Brown and White Vol. 33 no. 1

              there is still a large amount of unclaimed mail at the v office for new men at college all new men who are expecting mail are urged to inquire at the office for this mail gridiron warriors showing rapid pro gress in practice a large portion of the recov ered goods which were stolen from a few of the fraternity houses during the summer by boys of the town is still at the v office and the owners of any of the articles may have same by applying to fred traf ford i after two weeks of strenu ous work squad is rapid ly rounding into shape many coaches helping tia items in all forms of modern inlustry tn comparison with this he stowed how man's knowledge of t/e arts and science has con aantly changed and how prog ess is always going on in the luest for more knowledge and nat intellectual obsolescence & depreciation has to be guarded against the one thing however which is not subject to deprecia tion is truth the result is that ideas will continually change until it is positively es tablished that the truth about them is known he gave some interesting examples of prose cutions of old-time masters be fcause they had found facts and laws nearer to the truth than tiad previously been known in closing he gave a brief summary of lehigh's purpose and ambi tion in this search for the truth it is the ambition of lehigh university to teach the truth so far as it is known — that is to avoid intellectual depreciation & obsolescence — and ito extend con on page 5 col 4 replete with inspiring talks land addresses of many varie ties the first freshman orien tation conference held on sep tember 18 19 and 20 fulfilled the expectations of even its most optimistic supporters this conference was the first of its kind ever held here and its success augurs well for similar ones in years to follow with gradual expansion from the welcome extended by davitt bell president of tthe y m c a and president charles russ richards on fri day morning to the final adress on sunday afternoon by francis miller assistant secretary of the international y m c a enthusiasm and interest re mained at a high point among the new lehigh students at tendance of the sessions of this conference was entirely volun tary on the part of the incom ing students and taking this fact into consideration a sur prisingly large number of men were present at every meeting the high water mark for atten dance was reached at bosey reiter's address lessons from lehigh's leaders for this year compares first and sixtieth openings getting off to a flying start on monday september 14 the lehigh 1925 football squad numbering close to seventy men is rapidly rounding into first class condition for the opening contest next week with gettys burg on the latter's gridiron although the team participated in a practice game lastf satury day and a certain am6unt of scrimmage has been the order a large part of the time has been consumed in drilling in fundamentals and signals this was especially true of the first week but the harder work has con on page 2 col 4 pres richards gives interest ing comparison in intro ductory speech complete list of the leading men in all branches of activities more candidates wanted to aug ment grid squad sports remarkable growth shown a few new regulations will be in effect this year most of which are minor changes with the exception of the new absence rule this rule is published in its entirety in the new pamph let of regulations dated septem ber 1 1925 and reads as fol lows : rule 52 no cuts are al lowed and no excuses are re quired or accepted except as provided in rule 53 for each day's absence from a lecture re citation or laboratory period the student receives a grade of e ; for absence from a regular ly scheduled or announced quiz a grade of fis given these grades are counted in determin ing the student's term record in accordance with regulations prescribed by each department rule 53 a student may ap ply to the dean for an excuse : a in the case of consecutive absences from all classes extend ing over two full weeks twelve consecutive days of instruction or more ; and b in the case of absence from a scheduled or an nounced quiz provided that in this case the student's applica tion must be recommended by the head of the department con cerned excuses will be grant ed also for all absences incurred on account of inspection trips and'trips of athletic teams on presentation of such excuses to the department heads oppor tunity will be given to make up work which the student has missed by special quizzes spe cial reports or otherwise as the head of the department may prescribe and the grades re ceived on the make-up work will be substituted in such cases for the grades of e and f recorded con on page 6 col 4 considerable changes have been brought about in the per sonnel of the faculty during the summer months twenty - one new men ranging from full pro fessors to instructors being added to the faculty and eigh teen other men resigning many of the latter taking positions on other faculties or pursuing high er studies at other institutions dr albert a bennett one of the new men will assume the du ty of head of the department of mathematics and the other dr robert m smith will be head of the department of english prof percy hughes head of the department of psychology phil osophy and education has been granted a year's leave of ab sence two of the most import ant resignations are those of howard m fry for many years an associate professor of phy sics and fred j lewis assist ant professor of civil engin eering prof fry will go to franklin and marshall college and become an associate profes sor of electricity and physics under prof charles who left lehigh in 1922 prof lewis will go to vanderbilt university at nashville tennessee where he will become associate profes sor of civil engineering professor l b chapman and mr m s noyes were compelled to resign from their positions in the marine engineering depart ment because this department was abolished last spring con on page 5 col 1 the complete list of the changes in the faculty and a brown and white virtually the same bigger and better burr forecasted sixtieth year at lehigh officially opened on wed president richards delivers very i/teresting and instructive address of welcome — new fiulty men introduced by presidmt enrollment expectei to number 1450 with an anticipated total en rollment of well over 1400 stu dents the sixtieth collegiate year was officially inaugurated at lehigh on wednesday afternoon at three-thirty in the chapel at the annual opening exercises although no definite figures could be obtained on the number of incoming students enrolled to date it is estimated that there are at least five hun dred men in the class of 1929 at the close of registration wednesday there were 1221 students who had completed re gistration and paid their fees according to dean charles m mcconn the corresponding fig ure for last year was 865 the formal opening of the uni iversity took place with the singing of a hymn o god our help in ages past followed by prayer and benediction by the rev d wilmot gateson in a very interesting address of welcome president charles russ richards dealt with a va rietyjoi subjects he first gave a brfef iccount of the ijistory of the opening exercises and the growth of the university since its founding in 1866 this com plete account appears in another column the president then introduc ed the new members of the fa culty and told of the promotions which had occurred in the past year and the members f the faculty who had returned from a leave of absence / the closing part of the presi dent's address was a very illus trative example of the compari son of the essentials and found ation of education with the sim ilar aspects in business and in dustry the two subjects of comparison described principal ly by dr richards were obso lescence & depreciation he explained how it was necessary to provide for those two essen the gridiron at eleven o'clock on friday morning when the official counter showed 430 the purpose of the confer ence can easily he inferred from the word orientation the members of the class of 1929 were given an insight into prac tically all the phases of college life and although some of the addresses portrayed the sugar coated side of the subject those which brought out the bitter side of it were not lacking in addition to the numerous addresses each session of the conference opened and closed with singing of college songs and cheering the entire con ference was under the auspices of the y m c a the plans being arranged and carried out by the senior cabinet under the direction of fred traffora as mentioned previously the conference opened at nine o'clock on friday morning with a hymn and prayer lead by fred trafford and a brief wel come extended by bell ending with an introduction of dr richards the president spoke briefly on a general description of the college and its founding including a short account of the high position held by lehigh graduates throughout the world he closed by summing up the purpose of lehigh as being three-fold — to turn out men who are better equipped intel lectually physically and mor ally con on page 2 col 3 after president richards ad ress the students were divided into groups according to cours es and the process of registra tion and the various buildings and other bits of information were explained to them . they returned at eleven o'clock and had their first opportunity to hear the man who has been the student's best friend ever since he came to lehigh in 1911 bos ey reiter even though he spoke for more than an hour it seem ed like but a few minutes to his audience so interesting and several new features will be added and size to be increased annual classic to remain here feature articles and pictorial supplement will be aim of staff competition starts soon board of control holds first meeting many new subscribers buddy lingle selected as bas ketball coach for this year other important matters several important matters of business were transacted at the opening meeting of the board of control of athletics held on monday september 21 1925 probably the matter of most im port was the ratification of charles f buddy lingle as basketball coach for the 1925-26 season lingle's application had v been in for some time but this was the first opportunity that the board had to act upon it lingle captained the brown ancl white quintet for two consecu tive years and was coach of the con on page 5 col 3 con on page 2 col 2 the first opening exercise at lehigh university was held on september 1 1866 this there fore is the sixtieth anniversary of that historic occasion at these first exercises addresses were given by the founder the hon asa packer by mr wil liam h sayre jr in behalf of the trustees by the president of the university and the pro fessors and by judge wood ward of wilkes-barre der construction and the first catalog of the university indi cated the expectation that it would be occupied at an early date at the time of its opening the university staff included the president who was at the same time the professor of his tory and english literature and five other professors together with one instructor and a jani tor during the first year there were thirty-nine students in the first or freshman class and one in the second or sophomore class at that time the univer sity included two buildings — saucon hall used as a dormi tory and christmas hall for all of the academic work of the in stitution packer hall was un it is interesting to compare the university of 1866 with the university of 1925 the two buildings have been increased ten fold yet despite this change there is a sad need of addition al buildings the student body during the past summer the lehigh burr has undergone a reorganization and is hoping to put out the best burr this year that has ever been publish ed the burr will be increased to 48 pages the additions covering both the editorial and advertising departments a great deal of work was done this summer by members of the board and by the competitors toward increasing the size of the book a letter was sent to every alumnus of the univer sity asking him for a subscrip tion and the results of this cam paign were very gratifying the many alumni who responded helped considerably to increase the circulation to about 4500 which is the mark for which the board is striving many new features will be con on page 2 col 1 football captain h e merrill manager nelson l bond coach percy wendell baseball captain .... charles m prior manager . . herbert m shipley coach lacrosse captain .... hugh t robinson manager . . gerald d godshalk coach wm t o'neil basketball captain . . benjamin weinstein manager paul e roberts coach charles f lingle wrestling captain ralph w best manager .... s louis huyette coach william sheridan track captain earl j meyers manager . . robert l trainer coach .. v . . morris e kanaly swimming captain . . herbert g harmon manager .... john h schmidt coach j halsey gulick tennis captain .... herbert a miller manager . . . philip j shaheen coach neil carothers soccer captain .... frederic mercur manager .... joseph e hunter coach .... j harry carpenter cross-country manager . . robert e freeman coach morris e kanaly arcadia president davitt s bell secretary .... h charles hess treasurer . . . claibourne patty con on page 6 col 6 con on page 5 col 5 local authorities dispel ru mor in official announce ment each season for the past two years dame rumor would have it that the lehigh-lafayette classic would be played on franklin field the coming year these rumors were especially active during the spring of 1924 but they were finally dispelled when bucknell arid rutgers en gaged the field for the open date on perm's schedule on the saturday before thanksgiving last year at various intervals throughout the past summer these rumors again became cur rent and they seemed so persis tent that many local residents thought it a certainty that the annual struggle would be stag ed at philadelphia this fall but the brown and white will be governed by practically the same policy for the year 1925 26 as was in effect during the past year the size of the pa per will be the same and it will again be printed by the lehigh printing company of wyan dotte street one important change will be made however whenever there is a large amount of advertising com plaints have often been heard in the past that some issues con tain too large a percentage of advertising in order to partly remedy this situation the type of the body of the paper will be condensed and the lines will be printed closer together this change is scarcely noticeable un less a comparison of the two methods is made but by the lat ter method three additional con on page 6 col 7 there is an urgent need for more reserve material on the football squad head coach wendell is constantly complain ing of lack of sufficient second third string men and is is suing an s 0 s call for more candidates to turn out there were more than a hundred men who signified their intention of going out for the team and to date there have been only a few more than sixty turn out and many of these do not go out reg ularly for practice the old adage that a team is only as strong as its reserves is con stantly being emphasized by mr wendell and the experiences of the past couple of years should prove to be sufficient evidence of the truth of this fact to all lehigh students this lack of reserves has been especially true of the line now that things are fairlj well regulated and organized around college and that the dif ficulties of registration have been overcome by practically everyone it is expected that taore men will turn out some men found it impossible to re turn early for practice but it is hoped that these men will not be discouraged from reporting just because the others have been out for nearly two weeks the lack of an adequate number of heavy candidates for the line makes it very difficult for the regulars to get sufficient oppo sition in practice in addition to causing a scarcity of reserves y m c a notices bethlehem pa friday september 25 1925 new regulations in effect this year faculty personnel undergoes changes vol xxxiii no 1 price five cents 26676 twenty-one new men on faculty including two ' professors cut system abolished new time for both chapel and lecture first freshman orientation conference a marked success brown and white large number of incoming students attend daily sessions held on september 18 19 20 under auspices of lehigh y m c a new absence rule given fry and lewis leave many inspiring speeches heard by new men support the burr subscribe to the brown and white