Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 9

              dr d c jackson m i t dr r w.king bell laboratories . l k sillcox n y air brake co w d faucette seaboard air lines ry dr j k finch columbia university stoughton doan attend congress williams will lead forum dean sets dorm study hour rules dr wray h congdon dean of undergraduates 158 graduates are enrolled 3 complaints will cause removal of radios new regulations regarding study hours radios and games in the dormitories were incorporated in a letter sent to all section chiefs by dean wray h congdon yesterday upon written complaint of three students any student whose radio is a disturbance is liable to lose the privilege of having a radio in his room all rooms and halls must be quiet from 7:30 p m to 10:30 p.m and again after 11 p m every evening except saturdays games rough-housing bull sessions and other activities which interfere with studying or sleeping will not be tolerated in concluding his letter dean congdon said since these reg ulations are based on the minimum standards of gentlemanly conduct and consideration for the rights of others i'm sure you will find the majority of the members of your section ready to help you in carry ing them out dean congdon at a dormitory meeting held last night in drown hall in an effort to effect more or der in the dormitories stated that richards house is a new living group and is building its own tra ditions while the damage done there so far is petty any reputation that the new dormitory makes is up to the students living there o rauch discusses mineral magazine addresses lehigh valley statistical society prof g a rauch editor of mineral industries and former head of the metallurgical depart ment discussed the problems of compiling figures and getting ex perts to write articles for his mag azine before a meeting of the le high valley statistical society held saturday evening in drown hall dr allison butts associate pro fessor of metallurgy who has written articles for the magazine told breifly of the general value of mineral industries and of its importance in the field of minerol ogy after his speech dr butts led the group in a general discussion mineral industries published by mcgraw-hill publishing com pany appears annually and has been edited for the past 25 years by dr rauch its contents follow the annual metallurgical develop ment and production figures for the entire world o williams attends meeting of professional engineers president c c williams attend ed the meeting of the engineers council for professional develop ment friday and saturday in new york acting as representative of the society for the promotion of engineering education dr williams was elected repre sentative of the society at its meeting in texas last june his term of office in this capacity however did not begin until sat urday o alumnus runs for auditor benjamin f shaw,ll 38 pres ident of the benjamin f shaw company wilmington is the re publican candidate for state audi tor of delaware engineering i e m e and debate groups to hold affairs dean is guest speaker three honorary societies will hold smokers for prospective members on thursday evening pi tau sigma honorary engineering society will conduct one at 8:30 in drown hall while delta omi cron theta honorary debating so ciety will hold a smoker at 7:30 in the lounge of drown hall the main purpose of the pi sig ma get-together is to allow mem bers to better acquaint themselves with the outstanding men of the junior class who are to be invited new officers to function this meeting will also mark the initial functioning of the new offi cers for this year they are courtland f carrier i e 39 president franc burnett i e 39 vice-president allan s grant i e 39 treasurer willard g hist and m e 39 recording secretary and stuart n lewis m e 39 carresponding secretary the meeting will close at 8:30 p m in favor of the tau beta pi smoker which will follow attending the tau beta pi smoker in addition to student and faculty members will be the up per-fourth of the senior classes and the upper-eighth of the junior classes in engineering the object of the smoker is to acquaint the members of the society with the candidates for pledgeship candi date are judged on scholastic attainment their character per sonality and extra-curricular activities dean will speak dean wray h congdon will be the prinicipal speaker at the delta omicron theta smoker to which tne society extends an invitation to all undergraduates interested in debating n l morse intra-mural debat ing manager will supervise regis tration for the williams contest in intra-mural debating the will iams prizes totalling 200 will be offered on the basis of the season's competition.debates will be held during december february and march the tentative inter-collegiate continued on page four 4 musical clubs to give concert plans are under way for a joint concert of the lehigh lafayette cedar crest and moravian college for women glee clubs dr t edgar shields director of music announced this week this pro gram will replace the annual spring concert of the glee club held early in may tryouts for membership in the special chorus of the glee club were held at the regular weekly rehearsal of the group last wed nesday in drown hall further try-outs for tenors will be held again wednesday evening wilson r pierpont manager of the glee club announced pierpont has been reinstated as head of the musical group as a re sult of his being removed from scholastic probation richard c kelley ch e 40 has been acting manager pierpont announced that donald r schoen arts 41 will be glee club accompanist this year o d q marshall receives second lieutenantship daniel q marshall 38 today appeared before major reginald r bacon assistant professor of military science and tactics and was sworn in as a second lieuten ant of infantry of the reserve corps he became eligible for the position on his 21 birthday last week marshall a graduate of the col lege of enginering last spring is doing post-graduate work at le high this year senior exemptions may be removed before next semester warns <• play boy element says faculty members dislike partiality shown seniors dean wray h congdon today made clear his stand on the cut system at lehigh when in a state ment he warned that senior ex emptions from absence regula tions may be changed before the beginning of another semester admitting the vagueness of the present system the dean stressed the point that each student's case is considered individually and that their treatment depends upon scholastic rating he pointed out that many mem bers of the faculty are dissatis fied with the plan to give seniors preferential treatment the dean said that the serious minded stu dent need not be troubled about this matter but warned that the playboy may as well leave col lege immediately before the pres ent cut system catches up with him dean congdon's statement fol lows students coming to my office at the dinner table in fraternity houses and other occasions are constantly raising with me ques tions about the cut system at le high university rumors are ap parently abroad that i am intend ing to make some drastic changes in this system others upperclass men as well as freshmen feel that they do not understand how the matter of absences is handled these comments therefore may be of interest and value to the student body changes it would be very foolish for one coming newly to a position to pro pose drastic changes in even un satisfactory procedures until he has worked with the system long enough to understand thoroughly how it operates and what its ad vantages or disadvantages may be i am proposing no changes in the system at present it should be further pointed out however that many members on the faculty are dissatisfied with the plan adopted september 1934 continued on paste four o ettinger analyzes european crisis speaks before allentown group at v.m.c.a dr amos a ettinger acting associate professor of history spoke on the fate of the present european crisis before the allen town group at a meeting held fri day evening in the allentown y m c a hitler according to dr ettinger was technically correct in basing his mistrust of the powers and his minorities program on wilson's fourteen points but his inconsis tencies in the suppression of jews and catholics can not be denied what can we except from hit ler as a contribution toward world peace in the future if we accept his past program and his book mem kampf questioned dr ettinger in his conclusion a dance to be held either in drown hall or in the armory with robert merwin bus 40 as chair man of the dance committee was also discussed at the meeting o new york alumni club adds placement bureau the alumni club of new york made arrangements at its meeting thursday night to add a commit tee on placement as a permanent part of its organization e robins morgan director of placement attended the first meet ing of the committee in the mur ray hill hotel in new york city he talked to members of the com mittee advising them on placement matters stetson will represent scabbard and blade on west coast program starts nov 9 grant stetson bus 39 captain of scabbard and blade will rep resent lehigh at the 21st conven tion of the society when it con venes nov 9 at berkeley cal the program will include bus iness sessions sightseeing tours a military ball and the california oregon football game the conven tion will close with a banquet on saturday evening nov 12 scabbard and blade is an hon orary organization of advanced course rotc students members are chosen for their proficiency and interest in military subjects and their active participation in a sound program of national defense the organization numbers 77 companies with an active membership of ap proximately 2,200 and a total membership of about 28,000 the national convention is as sembled every other year with the organization as a whole bearing the expense of one delegate from each company purpose is stated scabbard and blade expresses its purpose and ideals in the pre amble to its constitution as fol lows believing that military service is an obligation of citizenship and that the greater opportunities af forded college men for the study of military science place upon them certain responsibilities as citizens we cadet officers in various uni versities and colleges conferring baccalaureate degrees do form this society and adopt this constitution in order to unite in closer relation ship the military departments of american universities and colleges to preserve and develop the essen tial qualities of good and efficient officers to prepare ourselves as educated men to take more active part and to have a greater influ ence in the military affairs of the communities in which we may re side and above all to spread intel ligent information concerning the military requirements of our country sponsors rifle matches the organization sponsors a pis tol match and a rifle match be tween the various companies each year awarding a cup to the win ning company in each competition the society publishes a quarterly magazine the scabbard and blade journal in addition scabbard and blade cooperate with other pa triotic organizations and the war department in matters affecting the rotc and national defense o changes position dickover 36 assigned to west indies posj george f dickover 36 former member of the brown and white staff has been assigned to the training department of lago oil and transport company aruba west indies dickover in a letter to kenneth k kost instructor in journalism added that the training depart ment is a new departure in the op eration of foreign refineries and that his time is devoted to prepar ing texts and delivering lectures on the theory of petroleum refin ing his classes now consist of 300 americans and nearly 600 natives o luster myers elected to offices in aero club donald r luster m e 40 was elected president of the aero club at a meeting held last night in packard laboratory other officers elected were vice president charles g myers m e 40 secretary james a smith jr c e 39 treasurer albert b har ding bus 40 committee heads are airport committee w rodman turner i e 40 membership comittee f howlett williams i e 40 pro gram committee charles g myers m e 40 metallurgy professors speak at detroit bradley stoughton dean of the college of engineering and gil bert e doan professor of physi cal metallurgy were among the main speakers at the twentieth annual meeting of the national metal congress held last week in detroit dean stoughton who is treas urer of the society and chairman of technical sessions presided over a portion of the convention dr doan read a paper concerning cra ter formation in arc welding which he wrote in collaboration with shang shoa young chinese re search fellow george l kehl instructor in metallurgy also attended the sym posium and was among the 26 representatives who attended the luncheon held on wednesday held in conjunction with the congress was the metals exposi tion which featured over 89,000 worth of varied exhibits a large part of the time of the lehigh men was spent in surveying the large auto plants in that city another feature of the conven tion was the reading of a paper by cyril d jensen associate profes sor of civil engineering discussing stress distribution in fillet welds subject to bending which was writ ten by dr jensen and a graduate student o sportsmen's club holds skeet shoot varner 42 wins meet 14 men participate fourteen men were present at a shooting match sponsored by the sportsman's club held at t he mor dell farm sunday with each man allowed 25 shots william p var ner bus 42 was high scorer majors frederick w adams reginald r bacon and adrian brian assistant professors of mili tary science and tactics were pres ent at the shoot to see that safety rules were enforced it was announced by robert stoudt bus 41 president of the club that randolph h thompson of the pennsylvania state game commission will give an illustra ted lecture on snakes mammals fishing and hunting at a public meeting of the club to be held thursday at 8 p.m in room 466 of packard laboratory questions on small game hunt ing and on other topics relative to the game laws will be answered by several game wardens who have been invited to attend the meeting ford visits princeton prof adelbert ford head of the psychology department went to princeton university friday to lo cate his research quarters in the psychology laboratory there he will do research work on the bin aural phase ratio in perceiving space at princeton on leave of ab sence during the second semester of this year o registrar to give lecture shakespeare bacon and other elizabethans is the title of a lec ture to be given by registrar g b curtis who will speak friday afternoon in philadelphia before the hathaway shakespeare club at the bellevue-stratford hotel more credit hours taken this year by smaller group of students there has been a decided in crease in the number of credit hours taken by graduate students this year announced tomlinson fort dean of the graduate school in the recently published statis tical report of the school the number of students enroll ed has decreased from 160 last year to 158 this year while the number of credit hours has risen from 949 to 1125 a gain of 176 hours the enrollment of women students has decreased from 27 to 20 more full-time students there are more students taking over 10 credit hours than last year and fewer taking less than 7 hours this may be interpreted said fort by the fact that more graduate students are taking full-time cour ses and less are engaged in part time work and research the education department shows the biggest gain having 44 stu dents and 142 hours as against 37 students and 114 hours last year the number of graduate students in chemistry has increased from 32 to 36 and the number of hours from 195 to 248 the biggest single gain in hours the enrollment in metallurgy has increased from 7 to 11 while the credit hours have been more than doubled going from 43 tob7 o shifts program tone postpones series of concerts the november sunday after noon musical programs of tone student honorary musical society have been cancelled in accordance with a new policy of opening this series after the close of the foot ball season announced donald r schoen arts 41 concert director of the society the program originally sched uled for nov 6 consisting of mu sic by wison j pierpont arts 39 baritone charles p pulsford met e 39 violin and irving remsen eng 42 piano will therefore be heard on dec 4 the remainder of the program announced for de cember will consist of a concert by the university symphony orchest tra on dec 11 and a program of christmas music on dec 18 sunday's program was present ed by a student trio consisting of richard o marsten eng 41 flute alfred k trumpler i e 40 vio lin and donald r schoen piano o competitors will meet sophomores who wish to join the business staff of the epitome will report at 3:30 p m thursday in room 104 christmas-saucon hall symposium on engineer's social position takes place tomorrow a symposium on the engin eer's place in modern society will be held tomorrow by the uni versity and the engineers club of the lehigh valley in packard audi torium the program of the day includes two sessions the first at 3 p m with president c c williams pre siding and the second at 8 p m under the direction of the officers of the engineers club the general topic for discussion in the afternoon meeting which will be attended by junior and senior engineering students is the social significance of engin eering dr jackson heads speakers a list of the speakers includes mr l k sillcox of the amer ican air brake company dr . ralph w king of the bell telephone laboratories and dr dugald c jackson of massachusetts insti tute of technology the principal address of the evening meeting will be delivered by dr jackson consulting engin eer and professor emeritus of elec trical engineering on engineer ing's part in the development of civilization presiding at this meeting will be l c sprague president of the engineers club 3 attend meeting of alumni triad alumni of lehigh lafayette and rutgers held a smoker friday at the university club wilm ington del william m metten 25 president of the club acted as host william a cornelius executive secretary of the alumni asociation spoke on alumni work glen harmeson head football coach talked about the football team and walter okeson university treas urer discussed the relationship between the three universities in athletics a joint smoker and rally for the alumni of lehigh lafayette and rutgers living in the vicinity of trenton n j will be held nov 14 at the trenton country club under the auspices of the central jersey club john h pennington lehigh 97 will preside cornelius and robert f herrick editor of the alumni bulletin are expected to be pres ent o convention hears morgan talk at community center e robins morgan director of placement addressed the 29th annual convention of the penn sylvania middle-atlantic federa tionof y m h a and y w h a and affiliated asociations sunday afternoon in the bethlehem com munity center speaking on vocational guid ance and placement mr morgan pointed out the advantages of a college education stating that the day of the self-made man is over he also stated that the college graduate is becoming placement conscious in that he goes out and tries to get himself a job without depending on a job-getting insti tution to discuss social significance of engineering bethlehem pa tuesday october 25 1938 vol xlvi no 9 explains absence rule price — five cents congdon clarifies present cut system 3 honoraries plan smokers for thursday military club picks delegate to convention lehigh university brown and white member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 ~~ all the lehigh isews first