Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 33

              speeches to alumni in drown hall precede actual ceremony 3 graduates judge some visit classes discuss o d k plan richards is optimistic tau beta pi honorary engin eering society is initiating a pro gram of graduate fellowships by offering three fellowships for 1929-1930 each with a stipend of 720 the fellowships are intended primarily to enable graduating tau beta pi members of great promise and with well defined ideas who have need of assis tance to take a year of gradu ate work the society takes this step to further ultimately the interests of high-grade en gineering practice engineering research and engineering teach ing it is hoped that the number of fellowships may be increased each year as the fund for that purpose grows musical clubs on first tour troupe will broadcast from wor sunday at 5 o'clock a few flashes from a silver trow el this morning announced that the university has taken another step since the founding of the lucy packer linderman library in the conversion of the library from a mere museum of books into a place where all will have the desire and courage to explore the myster ies of the building beyond a doubt the library will now rapidly become the intellec tual center of the university draw ing to it students and faculty in search of the lore of the ages as dr richards expressed it at the present time the library contains 181,432 books and pamph lets which rajiks it highly among university libraries in pennsylvania howard s leach librarian looks forward to great possibilities under the new conditions as conditions are now he declares it is impos sible to make the valuable contents of the library available to students there are now only 40,000 books catalogued according to subject and since the subject side is the most valuable for undergraduate work the value of the library now is di minished during the past year circulation here has been raised to 22,378 whereas five years ago it was 4,301 and this year despite cramped and discouraging conditions the circul ation has gone beyond that of last year for the same period this new library fairly swallows the old there will be five times the floor area accommodations for 10 times the number of readers and shelf room for two and a half times the number of books the responses of alumni in ans wering the need for the new library have been large and generous ten men have promised 25,000 over a period of five years others have promised 5,000 some 2,500 and many 1,000 and less the cost of the library will be over half a mil lion the original building with its furnishings cost 100,000 the li brary has progressed since 1887 when it was founded its greatest advance coming during the past four years under the direction of h s leach this step as five speak ers reiterated this morning far out does every other paul m paine faculty members speak at dinner rodman enters foreign service library handles many magazines leach states that per iodical list is very complete men interviewing seniors feted at hotel beth lehem mccammon hyde and taber also to be re placed here several hundred homecoming alumni were to be seen trudging faithfully over the snow-covered campus this morning and afternoon in their third annual mid-winter homecoming some few were ambi tious and brave enough to attend some of the early classes to see what it was like to not have the fear of the professor's hatchet that hangs over one in his undergrad uate days promptly at 11 o'clock the formal program started with the public speaking contest in packer mem orial chapel an amusing moving picture of the present day lehigh campus life was shofn at 12:15 p m in drown hall auditorium a luncheon followed in the cafeteria dedication ceremonies for the laying of the cornerstone of the new library made possible by alumni contributions were held at 2 o'clock in drown hall auditorium a series of speeches was followed by the ac tual laying of the cornerstone ac companied by music provided by the university band a group inspection of the james ward packard laboratory of elec trical and mechanical engineering which is nearing completion fol lowed the cornerstone exercises the alumni then continued their trek over to the gymnasium to view the wrestling match between the columbia and lehigh varsity teams and a similar one between the wyoming seminary and frosh team the omicron delta kappa plan for abolishing campus politics will be voted on by arcadia at its next meeting this was decided at its meeting monday evening mean while the living groups have been asked to consider the o d k plan given below h w holt pre sided over the meeting in the ab sence of the president arthur lehr the plan in which the campus poli tical reformers place their hopes is as follows 1 living groups shall be asked to pledge themselves not to parti cipate in any vote exchange either as a group or individually 2 there shall be all-day polling under arcadia supervision 3 candidates for every office may have posters placed o ncampus bul letin boards and articles printed in the brown and white the mater ial for posters and articles must be censored by an arcadia commit tee 4 the president of arcadia or his apointed representative shall out line the plan and what it hopes to accomplish to the freshmen during orientation week rejection of an item on the band budget calling for the expenditure of approximately 180 for a band banquet was made on the grounds that since arcadia contributed the money for the budget it believed the surplus could be used to better advantage it was suggested that the money be allowed to remain in the treasury and be used to meet expenses next year during the foot ball season dr klopp speaks to woman s club w a slater attends concrete institute the combined musical clubs are making four appearances in new jersey and new york this week end making the trip by bus the troupe left drown hall at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon to make its first appearance at up per montclair women's club last night his first concert was spon sored by the lehigh club of north jersey this evening they are giving a concert at the haddonfield high school and saturday the clubs will appear at rockville center long island sponsored by the south nassau communities hos pital . leaving rockville center sunday morning they will take dinner at the hotel bristol new york city after which they will broadcast from station wor from 5-6 p m on their second trip saturday march 2 the clubs will give a con cert at the east orange women's club sponsored by the roseville assembly rainbow order far girls fritz lab tests exhibited today the civil engineering department of lehigh was represented by pro fessor w a slater at the meeting of the american concrete institute held in detroit february 12-14 during this convention professor slater served on two committees being chairman of one the publica tions committee the american concrete institute has grown _ in the last ten years from a membership of 300 to 2700 engineers gathered from all parts of north america to discuss the problems and developments of con crete engineering the most pre dominant subject debated was the deterioriation of concrete tau beta pi dance captain john h rodman assis tant professor of military science and tactics has been appointed by the war department to enter the foreign service the appoinment is to become effective when his ex tension of service at lehigh ends this jime the war department has offered captain rodman the choice of a command at either the philippines panama or china he has named as his probable choice the post at the philippines with panama as his next preference captain rodman matriculated at the university of kentucky dur ing the world war he saw extensive service on french soil he was a member of the 58th infantry at that time after the war he went to fort benning georgia and took an officer's training course he then entered lehigh and has served for five years as an assistant pro fessor ' the name of the officer who will replace captain rodman has not been anonunced yet when the university opens next fall lieuten ant-colonel e e mccammon will be replaced by lieutenant-colonel tomlinson who is now office chief of infantry at washington captain f w hyde and captain t r taber are also to be re placed next fall but their succes sors are unknown the number of periodicals and serials received by the lehigh li brary each year is now about 700 there are 10,000 copies in all they cover practically every field from highly technical journals to critical literary magazines according to a recent report by librarian h s leach the annual cost of these magazines is about 2750 exclusive of the binding cost of 1 to 1.50 per volume mr leach said we are quite jroud of our collection of current and past periodicals and our sets are in most cases very complete we have a more complete set of the iron age for example than any other college library one of the rarities of the collection is a com plete set of the transactions of the royal society from the year 1666 to 1929 during our spare mo ments we are trying to fill our in complete sets and although single copies often cost as much as 8 we feel it is worth it one half of the magazines and journals are from canada and for eign countries china france ger many india japan and spain such representative magazines as the british library and the japanese chemical journal are numbered among them mr leach further remarked the library has such a well chosen num ber of technical journals that it is used extensively by both the du pont company and the nev jer sey zinc company pre-meds hear tales of africa a talk on mental health by dr henry i klopp superintendent of the state hospital at allentown and lecturer on mental hygiene at lehigh was the feature of the le high university woman's club monthly meeting last tuesday in drown hall professor and mrs c w sim mons entertained with several songs accompanied by prof e s sinkinson on the piano tea and cakes were served mrs a a die fenderfer was chairman of this month's entertainment committee mrs s s seyfert president of the club announced that the nominat ing committee for netft year's offi cers would be elected at the next meeting march 19 in introducing dr klopp mrs seyfert explained that he was es pecially concerned with three ap plications of psychiatry promoting hospital schools for delinquent children providing music for the mentally disordered and establish ing mental clinics f v larkin selects laboratory furniture pre-legal society to discuss divorce for the first time within recent years tau beta pi will hold a dance which will be given on the evening of march 9 in the ballroom of ho tel bethlehem dave fluharty's en larged orchestra will furnish the musical element k the chaperons will be dr and mrs bradley stoughton and dr b l miller and daughter freshmen to prepare for banquet season high scholarship and extra-cur ricula activities have a direct rela tionship to success in business or at least in the business of the bell system colonel r i rees of the american telephone and tele graph co told guests of a dinner for the members of the interview ing staff of the bell system at the hotel bethlehem tuesday night colonel rees gave an illustrated lecture on the results of research in determining just how successful college men have been in their work for the bell system of the 2000 men out of college five years or more in the employment of that company it was found those men who had ranked in the first tenth of their class have more than four times the chance of success than men who ranked in the last third other statistics show that men engaged in activities had salar ies a trifle above the average and that those who did not engage in such activities fell a little below the average men who held literary and managerial positions made better results than those in other fields employees who had been socially active came out second best in the general averages and those whose talents had extended to music or drama ranked lowest about thirty men attended the dinner major w r wattles chairman of the recruiting commit tee here to interview seniors for po sitions with the bell system act ed as toastmaster among the oth er speakers was dean c m mc conri who explained the carnegie achievement tests professor s s seyfert head of the department of electrical engineering spoke on the technical equipment of the new packard laboratory and professor f v larkin head of the depart ment of mechanical engineering outlined the objectives of the me chanical and industrial engineering departments dr barker to speak as a part of the mid-winter home coming program today prof w.a slater head of the fritz engineer ing laboratory prepared a series of exhibits of the work that has been done since the opening of college in september probably the most important tests of the year have been those made on the relative strength of welded and riveted columns de tailed observations were made on several pairs of columns and the physical results of certain loadings as shown by the tested columns were a major part of the exhibit the exhibit also included the re sults of many tests conducted for the american cable company on the suspension cables of the detroit river and the mount hope bridges the operating cables of the lehigh valley-pennsylvania railroad bridge over the newark bay at newark n j and the counter weight cables for a lift bridge on the texas and pacific railroad the more recent tests include compression tests of steel and cast iron balls for pulverizing mills of the fuller lehigh company these large steel and cast iron balls were tested to failure and little is left for exhibition at present tests are being made on concrete using steel instead of stone aggregate this concrete is especially desirable for bridge counterweights where a maximum density is needed as a result of preliminary pro posals professor fred v larkin head of the mechanical engineering department and in charge of pro curing furniture for the packard building has selected three com panies to make the final bid " each company will send a man to take a list of the needed equipment and a copy of the plans and these men will adapt their standards to the needs of the building samples of desks filing cases tables and bookcases in steel and aluminum and steel seats were on exhibition in the new laboratory to day the aluminum chairs were spot welded and are the ultimate in metal furniture dr ernest barker professor of political science at cambridge eng land will lecture here march 22 at the invitation of the international relations society the engagement of dr barker is made possible by the fact that the international in stitute of education brought him to this country f v larkin addresses delta omicron theta divorce will be the topic on which sydney simons 29 president of the pre-legal society will speak at their monthly meeting at 8 p.m wednesday february 27 in drown hall following the meeting the members will have an informal dis cussion of the divorce question and of the jones bill which was re cently before congress mr simons will speak on the his tory of divorce its modern tenden cies the numerous causes for di vorce and the divorce statutes of pennsylvania the meeting will be open to the public and all pre-legal students are urged to be present minerals limited states dr miller campus events business fraternity plans investigation in order to prepare the frosh for the spring banquet season a smok er will be held friday evening march 8 in drown hall several upperclessmen will be invited to tell of the traditions and customs of banquet week collection of dues for 1929 was begun today they must be paid before march 27 to any member of the freshman cabinet freshmen who have not paid their dues in full will not be admitted to the banquet g c hutchinson and r g roll were elected to the cabinet to fill the vacancies caused by the resigna tions of f a jones and a d ma gee t webster matchett and law rence j ackerman were the major prize winners in their respective divisions of the public speaking contest held this morning at eleven o'clock in the chapel matchett m e 31 took first prize in the engineers group with his speech the backbone of the union while lawrence j acker man was successful in the arts and business group with an address on mussolini and his facisti during the short intermission be tween the speeches of the engin eers and the arts and business group and while the judges retired to render a decision t edgar shields chapel organist played sev eral classical numbers after the judges had announced the winners the program was closed with the singing of the alma mater matchett speaking third among the engineers emphasized the im portance of the constitution and its relation to everyday life he showed the difficulties encountered in overcoming the states rights prin ciple at the time of the formation of that historic document the con stitution thereby promoting unity among the several states and ex pressed the belief that the true american citizen regards the re strictions of the constitution as important as its guarantees of per sonal liberty fascists challenge democracy mussolini and his fascisti was the topic choseji by laurence jus tin ackerman arts 29 in part he said mussolini has established government where only anarchy ex isted before he has rescued italy from political and social chaos he has offered us a social and govern mental experiment which is the first great modern challenge to demo cracy the prospector and miner were two of the most important factors in the development of the far west according to carl h krott c e 31 for without their indispensable pioneering work the development of the country would have been long delayed the airplane is destined to be come the most popular and con venient method of long distance transportation in the near future was the contention of philip c lewis eng phys 31 who added the development of the airplane in spite of the popular opinion is not the work of the past quarter century but is the result of the cumulative efforts of earnest exper imenters since the time of leanar do da vinci . educational control proposed outlining the incongruities and tremendous differences that exist in the tducational methods and pro visions of the various states er win w underwood arts 31 pre sented a method by which these in equalities would be overcome ac cording to his plan the educa tional system of the country should be unified under federal control with the head of the department a member of the president's cabinet this department would unify the educational work of the country serve as a clearing house of edu cational information and stimulate educational efforts in the individual states the stock market has frequently been called the barometer of bus iness because of the prosperity and depression trends it shows in formed arthur a sullivan bus 31 in his talk on the function of the stock exchange he concluded by maintaining that the public is gradually becoming educated to matters of finance and it is only a question of time before the stock exchange will assume its funda mental function — that of invest ments the alumni presiding at the de bate were dr a g rau 88 dean of moravian college r s taylor 95 legal counsel for the univer sity and h j hartzaug 04 local attorney faculty chemicals to address sigma xi s and c discusses sub-freshman plans gipson to lecture professor f v larkin told of his experience with debating in high school and college and urged a strong backing for debating here at a regular meeting of delta omi cron theta monday l j acker man 29 and s r snitkin 31 de livered their speeches on the jury question and it was voted to hold the other tryout debates over until monday when several other stu dents will be given a chance to de liver their speeches those stu dents who wish to debate the cen sorship question are to have their material ready by monday febru ary 25 dr william a backenstoe whose former home was in the lehigh valley and who is now a resident of british east africa entertained the r w hall pre-medical so ciety last evening with vivid de scriptions of the life of the african natives he pointed out the difficulties he encounters due to ancient super stitions and customs such as witch craft and human sacrifice dr backenstoe has spent 25 years in africa and it has taken all of that time to break down the ignorant views that are fostered by the witch doctors however his work has been fruitful for the natives in his community have finally been brought to realize that disease is terrestial not celestial conse quently the death rate has dimin ished and an advance in education has been effected dr backenstoe closed his talk with a few tales of the existing per ils in africa and his methods of applying medical aid to this spirit ruled people he intends to make his return shortly and feels certain that the old community will wel come him heartily after a three years absence the meeting ended in an infor mal discussion in which the speak er answered questions and elabor ated on the many problems con fronting the british government in the development of this wild coun try concrete discussed two hundred friends and alumni of lehigh university here for the annual mid-winter home-coming program gathered on lehigh's snow-mantled campus today to wit ness the ceremonies contingent up on the laying of the cornerstone for the ne\v library the second step in president charles r richard's goal of a greater lehigh before this group of alumni whose generous aid had made this step possible aubrey weymouth a trustee of the university and chief engineer for post and mccord wielded the silver trowel which ce mented the cornerstone in its place and sealed the special documents within their recess paine lauds circulation to paul m paine 91 librarian of the syracuse public library the note worthy thing in the history of the library and the most important reason for giving lehigh more ade quate reading facilities is the circul ation the circulation of 22,000 which you had in this library last year is indeed laudable he declar ed it is evidence of the education we all like to think about the edu cation which while it prizes inven tion does not reject the experience of the race the liberal training which prepares for the whole of life not one particular part of it which aims at making a person a citizen as well as a techincian which holds that a man should be somebody as well as do something richards opens exercises hailing this act as the most sig nificant event in the history of the university president richards opened the ceremonies in drown hall prior to the actual laying of the cornerstone with an exception ally optimistic speech upon the his tory of the library and the future of the university he declared it to be his sincere opinion that as the laying of the cornerstone of the lu cy packer linderman library in 1878 marked the beginning of a new era in the life of lehigh university so the laying of the cornerstone of the new library fifty years later marks the beginning of another era that will certainly be no less im portant to the university than the one that has passed lauding the foresight of asa packer the founder of the univer sity in providing for a library in his will the president traced the history of the library from its erec tion pointing out the crowded con dition of the building which in past years made adequate use of its fa cilities almost an impossibility and rejoicing that now under the im petus given by its reorganization the library is rapidly becoming the in tellectual center of the university and a place to work and dream and hold communion with the great minds of previous generations the fact that lehigh's collection of the folios of shakespeare is the largest in any college or university library in the country he contin ued indicate this progress stresses importance in concluding president rich ards declared one of my first im pressions of the university was that the library was insufficient in size to meet the needs of the insti tution and that its organization and ideals were not in harmony with modern standards it was soon possible to correct the latter condi tion and i am most happy that thru the generous cooperation of the al umni we are now enabled to cor rect the former condition as a further evidence of the in creasing devotion of lehigh's al umni to their ahna mater and of their interest in advancing her scholarly activities i regard the laying of the cornerstone of the new library as the most significant event in the life of the univcr ity and this day as a red letter day in her history leach outlines benefits presenting technical data in sup port of dr richard's hopes for the new library howard s leach uni versity librarian outlined the recent developments of the library the construction of the new building puts us in a position to rapidly make continued on page 4 the chemical department will have charge of the program at the meeting of the lehigh chapter of sigma xi which will be held in the lecture room of the chemistry build ing tuesday february 26 at 8 p.m three papers supplemented by ex periments will be presented by professors d s chamberlain h a neville and t h hazelhurst the public is invited after the meeting refreshments will be served to members of the chapter and their friends alpha kappa psi honorary bus iness fraternity discussed the pos sibilities of research in accordance with an investigation by the na tional fraternity into the salaries and income of high school gradu ates at their meeting last night at the theta delta chi house a committee was appointed to gather sociological data rather than the usual cut and dried statistics on salaries and incomes the national fraternity meeting in denver this june is celebrating its silver anniversary with an effi ciency contest in which points are given for prompt return of re ports and full attendance at meet ings a cup will be awarded to the winner the lehigh chapter had a good attendance last night in its first effort to gather points tow ard the cup dr benjamin l miller of the geology department has recently released an interesting statement dr miller states that there is not an oil district nor a copper lead zinc or gold region known that gives promise of having enough re sources to last one hundred years although new ones will be found there is a limit to the number and it is probable the decline in produc tion will be noticeable before long we can only speculate what effect this will have on civilization a cen tury from now although man has been living on this earth 500,000 years and has been using mineral resources all this time we have ex hausted more of our minerals dur ing the past 25 years than in all previous years combined dr miller believes the coal sup ply will last no more than 400 years allowing for the development of re sources which have not as yet been tapped to any considerable extent the meeting was preceded by a dinner sub-freshman day plans and steps that should be taken toward a bigger and better lehigh were discussed at the meeting of sword and crescent wednesday evening at the chi psi house the actual plans for sub-freshman day were refer red to a committee composed of l c crewe chairman e c quin lan and j g conrath means of improving house party were also considered the suggested betterment to be obtained through the more careful attention to de tails today 4:00 p m — varsity wrestling vs columbia taylor gymnasium freshman wrestling vs wyom ing seminary taylor gymna sium vs delaware taylor gymna i saturday 2:45 p m — fencing meet lehigh meeting christmas-saucon hall 8:00 p m — college lecture mary bosworth an episode in geor gian history by lawrence h gipson drown hall tuesday smm 8:00 p m — joint meeting of the lehigh valley section of the a i e e with the student branch and the engineer's club of the lehigh valley drown hall monday 7:30 p m — delta omicron theta 8:00 p m — open meeting of sigma xi chemistry building the problems and difficulteis connected with the founding of georgia and carolinas will be treated in the lecture mary bos worth an episode in georgian history to be given by dr law rence h gipson head of the de partment of history and govern ment at 8 o'clock monday eve ning in drown hall lecture 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 concrete construction was the topic discussed at the meeting of the engineers club on february 19 in philadelphia professors r j fogg s a becker w l wil son and w b getchel of the civil engineering department attended the meeting where they heard a number of papers presented by men prominent in the concrete field the american society for test ing materials has appointed prof m o fuller of the civil engineer ing department on a committee to study the methods of conducting compression tests of materials lehigh university bethlehem pa friday february 22 1929 new library another step in development of lehigh vol xxxvi no 33 tau beta pi offers three fellowships alumni return to old haunts for day's visit arcadia studies campus politics pending decision cornerstone laid for new library price five cents spoke this afternoon t w matchett l j ackerman win in speaking brown and white six men compete in an nual contest sponsored by alumni many events fill mid winter reunion pro gram vote of living groups to be taken next week member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first