Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 57

              curtis issues revised draft of final exams vol xxxiii no 57 music lovers from all parts of the country attended mrs t roosevelt here prophet wants ideas ten percent of atten dance expected to be graduates 300 will enroll journalism majors have complete charge of allentown paper b and w men assist new members and grad uate students added to faculty resignations accepted kost selected as an assistant in journalism several changes have been made since previous schedule draft covers 9 days philip s davis who has 1 been appointed to prepare the class prophecy for 31 has asked that all seniors communicate ideas to him at the phi delta theta house bethlehem 475 davis believes that the success of the prophecy depends upon the interest of the class in con tributing to it i should receive at least one suggestion from every member of the class he declared 60 arts seniors to take exams seven men were initiated into the xi circle of omicron delta kappa and officers elected for the coming year last evening at the delta phi house the new members of the honorary frater nity are : allen t ware carl f hull phillip b myers rudolf e imhof ralph c benson raymond k serfass and ed ward b hildum the newly elected officers are president raymond k serfass vice pres ident rudolf e imhof and sec retary-treasurer carl f hull tapping exercises took place on taylor field between the salves of the lacrosse game on saturday dean c m mcconn gave a short talk after the initia tion allen ware was elected cap tain of baseball douglas reed captain of lacrosse and libert chandler captain of track at re cent meetings of the lettermen of the respective sports the election of ware as base ball captain gives him the dis tinctive honor of being captain of three lehigh sports at the same time having been also chosen to lead next year's foot ball and basketball teams he has starred in the backfield of the football team for the la#t two years and has been outstanding in both basketball and baseball reed one of the most aggres sive players on this year's la crosse squad is a varsity foot ball backfield man chandler is a cross country star and has star red in the quarter mile this year on the track team assess seniors to order plate a t ware heads senior honorary comprehensives will be gin tomorrow one change made e f evers announces committee of 1 2 to col lect 1 tax mcconn speaks on liber alism before sword and crescent approximately 60 seniors of the arts college will take the compre hensive examinations which begin tomorrow according to prof p m palmer director of the college of arts and science the only change in the examina tions this year is that the students majoring in english will not be re quired to take an oral examination but will receive a series of course exams this does not effect the students in the journalism depart ment must take exams the candidates for graduation in the arts college must take these comprehensive examinations which cover the entire four years of stu dy in the major subjects of the arts curriculum the exams consist of three or four written examinations and an oral quiz no attempt is made to restrict the questions to an individual course but on the contrary the questions embrace all the courses final exams are then taken by the graduating men in those • subjects not covered by the comprehensives in order to graduate from the uni versity a grade of at least c must be secured in the comprehen sive examinations this differs from the regular examinations of the university where a grade of d is sufficient for passing plans have been completed for the summer session this year the courses offered according to the summer session catalogue may be divided into three groups courses which are an integral part of cer tain engineering curricula courses in a large variety of subjects offer ed primarily for undergraduates who wish to secure advanced cred its or make u deficiencies and graduate courses designed primar ily for teachers dr n m emery director of the summer session expects an atten dance of 275 to 300 of whom ten per cent will be graduate students small classes will ensure individual attention for each student a fac ulty of 31 men will conduct the classes courses will be offered in astron omy biology business administra tion chemistry civil engineering education electrical engineering english french germany history latin mathematics mechanical en gineering philosophy physics psy chology and spanish the tuition fee is 10 per semester hour six hours comprises the usual roster special advantages of summer school are two-fold according to dr emery there is concentrated study on only two courses and an absence of the usual disturbing so cial activities present during the regular session he attributes the better grades procured during sum mer school to these advantages the summer session calendar is as follows june i—registration1 — registration for required courses in engineering subjects 1 june i—course1 — course in land and topo graphic surveying assaying coal gas oil analysis and engineering laboratory begin june 27 — above courses end june 29 course in railroad surveying begins june 29 — 8-10:30 a m registration for oth er courses june 29 — summer ses sion begins july 11 — course in rail road surveying ends august 8 — summer session ends the summer session catalogue contains more detailed information j george lehman 96 takes own life here 0 prominent bethlehem leader dies at home last thursday • j george lehman 96 president of bethlehem foundry and ma chine company and one of bethle hem's social and civic leaders com mitted suicide last thursday at 6:30 a m in his home 141 e market street he was 55 years old six members of theta delta chi to which mr lehman belonged at tended the funeral at his home sat urday afternoon mr lehman is survived by his wife a stepson james w fuller jr of catasauqua a step-daughter miss emily fuller and a sister mrs elizabeth lehman myers * dormitory drawing attended by fifty section d taylor hall found to be most popular choice the annual drawing for dormi tory rooms held at 4 p m friday in drown hall was attended by < ap proximately 50 men the drawing was done in order of class senior ity the men in the dorms at pres ent being given preference over the downtown men section d of taylor hall proved to be the most popular section ev ery room being promptly taken price hall has less than half of the available rooms for next year tak en according to statistics compil ed by the bursar f r ashbaugh all leases must be signed and de livered to the bursar's office not later than june 15 or such rooms will be open to incoming freshmen as well as a waiting list of other applicants according to mr ash baugh rotary club president james k m.heubner 21 divi sion manager of the pennsylvania power and light company was elected president of the bethlehem rotary club friday at a reorganiza tion meeting of the board of direc tors in the hotel bethlehem the last strains of the great mass in b mjnor brought to a close the 25th festival of the bach choir at sunset saturday in the university chapel approximately 2500 music lovers from all parts of the coun try enjoyed the music of johann sebastian bach the chapel was filled to capacity and those unable to get inside crowded the lawns of the surrounding campus even more beautiful than ever before were the words of mrs theodore roosevelt after hearing the first part of the mass in b min or mrs roosevelt has attended most of the festivals since their be ginning in 1900 forty members of the philadel phia orchestra led by david dubin ski played the accompaniment at the four sessions george sigley led the moravian trombone choir that announced each session from the belfry of the chapel the choir composed entirely of slide trom bones is the only one of its kind in the east notables attend among those who attended were mrs david d wood wife of the late dr d d wood teacher of dr wolle the creator and leader of the bach choir miss frances mccullin well-known blind com poser alexander mccurdy head organist of the second presbyter ian church in philadelphia albert riemenschneider director of the baldwin wallace conservatory of music harold gleason head of the organists department at the east man school of music dr lewis perry president of philips exeter academy marion e park president of bryn mawr college and ivor jones former assistant to sir hen ry wood of london were present at the festival an informal organ recital was given by the many organists who attended and took place in the chapel saturday noon the recital was very well attended in view of the fact that it was not advertised ac cording to t edgar shields univer sity director of music a reception for all the organists followed the closing of the festival saturday evening in st peters church applications for tickets to the festival next year have already been filed according to herman schnell er who manages the sale of tickets throughout the year mr schneller stated that standing room at all the sessions was sold out completely this year philadelphia alumni have spring outing club enjoys sports and dinner on delaware river the philadelphia lehigh club held a spring outing last friday at the mohican club at morris-on-the delaware n j an afternoon of sports followed by a planked shad dinner and a few brief talks were the principal activities the spring outing this year is a revival of the annual affairs for merly held at pennington n j the afternoon sports were supervised by bernie bernstein 95 the principal accomplishments of the outing were the formation of plans for alumni homecoming during commencement week among the bethlehem guests were a c dod son president of the alumni asso ciation andrew e buchanan jr executive secretary of the alumni association and john s maxwell assistant editor of the alumni bul letin packard lab to get refrigeration plant contract awarded for equipment will be installed during summer refrigeration equipment will be installed in the mechanical depart ment of packard laboratory during the summer months according to prof f v larkin director of the curricula in mechanical and indus trial engineering the equipment will consist of a cold room of the dimensions 7'xl2'xl2 an ammonia refrigera tion plant and a carbon dioxide re frigeration plant working in tan dum the two plants will be able to maintain a temperature of 50 de grees below zero it will be possible to work these two units indepen dently and in tandem the contract for the cold test room has been given to the arm strong cork and insulation com pany of lancaster and the con tract for the two refrigeration plants has been given to the york ice machine company the equip ment will be ready for use next fall in order to raise enough money to order the bronze plate bearing the class roll for the chapel each senior has been assessed 1 e francis evers president of the class announced yesterday the names of those who do not pay the assessment will not appear on the plate he declared a committee of 12 has been appointed to collect the assessment instead of the usual material gift to the university the class of 1931 has planned to enroll as nearly 100 per cent of its membership as pos sible in the alumni association cooperating with this attempt a.e buchanan jr executive secretary of the association has announced that the total charges for enroll ment will be reduced until univer sity day june 9 from 5 to 4 per man the same committee which is to collect the 1 assessment will so licit enrollment in the alumni as sociation for the purpose of this collection and solicitation the class has been divided among the committee mem bers by curricula as follows c e frederick d job ch e william a furman i e g blackford camden m e walton forstall jr e e jay h boltz met e frank a stutz arts and science frank r veale frederick h mor hart and harry w ruggles e.m and eng phys philip s davis business everett a fay and james s little richards to give party the members of the faculty and their wives will be the guests of president and mrs c r richards at a lawn party tomorrow after noon the party will be purely so cial and supper will be served on the lawn 250 seniors order gowns about 250 caps and gowns have been ordered through the univer sity supply bureau by seniors ac cording to e h baderschneider manager the majority of the class has ordered their caps and gowns through the supply bureau the gowns are of the usual type r.o.t.c men hold rifle practice students shoot 30 calibre army guns at red ington the sensational alleged murder of the wife of michael gyp down ey former sergeant ef bethlehem police and well known to lehigh students as proprietor of the mountain house a roadhouse on the bethlehem-center valley road provided the highlight in the day's news for the 25 lehigh journalism students who this morning pub lished the allentown morning call for four of the senior jour nalism majors it was a part of their comprehensive examination downey is being held at easton jail for arraignment on a charge of murder after an autopsy performed yesterday afternoon showed that his wife had probably met death by foul play officials believe that downey in a drunken rage beat his wife to death death was caused by a fracture of the skull and inter nal injuries downey's claim that his wife was fatally injured when she fell down the stairs of their home after a late drinking party is not substantiated by the evidence and police doubt his story students at scene of crime the story was covered and writ ten by two lehigh students who ac companied a morning gall reporter and cameraman to the scene of the alleged crime the students enter ed the dead woman's room with the reporters and were allowed to view the body the downey story was consider ed of such great importance that it was placed on the front page of the call a position rarely accorded any local story as the policy of the al lentown paper is to print all na tional news which it receives over an associated press wire on the first page and local news is rele gated to the inside of the paper the alleged murder story was cov ered by harry warendorf feature editor of the brown and white who handled the news until the coron er's jury took charge and martin reed r'33 sporting editor of the school publication who followed up with subsequent developements and the verdict of the autopsy proceed ings the allentown morning call offered lehigh students the use of their facilities several months ago after the journalism department had for two years tried to interest the local paper the globe times in a similar project without success library receives books the library has received a ship ment of books from the illinois historical society and in return the library will send a list of its dupli cate books so that society may sel ect the volumes it wants this ex change of books increases the va riety of volumes for both parties concerned the books have not been filed as yet allen t ware was elected pres ident of sword and crescent sun day evening at an initiation banquet at the hotel bethlehem at which 14 men of the class of 32 were received into membership dean c m mcconn made the address of the evening other officers elected were vice president john e angle secre tary robert c clark treasurer charles f halsted e francis ev ers retiring president was toast master at the banquet an open mind and an adventur ous spirit are the two personal vir tues which the wofld will consider most important in the period just ahead declared dean mcconn in this respect they may replace the older virtues of thrift and chastity he said the speaker recalled the tremendous physical advancement which he has seen in the past four decades and expressed the opinion that we are on the threshold of as startling a change in morals and mores morals will change first sug gested the dean because they as the property of the individual are more readily altered later a revo lution will be evident in the insti tutions education government economics the dean defined a conservative as one who sees and appreciates the value of established things while the liberal in his opinion is not so appreciative of existing codes and values sees rather the defects and is anxious to try the new be liberals the dean conclud ed go out with an open mind and an adventurous spirit they may even be necessary in the years to come to assure your survival the new members of sword and crescent are r k serfass a t ware c f hull h j forsyth r h enscoe r e imhof r c benson e b hildum w m eyster r c clark j e angle c f halsted p b myers and g d reed dr c w macfarlane 76 noted economist dies leaves library of 1000 volumes to university dr charles w macfarlane 76 noted economist and writer died friday at his home in philadelphia after a long illness he attended public schools in philadelphia and then went to lafayette college and lehigh university graduating from the latter with the degree of civil engineer , following a construction business venture he studied economics and history both here and abroad while in paris he wrote several papers which attracted the attention of roymand poincare president of france and other great economists for a number of years he devot ed his time to the preparation of an economic history of the roman em pire but when failing health made it impossible for him to complete the work he sent his references ci tations and working library of more than 1000 volumes to lehigh university with the understanding that the work be carried on brown and white reporter gets ideas on bach festival life wednesday 12 noon — instruction ends thursday 8 a m — final exams begin coming events a revised draft of the ' final ex amination schedule has been issued by g b curtis associate dean there have been several changes from the tentative draft which was issued sometime ago figures in parentheses indicate the number of sections in those courses for which there are more than one section indicates courses of two sec tions or more for which only one examination is scheduled indicates a two-section course for each section of which an ex amination is scheduled thursday 8 a m may 21 biol 3 — comp anatomy of vertebrates 2)bus 4 — economics sec i bus 34 — labor problems chem 181 — chemical engineering c e 124 — high structures ed 10 — supervision of teaching e e 2 — direct-current machinery e e 118 — electric power transmission engl 45 — feature and magazine writing engl 124 — shakespeare fr 11 — intermediate french 2)geol 4 — general geology sec a ger i—elementary1 — elementary german hist 26 — european history lat 23 — roman law lat 34 — cicero math 52 — protective geometry math 112 — advanced differential equa'ns math 124 — theory of errors m e s—elementary5 — elementary heat engines met 4 — non-ferrous metallurgy 2)min b oil field practice sec b 2)phil 3—lntroduction3 — introduction to philosophy sec a * 2 phys i elementary physics phys 126 heat 2)psych 16 applied psych sec a span 1 1 — intermediate spanish thursday 2 p m may 21 biol 158 — immunology 2)bus 4 — economics sec 2 2)bus 40 — industrial manag't sec a bus 108 — advanced economics c e 131 — advanced sanitary engineering e e 3 — elementary dynamo laboratory engl 53 — history of american journalism f a 4 — history of architecture ger 3—lntermediate3 — intermediate german 2)gov 52 — american government state sec a hist 10 — history of england 1603 to date lat 2 — horace lat 4 — livy lat 106 — prose writers m e 29 — heat engines mm s—mining5 — mining engineering phys 161 — modern physical theories psych 2 — educational psychology 2 span 12 — intermediate spanish.sec.a friday 8 a m may 22 bus 2—lndustrial2 — industrial evolution bus 36 — public utilities chem 7 — advanced chemistry chem 191 — physical chemistry ed 2 — history of education e e 20 — electric traction 2)e e 52 general alternating cur rents sec b engl 40 — report writing engl 42 — business news writing engl 128 — chaucer 2 ger 4—lntermediate4 — intermediate german sec.a math la — elementary analysis math 2a — elementary analysis 2)math 42 mathematical statistics sec a m e 116 — advanced machine design met 24 — non-ferrous metallurgy psych 4 — social psychology ** 2 psych s—lntroduction5 — introduction to psychology sec a and c friday 2 p m may 22 e e 55 — advanced dynamo laboratory 3)math 4 — elementary calculus * 3 math s—lntermediate5 — intermediate calculus * 2 math 6 — advanced calculus 2)math 21 — analytic mechanics 7)mil 2 basic i 6 mil 4 — basic ii for those not taking math 4,5,6,21 mm 8 or phil 2 mm 9 — mine administration saturday 8 a m may 23 biol 112 histology and technique 4)chem 20 — qualitative analysis * 4 chem 21 — qualitative analysis 2 chem 196 — physical chemistry lab oratory c e 122 geodesy 3)e e 50 — general dynamos and mo tors 3)e e 53 — intermediate dynamo lab engl 44 — advanced newspaper reporting geol 110 — stratigrapbic geology govt 172 — mediaeval political theory math 101 — vector analysis m e 4 — elementary machine design phil 15 — the theory of conduct psych 6 — abnormal psychology span 136 — spanish-american literature saturday 2 p m may 23 bus 56 — business law 6)chem b—stoichiometry8 — stoichiometry chem 161 — organic chemistry e e 26 — electrical communication ii engl 10 — introductory public speaking 2)engl 41 business corre londence sec b geol s—petrology5 — petrology geol b—historical8 — historical geology 2)gov 52 — american government(state see b continued on page four all advance students of the le high university r o t c who are taking part in preliminary rifle marksmanship spent friday and saturday at the redington proving grounds of the bethlehem steel company for training in the use of the 30 calibre government rifle although many good scores have been made on the indoor rifle range the students found a vast difference between the 22 calibre rifle they used to make these scores and the regular army rifle they also ex perienced a bit of difficulty adjust ing themselves to the 175-yard range after shooting all winter at a target but 50 feet away this course is being given with a view to preparing the men for competition in the various college corps area matches at camp meade md this summer col m h thomlinson head of the department of military science and tactics detailed the respective officers for duty on the range as the men have already had prelim inary instruction in the various po sitions it is likely that some good scores will be posted arcadia to present plan to living groups no action taken on suggestions of reforms and improvements a plan concerning various re forms and improvements in lehigh activities was discussed by william h sachs president of the arcadia at its last meeting of the year last evening in drown hall the plan drawn up by sachs with the advice of dean c m mcconn will be pre sented to each living group in con densed form for their consideration before any action will be taken by the arcadia :- it was voted to award john a engel winner of the national in tercollegiate wrestling champion ship in the 118-pound class a gold watch a committee consisting of winton l miller john e angle and phillip b myers was appointed to decide the nature of the award to be given to e morton lamb winner of the 100-yard dash in the perm relays thirteen new appointments to the faculty of lehigh university as well as those of two graduate assistants and twelve new research fellows have been announced by dr c r richards president of the univer sity twenty-seven resignations from the faculty and research fel lowships were also announced the appointment of the rev c g beardslee of brown university to the new professorship of moral and religious philosophy and of dr adelbert ford of the university of michigan to the new and indepen dent department of psychology were noted dr kerkin m marcks of the allentown general hospital was appointed assistant director of the student's health service among the other appointments are ken neth k kost of lehigh to assis tant in journalism james w burg er of haverford college as assistant in biology voris v latshaw of indiana university as instructor in mathematics cedric gale of new york university as instructor in english stewart s cairns of har vard university as instructor in mathematics george e ray nor of princeton university as assistant professor of mathematics j burke severs of yale university as in structor in english ernest h brink of yale university as in structor in mechanical engineering arthur p helms of lehigh univer sity as assistant in english and c wesley phy of wesleyan univer sity as instructor in english the two appointments of graduate assis tants were harold e haber jr of steven's institute of technology as graduate assistant in mechanical engineering and of john e free hafer of lehigh university as grad uate assistant in mathefnatics research men named the research fellowships an nounced were george e cooper and elmer b cyphers of lehigh university as archer-daniels-mid land and william d goodrich re search fellowships jack m gra ham of pennsylvania state college as hunt-rankin leather company research fellow james f houser of the university of pittsburgh as institute of research fellow in me chanical engineering , samuel w farrell of case school of applied science as new jersey zinc com pany research fellow charles a jeanson of lehigh university as student chemistry foundation fel low elmer c easton of lehigh university as james ward packard research fellow francis p shan on of lehigh university as c kern ble baldwin research fellow frank b lewis of purdue university as henry marison byllesby research fellow howard j godfrely of tufts college as institute of re search fellow in civil engineering j m holmes of the university of pennsylvania as institute of re search fellow in civil engineering arthur l smith of lehigh univer sity as eavenson and levering re search fellow plans of many of the faculty members who are resigning this year are not yet complete prof c d macdougall a r braunlich & a finch and r b parks of the english department will pur sue their studies in other universi ties next year c l henshaw of the physics department goes to yale university with a research fel lowship w l kichline will as sume the position of instructor of mathematics at new hampshire un iversity other resignations are l s barnes c a keeler and d c lewis from the department of mathematics r k mowrer and e r binkley from the physics de partment justus m holme from the department of civil engineering l l mays from the department of psychology david braun from the secretaryship of the lehigh union the rev d w gateson from the position of chaplain dr j r bier man from the assistant directorship of the health service and miss cora k dunnells from the position of cataloguer of the library men resign the research fellows resigning this year are george f beal from the new jersey zinc company re search fellowship oscar b schier from the james ward packard fel lowship gordon w parkinson from the institute of research fel lowship in civil engineering wal ter h hoback edward w mid lam jr william s w mccarter and a e rheneck from the ar cher-daniels-midland and w o goodrich research fellowship for est t benton jr from the barrett and company leather research fel lowship it was the latter part of friday afternoon before the brown and white reporter who was trying to get track of some of the celebrities attending the bach festival finally ran across a group of music critics from the new york and philadel phia newspapers not that they were considered celebrities rather it was hoped'that they might be able to point out or say they had seen some prominent people that the re porter would otherwise fail to rec ognize they did mention several noted people whom they had seen but later after several members of the orchestra had joined the group the list of names that was given as those of people who ordinarily attended the fesitval suggested the writing of a feature on prominent people who should have attend ed the bach concert but did not ascend chapel tower saturday afternoon the reporter climbed up the winding stairs of the chapel tower and watched the choir play their chorals which for mally announced that the afternoon concert was soon to begin the sights about the campus presented an interesting view at that time the crowds of people on all sides made a beautiful sight from the belfry in the tower the long line of cars stopping in front of the chapel and leaving their passengers was also interesting to look down upon just before the concert start ed the reporter was down on the ground again and noticed mrs t.r roosevelt dressed in deep mourn ing mounting the chapel steps he followed her in but all that she was heard to say was a refusal to accept an usher to aid her in finding her seat there were many groups of chauffeurs gathered in different sec tions of the campus one was found who said he enjoyed listening to the music and looked forward to com ing each year from baltimore the others spent their time in compar ing bethlehem with allentown beer talking about their cars and relat ing some of the idiosyncrasies of their respective and respectable em ployers chauffeurs hold debate one group of colored chauffeurs gathered just to one side of the eats counter across from the campus en trance were having a jolly good visit they were swapping yarns about driving records and recom mending to each other the best places in bethlehem for spending spare moments and change when suddenly two of them got into a heated debate about the shortest route between buffalo and lake george the others joined in and soon there were three on one side and five on the other just then their employers began to call for their cars and a potentially inter esting argument was broken up brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday may 19 1931 o d k initiates seven new men price — five cents richards lists 13 appointments 25th festival of bach choir ended saturday emery finishes plans for 1931 summer session students cover downey murder for morning call a t ware elected baseball captain last brown and white with this issue brown and white suspends publication until september 1931 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first