Brown and White Vol. 26 no. 19

              penn state here tomorrow junior oratorical contest lehigh wins from delaware state price five cents men desiring to compete should see professor thayer by noon tomorrow fastest game of season won by narrow margin of two points use of gas in warfare j mckay 17 speaks on the fast game expected the up stater's lineup including three veterans smallest senior and largest freshman classes in lehigh s history first meeting of the arts and science club senior papers examination of steel and corn products discussed 36=29 last year score : 26=24 stewart's entry peps up the team in the nick of time in a fast game lehigh defeated last season perm state is to be lehigh s op ponent saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock in taylor gym the blue and white five this year are de cidedily a dark-horse proposi tion and there is not even a rumor astir concerning the strength of the up-staters if however they posses a team as strong as last year's which defeated the brown and white championship aggrega tion by a 36 to 29 score there is going to be an exhibition of the best basketball seen here this year coach bezdek will leave mullan acting captain and ritts at for ward wolfe last year's center will probably play that position though frank last year's guard has been developed into 1 a good center the guard positions will be taken care of by killinger and mcmillin !■■ rich leary has primed hi tn/?n for this contest and has driven the squad hard all week in prepara tion for this game the men are in the best of condition and should makei a good showing against the visitors presumably superior team a victory from the perm state five would mean much to the brown and white season for this is generally conceded to be one of the hardest games on the schedule it is safe to say that with state's iscalp dangling at the girdle of the lehigh team the players will show more of that confidence in them selves in future contests which has been lacking to date watch for the turning point of the team — it is in games such as this that they find themselves and de velop over night into a champion ship five the brown and white line-up will probably be chosen from gardy tollm maurer and sav aria as forwards stewart or marshall center and straub frain or ketcham guards the annual junior oratorical contest will be held this year as usual on february 22 under the personal direction of professor william c thayer head of the english department a sufficient number of competitors with their respective subjects have already announced themselves to professor thjayer and a good conteist for this year is promised any other mem in the junior class takiing a regular course who desire to enter this contest will turn in their names and subjects to professor thayer before noon tomorrow the alumni association estab lished in 1882 an annual sum of 50 to be distributed in prizes for excellence in oratory subject to the following kegulations 1 the contest shall be held on the 22d day of februairy or on the day designated by the uni versity to commemorate tjie birth day of washington 2 there shall be a first prize of 25 ia second prize of m and a third prize of 10 3 tio entitle one to be a com petitor he must be a member of the junior class taking a regular course 4 subjects for the orations shall be announced at the beginning of the first term of every year and upon one of these each competitor shall write an oration not to 1 ex ceed 1200 words taking about eight minutes in delivery 5 the examiner having adopted a standard of excellence may reject any or all of the ora tions presented which do not at tain to this standard of such as do — should they be sufficient in number — the best six shall be chosen 6 the executive committee of the alumni association or ia com mittee of not fewer than three to be appointed by them shall hear the competitors whose orations shall have been approved and the awards shall be made by a major ity of these judges 7 in awarding the prizes the judges shall consider both the lit erary merits and the delivery of each oration 8 these rules are subject to amendment by the faculty chapel music the arts and science club will bold its initial meeting at coppee hall tonight at 8 p.m an especi ally interesting program has been provided for the evening professor fox will give an illus traited lecture on his travels in spain dr fox has spentti a great deal of time travelling and studying in the iberian peninsula and his lantern slides of the country are very complete his travel talk will commence with the city of barcelona which is the most important city on the east coaist traveling siouthward he will touch the coast cities of valencia cartagena gibraltar and cadiz from caidiz he will show views of the cities of madrid the capital toledo cordova and seville the slides he will show of these cities will be of the most important points of interest and those places which the hurried traveller does not know about or have time to visit the last part of the lecture will be on the historic world-famed alihambra which was the medieval pal-ace of the moorish kings at granada professor blakei will be the other speaker of the evening his subject will deal with the aims and benefits of the club he will lay special emphasis upon the broad ness of the b a course in its scope and the ability to grasp the spirit of a college education the club has been unable hitherto to hold any meetings due to the upsieit conditions which have existed this past fall tihe im portant business to be transacted is an election to fill the office of treasureir all bia and b.s men includ ing the business men are eligible to membership in the club the fireshmen class is included and a special invitation is extended to them an unusual opportunity is offered by the club to the men in the above courses 1 to meet one an other in a purely social and friendly way and it is hoped that there will be a large attendance the program includes good smokes and eats intercollegiate lacrosse league meets the billy sunday of americanization speaks lehigh university has exactly 622 registered students as this is sue goes to press this includes the smallest senior class seen im college for years as well asi the largest freshman class when the university opened in september 719 students entered and since then 99 more including 70 re turned from the service after the signing of the armistice which wiere added to the noil making a total of 818 students last year leshighi's registration showed 717 or 101 less than this year's total but again many of these left col lege before the year ended the percentage of men leaving 1 college this year has been abnormally ihigih due to changing conditions since just 196 men have departed from the campus at one time or another since september the present figure 622 isi ex pected to remain correct or nearly so for the rest of the year as his tory shows that just about as many men enter as leave at the be ginning of the second term these 622 are distributed among the classes as follows with a compari son to last year's enrollment : this last year year seniors 64 90 junior 134 108 sophomores 146 186 freshmen 270 261 specials 8 18 totals 622 663 it is interesting to mote that the junior class this year has more members than last year a table of the number of men in classes and courses at the present time appears below lehigh came through strong with the comeback act wednesday night when they beat the delaware state college basketball aggrega tion by a 26-24 score from the start of the game and on through the entire first half all honors went to delaware their defensive play had the lehigh of fensive stopped before they could get within range of the basket and when lehigh resorted to long shots the old jinx was still working in the line of misses although every thing went to delaware the first half was not uninteresting and was by far the fastest game played at the home court this year delaware did not have much trouble in taking the ball down the floor but poor shooting prevented them from gaining more than a 10 5 lead at the end of the first half the second half started much the same as the first and lehigh was still troubled with the inability of carrying the ball into shooting range this sort of play continued until stewart was substituted to play center he seemed to bring a barrel of ' ' pep with him and the team started playing right there from then on everything was le high and continued lehigh until the end jimmy straub found his eye the second half and succeeded to drop in four pretty field goals and eight from the foul line gusi savaria worked hard and played a good game also mccaughn was con tinually in the game and played well for delaware the line-up : lehigh delaware state positions ketcham l f alexander savaria r f mccaughn bump c bernard frain l g mkrsten straub r g b carter substitutions — lehigh : gardy for ketcham stewart for bump delaware state : g carter for bernard field goals straub 4 savaria 2 ; ketcham 1 ; gardy 1 ; frain 1 mccaughn 4 bernard 2 ; marsten 2 ; g carter 1 foul goals straub 8 out of 11 mc caughn 2 out of 3 g carter 2 out of 4 referee mccarthy le high timekeeper webb time of halves : 20 minutes w j crock to speak at y.m.c.a meet frosh defeat sophs in spirited contest class stars merkle and redlein prove to be university organist t edgar shields has announced the follow ing chapel music for the week of february 3 monday — . . epithalamium woodman tuesday — madrigal maxon wednesday — triumphal march costa thursday — ■ clam de lune karg-elert friday — folk song licode pictures to be taken pictures of the freshman and sophomore teams that took part in the founday's day sports will be taken soon these pictures are to appear in the epitome mr w j crock an official in the wanamaker store at philadel phia will be the speaker at the y m o a meeting next sunday evening mr crock addressed one of the y m c a meetings last year he is a very versatile speaker and those who attended last year's meeting probably recall the inspiring speech he made on steadfastness and purpose the bethlehem trio comprising h r walters violin 19 g k walters cello and miss b dan jner piano will furnish the music continued on fourth page as a preliminary game to the delaware state game on wednes day night the frosh won the bas ketball game from the sophomore team by a score of 21-12 the freshmen were on the offensive during the entire game and had little trouble in trouncing the sophomore team there was plenty of action throughout the last tuesday night in the south side high school building mr c c dewitt in charge of the ameri canization work for the ford motor co detroit mich gave a lecture and a practical demonstration on how to teach english to foreigners this was given prin cipally for the benefit of the stu dent evening school teachers em ployed by the bethlehem steel co and furnished through the lehigh y m c a a class of non-english speaking men were present and in this way mr dewitt spent over an hour demonstrating how to teach men and women who know little or nothing about the english lan guage continued on fourth page mr dewitt had four distinct points which he brought out in teaching the foreigners the ele the annual meeting of the u s intercollegiate lacrosse league was held in new york saturday january 25 1919 the colleges represented were johns hopkins pennsylvania swarthmore and lehigh of the southern division and yale stevens harvard and hobart of the northern division the pros pects of lacrosse in the various colleges was discussed and found very favorable considering the un settled condition of last year continued on fourth page a publicity agent was appointed to bring the sport more within the no new rules were made nor any alterations proposed but it was de cided to distribute copies of rule books among colleges and prepara tory schools so as to bring lacrosse with its many advantages as a sport to the attention of those who may become interested at the first meeting of the year of the chemical society held last night in saucon hall the members of the society heard an excellent program consisting of student papers by g e doan 19 and h d ginder 19 and an address by j mlckay 17 on the use of gas in warfare g e doan 19 took as his topic the exam ination of steel and dwealt at length upon the various properties of steel which are essential to its acceptance for use by the u.s navy h d ginder 19 spoke on corn prolducts and ex plained the details of the large chemical industry which centers about the manufacture of various products from coirn mr mckay described the first gas attack made by the germans at ypresi on april 22 1915 this attack was by the cloud method us ing chlorine gas which was carried in cylinders containing about forty-four pounds of liquid chlor ine the loud method has limita tions anid is effective only under favorable weather conditions with the wind blowing in the right di rection and with the desired veloc ity in somiei attacks hundreds of tons of liquid chlorine were used amxi the drums placed so close to gether that there were three to each twio yards alonjg the front lines the seconid step in gas warfare was to fill shells with gas the first gas-filled shells were em ployed against the french on may 15 1915 with shells a wider range of gases is available while cloiuidi attacks were limited to phosgene and chlorine two main types of gas shells were in use one of which was the lethal and the other the neutralizing the lat ter includes lachrymatory gases and sneeze gases a further de velopment was the use of mustard gas or dichlorethyl sulphide this is a real torture gas because in ad dition to its painful effect upon the eyes it is an intense skin poison producing sores like burns in re cent attacks with gas shells as many as 35,000 to 50,000 shells have been dropped on a limited acreage in two or three hours hand grenaides 1 containing smoke producers and toxic gases 1 for cleaning up dugouts were in frequent use they make a useful minor weapon passing to gas defense the speaker describe the development of the gas mask from a simple cloth bandage soaked in various chemicals to the elaborate mask noiw in universal use there were two forms of mask in general use one the so-called mask used by the french armies and the other the box-respirator used by the english and american forces the french mask is similar to the german and consists of a face covering through which the breath is drawn and ex pelled the box-respirator is a more elaborate affair comprising a faee-ciovering noise-clip chemical continued on third page charles l taylor 76 member of the board of trustees is here on a visit to the university vol xxvi no 19 lehigh brown and white total registration of six twenty two students bethlehem pa friday january 31 1919 chemical society holds meet s course * | m | i i is 8 of arts . 8 b of sioierugei 1 business ... 6 civil e<ng 7 mech ecn,g . 15 miming erng 9 metallurgy . 2 eflecltjpomet . 2 elect emg . 2 chemistry .. 1 ohiemi en!g..ll naival enlg 010 1 12 0 9 24 26 11 4 12 17 1 28 0 8 6 9 24 23 15 4 6 17 2 31 1 4 24 18 30 50 25 7 3 33 3 48 15 32 31 43 84 1:14 60 17 23 69 7 118 16 totals . . 64 134 146 270 614 * special studleniits 8