Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 21

              editors and business managers of more than half of the 26 members of the interconegiate newspaper association of the middle atlantic states will attend the association's convention in bethlehem friday and saturday dec 5 and 6 as guests of the lehigh brown and white the present athletic policy has been commented upon by mem bers of the faculty interested in both athletic and scholastic activity austin tate lehigh football coach in a brief statement to the brown and white intimated that he was pleased with the passage of the new resolution tate stressed the injury to players who competed against teams not conforming with lehigh standards the question of schedule policy at lehigh said coach tate has been given considerable thought by everyone involved i am pleased to learn that the faculty has made a constructive suggestion inasmuch as i have thought that it is not fair to the boys at lehigh to ask them to represent their university in exhaustive schedules bradley stoughton head of the department of metallurgy re vealed the fact that the faculty passed the resolution not as an at tempt to suggest university policy but simply to put the faculty on record as favoring a policy of matching our teams with others having a similar standard of scholarship and amature participation professor stoughton indicated that this policy has already re ceived considerable comment among university leaders efforts to secure a statement from the board of control of ath letics were without avail late last night john erskine the novelist who shocked boston by making gallant sir galahad a babbitt of the days of chivalry and helen of troy a pagan coquette will take part in the second part of lehigh's celebra tion of the vergil bimillennium at 8:15 o'clock tonight in packard au ditorium dr john erskine's ad dress will be on vergil after 2000 years this address is being sponsored by the local chapter of eta sigma phi national classical fraternity dr erskine is a well-known au thor musician and college profes sor he has written more than 30 books and countless magazine ar ticles among his best known works are the private life of helen of troy galahad ad am and eve and penelope's man he is president of the juil liard school of music in new york city and is professor of english at columbia university eta sigma phi will entertain dr erskine at dinner at the hotel bethlehem this evening before the lecture l m cohen president of eta sigma phi will act as toast master and prof h w wright will introduce dr erskine at the lecture the committee on lehigh's cele bration of vergil bimillennium con sists of prof h w wright chair man e c crum of the latin de partment and dr n m emery vice president of the university controversial figure dr erskine has been delivering his address in appreciation of ver gil at several colleges and univer sities within the past month the following anecdote is told of him two citizens were discussing the approaching lerture one said i'd give anything to be able to write like john erskine to which the other replied i'd rather be damned the individual who re lated this conversation to dr er skine added so you see at least one man has read your books to which the author replied yes which one this anecdote illustrates the con troversy which centers about john erskine modern inconoclast of classical characters he has been at tacked for crudeness of style lack of respect for historical figures and deliberate overemphasis of sex on the other hand he is classified by some with eugene o'neill and sin clair lewis as literary debunkers who possess at the same time a fine wrting skill several of his novels are black listed in boston and other puritan centers news contests to be conducted pi delta epsilon taps five men dr bull speaks before faculty debating series to start dec 16 frankness of campus pub lications praised at ceremony pi delta epsilon will sponsor competition for newspaper writers describes mental hygiene aid available to le high students team will discuss free trade with new york university an illustrated lecture and dem onstration on recent develop ments in the art of communication by r d parker development en gineer of the american telephone and telegraph company will fea ture the open meeting of the le high valley section and lehigh uni versity student branch of the a i e e to be held at 8 o'clock fri day evening in the packard audi torium mr parker who was formerly professor of electrical engineering at the university of michigan will explain the carrier system in tel ephonic and telegraphic communi cation this enables several mes sages to be transmitted over a sin gle wire simultaneously and greatly reduces the complexity of a tele phone and telegraph system he also plans to illustrate the means by which telegraphic facili ties may be obtained from telephone circuits without interrupting the telephone service this may be ac complished by the use of compos ited circuits high frequency car rier systems or voice frequency carrier systems to show teletype the teletype or telephone type writer will be demonstrated and during the course of eve evening press dispatches will be received from new york and pittsburg to show the simplicity with which the machine operates the teletype has a keyboard sim ilar to that of a typewriter and will print a message at any number of receiving points simultaneously with the sending the application of these printing telegraph ma chines for press associations stock brokerage houses industrial con cerns police departments airway communication services and hotel services will be demonstrated by mr parker he has made several contributions to the development of the equipment which he will show and is a noted authority in his field an elaborate outlay of apparatus will be used and mr parker states that it will take his assistants 48 hours to get things in working or der for the demonstration a new moving picture showing the working and conecting of the trans-atlantic telephone service will be shown for the first time lehigh is now athletically pure the parkhurst scholarship which was formerly awarded each year to the student who was outstanding both in athletic and scholastic pur suits has been withdrawn this was lehigh's lone athletic scholarship although the scholarship was with drawn some time ago the fact was discovered only yesterday while a brown and white reporter was at tempting to gather information re garding the faculty resolution it is believed by university auth orities that the withdrawal of the scholarship is the result of the sen sational disclosures which were made by the carnegie foundation last year during the middle of the football season lehigh was com mended by the foundation as having a good record but mentioned the parkhurst scholarship as the only blemish on its otherwise good rep utation of the 130 colleges and secon dary schools visited during the course of three and a half years only 28 were reported by the com mittee as being entirely free from subsidizing or recruiting athletes lehigh makes change although lehigh was not men tioned along with the 28 absolutely pure colleges it was commented that lehigh recently has made a significant and courageous change of policy respecting recruiting and subsidizing the process entailed the exercise of much tact and pa tience on the part of the athletic officials and university officers and an admirable cooperation on the part of the alumni although offi cials at lehigh are too experienced in such matters to be overconfident nevertheless the results obtained en courage them the scholarship was created years ago by c w parkhurst of phila delphia a graduate of lehigh in the class of 93 each year it provided some lehigh student who was a good scholar and a good athlete with his tuition seniors inspect industry points council meets at convention five engineering groups make three day in spection tours national interfraternity body hold conference in new york city the first attempt of a college to bar from its athletic schedules schools not maintaining standards of scholarship for athletics and amateur rating of contestants equi valent to its own was made yester day at a meting of the university faculty by unanimous vote the faculty re quested the board of control of athletics to present for future fac ulty approval only those schedules which were confined to schools whose athletes are under scholastic and amateur standards similar to those in force at lehigh the reso lution was introduced by prof bradley stoughton head of the metallurgical department the text of the resolution fol lows we request the board of control of athletics in the future to present to this faculty for approval schedules of athletic contests which includes only colleges or institu tions whose standards of scholar ship for athletes and of amateur rating of contestants are approxi mately equivalent to similar stan dards demanded of athletes who represent lehigh university not in effect at once the resolution will not go into full effect at once this policy is to be a gradual development and not a drastic change dean g b curtis secretary of the faculty de clared even professor stoughton who introduced the resolution was very definite in his statement that the working of the motion was not to be hasty just how far this motion will af fect lehigh's relations with schools on present and future schedules is not known at present up to a late hour last night the brown and white was unable to reach anyone in authority who would make a statement on the concrete results of the new policy it is believed that the faculty passed the motion as the first step in an attempt to prevent football from falling into the disre pute suffered by college baseball after the exposures of professional ism and wholesale recruiting made in the 90s the carnegie founda tion report last year revealed the general unhealthy condition of col lege football as being comparable to the baseball situation before its reform just how this faculty decision will be regarded by other schools is problematical leach speaks at convention values of rare volumes stressed by lehigh librarian lehigh students who have mental ills may be able to secure help from the lehigh committee on mental hygiene this is the message that dr raymond c bull director of the students health service left with the faculty yesterday doctor bull who is a member of the committee on mental hygiene told of the activities of the commit tee which strives to handle satisfac torily the mental troubles of many students who experience mental ills hughes chairman the committee which is compos ed of dr percy hughes head of the department of psychology chairman dean c m mcconn and doctor bull operates under the following procedure all informa tion is to be considered strictly confidential all work on any case is to be individual insofar as pos sible any reference of a case to another member of the committee is to be only with the full approval of the student committee action as such is to be limited to that neces sary to make the whole scheme work and to put into effect measures necessary in the solution of individ ual problems in his talk doctor bull used as examples the cases of various stu dents who have consulted the com mittee in their search for mental help sex frequently crops up as the source of mental disturbances doctor bull asserted but is not the only source as one school of psychiatry would have us believe every imaginable kind of trouble is found to be the basis for the wor ries of students captain to be elected varsity soccer men report next sunday morning at 11 o'clock at the steel field for the team picture also at this time the captain for next year will be elected and vot ing will be held for manager and assistant managers for next year's team the fearlessness of campus pub lications in discussing local prob lems frankly was commended by prof c d macdougall assistant professor of journalism in his speech of welcome to five initiates into pi delta epsilon national hon orary journalistic fraternity this morning in chapel the five men pledged by walton forstall president on behalf of the fraternity are emanuel honig edi torial manager of the brown and white william hoyer news man ager of the brown and white ru fus savage advertising manager of the epitome ralph benson news editor of the brown and white and joseph hunoval editor in chief of the freshman handbook i admire the editors of the brown and white and the burr professor macdougall said for their courage in sacrificing personal popularity to support causes they believe to be right i also commend the review for publication of many frank discussions professor macdougall declared that college graduates are reform ing american journalism and that prejudice against school of journal ism graduates is rapidly disappear ing findon recovering brent e findon last year a jun ior in the lehigh civil engineering department returned to his home here in bethlehem last week after having been confined in a wilming ton del hospital for five months as the result of a fall this summer from a five story building under construction in wilmington he suffered a compound fracture of the leg and for a while it was thought that an amptuation would be ne cessary after undergoing eight op erations however it was found that the leg could be saved and he is now able to move around on crutches members of the editorial staff of the brown and white again will take part in the editorial and news stories contests conducted by pi delta epsilon national honorary journalistic fraternity three prizes in each section will be awarded 35 as first prize 25 as second prize and 10 as third prize both contests will close jan 1 1931 the contests are entirely among individuals rather than papers any editorial or news story printed dur ing the academic year 1929-1930 in a college journal can be submitted last year george feakins of le high university won second prize in the editorial contest with an edi torial entitled another double standard to judge material the editorials and news stories will be submitted in duplicate with one copy in the form of a clipping trimmed to eliminate any indication of the soruce and pasted on plain white paper and the other as it oc curs in the issue of the paper a statement signed by some respon sible officer of the publication must accompany the two copies this statement must give the name and address of the author and certify that he is an undergraduate stu dent of the school the director of the competition will mark the two copies with an identical serial num ber as he receives them the un marked copy will go to the judges the complete copy and certifying statement will be filed in the office of the director of competition it is hoped that the decisions of the judges may be announced on or be fore april 1 1931 the judges are : karl bickel president of the united press kent cooper general manager of the associated press russell kent washington correspondent the birmingham post and former pres ident of the national press club david lawrence president of the consolidated press association and continued on page four old harvard rules make frosh pay respect to upper classmen the debaters contrary to orig inal plans will start this year's series of debates the first semester the first debate will be held with new york university tuesday dec 16 on the question of free trade it has not yet been decided which side of the question lehigh will have the debate will be held at bethlehem either at the mon arch club or at the brith sholom community center both organiza tions sponsored lehigh debates last year final try-outs for this debate will be held at 4 p m monday and tuesday dec 8 and 9 in the pack ard auditorium twelve men will compete for the six positions on the team prof curtis d macdougall coach of the team announced that the squad will not be cut this year he expects to run the team as much like an athletic team as possible keeping two men for each position to meet cedar crest the team will meet cedar crest in two practice debates following the christmas vacation jan 13 le high will take the affirmative side of the proposition resolved that the nations should adopt a policy of free trade two days later they will debate the same question tak ing the negative side a third de date with cedar crest will be held some time in the latter part of feb ruary on the question resolved that the evils of the machine age outweigh the advantages it will be one of three debates to be broad cast from station wcba allen town the other two will be held mar 18 and mr 25 massachusetts ag ricultural college probably will be the opponent for the first the uni versity of florida was to be met in the other but it has been decided to hold this debate before the odd fellows of bethlehem the date has not been set definitely but it will be some time in march although the schedule is not yet complete professor macdougall says that there will be about 20 de bates this year last year there were 16 the outlook for the sea son is quite promising as seven of last year's men are back there is however only one freshman on the squad freshmen are eligible for the varsity team harry w ruggles 31 and rob ert c clark 32 represented the lehigh interfraternity council at the annual interfraternity confer ence which was held on friday and saturday of last week at the hotel pennsylvania in new york city more than 60 fraternities and 100 alma maters from alabama to yale were represented in the gath ering the delegates some of whom were graduated back in the 80s and 90s listened seriously to a dis cussion of hell week and its uses and abuses in preparing a fraternity pledge for his ritualistic reception into the mysteries of his chosen brotherhood hell week discussed dr frederic m thrasher profes sor of education at new york uni versity said that paddling some times made a freshman unfit for in itiation by creating resentment and unfraternal feeling as a substitute for hell week he sugested manual labor in the fraternity house and on the campus coming events tonight 8:15 p m lecture on vergil aft er 2000 years by dr john er skine in the packard auditorium wednesday 4 p m meeting of the engineerin council in the faculty room of the alumni memorial building 7:30 p m meeting of tau beta pi room 167 packard laboratory thursday 8 p m lecture by lieutenant col onel g l mcentee in the pack ard auditorium friday 8 p m illustrated lecture by dr r d parker development engin gineer for the a t and t in the packard auditorium 7:30 p m meeting of the robert w blake society room 303 packard auditorium john most frequent first name in lehigh under graduate directory howard s leach lehigh librar ian spoke at the eighteenth annual conference of eastern college li brarians which was held at colum bia university new york city sat urday nov 29 1930 one hundred and seventy librarians attended the luncheon which preceded the after noon session at which time librar ian leach discussed the place of rare books in a college library the educational value of rare books was stressed as that quality was considered the most essential to students research possibilities his torical interest and artistic values were the other assets of rare books included in the discussion librarian leach announced yes terday that the treasure room in the library will be open monday tues day and wednesday of next week dec 8 9 and 10 respectively from 9 to 12 a m and from 2 to 5 p m the room is being opened at that time for the benefit of those who have not seen the display that has been up since last april another exhibition will be presented to the public at a later date librarian leach announced the room will be open at the announced dates to give the public a last chance to see the present exhibition society has musicale a musicale sponsored by the bethlehem friends of music was held saturday afternoon in the cha pel of the moravian seminary and college for women the program consisted of various instrumental and vocal selections and several piano duets these musicales are held the last saturday of the month and are open to the public ness of various student crimes is nothing short of astounding drunkenness was penalized with a fine of one shilling six pence but refusing to give evidence against a fellow student cost the offender three shillings and playing cards five shillings in fact lying drunkenness and going on top of the college were financially of equal sinfulness but we should bear in mind that going on top of the college was not for the sentimental purpose of viewing the scenery there were lead gut ters up there that students coveted for making bullets for fowling pieces tfsed in nightly raids upon the neighboring woods and farms unfortunately an ancient harvard breakfast consisted of bread and beer and those lead gutters be came necessary in sustaining life at yale by ordinances of 1774 the butler is allowed to sell from the buttery cyder metheglin and strong beer not exceeding 20 bar rels a year and such like neces saries for the scholars which are not sold by the steward in the kitchen nor may any scholar buy cyder or strong beer anywhere else but in the buttery some of the points of interest seen by the seniors in the depart ments of mechanical civil chemi cal mining and metallurgical en gineering on monday tuesday and wednesday of last week included the singer manufacturing company elizabethport n j new york stock exchange new york city the johns-manville company man ville n j the great hell gate sta tion of the united electric light and power company near hell gate island and the s s maure tania a cunard liner these annual .. senior inspection trips for the first time this year in cluded not only the usual technical points of interest but also banks business houses and immense struc tures headed by faculty representatives the mechanical engineers made their headquarters at the hotel new yorker the civil engineers made their headquarters at the hotel pennsylvania new york city the chemical enginers made theirs at the hotel benjamin franklin phil adelphia and the mining and metal lurgical engineers led by professor butts were in the vicinity of new york city visit n j factories the mechanical engineers with prof m c stuart and g b thorn visited the johns-manvill corpora tion manville n j where they in spected the roofing building and insulation materials manufactured by this company following this the singer manufacturing company was visited at elizabethport n j monday evening the mechanicals were entertained at dinner by war ren d lewis chief engineer of the hotel new yorker at the hotel new yorker where he spoke on the independent power plant of the hotel new yorker tuesday the massive hell gate station of the united electric light and power company and the wright aeronautical corporation were inspected the power plan ( continued on page four no freshman shall wear his hat in the college yard except it rains snows or he be on horse back or hath both hands full no freshman shall ware his hat in his senior's chamber or in his own if his senior be there no freshman shall go by his senior without tak ing his hat off if it be on no freshman shall laugh in his sen ior's face no freshman shall talk saucily to his senior or speak to him with his hat on no freshman shall ask his senior an impertinent question no freshman shall loiter by the way when he is sent on an errand but shall make haste and give a direct answer when he is asked what he is going for no freshman shall use lying or equiv ocation to escape going on an er rand freshmen may ware their hats at dinner and supper except when they go to receive there commons of bread and beer these were a few of the freshman rules of harvard in 1734 being a college student in those good old days was a stern and solemn bus iness and the faculty impressed the solemnity by means of a strict criminal code the view then tak en regarding the relative wicked executives of the lehigh paper will have prominent parts in the convention's program the brown and white will again enter the com petitions for excellency in news and editorial writing the program for the affair for which this university has been host once before in the ten preceding semi-annual conventions was ar ranged by prof c d macdougall assistant professor of journalism and executive-secretary of the as sociation emanuel a honig president of the i n a and editorial manager of the lehigh paper will preside at the business meeting at 2 p m fri day in drown hall at that time he with professor macdougall will welcome the delegates and con duct the reception and discussion of committee reports to hold discussion saturday's round-table talks by the editorial staff representatives will also be in charge of e honig irving gennet business manager of the brown and white and i.n.a secretary and treasurer will con duct a similar round-table talk for delegates from the business staffs these editorial and business round-table meetings will be held at 9:30 a m in drown hall and the journalism laboratory in christmas saucon hall respectively at that time miles a oppenheim adver tising manager will present a pa per on helping the merchant write his advertisement and maurice bogart makeup editor will talk on does the campus newspa per need a morgue walton forstall editor in chief of the brown and white who will preside at the formal banquet at 6:30 o'clock saturday evening at the hotel bethlehem will intro duce as the principal speaker w e haskell a member of the advertis ing department of the new york herald tribune and former dart mouth football player will judge papers judgment of news and makeup excellency will be made on the three issues of the papers imme diately preceding the convention editorial competition will be based on any two editorials published since the spring convention mr haskell john h merrill city edi tor of the easton express and ver non heilman telegraph editor of the york dispatch will judge the papers cups will be awarded to the win ners at the banquet by mr merrill and mr heilman the gettysburg ian of gettysburg college last spring received the cup for news competition and the bucknellian of bucknell university won the edi torial prize the lehigh newspaper was given honorable mention for news writing and makeup at the last convention at bucknell the staff of the crestiad of ce dar crest collee will aid the brown and white staff in entertaining the women delegates present the men delegates will be entertained at the various lehigh fraternities the papers to be represented at the con vention will be the bucknellian of bucknell university the gettysbur gian of gettysburg college the westminster holcad of westmin ster college the susquehannan of susquehanna university the red and black of washington and jef ferson college the f and m week ly of franklin and marshall college the allbrightian of allbright col lege the stevens stude of stevens polytechnical institute pt brook lyn the swarthmore phoenix of swarthmore college the haverford news of haverford college and the juniatian of juniata college tion of second names is a compli cated one since 693 second names are found in a list of less than 1525 names in some cases only the in itial of the student is given it is easily seen that many names occur but once the popularity of second names as determined by the number of students who bear them art hen ry 37 william 35 john 32 joseph 25 edward 23 charles 22 james 19 frederick and francis 17 and robert is miller as in the past is the most popular family name there are 14 fellows by that name at lehigh the lewis and the smith families came second by sending eight of their sons here the davis family is represented by six students while at the same time there are five stu dents from each of these families andrews bailey cooper and jones if you see a lehigh student and do not know his name just call him john chances are in your fa vor that you will be right for john is the first name of 107 lehigh stu dents the present student directory contains the names of 1525 lehigh undergraduates john is the most popular of the 339 first names list ed while henry is the most pop ular among the 693 second names listed miller is the most common family name as there are 14 stu dents by that name at lehigh in addition to the 107 students who have john as a first name there are 103 who are called william 79 who answer to robert other pop ular first names are charles 58 george 53 james 45 richard 33 and edward 31 due to the habit of parents of naming little johnnie after rich un cle hiram from oshkosh the ques bethlehem pa tuesday december 2 1930 john erskine noted novelist to speak on vergil tonight vol xxxiii no 2 1 . brown and white price — five cents a.i.e.e will see how devices aid communication i.n.a convention begins friday haskell to talk r d parker to illustrate lecture in packard au ditorium dec 5 public is invited editors and business man agers will meet in drown hall e a honig will preside university f aculty resolution scores present policy in athletic schedules sole subsidy dropped it is learned parkhurst withdraws scholarship to clear le high sports record was only athletic aid action is first publicly re vealed after faculty meeting reactionary measure favored tate and stoughton comment lehigh teachers suggest discontinuance of un fair sports relations change to be gradual stoughton's measure would bar meetings with sub sidized teams program friday 12-2 p m registration in drown hall 2 p m business meeting in drown hall 6 p m dinner at various le high fraternities saturday 9:30 a m business staff meet ing in drown hall 9:30 a m editorial staff meeting in brown and white room chris tmas-saucon hall 12 m luncheon in drown hall 2 p m business meeting 6:30 p m formal banquet ho tel bethlehem member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first