Brown and White Vol. 25 no. 8

              second next friday shifts in lehigh's team brown and white team has developed a powerful running attack lecture intended primarily for freshmen but upper class men also attend bosey reiter and w r okeson address meeting on the need of more enthusiasm arrangements for what isi ex pected to be the most elaborate and entertaining y m c a smoker ever attempted at lehigh have been completed and the game room in taylor gymnasium will no doubt be packed to capacity to night when the first speaker takes the floor at 7.45 sharp the smoker coming on the eve of what is looked upon to be the biggest home game before the lafa yette battle will be probably the most enthusiastic and ' ' pepiest ' ' to be held this year with the possible exception of the one held before the lafayette game no pains have been spared by the committee in charge in ar ranging for the very best obtain able speakers for the evening the names of the speakers 1 are known far and wide as men who occupy places of wide repute in athletic circles of the country mr johnson better known as pike of washington and lee university is one of the foremost speakers for the evening pike needs little introduction as he is widely known having been all southern champion and ail american left tackle in his foot ball days and it is needles to say that he will have some real dope to hand out that will be of interest to all continued on fifth page prof lane of lafayette and p s day graduate manager con sulted with prof reiter last tues day concerning various arrange ments for the lehigh-lafayette game the lafayette representa tives strongly urged that tempo rary seats be placed adjoining sec tion r and that a reservation be made for the band they agreed on the following rules concerning the game the game will start promptly at 2.00 p.m the teams will appear on the field twenty minutes before the hour as ten to twelve thous and people all headed for the same place at he same time will cause a great slow down in all avenues of transportation those who intend to be present at the game should come early in order to avoid con fusion automobiles will not be admitted to the field but may be parked out side in reserved spaces persons using these parking spaces will be charged one dollar per car every person must be seated and under no consideration will any one be permitted to stand at the top of the sections on the south side of the field considerable an noyance and confusion has 1 re sulted in past lehigh-lafayette games from a violation of this rule the committee has therefore in continued on fifth page freshman class nominates officers musical club tryouts at a meeting of the freshman class held wednesday afternoon in the gym nominations for the offices of president vice-president treasurer secretary sergeant-at arms and historian were made j n kennedy 19 president of the junior class presided the elections for the above offices will be held next wednesday in drown hall from 8 a.m until 5 p.m the freshman nominees are as follows : president r d baxter r d blake h g boynton j f hess j e hiestand g w martin j s stanier h j white vice-president : r a child h goldman e b harris r c hicks j f nolan c l schneider treasurer w p johnson g mellick narrington g m robert son secretary l l drew h h landis w m long j h spang ler sergeant-at-arms j m ar thur w f brodnax s g kay s lindsay l c ricketts h p stickney t k vogeley historian g d davis a i hippie w f meyers j j nes terowicz p ritchie a d stewart j h stoll what was perhaps the most en thusiastic college meeting held for a long time took place wednesday afternoon in packer hall when a large percentage of the student body reported at a special session the meeting which opened with cheers was addressed by bosey reiter who made an enthusiastic appeal for better support of the team especially after saturday's defeat you must stand by the team now when it needs support not only after victory but after defeat don't knock boost the team will not amount to anything until you get behind it the fact that they were beaten last satur day does not count for the team played is perhaps the best in this country today this is an appeal to you to support your team you alone can make it what it should be and you cam break it the great day is on the 24th of november ; if ■ , 3 don't win then we have had an unsuccessful season ' ' w r okeson next addressed the assembly i've been watching you i've known lehigh for years and i've never seen such a lack of spirit at any time as there exists right here this year it may be that due to enlistments the upper classes have been cut until they are not large enough to instill pep in the larger lower classes it can hardly be that it may be that you are feeling a sense of insecurity on account of this war and think that college spirit is not worth while if that is the reason you're abso lutely wrong our men at the front are doing their duty and it s up to you to do your bit with all your might do your part in col lege for if you do not you will make a poor patriot i've never been so anxious to have a winning football team here in my life as this year and this is the reason : lehigh men from all the training camps and from the front write letters to me and ask what kind of a team we have ' will we be able to beat lafayette ? ' is the big question many alumni say that they are going to get furloughs in order to attend the game it may be the last lehigh-lafayette game that many of them will see or hear about it is up to us to give them a winning team announcements were made con cerning the college dance report ing of crosscountry candidates and the reporting of freshmen to the committee on rules and cus toms the meeting adjourned to parade to the field in a body for cheering practice senior class book college dance tomorrow the fast georgetown team will appear on taylor field as the opponents of the brown and white team to date georgetown has not been defeated and has scored victories over such teams as springfield training school and lebanon val ley by the scores of 26 and 32 to 0 respectively offensively the georgetown team is considered one of the best in the south last year they scored the highest number of points scored by any eleven in the country gilroy at left halfback is the leader in this powerful attack he scoring more touchdowns than any other back in collegiate football during the 1916 season he was picked as an all american man by walter camp last year he is ably assisted by mcquade at fullback and whelan at right halfback maloney at quarterback is un doubtedly superior to any man playing that position in the south he is a fine punter and drop-kicker a brilliant open field runner and a sure catch under punts he also throws the forward pass with won derful judgment coach keady has made several changes in the varsity team and has also remodelled the whole at tack during the past week many new plays have been perfected and a strong running attack has been developed in a regular game on wednesday the varsity scored seven touchdowns on the scrub by using the new plays entirely in an effort to bolster the ends macdonald has been shifted to the left flank and early has taken his place at center booth on account of his consistently good playing is holding down the left guard posi tion apgar has obtained a posi tion on the back-field because of his general all-round play he promises to develop into a star of the first order if he continues to play in his present form other than these changes the same eleven that met pitt will start the game tomorrow the line-up : lehigh positions georgetown wysocki l.e hampton or macdonald spagna l.t dudach or owens booth l.g ahearn macdonald . . . . c anderson or early a maginnes . . r.g zuger johnson r.t smeach pfieffer ... . . r.e connell or young herrington . . . q.b maloney w maginnes l.h.b gilroy halsted r.h.b whelan apgar f.b mcquade or savaria the glee club and mandolin club both held their first tryouts last wednesday with the result that some good material was found which should form the basis of a successful organization of both clubs for the coming year the number of men turning out however is far too small and all others who have any ability along vocal or instrumental lines are urged to report for the tryouts which will be held in drown hall next wednesday at 1.30 o'clock in the glee club first tenors are especially needed since none re ported last wednesday the first cut will be announced in a later issue the men who reported for the glee club are : second tenors — carpenter 21 h j white 21 j m shafer 21 ; e w mcgovern 21 h k brady 21 first basses f senng 19 wentling 21 lauder 19 bowden 21 second basses — paret 21 ; yeide 21 k berner 21 and d f pomeroy 21 the following men reported for the mandolin club mandolins — w e scott 21 s g kay 21 h k brady 21 k w boyd 20 a g kraig 21 mandolin and ukalele — k m downs 21 banjo mandolin and ukalele i—g.1 — g e mott 21 banjo mandolin n dmytrow 18 g largent 21 lauder 19 violin h krell 21 j frets 21 e h hollen bach 21 m b shrader 21 ukalele m albertson 21 tau beta pi meeting prof percy hughes head of the department of philosophy and education delivered an address in packer hall this morning at the lecture hour upon the subject mental adjustments on entering college the lecture was arrang ed particularly for freshmen who were required to attend but was also attended by many of the upper class men prof hughes gave a clear idea of the mental problems which the student must solve in order to be successful in his college work he laid particular stress upon those mental adjustments which are made necessary by the transition from high school or preparatory school to the college or university on next friday at the same place and hour prof hughes will give another address along the same general lines upon the subject some principles of mental hy giene in his address this morn ing prof hughes said in part : so long as an individual re sponds automatically to his en vironments there is no mind but when the individual as a whole di rects the movements of his parts mind awakens and illuminates the universe this power of self-direc tion is trained in the high school but it is not exercised in the ger man university it is exercised but it is not trained in the american college we find that the students have largely fashioned for them selves vout of ancient traditions a new institution in which the power of self-direction is both trained and exercised this training in self direction should give the nation leaders and to the individual it must give the greatest intensity of living and grasp of reality this self-directive power of mind has an active a receptive and a corrective side the curriculum of the college must not be thought of as simply technical the study of the sciences and of the arts habituate the student in attention to ideas rather than to the object present to sense this dicipline is essential to self-direction college methods of instruction offer to the student stepping stones by which he may develop in himself the at titude and the power of creative in telligence the lecture method re quires of the student swift organ ization of ideas a good examina tion stimulates him ' to reorganize for purposes of recall that which he has received in the order best suited to apprehension this power of reorganization ripens in the thesis to the quality of creative scholarship continued on fifth page ' ' this active side of mind is fur ther trained and exercised in the american college by requiring of the student that he find some econ omic method of study suited to himself the student should under stand the importance of repetition and of intervals between repetition of a clear cut purpose in study of a high level of attention of logical organization of material and of a comprehensive schedule or roster for each week of study he should a special meeting of the tau beta pi will be held on friday evening october 19 at 7.15 o'clock in williams hall thisi meeting will not interfere with attendance at the smoker on saturday evening october 20 1917 at 8 o'clock a university dance will be held in drown hall music will he furnished by the uni versity of california jazz band as many men as can possibly be there should attend this being the first university dance of the col lege year and prospects for an en joyable evening are in store this year class books will be furnished to everyone who pays his class dues this year's dues will include the price of the class book any miah who has recently left college and still desires his write-up in the class book should notify the class book committee immedi ately members of the class would help the committee by telling them of these men members of the class are reguest ed 1 to have their pictures taken for the book as soon as possible the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday october 19 1917 georgetown plays tomorrow information concerning the lafayette game prof hughes gives lecture vol xxv y m c a to hold smoker tonight pep instilled at college meeting speakers for the evening occupy places of wide repute in athletic circles representatives of both colleges agree upon rules for the annual game large percentage of the student body attend special meeting last wednesday " mental adjustments on enter ing college subject of the first address teams in the south has strong offensive considered to be one of the best cheering practice no 8 j cheering practice j j today 5 p.m j j everybody out j $ '•■■■'■■■" '■ ' if