Brown and White Vol. 24 no. 32

              penn state receives setback lehigh outclasses visitors in the best home game of the season score 35=18 passing and teamwork of the brown and white five bewilders opponents lehigh exceeded all expectations last saturday afternoon by giving the state college basketball team the worst beating they have re ceived this season by the one-sided score of 35 to 18 the game was much closer than the score indi cates and was by far the hardest fought and best played game of the season taylor gymnasium was packed to capacity and the enthusi asm was intense throughout the game the state five has only been de feated once this season previous to last saturday and that was by the university of pittsburgh quintet at pittsburgh by the narrow mar gin of one point and this defeat they evened up by beating pitt at state the state team showed signs of over-confidence at the beginning of the game which they soon lost when the brown and white team started to completely bewilder them by the most spectacular passing and team work that has been seen here in several years state started the scoring with a foul and a few seconds later lehigh came back with a pretty goal by mccarthy whose playing and goal shooting in the first half was spec tacular he having five goals to his credit in this half captain crich ton and dynan each had two goals to their credit in this half and also scored two apiece in the second both playing stellar ball throughout the game state was practically powerless to score consistently ow ing to the air-tight guarding of kennedy and wysocki the score at the end of the half stood 19 to 14 in favor of lehigh in the second half the brown and white team completely outclassed the visitors and two field goals by captain walton were the only tal lies for state in the half w r hile le high caged six field goals and four fouls towards the end of the game berg and brunner were substituted for wysocki and dynan and each continued the brilliant playing of the team the game was exceedingly clean ly played throughout and the fouls were pretty evenly divided among the two teams the visitors being more successful in scoring in this way owing to the clever tossing of laubach who with captain wal ton were the stars for state the playing of the whole lehigh team both in passing and goal shooting was easily the main feature of the game while the individual stars were mccarthy crichton and ken nedy this victory for the brown and white team puts lehigh in line for the championship of the state the line-up follows lehigh pos perm state dynan f laubach mccarthy f wagner crichton c.)...c adam kennedy g c walton wysoeki g wilson substitutions fast for wilson berg for wysocki brunner for dy nan goals mccarthy 6 crichton 4 continued on fifth page electric furnace in the steel business subject of talk by h s auer ! backer at the meeting of the electrical society the electrical engineering so ciety held its monthly meeting last thursday evening in the physics lecture room mr s h auer backer in the employment of the westinghouse company located at pittsburgh spoke on electric furnaces in the steel business he discussed the heroult furnace and pointed out some of its striking j advantages prof richards of the department of metallurgy in the discussion which followed fur nished important information l b kramer 17 read a paper | on electrolytic copper he said in part : ' ' iron is classed as the most useful metal but to the electrical engineer copper is the most useful as an electrical con ductor copper is rivalled only by aluminum all of the copper used by electrical conductors is electro lytic copper as for this purpose only the purest form of cu can be used and ninety per cent of all the-cu is refined electrolytically the objects of electrolytic re fining are to recover the precious metals in the impure cv and to ob tain a pure cu suitable for use in the manufacture of conductors and other purposes there are two sources of elec trolytic copper the electrolytic product obtained by refining of im pure or blister copper and that ob tained by the electrolytic extraction of the metal from solutions of its salts he explained the principle of the process and then turned to a discussion of the two systems of electrolytic refining — the multiple or parallel system and the series system students entertained the service bible class of the first reformed church composed of the young ladies of the congre gation had as its guests fifty le high students at a social in the church last thursday evening every one present had an enter taining and enjoyable evening re freshments w r ere served during the i latter part of the evening a committee has been appointed ] to make plans for the organization ] of a non-sectarian club seniors notice the editing of the class book sec tion of the 1918 epitome has been completed but the section is still unfinished because the response to the call for individual snapshots has not been as hearty as expected the committee desires that all seniors or other classmen who have any snapshots of seniors in dividually or in groups should hand them to g m levy or any other one of its members on or be fore march 8 college lecture there will be an illustrated col lege lecture on friday at 11 a.m in the chapel on the grand can yon of arizona ' ' by n h darton mr darton is a noted geologist and has done extensive work through out the west he is also an in ventor of a sugar-making process and author of numerous papers and magazine articles on geology and is at present in the u s geological survey the attendance of the stu dents is required trustee addresses chemical society r s perry 88 former president iui the alumni association gave instructive talk dependence on industry pointed out in talk on relation of chemical industries to preparedness a large number of the members of the chemical society enjoyed a rare treat friday evening march | 2 when r s perry 88 president of the kalbfleisch co addressed the meeting on the subject of the relation of chemical industries to preparedness besides ex pressing some very interesting and substantial views on the country's present condition and diplomatic relations the speaker showed how dependent the nation is on the chemical industry the substance of his talk follows guncotton one of the most im portant explosives is made by soak ing ordinary cotton in a mixture of two fuming acids nitric acid is the most important of these two for it is this acid which nitrates the cellulose the sulphuric acid merely being used to absorb the water formed in the process if we found ourselves without nitric acid we should not even hope to engage in a single skirmish in order to make nitric acid we must have nitrate and the most plentiful source of nitrate is the saltpeter deposits of chili before the discovery of these immense de posits the chief source were beds near pekin china at present every country is dependent on chili for their nitrate supply ex cept germany the reason for this exception is that the germans have perfected the electric process for the fixation of atmospheric nitro gen although the process is 1 not a secret it has never been de veloped in this country because the chili nitre beds were ample supply now suppose that our nitrate sup ply from chili were cut off we would be helpless the only solu tion is the development of fixita tion processes it would take years to perfect such plants and would require the risking of millions of dollars continued on fifth page lehigh relay team defeats lafayette lehigh s relay team defeated the quartet from lafayette in easy fashion friday night in a one-mile race at the george washington meet convention hall washing ton d c there was no doubt as to the out come of the race from the start i when schultz who ran the first leg for lehigh jumped into the lead at the crack of the gun and to the fin ish when captain mcgrath romped home a winner by half a lap over ! cowley the lafayette anchor man man greenleaf running in second po sition for lehigh gave morrissey such a lead that for the remaining two legs morrissey and mcgrath had an easy time of it lafayette being totally outclassed junior meeting there will be a meeting af the junior class immediately after the lecture for the purpose of electing a class treasurer george h streaker addresses y.m.c.a a fight to a finish subject of sunday evening address good music one of the most interesting ad dresses of the college year was given by mr george h streaker of philadelphia at the y m c a meeting last sunday evening pre ceding the address a good musical program was rendered by the y m c a orchestra and miss mary jenkins of bethlehem who favored with several vocal solos which were well received the sub ject of mr streaker's address was a fight to a finish ' ' recently i heard an address by a prominent educator in which he claimed that men from cambridge and oxford could play rings around the american college stu dient in regard to college learning when i review the work of ameri can technical schools i am forced to repudiate that statement in so far as engineering students are concerned but the trouble with too many of us is we are hunting too much for facts we cannot prove things far enough if we are asked about a certain phenomena all we can answer is it's a fact too many of us cannot explain the truth about that fact we have not made a fight to a finish over a problem events in history like events ; our lives have at some time or other reached a crisis it is this bridging of this crisis which consti tutes a fight to a finish in itsi real form ancient greek drove back xerxes and his persian horde be cause they were prepared for a crisis octavius defeated mark antony because antony was un continued on ftfth page york county club dance at a meeting of the york county lehigh club held in drown hall last friday evening it was decided to hold a d ! ance during the easter holidays a similar function was held last year at york and proved very successful not only as an en joyable affair but as a splendid means of advertising the uni versity throughout the community as last year the club hopes to have the loyal suport of the york county alumni who can help materially in adding to the success ful accomplishment of the affair freshmen notice all freshmen who intend to compete for the price prize in eng lish composition must hand their names to professor thayer head of the english department before april 1 1917 more men are urged to take an interest in this competition full particulars of which are given on page 156 of the register the subject this year is the life and works of richard harding davis with special refer ence to his work at lehigh gym notes the dancing class conducted by prof h r reiter meets every wednesday afternoon at three o'clock in the gymnasium at present there are twenty-eight men taking the course any student desiring to enter the class can do so by reporting in gym togs freshmen are notified that they must swim the length of the pool some time before the end of the school year in order to receive their gym credits for the second term alumnus becomes college president prof w c riddick c.e 90 in augurated at north carolina institution dr drinker speaks public service movements in colleges and universities his subject prof wallace carl riddick c.e 90 on washington's birth day was inaugurated fourth presi dent of the north carolina agri cultural and mechanical college with ceremonies declared never to have been equalled in the history of north carolina educational in stitutions dr riddick succeeds dr d harvey hill who resigned several months ago in order to de vote his time to the preparation of a history of the part taken by north carolina in the war between the states mr riddick said in part in the inaugural address as quoted in the raleigh times ' ' the most important industry in north carolina today is agricul ture and to its development the college pledges its first allegiance for no industrial or social democ racy can be permanent unless it is built upon the bed-rock of an in ! '''»■■".!, contented and reasonably prosperous rural population agri culture is the basis of the pros perity and welfare of the state the economic necessity of agri cultural education is no longer a debatable question by reason of unintelligent and careless manage ment in the past the virgin fer tility of our soil has been largely exhausted and in the future agri culture cannot be made per manently and certainly not in creasingly profitable except by the application of scientific methods and business methods to its every phase it no longer suffices that our farmers have that tireless energy rugged determination and invincible courage which enabled our forefathers to fell forest sub due the soil and rob nature of her accomplished wealth ' ' there is needed now that scien tific knowledge intelligent plan ning and skillful manipulation by which nature can be coaxed into co-operation nature has long been enough the farmer's slave he must make her a partner in busi ness second only to agriculture in importance are the textile indus tries of our state and no one will deny that men of the highest order in intelligence are needed in their operation and that the prepara tion of these men demands an edu cation that is technical as well as liberal engineering architecture and chemistry have long been recog nized as professional occupations and no one will deny that proper preparation for them requires edu cation that is thorough and which develops analytical constructive and interpretative power and therefore prepares for all the duties of citizenship in a democ racy as well as for leadership in these constructive operations which affect the material and social up building of our state and nation for what shall i say for the vast numbers who for financial or other reasons are unable to avail themselves of our regular courses shall the door of opportunity be continued on fifth pafiß the brown and white vol xxiv lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday march 6 1917 no 32