Brown and White Vol. 24 no. 35

              summary of basketball season brown and white team closes most successful season in recent years fifteen victories lehigh five wins all the home games loses four on foreign floors with the dresel institute game the lehigh basketball team finished the most successful season that it has had since the erection of taylor gymnasium and probably one of the most successful in the history of the college not a game was lost on the home floor while only four were lost away two of which were by the narrow margin of one point fifteen games were won in all and a total of 682 points were scored by the brown and white team while its opponents collected 427 by de feating perm state and lafayette lehigh established a fair claim to the championship of the state and it is the general opinion of those who saw the team play in its best form that there are few collegiate fives in the east who have anything on the lehigh team when it comes to speed and team work considering that coach geary had as a nucleus only two members of last year's varsity at the begin ning of the season his work in de veloping a team of the caliber of this year's is more than satisfac tory and too much credit cannot be given him for his work during the season although only two varsity members were on hand at the be ginning there were several of last year's squad and a wealth of new material and the task of selecting the make-up of the team was by no means an easy one one of the main factors in the success of the five was the strong list of substi tutes which could be put into the game whenever needed the gen eral management of the team was taken care of by manager carlson and assistant manager shartle the first game was played away and resulted in a 24 to 20 victory over new york university the brown and white five was given its first defeat by the college of the city of new york five after three games had been won this was a hard^game to lose as was the car negie tech game inasmuch as each was won by a foul scored by the op ponent during the last few seconds of play lafayette surprised the brown and white five a week later by ad ministering the season's second de feat the game being played on the j ' ' down the river rival s floor the bitter taste of this defeat was neutralized when lehigh succeeded in completely bewildering the maroon and white five on the home floor a week ago and evened isp matters the score being 31 to 20 probably the most decisive de feat of the season was handed le high by the university of pitts burgh at pittsburgh during the hard western trip the team was considerably off form during the game and had they beenplaying the a rticle of basketball displayed by j them during the state or second lafayette game a different story \ could have been told it was only owing to a conflict of dates that a return game with pitt was not played continued on fifth page new epitome on sale junior week book in final stage of prepara tion new features very prominent with six weeks remaining before junior week when it has always been customary to place the epitome on sale the 1918 board has the pleasant knowledge that the book is in its final stage of preparation with one or two ex ceptions of minor importance all photographs that are to appear have been turned over to the en gravers the printed matter is all in the hands of the printers and each day finds the volume a step nearer completion to say that the 1918 epitome will follow the plan of previous books although perhaps true would not he doing justice to this year's annual the new features are introduced in large number a larger number of engravings have been introduced depicting events in the past college year and recall ing happenings that have gone down into history to the casual observer many of the radical changes will not be ap parent but they are there none the less adding their bit to the at tractiveness of the book as a whole for instance there is the artistic border that frames every page it is a band of light green with the word epitome worked into the design at the top throughout the senior class book it is elaborated to include the college seal and class numerals with these decorations must be mentioned the handsome sepia photogravures of some of the college buildings several color plates and clever title pages that divide the various sections of the book the newest thing and probably the section that will be most thor oughly enjoyed is the feature sec tion this departure from the con ventional is intended to show the college as it really is there are many'h'e'retoforeunpublishediphoto graphs and although the section only covers twenty pages it has a little knock for everybody this section also includes write-ups of the most interesting of last year's summer schools also set off by numerous new photos a number of advertisements in cluding those of local firms and alumni are attractively arranged in the last pages and to agreat ex tent are responsible for the im provements that have been intro duced talk on american ambulance corps given an illustrated talk on the american ambulance field ser vice in france was given by a b campbell on last wednesday even ing in the parish house of the nativity church he said in part : the americans started thjeir service in the fall of 1914 owing to the fact that the transportation of wounded men from the front was very poor the sanitary conditions at that time w r ere none too good today there are 300 cars at the tront for some reason men could not be secured to run these cars therefore the men at the front had these piceures taken in order to show what the work really is england even though at war has given more to france in this line than we the american ser vice has the cars but men are needed to run them musical clubs plan concert management has made arrange ments for allentown concert march 29th may give another probability of a trip to phila delphia next month potts , ville engagement off at a meeting of the combined ; musical clubs held wednesday afternoon in drown hall it was announced that a concert would be given in allentown on thursday evening march 29 other concerts : and trips were discussed at this < meeting president wolfs said that the at j tendance at rehearsals w t as far be low what it should be he called : attention to the fact that there is only a short time in which to pre pare for the concert the latter part of this month even the best of musicians must play together con tinually in order to be able to play in concert engagements hereto fore in the spring months the re 1 hearsals of the musical clubs have always been far from successful it is hoped that this will not be the case this year the concert in allentown will be given in mealey's auditorium and will be followed by dancing de tails of the affair are to be an nounced later there is a strong probability that a concert will be held in philadelphia on the 14th of april the pottsville concert which was to have been given last month may also take place some time after the easter holidays as announced previously the glee club will hold rehearsals from now on every wednesday and saturday afternoon at 1.30 o'clock in drown hall practice will be held by the mandolin club every tuesday and thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock in drow m hall discussion group leaders plan campaign on monday afternoon a meeting was held in drown hall at which the work accomplished by the dis cussion groups during the past year was reviewed besides the various business men and professors who had acted as group leaders there were present representatives from the fraternities and dormitory sec tions during the meeting various sug gestions for improvement during the coming year were brought up a motion was also passed to ap point a committee of five consist ing of a professor a minister a business man a senior student and the y m c a secretary to get proper material to present for the next year during the meeting it was de cided to urge the student body to present topics they would like to have discussed in the coming year these topics should be left within the coming week at the y m c a office notice a meeting of the chemical so ciety will be held wednesday even ing march 21 at eight o'clock at the resident of dr drinker c i anderson will speak on nitrogen fixation h g boyd 18 will present a paper on nitrogen as applied to explosives fair co=ed cast rehearses regularly due to complexity vi dances large chorus will hold re hearsals in gymnasium i with the first production of the fair co-ed a little over a month away the members of cast and chorus have buckled down to the monotonous drill of making a smooth finished production the members were only able to get together once last week for re hearsal on thursday night but this meeting was very encouraging owing to the large chorus and the complexity of the dances the re hearsals of the chorus will be held in the gymnasium hereafter the cast will continue to meet in drown hall unless otherwise notified one of the most amusing char acters in the play is that of squab dingle a freshman played by p h kittle at the last minute be fore the ball the committee is horrified to learn that the chaperon will not be able to come it is too late to recruit a substitute and the boys are at a loss for as one of them remarks a chaperon must be more than elderly and respectable — she must contain a certain per centage of peprike at last they conceive a brilliant idea squab will disguise as the chaperon his protests are in vain so the evening of the ball finds him very uncom fortable in mrs trotwoods ' gown which has a funny little trick of tripping him each time he turns around he soon starts a flirta tion with the professor of psy chology but the latter is horrified w t hen the chaperon slips behind a palm to smoke a cigarette laugh follows laugh as the amusing situations are disclosed throughout this witty comedy there seems but little doubt that the play will be one of the club's best efforts candidates notice all baseball candidates will re port for duty saturday march 17 at 2 o'clock on the basketball floor of the gym all candidates for all positions are expected to report practice will be held in the gym until the weather permits the use of the grounds manager colby requests all the men who are to try out for baseball assistant manager to report to him in the athletic committee room monday afternoon at 4 o'clock committee appointed president whigham of the soph omore class has appointed the fol lowing men to act on the banquet committee r j heuer chairman f h van auken l s owen j h wagner and l l dixon the above men will meet at the delta tau delta house saturday march 17 at 12 30 p.m alumni at senior banquet at the senior banquet to be held march 23 at the hotel allen allentown prof c l thornburg with r s perry 88 and archi bald johnston 89 will be the chief speakers the committee is anxious that the affair shall begin on time thus giving an opportunity for fh"'e speakers to express their views be fore too late an hour there will be short talks by a c kammerer and w a richards two editors are in newspaper work only two of the former editors of brown and white are en gaged in journalistic work various positions majority of former editors=in chief and business managers are engineers and managers a list has been compiled of the names and occupations of univer sity men who have served in the ca pacity cf editor-in-chief or busi ness manager of the brown and white during their college course it is interesting to note from what departments these men have come and what line of business they have pursued upon leaving college of the ed'itors-in.-chief now em ployed in business thirteen are con nected with some form of mana gerial capacity five follow the en gineering profession four have taken up salesmanship two are pro fessionail men two diverged into magazine or newspaper work two are teachers and one is connected with the diplomatic service the file of the business managers presents eleven serving in a mana gerial capacity seven as engineers two professional and one connected with a sales department the complete list is as follow editors-in-chief w c anderson e.e 94 con sulting engineer dealer in oil and chemical products wilkes-barre w s merrill 8.a 94 de ceased william warr e.e 95 sales manager robins conveying belt company new york n y m w pool m.e 96 brook lyn n y j w thurston 8.a 96 ross cal b 0 curtis c.e 97 deceased john boyt 8.5 97 e.m 98 superintendent alcohol plant e i dm pont de nemours powder co georgetown s c g d heisey 97 president and treasurer a h heisey & co glass manufacturers newark 0 j r farwell 98 civil engi neer albuquerque n m j b lindsey jr c.e 98 su perintendent timber treating plants l & n r r gautier miss m c benedict m.e 99 me chanical engineer berwind white coal mining co windber pa j s schultz 00 deceased e b wilkinson a.c 01 pitts burgh crucible steel co midland pa r e thomas 03 asst building inspector los angeles cal dyer smith m.e 03 attorney at-law new york n y r p hutchinson e.m 04 president and general manager guerber engineering co bethle hem pa r l talley 8.a 04 hoyt ad vertising co new york n y p g spilsbury e.m 05 gen eral manager aguacate mines new york n y t r angle 05 managing edi tor morning news danville pa w c benedict c.e 06 asst engineer in charge of contract 56 champlain canal new york state engineering dept glen falls n y n n merriman 8.a 05 of noyes merriman & co vice-presi dent columbia mines co new york city c f gilmore 8.a 06 edi torial dept pennsylvania grit continued on fifth page the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday march 1g 1917 vol xxiv no 35