Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 46

              banquet at theta xi house follows ceremony eight men were accepted into membership of the scabbard and blade society at a formal initiation held at 5:30 p m last monday in the armory new officers were elected for the coming year this meeting was followed by a banquet at the theta xi fraternity house 407 delaware avenue the following men were initiat ed j o evans ch e 34 j w heiney bus 35 r rick m.e 35 r w buchanan arts 35 mort rea bus 35 colonel coyle lieu tenant whitcomb and colonel kel logg officers elected are s r ellison i e 35 captain e s chickering i.e 35 first lieutenant b.k smith arts 35 second lieutenant and r rick m e 35 first sergeant cap tain ellison has called a meeting for next thursday the lehigh union cabinet meeting scheduled for last eve ning was postponed until wed nesday evening r.n lindabury president of the union has an nounced the cabinet will nominate the men for the offices of president and secretary-treasurer of the union the use of voting mach ines lindabury said will not ne cessitate any extra time between the nomination and the election pf the officers in the past when paper ballots were used the nom inations had to be made a few days beforehand it is hoped he added that the present system will abolish many of the evils that occured when too much time was allowed for campaign ing by the men chosen hall crowded for broadcast substation head will discuss utility service c l derrick e e 26 will speak on the real meaning of ser vice as supplied by a modern power system at the meeting of the electrical engineering society to be held at 7:30 p m thursday in room 416 packard laboratory mr derrick has been in charge of the tie-up substation at roseland n j which is one of the biggest connecting station in the country connecting three large networks he entertained the senior electrical en gineers on their recent inspection trip to roseland and should be a very interesting speaker said w w kinsinger president of the so ciety mr derrick will probably relate the great lengths to which a mod ern power system goes to insure and to maintain uninterrupted service this meeting is on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the a i e e and professor j l beaver will give a short resume of its history officers for the coming year will be elected and yearly reports will be made by the secretary and treas urer there will be eats and smokes m & c players end practice kasner to give math lecture will appear friday eve ning in broad street sta tion of penna r r sponsored by alumni dance will be given after end of main program a musical program by the com bined musical clubs the three musketeers and special soloists will be presented this friday evening in the auditorium of the broad street station of the pennsylvania rail road in philadelphia this program is being sponsored by the philadel phia lehigh club the main program will be from 8 to 9 p m and will be followed by a dance which will last till 2 a m with the lehigh collegians furnish ing the music the glee club repertoire will con sist of shortnin bread home on the range matona nightin gale and now is the month of maying spanish songs to be sung a group of spanish and mexican songs will be sung by gilberto es cobedo he will accompany himself on a guitar during the program there will be pauses during which parts of the radio broadcast from new york will be amplified for the philadel phia audience through the use of a public ad dress system which has been in stalled in the broad street station auditorium the dance orchestra trio and popular soloists of the mu sical clubs will present a pseudo broadcast the soloists are joseph macphee 34 and coleman cit rit 37 the program almost parallel to that given on the brown and white broadcast last friday will indicate the methods in which modern radio programs are presented announcements for the pseudo broadcast will be made by ralph w brown i e 35 the dance or chestra will present a new selection of popular songs while the three musketeers vocal trio will feature two special arrangements in a short skit the entire musical clubs organ ization will leave drown hall by bus at 2 p m friday for philadel phia and will return the following day the philadelphia lehigh club has arranged accommodations for the members program sponsored by brown and white seen by nearly 400 visitors the varied program sponsored by the brown and white on friday evening and broadcast from drown hall over wcba allentown was attended by a capacity audience of between 350 and 400 visitors it is estimated that as many more were turned away at the door during the program president richards spoke a word of greeting and extended an invitation to all listeners to attend next year's open house the collegians played three num bers neighbors why do i dream those dreams and the song is ended shortnin bread and home on trie range were the two offerings of lehigh's con cert glee club judson schaeffer news commen tator of the brown and white staff gave a word picture of the appear ance of the campus on the day of open house as seen through the headlines of the brown and white the three musketeers kent putnam j f brownlee and g a horlacher sang the chorus of sweet sue joseph mcphee tenor soloist sang let's fall in love al swenson a member of the or chestra was heard in why do i dream those dreams the broadcast was heard at sev eral places about the campus some of the visitors who were unable to get in drown hall turned on the ra dios in their cars and enjoyed le high's presentation on the outside claude herring a staff member of station wcba in alentown act ed as master of ceremonies a public address system was in stalled to amplify the program for the benefit of those who heard the broadcast in drown hall litzenberger lauds traffic management dinosaur days professor from columbia will speak on geom etry and physics dr edward kasner professor of mathematics at columbia univer sity will lecture on geometry and physics at 8 p m tomorrow in room 466 packard laboratory the lecture will be under the joint auspices of pi mv epsilon national honorary mathematical so ciety and the physics club prof tomlinson fort head of the math ematics department says that dr kasner's lecture which will be open to the public will be within the grasp of all students taking math ematics courses at lehigh dr kasner took his ph.d de gree at columbia in 1899 and be came professor of mathematics there in 1910 he has written ex tensively on relativity and mathe matical physics and is recognized as an authority on these subjects much of his work has been done in the field of differential geometry he is interested in its application to the theory of relativity some of the lehigh faculty heard dr kasner lecture at rut gers last fall professor fort re ports he is an exceptionally en tertaining speaker dr kasner is attending a meet ing of the national academy of sciences in washington during the first part of this week and will speak here on his way back to new york he will be the luncheon guest of the mathematics department at noon on thursday in drown hall and will speak to them on some branch of higher mathematics case is president whistling in the dark to be presented friday and saturday april 27-28 the cast of whistling in the dark the two-year broadway hit to be staged by the mustard and cheese club is now being put into the final stages of rehearsal before being presented at 8:15 p m friday and saturday april 27 and 28 in drown hall this three - act comedy - melo drama for which tickets at 40 cents are now on sale at the lehigh un ion office in drown hall daily until 5 p m is the second show pre sented by mustard and cheese this year the first being the high-ten sion newspaper play the front page produced last fall student tickets will not be avail able at drown hall to members of organized living groups these men will have their tickets delivered lat er in the week to their residences whistling in the dark is the story of perfect crime wallace porter and his fiancee toby van buren are motoring up the hud son when they by chance run into a den of gangsters in an old de serted mansion under the influence of a few drinks the usually timid wally becomes the wild braggart it is then that he reveals his iden tity as a master-murder novelist he is held captive to produce the per fect crime under penalty of death for failure all by acident tobey the usually flippant young society girl hits upon the scheme which is to be used to bump off the crime com missioner of the city it so happens that this same commissioner has been wally's friend for years the novelist has even received a watch for helping the authorities solve several impor tant murders the attempt to save the man of the law completely ab sorbs the action of the last two acts of the play 400 prospective freshmen visit campus saturday as guests of university and local fraternities about 400 prospective students visited lehigh on saturday for a sub-freshman day program which was declared by andrew buchanan chairman of the committee to be the most productive ever held the number that attended was greater than the number last year in spite of the fact that only half as many invitations were sent out whereas general invitations were sent to many schools last year only a selected group was invited this time mr buchanan in a letter to the brown and white said will you allow me a little space in your columns to thank the student body and the faculty for the splendid man ner in which all co-operated to make sub freshman day a big success i have seen a good many sub-freshman days in years past but i have no hesitation in stat ing that this was emphatically the most productive ever held always the visitors have a good time but this year as nev er before students and parents really got to know lehigh and to catch some of the enthusiasm for the university that animates all of us this was due very largely to the genuine and gracious hospitality that was shown them at every turn the committee is very grateful to arcadia the interfraternity council the union and cyanide for the important parts their members played in the day's program the same thanks are due the many individual lehigh men students and teachers who so unobtrusively and effectively stepped into the breach when ever they saw an opportunity to be at tentive and agreeable to our guests much as the visitors admired our cam pus and buildings i am sure that they must have been equally impressed by the cordiality of the lehigh men who entertained them after registration in the alumni building in the morning the sub freshmen were conducted on a tour of the campus by guides under the supervision of professors haring and hibshman president richards delivered an address of welcome to the visitors in packard auditorium after the tour for the remainder of the morning faculty guides escort ed the group to points of especial interest on the campus at noon a buffet luncheon was served in the armory attend athletic events in the afternoon the sub-freshmen witnessed a track meet with west chester state teachers college and a baseball game with rutgers there were also continuous demon strations in the buildings during the afternoon some of the more distant locali ties represented by the visitors were marietta irwin williams port pittsburgh mckeesport lu thersburg canister n v wash ington d c ; alexandria va clarksburg w va geneseo n.y winchester va and new haven conn the sub-frosh who were here on saturday hailed from the following prep schools george school can ister academy wyoming seminary stevens prep germantown acad emy pingry school montclair acad emy shady side academy moores town friends freeland m and m institute germantown friends haverford school allentown prep york collegiate institute colby academy fordham prep girard col lege dwight prep brooklyn poly prep concordia institute irving school harrisburg academy st andrew's school and perkiomen school many high schools through out the east were also represented pi mu epsilon elects coming events second annual university show draws largest crowd in history to campus last friday the second annual open house drew the largest crowd in history to the lehigh campus last friday afternoon and evening the actual count made by the un dergraduate r o t c officers showed a total of 17,600 but to this a large number who arrived before the counting was started and who came in through the back gates must be added the visitors began to arrive at 2 p m and continued to swarm through all the buildings until the closing time some departments counted as many as 7,000 milling by certain key exhibits while some 5,000 spectators witnessed the mil itary review an unprecedented num ber at any drill various faculty members have been asked for their opinion of the open house some of which have been recorded below vice president emery claims that the open house was an intensely gratifying success and that the stu dent body deserved a great deal of credit dr beardslee praised the spirit of the students and stated that open house strengthened friendly rela tions between the university and the community seyfert says great success prof s s seyfert characterized this year's open house as a great success more people were handled with less congestion he observed that many of the visitors were those who had not come to the first open house that lehigh was attracting greater numbers of people that the mere attendance would suggest prof f v larkin head of the open house committee said that he was very much pleased with the acomplishments of the students at this year's open house he felt that there was more student participa tion this year than last since the mechanical and industrial engineers elected a general manager who or ganized and directed the work he felt that there was no reason why one open house should be a repi tition of the others since it was a field for the unlimited initiative and creative ability of the student body prof p m palmer head of the arts college said it was a great success from the viewpoint of the arts college the greatest value in my opinion is in the opportunity which the individual students had for taking part in plays demon strations and lectures says not as much enthusiasm garth a howland head of the department of fine arts felt that al though there were more visitors this year the enthusiasm was not as great he believed this was due to a repetition of many of last year's exhibits and suggested intervals be tween open house years prof c c bidwell head of the physics department commenting on open house declared this year there was much less congestion than here was last year this was due to two reasons our experience from last year's program made it an old ftory to us and the lectures and demonstrations were spaced farth er apart the lectures were given at half-hour intervals instead of run ning them continuously as long as the program draws as many people as it does i believe it should be an annual affair prof c h sutherland head of the department of civil engineering stated this year's open house was an improvement over last year's there were more people at our exhibits and they seemed more interested i believe that open house should be continued as long as it attracts the crowds that it does president richards leaves on annapolis inspection trip president c r richards left sun day morning for a trip to annapolis to inspect the u s naval academy he has recently been appointed a member of the board of visitors to the academy by president roose velt says dr n m emery dr richards will inspect the school with a view to making recommen dations for improvements dr richards will visit new york after the inspection trip to attend the new york alumni club meet ing and broadcast on friday eve ning he is expected to return sat urday morning wrestling captain chosen to head eta kappa nu roy s case varsity wrestling captain was elected president of eta kappa nu honorary electrical engineering fraternity at a recent meeting in packard laboratory other officers that were elected for next year are as follows w s weil vice president f j hollis ter corresponding secretary f t ritter recording secretary b d beacher associate bridge editor all officers elected are junior elec trical engineers w s formhals instructor in electrical engineering was elected faculty adviser w s weil gave a report on the progress the society was making in preparation for their open house program the society planned to arrange their exhibits in one group in packard laboratory sigma xi meets to elect sigma xi honorary research so ciety met this afternoon in drown hall to elect new members to the society building and grounds head praises auto routing the routing of the traffic during this year's open house was a great improvement over that of last year said a w litzenberger superin tendent of buildings and grounds in spite of the fact that except for three regular policemen all the men handling the traffic were inex perienced there were no bad jams parking was permitted on only one side of the campus drives leaving ample room for two lanes of cars said mr litzenberger even though there were more people attending open house this year than last there was no con gestion in parking there were many spaces left empty on the drive from drown hall to coxe labora tory and in front of the physics building these were filled last year but on friday the visitors prefer red to park on the city streets mr litzenberger commented on the good routing of the visitors through the buildings the depart ments of physics and biology prof ited by last year's congestion and routed their visitors so that there was practically no congestion he said mr litzenberger remarked that many of the visitors were so im pressed by the help the men on traffic duty gave that they stop ped as they left the campus and congratulated the detail at the gate on the assistance they had received wednesday april 25 8 a m to 12 m 2 p m to 4 p m — sophomore engineering com prehensive examination packard auditorium 4 p m faculty volley ball lehigh field gymnasium 7:30 p m tau beta pi meeting room 451 packard laboratory 7:30 p m faculty dramatics club residence of professor anf mrs hall 37 e church street 8 p m public lecture — geometry and physics by dr edward kasner room 466 packard lab oratory thursday april 26 7:30 p m electrical engineering society meeting — the true meaning of service by c l derrick 26 room 416 packard laboratory 7:30 p m pi tau sigma meet ing room 353 packard labora tory talks on continued fractions given at meeting pi mv epsilon honorary mathe matical society elected officers and heard two talks on continued frac tions recently at the home of c a shook assistant professor of math ematics prof tomlinson fort head of the mathematics department was chos en director of the society to suc ceed professor shook other offi cers elected were william s.weil e e 35 vice director rohn tru el eng phys 35 second vice di rector william a johnson met e 35 secretary kenneth o beatty ch e 35 treasurer henry p george ch e 35 librarian preceding the elections r truel spoke on terminating continued fractions following this talk w a johnson discussed infinite con tinued fractions and their applica tion to the solution of diothantine equations the society elected one junior and ten sophomores to membership will be used in final election vote thurs day primaries will be held wednesday polling to be from 10 a m to 5:30 p.m in packard laboratory candidates for union posi tions and cheerleaders to be on the final ballot voting machines will be used at lehigh for the first time when the final underclass elections are held thursday in packard laboratory three machines have been obtained through arrangement with the northampton county commission ers and will be set up on the third floor balcony both the primary and final elections will be held at this place the primary elections for class officers will be held wednesday and the voting will be by ballot the polls for both elections will be open from 10 a m to 5:30 p m the voting machines will be on show at the primaries and should be exam ined in order to become familiar with their operation r n lindabury president of ar cadia urges that students vote early on both days in order to avoid con gestion at noon and late afternoon three machines to be used two of the machines that will be used were on exhibition at open house and another will be added to allow one for the use of each class the machines were built by the automatic voting machine cor poration sample ballots have been placed on bulletin boards around the campus in order to acquaint stu dents with the names of the candi dates the machines will be in charge of custodians from the voting machine storage house and will be operated by students a student registration clerk will on duty at each machine to check the names of the men vot ing positions to be filled in the elec tions are those of class officers pres ident and secretary-treasurer of the lehigh union and the head and two senior cheerleaders union nominees still to be chosen of the ten men in next year's le high union cabinet six will be nominees for the two positions to be filled these nominees will be chosen wednesday night by the present members of the cabinet underclassmen will be represented next year for the first time in order to give more continuity of work two sophomores will be chosen from four nominees and one fresh man will be chosen to represent their classes next year these men will also be nominated by the pres ent cabinet all juniors from this year's cheer leading squad are nominees for the position of head and two senior leaders in the primary elections the names of a candidate's sponsors will be put in first place on the ballot there will be no restrictions on the voting in the finals due to a typographical error in indentation it appeared in the last issue of the brown and white as though e marsden lincoln was another sponsor for the candidate listed directly above him this is not true since lincoln is a candi date for president of the class of 36 additional sponsors of candidates for class offices in addition to those listed in last friday's issue of the brown and white are as follows class of 35 parker berg — f c hawk jr p h weit iel r w brown j w tuton g d gro gan r elder j r wyatt j a gilmore d g roper h g wyman f w.'blan 2hard m e resnikoff h e lore a a belser bradford smith p budura robert jackson — r w kampshulte h m ildebo b l hutton j a branegan r a borton c a heiberger l p struble d f ivins e c olofson h g fehr r enscoe mike koman — j h murphy harold d ock — a s patten h i stauf er d m steinberg . paul f preston — a v parassio j j bosak w maratta hamil reidy — none additional class of 36 john davis — e b tuttle robert eichner — i l waidelich j.c mc cabe g voehl t e tate b s weiss d l healy f stillwell m j hildenberger q k meihofer t j healy l s stout h c bickel e l gerlach j d gavin r s baizley h a siegel john kornet — w smith c j gotthardt h a gibbs e h nichols p h ohmer w y snyder r h moore c moyer jr d w fouse j periano c t kleppinger a r volkmuth r a kemmer r a len na b s ulak e marsden lincoln — w siegel c o edgecomb a bilinsky w j wilkens h e puffer v e engstrom c d freeman i continued on page four geology gussy comes to life for open house the shades of the age of reptiles came to the lehigh campus in the form of geology gussy through the courtesy of the geology depart ments gussy was one of the sev eral features offered to the public with the geology exhibits gussy a dinosaur was part trachedon and part imagination she was the brainchild of phillip myers institute of research fel low in geology and several others in the department gussy was made of mere wire and burlap covered with paint but gussy was given life and a soul by several members of the under graduate body who volunteered for the job among those prominent in giving life to this dinosaur were littleton kirkpatrick bus.'37 john engel graduate student in geology and phillip myers research fellow in geology several crimson footprints were the first evidence that geology gussy was among us and it was later found that these footprints served to direct traffic through the geology department aside from disturbing the equilibrium of sev eral visitors from catholic high school gussy was on best behav ior and was thoroughly enjoyed by all that saw her — even by the kids that attempted to floor her by step ping on her tail bethlehem pa tuesday april 24 1934 visitors and sub-freshmen view open house exhibits c l derrick to talk at electrical meet vol xli no 46 price five cents the lehigh university brown and white voting machines to be employed scabbard and blade initiates eight men musical clubs to give recital in philadelphia cabinet meeting postponed 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