Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 33

              sophomores notice all candidates for the position of assistant manager of track should report at once to g a but terworth 17 or h d keiser 16 business men junior prom committee there will be a meeting of the business administration society in coppee hall on thursday evening february 17 at 7.15 o'clock letter men there will be a short meeting of all varsity letter men in drown hall wednesday afternoon at one o clock important business will be brought up and every l man should be present discussion groups the following committee on ar rangements for the junior prom has been appointed by president p s hanway a bach jr chair man h f w johnson g c howard w a richards h j pardee w h wolfs r t wil liams and s h palmer this committee has been ap pointed early to avoid the last minute rush of previous years it will work in conjunction with the officers of the sophomore cotillion club for the cotillion and prom is to be held during junior week april 27 february meeting of civils this thursday upon petition of students resid ing in the smaller dormitory of the university the name has been changed by the board of trustees to ' ' price hall " in a letter to dr drinker and the board of trustees the students presented their objec tion to the name die alte brau erei they asked that it be changed to price hall in honor of dr henry r price c.e 70 was first exhibited in 1867 it completely revolutionized gas engine building engines of this type are highly prized by universities and museums for their historical value and are even imported from europe for the use of such institutions mr krell vice-president of the otto gas en gine works kindly offered the en gine to the university on a recent trip of prof butterfield of the mechanical engineering depart ment to philadelphia though this gas engine is more than forty years old and has been working for more than a genera tion it is still in good working order the engine develops only iy 2 h.p but it weighs nearly a ton the great weight is due to the very slow speed inseparable from its manner of working for this reason and for other reasons such engines could not be built com mercially in this age of fast run ning machinery this type engine was first ex hibited at the paris exposition in 1867 and it completely revolution ized gas engine building realizing exonomies that are not very much exceeded even at the present day its method of working is peculiar the cylinder is vertical and a free piston is projected vertically several feet by the force of the ex plosion doing no work until its downward stroke begins when an automatic friction clutch connects its to the driving shaft gravity and atmospheric pressure then do useful work a gift of considerable historic value has just been received by the mechanical engineering depart ment this is al h.p otto and langen atmospheric gas engine and was donated by the otto gas engine works of philadelphia claxton and lees were seen in lehigli line=up for the first time this season at paris exposition president of the board of trustees as an evidence of the respect and esteem in which the students hold him die alte brauerei has had a glorious history several years ago it was taken over by the university and remodeled into a snug dormi tory the dorm accommodates about forty men tomorrow the basketball game between the lehigh and lafayette fives is due the game was origi nally scheduled for january 15 but was postponed until tomorrow it being satisfactory to both teams this game is to be the first of two with lafayette the second to be played march 1 and as is gen erally known these two games are among the most important of the season the issue is of particular significance this year as the honors were shared evenly last spring each winning one game as for statistics lehigh has a total of 336 points to 251 of her opponents and has won 8 games out of 11 played the eastonians have not been so fortunate win ning four and losing the other six lafayette's opponents have out scored her having 287 to the ma roon's 268 too much reliance can not be placed on these figures as lafayette as a whole has faced teams like swarthmore and prince ton lafayette did not open the season until after christmas so it might be said that lehigh has the advantage of experience the last game both teams played was with the university of pittsburgh le high won over pittsburgh thus putting the brown and white at the head of the pennsylvania inter collegiate league as pittsburgh in turn defeated lafayette and state one significant fact may be added and that is the only team to suc ceed in defeating pittsburgh was lehigh the game will be called at 8 p.m in the armory at easton the team leaves bethlehem on the 7 o'clock bethlehem limited and it is hoped that they will have a suf ficient escort down to easton the leaders of the meetings will be practically the same as last week . the weekly discussion meetings in the fraternity houses and dormi tory sections will be held as usual tomorrow evening february 16 arts and science men notice ! alumni notes lehigh defeated lafayette in the undecided cup tie in the second round of the wilbur cup 3 goals to 1 on saturday at easton the game was played under difficulties a storm of hail driving down the field but it was well played in spite of this lafayette won the toss and decided to play with the wind which was an important factor and for the first 15 minutes forced the play but were unable to score due to the fine playing of rau coffin morrison and barclay in the lat ter part of the first half the play was even the half ending with no score taking advantage of the wind lehigh pressed during the second half and 15 minutes after the re-start claxton taking a well placed pass from clement scored the first goal for lehigh shortly after henderson scored on a pass from lewis lafayette fought hard after this and for the next few minutes forced the pace and finally scored when a high shot fro-.ii dolan found the net gorisse scored the final goal from a corner kick about 5 minutes from the end and the game finished with the ball in lafayette territory lehigh had two new men playing lees and claxton for lafayette gutelius wil liams dolan and freeman played the best game while rau barclay and lewis played best for lehigh the line-up : goals — claxton henderson go risse dolan referee : mr black of bethlehem linesmen : walker lehigh lippman lafayette time of halves 35 minutes lehigh plays lafayette on satur day february 19 on taylor field in their tie for the pennsylvania intercollegiate league the winner playing perm for the champion ship the league standing ended in a tie as follows : lehigh won from perm 3-2 and from haverford 5-0 but lost to la fayette 1-0 pennsylvania beat haverford 2 1 and lafayette 4-1 while lafay ette won from haverford 2-1 jersey men notice ! l miller of the geology depart ment speak on catholicism in latin-american countries in a very interesting talk prof miller outlined the religious situa tion in south america and con cluded his speech by giving very good advice to united states engi neers who intend going to south america after they graduate from college in opening the speaker said he did not want his talk taken as an attack on the catholic church of south america but just wished to outline the situation which exists there today and that he was ex pressing the views of sincere catho lics as well as himself the catholic church predomi nates in south america the first thing that one sees in a latin american city town or village is a large church or cathedral these churches are out of proportion in size to the population of the place and very much religion is seen in any of these countries the speaker happened to be in brazil during the month of may he told how many religious func tions were held during that month there were many parades and the people would come to the doors and kneel until the priests had passed these conditions envelope the east coast of south america and the conditions on the west coast are but slightly different in one town in brazil a very peculiar custom is observed every year a man is crowned king by the church this man has no official power but he is supposed to be the leading man of the town during the year following his coronation exercises for two days prevail while he is being crowned on saturday there is a parade and elaborate fireworks on sunday the church bells ring every few minutes during the day the man who has just been crowned king walks around the village all day with the priests services are held in the church all day and outside the doors huge firecrackers are set off the church in south america has almost absolute authority es pecially in small towns this au thority is generally used under the threat of excommunication to the illiterate man this threat is the worst thing that could happen to him as to him it means being ostra cized from all social life and practi cally everything the history of the church in south america is unhappily not very bright when pizarro con quered the country he took with him a priest who was looked upon continued on fourth page under this rule of absolute au thority we might expect to find ideal conditions however with few exceptions we find that the priesthood does not attract the bet ter class of men this means that as a rule the absolute authority is ery much misused carleton s wagner e.m 15 vice-president of the danville foundry and machine company visited the university wednesday warren e mccann m.e 08 with the american rolling mill company of middletown ohio was a visitor at lehigh last week the civil engineering society will hold its february meeting on thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the physics laboratory building mr robert p howell 96 of phillipsburg n j will give a lec ture on the panama canal this lecture will be illustrated with 150 stereopticon slides r w sheckells 16 will pre sent a paper accompanied with views on the baltimore filtra tion plant the customary re freshments will follow the meeting an important meeting of all b.a and b.s men will be held thurs day afternoon at 4 o'clock in the economics lecture room of cop pee hall the purpose of the meet ing is to formulate plans for the club's work during the remainder of the college year all students in these courses should be present men wishing to order the club pins see reitzel conrad or platt as soon as possible ! the brown and whiter lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday february 15 1916 vol xxiii catholicism and south america price hall new name for smaller dormitory engine given to university lafayette to meet lehigh quintet lehigh wins wilbur cup game mechanical engineering depart ment receives historic atmos pheric qas engine was granted students petition to have name of die alte brauerei changed prof b l miller points out the dangers due to its firm grip in southern republic lafayette defeated in second round 3 goals to 1 played during storm first game in basketball series will be played tomorrow evening suggests relief new men northern church should aid in rectifying wrongs protes tant competion in spite of the inclement weather a large number of stu dents turned out to hear prof b freshmen defeated in an exceedingly rough game the moravian reserves basketball team defeated the lehigh fresh men team on saturday afternoon by five points the score was 27 22 the freshmen had 21 fouls called on them mueller hagen and strohmeier played well for mo ravian ; for the freshmen melville and burgess were the best the line-up : moravian positions freshmen strohmeier . forward . . . melville hagen forward barrett mueller center thomas stolz guard burgess shields guard ...... hurley goals from the floor mueller 4 strohmeier 2 hagen 2 stolz mel ville 3 barrett 2 burgess goals from fouls mueller 4 out of 12 hagen 5 out of 9 ; thomas 9 out of 16 ; burgess 1 out of 1 referee : shields two 20-minute halves no 33 comparative scores lehigh ... 35 moravian 31 lehigh ... 45 niagara 24 lehigh 15 rochester .... 18 lehigh 17 army 24 lehigh ... 38 muhlenberg .. 38 lehigh 37 clarkson tech 25 lehigh .. 32 temple 21 lehigh ... 40 ursinus 30 lehigh ... 25 rochester .... 24 lehigh ... 14 union 16 lehigh 38 pittsburgh ... 22 totals 336 251 lafayette . 29 juniata .... 27 lafayette 28 duquesne .. 30 lafayette . 23 pittsburgh 34 lafayette 23 state 30 lafayette . 10 princeton .. 17 lafayette . 43 temple 28 lafayette 23 swarthmore 40 lafayette 32 temple .... 28 lafayette . 32 eivetron ... 26 lafayette . 25 pittsburgh 27 totals 268 287 the probable line-ups are : lehigh positions lafayette dynan forward . stone c brewster . . . forward croxell crichton center lewis ketcham guard taylor green c . . . guard weldon jemgii positions laiayette la,u g ellis coffin r f b barnett morrison 1 f . b freeman jees r h b williams barclay c h b gutelius shockley 1 h b smith xorisse o r grant jewis i r herring henderson c f logan i 1 dolan element o 1 lyman plyd won lost lehigh 3 2 1 pennsylvania .... 3 1 lafayette 3 2 1 haverf ord 3 0 goals for against pts lehigh 8 3 4 pennsylvania .... 8 5 4 lafayette 4 5 4 haverford 2 9 0