Brown and White Vol. 31 no. 47

              : notice ', all students who are interested ; : in politics and debating activity '• are urged to attend an informal '• i meeting in coppee hall on wed ". • nesday evening at 7.30 p m it is i ■ hoped that lchigh will take her " ; place in intercollegiate debating jj ; circles in the near future ; signed ; : r a heckert : bethlehem pa tuesday april 8 1924 gettysburg nine here tomorrow tennis squad has first cut price five cents many athletes awarded letter senior banquet a great success vol xxxi no 47 coveted l given the deserving men of swimming and wrestling teams speeches from doctor richards and many of the guests were enjoyed line-up for first carrie of season is still somewhat indefinite notice ■ thn railroad society will hold i its regular monthly meeting on prl ; • day april 11 at 8 p m in tbo : ; physics lecture room mr j t : ; anthony vice president of the \ ; american arch company will be '• i the speaker of the evening and he • '. will deliver an illustrated address j ; on fundamentals of locomotive ; ! boiler design ; assistant managers resurface the courts in preparation for first match hospital releases mercur managers are also elected lehigh six entertained lacrosse team wins first gam initial appearance discloses splen did prospects ahead for a good season m'bride packenham star eminent chemist gives illuminat ing talk on creative chemistry college enjoys dr.slosson'stalk lecture is well attended great program for house party cotillion prom and college dance committees are very busy many sports that week-end as it has been previously an nounced the spring house party will commence on thurs day may 1 and run through till sunday may 4 the program decided upon is as follows thursday night the sophomore cotillion friday af ternoon a tea at sigma phi place friday night the junior prom saturday afternoon a tennis match with f and m a lacrosse game with swarthmore and a baseball game with west virginia these athletic events should please the most discrimi nating on saturday night there will be a college dance in drown hall some of the houses will run dinner dances but no defin ite plans have been arranged as to the date of them the house party this year should be one of the best held at lehigh in many years with splendid music beautiful girls and good athletic events there is little left to be desired the committee for the cotil lion will be davis bond merrill rigg and btinzer the prom committee consists of bob tay lor chairman rusa lee ed jones porter langfitt and ted burke the interfratnerity dance committee is dick buck and bob allen the college dance will be taken care of by jim degnan and mitchell students select profs and courses the aspirants for the 1924 tennis team may be seen daily practicing on the court on the basketball court or in camp coppe there are many hin drances in both places but the light seems to be the worst of all manager donaldson how ever reports that the univer sity courts will soon be ready for use due to the fact that no skilled laborers could be em ployed to put the courts into condition the candidates for assistant managership have been working with much enthusiasm to have the court ready for use by the middle of the week they have already graded leveled and put a new clay surface on the courts this work combined with sunday's rain should make the courts in a-l condition for the first match of the season next saturday against the phil adelphia college of osteopathy fritz mercur the out standing star of last year's team is now out of the hospital where he has been confined with scarlet fever but it has not been definitely decided whether or not he will be able to play in the first match his long con finement to bed has weakened him considerably and he is therefore under a great handi cap captain koegler and law all two veterans of last year's learn have also been practicing diligently on the indoor courts and seem to be ready to take to the outdoor courts at any time now the rest of the team will be selected from the following members of the squaud : crox ion dietz doty eckstein frauenheim hewson hoag land kirkwood mcfadden mil ler phillips ridsdale rogers trumbull van dyke and wentz those men whose names do not appear on the list and who feel they have not had a suffi ciently fair tryout will hand their names to manager don aldson or will see him personal ly at the earliest possible con venience diamond is in fair shape despite all the hard knocks the incelement weather has dealt to the baseball team coach baldwin fully expects to see a hard fighting bunch of ball artists go out on the field to meet the gettysburg nine to morrow afternoon the unex pected snow gave every sport a hard handicap to overcome and as a result the intei-class track meet was postponed till a later date not to be daunted though jim baldwin has been working on his squad with all the avail able time he could muster u]i and with that and the training received earlier in the season he is bound to put a good combi nation on the diamond as yet he has refused to divulge any one line-up of players saying that all of the squad are equally good that is very promising and the prospects for a hard hitting aggregation are exceed ingly prosperous with the diamond in good condition a very good game will be witnessed for gettysburg puts out as good a team of ball artists as one of grid warriors which she sends up here an nually the ursinus game which was supposed to ha\a been played but as was mentioned before was cancelled dire to weather conditions should have given the coach and student body a fair line on the out standing players for the com ing season and also establish ed a line-up for tomorrow's fray but unfortunately the boys will have to enter a much harder contest with only the practice games of a few weeks ago and the first part of this week to re ly upon this position while somewhat precarious will un doubtedly be fixed up in the course of a few innings the battery which will oppose the gettysbui-g nine has not yet been determined but it is the general opinion that either adams or dußois will start in the box with pryor aa the man behind the plate the rest of the line-up being still very vagu athletic committee draws up new football rules 1925 epitome will be ready by may 1 field instead of forty-yard line kick-off to take place at mid at the recent meeting of the intercollegiate athletic commit tee several modifications and changes were made in the foot ball rules for this coming sea son among the most important changes was in the kickoff which is to take place at mid field instead of at the forty-yard line as heretofore also there may be no artifical tees of any kind in placing the ball fo,r kick off or place kicks after a touchdown the ball is to be placed on the three-yard line instead of the five-yard line as heretofore in the try for tne extra point another change is cited in the forward pass which if it touches an ineligible player and is recovered may be con tinued and the penalty declined 2 scholarships offered by school of little theatre this issue will be especially valuable as a souvenir in future years the 1925 epitome although it received several delays in xna course of its make-up is now in the hands of the printer and will be ready for circulation around the first of may the year book has several features which will make it exceptionally valuable especially as a remembrance in the years to come however the board needs the support of the entire student body and it is hoped that the various clubs will be prompt in paying the debts which they have contract ed in obtaining space in the pub lication all payments should be made to l brewster kingham who is business manager in the competition for the business staff of the 1926 epitome the following men have been elect ed h j henke 26 business manager s louis huyette 26 assistant business manager and h v schwimmer 26 circula tion manager heroes memorial road a road of remembrance in honor of 38 boys of turner county south dakota in the world war has been started by the woman's club of cen terville s d with the planting of memorial trees which have just been registered on the honor roll of the american tree assoqiation at wash ington n c the senior banquet of the class of 1924 was held last thursday evening at the hotel bethlehem the affair was pro claimed a great success in every way those who attended the function were pleased with the program which had been ar ranged by the banquet commit tee the only fact that marred the evening was the absence of some of the seniors and several of the guests who were unable to be present the banquet committee of the senior class which was re sponsible for the excellent pro gram that was prepared was composed of the following mem bers of the class richard j bucks robert h allan james t degnan eldrige e quinlan ruel d warriner dick buck served as chairman of this com mittee it was under his com petent direction that the com mittee carried on its work in preparation for the celebration the class officers john f rog ers president alwine j hot tinger vice president edgar t adams secretary thomas g conley treasurer and carrol b grace sergeant-at-arms were of material assistance in the ex ecution of the plans the banquet was pleasing in an intellectual way as well as to the tastes the committee had arranged to have four speakers dr c r richards dr neal carrothers dr h s drinker and professor p m palmer un fortunately professor palmer was unable to attend because of illness and dr drinker was al so detained dr richards spoke to the seniors of the changes that would come into their lives when college days were left be hind he mentioned responsi bilities that they would have to assume and suggested many things that would be of aid to the men contact with the uni versity should be maintained at all costs dr richards urged that the men as they become alumni should support the uni versity in all respects dr car rothers who is head of the busi ness department gave the sen iors advice as to conduct in the business world he touched up on the subject of the college man and modern practice pro fessor james baldwin express ed his earnest regret that the class of 1924 would soon be lost to lehigh as students he prais ed the class for its activities es pecially in athletics jim spoke of his intimacy with many members of the seniors and the unfortunate fact that personal contact with the class would soon be lost professor howard r reiter head of the depart ment of physical education was also one of the speakers his theme was physical perfec tion as the basis for an active mentality he recalled the old adage that a sound body means a sound mind since men go to college primarily to receive knowledge it is only reasonable that a firm foundation for this should be formed by the culti vation of a fit body the two are so closely intertwined that the training of one without the other is to invite an unpleas ant future freddie rogers the presi dent of the class acted as toast master for the occasion the lehigh six furnished music and the whole affair was such a success that it has gone far to ward accomplishing the motto adopted let this banquet mark not the end of the friendships form ed during these last four years but a beginning of that spirit which shall keep our class in unity throughout life entire control of new school will pass eventually to student body successful results are report ed by the secretary of the new school of social research con ducted for adults in new york city in which the students con trol their courses and select their own professors after gain ing experience by taking charge of individual courses it is ex pected that eventually the stu dents will run the school com pletely large numbers of teachers and lecturers have been attract ed to the classrooms by this novel experiment in student government and in some of the courses such as dr kallen's on beauty and use members of the class include artists actors sculptors writers and students of philosophy more than half of the students hold college de grees the school is under the charge of a group of adminis trative officials who are prepar ed to turn over the control to the students after they have gained sufficient experience it is expected that the students will elect the present officials into office but it will be left en tirely to their choice a course in nineteenth cen tury thought has just been voted upon favorably as well as the day and hour on which it will be held a course on the drama of nations given by henry wadsworth longfellow dana a nephew of the poet is one of the school's features scandinavian russian jewish and the drama of nearly every other nation is taken up x one continued on page 4 column 2 the lacrosse season opened on the upper field last satur day afternoon with a victory for the lehigh wielders of the sticks the score t the end of the first half stood at 5 to 0 and at the end of the game the home team had added seven more points to their lead the new york lacrosse club did not succeed in obtaining a sin gle goal and the visitors at no part in the game threatened the home goal the lehigh team was serious ly handicapped through lack of practice during the last week owing to the inclemency of the weather which rendered the field unfit for use saturday af ternoon was the first real scrim mage that the team had had und also the first time the team liad played together as a team in earnest excellent team work was displayed throughout the game however and mistakes were few the new york team seemed to lack condition and team play although a few of th gothani ites displayed undoubted ability the playing of the home team stood out and although there were few starring elements the twelve as a whole played excep tionally well gronner as second defense made some excel lent close quarter plays sch wimmer at goal seemed to have the guarding of that position developed to a science paken ham and mcßride played well and broke through the oppon ents defense for three and four goals respectively smith mit chell and able also succeeded in reaching the goal captain able can well oe proud of the showing his men made on the field in the first game with practice this week the team should be able to give the rutgers team an excellent scrap this coming saturday the line-up follows lehigh new york l c sehwimmer .... goal .... diffenbeck gruhn point ferin mekenzie .. . cover point .... sthran maxwell . . . first attack . . . wiggins abel second attack pisk buck third attack mylod mcßride center rutberg jones third defense scale groner . . . second defense kels mitchell .. . first defense ray smith out home . . . thompson pakenham .... in home geyer goals — pakenham 3 mcßride 4 smith 2 abel mitchel 2 substitu tion—for new york thralls bald win referee — smullin perm time of halves — 30 minutes your roommate picking a roommate is almost as important as getting married a man selecting a wife is pick ing a person who is to live with him if all goes well for the rest of his life a man's wife cannot but have an important influence on his life many a wife makes or breaks her husband the dif ference with the roommate is one of duration he need not last more than a year and rela tions may be broken off at most any time without going to the divorce court as in the case of a wife however the roommate is an important factor in the life of any man some men look back and say if it hadn't been for jack i don't believe i could have kept straight for four years — univ of del review letters were awarded to members of the swimming and wrestling teams and managers elected in those sports for next year at thursday's meeting of the athletic committee j h croll 25 was elected manager of basketball for the 1924-1925 season the follow ing men received the regulation l for wrestling warriner captain hottinger beck wil liamson reynolds burke le vitz rogers and washburn r d warriner received the major l for winning a first in the intercollegiates after a lengthy discussion it was decided that wrestling should be made a ma jor sport and that the matter of large l's be made to apply to the men receiving the award this year harry gihon 24 was awarded a large l and a special vote of thanks was awarded him for his excellent services rendered the freshmen wrestling this past season up on the recommendation of a j hottinger the following men representing the undefeated freshmen wrestling team re ceived their numerals reed kent lewis long vrown keller evans and jacobs the question of gold basket balls for the men receiving their letters in basketball was recon sidered and the motion of last meeting was descinded so that the men eligible will now bs awarded gold basketballs e f scheetz and a b sayre were awarded their letters for their services as managers of the basketball teams swimming letters were awarded to f s astarita cap tain w w york manager j l childs r a freeman f g travis f a raleigh r w richards t h reed and r d child h b dietrich a f long and d p hogland for their ser vices to the swimming team raleigh received a large l for winning the back stroke in the eastern collegiate swimming association meet at new bruns wick the report of w w york concerning the raising of the standard of awarding letters to the swimmers was accepted and adopted the new ruling states that men to receive their letters must have earned at last ten points in dual meets and second that he must have competed in two-thirds of all the meets in which his event was scheduled the large l is to be awarded only when the team succeeds in winning the intercollegiate championship of the e c s a either in the dual meets or in the final intercollegiate com petition r l davis 25 was elected swimming manager for the coming year the freshmen football sched ule for next season was rati fied with the exception of al lentown prep and baiayette games the latter was intended to be played the morning of the varsity game the , ratified schedule is as follows oct 4 wyoming seminary away oct 11 open oct 18 rutgers freshmen away oct 25 blair academy home nov 1 baltimore city col lege freshmen home nov 8 mercersburg acade my away a vote of thanks was extend ed to r l lewis for his services in securing the steel field for next year and his interest and generosity shown in the fresh men wrestling team friday morning in drown hall dr edwin e slosson gave a well attended talk on crea tive chemistry he presented his subject in such a manner that all present could not fail to benefit by the information im parted for besides presenting his subject in a clear cut man ner dr slosson had a way of bringing in the humorous side of chemistry making the talk enjoyable to all this emminent chemist has also written a book called cre ative chemistry written es pecially for the layman which assumes no previous knowledge of the subject it describes in plain language the modern pro cesses of chemical industries in vivid and entertaining style ex plains the political and social effects of the achievements of the present day chemist dr frank crane says of this book : it is tremenduous it is an epoch it is transformed to fairies the reason is easy to see slosson has imagination hence he does not stupefy the writer with what he knows his reader can not grasp as do most authors of scientific books it is a book to own to mark and to read aloud to the family dr slosson began his talk by explaining that chemistry is a basic science and one that is greatly dependent on books be ing unlike other sciences in this respect chemistry was then ex plained as being either destruc tive or constructive the former being in analitical chemistry where compounds are taken apart and the latter being when compounds found in nature are duplicated as well as developing many new compounds it is with this latter method that the lecture was based on an important thing found in nature and which has been du plicated by a chemical process is what is known as artificial silk this is made from cellulose and has many advantages over the silk obtained from the cacoon among these advantages is its susceptibility to dyes making it possible to manufacture varied colored cloth which is due to the receptivity of the fibres al so these fibres are entirely in dependent of length being made as long as 3000 yards at the present time over half of the silks used in this country are ar tificial it being found to be much more economical and ai the same time making the in dustry in this countiy independ ent of outside resources how ever there has been found one disadvantage with these artifi cial silk and that is failure # to withstand wet weather this is of course of no danger unless one should be caught in a show er when the consequences are held in doubt another chemical product de scribed was that of artificial fur this method of making fur is not as yet practical but is an excellent illustration of the extent of chemistry then there continued on pui/r ». coin in it (!) the gloucester school of the little theatre gloucester mass is offering two scholar ships to undergraduates of am erican schools and colleges for its fifth summer session july and august of 1924 in their little theatre a pic turesque old wharf building nestling among the shipyards and studios the gloucester players last summer produced almost thirty plays which mi i continued on page 3 column it brown and white l l , ....! calendar j tuesday i brown and white meeting !| drown hall 12.00 noon j mustard and cheese cast rehear j i sol drown hall 4 i m wednesday ! wrestling team banquet hotel ; : bethlehem 6.30 p m s mustard and cheese chorus ro '. |! heursal drown hall 7.30 p m • glee club rehearsal drown hall > ; 7.30 p m ; thursday junior class banquet ; mustard and cheese rehearsal | ; cast and chorus drown hall 7.30 ; n p m j '....... t i , let's get behind the ball team tomorrow fraternities clubs and classes pay your epitome debt