Brown and White Vol. 24 no. 12

              mining society holds meeting w g matteson former instruc tor in geology department speaks elections dr f f hintze elected faculty advisor p s justice 17 vice=president in spite of the late announce ment of the second meeting of the miners society which was held last tuesday evening in williams hall a large number of the mem bers were present a short busi ness meeting was held before the lecture at which dr f f hintze was unanimously elected to the faculty advisory committee and p s justice 17 was elected to fill the vacancy in the office of vice president mr w g matteson the speaker of the evening is a former in structor in the geology depart ment of lehigh having resigned last june to accept a position as geologist with the empire gas and fuel co of oklahoma one of the largest refining concerns of its kind in the world mr matteson's lec ture was a very interesting talk on the ways and means of construct ing structural maps in the pur suance of the oil industry the gist of his address follows conservation of resources is a problem which confronts every cor proation and individual engaged in petroleum mining or lumbering industry particularly is this the case in that of petroleum it has been estimated that in the united states alone we have sufficient re sources for production of oil for a period of at least twenty-five years but not exceeding fifty years the yearly production amounts to about 300,000,000 barrels a year it was in this important research that geologists proved indispensable to successfully competing com panies one of the most recent discoveries and one due chiefly to the efforts of a geological corps is the augustan-eldorado fields stretching throughout the south west and of which the state of kansas is the center in the investigation for traces of oil several important factors are to be considered whether conditions are favorable for oil formation the presence of oil sands and the presence and formation of an oil reservoir a reservoir may be of three types a cup basin a fault structure or an anticular sand structure which is a porous lens like formation surrounded by an impervious layer of shale in cement form a geologist's efforts are con cerned in finding a reservoir and it is in this search that a structural map is plotted and used a struc tural map resembles a topographi cal map in many respects differing in that it is an accurate picture of the strata underlying the surface of the earth while topography is concerned only with surface map ping the accuracy of a structural map depends entirely upon the number and frequency of intervals at which data are taken upon the strata formations present in the lo cality to be mapped for simplify ing this work in the augustan fields where mr matteson was en gaged for some time the country is laid off in square areas called townships each containing thirty continuei on fifth page combined musical clubs plan social function organization to give concert and dance good program being prepared a concert and 1 dance will be given by the combined musical clubs of the university in drown hall on the evening of december 9 1916 this announcement was made at a meeting of the two clubs held last wednesday afternoon in drown hall this is an innova tion nothing of a like nature has ■ been given in drown hall for the j past five or six years the func tion will without doubt be well at tended giving as it will the entire college an opportunity to hear what the university has to offer along musical lines in addition to the musical pro gram which will start at 8 o'clock there will also be a dance held im mediately following the concert the dancing will start about 9 o'clock and last until midnight music will be furnished by the dixie land banjo orchestra of reading the admission for the affair will be 1.00 per couple and 75 cents for a single admission tickets will be put on sale within a short time and can se secured from any of the club members the concert will consist of catchy songs by the glee club and snappy numbers by the mandolin club in addition there will be several special numbers including selec tions by a quartet as well as some instrumental novelties as yet not decided upon at all events it will be a musical program which every one will enjoy in order to have everything in readinesis for this concert which is so close at hand the glee and man dolin clubs are doubling up on the number of rehearsals the mando lin club held an important re hearsal last wednesday afternoon considering the few practices which the club has held so far the work was commendable and there should be no trouble whatever so far as the instrumental side of the program is concerned as to the vocal side of the concert it is suf ficient to say that the glee club is practicing consistently and regular ly both clubs will hold rehearsals tomorrow afternoon before the foot ball game basketball men all candidates for the basketball tear report to capt k s crichton 17 in the game room in taylor gymnasium on wednesday no vember 22 at 3 p.m candidates for assistant manager report at the same time and place to mana ger j a carlson 17 men are urged to come out early for practice as the first game will be played with new york uni versity at new york on december 22 only a month's practice be fore the game dean of muhlenberg to address y.m.c.a the speaker for the y m c a meeting next sunday evening is dr g f ettinger dean of muh lenberg college he will speak on the subject the college man and the higher life dr ettinger is in demand as a public speaker and an interesting talk may be ex pected it will be his first appear ance as a supplement to the speech a special musical program will be rendered under the direction of j mckay 17 f and m game tomorrow brown and white eleven expects little opposition from visitors lineup undecided injuries cause changes in posi tions substitutes to be used lehigh will meet the franklin and marshall eleven tomorrow afternoon on taylor field in the last home game of the season as a preliminary contest before meeting lafayette this game could not fit better into the brown and white's schedule the lancaster team has only won one game this season that being against st joe c c 40-0 the nearest to win ning another game was when they held the sturdy swarthmore team to a 6-0 score the lehigh elevenlexpects an easy game and many substitutes will probably be used lehigh came out of the state contest in fair shape but several members of the team are on the in jured list and it is a big question as to who will start the game to morrow center position will be a vital question last wednesday pons was injured and with mac donald out of the game the po sition is hard to fill bob good will play in the backfield and quist may be back at end most of the men however will be saved for the big game down the river one week hence the f & m line-up will be ketter left end prien left tackle wagaman left guard lobach center rue right guard sykes right tackle moyer right end mylin quarterback irwin left halfback kessler right halfback williams fullback band practice sixteen candidates for the uni versity band reported at the bethle hem steel company band hall on east market street bethlehem at two o'clock last avedmesday after noon prof weingartner director of the bethlehem steel company bandj took charge of the candi dates he was pleased with the material on hand at present there are nine cornets two altos two ten or drums two clarinets and a saxo phone men are wanted for the bass horn trombones and the bass drum prof weingartner tried out the cornets on wednesday and on thursday the clarinets and the other instruments were tried the date of the next practice will be posted on the various bulletin boards and any one who can play an instrument and has failed to come out is urged to report among those who reported last wednesday were w o barclay cornet ; j h mersfelder cornet ; w r heck cornet h s bull cor net w n lawrie cornet e h baderschneider cornet h c bai ley co-met culler cornet n b bowman drum t c o'neill drum a r davenport saxo phone ; j r bresee alto and c r flory alto middle states cross country run tomorrow event to be held at lafayette lehigh entered with twelve other colleges after five weeks of daily practice j and strenuous training lehigh s cross-country team is in fine condi tion for the fifth annual middle : states intercollegiate cross-coun '. try run to be held at lafayette college tomorrow afternoon the ! team will consist of eight men in cluding captain mcgrath who has had the men in charge since the sea son opened the following men will make the trip mcgrath 18 oilman 19 wilson 20 lewis 20 pike 20 carr 20 boyd,'2o and l w fisher 20 little can be said regarding the \ team's chances for success as the j strength of the opposing teams is not known but all of the men on the team have shown considerable ability and endurance and it is ex pected that they will hold their j own lafayette is looked upon to be one of the strongest opponents hav ing already beaten new york uni versity on the six-mile van cort landt park course in new york in previous years lafayette has won two of the middle states runs and were runners up twice there will be thirteen colleges represented namel y : rutgers muhlenberg dickinson swarth more haverford franklin and marshall new york university stevens gettysburg lebanon val ley washington and jefferson la fayette and lehigh the run will start at 2 30 p.m at the northampton country club and proceed down northampton street following the car tracks up college hill to clinton street in clinton street to the campus and finishing at the center of the cam pus being a total distance of five and one-half miles as there is no counter attraction at lafayette on this date a large crowd is expected to witness the finish valuable tro phies will be awarded to the win ning team york county meeting there will be a short meeting of the york county club on sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock in drown hall the idea of the meeting is to get together and talk over plans for the coming year mandolin club practice the mandolin club will hold ii rehearsal tomorrow afternoon at the sigma nu house at 1 o'clock every man is urged to be there promptly as the practice will be short and snappy epitome candidates the attention of the college at j large is called to the standing offer of the epitome board of fifty cents i apiece for photographs and draw ings suitable for use in the book the board desires to make this edition a lehigh publication in the true sense of the word and this can j be best done by using interesting scenes of games characters and ac tivities which have been collected during the year by different indi viduals all contributions should be handed to e a mooers 18 or some other member of the board all candidates for assistant manager of epitome will meet the business manager at 1.30 wednes day on the second floor of drown hall competition is open to the sophomore class at large responsibility for others subject of the second weekly discussion group meetings life illustration career of jacob riis cited as beautiful example of right living last wednesday evening the leaders of the various discussion groups conducted the second series of meetings in the 1916-17 course in christian standards in life the main topic from which the sub jects of the weekly discussions are derived the subject of this week's dis cussion was responsibility for others or more specifically as illustrated by the life-story of jacob riis responsibility for the way others live like arthur frame jackson the man whose life of christian service furnished the subject of last week's discussion meetings jacob riis was a man of true christian purpose a man of enthusiasm courage and perseverance but first of all a man jacob riis a sturdy young dane of ribe left school at the age of fourteen and after serving as a carpenter's apprentice for four years sailed for america due to a series of misfortunes he landed penniless in new york city ; in i police lodging house he was robbed and his faithful black and tan dog was killed an incident which later often aroused in him a spirit of revenge a spirit exceedingly hard to master after being plunged time and again into the depths of despair and melancholy riis finally through a close mental association with god his ever-present helper and friend determined to devoie his life not to a personal revenge on his persecutor of the lodging house but to an active campaign against the conditions of living in the tenement districts riis now a man with a purpose and a vow to fulfill became a mem ber of the staff on the new york tribune he was a reporter first in the mulberry bend section a typi cal tenement district he began to use his one weapon his pen he wrote scathing editorials terrible reproaches and heart-rending ex posures of the horrible living con ditions in the districts he gave il lustrated lectures he wrote books he wrote the story of his own life ' ' the making of an american ' ' he had almost overwhelming op position and biting criticism to overcome but he stuck to his task and never faltered until he achieved his purpose i—the1 — the oblitera tion of the hell-holes of vice im morality and disease and the steady improvement of the living conditions and environment of the tenement residents he had pre sented not a problem but a people his influence spread until the nation was involved in a wide sprea movement for housing re form in a word jacob riis when once he had secured a position of power realized his responsibility for 1 others as bad off as he once had been he made the people see and then the task was ended — pub lic conscience and opinion found the means to an end the life of riis can be applied very readily to the college man who is continually in a position ta continued on fifth page the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday november 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