Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 7

              packard to arrive engle and shoemaker stage wrestling bout to entertain group day ends with smoker eleven lehigh students are initiated to alpha chapter at convention twenty-five of the 44 engin eering freshmen who were hon or men last year made use of the university library declared h.s leach in a recent interview eighteen of those who did not take out books were engineers and one was an arts man four teen engineers ten arts men and one business man took out books the sophomore honor men did a little better as 26 took out books and only six did not of the six who did not take out books three were engineers two were arts men and one a bus iness man some of these men may have used the library with out taking the books home con cluded mr leach frey to speak at radio meet the first packard automobile is on its way from detroit and is expected to arrive in bethle hem sometime today according to a e buchanan alumni sec retary contrary to previous ar rangements it is not coming un der its own power this oldest packard will be presented to the university dur ing the dedication ceremonies of the packard laboratory next week and will be on permanent exhibit in the lobby delegates favor brunettes open questionaire reveals pi checked the three shades of girls on the blank sent him and added don't give a dern just want one that can move oscar h schuck jr delegate from the uni versity of pennsylvania chapter wanted a girl who was just decent ly tall and a good dancer a f townsend jr from wor cester polytechnical institute wasn't very particular just good looking was his only demand still less particular than he was doug les h bunett of the univ of calif ornia any kind for night only was his plea many of the men did not express any preference either because of lack of favoritism or because they did not expect to attend the func tion gentlemen prefer blondes but en gineers are not gentl . anyway 25 out of 41 delegates to the 45th anniversary convention of tau beta pi which opened yester day at hotel bethlehem declared that they preferred a brunette for the formal dance tonight at the ho tel blondes were demanded by 14 of the engineers and red heads were the choice of but two of the men edward l johnston of perm state and r m hanson of the univer sity of minnesota others who felt that the question naire did not satisfy their desires added notes for the benefit of the local tau beta pi social chairman louis t monson editor and manager of the bent of tau beta will discuss the radio airplane beacon oct 13 ewing describes seismic method 300 new books added to library claims lawyers demand culture uses artificial earth quakes to locate petro leum deposits professor schulz asserts pre-legals need proper working habits new list includes many interesting books of literature prof a r frey of the physics department will be the speaker at the radio club's first meeting of the year at 7:30 p m monday oct 13 in the physics lecture room his subject will be the radio airplane beacon the club will organize for the coming year at present the ctub is trying to make arrangements with the united states government to operate in conjunction with the net work of army radio stations these stations all operate on a short wave length they might be termed the r o t c of the air as they constitute another link in national reserve defense after the regular meeting the members will retire to the shack where some of the men will oper ate the station in the future the station will be on the air once a week the exact day is still unde cided every second week the sta tion will be opened to members who desire to take code lessons chemists hold social outing party are guests of professor and mrs long approximately 300 new books were added to the lehigh library during september some of the most noteworthy are country journalism by allen what is news by johnson history of science by dampier lives of game animals by seton mod ern lighting by caldwell and the worn of the byrd antarctic expedition by joerg many books on literature of which the most interesting are success by adams colette baudoche by barres the great adventure by bennett engin eering by gest balzac the man and the lover by gribble talk ing of helen by mansfield saint udo by mastens promised land by reymont and differ ences by white new books on history include the adams fam ily by adams a dreamer in paris by nicolls new jersey by parsons machine made man by bent and germany's mad ness by reich parking rules are increased lehigh university will again be represented by a debating team members of delta omicron theta honorary literary and forensic fra ternity unanimously decided at a meeting last night in packard lab oratory the society will not only shoulder the burdens of the debat ing team but will again sponsor the inter-fraternity bull sessions which met with so much enthusiasm last year the organization will do all it can to arouse and maintain in terest among the student body in forensic discussions and literary pursuits president george w par sons announced manuel ruderman was elected chief debate manager to fill the va cancy caused by the resignation of sidney r snitkin edward fleisch er corresponding secretary and barkley wykoff were selected as his assistants henry p kreusen secretary-treasurer will again con duct the bull sessions c d macdougall offers aid prof c d macdougall who last year coached and managed the highly successful debating team which won seven consecutive vic tories has again offered his services although he will not be able to de vote as much time to the team as he did last season dr r m smith head of the department of english and dr m j luch professor of english will also assist in develop ing a representative team at least nine societies and clubs in bethlehem and its vicinity have signified their willingness to spon sor intercollegiate debates this will reduce the expenses of the team to a minimum and will also supply an appreciative audience won 14 debates last year the team won 11 of the 14 deci sion debates last year and also par ticipated in 3 non-decision debates with only one member of the team lost by graduation professor mac dougall plans to form his team around the six men left from last year's team these six men are emanuel scoblionko george w parsons matthew murphy eman uel a honig edward fleischer and manuel ruderman all students interested in debat ing or in any other forensic activi ty are urged by members of delta omicron theta to see any of the men mentioned above as soon as possible maurice ewing new instructor in the physics department spoke on the seismic method of locating petroleum deposits before the phy sics club at its first meeting of the year last monday evening in the physics building mr ewing has recently done much practical work in the field of geophysics and is equipped with first hand information concerning the method by which artificial earthquakes are used to locate pe troleum in the oil producing dis tricts of the country club elects officers new club officers were elected as follows h c kelly 31 president paul young 32 vice president d mac adams 32 secretary j w schneider 32 treasurer r myers 33 sophomore representative these officers and professor bidwell as faculty advisor will act as an ex ecutive committee which will plan the programs for the club meet ings in the future professor bidwell announced that engineering physics students will be allowed to use the physics building reading room in which are kept all of the physics periodicals to which the university subscribes refreshments were served at the close of the meeting r o t c unit orders more new equipment plans to have uniforms correct for regimental review the r o t c students will be correctly equipped for the regimen tal review oct 21 according to the commanding officers of the post for this purpose a shipment of uniforms is being ordered students who were poorly equipped will be able to get uniforms that will fit correctly the target range will be open from 9 to 4:30 o'clock daily except saturday saturdays it will be open from 9 to 12 o'clock men who have been qualified to shoot by their company officers may use the range observatory closes sayre observatory was closed last evening because of prevailing cloudiness it will be open to the public next thursday evening and every thursday evening until thanksgiving if the wather permits leland s barnes instructor in mathematics and astronomy will be in charge on these evenings cars parked all night to be towed in by police union obtains positions for 15 economic depression makes job getting hard as serts braun tau beta pi national honorary engineering society will close its 45th anniversary convention with a banquet at 7 p m tomorrow in hotel bethlehem the banquet will be preceded by the unveiling of a memorial to ed ward h williams jr founder of the society at 4 p m on the terrace in front of the building which he donated to lehigh the former pro fessor will not only be present at the unveiling of the memorial but will also be the guest of honor at a luncheon at 12:30 p m in hotel bethlehem the speakers at the banquet to morrow evening will be national officers and graduate members of the fraternity the speakers and their topics will be henry h hig bie vice president in general percy w ott president elect my next job c h spencer our members and morton sultzer 12 will speak on the home chapter pennsylvania alpha robert c matthews secretary - treasurer will give an address on e h williams jr arthur d moore president will act as toast master towle's orchestra will fur nish the music miller to give address the main speaker at the memor ial dedication will be benjamin l miller head of the department of geology other short speeches will be made by officers of tau beta pi robert c heck m e 93 pro fessor of mechanical engineering at rutgers university will be the speaker at the luncheon in honor of doctor williams professor heck who received the honorary degree of doctor of engineering from le high in 1927 was initiated into tau beta pi while its founder was still professor of geology and mining engineering at lehigh delegates to dance the delegates will attend the athletic events saturday and make an inspection tour of the campus speed weidner's cardinals will furnish the music for the formal dance at 9 p m today in the main ball room of hotel bethlehem the dance will be for members of the fraternity only prof and mrs f v larkin and prof and mrs n s hibshman will chaperon this afternoon the delegates were taken on a tour of inspection of the local plant of the bethlehem steel company miss selma hermann named for fellowship will do research on iron-silicon alloys under stoughton miss selma hermann a gradu ate at the university of cincinatti with a b s in metallurgy is to have charge of the engineering foundation fellowship in the de partment of metallurgy miss her mann comes here from the metal lurgy department of the wright aeronautical corporation at mc cook field in dayton ohio the main work of the founda tion will be a combination of iron silicon alloys under professor stoughton for the past two years this work has been carried on by carl s greiner who was awarded an m s degree here last june mr greiner is now pursuing metallur gical work at the bell telephone laboratory in new york city that a broad cultural education is preferable for a pre-legal student is the consensus of the deans of the leading law schools of the na tion this was revealed by ernst b schulz assistant professor of his tory wednesday evening at the first open meeting of the pre-le gal society the thing of primary impor tance asserted professor schulz is that a man develop proper methods of habits of work thor oughness precision self-reliance resourcefulness and willingness to work hard plus normal intelli gence are the qualities which bring success in law school work discusses law school survey the survey declared the speak er referring to the investigation of pre-legal training which he made during the summer in collaboration with prof earl l crum of the latin department shows that though law schools cannot agree on any definite pre-legal course they do place particular emphasis on english history american his tory and government economics and english literature other courses which the law school heads considered as valuable pre-legal training included munici pal government sociology psychol ogy phiosophy logic latin and public speaking in making the survey question naires were sent to 66 law schools in the united states forty of the schools returned the questionnaires witn the desired information sev en other schools sent their opin ions in letters h a neville speaks to bethlehem kiwanis associate professor of chemistry describes properties of small particles the properties of small particles were described by harvey a ne ville associate professor of chem istry at a luncheon of the kiwanis club last thursday at the hotel bethlehem professor neville enlarged upon his talk by means of experiments certain properties of materials he said vary with the size of the par ticles or the fineness of grinding the applications of this fact were demonstrated and their importance to such things as paint pigments cement neville writes book dr h a neville assistant pro fessor of chemistry in collabora tion with b smith hopkins pro fessor of inorganic chemistry at the university of illinois published a new chemistry text this fall the book laboratory exercises in general chemistry is a com panion to general chemistry prepared by professor hopkins the texts which are primarily for use at the university of illinois where there are 2,000 students tak ing freshman chemistry are being used at lafayette and several oth er colleges searches for pen dr r e heimbach examiner in the student health service is searching for a parker fountain pen which disappeared recently the name heimbach appears on the barrel of the pen any informa tion concerning this pen should be given to dr r c bull at the dis pensary the first get-together of the sea son of the chemistry department was held last sunday every mem ber of the department as well as their wives and children were pre sent at a picnic party held at the coopersburg home of prof and mrs j s long the afternoon was spent mainly by playing baseball by small trips in search of flowers and other in teresting objects of nature and by a most interesting hike to rocky valley a geologist's paradise where one can find countless boulders of glacial origin and many limestone sinks some of them seemingly end less in depth supper was served at 5 o'clock which was not only de licious but quite unique in the fact that each family contributed some little bit to help make the meal a complete success names wanted students taking pre-medical sub jects or interested in pre-medical activities are requested to submit their names and addresses as soon as possible to m s bogart 9294 or dr r w hall williams hall an exhibition of paintings valued at 50,000 from the grand central art galleries of new york city will mark the formal opening of the lehigh university library gallery sunday oct 12 the collection which is one of the finest ever seen in bethlehem has been scheduled to remain on display for two weeks prior to the date of its inception here the paintings will be shown daily between the hours of two and five except during the day set aside for the packard laboratory dedica tion when they may be seen from nine until five visscher chose subjects theodore c visscher 99 de signer of the alumni memorial building the library and packard laboratory and consulting architect for the university and garth a howland professor of fine arts are responsible for the showing of the paintings these works have been chosen by mr visscher to present a wide contrast of subject matter landscapes figure paintings flow er studies and portraits of varying types may be found among the works on exhibition these paintings are neither radi cal nor extreme in technique but they represent an essentially mod erate group of famous contem pory american artists the grand central galleries from where they have been sent hold its exhibition in a railroad station the only art gallery in a railroad terminal in the world only american paintings are exhibited in this gallery from here collections of note are sent throughout the country seldom if ever do these exhibits reach col leges the highest priced work of the group walter ufer's callers is on sale for 5,000 others run as low as 500 and 600 the major ity average between 1,000 and 2,000 in value mr ufer's paint ings in the main have been done in arizona where abundant mater ial for arid landscapes and indian portraiture is available the call ers depicts a scene of typical in dian 1 activity and through its mark ed realism has attained unusual fame on this continent carlson again represented emil carlson selected as the best liked artist in a former bethlehem exhibition will be seen again in an other landscape outstanding among this group of painters is frederick j waugh america's foremost por trayer of marine scenes his con tribution is before the fog the new hope group a settlement of exceptional craftsmen who have lo cated along the delaware is well represented by two of its more il lustrious members john folinsbee and robert spencer oxford can al and flowing water their re spective works in the coming show ing have been hitherto displayed in new hope's nationally famous galleries the barn nd the old mill review men wanted freshman and sophomore candi dates for the business board of the lehigh review are to report to night at 7:30 p m at drown hall a new drive to break up the practice of alb-night parking on the streets of bethlehem was started by mayor robert pfeifle this week when he issued a general order to all patrolmen to have all cars fount parked in this manner towed to a garage where they will be held until the owners call for them this increasing practice of using the tho roughfares of the town for a gar age has been causing inconvenience to other motorists and has result ed in the sending of complaints to police headquarters neglect to put the car in the gar age may now result in the owner's having to call for his car at the towing center and to pay the towing and storage charges the average towing charge will be 5 the garage to be used for this tow ing service will be decided by the officials and announced later curtis wants addresses many addresses on file in the registrar's office are incorrectly listed because of changes in resi dence since registration students who have moved since registration should notify the registrar imme diately so that they will be cor rectly listed in the student direc tory which will be out this week nocturnal freshman prowlers get strange statistics about bethlehem smoking did not cause disaster of the r-101 dr ullmann proves coming events freshman engineers of taylor hall report that if 1,763 hot dogs were laid end to end on the hill to hill bridg_e the chain would still be three inches short other facts dis covered by the frosh one night last week show that the liberty high school stands will seat 12,000 people and that there are 312 windows in the buildings which face the street at fern sem it was also discovered that there are 1,244 pickets in the fence surrounding b-thorpe no one really understands just why these facts must be rehashed each year but to the freshmen or ders are laws and must be obeyed not matter what the consequences for three years in succession lone ly frosh have been called upon to locate a certain grave in the polish cemetery above fourth street last year the searcher was surprised be fore entering the graveyard by a timid policeman who called who's there the previous year the searchers fell into a half opened grave and lost one glove one flash light and one year's growth two freshmen wednesday night were investigating the fact that when two or three girls walk to gether on the bridge they pose as sisters they were equipped with the country wide depression has lessened opportunity for out side employment for lehigh stu dents according to david braun secretary of student housing and employment and secretary of the leiiigh union who during the past summer canvassed the whole town for possible openings for students thus far mr braun has placed only 15 men in jobs fifty men have applied for work the bethlehem steel corporation has not been able to employ any lehigh students this year either part or full time in previous years many students secured employment through this source typical jobs that have been pro cured through mr braun's efforts so far are truck driving waiting on tables and clerking in grocery stores mr braun expects several opportunities to clerk in stores when the christmas season begins however many students are work ing who did not secure their jobs through his aid such employment is handed down from year to year by graduating students to their friends another department of student employment is the students self aid association which publishes the football programs it is neces sary for a number of men to make up the program because the most important task in connection with this publication is the securing of advertisements turner to work on coal prof homer g turner assis tant professor of geology has been appointed director of an anthra cite research in pennsylvania and will devote much of his time dur ing the next few years to that work professor turner has made valu able contributions to geology and the coal industry through his writ ings notably on the microscope of pennsylvania anthracite which he has been studying for the past ten years a huge drawing board on which they noted the names of all girls who could be persuaded to stop and talk the list ends abruptly with the notation 10:30 p.m sergeant bro gan the reservoir has been measured with a two-inch rule the canal locks between allentown and beth lehem have been carefully counted and innumerable maps of the cam pus and zinc mines have been made such pranks are not confined to bethlehem however for during the red disturbances in new york last spring a youth dressed in knic kers one red and one green sock mismated shoes and a straw hat originally designed for a horse was taken into custody by police on sus picion of being a communist agi tator his plight wasn't aided by the fact that he had been forbid den by his fraternity brothers to speak or write before midnight bethlehem police are singularly considerate of those oppressed by these pranks but university auth orities would still like to lay their hands on the culprit who strung a voluminous pair of pink bloomers on the flagpole several years ago and then neatly tied the lines out of reach that cigar pipe or cigarette smoking aboard the r-101 the world's largest airship did not cause its explosion was demonstrat ed yesterday by a series of exper iments conducted by harry m ull menn professor and head of the de partment of chemistry and chemi cal engineering the experiments were conducted before a freshman lecture class in chemistry a radio announcer who told the story of the disaster blamed smok ing for its origin because the gas bags of the dirigible were filled with hydrogen one of the most in flammable of gases this fatal trip of the r-101 has been widely pub licised partly for the reason that smoking was to be permitted in an airship for the first time in history professor ullman first applied a lighted match to pure hydrogen which ignited the hydrogen then friday qct 10 national convention of tau beta pi society hotel bethlehem con vention headquarters during the three days of the celebration of the forty-fifth anniversary oct 9 10 11 dedication of memor ial tablet to dr e h williams jr saturday oct 11 2:30 p m freshman football vs muhlenberg freshmen taylor field 2:30 p m varsity soccer vs hav erford lehigh field 9:00 p m dance at the hotel bethlehem for tau beta pi del egates monday oct 13 7:30 p m interfraternity council meeting in drown hall he applied a burning cigarette to the gas in this case the hydrogen not only failed to ignite but actual ly extinguished the lighted cigar ette then a rather dangerous experi ment was attempted hydrogen was allowed to mix with oxygen to form an explosive mixture known as detonating gas a light ed match was applied there was a loud roar similar to 1 , the boom which is caused when a high explo sive shell is ejected from the mouth of a cannon but when a lighted cigarette was applied nothing hap pened professor ullman ascribed this to the fact that the temperature of ig nition when hydrogen is mixed with air is over 600 degrees while the highest temperature that a lighted cigarette can exert is only 375 degrees seventy members of tau beta pi including 51 delegates assembled last evening at drown hall to end the first day of the 45th anniver sary convention of tau beta pi national honorary engineering so ciety with a formal initiation and an informal smoker the convention was opened at a luncheon yesterday in hotel beth lehem when charles russ rich ards president of lehigh made the address of welcome to the dele gates alumni members and na tional officials the afternoon was spent in a business session in which the re ports of the various national com mittees were presented engel wrestles shoemaker john a engel captain of the wrestling team and george r shoemaker former n a a u 112 lb wrestling champion gave a wrestling exhibition as the first act of the informal smoker program before the bout they demonstrated 12 elementary wrestling holds between selections rendered by jules booker and his orchestra arthur d moore national presi dent of tau beta pi called on members of the audience for short talks andrew e buchanan jr 18 ex ecutive secretary of the alumni as sociation closed the program with feats of magic refreshments con sisting of apple cider and cinnamon buns were served richards speaks with many honor societies as serted the speaker nothing re mains for the members but the pleasure of wearing the key i hope that the members of this so ciety upon graduation can wield a greater influence as a group than they^tould as individuals lehigh men initiated eleven lehigh students were re ceived into the alpha chapter of pennsylvania last evening at the initiation conducted by the national officers the initiates were carl o claus i e hall w cushman i e stephen l gregg e e rob ert g hess jr m e james r hewitt jr met.e william f mc garrity ch e warren h schaub e.e william h ticehurst e.m paul j weimer i e ; seniors and john e angel jr met e ray mond k serfess i e ; juniors the morning was spent in regis tering the incoming delegates and officials delegates to the conven tion and the university chapter which they represent are fred atwood armous institute of technology m don betts tufts college william e billings har vard albert f board west vir ginia university douglas h bun ett university of california ralph i classen university of iowa j b clough case s a s david crampton cornell robert w dearing michigan state college l vaughn downs university of kansas e w ellis university of texas r e evans university of alabama henry h favor university of maine rob ert m ferris yale j loren flet cher state college of washington wenzel fraps university of ari zona s w gadl university of cin cinnati edwin m gue university of maryland richard f ham alabama polytechnical institute robert m hanson university of minnesota edward l johnston perm state l r kessler univer sity of missouri s p langhoff university of illinois louis w marks johns hopkins donald mcelliott montana state college l r mercer north carolina state college melvin nasby lowa state col lege j e netz mississippi a and m college stanley a olpp stevens institute george m palo university of dashington ted perry university of wisconsin gilford y quarles university of virginia george j quind univer sity of north carolina francis a ray carnegie tech leo reierstad oregon state agri cultural college cecil v rentz university of south caroline john e roblee university of missouri oscar h schuck university of pennsylvania karl schwartzwald er ohio state h,w sphar geor continued on page four brown and white honor men utilize library says leach bethlehem pa friday october 10 1930 50,000 exhibit to be displayed at lehigh 0ct.12 vol xxxviii no 7 tau beta pi convenes price — five cents debating team to reorganize d 0 t decides society plans to arouse interest in forensic activities officers are elected banquet tomorrow to close 45th anniver sary of organiation collection is obtained from grand central art galleries to be held in library president richards discusses benefits of honor societies to unveil memorial national officers and graduate members of society to speak 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