Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 18

              library adds 411 volumes doan describes gamma-ray torch others read papers gallery open 2-6 p m daily and from 3-6 p m sundays colleges use these tests as criteria for admission grade crossings eliminated through bridge construction dramatic club to present philip barry comedy dec 16 in drown hall new books include art religion philosophy history and literature most secondary schools and other freshmen have trouble because they have not yet learned to manage their own time and to be self-start ers with respect to studies there are some cases the dean continued where good ability and plenty of time put on the work fail to achieve results because of faulty methods of study then of course there are the miscellaneous difficul ties not directly connected with college such as poor health finan cial troubles and love affairs according to university regula tions a first semester freshman who passes six hours but fewer than eleven hours is placed on probation and one who fails to pass the re quired six hours is dropped from the university the student who goes on proba tion may not represent the univer sity in any student activity or hold office on any student publication during the term of such probation and is dropped permanently from the university if he fails in four hours made up of two or more courses soon after the mailing of valen tines there comes to dean mc conn's office a pilgrimage of wor riad students who despair of ask ing themselves why and seek of ficial advice as to methods of boost ing their low averages in summarizing the causes for valentines and ultimate probation dean mcconn points out some of the reasons for failure in the first place explains the dean there are a few mcii who work very hard and fail because they don't have the fundamental ability to do intellec tual work at the college level this number however is small a larger number do badly simp ly because of taking things too easy in other words loafing quite a number are doing badly because they are in the wrong course they may be trying to be engineers when they should be taking business or vice versa a good many freshmen dean mcconn said have trouble in the first semester because they don't re alize that the pace of our work is about double the pace of work in okeson lauds team in talk lehigh enters arms parley names eleven greatest since 1924 at dinner given by rotary club delegation to represent italy in model confer ence at bucknell freshman honorary will initiate three mustard and cheese will present paris bound a comedy in three acts by philip barry on wednes day dec 16 in drown hall this play was first produced at the music box theatre in new york by arthur hopkins in 1927 donald cook madge kennedy and hope williams starred in the ori ginal production the incidental music was composed by frank harling paris bound is described as being not only a comedy of man ners but a keen study of marriage under what circumstances should a young married couple continue to live together if one of the two proves unfaithful mr barry con cludes that the family is more im portant than the egotism and pride of the injured party philip barry a young american playwrite was educated at yale and harvard he has written many other stage successes of recent years including holiday and tomorrow and tomorrow the cast is as follows mary hutton played by l o travis 35 jim hutton s askin 32 james hutton jim's father m gable 33 helen white jim's mother cyaffe 32 peter cope s simmons 33 nora cope w maynard 35 fanny shippan d d goldenberg 32 noel farley p vanwulven 35 richard par ish jack williams 35 and julie john kress 35 phi eta sigma to install men who get 4 averages sigma xi honorary research so ciety initiated nine associate mem bers during its meeting wednesday evening in packard laboratory these seniors and graduates are elmer charles easton william cronk elmore william kenneth griesinger edward barkdoll hil dum justus mitchell holme george austin hottle theodore robert kellner david lewis macadam and benjamin rabinowitz robert mick fluck was elected but was unable to appear because of football injuries after the initiation a program of short papers on current research was given by members gilbert e doan associate professor of metal lurgy read a paper on the gamma ray torch he described the technic and some results of the gamma-ray radiography of metals this work has attracted wide attention in the technical world cutler describes study dr e h cutler instructor in mathematics gave an analogue of the radii of curvature for surfaces in the space of n dimensions dr cutler described a study he has re cently made in differential geom etry of space a mathemetic field in which much current interest is cen tered because of its application to modern physical theory the next speaker warren w ewing associate professor of phy sical chemistry described the re sults of extensive studies in our chemistry department of the equili bruim properties of certain hydrat ed salts in the presence of water fishes cited by trembley mr f j trembley instructor in biology spoke on fishes at pres que isle he described the peculiar development of fishes at presque isle just off erie pa on lake erie in the ponds of this slowly moving sand peninsula the fish de velop new characteristics to acco modate themselves to their envir onment the last speaker percy hugres head of the department of philoso phy and education described the historical relations of philosophy to the sciences he presented cer tain aspects of the attempts of phil osophers and scientists to appre ciate each others contributions to civilization and the criticism by each of the others methods and in terpretation of findings scabbard and blade plans military ball annual dance will be held by society tomorrow arrangements have been complet ed for the formal military ball to be given by scabbard and blade sat urday evening from4)-12 at the ho tel bethlehem over 100 officers have received invitations to the af fair and outside guests have been invited an attempt is being made to make the ball a bigger affair than usual said george beckwith 3 , chairman of the committee the ballroom will be decorated with flags julian booker and his brown and maroon orchestra will furnish the music the chaperones for the dance will be col and mrs m h thom linson and capt and mrs j k rice tickets are now on sale at drown hall and at the office in the armory admission will be 2 per couple and 1 for stags tau beta pi initiates ceremony will be held in packard laboratory tonight eight seniors and two juniors will be formally initiated into tau beta pi honorary engineering fra ternity at 6 p m today in packard laboratory the formal initiation will be followed by a banquet at the hotel bethlehem the men who are to be initiated are r h raring 32 g m kale da 32 l v britton 32 c e green 32 e w kaufmann,'32 h b osborn 32 d rabinowitz 32 g a hottle 32 c w cooper 33 and r c rhoads 33 of these ten men five of them are chemical engineers the medical aptitude test of the association of american medical colleges will be given at 1 30 p m friday dec 11 in room 204 wil liams hall according to stanley thomas professor of bacteriology all students who plan to enter med ical school next fall should take the test at this time according to professor thomas because the test is given only once a year this test is a normal require ment for admission to nearly all medical schools according to the bulletin issued by the association of american medical colleges fail ure to take this test will handicap the student's chances of entering most medical schools and will prac tically prevent his admission to a number according to the bulletin the aptitude test adopted in october 1930 was \ first used throughout the united states last year last year's examination tested the student in scientific vocabulary pre-medical information compre hension and retention visual mem ory memory for content and un derstanding of ' printed material this year's test will be similar in content and involve the same gen eral principles according to profes sor thomas fee of 1 is required . each student should bring two well sharpened pencils to the ex amination professor thomas ad vised a fee of 1 is required to pay the expenses of the association in publishing administering grad ing and interpreting the tests all papers are graded by a committee of the association of american medican colleges the results are compiled in book form and given in confidence to deans of all class a medical schools in america officers of medical schools use these tests as one of the criteria in admitting students according to professor thomas study of the results has shown that scores on these tests can prognosticate the future success of students in medi cal college more accurately than another method used the bulletin issued by the association of amer ican medical colleges states these tests are not however the student's only criterion of admission scholastic record in the student's premedical curriculum character consensus of opinion of the teach ers who know him and the im pression he makes on the committee of admissions still continue to be carefully considered according to the bulletin dean mcconn at annual convention arthur g hayden designing en gineer of the westchester county park commission told the civil engineering society that the park ways of westchester county had solved the fast long distance traf fic problem better than any other city or county adjacent to a city the parkways mr hayden said have made traffic to and from new york city faster than traffic from any other large city in the world by eliminating traffic lights and cross roads traffic can proceed uninterrupted from the city through westchester county he continued no parking is allowed the parkways are margined by a strip of land 150 feet wide on each side no apartment buildings or business blocks consequently can be erected on either side this eliminates parking which is very detrimental to fast traffic the strips of land have been planted with trees and shrubbery and pre sent a very beautiful scene to the traveler all cross roads and rail road grade crossings have been eliminated by building bridges which either cross over or under the existing road or railroad the super-highways of london boston and chicago have defeated their own purpose mr hayden said parking space and cross street traffic have made the super highways useless as far as their purpose is concerned stop lights slow up traffic shortly after the super-highways were opened apartment buildings business blocks hamburger stands and similar structures were erect ed parking space used by the oc cupants of these buildings took a great deal of space necessary for the heavy traffic of the highway people travelling only a few miles or even a few blocks added so much to the heavy long distance traffic that high speeds could not be attained stop lights in addition stopped traffic on the highways every two or three minutes to al low cross street traffic to pass through at some lights lines of autos two miles long have been measured trucks impede traffic to a very great extent on the high ways in addition to the parkways the westchester county park commis sion developed bathing beaches amusement parks and golf courses mr hayden continued the park commission had to do something to raise money to pay for the parkways they were not allowed to sell enough bonds to fi nance the project which cost over a billion dollars so they established parks after the lecture mr hayden held a short discussion on the rigid frame bridges which he designed and which were used throughout in the parkway system walter okeson in speaking to the rotary club and the members of lehigh's football squad paid tribute to the team as the great est lehigh football team since 1924 he gave many illustrations in which he likened lehigh in its stand against lafayette to the vic tory of the army team over notre dame this dinner was given in honor of the football team and coach a austin tate gave a short ad dress among the faculty members who were present were dean cm mcconn stanley j thomas dr raymond c bull and prof h r reiter the lehigh - lafayette game this year was the most thrilling i have ever seen stated mr okeson he stressed the need of greater mo ral support warning against the pre season wail of no talent which greatly destroys the confidence of the team cockiness is what a squad needs ln his analysis of past lehigh teams the commissioner characterized them as lacking confi dence mr okeson lauded the un breakable spirit of coach tate and his four assistants austy tate in summarizing the football situation at lehigh for the past few years spoke of the dearth of material but he hopes for this condition to be materially improved next year he also complimented the team as the finest type of boys representing any college in the united states letters were awarded the mem bers of the team and charles f halsted was elected captain of the 1932 football team approximately 411 new books were added to the library during november according to h s leach librarian as with former purchases the new~"books cover a number of topics but the literature and technology sections lead the rest in number literature came first with 142 volumes and was followed by tech nology with 80 sociology with 46 history with 45 philosophy and science with 33 each art with 12 religion with 7 and bibliography with 5 lehigh's faculty was again well represented among the authors prominent in the list is - studies aren't everything by dean mc conn a book which is sure to in terest many students some of the other members of the faculty repre sented are prof w w ewing prof h a neville prof g e doan and prof bradley stoughton books by shakespeare shakespeare and vergil have ap peared to have declined in popular ity for there are only three about shakespeare and one concerning vergil those about shakespeare are the text of shakespeare lounsbury;"subjection of hamlet leighton and the genesis of ham let lewis the volume concerning vergil is numerical phraseology in vergil one of the most important addi tions to the library collection is the proceedings of the world en gineering congress in 39 volumes among the books on plays are hay fever coward the roof galsworthy and comedy of ro mance sawyer poems are repre sented by early latin verse lindsay collected poems ad dington odes anacreon sel ected poems sandburg and so nata and other poems erskine volume about gandhi individuals about whom new books have been added are mahat ma gandhi john ettwein lydia e pinkham anne ellis ibsen george cissing cleopatra israel potter and jean barrois the leading books added in liter ature are collected poems ald ington horses and men ander son samson in chains andreev around theatres beerbohm;"the emerald of catherine the great belloc east of mansion house burke shadows on the rock cather hay fever coward maid in waiting galsworthy the roof galsworthy hesper and ross grant garland big enough james on the margins of old books lemaitre israel potter melvihe the silver tas sie o'casey the great god brown o'neill blood on the moon tully and the cockpit zangwill new york alumni holds song contest three to be initiated into pi delta epsilon phi eta sigma national honorary freshman fraternity will initiate three students this evening at 7:30 in drown hall the initiates are e j wildman jr 34 h y mil ler 34 and r l riley 34 ac cording to d g wright president besides receiving the secret ritual of the fraternity the new men will probably be addressed by the hon orary faculty members dean c m mcconn and prof h v ander son to become eligible for election to phi eta sigma a student must re ceive a 4 average in either of his first two semesters of college work there will now be nine members including the initiates in the le high chapter the purpose of the organization is to promote scholarship in the freshman class there is a possi bility that the group will donate a plaque to the living group whose freshmen obtain the highest aver age according to d g wright officers of phi eta sigma are d g wright 34 president c f miller 34 vice-president and ber nard basch 34 secretary-treasurer r.o.t.c inspects frankford arsenal an exhibition of oil paintings by chauncey m adams and joseph s trovato and an exhibition of block prints by ernest w watson will open tomorrow afternoon in the art gallery in the university library the new collection will be open to the public daily frtfm 3 to 6 p m and on sunday from 2 to 6 p m the 47 paintings and prints which are valued at 3,000 are trav eling a circuit of eastern cities the exhibit has recently been held in albany n v and new york city they will go to baltimore from here the pictures will be here until dec 19 chauncey m adams was born at unadilla forks n v in 1895 he has spent his entire life painting in the upper unadilla valley in new york state he studied for a short at the pennsylvania academy of fine arts but is chiefly self-taught mr adams served as the first in structor of the utica art student's league eaton praises blockprinting w p eaton writes in the mentor of ernest w watson e w watson is one of several amer ican artists who are making inter esting experiments in blockprinting born in con way mass he now lives in brooklyn in the winter in the summer he goes back to the berkshire hills finding many of his subjects in the farm life and landscape of that region his prints invariably attract at tention wherever they are exhibited because of their sturdy composi tion their poetic feeling and the depth and beauty of their coloring this is due to the fact that they are actually printed with oil paints in stead of water colors joseph s trovato is but 16 years of age his work attracted such fa vorable attention in utica that ar rangements were made to show his paintings in new york his can vases were included in the spring salon of the american art associa tion in the anderson-american gal leries and were also shown in the grand central art galleries adams painting on exhibit paintings in the exhibit by cm adams are back country the orange candle old m arched bridge tallett bridge the river bank oat fields vil lage swimming pool ten be low the mill and father jo seph trovato has contributed au tumn still life and into the valley the block prints are assisi street scene the cove clovel ly deserted dutch pastures evening on the water-front explorers grandpa's bar n harbor t h c home port homeward bound last load log team mousehole in corn wall october day prohibi tion sentinel smoke,""steam thirsty todd's corner tug boat wings of glory wood lot the yard and cornish fishing village roads to be closed saturday the campus roads with the ex ception of new street and the main road to sayre park will be closed saturday december 5 at 12:15 p m for the duration of the bethle ten to be initiated into honor society lehigh will be represented by one faculty member and five stu dents at the intercollegiate model disarmament conference to be held at bucknell university dec 4-6 the delegates from the interna tional relations club at lehigh will be dr lawrence h gipson facul ty member c albert feissner 32 matthew thomlinson 32 james e anderson 33 lester martin 32 and lindsay rowland 34 lehigh is to represent italy at the conference and will take an im portant part in the discussion dr gipson and mr feissner are on the agenda committee there will be five committees which will have charge of the discussion of the various topics to be brought up be fore the conference mr feissner is to be chairman of the committee on naval affairs this in an honor for lehigh as this is the most im portant committee mr thomlin son will give a ten minute speach on naval affairs and mr anderson will speak on chemical warfare all nations to be represented twenty-seven colleges will send delegates to the conference every important nation of the world will be represented and the delegates will speak only from the viewpoint of the nations represented an at tempt will be made to follow the meetings scheduled for the world disarmament conference at geneva in february the conference will formally open its three day session with a dinner friday evening at which william t stone head of the washington bureau of the foreign policy association will be the speaker other speakers of the conference will be sir herbert ames former financial director of the league of nations secretariat dr rolvix harlan of the univer sity of richmond dr heber har per of columbia and charles h corbett of the council of christian associations some of the most important col leges and universities of this sec tion of the country will send dele gates to the conference among them are cornell princeton n y u syracuse yale washington and jefferson and lafayette mcconn will speak to women's club organization and college self government discussed dean c m mcconn attended the 45th annual convention of the association of colleges and second ary schools of the middle states and maryland recently held at at lantic city the purpose of the organization is the perm study begun by the carnegie foundation in an effort to bridge the gap between sec ondary schools and college stu dent self-government in colleges was discussed at the convention as well as the purpose of the organi zation richard m gummere of phila delphia headmaster of perm char ter school was elected president he succeeds dr murray bartlett president of hobart college to propose pictorial review of lehigh campus franklin b wise ch e 33 benjamin minifie arts 32 and edward fleischer arts 33 will be initiated into pi delta epsi lon honorary journalistic fraternity at a meeting at the phi gamma delta house monday night the initiation will be followed by a dinner during which the professors present will be mimick ed by members of the society fol lowing the dinner a business meet ing will be held the purpose of this meeting is to propose a pic torial review of the lehigh campus several years ago a pictorial re view was published but was later discontinued it is the purpose of the society to re-establish this re view to aid the visitor at lehigh w h goehring engaged at a dinner given by mr and mrs william t bouditch friday evening in honor of miss mary goehring of new brighton pa the engagement of their daughter anna pauline to william h goehr ing jr bus 32 was announced miss bouditch is a graduate of the liberty high school class of 1926 and a graduate nurse from the st luke's hospital class of 1930 at present she is assistant night supervisor at the st luke's hospi tal mr goehring is a senior in the business college and a member of the phi delta pi fraternity seeks numbers to enlarge le high repertoire the lehigh alumni club of new york who sponsored a song writing contest held judging of the 23 lehigh songs offered o n monday nov 23 in the amer ican telephone and telegraph of fice building new york city the purpose of the competition was to augment the repertoire of lehigh songs with a number of new and original numbers by lehigh alumni t edgar shields dr j f wolle of new york and dr fleck of the faculty of hunter college com posed the committee of judges the final decision as to the winning song was not reached but will be announced soon the author of it will receive 100 the authors of the next two best pieces will re ceive 30 and 20 respectively musical judgement of the songs was made possible through the ef forts of a quartet andrew e buchanan jr alumni secretary john w maxwell as sistant editor of the alumni re view and paul preston 35 were present at the meeting coming events ceremony for pledges will be held december 4 ten engineers will be formally initiated into tau beta pi national honorary fraternity friday eve ning dec 4 in hotel bethlehem when he announced the pledging of these men in chapel a few weeks ago president richards said that to be elected into tau beta pi is one of the highest honors that can come to an engineering student tau beta pi was organized by dr e h williams professor of mining engineering and geology from 1881 to 1902 for the purpose of conferring distinction upon those engineers who held high averages in their scholastic work and were also active in student and campus affairs the men to be initiated are law son v britton m e 32 charles e green ch e 32 george a hottle ch e 32 george m ka leda e m 32 charles w coop er e e 33 emerson w kauf man ch e 32 harry b os borne ch e 32 benjamin rab inowitz ch e 32 robert h rar ing mm e 32 james c rhoads m e 33 capt c h keck accompanies seniors on tour eight lehigh r o t c stu dents of the advanced ordnance unit made an inspection trip to frankford arsenal at philadelphia on monday nov 24 frankford arsenal is one of the manufacturing units of the army ordnance depart ment the students arrived in the morn ing and were assigned a guide from the arsenal personnel who conduct ed them through the small arms ammunition factory here they observed the manufacture of 30 calibre ammunition and assembly into bandoleers for issue to the soldier in the afternoon they made an inspection trip through the artillery ammunition plant and were then shown the various phases in the manufacture of optical and fire con trol instruments captain charles h keck ord nance department instructor ac companied the students on the in spection trip the following stu dents were members of the party allan ayres jr alfred f barnard jr george a hottle emerson w kaufman david l macadam benjamin rabinowitz robert h raring and raymond k serfass all are members of the class of 32 saturday dec 5 9 p m scabbard and blade ball at hotel bethlehem 2 p m football game between bethlehem and allentown high school at taylor stadium 2 p m exhibition of oil paintings opens at library art gallery the laws and to observe the regula tions enacted for your guidance by your acknowledged guardians the class of 97 have met with appro val know ye that as a reward for your faithful obedience to these commands we hereby grant you the following privileges you may procure your class pic ture without our interference you may occasionally display the college colors on your person pro vided you do so in a manner be coming your simplicity you may remain out at night un til nine o'clock you may employ your liesure evenings in satisfying your petti coat flagging proclivities you may go to the devil unre strained the class of 97 frosh were subjugated then insulted by soph council of 97 warts and slobs of 35 should a poster with this head ing be billed on the campus tomor row morning the sophomore pres ident would probably go for three rides the sophomore council be abolished and enough legislation be passed for the senate but it worked 33 years ago in the good old days when the sophomore council was supreme it was quite the thing to wear the freshmen entirely out by one event after another and to top the whole series by posting on the campus billboards notices which were de signed to show the sophomore's contempt for the class beneath them some time ago one of these caus tic bulletins came to light in all of its brilliant green glory the poster issued the following statement warts and slobs of 98 inasmuch as your efforts to obey american association group to meet december 7 dean c m mcconn will address the bethlehem branch of the amer ican association of university women monday dec 7 at 8:30 at the bethlehem woman's club the subject of his speech has not been definitely decided as yet the program will open by the singing of several christmas carols a short business meeting will then be held after which dean mc conn will deliver his speech in addition the study groups which have recently been formed will make reports as well as the chair men of the educational and legis lative committees the american association of university women is a national organization composed of the alumni of most of the nation's ac credited colleges the bethlehem chapter now has 88 members and meetings are held on the first mon day of each month brown and white bethlehem pa friday december 4 1931 loafing and love affairs advance valentine griefs dean states student injured in parade is released from hospital oil paintings on exhibition at art gallery price — five cents hayden cites park design at civil meet davy campus postman returns after absence nine initiated into sigma xi as associates vol xxxix no 1 8 pre - medicals to be tested next friday study of results show that scores predict success of students in medical school archibald m anderson arts 32 who was injured in the par ade following the lafayette smoker was released from st luke's hospital thanksgiving day and is back in school anderson was suffering from a possible concussion of the brain and a probable hip fracture after a three months absence david eshbach popular campus mailman returned to his beat yesterday and was welcomed by his friends at the university davy as he is known to the lehigh students has been con fined to his home by a knee in jury which he suffered before the opening of the fall term m & c to give paris bound main highways of west chester county built without traffic lights or cross roads honorary research socie ty installs seniors and graduates at meeting wednesday evening pictures by contemporary artists were recently displayed at eastern cities all senior epitome ballots for arts students must be in by wednesday dec 10 they should be sent to ralph c benson sen ior arts chairman at the chi psi lodge all the lehigh news first a member intercollegiate newspaper association