Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 26

              new calendar is issued wardens to be named will alter ? hell week all fraternity men who do not plan to attend the inter fraternity ball and who intend to sell their tickets to dormitory or town students are asked to turn in their tickets to mrs bowker in drown hall they will be sold there at the regular price and the full amount will be returned to the owner of the ticket if this pro cedure is followed fraternity men will not lose money by selling them at half price stated ralph moss interfraternity council president will publish early epitome editor promises yearbook in time for graduation ; cooperation asked john j hucker hucker is new head of apo scouting group to handle fbi fingerprinting at registration is most evident bach's organ toc cata in f major was a splendid ex ample of what can be accomplish ed by two pianos the grandeur of organ tones was excellently trans cribed also well-done was the counterpoint of two sets of themes from the blue danube waltz of johann strauss play moonlight sonata their two pianos failed to do with beethoven what they had done with bach the first move ment of the moonlight sonata was rather feeble and showed that it will never be popular as a double sonata debussy's prelude to the afternoon of a faun and fetes were very well presented as was the coronation scene from boris which was given the color that moussorgsky requires it was a treat to hear rhapsody in blue by something other than paul whiteman and two pianos afford more gershwin style than the usual orchestra and piano the most popular by far of all the numbers were the musical caricatures composed by braggi otti similar to alec templeton's mozart matriculates etc they were take-offs on bach beeth oven chopin debussy and ger shwin using the theme of yankee doodle passages of each com poser's wok was interpolated into the patriotic melody by joseph f kemmcr it was again proved in friday's concert that the best music is not the most popular even with an au dience of better than average mu sical intelligence it is for this rea son that the fray and braggiotti team was a good choice for one of lehigh's few professional musical programs their theory that the public will seek the source of good music that has been rehashed into swing was apparently substantiated by the ovation which the last of four en cores the tchaikowski concerto received however their rendition of the original had a taint of the faster popular version and if the entire first movement had been presented as promised it is doubtful that the remainder un known to the majority would have been enjoyed response is spirited nevertheless fray and braggi otti now evidently as popular on the concert stage as they were on the radio are where they belong their split-second timing and ex cellent performance merited the enthusiastic response the perfectly coordinated music reflected from one sounding-board gave the impression of one piano being played by a musician with four hands their style lent itself best to those numbers where counterpoint plan first aid courses soon caa pilots to take tests coordination is under way for triple grouping of university men the inter-fraternity ball will be open to all students of the univer sity this year ralph f moss bus 42 president of interfraternity council disclosed last night at a council meeting in drown hall he said the council decided upon the action after considering the prob able abandoning of spring house party a second orchestra which will play on the gymnasium floor of grace hall while harry james band plays on the drill floor has not been chosen yet selection of the second band will be announced in the feb 3 issue of the brown and white said moss after a discussion of the can celled spring houseparty the council voted to send president williams a letter of opinion on the matter namely that houseparty should be retained and that the student body should have been consulted before administrative action was taken moss appointed a committee consisting of edgar r conover m e 43 daniel b mc afee bus 42 and ross w lea ver ch.e 42 to aid the officers in drafting the letter dean wray h congdon request ed fraternities to cooperate in maintaining a milder initiation period for freshman pledges he reminded those attending the meeting that hell week was abolished seven years ago at le three short blasts of the power house whistle three times in suc cession — that's the signal that hostile planes are approaching le high's campus one long blast of the whistle and all's clear these signals are part of the general instructions for conduct during air raids announced yester day by prof loyal v bewley chief air raid warden for the uni versity four short rings of the class bells will also be used to warn students of a raid general instructions call for the appointment of an air raid warden for each building on the campus including dormitories and frater nities each warden will have one or more alternates so that at all times there will be a warden on duty in each building professor bewley will make these appoint ments as soon as possible instructions for an air raid war den released by professor bewley follow refuge areas will be selected in each building by the air warden in most cases these areas will be rooms on the first floor as these are considered by defense author ities to be the safest air raid drills will be held next semester when all areas have been selected 1 he will post signs and direc tions showing the locations and routes to the selected air raid re fuge area in his building 2 he will post air raid informa tion placards on the bulletin flight exams soon over 55 are now enrolled for new course continued on page four the seniors will get their 1942 epitomes before they graduate that is the promise that they have from a bruce brown editor in chief of the yearbook the new commencement date only means one thing to the epi tome staff brown said it means more work but we are glad to do it so that each senior can count on having his epitome in his hands before leaving the campus brown has appealed to all stu dents living groups and organiza tions to cooperate with him liv ing groups in particular are asked to see that all writeups of seniors are given to frank mckenna the senior section editor as soon as possible the possibility of including in the 1942 epitome present members of the junior class who will grad uate under the speedup program on founder's day 1942 or in feb ruary 1943 is also being consider ed continued on page four navigation course is being planned local distribution for commuters instruction will be given on nautical methods few frosh enter math competition b & w's will be available at 3 campus points more response expected after final exams the proposed acceleration of the educational program designed to meet the war-time emergency has presented many difficulties for the faculty's emergency committee on educational policy dean wray h congdon stated that there will be no additions to the faculty despite the speed-up the reason for this is that the sem ester enrollment will be reduced possibly to 1200 under this plan there will be more repetitions of courses to facilitate the curricula of students not planning to take the three-semester plan to take rotc in summer the r o t c course will be given during the summer fresh men entering in september will take the basic courses as in the past in two semesters but the fol lowing summer as sophomores they will take the remainder of the r o t c course as one class the proposed calendar 1942 may 17 — graduation may 19 20 — registration may 21 — classes begin july 14 — entering freshman report sept 2 — clases end sept 3 — examinations begin sept b—freshman8 — freshman week be gins sept 9 — examinations end sept 15 16 — registration sept 17 — classes begin dec 19 — christmas vacation begins dec 28 — christmas vacation ends 1943 jan 6 — classes end jan 7 — exams begin jan 13 — examinations end jan 19 20 — registration jan 21 — spring semester be gins feb — graduation may s—classes5 — classes end may 6 — exams begin may 12 — examinations end may 16 — graduation may 18 19 — registration may 20 — summer semester be gins lehrer heads tau delts john j hucker ch e 43 was elected president of alpha phi omega national honorary and ser vice scouting fraternity at a meet ing saturday afternoon in drown hall voluntary fingerprinting of the student body during registration for the second semester will again be under the direction of alpha phi omega it was definitely de cided at the meeting the prints are for the civil section of the personal identification files of the federal bureau of investigation which is separate from the crim inal files carl neuendorffer m e 43 in charge of the project received two copies of a pamphlet the iden tification facilities of the f b i written by j edgar hoover head g-man with a personal letter in response to an inquiry concerning fingerprinting of lehigh students other officers elected at the meeting were carl neuendorffer vice-president william s eisner ch e 43 treasurer robert e ny lin bus 44 recording secretary thomas c macallister e e 43 corresponding secretary leonard c schwab i e 44 historian and andrew m bardagjy bus 44 alumni secretary fay c bartlett director of phy sical education and the fraternity adviser told the brothers about the first-aid course to be given next semester twelve men offered to act as assistants during the classes and demonstrations pranks take toll students ruin trousers destroy dorm toilet only a few answers to the 1 series of five problems in the freshman mathematics contest have been re ceived stated robert e roberson eng phys 44 chairman of the contest committee it is expected that there will be many more sub mitted after the examination per iod is over the answers to the problems must be submitted to roberson at least one week after the fifth prob lem has been posted the third problem posted yester day was as follows mr x's chau ffeur usually meets mr x at the sation at five p m and drives him home today mr x arrives at four p m and not seeing his chauffeur starts walking home if they ar rive 20 minutes earlier than usual how long did mr x walk before meeting his chauffeur commuting students who do not wish to receive their brown and white by mail next semester are asked to make a choice of one of three campus distribution centers when they register for the coming semester the three distribution centers are the arcadia office the circu lation desk at the library and the brown and white office in room 305 christmas-saucon hall any of these centers can be substituted for a students local or home ad dress when he registers for the second semester the change of address should be made only on the slip intended for the brown and white students who are now getting their papers by mail will find that they can get their papers more quickly by calling at one of these centers lloyd a croot circulation manager said arthur m lehrer bus 43 was elected president of tau delta phi social fraternity at a recent elec tion also elected are fred gruen wald ch e 43 vice-president leonard c schwab i e 44 sec retary phillip h miller bus 43 treasurer lewis friedman arts 43 house manager and william l kronthal bus 44 alumni scribe james schwab bus 45 historian primary and secondary students enrolled in the present civil aero nautics authority will take a final exam prepared by the government at 1:30 p m wednesday jan 12 announced thomas e jackson in structor in mechanical engineering and assistant head of the caa course the students who will take this examination are now taking the final flight examination for the semester all of the students who have taken the exam so far have successfully passed and if weather conditions are favorable the rest will take the exam this week according to jackson enroll ment for next semester's course has already begun with 30 prim ary and 25 secondary students al ready enrolled these enrollees are now taking their physical exams only 20 primary and 10 secondary men will be selected for admission to the course with the new three 1 year plan however ther is a poss ibility that the government may enlarge the quota jackson also mentioned that there will be a meeting of all ap plicants on tuesday jan 13 in room 466 packard laboratory the purpose of this meeting is to select the desired quota of students for enrollment in next semester's course thomas e butterfield head of the course wiley post flight instructor at the allentown bethlehem airport and jackson will address the group a new course in navigation to be given during the second semes ter has been proposed by the de partment of mathematics and astronomy the course would be a study of methods for the deter mination of the position and course of a ship at sea the course would include ma rine navigation mariners charts piloting sailings dead reckoning spherical trigonometry great circle sailing nautical astronomy correction of observed altitudes use of the nautical almanac and navigation tables calculation of time latitude longitude and azi muth from observations deter mination of sumner lines of posi tion practice of navigation at sea and a modification of the preced ing methods for air navigation the prerequisite is trigonometry the proposed course should be of value to those students who plan to enter the navy or the air force lloyd l smail professor of math ematics who will give the course taught a similar course last war trembley to head health education coke supply cut 18 cadet officers given promotions university weather bureau eliminates all coin flipping bureau is under civilian defense committee lehigh men rationed 75 % of dec issue a broken hopper and a ruined pair of pants are the results of two firecrackers experiments car ried on by lehigh students a freshmen from chi psi al ert j redmond m e decided to make his own firecrackers with some charcoal sulfur and potas sium nitrate that he had accumu lated from here and there the result of his venture was that the mixture tore the side of his coat to shreds and ruined his pants another enterprising lehigh stu dent in richards 11-b also decided to play with firecrackers the re sult was that one of their beau tiful shining toilet bowls was completely demolished the lehigh university medical center committee is arranging its work for civilian defense at the university under three main head ings dr raymond c bull direc tor of the student health service announced this week the three main headings are 1 training of a group of students in first aid 2 establishment of an ambula tory first aid station on the cam pus 3 coordination of the emer gency medical center of lehigh university with that of bethlehem dr bull said that the organiza tion of first aid courses are now being developed in order to get the work underway as soon as possible the courses are being or ganized into three groups namely 1 courses for at least two stu dents from each living group on the campus which will be started at the beginning of the second semester 2 courses for at least two students from each living group off the campus which will be started as soon as instructors are available and as soon as the courses for the campus living groups are developed and 3 similar courses for any other in terested students the establishment of the first aid station on the campus and co ordination of the work at lehigh with that of this area are under discussion with the officials of the first aid service of the bethlehem area it is the intention to organize the work at lehigh in such a way that it will complement and be adjunct to the area organization and fit into the general scheme of the emergency medical service of the entire community the establishment of the first aid station will naturally be slow er than that of the first aid courses but it will follow closely the or ganization of the area organization this and the coordination of the medical center of lehigh with that of bsthlehem will probably take place early next semester students not on probation eligible for b & w posts dr francis j trembley associ ate professor of biology has been appointed chief of the bureau of education of the health committee in the bethlehem area civilian de fense organization it was announ ced yesterday by lt col w r coyle area defense council chair man under the supervision of dr stanley j thomas head of the de partment of biology and chairman of the health committee dr trembley is in charge of the co ordination of training classes ob taining instructors for the classes and securing proper places for the classes to be held announces engagement the engagement of john a hunt arts 42 to miss myrtle freeman manahasset l 1 n v was announced yesterday by the girl's parents hunt son of mr and mrs charles a hunt of la paz bolivia is a member of the lambda chi alpha fraternity students may join either the reporting or business staffs of the paper by registering for journ 1 brown and white when they re gister for the second semester in the past the executives of the pa per said some students have been led to believe that they could join the staff only in september any student who is not on pro bation may join the staff of the brown and white for the coming semester john m roach editor in chief and craig w baker busi ness manager announced today the promotion and assignment of 18 cadet officers were announced by captain john f schwartz as sistant professor of military science and tactics the men promoted to cadet cap tains effective january 14 are r j mcgregor company a c h schumacher company b f b mayer company c w b logan company e a b brown com pany f c c ruffle company g d r smith company i h v donohoe company x and h cap lan company l the men promoted to cadet lieu tenants effective january 14 are h v jones company f a group w f boore company b a group e gamble company b b group j a read com pany c b group w g will mann company c a group e f warner company e b group r f moss company e a group r h forsyth company l b group and r n gusdorff company l a group nob&w until feb 3 by james schwab many students don't seem to be aware of the fact that right here in the university there exists a weather bureau to make their con versation about that subject much more accurate if the occasion should arise the lehigh weather station is situated on top of the library there is not much of it visible from the campus but if anyone should take the trouble to go up there he would find a great many instruments and a great deal that is interesting most of us would swear that the weatherman flips a coin when he makes his predic tions but he really does have in struments to help him the only part of the lehigh v/eather station that can be seen it looks very much like the vane it dooks very much like the vane on the top of any barn but when it is investigated one finds that it is not merely a convenient ornament it has an electrical contrivance at its base which records the shifts of the wind on a chart in williams hall at the base of the vane is a con trivance that looks something like a small windmill revolving on a horizontal plane it is called an anemometer and its function is to record the velocity of the wind the unit of wind velocity to a weather man is a mile of wind which to the uninitiated is the length of time it takes a gust of wind to go a mile temperature is also taken care of there are special thermometers that record the maximum and min imum temperatures of the day as well as the relative humidity on a pole above a cabinet containing the thermometers is a bulb which has inside it a still smaller bulb containing mercury the heat of the sun causes the mercury to expand like a ther mometer and make an electrical contact which is recorded on the same chart as the anemometer and the wind vane the chart revolves on a drum and a complete record of the weather for the entire day continued on page four with this issue of the brown and white suspends publication until tuesday feb 3 to tus sle with evams because of the government's program of rationing sugar the coca cola bottling company an nounces that the production of coca cola will be lowered lehigh men are beginning to feel the eff ect of the national defense pro gram plans for distribution of the coca cola to university living groups under the rationing plan have not been completed however it is believed that each group will receive monthly approximately 75 per cent of it's december con sumption the monthly allotment will be lower than expected be cause school was in session only two-thirds of the month of de cember it is reported that several fra ternities and dormitories have al ready felt the severe rationing and are not receiving the usual supply of cokes dr benjamin l miller profes sor of geology will give an illus trated lecture on central and south america to the bethlehem natural science association at its meeting this evening at 7 45 in the first national bank building miller will give lecture bethlehem pa tuesday january 13 1942 unused i-f ball tickets available in drown hall students acclaim piano duo enjoy classics and swing new a.p.o president price — five cents 9 short blasts is campus air raid warning 01 xlix no 26 i f council opens ball to university semester roll may be cut down to 1200 lehigh university brown and white dean says accelerated plan will not require additional faculty group considers lack of spring houseparty discusses rushing whistle on power house class bell to be used long blast — all clear all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association