Brown and White Vol. 51 no. 22

              price — 5 cent bethlehem pa wednesday dec 8 1943 vol li — no 22 williams gets views at arcadia meeting asks students 7 opinions regarding future intercollegiate football teams at lehigh chest total is 1622.78 lehigh's campus community chest contributions totaled 1,622.78 for the present year as compared with a total collection of 383.18 for 1942 arcadia has announced in addition that town council submitted 26 interfra ternity council 105 and the ast officers and men 1491.78 of the total contribution from the ast 1298.78 came from the trainees and 193 from the com missioned and non-commissioned officers army contributions were not compulsory tration by post headquarters headquarters the balance will be retained at lehigh for adminis at its november meeting the cabinet voted to include the march of dimes and the army emer gency relief in alloting the col lections this provides complete campus coverage of relief solici tations only a part of the army emergency relief fund contribu tion will be sent to the national dr c c williams president of the university attended the arcadia meeting monday night and asked for the students opin ion upon the continuation of in tercollegiate football a report ten tatively outlining the schedule of future army and civilian dances was also presented to the cabinet col james n caperton com mander of the ast unit stationed here also attended the meeting as plans were laid for future public ity for the ast students in order to acquaint them with the history and traditions of lehigh in recognizing arcadia as the official voice of the students williams asked for an expression of the student opinion upon the continuation o f intercollegiate football in particular and upon in tercollegiate athletics in general he mentioned the advisability of carrying on the tradition of foot ball and remarked about the un certainty of conditions as they may exist next fall he stated that the alumni and the faculty are being consulted on the problem and that no decision has been made as yet last year the middle three met and decided to carry on intercol legiate athletics and after one of the three nearly decided to drop football they may come to this decision for the coming fall if ball set for jan 15 the student activities commit tee met with their faculty counter part and a tentative schedule has been submitted for final approval the schedule includes an interfra ternity ball on january 15 and plans one military dance either open to civilians or closed every 12 weeks and six civilian dances a year for which houses will be open to dates seven men pledged by tau beta pi in case you have failed to notice it the monument is a bronze plaque mounted in a boul der brought from saucon valley tau beta pi was founded in 1885 by dr edward h williams jr head of the department of mining enginering and geology at lehigh to fill the need for an en gineer's phi beta kappa wil liams lived to see his creation grow to an organization of 65 chapters and at the 45th anniver sary convention in 1930 the mon ument to williams was unveiled in front of the hall he gave to the school 41 years ago formal initiation of the pledges together with an initiation ban quet will probably take place on dec 17 professor fred v larkin head of the mechanical engineering de partment introduced by glenn a murray president of the fratern ity spoke about the founders and the aims of the society sign of the times is the fact that only one of these men is a civilian the others being advanced rotc men returned to lehigh the seven pledges are pvt robert wright jr pvt h nelson reifsnyder pvt stephen j lit rides david c kirk jr pvt wil liam b hursh pvt louis m do meratzky pvt keith w amish formal pledging ceremonies took place the next day in front of the monument to dr williams founder of the fraternity at wil liams hall seven men were elected to tau beta pi honorary engineering fraternity at a smoker held thursday night in packard hall all but one are rotc men back at lehigh financial report is released by arcadia the following report was re leased by arcadia on the fall prom held on november 6 1943 income advance sales 220 at 1.65 $ 363.00 188 at 2.75 517.00 door sales 63 at 2.20 138.60 46 at 3.30 151.80 checking concession 5.00 soft drink concession 18.94 total income 1,194.34 1,194.34 expenses orchestra $ 750.00 grace hall 50.00 schedule of salaries ast first sergeants..s 30.90 policemen & janitors 16.00 commiitee 80.00 total _ 126.90 126.90 lighting 15.00 public address system 10.00 maid 1.50 doormen 15.00 advertising brown & white 10.00 tickets and posters 14.75 schedule of taxes 226 at 15 $ 33.90 192 at 25 48.00 63 at 20 12.60 46 at 30 13.80 total 108.30 108.30 telephone bill 2.91 total expenses 1,104.36 1,104.36 net profit $ 89.98 m & c roles are chosen the man who came to dinner has been selected as the chief pre sentation of mustard and cheese this semester and will be put on in january all the roles have assigned and rehearsals are under way for this m & c version of the broadway and movie hit exact dates of the presentation are still indefinite since petitions have not yet gone through the dean's office but the play prob ably will be given six or seven times over the week-ends of jan uary 14 and 21 the play is to be held at the civic theatre and in conjunction with the civic man agement which is supplying the female talent for the performance seating 125 persons the theatre is located next to the hotel beth lehem judis selected for lead leading roles of the play that of sheridan whiteside will be act ed by lowell h judis bus oct 45 the original role was played on broadway and in the motion pictures by monty woolley the play ran for two years on broad way and made a hit in hollywood mustard and cheese members and competitors will be striving to continue the successes which the play has attained elsewhere six civilians and eight ast men are included in the cast professor albert a rights stated that the club is doing unusually well un der the present war conditions he expressed on optimistic point of view although there are more army men in the play than civil ians the civilian students have taken the larger roles the cast includes robert kor egi m.e feb 46 and alan good man arts june 46 privates steik er gursey van aucken eggerton ohrwintowiez lillien and mon aco and misses mccreary zeigler heller branswell kelley kahler and de parle english dept gives ph.d's university directory to appear very soon a student-faculty directory will appear on the campus shortly af ter the first of the year it has been announced by registrar george curtis mr curtis indicated that the delay in the appearance of the di rectory has been caused by a shortage of personnel in the reg istrar's office although ast stu dents will not be listed the mili tary staff will possibly be included president c c williams told the university faculty monday afternoon that undoubtedly col leges in the not-too-distant fu ture would begin receiving men being released from the armed services for training in peacetime occupations approximately 50,000 men a month are being mustered out of the services dr williams said possibly 15 per cent of these men will be college material men who either were in college or who want to attend college dr wil liams said that legislation would probably be passed to subsidize the education of these men up to as much as three years with some restrictions the former service men would probably be al lowed to have their choice of courses following adequate coun seling to be furnished by univer sities schools to gear for dischargees seniors are expected to pay for their 1944 epitomes and make their assessment payment as usual this year at the placement office approximately 200 men are clas sified as seniors of the classes of february june and october 1944 including returned rotc men returning rotc men are expect ed to have their pictures taken and appear with their respective classes in the 1944 yearbook according to co-business manager robert l smith this year's senior assessment has been set at four dollars which is in addition to the regular three dollar price for the 1944 book each senior must make the seven dollar payment if he wishes to have his picture in the epitome for the past two years the senior assessment has been eight dollars but last year the seniors received a two dollar refund when the senior class treasury made an unexpected allotment for the epitome thus re ducing the individual senior fee make subscription now subscriptions to the 1944 book for other than seniors may be made through the supply bureau or through the arcadia office drown hall after january 15 the price of the epitome will be raised from 3 to 3.50 all organizations are urged to make immediate plans in meetings for the purchase of space in the 1944 yearbook taking the same space as in last year's if possible but reducing the space rather than not appear in the book senior fee is 4 for year christmas vespers to be held sunday lehigh's annual christmas ves per service will be held at 4 o'clock in packer chapel next sun day afternoon december 12 ac cording to dr t edgar shields director of music the program is being presented by the combined lehigh and mo ravian glee clubs and symphony orchestras included in the lehigh organization is the ast glee club a group of ast trainees who have shown a fine interest in the club a selection from messiah by handel will be rendered by basil beeken tenor soloist of the ast group this year the audience will sing several familiar carols along with the choruses while the program presented by the combined clubs is composed of traditional carols of other lands among these are o nightingale awake swiss jesu thou dear babe divine haiti allelua kyrie christe french and a heavenly song is sung swiss by vote of the graduate board of the university the department of english headed by dr robert m smith is now authorized to grant ph.d degrees since 1927 the english department has been preparing students for the m a degree department personnel authoriz ed to teach graduate work include dr r m smith shakespeare 19th century and bibliography dr e h riley anglo-saxon and 18th century dr j l clifford 18th century and biography dr g j christensen 17th century and the drama prof c.f strauch american and contemporary liter era ture and dr burke severs now on leave at yale university chaucer middle english and 19th century dr clifford is one of the country's outstanding authorities on dr johnson of 18th century fame priding itself on its stiff master's examinations the english depart ment points out that its m a oral-examinations are as stiff and searching as many ph d prelim inaries the university library is partic ularly well equipped for graduate english work in shakespeare elizabethan drama 19th century and literary criticism of the ten men on the teaching staff of the english department three have degrees from yale two columbia and one each from cor nell harvard michigan lehigh and northwestern turner board member dies after long illness william j turner member of the board of trustees and general counsel of the lehigh coal and navigation company died recent ly in the presbyterian hospital in philadelphia after a long illness he was 77 years of age mr turner was born in phila delphia and practiced law since his graduation from the univer sity of pennsylvania law school in 1891 brown and white lehigh university this means you . . . the success of this year's epitome — probably the last for the dur ation — depends on you for its success as an outstanding yearbook if you are a senior feb june or oct 44 pay your 7 at the placement office as soon as possible if you are a member of the 1945 or 1946 class subscribe to the 1944 epitome at 3 at onee — at the supply bureau or at the arcadia office every organization and fraternity should make immediate plans for space in the epitome — 20 a full page 10 a half page everybody in the university — civilians faculty ast — should buy this year's epitome — lehigh in the war years the epitome will be differ ent .. . distinctive . . . colorful . . . books will be 3.50 after jan 15