Brown and White Vol. 19 no. 26

              if the wants of a people are sim ple said dr cattell it is possible to have a kind of an equality of op portunity and of resources as found among the lower animals and sav ages but when society is thrown into either a patriarchial feudal despotic or oligarcic system if then the material resources are not sufficient to provide adequately for all the stronger sieze them and the many weaker ones must toil in ig norance and poverty in order that a few may have knowledge leisure and luxury however with the ap plication of science to industry and commerce to the prevention of dis ease and premature death it be comes possible to provide equality continued on fourth page pratt here tomorrow in a very exciting basketball game in the gymnasium last satur day night lehigh won from al bright college by a score of 37-30 although the brown and white five had the lead almost the entire game the visitors by hard playing kept close and the outcome was not as sured until the final whistle albright started the scoring by 2 field goals by benf er ; but lehigh soon passed this lead and held it with the exception of a short period of tie until the end of the game bet ter floor-work and passing on le high's part gave the brown and white a score of 20-12 at the end of the first half albright's com plete failure to shoot fouls held down their score greatly in the second half albright sub stituted glassmire to shoot fouls ; and by his better success as well as by the desperate rather than brilliant playing of the entire team the score was run up to a tie 30-30 in the remaining two minutes however lehigh by an easy spurt brought the final score up to 37-30 for the brown and white mut hart had the greatest number of field goals and a considerable num ber of the possible fouls benfer was undoubtedly the star for the visitors summary of the game : lehigh albright a k white . . r f heindl p j white ... l f benfer muthart c . yost hummel cook r g hummel capt .... glassmire cole l g . . . baker goals from field p j white 2 a k white 2 muthart 6 cook 1 cole 1 ; heindl 4 benfer 6 hum mel 1 glassmire 2 » goals from fouls — muthart 13 ; glassmire 4 time of halves 20 minutes ref eree mitchell timekeepers : ker baugh lehigh albert albright dr miller of the geology depart ment addressed a well - attended meeting of the y m c a sunday evening on the subject does sci ence conflict with religion dr miller said that he wanted to con sider the question in a rational light and not to try and overthrow any of the accepted views for a long time the earth was thought to be flat and when caper nicus and other scientists began to believe it was round st augustine said that unless the earth were flat the bible would be overthrown this belief came down even to mar tin luther's time coming down to more recent con troversies when simpson began the use of anaesthetics the church was violently opposed to it and quoted scripture to carry their point simpson in answer quoted a pas sage from genesis about adam fall ing into a deep sleep when god took a rib to make woman evolution has caused more controversy in re cent times than anything else be fore this theory was brought before the public religious leaders were be ginning to doubt such things as god making all animals and plants at once and about noah having two of the thousands of species of ani mals in the ark the theory of ev olution has cleared this matter up in most cases science established its theory and in every case the bi ble emerged a stronger book it seems natural that the one based on reason and the other on faith being so different would evidently clash but the modern view is that faith and reason go hand in hand in the study of nature reason goes to a certain point and then faith carries it on we find out certain things and we believe certain other things caused them ; that's faith we can not escape the conclusion that there is one supreme power who has set into action these laws which we have discovered the bible ac cording to the new idea is a great literature of a spiritual people which has been strengthened and not weak ened by controversy and by scien tific discoveries gym improvements by cutting away the gallery at the west end of the gymnasium the bas ketball court was lengthened six teen feet this will afford more scientific basketball and will permit larger gymnasium classes a fur ther improvement is the installation of new and improved gas lights the lights were given their first try-out saturday night and gave every satisfaction the enlarged floor space for bas ketball in the gymnasium received a most appropriate dedication on sat urday evening when lehigh in a spectacular and exciting game nosed out a victory in the last two minutes of play against the albright team tomorrow night our team meets pratt institute on the home floor and on saturday gettysburg college will be seen here both of these games especially the latter should prove a strong attraction a score board is now being placed above the gallery on the north side where it can be plainly seen by prac tically the entire crowd it is prob able that the board will be in place for tomorrow's game the extension of the basketball court has diminished the space for spectators on the first floor and the students now will be allowed to use without extra charge all the seats on the gallery with the exception of those along the south side which will be restricted to those holding reserved seat tickets on friday afternoon fifty junior miners and metallurgists accom panied by prof eckfeldt and mr bartlett journeyed to wilkes-barre for the purpose of visiting the mines and breakers of the lehigh valley coal company a unique concert on the train and a theatre party at wilkes-barre are only an indication of the sources of pleasure the trip afforded the embryo engineers early saturday morning the trip to the mineral spring colliery was made and several hours were spent under ground after this the breaker was inspected thoroughly with explanations of the working principles by those in charge they returned home saturday night as mentioned in the last issue of this paper a series of meetings un der the auspices of the y m c a will be held in drown hall on thursday friday saturday and sunday of this week these meet ings will be under the direction of w d weatherford ph d a brief biography of whom appeared in last friday's issue of this paper dr weatherford's work here during the week will be supplemented by two men well known in y m c a circles and to most lehigh men j w pontius and edward c mercer mr pontius who is secretary of the east in the international stu dent y m c a is an alumnus of ohio wesleyan having graduated with the class of 1906 he was a member of the varsity basketball team while there also a prominent man in class affairs and maintained a high scholastic standing he has also been state student secretary of lowa while he has been in this work which has been during the past two years edward c mercer is a graduate of the university of virginia where he was prominent as a member of the glee club and of the baseball team which competed at the world's fair in 1893 he is one of the most influential men working among colleges today having spok en before many thousands of stu dents in y m c a meetings and in fraternity houses the program of the y m c a campaign to be held this week is as follows : tuesday 4.15 p m — meeting of the teaching force with dr weath erford wednesday 1.15 p m in drown hall — meeting of the campaign committee with dr weatherford mr mercer and mr pontius thursday 4 p m in drown hall — first public meeting address ed by dr weatherford friday 11 a m in drown hall ■ — address by dr weatherford saturday 7 p m in drown hall — address by dr weatherford sunday 11 a m and 6.30 p m in drown hall — address by dr weatherford ' there will be a very important meeting of the campaign com mittee with dr weatherford mr pontius and mr mercer at 1.15 on wednesday in drown hall the committee serving during this cam paign has spent considerable time and effort in arranging a splendid program for the benefit of the stu dent body primarily and it is to be hoped that the meetings will be largely attended the hours set continued on fourth page the brown and white lehigh university college lecture in chapel bethlehem pa tuesday january 9 1912 lehigh wins from albright no 26 dr miller ad dresses y.m.c.a vol xix program of y.m.c.a meetings dr cattell of columbia ad dresses students home team wins game in last two minutes of play speaks interestingly on r elation between science and theology weatherford mercer and pontius to have charge the relation between science and democracy was the subject of the talk given by dr j mckeen cattell in the chapel on friday morning dr cattell being pro fessor of psychology at columbia university and editor of science and the popular science monthly is qualified to speak with authority on the subject dr cattell traced their interrela tions from the foundation of the mediaeval universities to the present time his main argument was that science with its applications has been the cause of democracy and that democracy depends upon sci ence all schools colleges and uni versities are its agents working to wards the ultimate end democracy