Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 11

              council tomake decision the n y u smoker will be held at 7:30 o'clock thurs day evening william b clark ch e 38 chairman of arcad ia's booster committee stated that the rally will be held in taylor gymnasium the speakers for the meeting will be glen w harmeson varsity football coach howard r reiter professor of and head of the department of physical education and nelson a kel logg director of the division of athletics and physical edu cation thursday was selected for the meeting as the football team will be in new york fri day night the final meeting of all house stewards will be held at 7:30 p m tomorrow in arcadia room drown hall mr melhado president of the bethlehem chamber of commerce has returned from new york where he was un expectedly called by his wife's illness and will be present to present the chamber's plan the revised contracts of mr scarpulla will be in the fra ternities hands in time for this meeting this will be the last meeting of this group and the houses will make their definite decision at its conclusion an nounces joseph hopkins bus 38 president of interfrater nity council union to vote upon changes council to pick date for ball dr ettinger to wed miss kathryn gable dr amos a ettinger associate professor of history announced his engagement on saturday to miss kathryn gable moravian prepar atory teacher of allentown miss gable is past president of the junior alumnae of cedar crest college dr ettinger received his a b degree from muhlenberg college and was its first honor student at present he is dean emeritus of that college in 1923 the uni versity of pennsylvania awarded him his master's degree in 1930 he received his doctor's degree from oxford university england three years later ogle thorpe university honored him with the degree of doctor of letters before coming to lehigh he was instructor in history at the uni versity of pennsylvania lafay ette college and yale university he has been associate professor here for the past two years no date has been set for the wedding club prepares play scenery group will choose be tween feb 5 and 12 to discuss junior prom the interfraternity council will meet at 7:30 p m thursday in the arcadia room of drown hall plans are to be discussed for the jnterfraternity ball to be held either on feb 5 or 12 the date will be decided upon by a com mittee consisting of clinton w strang bus 38 chairman sam uel r cox ch e 39 d'arcy w roper 11 eng 40 and robert h duenner jr e m 38 plans for the junior prom will also be discussed the committee has suggested the week-end of april 8 to 10 several orchestras have been suggested for the in terfraternity ball but no def inite decision has been made two representatives are to de chosen for the national inter fraternity council convention to be held at the hotel commodore in new york city on nov 26 and 27 chemical playlet to be performed eight additions to b j scar pulla's plan for cooperative buy ing have been added to the con tract since it was first presented to the interfraternity council two amendments to meet certain ob weeks ago scarpulla made these jections raised by the house stew ards specificially these additions are as follows 1 meat is denned as to in clude poultry fish and cold cuts 2 the purchase of butter and eggs is made optional for the fraternities 3 scarpulla will buy qual ity meats at the lowest pos sible wholesale cost 4 a sufficient stock will be kept on hand so that all last minute emergency orders can be filled 5 bills are due 10 days after they are presented to the fraternities at the end of the month 6 contracts will be made out for 90 school days rather than for 90 days as the orig inal contract stated 7 expert butchering and prompt delivery will be guar anteed 8 all scarpulla's business books will be open for in spection at all times to present alternate plan another plan for cooperative buying will be presented to the interfraternity council by the local merchants and the bethlehem chamber of commerce because vernon melhado president of the chamber of commerce was unable to attend the meeting of the house stewards last week the local plan will be presented this week after both scarpulla's revised plan and the local plan have been received and considered the heads of the living groups will choose the plan which best meets their needs dramatic group begins work on ceiling zero ; secures club room mustard and cheese dramatic club at its friday meeting an nounced that the present cloak room on the second floor of drown hall will be converted into a dramatic club-room under the direction of richard hubschmidt m e 39 stage manager for the production work has begun on the scenery for the first play of the year ceiling zero the club is planning an ex tensive publicity program and a number of novelties and stunts are being prepared to advertise the play being presented dec 10 in broughal high school friday afternoon a a rights director of dramatics laid out a schedule of work and gave as signments to those men on the production staff he talked to members and competitors for membership in the club and an nounced that all practices ex cept the dress rehearsal will be held in drown hall o talk on coal mining given dr l e young vice-president in charge of operations of the pittsburgh coal company spoke on the mechanization of coal mining before a joint meeting of the lehigh mining and geological society and the john markle min ing society of lafayette the meet ing was held friday evening in the john markle mining engineer ing hall lafayette committee makes plans for program revision during frosh week a meeting of the lehigh union will be held next week to decide upon regulations for future fresh man week programs announced melvin lord ch e 38 the committee in charge of reg ulations are courtland f carrier i e 39 chairman eugene c fleming bus 38 and phillip j welch m e 38 they have sub mitted the following rules to be decided upon 1 abolishment of all morning assemblies except the opening day session this will be held for the purpose of organization 2 each evening assembly should be lengthened in order to carry out the ideas of freshmen week and get the freshmen acquainted with the faculty and university customs would omit tours 3 omission of all campus tours due to weak attendance in former years 4 placing of flood lights out side of packard laboratory in order to aid the fraternity men in find ing their rushees in addition to these suggestions it has been recommended that all freshmen wear name-tags of one kind and all upperclassmen of an other so that they can help the fra ternities in their rushing the offices of arcadia lehigh union and interfraternity coun cil are being combined into one office an office-like appearance is being given to these headquarters instead of the former store-like appearance said lord honorary society pledges 17 seniors and 3 jun iors at exercises williams lauds group tau beta pi national honorary engineering fraternity pledged 20 men yesterday morning in colloq uium the seventeen seniors and three juniors chosen are as fol lows george b cushing e e 38 emil w felegy e m 38 george a goetz e e 38 william r graham jr e m 38 carstens y haas ch e 38 nelson m kennedy eng phys 38 elbert m mahal met e 38 james r oberholtzer e e 38 richard g phelps e m 38 william e road strum e e 38 walter j schmidt jr ch e 38 malcolm m simmons jr chem 38 james a weidenham mer m e 38 john h weigel i e 38 john w welker e e 38 donald b wheeler jr eng phys 38 frank h burnett i e 39 frederick c moesel ch e 39 and james e patton ch e 39 williams gives history john a conney e e 38 pres ident of tau beta pi introduced president c.c williams who made the pledging address speaking on the history of the society and the qualities of the men pledged wil liams mentioned the fact that tau beta pi was founded 52 years ago in packer hall and that its rec ognition of scholarship character and companionability among the engineers is definitely in keeping with the lehigh tradition the students chosen were sel ected at a regular meeting of the soceity held last thursday even ing in the tau beta pi room in packard laboratory previous to this a smoker had been given by tau beta pi for the men eligible for membership based on scholastics eligibility is based scholastic ally on a 2.5 average during four semesters for the juniors in ad dition participation in activities is taken into account the formal initiation and ban quet will be held nov 19 be cause a large number of men were pledged yesterday only a few men will be pledged in the spring initiation is held intercollegiate news asso ciation convention to be held nov 12 13 speakers from 8 papers representatives from eight member papers will be among the speakers at the three round tables which will be conducted as a part of the intercollegiate news assoc iation convention nov 12 and 13 in packard laboratory the round tables will meet on friday after noon and saturday morning nevin l fidler arts 38 news manager of the brown and white will be in charge of the news round table william g dukek chem 38 editorial council man ager of the brown and white will be in charge of the editorial round table and kenneth k kost fac ulty adviser to the business board will preside over the business round table the friday afternoon topics and speakers will be news leader : nevin l fidler news manager the lehigh brown and white the right headline at the right place temple news representative covering the campus accurately fiat lux alfred representative editorial leader william g dukek editorial man ager the lehigh brown and white organ ization of the editorial staff haverford news representative the place of na tional and international issues in the col lege press george washington hatchet representative columns and features on the editorial page the bucknellian rep resentative business leader john h weigel business man ager the lehigh brown and white know ing where the money goes dr carl e allen assistant professor of accounting le high university must copy always look the same john handy business manager elect of the lehigh brown and white sell ing the paper to pop and mom william c klingensmith circulation manager of the lehigh brown and white the saturday morning topics and speakers will be news building the news story the gettys burgian representative feature possibili ties p e p white the lehigh brown and white editorial what happened at pitt the pitt news representative what is censorship j palmer murphy the lehigh brown and white business putting across the special page russell stevens advertising manager of the le high brown and white selling local ad vertising george rheinfrank copy super viser of the lehigh brown and white what my paper has been doing all bus iness managers present blanks available carothers gives third radio talk pictures will be shown to mechanical engineers heat and its control is the talking motion picture which wili be loaned by the johns-manville company for the american soc iety of mechanical engineers meei ing at 8 p m thursday in room 466 packard laboratory the film includes laboratory demonstrations shadow graphs that visualize heat transfer an imated drawings that demonstrate molecular activity and reasons for the vast difference in con ductivity of various materials a japanese sandman he faculty proposes changes in curricula and courses for next year lyse gets crocs medal the college of business ad ministration has been accredited by the new york state educat ional department as an institute whose course of study entitles graduates to admission for can didacy to a certified public ac countant degree this was announced at the monthly faculty meeting held yest erday afternoon at 4 p m an increase in the number of courses offered in business law and ac counting was responsible for the listing numerous changes in curricula and courses were proposed and approved in the same meeting a considerable number of prereq uisites in education french and spanish were changed several new english courses were added these are a course of readings in english literature a thesis for ad vanced undergraduates and an hour course in parliamentary pro cedure abolish sanitary engineering the course in sanitary engineer ing was abolished in its place an option in sanitary engineering is being offered as a part of the civil engineering curriculum minor changes in chemistry included the addition of a study of semi-micro qualitative analysis a course in fluid mechanics was also ap proved the faculty was told that pro fessor i m lyse recently re ceived the crocs medal from the american society of civil engi neers for his paper on torsion in beams deans palmer carothers and stoughton presented reports on the activities of their respective col leges for the month of october dean palmer stated that new majors had been formed in eco nomics social instution finance and accounting to accord with the departmentalization in the col lege of business administration he reported that dean william jacob robbins 10 now at the university of missouri had been called to columbia university as professor of botany 392 in business dean carothers announced thax the new curricula in the college of business administration were working out with great satisfac tion and the enrollment in that college was the largest in the his tory of the university 392 stud ents are enrolled dean stoughton announced thnt certain departments of the college of engineering had been approved by the engineering council for professional development professor becker president of tha faculty education club stated that the november meeting will be held monday nov 8 profes sor ford will speak on factors influencing college grades the model of independence hall now in the rotunda of the admin istration building will be left the c for the remainder of this year bo cause of the sesqui-centennial celebration of the adoption of tha constitution professor gibson said that plans for the permanent placement of this model would be discussed at a later date concerts to start will be given in packer memorial chapel the first of the sunday after noon concerts sponsored by tone will be given at 4 o'clock nov ember 7 in packer memorial chapel the entertainment will be furn ished by a trio composed of a e trumpler eng 40 violin richard marsten eng 41 flute and raymond k maneval bus 38 piano thesa concerts were established three years ago under the title nl students concert group which has been newly formed and enlarged under the title tone pi kappa alpha takes in 5 men at meeting five men were initiated into pi kappa alpha during a meeting saturday evening at the chapter house they include one junior and four sophomores the following were initiated alexander l bupp i e 39 york pa gilbert l curtis ch e 40 bridgeport conn arthur m hughes jr i e 40 ridgewood n j b logan hummel m e 40 york pa and john w tem ple ch e 40 pittsfield mass following the ceremony a ban quet was held at the hotel beth lehem george d harmon assoc iate professor of american history and a member of pi kappa alpha gave a talk on the ideals of col lege fraternities senior placement cards to aid interviewers senior placement cards are available and each senior is ex pected to fill them out and re turn them to e r morgan dir ector of placement the purpose of these cards is to give information to interviewers so that senior job getting is fac ilitated they are made up of the personal scholastic and extra curricular activity history of the members of the graduating class the interest shown by seniors in placement to date is gratifying but i cannot urge too strongly that each senior fill out these records as soon as possible said mr mor gan pictures of the graduate are squired with each placement card these can be obtained with thosp taken for the epitome o faculty dramatics society will read play by millay the king's henchmen by edna st vincent millay will be read by the faculty dramatics club at 7:30 o'clock wednesday even ing in the lounge of packard lab oratory those who will read the prin cipal parts are a a rights in structor in english mrs a a rights e h riley professor of english mrs e h riley and o l clifford instructor in eng lish engineers society offers prizes for student papers chem society to watch 4 a night in alchemy a night in alchemy a chem ical playlet will feature the next regular meeting of the students chemical society to be held nov ember 11 in the chemistry lecture room the play was written in 1928 by dr r d billinger as sistant professor of chemistry and was published in the journal of chemical education doctor billinger will play subtle the alchemist while the part of lungs his assistant will be taken by dr john c mertz instructor in chemistry ten students will perform chemical stunts during the performance alpha a die fenderfer professor of qualitative analysis will be in charge of chemical stage effects assisted by james f ryan jr ch e 40 the play concerns the doings of the ancient alchemists and in cludes many tricks and displays it portrays the conditions under which the alchemists worked their superstitions and their language lines were taken from ben john son's alchemy in order to give realism to several scenes the search for the mythical philosopher's stone and the el ixir of life are included as well as the ancient beliefs in the sup ernatural the play has been twice presented to the chemical society in previous years it was once given at a national meeting of the american chemical society and it is presented yearly at the uni versity of cincinnati where it was first given rutgers alumni meeting addressed by carothers industrial change brought hope states dean the industrial revolution has given man hope for abolishing mass poverty and insecurity stated n c carothers dean of the college of business administra tion last night in the third of a series of radio talks for the chasa national bank of new york the back breaking labor of man has been the pathetic story of history but the capitalistic sys tem for the past 100 years or the last half-second of man's long day on earth has remedied this dean carothers said that the rate of wages in any country and the decency of the treatment o'l its women and children is a good measure of the per capita horse power of the country he concluded although history has told of golden ages of the past there has never been a golden age for the plain man and his wife and children we are now on the verge of a golden age o fail to secure speakers plans for a meeting in com memoration of the 150 th anniver sary of the adoption of the con stitution scheduled for nov 18 have been abandoned a suitable speaker could not be secured an nounced g b curtis registrar two hundred dollars is offered to student members of the am erican society of mechanical en gineers by the association in the form of awards for engineering papers the charles t main award of 150 is offered for the ' best paper on economic limita tion in engineering design — with concrete examples two awards of 25 one to a postgraduate and one to an under graduate are offered for the best papers on any engineering sub ject these papers must be pre pared under the supervision of the mechanical engineering depart ment dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administration addressed the homecoming meet ing of the alumni association of rutgers college at new bruns wick n j following the lehigh rutgers football game on saturday the speech was broadcast over a network of radio stations after discussing football he explained the general condition of american colleges no more cares no more worries just sand so thinks dr b j miller head of the department of geology japanese sand baths seem to have engulfed dr miller in fact from his humorous expression they have completely captivated him ... or captured him just why dr miller is submitting to a sand bath is a matter of conjecture maybe his visit to japan has been too strenuous ... or could it be rheuma tism ... or being a geologist perhaps he wishes to test the soothing qualities of sand dr miller arrived in san francisco last thursday enroute from japan he had been attending the international geolog ical congress in miscow during the month of july he will be at le high within two weeks lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday november 2 1937 house stewards convene tomorrow for last time vol xlv — no 11 round tables are planned for conclave history professor will be married n y u game smoker to be held thursday price — five cents scarpulla has 8 amendments for contract tau beta pi taps 20 men in colloquium n y approves lehigh grads seeking c.p.a house stewards want ad ditions local merchants to offer plan member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first