Brown and White Vol. 25 no. 43

              pursuant to the law just enacted by congress and approved by the president setting ahead the hands of the clock one hour commencing sunday march 31 it is understood that thereafter chapel services will continue to be held at 7:45 a.m and that the schedule of scholastic work in the university will con tinue to be held at the scheduled clock hours all hours however conforming to the new regulation of time — all our work therefore starting one hour earlier than at present henry s drinker president american chemical society holds meeting tau beta pi holds annual banquet dr drinker prof miller and mr bonine speak on value of the honorary fraternity last thursday evening at the eagle hotel bethlehem the mem bers of tau beta pi held their annual banquet dr drinker was present and in his address gave the members a review which only he and a very few of our alumni of the early days now survive to give of the early history and later develop ment of the university he spoke of the pride that lehigh has the right to feel in the fact that tau beta pi had its origin at lehigh and of what we and the technical schools of the country owe to its founder our esteemed alumnuus dr e h williams of the class of 75 that tau beta pi should have grown to a great national society representing on the technical side what phi beta kappa does on the classical side with active chapters today in thirty-three institutions emphasizes the importance to tech nical traing of the encouragement and support that such a society gives dr drinker spoke of the responsibility resting on members of tau beta pi to lead in the ob jects set by tau beta pi as the aims of the organization—high scholar ship devotion to the interests of the alma mater and personality distinguished by a generous interest in others and in matters pertaining to undergraduate affairs prof b l miller spoke on the honorary society tau beta pi also telling how in 1885 professor williams former head of the geology and mining department founded the society mr bonine 12 of the geology department talked on the benefits derived from such an honorary so ciety and the advantages of wear in a tau beta pi key he related several experiences of meeting men from other colleges who wore the same symbol and told how much better he became acquainted with men from other schools 1 in this way the new members of the fra ternity from the junior class were welcomed by the old members at this banquet book to be published the musical section of the public ledger of last sunday con tained the following announce ment : houghton-mifnin company of boston will publish in april a book on the bethlehem bach choir by raymond walters registrar and assistant professor of english le high university it will be a com panion in form to the history of the '' boston symphony orchestra by m a de wolfe howe pro fessor walter's book of about 250 pages will give in its first chapter a sketch of the exceptional musical activities of the moravians of beth lehem from 1741 to the present day it will include a history of the bach choir and of the festivals held at lehigh university each spring and chapters on the religious musical and community aspects of the choir together with a sketch of dr j fred wolle the conductor there will be sixteen pages of illustra tions the bach festival takes place this year n may 24 and 25 a special service will be held next friday morning at 11 o'clock in the university chapel instead of the usual chapel services al though good friday will not be observed as a holiday students who desire to attend religious services at their respective churches will be j excused from their recitations on applying at the president's office the services to be held in the chapel will be especially appro priate for the day bishop talbot is to make the address the music prayers and scripture lesson will all be suitable for good friday ! ! i | i j hon raymond mcneille addresses y m c a christ's strength of character shown by many instances taken from the bible at the last meeting of the y m c a held sunday evening march 24 the students were addressed by hon raymond macneille a judge in the municipal court of philadel phia the meeting opened with several baritone solos rendered by mr howard j weigner of the class of 98 judge macneille said in part it is unfortunate that christ is so often represented as being effem in ate for he was in reality the most manly man that ever lived the ipy changers in the temple of god so angered him that he drove them out into the street no effem inate man could ever have done this this is only one of the many instances mentioned in the bible where his strength of character was shown we would indeed have a wonderful world if more of our manhood would strive to build up that strength of character shown in our saviour the world is still a house of sin thousands of young men turn wrong every year because they are unable to withstand the temptations of the world since the sin of many is carried on to their children by heredity the out look for a better world is not very promising old england wandered away because of inmioral conditions people were killed everywhere men were hung for the theft of a loaf of bread prison ships were built and sent out to sea with their victims but england pulled her self out of this mire and today she is none the worse for it very often people do not real ize god's power however the father of our country was not one of these when his soldiers were bravely fighting the bleak and snow at valley forge he prayed his prayer was onswered anclwe have a monument to commemorate it in this mighty nation of ours later in the civil war president lincoln said you can come into this nation but you can't go out and stuck to it and by so doing pre served the country fighting for the principles of christ is the only justification any i nation can have in entering a war the united states is not fighting for democracy but in reality is fighting for the principles of christ and humanity what manhood would we have if we stood aside and watched the suffering of the wives and children of the nations over there the autocracy an in stitution that has come down from the times of caesar is doomed to fall it is a past issue continued on third page safety first topic of lecture special service to be held good friday dr madison gives illustrated lec ture on preparing surfaces free from polish scratches the lehigh valley division of the american chemical society held a meeting in the chemical building last friday evening the speaker for the evening was dr madison of yale where he holds the position of professor of metal ography he gave an illustrated lecture on preparing surfaces free from polish scratches all the slides^that were used were of his own production taken from his laboratory most of the examples used were those pertaining to brass he showed and pointed out the advantages of the electrical machines used in this work and the different kinds of material used for doing the polishing work going through all the stages of the work using slides to point out the scratches that were on the metal he showed by illustrations of graphical curves the different freezing points and liquid states of alloys of copper antimony tin etc these curves pointed out very clearly the conditions of the metals at the different temperatures to which they were subjected he also showed at what temperatures the percentage of each metal in the alloy affected the freezing point of the alloy the feature of spots oc curing on the polished surface of the metal was explained the dif ferent thicknesses of the metal plate and what they had to do with the polishing work was worked out in detail a committee consisting of dr ullmann dr bingham and mr hart was appointed to take charge of nominating the officers for the ensuing year the election of these officers to take place at the next meeting of the society the meeting was very successful and was very interesting to those interested in the working of the different metals and their alloys alumni bulletin mr okeson alumni secretary wishes to annouce that any student desiring a copy of the latest alumni bulletin may obtain one by apply ing for it at the alumni room in drown hall as this bulletin contains the honor roll of the university it is of great interest to the present students j m coleman made manager of football at a recent meeting of the ath letic association j m coleman 20 was ratified as manager of football for the coming season r s bell 20 was made assistant manager mr a h young addresses student j body at college lecture big opportunity for safety mr arthur h young addressed the student body last friday in j the chapel with an interesting and j appealing talk on some of the present aspects of the safety move ment mr young was formerly superintendent of safety and i labor at the south chicago plant j of the illinois steel co he is at | present chief safety expert of the j employment commission at wash j ington : . mr young's speech follows in | part in a city where steel is king j i suppose it would be useless for me to say that the safety movement j did not begin in a steel mill for it really did accidents were for merly considered as a matter of i course in any manufacturing estab 1 lishment when i was with the illinois steel co in 1906 46 men were killed during that year an average of about a man a week i j saw the father and the uncle of two j of my boyhood companions killed j and i was impressed with the istate j ment of ' making steel and killing j men ' which was the general con j ception of a steel mill in those those days mr field who was the man j ager of the plant thought that this j condition of affairs could be reme !, died and after two and one-half years the whole plant covering 36 acres was guarded mechanically railings were put around fly-wheel pits gears and belts were supplied with guards and shaft-ends were covered but it was found that though the severity of accidents was lessened the mechanical de vices were only 20 per cent ef ficient in decreasing the frequency of accidents that is the covering of all dangerous parts of machinery only decreased the number of acci dents one-fifth it was found necessary to edu cate the men in the factory for there was still the man who would use a burred chisel and the man who would during a lull in the work attempt to repair a machine without notifying its operator and when work would begin again he would be caught many such acci dents occurred either through lazi ness or in hurrying to finish a cer tain job the method by which they proceed to carry out this plan of education is an interesting study in practical psychology bulletin i boards were put up all over the i factory and when an accident oc j eurred pictures were taken of it and posted on tbeseibullettin-boards workmen safety committees were also organized and whenever there was a serious accident they were required to investigate it make a report on it and if possible place the responsibility and state the punishment to be meted out to the guilty person whether it be a workman a foreman or a superin tendant the safety movement was car ried into the home and into the j schools in an endeavor to make people habitually careful rather than naturaly careless this is il lustrated when a pedestrian crosses a street a thoughtful person will cross a street at a corner rather than veering diagonally across if safety is preached at home and in the schools people in general will eventually think more of the safety of themselves and their fellow-men lehigh and cornell tie for second place perm and columbia win fourth and fifth places bevier wins championship latimer booth and manley score the remaining points each winning second places perm state's wrestling team won the intercollegiate wrestling cham pionships held last friday and saturday at columbia university with a total of 34 points lehigh and cornell tied for second place with 17 points captain bevier brought the only first place to le high all the other firsts going to the perm state representatives latimer booth and manley won second places for lehigh in their respective classes while reynolds loeser and wuerz failed to place of the other teams entered penn sylvania took fourth place with 7 points and columbia fifth place with 2 points princeton failed to enter its team at the last minute the intercollegiates started out very well for the lehigh matmen when in the second bout in the 115-pound class reynolds threw his opponent gersen of perm at the end of 8 minutes in his second bout reynolds did not make out so wel l and i o rron n frf cm»nf4l on decision in the 125-pound class captain bevier had everything his own way and was the only wrestler aside from the perm state men to win a championship he defeated ackerly of cornell in 3 minutes and 7 seconds one of the shortest bouts of the meet bevier also won over rose of perm pinning his shoulders to the mat with a bar and chancery hold at the end 6 minutes and 7 seconds by his work alone bevier contributed 6 of the 17 points scored by lehigh s grap plers wuerz in the 135-pound class was unable to place losing both his matches by referee's decision the first to bu'llard of cornell and the second to ketterer of perm loeser was given decision over captain barish of columbia in the preliminaries but in the finals was thrown by schultz of state he also lost to tuttle of cornell by a fall in 8 minutes and 7 seconds in a bout to decide winner of second place hymen of perm also gained decision over him at the end of 9 minutes although the bout was hard fought loeser at several times nearly throwing his ; opponent one of the closest matches in the intercollegiates came in the 158 pound class between brown of state and latimer to decide the championship in that class neither man had the advantage at the end of the first 9 minutes but in the extra 6-minute period brown gained the advantage over latimer and was given the decision lati mer however won second place by throwing jensen of columbia at the end of 5 minutes and 3 seconds with a crotch and body hold in the 175-pound class booth drew a bye in the preliminaries but in the semi-finals was thrown by nelan of state at the end of 7 minutes and 55 seconds he came back strong however and gained second place by throwing hunting don of • cornell in 2 minutes andl 9 seconds with a half nelson and continued on third page continued on fourth page professor twitmyer of the uni versity of pennsylvania conducts speech clinic short address given causes of speech defects ex plained clinic arranged by professor hughes an interesting side of psy chology was presented saturday afternoon in coppee hall by pro fessor twitmyier of the depart ment of psychology at the uni versity of pennsylvania professor twitmyer conducted a speech clinic diagnosing faults in the speech of children and showing what would correct these faults the clinic was arranged for by professor hughes head of the de partment of philosophy a large number of parents teachers and students interested in the subject were present the profesors and students of the university interested in defects of speech may be assured of the hearty cooperation of the depart ment of philosophy with thorough ly competent specialists in carry ing on the drills and other training necessary to correct the defect the department is ready to under take additional work of this kind this term with any lehigh stud ents previous to conducting the clinic professor twitmyer gave a short talk outlining some of the causes of trouble with speech he said in part : i am bringing a fairly techni cal problem before you today and will try to give what i ordinarily take a year to give to students it seems that one of the attain ments of education is to be able to give expression of an idea in clear language it is of no use to edu cate a mute who has both hands cut off i say both hands cut off be cause it is possible to transmit com plex ideas without articulate language i am impressed with the difficulty of many students in giv ing normal expression to their ideas in language it is necessary to decide what one is going to say language is not automatic ' this expression of language is con trolled by a center in the brain which is situated just below the ter mination of the fissure of rolando since 1825 it has been known that a deterioration of this region has caused a difficulty in speech this area known as broea's area conserves the kinaesthetic motor imagery of articulate speech from the emissive center just above broca's area the muscles of articu lation are caused to be moved the source of energy of speech is the supply of air coming from the lungs the diaphram moves up to force mort air out when the lungs are exhausted when an idea is to be ex pressed a kinaesthetic image comes to broca's area the emissive cen ter causes the muscles of articula tion to move and the breathing movement takes place _ thus a cry complex mechanism is used in speech persons having difficulty in speaking can be roughly placed in three classes first the lispers or those who misuse consonants up to the age of seven this misuse is not alarming after that age a child should be corrected this can be done in three months if the continued on fourth page the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday march 26 1918 university to observe daylight saving law interesting study of psychology vol xxv no 43 penn state grapplers win intercollegiate championship price five cents