Brown and White Vol. 26 no. 47

              vol xxvl no 47 racquet men defeat moravians philadelphia the future port 1919 university register appears price five cents win five out of six matches on wednesday rain interrupts meet with lafayette geo s webster discusses devel opment of philadelphia harbor tickets for famous musical event are in great demand ar rangements for students varsity after two week's rest from contests should show up in ciood form important changes in adminis tration and curricula are tabulated sophomore banquet ; hotel allen 7 p.m wednes | day may 28 1919 show your spirit i •••••..•■••.••■•••••■•••••■■•■.•■■••■•..•■.•■.•..•..•■•••■•"••••■■•••*' s new scholarships last civil meet parade in honor of local divisions register ready for distribution at the administration office r f johnson 19 gives student paper on the lincoln memorial six members lehigh men f m huffman 20 has croix de guerre last thursday afternoon by faculty decree the student body was granted a half holiday in honor of the returning local over seas batteries the day was one of rejoicing and the enthusiastic paraders in the afternoon totaled upward of 6000 the nucleus consisted of battery a which had returned earlier that day battery b which bad come back two weeks previ ously the former men of co m and the men of the 103 rd ammu nition train who had been return ing in groups diuring the previous few 1 days the leaders of the two main contingents were : capt w j houston co b ; capt samuel w laird battery a capt j j shonk 02 former head of co b lehigh was represented among the home coming heroes in that five of the veterans were alumni or for mer students they were capt s w laird e.m 15 lieut a w lewis 18 t s loeser 16 r j bobbin 20 a e eberman 20 and f m huffman 20 s gold berg 20 who for four months had been a base censor in france was also on the campus thursday and marched with the lehigh division he had not been connected with the local batteries f m huffman was awarded the croix de guerre with star di vision citation for distinguished action while signaling under fire in open field continued on third page the parade the various divisions of which were led by twenty bands and four drum corps was repre sentative of the enthusiasm dis played 1 by the bethleheraites as a whole the lehigh university con tingent furthermore savored of the bethlehem bach festival which mr pitts sanborn of the new york globe termed a nation al institution will be held in packer memorial church on the university campus on friday and saturday june 6 and 7 lebigh will then be host to music l.o ers from all parts of the country practically all of the tickets for the saturday sessions are already sold and the demand for friday seats exceeds anything in previous years the program of the first day in cludes eight cantatas as follows : 4 p.m the lord is my shep herd i with my cross-staff gladly wander o teach me lord my days to number and the lord is a sun and shield 8 p.m bide with us strike oh strike long-looked-f or hour ' ' thou guide of israel and o light everlasting ' ' on the second day at 2 p.m and at 4:30 p.m the choir will sing bach's greatest composition the mass in b minor the soloists will be friday so prano mildred faas ; alto emma roberts ; tenor nicholas douty ; bass capt charles trowbridge tittmann saturday soprano florence hinkle alto merle al occk tenor mr douty ; bass capt tittmann a special arrangement has been made by which students of lehigh university may obtain admission to the chapel standing room at a charge of fifty cents the connection between the bethlehem bach choir and lehigh university is an intimate one dr j fred wolle conductor was for many years organist of the univer sity mr t edgar shields the present organist of the university church is organist of the choir dr drinker is president of the bethlehem bach choir the ex ecutive committee of the choir in cludes mr a n cleaver treasur er mr w a wilbur and mr c m schwab of the university board of trustees and also vice-presi dent emery professor richards registrar walters and dr w l estes of the university sophomores attend the annual banquet juniors hold class banquet on wednesday afternoon may 28th the brown and white team will encounter the villanova nine on the home diamond 1 ', — that is if the weather will be kind enough to permit it this will be the first chance that the team has had in over two weeks to show whether it has improved or deteriorated with the vacation naturally it has not been idle all this time for coach keady has been putting them through strenuous three hour prac tices every afternoon in fact the team was well primed for the la fayette game and since they were disappointed there they will have to take out their spite on villanova in this game the nine should strike its stride again and begin the winning streak which will carry them through the lafayette games with the highest honors villanova has a team which cannot be scoffed at and yet weak enough to afford quite a practice contest so far this season they have been beaten by delaware college north carolina and several other schools m that class they have a fine in field and their batting is good nevertheless pfeiffer or johnson whichever pitches should be able to hold them fairly safe johnson who for several games was totally out of form on account of a sore arm is now back in the twirling game in fine shape and although he may pitch a couple of innings it is certain that keady will save him for the game with perm on decoration day as is generally known this latter game is one of the biggest of the season and it would be very unwise to waste johnson's arm in the villanova contest with prospects of a good clear week and with the team in the pink of condition the diamond men of lehigh should come back strong on wednesday the probable line-ups are villanova robinson cf mc andrews ss mcgeehan 3b mur ray lb hertzler c mcdermott rf kane cf cronin 2b delo herty or jones p lehigh matthag cf savaria ss thompson 3b webb lb her rington c ; maginnes rf ; beck or winterhatter if coffin 2b ; john son or pfeiffer p on friday afternoon the lehigh tennis team outplayed the mora vian college team winning five of the six matches although the le high men have been unable to play in the last three weeks neverthe less they uncorked some beautiful shots and put up an excellent brand of tennis estes lost the first set to hoff man 7-9 but took the next two 6-2 and 6-3 in the last two sets estes got his serves working in good shape and from then on the way was easier before hall could get warmed up allen had defeated him 6-2 6-4 allen was evidently at his best in this match for he made many hard and well-placed shots warriner proved to be a good match for vaux wilson taking the first set 3-6 and at the beginning of the second set he had wilson four love in games but with this handi cap the lehigh man took a brace and won the last two sets 8-6 and 6-4 in the doubles estes and hall won from allen and hoffman 6-2 wilson and mercur also won their matt i v vi warriner and meinert 6-3 and 6-4 results in singles : estes lehigh defeated hoff man 7-9 6-2 6-3 allen moravian college defeat ed hall 6-2 6-4 wilson lehigh defeated war riner 3-6 8-6 6-4 mercur y lehigh defeated mein ert 6-2 6-4 results in doubles estes and hall lehigh defeated allen and hoffman 6-2 6-4 wilson and mercur lehigh de feated warriner and meinert 6-3 6-4 points : lehigh 5 ; moravian college 1 on saturday afternoon the rain broke up the tennis meet with la fayette the weather man evi dently favored our opponents from easton because at the time the meet was called off lehigh had al ready won two of the matches and was well on the road to victory in the other two single matches hall playing an excellent brand of tennis defeated shumway in two straight sets 6-2 6-3 thus securing one point for lehigh wilson also put up a beautiful exhibition with the racquet and continued on fourth page " jupe " pluvius is fickle committee meeting the regular meeting of the civil engineering society was held in the physics lecture room thurs day may 22 at 8 p.m the princi pal speaker of the evening was mr george s webster director of wharves docks and ferries of the city of philadelphia mr web ster has been in the service 1 of the city of philadelphia or 41 years being in the department of public works for 38 years and director of the department of wharves docks and ferries for the last three years a student paper on the lincoln memorial andi its foun dations was given by r f john son 19 mr webster's talk was in part as follows ports in this period of inter national co-operation are likewise changing in their beneficial effects and can no longer be considered as local ports but natural or even international ports the port of philadelphia which is also the only port of pennsylvania bids fair to become the port of the united states or at least one of the most important ports the many important improvements made during the war will make the port of philadelphia the type able to accommodate a large amount of the nation's shipping the water front which constitutes the port of philadelphia is about 50 miles long extending from trenton to wilmington the water front within the boundary of philadel phia is under the control of the de partment of wharves docks and ferries while the river from tren ton to wilmington is under the charge of the board of commis sioners of navigation of which the director of the department of wlharves docks and ferries is president this board also controls the pilots which ocean going ves sels must take on as well as a po lice boat for taking charge of the harbor during the war the nation turned to eastern pennsylvania as the industrial and commercial cen ter foreign nations want our goods and the people are willing to send them as soon as possible the government is trying to help dis tribute the excess goodis and a commercial attache has been ap pointed in nearly every large foreign city to find the needs of the people this is the same plan which germany used in south america before the war with so much success the government is trying to establish a merchant marine and congresg is expected to make the necessary changes in the laws to make this possible continued on third page ports to become important must be able to handle the freight cheaply the port must be eco nomically constructed and the piers must be economically oper ated in carrying a cargo from the 1919 register of lehigh university has just been issued all students are entitled to copies which may be obtained by calling for them at the university office packer hall the register presents several important changes in administra tion and curricula among the changes is the grouping of the courses of the university into three separate colleges : the college of arts and science the college of business administration and the college of engineering the college of arts and science covers all of the former b a and b.s courses except business ad ministration the degree of bachelor of arts will be awarded the general course represents the traditional college course modified to meet the needs of modern life and thought provision is made in the college of arts and science for pre-medi cal courses of four years and of two years ; courses for teachers ; and a course having such electives in the third and fourth years as will make it possible for the stud ent preparing for engineering to obtain his technical degree in two years of further study the staff in business adminis tration will be increased and the course will be constituted as a separate college the new arrangement groups the following courses in the college of engineering : civil engineer ing mechanical engineering me tallurgy mining engineering electrical engineering chemistry chemical engineering and ship construction and marine trans portation the former separate courses of metallurgical engineer ing electrometallurgy have been united there has been a modifi cation of these courses designed to meet present-day conditions among the most important has been the addition of work in econ omics accounting and business law in most of the engineering courses there is a re-arrange ment of the oourses in mathe matics english and modern lan guages the new schedules in all courses apply to the present fresh man class class of 1922 and to the class entering next fall class of 1923 beginning with september 1919 the tuition in the college of arts and science will be 150 and in the course in chemistry 200 the register includes official an nouncement of two new scholar ships the dupont scholarship and the joseph mann prickitt scholar ship the largest enrollment in the history of lehigh university is re corded in the list of students which shows a total attendance for both terms of 901 regular students this includes about 125 men who returned to the university largely from national service the sum continxtkd on fourth page on account of the heavy shower which occured on saturday after noon the eagerly anticipated game between the brown and white and lafayette nines could not he played to the bitter disappointment of the spectators who had assem bled to witness the contest a heavy shower broke forth and covered the diamond with several inches of water half an hour later the game was called off and the teams and the spectators reluctantly de parted the contest will be staged at a later date so as to keep the series intact this is very fortun ate as it will enable the team to get in practice through an additional game or two before the final strug gle the sophomore banquet will be held at the hotel allen allentown on wednesday may 28th at 7 00 o clock although tickets have been on sale for almost a week the members of the class have not taken them as quickly as was expected last year a smilar condition existed and there was a big rush at the door for tickets causing much incon venience all men are urged to buy their tickets now from the committee and not wait until the last minute it is up to every man to show his class spirit and be present on that night the list of speakers was very carefully picked and the speeches will be sure to entertain w m long chairman of the committee announces that the honorable archibald johnston dr henry s drinker and j e gheen will be present as speakers bosey n m emery john toohy and ken bevier will also be the guests of the class there will be a meeting of the y m c a handbook committee in drown hall wednesday may 28 at 4 p.m the committee con sists of n a newell 20 chair man r s ott 20 h g som mers 20 d m clarke 21 a h wilson 21 ; p c barthold ' 21 and c p gooding 22 this meet ing is for the purpose of organiz ation and it is essential that each member be present the commit tee will welcome any suggestions on the part of the student body for the improvement of the hand book all suggestions should be written and be handed to either mr j m frey or n a newell the class of 1920 held its annual banquet at kurtz restaurant last friday evening about fifty were present when about seventy were expected but to those who were there the evening proved a thoroughly enjoyable one the banquet which began at 8 p.m was held in the large private dining room and the banqueters were seated at small tables which accommodated ten each music was furnished by the jazz-bo or chestra of six pieces favors were black leather notebook and card case combined in which was insert ed the printed menu continued on fourth page the speakers were dr drinker prof h r reiter and m b tate prof mckibben who was also to sneak was unable to be present dr drinker had received an urgent call to pittsburgh and had to leave early in order to catch a night train to that city so he was lehigh brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday may 27 1919 nine to meet villanova bach festival coming june 6 7