Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 12

              seniors plan factory visits on fall tour dean mcconn says students learn nothing tau beta pi men pledged by richards 10 engineers were hon ored at chapel this morning in formal cer emony dravo company's repre sentatives view tests on replica of cantilev er crane cost estimated at 500,000 to be erected at navy yard burt h riviere 33 clifford e harrison 33 and robert h raring 32 left this morning to represent the brown and white paper at the convention of the intercollegiate newspaper asso ciation of the middle atlantic states which is being held today and tomorrow at the dickinson college in carlisle prizes are to be awarded to the college papers having the best editorial and news writing last spring the brown and white won its fifth consecutive prize in these semi-annual con tests taking second place in the editorial division last night's chief offender be fore the sophomore council was literally taken for a ride for not knowing either the funda mental rules prescribed for freshmen or the lehigh songs and cheers the unwary one was blindfolded and placed in a car under the supervision of several sophomores their ultimate des tination was at the time a mys tery but will probably be a long remembered spot for the unheed ing frosh one other candidate was requested to return next week for a final examination by next week the council ex pects to have a set arrangement of rules that will be applicable to first second and third offenders ogburn tells of the sextant play by shaw to be given the man who for the last 30 years has linked the lehigh campus with the rest of the world will not return to the university until de cember david eshljach campus mailman whose efficient work and ready greeting have long made him popu lar with the faculty and student body has been confined to his home for two months as a result of a knee injury an ever present smile makes davy popular with the thousands of lehigh-men whom he has known in his years of service and the pos session of a keen memory makes it possible for him to name return ing alumni many years after their graduation upon his return in de cember davy hopes to meet many of his old friends and make many new ones among the freshmen davy is an institution stated president richards in commenting on his years of service he has served faithfully and well and his a pleasant manner which has en davy eshbach campus postman confined two months by injury deared him to all other officials of the university characterized esh bach's service as efficient and faithful while confined to his home davy recently celebrated his 64th birthday and received greeting cards from many of his university friends he has devoted much of his time to reading and makes such a thor ough study of the weather maps that he is generally regarded as an accurate prophet of storms at the close of the scholastic year davy wilk be eligible for retirement on a government pen sion and may leave the university route which he has so long traveled to enjoy a private life in the mean while however lehigh waits for his early return to the campus for his remaining months of service davy is a member of several fraternal organizations is married and has one son truman w esh bach 23 who is now employed by the simmonds heating company stockton wins frosh election among three one-act dramas by mustard and cheese on nov 23 speaks to newly organiz ed astronomical society at first meeting barker cites economic data 254 votes cast in select ing freshman commit tee chairman engineering problem must change says for mer e e head this week the dravo contract ing company of pittsburgh has been testing a model of the coun try's largest cantilever crane in the fritz engineering laboratory mr g f wolfe chief draftsman mr jacobi designer mr p g strohl estimater all of the dravo com pany and mr h c hayes of the united states bureau of yards and docks have witnessed the tests of the model the crane of which the one at lehigh is the model which is to be built for the bremerton navy yard at puget sound the contract was recently let to the dravo contract ing company with an estimated cost of nearly 500,000 the tower of the crane is to have a diameter of 60 feet and a height of about 90 feet the cantilevers have five trolleys all operated from the same control house the unique value of this crane is the transfer of the load from the cantilever to the support ing tower through a complete ring of horizontal rollers the capacity of the crane is approximately 250 tons the beam is 150 feet long tests measured accurately the model crane at lehigh is built to scale and is one twenty fourth as large as the finished pro duct the metals of the two cranes are the same and all dimensions are proportional the deflection and strain tests can be taken on the model to an accuracy of one thou sandths of an inch if defects in the design of the model are found they can be corrected before the ac tual structure is built the model was built to withstand a stress of 50,000 pounds and in the tests it withstood weights over that amount f r dravo 87 and r m dra vo 89 are president and vice-pres ident respectively of the dravo contracting company sophomores to visit local coke works the sextant is invaluable to nav igators and explorers in far away places of the earth to keep them tri touch with the civilized world stated prof j h ogburn of the department of mathematics and astronomy in a speech to the newly organized astronomical society wednesday afternoon in packer hall about 20 students and towns people attended the meeting when explorers go to the arctic regions or to south pole territories they sometimes leave without a sextant consequently they get lost and are never able to return if however they carry a sextant they are constantly kept aware of their direction from the north pole or from definitely known poiit said professor ogburn professor ogburn stated that the sextant is in reality a portable as tronomical observatory which weighs only two pounds and can easily be carried in a suitcase in conjunction with his talk professor ogburn gave a short demonstration to show how the sextant is used the astronomical society has ad vanced rapidly in its reorganization process with the assistance of r n van arnam and prof j h ogburn faculty advisers the group has been able to secure prof er nest w brown to address the club at an open meeting in the near fu ture professor brown is a noted english-american astronomer who is now teaching at yale r a stockton 35 was elected chairman of the freshman execu tive committee in an overwhelming landslide receiving 23 out of a to tal of 254 votes cast in chapel this morning runners-up were r v pethic with 39 votes and p pres ton with 33 the other nominees re ceived votes as follows p allison 22 r w brown 17 john f per ry 9 c bigelow 6 a h loux 3 and l c black 2 the election was held under the supervision of arcadia with w h sachs handl ing the actual voting in chapel nominations for chairman were held yesterday morning directly after chapel exercises at that time mr sachs outlined the temporary form of government proposed for the freshman class the executive committee is to be formed imme diately to act as agent for the class in all of its affairs the chairman of this committee is to be elected from the freshman class at large after which he is to appoint two other men to serve with him one of these men is to be from the dor mitory group and the other from the town group of freshmen the organization of this executive coun cil is temporary and will last only until the final class officers are elected later in the term dean writes article on modern welding chemicals lead with s men 2 mechanicals 2 electricals this is one of the highest honors that can come to an engineering student said president richards as he formally announced the pledg ing of 10 men to the tau beta pi honorary fraternity in chapel this morning dr richards recounted the founding of tau beta pi after an attempt to establish a chapter of phi bet kappa at lehigh had fail ed in 1880 immediately following the an nouncement the men received the pledge button of the society the initiation of these men will take place within a few weeks probably soon after the thanksgiving vaca tion the pledges are lawson v brit ton m e 32 charles e green ch e 32 george a hottle ch e 32 george m kaleda e e 32 charles w cooper e e 33 em erson w kaufman ch.e 32 har ry b osborne ch e 32 benja min raboinowitz ch.e 32 robert h raring mm e 32 james c rhoads m e 33 last year's list compared the chemical engineers lead in this year's list of pledges with five men the balance of the list is made up of two mechanical one mining and two electrical engineers in the list of 11 men pledged last fall the industrial engineers lead with four men the electrical me chanical and metallurgical engin eers were each represented by two men and the chemical engineers by one man the tau beta pi honorary fra ternity was organized by dr e h williams for the purpose of con ferring distinction upon those en gineers who held high averages in their scholastic work and were also active in student and campus af fairs dr williams inaugurated the first chapter of the society alpha of pennsylvania at lehigh in 1885 and it has since expanded to include 58 chapters at the leading technical schools with a total membership of over 17,000 the founder of tau beta pi was professor of mining engineering and geology at lehigh from 1881 to 1902 and is the donor of williams hall and the williams prizes in english economics phil osophy and psychology at the uni versity journalists discuss program for year pi delta epsilon plans to edit a pictorial whether to hold a gridiron ban quet or to edit a pictorial of the lehigh campus will be discussed at the meeting of the pi delta epsil on honorary journalistic fraternity tonight in drown hall the proposed pictorial is a pam consists of caricatures of students and the faculty these and the most interesting events of the year will be portrayed by the members there have been two of these banquets during the past two years the proposed pictorial isa pam phlet containing many interesting pictures of the lehigh campus if published it will be sent to the alumni and to all the men who con templated coming to lehigh frateenity robbed intruders at phi sigma kappa take 11 the phi sigma kappa house was robbed for the second time in two weeks early last wednesday morn ing the thief made off with 11 the sum of small amounts taken from the trouser pockets of the members many valuable watches within easy reach were not touched in the previous robbery when only a few rooms were gone through 16 a suit of clothes and several watches were taken it is believed that the same thief was responsible for both robberies dr harvey a neville 111 expects to return monday dr harvey alexander neville associate professor of chemistry has been unable to hold classes during the past week due to a slight attack of influenza the result of a cold he has been unable to leave his home he expects to re turn on monday competition opened for burr positions improved methods explained in metallurgical magazine future industrial leaders who are today the students in the engineer ing schools must be trained to ap preciate that there are greater prob lems in life than engineering and technical ones dean j w barker of the school of engineering at co lumbia university former head of the department of electrical engi neering at lehigh declared monday in his annual report to president nicholas murray butler it is highly desirable that we should continually keep our peda gogical methods flexible to meet the changes in conditions which arise dean barker reported par ticularly is this true at the present time when our western civilization is approaching one of the most im portant crossroads in history a crossroad where it is to come into more or less violent conflict with another civilization rising in the east and founded upon a radically different thesis according to dean barker engi neering education is preparing to meet the problems which russia is thrusting upon the industry of the western nations the tendency in engineering is shifting from an in dustrial emphasis to human prob lems including unemployment pro duction control and general eco nomic stability dean barker's report agrees with the results obtained from the ques tionnaire sent out by prof hale sutherland head of the department of civil engineering this question naire was sent to civil engineering graduates last january asking for suggestions and criticisms regard ing the present curriculum mustard and cheese will present a program of three plays on mon day nov 23 at drown hall the plays are lie by eugene o'neill the great katherine by george bernard shaw and at the tele phone by andre de lorde the plays are produced staged and directed by the dramatic class engl 61 and sponsored by the mustard and cheese club warren fletcher instructor in english will supervise the productions student tickets which are includ ed in the activities fee are good for this show or for the regular club production to be given later in the season at the telephone is directed by j h booker d h geary and d h anderson the part of andre marex will be taken by perry martha marex travis blaise and old manservant c stamm nanette a female servant d h anderson pierre marex not selected a tramp d h geary rivoire a friend of marex brisker justain c f van inwegen and lucienne rivoire d h anderson he by eugene o'neill is direct ed by c yaffe a w sobel and a e tonkonogy the part of cap tain keney will be taken by a e tonkonogy a steward e s wil liams joe the harpooner a ack er ben the cabin boy w weil slocum second mate s whitney and mrs keney c yaffe the great katherine is direct ed by j e rothenberg h j.wein stock and d d goldenberg the part of edstanton an englishman will be taken by j davis a ser geant tuton naryshkin valet de chambre ellis patiomkin a rus sian prince j e rothenberg va rinka niece of patiomkin van wu lven claire an english lady may nard katherine queen of russia d d goldenberg combined societies will meet tonight dean writes report on radium action results of carnegie tests show littele increase in knowledge after four years lehigh dean analyzes scores for north american review that college students learn prac tically nothing during their four years at college is claimed by dean max mcconn in an article in the november issue pf the north american review this statement is based oh the results of the ex amination given by the carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching examinations of the same kind were given in the past and it was found that freshmen obtained high er marks than seniors in many sub jects in 1928 these examinations were given to all high school seniors another examination was given in i°3o when these students were sophomores in college in 1932 a final test will be given to these students the results will show just how much the students have learn ed and retained during their four years at college dean mcconn says a high score in this kind of test does not mean that the student has obtained what we call a liberal education but a low score does indicate the lack of a liberal education because it reveals the absence of the founda tion on which a liberal education must stand electives cause laxities the probable cause of the failure of students to grasp and retain knowledge is that most colleges have adopted a system of free elec tives in place of the old time com pulsory courses said the dean most students study their assign ed lessons and very little more knowledge of things outside the regular curriculum in this case is quite impossible of course when students are given credits for pass ing a course in many cases they sell their text books and forget about the learning they received from them in some colleges says dean mcconn they are trying to do away with this unsatisfactory sys tem of giving credits for passing work they are establishing an honor system where students of high academic standing are allowed to follow or concentrate on a chosen field of interest this of course makes it necessary for a great deal of outside reading and special work these students are required to take a comprehensive examination at the time they grad uate up to now only those who are in their last two years at college are allowed to work under this honor system they have to de scribe fully the required work which they have studied no college has dared to put this system into effect for the whole student body as yet think of having to learn and remember everything in a course for four years and then take an examination covering the whole four years work university directory to be on sale at supply bureau the 1931 of the univer sity directory will probably go on sale saturday at the supply bureau in the alumni memorial building the price of this useful booklet is 50c at the bureau 55c by mail the directory which was to go on sale earlier in the week will not be ready until tomorrow due to a misunderstanding with the printer editorial and art material ac ceptable for future issues competition is now going on among the members of the three upper classes for positions on the editorial board of the lehigh burr students desiring a position on the board should submit their editorials to william m eyster chi psi or jokes to carl r giegrich alpha tau omega the editorials must run in three consecutive issues in order to be considered ralph benson editor in chief an nounced that any old suitable pic tures or humorous tintypes will be accepted for editorial or art mater ial the next issue of the burr is to be a lehigh-lafayette number any material either of a serious or humorous nature will be considered for publication mining metallurgical and chemical engineers have completed de tails for trip leave includes three days before thanksgiving holiday plans for field trips and inspec tion tours foj the engineering de partments to be held the three days before thanksgiving vacation are nearing completion the trips will include inspections of plants in wil mington baltimore philadelphia and new york the mining and metallurgical en gineers will leave on their inspec tion trip monday morning nov 23 they will spend the first part of the trip in wilmington del where they plan to visit the pyrites com pany this company treats in py rite which is imported from spain the pyrite is bleached and copper is obtained from it from wilming ton the party will travel to balti more where they will spend the night tuesday morning will be devoted to the inspection of the baltimore copper smelting and rolling com pany this company is a branch of the american smelting and refin ing company and is the largest of its kind in the world it has a ca pacity of 360,000 tons per year men travel by automobile twenty-six men will be included in the trip they will travel by au tomobile and return to bethlehem tuesday evening prof allison butts and w e harvey both of the department of metallurgy will accompany the men the trip of the department of chemistry will begin monday morn ing in philadelphia at the franklin sugar refining company monday afternoon the inspection tour will j)e resumed at the atlantic refining company tuesday morning will be filled with a tour of the grasselli chemical company which deals with heavy chemicals in the after noon the men will inspect sharp and dohme's plant which special ize in pharmaceutical materials the arthur h thomas plant will also be inspected tuesday afternoon laboratory apparatus is handled by that company the trip will be brought to a close wednesday morning with the inspection of the kimble glass company of vineland n j the party will be stationed at the ben jamin franklin hotel during its stay in philadelphia there will be 37 members in the party besides pro fessors theis diefenderfer and simmons mechanicals visit new york definite plans for the other en gineering departments have not been assembled as yet but the me chanical department will conduct a trip which will center its activities around new york and will probably visit several airplane plants tjie civil engineering trip al 1 though not complete in its details will in all probability include visits to the empire state building where instruments for measuring wind pressure and movement of the tow er will be inspected the new sew age disposal plant on ward's is land which is one of the largest ac tivated sludge plants in the world the new subway which is at pres ent under construction keuffel and esser company manufacturers of surveying instruments and slide rules the new york stock ex change and several new bridge among which will probably be the new george washington bridge and the kill van kull bridge this par ty will consist of 16 men and two professors they will stay at the hotel pennsylvania lehigh charity game profits will be divided three ways the profits of the lehigh-penn state charity football game to be held nov 28 at franklin field phil adelphia will be turned over to the presidents of lehigh perm state and pennsylvania each president will receive one third of the profits to be adminis tered for the benefit of unemploy ment relief expenses of the game will be reduced to a minimum to make this amount as large as pos sible the prices for the game are 2.50 for box seats 2 for reserved seats and 1 for general admission tick ets for the game will be on sale at the graduate manager's office in drown hall beginning monday nov 16 the gante will begin at 2 p m the university of pennsylvania band will play metallurgists will study ex traction of coal by-products sophomore students in the metal lurgical department will take a trip to the coke plant of the bethlehem steel company in northampton tuesday afternoon nov 10 dr gilbert e doan associate profes sor of metallurgy will conduct the tour this trip has always proved pop ular with the students and forms one of the high lights of the sopho more year probably the most spec tacular sights is the unloading of the coal cars when the car has ar rived at the appointed position the wheels are locked and the car turn ed over on its side dumps the coal another popular feature is the extraction of the coke from the ovens the huge white-hot mass is pushed with a long ramrod from the furnace onto a waiting car it is then cooled by water spray the actual mechanics of the pro cess of separating ammorya and tar from the coke cannot be observed however the retorts and various apparatus in which they are ex tracted are very interesting the final products of the separation form a base for the making of dyes and cosmetics the gas produced in making coke is used in the blast furnaces and engines at the bethlehem steel works but quite an amount of it is used for supplying the town with fuel for lighting heating and cook ing purposes professor cram and becker to address the group the robert w blake society pre-medical club and eta sigma phi honorary classical fraternity will meet tonight at the home of prof percy hughes 819 tioga ave nue it is hoped that this social gathering will better relations be tween both societies and that a clos er feeling of friendship will result the program committee announced the program will feature a speech by prof e l crum of the latin department on the practi cal philosophy of seneca prof f c becker will also address the group on the practical import if any of modern philosophy af ter both talks open discussions will be led by b rabinowitz and j a tempest respectively at the close of the meeting refreshments will be served form study groups hughes at meeting explains use of gamma rays in testing metals dr gilbert e doan associate professor of metallurgy is the auth or of a recent report of the engin eering foundation on the method of using gamma rays of radium tci photograph the internal structure of metals in order to find any de fects the gamma rays can penetrate through steel objects 12 inches thick the report states by its use valves for high pressure plants and pipe lines can be made safe the success of the experimental campaign writes dr doan was beyond the highest hopes of the re search workers clear cut shadows of defects in the interior of steel ob jects ten and even twelve inches thick have been registered on the film tiny flaws only two per cent of the thickness of the whole ob ject have been clearly revealed films are simply pasted on the back of an object mounted in front of the radioactive substance for the exposure of course suitable films and screens must be used to get the proper result later the film is re moved and developed to show the shadows cast by the object in the path of the rays a thousand small objects could be exposed at once by simply placing them in a sphe rical distribution about the radio active source the ductility of electric arc welds in steel the quality in which they have been heretofore deficient has been increased more than 100 per cent in the last fiv years states dr gilbert e doan associate pro fessor of metallurgy in his article review of modern arc welding which will appear in next month's number of the metal progress mag azine dr doan was invited last sum mer by the editor of this technical magazine to write the article which will be accompanied by technical illustrations and striking photo graphs showing the application of welding to industry likewise the speed with which a weld is made dr doan writes has been doubled these two im portant advances one in quality and the other in speed of production have already extended the use of this method of joining steel parts to many applications from which for years it has been barred for example 24 steam boilers for the new u s naval scout chui sers have been built and accepted under specifications drawn up by the american society of mechanical engineers boiler code commission and the navy department numerous similarly exacting ap plications of the process other than marine boilers but likewise requir ing high ductility as the welding of storage oil tanks refining equip ment and pipe for pipe lines ar now commonly made arc welding has apparently eradicated its prin cipal deficiency dr doan says that in the past arc welding in high pressure boilers was not to be trusted but the new developments in this field have gained the confidence of the most conservative engineering bodies circulation manager chosen jack henry kaufman c e 33 was appointed circulation manager of the lehigh review at a meeting of the board tuesday believe it or not there is a le high man running a dry-goods store in china the man's name is chia ku yu 24 proprietor of the . ya tv chien drapery store chiae pu chieh nauchang kiangsi china lehigh men are scattered throughout the world like autumn leaves after a high wind there are hundreds in california two in the argentine ten in brazil two in the british west indies two in the canal zone and eleven in chile every five years the university alumni association undertakes the vast project of listing the names and occupations of all alumni it has been four years since such a compilation was made and next year will see the process repeated letters will go to alumni all over the world asking them for their present occupations many of the letters will come back for each year finds the ranks of the earlier alumni depleted by death about 80 per cent of the letters will be answered to the effect that chiae puchich nauchang kiangsi is home town of chia-ku yu 24 the addressed alumnus is still doing what he was five years ago and r still living where he liyed five years ago world wide cataclysms like the world war and the present indus trial upheaval have a tendency to redistribute the population and for that reason more changes than usual are expected to be found when the letters go out next year mr chai-ku yu is not the only lehigh man in china besides him there are perhaps a hundred more l f knight 22 gives as his ad dress belgian congo africa peru has a good lehigh represen tation as has mexico japan and canada there are about ten le high men who may be visited in france there are two alumni in siam one in bangkok the other in deb sirindra two may be found in the land of harems turkey one in jo hannesburg transvaal africa and four in the phillipine islands one man a junior last year went to ha waii last summer for a vacation and has not returned mcconn to address university women study groups are now being formed by the bethlehem organi zation of the american association of university women townspeople are invited to join the study groups an announcement was made at the meeting on monday that dean c m mcconn will speak at the next meeting on nov 30 this meeting will be guest night mrs g b curtis the newly elected president gave a short talk on the aims of the association oth er work of the local branch was reported on by mrs james graham and mrs john barrett both of the fellowship fund committee represents lehigh at state educa tional convention prof percy hughes head of the department of philosophy and edu cation is now attending the amer ican state educational congress which has been held for the last two days at harrisburg the purpose of the meeting at which professor hughes is the le high delegate is to associate the high schools and the elementary schools of the state with each oth er and with the institutions of high er learning it likewise purposes to remedy the defects and unify the progress of education the speakers at the congress are governor gifford pinchot and dr rure state superintendent of edu cation vol xxxix no 1 2 bethlehem pa friday november 6 1931 sophomores turn racketeer as frosh is taken for ride lehigh men attend i.n.a meeting in carlisle today brown and white price — five cents crane model is displayed in fritz lab coming events saturday nov 7 1 p m varsity cross country vs johns hopkins 2 p ml freshman football vs al lentown prep taylor field member intercollegiate newspaper association ____^ rl-nri-i iinmi-tiii mill nw all the lehigh news first