Brown and White Vol. 11 no. 22

              editor brown and white : sir lf — if we may be permitted to trespass upon your space we would like very much to take advantage of the columns of the brown and white in order to lay before the undergraduates of the university some matters of importance con cerning the 1905 epitome which is now in preparation this annual though necessarily largely categorical in character nevertheless offers by far the most attractive field for artistic and liter ary work of any in the university unusually liberal prizes have this year been offered in both of these branches and yet the competition has scarcely begun so there is a splendid opportunity for any one who can draw or who can write an interesting story or a clever verse or doggerel to try to get one or another of these awards besides the epitome representing as it does the university has a wide cir culation not confined alone to the undergraduates and it will be no small satisfaction and no mean honor for a man to have one or more drawings or articles in it even if he fail of an award the subject of gags " also calls for some mention gags if they are good ones make one of the most interesting features of the epitome the " gag box in packer hall was putthere expressly for the purpose of gathering up the good ones which are happening on every side ; so if every one would write down any joke he hears and put it in the box the good work would be helped mightily finally we would like to call the students attention to the epitome registration every junior sopho more and freshman should make it a point to fill out at his very earliest opportunity one of the blanks in packer and christmas halls according to the instructions posted above the collection boxes it is to every man's personal in terest to comply with this request as it is only in that manner that the class rolls can be made out cor rectly this applies to the fre.sh men particularly as so very many of them have changed their ad dresses etc since the regular reg istration at the opening of college the senior roll and senior honors will be taken up in a simi lar way after the holidays signed board of editors continued on second page lehigh university south bethlehem pa thursday december 17 1903 vol xi review of the foot ball season calendar no 22 the brown and white by dr s b newton y m c a reception friday december 18 at 11.30 a m college lecture in physical lab by prof stephen panaretoff of roberts college constantinople at 12.30 p m college meeting at 4.45 p m basket ball prac tice at the gym sunday dec 20 at 9.15 a m bible class in christmas hall at 6.30 p m y m c a meet ing in christmas hall alumni note morris llewellyn cooke 95 has resigned his position as assistant general manager of the book lovers library mr cooke will enter a new line of work after the new year mining engineer is go ing to borneo t h clagett a mining engineer in the employ of selwyn m taylor will leave pittsburg next week en route for dutch borneo to make an inspection of some extensive coal concessions belonging to an eng lish banking syndicate the prop erty has already been inspected by english engineers and they have re ported upon it but the owners are anxious to have the opinion of a pittsburg engineer chiefly because pittsburg is the center of the penn sylvania coal belt the commission to visit borneo came to mr taylor through julian kennedy the well-known engineer who knows some of the english owners of the property the eng lishmen were anxious to have mr taylor make the examination him self but he was too busy and could not spare the time he arranged with the syndicate to have mr clagett his right-hand man in whom he has every confidence make the inspection for him mr clagett will report back to mr taylor who will make a report to the owners of the property mr clagett will sail from new york next tuesday or wednesday and will sail from london on a p & o steamer about january 2 he will return home via japan and san francisco making a complete tour of the world — pittsburg dispatch t h clagett was graduated from lehigh in 97 continued on third page the reception given by the y m c a on wednesday was con ceded by all to be an unqualified success through the untiring ef forts of secretary guilbert a spec ial programme was prepared con sisting of specialties by ye cele brated minstrels " boots " tracey " kink " johnson " dub " payne and " shine " kirk and other con tributions by members of the asso ciation as announced in the last issue of the brown and white the affair was an innovation and was enjoyed by student and pro fessor alike a short business meeting was held immediately be fore the programme and many topics of moment were discussed very favorable reports were turned in by the chairmen of the various committees and as this was the regular first term business meeting the new men were voted in especially encouraging was the report of the membership com mittee the names of over one hundred freshmen and nearly as many from the three upper classes were voted upon and these figures show that at no previous time has the membership been so large the programme was opened with a chorus by " the entire posse and immediately following this " boots " tracey rendered in his usual pleasing manner that beau tiful love ballad under the syca more tree shine " kirk next dispensed a little melody which was thoroughly enjoyed by the ap appreciative audience " dub " payne's poem was the innovation of the evening and was delivered in his usual inimitable style it described the trials and tribulations of a fellow who was engaged to a young lady whose papa wouldn't consent during the entire read ing the sweet strains of the " flower song which were yanked from the piano by don packer added a beautiful and affecting accompany ment to the piece while the auditors were yet wiping tears from their eyes kink johnson turned clouds into sunshine by singing a solo from babes in toyland bedelia was next rendered by payne and kirk payne again came to the front and sang an original parody shine kirk jigged as he had strangely divirse are the senti ments one hears relative to the foot ball season just over varying from most successful to positive ly bad depending entirely upon the viewpoint of the observer both are right in their way perhaps measured in terms of what has been it is true that no lehigh man need be ashamed to talk foot ball but on the other hand the erstwhile pes samists can find many pegs upon which to hang their hats living on the edge of things is said to give immunity from fear of falling but but there's much worriment in be coming accustomed to it a foot ball season is far too short a time in which to acquire any such feeling and truly the souls of those in charge have been much tried for the varsity was well nigh feminine in its inconsistency it was a paradox not knowing its own strength yet over rating it with a veteran team and the hope of new blood to compel good work the early september outlook was most attractive but lassitude bred by overconfidence on the part of students and players together with the fact that no phenoms were in the entering class soon showed that nothing unusual n^r startling was to happen during the coming season the preliminary practice from paucity of numbers was of no use but in spite of this the early season began with a rush and the bump receiv ed in the pennsylvania game while unpleasant was a good thing for the team and for lehigh the early games which were used for trying-out purposes had been too easy and prevented the hard,earnest thinking work which was so neces sary before such a game as the one in philadelphia from this date until and through the princeton game things were more as they should have been but immediately after it there occurred an unfortu nate incident which though spedily settled could not fail to leave its impress the dickinson game was '• for the most part well played and did much good but right here the fickle goddess began to get busy and just as the outlook had become more favorable than it had at any time lehigh's troubles came in epitome communication