Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 8

              the members of the varsity football squad will be the guests at football night next mon day at the college theater di rector of athletics nelson a kellogg accepted the invitation for the squad if the student body turns out it is planned to have the team on the stage and cheers led by the university cheerleaders said oscar forman manager of the theater senior appointments for epi tome photographs should be made at the mccaa studio be fore nov 1 declared j d nee ly editor in chief of the year book in order to facilitate pub lication of the epitome seniors should visit mccaa's at once or phone for an appointment neely suggests it is essential that this be done as soon as possible steel treaters plan meetings 149 granted financial aid alumni treasurer ap peals to student body reiter praises work of band and union officer dr beardslee e n sullivan talk briefly at pep meeting live victory throughout the week was the appeal of walter r okeson speaking at the perm state football smoker held last night in taylor gymnasium he reviewed lehigh's football associations with perm state from the first game in 1888 which le high won 108-0 to the present time and related other experiences in football r n lindabury ch e 34 pres ident of the lehigh union intro duced howard r bosey reiter head of the department of physi cal education as master of cere monies reiter praised lindabury and f l gearhart secretary of the lehigh union for holding the smoker he also commended the band for its showing this year beardslee gives talk dr c g beardslee in his talk stated that the mental attitude of the student body directly influences the spirit of the football team and that the welfare of the team de pends on the students paul short captain of the football team thanked the students for their sup port bosey presented e n sulli van university publicity director who is a graduate of perm state mr sullivan told of state's growth from a small agricultural school to a university having over 4,000 stu dents he mentioned the fact that there was strong school spirit there and said that many close contests had become victories for perm state because of the spirit of the student body austy tate coach of the foot ball team said that he had great confidence in the team and that he felt that the support of the student body had greatly helped in this improvement scram soldier university gives deserv ing students deferred and free scholarships one hundred forty-nine students are receiving financial aid from the university this semester in the form of scholarships and loans dr natt m emery vice president of the university announced yester day this is the total number that can be helped this semester under the present appropriation he said last year there were altogether 302 stu dents aided dr emery said there are 24 free scholarships amounting to a total of 10,000 yearly available to students of high standing 100 deferred tuition schol arships are also available to stu dents and amount to 40,000 the loan fund averages about 20,000 a year dr emery disclosed this makes a total of 70,000 spent an nually on financial aid in order to help more students the committee on scholarships and loans often awards part scholar ships the amount given varies to meet individual needs he stated the committee consists of dr emery chairman dean c m mc conn and walter r okeson financial aid is limited to those students who have satisfactory av erages and who have shown that they are in need of financial assis tance dr emery stated loans are granted as a rule only to students who have made good records in the university he said and a loan is not ordinarily granted to a student during his first year of attendance three of seven sessions scheduled to be giv en in williams hall the lehigh valley chapter of the american society for steel treat ing will hold meetings this winter in bethlehem allentown easton and reading the next meeting which will be held in easton will be preceeded by a dinner at the phillipsburg elks club house at the meeting mr greene of the carpenter steel cor poration will talk on the torsion impact test williams hall will be the scene of the meeting on dec 1 when zay jeffries will discuss cemented carbides dinner will be served at the sun inn before the meeting on jan 5 the society will hold a dinner meeting at the hotel tray lor allentown at which prof bradley stoughton head of the de partment of metallurgy will talk on some aspect of metallurgy feb 2 will find the society back again in williams hall to listen to charles carswell of the port of new york authority speak on the george washington bridge the lecture will be illustrated with mo tion pictures a joint meeting with the engin eers club of the lehigh valley is planned for march 2 in easton to date no speaker has been selected another joint meeting is sched uled for april 1 at the y m c a in reading this time with the american industrial metallurgical society the meeting is to be pre ceeded by a dinner at the american hotel eight to don togas dean sees new social activity with introduc tion of informal radio hops by fraternities encourages more affairs points out economy factor alpha tau omega chi phi delta upsilon tau delta phi held dances saturday dean c m mcconn forsees a new activity in the social life at lehigh with the introduction of ra dio dances on the campus the dean states that he finds the dances very entertaining and inter esting he believes that they af ford a pleasant means of spending a saturday evening at home after attending one of these func tions last saturday evening he said that he had thoroughly enjoyed himself and that he now not only approves of them but highly en courages them four fraternities have already held one of these radio dances last saturday evening chi phi alpha tau omega tau delta phi and delta upsilon each held one ham il reidy head of the chi phi house thinks that the dances are a very good idea but of course being only in the experimental stage they will have to be improved upon he said dances are informal the dances have been very infor mal and in most cases have been closed invitation dances the guests are accosted at the door by chap erones in much the same manner as at house parties if a good program is not available on the radio of course the victrola may be used as an able substitute to provide dance music dean mcconn also cites the fact that these dances may be run very economically he points out that there is not the expense or incon venience of securing an orchestra suitable for the occasion then again the houses will not have the expense of housing their guests overnight he says the interfraternity council passed a rule a number of years ago which stated that during the per iod of house dances which take place in the spring not more than two houses could have a dance on the same night however this rule does not ap ply to radio dances the number of radio dances that any one house may have is optional if all 33 of the fraternities in school wish to hold a dance on the same evening it is their privilege stated dean mcconn faculty members approve recommendation for the creation of business and history studies engineering college council considers measure monday two new courses one in business and the other in history may be opened to engineering students next year a recommendation that the involved departments create the courses was approved by faculty members at a meeting of the council of the college of engin eering held monday in the alumni memorial building it is apparent says the report of the council of the college of engineering that among the non technical courses now available for election by engineering students there are none which furnish briefly an introduction to the social and po litical problems of the present day the course recommended to be given by the college of business administration deals with social or igins and institutions and is de signed to give an understanding of the present western social order and its problems said prof hale sutherland business 4 economics is to be a prerequisite for the course history course suggested the course suggested to be giv en by the history department deals with the origin and development of the western state system and is designed to acquaint the student with the world of international re lations this course is to be given the second semester if the business and history de partments create the courses rec ommended by the council recom mendations from the department heads will be presented to the fac ulty in meeting upon approval the courses are to be added to the cat alogue several professors were elected to offices and representative posi tions in the council at the same meeting those voted to council positions include prof bradley stoughton chairman of the council prof j.b reynolds secretary prof a r frey representative to the council of the college of arts and sciences profs c d jensen and a w luce representatives to the coun cil of college of business adminis tration and prof f v larkin representative to the committee on professional degrees alumni of sigma chi hold supper meeting library guide issued 60 visit observatory errors of four thousandths of an inch not exceed ed in shop fabrication for hudson river brid most of steel work was built in mcclintic-marshall plants w r taylor 34 gives his tory of american society of civil engineers last night errors of four-thousandths of an inch in length were not exceeded in the shop fabrication of sections some as heavy as 90 tons for the george washington bridge this was pointed out by malcolm taylor chief inspector for mcclin tic-marshall fabricators and erec tors of the bridge in speaking last night on the george washington bridge before the lehigh chapter of the american society of civil engineers mr taylor stated that after the towers of the bridge were erected a difference in elevation of one eighth of an inch was the maximum deviation measured between the height of any part of a tower and its designed height this accuracy mr taylor attributed to the very small error allowed in fabrication steel built as units most of the steel work for the hudson river bridge was fabri cated in the plants of the mcclin tic-marshall company at potts town the structures were built as a unit and then assembled after the pieces had been transported to the site of erection this saved time and the danger of making mis takes was lessened mr taylor said the largest piece to be built inside the factory weighed 152 tons mr taylor stated that the span of the george washington bridge is 3,500 feet and that it dwarfs any other bridge that has ever been built however it will not enjoy this distinction very long as the new golden gate bridge in calif ornia will have a span of 4,200 feet much of the design work on the golden gate bridge is being done in the offices of the bethlehem steel company in this city prior to this lecture w r tay lor 34 president of the society gave a short history of the society he stated that the american so ciety of civil engineers was found ed in new york in 1852 for the pur pose of advancing engineering knowledge at the present time there are 97 student chapters in the united states geology work done lacrosse team will play perm state stevens in stitute of technology princeton andmontclair fall practice begins tuesday last year's stars are back a four game lacrosse schedule is planned for this season e l wildman m e 34 captain of the team and president of the lacrosse club announced at the organiza tion's first meeting wednesday aft ernoon in drown hall the games that are scheduled for the coming season are with prince ton stevens institute of technol ogy montclair a c and perm state other contests will be ar ranged in the near future wild man stated the lacrosse club will begin fall practice next tuesday afternoon candidates for the squad will meet at 4:30 p m at taylor gymnasium where they will report to m h folkner met.e 34 manager of the team and secretary-treasurer of the club new men who are unfamiliar with lacrosse are urged by wild man to report to the gym tuesday afternoon all members of the lehigh stu dent body are eligible for the team including freshmen it was empha sized at the meeting wednesday afternoon it has not been decided whether letters are to be awarded to the team members by the uni versity wildman has prepared a letter to be sent to prominent alumni in an effort to enlist the support of le high graduates for the lacrosse club 35 are expected last year there was a turnout of about 35 students and a similar number is anticipated this year said wildman of the 31 points scored last sea son only one was made by a man lost to the team last year's star gene wildman is back as captain with maurice folkner as manager charles lattig 03 remains as coach other stickmen recipients of keys last year who are back this year are wait smith charleton groff hutton gruhn dornin and purdy last year with the exception of some money voted to the team by arcadia no financial aid was re ceived from the university at the end of the season 30 remained in the club's treasury because of financial difficulties the team was dropped as a college sport following the 1932 season last year some of the team's pre vious members banded together and formed a club with its own consti tution and rules the equipment for the team was procured partially from old equip ment and also by means of money taken in as guarantees at away games honorary pledges 13 ehrsam compiles information for finding books a library guide compiled under the direction of theodore g ehr sam instructor in english has been issued to facilitate the use of the library by freshmen the use of the card catalogue is explained and a list of reference books available is included copies will be distributed to freshmen and members of the faculty mr ehrsam has compiled this guide to answer the questions of new men concerning the location of books in the library it had been suggested that this information be given as a part of freshman week exercises but this method was found preferable biologists breeding rats for hereditary experiments an extensive breeding experi ment on white rats is being con ducted by the biology department as part of a study of the transmis sion of certain traits from parents to off-spring states dr stanley j thomas professor of bacteriology the department has at present about 50 white rats for experimen tal purposes due to the rapid breeding of the rats dr thomas says that many generations will be under observation in the course of the experiment eta sigma phi pledges will wear costumes white robed students will appear on the campus tomorrow new members of eta sigma phi student classical society dressed in white togas such as those worn by the ancient romans will begin a week of initiation tomorrow morning new members will wear these to gas everywhere they go for the coming week at the end of that time an initiation banquet will be held friday night at butztown men who will wear the togas ase elias w spengler arts 36 william c hallow arts 36 how ard b freed arts 36 judson g smull arts 36 james h crou shore arts 36 leonard h flish er arts 34 john r wyatt arts 35 and charles e schaub.arts 34 planet saturn viewed through telescope by guests sayre observatory was open to the public for the second time this semester on wednesday night only about 60 people visited the observatory this was a marked de crease from the attendance of last week when about 150 guests were present the planet saturn was again ob served but prof j h ogburn professor of astronomy stated that the conditions for observation were not very favorable professor ogburn said that he expects a large turnout next week the moon will be the principal ob ject to be viewed through the tele scope next wednesday as it will be in an excellent position to be studied he said dr b l miller directing study of triassic deposits triassic deposits in the vicinity of bethlehem are being studied for the pennsylvania geological survey by the lehigh department of ge ology dr shirley l mason of harvard university is now engaged in this study under the direction of dr b l miller head of the department of geology the survey of triassic deposits constitutes a chapter in a general work on the geology of this dis trict which is being prepared by the members of the geology de partment of lehigh wife of j g petrikin dies survived by three daughters mrs rachel weaver petrikin wife of jacob g petrikin former graduate manager of athletics at lehigh died yesterday morning at her home in bethlehem she had been ill about a year mrs petrikin is survived by her husband and three daughters ser vices will be held saturday after noon at lock haven pa frosh representatives to meet wednesday coming events dr richards dr bull dr brodhead curtis attend the sigma chi alumni associa tion of the lehigh valley held a supper meeting at the sigma chi fraternity house at lafayette col lege last monday evening dr raymond c bull director of the students health service pre sided over the meeting the association which was formed in bethlehem a year ago had dr charles r trowbridge a retired clergyman of easton as its first president he was also the founder and the first editor of the magazine of sigma chi the organization which was formed for the purpose of renew ing old friendships and aiding chapters in this civinity includes all the sigma chi's in bethlehem al lentown easton phillipsburg cat asauqua and surrounding towns other lehigh members who at tended were dr charles r rich ards john a brodhead director of placement dr howard s leach librarian and george b curtis registrar the next dinner meeting will be held in november at the sigma chi fraternity house in bethlehem freshman dropped in english a freshman in english 1 has been dropped from this course and de nied credit because of plagarism a meeting of the freshman representatives to discuss plans for the forthcoming freshman elections will be held wednes day evening oct 25 at 9 p m at the alpha chi rho house d w hoppock sophomore class president stated all fraternities town groups and dormitories are urged to send representa tives friday oct 20 8 p m meeting of the engineers club of the lehigh valley and lehigh valley chapter of the american chemical society in packard auditorium monday oct 23 8 p m meeting of local chapter of american society of civil en gineers in packard auditorium scabbard and blade conducts ex ercises at drill thirteen men were pledged at drill monday by scabbard and blade national honorary military fraternity the pledges are c m denise c e 35 e l heller e m 35 e h henry bus 35 w s mil ler ch e 34 r p allison eng 36 e s chickering i e 35 s r ellison i e 35 s r good rich bus 35 d f ivins i e.'35 c w lueders met 35 j j ni lan c e 35 b k smith arts 35 c s smith bus 35 the informal initiation will take place sunday aftennoon and eve ning the formal initiation and banquet will follow drill this mon day woman enemy attacks cam i pus machine gunners future defenders of our land came under the fire of an enemy one morning this week in the south mountain sector the enemy at tacking from a frame house was repulsed by the embryo officers who suffered no casualties the blue-denimed defenders were in the act of setting up machine guns in the area east of the ar mory little suspecting the hidden presence of an intruder the de fenders went about their work with an air of nonchalance necessary orders were barked out by the officer in charge in a clear and crisp tongue fall out one fall out corporal dismount gun set up tripod clear gun posts — came the commands like a stream of bullets from an automatic gun the hour was about 8:30 a m and the enemy had set it for the zero hour surreptitiously a window in a house across the nearby stream was opened the disheveled figure of a woman appeared in the win dow — this was the enemy scram out of here will youse ordered the enemy the defenders stood their ground the enemy withdrew from the scene of action and the day was saved for the r o t c taylor 33 advises fraternity robert s taylor ch e 33 who is working for his master's degree at washington and jefferson col lege has been appointed scholastic advisor for phi kappa psi frater nity this is in accord with the chapter preceptor plan which has been put in use in many colleges and universities bethlehem pa friday october 20 1933 saturday evening dances win approval of mcconn vol xli no 8 price five cents four contests are scheduled for stickmen live victory during week okeson says new courses are planned for engineers taylor tells of construction of george washington span seniors urged to have photos taken by nov 1 grid squad to be guests at theater's football night the lehigh university brown and white i member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh 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