Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 36

              psychology professor de clares that modern progressive t h i n k ers are changing beliefs discusses various theories of present day psychology probation statistics show 1 5 less men dropped ; 13 fewer students put on pro than last year 72 students come off pro 25 are dropped permanently students determine earth's vibrations about 30 junior and senior min ing engineers accompanied by prof benjamin miller and prof howard eckfeldt witnessed the breaking of forty thousand tons of rock by a dynamite charge weigh ing six tons last friday at the nazareth cement company quarry the students were permitted to witness the blast through the courtesy of harry a reichenbach e m 09 general superintendent of the company one of the features of the trip was the determinations produced in the earth by the blast two seismographs one the property of the cement company and the other owned by the geology department were set up by the students it was found that all of the needles of the instrument placed 500 feet from the blast had fallen but only two of the eight needles in the seismograph placed 1500 feet from the blast were down find students like editorials results of questionnaire reveal fraternity men favor new-sized paper faculty hears h sutherland pete peck elected captain of the 1933 wrestl ing team at the team banquet last night phi beta kappa will initiate 25 that students are working hard er than before is made evident by comparing the february reports of the committee on standing of stu dents for 1931 and 1932 said dean mcconn in an interview friday of the students on probation for the first term of the two years 51 met the terms and were eligible to continue in good standing in 1931 while this year 72 were taken off probation dean mcconn says the rumor that more students have been con tinued on probation than usual is entirely unjustifiable the report shows that only 10 students have thus been continued this semester last year there were 21 who re mained in lehigh for special rea sons less men on probation there are now 178 men on pro bation while a year ago there were 191 the number of students who were on probation last semester dropped permanently for poor scholarship - last term was 25 as compared with 40 a year ago the dean stated of the sophomores juniors and seniors in good standing for the first semester 120 were placed on probation for the second semesters both in 1931 and 1932 eighteen freshmen were dropped for poor scholarship and 48 were placed on scholastic probation these figures are about the same as those a year ago the total number of men dropped from school was 43 this year as com pared with 56 last year according to dean mcconn every progressive thinker is troubled by the fact that we are ef fectively imprisoned by acquired habits and predispositions said dr j l graham assistant professor of psychology at the fifth faculty lecture in packard auditorium last night psychology is undergoing a great many changes in all its schools to day said doctor graham in the hegelian school progress is seen to come from early habits that are not removed but are revised he pointed out in the last quarter of the 19th century said doctor graham our youth were nurtured in the sentiment what a noble work is man today we have lost that con fidence and consider such a view of man a glorious illusion function alism behaviorism and psychoanal ysis have turned us away from this viewpoint » the behaviorists believe that our actions are controlled by involun tary impulses which are a result of repetition of certain events dr graham explained for example a man can not stop his mouth from watering when he puts food in it man's behavior the psychoanalysists claimed doctor graham have endeavored to find out why man acts as he does they study eccentric behavior and try to locate the cause of it their , method is to win the confidence of the patient by building up a great strain and then suggesting some re lease doctor graham came to lehigh in september 1930 from the uni versity of kentucky he was for merly dean at fisk university gordon will speak to geology society o d k to tap men civil engineering head discusses work of university professors the work of the american asso ciation of university professors was dascussed at the monthly meeting of the faculty educational club yes terday afternoon in the faculty room of the alumni memorial building prof hale sutherland head of the department of civil engineering prepared the program which is in tended to inaugurate upon the cam pus a more systematic study of the characteristics proper and improp er justifiable and unjustifiable of university and college instruction professor sutherland also de scribed the history and importence of the american association of uni versity professors in the educational world dr g e doan associate pro fessor of metallurgy outlined the program for the project of the am erican association of university pro fessors for the investigation of col lege teaching the meeting was held under the auspices of the local chapter of the a a u p which is operated un der a grant of 20,000 from the car negie institution for the advance ment of teaching experiences of a mineralogist to be subject of lecture samuel g gordon curator of mineralogy at the academy of natural sciences in philadelphia will talk on the experiences of a mineralogist before the mining and geological society thusday at 7:30 p m in the geology lecture room williams hall the meeting is open to the public in his talk mr gordon will re count his adventures in greenland south africa and south america places he visited searching for rare mineral specimens his talk will be illustrated by colored slides of the regions he visited for the past 20 years mr gor don by his travels has added to the collection of the academy of natural sciences until it is now regarded as one of the finest and most complete in the world accord ing to r h raring e m 32 president of the mining and geo logical society coming events wednesday march 16 7:30 p m sigma xi meeting room 466 packard laboratory thursday march 17 4:10 p m phi beta kappa meeting in faculty room alumni memor ial building 7:30 p m mining and geological society meet in geology lecture room in williams hall 7:30 p m chemical society lec ture in main lecture room of chemistry building 8 p m pi mv epsilon lecture in room 466 packard laboratory friday march 18 6:30 p m phi beta kappa dinner at bethlehem hotel i predict that in four to six years from the present the demand for college trained men especially engineers will te tremendous and at that time men with a good edu cation will be ready to go rapidly to the top said o w eschbach e e 15 last friday evening at a meeting of the electrical engineer ing society held in room 416 of packard laboratory mr eschbach a member of the lehigh faculty from 1916 to 1923 and at present personnel director for american telephone and tele graph delivered a lecture entitled engineering education with civic usefulness says demand will increase i want to tell you some things that are good for you to hear dur ing periods of depression there is a dropping off of the enrollment of freshman and the college trained man especially the engineer is not in demand in the resulting over crowded field however in four year's time the number of graduat ing men is correspondingly small business has gradually picked up and hence the demand for men trained in engineering work and other subjects taught in colleges far exceeds the supply therefore i predict that in about four years you men will start a rapid rise to the top stopping only where your native ability has reached its ca pacity mr eschbach drew this conclusion from a study of gradu ates of colleges and universities over a long period of time he pre sented by means of slides facts and figures showing the position in life and financial income of all the men in a t & t and pointed out that in the upper seventh of society about 50 per cent were held by engineers this percentage is increasing all the time said mr eschbach and in a few more years the upper seventh will be composed of about three-fourths engineers calls education worthwhile another point i wish to im press on you is this — ," stated mr eschbach that education of those who are not suceptible is a very foolish waste of money and also i say to every college man — you can achieve much by hard work that can never be achieved by native ability alone in closing this subject said mr eschbach competition from non college men is keen and every man will need to develop all his talents especially his personality to come out on top the final results of the question naire conducted some time ago concerning the value to the student body of the editorial page of the brown and white have been de termined for the editorial depart ment by j b rather a total of 515 ballots were cast these came from fraternities whose members were the only voters this preference was neces sary according to rather due to the fact that downtown and dormi tory students could not be easily reached in answer to the question of ha bitual editorial reading a distinctly affirmative reply was received but a substantial majority agreed that there is too much space devoted to editorials vote on column headings the various column headings were satisfactory to the majority of students incidentally popular fraternity opinion concerning the columns finds the editorial column first in importance and then in order ivy-clad and chestnut town and campus around other campuses athletic re view letters to the editor from the press box and finally world news most of the ballots found the present size of the paper satisfac tory but those against it were em phatic these felt that the brown and white headings should be re placed by the one formerly used and that the size of the sheet sug gested cheap prep school tactics a bit too much lehigh's three intercollegiate champions senior honorary chooses men to be pledged next week new members were chosen for omicron delta kappa senior hon orary society at its meeting last friday evening in drown hall the names of the newly chosen men will be made public at the tapping next week at the same time a new amend ment was made to the entrance re quirements to the effect that in the event of a tie in the number of points collected by two or more men and all the men cannot be admitted those having the great est amount of diversification in their activities shall be admitted honorary fraternity pledges largest num ber in history initiation of the 25 pledges to phi beta kappa honorary scholas tic fraternity will take place at 4:10 p m thursday in the faculty room in the alumni memorial building at the annual meeting of the society the largest group that has ever been initiated into the chapter will be officially admitted after which there will be a business meeting for the purpose of electing new officers for the coming year two new members will also be elected to the council on friday evening march 18 at 6:30 p m there will be a joint meeting of the lehigh and lafay ette chapters of the society at a banquet in the ballroom of the hotel bethlehem prof archibald henderson of the university of north carolina will speak on the higher edu cation before the members their wives and the faculties of lehigh and lafayette after the banquet the banquet is held in alternate years in bethlehem and easton dr a ford finishes book on psychology practical training stressed in turkey lehigh matmen retain eastern intercollegiate wrestling championship by jim cunningham dalling shaw and bishop secure titles in 126 135 and 145-lb classes shanker and hirshberg place second cornell syracuse tie for second place brown and white wrestlers score 29 points gaining three firsts two seconds and a third place — obtain fourth championship in five years text avoids technical teams for use of lay readers dr adelbert ford head of the department of psychology an nounced last saturday that he had practically finished writing a treatise on current psychology in tended for lay readers nine months have been required in writing the book the title of which has not yet been chosen after proof read ing it will go to press about july 1 it will be one of a series of books on modern popular science pub lished by the sears publishing company of new york professor ford stated the book will present the sub ject matter of psychology without using technical terms thus making it easily understood by persons un familiar with the science a little history will be included with the principles and aims of psychology laboratory methods will be de scribed to acquaint the reader with the working and application of the subject according to professor ford lehigh professor discusses eas tern colleges practical training in shop work and surveying is stressed in training engineers at robert college in tur key to face the difficult problems met there said hale sutherland head of the department of civil en gineering in speaking on training engineers in the near east at the meeting of the civil engineering so ciety last friday evening professor sutherland taught sev eral years at robert college an american institution situated out side of constantinople on the bos phorus students of all nationali ties are educated there and teach ing them english a requirement is a large task while in turkey professor sutherland took many pictures which he showed the turks impressed him as a peaceful people just beginning to progress in learning and living conditions 808 dalling frank shaw ben bishop bethlehem pa tuesday march 15 1932 miners view rocks blasted by dynamite vol xxxix no 36 the brown and white price — five cents predicts rise in opportunity for graduates men working harder says dean mcconn elected captain early habits imprison us says graham o w eschbach forsees . larger demand for men with college training in a few years addresses e e society friday night in packard lab billy sheridan's lehigh wrestling team again reigned supreme at the eastern intercollegiate wrestling association championships held at syracuse last friday and saturday the lehigh grapplers won the championship for the fourth time in the past five years lehigh scored 29 points to place first in the championships the brown arid white wrestlers won three individual titles two second places and one third place besides scoring seven points on falls cor nell and syracuse tied for second place with 17 points princeton gar nered 12 points to place third while perm state followed with 9 penn sylvania 8 and columbia and yale 6 apiece meixell places third the preliminary matches were held friday afternoon with five le high matmen wirining their individual bouts meixell was unfortunate in ' being paired with sumner forward of syracuse in the 118 lb division the lehigh grappler was a little on edge as he was wrestling in his first intercollegiate bout the syra cuse champion finally threw meix ell with a bar and chancery in 8:45 forward went through the matches undefeated to win the championship in that class thus giving meixell a chance to wrestle for the second and third places in the bouts for second place meixell displayed the best form of his career to throw captain mai?e of perm state with a bar and chancery in 1 sb queneau of cornell who was de f(_ated in the finals defeated meix ell for second place but the lehigh grappler came back to defeat de laney of princeton for third place thus scoring two points for the brown and white matmen opposition presses dalling bob dalling wrestling against the toughest competition of any class triumphed in every bout to carry off the laurels in the 126 lb class the lehigh star had trouble in defeating gurney of princeton in the semi-finals the bout went to extra periods and the brown and white matman won with a time ad vantage of i 4s in the final bout dalling easily defeated ellstrom of penn state with a time advantage of 8:58 the lehigh grappler was the aggressor throughout and had ellstrom constantly on the defense champion frank shaw again re peated his success of last year in winning the 135 lb championship the lehigh champion was easily the outstanding man of the meet winning every bout on falls and scoring eight points for the brown and white shaw showed his best form in the semi-finals when he threw fenimore of columbia with a short arm scissors in his final bout shaw threw anderson of syracuse in the first period in 2:44 and almost had anderson pinned at the end of the second period bishop wins easily ben bishop crashed through in great style to win the champion ship in the 145 lb class bishop showed the crowd more holds than they thought of when he easily de eated hendry of columbia in the reliminaries with a time advantage of 7:33 in the semi-finals bishop hrew lorenzo of perm state with an inside crotch hold and reverse hancery in 6:45 captain butter worth of cornell met bishop in the inal bout and walked off the mat a adly beaten man the cornell aptain slipped bishop into a cross ody ride but the lehigh star al most threw him with his own hold iishop easily broke the hold and unished the cornell grappler to win with a time advantage of 2:56 gus kremer substituting for i'ete-peck in the 165 lb class met tiff competition in his first bout i ken mann of perm the le igh grappler fought hard but the enn star was too experienced and on with a time advantage of 6:12 lann went through the meet un continued on page four member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first