Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 49

              army officers will examine r.o.t.c unit faculty says no graduation in taylor field epitome exam changed because of the presentation of petriried forest on friday evening the examination for sophomore competitors for the epitome will begin at 7:00 pan instead of 7 30 p m as announ ced the examination will be given in the brown and white room in the basement of christ mas-saucon hall petrified forest tonight at 8:30 concert-dance to be given 9:00 a m registration cam pus tours — alumni memorial building 10 15 a m band concert 11:00 a m departmental conferences — packard labora tory 12:30 p m luncheon — arm ory 1:00 p m visits to depart mental exhibits and demon strations 2:20 band music and song contest packard auditorium 2:30 freshman baseball—le high field varsity tennis — le high field freshman and var sity track — upper field 3:00 p m varsity baseball — taylor stadium 3:00 p m tea and reception — lounge drown hall 8 30 p m concert of combin ed glee clubs — packer memor ial chapel song contest nears close activities to take place monday afternoon on lower field awards will be given all preparations for the 12th annual military field day to be held monday afternoon have been completed according to major re ginald r bacon assistant professor of military science and tactics the exercises will be held on the lower field of taylor stadium and will center about the east 40-yard line representing the war depart ment will be lt col george c donaldson united states infantry who will make the annual inspec tion of the regiment president clement c williams will accom pany lt col davidson in review ing the unit the exercises will be open to the general public visitors will enter through the upper gate medicine ball race to be held the events which will be judg ed by major george r hedge and major john w mott who are sta tioned at lafayette college are as follows manual of arms elimina tion platoon drill competition ma chine gun competition one-poun der 37 mm competition medi cine ball relay race and company drill competition the medicine ball relay race is one of the play features to illustrate what is done in the regular army for physical development following the competitive events the regiment will form for parade awards and prizes will be awarded and the regiment will pass in re view 12 will compete in speech contest final round to be held wednesday evening four freshmen and eight upper classmen survived the first round of the williams extempore speak ing contest which began tuesday evening in packard auditorium these men will compete for prize money in the final round wednes day evening the entrants were asked to pre pare and submit four topics on which to speak they met tuesday afternoon to draw for positions and were not informed until that time which topic they were to discuss each freshman speaker was allow ed to talk for six minutes while each upperclass man was given eight minutes time o delta phi elects heads delta phi fraternity elected offi cers for next year they are jos eph l serrill e e 40 president david l h holmes met e 40 j vice president charles l crouse : jr bus 41 treasurer james r j kidder arts 42 secretary psi u pi x a town group compete tomorrow for alumni cup psi upsilon pi kappa alpha and section b of the town group survived the elimination round of the living group singing contest sponsored by the lehigh club of new york eliminations were held tuesday evening in the lounge in packard laboratory and finals will be held at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in packard auditorium the group winning the contest will be awarded temporary posses sion of a large cup donated by the sponsoring alumni organization among those who judged the singing groups were dr t edgar shields director of music bate man edwards head of the depart ment of romance languages ken neth w lamson associate profes sor of mathematics clarence a shook associate professor of math ematics max peterson associate professor of physics morton sultzer trustee of the university who is chairman of the committee appointed by the new york club to arrange details for the contest stated that the purpose of the contest is to remove from the minds of lehigh's hardened engin eers the feeling that singing in public or private is an effeminate enterprize and to give freedom to those boys who can or want to sing o annual dance to be held tomorrow by miami triad beta theta pi sigma chi and phi delta theta fraternities will hold the miami triad formal dance from 10 to 2 tomorrow evening at the hotel bethlehem bud rader's orchestra has been secured for the occasion and 500 guests are expected to attend dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religiuos philosophy will be the chaperone drama will be presented by mustard and cheese in liberty high final preparations were comple ted last night at dress rehearsal for the mustard and cheese perform ance of the petrified forest which will be given tonight at 8:30 in the liberty high school auditor ium the leads will be played by mal colm carrington bus 39 as alan squier and leila stoughton as gabby maple the play is laid in a gas station at a lonely crosseroads in arizona where chance brings together a writer who is bumming his way across the country a gang of ban dits who are fleeing from a bank hold-up and the gas station own er's daughter the writer falls in love with her and makes his will payable to her then he asks the gangsters to shoot him he hopes that by this means he can remove the girl from the drabness of her surroundings and insure her hap piness the petrified forest was first produced by gilbert miller and leslie howard the latter playing the afternoon and evening of an the lead in 1934 the play covers autumn day of 1934 leslie howard played first lead other members of the cast are r harry gunnison arts 41 as gramp maple john franks eng 41 as bose hertzlinger albert w foster bus 42 as a telegraph lineman richard j berg arts 41 as jason maple john c attwood arts 41 as herb a cowboy seymour margolis bus 41 as mr chisholm richard f fincke bus 40 as joseph joseph h hel ler bus 42 as jackie robert c ngle m e 41 as duke mantee russell c gebert eng 42 as ruby william l davey arts 42 as pyles lester r rosenfeld bus 40 legionnaire ralph buchs baum arts 40 as the sheriff the other feminine roles will be taken by june foering and ann ellis both local girls this production replaces the ori ginal musical comedy which is the customary spring offering of mus tard and cheese demolay's elect officers ache chosen president the unversity demolay club elected officers for next year at a meeting on thursday night those elected are warren w ache met e 40 president edward l hess e e 40 vice-president robert d everett eng 42 secretary alfred horka bus 42 treasurer and william j wrigley eng phys 40 chaplain alternate plan is offered to hold exercises around flag pole costs are investigated after turning down the petition of seniors to hold the graduation exercises in taylor stadium the committee on the standing of stu dents offered an alternative plan of placing 2,000 chairs around the flag pole and holding the exercises there alan s grant i e 39 presi dent of the senior class stated last night that he favored the alterna tive plan and that he felt the sur roundings will make for an im pressive ceremony in this way each senior will be entitled to about five tickets final approval of the plan de pends upon the cost of erecting a public address system and the cost of placing the chairs around the nag pole the faculty committee offered two reasons for turning down the senior petition to have the exerci ses in the stadium the first is that the stadium is too hot and the sec ond is that the stadium is unsight ly if graduation is held in the cha pel each senior will receive two tickets for the exercises grant has his committees working upon the costs of the suggested plan which is to be submited to the committee on the standing of students for approval no dorm rooms for town group heavy enrollment causes shortage says dean dean wray h congdon announ ced yesterday that there will be lit tle opportunity for those now liv ing off the campus to obtain rooms in the dormitories until the present representation of the upper classes falls off this is due to the fact that each class is supposed to have no more than a 25 percent representa tion in each section although accomodations were made available for 144 more stu dents in the dormitories when richards house was built the in crease in total undergraduate en rollment the same fall was about 120 students thus the net im provement in the rooming situation was adequate only for about 24 more students than in previous years he announced o collection boxes placed collection boxes for the refugee scholarship fund have been placed in drown hall and in the supply bureau by the cosmopolitan club students wishing to contribute may leave any sum in the boxes dr wray h congdon dean of un dergraduates has been made treas urer of the fund 4 combined glee clubs will present program tomorrow night the glee clubs of lehigh cedar cicsi lafayette and moravian college for women will combine to morrow night in their spring con cert at 8:30 o'clock in packer memorial chapel the concert will be followed by uancing in drown hall until 1:00 a m admission to the concert will oe free to students and 35 cents to others the program will include solos by two members of the glee club and three selections by the triple trio from moravian the four glee ciuds will combine to open the ev ening's singing and will join again io close the program programs listed the program is as follows com oined giee clubs choral from die meistersinger wagner and beautiful savior christiansen cedar crest glee club now is the month of maying morley in these delightful pleasant groves porcetl sanctus st cecelia gounoa aileluja mozart with miss emmie bucher as soloist i love life mana-zucca alma mater roush lafayette glee club o bone jesu pales trina lo a voice to rieaven sounding bortiniansky xiail light of life kastalsky iiospodi pomiloi lvovsky al ma mater stier moravian glee club lift thine eyes to the mountains mendel sohn prayer of the norwegian uhild kountz-oncley ador amus te mozart-davis with miss barbara bastian as soloist triple trio to sing moravian triple trio mah li'le picaninny huerter die bogie man bassett and annie the millers daughter slovakian folk song moravian glee club how mer rily we live este rockin in de win neidlinger floods of spring rachmaninoff - harris alma mater t e shields with miss elsie arnold as soloist lehigh glee club with a prim ros grieg beside a little brook in may brahms the autumn sea gericke dance my com rades bennett alma mater gibson 95 combined glee clubs accompan i ied by the lehigh symphony or chestra jesu joy of man's desir ing bach land-sighting gri eg-spicker , saturday to be devoted to entertainment of potential students many features planned five hundred sub - freshmen their parents and guests will visit the lehigh campus tomorrow for a sightseeing tour and a review of the activities of the university features of the day will be a band concert at 10:15 a m in front of packard laboratory a combina tion band concert and song contest at 2:30 p m at the same place a freshman baseball game with wy oming seminary at steel field var sity tennis with john hopkins at steel field freshman and varsity track meets with rutgers all at 2:30 p m and at 3:00 p m a var sity baseball game with upsala the sub-freshmen will be taken on tours of the campus at 9:00 a.m and will visit departmental exhi bits and demonstrations from 1:00 to 2:30 p m women's club to serve tea the lehigh university faculty woman's club will serve tea to all guests in an informal reception at 3:00 p m in drown hall on the second floor at the close of the day the com bined musical clubs of lehigh la fayette cedar crest and moravian college for women will present a concert at 8:30 p m in packer chapel and a dance following the concert to be given in drown hall lehigh students will usher the visitors around and give demon stration of the type of work car ried on at lehigh the committee in charge of sub-freshman activi ties is composed of 15 faculty members and five students o faculty presents comic operetta dean is bashful swain in rustic romance with dean wray h congdon in the role of robin oakapple hero of the gilbert and sullivan oper etta ruddigore the lehigh fac ulty chorus played before a capa city crowd at drown hall on wed nesday night the play concerned the efforts of bashful robin to overcome a curse upon his family and win the hand of the village belle rose maybud which was enacted by mrs david g scott the cast of the play including dean congdon and mrs scott were william b todd arts 40 as richard dauntless dr edgar h riley as sir despard murgatroyd charles w simmons as sir roder ic murgatroyd howard w alex ander as old adam goodheart mrs hilton a smith as mad mar garet mrs charles w simmons as | dame hannah mrs edward h cutler as zorah and mrs albert haring as ruth lee gusdorff supported by town dorms to be presidents 3 cheerleaders chosen annual elections draw heavy balloting for class offices electing two out of the three class presidents non - fraternity men gained their first majority representation on the campus wed nesday at the annual polls heavy balloting marked the elections as alfred t cox c e 40 albert e lee ch e 41 and robert n gusdorff bus 42 were chosen presidents of their classes eight hundred and three votes 108 less than last year were cast thomas e ricketts ch e 40 was elected member at large of arcadia and maynard l diamond arts 41 was chosen head cheer leader carl h richardson arts 40 and carl l steig i e 40 were chosen senior cheerleaders douglas c paul bus 40 aug ustus a riemondy ch e 41 and arthur h rich bus 42 were elec ted secretary-treasurers of their classes freshmen lead voting organization of the town council had a strong influence on the election declared george a albrecht bus 39 chairman of the arcadia elections committee this may be taken as an indication of greater interest on the part of the town men in student government the ballots will be available in the arcadia office for examination by anyone for the next fifteen days according to albrecht franc h burnett i e 39 presi dent of arcadia stated arcadia feels gratified at the interest in student government indicated by the very large balloting today the class of 1942 led the ballot ing with 350 votes while the class of 1941 cast 260 votes and the class of 1940 193 criticisms listed 2 honoraries meet to discuss lehigh policy the tau beta pi-phi beta kap pa senior criticism committee met wednesday night and discussed criticisms of university policy per sonnel and teaching methods the report of the committee is to be ap proved at a meeting on thursday and will be forwarded to the presi dent of the university for action the meeting was secret and all matters discussed are confidential with members of the committee james e patton ch e 39 is chairman of the committee and ir ving e lempert e e 39 is sec retary the committee consists of all senior members of tau beta pi and phi beta kappa officers chosen by student body to head senior junior and sophomore classes for coming year arthur h rich bus sophomore class sec.-treas albert e lee ch e junior class president robert n gusdorff bus sophomore class president douglas c paul bus senior class secretary treasurer thomas e ricketts ch e arcadia member-at-large vol xlvi no 49 sub-freshman program includes many events lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday may 5 1939 non-fraternity men win first majority price — five cents school to play host to 500 sub freshmen alfred t cox c e senior class president augustus a riemondy ch e junior class secretary-treasurer member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the 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