Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 1

              gives opening address schwab to speak here october 15 leonard hall makes highest grades for term president stresses cultural background gained in college 500 frosh at meeting student organization leaders also address new men plan covers two years entire university raises average from 1 872 to 1 972 seniors raise marks lehigh's 65th opening marked by 447 fresh men 299 new engineers new attendance card system originated by dean curtis sophomore and junior class pictures will be taken next week in order to facilitate the work of the editors of the epitome who are already making preparations for the next issue of the year book the sophomore pictures will be taken at noon monday sept 23 in front of the alumni mem orial building the junior pic ture will be taken at noon tues day sept 24 at the same place students are requested to as semble for the picture as soon as classes are dismissed captain whitten dies from heart attack july 18 pres c r richards had instructed second year basic men since 1928 death comes suddenly 20 new members added to staff leonard hall replaced omega phi sigma to lead the list of living groups in the university with an average of 2.653 in the scholastic rankings for the second semester 1929-1930 following these two groups were four sections of tay lor hall which occupied the third place position of pi lambda phi which dropped to number ten the order of rank was considerably changed from the first semester the majority of groups improved their averages the average for the entire university climbed from 1.87 to 1.97 eight-eight percent of the averages were passing 12 percent fell into the e and f classes rivalry between leonard hall and omega phi sigma was strong for both semesters the latter led the university at the close of the first term with an average of 2.192 while leonard hall was second with a mark of 2.384 although leonard hall passed omega sigma phi for the second semester the final av erages for the entire year finds the latter first with an average of 2.7 to leonard hall's 2.51 the living groups listed accord ing to their rank for the second semester of 1929-30 are as follows continued on page four burr staff will adopt new plan dean c m mcconn aids board in forming policy captain robert q whitten of the department of miltary science and tactics died july 18 at jeffer son barracks mo while visiting relatives on leave of absence shgrtly before his death captain whitten had been swimming and when he came home complained of not feeling well he went imme diately to his room where he was found dead a few minutes later following an autopsy death was at tributed to heart trouble graduated from w & j captain whitten received his a.b degree from washington and jefferson college in 1915 and after his graduation studied law until the world war at college he was an athlete of distinction in june 1916 he enlisted in the 18th penn sylvania infantry and was commis sioned as 2nd lieutenant of infan try in the reserve corps in august 1917 he was soon transferred to the regular army in 1925-26 he at tended the infantry school at ft benning ga graduating in the company officers class captain whitten reported for duty at lehigh in the summer of 1928 and while here instructed the second year basic men and was to have continued with the same men in first year advanced work lt h r emery now on duty at ft hamilton n v will succeed capt whitten lieutenant emery will arrive the latter part of this month braun yale 30 is new union secretary fills post vacated by fred traf ford last spring david braun who this year re ceived the degree of bachelor of di vinity from yale university is the new secretary of student housing and employment and of the lehigh union he is filling the place left open by fred trafford who re signed last spring to become super intendent of police of bethlehem he had occupied the post for the last decade mr braun became secretary dur ing the early part of the summer and has spent a large amount of the ensuing time in canvassing bethle hem for rooms and employment for students he occupies the third floor of drown hall where mr trafford formerly lived two miles of new roads estimat ed to cost 40,000 will be complet ed by october 1 a w litzen berger lehigh university supervis ing architect announced today the work which was started on june 25 and which will be finished in 75 working days is the first part of a large highway improvement project the completion of the work now being done will be only 25 percent of that planned and the total contracts cover a period of two years the university chose the new type of roads in preference to con crete mr litzenberger explained for the reason that on the side of south mountain tarvia will offer better traction for automobiles when the roads are icy also this black type of road looks better in a forest setting such as we have at lehigh two roads completed the roads now completed or nearing completion are the road to the rear of the library and the one from the packard laboratory to brodhead avenue paths to the phy sics building and from the alumni memorial building to brodhead av enue are now being finished the improved new highways are twice the width of the old ones they average 27 feet in width and ten inches in thickness cost 1.75 per square yard and according to the contractors they will last 20 years the roads in sayre park which will eventually be replaced with wider ones will be improved and patched by nov 1 the university development pro ject started this summer includes the rearrangement and improve ment of the interior of the coxe mining laboratory two new floors are being built-in new drawing rooms are being equipped and the installation of a new petroleum lab oratory is in progress a new freight elevator is also on the pro gram as well as an improved heat ing and lighting system cost of work on the coxe laboratory will be approximately 18,000 about 100 extra workmen have been at work all summer on univer sity improvement pi kappa alpha moves to wyandotte street former home was located on warren square due to increased membership the pi kappa alpha fraternity has moved to a larger house it is now located at 306 wyandotte street opposite the nativity episcopal church the house has 18 rooms and is surrounded by the tall trees and wide green lawns the frater nity's former home was on the northwest corner of warren square and montclair avenue moving was at the close of last semester and the house was occu pied by several members of the fra ternity during summer school the first official sub-freshman assembly with a record of 411 in attendance was held tuesday sept 9 at 11 o'clock in drown hall the group was briefly greeted by w.c macdougall president of the le high union and david braun who succeeds fred trafford as secretary of the lehigh union outlined to the class of 1934 some of the spiritual difficulties with which the incom ing men might have trouble under the auspices of the union a tour of the campus was conduct ed in the afternoon the men met in groups of 25 and were headed either by a senior cabinet member or a volunteer pres c r rich ards delivered his address in the evening discussing the organiza tion of lehigh neil carothers head of the de partment of business administra tion spoke to the freshmen on fin ances in the wednesday morning assembly and dean c m mcconn gave his first address rocks ahead for the freshmen fred trafford superintendent of police and former secretary of the lehigh union advised the freshmen to avoid the u-drive-it concerns be cause the insurance did not fully protect the driver walter r oke son secretary and treasurer to the board of trustees summarized the history of athletics at lehigh the friday assembly boasted 432 present and cheering practice was heartily indulged in the evening dean mcconn discussed the pros and cons of fraternities saturday the last day of sub-freshman week was conducted entirely by students tile hoiioraiy soeietjr phi eta sig ma was presented to the freshmen also the newtonian society and the musical clubs corncob pipes and tobacco were distributed at the smoker saturday night sept 13 and lehigh men prominent in athletics were pre sented howard bosey reiter opened the program by encourag ing the freshmen to be manly an exhibition wrestling match was given by john engle captain of the wrestling team and robert dalling and was refereed by wil liam tubby miller austin tate coach of the football team in clos ing the evening spoke on the rela tion of scholarship to athletics em phasizing scholarship fourteen hundred and thir ty-five students enrolled in the undergraduate courses at the 65th opening of the university this week this number is ex pected to be increased some what by founders day of the total number enrolled 447 were freshmen a large majority of whom 299 in all were registered as engineers the business men were next with a total of 86 registrations and the college of arts and sci ence received a total of 62 freshmen the filling out of the atten dance cards was a new feature of the registration assistant dean curtis estimated that the filling out of these cards saved at least six weeks time on the part of one clerk in the regis trar's office and as a result of this saving of time mr curtis hopes to be able to post the chapel attendance record every two weeks instead of only once a term the registration process proceed ed in a more orderly manner and with less crowding around the ta bles than was the case last year this was partly due to the employ ment of student cops to maintain quietness and keep the lines in or der this had a tendency perhaps to slow up the checking clerks in as much as they did not feel so hurried in their work the new plan however prevented numerous mistakes which would cause the students concerned difficulty at a later date the slowness in check ing thus caused will be remedied in february dean curtis declared by increasing the staff of checking clerks a survey of the enrollment fig ures show that the number of new men in the freshman class has in creased from last year's figure of 436 at this time last year a total of 1384 men had paid their tuition and at this date a total of 1323 have paid their bills fraternity council appoints committees theta xi to receive this year's wrestling cup though no radical changes were made in the rushing rules president frank rushong in the first meet ing of the interfraternity council sept 8 in drown hall emphasized the fact that each house would be held responsible for the freshmen staying there and that the rules and penalties of last year would be rigidly enforced during the pres ent rushing season the interfraternity council wrest ling cup which is awarded yearly to the champions of the council will be presented to the theta xi fraternity which won it last term two committees were appointed as follows social — ernest j cress well sigma nu walter j tomlin son alpha chi rho and melville c bingham psi upsilon and the athletic committee will be — alex ander t mcelroy alpha tau omega george e brumbach alpha chi rho and russell e hoaster 47 lehigh students attend r.o.t.c camps forty-seven students of the le high r o t c unit passed six weeks of the summer in various training camps over 30 were at fort meade baltimore 13 at platts burg barracks n v ; one at fort snelling minn and one at fort shediran 111 the men were al lowed to attend the distant camps by special permission of col m.h thomlinson head of the m s and t department at lehigh faculty holds first meeting president richards wishes success to new members no man is truly educated with out an appreciation of cultural val ues president c r richards at the opening meeting of the school year wednesday afternoon in packer chapel told approximately 500 freshmen their guests and members of the faculty in the process of education a man may acquire knowledge with out refinement which involves an appreciation of the best in man ners in morals and in learning — that is an appreciation of the good and beautiful as contrasted with the base and ugly the president de clared president richards defined edu cation as a process of developing to the fullest extent the latent or potential qualities of an individual it is a process which is measured by the capacity of the brain to solve new problems or meet new situa tions that are beyond the individ ual's previous experience in con trast he defined training as a form of educational process in which practice and experience is taught to enable the individual to develop some skill in the performance of certain duties a group of animals can be trained to do tricks but they cannot be taught to reason when different situations face them it is often very difficult to define culture in such a manner that the definition will be universally ac cepted there are styles that are re garded as beautiful and good by one group and may be considered ugly by another there is no simple for mula by which culture could be readily acquired therefore if we acquire culture we shall need not alone to gain knowledge but to emulate those qualities of heart and mind that seem to be dominant in a large number of individuals who appeal to us as the type who bring the greatest joy and good to the world and whom we consider in our minds to be refined cultured gentlemen or gentlewomen in closing pres richards said to you young men who are in the last stage of preparation for life i would recommend the need to make the most of the opportunities which the university offers to ob tain a true education of the type that i have attempted to describe with sufficient training to enable you to quickly adapt yourselves to the practical work of the world the exercises opened with the singing of the traditional lehigh hymn o god our help in ages past followed by a reading from the bible and a prayer by the rev d w gateson j.d benedict i e 32 president of the arcadia welcomed the fresh men in behalf of the student body and g c doering president of the sophomore class explained the reg ulations which the freshmen as sumed at the close of the meeting activity lists wanted omicron delta kappa requests that all seniors prepare a list of their activities to date these lists should be handed in to robert l baird jr president at the delta phi house before thursday sept 25 those seniors who submitted their names previously as juniors will not be considered now unless they supply new lists localization of humor to the le high campus and to the city of bethlehem is the new policy,,adopt ed by the staff of the lehigh burr at a meeting wednesday night in drown hall instead of rambling articles satyrizing college life in general the burr will strive in the future to burlesque the faculty stu dent body and organizations of le high alone this plan offered by dean c m mcconn is an attempt at reviving and stimulating interest in the pub lication and also as a method to bring new ads from local merchants and business organizations the policy was considered a real aid to the magazine and was included in the burr platform dean mcconn advised in propos ing his plan that the burr should not hesitate to keep names out of the jokes and articles as such point ed criticisms even though biting will create more interest than ang er henceforth the burr will ride and facitiously attack each profes sor and organization on the campus several of the planned-for num bers will be an around the cam pus number a fraternity number a saturday night number and a house party number the around the campus number will be re leased on or about oct 1 tablets honoring professor lambert and mr scovel dedicated this summer professor sutherland suc ceeds doctor fogg in c e dept one professor six assistant pro fessors and 13 instructors yester day began their first year of service at lehigh these men filled in part the vacancies created by the resig nations of 20 former members of the faculty and in part the vacancies created by the promotions of 13 others the newly appointed professor is clarence hale sutherland a b harvard college 06 s b mas sachusetts institute of technology 11 who succeeds ralph j fogg as professor of civil engineering and head of that department studied structural engineering since graduation from the mas sachusetts institute of technology prof sutherland has done more or less graduate work in his special field of structural engineering from 1911 to 1913 he was a drafts man and designer with the cor rugated bar company of buffalo n v after which he returned to the institute of technology as in structor in the department of civil enginering from 1917 to 1919 he was a first lieutenant in the engin eering corps of the united states army at the close of the war in 1919 he returned to the institute of technology as assistant professor in 1925 he was made associate pro fessor of structural engineering for the year 1926-27 he was an ex change professor with robert col lege constantinople turkey whe/e for the year he was acting head of the department of civil engineering author of two volumes in addition to his work with the corrugated bar company prof sutherland has had various practi cal experience chiefly with the stone and webster engineering corporation and with fred t ley and company he is the author of a treatise introduction to reinforc ed concrete design written in col laboration with w w clifford and he has in preparation a two volume introduction to the the ory of structures that is being prepared in collaboration with prof h l bowman assistant professors carl elmer allen b s univer sity of illinois 23 m s 25 ph d 30 assistant professor of ac countancy dr allen served as as sistant and instructor in account ancy at the university of illinois from 1924 to june 1930 and he had practical auditing experience in the bureau of business research at il linois james larmour graham b a muskingum college 11 b d union theological seminary 22 m a teachers college columbia university 22 ph.d peabody continued on page four south bethlehem landmark passes as shipbuilding office is razed president c r richards wel comed new members of the lehigh faculty at convocation last week president richards in addressing the new members said i trust that you will find lehigh a pleasant place to work and that your life here may be a happy one a tentative list of freshman and sophomore honors was approved these honors will be announced founders day oct 12 dr natt m emery director of summer ses sions announced that 240 students attended required summer school 283 optional summer sessions mak ing a tptal less repetations of 467 the secretary was ordered to send a note of condolance to mrs r q whitten relative to the death of captain whitten who died this summer first drill tuesday regular weekly drill for m s & t students will be held from 1 to 2 p m every tuesday instead of from 4 to 6 p m monday as it has been in the past according to lt col m h thomlinsqn head of that department drills will be held throughout the entire year instead of only in the fall and spring in order that the required number of hours of drill may be completed the first drill will be held tues day sept 23 although the new uni forms will not be issued until a la ter date a land mark familiar to lehigh students of the last decade is rap idly disappearing the yellow stuc co office building of the bethlehem shipbuilding company at the north west corner of brodhead and pack er avenues is in the hands of the wreckers since the summer of 1918 this building has looked over upon the campus first with a bold yellow glare which as the years passed was to mellow to a mild buff the build ing was erected to house the offices of the company whose production was at a high point because of the great demand for ships during the war the offices have been moved during the past summer to the new addition to the bethlehem steel co office building on e third street the shipbuilding office was erect ed in a little over three months since it was to be a temporary building only a few steel beams were used and the structure for the most part was supported by im mense wooden beams the inner walls were made of plaster board and the outer walls were made of metal lath covered with stucco the building was always a potential fire trap so smoking in the building was always forbidden the result of this ruling has always been a dozen clerks or more standing out side puffing away the company's time brodhead's field on which the building was erected was a popular athletic field among the boys of bethlehem many a future athlete played his first contests on this plot and among these is joe mclernon who at present is playing center on the varsity football team three handsome bronze tablets commemorating men whose ser vices have endeared them to lehigh and one signalizing the completion of the new library were unveiled during the past summer three tab lets unveiled in the memorial build ing were placed there by the alum ni in honor of henry s drinker president emeritus of lehigh prof p a lambert 83 and henry har ger scovil 00 the tablet honoring dr drinker was erected in recognition of his services in establishing government training camps a distinguished group of new york business men associates of dr drinker in the early days of citizens military training camps to which dr drinker devoted much of his time and ability the lehigh faculty and many of mr drinker's bethlehem friends attended the un veiling which took place june 5 dr n m emery vice president of lehigh university was chairman of the exercises other speakers were w r okeson treasurer of the university franklin baker 95 chairman of the alumni memorial building committee grenville clark of new york major j w lang lehigh's first professor of noted educators and prominent industrial leaders will join lehigh on wednesday oct 15 in dedicat ing the james ward packard lab oratory of mechanical and electri cal engineering the dedication will be followed on thursday oct 16 by a confer ence on the relation between the industries and the technical schools and on friday oct 17 by a confer ence on the future of american in dustry at these conferences prom inent leaders of american industrial life will give addresses the dedicatory address on wed nesday afternoon will be made by charles m schwab chairman of the board of directors of the beth lehem steel corporation and a mem ber of the board of trustees of le high university the program for the dedicatory exercises on oct 15 is as follows 10:00 a m registration of dele gates alumni memorial building 12:00 p.m luncheon for represen tatives of instiutions and asso ciations 2:00 p.m formation of the acade mic procession in the alumni memorial building 2:30 p.m the dedication in the auditorium of the james ward packard laboratory of electrical and mechanical engin eering invocation very rev d wilmot gateson chaplain introductory president charles russ richards introduction of the architects theodore cuyler visscher and james lindsey burley introduction of the contractors irwin & leighton description of the building and presentation of the keys theodore cuyler visscher acceptance of the keys dr eugene gifford grace pres ident of the board of trustees of lehigh university delivery of the keys dedicatory address dr charles m schwab greetings from sister institutions benediction the chaplain inspection of the building a demonstration lecture will be given at 8 p m on the same day by s m kinter assistant vice-pres ident in charge of research west inghouse electric and manufactur ing co the program for the conference on the relation between the indus tries and the technical schools on thursday oct 16 is divided into two parts at the morning session industrial leaders will speak on va rious phases of the topic what industry expects of the technical schools and in the afternoon rep resentatives of technical schools will tell the industrial leaders what the technical schools expect of industry the program is as follows program 9:00 a m what the industry ex pects of the technical schools what the electrical manufacur ing industries expect of the tech nical schools by frank a mer rick president of the westinghoust electric and manufacturing co pittsburgh pa what the general manufacturing industries expect of the technical schools by william butterworth president of deere and co moline 111 and president of the united states chamber of commerce what the railway in dustries expect of the technical schools by lewis w baldwin president of the missouri pacific railway st louis mo what the automotive industries expect of the technical schools by alfred r glancy president of the oak land motor car co pontaic mich what the public utilities expect of the technical schools by mat thew s sloan president of the brooklyn edison co brooklyn n y what the electrical com munication industries expect of the technical schools by bancroft gherardi vice president and chief engineer of the american tele phone and telegraph co new york after attending a complimentary luncheon at 12:30 p m which will be served in packard laboratory the delegates will return to the labor atory auditorium where the follow ing program will be presented 2:00 p.m what the technical schools expect of industry address by dr dexter simpson continued on page four vant of lehigh inspired teacher of mathematics for 40 years alumni officer for more than two decades to him belongs the honor of con ceiving the idea of this alumni memorial building the tablet memorializing mr scovil commemorates the work of the man who is responsible for the present service of the alumni as sociation eulogizing him in a ded ication address aubrey weymouth 94 said that his work has undoubt edly been responsible for much of fhe increased endowment fund up on this tablet is the following in scription during his term as pres ident of the alumni association he caused the incorporation and creat ed the instrument through which the alumni support of lehigh has been made a determining factor in her prograss the tablet signifying the comple tion of the library has been placed in the foyer leading to the main reading room it was unveiled dur ing the summer and bears inscrip tion sketchink the history of the li brary and listing the donors to the fund which made possible the con struction of the building military science and tactics col m h thomlinson present incum bent of that post and president charles russ richards dr drink er also spoke briefly in acknowl edgement dr emery told of dr drinker's enthusiastic cooperation in connec tion with the establishment of a summer training camp at gettys burg for college men in telling of dr drinker's later work as secre tary of the advisory committee of the university presidents formed to aid the general staff with advice from an educational standpoint dr emery mentioned general leonard wood's praise of dr drinker's work as simply invaluable it is probably not too much to say con cluded dr emery that the offi cers training camps developed dur ing the war were a direct out growth of the small beginning made in the summer of 1913 the tablets honoring professor lambert and mr scovil were dedi cated on the following day june 6 before a large gathering of alumni and friends professor lambert is honored for his inspiration in en couraging the construction of the alumni memorial building the tablet calls him a life long ser brown and white bethlehem pa friday september 19 1930 early date set for class pictures frosb attend faculty talks september 9-13 price — five cents 15h2.c2 campus traffic enjoys smooth tarvi a roadway vol xxxviii no 1 enrollment reaches 1435 as first semester begins richards greets freshmen two miles already com pleted in highway project packard lab dedication program set for 2 p m other noted men talk formal pinner in evening concludes official plans speakers advise new men against colle giate pit-falls u-drive its condemned b & w positions open membership on the editorial and business staffs of the brown and white is open to every le high student candidates for po sitions should register for eng lish 48 or 49 one hour courses which may be elected in addition to a student's normal curriculum bid blanks now ready blanks for fraternity bids are now available at drown hall in the office of mr d braun head of the lehigh union it is re quested that these be secured and returned filled out by 9 o'clock saturday morning all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association