Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 22

              cliems to hear talk by beery at xmas affair genera will give speech on defense tuesday 4 societies to dine gifts will be exchanged wallace r biggs associate pro ..■:.;• of journalism at westmin \ ster college new wilmington will head the courses in journalism h re next semester to fill the posi tion now held by prof dale h | gramley professor gramley who is also university news editor will leave at the end of tho first semester to become assistant to the president at moravian college and theologi cal seminary professor biggs who has been at westminster since 1935 has also to replace dale gram ley who will aid prexy at moravian changes made in engineering arts courses biggs westminster professor to head lehigh journalism engines lab for ch e.s moved from summer to senior year experimental ie added changes and additions to courses v the engineering and arts and sciences colleges were approve by the faculty at its monthly meet ing according to ernst b schuitz associate professor of political sci ence and secretary of the commit tee on educational policy in the chemical engineering nicholas kostrukoff director of general platoff don cossack chorus answers curtain call at last night's student concert series presented in broughal high school before an almost capacity audience position between his teeth continued on page four math society holds contest wallace r biggs pilots to hear naval officer the third phase of the concert was outstanding for the vigorous and robust tone of the cossack's voices so popular was their ver sion of dark eyes that the sing ers were required to give an en core as a final treat to an already satisfied audience the entire chor us gave its version of the popular dance of the don cossacks lt curran will discuss air force training fliers reinstated offers prizes to freshmen making best scores on 5 problems 2 to address army dinner atwood febiger to speak at ordnance banquet tonight at trainer's by john 11 brindle a program of all russian mu sic presented by the don cossack chorus last night in broughal high school was received by lehigh stu dents with the same enthusiasm that the two previous programs on this year's student concert-lec ture series have been greeted although the program consisted of numbers unknown for the most part to lehigh audiences the fine rendering of their religious and folk songs and the riotous shouts and whistling in their cossack war songs made the famous a capella chorus favorites here as they are in all other parts of the world a series of religious songs ex pressing the characteristic mysti cism of russian religious music won the immediate approval of the audience favorite in this group was gretchaninoff's prayers to the lord which they sang with unusually fine rhythm sing folk songs the second section of the pro gram dealt with russian folk scngs characteristic of their ren dition of these numbers was a dis tinct cheerful and care-free man ner feature of the program was the thriling knife dance in which knives were juggled on the dan cer's chin in the course of his presentation the dancer threw each knife into the stage from a national defense will be the subject of a talk by general frank d beery of allentown at the 22nd annual american chemical society christmas banquet at 6 p m tuesday dec 16 at the masonic temple general beery spoke at a simi lar banquet two years ago he has been in the national guard for 44 years working up from a private to a brigadier-general during the spanish-american war he was in charge of supplying rations for the troops and refugees in southern puerto rico he was promoted to a major and served on the mexican border in 1916 in 1917 general beery was ap pointed adjutant-general of penn sylvania by governor tener later he was appointed by governor pennypacker to train organize equip and house the pennsylvan ia state police at wilkes barre he has been president of the adjutant general association of the united states following the banquet an ori ginal play will be presented by the senior members of the society which will be a burlesque on the chemistry department after this a santa claus will distribute gifts to the senior members and to the faculty pre-meds dine monday dr allan j barthold head of the romance language department continued on page four air raid rules 3 short blasts repeated 3 times is signal cash prizes are being offered by the newtonian society freshman mathematics honorary in their annual math contest of five prob lems which is open to all fresh men and presenting to the three men finding the best answers an opportunity to win 5 3 or 1 in prizes it was announced wednesday night at a meeting of the society that the problems would be pub lished one this week one next week one after christmas and the last two following exams this weeks problem posted on various bulletin boards around the campus is as follows a number of persons were engaged to do a piece of work which would have occupied them 24 hours if they all had commenced at the same time but instead they started at equal intervals and then continued to continued on page four three short blasts on the beth ehem fire alarm system repeated 8 companies hold senior interviews the organization and function of the naval air force and the future for a naval flying cadet will be discussed by lieut john j cur ran a member of the united states naval aviation cadet selection board at a civil aeronautics au thority meeting to be held at 7:30 p m monday in room 466 pack ard laboratory the motion picture film the eyes of the navy will be shown by lieut curran to better illus trate his subject also present at the meeting will be all juniors and seniors who are interested in naval aviation and students from mora vian and muhlenberg colleges all of the secondary caa stu dents and almost three-fourths of the primary students have been reinstated since the grounding of all private pilots by the govern ment announced thomas e jack son instructor in mechanical en gineering and the present caa course must prove identity jackson also stated that the re maining students who have not yet been reinstated will be examined within the next week by the ofn two speakers will address the iinner meeting of the army ord nance association to be held at 6:30 this evening at trainer's restaur mt colonel frank j atwood chief tank and combat vehicle inspector from the office of chief of ord nance washington d c will speak on tanks and combat ve hicles their status quo and pros pective development lieutenant-colonel george l febiger having just come to le high after three years in hawaii will discuss hawaii prior to de cember 7 th the committee in charge of the dinner is headed by john d van blarcom m e 42 and the toast master will be howard v dono hoe ch e 42 president of the as sociation honored guests will include president clement c williams dean wray h congdon and colonel joseph s leonard head of the department of military sci ence and tactics dances to be held by 4 fraternities annual christmas affairs scheduled tomorrow program to be presented by combined lehigh moravian groups beardslee will officiate the combinde chorus will num ber approximately 120 singers 45 coming from moravian and 75 from lehigh a combined concert by the le high and moravian glee clubs will be held again this year at 3:30 p m sunday in packer chapel the concert is given in conjunc tion with the university's christ mas devotions the concert which revolves around the story of the wisemen has two parts and will begin with prophesies from isaiah and correlli's prelude to christmas pastorale played by the lehigh symphony orchestra the process ional hymn will be o come all ye faithful after the greetings the program will continue with a prayer by dr claude g beardslee the tradi tional first noel will be sung after which there will be a reading by dr beardslee followed by o come o come emmanuel by the glee clubs carols to be read luke 11 1 to 7 will be read fol lowed by the singing of silen night by gruber and while shepherds watched their flocks arranged by jungst after these carols luke 11 8 to 12 will be read this will be followed by o little town of bethlehem by rodner and a reading luke 11 13 and 14 the program will continue as follows it came upon a mid night clear by willis reading of luke 11 15 and 16 hark the herald angels sing by mendel ssohn the angels and the shep herds arranged by dickenson the second part of the story of the wisemen will begin with the reading of matthew 11 1 to 2 and will continue with the carol as with gladness men of old by koecher reading of matthew 11 3 to 7 jesu call thou me by drose reading of matthew 11 7 to 12 we three kings by hop kins benediction follows the offertory will be the mes siah by handel he shall feed his flock and come unto him sung by helen minnich goodrich and doris louise english the benediction will follow after which will be the recessional joy to the world by handel the le high symphony orchestra will ac company the chorus and the read ings will be made by dr claude g beardslee head of the depart ment of moral and religious phil osophy the lehigh glee club is also planning a concert and dance to be held on saturday evening jan 10 the lehigh collegians will play after the concert by the glee club curriculum m e 24 engineering laboratory was dropped as a re quirement in the summer follow ing the junior year in its place was substituted m e 19 engin eering laboratory in the first sem ester of the senior year and ch e 50 industrial employment in the preceding summer in addition chem 179 history of chemistry was changed from the second semester of the senior year to the second semester of the jun ior year the title of the course was also changed to history and literature of chemistry ch e 183 unit processes was made a new elective course in chemical engineering new courses added two new courses are to be add ed to the mechanical engineering curriculum i e 121 experimen tal industrial engineering and i e 122 a continuation of i e 121 the metallurgy department will drop met 5 electrochemistry the prerequisites of geology 108 metallic economic geology were changed from geol 1 and 10 to geol 5 and 8 the present second ary prerequisites of geology 117 geochemistry were changed to primary ones they included geol 15 and 10 or 16 and 17 geol 123 and 124 were added as secondary prerequisites the prerequisites of geol 123 optical crystallography were changed from geo.l 1 and 5 to geol 1 5 and 10 those of geol 124 were changed from geol 1 4 5 and 123 to geol 1 5 10 and 123 courses are dropped the department of history and government will drop the follow ing courses hist 31 and 32 eng lish history and hist 125 and 126 social and industrial england a new course hist 115 political and social history of england will be substituted hist 135 cultural history of western europe will be substitut ed for hist 131 and 132 culture of the middle ages and hist 133 and 134 culture of modern eur ope hist 29 modern europe and hist 30 a continuation of hist 29 will be added at a recent meeting of the grad uate school faculty biol 205 and 206 weer changed from two credit hour courses to three hour courses biol 268 and 210 two new cour ses were added to the arts curri culum history 261 and 262 the history of the seminar and inter national relations pi delt to sponsor davis collection society will do research on author's material tucker discusses missionary work joint canterbury meeting hears talk on orient three times has been chosen as the air raid warning signal it was an nounced yesterday the all clear signal is two short blasts repeated twice do not create confusion or panic get off the streets as quickly as possible if driving a car pull over to the curb and find shelter among the more important of the instructions concerning what to dc during an air raid or alarm which came from colonel w r coyle chairman of the bethlehem area are the following above all remain calm do not mingle with crowds when inside a building go as near to the center of it as possible avoid top or bottom stories outside walls windows and elevators put out all lights do not use the tele phone and leave at least one window open middle 3 to meet at meadowbrook the missionary work of the church in china and japan was discussed by mr luther tucker at a joint meeting of the canter bury clubs of lehigh and mora vian college for women held sun day at moravian mr tucker who has spent a j number of years in china and ja pan working with the world stu ! dent christian federation states that the geographical division in the world between the christian and the non-christian church is gone he alsb stated that people | i with particular training and abil ity are needed now for missionary work in 1939 the speaker was arrested by the japanese government for i distributing christian literature ! and was held prisoner for about three months after the talk a dis cussion was held by the members of the clubs at the meeting charters were j presented to both clubs the le : high club passed a motion to ask j a . w litzenberger superintendent l of buildings and grounds for a i room in the basement of drown i hall advanced rotc status unchanged will unite dec 26 lehigh lafayette rutgers a film talk was given on dec 9 for e e i e 3 and m e students by the allis chalmers manufactur ing company after which inter views were granted by mr s j retzluff and mr j f bullock on the same day mr j j mack repre sented tide water associated oil company interviews were granted on dec 10 by messrs idler bas set and patterson for the alum inum company of america mr r s stewart of the standard oil company of ohio and mr e j billings of the babcock and wil cox company on dec 5 dr c h schlesman and dr a a o'kelley interview ed for the socony vacuum oil company and on dec 8 paul f mumma and walter p bender rep resented the national tube com pany this brings the total for this year to 297 placement interviews were granted to seniors by eight com panies this week according to e robins morgan director of place ment cial caa inspector either at the allentown-bethlehem airport or at wings field ambler the home airport for the local caa district film talk given by men from allis chalmers the lehigh caa students and all other private licensed pilots in the country were grounded mon day by the government because of the acute national situation ac cording to jackson these grounded students have to present satisfac tory evidence of citizenship and loyalty accompanied by positive identification before they may be reinstated juniors will hold banquet march 5 choice of speaker site not definitely chosen the junior class banquet will be held march 5 the banquet commit - tec decided at a meeting monday ir drown hall detailed plans for the banquet were discussed but no definite speakers were selected the committse hopes to have the coming banquet either at the ma sonic temple where last year's sophomore anquet was held or at the hotel bethlehem announced robert p whipple chem presi dent of the junior class whipple also announced the ap pointment of several sub-commit tees for handling the details of the banquet the sub-committees are as follows speaker committee ar nold putnam i e and frank h bower e e ticket committee harry a herold jr i e and the planning committee consisting of bernard w deehan bus and wil liam hayes i e talks lo moravian group prof garth a howland head of the department of fine arts spoke on the subject of the ma donnas before the moravian ser vice guild today no change in the status of the advanced rotc students appears to be forthcoming at the present time col joseph s leonard head of the department of military sci ence and tactics stated yesterday according to leonard no change is possible except directly through an act of congress as the number of the officers in the army is su fficiently large it is unlikely that any action will be taken the army which consists of a million and a half men has ap proximately 100.000 officers while the u s army during the world war i had only about twice as many officers to lead four million men songs of the middle three in stitutions will be sung by their re spective students who will be seat ed in special sections the entire lower floor of the meadowbrook will be reserved fraternities and dormitory groups will be accommodated with spe cial tables ernest j gsell arts 44 in charge of the event estimated that over 500 students from the three colleges will attend this ann ual affair johnnie long and his orchestra will play for the middle three night dec 26 at frank daley's meadowbrook cedar grove n j students from lehigh university rutgers university and lafayette college will be the guests four fraternities theta delta chi alpha chi rho phi sigma kappa and tau delta phi will hold their annual christmas dances tomorrow theta delta chi will hold a formal dance from 9 to 2 in the chapter house and the music will be provided by the lehigh colle gians chaperones will be capt and mrs barrows mr and mrs e l farabaugh bethlehem and mr and mrs j j fischel hellertown the alpha chi rho dance will br held from 10 to 2 in the chap ter house and the music will be furnished by the nomads orchestra of easton the chaperones will be i professor and mrs simmons tau delta phi will hold an in formal dance following dinner in ; the chapter house several alumni j fiorn new york are expected and | the music will be furnished by re ! cords the chaperones are to be ; prof and mrs m petersen and prof and mrs robert f mcner ney the phi sigma kappa dance will be held tomorrow afternoon from 2:30 to 7:30 and the music will be provided by recordings the chaperones will be mr and mrs t j edgar jackson o the engagement of robert c | engle 41 of trenton n j to miss ; alice lerch of bath has been an j nounced mr engle is a member of ; pi kappa alpha fraternity union triad dance attended by 100 about 50 couples attended the annual formal dance of the union ti-iad held saturday evening in the hotel bethlehem the union triad is composed of sigma phi kappa alpha and delta phi which are the original national fraternities formed with in two years of each other at un ion college in 1825 and 1827 the committee for the dance"was composed of george w phillips e m 44 delta phi f brooks kern i.e 44 sigma phi and kil bourn gordon jr bus 42 kappa alpha chaperones were dr and mrs claude g beardslee a plan for pi delta epsilon na tional honorary journalism society to sponsor the richard harding davis collection of works and bi bliography was presented to the society at a dinner meeting held last night at the sigma phi epsilon house by allen j barthold head of the department of romance languages the project was approved and a committee consisting of james a gordon bus 42 william f boore met e 42 myron i buchman arts 43 and lynn c bartlett arts 43 was appointed to head the research involved in this project of collecting davis's material edwin h klein arts 42 and albert l thalhamer eng phys 42 gave reports on the recent na tional convention which they at tended eight faculty members associat ed with pi delta epsilon presented critical discussions . on the brown and white and the bachelor price — five cents don cossacks given ovation at s c.l series concert yule concert will feature chorus of 120 bethlehem pa friday december 12 1941 lehigh univ ersi ty brown and white vol xlix — no 22 coming up . . . friday 6:30 p m — army ordnance meeting trainer's 7:30 p m — alpha chi rho christmas party chapter house 7:30 p m — tone business meet ing and concert chapel 7:30 p m — blake society ar cadia room drown hall saturday 6 p m — tau beta pi formal initiation 451 packer labora tory and trainer's sunday 3:30 p m — christmas carol ser vice moravian and lehigh glee clubs packer chapel 4 p m — sigma chi faculty tea chapter house monday 6:15 p m — scabbard and blade initiation grace hall 6:30 p m — r w hall pre-med ical society banquet trainer's 7 p m — scabbard and blade banquet trainer's 8 p m — engineer's club of le high valley packard auditor ium all the lehigh news first — — . . member intercollegiate newspaper association i . z 612