Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 15

              wins 2nd places in news advertising editorials tie with hatchet tau beta pi will tap 13 seniors 3 juniors tomorrow at 4 to be held next spring men elected thursday 5 delegates are present the total number of unexcused uts up to nov 6 is 3,535 according o dean wray h congdon of hese 340 cuts were taken by stu ients on the dean's list bringing he net unexcused cuts to 3,195 the average number of unex cused absences per student for all students is 1.98 the average for students not on the dean's list is 1.88 and the average for students on the dean's list is 3.18 dean congdon stated that although the figure for the students on the dean's list is considerably higher than the average for the whole student body this is due partially to the fact that such students do not take any excused absences a total of 152 cut notices have been sent out of these 18 have been cancelled for various causes thus a net of 134 cut notices have been sent the number of students who have no unexcused cuts is 440 a committee of five presented the song sophcopation written for the dance to henry busse fri day evening at convention hall in philadelphia where he was play ing for a candy and food show busse expressed his approval and agreed to arrange it for the dance to be held nov 25 in the national guard armory a good indication of busses popularity was shown by the at tendance of 25,000 at his appear ance in convention hall upon questioning he stated that most of the colleges at which he has played preferred variations of sweet and swing he himself pre fers smooth music played to the tempo of his own shuffle rhythm but will play any type the students want busse said he would rather play for college dances than other types because college audiences have a better appreciation of popular mu sic he also mentioned that colleges can make or break bands and that many bands have originated at col leges giving as examples sammy kaye kay kyser hal kemp les brown and artie shaw scorns chorus contraltos female vocalists have no appeal for busse in speaking of them he said girl singers are prima don nas and think they ought to be in hollywood they're no good he also said they arouse much discon tent in a band requesting information about purchasing tickets for the lehigh lafayette football game the after noon of the dance he expressed interest in the game and jokingly remarked if i don't get any tick ets you don't get any music the committee which went to see busse consisted of robert n gus dorff bus sophomore class presi dent gilbert p haven eng 43 sophcopation chairman c william freed jr bus 42 and herbert vonhof i e 40 composers of the song sophcopation for the dance and myron i buchanan arts 43 brown and white photo grapher tickets for the dance can be ob tained at the arcadia office supply bureau and from any member of the committee feb 10 date for i f ball dramatic group gets club rooms radio debate series to begin hotel bethlehem chosen site of coming dance at council meeting a tradition was initiated satur day noon by scabbard and blade honorary military society when it presented an armistice day service in honor of the lehigh war dead captain otto v norvig i e 40 was the chief speaker of the cere mony and placed a wreath on the memorial tablet first lieutenant terry schiff arts 40 read the president's proclamation and sec ond lieutenant richard s gowdy bus 40 gave military commands during the serivce the faculty was represented by president c c williams dean wray h congdon and claude g beardslee headl of the department of moral and religious philosophy who rendered the invocation the following juniors competing for membership in scabbard and blade have successfully passed the military part of the qualifications william l archer bus ; john c attwood arts norman m barber bus james h bricker bus ; robert caemmerer m e ; charles h carter jr chem james r hendry bus william k hodson i e ralph b johnston ch e ; charles f kalm bach m e ; anthony 11 karwacki e m ; thomas j kochuba ch e ; willard a litzenberger arts robert e malinowski met e ; john s tettibone ch e william a siegele ch e john a tifft jr bus and walter h vogelsberg e e 2 meeting places mustard and cheese given allentown station to start forensic program running 5 weeks ist dancing class draws 80 pupils students get instruction in fundamental steps the interfraternity ball will be held feb 10 at the hotel bethle hem it was decided last night at a meeting of the interfraternity council held in drown hall the bands for the coming dance have not yet oeen selected last year's dance which was also held at the hotel bethlehem featured the bands of richard himber and les brown at the same meeting the coun cil voted to continue the three dol lar donation per house for the christmas baskets of the bethle hem community chest the council at the same time announced that social security payments which the fraternities have been making to the govern ment on domestic help need not be paid after jan 1 for the past two years the fraternities have been making these payments under pro test such payments are to be re funded effective jan 1 e e.'s will hear employment talks summer positions 3 students will discuss eighty students attended the first dancing class held last night in taylor gymnasium according to fay c bartlett professor of physi cal education under whose super vision the classes are being held miss una houston bethlehem dancing instructor took charge of the lessons and james k binder arts 41 played the piano the fundamental steps of mod ern dancing were demonstrated and the class was also shown the two-step and the swing step five more classes to be held each mon day night in the upper gymnasium will be sponsored by the physical education department if these classes are successful professor bartlett stated advanced classes in dancing will be schedul ed later in the year students are still able to register for the pres ent instruction he added mustard and cheese dramatic so ciety has recently acquired a club room in drown hall it was an nounced by albert a rights in structor in english and faculty ad viser of the group at the present time the room which is on the second floor at the back of the auditorium is being painted and decorated under the direction of andrew w litzenber ger superintendent of buildings and grounds it will be equipped with furnish ings from drown hall with the ad dition of floor lamps and table lamps obtained by the society the room will serve as a reading and study room as well as a meet ing place it was formerly used as a women's lounge and powder room a large room underneath the gymnasium has also been appro priated for mustard and cheese use although there has formerly been difficulty in making and mov ing stage sets there will be little interference after the renovation field equipment of the athletic de partment had previously occupied the storage room according to mr litzenberger both rooms should be ready for use by the end of the month sophcopation music is examined by busse the brown and white captured two second places and tied for a second place in the intercollegiate newspaper competition at the fall convention of the middle atlantic states division of the intercollegi ate newspaper association held friday and saturday at bucknell university in the larger division the cup for editorials went to the drexel tri angle tie for second between the brown and white and the george washington hatchet third the gettysburg gettysburgian news first the gettysburgian second the brown and white third the westchester state teachers quad angle places second advertising first the hatchet second the brown and white third the bucknell bucknellian sports first the gettysburgian second the bucknellian third tie between the hatchet and the tri angle the final results of the i n a poll were announced over 2500 answered the poll which was the first of its kind a large majority of students were in favor of thom as e dewey for president with president roosevelt finishing sec ond an overwhelming majority expressed the desire that america should keep out of war gramley gives report the program included a general session a reception and a dance on friday conferences a business meeting and a banquet on satur day dale h gramley professor of journalism executive treasurer of the association presented a report plans were discussed for the spring convention to be held at moravian college for women the newspapers of rider college westminster college and siena college were admitted to the asso ciation delegates from lehigh were howard m conner arts 40 editor-in-chief of the brown and white fred e galbraith arts 40 editorial manager carl r fittkau arts 40 news manager o merrill david bus 40 financial manager edward h klein ch e 42 edi torial writer wallace p watkins bus 40 was an unofficial delegate tau beta pi honorary engineer ing society will pledge 13 seniors and three juniors at 4 p m tomor row at the tablet before william's hall announced edward g uhl phys 40 president the following seniors will be pledged richard c gangwer chem e whose activities include freshmen and sophomore honors numerals in basketball william a blum ch e freshmen and soph omore honors phi eta sigma gilbert m keuer m e pi tau sigma pi mv epsilon george s sprague chem freshmen and sophomore honors newtonian so ciety phi eta sigma pi mv ep silon donald c young ch e fresh men and sophomore honors band newtonian society phi eta sigma philip g dehuff jr met e freshmen and sophomore honors tennis letter john v mcguire e e sophomore honors eta kappa nu william m harbaugh jr i e freshmen honors cyanide pi tau sigma scabbard and blade hulme w thomas e e foot ball letter newtonian society al pha kappa psi harold f truch sess ch e sophomore honors john l worzel phys freshmen honors newtonian society pi mv epsilon chester c baldwin i e pi tau sigma omicron delta kappa mustard and cheese and william r clark c e cut and thrust alpha phi omega miller speaks at smoker the juniors to be pledged will be charles f kalmbach m e freshmen and sophomore honors highest ranking freshman and sophomore engineer newtonian society phi eta sigma cyanide pi mv epsilon tone brown and white albert e lee jr ch e freshmen and sophomore honors newtonian society phi eta sigma cyanide pi mv epsilon arcadia junior class president george m ritchie jr m e freshmen and sophomore honors newtonian so ciety phi eta sigma pi mv epsi lon these men were elected at a meeting held after a smoker thursday in drown hall benja min l miller professor of geology friend of the founder of the society spoke briefly on its history which began here in 1885 when dr ed ward h williams founded the so ciety the new pledges will be ini tiated early in december new drill group to be organized 150 sophomores frosh report yesterday an original musical comedy drawn from the history of lehigh university is to be produced this spring by mustard and cheese dramatic society it was announced yesterday by albert a rights di rector of dramatics the book for the show was writ ten by eric weiss graduate stu dent and the score composed by david c hughes 39 the show on which the authors have been working for two years is in the form of a revue consisting of five acts depicting in a comic vein the stages of the university's growth from the founding down to the present the high spots in the life of the school as treated in the play include the founding the richard harding davis era the crash of 1893 the war years and the present facts based on tradition the events of the comedy are based on tradition and history al though according to weiss cer tain liberties have been taken with fact for dramatic reasons and with malice aforethought hughes experience as a com poser includes the writing of the complete score of knight in ar mor the 1938 musical comedy and the greater part of the score of boy in babeland the 1937 musical comedy the titles of a few of the tunes for the new show are i'm going to start a college get along old lafayette lady go way only whiskey beer and rum it's a lehigh show i've told my heart and she was a good girl buchanan originates idea in discussing the origin of the show rights said that the first idea for a musical comedy based on the history of the university came from andrew buchanan alumnus trustee several years ago but that since then several student writers had worked on the scheme although in its present form the show bears only slight resemblance to these early ideas the original title for the comedy chosen by the authors was and the wind blew while the most recent tentative title is the le high revue only one woman is to be includ ed in the cast and no chorus is to be used the total cast will consist of about 24 persons the show is so arranged weiss said that a relatively small cast of competent actors will be able to handle the whole thing although there are a large num ber of characters each actor will be able to take a different part in separate acts combine on dance combine on dance a five-week radio series over wcba allentown radio station will be inaugurated tomorrow ev ening at 9 o'clock when the le high debaters will uphold the affirmative against muhlenberg announced j calvin callaghan director of debating the topic will be resolved that the united states should pur sue a policy of strict economic and military isolation toward all na tions outside the western hemi sphere engaged in international or civil conflict stephen kowaly shyn jr e e 41 and charles f meyer bus 42 will debate for lehigh albert e ponter jr bus 40 will be the announcer for the five-week series on nov 22 lehigh will take the affirmative against the university of scranton the topic will be re solved that president roosevelt should be re-elected in 1940 the debaters will be robert w leav ens bus 41 and charles f mey er the moravian college for men will be the next opponents on nov 29 with lehigh again taking the affirmative the subject is resol ved that the united states should enter the european war on the side of the allies if and when it becomes evident that the allies are to be defeated frank l benedict jr bus 40 and donald r schoen arts 41 will take part in this de bate on dec 6 bucknell university will be the opponent the topic is pending resolved that the basic blame for the present european war rests upon the allied powers will be the subject against albright college who will uphold the affirmative bernard a smith bus 40 and russell kowalyshyn arts 40 will take the negative for lehigh a split team debate with cedar crest college will be held on nov 27 as yet no topic has been decid ed a debate with the university of pennsylyania on a national hook up over the mutual network is also pending chess club elects chess club elects the electrical engineering soci ety will hold a meeting at 7:15 p m thursday in room 415 packard laboratory at which time three students will speak on summer em ployment for engineers and eta kappa nu honorary electrical engineering society will pledge eight new men the men who will talk on their summer experience are roy h frederickson e e 40 who work ed for the public service electric and gas company willard m shelly e e 40 who was with the aldrich pump company and t brooks woods e e 41 who was associated with the consolidated edison company the program's aim is to give stu dents the opportunity of realizing the benefits of summer employ ment which is required of engin eering students eta kappa nu will tap its new members at this meeting and j lynford beaver professor of elec trical engineering and faculty ad viser of the society will give a short talk on its history and aims the men to be pledged are rob ert j seugling 40 alton p dief fenbach 41 albert c foss 41 louis g gitzendaner 41 freder ick h housel 41 stephen kowa lyshyn 40 carl c stotz 41 and walter h vogelsburg 41 gordon gets promotion approximately 150 freshmen and sophomores reported to capt benjamin s mesick assistant professor of military science and tactics yesterday after drill as candidates for the new military so ciety that is to be formed this organization will be similar to the pershing rifles of other schools and is being sponsored by scabbard and blade honorary mil itary society thirty-two men will be selected to form a platoon that will be de veloped into a drill team wearing a distinctive uniform membership in the society will aid the men applying for advanced work and it will also be in their favor in becoming members of scabbard and blade this society may be used as a guard of honor on special occa sions and it will probably put on a drill at the military ball accord ing to captain mesick thomas talks to p t a plans are nearing completion for the annual union triad dance of sigma phi delta phi and kappa alpha fraternities to be held dec 9 in the hotel bethlehem the union triad is composed of the three original national frater nities founded at union college within a few months of each other about 1825 the members of the committee in charge of the dance are donald g dennison jr i e 40 sigma phi william l archer bus 41 kappa alpha and arthur m over arts 42 delta phi these men have been compiling invitation lists and expect to have them in the mail within a few days ap proximately 200 invitations will be sent out music will be furnished by art wendell and his orchestra chaperones for the affair will be dean and mrs wray h congdon and professor and mrs herbert m diamond dr harold p thomas head of the department of education spoke on contrasts in education thurs day night at the meeting of the nazareth parent-teacher associa tion the chess club at a meeting held recently in drown hall elect ed its permanent officers for this year as follows george s spra gue chem 40 president may nard g arsove eng 43 vice president and lowell k oliphant bus 42 secretary-treasurer the club at present is playing off the second round of a chess tour nament the third round matches are soon expected to get under way henry busse scheduled to play here for the soph conation on nov 25 is shown here looking at music for the song sophcopation which was sub mitted to the ball committee by william freed bus { 42 and herbert vonhof i e 40 the interview j took place friday evening at convention hall in i jack f gordon bus 38 was promoted from steward to assist ant manager of the hotel bethle hem announced stewart hocken bury manager starting out as a room clerk after graduation from lehigh he has risen to his present position after a series of promo tions while he was here he was a sigma nu and was active in la crosse and brown and white philadelphia where busse was playing for the candy fair standing at the piano is busse standing is freed who wrote the words playing at the piano is vonhof composer of the music brown and white photo by myron buchman arts 43 brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday november 14 1939 military society honors war dead committee persuades busse to arrange sophcopation vol xlvii no 15 dean totals cuts price — five cents b & w takes triple honors at eva meet 3535 taken so far average is 1.98 lehigh history to be theme of next show ceremony saturday scabbard and blade holds will pledge 16 to honorary at memorial mustard and cheese to produce musical by hughes and weiss z 612 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first