Brown and White Vol. 24 no. 5

              notice ! wrestling practice ! there will be a meeting of the combined musical clubs tomorrow afternoon at 1.30 in drown hall all members of the glee and man dolin clubs are requested to be present as there is important busi ness to be transacted wrestling practice will be held three times a week at 4.00 o'clock on monday 3.00 o clack on wed nesday and 4.00 o'clock on fri day all candidates for assistant manager of wrestling are to re port to s b downey in drown hall on wednesday afternoon at 1.30 o'clock soccer notice organ recital there will be a meeting of the soccer association at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in dro w n hall for the election of captain and assistant manager the sched ule for the coming season will be completed armenian=syrian relief continued on fifth page student committee of seven to confer with faculty committee a meeting of the men interested in a military course at lehigh was held last saturday afternoon in drown hall the meeting was called to order by president george kinter 17 prof frank p mckibben head of the department of civil engi neering and chairman of the faculty committee on military science read a letter from the president of the university dr h s drinker who was unable to be present in person this letter ex pressed the sincere interest of the faculty in the project and stated that the idea of a course in mili tary science has been under dis cussion in the faculty since the army reorganization bill of this year made possible the placing of an officer of the regular army in each school and college which has one hundred men who will take the course that the undergraduate interest is great enough to warrant the in troduction of such a course is shown by the fact that on a pri vately circulated petition over one hundred signers : were obtained within three days the students 1 ' interests are vested in a committee of seven which is to confer with the com mittee from the faculty dr drinker's letter follows i note a call for a student meet ing in drown hall to consider this matter on saturday afternoon it is one in which i am much inter ested the university has taken an active and leading part in the estab lishment and forwarding of the summer military instruction camps held during the summers of 1913 1914 1915 and 1916 and the president of lehigh is chairman of the governing committee of the military training camps associa tion president drinker and professor mckibben attended on tuesday of college sentiment upon political situation to be ascertained by vote friday and saturday balloting will take place in brown and white room drown hall plans have been made to conduct a straw ballot on the campus dur ing the latter part of the week the vote will be taken friday and saturday ballots will be given to all registered students members of the teaching corps university offi cers and administration officers the last ballot may be cast as late as 6 o'clock saturday afternoon the ballot will contain the names of the presidential candidates in the order of the vote cast for the candidates of their respective par ties in 1912 thus the nominees of the democratic republican so cialist prohibition and socialist labor parties will appear in that order aside from this a vote will be taken on the question of woman suffrage there will be a ballot box in the brown and white office first floor of drown hall while stray ballots may be placed in the boxes of the paper located in drown and coppee hails the boxes will be open fri day and saturday from 8 a.m to 6 p.m announcement of the number of votes cast by each class and the faculty will be made at the close of each day's balloting the result of the straw ballot will be pub lished in detail in the tuesday number of the paper there will be board men in charge of both the collecting and counting of the vote while representatives limited to two of each party may present themselves to act as watchers each ballot must be signed with the name and class of the person voting except in the case of uni versity officers several men will check each ballet to be sure that it fulfills all the requirements and that the voter is a student or an officer the straw vote issues 1 who shall be president and vice-president ? wilson-marshall democrats hughes-fairbanks republicans benson-kirkpatrick socialists hanly-landferith prohibitionists reimer-harriman socialist-labor 2 shall the women vote those eligible to vote 1 all regis tered students 2 university officers time of voting 8 a.m to 6 p.m friday and saturday october 27 and 28 place of voting brown and white room first floor of drown hall returns complete official re turns in the brown and white's tuesday number ballot requirements every bal lot must be signed to show the name and class of the voter except in the case of uni versity officers ballots will be carefully checked during the week the course so cieties will held their first meetings of the term good programs and refreshments will feature each meeting all new men in college who are taking chemical engineering or b.s in chemistry are urged to at tend the first meeting this term of the chemical society the date of the meeting has been changed and will be held in saueon hall tomor row evening at 7 30 several in teresting speeches are on the pro gram and short talks will be given by some of the student members p h drinker 17 will speak on niagara electrochemical works " and h f w johnson 17 will talk on coke this is an excel lent opportunity for the freshmen to become acquainted with the up per classmen and faculty in their course and a large attendance is ex pected the meeting of the mechanical engineering society will be held in williams hall thursday evening at 8 o'clock the speakers for the evening will be s t harleman m.e 01 superintendent of the crucible department of the bethle hem steel company and a h langenheim 17 who will talk on the layout of an alkali plant at niagara falls freshmen are especially invited to attend the electrical engineers will hold their meeting thursday even ing at 8 o'clock in the wireless room of the physics building the main speaker of the evening will be d j cartwright superintendent of the l v r r who will speak on ' ' systems of car lighting ' ' a paper by e c hummel 17 on the subject sawing pipes by elec tricity will be read at this meet ing every new man in college tak ing electrical engineering is urged to be present the civil engineering society will hold its meeting thursday evening in the physics laboratory at 8 o'clock the following tests will be per formed steel bar tension test prof becker and g howard 17 ; wooden beam test l j breen 17 ; subway column test h par dee 17 ; standard wire test f e portz 17 ; sprinkler filter nozzles c moyer 17 pelton impulse wheel r g cook 17 and the path of a jet b s derr 17 in addition an exhibit of trinidad lake asphalt will be given by the barber asphalt paving company the meeting of the mining and geological society will be held fri day evening at 8 o'clock in the geology lecture room williams hall all miners metallurgists electrometallurgists and geologists are urged to be present the meet ing will be addressed by professor eckfeldt who will speak about the arizona meeting of the american institute of mining engineers there will probably be a short talk by one of the student members of continued on fifth page brown and white eleven held to 3=3 draw by stocky opponents hard fought result of game in doubt until the end frequent fumbling 1 lebanon valley first downs . 4 kickoffs 4 average 36 yards forward passes .• 8 completed 0 incompleted 6 intercepted 2 punts 7 ; average 31 yards penalties 5 ; yards 45 fumbles . 3 ; recovered 0 lehigh first downs 8 kickoff 1 ;. 45 yards forward passes 24 completed 5 i ncompleted 15 intercepted 4 punts .....:. 9 ; average 39 yards penalties 4 ; yards 60 fumbles 5 ; recovered 2 in an evenly matched and hard fought game that was replete with fumbling by both sides the brown and white eleven and the team representing lebanon valley bat tled to a 3-3 draw on taylor field saturday afternoon the game was the roughest that has been played here for a long time and frequent penalties were meted out to both sides by the officials le high suffered most by the officials rulings although neither team had many opportunities to score the varsity passed up a fine chance m the third period when quist inter cepted a lebanon forward pass on their thirty-yard line he raced to the four-yard mark before being brought to earth by capt mackert on the first play maginnes made two yards through center on the next play he went well over the line before going off side but the riefeiree ruled otherwise and the ball was put in play two feet from the goal-line chenoweth tried to carry the ball over on the next rush but was thrown for a loss a forward pass was then attempted but was grounded when chenoweth made a poor attempt to pass to mccarty shortly after this brun ner attempted a drop-kick from the 30-yardi line but it was blocked the team had no other chance to score until the fourth period w t hen brunner kicked a pretty goal from the field while standing 32 yards from the uprights lebanon val ley had no opportunities to make a touchdown but tried five placement kicks on his fourth attempt mackert succeeded 1 in putting one over from the 43-yard line his first attempt barely missed the up right post but his second and third attempts which were from the middle of the field went wide of the goal his last attempt was blocked by good for three periods neither side scored but in the fourth period following two long forward passes to mccarty and fate the pigskin was put in position for brunner to score his field goal shortly after the kick-off chenoweth attempted a forward pass on a second down when well within his own territory it was intercepted by keating and after three unsuccessful forward continued o,n ptfth page volunteers from the faculty and student body are making personal appeals for contributions at dormi tories and fraternity houses students rooming in private homes in the bethlehems cannot be reached by these agencies they are therefore earnestly requested to put their contributions in boxes that have been placed at the supply bureau at saueon hall and in the smoking room at drown hall committee an interesting musical program has been arranged to take place next friday morning in the univer sity chapel at 11 o'clock the pro gram will be rendered by t edgar shields organist and miss pauline michel violinist miss michel is a granddaughter of william k graber who for fifty years was organist of holy in fancy church she is a graduate of musical arts and is at present a member of the faculty of the mo ravian seminary and college for women the program follows 1 organ suite rogers ; 2 violin solo miss pauline michel 3 berceuse itauser ; 4 a the pyramids b rameses from the egyptian suite ; 5 haughton ; 6 violin solo miss pauline michel ; 7 . festival prelude 8 em feste burg faulkes the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday october 24 1916 course societies schedule meetings night school holds its first session lebanon valley surprises varsity military science course discussed straw ballot to be taken vol xxiv new men especially are urged to attend meetings of their societies good programs interesting talks and refresh ments to be feature at each meeting foreign born citizens of the lom munity enrolled student instructors the night school which has been conducted for foreign born citizens of the community and which has been an established custom of the university for the past several years is again in operation this year organization classes were ef fected last week and last evening regular work began with the class in english the work is under the direct supervision of prof hughes of the university who is assisted by students of the upper classes as instructors with the exception of the class in electricity which will be in charge of an instructor from the department of electrical engineering of the university the classes will be conducted a follows : english monday and friday arithmetic and algebra monday and thursday geometry and trigonometry tuesday and friday ; mechanical drawing mon diay and wednesday mechanical design monday and wednesday ; electrical course monday and thursday to which will be added a course in german and business english if enough prospective stu dents apply all classes will be conducted in christmas hall and start promptly at 7:30 p.m the school in the past has been a great opportunity and proved of great benefit to many for whom it has been the only chance to gain a first hand knowledge of those studies which will make these stu dents better citizens in the com munity the scope of the school is becom ing wider every year and as the opportunity presents itself new and higher classes of study are offered if any student in the university knows of any person in the vicinity to whom the school would be of in terest and to whom it would be an opportunity ask him to report any evening this week tt is for this sort that the school is intended no 5 cheering practice on the field thursday four o'clock