Brown and White Vol. 4 no. 29

              l u c a the christian association meet ing sunday evening will be con ducted by mr f 11 norton the general secretary of the bethlehem association he will speak on the " work and isteeds of the state every man in college is invited to hear mr norton and enjoy good hearty singing at 6.15 p m the hockey team practiced twice yesterday at knickerbocker pond and several new men came out of whom agnew a canadian player was the most promising orton and phymister of the old men are putting up the best game it has practically been settled that the team will play a game with columbia university on the 26th of february the pennsylvania williams hall the new science building of the university of ver mont is now ready for use it is the gift of dr edward h wil liams of philadelphia and cost 60,000 the editor in-chief of the lan tern the organ published by the students of the state university of ohio has been expelled from that institution on account of an edi torial censuring the members of the faculty for non-attendance at chapel exercises baseball notes just as soon as the second term opens captain gannon of the base ball team will post a notice re quiring all candidates for the team to attend the special gymnasium drills which will begin on mon day feb 8 with several years experience the athletic committee has decided that the fine condition of the teams and their good show ing when they take the field in the early spring practice is largely due to these drills the drills as given by mr smith train the men to such a degree that all signs of stiffness or soreness of the muscles are absent when outdoor work be gins much will depend on the interest taken in this preliminary work as captain gannon an nounces that only those who at tend regularly will be considered candidates for the southern trip the cage work will not begin until the arrival of coach bannon about march 23 when the battery candidates will start work and the men trying for the field a short time later many changes will occur this season which cannot help but be decided improvements possibly the most important will be the new diamond ; this means better fielding from the men and also does away with the trouble and time lost in going to rittersville for practice another improvement will be a regular organized scrub in charge of mr smith as captain and the assistant manager games away from home will be arranged be sides other inducements which it is hoped will be sufficient attrac tion to the men so that they will play regularly this means that after a preliminary practice the scrub aided by a varsity battery will play a regular practice game with the first team a change which cannot but be a most decided im provement still another change which will be tried this year is doing away with the training table this has been a big factor in the expense account and this step is therefore rendered necessary this year taking into consideration the improve ments to the field from the following list it will be noticed that all the games will not be with minor college teams manager white only announces these two games will be played with princeton the first here on april 28 and the second at prince ton on may 5 with yale we will have but one game and that will be played at new haven may 26 it is possible that the two games with university of pennsylvania will have to be changed ; the game to be played in philadelphia was scheduled for april 24 but since arranging this date the relay races at university of pennsylva nia have been announced for that day and as they interfere the ball lehigh club dinner arrangements have been nearly completed for the dinner to be given to dr paul j dashiell at the hotel savoy on jan 30 from present indications the affair will be a great success in every particular all of the members of the committee on revision of rules of which committee dr dashiell is a member will surely be present besides several others of note in the football and athletic world as yet only a few undergraduates have signified their intention of attending and those who expect to go and have not notified the secretary should do so at once all undergraduates who attend this dinner will be assured a pleasant evening the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa thursday january 21 1897 yoi iv no 29 calendar thursday jan 21 — meeting of agora saucon hall 7.30 p m saturday jan 23 — examinations begin at 8.30 a m sunday jan 24 — meeting of christian association christ mas hall 6.15 p m friday jan 29 — first term ends monday feb 1 ) examinations tuesday feb 2 j for admission wednesday feb 3 ) tosecondterm thursday feb 4 — second term begins notice the time for handing in orations for the junior oratorical contest to be held on washington's birth day is extended to feb 4 at noon games will probably be transferred the second game was to have been played here on may 12 dickin son will play here on may 8 satisfactory dates cannot be ar ranged with cornell so there will probably be no games the south ern trip is as announced a few weeks ago lafayette's manager was in town last week after games with le high but as he could not satisfy manager white that the agree ment would not be broken no games were arranged and lehigh will keep no open dates for possible games with lafayette the guarantees received from games to be played away from home should cover the expenses of all the trips so that the question of a successful financial season rests upon the support which the team receives from its games at home philadelphia lehigh club the annual meeting of the philadelphia lehigh club will be held at the hotel walton broad and locust streets on january 22 at 8 p m instead of the usual dinner the meeting will be followed by a smoker at which a collation will be served last year one hundred and six teen men attended the dinner it is hoped the informality of a smoker will constitute an agree able innovation and that the club will turn out in force again this year dr drown will look in on us during the course of the even ing the charge will be 1.50 each please reply by inclosed postal at your earliest convenience there will be no meeting of the club on the 14th inst frank p howe 78 henry s drinker 71 caspar w haines william d beatty 88 ii toul min 89 e n wigfall 95 wil liam warr 95 alban bavenson 91 secretary committee forum debate tlie regular bi-weekly meeting of the forum was called to order by president starkey on tuesday evening jan 9 at 7.30 o'clock in saucon hall frisby 98 was announced as the extemporaneous speaker of the evening,the question being/should football be abolished from college athletics the program for the meeting on feb 9 was announced given below : essay gill 1900 eesume of national affairs bailey 99 recitation padgett 99 criticism of previous meeting kneas 98 debate — question resolved that vivi section should be prohibited by law speakers on affirmative griswold 97 and w e magic 1900 negative kodjbanoff 98 and simmers 1900 meaker 99 was appointed as a committee of one to confer with a committee from the agora on the matter of inserting cuts of the debaters m the lehigh-lafayette debate in the epitome each year the program of the evening was opened by a recitation on " tacitus as a historian by y 11 reid 99 criticism of the previous meeting by gratz 98 was followed by an extemporaneous speech from fris by 98 the debate on the ques tion " resolved that labor unions are a benefit to the workingman was opened by benedict 99 for the affirmative he was followed by paddock 98 the first speaker on the negative the other speakers being j j brice 1900 for ihe affirmative and kitchell 1900 on the negative the question was summed up in the rebuttals by paddock and benedict although several good arguments were ad vanced by each side the ques tion was far from exhausted as evinced by the spirited discus sion by the audience which fol lowed a vote of the audience on the merits of the question revealed a large majority in favor of the negative after a resume of the events of the past week by birch 99 the decision of the judges ohilds 98 palmer and meaker 99 was heard in favor of the affirmative two to one the time of subsequent meetings will be 7 p m instead of 7.30 97 class book the committee would urge upbts every member of the class who has not fully decided to subscribe to the class book the immediate ne cessity of so doing as from trie list of subscribers will be determined the form and price of the book if a copy is desired by any per son not a member of the class he will greatly oblige the committee by handing his name to one of the members of the committee before february 15 as after that time there will positively be no extra copies ordered arrangements will be made for the taking of photographs during the vacation so as to interfere as little as possible with college work a list of the names with the time specified for each will be posted in packer hall at the beginning of next week it is desired that every one report at his stated time but if it interferes with any previous arangements he is requested to exchange periods with another member of the class a deposit of 3 will be required from each subscriber payable on jan 28 this money to cover inci dental expenses since the getting up of a class book is not a money making scheme the committee does not feel they are called upon to levy this outlay upon themselves