for laying the cornerstone of the library the day will be much as other homecomings with visits to classes and the usual athletic at traction in the afternoon or evening this year a wrestling meet with col umbia after luncheon at the cafeteria in drown hall the movie campus pictures will be shown for the first time the annual public speaking con test will be held at 11 a m in the chapel a general invitation has been extended through the alumni bulletin to all alumni no 11 o'clock classes will meet so that students may attend the contests the six contestants will be divid ed into two groups three engin eers will make up one of these while the other will consist of business and arts men a first second and third prize will be given to each group these prizes offered by the alumni are 25 15 and 10 respec tively the three judges although not chosen will probably be alum ni all men who are interested should see prof m j luch imme diately the deadline for handing in drafts of speaches has been set for noon saturday february 16 to date only a few engineers have entered the contest prof luch desires to have anyone interested to call on him at his office in christmas-sau con hall this week or early next week competing in its second meet within five days the wrestling team defeated cornell 15-12 thursday the outcome of the meet was not decided until the final bout in which miller gained a • fall over dow of cornell to give lehigh the six points necessary for victory cornell boasting wto intercolle giate champions in its lineup josef son in the 115 pound class and cap tain stafford in the heavyweight class has a strong team and one which it was known would furnish a hard test for the brown and white grapplers particularly as but four days intervened since the hard meet with the naval academy last year the red and white wrestlers were the only aggregation able to out grapple billy sheridan's charges in a dual meet and they were downed a short time later in the intercollegiates avenging the ear lier defeat as everything hinged on its out come the outstanding bout was the last one on the program the heavy weight cornell had gained a three point advantage at the close of the 175 pound bout and the only chance for lehigh to win the meet was for miller to gain a fall a feat which he accomplished admir ably pinning dow's shoulders to the mat after nine minutes and 30 seconds of wrestling miller did not wrestle before the recent mid year examinations and has had but little opportunity since then to prac tice so that his winning of two bouts within such a short space of time is especially creditable stafford captain of the ithacans again proved his worth and versa tility by defeating captain lehr in the 175 pound class with a time ad vantage of six minutes and four seconds last year in the dual meet he accomplished this same feat and then in the intercollegiates moved up to the heavyweight division antf defeated miller in the finals to gain that title josef son 115 pounds cornell's other champion defeated phillips on a decision with a time advantage of eight minutes continued on page 4 all the bouts were remarkably closely contested three of the sev en going to extra periods and but two resulting in falls the ithacans showed extreme caution in their grappling taking few chances and preferring to be content with a de cision rather than possibly lose any advantage previously gained 115-lb josef son cornell defeated phillips lehigh with time advan tage of 8 minutes the summary hellenic society sponsors essays case will lecture on hudson bridge the exhibits of wanda gag con sisting of 14 paintings prints comprise the most interesting part of the art exhibition now being held in the faculty room of memorial building miss gag was born of bohemian immigrant parents in a desolate minnesota village 30 years ago today she is one of america's foremost artists and her paintings have elicited favorable comment from art critics here and abroad rockwell kent critic and fellow ar tist said at one of her recent exhibi tions move yourself to what is here for it has the power to pro foundly move you the prints executed by miss gag are nearly all of a fantastic nature a water color entitled fields in the spring is a painting where with a simplicity of strokes a realistic pic ture of the rolling fields of green under a blue sky is produced dale darning the only picture in this exhibition which portrays a human being is one of a girl darning a stocking there are many other noteworthy exhibits of paintings lithographs and wood cuts chiefly on architec tural subjects among these are two admirably executed woodcuts by lankes both depicting churches in rural districts a pen and ink sketch by childe hassam of a wide village street shaded with trees on both sides thru which the sun filters is conspic uously attractive the dictator a scene of a fu turistic city and taos pueblo moonlights a picture of pueblo dwellings bathed with moonlight are the woodcuts of howard wood a lithograph depicting a colonial church in the foreground lost in contrast to tall sky scrapers around it attracts the eye more by its real ity than for any other reason it is the work of r rinzicke many other excellent paintings and woodcuts are on exhibition by r kent h horter a rhambeck e station allen lewis j marion and r rach the art exhibition will be open daily until february 28 the paint ings and prints are being exhibited by garth a howland professor of fine arts j l minick will lecture at e e meeting tonight what might have been a dull in terval between the last final exam ination and the beginning of the new semester was brightened by eight dances given by various so cial fraternities and one by leon ard hall alpha tau omega fraternity held a dance at its chapter house wednesday evening january 30 more than 100 couples danced to the music of white brothers ginger band from washington d c the chaperones were prof c d macdougall miss elizabeth pier and mr and mrs lee bar thold one hundred and twenty-five couples danced to the music of art zeller's merrymakers orchestra friday evening at the sigma nu house mr and mrs warren w york allentown and fred t traf ford were chaperones sigma phi epsilon frat c r nity gave an open dance friday evening about 100 couples danced to the tunes produced by dave flu harty's orchestra until 2 a m the chaperones were mr and mrs g f neif and professor eric sink inson continued on page four theta xi held a mid-year's house dance last friday evening at the chapter house on delaware avenue about 40 couples attended the house was very attractively decor an illustrated lecture on the hud son river bridge now under con struction at fort lee n j and to be the longest suspension bridge in the world will be given in the phy sics lecture room at 7:45 monday evening feb 18 by n b case en gineer of construction carnegie society meets at reading junior activities wanted all juniors are requested to turn in a list of their activities to fred trafford before monday february 11 two vacancies in cyanide club are to be filled buildings progress despite weather progress in the construction of the new packard laboratory and of the library has been advancing steadily despite the inclement weather according to architect litzenberger work on the lab oratory can go on regardless of the weather since comparatively all of the outside structure is completed at present mr litzenberger is at tempting to complete the interior of the building glazed brick is being laid in the laboratory rooms them selves and tile partitions are being completed on the first floor a fin ished concrete floor is also being laid throughout the building work on the library is of course somewhat hindered by the cold weather since most of the ex terior structure is yet to be erected the contractors are now forming the east wing which is still far from completed drain pipes and a steam line are also being laid delta omicron theta of lehigh has arranged a program of four de bates with other colleges including susquehanna temple upsula and syracuse erwin f underwood 31 was unanimously elected secretary treasurer committees were appoint ed to arrange for the debates and the entertainment of the visiting teams and four men were proposed for membership the two questions to be debated ar e — resolved that the jury sys tem should be abolished and re solved that censorship of the rep resentative arts should be abol ished the formal tryouts for the debating teams will be held mon day feb 18 as the teams have not yet been definitely chosen to represent lehigh students wishing to consider debating these subjects may get information about the try outs from prof m j luch of the english department the meets are as follows — syracuse feb 28 susquehanna march 8 temple march 14 upsula march 16 following their initial appearance at moravian seminary for women february 15 the combined musi cal clubs will take two trips to new jersey and new york during the latter part of february on the first trip extending over three days the combined musical clubs will give one performance each day the first february 21 at upper montclaire will be spon sored by the lehigh club of north ern new jersey who have secured the upper montclaire woman's club auditorium for the concert the following evening a program has been arranged to be given at the haddonfield n j high school while saturday evening february 23 the final program will be given at the south side high school rockville center l 1 under the auspices of the south nasau com munities hospital the second and final trip will in clude a concert at the woman's club east orange n j under the auspices of an organization known as a rainbow assembly for girls eats and smokes will follow the meet leon k sowers 29 will present a student paper visualising alter nating current effects and will supplement his paper with demon stations on the oscillograph electrical features of the penn sylvania railroad philadelphia im provements will be the topic of a talk by j l minick assistant elec trical engineer of the pennsylvania railroad at the e e meeting in the physics lecture room at 7:30 tonight mr minick will illustrate his lecture by slides curtis registration system effects rapid enrollment austy wants cards returned at once the lacrosse and baseball sched ules were approved at the monthly meeting of the board of control of athletics on jan 28 s p coates was awarded a minor l for soccer and h w cushman was permitted to participate in the met ropolitan junior swimming cham pionships in new york as in for mer years lehigh again joined the eastern division for the selection of football officials the lacrosse sche dule is as follows — wed april 10 — lafayette away sat april 13 — navy away sat april 20 — pennsylvania home sat april 27 — rutgers away wed may i—princeton,1 — princeton away sat may 4 — stevens home sat may 11 — swarthmore away sat may 19 — montclair a.c home the baseball schedule sat march 30 navy away mon april i—temple,1 — temple away tuesday april 2 — villavona away wed april 3 — drexel away wed april 10 temple home sat april 13 — princeton away sat april 20 — rutgers away wed april 24 — haverford away sat april 27 — army home wed may i—muhlenberg,1 — muhlenberg away sat may 4 — lafayette away tues may 7 — pennsylvania away wed may b c c n v home sat may 11 — lafayette home wed may 15 — rutgers home sat may 18 lafayette away fri june 7 muhlenberg hdrne sat june 8 villanova away lafayette society invites lehigh men on february 18 professor le grand r drown will represent le high at a meeting to be held in reading of western college profes sors who are cooperating with the carnegie foundation for the ad vancement of learning owing the the great gap between the high school and the college the colleges and the foundation are at tempting to place only the men who are fitted for a higher education the work of the carnegie founda tion also is trying to improve the college curricula of our secondary schools since education in this country is not all it should be in comparison with the colleges and universities abroad the founda tion reported however that lehigh is classified at the head of our in stitutions of higher learning in lehigh the chemical business and arts departments are especially ac tive in carrying on this work thru the advisor system which has been only lately established in an attempt to stimulate inter est in hellenic history and culture the lehigh chapter of the order of ahepa allentown which is a branch of the american hellenic educational and progressive asso ciation is offering 200 in cash prizes and a certificate of honor able mention to the students of ce dar crest lehigh moravian col lege and theological seminary mo ravian college for women and muhlenberg who will write the four best essays on hellenic con tributions to civilization the prizes will be first prize 100 in gold second prize 60 in gold third prize 40 in gold fourth prize englaved certificate of hon orable mention in greek and english students wishing to participate will write to philippus mosescu liaison secretary editorial al lentown morning call before feb 13 or see him personally at the above address on the same day be tween 1 and 5 p m to receive num bers for identification and instruc tions lehigh contestants should hand their essays to dr c j goodwin professor of greek on or before march 7 1929 professor good win's office hours are at 4:00 p m on monday wednesday and fri day in room 31 coppee hall austy tate desires that all living groups fill out and return to him the cards that he sent around con cerning prospective freshman foot ball men there were about five thousand of these cards sent to the alumni and about twenty-five to each living group only seven of these groups have returned cards since austy is relying to some ex tent on getting results from these inquiries it is important that they be returned to him immediately campus pictures wanted pictures of campus activities are wanted for use in the epit ome please mail any contribu tions to n c wilde chi phi house all pictures will be re turned scarf found during registration in packer hall last saturday a scarf was found by frank w stevenson the owner of this scarf may ob tain it by getting in touch with stevenson at section a taylor hall and identifying it the john markle mining society of lafayette college invites all members of the mining and geo logical society to their meeting on feb 15 the hon h m payne will speak on opportunities for engineers in the mineral industry anyone wishing to attend this meeting and does not have any method of transportation please consult the bulletin board in the cox mining lab fifteen hundred students were registered in less than 16 hours last friday and saturday by dean cur tis registration team of honor men checking an average of two tickets and 57 class cards every three min utes the clerks passed a total of 1,500 tickets and 18,000 class cards this remarkable performance was made possible by a three hour course given by dean curtis wed nesday afternoon after a lecture on the general principles of check ing the clerks put in two hours of practice on specimen tickets all day thursday the team was occupied in tabulating grades the first semeter class cards were ar ranged alphabetically and distribut ed to teams of five men one clerk on each team read off the grades and the other four made copies one of these copies was then sent to the probation table where it was examined for failures the other three copies were sent to the stu dent his parents and the director of his curriculum friday and saturday the clerks were occupied in checking registra tion tickets and filing class cards as there are over 1,000 different sec tions scheduled for this semester this part of the job alone was no mean undertaking in addition re ports on the number taking each course had to be prepared to as sist in making up next year's ros ters glee club rehearsals glee club will rehearse at 8 p m wednesday and 7:30 p m thursday only those men sel ected at last evening's rehearsal will report for practice brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday february 8 1929 m and c plans lehigh movie vol xxxvi no 29 siegel wins case after appealing to county court price five cents faculty revises summer session academic rules wrestlers win at ithaca miller's fall decides meet will be offered pre-requisites and impor tant optional courses time decisions go to lewis letowt landis scenario buchanan brennan and adams to write judge stotz reverses al derman kahler's decision to give play in april epitome checks due now all officers of organizations and living groups are asked to send in their cheques immediate ly for the 1930 epitome to king paget kappa alpha lodge city must return fine coming events today exhibition of paintings wood cuts and lithographs in the fac ulty room alumni memorial building open during regudlar library hours ,, 7:30 p m junior smoker in drown hall dean c m mcconn ' and coach a austin tate will speak 7:30 p m e e meeting in the physics lecture room electrical features of the pennsylvania railroad philadelphia im provements by j l minick saturday — 3:00 p m varsity basketball against susquehanna in the taylor gymnasium monday — 12:00 m sword and crescent picture at mccaa's 7:45 p m c e meeting in the physics lecture room the hud son river bridge by n b case member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first