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              committees for the year were elected by arcadia at its meeting last night karl jacobi bus 37 president urged the fraternities to be more strict in the enforcement of freshman regulations the committees elected are booster c6mmittee d c barnum i e 37 chairman r l bailey arts 37 r b haulenbeek c.e.'37 intramural committee m w wolcott arts 37 chairman f a cook bus 37 r l schmoyer m e 37 student activities committee d t stevenson arts 37 chairman y f hardcastle jr i e 38 f m howells i e 37 publications committee c f mccoy jr arts 37 chairman g yanko arts 37 g l bowden arts 37 drown hall committee a a swenson jr bus 37 chairman c b wentz ch e 37 election committee v j paz zetti 111 bus 37 chairman t e niehaus bus 37 g van duyne bus 37 student club committee w p fairbanks i e 37 chairman h e towne arts 37 m s lord ch e 38 2 prominent alumni make listing in 19th volume as recently published on board of trustees j calvin callaghan cyanide gives point system for selection junior honorary activities society to make plans to choose members 6 men pledged last fall men pledged by honorary registrar releases individ ual averages from second semester 8 men get perfect matks all students who have a differ ent address than the one placed on their registration slips should turn in a change of address slip at the registrar's office before 5 p m thursday states registrar g b curtis it is important that this be done so that every student has his proper address in the stu dent directory which is now in the process of publication eta sigma phi elects 5 men scabbard and blade taps 18 officers monday at regimental review to award annual prize to highest sophomore latin student next year will coach the debating squad of delta omicron theta debating so ciety to succeed t g ehrsam for mer instructor in english holds conclave at syracuse tau beta pi national hon orary engineering so ciety has convention joint article to be printed scabbard and blade national hon orary military society pledged 18 men at drill yesterday the society chose these men in a meeting after the smoker which it held for mem bers of the junior class who are taking an advanced course in r 0 t c on thursday night oct 8 in the armory the men will be initiated in about three weeks at the armory accord ing to v j pazzetti bus 37 head of the society the men pledged were g h beck m e 38 a j deacon met e 37 j b gormley arts 37 w p patterson m e 37 c w ved der bus 37 c b welch c.e 37 f b bayer bus 38 h r bishop bus 39 m r collins m e 38 c d couch bus 38 r a dean e e 38 w h glander eng.'39 j a hopkins bus 38 j s hop pock i e 38 h r imbt ch e 38 m s lord ch e 38 w a sheppard e m 38 l o travis 1 e 38 neville - hazlehurst paper first given before chemical society to poll students on election choice non-fraternity men may vote from 8 to 4 five students were elected to the alpha epsilon chapter of eta sig ma phi honorary classical frater nity at its first meeting of the fall term friday evening at the chi psi lodge it was also decided at the meet ing to award an annual 10 prize to the sophomore student receiv ing the highest grade in latin for the year the presentation to be made on founder's day and to pre sent several open lectures during the year the newly elected members are william b ayers arts 38 john k baiz arts 39 donald l da vis arts 39 jules l moreau arts 39 and john e sutcliffe arts 39 as the first speaker of the pro posed lecture series the fraternity hopes to secure dr j casper kra mer professor of classics at new york university and editor of the classical weekly following the business meeting dr w c mcdermott instructor in latin presented an original pa per on vergil and greek painting which has been accepted for publi cation in the classical journal the initiation banquet of the fra ternity will be held at the regular november meeting of the club the site has not yet been decided twenty-four members of the le high faculty as well as two prom inent alumni are listed in the re cently published 19th volume of who's who in america for 1936 1937 the faculty members are va han s babasinian professor of or ganic chemistry claude g beards lee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy clarence c bidwell head of the department of physics sydney m brown pro fessor of history neil carothers dean of the college of business ad ministration herbert m diamond professor of economics gilbert e doan associate professor of phys ical metallurgy tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics and astronomy charles s fox head of the department of ro mance languages lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and government robert w hall head of the department of bi ology percy hughes head of the department of philosophy fred v larkin professor of mechanical engineering howard s leach li brarian dean charles m mcconn benjamin l miller head of the de partment of geology philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science joseph b reynolds professor of mathematics robert m smith head of the department of english bradley stoughton professor of metallurgical engin eering hale sutherland professor of civil engineering stanley j thomas professor of bacteriology charles l thornburg professor emeritus of mathematics and as tronomy and clement c williams president the alumni members are eugene g grace e e 99 president of the board of trustees and charles m schwab eng d hon 14 member of the board of trustees doan to discuss invisible rays recording meter is being installed to speak at 4 meetings during winter months tau beta pi the national honor ary engineering society held its thirty-fifth annual convention last week the convention opened thursday at syracuse university and traveled to cornell for friday and saturday lehigh was repre sented by c b welch c e 37 of the lehigh section of the pennsyl vania alpha branch of the frater nity the convention program included several business meetings two in spection tours and a formal ball two of the speakers were d s kimball former dean of the engin eering school at cornell and dean diedericks dean of the engineering school the lehigh chapter of tau beta pi consists of 16 engineering stu dents the fraternity was originally organized at lehigh and has spread to include 67 chapters all over the united states at this year's con vention were delegates from wash ington texas california oregon and other states an invitation has been extended from texas for the convention next fall but no definite plans as to the location of that meeting have been made new potentiometer placed in packard lab becker to head fullerton club cyanide honorary junior activi ties society will meet at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening in the alpha tau omega house to make plans to se lect new men states harry c mil bank m e 38 president of the society last fall six men were pledged by the society men will be chosen on the basis of the following point system 7 points 3.5 average varsity letter junior manager of any recognized sport 6 points president of any class office on the staff of any publi cation 6 points is the maximum for any one publication 5 points 3.00 average head of a living group intercollegiate individual cham pionship in any sport 4 points secretary-treasurer of any class brown and white assistant offi cer mustard and cheese assistant of ficers alpha kappa psi 2.5 average 3 points mustard and cheese membership temporary freshman chairman president of freshman union sophomore representative to le high union delta omicron theta freshman numerals board of brown and white or review two years in musical clubs junior member of interfraternity council possessor of a college record 2 points member of golf fencing or rifle teams membership in robert w blake society eta kappa nu eta sigma phi international relations club or pi mv epsilon staff of handbook officers in any course society president of phi eta sigma or newtonian society 1 point competition all season for freshman or varsity managership competition all season for freshman or varsity teams competition for staff of any pub lication member of freshman cabinet lafferty hughes smith beardslee in society roosevelt or landon undergraduate opinion on the coming presidential election will be known by friday as a result of the brown and white student poll now being conducted fraternity men will cast their ballots before their regular meet ings this evening the across town fraternities balloted last thursday night but the results will not be announced until all returns are in town students dormitory men and all non-fraternity members can vote from 8 a m to 4 p m in the brown and white laboratory in the basement of christmas-saucon hall the ballots will be counted by staff members of the brown and white and final results will be an nounced in friday's issue faculty members gave republi can nominee landon 50 votes democratic incumbent roosevelt 30 votes and socialist candidate thomas 2 votes in the poll con ducted by the brown and white before the faculty meeting on oct 5 30 new uniforms to be purchased harvey a neville associate pro fessor of chemistry and thomas h hazlehurst assistant professor of chemistry received notification that their jointly-written paper on the influence of evaporation upon the stability of liquid films had been accepted for publication by the jour nal of physical chemistry the paper was originally given in the division of colloid chemistry at the annual meeting of the amer ican chemical society which was held from sept 7 through sept 11 in pittsburgh at the meeting in the division of chemical education dr neville presented a paper on chemical light an advertising lure while dr hazelhurst spoke on an ap proach to the theory of lonization robert d billinger assistant pro fessor of chemistry delivered an ad dress on lecture demonstration experiments in the division of chemical history dr billinger also spoke on america's pioneer press agent for aluminum — j w rich ards mr richards was professor of metallurgy here from 1886 until the time of his death in 1921 warren w ewing associate professor of physical chemistry also was present at the meeting band to be increased to 120 men by nov 14 140 elect drill wells go dry ground water level gradually declines dr gilbert e doan associate professor of metallurgy has ac cepted four invitations to present his lecture invisible rays in mod ern engineering this winter in philadelphia allentown endicott n v and pittsburgh he will ad dress the monthly meetings of the american society for metals the seven pennsylvania chapters of this society heard him at their joint meeting at perm state last spring and the local chapters are now inviting him to come to them individually and repeat it on dec 8 the address will be presented by arrangement with the international business machines club at endicott n y the original address was pre sented as an invitation lecture be fore the franklin institute in phil adelphia in 1932 the popular fea tures serve as a background for an account of the discovery of radio graphic testing by the gamma rays from radium in which professor doan was engaged while at the na val research laboratory during a leave of absence from lehigh prof frank c becker assistant professor of philosophy was re cently chosen president of the ful lerton club a philosophical society composed of professors from swarthmore haverford lafayette perm bryn mawr and lehigh prof t t lafferty assistant professor of education read a pa per on the social nature of uni versals before the society satur day at bryn mawr the faculty members of the club are prof frank c becker dr t t lafferty dr percy hughes professor of philosophy dr r m smith professor of english and dr c g beardslee university chaplain because of the showing that the band made at the johns hopkins game last saturday and the editorial appearing in last friday's issue pre senting the need for additional uni forms president c c williams has sanctioned the purchase of 30 new uniforms the additional men to be in the marching band will be measured tuesday and the order will be filled in time for the muhlenberg game on nov 14 professor shields plans to increase the size of the band to 120 men keeping 10 men for reserves in case it is impossible for all the members to be there a recording potentiometer is be ing installed in the basement of packard laboratory the machine is equipped with a standard cell and has almost human abilities it standardizes its own circuit commits itself to a selected thermo couple determines the temperature of the thermocouple plots tempera tures of thermocouple on a chart then connects itself to a new ther mocouple it can read six different temperatures every six minutes and can record any temperature for which thermocouple will indicate the james ward packard re search fellow in mechanical engin gineering is working on the instru ment it is being used to measure the temperature of bearing and for work in refrigeration while this instrument is located in the basement of packard labora tory its base is on the ground un der the basement to neutralize it from the vibrations of other engines in the building directory started to speak to c e.'s to hear s landis local concern to publish student's addresses 100 men take advanced infantry course the advanced military courses contain 140 juniors and seniors this enrollment is specified by an appropriation of the war depart ment which also limits the ordin ance course to 20 men from each of the two classes the rest of the men 54 juniors and 46 seniors are in the infantry division because of an increase in the de mand for the advanced r o t c courses the military department in tends to ask of the war depart ment an appropriation which will enlarge future enrollment in ad vanced military units r e neumeyer 90 will discuss new road chemical society to hold meeting thursday church of nativity holds special student services 50 hear dr h a neville speak about chemistry well well well three wells don't make a river here in lehigh valley at least not this fall in general throughout the bethlehem region the ground water level has gradually declined so that springs are failing and wells have gone dry the situation has in some places become rather acute a number of small towns in eastern pennsylva nia also firms and individual resi dents who have obtained their wa ter supply from underground sources have in recent years been experiencing difficulty dr b l miller head of the department of geology reports that the depart ment of geology at lehigh is being sought more and more frequently for advice particularly in reference to location of new wells for addi tional supplies dr c l march to speak e k smiley assistant director of admissions was the speaker at an invitation dinner for freshmen friday evening at the pro-cathe dral church of the nativity president and mrs c c wil liams attended the university sun day service at the church last sun day morning dr claude g beards lee professor of moral and religious philosophy assisted in the service alpha phi omega to meet the applications of new members will be discussed at a regular meet ing of the alpha phi omega at 7:30 tomorrow night in the ar cadia room of drown hall r e neumeyer 90 district en gineer of the state highway depart ment will be the speaker at the in itial meeting of the civil engineer ing society which will be held at 8 p.m thursday in room 466 pack ard laboratory neumeyer will speak in general on highway engineering he will also discuss the road under con struction between bethlehem and center valley of which he is su pervising engineer future speakers for the civil en gineering society are l r durkee engineer for bethlehem steel and i m lyse research associate pro fessor of engineering materials work has been started on the set ting up and publication of the 1936 37 student directory states george b curtis registrar this year the directory will be published locally by the times publishing company last year an out of town con cern published the directory and as a result it was issued about a month late at the present time one typist is spending full time in preparing copy it is important that all students have their proper addresses on file with the registrar's office this will insure your proper address in the directory says curtis dr c s march associate direc tor of the american council on education discussed the current movements in coordinating educa tional efforts in the united states friday evening before the heads of various departments in the faculty room in the alumni memorial building members of the chemical society will hear dr walter s landis 02 vice president of the american cy namid company at their initial meet ing at 7:30 p m thursday in pack ard laboratory dr landis who was recently awarded a medal for re search by the american section of the society for chemical indus try will speak on chemical en gineering in the nitrogen industry the chemical society has invited chemical engineers electrical me chanical and metallurgical engin eers to attend this meeting fifty members of the new york professional chapter of alpha chi sigma national chemical fraternity meeting in the mcgraw-hill build ing for the chapter's monthly din ner heard harvey a neville as sociate professor of chemistry at lehigh speak on chemistry in ad vertising dr neville's talk was substan tially the same as that which he delivered in september before the american chemical society meeting in pittsburgh in it he discussed such topics as quackery the misuse of science dangerous cosmetics and modern antiseptics a total of 279 students attained averages of b 2.5 or better for the second semester of 1935-1936 eight students had perfect 4 aver ages they were t e brookover ch e 37 n j leonard ch e 37 c f glick ch e 38 c h hoffman e e 38 w j schmidt jr 38 f c moesel eng 39 n l morse eng 39 and e weiss eng 39 thirty-nine students received a grades 3.5 or better the honor students are juniors class of 1937 t e bookover n j leonard joseph kos setti t k brown c b welch k m lord m b lore r l schmoyer e j broughal e h mount j l walton w p patterson l j upton jr n b schwarz kopf jr howard koller john drury jr wilbert bakker h s krauter b k dau benspeck e h uhler f p hochgesang d t stevenson s j lewis w h feld huß m j jackson r a buerschafer k s dunlap g l bowden h e towne j b m cleeves c d becker coleman citret t g harris h s levenson c f mc coy jr l j osterhoudt e d schaffer a r spalding j g thomas jr w g turnbull jr t j waller jr h r hut chinson philip singer a m freeman k k kennedy j m podgursky r n wel ler s s paist jr j d houck h s ford jr j a oiler gardner van duyne d c barnum r w boarman g c lee w c riedell n s elder w p fairbanks w . hill n w taylor t d hess l s sprague g a barker jr august naprav nik william priestly jr c f minnich d s plowes m j fischer h l beidler d w fouse j s hoffman k m jacobi sophomores class of 1938 c f glick c h hoffman w j schmidt jr j r oberholtzer w a sheppard w g hempel jr p j welch h l hilton r f howe r k maneval n j palladino w g dukek jr r f feubach joseph parmet j a weidenhammer w b ayers h t mantis v f acri n m kennedy w b clark r g phelps d b wheeler e w felegy w b oodrich s c bunce w a ruschmeyer e h stone e h bar clay d r frantz j s hoppock william kranz frank glenroy smith jr morris mindlin j a cooney t f jacoby d w morrow a s ogden j e russell c r neumeyer p e p white g b cushing c y haas b r kelley j p murphy e c fleming d p j goldsmith a c crane v p edwardes jr w p gottlieb a b mindler j k montmeat j g mc cleery d q marshall e f ottens m m simons jr w f haviland e r riter e f mercer r m murphy donald crary c p palmer j h barry jr c e mar tison j w welker h g sims g a gootz m c udy j h weigel g t hewlett a w smith a s ayer august kunzelman h e rose h m ilson jr george beban 11 g w getzoff h g naisby w h roadstrum k j schatzlein jr k a jan ilus g e sheppard w f boucher h k hammond 111 e m shoemaker william bunin j c connor jr n l fidler f h kirkpatrick c d couch j d mack g j reilley freshmen class of 1939 f c moesel n l morse eric weiss i e lempert n w lewis f h burnett jr c f carrier 111 j e patton a s raff g m reinsmith a f jones c f brown t v murto jr r c parsons j c ward j r bright p h bartholomew d w cooper c g layman r s grub meyer e a lambert g e hurst jr e v mcdonough r b evans r j mccurdy 111 r h stettler j e sutcliffe s e giulio j f herr jr f l jackson w m uhler e r l gaughran f n kemmer k i herman c g evans j l moreau f h clymer a d draper r w helwig j f hollister h a stroh man r p mcquail f f schafer e c bohlen d w brader earl hems william irwin p k nicholas j c rebort harry tanczyn n c hartman frank kelley 111 j d saussaman m v trexler p f jer myn e e lukens r j rose r m ros enstein r g scoblionko m x stravros c a weed a c worsley a s grant e e hagennan l c stoumen a b gun thel jr t k 8 locke r l steward v m white w c wells s e doughty r c helm emil karpowich f c rabold jr c l eichenberg thomas habicht n w hulst j b levy l h dudman j a waldschmitt h p wilson v b mancke richard bacon r k brown r k eun son b d evans r t feld j a jackson w e liesman r d halligan j h hel ler h w b kipe w c bernasco jr d g cooke n j french j s gardner l l lobst jr m l morano g e adam e 0 harra donald mckenzie w h scha bel clifford allen w f o'neill d h pri deaux w a decker j a oless e p weis c a heller w g histand t m hamill r p laubenstein j b sabol don ald santmyers m e wittstein r g ting ling brown and white price — five cents arcadia selects groups for year new addresses must be given to registrar vol xliv — no 5 smoker postponed 279 named for average better than b 24 on faculty in who's who for 1936 - 37 delta omicron theta national honorary debating society has postponed its smoker until 7:30 o'clock next wednesday evening in drown hall the affair is for all men interested in debating urges strict enforcement of frosh regulations bethlehem pa tuesday october 13 1936 all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association