Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 1

              major james green j a brodhead alumni start work bureau j a brodhead 07 ap pointed head of new placement service the creation of a university place ment service and the appointment of john andre brodhead 07 as its first director was announced by president richards at the first meet ing of the faculty sept 12 the placement service will be un der the auspices of the alumni as sociation and will co-ordinate and extend the various phases of place ment work prevailing here includ ing student part-time employment senior placement alumni replace ment and teacher placement ac cording to mr brodhead to give students work at present concentrated atten tion is being given to the securing of part-time employment for under graduates this employment in cludes waiting on tables assisting at athletic and social functions cler ical work in the various university departments and offices selling of standard articles to students solicit ing for laundries cleaners and sim ilar business houses tutoring and various other occupations besides his degree in mechanical engineering he holds a master of arts degree from yale in educa tion he lived for some years in new haven conn and was in charge of the y m c a college in that city heads department of education here dr h b thomas was for merly professor at rutgers a department of education sep arate from the department of phil osophy and headed by dr h b thomas former director of educa tional research in the springfield mass schools has been established this semester in packer hall an independent department of education will not only facilitate better instruction of men preparing for the teaching profession pres ident richards stated but will also strengthen and individualize the formerly combined departments of philosophy and education the head of the new department dr thomas received his bachelor of science degree from colgate and that of doctor of philosophy from harvard he has been superinten dent of various schools in michi gan and has taught at rutgers and the university of missouri during the war he served for fifteen months with the a e f in france chi phi and sigma phi epsilon lead in num ber of pledges with 1 2 and 11 delta sigma phi delta upsilon trail with three men each survey shows 1 3 fewer ac ceptances than at end of last season one hundred and ninety-two men were pledged to 28 fraternities sat urday night at the conclusion of another rushing season three houses have not completed their lists as yet chi phi and sigma phi epsilon led the fraternities with 12 and 11 men respectively while sigma phi delta sigma phi and delta upsilon pledged three men each last year 205 men accepted bids at the end of the two weeks rushing campaign the men pledged and their frater nities are as follows alpha chi rho edward b deilert william h godshall rohert reis l sherwood stout herbert f farnsler alpha kappa pi william t moran herbert h parsons william s wheeler lyle m oeiger thom as dix alpha tau omega q melson hurley lester wesley ray niand j mcconachie victor e engstrom judson g smull frank richardson edward e zacharias gordon link beta theta pi frank a gonzales robert lohmeyer john mathews marston boden charles e ben nett c l bennett chi psi frederich w walker b wendell sem tress edward d de puy nathaniel norton clyde a collins izaac messmore garrie haulenbeek charles k bugbee clark o bartlett chi phi albert spalding vincent hacket irwin brant lawson calhoun neil robinson frank d mock dewit hanfield patrick pazzetti robert dougherty paul wilder donald ful ler george voehl delta phi vail w cumniings charles h ford rob ert j turner gilbert d rogers william f rust jr elwood m taussig jr delta sigma phi joseph c mccabe howard e thomson jr arthur j bengel delta tau delta joseph m bray william crane robert h custer t douglass l gray irving l law ton charles m mapes thomas e tate albert s weigel delta upsilon robert w eichner gordon c mccormick john w dietz kappa alpha donald c yates robert couch thomas garrihan charles b warren mathew 0 troy dudly healy kappa sigma herbert watkins malcolm voorhees frank pierson boyd picking william landis ray mond lowright walter kozak lee dieken son joseph macphee lambda chi alpha norman m godfrey arnald m zwicky john t kornet george f dickover foster f evans donald j stitzer kloman spra gue david samuels arthur morrison phi delta theta joseph t bailey walter a renard wil liam j lundgren louis e lannan herbert a mcnally george h wurster paul t roberts phi gamma delta ralph e skedgell robert l isaly wil liam b dunlap david w hoppock ran som g yeager elwood w hanson william e austin charles a moore howell sco bey ernest e erack phi sigma kappa • fred stillwell mack seybold william wil kens robert moore james branigan pi kappa alpha alfred d van scoy jr robert n young blood paul n ohmer howard l ford john m male harold w bade continued on page four 21 new men are appointed to vacancies prof h p thomas will direct newly estab lished department of education a h fretz and h g rhoads to have leave of absence two new department heads were named this year as 21 appointments were made and 34 resignations ac cepted among lehigh faculty mem bers harold p thomas an experienc ed educator and graduate of col gate and harvard universities will be professor and head of the newly established department of educa tion major james o green is the new professor and head of the de partment of military science and tactics while captain william m tow will be assistant professor in the same department instructors named for this year are daniel borth jr b s in bus iness university of kansas 27 m s in accountancy university of illinois 28 ph d university of illinois 32 instructor in econo mics and joe w peoples b a vanderbilt 28 m s vander bilt 29 ph d princeton 32 instructor in geology instructors selected assistant instructors are benja min f miner harvard 32 in the german department theodore ehr sam lehigh 31 in the english de partment cylde a harding le high 31 in the english depart ment emerson w kaufman le ment v swarthmore 30 in mathematics an g£ls^fii^kigill2n been named assistant to the regis trar to replace paul e schwartz who jsfe^l(t>3^s'ima j^jm stewart l rankin will succeed dr kerwin marcke as assistant direc tor of the student's health service john a brodhead lehigh 07 will be director of the new department of placement on leave of absence for the academic year of 1932-33 assistant professor h g rhoads of the department of english will be on leave of absence to study at the university of pennsylvainia while assistant professor a h fretz of the department of geology will spend his leave of absence in study at columbia university research fellows are as follows william charles fritz b s in chemistry lehigh 32 eavenson and levering com pany research fellow john david brandner b s in ch e le high 32 student chemistry foundation fellow charles everard joseph green b s in ch e lehigh 32 hunt-rankin leather com jany research fellow philip benham myers b a lehigh 32 institute of research fellow in geology harry brooks osborn jr b s in ch e lehigh 32 henry marison byllesby re search fellow in chemistry benjamin rabinowitz b s in ch e le high 32 institute of research fellow in chemistry albert monfort thorne jr b s in en gineering physics lehigh 32 institute of research fellow in the departments of phy sics and metallurgy max kantor b s in ch e university of minnesota 29 archer-daniels-midland company and william 0 goodrich company research fellow resignations total 34 the resignations were m h thomlinson professor of military science and tactics maximilian clay as sistant professor of military science and tactics ; l r drown assistant professor of education k m marcks assistant direc tor of the students health service p e schwartz assistant registrar j m andress instructor in electrical engineering e h brink instructor in mechanical engineering h h carter instructor in romance lan guages m a farrell instructor in biology continued on page four green made r.o.t.c head succeeds colonel thorn linson and is promoted by war department president c r richards an nounced the appointment of major james o green as professor and head of the department of military science and tactics at a meeting of the faculty on sept 12 1932 major green was recently raised to this rank from a captaincy by the war department he was for merly an assistant professor of mil itary science and tactics under lieut col m h thomlinson col thomlinson was assigned to a post in the southwest after four years service with the lehigh unit end ing in july 1932 major green was graduated from y¥&t'~gosri£~fe&l9l7 and served in the world war with the 23rd infan try of the second division he was arwpfxte fca tdlstfnguished service cross for meritorious service in ac tion against german forces at cha fla^^h^t^tjune and july 1918 xirfdliate ot staff college major green is also a graduate of the army school of the line at lan gres france of the army general staff college at the same place of the infantry school company offi cers course at fort benning ga and also of the army line school and staff college at fort leaven worth kan he served as instruc tor at the united states military academy for four years and at the infantry school for two years capt william m tow a b kansas wesleyan university 14 m a university of montana 15 will replace major green during the world war captain tow serv ed as a second lieutenant of infan try in the 83rd 91st and 16th di visions he is a graduate of the army signal school at fort monmouth n j of the infantry school at fort benning georgia and of the field officers course chemical warfare edgewood arsenal school mary land school gets bequest 10,000 principle of c e award donated to lehigh the sum of 10,000 has recently been received by lehigh university through the will of the late garrett linderman hoppes's mother ac cording to natt m emery vice president the money was originally set aside in memory of garrett linder man hoppes who graduated from lehigh in 1887 and died in 1910 and the interest on the money in the form of a life annuity was to be used to establish a garrett lin derman hoppes scholarship in civil engineering this arrangement con tinued until last month when fol lowing the death of the annuitant the money was turned over directly to the university the board of trustees is expected to receive the donation officially next month new m s & t head bethlehem pa tuesday september 27 1932 price five cents brown and white vol xl no 1 fewer frosh are enrolled in university dcc r e a sed registration emphasizes recent trend unusual num ber seek scholarships university will operate at saving of about 80,000 the registration of less than 350 freshmen this year emphasizes a trend which has been manifest since 1928 when the size of the first year classes started decreasing the freshman class of 1928 numbered 527 but the following year the fac ulty ruled that new york regent's examinations would not be accept ed in lieu of entrance examinations with the result that in 1929 the freshman class dropped to 458 the years of 1930 and 1931 show ed first year classes of about 430 with the present class smaller by about 100 men although no defin ite reason has been advanced for this drop it is believed that cur rent business conditions are one of the controlling factors more apply for aid despite the increased financial pressure evidenced by an unusual number of applications for financial aid and scholarships approximate ly 1,400 students have registered for the 1932-33 sessions of the uni versity this figure which includes a large number of transfers from other schools is about the same as the enrollment last year it has been announced by pres ident charles russ richards that by rigid economics the university will be able to operate during the coming year at a saving of about 80,000 over last year's budget in spite of the fact that considerable improvements have been made in both the physical plant and the per sonnel of the faculty following the policy inaugurated last year no formal opening exer cises were held but as the first chapel of the year thursday dr claude g beardsley professor of moral and religious philosophy greeted the students and outlined the policy of religious instruction to be presented at the conclusion of the exercises the frosh donned their dinks for the first time and the new year was officially started senior electricals chosen for prizes horn memorial fund provides two more awards the names of the men chosen to compete for the francis dupont memorial prizes have been an nounced by prof stanley s seyfert acting head of the department of electrical engineering they are william d hickman walter w felton charles w cooper and james f willenbecher all seniors in the department of electrical en gineering in order to compete for these prizes which amount to 100 first prize and 50 second prize the men must write a thesis on a study of variable speed character istics for motor drives of indus trial machines the subject chosen for this year this fund was established in 1929 by leonard s homer e e and is awarded annually to the sen iors who submit the best thesis on the subject designated by the don or after having conducted research work prizes of 40 and 20 will be awarded annually to the two sen iors in the department of electrical engineering making the best records in seminar the fund for these prizes accord ing to stanley s seyfert acting head of the department of electri cal engineering was provided this summer by the heirs of harold j horn e e 98 board of control to give students vote for sports cut rules are modified e for absence abolished a modification of lehigh's cut rules was announced at the beginning of the semester by as sociate dean g b curtis according to dean curtis a student who absents himself from a lecture or recitation will no longer receive a grade of e but a grade of abs an ab sence from a regularly scheduled or announced quiz laboratory period seminar or drill will bring a grade of f in case of the consecutive ab sence from all classes extending over a period of one week or an absence from a regularly sched uled or announced quiz labora tory period seminar or drill the student may apply to the dean for an excuse previously the period required for excused cuts was two weeks control board alters policy all publicity to pass through alumni asso ciation the office of the alumni associa tion will handle all news concern ing the board of control of ath letics and an alumni representative will be present at all board meet ings according to a e buchanan jr secretary of the alumni asso ciation this decision was made at the final meeting of the athletic board last spring football prices for the p m c game were set at 55 general ad mission and 1.10 for reserved seats general admission at the rutgers and muhlenberg games will be 1.10 and reserved tickets will be 1.65 faculty athletic tickets are sub ject to the federal tax this year at the gate jacobs re-elected merl l jacobs 10 who has served as a member of the board of control of athletics since its or ganization was re-elected chairman at the first meeting of the board this year the board is comprised of alum ni faculty and undergraduates the present members as follows alumni — m l jacobs d m petty w a schrempel and w r okeson faculty — prof j l beaver dr neil carothers dr max peterson and prof h r reiter un dergraduates — f d keck c n crichton j s skelly and m m reed first issue of burr shows new policy september number includes freshman features the first issue of the lehigh burr appeared sept 21 this was the freshman number and illustrated the new policy of the burr this year instead of a great deal of ma terial from other schools this issue of the burr contains a minimum of borrowed material freshmen rushing and registra tion were the subjects handled the feature story was a rushing guide for freshmen giving information about lehigh fraternities the freshman cover was drawn by nor man alper art editor the adver tising has been livened up by novel advertisements and the reading mat ter is more sophisticated according to j j roessle 33 editor in chief the october burr will be a girls number which will present lehigh's femmes in a novel manner he also announced that competition is open for art and edi torial men governing body says at least one athletic ac tivity must be abolish ed as economy move new members are elected to executive committee faculty may now pay tax on football admissions at pet rikin's office a student poll to determine which sport of the university the students wish to abolish as an economy move was approved at the board of con trol of athletics meeting monday afternoon the board pointed out that it is necessary to abolish at least one sport and that by means of the poll the undergraduates will be given an opportunity to show their prefer ence ballots for the poll are to be pub lished in the oct 4 issue of brown and white and figures showing the costs of each sport will be publish ed in the friday issue of this week a box will be placed on the first floor of christmas-saucon hall where ballots may be cast from wednesday oct 5 to saturday oct 8 it was also decided that the ex ecutive committee should confer with j a brodhead director of th newly organized placement service in regard to additional student con cessions at football games faculty members planning to at tend football games may go to j g petrikin's office on the days be fore games in order to pay the tax on tickets as a result of the deci sion by the board mr petrikin was also given authority to issue sec ond athletic books to students who can prove that they lost their orig inal books prof j l beaver and m m reed 33 were elected to the ex ecutive committee and prof h r reiter w r okeson and c n crichton 33 were appointed to the budget committee the football committee will remain the same un til november the executive committee was given power to appoint assistant managers for cross-country man agers of spring sports are also to be selected at a meeting of the com mittee this week permission was granted to beth lehem and allentown high schools to play their football game in tay lor stadium in 1933 a cup presented by frederic mercur 27 which is to be given to the first student who wins the an nual tennis tournament for three years was accepted replicas will be given to winners each year the next meeting of the board will be held on oct 10 value of « a changed highest grade now worth 4 in honors computation new values for lehigh's letter grades have been assigned by fac ulty action during the past year and will go into effect this semes ter the change in letter value is brought about chiefly through the altering of the value of the a from 5 to 4 in determining graduation honors as a result of the change degrees with highest honors are given to those who have attained an average of not less than 3.75 in their last two years ot work at the university degrees with high honors are awarded on a basis of a 3.5 aver age and degrees with honors are given for an average of 3 in pro portion to the change f the a 192 accept bids into fraternities as rushing ends member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first