Brown and White Vol. 31 no. 46

              notice all men on the wrestling : • squad are requested to turn in all '. • equipment to pete koquel im j • mediately it is necessary to have i ; all equipment in before letters will j ; be awarded to the team vol xxxi no 46 tennis practice still indoors racquet wielders practice daily in spite of obstacles encountered three plays by faculty club fritz mercur in hospital ass'n rich in talent sixth annual production of fac ulty dramatic society to be given in may alumni buliding nearly finished l c elliott jr wins fretz fencing cup y cabinet holds first meeting new number out today probable date of banquet decided as april 7th if hotel is secured conference in washington burr elects new members mr h s leech reference libra rian at princton to assume charge at lehigh price ftve cents new librarian comes in july notice j all candidates for cheer leaders ; ! report in the trophy room on • • tuesday april 8 at 4 p m silver bay conference is chief topic of new cabinet's initial meet nearly all uncompleted work is on interior and should be finished soon to contain all offices a very important meeting of ihe entire burr board was held in the brown and white room in drown hall wednesday night the principal object of the meeting was to decide on a suitable date for the annual banquet the date which was found to be most suitable was monday april 7 it is planned to hold the banquet in the park hotel of hellertown and if it is possible to secure the hotel for this date the banquet will be held there there were two other import ant items discussed the first was the election of new mem bers to the art and editorial staffs g..w hopkins art edi tor recommended vv k stauf fer 25 and w cannon jr 27 for the art staff and both men were elected by the board e t adams editor-in-chief recommended d s macfadden 27 27 j a covert 27 ; j j frey 27 r h dalgleish 26 e a curtis 25 ; r w ross 25 and all six men were elected to the editorial staff the lipstick number was published today and the next number which will be the house party number will probably be published in time for the spring house party this will be the last issue which will be published by the present staif although the men who will be lost by graduation will assist the new staff in editing the next number the lehigh faculty drama tic association will give its sixth annual performance in drown hall on may 9 at 8.15 p m this year's production prom ises the best that has ever been produced by the faculty the association is richer in members and talent than ever before and three exceptionally strong and interesting plays will be pre sented at the present time sub scribers of previous years are being solicited for ticket sub scriptions the price of tickets will be 1.00 and may be secured from professor parke b fraim general admission will be sold at the door at 1.00 per seat mr collins to co a ch panchita the development of the ten nis squad is being carried on as rapidly as possible on the in door court the inclement weather has been a great detri ment to the progress of the team this week daily work-outs are being held throughout the after noon in order that the candi dates can be selected on their ability the first cut in the squad has not yet been made but will take place in the near future the space available for indoor practice is limited to the basket ball court in the lower gymna sium and the ancient camp coppee this playing space is very unsatisfactox*y for several r . asons the most obvious de fect is the poor lighting facili ties great difficulty is experi enced in locating balls because of the stands that surround the court in spite of these obstac les the practice is going forward with reasonable rapidity some very excellent material i available this year the great est hardship is the loss of fritz mercur ; for at least the early part of the season at present he is confined at st luke's hos pital with scarlet fever but is rapidly regaining his health the loss of the number one player is severe but it is prob sble that mercur will get into form before the close of the sea son dr carothers who is gen erously offering his services to i)ie team together with captain koegler is supervising the prac tice manager donaldson has been endeavoring to put the outside courts in shape but the weath er has been so unfavorable that much time has been lost the clay surface was partially spread when the snow made it impossible to continue opera tions the poor indoor facilities make it imperative that the out door courts be prepared as soon as possible if present plans can be carried out they will be ready for use next week the lirst match is to be played here on the 12th of april with the philadelphia college of osteo pathy and the courts should be in perfect condition for the event inter-class track meet postponed mr harris says farewell the cabinet of the y m c a for the ensuing year held its first meeting last saturday af ternoon in the cabinet room drown hall it served principal ly as an organization meeting that is it was merely for the purpose of the members of the cabinet to become acquainted with one another mr harris who has resigned as secretary of the local organization gave a short address expressing his regret that it was necessary for him to leave and thanking the students for their splendid co operation and interest in the organization during his term as secretary d p hoagland jr 24 who now holds the position as secretary of the y m c a temporarily also gave a short address thanking mr harris in behalf of the students for his excellent work during the past two years hoagland will be in the y m c a office in drown hall every afternoon for the re mainder of the term and any student is welcome to call at the office any time to see him the members of the new cabinet are as follows president a l bayles 25 vice-president r l davis 25 secretai-y f g travis 26 treasurer w b wardell 25 the chairmen of continued on page z column i lacrosse squad hampered by weather defeats all contestants on up per floor of taylor gym tuesday afternoon lewis c elliott jr 26 won the harry fretz fencing cup tuesday afternoon on the upper floor of taylor gymnasium when he defeated all the con testants for this prize this cup donated by porf fretz of the geology depai-tment carries with it the fencing champion ship of lehigh universty in ad dition to the title and the cup elliot received a gonl medal j b austin 25 placed second and f h lovell 27 third in j the contest the former receiv ing the silver medal the latter a bronze medal at the same time a novice contest was run off the winner lovell won a gold medal when he defeated mcln tyre in the finals in the preliminary bouts which were held friday of last week the field of ten contestants was reduced to four eliott aus tin lovell and nichols — who staged a round robin series el liott defeated his three oppon ents while austin lost only to elliott lovell defeated nichols while the latter failed to win a bout the results of the round robin are as follows elliott defeated nichols 11-5 ; elliott defeated lovell 4-2 el liott defeated austin 12-7 aus tin defeated lovell 6-5 austin defeated nichols 10-3 lovell defeated nichols 10-4 the score of the final bout of the novice tournament in which lovell defeated mclntyre was 6-5 c h behr referred the bouts fay bartlett and peter boquel were judges timer was f t martin by request of the citizens committee of one thousand for law enforcement dean mc conn will attend a college and university students conference at washington d c on sat urday and sunday the purpose of the conference is to discuss law enforcement particularly the volstead act as student re presentative of lehigh fred rogers will also attend at the request of this committee through president richards the committee is of interest to le high students because bishop ethelbert talbot and governor pinchot are two of the vice chairmen of it a detailed ac count of the discussions and conferences will be given by dean mcconn and fred rogers it some future college meeting president richards announced a few days ago that mr howard s leech reference librarian at p : i'ceton university will be come librarian here at lehigh beginning july ist his job will be permanent and his pur pose will be to revise the shelves mid p rouse greater interest in the library as a centre for stu dents mr leech has the degree of a b at wesleyan in 1913 ahd the degree of a m at princeton in 1915 he has pub lished several things of special juterest to librarians and users of libraries and has obtained a great deal of experience while at princeton his latest work has been along reference lines in which he is a specialist dur ing the war mr leech obtained much of his library training ser ving with the u s camp li brary service it is felt by the faculty that the books and ar rangement of the present li brary are slightly behind time and so the task of re-catalog ing and stocking-up will be placed entirely in the hands of mr leech the aim of president rich ards and dean mcconn is to make the library an important university centre and for this reason mr leech was selected president richards also spent a few days in philadelphia last week conferring with the chair man of the budget committee of lehigh in order to straighten out the many difficulties which have been mounting up since the new administration began notice combined musical clubs to give a concert trackmen were seriously handi capped by snowstorm but are practicing indoors the inter-class track meet which was scheduled for this friday and saturday has been postponed because of the weath er if possible the meet will be held on monday and tuesday of next week it is very important that these tryouts be held be cause it is on the work done in this meet that the team which will represent the brown and white in the meet with dick inson on april 12 will be seleu ed the track and field men had been practicing daily until the snow storm and were handi capped by the poor condition of the track and field during the past few days the men worked out under the north stand or in the upper gymnasium and but little progress in getting into shape could be made under these conditions all men are eligible to take part in the inter-class meet and are urged to come out for the team the seniors with captain carol springsteen sanford and roth are the favorites the juniors however will be able to give some strong opposition in the persons of siegmund croll astarita walker porter beggs and tyler the three plays which will be presented will be the trysting place by booth tarkiiigton he by eugene g o'neill and sham by frank g tomkins the characters will be as fol lows sham seene — private resident el husband and wife charles the husband .. mr perkins clara the wife miss frances hiekey the thief mr arthur klein reporter mr convers lie seene — the cabin of a whaling steamer in the arctic regions ben the cabin boy mr morris kanaly steward mr perkins capt keeney mr parke fraim slocum the second mate mr w a lambert mrs keeney mrs r h chance joe the harpooner mr behre members of the crew are to he se lected in the near future the trysting place seene — inside of summer hotel mrs briggs mrs okeson launeclot briggs mr j h toohy jessie briggs . mrs stanley thomas mr ingolsby mr w a lambert mrs curtis mrs 11 c bull dr slosson to speak at joint meet tonight prominent scientist will deliver address on economic independence the economic independence of the united states will be dis cussed by dr edwin e slosson before a joint meeting of the le high valley section of the am erican chemical society and the lehigh university chemical society at drown hall to-night at 8 p m dr slosson received his bach elor's degree from the univer sity of kansas in 1890 and his doctorate from the university of chicago in 1902 he occupied the postions of professor of chemistry and chemist for the agricultural experimental sta tion at the university of wyom ing from 1891 to 1903 from 1903 to 1920 he was literary edi tor of the independent since that time he has been the direc tor of science service in wash ington dr slosson is probably best known through his book crea tive chemistry this is the best book written on the subject of chemistry which gives to the lay reader an understanding and appreciation of chemistry dr slosson is equally incomparable as an author and as an orator he brings his message home with a conviction and masterful ness which admit of no dispute his frequent flashes of pointed humor add a piquancy to his lectures that taken all together have made him the most sought scientist-lecturer in the country at the present time seminary room three papers to be read on subjects of interest — elec tions will be held the mechanical society will hold its regular monthly meet ing this evening in the physics lecture room there will be three student speakers each of whom will give a brief talk on a feature of mechanical engi neering work with which he is familiar and which is of general interest a l bayles will speak on the subject of the manufac ture of pipe a s king will des cribe the buildings of the giant dirigible zr-1 at lakehurst n j and d s bell will give a re view of some late contribution to engineering literature in addition to the regular meeting the annual election of officers of the society will be held this evening at the con clusion of the meeting refresh ments will be served in the the building is to be used en tirely for administrative and alumni purposes the supply bu reau will be moved from its present quarters in drown hall the new administration building is rapidly nearing com pletion and is quickly becoming ii reality and ceasing to be a dream the contractors have promised to finish in may and from the progress of the work up to the present time this does not seem at all impossible the building is practically completed with the exception of the inter ior finishing and the ground and approach work there is also an average of ten feet to be added 1o the tower the interior work is proceeding at a very satisfac tory rate and since the heating system is now connected to the heating plant weather condi tions will not interfere with this phase of the work practi cally all the plumbing and wir ing is finished and the contracts for the fixtures and mantels will be awarded this week so that these items will be completed be fore alumni day which will be june 7 the 1923 memorial mantel which is to be erected in the alumni room is not fin ished as yet but it is now being manufactured in new york and will soon be set up as yet no clock nor chimes have been or dered and it may be sometime before they are installed it is hoped that some class or indi vidual will give these continued on page 7 column .'/) student papers feature m e meet tonight men desiring pictures of the class of 1925 can order same from w b wardell the price of one dollar 1.00 per pic ture must be paid with the or der will close successful season with entertainment in south side high school the combined musical clubs are now prepared to give their first appearance this season in bethlehem and at present every thing is highly in favor of a hundred percent perforcance to date the clubs have had a most successful season and from their past performances this year have proved to have the best organization of the past eight years this point is again strengthened when the clubs re ceived a return engagement at york next season the lehigh organization being given prefer ence to the other six college clubs who made their appear ance in the above city this year the members of the club are lodking for a strong backing of the student body and assure every one that they will be well rewarded for their co-opera tion the performance will be held on the evening of april 11 at 7.45 in the south side high school tickets are now on sale and from all reports are being dispersed of rapidly mustard and cheese secures services of eminent pro ducer and actor panchita this year's offer ing of the mustard and cheese club will be produced under the personal direction of mr thom as collins of new york this selection was made last week when it was learned that the club's former coach mr william h lynn was engaged to play a leading role in mr battling butler which is now playing at the selwyn theatre in new york the mustard and cheese are unusually fortunate in securing the the services of mr collins as their coach he has devoted twenty years of his life to the professional stage in the capaci ty of stage director and has been affiliated with such man agements as charles frohman charles b dillingham klaw and erlanger and george led erer besides being well versed in the mechanical and producing sides of the stage mr collins has played comedy parts in sev eral broadway hits such suc cesses as the riviera girl so long letty la la lu cille the arcadians ma dam sherry oh look an gel face and others have en joyed mr collin's services mr collins arrival in bethle hem this week will mark the start of an intensive rehearsal period in preparation for the showing of panchita at the kurtz theatre on april 28 poor conditions of upper field and limited space prove to be serious handicaps the brown and white stick men have been materially ham pered by the weather and as a result are not in the best condi tion to start off their season on saturday against the strong team of the new york la crosse club in fact there is a possibility that the game will not be played because of the condi tion of the field which suffered under the heavy snow of a few days ago this also made it im possible for the team to have scrimmage and to date they have not teen able to work to gether the upper field has been shared with the baseball squad which has allowed only a limited space for the regulars however there has been a large squad reporting and they have shown a great amount of inter est in the sport with which coach o'neill is connected the unfavorable spring weather is also unfortunate as the team should get in a little more prac tice before they meet the rut gers stickmen from new bruns wick a game which is extremely important brown and white new alumni building bethlehem pa friday april 4 1924 calendar friday • 6.30 p m j dinner and meeting of the lohigh j ii and lafayette chapters of phi ■ • beta kappa at easton ; • saturday 2.00 p m ■ lacrosse game with n y la ; « crosse club upper field 1 3.30 p m ; baseball game with ursinus " ; interclass track meet i : 6.30 p m : : senior banquet hotel bethlehem • monday 4.00 p m : mustard anil cheese cast re • i hersal ; tuesday 12.00 noon brown and white hoard meet ; i ing : ; 4.00 p m ; mustard and cheese cast re * ; hersal '• ; • depend on conditions of hold • freshman observe your regulations think over that silver bay conference