Brown and White Vol. 26 no. 44

              lehigh to lose prof mckibben underclasses to banquet delaware state game tomorrow price five cents college dance tomorrow middle states races tomorrow vol xxvi no 44 sophomores and freshmen take first steps in preparation for their annual banque s first game after two weeks layoff will find lehigh in fine shape head of c e department re signs from faculty effective sept 1 to go to union coach kanaly to enter good team in meet after very careful selection batting better delaware has had a good team all season and is now in midst of winning streak ten colleges swarthmore meet and recent practices show men to be in good form president farrington has ap pointed the following sophomore banquet committee g d davis e m loeser j c schonhardt w m long and a t wilson who have decided to hold the annual dinner at the hotel allen allen eown pa on wednesday evening may 28 good music speeches food and general good time is plan ned so the only thing remaining to crown the affair with success is a big turn out tickets are only 4 and are obtainable from any of the committee members likewise president glen of the freshman class recently appoint ed the freshman banquet commit tee consisting of the following men d w hopkins chairman s k beatty r dea hughes r w eastman and c p gooding the committee at its first meet ing decided to have the banquet at kurtz's restaurant on friday june bth at 8 p.m subject to the approval of the faculty arrang ments have been made to have an elaborate entertainment by pro fessional talent plenty of ' ' smokes ' ' and ' ' eats ' and a never to-be-forgotten time for every member of the freshman class tickets will be on sale saturday at 4.00 per man and may be ob tained from any of the members of the committee or from m glen e e meeting monday after a two weeks rest the brown and white baseball team will leave tomorrow morning to play the delaware state nine at newark del the return of hot weather has enabled coach keady to put the team through some snappy field ing practice and a decided im provement has been shown in the past few days in the infield while the outfield is once more back to normal shape and with the addition of winterhalter will be little cause for worry the hitting which took such a decided slump in the past few games has also shown marked im provement in this week's batting practice and it is expected that the team average will be considerably boosted after saturday's contest johnson will in all probability be keady s choice to do the twirl ing and with a good hot day _ he is sure to be a winner as he is in ex cellent shape all the soreness hav ing left his arm herrington will not make the trip as he is entered in the middle states intercollegiate races but kline and schneider who have both shown good form behind the bat will be able to take care of that department in satisfactory manner the following men will make the trip delaware has a fairly good team this season and have been playing exceptionally fast ball the last few games having lately defeated ur sinus and university of north carolina johnson and pfeiffer p ; kline and schneider c ; avebb lb ; cof fin 2b savaria s.s thompson 3b winterhalter and beck 1.f mathag c.f ; maginnes r.f ; coach keady and manager lawrence a regular meeting of the elec trical engineering society will be held at the physics building mon day may 19 at 8:00 p.m the speaker of the evening will be f b dickinson of the bureau of standards mr dickinson's talk will be relative to the work done by the bureau during the war lay ing special emphasis on the new methods that the pressing demands of the war brought out his ad dress will be entirely novel and of great value to those interested besides the talk election of of ficers will take place so it is es sential that every member be pres ent the usual smokes and eats will be there for those who desire new y committee heads frosh to meet wyoming philadelphians notice the philadelphia lehigh club is giving a great deal of publicity to their coming meeting at tinicum inn essington pa on friday may 23 1919 besides a planked shad dinner the committee promis es " a meeting of bewitching splen dor and a last blast before the big drought further communi cation can be had with secretary moriz bernstein 96 2130 estaugh street day phone dickinson 1004 night tioga 2848 w notice ! the following men have been ap pointed by j m straub 20 president of the y m c a as chairmen of the various committees for next year handbook n a newell 20 ; missionary r d bil linge>r 21 ; devotional d c pfeiffer 21 ; entertainment b b davidson 20 social service j g bergdoll 20 membership w a carr 20 bible study e l forstall 20 industrial f g macarow 20 publicity r e brown 20 and music w r heck 20 the committees to serve under these chairmen have not as yet seen selected summer courses notice ! on saturday may 17 the brown and white track mem will compete with the middle states collegians in the annual middle states inter collegiate meet at swarthmore pa the other colleges entered are w and j lafayette n y u stevens f and m delaware state rutgers swarthmore and muhlenberg coach kanaly has made a care ful selection of his men who will compete in each event and has made certain by several prelimi nary meets that he has chosen the best men for each event in the 100 and 220-yard dashes lehigh bases her hopes upon schultz and riebe with locke as an extra bet schultz is in good condition and by the showing that he made at swarthmore last week should give a good account of him selfi pengelly who is 1 a 23 1-5 sec man will be unable to compete in the 220-yard dash as he has a pulled muscle as a result of the struggle last saturday in the quarter and half merkle and captain doan-will very prob ably uphold their own and with grace as a possible chance there are good possibilities for placing in these events wilson who has recently come out for the mile has improved very greatly in the pre lims on wednesday he defeated the other contestants with ease cutting down the time of the mile by a good fifteen seconds this gives a brighter look to the prospects for the mile and with carr running in his customary form the distance men should give a good account of themselves gelly who sprung a surprisie in the meet at swarthmore will com pete in the 120 high and the 220 low hurdles paret and jacobs will take care of the pole-vault event and weber will represent the team in the shot put discus and jevelin buzz herrington who walked off with the high jump at swarthmore will enter this event again sharp who is coming along surprisingly well in the high jump doing 5 ft 6 in on wednesday will be herring ton's teammate these men will also • with locke and riebe com pete for honors in the broad jump as shown by the previous meets this year among the various col leges competing the brown and avhite runners stand extra good chances in the 100-yard dash the 120 high hurdles the high jump and the half mile and if the con ditions are favorable the team should place well to the front the freshman baseball team will travel to kingston tomorrow morn ing on the black diamond in the afternoon the team will meet the baseball team from wyoming sem inary this will be the freshmen's first trip away from home the team is being rounded into excellent shape as the result of daily practice on the lower field moorehouse the new pitcher is coming around into good shape and will be ready to take the mound by next week saturday s line-up will probably be as follows carey s.s ; pasolli 1.f . ; job c.f . ; mattson 3rd ; kozy 2nd ; person st ; parker c ; tollin r.f and boltz p j w carey jr was elected captain of the team at a recent meeting called together by the players and s c mawbey former assistant manager was _ elected manager to fill the position left vacant by f v wilson jr the annual drawing for dormi tory rooms will take place at drown hall saturday may 17 at 1 15 p.m men who wish to retain their rooms next year may do so by signing the lease and paying the usual 10 advancement information regarding summer courses is now posted in packer hall and special attention is called to the fact that petitions to take courses in second summer school must be filed not later than june 30 petitions are not necessary as far as the required first summer school is concerned a meeting of the out-going ar in-coming y m c a cabnets wi be held monday may 19 7 00 p.n at drown hall all members a especially urged to be present hopkins game for title tomorrow ehigh to meet last year's title t holders in deciding game teams well matched the lacrosse team from john lopkins university of baltimore i ild is scheduled to be lehigh s r ipponent this saturday the game c s to be played on taylor field at \ 00 p.m this is the second of 1 he intercollegiate games and if ] jehigh is successful this week the - c itle which lehigh has so often held ] aid which we lost to hopkins last i ear will again be ours and the drivilege of wearing the big l vill again be given to the team ( the lehigh - hopkins lacrosse which has always decided the ] championship of the southern in will be especially in \ cresting this year and compara ] ive scores show that lehigh will ] have no easy time with hopkins , likewise the showing the brown , and white made against stevens : tech prove that the odds are by - tio means in favor of the hopkins squad the navy defeated hop kins by a score of 5 to 3 as com , pared to 4 to 1 by which they de feated lehigh s squad hopkins won from the university of penn sylvania last saturday by a 10 to 1 score hopkins has also defeated swarthmore lehigh s lacrosse squad lost to hopkins last year by a score of 4 to 2 but coach hunter is daily working with the men to make the title safe for the brown and white team this year and he is expecting the team to come through with the cup it is expected that jenness who suffered the loss of his father last week will be able to play if he is not back either davidson or wooley will fill the position the line-up will probably be as follows : lehigh position hopkins parker g daugherty wilson p morley straub c.p stanley enslin ist d meyer wey 2nd d hoffman jenness ( capt 3rd d allen haussmann . . . . c williams lauder ist a frisch reynolds 2nd a sutton nesselbush . . 3rd a silvertein gilman o.h defandorf mitman i.h baxley next to the last of the series allentown orchestra to furnish music j a college dance will be held saturday evening may 17 1919 in drown hall this dance is to be the next to the last one of the year and the students committee : has worked hard to make it a suc cess the chaperones for the dance will be mrs n m emery mrs h r reiter mrs f p mekibben and mrs j l stewart the floor has been gone over en tirely rewaxed and polished so that it will be in fine condition for the dance the committee has obtained j howard g sommers ' six-piece jazz ; land novelty orchestra of allen town for the affair this orchestra has been much in demand for pri vate dances this year and will give i a good program washington lehigh club banquets the washington lehigh club s banquetted on may 10 at the hotel 1 lafayette washington d c i thirty lehigh men and their guests f were present those attending a were : s arthur carr guest ; callen 09 ; 1 cardenas 90 ; gass 98 ; gill 07 l hechinger 09 heck 03 jack son 08 johnson 97 johnson ; 07 ; johnson 10 ; lee 87 ; lewis i 88 mccoy 12 mccarthy 17 , mcpherson 22 ; mohun 96 ; phil lips 90 i g pfeiffer raf i ter 13 ; swope 10 ; walters 07 , guest ; watson 84 ; watson 13 ; l l b wight guest wilson 95 - whyte 12 wright 90 wright 14 and youry 12 ralph w lee 87 was toast master in the course of his re marks mr lee pointed out that captain william herman wilhelm • 87 u s mil acad 88 is the ' only lehigh man who has a tablet - in his honor in the memorial hall at west pomt — a fact which mr lee observed on a recent visit to his son at west point this should l be of interest to lehigh men at - this time > registrar raymond walters 07 gave an interesting account of 3 some of his w t ork while a captain f at camp taylor and observed t lehigh men come home with the ' bacon mr walters gave a most x enthusiastic talk about the univer l sity the keynote of which was 3 lehigh not only has a glorious i past but lehigh has a future mr walters spoke for attendance r at the victory reunion [ sgt r a m pyles a veteran of the regular army the argonne st ," mihiel and the hindenburg line ' came as a guest later and gave 5 an intimate account of some of his iii i experiences in france in action j and out sgt pyles pleaded for " preparedness ' ' others who spoke were : mr ); pfeiffer why my boys went to '" lehigh asa phillips 90 en n gineering work at a camp of em barkation cardenas 90 nic aragua captain mccoy 12 ' ' chemical warfare service ; ' ' major paul k johnson 10 the baldheaded major on the right ;" d major harry johnson 97 the 11 baldheaded major on the left 1 barry mohun 96 a few re e marks ' ' and lieutenant mccarthy 17 athletics at lehigh announcement was made at le high university today of the resig nation to take effect september 1 of professor frank p mekibben head of the department of civil engineering at lehigh since 1907 professor mekibben has accepted appointment as professor of civil engineering in union college an important position that will in volve cooperation of the college with several large industrial con cerns in schenectady the resignation of professor me kibben is received with regret by president drinker and the trus tees of the university who haw highly appreciated the service he has rendered as a teacher and as a departmental administrator and also as a public figure along engi neering and shipping lines dur ing his professorship here he has been active in civic affairs of varied character so that his ab sence will be felt in many ways professor mtekibben was gradu ated in 1894 from the massachu setts institute of technology where he took the civil engineer ing course following study at the university of arkansas for three years from 1895 to 1907 he served successfully as instructor assistant professor and associate professor in the department of civil engineering at the massa chusetts institute of technology while there he had engineering ex perience as assistant engineer for the boston elevated railway com pany and the massachusetts rail road commission upon the resignation of dr mansfield merriman as head of the civil engineering department at lehigh university professor me kibben was chosen as his successor and he began work here iv sep tember 1907 under his leader ship the civil engineering depart ment has maintained high stand ards of efficiency and a policy of personal sympathetic contact with the individual student under the direction of professor mekibben a new department a course in ship construction and marine transportation was in augurated at lehigh university the past year this was an out growth of professor mekibben's experience in the shipping field during 1918 as a representative of the united states shipping board be lectured at 45 colleges and technical schools throughout the country on the problems of ship building he also delivered a course of 24 lectures on ship con struction and marine transporta tion at thropp institute of tech nology pasadena california during his years at lehigh pro fessor mekibben has been active as a consulting engineer and as an author in the technical field in 1914-1915 he was consulting engi neer of the pennsylvania state water supply commission and frequently served in a similar capacity for various corporations counties and cities among the writings of professor mekibben are the section on steel construction in the american civil engineer handbook theory continued on fourth page lehigh brown and white bethlehem pa friday may 16 1919