Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 27

              publicizes ban 215 go on pro 33 more just go wm seabrook to give talk on witchcraft i illick c e 29 alleman arts 34 new men two instructors have been ad ded to the faculty for the second remester joseph e illick jr c e 29 has been appointed instructor in math ematics succeeding dr stewart s cairns who resigned to become assistant professor of mathematics at queens college new york illick was graduate assistant in mathematics in 1929-30 and re ceived his master's degree in 1933 gellert s alleman arts 34 will be instructor in english upon graduation he did graduate work at the university of pennsylvania while at lehigh he was editorial manager of the brown and white member of eta sigma phi honor ary classical society robert w blake society honorary philosoph ical society and phi beta kappa mrs schultz will lecture dr emma dietz schultz new register to be sealed in cornerstone william b seabrook howland lauds latest exhibit 1612 undergraduates 99 graduates enroll according to the latest figures released by registrar g b cur tis 1,612 undergraduates and 99 graduate students have registered for the second semester the re sults show the highest spring-term registration in the history of the university as approximately 290 seniors 320 juniors 425 sopho mores and 565 freshmen completed their registration last week nearly 215 undergraduates in cluding 65 freshmen have been placed on scholastic probation as a result of last semester's work of those on probation last se mester 75 were reinstated and 33 were flunked out the latest registration has an in crease of 97 students over the reg istration a year ago the last drop in second - semester registration occurred in 1934 when 30 less stu dents registered than in the year before since then each year has had an increase of from 14 to over 200 students business arts win debates handy heads business staff n y mirror features story on review lehigh university publicized by yellow journalism a full page illustrated article criticizing restraint of collegiate freedom oi the press appeared jan 30 in the magazine sec tion of the new york mirror to attract attention to the story three of the pieces of art depicting bur lesque by carl palmer arts 38 were printed in color the two drawings that were barred from the lehigh review were shown with the shapely queens partially secluded by a white band so that the reader would receive the impression that the drawings were unfit for the public eye the third picture was not allowed this undue modesty and was printed as it appeared in the review the story related how the fac ulty had censored two of the four pictures which were intended to prove palmer's point that there is true art in burlesque for those on a high minded level it quoted the brown and white in its criti cism of censorship and gave the opinion of william gottlieb bus 38 editor of the review on the censorship faculty signs copy which will be placed among dorm documents weather delays work president c c williams asked yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the faculty that each member of the faculty sign a copy of the university register that will be sealed in the cornerstone of rich ards house the new dormitory dr williams announced that a definite date for the laying of the cornerstone has not been set be cause of the delay in construction due to weather conditions but ten tative plans such as the material to be included are being arranged other announcements made at the faculty meeting included reg istrar g b curtis statement that copy for the new register is in type and galley proof has been submitted to department heads for approval approximately two thirds of the book is now complete and press work will begin this week i e 9 prerequisites changed the faculty voted that under graduate courses that have been called seminars be called prosem inars in the future and that the prerequisites of i e 9 be changed to m e 4 and eco 4 dr b l miller professor and head of the department of geology who was on leave of absence dur ing the first semester visiting rus sia china and japan was wel comed back to the faculty and the resignation of dr stewart s cairns assistant professor of mathematics was formally an anounced joseph e illick has been chosen to take prof cairn's place as an instructor in mathe matics another addition to the faculty is j s alleman 34 in structor in english it was also announced that the next meeting of the faculty ed ucation club would be held at 4 10 p m monday in the faculty room dean c m mcconn will speak on some results of the pennsylvania study faculty members to give lectures engineers are defeated during intramurals in packard lab the third round of the intra mural debates was won by the business b team and the arts team the topic for debate was resolved that the state of penn sylvania should adopt the uni cameral system of legislation the two debates were held thursday feb 3 in packard auditorium the first debate held between the chemical engineering c team and the business b team was won by john riley bus 41 and wilson hanline bus 41 the members of the negative team were chester van brunt ch e 41 and clifton hartman ch e 41 the decision to the negative team was awarded by a two to one decision by the judges the second debate of the even ing which was won by the arts team consisting of donald schoen arts 41 and stephen weinrib arts 41 the chemical team con sisting of richard metzger ch e 41 and frank novitski ch e 41 debated the negative side of the question the judges for the two debates were j c callaghan instructor in english elmore leppert fellow in english and james p sell in structor in biology brown speaks on witchcraft 75 persons hear history professor in speech at packard lab the story of european witch craft is very closely bound up with the story of the western church in its essentials in its practices and in its demonology it is almost the exact counterpart of christian ity as christianity was understood by the layman thus sydney m brown profes sor of history explained christ ian medieval witchcraft friday night in packard laboratory ap proximately 75 people attended the lecture which was illustrated by slides showing medieval paint ings and woodcuts of practices and common ideas about witchcraft seabrook to talk friday this lecture was preparatory to next week's talk on witchcraft and magic by william seabrook continued on page four students injured in auto accident wife of chem instructor to talk on chemistry of natural products dr emma d schultz research chemist and wife of raymond f schultz instructor in chemistry will speak at an open meeting of the chemical society thursday feb 10 in the main lecture room of the chemistry laboratory her topic will be on recent develop ments in the chemistry of natural products according to dr schultz with the right chemical compound one can cure rickets scurvy or goitre and even develop a mother instinct if you so desire she will discuss an amazing series of compounds one is a male hormone another a female hormone some are heart stimul ants but in larger doses are pois ons another helps in the digestion of fats in the body and still an other causes cancer in rats and may some day be shown to do so in humans graduated from barnard college dr schultz graduated from barnard college in 1925 with a b.a degree and took graduate work at columbia university and bryn mawr college she has had nine years experience in chemical research working under prof james b contant harvard university she completed four years of research on the isolation and reactions of chlorophyll her latest period of research was under professor h wieland munich germany in the chemistry of bile acid addresses e e.'s paintings water colors in current showing at library gallery the most spirited and the most free of the entire exhibit in the art gallery which began sunday and continues until feb 20 are the finger paintings by the pupils of richard p hoffman of allen town says garth a howland head of the department of fine arts there are also in the exhibition a collection of representative wat er colors of artists from all over the country showing the uniform ity of water colors and a group of 11 paintings by hoffman which deal with floral and still scenes the finger paintings according to professor howland are done without the aid of brushes giving the children an opportunity to ex press themselves more easily and to have a greater freedom of will paintings show great expression although the paintings are im mature he said they show great expression continuing professor howland said that the aqua-chromatic ex hibition of water colors has dif ferent impressions of painters to determine the permanency of paintings done with water color he added that there was a def inite series of colors according to the chromatic scale which lim i ited the artists choices of color these paintings are extremely ! diversified and give a complete ; survey of the work done by the i painters of water color today ihe stated professor howland said that the series done by mr hoffman is somewhat lighter in color effect and the scenes mostly of nature giving his works a natural free movement brown and white selects news officers for second semester officers of the brown and white for the second semester have been elected by the executive commit tee of the brown and white and approved by the board of pub lications after competitive examin ations for the various offices the competition was based on examin ations and competitive issues of the brown and white eric weiss e e 39 was elected editorial manager the following men were elected to the news staff willet weeks arts 39 news manager henry t s heckman arts 39 makeup editor charles e brown arts 38 sports editor raymond feilbach arts 38 tues day news editor roger klein schmidt ch e 40 friday news editor and harry k hammond eng phys 38 photographic ed itor business staff officers elected officers of the business staff elected to office are john t handy jr bus 38 business man ager russell e stevens ch e 39 financial manager edward v manning m e 39 copy super visor george b rheinfrank i e 39 local advertising assistant wallice p watkins bus 40 na tional advertising assistant john c lauderback bus 40 circula tion manager and arthur h harding ch e 40 assistant cir culation manager j palmer murphy arts 38 re tains the office of editor-in-chief ' marie as played by tommy dorsey is favorite of lehigh students dates explorer is also writing on negro civilization in new volume served in world war by f e galbraith william b seabrook author explorer and adventurer who will appear in the fourth of the cur rent series of concert-lectures at 8 15 p m friday evening at broughal high school is now at work on a new volume which in the opinion of his publishers will be the most important he has ever written his topic friday evening will be magic and witchcraft it's about negroes in america seabrook said recently my books up until now have been either a glorification of the negro or else a terrific attack upon them but this new book is to be a high powered piece of honest reporting and neither in disparagement nor in glorification having steeped myself on negroes in savagery i am now writing about them in civilization travelled in arabia two of his earlier books jun gle ways and the magic is land form the basis of his lec ture two years after his return from arabia seabrook made his initial public appearance in am erica as a speaker addressing the foreign policy association in new york his stay in manhattan was only a temporary lull in the series of sojourns off he went again this time down to haiti where he spent nearly a year with the voodoo worshipers in the mountains of that country then rest and off to west africa for observation of the peoples of the dark continent he recorded his startling and haunting experiences in haiti in his book the magic island which is a living history of voodoo rites set down by a man who has drunk the sacrificial blood before starting his travels sea brook graduated from mercersburg academy and newberry college in south carolina he joined phi gamma delta fraternity while an undergraduate the lehigh chap ter will have him as a dinner guest before his lecture was city editor newspaper work interested him and he became a reporter of the augusta chronicle working up to the position of city editor in three months a short time later he went to europe and did graduate work at the university of geneva in switzerland he returned to europe again in 1915 where he served as a private in the french army until gassed at verdun during his convalescence henry l mencken persuaded seabrook to return to new york and take up writing his first work was adventures in arabia others are air adventure the white monk of timbuctoo and his most recent asylum made independent by the com plete success of his books sea brook settled down at bandol on the french riviera after two years he returned to america re nouncing his life as an expatriate he now lives at rhinebeck n y his permanent home until the wanderlust takes him traveling once more o faculty dramatic club gives 3 play readings the faculty dramatic club read hands across the sea and fumed oak from noel coward's tonight at eight and hyacinth halvey by lady gregory at a meeting thursday evening in packard auditorium those who took part in the reading of the plays were dr j l graham assistant pro fessor of psychology and mrs graham miss m l kemp as sistant cataloguer dr j c mertz instructor in chemistry and mrs mertz mrs hilton a smith h w alexander instructor in math ematics mrs w l jenkins e p sinkinson associate professor of , ore dressing and fuel technology dr thomlinson fort head of the department of mathecatics and as tronomy miss m helms and mrs sydney m brown car hits loading platform as 3 are hurt three lehigh students william j o'brian eng 41 norman c scarpulla c e 40 and charles h fetzer ch e 40 were in jured thursday morning at 2 a m when the car in which they were riding crashed into a load ing platform on the southwest cor ner of 9th and hamilton streets allentown o'brian received lacerations of the face and scalp and a possible fracture of the right knee he is still confined to bed and is run ning a temperature but is resting comfortably fetzer who was discharged to day from the allentown hospital also suffered lacerations of the face and scalp and a fractured nose scarpulla who suffered a frac tured leg is resting comfortably o wasserman tests show 400 negative reactions all of the 400 wasserman tests subscribed to by students have come back from the university of pennsylvania and all of the re actions are found to be negative a negative reaction is a very good indication of the absence of syphilis said dr r c bull di rector of the students health ser vice a positive reaction ought to be confirmed by additional tests the test which has been avail able to the students faculty and employees of lehigh university will be continued for another week there are about 150 tubes i remaining for wasserman tests research mathematician explains television dr thornton c fry research mathematician for the bell tele phone laboratories spoke on what mathematics is doing for communication when he addres sed about 80 members of the elec trical engineering society thurs day evening in packard labora tory after discussing the use of mathematics in the designing of electrical equipment especially niters for use in long distance tele phony dr fry described the oper ation of television and telephoto and pointed out the value of the vacuum tube in sending several messages simultaneously over the same wire afterward the speaker answered questions by members of he audience o c l unrath 38 writes article on stamp market comparing the stamp market to the stock market charles l un rath bus 38 has written an ar ticle the speculative trend of the stamp market which ap pears in the current issue of meekel's weekly stamp news unrath received his information after interviewing leading stamp dealers of new york city the author is at present com piling material with dr carl e allen assistant professor of ac counting for an article on a simplified system of accounting for stamp dealers edythe wright ered by tommy dorsey he to gether with allen storr now the band's chief arranger who was in the same band were signed trombonist is 18 many of the present members of the dorsey band were signed after talent-scouting trips by the leader tommy found freddie stultz toot ing his saxaphone in a texas high school band when he played there at the exposition two years ago earl hagan newest member of the organization came to tommy for an audition when he arrived in new york from the pacific coast dorsey heard him signed him and he now plays all the lead trombone parts when tommy isn't on the stand earl is only 18 years old the dorsey search for talent has been given public notice as a result of the present series of radio audition tommy conducts each week during his sponsored pro gram a few who are selected as outstanding in the trials have the opportunity of playing a num ber with the band on the program those who click might possibly be signed by dorsey or by some of the other well-known bands 8 men to speak to high school assemblies eight lehigh professors and in structors have been scheduled to high school assemblies during feb ruary announced dr wray h congdon director of admissions yesterday on friday col nelson a kel logg director of the division of athletics and physical education spoke at the hanover township high school wilkes-barre on sportsmanship in high school athletics and dale h gramley associate professor of journalism addressed the glen ridge junior senior high school on newspaper frauds and hoaxes glen harmeson head football coach will tell on thursday his exeprience and experiences in football to the students of pingry school elizabeth n j and on saturday john r connelly as sistant professor of mechanical en gineering will relate the story of work from fire to the neigh borhood house in palmerton crum will address high school associate professor of classical languages and acting head of the department of greek will address the camden senior high school on our heritage from greek and roman medicine two lectures will be given on feb 16 by dr edgar h riley associate profes sor of english and dr wray h congdon director of admissions dr riley will go to kingston high school to talk on sane liv ing and a sense of humor and dr congdon will lecture to stu dents of doylestown high school on sky liner or glider the final lecture of the month will be given by dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy at upper darby high school on life is an honor system school where she was prominent in theatricals miss wright was signed by dorsey and made her new york debut at the french casino jack leonard was singing his first job with bert block's band out on long island when discov marie is the favorite dorsey played song of many lehigh stu dents and their girl friends who have written to tommy dorsey who plays at the interfraternity ball y saturday night at dorney park requesting that certain num bers be played during the evening sharing top honors with marie are such songs as stardust who once in a while night and day and tommy's theme song i'm gettin sentimental over you those expressing a desire to hear their favorite tunes seem to prefer fast numbers around mid night and the more romantic bal lads around 11 o'clock there were no requests at all for the current musical craze bie mir bist dv shoen storr is arranger the vocal selections to the above and many other favorites will be rendered by edythe wright blues singer jack leonard tenor and the three eesquires male trio arrangements are chiefly under the direction of allen storr miss wright a graduate of new bruns wick n j high school is the fea tured vocalist with the band shortly after graduating from will discuss harmones brown and white tuesday february 8 1938 vol xlv brown and white to speak here friday 2 instructors are added to faculty price — five cents all the i lehigh new first competitors will report all men interested in com peting for the business staff of the lehigh review will report at 7 15 p m tomorrow in the review room in drown hall freshmen and sophomores are eligible any candidate unable to attend will contact henry s heckman 4256-j before the meeting member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612