Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 13

              dr bergmann came to this coun try in 1936 for the past six years he has been an assistant to prof albert einstein at the institute for advanced study princeton uni versity taught at princeton during this time he has also had some teaching experience since 1941 he has been an assistant pro fessor at black mountain college north carolina teaching general physics and advanced calculus at princeton he has taught a graduate course on five dimensional field theories during his time in the united states dr bergmann has written numerous scientific papers he has also written a book introduction to the theory of relativity with foreward by albert einstein he is a member of the american phy sical society and the american mathematical society dr cheney received his bach elor's degree at dartmouth college in 1920 and his doctor's degree in 1926 at princeton university while at college he was a member of sigma xi and won the highest de partmental honors magrazine article writer for five years dr cheney was a physicist with consumer's re continued on page 2 tonight's production is free to students salt water a dan jarrett-john golden play will be presented this evening at 8:40 in broughal high school by mustard and cheese with alfred rights instructor in eng lish and dramatics as director admission to the general public will be 55 cents it will be free to students on the presentation of their student activities or bursar tickets the cast as announced in the last issue of the brown and white is to be changed in one respect ross vachon bus 42 will take the part of mr davis billed as lead-characters are robert pollock bus 43 as john homer june collins as his wife pansy donald layton ch e 43 as nick dominick and kathryn wolbach as hattie homer others in the cast are charles miller arts and william reppert chem both 43 as jim quirk and sam bowen robert kelly c e 45 as percy georginna wiley as marian potter and john kennedy e e 44 as dr price m & c presents salt water approximately 350 couples at tended the interfraternity summer ball in grace hall on saturday night from 10-2 according to ed ward j cavanaugh m e 43 chairman of the dance committee the affair was pronounced a definite financial success and fig ures will be released next week muggsy spanier his trumpet and his orchestra provided the mu sic for the ball the songs selected and the method of presentation were even better than was expect ed and most of the students and their dates who attended stayed until two o'clock chaperones for the dance were prof and mrs wallace r biggs and capt and mrs samuel pierce grace hall was decorated with flags and banners of the lehigh fraternities and the balconies sur rounding the hall were open dur ing the dance dr and mrs claude g beards lee who were supposed to have been among the chaperones were unable to attend due to the sud den appendicitis attack of their son alvord who was sent to the hospital on saturday band to present summer concert a bronze plaque to be erected in memoriam to mansfield merri man former civil engineering pro fessor and the founder of the first hydraulics laboratory here at le high will be unveiled on found er's day on the site of the old laboratory according to andrew w litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds east of the vivarium to the rear of williams hall the monument will commemorate the spot where what may easily have been the first hydraulics laboratory in the country was first constructed the old building which no longer is in existance was built in 1886 at approximately the same time as the fritz laboratory it was de signed for use in student construc tion and figured prominently in research in hydraulics here at le high little is known about the build ing itself the plans have long been lost and no one seems to remember much about the build ing the only written mention of the lab known is contained in an old student journal of the univer sity engineering society the monument to be placed on the slope between williams hall and cox laboratory will in ap pearance be very similar to that erected in honor of dr williams in front of williams hall the plaque will be 24x32 inches the monument will stand between five and five and a half feet high and will be about five feet wide said andrew w litzenberger superin tendent of buildings and grounds the lehigh university band will present a summer concert next wednesday evening sept 2 at 7:45 o'clock in packer chapel ad mission will be free and the con cert is being given for the benefit of the student body this is the first time that lehigh has had a band in the summer and the mem bers have been practicing regu larly all semester for this concert the program is as follows en trance and march of the peers arthur sullivan in the tavern adolf jensen the marines hymn march l z phillips the army air corps march robert crawford handel suite arranged by tom clark anchors aweigh march charles a zimmerman the u s field artillery march john phillip sousa irish tune from county derry arranged by percy grainger american pat r o 1 march f w meacham if lighting can be arranged the concert will be held out-of-doors continued on page 2 bachelor issue to appear sept 9 eight beautiful girls will assist in distributing the copies of the freshman issue of the lehigh bachelor which will appear sept 9 in time for freshman week featured in the issue will be several articles giving candid opin ions of lehigh students and advice for incoming freshmen by several prominent girls on the campus in cluded are miss june urlich the m e department secretary nan cy boyd a summer student from smith college and miriam peter sen daughter of max petersen professor of physics earle w wallick e e 44 edi tor-in-chief announced that the entire issue will have a stream lined makeup and will include a humorous map of the campus by james a hosford i e 44 hos ford will also present a pictorial setting of what the new freshmen may expect in his coming semes ters at lehigh john m kennedy e e 44 will contribute the short story of the month dealing with a murder plot one article on the high points of bethlehem and vicinity for stu continued on page 3 cyanide will investigate revised cut program members of cyanide junior honorary have been presented with the revised copy of the uni versity cut system this plan will be studied by cyanide and suggestions will be made by the group the study of the new program is simply to make comment from the student's point of view to the committee which prepared the plan john blake 44 engaged to miss june humphreys engaged john h blake jr bus 44 of garden city n v to miss june m humphreys former ly of allentown and now of phil adelphia blake is a member of beta theta pi fraternity bulletin shows lehigh & war a special publication of the le high alumni bulletin showing the part lehigh men are playing in the war effort has just been issued besides being the first summer issues ever to be published this is also the first issue to be sent to all students prospective fseshmen and regular subscribers among the articles contained in the bulletin is lehigh operates on war time by e kenneth smi ley director of admissions this is a summary of the efforts which lehigh is making to train its stu dents for the war effort among some of the efforts listed are ac celeration of study research which is going on in the field of high explosives metallurgy and weld ing and actual military training on lehigh's obstacle course war means action for these alumni is an account of the parts which lehigh men are taking in the war among those mentioned are lt col j f cottrel 06 list ed as missing since the fall of corregidor dr walter s landis 02 now coordinating the chemical industry with the war program and many others dr harold p thomas article a new educational opportunity at lehigh is an explanation of the aims of the general college division which has recently been instituted these danced at i-f ball . . . about 350 couples stepped around the floor of grace hall to the music of muggsy spanier and his orchestra saturday evening it was the first inter fraternity ball ever held in summer a full moon outside kept the dance floor from be ing overcrowded over 1200 bottles of refreshments were consumed these men hamlled the details . . . committee members in the usual order are wil son p snyder arts 44 danal p epstein bus 44 chandler h mckaig ch e 43 william c walker ch.e 43 and charles m norlin met.e 43 edward j cavanaugh m e 43 is standing in the back and the student down in front is richard b palmer arts 43 these stood the dance out . . . the grace hall promenades overlooking a summer heated bethlehem and campus held scores of couples who leaned over the railings . . . and looked the dance was informal with most collegians don ning sports wear and the girls wearing summer prints headlining the faculty's best dressed were army men in new summer whites lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa wednesday august 26 1942 vol xlix-a no 13 price — 5 cents 350 couples at i-f dance muggsy spanier plays for grace hall affair university speakers want league of nations a league of nations with suffi cient power to keep the peace be tween nations was advocated by lehigh university speakers thurs day against princeton university debaters before the kiwanis club at the hotel bethlehem in the con cluding debate of the summer ses sion lehigh debaters were richard penniman arts 45 and preston parr ch e 43 bring identification to salt water tonight student admission to salt water the mustard and cheese second summer pro duction will be by bursar's receipt or by other student identification salt water will be pre sented tonight at 8:30 in the broughal high school auditor ium plaque honors lab founder physics dept gets new profs bergmann cheney to fill war vacancies two new members have been added to the staff of the physics department dr peter g berg mann has been appointed assistant professor of physics and dr el liot w cheney has been appointed associate professor of physics dr bergmann received his bach elor's degree in 1933 at the uni versity of freiburg germany and his doctor's degree at the univer sity of prague czechoslovakia in 1936 he received an sc.d in theor etical physics two-thirds of a game refuge lehigh's research men may be working for the war effort many of lehigh's faculty members are on leave working for the government many lehigh alumni are active on war work — but where are the lehigh students and what are they doing for their country if you think lehigh is accelerating read the editorial on page four titled total war effort — not here you who are attending lehigh this summer may wonder what the other two-thirds of the university is doing