Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 28

              program also includes talks by p drinker,'l7 and j b schwoyer 17 crichton scores 11 points gaston makes 14 of opponents 16 points the rifle club held its first match in the week ending january 15 with the oregon agricultural college the high scores were as follows w s smith 17 193 h j pardee 17 189 l sargeant 18 188 h o hogan 17 185 j m yates 19 185 the total team score was 942 the match with the oregon aggies was the first of the inter collegiate gallery champonship matches lehigh university is m class c and will meet the following teams in the championship matches january 22 mass lust of technology jan 29 harvard feb 5 rensselaer polytechnic in stitute feb 12 connecticut ag gies feb 19 perm state feb 26 lowa state 1 ; march 4 ohio state march 11 johns hopkins march 18 williams college ; march 25 columbia april 1 college of st thomas the rifle club needs more men and all marksmen are requested to report in the packer hall range for practice under the new rulings for the season of 1916 the black of the target has been reduced from a di ameter of two inches to one of one and one-half inches the bull's eye remains the same as before one half inch in diameter all of the twenty shots at the target are taken from a prone position a man who is a poor standing shot may be en tirely successful and a consistent marksman when shooting prone civil society meeting tonight in physics bldg c w blaezr 07 speaker of even ing paper by r w sheckells l6 rosters of exams posted yester day cover eight days — january 21 to january 28 the examination roster for the first term was posted yesterday in the different buildings the roster is as follows : friday jan 21 8.00 a m freshmen — fr ger sophomores — engl blowpipe juniors — electr met forestry bus law seniors — met geodesy bus law friday jan 21 2.00 p m freshmen — am lit sophomores — chem phil his tory juniors — dyn el mch psy chology met assay seniors — prosp met educa saturday jan 22 8.00 a m freshmen — engl sonhomores — physics econ juniors — econ physiog seniors — petrog econ bridges pub law paleo dyn test saturday jan 22 2.00 p m juniors — eng lab seniors eng lab embryo investments monday jan 24 8.00 a m freshmen — phys sophomores — german constr draw met constr juniors — german miner met constr el tech seniors — metallog ger mill bldgs mch des alt cur ind lab el tech monday jan 24 2.00 p m sophomores — french span . juniors — french span quant anal seniors — french span tuesday jan 25 8.00 a m freshmen — greek chem continued on fifth page basketball team meetsf clarkson tech tomorrow lehigh outplayed muhlenberg in basketball on wednesday evening in taylor gymnasium and thereby took revenge for last year's defeat at the hands of the allentown col legians the score was 38 to 16 which indicates pretty well the nature of the drubbing adminis tered by the brown and white quintet at no time during the game was muhlenberg even danger ous for lehigh started off by scoring three goals from the field and one foul goal before muhlen berg could tally this lead was soon increased and muhlenberg was not able to come as close again in the first period lehigh clearly got the jump on the visitors seem ingly able to score at will the le high team also put up a remark able defensive game muhlenberg s score for the first period resulted almost entirely from foul goals and gaston s lone field goal was the only result of the muhlenberg at tack the first half ended with the score standing at 24 to 9 in favor of the university team lehigh slowed up slightly in the second half but when witmer of muhlenberg made the first score of the period the brown and white players tightened ketcham soon followed with a basket and green then quickly tallied twice the scoring then alternated for the re mainder of the period with lehigh having a decided advantage in points when time was called the university five had scored 14 points while muhlenberg had gathered but 7 at the end of the game the final score stood at 38 to 16 in le high's favor lehigh was the greatest offender in the number of fouls committed having 15 in all while muhlenberg had but 7 it was owing to these fouls too that muhlenberg scored as she did for of the total of 16 points gathered by muhlenberg gaston made 10 from foul goals continued on fifth page for lehigh crichton was high scorer with 11 points to his credit muhlenberg s individual scoring honors go to gaston who made 14 of his team's total of 16 points lehigh vs nativity soccer game tomorrow the civil engineering society will hold its january meeting to night in the physics lecture room at 8 o'clock the meeting will be addressed by two speakers mr c w blazer 07 and r w sheckells r w sheckells will read a paper on the , baltimore filteration plant of which subject he is well informed the usual eats will follow the meeting mr blazer will talk on real estate valuation he was re cently connected with the late as sessment of property values in allentown having charge of the work there he will speak of the methods used in that system for the determination of land values and thus taxes at present mr blazer is a hydraulic engineer in the allentown water works while at lehigh he was a member of both the football and baseball teams candidates for relay team report tomorrow the wrestling room of taylor gym will be the scene of the biggest novice meet in lehigh athletics when the annual sweater contest is pulled off there today and tomor row the preliminary bouts will come off this afternoon at 4.00 p m followed by the finals tomorrow afternoon at 2.30 p m this meet as previously announced is purely a novice one no man who has won his letter or a sweater in previ ous years is allowed to compete the object of such a meet is ob vious namely to get a line on the material and to stimulate greater interest in the sport as far as the 175-pound and heavyweight classes are concerned the idea has not been productive of results no bouts will be held in these weights owing to lack of material coach billy sheridan is particularly desirous of filling these positions since they are the two weak spots on the team on the outlook for the season he has the following to say : with kirkhuff martin thom as and sawtelle as a nucleus i am confident that i can give lehigh a winning team hicks and jenness competing for 135-pound class hon ors leave no cause for worry about that class we do need men for the 175-pound and heavyweight classes there is an excellent chance to win the championship in these classes this year such as will not occur again in four years ' ' football men could give me the highest kind of assistance by com ing out for these classes they are practically the only source of heavyweight material at hand le high has been wrestling in a high class and has been handicapped in the past by the small amount of material from which a coach could chose our opponents all have the advantage of being able to pick a team from a hundred or more candidates this means an extra effort on the part of lehigh to travel in their class this idea of football men entering the wrestling game is one that has the approval of the football coaches at all big colleges cornell princeton penn sylvania all sanction the plan it is felt that this training makes a man less liable to injury in a foot ball game if the members of the football team will lend me their co-opera tion i will give lehigh a wrestling team developed in every depart ment i will give lehigh a team of which she can well feel proud and which will make the strongest bid for intercollegiate champion ship in lehigh history however i must have the co-operation of the student body let me repeat that the football men can render me valuable assistance in the heavy weight classes university dance a meeting of the chemical so ciety was held last night at the home of dr drinker prof j w richards of the department of metallurgy spoke on nitric acid from the air as a factor in pre paredness for war philip drinker 17 read an interesting paper dealing with the subject alchemy and j b schwoyer 17 spoke on photographic chemistry ' ' prof richards dealt with the situation of the united states 1 in regard to the supply of nitric acid obtainable he said that there is not much use of having guns and ships without nitric acid for with out nitric acid no ammunition can be made there is not more than three months supply in the coun try and most of our supply of nitric acid comes from chile in the form of nitre we should have either a large supply in the country or have facilities for making it for during a war our supply from ch r e would soon be cut off during the present european war germany has had to supply her own ammunition and nitric acid in order to accomplish this the teutons have created a large industry which manufactures nitric acid from the air over half a million horsepower is used in the production of it the united states at this time has not a single nitric acid plant in operation prof richards ended his address by showing why the federal government should operate several of the nitric acid plants in order to be prepared for war drinker's paper follows in part chemistry from the earliest times was known as the hermetic art this term originated from a somewhat mythological character hermes trismegistus thrice great supposed to have lived at the time of abraham — in fact abraham's wife is said to have stolen from him some of his al chemist treasures alexander the great discovered the tomb of hermes full of golden treasures — not metallic but in writings on an emerald tablet this hermes was the egyptian god of wisdom letters and the re cording of time gradually he be came identified with the greek god and was worshiped among other things as the god of chemistry and science in general from this word hermes we get our modern term hermetically sealed continued on fourth page the mythical number seven seems to surround the seven ele ments known to these ancients * * * so they had seven planets and but six elements and when quicksilver the word chemistry itself is probably of egyptian origin and signified mystery at any rate the egyptians are first rate chemists and knew among other things the uses of gold copper and bronze tin lead iron — mercury and sil ver came along later also they could make wonderfully perfect glass and had a skill in coloring these glasses envied them to the present day the next of the series of uni versity dances will be held to morrow evening in drown hall at 8.15 the dixie land orchestra of reading will furnish the music the patronesses will be mrs j l stewart mrs c l thornburg arid mrs h r reiter fast game expected pottsdam quintette has good record the basketball management has succeeded in its efforts to postpone the lehigh-lafayette game which was scheduled to be played tomor row and instead will play clark son tech the tech boys hail from potsdam new york and will came here with a strong line-up an idea of their strength may be gained from the showing made last wednesday evening against the crescent athletic club a rally in the last few minutes of play gained for the crescents a 32 to 30 point victory it will be remembered that le high several weeks ago lost to the crescent quintet by the score of 28 to 16 judging from the result of the muhlenberg game the brown and white players have undergone great improvement and a good game may be expected the lafayette game was post poned indefinitely and the clark son tech aggregation will be met on taylor gym floor immediately after the close of the sweater con test the line-up follows : clarkson positions lehigh barcley f dynan reynolds f brewster maley c crichton speare g ketcham west g green all candidates for the relay team should report to captain burke at the gymnasium tomorrow after noon at 4.30 o'clock all new men interested in track work regardless of previous experience should join the relay squad weather per mitting daily practice will be held on the board track on taylor field the tentative winter relay schedule of indoor meets is appended : february 19 — georgetown uni versity meet at washington d c march 4 — george washington university meet at washington d c march 11 — meadowbrook meet at philadelphia pa the lehigh-lafayette cup con test which was to have been played tomorrow afternoon has been post poned on account of a re-arrange ment in the schedule the game will probably be played on satur day afternoon january 22 at eas ton in place of lafayette the team will meet the nativity men's club of south bethlehem tomorrow af ternoon at 3.00 p m on taylor field the probable line-up : lehigh — rau goal koplin right fullback morrison left fullback coffin right halfback barclay center halfback smith left halfback a w lewis outside right ; hoagland inside fight henderson c cen ter forward gorisse inside left clement outside left the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday january 14 1916 first term roster of examinations posted lehigh defeats muhlenberg no 28 chemists hear good papers annual sweater contest starts rifle club holds its first match vol xxiii roster of examinations posted yesterday cover eight days jan 21 to jan 28 preliminaries to be held today with final bouts intercollegiate gallery champion ship series with lehigh in class c brown and white has easy time winning from allentown team january meeting of chemical society is held at dr drinker's home tomorrow prof richards speaks season's prospects score 38 to 16 coach sheridan confident of strong team with present nucleus