Brown and White Vol. 21 no. 40

              seniors will banquet thursday lehigh ties pennsylvania the federal reserve act elaborate arrangements have been made for banquet of graduating class great plans for the bach festival publicity committee is active and large crowd at the rendi tion is assured w a wilbur repeats address given before politics club march 3 c l taylor gives field house university trustees announce supplementary gift to lehigh the lehigh team wrestles the red and blue to a draw on saturday 4 extra periods needed a splendid donation remedy for many ills three of the extra period bouts resulted in draws the other one a decision this new act will help in money stringencies and prevent panics new structure will conform ar chitecturally with the tay lor gymnasium the koreans and their temptations continued on third page excellent progress in arrange ments for the 1914 bach festival to lehigh university on may 29 and 30 was reported at a meeting of the executive committee on satur day afternoon in the parlors of the moravian seminary and college for women that the festival is again attract ing nation-wide attention was made evident in the report of the pub licity committee it was shown that the committee has sent three instalments of press material to three hundred and fifty publica tions including musical journals weekly magazines and newspapers in all sections of the country re turns show that this publicity ma terial has been very widely used so that the bethlehems the bach fes tival and lehigh university are be ing widely advertised this work will be kept up stead ily until the time of the festival ac cording to the report of the chair man of the committee ray wal ters another phase of the publicity work will be the preparation of a brief circular in such form as to be distributed in the mail of business men in this community the com mercial league and the industrial the annual banquet of the se nior class will be held in the eagle hotel at 8.30 p m march 19th 1914 this is the first of the four class banquets and it will probably be the most elaborate one the committee in charge has been working for some time and arrangements have been completed g p flick president of the se nior class will act as toastmaster the guests of honor are prof j l stewart prof h r reiter prof f v larkin prof w wilson dr drinker was also invited but was unable to come as he will be in bermuda at the time the speakers : the class of t4 g lewis honor among thieves carl ilartdegen evil to him who evil thinks f t gatch 12.10 car r l burdick the committee has made an ex cellent choice of subjects for the speakers and every one is expecting to hear some good speeches next thursday night this will probably be the largest banquet that the class of 1914 has ever held for many of the men who left college will be back and all the seniors in college will surely attend continued on third page theses of senior mechanicals professor mccune speaks before y m c a telling of his work senior mechanicals have chosen some very interesting sub jects for theses responding to the invitation ex tended by the faculty and students of the university w a wilbur repeated his address given before the politics club on tuesday even ing march 3rd the second lecture was held last friday morning dur ing the college lecture period in drown hall the address entitled the federal reserve act embra ces a history of the development of currency and a description of the new bill on currency the federal reserve act beginning with primeval times mr wilbur described the tendency towards a medium of exchange and the measuring of the value of one article in terms of another tims in scotland at one time an ox was spoken of as equal in value to ten sheep and exchanges were made ac cording among the aztecs green stones formed a medium ; in the south sea islands bright colored feathers performed the same pur pose and in north america shells among the indians formed their currency later the value of precious met als was recognized and was almost universally adopted silver as used was about 40 to 50 of its bullion value while gold was much continued on second page the lehigh wrestling team met the univ of pennsylvania in the new taylor gymnasium on satur day night march 14th the result of the meet was a draw 16 to 16j4 which indicates a well-fought but evenly matched struggle four bouts required the extra three-min ute period and three of these finally resulted in a draw lehigh winning the fourth on aggressiveness ■ in the light-weight class kirk huff succeeded in throwing his man in six minutes and ten seconds with a head scissors and arm lock hold thus opening the meet with five points for lehigh in the 125-lb class both wrestlers tried in vain for prestige in the first nine minutes but an extra three minutes was re quired the bout resulted in a draw in the 135-lb class weber and mitchell fought to a draw in the first nine minutes but in the extra period weber won a decision over his man on aggressiveness the next bout was in the 175-lb class between bailey and hogg this combination proved equally matched and in the extra three min utes neither man was able to get a decision woelfel of lehigh met milligan of perm in the 145-lb class and tried in vain to pin his opponent's shoulders to the mat continued on third page chemistry meet junior banquet the junior class banquet will be held in the eagle hotel friday ev ening march 27th at eight o'clock tickets were placed on sale yester day and the committee desires that all juniors buy their tickets as soon as possible in order that they may know how many to provide for glass chairman alhreciit baird ciiewning hardkr wickersiiam royall the march meeting of the chem ical society will be held this even ing at 8 o'clock in the chemistry lecture room w b krause 14 will speak on the corrosion of iron the chemistry of food will be discussed by a f ennis 15 and the journal report will be read by l g stem 16 maryland club announcement wedding in chapel at the march meeting of the maryland club important business was taken up and passed on it is the desire of the publicity and so cial committees to make at this lime the following announcements all men who have been elected to mem bership in the maryland club and who have not as yet paid their dues are urged to sec burns 14 before april ist and pay them a full treasury is necessary in order that the club shall carry out certain plans in connection with he program for this term further the annual ban quet of the club is now scheduled this event will lake place in the first week of may at 1 ellertown and it is confidently expected thai this year's gathering will eclipse the banquet held there lasi year the speaker for this week's meet ing was professor g c mccune after a few introductory remarks professor mccune gave a short bible reading and then began his talk in his opening sentences profes sor mccune spoke of the chinese people with whom he comes in con stant contact in the highest terms he then spoke of the distinct differ ence which exists between the jap anese the koreans and the chinese and of the close bond of sympathy which exists between the korean and the chinese professor mccune next told of how when he first arrived in korea to take charge of one of the schools there he found the korean boys much like those in america they had the same temptations determi nations and ambitions and in regard to their temptations professor mc cune gave four great causes the first great temptation thai these koreans must endure is brought about in this fashion in the school which is composed of 200 continued on third page politics club there will hi an impi irtani meet ■ ing of the politics club this even ing tuesday march 17 at eight o'clock in i rown memorial i tall everybody out the board of trustees of lehigh university to-day announced a do nation from charles l taylor 76 for the construction and equipment , of a field house to be located on taylor field and annexed to the new gymnasium mr taylor's ori ginal splendid gift now nearing completion during recent visits to the uni versity to inspect progress upon the gymnasium and s wirh m i n g pool mr taylor saw the need for addi tional facilities to accommodate par ticipants in athletic contests not on ly varsity teams but students tak ing exercise under the lehigh sys tem of physical exercise for all classes being an ardent advocate of out-door exercise he determined to supplement his gymnasium gift and an offer to the board of trus tees followed the board accepted with very hearty thanks taylor field house will be a structure 75 feet by 41 feet 2 stor ies and a basement built of lime brick to conform architecturally with the gymnasium it will be parallel to locust street north of the gymnasium ( ne floor will have quarters for visiting athletic teams with lockers and shower baths of the best type similar provisions for the lehigh teams will be afforded on the other floor there will be a physician's room and a trainer's room one entrance to the field house will be by a passageway from the gymnasium and from the field house a subway will lead to the ath letic field beneath the concrete stand at the south-west corner of the stadium work on the field house will be begun shortly and it will be ready for use in the football season next fall the architects will be pi a i lornbostel of new york and capt a w leh of south bethlehem college lecture by dr cooley the nexi presentation in the uni versity's scries of public lectures will be one by dr arthur s cooley of auburndale mass in packer memorial church next friday morning at 11 o'clock dr cooley will give a talk on "( ld rome in the new illustrated with numerous stereoptican views dr cooley is well remembered here for his series of lectures lasl winter when he had charge of the i epartmenl f ( rreet during the ab - sence abroad of professor good win mrs cooley will accompany i r ( h ley i m hi i rip herei the following is a complete list of the theses of seniors in the course of mechanical engineering c b backes — heating and ven tilating of the new gymnasium c d bickley — heating and ven tilating of the new gymnasium a v bland — layout and equip ment for the manufacture of small direct current motors h l burdick — complete power and efficiency test of bethlehem i uinping station k w chun — the layout and cost of a 700-ton rolling mill for rails t it cook — power test of a steam plant h e degler — test of flow meters m j galainena — complete pow er and efficiency test of bethlehem pumping station k u galloway — design of a precooling plant for efruit r a gift — tesi of heating plant of agricultural building continued on fourth pace one-mile race an open one-mile handicap race will be held on the field to morrow afternoon wednesday march 18 at 4.30 o'clock all students in the university are eligible to enter this race winifred 11 daughter of prof and mrs j w richards was mar ried on saturday mareii fourteenth to mr rudolf i i eommel who is connected with the ordnance de partment of the bethlehem steel company the ceremony took place in packer memorial church the university chaplain the rev bray ton byron officiating mr hommel is the son of prof i r i ommel of the university of munich mr and mrs hommel will be at home at prof richards residence after april twelfth the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday march 17 1914 vol no 40