Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 41

              peck and engel slated to capture individual honors seal in 145-lb class semi-finals and finals to morrow at new haven pairings for the first intercollegiate bouts aren't we all a comedy will be presented by the fac ulty dramatic club at 8:15 saturday evening april 18 in drown hall this play is a drawing room . comedy by frederick lonsdale it is the vehicle which starred cyril maude the famous eng lish actor in his last appear ance in this country in 1923 the role in which mr maude starred will be taken by syd ney m brown associate pro fessor of history while the leading female role will be play v ed by mrs john k rice other actors in the play are charles j goodwin professor of greek capt john k rice assistant professor of military , science and tactics and john m toohy associate professor of romance languages all seats will be reserved those in the first three rows will cost 1.50 each the remain ing seats 1 each tickets can be purchased in advance from morris e kanaly 921 dela ware avenue the general sale of tickets will begin monday april 6 at young's drug stores the following bulletin from a brown and white reporter at new haven was received as the paper was going to press pairings for the first bouts this afternoon the brown and white is unable to explain the pairing in the 165 lb division amster has been wrestling in columbia's 126-lb division in all preceding bouts this season however it is believed that col umbias 165 155 145 and 135-lb wrestlers have been moved down a division and the regular 126-lb grappler changed to the 165-lb po sition to avoid a default home-club hears billy sheridan soap magnate kills employee that the modern artist de pends upon the intelligence of the public to interpret his paintings was explained by garth a howland assistant professor of fine arts in a lec ture on how should we judge modern art given wed nesday afternoon before the art club of liberty high school the old masters had certain rules and standards which they rigidly followed stated pro fessor howland they follow , ed a certain rhythm of line a rule of balanced masses and harmonious color the painting was expected to be understand able it must not be confus ing we do not always recognize modern art declared the speak er and therefore we are con fused the artist uses the same list of standard rules but un like the old master who endea vored to collect all the rules into one painting he uses one rule only and expands upon it as much as possible thus if he has rhythmic lines or har particularly if the object is not monious color he does not care recognized he is not interest ed in creating a complete effect but would rather suggest some thing that affects a certain mood or phase thomas to speak on public health coach claims team pick ed to win is handi capped to face trial for murder after easter holi days -—- students want able professors mcconn outlines faculty qualities sought by rollins students mcconn and buchanan hope to see union's proposal adopted both issue statements the proposal recently advocated t}y the lehigh union to abolish all freshman regulations except black socks and ties is favored by dean c m mcconn and a e buch anan secretary of the lehigh al umni association and editor of the lehigh alumni bulletin i am in favor of it and i hope it goes through insisted dean mc conn there are similar move ments in the leading colleges of the country here at lehigh we are a little behind the times all such foolishness goes back to the gay nineties thirty years ago the col lege man was less mature and these pranks suited him the dean denounced freshman regulations as prep school stuff he said that any class badge such as the black sock and tie was of value in promoting class unity the abolishment would not affect the spirit of the school the freshman regulations have been going out of practice but once started they can not die easily when a tradition outlives its usefulness and fitness of its age argued the dean it should be abol ished such regulations are all right for small colleges but they have no place at lehigh dink custom not old mr buchanan said that as a tra dition freshman regulations were not very old for there are many alumni who have never worn a dink i wouldn't think they were tear ing the ivy off of packer hall if freshman regulations were abolish ed for i do not value them as a lehigh tradition there has been no orderly development of these rules for every time some sopho more got a bright idea in his head it was put in the freshmafi bible there is no harm in freshman reg ulations b"t}t the trend of the pres ent is away from these things pre-meds attend medical clinic dr hoffman demonstrates deaf and dementia prae cox patients the following men are vitally connected with the new proposal on athletic eligibility or are in a posi tion to be affected by it if passed by the board of control of ath letics prof howard h reiter mem ber of the committee that compiled the rule in the long run it will avork out for the best there is something radically wrong with the present system and this rule should help the situation we are saving the boy the parents and the col lege by instigating a forewarning and limitation a austin tate head coach of football it's o k with me we will all benefit ruggles says unfair harry ruggles student member of the board of control of ath letics i am afraid that this may turn out as in the big three ath letes may play a part of the season and be out the rest of the time it puts a man in the position where he will have four chances against his playing two mid-semester exam periods and two sets of finals as against two to get back into the game perhaps the pro regulations could be lightened and the mid terms made harder robert adams baseball coach i agree with ruggles if there are two more chances to go on athletic pro there should be two more chances to get off dean c m mcconn ex-offcio member of standing of students committee it strikes me as a good move it should be beneficial to athletics and scholarship it should be more effective than sports limitation john engel captain of wrestling advice to keep men working while season is in progress i am afraid that there may develop a descrim ination as some professors carry men during season and expect re sults at the end of the term kanaly favors move morris e kanaly track coach good it will make athletes realize that college is more than sport par ticipation it is only fair to the boy that scholarship be put above ath letics sports are like business someone is always waiting to fill vacant places libert chandler captain-elect of cross-country i agree with coach kanaly it is an incentive to keep off pro it should help freshmen to realize that there must be a balance between athletics and scholarship mort lamb captain of track it should keep students working early in the semester and thus give him a good start jack petrikin secretary of the board anything is good that will make the boy keep up from day to day , billy sheridan brown and white wrestling mentor was optimistic of lehigh's chances in the intercolle giate wrestling bouts in his infor mal talk before a dinner given by the lehigh home club wednesday evening at the hotel traylor al lentown lehigh enters the intercolle giates with a handicap as the brown and white team is favored to win and that is always dangerous to a wrestling team because the other wrestlers concentrate all their ef forts on the favorite rfnes billy said as an example of this bjlly cited last year's intercollegiates perm state was favored to win as they had been undefeated during the sea son five of their seven men failed to get over one point in the inter collegiate bouts and they finished in a tie for fourth place columbia and cornell will give lehigh its greatest opposition according to sherida/i however with an even break the team ought to be successful as the brown and white team is the only one to enter the matches undefeat ed billy concluded this is the first time in a num ber of years that the lehigh home club has met in a city other than bethlehem samuel w traylor as sistant manager of the hotel whose son was graduated from lehigh in 1919 and john w eckert 78 had charge of the entertainment pro gram pere wagner's 10-piece orches tra played for the banquet an ac cordian player two dancers and two comic sketch artists entertain ed the large lehigh alumni gath ering a piano soloist led the group in singing lehigh songs senior electricals to attend meeting delegates will inspect philadel phia electric company's plant senior electrical engineers will attend the annual meeting^of the student branch of the american in stitute of electrical engineers mon day at swarthmore college profes sors s s seyfert a r miller n s hibshman and j m andreas of the electrical engineering depart ment will also attend studerlt papers on electrical sub jects of importance will be read at the morning business meeting in the afternoon the delegates will in spect the philadelphia electric company's plant and various other electric and power companies in the vicinity of philadelphia the con vention will listen to an address by a prominent electrical engineer at the evening meeting further details are not available at the pres ent time representatives from the uni versity of pennsylvania university of delaware drexel haverford princeton and lafayette will also attend the conference luce to give party a saint patrick's day party will be given the evening ol march 17 by a w luce assistant professor of machine design for the sopho more mechanical engineers about 35 invitations have been sent library books bound the library has received about 150 books and several volumes of periodicals which were sent to be rebound jan 1 the books were not washed or trimmed since this would detract from thtir value glee club sings over w c b a last lecture of present series to be held mon day night the protection of health and the prevention of disease from the standpoint of the bacteriologist will be discussed by dr stanley thomas professor of bacteriology in a lec ture to be given at 8:00 o'clock monday evening march 16 in the auditorium of packard laboratory dr thomas lecture the health of the public is the last in this winter's series of college lectures dr thomas states that he will emphasize the protection of health or rather preventative medicines as opposed to curative he will dis cuss the various phases of scienti fic bacteriglological research he will also explain the specific agen cies dealing with public health in the interest of the public has lectured recently dr thomas gave a lecture on the transmission of social dis eases before a meeting of the r w hall pre-medical society re cently in packard laboratory in this lecture dr thomas dis cussed the venereal disease as he would any other disease such as ma laria he told of the discovery of the organisms that cause the dis ease the various methods of com bating the diseases and the meth ods which may be used to educate the people how to combat cure and finally prevent these diseases dr thomas also stated in this talk that prostitution still a tremen dous issue is rapidly becoming an issue of public health he explain ed clearly the methods of prostitu tion and how the question is treat ed in foreign countries dr thomas has made an exten sive study of the prostitution sub ject having obtained a great deal of information in his recent trip abroad pledge men alpha kappa pi announces the pledging of edgar s stem jr 32 of alderson pa and william s carpenter 35 of upper darby pa murder was committed wednes day evening in packard laboratory the victim was mr erwin for mer employee of mr arnold soap magnate who is being held on the charge of murder he will be tried shortly after the easter vacation but mr arnold need not fear the electric chair for the murder was only part of a play given be fore an open meeting of the pre legal society witnesses will tes tify in a mock trial at the next meeting the murder was enacted in such a manner that the testimony of the witnesses who only saw certain parts of the play and their versions of the events leading up to the mur der itself would disclose different angles of the case in this way ex plained donald s sawyer 32 pres ident of the society the stories of the avitnesses will vary just as they do in real trials the attorneys by examining and cross-examining the witnesses will have to piece together the story of the murder and each will have to develop it in such a way as to fa vor his side of the case the coun sel for the defense will be jerome mayer 32 and the prosecuting at torney will be sidney snitkin 31 the play coached by prof myron j luch was casted as follows mr arnold president of a soap com pany the murderer by prof my ron j luch mr erwin a former employee the victim donald saw yer miss murphy a stenographer miss louise henry miss roll a telephone operator miss adda foe ring john smith a janitor ben slade henry williams an office boy harold silver t edgar shields director of i music leads singing ten freshmen and sophomore members of the r w hall pre medical society attended a physio therapy clinic wednesday afternoon at the allentown state hospital dr h h hoffman in charge of the clinic demonstrated and explained the cases > the students witnessed the treat ment of a distended colon and ex amined x-ray plates of the patient's intestines which were three times larger than normal a young girl was treated for warts on her finger and ankle by means of a high frequency needle and a dementia praecox patient was treated for an inflamation of the ear the ear drum had been totamy destroyed by previous infections it is expected that at least two more major surgical clinics will be held before the close of the sem ester for members of the society claus returns from kentucky represent lehigh chapter at national conference of o d k students at rollins college want professors with the ability to inspire enthusiasm and lasting interest with a general knowledge of all the subjects in their section and in ad dition to these academic require ments they want men with per sonality dean c m mcconn told the fanulty educational club mon day afternoon in the alumni mem orial building rollins college is an experimen tal liberal arts college at winter park fla he said and because of its location at this winter resort it can procure many of the most eminent speakers in the country to address its students the educational system of the college is unique at the beginning of the term the student is given a syllabus of his complete course he is required to attend two-hour class es five days a week but during the class periods he studies wholly on his own with only the aid of the teacher when necessary the courses are so regulated that the average student should not have to spend any time on his studies outside of class but it is found that in practice many students who are very much interested in their courses do extra work outside and of course boys who have gotten be hind in tfteir work do likewise the dean stated enthusiasm prevalent there is an intensive self-evi dent spirit of enthusiasm for the experiment among the students the dean remarked throughout the recent curriculum conference held at rollins the active interest of the students was displayed by their constant attendance at the open meetings and their many in telligent and helpful suggestions no specific curriculum was out lined by the conference committee which was head by dr john dew ey professor of philosophy at col umbia university but general con clusions whidh will facilitate the in telligent formulation of slich a cur riculum were reached john mclachlan jr marries mary kutz ceremony took place in first presbyterian church allentown john mclachlan jr bus 30 son of mr and mrs jobrf mclach lan of east elmhurst l 1 mar ried miss mary c kutz daughter of mr and mrs fred d kutz of allentown march 10 in the first presbyterian church allentown the rev samuel k peiry pas tor performed the ceremony the bride was given in marriage by her father mrs clair j moh'r sister of the bride attended her as the ma tron of honor and miss rebe d mclachlan sister of the bride groom was the maid of honor mr mclachlan jr is a member of the phi gamma delta fraternity and is associated with the interna tional harvester company in new york while at lehigh mclachlan was a member of the swimming team following the wedding there was a wedding dinner and recep tion in the elks club later in the evening the bride and groom left by motor on their wedding trip to atlantic city mr and mrs mclachlan jr will make their home in east elmhurst l i the radio audience of radio sta tion wqba of allentown was en tertained last evening by a half hour program presented by the le high university glee club under the direction of t edgar shields direc tor of music william g alcorn 31 was the soloist the quartet composed of f w baxendale 33 first tenor f s roberts 34 second tenor william g alcorn 31 first bass and j s harrison 31 second bass rendered two selections you're driving me crazy and the old clock on the stairs the rest of the"program was de voted to a presentation by the whole chorus of hail to lehigh by kin sey 07 and van vleck 08 keep in the middle of the road by mar shall bartholomew now sleeps the crimson petal by mark an drews moonlight here and yon der by william stickles a song of the ships by robert flagler and the battle of jericho by marshall bartholomew the pro gram was concluded with the al ma mater dean speaks to school dean c m mcconn spoke this morning at lower merion high school lower merion pa his top ic was going to college which he has given before at various high and preparatory schools walton forstall jr m e 31 accompan ied him at the national conference of omicron delta kappa march 5 6 and 7 at the university of ken tucky lexington ky the dele gates established an annual under graduate scholarship a fund has been accumulating from excesses from initiation fees it was decided that hereafter 3 from each initia tion fee be placed in this fund and that it be used for giving an annual o d k scholarship according to carl o claus jr 31 who repre sented the xi circle of lehigh uni versity at the conference petitions from the university of south dakota and rollins college florida for the forming of circles were voted upon the petition of the university of south dakota was approved and that of rollins college was rejected dr frank c brown president of duke university and faculty advis or of the duke circle was elected national president of the honorary fraternity a formal dinner dance was given friday evening coming events by fred morhart ineligibility to ' participate in in tercollegiate athletics upon the re ception of nine or more hours of valentines was proposed to the board of control of athletics last monday as a measure to compel men to study and keep off proba tion if they wish to participate in sports the proposed rule reads no student who at mid-semester is de ficient in courses totalling nine hours or more shall during the re mainder of the semester represent the in any freshman or varsity intercollegiate athletic con test in any sport whose first sched uled contest is played after mid semester reports are issued the proposal was drawn up and presented by the comffuttee on eli gibility consisting of dr r c bull and profs j c long h h reit<jr and neil carother,s the board realizing that the present probation rule is severe in that it bars a man on probation from athletic competition for a whole semester or until he has passed the required number of hours felt that there is a serious weakness in the system which should be alleviated if possible fall sports not hurt the committee in its report on the findings stated through dr car others spokesman that this pro posed rule will not affect football soccer or cross country in any way whatever except that it will greatly help them by reducing the number of men now going on probation in june it will take away from swim ming wrestling and basketball a certain number of men but only for the period between the opening of the schedule and the beginning of the mid-term examinations swim ming and wrestling will not be greatly affected basketball will be hurt the most but it will also be greatly helped by the number of men it will save from probation at mid-years in the second semester the pro posed rule will take a gooti many men off the lacrosse tennis track and baseball teams but it will help these teams in two ways first these four sports all will have avail able for the team a number of men who without the rule would have gone on probation at mid-year's second by keeping men out of these sports when they are behind in their work it will save many of them from probation and eventual flunking out of college will save freshmen the rule will be especially help ful in saving freshmen from proba tion and flunking-out as interpreted by a member of the board this rule is meant pri marily for the student-athlete who has abilities for more than one sport yet is not over capable or am bitious scholastically it is a move towards attaining the real objective of college life — namely studies still if the man desires to partici pate in athletics he must not sacri fice his class worfc to sport this proposition would present to the athlete four scholastic barriers in the form of two sets of final and two sets of mid-term examinations which will have to be passed to the extent set forth in the rule before he is eligible for intercollegiate compeition dr carothers when interviewed on the subject brought out these facts as recorded — severe rules lehigh has very high scholarship standards for athletes the proba tion rule which bars a man on pro bation from athletics for a whole semester is very severe but there has long been a serious weakness in the system which has caused the loss of many fine athletes by flunk ing out of college the defect in question is in the situation which permits an athlete to continue in athletics when he is doing very badly in his work and to take up a new sport when he has just finish ed one even though he is down in every course he is taking recently lehigh applied for membership in the i c a a a a and when the application was un der consideration the association criticized our eligibility rules on this account they asked how we could explain a system that per mitted an athlete to compete for a whole semester when he was fail ing all his work year after year lehigh has lost athletes who got behind in the foot ball season went right on into bas ketball or wrestling went on pro bation in january were lost to all athletics from then on and finally flunked out in june this condition worried the board of control for a long time so the committee on cli continued on page four billy sheridan's grapplers are slightly favored to win the inter collegiate team title when the twen ty-eighth eastern intercollegiate championships are held in new haven today and tomorrow so state the sports writers of the new york times bethlehem globe times the philadelphia ledger and the baltimore sun this brown and white team has met many of the strongest teams in the east among them the univer sity of pennsylvania lafayette rutgers columbia princeton na vy and * the defending champion cornell and has remained undefeat ed in doing so the grapplers have amassed a total of 148 points to the opponents so this has been used by many of the sports writers as a proof of the strength of the lehigh team eight men from each of the eight colleges represented making 64 competitors will grapple in the pre liminaries friday afternoon in the semi-finals that evening and in the finals saturday afternoon billy sheridan believes that he is sending a team to yale that will win the title he states that princeton and columbia will run lehigh the closest race sports writers however also claim that yale cornell and perm state have shown flashes of strength that may upset all th efiguring of the dope sters peck and engel favored i believe that peck and engel have the best chances to win indi vidual honors states the lehigh coach pete peck has been undefeated this season and is the high point winner of the team having amass ed a total of 29 points with four falls and three decisions captain engel sheridan's other choice has also remained defeated throughout the six matches as the 126-lb representative he has got ten 21 points all of which were gained by decisions by a coincidence every winner in the eight weights last year has been graduated the second place winners who will return today are engel 126-lb class relyea col umbia 145-lb class clark col umbia 155-lb class freeman syr acuse 175-lta class while rotan of yale will wrestle in the unlim ited weight other veterans besides captain engel there are two other lehigh grapplers who are seasoned to the intercollegiates they are seal and shanker last year they filled the 165-lb and 155 lb berths respectively and shank er gained third place sheridan states that three col umbia men clark kinsler and captain reylea who have repre sented their university in the 165 lb 155-lbi and the 145-lb classes will each wrestle ten pounds lower he believes all these men to be strong contenders for titles he adds that princeton's colmore in spite of all reports of his being un able to wrestle because of injuries received in the state meet will fill the 118-lb for princeton however colmore was not among the prince ton entries published wednesday the university of pennsylvania athletic authorities consider three members of their squad to have good chances to gain titles they are sokolis unlimited mann 165 lb class and pappano 155-lb grappler sokolis has won five of six matches and mann five of his seven bouts one of his victories being over clark of columbia who was 155-lb runner-up last year pappano scored three victories was defeated twice and had one draw yale has had bad luck in losing her captain whiting who would have been a strong contender for the f45-lb title his knee was in jured in the yale-harvard meet last saturday rotan is now consid ered as yale's best chance for a title he will wrestle in the unlim ited class in which he was runner up to barfield last year has old history wrestling has had nearly three decades of intercollegiate history much longer than many of the oth er competitive sports cornell the present champion has the longest record of championships with ten perm state has seven yale six le high three and princeton one continued on page four high school and preparatory school students who fail to finish their courses on schedule time have little chance of being admitted to yale according to a report made by prof robert m corwin chair man of the board of admission at the university until now if a student failed to pass the entrance examinations up on graduation from his secondary school he passed a year at a cram ming joint and was especially pre pared to pass the entrance exam inations the staffs of such schools have learned from experience the type of questions asked by the va rious colleges henceforth it ap pears from professor corwin's statement students will have to pass their entrance examinations without an extra year of prepara tion if they are to be admitted to yale \ who goes to college " who shall go to college is an ever recurrent question among those engaged in educational work professor corwin says the solu tion as far as it presents itself to boards of admission would be sim pler if scholastic factors alone were involved and if parents and pupils would accept as conclusive the re turns as shown in the school and admission examination records and would act on the frank opinion of those who have directed the stu dent's preparatory course monday march 16 8 p m stanley thomas will give the last of this year's series of college lectures on the health of the public in packard audi torium yale excludes high school men who fail to finish work on time the notion seems to prevail ra ther generally he said that an ad ditional year of work at a fitting school specializing in smaller class es and individual instruction will remedy any evidence of a previous lack of ability or incentive it is however becoming fess possible each year to give encouragement to those applicents who find it either expedient or necessary to spend an additional or fifth year in repairing a weak record for it has been ne cessary to refuse admission each year to an increasing number of those who failed to finish their sec ondary school course on schedule time or in regular order asks question the question is frequently asked usually by those who are advocat ing the admission of an applicant whose record is not high does the board of admissions take no account of character ?' x the answer is that nothing is considered more impor tant but tha the type of charac ter which makes the greatest ap peal to the board is one which has been transmuted into a good record moreover the ardor of an applicant's desire for a college course can be more safely judged by the quality of his sdiool record than by the importunity of parents and friends it is probably not due to chance that testimonials of char acter are most abundant and most urgent among the credentials of un promosing applicants bethlehem pa friday march 13 1931 faculty club to give comedy in drown hall intelligence needed to interpret art price — five cents vol xxxiii no 41 brown and white officials favor plan to abolish frosh customs wrestling team favored to win intercollegiates preliminaries held today board considers new probation athletic leaders give their ideas of pro posed plan have different views nine or more hours of valentines will ex clude athletes action in april 18-ib shoemaker vs fmkleman perm 126-lb engel vs ihrig princeton 35-lb shaw vs jameson perm 45-lb seal vs mcgauley yale 55-lb rausch vs roess cornell 65-ib peck vs amster columbia 175-lb shanker vs roetenberg perm state jnlimited hirshberg * vs rutherford princeton correction the freshman class banquet will be held april 16 instead of the date announced in a previous issue of the brown and white all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association