Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 37

              before the speaker was intro duced it was announced that on wednesday evening the final meet ing of the discussion groups will be held in drown hall the meeting offers two opportunities first the opportunity to hear a good speak er ; second the members of the dif ferent fraternities and dormitories can get together to discuss ques tions of interest and importance the speaker was introduced as reading's busiest and most use ful citizen he is a man of much past experience as a lawyer and educator and particularly fitted to talk to college men being a gradu ate of the university of pennsyl vania in the class of 96 mr jones said it is better to learn the signs of the times instead of trying to learn the signs of won ders by that i mean that it is bet ter to be a close observer and al ways be on the alert than it is to be looking for the unusual things to take place scouts and seers is a combina tion open to young men's minds that is needed to discern the signs of the times one hope of the in telligent minded is to pick up more all the time the signs of the times are the things from which we must pick our course in life the subject scouts and seers was chosen because the scout as we ordinarily know him is the man who has the ability to discern every sound that is taking place about him he hears the sound of the footfall of animals the cracking of the brush the swaying of the trees in the wind but be neath everything he picks out that sound about which he wants to know by observing the animal's footfall he can tell you what ani mal it is and how far distant the seer is fundamentally a see-er he is one who sees one who does with his eye what the scout does with his ear he sees things beyond what is seen by the ordinary eye he uses his eye not to look at but to see into things he sees not merely the surface of things but he sees also beneath the surface the publicity man so arranges and presents things that he makes people see what he wants them to see we are not the seers when we look at his skillful advertisement the publicity man is the seer the men with the advertisements with the evils with the world's uses are the seers we simply look and are led on by the attractiveness of the object continued on fifth page education will make men's minds like scouts and seers we are not getting everything out of education unless we accomplish this one great object sensational goal outlines system ketcham's goal sent swarthmore to second defeat of season score 22 to 21 the meeting will begin promptly at 7 o'clock and will in no way in terfere with the lafayette basket ball game other well-known speakers will be prof c l thomburg prof j l stewart rev mr beekmaju rev mr johnson mr clapp and prof p m palmer the general subject of discussion will of course be the year's work with a view to ward suggesting improvements in the plans for next year's meetings a representative from each of the iecticns will be called upon for a one-minute talk relative to the opinions of the group he represents and affording an opportunity for suggestions the y m c a committee under the direction of secretary j m frey and h i fair has ar ranged a splendid program of speakers foremost among these is dr john r davies of phila delphia dr davies is not only one of the leading presbyterian ministers of philadelphia but is a prominent figure in the activities of the church at large and a noted speaker the series of weekly discussion meetings which have been attended with such widespread interest this year will be brought to a close to morrow evening by a joint meeting â–  in drown hall at seven o'clock as i this is the last opportunity for ! meetings of this kind this year and forms an excellent opportunity to assemble all the divisions of the college it is hoped that the oc { casion will be a memorable one for attendance and enthusiasm cons antly on the alert in effort to aid his fellow man im possible to do nothing tells how company's cars are accounted for when on other lines perdien agreement is universal brother the arts and science society will hold a meeting on thursday and the deutscher verein will hold their meetings on thursday and friday evenings of this week in drown hall the arts and science society lehigh won from swarthmore in basketball on saturday in taylor gymnasium by a score of 22 to 21 it was ketcham the lehigh guard who scored the winning points af ter he had seemingly lost the game with the score at 20 all and but 45 seconds to play swarthmore called time out just after the ball was put in play the lehigh guard committed a technical foul and sproul of swarthmore easily caged the ball from the fifteen-foot line making the score 21 to 20 it looked as if lehigh would have to take a hard-luck defeat but ket cham saved the game with a seem ingly impossible shot from the floor not more than five seconds before the final whistle never was there a more thrilling end to a hard fought game neither team played particularly well in the first half both lehigh and swarthmore in their efforts to play a careful game fumbled the ball and passed poorly each team played a close guarding game and the score see-sawed back and forth with never more than two points difference when the whistle blew at the end of the first period swarthmore lead by a score of 10 to 9 swarthmore scored first in the second half when sproul secured a foul goal after missing a previous chance the brown and white quintet playing a brilliant game as a whole started to run away from their opponents captain green and dynan each scored two points brewster added another point with a foul goal and ketcham also scored green again scored with a beautiful goal from the middle of the floor the brown and white now led the garnet by 18 to 11 the latter team tightened up and in short time assumed the lead again when donnelly caged two goals from the field and sproul and captain harry each secured one the garnet captain's chance was a long shot from a difficult angle but he made it good for le high brewster scored twice from the fifteen-foot line while sproul made a point in the same manner brewster s score tied the score at 20 to 20 swarthmore then assumed the lead when sproul caged his goal from ketcham s foul only to be headed by lehigh in the last few seconds of play when lehigh s of fending guard saved his team from a defeat by scoring two more points neither team had any particular advantage over the other both played on a par in the first period in the final half lehigh started like a whirlwind but the pace was too swift and she had to slow up the brown and white's playing as a whole during this period was su perior to swarthmore s continued on sixth page ketcham for lehigh stands out as the star of the game not only on account of his winning goal but al so because of his steady guarding and his scoring ability brewster was not able to secure a field goal but his steadiness in foul shooting made victory possible on the de fensive captain green was the the soccer game scheduled for saturday afternoon with lafayette was for the second time postponed on account of bad weather this game was to have been the first to play off the triple tie in the penn sylvania intercollegiate league be tween lehigh lafayette and penn sylvania on friday afternoon at four o'clock all orchestra men are urged to report in drown hall e brod stein 16 has taken charge of the reorganization the plan is to or ganize an orchestra which will be available for the various university functions members of the lower classes are especially urged to re port the fourth meeting of the busi ness adaninistration club was held last thursday evening in coppee hall the speaker of the evening was mr a s wright head of the car accounting department of the lehigh valley railroad the duties of a car accountant as he explained are the keeping track of the rolling stock and equipment of a railroad so as to facilitate settlement between the many railroads of the country whose cars are constantly travel ling over each other's lines the talk was free from the use of scien tific words which are known only to car accountants mr wright began by giving an example of a man standing at a railroad crossing 1500 miles away from the lines of the lehigh val ley this man sees a car pass which belongs to the lehigh valley the question that man asks is whether the lehigh valley railroad knows that one of its cars is travelling over another line 1500 miles away from its system the lehigh valley owns 47,000 freight cars besides these 20,000 ears of other lines are travelling over its tracks making a total of from 60,000 to 75,000 cars each day which must be accounted for traces of cars belonging to the l v r r must be kept at all times while the cars of other lines are lost when they leave lehigh valley tracks this track of cars is kept by means of a wheelage report containing the number of the car line to which it betongs its contents and the time it is picked up at a station for instance south bethle hem then again the report is made at easton the conductor of the train keeps track of the cars and his report is mailed to the car ac counting department then when the car moves from easton to jer sey city the accountant moves his record also the reason for doing this is to keep track of the freight shipped to enable tracing of a car which is done through the car accounting department if the car is stuck at any point along the road the transportation department of the railroad sees that it moves on to its destination this is done for the benefit of patrons of the road equipment must be kept track of to enable settling with other roads for the use of their cars the perdien agreement for the settling of car accounts was signed by ninety-nine and nine-tenths per cent of the railroads of the united states by this agreement a rail road pays 45 cents per car per day for the use of a car of another road this is done to permit free exchange of equipment and to en able through transportation from line to line continued on second page before the signing of this agree ment the settlement was made on a base of six cents per mile this was found unsatisfactory because one road would confiscate the cars of other lines in time of a rush or preparatory to a rush after hold the brown and white vol xxiii bethlehem pa tuesday february 29 1916 lehigh university lehigh wins thrilling game discussion groups to hear dr john r davies business men hear expert will hold meets during the week should get scout habit no 37 other group leaders will address the final meeting in drown hall a s wright head of l v r r car accounting department addresses club arts and science society ant deutscher verein plan good programs george m jones urges y m c a audience to greater service is essence of scout's code score was close throughout both periods of play won dur ing last minute library places many new books on shelves evening at 7.30 o'clock in the study room of drown hall and not in coppee hall as previously announced the club which was founded in 1905 is open not only to men in the arts and science courses but to every man at the university it aims to develop a keener interest in everyday affairs and to cultivate a taste for some of the higher things in life prof r w blake head of the arts and science department and professor of the latin language and literature will be one of the speakers prof p m palmer of the department of german will speak on the club's needs several musical numbers will be rendered by members of the club inci dentally refreshments will be served on friday evening there will be a meeting of the deutscher verein instead of going out of town in accordance with the previous cus tom the club will meet in the y m c a cabinet room on the second floor of drown memorial hall an interesting program has been ar ranged e brodstein 16 and j meredith 16 will take care of the musical end while lerch 16 meredith 16 strasburg 16 o brien 17 hagglund 17 and rapoport 17 will feature in the german playlet eigensinn songs by all the members of the club will complete the social part of the program members should bring their song books a short business session will be held to dis cuss the future plans and aims of the club second basket=ball game with lafayette tomorrow lafayette will send the same five to play in taylor gym tomorrow that defeated the brown and white quintet at east on two weeks ago 20-17 a short time ago lafayette lost to swarthmore 40-23 and last saturday lehigh won from swarth more a team only beaten by prince ton this may be taken as a good comparison of the respective strengths of the teams the team has been resting the first part of the week the only practice being reserved for the af ternoon before the game the line-ups will be : lehigh positions lafayette dynan forward . . . troxell brewster forward anderson stone c ) crichton center luhr keteham guard weldon green c ... guard taylor during the past few weeks many volumes have been added to the li brary shelves particularly in soci ology economics and psychology in the german department the new books are : a set of 12 volumes by wilhelm raaben the w t orks of con rad ferdinand meyer in nine vol umes an up-to-date set of seven volumes by heine and a seven-vol ume set by g fressen there is a noticeable lack of shelf-room for the books of this department on account of the number of additions this condition is general the works of robert browning in six volumes of the 1899 issue have also been placed on the shelves ten volumes of the shakespeare variorum set have been added making a total of eighteen volumes these books are being added as quickly as they are completed by the publishers they are of par ticular value to the student of shakespeare on account of the pro fuse amount of notes and reference matter most of the books have been ac quired by direct purchase but some have been presented by the univer sity professors and others have been received as gifts from other universities orchestra to reorganize soccer game the attendance at the y m c a meeting last sunday evening was not very large but those who were present heard a very interesting talk by george m jones of read ing pa on the subject of scouts and seers e brodstein 16 a member of the lehigh valley symphony or chestra rendered two violin selec tions