Brown and White Vol. 33 no. 47

              letters have been sent to prospective frosh and to prep schools ziegenfuss veteran hurler for allentown college likely to face lehigh avenge football success expected on wednesday afternoon at taylor stadium in a contest greatly spotted by ragged play ing the lehigh nine humbled ursinus by the score of 1 1 3 this was the second game for the visitors and the fifth for the local clan last satur day the ursinus team trounced the philadelphia school of tex tiles 4-2 while lehigh was trim ming dickinson 9-3 brady started on the mound for the homesters while derk affair and his arrival is one of the big events in the day before house party begins this pro fessor is an egyptologist who is of course very eccentric and absent minded the predica ments that he finds himself in at the arrival of some of the women particularly miss march another chaperone cause a hu morous strain to run through the entire performance the second act takes the au con on page 4 col 1 college sing next sunday afternoon marks the occasion of anoth er college sing and weather permitting it will be held on the lawn back of drown hall the outdoors is the natural setting for such an event and always tends to make it more attractive as usual the time is to be 3:30 and following the sing the ladies of the faculty will serve a light lunch the turnout at the last sing was very disappointing and it is hoped that with the coming of spring the crowds will increase the sings for the remainder of the year will be under the direction of the arcadia . and it will do everything in its power to make the events a success arcadia to retire late in april soph council met to punish frosh junior banquet promises to be huge success each living group advised to elect member for new body at once six first year men up for infractions of the rules receive light penalties two hundred members of class are expected to be present dad's day may 1 5 pay class dues monday evening captain opened for the college ville boys in the fifth inning seltzer took the brunt from brady and held the visitors ambler and hayes stood out predominantly in stick work while sandy morrison took the fielding honors ambler garnered three wallops out of four trips and hayes took three unto himself in five trys for six innings the contest had the semblance of a ball game but beginning in the sev enth frame the brown and white shoved a phalanx of bristling bats against the inva ders that quite altered the con on page 4 col 3 course of the old ball game in two innings the wild slugging orgy continued to the tune of healthy cracks of the willows and feet pounding the paths ursinus brought a squad of eighteen men including the managers to stop the mad lehigh rush the entire squad with the exception of the man ager was pressed into yoeman service this evening has been set as the time for the opening cur tain of coil-egypt in the au ditorium of liberty high school the production of the thirty-eighth annual mustard and cheese show has required the spare time of some seventy five men and will undoubtedly prove one of the finest college productions of the year the scenario which was writ ten by e d griffenberg 26 and j m mckinnon 28 deals with the present day american college the fraternity of chi delta is preparing for a house party of the 1926 style and the predicaments which ensue when a couple of more or less unex pected girls turn up causes a great deal of perplexity on the part of the brothers an inno cent freshman is detailed lo the entertainment of one of the girls who has had a few experisnces with college men and is some what disgruntled upon the dis covery of her blind date one of the faculty brothers has been asked to chaperone the lacrosse team in first home game rutgers opens b & w tennis season rutgers visits lehigh for annual clash — about evenly matched lehigh meets new bruns wick opponents in its first game at steel field victory expected when lehigh crosses bats with muhlenberg tomorrow af ternoon at three-thirty it will be going up against a practical ly unknown factor while le high will engage upon its sixth encounter on saturday muh lenberg will be entering only its second fray of the year the visiting team from allentown lined up against osteopathy on its own diamond on wednesday but no indication of its relative strength could be gotten from that game the team which lehigh sends upon the diamond will be a team which has al ready met three defeats and two victories so far this sea son ; and it will be very eager to make its percentage of wins and loses an even 500 which a victory over muhlenberg will give it there has always been plen ty of rivalry between the rep resentatives of the allentown school and the representatives of the bethlehem school ; and the contest tomorrow should prove no exception to the gen eral rule muhlenberg will en ter the conflict determined to duplicate in baseball the feat which it accomplished in foot ball last fall — defeating lehigh on the other hand lehigh fresh from overwhelming victories over dickinson and ursinus con on page 3 col 3 2 strong teams the final plans for sub freshman day were completed at a meeting of the sword and crescent society at the phi sigma kappa house on wed nesday evening the following circular letter has been sent to many of the leading preparatory and high schools in the vicinity as well as to the leading seniors in these schools in order that sub-freshman day this year might be far more successful than ever before the co-opera tion of all students of the uni versity is requested may 8 1926 is sub-fresh man day at lehigh the stu dents of the university want senior students of high schools and academies who will go to college next fall to get acquain ted with lehigh to see some thing of the lehigh spirit and to know what lehigh has for lehigh men to such students whether they intend going to lehigh or some other univer sity we extend a cordial invi tation that you be the guests of the university on may 8 con on page 4 col 6 you will be welcome to ar rive by train or motor at any hour of the morning there will be members of the univer sity appointed to meet and to escort you to various of the society reviews life of bacon beaux arts club hears of virgil prof curtis refutes false ideas about great schol ar-10 members admitted prof wright reviews the life works and influence of latin writer the regular meeting of the arcadia was held last monday evening in the arcadia rooms in drown hall it was decided by the mem bers that the present body should disolve at its last meet ing in april with this in view they have warned the various living groups either to hold their group elections or to in stall a temporary officer in the new body the request of the phi club that it be allowed to adopt hats to be worn at college functions was turned down by the ar cadia they claimed that this custom was first adopted by the sword and crescent and out of courtesy this means of distinc tion should not be duplicated the phi club was advised to adopt some other apparel that would serve the purpose and would be entirely their own or iginality con on page 4 col 7 the plans for sub-freshman day were completed and adopt ed the date of the occasion be ing set for may the eighth the idea of this day is to en monday evening the two hundred members of the junior class will meet in the hotel traylor at allentown to enjoy their annual banquet elabor ate arrangements have been made to insure a successful oc casion and a most delightful evening con on page 3 col 2 the class of 192 7 has had very pleasing banquets on the two occasions of its previous annual reunions and every in dication is that this year's func tion upon which so much thought and time has been spent in preparation will be on a par with the other two last year it is remembered that the class put across one of the most suc cessful banquets ever held by underclassmen and this was accomplished in spite of or be cause of the riotous activity of the present sophomore class at any rate no farm house was far enough away and no eggs were accurately ' enough aimed to keep the present juniors from their banquet the same interest is expected to hold a regular meeting of the sophomore council was held last monday evening in drown memorial hall at which time six frosh who had become careless concerning the obser vance of regulations were brought before the council to receive punishment leniency marked the dispensation of the second-year men although such a policy will not hold for any culprits who appear at any fu ture time in several cases amusing sit uations were brought to light while the frosh were being tried one aspiring first-year man when asked why he wore a civilized hat in bethlehem at the time he took the train on the day easter vacation start ed rather than his prescribed dink replied it was more convenient he finds it con venient to sport a flapping green hat during the remain der of this week con on page 4 col 5 the president of the frosh class appeared to answer gen eral charges of smoking which was alleged to have been done on a recent occasion while a freshman body was meeting in foreign chemist addresses ch e.'s four officers elected to s & b sophomore tea dance saturday afternoon tomorrow afternoon the steeel field courts will be the scene of the initial tennis clash of the current season when the netters of lehigh and rutgers universities meet in their an nual encounter the matches will begin at two o'clock in or der to enable the participants to finish in time to see at least some of the athletic activities which are scheduled for taylor stadium the quality of the visiting courtmen is unknown howev er it is sufficient to say that their first three men boocock maughn and bliss are veterans of several years these men have been mainly responsible for the majority of their school's victories for the past two years con on page 4 col 3 altho the loss of fritz mer cur proved a devastating blow to the team coach carother's proteges will line-up with an array of varsity men neil sul livan will play no i position with capt miller as no 2 the third and fourth positions on saturday afternoon the lehigh university lacrosse team will play host to the rut gers college twelve at taylor field this game will be the first home attraction of the sea son the scarlet team has engag ed in two games to date and have won one and lost the oth er thedefeat was at the hands of the syracuse team which is al ways well represented in this branch of athletics last sat urday however captain ruch and his teammates travelled to schenectady and scored a well earned victory over union by the score of 5-4 there are nine varsity letter men left on the scarlet squad and with such stars as captain ruch chand ler clarke auten and rhodes in the lineup the visitors will invade bethlehem with a very strong team con on page 3 col 2 the brown and white stick men played their first game last saturday against princeton at the latter's field by scoring three goals in the last half le high secured a tie with the orange and black during the past week coach o'neil has the sophomore class will hold its first tea dance of the year next saturday afternoon in drown hall this will be quite a social event as there will be many out-of-town girls in bethlehem at this time for the annual mustard and cheese show which takes place friday and saturday evenings at liber ty high school the dance committee has been very fortunate in securing the services of the well-known echo lake orchestra for the oc casion dancing will last from four thirty to six thirty and the admission price has been set at one dollar and a quarter stag or couple decorations will consist of balloons of the class colors an added feature is that girls from bishopthorpe will be present the name of virgil usually means to most persons latin iv three credit hours but to those who were so fortunate as to hear the informal lecture about the latin poet by prof h w wright at the beaux arts meeting wednesday night virgil was revealed as one of the outstanding poets of all time and his aeneid the long epic of the trojan hero one of the greatest works of the lan guage before discussing the aeneid itself prof wright made a brief sketch of roman history . lead ing up to the augustan age in which virgil lived he outlined the long series of civil wars fol lowing the reduction of carth age which lasted with short in tervals of peace for three hun dred years until antony and cleopatra were defeated at ac tium by octovius later called augustus this marked the be ginning of that long period of peace and prosperity called the pax romana in which for more than two centuries the whole civilized world was free of warfare it was natural that the auth or of this blessing augustus con on page 3 col 4 at a recent meeting of the scabbard and blade society four commissioned officers of the r 0 t c unit were elect ed to membership these men were first lieu tenant yon schilling of com pany d second lieutenant w j lee of company d second lieutenant chacey of company b and second lieutenant rids dale of company b con on page 4 col 4 election to membership in scabbard and blade which is also known as company h third regiment is an honor which comes only to students who take advanced work in mil itary science and training and among those students only to lastic average and show traits such as maintain a high scho celebrating the tercentenary of the death of francis bacon il lustrious english man of science and letters the robert w blake society devoted its month ly meeting held last friday evening in packer hall to a consideration of the controver sies and misstatements which gather about his name and wtfrks prof g b curtis led the discussion by presenting a masterful paper in which he refuted the misleading ideas which are prevalent and in their places substituted facts which are supported by authentic history ten new members five elect ed from the junior class and five from the sophomore class were admitted to membership this honor comes to only ten men in a single class since the society restricts its membership to fifteen men ten seniors and five juniors who have accept ed scholastic records in philo sophy psychology or education the newly selected members are from the junior class b a mccarty e h schwab j m malloy c l smith w s jones from the sophomore class w j steidle g j kuck con on page 3 col 3 those who were so fortunate as to hear the lecture given in the chem building by prof ernst cohen of the university of utrecht received the an nouncement of news that will have a profound effect upon chemical and physical research for the next ten years or more the metastable state of mat ter which was the subject of the lecture is just beginning to be recognized and its import ance is paramount prof cohen has for the past year been a resident professor at cornell under a lectureship established recently at that place he is also the director of the van't hoff laboratories of the university of utrecht the presi<fent of the interna tional union of pure and ap plied chemistry and is one of con on page 2 col 4 bethlehem pa feiday april 16 1926 price five cents vol xxxiii no 47 mustard and cheese play ready for presentation muhlenberg team to meet lehigh sat afternoon sub-freshman day finally arranged by s & c society lehigh nine chalks up second straight at ur sinus ' expense game is marred by inconsistent playing in spots batting orgy begins in seventh college productions of the year lehigh brown and white well coached performance will be one of the finest seventy-five men to appear in cast ambler hits well sophomores every sophomore who wishes to attend his class banquet must pay his class dues in advance dues are 3.00 and can be paid either to billmeyer or fred traf ford at the y m c a of fice last day is may 22 notice will the student who took the wrong gray top coat from coppee hall on wednesday morning return same to dr carother's office and secure his own which is being held for him make the college sing a success ' junior banquet monday