Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 9

              swing and sway artist features fraternity song medley dorm to be completed before july of next year society outlines season program meeting to be tonight under the sponsorship of the interfraternity council vernon k melhado president of the bethle hem chamber of commerce will address a meeting of all house stewards at 7:15 tonight in ar cadia room drown hall he will present another plan of joint buy ing for fraternities the fraternities voted their ap proval or disapproval of the joint buying plan of b j scarpulla new york business man last week contracts and difficulties of indi vidual houses were discussed in a meeting of house stewards held last thursday evening scarpulla has stated that in the light of this new development in the cooperative buying situation he will release the interested fra ternities from their obligation to sign contracts with his organiza tion until they have heard the counter-plan of the chamber of commerce met with chamber the new development is a re sult of a meeting hold by the chamber of commerce on friday morning when joseph hopkins bus 38 president of interfrater nity council and william dukek chem 38 co-sponsors of this plan discussed the council's position in regard to cooperative buying scarpulla released a statement to the press last friday stating that his enterprise was going to employ bethlehem people pay wages and expenses to local in dustry and was not as the cham ber claimed taking money out of town the chamber of commerce is an organization devoted to the in terests of business men of beth lehem who have anticipated the loss of fraternity trade by this move for joint buying however it has recognized the value of joint buying by offering its own plan in a competing bid for fra ternity business hopkins has requested that all fraternities regardless of their ac ceptance or rejection of the prev ious contracts have at least one member present at this meeting tonight scorns drinking commenting on the location dr williams stated crystal spring ravine has the native pos sibilities of being a feature of great beauty and attractiveness which will add to the enjoyment of studying and living at lehigh university it is our intention to proceed with its improvement in the near future the proposed landscaping of this area should make this a cherished nook of the campus ' praises administration james t bergen ch e 38 president of arcadia praised the administration for planting this milestone in the development of a greater lehigh and asserted that every undergraduate should take great pride in it joseph hopkins bus 38 president of the inter fraternity council assured fra ternity men that this new project will not interfere with the present housing system james l burley 94 architect's representative and andrew w litzenberger superintendent of grounds spoke briefly the uni versity band played two selections the new dormitory which will house 138 students will be sit uated about 200 feet south of the armory on the slope of soucn mountain it will be slightly east of the delta tau delta fraternity house at the intersection of tay lor and getz streets the first unit of the proposed dormitory system will be complet ed by july 31 1938 promised earl hoover representative of the s l hoover construction comp any at the ground breaking ex ercises saturday afternoon pre ceeding the lehigh-gettysburg football game the informal program planned by the university administration and the presidents of the three student government bodies had as its chairman melvin s lord ch e 38 president of the lehigh union in breaking ground on the slope of south mountain pres c c williams declared this is a sig nificant event in the history of lehigh because it marks the in itial step in improving living con ditions of lehigh students col lege education pertains to a mode of living as well as a mode of thinking designed educationally this dormitory has been des igned educationally as well as ar chitecturally to the end that stud ents residing there will derive a maximum of pleasure and bene fit from their mutual association president williams expressed the hope that the new dormitory system will ultimately provide for all students desiring accomoda tions he also revealed that plans include further development of this corner of the campus to give address arts men favor major in biology students admitted free harold bauer internationally known pianist will present a piano recital under the auspices of the cleaver and carnegie foundations at 8:15 friday evening nov 5 in packer chapel the recital open to all stud ents and faculty members of le high university muhlenberg col lege moravian college for men and moravian college for women will consist of classical compos itions free admission tickets will be available at the union office starting tomorrow afternoon the recital will be closed to the public an englishman by birth the noted pianist is cosmopolitan by education but an american citizen by adoption entered career at 5 at five he entered upon his musical career dividing his en thusiasm between piano and violin with time the violin finally won over the piano it took the death of a czar to change bauer's musi cal career engaged to accompany a singer on a tour in russia his duties included playing violin solos to fill out the program the em peror's death put a ban on public concerts in the principal cities and the majority of the perform ances were given in small towns no accompanist was available in these places and so solos on the piano were substituted later on when the ban was lifted and the larger cities were visited the tour manager decided that the piano solos were good enough for his purposes and de cided to assume the extra ex pense of engaging another accom panist on bauer's return to paris no one took him seriously as a viol inist circumstances compelled him to take advantage of every op portunity for public appearances and he became a pianist for the simple reason that he was not al lowed to play the violin played in orchestra bauer has since played with many of the important orchestras of the world in 1900 at the in vitation of wilhelm gericke con ductor of the boston symphony he came to america to appear as soloist with that orchestra until his world tour in 1914 he visited this country every two years and he eventually made his home in new york according to dr t e shields professor of music bauer rates with jose iturbi as a pianist he will arrive at bethlehem on thursday nov 4 and will attend some classes meet students for discussion of music and confer with men of the faculty pres and mrs c c williams will enter tain him thursday evening he will visit delta tau delta for din ner and arrangements are being completed for him to visit sev eral other fraternities o freshmen military prizes to be shown in armory major gerber assistant profes sor of military science and tactics today announced that prizes to be awarded to the winners of the freshman inter-sectional rifle matches will be placed on dis play thursday in the show cases in the freshman military science and tactics classroom these prizes will include silver bullet watch fobs to be given to the men comprising the winning freshman inter-sectional team and a gold medal to be awarded to the freshman having the highest individual score in the inter-sec tional matches these prizes are in addition to the silver cups award ed for one year o to talk about archives dr amos a ettinger assistant professor of history will address the meeting of the philobiblon club of philadelphia at 8 30 o'clock thursday evening in the university club of philadelphia okeson tells of menace to quarterbacks walter r okeson treasurer of the university and retiring chair man of the football rules com mittee was guest speaker yester day at the luncheon held by the monday morning quarterbacks at the clover club allentown okeson spoke of the necessity of putting a stop to the exces sive drinking prevalent at football games he also related several football incidents other speakers included george holstrom footabll official and wayne milner former notre dame end o leach attends meeting of state librarian society howard s leach lehigh uni versity librarian attended a meet ing of pennsylvania librarians at york three authors of children's books spoke in the evening mr leach took part in the panel discussion and was chairman of the resolutions committee he also heard j mas on brown publisher of the the ater arts monthly talk on what makes good actors o , freshman hurt saturday john a olson eng 41 a mem ber of the phi delta ttheta fra ternity was sent to st luke's hospital for a laceration of the right eye brow received while playing ping-pong at the fraternity house saturday afternoon it is alleged that a flying ping-pong paddle was responsible for the in jury 7 meetings listed by eta sigma phi group new members will be initiated into eta sigma phi national hon orary classical society on nov 12 at shank weiler's inn on the same date a joint meeting with the muhlenberg chapter will be held in packard laboratory other plans for the 1937-1938 season program are as follows a meeting will take place on jan 13 at the home of prof earl l crum head of the department of greek the speakers will be colonel leonard head of the department of military science and tactics prof philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and sciences and carl h richardson arts 40 a meeting is scheduled for feb 11 at the house of dr william c mcdermott instructor in latin speakers will be donald l davis arts 39 and john e sutcliffe arts 39 on march 11 a meeting will be held at the house of prof horace w wright head of the depart ment of latin the speaker will be prof bateman edwards head of the department of romance languages on april 8 a meeting will be held at the house of prof crum edwin h miller arts 40 and j palmer murphy arts 38 will be the speakers a picnic will be held on may 13 o rights to address group on directing of amateurs albert a rights instructor of english and director of mustard and cheese will speak at 4 o'clock saturday afternoon at the drama institute to be held in st john's lutheran parish house in allen town under the auspices of the lehigh valley council of dramatic art his topic will be directing of amateurs and will embrace a technical exposition of the prob lems of directing the penn state players a semi professional theater group will present george bernard jshaw's play androcles and the lion at 8 15 at the jewish community center tickets for the play which cost seventy-five cents may be obtained from mr rights as may tickets for the entire institute which are two dollars to hear williams talk at smoker meeting on intra - murals pres c c williams will speak at a smoker to be given by delta omicron theta honorary debat ing society at 7 30 tomorrow even ing in the arcadia room of drown hall this is the first meeting of the society and morris mindlin arts 38 vice president of the or ganization will act at chairman plans will be made for an ex tensive intramural debating pro gram the winning team and the runner-up will be eligible for the williams prize in debating the prize consists of 60 to each mem ber of the winning team and 40 to each member of the runner-up last year first prize went to the engineering physics team made up of barnard altschuler eng 40 and henry g werner eng 40 second prize went to the arts team consisting of russel kowalyshyn arts 40 and edwin miller arts 40 teams were divided accord ing to curricula last year d.o.t offers opportunity d q marshall m e 38 pres ident of delta omicron theta said d o t again this year pursues its policy of offering any lehigh undergraduate whether experienced in debate or not the opportunity to speak publicly on a platform several times during the winter all it asks is a gen uine interest in the training in thinking and speaking which arg ument affords men are promoted to the varsity squad on the basis of a year's outstanding work in this intramural program the cross-examination style of de bating used last year will again be used this year at a meeting of the society's council last week eugene h uh ler arts 37 former president was appointed intramural debating manager raphael g scoblionko arts 39 was appointed assist ant manager morris mindlin arts 38 was named intercollegiate de bating manager it was also de cided that the intercollegiate de bating program will not be ex panded at the meeting tomorrow even ing certificates of membership will be awarded to members of last year's squad who were elected to delta omicron theta j c cal laghan instructor in english and coach of the debating team will anounce a tentative intercollegiate team for this coming season bradford to talk on credit before cosmos club frederick a bradford profes sor of economics will speak on monetary and credit policies at a meeting of the cosmos club to night in the faculty club room at drown hall the club was originally organ ized in the spring of 1926 by prof a a bennett former head of the mathematics department as the science and research club the name was indicative of the prim ary purpose of the club which at that time was limited to men in the physics and mathematics de partments later membership was broad ened until at present most of the departments in the university are represented its membership is rotational and consists of eleven members o alumnus in auto accident early saturday evening charles h ford arts 37 who visited lehigh during houseparty was in an accident at 8:30 satur day evening on broadhead aven ue his car came down broad head avenue and collided with the parked car of w h werst of this city considerable damage was done to werst's car no one was hurt in the accident by h m conner a heavy spattering rain failed to lower spirits or lessen the jov ial mood of 550 couples who danced to the music of sammy kaye and his orchestra at the sen ior ball on friday at the coliseum with dancing from 10 p m to 3 a m the swing and sway maestro played with but little in termission during the evening he featured a medley of fraternity songs and the alma mater dean enthusiastic i'm really enthusiastic about the senior ball said dean mc conn who together with mrs mcconn was among the chaper ones at the affair in my opinion it was the most attractive and creditable dance we have had at lehigh for a long time and it seemed to me the guests were en joying themselves more than ever before the chairman of the com mittee mr henning and his col leagues are deserving of much credit and credit is also due to the fraternities for their cooper ation the newly-revamped coliseum was decorated in blue and gold with colored lighting effects a low false ceiling extended the length of the hall ventilation was aided by many large electric fans surrounded by fraternity and dormitory booths furnished by the respective living groups the dance floor was always crowded with dancing students and their house party guests who seeminly en joyed the band and their leader who acted as master of ceremonies throughout the evening vocalists included jimmy brown tommy ryan and the three barons during several numbers the entire band sang as a glee club an enlarged public address system gave mr kaye the opportunity to joke with the dancing couples asks for sigma nu's are there any sigma nu's here he once inquired the lead er a graduate of ohio university is a member of this fraternity at times during the evening the usually smooth music was sup plemented by several sessions of the big apple this together with floor sitting autograph seek ing — sammy kaye always oblig ing — and even the singing of a negro spiritual by some undaunted group added spice to the ball although many of the chaper ones from fraternity houses at tended the affair the official chap erones were dean and mrs c m mcconn dean and mrs g b curtis and dr and mrs c g beardslee o thieves enter fraternity thirty-five dollars were stolen from the lambda chi alpha fra ternity at midnight sunday the thieves entered through an un locked door this is the fifth fra ternity house to be robbed at le jhigh this fall report by dean palmer shows selections that more students in the col lege of arts and science major in biology than in any other sub ject was revealed yesterday at a meeting of the faculty of the col lege in the faculty room of the alumni memorial building the report presented by philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science showed that 33 students are majoring in biol ogy 17 in business 15 in govern ment 14 in geology 13 in journ alism 12 in english and 11 in history the remainder of the 153 majors listed are divided as follows met allurgy eight chemistry seven accounting two fine arts two french two mathematics two mining two philosophy two physics two social institutions two and bacteriology economics education german greek latin and psychology with one major each dr e h riley associate pro fessor of english was re-elected secretary of the college of arts and science dr d m frazer acting hed of the department of geology and dr g d harmon associate professor of american continued on page four lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday october 26 1937 speakers at dorm ground breaking exercises vol xlv — no 9 harold bauer will present piano recital business men of bethlehem will offer plan fraternities to hear bid on joint buying idea from local stores international artist to play here under auspices of foundations left to right — a w litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds s l hoover representative of philadelphia builders james l burley representative of new york architects president c c wil liams melvin s lord ch e 38 president of lehigh union joseph a hopkins bus 38 president of interfraternity council james t ber gen ch e 38 president of arcadia 550 couples attend dance debate society to make plans mustard and cheese will present ceiling zero dec 10 or jan 7 budget plan discussed the next production of mustarj and cheese ceiling zero will be given on either dec 10 1937 or jan 7 1938 at broughal high school it was decided last night at a meeting of the society the bethlehem school board has agreed to allow the club to use broughal high school auditorium but the terms have not been set richard w hubschmidt m e 39 was elected stage manager for the ensuing year may get fire proof scenery a weekly budget plan was dis cussed as well as the possibility of procuring fireproof portable scenery it was proposed that an attempt be made to secure cos tumes from either the local air port or the r o t c unit last may pres c c williams issued a letter stating that drown hall had been declared unsatis factory as an auditorium to hold public performances where over 400 people attended mustard and cheese immediately began to look for a suitable location for their productions liberty high school auditorium broughal high school auditorium and the globe theater were considered the club notified the bethle hem board of education of its des ires to use broughal auditorium and last monday evening the board gave its approval club secures broughal high for first play price — five cents house stewards will meet to hear plans a meeting of all house stew ards will be held tonight at 7:15 p m at the arcadia room in drown hall a plan for joint fraternity buying of food will be presented by the bethlehem chamber of commerce joseph hopkins bus 38 president of the interfratern ity council requests that every house send at least one rep resentative to this meeting member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first