Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 37

              advisers meet in capitol student tickets for the mus tard and cheese production two on an island may be se cured thursday friday and saturday at the arcadia offiice in drown hall the play will begin at 8 o'clock saturday evening in broughal high school auditorium class banquet to be held at hotel instead of masonic temple 20 apply for positions to take place april 2 council to issue dance tickets game will be played 300 passengers needed ; only 25 students 30 faculty sign up dorm men to get ducats for living group affair saturday evening miss ellen williams daughter of president clement c will iams and a student at moravian seminary for women will model for a demonstration of portrait sketching in oils by robert c barritt in the lehigh art gallery tomorrow at 1 p m mr barritt a professional ar tist from pittston was obtain ed for the demonstration by garth a howland head of the department of fine arts the public is invited to attend ruth christ is cadet colonel military ball draws 450 navy rifle team picks cedar crest belle tickets for the interdormitory town council dance will be distri buted to dorm men late this week announced raymond s willard jr e.e 41 secretary of the inter dormitory council town men will be admitted to the dance by pro ducing their membership cards the dance will be held saturday evening at 10 o'clock in the ma sonic temple with the lehigh col legians furnishing the music tickets for outsiders will be on sale at the door for 75 cents by starting the dance at 10 o'clock it is possible for students and their dates to see the mustard and cheese presentation two on an island earlier in the evening jonas silverberg bus 41 is chairman of the town committee stephen t lowry c e 41 is in charge of the dormitory arrange ments 22 students visit perm university blake society conducts annual pilgrimage the junior class banquet will be held at 6:30 p m wednesday evening april 2 in the hoi^el bethlehem instead of in the ma sonic temple as previously an nounced a masonic affair to be held there that evening necessitated the change announced james j don ahue bus 42 f alexander magoun professor of sociology at the massachusetts institute of technology will be the principal speaker his topic will be now what is love he will discuss the selection of a life part ner mutually lasting attraction and happy marriage requirements especially stressing social relations and sex attraction magoun is an author lecturer and educator he has written seven books on power ships forestry aviation and human problems among these are a history of aircraft written in collaboration with eric hodgins man as an en gineer and the elements of hu man engineering two of his books have been selections of the junior book of the month club after graduating from m i t in 1918 magoun became field en gineer for westinghouse company in 1919 he taught applied mechan ics at lowell textile institute from 1920 to 1930 he was an in structor of naval architecture at m i t he then became associate pro fessor of humanics and head of this course in 1930 and later was promoted to professor of sociology juniors may secure their tickets for one dollar from their living group representative the arcadia office in drown hall or the supply bureau the tickets will go on sale tomorrow pre-meds tour hospital inspect wards and labs miss ruth christ upper darby a student at cedar crest college was chosen honorary cadet-colonel by 11 members of the rifle team of the united states naval academy saturday night at the annual scabbard and blade military ball in the masonic temple miss christ the guest of will iam f boore met e 42 was chosen from among 225 dates pres ent from all sections of the east she was escorted by captain e a salzman of the united states mar ine corps in the grand march through an arch of sabers and was presented with a miniature saber by william l archer bus 41 first sergeant and john a tifft bus 41 captain of scabbard and blade honorary military society as her honorary title was conferred present at the ball besides members of the navy rifle team were uniformed officers of the army and marine corps students of advanced and basic military courses and other guests in for mal attire music for the dance open to all students was provided by the le high collegians willard a litz enberger arts 41 was chairman of the committee in charge of the affair stressing the need for more eng lish and other arts and business subjects for civil engineers h o hill assistant chief engineer of fabricated steel construction with the bethlehem steel company spoke on civil engineering ed ucation last evening at the bi monthly dinner meeting of the le high valley section of the amer ican society of civil engineers held in drown hall hill who discussed the results of a questionnaire conducted by cyril d jensen professor of civil engineering and e f ball presi dent of the chapter said it is my belief that a longer period of schooling is more advisable than the customary four years i favor a five-year course and would add the extra year to the regular en gineering course but would use the extra time for more english business administration and cul tural arts subjects hale suther land professor and head of the department of civil engineering who also spoke at the meeting has previously advocated five-year engineering courses the questionnaire distributed among members of the lehigh valley section asked for the opin ions of graduate engineering stu dents on certain courses and the proper relation between theory and practice important courses listed those courses whose importance was particularly stressed on the questionnaire were drafting de scriptive geometry surveying metallurgy water supplies and sewerage foundations soil ma chines and construction methods most of the men favored longer engineering courses and considered branching out into arts subjects advisable a majority favored making college stiffer to turn out students of real intellectual vigor they valued english as a subject and more practical problems than theory in the engineering courses hill further stressed the import ance of cooperation between the college professor and the engin eer in industry the questionnaire is being con ducted by the national organiza tion local sections send their notes to a central committee that is studying the problem newtonian society to hear actuary twenty two members of the blake philosophical society accom panied by prof frank beck er prof percy hughes and prof theodore t lafferty of the phil osophy department visited on fri day the university of pennsyl vania in philadelphia in the afternoon the lehigh men were shown through the large uni versity museum as guests of the perm philosophical society the two groups later discussed the functions of government the evening was spent in the benjamin franklin room of hous ton hall where dinner was served followed by a discussion led by prof morrow of the department of philosophy of the university of pennsylvania every year the blake society makes a pilgrimage to a nearby college to discuss problems of phil osophical interest last year the group visited swarthmore college bull will address scouting society will also hold initiation elections tomorrow takes honors at military ball the robert w hall pre-medical society inspected st lukes hospi tal thursday afternoon the society was shown both the professional side of hospital work and the administrative branch of the institution members visited laboratories wards and operating rooms the trip was arranged under the sponsorship of dr william es tes jr 03 head surgeon of the hospital to discuss safety work in thursday speech by l edward klein the hockey excursion has been cancelled because until last night only 25 students and 30 faculty members had bought tickets alan h zane i e 41 student manager of the hockey club announced the defin ite cancellation of the second ann ual student trip to hershey where the lehigh pucksters will play la fayette tomorrow night a special train was to have left bethlehem tomorrow carrying students and faculty members to the eastern intercollegiate hockey league game with the traditional rivals after consulting henry w es key clark director of athletics at lafayette the hockey club de cided that a guarantee of the ne cessary 300 passnegers for the spe cial train could not be made tickets already sold will be re funded at the place of purchase according to zane game to be played in spite of the fact that the ex cursion will not be held the game will still be played at hershey special activities have been plan ned by the lehigh and lafayette alumni clubs of harrisburg lan caster and york including a hockey victory dinner at the com munity inn at hershey whether or not these activities will be can celled is not yet certain after a very thorough check zane said last night it was de cided by lehigh and lafayette au thorities to cancel the special train since financial guarantees could not be met the lehigh hockey players regret that this highlight of the season had to be cancelled but lack of adequate support made the cancellation more imperative last year 300 students faculty and supporters boarded the excur sion train in bethlehem a lehigh band of 82 pieces marched from the flagpole to the jersey central station where they joined the le high rooters at allentown a group from cedar crest college was add ed and at reading the train took on an additional car containing 25 alumni from the southeastern pennsylvania lehigh club if council seeks handbook editor president williams disapproves a recently suggested plan to load 1942 engineering graduates with summer work so they may gradu ate three months ahead of time to aid in defense work the president revealed his position yesterday while discussing a meeting of the advisory committee of engineer ing of the u s office of educa tion lehigh was represented by a copeland callen dean of the col lege of engineering the commit tee met for an all-day discussion of the subject last saturday in washington no positive action was taken although all conceded the merits and difficulties of carrying out the plan said president williams the plan is impractical we can not segregate engineering students from other parts of the univer sity dr williams stated there was unanimous agreement at the meeting that no curtailment of the course could be approved and the possibility of graduating 1941 classes before june was automa tically ruled out no haste necessary there is no evidence to show that there is any need for hasten ing graduation dr williams said in connection with the con tention that a gain of 12 or 14 weeks in the 1942 graduation would outweigh the loss to the de fense program in consultive or ac tive aid from engineer instructors who would have to spend the sum mer months in classrooms instead of the field president williams stated that the forced process would be de trimental to the education of the students and therefore the plan would result in inferior engineer ing graduates the substitute financing of stu dents who normally work during the summer months to meet all or part of their expenses of the next school year and the require ments of colleges needing subsi dies to meet the emergency expen diture involved was also consider ed all members agreed that this difficulty was a minor one dr andrew a potter of purdue university chairman of the com mittee presided eight other prom inent educators were present from renselaer polytechnic institute new york university university of lowa and carnegie institute of technology the conferees were welcomed by dr john e studebaker com missioner of education in washing ton who will issue a report of the decision of the committee during this week offers 25 inducement bridge tourney set williams debates near final round semi - finalists will vie for coveted places a recommendation that the stu dent concert-lectures fee be rais ed was made yesterday by the concert-lectures series committee in a letter to president clement c williams according to richard a ware arts 41 committee chair man final action of the proposed in crease in the fee will take place at a meeting of the board of trustees to be held sometime in the spring the student council composed of members of arcadia and the heads of each of the fraternities dormitories and town living groups a report issued by the series committee yesterday stated wholeheartedly endorsed the in crease at a meeting held nov 18 1940 the report also referred to the petition circulated during the re gistration period at the beginning ol this semester the total of 953 signatures is about 58 percent oi this semester's enrollment the committee report pointed out but more significant it is 64 percent of those who passed the checkers up until the time that the petition was closed the report further referred to the 233 ballots returned by stu dents in the audience at the con cert given by the eva jessye choir of that number 220 favored the increase the committee drew the conclusion in its meeting yester ctay that this ballot was a fair sampling of the student body majority favors increase from these facts the report continued it is justifiable to con clude that a good majority of the students favor the increase that a much smaller number remains to tally indifferent to the increase and that a still smaller group prob ably opposes the increase also discussed in yesterday's meeting was the list of applicants for next year's comittee.a selec tion of six applicants was made and will be submitted to president wiiliams for his approval the men were chosen on the basis of aptitudes activities interest abil ity personality and with atten tion being given to securing the proper representation among the divisions of the university ac cording to ware the juniors who applied follow jesse f beers jr arts wells r bliss arts a bruce brown phys albert clark jr chem james j donahue jr bus john h dud ley m e sanford goldstein bus edwin h klein arts wilk es mcclave bus william j meikle arts thomas c mekeel arts robert s newcomb bus frank h rich bus john m roach arts francis h rockett jr e e grendon k sebold e e frank e smith jr ch e kenneth h smith e e albert l thalhamer phys and kings ley g williams chem the final announcement of who has been chosen for the committee will be made through president williams dr raymond c bull director of the students health service will talk on lehigh's part in the national safety program at a meeting of the lehigh chapter of alpha phi omega national honor ary scouting fraternity to be held at 7:30 p m thursday in drown hall dr bull who is the college rep resentative of the lehigh valley safety council suggested alpha phi omega's cooperation in the safety program to richard m shepherd ch e 41 president shortly after shepherd's election last spring the lehigh chapter is the first in the county to under take this type of work shepherd expressed his intentions to start a campaign at lehigh at the decem ber national convention in indian apolis a committee has been working for several months on foundations for the campaign the main purpose of which is to make lehigh students safety conscious the work will include lectures on safety and demonstrations and instructions on first aid a statis tical survey will also be taken on the nature and causes of accidents members of the committee are william e gheen m e 42 chair man thomas w macallister e e 43 donald w kurtz e e 42 roy e woodling e m 41 milton w harper ch e 42 raymond w hinterleiter ch e 43 and william e bellinger bus 43 ad viser to the chairman is claude d gilchrist i e 41 finalists in the williams prize competition will be determined in tomorrow's semi-final round which will begin at 7:30 p m in room 312 christmas-saucon hall the topic under discussion will be resolved that a permanent un ion of the united states and the british commonwealth of nations should immediately be establish ed alfred l haft bus 43 and david p scoblionko arts 44 winners of one of last thursday's debates will uphold the affirmative against philip j prang chem 43 and charles r kiefer arts 41 winners of one of the debates on feb 27 the winners of tomorrow night's debate will meet frank e felt bus 44 and hugh boyd m e 44 winners of thursday's de bate the winning team will share 120 and the runners up will di vide 80 of williams prize money competitions for the position of editorial manager of the 1941-42 inter-fraternity council handbook will soon begin it was announced by roy s zachary arts 41 presi dent at the meeting of the inter fraternity council last night in the arcadia room drown hall applications and qualifications for the managership which carries a 25 salary must be submitted to john p taylor bus 41 sigma chi before march 17 the hand book is expected to be released by july 15 it was mentioned that officers will be elected at the next meet ing which will be held april 15 a committee was named for the bridge tournament to be sponsored by the council so far no chair man has been named for the com mittee which will work out the details of the tournament the council voted to buy the newly adopted council keys for the senior members and to set aside the profits realized on the interfraternity ball for use as an emergency fund e b whittaker associate actu ary of the prudential insurance company of america will speak on actuarial work as a career before a meeting of the newtonian society freshman honorary math ematics group to be held at 7:30 p m tomorrow in room 214 packard laboratory mr whittaker's talk will in clude discussions of the kind of work in the field the type of men needed for the work and the training necessary he is especially interested in talking before fresh men according to frank h bow er e e 43 president of the soci ety at this meeting more than 35 new members will be initiated and the officers for next term will be nominated elected and induct ed the new officers will assume their duties at the next meeting the following officers elected last year will preside at the meeting tomorrow night bower president maynard g arsove e e 43 vice president and treasurer and wal ter s titlow e e 43 secretary donald t perkins instructor in mathematics will succeed voris v latshaw assistant professor of mathematics in the advisorship of the organization mr latshaw is conducting night classes for de fense program work anyone interested in mathema tics is invited to attend the lecture bower said refreshments will be served miss ruth christ is seen above receiving a miniature saber from john a tint bus 41 captain of scabbard and blade she was chosen honorary cadet colonel by the navy rifle team at the annual military ball saturday evening which attracted 225 couples lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 11 1941 tickets will be available vol xlviii no 37 price — five cents junior dinner site changed by committee speed vs culture is conflict facing engineer educators scl report suggests fee be increased a.s.c.e speaker declares 5-year plan is best at valley meeting williams disapproves plan to use summer work in defense speed-up hockey excursion definitely cancelled student club announces trip is called off by lack of interest artist will demonstrate with model tomorrow wants more culture board action is awaited as committee okays student petition coming up . . . today 7:30 p m — robert lambert placement talk 208 packard 8 p m bethlehem hi-y e e department lecture 416 pack ard wednesday 7:30 p m tau beta pi 451 packard 7:30 p m — newtonian society 416 packard thursday 7:30 p m — glee club rehearsal chapel 8 p m — pi mv epsilon 466 packard friday 4 p m — orchestra practice chapel 7:30 p m — tone arcadia room drown hall member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first