Brown and White Vol. 27 no. 22

              bethlehem pa friday december 12 1919 production expected to be given about midyear squad cut to twenty by coach murphy wealth of material out for basketball novelties in variety show vol xxvii no 22 men needed swimming team to meet rutgers two speakers at m.e meet taylor gym first contest of season to be played tomorrow advantages of college life brought out at meetings the college purpose subject for discussion basketball with moravian college price five cents varsity men team includes eight former fraim coaching chorus starts practicing parke j r allen of bureau of mines talks on heating and ventilating at new brunswick first contest if season to be held the first meeting of the discus sion groups was held wednesday evening the subject was the college purpose and the discus sion was based on the chapter by that name in the book student standards of action the general trend of the discus sion w r as as f ollow t s : the real purpose of coming to college is to acquire the culture which it imparts to one the requisites of culture are travel reading and association with other men at a university travel of course is impossible but the travel ler comes to the college and lectures thus imparting his knowledge and its effects to his audience all the worthwhile books are at the stu dent's command to use if he so de sires he is daily in association with other men from all parts of the country his mind is broad ened and he leaves the narrow path of home teaching students ought to begin as un dergraduates to be of service to mankind too many men wait un til they have educated their fam ilies and retired before becoming engaged in some philanthropic work make the most of your opportun ities and realize that besides being at college to receive one is also there to give track practice with the football season over the basketball squad has settled down to work in preparation for the first game saturday during the past few days the squad has been increased by the addition of a number of football men among those coming out are frain carl son simendinger and wilson the material out for the team is the best that has been seen here in several years in addition to last year s team which is practical ly intact there are several old stars back and a number of men new to lehigh basketball with the wealth of material out the principal task which confronts coach murplry is that of picking the combination which will work together best with this end in view daily practice games are be ing held and the game saturday will afford an opportunity to try out a number of men on account of the large number of men out it was found necessary this week to cut the squad about forty men have been out since the season opened this number was reduced to twenty in view of the calibre of the men s.til on the snijad the coming season should be a very successful one the season for the brown and white swimming team will start in earnest w t ith the first meet of the season when they will compete against the strong rutgers team tomorrow afternoon at new bruns wick the new jersey lads aided by two of last year's inter-colleg iate champions will no doubt put up an unusually strong competi tion inasmuch as they have already suffered two defeats this season at the hands of the brown and white in football and cross country for these reasons this will probably be the hardest meet of the season for the lehigh swimmers the team has been progressing nicely and nearly 35 men turn out daily for practice jimmie mahoney has been officially chosen as swimming coach and under his supervision the team has rounded out nk:ely trials for the relay team and other positions were held last tuesday afternoon and about nine men will be taken to rutgers tomorrow continued on third page the captain of the team has not as yet been elected but it is prob able that a captain will be chosen lehigh soccer team loses to swarthmore the mechanical engineering so ciety held its second meeting of the year wednesday evening at 7 30 in williams hall the main speaker of the evening was j r allen director of the pittsburgh experiment station of the u s bureau of mines and vice-presi dent of the a s m e who spoke on heating and ventilating prof allen spoke of some of the difficulties encountered in the de terp x ion of true radiation and c liveetron which are generally dodged and included under the general head of heating prof allen also spoke of the different factors which had to be taken into consideration in heating and ven tilating such as odor and distribu tion and illustrated how unequal distribution of the entering air v^evld not v.m til ate the fboiv , h also told of the different methods of determing the amount and the effect of varying amounts of tem perature humidity odor and dis tribution and told of the number of tests tried to find the effects of variation of these quentities continued on third page the basketball season will be ushered in tomorrow afternoon with the annual opening game with the moravian college five the con test will be staged in taylor gym at 3 o'clock sharp and the student body is urged to turn out in large numbers to give this year's quintet a good start coach jimmie murphy has cut his large early season squad down to twenty men which includes the following men straub capt thomas kennedy maurer frain gardy donovan hess all members of the varsity in previous years and white carlson simendinger metniker wilson kopf o-keefe riley burleigh lees marshall and enslin with such a wealth of good material on hand it will be no easy matter for coach murphy to pick his regulars and many sub stitutions will be made in tomor row's game in order to give him a better line on his best men moravian college has b^en prac ticing since thanksgiving and will no doubt put up a good fight and force the brown and white tossers to go the limit to win this will be the last game until after the holidays metinker riley forward hess lees center simendinger kennedy guard straub capt carlson guard the probable line-up to start to morrow s game is as follows : donovan wilson forward the first try-outs for the mus tard and cheese variety show which is to be given near the mid year examinations was held mon day night in drown hall a large number of the old members were present and also some good new material chiefly from the two low er classes under the direction of parke fraim several short plays were read over and discussed which might be suitable to present in the coming variety show it was de cided that it would be the best plan to introduce a little drama of a deeper nature into the show rather than have it entirely comedy the men present were urged to get to gether and work out some kind of an act to be presented at a future meeting of the club following the discussion mr fraim drilled the men who are try ing out for the chorus in different steps and dances and a very good start was obtained m that line a piano number was also offered for approval by one of the contestants in the coming show is wanted just what the name implies — vari ety an appeal is made to all men who think they can present some kind of entertainment no matter in what line the entertainment may be to attend the next try out to be held monday december 15 at 7 30 p.m in drown hall music in strumental or vocal dancing read ings mystery or anything of a similar type will be gladly accep table and a large turnout is an ticipated rehearsals wall be held regularly after monday night musical clubs coaches appointed at a recent meeting of the ath letic committee the following coaches were officially appointed : ' ' jimmie ' ' mahoney swimming coach billy sheridan wrestl ing coach and kanaly track coach the athletic committee also recognized soccer as a minor sport and awarded 50.00 towards its support the track team has been practic j ing regularly regardless of the cold weather the wooden track has i been fixed up and the men are gradually getting used to it the material on hand is excellent and there is every possibility of having an excellent track and cross-coun try team in the spring the following men have been out to practice regularly sprints : karton rodiguez tal mage 440-yd dash burgess colby i leister wight high jump bieg sharp pole vault : paret captain shot put compler davenport | glaser heikes heilman larson j townsend young dieffenbach cross-country broadman bray j carr flancher gerlach markley i merkel reynolds second team : jerb helfrich hill mcnulty oliver wabrous whims moving pictures depict bolshevism inter=fraternity stewards association on wednesday afternoon on taylor field the lehigh soccer team was forced to take the short end of the score against the swarthmore aggregation 3 to 0 . . pownall started the scoring for the visitors when he made the first goal after fifteen minutes of play about ten minutes later colers made another goal and the half ended 2-0 the second half started with le high's playing a more aggressive game but she was unable to score on the last few minutes of play weise scored the final goal the line-up : swarthmore position lehigh bogardus g brewer russell f.b schuessler young l.f.b menenzes carter l.h.b whitney white c.h.b baird katzenbach . . r.h.b desh weise l.o newlin buckman l.i claxton colers c mercur pownall r.i wilson stables r.o gonzales goals pownall colers and substitution : cornelius for wil junior week planned wrestling the second mail and still asleep r o t c the mandolin club held a short rehearsal monday night in drown hall progress is continually be ing made towards the perfection of the music on hand after which some new t music is to be bought after the regular rehearsal some time was spent " on some special music including hawaiian guitars and ukuleles banjo mandolins and banjos other novelties are to be developed gradually until the club can offer music of various types the mandolin quartette is also working on some new selec tions and will render one at the y m c a meeting this sunday night in drown hall the combined clubs held a re hearsal wednesday night in drown hall only about half the mem bers of the glee club were present and a larger attendance is expected at the next meeting to be held on wednesday december 17th at 7 p.m in drown hall the mando lin club will hold its next rehear sal on monday december 15th at 7 p.m in drown hall senior pictture a meeting of the junior class w t as held at noon wednesday in packer hall for the purpose of or ganizing for the year p f walk er secretary read a report on the financial standing of the class as plans have already been laid by the inter-fraternity council for junior week which will begin monday april 26th and end fri day april 30th it was decided to have d c pfeiffer president of the class appoint the committees for the junior prom before the term ends all were urged to be prompt in the payment of dues nothing can be accomplished with insufficient funds the inter-fraternity steward's association which was organized on the third of november has made great progress in its endeavor to cut down the high price of food by purchasing collectively and at wholesale prices it is not too late to join the as sociation and it is urged that all the fraternities considering the matter get in touch with the presi dent-treasurer for any informa tion which they desire there will be a meeting held on monday night december 15 at the delta tau delta house at seven thirty o clock and all the members are requested to be present to talk over the outlook for the coming year any non-members will also be welcomed under the auspices of the beth lehem rotary club the film show ing guy empey in the under current was shown at the south side high school monday tues day and wednesday evenings of this week the meeting began with the national anthem followed by the singing of the battle hymn of the republic ' ' after the sing ing an address w t as made on bol shevism its ways of action and re sults caused by it on monday evening t mckeene chidsey district attorney elect spoke on the workings of radical ism he viewed its foreign and domestic phases from various angles he stated that the best thing that could be done at this time would be to deport all radi calists and cynicalists and to change the laws on immigration so as to give america a breathing spell continued on third page the wrestling team began prac i ticing in earnest last week quite i a large number of men have turned | out and coach sheridan is well j pleased with the prospects a large 1 1 number of light weight wrestlers i j have been practicing regularly but as yet only a few heavy weight and | medium weight men have shown i 1 up it is very desirable that more ' | candidates in these classes report ! | to billy sheridan at once for ' | the first meet of the season is only 1 i a few weeks away and it is neces | sary that the men get all the prac tice possible if they expect to be in ' proper condition the senior class picture which was taken recently has turned out unusually well copies are now on sale by d c pfeiffer and p ritchie who intend starting today to canvass those interested the price of the pictures unmounted is 1.00 the junior picture taken yester day will be out shortly and will be placed on sale by the same men it may be said that the report of the first inspection of the lehigh university r 0 t c made by the district inspector of the third division is quite flattering it seems that the government is very well pleased with the strides that have been taken in the unit and in one clause of the report the in spector states ' ' the military de partment may be said to have the enthusiastic support of the author ities and the student body ' ' continued on third page there are 37 upper classmen en rolled in the unit and this splendid showing of the large voluntary brown and white all football men — who were on the squad at any time during the season will please see professor reiter in the trophy room imme diately after the basketball game on saturday