Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 31

              union creates new offices on frosh guide priced five cents international relations club to represent china in new york university college conference 138 delegates registered from 23 eastern colleges the international relations club will send six delegates to the model assembly of the league of nations to be held april 11 to 13 at the washington square branch of new york university announces s a musser c e 35 secretary of the club the delegation will reprenent china j f brownlee 1 e 35 is chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements at lehigh one hundred and thirty-eight delegates representing 23 eastern colleges have registered arrange ments for the meetings at the new york university at which the two undergraduate liberal arts college university college of arts and pure science and washington square college will be joint honts are be ing made by prof clyde eagleton professor of government at n.y.u and chairman of the continuation committee prof charles dwyer chairman of the washington square college student affairs committee and robert titlove of the univer sity college secretary-general of the model league assembly makes assembly plans general plans for the assembly have been made by the student faculty continuation committee in addition to prof clyde eagleton and robert titlove its member ship includes prof rudolph peter son bucknell university prof raymond short temple university miss muriel fox vassar college glenn l tischer lafayette col lege prof jesse carpenter new york university and mrs harri son thomas of the league of na tions association other colleges and the countries they will represent are as follows bryn mawr uruguay bucknell great britain college of the city of new york turkey columbia italy elmira paraguay haverford jugoslavia lafayette france new jersey college for women bulgaria princeton germany rutgers canada skidmore mexico st elizabeth rumania syracuse czecho-slovakia temple poland wells spain wilson austria vassar hungary union union of socialist soviet republics barnard swarthmore washing ton square college and university college of arts and pure science new york university have not yet been assigned to the countries they will represent in the assembly the purpose of each delegation continued on page four hell week quests lead frosh on animal hunt to police station man is lord of creation mercurochromed faces chin straps of hot dogs large yellow grapefruit and smaller but far more bothersome eggs have been regular sights on the campus and the omnipotent wooden paddle per vades the fraternity house the mis erable freshman known during hell week as scum has had to eat with his hands tied together and if possible with a shoe-horn and pen knife as implements he must wash and dry the pavement on main street in a pouring rain he goes up all stairs and through all doors backwards he wears fly paper on his chest constant guard needed at one house the wisdom of the brothers has shown them the ne cessity of a constant guard so their hell-weekers keep steady sentry duty in uniform in the garden with brooms for weapons every young woman passing the house is challenged and her name must be reported immediately to the all powerful inside the physical punishment side of the hazing may have degenerated from those grand old days when lehigh men were really men and thought nothing of a solid all-night tea-party but modern ingenuity continued on page four h e eckfeldt eckfeldt to be alumni guest rifle team defeats rutgers by 96 points hooper scores 285 warm kessel makes 97 kneeling p l hooper scored 285 points out of a possible 300 as the lehigh rifle team defeated rutgers satur day 1,382 to 1,286 hooper's score was the highest since woodring made 286 against drexel two years ago hooper's 95 in the standing position was the highest ever scored in a meet either here or at rutgers c a warmkessel raised the to tal team score by making a 97 kneeling three positions were used in the meet prone kneeling and standing the summary follows lehigh houses elect new officers eight fraternities inaug urate leaders during past three weeks eight fraternities have elected new officers during the past three weeks they are as follows beta theta pi charles g rop er president jose a oiler record er marston h boden secretary clay e lewis sergeant-at-arms chester e bennett treasurer mark w wolcott house manager kappa sigma — robert b pick ing president john drury jr vice president herbert a wat kinse treasurer george a goetz scribe phi delta theta william e mollenauer president paul t rob erts vice president verne r wil son secretary frank c hawk treasurer sigma alpha mu — jerome n scheor head edward land treasurer morton s berkowitz secretary sigma chi — daniel f ivins jr president homer p geehr vice president edward e warner treasurer george l bowden sec retary theta xi — frank g smith pres ident charles j gotthardt vice ardpresident rolf lindenhayn jr steward t ronald stewart corres ponding secretary pi lambda phi lra t trivers rex george yanko archon san fard h manheimer keeper of ar chives bernard s weiss keeper of exchequer leslie r schwartz mas ter of work coleman citret frater correspondent tau delta phi gates b stern consul morton berman vice con sul daniel r prosnit quaestor william woronoff scribe tells catasauquans of school enrollment increase in the period from 1920 to 1930 high school enrollment in catasau qua increased while the town's pop ulation decreased stated dr har old p thomas head of the depart ment of education speaking before the catasauqua rotarians at their dinner meeting thursday evening in snyder's hotel catasauqua professor thomas who spoke on the meaning of secondary educa tion to catasauqua revealed that the first school in catasauqua open ed in 1855 had a course beginning with the abc's and closing with definitions at one time in 1879 the school board voted to abolish high schools in the town but the motion was never carried out ways in which high schools af fect a community were stressed by dr thomas he pointed out that children are kept out of trouble there is a definite relationship be tween education social and crim inal delinquincy modern industry and business demand a high school education from employees our changing social conditions demand citizens having a school training he also stated that high schools serve as a means for character building in which contacts and ex tra-curricular activities play an ac tive part prof e sinkinson will speak on magnesite flotation eric s sinkinson associate pro fessor of ore dressing and fuel tech nology will deliver a paper before the annual meeting of the american instiute of metallurgical engineers today at the engineering society building in new york professor sinkinson will speak nesite prof bradley stoughton head of the department of metallurgical en gineering left yesterday for the convention accompanied by g b mcmeans met e 35 and shang shoa young graduate student in metallurgical engineering other members of the faculty who left today to attend the meet ing are g e doan and allison butts associate professors of met allurgy several seniors in the department of metallurgy expect to be present at the wednesday and thursday meetings of the institute among whom are w fruehan g h en zian j e braunberne w a john son and c w leuders j b austin 05 metallurgist for the u s steel corporation will dis cuss the dependence of the rate on the flotation of california mag temperature lehigh wins radio debate arcadia votes lacrosse 100 mining engineering head will address new york lehigh club prof h e eckfeldt of lehigh's department of mining engineering will be the guest of honor on feb 20 at a meeting of the new york lehigh club the novel character of this affair is announced by the following official circular come and get the inside dope on how some of your miner friends ever get through lehigh learn how you can make a fortune sift ing your furnace ashes get the in side story on the old gold and silver bought racket meet some of new york's most fascinating gold diggers witness the startling visual demonstration of the extrac tion of 1.16 gold 2 roosevelt from most of those present the committee has thought all this up without government aid or recourse to the aaa pwa nra or rfc but the time will be in session in new york and many well known out of town alumni will be on hand dr h s drinker 71 has been invited as well as cadwallad er evans 01 alfred c callen 09 and chas e lawall 14 miller will attend callen and lawall as your prob ably know head the mining de partments at the universities of illinois and west virginia respec tively and our own professor of ge ology benjamin miller will be present as well as our guest of hon or from lehigh — the well beloved professor skipper eckfeldt head of the department of mining engin eering as an extra added attraction to give local color and atmosphere at the meeting the committee an nounces the great mining sweep stakes — the six level coal mine raffle birds will carry to their tables a quart of repeal's best ef fort gang up on this don't let the winners carry it home except un der their bvd.'s ranger will speak inventor to explain electrical or gan to e e society captain richard h ranger of the united states army will explain the electric organ he invented in an address thursday night before the electrical engineering society meeting in packard auditorium captain ranger was in the signal corps of the army until 1921 and until recently he has been affiliated with the radio corporation of america frank j hollister e e 35 will discuss the panel dial telephone system in a general descriptive lecture illustrated by slides from the new york telephone company hollister was employed by this or ganization for two years before he entered lehigh and has a wide practical knowledge of his subject will release averages thursday says bohning living group averages will not be released until thursday william h bohning assistant to the registrar has announced this is because the deadline on petitions presented by students who took late exams is wednes day and final check-up by the living groups will not be com pleted until that date when marks for late exams will be averaged in with the house averages editorial manager to be selected by competi tion according to re vised handbook managers are to be fined for every week they delay the addition of an editorial man ager to the board of the freshman handbook was approved by the le high union at its meeting friday night the new officer of the handbook board will be chosen by a compe tion completely distinct from the business competitions declares john d neely president of pi delta ep silon honorary journalistic frater nity which drew up a new consti tution for the handbook by request of the lehigh union he is to be selected from the two men making the highest grades in an editorial examination administered by dale h gramley head of the courses in journalism provision is also made in the new constitution for fining both busin ess and editorial managers for every week of delay in their respective departments it is hoped in this way to have the handbook published by aug 1 states leßoy o travis president of the union to elect chairman a chairman who will coordin ate the financial and literary sec tions and be generally responsible for the publication will be elected on the basis of advertisement secur ing competition he will make monthly reports of all operations to the union cabinet examinations for the editorial po sition will be held shortly all men intending to try out must announce their intention to do so to profes sor gramley by thursday noon the examinations are to cover copy and proof reading general prepara tion of copy a written criticism of layout selection of material and general appearance of at least five handbooks from other colleges to be designated by the examainer only juniors both social and scho lastic may compete for the literary post five will be chosen all sophomores expecting to en ter the business competition must report at 8 o'clock tomorrow night in the faculty room of drown hall the five men most successful in get ting advertisements will be elected to the board although only two — the business manager and chairman — will be active and receive a fixed wage the chairman is guaran teed 30 and the business and edi torial managers 20 each whether the handbook nets a profit or a loss all business men except the two guaranteed a return are eligible for 10 on each 100 worth of adver tisements secured the union is pleased with pi delta upsilon's recommendations and will immediately submit the new constitution to the committee on publications announces travis classicals to convene eta sigma phi will be host at april meeting here the lehigh chapter of eta sigma phi honorary classical society will be host to representatives of 15 other chapters april 5 and 6 at the society's national convention about 100 latin students will meet in the faculty room of the alumni building during the closed session of the convention says howard b freed 36 president of the lehigh group the open session will take place in packard auditorium a tenta tive program includes two addresses by latin experts and a perfor mance by lehigh students in com memoration of the poet horace similar to the one being given in philadelphia in conjunction with the germantown friends school packer hall is repaired repairs are now under way on one of the dormer windows on the north side of packer hall a.w lit zenberger superintendent of build ings and grounds states that due to weathering in the course of years the stonework in the dormer has been forced out of line and to pre vent any failure or collapse it will be torn down and replaced potochney,shimer uphold socialized medicine to defeat muhlenberg the radio audience of station wcba in allentown judged lehigh the winner of the muhlenberg de bate held recently the question be ing resolved that the state of pennsylvania should adopt a system of socialized medicine the lehigh affirmative composed of howard c shimer arts special and peter j potochney arts 37 received 14 of the 20 votes mailed to harry k ellis manager and president of the debating society lehigh's affirmative debating team met seth low junior college of co lumbia university friday night at packard laboratory and argued the question resolved that the nation should agree to prevent the interna tional shipment of arms and muni tions the home of e uhler arts 37 and w dukek eng 38 was faced by george heitler captain and s zysman who fought the neg ative side of the question this was a no-decision debate to face state friday the debating team will travel to pennsylvania state college for men on friday to debate the negative side of the arms and munitions question those making the trip are thomas butterfield arts 35 walter guyer ch e 36 and e uhler arts 37 the lehigh frosh met liberty high school friday evening at lib erty high arguing the affirmative of the same medicine question debated with muhlenberg the freshman team in this no-decision debate was composed of w jablow eng 38 and h shimer arts special h k ellis e e 35 and george manson bus 35 will represent lehigh at vassar college in a model senate each college sends delegates from a certain state louisiana be ing assigned to lehigh so far this year delta omicron theta has defeated perm and st joheph's college election to organization to be based on system adopted last year de clares reidy president membership in fraternity is limited to twelve men two men from the junior class will be chosen for membership in omicron delta kappa honorary senior activities society the elec tion will be based on the point sys tem adopted last year men with the highest number of points will be eligible for membership the membership in the fraternity is limited to 12 men two men are elected from the junior class in february and the remiander are elected in may juniors who are interested must have their points turned in to hamil reidy president of the chi phi house by tomorrow evening points will be awarded on the following basis scholarship 3.5 average 5 sem 15 3 average 5 sem 12 2.5 average 5 sem 6 2 average 5 sem 2 tau beta pi 2 alpha kappa psi 2 robert blake society 1 eta kappa nu 1 eta sigma phi 1 intern relat club 1 newtonian society 1 phi eta sigma 1 pi mv epsilon 1 pi tau sigma 1 class honors 1 w a wilbur scholar 3 tau beta pi prize 2 other scholastic prize 1 publications brown and white editor in chief 4 business manager 5 editorial manager 5 news manager 5 sports editor per sem 2 news editor per sem 2 make-up editor per sem 2 circulation manager 4 advertising manager 4 editorial council 2 columnist per sem 1 board 2 burr editor in chief 8 business manager 6 art editor 5 managing editor 4 circulation manager 4 advertising manager 4 staff 2 review editor in chief 6 business manager 4 managing editor 4 advertising manager ....... 3 circulation manager 3 continued on pago pour lyse will present paper at convention to help committee formulate model building code inge lyse research associate professor of engineering materials will present a paper on the results of his research into the strength and durability of concrete when subjected to freezing and thawing at the annual meeting of the amer ican concrete institute to be held today tomorrow and thursday in new york city while attending the convention professor lyse will attend the meet ings of the building code commit tee and the committee on concrete and reinforced concrete of the am erican society for testing mater ials professor lyse is chairman of a sub-committee of the building code committee which is doing work on the concrete slabs having a wire mesh reinforcement the commit tee as a whole is formulating a model code to be followed by in dividual cities which now have a variety of codes for building re quirements sigma phi epsilon initiates eight on sunday morning the sigma phi epsilon frater nity formally initiated eight men sunday morning at the fraternity house on west market street they are as follows robert t forrest evan lilygren albert s ogden benjamin f rohn kenneth h simpson robert a titlow frederick c tompkins and paul e p white all eng 38 gives international rela tions club 35 to send delegate to institute arcadia voted 100 to the lacrosse club and 35 to the international relations club at a short meeting last night f a groff jr arts 35 captain of the lacrosse team speaking in behalf of the lacrosse club asked for assistance in securing funds and equipment the international rela tions club requested money in or der to have lehigh represented at the international relations insti stute the secretary was authorized to write to the parents of e o carl son eng 38 who died recently expressing the sympathy of the stu dent body blue preferred brown and red run close second as neck drapes it is blue brown or red when lehigh men are selecting a new neck tie fifty-five students said so in a survey made by the business staff of the brown and white the group admitted owners of 1,139 four in hand ties and 84 bow ties consisted of members of the three colleges and of all curricula they were asked to select the fav orite color for neck ties and were given three preferences forty-sev en of the fifty-five men selected blue as one of their three choices thir ty-five selected brown and nineteen selected red it was brown however that most men gave as their second choice eighteen picked this color and only fifteen said blue gray was the most popular color for third choice al though none mentioned this color as a first choice only six colors were mentioned for first choice blue brown red white black and lav ender blue is first choice blue popular first choice was selected by 30 men brown by 12 and red by 7 the other three first choice colors one each brown was selected by 18 men as second choice blue by is grey by 8 red by 4 and green and black by 3 there were no other colors mentioned as second choices third choices represented a gal axy of colors there were red and grey each selected by eight men there were brown and green each selected by five there were blue black white and pink each select ed by two there were yellow and orange each the choice of one man beardslee speaks on lincoln dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and reli gious philosophy spoke on abra ham lincoln on thursday before a women's society of grace epis copal church mount airy phila delphia by paul white will you tell me where i can get a communist flag please i will not stated the desk ser geans a little sharply for he took no special delight in answering fool questions at ' two o'clock in the night to begin with they're illegal in this state secondly there aren't any communists in bethlehem and fi nally if i did know of any i wouldn't tell you how about a sea-horse well how about one replied the exasperated police officer."what the devil is a sea-horse say he added with a gasp of astonishment as he caught a full view of the face of the inquirer and its rather unique color scheme what's this all about anyway scene is in police station no cause for alarm just a scene in the south side police station a few days ago as an unhappy greek neophyte pursued his hell week quest even as you and i now that the new semester has begun the two dozen lehigh fraternities with uninitiated pledges on their hands have turned their attention to the famous week of hazing that is an institution here these are the days when the soph and upperclass lehigh club guest bethlehem pa tuesday february 19 1935 h.p.thomas talks before rotarians o.d.k to tap two juniors on point plan the lehigh university brown and white vol xlii no 31 metallurgists attend a i m e meeting six to attend model league meet in april hooper p l 97 93 95 28 woodring w b 99 95 85 27 warmkessel c a 97 97 84 27f ipengler e w 97 88 87 27s dhmer p h 99 90 79 26i 489 463 430 1385 rutgers prone kneel stand t'tl hall d 94 92 79 26e mogg w s 98 88 75 261 reed p e 98 87 71 25 farr e 97 83 72 255 facobs d h 98 86 68 255 485 436 365 128 coming events tuesday feb 19 4 p m faculty women's club tea at drown hall 7:30 p m faculty rifle club at armory wednesday feb 20 4 p m committee on educational policy at dean's office 7:30 p m faculty dramatics club the breadwinner by somerset maugham 201 packard labora tory 7:30 p m freshman union at ar cadia room drown hall 7:30 p m pi mu epsilon at 208 packard laboratory thursday feb 21 7:30 p m mr ralph h ranger will speak before the e e so ciety in room 466 packard lab oratory all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association