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              7 on faculty give lectures deliver talks last month throughout country on special topics charles h carter jr chem 41 charles h carter jr chem.'4l has been chosen regimental com mander of the lehigh r o t c unit according to lt colonel ad rian r brian assistant professor of military science and tactics cadet colonel carter will be as sisted by willard a litzenberger arts 41 who has been raised to the rank of cadet lieutenant col onel and who will act as regimen tal executive officer seven cadet majors have been chosen as field officers william l archer bus 41 has been raised to the rank of cadet major and will be the regimental adjutant three of the cadet majors have been chosen as regimental staff officers they are emery w loomis bus 41 george j gabuzda arts 41 and robert caemmerer m e 41 battalion commanders are cadet major james h bricker bus 41 commander of the first battalion cadet major charles f kalmbach m e 41 commander of the sec ond battalion and cadet major john beriont ch e 41 comman der of the third battalion the new regimental officers will not assume their new duties until march 31 when the regiment will move outdoors until indoor drill is completed the officers will re tain their present drill assign ments carter has earned his rifle team letter and is the 40-'4l team man ager and captain he is also a member of scabbard and blade and vice president of section a town group packages of books from pub lishers arrive almost daily for members of the english depart ment but never has a package caused so much interest and ex citement as the one which reached the central office of the department last week it was addressed to james l clifford assistant professor of eng lish and it was postmarked ox ford england it contained a copy — the only one thus far to reach this country — of dr clif ford's biography h l piozzi mrs thrale published in jan uary by the oxford university press departmental interest in the book lay not only in the fact that it marked the end of eight years of devoted and laborious work by dr clifford but in the fact as well that the oxford press had gone ahead with publication in the misst of devastating air attacks on eng land accepted in 1939 dr clifford's manuscript was read and accepted for publication by the oxford press during the summer of 1939 just before war was declared as soon as the air war over england became severe dr clifford says he assumed the press would give up all thought of publication but he explains now the men in charge wrote that they continued on page four considered the book important enough to warrant going ahead as long as they could during last winter and summer proofs in driblets kept coming from oxford until finally the en tire work of 492 pages was set up in type during this time fortun ately no proof was lost as sea but at the very end several of dr clifford's letters in regard to minor last-minute changes went down under attack by a german u-boat consequently except for a few changes which dr clifford would like to have made the work is printed almost as efficiently and perfectly as though no german bombers had been harrying eng land while the various stages of publication were in progress guard copy carefully in regard to the copy now be ing guarded rather carefully by the department of english and dr clifford in particular the author says that he first learned that the book was off the press and in the mails for bethlehem in a letter written by the oxford press on dec 19 the press informed him that definite publication was plan ned in england for jan 16 the sample copy was in the mails and on the sea for six weeks when other copies may arrive is navy seeking flying cadets society offers tides lecture 50 engineers apply for navy military group to hold dance scabbard and blade ball scheduled for mar 8 collegians to play admiral yarnell explains plan to earn posts as naval officers ensign to outline training offered college men after graduation coast and geodetic expert to describe harmonic analyzing machine scabbard and blade will hold its annual military ball from 10 p m until 2 a m on march 8 at the masonic temple willard a litz enberger arts 41 chairman of the committee in charge of the affair announced that the lehigh colle gians will provide music for the dance the dance will be open to all students and admission will be 1.25 per couple the advance stu dents will wear their uniforms while the basic students and other members of the university will come in formal attire guests at the dance will include members of the naval academy rifle team who will have a should er to shoulder match with the school rifle team that afternoon other guests will include colonel joseph s leonard head of the de partment of military science and tactics and the other members of the military science department seven faculty members spoke on topics in their respective fields last month to various groups throughout the coutry hale sutherland head of the de partment of civil engineering gave a luncheon address on the en gineers preparedness friday jan 31 before the national society of professional engineers at chicago sutherland stated that faith in the democratic dogma can only be transmitted through the church and education arthur t ippen assistant pro fessor of civil engineering spoke at the biweekly seminar held last monday in fritz laboratory for those interested in the current de velopments in the field of civil en gineering research ippen discussed the peculiar wave phenomena ob served during the southern cal ifornia floods neil carothers dean of the col lege of business administration discussed the trends of our eco nomic order at the national can ners association convention held tuesday jan 21 in chicago car others also spoke on the outcome of the european war and of the disorder and confusion in the field of labor henry c knutson associate pro fessor of electrical engineering spoke on radio broadcasting by fre quency modulation on jan 22 be fore the rotary club here knutson compared frequency modulation with the currently popular ampli tude modulation walter r okeson vice-president of the university addressed the y w c a tuesday club last night at the organization's annual dinner garth a howland head of the department of fine arts spoke last tuesday before the society willard s clewell of the depart ment of mechanical engineering addressed bethlehem post no 885 veterans of foreign wars jan 15 on his experiences with the navy fifty lehigh engineers applied for naval reserve officers commis sions following a speech by ad miral harry e yarnell u s n retired in packard laboratory jan 21 the rank of ensign is being off ered to graduate engineers by the united states navy acceptance will be awarded on a merit basis according to commander albert f edel in charge of the navy men on the campus enrolled in the die sel engineering course commander edel stated that up perclassmen in engineering may apply for the rank of ensign with out committing themselves in any way a secondary application will be stringent however and it will test the applicant on qualifying restrictions no men will be call ed before graduation application may be made to any one of the naval engineers on the campus or to commander edel in room 118 packard laboratory graduate schools enroll pre-meds ensign a d walter jr mem ber of the board of naval aviation cadet selection and naval training will present the wings of gold lecture at 8 p m tomorrow in room 466 packard laboratory in conjunction with the training the army and navy are offering to col lege graduates and seniors in the field of aviation the navy man is directing this lecture chiefly at seniors but all are invited to attend announced thomas e butterfield professor of heat power engineering applicants for the aviation train ing will be given a complete medi cal examination on the campus by a selection board successful ap plicants will be admitted as flying cadets at the end of the college year and will receive commissions after about nine months of avia tion training actors to broadcast for alumni a total of 272 arts and engin eering seniors struggled over the carnegie record exams yesterday morning and this morning this is the first year that the engineers have taken the tests there were four sets of questions included in the exam the first three sets of questions were gen eral in scope and were taken by all students they included ques tions in physics chemistry litera ture biology social studies math ematics and english usage the fourth set of questions were on advanced subject matter accord ing to what subject the student choose this fourth set was in most cases the student's major the purposes of the tests are to find how the student rates in rela tion to normals from lehigh and other colleges and universities and to give admissions offices ad ditional information on students who wish to take graduate work this information will be used in connection with scholarship poss ibilities in graduate schools the carnegie examinations have been increasingly popular and are also being given at yale harvard princeton columbia ohio xfii versity minnesota amherst bow doin and others thomas in charge of exam harold p thomas professor and head of the department of educa tion was in charge of giving and proctoring the examinations and was assisted by raymond h white assistant professor of educa tion theodore t lafferty self ridge professer of philosophy garth a howland head of the department of fine arts adelbert ford head of the department of psychology george d harmon associate professor of history and government and robert p more associate professor of german also assisting were eugene park graduate assistant in mathematics robert d stoudt instructor in me tallurgical engineering william a mcgrath graduate assistant in chemical engineering harry a strauss jr fellow in remedial ed ucation douglas e mode instruc tor in electrical engineering jo seph a keller graduate assistant in mechanical engineering philip m palmer dean of the arts school had general oversight of the entire affair with the coop eration of a copeland callen dean of the college of engineering results of the examinations will ac released as soon as possible a one hour program of lehigh's growth and development since its founding 75 years ago will be pre sented friday at 9 p m in packer chapel lehigh alumni clubs in six cities throughout the east will hear the program which will be sent by leased wires the program nearly coinciding with the signing of the university charter by governor curtin on feb 9 1866 combines the talents of a cast selected from mustard and cheese the glee club the symphony orchestra and dr t edgar shields at the console it is the first of several programs to be presented throughout the year to commemorate the diamond anni versary of the university which will be climaxed with a program on founder's day in october herrick writes dialogue a fictional dialogue written by robert f herrick 34 secretary of the alumni association relates a resume history of lehigh from the time of its founding to the present it includes scenes in which asa packer expresses his views on standards of education the uni versity receives its charter some students raise a cow into the chapel tower the war reaches stu dents at lehigh a building is erect ed as a memorial to lehigh men who died in the war the univer sity loses its stocks during the de pression and a scene of men work ing in a lab on the campus among those slated to speak on the program are president clement c williams walter r okeson vice-president howard r bosey reiter professor of physical edu cation dr benjamin l miller professor of geology and howard eckfeldt professor of mining and engineering thespians lend aid albert a rights director of dramatics is coaching the follow ing cast rita schafer anne ellis welles r bliss arts 42 edward l blossom arts 44 robert w dech bus 41 r harry gunnison arts 41 robert n gusdorff bus 42 william r sultzer arts 43 s robert walker bus 42 and conrad e kluger arts 42 an nouncer for the program doing a large share of the work is henry c i knutson associate professor of electrical engineering and his staff of technicians consist ing of theodore c gams e e 43 kenneth c wotring i e 41 gerald murphy graduate student continued on page four a lecture on tides to be given by harry a manner assistant chief division of tides and cur rents coast and geodetic survey will be sponsored by sigma xi honorary research society at 7:30 p m friday feb 7 in room 466 packard laboratory he will describe how observa tions are made on the height of tides and how it is possible to de termine the height of future tides he will describe and explain the operation of the harmonic analyz er a machine that makes it pos sible to predict the height of tides at any time from a knowledge of observations over a period of years this machine is used in connection with predictions of all periodic phenomena manner graduated from rutgers in 1907 and received his m s in 1931 he has been tidal computer for the u s coast and geodetic survey from 1907 until he was pro moted in 1920 to the position he now holds he has also been chief tidal mathematician since 1924 the time of his talk has been moved ahead to 7:30 in order to avoid a conflict with another event which is scheduled for 9 o'clock in the chapel brown and white officers chosen m & c gets 88 equipment grant 12 men assume positions for coming semester photograph salon to illustrate talk group to outfit broughal with revolving stage all seniors in the pre-medical department were accepted by medical schools by the first of the year according to dr stanley j thomas head of the department of biology this is the first year that this has happened harvard medical school usually limiting its quota to two men from lehigh has accepted four students frederick r gilmore frank v hertzog willard a litzenberger and george j gabuzda charles r kiefer and thomas j ritter were accepted by the uni versity of pennsylvania jefferson medical school accepted bernard a briody and john j yankevitch and johns hopkins university ac cepted jerome r dorkin doctor saves man's life by performing operation results of recent brown and white competitions have been an nounced by dale h gramley pro fessor of journalism the only two men who retain the same positions are charles f kalmbach m.e 41 editor in chief and craig w bak er bus 41 circulation manager the new officers are news man ager john m roach arts 42 news editors samuel j davy e.e 43 and roydon s margolies arts 43 makeup editor albert l thal hamer phys 42 sports editor edward m biggs e.e 42 photo editor myron i buchman arts 43 editorial manager william j meikle arts 41 business manag er henry d chandler bus 41 assistant circulation manager howard m williams bus 42 lo cal advertising manager george h m leroy bus 41 national ad vertising assistant lloyd a croot bus 43 copy supervisor robert e cullen ch e 42 iii student flown home by performing an ingenious heart operation dr harry miller 31 won a race for life at the de troit receiving hospital last week the operation involved sewing the heart of a man who had been stab bed in an attempt to avert a rcb bery before the operation could be performed dr miller had to re move portions of three ribs and supporting tissue the operation was performed with the coopera tion of four doctors under miller's guidance dr miller attributed the suc cess of the operation to speed and skill and to the modern surgical equipment of the hospital john s curtis m e 43 of youngstown o was stricken with appendicitis thursday and was flown home saturday from phila delphia leased wires to alumni in six cities on friday night the actors orchestra glee club and other mebers of the program will direct their efforts at the micro phone the program will originate in packer chapel the only place where the show can be seen or heard locally — b & w photo actors in the sketch dramatizing memorable inci dents in lehigh history won't be bothered with make-up and costumes r harry gunnison arts 41 richard j berg arts 42 and joseph p lar bus 42 shown above left to right in a rehearsal scene haven't even bothered to memorize their roles when the 75th anniversary program goes out over francis h rockett sr electrical engineer with the bell telephone company will speak at an open meeting of the camera club to be held at 7:30 p m monday feb 17 in room 466 packard laboratory his talk what constitutes a good print will be illustrated with the bell company's travelling salon consisting of 50 prints cov ering a wide variety of subjects arrangements were made for the prints to be brought to lehigh from boston where they will be on dis play previous to the lecture the salon is compoed of the fifty best prints selected from about one thousand turned in by members of bell company camera clubs rockett a member of the photo graphic society of america is the father of francis h rockett jr e e 42 president of the camera club he is scheduled to give the same lecture to about three other camera clubs in and about new york city before he comes to le high the lehigh camera club has in vited the bethlehem camera club the allentown camera club and the camera club of the moravian college for women to attend the meeting all students interested in photography are also invited the sum of 88 was granted by arcadia last night to mustard and cheese with which the dramatic society expects to equip broughal high auditorium with new stage hangings and to purchase the ma terials necessary to build two units ol a projected turntable stage the need for the equipment was explained in a petition presented to the student governing body it was stated that the turntable stage was advisable in order that the club should not be limited to shows in volving a single set although the entire project is to cost approxi mately 300 the petition asked for enough money to start the ball lolling sixty-five dollars of the grant was for the two units of the two rolling units and the remain ing 23 was for clamps pulleys and ropes the arcadia cabinet also decid ed to send frederic g gilmore arts 41 to a convention of penn sylvania college student councils to be held feb 21-23 at perm state two of the bonds being sold by the alpha town house for the pur chase of furnishings for the house were purchased upon petition from the officers of the house leghigh univer sity brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday february 4 1941 01 xlviii no 27 singers issued excuses regimental officers chosen to assume duties in march price — five cents copy of clifford's new book gets past german blockade 272 seniors struggle over record exams hour program to mark end of 75th year engineers arts men take 4 sets of questions in 2-day session leased wire will carry story of school growth to 6 alumni clubs music by lehigh grads members of the glee club will be excused from all society and organization meetings in the evenings from feb 3 to feb 7 to facilitate practice and prep aration for the broadcast cele brating the 75th anivernsary of the signing of lehigh's charter all social fraternities are urged to cooperate in this measure by excusing the glee club mem bers from all meetings this week this excuse is not a blan ket excuse covering all classes carnegie idea extended member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 ========= all the lehigh news first