Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 19

              debaters start new season's intra - murals vol xliv no 19 debating team will broadcast 2 new prizes are arranged will argue with albright on minimum wage act over station wcba faculty decides to present more awards in oratory and school debates performance as sophocles elec tra a role which has taxed the theatre's great stunned and electri fied new york audiences her re portoire has included the high peaks of dramatic literature although one of her most successful engagements from a box office viewpoint was the notable run of joan bart's play of spanish life the squall this play ran for 14 months on broadway followed by a road tour born in st paul of czech par ents blanch developed a great love for music at an early age she had private toutors in music singing acting anl languages after being brought to new york in her ear liest teens she studied for a few years but gradually found herself becoming more interested in the theatre belasco's understudy with her decision to seek her ca reer in the theatre miss yurka de termined to reach the man who stood for the best in that field i always felt it's no harder to reach the great ones than the near great said miss yurka so she managed through shee persistence to break through the wall of secretaries and henchmen who defended the sanc tum of david belasco and began her career under the great man as a general understudy the type of part that miss yurka favors most she once described in answer to a reporter's query well whether on stage or screen i like what i call astringent roles if you know what i means parts that have a tremendous biting contact with life i long to create charac ters that are real sincere people with red blood in their veins miss yurka will present several of these astringent roles this thursday night in a program spon sored by the student concert-lec tures series she will appear in the auditorium of the broughal high school corner of brodhead and paker avenue at 8:15 p m all students will be admitted on presen tation of their series tiket blanche yurka long-known to broadway as an actress of unusual talent and dramatic skill succeeded in capturing an entirely different type of audience when she worked in hollywood last spring she was cast in the role of madame defarge one of the most striking characters of the movie tale of two cities comparatively unknown to the pacific audiences she received lit tle attention until the day came for her big part then she presented the crowning part of her character ization after miss yurka had completed the blazing speech of theresa de farge the peasant woman who had waited a lifetime for her revenge spontaneously a roar of applause swept the vast room two thousand extras electricians sound men hair dressers even visiting stars from other sets gasped wept at the poig nancy and beauty of the powerful scene the woman had just played the director leapt up on the steps and embraced her astounds audience the hollow-eyed begrimed wo man graciously took her bow she flashed a white breathless smile to the applauding actors and left the set mme defarge dropped from her like a cloak and she was once again one of the greatest of troop ers — blanche yurka history was made on that set old timers said that never before had such an ovation been accorded to any one on a set and this was her first appearance in motion pic tures ! blanche yurka's reputation in the theatre is built on bed-rock she has played ibsen more often and some critics think better than any one on the contemporary stage she suceeded in getting lysistrata produced in new york with the dis tinguished success that made his tory blanche yurka says she ped dled the idea for seven years be fore she could arouse interest in the production starred in the squall a year or two ago miss yurka's group sings in broadcast football squad to be feted glee club gives program from new york over station wjz bethlehem home club gets marshall pazzetti and reiter as speakers the lehigh debating team will go on the air tomorrow evening from 9:30 to 10 o'clock over wcba al lentown when a return debate with albright college will be held representing lehigh d q mar shall m e 38 and n l morse ch e 39 will take the negative of the question resolved that congress should be empowered to fix minimum wages and maximum hours for industry to be third debate this will be lehigh's third non decision debate this season the first having been with albright thurs day afternoon at reading friday evening lafayette traveled to bethlehem to debate lehigh in packard auditorium on the question resolved that the best interests of american labor in the heavy goods industries require the organ ization of unions on an industrial or vertical basis morris mindlin arts 38 and d leet shields i e 39 debated the negative side of the question for le high and lafayette was represented by seymor bean and lambert pur sell about 50 persons attended the debate to hear r soto d cameron bradley arts 38 and coleman citret arts 37 will por tray the leading roles in the mus tard and cheese club's world war spectacle paths of glory which will be presented friday and sat urday evening in drown half both bradley and citret are fa maliar to mustard and cheese audi ences bradley has taken major parts in two of the club's produc tions that of dr carol in yellow jack and of jack homer in salt water he has also taken various minor parts and in addition has served as a member of the techni cal staff he will take the part of private didier a soldier of the ranks who brings out the gruesome realism of modern warfare players are experienced citret took the part of slim in whistling in the dark and burke in the shannons of broadway in paths of glory he characterizes sergeant jonnart continually phil osophizing about the future world which he expects the next offensive to bring him mrs ruth whitcomb wife of dr lawrence whitcomb assistant pro fessor of geology who played in the lehigh versions of outward bound and the front page will take the only female role as the pro prietress of a cafe near the front lines and who has been shaken by the loss of her father and two sons during the war tidd is general important parts are also taken by elbert tidd arts 37 who plays the impetuous glory seeking gen eral assolant theodore diamond arts 37 taking the serious high strung private langlois w free land dalzell arts 39 taking the part of the sympathetic colonel dax albin dechnik bus 38 tak ing the role of the sophisticated cynic private ferol and roy hertz arts 38 portraying frustrat ed captain renouant all but diamond have had consid erable experience on the lehigh stage forty-two others complete the cast the curtain will rise at 8:15 o'clock on both evenings student tickets free of charge are available at the union office in drown hall general admission tickets are on sale at the union office or through any mustard and cheese member two new williams prizes were authorized by the faculty at their monthly meeting yesterday after noon in the faculty room of the alumni memorial building the first of these prizes consists of 75 and 25 for first and second places respectively for extempor aneous speaking and is open to juniors and seniors a first prize winner is not eligible for later com petition prize for debating the other prize is for intramural debating teams consisting of 120 and 80 for first and second places respectively the amounts are to be divided among the members of each winning team the fund was set up for these prizes by the late prof edward h williams and is now furnishing in creased returns thus warranting the authorization of the new prizes approve petition the faculty also approved arca dia's petition to hold the annual flag day exercises for making athletic awards at 11 a m friday may 21 1937 several new courses were added to the curricula and others under went some changes so as to be ready for the insertion in the new university register which is being prepared for publication several new ideas about the contents of the register were discussed but no def inite conclusions were drawn lehigh discussion forum will consider spain dance sponsored by 3 fraternities a c vine speaks union triad has affair at hotel bethlehem as a development of president williams efforts to improve the graduate school of the university regulations for degree of doctor of philosophy were adopted by the graduate faculty last week the degree of doctor of phil osophy is conferred on candidates who have demonstrated in addition to general proficiency and high at tainment in a special field of knowl edge capacity to carry on indepen dent investigation as evidenced by the presentation of an acceptable dissertation embodying the results of original research according to the adopted regulations set forth requirements various requirements are more specifically set forth the candidate is expected to spend three or more years in resident graduated study and at least two years of resident graduate study are necessary work done in other schools tow ard the word or spread over a long period of time will be considered by the graduate faculty and given credit as determined by the faculty and the department under which the candidate is doing his work there is to be a limited number of candidates for the doctorate ac cepted in a limited number of de partments formal application for candidacy must be presented to the graduate board foreign students must have a satisfactory command of the english language must arrange plan the plan of work for the degree must be arranged and then be ac cepted by the major department several minor courses must be in cluded in the program y examina tion the candidate must give evi dence that he has a reading knowl edge of two foreign languages a preliminary examination must be taken by the candidate to deter mine his proficiency in the field of his proposed endeavor in case of failure in the first exam a second one may be taken not earlier than five months after the first the candidate for the doctorate must present a dissertation treat ing the topic of the major subject embodying the results of some orig inal research and shall conistitute a contribution to knowledge give final examination a final examination both written and oral must be taken by the can didate within a stipulated time be fore the conferring of the degree the executive committee has been working and meeting weekly since september to draw up these reg ulations and it will now set up the definite courses offered in the var ious departments for graduate study e w brown astronomical society hears talk psych tests show frosh intelligent lehigh class of 40 rates highest in report the first intramural debating season in the history of lehigh will officially be inaugurated at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening in pack ard auditorium when teams repre senting the industrial civil metal lurgical and chemical engineering curricula will engage in the first eliminations round in the contest for campus supremacy substituting for dean c m mc conn who was originally scheduled to preside at the opening of le high's newest extra-curricula activ ity will be eugene h uhler pres ident of delta omicron theta hon orary debating society 2 debates tomorrow two debates are to take place in the course of the evening the first will be between the industrial en gineering team and the civil engin eering team debating the affirma tive for the industrials will be j h adams 38 and l r bittel 40 the civils who will take the nega tive will be represented by f e harper 40 and r g stern 40 all intramural debates this season will be debated on the question re solved that governors limiting speed to 50 miles per hour should be installed on all motor vehicles licensed by the state of pennsyl vania freshmen argue the second debate tomorrow eve ning will be between the metallur gical engineering team with e h brindle 40 and w w ache 40 and chemical engineering team b with p a haas 40 and a finger 40 the former team will take the affirmative to decide the winner of each de bate three judges have been se cured they are elmer e leppert and glen h shepler both fellows of the english department and zol tan biro coach of debating at the fountain hill high school time keeper will be henry s heck man 39 to use oregan plan these and all other intramural debates will be conducted under a modified oregan plan first on the program is a 12-minute speech by the first affirmative speaker who will present the entire affirmative argument this will be followed by a 12-minute speech by the first neg ative speaker who will present the entire argument then for six minutes the second negative speaker will cross-examine the first affirmative speaker like wise for an equal period of time the first negative speaker will be cross examined by the second affir mative speaker following this the second nega tive speaker will deliver a six-min ute rebuttal-summary speech the debate will end with a six-minute rebuttal-summary speech by the second affirmative speaker talks at banquet rafael a soto assistant profes sor of romance languages will lead the discussion crisis in spain be fore the lehigh discussion forum at 8 p m tomorrow night in room 416 packard laboratory the mem bers will all join in an open dis cussion of the subject a business meeting will be held at 7:30 p m in room 416 and will be limited to members only the purpose of the meeting is to discuss a campaign for new members a review of the revision in registra tion procedure which is to be pre sented to the faculty soon and a complete schedule of all meetings for the next semester will also be taken up at the meeting palmer addresses group after initiation the glee club sang over a nation wide hookup of the national broad casting company saturday from the studios of wjz thirty-five men made the trip they sang hail the college on to the desert strickland bach elor's song andrews this very festal day from the bartered bride smetana and alma mat er words by gibson leaves saturday the club left lehigh saturday morning and assembled at radio city at 1:30 p m after a short re hearsal to determine the best seat ing arrangement of the group the broadcast started although interrupted several times by bulletins they completed the program a recording of the re cital was made and the records are now available in the packer mem orial chapel in february the club will broad cast over station wor hikers hear trembley speak to allentown club cameron to talk before engineers the bethlehem home club will give its annual dinner to the lehigh football squad on monday dec 14 at the hotel bethlehem next year's captain of the team previously elected by the squad will be named at this time the toastmaster will be john marshall 20 of bethlehem and the speakers will include vincent j pazzetti 11 15 and h r reiter professor of physical education coaches to speak glen harmeson head football coach and his assistant coaches will also be called on for brief remarks and president c c williams and nelson a kellogg director of ath letics will be at the speakers table members of the squad who have figured in three consecutive lehigh victories over lafayette will be hon ored and gold football charms will be presented to men who have tak en part in a lehigh victory during the season john w maxwell head of the supply bureau has charge of ticket sales and students desiring to at tend the affair can purchase their tickets from him club will hear talk on industry and society a c vine graduate assistant in physics spoke on amateur tele scope photography at the last meeting of the e w brown as tronomical society held friday in room 353 packer hall vine treated his subject from an amateur's point of view showed how photography is applied to small telescopes and discussed the pos sibility of its being used on the uni versity telescope he then present ed the results he had obtained on other telescopes the meeting end ed with a discussion of the subject lyse to lecture cement company man will show film excellent was the comment of prof herbert m diamond head of the economics and sociology depart ment upon the union triad dance which was held on saturday by delta phi kappa alpha and sigma phi at hotel bethlehem piff moore's orchestra played and according to gardner van duyne bus 37 head of the kappa alpha house about 250 couples attended the dance dinners at the respec tive houses preceded the affair chaperones were professor and mrs herbert m diamond mr and mrs gerald throp and mr and mrs j a frick the dance was arranged by a joint committee from each of the fraternities with the chairmen as follows charles h ford e e 37 delta phi yel lott f hardcastle i e 37 sigma phi and albert schwartzkopf m e 37 kappa alpha see staff work high school journalists visit b & w room suspend student the development of hobbies from constant outdoor activity was the subject of a talk by francis j trembley biology instructor who was one of the speakers at the an nual meeting of the allentown hik ing club friday evening in allen town mr trembley illustrated his talk with a number of specimens which he had arranged in the form of an exhibit committee on discipline gives 2 charges to take junior sophomore pictures p m palmer dean of the col lege of arts and science spoke at the banquet given by tau beta pi honorary engineering fraternity last saturday night at the old sun inn the banquet was preceeded by the initiation of ten pledges into the so ciety the initiation was held in packard laboratory dean palmer spoke on the le high engineer and culture about ten faculty members and twenty students were present at the meet ing the pledges initiated were w bakker e e 37 r w boar man m e 37 h s krauter ch e 37 j z lindsenmeyer e e 37 w b clark ch e 38 j a cooney e e 38 w g dukek ch e 38 s s paist e e 37 and george wacock a v m i student o phi eta sigma will meet phi eta sigma national honorary freshman society will hold a bus iness meeting wednesday night at 7:45 o'clock in room 367 packard laboratory at a recent meeting of the com mittee on discipline a member of the sophomore class was suspended from the university on two charges states dean c m mcconn the student will not be permitted to re turn to school until next september the double offense consisted of cheating in a mathematics hour quiz and breaking into a locked desk drawer of a mathematics professor and changing a recorded grade in the professor's grade book staff members of the liberty high school magazine libertas were present sunday night to see just how a brown and white was made the issue of dec is will be published entirely by the liberty high school representatives their staff has been assigned to the re spective positions on the brown and white and full responsibility will re.st on them the publication of a brown and white by the local high school staff has been an annual event for four years the final issue just before christmas is generally devoted to their efforts the junior class picture for the epitome postponed from last week will be taken at noon to morrow at the alumni building announces donald c barnum editor in chief the sophomore class pictures will be taken at noon thursday at the library the average lehigh members of the class of 1940 ranks higher in general intelligence than the aver age freshman in other american universities and colleges according to preliminary reports from the american council on psychology in education the average raw score for the nation as a whole is 180 points while that of lehigh freshmen is 208 28 points higher from this raw score the percentile for each man is figured the lowest 1 per cent of the students receive a score of 1 the next highest 1 per cent receive a score of 2 and so on up to the highest 1 per cent who receive 100 when based on the national aver age a freshman who has a score of 4 at lehigh would really have one of 22 although a man with 100 would receive only 100 points these comparisons are all based on the same psychological test which is given to all college fresh men any freshman who is interested in knowing the results of his psychol ogical test may obtain them from any member of the department of psychology who will discuss the significance of the marks with the student i m lyse research associate professor of engineering materials and r a wahl a representative of the portland cement company will be the guest lecturers at the meet ing of the civil engineering society wednesday night at 7:30 p m in room 466 packard laboratory professor lyse will talk on re search engineering and will illus trate the subject with slides wahl will show motion pictures on the production of portland cement re freshments will be served all fresh man engineers who are interested in the society are invited to at tend william j cameron of the ford motor company will speak on in dustry and society tuesday eve ning in packard auditorium at an open meeting of the engineers club of lehigh valley every sunday evening between 9 and 10 o'clock mr cameron de livers brief addresses on some cur rent topic over the network of the columbia broadcasting system as a part of the ford sunday evening hour mr cameron was trained for and entered the ministry as a young man he turned to a commercial career and has been associated with the ford motor company for many years at one time he was editor of the dearborn independent guest actress brown and white price — five cents plays lead bethlehem pa tuesday december 8 1936 yurka startles hollywood with brilliant performance paths of glory to be given this weekend board decides on standards for degrees graduate faculty to confer advanced degree for independent work to require dissertation bradley and citret take main parts in mustard and cheese play mrs whitcomb to act d cameron bradley who takes the part of didier in the paths of glory blanche yurka as madam defarge in the tale ol two cities 4 teams which represent various curricula will argue on question topic on car governors member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first