Brown and White Vol. 24 no. 36

              how the honor system succeeds dartmouth professor draws con elusions from twenty colleges in different sections careful administration dependent upon students report ing says prof h e burton in report to trustees prof h e burton a member of the dartmouth faculty in a report to the trustees of the college on aspects of college and university administration touches on the subject of self-government in col lege life it is here that the ques tion of the honor system is treated his investigations included some twenty colleges in the east mid west and on the western coast the report after giving an ac count of how the honor system works in different colleges states ' ' it is apparent that the honor sys tem cannot be operated successfully unless students agree to report one another and carry out their agree ment in all cases regardless of per sonal or social considerations in places where it works well they tell of students who have reported members of the same fraternity moreover the penalty for dishon esty must be severe — nothing short of expulsion a system that tol erates the first offense or allows it to go with a warning or a repri mand is very likely to become a dis honor system at amiherst where it is some what similar to lehigh the system would appear to be rather weak students sign a statement to the effect that they have neither given nor received help during the exami nation information of cases of dishonesty according to the report comes only from members of the faculty as at wesleyan the cases are handled by a committee of stu dents but the penalty is compara tively slight — suspension at wil liams the system is very similar to that at wesleyan the report as submitted follows : undergraduates . self government under tihs . head there are two points to be considered first the composition of the governing body ; secondly its functions dartmouth with a council com posed entirely of seniors a majori ty of whom are ex-officio members 1 , stands practically alone only princeton and minnesota have a system of this sort and at minne sota the members are all elected elsewhere the council is much more representative and whether for this reason or not is in many places much more active and influential the usual plan provides for one or two freshmen and a gradually in creasing number from the upper classes the presidents of the four classes are commonly members of the council rarely a member of the faculty is included this is the case at the university of colorado and at colorado college at ohio state the president of the univer sity has regular meetings with the council at stanford the chairman of the faculty committee on student affairs attends certain meetings of the student conference at wil liams the council has joint meetings with a faculty committee there are three things which may come within the powers of a stu dent council first general over sight of student affairs for ex ample class elections and contests continued on fifth page baseball men start hard work coach keady will have a large squad from which to pick varsity nine with the arrival of coach keady last friday preparations for the coming baseball campaign have be gun in earnest the men are at present working out in the gymna sium but will get outside as soon as the weather permits this season should be a banner one for lehigh as all the members of last year's team are back with the exception of al yap the hard-hitting third baseman of last j year s team and ' ' joe rawle who did the bulk of last year's twirling \ ., many new candidates have re j ported and some of these are ex pected to be good w v mccarthy played on holy cross last year and he will probably fill the position left vacant by al yap for pitchers ■ coach keady has johnson a new man and shepard who twirled two years ago it depends upon the weather ■ from now on whether o-r not the first game with new york univer sity will be played on march 31 at present the field is a veritable mud hole but manager colby has hopes that he will be able to play the . new yorkers the following men have reported for practice apgar beck bur gess connell fishburn grace johnson kamnierer maginnes r k miller mathag o'neill quist ross shirk s scott j m straub shepard e p twombly winterhalter societies to meet the mechanical engineering so ciety will meet thursday evening march 22 at eight o'clock in wil liams hall the speakers will be w p berg 17 on the manu facture of paper and h e kantner 17 on present day use of ball bearings ' ' the latter will be an illustrated talk the e e meet^will be held march 22 in the physics lecture room a h cantlin of allen town electric light and power company will talk on the rela tion of the central station to the public h e mcdowell 17 will read a paper on hydro electric plant for asheville n.c tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the geology lecture room wil liams hall the mining and geo logical society will hold its monthly meeting at this time the nomination for the 1917-18 officers will be made mr r j wysor j in charge of blast furnace work at the p>ethlehem steel company will be the sneaker mr wysor who has done much research work re lating to potash and the blast fur nace will speak on the theory of the blast furnace the meeting i'l be open to the entire student body april 12 the miners will meet with the civil engineers to be ad dressed by prof berkey of colum j bia on the difficulties encountered in the construction of the new i york aqueduct new course starts last thursday evening a short course following the lines of dis cussion group meetings was begun in drown hall the leader is rev james robinson and the text-book that will be used is the social significance of the teachings of jesus by jeremiah w jenks ph.d professor of political economy at cornell desire different method of choice committee authorized to decide for a method giving larger repre sentation in future arcadias other matters petition for lecture course on military problems for rest of this term at one of the longest and best at tended college meetings in recent years the question relating to the status of the honor system was freely discussed the meeting was called to order last friday morn ing in packer hail in order that a more representative system of electing arcadia men be adopted which would be a step in the direc tion of a greater confidence in that body a committee was appointed to report back to the student-body in two weeks what method it can suggest a motion was put on the floor to resume the class and poster fights thus fostering the class spirit which has been regah n d a lackineh during this year men cam , discussion of • lehigh s stand for military preparedness the speakers here noted the incon sistency in the resolutions as adopted some time ago and the now quite noticeable inactivity to ward a greater activity the speeches seemed to incline a motion was finally passed to pe tition the president of the uni versity to have the remainder of the lectures for this year on mili tary subjects after some dis cussion the arcadia was given a vote of confidence after the usual announcements of the spring call for baseball lacrosse and track president bach opened the meeting for a free dis cussion of the present crisis of the honor system the first speaker was w w gil more editor of the brown and white who spoke as follows i am here to call for a more earnest support of the honor system i believe we are all agreed that the honor system did not work successfully last term i be lieve we are agreed on the princi ples of the honor system and that it is wanted but there is a big question before you — how can we make it work at lehigh i think the two hundred and fifty men who signed that new pledge february 23 who knew what they did and recognized its obligations will follow it to the letter now what are we going to consider as the position of the five hundred men who did not sign this pledge and will the men who enter next year be automatically forced to sign it in any organization the head must be responsible the student body elects this head namely the arcadia to act for it in college matters and also ps head of the honor system the present ar cadia has done its best it has tried to revive the honor system it has tried to purge itself but it has failed but our method of choosing arcadias is weak in its eligibles what we need is moral fibre and not position in college activity as the basis this and this alone will do much to give lehigh a more workable honor system it is character and not what a man has done which makes for a responsible body that is not a requirement under present conditions continued ox sixth pafir alumni bulletin comes from press complete data concerning lehigh men given in best edition of this series the new volume giving the names address and occupations of all lehigh alumni former students and undergraduates is being dis tributed as fast as it comes from the printers this year's alumni and students is some forty four pages larger than last year's but this is in a large measure due to the different spacing used through out though apparently a much larger publication than heretofore this is not the case for the thickness of the paper used had much 1 to do toward creating this erroneous opinion there are a number of changes made in the volume chief among them being the inclusion of non graduates in the list of classes the type however distinguishes be tween the men who did and those who did not receive degrees the ! summary likewise includes the non-graduates there are 2499 liv i ing alumni and 3731 non-gradu tes but this latter number in cludes the 1065 who have enrolled with the present undergraduate classes the summary shows that 594 former students and alumni have died the class of 1869 is the only one without a living survivor though for the class of 1871 there is but one the largest class to be graduated was 1910 with 140 men but in the next year the number fell to 94 classes of more than one hundred men were graduated in 1895 1907 08 09 10 12 13 14 and 15 of the 253 men who have enrolled with the present senior class there are now but 113 on the official class roll this 1917 volume includes the other usual features the record of faculty men trustees instructors and geographical distribution it is undoubtedly the most carefully edited of this series to come from the press work started on new house during the past week the con tractors for the new home of the phi delta theta fraternity have broken ground on the north side of the sayre park drive near the university water . tanks about a hundred and twenty-five yards around the bend from chi psi's newly erected house townsend the architect arrived on the ground monday and the erection of the structure will be rushed to completion the date of which has been set for the first of august the foundation walls of the building will be constructed from south mountain byram gneiss as were the foundations of chi psi delta tau delta sigma nu and alpha tau omega fraternity houses details of the style of architecture approximate cost and interior arrangement has not as yet been made 1 public committee appointed president bach of the senior class has appointed a committee consisting of j mckay 17 ; w w gilmore 17 ; t g ralph 17 ; e a mooers 18 s vance 18 to investigate and suggest methods of electing the arcadia this committee was authorized at the last college meeting the arcadia committee on mili tary affairs consists of c e twombly a bach and w a richards wrestlers take second place cornell wins sixth consecutive intercollegiate championship lehigh second u of p third every man places coach sheridan's men take three second places and four finish third cornell for the sixth time won the intercollegiate championship lehigh was second and pennsyl vania third the score stood cor nell 32 lehigh 15 u of p 13 princeton 8 and columbia 0 the blue and red grapplers secured two points by deafault thence le high took a two point lead how these points will finally be awarded is not known cornell won five first places and u of p two le high took three seconds and four third places the lehigh men to secure falls were neubert jenness pons and kirk while neubert was the only one to be thrown in the shortest bout or the meet lasting 58 seconds the meet was held in the old cornell armory last friday even ing and saturday afternoon at the meeting of the league members t was decided to allow perm state iq enter men in next year's contest th'i referees were dr w e lewis director of athletics and coach of wrestling pennsylvania state college and john schutz coach of wrestling at u s naval academy the summaries first place champions 115-pound classi — won by ser vais perm by decision over rofe cornell in 15 minutes 125-pound class — won by wig sten cornell by fall over jones prinecton in 13 minutes hold head scissors 1 35 pound class — won by keiser perm by decision iru 21 minutes over repa lehigh 145-pound class — won by post cornell by decision in 21 minutes over milligan perm 158-pound class — won byisager cornell by fall over graham perm 5 minutes 3 seconds in head and arm hold 175-pound classi — won by zepp cornell by decision over cohu princeton 21 minutes heavy weight--won by bard cornell by decision over pons le high 21 minutes second place bouts 115-pound class rofe cornell beat rcsenweig columbia by fall in 5 minutes 40 seconds 125-pound class i—jenness,1 — jenness le high beat jones princeton de cision 15 minutes 135-pound class — repa lehigh beat cornell cornell decision 21 145-pound class — m il l iga n , renn beat neubert lehigh by fall in 58 seconds 158-pound class — i ur r ell princeton beat graham perm de cision 15 minutes 175-pound class statler perm won from cohu princeton decision 15 minutes heavy-weight — pons lehigh beat taylor perm . fall in 2 minutes 27 seconds third place bouts 115-pound class i—kirk,1 — kirk lehigh beat rosenweig columbia fall 7 111 1 11 11 \ (*^\ 125-pound class — jones prince continued on sixth page the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday march 20 1917 vol xxiv no 36