Brown and White Vol. 31 no. 20

              doylestown 1 and bethlehem pa friday december 7 1923 junior soccer game at 2.30 p m tomorrow places filled on b and w staff basketball men have scrimmage football season not yet over soccer team's bright outlook price five cents lehigh plays great game against brown vol xxxi no 20 many familiar faces seen among candidates who turned out will meet state tomorrow — lat ter team not beaten in five years competition most successful one ever held by the publication team tightens up with score 6-0 against them and wins fernandez unable to play schedule is a hard one run on point system meets classes for last time makes fine impression in new england town providence paper commends fighting spirit shown on thanksgiving day all regret resignation of prof stewart who leaves lehigh to serve the state vacancy already filled germantown boys club will be locals opponents on upper field tomorrow afternoon the jun ior varsity soccer team will meet the germantown boys club team on the upper field at 2.30 sharp a few weeks ago the germantown boys defeated the junior varsity of swarthmore 3 to 0 showing some very clev er work the boys club team is com posed of high school and prep school graduates from around philadelphia the lehigh jun iors have shown up very well so far this season and it is hoped they will put forth the old punch tomorrow and add another vic tory to their list the junior team has been showing up exceptionally well this past week in practice against the brown and white varsity scoring upon the varsity several times during the week the probable lehigh line-up roberts g michelina r f swinton l f mcginis r h wardell c h cottman l h robinson o r allen i r landell c f nevin s i l bougart o l quality credits discussed at faculty meeting senior electricals to meet senior miners on taylor field although there will be no var sity teams in action on either taylor field or the upper field on saturday sport enthusiasts will not be without entertain ment the second soccer team will exchange kicks with the germantown boys club on the upper field and taylor field will be the scene of a fierce struggle when the senior elec tricals clash with the senior miners in a football game both football teams have been practicing daily and are anxi ously awaiting the referee's whistle as a signal for the kick eff which is scheduled for 2 p m as to the comparative strength of the two teams noth ing can be definitely stated the electricals have a decisive vic tory to their credit having trounced the senior mechanicals to the tune of 13 to 0 a few weeks previous the miners have a clean record also since this is their first contest the men who will start the game have not yet definitely de cided upon but both teams boast of well-rounded backfields and heavy and aggressive lines among the outstanding ball rushers of the electricals are hagenbuch baker ritter and degnan the miners will prob ably start the game with werft mitchell jenkins and warriner as the ground-gainers new greek letter fraternity started the basketball team got under way monday afternoon when a meeting of the candidates was held many familiar faces were seen along with a great many new ones captain lingle took charge of the squad and will continue to do so until the first of the year among the other veterans was bill springsteen hess and weinstein although the team will miss the services of lees and har tung there are several good men who should fill the vacancies and show some real form the schedule which manager sheetz has arranged is very hard but the team should have no difficul ty in making this season a very successful one among the other men who should show up well are bond and gallagher for the center position kline and merrill at guard and roberts smith and verlenden at for ward the scrimmage which the team was put through gave the men a chance to show up well and when coach baldwin re turns from his leave of absence the team should be in fairly good trim coach baldwin has had a chance to get accustomed to the type of player that comes out for the sport and should be in a good position to produce a team far above the average usually seen on our court the annual election of new members to the editorial and business staffs of the brown and white was held wednesday evening in drown hall the competition for the candidates was run as usual on the point system each man receiving a commensurate number of points to the work done by him the following men were elect ed to the editorial staff w g fullard 25 r c noerr 25 c h porter 25 g bachman 26 p j shaheen 26 j b allen 27 j a covert 27 j e shurtleff 27 i b miles 27 w f feuerbach 27 and c e bar ba 27 the following men were elect ed to the business staff c k zug jr 26 j b reinoehl 26 and c a buenning 26 the man with the greatest number of points in the editorial com petition was j b allen 27 and in the business competition was j b reinoehl these mci both deserve a great deal of credit for their work the competition this year was the most successful one yet held by the brown and white there were forty-two men entering the competition and twenty-four stayed until the finish more and better work was done this year than any other the men elected have had considerable competition to overcome and have had to put out a high grade of work to make their positions tau beta pi initiates six new members sheridan back from bonnie scotland book of faculty rules and regulations will be distributed a meeting of the faculty of lehigh university was held last monday afternoon at this meeting a matter of great im port to the lower classes was acted upon the scheme of qual ity credits which was adopted by the faculty two years ago which has never been enforced was abolished another minor matter in re gards to grades was also decid ed upon hereafter grades will be reported to the dean's office in letter form only and not in both numerical and letter form which has hitherto been the cus tom this does not mean how ever that the numerical marks will not be kept by the different individual departments a book of regulations and rules of the lehigh faculty will now be prepared for distribu tion among the students and per sons interested in the rules this book of regulations has been decided upon for some time already but it has not been sent to press until now on account of the indecision of the faculty in regards to a quality credit system a new college fraternity with chapters extending from new hampshire to lowa and nebras ka and with a membership at the outset of nearly 300 under graduates was formed by repre sentatives of college locals at the national inter-fraternity conference which ended its ses sions at new york on saturday december 1 the new greek letter society was tentatively named phi kap pa pi its chapters will be locat ed at perm state illinois lowa state college george washing ton bucknell new hampshire stevens worcester poly david son temple university nebras ka wesleyan and the univer sity of chattanooga formation of phi kappa pi came as the result of a policy lajd down early in the year by conference officials to foster es tablishment of one or more new national fraternities in order to extend to more college men the advantages of a nation-wide greek letter organization dele gates from eighty-five locals throughout the country attend ed a special meeting held con currently with conference ses sions the freshman team has been out since the beginning of the term and some good material is in this class the coaching for this class has been done by harry gihon billy sheridan recently re turned from scotland resumed his duties as coach of the brown and white wrestling team on monday afternoon at 4 o'clock the coach gave a short talk on the tactics and training of wrestlers the call for candi dates was responded to very well but there is plenty of room for more men to come out for this sport many of last year's men were present among whom were captain warriner levitz poliski campbell and wash burn there is beside these men some excellent material who will give keen competition to last year's men from mon day on the men trying out for the team will meet every day at 4 o'clock in the wrestling room the annual initiation of new men to tau beta pi took place last evening at 7 o'clock at that time five seniors and one junior were initiated these men having the highest standing in their respective classes in the fall of the year it is customary to elect only from the senior class men from the first eight of the class being chosen in the spring the candidates are picked from the first eight of the junior class the following men were elected g a laux 24 ; a p digiulian 24 ; e v bennett 24 ; h g rogers 24 ; h g robinson 24 and a l bayles 25 bayles has been awarded the wilbur scholar ship this evening there will be a banquet tendered the new men in the university room at the hotel bethlehem the speakers will be professors beaver and eckfeldt and dr b a miller seniors lax in handing in ballots to class book com y m c a cabinet meet and discuss students convention the prospects of beating the perm state team in soccer seem very bright to the brown and white men this year and every thing points to a fast game when the lehigh team meet their old rivals at state this saturday this game is of especial interest as the perm state aggregation are boasting of the best team in the east as they have not been pulled down to defeat in this branch of sport for five years just what the lehigh team will do remains to be seen but all of the men are in the best of shape and have been practicing hard to hand the state men what has been coming to them lehigh will be handicapped by the absence of the star ferdan dez who was recently injured he is out of the hospital but will be unable to make the trip on saturday the stellar playing of this man has been one of the big features of all the lehigh games to date but the team has been pulling well together de spite his absence and every thing looks pretty cheerful for a lehigh victory on saturday lehigh will not play haverford as previously scheduled for the 10th but they will meet their old rivals lafayette on the follow ing saturday haverford was re leased from the game as several of their men are suffering from injuries and as they have two or three more hard games they could not meet lehigh on that date oct 28 perm state 6 lafay ette 0 the brown and white men have every reason to fear the perm state team their record to date is as follows nov 3 perm state 3 syra cuse 0 nov 5 perm state 1 toron to 1 nov 23 perm state-haver ofrd cancelled because of ■ in juries nov 10 state 3 navy 2 perm state has likewise suf fered from having men on the sidelines due to injuries they will probably have the same line-up in saturday as they sent against the navy the line-up in the navy game was as follows johnson goal grupp r p mcvaugh l f hagenbuch r h warner captain c 11 gil l h kelley o r russel i r schwartz c f hibbs i l crooks o l lehigh line-up is as follows hubert goal trumbaugh r f michelenea l f clothier halfback mercur halfback grace halfback huaman halfback walters forward rice forward batz forward perneda forward on the wednesday preceeding the thanksgiving holidays pro fessor stewart met his classes for the last time in his official capacity as head of the business department of lehigh univer sity having resigned that posi tion in order to serve upon the public service commission of the state of pennsylvania the departure of professor stewart is looked upon with genuine regret both by the stu dent body and the faculty thorough appreciation of the undergraduate mind left every individual at his mercy in the classroom but his caustic re marks have been repeatedly jus tified and his frank expressions have aroused many a young man from a lethargic indiffer ence with hardly a sufficient inter val elapsing in which to appreci ate the fact that professor ste wart will no longer preside over his various classes the vacancy caused by his resignation has been filled neil carothers who has been secured by president richards to fill professor stewart's place is a tennessean by birth com ing originally from chattanoo ga his undergraduate work was completed at the university of arkansas he then went to the university of oxford as a rhodes scholar from oxford he pro ceeded to princeton as a fellow in economics and social sciences for the next five years doctor carothers served as instructor and assistant professor at the university of arkansas from arkansas he was called to princeton as assistant profes sor of economics and preceptor of economics and finance at the end of three years of service at princeton doctor ca rothers entered the service of the united states army and served throughout the whole of h great war in the spring d 1919 he left the service as a cap tain of the general staff and in civilian capacity served the state department in an econo mic and financial advisory ca pacity for one year for the past three years and immediately preceeding his ac ceptance of the position as head of the business department at lehigh doctor carothers has occupied an executive position with a large new york bank lehigh men who write editor to speak a most timely article by n h heck b a 03 c 8 04 headed hope to forecast earthquake peril appeared in the new york times of sunday september 16 heck is chief of the division of terrestrial magne tism u s coast and geodetic survey harry t morris m e 91 read a paper before the american iron and steel institute in new york on may 25 1923 on waste in the steel in dustry morris is metallurgical en gineer of the bethelehem steel co notice maining seniors who have not already had their photos taken before december 15th the class book committee has de cided to make an allowance for this christmas photograph rush and will give the seniors until january 15th to have their in dividual photographs in the hands of the committee how ever all the remaining require ments must be completed and in the hands of the committee by december 15th these require ments are as follows first write out and turn in your class ballots including your individu al biography second turn in at least one snapshot and as many more as you possibly can of yourself or of any other mem bers of the senior class and third pay your 14.00 assess ment to a member of the com mittee or send your check in di rectly to the chairman of the committee e t adams at the chi psi house on sunday evening mr john nevin sayre editor of the world tomorrow will speak to the students in drown hall the address will start at 6.30 and preceeding it a luncheon of co coa sandwiches and ice cream will be served the affair will be free to all students mr sayre a son of mr sayre through whose generosity we en joy the beauties of sayre park will talk on some subject of stu dent interest the exact topic not yet being selected all stu dents are urged to be present and be assured that mr sayre will ive them something of in terest a meeting of the mustard \ i and cheees club members : i will be held monday even • • ing december 10 7.30 p m j • at drown hall ■ • ■ the senior class book com mittee is hard at work trying to get the material in from the individual seniors in order to have the work completed and turned over to the 1925 epitome by january ist as yet the com mittee has received very little co-operation from the senior class in regards to this work all the requirements listed on the senior class ballots which were distributed several weeks ago must be completed and turn ed in to the class book commit tee on or before december 15th only a scant ten days remains for you to complete your work so get busy at once at the present date only a very few individual senior pho tographs have been reported by the official epitome photogra pher bill mccaa as having been taken due to the usual christmas photograph rush it will be impossible for mr mc caa to take photos of all the re the brown and white eleven reached its greatest height of the football season thanksgiv ing day when after trailing along in the first half with a 6-0 score it tightened up and rode roughshod over brown un iversity finishing the game on the long end of a 12-6 tally the game was one of the greatest upsets in football dope this season and was undoubtedly the most brilliant game played by lehigh this season the brown and white made a tremendous impression on new england the team being considered one of the strongest elevens seen in action there as an example of the esteem the lehigh eleven is held in witness the following quotation from the providence journal a powerful lehigh team one of the greatest foot ball machines that has ever wheeled into action on andrews field scored an impressive 12 6 victory over the fighting brown eleven before the great est crowd of the season brown went down fighting valiantly against a team that was fully a touchdown stronger than the score indicates colgate's de vastating eleven that battered the championship crown down over ol bruin's ears in 1916 gridironed a team that day with no greater line and backfield timber than that which the pennsylvanians deployed ag ainst the hill toppers in the big holiday attraction the brown eleven played one quarter the first with the same spirit that characterized the vic tory over harvard gaining 47 yards against 22 and prevent ing lehigh from making a first down roman kicked off to stor er who ran the ball back from his 19 to his 22 yard line le high failed to make a first down and punted brown did the same finally brown carried the ball to lehigh's 16 yard line here the brown and white dug their cleats deep into the ground and forced a surrender of the ball on downs brown re tained possession of the ball in lehigh territory most of the time but were unable to advance it far enough to threaten to score <*, captain spellman of the new england team playing the greatest game of his career in his final appearance in a brown uniform so inspired his men with his spirit that in the sec ond quarter every lehigh at tempt to score was repulsed and in a spectacular attack carried the ball over for the first score of the game swaney made a poor attempt to drop-kick from the 45 yard line in the third play of the period the ball fall ing short lewin caught the ball and was forced down on the 8 yard line storer then punted the ball back to the 40 yard line a lunge into the line by pohl raan gained only a couple of yards but on the next play swaney hurled a beautiful pass straight into the arms of stiff ler who was waiting on the 20 yard line with a clear field be fore him the end sped 20 yards for brown's only score of the game not once after that was le high's goal line in danger brown had shot her offensive bolt then and there however continued ni puyv „', column •! ) tion spoke about the conven tion which is to take place this year at indianapolis on decem ber 28 to january 1 the con vention is under the auspices of the y m c a and its purpose is to present the sociologist problems of the world to the students which attend the con vention there will be speak ers from all the fields in which the y m c a is represented at this convention lehigh's quota for this convention is 6 to 8 men the expenses of the trip will be around 80 and those which can afford to pay their own expens es are cordially invited to at tend if however any man wants to go and cannot pay the whole amount there is a possibility that the local churches will come to his aid and help defray the expenses the trip is well worth the while and anyone who i contemplating taking it in should see mr harris about the details the y m c a cabinet meet ing was held monday evening at which time the plans for the salvi harp concert and the stu dents volunteer convention were discussed the salvi concert which is fostered by the y m c a will take place on december 1 3 at the south side high school the tickets will be on sale at the v office and by the arcadia men and members of the cabinet the price of these tickets are 75 cents 1.00 and 1.50 it will be remembered that salvi play ed here in bethlehem last year at which time due to the fact that several other college activi ties were going on the students did not support the concert to the fullest extent it is hoped that the college will lend its sup port and help put the concert across boots warfield representing students volunteer conven brown and white sophomore competition j for business staff of brown and white open to all sophomores meet at drown hall sunday 5 p m the lehigh brown & white is published by the students of lehigh uni versity bethlehem pa it is set up printed and mailed at doylestown pa however the editors are at bethlehem pa and conduct the business of the publication there they should have all mail addressed to them at their bethlehem addresses under the postal laws and 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