Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 14

              muhlenberg registrar pa cifies rival factions truce is declared freshman is kidnapped over 10,000 townspeople wit ness demonstration in allentown by w v port trafford criticizes muhlenberg students muhlenberg students are rotten sportsmen according to a state ment issued by superintendent of police fred trafford last evening mr trafford istated that after the game saturday about 40 muh lenberg students were brought to police headquarters charged with attempting to tear down the lehigh goal posts the charges however were not pressed as the students all agreed to let the affair drop and to leave things at lehigh alone mr j k davis desk sergeant at police headquarters stated that sunday evening a muhlenberg professor who did not give his name called headquarters and thanked the police for the courtesy shown the students which were arrested and agreed that the students of muhlenberg would not molest lehigh property freshmen interested in faculty led discussions philosophical and otherwise and in the good fellow ship of eats smokes and talks to be held at the kiwanis cabin are to meet david braun at 4 p m to morrow in his office in drown hall mr braun lehigh union secretary is planning to organize a group of the class of 34 for informal con sideration of diversified subjects of interest it is planned that the group if or ganized will leave the university at 5 p m and after reaching the shack will eat talk and smoke with men qualified to lead their discus sions until perhaps 7 o'clock hughes corrects carnegie figures freshmen will be freshmen whether they be muhlenberg frosh or lehigh just before the battle last night two brown and white reporters discovered a lone muhlenberg freshman wan dering around just outside the mule campus he was asked what all the excitement was and if he had seen any lehigh men in reply to the first query he said some of the fellows from muhlenberg went over to lehigh and kidnapped one of the men they wanted to make him ride a mule but we wouldn't let them we took him over to our fra ternity house and gave him din ner and sent him home we aren't really bad it's just a few of us m'conn outlines education plans arcadia plans annual bonfire debate audience favors pinchot lehigh as a whole ranks m third in pennsylvania will make the better governor according to verdict speaks before fifth an nual conference oct 3 1 at bucknell to have smoker and par ade frosh to nom inate comparative figures of the car negie foundation for the examina tion given pennsylvania college sophomores last spring show that lehigh university as a whole rank ed third among institutions of the state prof percy hughes of the psychology department stated in a recent letter to the brown and white it previously was believed that the carnegie figures pertained to lehigh's arts college only in his letter professor hughes writes in my report to your pa per about the results of the car negie examination i took the figures given me by the carnegie foundation these figures purport ed to give the results for liberal arts colleges only and they ranked le high third in the state i now learn from the founda tion that the figures are for the whole university which is thereby compared with liberal arts colleges as the average score for our arts college was much higher than that of the university as a whole and as the test evidently favored some what students of arts colleges it is clear that the comparison was somewhat unfair to the university i have no doubt that the arts col lege ranked second among institu tions of its own type and it is probable that the engineering col lege ranked first among colleges of its type we shall know for cer tain later debaters plan team tryouts the smoker and parade for the lafayette game will be held friday night nov 21 secretary platt of arcadia announced last evening the annual bonfire will be lighted at 7:30 p m and after the fire ar cadia will conduct the smoker in the gymnasium at the conclusion of the smoker the parade will begin with the band leading members of arcadia will police the parade to prevent any destruction of property or acts of violence if the brown and white team is victorious over lafayette on nov 22 the victory bonfire will be started the follow ing monday evening freshman nominations for class officers will take place wednesday noon nov 12 in packard auditpr ium under the direction of arcadia the actual election of officers will be held the following wednesday at the same time and place an nounced secretary platt to send delegate at the meeting last night arca dia voted to send a delegate to the convention of student bodies of america which is to meet from dec 26 to jan 2 in atlanta geor gia the member to represent le high will be selected at the next meeting the question of placing mustard and cheese and the combined musi cal clubs on the student activity fee was discussed last night also a vote will be taken on the question at the next meeting union sponsors first stag sing junior colleges which will force the weaker four year colleges to the wall but which will permit the stronger four year colleges to con centrate their efforts on the super ior students were pictured as a part of the educational system of the fu ture by dean c m mcconn fri day evening oct 31 at the fifth annual conference on education the conference which was held at bucknell university was attend ed by educators from colleges and high schools throughout the state in addition to his talk on friday evening dean mcconn gave two talks friday afternoon on student government and morale and democracy and higher educa tion junior colleges will be establish ed within 50 years in most cities with a population of 25,000 or over dean mcconn declared in his talk friday evening on the future of four year colleges many of the smaller colleges of the nation will be forced to the wall by the de crease in enrollment which is bound to follow the result will not be en tirely bad however the stronger four year colleges will remain and will be in a position to expend all their energy in training the super ior student junior colleges have their place in the educational world dean mc conn said with the addition of vo cational courses to their curricula the junior colleges will be in a place to train men who have neither the desire nor the ability to become en gineers but who are needed to fill certain positions in life magossin speaks dr rolf d magossin professor of classics at new york university spoke on recent archeological dis coveries at the meeting of the bethlehem chapter of the archeo logical society which was held last evening at the home of the pres ident h s snyder dr magossin who is president of the american chemical society spoke at the formation of the beth lehem chapter in 1925 he installed the lehigh chapter of eta sigma phi honorary classical society and previously he has addressed the classical league of the lehigh val ley secretary braun directs func tion approximately 75 attend mr trafford i said to the su perintendent of the bethlehem po lice i understand that your po licemen have to take courses and examinations in history ethics and economics is that true yes that's true said fred what do you want to know about it well i'd like to play the story up from a humorous angle you know the incongruity of police tak ing courses like that and the dumb answers that they must make to a lot of questions so said mr trafford is there anything funny about the courses that you take at lehigh or ths dumb answers that you make to exam questions no i didn't think of it in that light before i don't think that teaching eth ics to policemen is funny even tho i teach it i consider myself quali fied to teach the subject having ta ken ethics for four years at col lege and for two years as a grad uate while i was at theological sem inary or if you can find any humor in the fact that prominent lawyers of long experience teach criminal law to our men you are welcome to use it in your story for the brown and white mr trafford then said that the studies were already bearing fruit he cited as one example the fact that local traffic cops no longer harangue visiting motorists who vi olate bethlehem traffic rules due to their background of book learned knowledge the cops realize that the violation is not intentional and so they treat the offending motorist with kindness and courtesy instead of with gruffness in many cases too they know in detail the traf fice regulations of the place where the alien motorist lives in court trials too policemen are no longer tied up in knots by clever and gib tongued lawyers they answer back pertly and tartly the most catchy questions of brilliant lawyers and they're brightening up and taking a greater interest in class too when i first started to teach ethics to them they listened apath etically but now we have long ar guments and they try to trip me up every chance that they get mr trafford said that the attorney who is now teaching criminal law is having the same successful results supposing a man flunks an ex am i asked that's an easy question to an swer he just keeps on taking the course until he does pass the exam novak visits lehigh i j novak chief chemist of the raybestos-manhattan company one of the largest manufacturers of au tomobile brake linings and gas kets visited the chemistry depart ment yesterday the chemistry research depart ment to which the company is one of several contributors on a re search program of drying oils is especially interested in the effect of physical and chemical forces on the brake linings that gifford pinchot would make a better governor for pennsylvania that john m hemphill was the verdict of an audience numbering more than 150 people at an oxford split debate between lehigh uni versity and cedar crest college last evening at the latter institution in allentown edward fleischer 33 and miss julia bondy were on the winning negative team george parsons 31 and miss marcia krevsky compos ed the affirmative team the propo sition was resolved that john m hemphill would make a better governor for pennsylvania than gifford pinchot the main issue of the debates were pinchot's past record his plan for the control of public util ities and his fair rate board plan matthew murphy 33 was the al ternate on the affirmative side negative wins 47-13 coming the night before the elec tion the debate proved exception ally interesting and was well pre sented according to prof j a tallmadge and prof c d mac dougall debate coaches respective ly of cedar crest and lehigh the score was 47-13 in favor of the neg ative the audience voted on a change of opinion ballot each per son was required to record his per sonal opinion before and after the debate if there was a change of opinion from one side of the issue to the other or if a belief in one side of the proposition was changed to a firmer belief in the same side a vote was scored if there was no change of opinion the ballots were not counted on the backs of the ballots many members of the audience wrote their comments of the debate a large majority of the audience fa vored pinchot at the outset of the debate and had favored him more strongly at its conclusion comments favor lehigh according to these comments the lehigh debators had the better de livery were more spirited ano/ap pealed to the audience because of their wit the cedar crest girls many commentators pointed out were very well prepared spoke well but did not have enough poise nor enough ability at extemporaneous speaking this was the first debate of the season for all the debaters cedar crest and lehigh are scheduled for a radio debate this year on another subject the two schools will also meet in several practice debates in preparation of other topics june moon to be read june moon one of the out standing hits of the past theatrical season will be read by the faculty dramatic club at 7:30 p m wed nesday at the home of prof rob ert w hall prof john m toohy will have charge of the reading the first lehigh union sing of the year was held from 3 to""4:30 p m last sunday afternoon in drown hall under the direction of secretary david braun of the le high union approximately 75 at tended the stag party john s har rison 31 led the singing and geo f motter 31 furnished the music at the piano popular numbers as well as lehigh tunes were sung the stag line sunday afternoon was sharply in contrast with last years when the students of mora vian college and seminary for wom e\i and bishopthorpe manor at tended the affairs secretary braun announced that if the student inter est in the sings continued they will be held every other sunday at the same time in drown hall road to be opened the packer hall road will be op ened to traffic sometime this week according to andrew w litzen berger supervising architect the road is blocked at present by the scaffolding which the masons re pointing the packer hall tower are using a wide awake smart muhlen berg team taking advantage of the many lehigh errors scored four touchdowns to defeat the brown and white eleven 24-0 saturday in taylor stadium approximately 5,000 spectators watched the mules roll up the second largest score with which they have defeated lehigh in the series of 20 games the largest be ing in 1926 when muhlenberg won 31-6 at no time in the game with the exception of the closing minutes did lehigh threaten to score and then after reaching the muhlenberg 7 yard line a pass was incomplet ed over the goal line as the game en9ed immediately after it proved merely a last dying effort to avert a shut-out ware gains ground the lehigh attack was well dampened throughout the game with the exception of al ware who was the only consistent ground gainer for the brown and white robbed of his two mates nora and halsted ware found the burden of being a one man offense too great and although some of his runs were of considerable length they were usually nullified by fumbles or pen alties thus during the whole game runs were wasted or called back passes were intercepted and kicks were poorly covered con trasted to these glaring mistakes on lehigh's part was the ability of muhlenberg to take advantage of every scoring chance to complete numerous passes two of which led to touchdowns taid to cover the safety man on kick\%so well that no opportunity was given for long re turns muhlenberg scores the mules scored in each of the last three periods but failed on every chance to make the point after the touchdown carney sub stituting for palladino at quarter back scored on a 50 yard run thru the entire lehigh team and threw two passes for two other touch downs he entered the game in the second period when palladino was hurt and first made his presence felt when he caught one of ware's kicks in midfield and ran the remaining distance to the goal line for the first score several times he ap peared to be stopped on this jaunt but he shook off the tacklers to complete the longest run of the day muhlenberg's second score also came in this period battalin put them in scoring position by run ning 35 yards from scrimmage to the lehigh 29 yard line a first down was gained on the 17 yard line and after two line plays failed to gain carney threw a short pass to gernerd who carried the ball over one of lehigh's numerous fumbles was the break which gave the mules a chance for their third score doug reed fumbled on the lehigh 33 yard line and muh lenberg recovered a pass from palladino to majercik advanced the ball to the 17 yard line and a first down by evanosky put them on the 7 yard line the lehigh line with stood three rushes but on the fourth down with the ball only three inches from the goal ma jercik dove through left tackle for the score the fourth touqhdown was probably the most spectacular of the scores as it was a 45 yard forward pass from carney to gilt ner giltner caught the ball just inside the end zone stealing it from the outstretched arms of two lehigh players and fell striking the goal post the first period was devoid of continued on page four three faculty members will judge contestants nov 12 tryouts for the debating team will be held at 7 p m wednesday nov 12 in the auditorium of pack ard laboratory instead of tuesday nov 11 as previously announced each contestant will give a seven minute constructive speech on the proposition resolved that the nations should adopt a policy of free trade each man also will be given the opportunity for a three minute rebuttal prof c d mac dougall debate coach has an nounced the three faculty mem bers of delta omicron theta hon orary forensic society professors c d macdougall myron j luch and a h fretz probably will act as judges h m diamond professor of economics outlined the issue of the debate to several candidates and faculty members at an open meet ing of d o t thursday after noon he said that economists are almost unanimously in favor of free trade but for the nations to suddenly adopt such a policy would bring about chaos and confusion only a gradual transition could make such a policy possible bach choir renders concert led by wolle musical organization sings at westfield and harrisburg coming events speaking on a world in transi tion frank c becker assistant professor of philosophy opened the 1930-31 series of public lectures to be given by members of the faculty of lehigh university he jptro duced the general topic of the lec tures social problems of the machine age and took the psy chological and philosophical aspects of the problem professor becker began by de scribing in detail the very primitive culture of the trobriand islanders describing the economic and social customs of marriage in this ancient society life to such a people in contrast with modern civilization he explained is painfully primitive and crude social and economic in stitutions are quite undeveloped but as professor becker explained this race of people and their pecul iar methods of economic life is fast disappearing the present complex civilization is creeping into their lives and disintegration is taking place cites modern civilization professor becker then in contrast to the modern american civilization with its machines and highly de veloped industries it is obvious that a breaking-down of old and routine ways are taking place he said asking is it a period of suc cessful redintegration or is it the beginning of the end taking the farmer and his modern methods of farming as an example professor becker explained that this form of industry is really in a revolution ary stage we say that the farmer has more opportunities and man ners of enjoying life we speak of his radios movies and automobiles and yet we condemn him for his inability to endure the hardships of his farmer forefathers still agri culture is breaking down and per haps our nation with it a formerly harmonious pattern is disintegrat ing if we consider the pictures of the trobiand islanders we can get a clue as to the reason the in strumental factor and the consum matory factors of life have been thoroughly separated farming is being destroyed by industrialism of this farming pro fessor becker continued instead of farming we have gastonia this same situation exists even to great er extent in the entire white civil ization the machine has displaced the days of production by hand tla bor all the pride of production is lost professor becker said to see an object grow under our hands is an enjoyment an abiding satis faction and an end in itself he de clared it is living in contrasts in our modern civilization the exag gerated subdivision of labor to the laborer there is nothing moving but his fingers and endless routine we have come to a situation where the ordinary individual has lost control of the means whereby he can realize his own happiness for happiness consists in the realiza tion of purposes set by himself control of the self is happiness small town discussed professor becker spoke of the book middletq*vn which is a stu dy in contemporary culture this book makes a careful study of a ty pical american town of 40,000 in habitants he pictured these people living in what they believe to be a high civilization taking as their basis the facts that show that more young people are attending high school college and receiving more education than ever before but this is contradicted by their show of this knowledge in believing and asserting their beliefs in certain recognized falsehoods these mis guided people the speaker went on believe that the present industrial practices are idealistic where really they are nothing but efficient and ruthless economic determinism instead of materialism idealism is professed more frequently and loud ly than ever before these people believe in the sacredness of the home and the beauties of constan cy in love yet the fact is that these loyalties have practically disappear ed in our modern life asserted pro fessor becker and with these loy alties has gone religion which is the very basis of social and econo mic unity math club hears cutler speaking on the fenet-serret for mulae dr e h cutler university instructor in mathematics address ed the mathematics journal and research society thursday after noon in packer hall the society is one of the faculty and its activities consist of consid eration of and reports upon mathe matical research frosh try to move boulder succeed in blocking driveway fulton's folly was a steamboat wood's folly is a great big rock wood h dalton himself of the beta house awoke last sunday morning with an urge to do some thing bigger and better for the red brick house on the hill in the rear of the taylor dorms what could be bigger what could be better than to move the large rock just east of the driveway from its rest ing place on the lawn to a less de sired spot on the hill wood as house chief of beta theta pi gathered four frosh pledg es together and put them to work on the rock they scooped the dirt away from the boulder with shov els and picks the other six frosh pledges were called and after pry ing and pushing the ten pledges tilted the heavy boulder slowly but surely they tilted it upon its end and then with a thud it came to rest about six feet away in the newly paved driveway which leads from the road to the parking place in the rear of thfi-house the rock approximately 4x3x2 feet rested firmly on the pa,ved road heavy ropes were attached to it and to an auto in an attempt to drag it away the ropes snapped like string the rock defied all ef forts to move it yesterday it still remained in the roadway allowing just enough room for a car to pass there it is likely to remain display ing to all passers-by the inscrip tion made by delighted frosh nov 2 1930 wood's folly lehigh - muhlenberg rivalry in recent years confined to the foot ball field flared anew with a series of frustrated and successful at tempts at goal post stealing under graduate kidnapping and victory celebrations finally culminating in a general fight between students from both schools last night on the muhlenberg campus before the final melee was over lehigh's goal posts had been stolen while those on the muhlenberg field were torn down several lehigh stu dents had been forced to participate as unwilling performers in muhlen berg's tumultous demonstrations and at least a score of the fighters had been marked by fist blows lehigh students outnumbered the fight itself was brief and confined to one part of the muh lenberg campus — the football field where the muhlenberg undergrad uate body assembled almost to a man to repulse the attempt of the invading students to make off with the goal posts outnumbered ap proximately 5 to 1 the lehigh stu dents were unable to offer much resistence to the organized group which poured out of a nearby audi torium temporarily forsaking their guests at the victory dance hostilities were begun imme diately after the game saturday when several muhlenberg students attempted to uproot the west goal posts but were stopped by police as several hundred lehigh rooters gathered around anxious for a mix up sunday night about fifty muh lenberg boys hired a truck and sev eral cars and came over to beth lehem they parked above the sta dium and scaled the wall to the field where they finally secured the goal posts on their way back to allentown they collected a load of wood for their victory bonfire kidnap goldsbury 34 while walking over the hill to hill bridge yesterday afternoon g goldsbury 34 was kidnapped by muhlenberg students he was lock ed up in the dormitories all after noon and was taken to supper at the a t ok house in the evening it was planned to have him ride a mule in the parade but this plan failed because of their failure to find a mule goldsbury escaped about 8 o'clock but the allentown morning call reports that one of his less fortunate classmates was forced to ring the chapel bell for over two hours the muhlenberg victory fire which was witnessed by over 10,000 townspeople and students was lit by qapt w r weiner the bell telephone company erected six tel ephone poles to serve as guides for the fire and the fuel was piled to their tops additional amusement was provided when three luckless lehigh frosh were compelled to sing dance and cheer for muhlen berg after the fire the college stag ed a victory dance in the gymna sium next to the football field recruits summoned lehigh students knew nothing of the proceedings in allentown until 9 p m when goldsbury telephoned his fraternity house sigma phi to appraise his hearers of his adven tures they began to organize at once calling from fraternity house to fraternity house for recruits and almost a hundred left for allentown by 10:30 p m more joined the first group at the fair grounds about a half mile from the campus from here the entire group mov ed to the campus entering at the main gate and proceeding unmolest ed past the dormitories to the foot ball field they were discovered however before they had com pletely demolished the goal posts and within five minutes the field was filled with sleepy students who came from the dormitories clothed only in pajamas and bathrobes and with celebrants from the dance floor floodlights quickly revealed the purpose of the outnumbered students and they were immediately surrounded those who held the fallen goal posts were speedily at tacked and at once the fighting be came somewhat general although superior numbers gave the defend ers an unquestioned superiority registrar calls truce twelve policemen stationed on the campus mingled with the com batants but did not intercede save to separate the groups where the continued on page four wednesday nov 5 7:30 p m meeting of the faculty dramatic club at the residence of professor and mrs robert w hall 37 east church street 8 p m meeting of the physics club 316 physics building talk on relativity by prof c e berger and an experimental dem onstration by mr paul o young 7:30 p m members of the fresh man class may hear of the results of the psychological examinations room 416 packard laboratory 8:30 p m members of the junior class may learn of the results of the carnegie comprehensive ex aminations room 416 packard laboratory the bach choir gave a recital last friday evening before a large audience at the roosevelt high school of westfield n j the con cert which was sponsored by the music club of westfield was di rected by dr j frederick wolle the program was the same as that given on friday afternoon oct 17 in zembo temple at harrisburg under the auspices of the pennsyl vania german society the program included parts of several bach cantatas and nearly all of the first part of the mass in b minor mrs ruth becker mey ers played the instrumental ac companiments on the piano and mr t edgar shields director of music and organist of the univer sity was organist for the concert the authentic author of the hero ic statement i'd rather die for dear old rutgers has finally been ascertained the honor belongs to the late frank pop grant a 267 pound guard of the rutgers team of 1892 it was in the rutgers-princeton game of 1892 that grant broke his leg while leading the famous scar let flying w^dge on a kick-off diving into the wedge sims prince ton center cut grant down and the wedge surged over him stretched out on the sidelines pop realizing that his playing days were over asked for a cigar ette smiled and said i'd die to win this game it was almost 15 years before this gallant cry was echoed thru the press from coast to coast and then went on reverberating thru the years with added volume the wrong man was made the hero and the right one died before his valor was known • dr philip m brett recently ap pointed acting president oißutgers i'd die for dear old rutgers said an injured football player in 1892 and who captained the team in 92 is named by many authorities as having made the famous statement rejected this athletic distinction referring to the incident he says i did not break my leg in the princeton game but finished the contest as quarterback i did not smoke cigarettes at the time and never spoke the immortal words alonzo stagg has written the in cident into a book quotes johnny poe quarterback of princeton as having replied to the famous sally well die then but poe has been as emphatic as dr brett in dis claiming his speech four witnesses have been found among the grads of rutgers all who claim to have heard the im mortal words uttered for the first time dr brett once remarked life has been a burden ever since that game at least once a week i am forced to steel myself to the re mark hello brett dying for dear old rutger*s these days tuesday november 4 1930 bethlehem pa bethlehem police to take examinations --- tr afford vol xxxviii no 1 4 frosh to meet for discussions price — five cents lehigh loses to muhlenberg by 24=0 score becker begins faculty public lecture series frosh defends frosh braun plans to organize groups interested in psychology superintendent adds teaching to regular duties officers like classes men who flunk must repeat course until they pass mules take advantage of numerous brown and white errors 5,000 witness game brown and white philosophy professor dis cusses a world in transition criticizes modern life lehigh loses goal posts students clash as mules celebrate victory bonfire member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first