Brown and White Vol. 33 no. 23

              coach sheridan scores intensity of practice and game in ve hement article on intercollegiate football — several minor faults of game also pointed out eighteen men receive large football 4 l — other awards made moving-up day plans must be crystalized for upper classes bureau established here be gins details of work immediately would lengthen season business discussed possible single fee this is the third 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 ami should there fore be of added interest to our readers official inspects tion mr sheridan's views are as follows : in the general scramble to provide a panacea for the sup posed to be sick child known as intercollegiate football the sporting pages in all newspapers throughout the country have been flooded by many prescrip tions but the majority of them savor too much of the street cor ner medicine man to the writ er the only real trouble with football is that the season is too short and an eight or nine game schedule fits in with the temper con on page 2 col 4 on wednesday night at the lair of the tiger at princeton the brown and white basket eers scored their first victory over the orange and black in many seasons by the score of 33 to 25 each year lehigh meets the tiger in an early sea sor game but in the past their efforts have been in vain but not so this year coach buddy lingle had his charges pointed for this contest and the team started out with a whirlwind at tack garnering a lead which the home team could not over come coach wittmer the ti ger mentor tried three different combinations in an effort to stave off defeat but his efforts were in vain the lehigh five according to william sheri dan the writer of the article be low one of the faults with in tercollegiate football is the brev ity and over-concentration of the season he believes that less intensive practice and a length ening of the season would be a long step toward abolishing some of the present evils mr sheridan in addition to being mentor of the brown and white matmen is an ardent and close follower of all forms of sports he was formerly sporting edi tor of the bethlehem times be fore that paper ceased publica basketball team wins victory over princeton conquer tigers in their own lair in fast game by 33 to 25 score soring first cage victory for lehigh over princeton in many years lehigh excels in passing and shooting was acclaimed by many of the spectators as one of the fastest aggregations seen in action on the tiger floor for a long time coach wittmer after the game commented on the smoothness of the brown and white play and predicted a successful sea son ahead for the visitors con on page 2 col 3 princeton was the first to score caging a basket soon af ter the opening whistle had blown their lead was short lived however lehigh soon gain ing the upper hand all thru out the first half the score was close but lehigh managed to hold a narrow margin the brown and white team secured the tap-off at least two-thirds of societies unite in combined meet to hear speech cyanide pledges fifteen juniors by new system y gives faculty reception for all four classes beaux arts hears english dept head on war poetry dr smith illustrates talk with example of poetic moods editor of wilkes ba r re times-leader talks on anthracite coal points alone determine eligi bility for junior honorary club professors and their wives receive at affair in drown hall banquet after xmas innovation here history of coal well received at a dinner of the board on monday evening at the new burg inn at which the other members of the board were the guests of graduate manager petrikin the letters were awar ded to the football and cross country teams eighteen ath letes received their varsity let ter in football while six men were awarded the minor l in cross-country i the former are captain how ard e merrill william crane '• eugene o'callaghan thomas burke william gannon charles mellinger henry lewin jack wilson james yeager herbert harmon duncan cheel roy scholl charles hess william littell nelson bond manager fred stephens merle evans t and sanford morris stephens and evans did not quite meet the requirements but they were awarded their letters be cause of four years of hard work on the varsity morris was awarded his letter for four years of hard work on the scrubs con on page 4 col 3 the cross-country team re ceived letters for the first time such questions as moving-up day continuance of the present number of athletic teams the establishment of an activites fee and traffic regulation on the campus were the principal top ics considered by the arcadia at its regular monthly meeting on monday night in drown hall waesche reported for the committee on moving-up day that they had a pretty definite plan for the • frosh but had nothing definite for the upper classmen the custom of mov ing-up day is in vogue on many of the campuses at the present time on this day each class moves up to take the place of the class above it the frosh discard their caps the sopho mores become social juniors and so on by the plan of the com mittee the frosh were to cut out a section of their cap on each day of the week preceding this day which would probably be a saturday and since there are six sections in the cap there would be nothing left but the green on saturday they would then be gathered together in a heap and burned on that day this plan met with the general approval of the arcadia but it was referred back to the com mittee to develop ideas for the other classes especially the sen iors the question of a decrease in con on page 4 col 5 president richards presides at meeting of a a a s two fall sport captains chosen society confers on closer re lations between sections meet during xmas nevins to pilot soccer men and aitken will lead harriers 0n wednesday night the y m c a gave a faculty recep tion for the students so that they might become better ac quainted with their instructors it was an innovation for lehigh although it is an annual event in many colleges drown hall was attractively decorated in brown and white and the christmas spirit was manifested by a large christmas tree the faculty formed a re ception line and in this way the students were afforded the op con on page 3 col 1 chemists hold big xmas banquet the cyanide club has recent ly been changed as to eligibility so that it now is strictly a jun ior honorary society previously its members were chosen equal ly from the senior and junior classes on the basis of a man's activities in student organiza tions due to the fact that there was no existing junior honor ary and at the present time there are two senior honoraries it was deemed advisable to pledge new men from the jun ior class only in accordance with this change the constitu tion of the society has been al tered and a new point system for selection has been worked con on page 2 col 7 musical clubs prepare program winter's work progressing rapidly in both clubs tree santa and good food make annual affair a great success appropriate gifts new selections con on page 3 col 2 president charles russ rich ards who is chairman of the section of engineering of the american association for the advancement of science acted in this capacity at a recent meeting of the section held at the engineers club in new york city given by mr calvin rice secretary of the american society of mechanical engin eers a conference relative to closer relations between several of the engineering societies and the american association for the advancement of science was held during and after the luncheon other noted person ages in the realm of science who attended this meeting included dr michael i pupin president the christmas meet and ban quet of the lehigh chemical society made good its reputa tion of being the liveliest cam pus activity of this season ev ery well established custom — the chemical chinaware the mass singing the appearance of santa claus and last but not least the famous mince pie were all observed con on page 3 col 4 in the early part of the din ner the orchestra made its ap pearance and enlivened mat lehigh's weather bureau is now completely organized and observations are being made daily the bureau is under the supervision of professor tur ner of the geology department professor turner has several students to assist him in mak ing observations the station is completely equipped with instruments for measuring the wind direction and velocity amount of rain fall and snowfall maximum and minimum daily temperature rel ative humidity amount of sun shine and barometric pressure these observations are made daily from the roof of the li brary where the equipment is located monthly reports are submitted to the philadelphia weather bureau of which the lehigh station is a branch professor turner's especial pet is an instrument known as a multiple recorder this deli cate bit of mechanism is locat ed in williams hall and will automatically record wind dir ection and velocity amount of sunshine and amount of rain fall it is operated electrically and is connected to the equip ment on the library roof no attempt will be made to forecast the weather conditions from this station because this requires a study of the weather maps for various localities to determine the location of the storm centers then knowing the direction of the prevailing winds an estimate can be made of where and when the storm will strike next but all of this will require considerable time before definite results can be obtained mr bliss of the philadelphia weather bureau made an in spection of the lehigh station on tuesday he was very much impressed with it both as to its location and equipment a great many weather stations are in cities where the proximity of taller buildings may impair the accuracy of the observations made obviously lehigh's sta tion will never be subject to that difficulty and the equipment is superior to that in many of the state weather bureaus so le high may well be proud of her weather bureau professor r m smith new head of the english department made his first appearance be fore campus organizations last monday evening when he de lightfully entertained the mem bers of the beaux arts society with an instructive address about the poetry of the world war in his address prof smith did not undertake a criticism of the various types of versifica tion instead he outlined the several moods through which participants in the conflict passed from the time war was declared until the bitterness of its losses was realized this was a new point of consideration for most of the members of the so ciety and proved to be a most in teresting one prof smith pointed out six moods which are exemplified in the poetry of the world war the first was that of heroics in which the enemy was to be crushed without pity or mercy he read amelia burr's fall in to illustrate this mood the soldier passes rapidly from this first mood to the second which is one of uncertainty in which he questions the justice of his own cause prof smith read facing the shadows by wil liam grundish to illustrate this mood indicently mr grun dish was a student in one of prof smith's classes at west minster college and while in con on page 3 col 2 under the leadership of mr shields the university organ ist and mr luckenbach direc tor of the bethlehem symphony orchestra the combined musi cal clubs are quickly rounding into shape each rehearsal is well attended and the interest manifested certainly augurs well for a highly successful sea con on page 3 col 2 the mandolin club this year is no longer a mandolin club in the stricter sense of the word notice the brown and white will suspend publication with this issue until friday january the eighth something unique in the his tory of lehigh took place mon day evening when the alexan der hamilton club and the min ing and metallurgical society held a combined meeting in coppee hall the meeting wste started promptly at eight o'clock and after very short prelimin ary introductions mr earnest smith the speaker of the eve ning undertook his address mr smith is a man of considerable note being the editor of the times-leader of wilkes-barre and he is also considered an au thority on the anthracite mining history of northern pennsylva nia in beginning his address mr smith mentioned the fact that the year 1766 is the year gen erally accredited with the dis covery of coal in pennsylvania a company known as the sus quehanna co had however re ceived a grant of land in wyo ming valley of five million acres as the result of their claims that they had found stone»-coal in that district in 1762 of this there is no definite proof a map of pennsylvania bearing the date 1770 contains a note that coal existed in the wyom ing district and this is the first authentic record of the discov ery of coal in pennsylvania the credit for discovering the first coal in this state does not belong to any single person the gorr brothers were the first per sons to put coal to a commer con on page 2 col 1 during the past week two captains for fall sports for the 1926 season were elected these were the leaders for soccer and cross-country the football leader for next year was chosen last night at the meeting of the players but the result was too late for publication in this is sue samuel l red nevins will pilot the booters next season nevins was the unanimous choice of the team so that his election can be announced even though the letters have not as yet been . officially awarded to the soccer men this tall red haired youth has played a con sistently strong game of soccer for the past three years dur ing his first season and through out most of last year he was one of coach carpenter's defense stalwarts however when the line needed bolstering he was moved up to center forward and con on page 4 col 5 price five cents vol xxxiii no 23 bethlehem pa friday december 18 1925 arcadia discusses proposed changes in college affairs brown and white board of control awards letters at dinner monday local weather to be recorded by lehigh students length and concentration of season are poor points pay your arcadia dues don't forget to come back a ih^rrg jjljrißtmaa txnb a ijapjrg i?ar