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              student body also discuss es honor system and sub-freshman day receive suggestions for new packard lab from other universities pi delta epsilon dance pi delta epsilon will spon sor a tea dance saturday af ternoon march 26 in drown hall the dance will begin at four o'clock and continue until seven arrangements for an elaborate entertain ment are now being com pleted successful trip to hold dance keen competition pre-med meeting dr hausman surgeon-in chief at the sacred heart hospital of allentown will tell about american surgery at the monday evening meet ing of the pre-medical so ciety the meeting will be held in coppee hall at eight o'clock to establish new honor fraternity m s & t drill to be held monday no excuses accepted by dean for absences from drill a chapter of tau sigma will be brought to lehigh — - last saturday the basketball team completed a season which in spite of a poor start turned out to be very successful the first five games were all played away from home against teams which were undoubtedly the strongest on the brown and white schedule ; consequently the team did not make a good showing before mid-years however the team gained its stride and from then on lost only one game the opening game was with princeton on dec 11 in this game princeton seemed to re tain the jinx over lehigh it has held all year winning 26-20 the team also lost a close game to fordham and a spectacular last-second game to perm 26-25 still it could not gain its stride and was defeated by both the army and navy in very close games after that the team began winning games and defeated muhlenberg and crescent a c by large scores before it was set back by rutgers the fol lowing game was the first of a continued on page four the approach of the middle atlantic intercollegiate swim ming competitions has caused no small amount of concern here at lehigh rutgers la fayette swarthmore catholic university and lehigh will vie for honors tomorrow afternoon at easton in the new lafayette gymnasium rutgers undefeated team which includes the powerful navy swimmers among its many victims will undoubtedly secure first place second hon ors are conceded to the brown and white natators with a com fortable margin the remain ing three teams are evenly matched and consequently it is quite impossible to pick a third place continued on page four judging from past perfor mances lewis of rutgers will have little difficulty in obtain ing the fifty and one hundred yard crowns although some opposition may be encountered in raleigh lehigh's captain the backstroke championship is almost sure to go to lewis of rutgers leader the pres new president at lafayette alpha kappa psi holds smoker entertains all sophomores and juniors eligible for membership former george washington college head assumes duties in easton a new honorary society will soon make its appearance on the campus pi tau sigma is its name and its membership is composed wholly of students of the mechanical engineering department dr richards in 1915 when dean of the college of engin eering at the university of il linois was interested in pi tau sigma's foundation and was one of its strongest supporters when it was organized it was founded jointly at illinois and wisconsin and since has spread into the foremost engineering schools in the country profes sor j v martinis a professor at the university of minnesota and a lehigh graduate has been corresponding with mr luce of the mechanical engin eering department here for sev eral years concerning the foun dation of a chapter at lehigh as a result a petition for its founding has been approved by the faculty and a committee has been appointed to draw up a petition to send to each chap ter of the fraternity in order that lehigh might become a member before the annual con vention next fall on monday afternoon from four till six o'clock drill will be held for all students taking military science and tactics the battalion will be organized as in the past being composed of four companies the list of company assignments has been completed and is now posted on the bulletin boards in the ar mory major mccammon has been advised that the annual inspec tion by the district commander and other officers sent by the war department in washing ton will be held during the last week of april this per mits twelve hours of drill be fore that time during which the instructors will concentrate on the weaknesses of the men and also on those points which are necessary for a good showing in the inspection in his re cent survey of the department he found that the results of this year's training are far su perior to those of last year at this time he is confident that lehigh will make a good show ing in the inspection the faculty recently decided that no excuses will be accept continued on page four foster track meet for high schools soccer schedule is prepared plan to entertain athletic association at lehigh sometime in may princeton cornell army navy and syracuse to be among opponents with the eastern intercolle giate wrestling championships to be waged in the palestra at the university of pennsylvania today and tomorrow there is much speculation as to the pro bable outcome in reality there is only one champion to defend his title although two to com pete reed won the crown in the 115-pound division last year but will be unable to de fend that title since he has graduated to the next heavier class miller of yale will de fend in the 158-pound class choice for the individual hon ors and place positions based on observation in several meets and deducted by a comparative rating in other meets would read something like this 115-pound class kaiser perm state mcgovern lehigh josephson cornell 125-pound class reed le high ; liggett perm state ; bog den perm 135-pound class : heilman lehigh mcdonald perm long perm state 145-pound class geier cor nell dodd yale ace perm state 158-pound class : miller yale packard perm state long lehigh 175-pound class sesit col umbia ; clarke syracuse ; pratt perm heavyweight : blunt yale ; meislahn princeton garrison state continued on page three the reason for selecting kai ser perm state 115-pounder to win the title is because of his experience he is wrestling his third and last season for perm state while mcgovern is experiencing his first year on the brown and white varsity both are undefeated for the dual meet season kaiser has also experienced the glamor of an intercollegiate competition while mcgovern goes to the post in his first this year it a meeting of the arcadia was held last monday evening in drown hall the group commented upon the situation which has arisen from the pres ent policy of holding classes all thursday morning and it also took up the question of the hon or system up to this semester no reci tations were heard from eleven o'clock to noon on thursdays and it was customary for the classes to conduct their meet ings at that time on various oc casions throughout the term the attendance of the students was good inasmuch as they pro ceeded to the gatherings after their regular morning classes the new schedule however pro vides for the meetings to take place upon the conclusion of the college lectures the upper classmen who are not com pel led to be present at the ad dresses are reluctant to go out of their way to attend the meet ings thus the class represen tation particularly among the juniors and seniors will be proportionately small although several suggestions were made to improve matters ' a committee composed of chair man j s ford c e mccombs and e k zimmerman was ap pointed to see the dean and reach some definite conclusion r l bloor spoke briefly on the history of the honor sys tem at lehigh after some discussion president j g rids dale requested the members to bring the question up at their respective living group meet ings so that a general concen sus of campus opinion might thus be gained it was definitely announced that sub-freshman day this year will take place on april 23 the arcadia will hold a tea dance in drown hall on that date after the varied af ternoon athletic program is ov er the varsity and freshman continued on page four newton display in library wives of faculty entertain at tea a very worthwhile inspection trip that has netted many splen did creative ideas has just been completed by a committee com posed of president richards professors larkin and stuart representing the mechanical engineering department pro fessors esty and seyfert rep resenting the electrical engin eering department and mr burley lehigh 94 of the firm of visher and burley archi tects the purpose of the trip was to obtain ideas and plans for construction and operation for the proposed packard lab oratory it had been consider ed of prime importance to learn from actual contact with the better laboratories of a great number of high grade universi ties just what is the finest in architecture and equipment for the a number one college laboratory the trip started off with a short visit to cornell and from there to buffalo where the committee was entertained by the lehigh club of that city detroit was the next stop marked by a visit to the plant of the packard motor car com pany and a call on allen mac callaugh lehigh 92 who is president of the company the travelers were also entertained by the lehigh club the uni versity of michigan at ann ar bor was next visited then on to chicago where they visited the university of chicago and northwestern university and were received by the chicago lehigh club at this point the electrical and architectural men went on to minneapolis while the rest of the party journeyed to madison wiscon sin they were there joined by the group from minneapolis and inspected the university of wisconsin from there the party went to the university of illinois at which place they were given a great ovation and were splendidly entertained the party considered that uni versity to be on a par with the leading educational schools of the country driving across the country the committee next sojourned at west lafayette and visited the university of purdee the next university to be viewed was cincinnati of which her man schneider lehigh 94 is the dean returning home ward the last stop was made at pittsburgh where visits were paid to the university of pittsburgh carnegie tech and the united states bureau of continued on page four in connection with the exer cises commemorating isaac newton's death the university library has arranged in its display cases an exhibition il lustrating the life and work of newton the library owns a copy of the first scientific paper written by him this article was published by the royal so ciety in 1672 and contains new ton's discovery of the reflect ing telescope among other books on display are first and second continental editions of newton's principia the first collected edition of his works in five volumes the first amer ican edition of the principia .." and the first edition of his chronology these together with pictures of newton and his college make an interesting exposition on wednesday night alpha kappa psi held a smoker to which it invited as guests all those sophomores and juniors whose scholastic standing makes them eligible for membership in the society the aim of the meeting was to enable the guests to become acquainted with the members of the chap ter and with the purposes and accomplishments of alpha kap pa psi j j frey president presid ed and introduced dr caroth ers who told about the develop ment of business administra tion in american colleges he said the first course in econo mics was given 70 years ago and since that time these cour ses have grown very quickly at present there are four types of colleges giving courses in business administration the first of these is the most conservative including such colleges as princeton amherst and wesleyan where business is not given a separate college but subjects in business are given as electives along with the arts subjects the second type is illustrated by columbia where two years of a liberal arts course are required before the student may take business lehigh is a good example of the third type which gives a four year course along with certain subjects in other de partments of the fourth type there is only one example the harvard business college which requires the completion of four years at a university before taking the two year continued on page four the possibility of the track and field championship in dis trict one pennsylvania inter scholastic athletic association being held on lehigh field is indicated by the action taken by the board of athletic con trol in extending the invitation for this meet at a recent meeting of the board it was proposed that some effort be made to hold an interscholastic track and field meet at lehigh a committee was appointed to look into the matter it met on monday af ternoon at which time several plans were discussed the one believed most attractive was the p i a a district cham pionship ' last year the dis trict championships were held on muhlenberg field whether the invitation will be accepted depends on the ac tion to be taken by the district association however it is be lieved that since the title events were held at allentown last year it is almost certain that the may 14 date on the brown continued on page four m & c tryouts final tryouts for the cast and chorus of the mustard and cheese play kist-cost will be held at 1:50 sunday afternoon in drown hall all contestants must be present dr william mather lewis for the past three years presi dent of george washington university washington d c has accepted the presidency of lafayette college and will as sume his duties there at the be ginning of the next college year in september dr lewis was elected to the presidency at the meeting of the trustees last december but no announcement of the action was made at that time it is generally understood that when overtures were first made to him he was not inclined to con sider them favorably because of his comparatively short ad ministration at the capital uni versity dr lewis succeeds dr john henry maccracken whose res ignation took effect on october 1 1926 dean donald bishop prentice has been acting presi : dent of the college during the last several months dr william m lewis was born at howell mich on march 24 1878 a son of james and mary lewis he was grad uated from lake forest college 111 in 1900 with the degree of a 8 and received his master's degree two years later he studied abroad from 1913 to 1914 continued on page four from 1900 to 1903 he was an instructor in illinois college and taught in lake forest col lege from 1903 to 1906 he was then elected headmaster at lake forest academy and held that position until 1913 from 1917 to 1919 he was executive secre tary of the national commis a soccer schedule comparable to that of any other college in the country is arranged for the brown and white dribblers for next season and will be featur ed by a visit of the navy boot ers to bethlehem ten games are listed tentatively awaiting only the ratification of the board of athletic control among the games are included the biggest colleges in the east the schedule is one of the most ambitious ever tackled by a brown and white team start ing on october 1 and conclud ing with lafayette on novem ber 30 princeton syracuse cornell army and navy are among the most formidable of the opponents continued on page four in securing the navy to come here the third athletic team from annapolis will visit le high in a home engagement the middies are allowed one game away from home in each branch of sport the first home engagement against a navy team was about five years ago when the academy sent its drown hall on tuesday af ternoon was the scene of the regular monthly faculty la dies tea the auditorium was suitably decorated in green and white in keeping with saint patrick's day the meeting was opened at 2:30 o'clock mrs archie miller and mrs ogburn presiding in the ab sence of mrs p m palmer mrs h c palmer sang and responded to three encores af ter classes had been dismissed at four o'clock the members of the faculty joined the ladies in tea continued on page three the entertainment committee chairman was mrs p m palm er and those who served on the committee with her were mrs c m mcconn mrs j h og burn mrs w r okeson mrs bethlehem pa friday march 18 1927 maroon host to college mermen price five cents faculty inspects numerous schools in western tour lehigh grapplers have good chance at penn tomorrow basketeers have fair season arcadia protests lack of time for college meeting vol xxxiv no 41 brown and white intercollegiates in new pool at lafayette tomorrow three victories over mar oon highlights of dif ficult schedule capt reed mcgovern and heilman favored to win bouts get to the m & c tryouts sunday everybody down at perm tomorrow