Brown and White Vol. 64 no. 19

              ah new men should be there to start college career right vol xxvil no 1 arcadia convenes for the first time a list of men who are at the head of affairs in college this year who's who and why at lehigh few vacancies convenient list for reference for the old men and useful for the new men the first meeting of the arcadia for the current year was held last wednesday september 24th in drswn hall there was a good at tendance but the business was con fined to getting organized for the year the committees were chosen as follows honor committee : j howard chairman r brown b davidson booster committee j j ship herd chairman m 0 paret j h wagner w s march house committee e foetal chairman ; j a gardy m n bug bee j s fraim d j gilmo^'e dance committee v e john son chairman h s bunn j h wagner finance committee j m straub chairman ; n a newell r s perry only om bill was passed and that to the effect that — all men who did not complete one full t?rm of their freshmen year will be re quired to aibide by the fresluiien during the collegiate year it is often found to be necessary to look up the men who are at the head of the various activities in order to facilitate matters the ' ' who s who and why at lehigh is published at the beginning of each college year the list will be completed in the next issue of this publication or as soon as the vacancies are filled corrections will be made to ihis list if the managing editor is notified arcadia president m b tate l u campus tel 716 secretary b b davidson 835 broadway tel 1842 ulass r residents senior m b tate l u campus tonight at 7 30 the annual re ception will be given in drown hall by the lehigh y m c a to the incoming class for the purpose of welcoming the new men to le high here the members of the class of 23 will have the oppor tunity of meeting and getting ac quainted with in an informal way the faculty and members of the other classes an excellent pro gram has been arranged and it will be the aim of the committee in charge to see that genuine lehigh spirit is dispensed freely j m straub 20 president of the l u y m c a is to preside arrangements have been made by b b davidson 20 chairman of the entertainment committee and the ladies of the faculty as well as the teaching force have kindly offered their assistance to make the affair a success dr h s drinker will deliver the address of welcome lieuten ant colonel lang will speak ; m b tate 20 president of the arcadia will say a few words for the stu dent body and prof k r bosey reiter whom lehigli men the evening s • .. \> •■ to a maximum series of orchestral solos have been ar i$fy0hkh the music committee orchestra will play g^^^owing the introduction of the jp^p men to each other and to the bn student body and the members w the faculty refreshments will be served sunday evening to mark first y.m.c.a meeting the first sunday evening y m c a meeting of the year will be held this sunday at 6 15 p.m in drown hall w h tinker of the international y m c a staff will address the students ; he is a gradu ate of amherst and having been for some time actively associated with many of the colleges of the south will have a message of in terest to college men j m straub president of the y m c a will preside at the meeting special music has been arranged the especial attention of the new men is called to this and the following sunday evening meet ings ; they are always well attend ed and interesting and many oi the men addressing the assembl arges are forceful speakers and of national or international repute come ! sophomores reorganize i held the pa ired the will and all the unknown ffjjmmly ten mm in com hf assist kll team re fifteen k position at there is ■ for the i room for mie out for big out this bial footing i out pro i the work ■ from now i after the [ men are ■ to handle ■ there is to be squad of be thus far i are : g harris c i saltzman m o'keefe ill soplio lout for the ant mana the football season will be usher ed in on saturday afternoon when lehigh opens this year's schedule with the villanova game this will be the opening of one of the biggest seasons in the history of football at lehigh with the great majority of last rear's players back in college and the return of many pigskin stars who left eolleg to enter service here and abroad and the entrance of several men from other colleges lehigh has material which w t ill give her the strongest and fastest team that she has had in several years several freshmen give promise of making a place on the team so keen is the competition among the sixty-four candidates who have been out for the team that it is very likely that coach keady will have at least two teams with no one sure of a position on the first team until after the season is well under way among last year's men who are showing their old seasoned form are badham booth goldman sax ifjari pf eiff er brady sayaria and wpd^'na " liie^rt'roofdliir^en^wlii ! left college to enter the service and who haa^e returned to college to come out in moleskins include bucky mac donald who has a good chance of playing center for the coming reason bucky left college to enter the aviation service in france buzz herrington who returned to college last year too late for the fotball season will probably play at quarter in satur day's game before leaving college temporarily buzz w t as in line for ail-american quarterback and will probably land the positior this year if his old form is with throughout the season al sfe ginnes is working out for tackle swede johnson who returned from service in the spring will play tackle in saturday's game bill mccarthy the big guard will also line up m the opening game among the men coming to le high from other colleges rote the speedy little quarterback from gettysburg n-ill give other candi dates for that position a stiff fight for the position on the first team last year he played spectacular footbal on howard berry's camp hancock team rote is one of the fastest moving men that has been seen on taylor field in some time ' ' butch heinzelman who was here for a short time last year is doing exceptionally noticable work in the backfield butch hails from easton high frank smith who played fullback on last year's team at easton high is trying for an end position bill mccarthy an other easton high man played tackle year before last and will probably play that position this year although he has been playing an end position a good part of the time in the scrimmages simend inger a new man to lehigh is one of the most promising men on the field his work at halfback has given much satisfaction and it is more than probable that he will see his first service in the opening game if only as a substitute continued on third page vie wyisocki last year's full back will play fullback in the open the hon newton d baker tells students of need of prepar edness r.o.t.c plans secretary of war lauds doctor drinker for preparedness with a record-breaking attend ance of students lehigh university began its fifty-fourth year on wed nesday with opening exercises held in packer memorial church the freshman class numbers close to 400 and in addition many upper classmen who were in the service abroad and in camps in this coun try who have returned the exercises were of exceptional interest because of the presence of i hon newton d baker secretary of war who spoke on the theme : ' ' preparedness and its relation to college men the honor jyaid to 1 lehigh by secretary bal in making a)j official announcement of national importance was in jfc^cog . lition orifie services rm&emfepp cause of militarr education and preparedness by president drin ker to whom the speaker made special reference announcement was also n?ade of the instituion at lehigh f a unit of the reserve officers training corps with lieua col u w lang former military attache at spain pro fessor of military science and tac j'tics the exercises were in charge of dr drinker who welcomed the in coming freshman class and spoke of the need for preparedness and the government's plan for estab lishment of an r 0 t c in the principal colleges and universities of the country in his address secretary baker spoke of the service which college men have rendered in the war ' ' at the early training camps for offi cers he said there was evident one very striking fact — that the young men who had come from the schools and colleges where military training had previously prevailed were the men who most quickly and | readily became available for active | and efficient service with the hour j of battle only a few weeks distant the value of the training they had already received while still at col lege was of immense importance secretary baker in reviewing ! the inception and growth of the j reserved officers training corps spoke as follows : — six years ago in the spring of 1913 the plans of the war depart j ment for instituting summer mili tary training camps called forth from the universities and colleges of the country active and loyal co operation out of this movement grew the present military training camps association of the united states following the first camps held those at gettysburg in the east and at the presidio of mon terey in california in the west in 1913 an advisory committee of university and college presidents on the camps was formed which did valuable work yearly in inspect ing and reporting to their presi dential colleagues throughout the country on the camps held during the summers of 1913 1914 1915 and 1916 in hese years attend ance at the camps grew from about 220 in 1913 ayver 16,000 in 1916 and the in^cmions were that in the summer f 1917 the attendance of students and of professional and bup'ness men who in 1915 joined the movement would have been lover 50,000 but the entry of our country into the great war caused the iu-ning over of the summer camp training and in fact of the entire organization of the military training camps association to the intensive training of officers for im it has not been in the past nor is it now the idea or intention of the government in reinstituting a system of military training for stu dents to develop a militaristic spirit in our people there is a wide gulf between military proficiency as typified by the american citizen trained to arms and confident of his proficiency and that militaristic spirit which the prussian system developed during the past forty years it is our idea to develop in the nation a citizenry trained and capable of efficiently bearing arms for the national defense to train and to lead this citizen army we must draw upon our educated young men for those who are capable of developing as officers it is one of the axioms of military science that intelligent leadership on the part of officer personnel means the conservation and saving of life of the troops in the present reinstitution of the reserve officers training corps the r 0 t c the war department has caused careful re vision to be made during the past winter and spring of general or ders 49 embodying the details of military training proposed to our universities and colleges as a part of their curricula and in this the general staff and the war depart ment committee on education and special training have had the great advantage of consultation with a number of presidents of our institu tions of higher learning including members of the advisory com mittee of presidents on the summer camps and their suggestions have practically all of them been em bodied in the revised draft of the regulations now t be issued so shaping them that the military continued f£om second pagk it was decided that all men who had not completed at least one term at college no matter what class he m from must abide by the fresh men regulations freshmen must also attend all ch rrnuu^m^h^^j the first meeting of the sopho more class was held wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock in packer hall the meeting was opened by j t badiham president who made a report of a discussion math dr drinker on freshmen regula tions fjrshmen must still wear regulation ties and caps must ob serve order of classes in leaving chapel and college meetings and must not go out after 8 o clock dur ing the first tw weeks secretary baker at opening exercises price five cents 64 candidates out for team bethlehem pa friday september 26 1919 y.m.c.a freshmen reception tonight brown and white veterans and new material give promise for another good year 1919 schedule have you paid your arcadia dues ? if not now is the time pay at the supply bureau drown hall