Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 45

              program for weekend features junior prom junior prom begins 2-day program of athletic contests dances information isjunofficial collegians will fill in binder's friday at four to be theme melody of party weekend today 6 p m — pi tau sigma dance and banquet hotel bethle hem 10 p m — junior prom em pire ballroom saturday 2:30 p m — freshman base hall home 3 p m — track muhlenberg away 4 p m — lehigh collegians tea dance hotel bethlehem 8:45 p m — dramatic work shop production i killed the count drown hall 2:30 p m — ballet drown hall emily and the rain a ballet entitled emily and the rain to be danced by louise everett of moravian college for women and several piano selections to be played by ruth wright concert pianist from trenton n j will be the features of a program of mod ern music to be given 2:30 p.m sunday in drown hall the program which is spon sored by tone honorary musi cal society has been arranged by james k binder arts 41 and irving b remsen ch.e.'42 binder who wrote the music for the ballet will accompany miss everett on the piano em ily and the rain is a dance study of the sub-conscious mind of emily bronte author of wuthering heights no admission will be charged for the program which will be concluded before train time on sunday mil honorary plans pledging student grants are featured 9 men will be tapped by scabbard and blade at monday drill gramley writes article on scholarship aid in alumni bulletin rumors of severe shakeups in various athletic coaching positions were partly confirmed this week as it became common knowledge that two affected parties would not be at their posts next year organized protests in the form of petitions circulated among the students and letters to the admin istration from alumni and others have arisen to aid morris kanaly coach of track and instructor of physical education in his efforts to reverse a university decision not to retain his services for next year harry carpenter coach of soc cer for the past 20 years has an nounced officially that he would not take over his team in the fall and would retire from coaching activities no official announcement no official university announce ment of the resignation of carpen been made either by president ter or the firing of kanaly has williams or by the athletic depart ment no official comment on any rumors of other alleged changes in the coaching setup has been made whatever action has been taken will probably be made known fol lowing the spring meeting of the board of trustees tomorrow firing of kanaly from his posi tion of track coach and physical education instructor has been brought to light by kanaly him self and certain student groups who have joined him in protesting the university's action petitions reported to have hundreds of sign ers have been circulated among tau beta pi's elect lutters engineering society picks m e as president 5 others chosen dr charles russ richards pres ident emeritus of the university died of a heart condition at noon yesterday at his home in minne apolis minn he had marked his 70th birthday anniversary less than a month ago dr richards who served as president of lehigh for 13 years 1922-1935 had been in ill health since 1934 approximately nine months before his retirement on may 21 1935 late in the summer of 1935 he and mrs richards moved to minneapolis where they have since resided funeral services will be held at 3 p m saturday in packer mem orial chapel bishop frank w sterrett of the bethlehem diocese of the protestant episcopal church will officiate he will be assisted by dr claude g beardslee uni versity chaplain dr t edgar shields will preside at the organ interment will be private in nisky hill cemetery honorary pallbearers will be dr c c bidwell andrew e buchan an bridgeport conn dr r c bull dean neil carothers dr h m diamond alan c dodson prof howard eckfeldt dr w l estes dean tomlinson fort dr l h gipson eugene g grace dr rob ert w hall dr percy hughes prof fred v larkin howard s leach dr b l miller walter r okeson dean p m palmer dr r m smith prof bradley stough ton prof hale sutherland rob ert s taylor sr dr stanley thomas dr harry m ullmann and president c c williams surviving dr richards are his wife and two children miss len ore richards of minneapolis and robert watt richards newspaper man of aurora 111 dr richards who had been in educational work 43 years at the time of his retirement came to le high in 1922 from the deanship of the college of engineering at the university of illinois he succeed ed dr henry sturgis drinker and became lehigh's sixth president prior to accepting the post as dean of the engineering college at illinois in 1917 dr richards had been professor of mechanical en gineering at illinois for six years nine men have satisfactorily completed requirements for ad mission to scabbard and blade honorary military society accord ing to john a tifft jr bus 41 captain these men will be pledged at drill on monday the men who took either of the scabbard and blade quizzes and who were not taken into the soicety will be rat ed at summer camp and taken in according to their ratings next fall those chosen at this time were selected after having taken a writ ten quiz a competitive shooting match on the range and a practical quiz all three quizzes were taken into account in the selection of the men those to be pledged are allen h zane i e 41 albert clarke jr chem 42 and alfred b brown phys 42 in the ordnance wiuiam g willman chem 42 william h gheen m e 42 hen ry j olson c e 42 alan h conklin arts 2 charles b dut ton i e 42 and archie d tifft bus 42 in the infantry felch to give talk at asme meeting harrison to talk on purity of food will speak on gun casting at brooklyn polytech philip lutters m e 42 was el ected president of tau beta pi national honorary engineering scholastic society at a meeting wednesday night in the tau beta pi room in packard laboratory other officers all juniors elect ed for next year are the folowing vice-president a bruce brown phys corresponding secretary f stuart nolte m e recording sec retary john f clark jr e e treasurer charles h schumacher who help themselves an ar ticle on scholarship and self-aid at lehigh by dale h gramley uni versity news editor and coming events cast their shadows an article on new training methods in the chemistry department by john c mertz 31 instructor in chemistry are featured in the april alumni bulletin professor gramley's article deals in detail with the different types of tuition aid pointing out 115 630 has been granted this year by the committee on scholarships and loans bringing the total since 1929 to over one million dollars dr mertz article describes the work done in a new course entit led advanced analytical chemis try organized and presented for the first time this semester by dr earl j serfass assistant professor of chemistry and himself the course was designed to keep lehigh chemistry students abreast of recent developments in analy tical procedure and technique such as refractometry calorimetry po larimetry and chemical micro scopy other articles in the april issue of the bulletin include color blindness and student grants by curtis f bayer 35 and here are the facts a discussion of the alumni university fund by rob ert c herrick 34 editor chemical society speaker will discuss frauds all seniors may be placed by june as business booms by wallace wirths spring is here and so are 850 houseparty dates models dubutantes home town sweethearts and just plain gals began arriving thursday by train auto and plane some have , travelled many miles to attend what is lehigh s most gala spring so cial event there are dates from near-by moravian and far-off cuba but for two glor ious hilarious never-to-be-fot gotten days lehigh will be the home of them all the mad whirl begins officially at 4 o'clock this afternoon in quick succession follow a baseball game the junior ball and very little sleep saturday morning the cam pus will take on the appearance of a co-ed institution and fair dam sels from all parts of the country will brighten saturday morning classes the hotel bethlehem and the maennerchor will feature tea dances in the afternoon and 30 fraternity and dormitory dances in the evening will conclude the fes tivities of another great house party clinton will play at the top of the big events of the weekend is the junior ball to night at the empire ballroom fea turing larry clinton and his ver satile group clinton directs his musicians in the sweet and swing style and is popular for such pie ces as dipsy doodle martha and i dreamt i dwelt in marble flails this is larry's second ap pearance on the campus he was featured at the military ball in 1939 when over five hundred coup les danced to his music houseparty's own theme song friday at four will be featured by the lehigh collegians at the hotel bethlehem tea dance james k binder arts 41 composed the number and a special arrangement of the song will be played by lar ry clinton's band the collegians will fill in during the intermissions at the ball tonight to provide dan cers with continuous dancing a dance and a banquet by pi tau sigma honorary engineering fraternity will begin tonight at 6 o'clock in the hotel bethlehem tomorrow evening the dramatic workshop will present i killed the count the play to be held in drown hall will be presented at 7:45 so that it will not conflict with the many dances scheduled for the evening houseparty will not be without its athletic events a track meet is planned at nearby muhlenberg college tomorrow afternoon in ad dition to the wyoming seminary baseball game at 4 o'clock today and the rutgers freshman ball game tomorrow centrifugal gun casting will be the subject of a talk to be giv en by robert i felch i e 41 who will represent lehigh at a student conference of the american soci ety of mechanical engineers to be held at the polytechnic institute of brooklyn the conference will last two days beginning monday morning and each representative will com pete for the presentation of tech nical papers felch will use slides to illustrate his 15 minute talk after which questions will be ask ed thomas e jackson instructor of mechanical engineering will ac company felch to the meeting the hotel st george in brooklyn will be the headquarters alfred l trumpler m e 40 won a prize at last year's meeting williams to head trustee's session 2 williams prize finalists are in lafayette debate penny wise and pound foolish is still the rule by which many are governed in their food purchases according to joseph w e harris son outstanding authority on food and drugs who will be the speak er at the chemical society meet ing thursday at 7:30 p m mr harrisson's topic is food and drugs their adulteration and misbranding harrisson of la wall and har risson consultants in philadelphia is assistant professor at the phila delphia college of pharmacy and science and consultant to the pennsylvania bureau of foods and chemistry according to the speaker a high price does not always go hand in hand with either quality or whole someness the means are varied by which those who either by purpose or unintentionally adul terate food and drugs or defraud the public to publish chem book president clement c williams will preside at the conference on selective service at the seventh annual conference of trustees of colleges and universities at lafay ette college friday april 25 trus tees of nearly 100 institutions from all parts of the united states in cluding the mid-west and the pa cific coast will attend started in 1935 to give trustees of colleges and universities an op portunity to discuss the responsi bilities and problems of governing boards of educational institutions the conference the only one of its kind in the united states has been growing each year two williams prize finalists represented the freshman class in a debate with a lafayette fresh man team held before an assem bly last thursday night at the easton high school using a cross-examination type of debate hugh boyd m e 44 and david p scoblionko arts 44 upheld the affirmative side of the proposition resolved that a per manent union of the united states and the british commonwealth of nations should immediately be es tablished harold v anderson associate professor of chemistry and dr thomas h hazlehurst associate professor of chemistry have had their manuscript entitled quali tative analysis accepted for pub lication by the prentice-hall chem istry series the textbook to ap pear in june will be the third edi tion it will contain material on semi-micro analysis as well as on the standard methods of analysis by david j carrigan , every senior should be placed by june according to e robins morgan director of placement who bases his prediction on the present demand for lehigh gradu ates corresponding to the uptrend in business conditions the 1941 sen ior placement record has topped that of 1940 by 87 men the place ment date curve chart kept by morgan shows that by april 10 1940 120 men had accepted voca tional offers or had decided upon army or graduate school work by april 10 1941 this number was increased to 207 mainly interested in engineering graduates various industrial cor porations have been applying for 41 men since december 1940 meanwhile within the past few months federal government and state personnel agencies have be gun to request all kinds of engin eers to take examinations in june for considerations in national de fense employment but large corporations such as bethlehem steel carnegie illinois steel lukens steel pratt and whitney aircraft aluminum com pany of america general motors westinghouse electric and manu facturing general electric stand ard oil socony vacuum oil bell telephone hercules powder and dupont de nemours have taken a considerable number of men sen iors are accepting the job offers now instead of waiting until june to take civil service examinations to date among a total of 192 sen ior engineers about 37 have not accepted positions some of these have had offers but are consider ing army work or have not decid ed for other reasons it seems that industry is getting the men while the government with its strict system of examina tions and applications has lost considerable time the govern ment is at a disadvantage in that it faces a new situation in requir ing the placing of many men in its activities as compared with the carefully prepared estimates on the part of industry of its man power requirements based on many years of experience said morgan morgan began his services with the placement bureau with the class of 1936 and since that time the poorest year for senior place ment was 1938 lehigh has a party . . . lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday april 18 1941 former president richards succumbs to heart ailment vol xlviii no 45 price — five cents many students petition tokeep kanaly at job houseparty clinton attract 850 dates for spring frolic made great improvements in all 3 departments of the university modern music program to be given on sunday organized protests start as rumors spread about shakeups served lehigh 13 years