Brown and White Vol. 25 no. 23

              score 28 to 23 by col e a havers astronomy zoology and motion aided by modern speed shutter mccarthy maurer and wysocki show good form in initial contest for the purpose of correct ing some misunderstanding which seems to have arisen in regard to the article appear ing in a recent issue of this paper concerning the cancel lation of the lafayette cross country race the following statement is printed the above article was reproduced with the headlines exactly as it appeared in the lafayette as an item of interest to the lehigh student body with this article the mat ter will be dropped from these columns final statement on cross country statements flatly denied by lehigh track manager in communication any appeal to the men of our colleges and universities to throw their energies into the winning of this war — which we are pledged to avage till justice and mercy pre vail among the nations of the earth would savor of the gratuitous from our colleges and universitnes have gone forth thousands — thous ands of our best physically and mentally our student ranks throughout the country are riddled but many — no less eager to go over there than those who have been accepted — have been com pelled to stay at home to these i offer this suggestion there are forms of service other than that on the battlefield on the sea or under it or in the air at this time^the most important form of auxiliary service i believe to be cooperation with the american red cross such cooperation can be effected best through membership and all those who by reason of sex age or physical disability are prevented from going to the front are being urged to join during the christmas membership campaign starting de cember 16 and ending christmas eve in that week the red cross hopes i—and1 — and confidently expects — to get ten million new members — at least here is service that some of those who have been compelled to stay behind may have looked upon as of only incidental importance or as solely woman's work it is neither the red cross is the army behind the army and the navy behind the navy ' ' it watches over and minis ters to our fighting men at all times and in all places at every point it is the necessary supplement of our government in the care of our men in active service not only this but it performs a service un attempted by government — the re lief of the suffering of the civilian population continued on second page miners hold monthly meet bridges and roads topics of c.e meet prof eckfeldt and prof miller address society on interest ing topics last friday evening the sopho more cotillion club held their first dance of the year and in spite of the terrific snow storm of the day before more than eighty couples were present several of the fra ternities held house parties over the week end and man;y of the guests came from quite a distance along with the cotillion club dance the freshman club held an informal dance at the sigma nu fraternity house the sophomore cotillion club dance proved a brilliant success and the music which was fur nished by herzberg's orchestra of philadelphia surpassed any that has been here this year the dance was held in drown hall which was fittingly decorated with an abundance of american flags red and white streamers stretched from one end of the hall to the other and southern smilax decor ated the columns and chandeliers red white and blue lights aided in giving a patriotic and military atmosphere to the dance at either end of the hall there was a large brown and white elec tric sign bearing the class numerals these were so arranged that the lights went on and off alternately during the twelfth dance a large flag which hung | over one of the signs was raised displaying a small cannon with the american flag and the flags of her allies blowing in the wind beside it at the end of the dance the cannon was fired and the orchestra played 1 the star spangled banner the freshman dance held i&t the sigma nu house also proved a success as was shown by the large number of couples present white's banjo orchestra furnished the music which was exceptionally good on saturday afternoon many of the guests witnessed the open ing game of the basketball season with lebanon valley at the close of the game a large number at tended the tea dansant given at the psi upsilon fraternity house the university dance held sat urday evening was a fitting close to the social functions of the week end the music was furnished by the same orchestra that played for the cotillion club dance the even ing before and about fifty couples were present coming basketball ga me the problem of raising railroad bridges without interrupting trains the next three teams the varsity five encounters will test their ability the first game with mora vian tomorrow afternoon should be an easy one the next game will be with the fast c c n y quin tet friday night and lehigh will have to work hard to win last year the new yorkers won by the slim margin of one point it is hoped this defeat may be avenged the varsity will be placed at a dis advantage playing on the visitors court wednesday january 2 the al lentown ambulance corps will be visitors at taylor gymnasium they have some good men and an interesting contest should be waged a meeting of the civil engineer ing society was held last thursday evening in saucon hall j b ambler 18 spoke on the con crete roads in the suburbs of phila delphia he explained the tests that were made on these concrete roads he spoke particularly of the one from philadelphia to ox ford stating that the work was laid in thirty-two foot sections h n roest 18 spoke on the improvement at elm park made by the dod-son realty company ' ' he j explained the work done here ' ' the boulevard system of lighting is used he said and the homes are being erected chiefly for the bethlehem steel workers s b downey 18 gave an inter esting talk on raising the pitts burgh fort wayne and chicago railroad bridge he said that the allegheny monongahela and ohio rivers were made navigable by slack water dams ' ' the city of continued on third page in regard to the article reprinted from the lafayette in a recent is sue of the brown and white in which several false statements re garding the cancelling of the le high-lafayette cross country meet were made i have this lo say the aforementioned ar t i el c charged that the meet was can celled by manager leonard sar geant of the lehigh team the issue at stake being simply a matter of having a sufficient number of checkers along the course this charge is absolutely untrue and un founded coach bruce of lafa yette called me on the phone the day before the meet and after beat ing around the bush for some time finally came to the point and asked to have the course for the race changed saying that his men had been over it and could make noth ing of it adding that the referee could not pathfind for the run ners i refused to change the course for the following reasons : continued on third page the varsity basketball team opened the season saturday by winning a close game from the quintette representing lebanon valley the game was very slow due no doubt to its being so early in the season and to the poor physical condition of both teams lehigh quickly got the jump and maurer caged a basket soon after the start of the game and from that time on they were never headed the first half ended with the score standing at 20-8 the work of mccarthy maurer and wysocki stood out prominently in this half the two former scoring four goals from the floor apiece while the latter s all around work was of the highest order beginning the second half capt mccarthy substituted savaria macdonald and r mccarthy for maurer ketcham and himself re spectively lebanon valley started to score and soon had the brown and white team on the run however they began their spurt too late and when capt mccarthy re-substi tuted his first pair of forwards le high immediately began to take the offensive while the team that played saturday has a great deal of po tential strength it needs a lot of practise to develop into a standard lehigh cage team the men showed a tendency towards indi vidual play and as a result team work suffered the passing game so cleverly employed by last year's five was almost entirely missing the defense offered by the backs was weak with one exception and as a result wysocki had practi cally to play a back's position had it not been for his defensive work the blue and white might have been victorious of the new men maurer showed good form at forward and should make a worthy successor to dynan ketcham and straub showed flashes of good form but appeared to be uncertain in their passing and general defensive work of last year's squad capt mc carthy and wysocki showed that they had lost none of their old time cleverness r mccarthy showed some good passing and dodging ability but missed several easy shots for goal macdonald played a good defensive game and succeeded in caging a goal from the floor the lineup : lehigh positions lebanon maurer r.f hames w mccarthy l.f moore wysocki c seltzer ketcham l.g walter straub r.g atticks substitutions r mccarthy for w mccarthy savaria for maurer macdonald for ketcham fisnbun for walter goals maurer 4 w mccarthy 4 straub 2 mac donald seltzer 4 moore 2 hames fishbun atticks goals from fouls straub 6 seltzer 5 referee raby time 20 minute the brown and white will suspend publication from this issue until january 4 1918 on account of the christmas holidays the meeting of the mining and geological society held last thurs day night in williams hall was addressed by professor eckfeldt of the department of mining engi neering and by professor miller of the department of geology in spite of the heavy snow storm about forty people were in attend ance and the meeting was a good one from all view points professor eckfeldt s talk was about condi tions in mexico including many personal observations made while engaged in the mining industry there professor miller gave a talk on the characteristic properties of certain minerals and the probable reasons for these properties the talk was illustrated by experiments on mineral specimens after the business of the meeting vice-president tizard introduced professor eckfeldt the substance of whose address is given as follows : continued on second page mexico possessing a border of approximately 1800 miles along the united states has an area equival ent to that of the united states the marvels of modern pho tography was the subject of the lecture delivered last friday morning in the chapel by col e a havers of new york the slides col havers showed were unusual and altogether the lecture was one of the most interesting delivered this year the lecturer emphasized the great value of modern photogra phy which is rarely fully appreci ated the proper use of a camera makes possible valuable records of travel science and home life the shutter of the modern camera works so exceedingly fast that it actually stops motion as examples photos were shown which were taken just at the in stant an athlete breasted the tape and showed the intense muscular strain he was enduring photo graphs of horses in action also showed that the popular artistic coutep.tiou of the position ox horse's legs while he is galloping is erroneous among other slides col havers showed views of the last corona tion in england of actual fighting scenes in mexico and of various phases of commercial photography pictures of ' ' events which never happened proved interesting thus it was possible by trick photography to make the milan cathedral appear to be located on the banks of the canals of venice photography is indispensable in botany and zoology a remark able slide was shown which was an exact photograph of a section of a mosquito's head another showed a cross-section of the lining of the insect's stomach the peculiarities of electric sparks as brought out by photogra phy were shown as for instance the path of a lightning flash the discharge of a tesela coil through the human body and the action of an x-eay tube col havers stated that it has recently been found possible to estimate the velocity of a bullet by noting the angle made by air waves following in the wake of the projectile these air waves were clearly discernable in various pic tures he showed of projectiles in motion no science is more benefited by photography than astronomy by exposing for four hours a plate in a photographic arrangement at tached to a giant telescope it w^as possible to show on the plate a nebulosity which could not be seen by the naked eye the most unusual picture m the collection however was that of a beetle's eye showing the innumer able facets at the time of the taking of the picture a postage stamp had been held near and the reflection in detail of each portion of the stamp was perfectly shown in each of the facets toward the end of his lecture col havers touched on color pho tography and its recent develop ments he stated that by screen ing out undesirable light rays it is continued on third page dr frederick g coan ad dressed the regular y m c a meeting last sunday night in drown hall on the topic the missionary in war times mr coan who has spent forty-seven years in persia and turkey re lated his experiences during the recent years of the war as a mis sionary in persia and his talk was a most interesting one special music for the evening was fur nished by mr howard weigner of bethlehem who rendered several baritone solos which were well received by those present in his talk dr coan told of the difficulties encountered in reach ing his station in persia and the conditions which were met with there he explained how r 20,000 people were taken care of by the missionaries for five months and saved from massacre and death at the hands of the turks and kurds the address given by dr coan follows on part : when on our way back to persia in the summer of 1914 we had reached switzerland when was was declared and were de tained there two months our route led us through constantinople but instead of going through the dardanelles as was originally planned we were forced to take a sixteen-hour train ride on our arrival in constanti nople we found that place to be full of german officers and men requisitioned for the war when you realize that this requisitioning has been going on for the last ten years you will understand why all over the turkish empire you find one vast wilderness the germans with the turks as their tools had already started the extermination of the armenians and the ger mans alone are responsible for these massacres finally we reached our station in northwestern persia the town of urumia in the province of ozer eaijan about 150 miles southwest of mit ararat on our arrival in persia we found russian troops there to save the lives of chris tians it was in january when news reached us that the russian army had left and on the next day thousands of refugees were fleeing to the mission yards for protection and safety these men women and children had deserted everything to fly for their lives the task of taking care of 20,000 people was thrown upon eighteen missionaries the first great labor was that of providing shelter for this mass of humanity the limited facilities of the mis sion were taxed to the utmost and in order to furnish shelter for all from 40 to 60 people w t ere packed lin small rooms that would hold only about ten people comfortably another indescribable diffi i culty was to feed the refugees in this we were aided by moham medans who had respect for the americans because they knew that the americans were not there to exploit them the mohammedans came to our aid with grain and flour which they sold to us at ten i per cent below the market price and with no promise of immediate payment the mohammedans also protected the people by taking continued on third page the brown and white lehigh university price five cents lebanon valley loses to varsity by small margin bethlehem pa tuesday december 18 1917 week=end lively with social activities account of war in persia told by dr coan red cross message to college students vol xxv no 23 practical use of camera topic of college lecture dances well attended in spite of heavy snow by henry p davison chairman of the war council of the american red cross slides show use of photography for study of electrical phenomena ight of stars and stripes over mission prevents attack from the patriotic news service of the national committee of patriotic societies washington u.c final word opening game of season shows team ragged with signs of improvement work of missions