Brown and White Vol. 48 no. 15

              pleas for grants plan the first placement talk to be delivered by r h lambert personnel representative of lar os silk company will be given at 7 30 p m on thursday in room 208 packard laboratory an nounced e robins morgan di rector of placement recently a circular was sent to seniors by the placement bureau to determine how many would attend a lecture by mr lambert the circular brought an enthusiastic response from the seniors and a series of talks was scheduled by mr morgan all students are invited to at tend smith delivers talk in capital football captain bill hauserman and bill hauserman senior grin for the senior rally held friday night in taylor gym mr hauserman rave a brief talk contrasting experiences in athletics with experiences o come in business the one with the glasses 1 is pop speaks on significance o f shakespeare's original folio dates for spring houseparty and the interfraternity ball were set at a meeting of the interfraternity council last night in drown hall spring houseparty will be the weekend of april 19 and the in terfraternity ball will be held on feb 15 according to roy s zach ary arts 41 president the latter dance will be open to fraternity men only the council also decided that fraternities will have homecoming decorations for the lafayette game as in past years the displays will be judged by a committee of three faculty members and one student member and the winning house will be presented two cups one is a permanent cup and the other a cup which will be handed-over to the winning fraternity next year judging will take place between 11 a m and 1 p m and after 7:30 p m each house is limited to an expenditure of fifteen dollars for decorations members of the council favored supporting a proposal that living groups be allowed to purchase tickets for football games in order of their scholastic rating as deter mined in the previous semester this proposition will be brought up monday before a joint meeting of all living groups with arcadia the second problem in the fresh man math contest being sponsored by the newtonian society has been announced by the contest commit tee and is as follows xx7xx xxx i xxxxxxxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxx xxx xxxx xxxx this represents a division prob lem which comes out even x in the problem represents some digit not necessarily the same one in each case the 7 in the quotient is given as an aid in the solution the solu tions to the problem must contain the digit represented by each x in the problem there is still plenty of time to enter the contest according to william c walker ch e 43 chairman of the contest committee the contest will be scored with a value of 1 for the first problem 2 for the second etc the last prob lem the fifth carrying a value of 5 this will give late entrants a fair chance in the final analysis prizes of five three and one dol lars will be awarded to the contest winners all solutions should be sent to walker at the chi psi lodge the solution to the above problem must be in by nov 18 landis neville up for offices bachelor sells 800 copies are nominated to positions of president councilor of chem society after father visited classes saturday morning and got the first-hand lowdown on how his son is doing he joined junior for lunch in drown hall several fraternities held special dinners in honor of the dads sat urday evening and bethlehem night spots were visited before the fath ers left for home thus dad saw how his sons break the monotony of hard study with night-life and social activity professor robert m smith head of the department of english spoke friday at the folger shakespeare library in washington d c on the occasion of the 317 th anniver sary of the publication of the first folio of william shakespeare professor smith spoke on the effects of the publication of the folio on both english and world literature interspersing an account of the difficulties confronted by the the publishers in their attempt to give to the world an authentic ver sion of england's greatest play wright one copy was supplied to the bodleian library at oxford university by comparing the wear and tear of each page the bodleian author ities have determined which plays were most popular with oxford students in the 17th century le high students seem to be in agree ment on the most popular play they as did those early english scholars have consistently chosen romeo and juliet as the best of the shakespearean plays smith continued by giving an ac count of the history of the folio apparently it has always been an expensive book originally selling for approximately 35 in present american money since that time the folio has sold for sums rang ing from 4500 to 75,000 the high est recorded catalouge price is about 90,000 professor smith has long been regarded as one of the foremost authorities on shakespeare espec ially in connection with the first folio walter s landis 06 vice-presi dent of the american cyanimid company since 1922 has been nominated for president of the american chemical society harvey a neville head of the department of chemistry and chemical engineering has been nominated for the position of coun cilor of the american chemical so ciety three of which are to be el ected landis received degrees of m s in 1906 and sc d in 1922 from le high and served as assistant in structor assistant professor and associate professor in the metal lurgy department having been ap pointed to the last position in 1910 dr neville graduated from ran dolph-macon in 1918 and received degrees of m a in 1920 and ph d in 1921 from princeton university before coming to lehigh in 1938 he served as an assistant in chem istry at princeton and as instructor and associate in chemistry at the university of illinois the lehigh bachelor made its first appearance yesterday with 800 copies of the first issue sold circulation had already reached 750 by yesterday an outstanding feature of the bachelor was its unique use of colors inside and out something not found in most un dergraduate magazines the staff has planned a bigger and better issue next month according to edi tor-in-chief edwin h klein arts 42 although the bachelor was a complete sellout some students ex pressed dissatisfaction toward the magazine however editor klein stated that he was pleased with the bachelor as a whole and added it is the hope of the bachelor staff to please everyone the december issue will be somewhat enlarged according to klein it will contain larger and more numerous cartoons and more photographs and the advertising makeup will be revamped in addi tion certain rough spots of the magazine's general makeup will have to be smoothed out trend to address journalism men alaska chemistry lecture subjects vaccination cards to be ready for issue this week the lehigh band pays tribute to dad during intermission saturday afternoon as students and grads join in singing the alma mater and fathers look proudly on some of the dads could remember their own lehigh days of more than 20 years ago two hundred members of the lehigh alumni home club cheered and clapped at the speech at bo sey reiter professor of physical education in which he upheld glen harmeson's ability as a coach at a football dinner rally held at the elk's club in allentown on friday night bosey gave a history of lehigh football from the time when he first came here in 1910 until the present dya he told of lehigh teams during his first years that were successful because of subsi dization he told of the inaugura tion of the present purist policy under president charles russ richards and the subsequent fall of lehigh football fortune he painted a picture of at least five tombstones in taylor stadium be longing to lehigh coaches who metaphorically died in a horrible death because they could not pro duce with the mediocre material lehigh was able to muster according to bosey lehigh once employed a very high-priced coach with an enviable reputation in a vain effort to produce a winning team from an honest school but he failed and his scalp was remov ed even more rapidly than the others fair success the pep rally specialist stated that harmeson has had fair success at lehigh even with the scanty ma terial available harmey has won from lafayette three times and perm state however bosey said even though lehigh did have these victories it was because of the op position's weakness and not le high's strength the trouble with the lehigh football situation according to bo sey lies in the system and not the coach while respecting the views of the purists he nevertheless holds that the well-rounded man the football athlete is a desirable addition to lehigh bosey concluded with a plea for whole-hearted support for the alumni student grants plan say ing that under this plan lehigh men can be sure that the high stan dards of their university will not be lowered to accommodate profes sional athletes support urged alfred v bodine president of the alumni association also upheld harmeson and urged staunch sup port for the grants plan he said we have no right to criticize har meson until we have given him material robert a hall former yale quarterback after complimenting bosey by saying that the current yale football situation needs a fiery speaker like bosey to get something done about it showed motion pictures of outstanding football games of last year and this year wednesday set for talk by c of c secretary close to 600 dads went collegiate with their sons saturday to make the first annual all university dad's day a success many fathers accompanied their sons to classes in the morning filled the stands of taylor field in the afternoon and were guests of their sons for din ner and the evening making the rounds of the various night spots that bethlehem has to offer several fraternities held special dinners saturday evening in honor of the dads delta sigma phi en tertained 19 dads for dinner at the saucon valley country club e kenneth smiley director of admis sions spoke on youth and the draft and its connection with the univer sity and foreign conditions faculty members and guests other than the dads that attended were dr claude g beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy joel f bailey instructor in mechanical engineering robert p more asso ciate professor of german john midland member of the national advisory council of delta sigma phi fraternity and ralph b hess deputy of the pennsylvania district of delta sigma phi alfred t cox 40 sent a telegram of congratu lations to the group with regrets that he could not attend special guests b^&ey reiter professor of phy sical education gave an informal talk to dads and their sons at a dinner in the alpha tau omega house twenty dads were enter tained at a banquet in the delta tau delta house ken overlin for mer middleweight boxing cham pion and his fiance sybil ross featured singer at leon and eddie's night club in new york city were guests for dinner at tau delta phi where 10 dads were present the week-end officially opened with the senior class smoker and pep rally friday evening in taylor gym but a comparatively small number of fathers were present the explanation was that many could not arrive until the next day because of business reasons and long distances to travel the rela tively small but inspired number that did attend made it the most spirited rally of the year humor was the keynote of the smoker and was adequately exem plified when the master of cere monies joseph h quinn bus 41 faced a jeering audience with a size 9 derby that practically obscured his face his jokes provoked more jeering he even had to be assist ed by harry gunnison bus 41 who rushed in with a telegram from joe's wife yes it was good to make an adequate contrast with quinn gunnison wore a size 3 pur ple derby captain's father speaks william f hauserman jr i e 41 captain of the football team introduced his father as the first guest speaker of the evening mr continued on page four ordnance group to hold banquet vaccination cards are nearly all completed by clerks at the health service and are expected to be ready for issue this week accord ing to dr bull all students who were successfully vaccinated against typhoid at the beginning of the school year will be given testimonial cards which will be obtainable from mrs dacey at the health service as in previous years the health service has had many requests from graduates for vaccination testimonials dr bull recommends that those getting cards be sure to save them to prevent the necessity of duplication at a later date dr benjamin l miller profes sor of geology and dr nathan l drake professor of chemistry at the university of maryland will be the speakers at a dinner and meeting of the lehigh valley chap ter of the american chemical so ciety to be held friday night miller will give in an illustrated talk on alaska at an informal din ner to be held at 6:15 p m in drown hall nathan will speak on selective adsorption as a tool in organic chemistry chromatogra phic adsorption methods at the meeting to be held at 8 15 p m in room 221 chem laboratory the meeting is open to students kiefer talks on modern war's medical problems placement journal ready saturday's game netted lehigh the best gate of the season as stu dents and their fathers with a sprinkling of mothers sisters and young lady friends crowded the stands and saw the home team go down be fore muhlenberg 20 to 6 try to match up the fathers and sons from the faces in the crowd the lehigh-bethlehem post of the army ordnance association will hold its first anniversary ban quet friday night at trainer's res taurant quakertown captain ben jamin s mesick stationed at le high last year and now the execu tive assistant to the chief of the technical staff in the office of the chief of ordnance in washington will be the principal guest all student faculty and bethle hem members of the association are invited to attend the banquet president clement c williams and dean wray h congdon have also been invited to attend the ordnance post was establish ed here last year and is devoted to preparation for national defense its membership combines the le high students in the ordnance classes and reserve officers of the ordnance in bethlehem most of whom work at the bethlehem steel company alpha epsilon delta honorary pre-medical fraternity held an open meeting at 4 15 p m today in room 218 williams hall c ray mond kiefer arts 41 gave a talk on medical problems of current wars in which he discussed such aspects as war surgery sanitation and diseases following this a birthday cake was presented to a pledge to the fraternity bernard a briody arts 41 co-captain of the basketball team how the chamber of commerce serves bethlehem will be the top ic of an address given by harry k trend secretary of the bethlehem chamber of commerce to students of all journalism classes at 7:30 p m wednesday in room 109 christm^s-saucon hall an invitation to all students and faculty members has been extend ed by dale h gramley head of classes in journalism mr trend who has been secretary of the bethlrhcm chamber of commerce for the past three years will ex plain how the chamber of com merce operates to publicize the city of bethlehem and to aid local industrial and business concerns said gramley mi trend who is a graduate of moravian college for men worked for several years with the allen town morning call before going to the chamber of commerce he was manager of the bethlehem office of the call as secretary of the cham ber of commerce he has been in charge of the drive to publicize bethlehem as the christmas city he has also been in charge of all arrangements connected with the city's annual christmas celebration a quarterly magazine dealing with college placement has just been made available to lehigh stu dents at a special rate of 1.00 a the magazine entitled journal of college placement gives infor mation on the problems that place ment directors and business repre sentatives encounter in trying to place students it is published by the pennsylvania association of school and college placement vol xlviii no vi b that's my pop lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday november 12 1940 price — five cents frosh - try this 600 fathers invade lehigh for dad's day bosey upholds coach's ability at grad dinner fraternity council sets dates for next houseparty i-f ball newtonians give you xxx to x chance laros representative to give placement talk spring weekend to start on april 19 greeks to dance feb 15 speeches banquets mark successful weekend ; game is feature ticket plan approved tells alumni footballers weakness has been our purist policy visitors attend classes coming up wednesday 7:30 p m american society of mechanical engineers smoker hill crest club easton 7:30 p m glee club rehearsal chapel 9:00 p m astronomical soci ety observatory thursday 4:00 p m hockey club 258 packard 4:00 p m eta kappa nu bus iness meeting 201-251 packard 4:00 p m orchestra practice chapel 7 30 p m personnel talk r a lambert of laros silk company 208 packard 7:45 p m electrical engineer ing society lawrence f para chini of weston instrument co will speak on the six basic in dicating mechanisms 416 pack ard 9 00 p m tau beta pi 201-251 packard friday 2:00 p m freshman football lafayette away member intercollegiate newspaper association 1 t ." . all the lehigh neivs first