Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 2

              proposed training school may be housed here delange barnett will play at prom first lecture of series postponed by wollcott secret ballot will be cast oct 5 students vote a week later to include 5 candidates charles moesel is winner of wilbur engineer ing scholarship prizes total over 600 senior ball will be held october 30 in hotel bethlehem tickets will cost 4.56 dance will be opening event of fall house party weekend alexander woollcott lecturer and writer who was scheduled to give the opening talk in the student lecture series has post poned the date of his appearance here from friday oct 23 to monday oct 26 dean g b curtis announced today he was forced to make this move because of a meeting of the board of trustees of hamilton college of which he is a mem ber the morning following his scheduled lecture here the lecture will be held in broughal high school auditor ium e s furniss will give talk the facilities of lehigh univer sity were placed at the service of a proposed tri-city police training school in a letter recently sent to robert peiffle mayor of bethle hem by president clement c wil liams the school proposed by the mayors of allentown bethlehem and easton would serve as a train ing school for the police officers of eastern pennsylvania the course would consist of nine weeks of preliminary work for all officers and an advanced course the purpose of the course is to give a better alignment of police duties and court procedure and to acquaint the police with the bene fits of modern scientific develop ments dean c m mcconn prof fred v larkin director of the curricu lum in mechanical and industrial engineering and prof h p thomas head of the department of education have been appointed a committee to consider plans for the proposed school dean of yale's graduate school will be speaker on founder's day c c williams to teach class 3 administrative officers will handle advanced and graduate courses for the first time in the history of lehigh the faculty will be polled in an effort to determine their exact attitude toward the coming presi dential election the vote will be taken oct 5 in the faculty room at their regular monthly meeting a straw vote will also be taken among the student a week after the faculty voting the brown and white sponsors of the poll receiv ed permission this morning from president c c williams to carry out the plan in order to insure secrecy in the voting ballots will be distributed to the faculty as they enter the fac ulty room and will be collected im mediately following the meeting the student poll will be conduct ed the following week living groups will cast their ballots on oct 13 those not in living groups will vote the following day five candidates for president will be included on both the faculty and student ballots they are alfred landon republican franklin roos evelt democrat william lemke union earle browder communist and norman thomas socialist 140 student officers form record staff one polo mallet swinger . . . one cricket letterman . . . one rugby player . . . and one boxer rather exclusive they are as compared with 39 football letter men 53 basketball players 93 band and orchestra members and 39 de baters but regular members of the freshman class they remain just the same the four will probably have trou ble finding enough kindred spirits to form teams at lehigh but they really do add a distinction other than that of quantity to the class of 40 they represent four of the 29 extra-curricular activities in which the members of the class participat ed in secondary school according to statistics compiled by the univer sity publicity office dale h gram ley university news editor revealed that 19 of the 29 activities were ath letics the remaining 10 activities were divided between musical and academic activity keith plays cricket quentin r g keith of mont clair n j son of s r keith 13 is the only man who played rugby and cricket in second ary school keith enrolled in the college of arts and science at tended montclair high school and trinity school in new york city lehigh might not boast of a polo team but nevertheless lehigh has a polo player in the person of charles lallas bus lallas is from easton and attended the pennsyl vania military preparatory school in chester joseph chuharski arts is the only boxer that entered lehigh this year a native of port chester n.y chuharski attended greenwich high school greenwich conn boxing polo cricket and rugby are not the only distinctive sports that the freshmen engage in how ever for s d beers arts and w r turner e e won their letters in fencing while a g graham i e w g leonard i e and jay smith e e played lacrosse ten ice hockey players six golf ers four gymnasts and four skul lers add to the colorful array of athletics represented by the new men there have always been some students who have complained about the paucity of good cheerleaders perhaps it would interest them to know that 15 high school cheerlead ers are now at lehigh five chessmen enter the newly organized chess club of the university will undoubtedly welcome the five freshman chess players while the military depart ment will be relieved to know that there are 19 men who served in military units in secondary schools thirteen riflemen are represented nine men won letters in cross country and 51 in track twenty seven soccer players 23 baseball men 36 tennis lettermen 15 wrestl ers and 21 swimmers round out the group of athletes forty-six fresh men managed high school athletic teams one hundred freshmen held some position on a high school publica tion 79 were members of glee clubs 100 were dramatists and 104 belonged to hi-y clubs coaches and faculty advisers of the extra-curricular activities on the campus will receive lists of fresh men who engaged in similar activi ties in secondary school as soon as possible many are refused advanc ed military courses the orchestras of hudson de lange and charles barnett will fur nish the music for the senior ball opening event of fall houseparty weekend on oct 30 henry s bat tin bus 37 chairman of the dance committee announced yesterday the ball will be held in the ho tel bethlehem from 10 until 2 tickets will cost 4.56 per couple 2.28 for stags houseparty events saturday aft ernoon will include the rutgers football game and the maennerchor tea dance saturday evening the house dances will be held members of the senior ball com mittee in addition to battin were karl jacobi bus 37 robert reif snyder bus 37 and vincent j pazzetti bus 37 the senior ball is usually held in the hotel although the two other major dances the interfraternity ball and junior prom are held in the coliseum last year the class of 36 pre sented the music of george hall and barney rapp at their ball delange's last appearance at a collegiate function in this section was last spring at the princeton prom barnett has been appearing at the glen island casino new york faculty club to read plays faculty votes spring recess graduate faculty chooses committee new vacation to begin 7 weeks after start of second term dramatic society will hold initial meeting in pack ard laboratory oct 7 to handle petitions for mulate policies edgar stephenson furniss dean of the yale graduate school will be the principal speaker at the founder's day exercises to be held in packer memorial chapel on wednesday it was announced by dean g b curtis wednesday his subject will be the university in an unfriendly world dr furniss has done work in the fields of economics political sci ence and education and has writ ten several books he received a b a degree from coe college in 1911 and a ph d from yale in 1917 he taught in the syrian protestant college beirut syria from 1911 until 1914 at which time he returned to the yale grad uate school in 1923 dean furniss was named professor of political and social science at yale and since 1930 he has been dean of the grad uate school his books include the position of the laborer in a system of na tionalism 1920 foreign ex change 1922 ; and labor prob lems 1925 he is co-author of two other works principles of economics 1926 and descrip tion of the new deal 1934 dr furniss won the 1000 hart schaffner & marx prize essay in 1920 with the position of the la borer he is a member of the am erican economic association jessup elected editor a william jessup arts 38 was elected photographic editor of the brown and white at a meeting of the executive committee of the publication wednesday afternoon the largest group of advanced students in the history of the le high r o t c unit 140 in num ber will serve as officers in the unit this year according to major j o green head of the department of military science and tactics addi tional men desiring to take ad vanced courses were refused per mission because of the size of the class a new parity between the ord nance and infantry student officers has been established doing away with the advantage of less work formerly enjoyed by those taking the ordnance work the unit should enjoy one of its best years said major green we have requisitioned 100 additional rifles and racks and have exper ienced some difficulty with the uni forms but in spite of this the open ing drill was very good all men will have uniforms at the end of this week and rifles by the end of another week at each drill from then on there will be a review and a regimental parade the public is urged to attend the weekly drills held at 4 p m mon days on the upper field w v toffey visits here william v toffey jr 35 who graduated from lehigh's depart ment of journalism recently spent his vacation in bethlehem mr tof fey is a member of the staff of the jersey journal in jersey city the graduate faculty passed a resolution requesting president wil liams to appoint a committee of seven professors to facilitate the handling of routine petitions and to formulate general policies at a meeting monday robert p more associate pro fessor of german was unanimously re-elected executive secretary of the graduate faculty more will also serve as executive officer of the new committee president williams will be titular chairman of the commit tee and dr tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics and astronomy will serve as vice chairman the other faculty members to serve on the new committee are herbert m diamond professor of economics lawrence h gipson professor and head of the depart ment of history and government hale sutherland director of the curricula in civil engineering and sanitary engineering harold p thomas professor and head of the department of education and harry m ullman director of the curri culum in chemistry and chemical engineering the committee will also recom mend new courses to the graduate faculty for inclusion in graduate work ettinger will address rob ert blake club society to meet the philosophic reflections of a historian will be the topic of a talk which dr amos ettinger act ing assistant professor of history will give to the first meeting of the robert w blake society to be held tonight at the home of dr percy hughes head of the department of philosophy dr ettinger has re placed prof sydney brown in the history department during the lat ter's leave of absence the society will also discuss ten tative plans to invite the philoso phic club of swarthmore college to visit the lehigh campus in recipro cation for the hospitality extended to the robert w blake society members when they visited swarth more last year p s woodring is engaged the engagement of paul s woodring met e 38 to miss dorothy m manley was announced by miss manley's parents during the early part of august woodring has played varsity football for the past two years see editorial page 2 breaking a 32 year precedent a president of lehigh university will enter the classroom as a teacher this semester on the principle that a university has no more important function than teaching dr clement c wil liams president of the university will teach parts of a graduate course in structural foundations in the civil engineering department he has made numerous researches and publications on foundations and was formerly head of the department of civil engineering at the university of illinois and later dean of the college of engineering at the uni versity of lowa the last lehigh president to teach classes was dr thomas drown he taught courses in water supply and water purification mcconn to cooperate in carrying out his belief that scholars of high attainment who happen to be in the administrative positions when practicable should give of their time and talent to the classroom dr williams also an nounced that dr c m mcconn dean of the university and dr wray h congdon director of ad missions will cooperate in courses this year in the department of edu cation dean mcconn has specialized on mental tests and is a leader in the progressive education movement in this country dr congdon who has had ex perience in secondary school work and is an author in educational so ciology will teach a course in prin ciples of secondary education the faculty in reconsidering their decision made last may that le high should continue with an east er vacation adopted arcadia's peti tion for supplanting the easter with a spring vacation at their june meeting in voting to change the old sys tem the faculty stipulated that the spring vacation would in the future commence 7vi weeks after the begin ning of second semester instruction this year the vacation will start at noon on saturday march 27 and will close 7:45 a m monday april 5 formerly the holiday was only one week long because of the fact that the easter vacation ran from thursday to thursday the plan to change the old east er vacation to a time more in keep ing with those of the majority of eastern colleges was first proposed by arcadia in april the petition was presented to the faculty at their may meeting when it was defeated by one vote backed by tlie brown and white because of the closeness of the vote arcadia re-opened the issue and at their next meeting the faculty re versed their decision regulations never heard of them the faculty dramatic club will hold its first meeting of the semes ter on oct 7 in the student engin eering societies room packard lab oratory the first meeting will be taken up by the reading of three one act plays the finger of god by per cival wilde a minuet by louis parker and weath and wisdom by oliphant down the reading be gins at 7:45 other readings for the first sem ester include oct 21 first lady by k dayton and kaufman nov 4 ethan frome by o and d davis nov 18 squaring the cir cle by katajev dec 2 taming of the shrew by william shakes peare dec 16 victoria regina by l housman jan 6 the white guard by bulgakov and jan 20 dangerous corner by j b priestley faculty members and their rela tives are eligible for membership guests of members are invited to at tend as listeners see editorial page 2 thirty-one scholastic awards for high scholarship during last year with prizes totaling over 600 will be presented at the founder's day exercises to be held wednesday morning oct 7 in packer memor ial chapel freshman and sophomore honors for attaining an average of 3.00 or better were won by 39 freshmen and 34 sophomores following is the list of prizes which will be awarded by dean c m mcconn at the exercises wilbur prizes freshman year mathematics — first prize 15 edward a lambert second prize 10 eric weiss english 15 norman l morse german 15 carl f brown french 15 john e kelly wilbur prizes sophomore year mathematics 10 donald b wheeler english 10 raymond f feilbach physics 10 donald b wheeler williams freshman prizes in oral composition first prize 40 norman l morse second prize 15 louis c stoumen williams sophomore prizes in english composition first prize 50 robert l myers second prize 25 john b taussig third prize 15 morris mindlin williams junior prizes in english composition first prize 40 harold e towne sec ond prize 15 john drury jr carl schurz memorial foundation prize in german set of goethe edward d schaffer william h chandler chemistry prizes freshman year 25 f charles moesel sophomore year 25 walter j schmidt jr junior year 25 nelson j leonard alumni junior prizes arts and sciences 25 john drury jr business administration 25 edward j broughal engineering 25 two nelson j leonard clarence b welch other awards wilbur scholarship 200 — to the highest ranking freshman in engineering f charles moesel alpha kappa fsi medallion — to the high est ranking junior in business administra tion edward j broughal pi tau sigma prize engineers hand book — to the highest ranking freshman in mechanical engineering allen f jones eta kappa nu prize engineers hand book — to the highest ranking freshman in electrical engineering irving e lambert phi eta sigma cvp — awarded for one year to the living group whose freshmen not fewer than five have made the highest scholastic average for the preceding year section a taylor hall phi sigma kappa scholarship cvp — award ed for one year to the fraternity having the highest scholastic average for the pre ceding year delta upsilon trustees scholarship cvp — awarded for one year to the living group having the highest scholastic average for the preceding year leonard hall following is the list of those sophomores and freshmen whose average for the past year was 3.00 or better sophomore honors vincent f acri william b ayers elbert h barclay william b clark william g dukek jr vance p edwardes jr ray mond f feilbach daniel r frantz charles f glick dale p j goldsmith carstens y haas william g hempel jr herbert l hil ton jr charles h hoffman john s hop pock ralph f howe nelson m kennedy raymond k maneval homer t mantis morris mindlin john k montmeat david w morrow james r oberholtzer nathan j palladino joseph parmet richard g phelps james e russell walter j schmidt jr william a shep pard frank g smith jr evans h stone james a weidenhammer philip j welch donald b wheeler freshman honors paul h bartholomew elmer c bohlen james e bright carl f brown franc h burnett jr courtland f carrier 111 fred erick h clymer jr donald w cooper robert b evans eugene r l gaugran stanley e giulio robert s grubmeyer earl hems ralph w helwig george e hurst jr allen f jones frank n kem mer edward a lambert charles g lay man irving e lempert nelson w lewis robert j mccurdy 111 edward v mcdon ough f charles moesel norman l morse thomas v murto jr robert c parsons james e patton frank c rabold jr albert s raff glenn m reinsmith marius x stavros robert h stettler harold a strohman moran v trexler walter m uhler julius c ward eric weiss ashley c worsley arcadia rule no 4 a freshman must keep his hands out of his pockets when walking about the campus arcadia rule no 5 no freshman shall be allowed to sit on the various walls about the campus arcadia rule no 6 no freshman shall walk on the campus grass arcadia rule no 3 no freshman shall be allowed to smoke on the campus or in the buildings about the campus brown and white bethlehem pa friday october 2 1936 vol xliv no 2 polo cricket rugby players outstanding in class of 40 faculty choice for president will be found price — five cents 31 to receive their awards founder's day lehigh facilities offered to police member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first