Brown and White Vol. 18 no. 51

              i important event to be held on may 20 an event of much importance to every lehigh man in chicago mil waukee and vicinity will be the spring dinner to be given on satur day evening may 20 at the uni versity club by the chicago alum ni association dr drinker will be the guest of honor and his com ing has created widespread interest among the chicago alumni as it has been two years since his last visit during which period lehigh has made wonderful strides there will also be several other guests and with nearly 100 lehigh men on the roll the largest and most enthusias tic dinner in the history of the as sociation is anticipated if any lehigh man who is not on the chicago mailing list expects to be in or near chicago on the above date a place will be reserved for him if he will let his intentions be known to j c gorman fr 1400 east fifty-third street chi cago defeats haverford in dual meet by score of 60 to 52 in an interesting meet on wed nesday afternoon lehigh defeated haverford by a score of 62 to 50 the contest was in doubt up to the next to the last event the 220 yd hurdles in which lehigh captured both places one lehigh record was broken murphy 14 winning the 220 yd dash in 23 seconds the former record held by van duyne was 23 1-5 sec graham was the highest point winner for lehigh and froelicher for haverford each man getting fifteen points the broad jump was won by haver ford their man beating murphy by half an inch lehigh took both places in the pole vault and two mile haverford seeming to be woefully deficient in these events the same can be said of lehigh in the high jump in which haverford had no trouble in taking first and second places le high took seven first and nine sec onds while haverford captured an equal number of first places but only five seconds 120 yd high hurdles : graham l first wadsworth 11 second time 17 2-5 sec shot put : froelicher h first ; wells l second distance 37 ft 9 1-4 in pole vault graham l first van nort 1 second height 10 ft half mile falconer h first knox l second time 2 mm 8 3-5 sec 100 yd dash thomas h first williams l second time 10 1-5 sec hammer throw wells l first moon h second distance 104 ft 1 in mile run wadsworth 11 first mickel l second time 4 mm 53 1-5 sec high jump froelicher pl first nicholson 11 second i eight 5 ft 3 in 220 yd dash murphy l first thomas 1 1 second time 23 sec two mile run dawson l first smith l second time 11 mm 9 sec discus throw bailey l first moon h second distance 99 ft 3 in 440 yd dash jones 1 1 first gorman l second time 54 2-5 sec 220 yd hurdles graham l first schultz l second time 27 3-5 sec broad jump froelicher 11 first ; murphy l second dis tance 19 ft 3 in be created by proper and simple combinations of common materials of construction symmetry grace simplicity and truthfulness are es sential elements in the bridge pos sessing architectural merit truth is a basic element and when one material is disguised to represent another or when a part is made to appear as if performing a certain function when in reality it is per forming quite a different one the result is a dismal failure the most remarkable develop ment in bridge construction during the past quarter of a century has been the progress made in the use of concrete either alone or rein forced with steel when it is con sidered that only twenty-two years ago the first reinforced concrete arch bridge was built in golden gate park at san francisco and that from this small span of only thirty-five feet to the recently con structed arch span of three hun dred and twenty feet in new zea land is a tremendous step it is evi dent that the progress has been truly wonderful concrete like stone is best suited to resist compressive stresses and it can be readily mold ed into any desired form or size and it is therefore not surprising that when concrete came into use as a bridge material it should have been used in the arch form it was a comparatively easy change from the stone arch that had been the standard arch form for many centuries to the concrete monolithic continued on third page talks to congress of technology on the subject of bridges on april 11 prof f p mc kibben of the civil engineering department addressed the con gress of technology held in bos ton on the subject of recent de velopments in bridge construc tion prof mckibben said in part : — never before in the history of bridge engineering has the influ ence of public opinion been so no ticeable as at the present time and the interest shown by the public in tli is important branch of construc tion is very gratifying especially to those engineers who have la bored unceasingly to have bridges regarded from the artistic as well as from the utilitarian standpoint public opinion is now demanding not only that bridges shall be made better but that they shall be more suited to and expressive of their purposes and environments al though great advances have been made in the status of bridge en gineering there is still room for im provement for it is often impossi ble to make communities realize that a bridge is something more than merely a means of crossing an opening they are not willing to make the additional appropriations necessary to secure artistic bridges even though the structures may oc cupy such conspicuous positions as to require more impressive and finer treatment than some public buildings upon which vast sums are expended to secure pleasing ar chitectural effect plow common it is to see postoffice buildings for example beautifully designed and well constructed but placed in such surroundings as to lose the intend ed effect while nearby may be a bridge in a location of magnificent possibilities but upon which no at tempt has been made to display grace or beauty let the public fully realize that when a bridge is built without making it architectur ally beautiful a splendid opportun ity for civic improvement is lost in the past the one great difficulty in securing pleasing structures has been that appropriations for bridges have generally been so small as to exclude all but the more utilitarian requirements but fortunately more recent awakenings of civic pride are resulting in great im provements a beautiful arch bridge is a won derful structure there is some thing inspiring about it and en gineers must do all in their power to have the public realize this and to appreciate the beauties that can the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa friday may 5 1911 athletic com mittee meeting vol xviii lehigh wins track meet prof mckibben makes address lehigh dinner in chicago puts wrestling on the basis of a minor sport the regular monthly meeting of the athletic committee was held yesterday afternoon in drown hall with the following members pres ent prof j l stewart prof w l wilson n m emery f w white r m bird d r lowry and e f price the minutes of the executive committee meeting of april 27 were read and approved and its recommendation that 25 be contributed to defray the ex penses of the trips of the tennis team for the current season was adopted the report of the grounds com mittee was read and approved it included the expenses occasioned by the rebuilding of the base-ball bleachers the refilling of a part of the right field of the base-ball dia mond the clearing off of a bank hear third base and the building of a shed near the east fence for the purpose of housing the foot-ball charging machine and the roller the cost of repairing the south west portion of the foot-ball stands and the pine street ticket office was also included in this report it was passed that the athletic committee have engraved on the base-ball lacrosse and track cups the numerals of the winners as far back as the records go in consideration of the altogeth er successful season that the wrest ling team experienced last winter wrestling was put on the basis of a minor sport this was done by a unanimous vote of the committee thus making apparent the fact that the showing made by the wrestling team had fully come up to expecta tions e f price was appointed a com mittee of one to standardize the in signia l b b and l w t and report the same to the execu tive committee it was decided to award the insignia l w t to all members of the wrestling team who had participated in a majority of the meets this to take effect be ginning with the members of the team of 1910-1911 mr bird proposed as an amend ment that there be added to art 1 par 6 of the by-laws of the ath letic committee these words : whose term of office shall begin at the termination of the june alum ni meeting prof stewart pro posed that the following be added to art 2 par 1 of the by-laws and an organization meeting shall be held on university day at 2 00 i m both amendments will be voted on at the next meeting no 51