Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 14

              tau beta pi pledges 16 men wednesday research evolves light which will burn one year for two cents price five cent sophomores end freshman hazing and all rushes moore depicts new neon lamp before sigma xi bethlehem pa friday november 8 1929 paul green who is the noteworthy american playwright and pulitzer prize win ner whose productions the play makers have been staging for sev eral years authors to act tbeirown works at liberty high sixteen new members were pledged to tau beta pi honor ary fraternity in the chapel wednesday morning president c r richards announced names of the pledges and gave a short talk on the founding and pur pose of tau beta pi and other national honorary fraternities tau beta pi was founded by prof e h williams at lehigh in 1885 those plelged are j e john son l m bennetch f e loo mis d l wright j e zeaser e j jones r d chapman r c barber l w becker k a erhart r f latimore r h many h s singer j a wa terman seniors and p s davis j c mertz juniors grace addresses e e conference carolina playmakers are sponsored by mustard and cheese marquis players stage nevada three plays offered to demonstrate devices that have affected communication public night at the lehigh ob servatory offered a new feature in the giving out of correct eastern standard time thursday evening those present from 7:30 to 9:30 o'clock had the method of obtain ing time explained and were prac tically enabled to see time in the making mr leland s barnes and rhoaas mcßride student in charge of the observations announced that this novel practice will be continued throughout the astronomical sea son andromeda nebulae seen although nothing of a highly spectacular nature was on the pro gram the nebulae of andromeda was expected to be in a favorable position and the large sayre tele scope was trained on this far off curiosity many other nebulae as well as star clusters were viewed many present last time during the past few months the astronomy department has received many unusual transpariencies pho tographed through the yerkes ob servatory telescope these slides were illuminated and displayed to the public professor barnes and mcßride explained the phenomena of the photographs three weeks ago the moon was the subject examined the cra ters and seas were unusually clear and minute surface details were easily recognized more than 100 persons were present faculty club reads play college lecturer professor howard eckfeldt head of the mining department will speak on how man takes what he wants from the earth at eight p m nov 11 in packard auditorium this will be the second of the ■ series of college lectures on man's con i jquest over nature ' the various phases of mining occurrence of the ore discovery boring exploitation haulage dressing and labor will be topics of the lecture prof eckfeldt wil deal almost entirely with the exploitation of the mineral or the method of working mines and taking out the ore it will be illustrated with pic tures and diagrams taken while mines have been in operation and will not be of a tech nical nature professor eckfeldt's purpose in this lecture will be to bring the details of mining down to the understanding of the layman so that it may be understood by ev eryone determining ores after giving an explanation of the deter howard eckfeldt mination of the presence of ore by the elec tric-geophysics method as compared with the old method of using a di vining rod or forked witch hazel stick the lecturer will emphasize the different ways of extracting materials from the various kinds of mines such as those that are open to the sky those that are under cover of rock and earth and those that can be reached only by wells and bore holes also the method of obtaining coal and ores that lie under water the first mentioned includes quarries where rocks are found and pre cious metals are washed from hill sides by a stream of water and where ores are dug out by means of a steam shovel the second has to do mostly with coal which must be reached by means of a shaft that has been let down into the earth to he strata or vein where the coal earing rock lies the deposits of etroleum and natural gas are those hat are procured by means of wells and bore-holes as for the fourth class known as subaqueous which includes mining for coal and some precious ores the method employed is called dredging the raw ma terial is brought to the surface of the water either by shovel or suc tion and is then separated and the waste dumped into the water recent developments in the field of incandescent lamp research have produced a gas-electric light that will burn one year at a total cost of two cents according to dr d macfarlan moore of the incandes cent lamp department of the gen eral electric company speaking on gaseous conduction before the sigma xi society tuesday dr moore who studied at lehigh in the class of 1890 left before grad uation to work in the edison labor atories after which he became con nected with the general electric company dr moore has been con ducting research on the gas-elec tric and neon lights for the past 37 years and is reputed to be a foremost authority on gaseous con duction explains lamps action in his lecture dr moore describ ed minutely the action of the neon lamp and traced its development from the first electric light he de monstrated several important vari ations in the construction and action of neon lights and gave a detailed account of the numerous uses for gas-electric lamps especially in chemical and medical experimenta tion two lehigh alumni and one in structor were initiated at a short business meeting held before the lecture dr moore 90 c a le doux 90 and c f maylott instruc tor in electrical engineering at le high were the initiates discussion held a general discussion was held after the lecture which was well at tended by members qf the student body and faculty the next meeting of sigma xi has been tentatively set for january dr c p berky professor at columbia university and member of several asiatic ex ploration parties will deliver an ad dress on mongolia diamond speaks on immigration larkin will attend engineering meeting accounting professor ad dresses women at y m c a monday fields will speak five outstanding men in several sergius p grace assistant vice president of the bell telephone lab oratories will give a demonstration and lecture on new materials and devices that have affected the art of communication at 8 p m nov 15 in the packard auditorium mr grace is coming under the aus pices of the lehigh valley section of the american institute of elec trical engineers of which the elec trical engineering society at lehigh is a branch in his lecture mr grace will de scribe and demonstrate the artificial larynx mechanical lung electric brain electric car delayed speech record of a heart beat and a vic trola playing a picture two days will be required to set up the appar atus for the lecture reserved seats for the lecture will be held only until 7:45 after which all vacant seats will be thrown open to the public alaskan college modern campus in abraham's bosom by paul green was read by members of the faculty dramatic club wednesday evening at the home of professor r w hall head of the department of biology the play has its origin in north varolina 40 years ago all the char acters but two are negroes the characters were read as fol lows abe by prof arthur klein professor of mechanical en gineering goldie by mrs l l smail mrs bradley stoughton read the part of muhmack prof c j goodwin head of the department of greek took the part of a southern colonel penn men will seek prehistoric remains each of the two floors above and below the new library reading room contain tiny cubical stalls designed especially for the reader who must have access to many reference books there are 40 of these rec tangular compartments each large enough for one reader they will resemble the monk cells found in many of the cloisters in medieval times each is planned for one reader alone insuring quiet ness and eliminating distraction the furnishings will be severe a small oak table and a stool the cubicals are also advantageously placed on the north side of the building to reduce eye strain and fatigue since north light is the best for reading most of the cells will be open on the one side however a number will have doors with locks anyone who is doing special extended work may obtain a key from h s leach librarian disturbance loss of time and inconvenience will be reduced to a mimimum the reader may lock himself in toil incessantly until dusk and then just turn the key and know that he will be able to start the next day where he left off williams likes stalls at williams college cubicals are more popular than the reading room the undergraduates seems to have an intense desire to frequent these secluded nooks perhaps the same condition will exist here a new specially designed otis elevator is a feature of the new li brary it is situated in the center of the building and runs from the basement to the fourth floor no op erator will be on duty but all ex cept freshmen may use it when they so choose short book list the library list of accessions for october is not as long as it usu ally is due partly to building op erations interfering with the nor mal work of the catalogue depart ment and to the fact that much re catalogueing of books on reserve from last year the books of most interest are webber church sym bolism javits make everybody rich patton jefferson cabell and the university of west virginia debye polar molecules james be ginning of man kendell thryox ine walepole hans frost bow ers tragis era nevada a play giving a glimpse of american drama popular 50 years ago will be presented by the mar quis players of lafayette college this evening at 8:15 in the little theatre at easton the drama has been presented tuesday wednes dayr and thursday evenings the presentation centers around the old forty niners who went west prospecting for gold it bristles with heavy whiskers and rough miners in whom bret harte and mark twain found senti mental natures to harmonize with the play cus toms prevalent at the time of its re lease were revived peanut eating now a vanishing art among theatre goers is among those placed in good graces — and the peanuts are sold by cowboy ushers whose oth er functions are to protect the mu sicians and maintain order this play is the first production for the current season and its lead ing parts are held by l s serfass 32 who is nevada the wander er c p morgan 30 who enacts the part of silas steele a mis sionary of health and r l fish er 30 who plays the part of mo selle a waif the discoveries footprints of dinosaurs among winners of debating tryouts not stated electricals get auto engines be given nov 14 trials for members not present to f v larkin head of the me chanical engineering department will attend the eighth autumn con ference of the personal research federation to be held nov 15 in the engineering society building new york city some of the most important speakers at the meeting will be elton mayo j mckeen cottell stuart chase john dewey and frances perkins all of whom are outstanding men in the re search and psychological fields history department shows third new film the university of pennsylvania museum and the american muse um of natural history in new york will attempt to salvage the remains of early men and extinct animal life found recently in north eastern arizona arrangements have been completed for this project by dr j alden mason and dr bar num brown the former of the uni versity museum and the latter from the natural history museum dr mason who has been making archaeological studies in the south west will be joined by dr brown in a few days footprints of dino saurs millions of years old were among the interesting discoveries cave dwellings inhabited before the christian era have also been found and will be explored announcement of the winners in the debating tryouts last evening in packard auditorium will not be made until other members of the squad have an opportunity to speak at a special tryout at 4 p m thurs day nov 14 in christmas-saucon hall dale h gramely george a finch and eugene h sloane in structors of english judged last evening's tryouts on the proposi tion fesolved that the united states should withdraw from the kellogg peace pact erwin under wood president of delta omicron theta was chairman faculty's families ill company c assembles at armory this mon many attend alexander hamilton movie wednesday night alexander hampton iip^ssj torical mating picture was shown i last wedjes/g j^aniftg-pin he packard auditonurnto tffe^elasslui american history and many other students aj3snt«jnb£r of the fac uhy owjst a i the picture was the third ofa series of historical pictures pro duced by the yale photoplay cor poration to be shown at lehigh both professor l h gipsori and professor g d harmon of the history department gave short talks on the life of hamilton and the period during which he lived seventeen freshmen have enrolled as students for the coming year at the alaska college of agriculture and schol of mines according to the fartherest north collegian a four page monthly paper published by the students of that institution the school is located at college near fairbanks alaska it is only two degrees south of the arctic cir cle it is modern in many ways and is in session for the entire year there are 83 students enrolled and it has a faculty of 18 members i the paper has a circulation of t^d 47 t a 3 t-it i all over the [ united statesf f~iopy was mailed . to prof h eckfeldt of the mining j&tpirrtm&nt on oct 18 and he re ceived^t^sv^dfrepsyt after be ing on the way for 19 days rifle teams eky out tryouts for the company rifle teams are progressing at a rapid rate rifle practice is held in the basement of the armory every aft ernoon from one to four o'clock and from eight to twelve o'clock satur day morning mrs loretta bailey author of job's kinfolk's and the one-act play black water and mrs gertrude wilson coffin author of the comedy magnolia's man all of which the carolina playmakers are playing when they present their performance sponsored by the mus tard and cheese club in bethlehem on november 21 in the liberty high school auditorium will both be present in the cast of their own plays holmes bryson is playing the part of the no count boy in paul green's play of the same name paul green is known best as the author of the play in abra ham's bosom that won the pul itzer prize for the best play sub mitted in 1927 appears as kizzio mrs bailey will play the part of kizzio the old grandmother which won praise from the critics and au diences last fall the theatrical pa per the billboard said of her work mrs bailey is a splendid actress playing the role of the grandmother in her own play it was amazing to witness such ap parently seasoned technique in one so young indeed her performance would have done credit to a vet mrs coffin will play the role of mis tish the sharp tongued gos sipy village dressmaker she is well known in north carolina for her portrayals of comic mountain wo men new and old actors miss phoebe harding is making her first tour with the playmakers she has the role of the mulatto girl in the no count boy and kath erine in job's kinfolk's howard bailey assistant manager of the playmakers is making his eighth tour with them he has the parts of the negroe lover enos in the no count boy and the young white sailor lover in job's kin folk's miss nottina strobach will again play her part of kate in mrs bailey's plays the part of estello the other wo man character in mrs bailey's plays will be portrayed by miss muriel wolff miss wolff joined the playmakers this year after hav ing studied at the academy of drama in new york hubert hoff ner manager of the playmakers is taking the part of newt in mag nolia's man and elmer hall technical director is in the role of bartholomew burgess in the same play mr hoffner is the leading character actor in the playmakers having played with them since 1918 james m flagg thinks colleges are not best for art students immigration was the subject of a talk given by dr herbert m dia mond professor of accounting to the american association of uni versity women monday evening at the y w c a dr diamond showed that the im migration policy of the united states at present definitely restric tive with europe on a quota basis and asia practically excluded was originally a policy of encourage ment he stated that before 1890 the immigrants were principally teutonic closely related to the or iginal stock efforts were made not to bar them but to facilitate their passage after 1890 there was a change — immigrants in alarmingly great numbers poured in from italy greece russia and other eastern and southern countries action taken in 1914 in 1914 he stated the immigra tion commission reported that the volume of immigration was so great that it was changing the american standards of living and urged legislative action that would drastically decrease this volume the literary test and later legisla tion cut down the number of immi grants very materially there is considerable criticism of the pres ent restrictive law it does not ap ply to the western hemisphere which allows free mexican and canadian immigration the nation al origins clause is a subject of dispute because of doubt as to the possibility of accuracy and com plaint that the law works injustice among the more recent patients at st luke's hospital are included some of the members of the fam ilies of the faculty the son of dr r w hall the daughter of prof j l beaver mrs hughes wife of prof percy hughes mrs thomas wife of prof s j thomas mrs howland wife of prof g a how land and mrs degray wife of mr r j degray are the ones who have recently entered the hospital coming events the wiring of the new packard building has been completed and laboratory classes are being held regularly in the electrical section many motors and generators have been set up and are being used for testing purposes by students in the mechanical section several engines and compressors have been in stalled a bethlehem steel deisel engine and a total of five motor car engines have arrived and will be set up in the internal combustion laboratory division much of the new equipment which has been ordered for the lab oratory has not arrived as yet both the electrical and the mechanical departments plan to buy more ma chinery the heavy machines for both sections of the laboratory are being placed on the ground floor and the lighter machines are being placed on the second floor it is expected that the balcony of tha laboratory will be used for displays and as a museum the five engines that the labor otory received were of different makes packard pontaic ford oakland and chrysler an oil mo tor and an otis engine were also installed plans are being formu lated whereby more makes of auto engines can be obtained epitome will have unique art scheme pres hibben princeton favors b.a for four years good work explained by captain tent pitching will be the subject company c of the lehigh r o t c unit will assemble at the armory on monday nov 11 at 4:05 p m wm f powell c com pany commander will instruct the men in the art of tent pitching dur ing the afternoon packs should be secured from the basement of the armory on monday company e will also assemble at the armory while companies a b f and g will as semble on the upper field as here tofore sport section numerous action pictures to be in e e seminar talk hydro-electric power develop ment will be the subject of the dis cussion to be held in electrical en gineering seminar to be held from 9 to 11 o'clock tuesday nov 12 the sophomore council has tak en a definite step toward creating better feeling between the freshman and sophomore classes by abolish ing all rushes and form of hazing hereafter the only contacts be tween the classes will be on foun der's day and at banquet season the sophomores as a reason for abandoning all forms of hazing be lieve that the freshmen of today is older and more experienced than the freshman of former years and that no amount of hazing will cor rect any freshness several months at college they believe will correct this the abandonment of hazing will not hamper the enforcement of freshman regulations all fresh men must abide by the rules vio lators will be dealt with by the sophomore council as in other years but through a standard code of pen alties angle's letter the following is a letter from john angle president of the sopho more class stating the future po licy of the class dear editor having been authorized to act as the representative of the sophomore cabinet i have taken the advantage of this column as a means of mak ing public a step which has recent ly been unanimously and favorably voted upon by that body it might also be added that the freshman cabinet has also added its approval much criticism has been aroused this year concerning the treatment of the freshman class by the soph omores some have censored us for being too stringent in our hazing others for not being strict enough in view of this condition the cab inet decided that the time had come to take a definite stand on the mat ter moreover it must be under stood that no pressure was brought to bear upon us and that the de cision was absolutely independent at the meeting of last week the question of regulations was brought up and afte rsome discussion a mo tion was passed to the effect that hereafter the sopromore class will take part in no rushes or hazing of the freshman class as a whole in other words the founder's day games and banquet season will be the only remaining contacts be tween the classes we are not the first university to take this step in fact almost every broadminded and wide awake col lege in the east has abandoned such practices no apparent harm has resulted from it yale princeton and others still graduate just as good men as they did in the past lehigh will not be an exception explanation of policy perhaps some explanation of what this move implies might lead to a better understanding of freshman regulations in the future as was mentioned before the only remain ing contacts between the two classes as a group will be the foun der's day sports and the banquet season which will only last one day this year there will be no chapel rush no packer hall rush no run ning on the campus nor walking backward no pushing around on moving up day however freshmen will be held to regulations as stated in the handbook such as wearing a dink not smoking on the campus etc in order to enforce these rules a committee has been appointed to draw up a set of standard penalties a freshman who breaks a regula tion will be brought before the the sophomore council tried and given the regular penalty for the first offense there will be penalties for the first second and third vio lations of each rule this will elim inate all unfairness or partiality in punishing the miscreants continued on page four the sophomore cabinet is of the opinion that this move is another step toward making lehigh an en tirely democratic institution it is absolutely sincere in its decision and there are several reasons for this abandonment of tradition b & w competitors epitome information the heads of fraternities who have not already done so should see that the fraternity informa tion required by the epitome is ready for collection on sunday afternoon generous being selfish hating sympathizing dying and being born again the next morning learning to control his feelings — this usually is the most difficult lesson of all an artist being a person with an ex alted consciousness — all this is pre paration for his life where does a place with rules and regulations come in in these years it doesn't it would crucify him atrophy his enthusiasm stan dardize him i believe an art stu dent should have a high school ed ucation and then plunge into art study that does not prevent his reading omniverously flagg says that when he finished high school he considered going to yale — but that he is glad he de cided not to instead he loafed for four years at the art students league went to england studied there and then a year in paris and i learned a lot more he says than if i had allowed my self to be part of a system — an in mate of an institution college is no place for art stu dents according to james mont gomery flagg well-known illustra tor who recently set forth his views on the matter in a letter to the edi tor of the new york times such a statement says mr flagg is difficult to explain to the layman nevertheless he continues no general course can be set for every are student because no teacher knows what is best to develop in each student the very nature of his talent supposing he has any is elusive even to himself until he has studied for some time some times his studying takes the dread ful form of loafing — which is pos sibly only seeming curiously enough he may be absorbing ob serving the phenomena of life trans lating them into form and color in his mind learning to see what oth ers are blind to meditating on life weighing the emotions discarding traditions philosophizing loving lusting drinking despairing hop ing enthralled in ecstacy being today 4:15 p m college meeting flag pole speakers and cheering saturday nov 9 1:00 p m varsity cross country vs lafayette at eastqn 12:30 p m varsity soccer vs princeton at princeton < 2:00 p m varsity football vs princeton at princeton monday nov 11 8:00 p m college lecture how man takes what he wants from the earth by howard eckfeldt packard auditorium * wednesday nov 13 7:30 p m meeting of junior com petitors for the business board of the lehigh review in drown hall 7:30 p m pre legal society meet ing 201 packard laboratory rus sell c mauch speaker of the eve ning 7:30 p m radio society meeting in the lecture hall physics build ing there will be a meeting of all competitors for elective positions on the brown and white at 5 p m wednesday at the brown and white classroom in christ mas-saucon hall the art work of the 1931 epitome will differ from that of other years scenes of various buildings and points of interest around the cam pus done in green and black will be the underlying sketches on each page the general makeup of the epi tome will be similar to that of last year special emphasis will be plac ed on the sport section this sec tion will contain numerous action pictures of all sports especially football any organization wishing more pages than alloted to them last year should see phil lewis at the kappa alpha fraternity a b and b s has been that latin was required for the a b but not for the b s and in many instances candidates for the b s lack only one credit in latin of the four re quired for the a b in the upper classes b s men often choose their elective from among the humanistic subjects and likewise candidates for a b fre quently elect scientific subjects president hibben raises the ques tion of there being any significant difference between the courses lead ing to the degrees of b s and a 8 and if after all the degree of bachelor of arts would not repre sent adequately the results of four years satisfactory study students at princeton will be one step nearer the coveted b a de gree if the views of john grier hib ben president of the university are accepted heretofore the big difference in the requirements for the degrees of president hibben is in favor of granting the degree of bachelor of arts to all students who satisfactor ily complete four years work at princeton realizing the justice of the criticism that intellectually ca pable freshmen are forced to hold themselves down to the level set by their less gifted classmates he ad vocates that the keener minded freshmen be permitted to include advanced subjects in his roster brown and white vol xxxvii no 14 cubical stalls insure silence in new library eckfeldt will give lecture on monday nebulae viewed at observatory thursday night modern mining methods to be explained and illus trated in non-technical manner ; electric ore locator is described cells eliminate noise and limit distraction of readers method of obtaining cor rect time explained to local public book list published star clusters on view standard code of penal ties used for violators of rules frosh approve action initiate three new men banquet season and foun der's day sports still to be kept all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association