Brown and White Vol. 32 no. 51

              hopkins lacrosse team noses out lehigh wielders appreciative house greets showing of russian around war dept officers inspect lehigh's unit of r 0 t c matters of interest were discussed three days stay as guests of lehigh in which numerous alumni secretaries conclude convention in bethlehem first period scoring cinches southerner's scant vic tory taylor stadium scene of an nual college military affair action music and scenes all co-responsible for unqual ified success lehigh sluggers to cross bats with northern foes and boston on four day trip baldwin's club will engage with west point union brown expect to hit proper stride lehigh defense lax president richards makes address many witness event worthy of tour and is a source of much concern to administration officials he also referred to the alumni as a most important part of an insti tution and urged greater exer tion of influence on the part of alumni to advance education he closed by reiterating his posi tion on athletics as contained in newspaper dispatches some time ago f s allis of amherst intro duced interesting figures on that college's experience with its alumni now in vogue there three years con on page 3 col 3 concrete facts tending to show the powerful element rest ing in the alumni body in col leges were submitted by h caping university of michi lehigh's sluggers will face the stiffest week of their sche dule when they contend against west point union boston and brown in their extended north ern tour which starts wednes day no one of these four games may be considered easy victor ies and in the case of west point the outcome is extremely doubtful the string of victories which lehigh's prospective opponents are already displaying do not look at all encouraging for the brown and white squad while no games have been played be tween these four teams and any which lehigh hat met so far the comparison school for school would indicate that lehigh has exceptionally threatening oppo sition in the form of west point homers pave way for muhlenberg's diamond victory plans now under way for revival of calculus cremation although outhit cardinal bunches bingles to score 5-3 win sophomore cabinet active in formulating plans for this unique custom adams on mound ninety-six delegates register ed for the sessions of the com bined conference of the alum ni secretaries and alumni mag azine editors thursday morn ing representing many of the leading colleges and universi ties in the country the con vention opened with an intro ductory talk by j 0 baxendale of the university of vermont who was followed by w r oke son secretary of the lehigh alumni association and r w sailor of cornell as speakers mr okeson made announce ments in conection with events to follow dr charles russ richards president of lehigh delivered the address of welcome to the visiting delegates in which he expressed the hope that you will find time in addition to your duties here to see some thing of the city and pointed out many of its historical at tractions he also took occasion in con tinuing his address to compare adminstrative problems of to day with those of seventy years previous educational duties then he said were simple and sought by few men and no women now it has become an essential to one in making a liv ing as simple as it was then so has it now become complex call for actors and boston so extended a tour may likewise serve to weary the varsity and thus make even the brown and union contests diffi cult ones west point looks like a con tender for eastern champion ship honors not long ago ver mont was snowed under by the cadets by a score of 15 to 9 in a game in which the army smashed out four runs in the seventh and nine in the last in ning when the army defeated swarthmore to the tune of 5 to 4 it annexed its fifth straight victory west point has been practicing recently with the giants and as a college team shows up well against such a superior combination con on page 4 col 1 boston college has had a more checkered career than west point but still shows the presence of an unpleasant punch this team battled thru a ten inning tie with william and mary and also defeated the na val academy four to three in this game the boston pitcher was freely hit yet he was able to retain his effectiveness by shat tering the hits successfully georgetown did success in ad ministering a rather decided trimming to boston however when the husky mcchehan bos ton twirler was driver about at will the score in this game was nine to four five errors by boston contributed materially rutgers betters lehigh's time fridays prom bright affair on saturday april 25 the lehigh r o t c unit staged its annual review before the war department inspecting offi cers in taylor stadium every man came out on the field look ing his best and fully prepared for a thorough examination of all he had learned during the year all were resolved that lehigh should again be ranked among the distinguished colleg es by the war department as she has been successively for four years in the past the review proved to be quite a gala affair as it was witnessed by a large number of weekend visitors and town people at about 8:15 a m it started with a formal military review befoi'e the government inspectors who were colonel kent of the gene ral staff and major watrous of the adjutant's office this was the spectacular event of the day the band marched the length of the field and then was followed by the four companies in order each one executing eyes right as it passed the reviewing stand to the accompaniment of mar tial music con on page 4 col 3 a rigorous inspection of ev ery phase of military discipline and tactics followed in which the students had been instructed since the beginning of the year it was necessary to abandon the program previously prepared including the sham battle which was to have been a feature of the day instead the inspecting officers followed out a uniform plan of inspection which is to unexpected showing by scar let runners earns win in perm relays the lehigh lacrosse team bowed before johns hopkins in spite of their superior stick work by the score of three goals to two the outstanding star of the game was lehigh's in home ed packenham this scintillating attack man was all over the field leading the brown and white on to renewed efforts or forming the defense when hopkins secured the ball fel anio levy and milbourne put up an excellent defensive game for the southern division cham pions five minutes after the con test started groner opened the scoring after receiving a pret ty pass from robinson this ended lehigh's scoring for the first period despite their having the ball in hopkin's territory for most of the time almy tied the score for the meds only to be followed shortly after by n robinson with another score for hopkins the lehigh defense was ragged at this time and almy scored another counter before the close of the first per iod for twenty-five minutes the second half was played in a de sultory half-hearted fashion both defenses however tighten ed up when fheir goals were threatened captain groner then called a time out for le high con on page 4 col 5 play was resumed and the le high team re-entered the fray with renewed fight and vigor wardell came thru with a goal another lehigh score seemed imminent when the whistle fin penn registers win in tennis carl fenton's orchestra fur nishes appropriate music for the occasion gisriel places fifth sophomore cabinet arranges t-dance financially successful lehigh victorious in singles but drops two doubles first social venture of re cently created second year body all of the thrills and glamour of a first night on broadway at tended the production of this year's mustard and cheese show russian around when it was most enthusiastically re ceived by a capacity crowd in the liberty high school audi torium on last saturday night the success of the club in such an ambitious production should place it on a level with the lead ing student dramatic clubs of the east for the entire play was thoroughly original and in its amusing dialogue there were no dull moments so often typical of college plays the show was entirely the work of lehigh stu dents with the exception of the professional coach mr j p callon who directed the cast and chorus for the past month f b dorton president of the club was largely responsible for the very clever book and ly rics while r neely and g m burlingame worked with him on the musical numbers which shall undoubtedly retain their popularity for some time such tuneful songs as ich muss mem bier haben there isn't a doubt about it and alice my own deserve more than passing praise for their catchy melody the saturday perfor mance was in reality a second performance of the show for on the night previous it had been equally well received at the irving theatre in wilkes barre a city which is regarded as being hard to please in the way of shows the plot con cerns the travels of two young american collegians in the swiss alps where they chance to meet a russian princess who is being sought after by a weal thy german financier the mys terious princess then loses by theft a tiger's eye ring which is priceless in its value the two americans then set out in search of the jewel and after it has been taken from the posses sion of the villian by two moun tain guides who return it to the americans they in turn return it to the princess and thus win her favor dor ton and colclough con on page 4 col 4 the muhlenberg baseball team invaded taylor stadium saturday afternoon with one of the best teams that ever repre sented the cardinal and gray and defeated the lehigh nine 5-3 although outhit by nine to eight the muhlenberg team bunched their hits and coupled with two passes scored enough runs to turn back the brown and white nine captain adams was coach baldwin's choice to do the hur ling but it seemed very much as if bob had not yet fully re cuperated from his illness for the visitors bill ziegenfuss not only pitched a fine brand of ball but his homer in the fourth with the bases filled practically won the game right then honey lewin who has been doing ex cellent utility work as a pinch hitter played right field for le high and his two circus catches were very responsible in keep ing the muhlenberg score down to five tallies in the fourth after ambler had thrown out mull leh sin gled witt and jones walked and adams found himself in a very tight place with the muhlenberg fans calling for bill to win his own game zieg enfuss caught one of adams slants and drove it far out in left center for a home run in the seventh hurd hit the ball in the same field and scampered over the plate without even drawing a throw con on page 4 col 7 a lehigh rally seemed in the making in the sixth but it fell short by a single run nevins singled and went to third on hayes hit rice followed with the activity of the sophomore cabinet has not been much in evidence although the energy of that group is being directed to wards a calculus cremation this year a part of the entertain ment on the dads day pro gram and an actual start in deputation work saturday may 2 will see the first attempt at a general social event when the cabinet shall give a tea i dance in drown hall imme diately following the track meet with lafayette with dancing for two and a half hours to very good music by lehigh's best or chestra it is planned that the members of two or three girls schools of the vicinity shall be invited to attend and with this inducement the dance promises to be a great success it is the desire of the sophomore cabin et to increase the amount of campus social activity next year and a proper outcome to this oc con on puge 4 col 6 with the best team that has represented the brown and white in the past five years le high was unable to cope with the remarkable and unexpected showing made by rutgers at the relay carnival the latter team turning in the unusually good time of 3 26 1-5 hamper ed by having to run the mile and the half mile in the dual meet with swarthmore the week previous barba and siegmund were not what may be termed real quarter milers although their performance was most creditable captain croll got off to an un usually good start and by the time he had reached the home stretch was leading the field his time for the quarter being 52 seconds barba running second held the lead and turn ed in a5l 1-5 second quarter siegmund in turn doing a 53 4-5 and cox a 53 3-5 the last two men losing their vantage to the fleeter rutgers runners coach kanaly was well pleased with the showing his charges made cal gisriel in placing fifth ni the discus with a heave of 127 feet 6 inches showed that con on page 4 col 6 notice an announcement which is of great importance to fresh men concerning their activi ties for the rest of the year is that all dues must be paid by wednesday of this week it is highly essential that the class must have the money by that time and all members who have not paid as yet should do so immediately at drown hall in the y m c a office or to class treasurer bentz at the sigma phi house freshmen get behind your class and suport it until the end of the year back in the year 1870 and for some time thereafter when le high was strictly an egineering college the mathematics depart ment presented a full year course in calculus for sopho more which proved to be the most difficult proposition on the latter roster at the end of the year when accounts were settled there were a few who had reason to celebrate but more who celebrated ma mourn ful nature over the credit ob tained for their effort as a re sult there arose an event of the year known as calculus crema tion wherein the students im personated those professors of peculiar well-known character istics staging a play and a mock trial with a character repre senting calculus as the cen ter of much disturbance and of uncongenial notoriety amid prosecution by the students and a weak defense by the faculty members of the court calculus was sentenced to the stake a huge fire and much revelry on the part of the students wit nessed by numerous alumni who joined whole-heartedly in the festivities and some three thou sand towns people made this occasion the featuring event of the commencement week pro gram calculus cremation be came a traditional event looked forward to by the returning al umni as well as the students and local people one year during the late war it was impossible to hold this customary celebration and last year it was missed again when i con on page 4 col 2 the university of pennsylva nia tennis team proved too strong for the lehigh racquet wielders and won the match played last saturday afternoon 5 to 3 one of the doubles matches was unfinished because of rain all three of lehigh's victories were registered in the singles while perm was victorious in three singles and two doubles matches summary : colburn perm defeated la wall 6-2 6-3 stone perm defeated koegler 7-5 5-7 6-4 ellis pen defeated hagen buch 6-4 6-4 miller lehigh defeated era efmuller 6-4 6-3 trumbull lehigh defeated altmaier 6-2 3-6 6-4 liversidge lehigh defeated murphy 6-2 7-5 colburn and stone defeated koegler and lawall 6-4 6-2 doubles altmaier and murphy perm defeated mcfadden and doty 6-4 6-2 con on page 4 col 2 last friday evening drown hall witnessed one of the most successful junior proms ever given in the history of the af fair attractive and colorful decorations excellent music and many fair visitors combined to make the evening one that will be long remembered from start to finish everyone should compliment the class of 26 and particularly the dance commit tee which attended to all the necessary arrangements • over 125 couples danced to the music of carl fenton's or chestra of atlantic city and victor record fame the num bers played were well chosen and calculated to fit the taste of everyone during the evening encore after encore was re quested yet when the dance end ed no one seemed to have enough it is hoped that this splendid music will soon be heard again at lehigh drown hall was attractively decorated with colored stream ers and from the chandeliers hung gay japanese lanterns which added an unusual touch brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday april 28 1925 price five cents vol xxxii no 51 calculus cremation again back that ball team