Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 48

              tapping at flagpole frosh orientation course and marriage forum plans reviewed reading period quiz days organization meetings subjects of inquiry lehigh wins 3 thirds faculty okay sought brown and white issues special edition sat for press meet 60 attend final session interfraternity dormitory and town cabinets present plans student-faculty committee on buildings-grounds is suggested what the council wants for you after a two-month study of the university calendar the meeting of the combined councils finally adopted the fol lowing recommendations last night 1 that there be a reading period before final examinations or that the exam period should be lengthened 2 that quizzes on school days after course society meetings houseparty weekends and student concerts-lectures series events be banned 3 that campus organizations meet on regular assigned eve nings according to a proposed schedule other problems acted upon include 4 that there should be a joint student administration com mittee on buildings and grounds 5 that a plan for a freshman orientation course on student life be adopted and that arcadia should next year present this plan to the first combined councils meeting 6 that there should be at lehigh a marriage forum similar to that outlined by the junior committee in which an opr portunity would be provided for students to understand the basic problems involved in marriage and preparation for it williams prize draws 17 men preliminaries are tonight in packard auditorium finals are may 7 ganoe will be review officer 60 to receive 18 awards at annual field day exercises monday alpha phi omega chooses officers kenneth k kost the combined councils of four student governing bodies acted on the problems of freshman orienta tion a proposed marriage course and a proposed student-faculty committee on buildings and grounds at their meeting last night in drown hall more than 60 mem bers of interfraternity council in terdormitory council town coun cil and arcadia participated in the session presided over by albert e lee ch e 41 arcadia president a plan for a freshman orienta tion course was submitted by fred r gilmore arts 41 with the ap proval of town council the plan suggests institution of a series of freshman orientation lectures on student life the proposed lectures would be offered to ail freshman during the first semester of their first year and would be given as a compul sory one-hour course with no cre dit toward graduation those lec tures would be intended to meet the problem of undergraduate ig norance of extra-curricular activi ties which the committee believes is one of the major causes of stu dent indifference to university problems functions and activities the proposal for this course was approved and will be considered at the first fall meeting of the com bined councils and a special com mittee will continue investigation of the plan plan marriage course a junior committee composed of james j donahue jr bus scouts pick businessman society to pledge 11 continued on page four students faculty make field trip three major proposals affecting the university calendar in regard to exam periods hour-quiz days and monthly schedules of group meetings were accepted last night in drown hall by the combined councils of the dormitories town group fraternities and arcadia in their third and final meeting of the year the combined councils confirmed the recommendations of sub-committees on 1 a reading or rest period between end of classes and start of exams 2 hour-quiz schedules which would eliminate conflicts with the larger university social cultural and scholastic events 3 a monthly activities calen dar to eliminate jamming and du plication of club and society meet ings the reports on these vital stu dent issues are the result of two semesters of study and investiga tion by separate committees ap pointed by the council last fall the committees proposals on the examination reading period and the planned hour-quiz schedule will be submitted to university officials for consideration for adop tion into the university calendar exam plan explained the reading period long a sub ject of student agitation is a spe cified number of days before ex aminations in which the student can tie up the loose ends it was proposed to straighten out difficul ties such as the crowding tendency under the present exam system the proposal urges that the three days preceding the examination period be left open for the purpose of a reading period and that class es shall end saturday noon of the week preceding exams it further suggests that the professors of the studied rock formations during weekend trip continued on page four soph test results ready next week lehigh gained representation by two men on the executive board of intercollegiate newspaper associa tion when john m roach arts 42 news manager of the brown and white and kenneth k kost instructor in journalism and facul ty adviser to the brown and white were elected president and execu tive secretary respectively of the association at the saturday gen eral session of the convention which was held here friday and saturday bruce skagg an editor of the george washington hatchet was elected vice-president jean ledy news editor of the beaver news was elected secretary and prof w m burditt faculty adviser to the alfred university fiat lux was elected executive treasurer to replace dale h gramley associate professor of journalism and facul ty adviser to the brown and white who resigned his position with the news association friday in class b school enrollment of 1,050 and over george washing ton university took first place in the news competition drexel sec ond and lehigh third swarthmore captured first place george washington second and lehigh and bucknell tied for third in the editorial competition george washington placed first in advertising drexel second and lehigh third in the sports competition george washington won first place buck nell second and drexel third the brown and white covered the convention in a special edition put out saturday charles b seib arts 41 acted as editor and otto g leichliter met e 42 was photo editor sixty-seven delegates represent ed 20 schools at the convention colleges represented were alfred baltimore beaver brooklyn poly technic bucknell cedar crest drexel elizabethtown elmira franklin and marshall george washington gettysburg lehigh moravian college for men mora vian college for women muhlen berg siena susquehanna swarth more and wilson 6 men quarantined must still take aptitudes seniors placed 227 men get positions bureau sets record competing for prizes totaling 225 six freshmen six seniors and five juniors will enter the pre liminary round of the williams extempore speaking contests at 8 p m tonight in packard auditor ium not more than three freshmen nor four upperclassmen will sur vive tonight's competition the speakers will meet in the finals on wednesday may 7 first second and third place winners of the junior-senior con test will receive 75 50 and 25 respectively the freshmen contest winner will receive 50 and the runner-up 25 the contestants and their topics follow junior-senior contest freder ick n bahnson phys 41 i was all wet jesse f beers jr arts 42 arcadia and dictators wil liam f boore jr met e 42 tons of water richard j berg arts 42 vox fascisti albert clark jr chem 42 our first line of defense — the treasury willard s clewell jr ch e 42 do we want a nation of half wits richard m dietz m e 41 america stronghold of equality charles r kiefer jr arts 41 let's kill americans in america william j meikle arts 41 mr rugg's textbooks col william a ganoe infantry u s army has been designated by the commanding general of the third corps area u s army to make formal inspection of the le high r o t c unit at the 14th annual field day competitions and military review monday on tay lor field a total of 18 awards will be made to about 60 men and com panies for leadership general abil ity value to the r o t c scho lastic standing rifle shooting and drill competition the order of events on the af ternoon program is as follows 1:30 — assembly on the low er field companies and band will form 1:40 — adjutant's call com panies will move to parade position 2:00 — manual of arms elim ination contest each platoon enters a freshman and sopho more contestant 2:15 — platoon drill competi tion the best platoon of the regiment will be selected 2:30 — company drill com petition the best company will be selected 2:ss^exhibition o f mass calesthenics five companies will demonstrate the army method of physical training continued on page four continued on page four 700 hear durant discuss marriage problems friday omicron delta kappa national honorary leadership society will elect eight juniors to membership on thursday evening may 15 at a dinner meeting at sigma nu point lists of candidates must be turned in to richard l vockel m e 41 chairman of the elec tions committee before 6 p m monday may 12 at chi psi the elected men will be tapped at the flag pole meeting on may 16 the initiation banquet will be held sunday evening may 18 at the saucon valley country club at the may 15 meeting the final two reports of this year's odk committees will be heard they will be the reports of the housing and curricula committees the point list to be used in the election is as follows a general rules character shall be the primary requirement for membership in this fraternity but no person shall be eligible for active member ship until he has been in residence at le high university at least one year and if a student has completed not more than five semesters has junior standing and has a scholastic average equal to or better than the undergraduate average in lehigh uni versity in the semester previous to his ap plication all applicants must submit their five-semester average along with their points b point system group i — scholarishp 3.5 average 5 sem 12 3 average 5 seui 10 2.5 average 5 sem 4 b v wilbur scholar 3 tau beta pi 3 alpha kappa psi 3 eta kappa nu 1 alpha epsilon delta 1 kobert blake society 1 eta sigma phi 1 phi eta sigma 1 pi mv epsilon 1 pi tau sigma 1 scholastic prize 1 group ii — publications brown and white editorial manager 5 news manager 5 local adv asst 4 circulation manager 3 editor in chief 3 business manager 3 make-up editor per sem 3 news editor per sem 3 sports editor per sem 3 photo editor per sem 3 editorial council 2 copy supervisor 1 national adv asst 1 asst circulation manager 1 handbook chairman of the board 2 business manager 1 editorial manager 1 pi delta epsilon president 1 membership 1 arcadia representative 1 epitome editor in chief 7 business manager 5 art editor 5 junior editorial members 4 jr business staff members 1 senior section editor 4 financial manager 5 bachelor editor in chief 6 business manager 0 art editor 4 photographic editor 4 managing secretary 3 advertising manager 3 declares love must be marriage result not cause advocates many european policies for higher birth rate would reinstall dowry system continued on page four alpha phi omega honorary scouting fraternity elected officers for the coming semester at a meeting thursday in drown hall the men elected were harry f jones bus 41 president charles h schumacher i e 42 vice president philip lutters m e 42 recording secretary joseph a arnold ch e 42 treasurer wil liam e gheen m e 42 corres ponding secretary sumner w reid m e 42 historian and wil liam s eisner ch e 43 alumni secretary the following men were pledged at a ceremony friday af ternoon in the arcadia room of drown hall freshmen edward l diehl c e alan c merman arts joseph h goth jr arts albert d corbett jr m e an drew m bardagjy bus james m cordrey ch e leonard c schwab m e robert e nylin bus robert j gill chem ralph d moyer ch e and harold r nace chem 43 the chapter will hold its spring banquet on friday may 2 at trainer's restaurant at quaker town sorcerer cast keeps 300 in aisles as faculty scores approximately 62.9 per cent of the senior class have accepted po sitions with various firms accord ingto e robins morgan director of the placement bureau due to the increase in produc tion in all industries because of national defense plans the rate of employment of seniors is at the present time far ahead of that in preceding years from a class of 361 jobs have been accepted by 227 men in addition many men have received several offers but have not definitely taken them coming up . . . a delegation of students and faculty headed by bradford will ard head of the department of geology and donald m fraser as sociate professor of geology visited several places of geological inter est in new jersey and pennsyl vania last weekend the trip on friday took in the coastal plains of new jersey where sediments were studied with mr meredith johnson geologist of new jersey as guide the following day the geologists went to the sus quehanna region to study the crys talline rocks of southeast penn sylvania students of geology 108 course in metallic economic geology will also take a trip inspecting places of geological interest in new jer sey next monday tuesday and wednesday it is expected that the students will inspect the zinc mines of franklin n j on monday the iron mines at dover n j on tuesday and on the following day will inspect the iron mines at cornwall a paper entitled origin of the new jersey magnetite ores will be given by professor fraser be fore a meeting of the american geophysical union tomorrow in washington cyanide grants delay the results of the sophomore engineering aptitude test taken april 17 by about 245 men will be known as soon as six men who were quarantined at the time take the examination according to charles w simmons professor of chemical engineering the quarantine for measles was accepted as a legitimate excuse for absence from the examination and the men affected will take the test in the office of a copeland callen dean of the college of engineering as soon as dean callen can ar range for them the grades of the men who took the test are known but they will not be released until all men's grades are included the full re sults will absolutely be known by next week simmons said seven men who are transfer students and social sophomores but who have not the scholastic rank of a lehigh sophomore have postponed their examinations un til next year all men who fall into the low est quarter of the list of grades made in the exam and who have less than 1.5 average are denied continuance in engineering they may however enroll in the col lege of arts and sciences or busi ness administration the test is composed of 88 ques tions submitted by members of the engineering faculty the questions are those that they believe junior engineers should know approx imately 30 faculty members grade the exams today 8 p m — preliminaries wil liams speaking contest pack ard auditorium wednesday 3 p m — varsity baseball get tysburg away golf rutgers away lacrosse swarthmore away tennis manhattan away baseball perkiomen prep away thursday 4:15 p m — r w blake society professor hughes home in belvidere n j friday 4 p.m — tennis wyoming home 4 p m — orchestra practice chapel 10 p m — town-dorm dance stressing the importance of the economic factor to a successful marriage dr will durant philos opher and historian addressed an audience of approximately 700 people on the problems of mar riage friday evening in the broughai high school auditorium marriage arose through the eco nomic usefulness of mate to mate and has developed from the prim itive institution of offspring with out mates to the modern institu tion of mates without offspring it is chiefly in these four phases of marriage that the problems arise the principal problems in these fields as named by durant are the stationary birth rate the delay of marriages because of eco nomic reasons the high birth rate among the lower classes and the low birth rate among the upper classes and the laxity of morals to give the biological aspect of marriage its due regard durant suggested several methods of in creasing the birth rate 1 to per suade earlier marriages and lar ger families the government should offer maternity benefits 2 the right to have children should be denied to the physically and mentally unfit 3 the income tax exemptions should be increas ed within limits with the addition of each child to a family 4 citizenship rights should be denied to unmarried people of 30 years of age or older and to married peo ple of the same age who are vol untarily without children 6 the government should increase the salaries of its employees with the addition of each child to a family to promote earlier marriages durant would also reinstall the dowry he himself gave his daugh ter and her fiance who was just a year out of law school a dowry of 5,000 to finance their marriage to restore the economic usefulness of woman to man the wife should continue to work after marriage until she is ready to bear children he said due to the late announce ment of the epitome competi tion results cyanide will ac cept point lists for its spring election from epitome winners until 5 p m tomorrow if the awards will have been made by that time lists must be pre sented to frank e smith ch e 42 at chi psi part of the sorcerer made his final exit with a my friends speech in the best fireside manner it was evident that the faculty had in deed been playing with the script perhaps devotees of simon-pure gilbert and sullivan would have frowned on such antics but the audience did not one scene for instance that nearly stopped the show was one in which dean wray h congdon playing the part of an elderly love-sick vicar sang through a maidenly impersonation of a girl answering no to a pro posal he sang the part in a high falsetto an idea which originated with the dean himself and not with either mr gilbert or mr sul livan the scene created such a tumult in the audience that it was evident that the vicar himself could hardly keep from laughing it was hard to determine who had more fun at the presentation of the sorcerer by the faculty chorus saturday night the 300 persons in the audience or the 32 members of the cast the drown hall version of the gilbert and sullivan operetta con tained quite a bit of dialogue that was not there when the authors originally wrote their script per haps the dialogue in question would have contained references to jack benny president roose velt nisky hill rittersville and the bethlehem water supply if such things were known about when the operetta was written from the time that lt samuel pierce jr who sang the leading part of alexis yelled oh roches ter to a courtier off-stage until dr edgar h riley playing the john m roach bethlehem pa tuesday april 29 1941 o.d.k to tap eight juniors next month 2 lehigh men are new i n a officers vol xlviii no 48 price — five cents combined councils accept reports on 2-term university calendar study other proposals heard and approved brown and white elected to ina posts point lists due may 12 induction to follow dinner meeting roach is made president kost executive sec at general session member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 . all the lehigh news first