Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 42

              by e a honig after successfully resisting a last minute threat from cornell which all but checked what had promised to be a romp to its fourth title le high is agajn champion of the eastern intercollegiate wrestling asso ciation scoring 30 points 8 more than the ithacan grapplers managed to amass at^the 27th annual tournament of the association friday and saturday at new haven conn even the winning of three individual titles itself an unusual feat failed to assure the lehigh team of the victory which seemed so certain after the preliminaries not until one of the very last bouts when harold hirshberg came from underneath to pin lundin of cornell and win second place in the unlimited division with four points for his team were brown and white adherents certain that their representatives had won frank shaw dr beard to tell of oil research paul seal phi beta kappa elects 20 men pete peck exams to be held two days this week all freshman regulations will be suspended with the beginning of easter vacation april 1 for the remainder of the semester it was ruled by the sophomore cabinet at its meeting last evening in drown hall the action taken according to george doering president of the sophomore class is absolutely un connected with the present contro versy on the entire abolishment of first year regulations the permanence of the ruling is to be decided in the near future at a joint meeting of the freshman and sophomore cabinets it was de cided n moving-up day when the reg ulations were discarded in past years was customarily held just af ter house party season in may sleuth m'elroy captures guest will describe discoloriz ation before chemical society thursday local chapter of honor ary society chooses large group bill shanker who was elected captain of the 1932 varsity wrestling team at the an nual banquet last night thomas speaks on health rules psuedo-student attempts to depart with a.t.o belongings scientific prevention stres sed by lehigh bacter-r iologist last night special examinations in 13 courses for those men who were unable to take the tests at mid terms are scheduled for this week those to be given tomor row will begin at 7 p.m in room 466 packard laboratory the tests saturday march 21 will be at 2 p m in the same room examinations wednesday march 18 will be for engl 1 composition and hist 25 euro pean history examinations on saturday march 21 will in clude bus 107 advanced eco nomics chem 6 advanced chemistry chem 197 electro chemistry lab govt 51 am erican government met 83 metallurgical eng probs ; met 139 seminar fr 1 elementary french fr 11 intermediate french fr 21 seventeenth and eighteenth century lit span 1 elementary spanish span 11 intermediate spanish merion high students hear mcconn friday the resolution was made in view of the fact that the regulations by easter will feve completed their principal function the unifying of the freshman class the sophomore president stated last evening doering strongly favors the dis continuance of the rules at this time as a precedent for future classes i am hoping that the ac tion will be carried out in the fu ture too he said john beidler vice president of the freshman class called the reso lution a very sensible step taken by the sophomore council beid ler declared that the regulations ar no longer necessary to identify the first-year men particularly to each other lehigh dean gives views on fit ness for college forensic team in radio debate lehigh will meet cedar crest over wcba tomorrow how chemical research was ap plied tt the problem of preventing millions of gallons of petroleum products from discolorizing on stor age and how still other millions of gallons which had discolored in tanks were decolorized will be told to the chemical society at 7:30 o'clock thursday evening by dr leslie c beard jr research super visor for the general laboratories of the standard oil company of new york dr beard has travelled around the world for the standard oil company to the various subsidiary divisions in fci effort to teach oi refiners in foreign countries the rea sons why petroleum products which are originally stored in tanks in a colorless condition may discolor and to show them methods of pre venting this discolorization as were developed as a result of rearch done in the general laboratories of that company ' / oil loses color discolorization of petroleum pro ducts on storage is due to oxida tion and it is one of the most im portant problems which confront the oil industry today the value of an oil as a fuel or lubricant is not affected by discolorization but in foreign countries the~natives who are ignorant of that fact will not pay as much for oil that is off color therefore it is of consid erable importance to the oil refiner that the oil does not discolor dr be^rd will tell the simple tory of how research in that field progressed from the beginning he will tell how the chemical work started out in terms of test tubes and ended up in millions of gallons of oil a definite interest in something and a bookish aptitude are neces sary for the high school student who is to go to dean c max mcconn stated in his speech on going to college at lower merion high school friday morn ing the entire senior high school heard the dean's lecture walton forstall jr 31 an alumnus of lower merion introduced the speaker the secondary school graduate the dean said should give himself certain tests to determine his fit ness for college life major consid erations in the question of his fit ness are his speed of reading his vocabulary position in classes in telligence quotient age and his use of reference works and magazines lehigh is at last attaining a uni versity atmosphere in that a greater tolerance is developing between the engineering anct arts colleges stat ed philip mason palmer director of the college of arts and science and professor of german friday in a speech to the philadelphia le high club the election of six di rectors to serve for the next three years was announced at a business meeting following a dinner at the engineers club 1317 spruce street clifford f lincoln 11 presided the men elected are w a cor nelius 89 edward w estes 20 james h pennington 97 mercer b tate 20 john j shepherd 21 and alexander c shand 12 professor palmer told the group that the college man absorbs from his instructors the idea that the practical education or the cultural education depending on the course in which the student is enrolled is the only one worth while . animosity between th'e 1 colleges is thus perpetuated the students of of the others this feeling is be each college looking down on those ing overcome however by the new curriculum which has been in ef fect for the last few years and a definite bond is arising between the colleges students are beginning to realize that there are advantages in both types of study and that the university is bigger than any of its parts quotes dr millikan an extract from a speech of rob ert a millikan ihe noted physicist was used by prof palmer to sum marize his points one inevitable result of the survey that i have at tempted to give is to raise the ques tion as to whether science and hu manism should not be and cannot be linked together more intimately in our thinking and acting during the next generation than has been the case during the past half cen tury / the narrowing influences of one sided education and overspecializa tion are just exactly as obvious to day in the humanistic field as they are obvious — and we admit it — in the scientific field i have indeed known scientists whom i regarded as wholly one-sided uncultured and essentially uneducated men but they have usually had enough intel ligence to be more or less con scious of it i have also known so called humanists who were simply intellectual illiterates and who sometimes have/been most blissfully unconscious of it the philadelphia lehigh club will hold another meeting some was decided members of the club time before sub-freshman » day it will address the student bodies of several philadelphia high schools and invite prospective tudents to attend twi or three lehigh men from bethlehem will be on hand to answer their questions and to talk to them about the university dean c m mcconn and dr neil carothers head of the bus iness department attended the meeting last year in this capacity preparedness is the very essence of public health control dr stanley thomas professor of bacteriology stated last evening in packard au ditorium when he presented the last in a series of six lectures given by the faculty of the university con cerning the social problems of the machine age his topic was the health of the public the last century has marked much progress in the development of preventitives and the scientific control of disease dr thomas pointed out in spite of many ad vancements the science of public health control is still in its infan cy he stressed the fact that the education of the public is the most essential factor in preventing the recurring of disease according to prof thomas one of the outstanding developments during the past few years toward the administration of a public health program in this country has been the creation of the united states public health service this bureau is divided into eight different divi sions and has its general headquar ters in washington the duties of this service are to investigate all major problems of public health < the large increase in the num ber of cases of venereal diseases during the past few years has been the outstanding failure in public health control stated dr thomas there has been one million more cases of venereal disease during the past year than cases of scarlet fev er these diseases have cost the na tion five hundred million dollars per year which has amounted to approximately four dollars per cap ita the lehigh chapter of phi beta kappa national honorary frater nity elected 20 men to membership this year according to an announce ment issued yesterday by prof philip m palmer secretary of this society and head of the college of arts and sciences this is the larg est number ever chosen by the local chapter and almost double the group of last year twelve of the men come from the arts college two from the business department and six from the engineering col lege the following were selected for membership l b frutkin arts 30 mt ver nbn n v c a harding arts 31 pen argyl f nsuwirth arts 31 brooklyn m waltnian arts 31 brooklyn h miller arts 31 bethlehem j g meharg arts 31 hamburg pa c a lowenstein arts 31 newark n j h may er arts 31 brooklyn e a sindel arts 31 brooklyn e f underwood arts 31 new port r i g w parsons arts 31 philadelphia k k kost arts 31 gary ind s h goodman bus 31 bethlehem b j friedman bus 31 new york j e freehafer eng phy sics 31 reading h c kelly eng phys 31 wilkes-barre j c mertz ch eng 31 allentown w forstall m e 31 rosemont r l baird e m 31 lansdowne e c easton e e 31 newark n j initiation dinner the annual initiation dinner of the jlehigh and lafayette chapters will take place in easton this year and the entertainment will be pro vided by the lafayette branch the date has not been definitely de cided % students in the college of arts and science and the college of bus iness administration who have maintained a high scholastic stand ing until the middle of their sen ior year are eligible to this society a limited number of engineering students whose work in the sub pects of the arts curriculum is of a high standard may also be elected trjitzinsky to teach dr w j trjitzinsky assistant professor of mathematics on leave of absence during the academic year 1930-31 and who in the ca pacity of a national research fel low is now carrying on research at harvard has had the term of his fellowship extended until the fall of 1932 during the academic year of 1931 32 he will in addition to his re search work teach a graduate course at harvard the course wiy be in one of the fields of his re search mcconn to speak going to college will be dis cussed by dean c max mcconn thursday march 19 at belvidere high school belvidere n j the speech will be the same as one giv en by the dean last week at lower merion high school alpha tau oq^ga entertained a thief over the week-end thomas f hickey self-styled undergraduate at the university of florida wan dered into the house late saturday evening handed the sophisticates there a sob story about a dear lit tle mother critically ill at frank lin n h received a warm bed that night and a meal sunday morning after many warm hand clasps and soulful i'll never for get speeches the likeable young fellow left supposedly for phila delphia so appreciative of the fraternityjs hospitality was the unfortunate youth that he returned via a win dow sunday night while members of a t o slept peacefully obli vious of the fact that their kitchen was tenanted by their guest of the night before at about 5 o'clock monday morn ing mr hickey arose thought fully took his shoes off and pro ceeded to pay an early morning visit to the study rooms above he was a very appreciative man was mr hickey for he appreciated the quality of the various things lying about so much that he couldn't bear to depart without becoming the proud possessor of a goodly number of these articles a man of action he setf about to pack his lit tle grip with some of the best linen toilet articles and hosiery that the members of the house ever pos sessed intruder detected but he was not a perfect knave so noises leaked out and a light sleeping member of the house crept down to investigate the unusual pro ceedings downstajrs thus it was that alexander t mcelroy 31 de tected a thief at work and subse quently earned the sobriquet ma lone of the strong arm squad mcelroy took his man down with a flying mare gave him the well known jo-jo twist and finally pin ned him with a bar and chancery and a double body lock he did all this to the accompaniment of the most vociferous yelpings his broth ers had ever been privileged to , hear after the rudely awakened mynbers had dragged the tiger-like mcelroy from his prey the police were summoned and soon arrived police officials there learned that hickey had just been released from a florida penitentiary where he had been paroled after serving eight months of a four year sentence for breaking into and robbing a home at orlando coming events human superstitions are revealed in long island university class friday the 13th has undoubtedly arouse«fcsome discussion among the students of lehigh about supersti tions at long island university in a class in modern thought last friday prof philip d jordan turned the discussion of the period to superstition with the following results of the 83 sophomores in the class 15 said they were afraid of friday the 13th 53 said they couldn't walk under a ladder without feeling im pending bad luck and only three claimed to be entirely free from superstitions of any kind general beliefs it was generally agreed that love was a belief according to profes sor jordan but the class was di vided on astrology socialism was a belief to 10 democracy to 20 re ligion in general to 17 reincarna tion to seven life after death to 13 and one god to 19 some of the oth er things listed by members of the class as beliefs were . prohibition the atomic theory relativity and boyles and charles v laws walk ing under a ladder was found to be the most generally accepted sign of an ill omen 46 students reported a black cat crossing their path next 26 said it was bad luck to break a mirror 23 to spill salt 13 to light three cigarettes on one match ; and f5f 5 to open an umbrel la in a house thirty-four of the 83 students said 13 was an unlucky number al though is limited it to friday the 13th five thought seven an un lucky number while five more be lieved it lucky one said that seven occurring in an anecdote or state ment was the sign of a lie many of the superstitions de scribed related to marriage friend ship the weather cards and ill ness here are some of them domestic omens the young woman who sings while she eats will marry a cross eyed husband to trip on the stairs is a sign that marriage is impos sible within a year three times a brides-maid never a bride three co-eds thought it unlucky for a bride to see her husband before the ceremony on the wedding day the man who sits at the far corner of a table will be a bachelor and the young woman who sits there will be an old maid if four persons ac cidentally cross hands one will marry soon favorite omens of good luck re ported to professor jordan were a wagon load of empty barrels the number 88 certain lucky pieces of clothing a seventh son of a sev enth son a load of hay a white horse and stepping out of the front door with tile right foot first presenting their arguments over station wcba allentown lehigh university debaters will meet ce dar crest at 9 p m thursday eve ning on the proposition resolved that the evils of the machine age outweigh its benefits lehigh will defend the affirmative lehigh will be represented by matthew j murphy first speaker edward fleischer second speaker and emmanuel scoblionko third speaker scoblionko will give the rebuttal for the lehigh team cedar crest will be represented by miss julia bondy first speaker miss lucy vansyckle second speaker and miss marion hoats third speaker miss marcia krev sky will give the rebuttal main speeches and rebuttals will be eight minutes in length three judges will render their decisions after listening to the debate over their radios they will phone in their verdicts immediately at the conclusion of the debate the judges will be chosen today by the rev b b musselman own er of the radio station according to manuel ruderman manager of debate university register published saturday 1931 issue of catalogue has few revisions the 1931 issue of the university register and announcement was published saturday the catalogue differs little from that issued last march the publication contains the university calendar a register of the faculty administrative officers and students and descriptions of en trance requirements curricular or gsnizations scholarships fellow ships and prizes of the university the descriptions of several of the curricula have been rewritten par ticularly those of the college of arts and science according to the register 1,736 students represent 34 states and eight foreign countries of these men 316 are arts and science stu dents 376 a>-e in the college of bus iness administration 866 study en gineering and the rest are either graduate or summer session stu dents brrrrr ..." it was only the automatic door bell announcing to bill mccaa whose twinkling eyes have looked at lehigh faces through the peep hole of a camera for the past 30 years that the threshold of his stu dio had again been crossed was he disappointed to learn that it was no customer but only a brown and white reporter he was not for if there is anything bill mccaa loves to do beside snap ping pictures it is to reminisce about lehigh well bill — you've given us four articles now can you give us an other removing the half-smoked and badly mangled sigar from his mouthfhe leaned back and smiled sure — how'd you like to learn something about early lehigh pres idents—real old-timers grab your pencil . . . '' discusses presidents when i first came to lehigh dr drown was serving his seventh year as president of the university an office which he held until his death iri november 1904 began bill it was during his admiriistra mccaa grants a fifth interview discusses early lehigh president tion that the university advanced in reputation in the world of en gineering williams hall named in honor of prof e l williams jr 75 was erected in 1902 dr drown was very highly educated having graduated from the university of pennsylvania later studying at harvard and yale before he came to lehigh he taught chemistry at lafayette and m i t dr d w chandler senior pro fessor of the university acted as president from november until june when dr henry sturgis drinker 71 wai elected to the presidency it was during his ad ministration that lehigh enlarged its enrollment and bettered its fa cilities for college life the educa cational equipment was expanded as well as athletrc equipment taylor hall a gift of andrew car negie was named in honor of an associate in his company c l tay lor 76 in 1909 100,000 was do nated to the university in honor ofi robert h sayre merpber of the first board of trustees t>y his child ren part of it was sjftnt in the purchasing of land and constructing of roads the remainder was put aside as an endowment fund wednesday 4:10 p m meeting of engineering council in memorial building 7:30 p m faculty dramatic club meeting at home of ' prof and mrs r w hall 37 e4e 4 church street 7:30 p m meeting of scabbard and blade room 208 packard laboratory 7:30 p m pi mv epsilon meeting room 400 packard laboratory thursday 7:30 p m meeting of lehigh re view board in drown hall 7:30 p m meeting of chemical so ciety in main lecture room of chemical laboratory three lehigh champs three lehigh wrestlers frank shaw in the 135-lb class paul seal in the 145-lb class and pete peck in the 165-lb class fought their way to the top of their respec tive divisions five other new champions two from cornell two from yale and one from columbia were crowned no former title holder wrestling to retain his laurels the cornell champions are powell beyland in the 126-lb class and wilford pen ny in the 175-lb class david big wood and eddie . rotan won the 118-lb and the unlimited titles for yale and orrin clark of colum bia led the 155-lb class columbia proved its strength as demonstrated in its dual meet with lehigh last weak by placing third with 14 points one ahead of yale while the other teams scored in the . following order syracuse 11 perm 6 perm state 5 and princeton 4 the most exciting bout of the en tire tournament was pete peck's championship match with donald hooker of princeton in hooker peck met an opponent whp tested his brilliant technique to the limit and his victory was due in large measure to his superior endurance peck finally pinned his man just two seconds before the end of the second extra period when hooker collapsed the princeton wrestler probably 1 came closer to marring peck's unblemished record than has any opponent in the past wrestl ing fans had talked about this bout even before the preliminaries start ed and the roar which greeted the announcement of the bout indicated the expectations of the crowd peck however was favored slight hooker gains lead hooker obtained an immediate advantage when he took his oppon ent to the mat for over a minute of the fight holding him underneath for over a minute peck struck his head against the gymnasium floor as hooker rushed him to the mat stunning himself so badly that aft er a yew minutes of wrestling he sank to the mat while time was called for the remainder of the regular bout he was forced to ex ert all his energy to wipe out hook er's advantage peck's rally was sufficient however and at the close of the period he had hooker in a dangerous grip lehigh supporters took heart as the judges called for two extra per iods since peck appeared to be fresher than his opponent he chose the defensive working loose in a very short time as they shoved each other about the mat hooker fell to the , floor injuring himself more severely than peck had hurt himself a few minutes before he rallied however and held peck eff for the remaining three minutes peck gains fall hooker got up from underneath even more quickly than peck had using a simple elbow roll to re verse his position — a hold to which peck has succumbed several times this season however the lehigh wrestler went at hooker with in creased vigor after this he took him to the mat twice applying sev eral punishing holds which so weak ened hooker that he remained un conscious on the mat after the ref eree tapped peck for the pin hooker had to be carried off and it was reported that he was not re vived for ten rriimates later he for feited his bout for second place peck too was assisted from the mat the intense excitement which pre vailed during the bout was accen tuated by the speed with which the grapplers fought f^st as peck is he could never move quickly enough to get around hooker al continued on page three lehigh's three intercollegiate champions bethlehem pa tuesday march 17 1931 vol xxxiii no 42 price — five cents wrestlers regain championship shaw seal and peck win individual titles freshman rules will end april 1 cabinet decides arts engineers more friendly p.m palmer says elected captain lehigh department head addresses philadelphia club friday six directors elected brown and white sophomore council changes date at meet ing last night is not abolition move lehigh captures three firsts two seconds and third to score 30 points cornell takes > - second with 22 „ engel gets third upset by beyland and amster hirshberg and shanker run second to rotan and penny peck and hooker both injured as former wins title bout the resolution passed by the sophomore cabinet is as follows : resolved that with the closing of the university for the spring vacation all freshman regula tions shall be discontinued all the lehigh 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