Brown and White Vol. 33 no. 45

              sale of tickets for home show begins today dance planned to follow friday performance three proved disastrous to lehigh rain prevented two games while results for the other one senior and eleven jun iors win coveted scho lastic honor seasoned teams were met secure your tickets early tomorrow's game to re veal lehigh s real strength on diamond for current season pledged thursd'y pitchers improve board of control awards letters and numerals board also grants permis sion to raise athletic fee to 15 per annum long meeting the 1926 baseball season of the brown and white diamond artists did not start off in a very auspicious manner on the trip through dixie which took place during the easter holi days and the beginning of this week of the five games sched uled only three were able to be staged because of jupe pluvius's interference with the other two the opener was to be with tom keady's quantico marines last wednesday on the latter's dia mond but bucketsful of rain prevented this contest so it was princeton that inflicted the first damage to the lehigh tos sers with a 1 0 to 4 score in a game played on friday after noon on georgetown's field the next afternoon found the team at high point north carolina place where the many lehigh alumni in northern new jer sey would have an opportunity to see the show clyde davis the traveling manager of the club has turned over all details to a committee in newark composed of several prominent lehigh alumni who guarantee the success of the venture from a financial stand point and who are doing all in their power to inform interest ed parties in that section kurt thum has taken charge of the sale of newark tickets here to students who may wish to pro cure them for their friends who are in or near that vicin ity con on page 6 col 1 ) the sale of tickets for newark performance will be new developments are con stantly being made in the plans for the mustard and cheese club musical comedy coil egypt which is soon to be opened at liberty high school the opening date is april 16 and despite the work that has been done to date the members of both cast and chorus are spending every moment of their spare time to insure the suc cess of the production the latest development that has been made is the comple tion of the arrangements to have a performance given in newark it was first thought that the demand for tickets would warrant a performance in new york city but upon in vestigation and consideration newark was chosen as a central con on page 2 col 3 with the university of north carolina furnishing the opposi tion after a hectic struggle the home team triumphed with an 11-10 score after a rest on sunday the brown and white nine crossed bats with the uni versity of virginia nine at char lottesville and lost a close one to the southerners by a 4-2 tal ly the game scheduled for tuesday with the university of richmond was made impossible by a snowstorm all of the teams encountered were of high calibre and all had seen more or less action previous to their setto with the south mountain batters so the string of defeats should not be taken too serious ly society celebrates bacon anniversary lacrosse season opens tomorrow civils discuss brick pavements burr competitions to be continued robert blake society to dedicate meeting to bacon lehigh faces strong prince ton team in first meet of the year radical changes m man agement and in election of officers proposed prominent engineer leads discussion concerning merits of brick in pav ing work veteran line-up dean comments curtis to speak leads in use the lehigh university nine will again swing into action on saturday at taylor field when they meet the dickinson college exponents of the great ameri can sport the brown and white team experienced ill success on its southern jaunt but improve ment was manifest in the play ing style of lehigh in the last contest lehigh this season is woefully weak in stick work and the pitching department shows room for improvement doubtless the twirling staff will improve rapidly under the tute lege of coach jing johnson who is a pitcher himself in fact lehigh supporters confi dently look forward to marked betterment in the playing of the team because they realize that coach johnson is working with practically an entirely green team in addition to in stituting his own ideas in coach ing so far no word has come from the dickinson camp re garding its nine's calibre and their team therefore stacks up against the brown and white as an unknown quantity here tofore the carlisle institution has produced ball clubs that merit the respect of all colle giate contenders con on page 6 col 7 at a meeting held last mon day evening the tau beta pi honorary engineering fraternity which was founded at lehigh by dr williams in 1885 elect ed twelve undergraduates to membership the men chosen were pledged yesterday fore noon just before the college lec ture membership in tau beta pi is the most coveted honor which can be conferred upon an un dergraduate engineer particul arly in view of the fact that lehigh is the mother chapter of this fraternity which is now established in forty-six insti tutions high scholarship per sonality and campus activity are the the primary considerations upon which membership is based the men who have met these requirements and were pledged yesterday include one senior d m mong e e who was recently elected to membership in phi beta kappa honorary arts and science fraternity and eleven juniors these men represent four of the colleges in engineering the civil en gineering department placed five men the electrical four the chemical two and the me chanical one con on page 2 col i ) the twelve new members are : d m mong e e ; a w staller e e f c azpurua billinger and law to teach at yale bach choir ready for presentation lehigh has four graduates as assistant instructors in yale's chem dept noted soloists engaged for concerts on may l - 1 5 in chapel lengthy discussions on schol arships a new system of elect ting assistant managers and the plan for the outside use of the bethlehem steel field now the property of lehigh university kept the board of athletic con trol at lehigh university busy up to a late hour on monday night march 29 the report of the steel field committee was approved and will be submitted to the board of trustees for its approval the right to raise the student athletic fee from 1 0 to 1 5 was also approved and will likewise have to be ap proved by the trustees before it can go into effect it is plan ned to have it include a cheer ing section seat for the lafay ette game of the routine business the most important was awarding of the letters in various sports the large l was awarded in the varsity sports and the small l in minor varsity ath letics and to frosh managers and numerals to frosh athletes con on page 5 col 7 in swimming charles leader was awarded a large l by virtue of establishing a new record for the breast stroke event in the eastern collegiate swim league the board also approved sending leader and hobbs dives champion of the eastern swim league to the national collegiate champion ships at annapolis this last week-end wendell begins spring practice the burr staff held a special meeting last wednesday eve ning in drown hall to take up the matter of elections for next year's staff but after consider able discussion it was decided that this matter of business would be postponed until a lat er date professor drown opened the meeting with quite a lengthy talk on the financial status of the burr and also touched on the editorial standards his remarks were quite pertinent and brought up the plan to withhold the election of officers until suitable proof was offered to warrant the election of men to the various important posi tions on the staff dean mcconn then gave a very pointed talk to the board partly in criticism of a recent number and partly in commen dation of the responsibility ac cepted by those who were left in sole charge of managing the board after the withdrawal of h a myers and j j unkles from college con on page 6 col 6 c e nicholas as chairman of the committee on the revision of the constitution then read an amendment for consideration of the staff relating to the posi tion of officers on the board and the sanctioning of the position of chairman following this re port discussion was held on the practicability of retaining a chairman and a motion was today marks the tercentenary of the death of francis bacon the brightest and wisest man in the history of the english race in honor of this event the rob ert blake society is devoting its entire meeting tonight in memory of this distinguished scholar the keynote of the program will be an address by professor curtis embracing the following points : on easter sunday morning 1626 francis bacon the brigh test wisest largest mind that the english speaking race or any race has ever known suc cumbed to bronchitis contracted in testing snow as a cold stor age preservative of chicken a man around whose name more controversies persist than any of his much fought about con temporaries he is at once loved and honoured and respected by the thoughtful student and scholar and reviled and cavilled and ignored by the uncritical con on page 5 col 7 philosopher lawyer states man empire builder lord chancellor and man of letters francis bacon is scarcely known or appreciated by the present generation the misinforma tion and the deplorable essay by the young macaulay still holds sway in spite of ninety years of refutation by biograph er and historian study of his life and the chess game with real castles and knights and kings and . pawns of which he was a part provides all the feeling fully confident of vic tory due to the excellent condi tion of his squad captain hughey robinson will lead the brown and white lacrosse men gainst princeton tomorrow afternoon in palmer stadium the impending struggle is the initial one for the lehigh team it marks the introduction of an other sport between the two un iversities the orange and black will go into the fray with the exper ience gained from their tussle with the lacrossers of mt washington last saturday at baltimore although beaten by a score of 13-4 the princeton ians exhibited enough skill and form to warrant a fast work ing combination their defeat was almost expected for their opponents are the acme of the lacrosse world the mt wash ington team is composed of for mer collegiate stars who per form with uncanny speed and teamwork the best balanced squad that has represented lehigh in many years will wear the brown and white togs tomorrow several weeks of intensive and gruell ing practices have put the men into the proverbial pink in ad dition to developing a lightning like attack with an impregnable defense to withstand the as saults of their adversaries it is the determined plan of coach o'neill to send out his fleetest and strongest machine with a nucleus of seven var sity men from last year the squad has been augmented by enough new candidates to in sure the highest efficiency of the team con on page 6 col 4 it is not known as yet wheth er schwimmer will be at goalie tomorrow due to the weakness sustained by a recent operation a very interesting lecture was given for the benefit of the c e students on wednesday april 1 , at 1 1 a m in the phy sics lecture room the lectur er mr perkins is the chief engineer of the eastern pav ing brick manufacturing asso ciation mr perkins who is a graduate of lehigh in the class of 90 gave a very concise talk on the essentials of brick pave ments supplemented with mo tion pictures showing the man ufacture of paving bricks and some examples of brick pave ment construction the essentials of mr perkins talk were as follows the dura bility of brick pavements is de pendent on three things good design good materials and good construction there are two general types of brick pave ments : the rigid type construct ed with grout filled joints and the flexible type constructed with asphalt or sand filled joints the rigid or monolithic type of brick pavement was very popular at one time but of later years the more flexible as phalt filled pavements are more generally used this is because of the tendency of their rig id pavement to shatter under heavy traffic there are two principal parts to a brick pavement the foun dation and the wearing surface the sub-grade is an essential part of the foundation and it is important that this be properly drained the foundation itself may be of any solid material but concrete is the most desir able the wearing surface consists of the brick surface and the bin der there are two general kinds of paving brick in use namely the shale brick and the con on page 5 col 3 frosh tea dance saturday afternoon from three to six o'clock the frosh class will hold a tea dance in drown hall moravian col lege and bishopthorpe girls have been invited the sub scription is 1.00 each year yale university elects fifteen men to positions as assistant instructors in her department of chemistry out of the large number of appli cants from which a choice was to be made this year yale au thorities gave favorable consid eration to two lehigh men they are r d billinger a le high graduate of the class of 1921 and for two years an in structor in the department of chemistry at lehigh and g h law a member of the present senior class in qualifying for election as an instructor at yale a number of requirements must be met the applicant must rank scho lastically among the highest five percent of his class he must present testimonials vou ching for his good character and he must be considered by those who know his abilities as being capable of original think ing and investigation con on page 6 col 6 r d billinger became an in structor in the chemistry de partment at lehigh following his graduation as a chemical engineer in 1921 as a junior at lehigh h6 was elected to tau beta pi last june he received his master of science degree from his alma mater after two sixty-five candidates answer ed the call for spring football practice and reported to coach wendell at taylor field last wednesday afternoon after the equipment was issued coach wendell gave a short talk stressing the need for rigid training and asked for the co operation of the men the re mainder of the afternoon was spent in signal practice con on page 5 col 7 ten veterans of last year's campaign were among the can didates and it is expected that they will form the nucleus for this year's eleven the line po sitions especially are being sought for by men who saw service in the games of last sea son with the exception of an end and a tackle position this department will probably be taken care of by experienced the bach choir expects at the festival on friday and sat urday may 14th and 15th to reach the climax of all its per formances the 300 members of the choir have been carefully selected as to their ability to sing more over dr j fred wolle the leader of the choir has spared no pains in rehearsals in order to bring the work of the choir up to the highest mark thus far attained professional soloists have been engaged for both festival days seven cantatas and a motet will be sung on friday march 14th with the following soloists assisting : mildred faas soprano arthur kraft tenor mabelle addison alto charles t tittmann bass con on page 2 col i ) the cantatas for friday at 4:00 p m are christians grave ye this glad day for christmas o praise the lord for all his mercies for sun day after christmas jesus now will we praise thee for new year's day ; for friday at 8:00 p m christ lay in death's dark prison for eas ter god sp loved the world for whitsuntide whoso doth offer thanks for 1 4th sunday bethlehem pa friday april 9 1926 lehigh baseball team finds stiff opposition on trip price five cents mustard and cheese club to present show in newark lehigh brown and white vol xxxiii no 45 twelve members are elected to tau beta pi dickinson game narks home debut of baseball notice tickets for mustard and cheese show coil-egypt on sale bethlehem performance drown hall philadelphia performance clyde davis phi gamma delta house newark performance kurt thum alpha tau omega house sophomore tea dance april 7th music by the echo lake orchestra subscription 1.25 dancing from 4:30 until 6 everybody invited start spring sports right support them freshmen attend your tea dance