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              2 — the messenger must realize alike the weed of the world and the power of god which will work through him if he so permit some times the seclusion of the college keeps one from a knowledge oi life but it is possible even in se clusion to hear the cries and learn the economic and social needs of the multitude the good messen ger is drawn by those cries and feels throbbing within him not the desire only but the determination to answer them 3 — the messenger must believe in rod and as a consequence be lieve in god's plan which at last shall reach perfect fulfillment an unbeliever has no message for the world he may come with some sort of a nostrum but the world soon marks him as a quack how absurd to think that any man can help god's world who does not be lieve in a creator or the father the world to-day wants christian men to help her alumni note 4 the message may move a long on varied lines xo man can do everything : one may have a message concerning health ; another concerning economics ; another con cerning politics another concern ing morals but each if he is to be efficient must recognize the full work and do his share as seeing the complete endeavor bo the messenger goes out with joy m his heart and determination in his lace his brain and his spirit joined to gether to tell the old world some thing which shall cheer and bless w clinton fry jr c e 13 received the degree of master of arts at the commencement _ exer cises of columbia unav^y on wednesday june 2nd while at columbil v fry took ui ad vanced work in highway engi neering calculus cremation on taylor field unique trial pleases large com mencement week crowd the commencement week exer cises opened last friday evening when the sophomore class held its calculus cremation the scene of the exercises was on the lower taylor field where a stage had been been constructed directly in front of two sections of the con crete stadium these two sections were reserved for ticket-holders and the other sections were thrown open to the general public a large audience of about three thousand people witnessed the performance which is said to have been the best ever staged at the university mu sic before the actual cremation cer emonies took place was rendered by the bethlehem steel band of eighty pieces a departure from the old method of staging the cremation was taken this year in having the scene of the trial a local court room instead of the accustomed faculty meeting hall the ceremonies opened with king calculus being arrested for speed ing in a jitney bus which he had stolen next king calculus was brought to the court room and a jury made up of well-known heads of departments and students was picked and after a hot discussion the jury went out to decide the ver dict while the jurors were out a bit of excitement was furnished by two professors who became en gaged in a heated argument in the stands as to the decision they were arrested and held for trial when the jury returned they ren dered a verdict of king calculus being guilty of speeding and en dangering human life the judge next sentenced the king to be burned at the stake this sentence was carried out immediately and king calculus in the guise of a dummy was disposed of for this year on a large pyre which had been built at the far end of the field dr charles k meschter assist ant professor of english has re cently written a small illustrated book of fairy tales entitled mount minisi fairies the scene of the story is in the famous del aware water gap mount minsi fairies mustard & cheese gives second performance father and the boys staged in grand opera house last night lief ore a large audience which in cluded many commencement visit ors the mustard and cheese club presented for the second time the four-act straight comedy father and the boys in the opera house monday eveming this production was even better than 1 the one given earlier in the year every character was depicted in a creditable manner and the club and mr gheen the coach are to be congratulated upon the high class of the production given for approv al this year a j wiegand 15 portrayed lemuel morewood a wool broker who has taken his two sons into partnership one of the sonis is so cially inclined while the other pre fers athletics father to interest the boys in the business undertakes several tasks to have them marry girls whom he has chosen for them to make a fortune for bessie brayton a western product and to spoil the financial schemes of major bella my didsworth how he succeeds in spite of his difficulties is brought out cleverly throughout the entire show and the climax comes in the last act when everything he has anticipated is realized the show started at 7.30 p m to give all the opportunity of at tending the tune hop in drown hall the cast of characters lemuel morewood a wool broker a j wiegand 15 william rufus morewood his eldest son j mckay 17 thomas jefferson morewood his second son g e ostrom 16 major bellamy didsworth man about town a bach 17 tobias ford morewood's lawyer a frey 15 tuck bartholomew apostle of manly sport . s t edwards 17 car higbee a miner k a lambert 16 william holton office man . . . r s colby 17 evans a butler r s lambert 18 clerk at the eldorado hotel c e siebecker 15 bessie brayton a western continued on eighth page dr e h williams jr a \\., b s in chem 75 e m 76 sc i ll d 13 for twenty-one years 1881 to 1902 professor of mining and geology and since 1902 a lecturer at the university deliver ed the alumni address at the grad uation exercises held in packer memorial chapel this morning dr williams speech in part was as follows : mr president gentlemen of the board of trustees and of the fac ulty fellow alumni ladies and gentlemen : it seems a far cry from this year of grace 1915 to those mediaeval days when dr faustus having taken the master's and doc tor's degrees in all the then respect able courses of study — in fact in all of the courses offered by the uni versities of the period — and having thus drained to the dregs philoso phy law medicine and alas the ology for a new sensation went to the devil we pride ourselves that america did 1 tetter ; forgetting that puritan ism mi spite of its rebellion 1 against an adverse hierarchy suffered its own to sink its clutches so deeply into the educational system of new england that it was only when en dowments failed and cash ran short that it sold to its alumni the right of representation oni boards of control had the unfortunate dr faustus lived in america a cen tury ago he could have chosen from but three of the above courses as no gentleman could by any possi bility have ertgaged in a walk in life outside of the three genteel professions theology law and med icine barring these the seeker after knowledge had the hobson's choice of going to the devil socially if not actually mediaevalism dies hard and is still rampant within the memory of those present members of society have mourned the go ing into trade of relatives and though their portraits were not turned to the wall their names were mentioned with apology and regret within the present year there has been a terrible agitation in the mediaeval atmosphere as to wn ether students who confine their studies to pure science can by any manner of means be eligible to phi beta kappa we hear to-day the voices of self-constituted brahmins of education pratting of the sort of education fit for certain classes and even the carnegie foundation — which should know better — has made a most mediaeval delivery to the freemen of vermont the majority of the people are farmers therefore their children shall be condemned to am education fit for farmers here is a blow at the corner-stone of our liberties — the common school — as no school or course of study can be common which denies equality of opportuni ty to its scholars we are so accustomed to-day to the place of honor held by technical men in the world that we are ig norant of their standing in some of our institutions in the great state universities they are as much a part of the student body as those who absorb only the humanities there continued on third page admirers of bach fill the chapel lehigh university the mecca of many lovers of music lehigh university was the meca last friday and saturday for hun i dreds of musical lovers from a score of states who came for the tenth bach festival under the di rection of dr j fred wolle foun der and conductor of the festivals the bach choir of 206 voices renm clered the st john passion and the mass in 1 b minor with acconipaiid memt by the philadelphia orchestra and by t edgar shields organist the soloists were : sopranos mrs mary hissem de moss new york city and mrs marie zimmerman philadelphia altos mrs gertrude may stein bailey of bronxville n v and mrs florence mulford hunt of ne w ark n . j . ; tenor nicholas douty of philadelphia basses henri scott philadelphia and louis kreidler chicago preceding both sessions in pack er memorial church on the uni versity campus chorales were play ed by the moravian trombone choir from the top of the high ivy grown stone tower of packer mem orial church special interest attached to the first day's program the st john passion inasmuch as this work had its first production in america in bethlehem under dr wolle in 1888 when it was sung by the old beth lehem chorul union this rendi tion was the beginning of the bach movement which developed in the organization of the bach choir ten years later the composition was given for the second time in beth lehem in the bach cycle in april 1905 wonderful work was done by the bach choir in the highly dramatic choruses of the oratorio which are more difficult perhaps than those of the st matthew passion for which the st john composition is com monly regarded as a preparatory study these choruses included jesus of nazareth sung in re sponse to the question whom seek ye and the mob expressions we have no king but caesar we salute thee king of the hews and not this man but barrabus in this last chorus the word scourge was rythmically defined with intense effect the words wept bitterly likewise highly pic torial were effectively sung continued on seventh page bethlehem pa tuesday icxk s 1915 lehigh university the brown and white a retrospect of forty years dr e h williams jr 75 gives commencement day address relates lehigh history shows how the estimation of the technical schools has changed graduating class of 1915 baccalaureate sermon delivered by philadelphia rector must benefit world rev f w tomkins delivers sermon vol xxii moral standards to be main tained by the edu cated man the baccalaureate sermon was preached in the university church last sunday by the rev floyd y tomkins rector of the church of the holy trinity of philadelphia in the course of the sermon dr tomkims said : if education means anything it certainly indicates responsibility men learn not for their own de light or profit but for the benefit of the world in which they live a man who is honest with himself will recognize this the more posi tively since his education is provi ded for him generally by his father or by the state or by both if the world under god is to become better or her morals im proved and her systems advanced towards perfection it must be through educated men hence the responsibility resting upon univer sities and colleges but resting es pecially upon those who go out from these institutions to a wait ing world i—the1 — the messenger must have a positive truth to declare the world is tired of doubters and men who can destroy but not fulfill we nieed in all parts of life construc tion 1 ; men want to know what to do they know well enough what not to do no 59