Brown and White Vol. 30 no. 42

              price five cents r o t c inaugurates early morning drills brown and white elects officers one in a hundred finishes college vol xxx no 42 e v bennett 24 to be editor-in chief and c m alford 24 managing editor special scholarships are an nounced by n y u under recent bequest terms lehigh battalion to be complete ly reorganized into four com panies of two platoons each professor brigham of princeton traces course of boys as they proceed through college founded by penfield cause is uncertain wrestling crown goes to cornell with perm state a close second yale third and lehigh takes fourth place open to men who will devote entire time to study during coming year man's mental development is limited from time of birth according to authority torrid battle for first place roberts and hanson of cornell and wallace of yale successfully defend titles obtained last year four new champions drill for the members of the r o t c will start again tuesday march 27th spring is here the upper classes will again have the pleasure of being wakened by the melodious tramp of army shoes through the halls at five a m the drill schedule has been posted on the bulletin-board and all members of the unit are requested to make a note of the work and to refresh their minds so that the reputation of the lehigh unit can be upheld in the coming spring inspection w g boyden 23 recently had a very interesting article published in the infantry journal the arti cle entitled leadership was pre pared for presentation to the scab bard and blade and attracted so much attention through the care and intelligence with which the sub ject was handled that the war de partment published it in the infan try organ of the united states for ces in this work mr boyden shows the very close relation of leadership to all walks of life and explains the benefits of military training in developing thin qrt he states that leadership is an art not an exact science this art can be perfected only through practice and a development of particular quali continued on page three the last meeting of the brown and white board under the leader ship of messrs walters gardy and webb was held last friday in drown hall at this meeting the election of officers was held and the senior members of the board gave their farewell speeches this fiscal year was very prosperous and the paper is at present in better condi tion financially and otherwise than in previous years the elections for the year 1923 1924 resulted in e v bennett 24 being elected to the office of editor in-chief ; c m alford 24 taking over the position of managing edi tor these two are a very steady pair as they have shown in their excellent work as assistant editors in the past year so the paper un der their capable hands should^iave a very bright andi prosperous out look j c swartley 24 took ov er the business department having been unanimously elected to the po sition of business manager s l hauser 24 was elected circula tion manager the positions of assistant editor will be filled by j s hursh 25 and l c wokott/25 the seniors retiring from the board are j w gardy f c wal ters r s webb d m clarke c f forstall a w hicks w d mu'schlitz and e vamkeuren annual elections to tau beta pi scrimmages begun by lacrosse team twelve juniors are chosen for national honorary engineer ing fraternity founded at lehigh coach bill o'neill well pleas ed by large number of men on squad over sixty men out new york march 27-ameri can young men who look forward to careers as ambassadors foreign ministers or other representatives of their government abroad may now be trained for such a career the same as for the law medicine or any other profession according to an announcement to-day by new york university the announce ment makes public the fact that scholarships established at new york university by the late ambas sador frederic c penfield are now operative and will be awarded to candidates whose qualifications best indicate a fitness for careers in the foreign service frederic c penfield died last summer after a long career in the diplomatic service which began in the consul general's office in cairo and en died in vienna as united states ambassador where through the trying period of the world war he handled the interests not only of his own country but of half a dozen other powers at war with austria his experiences taught him that while what is known as shirt sleeves diplomacy may serve very well on occasion there is also a need for the trained diplomat this realization found expression in his will in a bequest of 80,000 to new york university for the founding of what should be known as penfield scholarships for the training of american youth in dip lomacy international affairs and belles-lettres continued on page four these scholarships which are in part the realization of a plan long advocated by chancellor brown close friend of ambassador pen field for a school of international affaiirs at new york university will be awarded by dean earle b babcock of the graduate school of new york university two of these scholarships for 1,000 each will be awarded to applicants hold ing the master's degree from an ap proved college or university or who expect to receive the degree in june 1923 who plan to devote their en a recent issue of the new york times quoted dr carl c brigham of the princeton psychological de partment as saying that on the av erage only ten out of every 1,000 white males in this country finish their college courses and get their diplomas professor brigham who is the author of a study of american intelligence which was recently published has based his opinions on a thorough study of the schooling of the native-born white draft dur ing the war as exemplified by more than 80,000 cases of every thous and boys who enter the first grade 970 go on to the second grade 940 remain through the second grade 905 the fourth grade 830 the fifth grade 735 the sixth grade 630 the seventh giade and 496 the eighth grade of the original thousand 230 en ter the high school 170 finish the second year 120 the third year and 95 are graduated from the high school 50 men enter college 40 keep on to the end of the second year 20 to the end of the junior year and 10 are graduated it is impossible of course com mented dr brigham to determine how many of those that leave school leave on account of lack of pecuni ary opportunity or on account of lack of intelligence it is ridiculous to assume that 1,000 men in 10,000 have sufficient intelligence to be graduated from college and equally absurd to assume that only 10 in 1,000 have such a high intellectual endowment that they can be gradu ated from college the average man is incapable of developing mentally beyond the first year of high school according to professor edwin grant conklin when interviewed on dr brigham's statement professor conklin who is an authority on heredity and en vironment declared that man's men tal development is limited from the time of his birth and said that the average could not go beyond the freshman year in high school no definite cause can be assign continued on page two coach baldwin makes cut in diamond squad l henschen selected to lead cage team the annual elections to tau be ta pi the honorary engineering fra ternity have been held and twelve men from the junior class have been chosen pledging will take place on wednesday morning in the chapel after the regular morning exercises and the initiation will be shortly after the easter vacation tau beta pi was founded at le high in 1885 by professor e h williams jr the purpose of the organization being to give special recognition to men who had done exceptionally good work scholasti cally and who were taking an act ive part in college activities the requirements are that a man be a mong the first eighth of his class scholastically and at the ame time actively taking part in extra-curric ulair work the following men were elected c m alford e e ; e w baker e e j m carol c e ; j s grim e e ; g hamp ton ch e ; l a laux m e ; c b mitchell e m.;^s l sat tenstein e e ; w m schleicher n e r h tilghman m e ; r d warriner e m e l werft e m notice there will be another cut in the very near future morning and af ternoon practices for those remain ing on the squad will be held on thursday friday and saturday of this week the first baseball cot was made yesterday afternoon by coach bald win the following men have been retained on the squad pitchers — lees dubois adams luce more land tuggey danko roth corson henry dietrich cahill ; catchers — harwi prior lewin batz others — rowley mellinger o'keefe bes semer rickerick frauenheim mc williams kirchner walker hess ganey hartke merrill ambler mcgouldrick carey lucente with this issue the brown and white suspends publication until friday april sixth the next reg ular meeting of the brown and white editorial board will be held tuesday noon april third the lehigh basketball squad held its final meeting of the year at which l henschen 24 was elect ed captain for the ensuing year dutch henschen has proved his ability as a leader is an excellent player and there is no doubt but that his selection is a very popu lar one at the same time the squad voted upon sophomore assistant mana gers and the following men were selected to go before the college for election to the position of assistant manager r b thornburg r s taylor m j callow j h croll and j j umloles for the past several weeks the brown and white lacrosse candi dates have been practicing in camp coppee and on the upper field there have not been more than two weeks practice outdoors as the field and weather conditions were very unfavorable and prevented the use of the upper field up until sat urday the w r ork consisted mainly of passing the ball and shooting for goals on saturday the first gen eral scrimmage was held which last ed about fifteen minutes after which the men ran three-quarters of a mile on the track on mon day the same kind of scrimmage was held but of a little longer du ration the first practice game will not be held until the monday after the easter vacation and some hard and strenuous work will be on the program for next week in order to prepare for the opening game with the university of maryland on april 7th on taylor field coach bill o'neill arrived in bethlehem last tuesday and was on the field that afternoon but owing to the cold weather the men only practiced a half an hour after which the coach gave his proteges a long talk on the fundamentals of the game he expressed keen enthusi asm when he saw the great num ber of candidates and the ability and eagerness which some of the mem are showing cornell again emerged champion from the intercollegiate wrestling meet at ithaca on friday and sat urday afternoons after an exciting and closely contested session the ithacans were hard pushed by perm state however and it was only in the third-place bouts that they ac tually were sure of a one-point mar gin over the nittany lions yale surprised everyone by taking third place in the meet lehigh then came in for fourth position beat ing out princeton pennsylvania and columbia the final scores were cornell 17 perm state \£, yale 13 lehigh 12 princeton +, and pennsylvania 2 columbia 0 it was through the efforts of pennsylvania ireally that cornell gained the championiship wilson of perm when he grappled with parke of state for third place in the 175-pound class gained a ref eree's decision had parke won the decision he would have tied his college for the championship while a fall would have gained state the crown wilson was aggressive throughout however and the ref eree awarded him the bout fouir new champions were crown ed at the meet in the 115 145 158 pound and heavyweight classes they are respectively a a schwartzbach of lehigh ; b d evans of state e h coxe of lehigh and j j mckay of yale in the 125 135 and 175-pound class es h h roberts of cornell j h wallace of yale and l c hanson of cornell retained their titles perhaps the hardest of the cham pionship bouts was that between captain mckay of yale and em ery of princeton in the heavy weight class though the eli man towered over his opponent the ti ger was game and put up a won derful scrap losing finally on time advantage coxe of lehigh won his final bout with the quickest fall of the meet bringing his man to the mat in three minutes and thirty-five seconds the only other fall in the finals was gained by wallace of yale over ayan cornell schwartz bach displayed great form in the fi nals by decisively outwrestling leh man of state and gaining a time advantage of seven minutes and a quarter the showing of schwartzbach throughout the meet was quite a surprise to most people the brown and white 115-pounder garnered his team's first point when he pin ned sherman of princeton to the mat with a body hold in the semi finals he gained a notable victory over me williams the cornell won der with a time advantage of a minute lehigh's other champion coxe began his inarch to glory by dis posing of parthemore of perm state with a time advantage of al most four minutes it was expect ed that coxe would then have to wrestle his old friend johnson of columbia but in one of the sur prises of the day rabinowitz perm defeated the columbia man on a time decision coxe was able to pin the perm boy to his shoulders with ease in less than five minutes by a body hold one of the greatest disappoint ments to the brown and white ad herents was the elimination of war iriner kronholm one of yale's dark horses overcame the lehigh matman with a time advantage of five minutes parke of perm state put burke out of the running in the 175-pound class although he had to resort to extra periods to gain his decision with a time advantage of little over a minute gihon had bad luck in drawing wallace of yale the 135-pound champion as his man in the preliminaries the yale man had easy going and rang up a time advantage of nine minutes rogers drew a bye in the first round but was eliminated by winters of yale on a decision levitz secured a time advantage over kauffman of perm but he fell before emery of princeton in the semi-finals coxe accounted for half of le high's score schwartzbach gained five points while gihon added one the summary : — i 115-pound class a schwartz bach lehigh defeated r s leh man perm state on referee's deci sion time advantage 7 minutes 15 seconds 125-pound class h a roberts of cornell defeated william kron holm of yale on referee's decision i time advantage 3 minutes and 9 ! seconds 135-pound class j h wallace yale defeated r c ayau cornell lon a fall barlock hold in 8 minutes j 7 seconds 145-pound class — b d evans j perm state defeated hyman win | ters of yale on referee's decision | time advantage 9 minutes and 17 i seconds 158-pound class e h coxe \ lehigh defeated g t roberts of | yale on a fall barlock and body | hold in 3 minutes 25 seconds 175-pound class — l c hanson ! cornell defeated h e parke of jpenn state on referee's decision j time advantage 5 minutes and 3 | seconds heavyweight class — captain j j | mckay yale defeated h c em ery princeton on referee's decision time advantage 11 minutes and 6 continued on page four brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 27 1923 coxe and schwarzbach win intercollegiate mat titles courses open to future diplomats