Brown and White Vol. 24 no. 20

              moravian college and new york university meet defeat in fast games seton hall tomorrow visitors will present veteran team hard struggle anticipated within the next fortnight four of the course societies have planned to hold meetings for each of which special speakers have been secured andi interesting and unusual inno vations will be featured the business administration club will hold its meeting in the physics lecture room on january 11 at 7.30 p.m major c a de saulles will give an illustrated talk on the new jersey zinc company the club desires that all who are interested in the lecture be in at tendance on thursday evening to hear major de saulles inasmuch as the program has been arranged by the club not only for its own mem bers but for the benefit of the student-body at large the mechanical engineering so ciety meets in its regular monthly session tomorrow evening january 10 at 8 o'clock in williams hall the speakers will be mr j mulli gan and d maclsaac 17 the former will talk on the subject of safety first as applied to the work in which he is engaged the latter will speak on subway pinning ' ' the chemical society will meet on wednesday january 17 at 8 p.m at dr h s drinker's resi dence f d powers 17 will speak on utilization and con servation of u s power re sources o r price 17 has chosen as his subject the ameri can dye situation the electrical engineering so ciety will hold its regular meeting in the physics lecture room on thursday january 18 at which time mr w j jackson of the maryland steel co will speak on electric motor control the student speaker will be g c kehrer 17 who will report on the senior inspection trip to new york e p beach makes best strength test 26 freshmen total over 700 the physical and medical ex aminations of the members of the freshman class reveal some inter esting facts taken as a whole the physical condition of the men is good and compares favorably with the class of 1919 the medical side of the examina tions relating to special cases and urinary tests were conducted by dr w l estes jr six men were found in the class who showed traces of albuminuria later ex amination of the same men indi cated that the above condition was due to excessive and prolonged exercise because after the body was completely rested this con dition disappeared the employment of the question blanks to be filled out by the parents in conference with the family physician seems to be a wise one the information so afforded saving several men with weak hearts from the hazing at the open ing of college the substitution of a baseball game in place of the for mer rough banner rush on opening day prevented the many bruises and lacerations of former years in all 298 freshmen to date hays been examined 191 were classed in excellent condition 102 fair as d five poor the percentage of s â– <- dents with defective vision . â–  found to be 20.5 against 27.5 per cent in 1915 and 33 per cent in 1914 the number of case of flat feet was greater than in any of the previous years 62 per cent of the men were found with this defect as against 41 per cent in 1915 and 37 per cent in 1914 lateral curvature of the spine showed a de crease from that of last year this percentage this year was 10.5 in 1915 12 per cent and in 1914 24 per cent in answer to the question do continued on fifth page senior electricals return from big trip class book assessment is now due and payable photograph will not be inserted unless paid immediately never in the history of baseball at lehigh have the prospects for a championship nine been brighter with the exception of yap the sterling third-sacker last year's team remains intact with this as a nucleus and an exceptional wealth of new material together with the substitutes of last season coach keady has every reason to believe that his proteges will be right in line for first honors on the diamond among the institutions in the country it will be remem bered that the brown and white nine had the highest batting aver age in last year's intercollegiate race also it should not be for gotten that lehigh s baseball nine was ranked fifth among the colleges of the country g e lees who for the past three years has done the bulk of the catching and has few equals in col lege circles will again be the main stay behind the bat burgess sub stitute catcher of last year is also in college apgar a freshman should develop into good substitute material e p twombly j rawle and r a hurley will again do the bulk of the twirling and should be even better than last year johnson the big football tackle who twirled last fall on the freshman nine appears to be the best of the new men capt c e twombly who is a brother of the cincinnati outfielder and whose hitting has broken up many a game during the past three years will be back at first a pi achorn who replaced chenoweth at second last year after the latter had been hurt developed into a slashing hitter and has the call at second w v mccarthy football end and basketball forward who twirled and played third base for holy cross last spring will make a stiff fight for the third base posi tion at shortstop sammy fishburn will again be seen in ac tion he can be depended upon to duplicate his big league fielding and hard hitting of the past years w c winterhalter a f con nell and w d maginnes last sea son's outer gardeners will look af ter things in the outfield n mat hag of the freshman class will make a strong bid for an outfield position a f quist who two years ago held down first sack at the univer sity of minnesota but who was in eligible last season will be a strong candidate for the infield it is like ly that he may play firts base and c e twombley be shifted to the outfield which position he accept ably filled two years ago r mc carthy who played in the infield for the university of maine last spring is also a strong contender for the team besides these men mentioned a number of other strong candidates will present themselves at the first call for prac tice the schedule prepared by man ager colby is the most extensive that lehigh has had in recent years it contains thirty-one games including three separate trips one continued on fifth page little trouble was experienced by the brown and white quintet in disposing of the moravian college five in taylor gymnasium in the first home game of the season last saturday afternoon a large crowd witnessed the game which although a little one-sided showed that this year's team is one that will have little trouble in holding its own against the stronger teams to be met later in the season the final score was 42-13 most of mora vian's points were scored by foul goals moravian started the scoring by a foul goal during the first few minutes of play owing to the bril liant work of kennedy and wy socki on the defensive during the first half moravian was unable to score a goal from the floor in the meantime the lehigh forwards were tossing them in from all angles and succeeded in registering nine field goals of which dynan had three w v mccarthy four anu uapt crichton two dyimn also made two foul goals out of five tries in the second half wysocki played spectacular ball and aside from his air-tight guarding suc ceeded in scoring four pretty goals from the floor in this half various substitutions were made and showed that the squad this year does not lack good second string men thomas who took dynan s place at forward the latter part of the game tossed two clever baskets while berg and mac donald con tinued the excellent defensive work of kennedy and wysocki for moravian hassler who was substituted for turner played well while hagen scored most of the foul points the line-up follows : lehigh pos moravian dynan f hagen w v mccarthy . f . . . turner ( c ) crichton c.)...c allen kennedy g kuehl wysocki g wedman substitutions : mac donald for wysocki thomas for dynan ket cham for crichton berg for ken nedy r mccarthy for w y mc carthy hassler for turner tur ner for allen stolz for turner goals dynan 5 mccarthy 6 crichton 3 wysocki 4 thomas 2 hassler 2 kuehl 1 fouls dynan 2 hagen 6 wedman 1 referee : tom thorpe of colum bia time of halves : twenty min utes each new york university game the first game of the season for the brown and white basketball five resulted in a victory over new york university at new york on friday december 22 by the score of 24-20 the game was hotly con tested throughout each team alter nating at taking the lead lehigh led at all times during the first half with the score stand ing 14-6 at the end of the half the playing of dynan and w v mc carthy in this half was excellent each having two goals from the floor to their credit while dynan continued on fifth page the assessment for the senior class book insert is dive and pay able january 10 to any member of the committee the sum varies with the kind of book desired this desire being either indicated on the ballot or at some time reported to the committee it is not essential that the money be paid to the member from whom the ballot was received it is imperative that this obligation be met at once for no man is assured of the insertion of his pho tograph and biography until it has been satisfied the men on the com mittee who will receipt these pay ments at any time are d r brobst g m levy p e portz w a richards r l mccann and w w gilmore the work of editing the biogra phies is nearly completed while off the ballots the vote has been taken but this will not be announced un til the book appears in the spring a request for snapshots of men as they appear on the campus has not met with an enthusiastic re sponse any senior or any one else who may happen to have snaps of members of the graduating class would favor the committee by handing them to g m levy or any one of its members new york city and schenectady concerns were inspected the senior electricals have just returned from an inspection trip to new york and schenectady start ing tuesday morning january 2 they visited the waterside stations nos 1 and 2 of the new york edi son company on the same day several other sub-stations were gone through wednesdiay they were shown through the new york testing laboratories as well as the big tele phone exchanges of the new york telephone company thursday morning a visit to the interborough rapid transit sta tion showed how current is gen erated and used in the subways the woolworth and singer build ings were inspected in the after noon the generating apparatus and working of the elevators being the chief part of the visit at this time the grand central terminal was also gone through on friday the party was in schenectady for the purpose of vis iting the general electric works this plant was thoroughly gone through since the chief officer of each department acted as guide for that particular part of the visit all day friday and saturday morning were spent very profitably at this great electrical plant tells why the slides may be expected to continue and gives convincing proof should use steam shovel believes it inadvisable to allow material to slide into canal to be dredged out the mining and g-eological so ciety heard dr benjamin l mil ler head of the department of ge ology explain his reasons for be lieving that the slides will continue to menace the canal so long as gold hill with zion and contrac tors hill are allowed to stand he saw less danger however from the two latter named than from gold hill for the present at least the meeting was held in the geology lecture room in williams hall the wednesday evening before the holidays and was well attended at first slides showing the po sition of the three hills calculated to cause much trouble were shown on one side of the canal is located gold hill while opposite zion and contractors hills are placed down to the present time gold hill has been the source of greatest an noyance the material bulges up in the middle of the canal and then spreads to either side until passage is completely blocked views of this condition were shown within the nine-mile area through which most of the excavation has taken place in the construction of the canal the hills are many and are located without any order or definite arrangement though all of them are greatly modified by erosion along the route of the canal gold hill is the most promi nent gold hill is almost six hundred feet above sea level while its neigh bors contractors and zion are less the hill was formed by igeous rock being thrust up through the sedimentary the sedimentary strata consists of material of vol canic origin mixed with the mud and sand there placed during the tertiary period sediment laid down near the volcanoes are clay sandstone and lignitic materials between the sandstone formations arc layers of clay throughout the region the rocks are greatly faulted and as evidence of this dr miller showed a number of specimens of slickenslides taken from the region all through the canal zone there is much movement some of the faults extending across the canal water is by far the most serious menace it passes through the porous columnar structure till it reaches a clay section which is readily greased thus causing a slight movement there are several types of slides which are noticeable though the deformation type is most dangerous in the region of the culebra cut back from the canal at some distance will settle down a block which will squeeze materials into the canal bed making an ap pearance in the center this down ward movement is noticeable at a distance of one-quarter of a mile to either side then there are slides caused by the rainfall but these are surface movements carrying the material directly into the canal gold hill has been greatly re duced by slides on both sides until all the loose sedimentary material has slid away from the continued on fifth page the brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday january 9 1917 lehigh university dr miller explains slides freshman class shows good physical condition baseball outlook best in history vol xxiv course societies plan big monthly meetings basketball team opens season major c a de saulles to address business men features at other meets veteran team will represent lehigh on the diamond much new material extensive schedule thirty=one games with big eastern colleges appear on roster no 20