Brown and White Vol. 33 no. 39

              collection of funds for prior memorial starts march 22 sword & crescent sponsors sub-fresh man day in spring eleventh consecutive win gained at expense of maroon rivals — third defeat for lajter by brown and white lehigh wrestlers to end home season with navy team vol xxxiii no 39 clash tomorrow will be the greatest meet of season — captain best will appear in his last home bout , for lehigh o d k fraternity will take complete charge of campaign senior society endeavors to interest promising prep students in lehigh game roughly contested new mgr system annual event house party at a special meeting of the interfraternity council held at noon on tuesday the most important resolution passed was that one changing the date of house party from the date agreed upon by the counpil april 15 16 17 at the last regular meeting the date passed was that of the week-end of may 1 st the petition sent to the faculty was for a three day affair the same as the first petition which was brought up but never presented to the fac ulty for sanction tank men to meet strong navy team navy is recognized as be ing the strongest team in the east fast meet winding up perhaps the most successful season the brown and white has ever enjoyed on the court the lehigh quintet an nexed its eleventh straight vic tory and handed the easton ri vals their third consecutive de feat of the season when it ov erwhelmed lafayette by the very one-sided score of 24-7 the whirlwind attack which benny weinstein and his fel low-players opened against the maroon combination on the la fayette floor at eight o'clock wednesday evening was far from being the slump which had been phophesied for the team although the general type of playing was not as brilliant as that which characterized the gettysburg game in the last navy is sending powerful team con on page 4 col 6 hope of captain best who will appear in his mat togs for the last time of his active athletic career at south bethlehem the popular leader a proud posses sor of 1 3 consecutive victories the last one scored in 57 sec onds — is expected to repeat his sensational display of mat sci ence in the intercollegiates next week his admirers — and there are many of them — are fully confident that he will be crown ed champ in his division and therefore join that charmed group of lehigh athletes who have annexed wrestling titles for two or more years the sailors who are allowed but one trip away each season have not attained the record the battle of the century was the phrase coach sheridan used when interrogated in re gards to the anticipated wrest ling meet which takes place in taylor gymnasium tomorrow afternoon when the representa tives of the lehigh and annap olis wrestling squads clash it will be the final appearance of the sheridan wrestlers prior to the intercollegiates at perm state a victory for the homesters will restore whatever confidence was lost by last saturday's ini tial defeat at the hands of the cornell men last year lehigh opened its season by traveling to the academy where it was beaten 19-6 to redeem this set-back is the electricals meet at swarthmore basketball game in which he will ever represent the brown and white benny was the pivot of a good passing game although the shooting was quite ■ ragged at times during the game in addition to seeing a bas ketball game the spectators were given an exhibition bout of shadow boxing by maguire maroon guard and earl schaub the bout took place about two minutes before the end of the game and so great an interest did the spectators take in the affair that half of them were on the floor matters were very easily settled however to the satisfaction of all concerned the game was very rough tow ards the end for in addition to con on page 4 col 3 welding symposium to be innovation wayburn makes m & c selections lacrosse men are rushing season senior engineers to be in structed in methods of welding in annual meeting thirty men are working out daily in camp cop pee awaiting seasonable weather omicron delta kappa senior honorary fraternity will begin its drive for the collection of the fund for the erection of the charlie prior memorial gate on monday march 22 each member of the fraternity has been assigned certain living groups which he will visit per sonally for the collection of the assessment of the respective houses each man is requested to contribute a dollar but larger contributions will be accepted it is expected that sufficient money will be raised in this way so that it will not be ne cessary to obtain outside con tributions outside contribu tions will not be refused but they will not be encouraged as it is the desire of the fraternity to have the students and fac ulty pay the entire cost of the memorial con on page 2 col 4 upon the payment of a dollar the donor will receive a small brown and white button which will indicate that he has con tributed to the fund and it will delivers paper seniors represent lehigh at a i e e meet kear preliminary tryouts held sunday — final cut takes place monday * two sessions the custom of holding sub freshman day is again to be re newed at lehigh if the plans of the sword and crescent society are carried out the idea was first carried out here two years ago with a certain amount of success considering that it was an innovation at that time for lehigh there was an attempt to hold another one last year but lack of proper organization and stimulus curtailed its suc cess also there was a dad's day last spring and this divert ed some of the interest from sub-freshman day the society will endeavor to make it a real success this year and thus to in sure it as an annual custom the sword and crescent society firmly believes that it is one of the surest methods for interest ing leading prep and high school students in lehigh the foster ing of this as an annual custom will become one of the duties of this senior honorary society hereafter an addition oeing made to the by-laws to that ef con on page 2 col 3 20 men attended coach here mon coach to arrive new apparatus improves qual itative course frosh courtmen to end season at freeland prof anderson develops new hydrogen sulfide generator lehigh yearlings are set to annex victory after two straight defeats with the balmy spring days we are wont to notice of late the lacrosse men have seen fit to hold their practices on the upper field though perhaps rushing the season slightly captain robinson hopes to be able to continue this form of practice as it is only through this means that the candidates can get into condition for their first game which is not so far distant con on page 2 col 6 there have been thirty men who have signed up thus far and with the close of the indoor season in the next few weeks it is expected that there will be a substantial addition to the ranks of the candidates all fresh men who have had any exper ience with the game or would like to try out for the frosh team are urged to sign up at once although it is not cer tain that the frosh team will be able to have a regular scred ule of games it is certain that they will find plenty of compe tition in the intra-mural sports the selections made by ned wayburn last sunday for the cast and chorus of the 1926 edi tion of the mustard and cheese show have been made known and with slight changes to be made later by mr darcy who will be in charge of the coach ing of the men from now on are as follows for male chorus brill mc nickle deglin tull purdy r j whitney randies m e cas key mendenhall reutelhuber godshalk and for the female chorus wilt ketterer shonk pullman bachman myers w gott rankin hartsch bell ringer and stine the selections for the cast are as follows the names are di vided into the men eligible for the various parts but the names of the characters are withheld until further developments take place yon schilling cohen wilkinson mckinnon allberg van horn halloran ridsdale ridsdale moran an derson keyes strong mc cance myers r gaither con on page 3 col 2 on saturday the lehigh na tators meet the well balanced navy team in the stiffest test of the year evidently the sail ors are proving to the world that the future watchers on the bounding main can emulate the ducks in their aquatic efforts in defeating washington and lee by a score of 52-10 the navy tank men lowered seven intercollegiate records captain arthur rule carried off the hon ors of the day by shattering three figures in two classes of swimming and swam a lap in two record breaking relays his performance has probably nev er beea excelled in one match in intercollegiate circles the relay team composed of rule allan and whycof f cut 1 9 seconds from the 300 yard med ley relay two relay the 40 and 50 yard the 100 and 200 yard and the 100 yard back stroke records fell before the on slaught of the middies in beating catholic univer sity the relay team churned the water to foam in lowering the 500 yard relay record to 4:42 7-10 this is 2 3-4 sec onds under the old intercolle giate figure rule again car ried off the honors in the 50 yard and 1 00-yard breast-stroke events princeton was submerged by the future admirals to the tune of 35-27 the team was below par and no record breaking per formances were turned in coo per has shown fine form in his dives and has succeeded in hold ing clown first place with his con on page 4 col 6 stanford swimming meet cancelled cotillion dance slated for house party week middle at l antics here next week the v freshman basketeers play their swan song at free land with the freeland mining mechanical institute saturday evening march 1 3 the freshmen have cruised an indifferent season nothing sensational and nothing dis graceful and want to polish off the season with a handsome lit tle victory over the school that sent the schaub brothers to le high and defeated the f rosh cage teams for the past two seasons thus far the yearlings are cre dited with four wins and four losses however it must be said that of the defeats each with the exception of the wyoming sem game were tightly con tested while on the other hand all of the lehigh freshman tri umphs were by decisive deci sions among the yearlings home wins is one over the rut gers frosh squad the latter be ing conceded as one of the con on page 2 col 3 athletic association ruling prevents holding contest senior invitation samples at trophy room saturday tank championships to be decided in taylor gym pool on march 20 a unique piece of apparatus a hydrogen sulphide generator has recently been installed in the freshman chemical labor atory lehigh should feel justly proud of this new apparatus not because of its monetary value which is comparatively small but because there are practically no others like it in existence it is located in the small room east of the main freshman laboratory on the second floor of the chemistry building one of the features of the apparatus is its simpli city with its consequent lack of parts to get out of adjustment the idea of this generator was conceived by assistant profes sor h v anderson who has been working on it for several months the work being com pleted on february 25 con on page 3 col 3 the apparatus consists of a steel cylinder containing fifty pounds of liquid hydrogen sul phide which is collected in a gasometer holding appproxi mately two cubic feet of gas it is then distributed through a three-quarter inch manifold from which twenty-four outlets junior prom committee appointed by cox after much dickering it has finally been decided to hold the middle atlantic states swim league championships in taylor pool march 20 by the original arrangement the championships were to alternate to the pool of the different members each year this plan was successfully carried out until last season when johns hopkins was the college picked to entertain however owing to the lack of con on page 2 col 4 con on page 2 col 3 on monday march 8 1926 about twenty seniors e e.s journeyed to swarthmore col lege swarthmore pa and at tended the second annual stu dent convention of the philadel phia section of the american institute of electrical engin eers there were about two hundred delegates present rep resenting delaware drexel haverford lafayette lehigh pennsylvania swarthmore and villa nova the speeches and the inspection trips were inter esting as well as instructive and everyone present spent a very enjoyable day the convention opened with registration at 9:30 in the en gineering building this was followed by an address of wel come by president frank aye delotte at 10:30 then four technical papers were given the first was present devel opment in power plants by herbert estrade university of pennsylvania 26 the second was by f g kear lehigh uni versity 26 he spoke on el ectricity of motion pictures he first discussed lighting effects and how they were pro duced then he told how the latest type motion picture ma chines are constructed and how they are operated following right in line with this was a de scription of the screen used for showing the pictures kear then discussed the three kinds of light used in motion pictures they are the alternating cur rent arc the direct current arc and the incandescent lamp the advantages and disadvantages of each were discussed and he proved that the direct current arc is the best of the three he also told how the alternating current can be changed to direct current by a rotary convertor or a motor generator the main a short but important meet ing of the sophomore cotillion was held last friday night march 5 in drown hall the two main topics discuss ed were the matter of charms and the probable date of the cotillion the dance will in all likelihood take place on the first night of the house party week-end probably thursday night which seems to be the most convenient time the selection of the charms was confirmed and all those who intend to get them are ask ed to see billmeyer treasurer of the cotillion concerning them samples of the commence ment invitations for the senior class have arrived and will be placed on display in the trophy room at the gym where mem bers of the class may order them james levan chairman of the commitee and other mem bers of the committee will be in the trophy room at one o'clock saturday afternoon orders may be placed at that time all or ders must be paid in advance a distinct innovation in the form of a welding symposium is to take place at tehigh on tues day march 23 starting at 1 p m professor bradley stough ton is to be master of ceremo nies the symposium will open with a lecture on welding to be given in the physics lecture room by professor stoughton and mr e e thum of the pub licity of the linde air products company this will be follow ed by a practical demonstration in the fritz laboratory of cut ting and welding under the di rection of mr c a bradburn of the oxweld acetylene com pany this demonstration will include the preparation of com parative test pieces of welded and unwelded samples of the same size which will be sub jected to the same tests these tests will show the effectiveness of welding at first hand the symposium will be con tinued in the evening at which time mr thum will present a budget of unpublished data covering research work on weld ed metal joints to the members of the engineering faculty in the physics lecture room he has previously given this data to the engineering faculties of purdue university ohio state university and carnegie insti tute of technology with consid erable success there are several features about this symposium which will make it of great benefit to lehigh it will enable the sen ior engineering students to be come familiar with welding op erations and data by holding this symposium annually the university obtains a permanent loan of a complete set of weld ing and cutting apparatus which should be of practical value in repairs around the campus it con on page 3 col 2 jack cox president of the junior class announces the fol lowing appointments to the junior prom committee har rier miles hayes sinwell ridsdale and wilmurt it is planned to hold the junior prom on the friday evening of the house party week-end the swimming meet schedul ed with leland-stanford for march 27 has been cancelled a bond had already been put up assuring the meet being held at lehigh but due to a custom of the athletic association it was found impossible to hold the contest the leland-stanford team on their way to columbia to com pete in the intercollegiates to be held in new york the latter part of this month planned to stop off in bethlehem to swim con on page 4 col 1 ) lehigh brown and white bethlehem pa friday march 12 1926 basketeers close brilliant season with 24-7 victory price five cents prepare for the intercollegiates sink the navy