Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 39

              a special college meeting was called last friday morning by president wynne of the senior class the matter of electing an assistant basketball manager laid over from the last meeting was the first matter brought up mr wynne explained that the remain ing candidates voted upon last year with the exception of j a carlson were ineligible l mudge made a motion which was passed that carlson be elected to the po sition of assistant manager of basketball h d keiser spoke of the fi nancial standing of the arcadia due to the fact that many of the men in college had failed to pay the fee he urged the men to pay the fee as soon as possible e j clement manager of la crosse made the second call for this sport he urged the freshmen to come out in order to get familiar with handling the stick before coach grimms arrives 0 l carlson made a call for candidates for the chorus of the musical comedy to be given this spring men with ability in this direction are at present in demand p s hanway then brought up the question of a junior athletic committee member after an open discussion of the matter he made the following motion that the junior athletic representative be elected for two years becoming senior member in his last year the matter was laid over until the next meeting e a clare announced that a regular university dance would be given on saturday night music by van eps continued on second page orchestra rehearsal prep beats freshmen although running five seconds faster than they ran on the same track two weeks before the brown and white mile relay team was forced to lose the feature relay race of the george washington uni versity indoor meet to the mary land agricultural college team by a few inchest last saturday evening in convention hall washington d c captain burke starting from scratch in the open 880-yard event managed to secure second place from a large field of handi capped runners after running his usual consistent race in the relay race morrissey led off for lehigh against morris of maryland and set the pace for the first lap and a half morris how ever took the pole by a sprint near the close of the second lap and maintained it until the end giving chipman the second maryland runner a lead of about two yards over mcgrath maryland held this lead although mcgrath sprinted up beside his man thres times during the quarter hanway ran third for lehigh against grace of maryland and trailed the mary land runner for the three laps but was compelled to pass the race to capt burke without cutting down the two yard 1 maryland lead sun ning against speer m a c burke several times attempted to take the lead from the marylander these two fought it out side by side down each straightway and on each curve the m a c runner winning the event by a few inches at the tape the time of the race was 3 minutes 46 4/5 seconds commenting on the race the washington star said : ' ' the maryland agricultural college defeated lehigh university last night in the feature event of the george washington university indoor games at convention hall in one of the closest and most inter esting relay races ever staged in a local meet the members of the two teams ran almost evenly throughout the entire race and it was only by a scant margin of a stride or two that speer anchor man of the winners was able to breast the tape ahead of burke of lehigh ' ' freshman class meeting the first call for orchestra can didates brought out ten men to the rehearsal held last friday after noon in drown hall there was a lack of clarinets flutes and cellos among the selections tried were hungarian fantasie and the only girl by victor her bert both of which were rendered with merit in consideration of the fact that it was the initial rehearsal and that certain instruments nec essary to complete an orchestra were lacking it is purposed later to form a college orchestra sextet from the regular orchestra men this will serve as a mark of distinction to those composing it in order that good results be obtained e brod stein 16 urges more candidates with ability on the instruments mentioned above next rehearsal will be held on friday afternoon at four o'clock the men who reported were first violin — brodstein 16 bau man 19 dorken 19 carmichael 17 ; second violin — brockman 19 flory 19 walters 19 ; piano — sourber 19 cornet klotz 18 drum 0 neill 19 before the penn state game on saturday afternoon the brown and white freshmen lost to beth lehem prep by a score of 38-21 after the first few minutes of play prep secured the lead which they maintained throughout the game in consistent floor work and shooting they were superior to the 1919 team a number of times during the game the freshmen showed good individual and good team work but as a whole they played rather loosely the score at the end of the first half was 21-10 with the prep team leading the line-up was as follows : beth prep positions lehigh f briody forward . . . barrett miller forward . . . melville rauch center thomas smith cressman . . . guard burgess james guard .... kennedy goals from field rauch 5 mil ler 4 briody 3 james 2 cressman smith melville 4 barrett thomas burgess kennedy goals from fouls : briody 6 out of 9 ; thomas 5 out of 9 referee tom thorpe columbia time : 20-minute halves college lecture individual bowling the freshmen held a short class meeting at noon on march 3 for the purpose of electing some new officers and discussing the proposed constitution twombly w t as elected sergeant-at-arms and nawrath was elected llistorian the consti tution has been posted in the li brary for inspection and considera tion and will be voted on at an early date chemists to meet mr h s graves chief forester of the united states department of agriculture will give the college lecture friday in the chapel • the arts and science club of le high university held what might be termed a booster meeting in drown hall on the night of march 2 the meeting was declared by several of the senior members of the club to have been the best for sev eral years the attendance in it self was most encouraging for those men who have been instru mental in a reorganization of the club the meeting was addressed by professor blake of the arts and science department and professor palmer of the german depart ment the meeting was also briefly addressed by several student mem bers in regards to finances indi vidual support and future meeting programs prof blake's talk to the club consisted of a discussion of the life and readings from the prose and poetical works of rupert brooke the english writer who recently died during the unsuccessful cam paign of england at the darda nelles as an introductory pro fessor blake gave a short discussion of rupert brooke's style and a brief outline of his life rupert brooke was a man of promise much talked of often written about and surely a poet of permanent work he was a rugby man fond of ath letics a good football player in his school days and a great swimmer although always interested in peace he enlisted at the outbreak of the war and was with the eng lish at antwerp at the time of the futile drive of the germans from antwerp he was moved to the dar danelles and there contracted blood poison from which he died at the age of 27 prof blake then read several prose selections the first was a rather sarcastic review given by a young english visitor to new york in his rambling talk he includes everything from advertising to education from music halls to antiquities there were several snatches of humor in the article that made it exceedingly amusing this was followed by a piece en titled some niggers several other shorter works finished up the prose side of rupert brooke turning now to the poetical side prof blake said that the writer had a tendency toward extravagant expression as well as to being rather satirical the following se lections were read the sea tide which is a beautiful nature description in a train between bologne and mailand " or a stran ger's experience with two germans in the same compartment a son net on death showing brooke's capacity for the sad as well as the bright side of life menelais and helen a story of ancient love as were also jealousy and the channel passage prof blake concluded with a few verses en titled peace prof palmer gave a direct talk to the members of the arts and sci ence club regarding their responsi bilities to the club to make it a suc cess he also dwelt upon the club conditions of the university pro fessor palmer said in part : continued on second page those who attended the y m c a meeting in drown hall on sun day evening heard thomas l law ton of germantown philadelphia speak on the topic of two calls mr lawton is a man of wide ex perience in religious work especi ally in the y m c a this ex perience combined with his active business experience gave the talk an especially practical message which was felt by all present the special music consisted of two vocal solos by j mckay 17 accompanied by tomlinson the substance of mr lawton s talk is as follows we all ar fpmi^ar with the call of the wild by jack lon don and how that book show t s that the call of our ignoble instinct tends to draw us away from our surrounding although the point is made for a dog it is quite as ap plicable to mankind every man is tempted and drawn towards the ways of evil across the path of every one comes the call to the wild pi somp time or another is it our weak will or our strong desire that determines whether we are to yield ? this is a debatable question but in almost every case it is the strong desire that breaks the weak will when temptation comes all of us seem to have a knowledge of the sorrow that attends evil it is especially true that young men have a desire to take the experi mental cure for evil but i lose my patience with that young man when he later comes and whines because he then has so many new tempta tions to combat but opposed to this call is the second call the call of the noble with these two calls the same old rule works the more a man fol lows the call of the wild the more he is exposed to its temptations while the more a man follows the call of the noble the more he is able to resist the temptations we must remember however that the sin is not in the temptation but in • the yielding to the temptation if we do not yield to the call of the wild all the powers of evil cannot drag us into evil therefore the wise thing for us to do is to get ac quainted with ourselves robert spear once sat down and made a list of the things he was strong in and then a list of the things he was weak in on looking the list over he was surprised at the length of the weak list and at the shortness of the strong list i think it would be well for us to analyze ourselves in this way just for the sake of know ing ourselves temptation comes to us in many ways it comes through men through books through organiza tions all these things issue either a call to the right or a call to the wrong paul says that he delighted in the call to right and was re morseful when the call to the wrong came this raises the ques tion of whether discouragement is a liability or an asset while it may be a liability in many cases yet i think that often it is an asset keeping us straight when the call of the wild comes by holding us continued on second page the chemical society will hold a meeting in saucon hall at 7.30 on friday evening the men who have so far sur vived the third round in duck pins are achorn 17 ; doushkess 17 and ostrum 16 in big pins meschter 17 is the only man up to date arcadia announcement l g mudge 16 has tendered his resignation as a member of the arcadia due to the probation rule of the faculty e c hummel 16 who received the highest number of votes among the defeated candi dates of last september will fill the vacancy as 1 prescribed in the by laws of the arcadia signed 0 l carlson secretary of the arcadia the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday march 7 1916 vol xxiii no 3 booster arts and science meeting assistant manager of basketball elected j a carlson chosen impor tant announcements at short college meeting maryland aggies beat relay team deutscher verein held meeting in drown hall lawton talks on the two calls program consisted of vocal and instrumental music and a comedy eigensinn best social service is to exert an influence for the noble how to fight battle running a fast consistent race lehigti four is beaten by a few inches capt burke scores wins second place in 880=yard open event from scratch handicapped starters the third meeting of the deut scher yerein was held last friday evening in drown hall a short business session preceded the pro gram arranged for the evening propositions for the admission of new members and plans for a dif ferent system of dues were taken up but were tabled until the next business meeting of the club which is scheduled for thursday after noon at four o'clock in the eco nomics lecture room the remain der of the evening was given up to a program featured by musical and dramatic numbers ellis brodstein 16 favored with two violin solos rendered in his usual masterly manner they were thoroughly appreciated by all he was accompanied by j a mere dith 16 songs by the club then followed these included many old german volkslieder among them being those familiar to all students of german die lorelei heiden roslein du du liegst mir im herzen das zerbrochene ring lein " die wacht am rhein ' ' and ' ' der konig in thule ' ' the latter song is one of goethe's poetic jew els which readers of faust will recall the deutscher verein is unique among lehigh's many clubs in that the ' ' feed ' ' never marks the close of the meetings at this point was served a light lunch consisting of belegte brotchen kaffee und eiscreme then followed the short comedy eigensinn " ren dered by six club members mere dith 16 lerch 16 strausburg 16 o'brien 17 rapoport 17 and hagglund 17 as the name implies the play deals with obsti nacy which trait leads the various to rule oneself and to assume responsibility are imperative large number of students hear selections from works of rupert brooke club's history prof palmer relates club's past at lehig-h