Brown and White Vol. 50 no. 54

              brown and white vol l — no 54 . bethlehem pa tuesday may 11 1943 price — 5 cents last b&wof semester will come out weekly today's issue of the brown and white is the last for this semester the first summer semester edition is scheduled for wednesday june 30 when the brown and white goes on a weekly - publication basis distribution will probably re main at 1 o'clock as at pres ent information concerning the method of distribution for the summer-session b&w will be made later dr dodds . . . . . . commencement speaker congdon warns against dishonesty on finals the committee on disci pline wishes me to bring to the attention of all students at this time the following university regulation 109 the penalty for clearly premeditated dis honesty in a final exam ination is a recommenda tion for expulsion from the university for dishonesty in an hour quiz or other exercise of similar value suspension for one semes ter for dishonesty in a daily class exercise drop ping from the course with loss of credit in view of the importance of academic records for men going into the armed services these days it is doubly impor tant that even the appearance of cheating in academic work as well as any other dishonest practice be studiously avoided wray h congdon chairman committee on discipline only taylor will be open to civilians epitome due next month students who expect to occupy dormitory space for only part of the semester may arrange leases on a weekly basis at rates pre viously established for the sum mer sessions students who elect this option will indicate at regis tration the number of weeks they wish to occupy the dormitory the first lease is to cover not less than five weeks at the end of the in dicated period such students may renew the lease at a weekly rate with the understanding that a re newal for a period of less than four weeks may be made only once during the semester students who elect this weekly lease will he under no obligation to renew the lease at the expiration of any per iod designated when the lease is drawn should the development of the a s t p necessitate can celling of any weekly leases pro rata refunds will be made the first lease subject to revo cation by the university " will be the regular sixteen week plan for men who will probably remain in the dormitories for the entire sem ester the second plan is on a more complicated week-to-week basis a letter embodying the fol lowing will be sent to the fresh men by berg two leases will be open to en tering freshmen who require dor mitory rooms in june announced philip j berg m e 44 president of the interfraternity council at a meeting of the counci held last night at 7:30 in drown hall rooms may be had by week or semester two plans made for dorm frosh h w dodds to be speaker at graduation odk elects initiates two the program of events is mu sic by university band greetings robert p whipple class president class history edward a fehnel music band class prophecy frank h bower class gift presen tation david h schaper last roll call john m stockbridge the traditional pipe breaking will take place during the roll call alma mater ivy oration thomas m buck hail the college class day to be held traditional class day exercises will be held saturday may 22 at 3 p m at the flag pole if weather permits the governments of various countries in the western hemis phere have often recognized dodds as an authority on elections by calling up him to act as arbiter in various plebiscites in 1922 he was chosen by the president of nicar agua to serve as adviser in elec tions to that government three years later he served as technical adviser to the tacna-arica pleb iscitary commission of which general john j pershing was chairman because of these and other activities of a similar na ture he was termed in 1928 the best-known north american in south america probably his most spectacular achievement as an election arbiter came in de cember 1935 when he settled a cuban election dispute to the sat isfaction of both sides concerned in three days is plebiscite expert commencement speaker dodds has had a varied experience as a scholar teacher and administra tor but has devoted most of his scholastic efforts to the field of political science while still in his early thirties he gained an inter national reputation as an expert on civil government and on the con duct of municipal elections at the baccalaureate service to be held at 10:30 a m the previous sunday the music will be furnish ed by the choir of the pro-cathe dray church of the nativity dr claude g beardslee university chaplain will preach the sermon he will be assisted by dean ros coe t foust of the nativity church dr harold w dodds president of princeton university will be the speaker at the commencement exercises to be held monday may 24 to hold class day rites at 3 p m sat may 22 met society elects four new officers the metallurgical society has elected the following officers for the coming semester paul l reiber 44 president warren dix 44 vice-president john donahue 44 secretary and stan willis 45x treasurer all seniors coming to graduation are urgently requested to remem ber to bring at least one old book for donation to the army bud rader to play for glass dance bud rader's orchestra promin ent allentown group has been se cured to play for the senior class day dance to be held saturday evening may 22 in the ballroom of the hotel bethlehem dancing will be from 9 until 1 no admission will be charged but each senior is privileged to invite one guest couple invitations will be mailed within the week to all members of the class of 1943 chaperones for the affair in clude president and mrs clement c williams dean and mrs wray h congdon and dr and mrs c g beardslee the dance will be informal omicron delta kappa senior ac tivities honorary elected the re mainder of its officers for the com ing year and initiated two new men sunday night at a banquet given by walter r okeson vice president of the university at the saucon valley country club rich ard c shafer m e 44 was elect ed president at a special meeting april 30 theodore peters jr ch e 44x was chosen vice-president hugh boyd m e 44 treasurer and e lyster frost met e 44x arcadia representative the vice president will probably assume leadership of the society in the summer as shafer expects to be called to duty with the advanced rotc the post of arcadia repre sentative was created because all of the officers elected were al ready member of arcadia in some other capacity dr claude g beardslee was re-elected as a faculty member since his four-year term of office expires this year he was also re elected as secretary of the society dean wray h congdon and e kenneth smiley director of the summer session were named as faculty advisors other faculty member at the present time is dean a copeland callen men sunday night at a banquet given by walter r okeson vice president of the university at the saucon valley country club rich ard c shafer m e 44 was elect ed president at a special meeting april 30 theodore peters jr ch e 44x was chosen vice-president hugh boyd m e 44 treasurer and e lyster frost met e 44x arcadia representative the vice president will probably assume leadership of the society in the summer as shafer expects to be called to duty with the advanced rotc the post of arcadia repre sentative was created because all of the officers elected were al ready member of arcadia in some other capacity dr claude g beardslee was re-elected as a faculty member since his four-year term of office expires this year he was also re elected as secretary of the society dean wray h congdon and e kenneth smiley director of the summer session were named as faculty advisors other faculty member at the present time is dean a copeland callen dean neil carothers spoke at the banquet which was the final meeting of the year for the present society present were 16 student members six faculty members and two resident alumni may 22 to be last day to register registration for the pre-session to be held between may 24 and june 19 should be completed in the registrar's office prior to may 19 however registrations will be taken on may 20 21 and 22 so that men who find out that they have failed a course on may 20 will still have time to register be fore than start of the pre-session most of the grades for the pres ent semester will be posted in the various departments on thursday may 20 the following courses will be offered chem 8 stoichiometry chem 20 qualitative analysis engl 2 composition and litera ture engl 9 english literature fin 135 transportation gk 99 ancient science math 12 ana lytic geometry and calculus math 13 calculus math 14 in termediate calculus phys 22 me chanics properties of matter and light and phys 23 dynamics and heat the 1943 epitome last year book of any magnitude to be pub lished at lehigh for the duration will be available for distribution at the end of june or the begin ning of july according to a recent statement of editor robert w pugh chem 43 subscribers who are still in school at the time of release can get their copy by presenting their receipt at the arcadia office in drown hall there will be some extra copies pugh said but sub scribers will get first call epitomes that are not claimed within one week of the announce ment of their arrival which will be made by posters and by the brown and white will be mailed to subscribers at the address ap pearing on their receipts dut to the quantity of bookeeping that is keeping the publication's business staff busy at present pugh re quests that no changes in mailing addresses be made other dorm men must move out by may 24 dean wray h congdon has ad vised donald s johnson president of inter-dormitory council that price richards and drinker dor mitories will be closed to civilian students for the entire summer however taylor hall will be open for both the four weeks session and the regular summer semester all men living in price rich ards and drinker dormitories must remove all of their belong ings from their rooms before noon on may 24 the day on which their leases expire because many adap tions such as the installation of double decker beds in many of the rooms will start as soon as the present residents have removed their belongings any dorm men having hopes of coming back to school for either the four weeks session or the sum mer semester should bring their property to taylor hall before the end of the present semester this property must be properly packed and labeled there is a slight pos sibility that the university may open part of one of the other dorms if there is an overflow of students in taylor dorm before the army students arrive 36th bach festival will start here friday event still commands nationwide attention about 100 new frosh expected between 100 and 150 freshmen students will enter lehigh for the summer semester according to e kenneth smiley director of ad missions the number of fresh men entering most of whom will be engineering students may pos sibly be reduced when the v-12 men are called up a conservative estimate the dean continued would seem to put the probably number of civ ilian students here during the summer at approximately 450 there are 340 students mostly deferred men who are potential enrollees for the summer semes ter only 16 are 4-f's by john morrison a famous organist a noted pianist 40 members of the philadelphia orchestra and a choir of over 600 voices will perform this week-end in the thirty sixth annual festival of the bethlehem bach choir thousands of people from all over the country have come to see the festivals and newspapers throughout the nation have complimented the excellence of the choir's work to the highest degree and interest in the festival which in spite of the war has not declined the festival begins friday afternoon at four at the university chapel with a series of cantatas and organ works at 8:30 friday night the choir will sing three more choral numbers and the orchestra wil perform the well known brandenburg concerto no 1 the main feature of this year's festival as well as those of past pears will be the presentation at two o'clock saturday in the chapel of the bach b minor mass the choir was the first group to per form the great b minor mass in its entirety in america and its performance has been praised by life magazine as the * most fa mous in the united states saturday morning there will be a recital by the noted pianist james friskin in the moravian seminary chapel at 10 and by the popular organist of the boston symphony e powers biggs in the central moravian church at 11 organist for the choir will be dr t edgar shields lehigh di rector of music who will also give a lecture on bach saturday at noon in the university library the choir which stems back to 1741 when the first moravians came to perm's woods is made up of specially picked men and wo men from the lehigh valley and continued on page 2 semester calendar . • . may 12 — classes for upperclassmen end may 13 — finals begin for upperclassmen may 19 — finals end for upperclassmen and classes end for second eight week freshmen may 23 — baccalaureate sunday may 24 — university day special four week session begins june 19 — end of special four-week session june 22-23 — registration for the summer semester june 24 — summer semester classes open august 18 — end of certain eight-week courses october 13 — end of regular summer semester october 19-20 — fall semester registration october 21 — regular fall semester begins