Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 31

              latin head obtains infor mation for classes and lectures abraham lincoln 1809-1929 president praises him recognize physics club sees foreign museums lose by 35 - 25 score mittee muntrick and horgan the resolution limiting the hold ing of major offices on publications that was recently passed by the board of publications was discussed and a committee appointed to de cide which offices should be ef fected a suggestion to eliminate the sal aries of major officers of publica tions is to be placed before the board of publications some time in the near future but will not go into effect for two or three years if passed upon plans for the gridiron banquet be came an actuality at the meeting of pi delta epsilon last evening in drown hall the date is still ten tative but will probably be either may 1 or 8 efforts are being made to secure a speaker who is one of the country's most prominent jour nalists as chairman of the com mittee on arrangements^tom bren nan appointed the following sub committees motive committee sax garwood and conneen initiation and publication committee wright and adams menu and hotel com alumni bulletin compares grades mechanicals hear carlos de zafra ordnance officer illus trates lecture with experiments athletes and non athletes are equal in schol arship • when in the presence of the homecoming alumni feb 22 the cornerstone of the new library is laid a copper box containing many documents will be forever sealed in the stone the strong box will contain 1 photographs showing various views of the old library 2 photostatic views of the floor plans for the old library 3 copy of asa packer's will which contains various references to the library and the library fund 4 copy of dr richard's report a study of the needs of lehigh university which contains a refer ence to the library needs s copies of each of the several alumni bulletins that make refer ence to the need for an expansion of library facilities 6 copy of circular no 7 of the institute of research — dr smith's bulletin on the folios of shakes peare in the library 7 copy of the last annual re port of the librarian 8 copy of the circular prepared at mr dickerman's instance an nouncing the packard gift and call ing attention to the library as the next step 9 copy of circular no 1 of the institute of research describing the organization and functions of the institute the success of which will be in part dependent upon adequate library facilities 10 copy of the university reg ister for the current year 11 scroll containing signatures of all the class agents and an out line of the lehigh university al umni fund which made possible the reconstruction of the library at this time six score of years have come echoed and then passed by since in a humble frontier hut a man-child came to earth unnoted millions o'er times thresh old have passed on to die yet still a loving legioned host keep memory of thy birth for thou wert more than just a man of height and weight and girth and all the ages of the past so swift and quickly gone attest the presence of superior graces character and worth thou one man great and good be loved in every patriot's home encompassed in thy length and strength of hand and heart the measured cadence of each loving valued word rolls down the years to give each new-born child a part in gloried treasures they from grand-sires will have heard a full half century and more of fleeting years lengthen the storied fame and name of father abraham whose martyred soul yet lives and guides and thrills and cheers whose name adorns and tops the honor roll of uncle sam faculty players read three plays mlle raymond to lecture here lehigh's basketball team dropped a fast game tuesday to rutgers university in ballantine gymna sium new brunswick 35 to 25 rutgers jumped into the lead ear ly in the game alton playing at forward getting the first field goal schultz tied the score a minute lat er but successive goals by captain boettcher alder and kish and foul shots by alton and alder gave the opponents a good lead when 14 points behind the brown and white players led by bob many spurted and brought the score to 17 to 10 at the half the second half was a repetition of the first rutgers outscoring le high 18 to is schaub and nemetz lehigh sophomore guards played bang-up games each scoring 8 points bob many although close ly guarded throughout the game managed to ring up 3 field goals and 1 foul hesse accounted for the other points with 2 fouls . lehigh continued their inconsis tent streak or rather consistent streak since the team has won ev ery game at home including an 81 to 24 win last week and has lost every game on the road rutgers victory was their 8th in 11 starts and came as a result of sensational shots by alton and captain boett cher rohrbach captain of rutgers last year was back at center after being on the sidelines since early in the season revisions to the constitution of the radio society and recognition of the physics club as a student organization on the campus were approved saturday april 20 was approved for house party week end but the petition of the interfraternity coun cil for a three days party instead of the customary two days was re ferred back to them for a program for tht two days and for a state ment of the vote of the council on the matter the petition of arca dia for college meetings april 10 and may 9 was also recommended to the faculty by the student acti vities committee at its meeting wednesday the musical clubs requested that the rule barring non-students from undergraduate activities be amend ed in order that c mccance 27 president of the musical clubs while here might act as guest conductor at haddonfield n j february 22 in the enforced absence of t ed gar shields a a g o the stu dent activities committee did not grant this petition but they ap proved the appointing of c mc cance as guest conductor and rec ommended to the faculty that ex ception to the rule barring non-stu dents from activities be allowed the musical clubs at the discretion of the committee on student activities members of the student activities committee are t m brennan j i kirkpatrick w b adams prof b l miller prof j m toohy and dean c m mcconn ex-officio j t neath represented the musical clubs at the meeting alexander hamilton so ciety host to league librarian lehigh librarian lists new books accident on way down nothing but misfortune follows lehigh's varsity quintet on the road not only has the team lost all away games but also the jinx followed them to the extent of an accident while on way to rutgers the lead ing car stopped suddenly and the second drew up along side to see what was the matter the driver of number three in line was eith er making too much speed or did not observe what was happening for he plowed into the side of the second car pushing it in turn into the first car and then crashed thru one of the guard rails along the curve tearing down three of the posts and finally ending up in the ditch while the results were not serious all of the occupants were shaken up quite a bit coach geary's back was wrenched some what but was able to continue the trip one of the cars were left be hind and all of the players were forced to crowd into the remainder of the cars the faculty dramatic club will meet february 20 at the home of prof r w hall to read the green goddess by william archer with mrs sydney brown in charge mrs p m palmer will take the part of lucilla mr h j schenk that of major crestin and prof e h reilly will be the rajah the well of the saints by the irish playwright john millington synge was read . by the club jan uary 23 mrs c m mcconn was in charge and took one of the two leading parts that of the blind wife of a blind beggar the latter was played by prof bradley stoughton the play presented the reactions of the two when their sight was mira culously restored at the last meeting feb 6 the club presented coquette by ab bot and bridger the leading parts were taken by mrs w t fedko as the conquette prof m j luch as the coquette's father mr ham matt as the faithful lover and dr w t fedko as the successful lov er mrs l l smail was in charge the story deals with the typical small town southern flirt who fi nally falls in love with a brave dash ing youth having an admirable war record lehigh students seek scholarship lehigh competes in oratorical contest dr horace w wright head of the department of latin has just returned from a trip abroad where he has spent his eight month's leave of absence procuring infor mation for lectures to be given this spring under the auspices of the american archaeological society and for publishing a paper on the archaeological evidences of ancient rome dr wright also spent much time obtaining color prints and pho tographs of scenes described in vir gil for use in his classes in latin and ancient civilization during the first week of april dr wright will give several lec tures in connection with the arch aelogical institution of america in brooklyn and in several cities in connecticut the subject of these lectures will be rome of the kings dr wright will publish an article on rome based only on archaeolo gical evidence a previous article by dr wirght the city of early kings was published in the class ical weekly in 1925 dr wright has also obtained a great deal of post cards and photo graphs which are of great value to students of virgil and of ancient civilization the most valuable of this collection are two color slides of an etruscan statue of apollo the statue was found hi an aban doned well in the city of veii in 1916 these two color slides are the only ones of their kind in the unit ed states dr wright spent several weeks at the sites and scenes that form the setting of the last seven books of virgil's aeneid he obtained photographs of the temple of ap ollo the cave of sibyl and the fourteenth century walls which vir gil used for the description of the camp of aeneas he spent the greater part of the summer visiting the many museums in england france germany and switzerland the british museum contained articles of remarkable value which have been discovered by the joint expedition of the brit ish museum and the museum of the university of pennsylvania this collection included several solid gold headresses worn by the ladies of the court of thekings of ur and a solid gold helmet presumably that of a king however the most re markable object in this group is the top of a standard it is made of lapis lazulae and contains on a shell background most amazing pictures of the sumerians in peace and in warn this collection is to remain part of the time in the british museum and part of the time in the museum of the university of pennsylvania where it is now on exhibition even tually the collection will be divided among the british and bagdad mur seums and the museum of the uni versity of pennsylvania librarian h s leach announces the acquisition of 160 new books some of the most noteworthy of these are prehistoric man by maccurdy anthropology and modern life by boss introduc tion to the history of medicine by cumston the american renais sance by duffus plays by john galsworthy and a history of american sculpture by lorado taft there are many books on liter ature of which the most interesting are mr moneypcnny by chan ning pollock good morning america by carl sandburg or lando by woolf and l'unito d'une pensee by rivasso new books on history include colum bus by andre john smith by fletcher and the story of france by van dyke mr leach says that 10,108 books were borrowed from the library dur ing the five weeks preceding the ex amination period this is an in crease of 950 over the number of books that were used in the same period last year welding authorities to address engineers lehigh student conducts work maintaining in one of its many interesting articles that athletes and non-athletes at lehigh make out equally well in their studies the february issue of the alumni bul letin was circulated last week under the supervision of profes sor frank m weida a study of a representative lehigh class was made over a period of five years with a view to determining how athletes compare with non-athletes in scholarship from the statistics obtained it would appear that they are about equal the average score in the intellectual capacity tests taken during the freshman year was 128.3 for the non-athletes as against 127.2 for the athletes it was also found that 62 percent of the athletes received their de grees while only 42 percent of the opposing group were equally suc cessful similarly the average grades for the two groups over the entire period were exactly equal the results of this research would indicate that deficiencies in sport here cannot be attributed to poor scholarship a second article presents an en thusiastic announcement of the mid-winter homecoming on wash ington's birthday the article is il lustrated with two fine pictures of the buildings being erected on the campus and includes a complete program for the day the pamphlet how about en gineering published by the uni versity a short time ago is reviewed in this issue of the alumni bullet in the article is written in a con cise manner to illustrate to the alumni just what is being done to advertise engineering as a profes sion the installation of a new heating plant on the campus is described in another story this includes a de scription of the technical equip ment of the new plant which it is estimated will be adequate for all probable plant extensions for the next 20 years news from the new york lehigh club relates the story of the recep tion to president and mrs c r richards the admirable work of dr richards in his six years as president of lehigh was praised by eugene g grace who made the in troductory speech mr grace es pecially stressed the thoroughly ef ficient work of president richards in administering the university's financial problems business honorary initiates ten men l e eckholm met 29 is at present doing research work in car bon arc welding he is studying the problem of the transfer from the electrode to the weld last summer at the bethlehem steel plant eck holm helped with similar experi ments the work that he is doing now is a further check on the re sults of last summer's work the old theory was that the steel absorbed carbon while in the weld causing the hardening eckholm's work tends to show that this is not the case but instead that the hard ening is caused by chilling electric arc welding will be discussed at the joint meeting of the lehigh valley section of the a i e e and the engineers club at 8 p m saturday feb 23 charles schneck production en gineer of the bethlehem steel com pany will present a paper on the in dustrial application of electric weld ing the presentation of the paper is supplemented by slides prof c d jensen assistant pro fessor of civil engineering will speak on welds and give an outline of the research in welding being done under his direction h j bowles welding supervisor in the saucon division of the beth lehem steel company will discuss operating welders from the stand point of his experience in testing and checking their work mr carlos de zafra addressed the mechanical engineering society last night on the subject of explo sives mr de zafra is a major in the army ordnance reserve corp an assistant professor in engineer ing at new york university and the director of the engineering in dex service of the american so ciety of mechanical engineers in defining an explosive mr de zafra said an explosive is a mater ial capable of instantaneous change from solid or liquid form to the gaseous form with an increase in temperature almost anything is an explosive under certain condi tions glass aluminum rubber flour w&od and many other prod ucts that we normally consider in ert are explosives but only under certain conditions high explosives differ from low explosives in that low explosives are composed of molecules which in themselves are fairly inert while in high explo sives each molecule is an explosive compound then approaching the subject of explosives used for military and en gineering purposes the lecturer con tinued black powder which was commonly used a few years ago is being rapidly disregarded in favor of smokeless powder and dynamite for military purposes black pow der gives off too much smoke which makes the detection of a battery of artillery very easy and because of the large portion which is wasted in smoke it weighs too much for the results obtained for civil pur poses the powder is too easily af fected by the atmospheric condi tions smokeless powder is only slight ly affected by atmospheric condi tions gives off an undetectable smoke and has less dead weight than the powder that was previous ly used in the open smokeless powder is perfectly harmless it burns with a slow flame and mixed with camphor it is the basis of much of our imitation tortoise shell ivory and amber dynamite was discovered by ac cident by alfred nobel it has its largest field in commercial work but because of the poisonous fumes it is not particularly adapted to mining ynamite is composed of nitroglycerin absorbed in kiesel guhr this makes the nitroglycerin safer for ordinary use because it is less liable to go off on shock t n t exerts an enormous force when it goes off but is very safe it will burn very slowly a terrific detonation is required to set it off this detonation is usually provided by mercury fomite mr dezafra concluded his lec ture with an exhibit of explosives used for military purposes the lec ture was illustrated throughout with the burning of guncotton black powder dynamite and many other forms of explosives about forty members were pres ent and eats were served after wards president charles webbe presided bosey convalescent in florida quarters campus events ten men were formally initiated into alpha kappa psi honorary business fraternity at their annual banquet wednesday evening in the hotel bethlehem the initiates are r hertzler w s usher f s barker g h fea kins g c l barnes r b jones r h lewis w e rotthaus j j somerville and e a staub professors neil carothers and roy b cowin and associate dean george b curtis faculty members of the fraternity spoke informally on curriculum problems this en voked a spirited informal discus sion in which most of the 19 mem bers of the fraternity aired their pet grievances keeping the faculty members on the defensive most of the time lehigh will be represented in the national intercollegiate oratorical contest sponsored by the better america federation of california there is a choice of subjects offered but all of them pertain to the con stitution of fhe united states each college is to select its own repre sentative competitively who will then be sent to one of the seven re gional tryouts the seven winners of the regional contests will go to california to compete for seven cash prizes rang before march is the regional semi-finals will be held april 27 regional finals may 17 to 31 and na tional finals in los angeles june 20 ing from 350 to a first prize of 1500 a place in the finals carries with it an assurance of one of the cash prizes each speaker will have ten minutes only to deliver his ora tion any lehigh student who desires to join with the others in compet ing for the honor of representing lehigh should get in touch with prof luch of the english depart ment within a week all entries for the regional meets must be in the alexander hamilton society will hold an important reorganiza tion meeting at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the arcadia room of drown hall and will be host to mile mery l l reymond one of the assistant li brarians at the secretariat of the league of nations at a luncheon in the university room of the ho tel bethlehem monday mile reymohd who speaks ex cellent english and who has lec tured with success in england will emphasize the human side of the league in her talk which will be il lustrated with lantern slides she comes through the carnegie en downment for international peace the hamilton society has ex tended an invitation to faculty mem bers and others who care to get a better insight of the operation of the league the only charge will be 1.25 per plate to cover luncheon expenses those who wish to make reservations should communicate with george d lange at 2639-m mile reymond is the first out side speaker the club has brought to lehigh since last spring when dr paul de lipovniczky addressed undergraduate members and profes sors on hungary and hungar ians negotiations are under way to bring ernest barker professor of political science at cambridge university england and well known author and lecturer here some time in march tonight's meeting is important because a partially re-written con stitution the result of two month's discussion will be submitted for adoption the most drastic amend ments embody eligibility of all his tory and government majors for membership establishment of an ex ecutive council and the changing the name to the international re lations club of lehigh university all members must be present to sign their names to the roll call which hereafter it is proposed will constitute an initiation formality officers will be elected from among the juniors for the ensuing year following the business session dis cussion of the kellog-briand peace treaty will be led by robert r hertzler and lange the initiation banquet of men elected in january was held the first evening of the new semester feb 4 at the butztown hotel the ini tiates were frederick s barker robert i blair h milton schwartz george e smith and herman sul ken a t & t interviews case to address civils four lehigh students alfred a sanna huges w castles james f danser and phillip m zimmerman are attempting to win a four year university scholarship in aeronau tics or an eaglerock airplane of fered this spring by the alexander aircraft co to the american un dergraduate who reveals the deep est insight and practical imagina tion in aeronautics a remarkably close understand ing of the new industry character izes papers submitted by students of 183 colleges and universities and several novel sales ideas art being used to advantage by the alexander aircraft company the contest is being conducted as a means of interesting more young men and women in flying and in the aero industry as a field of future ac tivity commercial aircraft fac tories within the last year have virtually scrambled for the services of college trained aeronautical en gineers and aeronautical executives and the shortage has forced a num ber of new companies to import en gineers from germany and eng land as an added incentive 17 eagle rock distributors will award free ten hour flying courses worth ab'out 300 to the students in their respective territories who make the best efforts to win the awards and flight manuals will be given to the other students who place high the competition closes may 1 chemicals hold meet instead of the usual outside speaker three senior chemicals ad dressed the february meeting of the student chemical society last night the next meeting of the so ciety will be held march 21 dean c m mcconn addressed the schoolmasters association on democracy versus aristocracy in higher education in new york last night lectures committee the lecture committee will hold an open session at a meet ing called for friday february 22 at 4:15 p m in the commit tee room in the alumni mem orial building to meet represen tatives of student societies who desire to bring public lectures to lehigh freshman discovered prowling in cemetery patrolman big bill fleming one of bethlehem's diligent po licemen received somewhat of a shock last sunday about 4 a m when he noticed flashes of light from st michael's cemetery interested and curious the offi er watched the light move about from one grave to another fin ally armed with a gun in one hand and a club in the other he entered the burying grounds and cried hands up a startled lehigh freshman david perry nichols put up his hands but was able to explain satisfactorily how in order to qualify for membership in a fra ternity he had been instructed to obtain information from a sup posed headstone in the cemetery both much relieved officer and student left the cemetery to gether funeral services for james clar ence cranmer for 22 years super intendent of buildings and grounds at lehigh will be held at the fam ily residence on the campus at 8 o'clock friday evening the rev t f trafford will officiate inter ment will be made in the west creek cemetery west creek n j sunday afternoon mr cranmer died of a heart at tack about 9:15 o'clock tuesday evening at his campus residence he was 59 years old although he had suffered from similar at tacks previously and had exper ienced an especially severe attack of the illness five years ago from which he was not yet fully recov ered his death was a surprise to his many friends at lehigh and at west creek his birthplace mr cranmer had been ill last week but appeared to have recov ered he was stricken tuesday morning in his office in drown hall and assisted to his home a physi cian was called but mr cranmer failed to rally a capable superintendent for 23 years mr cranmer was a university employee president c r richards said of him the sudden death of mr cranmer re moved from the staff of the uni versity one of its most devoted ser vants a man of vigorous and ag gressive personality mr cranmer discharged the duties assigned him without fear or favor through his long association with the univer sity during a period marked by many changes in the campus and physical plant for many of which he had large responsibilities he showed an admirable devotion to the best interests of the institution few people connected with the university appreciate the extraor dinarily varied and difficult duties connected with the maintenance and development of the physical plant involving as they do a more or less expert knowledge of an infinite va riety of details mr cranmer was an extremely well informed man and he constantly sought to enlarge his knowledge of the things for things for which he was respon sible he had an astonishing ability to estimate in advance the cost of all kinds of construction work and of executing it within his estimates without doubt few men would have been a.ble to discharge the duties of his position with equal efficiency and economy the vacancy created by his death will be a difficult one to fill mr cranmer had complete con trol of the upkeep and repair of university buildings and grounds wrote on forestry he was especially interested in forestry and wrote numerous ar ticles on that subject he was conected with the development of the arboretum adjoining sayre park and with tree transplantation illustrating timber trees under his supervision over 100,000 trees which now beautify sayre park were planted since the chestnut blight a few years ago mr cranmer was born april is 1870 the son of james b and char ity cranmer receiving his educa tion in the public schools of that place he assisted his father in the blacksmithing business for a num ber of years he married miss eva l price daughter of mr and mrs abraham a price of west creek in 1892 with whom he resided in beach haven for some years prior to coming to bethlehem during this time he held the offices of cor oner and justice of the peace in june 1906 at the request of dr h s drinker at that time pres ident of lehigh university he mov ed his family to bethlehem and as sumed the position of superinten dent of buildings and grounds interested in music mr cranmer was interested in music having been organist and choirmaster both in the baptist church at west creek and at beth lehem he was also leader of the west creek o u a m band he is survived by his widow one son harold drinker cranmer a graduate of lehigh in 1915 and now manager of the fuel oil department of the west india oil co at buen os aires south america one daughter mrs j a thomas the wife of john a thomas 23 of clarence n y a niece mrs wil liam jones of lambertville n j two grandchildren donald cran mer of buenos aires and jean ann thomas of clarence n y and one brother theodore b cran mer of west creek he was a member of the ocean county society of philadelphia of the knights of pythias at west creek and a life member of the pennsylvania forestry association m b case head construction en gineer of the new hudson river bridge at new york city will speak at the monthly meeting of the lehigh civil engineering society monday february 18 at 7:45 p m in the physics lecture room mr case was in charge of the construc tion of the philadelphia-cafnden bridge the new hudson river bridge is of the suspension type and has a span twice as great as the philadelphia-camden bridge eats and smokes will be furnish ed during the meeting friday 7:00 p m — eta kappa nu meeting electrical office 7:30 p m — alexander hamilton society meeting arcadia room drown hall saturday wrestling vs 3:00 p m varsity yale taylor gymnasium 4:30 p m — tea dance drown hall monday 7:45 p m — c e meeting physics lecture room tuesday 2:30 p m — lehigh university wo man's club board of directors meeting drown hall 3:00 p m — lehigh university wo man's club regular meeting drown hall bosey reiter is getting along nicely stated mr d c ryman secretary and treasurer of the e p wilbur trust company who re cently returned from florida bos ey had a bad could during the first week in february and he was forced to remain in bed for four or five days now however he lies out on the sand most of the day and is as brown as a berry bosey sends his best regards to all and hopes that he will soon be able to come back to lehigh mr ryman further reported bosey returned last fall to re sume his place as head of the phy sical education department but the strain was too much for him in his weakened condition and he was forced to return to florida members of the senior class who have not already made appoint ments to see them and who desire an interview may make an appoint ment by calling at their headquar ters monday the representatives of the amer ican telephone and telegraph com pany and subsidiary companies will be in dr emery's old office on the second floor of the alumni mem orial building next monday tues day wednesday and thursday to interview the members of the sen ior class regarding employment in their respective companies brown and white vol xxxvi no 31 cranmer commemorates lincoln in last poem lehigh university bethlehem pa friday february 15 1929 cornerstone to hold documental records price five cents gridiron banquet assured as pi delta epsilon meets funeral service of j c cramer for this evening committee bars three day party for spring term dr h w wright has productive european tour rutgers downs lehigh cagers in speedy game the following poem written by the late j c cranmer former su perintendent of grounds appeared in the bethlehem globe-times of february 12 mr cranmer had written a great deal of poetry dur ing his life team meets with acci dent on trip to rutgers student activities com mittee approves date for april 20 superintendent of grounds and buildings heart at tack victim member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first