Brown and White Vol. 34 no. 42

              joint meeting dr paul r heyl discusses the motives of the stu dent in research five team captains win championships lehigh fourth difficulty in defeating liggett of perm state while miller gained a decision over pack ard also of perm state after a very hard fight despite the fact that syracuse was the only team to win two individual championships they could do no better than finish in a tie for second place falls together with second and third places were what brought lehigh and yale to the fore after the preliminary round lehigh had four men who qual ified for the semi-finals mc govern reed heilman and lehr in this round mcgovern pulled something of a surprise by defeating kaiser of perm state a veteran of two years artic explorer takes audience to north pole capt donald macmillan gives lecture on life among the esquimaux the regular spring election of tau beta pi will be held with in the next two weeks those who are in the highest eighth of the junior engineers are eligi ble for this election junior engineers who are in the sec ond highest one eighth will be eligible at the fall election at the meeting of tau beta pi held last week discussion was also held on the naming of an editor for the lehigh review this editor will be elected at the next meeting of the fraternity tau beta pi has just made public an eligibility code which is used in its elections of mem bers and which is given below it is the purpose of the so ciety to mark in a fitting man ner those who have conferred honor upon their alma mater by distinguished scholarship and exemplary character as un dergraduates or by their at tainments as alumni distinguished scholarship while the primary requisite for admission must not be consid ered the sole criterion after the scholastic require ments have been fulfilled the selection shall be based on in tegrity breadth of interest both inside and outside of en gineering adaptability and un selfish activity we consider that true integ continued on page four illustrated the brown and white nata tors suffered a rather unex pected reverse in the eastern collegiate swimming associa tion championships held in the lafayette pool on saturday af ternoon by obtaining only fourth place in the point score rutgers team came up to ex pectations and repeated its vic tory of last year by completely overwhelming the field of en tries with a score of 45 points against 40 points collected by the four other competing col leges the real contest was staged between lehigh lafayette and delaware in a keen battle for second honors lafayette crash ed through with 14 points barely nosing out delaware by a half-point margain lehigh followed with 11 1-2 points and swarthmore brought up the rear with a single credit continued on page four coxe swam a great race for lehigh in the 200-yard breast stroke losing by inches at the finish to brown of rutgers who was so hard pressed that he collopsed after the race and was pulled out of the water hayes did well in the fancy div ing by gaining a tie for third place against very strong com with the advent of spring the varsity and freshman track candidates are practicing daily on the upper field cinder-path in preparation for the difficult schedule which is to be encoun tered this year coach kanaly is carefully supervising the conditioning of his charges so that they will be in good form by the time they clash with rutgers on april 23 prospects for a successful season are rather bright many veterans are again available and should form a nucleus for a well-balanced team a num ber of sophomores in addition to several men who were ineli gible to compete formerly are showing much promise although there are various places on the squad still to be filled this is particularly true in the cases of the high jump javelin throw and the pole vault events clayton demattia and beer are prominent candidates for the sprints billmeyer and lasher are the mainstays in the quarter-mile run the former will also compete in the furlong dash j cox lehigh's sole middle atlantic states in tercollegiate champion heads the list of the half-mile aspir ants randall roberts lau dig and starkey are participat ing in this event the cross country stars make continued on page four lehigh brought its wrestling season to a close by finishing in a deadlock with yale for first place in the intercolle giates last saturday the out come of the meet was not de cided until the very last match a bout for second place between blunt yale's heavyweight and littell a victory for littell in this match meant a champion ship for lehigh a fall by blunt a victory for yale and a decision in favor of blunt a tie after parrying for sev eral minutes on their feet lit tell succeeded in bringing blunt to the mat blunt shortly af ter came out from underneath and although he could not throw littell he managed to stay on top for the remainder of the match this won the decision and brought his team's total up to fourteen points the same number as lehigh's this is the first time in the history of the intercollegiates that the result has been deadlocked in addition syracuse and cornell tied for second place two of last year's champions took part in the meet both of whom were victorious captain reed of lehigh who had mov ed up from the 115 pound class to the 125 pound and capt miller of yale who successfully defended his title in the 158 pound class reed had little tennis activities begin this week a lexander hamilton club will meet dr paul r heyl physicist of the united states bureau of standards was invited by the university to give a lecture in commemoration of the life of sir isaac newton newton's death occurred two hundred years ago on the twentieth of march dr heyl is widely known for lectures and books on physics and relativity and also for his research work in connection with the weight of the earth on the subject of rare metals especially plati num dr heyl's name has be come noted his name has not only appeared in numerous pa pers but the american maga zine has recently featured an article of his his lecture at the university was one of the most scholarly ever delivered here it was made on the occasion of a com bined meeting of various stu dent organizations and was well attended by not only stu dents but many of the faculty members as well dr heyl's interesting lecture was entitled the student of nature he discussed the mo tives of students and the char acter of great investigations of natural phenomena the de sire for applause and interest in practical application has been a mere motivation for continued on page four who had been ranked as the favorite for the title the match was very close with mc govern holding a time advan tage of one minute and twenty six seconds at the end reed had little difficulty with hols man of cornell and gained a time advantage of nine and a half minutes heilman chalked up a point for lehigh by gain ing a fall over novak of syra cuse lehr defeated sumney of princeton with a large time advantage in the semi-finals heilman and mcgovern were both de feated lehr won a decision from clark of syracuse and reed garnered another point by winning a fall from bogdan of perm these victors were lehigh's representatives in the finals held on saturday after noon in the 115 pound match okun of syracuse mcgovern's conqueror threw josephson of cornell his victory gave mc govern the right to compete for the privilege of meeting joseph son for second place mcgov ern piled up a large time ad vantage and won this bout although he could not throw his opponent his victory added three more points to the brown and white total continued on page four in the 125 pound match be tween reed and liggett of perm sub-frosh theme contest planned baseball material shows promise dorm basketball nears close coach carothers meets can didates tomorrow in trophy room course changes in business dept increase in staff will open several new and at tractive courses sections b and c to meet in championship contest next thursday several veterans of last season form nucleus of squad another means of stimulat ing interest in lehigh among pre-college men is now well un der way in the form of the y m c a sub-freshman theme contest the contestants hail from high schools and prepara tory schools students will be admitted to the contest if there are at least five men entered from their particular school the men who write themes that are considered as being among the twenty best of those sub mitted will be invited as the university's guests to be at le high on sub-freshman day and to be entertained over that week-end the prime purpose of the competition is to bring lehigh to the attention of pros pective college men the alexander hamilton club will hold its next meeting on friday march 25 h f best er 27 will speak about the in terest the united states has in the nicaragua-mexico contro versy plans will be made for the conduction of a debate with the robert w blake society pro vided that organization accepts the invitation a committee will be appointed to care for an open meeting at which dr reed of philadelphia a noted historian will be present this speaker is an authority on eliz abethan history invitations have been extended to the eng lish department especially to students studying elizabethan literature to be present at this meeting which will take place early in april flunk outs not to be admitted scandal number of burr on sale the inter-dorm basketball league is rapidly drawing to a close after a very successful season section c is now lead ing the league having won six games and lost one while sec tion b is running a close sec ond with a record of five wins against two defeats sections d e and price hall are prac tically out of the running for championship honors these teams are very closely grouped together in percentage of games won and lost section a is at the bottom of the list as they have not won a single game al though the team deserves much credit as they have manifested fine spirit throughout the sea son and have been on hand for every contest in the games played this week in taylor gym section c defeated sec tion e in a hard fought game by the close score of 27-24 while section b triumphed over price hall for the second time this season by the score of 36 23 section a put up a good fight against section d but came out on the short end of a 29-17 score next thursday evening sec tion b will lock horns with sec tion c in the game upon which continued on page three there will be a meeting of all candidates for the tennis team including those out for assis tant manager in the trophy room of taylor gymnasium at four o'clock on wednesday march 23 plans for the com ing season will be discussed and a definite date set for the pre liminary round robin tourna ment in this tournament which will be held soon the first six men will constitute the squad and they will then play among themselves to determine their relative ranking there will be six singles and three doubles matches in each dual meet three regulars of last year's squad captain sullivan doty and trumbull are eligible and will probably form the nucleus of the 1927 team malloy a transfer who was ineligible last spring seems fairly sure of a berth on the squad among the other men sweitzer new hayward and croxton are ex pected to make the best show ing the varsity courts at lehigh field are now in the process of being repaired in order that the team may have plenty of practice before starting one of the hardest schedules ever at tempted the first match of the season will be with navy at annapolis on april 23 at a recent meeting of the committee on standing of stu dents it was decided not to ad mit any students to lehigh u who have been dropped from another institution because of poor scholastic work this is the first step on the part of this university in a movement to raise the entrance requirements of lehigh it is generally felt that this new rule will not on ly benefit the university but also the undergraduates since there will be fewer poor stu dents to restrain the progress of the other men the awaited scandal num ber of the burr is now on sale at the principal stands in the city the humor and art work in this issue are particularly entertaining warren stoltz editor of the burr is desirous to have more competitors trying out the business competition is also op en and all sophomores interested in it should see herbert w mccord in the burr office some time during the day several new changes have been planned in the business course next year dr caroth ers expects them to alleviate many faults in the present cur riculum and to add materially in making it one of the best business preparation courses obtainable the engineering drawing and descriptive geometry cour ses have always proven to be bothersome and perhaps unpro fitable to the freshmen these subjects will not be required in the curriculum next year phy siography a sophomore require ment under the present regu lations will be placed along with physics chemistry and biology as a freshman elective seniors will not be required to carry a history course on their roster and only twelve hours of it will be necessary for grad uation business men will have to carry but two required courses in their last year their electives may be chosen from a large and varied group of sub jects several new professors will be added to the staff next year and a few new and attractive courses such as transporta tion marketing and business forecasting will be offered baseball practice is being held every afternoon from two until six at steel field at the present time there are seventy men who are trying out for the various positions coach jing johnson is stressing batting and fielding practice every day and is gradually whipping a team into shape it is probable that the squad will be cut next week in order to give him a chance to concentrate upon the more promising players red nevins who begins his fourth season on the squad is working out daily he has his position well sewed up on the mound are brady hesse and roberts brady a southpaw from last year's team is showing good form and will no doubt make the team hesse who played so well on last year's frosh team is looked upon as good material roe and roberts are getting daily practice and will probably be picked for the squad continued on page four in the infield castor looks best on first although homer and talbert are doing some very good work two promis ing candidates for second base are proebstle and mccombes proebstle played on last year's captain donald macmillan arctic explorer gave a very in teresting lecture on thursday evening in the liberty high school auditorium in which he stressed the fact that the es quimaux are a race of intelli gent people his lecture was made more interesting in that it was illustrated with eight thousand feet of film depicting the life in the artie regions captain macmillan told of the excellent work being accom plished by the moravian mis sionaries in labrador he gave an interesting out line of his voyage from wiscas set me the starting point of the macmillan expeditions all the way up to within seven de grees of the north pole by means of the films the intelli gence of the esquimaux was revealed giving the audience an opportunity to see these peo ple at work and to see the won derful work that they do such as harpooning sailing their frail sealskin boats and the manner in which they construct their igloos captain macmil lan stated that it was remark able how these people shut off from the outside world are to day one of the greatest classes of people on the earth unique pictures of some of the animals in alaska were shown the most exceptional of which was the defeat of two esquimaux dogs by a bird an other picture of a musk-ox charge on a dog is probably the only picture of its kind in existence pictures showing the exploits of the expedition within the interior of labra dor were also very interesting ideas of the condition of the sea could be gained from the continued on page three vol xxxiv no 42 bethlehem pa tuesday march 22 1927 lehigh shares wrestling championship with yale in unique intercollegiate fray price five cents track prospects good this year rutgers retains intercollegiate swimming title noted scientist gives lecture on isaac newton elections to tau beta pi imminent eligilibity code of honor ary fraternity made public brown and white captain reed gains 125-lb championship crown mcgovern easily takes second from josephson heilman lehr and littell win third places syracuse arid cornell deadlocked for second princeton and perm tie for last undefeated scarlet mermen repeat 1926 triumph in lafayette pool coach kanaly has ten lettermen as nucleus for weil-balanced team football men get out for spring practice don't forget that pi delt tea dance saturday