Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 11

              seniors publish 1931 year book as new policy strange tricks amaze men at chemical meet ideal student 69 inches tall weighs 144 pounds 20 is average age debators divided into three units carnegie , comprehensive examination marks released oct 20 grades out tonight matthew thomlinson and da vid macadam win high honors playlet entitled a night with alchemy is enacted 300 students present organization work well advanced with two sections completed issue date advanced individual try-outs to be held tuesday no vember 1 1 attendance of the entire stu dent body is requested by arca dia at the football pep smoker at 7:30 tonight in taylor gymna sium the meeting will be short and will be a send-off to the team for the perm game saturday j s long professor of inor ganic chemistry will be master of ceremonies talks will be giv en by f a heim president of the wilbur trust company capt p l sadler assistant pro fessor of military science and tactics and william spring steen new line coach plenty of free smokes will be available faculty society reads playlet maria magdaline de livered by dramatic club oct 22 coincident with this receiving of ready cash for a working principle will be a step toward the little theatre idea popular plays hith erto impossible because of small monetary returns on productions larger productions and an increase in the number given each year will result from the movement included in this plan is the in corporation of the mustard and cheese into the university curricu lum a one hour course in dramatic principles taught by the english department would not only aid po tential players but also open an avenue to students desiring an in sight on costuming staging and general production the money received by the com bined musical clubs would extend the tours away in which the name of lehigh is acquainted to second ary students and also better the type of scores given it would make the trips independent of alumni sup port and tax also lehigh will be in part in line with most of the larger colleges in the country by adopting this plan as the situation in other colleges calls for student support by this same fee idea which has made it possible for superior production and wider score in presentation the mustard and cheese club eventually may become a little theatre if the proposed financing plan is passed by arcadia at its next meeting the subsidizing of the combined musical clubs and the mustard and cheese according to the plan will be cared for by an addition of 1.00 a year on the students activities fees which are collected at regis tration time approximately 1500 would flow into the coffers of these clubs for use in the production of plays and musicals entirely by un dergraduates in former years the clubs have been confined to narrow limits be cause of uncertain support from alumni and students by this new plan students in paying a fee to the university which in turn will finance each of the two clubs to the extent of half of the fees paid will be entitled to admission to at least one of the productions staged by either club not only will the clubs benefit financially but the students will be guaranteed a superior all-lehigh presentation the plan embodies the stipulation that with certain backing the productions will be written acted directed and staged entirely through the efforts of le high undergraduates stoker read at women's club legion presents flag to lehigh lehigh will be represented by three varsity debating teams this year any one of which may repre sent lehigh at any time prof c d macdougall announced at a meeting of d o t tuesday . individual tryouts will be held tuesday nov 11 and team try outs tuesday nov 25 anyone wishing to participate in these try outs must see professor macdou gall before saturday oct 25 it was also announced that a sug gestion had come from cedar crest college to the effect that a prac tice debate between lehigh and cedar crest on the topic resolved that all nations adopt a policy of free trade be held and also a de cision debate on the proposition resolved that the evils of the machine age outweigh its benefits the next meeting of d o t will be held tuesday oct 28 in room 303 christmas-saucon hall the business administration cohege will entertain one of its members giving a talk on free trade the discussion comes at an opportune time since the topic of free trade will be the main subject of the de bators this season play presented by faculty dramatic members at october meeting r o t c battalions pass in review before university heads lehigh receives historic sketch cartoon portrays asa packer as sower of good deeds approximately 200 students ex amined this year by the health bu reau show traces of color-blindness according to dr r c bull in commenting on the recen physical examinations concluded last week one third of the entire student body will have to return for follow-up ex aminations of abnormalties indicat ed in the first tests the average age of lehigh stu dents is 20.16 years the average weight 143.99 pounds and the av erage height is 68.95 inches the average american height is 68.00 inches it is a strange thing remarked dr bull that five percent of stu dents entering lehigh manage to evade rules concerning vaccina tions of the 539 students vaccin ated last year approximately ten percent did not have immunity more than 20 of the students ex amined this year have some form of heart trouble work not over the completion of the examina tion does not end the year's work for the dispensary last year 12,498 visits were made to the dis pensary by students members of the faculty and employees 717 of the visits were made by the faculty and 188 by employees these visits amount to approximately seven percent of the entire amount colds and similar infectious diseases lead the list as the main cause of dis pensary visits with minor cuts and bruises a close second seventy-five dozen rolls of ban dages are used every year in tak ing care of the visitors students consume a gallon and a half of browns mixture every ten days if the 500 yards of adhesive used yearly were reduce to one-half inch widths the string would reach to allentown beginning with this year the ep itome becomes a senior instead of a junior publication heretofore it has been the custom of the junior class to present the epitome each year to the senior^class but with the new policy each senior class will have full control of the publi cation of the year book it is for this reason also that each issue is to be named for the graduating class of that year twenty items compose the senior ballot for this year as compared with the 40 of last year's ballot the purpose of this change is to facilitate the obtaining of more di rect information from seniors con sequently in reducing the number of items the committee has spent considerable time in choosing the questions and hopes that there will be no hord feelings either from the senior or from the faculty ballot work is progressing work is progressing rapidly on this year's issue and due to the fact that material will be assembled about two months earlier publica tion date will be advanced several weeks more pictures and more snapshots will be a feature of the 1931 epitome practically all the group and society pictures have been started and the mining and metallurgical engineering sections have already been completed the opinion section has been dropped this year because the committee wishes to avoid prep school tactics reorganization of pages and rear rangement of material will make the yearbook smaller but at the same time will advance its objective — that of commemorating college life the first installment of 6 is due immediately to arthur thornton chairman o*f the senior section in stallments which are not paid be fore nov 23 will be subject to an assessment senior assessments this year total 12 as compared with 14 for last year scabbard and blade to give military ball dance in taylor gym to be held before christmas a formal military ball to be held before christmas vacation in taylor gymnasium was proposed at the meeting of scabbard and blade society wednesday evening in packard laboratory it was stat ed that the dance would be by sub scription with each member respon sible for the sale of a certain num ber of tickets a committee was ap pointed to ar-range for entertain ment and the printing of tickets captain maxmillian clay stated that a military ball would be im portant in making the society prom inent about the campus details will be arranged at the november meet ing immediately after which tick ets to the ball will be printed juniors elect nora thomas e nora was elected sec retary of the junior class at bal loting held in drown hall wednes day the election was held to fill the vacancy occasioned by the withdrawal of philip elkins who left school because of his father's illness while in school elkins was a member of the lacrosse team and played end on the varsity football team a i e e holds district meet middle east convention held in philadelphia october 13-15 chemical tricks such as the changing of copper into silver the producing of any immediate freez ing mixture from two liquids and the causing of water bubbles to ex plode were a few of the novelties exhibited before a group of about 300 students and faculty members assembled at the first meeting of the chemical society held at 7:30 o'clock last evening in the chandler chemistry laboratory dr h m ullmann was introduc ed by walter a wachlotz pres ident of the society and after wel coming the freshmen he explained the purpose of the club the entire society then lead by a duet of prof charles simmons and prof richard j de gray sang a german song in praise of oxygen composed by prof h.*a neville following the song the lights were put out and dr r d billing er philip kratz and dr a a die fenderfer staged a play entitled a night with alchemy dr billing er author of the play took the part of subtle the alchemist philip kratz took the part of lungs and dr diefenderfer the part of gar bo the drama began with a loud explosion and the play was on subtle assisted by his faithful ser vant lungs performed many inter esting experiments pertaining to those of the ancient alchemists magic performed one of the experiments which were performed before the society was the changing of water to wine and then back to water wierd ex periments such as lighting candles spontaneously making ice which burned when exposed to a flame and the producing a rabbit as the result of an explosion were per formed secret messages were re vealed before the group by heating specially prepared paper because of lungs faithful service subtle awarded him a formula for the long desired philosophers stone lungs thought he would take a short cut and as a result an explosion occur red garbo entered and played ha voc in demonstrating several tricks with matches and a gas which ignit ed on exposure to the air this play originated by dr bill inger has been performed by sev eral companies and societies thru out the country the play was followed by games in drown hall interclass baseball was played with darts and the win ning team played that of the fac ulty several quoit games were also played nine men initiated into eta sigma phi five faculty members spoke at banquet last evening eta sigma phi honorary classi cal society held its annual initia tion banquet thursday evening in the butztown hotel nine men were initiated prior to the banquet the white togae worn last week by the initiates were discarded and small blue and gold ribbons were pre sented n m emery vice president of the university conducted a psycho logical test a perfect grade was at tainable by perfect co-ordination between thought and muscular re action but there seemed to be lit tle co-ordination present at the ban quet after diner speeches were made by the other members of the fac ulty these were dr horace wright dr leverne crum dr edgar riley and richard h crum the men initiated were f b bow den a goldberg s lancit d j layton a lipstein b b ham mond j g meharg b slade and m m reed society to hear fort dr thomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics and astronomy will give an illustrated address before sigma xi at the first meeting of the society at 8 p m oct 28 in room 466 packard lab oratory the subject of his talk will be observations in africa this talk is one of the three to be spon sored by sigma xi this term the public is invited to hear dr fort's address employees dismissed during the past week six em ployees were discharged from the packard laboratory because there no longer remained enough work to keep them employed these men were hired by the university to work until the building had been completed the stoker by harold brig house was presented by members of the faculty dramatic club at the monthly meeting of the lehigh women's club tuesday at 3 p m in drown hall following the play refreshments were served a r braunlich president of the faculty dramatic club and eng lish instructor coached the mem bers in the presentation of the play prof c j goodwin took the part of the captain and w f payne instructor in economics played the part of the stoker others taking part in the play were mrs c d jensen mrs sydney brown dr sydney brown dr myron c luch and hugh s stanley the entertainment committee for the afternoon was headed by mrs l l smail chairman and mrs a e buchanan vice-chairman the others on the committee were mrs h d gruber mrs dale h gram ley mrs percy hughes mrs e.r theis mrs t edgar shields mrs f o kegel mrs h f hoffman mrs b h jennings mrs d g scott mrs h l barnes mrs r w blake and mrs ralph j fogg the hall was decorated with autumn leaves and berries a large carved pumpkin filled with fruit formed the center decoration for the table dean mcconn speaks dean c m mcconn delivered an address at the third biennial convention of the american asso ciation of university women last friday at wilkes-barre the dean spoke on who ought to go to college and expressed in part those thoughts that have appeared in his writings which are familiar to lehigh students flying club gets ship a new airplane was delivered to the bethlehem flying club mon day the club purchased the plane several weeks ago for flying in struction in the near future maria magdhlina by freidrich hebbel was read by the faculty club wednesday evening oct 22 at the home of prof r w hall the play a tragedy written in 1834 was read by several members of the club who took the parts of the characters the characters and those mem bers of the club that took the parts are as follows master antony prof m j luch of the english department his wife mrs m j luch his daughter clara mrs w w lowing his son — carl — g a finch in structor in english leonard — w fletcher instructor in english his secretary prof e h riley of the english department a merchant wolfran a r braunlich instructor in english adam — l whitcomb instructor ni geology mrs philip m palmer instruc tor in geology mrs philip m palmer was in charge of the reading play is realistic although this play was written nearly a century ago as realistic lit erature it still has much in com mon with modern realism the story opens in the home of a pea sant carpenter and his^wife antony the peasant is of a thoroughly hon est nature and a man of the highest type of morals strokes of fate such as the arrest of his son for theft causing the death of his wife leaves his daughter his only con solation she thought that she was in love with leonard and is to have a child by him she finds that she is really in love with carl leon ard's secretary to avoid reflecting the shadow of her shame over her pious father she is willing to mar ry leonard but he refuses to do so not able to stand the strain of her sins she throws herself into a well leonard and carl have a duel leonard is killed and carl is mor tally wounded her brother who had been arrested for stealing mon ey was proven innocent of the charge and is freed but he does not return to his father the father grief-stricken and alone in the world sighs i don't understand life anymore the officers of the faculty dra matic club this year are a r braunlich president prof a w klein secretary and m e kan aly treasurer predecessor of hill to hill bridge was old 1794 covered structure the sixth middle eastern district convention of the a i e e was held oct 13-15 in philadelphia with its headquarters at the benja min franklin hotel prof n s hibshman counselor for the le high student branch l r wanner t a wolfe and p w seal mem bers of the student branch attend ed the convention technical sessions were held on telephone and radio communicotion hydroelectric power electrical equipment transmission and rail way electrification prof h e dyche of the university of pitts burg presided at a conference of the student branch counselors inspection trips were coordinat ed with the technical sessions and included widely different kind kinds of installations to appeal to the va rious interests of electrical engin eers these trips included the vis iting of the conowingo hydroelec tric station on the susquehanna riv er in maryland the second largest single hydroelectric plant in the united states the plymouth meet ing substation in philadelphia the largest outdoor substation in the world the general electric com pany the r c a victor corpor ation and the reading railroad elec trification lines a cortoon of historical interest to lehigh was given recently to the university library by charles f zimmele 87 the cartoon is the cover of puck a humorous magazine of the late nineteenth century dated june 4 1879 and is labelled in memory of asa packer it por trays judge packer as a farmer with sower's bag from which he is sowing his dollars the plants growing from these dollars are rep resented by flowers one of which is lehigh university blossoming with science another st mark's church at mauch chunk blossoming with religion the third the lehigh li brary blossoming with education and the last st luke's hospital in bethlehem blossoming with char ity in contrast to this figure three contemporary millionaires vander bilt stewart and astor stand in the background vanderbilt is rep resented as standing on a safe la belled to my son every cent to be kept in the family stewart's safe is marked charity to none e t st astor has no inscrip tion but is shown hugging his mon ey bag and standing with his back to the audience a part of the editorial which ac companies the picture is as follows like many others of our million aires asa packer was what iris the fancy to call self-made that is he was the creator of his own fortune but instead of hoarding his money until the last breath of life had gasped itself out of his ex piring body he did his good dur ing his life he saw to it that his money was really and truly put where it would do the most good and that no humbuggery of trustees could divert it from its proper channels coming events lehigh took third place among liberal arts colleges in the carne gie examinations which were given to sophomores of every college in pennsylvania last may percy hugres professor and head of the department of philosophy psychol ogy and education learned of this result when he attended a confer ence at harrisburg on this state survey the commonwealth of pennsyl vania and the carnegie foundation are cooperating in a state-wide stu dy of what colleges and high schools are actually doing for their students lehigh has cooperated in this study giving the carnegie comprehensives last spring colleges could be compared only in terms of their scores in the com mon subjects subjects that all had to take or else in terms of spe cific optional subjects there was no comparison made as a regards total score in all subjects as regards optional subjects le high had the highest average of any college in european history and also the highest individual score made by matthew thomlinson arts 32 lehigh also had the high est individual score in physics da vid l macadam phys eng 32 won this honor lehigh had the highest average in government but not the highest individual score quiz 1740 students according to the tests in english which in six colleges were given to all four classes and which were also given to the seniors in about 50 high schools students in these col leges totalling 1740 students some what deteriorated in their knowl edge of english language and lit erature during their four years ex cept that their vocabulary was a little more extended there is no way of knowing whether or not this is true at lehigh in the total scores in common subjects those students in the state who were majoring in physics zoology german and latin made the highest scores but these were small groups the highest groups including 100 or more students were those vfho majored in chem istry and engineering as the ex amination in common subjects cer tainly did not favor these subjects over others it may be supposed that the educational level of students majoring in those subjects is espe cially high this evening at 8:30 p m in packard laboratory room 466 those students who took the soph omore comprehensives last may can learn their individual scores from professor hughes lehigh man promoted at a military ceremony tuesday evening in kirby hall lafayette college second lieutenant a t wilson u s army reserves of bethlehem was promoted to first lieutenant wilson was graduated from lehigh in 1921 and received a second lieutenant's commission at that time he was a member of the lehigh r o t c and has recent ly been on active duty at fort ham ilton n v and fort slocum ma ryland lieutenant wilson's commission was signed by president hoover he was sworn in by capt h c mcnair 213 th infantry d o l before assembled reserve officers in kirby hall tests are conducted in a series of tests conducted to find the best type of building con struction to resist earthquake shocks observers at leland stan ford university found that one of the first effects of an earthquake is the loosening of nails in sheath ing the tests are being conducted on a special table which reproduces the effects of earth tremors the nails pull loose regardless of the types of sheathing used and the sheathing itself resists the shocks according to type indepen dently of the loiyened nails hughes gives report percy hughes head of the de partment of philosophy psycholo gy and education gave a report on lehigh's advisory system at the meeting of the carnegie founda tion for the advancement of teach ing monday oct 20 in harris burg the carnegie foundation is stu dying the relation between high school and college instruction friday 7:30 p m pi mv epsilon meeting room 400 packard laboratory speakers prof e t fort c.j kelly 7:30 p m freshman psychology examination results room 466 packard laboratory 8:30 p m juniors to near results of carnegie comprehensive ex aminations room 466 packard laboratory saturday 2:30 p m football rutgers fresh men vs lehigh freshmen taylor field monday 4 p m meeting of the internation al relations club history lec ture room coppee hall tuesday 8 p m lecture by prof e t fort on the subject observations in africa before meeting of sigma xi fraternity the miniature inferno curious visitors who inquire about the phenomena have been re galed with wild stories about burn ing coal deposits and latent vol canic springs the smell of the gas es lends strength to these stories heat for all the campus build ings is generated in the power house on packer avenue below the physics building it is distributed through a series of tunnels and pipe lines which virtually honeycomb the campus in some>cases these tunnels are large enough for a man to walk through for inspection and repair but when the pipes are car rying steam it is practically impos sible to enter the tunnels because of the heat last spring two brown and white reporters donned old clothes and explored some of the larger passages finding cement floors and electric lights the line to taylor hall is too small for a man to enter and must be dug up for repairs taylor hall's broken stream line provides comfort for campus birds at least the birds appreciate it — hot steam belching from the grass below taylor hall has provided all the advertised comforts of a mod ern apartment for the campus birds during the last few weeks strong ly reminiscent of the alaskan val ley of the ten thousand smokes the steam rises in great clouds from a subsurface break in the pipe line which supplies heat to thje dormi tories the leak developed three weeks ago and was announced by quanti ties of steam pouring through the tunnel into the cellar and out the windows into the quadrangle soon thin wisps of white could be seen curling from the grass below the building and finally the wisps have grown to man sized clouds the heat from the escaping steam has kept the grass fresh and green in startling contrast to the dead turf around it attracted either by the heat or the fresh grass large numbers of sparrows and starlings may often be seen walking through the predecessor of bethlehem's hill to hill bridge was a bridge con structed in 1749 the construction of the bridge was an outstanding engineering feat for that tigje as those who undertook it were inex perienced in building a bridge across so wide a stream as the le high river much difficulty in con struction was experienced because of damage done by high water on the first day passengers went across the bridge free but on the next day they began paying toll the bridge cost 7800 the town was 53 years old before this first bridge previous to its construction a ferry had been the means of trans portation the next bridge was con structed in 1816 and after its use ulness was over a covered bridge was constructed which many of bethlehem's citizens remember well the first philadelphia to beth lehem road was opened up in 1795 it was known then as the bethle hem pike before 1795 the only ac cess into bethlehem from phila delphia was by way of the irish stone quarry the driver of the stagecoach which arrived and departed regul arly from the sun inn in early days always blew his horn as he ap proached the town and was listen ed for by the quiet little settle ment with something of excitement for it was an event of importance daily recurring to see the stage ar rive and its passengers descend and enter the inn for the excellent re freshments for which the hostelry was far famed many of those who came by stage to bethlehem from philadelphia were the most prominent citizens of the country including most of those whose names are perpetuated in the history of the united states of that period general speeding up of road building at the end of the 18th cen tury led to the building of beth lehem's first bridge across the le high increased numbers of visi tors were coming here and the rope ferry which had served its purpose well for a good many years became inadequate new national colors were pre sented to the r o t c unit of lehigh by the local post of the american legion tuesday after noon at the first regimental review of the current school year commander leßoy knadler rep resenting the harry f w john son post of the legion presented the new flag to the color guard of the regiment the six companies were formed into two battalions and lined up on the north side of the upper field following the presen tation the regiment of 830 men passed in review in front of the grandstand led by the university band notables present henry sturgis drinker honorary trustee of lehigh president c russ richards and vice president natt m emery commander knad ler roland lynn commander-elect ario wear city councilman rob ert k ritter city treasurer and earl ziegenfus past commander of the post constituted the reviewing party the aides were lieutenants degray vandusen and davis dr drinker was one of those men who were instrumental in the organizing of the r o t c units located at various colleges through out the country and has since had a keen interest in the organization depression affects colleges says dean present business condition has caused decrease in enrollment the recent business depression has prevented many students from returning to college declared dean virginia gildersleeve of barnard college in a recent address in these haw times those stu dents who are here must take ad vantage of their opportunity said dean gifdersleeve as you see un employment in so many countries you realize that the economic or ganization of the world needs to be remade hard straight thinking is needed more than ever before at lehigh the business depres sion did not greatly affect the reg istration the freshman class is larger than that of last year while the total enrollment only shows a decrease of 50 klopp speaks to club life in the home as it affects the mental health of the child was the subject of an address made by dr h i klopp superintendent of the allentown state hospital on monday afternoon before the uni versity women's club during his lecture he gave many examples of cases coming under his care where he had traced all the trouble di rectly to the homes in which un happy conditions such as quarrel ing and bickering by the parents before their children over-indul gence and too much punishment had affected the child dr klopp has held clinics for psychology students recently , friday october 24 1930 bethlehem pa long to preside at smoker tonight vol xxxviii — no 1 1 . brown and white price — five cents little the a tre desired by mustard and cheese addition to student activities fee would finance plays and combine musical clubs says dramatic society lehigh arts school is third in state 200 color blind dr bull states in health report member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first