Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 29

              the following report of the interfraternity ball was submit ed by e h henry treasurer of the interfraternity council at the council meeting last night assessment 1,460.00 expenses : orchestras 1,000.00 decorations 3.00.00 hall 35.00 bandstand 25.67 labor 81.00 pianos 15.00 water 5.30 tickets 4.50 misc expenses 4.95 committee's salaries 20.00 1,441.42 profit to treasury $ 18.58 house party set for apr 27 edwin o carlson carlson dies after illness prizes of 100 and 50 to be awarded for best theses four seniors in the electrical en gineering department have an nounced their intention of submit ting theses on the subject offered for the philip francis dv pont mem orial thesis prize these men h k ellis c l squier h r riley and c c brandt have won the privilege to compete for this prize by virtue of their high scholastic standings the topic for this year is design and economics of air-conditioning ap paratus in 1920 l s homer e e 98 established this memorial fund which awards prizes of 100 and 50 for the two best theses mr home r a resident of bridgeport con necticut is associated with the bul lard company the paper which is due in june is a regular part of the electrical en gineering work coming under the heading of e e 23 a three-hour course if in the opinion of the head of the electrical engineering department no thesis worthy of the award is submitted the amount is added to the next year's prize to emphasize oral delivery explains noted author's philosophy before blake society friday night in packard lab ursinus professor declares reader must be unbiased the student must read through conrad's books with an entirely open mind before he reaches any conclusions dr w w bancroft professor of philosophy at ursinus college told the robert w blake society at its meeting friday eve ning in packard laboratory in read ing his doctorate thesis on the philosophy of joseph conrad an open discussion followed the talk that conrad must be read with the feeling always that sooner or later the philosophy of the writer would impress itself upon him was dr bancroft's formula by which he received the greatest enjoyment from conrad's work in the course of this decision dr bancroft reached several conclu sions which help one not only to understand conrad more thorough ly but may be given general appli cation in all reading conrad found a certain moral law and order in the universe furthermore man can only fulfill his potentialities by ad hering to the moral principles in volved in the moral order con cretely this means a sense of com munion and fellowship with his fel low men combined with a concept of the necessity of his own individ uality to the working out of the uni versal pattern these two working thoughts bring out the best in man he should therefore apply them to his every day experience tried for deeper thoughts conrad considered as his ulti mate purpose dr bancroft believes the presentation of these great thoughts to men he was always displeased when people overlooked this deeper purpose and considered him merely as a sea writer and as a writer of atmosphere behind the externals rests his message and here the emphasis must be placed before dr bancroft spoke the society discussed the advisability of the blake society taking an ac tive part in open house again this spring they decided not to con tribute this year seniors interviewed technical concerns send repre sentatives here three large concerns have sent representatives this month to inter view lehigh seniors for jobs on feb 4 and 5 a representative of the general electric company was here to talk to technical curricula men william morrison personnel manager of the united states gyp sum company on p^eb 8 interview ed senior mining engineers today the socony vacuum com pany of new york through its rep resentative is interviewing seniors in all curricula especially those in terested in a marketing career for domestic service several other concerns are also arranging interviewing dates j g jackson ch e 26 will talk to chemical society on thursday the man who taught many un employed engineers how to express themselves and made it possible for them to sell themselves to pros pective employers will speak at 7:45 p m thursday before the chem ical society in packard auditorium he is joseph gray jackson ch e 26 of william steel jackson and son philadelphia patent lawyers his subject will be a quantitative estimate of speech dr ullmann head of the chem istry department stated that the importance of knowing how to speak in helping our future engin eers secure jobs cannot be empha sized too strongly a man may not be half as good an engineer as the other fellow but with good oral de livery he can talk himself into a job in a letter to dr ullmann joseph gray jackson expressed his conception of the importance of oral delivery to an engineer the ser ious thought that i have in mind is that it reflects upon the individual and also upon the university men when we turn out a highly trained chemist or chemical engineer who can in many cases express himself clearly in writing but who is whol ly at a loss in oral delivery joseph gray jackson participat ed in many student activities and was president of the chemical so ciety after his graduation from le high he studied law at the univer sity of pennsylvania lowell thomas took the same course in criticism of speech that jackson took from a prominent pro fessor in new york dr babasinian will introduce the speaker when the lecture is over the entire as sembly will proceed to the chem istry building for refreshments pennsylvania and new jersey publications to compete in annual contest may 1 1 here will hold problem discussions and award 18 bronze plaques - approximately 700 pennsylvania and new jersey secondary school papers will be invited to send their editors business managers and faculty advisers to enter their pub lications in the second annual con test of the lehigh press conference on saturday may 11 the program will consist of an assembly luncheon round table discussions and a contest at which 18 bronze plaques and a number of certificates of merit will be award ed to the winners and recipients of honorable mention respectively registration will be from 9 to 11 a m in the lounge of packard lab oratory as the delegates arrive they will be taken in small groups on a tour of the campus until 11 a m when a general assembly will be held in packard auditorium the speakers have not been selected yet luncheon will be served at 12:30 p m to hold discussions at 2 p m round table discus sions will be held in rooms throughout packard laboratory un der the direction of dale h gram ley head of the journalism courses kenneth k kost instructor in english journalism majors and ex ecutives of the brown and white staff the round tables will be held un der the following topics editorial writing news writing sports writ ing headlines and makeup business problems mimeographed papers magazines and faculty advisers the decision of the three judges will be announced at the final as sembly at 4 p m when the awards will be made in order to equalize the competition the high schools have been divided into seven class ess newspapers in schools with en rollments of over 1,000 those from 500 to 999 and those under 500 magazines in schools with similar enrollments and a general class for mimeographed papers the prepar atory schools have two general classes newspapers and magazines the awards will be made on the basis of newswriting editorial ma terial headlines and general make up 273 here last year last year 340 schools were in vited to attend of these 61 schools sent 273 delegates 155 newspapers and magazines were entered in the contest arrangements have been made by dale h gramley director of the press conference assisted by vice president natt m emery dean c max mcconn andrew e buchan an john w maxwell wray h congdon earl k smiley and ken neth k kost as last year several issues of the lehigh reporter will be published for the benefit of the delegates by professor gramley and k k kost the paper contains news of the press conference hints on problems facing newspapers and magazines and facts about the lehigh campus mets to continue society elects officers at special meeting it was voted unanimously to con tinue the lehigh metallurgical so ciety at a special meeting friday afternoon called by professor brad ley stoughton and presided over by w a johnson 35 this decision was reached following an informal discussion by several members of the department and students officers were elected as follows j e braunberns 35 president g d ' rogers 36 vice president j k stone 36 secretary no treas urer was elected because the organ ization is planning to function with out dues or assessments the importance of getting good speakers was stressed by g b mc means 34 last year's president he outlined the work done by the so ciety and stated that it brings the undergraduate into contact with men of industry under very favor able conditions increases a stu dent's knowledge of the practical side of engineering and promotes friendship rain nor snow nor sleet keeps weather bureau from its job dean explains six ques tions friday at upper darby to answer query should i go to college over 1500 hear his address many colleges represented should i go to college can be decided by the answers to six ques tions said dean c m mcconn fri day evening at the upper darby high school fifteen hundred stu dents of the school and representa tives from muhlenberg cedar crest and 70 other colleges and universi ties heard the address the questions to be asked by par ents who are anxious to determine whether their children should con tinue study past high school or not follow 1 has he an i q in an intelli gence test such as binet otis or stanford of 115 or better 2 does he rank in the highest third of his high school 3 is he eighteen or younger at graduation this test does not ap ply if the reason for being older is extra-curricular . 4 has he a reading speed of least 200 words a minute 5 does he rank high in a vocab ulary test 6 does he have the dictionary habit the way to tell whether a stu dent has a degree of self-mastery is by answering these questions 1 does he get up in the morn ing by his own alarm clock 2 does he spend all his allow ance in the first day 3 does he do his homework with out being driven three suggestions were made for those who cannot pass the test they may either enter a school of design or art or go to a trade or vocational school or travel each alternative offers some education schreiner begins work on welds research fellow will make fritz laboratory tests norman a schreiiner american bureau of welding research fellow has begun research into the prob lem of fillet welds under loads which cause bending in fritz labor atory the problem has been set forth by the american bureau of weld ing as a result of the seat angle in vestigation which schreiner just completed the seat angle research showed several slight variables un accounted for though these did not detract from the results of this in vestigation the work will be done under pure bending where there is no sheering stress and also under bending caused by transverse loads accompanied by sheering stresses schreiner will use a series of 32 specimens ranging from 40 in by 10 in to 20 in by 11 in in size the specimens will be welded with bare and two types of coated wire elec trodes the coated wires protect the deposited weld metal against the ambient atmosphere and furnish a slag coating which has an anneal ing effect on the metal the testing of the specimens will be done in the 300,000-lb olsen testing machine the steel for the research was supplied by the bethlehem steel company fabrication of the metal was done in the fritz laboratory machine shop interfraternity council picks week-end after the easter holidays spring houseparty will take place the week-end of april 27 the week end after the easter holidays the interfraternity council decided last night the junior prom will be held on friday april 26th it has not yet been decided where the dance will be held the junior prom last year was held on may sth at the hotel beth lehem with the music of ozzie nel son and his orchestra tickets were 4.40 per couple or 2.20 stag the usual custom of holding the prom on a friday and the house dances on saturday was reversed last year since a more prominent orchestra could be secured for saturday night a report of the expenses of the interfraternity ball was submitted to the council and accepted to talk on metals before chemists searle will discuss corrosion resisting alloys the lehigh valley section of the american chemical society will hold their february meeting at 8 p m friday in the chemistry building harold e searle of the international nickel company will speak on corrosion resisting met als he will discuss the important in dustrial uses of these metals and will devote a part of his lecture to testing methods for predicting the probable durability of metals in service several films on the manu facture of nickel and nickel alloys in plants of the international nick el company will be shown searle received a bachelor of sci ence degree from queens univer sity kingston canada in 1922 and was awarded a bursary from the national research council of can ada he refused this in order to study research on nickel and its al loys at the mellon institute of in dustrial research at pittsburgh he has been with the international nickel company since 1924 and has made extensive study on corrosion resisting metals of industrial equip ment before the meeting dr charles h heity jr research engineer for the bethlehem steel company will give an over-the-coffee-cups speech at 6:30 p m in the colonial room of the sun inn on chemistry in the steel industry dr herty was for several years at the pittsburgh station of the united states bureau of mines aft er which he was research director for the metals advisory board of carnegie institute of technology hughes becker and lafferty attend philosophical meeting percy hughes head of the de partment of philosophy frank c becker associate professor of phil osophy and theodore t lafferty assistant professor of education at tended a meeting saturday evening of the fullerton philosophical club at the deanery bryn mawr the principal speaker of the evening was d elton trueblood whose topic was the scientific at tack on human dignity he spoke of the alleged lowering of man's own conception of his status implic it in a number of modern scientific theories and discussed whether such a lowered conception is a ne cessary conclusion u of p debate manager praises ability of team composed of h.k ellis and t e butterfield to encounter seth low and mount mercy college lehigh's debating society scored two victories within a week by de feating the university of pennsyl vania and st joseph's college the team defeated the university of pennsylvania in a radio debate broadcast over station wcau phil adelphia on saturday feb 2 the judges awarded the decision to le high who argued the negative side of the question resolved that all collective bargaining should be negotiated through non-company unions h k ellis e e 35 and t e butterfield arts 35 compos ed the lehigh team the debating society also defeat ed the st joseph's team last friday night at packard laboratory argu ing the negative side of the ques tion resolved that the nations should agree to prevent the interna tional shipment of arms and muni tions lehigh's team composed of walter f guyer ch e 36 and thomas butterfield arts 35 won the unanimous decision of the judg es and the audience lehigh lauded the lehigh debating team's abil ity was admitted by g van alys tyne general manager of the de bate council of the university of pennsylvania in a letter to harry k ellis president of delta omi cron theta permit me to congrat ulate your team on the excellence of its performance over the radio last saturday it was by far the best team we have met this year and we admit that we were thoroughly beaten the affirmative team from st joseph's philadelphia was repre sented by joseph c young 35 and john f carson 35 two of the three votes of the decision were cast by e e meyers and david ran dall coach of liberty high school debate team the third vote was from the audience thursday the debating society will encounter the mount mercy girls college of pittsburgh at packard laboratory to discuss the question resolved that the na tions should agree to prevent the international shipment of arms and munitions lehigh's negative team will consist of walter guyer ch.e 36 and thomas butterfield arts 35 the girls representing the affir mative will be rosalie filhol and mary ursula o'hara the audience will make the decision to meet seth low the club will also meet seth low junior college of columbia univer sity friday night in packard lab oratory the same question as that of the previous night will be de bated but lehigh will take the af firmative there will be no decision the freshmen are debating on two topics resolved that the state of pennsylvania should adopt a system of socialized medicine and the same arms question debated by the varsity and st joseph's col lege the schedule follows date undecided — liberty high medicine — negative feb 15 — liberty high medicine — affirma tive march 15 — rutgers frosh arms — affirma tive march 15 — upsala frosh medicine — affir mative march 18 — moravian frosh arms — nega tive freshmen are eligible for all varsity de bates frosh union to meet will make arrangements for smok er and dance the freshman union will meet in the arcadia room of drown hall at 7:30 wednesday evening to make arrangements for a smoker next month and a dance at sometime in the spring announced r s young eng 38 president of the union h v anderson associate pro fessor of chemistry will speak on the student chemistry founda tion after the business meeting town men are urged to attend the meeting wednesday night to help share in the arrangements for these social affairs alpha chi rho frosh was in reading hos pital since mid years edwin o carlson eng 38 a member of alpha chi rho died of a kidney ailment in the reading hospital he was sent to the hos pital before mid-year examinations and remained there until his death his fraternity attended the fune ral services saturday night at his home in reading he was buried sunday in paterson n j he was a member of the band and glee club and was competing for membership on the mustard and cheese board astronomical society elects makes plans chooses hoffman wheeler and parmet as officers charles h hoffman eng 38 donald b wheeler eng 38 and joseph parmet eng 3b were elect ed president vice president and sec retary-treasurer of the ernest w brown astronomical society at their third meeting at 4 p m on thurs day in room 402 packer hall at the same time the members adopted plans for the balance of the sem ester the society was started in 1926 and was named after the astronomer and mathematician ernest william brown the society has been de funct since 1932 but was reorgan ized under a new constitution at the beginning of the last semester states ralph n van arnam in structor in mathematics and astron omy and > faculty adviser to the club all students interested in astron omy are invited to attend the next meeting which will be held at 4 p m in room 402 packer hall on the first thursday in march review selected will represent workshop on le high campus the lehigh review has been of ficially selected as the editorial board and first reader at lehigh for the literary workshop na tional organ for student opinion walter deemer editor in chief of the review announced yesterday the literary workshop includes both short stories and articles stress being placed on significant topics representative units are being es tablished in colleges throughout the country the staff of the local unit is composed of the editorial board of the lehigh review and anyone else interested manuscripts submitted if not ac cepted are returned with a com plete and sincere criticism those accepted will be criticized in the succeeding jssue rosters of serb men due john a brodhead director of placement wants all serb workers who have not done so to come to the placement office to fill out their second term ros ters brr the wintry winds do blow and the flaky snow does fall and old man winter keeps his icy grip upon the campus yet old man winter's chief prophet and aid-de chief the lehigh weather bureau and meteorological observation post remains on the job cloaked in mystery daily the weather bureau which has its headquarters in williams hall reports the condition of wea ther past present and future to the bethlehem globe-times which prints the report in a box on the lower right of the front page the mechanism of the bureau has been in the past cloaked in mys tery but now the secret is out worried by a strange looking con trivance atop the library roof we investigated and lo and behold twas the weather station dr benjamin l miller head of the department of geology super vises its functioning while earl rodgers lecture assistant in the de partment of physics has charge of its operation it is a pet to mr rodgers who delights in demon strating its intricacies mounting to the top of the li brary by devious means we found ourselves surrounded by several weird-looking devices one of them looking merely like a large black bucket on legs is the rain-recording instrument rain falling is caught in the bucket funneled to a small bucket device which tips when one hundredth of an inch of rain fills it thus recording electrically the amount on a device in williams hall sunshine recorder focused another thingumbabob is a glass tube containing mercury under vac uum a sunshine recorder it is al ways focused on the solar disk should a cloud cover the sun of course the mercury falls breaks an electrical contact thus marking an other line on the register in bill hall the third automatic device is a wind recorder perched on stilts on one parapet on the roof called a weather vane by those who know or should know it swings with the gentle breezes recording wind di rection on another electrical device by its side is another four-limbed continued on page four bethlehem pa tuesday february 12 1935 dies at reading vol xlii no 29 brown and white interfraternity ball makes 18.58 profit says report price five cents schools asked to convention on journalism dr bancroft gives address on j conrad students hear college tests by mcconn four seniors to try for dupont prises debaters win over penn and st joseph's coming events tuesday feb 12 7:30 p m faculty rifle club ar mory wednesday feb 13 4 p m committee on educational policy dean's office 6:30 p m cyanide club banquet chi phi house 7:30 p m varsity wrestling le high vs lafayette taylor gym nasium thursday feb 14 7:30 p m physics club room 316 physics building 7:45 p.m lehigh university chem ical society auditorium packard laboratory speaker mr joseph gray jackson 28 a quantita tive estimate of speech 8 p m debate room 466 packard laboratory lehigh vs mount mercy member intercollegiate newspaper association i all the lehigh news first