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              whereabouts of speaker remains unknown to soph qinner head nelson s hibshman expect 200 delegates 26 colleges to participate in assembly at lehigh on march 28-29 model league will discuss mole of court price — five cents asme hears defense talk eering department sent out 93 no tices of scholastic delinquency the chemistry department 13 the elec trical department 50 and the civil engineering department 20 engineering physics students were the recipients of six notices the industrial engineers 63 the mechanical engineers 93 the met allurgical engineers 34 and the mining engineers tied last year's number of valentines with 15 during the last ten years the 680 mark has been topped six times but the university enrollment has increased steadily since 1934 this year the enrollment has dropped by 70 men below last year's figure nevertheless the number of val entines issued this year is only six less than the average for the last ten years although it is consider ably less than the all time high for last semester of 805 a total of 680 students or 41.2 per cent of 1673 students enrolled in the university received valen tines yesterday for scholastic de ficiency incurred during the first six weeks of this semester accord ing to a statement issued by wray h congdon dean of undergradu ates yesterday last march 741 students out of a total of 1743 received valen tines which was two per cent greater than this year fraternity men received 330 val entines yesterday which is 16 less than last year the dormitory men followed with 164 or 30 less than last year the town group made a remarkable drop from 261 last year to 186 received yesterday the college of arts and science sent out 104 valentines the college of business administration sent out 189 while the engineers re ceived 387 the chemical engin class to hear facts of life hanley tells importance of national program role of engineer 200 couples attend dance m i t graduate to speak to juniors at dinner scheduled april 2 over-long play dampens 1st town-dorm event 2nd one planned the national defense program must be the primary and most im portant job this year and for many years to come we have 130 mil lion people who must present a united front without any division stated dr william a hanley president of the american society of mechanical engineers at an open meeting of that group last night in packard laboratory we must forget sectional diff erences keep politics out and see that strikes do not occur a ser ious job must be done and no one must take advantage of this coun try when it is in a serious posi the nomination of nelson s hibshman associate professor of electrical engineering to the vice presidency in charge of district number two of the american in stitute of electrical engineers was announced in the march issue of its publication electrical engin eering district two comprises pennsyl vania ohio west virginia mary land delaware and the district of columbia the aiee is the national society of the electrical engineering pro fession professor hibshman's nomination for vice presidency is tantamount to election said pro fessor loyal v bewley head at the department of electrical engin eering the nomination is a great honor to him personally as well as to the university he said hibshman who is a native of harrisburg received the degree of bachelor of science in electrical engineering from pennsylvania state college in 1924 and that of master of science from lehigh university in 1927 he entered the department of electrical engineer ing at lehigh in 1924 with the rank of instructor and later was promoted to assistant and then associate professor he is at present serving on the staff of the regional adviser for engineering defense training he is a member of eta kappa nu tau beta pi and sigma xi honorary fraternities continued on page four many scene changes slow action in two on an island a total of 205 tickets were sold for the sophomore banquet ac cording to figures received late last night from harry w olinsky bus 43 chairman of the banquet com mittee olinsky hopes to reach the 225 mark which represents about 60 per cent of the class by the time all the returns are in the deadline was noon today it was also point ed out that ticket sales will exceed the sophomore class banquet last year in which 208 tickets were sold pictures or the whereabouts of j w ransom special agent for the federal bureau of investiga tion and main speaker for the ban quet are unknown olinsky stated for the protection of its agents the f b i will not reveal any information which will serve to identify them ransom will meet olinsky and the banquet commit tee at 6:30 p m thursday at the masonic temple smiley to be toastmaster toastmaster for the banquet will be e kenneth smiley director of admissions other speakers will be dean wray h congdon president clement c williams and charles j moravec assistant in journalism dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and reli gious philosophy will deliver the invocation entertainment for the students will be provided by singing songs the songs will be distributed on mimeographed sheets and the singing will be led by sophomore cheer leaders and accompanied on the piano by william s eisner ch e 43 happy marriage requirements sexual adjustment in marriage compatability with a life partner and mutually lasting attraction will compose the talk of the junior banquet speaker f alexander magoun professor of sociology at the massachusetts institute of technology on now what is love walter r okeson vice-president of the university will be toast master for the diner to be held at 6:30 wednesday evening april 2 in the hotel bethlehem the other guests will be dean wray h congdon dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy president clement c williams and charles j moravec assistant university news editor two hundred couples danced to the music of the lehigh collegi ans at the first joint town council interdormitory council dance from 10 until 1 o'clock saturday night in the masonic temple according to jonas silverberg bus 41 and stephen t lowry c e 41 town and interdorm dance chairmen respectively the affair was decidedly a success both town and interdormitory committees found that they had stayed well within the set appro priation and both seemed well pleased at the outcome of the aff air the dance was free for all members of the interdormitory and town groups and 75 cents ad mission was charged for all out siders chaperones for the affair were 900 persons see mustard and cheese production of mediocre play harry gunnison steals show continued on page four society discusses marriage aspects continued on page four to get technical with music canterbury club debates sacred secular sides approximately 200 delegates from 26 colleges and universities from the middle atlantic states are expected to attend the 15th annual session of the middle at lantic model league assembly to be held march 28-29 at lehigh the assembly will attempt to formulate suggestions for a new world order to be established fol lowing the present world war the findings are not to be visionary but are to correspond with the realities of world order and exper ience said richard a ware arts 41 secretary-general of the as sembly since the current trend of events points toward regionalism the ses sion will be divided into four commissions the inter american the european the far-eastern and the global commissions to revise boundaries the assembly will consider the type of world organization to be established when the present war ends in this respect the revision of the boundaries which held in 1938 will be revised at the session in order that the interests of peace may be furthered the model league will discuss the role of the world court in the new order that will be established when peace is declared since the present armed forces of the world will be a vital factor in the estab lishment of a new order the dis position of these armies will be considered by the assembled dele gates other topics that will be re viewed by the members of the congress will be a proposed bill of rights the use of plebicites and the problem of the economic secur ity of the individual without a loss of liberty in democratic states the officers of the assembly will be howard n golden new york university president rich ard a ware lehigh secretary general john f hamblin lehigh deputy secretary-general profes sor benjamin gerig haverford critic and professor wilson l godshall lehigh faculty adviser dr hu shih chinese ambassa dor to the united states will be the guest of honor and the princi pal speaker of the closing banquet of the assembly on saturday eve ning historians meet dr william h cowley presi dent of hamilton college speak ing friday night at lafayette at the annual meeting of the fa culties of the colleges of the le high valley urged educators to consider each student's personal physical and social characteristics as much as they do his intellectual powers approximately 40 members oi the faculty heard this address on student personnel in chaotic times by dr cowley on friday afternoon in the fa culty room of the alumni building cowley addressed about 70 facul ty members and several students on the problems of student person nel at this open meeting he gave a short resume on personnel his tory cowley discussed personnel at the afternoon meeting from the standpoint of the student faculty and adviser counsellors in stu dent personnel must be thoroughly trained he stated an effort to bring out more than the intellec tual powers of the student should be exercised closed meeting held following the open meeting pre sided over by e kenneth smiley director of admissions a closed meeting between the sub-commit tee and cowley took place cowley speaking at the evening session championed the theory of holoism or the concept that the faculty should not be merely con cerned with the student's mind holoism consists of three parts namely holoism versus intellect ualism diagnosis of the student and the principal motivations of the student prior to the civil war cowley said much emphasis was laid upon the student's moral affairs this was because most of the faculty belonged to the clergy and be cause the country was primarily agricultural he claimed with the advent of many indus trial concerns the colleges began to lay more stress on intellectual ism this was carried too far cowley told the educators har vard was the most out-standing exponent of this the presidents of yale and princeton at that time opposed this idea of placing so lit tle stress upon the student's moral progress cowley stated that even today educators to the extent of 75 to 80 per cent are essentially intellect ual changes of scenes because of the length of the performance many people who attended the two dan ces held saturday night did not see the end of the play eleanor lewis and conrad klu ger the girl and boy on manhat tan island gave competent per formances harry gunnison with a portable radio and little to say stole several scenes by his well timed appearances comedy was also supplied by ira fisher the encyclopediac fly - killing hack driver joe heller the navy on shore leave and kathryn wol bach the street walker joe larkin as the producer robert gusdorff the suave artist and laura stehli homesick mrs levy portrayed their parts con vincingly editor of linotype news to speak at convention honorary hears gipson on society relations by albert e vetrosky nine hundred people sat through mustard and cheese club's three and a half hour performance of elmer rice's two on an island saturday night at broughal high school mr rice's play which was not successful on broadway did not appeal greatly to the lehigh au dience the play dealing with the time-worn theme of the small town boy and girl struggling for recognition in the big city was produced in an impressionistic set ting with rolling platforms the continuity of the production was periodically broken by num erous and tedious scene changes mustard and cheese unfortunate ly did not have the facilities nor the staff to effect more rapid nationals will be bachelor feature editor speaks on far east policy john e allen editor of linotype news of mergenthaler linotype company has accepted brown and white's invitation to speak on the modern newspaper at the spring convention of the intercol legiate newspaper association of the middle atlantic states april 25 26 at lehigh march issue will contain article on sheridan foreign policy association hears robert smith what is the church's attitude and what is the layman's attitude toward marriage was the topic discussed at a meeting of the can terbury club religious discussion group at a meeting held sunday in drown hall philip a sweet jr m e 44 led the discussion of the laymen's attitude toward marriage the sa cred side was taken by david r dehm m e 41 premature plans for a tentative trip to princeton were discussed at the meeting a committee was appointed to nominate officers for next year and to draw up a sys tem of by-laws for the club the committee consists of george w bond bus 41 carl hartdegen e m 41 f stuart nolte m e 42 and francis h rockett jr e e 42 at the next meeting of the club sunday april 27 the subject does chrisianity matter will be considered jon conforte bus 43 and rockett are to be the leaders the annual meeting of the le high chapter of phi beta kappa and the initiation of the newly el ected candidates will be held on thursday march 20 at 4 15 p m in the faculty room alumni mem orial building dr lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and gov ernment spoke last evening on the relation of phi alpha theta to the history and government department before a regular bi monthly meeting of phi alpha thsta honorary historical society donald b hoffman graduate of muhlenberg college gave a short talk on precepts of phi alpha theta he discussed the principles that the organization stands for and told of the relationships of the local chapter to the national so ciety the pledging of new members will take place in the near future apologies to uncle sam tau bete's elect junior senior pledges chosen last evening — brown and white photo the brown and white issue of feb 18 stated that the u s army air corps has vacancies for college men who are not members of the r o t c that statement was only partially correct r o t c students may also enroll in that branch of the military service men interested in applying for pilot training in the army air corps may procure descriptive pamph lets and applications at col jo seph s leonard's office in the ar mory walter h vogelsberg e e 41 will demonstrate and explain the operation of the hammond electric organ at the monthly meeting of the lehigh branch of the american institute of electrical engineers 7:30 p m thursday in room 416 packard laboratory he will discuss the musical background construction and sound production of this type of organ telling how sound is gener engineers from the junior and senior classes were elected to tau beta pi national engineering hon orary last night in a long session in packard laboratory following a smoker in drown hall the pledging exercises will be held at 4:15 p m tomorrow march 19 at the memorial to dr edward h williams founder of the society in front of williams hall marking the 56th year of tau beta pi america needs more forceful rather than a less vigorous position in the far east declared robert a smith cable editor of the new york times and author of our future in asia at a luncheon meeting of the lehigh valley branch of the foreign policy asso ciation saturday noon at the hotel bethlehem dr benjamin l miller profes sor of geology presided at the meeting the theme of discussion was should the united states ap pease japan and was presented by elizabeth b schumpeter a member of the faculties of vassar and wheaton colleges who favored appeasement and mr smith who advocated a more forceful position in the far east seated at the speakers table were charles a seidle assistant director of admissions dean and mrs wray h congdon and dr miller ated electrically as musical impul ses rather than by blowing wind across pipes as in the pipe organ or by the striking of strings vogelsberg will play upon a hammond organ that has been se cured from a local musical instru ment company for this lecture he will illustrate his talk with slides and use an oscilloscope to visibly analyze the sound waves songs were rendered by the university glee club before mem bers of the lehigh university wo men's club at their meeting this afternoon in drown hall mrs fred v larkin was in charge the march issue of the lehigh bachelor which is coming out thursday will deal with national wrestling according to editor in chief edwin h klein arts 42 carrying out this idea it will fea ture an article by ben bishop 34 intercollegiate wrestling champion on the lehigh wrestling coach billy sheridan there will also be an article on the late ed gallagher one of the greatest wrestling coaches that ever lived by wildcn barnes sports publicity director of okla homa a and m giving an insight into the personal character of ed gallagher the bachelor will present all the past records of national wrestling with pictures of the captains of leading teams in addition there will be cartoons and pictures as well as a satire on quiz programs by robert c smith ch e 44 the cover of this month's issue of the bachelor will be a cartoon on wrestling by roger a tambella arts 44 receives honor lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 18 1941 dean sends love to 680 for scholastic deficiencies vol xlviii no 39 special drill scheduled hibshman gets nomination to aiee office 330 fraternity men receive mid-semester reports 164 delivered to dorms 186 to town groups company a special drill com pany will hold an extra drill thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock it is necessary that all members be present for intensive drill in the special field day exercises cowley talks to educators on personnel college president speaks on student problems to valley faculty electrical society names professor for district vice presidency banquet sale reaches 205 also lectures at lehigh election called certain all the lehigh news first coming up . . . today 7:30 p.m — placement talk room 208 packard laboratory wednesday 4:10 p.m — tau beta pi pledging steps of williams hall 8 p m — finals in williams in tramural debating contest packard auditorium thursday 7 p m — sophomore class ban quet masonic temple 7:30 p m — glee club rehearsal chapel friday 1 p m — national collegiate wrestling preliminaries tay lor gym member intercollegiate newspaper association z si