Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 53

              bethlehem pa friday may 17 1935 annual social held by engineers club vol xlii no 53 price five cents cups presented at college meet lehigh club hears dean on activities haas mindlin prize winners for oratory bach festival attracts many music lovers profs to visit many points this summer thirteen exam schedule changes are announced thirteen changes in the exam ination schedule were announced yesterday by william h bohn ing assistant registrar elementary mechanics was changed from may 20 8 a m to may 30 8 a m engineering lab m e 19 from may 28 2 p m to 8 a m of the same day thermodynamics m e 33 from may 25 2 p m to may 24 2 p m non-ferrous metallurgy met 24 from may 24 8 a.m to 2 p m of the same day prob lems in iron and steel from may 24 8 a m to 2 p m of the same day oil field prac tice from may 29 8 a m to may 30 ba m there were six courses in romance languages listed under physics the exam ination dates for these courses were correct in the first list that was posted the examination in c e 133 and c e 134 will be held on thursday may 23 at 2 p m c e 18 on monday may 27 at 2 p m c e 16 on wednesday may 29 at 8 a m phys 11l on monday may 27 at 2 p m paper given honor rating six out of fourteen en ter final contest tues day for williams award in speaking m luch e riley c phy d gramley s strauch judge carstens y haas eng and mor ris mindlin arts won first and sec ond prize respectively in the annual williams freshman oral composi tion contest tuesday evening in packard laboratory auditorium haas who is from bethlehem presented personal experiences in applied psychology he related his experiences as a counsellor at a summer camp for boys and as a salesman in an allentown depart ment store he cited incidents to show that friendliness and tactful ness play an important part in deal ing with people subject is moral science in stressing the need for a new moral science mindlin also from bethlehem said that too many do's and do not's have been added to fundamental social and re ligious laws to make them useful we have lost sight of the natural god he maintained four other freshmen competed george c grow eng predicted presidential candidates for 1936 roy j hertz arts traced the evo lution of the dime novel to the so-cent novel of today howard c shimer arts showed the need for vocational guidance for the youth of today richard tayloe eng pre sented the antecedents of huey long and showed the fallacies of his share-the-wealth program six reach finals the six men who spoke tuesday evening were selected from a group of 14 men in the preliminary try outs held tuesday evening may 7 dr myron j luch professor of english in charge of public speak ing presided at both meetings dr edgar h riley associate professor of english dale h gramley as sistant professor of journalism charles w phy instructor in eng lish and carl f strauch instructor in english assisted dr luch in judging the final speeches the awards of this contest con sist of 40 prize for first place and a prize of 15 for placing second the late prof edward h williams jr of the class of 75 established these prizes taylor hall c holds banquet f mallalieu is section head section c taylor hall held a banquet tuesday night at the guthsville hotel guthsville pa dr jacob l beaver professor of electrical engineering was the prin cipal speaker of the evening frank r mallalieu jr phys 36 who has been chosen the new president of the section presided at the banquet twenty-three members were pres ent celebrate 250 th anni versary of german com poser in 28th annual fete held in bethlehem four members of faculty sing in choir of 258 persons in commemoration of the 250 th anniversary of the birth of johann sebastian bach the 28th bach fes aival is being meld this afternoon and tomorrow in packer memorial chapel there are two sessions to day and two to be held tomorrow the first session this afternoon noon started at 4 o'clock and the session this evening will start at 8 o'clock music lovers from 170 cities and towns in 22 states the district of columbia canada and france are attending the music presentation the visitors who are attending are musicians organists choral leaders music leaders and others interest ed in the music of bach sings chorals the choir which is assisted by the philadelphia philo-symphonic orchestra sings the two mightiest choral works of bach mass in b minor and the passion accord ing to st matthew there are four members of the university faculty in the choir they are richard j degray instructor in chemistry first bass prof arthur w klein of the mechanical engin eering department first bass prof milton c stuart of the mechanical engineering department first bass and norman g schreiner research fellow second bass bruce carey who succeeded the late dr j fred wolle as director of the choir in 1933 conducts solo ist with the choir of 258 singers are miss louise lerch soprano miss rose bampton alto dan gridley tenor and julius huehn bass miss rose bampton has sung many times in the metropolitan opera house in new york city shields assissts in addition to the orchestra prof t edgar shields organist and miss ruth b myers accompanist are the assisting instrumentalists as in past years the moravian trombone choir is playing chorals in the chapel during the half hour between each session the trombonists played the fol lowing chorals at 3:30 this after noon oh lamb of god most holy a product of the 16th cen tury o blessed jesus how has thou offended a melody of the 17th century that occurs three times in the course of the passion o'er eras past i ponder o sacred head now wounded and look up and see in the evening and on saturday they will play approximately the same number of selections visits adirondacks professor whitcomb attends geol ogical survey lawrence whitcomb assistant professor of geology spent friday and saturday as a member of an ex cursion of the new york geological association through the valleys of the mohawk and black rivers and along the flank of the adirondacks this excursion was composed principally of students from new york colleges and universities it was held for the purpose of sup plying these students with new in formation and for the purpose of allowing them to make new ac quaintances professor whitcomb gathered various geological speci mens during the trip four students will sponsor dance tomorrow evening the college club an unofficial group of bethlehem students will hold an informal dance tomorrow evening at the tall cedars club 556 main street four bethlehem boys have start ed the clubin an effort to organize the town group explains leon shane eng 38 chairman of the committee the movement he says has the approval of dean c m mcconn tickets at 25 cents apiece may be obtained from shane or any of his helpers john w dwyer ch.e.'37 charles smullin eng 38 and george lindstrom eng 38 upper left center scobey receives his wrestling l from athletic director kellogg upepr right center — glen harmeson presents the football cup to bill stallings bob adams is in the rear center upper right roy a lewis presents the eastern intercollegiates trophy to billy sher upper left l 4 men were pledged to cyanide idan while bosey reiter looks on lower left johnny moxwell gives his cup to curtis bayer for cross country work lower right paul preston passes the senior cane to bob eichner lower center r almost 500 students attended the meeting b and w staff photo university instructors will spend vacations in writing travel study and research work some will continue at lehigh in their present capacities what are you going to do this summer professor this was the question asked by the brown and white reporters of a number of the university faculty and the answers received ranged all the way from investigating the lehigh gold mine to conducting a summer school cruise through europe and the east walter k okeson university treasurer will be the person vis iting lehigh's gold mine in colo rado during june as part of his du ties as one of the trustees of this property while dr earl crum as sociate professor of latin will con duct the summer cruise through europe and the east dr benjamin l miller head of the department of geology and dr maurice ewing professor of phy sics will carry on geological inves tigations off the virginia coast professor lawrence whitcomb as sociate professor in geology will do field work in southwestern vir ginia kentucky and ohio gath ering geological specimens he will attend an eight day excursion of the kansas geological society to visit europe two of the professors of lan guages friedrich o kegel assis tant professor of german and dr earl l crum associate professor of latin will spend the summer in foreign countries studying the his tories of those countries professor kegel will study conditions in ger many and dr crum will study the history of portugal after acting as a lecturer on history for a student cruise through the mediterranian many of the faculty will remain at the university during the sum mer either for the purpose of car rying on research work or for the purpose of conducting summer classes among the former are dr bradley stoughton head of the de partment of metallurgy allison butts associate professor of metal lurgy and dr stanley thomas professor of bacteriology among those professors who will teach at the summer school and those per sons who will continue their cus tomary work are dr natt emery vice president and controller of the university who will be director of summer sessions president charles r richards dean c max mcconn registrar george b curtis dr neil carothers head of the college of business herbert m diamond professor of economics and carl e allen assistant professor of ac countancy some of the faculty will go to other institutions to take advanced continued on page four wrestling fencing boxing tumbling featured the engineers club of lehigh valley held its annual social meet ing last evening in the university gymnasium wrestling and fencing by lehigh students boxing by local profes sionals and tumbling by students of broughal high school conistitut ed the program the lehigh students who par ticipated in this program were fencers william turnbull m e 37 and edmund collins bus 36 wrestlers ben bishop 34 rich ard bishop arts 38 charles smith bus 35 william conrad i e 37 rudolph ashman ch e 37 and m w wolcott arts 37 d.o.t elects new officers walter guyer will suc ceed ellis as president h koller gets position six new men were elected officers of delta omicron theta honorary debating society at the final meet ing tuesday afternoon in packard laboratory walter guyer ch e 36 was chosen president howard koller ch e 37 is to be vice president peter potochney arts 37 is secre tary-treasurer ; eugene uhler arts 37 corresponding manager doug las edwards arts 38 assistant manager and david hoppock i.e 36 social manager by constitutional amendment the society decided to add the position of assistant manager to the list of officers his duties are to arrange the freshman schedule in conjunc tion with the varsity manager in applying for membership stu dents may consider three freshman debates as equivalent to one var sity debate two varsity debates or their equivalents make one eligible for membership lehigh wins eight in presenting a report on the year's work harry k ellis e e 35 retiring president showed that 29 intercollegiate meetings were held of the 23 varsity debates le high won eight and lost six nine were no decision meets the fresh man team lost two debates two had no decision a total of 13 men par ticipated in the meets this year only four of these had previous col lege debating experience five schools participated in the annual intercollegiate forum here in march harry k ellis and george d manson bus 35 attended the model senate meeting at vassar col lege poughkeepsie n v as repre sentatives of lehigh the debating society this year was under the direction of theodore g ehrsam instructor in english extra-curricular leaders honored at annual flagpole assembly addresses new york club wednesday evening one hundred and five alumni heard dean c m mcconn trace the development of the educational side of extra curricular activities at lehigh at a meeting of the new york lehigh club wednesday eve ning in the club rooms of the building trades employers asso ciation park avenue dean mcconn showed how activ ities on the campus have become official credit courses in the uni versity during the past five years both the brown and white and the mustard and cheese club were at one time student managed di rected and controlled activities students who participate in them now however receive instruction and university credit dr benjamin miller head of the department of geology spoke brief ly john w maxwell assistant edi tor of the alumni bulletin was the third member of the party which represented the campus club initiates eleven men fort miller and w eil speak to pi mv epsilon at banquet wednesday eleven student were initiated into pi mv epsilon honorary mathe matical society at a dinner wed nesday evening held at the sun inn h b jennings assistant professor of mechanical engineering a pledge was unable to be present for his initiation a r miller assistant professor of electrical engineering spoke on the applications of mathematics in engineering he pointed out that the real practical value of mathematics in cited instances such as the boulder dam hydro-electric plant's problem of supplying power to los angeles where engineering undertakings have been delayed by incomplete mathematical knowledge concerning particular problems give plans professor fort head of the de partment of mathematics spoke of the past and current history of pi mv epsilon w s weil e e 35 retiring president then talked briefly of the fraternity's plans for the coming year the initiations were in charge of g e raynor assistant professor of mathematics director of the club and donald waidelich e e 36 secretary the following men were initiated wilbert bakker eng phys 37 thomas e brookover ch e 37 theodore brown e e 37 robert a buerschaper eng phys albert p cray assistant in physics ben jamin k daubenspeck ch e 37 nelson j leonard ch e 37 ed ward h mount ch e 37 wil liam taddeo e e 36 joseph l walton met e 37 and clarence b welch c e 37 brown and white listed all-american by as sociated collegiatefpress the brown and white has re ceived an ail-american honor rat ing in the fifteenth ail-american newspaper critical service con ducted by the associated collegiate press of the national scholastic press association from results just announced it was learned that the brown and white scored 800 out of a possible 1,000 points according to the stan dards set up by the association there are five classes of newspaper ratings the ail-american rating is the highest of all prof dale h gramley faculty adviser to the brown and white states that of 214 college newspapers which were included in the survey less than 15 received this superior rating features superior high credit was received by the brown and white for its feature ar ticles and editorials the sports section received a perfect score the points on which the paper appeared weakest were those in volving make-up and headline styles in several instances weak ness was noted in the content of news stories but the rating for this section of tne survey was excel lent this survey is conducted every year by the national scholastic press association which is connect ed with the department of journal ism at the university of minnesota it is not a contest and no prizes are awarded the annual national convention of the associated collegiate press will be held in chicago in october deemer and mccomb write in final issue of review the final issue of the lehigh re view will be released on monday may 20 walter deemer and john mccomb both arts 35 contribute their last articles to be printed in their time as undergraduates at le high deemer's story is called house-dance mccomb writes a farewell sketch a feature article among the pa gan miners was written by melvin lord eng 38 david fentress bus 36 has drawn a page of caricatures of campus figures the cover will be another photograph of a campus building lyle geiger will lead band lyle m geiger ch e 36 was chosen leader of the band monday afternoon at an election held on taylor field robert b picking arts 36 was re-elected manager geiger won over edgar b mancke ch e 36 picking was the only candidate for manager twenty-four athletic and eleven intramural awards announced at flagpole assembly paul preston passes senior cane on to robert eichner cyanide junior honorary pledges fourteen men delta omicron theta honors ten twenty-four athletic awards in cluding the eastern intercollegiate wrestling trophy and the penn re lay cup eleven intramural awards were presented to leaders in extra curricular activities at the college meeting held this morning at the flagpole in addition 14 men were pledged to cyanide junior honorary so ciety and eight were awarded cer tificates of membership to d o t honorary debating society two men were given certificates for par ticipation in collegiate public speak ing activities paul preston president of the class of 35 passed on the senior cane to r m eichner president of next year's senior class lou struble past president of arcadia called the meeting to order and introduced thomas a garihan new arcadia president to the stu dent body h r reiter professor of physi cal education presented the cups to the respective winners colonel kellogg announced the letter awards for the fall and winter sports the fourteen men pledged to cy anide are harold s ford jr bus robert b haul enbeek c e ; nelson j leonard ch e ; warren p fairbanks i e ; joseph l wal ton met e ; george yanko arts dean s stevenson arts louis r pennauchi met e ; luther j upton jr ch e ; theo dore r brown e e ; edwin g mcnair jr bus david gordon bus charles f mccoy jr arts morris b lore chem those whom d o t honored are w r f guyer e h uhler w s dukek h c shimer d w edwards h roller g d man son p j potochney w t jablow m mindlin the cups and their winners fol low p e department cup in appreciation of services rendered to faculty sons harry r bishop p e department fencing cup ed mund collins p e department interfra ternity leadership cup thomas d cooke p e department dormitory leadership cup john r gilmore dr earl buller cup rob ert b everts frank dravo interclass swim ming cup sophomore class karl jacobi coach's and captain's swimming trophy varsity stanley r ellison coach's and captain's freshman swimming trophy frank j washabaugh h r reiter interclass soccer cup freshman class randy young ; interclass track and field cup freshman class wm b clark captain philip l mcgrath track trophy hamil reidy theo dore h h meyers field cup john a piper john j maxwell junior cross country cup curtis f bayer ernesta drinker lacrosse cup and medal frederick a groff nannie lamberton wilbur baseball cup and medal michael koman ; archibald johnston foot ball cup and medal wm b stallings le high home club wrestling cup and medal ho well a scobey beta theta pi all around cup and medal parker berg p e department boxing cup ned martin class b fraternity wrestling cups beta theta pi and chi psi the fritz mercur tennis tro phy charles g hollister r a lewis cup freshman wrestling james c ford eastern intercollegiate wrestling trophy william sheridan penn relay cup relay team the intramural awards are as follows football — league a delta upsilon lea gue b alpha tau omega league d lamb da chi alpha league c and fraternity continued on page two society has election scabbard and blade selects incom ing officers the scabbard and blade honor ary military society held elections of officers for the coming year at the regular meeting wednesday evening in the armory the new officers are as follows : victor e engstrom bus 36 cap tain thomas a gearhart arts 36 first lieutenant fred l sharpe i.e 36 second lieutenant charles j gotthardt bus 36 first sergeant neil carothers head of the col lege of business administration was made an honorary member of the society because of his service in the world war the retiring officers of the society in order of their office are stanley o ellison edwin s chickering bradford k smith and richard rick the lehigh university brown and white all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association