Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 48

              society to initiate 5 men tomorrow 500 sub-frosh expected here on saturday sophs to take 3 - part exam on thursday final examination schedule is released by registrar to open observatory on wednesday nights area chieftain may be here for field day 1,097 attended junior prom reports upton the sayre observatory will be open to the general public tomor row night the evening of sub freshman day and the follow ing two wednesday nights if the weather is clear the open nights are a part of the spring program of the e w brown astronomical society several members of the society will be present on these nights to direct and aid the visitors pi tau sigma plans ritual for c c williams pi tau sigma honorary mechan ical and industrial engineering fra ternity will formally initiate five men at 6:15 tomorrow evening in room 451 packard laboratory the men who will receive the rit ual include president c c wil liams who wil be given an honor ary initiation herman r hutchin son i e 37 donald barnum i.e 37 albert b schwarzkopf jr m e 37 and richard l schmoy er m e 37 the initiation will be followed by a banquet at 7:30 p m at the sun inn the society expects to have prof b h jennings associate pro fessor of mechanical engineering as a speaker 4 to attend i n a meeting miller ex-'37 hits thomas annual comprehensive for second year engineers to have 88 questions slide rules necessary sophomore engineering compre hensive examinations consisting of 88 questions and problems in ap plied mathematics physics and chemistry will be held thursday in packard auditorium the examina tions will be given in the following periods 8:10 a m to 10 a m 10:10 a m to 12 noon and 2 p m to 4 p m faculty members will grade the papers each man taking the same question on every paper grading will be completed one week after the examination date states c w simmons associate professor of chemical engineering and chair man of the engineering compre hensive council other members of the council are f v larkin director of the cur ricula in mechanical and industrial engineering allison butts associate professor of metallurgy hale suth erland director of the curricula in civil and sanitary engineering and j b reynolds professor of mathe matics and theoretical mechanics these tests are required of all sophomore engineers who have at tained a first semester sophomore standing any student who absents himself without reason approved by the committee on the scholastic standing of students will be sus pended for one semester students whose showings in the examinations and in their first two years work are poor may be asked to leave school or to change their curri culum in letters sent to sophomore en gineers dean g b curtis says slide rules will be necessary seat numbers will be posted at the en trances to the auditorium philadelphian fatally hurt by auto on hill to hill bridge saturday robert g miller formerly of the class of 37 struck arthur h thomas with a car and injured him fatally at 5 a m saturday morning on the third street ramp of the hill to hill bridge thomas of 1517 alcott st philadelphia died three hours later at st luke's hospital where miller took him miller was driving north on the ramp in a 1936 ford coupe when he hit thomas who was crossing the road miller and his compan ion merrill h wallace bus 38 took thomas to the hospital where it was found that he had a broken right leg and a fracture of the skull thomas was employed by the reading railroad miller was released by the police on a 2,500 bond pending the meet ing of the coroner's jury the left front fender the left side of the hood and the windshield of the car were damaged constitution considered the proposed constitution of the review was considered at a meeting of the board of publications last week in the office of the chairman dean c m mcconn sidney j lewis editor in chief of the review who represented the publication at the meeting was instructed to re turn the constitution to the review board for further revision and ap proval cornelius to meet with alumni club fio rito changes routine to play with short intermissions candy grants interview figures compiled by luther j upton ch e 36 chairmon of the prom committee show that 1,052 students and their dates and 45 stags attended the junior prom held friday evening in the coliseum ted fio rito who played from 10 until 2 changed the usual rou tine in that instead of five or ten minute intervals between dances and a half to a three-quarter hour inter mission he played continuously throughout the evening and allowed only 20 minutes for the intermis sion with the advent of the junior prom america's ex-song hit the music goes round experienced a temporary revival as fio rito play ed it in the style of guy lombardo hal kemp wayne king paul whiteman and by request ted fio rito said fio rito i was well pleased with the manner in which the le high students accepted our selec tions i have found that the swing enthusiasts are in the minority con sequently i play mostly conserva tive numbers with occasional swing pieces interspersed accompanying fio rito were candy candido the three debu tantes and muzzy marcellino can dy did several novelty numbers with his three-pitch voice when inter viewed by a brown and white re porter he continued to use all three and instead of answering the questions put to him contented him self with telling jokes showing pic tures of his wife and baby son we don't know whether he's really mar ried or not and giving the boys the low down on the band candy claims that he usually makes on x when asked to auto graph a card but that he gave the lehigh dates a break and signed his full name o carothers visits richards during minneapolis trip dr neil carothers head of the college of business administration visited minneapolis minn during the easter vacation when he spoke at the annual banquet of the citiz ens alliance of minneapolis with nearly 1200 present while in minneapolis dr car others visited dr and mrs charles r richards although dr richards is still confined to bed lehigh's for mer president was very cheerful and still the vigorous personality that he was known to be at lehigh said dr carothers guests will be registered from 9 to 10:30 a m before campus tour guides to report at 9 final arrangements were made yesterday at a meeting of the sub freshman day committee to enter tain about 500 expected guests of the university saturday dr wray h congdon director of admissions and chairman of the committee urges that any student who wishes to act as a guide satur day morning should report at the administration building at 9 o'clock n s hibshman associate profes sor of electrical engineering and albert haring associate professor of economics are in charge of fur nishing the student guides alpha kappa psi honorary business fra ternity the interfraternity council and cyanide are cooperating in this guide service guests will register from 9 to 10:30 a m in the administration building after which there will be an assembly in packard auditorium where president williams will wel come the visitors in behalf of le high from 11 to 12 the respective de partments will discuss their curri cula with those men interested and conduct inspection trips about the department many of the depart ments are preparing to present some exhibits showing the work of the students after the luncheon to be held in the armory at 12 noon depart ments will remain open for inspec tion until 2 30 p m when the band will lead the guests from the flag pole to the athletic events on the upper and lower fields in case the weather interferes with the track meet and baseball game the exhib its about the university will be kept open until 5 p m those students who take part in the guide work and exhibits will be excused from their classes through the department heads a bell will be rung at 10:25 a m to announce the assembly in packard auditor ium dr congdon requests that frater nity men in entertaining their sub freshmen guests at their houses should cooperate with the program for the day and be sure to see that those men get to the assembly and to the respective departmental con ferences i e society sees rayon sound film s j lewis h c archer £. mcnair and k kost will go to delaware the semi-annual intercollegiate newspaper association press confer ence will be held friday and sat urday at the university of dela ware the four members of the brown and white staff who will at tend the meeting are sidney j lewis arts 37 editorial manager harry c archer arts 37 news manager edwin g mcnair bus 37 business manager and kenneth k kost assistant in journalism all of these men are members of the executive committee of the brown and white the i n a consists of members of 36 college newspapers from the middle atlantic states who meet twice yearly to discuss mutual prob lems and interchange ideas and to compete in three fields for general excellence of newspaper work three cups are being offered in the competition this year for news and make-up editorials and business in genuity a number of prominent speakers have been secured for the editorial and business sessions of the meet ings laura lee tom daly and leigh mitchell hodges columnists for the philadelphia evening bul letin and william sykes cartoon ist for the philadelphia public ledger have been asked to attend r r robertson of the national advertising service and w b lit tell of college publishers repre sentatives will be present members of newspaper staffs will be entertained by a play a night club party a formal banquet and dance and a track meet the con vention will be taken to see the members of the little theatre group present ibsen's peer gynt on saturday the customary for mal banquet will be held here the group will be addressed by walter d smith secretary of state and na tionally recognized expert on high way safety william l mapel ex ecutive editor of the wilmington morning news will speak on a phase of the newspaper industry as students dance at junior prom committee to discuss plans to raise fund william a cornelius executive alumni secretary will meet with the alumni fund committee of the northeastern pennsylvania lehigh club at wilkes-barre on friday final plans will be discussed to successfully close the club drive for its quota of the 40,000 fund the alumni association desires for june 1 to wipe out the library debt cadwallander evans 01 pres ident of the wilkes-barre club and a nominee for the alumni associa tion presidency for 1937 will be in charge of the committee meeting merriman to speak before c e group company loans movie that describes manufacture rayon production a sound mo vie presented by the north amer ican rayon corporation was shown at the meeting of the industrial engineering society thursday eve ning in packard auditorium jay j merlein advertising man ager and richard c urban assis tant advertising manager of the company which sponsored the mo vie program explained the produc tion of rayon further after the mov ing pictures the progress of the various pro cesses in the manufacture of rayon from the cutting of trees for the cellulose to the final spinning was developed by the movies while a sound record explained each step condition better third corps commander might review regiment may 11 at drill competitions to be held the ninth annual military field day will be held this year on may 11 from 1:30 to 5 p m on taylor field the military department hopes to have major general a j bow ley commanding general of the third corps area to which lehigh belongs present the ceremonies will start with a formal salute to the corps area com mander and will include a general review of the regiment following this there will be a manual of arms competition in which all freshmen and sophomores may participate if they so desire the winner will be selected by a process of elimina tion to show communications a communications demonstration will show the possibility of con tacting aircraft from the ground by portable equipment the commanders of each com pany will be required to select the best squad in the section these squads will compete for the distinc tion of being the best squad in the regiment a platoon competition will follow the same general order tent pitching and extended order drill will complete the demonstra tions to award prizes prizes and awards will be pre sented the awards are as follows the association of the united states army cup and three streamers for company guidon to the company winning the inter-company rifle match the scabbard and blade cup and one streamer for company gui don to the company winning the platoon close order drill competi tion on field day the captain robert quail whit ten memorial cup to the winner of the freshman - sophomore rifle match the captain john k rice trophy to the winner of the inter class shoulder to - shoulder rifle match the veterans of foreign wars cup to the basic course stu dent having the highest aggregate rifle score in the kneeling and stand ing positions and sweater and let ters to the rifle team manager and to members of the rifle team placing among the best 5 in 30 per cent of shoulder-to-shoulder matches riflemen to get letters letters will be given to the var sity rifle team members who have participated in the required compe titions numerals to freshmen who have participated in the required competitions the army ordnance association gold medal to the sec ond year advance course ordnance student having the highest scholas tic standing and the most interest in ordnance affairs and scabbard and plade sabres to the second year advance course ordnance student and the second year advance course infantry student having the highest scholastic standing and leadership ratings a set of gold officers insignia awarded to one infantry and one ordnance second year advance course student for excellence in classroom work and general value to the r o t c unit gold watch charms awarded to one infantry and one ordnance first year advance course student one second year basic and one first year basis stu dent for excellence in classroom work and general value to the r o t c unit merit ribbons for ex cellence in classroom work and the society sons of american revolu tion medals will also be given the last event will be a formal parade o pi mu epsilon to pledge 14 thursday in chapel pi mv epsilon honorary mathe matics society will pledge 14 stu dents in chapel on thursday the group will include two graduate students one senior and the rest sophomores and juniors clarence b welch c e 37 has been elected as the president of pi mv epsilon for next year and prof k w lamson associate professor of mathematics has been announced as the faculty adviser for the com ing term will discuss proposed n y water supply thaddeus merriman c e 97 lecturer on hydraulic engineering and water supply will discuss the new water supplies for new york city from the tributaries of the del aware river at the meeting of the student chapter of the american society of civil engineers at 7:30 p m tomorrow in room 416 pack ard laboratory mr merriman has had several positions with the government and is now chief engineer for the cats kill water supply system a report will be given on the meeting of the student chapters of the society which was held recently at pennsylvania military college theodore davenport s e 36 president of the chapter will give a talk on the aims and activities of the society butterfield to return soon after crash injury thomas e butterfield professor of heat power engineering returned to his home on sunday after being confined to a hospital in havre de grace md since the easter vaca tion professor butterfield was serious ly injured as he was returning from langley field vir his automobile was forced from the road into a ditch the crash breaking several ribs he expects to return to classes within the next few weeks during his absence his classes are being taken by a w luce associate pro fessor of machine design and a w klein professor of mechanical en gineering solutions already devised for remaining conflicts in semester quizzes the registrar's office recently an nounced the scheduling of 234 ex aminations for the period from thursday may 21 to saturday may 30 inclusive the schedule which follows has an increase of 17 examinations over last semester there are a few conflicts existing in the schedule below those stu dents having the conflicts stated w h bohning assistant to the regis trar should report them to the in structor or head of the department who will have been notified of the solution of the conflict by the reg istrar's office indicates course of two or more for which only one examination is scheduled indicates a two-section course for each section of which an exam ination is scheduled thursday may 21 8 a.m bus 46 — business cycles chem 147 — indus anal conf c e 13 — hydraulics oeol 9 — engineering geology ger 2 — elem german psych 1 — elem psychology thursday may 21 2 p m biol 113 — histology c e 15 — struct theory stresses engl 0 — composition engl 2 — composition engl 3b — types of world lit engl 4 — drama engl 5 — drama engl 19 — the novel geol 115 — geological methods met 138 — seminar friday may 22 8 a.m astr 1 — des astronomy section a biol 3 — comp anat of vert bus 4 — economics lecture i bus 136 — public utilities chem 181 — chem eng'g e e 118 — elec power transmission engl 124 — shakespeare ger 4 — int german section a govt 158 — mun mgt hist 14 — u s history section a hist 26 — european history math 40 — math of finance section b met 21 — eng'g met mine 15 — mining eng'g phys 23 — mech heat and sound lec ture i span 2 — elem spanish section b friday may 22 2 p m biol 153 — adv bacteriology sect a bus 4 — economics lecture ii bus 50 — economic geography bus 114 — accounting theory c e 12 — hydraulics c e 17 — mech of mat c e 124 — struct theory fr 22 — french lit 17-18th centuries section a ger 22 — conversation and comp govt 52 — amer state govt sect a hist 8 — hist of england to 1603 i e 3 — ind magt section a lat 2 — horace math 54 — higher geometry math 121 — anal mechanics section a m e 29 — heat engines met 152 — adv met of iron and steel mine 11 — fuel tech section a phys 161 — modern physical theories saturday may 23 8 a.m mil 2 — mil science basic i mil 4 — mil science basic ii mil 6 — adv inf mil 8 — adv inf mil 16 — adv ord mil 18 adv ord saturday may 23 2 p m c e 18 — adv mech of mat c e 134 — hydraulic eng'g chem 8 — stoichiometry hist 120 — seminar m e 11 — eng'g lab met 34 — met lab met 84 — non-ferr met probs phil 112 — theory of human relations phys 111-adv elect lab monday may 25 8 a m bus 126 — public finance chem 78 — chem eng'g chem 191 — phys chem c e 132 — adv hwy eng'g e e 52 — gen alt currents sections a and b e e 126 — elec communications engl 10 — public speaking engi 41 — bus correspondence sect b fr 2 — elem french section b ger 4 — int german section b govt 52 — amer state govt sect b hist 14 — tj s history section b math 106 — adv calculus section b math 121-anal mech section b m e 5 — elem heat engines m e 23 — heat engines section b m e 117 — mech eng'g mine 11 — fuel tech section b psych 15 — app psychology monday may 25 2 p m biol 9 — genetics educ 150 — prin of secondary education gk 2 — elem greek math 2 — algebra math 3 — anal geometry math i — elem calculus math 5 — int calculus math 124 — theory of errors met 108 — electrometallurgy mus 4 — hist and appre of music tuesday may 26 8 a m bus 30 — money and banking continued on page four upper left a portion of the crowd of 1,097 at the prom watching the orchestra upper right dean c m mcconn and l j upton ch e 37 chairman lower left candy amuses dancers lower right the three debutantes and muzzy marcellino featured singers brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday april 28 1936 vol xliii no 48 price — fire cento initiation time changed the tau beta pi informal ini tiation will be held at 8 o'clock tomorrow night instead of 7:30 ; as previously announced in the tau beta pi room in packard laboratory glee to club to practice the glee club will rehearse three times this week as follows at 8 o'clock this evening at 7:30 tomorrow and at 4 p m friday all meetings will be held in drown hall member intercollegiate newspaper association \ all the lehigh neum first