Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 22

              says nature of knowledge is dependent on language the wives of prof c g beardslee prof j s long and mr d h gramley are all reported to be improving mrs gramley has so far improved as to have been taken home from the st luke's hospital on wednesday mrs j s long has improv ed slighthly but is not expected to be dismissed from st luke's until after the christmas holi days she is recovering from a severe abscess mrs c g beardslee is im proving slowly but it is doubt ful whether she will be home for christmas she is also at st luke's recovering from a recent major operation faculty plans holiday trips campus thief is arrested william h grady guest speak er at the meeting of the mining and geological society wednes day evening addressed the stu dents attending chapel yesterday morning he stated that religion is one of the mainstays of civilization and that if there was more true christian spirit and brotherly love among us nine-tenths of our national and international troubles would disappear mr grady also advanced the view that training and prepara tion in the handling of men and labor problems is just as impor tant as the technical knowledge we are acquiring in college caught by officer after robbing two fraterni ties saturday morning medical group attends clinic barry's paris bound given by m & c before large audience paris bound a cemedy in three acts and two scenes by philip barry ; produced by the mustard and cheese club ; directed by warren fletcher set tings executed by julian booker and joel rothenberg with the following cast : james hutton martin gabel 32 jim hutton simon askin 32 mary hutton leroy travis 36 helen white charles yaffe 33 peter cope samuel simmons 33 nora cope william maynard 35 fanny shippan david goldenberg 32 noel farley paul van wulven 35 richard parish edwin williams 35 julie john kress 35 by fritz bavington producing a philip barry play is to say the least difficult yet mus tard and cheese presented an inter esting if not outstanding version of the american playwrite's paris bound wednesday evening in drown hall mr barry's comedy concerns the fortunes of a young married couple jim and mary hutton blessed with money culture and a wealth of modern ideas they resolve that whatever happens they must never be separated their lives however drift apart mary and richard par ish a young musician form a warm friendship through their mutual love of music mary dissovers that jim has been unfaithful and threat ens to divorce him however whei jim returns they are reconciled barry's rather radical and modern ideas on marriage are forcefully pre sented through the character of jim's father played hy martin ga bel the elder hutton in advising mary to stay with jim brings forth the playwrite's theme that either the man or woman should forgive each other of unfaithfulness for the sake of what mr barry terms t spirit ual love much of the play's inter est was held by mr gabel's re markable stage presence and clear enunciation rarely witnessed on the amateur stage david goldenberg creates a thor oughly convincing and amusing characterization of fanny shippan a close friend of mary's who takes life quite easily and enjoys drink ing her beverages with the copes in notorious underground places the role of peter cope cocktail continued on page four cadmus loses sight of eye long to talk at lafayette auto accident results in serious injury to lehigh student american chemical so ciety will hear lecture on drying oils says new plan stops snap courses course crabbing no student and no man can ever possibly have an interest in any thing in which he is not master and is without the freedom of initiative declared dr theodore t lafferty instructor of philosophy in his ad dress on the new chicago plan at a meeting of the faculty educa tional club monday afternoon ap proximately 50 people attended dr lafferty said that the new idea of education was an attempt to eliminate the whole complex of evils involved in the proposal to turn out educated people by mass production the chicago plan elim inates course-crabbers snap courses and all complaints of students the modernistic plan of educa tion originated in the faculty club of the university of chicago dur ing frequent informal discussions by the members they drew up the plan and it was approved by the university directors in 1928 chicago university system according to dr lafferty the chicago system consists of general courses usually two years in length for those who wish a general edu cation and special courses for those who prefer to dig deeper in particu lar fields or topics the former courses are physical sciences bio logical sciences social sciences and humanities examinations and grades are not given by the instructors but by a college examination board thus grades do not stand between the student and the instructor this is really a benefit and an advantage to all dr lafferty continued dr lafferty forcibly brought out the following features of the new plan 1 the substitution of indi vidual study for_the present course units 2 provisions of opportunity for the expert student 3 compre hensive examinations in various forms 4 greater emphasis on stu dent opportunity and responsibility for his own education richard henry cadmus i e 35 who was seriously injured when the car he was driving skidded into a concrete culvert at pennsburg 2 a m sunday is a little better but he has lost the sight of his right eye he and three other occupants of the car the misses mary and suzanne mccaslin and robert mai lison were returning to their homes in pottstown after the alpha chi rho dance cadmus is out of danger but his condition is still serious he has a broken nose and his head is badly lacerated dr e dandy a brain specialist from johns hop kin's hospital has him under ob servation mallison stated that the car skidded on some loose gravel at a slight turn in the road and before cadmus could right it it crashed into a concrete culvert cadmus was wedged behind the wheel his head was cut by the mirror hughes offers prize for booklet sketch n y alumni club picks winning songs names and authors to be an nounced in january professors will travel as far as minnesota to attend conventions during the christmas holidays lehigh will be represented at sev eral meetings and conventions by various professors who will take an active part in the proceedings the meeting of the modern lan guage association of america at madison wisconsin will be repre sented by robert p more profes sor of german prof c s fox head of the department of romance languages and j b severs instruc tor of english who will give a pro gram on chaucer the mentors of athletics will at tend several conventions in new york during the week after christ mas walter okeson secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees howard reiter professor and head of the department of physical edu cation and mr j.g petriken grad uate manager will attend the meet ing of the national collegiate ath letic association in new york dec 30-31 mr okeson and austin tate football coach will be present at the meeting of the national coaches association in new york dec 29 while messrs okeson tate and petrikin will attend the meeting of the association of college athletic commissioners dec 28 dr t t lafferty of the depart ment of philosophy and education will read a paper at the annual meeting of the american philoso phical association at yale univer sity dee 29 the paper is entitled metaphysical implications of the pragmatic theory prof percy hughes head of the department of philosophy and education will also attend this meeting sidney m brown professor of history and government will present a program at the meeting of the american historical association at minneapolis minnesota mr paul e swartz assistant re gistrar will attend the political science meeting in washington during the week after christmas dr j s long professor of in organic chemistry will discuss cer tain phases of his work with drying oils in an address to the lehigh valley members of the american chemical society tonight at 8 o clock in gayley hall lafayette college professor long will not attempt to give a detailed resume of the field of drying oils but will only touch on the work of other inves tigators in this field » since 1927 professor long has been research director for the archer-daniels midland company and the william o goodrich com pany he is also actively connected with several other industrial con cerns in the capacity of consultant namely the new jersey zinc com pany the armstrong cork com pany the chester enameling com pany the raybestos manhattan company and the wilmington enameling company professor long was chairman of the paint and varnish division of the american chemical society and also of the lehigh valley section of the same organization dr long's research program employs the time of 14 fellows and has resulted in ttie publication of 18 papers in the magazine of the american chemical society indus trial and engineering chemistry pre medical exams sent to washington william knowles 22 is being held at the county jail at easton on the charge of having robbed the chi phi and chi psi houses early saturday morning dec 12 knowles was first noticed soon a-fter 2 a m saturday driving his car slowly through the entrance of say r e park by officer thomas malone malone was on foot but noticed that knowles was driving rather slowly and suspici ously and so decided to follow him knowles then proceeded to the chi psi house which he entered through an open door malone remained hidden and knowles soon came out of the same door richer by five dollars and a wrist watch the robber then proceeded to the a t o house where he failed to gain entrance from there he went to the chi phi house and after spending a few minutes there was nabbed by officer malone the policeman discovered a long butcher knife and two pocket knives under knowles coat and so promptly conducted him to police headquarters where he was recog nized as the same • man who had just served a year in the easton jail on a similar charge knowles was then taken to eas ton and will be tried in criminal court sometime in january this is his third offense the other being the forging of checks several years ago it is thought by local author ities that the prisoner is mentally deficient as some of his previous actions have also indicated this burr advises study in holiday editorial dr bull will speak at health meeting students observe opera tions at allentown hos pital tuesday i fifteen junior and senior mem bers of the r w hall pre-medical society attended a major surgical clinic tuesday morning at the al lentown hospital dr r a schaf fer the surgeon in charge operated on and explained the cases the clinic began at 9 a m and the students dressed in white robes and ether masks arid seated on the observation stand witnessed ap pendectomy or appendicitis opera tion by means of a spinal anaesthe tic they also witnessed the opera tion on a patient for tonsils and adenoids one of the principal events of the trip was an operation on the skull of a ten-year-old girl she had been suffering from a currett met which is a softening of the medulla according to dr schaf fer she will probably recover there are now 40 men in the r w hall pre-medical society the officers for this year are d w haff 32 president s c mele 32 vice-president robert salwin 32 corresponding secretary w h spath 32 recording secretary and d t davidson 32 treasurer the faculty advisors are dr s j thomas an 4m a farrell claisrt&ir league publishes <£ wright's^ecture on vergil gga 8 ' — tke^&pc of rome and united atanj^fhe lectui&igjven by dr h iw wright^teiv&high university's celebxallen ifr the vergil bimillen ium w»vt4 1930 has been publish the american classical lea gue the american classical league is a nation organization of latin and greek professors the bulletins are published for the benefit of high school teachers in teaching their classes dr k m marks has son dr k m marcks assistant di rector of the students health ser vice is the father of a baby boy mrs marcks and the boy are both doing very well at the allentown general hospital dr noble of al lentown was inattendance when the baby was born on sunday morn ing the very existence of knowledge in a natural world has always pre sented a challege and a problem stated frank c becker assistant professor of philosophy tuesday evening in packard laboratory in a talk given to the lehigh valley philosophical club the talk was entitled science philosophy and religion the problem of knowledge has been the central problem of phil osophy and nearly all philosophical writings have dealt with it either as their avowed subject matter or as an unavoidable question that must be answered processor becker ex plained it seems that the nature of knowledge and • hence science is tied up with that of language or discourse ancient philosophers and scientists especially plato and ar istole recognized that face profes sor becker continued the ever recurrent word in their writings is logos and its various forms meaning discourse that is not the mere utterance of words as vocalizatives but as a relevant ac count of events professor becker said in fact the primitive meaning of logos is an account rendered i c an accountant's or a bookkeep er's account this is the sense in which discourse is knowledge of course the real difficulty is the question as to how an account can be relevant plato solved the difficulty by showing that language and discourse shared in the timeless order of the things of which it pur ported to be an account thus plato could and did say that thinking is an eternal discourse and that know ledge is a true account of things professor becker explained contemporary behaviorists and psychologists in stating that think ing is merely laryngical behavior i.e talking to ourself completely ig nore the fact that knowledge and discourse are closely related a science is then human dis course about the subject matter of any human interest professor becker continued there are as many possible sciences as there are possible subjects of human inter est science as an account has in it self no authority or legitimate pres tige what authority or prestige it has is in the persons who utter the discourse professor becker ex plained the present tendency toy hypostisize science to write the word with a capital letter and to place it in opposition to other hu man interest is due to this error the philosophical association in opening its fourth year of activity departed from its usual custom of meetings limited to the few men to attend its first meeting a discus sion on the talk by professor beck er lasted until 11 p m women's club holds christmas meeting italian christmas customs dis cussed dancers perform after several months of delibera tion judges in the new york alumni song contest have reached a decision and will reveal the names of the winners early next year ac cording to an announcement from the alumni office although definite plans have not been made it is believed possible by alumni officials that a meeting will be held in new york some time in january for the awarding of prizes and the singing of the prize winning songs the alumni song contest was an nounced during the past year on the occasion of the musical club's con cert in new york and the actual judging of the contributions began after founder's day the judges of the contest were t edgar shields instructor of music at le high dr henry t fleck instruc tor of music at hunter college and dr fred wolle director of the bach choir drawings to illustrate four years at lehigh two prizes of 5 each are offered for each design submitted by a le high student that is selected to il lustrate future issues of the pamph let four years at lehigh pro percy hughes head of th^ftfepart ment of philosophy announced ygstffcpy line d^mfigs in competitiarf for these priz?s must bp^sfephiitted to professor hugheslfi^may 1 1932 the judms-^sibfe'a e buofaarj&r prof g\4.*^howland <(; f*prof percy hughes xuft^rawing sub mitted are iajgk^rto take the place of any one 3kthe cuts used in the current edition it is expected to in sert the name of the artist on the cut thus r roe 31 the purpose of these drawings is as stated in the pamphlet more adequately to picture university life the drawings should be made with black india ink upon clear white paper and drawn at least twice the size of the intended cut four years at lehigh is a pam phlet written by professor hughes and given to each freshman during freshman week n m emery issues financial report lack of experience retards soviet scientific progress discourtesy on the part of the communists inconveniences visitors the russians are continually trying to improve our machines although they know nothing about them said w h grady during his lecture to the mining and geo logical society meeting wednesday evening in packard auditorium they are known to use pumps to pump water down hill their engineers have had little or no experience and know nothing except what they have read out of books he continued i was sent over to russia to investigate con tracts and to develop some of their coal mines there was a party of is of us and we received very little courtesy when we arrived our baggage was looted by the custom officers and we were given poor living quarters he stated that the children are taken from their parents at a very early age they are then adopted by the state to be educated in com munism the parents live on one side of the city and the children on the other it is against the law iv russia to instruct them in re ligion or other conventional studies there is no such thing as per sonal property in russia to-day when 1 attempted to build a little cottage of my own i was told that it would probably be taken away from me and that i would have a hard job getting lumber describing the present conditions in soviet russia mr grady quoted the basis of their thought we hate the christians we must learn to hate everything it is our task to destroy all religion and all social distinction quoting stalin he said we must make preparations to overthrow the united states the russian communists desire to undermine capitalism extend their revolutions conquer the earth and destroy the churches they carry out their convictions with great cruelty as he talked of some of his en gineering conferences with the technical commission he said it is common for a whole commission to be shot if they do not agree on a certain enterprise there is very little regard for life in russia he spoke of one incident when a commission ordered an incubator from america to hatch chickens the soviets found the incubator to be very satisfactory they realized that temperature and time were important factors in the machine's efficiency therefore they thought that an increase in temperature would produce chick ens much faster the unintelli gent worker is responsible for most of these mistakes the russian motto he said is from each according to his abil ity to each according to his need this statement is being accepted by a great many of our american workers to-day we must pro tect our domestic rights but we must not interfere with russia mr grady continued america to-day does not recognize the sov iet government our position is well taken on this matter when mr grady was asked whether or not he thought it was a waste of time to go to russia to help in their engineering problems he answered it was a waste of time because we accomplished very little and we were helping the com munistic movement along all the time we were over there wright talks on aeneid before muhlenberg students explaining the significance of the last six books of aeneid in a lec ture aeneas in italy dr h w wright spoke before the classical club at muhlenberg college last evening the classical club is an undergraduate organization of la tin and greek students dr wright also gave an inter pretation of the last six books of the aeneid and he showed some slides of places in italy which aeneas visited fraternity announces pledge theta xi announces the pledging of donald herbert freiday m e 33 of east orange n j results will be referred to medical schools the results of the medical apti tude test of the association of american medical colleges have been sent to washington d c where they will be corrected and graded by a committee representing the society according to dr stan ley thomas acting head of the de partment of biology these tests were taken on dec 11 by lehigh seniors who plan to en ter medical school next fall the results will be compiled in book form and given in confidence to the deans of all class a medical schools in america according to dr thomas this test is a normal requirement for admission to nearly all medical schools according to the bulletin issued by the association of amer ican medical colleges failure to take this test is a serious handicap to the student's chances of entering most medical schools according to the bulletin dr thomas stated that the pre vious studies of the results have shown that scores on these tests can prognosticate the future suc cess of students in medical colleges more accurately than any other method will celebrate anniversary of george washington's birth lehigh will actively celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of the birthday of george washington feb 22 according to prof l h gipson head of the department of history and government professor gipson is chairman of a committee which meets today to plan the details of the celebration it has already been decided that t j wertenbaker of princeton will be one of the speakers representatives of 1 00 institu tions to attend dr raymond c bull director of the student's health service will represent lehigh at the twelfth an nual meeting of the american stu dent health association this meeting will be held in new york city at the hotel astor tuesday and wednesday dec 29 and 30 in conjunction with the society of directors of physical education in colleges the american football coaches association the national collegiate athletics association and the directors of intramural ath letics in colleges over 100 institutions will be represented at this meeting the membership of the health associa tion being by institution and not by individuals during the meet ing dr bull will lead the discussion on a paper by t bruce kirtpatrick of columbia university choosing of a content of hygiene courses one session of the meeting will be devoted to the committee on physical activities and other ses sions will be given over to the committee on informational hy giene the committee on health problems in women's colleges the committee on health service and the committee on departmental organization at a luncheon ses sion the program will have to do largely with the syracuse confer ence on hygiene coming events mrs w w wilson presented a paper on christmas customs in italy at the christmas meeting of the faculty women's club meet ing tuesday afternoon in drown hall the paper followed the gen eral study of italy which is being followed by the club during the winter months four dancers from the majorie fink flemming studio presented an interpretation of a tarantelle in italian costume the group in cluded the misses anne kessack virginia kvackay june koch and lorraine worsley harold kelch ner accompanied at the piano the decorations were of holly and chrysanthemums arranged in italian style the committee in charge includ ed mrs k w lamson chairman mrs w l bishop vice-chairman mrs william ullman mrs e h brink mrs h a haring mrs t t lafferty mrs s a becker mrs m c stuart mrs r a soto mrs g e doan mrs r c bull mrs j v dacey mrs k g ches ley and mrs w w williams carothers talks to phi betes professor carothers on wednes day afternoon dec 16 addressed the phi beta kappa chapter of la fayette and their guests the fresh men who are on the dean's honor roll his subject was the place of scholarship in the college-man's frown and bite proves fal lacy of santa claus advising in its pre-holiday editor ial that students keep on the go every minute of the vacation and to never find yourself taking it easy because if you do you will find that you are not properly tired out when you do return to this god forgotten place the christmas is sue of the burr appeared yester day the frown and bite serial com ic newspaper feature of the burr concerns itself with dutchy stok ker's denial of the existance of santa claus it is only necessary to take the partial derivative of zeta to the minus one with respect to the partial derivative of the par tial derivative and integrate the subsequent result between infinity and zero to the minus one there for it is evident from the first law of thermodynamics and boyle's law of gases that there is no santa claus professor stokker explains season besides depicting the faculty's night before christmas burro sel ects an all-faculty football eleven claiming that gorilla deptula tiger toohy sxonewall ogburn spike goodwin bull butts crasher thomlinson and killer fretz make up the strongest forward wall the lehigh faculty has had in a decade chopper carothers smasher cutler butch fletcher and hazelhurst are the backfield men hog-nose snake discovered by professor's daughter in office hog-nosers and a five-foot black and white spotted jersey pine snake it lives a quiet life usually sleeping it is very docile the hog-nosed snakes thrive in semi-arid regions and eat very lit tle especially while in captivity according to mr trembley snakes are very light eaters and it is usual ly necessary to force raw meat down their mouths to keep them healthy keeping reptiles in captiv ity interferes with their breeding and feeding this summer a banana spider slightly smaller than a tarantula but just as poisonous was placed in the box with the five snakes whether out of fear or dislike the snakes haven't attempted to eat the spider this is unusual the spider hasn't eaten since its capture said mr trembley nat urally we can't attempto feed it be cause it is poisonous the poison venom is stored in two sacks be hind short front legs which act as jaws friday dec 18 6:30 p m freshman basketball vs mining and mechanical engin eering institute taylor gymna sium 7:30 p m varsity basketball vs university of toronto taylor gymnasium saturday dec 19 school closes for christmas vaca tion university spends 600 per student yearly the cash expenditure per student at the university for the collegiate year 1930-1931 not including sums spent for plant improvements oper ating expenses etc was approxi mately 600 or so per cent in ex cess of the regular tuition fee ac cording to natt m emery vice president and comptroller of the university dr emery recently stated that if proportionate charge were made for the use of a 5,000,000 plant the tuition cost per student would be more than 800 he also stated that the total amount paid for ac tual instruction almost balances the total receipts for tuition executive expenses heat light library costs and maintenance of buildings and grounds are entirely covered by endowment funds new construction of various sorts is provided by gifts of individual alumni and other supporters of the university what would yo do if you saw a snake in your father's office rosamond stoughton 14-year old daughter of professor bradley stoughton didn't scream but mere ly called for her father in a calm voice he called the janitor and the snake was evicted you see said professor stough ton the snake was just a little one — 30 inches long rosamond saw it in my office last week while wait ing for me to take her home it aparently had escaped from the bi ology laboratory across the hall rosamond knew it was a snake but she didn't know that it was a heterodon contortix and therefore harmless according to francis j trem bley instructor in biology the snake is commonly called hog-nosed because of a long projection on its nose how the snake escaped is still a mystery locked up in a small wooden box with two other black brown and white bethlehem pa friday december 18 1931 wives of faculty members recuperate after illnesses several freshmen arrested for taking christmas trees vol xxxix no 2 grady criticizes russian methods price — five cents prof lafferty explains new education plan becker tells of knowledge and language civilization needs religion grady tells men in chapel describes new chicago university system of in dividual study of fac ulty educational club addresses lehigh valley philosophical club on science philosophy and religion tuesday night to undermine capitalism destroy religious be liefs and extend revo lutions is stalin's policy five freshmen from the phi delta theta fraternity were ar rested in allentown on monday evening for attempting to get away with some christmas trees rumors to this affecf about the campus were denied last night by members of the fraternity but information from police headquarters this morn ing founded the story the freshmen were held over night at the station house but were released the next morning upon the payment of a small fine no paper during vacation with this issue the brown and white suspends publication until friday jan 8 member intercollegiate newspafer association all the lehigh news first