Brown and White Vol. 25 no. 33

              chicago cement expert lectures on concrete j c donaldson explains proper selection and handling of materials last friday morning in the physics lecture room mr j c donaldson laboratory expert of the portland cement association chicago gave an illustrated lec ture on the proper selection and proper method of handling con crete materials mr donaldson described the aggregates that go to make up the concrete showing the importance of even the minor con stituents his address proved to be the most instructive and most clearly presented lecture shown here for some time mr donald son s talk in brief follows : ' ' one of the most important ma terials used in concrete is natural portland cement the materials used with it to make up the con crete are of equal importance and are sometimes considered even more important concrete is an important product resulting fr r m the mixing of cement and other ma terials such as sand and gravel in proper mixtures to allow harden ing under conditions present the aggregates are the most important constituents of concrete natural sands form the base of the aggre gates which also include gravel and crushed stone ' ' durability grading cleanli ness and mineral composition are the four principal differences of natural sand the durability of the sand is whether or not it will resist wear weather fire and other natural forces the tests for the durability of sand are few and not very satisfactory the old test for continued on fourth page varsity meets usaacs at allentown mustard and cheese to stage comedy officers elected to fill vacancies tryouts to begin at once at a meeting of the mustard and cheese dramatic club held last saturday afternoon the club unan imously voted to stage the custom ary spring show it was decided to make the production less elabor ate than usual and to economize in the securing of costumes and scen ery numerous enlistments had re moved several of the officers of the club elected last year elections to fill these vacancies resulted in the following staff of executives manager a b buchanan 18 asst manager j l rosenmiller 19 ; stage manager k m bevier 19 asst stage manager m j brooks 20 costumer b p land er 19 ; property man w d rudy 20 after careful consideration of existing circumstances it was de cided that there was no reason why a play could not be given this year it was considered advisable to limit the production to a straight comedy thus eliminating the usual chorus and musical numbers it is an nounced however that there will be musical specialties 1 introduced in the play to lend added attraction from several applicants for the position of dramatic coach for this year's play the club voted favor ably for mr george howell of baston pa mr howell has had experience in producing college club plays and has attained mark ed popularity and success the title of the play has not yet been made public but the assurance is that it is the best comedy ever attempted by the club rehearsals will begin immediately the first tyy-out being scheduled for wed nesday evening at 8 p.m in drown hall the second try-out will be held friday evening at.7.30 there will be an important bus iness meeting of the club in the mustard and cheese room wed nesday at 1.30 p.m _ freshman quintet wins saturday evening the freshman basketball five scored their third successive victory by defeating bast mauch chunk high school on the latters floor by a score of 30 to 18 the game was hard fought throughout the high school team being in the lead at the end of the first half in the last ten minutes of play the freshmen tossers caged six successive goals which decided the victory the line-up : l f position b m c savaria f person johnson f schaeffer hipkins *. c bimler ' childs g yeagle ; reibe g smith goals from the floor — freshmen . savaria 5 johnson 5 hipkins 3 . mauch chunk bimler 3 person . schaeffer yeagle smith goals from foul f r esh men , ■ savaria 2 johnson hipkins i mauch chunk bimler 3 smith r ef er e c—bee — b e v an . varsity grapplers throw oppo nents in average time „.» of 3.24 mm score 30=0 southerners show spirit but are surpassed by superior science and strength the wrestling team from the university of virginia was no match for the lehigh wrestlers and were easily defeated last saturday evening every bout was decided by a fall leaving the score at the finish of the 175 pound event 30-0 of the six bouts only one re quired longer than five minutes for the local man to gain the fall and that was in the 175 pound class booth threw his man with a bar and chancery hold in six minutes and eight seconds the other bouts were won with falls in from one to five minutes the lehigh man was on the of fensive in each bout from the start except in the 145 pound match here loeser of lehigh took the de fensive in the beginning but soon had his opponent in a dangerous position and ended the bout in three minutes with a half nelson and crouch hold the most spirited bout of the mee t was that between bevier and barringer in the 125 pound class at the time of start both men seem ed evenly matched bevier soon had his opponent in a defensive position and it appeared as though the bout would end in the second minute of contest when bevier got a head scissors on the southern wrestler and threw him feet first into the air but he lost the hold and did not succeed in throwing him until he obtained a bar and chan cery in the fifth minute the 158 pound match between latimer and captain pagenstecker of virginia also started out in a spirited manner but the southern leader was thrown in several min utes with a crouch and neck hold summaries : 115 pound class — acting captain reynolds lehigh threw oppen heim virginia with a crotch and reverse body hold in 1 minute 35 seconds 125 pound class bevier lehigh threw barringer virginia with a bar and chancery hold in 5 minutes 4 seconds 135 pound class wuerz lehigh threw truxton virginia with a half nelson and crotch hold m 3 minutes 8 seconds 145 pound class — loeser lehigh threw reinhart virginia with a half nelson and crouch hold in 3 minutes 2 seconds 158 pound class — latimer le high threw captain pagenstecker virginia with a crotch and neck hold in 2 minutes 28 seconds 175 pound class booth lehigh threw smith virginia with a bar and chancery hold in 6 minutes 8 seconds university dance the next university dance will be held in drown hall saturday evening march 2 the committee has secured the orchestra from the u s ambuanee service camp at allentown this orchestra com posed of six pieces furnished the music at the last dance which was exceptionally good and greatly en joyed by all present the subscrip tion price will be one dollar there will be no dance friday panther team loses third game of this year's schedule completely outplayed score 39-26 wysocki on defense and hess on offense responsible for victory coming here with the enviable record of having lost but two games this season the strong university of pittsburgh five was completely outplayed by the brown and white quintet last saturday afternoon being defeated by a score of 39-26 after the first five minutes of play the panthers were never in the running their guards easter day and mclaren reputed to be the superiors of any in the state were completely outguessed time after time by the lehigh team and as a result left their basket un guarded frequently the brown and white five were quick to take advantage of these opportunities and tally in this manner starting the game pitt quickly took the lead when penman caged two baskets in rapid succession after this hess started lehigh s scoring with a basket each team then scored on fouls and r mc carthy tied the score after receiv ing a pass from wysocki from that time on lehigh was never headed and continued to increase their lead throughout the game the passing and all around work of the home five showed a still fur ther improvement over that dis played in earlier games all five men working very well together hess continued his good work and proved himself an offensive power of the first rank he con tinually out-jumped his man and was down the floor like a flash his handling of the ball was always clean and his shooting accurate in all he tallied five goals this period donovan too played a fast game scoring two baskets from the floor r m mccarthy and straub also showed up well and be tween them they scored fifteen points although all these men played remarbably well after all it is to wysocki that the chief credit of the victory belongs he scored three times all of the shots being difficult but it was on the defen sive that his work stood out most prominently he showied unusual ability in diagnosing pittsburgh's passing game and time after time he broke it up during the entire game not a man was able to dribble the ball past him for the gold and blue five pen man's work stood out prominently as he scored six baskets and played a good all round game the whole pittsburgh team played good ball but they seemed to be lacking the pep that brought victory to lehigh the line-up : pittsburgh position lehigh penman r.f r mccarthy levine l.f donovan robinson c hess easterday . . . l.g wysocki mclaren r.g straub field goals — hess 7 straub 3 wysocki 3 donovan 2 mccarthy 2 ; penman 6 levine 2 robinson mclaren foul goals — straub 5 levine 8 substitutions — maurer for mc carthy ; nickolas for robinson referee — tom thorpe columbia time — 20 minute halves dr b l miller explains scien tists views on faith in self man and god dr benjamin l miller head of the department of geology addres sed the regular y m c a meeting last sunday evening in drown hall on the subject of faith preceding the talk by dr miller several excellent vocal solos were delivered by miss martha cassell of bethlehem dr miller explained what is meant by faith and showed how necessary it is that we have faith in ourselves faith in our fellow men and faith in god far the most important of these is faith in god which is interpreted in differ ent ways at different stages of our lives in his address dr miller spoke in part as follows : as we read the bible we find that the word faith comes in again and again and it seems as if the idea of faith appears in sermons and books on theology and religion more than any other thought faith is one of the problems now in ques tion we are getting reports from various countries in europe that men are losing faith in everything this appears to be especially true of germany where the soldiers and people are reported to be losing faith in god and mankind we are sometimes called a race of faithful objects and this must be the case because a basis for many of our thoughts and actions is faith faith may be simply defined as a firm belief in something or upon somebody which belief is not based on material evidence we do not have positive proof about our faith and science has a right to analyze as it would a problem the basis of faith in order to see what there is in it there are three divisions of faith faith in one's self faith in our fellow men and faith in god these three divisions affect our lives to a very great extent faith in yourself is one of the essentials for success or right ac tion it is necessary that one have it in his ability and in the motives which guide him in life ' ' it is also required that we have faith in the people about us if we were to examine the lives of our fellow men we would find many things which would cause us to lose our faith in them mankind in gen eral is to be trusted but there are many things in which we are disap pointed we must appreciate how ever that our fellow men are worthy of the faith we put in them and even more faith in god is the most im portant scientists are often ac cused of having too little faith in god some scientists have reached the point where they believe noth ing except the results of their own observations they have gotten this reputation because they have been more critical than other people they have found that some of the basis of faith and belief have rather a frail foundation and some scien tists have been able to eradicate false beliefs and tear down faith there are various ways in which we consider and interpret faith in god and our ideas of this faith change as a child our idea of it in god comes largely because we are taught to believe in god even where there is no positive teaching there is the necessity in life that we believe in god when we begin to think for ourselves as we think of god it is with a great continued on third page the brown and white quintet will meet the tj s ambulance ser vice camp team at allentown on wednesday february 20 the ambulance camp has a very strong team it being comprised of a num ber of former college players al though lehigh won from this aggre gation the first of the season the team has improved greatly since that time and has added many vic tories to their list since then they have had a winning streak and have won thirteen straight games some of which were with strong college teams as cornell bucknell perm state and pitt the brown and white five made a strong show ing against pitt saturday and the game wednesday will no doubt be closely contested and a well earned victory for the winner the game will in all probability be played in the gymnasium at the camp the line-up for the game will probably be as follows : ussacs position lehigh dunn f maurer or mccarthy haaben f donovan paine c hess or adams jester g....(c wysocki cramer g straub or eldridge modern race culture depends on modification of the germ plasm the regular monthly meeting of the arts and science club was held latet friday evening in drown hall after a short business session an interesting as well as instructive programme was rendered dr r w hall gave a lecture on eu genics w g barthold 18 gave several violin solos they were viennese melody by fritz kreissler and rondino on a theme from beethoven p sub kow 20 rendered a paper en titled the trend of modern science ' ' mr subkow showed in a clear manner how science from the time of adam and eve down to the present time has worked its won ders he traced scientific advance ment from 5000 b.c to the use of science in our modern warfare be ginning by explaining that the scientist alw t ays asks the questions why and how he has accomplished things worth while for the present and future ages mr subkow touched upon the fol lowing different stages in science in the course of his talk the elliptical phase of the copernican theory " " the magnanimous theory of electrons the accentuated advent of the iron age " the invaluable ontology incorporated in geometry and the botanical geological biological and mathe matical relations as involved in the general advancement of science toward the close of his paper mr subkow explained how the gradual advancement of all the metaphysi cal iotas took place until psycho logical principles received pro nounced recognition he concluded by clarifying that old hypotheses have died a natural death and that the primary hypothetical principles laid down today are of value to the present and will be to the future generations dr hall's address in part fol lows : first let me test you to see whether or not you believe in eu genics the cretans were pro hibited from marrying normal people but were allowed to breed among themselves but they . were producing a very weak race later the sexes were kept separate and upon visiting the island a certain man found a few years later that only one of that large tribe re : j mained if you think this is right then you believe in eugenics ask yourself the question what is the object of eugenics what am i here for what am i doing what do i want what is the object of this human civiliza tion if you have thought about it the only conclusion is that it is to make the world as good a place as possible this is true but there is an added aim each individual must reach as high a development as possible keep this aim in mind now what are we counting on to forward this ninety per cent of the people recognize the force of environment no biologist ques tions the matter of environment but we must start with good material to have a high stage of de velopment w*e can not make high grade human beings out of raw material i would like to call attention to the misconception in regard to the continued on third page the brown and whit lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday february 19 1918 dr r w hall on eugenics at arts meet price five cents varsity wins fast game from pitt faith discussed at y m c a meeting virginia's shoulders pinned to the mat in every bout vol xxv no 33 j notice j ■■ a chemical society meet 5 $ will be held on thursday at 5 f 7.30 p.m in saucon hall j i every chemist and chemical i engineer is urged to attend 5 s and all others who wish to jl ? come are welcome / i r