Brown and White Vol. 25 no. 16

              lecture by h m nelson several groups have not re turned list of desired speakers varsity has had only light work since stafe game for fear of injury he traces history of this class of ships from the year 1849 to date about twenty per cent of the y m c a relief fund pledges have been paid up those who have pledged money as well as any others are urged to pay as soon as possible money paid in now will be spent for the comfort of the soldiers during the winter during which time most money is needed payments may be made to either professor eckfeldt of the mining department or in the y m c a office the second university dance of the year will be given saturday november 17 at 8 p.m the com mittee has been able to secure burt lloyd's jazz band of new york city consisting of violin cello traps saxophone piano and banjo specialists for the evening this band has lots of pep and is one of the best that travels out of new york city it is hoped that a large attendance will be present to enjoy the evening cross country meet tomorrow freshman class holds meeting the following chapel music is announced for the week november 19-23 by t edgar shields uni versity organist : tuesday — „ air and variations _, rom , w j j roger's wednesday secqnd pastorale organ thursday suite scherzo friday — epilogue committee appointed for consti tution class colors and class yells campaign to start for relief of armenians nation is urged to assist this movement by president wilson house party held over week end prof andrews at y.m.c.a the delta upsilon fraternity is entertaining at a house party over the week end starting this after noon the guests present are mrs motter york pa mrs haines sayre pa chaperons miss johnston gloucester n j ; miss smith oak lane pa ; miss cresswell harrisburg pa ; miss motttr york pa miss watkins sayre pa miss hart duncan pa miss schaeffer reading pa ; miss shinier allentown pa ; miss tow sen harrisburg pa call for assistant manager of wrestling lehigh and lafayette the favo rites in the middle states championship 1 tomorrow marks the date of the middle%sifites intercollegiate cross country championship the race will be run under st ne auspices of lafayette college tßlkcourse ex tending from the northa^v.3£l country club to march field at easton and includes two laps around the track there just prior to the finish the start of the race is set for 1.45 p.m a list of the competing teams in cludes lafayette swarthmore eaverford miuhlenberg lebanon valley and lehigh the two teams apearing to have best claims for the title are lafayette and le j defeated muhlenc^rg by the same score and the former has defeated swarthmore however should either lafayette or lehigh win the loser will have a second chance when these two teams run here on november 24 prizes will be awarded for the first three men to cross as well as to the winning team after the race the visiting teams will be the guests of lafayette at the football game there lehigh s team will be selected from fisher boyd carr wilson lewis doan arthur hollings head and bickley an interesting point in connection with the meet is that captain mcgrath of last year's team holds the record for the course the first meeting of the fresh man class was held wednesday at 12 o'clock in packer hall a fee of 3.00 per man was agreed upon as class dues payable to the treasurer w p johnson or to any of his associates who will call on the members of the class at their residence these class dues should be paid promptly the following committees were appointed : color committee j h spangler r d blake h.g boyn ton j s stanier nt.aqg . ywr.t y iltt^v jl-y i '] liam long l c mulford j v vogley e h hallenbach constitution committee : w d liddle j s childs h r brady e d mould h.c.rockett a motion was made to have a cheer leader to head the fresh men when the occasion called for a class yell the following were nominated and will be voted on at the next meeting s g kay c a hipkins and r h wilson yesterday afternoon the discus sion group leaders held a meeting in drown hall for the purpose of going over the material for the first few lessons in preparation for the first discussion which is to be held next wednesday and the next few succeeding meetings they went over the outline of the topics in detail and discussed methods of discussion plans for the first meeting of the groups next wednesday are virtu ally complete lists of leaders which were sent to the various srroups have not all been returned an this prevents the scheduling of the leaders but it is expected that this can done by saturday any group whit has not as yet sent back the list\s urged to mark the same and return & the y m c a office immediately n^his will make possible the conipfetiv 11 of tne schedule which will be s&ws to the groups as soon as it is completed and printed v ""*" jlijlc list of leaders is luaut up ol about fifty percent faculty mem bers and fifty percent interested citizens and clergymen of bethle hem the list of substitutes in cludes those who could not give their services for the entire time but are willing to be called on when needed discussion group leaders prof h eckfeldt prof p m palmer prof j l stewart rev j robinson mr g t haskell mr o clapp rev a d thaeler rev s n kent dr p hoekstra mr e humphrey prof r walters prof e bo wen mr h payrow dr j r t gray prof b l miller mr c t hess rev d b clark dr a g rau mr b p rex substitutes : mr c n wyant dr w l estes jr prof f p mckibben prof r w blake prof n t luch prof m o fuller prof j s long rev w cutler prof c l thornburg prf v s babasinian prof j b reynolds rev c b chapin the men who have answered the call for assistant manager of wrestling are e h jenness w j schuessler r h grubbs j m stevens b d hollinshead t f straub and e o harbeck any other men who wish to try for this position should report immediately to assistant manager devaut senior class book new instructor in civil engineering rutgers game pending the arrangements for the rut gers game on thanksgiving day are still pending if it can be so arranged the game will be played on taylor field the game will not be played in new york as has been announced by several news papers tomorrow afternoon at taylor field lehigh opens athletic rela tions with pennsylvania military college when the varsity football team lines up against the team from that institution the game promises to be interesting and keenly contested the season s record of the invad ing cadets shows two wins and two defeats p m 0 has won from gallaudet and st john's and was beaten by muhlenberg and perm in the perm game although beaten they showed up to best advantage and outplayed perm in the last quarter finally scoring a touch down which was allowed by every one but the officials coach folwell of perm admitted the validity of this score p m c has an exceedingly heavy line and team they out weighed perm in the former by ten pounds and in the latter by eight pounds the p m c line averages 185 pounds and the team 182 the the average age of the team is slightly over 19 years coach si pauxtis teaches the warner system to his men and le high will meet a team which plays in a style very similar to that used by the pittsburgh team captain horlacher quarterback and former bethlehem prep athlete campuz ano the plunging fullback and cramp the cadet center are star players voshkamp who handles the forward pass is highly praised by folwell pauxtis is a devotee of the overhead game and has equip ped his team with a lot of fancy plays in this liiia lehigh enters the game in fairly - good condition after the hard state game the team was much bruised but with a few exceptions no one was really injured w v mccar thy who but recently recovered from a sprained ankle is out of the game again and very likely will not start tomorrow saxmian who sus tained an injured head is improv ing and will probably be all right for saturday the lineup then will be the same as that used in the state game with savaria substituted for mccarthy coach keady has given the team signal drill and tackling practice during the week the danger of injury was to great to hold a regu lar scrimmage such a short time before the lafayette game injury might mean being kept out of it and with the team in good shape it was thought best to make sure of keeping it so the probable lineup .- lehigh positions p m c saxman l.e davis spagna l.t '.'.. felin macdonald .... l.g leet early c '.'.'.'.'.'.'.' .' cramp rhoads ..:.... r.g giles johnson r t fried £ ou71 £ r.e irvin herrmgton . . . q b horlacher magmnes .... l.h.b sweeney savaria r.h.b pool wysocki f 8 . campuzano on wednesday afternoon the picture of tile football squad was taken continued on third page an illustrated lecture on con crete ships was given wednes day morning at eleven o'clock in the physics lecture room by h m nelson of the portland cement association the lecture was ar ranged by prof f p mckibben head of the civil engineering de partment as a supplement to nis series of lectures on ship construc tion and was attended by the men taking the ship construction course and by many other students and instructors of the university the lecture dealt with a subject which is of the greatest importance at the present time as it will play an important part in solving our water transportation problems rising out of the present war there is a demand for ships just now which far exceeds the number of wooden and steel ships which can i>e constructed and it has been suggested by many construction experts that concrete should be 1 ! ; 0d jl.2 material for foj f - or li struction to meet this demand in his lecture mr nelson traced the development of the use of concrete as a ship-building material and showed a series of slides depicting the various types of concrete ships which have been constructed the use of concrete in ship con struction is by no means a recent development for as long ago as 1849 a small rowboat was con structed of reinforced concrete in france this was the first use of reinforced concrete for any con struction purposes but since that time reinforced concrete has de veloped to the point where today it enters into the building of practi cally every known tope of struc ture the use of reinforced concrete in i ship building has not kept pace with its development in other con j struction work but many develop ments have followed the first con crete rowboat built in 1849 con crete barges of about 50 tons capacity were built in holland in 1887 in 1899 concrete barges and | scows were used in italy and in j 1905 a concrete barge of 150 ton j capacity was built and put into use j in 1909 a 220 ton concrete freighter | was built in germany concrete barges were used in fie panama canal in 1911 and in the welland canal canada at about the same time in 1910 a concrete scow of 525 tons capacity was constructed in san francisco and similar scows were used in baltimore at about the same time larger and larger concrete boats were thus constructed until finally in the early part of this year a 3000 ton boat was j built and put into operation in norway plans are now under way in norway for the construction of 4000 and 5000 j ton concrete ships as this type of ship has proved itself of great value wherever used in norway in this country mrich progress has been made in the building of con crete ships and at jsan francisco a 4500 ton ship is im the course of construction the latest step in at the next meeting of the y m c a to be held sunday novem ber 18 professor benjamin an drews a graduate of cornell uni versity will address the students prof andrews is a member of the faculty of the teachers college of columbia university and is one of the most popular professors at columbia his long experience in close touch with student life will make his talk one that should par ticularly appeal to every lehigh man the y m c a has been trying for three years to get prof andrews to speak here and it be hooves every student to take ad vantage of this opportunity to hear him as an additional attraction mrs g a butterworth a prominent soprano of harrisburg pa will render several selections last monday afernoon at a meeting of the local committee for armenian and syrian relief held in the chapel of the moravian col lege for women plans were made for a campaign to be held in de cember to raise money for he suf fering armenians the committee is headed by dr w l estes and has among its members many prom inent bethlehemites the secre j a 1v i | d r p qb ? fi,i ttjjg n yf i 1 men from lehigh are : dr h s drinker prof p b de schweinitz mr j m frey the campaign is in response to the following appeal made by the president on october 29 an appeal to the american people one year ago in compliance with resolutions passed by the senate and by the house of rep resentatives i appointed days upon which the people of the united states might make such contribu tions as they felt disposed for the aid of the stricken armenian and syrian peoples american diplomatic and con sular representatives and other american residents recently re turned from western asia assure me that many thousands of lives were saved from starvation by the gifts of the american people last winter they also bring full assur ance of the continued effective dis tribution of relief and report that the suffering and death from ex posure and starvation will inevi tably be very much greater this winter than last unless the survi vors can be helped by further con tributions from america reports indicate that of orphans alone there are more than 400,000 besides women and other depend ent children reaching a total of more than 2,000,000 destitute sur vivors the situation is so distress ing as to make a special appeal to the sympathies of all in view of the urgent need i call again upon the people of the united states to make such further con tributions as they feel disposed in their sympathy and generosity for the aid of these suffering peoples contributions may be madethrough the american red cross washing ton d c or direct to the ameri can committee for armenian and syrian relief cleveland h dodge treasurer one madison avenue new york city signed woodrow wilson 29 october 1917 last year when the president's continued on third page at a meeting of the senior class book committee last tuesday night it was decided to incorporate the class book with the epitome as has been done for some years a contract to this effect was made with j r rosenmiller business manager of the epitome dates for the various photographs are being arranged and blank ballots will soon be distributed among mjembers of the class t c shedd 8.5 a graduate of brown university of the class of 1913 has been appointed instructor in civil engineering after grad uation mr shedd spent two years in teaching at brown university and has for two years been connect ed with the phoenix bridge com pany of phoenixville pa the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday november 16 1917 discussion group leaders meet pledges to war fund university dance tomorrow night p.m.c.'s first game tomorrow price five cents use of concrete ships to meet great demand vol xxv no 16 material for first lesson dis cussed in preparation for meetings cadet team has an exceptionally heavy line and strong backfield chapel music uses forward passes numerous advantages of con crete boats over those of iron and steel plans nearly complete