Brown and White Vol. 24 no. 17

              member of the 36th french army corps gives vivid picture of the war illustrated slides of the war zone aid in depicting the european struggle lehigh loses first match game of the season on muddy field three goal to one brown and white leads at end of first half lewis scores pretty goal continued on fifth page editorially the mining and scientific press takes general goethals to task for his statement depreciating the opinion of prof benjamin l miller whose views concerning the cause and remedy for the canal slides are in oppo sition to those of general goethals the editorial follows major general goethals gov ernor of the panama canal zone has replied to sundrw criticisms has replied to sundry criticisms great work for which he is sponsor in his annual report now made public by the war department he complains that some of these criti cisms have affected the commercial rating of the canal and tended to diminish traffic the traffic is small enough to need apology for the average of a ship per day each way is far below all reasonable expecta tions only 91 vessels engaged in the american coastwise trade used the canal during twelve months general goethals asserted that there is much ignorance on the sub ject of slides there may be but criticism of the canal engineering is not confined to those that are ignorant for instance nobody in california supposed that slides af fect the entire length of the cut but it is worthy of note that the portion of the canal thus affected is slightly less than one mile how ever a mile of ground if it starts to move is an engineering obstacle of first rank general goethals has no patience with the report of the commission sent to panama by the president in october last year and he protests against a report by the professor of geology in lehigh university mr benjamin leßoy miller his main objection is based on the fact that professor miller spent only three or four hours in his examination but that may have sufficed to give him the data necessary for an opinion the objection smacks too much of the criticism of adverse reports on a mine because a competent engi neer did not spend as much time on it as a stupid man might find neces sary before he could formulate an opinion the quotation from pro a large and appreciative audi ence attended the first concert of the combined 1 musical clubs of the university last saturday evening in drown hall a dance program of sixteen numbers followed the musical end of the program the opening number of the even ing was a short piece entitled hannah which put the audi ence in a good humor for the even ing the mandolin club gave the second number a snappy selection which brought out well the musical talent of the players a quartet composed of messrs fitzgerald covell sourber and cope next fa vored with a vocal selection entitled ' ' go long mule ' ' this was sung with much expression and called forth considerable applause it was the hawaiian medlies that appealed the strongest to all present after all lights had been switched off except a dim one over the stage a trio composed of messrs holmes kennedy and green played several medlies which surely were hawaiian that the audience appreciated this nov elty is evidenced by the fact that they were twice forced to respond to encores e h covell next favored with a tenor solo in response to pro longed applause a second solo was offered following the solo the mandolin club rendered with much feeling the selection entitled auf wiedersehn and in humorous humoresque which they played as an encore a pretty farce was so well staged that the audience was completely fooled into believing that a sorrowful accident had ac tually taken place the violin duet by messrs bar thold and brockman was a real treat after a second selection by the glee club the combined clubs sang the alma mater in which the entire audience joined which ended the concert part of the pro gram the dancing was started imme diately after with the floor well filled for each dance eddie white's orchestra played tunes which won the approval of all the dancers the men who participated in the concert are as follows glee clvb — continued on fifth page notice juniors tau beta pi pledging the annual fall pledging to the tau beta pi honorary engineering fraternity will take place thurs day morning in the chapel band notice the annual junior oratorical contest for prizes of 25 15 and 10 offered by the alumni as sociation will be held thursday morning february 22 juniors wishing to participate should consult prof w c thayer head of the department of eng lish before the christmas holidays the junior soccer team of haver ford college defeated the brown and white eleven last saturday af ternoon in a pennsylvania college soccer league match three goals to one the game was played at haver ford college on 88 field which was a sea of mud a stiff wind al so handicapped the playing both teams however gave many flashes of fine play during the afternoon le clercq on the forward line together with tomlinson and wes ton in the backfield were the center of a drive which lehigh could not check lewis and beard got in some pretty passing for the brown and white but the team failed to take advantage of the opportunities to score lehigh won the toss and had the wind all of the first half but they were unable to tally until the end of the period wiien lewis netted a short close drive with the score 1-0 against them ila-vei'ford fought back hard in the second half and with the sweep ing wind in their favor they ham mered lehigh s goal until a trio of shots sped into the scarlet and blue column le clercq got the first on a clear shot after he had dribbled the ball up a short way tomlinson came up and scored the second after a center from jones while the final goal was scored when the ball escaped from hen derson and rau and rolled behind the line throughout the battle coffin's w t ork on the halfback line was a feature for lehigh practically a veteran squad rep resented lehigh in the contest bush at outside left and reynolds at outside right were the only men who did not play on last year's eleven reynold's however was on the team two years ago the line>-up : haverford 2d pos lehigh ed thorpe g rau weston l f 8 . . henderson blocklebank r f b schultz moore l f b tizard tomlinson . . c.h b barclay battey r h b coffin jones o l bush smith i l claxton le clercq c f lewis porter i r beard el thorpe 0 r reynolds goals le clercq tomlinson and henderson lewis substitute col lins for moore linesmen pan coast kamsler referee : hinds time 1 of halves : 35 minutes band rehearsal tomorrow after noon at 1.30 o'clock in the study room of drown hall mustard and cheese cheltenham high club miners meet meeting of night school teachers there will be an important meet ing of the mustard and cheese club in drown hall tomorrow afternoon at 1.30 o'clock plans for the coming season will be defi nitely discussed a full attend ance is desired * continued on fifth page last friday morning one of the most interesting lectures in recent years was given by lieutenant donald h mcgibeny of the 36th french army corps mr mcgib eny was graduated from hamilton college in 1914 and later went to syria as a teacher at the outbreak of the present european war he made an effort to return to america but upon arriv ing at marseilles found this almost impossible upon seeing the great need of men in the hospital corps he decided to join the american ambulance service which was or ganized by a group of men who have permanent residences in pa ris and who felt that they owed something to france in return for what they were receiving mr mcgibeny was sent to the firing line in northeastern france where he was able to see some of the most bloody encounters of the war in order to make the talk more impressive many slides were shown which were actual photo graphs taken by the speaker the algerians were shown living near the battle-field in the same style they were accustomed to at home namely small huts and tents these men have shown marked bravery in fact they will fight at the least sight of a german troop it has been a problem to teach these men the difference between a bat tle-field and a hospital for if one of them learns that a german sol dier is in the hospital he makes an effort to attack him next the great guns which throw shells twenty-two miles were shown these guns are used in long drawn-out bombardments the speaker vividly described being in a small town when without any alarm whatever these enormous shells began to destroy buildings and churches church spires are usually aimed at first in order to destroy an excellent lookout in cases of this kind the people lie flat on the ground in order to avoid fly ing pieces of stone brick etc the most interesting part of the lecture was that of the life in the trenches here the men are pro tected by large embankments made up of bags filled with sand and in some cases steel plates are placed over the same to protect the men from projectiles aimed to fall just behind the trench the men here seemed to enjoy life and in fact are very cheerful to feel that they are able to give their lives for their country the speaker related that the patriotism and bravery of these men could hardly be expressed in fitting words the only time the men become downcast is during a heavy fire when many of their com rades lie about dying or when they have been surrounded with no as tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock in the study room drown hall the cheltenham high lehigh club will hold a meeting every club member is urged to be present philadelphia lehigh club board men notice the regular monthly meeting of the philadelphia lehigh club will be held tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock in the university club 1510 walnut street philadelphia business of importance will be dis cussed and transacted there will be a meeting in the y m c a office in drown hall on thursday december 14 at 4.15 p.m of all the teachers in the bethlehem steel works-lehigh university y m c a free even ing schools at this meeting mr fonda and mr mulligan will meet the teachers and plans for future methods and developments 1 will be discussed all the men are urged particularly to be present at this one important meeting there will be no meeting of the beown and white board tomor row noon an important business meeting will be held next saturday afternoon at one o'clock in the board room the miners meet for december will be held wednesday december 20 at 8 p.m in the geology lec ture room williams hall prof b l miller will speak on the sub ject the panama canal slides and their causes all the mem bers are urged to attend the business administration clnb held its first meeting of the collegiate year last thursday even ing in coppee hall a large per centage of the men in the course were present the following officers were elected to serve during the year president c e twombly 17 ; vice-president t s pengelly 18 secretary j ayrault 17 treasurer ezra bo wen meetings of the club will be held on the sec ond thursday of each month mr hoffman of bethlehem was the speaker of the evening his subject was personal efficiency he said in part : ' ' personal effici ency means individual efficiency i do not mean the efficiency which makes machines out of men but the efficiency which gives a well devel op ed symmetrical human being efficiency and success are practi cally synonymous you cannot judge success by comparative meth ods to be successful is to get the best out of one's self men are en dowed with different potential ca pacities if a man is delivering one hundred per cent of his capacity he is scucessful when we think of the sucoess ful men in the world we have noth ing common to depend upon be cause there are so many different kinds of success however we can find some things that all successful men seem to have the first of these qualities is courage the quality of the heart the ability to go ahead against in surmountable obstacles how many men lose because of a timorous quality of the heart the second is energy energy is intangible indefinable some men have it others do not when we are in the presence of some men we can feel tremendous vibrations radiating from them many men fritter away their energy and do not accomplish anything thirdly we have the quality of persistence — the ability to lay hold of a thing and stick to it until it is accomplished it is the bull-dog tenacity then we have initiative the thing which distinguishes the leadter from the follower the man with initiative conceives a thing plans to see it through and then tells the followers what to do those having initiative lead the world the last is character a good char acter the other qualities are nec essary for a successful man but a good character is needed to see that they are put to a good end char acter is like a compass it guides the qualities on a straight course these five qualities give a com plicated piece of machinery and only one thing is lacking and that is the lubricant i consider the lu bricant to be optimism — the ability to look on the best side to believe thoroughly in one's self every man should believe in his own star and in a higher guide of the uni verse every man sows and he can rightfully expect to reap a just re ward success is purchasable every success has its price which is in the reach of the average man the question is are you willing to do continued on fifth page the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday december 12 1916 d h mcgibeny addresses college prof miller supported by scientific journal haverford wins soccer contest no 17 combined musical clubs entertain business men hold meeting vol xxiv vocal and instrumental selections please large audience dancing thinks gen goethals errs in belief that danger of the canal slides is past personal efficiency subject of interesting talk by mr hoffman election of officers c e twombly 17 elected presi dent of club t s pengelly 18 vice=president