Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 46

              c e society jersey club meeting the march meeting of the new jersey lehigh club will be held on friday evening march 24 1916 in drown hall at 7.30 p m prof charles s fox head of the romance languages department will speak on his recent trip through france prof fox made an extended tour through the now warring republic and gathered many pictures which are of much interest at this time this talk should be worth hearing ezra bowen of the business ad ministration department who is a jerseyite will be the other speaker the club pins have arrived and will be given out at this meeting the customary eats and smokes will be on hand students in asia m e meet the march meeting of the civil engineering society will be held next thursday evening at 8 o'clock at the home of president h s drinker mr fred a noetzli instructor in railroad surveying in the civil engineering department will talk en the swiss military system mr noetzli is a graduate of the polytechnic institute in zurich switzerland and later was a mem ber of the faculty of that institu tion he is thoroughly familiar with the military training of the young men of switzerland as he himself has served the necessary enlistment term l p grossart 17 has prepared a paper on modern methods of repairing asphalt pavements next thursday night at 8 o'clock the mechanical engineer ing society will hold its regular monthly meeting mr g p nach man 14 will speak on heating and ventilating mr w p reese 16 has prepared a paper on ' ' some phases of steam turbines ' ' freshmen are especially requested to be present the second discussion of a series held under the auspices of the uni versity y m c a on students in asia will be held in the y m c a study room drown memorial hall on friday evening march 24 at 7.15 o'clock the subject of the discussion will be ' ' students of in dia these meetings are led by the rev mr robinson pastor of the first presbyterian church of bethlehem after march 25 these discussions will take place on the three consecutive friday evenings following at the usual time dif ferent asiatic countries will be taken up at each lecture will forfeit privileges mr c j blanchard statistician of the united states reclamation service gave the college lecture on friday morning in the palace theatre the title of mr blan chard's lecture was the romance of the south fest and the lecture was well illustrated by means of moving pictures and stereopticon views mr blanchard has spent twelve years in travelling over this portion of the united states and knows the country and its inhabi tants perfectly at the start the speaker pointed out that the lecture was in the nature of a travelogue and in the course of the hour he carried his hearers over a country of 12,000 miles throughout that part of the united states covered by texas arizona new mexico and cali fornia the region inhabited by the cliff dwellers was visited first views were shown of the remains of these castles built in the side walls of the canyons some of which contained 30,000,000 separate pieces of stone these had been cut out by hand by means of rude implements and carried up the cliff on the backs of men as early as the third and fourth century the government has reserved a number of these ruins to be pre served for future generations the speaker next showed in motion pictures the ancient villages of the moqui indians this tribe has a most primitive method of living despite the fact that they are surrounded by civilization their life is quite similar to that of the early egyptians mr blan chard showed one picture which he ordinarily does not exhibit with this talk by special permission of the secretary of the interior this reel is exhibited to universi ties and colleges only it shows the snake dance a sacred rite of the moqui indians as given before former president roosevelt when he visited the south west farther north live the navajo indians famous as the originators and makers of the beautiful navajo blankets the speaker showed their life in motion pictures also in the deserts live the apaches who are the bedouins of america these people were formerly most war-like but are now submissive to the authority of the united states continued on second page the speaker described the co lossal projects undertaken by the reclamation service in its effort to reclaim the vast deserts of the south west for agricultural pur poses he took no time to go thoroughly into the engineering side of this work but showed the roosevelt dam which he said con tained sufficient water to com pletely inundate the state of dela ware and also a still larger dam in course of construction in the rio grande canyon which when fin ished will hold enough water to cover the state of connecticut to a depth of ten inches in addition to such projects the government is building roads over the mountains cornell won the annual inter collegiate wrestling contest held this year at princeton for the fifth consecutive year princeton qualified the most men in the preliminaries and looked strong but failed to show her strength in the finals running a poor second to cornell and beating out lehigh by but a few points cornell scored 24 points prince ton 14 lehigh 12 pennsylvania 11 while columbia brought up the rear with but a single point the 125 158 and 175-pound class championships went to cor nell pennsylvania took the 145 pound and heavyweight titles princeton captured the 115-pound class while charley hiss of le high carried away the laurels in the 135-pound class all the bouts were keenly contested and the falls were few and far between the scarcity of falls was largely ac counted for by the strict rules that were agreed upon before the matches started andi which were carried out by the referees the duration of the final bouts was fif teen minutes the second and third place and the preliminary bouts nine minutes if a fall was not made in this time a decision was to be made on the length of time each man was on top of the other if this time did not exceed one minute an extra period was to be allowed in which the former dif ference in time was not to be counted this rule was brought into play in the preliminary bouts between captain kirkhuff lehigh and mackenzie cornell kirkhuff was ahead by 56 seconds in the regular period but according to the rule an extra period was allowed and this difference in time not counted in the extra period mackenzie came out 10 seconds ahead and the referee was forced to give him the decision although he said kirkhuff was the more aggressive this rule will undoubtedly be abolished as it did not work out but kirkhuff re mainsi a victim of it another rule was that the con testants if not on the mat one minute after the referee called for them the bout was forfeited in this way servias of pennsylvania forfeited to mackenzie of cornell the former appearing on the mat five seconds too late due to the abundance of indi vidual stars such as frantz milli gan mckeague and dorizas le high did not show up so well in the preliminaries on friday night but came back strong on saturday and won nine points only one lehigh man was thrown in the entire meet and that was ketchum who has had very little experience and only recently made the team all the other six men scored and lehigh was the only team to place in six events continued on fourth page coach sheridan expressed the feelings of the lehigh team when he said all in all i think the team made an exceptionally good at a recent class meeting a mo tion was passed that all members of the senior class who had not paid all their dues by april 1 would be deprived of senior commencement privileges dues may be paid to lancaster white cranston ganey fair and o l carlson business meeting the regular monthly meeting of the business administration club will be held in the economics lec ture room in coppee hall on thursday evening march 23 the speaker for the evening will be mr charles t hess all members especially the freshmen in the business administration course are urged to attend threefold challenge continued on sixth page the following is the list of coun tries and types of specimens rep resented as furnished by dr mil ler aside from their scientific value the rocks include many beautifully crystallized and rare specimens there are several specimens of wire silver crystallized in barite which are so rich that they appear almost artificial realizing that this col lection may be of interest to many men who will not have the oppor tunity to study it in the class room dr miller has kindly offered to personally exhibit it to anyone who cares to examine it the specimens will be in complete order before the end of the week the members of the geology de partment have been busy during the past week unpacking and ar ranging the specimens which dr miller collected during his recent trip to south america these rocks arrived last week and aggregate about one ton in weight from a scientific standpoint the collection is one of the most valuable addi tions to the practical sidle of le high's curriculum for some time the collection represents many of the most prominent districts of the world most of them being districts with an assured future history as well as a past history with these additions the economic geology course at lehigh should rank sec ond to none in the country mr henry h tweedy of yale gave a brilliant address before a fair-sized crowd at the weekly y m c a meeting last sunday even ing mr tweedy s topic was the threefold challenge and he di vidled it into three main divisions by asking the following questions : are you master of your circum stances are you master of your life and are you master of your doubts ? ' ' the speaker started off by taking the first part of his topic are you master of your circumstances a man is born in certain circum stances some poor some rich some physically perfect some physi ically weak some naturally bright some naturally dumb let us take a man who is born in wealth and luxury he may be at a big disad vantage prosperity must be mas tered as well as adversity many a college man's life has been ruined by having plenty of money one man who was taken as an example is rotting away in prosperity he was rich talented musical andi had athletic ability however he could not master his fortune and his college life was a failure now let us take up the matter of health if you have a physical weakness there are only two alter natives either you conquer it or it conquers you study and prac tice the laws of health if you do not obey the laws of health you are nature s criminals as long as you eat what you want and when you want it if you djrink what you please and do what you please then you must suffer what you do not please guard your bodies and obey the laws of health if you have some weakness you cannot get rid of then conquer it in spite of it francis parkman the noted his torian would only use his eyes for five minutes a day yet look at the works that he published let us take 1 up poverty horace greeley walked and made his way on boats and barges from buffalo to new york on five dollars john wanamaker walked four miles to work and worked hard in a book store for one dollar and a quarter a week many of the great men of today were poor this goes to show that poverty can be conquered let us take up the question of mentality grant was not natural ly bright and some one suggested when he was young that his name should be useless grant instead of ulysses you should never be frightened by your circumstances learn to be a master of your circumstances to learn to be a master of him self is a required course in the cur riculum of every man's life if the course is passedi a man has made a success of life the majori ty of failures are due to loose liv ing by this i do not necessarily mean morally loose but indolent indifferent living who is master of your life is it your mood l or your best self or is it some high ideal if you are a man of moods learn to control your moods if you have a grouch do not blame le continued on second page was subject of talk by many instances he shows how men have met the test the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday march 21 1916 the romance of the south west geology department receives collection master your circumstances interscholastic track meet plans under way vol xxiii no 43 hiss captures championship subject of lecture by c j blan chard statistician of the u.s reclamation service specimens weighing ton collec ted by prof b l miller on south american trip is advice given by prof h h tweedy of yale to v.m.c.a audience only lehigh wrestler to win first place in intercol legiate meet committee has purchased prizes announcements to be mailed this week cornell's fifth win illustrations rare motion picture of snake dance many views of the region princeton in second place with lehigh third and pennsyl vania fourth plans for the first annual lehigh interscholastic track meet which is to be held on taylor field on may 27 have been progressing rapidly the meet will consist of thirteen events ; four prizes will be given in each event and a fifteen inch loving cup bearing a gold seal of the university will be awarded the school obtaining the highest number of points in the meet this cup must be won three times by any school to become the final posses sion of that school the four prizes in each event are ten-inch seven inch six-inch and five-inch loving cups the thirteen events which will comprise the meet are : 100 yards dash 220 yards dash 440 yards dash 880 yards run 1 mile run 120 yards high hurdles 220 yards low hurdles broad jump high jump pole vault shot-put hammer throw discus already several schools have sig nified their intentions of entering the meet ; these includle : northeast manual training high school central high school andl brown preparatory school of philadel phia boys reading high school and bethlehem preparatory school