Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 24

              president c c williams the following changes in the examination schedule have been announced by the registrar's office • c e 125 — reinforced con crete design will be held mon day jan 23 at 8 a m c e 118 — structural theory and geol i—minerology,1 — minerology will be held wednesday jan 25 at 8 a m biol i—biology,1 — biology and biol 7 — elementary biology will be neld tuesday jan 24 at 8 a m biol 15 — freshman hygiene eco 107 — advanced economics and fin 21 — coropration fin ance will be held saturday jan 21 at 2 p m geol ill — field geology will be held saturday jan zl at tf a m e e 114 — electric stations will be held friday jan 20 at 6 a m e e 11 — advanced dynamo lab will be held tuesday jan 24 at 2 p m e e 53 — intermediate dyna mo lab will be held friday jan 27 at 2 p m fire damages campus house debate teams given ratings omy dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administra tion prof frederick a bradford head of the department of econom ics prof herbert m diamond of the department of economics prof percy hughes head of the depart ment of philosophy prof benja min l miller head of the depart ment of geology prof charles c bidwell head of the department of physics prof stanley j thomas head of the de partment of bacteriology prof robert w hall of the department of biology prof bradley stough ton dean of the college of engin eering prof allison butts and gilbert e doan of the department of metallurgy prof hale suther land head of the department of civil engineernig harry m ull man professor emeritus of the de partment of chemical engineering and charles russ richards presi dent emeritus book published since 1899 who's who has been published every two years since 1899 several members of the lehigh faculty have been listed in every edition for over 30 years while several have gained recognition for the first time this year those whose life sketches have ben omitted this year but who have been listed in the past in clude prof fred v larkin head of the department of mechanical engineering prof howard eck feldt head of the department of mining engineering v s baba sinian professor of organic chem istry and charles s fox professor emeritus of romance languages twenty-four lehigh professors representing 16 departments of the university have been listed in the 1937-38 edition of who's who the college of arts and science leads in the number of faculty members who have been given re cognition the college of engin eering is second followed by the college of business administra tion the departments of history ma thematics economics and metal lurgical engineering have each placed three in the listings the departments of physics civil en gineering chemical engineering biology bacteriology moral and religious philosophy philosophy geology german english and the library are represented by one fa culty member each list of members included the faculty members who have been placed in this list of the na tion's outstanding personages are c c williams president of the university dr claude g beards lee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy howard s leach librarian philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science prof robert m smith head of the department of english prof lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and government prof sydney m brown and professor amos a et tinger of the history department prof tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics prof joseph b reynolds of the department of mathematics char les l thornburg professor emer itus of mathematics and astron talks slated by professors will discuss steel building president knocks schools which take applicants of low mentality criticizes reputations danger arises from the multi plication of publicly supported col leges which are lowering standards of higher education by drawing students from lower levels of men tality and giving baccalaureate stamp and white-collar aspiration to many who would serve society more effectively as artisans sta ted pres c c williams in an ad dress on independent higher ed ucation delivered to the shrine club of philadelphia last wednes day at the hotel adelphia dr williams went on to say that a second peril lies in propagandis tic teaching by professors who ally themselves with social and eco nomic pressure groups such as teachers unions affiliated with ma jor labor organizations ability should be considered another great peril results from the concentration of resources in too few universities said dr wil liams weight is given to the opin ions of professors of famous uni versities according to eminence of the university without regard to the capacity or ability of the man making the statement this has been evidenced only too well in the unhappy experiences of the federal government administration with the so-called brain trust the president concluded with the statement that the ability of the student himself should be con sidered before sending him on to higher education inasmuch as his happiness and success will depend upon adjustment within the limits of his capabilities report robberies of 2 fraternities tau delta phi sigma phi epsilon are entered two fraternity houses were rob bed during the christmas holidays according to reports made to city police headquarters recently tau delta phi 444 west third street reported the loss of 2.50 in pennies two radios fountain pens and other small articles upon investigation by police of ficers rudolph mitman and reagle roland it was found that no doors or windows had been forced it is believed by the police that a key was used to gain entrance cigarette cases stamps station ery and other small items were stolen from sigma phi epsilon 61 west market street 3 conclaves held alpha kappa pi sends 7 to national gathering national conventions of alpha kappa pi sigma alpha mv and pi lambda phi were held during the christmas holidays delegates from each of the local chapters attended apha kappa pi had as dele gates frank l jackson ch e 39 and richard m shepherd ch e 41 loring lane bus 40 frank l benedict jr bus 40 harold i breidenbach jr bus 39 theo dore r thierry jr ch e 39 and richard w blanchard bus 39 also attended their convention was held december 26 28 inclu sive in the hotel commodore new york city the lehigh chapter was picked as the model financial or ganization the convention of sigma alpha mv was held december 29-janu ary 1 inclusive in the hotel muhl bach kansas city missouri with arthur rothschild arts 39 as the official delegate for the local chap ter delegates to the pi lambda phi convention were leon trivers bus 41 e otis harra bus 39 jerome b levy bus 39 ralph g steinhardt chem 40 ralph buchsbaum arts 40 stephen weinrib arts 41 and seymour margolis bus 41 policeman finds blaze in kitchen of sigma nu fraternity reported damage of 1760 was done to the sigma nu fraternity house by a fire which broke out on monday afternoon jan 2 the blaze which was first noticed by campus policeman roland bauer at the look-out while patroling his beat started in the kitchen and smoke rapidly spread to the fire place and chimney where it was first observed partoiman bauer forced open the kitchen door crawled on his hands and knees to the telephone and summoned the bethlehem fire department the damage was mainly confined to the kitchen after the fire had been put out and while fire chief a e ander son was investigating upstairs a defect in the electric wiring caus ed a second out-break of the blaze this was checked immediately and the electric current was turn ed off . dean congdon ordered repairs made on the electric system and work will begin soon on the kitch en program featured at faculty dance music fencing polish dancing are given musical entertainment fencing exhibitions and polish dancing were featured friday evening in drown hall at the annual faculty dance sponsored by the faculty women's club three members of cut and thrust fencing society headed by robert w brown bus 40 gave a demonstration of the various wea pons used in fencing a group of polish dancers from allentown also performed a double quartet from the glee club sang the following selections hail to college by van der vleck the chorus of the pi rates we sail the ocean blue by gilbert and sulivan the clock two little fleas and the alma mater those comprising the double quartet were douglas h prid eaux arts 39 charles h hear sey bus 40 wilson r pierpont arts 39 and james p phelen ch e 41 quentin r keith arts 40 a george ueberroth bus 39 willard a litzenberger arts 41 and donald r schoen arts 41 pianist o students contribute 165 to christmas seal sale arcadia's report on the annual sale of christmas seals revealed a total contribution of 165.34 of which living groups contributed 81.89 the balance 83.45 con sisted of individual contributions fraternities also supported a plan drawn up by the interfrater nity council last year for donating christmas baskets to the poor of bethlehem each fraternity con tributed 3.50 which was turned over to the bethlehem community chest d'arcy w roper 11 bus 40 was in charge of collections interfraternity council to follow other colleges in protest of law houses will sign checks the aid of the members of the interfraternity council was sought last night in contesting of the so cial security act as it applies to fraternities president milton h granatt bus 39 asked that all fraternity treasurers sign social security checks under protest the law schools of several universities will xater take up the case and protest the levying of social security as sessments for fraternity employees this proposal was presented ori ginally at the national interfrater nity council meeting held during the thanksgiving holidays gran att said that his attitude toward a cooperative buying system for le high had cooled after the evidence which he heard against such a system at the conclave the facts he said pointed to the conclusion that the system works in large state-supported institutions but fails in small colleges discuss rushing revision two other proposals sprung from the ideas which granatt heard at the meeting in new york one was a plan for revision of rushing practices and another for the publication of a pamphlet by the council this pamphlet would contain illustrations of the frater nities the cost of living in each one and would describe fraternity social activities the plan called for the distribution of the book lets to all incoming freshmen granatt named two committees to investigate and report on the advisibility of the plans alexander m craig m e 41 david r gin der arts 40 richard b jeffery e m 41 walter s russell ch e 41 were named to the committee to investigate the plan for rushing revision the group which will look into the fraternity booklet plan is william f carson ch e 40 samuel m grafton i e 41 and t t gray arts 39 fraternities have 835 men granatt refused to announce the names of orchestras for the annual interfraternity ball but it was de cided that the price of tickets be raised from 3 to 3.30 so that enough surplus can be obtained to finance the booklet if the plan goes through a poll taken at the beginning of the meeting showed that there are now 835 men either brothers or pledgees in lehigh fraternities granatt told the council that 84 had been collected before christ mas for charity baskets it was re ported by robert rose bus 39 that a plan for the licenscing of pedlers visiting the houses on and off the campus was likely to be put into effect the administration ap proves of it and finds no illegality in it he said diamond speaks before sisterhood social security discussed at community center the new social security act is the most comprehensive social welfare act ever enacted by any country declared dr herbert m diamond head of the department of economics and sociology at a meeting of the brith sholom com munity center sisterhood tuesday night at the center numerous differences have arisen in the administration of the act but as a whole it has had the sympathy of the american people amendments for better adminis tration seem to be the greatest need at present the depresion has accentuated the problems of the aged and un employed dr diamond continu ed changes in the make-up of the population also have resulted in increasing the percentage of aged thus the act attempts to meet unemployment problems by a pension from the government and benefits by the states assisted by the government dr johnston to initiate series of talks on current research a talk steel building frame research by bruce johnston as sistant director of the fritz engin eering laboratories to be given at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening in the fritz engineering laboratory will be the first of the annual series by members of the faculty describing current research these talks are all open to the public dr johnston will review recent british research in this field and will discuss steel architecture he will also explain the slope deflec tion and moment distribution me thods of taking account of semi rigid joints and width of members the other talks in the series are feb 8 welded building frame research by edward h mount american welding society research fellow mar 1 fatigue properties of steel wire by howard j god frey engineer of tests mar 22 concrete reenforcing steel re search by kenneth c cox con crete reenforcing steel institute research fellow april 19 plate girders with inclined stiffeners by charles m antoni lawrence calvin brink research fellow may 10 short steel columns by lloyd t cheney american insti tute of steel construction research fellow o cyanide elects 4 faculty members society plans to act as hospitality group cyanide junior honorary activi ties society revised its constitution to include a faculty circle of four members at a meeting held friday evening in the chi psi lodge those elected to this circle are lawrence whitcomb assistant pro fessor of geology e kenneth smi ley director of admissions harry b osborn instructor in chemical engineering and paul e short as sistant director of athletics the society plans to act as a hospitality group to aid the offce of admissions in conducting interest ed parties about the campus and intends to discuss campus prob lems and societies to help make recommendations for improve ments faculty debates proposal to bring universities under legislation announce publications a summary by president c c williams of the proposal about to be presented to congress by which colleges would be brought under the social security act was presen ted at the january faculty meeting held yesterday afternoon in the administration building dr paul l cressman of the de partment of public instruction harrisburg wil appear at an open meeting of the committee on ad missions it was announced by dr williams he will take part in a discussion on projected changes in the secondary educational system in pennsylvania because of this meeting there will be no meeting of the faculty educational club next week prof fred v larkin director of the curricula of mechanical and industrial engineering has been elected chairman of the committee on relations of colleges of the american society of mechanical engineers for 1939 it was revealed the president also announced that major willam m tow formerly a member of the faculty of the de partment of military science and tactics represented lehigh at a function held at the university of the philippines publication report given the report of publications by the faculty included the follow ing works a series of ten articles by dr amos a ettinger associate profes sor of history which ran under the title the background on europe's turbulence in the allentown chronicle and news during de cember a review by j calvin cal laghan instructor in english and speech on types of persuasion by h f graves and j s bowman which appeared in the december issue of the quarterly journal of speech a review by dean bradley stoughton of the college of engin eering on international control in the non-ferrous metals by w y elliott and others in the de cember issue of the journal of the american bar association and two additional chapters for the mimeographed edition of writing and editing the college paper by dale h gramley associate profes sor of journalism and kenneth k kost instructor in journalism dr gilbert e doan professor of physical metallurgy had published an article on engineers as lead ers in the journal of engineer ing education for december dr edwin r theis professor of chem ical engineering wrote part five of his studies in chrome tann ing appearing in the december is sue of the journal american lea ther chemists association and dr lawrence whitcomb assistant professor of geology wrote pal eozoic portion of the willsboro quadrangle new york which appeared in the december issue of the bulletin of the geological society of america o 3 men selected by blake society dr walter klein speaks was first president three new members were elect ed by the r w blake society honorary philosophical group at a meeting held friday evening at leonard hall speaker of the evening was dr walter klein 24 first president of the lehigh chapter of the society and present head of the philadel phia divinity school who spoke on mysticism and the devotional aspects in religion dr klein based his talks on the experiences of a mohammedan theologian students elected to the society were norman morse ch e 40 bernard berkowitz arts 40 and harold king arts 41 series of 11 speeches to be given in high schools of east eleven talks will be given by members of the faculty this month at high schools throughout the east announced e kenneth smi ley director of admissions the first of these were given last week by dr earl e crum associ ate professor of greek in the westfield n j high school on our heritage from greek and roman medicine and by dale h gramley head of the department of journalism on newspaper hoaxes and frauds at blair academy blairstown n j behind the footlights will be the subject of a talk given tomor row in westfield high school by albert a rights instructor of english he will repeat his talk on jan 20 at the glen ridge n j high school henry c knutson associate professor of electrical en gineering will talk on electron tubes at work tomorrow in ol ney high school philadelphia fraser to speak on geology donald fraser assistant profes sor of geology is to talk on a bil lion years of earth development friday in hackensack n j high school while gilbert e doan pro fessor of physical metallurgy will discuss building the engineer of tomorrow jan 19 at stevens ho boken n j academy on jan 20 dr harry b osborn instructor in chemical engineering will speak at springfield high school pleasant valley and on jan 23 dale h gramley will re peat his talk at the j m coughlin high school wilkes-barre william sheridan head coach of wrestling will discuss competi tive sports in education jan 25 at doylestown high school and on jan 26 sidney m brown profes sor of history will complete the lecture series at chestnut hill aca demy with his talk on medieval magic and science o to speak on poet's life carl g konolige arts 41 and quentin r g keith arts 40 will address eta sigma phi classical fraternity on different phases of the work of the roman poet cat ullus at 8 p m friday at the home of edgar h riley associate profes sor of english the meeting will be preceded by a business session 32 in intramural league get standings after first kound the standings of the 16 teams in the intramural debating league have been announced by j calvin callaghan director of debating teams which have won one de bate and lost none are frank l benedict bus 40 and harold 1 breidenbach jr bus 39 leon ard h dudman bus 39 and mit chell zawisza ch e 39 albert w foster bus 42 and metro j kotanchik arts 41 william e keiser ch e 41 and george s sprague chem 40 charles r kiefer jr arts 41 and leon h rathbun jr eng 42 charles f meyer eng 42 and john r perm 111 bus 42 donald r schoen arts 41 and richard a ware arts 41 albert e ponter jr bus 40 and edward m sharp ch e 40 those which have won none and lost one are william b campbell met e 41 and william s shut tleworth bus 42 joseph b evaul eng 42 and russell c gebert jr eng 42 richard m foster eng 42 and john a frederick 11 jr bus 42 edward a herre jr ch e 40 and thomas r hunt arts 41 richard l kirk ch e 41 and richard e metzger eng 42 robert w leavens i e 41 and matthew k morris i e 40 jer ome b levy bus 39 and steph en weinrib arts 41 alfred l hughes arts 41 and raymond r white arts 41 first prize is 120 at the start of the second round on feb 8 the first group will de bate in a bracket to reduce the winning teams to four the second group will also debate in a bracket for the right to compete for second prize in this round which will cover four weeks the pump-prim ing topic will again be used but each team will take the opposite side and the positions of speakers will be reversed the cross-exam ination plan will still be used norman l morse ch e 40 intramural debating manager an nounced that the williams prizes in intramural debating are 120 to the winning team and 80 to the runner-up he will announce the second round assignments in january mr callaghan stated that the debates this year are being held in the lounge in richards house therefore the emphasis is on in formal argument rather than upon formal platform debating he add ed that students and the public are cordially invited to attend any of these debates and to discuss the issues with the debaters after ward o curtis returns to work george b curtis registrar and university editor returned to his office last saturday mr curtis was confined to his home for the past week because of illness bethlehem pa tuesday january 10 1939 scores state colleges vol xlvi no 24 latest edition of who's who lists 24 members of faculty registrar gives exam changes price — five cents unfit students get degrees says williams fraternities to contest social security act social security act suggested for colleges lehigh university brown and white member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first