Brown and White Vol. 52 no. 49

              the new freshman years is as follows first semester english engl lor 3a » 3 mathematics math 12 3 chemistry chem 4 4 physics phys 22 4 or engineering drawing 3 and moral and religious philosophy military science mil i _ 2 development of western civilization 3 physical education p e i ..._ total - 19 or 18 second semester english engl 2 or 3b 3 mathematics math 12 ..._ 3 chemistry chem 5 - 4 engineering drawing 3 and moral and religious philosophy or physics phys 22 ..._ _ 4 military science mil 2 2 development of western civilization 3 physical education p e 2 total 18 or 19 those freshmen taking physics will have only two laboratory periods a week and those taking engineering drawing will have four the present freshman year in engineering requires five labor atory periods per week in each semester the chemistry department in compliance with the new schedule will drop the following courses chem i elementary chemistry 2 chem 3 intermediate chemistry 2 chem it chemistry laboratory . 2 chem 13 chemistry laboratory 2 chem 8 stoichiometry i chem 20 elementary chemistry and qualitative analysis 3 in place of these courses engi neering freshmen will take chem 4 elementary chemistry and chem 5 elementary chemistry both of these courses will have one lecture two recitations and one 3-hour laboratory period weekly quantitative analysis will be included in the 1 term sopho more work with qualitative anal ysis stoichiometry chemical cal culations will be taught through out the year in chem 4 and chem 5 also chem 2 12 and 14 will be replaced by chem 15 and 16 for non-science majors in the college continued on page 4 that would ordinarily be wasted the new development will also op erate with oil alone or using waste heat and oils at the same time professor larkin explained that as a result of the heilman-baud enhausen boiler exhaust gases from a diesel engine are conveyed through the boiler in order to fur nish hot water although this de velopment does not involve any new fundamental principle ac cording to professor larkin this marks the first time that this com bination has ever been used for this purpose continued on page 3 company who worked on this new development in collaboration with john p baudenhausen therefore the boiler will be known as the heilman-baudenhausen boiler developed by the heilman boil er works in allentown the heil man-baudenhausen boiler was im proved and tested by a group of lehigh university experts which includes professors f v larkin m c stuart and b k erdoss the new boiler makes possible the creation of power equivalent to that of a boiler four times its size lloyd j hersh vice-president of the heilman boiler works stated that in addition to ultilizing heat 136 valentines sent to students wray h congdon dean of un dergraduates disclosed that 136 mid-semester valentines were mailed on sunday aug 19 twenty-seven students twenty two of whom are first semester freshmen have been put on val entine probation for flunking nine or more credit hours they will be barred from participation in varsity athletics for the remain der of the semester the 40 distribution of warn ings 136 valentines to an en rolled student body of 336 is one of the highest wartime percen tages december 43 and 44 were other high years the percentage has gone as low as 20 since 1939 the number of valentines sent to those registered in each curri culum follow arts and science 15 business administration 3 ch e 24 chemistry 5 c e 11 e e 26 i e 10 m e 30 e m 4 mineral ogy 3 e p 3 general college 2 debaters meet haverford on friday august 10 lehigh university debated haverford col lege at haverford lehigh was represented by charles hafner and malcolm schvey the topic was as follows resolved that socialism should replace capitalism in the united states the men from lehigh were un der the impression that they were supposed to take the negative side and our contract also gave that impression however the gentle men from haverford lost the con tract before they began preparing for the debate and they thought that they were also to take the negative point of view after a twenty-minute discussion on the merits of making spare copies of debating contracts our opponents seemed willing enough to take the affirmative side this decision was a lucky one since the debate prob ably wouldn't have amounted to very much if the debaters had all been one the same side nevertheless the men from le high were very happy to see the gentlemen from haverford even though they did seem a bit con fused this was due to the fact that haverford is surrounded by a small jungle as messrs hafner and schvey entered the hinterland of the college they found them selves in a deserted wood for a while they thought that they would have a great deal of diffi culty in finding their way out but continued on page 4 vol lii no 49 bethlehem pa wednesday august 22 1945 price 5 cents revised frosh schedule announced effective october dr harvey a neville . . . chairman executive committee college of engineering faculty approves new schedule provisions dr harvey a neville head of the department of chemistry and chemical engineering and chair man of the executive committee of the college of engineering an nounced this week a new uniform freshman schedule for engineers effective with the entering class in october the new freshman pro gram is designed to give engineer ing freshmen a broader outlook in education by the provision of sev eral humanistic-social studies the executive committee com posed 1 of the heads of the engineer ing departments has been revising and reforming the new program since early this year and dr ne ville elected committee chairman early in july presented the pro posed roster to the educational policy committee which in turn submitted the program to the fac ulty for approval at the faculty meeting august 6 in addition to the new uniform freshman year in engineering which includes the dropping of mathematics 20 mechanics a new course the development of west ern civilization designed to pro vide a humanistic-social engi neering outlook and major revis ing of freshman chemistry courses dr neville has appointed two committees within the chemistry and chemical engineering depart ment for the purpose of consider ing the present curricula in chem istry and chemical engineering continued on page 4 peace time production revives need for engineering skill e g grace in answer to the question what is your opinion of lehigh's future as a technological school or if you feel it has no great future in this field the trend this school will take in the post war reshuffle of educa tional values put to him by the editors of the brown and white mr eugene g grace chairman of the board of trustees and president of the bethlehem steel comp oration replied the coming revival of peacetime production will call for engineer ing skill in immense quantities the engineer will be needed not alone for his technical abilities but also because every enterprise involves complex business and administrative problems in which his trained scientific approach is of value while peace may be expected to open an era of opportunity for the man who is technically trained it is likely that there will be an acute shortage of technical men enrollment in engineering schools has sunk very low during the war years the thousands of young men who would normally have been at work in classrooms and laboratories have been employed in a grimmer occupation we know how the war has cut into the student body at lehigh other leading engineering schools have been affected on a comparable scale in addition to a probable scarcity of engineering brains the end of the war is likely to bring to light another condition with a bearing on lehigh's prospects as a technologi cal school lit is recognized that an enormous demand for goods has been building up during the war with engineering education long near a standstill the coming of peace will disclose a similar accu mulated demand for technical training large number of young men including many who have served in the armed forces will want engineering training this pent-up demand may surely be expected to stimulate enrollment at engineering schools lehigrh's position promising there is a further circumstance that makes lehigh's position from the standpoint of technological education particularly promising many of this country's leading business executives have been men with engineering training many eugene g grace ... i chairman board of trustees a college trained engineer finds his usefulness in work that lies be yond the purely technical field often he advances to an executive position in which the duties are largely administrative requiring a broad knowledge of business principles and the ability to organize and direct the work of others he must be able to think clearly and quickly above all he must have the sound judgment to make wise decisions need for broader engineering curricula the fact that the engineer is so often called to responsibilities of a non-technical nature emphasizes the need for his training to include study in economics ant business administration as well as in the liberal arts to supplement his work in scientific and engineering subjects because it is in the fortunate position of being able to utilize the splen did facilities of the business administration and liberal arts colleges lehigh's school of engineering gives its students the advantage of a thorough training along these non-technical but vitally important lines these broader aspects of his work enrich and liberalize the training of the engineer at lehigh they lay a solid groundwork that will serve him well in whatever field he may eventually enter in the years ahead the country is certain to have increased need of the engineer's scientific skill and disciplined brain and his orderly objective approach to any problem whether technical administrative or human that is why i am confident that lehigh's engineering school can look forward to a future of steadily growing usefulness to the young men of the nation and to the scientific industrial and bus iness enterprises in which they will be the leaders of tomorrow new boiler in packard lab runs on diesel exhaust on wednesday august 8 a new type boiler to be built by the heil man boiler company for use in this country and the soviet union was demonstrated in the mechnical engineering laboratory of the packard lab representatives of both the united states and russia watched the demonstration of this boiler designed to produce power from the waste gases of diesel engines the designer of the boiler is robert e moyer of the heilman boiler roster provides humanistic-social outlook a new uniform freshman sched ule for engineering students will go into effect with the freshman class entering in october this new roster differs from the present one in that math 20 mechanics has been cut out only one semester of engineering drawing will be taught a new course development of western civilization has been added and chemistry courses have been revised brown & white lehigh university