Brown and White Vol. 31 no. 1

              vol xxxi no 1 . wednesday marked-25th opening of lehigh univ dr richards speaks on leadership packer memorial chapel filled to capacity with students and faculty one of the largest freshriian classes in history with a freshman | class enrollment of about 350 and a total enrollment of about iioo lehigh university last wednesday afternoon reopened fof the scholastic year the opening exercijses were held in packer memorial church which was crowded the music was in charge of t edgar shields the university organist and the religious exercises were conducted by chaplain w gateson of the pro-cathedral the episcopal church of the nativity then followed the introduction of the new faculty members by president charles russ richards who followed with his an nual address dr richard's audresfs in part system of higher education as continued on page s column , r >) president of arcadia r d warriner 24 president of inter-fraternity council j f rogers 24 president of senior class j f rogers 24 president of junior glass h r greer 25 president of sophomore class f j stephens 26 editor-in-chief o brown and white e v bennett 24 managing editor of brown and white c m alford 24 business manager of brown and white j c swartley 24 circulation manager of brown and white s l hauser 24 assistant editors of brown and white l c wolcott 25 and j s hursh 25 president of y m c a d p hoagland 24 head cheer leader r d warriner 24 president of pi delta epsilon h t litke 24 , captain of football w w springsteen 24 manager of football j f rogers 24 captain of baseball r b adams 25 . manager of baseball j m degnan 24 manager of lacrosse w p wooldridge 24 captain of lacrosse w p i\voo]<<ridk ll - captain of soccer c a fern 1 andez 24 manager of soccer c m al ford 24 captain of wrestling r d warriner 24 manager of wrestling a j hottinger 24 captain of track j m carol 24 manager of track s l haus er 24 men who will i,eac in the collegiate activities in 1923-24 who's who in lehigh this year bethlehem pa tuesday september 25 1923 b c cusick art cusick captain of last year's team now assistant coach coach baldwin jim baldwin starting his second year at lehigh price five cents football practice lias been under way on the upperfield for almost a week now and the prospects for this fall's team are promising the squad seems larger than ever and a goodly num ber of freshmen have already started working the bulk of last season's team are on the field and seem in fairly good physical condition to start the yearly grind captain bill springsteen is back with his old-time form howard merrill the husky tackle bill hoffman lehigh's heavyweight guard ted burke and dixie walker are both on the scene in splendid condition for their end positions milton roth unable to play last year because of a weak heart will again compete for center jack storer is back on the job at halfback as is leßoy brown other last year men who reported for practice are lewis the husky lineman frauenheim of the backfield buddy lingle and levita back field men and lewin the quarterback and dropkicker freshman material shows good form virtually all of last season's men have returned and are now in action on the field baldwin starts squad on rudiments of the game fresh welcomed at y reception endowment fund making progress glass of 1927 hundreds present at annual gath ering to extend glad hand to one place where coach bald win may have a little trouble is in filling the berth of quarter back since henschen is out of college lewin and possibly lingle are the only veterans com peting for the position both these men hurt their shoulders early last season and were not in condition to do much playing for that reason it will be remem bered that lewin concentrated on drop-kicking only last season raleigh a freshman a product of baltimore polytechnical in stitute is showing up very well and coach baldwin is expecting a great deal from him at the quarterback position raleigh tips the scales at about 170 organization work and publicity carried on during the jsummer months & result of expediency or neces sity we have based our stand ards of performance on the cap acity of the average student and very little attention has been paid to the discovery and stimulation of that very small group of young men who by the force of genius are capable of greater achievements in scholar ship and leadership than those set for the average man it is possible therefore that our aca demic processes may be stimul ating and helpful to the men of average ability or those below the average and positively stif ling to i;hose having brilliant in tellects and real genius with out doubt we should direct our efforts towards the ! discovery of m its dcv • process at ot and without neglecting the average continued on page 4 column s soccer team starts training campaign opens october 6 y m c a cabinet met on sunday , dr richards dean mcconn and w h tinker of national organization present fall practice commenced two days before opening of university r o t c unit will organize tomorrow will meet army on oct 3 encouraging progress in the plans and organization for the 4,000,000 greater lehigh fund campaign which is to be con ducted by lehigh men through out the country from october 6 to november 3 was mad 6 since the last appearance of the brown and white on june 8 during the summer months the work of naming chairman for the cam paign district and forming com mittees necessary for the suc cessful conduct of the endow ment has been going steadily forward and the headquarters in drown hall reports that all dis tricts will soon be ready for the opening of the campaign since commencement when the undergraduate body and hundreds of alumni had the op portunity of hearing dr rich ard's outline of the critical sit uation which lehigh faces in or der to maintain its high standing among the educational institu tions of the country the entire lehigh family has been gradual ly rallying to the support of their continued on puge .}, column 1 on monday afternoon two days before the opening of col lege the first aspirants for the soccer team began practice on the upper field the squad has been receiving daily additions and the men are hard at work in preparation for the army game at west point on octobesr 3rd last year under the able tutelage of j h carpenter tne lehigh soccer team captured the pennsylvania state league title the athletic committee has been fortunate in again se curing the services of the jnan who made such a brilliant suc cess last year and great things continued on patfe s column 3 present financial report the cabinet and advisory board of the lehigh university y m c a held a combined meeting at the hotel bethlehem on sunday afternoon to discuss the program for the year's ac itivities after enjoying a delic ious and well served dinner the formal meeting was held which lasted throughout the entire af ternoon dr c r richards and j dean g m mcconn were guests as was mr w h tinker of the national y m c a organiza ! tion l following an invocation by ; rev james robinson and a short j devotional period by mr tinker mr s g harris y m c a \ secretary at lehigh presented continued on page 4 column h many excellent speeches the y m c a reception last friday to the class of 1927 was one of the largest in the history of the institution drown hall was packed with hundreds of freshmen and upper classmen and many members of the facul ty and their wives were also present the program was a very attractive one and the mu sic speeches and cheering com bined in making the entertain ment the success that it was d p hoagland 24 president of the y m c a who presided over the meeting introduced as the first speaker prof b l miller professor miller in a few well chosen words extend ed greetings to the freshmen and strongly solicited their sup port of the college y m c a the next speaker dr charles russ richards president gave a very interesting talk on the plans for a greater lehigh and called the attention of the fresh men to the unusual way in which lehigh alumni responded to the call for assistance from their alma mater in closing doctor continued on page 2 column s red cross urges college men to answer roll call in nov brown and white starts new policy size increased . last spring i attended a con ference at which the chief theme of discussion was training for the leadership from the num erous papers and addresses on the subjects which were present ed i judged that many of the speakers believed that our pres ent educational emphasis is not effective in preparing men for the kind of service which the world most needs but that by some juggling of the curricul of the colleges real leaders might be produced by purely ed ucational processes the need for leaders today in thch branch of human endeavor with the tremei ji e in population and . ti of modern civiliz ion tile prob ltms are now vastly maye com plicated and difficult of solution than ever before in the history of the world history seems to indicate that in the past every great crisis produced leaders capable of coping with problems connected therewith it is not so clear that during recer.t great crisis the world has beeji equal ly fortunate it is by vu means certain that during the past de cade we have had the political moral economic industrial in tellectual and spiritual leader ship that is comparable with similar leadership in the past perhaps the very size and com plexity of the problems confront ing us are responsible for appar ent failure of men filling impor tant positions to function effec tively — at least function satis factorily to their constituency — and the softening perspective of time will modify our judgment of these men thus we have just seen a quiet effective and really great servant of the peo ple who was generally misun derstood and condemned give his life to his country in an ef fort to carry the tremendous burdens which the duties of his office involve few presidents have had after death an equally spontaneous and sincere tribute of affection and appreciation for his honesty of purpose and suc cessful achievements as that ac corded president harding his death has directed our attention to the difficulties which any great leader must overcome if he is capable of successfully coping with the problems of modern life a leader has been defined as one who occupies a chief or prominent place especially one fitted by force of ideas charac ter or genius or by strength of will or administrative abili ty to arouse incite and direct men in conduct and achievement . of these two definitions the latter is the one of chief interest for it is obvious that the mere oc cupation of a chief or prominent place does not in itself consti tute leadership whether bjy any process of education alone lead ers as i have just defined hem can be produced is doubtful foi unless a young man has curtail inherent qualities of chai acter and genius which may ulated but not created by cidu tion he cannot become a 1 in the larger sense of he - in the development oi our present collegiate year besides handling a large amount of job printing the doylestown pub lishing company publishes the bucks . county daily news and is adequately and completely equipped for news paper publication there are four linotype machines and the press is so arranged that mats as well as cuts can be used the contract has been signed at a figure which permits the old subscription and advertising rates to be charged and the of ficers of the doylestown pub lishing company have done everything in their power to en able the transition to be made without a hitch since the brown and white was founded in 1894 as a small four column sheet the paper has grown in size and circulation this most recent change places the university publication in the small newspaper class and pro vides an opportunity for growth and expansion which the brown and white has never before en jojed ing american national • red cross roll call november 11 29 but for serious constructive study of the work and methods of the organization looking to ward the day when they will as sume their rightful positions of community state and national leadership the demands of the time are increasingly complex and the future is heavily charged with forces which as yet defy analy sis it is not by chance that you have come to your high place in life we believe that it is for a purpose and that without the best each one can do in service to his fellowmen all life must be poorer in the end will you not therefore stand with the unconquerable will of a sidney lanier to the ideal of service through years of pov erty whfch he could have chang ed by sacrifice of his ideals and through a greater number of years of illnessvfrom tuberculos is which he had not the power to change the beloved poet of continued on page %, column %) pounds he carries himself with the assurance of one to whom football is an old story the new man is said to have turned down the navy and lafayette to play for the brown and white lehigh seems to have drawn an unusually strong backfield card in the person of captain jacobs of hammondton high seldom has a recruit made as strong an impression as the jer sey player jacobs weighs about 190 pounds and is short and heavy of build provided jacobs can keep up his form in an ac tual game prospects look very bright for a star backfield man the spaulding guide book says of jacobs and his team cap tain jacobs and aigner were the best players of the backfield the principal games were with at lantic city and woodbury hammondton defeated atlantic city by a 2 to 0 score and gained a 10 to 0 victory over woodbury the line this season ldoks stronger than ever there were many inquiries as to the condi tion of the weighty trio spring steen merrill and hoffman these three men were all under the care of bonesetter reese last year and played in the lafayette game after treatment this sea son however they seem to have recovered entirely from their last year's injuries and are ready to enter the fray this year in per fect physical trim in the backfield division there are four of the old reliables out for practice : stephens storer hess and brown stephens is showing up strong already and will be a formidable player when the season opens storer is as good as ever physically as is brown hess may play in the backfield but there is some talk of grooming him for the position of quarterback art cusick and steven bes semer both of last year's team are out on the field assisting coach baldwin in whipping the squad into shape another as sistant coach is herman shult ing he is from passaic new jersey where he played basket ball football and baseball for passaic high his college career was under the green banner of dartmouth playing with the 1919 and 1920 varsity teams shutting played quite a versatile game holding down the positions of end fullback and halfback his experience will aid a lot on bringing the squad around to form following is a list of fresh man recruits to the squad and the preparatory or high school from which they came of course there will be changes more men will report out later and some will drop out : lobell friends academy l 1 tackle mckenzje german town academy tackle law camden high end thum bar ringer high center hartze rock hill high quarter lam bert somerset high halfback jacobs hammonton high half back briody georgetown end scott catholic high end ; posey bethlehem high end ; wilson glen ridge high halfback continues on puge 2 column 21 with this issue the brown and white inaugurates a new policy the size of the paper has been increased 42 per cent the use of cuts and illustrations will be greater than ever before and there will be a number of special features appearing regularly which are unusual in a college newspaper during the past few years the brown and white has been printed by a bethlehem concern not especially equipped for news paper publication while the fa cilities provided were ample to | take care of the former size it ■ was an impossibility to effect an i improvement in the general : makeup to increase the size or j to include many illustrations after carefully considering , the advisability of increasing jthe size and general appearance i of the brown and white the business manager j c swart jr 24 signed an advan contract with the iwn publishing com v doylestown pennsylvan ■) publish the paper for the 1 i ) new arrangement of men in companies will be tried this year next wednesday afternoon at 4 p m the r o t c units will be organized on the upper field of taylor gym three rifle companies and one machine gun company will be formed from the two lower classes of the university a new feature of the organizing will be that all units will be formed according to the departments of the uni versity for instance all mechan ical engineers will be in the same unit as will the business department and all other de partments it is the hope of the head of the military department that every week a review or par ade will be held on taylor field this is only possible if the uni versity baivd will lend its assis tance having served at lehigh for j three years major lang has i been detailed by the war de partment for service elswhere during his stay at lehigh ma jor lang has the woi'k of the r 0 t c unit upon a very high plane largely due to his efforts the lehigh unit has received the distinguished rating from the commanding officers of the third corps area major patch has succeeded to the position of com mandant and will have charge of the military science and tac tics department during the com ing year due to the leaving of captain baldwin there will be no one to take charge of the students de siring to take the course in the quartermaster department therefore all students who ex pected to take up the work of this department must substitute for that amount of credit hours to the faculty of the depart continued on page ;,', column i there is probably no word harder in the colleges and uni versities today than vision and it is because of this quest of vision that students are thinking with a clarity a de gree of penetration an inclus iveness and an earnestness of purpose which did not charac terize preceding generations underneath a certain surface lightness engendered by the healthful give-and-take of pres ent day campus life there is de veloping a fibre which will stand the test of the epoch upon which the world is entering the red cross national and international recognizes the fact that in the american col leges and universities of today is to be found its leadership for to-morrow in a work which per haps more than any other is interpreting to the world at large the full scope and mean ing of the ideal of the brother hood of man consequently it voices at this time an appeal to the students of america not only for support in the oncom brown and white this paper is published 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