Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 43

              seminar room planned band will give concert last lecture of series latins offer summer study opportunity to be given for learning culture of south america two lehigh students ranked among the highest students of the nation's colleges in a test for gen eral culture knowledge john l gretz met e 44 made a score in the general education test sponsored several weeks ago by the general education program that was two points higher than any score made by 2,000 freshmen in ten colleges thomas c macauister e e 43 in the same tests scored only three points lower than the highest score made among 10,000 of 80 colleges both gretz and macallister are enrolled in the general education program which sponsors the cul ture tests every year thirty stu dents and two faculty members took this year's test and only one of the lehigh men scored less than the average score for all students in all colleges according to percy hughes professor of philosophy who was in charge of the tests at lehigh the professors far surpass ed any score made by any student both here and at the other colleges these tests are intended to test the general cultural knowledge of the individual they cover a wide range of subjects including his tory fine arts history languages literature and science members of the general educa tion program may get their results from their advisers professor hughes is prepared to give the test to any student who applies and to analyze the results of the individual scores will present movie shorts odk minimum grade changed pi delta epsilon to show 4 pictures in packard lab april 23 why germany is a dictator ship and the theory of revolu tons were topics of speeches giv en by two members of the cosmo politan club at a meeting last tuesday evening frank w berman met e 44 a resident of germany until 1938 related that the german nation is a dictatorship because the german people more or less accustomed to a one-man govern ment throughout their history generally lack interest in politics and would rather have some one else take care of the government for them lowrie b sargent raybestos manhattan fellow in the second address declared that history re peats itself in the way govern ments change from one form to another he also pointed out many other views pertaining to history and governmental progress after each talk the speakers were questioned on their respec tive subjects by the audience scholastic requirement now upper 35 was university average horning writes on advertising discusses modern - day methods of catching the public eye illness has made it impossible for will durant to give his lecture on problems of marriage which was to have been delivered to night in broughal high school ar rangements have been made for the philosopher to appear here on friday evening april 25 the student concerts-lectures committee learned late tuesday evening that durant had been for ced to cancel all engagements from last tuesday until saturday he was stricken early this week with influenza rather than engaging a substi tute the committee through dur ant's booking agent postponed the lecture to the later date sends letter in a letter received by special delivery airmail early wednesday morning mr durant personally sent his regrets i am much ashamed he wrote to fall down on my engagement wth you for april 11 i have been suddenly laid up with the flu and it is so improbable that the doc tors here will let me out in time that i have thought it only fair to you to give you some advance no tice of my failure i can't tell you how sorry i am and yet i am comforted with the thought that you and my agent out of his great staff of speakers will have been able to find a sub stitute quite capable of making you forget my absence when durant does appear on april 25 his lecture on marriage problems will conclude this year's student concerts-lectures series i r c chooses bliss and wirths opportunity to study latin american culture at first hand will be afforded teachers graduates and students this summer by summer schools at the university of san marcos lima peru and the uni versity of chile at santiago the san marcos summer school sponsored in collaboration with the catholic university of peru the peruvian-american cultural institute of lima the touring and auto club of peru and in coopera tion with the institute of inter national education and the educa tional department of the grace line runs from july 3 to august 13 the cost of attending this sum mer school including ocean trans portation registration fees for classes and room and board at the bolivar hotel in lima is 475 courses offered include spanish latin-american and spanish lit erature archeology history con stitutional organization diploma tic relations economic geography of south american countries and peruvian art similar courses are offered at the university of chile summer school july 17 to august 17 sponsored by the institute of international education cost of this summer school runs from 400 to 500 students interested should write to the institute of international education 2 west 45th street new york city or see professor wilson l godshall for further information students will sail from new york june 20 for the san marcos summer school and will return to the united states august 25 election is followed by talk on chinese life trends in advertising that un failing barometer of social trends from 1925 to 1940 are considered by kenneth b horning assistant in english in a lengthy article appearing in the current issue of printers ink national adver tising magazine horning discusses and presents examples of the trend from lengthy long-winded ads to catchy cartridge-type eye-catch ers he analyzes the change from high-flown language to simple straight - forward down-to-earth copy the use of comic strip tech nique and extensive illustrations in advertising and the current trend toward goofy and childish ad vertising purposely ludicrous in the hope that the reader will con by william hinterleiter extensive alterations and im provements in the chemistry building are nearing completion although not entirely finished the work has progressed far enough to enable one to obtain a general view of the project the construction is centered in the basement and first floor of the central part of the building in the basement where for many years sophomores sweated during june in the assaying laboratory a hall way has been made leading to the physical chemistry laboratory and three rooms have been constructed on either side facing the hallway this space was made available through the opening of the harry m ullman wing which contained a new freshman laboratory this left the old freshman laboratory on the second floor vacant the assaying equipment has now been moved there and in the future sophomores will work in more de sirable surroundings six rooms available of the six rooms made available in the basement two are under the direction of dr warren w ewing professor of physical chemistry one contains a calorimeter for measuring heats of hydration and vapor pressure apparatus herbert e rasmussen student chemistry foundation fellow is working in this room the other room is squipped with the latest type cen trifuge capable of 5,000 revolu tions per minute a colloid mill and an interferometer used in the analysis of solutions by the meas urement of refractive indices the other room on the same side of the building is a research laboratory for dr edwin r theis professor of chemical engineering who is working on leather analysis on the other side of the hallway is an office for dr hilton a smith assistant professor of chem istry whose former office has been a two hour movie program of selected shorts will be given by pi delta epsilon national honorary journalism fraternity at 8 p m april 23 in packard auditorium there will be no charge for the program charles f kalmach m e 41 president of the fraternity declared all students and faculty members are invited to attend the showing four different subjects will be illustrated in the program the well known radio program pleas ure time with fred waring and his orchestra will be the first number to be given tobacco land a production describing the tobacco plantations in the south made by the march of time will be the second feature the popular short which the le high wrestlers made some time ago lehigh matmen will also be included this will give all those who missed the picture when it went the rounds of the local thea tres a chance to see it the im portant plays of the bowl games the army-navy game and the well known fifth-down incident of the cornell-dartmouth game will be shown in football thrills of 1940 electricals hold elections continued on page four continued on page four beowulf begs for biggs newtonians hold officers induction plans for lehigh's annual sub freshman day to be held on may 3 were discussed wednesday at a meeting of the sub-freshman committee under the chairman ship of e kenneth smiley direc tor of admissions the program for the day is chiefly concerned with the orienta tion of the prospective students university administrators will hold morning and afternoon conferen ces during which the sub-freshmen and their parents may discuss problems of college entrance and the choice of a suitable curriculum sessions with the directors of the various curricula will begin at 11:30 a m department heads as well as the directors of admissions will be available for consultation during the afternoon a concert by the band will be given at 10:15 a m in front of packard laboratory and a general assembly will take place in pack ard auditorium at 11 o'clock lunch in armory at 12:30 p m a buffet luncheon sponsored by the committee will be served in the armory in addi tion fraternities will entertain var ious guests at luncheon as usual much of the afternoon will be spent in inspecting depart mental exhibits and demonstra tions whose purpose is to give the sub-freshmen some idea of the equipment available and the type of work done in each curriculum other scheduled events for the afternoon are the intramural sing ing contest in front of packard laboratory at 2 o'clock a tea sponsored by wives of the faculty members at 3 o'clock in drown hall a tennis match with the uni versity of pennsylvania and a track meet with rutgers univer sity the details of the program are being planned by charles a sei dle assistant director of admiss ions among those who attended the wednesday's meeting were mrs e kenneth smiley mrs garth a howland mrs robert d billinger albert e lee ch e 41 president of arcadia roy s zachary arts 41 president of the interfrater nity council and archie d tifft bus 42 president of cyanide the minimum scholastic re quirement for eligibility to omi cron delta kappa national honor leadership society will be changed after this year from an average equal to or better than the scho lastic average of the university to an average ranking in the top 35 per cent of each college this was a part of the report heard by the lehigh xi circle of odk last night on the national convention of the society held immediately before spring vaca tion at louisiana state university charles f kalmbach m e 41 president of odk and convention delegate presented the report at a meeting of odk held at the home of president clement c williams the action of changing the scho lastic requirement of the national society followed an investigation and establishment of a series of definitions and standards of cri teria by the association of college honor societies this organiza tion has been attempting to clear away confusion on college cam puses concerning the character of many organizations which main tain high fees permit low scholas tic standards conduct and influ ence few or no significant activities or movements and purport to be educational in purpose the society discussed last night the possibilities of a proposed scheme for a marriage course at lehigh it was agreed that such a course was desirable and several suggestions as to its form were made 3 alumni groups to hold meetings new men are inaugurated at recent meeting eta kappa nu honorary elec trical engineering society held election of officers wednesday af ternoon in the lounge of packard laboratory those elected were frank p librizzi 42 president william a eisele 42 vice presi dent grendon k sebold 42 re cording secretary raymond s willard 42 corresponding secre tary and clarence m sanderson 42 treasurer tom girdler to give cup sheridan to speak 13 fraternities hold election of officers for coming year welles r bliss arts 42 was elected president of the interna tional relations club at a meeting last night in drown hall wallace r wirths bus 42 was elected vice-president daniel r czapko arts 44 secretary and wilbur e henry jr arts 44 treasurer factors affecting the develop ment of china were discussed by charles a seidle assistant direc tor of admissions after the club's business meeting mr seidle taught at the university of ling nan in canton china and is well acquainted with chinese life chinese conservatism is the re sult of the chinese attitude to wards family philosophy and ed ucation and the geographical situ ation of china declared mr seidle he added that part of their pres ent predicament could be attribut ed to the fact that chinaman's first allegiance is to his family and only incidentally to his country coupled with the fact that there are 300 separate dialects in china and a person speaking one cannot understand a different dialect students receive pointers on public safety methods the newtonan society honorary mathematics group installed new ly elected officers at a meeting wednesday evening in packard la boratory frank h brower retiring presi dent conducted the meeting until the induction of the new officers the men recently elected are e lyster frost met e 44 presi dent theodore peters jr ch e 44 vice president-treasurer and norman c appelgate jr c e 44 secretary following this dr donald t perkins instructor in mathematics and the new society adviser pre sented a talk on mathematical pro babilities according to dr per kins the probability of winning in games of chance such as shoot ing dice flipping coins etc is in finitesimal as compared with the possibility of losing as an ex ample he cited roulette were a person to play 100,000,000 on a roulette wheel a dollar at a time the average probable winnings would be approximately 25 for its next meeting on may 14 the society plans to invite a grad uate student to speak on the prac tical applications of mathematics to industry history students heard george j ruyak director of public safe ty speak on the work of his de partment last wednesday morning councilman ruyak not only ex plained the function of the various departments which compose the city's governmental structure but also gave the students some poin ters on the dangers of reckless driving and the need for fire pre vention measures board of trustees to meet richard c paul arts 42 keeper of annals robert m baer bus 42 usher robert l bird arts 43 sentinel initiations stuart l hammond bus 44 warren r dix met e 44 charles r conklin chem.'44 walter trappe bus 44 william a ernest e e 44 bernard v lawshe m e 44 beta theta pi initiations evans jones met 44 alan c mermann arts 44 samuel c pruett ch e 44 john h blake bus 44 dudley coles c e 44 bruce m peacock m e 44 john j deach e e 44 ar chibald l williams bus 44 paul l reiber met e 44 donald r lowry m e 44 richard b seals arts 44 wilson p snyder bus 44 chi phi initiations donald t fischer arts 44 robert e weltz ch e 44 guenther h frobel m e 44 harry k wrench bus 44 vic tor e smith bus 44 charles balough arts 43 charles e lehr bus 44 james h callahan ch e 44 edwin l leet c e 44 delta sigma phi elections ernest j gamble ch e 42 president john burgio e e 42 vice-president thomas s continued on page four earle f johnson 07 now on the federal o p m will address the lehigh club of new york may 1 at their get-together in the murray hill hotel alfred r glancy 03 assistant to mr john son will also speak tom girdler,'ol will be the hon orary host of the evening and will present the lehigh club cup for distinguished service to billy dick erman 96 chairman of the board of directors of the american loco motive company dale h gramley head of the department of journalism will bring the lehigh club of central jersey up to date on current le high affairs april 21 in trenton billy sheridan will be on hand with the latest lehigh news at a dinner of the lehigh club of northern new york april 18 pathe's wrestling short matmen filmed on the lehigh campus and featuring billy and the wrestling team will be shown after the din ner a copeland callen 00 dean of the college of engineering will be a guest of the fifth annual dinner of the southeastern lehigh club at which matmen also will be shown a spring dance the third to be held will be the feature of the northern jersey club on april 26 at the rock springs country club beowulf who just missed the comfort of the home of tony car cione second in line at the cop's car has since learned to respond to his recently acquired title and obeys all instructions with no sec ond warnings he will shake hands beg and do a few other of the minor tricks that all smart dogs know biggs who is perfectly willing to keep the bull permanently has tried to find its original owner calls to the police veterinarians and even a notice in the globe times have brought no results both beowulf and biggs seem satisfied with present arrange ments beowulf thought he would get the usual tasty reward for per forming when he sat up and beg ged for ths photograph but mac biggs e e 42 fooled his newly found brindle bull last night into assuming the position new to the lehigh campus and bigg's authority beowulf so nam ed after a lengthy conference of mac's friends adopted his pres ent owner last monday night when the dog was picked up by the cam pus cop on night duty the cop who found the animal with no owner's identification and no place to go turned it over to biggs who was the first of a group of students to yell me when asked who wanted the dog thirteen fraternities have held elections of officers recently and 11 have announced their initia tions alpha chi rho elections albert w foster bus 42 president david r smith jr e e 42 vice-president e irving shuttleworth ch e 42 ritual officer claude f leaman jr bus 43 chaplain h ralph maack ch e 44 sergeant at arms douglas m haire bus 42 recording sec retary james g hailton e m 42 treasurer w horace boynton arts 42 steward john h burrus bus 43 corresponding secretary initiations neal s moreton i e 44 sterling e mayo e e 44 h ralph maack ch e 44 c fred erick moore arts 44 and william w wiley bus 44 alpha kappa pi elections emmet t white bus 42 president joseph n ambrogi e e 42 vice-president james f pfeffer m e 42 secretary char les l ldebau bus 43 treasurer harry l boyer ch e 42 histor ian richard c hopkins m.e 43 sentinel william b hanman bus 43 chaplain alpha tau omega elections robert f ryan bus 42 president alexander k wig gin i e 42 vice-president john h milbank bus 42 treasurer the board of trustees meeting will be held at 11 a m saturday april 19 for the purpose of dis cussing and adopting the budget for the next fiscal year beginning july 1 according to walter r okeson treasurer lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday april 11 1941 cosmopolitan club hears 2 speakers vol xlviii no 43 lehigh underclassmen rank high in cultural knowledge date lists due on wed price — five cents sub - freshmen day activities are discussed berman sargent speak on nazis revolution chem building nearing end of renovation flu postpones marriage talk by will durant all houseparty dates lists for publication in the brown and white houseparty issue on fri day april 18 must be turned in by wednesday noon in room 304 christmas saucon hall philosopher will appear on friday april 25 no talk tonight 6 new rooms are built for research work sophs get lab prospective lehigh men to discuss curricula and see exhibits coming up . . . saturday 3 p m — baseball swarthmore sunday 4:00 p m — tone recital hoff string quartet chapel monday 7:30 p m — camera club 208 packard member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first