Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 9

              alexander,donahue play lafayette rally decided hold up work on grace hall fall houseparty week-end passed with only a few unpleas ant ripples to disturb a gener ally well-conducted round of festivities the senior ball at tendance spoke well for its pop ularity and the saturday night dancers whom i observed were still bearing up with fortitude under the strain of a strenuous round of events the saturday afternoon successes in soccer and football surely contributed to keeping up any lagging spir its to all students who gave the administration their sincere co operation i wish to extend my thanks the university also wishes to express publicly its sincere appreciation to the six ty-two couples who so gener ously and graciously gave their services as chaperons wray h congdon dean of undergraduates went out , mr leach pondered the question of entertainment partly in order to pass the lonely hours and partly to satisfy his artistic soul our librarian chose a copy of the bible a volume of shakespere reade's cloister and the hearth mellock's john halifax gentle man we never heard of that one either galsworthy's forsyte saga dickens old curiosity shop a a milne's when we were very young and a volume of stevenson's essays he stated that it was exceedingly difficult for one who as a librarian is acquainted with so much good literature to choose only ten books and said he would probably pick ten different volumes if asked the same question tomorrow when asked why he chose no modern novels mr leach gave it as his opinion that there have been none produced in the last quarter of a century which are even worth considering he made no mention of log tables or esquire have any of you book-loving engineers ever considered the ten books-on-a-desert-island prob lem which volumes would you choose if you were marooned with nothing else to do but live and read these two horrible questions were posed to howard s leach university librarian in a recent interview after some thought he said that he couldn't imagine him self in such a near-bookless state very well having been so closely asociated with books for so long but that he would have a stab at it anyway after lighting a cigarette with two sticks matches the first one mr leach who by the way should theoretically be an author ity on this matter of the value of books gave his first choice as de foe's robinson crusoe because of the suggestions for getting along on a desert island he picked a boy scout handbook for the same rea increase meetings to twice monthly reading times editor to talk sales of review near high point e freshwater to speak at pi delta epsilon initiation banquet tone to study symphony by beethoven dennison fears shortage of issue's copies a smoker to be held on nov 10 before the muhlenberg game was included in the plans made by ar cadia student governing body last night in drown hall announced fred e galbraith jr arts 40 it was also decided to hold the traditional rally and smoker on the eve of the lafayette game and to have exhibits similar to those of last year a parade across the new street bridge concludes the rally the time-honored serenade of fem-sem will be omitted as the girls will be on vacation arcadia's budget for the coming year is to be submitted to dean congdon for approval it was sta ted in a report that more than 200 was made on the sale of freshman hats this money was turned over to the freshman employment fund and is to be handled by e robins morgan director of the placement bureau for aid to freshman stu dents turned over to frosh fund approval was given to the flood lighting of packard laboratory and the alumni memorial building and it was voted to flood-light these and possibly several more buildings next year the final approval was given to the new cheerleading plan for next year the cheerleaders under this plan will consist of two seniors two juniors four sophomores and a freshman squad eligible for num erals • dftfci plans for sports building incomplete ; survey now being made grace hall will not be completed as planned for the opening of school next year but should be ready by january or february of 1941 it was learned today from in terviews with president c c will iams and andrew w litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds plans and contracts for new 300,000 sports building do nated by eugene g grace 99 president of the board of trustees will not be completed for at least another two months because of the building's unique character a careful survey of au ditoriums and gymnasiums of both the east and the middle west is being made by james l burley architect for the new building the reason for this extensive survey is to assure the school that grace hall when completed will meet all requirements the structure is to be three stor ies high it will contain room for intra-mural sports with the first floor devoted exclusively to squash courts ana boxing the second floor to basketball and wrestling and the top floor used partly as a dance floor and partly as space for r o t c drills plans for a sports theater are also being made and if they have are successful an audi torium large enough to seat the whole university will be made possible ford speaks at princeton lehigh together with 30 colleges in the middle atlantic states this week is conducting a poll of stu dent opinion dealing with topics of national and international import ance each student today will re ceive a copy of the poll which is sponsored by the intercollegiate newspaper association instructions for handling the poll are as follows each student should indicate a single choice of several alternatives under each question when the sheet has been filled out it should be given to the head of the living group from whom they will be collected by a brown and white representative ballots may also be deposited in the arcadia office in drown hall one ques tion included in the poll for the benefit for co-ed schools is to be omitted to publish results results of the poll at lehigh will be published in a future issue of the paper plans are also being made to release the collective poll results of colleges in the lehigh valley who make up the poll com mittee of the i n a a meeting will be held tonight at cedar crest by editors of the cedar crest mor avian college for women muh lenberg and lehigh student publi cations they will discuss details of the poll and plan for tabulation of the final results howard m conner arts 40 edi tor of the brown and white and vice-president of the i n a will present a report of the poll to the association at its fall convention to be held nov 10 and 11 at buck nell university other representa tives of the brown and white who will attend the convention are fred e galbraith arts 40 edi torial manager john h mathew son bus 40 business manager and carl fittkau arts 40 news manager will be annual soph tradition sophcopation selected from long list shick quits globe-times dr adelbert ford head of the psychology department gave an address on thursday to the prince ton psychology seminary graduate school his report was based on the research which he had carried on there during the second semester of last year while on leave of ab sence new forms of newspaper com petition will be the subject of an address to be given by eagle freshwater publisher of the read ing times tomorrow evening at the fall initiation banquet of pi delta epsilon honorary collegiate journalism fraternity at the pi kappa alpha house preceding the banquet six jun iors and three seniors will be ini tiated into membership they were elected thursday afternoon in the lehigh review room of drown hall before becoming publisher of the reading times freshwater had served as advertising manager of the detroit times and advertis ing manager of seattle post-intel ligencer held many positions a graduate of ohio wesleyan he broke into newspaper work as a reporter on the ohio state journal of columbus ohio after that he served as associate-director of amos parrish and company store merchandising councilors of new york city he also served as editor of furniture record the leading this month's issue of the lehigh review has been approaching a high point in circulation according to donald g dennison i e 40 business manager so that there is danger that the review will sell out before the demand is supplied the feature of the issue is a take off on the brown and white by eric weiss 39 this four page ar ticle is entitled the frown and bite the cover pictures marian whit ney model for the chesterfield ad vertisements who posed especially for the review photograph among the contributors is mrs valeric casey last years selection as ideal houseparty date who writes of her experiences at former houseparties david g de beau champ arts 41 and james k binder arts 41 both contributed short stories student grants for lehigh an article written after an interview with glen w harmeson head football coach by howard j lew is arts 40 discusses the problem of granting aid to athletically gift ed students who could not enter lehigh without such aid leonard snick 37 has given up his post on the bethlehem globe times to take a position with the continued on page 4 metropolitan insurance company band makes heart formation as feature for houseparty guests tone student honorary musical society is increasing the number of its monthly meetings from one to two frederick r gilmore arts 41 vice-president of the group an nounced last evening the group will meet at 7:30 p m on friday in the chapel to study beethoven's third eroica sym phony which is a part of this week's n b c orchestra program 10:00 p m station wjz don ald r schoen arts 41 will have charge of this meeting and the cape-hart set's recording of this work will be played and analyzed this meeting will be open to all persons who care to attend and is scheduled to last until 9 p m gilmore also announced that the meeting scheduled for nov 10 at which a discussion of lehigh's mu sic policy was to have been held has been postponed one week until friday evening nov 17 in the future meetings of the society will be scheduled for the second and fourth fridays of each month by edward b annett the solid sending of van alexander kept couples in con stant motion with most them doing everything from the lindy hop to the rhumba close to 500 couples filled both the main dining room and the cry stal ballroom of the hotel bethle hem friday night as the orchestras of al donahue and van alexander played to suit the tastes of both the ever jitting jitterbugs and the more quiet sophisticates the sweet-swing cult spent most of the evening in the main dining room where al donahue played music for smooth dancing al though much of the time he also used a very fast tempo to make the evening more enjoyable al played some of lehigh's school songs in a manner such as they have probably never before been played with all the studinks and their dates joining in the sing ing phyllis kenny sings by midnight the two dance floors were so crowded that it be came almost impossible to do any type of jitterbugging thereby making the remainder of the ev ening really delightful for the pro ponents of sweet dancing phyllis kenny provided the feminine touch to alexander's band while peggy nolan did the vocal honors for donahue after the football game with buffalo university many couples attended the traditional tea dance at the maennerchor pretzels beer and songs added the extra atmos phere to the dance the saturday night house dan ces were well attended with cou ples attempting to dance at the greatest number of houses in the least amount of time the lookout had its share of ten minute visitors seeking parking space in order to obtain a better survey of the houseparty on the campus below sunday morning overlapped sat urday night's festivities as some 600 dates snatched a few winks before preparing to embark on their jour neys home tired but happy at having seen lehigh's social life athletic activities and even class room existence reiter is honored series for alumni trenton dinner starts new because of a need felt by the sophomore class for an annual sophomore dance sophcopation will be made a permanent lehigh tradition following the lafayette football game the name sophcopation was coined from the words sophomore and syncopation this name is part of the plan to make the dance an important lehigh social function the name was submitted by rob ert n gusdorff bus 42 and was carefully selected from a long list of other names henry busse shuffle-rhythm king was selected because of the large popular response he has met with in southern and western col leges last week he played at duke university after having a successful reception at southern college ani this week he is scheduled to enter tain at the university of north carolina the dance will be held nov 25 in the national guard armory and bids are now open for the coat checking and refreshment conces sions with the addition of this sophomore dance the weekend of the lafayette game and the alum ni homecoming should almost ri val houseparty weekend as far as social life is concerned leonard speaks to group on problems of defense a large delegation of alumni at tended the testimonial dinner thursday night at trenton given in honor of howard bosey rei ter professor of physical educa tion this meeting began a series of fall alumni meetings the northern new jersey le high club will hold a dinner at the suburban golf and country club near trenton on the 16th or 17th of november the southern new england le high club will give a dinner nov 17 in bridgeport walter okeson treasurer of lehigh university will be the guest of honor a pep dinner will be given nov 4 by the young lehigh graduates of atlantic city who are organizing an alumni club of south jersey the first meeting is to stir up spirit for the lehigh-haverford game pres williams selected for neutrality committee the music in my heart i bore long after it was heard no more incidental to the successful performance saturday was the six hours spent by thet band in creating this one formation the band also formed a l u with the heart as a centerpiece and they welcomed buffalo adherents who made the long trek with a block b don young ch e 40 was responsible for the opening fanfare arrangement which combined let me call you sweetheart i love you truly and the wedding march into a whirlwind musical courtship in addition the 108 musicmakers played popular songs among them the lamp is low over the rainbow and the angels sing col joseph s leonard head of the department of military science and tactics spoke on national de fense problems at a meeting of the nativity young peoples society on sunday evening the speaker stressed the import ance of maintaining a large navy in order to keep this hemisphere clear of aggressor nations he also pointed out that strong defenses should be kept at the hawaiian is lands aleutian islands and the panama canal emphasizing the necessity of keeping the latter ex ceptionally well fortified so that our navy can sail from one ocean to another without going around south america president c c williams has been selected a member of the na tional non-partisan committee for peace through revision of the neutrality law by william allen white nationally known newspa perman and chairman of the com mittee the committee consists of more than 250 americans who think that elimination of the arms embargo and application of the cash and carry plan are the best methods of keeping the united states neutral in the present european war all of which was written by wordsworth a long time ago in some careless moment just how he knew that the lehigh band was going to make music while arranged in a heart formation we don't know but we do know that the band came through with as nice a heart saturday as has been tossed to the lehigh houseparty dates in many a moon super-special about this heart was a pretty arrow which inarched right through the heart and stayed there we always heard that lehigh was a hard hearted place and we rather expected to see the arrow bounce off a few times but when student leader ralph e martin plans a formation it works brown and white price — five cents dean congdon issues houseparty statement leach picks em -- those 10 tomes on a desert isle bethlehem pa tuesday october 24 1939 pep smoker will be held november 10 500 couples are present at senior ball directory to go on sale vol xlvii — no 9 30 colleges to participate in i.n.a poll houseparty dates are also entertained at game saturday dances affair will occur friday before muhlenberg football game subjects of international importance are part of questionnaire lehigh b to be included the lehigh student directory will be on sale at the supply bureau beginning tomorrow announced registrar george b curtis containing names and addresses of the faculty and stu dents as well as officers of or ganizations and committees the directory will be available at forty cents per copy of this iss ue 650 copies have been printed z 612 all the lehigh new first member intercollegiate newspaper association