Brown and White Vol. 20 no. 8

              mandolin club scrubs lose to varsity second string men are unable to score in wednesday practice continued on fourth page the last foot-ball practice of the season which the students will be able to see as a body at cheering practice was held on wednesday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock before the scrimmage was be gun a long signal practice was held both varsity and scrubs participa ting the regular work in scrim mage was begun promptly at 4.00 o'clock before a fair attendance at cheering practice the kick-off being received by the varsity although the varsity was disabled by the ab sence of a number of members they were still able to plow through the scrub line for big gains which net ted them three touchdowns in the fifty minutes of play the chief ground-gainers for the varsity were o'keefe keady and crichton the first of whom went around the ends several times for large gains made through his ability to dodge the first touchdown was made by hoban who received a pretty forward pass which came in to his arms in the 10-yard zone be yond the goal a number of other forward passes worked during the scrimmage netted the varsity con siderable ground but the scrubs seemed unable to pull any passes through successfully for they either struck the ground untouched or the first meeting of the mining and geological society was held in williams hall on wednesday ev ening addresses were given by'w k smith 13 and by j l dynan 09 the subject of mr smith's dis course was the helen iron mine this mine is located in canada twelve miles inland from the north ern shore of lake superior and as was demonstrated by the speak er presents many interesting facts the ore is chiefly hematite and lim onite having been deposited out of sidente and fynite the various methods of mining the ore and the difficulties encountered thereby were presented in an interesting and in structive manner mr dynan spoke about the min ing conditions in nevada at the present time confining his talk to the tonafah mine where he has been located for the last few years speaking of the most important mines in nevada he named tona fah and goldfield which are situa ted in the western part of the state the former was discovered in 1902 and is considered the richest silver mine in the united states the town itself differs widely from most western mining camps in that the inhabitants are not continually com continued on fourth page entrance condi tion examinations new y m c a secretary there will be a meeting of the mandolin club in drown hall at ten o'clock sunday morning at the last rehearsal there were pres ent about twenty men all of whom are good material the instru ments most needed are the cello guitar and flute it is thought that this year's club will be the best ever minstrel show at the rehearsal on wednesday afternoon of those trying out for the minstrel show there were pres ent about thirty-five men the time was entirely spent in practicing the songs on sunday at 10 a m there will be held a semi-final try out at which time the number will be cut to twenty y m c a announcement the official bulletin-boards of the university in the various buildings contain notices of the re-examina tions in entrance subjects in which a number of freshmen are condi tioned the examinations will be held on these dates : — wednesday november 6th 1.00 p m — elementary algebra eng lish united states history saturday november 9th 1.00 p m — plane and solid geometry english history wednesday november 13th 1.00 p m — advanced algebra ancient history saturday november 16th 1.00 p m — french and german wednesday november 20th 1.00 p m elective subjects . the new general secretary of the y m c a w a wayside was in town wednesday looking over his future field of action mr wayside conies to lehigh from the central branch of the philadelphia y m c a he is highly recom mended and is well-qualified to lead the students in y m c a work he is a graduate of the university of pennsylvania where he was very active in literary and athletic affairs mr wayside expects to get right oui among the fellows and be one of them not having been out of college too long for that he was down at cheering practice while here taking his first lesson in le high cheering as he aptly express ed it he will take charge of the work on november ist attended alumni meetings track practice the topic for the y m c a meeting at 6.30 o'clock sunday ev ening will be sacrifice the meeting will be addressed by rev robert m labaree a former mis sionary to persia rev mr la baree is a graduate of miami col lege ohio and of the princeton seminary the reputation of the speaker and the subject of his ad dress indicate that the meeting will be one of the greatest interest a squad of track team candidates indulged in a country run on wed nesday afternoon the route was around south mountain to the ath letic field where the track was cir cled once and to the gymnasium the squad was principally composed of freshmen a rousing smoker was held on the night preceding the navy game at the rennert hotel baltimore md by the lehigh-maryland club the meeting was called to order at 8.30 p m by vice-president wra a megraw 97 the first speaker was vice-president emery who spoke glowingly of lehigh's prog ress the old lehigh war-cry swept through the room again and again as coach keady captain pazzetti and doc wylie spoke of our chances with lafayette members of the foot-ball team were present during the earlier portion of the evening part of the evening was devoted to business and the following offi cers were elected : — president s s martin 90 vice-president j h penning ton 97 secretary and treasurer h m riley to executive committee thomson king 08 the members then adjourned to an adjoining room where refresh ments were served old memories of lehigh were rejuvenated through the medium of numerous school songs and yells and on all sides in tense loyalty and spirit were shown a special car was engaged for the trip to annapolis the meeting broke up at a late hour with the singing of the alma mater and the slogan on to annapolis vice-president emery attended the october meeting of the balti more-lehigh club in baltimore last week mr walters the registrar gave a talk at the recent meeting of the philadelphia-lehigh club rooms walnut street philadelphia the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday october 18 1912 teachers exten sion courses politics club elects officers vol xx miners hold first meet w k smith,'l3 and j l dynan 09 give interesting addresses registrar walters gives short talk on the present blection excellent opportunities offered teachers near the bethlehems this year the usual extension courses for teachers are being offer ed by the university the sessions are held on saturday in christmas hall and began last saturday the tuition is very moderate and it is the hope of the university to exert through these extension courses some better influence on education al methods in the neighborhood of the bethlehems the courses are as follows : — problems in american history professor stewart to extend ac quaintance with the literature of the subject develop a critical attitude toward historical generalizations and to show the applications of our national experience to present prob lems elementary biology professor hall lectures discussions and lab oratory life protoplasm the cell the structure relationships and hab its of animals heredity and evo lution saturday 1.30 p m history of education profes continued on supplement the first meeting of the present college year of the politics club was held in drown hall on tues day evening president cameron made a short speech regarding the club elections and concluded by tendering his resignation because of pressure of work he expressed his opinion that the club would make greater progress by having a president who could devote more of his time to its affairs mr cam eron was made temporary chairman during the balloting for a new pres ident messrs griffen shaw fry and rehfuss,.all members of the se nior class were nominated mr fry was elected president the results of the elections of the other offices were then announced and are as follows : — first vice-president h s row land second viec-president h w lamb ; secretary chimin chu fuh treasurer j f beers registrar walters of the uni versity was called on to present his views on the present election he stated that the club was not organ ized like most other clubs socially continued on third page lehigh - maryland club smoker no 8