Brown and White Vol. 48 no. 17

              huge bonfire to follow 3 juniors are included living groups organize informal ruling body ratify middle 3 plan to have no constitution will begin investigation of 3-day pre-exam period for study two carloads of lehigh uni versity students were on the lafayette campus tuesday morning nov 19 between mid night and 6 a.m the students committed depredations that must be paid for by themselves or by arcadia it seems necessary to warn lehigh university students again that any students caught on the lafayette campus in compro mising circumstances will be summarily suspended wray h congdon dean of undergraduates according to a circular re cently received at the place ment bureau in numerous in stances the delay in payments of n y a wages can be attri buted in part to the unexpect ed tremendous expansion of the out-of-school work progam of this administration which has been necessitated by the as sumption of added responsibili ties in connection with the na tional defense program in this state to reassure the 156 listed n y a student workers e rob ins morgan director of place ment said that the administra tion has announced that it is making every effort to place all student work time reports for periods ending prior to nov 16 inclusive in line for payment not later than wednesday nov 27 gas executive to give talk photo deadline set by epitome accountancy will be topic of lecture at traylor seniors will get pictures pay bills in december sons the university may do so at the contractors expense this ulti mtum was issued last friday be cause the masons only worked one day last week putting the con struction behind schedule from now on a maximum of 35 masons will be employed mixing the mortar in cold wea ther presents another problem both the mixture of the mortar 1 part cement 3 parts quarry sandstone and 10 percent lime putty and water will have to be heated up before mixing then to keep the mortar from hardening up during the noon hour and over night heavy tarred paper or can vas tarpaulins will be laid over it however even with these pre cautions stone cannot be laid at temperatures below 24 degrees finally the masons themselves will have quite an ordeal to go through their job consists partly in splitting the stone as it comes from the quarry in doing this with three and seven pound sledge ham mers stone splinters are always split off and with their hands tight from the cold the masons frequently bruise their hands es pecially around their fingernails sometimes a serious infection sets in that will lay a mason up for the whole winter the wearing of gloves to a mason is unthinkable by harold w haines working on grace hall tnis win ter will present quite a problem to the contractors and to the univer sity according to andrew w litz enberger superintendent of build ings to complete the job by mid april as is now planned the con tractors will have to lay 700 perch 17,500 cubic feet of stone a month this means that many nat ural obstacles will have to be over first of all the short and bitter cold winter days will allow the masons to work only for an aver age of four to five hours a work ing day it is expected that it will be too cold for them to start work before eleven o'clock in the morn ing and that the early sunset will force them to stop work about mid afternoon the masons who are skilled workmen by apprenticeship and practice are paid 1.20 an hour up to now the contractors have only had to hire 22 masons now that the steelwork has been com pleted litzenberger feels that the time has come for him to put into effect an ultimatum which was written into the contract with the contractors namely that if after three working days are missed the contractors have not carried out a university order to hire more ma students see taxes spent chems hear miller drake miller discusses alaska from economic and geologic aspects inspect mint navy yard post office on trip to philadelphia the okeson cup will be award ed to the class that sponsored the best pep rally this season and freshmen of living groups will compete for the cup donated by arcadia for the best skit of the evening at the lafayette game pep rally at 7:30 p m friday in tay lor gymnasium judges for the okeson cup con test were glen w harmeson head coach of football e kenneth smil ey director of admissions and william sheridan wrestling coach okeson will speak for ten minutes after which sheridan will present the cup the contest among the freshmen of living groups will be judged on a basis of cleverness and original ity any skit that is smutty will be disqualified in the final judgement judges of the contest are dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy professor fay c bart lett director of physical education and col jos s leonard head of the department of military science and tactics buchanan unable to attend andrew e buchanan 18 di rector of research for remington arms company at bridgeport conn was scheduled to speak at the smoker yesterday afternoon he wired the committee that he could not come up until last night had been no further arrangements for a chief speaker coach harme son and widiam f hauserman i e 41 captain of the football team will speak as scheduled after the smoker there will be a bonfire on the upper field fresh men in each living group must bring a contribution to the fire cyanide will be in charge of the wood gathering folowing the bonfire the pa jama-clad freshmen will lead the parade across the new street bridge up new to broad street down broad to main street down main to moravian college for women where they will serenade the gii'ls verl l elliott controller of the atlantic refining company phila delphia will speak on what the management should expect from an accounting system before a technical session of the lehigh valley chapter of the national as sociation of cost accountants to be held at 8:15 p m friday in the hotel traylor allentown students interested in accounting are invited by carl e allen asso ciate professor of accounting to at tend elliott was born in edna kan sas and graduated from labette county kansas high school while in the ordnance department of the army he worked on several large government war contracts in the vicinity of wilmington philadel phia and new york after the war he graduated from the evening wharton school of accounts and finance of the university of penn sylvania he later joined the n a c a and served for two years as director of the philadelphia chap ter b & w awarded i n a honors takes second in sports third in news ads brigands plunder soph's automobile state city police on case booty valued at 400 all senior pictures for the epi tome must be taken by dec 7 and all senior assessments for the epi tome which are five dollars this year must be paid by dec 12 ac cording to donald r schoen arts 41 editor-in-chief a two dollar fine will be imposed if assessments are not paid by that date all pictures are being taken by mccaa studios and schoen states that appointments should be made before thanksgiving vacation pic tures will be 2 1-3 inches by 3 1-6 inches making them approximate ly twice as large as those in last year's epitome questionnaire blanks will be dis tributed to all seniors early next week by staff members which are to be filled out and handed in to gether with the assessments either to the placement bureau or to hen ry d chandler bus 41 at the chi psi lodge by dec 12 the following is a quotation from these questionnaires which according to schoen typifies the policy of the 1941 epitome in or der to cover fairly the records of the college careers of all members of the graduating class the 1941 epitome will contain brief objec tive writings of all seniors these will be uniform in length and will deal with material similar to that used in senior sections of the past few epitomes to insure however that the staff has adequate information for such writings particularly from those students whose participation in organized campus activities has been slight more detailed and more extensive information is needed a six-page letter concerning the general education program is be ing prepared for distribution to all freshmen by dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy about 25 students in american government made a tour of inspec tion of the philadelphia navy yard the mint and the post office on fri day with wilson l godshall asso ciate professor of diplomatic his tory and international relations the object of the trip was prim arily to observe what the federal government does for the taxpayer the students began their tour at the navy yard after waiting an hour for a guide to take them through the brief trip through the yard enabled the students to observe various ships and submar ines in the process of construction the trip to the mint followed and here the students observed the stamping of pennies and dimes the penny department was report ed as working day and night at the post office a guide was provided who explained in detail all the necessary steps letters go through before they reach the ad dressee the postal inspector's shooting range was visited as well as the roof used for an auto gyro landing field the gyro was used at one time for speeding the process of transporting mail which has to be carried through city traffic dr benjamin j miller head of the department of geology and dr nathan l drake organic chemist from the university of maryland were speakers at a meeting of more than 75 chemists of the lehigh val ley section of the amercian chem ical society held here friday night dr miller speaking at a dinner session in the faculty room in drown hall talked on geologic and economic conditions in alaska he illustrated his lecture with colored slides made from photographs tak en during his recent alaskan trip including pictures of bones of a prehistoric mammoth unearthed recently during gold mining opera tions dr miller had given this talk to a group of the faculty and grad uate students at the johns hopkins university in baltimore on satur day as speaker at an evening session in the chemistry building dr drake talked on chromatographic adsorption he was introduced by dr harvey a neville head of the department of chemistry in his talk he outlined a new and import ant research method of obtaining an almost pure specimen of the col oring matter found in plants ill ustrating the method with over 50 colored slides 19 pledge tau beta pi tau beta pi national honorary engineering society pledged 16 seniors and 3 juniors at the will iams memorial stone in front of williams hall friday the follow ing seniors were admitted for their high averages and numerous acti vities donald w bedell ch e freshman rifle team lehigh-al lentown club 3.00 average robert n brown met e — dean's list 2 semesters 39-'4o competitive scholarship — 400 a year secretary of kappa sigma 39-'4o 3 average band 37-'3b newtonian society pi mv epsilon samuel s cross met e — 3 av erage dean's list 1 semester 38 39 newtonian society phi eta sigma pi mv epsilon alton p dieffenbach e e 3 average dean's list 2 semesters 38-39 39-'4o newtonian society eta kappa nu pi mv epsilon electrical engineering society symphony orchestra 37-'3b albert c foss e e — freshman rifle team dean's list 2 semesters 38-39 39-'4o 3 average secre tary radio club 38-39 eta kappa nu president radio club 39-'4o electrical engineering society claude d gilchrist i e freshman wrestling manager nu meral 3 average secretary new tonian society 37 3b pi tau sig ma junior prom committee al pha phi omega vice-president pi tau sigma 40-'4l president in dustrial enginering society 40-'4l louis g gitzendanner e e — 3 average dean's list 2 semesters 38-39 39-'4o newtonian society eta kappa mv secretary pi mv epsilon 40-'4l electrical engin eering society frederick h housel e e — 3 average newtonian society pi mv epsilon eta kappa nu electrical engineering society william h morse m e — 3 av erage deans list 2 semesters 38 39 39 40 newtonian society pi tau sigma athletic committee 40-'4l richard b moyer phys — 3 av erage secretary-treasurer chess club 40-'4l benjamin ojserkis i e — 3 av erage dean's list 1 semester 39 4o awarded pi tau sigma indus trial prize engineer's handbook for highest ranking freshman in i e newtonian society pi tau sig ma clinton c snyder m e — 3 av erage dean's list 1 semester 39 4o transfer from keystone college co-founder and secretary of the keystone engineering society member american society of me chanical engineers bernard v stuber m e 3 av erage dean's list 1 semester 39 4o newtonian society phi eta sigma continued on page four the brown and white won awards in all four classes of the semi-annual intercollegiate news paper association contests at the fall convention of the association held last friday and saturday at franklin and marshall college lancaster a second place was won in sports and thirds were taken in news editorials and local adver tising the lehigh paper was also awarded permanent possession of the news cup in its class due to the fact that it has held it the largest number of times in the 12 years of the cup's existence a similar cup for editorials was retired by the brown and white several years ago delegates from lehigh were john c attwood bus 41 editorial manager of the brown and white charles b seib arts 41 news manager kenneth k kost and dale h gramley faculty advisers the belfry of moravian college for women placed third in the edi torial competition among the smaller papers the muhlenberg weekly won the first place cup in this class for editorials and frank lin and marshall weekly was sec ond muhlenberg also won third place in its class for news and make-up robbers broke into the car of john s curtis m e 43 sometime between the hours of 6 and 12 o'clock sunday as it stood beside the sigma phi fraternity house at 506 delaware aye curtis valued the robber's loot at about 400 a reversible topcoat sport coat slacks a gladstone bag containing shirts sweaters etc an eastman camera a weston expo sure meter a diamond stick-pin and a theta delta chi pin were among the loot taken from the car the thieves apparently jimmied open a draft window to gain en trance to the car and then proceed ed to pry open the glove compart ment and ransack it leaving only a few textbooks and a slide rule curtis said that he had notified both^erty and state police about the robbery and investigations by both were underway city police ad vanced the theory that it may sig nify the rejuvenation of activities of an old gang that used to prey on the fraternity houses in past years they hope that this will serve as a notice to all students to keep a close watch over their property hillman,'9l bequests sum to university endowment chems hold colloquium continued on page four by charles b seib something new in student or ganizations was formulated last night when nearly 50 members of the four lehigh governing bodies met in the lounge of drown hall to form lehigh's first student council these bodies are arcadia and the three councils — interfra ternity interdormitory and town with little formality the new body immediately went to work and before the meeting was con cluded had taken several import ant steps a plan submitted by the student council of rutgers college for the use of their little brass cannon as a middle three trophy and regulations governing the custody of the cannon were ap proved committees were delegated to study the selection of suitable weekends for houseparties meth ods of securing football tickets dur ing houseparty weekends appro val was also given to a plan to raise the student concerts-lec tures series fee to 2 preparations were also made for an extensive investigation of the need for a study period before ex aminations and a controlled calen dar of meetings and quizzes albert e lee ch e 41 presi dent of arcadia sponsoring body of the student council presided assisted by wilbur chase bus 41 president of the interdormitory council roy zachary arts 41 and george j gabuzda arts 41 who served as secretary lee outlined the plan as devised by arcadia and the presidents of the interdorm interfraternity and town councils he pointed out that reports signed by every member of the student council would have a powerful influence in university affairs will have no constitution the new body is unique he said in that it will have no constitution or formal organization it will meet from three to five times per year and its duties will be so arranged as not to conflict with work being done by odk cyanide tau beta pi or any other organizations con ducting programs or investigations of their own the student council will consi der two types of problems at each session it will deal with certain minor problems chosen by the presidents of the four bodies at an aggenda meeting held before the regular meeting also it will choose one large problem to which an en tire year of study will be devoted the suggestion to secure a three day study period prior to semester examinations and a general reor ganization of the calendar in re gard to dates for quizzes and soci ety meetings was the one selected for this year's study in order to handle this large problem it was decided to assign one phase to each of the living group councils with arcadia to act as a master committee and coor dinating body the interfraternity council will work on the three day reading period the interdormitory council will work on the problem of arranging a calendar of meeting dates and the town council will attempt to devise some method of setting quiz dates first item to come before last night's meeting was the question of raising the student concert lec ture fee the situation was presen ted by roy b cowin jr arts 43 he presented figures showing that the low priced attractions now ne cessitated by the small capital does not draw a satisfactory audience and how a raise in price of one dol lar per student would improve the series the council voted to aprove the raise in price and agreed to prepare a letter stating their ap proval which will be used by soli citors handling student petitions the next point was raised by the lehigh university endow ment fund has been supplemented by the late ralf r hillman 91 buffalo consulting engineer and first president of the bethlehem bach choir mr hillman died on october 31 1940 leaving a 15,000 residuary trust fund on third of which goes to the university the fund will be known as the r r and e c hill man fund at the chemistry department's third colloquium of the year held last tuesday in the chemistry building william f gross grad uate student spoke on polybuty lene rubber and robert d bil linger associate professor of chemistry on our nitrogen problem above are tau beta pi pledges who were tapped friday at 4 o'clock in front of the williams mem orial top row frederick h housel e e 41 rob ert n brown met e 41 phillip lutters m e 42 benjamin ojserkis i.e 41 robert b spilman arts 40 richard l vockel m e 41 and claude d gilchrist i e 41 middle row robert l stub bings ch e 41 louis g gitzendanner e e 41 bernard v stuber m.e 41 alfred b brown phys 42 alton p dieffenbach e e 41 and albert c foss jr e e 41 bottom row donald w bedell ch e 41 samuel s cross met e 41 richard b moyer phys 41 william h morse m e 41 and clinton c snyder m e 41 lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday november 19 1940 price — five cents building is behind schedule as winter delays masons u s defense expense delays n.y.a wages vol xlviii — no 17 ist student council formed last night okeson cup to be given at pep rally 19 engineers are pledged to tau bete pre-game pep to cost money dean declares frosh skits must contain cleverness originality to win arcadia cup williams memorial stone was scene of friday's induction ceremony coming up . , . . . i wednesday 7:30 p m — newtonian society meeting in room 416 pack ard laboratory captain bar rows of the u s army will speak on mathematics in military science thursday 4 p m — hockey club meeting in room 258 packard labora tory 7:30 p m — student chapter of the american society of civil engineers will meet in room 102 packer hall 7:30 p m — lehigh placement bureau personnel talk by r.a lambert of the laros silk company room 208 packard laboratory 8 p m — sportsman's club meet ing in room 466 packard lab oratory 8 p m — metallurgical society meeting in room 302 wil liams hall friday 4 p m — orchestra practice in the chapel all the lehigh dleivs first q member intercollegiate newspaper association