Brown and White Vol. 25 no. 12

              by sol metzger college meeting mr kenneth hamilton and mr george irving speak at the meeting the second of a series of articles concerning intercollegiate athletics coach keady has shifted men around and now has a speedy backfield at the first meeting of the year of the mining and geological so ciety to be held tonight at 7.30 in the geology lecture room in will iams hall dr benjamin l miller professor of geology will deliver an address upon the subject the geological puzzle dr miller's address will deal with what is known as meteor crater located in coconino county in northern cen tral arizona this crater is an enormous depression in the surface of the earth about 4,000 feet in depth and it has been proved be yond a doubt that it is not of vol canic origin dr miller will ex plain the various theories in regard to its origin which has puzzled geologists for many years and will show that it was probably caused by a meteor striking the earth at this point an added attraction at the meet ing will be a demonstration by dr miller of the element polonium which is one of the rare elements recently discovered in connection with the extraction of radium it has the effect of causing a mineral to glow when placed near it as will be shown by dr miller the stand ard chemical company largest manufacturers of radium in the country have loaned the specimen of polonium to dr miller for this demonstration other attractions at the meeting will be special music and refreshments soccer team defeated fought game lafayette wins 3=o in hard the arcadia committee on col lege ruiesi and customs has passed sentences on the freshmen whose cases came up before that com mittee several weeks ago these sentences take effect on november 3 they are as follows : curtin — offence out at night before founder's day penalty must wear pants cut off two inches above shoe-tops and bright red hose during college hours until the thanksgiving holidays college hours means from 8 to 5 o'clock on the first five days of the week and from 8 to 12 on saturday heistand — offence : out at night before founder's day penalty must wear freshman cap every day in the week during the first term locke — excused powles — offence : smoking on the campus penalty must wear freshman cap every day in the week during the first term rourke — offences out at night before founder's day without freshman cap penalty must wear freshman cap every day in the week during the first term must not sit in the trolleys when a member of any of the three upper classes is standing wilson — offences out at night before founder's day without freshman cap freshness at tempting to organize the freshmen coming out of lectures penalty must wear freshman cap every day in the week during the first term must wear red hose with pantsi cut two inches above shoe tops during college hours until the thanksgiving holidays new instructor to . succeed dr peters who re cently resigned the university has engaged mr legrand rex drown as instructor in education mr drown graduated from wooster college with the degree of 8.5 and received his master's degree from teachers college columbia university in 1915 he will not only teach the undergraduate classes in education here but will have charge of similar classes in the moravian college for women and will conduct certain of the ex tension courses in education now t being taught by professor hughes he has had several years of suc cessful experience as teacher and principal and has pursued gradu ate studies in education at teachers college for more than two years in those subjects in which he will offer instruction here mechanical meet in the first game of the season last wednesday lehigh s soccer team was defeated by lafayette on march field the score being 3 to 0 the team which represented le high was a green one and it made a creditable showing considering everything during the first half the lehigh team held its own the eastonians only scoring one goal this was the result of a corner kick and schumway headed the ball in the net in the second half the lehigh defense weakened and the maroon and white forwards penetrated lehigh s territory for two more goals one of these was a fluke as it bounded off the head of a lehigh player and went through the goal next wednesday on taylor field lehigh will line up against the eastonians for the second game of the series and a different result is expected munkelwitz at goal baxter at halfback gorisse and gilmore on the forward line show t ed up well arts and science club tomorrow coach price and his band of warriors from muhlenburg fresh from their victory over lafa yette will invade taylor field to battle with the brown and white to date muhlenburg has an envi able record having defeated f & m p m c lafayette and a 0-0 tie with villa nova although muhlenburg is next to lafayette our old rival they have never yet suceeededtin winning from lehigh the closest game played was in 1913 when the brown and white only succeeded in winning by the narrow margin of one touch down and goal last year lehigh was fortunate to win the margin of victory being one touchdown and one field goal judging tomorrow's game by comparative scores an unsatisfac tory method at best lehigh has a big advantage muhlenburg tied villa nova 0-0 whereas lebanon valley succeeded in defeating the same team 16-0 lebanon valley on the other hand was easily de feated by the brown and white by a score of 33-7 lehigh also has a big advantage in weight variety of play and ex perienced men and therefore should have little trouble in winning by a substantial score during the past week the var sity squad has devoted its time en tirely to elimentary work and the perfecting of new plays no scrim mage having been held coach keady has laid special stress upon blocking tackling and charging and the tackling and blocking dummies have been worked overtime the team that will start the game tomorrow is as yet undesided upon if mccarthy's ankle is in good shape he will probably start at right halfback with wysocki at fullback and w d maginnes at left halfback macdonald will probably play left guard with early at center should the former play center then booth or rhoads will play at left guard either a maginnes or rhoads will play at right guard the probable line-up : lehigh position muhlenburg saxman l.e nolde or pfeiffer spagna l.t bond macdonald l.g solemon early c oabellus a maginnes . r.g freitag or rhoads johnson r.t carleton young r.e . gaston herrington . . . q.b anderson w maginnes . l.h.8 . . . mcgovern mccarthy . . . r.h.b feldman or savaria wysocki f.b lucas . freshman notice there is no stranger contrast no more interesting situation in the effect of this war upon amateur sport than that harvard princeton and yale do not plan to continue intercollegiate athletics whereas nearly every other college even those which abolished them when war came contemplated going ahead when college reopened true these three colleges will have athletics and will play informal games with nearby institutions of learning but intercollegiate sport as we know it is a thing of the past until war is over so far as they are concerned this has caused much comment some of which has been prejudiced in addition there is much misun derstanding and some lack of sympathy between those who advo cate a different policy than har vard princeton and yale but whatever these differences each group is governed by patriotic motives each wants to serve th country first harvard princeton and yale do not lack patriotism neither does haverford purdue and ypsilanti each reasons along different lines and will do so until some unforseen factor decides the question alike for both the harvard-princeton-yale die cision has been due to two influ ences first they have been slowly coming to believe that intercollegi ate athletics is not a department of physical training second they are in a measure the center of the nation's drive to get college men as reserve officers prof george e johnson har vard clearly outlined the first of these influences last winter in his address a defense of intercol legiate athletics he said in part : the undergraduate has never been interested in intercollegiate athletics as physical training nor have the alumni nor the general public intercollegiate athletics originated as and have continued as an expression of loyalty an en deavor to maintain and to exalt the dignity and honor of the college in those things which youth is most interested intercollegiate ath letics .. are a social a spiritual expression .... it is because inter collegiate athletics express the very soul of youth and express his love and loyalty to his college while presidents and professors have re garded them as only existing for physical training that so many grave faults have attended them ' ' we must keep this idea in mind to get the present position of these three universities toward intercol legiate sport thus when the drive was made at each for reserve offi cers intensive military training and patriotism supplanted both in tercollegiate and intramural sport and college loyalty if this had not been so if america had not been placed above alma mater if the eagle had not been adopted as a symbolism in place of the yale bulldog or the princeton tiger or whatever beast or bird it is which is the emblem of the athletic spirit continued on stxth page a meeting of the arts and sci ence club will be held next wed nesday at noon in coppee hall the meeting will be a very short one for the purpose of electing offi cers for the present scholastic year it is necessary to elect officers be fore the club can take up definitely the work and calendar for the year at a meeting which was called-pre viously for this purpose only a handful of men were present it is urged that all students taking the b.a and b.s courses make an ef fort to be present in coppee hall next wednesday at 12 o'clock must report to the committee in order that they may answer to the charges which have been made against them the following freshmen must report to the committee on college rules and customs on saturday november 3 at 1.30 o'clock in drown hall r d blake flusche n k harris h j ott h d wagner and wasser these men at the monthly meeting of the mechanical engineering society to be held tonight at 7.30 in williams hall three interesting student papers will be given w r pen man 18 president of the society will give an illustrated talk on the coxe traveling grate h j phillips 18 will give a paper on high explosive shells and f j beckman 18 will speak on why aint perpetual motion refreshments will be served and a big time is promised to all who ettend the m e freshmen are particularly invited to attend and get acquainted with the men in their course at the college meeting held wednesday morning in the chapel the student body was addressed by mr george irving editor of the north american student and mr kenneth hamilton who is in this country on furlough from service in the european prison camps these two speakers explained the great need of assistance in the prison camps and army camps y m c a work which assistance is to be rendered through the stu dents fellowship war fund mr hamilton who has visited some eighty prison camps stated that there are now about six mil lion men in prison camps in europe two-thirds of these being in the central powers the y m c a secretaries even in germany report that there is very little evi dence of the practice of intentional cruelty on these men but due to the lack of food the poor hygienic conditions and the terrible mo notony of the prison life the men are suffering intensely this is especially true of the belgians servians and men of other small nations whose very homes hfave been wiped out so that they have absolutely no connection with the outside world the work which the y m c a is doing in these camps is sanc tioned by all the belligerent nations with the possible exception of tur key one example of the nature of the work is the fact that 150,000 meals are issued daily to the men who are too week to keep alive on the prison rations in a more di rect way the y m c a is saving these men's minds by the mainte nance of y m c a huts trade schools factories in which soap etc is made and even in the opera tion of organized universities within the camps mr irving who is the chairman of the executive committee of the students friendship war fund explained the origin and purpose of the fund he said in part : never since christ hung on the cross at calvary has the world seen such an immense opportunity for service there is opportunity for every single person to serve in his or her own capacity at our entry into the war all college men were urged to don uniforms now they are more wisely urged to stay in college you men are preparing for the greatest day of college men in all the world's history and you are go ing to take a very direct part in this war besides the prison camp work and the american army and navy work the governments of france italy and russia have very re cently asked for the extension of the y m c a work into all parts of their armies seventy-five secre taries are already in russia continued on fifth page last year in a hurried cam paign 200,000 was raised among the college students of this country for this work this year at the y m c a conference it was de cided that with our own men in the field we should do something really the brown and white lehigh university muhlenberg plays here tomorrow vol xxv what caused it the geological puzzle bethlehem pa friday november 2 1917 students hear of war work report of committee on college rules the effect of war on athletics subject of dr miller's address at the mining meet tonight five freshmen sentenced for breaking college rules and customs a plea made for assistance in carrying out work started by v.m.c.a annual game with allentown team should prove to be interesting lehigh has new line=up the situation regarding athle tics at harvard princeton and yale no 12