Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 47

              athletic letters for winter sports will be awarded at the college meeting thursday at 11 a m at thp flagpole the meet ing will be conducted by ar cadia all 11 o'clock classes will be excused to permit students at tendance w miller upsets senior elections defeating ware two unnominated candidates are chosen by com bine strength ; simpson wins over angle as his torian best rumbach lyons and duncan receive positions liberal party sweeps sophomore offices peck elected junior president by large majority keck riviere aufhammer scheer and doering also selected many athletes among officers-elect rhors and riley tie in elections flip of coin will decide interfraternity vice ' president juniors frosh plan banquets is a dinner at which prominent cam pus personalities are satirized and roasted on a grid as it were the proceedings of the affair are kept secret and no account of the skits and burlesques is ever published similar affairs are held annually in one or two other colleges in the united states the gridiron banquet held each spring in washington by the national press club has long been famous numbering among its guests and victims the country's great men over 100 students attended the first affair last year voted one of the most unusual banquets ever held at lehigh the program for the forthcoming banquet is already completed and members of pi del ta epsilon are now busily rehears ing their parts according to the chairman of the banquet commit tee the program will include a broader and more jovial satire of campus life than last year the subscription price to cover the cost of the dinner has been set at 2.50 checks should be mailed to philip s davis phi delta theta april 13 is absolutely the final date for mailing such checks since the proximity of the banquet will per mit of no further extension of time committee wants gridiron replies annual banquet is an affair at which prominent cam pus personalities are satirized and roasted on a grid actions kept secret ' scene on the campus first student say are you going to this gridiron banquet second student naw i don't see why i should go to a dinner for the foot ball team the veracity of the above con versation is attested by the delay of students in replying to invita tions for the second annual gridiron banquet sponsored by pi delta ep silon honorary journalistic society april 23 many students especially those who did not attend the first banquet last year do not under stand exactly what a gridiron ban quet is according to phil davis chairman of the banquet commit tee he has decided therefore to extend the time for mailing accep tances to friday april 17 the or iginal time limit expired yesterday approximately 300 invitations have been sent to prominent fac ulty members friends of the uni versity and undergraduates about 200 of this number were mailed to undergraduates only f leading stu dents in campus affairs are asked to attend the banquet not for football stars for the benefit of those students who think the affair is a glorifica tion of the pigskin heroes it must be reported that a gridiron banquet no definite arrangements announced for an nual soph dinner mustard and cheese to give spring show at houseparty d sawyer elected on league committee will present modern comedy the play's the thing 12 new men elected students and faculty of the uni versity will welcome prospective members of the class of 1935 at 9 a m saturday when sub-freshman registration begins according to andrew buchanan executive secre tary of the alumni association complete plans have been made to entertain members of next year's freshman class from 9 until 11 o'clock the sub freshmen will be shown about the campus and through the various buildings by a reception committee of upper classmen at 11 o'clock they will assemble in packard lab oratory auditorium to be welcomed by dr natt m emery who will introduce three speakers neil carothers head of the department of business administra tion prof p m palmer head of the college of arts and science and prof bradley stoughton repre senting the college of engineering will give short addresses of wel come richards to speak following the session in packard auditorium the men will repair to the armory where luncheon will be served after lunch dr charles russ richards president of the university and walter r okeson treasurer of the university will speak to the men at 2 o'clock the sub-freshmen will view the baseball game be tween lehigh and swarthmore in taylor stadium following the ball game the prospective freshmen will see the brown and white track team in action against swarthmore on the upper field the sub-freshmen will be guests of the various fraternity houses to which they have been assigned dur ing registration three or four hundred men are expected to at tend according to mr buchanan faculty to give modern comedy a toss of a coin will elect the next vice president of the interfra ternity council the council elected four new of ficers at a meeting held yesterday in drown hall robert c clark was elected president a tie oc curred between arthur g rohrs and george h riley for the office of vice president and since the lal ter was not present at the meeting the decision as to who should as sume office was postponed until a future date when a coin will be tossed carl f hull was elected secretary and frank l fisher was appointed treasurer frank a rushong retiring pres ident addressed the assembly on the subject of sub-freshman day arrangements and it was decided that representatives from each house should attend to the regis tration in the alumni sfemorial building appointed in the rqorning rushong also requested that lists of the guests of the various houses for that day be sent to him at the phi gamma delta house the cooperative buying plan which has been frequently proposed in the past was again discussed but no action was taken arcadia names men for office donald s sawyer 32 was elected to the continuity commit tee of the model league of na tions at its annual assembly at princeton two weeks ago the committe consists of members from the country at large and is the governing body oj the league between sessions sawyer will read a report of last year's activities of the league at the meeting of the interna tional relations club thursday april 16 at th\s meeting officers sor next year will be elected club will present aren't we all saturday evening nomirfstes last evening college meeting to be held thursday tate suggests hudak for staff former georgetown back field star being con sidered for coach the scholastic rating of living groups determined by the first sem ester work has been released by associate dean g b curtis there are few radical changes in rankings comparing them with those of last semester leonard hall remains first with an average of 2.660 as compared to 2.653 the pre vious semester omega phi sigma stands second with an average of 2.540 and all senior group re mains third with 2.086 phi sigma kappa climbed from rank 40 to rank 25 theta delta chi rbse from 38 to 21 lambda chi alpha and alpha chi rho fifth and 6th had been twenty-second and nineteenth respectively the entire university average of 1.781 is low as compared to 1.972 last semester and 1.8719 in the first semester of 1929-1930 as sociate dean curtis explained that the first semester averages are gen erally lower than those of the sec ond 1 eleven fraternities are in danger of social probation houses with averages below 1.6 for two semes ters are subject to this ruling the complete report is as follows 2.660 leonard hall . 2.540 omega phi sigma 2.086 all seniors 2.042 taylor hall section c 2,017 taylor hall section d 1.965 lambda chi alpha 1.945 alpha chi rho 1.926 sigma phi 1.924 sigma alpha mv 1.901 all juniors 1.890 ' chi phi 1.879 all dormitories 1.874 phi delta theta 1.870 sigma chi 1.868 all non-fraternity men 1.868 alpha kappa pi 1.864 taylor hall section e 1.857 pi lambda phi 1.839 town group 1.834 taylor hall section a 1.799 taylor hall section b 1.781 entire university 1.780 delta tau delta 1.777 delta upsilon 1.755 tau delta phi 1.747 theta delta chi 1.740 sigma phi epsilon 1.732 theta xi 1.707 all fraternity men 1.685 price hall 1.679 phi sigma kappa 1.668 all sophomores 1.656 chi psi 1.636 phi gamma delta 1.631 all freshmen 1.616 phi delta pi 1.597 delta phi 1.584 kappa alpha 1.579 phi sigma delta 1.564 sigma nu 1.525 theta kappa phi 1.479 kappa sigma 1.421 beta theta pi 1.398 alpha tau omega 1.396 phi beta delta 1,350 pi kappa alpha 1.338 psi upsilon pre-meds hear dr worth hale mustard and cheese yesterday started work on their annual spring production it is the play's the thing a former broadway suc cess and will be given thursday and saturday april 30 and may 2 the second performance will be given saturday afternoon for house party guests the cast will be composed en tirely of actors with former club experience tryouts are being held today and tomorrow * the play's the thing was writ ten by ferenc molnar an austrian and translated by p g wodehouse promient english humorist it was first produced by holbrook blinn who also played the role of sandor turai the small cast which will con sist entirely of experienced men will have no trouble in whipping the play into shape by houseparty declared jack r lee president of mustard and cheese r twelve new members were elect ed to the club on friday warren fletcher instructor in english who is to aid in coaching the spring play was elected to honorary mem bership the eleven new student members are william g alcorn 31 sydney r snitkin 31 fren cis ne'uwirth 31 robert c clark 32 frederick d keck 33 george c doering 33 clifford e harri son jr 33 pierce j flanigan 33 robert b.'wafl 33 philip a ror ty jr 33 and arthur l graham 33 murray announces arrival of blazers francis a murray who is in charge of the sale of senior blaz ers announced that at this time over 200 had been ordered the first hun dred have been delivered and the remainder of the order is being made up as rapidly as possible in order that those who have not yet ordered their blazers and now wish to do so may be accom modated mr murray will be in drown hall all day tomorrow to present handbook eta kappa nu honorary elec trical fraternity every year will present the highest ranking sopho more in the electrical engineering department with an electrical en gineer's handbook the society vot ed at a recent meeting the hand book will be presented for the first time on founder's day next octo ber aren't we all a lively english drawingroom comedy by frederick lonsdale will be presented by the faculty dramatic club at 8:15 o'clock saturday evening april 18 in drown hall the cast includes prof and mrs sidney brown capt and mrs john k rice mrs warren w ewing prof charles c goodwin prof john m toohy warren fletcher william g al corn arts 31 and david d fisch er arts 33 the play is being di rected by mrs c b meyer of al lentown the entire cast has had previous theatrical experience mrs john toohy is in charge of publicity and stage properties mor ris kanaly is stage manager costumes to be modern the costumes ultra-modern in style will be furnished by hess brothers of allentown ticketg are j)n sale at young's drug stores or may be purchased from mr kanaly ¦ the reserved seats are 1.50 and 1 while the general admission is 50c harvard professor speaks al annual banquet of medical society macdougall hits 1 5 journalists the junior and freshman classes will hold their annual banquets april 17 and 23 respectively at the hotel bethlehem tickets for either banquet may be purchased from representatives of either class this week at 2 each the juniors will be entertained throughout the banquet with several singing and dancing choruses ac cording to r w burk chairman of the banquet committee ' the pro gram will also consist of short talks given by prof bradley stoughton and prof frederick a bradford the idea of entertaining the mem bers of the class by having several singing and dancing sketches dur ing the meal is quite new for le high class banquets - the freshmen plan to have sev eral prominent men of the univer sity present at their banquet among those men scheduled to give toasts are dr neil carothers an drew buchanan who also will per form several of his sleight of hand tricks capt j k rice capt p.l sadler prof j s long prof fay c bartlett and dean c m mc conn according to w h mc dowell chairman of commit tee tickets may be purchased from any member of the present fresh man cabinet 175 to attend it is expected*-that 175 men will attend the junior banquet while the freshmen expect 250 or 300 men no plans have been made yet for the sophomore class banquet al though it is expected that the soph omore council will take action on this matter at its next meeting fitzgerald to talk on transportation public relations official for rail roads will speak thursday john m fitzgerald vice chair man of the committee on public re lations of the eastern railroads will speak on transportation in pack ard auditorium thursday april 16 at 8:15 p m mr fitzgerald will speak under the auspices of the civil engineer ing society and alpha kappa psi professional business fraternity the talk is open to the public angelo patri educator to speak here friday angelo patri well known lectur er speaker and educator will speak on the right aattitude in a pub lic lecture at 8 o'clock in the south side high school friday evening mr patri is principal of schools in lower new york and has built up a reputation because of his pow er to stimulate the interest of the pupils he is a widely read author some of his articles appearing in the metropolitan dailies field trip cuts rewarded - by 70,500 word assign ment johnny hudak former bethlehem high and georgetown backfielder has been recommended as assistant football coach to replace bill springsteen by a austin tate le high coach the recommendation was made to jack petrikin grad uate manager of athletics no action has ben taken on the matter as yet hudak graduated from bethlehem high school iri 1926 after an out standing athletic career there he has played alternately as fullback and halfback for three years at georgetown and will graduate this june letters are awarded engle shaw seal shanker hirshberg shoemaker rauch cias tkewicz and fuller manager were awarded major letters in wrestling cushman was awarded a major let ter in swimming and brennesholtz dean enscoe fritz fluck ross walker and drukker were award ed minor l's the following men were award ed their freshman numerals bas ketball bolton chambers fergu son gearhart hess riiey ruth klatzkin howitz and guthrie wrestling peck meixel wright bishop beidler ford wolcott short metz swimming bell clark hoffman holler kennedy heli zoney yon lehn canov stand ing weill taylor nickerson summers and hammer gregg was awarded a minor l as assistant manager of frosh bas ketball murphey as manager of frosh wrestling and cresswell as manager of frosh swimming a sharp political move elected two unnominated men to senior offices on friday enough supporters of winton l miller and william c simpson added their names to the printed ballot to gfve them a slight majority as president and historian respectively allen t ware and john e angle both were unopposed for these of fices on the original ballot political combines also swept both lower class elections clarence pete " peck will lead the juniors next year and john k beidler swept to the presidency of the sophomore class by a liberal party landslide although many individual mem bers were observed discussing the elections before the arcadia meet ing last evening no mention of the matter was made during the meet ing rumors that an official protest had been filed were denied by john d benedict president if there is he continued it will be considered next monday by the senior members of arcadia note newly-elected junior members at tended last night's meeting although insisting that the elec tions were perfectly legal as far as the present rules are concerned he admitted that it is possible more rigid rulings will be discussed mon day the complete results follow senior class president winton l miller 79 allen t ware 70 vice president dantel e best 104 charles f halsted 47 treasurer george e brumback 102 william a lowney 42 william h sachs 6 secretary john m lyons jr 84 philip b meyers 54 armand r baldwin 11 sergeant-at-arms jame.s e duncan 91 melville c bingham 34 winton l miller 12 libert t chandler 8 h b osborn 4 historian william c simpson 76 john e angle 69 junior class president clarence p peck 100 jess f clark 2 vice president fred d keck 69 william p baker 20 john s skelly 13 treasurer burt h riviere 66 charles w cooper 19 john s mcelwain 17 secretary john a aufhammer , 73 john w shelhart 16 paul j kopp 12 historian henry c scheer 64 samuel j hanna 31 edmund t sergott 6 sergeant-at-arms george c doering 100 richard a andrews 2 sophomore class president john k beidler 155 marcel k peck 95 vice president alexander f list 136 r mccleod ho secretary leonard e robbins 139 garrett l grier 109 treasurer lewis h eichelberger 152 wilson w bolton 94 historian foster l gearhart 155 theodore a straub 96 sergeant-at-arms warren ackerman 154 john w heiney 96 h y miller e smith a w lubbers c h coogan c turner j radding g mcmean e.a guth rie g e smith and daniel f ivins were chosen for the sopho more cabinet the senior and soph omore elections showed the best support from their respective classes coming events the sophomore comprehensive examinations will be held on april 27 instead of in the first week in june as in former years the faculty decided at a meeting yesterday aft ernoon a new type of examination has been approved on the recom mendation of a faculty committee the 1931 golf schedule and the freshman football schedule for next fall were accepted and new eligibil ity rules proposed by the board of control of athletics were approved the dates for the annual military inspection were set for may 4 and 5 the results of the psychological examinations giyen to the lehigh freshmen were also published exams begin at 8 a m comprehensive examinations will begin at 8 a m to 12:00 p.m and from 2 p m to 5 p m it is to be taken by all men with second sem ester sophomore standing the morning examination will consist of 80 questions based on chemistry mathematics and physics formulat ed by the eight engineering depart ments with the approval of the three so-called service departments the afternoon quiz will be made and given by the various engineer ing departments to students elect ing that particular curriculum upon the results of these examinations together with class grades and in dividual estimations of each stu dent will depend the official advis ory action made by the faculty it was announced that the follow ing regulation had been repealed by the board of control of athletics under certain conditions the playing of summer baseball does not render a student ineligible to represent the university in intercol legiate contests provided the board of control has knowledge of the conditions and gives its approval pass new rule the following rule also passed by the board of control was an nounced no student who at mid-semester is deficient in courses totalling nine hours or more may during the re mainder of the semester represent the university in any intercollegiate sport whose first scheduled contest is played after mid-semester it was also decided the annual mlitary inspection will take place on may 4 and 5 the indoor inspection will occur dur ing regular classes while the out door inspection will be held on monday from 4 to 6 p m and on tuesday from 1 to 2 p m classes will start on daylight saving time starting monday morning april 27 howard s leach librarian announced that a travel exhibition will be held in the art gallery beginning wednesday afternoon posters pamphlets and bibliographies will be on display the object being to stimulate a greatest interestjn travel students other than freshmen who have qualified in the basic course in m s & t may elect the advanced course and may receive their commissions as soon as the military work is completed fresh men suitably qualified may take the second year of the basic course the foregoing proposal was adopt ed as supplementary to the rule which is now in effect psychology exams president richards received in formation concerning the psychol ogy examinations given to lehigh freshmen to the effect that out of 137 colleges taking the examination lehijfh ranked eighteenth president richards further stated that le high's median man ranked as the first quartile man out of 35,000 stu dents taking the test the faculty educational club will hold its regular meeting on april 20 at 2:00 p m the following athletic schedules were approved by the faculty freshman football 1931 sat oct 10 muhlenberg sat oct 24 rutgers sat oct 31 — perkiomen sat nov 7 — allentown prep sat nov 14 — lafayette golf 1931 thur april 16 — wm & mary thur april 23 — swarthmore sat april 25 — lafayette wed april 29 rutgers sat may 9 f & m mon may 11 — haverford away games it is impossible for medical schools to pick their men scienti fically stated dr worth hale as sociate professor of pharmacology and assistant dean of the faculty of medicine at harvard medical school at the annual banquet of the rob ert w hall pre-medical society friday evening at the hotel beth lehem dr hale described the history of medical development in brief and gradually led his discussion to the recognition of importance of chem ical synthesis in medicine today he then described the medical school and their method of selection of students he quoted figures t prove that the number of men applying was increased alarmingly in the past decade and that it was becoming in creasingly difficult for the medical school to select the best material since only one man in some cases is chosen from between eight to thirty applicants depending upon the school furthermore dr hale said there is a definite limit to the number of men the medical schools can accommodate among those present were dr hale president richards prof p m palmer prof r w hall prof s thomas dr r c bull dr j.r bierman merill leister 28 and dr j longacre three men pledged sigma nu announces the pledg ing of ben bishop 34 manheim thomas holme 35 philadelphia and alvin letowt 34 hazleton nominations for officers and va vious committees were held last evening in drown hall for pres ident w h sachs and r k ser fass were nominated for secretary c f schier and m j graham and for treasurer m w shanker c.f hull and h j shanker j d benedict president of ar cadia read plans for the sub-fresh man day program and thanked the fraternities on v behalf of a e buchanan jr secretary of the al umni association for their coopera tion last year each living group was requested to hand in before wednesday a list of the men accept ing invitations to that group and the total number it can accommo date benedict further asked that cars and living group representatives be on hand after the swarthmore base ball game to take care of the sub freshmen assigned to them in case of rain fraternities will be respon sible for the entertainment of the sub-frosh immediately after the luncheon which is to be held in the armory the program includes the show ing of movies in packard laboratory on saturday afternoon it was announced that a college meeting will be held on thursday at 11 o'clock at which athletic awards for fall and winter sports will be made the final college meeting of the semester will take place on may 6 on that day le high union officers and cheerlead ers will be elected at the meeting nominations were held for the various committees for the board of control of ath letics a l duncan i j holahan i e rothenburg r h enscoe h j lockhart and j e angle were nominated for the booster com mittee d h mays j brown e w kaufman h p krusen a f barnard and c f schier for the dance committee f l fisher w m schuck s solomon w.j for stall for the publications commit tee h a kriebel e w voit j e rothenburg e b hildum p.b myers and f l fisher nominees for the committee on student activities include c.h rob son m e cooper yj j forstall and c r giegerich for the house cfl'mmittee r s stabler and w.t ransburg for the student clubs committee h f casselman c r giegerich p b myers r s stab ler and w o roth fifteen of the sixteen students at tending the journalism field trip in new york city preceding the east er vacation will be forced to write a total of at least 70,500 words in reports on 47 books according to a statement issued april 13 by prof curtis d macdougall head of the department of journalism the re quirements are issued as penalties for absences taken during the last afternoon of the trip failure to complete these makeup require ments will result in a grade of e for each journalism class in which the student is registered professor macdougall declared penalties are computed by a com bination of several systems of high er mathematics and take into con sideration the student's major the number of absences incurred and the number of journalism courses taken the offense of being a ma jor in the journalism department incurs the highest single penalty professor macdougall in an in terview with the brown and white denounced the journalism majors as a bunch of big bums and added they can go to the devil wednesday april is 7 p m senior banquet hotel beth lehem 8:15 p m eta sigma phi meet ing room 466 packard labora tory 9 p m tau beta pi meeting room 167 packard laboratory thursday april 16 11 a m college meeting at flag pole bethlehem pa tuesday april 14 193f price — five cents sophomore exams set for april 27 vol xxxiii no 47 plans complete for entertaining 350 sub-freshmen dean releases croup ratings for last term to award letters at college meeting future members of class of 1935 here sat urday plan entertainment revised engineering com prehensives scheduled by faculty golf schedule passed mid-semester ineligibility rule passed by groups brown and white eleven fraternities in dan ger of social pro bation leonard hall first senior class banquet to be held tomorrow the senior banquet will be held at 7 p m tomorrow in the hotel bethlehem the tickets which may be purchased from john engel chairman of the banquet committee george shoe maker thomas r lewis wal ton tiedekin or robert krone will cost 2.50 each the maroon and brown col legians will provide the music dean c m mcconn andrew buchanan coach a austin tate and dr r c bull will be the guests of honor competitors to meet a meeting of all sophomores interested in competition for business manager of the fresh man handbook will be held at 4 p m thursday in drown hall r c benson business man ager will be in charge request sub-frosh list orders for class day and graduation programs will be tak en all day thursday and friday and saturday morning at drown hall all fraternities entertaining guests on sub-freshman day are requested to send the names of the men and the number of ex tra men they can accommodate on saturday evening to frank a rushong at thcphi gamma del ta house member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first