Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 50

              will include larger senior pictures faculty section the 1936 edition of the epitome is now off the press and will be distributed this week announces robert m eichner editor in chief of the year book this year's epitome will contain several new features including larg er pictures in the senior section and photographs of some of the more prominent undergraduates the year book will contain pen and ink sketches of the fraternity houses instead of photographs as in for mer years a separate section will be devoted to the faculty and administration in this section will be the pet sayings of the faculty a ten page feature section composed of photographs will be included society takes 13 new men 450 will attend press meeting will address a s m e 7:30 p m thursday the entire field of shipbuilding will be the subject of a talk by h e gould general manager of the fall river plant of the bethlehem shipbuilding corporation at the meeting of the student branch of the american society of mechanical engineers at 7:30 p m thursday in room 466 packard laboratory the talk which according to mr gould will be informative but non technical will be entitled the building of a ship and will deal with design plans materials fab rication installations testing and operation he will also discuss ship yard management and its problems methods planning and safety work mr gould who is located at quincy mass has been connected with the fall river plant for the past 32 years for 24 of which he has been an executive of the plant having been head of the outside en gineering department superinten dent of machinery general super intendent and general manager previous to his connection with the plant he served in the engineering department of the u s navy during the world war when mr gould was the general superinten dent of works manager of the plant over 16,000 men were employed in building 37 destroyers will address joint banquet 186 high and preparatory schools are represent ed by prospectives most favor chemistry visitors from eight states and one district were among the 416 pros pective students who registered on sub-freshman day saturday the guests represented 158 high schools and 28 preparatory schools the number of guests exceeds that of last year by 21 the states represented were con necticut 6 delaware 3 district of columbia 1 maryland 1 massachu setts 6 new jersey 143 new york 68 pennsylvania 187 and virginia 1 about 229 parents alumni and friends accompanied the prospective students the guests registered in the alumni memorial building from 9 to 10:30 a m after which they as sembled in packard auditorium where they were welcomed by pres ident c c williams on behalf of the university visitors tour grounds after the general assembly the visitors were conducted on tours of the buildings and grounds the re spective departments discussed their curricula with those men interested and presented exhibits displaying the work of the students the registration according to cur ricula interests showed 92 men fav oring mechanical and industrial en gineering 39 in electrical engineer ing 110 in chemistry and chemical engineering 14 in metallurgical en gineering 8 in engineering physics 28 in civil and sanitary engineering 6 in mining engineering 50 in the arts college and 69 in the college of business administration lunch in armory at noon the visitors had luncheon in the armory as guests of the uni versity in the afternoon they re turned to further inspect the var ious departments until 2:30 p m when they met at the flag-pole to be led by the band to the athletic fields to watch the track meet and the baseball game dr wray congdon director of admissions was chairman of the committee n s hibshman asso ciate professor of electrical engin eering and albert haring associate professor of economics were in charge of furnishing the student guides combined clubs present concert dean c gauss to speak about two economies to phi beta kappa's dean christian gauss of prince ton university will speak on two economies at the annual banquet of the phi beta kappa chapters of lehigh and lafayette at 6:45 p m wednesday in the hotel bethle hem dean gauss is the author of the german emperor through col lege on nothing a year and why we went to war he is also a frequent contributor to magaines from 1903-1907 he was a member of the lehigh faculty serving for two years as an assistant professor of modern languages and two years as an instructor of romance lan guages the banquet is being held in bethlehem this year in accordance with the old custom of alternating it between bethlehem and easton friends and relatives of the mem bers will also attend faculty rejects request to set definite date of easter holiday new re-exam dates set one vote defeated the student pe tition to change the spring vacation from easter to mid-semester at the faculty meeting yesterday after noon the petition defeated was written to have the vacation of the second semester set as a certain week not contingent on the date of easter and to continue from one saturday to the monday following a week later instead of from thursday to thursday > schedules june re-exams an experimental ruling was adopt ed for this year only whereby any student having an e in any course incurred during the present acad emic year will have the privilege of taking the re-examination june 25 26 27 and the morning of june 29 instead of september the purpose of this plan is to enable students who plan to go to summer school to study for the examination and take it in advance of the summer session a ruling concerning incompletes was also adopted by faculty action this ruling states that a student who incures an incomplete in any course and fails to remove the in complete within one calendar year loses all equity in the course and consequently if the course is requir ed will have to repeat it summer employment dropped the faculty also agreed that jun ior engineering courses having sum mer employment are relieved of that requirement because of present economic conditions dr william bowie 95 lecturer in geodesy and isostasy and head of the united states coast and geo detic survey attended the faculty meeting dr bowie spoke to the faculty briefly of the lehigh men associated with him and the work they are doing announces appointments president williams also announc ed appointments to several presiden tial committees as follows robert p more associate profesor of ger man to take the place of j l beav er professor of electrical engineer ing on the athletics committee c a shook associate professor of mathematics and george d har mon associate professor of amer ican history to take the places of f a bradford professor of eco nomics and earl l crum associate professor of latin on the lecture committee and h m diamond professor of economics to take the place of c c bidwell director of the curriculum in engineering phys ics on the library committee to discuss sale of junior blazers 95 secondary schools to send delegates here on saturday the interscholastic press confer ence which will meet here on sat urday will be attended by more than 450 delegates representing 95 high schools and preparatory schools in pennsylvania and new jersey a program which includes a demon stration of liquid air a tour of the campus speeches round table con ferences and presentation of awards has been planned for the delegates the speakers on the program will be president c c williams dean c max mcconn and william s maulsby editorial director of the american institute of public opin ion to explain polls mr maulsby will speak on measuring public opinion he will explain to the delegates how his organization conducts its na tional weekly poll of public opin ion which is published in 72 lead ing papers of the united states un der the heading america speaks his talk will be illustrated with charts and posters president williams will extend the greetings of the university to the delegates at the opening ses sion and dean mcconn will speak on how does journalism rate as an extra-curricular activity prof d r billinger associate professor of chemistry will give a demonstrated lecture on liquid air to hear talks in the afternoon the student edi tors will be divided into ten groups of round-table discussions to hear talks on particular phases of jour nalism at the closing session of the con ference prizes will be presented to the schools which submitted the outstanding examples of secondary school press work the prizes will be presented by prof p m pal mer director of the college of arts and science auditorium work nearly completed sub-frosh guests of allentown club juniors inducted into tail beta pi in packard lab before banquet thirteen candidates for tau beta pi honorary engineering fraternity were formally initiated friday in packard laboratory the meeting was followed by a banquet at the hotel bethlehem in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the so ciety which was attended by 150 members from the lehigh valley the juniors who were initiated are w p fairbanks i e d c bar niini i e t e brookover ch e t r brown e e b k dauben speck ch e c e lewis e e r n lord met e m b lore chem a b schwarzkopf m e a r spaulding i e l j upton ch e and c b welch c e m l jackson eng phys will be in itiated at the next meeting of the society b s weiss c e 36 the retiring president of tau beta pi acted as temporary toastmaster introduced fred v larkin director of the cur ricula in mechanical and industrial engineering who welcomed the re turn of the older members prof r c mathews national sec retary of tau beta pi who acted as toastmaster introduced irving a heikes the first member initiated in 1886 by prof e h williams the founder of the society mr heikes spoke about the founding of tau beta pi and its past history robert c h heck 93 one of the first members of the national council of tau beta pi spoke on early experiences with professor williams and the expansion of the fraternity the last speaker of the evening was harry t morris 91 who pro posed the application of engineering methods to solutions of national problems c b welch newly-elected chap ter president spoke on the future of the organization the rest of the officers will be elected at the next meeting of the society meets 8 seniors credits for cheerleaders interfraternity council and pre-meds changed a e d is recognized three changes were made in the point system by which cyanide junior honorary activities society elects its members the changes were made at a dinnef meeting of the society held last week at the delta upsilon house the changes made are the allow ance of two points for junior cheer leaders the deduction of one point from the allowance for membership in the interfraternity council set ting the new allowance at two points and the allowance of one point for membership in alpha ep silon delta national pre-medical so ciety the point system used by cyan ide is as follows seven points 3.5 average up to the time of election varsity letter or sufficient time played in current season to earn a lette election to junior manager of any rec ognized sport six points presidency of any class office on the staff on any publication maximum of six points allowed for any publication five points 3.0 average up to the time of election head of a living group intercollegiate championship individual in any sport four points 2.5 average up to the time of election secretary-treasurer of any class brown and white assistant officers mustard and cheese assistant officers three points alpha kappa psi delta omicron theta member of mustard and cheese president of freshman union sophomore representative to lehigh union election to brown and white or board of review two years service in musical clubs possession of a college record numerals junior intramural athletic director manager of the band two points junior cheerleaders junior member of the interfraternity council member of the golf fencing rifle or la crosse team membership in robert blake society eta kappa nu eta sigma phi international relations club pi mv epsilon officers in any other course society officers of brown key staff of handbook one point alpha epsilon delta competition for any freshman or varsity team one full season competition for manager of any fresh man or varsity team one full season competition for the staff of any pub lication member of the freshman union cabinet any scholastic prize captain of any freshman team phi eta sigma newtonian society president of any honorary society fraternities elect glee club double quar tet soloists participate two hundred attended the home concert and dance given by the combined musical clubs in drown hall on saturday evening the audi ence called for encores after each of the selections by the soloists and by the double quartet the soloists were n j leonard ch e 37 c y haas ch e 38 w r pier pont arts 39 and gilberto esco bedo c e 36 who made his last appearance with the group h e towne arts 37 president of the club collaborated with dr t edgar shields director of music in conducting the concert which was followed by the dance music for the dance was supplied by the com bined musical clubs dance orchestra o eta kappa nu arranges initiation and banquet initiation arrangements were made and a new set of by-laws was approved at the meeting of eta kappa nu honorary electrical en gineering society last evening in packard laboratory j z linsen meyer e e 37 will be initiated into the fraternity the informal initiation will be held in packard laboratory at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and the formal initiation also in packard laboratory at 6 o'clock thursday evening the formal initiation will be followed by a banquet in the sun inn w h congdon discusses college selection allentown sub-freshmen were the guests of the lehigh allentown club at a meeting friday evening on the fourth floor of the y m c a building in allentown the program included a talk criteria in the se lection of a college by dr wray h congdon director of admissions together with an exhibition by var sity fencers and a demonstration by members of the wrestling squad during the business meeting that preceded the program joseph ros setti bus 37 was elected president for next year herbert hilton bus 37 became the new vice president joseph parmet ch e 38 succeed ed himself as recording secretary charles hoffman e e 38 was elected corresponding secretary and richard schmoyer m e 37 treas urer rossetti and schmoyer were elected to represent the group in arcadia the fencing exhibit under the di rection of edmund collins 111 bus 36 consisted of an explanation of the foil eppee and saber and bouts fought with these weapons by j r bright eng 39 w g turnbull m e 37 h d peck bus 37 and d q marshall m e 38 h richard bishop arts 38 ex plained the wrestling done by diely arts 38 and r.m girdler ch.e.'37 new exit is being built in christmas-saucon hall work now being done on the auditorium in christmas - saucon hall will be completed by the mid dle of next week announced an drew w litzenberger superinten dent of buildings and grounds the work being done is the construction of a balcony connecting the two balconies along the sides of the auditorium and the cutting through of a door to make the east side of christmas-saucon hall accessible from the new balcony the purpose of the work is to make both sides of the building available to students without neces sitating their interrupting lectures which may be going on in the audi torium previous to this time it has been necessary when going from one side of the building to the other to come in one door of the auditorium and walk down through the center aisle when the construc tion work is finished it will be pos sible to get from one side of the building to the other by walking around the balcony and through the new door that has been cut through the wall in the far side of the audi torium smith garihan to meet clothiers tomorrow frank g smith bus 36 and thomas k garihan bus 36 will meet with representatives of seven local clothing establishments to morrow evening in drown hall to determine the design material cost and date of production of the 1936 junior blazers the concerns we expect to be represented said smith are e o'reilly and company tom bass college shop rau & arnlod sil verberg and goldberg bush & bull and hess brothers junior blazers are white sport coats of current design with the lehigh seal reproduced on the breast pocket only juniors and seniors may purchase the blazers pazzetti elected president of honorary fraternity vincent j pazzetti bus 37 was elected president of alpha kappa psi honorary business administra tion society at a dinner meeting held at the psi upsilon house thursday night other officers elected are k l peet bus 37 vice president r w reifsnyder bus 37 treasurer and e g mc nair bus 37 secretary the society also accepted eight new members who will be pledged in chapel houck 37 and rista 37 become house heads two social fraternities alpha chi rho and theta kappa phi elected officers for the coming year re cently john d houck arts 37 was elected president of alpha chi rho other officers elected were r w reifsnyder bus 37 vice president h c archer arts 37 secretary w h johnston m e 37 treas urer d b williams bus.'37 chap lain h s ford bus 37 ritual of ficer and w g speyer eng 39 sergeant-at-arms theta kappa phi elected e r rista bus 37 president j n ko tanchik m e 38 was elected vice president and house manager and r e kolarsey bus 38 treas urer is only publication to hold all prizes at one time in conference history archer elected to office membership remains at 34 as duquesne duke re places c u pioneer making a clean sweep in the con tests the brown and white dele gation to the spring convention of the intercollegiate newspaper asso ciation friday and saturday at the university of delaware returned to lehigh with the three cups offered for excellence of news editorials and local advertising this is the first time in the his tory of the association that any pa per has had possession of all three cups first place in the news con test was a tie between the brown and white and the temple univer sity news since the news had held the cup since the fall convention ac tual possession of the cup was given to the brown and white the names of both papers will be inscribed on the trophy harry c archer a journalism major and news manager of the brown and white was elected vice president of the association the other officers are david hepford dickinson president and miss priscilla alden west chester state teachers college secretary duquesne enters conference the duquesne university duke was elected to the association whose membership remained at 34 when the cooper union pioneer no long er in existence was suspended the fall convention of the association will be held at muhlenberg at a date to be determined later other papers who placed in the contests were advertising the red and black washington and jeffer son second no third place award made editorial the hatchet george washington university sec ond the tartan carnegie tech third news the gettysburgian gettysburg college third three consecutive issues of each paper entered in the contests were submitted to the judges a month previous to the convention the judges for the news and editorial contests were byron e ellis pub lications instructor los angeles junior college max r grossman associate professor of journalism boston university and carl sprout managing editor harrisburg pa triot 4 represent lehigh advertising contest judges were l b brownwell in charge of the production department of william esty and company advertising agency russell ziegler advertising department of cluett peabody and company and fred farrar chief of the copy department lord and thomas advertising agency the lehigh delegates to the con vention in addition to archer were sidney j lewis editorial manager f the brown and white francis w hunsberger financial manager and kenneth k kost junior advis er who represented prof dale h asociation who wms unable to at tend because of sub-freshman day duties kost presided at the two round table sessions held for bus iness managers the convention program included a presentation of peer gynt by the e52 players of the host school a dance at the cafe grand in wil mington and a dance at the wom en's college following the formal banquet on saturday evening when tin awards were announced speaker at the banquet included walter dent smith secretary of state in delaware wso spoke on the adventures of public ser vice and leigh mitchell hodges philadelphia evening buletin who poke on the province of the press to lecture at princeton dr h a neville associate pro fessor of chemistry will lecture on friday to the princeton university section of the american chemical society at princeton his topic will be some applications of surface chemistry the lecture will in clude a discussion of the relation of surface energy and potential to ab sorption harvard dean interviews graduate prospects dean boyce f martin of har vard interviewed eight seniors yes terday morning in the faculty room in the administration build ing mr boyce is the assistant dean of the graduate school of business administration at harvard and spoke with those men who have inquired about graduate work and also three seniors who have filed applications for the graduate school at harvard according to dean mcconn rob ert m eichner i e david w hoppock i e and walter r f guyer ch e all seniors have made definite applications wade to address pre-meds dr wade oliver of long island medical college will speak at the annual spring banquet of the r w hall pre-medical society at 6:30 p m thursday at the hotel beth lehem dr oliver is professor of bacteriology and acting dean at the medical school lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday may 5 1936 epitome to be out by end of week vol xliii — no 50 brown and white awarded 3 cups gould will speak on shipbuilding 416 register as sub - frosh here saturday price — five cents spring recess petition killed by single vote cyanide alters point system for members community chest starts student drive a drive was started today to obtain contributions from the various living groups for the bethlehem community chest the drive is made annually the funds of which go to 14 different charities which include st luke's hospital the blind association and the salvation army the donations of the living groups should be sent to the le high union office from where they will be turned over to the general fund the goal for this drive in bethlehem is set at 140,980 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first