Brown and White Vol. 20 no. 28

              the preliminaries in the wrest ling tournament for non varsity men were held on friday evening and the finals were hek on satur day afternoon just before the cor nell basket-ball game the preliminaries on friday ev ening were begun with the 115-lb class in which six men were en tered frey 15 w ' 1 in four minutes a kirkhoff 16 thro .\. , ! 6 with a half nelson ansr^pfphold in four min utes and forty seconds suppes 16 threw long 13 ith a body scis sors in fi ijhss — martin 16 thi v j with a head hold ir minutes . id five seconds thomas 16 in the 135-ib class threw weber 14 witrj§fs body scis sors in eight min e.s flick 14 and i dinger 15 went the time limit in he 145-lb class but flick was given the decission for aggressiveness the ps-tb class proved un usually interesting and was spirited ly contested throughout kress 16 and wheeler 13 went the full time without decision but in an extra period kress threw his opponent with a body hold jt1 i two minutes and fifty seconds i e same class sawtelle 16 was give he decision over levin 16 for aggressiveness in the finals suppes threw brooke with a nelson and crotch hold in two minutes and twenty seconds and later won from kirkhoff by decision in the 125-fb class finals aungst 14 and martin went the full time but in an extra period of three min utes aungst threw martin with an arm lock and body hold woelfel 14 and thomas 16 continued on fourth page gifford pinchot who was heard here as a progressive speaker in the recent presidential campaign will lecture in packer memorial church on the evening of january 31st on the meaning of conser vatism the lecture will be given in connection with the work of the bethlehem public playground as sociation this association is play ing its part in the conservation of national resources for among these resources must be numbered the hu man beings of this great country and the playground association is doing its work among the school children here the first steps toward attainment must be taken in the field of educa tion in that special corner of this great field where the physical care of the child is considered is found the playground enlightened teach ers and parents say that it and it alone is of supreme importance in elementary education quoting from a letter in the pub lic ledger of january 14th on the subject of vocational training mr pinchot says that much of the ordi nary school work because of its lack of active purpose tends to idle ness and often to crime and that the mental powers are not develop ed in many cases our schools for purely mental work dev,elop and hold but one kind of child that to whom books appeal in every community there are many kinds of children and books appeal to but a minority of them schools that educate draw out the faculties of all their pupils will develop va ried and unexpected powers that will enrich the state and greatly in crease the happiness and usefulness of our people is this not worth trying for is not criticism that aims to prevent waste of the state's finest asset its children to be en couraged ? " annual dinner of new york club trenton club shows mr gelhaar's painting lehigh's basket-ball team trounc ed cornell in the gymnasium last saturday afternoon by the score of 53 to 22 in a very fast and rough game although unable to make the score a close one the ithacans fought hard all the way and made the contest an interesting one to the large crowd present it was le high's sixth game and victory of the season starting out with muthart's goals from fouls and two baskets by white lehigh took the lead and was never headed in this half the brown and white quintet tallied twelve floor goals every man scor ing to cornell's three ; the score at the end of the first half being 30 to 12 cornell made three substitutions in the second half but could not prevent lehigh from rolling up the score cole replaced price near the end of the half and a few minutes later riley went in for capt hal stead both men being disqualified by the referee for unnecessary roughness muthart's all-around playing fea tured lehigh's work six floor goals and thirteen points from eighteen fouls being his contribution ha berly did the best playing for cor nell the line-up — ■ lehigii positions cornell white f riley crichton f halstead muthart c haberly price g dietrich green g stewart substitutions — cole for green green for price whitney for white lunden for stewart h halstead for riley cross for dietrich riley for g halstead floor goals — white 5 crichton 6 muthart 6 green price whit ney stewart 2 dietrich haberly 2 g halstead goals from fouls — muthart 13 out of 18 g halstead 10 out of 19 lunden 0 out of 1 referee mitchell allentown y m c a time-keepers sheridan and da vidson lehigh relay team the contemporary club of tren ton n j is holding in its galleries an exhibition of paintings by mr gelhaar of the lehigh faculty the group of pictures being shown comprise eight in oils and six in water colors most of them being landscapes and night scenes be ginning on january 15th the exhibit will continue until the end of the month all candidates for the relay team should report to captain bailey ev ery afternoon at 4.30 at the track around the gym there will probably be a relay race between lehigh and lafayette at the boston a a in boston a bout the last of february and it is extremely important that all candi dates should come out immediately the december number of the physical review contained an art icle on a general problem in gy rostatic action by joseph w mil nor lehigh 12 who is now a lab oratory assistant with the general electric co at pitts field mass special interest attaches to mr mil nor's paper in that he continues a discussion begun by professor franklin and makes use of a math ematical method devised by profes sor lambert in an earlier issue of the physi cal review the behavior of an un constrained gyrostat under a sud denly-applied torque was the sub ject of an article by professor franklin later b l newkirk calculated the motion due to a tor que proportional to the time mr milnor in his paper gives an approximate solution in series for the motion caused by any ap plied torque whatever where this torque is known as a function of the time in solving one of the e quations mr milnor uses prof lambert's parametric method pre sented in the annals of mathemat ics july 1910 lehigh alumni in this section who desire to attend the annual dinner of the lehigh university club of greater new york on january 27 should communicate by thursday january 23 with r w walters registrar lehigh university south bethlehem or with george r ens coe secretary and treasurer 21 park row new york city as has been announced the vest of honor at this banquet v be col onel george w gc als chief engineer of the pa ama canal john hays hammond rear admi ral peary and other noted scientists engineers and men of affairs have accepted invitations burton hartley is geologist with compania mexicana de petroleo"el aguila at tampico mexico the brown and white lehigh univp ity bethlehem pa tuesd uary 21 1913 vol xx jan meeting of chemists inter-class wrestling cornell loses to lehigh basketball team wins fast game by 53 to 22 score pinchot to lecture here will talk on meaning of con servation in chapel tournament proves a ac cess in unveiling maieri dr hall and sanchez 14 speak on interesting topics continued on second page the january meeting of the chemical society was addressed by dr hall of the biology depart ment and sanchez 14 the sub ject of dr hall's address was soil fertility and in his discourse the different theories relating to this subject were explained dr hall stated that there were a great num ber of chemists working on sugar steel and the like but that there were very few chemists working on soil improvements in the steel in dustry mean a great deal of money for a few persons but improve ments in soil fertility mean a little more money for a great mass of people the one question that has always confronted soil chemists and biologists is : why does a field be come barren to a plant after it has been grown on this field for several successive years it was formerly thought that the plant foods came from decaying rocks and that after a certain length of time all of these products had been used up and the soil must recuperate this theory does not hold good however be cause the nitrogenous foods are taken from the air by a group of plants known as the legumes there are two other facts found by inves tigators which seem to disprove this interesting article by 1912 graduate no 28