Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 36

              to discuss prehistoric man wednesday in packard lab talk to be illustrated the financial standing of le high clubs in general is in bet ter shape than ever before re ports showed last week accor ding to dean max mcconn the mid-year auditing of the books of some 40 campus or ganizations was completed last wednesday by the joint com mittee on student clubs the committee composed of three faculty members elected by the faculty three student members elected by arcadia and the dean its originator ex-officio examines the budgets of each of the clubs each september and audits their accounts each feb ruary the powers of the body are absolute in respect to student organizations stanley thomas professor of bacteriology will speak to an open meeting of the r w hall pre-medical society on the transmission of social diseases at 7:30 p m friday feb 27 in room 466 packard laboratory the meeting will be open to dis cussion following the talk dr thomas will incorporate into his talk information ac quired during his recent trip abroad where he studied the problem of prostitution in the different european countries a short account of his observations appeared in a recent issue of the brown and white the value of human life in indus try was discussed by dr l d shoudy chief safety engineer for the bethlehem steel company in a talk on safety and the engineer at the opening meeting of the in dustrial engineering society last friday evening in room 466 pack ard laboratory dr shoudy illustrated by citing instances pertaining to the steel in dustry the importance of the hu man element in the present day in dustrial era consideration of the co-worker is of the greatest impor tance not only in the large com panies of today but also in those to come in the future according to dr shoudy after the talk a short but infor mal discussion was held during which dr shoudy answered the questions of those present lehigh debaters to hold meets 41 men initiated to fraternities mrs c m mccohn wife of dean mcconn believes society has reach ed a pitiful statft when people talk of nothing but their gardens she expresses her opinion in an essay appearing in the march issue of harpers magazine of flowers is the title of the essay and it is a satire of the type bacon loved to write she states i am sure some of my friends would be capable of casting seeds upon asphalt just to sec what would come up but in ev ery community where soil is visible the entire female population may be found during spring and summer down on its knees on a kneeling mat with large gloves on its fair hands and angleworms crawling into its shoes she concludes we the japanese bettle and herself are both fed up with gardens life criterions urged by long four teams will engage in five contests this week seven chapters honor new men at banquets saturday night discussion group hears w.f payne research and study pursued re lentlessly over a period of 35 years by a man who has long been an in valid culminated last week in a 59 page pamphlet published by the lehigh institute of research the man is a bruce black of bloomsburg pa cp-author with robert m smith head of the de partment of english of shakes peare allusions and parallels the pamphlet which covers a period from 1599 to 1701 shows the great influence which sahkespeare had upon the literature of the seven teenth century actual preparation for the publi cation of the work began last feb ruary when doctor smith who act ed as editor turned over to ken neth k kost 31 then majoring in english over 500 possible allusions and parallels which mr black had submitted this great number of selections in addition to approxi mately 150 others which mr black sent later and 20 of doctor smith's was narrowed down to the 60 ap chemistry professor ad dresses freshmen at smoker friday invalid aids dr r.m smith in research on shakespeare pearing in the booklet the parallel passages to 22 of shakespeare's plays to two of his poems were discovered in 47 plays and poems which were the work of 38 authors there are five allusions to characters in shakespeare's plays and four to shakespeare him self in the pamphlet the influence of hamlet on lit erature of the seventeenth century is shown by the fact that 11 of the parallels and allusions are to that play there are six to both king henry iv and to king richard iii mr black who was formerly a teacher of penmanship in the state normal school at bloomsburg is the owner of a valuable library of books of the seventeenth century his collection includes a shakes peare folio and many other first edi tions of works of that period it was in these books that mr black found the allusions and parallels mr black is the possessor of a marvelous memory doctor smith declared when speaking of his co worker it is this remarkable mem ory which enables him at a glance not only to recognize passages in plays similar to those in shakes peare's plays but also readily to lo cate them in the corre'et work of the great playwright continued on page four newtonian club initiates 22 men economics instructor shows relation be tween surveys cadzow to speak before sigma xi freshmen taken into math society officers elected at meeting will discuss bank of manhattan thursday in packard lab digging for prehistoric man in pennsylvania will be illustrated in a lecture by dr d a cadzow di rector for the pennsylvania histor ical commission at an open meet ing of the lehigh chapter of sigma xi at 8 p m wednesday in pack ard auditorium at the lecture dr cadzow will discuss the recent findings of car vings and pottery on islands and along the banks of the susquehan na river the islands contain rock carvings and specimens of pottery prehistoric tools and implements used by prehistoric man he will tell also of the efforts be ing made by the commission to ob tain and preserve the specimens since they are the only information possessed by the state on prehistor ic life in this section the state historical commission of which governor pinchot is a member is especially interested in preserving the findings in hope of obtaining data on pre-indian and early animal habitation dr cadzow has served as a mem ber of the staff of the museum of the american indian in new york and has participated in several ex peditions in the west and south west twnty-two freshmen were initiat ed and officers for the coming year were elected at the meeting of the newtonian mathematics society last evening in packard laboratory the new officers are richard lindagury president j b han cock vice president and treasurer and d g wright secretary following the initiation a pro gram typical of the society's meet ings was given by the departing members a j richards 33 spoke on the life of sir isaac newton the new men who were elected at the annual banquet feb 2 are a w lubbers j j procopio b g fortman c g mac donald k l honeyman i i marcovitz d g wright r lindabury r m by ers r k yotter b basch e c metz b d beach j b hancock e f kennedy r h pease r e olwine e e hertzel f e geiger e l wildman j o fuller and g a landis special methods of construction used in the erection of the manhat tan company bank building will be explained by col william a starrett in an illustrated talk to the civil engineering society at 8 p.m thursday in packard audi torium colonel starrett is presi dent of the starrett corporation en gineers and contractors of some of the larger skyscrapers of new york city of which the manhattan bank and the empire state buildings are the best known the manhattan bank building has a number of interesting engin eering details which were entailed because of the limited time available for construction and the special methods used these problems will be explained by motion pictures and slides colonel starrett is well known in building construction fields he was graduated from the university of michigan with a b.s degree in 1895 in 1901 he was placed in charge of the erection of the union station in washington by the thompson starrett company the builders at the outbreak of the war he was commissioned as a ma jor in the corps of engineers and was appointed as chairman of the emergency construction section of the war industries board charged with the establishing and conduct ing of the army war construction program in 1918 he was promoted to a colonel in the quartermaster corps built in japan at the close of the war colonel starrett went to japan and intro duced modern steel buildings there designed to resist the shocks of earthquakes since 1922 he has been engaged in building construction in this country colonel starrett is a member of the delaware river treaty commis sion appointedby the governors of the states of new york new jer sey and pennsylvania for the ap portionment of waters of the dela ware he is also a member of the american society of civil engin eers the american society of me chanical engineers the society of military engineers and the amer ican institute of architects colonel starrett has also gained recognition as a writer he has con tributed articles on engineering topics to the atlantic monthly scribners the scientific amer ican and the saturday evening post he is the author of a book skyscrapers and the men who build them bill mccaa photographer tells of lehigh students 30 years ago musical clubs at cedar crest lehigh students attend dance and concert friday evening a definite philosophy of life was recommended by prof j s long prosessor of inorganic chemistry at the freshman smoker in drown hall friday evening the smoker the first given this year was attended by 150 men professor long stressed that it was necessary to have certain defin ite guide posts around which life should be formulated he said that these posts should be criterions which had been chosen after delib erate thinking professor long continued by saying he considered man's life to be divided into three periods the first 25 years which are spent pri marily in preparation for a life work a second period of 25 years in which he is at his best and the third period in which he declines and looks back upon the crowning events of the past , dan ivins presides dan ivins president of the fresh man class presided and introduced the speaker plans for the freshman class banquet and dance were men tioned although the freshman cab inet has not taken any definite ac tion , after the speech was concluded songs were sung with david braun leading the singing refreshments were served after the singing the experimental college has an enrollment of young men from all parts of the country living in set quarters of the men's dormitories under the supervision of selected advisers a study of early greek civilization in all its aspects com prises the work of the first year while the second year is entirely occupied by the study of all the phases of american civilization full credit for junior class standing is recognized on completion of the course results of the investigation in this course will solve certain exist ing problems of the first two years of college and should lead to im proved relations between teacher and pupil dr meiklejohn believes packard lab records published in volume dedication exercises compiled by a e buchanan a record of the proceedings of the dedication of the james ward packard laboratory last october are contained in a book published this month by the university compiled under the direction of andrew e buchanan alumni sec retary the publication contains all the addresses made at the dedica tion with photographs and brief biographies of the speakers togeth er with programs of the dedicatory exercises oct 15 the conference on the relation between industry and the technical schools oct 16 and the conference on the future of american industry oct 17 leather-bound volumes of the book are being sent to the men who spoke during the exercises and to the trustees of the university while paper-covered editions are being distributed to the other guests pres ent at the exercises phi sigs hold dance phi sigma kappa held its annual university dance saturday night feb 21 at the chapter house the sirens a ten-piece orchestra from easton furnished the music for nearly 150 couples two hundred invitations were issued for the dance which lasted from 9 until 12 o'clock dean mcconn attended for part of the evening the chaperons were capt and mrs rice and mr and mrs richard sicklcr the relation between the lack of adequate statistical surveys with which to study the present status and the future needs of business and the future needs of business and the present depression in which the economic world now finds itself involved was the main topic treat ed by the philosophical discussion group at their sunday evening meeting in drown hall mr wilson f payne instructor of economics demonstrated the points he main tained by means of graphs and re cital of the recent experiences of various concerns mr payne stated that from the history of business one is able to recognize the fact that it may be divided itno definite cycles the difficulty lies in the fact that their terminations and beginnings are rather hard to define and still har der to predict no economic sys tem he stated has yet been work ed out on a practical basis which will eliminate periodic fluctuations in business and their attendant so cial costs and distresses surveys necessary that a statistical survey in all fields of business is necessary at the present time was another point he brought forward the value of forecasting by means of statistics and past records in agricultural monetary and production fields and the necessity of developing men ex perienced in the art of forecasting were especially emphasized no successful economic condition of so ciety mr payne said can be worked out until more statistical in formation is available and any po litic body that attempts such a sys tem at the present time is due to fail an argument was raised concern ing the advantages of statistics the possible good which they may af ford business corporations and the meeting was brought to a close on this issue jenkins gives lehigh gwinnett biography author presents library with his tory of colonist a copy of button gwinnett signer of the declaration of inde pendence a biography has been presented to the library by charles francis jenkins the author this volume is number 850 of a limited edition of 1001 copies it is of in terest since gwinnett has become conspicuous in recent years because of the high prices paid for letters bearing his signature one docu ment with his autograph was re cently bought for 51,000 at auction the united states playing card company has given a magnificent volume entitled the history of playing cards by catherine p hargrave this large book contains many illustrations from the fifteenth century on the cards of china in dia europe and america the sources from which the volume was written were collected by the com pany over a period of 40 years a copy of the interfraternity yearbook for 1930 has been donated to the library by the interfraternity conference r.o.t.c unit drills over 800 students participated in the first drill of the season yester day afternoon on the upper field companies and platoons were re organized for the spring drills forty-one neophytes represent ing seven fraternities were initiated over the week-end psi upsilon honored allen ay ers elizabeth n j george t bell washington d c and rob ert h pease rochester n v with a banquet at the hotel beth lehem saturday night mercer b tate jr 20 acted as toastmaster thirty-two members and alumni at tended theta delta chi honored clif ford ruth and fred lambert both of maplewood n j and orin t leach red bank n j with a ban quet at the house walter r oke son treasurer of the university and prof h m ullmann head of the chemistry department were the principal speakers myril l jacobs now with the bethlehem steel com pany was toastmaster chi psi initiates charles miers denise jr pitts burgh pa wilson w bolton york pa william lippe beale washington d c william gil christ wood south orange n j john alfred morse scranton pa carl brooks peters new york city harold hunt demarest brooklyn n v and frederick robert hammer new haven conn were the guests of chi psi at a banquet given lh their honor at the hotel bethlehem on the same night kappa alpha announces the ini tiation of alfred william keller summit n j kenneth l bloom agawan mass marcel k peck charleston w va roswell mc mullen carbondale pa wylie buck jr rydal pa george pur dy penafly n j walter h ben sen carbondale pa james m charlton scarsdale n v walter a peterson summit n j and clarence b peck charleston w va the new men attended a ban quet at the hotel bethlehem satur day night tau delta phi initiated charles klatskin johnstown pa benja min meyers boston 1 , mass edward l morse new york city arnold a youngerman reading pa lew is feit woodvine n j and hen ry minskoff new york city delts initiate six men delta tau delta announces the initiation of edward ehlers jr philadelphia pa richard mcleod rutherford n j libert chandler bethlehem pa charles howitz chester va benn buck wil liamstown n j and harold wait beaumont texas gordon paterson arlington n j edward slingerland millburn n j hamilton ford ridgewood x 1 william korn irvington n j and elmer smith roselle park n j received the initiation cere mony at the alpha chi rho house sunday morning auction bridge series goes into final round completion of second round finds eight fraternities undefeated eight fraternities are still unde feated in the interfraterofty auction bridge elimination series the final round of which will be played thursday feb 26 up to^this time the first and second rounds have been completed and the third round is more than half finished the individual matches are de cided by adding the total points aft er three rubbers have been played the undefeated teams which re main in the contest are sigma phi pi lambda phi theta kappa phi delta phi sigma nu phi gamma delta chi phi and kappa sigma the combined musical clubs consisting of the glee club the quartet and the dance orchestra gave a concert under the auspices of the cedar crest glee club friday evening feb 20 in dietz hall ce dar crest college the concert was attended by many lehigh and ce dar crest students the program arranged by t ed gar shields director of the glee club consisted of selections by the glee club the quartet the dance or chestra and several solos by wil liam alcorn 31 after the concert a dance was held in the corridors of dietz hall the dance orchestra was under the direction of j h booker 32 the selections sung by the glee club were hail to lehigh by kinsey 07 and van vleck 08 keep in the middle of the road by marshal bartholomew now sleeps the crimson petal by mark andrews moonlight here and yonder by willia m stickles a song of ships by robert flagler the battle of jerico by marshal bartholomew and the alma ma ter the quartet sang as vocal re frains the old clock on the stairs and you're drivjng me crazy dean mcconn attends educational meeting carnegie examinations for all stu dents discussed the project of giving the car negie examinations to students of a large number of colleges through out the country was discussed at the meeting attended yesterday by dean c max mcconn in detroit previous to this time the examin ations which lehigh sophomores took last year have been given only in pennsylvania colleges lehigh will participate in five in tercollegiate debates this week on the proposition resolved that the nations should adopt a policy of free trade broadcasting over station wcba allentown a lehigh two-man affir mative team will meet dickinson college at 10 p m wednesday john w heiney 34 and emman uel a honig 31 will speak for lehigh what will be probably the only debate on the campus this season will take place at 8 p m friday in packard auditorium when le high takes the affirmative against rutgers university as part of the annual triangle debate between la fayette rutgers and lehigh dr herbert m diamond professor of economics will act as chairman the lehigh team will be composed of sidney snitkin 31 edward fleischer 33 and emmanuel g scoblionko 31 tonight the same lehigh team that will meet rutgers friday will argue for the affirmative against muhlenberg in allentown in the first dual debate of the season a lehigh negative team composed of maurice bernstein 33 sol leibo witt 33 and matthew murphy 33 at the same time will engage the muhlenberg affirmative speakers be fore the local chapter of the knigh tsof pythias who are spon soring the debate the second debate in the triangle group will be between lafayette and rutgers at new brunswick professor c d macdougall the lehigh coach will act as judge the following afternoon satur day the concluding debate in the middle-three triangle will take place at easton when the lehigh negative meets lafayette the lo cal negative team will be the same as the one that will meet muhlen berg tonight the lehigh-rutgers debate on the campus will be judged by a judge sent here from lafayette a man from rutgers likewise will judge the lehigh-lafayette debate saturday afternoon according to emmanuel ruder man debate manager at lehigh the judges for the radio debate wed nesday evening have not been ap pointed as yet the julges however are expected to listen to the debate over the radio and to phone in their decisions immediately after the de bate has been concluded buchanan and palmer to attend meetings will visit lehigh alumni clubs in march andrew e buchanan executive secretary of the alumni association and prof philip m palmer direc tor of the college of arts yd sci ence will attend a meeting of the lehigh alumni club of washington monday march 2 at the cosmos club in washington d c the following week march 13 they will be present at a gathering of the al umni of the philadelphia lehigh club mr buchanan has recently re turned from a trip to the middle west which took him to alumni meetings in chicago and toledo coming events it seemed as if a magician — a veritable houdini — rather than an electrical engineer was present last evening in packard auditorium when john bellamy taylor con sulting engineer for the general electric laboratories reached in the air grasped a beam of light and relentlessly made it growl shout talk and sing to the 150 members and guests of the electrical engin eering society and it was with a magician's technique a humorously expectant attitude that the noted engineer kept his audience on the alert for more vocal trickery from his ma gic box among the principal objects in mr taylor's demonstration of audible light were a somewhat mysterious black box of bulky di mensions provided with a single round glaring eye a loud speaker of the regulation type employed with radio receiving sets a strang team these two for what the eye saw the loud-speaker roared screetcher and howled over final ly when the eye gazed upon a pe culiarly colorful spot of light the loud-speaker sang love songs gave a snatch of jazz and made a speech acts like human it was just as if some fantastic mechanical being was giving an un disguised exhibition of his emotions he expressed his feeling with a wholly unrestrained and at times uncivilized gusto the sight of a match ignited be fore his one supersensitive eye caused him to roar deep in his throat and then make a noise lflce a snare drum the illumination from an ordinary incandescent lamp was enough to bring forth from his throat the sound of a brass horn but a toy dynamo producing elec tric current of a thousand alterna tions a second was less to his lik ing and he screeched like a fire sir en when he saw it when his eye found itself looking at the mellow gleam from a hand-lamp no tone was heard until the lamp was tap ped with a pencil but the same light filtered between the teeth of two combs seemed to rouse him to fury an,d he startled the audience with a rumbling snarl then a ghost ly laugh followed by high-pitched squeals then mr taylor held up an odd shaped bulb that had a sil vered knob at one end the silver like surface he stated was caesium a substance having the curious pro perty of giving off electrons in a vacuum and * thereby causing an electric current to flow when light falls upon it this current is ex tremely small but by using vacuum amplifying tubes its power is aug mented through several repeated operations until it becomes much greater light changed to sound having been thus built up the current is sent through an audio circuit such as radio receiving sets employ and is transformed into sound which issues from a loud speaker the mysterious box mr taylor continued contained a caes ium bulb or photo-electric cell to gether with the necessary amplify ing tubes the window of the box was the aperture through which light rays fell upon the photo-elec tric tube which served as the elec tric eye to start the cycle of transformations by which what en tered as light emerged as sound following his general explana tion mr taylor proceeded to give an hour of magic interspersing the demonstrations with many hu morous allusions a victrola and even mr taylor's own voice were carried across the auditorium on a beam of light and reproduced by the loud-speaker few persons in the room seemed to realize that the emitted sounds had gone through ten distinct transfor mations from the original scratch ing of the needle it had passed through mechanical and numerous electrical changes back through the optical electrical magnetic me chanical conditions to an audible impulse emerging unimpaired after its lightning-like travels uses film to conclude mr taylor employed a deputy to conclude the lecture when his aux iliary eye looked through a cellu loid film and said my demonstra tion is concluded i thank you for your courteous attention professor seyfelt introduced the speaker and remarked he was sor ry that time had prevented the pre sentation of sgveral other features wednesday feb 25 8 p m open meeting of sigma xi society room 466 packard lab oratory thursday feb 26 7:30 p m meeting of civil engin eering society room 466 packard laboratory 7:30 p m meeting of the robert blake society room 208 packard laboratory 7:45 p m meeting of international relations club room 258 pack ard laboratory note — this is the second of a se ries of articles on the memoirs of bill mccaa the third article will next tuesday bill mccaa came to bethlehem the first of september 1901 from ephrata lancaster county he re placed emil schrempel as a photo grapher and established his studio at 319 adams street from 1903 1907 he taught a course in photo chemistry to senior chemical engin eers when william h chandler professor in chemistry died in 1906 the course was discontinued the following year bill returned to his photography at that time the campus was small but beautiful and the build ings were few but adequate for the small enrollment the only entrance to the campus was through the main gates situated below packer chapel the roads were narrow and unpaved being partly illuminated by gas lamps packer hall was the seat of all campus activities the administration offices and the civil engineering department were both located in this building english as well as all the arts courses had classes of instruction in this build ing coppee hall in those days serv ed as the gym williams hall a gift of dr e h williams 75 had just been completed and housed the me tallurgical department the physi cal laboratory which had been de stroyed by fire several years before had been re-built electrical engin eering and physics were taught here the chemistry building was lo cated on its present sight but was smaller than the present building since it lacked the western wing a small building to the north of the physical laboratory was known as the wilbur laboratory since then it has been greatly enlarged in or der to meet the more modern de mands christmas and saucon halls were two distinct buildings with a small space between them the athletic fielrl in those days was nothing to compare with the pres ent day layout a high board fence surrounded the small field and sit uated on either side of the field were long wooden benches a pho tograph of it hangs in the trophy room of taylor gymnasium west of packer hall and packer chapel were three residences occu pied by pres thomas m drown prof charles l thornburg secre tary of the faculty and joseph w richards professor of metallurgy the president's house is still standing the other two were lo cated on the sight of the present administration building and were torn down when the building was constructed professor richards was then known to the students as plug richards the present ob servatory was in operation and for a time was under the direction of prof thornburg this constituted practically the total number of buildings which bill found here in 1901 were few fraternities the students as a rule lived in fraternities or private homes the number of fraternities was small and most of them were either situ ated on market street or on dela ware avenue a large number of boys dined at eating clubs meals for 3 to 4 a week were sold at the old starvation club on west fourth street and mrs sutherland's board ing house on the corner of adams and packer streets directly across from christmas and saucon build ings mrs sutherland fed an average of 70 boys many of the old alumni will remember her place with regrets in those days a great deal of class rivalry existed which finally cul minated in the founder's day sports between the freshmen and the soph omores at the opening of college for the year a banner rush was held between the new men and the second year students it was a con test of superiority that brought continued on page four brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday february 24 1931 shoudy speaks to industrials mcconn's wife writes article magic eye laughs at lecture audience price — five cents lehigh clubs shown financially sound vol xxxiii no 36 civils to bear starrett talk on construction bethlehem steel safety engin eer discusses human life in industry thomas to speak on social diseases j b taylor demonstrates audible light to e e society uses novel apparatus photo-electric cell transforms light waves into sound belittles gardens in march is sue of harper's maga zine pamphlet on english dra matist culminates 35 years of study kenneth k kost helps all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association