Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 41

              all day program ar ranged for meeting on april 8 fraternity ranks above dormitory for first time expresses new ideas demonstration in pool will initiate soon class averages given many valentine messages will brighten the easter vaca tion for a large number of stu dents when mid-semester re ports are sent out friday in structors must turn their reports in to george b curtis associate dean and registrar by wednes day march 27 the valentine team will record the grades on wednesday and thursday so that the reports can be mailed the following day all men who have a grade of e or f will receive warn ings at this time the students parents will also be notified one team of 10 men recruit ed from sophomores and juniors will be used by dean curtis in stead of two teams as employed in previous periods the system of employing honor men only for this work will be continued chapel they buried him there in a crude wooden coffin made by the builder soon a steam shovel will be dig ging a trench from the power house to the packard engineering laboratory for the installation of a large steam main the line as staked out runs directly over the spot where the unknown man's re mains are supposed to be resting and the trench will be dug to a depth of approximately six feet at this point mr duefel knows the spot well because formerly there was a four inch depression in the sod over the grave the lawn mower used to get stuck in this sunken ground so j c cranmer late superintendent of buildings and grounds had the depression filled and resodded con sequently there is no longer any mark to denote the exact place of burial the night watchman george deufel who has had lehigh's wel fare at heart for the last 40 years relates a strange tale in 1865 when the chapel was be ing built one of the workers fell off of the scaffolding and was killed the man could not be identified and he was practically penniless having only two dollars in his pock ets mr bock an indian was care taker of lehigh at the time and it was he who afterwards related the story to mr duefel cemeteries were scarce in the le high valley in those days and the cost of interment was considerably more than two dollars bock le high's caretaker and also a con stable in the community and the superintendent of the construction of the chapel decided to bury the man in the university grounds just northeast of the chapel between the former christmas hall and the dr bull to give typhoid vaccine m & c chooses western comedy senior honorary will give dance fourteen hundred and seven teen undergraduates are now en tered in lehigh according to fig ures made known by dean cur tis of this number 75 were en rolled this semester including students who are returning after absences a total of 1566 were enrolled for the entire year this figure includes students who were dropped or who left of their own accord last semester three hun dred and sixty of these were re gistered in the arts and science college 352 in the business col lege and 849 in the various en gineering schools further figures reveal that dur ing the current school year 546 freshmen 425 sophomores 311 juniors and 281 seniors have been attending the university forty graduate students and three special students are also enrolled of the 75 students who en tered the university this semes ter the majority are freshmen four are graduate students these are harry e messer smith who is studying for an m a degree and eugene s ault stanley s beers and erich karl zimmerman who are studying for m s degrees inoculations available for all who want • immunity white brothers ginger band will furnish music tryouts for bad man will be held sunday lehigh a leader in tennis history for the first time since 1923 when averages were first compiled a fraternity pi lambda phi has made the best scholastic record of all student groups this year's statistics include the averages of all classes the sen ior class ranks first with a 2.167 average the junior class comes next with 1.914 followed by the sophomores who made a grade of 1.824 and the freshman class fell below the university average of 1.873 with 1.719 all fraternities averaged 1.706 and all non-frater nity groups 2.045 in making the highest average pi lambda phi holds a position never before officially held by any fraternity alone in 1925 sigma al pho mv tied with taylor hall for first the only other occasion when a fraternity threatened the tradition that non-fraternity men make bet ter records than those in fraterni ties the record of pi lambda phi is especially interesting because last year the fraternity ranked low er than the general university av erage dr evans tells about corrosion an appeal to the heads of the va rious living groups to ask their up perclassmen to forego their privil ege of walking on the grass was made by omicron delta kappa at a meeting wednesday evening at the sigma chi house no definite time limit was suggested but it was im plied that the restriction should con tinue till the campus turf is once more in good condition tom brennan who was delegate to the biennial convention of the fraternity at tuscaloasa alabama during march 1 2 and 3 reported on the activities of the convention he brought back a number of good ideas the majority of which per tained solely to matters within the fraternity he mentioned that he was surprised to learn that the le high circle has a smaller percen tage of the college in its member ship than any other circle he dis cussed a plan for the incorporation of all the campus publications into a single organization that has been worked successfully at several sou thern universities the circle accepted the invita tion of the theta xi house to hold their initiation banquet there a committee composed of tom brennan and dewey trantum was appointed to start planning the freshman theme contest fritz mercur and julius seligson have out standing records lehigh flyers accept reports final rrangements for a tea dance to be given saturday after noon in drown hall were made at a meeting of sword and crescent at the a t o thursday evening white brothers ginger band will furnish the musical element in their characteristic manner sub-freshman day was discussed but no definite action was taken a bulletin board that would con tain all the dates of coming events for the ensuing three months was discussed the idea met with ap proval and is to be further consid ered pre-medical society to hear dr pearson lehigh university's campus will for the fourth consecutive year be the site of the annual welding symposium to be held monday april 8 from 10 a m.'to 10 p m f t llewellyn of the united states steel corporation and pres ident of the american welding so ciety will make an address in the morning in drown hall on weld ing operations and their practical results and peter p alexander of the research laboratory of the general electric company will ad dress a session in the evening on recent scientific progress in all types of welding there will be demonstrations of welding operations in the welding laboratory and in the physics lec ture room and the welded speci mens will be tested in the fritz testing laboratory by all the rep resentative processes many new processes will be dem onstrated by experts furnished by their manufacturers the features of the symposium will probably be atomic hydrogen arc welding test ing a full-size welded specimen to destruction on the 800,000-lb test ing machine and an under water steel cutting demonstration which will be carried out in the taylor gymnasium swimming pool following the addresses students and others will have an opportunity to ask questions on the work shown it is believed that all the engineering students will be excused from classes that day in order to attend the symposium which will afford them an opportunity to ob serve all of the most modern weld ing processes operated by experts of the equipment manufacturers staff in the evening a representative from each company will be given ten minutes to discuss the scienti fic developments in their respective companies processes members of the engineer's club of the lehigh valley and of the engineers so ciety of northeastern pennsylvania have been invited to attend debaters meet cedar crest dr william a pearson dean of the hahnamann medical college of philadelphia will speak on life and activities of a student in med ical college at the meeting of the pre-medical society at 8 p m monday march 25 in the physics lecture room dr pearson will discuss with the members of the society what a student must do to be successful in medical college and explain what the college requires of a student the lecture will be illustrated with moving pictures of student life final arrangements will be made for the clinic at the allentown hos pital on tuesday morning march 26 the list of the eligible students will be posted on the bulletin board in williams hall graduating classmen offered employment the lehigh university flying club held its second meeting at 7:30 in williams hall about 40 members were present to hear the reading of the proposed constitu tion was favorably recorded by the the last two weeks the constitu tion was farovably received by the club members and sanctioned by dean mcconn and prof sydney brown the financial committee suggest ed soliciting funds from the alum ni the committee on federal laws and state regulations rendered a detailed report the r o t c officials have given their support to the club the committee on equip ment reported that they thought it advisable to buy a second hand plane they had mr j j r weiss from easton who is a distributor of waco planes mr weiss deliv ered an informal talk on the possi bilities of the club after which he answered questions concerning the rules and regulations governing the licensing of pilots mr weiss was a war time member of the united states air force the bad man a comedy of life on the mexican border in which holbrook blynn starred with much success on broadway a few years ago will be represented by mus tard and cheese this spring tryouts for the cast of 20 men will ufcgin sunday afternoon at three o'clock in drown hall under the supervision of j r o'neil of the perrint producers in new york city perrint produced wild flower little jesse james irene and the gingham girl t m brennan president of the club attended a meeting of the philadelphia lehigh alumni club last monday in the u g i build ing 1401 arch street philadelphia he briefly outlined to the alumni what the show was going to be the financial difficulty of making a trip to philadelphia with the play was discussed and the alumni agreed to back mustard and cheese on a visit to their city to be made early in may walter forstall president of the alumni club appointed a commit tee to foster the advent of the play in philadelphia consisting of john mckay chairman mr mcßride sub-chairman and moriz bernstein publicity agent music composed by undergrad uates will be included in the com edy to interpret certain parts in addition to the cast and musicians electricians stage hands and ar tists will be needed saturday brennan will visit the alumni secretary and the board of governors of the northeastern pennsylvania lehigh club in wilkes-barre and will most likely arrange for mustard and cheese to present the bad man there lehigh woman's club sees moving picture ulick r evans of london and cambridge england spoke last night on some recent work on the corrosion of metals before the lehigh metallurgical society at drown hall dr evans discussed his labora tory experiments with steel iron brass and other metals which are subject to corrosion he told of his work with cement in the pres ence of electric charges and said that when chlorinated water is used to make cement which carries iron pipe corrision is greatly speeded stainless steel does not corrode un der most conditions having greater resistance than wrought iron and cast iron in the connection with paints dr evans said that red lead or chromates which are used as a base in metal paints are useful because they are oxidizing agents and form a transparent oxide of the metal which is the real protection the rest of the paint is used not so much as an excluder as to keep the oxide in a proper condition dr evans is recognized as the world's foremost authority on cor rosion being the author of several text-books and thirty papers which have stated the results of his re searches the lehigh metallurgical soci ety had as its guests the lehigh valley section of the a i m e and the engineers club of the le high valley the lehigh chemical and mining societies and the john markle mining society of lafay ette before the lecture dr evans was the guest of honor at a dinner of the metallurgical society in drown hall electrical engineers hold meeting tonight dramatic club reads george bernard shaw satirizing modern views on high er education in america dean charles max mcconn presents sev eral interesting ideas on improving the university of today in his ar ticle life liberty and — educa tion published in independent education for march dean mcconn expresses the doc trine of modern education in say ing every citizen of a democracy whatever his financial circum stances is entitled to an education fitted to his kind of ability and up to the limit of his ability but to no other kind or degree of education and to no pretense of any other kind or degree when it becomes possible to edu cate the student according to this doctrine the dean believes there might follow from it in actual prac tice a kind and degree of democracy which has thus far been heard of only in utopias practical plans used however as the dean confesses a complete educational system in which the student is trained after the manner outlined by plato is as yet only a vague dream on the other hand many practical plans tending toward this same principle are already in use a considerable number of schools have established honor schools within the regular colleges to which only the most proficient students are admitted what it really amount to is that the superior few in the honor schools are given real higher educa tion equivalent to the instruction of older aristocratic institutions while those enrolled in the regular college who seek only a degree are given social certification dean mcconn's recent book college or kindergarten provides for two such schools one where real cul ture is sought and one where so cial training is emphasized a second plan pointed out by the dean to correct defects in our pres ent educational system is that of careful discrimination to eliminate all but honor students from the en rollment lists average student weak the dean vigorously attacks the modern conception that every youth who has the opportunity should seek special education irregardless of his capabilities he frankly ad mits that the average college grad uate is often empty-headed and dull and that many such graduates have no business in college according to him mass production of learning has resulted in a lowering of the educational standard and ought therefore be done away with the dean goes further than to condemn modern education he indicts the modern conception of democracy as fallacious and im possible he points out that it is the false insistence of most parents that money can buy education that anyone with the price of admission cannot be denied entrance to the university parents make errors this point of view has done ines timable harm to the college be cause of foolish parents most col leges are crowded with students whose capacities and whose desires for cultural education are far be low the required standard because continued on page 4 mrs j m toohy mrs j l beaver and mrs h a neville were selected as a nominating com mittee for next year's officers and a e buchanan alumni secre tary showed a moving picture of activities at lehigh at the regular monthly meeting of the lehigh wo man's club tuesday in drown hall mrs h m ullrnann was the hostess tea was served as usual lehigh boasting an enviable ten nis history today ranks as one of the leaders in the sport in intercol legiate circles dr neil carothers tennis coach and head of the bus iness department revealed in the feature article of the alumni bul letin for march lehigh's greatest luminary is ju lius seligson present indoor and outdoor intercollegiate champion and ninth ranking player in na tional standing seligson's record at lehigh has been unparalled in collegiate tennis history equally prominent is fritz mer cur former star at lehigh and sev enth ranking player mercur's rec ord boasts of victories over many of the best tennis stars including william tilden and george lott among others mentioned by dr carothers who have contributed to the history of tennis at lehigh are such names as walter usher neil sullivan and the taylor brothers a second story in the march al umni bulletin is the complete speech which president charles russ richards delivered at the lay ing of the cornerstone for the new library excerpts of which were printed by the brown and white directly after the ceremonies dr richards summarizes the history and predicts the future of the li brary another article describes the cer emonies of the mid-winter home coming day including the laying of the cornerstone and the morning program that lehigh faculty members re ceive salaries above the general av erage is pointed out in a short sta tistical story the trend toward constantly increasing salaries each year is clearly evident from the fig ures given reviews of the wrestling basket ball and swimming seasons indicate an optimistic year in sports lehigh will defend the negative side of the question resolved that the present jury system be abolished against cedar crest college tonight at 8 o'clock in the cedar crest chapel tomorrow the same team will debate against schuylkill college in reading the cedar crest team will be composed of the misses marion fritch sally biddle and muriel horten speak ing in the order named with miss charlotte kob as alternate the lehigh debators in the order of speaking will be sydney snitkin edward schaacht and samuel lan dy joseph shumaker professor of history at cedar crest will act as chairman this trip while not extensive is the first out of town trip for the team and if results justify the step will probably be but one of many others manager robert many is attempting to arrange debates with ursinus muhlenberg moravian and lafayette either here or away inoculations for typhoid fever will be given by dr r c bull on april 6 13 and 20 the depart ment of military science has al ready ordered the typhoid vaccine for the inoculation of the men going to camp the inoculations will be given to all men who are going this summer to either the r o t c or c m t c training camps to a few high school students and to any other students desiring the treatment since the introduction of univer sal typhoid inoculation in the army and navy typhoid has become un known in the military and naval services many industrial concerns and educational institutions have also made it a requirement and find that it is economically profit able the greatest value of course is to the individual to be insured of immunity to typhoid fever is val uable to any man who may be ex posed to the infection while the sanitary conditions of most of the large american cities are very sat isfactory the same cannot be said of many smaller towns and country districts large cities also fre quently are subjected to epidemics as was the case of montreal in the summer of 1926 it is therefore very advisable for any one who intends to travel dur ing the summer vacation or who in tends to take a position outside of the larger cities to take the typhoid inoculations the government usually furnishes more vaccine than is needed for the students who in tend to go to summer camps and therefore the inoculations are avail able for any members of the stu dent body or faculty who desire them every man desiring the treatment will be given three inoculations one each week for three consecutive weeks this year it is planned to give the inoculations on three sat urdays april 6 13 and 20 of course these dates will not be con venient for some students especial ly those who are members of ath letic teams or who are engaged in some other activity on saturday such men need not miss the inocu lations however as they can get the day changed by seeing dr bull at the health service sometime be fore april 6 anyone who desires the inocula tions should not put the matter off as it will not be possible to give in oculations later in the year dr g d hadzits declares scientific subjects lead install novel locks in new packard lab senior officers plan song fest buy banquet tickets by j j rowell the lehigh valley section of the american institute of electrical en gineers will hold a meeting at eight o'clock friday march 22 in the hotel sterling wilkes-barre roy c haines executive secretary of the anthracite cooperate association will speak on what's going on in anthracite john b taylor con sulting engineer of the general electric company will have as his topic making sound visible and light audible he will demon strate and illustrate his lecture with lantern slides the inspection of the stanton power plant will start at 2 p m and dinner will be served in hotel sterling at 6:30 all electrical en gineering students are invited to attend the meeting and dinner a number of engineering and bus iness firms have recently interview ed members of the senior class in regard to selecting men for em ployment after graduation h l donladson of the duques ne light and power co e j rut an of the new york edison co and r w johnson of the leeds northrup co of philadelphia e t carmichael 17 representing the w t grant chain stores were at lehigh at various times during the last two weeks to interview senior electricals today j p leinroth general industrial fuel representative of the public service electric and gas co was here seeking techni cal graduates of the mechanical electrical industrial and chemical departments for their industrial fuel department on monday mr frederick of the general electric co will interview business department seniors offer ing positions in sales accounting and in administrative departments of the company hudson river bridge has smallest errors novel and decorative locks are being installed in the new packard laboratory according to acting architect litzenberger they are of unit blocks made specially for the laboratory the door knobs carry the name of the university artistically engraved upon them and the keyholes are fitted into the knobs themselves all sophomores are requested to buy tickets for the class banquet before the easter vacation tick ets may be bought from members of the sophomore cabinet since the dollar from the activi ties fee covers only the cost of ad ministration prompt action is urged that details may be completed the price of reservation is two dollars and a half publications board audits papers books campus events of the week the accounts of the various cam pus publications were audited and approved at the meeting of the board of publications on monday further discussion of the proposed joint sinking fund took place but no definite action was taken although in the midst of rehear sals for tlieir coming production of oscar wilde's the importance of being earnest the faculty dram atic club held its regular bi-weekly meeting last night at the home of professor r w hall and read ma jor barbara by george bernard shaw the play while not suitable for dramatic presentation due to the large amount of dialogue is ad mirably adapted for reading the part of andrew undershaft weal thy munitions manufacturer about whose phisolophy the play is writ ten was taken by professor arthur klein major barbara was played by mrs schenck mrs undershaft by mrs r m smith and adoph us cousins eugene h sloan pro fessor c d macdougall was in charge the play is a typical production of g b shaw for it shows in his ironical style how charities and the church are dependent upon the munificence of those who have grown rich from the very things these charities and the churches are combatting fred trafford was unanimously chosen secretary and j a kirkpat rick j a lyter and j m black mar were appointed to serve as a nominating committee to select next year's officers at the recent meeting of the senior cabinet of the lehigh union the nominations of this committee will be voted up on at the college elections sched uled for later in the spring the cabinet president t m brennan also appointed a commit tee of r b sax and s p coates to make arrangements for a college song fest the lehigh union thus plans to revive an old college cus tom it was decided to hold the song fest on the terrace behind drown hall at 3 o'clock sunday af ternoon april 28 after the business meeting ad journed the cabinet members were entertained at three tables of bridge by fred trafford board meets tuesday due to the conflict with drill the brown and white editorial board meeting announced for monday will be postponed to 4 p m tuesday in the brown and white office christmas-saucon hall the meeting of the class in english 49 at that time is can celled freshmen there will be a meeting of all freshmen interested in compet ing for the brown and white business staff at 4 p m tuesday in the brown and white room drown hall wednesday 4:00 p m — easter holidays begin 6:15 p m — meeting of alpha kappa psi lambda chi alpha house 8:00 p m dr william a pear son will speak on the life and activities of the student in med ical college in the physics lec ture room tuesday 4:00 p m — meeting of the brown and white board christmas-sau con hall no class will be held 4:00 p m — freshman competitors for the business staff of the brown and white meet in drown hall tonight saturday 4:00 p m — sword and crescent tea dance in drown hall drown hall 7:45 p m — freshman class smoker fred trafford and capt f w hyde speakers drown hall sunday 3:00 p m — mustard and cheese tryouts for spring show drown hall monday 4:00 p m — monthly meeting board of control of athletics j g petrikin's office drown hall 4:00 p m — meeting of the board of publications memorial build ing barker cancels talk the public lecture which pro fessor ernest barker of cam bridge university was to give in coppee hall tomorrow afternoon under the auspices of the inter national relations club of le high university will not take place mr barker's wife tele graphed from boston that her husband is in bed with o cold that has forced him to cancel all speaking engagements for two weeks i for the past decade the tendency of college curricula has been tow ard the exclusion o f liberal arts in favor of scientific subjects the re sult has been seen in unbalanced rosters almost devoid of courses in latin and greek declared dr george depue hadzits professor of latin at the university of penn sylvania and next year's visiting professor to the university of rome in an interview preceeding his lec ture before eta sigma phi classi cal society at one time the university course consisted almost entirely of the humanities as the study of latin and greek was then known but since that time the pendulum has swung steadily in the other direc tion until students of the ancient languages are well in the minority prof hadzits continued until a short time ago no man's education was considered complete without at least a smattering of latin but now even students in the colleges of arts and sciences may graduate without having taken a latin course and without the ability to under stand the wording of his diploma the towers for the bridge across the hudson river at fort lee were erected with ' unusual accuracy there werx less than quarter-inch errors in the 500-foot columns erection of the towers began last june and the port of new york authority in reporting that 31,000 tons of steel had been placed in the 500-foot towers within four months and a half also announced that 9,320 tons of steel wire for the ca bles of the great suspension struc ture which is to be opened in 1932 had been fabricated and that spin ning of the cables would begin this summer this exceptional feat of engineer ing may well be the boast of le high as again the products of her various engineering colleges com mand the lime-light with this new est and largest suspension bridge in the whole world however in the opinion of prof hadzits the time when greek coursese were placed on the roster with the stipulation that at least six students must enroll for the course has passed for there seems to be a reawakening interest in the study of the so-called dead languages the study of ancient tongues prof hadzits contended has a broadening influence on the stu dents mind compelling him to pause and consider the genius of the ancient people who in spite of their crude equipment delved deep ly into the secrets of nature discov ering laws of nature and principles that are still employed by science through classical study one learns of great sculptors whose work re mains unsurpassed writers whose epics live today of great philosoph ers whose theories are yet to be disproved of great rulers and statesmen whose consummate gen ius would be more than a match for any of our modern diplomats the list can be enlarged upon indefinite ly but it is obvious that one can not fail to derive some benefit from a study of their lives and writings lehigh university bethlehem pa friday march 22 1.929 night watchman predicts grave will be unearthed valentines are due in easter vacation enrollment statistics show slight decrease m'conn believes student ability should be first vol xxxv no 41 stay off grass o.d.k requests every student welders plan much testing at symposium pi lambda phi leads college in scholarship brown and white price five cents g sickles jr appeal for turf made to living groups wednesday dean writes article for independent edu cation all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association