Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 21

              with bethlehem concert will make tour previous to christmas holidays the combined musical clubs — ■ the mandolin and glee clubs — will make their first appearance of the year on thursday december 9 when they will give a concert in the bethlehem high school audi torium following this the clubs will make a tour the itinerary be ing as follows thursday decem ber 16 at the mannheim cricket club germantown philadelphia ; friday december 17 at baltimore and saturday the 18th at wil mington later in the season probably after the mid-year exami nations the glee club will give a concert in harrisburg the membership of the mando lin club numbers eighteen while the glee club has nineteen mem bers the men of the mandolin club are : first mandolins — thorp leader baumann harder john son m e latimer moench wil bur wolfs second mandolins — allen dorkin forstall johnson g r porter shertz guitars — holmes lazarus banjo — wil liams traps — webb piano — reit zel the members of the glee club are apple blodgett bishop bergstresser clark cope dow downey feringa fritchman grossart hagenbuch holmes rob erts rodgers shockley sourber yard and wieseman the annual variety show of the mustard and cheese club will be held on december 17 at the lehigh orpheum sale of tickets will be announced later musical clubs open season next thursday eighteen varsity letters awarded and eleven l.a.a.s for faithful service schedules approved for baseball others with slight modifications no election of football captain there was an important meeting of the athletic association held last thursday and some very necessary business was transacted the l was awarded first of all to the men on the football squad who were eligible to receive that honor and they were captain tate chenoweth hallowell craw ford bigelow halsted green ostrum scruggs grumbach pons richards sawtelle cahall ready maginnes heuer and manager mudge the other men to receive marks for their faithful service were the scrubs and they were robinson kirkpatrick boland hazeltine chapman twombley becker tomlinson shaffer mc donald and inge these were given permission to carry the l a a insignia it was resolved to let the matter of electing a captain of next year s team rest over until the next sea son just before the lafayette game this act i-uculted from sap posed dissatisfaction on the part of several of the players with this method the captain commands the men who elected him to that posi tion this plan was worked with very satisfactory results in 1914 the schedules for the remaining sports were ratified and some were changed considerably the sports to suffer most were wrestling and track baseball being approved af ter being changed somewhat dis cussion of the proposed christmas trip for the basketballers con tinued these ratifications have not been entirely settled and may be changed again the soccer dis cussion was postponed until the next meeting engineers to hold combined meet the combined musical clubs — the mandolin and glee clubs — have been working hard for the last couple of months and good results have been realized from the work the first appearance of the season will be next thursday night when the clubs will make their initial bow of the season at the bethlehem high school auditorium the glee club has a membership of nineteen while the mandolin club is com posed of eighteen members the combined clubs will make a three days tour of the south on the 16th 17th and 18th of this month concerts being given at philadel phia baltimore and wilmington arrangements are being made now for a concert to be given by the glee club in harrisburg after the mid-year examinations new yorkers to dine a combined meeting of the five engineering societies of the univer sity will be held wednesday night december 15 this joint meeting will be held in place of the usual individual monthly meetings as the speaker of the evening dr drinker has secured mr w s perry 88 president of the alum ni association and president of harrison brothers and company of philadelphia there will be other addresses by members of the faculty and others this meeting is something of a new venture for the engineering societies and the committee with the aid of dr drinker is endeavor ing to make it a success it will be held in drown hall ohio-lehigh club eastonians take advantage of break and win i=o the schedule lehigh s soccer team suffered its first defeat of the season at the hands of lafayette by the score of 1-0 at easton last saturday the game was witnessed by the largest crowd that has ever attended a soccer game on march field the maroon and white team scored in the first few minutes of play on a peculiar shot the ball came from lyman the lafayette outside right directly to rau the lehigh goal tender just as the ball neared the goal it swerved a bit and when rau went after it he slipped and the ball went into the net the brown and white had plenty of chances to score during the game but the same old fault being unable to shoot — kept them from tallying individually the forward line is very good indeed as a unit however they fail to work together properly the first half lehigh won the toss and decided to defend the west goal the territory it had to de fend was very muddy and slippery giving the easton collegians a big advantage during the first few minutes of play the ball was dan gerously near lehigh's goal and lyman slipped a goal through from scrimmage during the remainder of the half the play was very even neither team becoming very dan gerous lehigh started off the second half with a rush in no time the ball was down the field near lafay ette's goal for nearly twenty minutes the brown and white for wards bombarded the goal but nary a tally resulted the rest of the game although the ball was in la fayette's territory most of the time the work of the fullbacks kept lafayette's slate clean koplin barclay and henderson played well for lehigh while gu telius smith and barnett starred for the victors the line-up : lafayette positions lehigh ellis g rau barnett r f . b koplin freeman c . 1 f b morrison williams r h b coffin gutelius c h b barclay smith 1 h b tizard logan o r lewis herring i r hoagland grant c gorisse dolan i 1.(c henderson lyman o 1 clement goal lyman substitutions : lehigh — nawrath for hoagland ; lafayette — kressler for grant referee shackleton bethlehem linesmen : lawson lehigh ; kirsch ner lafayette time of halves 45 minutes the schedule for the remainder of the season follows : dec 11 haverford home dec 17 perm state home dec 18 pennsylvania home jan 8 cup home jan 15 allentown y m c a home feb 5 lafayette away feb 12 bethlehem reser's away feb 19 hellertown home feb 22 lafayette home feb 26 nativity m c home mar 4 allentown y m c a away mar 11 bethlehem reser's home * league games the new york lehigh club will give an informal dinner smoker and cabaret show on decembe|r 10 at the machinery club in the hudson terminal building new york city the function is in honor of mr homer david wil liams 90 mr williams has for many years been active in oper ating circles of the u s steel cor poration and was recently elected president of the carnegie steel company the cabaret show is in the hands of a committee of alumni and an interesting entertainment is guar anteed football picture berks county club continued on second page mr clarence k brown chooses as subject for v.m.c.a meeting doing his part throughout european countries a very large proportion of students are in armies one of the largest audiences in the history of the y m c a at lehigh attended the association meeting last sunday evening in drown hall the moravian semi nary for women was represented by a party of nine young ladies chaperoned by miss harrar among the visitors was miss stroh meier president of the y w c a at that institution a musical pro gram hard to duplicate was fur nished by these young ladies and thoroughly enjoyed by all miss elsie mauser favored with a vocal solo accompanied at the piano by miss margaret hicks miss maus er's rendition of the twenty-third psalm was greatly appreciated she was followed by miss mary jefferson who ably rendered a pi ano selection the address of the evening was made by mr clifford k brown of columbia university mr brown's experience in y m c a work pe culiarly fitted him for an address upon the subject which he chose the college men's part in war for one year he traveled in ohio as a representative of the y m c a then followed a year in new york as secretary to the medical schools of that city he is now finishing his third year as the association secretary at columbia university new york the talk was filled with many statement almost startling in their nature concerning college men and the part they play in the world's wars and of their experiences as professional men in foreign lands a summary of his speech follows 1 ' many brilliant minds are sacri ficed in every war this is due to the fact that many college men the country's embryonic leaders form a large part of the various armies together with many graduates who have already started in their life's work at the time of the rebellion in 1861 one of harvard's most brilliant graduates raised and drilled a negro troop went south and in a single charge lost his own life together with the lives of the greater number of his men over fifty per cent of the students in the three largest canadian universities have enlisted with the english army several students from co lumbia university have joined the various forces in europe from a student body of three thousand at oxford university but six hundred remain oxford in deed is paying a great proportion of the englander's debt of patriot ism a still greater percentage of students in germany and austria have abandoned their studies for the soldier's life with its attend ant dangers the greater part of the theological students in these countries have enlisted not as chap lains but as fighters college trained minds planned and promul gated the present european war what does it all mean it means that a comfort remains to the living and that the american college man faces a different propo sition than he did before the war it means that the positions in for eign young men's christian asso the varsity football picture which was to have been taken on saturday will be taken on wed nesday december 8 at 1.15 p m at mccaa's studio a new lehigh club has come in to existence last saturday even ing in the hotel allen allentown the first meeting of the ohio le high club was held an election of officers was held and the following men were chosen president c f hyatt 18 vice-president t j bray 19 ; secretary-treasurer wm m davies 18 the club proposes to hold monthly meetings in trip of 22,500 a large number of mines were inspected by the party many specimens lehigh's collection will be in creased by about a ton of valuable s.a specimens dr benjamin l miller head of the department of geology re cently returned from a seven months trip through central and southern america his trip in cluded the inspection of most of the important mines as well as the panama canal at various times the party was entertained by le high men who are employed in those regions an article taken from teniente topics a monthly periodical pub lished by and devoted to the in terests of the employees of the braden copper company sewell raneagua chile says among the recent visitors of note at braden have been mr benjamin l miller professor of geology at lehigh university and mr j t singewald associate professor of economic geology at johns hop kins university a very appropri ate banquet was tendered these gentlemen by messrs ward dan ner and reesi lehigh graduates ' ' dr b l miller of lehigh and dr j t singewald jr of johns hopkins university started from new york on april 25 for south america for the purpose of in vestigating mining conditions in the latin american countries on the way to rio de janeiro stops were made in barbadoes and per nambuco and balria brazil in pernambuco was seen the first of the barnacle fleet sixteen ger man vessels which had been in terned there since august 1914 there is scarcely a port on either the east or west coast of south america where there are no ger man vessels interned and in most of them there are from five to ten or even more leaving the boat at rio de janeiro they went into the old diamond region of diamantina 1000 kilometers north of rio in spite of the fact that diamonds have been sought in this region for a few hundred years the yearly output is considerable a week was spent in the iron regions of minas geraes where are found the most extensive deposits of high grade iron ore known to exist the manganese and gold mines of brazil were also visited including the st john del rey gold mine which is the deepest mine in the world it has reached the depth of 5824 feet and will be continued still deeper although improved methods for supplying the mines with cool air must first be installed returning to rio a few days were spent in the study of the geo logic conditions responsible for the magnificent harbor which is un equaled anywhere else in the world they were accompanied by the late dr orville a derby director of the geological survey of brazil and who had spent forty years in that country from rio they went by rail through southern brazil and uruguay to montevideo a distance of about 2000 miles these regions and eastern argentine are the countries possessing the greatest agricultural possibilities of all the continued on second page a meeting of the berks county club will be held at 1 o clock to morrow afternoon in the study room of drown hall the brown and whitens lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday december 7 1915 musical clubs open season next thursday vol xxiii dr miller and party returns first league game lost to lafayette college man's part in war letters awarded to football team no 21