Brown and White Vol. 33 no. 22

              interesting discussion given by okey president of grid officials describing a danger to the game which is unnoticed by many game at princeton tomorrow should be closely contested several combinations developed expected to match the best of them after season is well opened — many plays and formations tried out nevins and mercur selections of carpenter who picks all state team second of series of kindred articles team shows latent possibilities tigers are strong mercur captain student reception dr and mrs charles r richards and the faculty are holding a reception for all students tomorrow night at 7 45 in drown hall one of the principal purposes of the reception is to get the stu dents better acquainted with the faculty refreshments will be served and music will enliven the affair this is the second of a series of articles on the present prob lems of intercollegiate football published in the brown and white all the articles are written by local authorities and should there fore be of added interest to our readers freshman dance a signal success b-thorpe and fern sem maids give hop added zest heavy stag line the century has such a storm of talk been heard about football as has been the case this fall and which storm alas still contin ues the game has been sub jected to every kind of criticism and praise what do i mean by subjected to praise just ex actly that the praise has often hurt football more than the criticism as a lover of football who has taken an active part in the game for thirty-five years i am deeply interested in even if slightly deafened by this wordy conflict i am not a bit wor ried about anything that the enemies of football may do but con on page 4 col 5 m and after a few minutes of play captain weinstein made the first point for the brown and white on a free toss a few minutes later schuylkill took the lead after a brilliant shot by albright their lead didn't last very long however for shortly afterwards billmey er scored a pretty shot from un der the basket followed by an other from the same position lehigh was now beginning to hit their stride and from then on they were never in danger the half ended with the score 23-8 in favor of lehigh schuylkill started the second half with new determination to stop further scoring by the brown and white they were partly successful holding le high to one field goal by lister con on page 3 col 4 jfootball the game is all right but the attitude of mind of all concerned is all wrong this is the substance of tne opinion of walter r okeson president of the eastern association of in tercollegiate football officials and a leading authority on the grid game although he has consistently declined to contrib ute to the current babel of crit icism and theorizing on the evils of football mr okeson who is also editor of the lehigh alumni bulletin discloses his sentiments in an editorial in the current issue of that magazine mr okeson's views are as fol lows not since the beginning of the lehigh basketball team opened its season saturday af ternoon with a crushing victory over schuylkill college by a 40 12 score the reading colle gians put up a game fight but were outclassed by their faster opponents schylkill's passing game was quite good but their inability to pentrate lehigh's five man defense kept their scor ing down to only three field goals two in the first half and one in the second their re maining six points were the re sult of free throws lehigh started the game with earl schaub at center carl schaub and smith at forward and captain weinstein and bill meyer at guards towards the end of the first half lister took smith's place at forward the opening whistle blew at 2 30 p lehigh natators to hold competition dr.carothers talks to frosh on banks exams.discussed by educational club student conference at princeton univ inter-mural meet to be held for choosing of varsity squad . ■ — — — — — - - . ji ia „ - . delegates from 250 colleges disucss u s entry into world court methods of banking explains bank functions and faculty club discusses ques tion as to whether there should be exams for all topic well discussed against exemptions juniors strong lehigh represented lehigh men figured prominent ly in the selection of this year's all state soccer team it has been the custom of coach car penter of lehigh to pick a my thical team each year as he has ample opportunity to study the men on all of the teams inas much as he has seen them all perform he endeavors to make an unbiased selection from all the men he has seen and his ver dict has been generally popu lar the lehigh men to win that honor this year are mercur and nevins nevins won his place as center of the team because of his natural gift of soccer in stinct and play he is a hard worker posses perfect control and knows how to distribute the ball to the wing men to enable them to come through with nu merous goals carpenter says of captain mercur that he is the best center half that he has ever seen in collegiate circles he also has the envious record of having played for four years on varsity teams and in that time never having missed a game because of his wonderful rec ord mercur is awarded the de served honor of being captain of the mythical eleven he furth con on page 4 col 4 annual christmas banquet by ch e's several novel features will add to enjoyment of affair when lehigh travels to princeton tomorrow night to meet the princeton basketball five the brown and white en gages with the best basketball combination in the east it will be remembered that last year princeton won the champion ship of the intercollegiate lea gue and their superb short pas sing game was thoroughly thril ling to watch princeton fives are always tall rangy men pass ing the ball with deadly accura cy however coach wittmer has lost many of his best men and is having difficulty in round ing out such a quintet this year and so chances for a lehigh victory look quite good lehigh is putting a veteran five on the court this year as only one man is new to the team true it is not as rangy a team as it has been in the past few years but their teamwork and speed is excellent they made a very good opening for the season last saturday when they trounced schylkill easily the opening game showed that the attack was centered mostly around captain weinstein al though billmeyer the new man on the veteran team was easily high point man con on page 2 col 5 princeton on the other hand is finding difficulty in finding a successor to last year's team coach wittmer must find a pair of new forwards and a center to fill the vacancies from gradua tion captain steve cleaves will honorary society has big initiation santa to be there banquet and initiation of eight men held last friday the freshman tea dance was held in drown hall on saturday december 12 the fairest of feminine visitors were there in the person of the girls from bishopthorpe and fern sem brown and white decorations were strung from one end of the hall to the other streamers were thrown in all directions and added to that the gaily colored dresses gave a gala appearance to the dance it seemed as if the class of twenty-nine turned out in force for this social event of the pre-xmas season as the floor was crowded at tt times the stag line took up its first stand near the entrance by the stairs but kept advancing until the last dance found it in the center of the floor with the dan cers surrounding it cutting in was frequent from the start and scarcely gave the fellows a chance to get a telephone num ber copied down things start ed off with a rush at 3 30 p m and kept going strong until 6 the lehigh six played better than ever and refreshments in the form of punch and crackers helped keep every one pepped up until the last strain of music had died away lehigh university calendar problems discussed on thursday december 19 professor neil carothers head of the business department ad dressed the freshman class on the subject of banking he ex plained first of all that the checking and depositing ac counts were secondary features of the banking system of today and that the banks realized their real profits by loaning money to the depositors next the pro fessor explained the federal re serve act of 1910 which was inaugurated during president wilson's first term showing how it functions to reduce the rate of failures the mere fact that a bank has a large capital does not render it secure for it is loans and loans alone which make the banks successful next he ex plained the proper way to man age a checking account stating that the banks lost money on any account which ran under a con on page 3 col 2 tomorrow night will prove to be the first test for the lehigh natotors though there will not be a regular intercollegiate match there will be some strong competition for the varsity the class of 1928 last year's winners will have to look to their laurels as the juniors will present a strong front the 200 yard relay looks as if it will develop into a duel be tween the sophs and the jun iors although as yet the frosh are an unknown quantity there is a wealth of material out for honors in the fifty raleigh 27 harmon 26 riker 28 and huf nagle 29 look like the leading representatives of their class con on page 2 col 6 harmon 26 riker 28 ral eigh 27 and jenkins 29 will furnish the fight in the century the 440 will be swum in the le high tank tomorrow w the first time its inception shall un doubtedly provide a number of thrills to the spectators riker prof mac nutt speaks on two topics attractive program for e e soc meet involved discussion results at regular physics club meeting h p liversidge of phila electric co will be the principal speaker the chemical engineering society is planning for a gala feast and get-together in the chemical building on wednes day december 16th at 6 p m the christmas party which is an annual event of the society promises to be a very enjoyable affair h law president is handling the affair and he prom ises a wonderful time for all members sharply at 6 p m a real christmas dinner will be served complete from soup to nuts including real old fashioned mince pie there will be no speakers at the dinner and no chemical talk it is to be pri marily and finally a social gath ering with no thoughts of atoms molecules or anything pertain ing to chemistry con on page 3 col 5 a musical program has been arranged which will entertain the members throughout the evening it is rumored that omicron delta kappa honor ary senior fraternity held its in itiation and banquet at the ho tel bethlehem friday evening the men who were initiated were as follows w r okeson alumni secretary ; f j steph ens r e freeman p j sha heen hartland law p e rob erts k l hoffman and r w best all members of the senior class nelson bond president of the fraternity distinguished him self in an able fashion as the toastmaster of the evening dr c r richards delivered the in itiation address stressing the relationship between faculty undergraduates and alumni and the necessity of harmony be tween these bodies in order to solve the many problems which confront any university he con on page 3 col 2 football men there will be a football meeting in drown hall at 7:15 p m on thursday december 17 for all varsity men scrubs and the fresh man squad letter men are requested to be there for elec tion of captain and assistant manager a question of vital interest to both students and faculty was the subject of a lengthy discus sion on friday afternoon the question is that of exemptions ; should there be any or should there be exempt n in some sub jects as an introduc tion to the discussion prof j b reynolds gave some data which he had secured from some fifty or sixty colleges on the subject the data was obtained by questionnaires containing ten questions principally to other institutions interested in techni cal education the replies showed that the general tenden cy was in favor of compulsory examinations with few favoring exemptions the first question asked if all undergraduates were required to take all exams and 32 answers were in the affirma tive while 18 answered in the negative of the eighteen which did have some exemptions the grades were the principal decid ing factors but a few let it up to the head of the department the deans of the various colleges or the instructors by the reg ulation in vogue at m i t which requires compulsory exams no written exercises in the subjects in which there is to be an exam can be given dur ing the six working days pre ceding the day of the exam and in subjects in which there is to be no exam not more than one written exercise can be given during these six days the question of quality cred its brought favorable replies from 25 out of 48 answers of the 18 institutions where there were exemptions eleven replied that they occasionally have stu con on page 4 col 1 wednesday december 16 6 p m ch e dinner chem building 7:00 p nf intramural swim faculty drown hall basketball game at princeton 7 30 p m m e meet physics lecture room student speak ming meet taylor pool 7 45 p m student reception by ers thursday december 17 11 00 a m frosh orientation lecture south side h s — profs drown and weinland speakers how to study 7:15 p m meeting of football men drown hall 7 30 p m e e meet physics building 7 30 p m physics journal club physics bldg — prof crafts speaker 8 00 p m c e meet physics lecture room 7:30 p m raffling of dot mellinger's ford friday december 18 7 30 p m math club meeting lecture room packer hall prof m s knebelman on evidence and involutes of plane curves con on page 2 col 4 wishing to conclude the 1925 season in successful style the of ficers of the electrical engin eering society have arranged to have as the main speaker for the meeting of that organization on thursday evening mr horace p liversidge mr liversidge a resident of cynwyd pa holds the position pf vice-president and chief en gineer of the philadelphia elec tric co having attained that musical clubs notice wanted : — students play ing bass violin cello oboe and viola apply mandolin club in drown hall friday 7:30 p m con on page 2 col 5 prof macnutt was the speak er of the evening at the phy sics club meeting last thurs day night having as his subject two recent papers from the franklin institute the first was a paper by dr grover who attempted to prove maxwell the great physicist wrong in a certain experiment which need not be noted the point under discussion was the explanation of the movement of the copper float in the mercury trough experiment suggested by maxwell although grover's the collegiate world court peace conference held at princeton friday and satur day last week was attended by nearly five hundred delegates from colleges and universities in all parts of the country the object of the conference was to stimulate interest in the world court and to determine the concensus of collegiate opinion in this country on the feasibil ity of adopting the world court as a means toward international peace lehigh was represented by elbert d griffenberg who was chosen for this mission by the alexander hamilton club the conference began on friday af ternoon when smokers and mis cellaneous entertainment were provided by the various clubs friday evening marked the official opening 1 of the confer ence when senator lenroot of wisconsin and clarence dar row the prominent criminal lawyer from chicago debated the subject of world c^urt be fore the assemblage saturday morning there were discussion groups of about ten men each held at various clubs each group was headed by one of the noted men who were present these discussion groups were under the able direction of men such as senator lenroot dr henry van dyke former am bassador to the netherlands and raymond robbins leader of the ! american red cross con on page 2 col 4 saturday afternoon an open forum of all delegates was held for the discussion of the sub ject this forum was probab ly the most interesting of all the meetings inasmuch as it brought forth the views of men from every section of the coun bethlehem pa tuesday december 15 1925 lehigh men make all state team vol xxxiii no 22 lehigh=princeton meet in basketball brown and white basketeers open season with brilliant victory over schuylkill price five cents okeson fears football will be slain in house of its friends faculty reception for students tomorrow night attend your course society meetings