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              three members discuss the significance of pan american conference committee selected to sub mit plan at board of control meeting the day of distinguished rat ings for r o t c units has passed according to word re ceived by lt col e.e mccam mon from the war department instead of the former competi tive inspection by officers of the corps area subsequent in spections will merely determine the general efficiency of the unit for several years lehigh has been rated by the war depart ment as a distinguished college but no longer will the officers of the unit be able to instill a competitive spirit into the an nual inspection senior chemicals get new elective the industrial engineering meet in the physics lecture room last night consisted of a very in teresting talk on power by pro fessor f v larkin and a four reel film on steam obtained through the courtesy of the bab cox and wilcox company the picture showed the circu lation of water steam and gas through a boiler the manufac ture of steam drums automatic stokers steam headers and marine boilers was shown in de tail professor larkin spoke on power and its relation to civili zation he said that power was the mainstay of civilization transportation mining manu facturing merchandising edu cation and research following in the order of their importance he discussed the various sources of power : coal oil water tides and wind coal at present is the greatest professor larkin concluded by relating some hu morous experiences that he had with a colorado power company his first job after he was grad uated from college rhodes candidates file applications billy sheridan bosey reiter is slowly regain ing his health under a warm florida sun according to recent reports from miami the pop ular physical director forced to repair to southern climes on ac count of a break-down two months ago is winning a deter mined fight for recovery bosey and i watch the fish ing boats come in each night writes mrs harold reiter they catch a lot she adds en thusiastically mrs reiter has been busy penning news to bosey's lehigh friends writing march 2 to billy sheridan coach of wresting and bosey's warm friend she said bosey has asked me to drop you a line to say that he is gaining slowly and getting great benefit from the ocean and sun baths he hopes everything is going all right with you we watch the fishing boats come in each night they catch a lot mine head speaks at engineers meet made dec 8 secre tary announces awards for 1928 will be dr oliver bowles delivers lecture on non-metallic materials the public forum will dis cuss is american living up to its democratic ideals at its meeting at 7 p m monday in dr m j luch's office in christmas saucon hall the pan american confer ence was discussed and officers were elected for the ensuing year at the monthly meeting of the alexander hamilton so ciety wednesday evening in coppee hall john m blackmar was elect ed president and samuel gar wood was chosen vice-president robert r hertzler was selected as treasurer and s p simons was named secretary they took charge immediately the discussion of the recent pan-american meeting in ha vana was led by blackmar rol lin hartman and edward bach tell a lively argument devel oped among the members upon some of the points advanced by these speakers the most in teresting question was whether the united states has an em pire or whether it is moving toward that end the next meeting of the club was set for wednesday evening april 17 what america's at titude toward future war should be will be discussed then a fi nal formal meeting will be held later in april or early in may frosh math club elects officers art exhibit here april 30 to may 1 2 one of the most successful dual wrestling schedules of re cent years will end tomorrow as the matmen journey to phil adelphia to meet the univer sity of pennsylvania team in the palestra advance dope indi cates that perm has a compar atively weak team with the ex ception of captain bodgen who looms as a strong contender for intercollegiate honors in the 125 pound class perm has had very mediocre success during the current sea son although four veterans are numbered on the squad the team was badly defeated by perm state and cornell and just managed to nose out frank lin and marshall by one point contrasted with this the brown and white has run thru seven meets with some of the strongest teams in the east with six victories and but one defeat syracuse princeton navy columbia yale and la fayette have all bowed to the home team whose only defeat was suffered at the hands of cornell captain bill heilman is ex pected to hit a tough opponent in lee red and blue 145-pound er and bodgen and rabinowitz are both capable matmen the tentative line-up perm lehigh harris 115 mcgovern bodgen 125 a lewis or palm rabinowitz . 135 r lewis lee 145 heilman bermart 158 landis gabriel 175 lehr urban heavy miller fogg gives speech ralph j fogg head of the department of civil engineering addressed the rotary club meeting in hotel bethlehem to day on mechanisms of the ar izona industrial congress " prof fogg became well ac quainted with the industrial conditions in arizona during his trip through the west last year beginning september 1928 the chemistry department will offer a one term course in bio chemistry primarily to senior chemists and chemical engin eers for an alternate elective with advanced organic chem istry according to the official description bio-chemistry is the organic inorganic and phy sical chemistry of life processes and their products including atomic and molecular structure equilibrum and colloidal states catalasis osmosis synthesis oxidation and reduction as ap plying to carbo-hydrates pro tiens fats liquids and their interrelations the course will be under the direction of dr edwin r theis who before associating with the chemistry department was the chemical engineer in charge of production at the friedrich b steams company in detroit one of the country's largest bio chemical producers cyanide to give dance one of the most important collections of paintings ever shown in bethlehem has been secured by the fine arts com mittee for exhibition in mem orial hall april 30 to may 12 concomittant with the dates of the bach festival a selected group of paintings by the great french impres sionists of the 19th century will be shown the collection will include representative works of such well-known ar tists as degas renoir manet monet and pissaro the work of mary cassat an american artist whose recent death brought renewed prominence to her work will also be shown seligson competes in new york meet arrangements for a dance to be held immediately following the mustard and cheese show march 24 are in the hands of a cyanide committee composed of lyter martindale and breh nen plans have been made to take care of the swimmers in the p i.a.a meet that is to be held this saturday in taylor pool elections of sidney sinick a president erwin underwood vice-president and john tom linson secretary were made at a meeting of the newtonian society last thursday night francis neuwirth and robert zoble were elected to member ship the society also selected charms to consist of the greek letter pi with an n on one leg and an s on the other john tomlinson winner of the prize for the best solution to the last mathematics prob lem published in the brown and white described and explained his solution max carlin dem onstrated some magic squares and walton forstall spoke on the trisection of angles and the squaring of cubes both of which he proved impossible air corps desires student aviators tennis star will try for national indoor cham pionship u s army is ready to give first instruction the 1928 election of rhodes scholars will be held decem ber 8 applications must be filed with the secretary of the state committee of selection be fore october 20 according to frank aydelotte american secretary to the rhodes trustees and president of swarthmore college a rhodes scholarship the most coveted of all undergrad uate awards entitles the hold er to three years of study at oxford university with an an nual stipend of about 2000 rhodes scholars are elected without examination on the basis of college records and no restriction is placed upon choice of studies to be eligible a candidate must be an unmarried male cit izen of the united states be tween the ages of nineteen and twenty-five and must have completed at least his sopho more year in college before the time he goes to oxford schol ars selected december 8 1928 will go to oxford in october 1929 lehigh students desirous of further information and appli cation blanks are requested to consult professor p m palm er head of the arts depart ment according to dean charles m mcconn lehigh university has never had a rhodes scholar educational club to meet the faculty educational club will discuss the lecture in continuing its study of educa tional policies at its regular meeting monday evening march 12 dr percy hughes pres ident will introduce the subject last week the club considered the classroom in its series of discussions the romance in inorganic non-metallics was discussed in a lecture on non-metallic mater ials given at an open meeting of the mining and metallurgical society last evening in the wil liams hall lecture room by dr oliver bowles head of the bu reau of mines experimental sta tion at brunswick n j dr bowles discussed five different problems that have recently con fronted him in his research delving into the glamour and romance of granite memorials dr bowles said i am more in terested in rocks themselves than the inscriptions written on them each block tells a great dea.l of its origin there are never two faces alike ; each mineral has in dividuality i hope that non-metallics find as important a place among col leges as metals said dr bowles in anticipating the fu ture and i consider it the com ing field the speaker showed how lehigh was situated in the typical non-metallic field right fn the heart of the portland ce ment industry which carried on a 280,000,000 business yearly dr bowles discussed the fol lowing experimental problems with the aid of slides : the use of the rotary kiln in lime-burning the use of anhydrite as a cement retarder in the place of gypsum the effect of steam in the lime kiln the problem of under ground limestone mining and the wire-saw process for obtain ing slate tickets for show ready next week the advance ticket sale for the creaking chair mustard and cheese spring show to be given march 23 and 24 will be gin next week the play this year is a mys tery mixed with comedy h p pfander of the english depart ment is directing the show arrangements for a canvas of faculty and students as well as of the city of bethlehem is be ing prepared by s the executive committee of mustard and cheese aided by a committee on production engineers inspect building project attendance at the dances held during the winjter has grown with every dance the last of a series of six faculty dances will be held 8 p m tomorrow in drown hall pi delta epsilon elects morrison sophomores plan third tea dance library acquires research reports a committee to investigate a system for the control of ath letic equipment was appointed by j g petriken at a meeting of coaches and managers of sport teams in drown hall at 7 o'clock on wednesday eve ning j g petriken graduate manager of athletics introduced the question of loss of equip ment and the means by which it can be lessened mr petriken emphasized the enormous ex pense caused by this loss of equipment due to indifference on the part of those to whom the equipment had been issued different solutions of the problem were discussed to lessen the amount of disappear ing equipment the general con census of opinion was that the coaches and the managers should attempt to impress upon the students holding the equip ment the fact that they would be held directly responsible for anything that they could not account for at the end of the season of the sport in which they participated in the past there has been a more or less slipshod method of checkup on equipment austy tate citing the foot ball system as an example said that he believed the best solu tion of the problem lay in the building up of an espris de corps among the athletes the introduction of a competent ledger system for the equipment issued and an itemized sheet for each man out for the sport with all equipment that he has listed on that sheet billy sheridan wrestling coach supported these argu ments but added a point by say ing that the students should be forced to realize their responsi bilities more fully he claimed that it would be a very good idea to hold up all sweaters and letters in each sport until all equipment has been turned in or accounted for this system was in use at^high several years ago severfl of the students pres ent voiced their opinions on the matter with most of them sup porting austy's plan it was decided the ledgers should be kept by either the managers in each sport themselves or by some person employed especial ly for the job to perfect a plan for the cor rect application of the system mr petriken appointed a com mittee consisting of austy tate coach of football l c crewe manager of football j r den ise manager of lacrosse prof f v larkin member of the board of control w b bill meyer captain of basketball t m burke president of arca dia p g gilmore editor-in chief of the brown and white c i lattig coach of lacrosse and dr carothers head of the college of business adminis tration highway classes to hear lecture among the 64 athletes who be gin play in the seventh regi ment armory new york city tomorrow for the national indoor tennis championship will be jul ius seligson sophomore tennis luminary and recent winner of intercollegiate crown at cornell and fritz mercur former le high court star who defeated manuel alonzo at seabright last august seligson seeded in the draw heads the upper half of the three score entrants among whom in spite of the absence of several nationally known players are many capable court performers he encounters w e allen mon day afternoon among the eight seeded amer ican players is mercur who is scheduled to meet m v d bel den in the lower half at a meeting of the tennis team of james munroe high school n y c sydney selig son younger brother of the brown and white star was re cently elected captain for the 1928 season frosh and houses plan four dances james c morrison yice 7 pres ident of pi delta epsilon was elected president of the honorary journalistic fraternity yesterday afternoon possibilities of fostering a gridiron banquet and install ing such an event as a lehigh tradition were introduced by professor tvlacdougall affairs of this type meet with annual success throughout the western universities owing to the late ness of the semester it will not be attempted this year while faculty opposition to the publication of another razz sheet is prevalent pi delta ep silon expects to publish a pictor ial review of lehigh it would be on sale at house party time a committee consisting of j a covert chairman ; professor macdougall c o carlson and d b straub was appointed to formulate plans for the innova tion a lecture on bituminous materials and bituminous pavements will be given to classes in highway engineering by c e mcclintock district engineer warren brothers company at 11 a m friday and saturday in the lecture room of the department of civil engineering the lecture will be illustrated with moving pictures and slides this is the second of a series of talks given to the classes in highway engineering s a becker associate professor of civil engineering stated that this is mr mcclintock's third visit to lehigh and that his lec ture will prove instructive and interesting arcadia meets thursday eve ning to consider the faculty ac tion on the activities fee with the freshman tea dance saturday afternoon and dances at three fraternity houses sat urday evening the week-end possesses all the properties of a house party the fraternities which are hosts at formal dances satur day evening are phi gamma delta phi sigma kappa and lambda chi alpha - cyril d jensen robert b morris instructors in civil en gineering evan h gardner robert b jewell senior civil engineers made a trip to phil adelphia last monday to inspect a large building construction in which welding is being used the building is an addition to the general electric com pany's west philadelphia plant the building contains 1000 tons of steel of which all trusses are being electric arc welded instead of being riveted the trusses are of 85 feet span the con sulting engineer on the design of the building is f rank p mc kibben formerly head of the department of civil engineering at lehigh university the building has a very neat appear ance since all joints are weld ed and no rivets used mr jen sen stated that the advantages of welding over rivetting are the lack of noise neatness greater efficiency and much greater strength r j fogg head of the de partment of civil engineering stated that arrangements have been made for the civil engin eering seniors to visit the build ing on their philadelphia inspec tion trip the sophomore class will give its third tea dance of the year 4 p m march 24 in drown hall it was decided at the weekly cabinet meeting wed nesday evening dave fluhar ty's orchestra will furnish the music the cabinet decided to hold a pep smoker about march 30 in anticipation of the com ing banquet season the sophomore committee which will meet with dean c m mcconn and a freshman committee to decide on a pro gram for the banquet season was instructed by the cabinet to observe traditions in regulat ing this year's banquet season the senior banquet will be held march 22 the juniors however do not wish to have their banquet so early in the season thereby making the probable date of the sophomore dinner about april 20th g ellis oiler sophomore president urged that sopho mores pay their dues so that plans for the banquet season can be completed the united states army de sires to interest members and graduates of r.o.t.c units in the opportunities offered at the various flying schools maintain ed by the army to prepare men for service as military pilots the air corps is ready to ap point suitable candidates as fly ing cadets for instruction in navigation meteorolgy radio and other subjects allied to military aviation following such preliminary instruction they are trained in the piloting of either heavier-than-air or lighter-than-air craft in eith er case the course of instruction lasts one year the first eight months of the heavier-than-air training i s given at brooks field san an tonio texas or at march field riverside california upon completion of the primary training students are transfer red to the advanced flying school at kelly field san an tonio texas for the remaining four months the primary training includes approximately 75 hours in the air the advanced training con sists of transition to service type airplanes cross-country flying and aerial gunnery in volving approximately 250 hours of actual flying further information about this corps may be obtained at the office of the professor of mili tary science and tactics a set of the royal historical commission reports probably the only one in the lehigh val ley has been added recently to the lehigh library the set consists of 136 volumes and is for research purposes new books this week deal chiefly with economics history and politics howard s leach librarian cites the following as of particular interest dutcher political awaken ing of the east george re lations of geography to his tory graham new govern ments of central europe ; pax son independence of south american republics graham social life of scotland ernie english f arming past and present guedalla parti tion of europe dodge great britain and prussia in 18th century ; luce legislative procedure plunket fall of the old order scott history and historical problems young economic problems young portugal old and new brown and white ol xxxv no 37 larkin speaks at industrial meeting matmen conclude season with perm florida weather agrees with bosey lehigh university bethlehem pa friday march », 1928 price five cents rotc rating ended by war department watches fishing schooners v come to miami shore every night distinguished colleges no longer to be named coached wrestlers hamilton society elects blackmar as new president coaches managers meet to discuss sport equipment wrestlers will end suc cessful schedule tomor row in palestra member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first