Brown and White Vol. 26 no. 4

              they were prominent while at lehigh good spirit displayed expansion of fraternities has been a fast one since the civil war camp coppee soldiers present in large number lend support to teams van sickles 14 was captain in artillery while frobisher,'i7 was lieutenant in aviation the university enrollment fig ures for the present term just is sued from the president's office show a total enrollment of 710 men an increase of 60 over the enroll ment at this time last year and a decrease of 67 from the enrollment two years ago of the 710 men enrolled as schol astic students at the university 512 are at present enrolled in the lehigh unit of the s a t c 452 in the army section and 60 in the navy section the enrollment of the s a t c will be increased by the induction of all men in college who are members of the naval re serve the engineers reserve the signal corps reserve and the avia tion reserve and will also be in creased on october 15 by the en rollment of some of the men who registered in the draft prior to september 12 1918 influenza scare causes opening of season to be called off rutgers may be first in accordance with the new ruling from washington relative to s a t c football the game with carnegie tech scheduled for next saturday will not be played the regulations outlined in an an nouncement by the war depart ment specify that football games between schools and universities having units of the students army training corps will not be permitted prior to november 1 if sach games necessitate the absence of students over night from the city in which the school is located after november 1 absences from friday night to sunday night will be permitted members of athletic teams only two games may be played involving absences from friday night to sunday night however the game scheduled with car negie tech at pittsburgh is within the restricted time since this trip would necessitate that the lehigh squad leave on a friday night the game has been cancelled at present the management is making no effort to secure a game for next saturday as it is doubtful whether the quarantine will be lifted before that time as long as the quarantine exists no games can be played as conditions now stand the squad will be thrown against an experienced and power ful eleven in the start-off when rutgers comes here on october 19 soldiers of camp coppee now a part of the s a t c are eligible to try out for the football team thus far however none of the men have reported for practice it was hoped that several men would be found in the camp with suf ficient football experience to bolster up several weak places in the line induction of students into the s a t c during the past week interfered little if any with foot ball practice scrimmage was held almost daily the men being given a thorough work-out with the ex ception of manley who obtained a dislocated shoulder in scrimmage the squad is in good physical con dition negotiations are in progress for a game with university of penn sylvania on october 26 the only date left on the brown and white schedule the game would prob ably be - played in philadelphia although as yet no contract has been signed liberty day during the past week there has been more or less fright on the part of all of us in regard to the epi demic commonly known as span ish influenza it may be interest ing for the reader to know that even this plague originated in ger many ; that it first broke out in one of their camp was carried to spain by sailors and finally has in fested our country through the same means this is where the name spanish comes in and influenza means nothing more than epidemic on october the first bethlehem had her first attack with fourteen cases recorded that night the mayor and the city council sit ting as the board of health issued a proclamation to the effect that all moving picture houses theatres and other places of amusement should close immediately that saloons and ice cream parlors should stop all sales until further notice ; and that all preparatory or boarding schools and colleges should either arrange during the emergency to have all students re side within the buildings or annul classes no student will be per mitted to pass from his home to school this however will have little effect on lehigh as the ma jority of the student body resides on the campus any way the first football game of the season with ursinus to be played on taylor field was cancelled much to the chagrin of all more over the y m c a meeting on sunday evening was postponed and no more meetings will be held for the present on sunday evening mr s j hughes secretary of the board of health said that the epidemic had not yet reached maturity al though the number of cases of in fluenza is diminishing the previous ones are resulting in a considerable percentage of pneumonia and a high death rate fortunately there have been few cases at lehigh but the utmost pre cautions have been taken and even the few that have been recorded are nothing more than a bad cold in most cases the idea that possibly one can have the influenza has caused more trouble than the dis ease itself it is understood that the germ exists in two distinct forms one having a green stripe and the other a black the latter case is the more severe and where both are found together the case is serious in 1888-89 a very similar epi demic swept through the country but at that time it affected only the older people whereas today it is attacking the vigorous young man of from eighteen to thirty the university enrollment fig ures show the largest freshman class that has ever entered lehigh with 371 men but also show the smallest senior class in many years with only 51 members the junior and sophomore classes are also smaller than in past years but the heavy freshman enrollment brings the total number of men in college almose up to normal con ditions following are the enrollment figures for the college year 1918 1919 compared with those for the year 1917-1918 : college men to train s a t c following is a list of the colleges and universities from w thich the r second lieutenants in the lehigh unit of the s a t c come from all these officers received their commissions as second lieutenants at the plattsburg training camp during the past summer r h wales harvard j t vandoran cornell j k sanborn norwich uni versity w c thompson perm state r s vose rutgers s h short randolph macon r j tysor trinity college north carolina g p scott davidson f t clicquinoi university of pittsburgh quarantine causes y.m.c.a postponement epitome elects editor-in=chief three more lehigh men have made the supreme sacrifice and have given their lives up for their country captain carl van sickle 14 was killed in action somewhere in france although complete de tails are not given lieutenant j edward frobischer 17 was wounded severely in a fight with a boche plane in the vicinity of lens and subsequently died of the wound s b saunders 16 has been reported killed due to an accident in an aerial training school j edward frobischer 17 m.e of arlington n u was reported killed in action by unofficial but reliable sources frobischer was a first lieutenant in the 147 th aero squadron while he was flying with eight other men on the western bat tle front in the vicinity of lens the germans made an atack with thirty planes and in the ensuing fight frobischer was wounded in the abdomen he was able to land safely he underwent an opera tion which in a letter to his mjother he declared to be successful however letters recently received from his nurse and the chaplain of the hospital state that he died from the wound frobischer was a member of the sigma chi fraternity in his sophomore year at lehigh he was chairman of the hazing committee calculus cremation committee and won the english and physics prizes he was also an associate editor of the 1917 epitome junior banquet committee and stage manager of the mustard and cheese dramatic club in his senior year as well as upholding the academic side of his school life by winning a tau beta pi key captain carl van sickle 14 m e a captain in the 308 th field artillery was killed in action ac cording to a letter sent to his wife by the war department captain van sickle entered the service at madison barracks n v on august 15 1917 with the rank of captain he was sent to camp dix later and has been in france since spring the letter gave no details as to how he died while in college van sickle be longed to the mustard and cheese club sophomore cotillion club the junior prom committee and sword and crescent club he was chosen leader editor of the 1914 epitome and class book van sickle was sales engineer for the american blower co of wilkes-barre pa previous to his entering the service through indirect sources it has been learned that s b saunders 16 was killed in one of our southern aerial training schools saunders was a member of the chi psi fraternity cheer leaders chosen by request of the war depart ment — a request which will natur ally be heeded — the activities of college fraternities are to be sus pended during the war at insti tutions where the student army training corps is at work an other valued institution of peace times has been declared a nones sential and no doubt there are some inveterate opponents of all fraternities who hope that in this case as in that of liquor perma nent prohibition will follow this emergency war measure but the war department ob viously meant nothing of the sort and to a large extent merely accel erated a movement which had been begun by necessity the fraterni ties are used to having their activi ties curtailed in wartime the parent chapter of phi beta kappa at william and mary the only chapter of the only college greek letter society in the court/try at the time of the revolution ceased to function vshen cornwallis invaded virginia ; and the establishment of the chapters at harvard and yale authorized in 1779 did not take place till hostilities were practic ally at an end when the civil war came on fraternities had spread widely and many of their chapters suspended for the reason that nearly all the southern col leges and some in the middle west had to close their doors be cause practically all the students had gone to war the present war came at a time when a number of fraternities had chapters active in as many as seventy or eighty different institu tions and this spread of the ex tent of greek-letter orders has been perhaps even less impressive than the more intensive develop ment of the original chapter the fraternity of civil war days was a group of men who met occasionally and held exercises which were literary as much as social it had in some cases attained to the dig nity of a lodge room but more of ten met in the bedroom of one of its members the fraternity chap ter of today is an institution occu pying a large and well-equipped house which serves as dormitory and headquarters of its social ac tivities ; and its plays a more im portant part in the actual daily life of the student than perhaps any other collegiate influence continued on third page from the outbreak of the war the national officers of the frater nities were confronted with prob lems arising in great measure out of this very development of peace times it was pretty certain that quite aside from the diraft volun tary enlistment would deplete many chapters to the point where suspension would be necessary this had actually happened in some cases last year ; in others one or two alumni with such under graduate members as had for one reason or another remained did best to reconstitute the chapter by taking in more members from a student body sadly depleted in quality and quantity but the at the last meeting of the epitome board r b honeyman 20 was elected editor-in-chief and t f straub 20 assistant editor h s saxman 20 and h t bowman 20 have also been elected to the board to fill vacan cies left by members no longer in college the publication of an epitome this year has been sanctioned by the administrative office it will how r ever be put out on a much less elaborate scale than usual at an election held just before the game saturday h r walters was chosen head cheer leader the other cheer leaders are l b gels e gonzales and t f straub saturday october 12 is the four hundred and twenty-sixth an niversary of the discovery of america president wilson has proclaimed it liberty day and re quests the citizens of every com munity in the united states — city town and countryside — to cele brate the day the president in his proclama tion says : every day the great principles for which we are fighting take fresh hold upon our thought and purposes and make it clearer what the end must be and what we must do to achieve it we now know more certainly than we ever knew before why free men brought the great nation and government we love into existence because it grows clearer and clearer what supreme service it is to be america's privilege to render to the world the second of the y m c a sunday night meetings which was to be held in drown ball at 6 15 p.m oct 6th was postponed pending the spanish influenza quarantine it is hoped by all who have attended the meetings that they will soon be able to be again continued dr usher the president of a college and hospital in turkey who was here to make the address will be here again however in the near future in the impromptu interclass game substituted last saturday for the struggle with ursinus the freshmen defeated the sophomores by the score of 14-12 the hur riedly picked teams included upper classmen in their ranks also the freshmen made a poor start and during the first half the sopho mores had things all their own way there was very poor kicking on both sides and the freshmen showed poor interference cole man 22 dowd 22 ; heinzleman 22 and spagna 20 starred for the freshmen while pfeiffer 21 nolan 21 and savaria 21 starred fors the sophomores the game accomplished the pur pose of the coaches and gave the men their first chance to play by themselves and show what they could do both teams made many good forward passes and with the speedy backfield material dis played lehigh will be exception ally dangerous in this department many upper clasmeoa were given a chance to show their old pep their playing helped to make the teams more evenly matched and the game more interesting to watch a feature of the game was the singing and cheering of the camp coppee soldiers who kept things lively during the lulls with their army songs and yells the spirit which both a and b di visions of the lehigh training 1 unit showed toward each other was com mendable the game started with the fresh men kicking off to the sopho mores the frosh held the and the sophs kicked but the fresh men could not gain and returned the kick savaria then carried the ball within scoring distance by a wide end run for a first down he soon carried the ball over the line on the fourth down this touch down was made after five minutes of play nolan missed the trial for the goal the sophomore kicked off but the freshmen fumbled and stewart fell on the ball the sophs gained slowly for another first dow m and the quarter ended with the ball on the 30-yard line score : 0 sophomores in the second quarter the sophs kept gaining steadily and made their second touchdown after a few minutes of play they again failed to kick the goal the soph kicked off and dowd made a fine run back the freshmen were forced to kick and donovan missed the ball but it bounced into savaria s arms after he was down the sopho mores worked a successful forward pass for a first down but then had to kick the half ended with the sophs holding the ball on the 40 yard line score : sophomores 12 ; freshmen 0 continued on third page the second half was opened by the sophomores kicking off both teams exchanged kicks and then the freshmen gained their first down of the game savaria then intercepted a forward and it was the sophs ball on the 40-yard line both sides again exchanged kicqs the brown and white lehigh university ursinus game not played bethlehem pa wednesday october 9 1918 lehigh men reported killed university enrollment shows gain influenza not bad due to precaution price five cents fraternity houses will be closed freshmen defeat sophomores 14-12 vol xxvi no 4 two more graduates killed in action while another meets death by accident no serious cases have been re ported at college has been checked in bethlehem largest freshman class in his tory but only a small senior class greek letter world will be im mobile for period of war government rents many houses interclass game substituted for ursinus contest cancelled because of quarantine class 18-'l9 17-'lb increase rraduates . . . ienior 3 6 51 89 3 38 unior 119 105 14 lophoirbore . . . . . . ipecials 160 184 371 256 6 10 24 115 4 totals 710 650 60