Brown and White Vol. 32 no. 36

              pi delta epsilon pledges two seniors gettysburg defeats brown & white five vol x"xxii no 36 score of candidates indicate roseate season in stick sport eli wrestlers will furnish strong opposition for home team visitors spring surprise by de feating lehigh quintet c schaub and gerhart star positions determuned cotillion swarthmore swim ming and yale wrestling meets are main at tractions 0 many week-end guests attractive schedule to the student body the policy of lehigh's so cial program hangs in the balance your actions this evening will cast the die co operate and assure the kind of a future we all want al bayles arcadia earl kirchner senior class bud waesche junior class brown and white all set to take lafayette series last game of season to be hot ly contested with moore as the outstanding star for the maroon captain hess returns the directors of the chamber of commerce at their weekly meeting at the hotel bethlehem today heartily endorsed the ten tative plans of lehigh univer sity professors to establish a radio station in this city men tion of which was made exclu sively in the globe about three weeks ago at the directors meeting to day president w s hutchin son stated that prof elias klein of the university had spoken to him recently about the plan the estimates of the initial cost run as high as 15,000 with a yearly mainten ance expense of from 2500 to 4000 dr klein is chairman of a committee of lehigh facul ty members considering the plans but no definite decision has yet been reached it was con on page 4 col 3 pres berg sets forth review of fraternity in preliminary remarks the honorary fraternity pi delta epsilon pledged two men from the senior class at the chapel exercises monday morn ing the men honored by the society were william george fullard and william murray metten mr fred berg presi dent of the society gave a short address reviewing the history and purpose of the fraternity the society is composed en tirely of seniors and election of new members is usually held in spring at which time the new members are chosen from the junior class because of two vacancies in the fraternity it was decided to fill them at this date the qualifications for mem bership require at least two years of service on one of the college publications both mr fullard and mr metten have served two years on the brown and white staff beaux art has art lecture garnet mermen here tonight lehigh breaks two records in swarthmore try-outs prof wright spoke on gre cian architecture last monday debate planned lehigh favored to win tonight drown memorial hall will be the scene of one of the biggest and most elaborate events of the social season — the sophomore cotillion ted weems and his famous orches tra will furnish the music for the dance which will last from nine until two at least one hundred and seventy-five cou ples are expected to attend the cotillion is to be in the form of a program dance as favors minature editions of the lehigh burr have been prepar ed these will resemble in ev ery detail the regular edition with the exception that in the center of the booklet will be the program of dances a well-known allentown dec orator and a bethlehem florist have been entrusted with the decorations the committee has spared no expense to have every thing of the best all lehigh men are permitted to attend this affair tickets may be obtained from members of the cotillion at six dollars per couple or four-fifty per person other events of interest which will take place this week end will be the varsity wrestling meet with yale on saturday after noon in taylor gym on the same evening lehigh will play it's last basket-ball game of the season with lafay ette president richards guest at lafay ette dinner con on page 4 col 6 the behigh basketball team journeys to easton tomorrow to meet the lafayette five in the fi nal game of the season the game promises to be the closest game of the season as lafayette will do her best to avenge the defeat of last saturday lehigh needs but this victory to complete a most successful season having lost but three games one to princeton which has a strong bid for the inter collegiate title the other to fordham holder of a record of thirteen straight victories and gettysburg on wednesday in all probability duffy the maroon court star will not be able to be in the game due to injuries but lafayette has a ca pable substitute in crate who played the center instead of his usual place at forward in the home game moore the stocky lafayette forward whose long difficult shots were the feature of the game last saturday will in all events add greatly to the the fair week-end guests are due to be entertained in a thril ling manner when the brown and white wrestlers take the mats against yale here tomor row afternoon for yale has a veteran team and are out to wipe off the defeat handed to them by lehigh last year among the eli's ere four men who wrestled in the inter collegiates a year ago and one of them russell won the cham pionship in the 175 pound class when burke the lehigh captain swooned during the final bout with him at the time burke had a considerable time advan tage over his opponent the victory enabled yale to place third one place ahead of lehigh in the total count for the title in saranoff the eli's have one grand little wrestler who was entered in one 6r two meets last year johnson who is a new man is giving saranoff a hard tussle for the right to make the trip and if he suc ceeds will be one hard nut for jimmy reed to crack in the 125 pound class the visitors will be represented by winnick it took washburn two extra periods to defeat this man last year and best will have his hands full when they graple tomorrow capra the yale 135 pounder has been wrestling all his life con on page 4 col 4 e schaub receives injury to hip and is forced from the game with every point fiercely struggled for lehigh lost her third game of the season to get tysburg on wednesday night february 25 by a score of 41 to 29 although slow at first the team hit its stride rapidly and in the begining of the second half gettysburg was outplayed the latter has a wonderful team with four of last year's men back and an excellent cen ter in gerhart without question the star of the game was gerhart the cen ter for the blue and gold dur ing the first half he made seven field goals and made four fouls out of five not once bat sev eral times did he put the ball in from almost mid-floor each time sending the ball cleanly through the basket c schaub starred for lehigh making in all seven field goals and two fouls his favorite shot was from right beside the bas ket where he shot the ball in time after time at the first tap-off both teams passed the ball for more than a minute when tuckey of gettysburg dribbled the ball down to the basket for the ini tial score of the game peduz zi followed with another a few minutes later and then c schaub brought in lehigh's first score by making good two fouls con on page 4 col 2 faculty meeting held on monday ex-scouts urged to become active lehigh alumnus sponsors greatest industrial museum opportunity for men to en joy camp life free committee on summer ses sion adopts new reso lutions dr john h mccracken pres ident of lafayette college was tendered a reception by the fa culty and board of trustees and their wives in honor of the tenth anniversary of dr mac cracken's inauguration the principle address of the evening was made by dr rich ards who extended to dr mac cracken the felecitation of le high new met degree r o t c aid local scouts some twenty-five men ans wered the lacrosse summons in the trophy room on monday six of these men being candi dates for assistant manager while this number is apparently small it does not include many of the old men but is mostly made up of new material of the old men who will return this year eight letter men remain captain groner m s smith schwimmer packenham gruhn h w robinson morgan and lister besides these men who made the team good work is ex pected from davis finnigan fernandez fullard wardell stevens widdowfield and w r smith who got in games last year but did not make their let ter practice has been begun un der the supervision of assistant coach lattig who is starting the men out with light training until coach o'neil takes charge of the work at the end of march when o'neil arrives rigorous training will be in force prepar atory to the game with yale on april 9 con on page 4 col 7 although the yale game is not looked forward to as being difficult syracuse who will op pose the brown and white team the following week will have id put up a hard fight having been undefeated for three years hopkins and u of maryland the most formidable enemies of lehigh will play early in the season leaving the latter part open to sure victory if victor ious this year a game will be arranged with the oxford-cam bridge team it is noteworthy that lehigh is the only college that has ever held the champion ship of the united states which it gained in 1921 and this year the players will make an heroic h f j porter 87 in inaugra te"s movement to perpetu ate the souvenirs of engin eering and industry tonight at 7:15 the lehigh mermen will swim against swarthmore at taylor pool this promises to be one of the hardest fought meets of the sea son with the issue in doubt till the last event rutgers broke the brown and white string of victories by submerging lehigh by the score of forty-five to twenty-six last friday at rutgrs however the lehigh natators are deter mined to start anew and pre vent another blot on their rec ord swarthmore's record for the season places her among the leaders of the eastern inter-col legiate league among her victims are new york univer sity catholic and george wash ington university all beaten by decisive scores lehigh's rec ord with the same teams shows a wider margin of victory by con on page 4 col 3 to cost 10,000,000 before a fairly large and in terested audience prof wright delivered a lecture on grecian architecture at the beaux arts society meeting on monday eve ning february 23 it was well illustrated and touched upon egyptian architecture as well as greek another point of in terest in the meeting was dis cussion of a debate which is be ing considered for some time in may the lecture began with a brief resume of egyptian archi tecture forms starting from the primitive burial mounds and gradually ascending in the scale of development to the pyramids and smaller temples the great hall of karnak in particular was noted as the prototype of the bascilica and gothic churches since it employed the principle of the clerestory passing from the african to con on page 4 col 6 wrestling intercollegiates will be held at columbia alpha chi rho convention terminated with banquet has hopped into the limelight as a dangerous contender by the excellent showing it made against the nittany matmen in the dual meet last saturday held at state college the as pect of the intercollegiates may be materially changed before the time for the title rolls to be finally decided with lehigh boosting its prestige consider ably in reed and lewis the brown and white grapplers have two entries who are wrest ling their grst year as varsity men and as yet may lack exper ience however the experience oi competing in dual meets and the oarefully considered instruction of coach sheridan should have con on page 4 col 6 the greatest industrial mu seum for the first industrial nation is the inspiring pro ject inaugurated and sponsored by a lehigh alumnus which has finally begun to take concrete form in the proposed national museum of engineering and in dustry this wonderful build ing to be erected on the mall in washington d c will bring the united states to the front in an effort made by nations of the world to perpetuate the sou venirs of their industrial devel opment in such a way as to in spire and instruct coming gen erations and to function as the are gallery and library serve art and culture h f j porter 78 is secre tary of the corporation formed to achieve the erection of this 10,000,000 national museum which will have branches in con on page 4 col 1 the 1925 national conven tion of alpha chi rho the first function of its kind ever held in bethlehem was terminated monday night with a banquet at the hotel bethlehem ap proximately 200 attended speeches were made by the na tional president otto f sieder vice-president stan lee hans sen charles hobby bassford and william g barthold le high 19 during the afternoon preced ing the banquet a tea dance was held among the other more impor tant events of the convention were a smoker friday evening and a formal dance saturday night con on page 3 col 3 a meeting of the faculty was held on monday january 19 in the faculty room to consider va rious collegiate matters they included a report on the sum mer session and proposed changes in the curriculum of the department of mining en gineering the resolutions proposed by the committee on summer ses sions were adopted and among them were that an extended three years teacher's training program be adopted by the summer ses sion that to further the success of such a program a certificate be issuable to both men and women students for two years credit or 60 semester hours that beginning with 1925 no lehigh university instructor shall teach in more than three consecutive summer sessions at lehigh in connection with the sum mer session dr barnard of the the oustanding features of the smoker consisted of a short sketch given by phi alpha chap ter of lafayette and novelty jazz offering by phi mv chap ter of lehigh the latter num ber which was rendered by 01 lie zurn tom cook and fred dorton received encore after encore in recognition of the or iginality and pepiness with which their stunt was put across con on page 4 col 6 the formal dance taxed the capacity of the main ball-room of the hotel bethlehem with an attendance of about 175 co\i a pies at the conclusion of the dance a midnight supper was con on page 4 col 6 the fact that a number of lehigh students have already manifested their interest in the local boy scout organization has resulted in the cordial invi tation of mr l j argentsiner chief scout executive of this city to those interested to drop in at scout headquarters where he might offer courtesies and a glad hand he is aware of at least five highest rank scouts in the college and desires to make their acquaintance fellows who have in the past taken active in terest in the home scout groups might find time to devote to the interest of the local boys organ ization the military depart ment has supported the scouts of bethlehem to the extent of furnishing instructors from the advance course men in such scoutcraft as first aid health leadership and so forth these men devote perhaps an evening a week to the purpose and find personal satisfaction as well as the intercollegiate wrestling meet to be held at columbia university on march 20-21 is already being looked forward to and talked about by many men interested in intercolle giate wrestling it is thought that this year lehigh has the best chance for the championship than it has had for a number of years from present appearances the college having the best chances are lehigh cornell and perm state intercollegiate wrest ling honors gleaned from the result of a dual competition hinges on one of the three nam ed schools perm state may be a slight favorite with cornell a close second but of late lehigh bethlehem pa friday february 27 1925 lacross men answer call price five cents brown and white radio station to be established here great wefk-fnd plannfd for all yale grapplers here saturday heartily endorsed by lehigh professors and chamber of commerce 1 1 everybody down at easton tomorrow night are you going out for a spring sport