Brown and White Vol. 30 no. 46

              managerial elections at college meeting dr henry r price is oldest alumnus chemical engineers entertain at meeting track team opens with a victory vol xxx no 46 lehigh stickmen blank new york price five cents assistant managers for soccer swimming basketball and wrestling elected member of the class of 1870 is now president of the board of trustees first win of season is registered over the new york lacrosse club muhlenberg collegians strike snag suffering a 64-48 de feat at hands of lehigh local branch of the american chemical society discuss ammonia five runs in first inning seals fate of cardinal and grey final score 5-2 lineup changed active in university diefenbach stars carol breaks record brilliant saves of visitors goal relieves monotony of slow game lehigh scores many points on the cinder path but fails in field events the chemical society of lehigh university was the host of the le high valley section of the ameri can chemical society at a meet held in the lecture room of the chemis try building last saturday evening dr richards the president of the university introduced the speaker of the evening dr e c franklin brother of professor william s franklin farmer head of the phys ics department dr franklin took for his subject the ammonia system of com pounds which he has been inves tigating he showed the close anal ogy between water and liquid am monia as solvents liquid ammonia in itself is a non-conductor of elec tricity but the presence of a minute amount of a salt renders it a good conductor reactions of acids and bases in ammonia behave as in wa ter salts crystallize out of liquid ammonia with ammonia of crystal lization as water of crystallization continued on page five last friday the largest college meeting of the year was held in packer hall the total number pres ent being 683 the business to be transacted was the election of as sistant managers of swimming basketball soccer and wrestling for the coming year five men are selected from the competitors in each sport and two of these five are elected by popular vote at the end of next year the athletic committee selects the one who is the best fitted to be man ager the men who were elected are : basketball m j callow and j h croll swimming r l davis and w g fullard ; soccer c e birooks and a c palmer wrestling j waltman and w b wardell all these men are from the sophomore class continued on page six after the elections a w hicks 23 president of the arcadia said that the committee on students ac college leaders hold conference excellent music for junior week head of student activities will meet in philadelphia near end of month annual spring house party promises to provide good time for fair guests lehigh is represented many visitors expected henry r price c e m d ll d is the oldest living alumnus of lehigh university dr price entered lehigh university on its opening day september ist 1866 as one of the party of original stu dents he continued through the four years of scholastic work and became one of the graduates of the class of 70 receiving the degree of c e not only was dr price an excellent scholar but he sought to achieve some recognition in ath letics this he succeeded in doing by playing first base on lehigh's first baseball team we might truthfully call dr price the father of lehigh athletics for his work on the diamond was of such a cali bre that it should be a goal for which our present athletes might strive to reach since the days of his graduation dr price has held lehigh dear to his heart for over half a century he has been actively interested and n gaged in all of lehigh's work and he has personally witnessed the development of the university from an undergraduate attendance of for ty with fomr teachers to its present enrollment of 1063 ; also the growth of the physical plant from one building christmas hall to its present equipment besides his work in the adminisr trative department here at lehigh dr price has been active in other lines after his graduation he pur sued his profession for some time until he felt the desire to change his vocation this he did and he entered the university of pennsyl vania enrolling as a student in the medical college he graduated in 1880 and received the degree of m d he specialized becoming an oc ulist and gained an enviable reputa tion in this scientific field he pur sued this work successfully till his retirement a few years ago in 1916 he was conferred with the honorary degree of ll d from lehigh uni versity in the days when dr price was continued on page three continued on page six things started off big for the brown and white at the beginning of the opening frame ambler singled to right starting the riot and was forced out at second when loughridge tossed to con way on rickorick's attempted sacrifice conway had plenty of time to com plete the double but his throw went wild and rickorick advanced to sec ond base loughridge then waver ed an instant and bit prior with a pitched ball with two on the sacks harwi stepped up and just about lost the ball in deep left field he made the longest hit registered on bill lough ridge was on the mound for the cardinal and gray and although touched for a total of nine hits he also managed to keep the bingles well distributed ov er the lot pete dußois pitched a very creditable game for lehigh and had the visitors well in hand throughout the game dußois has some clever twisters which he handles very well although muhlenberg counted sev en hits off the lehigh pitcher they were all fairly well scattered despite the fact that the weather was more appropriate for football than baseball the game was not without its brilliant features some very pretty high ones were grabbed off not to speak of two or three bare-handed stops which go to the credit of both teams lehigh had the better of the majority of these plays and executed several nice double plays which blanked possible rallies for the allentown aggre gation muhlenberg went down to defeat on saturday in a game which look ed at first as though it might be a slugging contest for the lehigh nine as the first inning showed a total score of five runs for the beth lehem collegians but muhlenberg settled down and managed to make two runs during the rest of the game the final score read 5 to 2 with the brown and white on the long end of the score charles maxwell meconn has been elected dean of lehigh the brown and white lacrosse team won its first game of the sea son from the new york lacrosse club on saturday afternoon in a slow and rather uninteresting game by the score of 4to 0 instead of being rather a good test for the le high players the new yorkers serv ed only to give the brown and white a little practice the new york team arrived with three men lost somewhere between bethlehem and new york in an automobile and at first there was doubt as to whether they could even play but three lebigh players filled in the blanks for the visitors johnny hocker a former birown and white lacrosseman eddie coxe the well known wrestler and mckenzie finnegan another lehigh substi tute played for mckenzie in the id half of the game at no time during the game did the visitors seem to have a chance at scoring the ball was in the brown and white's hands practi cally all of the game forcing the new york team to be on the de fensive the whole time the weak ness of the visitors seemed to be in getting the ball and keeping it a gainst the strong attack of the le high players now that the lehigh squad has gotten their play down it takes a very strong team indeed to wrest the ball away from them and to keep it once they do get it the one redeeming feature of the new york team's play was the won derful exhibition of deifenbach at the goal shots were being rained upon the goal-tender almost contin ually throughout the game but due to deifenbach's great playing only four got past him for a score poss greer and george abel were the two lehigh stars greer was unapproachable when he car ried the ball the new york team never getting near him george abel was in top form rushing the pill down the field almost at will packenham a freshman player from brooklyn showed up very well in the game scoring two out of the four goals ( continued on page six when the game was but six min utes old jones shot the ball into the net for the first score packen pre-meds notice saturday afternoon on a cold and wind-swept field the brown and white defeated the cardinal and grey runners of muhlenberg at the allentown institution the score was 64 to 48 the lehigh team winning eight first places as com pajred to six for muhlenberg the lehigh team scored heavily in the track events winning all but the 120-yard high hurdles while muh lenberg did their scoring principal ly in the field events winning all but the broad jump carol lehigh's star sprinter scor ed eighteen points winning the cen tury furlong and 220-yard low hur dles and placing second in the jav elin throw in the 100-yard dash he tied the former lehigh record for this distance made by sproul 14 in 1913 not satisfied with this x accuinplishineiit he broke the le high record for the 220-yard dash when he broke the tape in the fast time of 22 seconds flat the for mer record of 22 seconds was held by morrissey 18 and was made in 1915 the times for the other events were not so fast because of a strong wind blowing directly up the back stretch and the track was not as fast as it might have been never theless springsteen won the quar ter in 54 seconds which is very fast considering the conditions un der which it was run in the mile bray finished at least 40 yards a head of the second man webb of muhlenberg running true to form siegmundl had everything his own way in the two-mile run finishing about a quarter of a lap ahead of his team-mate lewin in the fast time of 10:56 which is some 16 seconds better than his time in the inter-class meet although the lat ter was run under far better condi tions the high jump was no doubt the closest field event of the afternoon after the usual process of elimination begal of muhlen berg and elmer of lehigh survi ved they succeeded in clearing the bar up to five feet five inches at which height neither could clear it it was then lowered an inch and finally begal managed to clear it after a poor start burlingame of lehigh jumped 19 feet aja j / 2 inches in the broad jump in his last trial defeating his nearest competi tor stiegerwalt of muhlenberg by a foot the summary : — continued on page six 100-yard dash won by carol lehigh second talmage lehigh correction the broivn and white wishes tc correct a statement made in last week's issue to the effect that muh lenberg badly defeated the lehigh track team last year the score of last season's meet was a 56 to 56 tie instead of a defeat as was stated the interest of most of the col lege is now centered around the ap proaching festivities of junior week which is ushered in on thursday night april 26th by the sophomore cotillion in drown hall the first of a series of many gayeties the various committees appointed by the inter-fraternity council have been working hard to complete all ar rangements in order to be able to announce the final program which is to be filled with teas dances and other social events from thursday evening until the college dance on saturday night nearly all of the fraternities are having house par ties while a large number of other men have signified their intentions of taking in the festivities so there will be no lack of available stags at the different dances the com mittees for the various dances have had the tickets printed and are de sirous of selling some immediately to meet present expenses the gayeties of the week-end commence with the cotillion dance thursday evening in drown hall which is scheduled to begin about 9:30 and will last until about 2 r s taylor chairman of the mu sic committee has obtained the well-known bennie kreuger orches tra of new york the chairmen of the sophomore cotillion dance committees are as follows g b miller chairman of the dance com mittee h g harmon chairman of the program committee r b adams chairman of the refresh ments committee m j callow chairman of the decorations com mittee and r s taylor chair man of the music committee on afternoon the inter friday continued on page four recently the executive commit tee of the board of trustees of le high university approved a plan for re-organization of the administra tive machinery of the university under which administrative respon sibilities previously carried by a number of officers have been con centrated under the charge of a dean of the university whose re sponsibilities will in general be as follows : — 1 — the development of cordial relations between the preparatory and high schools and the university in those districts from which our student enrollment chiefly emanates and the stimulation of interest in the university which may result in an increased number of applications for admission 2 — the admission of new stu the pre-medical society is for tunate in having dr winter super intendent of st luke's hospital to speak at the meeting in drown hall on thursday april 19th on hos pital administration dr winter is an ex-army man is an interesting speaker and by vir tue of his position alone deserves a good turnout of pre-meds at a short business meeting be ginning at 7:45 the officers for the coming year will be nominated refreshments as usual any one interested in meeting dr winter is invited to attend dents including those who enter as freshmen and those who apply for admission with advanced standing 3 — the registration of students 4 — the maintenance of all offi cial records of student grades and of information concerning the sta tus of students in the university 5 — the giving of advice to stu dents concerning their educational progress and the interpretation of the rules of the university in so far as they affect the published pre scriptions for graduation from the several courses continued on page three 6 — the giving of advice to stu dents concerning their moral and physical problems — a duty which in the large institutions is normal ly assigned to a dean of men since these problems are so intimately as the university of pennsylvania is to be the host to a large gather ing of men from a large number of colleges throughout the country be ginning april the 26th and lasting to the 28th this large gathering will be the second intercollegiate conference to discuss undergradu ate activities early in 1920 before most of the colleges had fully recovered from the strain of the war a number of men all student leaders at m i t came to the conclusion that the re adjusting of the many colleges to peace-time conditions might be greatly facilitated in the fields of undergraduate activity and also that of student government by means of an intercollegiate confer ence on this basis a committee in cluding representatives from cor nell princeton pennsylvania and dartmouth was organized and plans were laid for a conference to be held at m i t in the spring of 1921 invitations were sent to sev eral colleges of which lebigh was one at this conference held in the spring of 1921 lehdgh was well represented and a success of the conference was made the four fields of discussion at the last con ference which will also be the same at the coming one are student government athletics publica tions musical clubs dramatics and debating the conference will comprise four separate meetings conducted simul taneously on the first two days of the conference and on the third day all the groups will meet in a joint session at this meeting the chair man 1 of each group will summarize the results of his particular con ference brown and white lehigh sluggers trip muhlenberg bethlehem pa tuesday april 17 1923