Brown and White Vol. 25 no. 1

              two upper classes hit hardest by departure of many of their numbers dr drinker " bosey " reiter rev a d thaeler and others address audience after a week and a half of prac tice it still remains to be seen whether or not the varsity football team will be up to the standard set by lehigh teams in the past the loss of such sterling players as captains maginnes and tate of the 16 and 15 elevens respectively richards pons good and brunner must necessarily leave great gaps to be filled a fair nucleus however has been left around which to build a strong eleven captain halsted at half back is showing the same form which made him such a valuable man in 1914 and 1915 he is sure to have a successful year herring ton last year's regular quarter back is showing much improve ment especially in kicking and for ward passing with the experience gained last year he should be a star of the first order this season at left end w v mccarthy is slowly rounding into his form of last year g r macdonald at center is show ing his best game and should prove a bulwark of strength in the line last year he was greatly handi capped by injuries there is a strong probability that johnson will be back and in case he returns he will fill a big gap at either guard or tackle for the remaining positions there are many promising candi dates in the backfield wysocki an l man of last year brown asbury park high school lind savaria woonsocket r i high school and straub are the most promising nolan and mcnamara should make good understudies for her rington at quarterback the line is very unsettled mac donald and mccarthy will hold down center and left end respect ively for right end young an l man of last year coffin sax man and hess are the most promis ing spagna last year a star at brown seems assured of one of the tackle berths the other will prob ably be filled by johnson should he return otherwise the fight will be between early of last year's scrubs a maginnes and ricketts continued on fifth page immediately after the opening exercises wednesday the sopho mores and freshmen engaged in a baseball game as it was nearly five o'clock when the contest started only three innings were played the sophomore team showed the entering class that they knew very little about the game of baseball as played at lehigh and were easily the victors the final score standing five to two the game was ragged all the way through the freshmen being the chief offenders in booting the ball the score game called at end of third in ning on account of darkness two-base hit knerr stolen bases herrington knerr berg doll lowe struck out : by john son 6 by pfeiffer 6 base on balls off johnson 3 off pfeiffer 2 hit by pitcher by pfeiffer herrington passed balls lid die 2 hood 1 left on bases freshmen 3 sophomores 2 um pire : achorn assistant business manager competition tennis tournamfnt begins next friday the annual tennis tournament for the university championship will start friday september 28 the competition this year should be keen as a silver loving cup has been offered as a prize to the win ner all entries must be in before thursday september 27 the entry fee is twenty-five cents and is payable to_either m e johnson 18 a l purple 18 or r r coffin 19 ambulance drivers to play football the annual freshman reception given by the y m c a was held in drown hall last friday evening the reception was unusually well attended not only by the freshmen but also by the upper classmen the faculty and their wives the y m c a cabinet and the committees in charge spent every effort in making the affair one of the best ever and to say that they achieved their purpose would be putting it lightly r c alden 18 the president of the y m c a was in charge and opened the evening's festivities by giving a hearty welcome to the incoming class in behalf of the y m c a and the uni'veisi ] he then introduced dr drinker as the first speaker dr drinker touched on the events of his college days at lehigh which was then christmas hall and told of the growth of the uni versity building by building to its present size giving the names of a few of the alumni who were finan cially responsible for its growth he also spoke of the advisability of attending the conference school under professor lambert appeal ing to the freshmen not to fall back in their work these first two or three weeks of their college careers encouraging them with the maxim god helps those who help them selves ' ' t larsen 21 then played a cello solo entitled oriental by cui the audience showed its ap preciation by demanding an encore rev mr thaeler pastor of the central moravian church then spoke a few words pointing out how many men are needed in the army which is fighting for the great principle of right against wrong but these numbers great though they are can hardly be com pared to the number of men needed in the christian army to fight for even a greater cause the cause of christ he spoke of the great good the y m c a has done for le high and the bethlehems especially in its free evening school for for eigners in closing he extended a warm welcome to the new students to come to the various churches in the bethlehems we want you to realize that the churches here are just the same as yours at home and you are just as welcome at any of our churches as you are in the churches in your own home town we want you to feel very much at home at the close of his address there was a short break in the pro gram allowing the new men to get acquainted with the upper class men the faculty and themselves the next speaker a bach 17 who was president of the y m c a and the student body last year advised the freshmen to get in college get into things and work hard a goodi freshman makes a good senior speak to every one nod to other lehigh men connect up with something a e buchanan 18 then amused the audience by several very well performed sleight-of hand tricks there is absolutely no continued on fifth page that lehigh is taking her usual place in the foremost ranks in mili tary activities is shown by the large percentage of lehigh men who were in college at the begin ning of the present national crisis who are now either in various branches of service in france at the front or are preparing them selves in the various training camps on this side to join the men who are already fighting for the common cause on the other side probably the two upper classes are the hardest hit by the depar fcure of many of their number to ' the call of the government but the sophomore class also has lost some of its members the following list is composed of men who were in college last year who are now in some branch of service and have already been called the following list is com posed of fraternity men the non fraternity list will be published in the next issue of the brown and white chi phi loeser 16 corporal in battery a at fort hancock o'neill 19 army aviation ; daw son 18 naval reserve stroup 19 with pershing's army in france connell 17 national army at camp mjeade mulford 19 dept of transportation delta phi gildersleeve 19 naval foreign duty off coast of france ; j perry 18 army avia tion at mineola n v ; hampton 17 training camp at fort ogle thorp ; hayes 19 national army delta tau delta hurley 19 carlson 17 naval reserve ; halli well 19 ambulance service in france rohrer 19 ambulance service claxton u s navy rob nett 20 and mathews 20 it s cavalry ; clark 18 u s army beta theta pi grace 18 troop c of cavalry brooklyn dixon 19 and greene 20 navol reserve saxman 18 and coleman 18 ambulance service ; maginnes 18 army aviation kappa alpha w a richards 17 second lieutenant engi neers d h kirkpatrick 17 second lieutenant national army f b krom 18 aviation corps b c davidson 18 avia tion corps l f knight 18 medical corps l bevan 20 second lieutenant national army psi upsilon kittle 17 second lieutenant in artillery robinson 17 first lieutenant in engineers ; gulick 19 naval re serve mcdonald 20 and tre maine 20 despatch bearers in oryan headquarters troop thompson 18 has just returned from six months ambulance ser vice having been wounded several times and received badges of honor abroad he will return as a second lieutenant berg 17 second offi cers training camp forstall 19 quartermasters corps in france walther 18 second new yotjt > t+jivrv . wvidey 18 ser geant in quartermasters corps peale 18 squadron a of new york colby 17 mooers 18 in , naval aviation ; kaiser 20 i national army continued on fifth page the competition for assistant business manager of the brown and white will be held under a system of credits which wil be explained to the candidates at the first meeting the idea is to make the compe tition as fair as possible and at the same time to give the competitors a plan whereby they know at any time during the competition ex actly where they stand this competition is open to all members of the sophomore class who have good scholastic standing • and any member of that class who has sufficient pep and ambition is urged to try out absolutely no previous experi ence required or even desired if you want to be more than simply a nonentity in your college life come out and get busy the competition will start wed nesday september 26 at two o'clock all those who intend to turn out for the position will re port at this meeting to be held in the brown and white room in drown hall that the u s ambulance men who are encamped at allentown are interested mi athletics is shown by the manner in which a football teafn is being formed at the camp dr price the muhlenberg mentor has taken hold of a large squad of men and with the material he has on hand expects to develop a strong aggregation games have already been scheduled with perm state and lafayette sets forth in stirring address r present attitude of the st university p si last wednesday lehigh opened the fifty-second year of its exist l ence the exercises were held in packer memorial chapel which s was filled to the overflowing with j students faculty and friends of , the university chaplain s u cj mitman opened fiie exercises by reading a selection of the scrip ture and a prayer dr drinker f then defined the attitude of the j university in the present national y crisis in a stirring address the y exercises were closed with the sing ing of the alma mater £ dr drinker's address was as e follows : in coming together again to pur i sue our university work the over j shadowing thought is of course with us all the national one what 1 is the duty of our university and the duty of us all individually trustees faculty and teaching force students and alumni in the j present crisis in the affairs of the i nation and of the world lehigh i has a right to feel she did not slum ber in the recent years preceding the entry of our country into the great war we were among the very first of the universities and colleges of our land to respond act ively and heartily in 1913 to the call of the war department voiced through major general leonard wood then chief of staff to join in the preparedness movement by establishing military training camps in the summer vacations for the training of our college men in military science and tactics and we sent from lehigh a delegation to the first camp held at gettysburg in the summer of 1913 the estab lishment of these camps over one whole year before the outbreak in august 1914 of the great war into which our nation has been drawn was due to the prevision and pa triotism of general wood i still have a copy of the first circular proposing the camps issued by the war department over his signa ture dated may 10 1913 and sent to the presidents of all our univer sities and colleges in announcing the camps general wood said : the object of these camps is primarily to increase the present inadequate personnel of the trained military reserve of the united states by a class of men from whom in time of a national emerg ency a large proportion of the com missioned officers will probably be drawn and upon whose military judgment at such a time the lives of many other men will in a measure depend how well founded was this an ticipation of the value of the train ing camps is shown by the fact that through their establishment in 1913 and their growth during the years 1914 1915 and 1916 over 20,000 men were trained and made ready for national service as offi cers and of these a large propor tion enrolled this year in the of ficers reserve and are now in act ive service among them we note with pride many of our alumni we received here from president wilson in september 1913 a letter expressing his appreciation of the continued on sixth page the brown and white lehigh university football squad slowly rounding into shape bethlehem pa tuesday september 25 1917 y.m.c.a reception proves success many lehigh men serve government freshmen defeated in baseball contest lehigh opens for 52d time vol xxv sophomores outplay freshmen in short contest the score being 5 to 2 prospects for a strong team are fairly bright although many good men lost large number of students in every branch of military service affair well attended by fresh men upper classmen and faculty speakers exceptional dr drinker speaks chapel filled to overflowing with students faculty and friends list of fraternity men no 1 sophomores herirington c 1 1 0 6 0 0 johnson p . 2 1 1 0 1 0 maginnes lb . 2 1 0 1 0 1 wentz 3b .... 2 0 0 1 0 0 knerr 2ib .... 2 1 1 1 0 0 honeyman cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 bergdoll cf . . . 0 1 0 0 0 0 lowe if 2 0 1 0 1 0 eberman rf 2 0 0 0 0 0 j starab ss 1 0 0 0 1 0 totals 14 5 3 9 3 1 freshmen saveria 3b 2 110 2 0 brown lb . . . 2 1110 1 rourke 2b 2 0 1 0 2 0 lare cf 10 0 0 0 0 hood c 0 0 0 2 0 0 liddle c 1 0 0 6 0 1 pfeiffer p 1 0 0 0 0 0 larson ss 10 0 0 0 1 lindsay rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 mollog rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 nolan if 0 0 0 0 0 0 hipkins if 1 0 0 0 0 0 totals 11 2 3 9 4 3 score by innings : sophomores 1 0 4 — 5 freshmen 2 0 0 — 2