Brown and White Vol. 33 no. 24

              littell elected 1926 grid leader price five cents dr richards chair man at eng'rs meet at kansas city new book to aid senior engineers in english work basketeers meet future generals away tomorrow lehigh swimming mentor has won nation-wide fame professor mease passes great divide gift for research institute to aid lehigh's new plan widow of h m byllesby 78 gives 40,000 to cause of science many college affairs popular player active in young coach has developed t6am to high standard and students alike loss keenly felt by faculty lehigh well-represented at important holiday gathering good engineering litera ture can be obtained free at alumni office eventful life consistent star schools coaches new research line at a meeting of the football men on the thursday evening west pointers present strong aggregation to lehigh attack many papers read a valuable book teams unbeaten the students of lehigh unk versity will grieve to learn of the death of one of their great est friends and co-workers along the path to knowledge — profes sor james alexander mease he proved himself an apt scholar and was ever willing and ready to give his time and valuable energy for the advancement of lehigh and mankind he died on monday december 21 at the home of his parents mr and mrs alexander mease at seid ersville professor mease wag gradu ated from lehigh in 1905 and distinguished himself as an en gineer with the bethlehem steel company where he remained con on page 4 col 5 at the eighty-second meeting of the american association for the advancement of science held during the christmas holi days in kansas city doctor charles russ richards repre sented lehigh university dr richards presided over the en gineering section of the five-day conference and was later elected to serve a second term as vice president of the association and chairman of the engineering section this association which is the clearing house for scientific work particularly of pure sci ence has a membership in ex cess of eighteen thousand in the engineering section alone con on page 2 col 4 e e.'s culminate pre-xmas affairs witbsocialmeeting winner of ford raffle announced home for holidays jack white takes flivver h e liversidge of the phila delphia electric co talks on opportunity bill littell courtesy bethlehem globe before the christmas holidays isaac william littell was unan imously elected as captain of the 1926 gridiron team of lehigh con on page 2 col 5 dot buys new one corson also speaks civils have big attendance at pre=holiday meet announcement has been made recently of a gift which will aid considerably lehigh's newly formed institute of research it is a gift of 40,000 which will endow a research fellowship in engineering at lehigh and is given by the widow of the late henry byllesby 78 mr byllesby was the presi dent of the corporation bearing his name which is a controlling company of numerous public utilities in the middle west al though he never received a de gree from lehigh he was a stu dent here and was granted an honorary degree of mechanical engineering shortly before his death in recognition of his work in building up such a great in dustrial enterprise the income from this fund will be used to maintain a pro gram of research into problems of an engineering character the h m byllesby company will be privileged to suggest timely sub jects for investigation so that it is quite likely that much of the research will be along lines of particular interest and value to public utility corporations a man capable of conducting the research will be selected and will work at lehigh in conjunc tion with the interested depart ments and utilizing the facili con on page 4 col 5 lehigh grad tells of subway development in new york frosh tossers to encounter wyoming five at kingston j halsey gulick coach of swimming at lehigh has had varied experience in coach ing that sport he is perhaps the youngest successful swim ming coach in the country for he has devoted most of his life to teaching the tank game he developed a very creditable team last year having several of his men place well in the in tercollegiates gulick comes from a family that might be termed a physi cal education family and his father has won considerable fame in that line through being the first physical culture direc tor in the y m c a in the united states furthermore he was the founder of the camp fire girls and one of the pioneers in the playground development in new york city gulick first started his career in swimming at princeton university where he made the freshman team and won his letter for two years on the varsity his event was diving and he specialized in that particular field of swimming before he was out of college he first started to teach swimming as an instructor in a boys sum mer camp lehigh is his first venture in coaching a college team in addition to coaching swim ming here he spends his sum mers in the same field each year for the past seven years he has conducted a ten day confer ence of swimming directors of summer camps from all over the country tomorrow night fast battle promised in court well illustrated frosh strong the basketball team trained intensively this week in prepar ation for the army game which will be played tomorrow at west point the cadets in their debut this season defeated the st john's college quintet from brooklyn by the score of 30 to 18 capt roosma was the individual star in this game and scored 12 points in the next game with yale the former passiac star was held in check and was un able to score a single field goal but tossed in three of his foul throws draper a forward and shepard a guard were the stars for the army in this game and the former led in the scoring with nine points to his credit ernest blood the former pas saic high school mentor is now coaching the military quintet and after their successful start they are far from lacking in confidence since coach blood is recognized as an authority on the game and has already dem onstrated this fact in his devel opment of the wonder teams of passaic following is the probable line up of the two teams : west point lehigh roosma l.f . . c schaub draper rf smith flood c e schaub skephard lg . . . weinstein strickler rg billmeyer frost plays havoc in fraternities over vacation takes toll of water pipes and ceilings in many houses tankmen resume hard training one of the most common weaknesses of the engineering student especially in the present day when the curriculum is al most entirely devoted to techni cal subjects is writing his thoughts and ideas in an intel ligible and coherent manner with the large amount of tech nical knowledge to be absorbed it is next to impossible to pro vide adequate time for the study of english a»d writing by the engineering student an un equalled opportunity has pre sented itself to the engineering seniors here at lehigh for bridging this gap in an easy manner a very valuable book entitled good engineering literature written by harwood frost 93 can be obtained for the asking by any engineer at lehigh now in the senior class application should be made at the alumni office in the near future as the books will be obtained from the west and only a number large enough to supply the requests will be ordered it would be impossible to de scribe in detail here the com plete scope of the work but a short description can be given explaining the general purpose and scope of the book al though written primarily for en gineers it is broad enough to be of use to anyone who has occa sion to write it is especially intended for those engineers who intend to write articles for publication it also gives gen eral rules and aids in the writ ing of reports it begins with the general rules of grammar and literary expression in addition to sev eral other of the mechanical features of writing it then con on page 4 col 4 much damage done preparation well under way for first meet with lafayette wrestlers hold try-outs today jack white is the happy own er of the ford sedan which was raffled off by dot mellinger just before the christmas holi days the ford which is a 1924 model spent the christmas holi days with jack at the latter's home in ridgewood n j the winner was announced on the night of december 17 be fore a large and enthusiastic audience at the colonial thea tre due to the fact that a draw ing of this nature could not be made before a public audience the drawing was held at the s p e house instead of at the colonial theatre the lucky number was drawn from the hat before a crowd of about fifty boys who were attending a christmas party at the s p e house dot mellinger was so grieved at the loss of his fliv ver that he has secured another ford which he calls his red steed to console him for his re cent loss outlook bright heavyweight class still weak — other positions filled try-outs being held for rifle team competition keen the lehigh chapter of the a s c e held its second meeting this term on thursday evening december 17 1925 this being the last meeting of the year ev ery effort was made to assure its being the best and the com mittee was more than successful in this effort the meeting was especially well attended both by the students and the faculty and everyone enjoyed it immensely the meeting was called to or der at 8:00 p m by president sheppard professor r j fogg head of the civil engineering department then introduced the speaker of the evening mr f donaldson a graduate of lehigh in the class of 01 mr don aldson studied mechanical en gineering while here and is now engaged in subway construc tion on which he is considered an authority con on page 3 col 1 the topic of mr donaldson's talk was subways in general and the new york subway in par ticular he explained the ever the electrical engineering society of lehigh held a joint holiday meet and smoker on thursday evening december 17 and carried out its pre-christ program in an unusually suc cessful manner the meeting started off with a snap about eight o'clock and after the min utes were read the president f g kear jr introduced the student speaker o m corson 26 corson took as his subject automatic train control and not only did he deliver his ad dress in a very creditable man ner but he illustrated the talk with slides which added to its interest he explained that eavh train is equipped with skis ; and if the operator fails to give the proper signals these skis act on automatic relays which stop the train if the train is going too fast these automatic relays will cause the speed of the train to be cut down corson has had quite a bit of practical exper ience in the line of automatic train controls and consequently he was able to present his sub ject in a very clear manner the president then presented the main speaker of the meet mr h e liversidge who is vice-president of the philadel phia electric company mr liversidge spoke on making the most of opportunities and he held the audience from start to finish with his masterly pres entation the gist of his talk was that work is the prime fac con on page 4 col 5 with the re-opening of school the lehigh natators flocked back to the pool to start in ear nest training for the difficult season to follow a week from tomorrow the lehigh mermen shall attempt to avenge them selves for their inundation at the hands of lafayette last year in football as this will be the first meeting of the ancient riv als in this sport the day is eag erly awaited by both teams the inter-mural meet proved to be very beneficial to coach gulick as it gave him a good line on his material he has a number of stellar performers who will undoubtedly carry the brown and white to the fore front this season captain har mon al raleigh bill wynn herb hobbs and rik er form the nucleus of a team which promises to be one of the best in the acquatic history of lehigh gold watch chain with mustard and cheese charm on campus wednesday findar please return to broads at pi lambda phi house lost now that the holidays are over a large number of fresh men and varsity men have been reporting for wrestling practice each day approximately one hundred men have been pre senting themselves daily to coach sheridan for tutoring in the grappling game this afternoon tryouts were held for the syracuse meet which will be held next satur day all men must be within five pounds of their respective weights although the heft y weights have not as yet made a good showing all other classes have been doing very v<?ll therefore it is expected that this first meet which will be held at syracuse will prove an easy one for the sturdy brown and white grapplers fay bartlett freshman bas ketball coach has primed his proteges for their initial tilt with wyoming seminary on the seminary boys home court to morrow night the frosh squad will leave bethlehem tomorrow afternoon accompanied by coach bartlett and freshman manager bartoo and will play at kingston at 8 15 this is the first game for both teams and it will give the rival coaches an opportunity to gauge their talent in combat the wy oming game is always a fixture on the freshman card and is in variably a lively contest that is eagerly anticipated last year the yearlings fell victim to wy oming by a two point margin but the frosh quintet garnered the honors the preceeding year never has the game been one sided but always a nip and tuck affair that is undecided until the final whistle freshmen that have perform ed favorably in the preliminary practice are sandusky hess blackmar harwood glowacki fry and breighn all these can didates exhibit versatility in playing the positions and conse quently coach bartlett is con fronted with no dearth of talent in any one department epitome notice all organizations must turn in their data for the epi tome to shurtleff at the al pha chi rho house by jan 13 or risk non-publication of data ' notations of fraternity social affairs must also be in on that date try-outs for the university r 0 t c rifle team will be held at the packer hall range each after noon monday to friday inclu sive until jan 15 for all candi dates whether or not they par ticipated in the company com petition new springfield 22 cal rifles are on hand for the match shooting and it is desired that a large number of candidates from all classes report at once to put lehigh once more on the marksmanship map the scfuad after january 15 will consist of the best twenty men who turn out now and the team to fire in competition will in most cases number 15 men christmas holidays now that they are over seem to . have found jack frost very busy in his cavortings about the empty houses on the campus and in playing practical jokes with wa ter pipes and shower baths while the houses were vacated by the pilgrimages to home towns this advocate of longer and colder winters entered the homes of various nationally known and prominent fraterni ties and cavorted about demol ishing water pipes and radiators and even hanging icicles on the door knobs in a few places con on page 3 col 3 as a matter of fact few if any campus houses were not visited by the hoary old trickster in spite of all precautions that were taken by the departing va cationers the houses which were particularly hard hit by the depradations and maraud ings of the icy lad were a t 0 sigma nu and alpha chi rho the reason for the sleepy ap pearance of several of the a t o.s is the fact that their show brown and white bethlehem pa friday january 8 1926 vol xxxiii no 24 seniors turn in your ballots organizations ! remember your epitome data