Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 47

              left ernest w thorn business manager of the brown and white is holding the advertising cup right walter l finlay editorial manager is holding the editorial cup b and w staff photo brown & white wins cups for editorials advertising yellow jack will be open house feature yellow jack the mustard and cheese play presented fri day and saturday in drown hall will be given at open house may 3 announces leßoy o travis arts 35 tickets for the performance which will begin at 8:30 will be free but must be obtained at the lehigh union office m.e.'s attend n y meeting curator of fossil rep tiles in natural history museum to give public lecture here april 26 is authority on paleontology asserts prof b l miller dr barnum brown curator of fossil reptiles in the american mu seum of natural history and well known collector of dinosaur re mains will speak before sigma xi honorary research society at 8:30 p m on friday april 26 in pack ard auditorium his topic which will be a new dinosaur king dom will be illustrated with slides and two reels of moving pictures the lecture will be open to the pub lic dr brown has been associated with the american museum of nat ural history for the past 40 years his greatest findings have been in the united states and canada but the expeditions he has conducted to asia and other parts of the world have also resulted in important dis coveries his most recent findings occur red last summer when he uncovered the remains of 20 dinosaurs within a radius of 75 feet in a tract in wyoming all of these were of dif ferent species some were already known though others were new to the science honored at lehigh dr brown received the degree of doctor of science from lehigh last june prof benjamin miller head of the geology department was a classmate of mr brown at the uni versity of kansas in the class of 1897 in an interview professor miller stated that dr brown has done more for the science of paleon tology than any other man professor miller also stated that the time for the lecture has been arranged for 8.30 p m in order to give the students and their house party guests something to do in the time between dinner and the junior prom tickets for the lecture are avail able to students at the union office in drown hall wrestlers perform for war veterans bishop 34 talks on devel opment of sport wrestling its collegiate and pro fesional development and some of its holds was explained recently to the united states war veterans at the ccc camp general sherman edgemere pike county by ben bishop 34 and a group of four wrestlers from the university the program one of a series of educational demonstrations includ ed a talk by bishop and two exhi bition bouts frank gonzales bus 36 wrestled harold rosenberg perm state graduate and hugh fer ry arts 38 met raymond deily arts 38 over 100 ccc men attended the program john w maxwell assis tant editor of the alumni bulletin drove the lehigh group to the camp the entertainment was the sec ond furnished by lehigh dr ben jamin miller head of the depart ment of geology spoke to the vet erans about a month ago on the ge ology of the pocono region six students to participate in rotary club meeting six students who are attending lehigh will take part in the rotary club meeting on may 1 that will be conducted by the sons of menr bers james d mack arts 38 will fill the office of president david g samuels jr e m 37 will take the position of chairman of the fellow ship committee leonard schick arts 37 henry j mack jr arts 38 edwin c heath ch e 36 and philip j byrne arts 36 are to make brief talks during the meet ing carothers to speak on weaf neil carothers director of the college of business administration will speak on government by ex periment tomorrow evening be tween 6 and 6:30 over the nation wide hook-up of the red network of the national broadcasting com pany whose key station is weaf honorary pledges high est ranking freshmen palmer traces history of faust tradition anderson speaks of history aims and origin of society fifteen freshmen were pledged by phi eta sigma national freshman honorary fraternity in the tapping exercises held yesterday morning in chapel at the meeting of the society held last evening in pack ard laboratory philip m palmer director of the college of arts and science spoke on the faust le gend harold v anderson associate professor of chemistry and faculty adviser to the society spoke in chapel on the origin and history of the fraternity phi eta sigma founded at the university of illin ois in 1923 exists to promote a higher standard of learning and to encourage high scholastic attain ment among the freshmen in our institutions of higher learning the lehigh chapter founded in 1930 was the eighteenth in the united states to be chartered an average of 3.5 or better is the requirement for admittance 15 are tapped the men tapped were vincent f acri eng 38 william b ayers arts 38 john g clemmer jr eng 38 john a cooney eng 38 wil liam g dukek eng 38 charles f glick eng 38 edward j hayne bus 38 charles h hoffman eng 38 franklin h kilpatrick eng 38 raymond k maneval bus 38 homer t mantis eng 38 james r oberholtzer eng 38 albert s ogden eng.'3b walter j schmidt eng 38 and donald b wheeler eng 38 nelson j leonard ch e 37 presided at the meeting held in room 314 of packard laboratory it was voted that the plan for es tablishing a minimum requirement of three per cent of the class be dropped final arrangements were made regarding the delegate to the national convention of phi eta sigma held april 22 and 23 at the university of oklahoma in nor man oklahoma leonard has been selected to represent lehigh at this convention the banquet and initia tion of new men into the fraternity will be held monday april 29 at which time garth a howland head of the department of fine arts will speak professor palmer addressed the meeting on the history of the faust legend until the time of goethe's great work scabbard and blade pledges six men honorary military society taps at armory exercise six members were pledged thurs day afternoon to scabbard and blade honorary military society at services in the armory the pledges are victor e eng strom bus 36 charles w bow den arts 37 fred l sharpe i e 36 hugh j rosebery m e 36 henry s battin bus.'36 and law son p calhoun c e 37 the informal initiation was held sunday captain william m tow assistant professor of military sci ence and tactics was the speaker a*t the formal initiation banquet yes terday at the sun inn on field day the society will present two sabers to members of the junior class one award will go to a man in the infantry classes and the other to a man in the ordinance the awards will be based on leader ship and general performance at drill these will be the first awards of this type ever given by the so ciety clemmer and glick speak at newtonian society meeting john clemmer eng 38 and charles glick eng 38 addressed the newtonian society wednesday evening in room 208 packard lab oratory clemmer spoke on short cuts in arithmetic during his speech clemmer showed how calculations involving much labor and energy could be reduced to a few minutes work glick in his speech math ematical paradoxes illustrated the proof that one unit equals two units all criticisms of ball heeded says voehl chairman ; fans and platform to be used fraternities will furnish own booths with furniture the decorating scheme for the junior prom friday april 26 at the coliseum is to be a midsummer night's dream says george a voehl bus 36 general chairman the walls of the auditorium will be covered with flowers and a sim ilarly decorated trellis will be erect ed over the orchestra platform in addition to this there will be a can opy from the entrance to the curb criticisms against the interfra ternity ball concerning ventilation and amplification have been heeded we think says voehl electric fans will be placed at various spots about the floor the orchestra will play from a raised platform fraternities will furnish their own booths with chairs and sofas and furniture from drown hall will be supplied for a booth represent ing the dorms and non-fraternity men chaperones are dean and mrs c m mcconn dean and mrs g b curtis dr and mrs c g beardslee and dr and mrs r d billinger dancing to the music of ray noble and his orchestra will last from 10 p m to 3 a m tickets at 4.40 per couple and 2.20 stag are now on sale in the lehigh union office drown hall ray noble's orchestra will play at temple university in philadel phia on may 10 and a short time later will play at the junior prom of johns hopkins university at baltimore md inge lyse translates technical abstracts publishes articles on concrete from foreign journals inge lyse research associate professor of engineering materials has seven abstracts of articles which appeared in recent german and austrian technical concrete journals published in the march april issue of the journal of the american concrete institute as a member of the publication committee of the institute profes sor lyse has to review and abstract all the important articles on con crete and reinforced concrete ap pearing in the german and scan dinavian languages he has been doing this work regularly for the past two years in order to keep the members of the engineering profession who are interested in concrete up to date on international developments in this field the journal carries a special section devoted to reviews of all outstanding articles six to represent lehigh at meeting schulz five students to attend harrisburg conference lehigh will be represented at the intercollegiate conference on gov ernment to be held april 26-28 in harrisburg by ernst b schulz as sociate professor of political sci ence and five men in the political science course the delegation of which fred j snyder arts 36 is chairman con sists of samuel efron arts 35 samuel l graw arts 35 leonard l baumann arts 36 and michael f burkhardt arts 35 last year 300 delegates from 30 pennsylvania colleges and univer sities convened at harrisburg and drafted a model pennsylvania con stitution snyder represented le high at this convention bulletin lauds mining head prof eckfeldt has been here 35 years ford reveals student opinion a two-page article paying trib ute to prof howard eckfeldt di rector of the department of mining engineering a report of the survey of student opinion made recently by prof adelbert ford head of the department of psychology and the column student slants by walter l finlay ch e 36 are included in the april issue of the lehigh alumni bulletin the name of eckfeldt the story reveals has been associated with lehigh for 35 years and with the united states mint for over 157 years professor eckfeldt has liter ally grown up with the university coming here in 1891 he graduated in 95 and received his e m de gree in 96 after four years in the field he returned to lehigh as an in structor in mining engineering since then he has risen through the positions of assistant professor and professor to head of the depart ment with mint since 1792 professor eckfeldt's family has been associated with the united states mint since 1792 when adam eckfeldt skipper's great-grand father was appointed assistant coin er by president washington the article on the survey made by professor ford among 100 stu dents picked at random from those above the median in scholarship re vealed the students criticisms of the existing educational methods and conditions the central theme of their criticism was the objections to the marking system arguing that lehigh grades were too low in rela tion to those of other colleges the general trend of opinion was for less effort and work for a degree walter l finlay comments on the current brown and white edi torial attack of the old cafeteria problem he also compliments the lehigh review on the efficiency and success with which it has taken over the humor and advertising of the now extinct burr audience overlooks symbolism in mustard and cheese play change in article 16 is demanded at assembly by lehigh delegates representing china group advocates licencing for munitions manufacturers lehigh students demanded the re vision of article xvi of the coven ant of the league of nations at the model assembly middle atlantic section of the league of nations at new york university friday and saturday where they were repre senting china the delegation also advocated the licencing of munitions manufactur ers by the individual nations under the supervision of a league of na tions commission and discussed world economy in agriculture stat ed b s weiss c e 36 vice pres ident of the international relations club six members of the club made the trip to n y u thursday they were j b brownlee i e 37 f j hollister e e 35 jacob blumen thal ch e 37 h l snavely arts 36 s a musser c e 35 secre tary and b s weiss c e 36 vice president prof lawrence gip son head of the history and gov ernment departments was the fac ulty adviser the only speech scheduled for the lehigh delegation was delivered friday morning in the plenary ses sion by weiss brownlee and hol lister collaborated on the trade in arms and munitions question weiss and blumenthal worked with a committee on revision of article xvi of the covenant of the league of nations musser and snavely pressed their efforts for world econ omy in agriculture schreiner to speak to welding society will summarize result of two years research norman c schreiner american bureau of welding research fellow in civil engineering will speak on the results of his investigation into the behavior of welds under com bined shearing and bending stresses before the american welding so ciety on april 25 in new york city this will mark the completion of two years of research work on welding done by schreiner in fritz laboratory under the direction of inge lyse research associate pro fessor of engineering materials the results of the research will facilitate the analysis of the condi tion of welds under bending and shearing stresses together with his work on the analysis of welds schreiner used two types each of bare and coated wire electrodes to test the relative strength of their welds the coated wire gave a high er strength but the weld has a com paratively low ductility and resis tance to impact the tests were made on 25 specimens and were correlated with a mathematical so lution of the problem schreiner will get his master's de gree in june inspect battlefield group of r o t seniors visit gettysburg and arsenal senior advanced m s & t stu dents completed a field trip to the battlefield of gettysburg on sunday and a group of senior ordnance men left today on an inspection trip to the picatinny arsenal at dover nj the tour of the battlefield was in charge of major j o green and capt c h keck the tactics used by both the federals and the con federates were explained to the group the trip to the arsenal included a demonstration of the testing of ex plosives for power and deteriora tion while in storage the men also witnessed the making of high ex plosives suspends publication with this issue the publication of the brown and white is sus pended until tuesday april 30 program for ten stu dents includes banquet student paper contest ten mechanical engineering stu dents together with professors larkin and luce are attending the annual eastern conference of the american society of mechanical engineers now being held at new york university in new york a complete program was ar ranged for those attending the con ference it included field trips to various engineering projects a ban quet and dance last evening and a contest for the best student paper which was held this afternoon paul t roberts i e 36 who spoke on rubber springs for rail way equipment competed against five contestants from other colleges for the prize of 25 given to the student presenting the best paper the results of the contest have not been announced at the banquet last evening fred v larkin head of the department of mechanical and industrial engin eering and member of the commit tee on relations with colleges de livered the main speech besides those mentioned w m white m e 37 d k warren m e 37 a d rosenbloom eng 38 w e trumpler m e 37 w j turnbull m e 37 a simmons m e 37 e m shenk m e 36 r w provost m e 36 r e downing m e 36 and a croll m e 36 were present at the con ference will meet seniors montgomery ward personnel man will be here april 26 walter h seidel assistant per sonnel manager of montgomery ward company will interview sen iors on april 26 men will be chosen for positions in the merchandising department both in the mail order and retail branches several men will be taken for work in the new york and chicago buying offices interviews will be held in the placement office from 8:30 a m to 12.30 p m april 26 all men interested in this field are asked to schedule their appoint ments for interviews with the place ment office before leaving for spring vacation this is a good opportun ity for men interested in chain store merchandising states john a brod head director of the placement bu reau paper gets two first places at spring con vention of i n a fri day saturday at ursinus 33 publications are entered in middle atlantic contest sawyer finlay schaeffer kost and gramley rep resent lehigh at meet two first place cups were award ed the brown and white at the spring convention of the intercolle giate newspaper association of the middle atlantic states friday and saturday at ursinus college editorials and local advertising in the lehigh paper were judged su perior to similar content in the oth er 33 members of the association the george washington univer sity hatchet placed second in edi torials and first in the news divi sion the university of pittsburgh pitt news was third in editor ials second in advertising and sec ond in news gramley heads delegation dale h gramley assistant pro fessor of journalism and kenneth k kost instructor in journalism headed the lehigh contingent at the meeting edwin a sawyer bus.'3s walter l finlay ch e 36 and judson schaeffer arts 35 repre sented the staff of 19 names engraved on the edi torial cup the name of the brown and white appears six times the bucknell college bucknellian has won it four times and the gettys burg gettysbur'gian twice no oth er paper has taken possession more than once in the last convention held in new york the brown and white won the editorial cup and was sec ond in news competition in the last four years the brown and white has taken at least one cup at every convention save one wins editorial cup in 31 in the fall of 1931 it captured the editorial cup and placed second in news competition in the spring of 1932 it took both cups at the next convention it received honorable mention in both competitions and in the spring of 1933 it won the edi torial cup in the fall of 1933 the lehigh pa per won the news cup and placed second in editorial excellence last spring the brown and white tied with.iour other papers for the edi torial cup schulz speaks to tau beta pi at formal initiation banquet nineteen members of the junior class were initiated into tau beta pi national honorary engineering fraternity at the fiftieth annual in itiation and banquet held on friday april 12 this group was the larg est in the society's history the ritual ceremonies took place in packard laboratory following which the new members joined the old members and some guests in a formal banquet at the sun inn ernst b schulz associate profes sor of history was the speaker he discussed some of the duties of an engineer in his social sphere by p e p white historical dramas are not as a rule remarkable they are apt to follow a rather fixed design mus tard and cheese's yellow jack was nothing if not remarkable uni que staging and an ambitious cast provided an unsual evening for those who filled drown hall audi torium friday and saturday for some it surpassed jour ney's end and outward bound others puzzled by the peculiar technique employed were not as ap proving black-out scene-shifting and suggestive props detracted slightly from the action simply be cause they were not conventional they were not enough however to steal the interest from the charac ters themselves that interest nearly ran away with the audience some of the heroic symbolism of the play was lost beneath the humor incident to the action in its attempt to main tain suspense the play was kept at too high a pitch was too intensely dramatic the effect was to tire an audience which — in the first place — was inclined to favor something lighter leading men excellent not that the actors may be eas ily blamed those who had the strong parts were in almost every case admirable david bradley and roy hertz playing carroll and agra monte were excellent bill hutch inson as lazear despite a tendency to overact was quite as good as his reputation harold towne cast as major reed was the only disap pointment and as a central charac ter was far from outstanding john mccomb and roger wol cott as soldiers were responsible for much of the comic relief and did well friday night there was a tendency for some of the players to rush their lines sacrificing clarity of words for emotional action jack williamson playing stacpoole and hertz were the chief offenders scotty cornelius made an accep table last-minute substitute for bill maynard in the part of william dean edward land fitted major gorgas direction is commendable noticeable by its absence was the affectation of an english accent which detracted from journey's end and might have spoiled the london and south african scenes in yellow jack in general the direction deserves high commenda tion not a hitch spoiled the smoothness of the scene-changing not a missed lighting cue was no ticeable tents laboratories and hospitals were created and disap peared as silently and quickly as the actors in them bethlehem pa tuesday april 16 1935 two cups won by brown and white price five cents brown and white vol xlii no 47 phi eta sigma taps fifteen during chapel to decorate junior prom with flowers students ask model league for revision brown to talk on dinosaurs for sigma xi member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first