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              continued on fourth page college meeting the senior banquet committee has made a record for itself in making arrangements for the se nior banquet which will be held at the eagle hotel next tuesday night and if the arrangements are executed with the same care with which they were made the senior banquet will be an event that will last long in the memories of every 1913 classman at the banquet the guests of the senior class will be dr drinker vice-president emery profs eck feldt reiter and stewart coach keady and captains pazzetti bell and jay of the foot-ball base-ball and lacrosse teams respectively charles l taylor and charles m schwab were invited to be present but previous engagements prevent ed them from accepting the invita tions as menu cards the committee has decided to give good-sized bill folds which a member of the com mittee stated when interviewed last night are not toys but are articles which will be useful to the present seniors when they are out getting their bumps next year in the way on entertainment the university orchestra will furnish the music the cabaret quartette of which much talk has been heard lately will give some of its best renditions and bunny ackerley's trio of musical artists has guaranteed to keep any idle moments from occur ring to hear the toasts will be worth the price of admission muthart is going to cut loose with some of his pet theories on the faculty lamb's ladies will be as bizarre as they are original tommy bry ant has a long line of b s that he wants to get rid of gus hor casitas will relate how they have revolutions to order in mexico and last but not least doc wylie has promised to tell what he thinks of lehigh the committee in charge of the arrangements consists of : — clarke fahl gerhard hill jamieson le van and campbell chairman y m c a the base-ball practice last wed nesday was held out of doors and a very good-sized squad of men re ported there being thirty-six in all they seem to have gotten their eyes on the ball and are making rapid strides for so early in the season the pitching staff was given some light exercise and several of the new men look very promising besides the old men several of the new men showed base-ball abil ity in wednesday's practice bell this year's captain and w r right who proved his worth at lafayette last year were on the field and helped in the exercising of the pitching staff chenoweth is showing up remark ably well as an infielder and will undoubtedly make the infield ex ceptionally strong if any predictions may be made from the material that is now on the field it may be stated that le high's base-ball team will have a brilliant season the schedule for the season as completed to date by manager bow en follows : — march 26 — lebanon valley at home march 28 — holy cross at home march 29 — colgate at home april s—stevens,5 — stevens at home april 9 — ursinus at home april 12 — navy at annapolis april 16 n y u at home april 19 swarthrnore at swarth more april 23 albright at home april 25 — perm state at home april 26 f & m at home april 30 pennsylvania at phil adelphia may 2 — villa nova at home may 3 — columbia at new york may 7 — fordham at fordham may 10 — bucknell at lewisburg may 14 army at west point may 17 — lafayette at easton may 21 rutgers at new bruns wick may 23 — michigan at home may 24 — lafayette at easton may 30 — pennsylvania at home may 31 manhattan at home june 7 — lafayette at home arrangements have been comple ted by manager streets of the track team for a relay race between le high and washington and lee col lege at the richmond college in door games in richmond va to morrow night the team compos ed of burke 16 carlson 16 gor man 13 and wylie 16 will leave here at 4.35 o'clock this afternoon will spend the night in philadelphia and will arrive in richmond at 3 o'clock to-morrow afternoon washington and lee college has one of the strongest teams in the south barring georgetown and the race between the southerners and the brown and white team will be a question of inches washington and lee defeated johns hopkins university and the carlisle indians last saturday night in washington the time being 3 minutes 50 4-5 seconds lehigh's time on the same track the same night was 3 minutes 50 seconds tau beta pi civil meet the subject of the y m c a meeting next sunday is to be work among the town boys and will be covered in a series of three-min ute talks by the following students who have been doing work in the bethlehem s along the line of the big brother movement messrs whiteside finn fahl fry will iams spencer sterner graham frey and schuttler there will be a special solo by master hagenbuch of the nativity choir the march meeting of the civil engineering society will be held at the residence of dr and mrs drinker next wednesday march 12th at a short meeting of the four classes held at noon wednesday in packer hall presidents rooney flick royall and scruggs of the senior junior sophomore and freshman classes respectively and messrs campbell hill and wylie of the senior class were appoint ed a re-organization committee to thoroughly investigate the causes of the resignation of the arcadia and to report their findings to the stu dent-body at a later date at the chapel exercises on mon day morning march 10th at 7.45 o'clock the honorary engineering fraternity of tau beta pi will pledge a number of members of the class of 1914 to the society the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday march 7 1913 baseball squad works outside no 3 large lacrosse squad practices arts and science club meeting vol xx well prepared papers read by kocher 13 and sauber 14 places on the team thirty-six men to compete for fine banquet for seniors everything of the best promised by committee on arrangements at wednesday practice much promising material reports on wednesday afternoon the la crosse squad held a practice on the upper field previous to this time the men were confined to the cage for practice but on wednesday they took advantage of the fine weather and held an outside prac tice forty men reported includ ing numerous new ones the var sity men of last year who reported wednesday were — captain jay hartdegen speed buck carpen ter donaldson and perkins dunn of year before last also reported members of last year's squad re ported as follows — matthews quinn plack brooke gifford had away lacombe packard sanchez wragg white ewing hiss may ers and whiteman the new men who reported were — cambrill bloede matheson mayer purvis wiegand zollinger collier gross hoopes mudge thorp toulmin and donaldson after the usual warming up the practice took the form of a lengthy scrimmage in which the attack men were lined up against the defense men some of the old men prac ticed goal-shooting and the practice ended late in the afternoon with the return of dunn to the squad and with the outlook of much promising material the coming sea son presents a very bright aspect relay team a meeting of the arts and sci ence society was held in saucon hall on tuesday evening a let ter from dr r m wetherill was read inviting the society to hold its april meeting at leonard hall it was decided to accept the invita tion there were not many pres ent considering that there are now quite a number in the arts depart ment after the transaction of all the business two excellently-pre pared papers were read by r n kocher 13 and s h sauber 14 the economic life of france is the subject which r n kocher chose he made this apparently dull topic interesting and did it full justice he began : the country of france by rea son of its position has been forced into prominence in the life of west ern europe the nation is sur rounded by powerful peoples of di verse types and because of its cen tral position has developed a more cosmopolitan culture than its neigh bors the french people are sepa rated most completely by the natu ral features of their boundaries from those races most closely re sembling them the road is open where the antagonism of types is greatest the continental position of france has involved her in the troubles as well as in the reforms of her neighbors he then described accurately and in detail the geography of france he also explained how roquefort cheese was first prepared in the 1 1th century the cheese of the little village of roquefort was put away in a rock-cave to ripen it was soon found that this cheese pos sessed remarkable excellence of fla vor and its fame spread rapidly the subject of the chief indus tries next came under considera tion france has a population of about 38^4 millions the rate of increase has been for a number of years less than that of surround ing nations the peasantry of france are the foundation strata of the industrial pyramid upon which