Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 20

              cleaves to lecture on east greenland alumni club will entertain football team vol xui no 20 court upholds enforced drill petition denied by large vote tickets for journey's end can be secured from heads students in the fraternities may get thjeir tickets for the mustard and cheese play tonight from the heads of their living groups town students can get their tickets at the lehigh union of fice all student tickets are free is toastmaster at sport fete educational committee endorses revision of french mathematics and mining curricula philosophy physical education ethics classes also revamped the committee on educational policies last monday recommended to the faculty several changes in the curriculum of the college of arts and science and the college of engineering two new courses are to be added in the department of moral and re ligious philosophy m r phil 100 selected problems in m r phil and m.r phil 101 a continuation of m r phil 100 each is a three credit-hour course and requires junior standing four french courses were rec ommended to be dropped french 134 contemporary french litera ture french 141 french literary history first semester french 142 french literary history second semester and french 151 french literature in the sixteenth century and earlier french 51 a three credit-hour course dealing with french literature in the sixteenth century was added french 21 is the only prerequisite in the department of philosophy the course number of philosophy 17 was changed to philosophy 117 the department of mathematics dropped math 52 projective geom etry and math 53 second course in analytic geometry and substi tuted math 54 higher geometry math 4 is the prerequisite of the new course sports added to curricula the division of athletics and physical education announces three new courses p e 30 baseball and basketball p e 31 track wrestl ing and swimming and p e 32 administration of high school athletics these courses will not be given in 1935-36 all are three cred it-hour courses and require junior standing p e 32 also requires biology 1 and 21 a one credit-hour course mining 101 flotation and a three credit hour course mining 102 mill de signs and flow sheets were added to the mining curriculum mining 3 is required by each course while the latter also requires mining 101 in the curriculum of civil en gineering math 21 was dropped and c e 18 advanced mechanics of materials a continuation of c.e 8 was substituted the prerequisite of this three credit-hour course is math 5 and c e 8 j j eckfeldt 98 dies in accident was superintendent of plant in chicago heights john jacob eckfeldt 98 brother of prof howard eckfeldt died nov 30 as the result of an automobile ac cident on nov 28 near massilon city ohio he was 57 years old mr eckfeldt suffered a fractured vertebra of the neck which caused paralysis he was travelling from chicago heights 111 to ligonier pa for the thanksgiving holidays neither his wife nor daughter who accompanied him were hurt he was superintendent of the railway steel spring plant of the american locomotive company in chicago heights after his gradua tion from lehigh he was associat ed with the late frank and ralph dravo later he became superintendent of the latrobe plant of the amer ican locomotive company in 1916 mr eckfeldt was transferred to the position which he held at the time of his death he was a member of the delta upsilon fraternity the interment was held in ligonier on dec 3 meissner to represent lehigh in rhodes scholarship trials milton meissner 34 a graduate student at princeton university will be lehigh's rhodes scholar ship representative this is the second time that meissner will represent lehigh in the rhodes competition states prof phillip m palmer head of the col lege of arts and science there will be 48 representatives chosen in the united states and of these eight will have an opportunity to compete for the award major green believes military science decree entirely justifiable the supreme court in a decision announced monday unanimously upheld the actions of the univer sity of california in expelling two students who refused to submit to military drill the regents had suspended albert w hamilton and w alonzo rey nolds who had requested that they be freed from the course for reli gious and moral reasons both are sons of ministers in the methodist episcopal church had this decision been otherwise all universities supported by public funds would have been affected le high however is an endowed insti tution and does not lie under the jurisdiction of the court decision the compulsory training system employed at lehigh was originated by officials of the school itself green comments on decision maj james o green jr head of the department of military sci ence and tactics believes the deci sion to be entirely justifiable he recalled that since he had been at lehigh no one had ever been ex cused from training for religious reasons nor had anyone ever ob jected strenuously to participating in drill and classroom work a rea sonable talk with any who seriously disliked the course always managed to change the individual's point of view major green cited a similar deci sion made by the court of appeals of maryland in connection with an un dergraduate and the university of maryland despite these rulings students of ohio state university are beginning a new campaign for optional drill howland addresses society at sun inn art professor traces virgin mary legend garth a howland head of the department of fine arts lectured monday night to the members of the american association of university women at the old sun inn on the legend of the virgin he traced the virgin mary's ex istence down through the ages as it has been portrayed by different painters he emphasized the treat ment by the italian painters with lantern slides professor howland explained that since so little is writ ten in the bibte about the virgin mary that legends concerning her lige sprang up all over europe these varying legends were care fully scrutinized by the church to ascertain which were in keeping with their teachings before the ar tists were authorized to proceed with the paintings the subjects approved by the church for treatment by the paint ers included the annunciation visi tation nativity the passing of christ the assumption and the final coronation h r reiter introduces speakers at dinner of exchange club howard r reiter professor of physical education was toastmaster at the annual bethlehem exchange club dinner to the bethlehem high school football team monday night at hotel bethlehem he introduced the following le high guests a a tate former var sity football coach vincent j paz zetti 15 all-american quarterback col nelson e kellogg head of the department of athletics and walter r okeson commissioner of foot ball officials in the eastern col leges the main speakers were richard harlow coach of the undefeated western maryland college football team and coach jim crowljey of fordham university each stressed the good of football in developing friendships and each recalled inci dents in his career the liberty high school band directed by joseph ricapito spe cial student at lehigh in 1920 and organizer of the lehigh band play ed a short concert ¦ the dinner this year was de scribed by toastmaster reiter as the best for the best liberty high school's team is eastern con ference champion and will meet al toona high school's team saturday afternoon in taylor stadium for the playoff to decide the state cham pionship announces engagement the engagement of john a en gel 31 and miss rose mary mur phy 432 cherokee street was an nounced recently at a dinner party at the murphy home coming events friday dec 7 8:15 p m mustard and cheese pre sents journey's end at drown hall saturday dec 8 8:15 p m second performance of journey's end 10 p m alpha chi rho house open dance monday dec 10 4 p m faculty meeting in the fac ulty room in the alumni build ing numeral and letters to be awarded squad will elect 1935 cap tains at victory banquet dinner to be monday night at hotel tickets are 2.00 the lehigh home club will be hosts to the members of the varsity and freshman football - squads coaches trainers and assistants at a victory banquet to be held at 6:30 monday evening at the hotel beth lehem dr natt m emery university vice president will represent the university officially and will speak briefly all the varsity and fresh man coaches will speak and numer als and letters will be awarded squad members will elect their cap tain for the 1935 season vincent j pazz.etti,'ls all-amer ican quarterback is chairman of the committee in charge of arrange ments for the dinner john w max well club secretary is assisting him is first since 1929 the party entirely stag will be the first of its kind since 1929 the last time lehigh beat lafayette they were annual affairs previous to 1920 when lehigh's teams had consistently fine records walter r okeson university treasurer will be toastmaster and eugene g grace chairman of the board of trustees will be the main speaker timothy burns 01 super intendent of the lackawanna plant bethlehem steel company has been invited to speak it is expected that a group of about 25 faculty members will be present students are invited tick ets 2.00 may be obtained from dr r d billinger chemistry de partment robert b adams gym office and john w maxwell alum ni office music for the occasion will be furnished by fritz kline and his or chestra about 400 including the 90 guests are expected to attend the ballroom will be appropriately dec orated in brown and white middlethreealumni gather at trenton emery buchanan maxwell represent lehigh lehigh was represented at the second annual middle three alumni meeting held recently at trenton n j by dr n m emery vice president andrew e buchanan alumni association secretary and john w maxwell assistant editor of the alumni bulletin representatives and trenton alumni of lehigh lafayette and rutgers held a dinner meeting at the trenton country club dr em ery substituting for walter r oke son university treasurer who was unable to attend because of illness extended greetings on behalf of the university he also emphasized the importance of alumni in the prog ress of the university dean david metzger of rutgers spoke about the training and de velopment of character in college dean theodore distler of lafay ette brought out the responsibility of alumni leaders in the nation's ac tivities j h pop pennington 97 pres ident of the trenton club was toastmaster two songs of each college were sung lehigh's songs were the al ma mater and hail the college mr buchanan was among several men called upon to give short in formal talks will criticize book brown to review history text be fore club tonight sydney m brown professor of european history will review the book the study of history by a j toynbee before the robert w blake philosophical society at 8 o'clock this evening in the engin eering societies room in packard laboratory the book deals with the course and laws of social development and degeneration and suggests new views of historic method four men will be elected to the society at the business meeting which will be held at 7:30 p m faculty refuses request for holiday by great majority says curtis an overwhelming majority of the faculty voted to deny the peti tion signed by more than 500 stu dents requesting a holiday on wed nesday nov . 28 in honor of the football victory over lafayette stated registrar george b curtis the voting took place at a special faculty meeting at 4 p m tuesday nov 27 the following resolution was passed at the meeting the faculty rejoices with the student body in the athletic victory that has been won but sees no connection between an athletic victory and th sus pension of classes and there fore does not see its way clear to grant this petition despite the fact that many mem bers of the faculty promised to support the request of the students dean curtis stated that the vote against the petition was almost unanimous most of the voting members of the faculty were present at the meeting which wcfs held in the fac ulty room in the alumni building members who are entitled to vote include all those with a rank of as sistant profesor or above and cer tain administrative officers england gets code signals from w3aeq heard in british isles broadcasts of amateur radio sta tion w3aeq lehigh university have been heard as far distant as the british isles a recent issue of qst international amateur radio magazine lists the local station among those whose messages have been received by station g2byh bishopton england broadcasts on the wavelength used by w3aeq are seldom audible at distances greaten than 2000 miles the lehigh station located in the radio laboratory in packard labor atory is now being operated almost continually by members of the ra dio club under the supervision of class a radio operators portraits to be placed in packard laboratory portraits of three engineers who were prominent in the steel indus try half a century ago will soon be placed in packard laboratory said prof fred v larkin head of the department of mechanical and in dustrial engineering the pictures were presented to the university in 1932 by george a chandler the subjects are george fritz a brother of john fritz the donor of fritz laboratory alexan der holley who introduced the bessemer steel process into the united states and captain wil liam jones an associate of andrew carnegie first university play of year will be given in drown hall 8:15 p m tonight and tomorrow war drama first produced in london as big sensation farnham will play lead as captain stanhope j taussig to take part of raleigh journey's end a totality drama of understatement will be present ed by the mustard and cheese club this evening and tomorrow evening at 8:15 o'clock in drown hall journey's end is a play of the great war the entire action takes place within six days of which the sixth day is never completed the reaction of the men to the war is demonstrated through their conver sational understatement especially so far as the war is concerned when it was first produced in london in 1929 journey's end created a sensation in dramatic cir cles because of its rejection of for mal rules of dramatic composition through the heat of the contro versy it received excellent publicity and became an immediate success successful in new york brought to new york in 1930 where gilbert miller produced it it was not immediately successful due probably to the antipathy of audi ences to british casts with colin keith johnson in the ilead however it was soon success ful and went on to become one of the outstanding hits of recent years it was forced to move to the ply mouth theatre in order to accom modate the crowds screen rights were sold to one of the major producers who refused to allow the stage play to go on the road the cast of tonight's performance is as follows robert farnham as captain stanhope j de b corne lius as lieutenant trotter john taussig as lieutenant raleigh c f mccoy as lieutenant hibbert w s hutchinson as lieutenant os bourne w r wolfe as captain hardy charles tracy as private mason john williamson as the colonel and w b maynard as the german soldier etasigmaphito meet alumnus will read paper to so * ciety thursday eta sigma phi classical society will hold an informal meeting at 7:30 p m thursday dec 13 at the home of dr earl crum 717 sev enth avenue announces h.b freed president the main feature of the evening will be the presentation of a paper the roman postal system by edgar a collins 32 collins a grad uate student recently received his master's degree from the univer sity of michigan he was president of eta sigma phi in 1931-32 columbia dean speaks before pre-meds on qualities of a surgeon a primary qualification of the doctor is that he must be a human being dr edward cathcart told the robert w hall pre-medical so ciety last night in packard labora tory he must be a humanist be fore a moralist he must treat a pa tient's disease and he must treat the patient dr cathcart associate dean of columbia university college of phy sicians and surgeons was not un known to the society since he guid ed the pre-meds on their inspection trip last week to the college of physicians and surgeons hi s speech after outlining the qualifi cations of a doctor became an in formal round table discussion of medical schools and the selection of applicants the doctor of today must have the industry to eliminate all resent ment toward giving all his time to the obligations of his profession the intellect to devote his entire life to continual study the absolute in tegrity to avoid temptation in one of the most competitive fields of life and the sympathy to understand people in all situations dr cath cart said traces school development in outlining the history of medi cine he traced medical schools from the point where medical training meant simply an apprenticeship with a practitioner to the modern four-year medical course that fol lows after a four-year pre-medical course in the five leading medical schools he said about 110 out of 1000 applications are accepted for admission before the meeting dr cathcart dr raymond bull of the student health service dr stanley thomas professor of bacteriology and dr robert w hall head of the depart ment of biology were dinner guests of robert w buchanan arts 35 president of the pre-medical so ciety at the tfieta kappa phi fra ternity house james huyck arts 36 chairman of activities announced that the christmas banquet would be held dec 17 at the hotel bethlehem in stead of a speaker for this meeting all former members of the society now in medical schools or in prac tice are to come back for a reunion christmas gifts are to be given to each member of the society engagement of mcfadden 25 to miss kinney is announced the engagement of attorney hugh p mcfadden 25 to miss dorothea v kinney was announc ed recently attorney mcfadden is one of the youngest members of the north ampton county bar after he was graduated frorm lehigh he went to the law school of the university of pennsylvania he is a past grand knight of trinity council knights of columbus and past president of the bethlehem exchange club bethlehem pa friday december 7 1934 mustard and cheese cast in journey's end four are suspended for criticizing long price five cents plans changes in engineering arts courses action in louisiana state re sults from student letter four student journalists are at present indefinitely suspended from louisiana state university follow ing the publication of a student let ter criticizing senator huey p long d r mcguire jr of new or leans who resigned from the staff of the reveille following this ac tion stated in an affidavit that the kingfish had declared his virtual ownership of the university in a profane tirade upon seeing the proof sheets of the paper long was quot ed as saying i'll fire any student who dares to say a word against me that's my university . i built it and i'm not going to stand for any stu dents criticizing me the letter which caused this out burst of huey decried his attempt to make a state senator of abe mickals l s u football star in a burlesque this offer had been scorned by the campus herb congratulations to the suspended students came from all parts of the country and the american civil li berties union offered its services in their fight for reinstatement cathcart urges human doctor mustard and cheese to stage totality drama journey's end the lehigh university brown and white 1 ' lafayette professor to discuss geology and wild life dr arthur b cleaves of lafay ette college will present an illus trated lecture entitled an east greenland expedition of 1933 be fore the annual meeting of the ce high valley section of the ameri can institute of mining and metal lurgical engineers at 8:15 p m tuesday in packard auditorium there will be no admission fee to the lecture which is open to the public the expedition to greenland was a private american expedition in volving two purposes the first was a geological study of the rock structure of one of the islands in the frantz josef fjord the second was a study of the wild animal life of the region the latter project was chiefly concerned with the pre servation of the musk-ox which is rapidly nearing extinction except in this region dr cleaves was chief geologist for the expedition he is a graduate of brown university and has taken advanced degrees at brown uni versity of toronto and harvard he is a member of the explorers club sigma xi the paleontological so ciety and the faculty of lafayette college all the lehighnews first member intercollegiate newspaper association