Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 34

              is princeton graduate 3 groups gain singing finals chase originates idea pi kappa alpha leonard hall delta tau delta survive contest fraternity takes blame for intoxicated member by assuming the responsibil ity for the intoxication of a member on the hockey excur sion to hershey a fraternity has been placed on social probation for the rest of this semester dean wray h congdon an nounced last night in accor dance with the policy of the committee on discipline the name of the fraternity was not made known the action of the house was voluntary and was done in or der to prevent the suspension of the offender from the univer sity because of this action and the fact that it was a first of fense the man in question will be placed on disciplinary pro bation for the remainder of the semester instead of being sus pended argentinita brisker cast in play lead is replacing boys choir argentinita plans dances native songs tonight at broughal high large crowd expected for spanish recital price — five cents student rulers attend meeting idiot's delight to present rita schafer as irene on sat may 11th lafayette society plays host to collegiate governing heads a capacity audience is expected to attend the program of dances and recital of native spanish songs at 8 15 o'clock this evening in broughal high school when ar gentinita and her ensemble pre sent the third of the student con cert-lecture series programs this attraction replaces the con cert scheduled to be given by the vienna choir boys since the lat ter musical organization has been forced to cancel its american tour this season because of the euro pean war crisis students will be admitted to this evening's entertainment upon presentation of the student con cert-lecture series coupon in the athletic book doors will be open at 7:30 p m and no one will be admitted after 8 15 p m will present guitar solos argentinita whose repertoire includes authentic dances and mu sic of 47 provinces will be seen together with antonio triana no ted gypsy-style dancer and pilar lopez who held second place to argentinita herself in the madrid ballet in addition guitar selec tions will be offered by carlos montoya while piano solos will be played by rogelio machado the first part of this evening's program will be devoted to dances of early spain before the 19th cen tury guitar and piano solos by montoya and machado will feature the second half of the program following the performance the entire company and the personnel of the committee in charge of this year's series will be guests of the cosmopolitan club at a buffet sup per at the club's house on packer avenue pi kappa alpha delta tau delta and leonard hall qualified for the finals in the second annual living group singing contest after surviving the preliminary elimina tions held wednesday evening in the lounge of packard laboratory the three groups will compete in an outdoor program to be held on sub-freshman day may 4 the winner will receive a large bronze cup now in possession of pi kappa alpha last year's win ner at the conclusion of the contest on wednesday sound recordings were made of three selections sung by the 16 singers from pi kappa alpha according to robert f herrick editor of the alumni bulletin and director of the contest both re cordings and moving pictures will be taken of the finals these will be synchronized into a talking pic ture which will be shown at meet ings of lehigh alumni clubs the contest itself is sponsored by the new york lehigh club judges in the preliminaries were dr kenneth w lamson associate professor of mathematics dr clarence a shook associate pro fessor of mathematics and james l clifford instructor in english dr t edgar shields director of music and dr max peterson asso ciate professor of physics will join with the above judges in deciding the final winners faculty chorus to present operetta patience dr robert c clothier president of rutgers university will be the principal speaker at the senior class banquet on monday evening at the hotel bethlehem instead of james h crowley head football coach at fordham university it was announced this morning by alfred v bodine jr i e 40 chairman of the class banquet committee trustees at 4 schools the change was made necessary when the committee was informed by telephone that because of un avoidable circumstances coach crowley would be unable to come to bethlehem on monday evening in making the announcement of the change of speaker bodine stat ed that the committee regrets this action but circumstances beyond the control of the committee or mr crowley made it necessary dr clothier is a graduate of princeton university and has ser ved as president of rutgers since 1932 before assuming the presi dency of the new brunswick n j institution he was employment manager of the curtis publishing company head master of the hav erford school and dean of men at the university of pittsburgh he is a member of the trustees of four educational institutions haverford school baldwin school princeton university and tuscul um college he is author of per sonnel management honorary degrees have been conferred upon dr clothier by princeton university dickinson college new york university uni versity of pittsburgh and temple university the toastmaster at this the last social function of the class of 1940 will be alfred t cox c e 40 president of the class brief talks will be presented by various mem bers of the university administra tion german viewpoint in war described plans for the publication next september of a freshman class book containing names pictures and other material pertaining to freshman subscribers were ap proved on wednesday at a meet ing of the board of publications in the office of dean congdon the first edition of the yet un named publication is to be con sidered an experiment by the board hazen p chase bus 41 originator of the plan will begin publication only after 450 fresh men or 90 per cent of the class of 1944 subscribe and send the ne cessary material to the office of the director of admissions the class book will consist of approximately 50 pages with the name picture home address school activities hobbies and le high curriculum sub-frosh will get forms during the summer forms will be sent to all sub-freshmen in quiring whether or not they desire to subscribe if so their pictures will be included in the book the total cost will be 1.50 if an insufficient number of freshmen subscribe the plan will be abandoned if 90 per cent or more respond however publica tion will be made prior to fresh man week the board of publications will assume authority over the book if it is a success and appoint a suc cessor to chase all funds are to be received and expended by e kenneth smiley director of ad missions according to chase the book will enable the freshmen to get ac quainted with each other and will be a pictorial record of the in coming class which will be useful to the whole university it is ex pected that the book will be used by fraternities during rushing sea son native land's acts professor zapp defends morvian holds frosh tea subject changed for next debates eight students were cast in the major roles of idiot's delight mustard and cheese's forthcoming production at the first reheaisal held wednesday night in drown hall the play will be presented saturday may 4 in broughal high school nathaniel j brisker bus 40 will play the leading role in the character of harry van rita schafer veteran of other mustard and cheese productions will por tray irene in handling the femin ine lead these characters were played by alfred lunt and lynn fontaine in the stage play and by clark gable and norma shearer in the moving picture version according to albert a rights instructor in english and director of dramatics other members of the cast and their parts are as follows joseph larkin bus 43 as dump tay robert bothe bus 40 as donald navadel robert engle i e 41 as pittalugi richard berg arts 42 as captain locicero ira fisher bus 43 as dr wald ersee welles bliss arts 42 as achille weber and peter turgeon arts 43 as mr cheery a series of 16 rehearsals will be held during the next three months in preparation for the play the next rehearsal will be held on wednesday in drown hall knutson gets post richards 1118 to oppose price on wednesday the faculty chorus will present the operetta patience on april 27 in drown hall at the last meeting of the chor us wednesday night in the chem istry building there was a two hour rehearsal followed by a short business meeting during which the budget for the production was ap proved rehearsal dates were also set at that time e e professor serves facsimile committee in ox-der to introduce the mor avian freshmen to the lehigh freshmen edith j stauffer dean of the moravian seminary and college for women and president edwin j heath arranged a tea from 7 to 8 o'clock last night at moravian about 40 lehigh fresh men attended fierce fem-sem freshmen panic fraternity at supper a conference on student govern ment held saturday at lafayette college was attended by dean wray h congdon dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy and nine students who represent the four student governing bodies of lehigh among the other universities and colleges represented were perm state rutgers franklin and marshall moravian college for men moravian college for wo men and ursinus the conference was sponsored by the brainerd society and the address of welcome was given by theodore a distler dean of la fayette college the keynote speech was delivered by lyman beecher stowe vice chairman of the national self government committee and author of the book saints sinners and beechers 4 groups represented arcadia was represented by fred e galbraith jr arts 40 and thomas e ricketts chem 40 the town council by norman l morse ch e 40 and charles a wolbach ch e 40 and the in terdormitory council by carl r fittkau arts 40 the interfrater nity council was represented by walter s russell ch e 40 rich ard b jeffrey e m 40 john f mcquillan m e 40 and james m roberts jr arts 40 a discussion followed the open ing speeches and was continued after luncheon at the faculty club a recess occurred at four o'clock in order that the delegates might attend the swimming meet against new york university the discus sion was continued before and af ter dinner which was also served at the faculty club after dinner conclusions were drawn and rec ommendations were made the topics for discussion were 1 types of student govern ment 2 student government and student funds 3 student government and student politics and 4 student government and the administration our town to be experimental play performs will not use any scenery props a round table conference on in ternational affairs for pennsylvan ia and new jersey colleges spon sored jointly by the philadelphia branch of the foreign policy as sociation and lehigh university will be held here tomorrow vera micheles dean director of the foreign policy association re search department will speak on why europe went to war in the morning session and will conduct a general discussion following mrs dean's talk and discussion round table conferences will be held the afternoon session will fea ture james frederick green a member of the foreign policy re search staff and f wilhelm soll mann former german reichstag member and former editor of a saar newspapers sollmann will speak on the topic problems of belligerents and neutrals yesterday added to the after noon program was a randle el liott who will discuss the plight of the neutrals elliott who re cently joined the foreign policy research staff is the author of a paper entitled oslo states at 4:30 p m the sound film crisis a dramatic documentary film showing the invasion of czechoslovakia will be shown this film was shown last summer at the czechoslovakian pavilion at the new york world's fair war and democracy will be the subject dealt with by lady listowel london correspondent for two hungarian newspapers in the evening session officers elected chairman of local arrangements is dr wilson l godshall assistant professor of diplomatic history dr richard h heindel field di rector of the foreign policy asso ciation and mrs richard meade jr executive secretary of the as sociation form the program com mittee sigma phi epsilon kappa sigma pick leaders election of officers of sigma phi epsilon and kappa sigma social fraternities and the initiation of men in the kappa sigma fraternity were held this week the following men were elected in sigma phi epsilon thomas a wallace jr ch e 42 president frederick c butler i e 41 vice president william h lehr m e 41 secretary robert n simonsen ch e 42 historian robert m bowman i e 42 guard robert e finn i e 41 first marshal and charles d bartlett jr bus 42 second marshal the results of the kappa sigma elections were as follows john h deming i e 41 president john p stupp eng 43 vice-president alvah h thomas met e 41 master of ceremonies robert n brown met e 41 secretary and walter h gaedcke bus 42 treas urer the following men have been initiated into the kappa sigma fraternity robert a ackerman 11 i e 40 thomas m buck eng 43 and charles m thompson eng 43 eadie georgopulo cut and thrust initiates fencers induct 2 henry c knutson associate professor of electrical engineering has been appointed to the newly created technical committee on facsimile of the institute of radio engineers the appointment was made by l c p horle president of the institute the new committee of which professor knutson is the only member not affiliated with com mercial companies has a three fold function 1 to prepare a set of standard definitions pertaining to facsimile 2 to prepare a set of standard tests for facsimile and 3 to prepare annual reviews of progress in the facsimile art the activities of the committee are not limited to broadcast fac simile but include also all com mercial applications such as for newspapers and trans-atlantic service included on the committee are representatives of bell telephone laboratories rca communica tions rca manufacturing com pany finch telecommunications incorporated columbia broadcast ing system mutual broadcasting system national broadcasting com pany crosley company and west ern union prof manfred zapp director of the trans-oceanic news service german counterpart of the associ ated press spoke on the justifica tion of germany's position in the present war wednesday morning befor an audience of 75 in coppee hall the international relations club sponsored the lecture professor zapp a native of ger many said the first world war did not end with the treaty of ver sailles because this was d treaty germany could not endure zapp contended that the polish corridor which divided germany into two parts created an intollerable situa tion england began the war said zapp because germany was a threat to english domination of the trade and commerce of the conti nent zapp stated that poland be gan the bad feeling between the two countries by suppressing the german minorities under its sov ereignity in retaliation the nazi party advocated the invasion of poland zapp claims that the poles refused to accept the generous terms set forth by hitler's famous points america said professor zapp is swamped by pro-english pro paganda and the american people and press are swallowing it hook line and sinker german propa ganda canot match the english i wish it could zapp believes that 99 per cent of the german people favor hitler they feel says zapp that he has done everything that he promised to do he has made germany a world power again and has broken the chains of the ver sailles treaty kimball penrose elected members of pi tau sigma technical reports given a new topic resolved that a new deal president should be elec ted in november will be argued in two intramural debates wednes day evening in the browsing room of the library at 7:30 p m the affirmative of the issue will be taken by robert g eitner e e 42 and william f boore jr met e 42 represent ing richards house section iiib the negative will be debated by robert f koenig met e 40 and stephen kowalyshyn jr e e 41 representing price house at 8:30 p m howard v dono hoe arts 41 and richard m shepherd ch e 41 of alpha kappa pi will support the nega tive of the same question the affirmative will be taken by the winner of a debate between chi phi and delta tau delta this week end all these teams are undefeated so far and the final winning team for the season will receive the williams prize of 100 the final debate will be held march 13 richard s palmer arts 43 and robert w leavens bus 41 of theta delta chi won a decision on the negative wednesday even ing against william s shuttle worth bus 42 and franklin b mayer arts 43 of chi psi who took the affirmative side the topic was resolved that the united states increase its navy to two ocean strength ford speaks at rutgers several gifts have been received recently by the university library according to howard s leach li brarian carl h mckenzie 22 and eugene burgess 21 have donated reports and comments of the american telephone and tele graph company on many of that company's exhibits dexter s kimball dean of the college of enginering at cornell university and charles penrose vice-president of day and zim merman construction engineers were made honorary members of pi tau sigma honorary mechan ical engineering society at a dinner meeting held last night at the sigma nu house cut and thrust honorary fenc ing society initiated two new men at a meeting last night in the ar cadia room of drown hall they were donald eadie e e 41 and panos b georgopulo eng 43 following the initiation plans were discussed for a post-season banquet and an intra-mural fenc ing meet both of these events will take place shortly after the east ern intercollegiate wrestling meets it was decided that anyone who has not engaged in varsity fencing competition will be eligible for the intramural meet dr adelbert ford head of the department of psychology spoke at 4 p m tuesday before a group of graduate students at rutgers university dr ford gave a report of research studies entitled auditory space percep tion to get the lehigh reaction to a different type of play and to train young actors without the aid of scenery and properties were the reasons for choosing our town as the annual spring production of the dramatic workshop according to albert a rights instructor in english and director of dramatics the play will be presented sat urday april 13 in broughal high school most people will like this play rights declared because it comes at a time when its comic study of life with an injected flavor of rea lism will have a great appeal our town had an eight month run on broadway last season and has made extended tours of the summer theater circuits thornton wilder who is the author frank craven and martha scott played leading roles in the original pro duction of the bell and the cautious rattl ing of chains as the door was opened again a second mob stamped into the hall trampling the freshman under foot and filling the air with its terrible shouts this mob too wanted mere auto graphs to satisfy the mission of its members who prowled about the house in parties of twos and threes reporting their discoveries to one another in muttered voices and at last departing when the third group began pawing at the door several men dodged rapidly under the tables and someone suggested turning out the lights and pretending no one was home but steeling himself to the task a second freshman went to the front door the first had been tenderly laid out in state in the card room and his parents notified . the group which next arrived was more amiable and sang a little ditty before leaving the words of this song were of questionable nature . as the girls left they wrote nasty remarks with wet mittens on the mirror in the hall and tore several lighting fix tures off in their eagerness to leave casualties this time mounted to three men who were found dead of suffocation beneath the tables were they had taken refuge later investigation revealed the whole mystrious business to be the informal preliminaries to the ini tiation of a fern sem sorority grace at the sig ep house now concludes with the humble plea and deliver us from the amazons of church street amen wednesday night it snowed very hard and the wind blew about the house as the brothers sat at sup per but the deep-rooted peace of the house was broken when a freshman cocked his ear and growled faintly the brothers of sigma phi epsilon bent their ears to the air and listened a distant shuffling came to their harkening ears then the door bell rang soft ly silence fell suddenly the many conversations were stilled the freshman crept warily into the hall all could hear him fumble with the front door snowy figures rushed in out of the storm and howled into the dining room several brothers rose to their feet and reached for their holsters a few others dropped to their knees in prayer as wild a crew of human beings as ever was seen stood gesturing in the doorway girls six of them dressed in barbaric furs and ski pants crouched with papers and pencils in their hands yelping for autographs readily they were obliged but not before they had thoroughly canvassed the house put whiskers on a portrait of the founder of the house fell down the cellar steps and made five dates for the following friday they de parted grunting with satisfaction a freshman closed the front door pulled the rug back into place and plowed his way through the snow left in the hall back into the dining room but this was the only the begin ning again there came a bleating at the front door the timorous ring lehigh university brown and white dances tonight bethlehem pa friday march 1 1940 frosh class book planned for next year vol xlvii — no 34 will discuss foreign affairs at round table r c clothier will replace jim crowley to admit students free students will be admitted free of charge to the address of the countess of listowel on war and democracy at the final ses sion of the foreign policy asso ciation conference at 7:15 p m tomorrow in packard auditor rutgers president to be speaker at seniors banquet monday lady listowel to speak 5 conference speakers to present problems of europe's war publication board assents to experimentation edition unnamed z 612 all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association