Brown and White Vol. 48 no. 20

              directed twelfth night m.r phil work revised diamond talks to sigma xi describes radio sondes and use of beacons caa men attend margaret webster banquet date set by frosh major emery e larson reiter speaks on team fight felch committee head football coach at navy to give informal talk at masonic temple major larson scheduled for senior banquet senior banquet speaker price — five cents frost selects committees from representatives attending meeting emphasizes cooperation for gaining success on playing field major emery e larson head football coach at the united states naval academy will be the prin cipal speaker at the annual senior class banquet on dec 18 at the masonic temple in bethlehem it was announced this morning by robert i felch i e 41 chairman of the committee larson has never lost in a foot ball game to teams representing the military division of the united states army either as a player or coach last week his navy eleven defeated the army 14-0 for the second straight middie victory over the cadets a native of minneapolis minn larson was graduated from the naval academy in 1922 he has coached football teams at the uni versity of hawaii parris island marines the u s s pennsylvan ia team and the 6th marines in shanghai he took over the coach ing reins at annapolis during the 1939 season in addition to larson's informal address the seniors will discuss plans for a class gift and complete their annual balloting representa tives of the administrative and ath letic staffs of the university will be among the guests invited assisting felch in planning the banquet are j dukes wooters bus john c attwood arts rob ert e malinowski met e and donald a bender ch e the subject of the first intra mural debates on wednesday and thursday evenings was resolv ed that democracy in the united states can be preserved only through decreased government control of industry labor agricul ture and finance albert clark chem 42 and ed mund fetter bus 42 upholding the negative side of the question defeated richard bright i e 42 and richard heyniger bus 42 upholding the affirmative this de bate was held at the chi phi fra ternity house the second debate was won by richard palmer arts 43 and james j donohue bus 43 of the affirmative who defeated theodore gams e e 43 and dale freed bus 44 of the nega tive the debate was held at the theta delta chi house the judges of the debates were dr robert m smith head of the english department robert bass ett instructor in english at mora vian college and charles j mor avec assistant university news editor the judges were j calvin cal laghan director of debating k baker horning assistant in eng lish and dale h gramley head of the department of journalism david scoblionko arts 44 and andrew funk c e 44 of the ne gative won over john h norwood met e 42 and donald r schoen arts 41 frank e felt bus 44 and hugh boyd m e 44 of the affirmative beat richard m f davis e e 44 and lewis w hill m e 44 these debates were held at the delta tau delta fraternity house on thursday evening tau betes initiate 16 new members madsen uses box girders for fritz lab experiment bewley is main speaker at induction banquet margaret webster who is con sidered to be the greatest shakes pearean authority of the contem porary theater will be the third lecturer of the concerts-lectures series at 8:15 p m friday dec 13 in broughal high school miss webster is famous in eng land and america both as a direc tor and as an actress at the pres ent time she is directing the play in new york city entitled twelfth night with helen hayes and maurice evans and she has also directed mr evans in his re cent broadway successes as ham let richard ii and henry iv born into stage family her close connection with the theater is the inevitable result of having been born into a family whose stage fame reaches back many generations miss webster's mother who is the renowned dame may whitty is now starring in such hollywood productions as night must fall and raffles her father is benjamin west who is long known as a shakes pearean actor the late tom wise a popular american entertainer of twenty years ago was miss web ster's uncle and her grandfather and great-grandfather were fam ous classical actors and actor managers acted with barrymore having been born in new york margaret webster was taken to england at the age of three and she grew up on the london stage play ing her first shakespearean role in hamlet with john barrymore in a recent interview miss web ster said she would rather act than direct and that she has no time for other hobbies despite the fact that she dislikes night clubs she en joys attending occasional dances in england she used to find great pleasure in driving and in work ing in her garden in gloucester shire at present miss webster has no plans for leaving america al though she says that actors sink no roots godshall discusses our latin american relations ingvald e madsen assistant re search engineer is now testing welded steel box girders in fritz laboratory the girders are 18 feet long and 40 inches deep madsen had tested different types of cranes in the plants he visited recently but this is his first test in the laboratory on box gird ers madsen is being assisted in the test by a richard flinn graduate student the project is being spon sored by the association of iron and steel engineers a tentative date for the fresh man banquet was set at the second meeting of the freshman represen tatives held monday evening in room 466 of packard laboratory the banquet was set for feb 27 and the group decided that the best place would be the hotel bethle hem announced e lyster frost met e 44 chairman of the ban quet committee there were several freshman committees appointed to prepare for the banquet on the program committee are william b farrell bus chairman daniel p epstein bus paul reiber met e bruce heerdt bus roy zackey m e and roland beddows bus the committee in charge of publicity is headed by ted franck m e and includes harry ponisi ch e paul kervick i e martin miller m e and charles codding c e the tickets will be distributed by a committee under the direction of edwin leet c e and earle wallick e e on the committee are nelson reifsnyder e e who will cover the dormitories warren dix met e who will take care of the fraternities on the campus ro land beddows bus who has charge of the fraternities in the delaware avenue area and sterling mayo e e who will take care of the fra ternities across town the member who will cover the town houses has not been chosen as yet harry diamond physicist of the national bureau of standards de scribed the radio beacon and the radio sonde in a lecture wednesday night in packard laboratory before a meeting of sigma xi honorary research society diamond was graduated from the massachusetts institute of tech nology in 1922 and after spending a year with the general electric company he came to lehigh as an instructor in the electrical engin eering department after four years he went to the bureau of standards where has has taken part in the development of radio apparatus for air navigation diamond described the develop ment of the radio beacon and ex plained the fundamental principles underlying its operation he men tioned the problems encountered in the use of the radio beacon for air navigation and with the aid of slides showed how each of the problems had been solved by im provements in design of the trans mitting antenna the radio sonde a device for au tomatically sending a record of the atmosphere was designed and per fected by the bureau of standards for use of the weather bureau the radio sonde in the develop ment of which diamond had a large part is sent up into the at mosphere by a helium filled bal loon during its ascent the instru ment automatically transmits by radio a record of the humidity and temperature together with the al titude diamond described the construc tion and use of the radio sonde and of the automatic machine used to record the data received from this instrument , the lecture sponsored by sigma xi was also attended by those tak ing the c a a course at lehigh moravian lafayette and muhlen berg library illumination work is delayed by lack of funds 16 to be initiated by phi eta sigma fighting for the team was the theme of an address delivered monday evening by howard r bosey reiter professor of physi cal education at the bethlehem exchange club's annual testimonial dinner to the bethlehem high school football squad bosey emphasized the import ance of learning early the spirit of cooperation necessary for suc cess on the playing field and in the business of making a living you've got a victory tonight you'll carry with you all the days of your life he said the game has instilled in you habits and attitudes which will help you throughout life it is the most ed ucational course in your curricu lum football as a protector of dem ocracy was observed by professor reiter when he said in a day when preparedness is the watch word of democracy you boys have learned a lesson of life by team play on the football field no game makes a man so physically and mentally fit nor teaches him bet ter how to act under trying condi tions the speaker added that sports are an aid in developing personal ity speaking to the coaches he said sports are not simply phy sical activity they require head work and you must put stress on intelligence to guide the personal ity of the student after his address professor rei ter was presented with an honorary membership in the exchange club by robert b king a member of the committee that planned the banquet and also a member of the plans made after consulting with lighting engineers call for specially designed fluorescent lamps a revision of the curriculum in electrical engineering and a change in moral and religious philosophy courses were among new innova tions approved at the faculty meet ing last monday other changes were made in courses in biology geology mathematics civil engin eering and mechanical engineer ing the new electrical engineering curriculum includes changes in the sophomore junior and senior years and 28 new courses have been introduced seven of these new courses two in the junior curriculum and five in the senior curriculum are scheduled to begin next semester the new curriculum is designed to provide a modern and co-ordin ated course in electrical engineer ing and will equip the students to take their place in industry loyal v bewley head of the department of electrical engineering said yes terday option choice to be given the curriculum allows a choice in power communication and gen eral options he explained each of these options comprises a group of highly co-ordinated courses student preference for a recita tion course over a lecture course and the opportunity for more indi vidualized study brought about the change the changes in courses in moral and religious philosophy will take place next year courses no 1 2 and 11 will be dropped and m r phil 10 will be added as a first and second semester required course the new course is describ ed as an analysis of basic student problems and beliefs in moral and religious experience in the con struction of personal philosophies of conduct and religion the course will not carry semester hour credit toward graduation but will be counted in determining scholas tic averages in connection with the national defense program a new course math 128 exterior ballistics has been added next semester in the department of mathematics this course which has been created for r o t c students primarily covers the trajectory air resist ance drag and cross wind coeffi cients yaw stability equations of motion computation of trajectories ballistic and firing tables rotation of the earth probability probabil ity integral and probability of hit ting prerequisites are math 106 or math 125 biology 9 to be replaced biology 9 will be replaced by bi continued on page four continued on page four seidle will be speaker at banquet thursday dr wilson l godshall assist ant professor of diplomatic history and international relations discus sed trade practices in latin america at a rotary club meeting wednesday in the hotel bethle hem he pointed out that although germany's trade with latin amer ica has increased the united states trade with that area has held its own dr godshall con tinued his discussion with compar isons of other trade relations in other parts of the world frederick myers postman on campus 27 years dies first time in lehigh history that one of his family is not in service of university in some capacity tau beta pi honorary engineer ing society will hold its initiation banquet tonight at 6:30 o'clock at the hotel bethlehem the dinner will follow the formal induction of the new members at 6 p m in packard laboratory according to edwin w hine e e 40 who is in charge of arrange ments loyal v bewley head of the department of electrical engin eering will be the main speaker h j masson president of the new york tau beta pi alumni associa tion will also deliver a short ad dress the initiates will then offer suggestions to the society sixteen seniors and three juniors will be inducted into the society to night the seniors are donald w bedell ch e robert n brown met e samuel s cross jr met e alton p dieffenbach e e al bert c foss e e claude d gil christ i e louis g gitzendanner e e frederick h housel e e william h morse m e richard b moyer phys benjamin ojser kis i e clinton c snyder m e robert b spilman arts robert l stubbings ch e bernard v stu ber m e and richard l vockel m e a b brown phys john f clark phys and philip lutters m e are the juniors bachelor report passed brown & white's rejected the first financial report of the lehigh bachelor was accepted by the board of publications at its meetings last night in the office of dean wray h congdon the financial report of the brown and white submitted by henry d chandler bus 41 fin ancial manager of the brown and white was returned because it was found to be incomplete phi eta sigma national fresh man scholastic honorary society will initiate 16 sophomores at a banquet thursday evening in the university room of the hotel bethlehem charles a seidle assistant di rector of admissions will speak on occident and the orient the students who will be initiat ed were pledged recently because of their high scholastic achieve ments during the two semesters of their freshman year the students who will be initiat ed are all sophomores they are robert k beckwith ch.e charles s bennett e e alexander brkich m e arlington w cani zares c e fenwick p horn m e arthur f mann arts john j meehan arts robert c moore c e john h mueller m e pres ton parr jr ch e robert w pugh ch e hugh w richards ch e robert l taylor arts walter s tomkinson bus rich ard r ware e e and franklin h young bus gipson buys new home arcadia denies petitions professor lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and government has recently pur chased a home at rydal mrs gip son for the past two years has maintained a studio in the dodson building but will now carry on her painting at their rydal home pus postman and in various other capacities as lehigh's presidents came and went he lived with his family for many years in a home on the campus where taylor hall now stands during this time fred became acquainted with many of the stu dents and on his father's death in 1913 succeeded him until compulsory chapel services for students were abolished several years ago one of fred's jobs was to supervise the distribution and collection of attendance slips in this capacity he earned the bene dictions of many students by fail ing to lock the chapel doors exact ly on the second that services be gan he also earned the maledic tions of a number equally great who arrived just in time to see the heavy doors close before their eyes myers is survived by his wife two sons james and thomas and by one daughter mrs cleo acker man frederick h myers campus postman was buried this afternoon from packer chapel the episco palian services were conducted by the very rev roscoe t foust dean of the pro-cathedral church of the nativity of which the de ceased was a life-long member in terment was in nisky hill ceme tery fred as he was called by hundreds who never even knew his last name died monday in st luke's hospital where he had been taken a few days before he had been ill at his home 223 summit street for several weeks preceding his death he was 56 years old myers death left lehigh without the services of a member of his family for the first time since le high was founded jim myers fred's father was a carpenter who helped to clear away the brush stones and trees to make room for packer hall he also worked on the building when it was erected jim myers spent the balance of his life at lehigh serving as cam arcadia student governing body denied petitions for money made by the golf team and by the e w brown astronomical society dur ing a meeting monday afternoon by albert l thalhamer lack of funds is all that is de laying improvements in the light ing system in the library reading room stated andrew w litzen berger superintendent of buildings and grounds in an interview wed nesday morning litzenberger's statement was in answer to a query as to whether the university had taken any steps to remedy the situation now exist ing or whether the brown and white editorial campaign for im provement was in vain at the present time the designs have been drawn up and prices submitted and all that is necessary is the allocation of the necessary money the cost of equipping the east wing of the reading room with table lamps would be about 800 approximately 100 per table in an attempt to remedy the sit uation two lighting experts were consulted last month these men were george gipson of the gen eral electric company and w r klemm of the klemm company of philadelphia to use fluorescent lamps after consultation with these men who had had previous exper ience in library lighting it was de cided to use table fixtures with the new fluorescent lamps each lamp would contain two of the lighting tubes and would be so designed as to give even illumination over the entire table the high cost of the fixtures arises because they are of a spe cial design to give correct illumin ation and at the same time blend with the architecture of the rest of the room none of the standard commercial fixtures could be ap plied with success when sufficient money is avail able the east wing of the reading room will be equipped first to make sure that the equipment is satisfactory for the entire room the company supplying the lamps will be required to install a sample lamp to verify the design before they equip all the tables in the wing shelves may get lights also included in the scheme is a plan to use similar lamps fast ened on the reference shelves and directed downward on them litzenberger stated that the sit uation has been getting worse in the past few years when the room was built the ceiling was almost white and reflected the light whereas it has become darkened giving the desired antique finish and consequently no longer reflects much of the light according to ldtzenberger he is only waiting for president clement c williams to grant enough money for the project it was just two weeks ago that it was found that the money is not available at the present time it is too early in the year to allocate such a sum which may be needed for more important purposes later lehigh university brown and white vol xlviii — no 20 shakespeare expert debaters talk on democracy hockey tickets available bethlehem pa friday december 6 1940 negative teams capture 3 out of 5 contests hold upper hand faculty makes many changes in curricula s c lv series will present miss webster great actress - directress is noted as authority on shakespeare 28 new courses added for future students in e e shake-up tickets for all pennsylvania intercollegiate hockey league contests to be played by the le high team will be available starting tomorrow at the ticket office of taylor gymnasium arcadia office and the supply bureau announced allen h zane i e 41 manager stu dent tickets for each game will be on sale for 57 cents one hour of free skating will follow each game all the lehigh news first coming up . . . today 6:30 p m — alpha phi omega initiation banquet trainer's quakertown 7:45 p m — robert w blake so ciety meeting arcadia room drown hall saturday 6:00 p m — tau beta pi society initiation 451 and 413 pack ard 6:30 p m — tau beta pi banquet hotel bethlehem 8:15 p m — combined musical clubs concert and dance drown hall sunday 4 p m — tea for i e and m e seniors home of prof and mrs larkin 135 wall street monday 6:30 p m — american society of civil engineers drown hall faculty club room 7:30 p m — camera club 466 packard laboratory 7:30 p m — psychology examina tion advanced standing and freshmen 416 packard tuesday 4:10 p m — student concerts lectures committee meeting faculty room member intercollegiate newspaper association