Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 28

              seventeen exper imc n t s undertaken during past year reviewed by professor bidwell army officer illustrates lecture . by criticizing grant's plan of action in civil war scabbard and blade will unveil statue of george washington feb 22 in library dr wertenbaker to describe patriot's role as unionist scabbard and blade holds open meeting last evening five tests now completed seniors use data in thesis up to and including wednes day 1,354 students have had their registration forms checked by the clerks these figures come from the office of paul e schwartz assistant registrar on the corresponding day of last year three days after the official registration date the number of registered students was 1,328 these figures show that t&ere are 26 more this year than last there were 60 students less in september this year than at the corresponding date of last year this number included those that have completely paid their tui tion and fees dean c m mcconn attended two educational meetings in harris burg during the examination period and addressed another meeting at columbia university in harrtsburg jan 29 dean mcconn represented president richards at the quarterly meeting of the association of college pres idents of pennsylvania the following day he attended a meeting of the executive council of the pennsylvania educational so ciety dean mcconn is an ex-offick member of the council as a result of his election last as president of the higher education department of the association at columbia on jan 28 dean mc conn addressed the pounce club of the lincoln school on the subject of college problems the lincoln school is a new york state teach ers college and is a part of colum bia university seven dances at fraternities how artists work was the subject matter of the moving pic tures shown in packard auditorium wednesday night at 8 o'clock un der the auspices of the department of fine arts the showing of these films was made possible through the courtesy of the college art as sociation • both of these films described the way in which artists work one film consisted of three reels entitled from clay to bronze it shows step by step just how an artist pro ceeds from the original clay sketch of the animal or person on which he is working until he has the com pleted bronze statue the second film consisted of two reels this shows the process of making wood engravings and fea tures the late timothy cole mr cole who is called the last of the wood engravers died two years ago he was given this title because he was the last artist who continued working in the old method of wood engraving according to professor howland art romantic howland says lehigh students celebrate at end of examination period buck named as lecturer graduate of class of 87 takes post with chem istry department speech given before combined eta sigma phi meeting bishop to explain similar ity between socialism and capitalism monday evening at lecture to illustrate belief by use of russia's five year plan the similarity between socialism and capitalism and a proposed so lution for the investment problems of america will be discussed by dr ward l bishop associate profes sor of economics at 8 p m mon day in packard auditorium professor bishop's lecture is en titled the socialization of invest ment it will be the fourth lecture of the fourth annual series of lec tures given by members of the fac ulty * to discuss capital loss while most people believe that socialism and capitalism have noth ing in common it is the belief of dr bishop that they have a com mon aim only in the methods used to achieve this end do socialism and capitalism differ to illustrate his belief professor bishop will use the five year plan of soviet russia which is intended to do for russia what the capitalistic system has done for the united states the great loss of capital today professor bishop asserts is harm ful to the progress of our civiliza tion the solution to this problem of loss and misuse of capital may develop into social ownership though this idea is not new it is only recently that it has developed until now social ownership is al most certain to become a part of american capitalism chemical society hears robert mehl an academic procession will be held in connection with lehigh's official celebration of the 200 th an niversary of the birthday of george washington at 11 o'clock feb 22 according to a recent announcement by the administration the procession which will be held at 11 a m will open the day's celebration the unveiling of a statue by the members of scabbard and blade will conclude the pro gram the 10 and 11 o'clock classes will be excused was also announced by the administration at 10:30 a m the faculty and representatives of student organiza tions will gather at the administra tion building and accompanied by the university band will march in academic procession to the chapel where a university convocation will beheld the speaker on this occasion will be dr t j wertenbaker professor of american history at princeton university who will deliver an ad dress on washington the union ist professor wertenbaker is a distinguished historian who has spe cialized on virginian history with special reference to the activities of washington the committee there fore feels that the address will be of very great interest to all who at tend statue to be unveiled the unveiling of the statue hy scabbard and blade will take place at 4 p m in the library the statue is a replica of the houdon monument of george washington the original stands in the state house at virginia the committee in charge of ar rangements is dr n carothers prof c h sutherland col thom linson mr h s leach and prof l h gipson chairman a student committee of two composed of w h sachs president if the arcadia and c f hull editor of the brown and white has been appointed for the purpose of enlisting the cooper ation of the various student organ izations in these exercises the principles which govern war fare find their immutable elements in both tactics and strategy said colonel clarence deems jr last evening in packard auditorium in his lecture sponsored by the scab bard and blade society national honorary military organization introductory remarks were made by r w burk president of scab bard and blade colonel deems lec ture strategy of the army of the potomac 1864 was illustrated by numerous slides and was attended by over 900 students and towns people generally all educated soldiers should know something of military strategy which may be said to in volve the placing of large bodies of troops in advantageous positions or under y advantageous conditions prior to hostile engagement con tinued the speaker after he had dis cussed several illustrations of stra tegy graduated from west point colonel deems was graduated from west point in 1900 as a lieu tenant of artillery and retired in 1929 as a colonel of artillery dur ing the world war he commanded a regiment of artillery in france at the time of his retirement he was on duty as an r o t c officer in the third corps area colonel deems is now in charge of military instruction at the alexandria va high schools the speaker fully explained gen eral grant's plan of campaign in 1864 he said that the army of the potomac was to engage lee's army of northern virginia grant told swhere lee goes you will go also sherman to divide forces -/ m 3<#l off 1 ivfe trate as far into georgia as was possible in order to divide the con commanders were to^rose^ti tow ard richmand this plan of attack was superior in conception — the execution of va rious parts failed miserably how ever added col deems when he described the outcome of the plan which has been identified as the anaconda plan the undergraduate physics club met in the physics building last night and examined the research work being done in the building by the professors of the physics de partment • the meeting was called at eight o'clock by d l macadam 32 president of the club prof c c bidwell head of the physics de partment read a summary of the research experiments undertaken during the past year the total num ber of experiments was 17 the main business consisted of reviewing all the experiments then under way under the direction of the various instructors each pro fessor was there to explain his work in detail to the group professor bidwell has charge of the largest number of experiments his total being five professors ew ing and bayley are next with four and three while five other instruc tors each have charge of one seniors aid in work the actual work of experimenta tion is in the hands of the teachers themselves with three seniors who are majoring in physics who help with three of the experiments for material for their senior thesis out of the seventeen separate in vestigations five are completed and are ready for publication three are nearly done and the others are in various stages of progress each year president richards requests a list of the experiments being carried on in the department and it was this occasion which prompted the tour of the building most of the experiments are fat above the average student's knowlj edgs of physics according to prof j c e berger the title of profes sor bidwell's recent investigation was thermo-conductivity and that of professor peterson's is band spectrums the range of the work covers the whole field of physics from electricity to vacuum experi mentation s ome of tne work has been in progress for two to three years and new experiments are be ing undertaken constantly article by mcconn appears in review painters that we speak of as classic were really romantic in their point of view contended garth a howland assistant professor of fine arts in his illustrated address at a joint meeting of the lehigh chapter of eta sigma phi national honorary classical society and the classical society of muhlenberg college the meeting was held last night at the home of horace w wright head of the department of latin simply because they were paint ing antique views does not make them classical painters continued prof howland on the other hand persons slavishly imitating classical works such as canova or thorwald sen are not truly classical either because each class has a different point of view in attack the true follower of the classic style are such men as seek to work in the spirit of the classics such as donotella of the rennaissance or maillol in sculpture and cezanne in painting professor howland con tinued with further presentation of his arguments prior to the lecture by professor howland the lehigh chapter held a business meeting plans were made to have professor comfort of haverford speak before the so ciety march 4 it was also decided to invite dr tenney frank inter nationally famous authority on an cient history and latin to give a public address in packard auditor ium sometime during the latter part of april sutherland palmer address civic clubs radiography subject of talk before lehigh chapter radiography by means of x ray and gamma rays was the subject of an address by dr rob ert f mehl assistant director of the research laboratories of the american rolling mill at a recent meeting of the lehigh valley sec tion of the american chemical so ciety and lehigh valley chapter of the american society of steel treatment d s chamberlain associate pro fessor of chemical engineering also gave a talk on animal vegetable and fuel oils in chemistry dr mehl has been actively en gaged in the study of the applica bility of gamma rays and has had several articles relative to the sub ject published recently in his talk dr mehl told of the relative ad vantages of the gamma ray treat ing over the other well known methods namely the magnetic and the x-ray h a neville associate profes sor of chemistry was in charge of the program about 70 members of the two societies were present lehigh fraternities celebrated the close of the examination period with a series of dances held friday evening feb 5 most of the dances were formal with admission by in vitation only pi kappa alpha sponsored the largest gathering in the masonic temple which was attended by ap proximately 200 couples students alumni and friends danced to the music of jay knell's eleven-piece orchestra the chaperones were professor and mrs george d har mon and professor and mrs brad ley stoughton the easton saracens played for the dance at the alpha tau ome ga house the chaperones were captain and mrs percy sadler and mr and mrs francis trembley lambda chi alpha held an open house dance which was arranged by b w haff seventy guests were entertained by bud rader and his band who played regularly at the hotel traylor in allentown pro fessor and mrs merton o fuller were chaperones sigma chi entertains the bowery brawl the only dance that was not formal was held at the sigma chi house admit tance to this unique party was gain ed through the cellar door traffic signs of shady origin and drawn shades insured a proper atmos phere captain and mrs j k rice and mrs v ellstrom chaperoned the 60 guests the brown and maroon orches tra composed of lehigh and la fayette students furnished the mu sic for the dance at sigma phi ep silon the chaperones were profes sor and mrs eric sinkinson and mr and mrs frank j scott theta delta chi entertained about 100 guests at their dance mr and mrs a farabaugh and professor and mrs e h sloane were chap erones about 100 alumni members and friends of the tau delta phi fra ternity attended the dance which was chaperoned by prof daniel harris coming events charles austin buck vice pres ident of the bethlehem steel com pany was recently appointed lec turer on the procurement of t%w materials in the department of chemistry mr buck was graduated from lehigh university in 1887 receiv ing the degree of bachelor of sci ences in chemistry he was assis tant chemist of the bethlehem steel company 1887-88 chemist and sup ijriji^iight of blast furnaces for the bethlehe m steel company 1905-10 in 1910 mr buck was appointed igw*a-!i superintendent of the steel company according to harry m ullmann ifedrh rjf the department of chemis try mr buck has been an out standing member of the engineer ing profession in all his activities in his latest connection mr buck was responsible for the develop ment of the unusual iron ore depos its at tofo chile and for the marked increase in the size and ore handling possibilites of cargo ships held war position during the war mr buck served on the committee of five for iron steel and raw materials of the war industrial board as an ac knowledged scientific and engineer ing authority for the steel indus tries his intimate knowledge and vision in his profession have led to his selection by various tariff com missions as representative of the iron and steel industries of the united states in their relation to domestic and international tariffs mr buck is a member of the american chemical society the american institute of mining and metallurgical engineers the am erican society of mechanical en gineers the american iron and steel institute and the american institute of electrical engineers believe it or n.ot story writ ten by alumnus an article by dean mcconn how much do college students learn features the winter issue of the lehigh review according to maurice b rosalsky editor in chief the article shows that in general there is little improvement if any in the general scope of the student's knowledge at the end of four years at college lehigh — believe it or not by alumnus contains a senes of little known facts about lehigh lehigh professors past lives and curiosi ties of lehigh sports account of a lehigh football victory by the score of 106-0 is included rosalsky stated other articles include what the electrical and communication in dustries expect of the technical schools by bancroft gherardi and more oddities of europe by maurice b rosalsky the first is a paper read at the dedication of packard laboratory the second an account of things seen abroad with out the aid._of a guide book with this issue the review has definitely decided to keep the mag azine 48 pages long according to rosalsky the spring issue which is expected to appear some time in march will be the last issue pub lished by the present board rosal sky stated hoffman's victory song wins new york contest the victory song written by kenneth l hoffman 26 which was ajudged the winner in the re cent song contest sponsored by the lehigh new york club will soon be introduced to the student body with the exception of the members of the musical clubs very few stu dents have heard either the words or the music of the new song in a recent issue of the brown and white this song was confused with the song entitled on lehigh to victory by paul o young the latter song was the song that was sung at the lafayette football game speak to rotary and lions on germany and turkey every wage earner in germany is being taxed 20 per cent of his sal ary according to prof p m palm er who addressed the meeting of the bethlehem rotary club wed nesday professor palmer traveled exten sively in germany last summer and used his own experiences as the basis of his speech he stated that although germany has 5,000,000 un employed there is no starvation evi dent turkey is being rapidly western ized according to c hale suther land head of the department of civ il engineering who on tuesday gave an illustrated lecture on tur key at a meeting of the bethlehem lions club at hotel bethlehem dr sutherland showed some pic tures which he took in stamboul formerly constantinople while he was a member of the faculty of robert college in that city friday feb 12 7:30 p m prof r m smith to address robert w blake society room 410 packard laboratory 7:30 p m prof e p chase of la fayette college to address gradu ate students history club room 208 packard laboratory saturday feb 13 3 p m freshman wrestlers vs blair taylor gymnasium 7:30 p m varsity basketball vs dickinson taylor gymnasium monday feb is 4:10 p m dean c m mcconn and prof hale sutherland to address faculty educational club admin istration building 7:30 p m glee club rehearsal drown hall 8 p m university lecture by dr ward l bishop packard auditor ium vehicle inspection robs s p e of prized ancient limousines of the exclusive buck hill inri and in other ways served the fraternity over a long period of years the s.p.e.'s decided that they must save the car from the disgrace of the junk pile and commandeered joe homshere's powerful red bu ick vintage of 25 to visit the po lice station second car taken when the fraternity men reached traffic headquarters the officers there exhibited the greatest of in terest in the red buick and deter mined that it also should be in spected the fraternity men were aghast ... it was a double insult to question the merit of this prize which never fell apart more than once a week in the estimation of the police however the car was not so good in fact they listed more faults than can be recorded here and towed the second vehicle to the junk pile a touching scene was enacted on the following day when the owners bid a last goodbye to their faithful car the fraternity men caressed for a last time the bent fenders and patted the warped hood then filed silently out how much sobbed one of the owners do we get the garage man judiciously looked over the remarkable mechanism for a moment then announced fig uring a small allowance for the bat tery you will owe me about two dollars pennsylvania state troopers and the bethlehem police don't know a good car when they see one at least that's the belief of the men at the sigma phi epsilon house wh recently had two luxurious limou sines confiscated before their very eyes on the first day of examinations a car load of light-hearted s.p.e.'s set out for their calculus final in the mighty and far famed overland whic hhaslong been the pride of their house the trip was never completed however as they only rattled as far as the state police headquarters on vine street when one of the upholders of pennsylva nia's law and order stopped the car for inspection faulty parts noted an examination of the venerable chariot revealed a few technical faults the err was too noisy the lights were worthless the brakes were loose the windshield wiper didn't wipe and the horn wasn't anything to brag about briefly the car was in such a condition that the troopers turned it over to the beth lehem police for confiscation and the fraternity men rushed to the calculus exari heart broken following the drastic action by the police the car owners all four of them held a joint meeting to dis cuss their loss the limousine it was revealed had reached wash ir\gto ntwice invaded the sanctity bethlehem pa friday february 12 1932 mcconn addresses educational clubs artist's procedure shown by pictures vol xxxix no 28 price — five cents the lehigh university brown and white parade to honor first president will discuss socialization of investment war depends on strategy deems says physics club views work of professors films reveal methods which wood engravers use dean attends meetingp in har risburg and new york 1,354 students registered to inoculate r.o.t.c men typhoid inoculations will be given t6 students by dr r c bull head of the health service bureau on feb 20 feb 27 and mar 5 according to dr bull all students who are going to the r o t c camp this sum mer are require dto take these inoculations while any other student who intends to travel or who will work in the open coun try during vacation is privileged to be treated also dr bull wish es to see these men before the middle of next week member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first