Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 38

              improvements will not affect tone of organ the lehigh wrestling team with very bright prospects for clinching the intercolle giate crown will be sent off with a rousing demonstration by the students according to arcadia the team leaves for princeton at either 7:15 or 7:30 o'clock thursday night from taylor gymnas ium the band will be at the gym at seven o'clock and all students are requested to ap pear there at the same time a short pep meeting will be held with cheering and mu sic everyone is urged to cooperate in this send-off practice for show continues nightly dr roscoe pound distin guished dean of the college of law at harvard university will deliver the commencement day address here tuesday june 12 president c r rich ards announced today dean pound was formerly president of the american bar association three years ago he refused the presidency of the university of wisconsin he is recognized as one of the lead ing liberal and progressive leg al authorities in america and his work at harvard has es tablished his law school as the foremost in the country the rt rev frank w ster rett who recently succeeded bishop talbot as bishop of bethlehem will deliver the bac calaureate address sunday june 10 reunion plans made by many classes during midwinter alum ni day will bring an added num ber of alumni to the campus this commencement mustard and cheese club will present the creaking chair seniors set date for class banquet hotel bethlehem will again be scene of annual affair the organ in packer mem orial chapel will be ready for full use again in two weeks ac cording to t edgar shields or ganist the improvements which are being made the first of any account since the rebuilding of the organ in 1910 will not af fect the tone of the instrument but will restore its prompt ac tion the repairs which are being made by benjamin le noir of philadelphia include the instal lation of a new trumpet and a new system of pedal contacts relettering of pneumatics and attaching of phosphore-brown fingers to each key and pedal organists of international re nown mr shields asserted have admired the tone of le high's organ one organist de clared that it was the most churchly organ he had ever heard the improvements will put the instrument in the best of shape dr j wolle leader of the bach choir will give a recital on the improved organ sunday afternoon april 15 alpha chi rho will hold closed dance the senior class banquet will be held march 22 in the hotel bethlehem there will prob ably be four speakers with en tertainment furnished by an or chestra the price of admission is covered by the class assess ment these assessments will be collected and tickets distrib uted before the date of the ban quet nine of the ten outstanding magazine articles of the month selected by a council of librar ians appear on the rack of the lucy packer linderman library the nine articles to be found in the library are should the government ignore superpow er bohn vs hapgood in the forum ; saturday evening post mirror of these states by leon whipple in the survey graphic last days of the ro manovs by e a walsh in the atlantic monthly saving souls through church suppers by bishop fiske in scribner's back to the old diplomacy by sisley huddleston in har per's magazine gangs by morris markey in the atlantic monthly when mass produc tion stalls by paul kellog in the survey graphic the gulf between by andre siegfried in the atlantic monthly and what's wrong with mexico by chester crowell in the north american review the library announces the re turn of two shelves of books sent to the bindery last week the bound books have been re catalogued and put back on the shelves the two boxes returned from the bindery contain about 50 volumes of the bookman and volumes of the maryland ar chives and various other per iodicals the removal of the books became necessary when a leaky roof caused them to be come water soaked new captain will replace chalker in honor of the tenth anni versary of its institution at le high alpha chi rho will hold a closed dance at its chapter house march 31 business writers to hear s r hall sergeant t j lavin speaks to students a howling melodrama the creaking chair is fast being whipped into shape as this year's mustard and cheese pro duction this three act play written by allene tup p c r wilkes and revised by roland pertwee was first produced in new york on april 19 1926 at the lyceum theatre running for some time as one of the successful shows of the season practice is concentrated on the third act the other two be ing now line perfect with two casts that will continue rehears ing until the night before the first performance when the fi nal choice of characters will be made the scenery is being completed with properties from new york and philadelphia tickets for the show are to be given out to members of the club on wednesday night to go on sale for the performances of friday and saturday nights march 23 and 24 seats will be 1 and 1.50 . erection of the noted car quinez strait highway bridge was the subject of the illustrat ed lecture by d b steinman consulting engineer new york city and c f goodrich de signing engineer american bridge company new york city last evening in the phys ics lecture room the lecture which was featured by several hundred slides and two reels of motion pictures was given un der the joint auspices of the le high valley section lafayette student chapter and lehigh student chapter of the amer ican society of civil engineers and was attended by approxi mately 300 people the carquinez strait bridge was completed may 1927 at a total cost of 8,500,000 it is located about 15 miles from san francisco and spans the car quinez strait which connects san pablo bay and suisun bay the total length of the main superstructure is 3350 feet with an additional 1132 foot viaduct at the southern end it has a clearance height of 135 feet above the water piers num bers two and three are set in 90 feet of swift moving water a novel method of using counterweights was used to raise the two center sections this is the first cantilever bridge to be built since the erec tion of the quebec bridge with several disastrous accidents the carquinez strait bridge was built by the united states steel products company thru the american bridge company the bridge is protected against earthquakes through the use of hydraulic buffers this is the first time earthquakes have been taken into consider ation in the design of a bridge the bridge will benefit both transcontinental and north and south highway traffic it was built as a private toll bridge for the american toll bridge com pany these interests formerly operated ferries at this point text book author will give talk thursday evening mr o e allande will address electricals sergeant t j lavin of the lehigh r o t c unit talked to students of catholic high school last friday evening con cerning citizens military training camps conducted ev ery summer by the govern ment captain robert q whitten 24th infantry will be detailed to the lehigh university unit of the r o t c next fall when he will replace captain chalker whose detail expires at that time captain whitten will be re lieved from the 24th infantry and from duty at fort benning georgia july 1 four concerns will interview seniors electrical engineering de velopments in south america will be the topic mr o e al lende speaker at the electrical engineering society meet which will be held in the physics building seven-thirty o'clock friday evening hazleton high wins lehigh's fencers crashed through with their fourth con secutive victory in four starts last friday in drown hall when they outpointed the university of delaware team 12-5 this was their second victory over the delaware collegians naving defeated them two weeks ago 9-6 joseph taggart of the bus iness department was master of ceremonies for the match as sisted by the delaware coach lieut.-col robert caswell a member of the 1924 olympic fencing team the epee and sabre matches resulted in an even break le high and delaware scoring two points in each in the foils however the superiority of the lehigh team was manifest win ning eight of the nine matches with little opposition one of the most important reasons for the success of the fencing team is the spirit with which the swordsmen have worked without being officially recognized the fencers are paying their own expenses to every meet and are being coach ed by one of their own men joseph bent matches which the team has already won are dual meets with rutgers lafayette and two with delaware the princeton team will be met march 15 in the last encounter of the sea son summary : epee : williams delaware defeated adams lehigh 1-0 schwitter lehigh defeated da vis delaware 1-0 schwitter lehigh defeated williams del aware 1-0 davis maryland defeated adams lehigh 1-0 lehigh 2 ; delaware 2 sabre longacre lehigh de feated potts delaware 5-3 frisbie delaware defeated goldblatt lehigh 5-2 gold blatt lehigh defeated potts delaware 5-1 ; frisbie dela ware defeated longacre le high 5-2 lehigh 2 dela ware 2 foil bent lehigh defeated williams delaware 5-3 green lehigh defeated rodney dela ware 5-1 ; schreiner lehigh defeated davis delaware 5-2 green lehigh defeated wil liams delaware 5-2 ; leister lehigh defeated rodney dela ware 5-2 bent lehigh defeat ed davis delaware 5-0 wil liams delaware defeated leis ter lehigh 5-1 bent lehigh defeated rodney delaware 5-3 ; green lehigh defeated davis delaware 5-0 lehigh 8 del aware 1 cards were sent to heads of all living groups of prospective students for sub-freshman day april 21 by austy tate these cards should be filled out and returned as soon as pos sible work for sub-freshman day has been progressing with good results so far according to austy tate lyle l jones jr and wil liam j hutchins sophomores have been pledged theta xi the lehigh varsity wrestlers concluded a most successful dual meet season in philadelphia last saturday afternoon by defeating the university of pennsylvania grapplers 28-3 lehigh secured five falls and a time decision against a lone decision for perm the outcome of the meet was never in doubt as lehigh's superiority was evident from the beginning the feature bout of the after noon was between harry palm and captain bogdan of perm in the 125-lb class bogdan has been defeated only once this year and the bout furnished plenty of thrills as the two men staged a great battle in which both slipped in and out of holds with astonishing rap idity palm nearly threw bog dan several times but the red and blue leader with a well perfected elbow-roll managed to free himself each time only bogdan's long experience as a wrestler saved him from de feat and enabled him to gain a time advantage of 3:48 min utes over palm bogdan's vic tory saved his team from a complete shutout eddie mcgovern lehigh's 115 pounder secured the first five points of the meet when he easily defeated gamm of perm after a six minute bout mc govern showed superiority from the beginning and had little trouble throwing his man with a half-nelson and body hold after bogdan had gained his victory lehigh resumed her victorious march by taking the next bout by a fall when dick lewis threw smith of perm in less than six minutes lewis displayed lightning speed in bringing smith to the mat and after tiring him out managed to secure a bar and chancery which ended the bout in the 145-lb class captain bill heilman increased the le high total by throwing butz of perm in 4:21 minutes heil man had little trouble with his red and blue jerseyed oppon ent and managed to turn him over with a quarter-nelson continued on page six art landis and his opponent frei of perm staged a hard fought bout in the 158 pound class neither man gaining enough time advantage to win in the regulation time two ex tra periods were necessary for a decision and in the first per iod landis won the toss and chose the defensive however he reversed his position almost immediately and maintained freshmen add to student chemical foundation fund professor stuart arranges seminar tea dance during festive week free magazines will keep me chanicals informed of developments hazleton high school swept to the championship of eastern pennsylvania list night in tay lor gymnasium before a huge crowd when it defeated mahon by city champions of the an thracite league of eastern pennsylvania with a score of 48 to 28 pictorial review for house parties campus to be portrayed in cream and tan colors students of english 9 writ ing for business will be ac corded the unusual privilege of meeting the author of their text book when s roland hall of easton speaks at 7:30 p m thursday march 15 in christ mas-saucon hall on the topic glimpses into advertising and business writing the lecture has been sched uled principally for members of the three business writing sec tions but others especially members of the writing for business class the first semester are invited mr hall conducts an adver tising agency in easton and also a correspondence school for business students he is a lec turer at lafayette college and was formerly director of the business courses of the interna tional correspondence school his book business writing is used as a text by students of the journalism section of english 9 he is also the author of num erous texts on business and ad vertising subjects prom committee plans program professor m c stuart has arranged a technical magazine seminar beginning this week for the staff of the mechanical engineering department the purpose of which is to keep members abreast of latest de velopments in their subjects the magazines will be ob tained from the library after they are taken from the shelves and ready to be filed each pro fessor will review those mag azines which pertain to the par ticular courses he is teaching there are 600 magazines and periodicals in the library of which approximately 40 will be of particular interest to the seminar representatives from four concerns will be at lehigh this week to interview prospective senior engineers thursday mechanical and in dustrial engineers will be inter viewed by representatives of the worthington pump machinery corporation and the american steel and wire company elec trical engineers will be inter viewed by herbert wottrich personnel agent of the public service corporation of new jer sey from 10 to 12 a m fri day march 16 in the seminar room while in the afternoon he will interview the mechani cal and industrial engineers e j rutan superintendent of the test department of the new york edison company will in terview senior and junior elec trical engineers friday march 23 the new york edison com pany offers the seniors a 35 weeks course in the electrical testing department with oppor tunity at the end of that time of advancing into other depart ments of the company this year the company will take a few juniors for 10 weeks of summer work in the testing de partment mathematics lecture four fraternities join in house party dance plans for the junior prom are rapidly being completed the committee composed of tom brennan chairman al lewis lee trantum and john kirkpatrick has arranged a clever decorative scheme and promises something original in favors several good orches tras are under consideration alpha chi rho sigma phi epsilon delta upsilon and al pha tau omega will give a dance at the a t 0 house april 28 the chaperones will be dr and mrs h c blodgett and mr and mrs lee g barth old foundation research is complet ed the results will be placed in the new critical tables containing natural constants compiled by leading scientists this work may be viewed as an extension of work already pub lished on calcium nitrate which evoked much favorable com ment on publication the second research fellow ship is held by hugh c jones who is working under profes sor h c neville on the setting of cement and plaster of paris in 1926 dr neville showed that setting of plaster of paris lith arge glycerine cement and sim ilar materials consists of a col loidal process plus a chemical reaction dr neville and mr jones are seeking similarities between the setting of plaster of paris and portland cement completed knowledge in the field of portland cement will greatly amplify knowledge on this substance and make it pos sible for scientists and engin eers to add substances to cement which make it adaptable for other uses incidentally the new type of apparatus employed has developed a method for di rectly measuring the cubical ex pansion of cement or similar materials which is of prime importance when they are used in construction a theorem on saltus func tions is the subject of an ad dress to be given by louis j paradiso instructor in mathe matics at 11 a m thursday march 15 before the mathe matics research and journal club in packer hall all inter ested are invited final faculty dance no admission will be charged to the interfraternity tea dance which will be held on saturday afternoon april 28 during the week-end of house parties it was decided last night that the interfraternity council will defray all the ex penses of this dance which will be open to all persons taking in house-parties whether under graduates or graduates here tofore an admission has always been charged for this function which the council holds at the same time during each house party period but a point has been stretched this year to make the affair gratis leonard hor ton chairman of the council so cial committee announced that the best of music would be pro vided a recommendation was also passed at the council meeting last night urging the fraterni ties to provide scholastic re quirements for pledges prior to initiation this recommenda tion was made in order to help raise the scholastic average of fraternities although the fresh men are only a part of the fra ternity scholastic problem ini tiation requirements is one of the most effective aids to good scholarship the sixth and final dance sponsored by members of the faculty was held in drown hall saturday evening continuing the idea inaugur ated last year by the class of 1930 members of the freshman class taking chemistry turned over their laboratory fee re funds to the lehigh university student chemical foundation to date 1086 has been turned in with a few more pledges to be heard from the money ob tained is used in establishing re search fellowships in chemistry open only to lehigh graduates at present there are two le high men on their way to a master's degree from last year's contributions richard j degray one of the fellows is working under dr w w ewing on the pressure of water vapor on various com pounds of strontium nitrate with water of crystallization enormous quantities of this sub stance are used in red flares railroad danger signals aero plane landing lights ship rock ets and other forms of pyro technics this work also has direct bearing on the prepara tion of nitrates for fertilizer and preparation of nitric acid from the nitrogen in air in order that strontium nitrate may be as efficient as possible under all conditions it is impor tant to have fundamental scien tific data which will be avail able when the student chemical a tabloid sized pictorial re view showing campus life will be circulated the week of house parties by a committee of pi delta epsilon the souvenir ro togravure pictorial is an inno vation to lehigh the review will be done in cream and tan colors devoid of editorials it will contain only pictures of lehigh life it will consist chiefly of cam pus snapshots with views of buildings and living groups pictures of athletes in action and team groups will also be shown a section will be de voted to social life snapshots of individuals will be included from 12 to 16 pages of pictures will be run following the lines of a sunday supplement lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday march 13 1928 matmen overwhelm perm in last meet dean pound speaks at commencement fencers win from delaware foilsmen price five cents carquinez bridge lecture subject ol xxxv no 38 brown and white lehigh swordsmen take return match four straight victories civils hear d b steinman and c f goodrich last evening seniors will meet all seniors are to meet in coppee hall at noon tomor row graduation plans ban quet plans report of com mittees and announcement of expenses will be made library has best magazine articles pep meeting bishop sterrett will give baccalaureate sermon this year 28-3 lehigh scores five falls and decision to win repairs to organ in chapel will soon be finished nine of outstanding ten contained in linderman memorial all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association