Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 9

              rutgers game pep rally will start from flagpole a pep meeting and rally in anticipation of the rutgers game will be held 4 o'clock friday afternoon oct 27 at the flag pole announces r n linda bury president of the lehigh union following the rally the stu dents will march down to the stadium behind the band and watch the team go through sig nal drill songs and cheers will be a part of the program club to give science show subjects for intercollegiate meets to be taken up candidates for the debating club will meet to discuss suitable topics for intercollegiate debate at 4:15 p m thursday oct 26 in room 466 packard laboratory clinton f miller president has announced topics to be considered are nazi germany socialized medi cine soviet recognition gov ernment operation of banks and the nra this year the club intends to use four or five teams to meet differ ent colleges on various subjects the proposition will be chosen by the candidates themselves more than 20 meets have been arranged throughout western and central pennsylvania and in new york city and philadelphia one team will make a southern tour for a week of debating sev eral debates will be broadcast the eligibility rules are the same as for all other intercollegiate con tests except that freshmen are eli gible for the meets in which the op ponents use first year men professor hibshman to trace electrical history the chicago world's fair will be discussed at the meeting of the student branch of the a.i.e.e at 7:30 p m thursday oct 26 in room 416 packard laboratory nelson s hibshman associate professor of electrical engineering will speak on faraday to the pres ent day reviewing the growth of the electrical industry over the past century as it was depicted at the world's fair he will describe the exhibits of two electrical firms westinghouse and general elec tric the student topics also based on the applications of electricity ob served during the past summer at the century of progress will be the sky ride by russell w stupp 34 house of magic by cary b jones 34 and illumina tion at the world's fair by dean e clark 34 following the business meeting there will be refreshments in the lounging room on the second floor all freshman electrical engineers are invited gipson speaks over wcba pre medicals hold clinics mcclintic - marshall en gineer explains con struction of new calif ornia suspension bridge project will be completed during the summer of 1936 the golden gate bridge was the subject on which e f ball assistant chief engineer for mc clintic-marshall company spoke at the lehigh valley section meeting of the american society of civil engineers last night in packard auditorium the mcclintic - marshall com pany recently obtained the contract to build this bridge which is now under construction and will be completed during the summer of 1936 mr ball stated the bridge said mr ball crosses golden gate and connects san francisco county with marin county it is to be one and three quarters miles long and it will have a center span of 4,200 feet which will be the longest single span in the world there will be two main cables on the bridge which will be composed of 80,000 miles of wire after the two towers have been raised each of which is to be 700 feet high the cables are to be laid two iso h.p engines are being used in the con struction of these towers and in raising the cables mr ball ex plained the wires which make up the cables are wound onto spools which are placed on barges and carried across the river one end of the wire is fed out as the barge crosses the river and finally both ends of the wire are made fast steel cables are then dropped and the foundation for the road bed is suspended by means of der ricks finally the cement roadway is laid and the bridge will be ready for use r s taylor to speak to i.e.'s on banking o d k to make study of frosh regulations and major offices at meetings during year dr emery will be initiated member of advisory board a new rushing system in which each freshman will visit all the fra ternity houses changes in fresh man regulations and methods of limiting the number of major of fices in extra-curricular activities held by individual students are some of the subjects to be discussed during the coming year by omi croa delta kappa senior honorary fraternity r n lindabury pres ident announced recently the first dinner meeting of the year will be held at 6:30 o'clock wednesday evening at the chi phi house at this time natt m emery vice president of the university will be initiated as an active mem ber of the faculty advisory board he will succeed dr neil caroth ers head of the department of bus iness administration who complet ed his four years of active service last spring lindabury said that many of the faults of the present rushing sys tem would be eliminated under the proposed system which would per mit the freshmen to visit every house the members of the frater nities would see more of the fresh men than at the present time and the freshmen would have a wider field from which to choose point system considered a point system will be considered as a means of limiting the number of major positions to which a stu dent may be elected this is neces sary in order to prevent the dom ination of activities by a few men lindabury said o d k is composed of stu dents and faculty members who have been of service to lehigh by discussing problems dealing with the welfare of the students their viewpoint of these problems can be given to the faculty the results of these discussions are presented at faculty and student meetings where action can be taken on them the society is composed of twelve undergraduate members four active faculty members who form the advisory board and eleven as sociate faculty members the four active faculty members are dr emery p m palmer head of the department of arts and sci ence a h fretz associate pro fessor of geology and bradley stougrhton head of the department of metallurgy beidler announces prom selection of park cen tral band ; dance is set for friday nov 10 ticket sale to start nov 3 price will be 3.30 and 2.20 dean and mrs mcconn dr and mrs beardslee to chap erone affair from 1 0 to 3 bert lown and his band from the cocoanut grove of the park cen tral hotel will play at the senior prom friday nov 10 john k beidler chairman of the senior dance committee announced yester day this band has also played at the hotel biltmore for some time and is regarded as one of the best in new york beidler stated it was engaged through the moss-hallett enterprises a booking company in new york city the decorations which will be of a modern design will be furnished by the sloer decorating co inc of trenton n j the walls and ceiling will be done in black and white and the band platform at the end of the gym will be covered by a silver arch chaperones for the dance will be dean and mrs charles m mcconn and dr and mrs claude g beards lee the dance which will last from 10 p m until 3 a m will cost 3.30 per couple and 2.20 stag committee selects band the dance committee is com posed of john k beidler richard e mcleod and foster l gear hart dr beardslee has aided the committee in selecting the band tickets are to be sold at the le high union office starting friday nov 3 the sale will end at 6 p.m friday nov 10 there will be no sale of tickets after that this will prevent uninvited outsiders from attending the function ballots were not cast for the prom orchestra this year as had been the custom in the past the number of students voting was not representative and the voting hin dered the preliminary action beid ler stated some of the bands that were considered were those of hal stern fletcher henderson noble sissle claude hopkins and mai hallett mustard and cheese discusses fall play silk official to talk radio society will have exhibit in bethlehem's electrical exposition the radio club will be in charge of the show of wonders exhibit at the bethlehem electrical show to be given on thursday friday and saturday of this week at 513 517 main street this was announced at the ra dio club meeting held last friday afternoon in packard laboratory by h c knutson instructor in elec trical engineering four or five members of the club will be pres ent each evening to operate and ex plain the different mechanisms the exhibit will include a ma chine of the cathode-ray oscillo graph type into which one can talk and see the sound waves of his voice reproduced on an illuminated screen there will be an electric rifle range in which the gun shoots a beam of light toward a target of photo-electric cells and a burglar alarm which is set off by merely touching the metal object that the alarm protects lester c herman e e 30 has made apparatus by which any par ticular one of nine different pieces of electrical apparatus such as fans lamps and sweepers may be turned on or off by speaking an or der into a microphone the next meeting of the radio club and all prospective members will be held at 4 p m wednesday in room 503 packard laboratory arrangements will be made for the operation of the exhibit the men who will be at the show to explain the machines will be picked at this meeting first meeting of pi mv epsilon to be held nov 2 not 0ct.26 due to a conflict with the elec trical engineering society meeting on oct 26 the first meeting of pi mv epsilon honorary mathematical society has been postponed to nov 2 several mathematical periodicals will be reviewed and discussed at this meeting d c bomberger e e 35 pres ident of pi mv epsilon stated that the officers that were not elected last may are to be elected at this meeting they are to be chosen from junior members sherlock is recovering furman j sherlock halfback on the freshman football team is in the st luke's hospital recovering from injuries received late friday afternoon when he fell down the concrete steps in the subway lead ing to taylor field hertel will report on pi tau sigma convention robert s taylor 95 will be the main speaker at the meeting of the local chapter of the i e society at 7:30 p m thursday oct 26 in room 466 packard laboratory he will talk on the relation of bank ing to industry charles c hertel jr 34 will re port on his trip to the national pi tau sigma convention held last week-end at the amour school of industry in chicago at the con vention hertel described the fur nishing of the second floor lounge in packard laboratory the improvement was made pos sible by the 600 bond sale last spring by the members the local chapter was highly commended for this activity by the national pres ident john v martenis 94 now a professor at the university of minnesota president of a.s.h.v.e explains methods and equipment used in theaters and halls gerald thorp 16 speaks at preceding dinner at sun inn willis haveland carrier pres ident of the american society of heating and ventilating engineers was the guest speaker at the joint meeting of the engineers club of the lehigh valley and the lehigh valley section of the american chemical society held friday eve ning in packard auditorium a pioneer in air conditioning methods and equipment mr car rier chose this subject for the basis of his talk he spoke mainly on the future of air conditioning in indus try and public entertaining centers such as theaters after the main talk numerous questions were put to him all of which he answered a w heyman of allentown president of the lehigh chapter of the engineers club was in charge of the session he introduced the speaker and also took part in the discussion preceding the session in pack ard auditorium a dinner was held at the sun inn gerald thorp,ch.e 16 gave the customary over the coffee cups talk he spoke on the adaptation of chemical engineering equipment to process mr thorp was in the chemical warfare service during the war and at present is employed as sales manager for the bethlehem foundry and machine company founded air conditioning mr carrier is past president of the american society of refriger ating engineers and is president of the carrier engineering corpora tion he is called the father of the air conditioning branch of engin eering in the octagon the pub lication of the lehigh valley sec tion of the american chemical so ciety dr thomas h hazlehurst jr assistant professor of chemistry is editor of this magazine the oc tagon also points out that mr carrier is the inventor of the spring-type conditioning machine the november meeting of the american institute of electrical engineering will be held at allen town on nov 10 the place to be announced later the subject at this session will be everybody's business the topic to concern electric lights power and utilities h w wade of altoona vice pres ident of the pennsylvania power and light company will be the guest speaker at this meeting alpha kappa psi to entertain prospective pledges oct 26 prospective pledges of alpha kappa psi national business fra ternity will be guests of the local chapter at a dinner at 6:30 o'clock thursday oct 26 at the theta delta chi fraternity house states gary grier president roy b cowin professor of ac countancy will deliver a talk to the new men on the meaning of alpha kappa psi eight of the prospec tive members are juniors and four are seniors the names will be pub lished next week grier announces problem to be in saturday the time for the solution of the first mathematics prize problem has been extended to noon on sat urday oct 28 announces g e raynor assistant professor of math ematics sigma xi will meet professor tells signifi cance of naval power in american history the significance of naval power in american history was explained by prof l h gipson head of the department of history and govern ment during a radio broadcast over station wcba in allentown last night *¦ the broadcast was sponsored by the navy club of allentown to cel ebrate navy day besides professor gipson lieut-commander thomp - son u.s.n inspector of naval ma terial at the bethlehem steel com pany commander means u.s.n and tilghman moyer of the navy club spoke professor gipson spoke several times during the course of the broadcast each time pointing out some time in american history that the navy was responsible for the turn of events discusses revolution the significance of the british and french navies in the american revolution was explained first by professor gipson after comparing the strength of the two naval pow ers he pointed out how the french navy helped win the war in 1780 the french naval commander de grasse arrived with a powerful fleet and bottled up cornwallis army at yorktown this enabled the amer ican troops under washington and the french under rochambeau to bring the war to a conclusion washington realized that the war was won because of the temporary loss of british sea power profes sor gipson stated later in the program which was conducted as a round table discus sion professor gipson explained the significance of the american navy during the civil war not only did the navy blockade the south ern seaports but it caused the con federate army to be spread over a wide area this enabled the army of the north to defeat the confed erates lack of adequate shipbuild ing facilities and material in the south was a major cause of the souths defeat professor gipson said coming events students observe opera tions at bethlehem and allentown hospitals operations and their technique held the center of interest of the robert w hall pre-medical so ciety during the past week on tuesday oct 17 nine members visited the operating room of the general hospital in allentown and on friday oct 20 ten members visited the operating room of st luke's hospital in bethlehem the allentown group under the direction of dr r l schaeffer one of the chief surgeons of the hospital saw five operations per formed the bethlehem group under the supervision of wr w l estes jr one of the chief surgeons at st luke's hospital witnessed four operations there will be a clinic at st luke's hospital every friday for the next five weeks stated r.w buchanan chairman of activities for the society kellogg to speak thursday on thursday oct 26 nelson a kellogg director of athletics will address the club on athletics aft er college the meeting will be in room 360 packard laboratory the program for the year in cludes a talk by either dr e s mantz or dr g l schwenitz at the nov 16 meeting a visit to the jefferson medical school and the mulford plant sometime before thanksgiving a lecture on narcot ics by a government agent on dec 8 a general talk on medical schools and internship by dr cassone president of the lehigh pre-medi cal society five years ago and now an interne at allentown and a lec ture and demonstration by nelson a bull head of the infirmary on the static machine at the present time anyone tak ing a pre-medical course or in terested may join the society how ever when the plans to make the society a chapter of the national pre-medical fraternity are complet ed only seniors and juniors will be admitted on an honorary basis rutgers football tickets to cost students 1 r k laros to speak to indutrial management class russell k laros president of the laros silk company will lecture to the class in industrial management 7:30 p m tomorrow in room 466 packard laboratory his subject will be administration of indus trial enterprises mr laros is a graduate of la fayette and was the organizer of the laros silk mills in 1919 there are 2,200 hands employed at the mills it is estimated that the length of fibre handled there in one day would reach 70 times around the world says prof fred v larkin head of the department of mechan ical engineering this is the third in a series of ten lectures given by leading in dustrials in this vicinity for the benefit of the class in industrial management student directory on sale the lehigh student directory was placed on sale friday in the supply bureau it is available to all students at the price of 50 cents the directory includes the names bethlehem and home addresses and telephone numbers of all students trustees and faculty members tickets for the lehigh-rut gers football game may be pur chased at a special price of 1 tax included this week from the athletic offices taylor gymna sium according to an announce ment by nelson a kellogg director of athletics this price is for lehigh stu dents only he states only one ticket will be sold to each stu dent wednesday oct 25 7:30 p m industrial lecture room 466 packard laboratory 8 p m sigma xi lecture 416 packard laboratory thursday oct 26 7:30 p m meeting of the industrial engineering society 466 pack ard laboratory 7:30 p m meeting of branch of american institute of electrical engineers room 416 packard laboratory friday oct 27 4 p m pep meeting at flagpole 115 will be spent by club for improving equipment plans for the fall show of mus tard and cheese were discussed at the meeting of the executive com mittee yesterday afternoon the play has been tentatively chosen and tryouts will begin soon but the name of the production will be withheld until several complications have been overcome states r e mcleod president the committee passed on the proposal of coach a a rights that 115 be spent for lighting equipment to be purchased imme diately steps were also taken to clean up and furnish the mustard and cheese room on the third floor of drown hall the room has not been used for the last few years but was formerly part of the living quarters of the lehigh union secre tary the club will meet at 4 o'clock thursday afternoon in drown hall to pass on the new constitution and to make a final decision of the play which will be presented just before christmas honorary research society to hear psychology talks the status of psychology in pure science research will be the subject under discussion at the meeting of the lehigh chapter of sigma xi honorary research so ciety to be held at 8 p.m wednes day oct 25 in room 416 pack ard laboratory the program committee have se cured prof adelbert ford prof j l graham and daniel harris of the psychology department to talk on the different phases of this subject professor graham will speak on the general aspects of the topic mr harris will treat the social and abnormal aspects professor ford will make a comparative approach to the subject through the medium of animal psychology bethlehem pa tuesday october 24 1933 a.i.e.e will hear talk on world fair vol xli no 9 the lehigh university brown and white debating candidates will discuss topics price five cents committee picks lown orchestra for senior ball a.s.c.e hears ball discuss span building air treatment is discussed by engineer senior society will discuss rushing rules member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first