Brown and White Vol. 12 no. 10

              foot ball lehigh o — princeton 60 the journney to princeton last saturday resulted in a waterloo forthe brown and white owingto the large number of accidents which have happened to the varsity the team sent to princeton did not near ly represent lehigh's full strength even so the effect of dr newton's strenuous coaching fdr the past week was clearly demonstrated for in spite of their superior weight it took princeton twienty one min utes to score their first touchdown even in the second half when the the boys were nearly worn out with their hard exertions and several of the best men had been retried on account of injuries they still show ed the old lehigh pluck in face of sure defeat barring one bad five minutes when the team seemed to go to pieces and alowed their op ponents to score four touchdowns the second half was almost as good jan exhibition of foot ball as the first cooney of princeton prooved a marvelous kicker converting even touchdown into a goal capt foulke played a briliant game sco - ing five touchdowns for lehigh the work of kirk and steiner is especially deserving of praise kirk's line bucking was very hard and made steady gains and his all round playing was good until he was forced to leave the game in the second half with a broken leg steiner played a fast game until compelled to retire with a broken collar bone the loss of these two men is to be deplored even more then the loss of the game as the squad will be greatly weakened by their absence from the way the entire team play ed and from the fact that five of the cripples may be back in the game this week there is some hope of winning the dickerson game n v xt saturday in the first half gott kicked off to rulon — miller who ran back to the 30 yard line after several bucks which netted about eight yards tenney punted out of bounds at the 40 yard line lehigh worked the ba 1 l back to the 30 } r ard line by hard bucking by kirk where a drop kick was blocked and lehigh's onh chance to score was lost princeton made nearly 30 yards when a fum ble lost the ball plere steiner got around end for a run of nearly 30 yards but directly afterwards the president drown is attending this week the meeting of the british iron and steel institute in new york city paul i butler ex-os is at present situated in williamsport on the pennsylvania railroad con struction corps he is also act ii g as coach of the williamsport high school foot ball team y m c a interesting mission address the sunday evening meetings of the association seem to be growing both in popularity and attractive ness as was evidenced sunday evening by the attendance of over 125 men and the intersting talk of mr harlan p b.each on foreign m issions the cards announcing the meet ing contained the statement that many colege men are either ig norant on missions or else the sub ject has been improperly put to them at the beginning of the meeting a majority would have ad mitted that this fact applied prett . well to them but there was such an interest created during its prog rests that at its close a large num ber of men signified their desire to enter the mission study classes conducted by the association while an amount considerably larger than one hundred dollars was pledged in monthly payments toward the support of charles w harvey an association secretary of tien tsin thin a mr beach approached the sub ject of missions from an engineer ing standpoint and showed why missions should be of interest if not of great importance to the tech nically trained men he pointed out the overcrowding of all profession both in this country and in europe and contrasted this with the work for an engineer in china india africa and south america he said that from his experience in and knowledge of china he was confident that the country and peo ple would rapidly follow in the footsteps of japan the vast min ing resources will necessitate the construction of railroads whose mileage and traffic will undoubted ly surpass that of any single coun try of the world the hydraulic and sanitary work that must be done among its 100,000,000 of peo ple in installing water and sewer age systems is simply fabulous to think of india was also touched upon in some little detail and the importance of irrigation to the country shown then mr beach very ably pointed out that we should not be interested in missions from the en ginereing standpoint alone all men have a desire to grow in their professions at best they cannot serve longer than 75 years why not become interested from a chris tian standpoint and by doing some thing in an engineering line in one of these countries be of greater ser vice to the race than they could possibly be at home by so doing we will be afforded an opportunity of continuing the work that christ laid down continued on third page college meeting the college meeting on friday of last week was held in the physi cal laboratory with about 250 stu dents in atendianioe the cage house question was taken up with a view of getting together all the money pledged two weeks ago the great importance of accom plishing this end was treated by president berg the mating was closed by the singing of a new foot ball song and a good lehigh yell the college meeting was fol lowed by a 1908 class meeting at which the election of class officers was held e a keys 99 is superintendent of the construction bureau of en gineering on the capas-o'donnell iba road tarlac and zambales provinces philippine islands the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa monday october 24 1904 no 10 calendar vol xii wednesday oct 26 at 3 30 p m foot ball practice game lehigh field friday oct 28 at it a m col lege lecture in lecture room of physical laboratory dr george w knox of union theological seminary n v on the crisis in the east saturday oct 29 at 3 p m foot ball game lehigh field - d : ckinson vs lehigh electrical society successful meeting held the first meeting of the society for this term held in the physical laboratory was called to order by president r h smith wednesday c ening october 19 after the ap pointment of the committees for the ensuing year and the transac tion of business the president out lined in a few apropriate remarks the plan of work to be carried out during the coming months the evening's program was next taken up e l rich 05 reading the first paper on the fourth di mension a subject of peculiar in terest to all interested in the fairy land of mathematical physics this paper was followed by the usual discussion which is an in structive part of every meeting after which the next number on the program was taken up this was a paper by mervine 05 on the heating of magnet coils prof esty then made some timely re marks on the formulae for pre-de termining the heating effect on field coils following this with a general talk on the purposes of the socie ty's meetings and the benefit to be derived by a regular attendance on the same the society was fortunate in having present at the meeting mr maxwell of the easton powfeir plant who gave an informal talk of great interest to all present the meeting then adjourned to the lower floor of the laboratory where refreshmlentsi were served and an hour of pleasureable inter course was enjoyed chess club meeting the first meeting 1 of the chess club will be held next thursday night at 7.30 in the forum room in sau con hall nearly thirty men have joined the club and a success ful year seems certain it has been learned that rutgers is anxious to arrange a dual meet with lehigh and as the expense would not be great it is very likely that some time in the year the twio colleges will come together in friendly con test over the boards it has not vet been learned whether lafayette has a chess club or not but if they havj the club would like to arrange a contest with them to show our men tal as well as our physical superi ority over our rivals down the liver a great many men seem to be hesitating because they rannot pla well enough the object of the cllib is to promote the interests of the grme of chess at lehigh and if a man knows nothing of the game he has an excellent chance to learn now everyone who wishes to join should hand his name to moore 07 before the meeting so as to get on the schedule for the year all members who can do so are urged to bring boards and men to the next meeting so as to get the schedule started at once gymnasium notice regular practice hours for bas ket ball and gymnasium teams will be announced later for the present the basket ball will be al lowed on the floor from 30 to 50 minutes past each hour unless the floor is otherwise occupied