Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 50

              nominations by committee to feature balloting in arcadia office rifle team is honored pika wins singing cup voting begins at 8 a m town section presidents six class officers to be selected cadet colonel charles h carter chem 41 captain of the third corps area championship rifle team receives the william randolph hearst national r o t c trophy from colonel joseph s leonard while inspecting officer colonel william a ganoe president clement c williams and sergeant-major john f beck look on the awarding of prizes climaxed the annual military field day yesterday in taylor stadium navy officers finish course lehigh university was host to approximately 1000 guests which included 500 sub-freshmen on its annual sub-freshman day satur day president clement c will iams officially welcomed the pros pective freshmen at a general as sembly at 11 a m in packard au ditorium presided over by albert e lee ch e 41 president of the senior class dean wray h congdon explain ed the function of sub-freshman day gave suggestions for its ad vantageous use and enumerated the activities of the day at 9 a m registration was con ducted in the alumni memorial building under the supervision of john w maxwell manager of the the campus super-salesman fletcher george christy hanks bus 41 has been secured by ar cadia to serve as auctioneer at its annual sale of lost and found ar ticles wednesday may 14 at 4:15 p m in drown hall hanks has sold and successfully almost everything from soup to nuts on the lehigh campus and is known by sight to more students than possibly any other lehigh man he is best known for his sta tionery and houseparty corsage en terprises where his sales have en compassed nearly the entire uni versity all technical books which do not receive a bid of fifty cents or high er will not be sold but will be do nated to the collection of books for chinese students which is being gathered here 650 attracted to 3 dances continued on page four annual spring affairs held over weekend by glee clubs living groups class assigned to posts new men to arrive here on may 19 caa begins flight course met courses are changed commercial pilot license available to graduates 120 hours training committee heads elected senior gift discussed at faculty meeting james l clifford assistant pro fessor of english is receiving first hand accounts of events in england in letters which arrive daily from readers and contributors to a johnsonian news letter of which he is editor the news letter which is spon sored by the 18th century group of the modern language association is a mimeographed paper contain ing information on the condition of english manuscripts and librar ies in the present war news from scholars in england requests for help in research notices of small discoveries of value to researchers and news of auction sales in new york in a recent issue was a story about the destruction of the attic of the gough square johnson house in london in which johnson compiled part of his dictionary the attic was burned away by a barrel of oil blown on to it from a neighboring printing works which was bombed at present a 30,000 grant from the rockefeller foundation is be ing used to microfilm manuscripts which are in danger of being de stroyed by german air attacks in england scotland and wales six cameras are constantly at work filming manuscripts more than 200 scholars in the united states and england sub scribe to the news letter a kind of clearing house for ideas in their field the future of the paper ap pears to be a bright one for in discussing the news letter cliff ord stated the response by schol ars everywhere has been very gra tifying i have been deluged with letters and contributions to carry on the work we intend to contin ue the news letter and gradually make it a larger publication speaking finals tomorrow night 8-minute talks to close williams contests the national aviation training association an organization of flight operators who are training men to fly under the civil aero nautics administration has an nounced the formation of a 120 hour cross-country flying course which is open to all men who can pass a test satisfactorily under the student instructor course qualified applicants who must be enrolled before june 15 can obtain commercial pilot licenses after successfully completing this course according to thomas e butterfield professor of heat and power engineering heretofore students taking courses under the civil pilot training program were denied an opportunity to complete their instruction up to the stage the 25 navy officers who took the 16 week diesel training course left the university over the week end to take posts on ship and shore announced commander al bert f edel who is in charge of the navy students fourteen men have been assign ed to ships nine men have been assigned to shipbuilding plants as naval inspectors and two men will take positions as instructors at navy diesel schools another class of 25 men will ar rive here may 19 unlike the offi cers of the last course who ranged widely in age assignment to the new group has been restricted to men who have been out of college not more than five years edel said of the training i con sider the course excellent for its purpose in that it affords a review of fundamental engineering theory with particular emphasis on the theoretical and practical phases of diesel engines the student officers were given such diverse assign ments that it would have been di fficult to meet the requirements of all with a less extensive course continued on page four technical books asked for china combined clubs present recital 4 colleges represented in musical program arcadia office to receive donated used texts six hundred and fifty persons attended three lehigh dances the past weekend the spring town interdormitory council dance was held friday night at the masonic temple and the miami triad and glee club dances were held sat urday night at hotel bethlehem and drown hall respectively more than 150 couples danced to the music of the lehigh collegians at the friday night dance a high light of the affair was an elimina tion dance which was won by miss jean jepson of moravian seminary for women and huston day lib erty high school the prizes were a compact and a cigarette case both bearing the university seal the chaperones were mr and mrs joel f bailey and mr and mrs thomas e jackson the miami triad dance with music by art wendell attracted 75 couples the triad is composed of beta theta pi phi delta theta and sigma chi fraternities chaperones were dr and mrs gilbert e doan mr and mrs fay c bartlett and lt and mrs sam uel pierce one hundred couples danced to music by the lehigh collegians at the annual spring glee club dance saturday night in drown hall fol lowing the concert by the combin ed glee clubs officers of the combined musi cal clubs comprised the committee for the dance dr and mrs t ed gar shields were chaperones for the dance changes in the courses in metal lurgy were announced by regis trar george b curtis at the facul ty meeting yesterday afternoon in the faculty room in the alumni memorial building three metal lurgical courses were dropped and two others were changed from two to three hour courses elective projects in metallurgy met 176 and met 177 have been increased from two to three hour courses and metallurgical labora tory met 33 introduction to metallurgy met 51 and prob lems in general metallurgy met 61 have been dropped as metal lurgical courses by the university introduction to metallurgy met 7 and met 8 have replaced the dropped courses the new courses will be two hours each the net effect of the change will be a re duction in the curriculum from 18 to 17 hours the extra hour will be transferred to the second sem ester of the senior year when it will be used as an increase in the elective professional subjects from five to six hours a report at the faculty meeting was made by e kenneth smiley director of admissions in which he stated that 425 students who are planning to enter the univer sity next fall attended sub-fresh man day the total number of guests amounted to about 1000 chi psi's attend union convention about 500 persons turned out to witness the 14th annual field day competitions and military re view of the lehigh rotc yester day in taylor stadium this year's review was one of the best lehigh has had said lieut col adrian r brian assist ant professor of military science and tactics the men participating showed more interest and desire to do their best and all the judging and inspecting officers were highly pleased he said colonel william a ganoe of the united states army infantry was the inspecting officer representing the third corps area and the uni ted states war department in its annual inspection lehigh's official government rating will be known later brian said the afternoon's program includ ed a freshman and sophomore manual of arms contest competi tion platoon and company drills an exhibition of mass calisthentics and an exhibition drill by com pany a olson gets rifle medal the presentation of awards cli maxed the program one of the highlight awards was the presenta tion of the national rifle associa tion intercollegiate medal to henry j olson jr c e 42 for placing third in the national individual rifle matches he placed first in the individual eastern intercolle giate matches seventh and tenth places in the national individual matches went to john a kimber ley m e 42 and david r smith e e 42 two hundred and fifteen men competed in these matches which were held separately in sec tions under strict observation the results of each match were then consolidated the lehigh rifle team placed first in the eastern regional intercollegiate rifle mat ches and second in the national matches the junior varsity team won the junior college national rifle matches other awards follow set of second lieu tenant's insignia for leadership general abil ity and value to the rotc to willard a litzenberger arts 41 infantry and charles h carter chem 41 ordnance society sons of american revolution medals for excel lence in theoretical and practical work and outstanding leadership qualities were pre sented to john a tifft bus 41 second year advanced infantry and robert i felch i e 41 second year advanced ordnance robert c buchill bus 43 first year ad vanced infantry albert clark chem 42 first year advanced ordnance albert w hemphill m e 43 second year basic and hugh boyd m e 44 first year basic scabbard and blade series for leadership and value to the rotc to henry j olson jr c e 42 first year advanced infantry and john h dudley m e 42 first year advanced ordnance army ordnance association gold medals for scholastic standing and interest in ord nance affairs to charles f kalmbach m.e 41 second year advanced ordnance and a bruce brown phys 42 first year advanced 14 to be initiated by pi mu epsilon local chapter delegation celebrates founding continued on page our coming up . . . math society to banquet at trainer's tomorrow lehigh will go to the polls to morrow to elect class officers pres ident of the town council town section presidents a member at large of arcadia and cheerleaders balloting will be conducted be tween 8 a m and 6 p m in the arcadia office in drown hall the elections system being used this year is the same as that em ployed in last year's election us ing that system a special nomina tions committee picked a siate for president and secretary-treasurer of each class the selections of this committee are kept secret and will not be known until the opening of the polls tomorrow morning the winners of the election will be cho sen by using the ware preferential system also to be elected tomorrow is the president of the town coun cil candidates for this office are by petition running for the office are b william logechnik i e 42 and arthur tallaksen bus 42 to choose cheerleader a head cheerleader and his as sistant will be selected from junior cheerleaders william f boore met e 42 and frank s mcken na met e 42 two junior cheer leaders will be chosen from soph omore cheerleaders c richard bergh arts neil s culliney arts c lowell liebau bus and ken neth h norris i e candidates for the office of member at large of arcadia were chosen from competitors who sub mitted petitions each living group will be represented by at least one man on the ballot the nominations committee con sisted of dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy dean wray h congdon albert e lee ch e 41 president of arcadia and the senior class george a brenker bus 42 president of the town council wilbur chase bus 41 president of the interdormi tory council and roy s zachary arts 41 president of the inter fraternity council candidates for president of the town groups are the following section a luther w eisenhart i e 44 bernard hoffner m e 43 section b l robert white phys 42 robert e chamber lain m e 42 section c robert c kramer ch e 43 robert c ramsdell arts 43 section d george brenker bus 42 section e joseph c gabuzda e e 43 section g william bar nard e e 42 section h b wil liam logechnik i e 42 section j richard l kulp ch e 42 section x edward j coffey m.e 42 no petitions for president of sec tion f had been turned in by 10 o'clock this morning richards is head of blake society the finals of the williams con tests in extempore speaking will be held tomorrow evening in packard auditorium at 4 o'clock all contestants will receive an out line of the eight-minute speech they are to give that evening the outline will be one of the two that each contestant handed in two weeks ago the freshman contest with prizes of 50 and 25 will begin at 8:30 p m the contestants are hugh boyd m e john e dox sey i e frank e felt bus and thomas lawson ch e the judges of the freshman contest are dr edgar h riley associate professor of english dr carl f strauch assistant professor of english dr robert m smith head of the department of english louis a waters jr assistant in english and charles j moravec assistant university news editor the junior-senior contest with prizes of 75 50 and 25 will commence at 8 15 p m the speak ers are richard j berg arts 42 richard m dietz m e 41 henry g werner phys 41 william f boore met e 42 and donald r schoen arts 41 the judges for the second con test are dr robert m smith dean philip m palmer john w maxwell manager of the supply bureau dr j bruke severs pro fessor of english and charles j moravec eta kappa nu has picnic librizzi elected president the arcadia office in drown hall will be the collecting office for the used technical books which lehigh students and faculty are being asked to donate to the ministry of education in china according to joseph m sexton arts 42 chair man of the lehigh branch of the committee for technical aid to china the chinese ministry of educa tion explained sexton has insti tuted a program for training en gineers and technicians so that the country may maintain itself in the midst of the chinese-japanese war and so that a greater and more in dustrialized country may be re built after the war books which students may wish to donate may be brought to the arcadia office where the commit tee will take care of them letters describing the campaign will be sent to every living group some time next week newly-formed yacht club discusses banquet plans over 200 voices accompanied by the lehigh symphony orchestra participated in a concert before a capacity audience saturday even ing in packer chapel when the combined musical clubs of mora vian college for women cedar crest college lafayette college and lehigh university presented their annual recital mrs sydney goodrich of mora vian led a chorale by bach prof thomas gerger of lafayette conducted heavens are declar ing by beethoven and esther odich of cedar crest led come to the fair after cedar crest and lafayette sangs songs separately the lehigh symphony orchestra accompanied three songs led by thomas e shields professor of music fin landia by sibelius i waited for the lord by mendelssohn and land sighting by grieg co-directors of the program were mrs sidney goodrich mor avian esther oelrich cedar crest dr thomas e verger lafayette and dr t edgar shields director of music lehigh philosophy society holds outdoor dinner meeting david e richards arts 42 was elected president of the robert w blake philosophical society at its outdoor dinner meeting thursday afternoon at professor percy hughes glory hills residence near belvidere n j other officers elected were lynn c bartlett arts 43 vice-presi dent and george h ried arts 43 secretary-treasurer sydney m brown professor of european history was the princi pal speaker he spoke on the re lationship of current events with medieval history fourteen men will be initiated into pi mv epsilon honorary mathematical society at a banquet to be held at 6:30 p m tomorrow at trainers dr tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics and astronomy will give a short talk on the history and purposes of the organization and dr j lynford beaver professor of electrical en gineering will speak on the im portance of mathematics in elec trical engineering the 14 men to be intiated are maynard g arsove e e 43 charles s bennett e e 43 stan ley caplan e e 43 ludwig e godycki ch e 43 issac m hunsberger ch e 43 robert w pugh ch e 43 hugh w rich ards ch e 43 wheeler gilmore m e 43 walter s titlow e e 43 robert w saylor m e 43 william walker ch e 43 robert metzner bus 42 frederick s nolte m e 42 and edward a fennel chem 43 members will meet at 6 p m at the alumni memorial building members of the robert w blake philosophy society trav eled to the glory hill residence of percy hughes professor of phil osophy near belvidere n j thursday afternoon for an out door dinner meeting sydney m brown professor of history spoke on social mo tivations in medieval philosophy at the meeting v section d of taylor house held a banquet last wednesday evening in the old sun inn fay bartlett director of physical education spoke to the group of 30 men on the subject of the history and de velopment of physical education wednesday 7:30 p m — pi tau sigma 208 packard laboratory 7:30 p m — final williams con tests in extempore speaking packard auditorium 8 p m — sportsmen's club 466 packard laboratory 9 p m — public night univer sity observatory thursday 10 a m and 2 p m — fourth an nual anthracite conference packard auditorium 6 p m — tone society delta up silon 7 p m — dinner meeting for an thracite conference hotel bethlehem 8 p m — lambda mv sigma 466 packard laboratory friday 10:30 a m and 2 p m — anthra cite conference packard audi torium 4 p m yacht club 208 pack ard laboratory 4 p m — eta kappa nu banquet trainers twelve lehigh men were among the 700 delegates to the convention commemorating the 100 th anni versary of the founding of chi psi social fraternity last thursday friday and saturday at union college schenectady n y arthur l fischer arts 42 and president of the lehigh chapter was the official lehigh delegate the local group was installed in 1894 and the present house was built in 1916 commemorating the founding the fraternity presented an alcove to the union library saturday af ternoon at 5:30 this event was aired over the nation-wide n b c blue network the lehigh men besides fischer who attended are as follows da vid w armstrong e e 44 rob ert e ashley c e 42 arthur g byrne arts 43 peter carpenter bus 42 harry d chandler bus 41 john f donahue met e 44 frank e felt bus 44 james h riehl bus 44 leonard a schnei der arts 42 george c stone arts 43 and william c walker ch e 43 plans for a fall banquet with guest speaker and movies were discussed by the yacht club at their meeting friday afternoon in room 208 packard laboratory the newly-formed club is also considering the construction of a dinghy in their plans for next year this year's officers will be retained next year alexander k wiggin i e 42 is president the club as yet has no faculty adviser eight members of eta kappa nu honorary electrical engineer ing fraternity held a picnic sun day afternoon on the farm of j lynford beaver professor of elec trical engineering near valley forge the new officers of the society who were recently elected are frank p librizzi 42 president william a eisele 42 vice-presi dent walter b bowers 42 bridge correspondent clarence m sanderson jr 42 treasurer ray mond s willard 42 correspond ing secretary and grendon k sc old 42 recording secretary brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday may 6 1941 hearst plaque presented 01 xlviii — no 50 clifford receives first hand news of war events price — five cents to elect officers at polls tomorrow 500 witness 14th review of rotc unit 1000 guests inspect lehigh on saturday 500 sub-freshmen visit university for varied program of events to hold auction one of lehigh's finest terms brian ; ganoe makes inspection arcadia lost and found sale is next week member intercollegiate newspaper association z612 all the lehigh news first