Brown and White Vol. 4 no. 1

              an election to fill the positions of manager and assistant manager of the baseball and lacrosse teams will be held in christmas hall on tuesday sept 29 from 11,30 a m to 1 p m following is a list of the nomi nees : for manager baseball — g c white t b sheaffer and ii s johnson 97 for assistant — t b wood jr d w eoper and d f b shepp 98 for manager lacrosse — c c dunnells h t irwin and w b brady 97 for assistant — c b warren j b lindsey and j j eckfeldt 98 in order to vote it is necessary to first become a member of the athletic association by the payment of this term's dues amounting to 8 to mr g b lmderman treas urer of the association or to his representative mr williamson the corps of instructors in the electrical engineering department has been increased to lour by the addition of mr eobt b william son mr williamson graduated at the head of the class at cornell in 93 he was engaged for the following two years in general con struction work and for the last fourteen months has been employed in the designing room of the gen eral electric company's shops at petersburg canada his principal work here will be with the seniors a commission of new england college professors met in boston last july to consider plans for hav ing a uniform system of college examinations eesolutions were adopted favoring the plan cornell will no longer make latin and greek requisite for the degree of a b columbia appropriates 43,000 yearly towards increasing the li brary harvard spends 17,000 and yale 7,000 foot ball candidates for this year's team have been practicing twice daily since sept 14 and coach morris expects to put a good team on the field the line is somewhat light but there is some heavy material in the incoming class the prac tice consisted of catching punts falling on the ball and the ordin ary plays as well as tackling the " dummy in the gymnasium the first line-up took place yesterday the following are candidates for the team : full back holderness 99 fu git 1900 brady 97 white 1900 and pflueger 98 quarter back — holderness 99 gass 98 white 1900 and thurs ton 99 half back — boyt 97 howard 97 van duyne 97 pflueger 98 sanchez 98 and thurston 99 linemen — scovil 98 rogers 1900 beoerra 98 hannum 99 homer 98 treichler 97 slade 97 chiles 97 gass 98 ross 1900 scott special mccarthy 1900 barager 1900 fugit 1900 and belden p g manager saltzman has arranged the following schedule of games : oct 10 princeton at princeton " 17 pennsylvania at philadelphia " 24 brown at providence " 28 rutgers at south bethlehem " 31 university of michigan at detroit nov 7 lafayette at easton " 14 naval academy at annapolis " 21 lafayette at sotth bethlehem games will probably be arranged for oct 14 and 21 on the home grounds the game arranged for the 3d of october with the university of west yirginia in south bethle hem has been cancelled by west virginia but in all probability there will be a game arranged for ithat date on the home grounds the opening exercises oflehigli university for the session of 1896 97 were held wednesday afternoon in the packer memorial church long before the appointed hour for the exercises in the chapel the lower classmen began to gather upon the campus and with their 3^ells made the air resound when 8.30 o'clock arrived the cam pus in the neighborhood of the chapel was well crowded with the students and their friends at the stroke of the bell the freshmen with hats off marched two by two into the chapel past the long rows of sophomores assembled on either side of the entrance rev dr worcester opened the service with the hymn " mother dear jerusalem the usual cere mony was gone through with after which president drown de livered his address of welcome to ■ the students at its close the rest of the students were dismissed and the freshmen were given a few words of advice hy the preside/it from the chapel the freshmen repaired to the gymnasium where with the assistance of the juniors temporary officers were elected the sophomores during this time were gathering at the gates of the cam pus the usual rush on packer avenue resulted on the arrival of the freshmen president drown spoke as fol lows : on behalf of my colleagues and for my self i welcome you most heartily on your return to college for another year's study and i trust you look forward to your work with genuine interest and enthusiasm it has been a great pleasure to me during the past year to note that the students of le high realize fully their o iportunities and their privileges and that their devotion to their studies is all that their teachers can desire the few who are negligent and in different find themselves sadly out of place among this mass of busy workers of the items of college news which will have interest for you i will mention first with great pleasure that professor thorn burg has returned to us fully restored to health you will i am sure be glad to see him again and give him a hearty welcome two additional instructors have been added to the teaching force barry h jones of the class of 95 will be instructor in the de partment of mechanical engineering and mr williamson a graduate of cornell in the class of 93 will be instructor in the de partment of electrical engineering the ci'eated by the resignation of mr knox and mr frye have been filled by the appointment of l o darse and n m emery u but i have also to record a sad loss which we have sustained the scholarly reputation of the faculty of lehigh uni versity has always made it a favorite field of the educational spoiler one of the most influential churches in philadelphia has se cured the services of our dr worcester as rector tbis loss you will lament as do i and all his colleagues his great scholar ship his inspiring teaching and his genial fellowship has won the admiration and af . fec^oi^j^i we wish him god-speed enew and larger field of yet been appointed to university and to the al worcester's classes sernple for this page the names of the class of 1900 are given below the list is not quite complete but as nearly so as could be obtained at the time this year's class is somewhat larger than last year's class having 118 mem bers abbott l b carbondale pa albright r c allentown pa anderson a b philadelphia pa baroger g w hazleton pa barber p w bethlehem pa bartholomew w e bayard a w , washington d c beck b g tamaqua pa benson j f portsmouth va bigelow e p oxford n j black m s swedesboro n j borhek r j bethlehem pa bours r w jacksonville fla bower j h rome n y bowers h l brice j j brice a t new york city burke j w shenandoah pa gandee m g washington d c canfleld d h middletown n y chamberlain m chattanooga tenn chapman h b st elmo tenn coffin g r , bradford pa congdon r c baltimore md ' coover e j myerstown pa cortright r m bethlehem pa coutant g c high falls n y daniel w b ashland pa day g h batavia n y digby j k bethlehem pa dilliard h c east bangor pa dinan r a south bethlehem pa dodson a c bethlehem pa dodson t m bethlehem pa dortch g h goldsboro n c drake w t eckert n allentown pa emerson c a summerstown l i fletcher j w monson maine fugitt d c fuller j quarryville n j giering f bethlehem pa gill a h boring md goldsmith g c d catasauqua pa green h t montclair n j groff f a rome n y gross c f beividere jst j grubbe w b fine plain n y haverstick e w lancaster pa heller a d hellertown pa hollingsworth a d scotch plains n j honon m j oxford n j higgins e m south bethlehem pa iredell l j allentown pa kennedy c p buffalo n y kitchell e b keys e a kline p pittsburg pa laubenstein f j lawton m b ., rome n y leibfried j e bethlehem pa lessig w g shenandoah pa lewis h s baltimore md lukens t w atglen pa lull c e t washington d c magee h i , philadelphia pa magie w e new york martin j p meixell j l parsons kansas menner h m bethlehem pa mora m de la morgan d s winton pa morris r c pottsville pa morrow g r , highspire pa mccarthy w t mccomas k w south bethlehem pa mcgavock d g graham's forge va mcveigh j new york city mcveigh w g new york city ochs h t allentown pa ortner l drifton pa osterhout f c oswego n y parsons a r salt lake city utah payne f j copenhagen n y no 1 the bronw and white lehigh university / * — south bethlehem pa saturday septembee 26 1896 vol iv calendar sunday sept 27 — meeting of christian association at 6.15 p m in christmas hall tuesday sept 29 — agora meet ing at 6.30 p m in saucon hall notices all students are cordially in vited to be present at the reception to be given to the class of 1900 in christmas hall on saturday even ing sept 26 at 8 p m l u 0 a a meeting of the christmas hall committee will be held in christmas hall on monday sept 28 at 7 p m . chairman powell n s reamer j j waterloo n y reese j 1st harrisburg pa robb a d phcenixville pa rodgers j south bethlehem pa rodney w h baltimore md roebling f w trenton n j ross j g kittanning pa rowe c e philadelphia pa sanches a nuevitas cuba sanches a j mantanzas cuba satchell e t lancaster pa shwerin m new york seiple h s bethlehem pa shultz j s simmers c n phoenixville pa snyder c s south bethlehem pa solorzano a monagua nicaraugua c a southgate e m newport ky starkey w p bustltown pa stauffer h s south bethlehem pa stroffrengen r m montclair n j strauss j a sayre pa taylor g f winton pa tobelman h d newark n j turner a w t amerst mass van duyne j r newark n j warner r a washingten d c white w p washington d c white w t williamsport pa wilcoxson l t freeport 111 wooden h r hampstead md wright r a allentown pa zalinski e r ft monroe va opening exercises class of 1900