Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 2

              will perform thursday in concert - lecture series opening aero group will meet in airliner when aero club members hold their first meeting sunday oct 9 they will be flying thousands of feet above the lehigh valley at noon the group will board a 1938 douglas mainliner provided for them by united airlines for nearly an hour plans for the com ing year will be discussed while the pratt and whitney twin wasp motors drive the transport at 200 miles an hour starting at allentown-bethle hem airport the plane will cruise over delaware water gap the pocono mountains lehigh wind gap and possibly the newark air port a part of the business meeting will be an inspection of the plane and a comparison of it with oth ers while in the air the club members will also survey airline transportation facilities and air routes in this section ings but states that the most ap palling fact is that it is almost im possible to uncover and prove such dishonesty the former football czar appears to be firmly opposed to football subsidation of any kind he reas ons that there is no earthly cause for a boy who intends to be a pro fessional athlete should be given more of a chance for an education than a boy who wishes to be a doc tor lawyer engineer or a teacher in regard to comments on the large salaries of football coaches he says so long as intercollegiate football is on the big business ba sis that it is today the coach is absolutely worth what he can pro duce if a coach can turn out win ning teams and these winning teams attract patrons to the school's games then he is doing what he is asked to do and is earn ing every nickel he is paid in closing he states that while college football may have grown to be a little too big for its own good he can see no way in which one man even a football czar could control and regulate the sit uation giving an answer to a question much discussed at lehigh as well as other educational institutions and the football world in general walter r okeson secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees chairman of the football rules committee and former commis sioner of the eastern intercolle giate association told in this week's liberty magazine in an ar ticle entitled does college foot ball need a czar just what he thinks of athletic subsidation and crooked football in colleges recently ending his own reign as the czar of football mr oke son gives his opinion in a few terse words as to the value of a czar of college football in stopping dishon est colleges from continuing on as they please to the question as to what a czar could do with a dis honest college he says nothing he explains this by saying that trying to regulate the morals of a complex institution much less a human being is impossible he grants that not more than two or three per cent of colleges are dishonest in their athletic deal elissa landi will organize bridge group r o t c unit 1,100 strong 121 join staff of newspaper 100 men try for glee club gives publications board authority to suspend erring periodicals rules clarify situation declaring that the right granted to students to issue publications is in effect a franchise to share in the educational work of the univer sity the faculty has revised its regulations concerning student publications all of the changes center about the board of publications which is now required to note when any publication has ceased to serve the educational purposes for which lehigh exists and to take any steps necessary to remedy the sit uation the board is also given the power to suspend or delay the is sue of any publication but the faculty has retained for itself the right to abolish publications rules clarify situation the new rules according to kenneth k kost secretary to the board of publications do little but clarify the situation in regard to publications as it has existed in the past the dean has always had the power to suspend or stop any student publication and as chairman of the board of publi cations dean c m mcconn al ways was open to the suggestions made by board members the most important change is the im plied admission of the faculty that work on the review and epi tome staffs is educational on the part of the brown and white this was recognized in 1928 when courses in journalism were estab lished for all members of the brown and white staff the new rules were the work of dr percy hughes professor of philosophy phillip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science and prof fred v larkin head of the department of me chanical and industrial engineer ing this committee was appointed by president clement c williams to study the problems of student publications after certain articles and stories in the lehigh review during the past year had aroused both faculty and student criticism o 18 faculty wives welcomed at tea mrs i lliiianu now head greets newcomers approximately 18 wives of new members of the lehigh faculty at tended a reception of the lehigh university womans club given in their honor yesterday afternoon in drown hall the guests were wel comed by mrs c c williams honorary president of the organ ization and mrs h m ullmann newly elected president the new members of the group included mrs adrian brian mrs earl r hall mrs a t ippen mrs edward delbert amstutz mrs james p mcßeynolds mrs a e pitcher mrs john t o'neil mrs paul e short mrs k s peters mrs r f herrick mrs e f cutler mrs j c callaghan mrs cledo brunetti mrs thomas e jackson mrs amos a ettinger mrs h s levenson mrs h j godfrey and mrs donald g mccaa in charge of the social was mrs n a kellog chairman and mrs bateman edwards vice chairman other officers assisting were mrs williams mrs ullmann mrs congdon mrs joseph b rey nolds mrs adelbert ford mrs r d billinger mrs francis j trembley and their committee mrs h m diamond mrs otto spillman mrs harry b osborn mrs john c mertz mrs n s hibshman mrs lawrence whit com mrs r d butler mrs r r bacon mrs w l bishop mrs w c forbes and mrs a h fretz o case game rally planned the cleveland lehigh club will hold a football rally friday oct 7 for the lehigh-case game in the jade room of fenway hall cleveland students ask permission to start new club meet next week first steps toward organizing a university bridge club with aims toward intercollegiate competition were taken yesterday as dean wray h congdon granted permis sion for a preliminary session next friday evening final permission must be se cured from the committee on stu dent activities which will meet within the next three weeks the purpose of the club accord ing to stuart n lewis i e 39 who is organizing the group will be to encourage serious bridge playing and eventually to develop players of sufficient calibre to meet teams of other universities in in tercollegiate competition the members will meet every friday evening probably in drown hall and will play duplicate bridge the first session will be held at 7:30 p m next friday on the second floor of drown hall lewis announced that all students who uve seriously interested in bridge are eligible to membership ex perience at duplicate will not be necessary for the first meeting as the system is relatively easy and can be learned in the course of an evening organization issues call for accompanists ; to make several trips one hundred men tried out for the glee club wednesday and thursday evenings announced richard g kelley jr ch e 40 acting manager of the group re sults of the trials will be an nounced in tuesday's brown and white sixty men are usually sel ected kelley feels that the quality of material this year will make pos sible an improved lehigh glee club the organization however is looking for an accompanist to take the places of carstens y haas and raymond k maneval who were lost through graduation as in previous years the club again is planning to make several out of town trips between 30 and 45 of the men selected for the club will be taken on each of these trips these freshmen won't have to pay tuitions brown and white headed by w weeks t gray is news manager this semester's brown and white with 121 men on its staff will be headed by editor-in-chief willet weeks jr arts 39 of this number 66 are mem bers of the news staff while 40 will serve on the business staff in addition there are 15 photograph ers new officers on the staff were recently announced by the exec utive committee after approval had been secured from the board of publications appointments were made after a series of com petitive examinations conducted by the journalism faculty new officers include thrasher t gray arts 39 who will serve as news manager succeeding wil let weeks and milton spilberg arts 39 who succeeds henry t s heckman arts 39 as make-up editor mccluskey heads sports harold m conner arts 40 and continued on page four 500 freshmen report ; government allows additional officers a total of 1,100 men comprise the lehigh r o t c unit this year 500 of them freshmen ac cording to col joseph s leonard head of the department of military science and tactics the unit which has 140 ad vanced students as commissioned and non - commissioned officers was permitted to sign 20 more of these men by government order this year the failure of a certain number of sophomores to return to school this year brought the total for that class down to 470 although the designation of men for the posts of regimental commander regimental staff bat talion commanders and staffs has not been made the following men have been named to company posts company a charles f barton jr bus 39 captain balcolm carrington jr bus 39 and craig s thomas bus 39 first lieutenants company b courtland v carrier i e 39 captain ashley c worsley ch e 39 and james r bright i e 39 first lieutenants company c john f lehrer i e 39 captain james d campbell m e 39 and joseph h heller bus 41 ; first lieutenants company e thomas e bogert met e 40 captain franklin li norton ch e 39 and pay son k nicholas bus 39 first lieutenants company f alan s grant i e 39 captain clarence k de bow jr ch e 39 and william irwin i e 39 first lieutenants company g robert p mcquail bus 39 captain carl c stieg i e 40 and louis beer e e 39 first lieutenants company i wilson r pierpont arts 39 captain raymond p laubenstein m e 39 and hamuel r cox ch e 40 first lieutenants company x allen v jones m e 39 captain stanley e uuilio e m 39 and thomas v murto m e c 9 first lieutenants cofpany l harry a harchar arts 39 captain grant b stetson bus 39 and william e liruning arts 39 first lieutenants review starts drive for business board members of the freshman and sophomore classes in good scholastic standing are eligible for the business board of the lehigh review announced h t s heckman arts 39 bus iness manager last night men interested in competing should attend a business meeting at 7:30 p m monday in the re view room in drown hall heckman also announced that the subscription campaign would officially close at 8 a m mon day subscribers who do not already have their copies will receive them shortly after this date harvard math professor to address gathering in packer chapel 40 to receive degrees dr julian coolidge professor of mathematics at harvard univer sity will be the speaker at the 59th founder's day exercises on wednesday in packer memorial chapel president c c williams announced today approximately 40 degrees will be conferred at the exercises honors and prizes will be awarded to 140 undergraduates dr coolidge has been associated with the mathematics department of harvard university since 1918 author of several textbooks devot ed to higher mathematics he taught at the groton school before assuming his post at cambridge he spent his undergraduate days at harvard university and receiv ed his doctor's degree from the university of bonn he did re search work at oxford university before serving in the world war decorated with the cross of the legion of honor dr coolidge is a member of the american academy of arts and sciences in 1925 he served as president of the mathe matical association of america the day's program will include a series of sophomore - freshman contests in the afternoon included are a football game relay race pants-tearing melee tug-o'-war and a push ball game 30,000 repairs made by houses approximately 30,000 was spent during the summer by seven lehigh fraternities for house im provements sigma nu fraternity topped the list with an expendi ture of 13,000 other expenses varied from 7,000 to 100 the entire sigma nu house was renovated with improvements made in construction plumbing and general equipment the first floor was refurnished completely phi delta theta fraternity also renovated its house during the summer the second and third floors were covered with linoleum and the walls were plastered throughout the house a new bath room was built on the second floor psi upsilon painted psi upsilon fraternity painted the outside of its house new chinaware and silverware was purchased and carpeting was layed on the stairs from the first to the third floor sigma alpha mv fraternity re surfaced its first floors and refur nished them their improvements were seriously handicapped by the present long distance truckers strike a porte-cochere was added to the beta theta pi fraternity house it is on the rear of the house overlooking the entrance to sayre park a program of complete renova tion is still going at the sigma phi epsilon fraternity house the work which is still in progress is not due for completion until de cember o review cover to show ideal houseparty date the cover of the october house party issue of the lehigh review will feature the ideal houseparty date of the lehigh valley louis c stoumen arts 39 editor of the lehigh review announced today he requested that students sub mit their version of the ideal the only requirement being that the candidates are bona fide house party dates nominations will be made by sending name address and pic ture if possible to howard j lewis assistant editor of the re view at 314 richards house o luncheon date changed the philadelphia lehigh lun cheon club announced this week that the time of its weekly meet ings has been changed to tuesdays at 12:30 p m in bookbinder's res taurant 215 s 15th street phila delphia was students ist choice actress with experience in theatre and movies to show difference elissa landi noted stage and screen actress will open the third season of the student concert-lec ture series at 8:15 p m thursday in broughal high school announced willet weeks jr arts 39 chair man this morning miss landi who will speak on tiie differences between stage and screen acting is one of the five leading figures from the fields of music drama literature dance and adventure scheduled to appear this season her lecture to be il lustrated with dramatic scenes will be one of her ten appearances in colleges and universities throughout the country in announcing the series weeks said the committee has signed only those speakers or groups of performers who polled the largest number of student votes in the survey conducted last spring in order to secure some of these ar tists it was necessary that the se ries be cut from six to five events all of the events with the ex ception of the appearance of miss landi have been scheduled for friday evenings at broughal high school the first program will be held on thursday evening as that was the only available date on the itinerary of miss landi in addition to her success on the stage and screen miss landi has had four full length books pub lished among these are neilson the helmers and the ances tor in 1929 she contributed sev eral articles to lord beavenbrook's press in london at the present time she is completing two novels today the rebels and prophet without honor among the most popular screen successes in which miss landi had important roles have been the yellow ticket the sign of the cross and the masquerader after the termination of her con tract with the fox film corpora tion she free-lanced for a while portraying roles in by candle light and the count of monte cristo students will be admitted to the auditorium upon presentation of continued on page our to discuss dances arcadia to plan informal at first meeting weekly informal dances will feature discussion at the first meeting of arcadia student governing body to be held mon day night at drown hall malcolm carrington jr bus 39 chairman of the rally com mittee will give a report on the freshman smoker which was held sept 21 in taylor gymnasium according to franc burnett i e 39 president of arcadia plans will be made for the founder's day sports program which will be held on taylor field on wednes day a discussion of freshmen week will also be held o educators buy machine to study eye motions a machine to phctcgiaph eye movements which can determine a person's ability to read has been purchased by the university and installed in the department of edu cation for clinic work costing between 300 and 400 the machine called an ophthalm o-graph shoots a beam of light directly into each eye recording on film how the eye moves across a printed page if the eye span and fixation pauses as shown on the film jump smoothly and in line it reveals good reading habits of the subject if a jetting motion occurs with the eye jumping back occa sionally the reading habits of the subject are shown to be faulty nine of the ten freshmen who won four-year free tuition scholar ships worth 1,600 each in compe tition examinations last spring are being greeted by dr wray h congdon dean of undergraduates the competitions were open to high school and preparatory school seniors in the new england states the middle atlantic states the southeastern states and the middle west vt absent when the picture was taken was james g hamilton du luth minn the freshman class largest in the history of the university in cludes 17 valedictorians 9 saluta torians and 163 others who won graduation honors in their respec tive classes last spring approxi mately 80 per cent of the class ranked in the upper two fifths of their secondary school classes shaking hands with dean cong don is thomas fleischer indian apolis others in the group left to right are caleb w holyoke mil waukee wis paul l havenstein wellesley hills mass eugene c avery orlando fla william l davey concord n c william h corddry snow hill md alfred b brown essex fells n j george b benedict albany n v and clement r ferland middlebury lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday september 30 1938 okeson calls czar powerless to improve football ethics vol xlvi no 2 club to soar price — five cents elissa landi slated to talk act here dr j coolidge to speak here founder's day first series performer faculty claims press work is educational member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh is'eu-a first