Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 34

              dant doesn't think the well-known decameron and the droll tales have anything to do with it of course there was one titian haired young gentleman who re marked on bocaccio's fine style he was entirely of the opinion that no browsing room attendant should neglect the book and accosted him with shining eyes to make an ur gent suggestion frosh tries schopenhauer then there was the serious-faced freshman who chose to read the pessimistic works of schopenhauer without meaning to spy the at tendant saw him change his seat four consecutive times in a half hour at least the yearling is to be complimented for his persistence men have been found dead with copies of schopenhauer in their hands ! incidentally the browsing room is open from 10 to 12 a m and from 1 to 5 p m if the change is found advisable the room may be opened during the evening whether or not the doors will resume their former uninviting attitude next semester depends on how many students find time to use the room between now and june do lehigh students browse in the rich fields of classical literature figures collected by one of the attendants last week seem to prove that they do ... and like it most of them like it just after 10 o'clock each morning between 30 and 35 men are to be found there during the 10 o'clock period as against the average eight book lovers who en ter the browsing room at other hours of the day laboratory classes the guardian of peace and tranquility says are probably responsible for the poor attendance in the early afternoon he found that from 1 p m the opening hour after lunch approxi mately is students make their de termined appearances up until 3 o'clock this number is added to after the next hour when between 4 and 4:45 p m an average of 20 more men make use of the brows ing room interest is varied and what do they read the interests of the browsers is pretty well distributed among the 600 books on the shelves it seems although most men sit about the upper end of the room the atten d.o.t to meet dayton team single tickets will admit students to athletic events a single ticket will admit stu dents to.each of the two double events on saturday the wrestling meets call for event number p and the basket ball games in the evening call for event number r the junior varsity vs haver ford wrestling match will start at 1:30 p m the varsity meet will be staged at 3 p m the basketball games will begin at 7 p m arcadia picks white blazer 8 bid of john wanamak er accepted bellow back and belt optional white blazers with brown facing were chosen for the present junior and senior classes at a meeting of the combined executive and blazer committees of arcadia yesterday afternoon in the arcadia room of drown hall the 8 bid offered by john wan amaker of philadelphia was ac cepted the company will manu facture and hand-tailor the coats of 16 ounce flannel made by the am erican woolen company the goods is said to be durable heavy pre-shrunk and will not wear or wrinkle easily individual service on any style coat was included in the bid belts and bellow backs will be tailored without extra cost the committees thought the price which was 1 above that of the next best blazer to be worth the added quality of the goods and the work manship of the coats no arrangement has yet been made concerning the time or place of fittings bids were submitted by nine companies located in allen town philadelphia and new york last year blazers were made by the sanford tailoring company of philadelphia which charged 7.25 a coat \ lehigh fraternities to conduct dances sigma nu lambda chi alpha to entertain this week four fraternity dances are sched uled for the next two weeks sigma nu and lambda chi alpha will en tertain tomorrow evening delta upsilon and alpha tau omega will hold their dances on saturday march 11 couples at the sigma nu house will dance to the music of nick nickols and his masters of mel ody the chaperones will be mr and mrs neil sullivan and mr warren fletcher the lehigh collegians will fur nish the music for the lambda chi alpha dance tomorrow night the affair will be chaperoned by mrs fred v larkin and prof and mrs m o fuller one hundred and fifty invitations have been issued to the a t o dance which will be given satur day march 11 the orchestra will be the musical aces and the chaperones dr and mrs t t laf ferty the rhythmic jesters of cran ford n j will play at the delta upsilon house dance which will also be given on march 11 mr and mrs charles lattig and mr and mrs jack kilmer will be the chap erones initial military drill planned for monday on upper field the first military drill of the present semester will be held on monday march 6 at 4 p m on the upper field major j o green jr head of the military department announced today the drill will consist of re-or ganization of platoons review of the elements of drill and talks by the company commanders army war strategy studied by senior r.o.t.c men prepare theses on historical events all seniors taking the second year advanced infantry course are preparing monograms on war strat egy under the direction of capt p l sadler the theses will include a histor ical account of events and a criti cism of tactics employed in the wars in which the united states has been involved since 1776 both written and oral monograms will be prepared by the students the written theses may be of un limited length containing besides historical facts charts and maps the oral theses must be of less than 20 minutes talking time two monograms will be turned in at the armory by each student in the course from march 10 until april 7 captain sadler stated military group to tap at drill scabbard and blade plans to sponsor lectures by malone and archer scabbard and blade honorary military society elected six student members and one associate at a meeting held last thursday the men will be pledged at drill next monday afternoon the pledges are j k beidler bus 34 b l bishop arts 34 r s cranmer arts 36 j r fugard c e 35 and e n hower met 34 the associate elected is capt l e atwood of the local national guard regiment plans for two lectures to be sponsored by the society were dis cussed at the meeting arrange ments are being made through the lecture committee headed by r a lodge to have two addresses one by major general malone com mander of the third corps area and the other by mr herman archar warrant officer of the princeton field artillery unit of the r o t c general malone was the speaker at the field day exercises of the le high r o t c unitl last year in his speech after the review and the exhibitions he stressed the value of military preparedness and stated that the founding of the r o t c in 1920 by means of the national de fense act was one of the most im portant steps taken in a century towards safeguarding the country's safety mr archer is noted chiefly for his activities as a soldier of fortune and is the author of several books on his adventures hudson to address a s c e meeting state highway engineer to discuss viaduct h w hudson engineer of the state highway department of new jersey will speak at 8 p m mon day march 6 at a joint meeting of the lehigh valley engineering so ciety and the lehigh valley sec tion of the american society of civil engineers mr hudson will discuss the methods used in the construction of the new elevated highway over the passaic and hackensack rivers this roadway which connects the holland tunnel with united states highway no 1 was completed at a cost of approximately eighteen million dollars the most modern construction methods were em ployed the economic value of this road is shown by the number of cars that have used it in the first three months since it was opened to the public it is estimated that eighteen million cars will use it in the com ing year 50 candidates meet to form lacrosse club group will function on basis of student activi ty and not under uni versity athletic control kolyer elected president of new campus organization approximately 50 lacrosse candi dates the largest number that ever turned out for that sport met in drown hall wednesday with coach c i lattig capt f a kolyer and manager r a nisbet and or ganized a lehigh lacrosse club as provided for by the students activi ties committee of arcadia captain kolyer was elected pres ident of the club and manager nis bet was elected secretary-treasurer by-laws and a constitution will be drawn up in the near future as a club lacrosse will function on the basis of a student activity and not under the athletic control of the university the members are trying to make it self support ing by adopting a policy similar to that adopted at cornell schedule planned the chief difficulties lie in mak ing a schedule providing equip ment and awarding insignia plans are being made to schedule games with navy princeton new york university swarthmore and lafay ette said kolyer a home game is being sought for house party week end with either lafayette or swarthmore the equipment of last year is available for the club and arcadia will secure some more if the uni versity will not award letters to the team arcadia will give charms among changes in lacrosse rules made this year are the reduction in the number of players from 12 to 10 the size of the playing field has been reduced to 80 yards in length and 50 yards in width will make game fast coach lattig said that this change will make for a faster game the lower field will be used for home lacrosse games and baseball will be played on the steel field there were 10 letter men present at the meeting if student interest in lacrosse approaches that of the players lehigh should have a suc cessful season said lattig it is hoped that a minimum ad mission charge about 15 cents will provide for more interest among lo cal sport fans all juniors and sophomores in terested in trying for assistant manager must turn in their names as soon as possible to manager nis bet candidates for the team must watch the brown and white for the opening date of practice and is suance of equipment said kolyer coming events friday march 3 7:30 p m robert w blake society meeting robert e heim 28 will speak 7:30 p m meeting of pre-medical society in room 268 packard lab oratory prof r w hall will speak saturday march 4 1:30 p m junior varsity wrestling vs haverford taylor gymna sium 3 p m varsity wrestling vs perm taylor gymnasium 7 p m freshman basketball vs lafayette taylor gymnasium 7 p m freshman wrestling vs liberty high school liberty high school 8 p m varsity basketball vs la fayette taylor gymnasium d o t debate with dayton uni versity in packard auditorium monday march 6 4 p m first r o t c drill on upper field 4 p m faculty meeting in the fac ulty room alumni building 8 p m meeting of a s c e in packard auditorium mr h w hudson will speak six freshmen win in tryouts men to compete in finals of freshman oratorical contest on march 15 six freshmen won the right to compete in the finals of the fresh man oratorical contest to be held march 15 the tryouts were held wednesday evening in packard au ditorium the winners of the tryouts and their topics are john b edwards future social trends samuel graws cancellation of war debts h l snavely america's problem bernard s weiss abo lition of the jury system david w hoppock the philippine in dependence bill and robert eich ner the world court and its re lation to the united states the five judges all members of the english department were warren fletcher cedric gale prof m j luch e h sloane and c a harding for the finals of the contest each contestant must hand in five topics the judges will chose the three best and the contestant will prepare all three one hour before the finals each man will draw one of the three topics he has pre pared he will then be allowed one hour to organize his material said professor luch robert eichner one of the win ners in the tryouts was runner-up in the national oratorical contest held last year for high . schools throughout the country washington college honors dr walters former lehigh registrar is president of u of cincinnati dr raymond walters president of the university of cincinnati a lehigh graduate and former regis trar received on feb 23 the first honorary degree ever given at the annual mid - year convocation of washington college chestertown md he received an honorary de gree of letters dr walters was graduated from lehigh in 1907 with the degree of bachelor of arts he was instructor of english here from 1907 to 1911 in 1912 he became assistant profes sor of english and also registrar after serving in this dual capacity until 1921 dr walters left lehigh to become dean of swarthmore col lege he was appointed president of the university of cincinnati in 1932 he has contributed about 185 articles on educational and literary sub jects to various magazines as well as being the author of two volumes on the bethlehem bach choir and a book on foreign education student ideas on marriage to be polled questionnaire on nuptial and pre-marital rela tions will be circulated at lehigh and moravian previous surveys show women have liberal views a questionnaire dealing with dif ferent views of marriage and pre marital relations will be given to 50 lehigh and 50 moravian college for women students within the next week the survey will be conducted by the brown and white and the mir ror moravian's newspaper the students will be chosen from a representative group which will include athletes students promin ent in activities and those not in terested in activities through such a selection an average group will be secured a similar survey at cedar crest and muhlenberg found that the wo men had a more liberal view than the men on all but two things namely the number of children they would have and the length of time they believed should elapse between their marriage and the birth of their first child the greatest difference in opin ion was on birth control forty nine girls favored and would sanc tion legalized birth control while only 28 muhlenberg students en dorsed it and 22 stood opposed the results of the following questionnaire will probably be an nounced next week the questions that will be asked are 1 at what age would you desire to marry 2 do you approve of petting 3 do you approve of legalized birth control 4 do you plan to marry 5 do you approve of companion ate marriage 6 is divorce by mutual consent desirable providing there are no children 7 if marriage is impractical be cause of finances or some other rea son would you consider it ethical to have sex relations with your fiancee until such time as marriage is pos sible 8 do you believe in secret mar riages 9 do you believe in long court ships engagements 10 how many children would you wish to have 11 how much time should elapse between marriage and the birth of the first child 12 how much time should elapse between the birth of children after the first 13 what age would you wish your wife to be at the time of your marriage ? 14 would you marry a woman who smokes 15 would you marry a woman who uses intoxicants dr lerned to give results of carnegies lehigh valley colleges will meet here march 1 7 dr w s lerned of the carne gie foundation for the advance ment of teaching will lead a dis cussion of the results of the car negie test in pennsylvania colleges and high schools at the meeting of the associated colleges of the le high valley the meeting will be held at 4:30 p m march 17 in room 466 pack ard laboratory dean ettinger of muhlenberg college will speak for the visiting muhlenberg delegation at a dinner which is to be served at 6:30 p m in drown hall three musical num bers will be presented by the del egates from moravian college for women ellis and miller will de bate visitors tomor row on debt question lehigh's debating team will op pose dayton university tomorrow evening at 8 p m in drown hall the lehigh representatives will be h k ellis e e 35 and c f miller chem 34 the dayton de baters are melvin hudes and rob ert cowden solomon leibowitt president of delta omicron theta will be chairman of the debate the ques tion to be debated is that of the war debts judges for the debate have not yet been chosen at a special meeting of the exec utive board of delta omicron theta last monday 13 new men were elected into the society these men were chosen on the basis of their active interest in forensic work in the intercollegiate and club debating said leibowitt they are w s wheeler bus 36 h k ellis e e 35 l row land arts 34 j b diefenbach arts 35 h silverstein arts 34 a k mcllwraith arts 34 m s muir arts 35 f j snyder arts 36 s m schwarz bus 35 e w thorn bus 36 s graw arts 36 c f miller chem 34 and e l heller e m 35 carry out schedule delta omicron theta is desirous of getting as many men as possible interested in debating this year it has been successful in carrying out a well planned schedule the so ciety has been aided by the support of the alumni and louis stamberg coach the society has attempted to maintain a high standard by having open forum discussions after each debate so that the audience may participate in the understanding of the vital interest of the question liebowitt stated two subjects that the debating team is using this year are war debts and capitalism an at tempt is being made to broadcast debates from the allentown radio station and to debate before local organizations liebowitt maurice bernstein arts 33 and other members will journey to new york to debate against columbia on march 8 and rutgers on march 9 the subject of both debates will be capitalism chemistry text is revised dr t h hazlehurst assistant professor of chemistry has collab orated with dr j s long and prof h v anderson of the chem istry department in the revision of the text qualitative analysis the enlarged edition will be published the latter part of this week choir to sing bach's mass as memorial bruce carey will direct service to be held in memory of dr wolle originator of festival initial rehearsal of chorus held last night at moravian packer memorial chapel will once more resound to the music of bach's mass in b minor this time as a memorial service to be held saturday may 13 for the late dr j fred wolle who directed the bach choir since its organization in 1900 the choir met in the chapel of moravian seminary the early part of this week and approved several recommendations of the executive committee concerning the memorial service and engagement of a direc tor the first rehearsal was held last night in the moravian chapel under the direction of bruce carey head of the music department at girard college who will conduct the mem orial service dr richards chosen dr charles russ richards was appointed head of a committee to select a lasting memorial for dr wolle with the 1,000 appropriated by the executive committee of the choir mr carey was recommended to lead the bach choir by arthur jud son manager of the philadelphia orchestra according to h s sny der who presided at the meeting mr carey has been conductor of a mendelssohn chorus no drastic changes will be made by mr carey in the interpretation of the mass dr francis j dever secretary of the choir said that it would be sung as dr wolle taught it and as it has been sung in pack er memorial chapel since 1912 developed chorus dr dever spoke of the success that mr carey has had in the de velopment of the mendelssohn chorus he also said that names of several choir conductors have been submitted to the executive commit tee for future consideration dr a s cooley a member of the choir for 18 years said that he was definitely in favor of holding a memorial service under the direc tion of mr carey as a test to see if further bach festivals might be successful it was the hope of dr wolle that the choir would continue for ever this was made known as how ard j wiegner a charter member recalled a paper which he had read to a lions club meeting last fall at which dr wolle was present one choir member urged the con tinuance of the choir as the best memorial to dr wolle's glory and the greatest monument to his ef forts news briefs gilbert e doan associate pro fessor of physical metallurgy ad dressed the rotary club of lans dale recently on new uses of ra diations this lecture has been presented at the franklin institute in philadelphia and also before the bethlehem rotary club john a brodhead director of the placement bureau will discuss le high's placement bureau before the bethlehem rotary club at its lun cheon meeting on march 15 g b curtis registrar returned to his office tuesday after being ill with influenza for a week this is the first time mr curtis has been away from his deck on account of sickness in the 13 years he has been at lehigh the living group averages will be announced in about ten days george w ely assistant registrar stated recently dr neil carothers head of the college of business administration is in starkville miss attending the funeral of his mother who died last saturday night in detroit the lehigh university brown and white vol xl no 34 bethlehem pa friday march 3 1933 price five cents browsing students most numerous in morning notes room attendant member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first