Brown and White Vol. 24 no. 18

              the lehigh y m c a free evening school has been conducted successfully for several weeks the naturalization class opened some time ago and 1256 men are now enrolled they represent approxi mately thirty-five different na tionalities they are greek rou manian italian hungarian bohe mian french spanish portuguese windish lithuanian slavish po lish indian russian porto rican cuban letish japanese finn serbian german bras rutham ian hebrew syrian bulgarian servian austrian costa rican slovak and americans whose edu cations have been neglected they are taught u s history civics health hygiene and politics the lessons are given in the quinn school building at fourth and poplar streets south bethle hem there are seventeen second floor rooms and five on the first floor now in use each is over crowded for fifty-seven men must be placed in one room classes are held monday and thursday nights for greeks and roumanians wed nesday and friday evenings for other nationalities while those men who work nights are accommodated tuesday and thursday afternoons lehigh carries on the biggest work in this field of any univer sity in the world the same work is done at other places but not on such a large scale for rarely does one find the facilities for the col lege student to get into touch with the foreigner better than here however many more capable men are needed to adequately handle and instruct this great body of edu cation-seekers industrial education or hu man engineering as some one has called it is one of the problems to day and it is still in its infancy mr j m frey the head of the whole movement here is receiving letters almost daily offering splen did positions to men experienced in this work there was an interesting meeting of the evening school teachers on wednesday afternoon at which their experiences were recounted at this meeting mr g t fonda supt of safety and welfare dept bethlehem steel co and mr mul ligan were present and planned future methods all candidates for the sweater contest are requested to report not later than this saturday as all must be present at fifteen practices before the contest coach sheri dan has arranged special practices so that there will be fifteen from saturday december 16 the con test is open to all who have never represented lehigh on a wrestling team the prizes are sweaters given by former managers and cap tains of lehigh wrestling teams conditionally given that the win ners remain on the squad for the remainder of the season there are fifty-four men out for the wrestling team to date most of these men are in the lighter weight classes there are eight men in the 115-pound class twelve in the 125-pound class eleven in the 135-pound class eight in the 145 pound class eight in the 158-pound class six in the 175-pound class and one in the heavyweight class more heavyweights are needed bad ly in this sport the men who are not on the regular team are never cut from the squad they can stay out all season and often men make the varsity team at the middle or end of the season through faithful work the following is the list of the men who have reported thus far :> 115-pound class kirk 19 rey nolds 17 hyatt 18 de garmo 20 dehnik 20 hutchinson 18 e gonzalez 20 fitzgerald 20 125-pound class : mccullough 18 memmert 19 bashoar 20 park 18 bailey 20 a j nich olas 19 lehr 19 burgess 19 lambert 18 buell 17 martin 20 bevier 19 135-pound class repa 18 jen ness 17 hagglund 17 wuerz 20 feringa 19 stettler 18 bobbin 20 zirkin 20 jennings 19 cardin 19 miller 20 145-pound class neubert 17 parrish 18 whitney 18 beach 20 johnson 19 cooper 20 p good 20 rosenstein 17 158-pound class dayton 17 latimer 18 bergdoll 20 tom linson 19 maclsaac 17 justice 17 joyce 20 young 19 175-pound class r good 18 weber 18 henderson 17 arn heimer 20 bach 17 hazletine 19 heavyweight class l s owens 19 seniors notice tau beta pi l b ryon 17 ; b h jacobson 17 and w r penman 18 were pledged to tau beta pi yesterday morning in the university chapel the other members of the lehigh chapter are r l mccann 17 ; f e portz 17 d r brobst 17 c w kingsley 17 j e fro bisher 17 h e mcdowell 17 c t halpin 17 ; g m levy 17 ; g y custer 17 ; 0 r rice 17 carroll d weatherly entered lehigh in the fall of 1912 and dur ing the autumn was very active in athletics unfortunately he was injured in football practice in about the middle of the season and was forced to drop out of the game later his health gave way and at christmas-time it became neces sary for him to leave college af ter spending.a year in the open air of the northwest on the u s geo detic survey he regained his health and returned to his home in baltimore and went to work in the city water department on december 30 1914 weather ly went to canada and enlisted in the bth canadian mounted rifles at ottawa it was only a short time before he was recognized as having the qualities of a good soldier for in february he was chosen one of twelve in the escort to the duke of connaught at the opening of par liament soon after this he was called before the court of inquiry to face the charge of being a ger man spy somq of the soldiers had circulated a report that he had en tered the service as a special agent of the german secret service tele grams were sent to american friends and the evidence submitted by them including mayor preston of baltimore and hon josephus daniels secretary of the u s navy promptly removed all sus picion everything was done by the canadian authorities to atone for the unjust charge and 1 the only reason available for their action was the fact that weatherly spoke splendid german the real reason was that the canadian soldiers did not relish the honor which had been bestowed upon the yankee sol dier weatherly was transferred in june 1915 to camp barrifield at kingston ontario where he re mained until his regiment sailed for england on october 6 during the period of training he was pro moted several times being first made corporal then first sergeant and later senior sergeant and regimental instructor when the regiment reached england they were sent to bramsholt camp where they were again thoroughly drilled in every phase of modern warfare in january 1916 they were taken into the regular british service and assigned to the sth ca nadian brigand b e f and sent to the french front where actual fighting became their daily routine following is one of weatherly s letters written as soon as he was able after having been wounded : continued on fifth page seniors must notify the com mittee before noon december 16 of the price of book desired men who did not place biographies on their ballots must submit that feature before midnight december 21 to the committeeman from whom the ballot was received signed the committee berks county club cotillion club dance cheltenham club the annual meeting of the le high alumni club of new eng land mention of which was made in tuesday's issue was held in the hotel brunswick boston last fri day evening the gathering took place in the venetian room which was decorated with the national and lehigh colors at the plate of each of the diners was a card bearing the following inscription annual banquet of the lehigh university club of new england held at the hotel brunswick boston mass decem ber 8 1916 in honor of henry sturgis drinker ll.d president lehigh university that he may carry on the good work which he is now doing for many years to come is our most earnest wish ' ' w d hartshorne 74 presi dent of the club was toastmaster the club was honored with the presence of lord aberdeen of england former attorney-general of aig.&a lord aberdeen was called upon first of all as he had an engagement at worcester the same night referring to dr drinker's participation in the league to enforce peace lord aberdeen said that lehigh and lehigh men were to be congratu lated upon having a president of such attainments and energy dr drinker the honor guest of the evening was the next speaker he gave a review of activities at the university saying that we have reason to feel satisfied with the present condition and prosh pects of lehigh owing to the favorable location for the study of engineering the larger proportion of our students select the engi neering courses though our de partment of arts and science is well housed and manned but studying engineering at lehigh is like going to paris to study art — you are studying in and surround ed by the atmosphere of the sub ject you are pursuing founded fifty years ago by one of pennsyl vania's leading railroad men asa packer — located at a great rail road center in a town which is the site of the bethlehem steel com pany in a region teeming with metallurgical mining cement and other indistries all of them largely managed today by lehigh gradu ates lehigh naturally engenders a spirit of earnest work as i meet our alumni over the country it is a matter of pride to see them in positions of responsibility and trust dr drinker touched also upon the summer military instruction camps for students and on con servation the third speaker was dr e h williams jr 75 of woodstock vt formerly professor of mining engineering and geology at le high and now a lecturer of the university dr williams talked about the old days at lehigh and the value of relatively small num bers where students and professors really know each other he urged upon alumni who are members of fraternities to impress upon stu continued on fifth page at the regular meeting of the cheltenham lehigh club final plans were made for a meeting to be held during the holiday period on the afternoon of december 22 with the present seniors and juniors at cheltenham high school there are at present about ten members of the club and the purpose of this meeting is to instill an interest in lehigh among the high school students about to graduate the sophomore cotillion club will hold its first dance tonight in drown hall as several of the fra ternities in college are entertaining house parties it is expected that an unusually large number will be in attendance dancing will begin promptly at 9 p.m the music will be furnished by j b franklin's rector's tango sextette of new york final arrangements have been made for the dance to be held by the berks lehigh club in conjunc tion with berks perm state club on tuesday evening december 26 in odd fellows hall reading the dance will begin at 8.30 p.m lasting until 1 p.m the tickets in charge of l c fenstermacher 18 are 1.75 a couple the com mittee of arrangements are : l c fenstermacher 18 ; w hartman 17 and e saylor 19 lehigh s publicity men held their third annual banquet at the hotel columbia allentown last wednesday evening twenty-five candidates and board men freely expressed their views as to how the paper should be edited and where improvements might best be made h d keiser 16 editor-in-chief of the paper last year was the guest of honor making the princi pal speech of the evening after the feed had been de voured w w g-ilmore acting as toastmaster after a few intro ductory remarks called upon mr keiser who gave valuable advice to candidates and board men the reports which you will make in industry he said will more and more resemble your brown and white work the experience here received is invaluable and at all times will be of immense aid he pointed out the marked changes between this year's paper and the issue of recent years showing how during the past five years the brown and wi-iite had been pass ing through a period of steady progress last year it was ex panded to a six-page issue with a loss due to that venture this year with the proper co-operation of the student-body the paper should be able to come to a stronger position financially but all the sacrifice he asserted was amply repaid in the service rendered to the paper and hence to the college there were suggestions from various speakers on the methods of handling news and advertisements it was suggested that a classified advertisers list be run from time to time in order to acquaint sub scribers with the establishments which could best provide them with goods another urged the serious consideration of changing the paper's name pointing out that though there might be some objection a name which had le high incorporated in it would be preferable to the brown and white assistant editors hukill and fenstermacher gave strong talks on the methods of handling news manager carlson showed how the paper was coming into its own despite the losses of last year and the rise in price of paper with active competition he pre dicted that the dark cloud would soon pass by editor-in-chief g-ilmore closed the speeches with the following words whatever progress this year's paper has made may all in a larger sense be attributed to the 1916 board upon this year's management it has left an indelible stamp too distinct to be overlooked our whole advance was made pos sible by their sacrifice and to them all honor is due i hope the paper will become stronger i believe it will i have confidence in the ability of the men on the board to press it on to a higher goal by their enthusiasm and zest for a bigger and a better college newspaper the music for the evening was furnished by a part of the college orchestra parodies on several continued on fifth page the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday december 15 1916 practice for sweater contests starts lehigh man in european war y m c a school now in progress vol xxiv board holds third banquet new england club meets in boston fifteen days work required to qualify in the annual competition total enrollment reaches 1280 more teachers desired for extensions planned member of class of 1916 has thrilling experiences and narrow escapes relates experiences letter written to his mother describes the third battle of ypres staff men and candidates hold banquet at hotel columbia tvventy=five present speeches every man expressed ideas as to how paper might be improved many prominent new england alumni present at the annual banquet dr drinker honor quest as speaker before club gives survey of the college and conditions no 18