Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 18

              hopes for completion of chemistry building ad dition by september to report on directory rotary fetes football team blanche yurka dr g d harmon dr harmon wins inquirer award takes 1000 fifth prize on letter on lincoln seniors must have their year book pictures and ballots in by dec 15 announces donald c barnunv i e 37 editor in chief of the epit ome there will be a tardiness fine of two dollars for any picture not handed in by that date ballots will not be accepted after the christmas vacation ballots will be received from david mccaa offi cial year book photographer when epitome pictures are taken seniors who do not hand in their pictures before the christmas vacation will not be included in the epitome as members of the graduating class of 1937 the senior assessment fee an nounces barnum includes the price of the book and the additional cost for the engraving printing and space the cuts of the individual seniors may be obtained from the editor of the book after this is pub lished snapshots and informal pictures of the students are wanted for the epitome any camera photographs of well known student activities such as parties inspection trips surveying cfctpp or of building in teriors should be presented to bar num for consideration both nega tives and glossy prints are useable club entertains varsity and athletic staff at din ner wednesday debating team opens tonight mindlin shields meet la falette on question of union organization dr emerson h swift of the de partment of archaeology and fine arts columbia university will pre sent an illustrated lecture on the cathedral church of santa sophia in constantinople at 8:15 p m dec 7 in room 466 packard laboratory the lecture will be held under the auspices of the lehigh chapter of eta sigma phi national honorary classical society doctor swift is a well-known american archaeologist and is a fellow of the american school of classical studies in greece where he was a student in 1914-15 he has published many articles on classical archaeology extensive study was devoted to the church of santa sophia by the lecturer the turkish government gave doctor swift special permis sion to investigate the architec ture and construction of the cathe dral friend of leach wright doctor swift is a friend of how ard s leach librarian and horace w wright professor of the de partment of latin doctors swift and wright were students together in rome in 1914 when dr swift was at the american academy stu dying roman sculpture excavation at corinth was in charge of dr swift when that an cient city was uncovered during his stay in bethlehem he will be a guest of doctor wright doctor swift will lecture at the metropolitan museum in new york city on dec 8 collections shown in lehigh gallery dr george harmon associate professor of american history won the fifth prize of 1,000 in the phil adelphia inquirer's name the pres idents contest his winning letter was written about abraham lin coln dr harmon stated that he had no idea of winning a prize in this contest he has been teaching at lehigh for the past 12 years dr harmon lives at 1027 delaware avenue is married and has a daugh ter nine years old the greatest number of letters in the contest favored washington as the president who did the most for his country second in line was abraham lincoln third franklin d roosevelt and fourth was thomas jefferson williams attends building confab graphic arts paintings displayed in library lehigh board and archi tects to discuss plans the glee club will sing over a nationwide hookup of the national broadcasting company at 2 p m tomorrow approximately so sta tions of the nbc blue network will carry the 15 minute program says h e towne arts 37 president manager dr t edgar shields will direct the 35 singers who make the trip in a group of three selections and two school songs carstens y haas ch e 38 will be the accompan ist the program originates in the studios of wjz radio city new ifork city in addition a quartet organized by towne is to present two songs they are dedication franz and ole man river kern members of the group are william lobst ch e 38 first tenor hal towne second tenor wilson r pierpont arts 39 first bass and george a grow arts 38 second bass ray mond k maneval bus 38 is pianist to sing 6 songs the following are to be sung by the entire club hail the college on to the desert strickland bachelor's song andrews this very festal day from the bar tered bride smetana and alma mater words by gibson tomorrow's broadcast marks the opening of the glee club's second season on the air over national hookups the nbc program was presented in april last year while a fifteen minute concert from wabc and the columbia system was broadcast in december on feb 5 the club gave a half hour program on wor and the mutual chain this year's broadcast from wor will again be in february when the club travels to new york to sing on the sixth of the month a program to be carried by the columbia sys tem is to be arranged later in march or april an official alumni homecoming day will be held next year on the saturday of the lehigh-lafayettc football game it was decided by tht board of directors of the alumn association at a recent meeting william a cornelius 89 exec utive secretary brought the mattei of a homecoming day for alumni before the meeting as pointed out in a recent editorial in the brown and white it will give the alumni an opportunity to inspect the uni versity in operation which the reg ular june alumni day does not af ford no definite plans for a program of activities were made at this time but will be proposed at the next meeting in june the alumni fund this year will be devoted to the erecting of the chemistry building addition a drive similar to that made last year which was successful in paying off the library building debt will be made to secure sufficient funds for the proposed project it is hoped to have the cornerstone laying on alumni day in june and have the addition completed by september dependent upon the success of the fund drive and the speed of erec tion the financial report submitted to the board showed that the alumni association has the greatest number of members paying dues the larg est number subscribing to the bul letin and the largest number mak ing gifts to the alumni fund in the association's history satisfactory progress on the re vised alumni directory was report ed it will be ready for distribution by june 1937 directors present at the meeting were cadwallader evans jr 01 president of the board stewart j cort 06 robert s taylor 95 morton sultzer 12 william a cornelius 89 also robert f her rick 34 assistant editor of the alumni bulletin and walter r okeson 96 treasurer of the uni versity history professor speaks on radio biography is subject of talk by ettinger society to initiate 10 men saturday tau beta pi will hear prof p m palmer lehigh's football team and ath letic staff were guests at the beth lehem rotary club's annual football dinner wednesday at the hotel bethlehem henry esky clark director of athletics at lafayette colege was guest speaker the friendly relationship be tween lehigh and lafayette is one of the greatest assets of the inter collegiate system said mr clark ballyhoo both of teams and indi viduals is a serious detriment to college football and is defeating the very purpose of team work con fessing that lafayette experienced an adverse season this year the for mer harvard athletic head predict ed a more encouraging aspect for football at lafayette as the result of the spirit displayed during the closing weeks of the campaign introduces coaches mr okeson introduced glen harmeson head football coach elmer red sleight assistant coach marty westerman coach in charge of guards and centers col nelson kellogg director of athlet ics prof h r reiter head of the department of physical education paul calvert coach of freshman football and basketball and wil liam sheridan wrestling coach joe walton met e 37 captain of the football team introduced the other members present who were fred bayer bus 38 dave berg bus 38 edwin bradway arts 39 george ellstrom met e 38 an thony famighetti bus 39 john p frey chem 38 ralph heller ch e 37 john hoppock i e 38 a l jamieson met e 39 eu gene kirkpatrick eng 40 harry milbank i e 38 harry mcnally c e 37 vincent pazzetti bus.'37 knox peet bus 37 louis pen nauchi met e 38 frank rabold e e 39 albert rozell bus 37 elliott small ch e 39 myron sterngold bus 38 m e wertz e e 39 mark wolcott arts 37 president c c williams attended a meeting of the building commit tee of the board of trustees today at the offices of the university ar chitects visscher and burley in new york city the meeting was held to discuss plans for the annex to the chemis try building and the proposed dor mitory unit the alumni associa tion is now carrying on a drive to raise sufficient funds for the plan ned building program as was de cided at a meeting last june according to president williams there is a possibility that the con struction of the chemistry building addition might be started by next semester but until the results of to day's meeting are made public a more definite statement cannot be issued members of the building com mittee of the board of trustees are charles d marshall 88 chairman alan c dodson 00 and aubrey weymouth 94 an exhibition of contemporary american etchings woodcuts and lithographs is on display at the university art gallery it shows the original work of art in the graphic medium by forty-nine of the fore most living artists in america a collection of water colors and oils is on display by the artist guild of easton mrs bray of ban gor has on exhibition a group of portraits the display will continue until dec is the art gallery will be open from 3 to 5:30 p m daily ex cept saturday and 7 to 9 p m on friday the artists whose works are to be shown include rockwell kent john marin allen lewis j j lankes adolf dehn wanda gag reginald marsh whose works deal with the satirical nura who deals with the amusing raphael soyer who does chorus girls and agnes tait who specializes in cats these artists whose works are on display believe that american art should belong to men and women of moderate means to be enjoyed by them in their own homes plants inspected arcadia to start seal campaigns civil engineers visit new york and vicinity group heads will receive stamp allotments scientists gather dr amos a ettinger acting as sociate professor of history gave a radio address on the technique of biography under the auspices of cedar crest college on monday evening nov 30 over radio sta tions wcba and wsan allen town the talk consisted of a survey of adventures in biography from ear liest times to the present dr et tinger pointed out that each period in the development of biographical writing has had its own striking characteristics dr ettinger has written two prize winning studies in the field of bio graphy his book pierre soule published by the yale university studies won the dunning prize of the american historical association dr ettinger's most recently pub lished book james edward ogel thorpe won the beit prize at ox ford university england for the best study in the field of colonial history at 8 o'clock this evening in packard auditorium the lafayette varsity debating team will meet lehigh on the question resolved that the best interests of american labor in the heavy-goods industries require the organization of unions on an industrial or vertical basis lafayette will take the affirmative the lehigh team will be com posed of morris mindlin arts 38 and d leet shields 1.e.'39 shields will debate in place of peter po tochney arts 37 who was orig inally scheduled to appear repre senting lafayette will be seymor bean and lambert pursell the affair tonight will be the opening debate of the season for lehigh it will be a non-decision debate eugene h uhler arts 37 president of delta omicron theta is to be chairman for the evening the general public and students are invited to attend to hold return debate on dec 11 c w edwards arts 38 and e h uhler will journey to easton for a return debate with lafayette at which time lehigh will take the affirmative of the same question yesterday afternoon n l morse ch e 39 and w t jablow ch e 38 represented lehigh in a non-de cision debate with albright college at reading jablow debated in place of c g layman ch e 38 le high took the affirmative of the question resolved that congress should be empowered to fix min imum wages and maximum hours for industry the return debate with albright will be in the form of a radio de bate which will be held from 9:30 to 10 o'clock in the evening of dec 9 the program will be broadcast from wcba allentown during the mustard and cheese hour d q marshall m e 38 and n l morse will represent lehigh lehigh group attends bacteriologists meet gerrish missing the complete program of blanche yurka actress who will appear at lehigh next week has been an nounced miss yurka who will present a dramatic lecture-recital under the sponsorship of the con cert-lectures series thursday dec 10 will offer six interpretations of leading roles from some of the greatest plays of history the title of the group is the arc of the theatre miss yurka will remark briefly upon the importance of the roles she will recreate and then offer some of the most striking passages from the plays she has selected her detailed program follows lysistrata aristophanes the magistrate scene electra sophocles two scenes romeo and juliet shakespeare the garden scene the way of the world congreve millamant hedda gabler ibsen elizabeth the queen anderson elizabeth characterizations are known several of the characterizations are ones that miss yurka has made famous during her broadway ca reer taken as a unit the group traces the development of the thea tre from the golden age of the greeks to modern-day drama all of them are well-known to theatre goers sidney j lewis arts 37 chair man of the concert-lecture series says the appearance of blanche yurka will be unusual as she will be the first actress and probably the first woman to address a large le high gathering her visit fits in very well with the purposes of the con cert-lectures series a student founded group whose aim it is to bring artists of outstanding cultural achievements to the campus as a supplement to the many events of strictly technical interest this is the second presentation of the series committee for its first program it presented alexander woollcott to the largest audience that had ever attended a lehigh lec ture judging by the career of miss yurka she should have little trou ble captivating the lehigh audi ence lewis stated her record in the theatre has been a long list of triumphs she began by impressing herself upon david belasco when she was unknown and he was the greatest producer of the times after that she had little trouble in becoming a broadway notable and was the star of several memorable stage events her most recent tri umph was her characterization of madame defarge in the movie tale of two cities that part was considered the plum of the season many famous screen stars were eager to earn the role but miss yurka won it in the face of unusually stiff competition after her interpretation of this part on the movie set everyone within sound of her voice was moved to spontaneous applause it was the greatest tribute the screen colony could bestow miss yurka's program will again be given in the auditorium of the broughal high school the commit tee will continue its policy of clos ing the doors of the auditorium at 8:15 p m to prevent disturbance during any part of the program a formal initiation followed by a banquet will be held by tau beta pi honorary engineers society at 7:30 tomorrow evening in packard laboratory prof p m palmer dean of the college of arts and sci ences will address the gathering nine lehigh students and one student from the virginia military institute will be initiated before the banquet the lehigh men are wil bert bakker e e 37 robert boarman m e 37 harold krau ter ch e 37 john linsenmeyer e e 37 william clark ch e 38 john cooney e e 38 wil liam dukek ch e 38 stanley paist e e 37 and richard schmoyer m e 37 the v m i student is george wacock who being unable to re turn to his university in time is be ing initiated by the lehigh chapter of tau beta pi freshman warned police find no clues on absent freshman mustard and cheese postpones broadcast shakespeare read at club meeting burgher appears before vigilante committee dr and mrs smith take leading roles a group of lehigh university pre-medical students attended a meeting of the eastern pennsylva nia chapter of the society of bac teriologists tuesday nov 24 in the philadelphia countyn ty medical association building in philadelphia three papers were presented by lehigh graduates on different phases of research twenty lehigh undergraduates attended the meet ing the trip was made under the aus pices of alpha epsilon delta hon orary pre-medical society rath explains television harry brinker rath e e 38 explained the television now being used by the r c a system yes terday afternoon in a talk before the radio club in packard auditor ium about 25 persons attended the meeting eleven civil engineers made an inspection trip nov 23 24 25 to the metropolitan area to visit prom inent civil engineering projects the groups visited the new docks along the hudson river and inspect ed the improvements of the new york central railroad from 95th street to 72nd street they also in spected the midtown tunnel and the engine rooms of the s s norman die a lecture was heard on the glass woman at the new york museum of science and industry the construction of the 6th avenue subway was seen in newark the group was the guest of l p strubble 09 to lun cheon at the newark athletic club strubble is in charge of the penn sylvania railroad company im provements in newark the trip was closed with a visit to keuffel and esser company manufacturers of surveying and drawing instru ments at hoboken bethlehem police still have no in formation as to the whereabouts of philip gerrish eng 40 who has been missing since tuesday nov 24 from his room at 518 carlton avenue in bethlehem gerrish who lives in bridgeport conn took all his belongings with him when he left presumably to return to his home for the thanksgiving holi days a letter left in his room addressed to his uncle aroused the suspicion of the police and after an investiga tion his parents were notified the contents of the letter could not be learned relatives came to bethlehem sat urday to aid in the search the mustard and cheese club has postponed its half-hour pro gram over station wcba in al lentown on wednesday night in order that the debating society may use the time to present a debate announces keiste a jan ulis arts 38 director of the program from 9:30 until 10 on that night the debating team will meet the team from albright college and will discuss prob lems involved in the living wage and minimum working hours mustard and cheese will present its usual program on the follow ing wednesday the sophomore vigilante com mittee met at the delta upsilon fra ternity house wednesday evening to warn john burgher bus 40 of his negligence in wearing his dink due to bad weather burgher was the only freshman called up for the meeting frank rabold e e 39 chairman of the committee stated that at the next vigilante meeting which is to be held monday eve ning five or six freshmen will be brought up before the committee two freshmen returned the signs they had been wearing and one oth er frosh turned in his red ribbon the taming of the shrew by shakespeare was read at the month ly meeting of the faculty dramatic club wednesday evening in pack ard laboratory dr robert smith head of the department of english and mrs smith took the two leading roles others in the cast were charles prouty instructor in english dr james graham assistant professor of psychology mrs p m palmer wife of the dean of the college of arts and sciences and dr wil liam mcdermott instructor in latin a special meeting of arcadia student governing body was called wednesday evening in drown hall to organize a drive for the selling of tuberculosis seals the cam paign will be in cooperation with the drive of the bethlehem tuber culosis and health society the head of each living group has been given 5 worth of tuberculosis stamps which are to be sold to the students the money from the stamps will further the use of the tuberculin skin test and the chest x-ray which is the principal work of the bethlehem tuberculosis so ciety at the meeting it was decided that arcadia will donate 100 to the fund for sending the swimming team to florida for winter training arcadia will also make up one third of the deficit involved by the university tea dance held recently lehigh union and the interfrater nity council will be responsible for the remainder of the deficit bethlehem pa friday december 4 1936 price — five cento announce epitome photo dead line prize winner recitalist vol xltv no 18 blanche yurka to dramatize 6 play roles swift to talk on st sophia greek church ask informal pictures to use in year book board accepts annual alumni homecoming club will sing on 50 stations of nbc chain brown and white will give scenes tracing history of drama called arc of the theatre second series program broadcast from wjz to morrow to include songs by quartet dr shields will direct eta sigma phi will spon sor lecture by colum bia archaeologist to use lantern slider all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association