Brown and White Vol. 24 no. 38

              figures based on social standing not men who graduate other interesting results to place report in hands of student body at the next college meeting last friday morning prof j m briscoe of the university of maine delivered an interesting lecture be fore the student body on logging engineering in forestry prof briscoe first told how the land which was to be cut was gone over thoroughly and an estimate made on the amount and value of the wood thereon the acre is taken as the unit of value and the quantity and quality of wood is al so taken into consideration in order to place a value upon it about the first of november the men enter the woods and select a spot to locate a camp the location should be in the center of the region to be cut and near water a num ber of log cabins are erected and the cutting of the wood is started the first thing to be done is to cut a road a space about twenty feet wide is cleared all low places are covered by a corduroy bridge which consists of of a number of logs laid on the ground close to gether and parallel after the first fall of snow the road is iced and the work of hauling is begun the trees are felled by a cut ting crew and are then turned over to a hauling crew who haul the logs to the side of the road and pile them the logs are then loaded on a sled drawn either by horses or by a steam tractor and are hauled to a river they are carried onto the frozen river and dumped after being marked with the own er's name or sign and in the spring they are floated down the river and sorted the right to conduct this drive as the floating of logs down the river is called is a fran chise granted to one company by the state in ease of a jam which blocks the whole drive the logs must be blown up in order to get them started again the reason that maine is the best logging section is that it has dense forests of spruce pine and hemlock cheap labor and wonderful natural waterways carry the lumber to a market after the lecture the senior class held a meeting and mr p m young addressed the men on the american ambulance corps in france and asked for volunteers freshman banquet sophomore banquet friday april 20 the freshman class will hold its first class banquet on saturday evening april 21 1917 at the ho tel allen allentown at 7:30 o clock tickets may be purchased from the committee c w jeffers r e brown e k downer w a france and a g galloway tick ets are selling at 2.50 freshmen are urged to support their first class banquet anyone interested in the work that the american ambulance corps is doing in france should hear mr emory pottle at the grand opera house next saturday evening mr pottle has been act ively engaged in section 2 of the american ambulance field service since its inauguration and is well qualified to speak on the subject his talk will be illustrated with lat est motion pictures taken along the european battle-front and which have never been shown in the beth lehems the tickets for admission sell at ten cents and can be obtained in the brown and white room drown hall between the hours of one and two o'clock on wednesday and friday afternoon in conjunction with the move ment in the bethlehems a commit tee has been appointed to make arrangements for sending a lehigh unit over to france in unite there are four lehigh men at present in france driving american ambu lances and over 30 more men have signified that they are con sidering the matter the american ambulance field service offers an opportunity to do work of conservation well worth all the sacrifice it may involve since tin beginning of the war american volunteers have carried over 400 000 wounded the americans en gaged in it are of the highest type and are gaining the gratitude of the allies these young men repre senting the true spirit of the united states are rendering a service to their own country the interna tional importance of the work of the american ambulance is recog nized not only here but in europe the french government as a tribute of its appreciation has twenty times cited the american sections and section leaders for dis tinguished service has conferred upon more than sixty of the men the croix d'e guerre for bravery and upon two the medaille mili taire the highest honor for mili tary valor in france this is only an idea of the im mensity of the project which is rap idly taking hold of the bethlehems as well as in lehigh further in formation and literature on the subject can be obtained from the committee composed of r w wol cott w a richards e c david son or s vance at the brown and white room at the time specified financial circumstances should not hinder a man from inquiring continued on fifth page the committee to investigate new methods for selecting the arcadia and honor court was in session on saturday afternoon hearing the re ports of representatives from each group and receiving briefs submit ted by others it was the purpose to ascertain the sentiment of the student body by this method and thus come to a conclusion which would more nearly meet the needs of the university sentiment seemed to be that some change to a more representative body was necessary but how that could be brought about was the problem the majority favored the living group plan of selection thus giving to each fraternity and dor mitory section one representative to be elected by the group others fearing that such a board would be large and unwieldy would have the men only nominated in this man ner to be elected by the college body thus reducing he number to a smaller and their sore more easi ly handled body it was argued that a group knows its men best and can better choose the most cap able though possibly not the most popular man one plan was to have the men chosen im proportion to the number resident in dormi tories town and fraternities a number of the groups after long discussions reported that the present method was satisfactory in view of the fact that many men now eligible would make the posi tion at any rate some desired to modify the system of choice by striking off of the ballot the posi tions held by the men only choos ing on the qualities of the man the argument was that many voted for the position and not the man some wanted the captains of the various teams eliminated from the present list of eligibles believing that they were ex-officio candidates chosen from an organization which is small compared with other larger bodies again it was claimed that these men thus made eligible were sure to be the popular men in college to make up for this loss it was sug gested that a larger number of men be nominated to be placed before the college on the specified ballot without any particular designation as to any man's position in college activities there were several other plans suggested by different groups one would have each class except the freshmen choose a stated number of men to serve as the governing body and honor court another which might be called the course system would have each course elect the men to the â–  board or to nominate them still another would have the faculty choose the body eleven pledged this morning the following men were pledged by the honorary en gineering fraternity tau beta pi l b herr jr p h drinker and h r boston seniors u p cly mer r h lindsay c e blasius g r lawall e a mooers l h schnerr h g boydi and l sar geant juniors the course repre sentation shows three miners two each of chemical engineers electri cals and civils while the mechanical and el met each had one _ a careful compiling of data as given in the class books for the past four years shows that the various college clubs lead as to number of men holding membership in the same in these books however are all those men who hold a social standing in the class and this num ber is usually considerably higher than the number who actually graduate the enumeration then gives the number of men entering with the class the number to grad uate and the number recorded in class books as social members the percentages are quite uniform throughout tending to indicate that in the past decade they have been about the same ah percent ages are based on the number of men recorded for it would be un fair to use the number to graduate in view of the fact that most of the data was taken from men not com pleting the course considering election to the tail beta pi a scholastic honor then the percentage of men to be recorded in that list shows that to be from 22 to 29 per cent the number of fra ternity men though quite stable varies from 57 to 65 per cent since membership in the various college clubs by enumeration has shown them to be limited in membership to these men then it is quite fair to base the percentage of men in these clubs upon the number of men in the various fraternities here the percentage shows a falling off from 1914 when it was 138 to 1917 when it registered 117 per cent of the class membership the per centage varies from 84 to 72 per cent as to elective positions the num ber of men chosen by the class and by the college is quite close though the men chosen by the class have a very slight lead throughout in competition about thirty per cent of the class are able to secure a college honor it is in the athletics that the du plications and triplications fre quently occur in this respect it is unreliable to say that the total num ber of men engaged in athletics is the sum total of the men on class squad and varsity teams some men play on all the class teams and many on two while the same per sons take part in squad athletics 1 , many never making the teams the number of men on varsity teams is the most reliable though here there are naturally some duplications the spoils system w t orks quite freely in appointive positions which rank close to fraternities as to number course societies are quite close to these in number of men who are members the latter is a fair index of the number of men interested in intellectual pur suits outside of the class-room state-county clubs : new jersey club maryland club berks lu zerne and york county clubs appointive positions include all committees appointed by class presidents and y m c a cabinet appointments scholastic honors various prizes offered by alumni class honors in subjects and courses continued on fifth page the best banquet we have at tended during our four years at le high this was the sentiment ex pressed by every one of the one hundred and six seniors w t ho ban queted at the hotel allen allen town last friday evening at this last social gathering of the class of 1917 hardily a man was missing this fact coupled with the excel lence of the speeches menu and music was instrumental for the success of the function the first speaker called upon by toastmaster a bach was mr r s perry 88 president of the kalb fleisch co he told how the chem ists of the universities throughout the country have organized so that in case of war the men will be readly to serve their country by helping in the manufacture of ex plosives and other war materials this movement is now of such an ex tent that not only the universities but all the chemical manufacturers are ready to carry out the plan be sides the chemists all of the other technical college men can enter into industry in case of war and in stead of going to the front serve their country just as well if not better by aiding in the production of war necessities the main thing needed for war is nitrate of soda this is one raw material we lack en tirely practically all of it coming from chile inasmuch as no ex plosives are possible without this material it is a very important question as to whether the seas can be kept free enough to get sufficient nitrate as it is needed prof c l thornburg secretary of the faculty responded to the next toast he said that while the college man is polished up greatly during his school life it is not un til he gets out into the world that he hits the hard knocks you can not always tell by a man's record in college what he is going to be come in future years it is more and more recognized that the lead ers of all nations are the educated men the ones who go to college every one should give encourage ment wherever possible to those who think of going to college but are not quite sure that the time so spent will be worth while a col lege education gives one power to fight battles it prepares one for life no matter how long it takes a man to get through college he should stick it out until he finally does fin ish each man's place is the result of his own efforts and when he knows his own power he will be successful the last talk was by mr a john ston 89 vice-president of the bethlehem steel company he re marked upon the unanimity which has always prevailed in the class he said that the best work is accom plished in life by using pleasure as a conveyance with which to carry it when a man leaves college he must start at the foot of the ladder a year or two of drudgery will en able him to outstrip any practical man always be optimistic and cultivate a sense of humor ; always do more than is expected of you practice integrity and be ready for conttnxied on ftfth pagr tickets are now on sale for the sophomore banquet to be held fri day april 20 at the hotel allen allentown the committee in charge requests every man who in tends to be present to purchase his ticket from one of the committee as soon as possible in order that the proper arrangements may be made a fine list of speakers has been se cured while white's banjo orches tra has been engaged to furnish the music and entertainment the an nouncement of the complete pro gram of speakers will be given in the next issue of the brown and white tickets may be secured from any of the following men : r j heuer l l dixon f h van auken l s owen j h wagner the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday march 27 1917 member u.s ambulance corps to speak groups suggest different plans prof j m briscoe gives college lecture class book data compiled seniors banquet at hotel allen vol xxiv logging engineering in fores try subject of illustrated talk emory pottle to give illustrated talk next saturday evening in the opera house various methods of electing honor court were submitted at committee hearing material of the past four years shows college clubs have most members living group is favorite good speeches spirit of good fellowship pre vails at the 1917 class function tabulated prof c l thornburg r s perry 88 and a johnston b9 talk student speakers no 38 junior banquet friday march 30 7.30 p.m hotel allen allentown