Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 41

              musicians make debut sunday evening chorus chosen for " fascinating widow subject of talk given by dean heckel of lafayette college at v.m.c.a meeting time : 3 mins 32j secs divides society into drifters men with intermittent aspirations and straight line men brown and white runners aver age 53vio sees for each quarter mile of race the orchestra held its rehearsal friday afternoon e brodstein 16 announced that arrangements have been made for the orchestra to play at the y m c a meeting on sunday evening march 19 when prof h h tweedy of yale will speak this will be the first public exhibition since its establish ment as a full-fledged college or ganization an election of officers for next year will be held during the early part of april practice is held at 4 o'clock every friday afternoon in drown hall at the rehearsal of the cast and chorus of the fascinating widow ' ' in drown hall on friday evening the first selection of members of the chorus was made by coach mccollum the following men were chosen p l hallowell h wiley l h lancaster e w she kells f e smink w wigham jr g h gildersleeve a t spies r a wilbur e d halliwell g a smith e v lehr a w hicks jr a heller c m atkins e m mulford e m allen these men are requested to report for practice on wednesday evenings in drown hall until further notice this selection is not necessarily per manent and there are several po sitions in the chorus open to new men any men who wish to try for these positions should report at the next rehearsal there has been a change in the cast owing to the withdrawal of a bach 17 who was playing the part of tuthm leffingwell the part is now being filled by k a lambert in the title role j mc kay promises well as the wily charming widow m w kresge as the dignified rev wilbur watts and w yolkhardt as the effemi nate oswald wentworth lend laughable support on friday the rehearsals in the grand opera house will begin and the finishing touches put on the production work on the musi cal selections will begin at this time the competition for the student-body of writing lyrics to popular songs with appropriate words is still open and any one who has contributions should hand them in at once so that work on them may begin at once the regular monthly meeting of the chinese club was held in saucon hall on march 7 the meeting was opened by business discussion which was followed by a short talk hy h tsai 19 on the subject evils of intemperance the talk was based on three main points as follows the personal aspect intemperance lowers mor ality undermines physical health and lowers efficiency the eco nomical aspect and unnecessary waste propagates crime and creates poverty the national aspect : im morality and waste cause the down fall of a nation the downfalls of the roman empire and greece were cited as examples of the ef fects of intemperance dissipation and immorality mr n m emery delivered a short address in which he first nar rated briefly the life of asa packer lehigh's founder mr emery's remarks were in part as follows : asa packer sarted life in a humble environment he wasi first a carpenter then a canal-boat builder railway builder and finally a master of a railway system after thus having acquired con siderable wealth he devoted his time and money to the founding of lehifjli university a.sa packer's success was due mainly to his fore sight and perseverance the founder's spirit of fairness and broad-mindedness have since been followed out by the university authorities the university opens its doors to seekers of learning of all nationalities giving equal treat ment and willing help to students irrespective of their race or creed in turn the university expects every one of her sons to achieve something to uphold and honor the fair name and traditions of old lehigh ' mr emery further remarked to the club members that in order to be of more usefulness they should observe as closely as possible the customs and characteristics of the people among whom they are now living and also to pay some heed to the affairs that are transpiring in the world at large questions con cerning the war now devastating europe international peace and the preparedness propaganda which is of vital interest and im continued on sixth page college lecture english prize contests the seventh annual indoor carni val of the meadowbrook club held in convention hall philadelphia last saturday evening will long be remembered in track circles throughout the country a new world's indoor record was made for the 660 yards the 50-yard dash american indoor record was equal led twice during the evening and four new meadowbrook records were established lehigh was represented in event number 28 of the meet in a special mile relay race against the catho lic university runners from wash ington d c the race was closely contested during the first half mile but from the last lap of the sec ncl quarter the race was lehigh s the final brown and white runner fin ishing about thirty yards ahead of the fourth representative of catho lic university the time for the event was three minutes thirty-two and two-fifths 1 seconds the fastest time made by the relay team this season morrissey lead off for lehigh and held the lead against a g sulli van catholic university's first man in the first lap but the second lap found him a yard behind the washingtonian which position he held till the end of the first quarter carlson running second overtook f kean the second catholic uni versity runner at the beginning of his second lap and from this point on steadily drew away from his man finishing the second quarter with about a ten-yard lead han way took up the race in the third quatrer against horn for catholic and running in good form further increased the gap to about twenty years mcgrath running anchor man for lehigh against f a field for catholic university ran a con sistent quarter leading by thirty yards at the tape j m burke running for the boston athletic association fin ished fourth in the meadowbrook 660-yard invitation race won by james e ted meredith in the new world's indoor record time of one minute twenty-three and two fifths seconds burke ran second for the greater part of the race but near the finish was forced to allow caldwell and baker to pass him meredith finished about eleven yards ahead of the other three run ners who were spaced about a yard apart solid gold cuff links bearing the monogram of the meadowbrook club were awarded each member of the lehigh relay team as prizes track notice coach connors arrived at the university yesterday and at once issued a call for track candidates all men especially freshmen irre spective of previous track experi ence are urged to join the squad immediately committee meeting professor thayer wishes to an nounce the subjects and conditions for the alumni prize contests of the english department for the second term the contests and sub jects are as follows the williams prize essay con test open to sophomores the sub jects for the second term are i shakespeare's debt to marlowe ; ii the shakespeare tercentenary ; iii an analysis of " cymbeline ; " iv the shakespeare-bacon delu sion ; v a review of sidney lee s life of shakespeare no essay will be received in the competition af ter the final examinations begin on may 25 no previous notice is nec essary the price prize in english com position open to freshmen is due may 31 1916 names must be handed to prof thayer not later than april 11 the subject for 1916 is the literary aspect of the massachusetts colony the period to be considered lies between 1620 and 1676 the seventh lecture in the uni versity's public lecture series of 1915-16 was given in packer me morial church last friday when mr henry s graves chief for ester of the united states ad dressed an audience of students and citizens of the bethlehems on conservation of forests illus trated by colored stereopticon views and presented in a direct popular style the address of mr graves proved one of the most in teresting forestry lectures ever given at lehigh the speaker was introduced by dr drinker who as president of the american forestry association from 1913 to 1915 came into con tact with mr graves in various phases of conservation work presi dent drinker paid high tribute to the knowledge the energy and the qualities of leadership mr graves has exhibited graduated from yale college in 1892 mr graves took special work in forestry at harvard and at the university of munich from 1900 to 1910 he was professor of forestry and di rector of the forestry school in yale university since 1910 he has been chief forester of the united states mr graves spoke somewhat as follows : we read in the papers of the disaster in the northern portion of the cascades when an avalanche struck a train killing a number of people the same thing happened in 1910 when 100 people were killed soon afterward the railroad built concrete snowsheds for pro tection to passengers but the heavy snow slides entrapped a train be tween the sheds and a number of lives were lost the steep moun tains adjacent to the railroad had been swept by fire and an investi gation showed that the destruction of the trees had left nothing to hold back the huge masses of snow a most important problem in conservation before the country is the protection and use of water re sources and the prevention of floods in nearly every part of the country the use of water resources is becoming more and more intens ive and the value of property af fected either by floods or by irregu larities of flow has become so great as to make the control of streams relatively of much greater impor tance even where actual floods have not increased in amount the damage by them has increased measures must therefore be taken now which only a few years ago were not essential the constantly increasing demand upon water re sources through our greater popu lation and through increased indus trial development demands that the river problem be vigorously at tacked at once ' ' forests play a large part in the conservation of our water re sources of course the presence of forests will not prevent high water for that depends largely on the un usual and prolonged fall of rain but the presence of well managed forests in the mountain regions in continued on third page the y m c a last sunday evening had the privilege of listen ing to the strong address of prof a k heckel dean of lafayette college he emphasized the im portance of following a straight line of living up to one's ideals with a firm determination to see everything completed in addition to the address by prof a k heckel music lovers were given a rare treat this end of the program was taken care of by the trio composed of miss mary jenkins miss ludwig and james hagenbuch 16 miss jenkins fa vored with vocal solos accompa nied by missi ludwig on the piano and mr hagenbuch on the violin prof heckel's initial appear ance at lehigh marks the first rep resentative from lafayette who has appeared before the associa tion in recent years his subject following the straight line contained many truths and much helpful advice for college men his talk in part follows : there are certain axioms in the physical world which are in variable under all conditions as concrete examples of this we find that two and two make four and that a straight is the shortest dis tance between two points in the spiritual world there are also inevitable and unfailing axioms that control things spirit ual society in general consists of three types of people first we have the lowest class composed of drifters who have neither ideals or lofty aims or aspirations they lead an animal life they eat and sleep and go through a humdrum existence perfectly happy and con tented they do this because they have caught no vision to this class belongs the unfaithful ser vant who buried his talent in the earth second we have the type with intermittent aspirations men who occasionally loom up and take a stand men who in a sense are the backbone of the community in this class belongs the young ruler who came to visit jesus but he was not willing to follow the straight line had he taken this step he would have become im mortal yet he turned sadly away to his gold and oblivion and lost the opportunity to be loved by the christian world in the third place we have the men who follow the straight line these are the men who see the fine things in life the men who fight valiantly for the right and al though the world may oppose them strive bravely for that which is noble and good socrates with his ideas of truth and right belongs to this class martin luther belonged to the third type he stood before scowl ing scolding and wolfish priests and flung out his convictions i cannot and will not recant so help me god he had the courage to stand alone against the holy roman empire of his time and continued on second page friday morning at 11 o'clock in the palace theatre on east third street mr c j blanchard statis tician of the united states recla mation service will lecture on romance of the southwest this lecture will be the eighth of the university's 1915-16 series mr blanchard will show moving pictures and stereopticon views of scenes of a section in which he has spent nearly twelve years as an ex plorer following an historical ac count of the routes traversed in the 16th century by coronado and the spanish conquistadores the lec turer will describe the enormous irrigation works in the valleys of the rio grande salt and colorado rivers and will show views of the grand canyon and yosemite na tional park the use of the palace theatre is given to the university free of any charge by manager george j zboyovsky 07 at four o'clock friday after noon the junior banquet commit tee will meet in the study room of drown memorial hall lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday march 14 1916 vol xxiii forests must be conserved vice president emery gives a brief review of life of the founder of lehigh illustrated talk on the conser vation of forests by chief forester graves three types the water supply forestry plays an important part in the protection of country's water resources tsai addresses chinese evils of intemperance relay team wins at meadowbrook orchestra perfects plans chorus chosen following the straight line defeats catholic university run ners by thirty yards in mile relay race the brown and white no 41