Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 4

              universities should instill tolerance into students states dr e s furniss 3 honorary 3 master's 17 bachelor's degrees awarded at exercises furniss receives ll d dr richards is absent because of 111 health 73 receive honors dean of yale's graduate school seeks solution to lack of freedom reproves newspapers denounces public censor ship of universities and suppression of thought edgar collins bain honorary degree doctor of engineering dr edgar s furniss dean of graduate school of yale university and principle speaker who received honorary degree l.l.d dr c c williams president of lehigh who presided over exercises and awarded degrees frosh lose to sophs wear dinks sundays 5 lehigh men attend meeting awarded degrees wednesday national honorary debat ing society convention held at harrisburg dr e crum tells of spain lectures to international relations club on con ditions of country this modern world doesn't owe anyone a damn thing you must keep ahead of competitors by using ultra modern methods said david m petty 09 before a meeting of the industrial engineering society last night in packard laboratory mr petty is superintendent of the service division of the bethle hem steel company he presented many facts in his discussion of some of the aspects of plant management elaborating especial ly on the economic importance of obsolescence aim is profits any manufacturing plant is an institution whose sole aim is mak ing profits therefore the fellow who can suggest ways of saving money even through extensive spending is bound to win favor with his superiors the invention and perfection of the simple beer can has brought thousands of dol lars worth of business to the steel industry a short business meeting preced ed the introduction of the speaker by prof f v larkin robert light cap i e 38 was elected to the office of secretary to fill the va cancy left by l o travis bus.'3b travis was forced to resign be cause of his change of curricula freshmen who are interested in joining will appear at the next reg ular meeting in packard laboratory for the first time since 1932 the freshmen must wear dinks on sunday the frosh lost the privilege of sunday dink doffing by losing the founder's day games wed nesday afternoon to the sopho mores who won the football game 12-7 and went on to win the pants tearing and rope tie ing contests and the mile relay the lone frosh victory was in the tug-of-war faculty club starts year with 3 plays sheridan speaks on 1936 olympics mrs palmer is leader of dramatic group addresses lion's club praises germans the awarding of three honorary degrees three master's degrees in course and 17 bachelor's degrees marked the founder's day exercises in the chapel for the 70th year of education at lehigh the name of dr charles russ richards president emeritus of le high was presented by dean c m mcconn to president clement c williams who presided at the ex ercises president williams bestow ed the degree of ll.d upon dr richards in absentia dr richards was unable to leave his home in minneapolis minn to attend the exercises because of illness after the presentation dr williams an nounced that word had been re ceived saying that dr richards condition was improved bain receives degree dr edgar s furniss dean of the graduate school of yale university received the honorary degree ll.d and on edgar collins bain metal lurgist of the u s steel corpora tion was conferred the honorary degree doctor of engineering scholarship prizes in various fields were presented by dean mcconn to 31 students and the names of 73 men receiving freshman and sopho more honors were announced the exercises were begun by the procession of faculty members and candidates for degrees following the graduation services the faculty and graduates marched to the flag pole where the alma mater was sung university women hold reception mrs fuller introduces club's new members h v raltenborn news com mentator of the columbia broad casting system was selected as the final speaker of the student lecture concert series the decision was made at a meeting of the series committee held last night in the faculty room of the alumni build ing mr raltenborn returned from spain last month where he was an active observer of the spanish civil war he attracted attention recently by broadcasting over a national hook-up an eye witness account of hand-to-hand fighting in the north ern war sector before his trip to spain he was known in america for his program raltenborn edits the news the date for his lecture will probably fall in april or may set ticket prices prices for the faculty season tick ets to the student concert-lectures series were set at 2 for single tick ets and 3.50 for couple tickets it was decided that season tickets to persons not connected with the university would be limited but that individual tickets would be sold at the door the price of these tickets will be 75 cents for lectures and 1 for the recitals of conrad thibault and blanche yurka because of the limited capacity of the auditorium a provision was made to begin the sale of individual tickets to outsiders at 7:50 before that time only holders of season tickets will be admitted queues will be formed and at 7:50 all un occupied seats will be available to students and outsiders alike appoint sub-committee nelson leonard ch e 37 and dean stevenson arts 37 were ap pointed to form a sub-committee in charge of individual ticket sales and ushering details it is planned to re cruit graduate students to act as ushers in return for the privilege of attending the programs plans were also discussed for es tablishing a system of competition for selecting members of next year's committee the committee express ed its belief that the present method of appointing members of the com mittee at the end of the year may fail to uncover the most ambitious material no final action was taken along this line dr earl crum head of the greek department was the guest speaker at a meeting of the inter national relations club last evening in packard laboratory he spoke upon the present situations in por tugal and spain dr crum traced the history of portugal and spain from 1905 to the present time and proved how spain and portugal have always been more or less closely related spain is now the hotbed of europe the future of portugal is linked with spain's rise or fall after com paring the state of affairs in spain and portugal dr crum showed the likeness of our own new deal in the united states to the suppos edly new deal in portugal randolph young chem 38 and melvin lord ch e 38 were ap pointed to secure a speaker for the next meeting review to follow houseparty idea five lehigh men attended the convention of the national honor ary debating society delta omi cron theta on saturday oct 3 at harrisburg thirty-five colleges were represented at the convention the five representatives were peter potochney arts 37 eugene uhler arts 37 howard roller ch e 37 douglas edwards arts 38 morris mindlin arts 38 vote on three questions at the convention the delegates voted upon three questions first resolved that congress be in power to fix by amendment to the constitution minimum wages and maximum hours for industry sec ond resolved that students of american colleges should refuse to participate in any war outside the territo/y of the 48 states third resolved that the extension of consumer's cooperatives would con tribute to the public welfare at a recent meeting of the group j calvin callaghan instructor in english was chosen coach while howard roller was made manager at 7:30 o'clock wednesday eve ning the chapter will give a smok er for all classes of men aspiring to make the debating team at the smoker some person prominent on the campus will be guest speaker boy born to mrs severs will make report at a i e e meet white gottlieb dukek lord contribute prof seyfert to speak lewis to give talk mrs jonathan severs wife of dr severs assistant professor of english gave birth yesterday morn ning to an 8-lb son at st luke's hospital among the features of the no vember issue of the lehigh review to appear oct 27 will be two comic descriptions of the houseparty week end written by p e p white e e 38 and william dukek ch e 38 the photographic cover will also follow the houseparty theme in this issue will appear a double page of football photographs other features will include an ar ticle on modern jazz by william gottlieb bus 38 and an article by melvin lord ch e 38 concern ing the recent geophysics research work completed by dr maurice ewing instructor in physics entertains juniors military society is host to future pledges fifty juniors of the advanced r o t c group were entertained by scabbard and blade honorary military society at a smoker last night in the armory from this group pledges will be selected after a short business meeting major james o green head of the department of military science and tactics gave a resume of the pur poses of scabbard and blade he stated that the society's aim is to promote citizenship and to thwart the radical groups who misunder stand the purpose of military train ing three short plays were presented by the faculty dramatic club at its opening meeting wednesday eve ning in packard laboratory mrs s s cairns wife of dr stewart s cairns assistant profes sor of mathematics presided over the meeting which enacted a min uet by louis parker wealth and wisdom by olipand bown and the finger of god among those who participated in the three dramatic sketches were mrs h p thomas wife of dr harold p thomas head of the de partment of education c w jen sen assistant professor of chemical engineering j m toohy associate professor of romance languages m helms assistant library desk attendant mrs p m palmer and c f strauch instructor in eng lish mrs p m palmer wife of prof philip m palmer dean of the col lege of arts and science has re tained the leadership of the group for the coming year william sheridan wrestling coach was the speaker at a dinner meet ing of the lion's club tuesday in the hotel bethlehem his subject was the olympic wrestling at ber lin he gave his observations as a passenger on the olympic boat and as a spectator at the games coach sheridan said that the wrestling team was the only one uncertain as to who would represent the coun try this caused numerous injuries through nervous tension he blamed the graeco-roman touch style for the fall of many good american wrestlers and sug gested strenuous work on that type in american colleges coach sheridan praised the ger mans for courtesy and good-sports manship and called the american athlete a fine example of manhood and sportsmanship of which we all may be proud around the flagpole at the end of exercises the university womans club will hold its fall reception for new members today at 4 p m in drown hall mrs fuller wife of m o fuller associate professor of civil engineer ing will introduce the new mem bers in her capacity of chairlady mrs cowin wife of r b cowin professor of accountancy is vice chairlady the club will be entertained by the faculty dramatic club on nov 17 with a farce comedy the mora vian college glee club will sing christmas carols on dec is there will be a formal evening party on jan 8 and dr r m smith head of the department of english will speak on the screen version of romeo and juliet on jan 19 dr kenneth w lamson asso ciate professor of mathematics and his wife will play period music dur ing dr smith's talk to receive ballots students will choose fav orite candidate stanley s seyfert head of the electrical engineering department will report the proceedings of the american institute of electrical engineering meeting at the califor nia institute of technology at the regular october meeting of the le high valley section of the a i e e tonight at the neff hotel in sun bury the chief speaker of the evening will be mr w w lewis of the general electric company he will talk upon the methods of suppress ing faults in power systems mr lewis's address will include the subjects of expulsion protective gaps peterson coils lightning the behavior of lines with and without ground wires and tower footing re sistance by frank kemmer dr edgar s furniss dean of the graduate school of yale university called on the university to instill tolerance and love of thought in its students as the solution to pub lic suppression of free thought at the founder's day exercises wed nesday morning in packer chapel to the surprise of many of us the university now finds itself in an unfriendly world a world whose unfriendliness is addressed to the things which are the most essen tial to the spirit of the higher learn ing dr furniss said that the uni versities must look to themselves for much of the suppression which is led by college graduates must revise methods since present methods have fail ed to instill tolerance into college men dr furniss explained they must be revised to teach appraisal of validity of truths and love of thought with the population permeated with college graduates there should be no intolerance the suppression does not come because the public has been denied education for such is not the case suppression results in the de struction of the university by caus ing conflicts of class nationalities and doctrines such conflict breeds tyranny and dictatorship censor ship spells disaster such is the case in europe the situation in the united states is not far different i admit that an educational sys tem which makes thinking distaste ful as a practice and the product of thinking an object of indifference or suspicion merely demonstrates its own failure to educate dr fur niss said the real test of the uni versities service to society comes when the world needs wisdom more than it needs learning and under standing more than technical skills training not enough one failure of the university is that it is too busy training men and produces technology at the expenst of insight too thorough a voca tional training is given and while this is an essential service to so ciety it is not enough you cannot improve love of thought by exhortation it must be a by-product of the classroom ad monished dr furniss the uni versity is the only agency left to view times dispassionately thus there must be freedom from intel lectual regulation at the ultimate source of american education is the university tolerance must be taught university pride must be tempered by the realization of its failure to overcome censorship and intolerance and only by a subse quent revision of methods can sup pression be overcome blames journalists public suppression is concerned with the demands of the public that certain things must be taught and other things must be banned it is required that teachers must hold all orthodox views and take various oaths of loyalty dr furniss reproved certain newspaper editors for using such propoganda to increase circulation he stated that such censorship of intellectual activities must cease and give way to tolerance and freedom of thought riley leads association new committees appointed eta sigma phi to elect new members tonight straw ballots will be distributed to all of the living groups tuesday in order to find the sentiment of the university living groups on the coming national election students who are not members of any living group may cast their ballots wednesday from 8 a m to 4 p m in the office of the brown and white the results of the ballot will be published on friday oct 16 in the brown and white after the tabulations the student vote will be compared with the fac ulty vote and the living groups with the town groups leach attends meeting eta sigma phi honorary classical fraternity will hold its first meet ing of the fall term at 8 o'clock to night at the chi psi lodge an nounces j palmer murphy arts 38 president election of new members and a discussion of plans for the year will constitute the business to be trans acted under the direction of dr edgar riley associate professor of eng lish the cooperative education as sociation of the moravian prepar atory school began its activities for the new season tuesday evening among the members appointed to the various ocmmittees are pro gram mrs c m mcconn wife of dean mcconn and professor riley and publicity mrs j l beaver wife of dr j l beaver professor of electrical engineering and mrs r s taylor wife of the legal coun sel of lehigh h s leach university librarian left yesterday to attend a meeting of the pennsylvania library asso ciation to be held at the lawrence hotel in erie mr leach will pre side at the meeting friday at 8:30 p m recipients of founder's day degrees gather around the flagpole to sing the alma mater brown and white price — five cents honored founder's day vol xliv — no 4 service head gives address before i e.'s group chooses h kaltenborn to end series president c c williams news commentator was eye witness reporter of spanish war ticket prices are set says world owes nothing to anyone modern meth ods must be used lightcap made secretary bethlehem pa friday october 9 1936 all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association