Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 35

              trophy comes here all freshmen must swim a length of the pool before the end of the semester in order to receive credit for physical edu cation according to heads of the department men will be present to check off the names as the tests are taken if any freshman is unable to swim this distance it will be necessary for him to join the beginners swimming class it was said the pool will be open daily from 10 a m to noon and from 3 p m to 6 p m musical clubs visit new york banquet precedes concert before prominent met ropolitan men 3 dinners given by fraternities julius seligson instructors may come instructors may go but professors go on forever this seems to be the law by which professors grow grayer and a little more stopped in the service of the university on south mountain they are a tried and faithful lot shur i mshur indefatiguable brown and white statistican has found in tracing the terms of ser vice of the faculty in the little brown book known as the directory of the alumni students and faculty of lehigh university on the faculty he found dr har ry m ullman who has been fool ing with vats and test tubes since 1894 john h ogburn whose life since 1895 has been nothing but cal culations and observations winter l wilson whose work among the civils since 1897 has been closely connected with railroads charles j goodwin who has been teaching the language of athens since 1899 and howard eckfeldt who has had something to say in the mining department since 1900 those are the five with the long est terms of service but there are other old-timers at lehigh philip m palmer has been teaching ger man since 1902 robert w hall has explained the lower forms of life since the same year while in the same year alpha a diefender fer joined the men in the chemistry department john e stocker was added to the mathematics depart ment in 1903 and arthur w klein has kad an interest in mechanical engineers since 1904 . all these men have served con tinuously since they joined the fac ulty with the exception of profes sor wilson who is listed as missing from 1901 to 1904 all began as in structors with the exception of dr goodwin and professor diefender fer dr goodwin has been profes sor of greek since he came to le high in 1899 and professor diefen derfer's first position at_lehigh was as assistant instructor in chemis try all of the old timers with the exception of john e stocker and alpha a diefenderfer have be come full professors these two are associate professors the ten faculty members who have served as full professors for the longest terms of service and the year in which they assumed that rank are charles j goodwin greek 1899 howard eckfeldt mining 1904 philip m palmer modern language 1906-1910 professor of german since 1910 benjamin mil ler geology 1907 winter l wil son j t stuart professor of rail road engineering 1907 robert w hall biology feb 1909 percy hugres phiosopoy 1909 charles s fox romance languages 1910 and howard r reiter physical education 1911 cheating causes two suspensions monarch club to hear debate houses honor new mem bers with banquets at hotel bethlehem cribbing in finals causes committee on discipline to take action lehigh gettysburg teams will be guests at ban quet tonight approximately 1500 people at tended the concert given by the combined musical clubs of lehigh university under the auspices of the lehigh club of new york incor porated in the grand ball room of the level club in new york city last friday evening the alma mat er and the alumni song were led in person by their composer john j gibson 95 and the song hail to college was led by its composer a n van vleck 08 the concert was preceded by a banquet in honor of the musical clubs presided over by william wirt mills 87 president of the ew york lehigh club and was fol lowed by a dance with the dance orchestra of the lehigh combined musical clubs furnishing the music among the more important men who were patrons of the concert are george w wickersham 77 chairman of president hoover's law enforcement commission eu gene g grace 99 president of the board of trustees of the university and charles m schwab william c dickerman 96 rembrandt peale 83 and aubrey weymuth 94 all members of the board of trustees of the university phi club will elect two new members eligible sophomores should submit activities before march 10 two men were suspended for a year and placed on permanent dis cipline probation at a meeting of the committee on discipline held thursday these men were caught cheating in a final examination it is alleged the one man taking the other's exam dean mcconn said in connec tion with this case the committee on discipline seriously considered the penalty of expulsion it adopt ed the milder penalty of suspension for one year in consideration of the fact that heretofore it has used this penalty for all cases of cheating in final examinations including those involving clearly premediated dis honesty such as the use of a pre pared crib and it did not seem entirely fair or wise to adopt the much severer penalty of expulsion suddenly in an individual case and without previous warning but the dean was instructed by the com mittee to give notice through the brown and white that hereafter its penalty in all cases of clearly pre mediated dishonesty in final exam inations involving either a ringer or the use of a prepared crib will be a recommendation of expulsion one out of every eight men at le high went on probation the second semester and one out of every thirty flunked out according to the statis tics issued by the dean the men placed on probation number 174 — the same number that went on pro a year ago the flunk-outs this year were 51 against 60 last year approximately 1365 students sur vived the first semester 91 men having dropped out either by re quest or for some personal reason the registration of 75 new students 53 of whom are old lehigh stu dents raises the total enrollment for the second semester to 1440 the following is a summary of the first semester 1929-30 of the 51 men dropped 9 men were dropped under the old proba tion rules while 26 suffered the same fate under the new regula tions two men special cases were dropped until sept 1930 while 13 freshmen will be allowed to re-en ter in sept 1930 provided that they pass the necessary examinations 22 on permanent pro of the 174 men placed on proba tion 8 who are special cases con tinued on probation one hundred and ten members of the three upper classes were placed on probation by rule of these 22 are now on per manent probation freshmen on probation by this rule this semester number 56 under the old system any upper classman who did not pass nine hours was dropped from the univer sity the new system states that no student other than a first-semester freshman may be dropped until placed on probation under both the old and new systems a student on probation shall be dropped per manently if he fails to pass all but one four hour course or two courses whose credits total three hours a freshman not on probation must pass at least six hours to remain in college must pass 12 hours any student other than a first semester freshman who passed few er than 12 hours shall be put on pro bation a first-semester freshman who passes six hours but fewer than 11 hours shall be put on pro bation any student placed on pro bation a second time shall remain on probation throughout the re mainder of his course a senior is no exception accord ing to the probation rules a sen ior must pass the required 12 hours to remain off pro in the case of seniors who are liable of flunking out the committee on standing of students will consider the case in dividually expels four hazers after midnight raid two members will be elected to the phi club sophomore honorary athletic fraternity to fill the places left vacant by harry a mears and oliver pinkney who left school at the end of last semester all sophomores who desire to en ter competition should submit a list of their activities to allen t ware at the delta tau delta house before monday march 10 to be eligible for membership in the phi club a man must have at least one set of freshman numerals other activities are optional but will count toward election no definite plans for the election have been made yet but a meeting will be held in the near future to decide upon the records of the can didates stoughton in canada north carolina students found guilty of breaking college rules register out soon no drill will be held after the annual inspection of the war de partment but three extra drill days before the inspection were approv ed at a meeting of the faculty held yesterday afternoon the war • department through president richards announced that it will be possible for a student who elects advanced m s & t and who does not go to summer camp to re ceive his diploma by giving back to the government the salary he received this however does not graduate him with a commission in the reserve officers training corps in past years a student who elected advanced military science and who did not go to summer camp was not given his diploma until he made up the summer work members of the senior class of m s & t will go to gettysburg saturday morn ing march 8 the dedication of the new library will take place friday april 25 no definite plans have been announced but there will be an academic pro cession of the faculty and delegates from other universities and colleges the date of inspection trips was voted changed from the third week in november and the first week in may to three days before thanks giving and three days before eas ter vacation this action was taken to reduce the break in the studies authorities said professor hughes announced that all men who have not taken psy chological tests will be required to meet monday evening march 10 in room 466 packard auditorium where the test will be given prof reynolds announced a meet ing of the faculty educational club march 17 to consider possible aids to consistent grading in the differ ent departments of the university professors weida and newcmnb will lead the discussion a motion was carried that all engineering seniors must attend the lecture on the welding symposium to be held friday april 11 in pack ard auditorium it was decided that the phi beta kappa dinner will be held april 10 in hotel bethlehem dean f j woodbridge of the graduate school of columbia university will be the speaker the faculty approved the follow ing varsity baseball schedule april s—ursinus5 — ursinus home april 9 — haverford home april 12 — rutgers away april 16 — princeton away april 19 — navy away april 21 ■. pending april 22 — fordham away april 23 — army away april 23 — army away april 26 — city college of n v home april 30 — rutgers home may 3 — lafayette home may 6 — villanova home may 10 — lafayette away may 13 — u of pennsylvania away may 14 — muhlenberg home may 1 7 — lafayette home june 6 — muhlenberg home june 7 — villanova , . . home agents to interview senior mechanicals the new register is in the hands of the printer and will be ready for distribution about march 10 accord ing to dean curtis the register will be printed during the first sem ester but with this year's issue it will go back to the old policy of being issued during march this is being done because of the number of changes after the first semester prof bradley stoughton head of the metallurgical department will leave for toronto tomorrow where he will present papers before two societies on friday he will address the canadian institute of mining and metallurgy on the economic aspects of sponge iron production in canada the following evening he will discuss metals used in air craft construction before the royal canadian institute representatives of five companies to survey graduating class campus bell forgotten serving as pigeon roost the psi upsilon theta delta chi and theta kappa phi frater nities brought their initiation cere monies to a close saturday evening with dinners in honor of the new brothers the lehigh chapter of psi up silon held its initiatory dinner in the university room of the hotel bethlehem following the conferring of rites upon ten men the newly initiated men are joseph walter towle 31 lewis fred bomhoff jr 32 theodore robinson angle jr 33 jackson leroy boughner 33 william burrill crouse 33 william henry charles 33 ed mond douglass brigham 33 wil liam ramsburg rupley 33 ed ward joseph mchugh 33 george eugene matthews 33 the toastmaster was cadwallader evans 01 alumni trustee fifteen alumni were back for the ceremon ies and 45 persons attended phi gamma delta initiated four men saturday evening the initiates were : donald h anderson 33 louis a brettnet 31 george c doering 33 and henry c stier 33 the theta delta chi fraternity held its banquet in the private din ing room at hotel bethlehem with the cover laid for 35 edmund a staub 30 was master of cere monies and the alumni guest speak ers were dr h m ullman and prof a s cooley the latter of moravian seminary and college for women theta delta chi initiated five men donald smith homer c lackey edwin w seiler john r taft and nelson b fry all of the class of 33 a banquet at the bethlehem club saturday evening closed the initia tion week of the alpha chapter of theta kappa phi the entire chap ter the initiates and two alumni members william n mandour 21 and john a nork 21 attended the men initiated were zigman w zakorka 31 robert c braun 31 thaddeus w drobek 32 ste ven a hudak 33 john j mc govern 33 joseph a quinn 33 and richard l snyder 33 one honorary member william f mea ley a former member of the class of 1931 was also admitted banks disputed in history talk four students of north carolina sate college have admitted taking part in an attack upon charles kel lenberger a sophomore and as a consequence will be expelled the students masked are accused of en tering kellenberger's room early one morning and attacking him and beating him to insensibility with a blackjack the would-be hazers de nied using a blackjack when they were brought before college offi cials dean cloyd of the college stated that those guilty of hazing would be expelled hazing is forbidden by a statute in north carolina and criminal ac tion can be brought against students guilty of the attack college offi cials said that expulsion from col lege would be as far as they wished to carry the matter seniors in the mechanical engin eering department will be inter viewed by representatives of five in dustrial concerns during the next week w p wattles of the bell tel ephone company s h shipley of the york ice machine company r m hardgrove of the fuller le high company and m m price of the babcock-wilcox company will interview senior mechanicals on march 3 on march 5 the mechani cals will be interviewed by j c arnell of the new york edison company cyanide holds dance music was furnished by the or chestra from the hotel bethlehem mr and mrs robert b adams were chaperons cyaaide's first tea dance of the season was held saturday afternoon in drown hall following the wrestl ing meet due to the fact that the meet was finished so late there was a small attendance at the dance a number of girls from moravian sem inary were present following a banquet at the ho tel bethlehem at which they will be guests of the bethlehem mon arch club lehigh debaters will en gage a team from gettysburg col lege gettysburgh pa this evening this will be the seventh debate of the year so far the local debaters have lost but twice the proposition will be re solved that the united states should withdraw from the kellogg peace pact lehigh's affirmative team will consist of matthew mur phy 33 george w parsons 31 leader and emanuel honig 31 this trio won an audience decision from ursinus college last week three members of the monarch club will act as judges they are prof c h rominger of cedar crest the rev james robinson and the rev c a meilicke the gettysburg debaters are on tour last evening they debated at rutgers other debates include western maryland temple st jo seph's and westminister gettys burg is noted for its excellent de bating teams lost to bethany lehigh's affirmative team on the proposition resolved that the evils of the machine age outweigh its benefits lost a 2-1 decision to debaters from bethany college bethany w va over wcba fri day evening the team was com posed of matthew murphy 33 ed ward fleischer 33 and emanuel scoblionko 31 leader the judges were dean a g rau of moravian college h a farber assistant su perintendent of schools of lehigh county and l f hess principal of south side high school the bethany debaters were elton l behm q ennis bailey and clarence schnars the rebuttal was given by edward green prof os borne booth coach of debating ac companied the team which debated at albright thursday evening sigma nu and beta theta pi en tertained the bethany debaters ov ernight the monarch club will provide overnight enteftainrtfent for the gettysburg debaters lafayette here friday the most important debate of the year that with lafayette will be held at 8 p m friday in the pack ard laboratory the proposition will be resolved that the evils of the machine age outweigh its bene fits lehigh will support the affir mative the speakers being matthew murphy 33 edward fleischer 33 and emanucl scoblionko 31 leader the same evening lehigh's nega tive team on the machine age ques tion will debate rutgers university at new brunswick the team con sists of manuel ruderman 33 guy woman 30 and george parsons 31 leader rutgers negative will debate at easton friday night it is hoped to make the rutgers-le high-lafayette triangle permanent world news the people and peace poor haiti the object of the war a worried king g.w.t the london conference is at a standstill and while the verbal warfare concerning the parley goes merrily on the people become more and more certain that those present are not virtuously trying to disarm but are merely endeavoring to get rid of a little surplus obsolete and inefficient naval equipment the delegates to the conference are not voicing the popular desires of their nations but are present at the conference to make certain that their countries do not have their naval strength reduced beyond the point consistent with national se curity there appears to be consid erable disagreement as to just what is consistent with national secur ity the peoples of the world demand that the delegates come to terms the people are tired of diplomacy and this national security bunk the people want disarmament and the elimination of the possibilities of future wars over 85 per cent of all taxes paid to the national gov ernments is being expended in the pursuits of wars the london conference repre sents those who make wars and not those who bear the burden of war and do the fighting a conference composed of the true representa tives of the people of the world would have outlawed war centuries ago * * * the recent action of the haitians in protest against the american commission which is attempting to investigate the situation there proves that something vital is wrong with our present system of tutelage and control to which the island is subjected by treatry the haitians are to be given self-gov ernment in 1936 and evidently the people of haiti believe that the pres ent commission is looking for evi dence that will prove haiti to be incapable of self-government there is only one thing wrong with haiti — american control haiti is not our country and am erican marines are not wanted there the united states was given the power to collect the customs of haiti and not to rob it of its self respect and self-government back of all this revolution and counter revolution on this poor exploited is land there can be seen a seething discontent against the write for eigner who uses the country for nothing other than a source of profit haiti which cannot protect it self must bow beneath the weight of a greater nation — an imperialis tic and economic force which wills itself to dominate and control un der the guise of civilization and progress poor savage defenseless ignorant haiti * *. * a state of uncertainty and con fusion possesses the civilized world concerning the reports of the sov iets alleged persecution of the church in russia that russia has suddenly turned athisstic is untrue there is no war against the church the recent anti-church uprising is the aftermath of kulak opposition to the collective farm movement this opposition received considerable considerable support from the rural clergy who have opposed the com munistic doctrine in russia the de struction of crops and the attacks upon the soviet workers were often instigated by priests the soviet has declared war upon the oppon ents of the collective system and as the church has been one of the chief reactionists it must suffer along with the other enemies of the government the soviet is at tacking the church for the same reason that our own government deals rather harshly with alleged reds and communists in this country they are enemies of the state in the meantime there is no cause for worry or fear russia is able to handle its own problems without outside interference russians know what they are doing they will take care of themselves leave russian problems to the russians we have enough problems of our to take care of — the prohibition question for instance * ♦ * spain has virtually returned to the strict dictatorship that was the vogue before the downfall of the de rivera government a few weeks ago the present government of premier damasa berenguer has gone back to the rigid censorship and restraint of free political as sembly and public expression that was characteristic of the de rivera regime and while disorder and open censorship developes through out spain king alfonso is becom ing worried about his crown in order to allay the movement toward democracy spanish officials are endeavoring to place all the blame for the acts of the dictator ship upon the fallen de rivera and his cabinet in madrid students who shouted death to the king and long live the republic were jailed and charged with trea son nevertheless the king is wor ried and he has much reason to be dong a flat metallic dong rings out from the tower of packer hall few down on the campus hear it or pay any attention to it in this day of electric gongs and wrist watches it means nothing in fact for weeks at a time the clock running the striking mechanism is out of order but at one time the bell tolling the time of day meant a lot to students and townspeople alike now in the tower everything points to the oblivion in which it has fallen few even know where the entrance to the belfry is located the storage room through which one enters to the top is cold damp musty and full of cobwebs up a flight of 25 steps through a trap door and one is on the second floor of the tower up 14 steps more and one sees the little shanty which houses the striking mechanism the shanty itself is interesting initials and names of lehigh men for the past 20 years can be found on it as well as these two yells hi hi we cry 94 lehigh hooray tangent hooray sine hooray lehigh 1909 forty steps up is the bell itself cast by mencelys of west troy n y in 1866 it is about two feet in diameter and has a striking ham mer which resembles a ten pound sledge hammer and a clapper swinging inside which weighs five pounds and is as big as a man's fist a rope dropping to the store room three stories below makes it possible to ring out victories or toll out the passing of prominent men two dead pigeons who seem to have checked their speedy flight against a staircase are lying peace fully by and now still upward 89 steps to the floor in the tower whose lattice work walls appear rather small from the ground below pigeon nests are found in the cor ner of the stairs some of them contain a squab unable to fly who gives a plaintive coo when the b.eams of the flashlight meet its eyes a ladder gives access to the last floor nothing but empty beer and whiskey bottles here over on the walls which extend up into the peak are the names of two alumni f w sargent 79 and abner bruner 80 the date with the names is oct 17 1879 in the quiet tower the names seem to beckon one back into the past when the tower was new and lehigh young tawresey to speak j s tawresey of the s k f in dustries incorporated will speak on bearings before the members of the mechanical engineering society at 7:30 p m march 6 in room 466 packard laboratory the talk will be illustrated with slides the meeting will be open to the public dr neil carothers professor of economics disagreed with the alle gation of dr william l wester maim professor of history at co lumbia university that there were ancient banks last thursday eve ning in packard auditorium before the eta sigma phi society in his lecture doctor wester niann showed that banks existed through the empires of babylon egypt and that of alexander the great doctor carothers said that the institutions were not banks be cause they issued no checks or oth er fiduciary money dr horace w wright and dr e lv crum of the latin de partment and personal friends of the lecturer disagreed with dr carothers on the ground that an cient and modern plays are still known as plays why not they rea soned consider the ancient institu tions as much banks as the modern the lecturer owns a personal col lection of a papyri from which he deciphers the activities of ancient gentlemen's stewards and other economic phenomena of the time julius seligson's name for the third consecutive year will be in scribed on the lamed cup and le high won the team trophy making her for the second time indoor in tercollegiate tennis champions sel igson after drawing a bye won his way through the remaining four rounds amassing 15 points and de feating robert ryan of yale in straight sets 6-4 6-4 6-2 for the singles championship seligson got off to a slower start than is customary and dropped the first set in the history of his col lege tennis when he took three sets to defeat j m richardson of dart mouth in the third round 4-6 6-1 6-3 his first match in the tourney was disposed of with the scores 6-1 7-5 as he eliminated s p hayes of amherst after the rich ardson match he regained his speed and came through the semi-finals with a display of fine tennis taking straight sets from gabriel lavine perm captain 6-0 7-5 it was the great accuracy with which seligson placed his drives that forced ryan to extend himself and finally tired him in the deciding set although ryan's play was brilliant when he gained the net he was outplayed by the steady placement drives of seligson that often found the re motest corners of the court ryan best at start ryan's best tennis was in the first set when the first eight games went to the service in the ninth game the y^ale man over drove the base line giving up for the first time his ser vice and the lehigh captain took the set only after the next game had twice gone deuce the second set found the service again winning the first five bames and after ry an had taken the sixth game on sel igson's double foot fault the le high captain ran off the next four games in the final set seligson captured the first three games and after los ing his next two services took the deciding game only after it had twice gone to deuce ryan won his way to the finals by defeating t d mac donald of dartmouth in three sets 7-5 4-6 6-2 doubles team fall seligson and snitken were no more fortunate this year than last year's team being eliminated in the semi-finals of the doubles play by the perm team composed of lavine and kardon in three sets 9-7 4-6 6-2 this team by defeating the dartmouth pair richardson and mac donald in a four set struggle 6-3 6-4 3-6 6-4 stopped the han over team in their bid for the tro phy dartmouth was leading at the end of the first day's play on fri day with a total of 12 points while lehigh was second with 10 tallys to their credit the scoring for the team championship was rockoned on the basis of 1 point for a vic tory in the first round of either the doubles or the singles two for the second round and so on for the fi nal round lehigh's final total was 19 points for the first place with perm and dartmouth second and third with 16 and 15 respectively sidney snitken seligson's team mate was eliminated early in the singles play by a 1-6 7-5 6-0 set back in the second round after drawing a bye in his first match this was snitken's first taste of col lege tennis and his defeat may be attributed to his inexperience in such tournaments carl dennison of ohio state defeated snitken and was the only man to score for his team yale is fourth the fourth scoring team in the tourney was yale with 14 points following this the scoring took a decided drop to princeton and cor nell tied for fifth with four count ers this fact shows the superior ity of the leading four teams in in door tennis and illustrates lehigh's narrow margin in winning the team trophy continued on page four there should be little dispute as to seligson's title as intercollegiate indoor champion after winning this title every year of his varsity ten nis career the lehigh captain has still to be defeated in any inter collegiate tennis match this as a record which is extraordinary in tennis circles this is his last year of competition and if he continues his pace there is no reason why he should not annex the intercollegiate title again seligson won the inter collegiate matches in his sophomore year but defaulted them last year according to dr carothers le high's tennis coach seligson is in better condition this year than he has been since he started college tennis and the lehigh captain has lehigh university brown and white vol xxxvii no 35 frosh must swim to get gym credit lehigh professors long records bring gray hairs reporter finds bethlehem pa tuesday march 4 1930 exams get toll of 51 men out and 174 on pro keeps lamed cup 3 extra drills before review tfaculty decides price five cents seligson victor keeps lamed cup lehigh star wins indoor tennis tourney at cornell plans soon to be an nounced for library dedication program one out of every eight men fails to pass re quired hours 1365 students survive phi beta kappa to meet b & w wants report all those not receiving their copies of the brown and white regularly are requested to leave their names in gennet's hox in the brown and white room coming events wednesday 7 p m freshman basketball vs rutgers freshmen taylor gym 7:30 p m meeting of faculty dra matic club at 37 e church street 8 p m varsity basketball vs rut gers varsity taylor gym thursday 7:30 p m meeting of the lehigh student branch of the american society of mechanical engineers room 466 packard laboratory friday 4 p m yale university photoplay wolfe and montcalm packard auditorium 8 p m debate with lafayette col lege packard auditorium all the lehigh news first