Brown and White Vol. 50 no. 45

              bethlehem pa tuesday april 6 1943 price — 5 cents dorothy speck ... to singr with romig vol l — no 45 pres dodds will speak at graduation art wendell to play at dorm dance the men will be chosen by a five man committee composed of seniors or by petition as has been the case in the past years elec tions will not be held in drown hall but ballots will be distributed to the individual living groups the voting will take place within the living groups and the presi dents will be responsible for see ing that the ballots are returned to aradia more money given to lafayette after a discussion with lafay ette it was decided by arcadia that more money should be sent to easton to cover student dam ages during the last football game an additional 32.50 is being sent to lafayette which makes the to tal sent thus far 72.76 however a claim for 25 for a class flag from lafayette was rejected by arcadia since they did not feel that this was student damage it was felt that this was a problem for the athletic department norlin will collect books charles m norlin met e 43 has been appointed chairman of a victory book campaign which will be conducted by arcadia in the near future norlin plans to visit all the living groups and collect old books magazines and rec ords that they are willing to turn over to him these articles will be presented to the u s o the annual arcadia gift of 25 has been presented to the junior welfare league this money will be used to buy books for the st luke's hospital library continuance of arcadia is question dr claude g beardslee has been given the power to reorgan ize arcadia after the war the governing body plans to carry on for as long as possible however there are two limiting factors to be considered the first is the fi nancial status of the body and the second is the question as to whe ther or not the army will permit the continuance of a student gov erning body after its arrival arcadia will hold auction tomorrow tomorrow evening at 7:30 in drown hall a new life will begin for the stacks of misplaced items found on the campus in the past two years listed among the items which will go on the block for sale to the highest bidder are such priceless items in today's world as raincoats rubbers gloves lum ber jackets freshman hats draw ing instruments and slide rules stan heffner present manager of the university supply bureau will set a bottom price on the ar ticles which go up before the auc tioneers chuch norlin met e.'43 and bill williams arts 43 all cash collected at the auction will go to arcadia and all items not sold will be given to various boys clubs and welfare organizations university elections will be held on wednesday april 28 announced robert p whipple chem 43 president of arcadia the new elec tions system will be put into effect at that time a 5-man committee will be elected instead of class officers for the next year the men who are to be elected must be men who will be in their sth semester at lehigh and who anticipate being here as long as october 13 1943 the closing date of the summer semester new elections system to be inaugurated students will cast votes in living groups april 28 set for arcadia elections capt schwartz is reassigned captain john f schwartz as sistant professor of military sci ence and tactics has received or ders to report to camp pickett virginia it is not known exactly when captain schwartz will have to report to virginia but he is leaving the campus on thursday captain schwartz has been teaching military at lehigh since oct 1 1940 he has taught fresh men and sophomores their basic military courses and is the adju tant of the lehigh reserve offi cers training corps unit a lehigh men himself captain schwartz graduated in 1932 with a degree of b s in c e he was in the advanced military course and was in a reserve status as an officer when he was called to ac tive duty at lehigh the captain is the second officer of the military department to be given orders to report elsewhere since the start of this semester earlier this year captain charles e phillips was reassigned the military department has not yet announced who will replace captain schwartz or whether or not he will definitely be replaced to call pre-meds at end of term an order was received re cently by dean congdon's of fice from the war department which stated that medical and pre-medical students in the erc unassigned group would be activated at the end of the term ending between april 15 and june 30 these men would be placed on active duty in the army and then probably sent to medical school later in uniform lehigh will be hit very lightly if at all by this order however as only pre-medical students who are not accept ed by a medical school are af fected according to dr stanley j thomas head of the department of biology nearly all of the pre-med students who will graduate between now and next jan uary classes of 43 44x and 44 have already been ac cepted or will be accepted soon in medical schools these men will be allowed to at tend medical school as civil ians under present orders not more than three or four men at most would be affect ed according to dean wray h congdon south american art exhibit opens on display at the lehigh art gallery is a collection of prints and crafts from latin america the exhibit open each afternoon from 2 till 5 except mondays and sat urdays until april 25 consists of handiwork items ranging from ear rings and silver work to som breroes and pottery obtained from mexico guatemala peru ecuador chile argentine and puerto rico also included in the exhibit is a collection of 25 prints by artists of latin-america according to prof garth howland head of the fine arts department the exhibit provides an excellent opportunity for lehigh students to view the art of our neighbors to the south john brownlee the metropoli tan's top baritone scored a great hit with the lehigh scl audience last friday night in the broughal high school auditorium enthu siastic applause forced brownlee to sing encore after encore for the throng who attended the con cert among the best received of his selections were handel's silent worship eri tv from the masked ball by verdi and a 17th century english ballad the jolly tinker perhaps the most popular numbers he sang came in his encores however such famil iar favorites as annie laurie waltzing matilda and the aria from the marriage of figaro by mozart brought eager applause from the audience brownlee's magnetic personality captivated every person in the auditorium his own personalized introductions to each selection en livened the proceedings greatly his rendition of old mother hubbard as frederic handel might have written it amused those present greatly brownlee scores success at scl 43 s to hold class dance the class of 1943 class day dance will be held saturday eve ning may 22 in the main din ing room of the hotel bethlehem it was announced yesterday by chairman samuel j davy e e 43 admission will be free to class members who will receive two invitations each a local band will be signed within the week if pos sible chaperones have not yet been announced in years immediately previous class day dances have been held at the saucon valley country club where a seasonable atmos phere prevailed but the war has obviated leaving the limits of bethlehem this year 7 seniors in service to receive diplomas president harold w dodds of princeton university will be the commencement speaker to replace his excellency rodolpho michels chilean ambassador to the united states who has been recalled to chile at the request of the pres ident of chile it was announced at yesterday's faculty meeting it was also announced that the seven seniors who were called into the service this year would be awarded diplomas upon the com pletion of their basic army train ing the seven seniors who will receive diplomas are charles b christman bus joseph g comp ton bus carl l greener arts robert w mclnerny arts phillip h miller bus james p mul hern bus and william t wenck bus most of these men were ac tivated with the calling up of the enlisted reserve corps dr dodds graduated from grove city college in 1909 and received his doctor of philosophy degree from princeton in 1914 he has continued on page 2 affair is open to all will be held friday art wendell and his band have been selected to play for the in terdormitory dance to be held on friday evening of houseparty in grace hall announced donald s johnson m e 44x president of the interdormitory council the dance will be open to the entire university — dormitory fra ternity and town men an admis sion charge of 50 cents per couple however will be charged in the past the dormitory dance has been free but because of the fact that dormitory men have not had to pay dues to the interdor mitory council for the spring sem ester an admission charge must be made to defray the expenses of the affair the dues were dis pensed with because of the un certainty with which the dormi tories were faced regarding the possible eviction of the students before the end of the semester played here last fall wendell's band which comes from hazleton will be composed of 10 men and a vocalist the band is quite well-known throughout pennsylvania and at lehigh hav ing played at many fraternity house dances and union and mi ami triad dances wendell will be remembered for his rhythmic playing at the past fall house party when he was the second band for the senior prom although the dance is sponsor ed by the dormitories the town council is assisting in the arrange ments members of the commit tee are robert e coffman i e 43 chairman ralph wittman m e 43 john h forson met e 43 anthony c fortosis bus 44 ralph a evans phys 45x and robert c kramer ch e 43 chaperones for the affair are to be dr and mrs claude g beards lee and all the chaperones of the various dormitory sections 170 students take army navy exams one hundred and seventy stu dents took the test in packard lab friday for placement in the army and navy specialized train ing programs according to dean wray h congdon thirty-two took the test for the navy and the remainder took it for the army those who are ac cepted by the navy will be per mitted to have physicals and in terviews and if accepted will be sent to college for special train ing students who meet the ar my's requirements will have a record of their grades go on file these records will be taken into consideration in deciding what will be done with them when and if they volunteer or are called to service one high school graduate and a student from haverford prep took the test along with the lehigh students dean congdon says there was no reason why all shouldn't make at least a passing average in spite of the fact that arts and business students found the physics and mathematics ques tions a little tough plaque will commemorate first college hydraulics lab a brass plaque in honor of prof mansfield merriman is to be in stalled on the site of the hydraulics laboratory which he built and which was the first in the country to be constructed under the aus pices of a college according to andrew w litzenberger superinten dent of buildings and grounds merriman was professor of civil and mechanical engineering at le high from 1878 to 1881 professor of civil engineering from 1881 to 1907 and faculty secretary from 1882 to 1884 he died in 1925 the laboratory which he built in 1887 was located behind wil liams hall just east of the green house the plaque will bear a fac simile of the building in 1897 the laboratory was taken down and since then experiments ) in hydraulics have been oenducted t in fritz lab dr arthur t ippen assistant professor of civil engi t neering is now in charge of hy draulics at lehigh there will be a ceremony at the ■ unveiling of the plaque a date has not been set as yet although 1 it is expected to take place be 3 fore june brown & white lehigh university must speed sales — or no houseparty ticket sales for the junior prom must be increased by friday announced bernard j egan met e chairman of the committee all students are urged to buy their tickets before the prices rise to 4.40 on friday the present price is 3.30 per couple there will be no flowers permitted at the dance which is to be informal and will be held on saturday evening april 17 from 10-2 in grace hall jimmie lunceford and harry romig have been announced as the bands a guarantee must be given to the dean buy tickets now