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              psychologists hear ford and jenkins speak the april meeting of the phila delphia experimental psycholo gists was held friday evening in the basement of packer hall pro fessor adelbert ford head of the department of psychology presid ed and read a paper on reaction time a paper on experiments on thermal sensitivity was present ed by william l jenkins in structor in psychology the group also discussed the ability to dis tinguish between hot and cold ob jects placed on the skin prior to the meeting professor ford was host to the 30 members at a buffet supper given at his home the philadelphia experimental psychologists is a sectional group which meets monthly at various institutions the may meeting will be held at temple university dr harvey a neville interf raternity council elects m.h grannatt as president applying list made larger all nominations due all nominations for class of ficers must be in by 6 o'clock thursday evening in drown hall also all nominations of dormitory and town officers to the new student governing body will close at the same time cooke lectures on diesel engines night in armor put off because of operetta musical cluh trip musical theme finished night in armor mustard and cheese's spring musical show has been postponed from may 6 and 7 to may 18 and 19 announced albert a rights instructor in english and director of mustard and cheese complications arising from the broughal high school operetta and the new york trip of the com bined musical clubs forced us to postpone the date of the show stated rights the high school pro ducers are using the sets which were designed for night in ar mour in their production on may 13 and 14 they must have the use of the sets for at least a week because of rehearsals which will be held from may 6 on musical background written work on the production has been progressing in strides and the musical background of the show has been written and is now in the stages of arrangement for the orchestra eleven tunes have been written they are here's to the men a college tune let's talk about spring i've got what it takes in walked you song of the sword recently sung by the glee club in new york only a dream a wench is not amused under the round table out of a clear blue sky first love and some where in the night all of this music and all but chree of the lyrics for the songs were written by david hughes special student frank n kem mer ch e 39 wrote the lyrics for the last three tunes ogburn lectures on the heavens r herrick is re-elected m c w admitted first woman's college to be given charter the next national convention of pi delta epsilon honorary journ alism fraternity will be held here in december this decision was reached at a meeting of the na tional organization friday and saturday at stevens institute of technology in hoboken n j at the meeting robert f herrick,'34 editor of the alumni bulletin was re-elected grand vice president of the fraternity applications for charters by moravian college for women and moravian college for men which were sponsored by the lehigh del egates were approved at a meet ing of the local chapter at 4 p m tomorrow in drown hall there will be a discussion of a joint ses sion with the lafayette branch at which the two new chapters will be installed 30 delegates attend convention about 30 delegates representing 12 colleges attended the convention and a new national constitution was drawn up and adopted the delegates were a william jessup arts 38 constitution com mittee eric weiss e e 39 serv ing on the nominating committee henry t s heckman arts 39 extension committee which con siders charter applications and george b rheinfrank jr i e 39 resolutions committee two representatives of moravian college for women accompanied the local delegation and formally presented their charter application the representatives were miss josephine degnan and miss viv ian cristol moravian is the first women's college to have a branch of pi delta epsilon first anthracite session to convene friday in packard lab prof eckfeldt chairman one of the highlights of the first annual anthracite conference to be held friday and saturday in packard laboratory will be an ex hibition of anthracite equipment by dealers and manufacturing companies burgess h jennings associate professor of mechanical engineering who is in charge of exhibits has announced that 32 exhibitors already have signified their intention of having displays friday morning there will be registration and an opening session at which prof howard eckfeldt director of the curriculum in min ing engineering and chairman of the conference will preside pres ident c c williams will give an address of welcome f w earnest president of anthracite indus tries will give the response banquet friday night thirteen papers will be present ed at the session on friday and a banquet will be held at 7 p m in the hotel bethlehem the toast master will be j h pierce of pierce management scranton speakers will be dr a c field ner of the united states bureau oi mines dr allen a stockdale of the national association of manufacturers and f w earnest one of the exhibits in connection with the conference will show the production of refrigeration directly from the combustion of coal the exhibit has been installed in the refrigeration laboratory the re frigeration unit used in this dem onstration is the low temperature research absorption refrigeration unit designed by prof burgess h jennings the exhibits will be open to the public from wednesday through saturday a preview of the dis plays will be held from 7 p m to 10 p m wednesday and again from 1:30 p m to 5:30 p m and from 7 p m to 10:30 p m on thursday exhibitors listed the dealers and firms who have signed for exhibits include glea son and avery spencer heating dr neville will be head of chem department replacing ullmann 13 more raised in rank grace okeson re-elected dorm name is changed as board meets fourteen promotions and four leaves of absence for members of the faculty approved by the board of trustees were announced yest erday by president c c williams included is the elevation of dr harvey a neville to the rank of full professor and head of the de partment of chemistry and chem ical engineering he succeeds dr harry m ullmann who has been head of the chemistry department lor many years and who has reached the retirement age dr neville has been in the chemistry department since 1927 he was graduated from randolph macon college in 1918 received his m a degree at princeton in 1920 and his ph d there in 1921 he taught at the university of illinois from 1921 until accepting his post here in 1927 is joint officer the new department head has become an acknowledged leader in the field of colloidal chemistry he is joint author of three text books author or joint author of 25 research papers and the in ventor of a process for removing carbon monoxide from exhaust gasses at various times he has been called to lecture at princeton pennsylvania syracuse and vir ginia universities other promotions announced are as follows edwin r theis from associate professor of chemical engineering to professor of chemical engineer ing at lehigh since 1927 dr theis is an authority in the field of leather chemistry allison butts from associate professor of metallurgy to pro fessor of electrometallurgy pro fessor butts who has been at le high since 1917 is editor of sev eral books author of a textbook and co-author of another special editor and authority for metallur gical terms in a standard diction ary and the author of sections in continued on page foui continued on page four congdon suggests admissions aids lehigh admitted to association carrington roper cox honored at meeting held last night group revises by-laws petition for ball during fall rushing period granted approval milton h grannatt bus 39 was elected president of the in terfraternity council for the com ing year at a regular meeting last night in drown hall malcolm carrington bus 38 was elected vice president samuel cox ch e 39 treasurer and d'arcy roper i e 40 secretary the council revised the by-laws so that it will be possible to sub stitute the president of a frater nity for the senior delegate to the council a petition was approved by the council to hold the en gineers ball on the second satur day of the rushing period next fall grannatt the newly - elected president has won letters in bas ketball and tennis is a member of cyanide alpha kappa psi and lambda chi alpha social frater nity carrington prominent in must ard and cheese activities won his football numeral in 1935-36 is a member of scabbard and blade alpha kappa psi and kappa alpha social fraternity roper won his football numeral in 1935 he is a member of beta theta pi cox is a member of alpha chi rho 884 collected in drive reports prof gramley reports from six of the univer sity's departments show that a total of 884.50 has already been collected for bethlehem's com munity chest drive announces dale h gramley associate pro fessor of journalism who is chair man of the community chest drive at lehigh three departments turned in complete reports the department of military science and tactics the students health service and the library partial reports were sub mitted by the administration of fices the department of mechanical and industrial engineering and the department of moral and re ligious philosophy 700 couples will require 1400 days of extra sleep gives description using lantern slides harte cooke diesel engineer of the american locomotive com pany spoke before the american society of mechanical engineers at a meeting of the lehigh valley branch held last wednesday eve ning in packard laboratory the title of mr cooke's talk was modern diesel engines mr cooke began his talk by giving a short biography of diesel who invented the type of engine which bears his name he then described the engine and present ed a series of lantern slides tracing the evolution and application of diesel engines in presenting the slides cooke said that a machine must go through an evolution of service before it is any good following the lantern slides he told of the recent and future applications of the diesel engine in the field of transportation including the auto mobile and airplane harte cooke who has been as sociated with diesel engines since 1913 is a vice president and senior councilor of the american society of mechanical engineers will hold meeting speaks to math society on newton's astronomy newtonian astronomy was the topic of a lecture given last tues day evening in packard laboratory to the newtonian society honorary freshman mathematics society by john h ogburn professor of mathematics in an illustrated lecture the speaker showed the general struc ture of the universe as far as is known beginning with the moon and sun he visioned a trip through space to the farthest stars he also pointed out improvements in as tronomical work due to improve ments in telescopes and related various interesting legends one of the legends was how the ancient shepherds of jerusalem used to lie down on the ground and imagine that the clusters of stars outlined the form of animals professor ogburn said that there are many different systems in the universe which are composed of spiral nebulae some of the neb ulae which are the farthest away reach the speed of 125,000 miles a second the process by which means the speed of the nebulae is determined was discussed to give dinner president cites increase during report before board of trustees in his annual report to the board of trustees at their meet ing on saturday afternoon in the alumni memorial building pres ident c c williams stated that he felt that the enrollment at lehigh would mantain the same level that it has held during the past few years the number of applications for admission for next year is about sixty per cent larger as of april 1 than that or the current year at the same date he stated this advance is partly caused by earlier applications so that the total will not show a corresponding in crease he continued president williams deplored the present tendency of expanding government educational institu tions at the expense of private schools this tendency he declared is based upon the false premise that there is a distinction between pub lic service and private service to society privately endowed colleges free to pass unbiased judgment on pol itical policies and social move ments should be preserved he said with the radio already pol itically muzzled to a disturbing degree by the federal communi cations commission with expedi ency curbing the editorial voice of newspapers to a great extent and with publicly-supported universi ties in danger of allowing approp riations and federal subsidies to influence their economic attitudes the endowed colleges with tra ditional academic freedom may render society an important ser vice in their educational function as a source of intelligent un biased opinion relative to move ments and tendencies president williams also pointed out that relatively few of the older lehigh graduates have lost em ployment as a result of the recent recession although graduates of the past two or three years have not fared so well it seems probable he declared that unemployment has not as yet come to professional and bus iness men to an extent that will change college plans for their sons next year joins national association of collegiate schools dean neil carothers returning from a three-day trip to the uni versity of illinois announced that lehigh's college of business ad ministration has been admitted to the national association of col legiate schools of business the association founded 22 years ago consists of 48 leading colleges of commerce the purpose of the association said dr carothers is to promote the cause of business education in the country to encourage better standards of scholarship and to facilitate cooperative action among the member colleges requirements for membership in the association depend upon the general reputation of the univer sity faculty physical equipment library facilities and character of the student body according to dr carothers le high has not previously made ap plication for membership because of various considerations such as expense and time involved in membership during a depression period eta sigma phi to convene at muhlenberg a joint meeting of the lehigh and muhlenberg chapters of eta sigma phi national honorary classical fraternity will be held to morrow evening at muhlenberg the delegates to the national convention of the society which was held last thursday friday and saturday at columbus ohio will give a report of the events of the convention the delegate of the local chapter was edwin miller arts 40 dr earl l crum head of the department of greek will also speak at the meeting green memorial planned by scabbard and blade freshmen take tests summers visits doan will study boys clubs gives talk at new orleans registrars conclave wray h congdon director of admissions attended the an nual meeting of the american as sociation of college registrars which is being held in new or leans dr congdon gave a talk on col lege admissions covering the cur rent problems of changing re quirements new requirements and selective admissions in the discussion of these major topics dr congdon describes in detail the function usefulness and requirements of the effective admissions officer he further states that the admissions of ficers responsibilities are very similar to those of the vocational counsellor in industry dr congdon in continuing made several constructive criticisms two of his suggestions were the aban donment of general intelligence test and cumbersome personality rating blanks he also advocates the abandonment of the st peter-at the-gate attitude by admissions officers in place of each of the criticisms dr congdon offered a constructive alternate policy blake society will make pilgrimage to princeton n y lehigh club plans to fete mrs williams the annual dinner and meeting of the lehigh club of new york will be held tomorrow at the murray hill hotel new york in honor of mrs c c williams oscar l carlson 16 will be toast master guest speakers will be presi dent c c williams bainbridge colby former secretary of state dr harry s rogers president of polytechnic institute of brooklyn n v dr hardy cross professor of civil engineering yale uni versity and a w jessup presi dent of the carnegie foundation other specially invited guests are president william m lewis of lafayette college president robert c clothier rutgers uni versity and president levering tyson of muhlenberg college scabbard and blade acted to sponsor a major james o green jr memorial award at their meeting wednesday major green was head of the department of military science and tactics at lehigh from 1931 to 1937 although it has not been def initely decided it is planned that the memorial will be a bronze plaque on which will be inscribed the name of the recipient each year the award will first be made during field day this spring the robert w blake philosoph ical society will make its annual pilgrimage to another chapter of the society princeton university will be the host and will take the entire lehigh chapter for an in spection of the university the delegation will also be invited to sit in on a few classes john summers of edinburgh scotland cousin of dr gilbert e doan professor of physical met allurgy is visiting the latter on a tour of america during which he will study boys club organiza tion in american cities mr summers graduated in 1937 from magdeline college oxford university england general culture tests were given last night to the freshmen participating in the program for general education by frank c becker assistant professor of philosophy the tests which were optional for the freshmen in the class are to be used by their fac ulty advisers to determine whether or not more supervised reading is necessary on the part of the stu dent make gene krupa open his eyes joe haymes furnished a less pretentious show in the dining room but his vocalist attracted much attention with a million dol lar coiffure especially among the few stags that were present many couples danced in the cool of the dimly illuminated palm room and others danced on the dining room balcony to joe's renditions of the old arrangements and the new hits saturday afternoon the tea dance at the maennerchor drew an overflowing crowd with beer pret zels and music by lou goodman and his orchestra the dance floor was a joggling mass of couples playing push-me-pull-you as the tea dance usually is and everyone had a glorious time dancing in their square foot of space the tired girls had no sooner rested their feet from the crush ing they got at the tea dance when house dance time rolled around all of the houses moved pianos divans and overstuffed chairs to make way for dancing after the dancing got under way there was a constant exodus with a scraping of fenders as the 600 lilting and i'm not a bit tired couples vis ited as many houses as they could in the shortest time possible it was a wonderful weekend wasn't it ... by willard g histand seven hundred gay couples braved the revolving doors and the slippery marble stairways of the hotel bethlehem to dance to the music of claude hopkins and joe haymes at the junior prom fri day night at 11:30 the ballroom and din ing room surged with lehigh gentlemen and their gals doing the bronx jig and the brooklyn turn over and a little later the dancing space became crowded enough to hear the agonizing groan of a dainty lady when some lehigh brute bore down on her foot claude hopkins and his rhythm makers put on an inspiring show in the ballroom and constantly held the attention of a bevy of happy couples as a swing pianist claude was tops he could prac tically make the piano dance around the floor and do flip flops in the air his vocalist beverly white rendered the current hits martha and joseph joseph in a maxine sullivan way and brought down a blast of applause with her interpretation of marie the drummer in claude's har lem band chewed gum in rhythm with the music and rolled his eyes in ecstasy as he poured himself on the traps in a way which would robert f herrick lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday april 26 1938 philadelphia club attends meeting vol xlv — no 46 price — five cents spring show is postponed for 2 weeks pi delta epsilon will hold next national convention here pi delt re-elects him 32 exhibitors plan displays at conference national honorary jour nalistic fraternity accepts lehigh invitation new chemistry head trustees approve faculty promotions member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first