Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 41

              46 per cent of lehigh men get valentines vol xlix — no 41 anxiety expressed as students call for bad news deep concern is seen on the faces of these students calling for their valentines sunday night at the reg istrar's office a total of 764 students received these notices of deficiency a number which has been topped only once in the last nine years to add insult to injury valentines this year were not delivered due to the university's inability to secure messengers at the offered wages in the scene above are from left to right robert e siegfried ch e 43 james schwab bus 45 john s curtis arts 44 w illiam r bowen i e 45 and richard w bradshaw m e 45 19 lehigh fraternities boast numerous house mascots players score hit in comedy workshop's production of ah wilderness pleases audience tau bete to hold election smoker new men will be pledged on friday afternoon a total of 764 students or 46 per cent of the 1659 students en rolled in the university received valentines sunday for scholastic deficiency incurred during the first six weeks of this semester last march 680 students out of 1673 received valentines that total was six per cent lower than this year fraternity men receiv ed 386 valentines last sunday 56 more than last year dormitory men followed with 182 or 18 more than last year the town group received the same number of val entines this week that they re ceived last year 186 arts college issues 127 the college of arts and science sent out 127 valentines in an en rollment of 269 the college of business administration sent 173 from an enrollment of 369 while 439 out of 969 engineers also re ceived them the chemical en gineering department sent out 93 notices of scholastic deficiency the chemistry department 22 the elec trical department 53 and the civil engineering department 31 engineering physics students were the recipients of 11 notices the industrial engineers 67 the mechanical engineers 93 and the metallurgical engineers 32 and the mining engineers 10 764 mark topped once during the last nine years the 764 mark has been topped once in 1939 when a total of 798 valen tines were sent to students the university has however increased insize steadily since 1934 this year the enrollment dropped to 14 men less than last year's figure fraternity men received about 51 per cent of the valentines this year dormitory men received 24 per cent and the town group also received 24 per cent of the notices the remaining two per cent is divided among general college di vision and general engineering students this year valentines were distributed by dean cong don on sunday evening in the reg istrar's office of the alumni build ing 4 groups enter singing contest traditional bout to be held sub-freshman day " adefinitely rostered compul sory mass calisthenics and compel itive sports program will certainly produce men physically fit to en dure any military encounter on even terms with a trained enemy said director of intercollegiate athletics glen w harmeson last night at a meeting of cyanide at kappa sigma that the institution of courses in mass calisthenics here is merely a matter of time was harmeson's opinion as he pointed out the cases of yale harvard and michigan where such programs have already been outlined with the approval of the military authorities in each school the course is relatively strenuous as opposed to the intra mural conditions now existent need more intramural fields the problem of additional play ing space for intramural contests v/as summarized briefly by the coach with we must make the best use of the available fields the society however advocated the construction of a new field at the top of south mountain south of the lookout an estimate from andrew w litzenberger director of buildings and grounds set the cost of such a field at 9000 plans have already been drawn up ready for use when funds have been ap propriated university authorities have not yet taken any action on a mass exercise program such as was dis cussed last night harmeson re ported that he had discussed the matter with president clement c williams but no further steps have been initiated order year's report final action of cyanide was to order the drawing up of a report of the year's findings and in par ticular the argument for a field atop south mountain and to sub mit this data to the president and to the board of trustees for fur ther study and action the organization of a varsity l club was further discussed ac tual synthesis of membership was put in charge of george melloy met.e and john m stockbridge m.e wrestling catpain a study of the present point system for membership was dele gated to barton r heinz bus and samuel j davy e.e who will submit a tentatively revised list at the next meeting new mem bers will be elected late in april the election smoker of tau beta pi national scholastic honorary for engineers will be held at 7:30 o'clock thursday evening in the lounge of drown hall following the smoker the elec tion of seniors and juniors to mem bership will take place the new men elected will be tapped at 4 o'clock friday after noon as in the past the pledg ing will take place in front of williams hall at the stone erected to the memory of dr edward h williams jr founder of the so ciety engineers eligible for spring el ection are seniors in the top fifth of the engineering curriculum and juniors in the top eighth leonard hall with an average of 3.209 again has the highest living group average in the uni versity they had the top ranking average last semester with a 2.901 and have lost top position only twice in 18 semesters drinker house section iv-a took second place with an average of 2.393 the university average for the past semester was 1.8756 a drop of 1228 the average for all the dor mitories was 2,0132 which topped the fraternity average of 1.7734 top rank among the fraternities was gained by tau delta phi with an average of 2.327 the average of all non-fratern ity men last semester was 1.6694 the rankings of the living groups follow leonard hall 3.209 drinker house iv-a 2.393 tau delta phi 2.327 taylor house d 2.308 taylor house b 2.308 richards house 11-a 2.279 taylor house e 2.142 taylor house c 2.133 phi delta theta 2.099 sigma alpha mv 2.087 phi sigma kappa 2.069 richards house 1 1 ib 2.025 all dormitories 2.0132 drinker house 118 2.016 drinker house 11-a 2.001 richards house 111-a 1.999 price house 1.970 all non-fraternity men 1.9664 alpha town house 1.59s sigma nu 1.946 phi gamma delta 1.945 alpha kappa pi 1.943 delta sigma phi 1.930 sigma phi epsilon 1.925 drinker house 111-b 1.918 richards house iv-b 1.911 richards house 118 1.906 drinker house 111-a 1.904 pi lambda phi 1.893 sigma chi 1.892 entire university 1.8756 richards house iv-a 1.849 delta upsilon 1.836 psi upsilon 1.830 continued on page four lehigh students making reason able progress in obtaining a de gree in any of the fields of engin eering or in arts science majors including pre-medical bacteriolo gy geology physics and chemistry will be recommended by the uni versity to their draft boards for assignment to class 11-a selective service rating dean wray h congdon chair man of the university committee on military service announced this week that a request for such a recommendation is unnecessary until a student receives his ques tionnaire from his local draft board students enrolled in the advanced rotc enlisted in the navy's v-7 program of training or in the marine corps program are not subject to call by their local draft boards these students will in most cases be allowed to continue in college until they are graduated providing they continue to make satisfactory progress to wards their degrees sophomores juniors and seniors enrolled in the navy's v-5 pro gram for aviation cadets are not subject to immediate call but will be permitted to complete the cur rent college year during which they enrolled in the v-5 program dean congdon also stated that stu dents enrolled in the civilian pilot training courses are eligible for deferment during the duration of the courses only reclassify in 6 months more consideration for defer ment is generally given to students enrolled in the accelerated pro gram stated congdon many draft boards have been known to induct bona fide students eligible for de ferment during the summer since they were not going to school classification of a draftee by his local draft board l sts only six months at which time each case is reopened for reclassification normally a student properly class ified in class 11-a does not have difficulty in obtaining a similar reclassification if he is continuing in college and making satisfactory academic progress dean congdon declared that students who have definite pre ferences for branches of the mil itary service other than the army must complete their enlistment to avoid being called for their pre induction physical examinations these come after students return their questionnaires further information about re commendations may be obtained from dean congdon otto neugebauer talks to society double quartette to sing at chapel by william h highfield big dogs little dogs fat dogs thin dogs old dogs and young dogs they can be found liberally scattered in 19 of the 29 fraternity houses one of the best known dogs on the campus is pi the sigma nu mascot pi part shepherd and part police is one of the oldest of the fraternity mascots he has been at the sigma nu house for 8 years the pet with the biggest appetite who is also one of the largest dogs is tiny the great dane from phi sigma kappa tiny is six years old and eats five cans of dog food a day theta delta chi also claims to have the oldest dog on the campus in dobie their doberman pin scher dobie is a good watchdog and manages to attend classes reg ularly at the same time theta xi most and smallest theta xi has two first places the house has the most dogs three one of them being the smallest of the lehigh collection pee wee a mongrel is about ten in ches high theta xi also has the dog with the longest name a thor oughbred mastiff named black douglas of montrose the third member of the theta xi kennels and probably the black sheep of the family is louie an ordinary french bull alpha chi rho got its mascot in the most unusual way jock a seven year old police dog was given by a houseparty date beta theta pi owns a small menagerie containing one dog three turtles and a number of crabs daisey a mongrel is the newest acquisition to the group featured by the house are battles between turtles and crabs with the crabs holding the upper hand due to superior numbers chi phi has two dogs one of continued on page four will present 4 selections at cedar crest service tells of different origins of numbers systems thompson speaks about animal life sportsman's club hears lecture sees films four living groups have entered the annual song contest a tradi tional feature of sub-freshman day due to the limited number of entrants there will be no prelim inary elimination contest this year as the date of sub-fresh man day is uncertain no contest date can be named but a four week practice period has been re quested by the competing groups groups entered are pi kappa al pha three-time winner and pre sent possessor of the cup leonard hall delta tau delta and alpha chi rho jt is still not too late for other groups to enter according to rebort f herrick alumni secretary and director of the contest most of the men who have been winning the trophy for the last three years have now grad uated and the competition should be wide open the contest is sponsored by the new york al umni chapter a double quartette from the glee club will sing at 10 15 o'clock tomorrow morning at chapel ser vices at cedar crest college the numbers being sung are hail the college evening pas torale firefly and a round a combined concert with the moravian girls glee club is being planned for april 18 in packer chapel but no final result has been reached announced robert j mc gregor ch.e 42 manager those singing at cedar crest to morrow are william r williams arts 43 james w woods chem 43 oscar d summers e.e 44 gordon t roberts e.e 45 s brooks longley arts 42 mcgreg or david m john arts 45 and joseph h goth arts 44 they will be accompanied by francis c taylor arts 45 tone listen will stage combined concert tonight by joseph f kemmer saturday night's performance of ah wilderness marked the sec ond time a eugene o'neill play has been presented to a lehigh audience within the past year although not as polished as the hedgerow presentation of the emperor jones the dramatic workship presentation does not compare unfavorably with the for mer despite the half-filled auditori um ah wilderness was popu lar — just as well received as the emperor jones perhaps the le high man liked the play saturday night because it satirizes middle class life and adolescence and is a pleasant mixture of sex and humor but the play was a little too long and a little too heavy to com pletely satisfy the student body one of the best actors we have seen at lehigh for quite a while is dwight longley who played the main role of richard miller also convincing were donald layton francis zavis kathryn wohlbach and lois jenkins who represent ed respectively near-dypsomaniac prostitue maid and housewife good performances were given by tom mekeel joyce heller dave osborn and eleanor lewis most of the minor characters were well-cast and played their parts effectively the parts in fact were played almost too well for throughout the play many of the actors preferred to let the lines fall where they may instead of sticking to the or iginal script nevertheless no cues were missed and what the play lost in authenticity it gained in spontaneity use skeletonized setting the scenic problems as the pro gram stated were solved by a skeletonized and impressionistic setting the combination of a bar room scene and a parlor room scene into one did not seem to hurt the play the usual psychological impression was very effective as the spotlight shifted from the ado lescent with a girl on his knee to his family worrying about his wel fare one of the most generally ex pressed criticisms was that the play took three and a half hours ending at 11:50 p.m this accounts for many persons leaving before the final act for the bethlehem bars close at midnight saturdays luckring receives award dr thomas prepares for worst here's one man on the faculty that is taking the national emergency in his stride realizing the acute rubber shortage and not having the best possible set of tires for the family car dr harold p thomas head of the de partment of education has bought his family — wife son and him self — bicycles but only as a last resort will he take to pedaling his way to the lehigh campus the young thomas is already pumping his way to school and it is understood that mrs thomas can be found practicing secretly in the rear of the thomas home on any of the warmer spring afternoons so when you see an english - type bike with all the latest accessories parked in front of packer hall dr thomas tires finally will have reached the end of their ply professor otto neugebauer re fugee mathematician now on the brown faculty lectured on the origin of ancient mathematics at the meeting of pi mv epsilon na tional honorary mathematics soci ety last friday evening about 40 students members of the faculty and faculty wives attended the meeting . professor neugebauer explained the difficulty in first creating math ematics from nothingness he pointed out that in 3000 b.c it was an accomplishment for the phar oahs to be able to count with the aid of lantern slides he compared the egyptian and babylonian num ber system the egyptian sym bols somewhat analagous to the roman made for a rather clumsy system especially when it came to fractions these numerical com plications severely limited calcula tions the babylonians employed a lo gical system to the base 60 they were able to understand linear and quadratic equations for algebra problems they had multiplication tables and algebra problems in scribed on cunieform tablets a large number of which are at yale university professor neugebauer next dealt briefly with the different greek approach and their unrelated con tribution of geometry wild life in pennsylvania was described by randolph h thompson lecturer for the penn sylvania game commission dur ing an illustrated talk given at a meeting of the sportsman club wednesday evening in packard laboratory thompson showed two 1600-foot reels of technicolor film depicting the lives of birds and other animals in the state a portion of the films were also devoted to various types of plant life found in pennsylvania people working for national de fense according to thompson should relieve the high tension of living by escaping to the country side of pennsylvania to enjoy nature whenever possible plans for a barn dance saturday evening april 18 in flickinger's barn near hellertown were dis cussed under the chairmanship of theodore peters ch.e 44 the committee on arrangements for the event includes raymond t mech back bus 42 and arthur b par sons bus 43 the dance will be an informal affair the musical societies of lehigh and moravian tone and listen are having a joint meeting at mor avian college tonight there will be a concert followed by refresh ments and a dance at the regular concert meeting of tone last friday evening in packer chapel the members heard miss ruth p grams harpist ar thur f mann arts 43 cellist and rhys williams arts 45 flutist who accompanied her richard m luckring ch.e 42 was awarded the annual chemistry prize given to the outstanding chemical engineering senior of each of five colleges in the lehigh valley section friday the award is sponsored by the american chemical society and gives the winner a year's membership in the society brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 24 1942 no good friday rest — vacation rumor false price — five cents will request 2-a deferment for engineers p e course in calisthenics is advocated harmeson tells cyanide addition to curricula is matter of time university to recommend that boards exempt science majors speed-up men favored request another field if anyone has been fondling the idea that there is a chance of resting from the toils of the accelerated program friday april 3 which is good friday forget it dean wray h congdon has heard nothing of the rumor which in his opinion is just a rumor good friday will have to be accelerated and moved into the easter week end we still have quizzes reports and classes on that day the bub ble of hope has been broken univ average drops to 1.88 leonard hall tops list dorm men have 2.01 fraternity men 1.77 engineers high with 439 764 underclassmen sent notices of deficiency by dean congdon all the lehigh news first v coming up . . . tuesday 7:30 p m — camera club room 466 packard wednesday 6 p m — o d k initiation and dinner drown hall beta theta pi house 7:30 p m — williams contest in extempore speaking finals packard auditorium thursday 7:30 p m — tau beta pi smoker drown hall glee club packer chapel 7:30 p m — international rela tions club in conjunction with lafayette drown hall rumor's false — no day off good friday but how about houseparty saturday