Brown and White Vol. 34 no. 28

              price five cents capt of wrestlers has varied list of activities lehigh courtmen lose stiff game to navy team basketball team plays army sat schaub brothers star but are unable to prevent scoring tigers have veterans who will give grapplers lots of trouble would establish the sys tem but feels that stu dents are not ready visitors have a likely combination which year lings will find strong two quintets seem to be evenly matched despite lehigh's defeats jimmy reed wins distinc tion in college other than on mat tank supremacy will be at stake tomorrow aft ernoon in taylor pool lehigh favored 1 1 5-pound champ score 41-28 james j reed better known on the campus as jimmy entered lehigh with the class of 27 he attended liberty high school of this city be fore enrolling in the college of arts and science it was not long until jimmy showed his athletic ware and this coupled with a magnetic having contested honors with the navy last wednesday lehigh's basketball team will show no favorites so will meet the other branch of the service tomorrow at west point so far this season army has played five games and lost two on the surface her record is a better one than that of which lehigh boasts the only com parison which would give any indication of the relative strength of the two teams is in the scores which each obtained against fordham lehigh lost her game 31-27 to the new yorkers who also beat the ar my but with a twelve point margin it appears that lehigh has a slight edge over the west pointers although the present condition of the service quintet is unknown remembering last season's defeat lehigh should fight stubbornly the arcadia held its regular meeting in the arcadia room at drown hall last monday evening a general discussion on the feasibility of renewing the honor system was held and the consensus of opinion was that it would be most beneficial fe do so but that it would be wise to wait until the under graduates could be educated up to the system the meeting was very brief and the only other question of importance which was discuss ed was the most satisfactory date for a dance to be run by the arcadia soon after the conclusion of the mid-year ex aminations it was also rec ommended that the president of the student body send a let ter of appreciation to james ward packard for his gift of 1,000,000 to be used in erect ing the james ward packard laboratory frosh mermen to swim at blair deutscher verein hears mr kegel yearlings will encounter ex perienced swimmers at new jersey academy instructor in the german de partment tells of ballad development when lehigh and the naval academy met on the basketball court at annapolis wednesday afternoon the result was as anticipated the midshipmen who are striving to emulate the performances of their unde feated football team added the brown and white quintet to their imposing list of victims which now totals nine and whch includes perm columbia and the university of mary land lehigh's record now con sists of four successive defeats although each of the four op ponents princeton fordham perm and navy is represented by a very strong team the score of this latest encounter was 41-28 the margin of de feat being the greatest of the season continued on patfe four the brown and white adher ents have one redeeming thought namely that theirs is the first team which has been able to repulse the attack of the navy's shock troops for the first time this season when the blue and gold regulars en tered the fray after the first ten minutes of play they had a small handicap to overcome but the admirals proved them selves equal to the task by flashing a brilliant offensive the only varsity sport to take place at home this week end will be the swimming meet with lafayette to be held in taylor 00l at 2:30 p m both teams have had one meet each so far this season and the brown and white is favored to run up a winning score in light of the score which they made against navy last week us compared with the maroon's score against its opponent coach harmon has taken ov er the work left by former coach gulick and has whipped the veteran team into line as well as the newcomers this year the diving end of the sport has been taken care of by the divers themselves and in all probability hobbs and hayes will compete in the meet to iinorrow for lafayette biles will again take the board continued on page four the relay team has been handicapped by the injury which ellis suffered to his hand and his place will no doubt be taken by o'callaghan the entire relay team to swim will be raleigh wynn o'cal laghan and hertzler the on ly weak link of the team is in the breast stroke but this has come along notably with the board of control adopts new plan dr hughes talks to science club some of the principles of psychology are investi gated by him the varsity wrestling team will travel to princeton this saturday to compete in a meet with the tiger grapplers both princeton and lehigh won the initial bouts of their cards last saturday princeton easily de feating lafayette and the brown and white scoring a win over the new york a c close competition can be ex pected when the two squads clash last year the brown and white managed to score a win over princeton by the close score of 18-13 princeton will have practically the same team as last year with the exception of buttrey intercollegiate 145 pound champion and platz in the 175-pound class meislahm a heavyweight is the outstand ing wrestler on the tiger team and will give lehigh's heavy weight a hard battle royster in the 145-pound class also stands out for princeton lehigh's team in all probab ility will be composed of the same men who wrestled against the new york a c last sat urday with the exception of eddie mcgovern in the 115 pound class who will wrestle his first varsity meet this sat urday the probable line-up 115 pound class mcgovern 125 pound class reed capt ; 135-pound class persbacher ; 145-pound class heilman 158 pound class long 175-pound class lehr unlimited b le vitz or t brennan monthly report to be made concerning each ath lete's standing a red-hot basketball game should ensue tomorrow eve ning when the powerful allen town prep quintet travels to taylor gymnasium to do or die with the brown and white yearlings the game will start at seven-thirty this struggle marks the sec ond one in which the frosh have engaged judging from the evident superiority which they displayed in trimming the muhlenberg freshmen the 30 men should undoubtedly be on equal terms with their next opponents the visitors will be one of the strongest teams which the homesters are scheduled to en counter this year among their players are several all-state basketball captains hailing from new jersey an excel lent passing game coupled with speed and accurate shooting make them the most feared prep school in this vicinity last saturday night they succumbed to the university of pennsylvania frosh but only after a hard battle had been waged the philadelphians won in the closing moments of play after having trailed for most of the time the frosh have been prac ticing at a severe pace ironing out any of the discrepancies which appeared in their open ing game their passing has assumed almost mechanical perfection playing in the varsity gym has eliminated the possibility of the men not be ing familiar with the floor and its baskets schultz and many forwards blackmar and ben hoff guards and salmon cen ter will start frosh tea dance sat afternoon movie replaces college lecture personality and a jhigh clean moral standard made him one of the most popular men of his class his four years of college life are almost over and now he is regarded as one of the biggest men in school beth lehem can well be proud of her native son wrestling for the first time in his freshman year jimmy was awarded the lewis cup as the best performer on the team since then he has won the 115-pound intercollegiate championship and is captain of this year's varsity not satis field with honors on the mat he was a member of the soccer team for the last two seasons playing well on the forward line he has always worked as hard in the classroom as on the athletic field which was partly the reason for his election to the club de quinze the high est honor was undoubtedly his election to sword and cres cent his activities at lehigh are listed below football squad 1 ; frosh wrestling team varsity 2 3 4 , captain 4 ; winner lew is cup 1 ; 115-lb intercolle giate champion 3 ; soccer 3 4 ; y m c a cabinet club de quinze sword and cres cent burr adds two editorial men the deutscher verein held its second regular meeting of the year at the butztown hotel last monday evening the meet ing started with a banquet at six-thirty sharp after indulg ing in a few songs german and otherwise kurt thum was initiated into the club being declared a full-fledged member after he revealed unusual talent in an excellent ■ rendering of die wacht an rhein mr kegel then gave a short outline of the development of the german ballad based not only on the old german popular ballads but particularly on the english and scotch ballads he recited some representative ballads of schiller goethe hine fontane graf strach witz and of the contemporary poet — freiherr yon munchhau sen mr kegel then played several german ditties on the guitar mr graa a guest of the verein and kurt thum rendered some popular music on the piano and violin respec tively president schwab appointed a program committee for the next meeting to consist of j j longacre m vanßilliard and c m leister h e vogel was the chairman of the enter tainment committee for mon day's meeting and was given a rising vote of thanks by the members present tomorrow afternoon the freshman swimming team trav els to blairstown new jersey to swim against the strong blair academy team the meet will begin at two o'clock some very good men are in competition to make the frosh squad but they have been han dicapped by the inability to obtain proper coaching the varsity coach can't possibly de vote enough time to coaching the frosh nevertheless they have been practicing regularly every day so far the yearlings have lost one meet and won a prac tice meet the princeton frosh had little trouble defeating the brown and white frosh 47-13 wednesday the freshmen man aged to nose out the liberty high tankmen 31-28 in a prac tice meet lehigh won the re lay easily in the breast back 50 and 100 yard swims the liberty natators carried off first place honors the frosh placed first in the relay div ing and 220 yard swim the diving won the meet for the south mountaineers the rest of the events being close all the way through however this meet means nothing the real strength of the freshmen will be revealed when they are pitted against blair blair academy always turns out good teams and this year is exceptionally strong it ought to be a very closely con tested match henceforth lehigh athletes will be subject to close watch on the part of a faculty com mittee appointed by the ath letic board of control when it met last monday evening in a special meeting the purpose of the meeting was to adopt a plan which would aid athletes in maintaining their scholastic rating while giving a great vol ume of time to sports the suggestion of using a faculty committee to check up once a month upon the rec ords of the men in a sport was made by percy wendell foot ball coach it promises to cor rect much of the difficulty which now surrounds the prob lem under present conditions a man falls behind while in training and is not found to be deficient until term examina tions flunk him the plan which will be used hereafter will provide a month ly check so that a man who is suffering in his classroom work will be discovered in time to secure assistance students who excel in particular sub jects will be urged to spend a bit of time coaching the ath lete in his particular weak nesses wendell will be person ally responsible for knowing how his football men are hold continued on page four tomorrow afternoon from three-thirty to six-thirty drown hall will be the scene of a freshman tea dance well laid plans have been made to make this danee — the first so cial function sponsored by the class of 1930 — a source of pleasure and entertainment for the dance enthusiasts of lehigh arrangements have been made to have drown hall taste fully decorated for the occasion and that popular and well known orchestra — the lehigh mountaineers — have been en gaged to furnish the music re freshments will be served dur ing the course of the afternoon and the subscription either for a couple or stag is one dol lar the committee in charge has made extensive preparations for the affair but in order to make it really successful the support and cooperation of the ientire freshman class is essen tial the freshmen are strong ly urged to be in attendance either with or without a date all upperclassmen are also cor dially invited to attend and en joy this first dance given by jhe class of 1930 at a short meeting of the burr board on wednesday eve ning two seniors were elected to the editorial staff they are dudley a hoover and a a fraser both of these men have been working consistently since last spring for election to the board arrangements for the next issue also interested the mem bers of the editorial depart ment the january issue the classical will appear on the newstands tomorrow the feb ruary issue will be known as the travel number and will contain several novelties the nature of which were not re vealed it is expected that this number will appear soon after the mid-year examinations the moving picture julius caeser which took the place of the regular college lecture yesterday was of special inter est not only for its literary value but for the historical ac curacy of the whole film this picture first produced in italy in 1915 was made in rome and on a scale fully as large as the modern major pro ductions the part of caesar is most ably played by novelli the great italian actor now dead it was obtained from the george kleine film foundation of new york which has a lib rary of moving pictures of rec ognized intellectual and educa tional value all the salient points of cae sar's great career have been faithfully reproduced and a nice selection has been made of the numberless colorful epi sodes which go to make up his life his early political strug gles the triumvirate the gal lic war the civil war against pompey culminating in the great battle of pharsalia and his dramatic assassination in the senate are all portrayed in the film in no other way per haps has the stirring tale of ithe life of this great roman been so well told speaking last wednesday evening before the science re search club of which he had just been made a member dr percy hughes outlined some of the basic concepts of psych ology which are now being taught to junior students tak ing an elementary course in the subject dr hughes showed how wide a field psychology covers claim ing that psychology itself is anything that a psychologist wishes to investigate he em phasized the detail with which the science is pursued every condition with all its accom pany reactions is a subject to be exhausted by the psycholo gist the functioning unity of the individual is an object of study for the psychologist dr hughes pointed out that just as an oak has a life-career which interests the biologist so every individual has a life career equally interesting to the psychologist he stressed the fact that only in a life movement and a life-history is the functioning unity of an in dividual observed the term psyche means this function ing unity of the individual and psychology is the science of it in the case of human beings the life-career is deeply sig continued on page four bethlehem pa friday january 21 1927 varsity wrestlers to meet princeton arcadia concerned about honor code brown and white vol xxxiv no 28 allentown prep to play frosh lehigh swimmers are ready for lafayette notice the subscription campaign of the epitome is still open for a short time students who have neglected to order their copies of the year book should get in touch with an assistant business manager immediately notice section d is sponsoring a dormitory dance tomorrow evening in drown hall the dance begins at eight-thirty all students are invited tickets can be procured from any member of the section d living group sink lafayette frosh boost your tea dance