Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 30

              date of junior prom decided by committee eugene b caller i e 39 president of the junior class yesterday set the date of spring houseparty as april 22-23 and announced that phillip smith bus 39 samuel r cox i e 39 and frank jackson ch e 39 will serve as committee for ihe junior prom which will be on the same date due to the impossibility of definitely signing an orchestra of any reputation more than six weeks in advance he will be unable to release the name for some time reported caller math society elects leader . will be a special three-inch round ! casting on which appears in re lief a design of one of the first printing presses used in the united states the competition open to all newspapers magazines mimeo graphed papers and pages pro duced in local newspapers will be judged by practicing newspa permen in allentown bethlehem and easton newspapers will be judged on general appearance and makeup news and editorial writing maga zines on general appearance con tents editorials and use of mater ial in advertising section and mimeographed papers on attrac tiveness contents and editorials plans all-day program in addition to the contest an all day program is being planned which tentatively includes regis tration at 9 a m followed by a tour of the campus the opening session would begin at 11 a m with luncheon at 12:30 p m round-table discussions and a closing general session would oc cupy the afternoon discussions this year will prob ably center about editorial writ ing news writing sports writing headlines and makeup business problems photography mimeo graphed papers magazine prob lems and the work of the faculty adviser speakers for the general sessions have not yet been se lected editors business managers and faculty advisers of newspapers and magazines of approximately 750 preparatory and high schools in pennsylvania and new jersey are being invited to attend the fifth annual scholastic press conference to be held at lehigh saturday may 14 president c c williams has ap pointed the following committee to make arrangements for the fifth annual scholastic press conference to be held here sometime in may dale h gramley associate pro iessor of journalism chairman dean c m mcconn dr wray h congdon director oi admis sions robert f herrick assistant alumni secretary and dr robert d biliinger assistant professor of chemistry gramley names committee professor gramley has named kenneth k kost instructor in journalism charles j moravec assistant in journalism and seven senior journalism majors to his committee these students are j palmer murphy kieste a janulis richard n larkin robert h clark raymond f feilbach nev in l fidler and a william jessup twenty plaques and many cer tificates of merit will be awarded in ten classes of contests being conducted in connection with the conference first and second place awards will be bronze plaques mounted on mahogany first prize dukek assigns jobs in probe dr beardslee made adviser makes slight changes in plan combining governing bodies alters frosh programs drops morning assembly 1 luring orientation week exercises the amendments making pos sible the merger of the lehigh union and arcadia student gov erning bodies were approved with slight alterations and changes were made in the plans for fresh man week next september by the union cabinet at a meeting yester uay afternoon in drown hall the changes made in the merger plan will be presented to arcadia lor consultation at its next meet ing they provide for the elim ination of one seat on the new cabinet and for the retention of the name lehigh union after action by arcadia the proposal will go to the committee on student activities for final ap proval and if approved will go into effect next may the suggested freshman week changes will go to omicron delta kappa senior activities honorary and the tau beta pi-phi beta j^appa criticism committee for discussion following that they will be referred to the committee on freshman week for approval under the new regulations morning assemblies during fresh man week will be abolished and the evening sessions lengthened fewer faculty speakers and more students will address the assembly and emphasis will be placed on the teaching of lehigh traditions songs and cheers but the funda mental purpose of the exercises will not be changed according to a union spokesman affair is effort to revive interest in chapter at easton school gramley gives speech in an effort to revive interest at lafayette in pi delta epsilon nonorary journalism fraternity sa publications men from lehigh and the easton school held a joint banquet in the old sun inn last evening headaches of the faculty news paper adviser were described by dale h gramley associate pro lessor of journalism mr gramley told of the innumerable complaints received by him for the errors in the brown and white and des cribed his job as a pleasant mix ture of entertainment and respon sibility speaking on behalf of the laf ayette chapter charles severance eaixor oi the j_.aiayetie semi weekly student newspaper told guests that the number of pi delts at his school was limited by a ruling however he stated that the fraternity was still fairly ac tive on the campus herrick commands group robert herrick 34 editor of the alumni bulletin and grand vice president of pi delta epsilon commended the group for the idea of furthering good fellowship be tween lafayette and lehigh j palmer murphy arts 38 acted as toastmaster milton spilberg arts 39 was in charge of arrangements for the banquet in addition to editor severance those attending connected with the j-afayette were robert cottern business man ager charles macmakin business staff william richards national advertising manager frank lib erman theatre editor and barry friedman managing editor harry osborn instructor in chemical engineering was also present debaters open third round honorary society to be continued largest issue in history of association says editor herrick sultzer writes article the largest alumni bulletin in the history of the lehigh alumni association will go into the mails wednesday morning announced robert f herrick editor listing among its articles those of many well known alumni the magazine will appear with a total of 108 pages raymond walters president of the university of cincinnati has contributed an article titled so it began he was the first editor of the bulletin and in his writing he tells of the work and exper iences which he encountered morton sultzer 12 an alumnus trustee writes about the univer sity then and now in this art icle he compares lehigh as he saw it when he was a student and as he sees it now through the eyes of a trustee william a cornelius executive secretary of the alumni association contributes i'm asking you in which he tells of the lehigh he sees as secretary and describes the lehigh of the future with the publishing of this story contri butions of all of the secretaries of the association since its incor poration in 1917 have appeared in the bulletin a series of articles tracing the history of the university and the work done here in the past 25 years by its alumni has been writ ten by the feature writing class in journalism and appears in the forthcoming issue of the bulletin those who are contributing are willet weeks jr arts 39 j palmer murphy arts 38 milton spilberg arts 39 thrasher gray arts 39 albert s ogden eng phys 38 charles e brown arts 38 nevin fidler arts 38 a page of greeting written by r w sailor president of the american alumni council appears in the magazine and is dedicated to the concurrent celebration of the silver anniversary of both the alumni council and the bulletin sibley to present star film tonight pictures would be used in goes to a party part of magazine ticket sale set at 500 life picture news magazine has been invited to send a photog rapher to scabbard and blade's military ball celebrating the 150 th anniversary of the signing of the constitution at the national guard armory march 5 raymond winters bus 38 chairman of the dance announced yesterday through the efforts of robert s porter arts 38 john s bil lings editor of life would run pictures taken here in the section of tne magazine life goes to a party life in seeking unusual af fairs for subjects under this title might be attracted by the colonial motif in which the decorations are to be carried out and the promised attendance of celebrities dean approves of flan this would be the first time that a nationally-known magazine would publicize a lehigh dance both dean c m mcconn and lieutenant colonel j s leonard nead of the department of military science and tactics have given their permission and have voiced approval of the plan in a step to curb overcrowded conditions past bane of lehigh dance committees scabbard and blade will limit ticket sales to 500 no stag tickets will be sold a queen of the ball will be chosen from students at moravian college and seminary for women cedar crest college and beaver college jenkintown it was defi nitely announced tris week - 3 schools have not replied other colleges which will chose candidates when the committee's invitation is accepted are briarcliff college briarcliff man or n v sarah lawrence col lege bronxville n v and ogantz college ogantz pa winters said he would announce the names of celebrities who are to attend the affair in the near future as it has not been defin itely established that they will at tend the person who will crown the queen will also be released shortly f in an effort to promote a com petitive spirit among members of the society a large thermometer will be erected in the armory upon which the progress of ticket sales will be shown o reprints are received of prof smith's criticism reprints have been secured by the english department of a crit ical analysis of granville-park i er's hamlet written by prof i robert m smith head of the de partment of english published in the shakespeare association bul letin of july 1937 in this work professor smith comments on the creditable inter pretation of hamlet offered by granville-baker various phases of the plot and excerpts from the dialogue are used to illustrate the desired points 44 freshmen are initiated by newtonian group for fiscal year forty-four freshmen were in itiated into the newtonian society freshman honorary mathematics club at a meeting held wednesday evening in packard laboratory president w f carson ch e 40 presided at the meeting during which a talk on fourth dimension al geometry was given by bernard altsnuler eng phys 40 and new officers were elected from the group of initiates the newly elected officers are albert e lee eng president george m ritchie eng vice president and treasurer and claude d gilchrist eng secre tary the retiring officers are w f carson president d r luster m e 40 vice president and treas urer and t e ricketts ch e 40 secretary a motion was also passed at the meeting to eliminate from the constitution the limit of 40 mem bers in the society the freshmen initiates are frederick n bahnson donald w bedell german bordolla james h bricker robert n brown richard a buser harry e case henry d chandler barton con char samuel s cross hugh r davidson alton p dieffenbach august descheemaeker donald eaaie john s ferguson claude d gilchrist arnold h grandage henry j griesemer fletcher hanks edward d hems claude e hensinger george e hessel bacher charles a houston charles f kalmbach morton f xvapion robert e lee james w iyiannion keron m manion leon ard j mckinley george f mes singer john d metier william ti morse raymond r myers frederick w nadig william p o brien benjamin ojserkis clar ence g reber george m ritchie john t riley joseph w schall lemuel f sentz carl c stotz bernard stuber and walter h vogelsberg department head named counselor for inter fraternity group the interf raternity council meeting last night in drown hall approved as its faculty adviser dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy although this is the first time that the council has had an ad viser dr beardslee has served in an unofficial capacity for several years the golf team according to jos eph hopkins bus 38 president of the council had the second best average last year among all lehigh teams and was voted 100 to aid in covering its expenses hopkins said that there had been no accidents reported before or after the interfraternity ball at dorney park dean c m mcconn was pleased with the con duct at the dance and called it one of the most successful he has attended objects to outsiders the only objectionable feature of the dance hopkins said was the attendance of non-fraternity and even non-lehigh students after a discussion of means with which to cope with this situation in the near future during which such methods as the compulsory hears dr bozorth white zell hunsberger also to investigate school monopolies william g dukek ch e 38 chairman of the omicron delta xcappa committee for the inves tigation of job monopolies has as signed specific fields to each of the members of the committee and when their results are obtained there will be a meeting to exam ine the findings of the investiga tion paul e p white e e 38 will assist dukek in the investigation of all student government associa tions and in any other organi zations relating to student activi ties except publications and ath letics zell to examine sports managerships and other phases of athletics will be the subject of examinations by charles f zell bus 38 an attempt will be made to examine the records of the last 10 years and try to determine just how much politics there has been in the various organizations publications will receive the at tention of francis w hunsberger c e 38 member of the pi delta epsilon committee for investiga tion and he will make his report to the o d k committee principal boosters for lafayette's pi delt chapter continued on page four pi tail sigma will remain engineer fraternity that pi tau sigma will remain an honorary society for mechani cal and indstrial engineers was decided last night at a meeting of the society in packard laboratory a proposal had been made that the fraternity be turned into an association the society also selected march 3 as the date for elections this early date wlas chosen so that pledges will be able to make their required wooden keys during the spring vacation a discussion was also held con cerning the resale of the bonds which were formerly sold to pay for the furnishings of the engi neers longe in packard laboratory the original plan was that these bonds were to be sold from gradu ating engineers to student engi neers for as long as the lounge should exist but this plan has not been carried out a report on the convention held by the society last november at lehigh was given by philip j welch m e 38 president of the society o 60 seniors interviewed by bethlehem steel co sixty seniors were interviewed by a representative of the beth lehem steel company wednesday and thursday for membership in the company's loop course which they offer each year today r j lincoln represent ing the electric controller and manufacturing company inter viewed senior electrical engineers for positions with his company o holy communion given bishop frank w sterrett con ducted a service of holy commun ion yesterday morning in packer memorial chapel bishop sterrett was assisted in the service by dean roscoe thorn ton foust and the rev m m moore motion picture of heavens explained by lecture seeing the universe will be the subject of a motion picture and lecture to be presented by ruroy sibley noted lecturer at 8 15 o'clock this evening in pack ard auditorium the program is sponsored by the e w brown astronomical society mr sibley will show five reels including a special reel showing an imaginary trip to the moon the pictures which will be accom panied by a commentary by mr sibley give a composite picture of the heavens as seen through some of the world's largest tele scopes considerable effort has been ex pended in the filming of mr sib ley's reels on solar activity the pictures which show sun-spots and eclipses are the result of ef forts made by a recent eclipse ex pedition mr sibley is connected with the educational films corporation of america which makes many films on technical and scientific subjects he has presented his pictures and lectures at rutgers columbia the franklin institute and other uni versities throughout the ocuntry o band members to play at future home games forty members of the university | band will play at the three re ! maining home basketball games ; james mack arts 38 student | leader of the band announced yesterday according to mack paul cal vert basketball coach has invited the band to play at the muhlen berg rutgers and lafayette games physics society studies magnetic theory those who were present at the meeting of the physics society last evening heard as part of the lec ture presented by dr r m boz orth of the bell telephone lab oratories the strange sound of microscopic crystals of magnetic materials pounding against each other as they arranged themselves symmetrically in a magnetic field the lecture entitled ferromag netic theory and some recent experiments on single crystals of ferromagnetic materials was accompanied by lantern slides and demonstrations clarifying dr boz orth's statements the sound of crystal motion was made clearly audible by a delicate amplifying system which produced , a peculiar clicking roar other ex periments designed to determine possibilities in magnetism applied to the engineering and sound fields were also described freeman metzger take first debate barnard kowalyshyn second intramural debating teams rep resenting the chemical engineers and electrical engineers defeated squads consisting of business stu dents in the third round of the winter tournament wednesday evening in packard auditorium resolved that all anthracite mines within the state of pennsyl vania should be owned by the federal government was the topic of discussion this was the first time this question was used this season william i freeman ch e 40 and richard e metzger eng 41 upholding the affirmative of the question defeated the negative team composed of stephen t lowry eng 41 and robert f koening met e 40 negative wins second debate in the second debate of the ev ening william h barnard eng 41 and stephen kowalyshyn jr eng 41 upholding the negative unanimously defeated wilson c hanline bus 39 and john t riley bus 41 judges for the debates were stanley v printz and john f stine allentown attorneys and j calvin callaghan director of de bating daniel q marshall m e 38 acted as chairman four debates scheduled for next week were announced by callag han the chemical engineering b team will meet the chemical en gineering c team and the elec trical engineering c team will de bate against the business a team on wednesday evening the fol lowing evening the arts team will meet the chemical engineering c team while the electrical engi neering a team opposes the chemi cal engineering a team left to right — charles severance editor in chief of the lafayette j palmer murphy editor in chief of the brown and white robert herrick editor of the alumni bulletin bethlehem pa friday february 18 1938 alumni bulletin will be mailed over weekend price — five cents lehigh union votes for arcadia merger vol xlv — no 30 annual press conference to be held here in may 750 secondary schools receive invitations to attend conclave on journalism problems from committee headed by dale gramley pi delts hold joint banquet with lafayette lehigh university brown and white ' life invited to army ball with camera all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612