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              refuting the theory of bacon's authorship of the shakesperian plays dr smith said all the ba conian concoction of so-called evi dence can never controvert the plain testimony of ben jonson about the two men he knew both of them personally and compre hended the genius of both what he has written so discriminatingly about the genius of each man can not be set aside for the manufac tured subtleties of cryptograms and ciphers taffy miller a former conover model was the feature attraction at the last meeting of lehigh uni versity's camera club taffy a lit tle blonde from trenton was ar companied by wilbur smith of smith's photo shop smitty gave a lecture on the proper use of flood lights and held a short discussion on general elec trics new triangular lighting sys tem taffy obligingly spent most of the evening posing on a table top while the boys of the camera club clicked their shutters at her as the circle of camera fiends widen ed stan moyer solved the prob lem of space by hopping up on smitty's shoulders and taking high angle shots over the heads of the crowd members chagrined between shots the club members got a chance to talk with taffy and found out much to their dis appointment that taffy is her mo deling name her real name is mrs ace taffy is the first professional model that the camera club has had in the future they hope to be able to have more models at the meeting immediately pre action taken by lu group on discipline committee makes known infractions but omits names of individuals the discipline committee re ports the following actions taken by that body recently the names of the offenders are withheld from publication by wray h congdon dean of students and director personnel services the first action was the case of an individual in english 1 who had copied an old theme belonging to one of his fraternity brothers and turned it in as his own this is a case of plagiarism and the action was fully admitted by the student involved the committee voted to drop the student from the course without credit in the course and to place him on scholastic probation for the balance of the current semester and for the next ensuing semester of his registration athletic books lifted six cases of students who had allowed their athletic coupon books to be used by non-students were also reported to the commit tee in the past the discipline committee has never taken action in such instances the coupon book is taken up by the athletic department and the student is de nied the use of the coupon book for the balance of the semester in the future however it is to be understood that whenever such cases occur these students will be reported to the discipline comit tee for disciplinary action in addi tion to the forfeiture of his coupon book this is public notice to all students of the university's posi tion in the matter lehigh enters convention on model politics list meetings to select delegates to conference on politics government lehigh university will partici pate in the model political con vention conducted every four years under the auspices of the in tercollegiate conference on gov ernment the purpose of the convention is to give college personnel actual ex perience to how the national presi dential conventions work this convention like the real republican and democratic party conventions which will come in june and july will be held in philadelphia the headquarters will be at the bellevue-stratford hotel the convention days will be april 8-11 convention objective a major objective of the con vention will be to draft a model political platform which will in corporate views on current issues as college delegates see them the convention will be conducted along the same pattern as that used by the major political parties committees will be elected to re port on these current political iss ues which will be incorporated in to the planks of the platform each school represented will have one vote on the rules committee while in the general sessions each school will have votes in proportion to the size of its delegation up to a maximum of 25 votes george howatt instructor in history and government will be faculty advisor to the lehigh dele gation regular preparatory meet ings will be held between now and the convention date the study of parliamentary procedure as well as current political lissues will be taken up at these meetings first meeting scheduled lehigh men who are interested in becoming delegates should sub mit their names at the office of dr g d harmon department of his tory and government coppee hall the first meeting of the lehigh delegates will take place at 4 p.m tuesday march 9 in room 34 coppee hall more information and future information will be an nouncel at this time a student de legation chairman will be chosen at this meeting preparation for the convention will officially get underway when the lehigh delegation travels to wilkes college wilkes-barre pa saturday march 13 to attend the northeastern regional meeting of the intercollegiate confeience on government convention commit tee chairmen will be selected and committee assignments made to discuss current topics students with backgrounds and interest in current political prob lems will have an excellent oppor tunit to present their views for consideration in the model plat form to be adopted at the conven tion civil rights foreign affairs la bor military affairs taxation and finance education veterans affairs and health and welfare are some of the topics on which convention action will be taken persons inter ested in parliamentary procedure and the practics of party conven tions will have the chance to study these matters and then put their knowledge into actual use the convention also will afford oppor tunity for public speaking prof howard eckfeldt howard eckfeldt professor emeritus of mining engineering is reported to have died march 1 at the home of his son jacob t eck feldt in lima peru prof eckfeldt obtained his de gree in metallurgy from lehigh in 1895 in 1896 he received the de gree of mining engineer he spent four years as mining engineer with the concepcion del oro mazapil copper co ltd in zacatecas mex ico and later returned to lehigh where he taught for 42 years re ceiving his professorship in 1902 in addition to his teaching acti vities professor eckfeldt was ac tive in university affairs he was a member of the executive board of the lehigh institute of research and was affiliated with alpha tau omega sigma xi national honor ary research society the ameri can institute of mining and me chanical engineers and the engin eers club of the lehigh valley sweethearts love tested by doubter disguises impersonations lead ladies to marriage by intriguing conditions cosi fan tutte a comic opera by mozart was presented last night at 8:15 p.m at broughal high school and will again be presented tonight same time same place the program is another of the student concerts-lectures se ries presentations the scene of the opera is laid in eighteenth century naples fer rando and graziano have been singing the praises of their sweet hearts and are induced by the sneers of don alphonso ( a con firmed doubter of woman's fidel ity to lay a wager that fiordiligi and dorabella will stand any test of their constancy resolved to give their inexper ience a lesson don alphonso binds them to implicit obedience to his commands for two days then after informing the two la dies that their lovers are suddenly ordered away to war he witnesses their tearful parting and leaves the ladies inconsolable and vowing eternal fidelity the add test the lovers have hardly parted when alphonso with the help of despina the ladies waiting maid brings the gentlemen back dis guise as foreigners the supposed foreigners imme diately begin to make violent love and on being rejected pretend to poison themselves they are ap parently in the agonies of death at the feet of the ladies when des pina disguised as a doctor re stores them by mesmerism in the second act they follow up the impression they have al ready made on the ladies compas sion and exchange presents with them dorabella yields first and presents a portrait as a remem brance of her to the disguised graziano finally fiordiligi also succumbs to the entreaties of the disguised ferrando a notary impersonated by despina is sent for to draw up the marriage contract in the mid dle of the wedding banquet al phonso gives the alarm that the true lovers are returning the false ones hurry out and the real ones enter and discover the marriage contract despina how ever declares herself and the mystery is cleared up alphonso having won the wa ger reconciles the lovers remark ing that it is useless to be angry with women for inconstancy flir tation is a second nature to them — cosi fan tutte jane hobson stars jane hobson pretty mezzo-so prano who sings the role of dora della has recently won wide rec ognition as a performer she stud ied in many schools and under many tutors first as a pianist and more lately as a singer leopold stokowski recently chose her to sing at the new york phil harmonic symphony pension fund on march 20 she is now compet ing for a roll with the metropolitan opera her performances in cosi fan tutte will undoubtedly con tribute consideraly to her chances and at the same time increase her prestige in the musical world cosi fan tutte is being pre sented as an opera for college the purpose is to stimulate a cul tural interest for opera in the leaders of tomorrow — present day college audiences to effect this there is an english translation in the american idiom in addition there are very competent singing actors in every role rehearsed to make each performance satisfy ing dramatically as well as musi cally stage presentation on april 16 and 17 combined musical groups of neighboring colleges cooperate on production a new collegiate theatrical-en terprise of magnitude never before attempted will be presented on april 16 and 17 in grace hall ac cording to a statement released by ralph g schwarz director of pro duction for lehigh's spring music festival last wednesday although plans have been in effect since september the full program was withheld from the public until final arrangements were well underway after the en thusiastic reception with which the glee club was received at foun tain hill high school wednesday morning it was decided to make the overall plan available to the public supported by 400 people according to william schempf head of the department of music at lehigh the musical extravaganza is being supported by over 400 peo ple from many university depart ments and several women's colle ges as well as by several large in dustrial organizations the basic performers will be the combined musical clubs of lehigh including the glee club the band and also the collegians the chorus will be augmented by members of glee club groups from moravian ce dar crest centenary and beaver college for women in addition a group of lehigh gymnasts and a group of rotc men will partici pate certain parts of the spectacle require special effects which have not yet been used by any stage producing group in the country the technical staff of the festival has had conferences with leading technicians from new york and hollywood in an attempt to sur mount these obstacles plenty cooperation directors of radio city music hall and representatives of cen tury lighting company have al ready cooperated in working out problems of stage and lighting equipment the new jersey zinc company has also offered to allow recent developments of their re search department to be used for special fluorescent effects while eastman-kodak and westinghouse have not yet lent their full support schwarz stated that he momenta rily expected anouncements of complete cooperation from them the stage for the production will extend the full ength of the east side seats of grace hall and will be the longest stage in the na tion according to a query of radio city officials by utilizing the main floor area and the west side seats the audience capacity will be over 2000 for each of the two perform ances three parts the program is in three parts and includes a number of original orchestrations by lehigh students according to schwartz the first part will be essentially impression istic emphasizing rhythm and movement in music it is during this portion that the gymnasts and military men will perform the second portion of the pro gram will be a dream sequence entitled lehigh in song and will be presented against a background of photographic campus scenes in fall winter and spring the final portion will consist of folksong culminating in the performance of an original script which can be compared to the radio city birth of an anthem among the men assisting and advising in the production are william schempf professor of music fay c bartlett director of intramural athletics lee richards tom fisher william crehore john macmillan blackburn hazelhurst tim dennis and lloyd antonides swimming team captain russell s young montclair n j was elected captain of the lehigh university freshman swim ming team a freestyler he is ma joring in business administration here ring offer still open the figure set of 50 rings has been reached but to enable any others interested in the balfour ring to take advantage of the reduced prices the offer is be ing held open until noon satur day march 6 men interested miy place their orders in the supply bureau after saturday add 4.00 to present prices for all single orders rings are avialable to men from all class es sac hears seidle speak at the meeting of the committee on student activities friday feb ruary 26 a petition was read for reactivation of the brown key so ciety by unanimous vote the amended constitution and by-laws were approved the student activities commit tee also approved the general idea of the establishment of a chinese students club this club would be open to all chinese students at lehigh a brief note was read by dean charles a seidle chairman of the committee rearding the indiscri minate posting of notices by stu dents the committee recommend ed that arcadia make an investi gation of existing bulletin board space and possible locations for additional bulletin boards it is hoped that when more space is avialable students will cease to ad vertise on telephone poles trees and building walls author viteles lectures engineers dr morris s viteles noted au thor was the guest speaker in the fifth of a series of lectures spon sored by the mechanical engineer ing department thursday in pack ard auditorium the program was open to the public as well as to students and members of the fa culty dr viteles is the director of per sonnel research and training for the philadelphia electric company he is also director of the vocation al guidance clinic of the univer sity of pennsylvania in the past dr viteles has ser ved with the yellow cab co as personnel consultant he has also served as consultant for the war manpower commission as chair man of the national research com mittee on the selection and train ing of aircraft pilots and as a member of the applied psychology panel of the national defense re search committee active author dr viteles is a member of the executive committee of the inter national psychotechnical society honorary correspondent of the na tional institute of industrial psy chology of great britain and he holds membership in the ameri can psychological association american association for the ad vancement of science american management association aero medical association and sigma xl national honorary scientific society he is the author of industrial psychology the science of work and vocational guidance throughout the world firms interview seniors among the companies that in terviewed seniors last week were metropolitan edison co inter viewing students in e.e bailey meter co e.e e.e and m.e vicks chemical co bus arts and c.e fort pitt bridge works c.e aluminum company of america 1.e chem.e e.e m.e and met e norway offers summer study american university students interested in a summer of study and discovery in norway are in vited to attend the university of oslo's american summer school according to an announcement is sued by the royal norwegian in formation services top norwegian experts will in struct students in a broad selection of subjects the six week session will begin july 1 and end august 15 during this period students will be able to earn as high as six semester credits all lectures and instruction will be in english credit transfer by necessity wil be determined by the college or university to which the ameri can student returns applicants who will have com pleted their sophomore year by the summer of 1948 are requested to address inquiries to the uni versity of oslo summer school of fice st olaf college northfield minn before march 15 1948 dr r m smith in the first portion of this lec ture reply to one given several months ago by registrar george b curtis presenting the baconian point of view dr smith concerned himself mainly with the positive evidence for the traditional con ception of shakespeare if we study the methods of composition of the two men ba con and shakespeare we find ob vious contrasts bacon wrote verse shakespeare wrote poetry while both men are very great the comparison makes it clear to any one who understands the psy chology of composition that they are not identical turning to an attack on the prominent baconians in the second part of the talk dr smith warned the baconian hypothesis we should remember is primarily an invention of the victorian age hatched in america and simultan eously in england by delia bacon and william henry smith — neither of whom had any training in eliza bethan scholarship his attack included an analysis of the cipher evidence presented by mrs gallup noted baconian he acknowldeged that cryptogra phy was very much present in shakesperean times and that ba con himself no doubt used ciphers but denied that they proved ba con's authorship of the plays bethlehem pa friday march 5 1948 cheesecake at lehigh vol lvi no.^9 3 jane hobson in singing role stars in s c l comic opera price — 5 cents brown and white new musical extravaganza planned for spring festival wine women and a couple of boys from the camera club get a lens-full as a friend adjusts the angle playful scene from cosi van tutti taffy former conover model poses for lu camera bugs ceeding the modeling donald wul pi president of the camera club introduced joseph osburn of the civil engineering department who will be the club's new faculty ad viser mr osburn is replacing jack fitch of the chemistry department who was formerly the club's advis er prof eckf eldt dies in south america smith replies to baconians cites testimony of jonson as shakespearean evidence shakespeare is shakespeare asserted dr robert metcalf smith thursday evening in his speech re plying to the baconians dr smith addressed a capacity audience in room 466 packard laboratory at a meeting sponsored by phi alpha theta national honorary history fraternity the price of the shot will be 75 cents students faculty and em ployees desiring influenza shots will please register with mr merricheu at the health service before march 13 bids for the houseparty con sions will be accepted in the arcadia office beginning mon day march 8 all bids must be written and handed in before march 20