Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 35

              memorial building again scene of artistic display chambrelain neville and hazelhurst discuss industrial aspects long discussion held dance will follow sponsored by howland dean mcconn presides the quarantine on the new packard laboratory will soon be over for weeks it seems as if workmen hauled and lifted cement and bricks into the deep and dark skeleton cave stu dents have been prohibited en trance into the building and the surrounding grounds for the last few days but good solid floors and constant heating indicate that the fort will soon be open to attacks of curious students and interested visitors accessories are now being put into the building equipment is arriving and the electric system being installed the arched en trance is ready for the erection of the statues of james watt and michael faraday that are to adorn each side of the doorway the pirmary interest to the stu dents is to see the ugly sur rounding fence torn down but hopes seem slim for some time yet overcome by escaping fumes from an accidentally opened valve of hydrogen sulphide tank william j gamble eng 32 of allentown was painfully cut around the face when he stag gered through the doorway of the gas filled room and fell on a glass beaker he was carrying before anyone could come to his assistance he was carried to the nearest window but in spite of the resustication methods em ployed by fellow students and his instructors he did not revive for five minutes kenneth l kuklentz of beth lehem the only other person in the room at the time was partial ly overcome but was revived in less than a minute one of the valves of the tank was found par tially open and it is the belief of the instructor in charge that gamble who was working along side of the tank accidentally knocked open the valve difficult problem libraries must be careful not to get too high toned for the masses or they will lose their appeal on the other hand they must not descend to the level of the news stand carrying its cheap flamboyant magazines the one regrettable thing about the habitual reader of fiction and current popular magazines stated mr paine is that he misses so much of the clissics that he would enjoy far more than his present type of literature should he have made their acquaintance the literary clubs book of the month clubs and various oth er guilds do much to interest the public in literature but after all no one can select books suitable to others individual tastes differ too much but reading and brousing through the volumes selected by these clubs should form the basis for later development and expan sion library shelves many new books theatre engages university band most people read books and mag azines to escape from their envir onment they want to live in an ideal if unreal existance even if it is only for a few moments ac cording to paul m paine 91 librar ian of the syracuse public library and the principal alumni speaker on homecoming day _ and that asserts mr paine is an entirely reputable reason for reading therefore many times a good work of fiction is the best type of literature for the majority of the reading public there is a far greater proportion of the american people reading to day than ever before in our history in the opinion of the syracuse li brarian he stated that the ratio of fiction to non-fiction books read is about three to one libraries attempt to lead the public to the best reading mater ial but this course presents a banquet season date suggested lehigh student talks ondivorce acquisitions include sev eral multi volume sets seniors plan class day program and appoint committees college songs and marches included in bill at globe sydney simons addresses pre - legal society wednesday the combined musical clubs of lehigh will make their final tour of the season to east orange new jersey next saturday to give a concert for the order of rainbow for girls the concert will be held at 8 p m at the women's club of east orange a two hour program has been arranged which includes selec tions by the glee club the sym phony orchestra and the quartet several unusual specialty numbers are also on this program among these are the spanish and moor ish love songs sung in the native dialects by gordon new who has just returned from a trip to spain and southern europe william al corn will give several scotch im personations on the harry lauder style which promise to be enter taining both of these specialties will be given in costume a dance with music by the lehigh dance orchestra of 11 pieces will follow the concert it is expected that this final con cert will be the largest lehigh mu sical of the year because of the popularity of the last trip on feb ruary 16 to upper montclair had donfield new jersey and rockville center long island the clubs in fact were so well received at rock ville center that several influen tial gentlemen who heard the con cert in that city are striving to ob tain another concert this spring at hempstead long island all seats for the final recital will be reserved a few tickets may be obtained from r p black of leon ard hall at 2 1.50 and 1 for the concert and dance chemical phenomena was the subject for discussion at the feb ruary meeting of sigma xi national research society held tuesday night in the chemistry building dr v s babisinian president of sig ma xi opened the meeting by in troducing the speakers professor d s chamberlain and doctors h a neville and t h hazelhurst all of the chemical department the topic of professor chamber lain's talk was flame speeds stressing particularly their applica tion to industry he showed by means of a long glass cylinder fill ed with gas of varying composition that flame speeds are dependant upon the composition of the com bustible gas and its percentage mix ture with air these experiments demonstrated on a laboratory scale the mechanism of a mine gas or mill dust explosion dr h a neville the second speaker discussed the general sub ject of colloids emphasizing their great industrial importance the speaker illustrated his talk with va rious typical colloid reactions which included dying silk from a color less solution and the absorbtion of methyl orange with a colloid known as silica-gel the meeting ended in a spirited discussion with the speakers ans wering questions suggested by the audience the last speaker dr t h haz elhurst launched into a branch of physical chemistry speaking on the speed and control of chemical re actions by experiment he showed that reaction rates depend upon size concentration and speed of the molecules and that these factors can be controlled by outside stim uli such as light and heat carothers gives talk on trends hillen explains air conditioning following the present print show ing of the exhibits of wanda gag an exhibition of the etchings of jacques callot an eminent 17th century french artist famous for his masterly work and the subjects of his studies will be held in the factulty room of the memorial building the week of march 4 there is little authoritative detail of callot's life tradition relates that early in his youth he left his own country for italy where he soon gained an enviable reputation though he was only about 16 years old the same story adds that he was forced to leave rome as the re sult of an unfortunate affection for his master's wife after he returned to france his life was one of fev erish activity it is not difficult to believe the story told of him that feeling his career might be even shorter than the usual span he labored continuously to utilize it all in 1635 only 42 years old he died with his etching tools still in his hand the 140 known plates of callot's work portray his contemporary life from hangings sieges and festi vals to ladies dresses in addition there are a large number of prints on religious subjects perhaps the most noteworthy of all his works are his etchings of the comedia dell'arte here droll stage char acters find an excellent recorder in his deft hand the gobi pantalon and the balli di sfessania — a series of 24 prints — are examples be sides the callot etchings there will be comedia dell'arte figures by bonnart and other prints by gil lot parigi mitteli and various works by unknown early french and italian artists the paintings and prints are be ing exhibited by garth a howland professor of fine arts the exhibi tion will be open daily to the pub lice until march 9 the lehigh university band has accepted an offer of the globe theatre of bethlehem to play a three day engagement there next thursday friday and saturday the band will consist of 40 pieces composed of those of last year's field band which was so well re ceived at the past season's football games they will play a combina tion of college songs marches and classical selections the money thus obtained will go towards a fund to take the band to practi cally all the games away from home next fall a few of the games will be rutgers perm state and prince ton g j zbosoosky manager of the globe theatre and a lehigh man in the class of 1907 said that he be lieved a feature act such as this will further boost lehigh the glee club symphony or chestra quartet and specialties of the combined musical clubs have also been booked for a feature act on march 11 12 and 13 at the same theatre noted lecturer speaks march 11 yale undergraduates discard beer drinking the lehigh library in seeming competition to the extensive build ing program now going on is furth er shocking its now overcrowded shelves during the past few weeks aside from numerous single volumes the library has purchased five new complete sets of books the most important is an 108 volume edition of clasecos casyllanos printed in the original spanish this set contains all the spanish classics of note another acquisition is a beauti fully bound set of 20 volumes of deutscher national literatur containing representative classics of germany but printed in english a very noteworthy collection also a full set of the harvard histori cal studies of 29 volumes has been obtained these books will be added to the library's volumes of the maryland historical society the royal manuscript commission reports and the johns hopkins historical studies for the use of students doing historical research work a 40 volume set of the muses library an english poetry collec tion has also been purchased last ly a 15 book biographical set en titled the road makers series giving the lives of such trail blazers of civilization as thomas carlyle and michael faraday has also been shelved dr singer discusses world history today the lehigh debating team meet ing syracuse their first opponent of the season last night in the trinity parish house defended the negative side of the question should the present jury system be abolished according to previous arrangements with syracuse there were neither judges nor vote of the audience hence no decision if the present jury system is abolished in favor of trial by a sin gle judge the trial of an individual will become the strict interpreta tion of the letter of the law by a judge who will in all probability ignore the personal equations en tering into the case this was the main point of the lehigh team in its attempt to prove that the pres ent jury system is the most prac tical and just of all methods eith er now in use or proposed judge easier to bribe lehigh further attempted to prove that in the case of trial by judge or state employed experts that the judge or expert would be more susceptible to corruption or outside influence than would a jury that judges would not consider the personal equation entering into the case that the slowness of trials and the frequent escape from punish ment of known criminals was not due to any inherent fault of the jury and that responsibility for a decision as to the innoncence or guilt of an individual was too great for any one man syracuse fresh from triumphs over george washington colgate and buffalo spoke with the ease and assurance of a team of veter ans in attacking the present jury system they advanced the follow ing arguments that the function of the present jury could be better ex ecuted by a commission of experts that judges are individuals trained in making decisions that juries are unduly influenced by attorneys and that the present jury system is slow antiquated and needlessly ex pensive first debate in 18 years this was the first intercollegiate debate in which lehigh has par ticipated for 18 years the lehigh team was composed of sydney r snitkin edward j stack and sam uel h landy speaking in the or der named the syracuse team consisted of daniel myers their only new man , aaron dearlone who has had the benefit of a year's experience and chauncey rosen weig a veteran of four years dues to the distance from the campus and the inclemency of the weather the attendance was not as large as expected the next debate will be held in drown hall dean mcconn presided at the debate and the informal discussion that followed in this discussion many of the views of the syracus eans were attacked but the visitors ably defended their statements yale students are making prog ress but not altogether along the right line says president emeritus dr arthur t hadley no longer can students make nightly trips to the beer gardens of former days for a little liquid refreshment the old beering houses have been done away with and the student finds that it is necessary to drink hard liquor or nothing at all according to dr hadley the lit tle drinking that was done in the old days did little or no harm but the effects of this present day con coctions are to say the least dis astrous at the thoughts of what might come in the future dr had ley threw up his arms and assumed an expression of horror he is not sure that prohibition is a good thing george h hillen of the carrier engineering corporation gave a lecture to senior mechanical and industrial engineers on air con ditioning at four o'clock tuesday afternoon in williams hall mr hillen is here to interview seniors in regard to placing them in the carrier corporation a number of the students have applied to the company the purpose of the lecture and the accompanying slides was to give students an idea of the work of the company the lecturer gave de tails of how a building or plant was heated in winter and cooled in sum mer through control of moisture in the air the slides portrayed the development of the uses of air con ditioning at first the system was used only in industrial processes like the silk and tobacco industries where controlled moisture was ne cessary today theatres and de partment stores have installed the system for human comfort tate and beaver speak at smoker h e slaught professor of math ematics at the university of chica go and widely known lecturer will speak here march 11 under the aus pices of the lehigh mathematics club on the subject of how men learned to count the meeting will be public professor slaught is known to american mathematicians for his ability to make involved and tech nical subjects in mathematics ap pealing to the university student and to non-professional mathema ticians by means of the lecture professor t fort head of the department of mathematics while discussing professor slaught said i guarantee this lecture in every particular and without any reservar tion whatever i have listened to professor slaught speak many times and have heard him deliver the most successful address to un dergraduates that i have ever heard given by any one on any topic i newtonian society told of equations marriage is a civil contract not a religious or mystical one the church should adopt a hands off policy in regard to divorce because it is not justified in encroaching upon the field of civil law declared sydney paul simons 29 at a meet ing of the pre-legal society wed nesday evening in drown hall mr simons who is president of the society in tracing the develop ment of divorce from the early ro man times to the present time stat ed the church the great brake on the chariot of progress has been the source of the restrictions and provisions on which a man or woman may or may not secure a divorce in defending this state ment mr simons quoted from the law of theodosius and valentinian which was passed in 449 a.d al lowing divorce on 12 grounds one of which oddly enough was cattle stealing in contrast he stated that the canon law of the church did not recognize a full divorce but only a separation from bed and board in justifying the more liberal di vorce laws which are now appear ing president simons paraphrased dean inge of st pauls cathedral london as the sabbath was made for man not man for the sabbath as marriage was made for man not man for marriage so also is divorce made for man not man made for divorce this idea is opposed to that of most people who wish to adjust man to archaic laws instead of adjusting the laws to man mr simons with the aid of var ious pamphlets and statistics which he had gathered quoted the di vorce laws of the various states with their many differences varia tions and contradictions south carolina was given as an example of a state which has little trouble with its divorce law for the simple reason that it is the only state which does not grant divorces the executive committee of the society is endeavoring to secure a prominent speaker for the next meeting which will be held early in march lyter on way home from western trip valued discovery oswald spengler's and wyn wood read's interpretations of world history will be the topic discussed by the eminent dr e a singer before the robert blake so ciety at 8:30 tonight in drown hall dr singer is the author of studies in empirical idealism and mod ern thinkers and present prob lems many of dr singer's ad vocates say that he anticipated wat son's theory of behaviorism consideration of theories and dus cussion will follow the lecture previous to hearing dr singer the robert blake society will meet at 8 p m to discuss the proposed trip to princeton an attempt is being made to secure dr paul el mer more for the address at prince ton faculty club reads the green goddess banquet season is drawing near the senior class officers have set monday april 8 for their class banquet at the hotel bethlehem and will recommend to the other three classes that they hold their banquets the same week so that the fun and excitement of the under class banquets will not interfere with the numerous spring sport ac tivities l c crewe jr president of the class of 1929 has appointed the fol lowing committees class banquet committee j m blackmar chair man c m schwitter c l snave ly and j g conrath class day committee l d trantum chair man r demoyer j a lyter e f baker and s p coates memor ial tablet for chapel committee — j r davey chairman m inaba j g conrath class day invitation committee — a b lewis chairman a l roberts m j bollman a e hesse and e h gott the contract for the printing of invitations announcements and programs for class day has been awarded to the elliot company of philadelphia samples will be brought to the various living groups for orders next month the invi tations and announcements will cost approximately ten cents each and the programs will be about fifty cents the officers of the senior class have decided to have only the names of those men who graduate either this june or next founder's day on the memorial tablet to be placed in the chapel during the world war the names of all seniors were included on the tablet so that the names of those men who were called to war might not be omit ted as there is no longer any rea son for this practice it has been de cided to abolish it the class day program will con sist of the president's salutation class phophecy class presents tab let oration ivy oration and last roll call the men to deliver the orations have not yet been selected the senior officers would appre ciate suggestions for a class mem orial to be given as the senior class gift to the university the class officers are l c crewe jr pres ident c e webbe vice-president e c quinlan secretary j g con rath treasurer r r hertzler his torian and w e miller sergeant at-arms dr neil carothers addressed the american business club of allen town at their regular meeting wed nesday on some modern trends in business practice he named three recent develop ments in particular as illustrating present day business tendencies the first according to dr caroth ers is the application of modern statistical science to the production and marketing plans of large enter prises such as the american tele phone and telegraph company the second illustrative develop ment in dr carothers opinion is the tendency toward the application of efficient accurate and scientific accounting methods to the pro cesses of merchandising making possible the practice of hand to mouth buying his third example was the effort now being made to ascertain the causes of the business sycle and its recurrent periods of economic de pression dr carothers laid spe cial emphasis upon the recent leg islation aimed entirely or in part at reduction of the severity of the de pression period in this connection he discussed the establishment of the federal reserve system and the passage of laws restricting immigration he also took up the question of the right moment for the combination and conosolidation of competing in dustries business cycles cannot be prevented said dr carothers but the severity of depression periods can be greatly reduced macdougall to speak members of cabinet collect frosh dues cubic equations was the sub ject of a talk by william c simp son before the newtonian society at its regular meeting wednesday evening mr simpson's talk was supplemented by remarks by dr frank m weida and followed by a general discussion from the mem bers the society elected officers for the spring term they are david l mac adam president edwin o snyder vice president william c simpson secretary edward b hildum william c elmore and thomas s cleaver having previously been elected to the society were formally initiated into membership a discovery has been made in england by which non-conducting materials can now be electroplat ed it is believed that paper silk wool and all metals can be coated with a surface of non-corrosive metal this discovery means that now even such fragile materials as cardboard and plywood can be made to withstand the same strain as iron and can be made resistive to corrosion due to heat water and chemical fumes doan presents paper intoxication brings disciplinary probation j a lyter is on his way home from the theta xi national conven tion which was held on february 22 and 23 in the clift hotel san francisco california he is expect ed back today or tomorrow the delegates were welcomed at san francisco on the 21st of feb ruary and were shown around the town the next day they were tak en on a 100 mile auto trip around san francisco bay and visited the nu chapter at the university of california and the tau chapter at stanford university a banquet at the clift hotel was held on the 23rd thirty-one chapters were repre sented at the convention educational program uses historical film a nation wide program for vis ual education in schools and in adult americanization classes thru the use of authoritative historical films has been made by professor frank e spaulding chairman of the department of education at yale university educational institutions through out the country have joined forces and will present the chronicles of american photoplays which were produced under the direction of distinguished historians from a number of institutions the pictures portray with pain staking accuracy striking inci dents in the history of the united states from 1492 until 1865 endea voring to teach american history and stimulate patriotism and good citizenship among native ameri cans and foreign-born americans alike austy tate and professor j l beaver will be the principal speak ers at the sophomore smoker at 7:45 this evening in drown hall the purpose of the smoker is to arouse enthusiasm and spirit for the coming banquet season austy will relate some football stories dr neil carothers was also sche duled to speak according to the smoker committee but when a brown and white reporter called dr carothers on the telephone to ask him what he was going to speak about he replied that he had not the slightest idea that he was sup posed to address the sophomores and that he had another engage ment to speak that evening altho he would have been very pleased to speak at the smoker if he had been notified it developed that the error was due to an oversight on the part of one of the members of the sophomore smoker committee lectures committee concedes petitions the lehigh philosophical club met last friday evening at the home of maurice picard profes sor gilbert e doan presented a pa per on science in the modern world in charge of grounds professor curtis d macdougall head of the department of journal ism will give a short talk on crime to the members of the st paul's society and the episcopal young people's society at 6:30 p m sunday in the parish house of the pro-cathedral of the nativity on wyandotte street fort gives address charles earich assistant superin tendent of buildings and grounds is acting as temporary superinten dent to fill the position made vacant by the death of j c cranmer for mer superintendent the green goddess a melo drama by william archer was the presentation of the faculty dram atic club at their bi - weekly meeting 7:30 wednesday feb 20 at the home of professor r w hall the action centers around the wreck of an airplane in a temple on the slopes of the himalayas and the efforts of the fanatical follow ers of the goddess of the temple to offer its passengers up as a sacri fice however the marines repre sented by the british force arrive in time prof e h riley took the part of the rajah a r braunlich play ed dr traherne henry schneck portrayed major crispen mrs p m palmer represented mrs cris pen and arthur w klein was wat kins butler to the rajah mrs sydney brown was in charge campus events of the week the cases of two students were considered by the committee on stu dent discipline at its meeting tues day afternoon one student accused of copying in a ten minute geology quiz was acquitted by the committee the other student was put on disci plinary probation for the remaind er of the year for being found in an intoxicated condition mehl visits lehigh hughes to give talk the lectures committee granted two petitions and held a third for later action at a meeting last fri day in the memorial building the lecture to be given by dr robert m smith on shakespeare on march 11 was postponed until april 29 the robert blake society was grarrted permission to have dr singer the international rela tions club was allowed to have dr barker eta sigma phi to have professor hadsits a petition from sigma phi to sigma xi was held for action later sophomores candidates for assistant man ager of varsity track meet at 4:20 p m monday in the tro phy room the theory of difference equa tions was the subject of professor tomlinson fort's address to the mathematics general research club wednesday in his talk he dis cussed the amount of research which has been done in the field and took up various phases of difference equations the club holds regular meetings at which research work is discuss ed it is open to all faculty mem bers in the mathematics depart ment 7:30 p m basketball lehigh frosh vs lafayette frosh 8:00 p m basketball lehigh vs lafayette monday 4:20 p m — meeting of candidates for assistant manager of track in the trophy room 7:30 p m meeting of delta omi cron theta in english lecture room dr percy hughes will speak on jesus attitude on militarism be fore the epworth league at 6:30 p m sunday at the fritz memor ial church the meeting will be open to the public friday 8:00 p m — meeting of robert blake society in drown hall 8:30 p m lecture by dr e a singer in drown hall saturday 3:00 p m — wrestling lehigh frosh vs cornell frosh 3:00 p m — swimming lehigh vs cornell the following men have been as signed to collect freshman dues in their territory these dues cover the cost of the spring banquet and no freshman will be admitted who cannot show his receipt nora theta xi sigma phi sig ma alpha mv van reese chi phi phi gamma delta phi delta theta angle alpha tau omega chi psi beta theta pi hutchinson sigma phi epsilon sigma chi roll theta kappa phi tau delta phi zeta chi witmeyer phi lambda phi psi upsilon gable down town group schuyler taylor hall fuhrer price hall ace delta up silon phi delta theta burke theta delta chi sigma nu kappa alpha riley delta tau delta al pha chi rho kappa sigma bi jou lambda chi alpha phi sig ma kappa delta phi halsted phi sigma delta phi delta pi dr robert f mehl superinten dent of the division of metallurgy at the naval research laboratory in washington visited lehigh's met tallurgical laboratory ' last satur day he discussed lehigh's re search work with the members of that department lehigh university bethlehem pa friday march i 1929 callot etchings to be exhibited week of march 4 syracuse librarian states public wants good fiction packard lab soon open for inspection freshmen overcome by hydrogen sulphide price five cents lehigh chemists talk to sigma xi upon phenomena lehigh debates with syracuse on jury trials musical clubs to give concert at east orange vol xxxvi no 35 brown and white by w h bennett gordon new and william alcorn to render specialties no-decision match opens season for brown and white all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association