Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 14

              bethlehem pa friday november 8 1935 lecturer on art to speak on birds price — five cents vol xliii — no 14 glee club to give concert at skytop houseparty events commence tonight sane hazing discussed by senior group r.o.t.c unit to participate in city parade time on your hands program for week-end dr a a allen friday 4 p m houseparty begins 10 p m senior ball — hotel bethlehem saturday 10:30 a m alumni fund meet ing — faculty room alumni building 1 p m frosh soccer lehigh frosh vs swarthmore lehigh field 2:30 p.m varsity soccer lehigh vs swarthmore lehigh field 2:30 p m varsity football le high vs muhlenberg taylor stadium sunday 4 p m houseparty ends allen to speak to sigma xi group to play first time at pocono resort gilberto escobedo c e 36 manager of the glee club is com pleting arrangements for a concert and dance by the club to be held at skytop ladge in the poconos about the third week of february escobedo says that the new man agement has offered an attractive week-end for all students faculty members alumni and other lehigh men it will include special rates at the lodge dinner the concert and a dance following it the location and time are excellent it is claimed for winter sports skytop lodge is one of three large hotels for visitors to the poconos this will be the first appearance of the club at any nearby resort it will be the first outside concert of the second semester says escobedo a radio broadcast over a nation wide cbs hookup dec 7 and the annual home concert sometime in january make up the first semester's program 26 to attend fund meeting c v kirby who will speak on art in society and industry at 8 o'clock tuesday in packard auditorium mr kirby is an educator art expert and is a member of american federation of arts and eastern arts association he has lectured at various univer sities and is the author of several taxtbooks mr kirby attended union college where he received an honorary a.m in 1922 he has been a teacher of arts and since 1920 has been the state director of art in pennsylvania will explain electric output talks over wcba o d k suggests the elim ination of detrimental initiations regrets emery's death possibilities of controlling hell week were discussed by omicron delta kappa honorary senior so ciety at a dinner meeting held wed nesday at the phi gamma delta house a committee composed of walter crockett chairman thomas gari han john dietz and paul settle was appointed to investigate and draw up a petition suggestions to eliminate the possible inconvenience to outsiders and disastrous physical results to students received favor able comment continuance of fun and mental hazards would not be endangered if the other difficulties of hell week are abolished stated david hop pock president of o d k in the event of such a resolution it would be submitted to the living groups for their approval and probably to the interfraternity council and the university for final action o d k is without the authority to enforce such a measure a resolution was passed regret ting the death of vice president natt m emery a former member president c c williams was the guest of o d k along with pro fessor palmer professor carothers dean mcconn walter okeson john maxwell and professor reiter david hoppock announced the next meeting would be a dinner at the delta upsilon house on the first wednesday of december at 6:15 p.m 2 lehigh alumni on bank board regiment will form in regular places at 3:10 monday no drill 800 to parade monday the band and r o t c regi ment will march in the local armis tice day parade at 3:15 monday this will be the first time lehigh has been represented in the parade for several years besides the 800 men who will march the lehigh contingent will include a tank and possibly the 75 millimeter guns the parade will replace the usual monday afternoon drill but will take place an hour earlier than the drill classes for the afternoon will be dismissed at 3 o'clock roll call will be taken at 3:10 on the upper fields and the regiment will march at 3:15 other organizations participating will bring the total of marchers to about 5,000 men all the american legion posts from northampton county will march and in addition representatives from six other coun ties will parade there will also be a unit of the pennsylvania national guard in the parade it is expected that there will be at least six bands and 12 drum corps participating the lehigh regiment command ed entirely by the student officers will march in column of squads across the new street bridge to church and new streets where it will be formed in mass formation for the parade from there it will march to broad and center streets or church and main streets where it will join the parade from there it will march across the hill to hill bridge down the ramp to third street from third street to fourth street by way of taylor street then down fourth street to the coliseum where the parade will break up the regiment will march to the drill field from the coliseum to be dismissed the presence of the tank in the parade will be an entirely new fea john anderson to speak at third lecture in stu dent series third in the student lecture series will be a talk by john anderson e e 10 on the cause and effect of the increase of electric output and its influence on business as a whole the address is to start at 8 o'clock thursday evening in pack ard auditorium and is sponsored by the mechanical engineering society the meeting is open to all stu dents all local members of the american society of mechanical engineers and the engineering club of lehigh valley have been invited burgess h jennings associate professor of mechanical engineering is the new faculty adviser of the okeson emphasizes medi cal care of footballers walter r okeson university treasurer emphasized the impor tance of proper equipment thor ough training good coaching and careful physical examination for all school-boy football players last eye ing in a radio talk over station wcba allentown he pointed out that the number of deaths attributed to football can be decreased by proper care of the players the talk sponsored by the al lentown morning call gave mr okeson an opportunity to show the difference between the game of 1895 that he knew and played and the modern style continued on page six attention distracters for houseparty weekend continued on page six brillhart and frick direc tors of new union trust revealing the directors of the new union bank and trust com pany an announcement was made wednesday that the new board will include two lehigh graduates her bert d brillhart c e 06 and john a frick m e 03 mr brillhart is president of f h clement and company former direc tor of the rotary club and a mem ber of the board of trustees of st luke's hospital mr frick is president of the al lentown-bethlehem gas company and a member of the board of trus tees of st luke's hospital to argue on court debaters meet lafayette on thursday a formal debate on the topic re solved that congress should be empowered by a two-thirds vote to override decisions of the united state supreme court declaring acts of congress unconstitutional was held at the meeting of the debating society thursday afternoon the affirmative was upheld by c f brown 39 and d shields eng 38 debated for the negative side no decision was given it was announced that a practice debate will be held with lafayette at 8 p m nov 15 in packard audi torium lehigh will uphold the af firmative in a return debate at la fayette the following week lehigh will debate for the negative c f brown 39 p potochney arts 37 and r scoblionko 39 make up the tentative team for the first debate faculty dramatic group reads aiken's old maid the faculty dramatic club pre sented a reading of zoe aiken's old maid current pulitzer prize play wednesday evening in pack ard laboratory the cast was as follows mrs sidney brown delia lowell mrs p palmer charlotte lowell prof c d jensen john halsey mrs c d jensen delia halsey clyde harding joseph ralston prof h p thomas dr lomskell prof e c sinkinson james ralston mr mcdermott lanning halsey other parts were taken by mrs mcder mott miss hay and mrs ewing will discuss songs and courtships of birds with recordings dr a a allen professor of or nithology at cornell university will speak on the songs and court ships of birds and will present sound pictures of american birds at the first meeting of the lehigh chapter of sigma xi national hon orary research society friday nov 15 in packard auditorium giving the experiences of the brand cornell-american museum expedition dr allen will lecture on the studies made of various birds the expedition studied the habits and haunts of rare birds and made sound films of the experiences and researches of the field trips the methods of recording the re sults of the expedition will be ex plained in the lecture during the 15,000 mile trip made by the group through the natural habitats of the birds 10 miles of film was exposed to preserve the results of the ex pedition for study several pictures of dr allen ap peared in the oct 29 issue of the bro-wfrn and white in the collegiate digest section the program is open to the pub lic tickets for the lecture may be obtained from prof h a neville secretary of the society or from the office of the lehigh union in drown hall wherry to discuss reactions of soils alumni clubs send dele gates to discuss removal of library debt twenty-six alumni representing 16 different clubs have signified that they will attend the alumni fund committee meeting today and to morrow according to a list released by h d keiser assistant secretary of the alumni association yesterday afternoon e j johnson 07 general chair man of the alumni fund commit tee arrived yesterday afternoon to complete arrangements for the meetings he will be in charge of all business sessions separate class representatives are s p felix 03 w h lesser 05 w d sanderson 08 and s t harleman 01 the northeastern pennsylvania club is sending four delegates john hart 12 h h otto 12 g h bingham 10 and g e shepherd 94 r d warriner 24 robert farn ham 99 and n e funk 05 will represent the philadelphia club other club delegates are a d bach 17 boston l c wurster,'2s central pennsylvania r h potts 22 chicago h e johnson 13 detroit h f campbell 04 new york city r w weiseman 16 northern new york j c poffen berg 11 northern ohio d b straub 28 pittsburgh t shaffer 14 southern new england j h pennington 97 trenton r b swope 10 washington d c m k buckley 2l western new york b t root 06 york and c k zug 27 youngstown ohio all visiting alumni will be iden tified by small brown and white lapel badges they are being en couraged to tour the campus and buildings today and tomorrow and to get an intimate look at their alma mater in operation miners to hear hawthorne d g hawthorne research work er for the amerada petroleum com pany who is conducting test on lam inated bakelite for use in electric logging will speak to the mining and geological society on present day drilling and producing of oil wells at 8 p m thursday nov 14 in room 101 williams hall program includes senior ball football game living group dances ticket sales close at 5 hall's orchestra to play 12 to 3 on 2nd floor rapp 10 to 3 on ist floor houseparty week-end opens offi cially this evening at 10 o'clock when barney rapp commences play ing for the senior ball at the ho tel bethlehem george hall and his orchestra will join rapp from 12 to 3 a m the full houseparty program in cludes besides the senior ball a football game with muhlenberg to morrow at 2 p m a tea dance at the beethoven-maennerchor follow ing the game and dances at 24 fra ternities tomorrow evening the entire first floor of the ho tel including the main dining room and lobby will be open for danc ing barney rapp will play on the main floor and george hall on the second floor ballroom the first and second mazzaines will also be used for dancing hall from hotel taft hall comes to lehigh from a long engagement at the hotel taft in new york city he will be unable to get here until midnight because of a broadcast from new york at 8:30 p m his featured vocalist will be dolly dawn barney rapp was featured in the hit music in the air he has also pjlayed at the hotel new yorker and filled many engagements in bos ton and vicinity according to robert picking chairman of the senior ball commit tee ticket sales at drown hall will close at 5 p m today the ticket price is 4.56 including taxes the side entrance to the hotel will be used refreshments in tap room sandwiches and coffee will be on sale in the tap room no liquor will be sold in the hotel during the ball a special detail of bethlehem police will be present to keep order and eliminate gate-crashing the fraternities that will hold house dances tomorrow night are as follows alpha chi rho alpha kap pa pi alpha tau omega beta kappa beta theta pi chi phi chi psi delta sigma phi delta tau delta delta upsilon kappa alpha kappa sigma phi delta theta phi gamma delta pi kappa alpha psi upsilon sigma nu sigma phi theta xi sigma phi epsilon tau delta phi theta delta chi and theta kappa phi dormitory stu dents will hold a dance in drown hall this is the third prom to be held at the hotel bethlehem last year the music was supplied by al katz and johnny hamp seventy-one guests more than for the 1934 houseparty bring this week end's total up to 574 as against 503 for last year fewer house dances however are being held 19 as against 28 pres c c williams to talk to electricals at lafayette trends in engineering educa tion will be the topic of a speech to be m-ade by president c c wil liams tonight before the lehigh val ley section of the american insti tute of electrical engineers at brain erd hall lafayette college easton president williams will be intro duced by dr w m lewis pres ident of lafayette a short paper on electricity in the cement industry will be pre sented by fred b hunt electrical engineer of the nazareth portland cement company mr hunt is a graduate electrical engineer from lafayette college . o mathematics group meets the second of the tri-weekly meet ings of the journal and research club mathematics teaching group convened at 1:45 today packer hall j t vanderslice instructor in math ematics was the speaker and chose as hib subject differential geom etry from the group standpoint reptile zoo was abstracter for amer ican chemical society speaking on soil acidity and growing plants dr edgar t wherry professor of botany at the university of pennsylvania will de scribe his own studies of plants of the appalachians before the chem ical society at the meeting on wed nesday in packard laboratory dr wherry will present slides colored under his direction of wild flowers and plants of which he has made an exhaustive research he was assistant professor of minerol ogy at lehigh from 1910 to 1913 and has been for many years chief abstracter for the american chem ical society for mineralogical and geological chemistry and as such is an accepted authority on the sub ject of his lecture following the lecture refresh ments will be served o medicals hear speeches on hormones and vaccines dr robert w hall head of the department of biology and dr stanley j thomas professor of bacteriology addressed the meet ing of alpha epsilon delta hon orary medical society tuesday af ternoon dr hall's talk was on hormones especially those of the female gen ital system and dr thomas gave an illustrated lecture on the dip theria and small-pox vaccines speaks on good manners mrs philip palmer wife of dr palmer heacj of the college of arts and sciences spoke to the students of moravian seminary and college for women wednesday morning on good manners in connection with good manners week 38 snakes 4 turtles added to vivarium out of ireland said st pat rick into the vivarium said francis j trembley instructor in biology as 38 snakes and 12 other reptiles were acquired wednesday from e preston rcnnington of emaus the reptiles which will be kept in the dens in the vivarium until next spring are the property of mr rennington lehigh valley herpet ologist authority on cold-blooded animals a complete list of the rep tiles follows three pine snakes five hog-nosed snakes eighteen black snakes five rattlesnakes six garter snakes and one pilot black snake two painted turtles one snapping turtle one stink pot turtle and eight fence lizards lehigh university brown and white all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association