Brown and White Vol. 10 no. 5

              the age of chivalry has gone and that of economists and calcula tors has set in and the glory of europe has departed the speaker than referred to ruskin's essay on traffic as the most forceful protest against com mercialism herbert spencer has referred with fine scorn to the fact that sir henry bessemer received no greater honor than that accorded a third rate official on his retirement or a provincial mayor on the occasion of the queen's jubilee the same spirit is manifested in the undue relative estimate hereto fore placed upon the so-called high er studies — the humanities to use the medieval phrase — as compared with the more practical comercial pursuits of men our colleges were until comparatively recent years little more than a survival of the monastic schools of the middle ages and technical schools occupied a lower place in the realm of learning to institutions devoted to the clas sics the fact that chairs of finance and transportation are recent inni vations shows the previous poor es timate placed dy leaders of educa tion upon the claims of commerce in hamlet shakespeare has given to man a psychological prob lem of unceasing interest but has he advanced humanity more than george stephenson in constructing the locomotive if comparisons must be instituted humanity owes less to a statue of phidias than to fulton's steamboat ; and morse and field have served mankind quite as well as victor hugo or goethe asa packer never destroyed a city but lie built a railroad and in the enlightened days to come when the last vestige of the feudal concept of society has passed away the man 1 who constructs will not be under valued to the man who destroys a few nights ago i had the pleas ure of dining with one of the mas ters of american finance and among other guests was nicola tes la the great electrican had much to tell us of the wonders of physical nature which modern science had revealed but turning to his host he said that he thought that the com plex human mechanism of finance whereby ninety-five per cent of the world's exchanges are effected with out the use of currency was as re markable as many of the electrical machines about which he had been speaking if this be true of the mere mechanism of exchange what must be said of those industrial forces which enable the average man of to-day to put the whole world under tribute for his comfort and convenience ? it may be conceded that commer cialism has gained an immense and in many respects undue hold upon the activities of men but ruskin's error seefns to lie in the assumption that it has destroyed the three great forces of art religion and roman ticism to which he refers so far as that love of art of which the continued on second page ball out into the center of the field well out of harms way after the teams lined up time was called fi nal score freshmen 6 sopho mores o base ball the annual founder's day sports between the sophomores and the freshmen were in every way a com plete success the weather was ideal not too warm for foot ball or too cool for base ball the stu dents were out in large numbers and the yells of the various classes especially of the two contesting classes were constantly echoing across the field the sophomores were victorious winning the relay race and the base ball games and losing the foot ball gfame in the relay race the sophs had a walk over and also had no difficulty in winning the base ball contest in foot ball however the freshmen were more than a match for their opponents and won by superior team work the details of the var ious contests follow : in the base ball game the soph omores won handily the score standing 12 to 3 in their favor at the end of the six innings which constituted the game as the score shows it was a rather one-sided contest although the freshmen got together in spots and did some good playing only in the second inning did they show signs of making things warm for sophomores when through a com bination of base on balls three costly errors and a timely hit by nolan they got in three runs this was the beginning and end of their scor ing for the freshmen did not again succeed in putting a man on third until in the last inning powell after a base on balls and a couple of clever steals reached it only to be left there by the side being put out the following is the score by in nings : first innings 06 in the field heckler goes out on a grounder to 2nd base schuyler gets ist on catcher's muff of 3rd strike and steals second going to 3rd on brush's sacrifice landefeld gets ist on balls and steals 2nd schulyer scores on passed ball davidson flies out to 2nd base retiring the side for 06 worman goes out on short hit to pitcher guzer hits safely to right field and is thrown out at 2nd landefeld to schuyler nolan flies out to 2nd side out second inning : kinney gets his base and steals 2nd on catcher's bad throw snyder hits to center kin ney scores snyder steals harrison gets ist on muffed third strike and steals 2nd snyder going to 3rd berg strikes out ; heckler hits safe ly over 2nd base scoring snyder and harrison schuyler hits for one base and heckler is out for run ning out of line schuyler steals and brush strikes out retiring the side powell gets a base on balls and rowe goes out on a drive to sny continued on fourth page founder's day games sophomores victor ious in track race and base ball the sophomores opened the game by kicking off to the fresh man's 20 yd line from which point they ran the ball back 5 yds by steady line plunging they gained 15 more and were then held for downs the sophomores however fumbled on the first play but recovered the ball after the second play the sophomores lost it on a fumble with the ball in the center of the field taussig broke through the cen ter of the line and with the entire sophomore team behind him ran half the length of the field for th only touch-down in the game 1 wright kicked a goal score freshmen 6 sophomores o for the second time the sophomores kicked off and the freshmen caught the ball on the 25-yd line but were unable to advance it far and finally lost it on downs then the sophomores took a brace and made some good gains through the center tearing through the freshmen's line for 10 and 15-yard gains work ing the ball in this manner up to the 20-yd line they fumbled and thus lost what might have been turned into an opportunity to score then the freshmen started to make things lively for the sophomores again but fumbled and lost the ball the sophomores were unable to gain a foot once more the husky freshmen team began to hustle down the field but the soph omores rallied and held them for downs time was called just as the two teams lined up in the second half the freshmen kicked off to the 15-ycl line and the sophomores ran it back 8 yds by hard pushing they managed to gain 5 yds and then lost the ball on downs hardly had the freshmen obtained the ball before they lost it on an offside play the sopho mores butted the heavy line of the freshmen in vain and after several attempts of this kind the ball went over to the other side the fresh men in their turn could do nothing either and were finally forced to ount the sophomores now tried to run the ends but were unsuccess ful the freshmen getting posses sion of the ball the freshmen lost the ball on a fumble and the sopho mores kicked 10 yds the ball going out of bounds the freshmen ad vanced the ball steadily up the field and it looked as if they were going to get another touchdown but just as they got within a striking dis tance of the goal they fumbled the sophomores fumbled the first time they put the ball in play the freshmen pushed it back to the 10 yd line and again it looked as if the score was going to be greater than 6 to o but they lost the ball on downs the sophomores kicking the the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa friday october 10 1902 vol x founder's day exercires interesting address by hon james m beck hon james m beck assistant attorney general of the united states was the founder's day ora tor at the annual exercises which wefe held in the chapel thursday morning mr beck is a graduate of the moravian college bethle hem and is considered one of the finest orators of the country his subject was commercialism and was very well delivered mr beck commenced by a brief reference to asa packer's career referring to the construction of the lehigh valley railroad for the pur pose of transporting anthracite epal from the mines to the seaboard mr beck stated that we were in a position to appreciate the value of this achievement at this time when anthracite coal like certain coins has almost gone out of circulation as asa packer's achievements were commercial in character it was fit ting that his noble gift to education had found its chief use in those technical studies which seek to ap ply the results of scientific research to the commercial necessities of our time the speaker therefore se lected commercialism as his theme he said the very word has ac quired a certain sense of oppro bium to the student of history these diatribes against the commer cial spirit of the age have a familiar sound for such protests have not been wanting since commerce — in its broadest signification — secured a permanent place in the activities of men even in pre-historic myth neither mars nor apollo had much opinion of mercury the militant or feudal type of society has obsti nately fought the steady advance ment of the commercial or indus trial type in this struggle litera ture has strangely enough cham pioned the cause of militarism and until recent years when walt whit man and kipling have sung the praise of industry have invoked the music with arms and the man i sing late in the eighteenth century that most philosophical of orators and statesman edmund burke clearly beheld the coming triumph of industrialism but strangely failed to perceive that it was but a step forward in the path of peaceful evolution the destruction of the bourbon monarchy — but one step in the passing of a decadent feudal ism — evoked from him the historic lament : no 5