Brown and White Vol. 31 no. 30

              jim baldwin awarded red cross medal epitome after subscriptions bethlehem pa friday february 8 1924 808 harper helps the endowment drive price five cents college papers are rated high clothes worn at princeton worth 25,000,000 alumni want graduate mgr vol xxxi no 30 resolution adopted at recent meeting of board of directors hoped to relieve situation cagemen to met rutgers quintet brown and white team has string of eight victories to its credit sensationalism and scandal not in demand by younger generation petty reads report ; the wealth of dress exhibited by ! ; the crowds at the princeton^har j i yard football game in princeton last | i fall has produced some estimates of j i just how much it costs to turn out j s auch a crowd : considering the fact that every j ; second man wore a raccoon coat and ; « practically every woman wore furs ; • ranging from raccoon jackets to ; • hal.le coitts the estimate was made j • that the average clothes cost was ', • near the 500 mark i • attendance figures ranged from ! ; 55,000 the actual beating capacity '. of palmer stadium to 70,000 i ; which included everyone in town i ; for the game • ; based on a minimum of 60,000 i ; the total cost of clothing worn by i ; the crowd is conservatively estimat ! ! ed at 125,000,000 '• fraternities at head of gov't straton scores college infidels new york pastors preach on religious attitude of college students former popular lehigh student who in at present assisting in the lehigh endowment fund drive in the pittsburgh district bob played halfback on the broivn and white eleven for three years and icas in addition a crack basket ball player and in ms tost year showed himself to be one of the cleverest floor men on the lehigh team many presidents of the united states have been fraternity men questionnaire sent out lafayette to perform by radio sororities represented line-up still intact the lehigh basketoers will take on the rutgers team this saturday at taylor gym the game starting at 8 o'clock this will be the ninth gamp that the brown and white men have played this season the first eight resulting in well earned victories more than half of the season has now been completed their being but se ven games remaining coach baldwin is confident that his charges will come oi<l on top in the remaining games all of which will be against strong teams the splendid team work of the lehigh cage men has netted them 293 points against 165 of their opponents rutgers will present a form idable team against the lehigh men and a hard fought game is predicted the probable line-up for the lehigh aggregation to morrow night will be captain lingle and smith forwards gallagher center springsteen and weinstein guards college musical clubs will make music into microphone when the lafayette college glee club of forty men and in strumental club of fifteen men broadcast their program from station wor newark n j from 2.30 to 4 p m on febru ary 15 it will m the third time this year that a lafayette mus ical organization has performed by radio the lafayette band played fo broadcast both at pittsburgh on october 5 and at new york on november 2 the engagement of the com bined musical clubs to broadcast comes on the afternoon of the date on which the clubs will give an evening concert at new ark under the auspices of the lafayette alumni club there this concert will be the third on the schedule which will be as follows feb 8 easton pa feb 13 madison n j ; feb 15 newark n j feb 16 new haven conn march 21 lans ford pa ; march 22 wilson col lege chambersburg pa april 21 scranton pa april 22 wilkes-barre pa additional dates for the or ganizations are being arranged at brooklyn n v ; freeland pa ; hazelton pa ; cedar crest college allentown pa and bangor pa by s l stirling manager of the clubs wrestlers take up prac tice next week next burr to be called high hat number then wilj come number devoted to the ladies and lip sticks the next issue of the lehigh burr will be called the high hat number this issue will go to press the latter part of th month as yet very little mat-i terial members on the art staff should get busy at once and get the necessary sketches into the art editor at once so that there will be no delay in the appear ance of this issue the issue following the high hat number is the girls number and this year it will be known as the lip stick number this number will appear march 22nd each contribution which is ac cepted will be accompanied by the initials of the successful contributor with her school or college and class the best cov er the best pen and ink sketch and the best text contribution will each receive a burr charm and a subscription to the paper ) there will be a meeting of the burr board on friday night february 15th n j zinc co gives 15,000 for fellowship fund clean journalism helpful the following article on the stand of the college press tak en from the christian science monitor of may 26 1923 gives college papers a decidedly high rating an encouraging sign of the times is the apparent determin ation of those who direct the policies of the journals publish ed in the colleges of the united states to maintain the highest possible standard in their news and editorial pages it is a con vincing denial of the claim that the demand of educated people even those of the younger gener ation is for sensationalism and scandal the readers of the yel low journals so called are not generally speaking those who i give serious thought to the solu tion of everyday problems in the homes and in the schools and colleges the search is for the encouragement ana promise which can be found in those newspapers and magazines which do not appeal to preju idice or seek to create and then to satisfy an inordinate desire for the forbidden and the unde sirable at a recent session of the inter-collegiate press club of indiana the delegates not only indorsed the policy of the col lege newspapers in their stand for clean journalism but de manded that the larger and more important press if it de sired the support of the schools and colleges adhere to the same high standard it was pointed out that educators are coming more and more to depend upon newspapers for use in the class rooms and that the papers available were those which ad hered strictly to clean and con structive policies it was observ ed that newspapers needed to get away from the printing of criminal and other demoralizing j news items if they expect to take their proper place in the educa tional field the students in indiana schools and colleges are not the first by any means who have declared their determination to support a clean and progressive press eastern and other colleg es throughout the country have taken their place in the line the movement is symptomatic because it indicates that awak ening noticeable in the homes everywhere as well as in those public institutions where it is the desire to inculcate the habit as well as to teach the processes cf right thinking to the neces sity of discouraging the reading and contemplation of destruc tive and suggestive matter long ago it was realized that it was the height of folly to sow the seeds of weeds and tares in a field where it is desired to pro duce wheat and corn lehigh seniors may apply for commissions discount allowed on price of book if 2 deposit is made before march 1 many fine features progress on the epitome for 1925 has reached the point l where subscriptions are being accepted l brewster kingham 25 the business manager an i ttouncea that he will receive sub | scriptions accompanied by a de ! posit of two dollars a special booklet with information regard ing this year's epitome has been prepared and will be distributed among the students in the near future attached to it will be found a coupon which can be used for convenience in subscrib ing this coupon may be given to l b kingham at the alpha chi rho house or any of the competitors in the competition for next year's epitome business staff a new plan is being put into operation by the business staff this year this innovation is planned to relieve the class is suing the yearbook of any debt due to unsold copies hitherto many copies of the books were unsold and remained a heavy loss to the class this year only a imited number of copies are to be printed in addition to those subscribed to and held by a de posit moreover the price for these copies will be six dollars if a subscription with a two-dol lar deposit is turned in now an dditional three dollars delivers the book making the total cost five dollars if subscriptions are not in by march 1 there is no assurance that additional copies will be on hand and if any can be obtain ed the cost will be six dollars in short a saving of one sixth of the cost can be made by turn ing in a subscription at once it is an assured fact that the epitome will be out in april its appearance at this early date will be appreciated as it will appear in time for the spring house party the features of the 1925 epitome are numerous and far excell any other year book issued at lehigh the dur ability of the book is insured by a genuine leather cover with brown velvet finish this is a remarkable improvement over the imitation leather covers of past issues an entire new de partment is to be added which will embody twelve extensive views of the campus this will be an especially attractive sec tion to people who have never isited the beautiful lehigh campus descriptions of the new memorial building will be in cluded and photographs of it as well there wil be an alumni section with the name and offi cers of all the organized lehigh clubs the book has been designed to outclass in appearance and sub ject matter all previous editions of the epitome the work com pleted so far promises to uphold if not excell the plans drawn up for it the work of the staff in putting such a superior product before the student body is value less if not appreciated now is the time to subscribe delay may cause you to lose the oppor tunity of securing a book re member if the subscription and deposit is not made before march 1 the cost will be six dollars instead of five dollars 1924 soccer schedule dr john roach straton pas tor of calvary baptist church fundamentalist and the rev charles francis potter pastor of west side unitarian church modernist preached on sunday on the merits of the causes they champion before large congre gations dr straton charged that in many universities in the united states the faculties were responsible for unbelief and in fidelity among the students he twitted mr potter on his pan theism mr potter on his side speaking on i believe in god charged that a monstrous and stupendous lie had been cir culated by the fundamentalists to the effect that modernists especially unitarians do not be lieve in god dr straton said in part there is ample proof of the increase of unbelief and infi delity among evolutionists in our college faculties and their satellites among the students professor james h leuba of j bryn mawr college in his book on belief in god and immortal ity argues that religion is dying out among the educated he sent a questionnaire to 5,500 scientists asking each for a con fidential statement of religious j views and the answers disclo ed the fact that over one-half of these scientists declared that they no longer believed in a per sonal god or personal immortal ity professor leuba then sent a questionnaire to the students of nine representative colleges and universities and he found that only 15 percent of the freshmen did not believe in the cardinal doctrine of christianity but that 30 percent of the junior did not believe — double the number of unbelievers among the juniors as among the freshmen — while among the seniors he found that 40 to 4j5 percent had discarded the great doctrines of christianity in other words these statistics seem to prove that the colleges of the land with their teachings of evolution are destroying the christian faith of their stu dents mr potter said : " a stupendous thing a mon i strous thing has happened i while liberals have been asleep the thing is this that the im pression has crept abroad that liberals especially unitarians do not believed in god various j times in recent years i havte i heard people say to me : you're a unitarian oh yes you don't believe in god it seemed to i silly that i paid uttle attention to it but recently i have see that the progress of religion in the world is hampered exceed i ingly by that erroneous idea this morning therefore to give the quietus to that lie it have taken for my subject the direct affirmation i believe in god i believe in god the continued on page {, column 1 fellowship to be awarded to a le high graduate student terms to be announced later the board of directors of the new jersey zinc company has just sent a check for 15,000 to lehigh university to found the new jersey zinc company re search fellowship in science and technology the income from this fund will be paid to the holder of the fellowship who must be a graduate student at lehigh university in some divi sion of science or engineering the conditions attached to the award of this fellowship have not yet been formulated but they will be announced at the earliest possible date this is the first fellowship of its kind to be established at l{s high university ajid it is a signi ficant contribution to the gen eral plans for a greater de high which includes the deve lopment of an institute of r|r search for the encouragement of scientific research and for the advanced training of men in the methods of research major general john a le jeun commandant of the uniti ed states marine corps ha written to president richards calling his attention to the facfl that members of the 1924 gra-s duating class may under certain conditions be eligible for ap pointment as second lieutenants in the marine corps applicai tions for such appointment should be sent to the headquar ters united states marine crps washington d c „ not late than march ist 1924 from the list of such applications a se lection of those designated td take the examinations for the commission will be made a new athletic policy was proposed at a meeting of the board of directors of the alum ni association of lehigh uni versity inc held january 11th in drown hall this took the form of a resolution which re commended the appointment of a graduate manager president c w hudson open ed the meeting by calling at tention to the fact that a sub committee had been appointed to confer with the alumni com mittee on athletics as a re sult d m petty 09 had been asked to prepare a report cov ering the present composition and functioning of th e"lehigh university athletic commitee with comment on coaching and business methods together with any suggestions as to the im proving of the quality of the athletic teams letters in re gard to this subject had been received from several of the alumni by the secretary which showed that there was a strong sentiment in favor of the sub ject of athletics being taken up by the governing board of the alumni association mr petty's report which ap-i pears in the january issue of the alumni bulletin is quoted in part we find that the reg-j ulation and organization of i the athletic committee is fully covered in the by-laws and re i solutions dated june 26th 1919 and formally adopted by the trustees on june 27th 1919 which reads the exclusive con trol and direction of all the athletic interests and contests of the university is hereby plac ed in the hands of a committee to be known as the lehigh university athletic committee the personnel of this commit tee is as follows one member of the board ofi trustees to be chosen by the j trustees the president of the univer sity the professor of physical education two additional members of the faculty two faculty mem bers together with the profes sor of physical education shall be known as the faculty mem bers four alumni five undergraduate members three to be elected in the sec ond term of each year prior to commencement by the senior junior and sophomore classes one by the college-at-large from nominees of the two up per classes and sophomore class the fifth member shall be the president of the senior class special attention should be called to the following clause this committee subject to the board of trustees and in | conference with the faculty , j shall direct the policy of the i university in all athletic mat ters and it alone shall have the power to say what teamsj and in individual contests what individuals shall represent | lehigh department of physical education the aim of the department of physical education is to in sure the health and physical de velopment of every student of the university exceptional facilities for accomplishing this aim are afforded in taylor gymnasium field house and the two playing levels of taylor field each student upon entering the university is given a physi cal examination by the depart ment and also a medical exam ination by the consulting physi cian he receives a plotted card showing his relation to the rtor uonlinued on page 4 column z start preparation for yale meet feb 16 levitz on injured list after a good rest because of the final exams the wrestling squad will resume its practice tomorrow afternoon in taylor gymnasium to all appearances the team will remain intact ex cept for levitz who is out of the running for awhile because of injuries sustained in the meet with the navy on january 26 levitz wrestled in the unlimited weight class on the brown and white team but in his bout at the navay academy he had the ligaments torn from his left shoulder the most promising candidate to succeed levitz is yeager another bit of news for those interested in wrestling is the fact that schumaker has just returned to college before leav ing he wrestled in several meets in the 158 pound class and he will undoubtedly be a strong contestant for that position on the team again this year the next meet will be on feb ruary 16 against yale at new haven tryouts for places on the team will be held . next week c e brooks manager of next year's soccer team announc es the following schedule for the coming fall : october 15 army away oc tober 25 haverford at home november 1 navy away no vember 8 perm at home no vember 16 swarthmore away december 13 lafayette away the last five presidents of the united states have been college fraternity men two were inducted into fra terntal life while students at their chosen institutions the other three educated at univer sities where chapters of nation al fraternities did not exist found time later in the midst of busy careers which reached a climax in the office of chief magistrate of the country to become honorary members of five fraternities in the persons of president and mrs calvin coolidge how ever the greek-letter world pos sesses for the first time occu pants for a fraternity and sor ority white house the quiet unassuming ver mont fanner youth who entered amherst in 1891 intent upon his studies and caring little for extra-curricular activities fail ed to attract the attention of fraternities at the massachu sttts college until he was a jun ior then he accepted one of the first bids — after his new proverbial calm consideration — from the newly-founded chapter of phi gamma delta both in and out of college he has ren dered valuable service to his fraternity grace anna goodhue cool idge is the first mistress of the white house who was a soror ity woman in college a charter number of pi beta phi at the university of vermont mrs coolidge has shown consistent interest in her sorority since her graduation in 1910 she helped organize the western massachusetts al umnae club and was its first president for three years she was a national vice-president offered an even higher position mrs coolmge was forcf d to de cline because of the official de mands made upon her as wife of the governor of massachu setts one other president joined a national fraternity while in col lege vvoodrow wilson was in ducted into the membership of phi kappa psi at the univer sity of virginia where he took a post-graduate course in law in 1881 after leaving princeton neither at harvard nor at yale have fraternities been al lowed by the authorities to take the places of eating clubs and honorary organizations of the liberal arts colleges of the two universities theodore roose velt graduated from harvard in 1880 belonged to the popular clubs and societies of his day later in the midst of his stren uous life he became a member of both delta kappa epsilon and alpha delta phi william howard taft new chief jus tice of the united states su preme court accepted honorary continued on page ■ '<. column ?.) brown and white i service in instructing directing and j i examining in life-saving work ; coach jim baldwin of the lo '• i high football today received an | ! honorable service medal from the j ! headquarters of the new england ■ '. division of the american lied cross ; '. in recognition of his splendid ser ; ! vices in life-saving work in new ; ■ hampshire and massachusetts ilur ; • ing the past two years ; ; a letter from wililam m harris ! ; director of life-saving accompanied i ; the medal it cosed with the follow ■ j ing passage this the work in ■ ! eludes the institute of 1922 and j i 1923 the harvard summer school in • i 1922 and the camps in new hamp ■ ! shire in 1923 in addition to the • '. splendid work which 1 as been kept ; • up in south dennis mass and vi ; ■ cinity ; upperclassmen save that grass support the self-aid * bureau