Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 28

              880 couples will dance at bth interfraternity ball wrestlers to oppose state pres williams emphasizes cooperation of dorms and fraternities ■ 1 1 companies interview with 7 more expected in next 2 weeks meet to be double header freshmen to wrestle prior to varsity tomorrow's schedule n b c may broadcast glen gray's music at new empire to be completed aug 1 14 representatives here 2 vocalists are featured 24th meet with state separate place for each fraternity to gather to be provided nittany lions are favored over brown team ; frosh face blair 8:00 p m — varsity wrestling meet at taylor gym lehigh vs perm state 3:30 p m — saucon valley country club tea dance 3:30 p m — mannerchor tea dance 7:00 p m — freshmen wrest ling meet at taylor gym le high vs blair academy 10 00 p m — interfraternity ball at the empire ballroom dean wray h congdon today gave his full support to the plan sponsored by the university hock ey club whereby a special train will carry students to the lehigh lafayette hockey game to be play ed feb 23 in hershey commenting on the plan the dean declared i hope it will prove successful not only from the financial aspect but also from the standpoint of conduct of the stu dents in avoiding any action that would bring the name of lehigh into disrepute the future of ex cursions of this type he said de pends upon the handling of this trip the dean commended the man ager of the hockey team rod tur ner i e 40 for his arrangements for the trip and called for the support of the entire student body hockey club expands trip 1743 enroll for 2nd term engages observation car for lehigh faculty ; food will be sold new figure is 62 less than first semester 158 put on pro two changes in plans for the eugene gifford grace hall the 300,000 recreation building which the president of the bethlehem steel company is giving lehigh university were announced today by president c c williams these are the following 1 the structure will be of stone instead of brick which was the exterior material proposed in the plans before grace offered to pro vide the building the stone will be the same native type that has been used in most of the univer sity's buildings 2 the location of the hall has been changed and it is now pro posed to build the large structure along the east side of taylor street approximately 125 feet south of taylor gymnasium the building will extend from taylor street which will carry the main en trance to grant street construction to start dr williams said that the ar chitects are rapidly completing plans for the building and that indications are that contracts may be let about the middle of march construction would start imme diately he said in the expectation that grace hall may be ready to use soon after the opening of sec ond semester next year grace hall will fill several press ing needs at lehigh president williams said it will provide ac commodations for r o t c and thus relieve the armory for use as a commons it will provide space for university dances concerts convocations and crowds at wrestl ing and basketball contests it will also provide space for additional sports and recreation activities review features 2nd war article the office of e robins morgan director of placement yesterday completed the heaviest week of ac tivity in the history of the place ment bureau when 182 seniors were interviewed by 11 companies who sought to increase their per sonnel with lehigh men mr morgan who had just completed four days of calling seniors talking over interview plans with them scheduling and re-scheduling interviews and see ing that everything was working smoothly today issued this advice to seniors any senior who can visualize the work required to schedule them with interviews talk with the interviewer about the men he is interested in and see that inter views run on schedule will readily appreciate that each senior should cooperate to the fullest extent in order to make this thing a sucess three in following week three companies will interview seniors next week and representa tives of four companies are ex pected to be at lehigh the follow ing week during the past four days the companies who have interviewed lehigh seniors are allis-chalm ers manufacturing company so cony vacuum oil company chrys ler corporation standard oil com pany of louisiana remington arms company philadelphia elec tic company aluminum company of america dravo corporation pratt whitney aircraft division of united aircraft corporation and armtrong cork company inter views were conducted by 14 men who represented these companies new who's who in pa lists 61 of lehigh faculty latest figures issued today by registrar george b curtis showed that 1743 undergraduates — 62 less than the number for the first sem ester — had completed registration this week this figure however is incomplete each semester since the record high in september 1938 has found a decrease in the number of stu dents enrolled at lehigh accord ing to a statement previously given the brown and white the reduc tion is due to lowering the enroll ment in the class of 1943 in ac cordance with the university pol icy of reducing enrollment in the next few years to 1500 in a statement issued today by dean wray h congdon it was re ported that 29 students flunked out while 86 were removed from scholastic probation for various reasons 22 students who were on pro last semester were continu ed on probation during this sem ester one hundred fifty-eight stu dents were put on scholastic pro bation this figure includes 46 freshmen o grace leaves bank post by robert m lynch the national broadcasting com pany more than likely will broad cast glen gray's music from the interfraternity ball tomorrow night at the recently opened em pire ballroom according to walter s russell ch e 40 president of the interfraternity council about 880 couples are expected for this eighth ball and the broadcast if it is made will be between 11:30 and midnight the ballroom will be in its ori ginal blue and white decorations with tables at one end of the dance floor and each of the 29 houses will have gatherings in the hall under their respective signs fur niture for the latter is being trans ferred from the houses a soda fountain is handy for those who get thirsty the band that gray is bringing to the empire tomorrow night is one of the oldest in the country having been among the toppers for several years since his start way back in 1929 kenny sargent takes care of all the sweet ballads so far as voice is concerned while rotund peewee hunt swings all his weight into the jitterbug numbers to provide free parkin the chaperones for the evening will be president and mrs c c williams dean and mrs wray h congdon dr and mrs claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy and dean and mrs alfred c cal len dean of the college of engin eering an adequate checking system and free parking have been ar ranged along with a marquis from the street to the door in case it should rain the committee in charge of the dance is made up of three seniors besides russell they are john f mcquillin m e james m roberts jr arts and richard b jeffrey e m eugene g grace president of the board of trustees has resign ed from the board of directors of the guarantee trust company of new york due to pressure of other business interests the position mr grace held has been taken by charles e wilson president of general electric company the mid-year issue of the le high review features the second part of we went to war which deals with lehigh's participation in events leading up to the first world war quoted in the article are passages from the brown and white of the time which demon strate the militaristic spirit that was sweeping lehigh howard j lewis's cafe around the corner described as a beer and woman story to end all beer and woman stories and edwin klein's out of time out of mind form the fitcion section humor is supplied by another edi tion of the frown and bite local boy by zenon nowicki himself a local boy deals with the disadvantages suffered by a beth lehem boy attending lehigh by j joseph mccluskey the first and probably the big gest wrestling double-header of the season will be held tomorrow night at 7 p m in taylor gymna sium when the brown and white freshmen wrestlers striving for their initial victory of the season meet the matmen of blair acad emy and coach billy sheridan's undefeated lehigh varsity team meets coach charlie speidel's un defeated perm state squad coach speidel's nittany lions will be decided favorites since the state squad includes seven letter - mn and six regulars from last year and several outstanding candidates from the undefeated 1939 freshman squad state has the edge as far as com petition and comparative scores of the current season go state has triumphed over cornell chicago syracuse and princeton lehigh on the other hand has had only two meets — with kansas state and yale university the engineers won the former 13v2-12v2 and the latter 20y 2 h 1 / 2 . lions lead with 18 meets tomorrow's meet will be the 24th meeting of lehigh and state in a series which although not continuous started in 1911 the brown and white and the nittany lions have been the prin cipal threats in eastern wrestling circles for the past 12 years be ginning in 1929 coach sheridan has developed championship teams every year with the exception of 1930 1936 and 1937 perm state has trailed the engineers every time a sheridan coached squad won the title except in 1938 when princeton took second place only two points behind the lehigh mat men every year the lions copped the title lehigh's wrestlers finished in the runner-up position in the series the state wrestlers hold the edge with 18 victories to their credit the lehigh matmen tied a veteran state team in 1938 14-14 and have won only four dual-meets in 1919 1934 1936 and 1939 wrestling for lehigh tomorrow continued on page six mckinney speaks on ordnance steel special train accommodations to hershey for faculty members their wives and alumni are being plan ned by the university hockey club when that organization spon sors a special excursion on fri day feb 23 to the hershey sport arena for the lehigh-lafayette ice hockey contest the blue comet observation car has been reserved by the faculty and will take care of 40 persons alumni parties are being organ ized and these will be accommo dated in coaches not occupied by the students officials of the central railroad of new jersey have announced that although the capacity of each coach is 78 passengers they will limit each car to 55 persons in or der to insure comfort for all food to be sold on train w rod turner i e 40 an nounced that the hockey club is completing plans for a food con cession both going and returning sandwiches milk coffee soft drinks and candy will be on sale at reasonable prices said turner the hockey club is anxious to extend every possible effort to make this first trip a happy and inexpensive one for all concerned this is not a profit-making scheme and we hope that this service will meet with the approval of hockey fans and our loyal supporters according to william a cor nelius executive secretary of the lehigh alumni association the alumni of the harrisburg area have completed plans for a dinner meet ing to be held at the community inn prior to the game the 1940 editions of who's who in pennsylvania contains the names of 61 of the lehigh faculty a n marquis company of chica go publishes the book annually containing the names of the lead ing men and women of pennsyl vania new jersey delaware maryland and west virginia added to the new edition were the names of merton c fuller as sociate professor of civil engineer ing max petersen associate pro fessor of physics and alan c dodson trustee twenty-five of the lehigh faculty are also listed in the similar publication who's who in america records sealed for posterity in drinker house cornerstone engineer talks to lehigh bethlehem association p w mckinney metallurgical engineer at the bethlehem steel company and former ordnance engineer at the naval gun factory at washington d c spoke last night on ordnance steel at a meeting of the lehigh-bethlehem army ordnance association steel is the most important of the ordnance materials stated mckinney advancement of steel has gone step by step with ad vancement in ordnance in fact development of alloy steels for off ensive and defensive weapons has pioneered the development of alloy steels this is true to the extent that ordnance steel is now the term used to denote any steel of extra ordinary qualities mckinney ill ustrated his remarks with slides of a trip through a steel plant howland to talk to club photo contest announced the henry sturgis dvinker house new 225,000 dormitory unit be ing erected near richards house wil be completed by aug 1 and ready for occupancy by the open ing of the 1940-41 school year president c c williams announc ed at the cornerstone laying ex ercises tuesday this dormitory will be the last to be constructed by the university for some time henry sandwith drinker phila delphia attorney and oldest son of the former lehigh president for whom the dormitory is named laid the cornerstone a block of wood bury granite among the items placed in the copper box in the cornerstone were copies of ad dresses by the late dr drinker a pen letter from dr drinker to his successor in office president emer itus charles russ richards a trib ute to the late president by eu gene g grace president of the board of trustees as delivered at the founder's day exercises in 1937 and a copy of the program for the cornerstone laying service also included were a copy of the alumni bulletin october 1937 containing a biography of dr drinker a copy of the university register a copy of the graduate school announcement and a copy of the charter and regulations of lehigh will meet need in his introductory remarks president williams said "... with our present enroll ment our dormitory accommoda tions will meet the present need . . . we wish the two systems of housing fraternities and dormi tories to supplement each other rather than compete with each other dr williams prior to this state ment paid tribute to the late pres ident drinker who served longer than any other incumbant as pres ident of lehigh from 1905 to 1920 drinker in laying the corner stone expressed his pleasure in the building of the dormitory i don't know of anything you at lehigh could have done that would please father more it is particularly fitting that hi's name should be given to a building where boys are going to live while they build to make their lives more worthwhile accompanying dr drinker in attendance at the exercises was mrs catherine drinker bowen downs of bryn mawr daughter of henry sturgis drinker dr drinker included among the items in the cornerstone a picture of his father and an item of personal in terest james l burley of the firm of visscher and burley the univer sity architects was introduced to the audience of more than 75 per sons who attended the exercises others introduced by president williams were william a corne lius secretary of the alumni as sociation fred e galbraith jr president of arcadia and walter s russell president of the inter fraternity council carl r fittkau president of the interdormitory council was not present because of illness dr and mrs williams were hosts to dr drinker and his sis ter mrs downs at their home af ter the exercises a quotation from the speeches of the late president drinker in cluded in the program of the ex ercises was what can possibly be better for our students . . . than ... to promote college feel ing and loyalty by bringing our men together hazelhurst invited to talk prof garth a howland head of the department of fine arts will speak on the subject composition at a closed meeting of the camera club monday night at 7:45 an nounced george h reussner arts 40 president of the club rules for several photographic contests will be announced at this meeting the contests are being sponsored by vogue collegiate digest and the packard company thomas h hazelhurst associate professor of chemistry has been invited to speak on visual aids in the teaching of chemistry be fore the new england association of chemistry teachers at their summer conference in august at the university of maine henry sandwith drinker eldest son of the late president henry sturgis drinker directs the placement of a metal box of records in the cornerstone of the henry sturgis drinker house at the ceremonies held tuesday afternoon mr drinker finishes the job of lay in the cornerstone as standing from left to right president c c williams mrs catherine drinker bowen downs of bryn mawr daughter of the late president drinker and john o hegeman president of the contracting firm look on brown and white vol xlvii no 28 bethlehem pa friday february 9 1940 approves trip grace hall site plans are changed price — five cents dean supports hershey hockey excursion 182 seniors give bureau busiest week structure to be on east side of taylor street drinker house corner stone laid tuesday z 612 all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association