Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 36

              stars and planets sub ject of concluding talk of series lehigh chapter of na tional society holds annual election succeeded esty here six are arts students slides to be shown guests to be roasted affair will emulate an nual washington press dinners four are in engineering college one from business school prof joseph w barker prof j b reynolds barker speaks to home club discusses engineering cur riculum before lehigh group monday flying club may resume activity airport men seek remov al of lehigh's ban on aviation and out of christmas-saucon hall mr litzenberger explained he said that individuals other than lehigh men were stealing materials and committing nuisances after dark in christmas-saucon hall there also has been similar trouble at the tay lor gymnasium which is open eve nings for fraternity and dormitory sports when asked how closing the gate would keep out these un desirables if other entrances re main open mr litzenberger ex plained that such persons are usual ly too lazy to walk around on mr litzenberger's arrival at the university last may the building program included plans for the erection of gates at main college en trances mr litzenberger said the enclosure of college property will be necessary to keep an undesirable element of bethlehem's citizenry from defacing the campus and using it as a public park he stated but until the board of trustees meets in the latter part of april no ac tion will be taken he informed the reporter the supervising architect stated the rear entry to christmas-saucon hall had just been fitted with pan ic hardware to comply with state fire law regulations the outside latches had to be removed to do this he is communicating with the department of labor and industry at harrisburg to obtain permission to place an outside knob on this door according to mr litzenberger the outer knobs will be installed with in two weeks time he said that the inconvenience to professors and students caused by this installation was lamentable but unavoidable the inconvenience o.f the locked gate at the east end of christmas saucon hall ended at 8:47 a m thursday when a workman super vised by prof w a slater direc tor of fritz laboratory sawed through the offending lock at 9:31 a m a university workman unlock ed the regular padlock and traffic up the hill began again professor slater declined to make any state ment concerning his action the fritz laboratory gate will remain closed until the person re sponsible for putting his lock on removes it stated a w litzen berger supervising architect wed nesday after the gate has been closed for two days to a brown and white reporter he also stated that the university building plan calls for the erection of gates at all college entries but no action will be taken until after the meeting of the board of trustees the latter part of april 1 regret that the student body and the faculty are inconvenienced and are forced to use other campus entrances he continued but uni versity employees will not spend their time sawing locks off the fritz laboratory gate monday morning someone jammed chewing gum into the keyhole of the lock i regarded this as a practical joke and had the lock removed on tuesday a new padlock was found on the gate i am going to ignore it if this one were sawed off it would be a nev er-ending process the fence and gate on packer avenue were erected some four or five years ago to keep an undesir able element off university property prof joseph warren barker head of the electrical engineering department has recently been ap pointed dean of the faculty of en gineering at columbia university by the board of trustees of that insti tution professor barker will suc ceed prof george b pegram who has resigned after 13 years service the change becoming effective july 1 1930 professor barker came to lehigh last june from the massachusetts institute of technogoly as head of the department of electrical engin eering succeeding the late dr wil liam esty he was graduated from m i t in 1916 receiving the de gree of bachelor of science in elec trical engineering he served in the united states coast artillery from 1916 to 1925 wherr he resigned his commission as major to receive his degree of master of science and be come a member of the faculty at m i t columbia university has an en gineering staff of 111 members pro fessor barker expects to continue the work which columbia has started in giving engineering stu dents a six year course half of which is spent in the college of art and science as a prerequisite for en gineering professor barker's short stay here at lehigh has been marked by the establishment of the new headquar ters of the electrical department in the james ward packard labora tory as yet no successor to profes sor barker has been named engineers told future troubles debaters to meet lafayette tonight bearings exact tawresev says bain outlines difficulties to be encountered by graduates teams will argue on evils and benefits of machine age s k f engineer de scribes accuracy of manufacture the fact that it is impossible to turn out a finished engineer in four years from a university such as le high was pointed out by prof j w barker head of the electrical engineering department in his talk before the lehigh home club mon day evening in the hotel bethle hem in view of this fact professor barker explained that the principles of his department were to empha size the fundamentals rather than the practical applications of the ories other speakers at the meeting in cluded coach billy sheridan who explained the significance of ex perience in the mat sport and ex pressed optimistic feeling towards the intercollegiates at cornell election of officers and directors for the ensuing year also took place at the meeting the officers elected were a c cusick 23 president j m huebner 21 vice president and j w maxwell 26 secretary treasurer fifteen directors were also elected at this time all the of ficers and directors are either of this city or allentown council to vote on new officers the earth its neighboring plan ets of the solar system and the stars will be described by joseph b reynolds professor of mathe matics and theoretical mechanics in his lecture this world and oth ers at 8 o'clock monday evening in the auditorium of packard labora tory professor reynold's lecture is the sixth and last of the series of college lectures that deal with the general topic man's conquest of nature the audience will be conducted on an imaginary ride through space at the velocity of light 186,000 miles per second and the various celestial bodies will be pointed out in their turn the trip will begin with the solar system mercury venus earth and mars will be visited first and then the more distant jupiter saturn uranus and nep tune to explain planets professor reynolds will then take his audience out through space and describe in general their nature and the amount in which they are pres ent such phenomena as the milky way will be explained in the light of the recent astronomical investi gation in a way which they can be understood by the layman the tour over which professor reynolds will conduct his audience represents a period of five hundred thousand million years travelling all this time at the speed of light — 186.000 miles per second even at this speed and during this time no complete idea of the extent of space can be gained as science is at pres ent unable to determine this all di mensions exceeding imagination concepts of time new to the av erage layman will be advanced by professor reyonlds the calendar year has no significance when dealing with space such is its ex tent to cope with this astronomers have built around the light year the distance travelled by a ray of light in one year this brings distances into time but is the only remedy as pfdlti<jljfat|rtafr dsstjlice^-tnus the light ray the only physical phenomen known fiar be co»s*a*t ifolghhiiivwelh jsm & the establishment of ideas of dis btßqcwen^la eu s3 nis lecture with thirty slides show ing the various celestial bodies the lecture will be open to the pub lic the lehigh chapter of phi beta kappa national honorary scholastic fraternity elected 11 men from the class of 1930 to membership at a re cent meeting six were chosen from the college of arts and sciences one from the business department and four from the engineering col lege those elected from the college of arts and science included arthur davidowitz samuel s gidding richard j hoffman preston g justice stephen b toth and dud ley l harley who was the winner of 10,000 first prize in the national food preservation council essay contest held last december wil liam f powell jr was the only man to be elected from the bus iness administration department those elected from the engineer ing department were a j krantz mearle a kise alfred n rogers and carl r woll formal initia tion of the new men will take place april 3 further details will be an nounced later the annual open meeting and dinner of the lafayette and le high chapters of phi beta kappa will be held on the evening of ap ril 10 at the hotel bethlehem f j e woodbridge professor of phil osophy and dean of the faculties of political science philosophy pure science and fine arts at columbia university will be the speaker seniors in the college of arts and science and college of business ad ministration who have up to the middle of the senior year maintain ed an excellent scholastic record are eligible to membership a lim ited number of engineering students whose work in philosophical scien tific and language studies is of a high grade may also be elected to the society officers of phi beta kappa are as follows s m brown associate professor of history and govern ment president a g rau dean of moravian college for men vice president p m palmer head of the department of german and di rector of the college of arts and science secretary and r b cow in professor of accountancy treas urer relations club names officers okeson returns from trip south interfraternity body nom inates men for open positions university treasurer back after vacation at polk city aviation activities at lehigh are again about to assume organization in the form of another flying club allentown airport authorities who will supply planes and equipment for the club when formed are plan ning to confer with president c r richards within the next week for the purpose of negatiating for the removal of the presidential ban on a lehigh flying club a flying club had already been organized last spring when the president refused to allow student flying as long as the club was affil ated with the university and avia tion activities were dropped the suggestion was made that the club continue as an organization entirely separate from the university but no plans were made because of the fact that unless the club were affil etstivtil/i the university no mem bership in the intercollegiate fly ing association could be obtained s^pjjittt/filidincial backing could be expected rvvi-»tt«i»£t to form a gliding c«j#sr*ctk at lehigh has been postponed pending the outcome of the conference with president rich ards if the ban on flying is remov ed an airplane club will be organ ized immediately if the ban is not removed a gliding club will prob ably be formed a nearby airport has offered to sell a glider to the club if formed or to supply all fa cilities necessary for the student members to make it themselves all details pertaining to either the glider or airplane club will be pub lished immediately following the president's announcement concern ing flying at lehigh which will be issued within the next week difficulties encountered by min ing engineers and geologists after leaving college were discussed last evening by dr h foster bain sec retary of the american institute of mining and metallurgical engin eers before the lehigh mining and geological society dr bain surveyed the fields into which the mining engineer enters and described the demands of these fields he paid particular attention to foreign fields and explained the advantages and disadvantages of a graduate going into foreign country to work dr bain expressed himself as thinking it better for the grad uate engineer to accept the position which offers opportunity in prefer ence to one which offers greater immediate financial returns dr bain has been closely con nected with mining and geology all his life he has been at different times head of the united states bureau of mines member of state geological surveys and consuling mining engineer marksmen win five contests newtonian club pledges twenty new officers were elected and seven students were elected to membership at a meeting of the in ternational relations club last night in packard auditorium the officers elected were emanuel scoblionko president irving gennet vice president emanuel honig secre tary and j b stromann treasurer the new members are erwin un derwood george parsons engle man wilkinson jerome mayer monga and landyl these men were selected upon a basis of schol arship and training in history and government plans were discussed and a com mittee formed to represent lehigh at a mock league of nations meet ing at lafayette next month the delegates will be assigned their countries and will then work out their program accordingly at tempts are being made to secure a speaker at some future date students must take intelligence tests late psychological examination will be offered monday the interfraternity council nom inated 11 men for offices of the so ciety at a meeting held monday evening in drown hall the nomin ees are as follows president f a rushong and r s chess jr vice president s h condit w s clark and r l baird treasurer e a fay a w thornton jr and f a stutz secretary l h platt w e seeburger and r h druk ker these men will be voted upon at the april meeting of the coun cil pi kappa alpha was accepted into the membership of the inter fraternity council pi kappa alpha was until recently the local frater nity zeta chi the local organiza tion was admitted into pi kappa alpha in september of last year organization begain in 1924 as the seal club 1 later the name was changed to the lehigh ivy club and some time later to the zeta chi fraternity the possibilities of an interfra ternity baseball league were discus sed and the suggestion was passed on to the different houses to be discussed and decided upon prominent students and popular members of the faculty this morn ing received blackmail notes from the lehigh chapter of pi delta ep silon national honorary journalistic fraternity challenging them to be roasted and fried upon an infernal gridiron at a gridiron banquet spon sored by the fraternity thursday evening april 10 at the hotel beth lehem the lack of speeches will make this function unique a locked box significantly decor ated by louis a brettner a burr artist has been placed in the sup ply bureau to receive the tribute de manded in the blackmail upon re ceipt of tribute pi delta epsilon will send a card of admission to all those signifying their intention of being present the tribute box will be emptied daily banquet like cremation the banquet will be a mixture of the kind sponsored by washington newspaper correspondents for fed eral officers every fall and the cal culus cremation an old lehigh tra dition the calculus cremation was given annually until 1919 and then intermittently until 1925 every fall washington newspa permen invite selected congress men cabinet members and the president to a banquet at which the weaknesses and foibles of the legislative powers are brought to light and roasted upon an infernal gridiron the calculus cremations were the height of entertainment of the col legiate year for the lehigh valley before they were discontinued be cause of unnecessary roughness people from all over^gethlehem and vicinity used to gather in taylor stadium one night every spring to watch the students re-enact the events of the past college year in a travesty on conditions as they ex isted forgotten episodes were ex tracted from cold storage explain ed and magnified for public appro val affair held annually the gridiron banquet is an an nual event at the university of il linois northwestern university colgate university hamilton col lege george washington univer sity and other equally prominent educational institutions pi delta epsilon will sponsor the first one at lehigh this year donald l wright 30 is president of the le high chapter and george w scho enhut 30 is chairman of the ban quet committee the banquet program will be kept secret until the night it is scheduled just as there was no public notice of the banquet until the invitations were sent out yesterday morning following the custom of the washington gridiron dinners noth ing that is said or done by any guest will ever reach print in eith er the brown and white or any professional newspaper richards to attend the committee chairman desires that all men intending to attend the banquet would respond imme diately since due to the nature of the program it is impossible to make final arrangements until the exact personnel is known a card of admission will be sent to every man paying his tribute most prominent among those in vited are president c r richards mayor robert m pfeifle vice president nat m emery dean c m mcconn superintendent of po lice f t trafford professors bradley stoughton j s long and others some of the students are tubby miller ed blackmar ziggy letowt ellis oiler and tom nora w r okeson treasurer of the university returned this week from polk city florida where he was vacationing during february okey and his wife made their trip by auto on their way they drove iri snow or sleet until they reached charleston n c which was bur ied under inches of snow the rest of the journey however was made during better weather the first stop was made at wil mington delaware where okey met chuck hess 26 former back field coach who is now in charge of the wilmington plant of the dravo constracting company and v b edwards 12 general man ager of that company at st petersburg okey met e k hall chairman of the football rules committee and a meeting of southern football officials was held there in summing up his trip okey said we travelled down there stopped here and there and played golf and then came home westinghouse sends picture of merrick a degree of accuracy maintained in only very high grade instru ments is practiced in the manufac ture of ball bearings according to j s tawresey assistant chief en gineer of the s k f industries inc at a meeting of the mechanical engineering society last night in packard laboratory john marshall president of the society told of plans of the society for the com ing months at the conclusion of the meeting wilbur mount 31 and oliver pearre 32 were initiated into pi tau sigma honorary me chanical engineering society by harry zimmer the contact of a ball bearing is an ellipse and not a point as it com monly supposed and in like manner the contact of a roller bearing is in the form of a rectangle a peculiar fact in the measurement of roller bearings is the fact that the diam eters of the bearings are measured in inches or fractions of inches and all other measurements are meas ured in units of the metric system mr tawresey explained that s k f stands for the initials of the name of the company in sweden before coming to the united states the swedish name of the com pany is svenska kullager fabriken mr marshall announced a joint meeting of electrical engineering societies of eight colleges to be held in packard laboratory on mar 17 it is planned to have various en gines and pumps of the mechanical department running in order to give visiting members a chance to see them in operation they will be operated by seniors and juniors of the mechanical department col leges that will send representatives are lehigh haverford delaware drexel pennsylvania swarthmore princeton and lafayette speakers enter contest trials dramatic club reads tragedy by hebbell sophomore cabinet plans next banquet twenty members of the fresh man class were elected to member ship in the newtonian society at a meeting monday evening march 3 two papers were presented by students symetric functions was the title of the article presented by benjamin rabinowitz and sturm's functions was the article present ed by edgar stem the following were admitted to the mathematical society member ship w c bachman c d coxe dean r t decker j m deivees m dresher w w felton.r h garrett o graziano c e harri son j w langhaar c w lasch ober a j ricardo w w rolber w r rupley n j tuttle r l willis and f snavely coming events university receives portfolio of electric company's executive freshman regulations discusses greater enforcement ol the lehigh r o t c rifle team won five out of the six con tests held during the week of march defeating its opponents in each case with marked leads and losing the one match with the uni versity of north dakota by the narrow margin of three points the maximum possible score was 4,000 points consisting of the score of ten men each firing ten shots in the four following positions prone sitting kneeling and standing r f gadd g c vaughan e h noedel j d dickerson c a jeason k r schneck o otto da vidson gibbs and j m hazen who composed the lehigh team scored 3637 points r f gadd was the high scorer on the lehigh team with 376 points while g c vaughan was a close second with 370 the other score were as follows university of north dakota 3640 university of wisconsin 3597 uni versity of wichita 3320 university of de paw 3330 university of washington 3398 university of delaware 3327 arcadia to meet monday students who have not as yet taken the psychological examina tions required before graduation may do so by reporting to room 466 of the packard laboratory at 7:30 p m monday march 10 most of the men took the exam inations during freshman week any student not satisfied with the mark made in a previous psycholo gical examination may apply to prof percy hughes for permission to take this examination not later than 10 a m saturday march 8 students wishing to have their grades analyzed may do so by ap plying to a member of the depart ment of psychology arcadia will meet at 7:30 p m monday evening in drown hall in order to vote on the o d k plan for the distribution of activities other plans to be discussed will be the problem of walking on the grass and the time for the class elections arcadia wishes to have the elections held earlier in the spring than heretofore two lehigh students martin ga bel 32 and e g scoblionko 31 the latter a debater on the lehigh debating team have handed in their applications for the national ora torical contest the finals of this contest will be held june 22 so university cham pions will have to be chosen be fore april is and regional winners will be picked before the end of may it is hoped that the regional con test for this section will be held at lehigh this however will depend on a report from the executive com mittee of the contest which will be delivered in the near future part in agnes berneuer faculty members and wives take members of the faculty dramat ic club read agnes berneuer by hebbell last wednesday evening at a meeting at the home of prof rob ert w hall on e church street members of the faculty and their wives took part including profes sors john toohy e h riley c j goodwin p m palmer a w klein allison butts mr and mrs schenck mrs l l smail wife of prof l l smail and g a finch the play was a tragedy written by the german playwright hebbell a discussion of the play followed the meeting ■ a framed picture of frank an derson merrick e e 91 president of the westinghouse electric and manufacturing company has been received together with 20 other pictures from the westinghouse electric and manufacturing com pany by the mechanical engineer ing department included in the 21 framed pic tures is a photograph of b g lam me a prominent research man of the company and one of george westinghouse founder of the com pany the other 18 pictures are views of machines and building of the company friday 8:00 p m debate with lafayette college in packard auditorium saturday 2:30 p m wrestling meet with co lumbia at new york 2:30 p m swimming meet with new york university at new york sunday 9:00 a m hiking club outing — 12 miles up monocacy creek start ing at the memorial building monday 8:00 p m astronomy lecture this world and others by prof j b reynolds the success of the attempt of seven undergraduates and a faculty coach to revive debating at lehigh and stimulate interest in the activity will be shown this evening when a trio of brown and white speaker match wits with a team from laj fayette in the packard auditorium the first of two or three debates to i be held on the campus this season will begin at 8 o'clock lehigh wilf support the affirmative of the prop osition resolver that the evils of the machine age outweigh its benefits lehigh's team consists of mat thew murphy 33 edward fleisch er 33 and emanuel scoblionko 31 leader each man has debated several times this year the lafay ette debaters will be g w cresse 31 john hutchinson 32 and s j crundey 31 the lafayette coach is thomas w pomeroy director of public relations of lafayette col lege the lehigh debaters are coached by c d macdougall the lehigh - lafayette debate here will be but one leg of a triangle involving rutgers university as well a team supporting the nega tive side of the machine age ques tion will meet rutgers at new brunswick tonight the members of the team are manuel ruderman 33 guy vroman 30 and george parsons 31 leader the rutgers negative will debate lafayette's af firmative at easton the decision this evening will be by the audience everyone attend ing will be asked to express his opinion on the proposition both be fore and after the arguments the team changing the opinions of the greater number will be considered the winner dr neil carothers will be chairman lose to gettysburg this week lehigh debaters have entertained members of two local service clubs tuesday evening le high's affirmative team on the kel logg peace pact last a debate to a strong negative team from gettys burg college following a banquet at the hotel bethlehem as guests of the monarch club yesterday noon members of le high's two kellogg teams debated at a luncheon of the kiwanis club at the hotel bethlehem the debat ers were manuel ruderman eman uel scoblionko matthew murphy and george parsons the lehigh debaters were mat thew murphy 33 george par sons 31 leader and emanuel ho nig 31 the gettysburg debaters were c r jacobs lauri anderson and stewart herman prof thom as l cline head of the department of english and coach of debate ac companied the team the judges were the rev c a meilicke the rev james robinson and dr c h rominger of cedar crest preparations for the banquet and a discussion of freshmen violating rules was the only business taken up at the sophomore cabinet meet ing wednesday evening many sophomores have been ob jecting to the lack of enforcement of freshman rules and the cabinet is ready to take serious action upon any freshman whose name is turned in for disregarding any rule plans for the sophomore banquet have been completed and will be announced to members of that class soon bethlehem pa friday march 7 1930 eleven men added to phi beta kappa vol xxxvii no 36 brown and white stellar bodies reynolds topic in last lecture price five cents journalists send gridiron invitation slater removes gate lock as architect fails to act director of fritz laboratory refuses to issue statement as traffic up hill commences again unretarded to leave lehigh barker resigns to be columbia engineers dean to speak monday leaves lehigh to accept position at new york institution pi delta epsilon bids le high men and faculty to banquet apr 1 0 hygiene grades out re-examination grades in so cial hygiene will be available on friday march 7 and will be posted on the bulletin board of the department of bacteriology on the second floor of williams hall member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first