Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 40

              his subject the relation of education to preparedness held interest many stars to race list of men includes meredith drew and caldwell large entry in all events chestnut trees removed from campus to be replaced by other varieties the university authorities have ordered from 8000 to 9000 trees of different varieties to be placed in say re park some time in april this order includes five standard varieties of oak as well as tulip ash locust willow ailanthus elm wild black cherry beech sugar maple white pine norway spruce and red pine varieties lehigh university has always been an ar dent supporter of the movement for the conservation of our forests due primarily to the active interest displayed by president drinker and this action is but a continua tion of the policy laid down by the administrative officers of the uni versity some years ago particular interest is displayed at this time due to the removal of all of the old chestnut trees which adorned the campus for so many years under the direction of mr j c cranmer superintendent of buildings and grounds the work of removing the chestnut treet has been going on since last september and by spring there will not be a single tree of this variety either on the campus proper or in sayre park owing to the ravages of the chestnut blight the authorities have been forced to safeguard the re maining trees of the university park by removing any possibility of infection from forty to sixty chestnut trees have been taken down on the campus proper between uni versity avenue and packer ave nut and these will be replaced by several hundred specimens of other varieties the latter will probably be taken entirely from the uni versity arboretum which since its establishment in 1909 has sup plied several thousand trees which will eventually be used for campus planting it is interesting to note that since 1910 the authorities antici pating the destruction of the chest nut trees have planted from 40,000 to 50,000 varieties on the campus and in sayre park freshman basketball lecture on mt lassen to be given monday shaffer parish and levin to wrestle in class lower than former weight the lehigh wrestling team will travel to ithaca tomorrow to meet the strong cornell team this team is considered the strongest team that lehigh has to contend with in the coming intercollegiate contest coach sheridan made a shake-up in the lehigh squad and brought all the men above the 125-pound class down to the class below their former weight this necessitated a trial bout between jenness and shaffer to see who should take the 135-pound berth the bout was hotly contested first jenness and then shaffer having the advantage until shaffer got a bar and chanc ery hold and forced jenness s shoulders to the mat in 7 minutes and 33 seconds shaffer was five pounds overweight but it is ex pected he will have no trouble mak ing weight in the heavyweight class the choice lies between ket cham and dayton the former is a new man having been a star on the basketball team and has recent ly taken up wrestling he is new at the game but strong and anxious to learn and has the weight behind him cornell's most promising men are post who was an intercollegiate champion last year in the 135 pound class and mckenzie and sager both point winners in the intercollegiates mckenzie is also an old man at the game and would undoubtedly have scored in the in tercollegiate last year were it not for an injury sustained in his bout with good of lehigh mckenzie has come down a class in weight and it is doubted whether he will be as efficient in this class due to the weakening effect of reducing weight the line-ups : cornell 115-pound class mpkenzie 125-pound class wigston 135-pound class reynolds 145-pound class post 158-pound class captain sager 175-pound class mckeague unlimited class snyder lehigh 115-pound class capt kirkhuff 125-pound class s martin 135-pound class c shaffer 145-pound class c parrish 158-pound class l m levin 175-pound class s b scruggs unlimited class ketcham or dayton the freshman basketball team will line up against the pen argyl high school five next saturday night at pen argyl although the freshmen were defeated by bethle hem prep last saturday the team should benefit by the game and with better team work the fresh men should give the high school boys a good game the line-up : 1919 positions pen argyl melville forward . . . mershon barrett forward . . harding thomas center lobb burgess guard a kress hurley guard m kress tau beta pi pledging at the founder's day exercises of ursinus 1 college held in college ville yesterday afternoon the de gree of doctor of letters was con lerred upon natt m emery m.a vice-president of lehigh uni versity the address of the day was delivered by the president of lehigh dr henry s drinker who spoke on the relation of education to preparedness dr george leslie omwake president of ursinus college had charge of the exercises in bom berger memorial hall at 3.30 o'clock in addition to the degree of vice-president emery the de gree of doctor of laws was con ferred upon joseph h apple president of hood college fred erick md doctors emerjy and apple were called upon and spoke at the annual ursinus family din ner in the college dining room following the ceremonies direc tors officers professors and their wives and students were in attend ance dr drinker's address at the founder's day exercises was in part as follows it is a privilege highly ap preciated by lehigh that lehigh s president should be invited to come here today and pay tribute to the great work in education 1 and in the uplift of our state and coun try that has been accomplished by ursinus college in the near half century of its existence soon you will be celebrating your semi-cen tennial as we this year will cele brate ours it is of course peculiarly a pleasure to me personally to be here today when you propose honoring my friend and colleague vice-president emery with your honorary degree lehigh and all his friends highly appreciate this mark of your kindly consideration and friendship speaking in halls dedicated to the support of liberal education and christianity it has seemed to me we may well discuss in this scholastic atmosphere and in this academic seclusion from political bias and partisan strife — the great question of preparedness that is to day agitating our country — and discuss it from the students and scholars standpoint and its rela tion to our duty of training our young men to develop into patri otic good citizens — devoted to the furtherance of our country's needs and welfare her protection against aggression and the promotion in our land of the principles of en during peace and the means to secure and maintain it today the great war abroad has brought home to our people with startling insistent force the question of our ability and readi ness to resist aggression our edu cational institutions particularly those of higher grade our colleges and universities cannot shunt to others the duty of considering these matters we are training and sending out annually thous ands of young men to take their place in the world the study of great national questions affecting continued on third page battery men workout in place of the regular exercises in the packer memorial chapel this morning the following members of the 1917 class were pledged to the tau beta phi honorary society : g y custer c t halpin f e portz h e mcdowell r l mc cann 0 r rice g m levy j e frobisher c w kingsley on monday afternoon at 3.30 in the physics lecture room mr j s diller of the united states geo logical survey will deliver a lec ture on mt lassen " the only act ive volcano in the united states mr diller has spent the past three years in the region of the volcano as a member of the pacific coast section of the survey and has ob tained more than 100 slides of the volcano and its surrounding terri tory there is a movement on foot to make the region a national park as the beauty of the region is quite remarkable attendance of the class in general geology is required but the lecture should attract the interest of many more c e society chemists meet tonight there will be a meeting of the chemical society in saucon hall at 7.30 this evening the speakers will be f l horine 16 and o l carlson 16 the work on the production of the fascinating widow which is to be given by the mustard and j cheese club in april is progress | ing very rapidly under the direc tion of mr j a mccollom the cast has really entered into the rol licking spirit of the comedy and the bi-weekly rehearsals already promise an excellent performance the lines of the play are filled with laughs and the action lends itself readily to considerable sparkling comedy on wednesday evening last a re hearsal was held in drown hall at this time the first candidates for the chorus reported for practice the following men were present to try for the positions smith cope sheckells smink gildersleeve wi ley lancaster hallowell heller and stotz the dancing is under the direction of mr wall of allen town and he put the men through some simple steps to the accom paniment of the music to be pre sented with the production many more men are needed to fill the chorus positions a chorus of twen ty male and female parts being de sired for the present the rehears als of the chorus will be on wed 1 nesday evenings in drown hall at | 7.30 as no previous experience is necessary there should be a much larger attendance of candidates a i the next rehearsal final selection of chorus will be made by the coach next friday the music which has been se lected for the play consists of pop ular and catchy pieces excellently suited for the production it is planned to include a special musi cal number of a song specially written for the occasion anyone who has ability in the art of writing lyrics to popular music should en ter the competition the lyric should be calculated to be appro priate to the occasion and it has been suggested that the music of america i love you would be well adapted to such a purpose rehearsals for the cast will con tinue to be held monday and fri day evenings in drown hall at 7.30 it is hoped that it will be possible next friday to begin re hearsing at the grand opera house where the fine points of the play will be fully developed one of the biggest indoor car nivals of track and field sports that take place annually in the united states is the meadow brook club meet that comes due tomorrow night in philadelphia this gather ing of athletes from all over the country has been growing in im portance since its founding seven years ago until last year it topped everything of its kind in the coun try this year it is expected will eclipse all former records lehigh has been entered in two events the one-mile relay and the 660-yard run the one-mile relay is a special race with catholic uni versity and in which lehigh will be represented by a veteran team composed of mcgrath morrisey hanway and carlson pennsyl vania runs a similar race with cor nell and swarthmore clashes with her ancient rival haverford also in a mile relay capt burke is entered in the 660-yard event against such men as meredith halpin caldwell des mond higgins bingham and wil cox last year meredith was first burke second and caldwell third in this same event there are several new colleges entered this year notably har vard yale chicago columbia pittsburgh and michigan cornell pennsylvania princeton andi le high have completed for meadow brook honors before while the special events that at tracted so much attention last year are again on the program there are a number of attractions this year that are new and all are relay races one of them is a two-mile relay race between pennsylvania freshmen and mercersburg acad emy a number of schools pe titioned the management to insert a medley event which has been done in this one runner will go 220 yards another 440 another 880 and the final man will make one mile treadway of yale teschner of harvard o'hara of m i t ; howe of colby ; howard drew of southern california ray morse of the salem crescent a c ; brewer of washington ; loomis of chicago and stephenson of new york will run the 50-yard special scratch race drew has not been beaten this year oler richards barwise and loomis will participate in the special high jump all have records better than 6 feet 3 inches foss and newsletter of cornell and pennsylvania are expected to do better than 13 feet in the pole vault one of the features of the even ing is the boston new york and philadelphia one-mile event the boston team is made up of halpin caldwell mennix and rose the new york team was picked bj fred rubien the philadelphia team will be made up from meadow brook and pennsylvania athletes the meet itself bids fair to ex ceed all expectations this year the best indication being the large number of entries lehigh also has continued on sixth page the march meeting of the civil engineering society will be held next thursday evening two mem bers of the junior class are pre paring papers to be presented at this meeting a large baseball squad is work ing out in the gymnasium every day the bad weather conditions have handicapped the squad great ly the gymnasium allows only the pitchers to get real workouts and the other men have to content themselves with just limbering up some very promising material has been brought to light and captain fishburn is well satisfied with the season's outlook coach keady is expected in the near future and when the weather-man permits out door work the real workouts will commence vol xxiii the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday march 10 1916 eight to nine thousand trees for sayre park tomorrow lehigh meets cornell founder's day at ursinus lehigh to run at meadow brook work on fascinating widow progressing musical numbers to include a song especially written for the occasion to meet catholic university in mile relay burke enters 660=yard run winner of meet will be favorites in intercollegiates four veterans with cornell line=up changes address by dr drinker degree of doctor of letters con ferred upon vice=president emery no 40