Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 24

              musical clubs will perform milton meissner senior killed in accident andrew e phillips jr professor of railroad en gineering ends 30 years service ; resigns dur ing christmas holidays will leave for florida soon in attempt to regain health winter l wilson profes sor of railroad engineering termin ated 30 years of service on the fac ulty when because of ill health he resigned from the civil engineering staff during the christmas holidays said prof hale sutherland head of the civil engineering department within a few days professor wilson will leave for florida where he will remsin several weeks in an attempt to recuperate from his ill ness professor wilson held the j t stautr professorship of railroad en interfraternity dance to be on saturday night feb 2 in the coliseum dancing from 10 to 2 mcconns and beardslees to be chaperons at affair mai hallet and emerson gill and their orchestras have been selected to furnish the music at the interfra ternity ball to be held saturday feb 2 in the coliseum announces m r furman member of the dance committee hallet's orchestra recently play ed at the phi alpha sigma frater nity dance in the hotel commodore in new york city says furman he will play at washington and lee the two nights before the interfra ternity ball here his music is fast complete engagement emerson gill and his orchestra recently completed an engagement at cleveland's lotus garden from which place they broadcast twice daily over wtam according to furman gill is scheduled to play sometime this month at the arca dia restaurant in philadelphia he is credited with being the first or chestra to use a theme song in his broadcasts his music is slow because of his dissatisfaction with the conduct of the interfrater nity ball last year dean mcconn has sent letters to the heads of the houses asking them to be respon sible for the good behavior of their groups if the conduct at the ball is not better this year says dean mc conn the interfraternity ball will have to be dropped from the uni versity's social calender dancing will be from 10 p m un til 2 a m the chaperons which have accepted invitations to date are dean and mrs c m mcconn and dr and mrs c g beardslee there probably will be others but they have not been obtained as yet says many geology problems unsolved miller addresses scientists on pennsylvania structure prof benjamin l miller head of the department of geology speak ing before the 95th annual meeting of the geological section of the american association for the ad vancement of science on dec 30 in pittsburgh stated that there are many problems regarding eastern pennsylvania geology which re mained unsolved today pennsylvania has one of the most complex geological structures that exist today says professor miller the area of pennsylvania has probably been as much dis turbed as any place in the whole world dr miller's paper discussed many factors and problems in eas tern pennsylvania's geology which confront the geologist although he spoke chiefly on the periods of disturbance and result he also mentioned five other impor tant problems which remain a mys tery today they are 1 age of metamorphosed sedi mentary racks in the philadelphia region 2 periods of disturbance and result 3 divisions and thick ness of the martinsburg formations 4 configuration of the region dur ing the paleozoic era 300.000,000 years ago 5 northern border of the triassic 150.000,000 years ago 6 development of the physiogra phic features professor smith will speak on esthetic theory to faculty prof robert m smith head of the department of english will speak on art as experience writ ten by john dewey at the meeting of the philosophical seminar at 4:10 p m thursday in the faculty club room professor smith will report on the first five chapters of this book which deals with esthetic theory a general discussion by the members will follow his talk committee grants petition for ball in coliseum feb 2 the committee on student activi ties on friday granted the petition of the interfraternity council for the annual interfraternity ball an nounces dean c m mcconn the ball will be held saturday feb 2 from 10 till 2 at the coli seum it will be an eclusive date head of department at lafayette demonstrates ways of solving struc tural stress problems describes uses of three and four - moment methods an easier method of solving prob lems on triangular and trapazoidal structural stresses was demonstrat ed yesterday evening in packard laboratory by prof e.h rockwell head of the department of civil en gineering at lafayette college pro fessor rockwell was the guest of the local civil engineering society the talk was entirely built about the little used and little known three-moment and four - moment equations the three-moment equa tion was first discovered in 1869 but it was in 1875 that the first prac tical application of the principle was made by mansfield merriman for mer head of the civil engineering department at lehigh the work of professor merriman in this field was one of the major engineering achievements of the time according to professor rockwell describes moment rule in 1916 professor rockwell wrote a book of some 300 pages in which he described the four-mo ment equation which he thought he had discovered but just before the volume was to be printed it was found that the same thing had been developed in part in 1905 this method is so advanced that newer methods of solving structural strain have crowded out the one which the lecturer demonstrated however professor rockwell showed that the three and four moment systems were really simpl er than any others in solving the less complicated problems during the discussion held after the lecture prof hale sutherland encouraged professor rockwell to publish the material that was dem onstrated at the meeting since much of it was valuable and was not yet accessible at any library a mass of data that had been ac cumulated on the subject was ex amined by the audience during the evening alumni association elects farnham 99 succeeds ralph m dravo as alumnus trustee robert farnham 99 was elected alumnus trustee by the board of di rectors of the alumni association at their meeting nov 24 succeed ing ralph m dravo who died nov 11 mr farnham whose son robert is president of the mustard and cheese club is chief engineer of the pennsylvania railroad and was president of the alumni association in 1933-34 the board of directors voted to award four prizes of 25.00 to the highest ranking juniors in each of the three colleges two prizes will be given to the two highest juniors in the college of engineering re gardless of curricula and one each to the highest ranking junior in the college of arts and science and to the highest ranking junior in the college of business administration cairns reads paper discusses triangulation before joint meeting stewart s cairns assistant pro fessor of mathematics presented a paper entitled triangulation of the manifold of class one at the joint meeting of the american associa tion for the advancement of sci ence and the american mathemati cal society from dec 26 4k jan 1 at carnegie tech pittsburgh the paper deals with geometry in higher dimenstional spaces in two dimensions the problem is dividing a surface into curvilinear triangles which are distinct except in respect to vertices and edges in the three dimensional case the triangles be come tetrahedra kenneth w lamson associate professor of mathematics voris v latshaw and edward h cutler in structors in mathematics accom panied professor cairns gineering one of the two endowed hairs at the university it is not known whether the chair will be transferred to another lehigh pro fessor due to the suddenness of profes sor wilson's resignation it is not definite whether he will be replaced or not m o fuller associate pro fessor of civil engineering is finish ing his course in contracts and spe c r cations and eugene h uhler assistant professor of civil engineer ing his course in railroad engin eering professor wilson's resignation continued on page four bohning to address classical society on romance philology eta sigma phi honorary classi cal society will hear william h bohning roster clerk talk on ro mance philology the meeting is to be held at the home of dr horace w wright head of the department of latin at 41 wall street alumnus local dentist dies dr daniel a culhane 17 died on sunday evening at the sacred heart hospital allentown follow ing a brief stomach illness he was a practicing dentist in bethlehem a.e phillips jr bus.'3s dies when car struck tree dec 22 in jersey andrew phillips bus 35 was killed at 1:30 a m dec 22 on the way home from a party when the automobile he was driving swerved off the road and hit a tree on route 10 at littleton n.j his fiance miss frances babbitt 20 of 261 speed well avenue morristown n j suffered severe injuries phillips was a member of the sigma phi fraternity and played the trumpet in the band seventeen members of the sigma phi fraternity attended the funeral at phillips home at 55 early street morristown n.j on christmas eve woodring beidler hurt in auto crash both are taken to hospital in allentown after accident william b woodring ch e 36 and henry beidler ch e 36 received injuries at 10 p m new year's eve in allentown when the car which was being driven by beidler skidded on the slippery road and upset \ woodring 532 linden street bethlehem received injuries of the scalp beidler of quakertown suf fered from an injured pelvis and lacerations of the forehead both were taken to the allentown hos pital woodring was dismissed two days later both woodring and beidler are members of the rifle team other members of the car were miss ruth pickard and charles pickard members of the radio pickard family and catherine and jean post bethlehem gipson gives paper discusses british imperialism at history meeting prof lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and government and prof g d har mon associate professor of history attended the meeting of the amer ican historical association which was held during the christmas hol idays at the mayflower hotel in washington d c the approach to the study of colonial history from maritime provinces was the title of the pa per presented by professor gipson at the meeting this paper dealt with the clash between great brit ain and france over acadia and the beginning of the modern british imperialism side frames for freight cars tested in fritz laboratory three side frames to be used on lehigh valley railroad freight cars were tested for specification pur poses in the 800,000-lb riehle test ing machine on wednesday and thursday in fritz laboratory for the birdsboro steel • foundry and machine company of birdsboro pennsylvania the frames are part of the trucks of the railroad cars they hold up the body of the car and transfer the load from car to wheel and axle lehigh alumnus chosen last night as first of four winners in mid dle atlantic states is third graduate to succeed in english scholarship trials milton meissner chem e 34 is the winner of a rhodes scholarship it was announced last night by the selection committee of the middle atlantic states meissner is one of the four win ners from this district and ranked highest among the group in winning the rhodes award meissner becomes lehigh's third rhodes scholar r max goepp 28 was the first lehigh winner of the award and dudley l harley 30 was the second meissner competed for the award last year but was unsuccessful this year he was chosen as one of the four winners from an original group of 37 competitors from six states he will become a freshman at oxford in october of this year the scholarship carries a stipend of 2,000 a year for three years the first two years must be spent at oxford and the third year may be taken elsewhere in england during his undergraduate days meissner was a member of tau beta pi phi beta kappa and o d k he was a track athlete and last summer won the high jump at the middle atlantic games by jumping six feet three inches howland will give religious art talk series of 1 2 lectures to begin jan 6 in wesley church prof garth a howland head of the fine arts department will de liver a series of 12 lectures at 10 a.m on successive sunday evening be ginning jan 6 at the wesley meth odist church school the subject of professor howland's lectures will be the spirit and development of christian art the talks will be il lustrated with lantern slides the subjects to be discussed are jan 6 the beginning of christ ian art jan 13 the early church and its deciration jan 20 the dark ages and day break jan 27 the bible of the poor feb 3 sermons in stone and saints in plaster feb 10 st francis and the awakening spirit feb 17 the golden legend feb 24 fra angelica and the vi sion of paradise march 3 christ in the flemish kitchens and vene tian palaces'v march 10 the vat ican and raphael march 17 mi chelanglo and the sistine chapel march 24 modern religious art thieves comb house search professor diamond's home taking nothing the house of herbert m dia mond professor of economics at 801 west broad street was ran sacked dec 31 by a thief or group of thieves who strewed the contents of bureau dresser and desk draw ers about the room in an unsuccess ful search for cash in professor diamond's opinion the thief was a youth because none of the jewelry or silverware though scattered about was taken in ap parent remuneration the thief left a fine silver elgin watch probably loot from a previous raid the thief gained entrance by prying open a cellar window on the seventh avenue side of the build ing discovery of the house-break ing was made by t f hartman 823 west market street who had the keys to the residence during the absence of the family faculty dramatic club to hear reading of journey's end - the play journey's end will be read to the faculty dramatic club tomorrow evening in room 201 packard laboratory according to clyde a harding secretary of the club ' the cast of the mustard and cheese club who presented the play shortly before the holidays will read it to the faculty changes in civil engineer ing military courses and entrance require ments effective in fall larkin to head open house flagpole meeting granted the three-hour courses bus 51 social institutions and govt 60 international politics became com pulsory subjects in the curriculum of ' civil engineering replacing six hours of electives at a meeting of the faculty yesterday in the ad ministration building the new ruling will not take ef fect until next september psych 101 psychology of industrial per sonnel a three-hour course will at that time be transferred to the first semester instead of second semes ter in order to balance departmen tal load mil 20 21 22 and 23 are to be abolished these courses are ad vanced ordnance drill and com mand and will be absorbed into mil 15 16 17 and 18 first and sec ond year advanced ordnance to celebrate birth a committee to formulate plans for the observation of the bi-milen nium of the birth of the classic ro man poet horace was announced by natt m emery vice president of the university horace w wright head of the department of latin will be chairman of the group which includes profs philip m palmer charles j goodwin and earl l crum dr emery also told the faculty of the appointments of prof fred v larkin head of the department of mechanical engineering as chair man of the 1935 open house com mittee and prof dale h gramley as chairman of the interscholastic press conference a letter of christmas greeting and appreciation from the faculty to president c r richards drawn up by profs charles j goodwin howard eckfeldt and philip m palmer at the december meeting was made public dr richards re ply was also read make entrance changes several minor changes in the re quirements for admission to the university were adopted one-half or one unit of problems of demo cracy was added to the list of elec tives and american history me dieval or modern history and civ ics were amended in the same list to permit one^half or 1 unit of cred it in these subjects manual train ing was amended to read manual training or shop the statement other subjects from the curriculum of a high school of the first class may be credited up to a total of one unit which concludes the section on elective subjects in the admis sion requirements was changed to other subjects which meet the ac cepted standards of time and pre paration may be credited up to a total of one unit the petition of arcadia for a student meeting friday may 17 at the flagpole was granted says george b curtis secretary of the faculty , willspeaktoa.l.e.e miller and formhals will give technical lecture a r miller assistant professor of electrical engineering and w h formhals instructor in electrical engineering will lecture to techni cal groups at the meeting of the lehigh valley section of the amer ican institute of electrical engin eers they meet jan 11 at hazle ton pa these groups were organized to provide instruction to those engin eers who since having finished en gineering school more than five years ago are not acquainted with the latest information in their field the meetings are very technical and similar to university classroom instruction professor miller will give the fourth of a series of seven lectures on system stability and mr formhals his second lecture on in dustrial applications of vacuum tubes the meetings are held at 5:30 p m preceding the regular dinner and speech to give concert satur day in drown hall dancing will follow the combined musical clubs of lehigh will present their first home concert and dance this year on sat urday in drown hall states kent s putnam arts 35 manager of the clubs it will be an exclusive date since the contest is a school func tion a quartet will sing several num bers it consists of wesley l hemphill bus 36 first tenor john m swalm ch e 36 second tenor francis t krupinski arts 38 first bass and william r williams c e 35 second bass alfonso denarvaez bus 38 and gilberto escobedo c e 36 will sing a duet in spanish escobedo and coleman citret arts 37 will sing several solos william e trumpler m e 37 will play one or two flute solos a gilbert and sullivan chorus of about ten members is a new part of the club this year it is composed of student who have previously taken part in gilbert and sullivan oper ettas and will render special selec tions at the concerts the club dance orchestra will play for dancing after the program the chaperones for the occasion will be dr and mrs claude g beardslee and mr and mrs t ed gar shields alumnus to receive engineering award e w bowden 21 to get laurie prize for paper e warren bowden 21 will re ceive from the american society of civil engineers the james laurie prize for his paper george wash ington bridge — construction of the steel superstructure during the annual meeting of the society from jan 16 to 19 in new york city he collaborated on this work with homer r seely resident engineer of the east river crossing of the triborough bridge during the first five years after graduation bowden worked in the field on the delaware river suspen sion bridge at philadelphia the next two years were spent in pri vate practice since october 1928 he has been associated with the port of new york authority he was assistant to the chief engineer of the george washington bridge and the kill van kull bridge he is now assistant to the chief engineer of all port authority and tribor ough authority projects mcconn addresses principals at meeting dec 28 at syracuse dean c m mcconn attended the association of academic prin cipals at its annual meeting dec 28 in the auditorium of the central high school syracuse n y the dean talked on progressive education continuing the group's discussion of educational problems girl born to professor bishop a daughter was born to prof and mrs ward l bishop at 1 p m dec 19 at st luke's hospital the baby weighing five pounds four teen ounces was named barbara jane price five cents dies in accident w l wilson quits faculty due to illness bethlehem pa tuesday january 8 1935 rhodes scholar vol xlii no 24 faculty votes on curricula requirements meissner wins rhodes award committee says e h rockwell talks to civils on equations the lehigh university brown and white council signs hallet and gill to play at ball coming events tuesday jan 8 7.30 p m faculty rifle club ar mory tuesday jan 8 4 p m meeting of committee on educational policy dean's of fice 6:30 p m cyanide club banquet delta up»silon house 7:30 p m faculty dramatic club 201 packard laboratory jour ney's end 7:30 p m pi mu epsilon meeting room 208 packard laboratory 7:30 p m newtonian society room 304 packer hall thursday jan 10 4 p m meeting of committee on students clubs dean's office 4 p m philosophical seminar fac ulty club room drown hall speaker professor smith art as experience 4 p m delta omicron theta meet ing room 466 packard labora tory 7:30 p m physics club room 316 physics building 7:30 p m eta sigma phi profes sor's wright's home 7:30 p m american society of mechanical engineers room 466 packard laboratory speaker george d ogden assistant vice president of traffic pennsylvania railroad company 7:30 p m industrial engineering society meeting room 450 pack ard laboratory member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first