Brown and White Vol. 34 no. 44

              kinkajou and black bottom to be featured dances in m & c production two - day meet arcadia notice there will be a brief but important meeting of the arcadia on wednesday night at 7 30 in the arcadia room tour changed historic value clever take - off more chapters frosh track notice a number of freshmen are wanted to assist the man ager of freshman track in the capacity of assistant managers all men desiring to enter the competition for numerals are requested to re port to manager willis on wednesday at 4:00 in the trophy room chemical society bears lecture yearling baseball prospects bright mr harry l fisher of the u s rubber company gives talk on rubber sixty men report to coach petriken for plebe class nine illustrated battery strong in order to encourage more men to compete in the inter class track and field meet on april 8 and 9 the members of the spiked shoe society have suggested that no varsity track athlete winning one of the four teen events should accept the first place gold medal the class point total will not be affected by this however the first four places will be scored respectively as five three two and one points all students whether on probation or not are eligible to compete the field events will be con ducted on friday april eighth and the track events on satur day april ninth the virtual winner among the upperclassmen and the first freshman to finish will become the first string candidate in his event for the rutgers dual meets all other runners in good scholastic standing may challenge these place men on april 20 it is in this manner that coach kanaly will decide who shall represent lehigh against the scarlet count felix yon luckner german war hero will deliver an address to the student body on wednesday afternoon at four o'clock in drown hall he will tell about his experiences in the war count yon luckner comes from an old aristocratic ger man family he attended a very famous german university but soon became tired of school and decided to go to sea dur ing the world war he was giv en command of a schooner count yon luckner had a small crew and there were no big arms on his ship they went disguised as a merchant vessel and displayed many flags whenever they saw the allied ships they displayed the flags and in this way were able to capture their foes count yon luckner will undoubtedly give a most interesting lecture on his experiences and everyone present will be assured of a most interesting time that evening after his talk in drown hall count yon luckner will deliver his lecture at the beethoven mannerchor at 8 p m last thursday night in drown hall approximately a hundred members of the fac ulty and their wives enjoyed a novel entertainment furnished by a combination of all the mu sical clubs of lehigh and dave fluharty's orchestra the uni versity ramblers the combin ed musical organizations com posed of sixty men rendered a most interesting concert just before the intermission the club played a novel num ber cleverly paraphrased which brought much favorable com ment and applause where do you worka-a-john ?" was play ed using the names of profes sors in each verse another feature of the evening was an introduction of la mille by the string quartet this was the first time this number a favorite of the flonzaley quar tet had been played by their quartet the program was pre sented in the following order part i 1 pomp and circumstance composed by elgar played continued on page two to select staff for frosh bible 1928 civils bear road engineer lehigh university calendar editor roberts announces new plan of compe tition for handbook mr rosengarten delivers interesting talk on asphalt with only three weeks re maining before the opening date of the mustard and cheese production mercy sakes the black bottom specialists have been drilling every after noon and evening in the intric acies of their dance they have also been working on another popular dance the kinkajou although the black bottom will be the featured dance of the two with such female imper sonators as gee adams and steinmetz and with the heavily booted cowboys treading the light fantastic mercy sakes with its action built around western ranch life bids fair to surpass any of the former m and c productions a change has been made in the schedule of performances away from home due to the fact that the date for playing at york . has been shifted to saturday night april 23 the second bethlehem performance may be held on thursday eve ning negotiations are now under way with the lehigh club of trenton for holding a performance of mercy sakes there and if successful it is possible that the thursday night date will be given to them another pennsylvania city is also being considered the completed schedule so far is monday night bethlehem ; tuesday night allentown ; wednesday night philadelphia thursday night possibly beth lehem friday night open sat urday night york the chorus has been definitely picked by coach milam acting on ned wayburn's recommen dations although it is possible continued on page four a regular meeting of the omicron delta kappa was held last friday evening at the sig ma chi house after an en joyable dinner the business of the evening was taken in hand the question of omicron del ta kappa expansion was the first to be brought to attention petitions for chapters at the university of louisville and dickinson are pending and have been passed upon by the local chapter efforts are also being directed toward the in stallation of chapters at lafay ette rutgers perm and dart mouth a report was made by zug upon the feasibility of reinstat ing the honor system after a thorough discussion and inves tigation of the subject a mo tion was made and passed that the o d k should go on rec ord as being opposed to an hon or system at lehigh this was based upon the opinion that although the honor system if functioning properly is com mendable and a credit to a uni versity it would be impractic able to attempt to put it into execution at lehigh a motion was passed that it be recommended in the future the arcadia should supervise the freshman class elections which hitherto have come un der the supervision of the y m c a continued on page two one of the most important discussions of the meeting was that pertaining to the granting of university scholarships hay es reported upon his survey of the scholarship systems of all the outstanding eastern col leges this report revealed lehigh graduate talks to civils interesting bouts tin boxing meet three champs of last year's intra-murals retain titles h ellis 09 speaker at c e meeting thursday evening the lehigh valley section of the american chemical society was addressed by mr harry l fisher present research chem ist for the u s tire co at their meeting last friday eve ning a dinner was held at the hotel bethlehem prior to the address after which the meet ing was adjourned to the chem istry lecture room about sev enty-five members were pres ent to hear the address mr fisher a former profes sor at columbia university had been with the goodrich rubber company for eight years he took as his title rubber its chemistry and economics he gave some statistics on the amount of rubber used annual ly stating that 75 per cent of all rubber was used for tires and tubes the lecturer explained the special spraying process used by the u s tire co for solid ifying the rubber the sap from the rubber tree is sprayed onto a flat surface on which the vapor deposits in a form known as white crepe he then told a little of the chemistry of rubber continued on page four he next showed how planta tion rubber had replaced wild rubber showing pictures of a rubber plantation being started a vast wild area is burned off cleared and hoed and seed lings of rubber trees are then planted in this area in 15-foot squares the rubber seeds had been planted in a nursery and then transplanted after they continued on page four all those sophomores and freshmen who are interested in the young men's christian association handbook should be present at the y m c a room in drown hall on thurs day march 3 at 4 o'clock in order to sign up and receive in structions for a competition that is to start at that time for those men who wish to make the staff this competition is in accord ance with the new policy of se lecting men to fill the business and literary positions on the staff that has been adopted by charles a roberts editor of frosh baseball was inaugurat ed at lehigh last week and in dications are that the yearlings will be represented by a strong combination fully sixty aspir ants among which are a num ber of former scholastic stars comprise the squad coach jack petriken met the battery candidates in the tro phy room last tuesday after noon and the candidates for the infield and outfield on wednes day the initial practice ses sion was held friday afternoon at the lehigh field where the team will work out daily bunt ing was stressed by the coach in the first drill inclement weather conditions necessitated the cancellation of practice on both thursday and saturday on paper the squad looks for midable as there is an abun dance of experienced material available especially is this true of the pitching and catch ing departments of the eigh teen battery candidates who have reported ten are pitchers strauss is a star hurler from west philadelphia high school ayres is a heavy-hitting pitcher or outfielder from wyoming seminary salmon from ped die institute is the only south paw on the squad and may be used to advantage bean from norristown high and mayes a swarthmore prep athlete are the outstanding catchers continued on page four a number of the aspirants for the infield positions also came to lehigh with prep school reputations three first-base men oiler from germantown the junior civil engineers had the pleasure of hearing mr rosengarten last friday morn ing at eleven o'clock in the physics lecture room mr rosengarten's address as he had previously announced dealt with asphalt pavements the lecture was required of all jun ior civil engineers and open to anyone who cared to come consequently a large crowd was on hand t hear what the ex pert had to say professor winter l wilson continued on page four much money expended by university for summer surveying equipment four veterans & promising material forecast good lacrosse season the season opens on april 9 at easton this should be a lehigh has promising pros pects for a successfuul lacrosse season although coach lattig has for a nucleus but four let ter men to work with there is an abundance of good material the team will play a more sci entific and modern game this year than heretofore in the past the brown and white team has played a running and dodging game which is infer ior to the type of game played by its opponents plays and sys tematic means of advancing the ball hitherto unknown are be ing practiced and perfected this new system will prove of great benefit to the players as much of the unnecessary run ning will be eliminated the next regular meeting of the civil engineering society will be held thursday evening in the physics building the feature of the meeting will be an illustrated lecture by mr h ellis lehigh 09 on the sub ject of concrete bridges the meetings of the c e so ciety invariably prove interest ing and instructive and this meeting bears promise of up holding that reputation mr ellis who is county engineer for chester county has had experience which ably qualifies him to speak upon his chosen subject the lecture will be il lustrated and since the topic has a direct bearing upon civil engineering all students who are interested in this phase of engineering should make an effort to be present everyone is cordially invited to the meeting which will be terminated by the usual eats and smokes victory for lehigh as lafay ette is still in the experimental stages of the game on wed nesday april 20 n y u will travel to bethlehem this game ought to be closely contested because the n y u team will have just completed a southern tour in which they meet the navy maryland and st john's of baltimore lehigh will play princeton three days after the n y u game there will be but three games away from home this year lafayette princeton and navy a large squad of freshmen is reporting every afternoon to perfect themselves in coach lattig's running game many of these men have had exper ience in wielding the stick and promise to be valuable varsity material the annual intra-mural box ing tournament was held in the lower gym last thursday afternoon championships were decided in only five classes as there were no entries in the 175-lb and the unlimited class es the preliminary bouts were held on wednesday afternoon under the supervision of assis tant professor bartlett all the bouts were determined by decisions the bout between silverman and retino in the 145-lb class was the most spir ited of the afternoon in all there were about twen ty entries equally distributed among the five classes j e fopeano r m brick and t retino winners of the tourna ment in their respective classes last year were successful in defending their titles h b gans runner-up in the 115-lb class last year annexed the title in that division the results continued on page three thursday march 31 4:00 p m college lecture south side high school au ditorium speaker : profes sor george h nettleton of yale university attendance required of juniors sopho mores and freshmen pro fessor nettleton is a speak er of force meeting of the local chapter of the american association of university professors drown hall 6:30 p m supper in the cafe teria 7 45 p m regular meeting professor george h nettle ton of the department of english yale university will meet the members of the local chapter informally 8:00 p m meeting of the civil engineering society physics building mr h k ellis l u 09 county en gineer of chester county will give an illustrated lec ture on concrete bridges sunday april 3 6:30 p m meeting of the st paul's society parish house of the church of the nativ ity dr richards will speak on the idols of sir francis bacon advance notice welding symposium april 4 1927 10:00 a m general talk on welding by prof stoughton physics lecture room 11 00 a m tests of welded specimens fritz laboratory 1 30 p m welding fritz lab oratory 7:45 p m talks on welding followed by discussion the university has just pur chased a number of new instru ments for the use of the stu dents who take land and top ographic surveying this sum mer the equipment was se cured from about six good in strument makers and the to tal cost was more than 17,000 this equipment consisting of transits levels and minor equipment together with that which was used last year and is still in very good condition will furnish the men with a sufficient number of good instru ments the summer course in sur veying will be held a short time after college closes and is compulsory for all freshmen engineers with the exception of the chemicals last year on ly the freshman miners and the sophomore civils were compelled to take the course professor becker of the civil engineering department will be in charge again this year and is counting upon about 250 freshman engineers taking the course the camp will be held at say lor's lake saylorsburg as us ual however because of the large number of men who will be taking the course it may be necessary to have two camps plans are being formed for a camp at another site but noth ing definite . has developed as yet regarding a new location providing no new position is obtained all the engineers will be placed at saylor's lake which is about 25 miles from bethlehem and which is a sum mer resort for this district bethlehem pa tuesday march 29 1927 german war hero speaks tomorrow inter-class track meet plans issued vol xxxiv no 44 final selections made for mercy saxes chorus more scholarships proposed by o.d.k at recent meeting price five cents combined musical clubs entertain lehigh faculty count yon luckner will tell students of his experiences brown and white spiked shoe suggests that no varsity man accept a first place medal varied program rendered at big social get together committee finds that oth er colleges offer more help to students asst managers wanted for frosh track arcadia meeting wednesday night