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              the salvation army provided the names of the 24 children who were the guests of alpha chi rho the program included the show ing of movies games and the sing ing of christmas carols for which a three-piece orchestra volunteer ed its services gifts and refresh ments were given to each young ster the sixteen members of the bethlehem boys club who attend ed lambda chi alpha's christmas party enoyed a turkey dinner and a trip to the theatre afterwards each boy was presented with a gift of a pair of gym shoes and socks in addition to books candy and gum nuts and fruit after the movies all the youngsters adjourn ed to the ice cream parlor to be treated to ice cream by the fra ternity glee clubs go caroling most spectacular of the pre christmas festivities wsa the carol singing by mebers of the glee clubs of lehigh university and moravian college for women accompanied by a brass quartet from the band the 70 carollers started at 7:15 p.m wednesday at moravian and jour neyed across town to the lehigh campus there they serenaded var ious dormitories and fraternity houses and the president's house with oh little town of bethle hem silent night hark the herald angels sing and many other traditional christmas songs at 9:00 the group retired to drown americans eligible for british schools six weeks course will cover wide range of regular medical data about six hundred places will be reserved for american students at summer schools to be held by seven british universities during july and august 1948 the schools are open to all and will provide an opportunity for american stu dents to meet the students from other countries each course will last six weeks the subects will range over a wide field covering literature history economics education and post graduate work in medical and sci entific studies the courses will be held at widely separated centers all of which are well placed for field trips this will be the second time that the schools will be held last year's courses being considered successful the schools are intended pri marily for graduate and teachers who have made some previous study in the subjects offered but in some cases undergraduates in their junior or senior year with special interests or academic train ing will be able to attend at some universities special assistance will be given to students prepar ing theses in their subject all the courses will be residen tial and arrangements will be made for students to live either in colleges or in university hostels although food is still rationad in britain there will be adequate food for the visitors the cost of the course includ ing tuition and maintenance for the six weeks will range from 240 to 264 dollars port to port trans portation for american students will be from 328 to 448 for the round trip students who complete their courses to the satisfaction of their tutors will be given a certificate of attendance credits which are obtained can by previous ar rangement with the registrars of their own universities be trans ferred to the student's home col leges education commission issues report admission to college should not be based on racial background economic religious racial or regional background should not prevent any qualified individual from attaining an education ac cording to the report issues by the presidents commission on higher education for american democ this commission appointed by president truman is composed of 28 civic and educational leaders the group recently issued the first of a series of six reports designed to reform backward tendencies in institutions of higher learning so that by 1960 their capacities of en rollment may be expended to meet the demands of a projected fed eral education project the first two years of college should be made available to ev ery young american on the same basis as four years of high school a system of scholarships and oth er financial assistance should be made available to all qualified ap plicants for senior college and pro fessional schools the question of the legality of federal aid is at tacked from the standpoint that federal aid in education is as im portant as federal aid for internal national defense expansion necessary the report holds that already crowded schools and universities will have to further expand their inadequate facilities over a period of years to come this will involve moral as well as physical expan sion the commission's recommen dations involve giving students a broader conception of their place in the community and an aware ness of the problems of other in dividuals it should be noted that more progressive communities on the west coast have long been working toward such goals but that our backward conservative east has fallen far short of progressive aims and too many of our universities have become factories for the mass-production of knowledge curtis talks on historical secret cipher will explain secret elizabethan history do elizabethan siphers provide a new source of historical evi dence george b curtis univer sity editor and registrar says they do the full title of the talk which he will present at the monthly meeting of phi alpha theta national historical frater nity on jan 8 in room 466 pack ard laboratory will be eliza bethan cryptography as a new source of historical evidence mr curtis is recognized as the foremost authority in america on francis bacon today he has col lected over 3,000 books on this subject and several hundred of these were published before 1640 his talk will be illustrated by lantern slides which will explain the secret cipher which is the key to a secret history covering the period from 1553 to 1695 the es sential point of the history con cerns in addition to bacon queen elizabeth the earl of leicester and the earl of essex phi alpha theta will hold a short business meeting beginning at 7 p.m and at 7:30 the public is invited to hear mr curtis's challenging explanation notice ! all seniors should make a special point of looking at the bulletin boards the day you re turn from christmas vacation placement interviews have been scheduled for jan 6 and appli cants signed up for these inter views must report to the place ment bureau on jan 5 lehigh and moravian carolling 9 freshmen enter in feb nine new undergraduate stu dents will be admitted to lehigh in february as freshmen these students who come from four dif ferent states do not constitute a new class byron c hayes assis tant director of admissions also announced that the university plans to admit 600 freshmen and 50 transfer students in september 1948 the average pre-war fresh man class was about 550 class of 1 948 decides on gift name lu as beneficiary on insurance policies the class of 1948 will uphold the tradition established by the class of 1938 by making its memorial gift to the university as a class insurance program eugene h sowers class president announced recently the program provides that grad uating students take out 300 in surance policies on a 20-year en dowment basis naming lehigh as the beneficiary when the pro gram matures at the time of the 20th reunion of the class the school receives a sizeable gift from the class the nature of that gift will be determined at this reunion by the class although this plan was inaugur ated by the class of 1929 it did not become traditional until 1938 since then every class has adopted the plan and more than 1100 grad uates have taken out policies under provisions of this pro gram the subscriber's alumni dues and subscriptions to the alumni bulletin are paid by the univer sity during the first ten years after graduation the men who take out policies will not be asked to par ticipate in any of the drives for funds which might be held richard p bodine 111 of fair field conn is chairman of the memorial gift committee he is be ing assisted by robert a phillips class vice-president lafayette president praises a p omega alpha phi omega national ser vice fraternity celebrated its 22nd anniversary tuesday dec 16 at lafayette college the birthplace of the organization dr ralph hutchinson president of lafayette said i am proud to be an honorary member of apo because it is the only organization whose purpose is to foster inter collegiate cooperation rather than rivalry august wiegand president of alpha psi chapter represented le high byron hayes associate di rector of admissions and senior faculty adviser to lehigh's chap ter spoke in his capacity as apo state chairman frank horton the founder of apo and prof dan hatch the senior faculty adviser to lafay ette's chapter for 22 years also spoke journalism society taps 14 members twelve lehigh university stu dents and two faculty members were tapped for membership in pi delta epsilon national honorary journalism society at ceremonies held at noon wednesday dec 17 in the alumni memorial building on the university campus faculty members pledged were coy w wynn assistant professor of english at lehigh and samuel h talbert instructor in journal ism students tapped were james gentles feb 49 richard h jones june 48 robert polstein feb 49 gilpin jeff eris june 49 ; john he gedus june 49 ; richard ten eyck june 50 robert a sawhill feb 48 forrest roth june 48 tho mas belmont june 49 stanley p lawler feb 50 peter guidon june 50 and albert rubenstein june 49 48s drink let loose at class party by al farans drink up 48 men the beer is on the house echoed through the colonnade on the evening of de cember 11 1947 as the seniors met for the second time this semester to discuss plans for the spring reports by the senior class ring committee were given and an investigation will be made as to the number of seniors desiring to purchase a ring costing between 25 and 30 an appeal was made by the epi tome staff to all 48 men who haven't yet made their 8.00 sen ior assassment the success of the yearbook depends on these men getting their money in as soon as possible after the official business meet ing was adjourned the seniors let loose mr kirkpatrick university treasurer consented to display his talents on the piano while miss jennifer marshall got the party headed in the right direction with the singing of some old time fav orites these were enjoyed by ev eryone however a few of the in dependents decided it was time to sing songs more appropriate for an all male beer party everyone add ed a verse or two of their own and miss marshall was forced to retire to the rear the beer ex pected to last the entire evening was soon consumed and a collec tion was taken up to satisfy the thirst of the ever-studying seniors the party slowly drifted apart as many 48 men decided to go out and get a breath of fresh air students present play over wgpa a christmas play a tale of the latter season by franklin kenyon english instructor at le high was presented by the lehigh university radio workshop thurs day night over station wghpa-fm the program originated from the speech studio in christmas-saucon hall the cast included connie rooke moravian college for women robert harter 48 roger noone 51 and becky cusworth of the lehigh university staff edward blossom 51 anounced and nar rated the play mr fred ritze english instructor was program director and john werme 47 r was technical director earlier in the day mr william schempf director of music at le high and a quartet from moravian college for women presented a program of christmas music on the radio workshop's weekly pro gram lehigh university talks paul loenwarter 50 was the an nouncer mil dept schedules 23 rifle matches twenty-thre rifle matches have been scheduled for the lehigh university varsity and r o t c squads for the coming winter sea son major hiram m merritt as sistant professor of military sci ence and tactics announced last week practice for the squad will begin on monday in the rifle range under lamberton hall six shoulder-to-shoulder mat ches and seven postal meets will comprise the schedule for the var sity squad the r o t c team will engage ten opponents in pos tal matches only robert parkin son of allentowni will be the man ager during the coming season the varsity shoulder-to-shoulder schedule is as follows jan 17 rutgers here feb 14 united states naval academy here feb 21 triangular middle three match against lafayette and rutgers at new brunswick n.j feb.2b new york university new york city march 6 lafayette at easton and march 20 pennsylvania state col lege here postal matches carded for the varsity squade are feb 7 michi gan state feb 14 v p i feb 21 brooklyn polytechnic institute and university of pittsburgh feb 28 fordham march 15 cornell and march 20 carnegie tech r.o.t.c matches booked for the season follow feb 14 oregon state feb 21 kansas state and vamey forge military academy and the university of south da kota feb 28 university of ver mont march 6 drexel university of massachusetts and virginia polytechnic institute and march 13 university of pittsburg and university of michigan mcllhenny topic of alumni bulletin edward a mcllhenny 94 is the subject if jungle gardens the feature article in this month's issue of the lehigh alumni bul letin the camellia and azalea gardens created by this lehigh alumnus in the bayou country of louisiana are described in this ar ticle the flying office of robert t sheen 31 is discussed in another article entitled the flying step value other stories are masses of men an evaluation of the phy sical education facilities in taylor gymnasium the parade of sports a review of the fall ath letic program and following le high's alumni clubs a summary of alumni activities during the past month va to ask for records after dec 31 1947 the veter ans administration will not ac cept prima facie evidence as suf ficient proof for veterans to estab lish service-connection for medi cal and dental treatment but will require official records on dec 31 veterans will have had a full year after the president announced the end of hostilities in which to secure treatment on the presumption of service-connection based on prima facie evidence the va feels that this should have been ample time for clearly de fined service-connected cases to have received treatment — photo by kane members of the glee clubs of lehigrh and moravian college for women went caroling wednesday for moravian and lehigh students the group serenaded fraternities dorms and also the president's house the 70 carolers were accompanied by a brass quartet from the lehigh band brown and white brown and white price s cents vol lvi no.^2l bethlehem pa friday december 19 1947 entertaining wiley house kids photo by scheller . fuehrer was the magician for 55 children summer session in 1948 pres martin d whitaker an nounced today that an eight weeks summer half semester and a six weeks summer ses sion will be presented by le high university next sum mer no dates will be set for these periods by the director of sum mer sessions until he has met with the curriculum directors if council plays santa to children combined glee clubs supply entertainment at first annual affair the lehigh university intex fraternity council played host to 55 children at the council's first an nual christmas party held last night in drown hall the children were from wiley house a chil dren's home located on broadway between bethlehem and auen town during the course of the eve ning the children were served ice cream cake and milk they were also each given a stocking filled with ice cream to take home with them glee clubs sing dick fuehrer offered his services and entertained as a magician frank bantholomew of the col legians dance band along with wil liam shaffer and ed hall played christmas carols for the group later the combined glee clubs of moravian college for women and lehigh university also sang carols james duff chi psi and inter fraternity council president pro vided the christmas spirit when he appeared dressed as santa claus and distributed gifts to the guests the gifts were donated by the in dividual fraternity houses each of which gave two appropriately wrapped and tagged with a child's name each guest received a gift the party was planned and ar ranged by a committee composed of charles foster alpha chi rho bill breck psi upsilon and noem seim chi psi the faculty was represented at the affair by president and mrs martin d whitaker and chaplain and mrs bean the children were accompanied to the party by miss brigham su perintendent of wiley house the caroling which was under the direction of gertrude barnes of the music department of mora vian and william schempf direc tor of music at lehigh marked the first time in history of the uni versity that an organized group has gathered on the campus to sing carols many of those who heard the singing expressed the hope that the activity would be continued in future years as a tra ditional part of the yuletide cel ebration hall where they entertained the orphans who were the guests of the i.f.c parties for local youngsters highlight festivities at lehigh by jack lyons though the highlight of the pre vacation christmas festivities on the campus was the i.f.c party for bethlehem orphans wednesday night other celebrations during the week made this one of the most impressive christmas festivity weeks in the history of the univer sity theta alpha chi rho and lamb da chi alpha held special parties in their fraternity houses for bethlehem youngsters youngsters treated ten boys from 7 to 12 years of age atended the christmas party at phi delta theta games were played following which the lads were treated to a turkey dinner and moving pictures santa claus presented gifts to the little guests of honor who were secured thru the family welfare association seniors all seniors who have had their pictures taken pick up or return proofs to don ald mccaa 1222 west union boulevard before the christ mas holidays any man who has paid his senior assessment and not sub mitted a questionnaire go to the arcadia office immediately