Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 15

              rutgers defeats lehigh in loosely played exhibition members chosen for roles after second try-outs last week aerial attacks of raritan representatives enables them to defeat brown and white eleven by 1 2-6 score lecturer is authority on archaeology and classics talks to lehigh valley chapter on the roman forum in meeting in coppee hall defeat maroon yearlings by 1 3-3 and remain undefeated prof fogg at tunnel opening present at ceremonies for opening new holland vehicular tunnel performed tests four plays many guests present burke scores for lehigh best season chemicals hear good address e e's addressed by col shepard mr e f marsiglio talks on professional chemistry official of a t and t speaks on development of communication professor r j fogg the head of the lehigh civil engineer ing department left last sat urday for new york where he attended the ceremonies held at the opening of the holland ve hicular tunnel this fact is of special interest to lehigh stu dents since the fritz labora tory at lehigh which has been connected with several out standing engineering projects such as the testing of the cables for the new suspension bridge connecting philadelphia with camden n j made the ma jority of the tests on the seg ments bolts and other mater ial used in the construction of the new tunnel work on this tunnel under the hudson river which con nects new york with new jer sey was authorized in 1919 and was completed in a little more than seven years with a total expenditure of over 48,000,000 it consists of two parallel tubes each having an exterior diameter of 29 feet 6 inches and a total length of 8,500 feet with a maximum capacity of continued on page three in the furtherance of its plan to have two actors try out for the same role the mustard and cheese club held its second try out last thursday and friday nights at that time the com mittee in charge of the fall productions of the club j e kiep h e snodgrass and h m adams assisted by their ad visor prof pfander chose from the candidates the final cast for each of the four one act comedies the club is pre senting on the evening of de cember 16th among the comedies the mus tard and cheese is preparing is one entitled in 1999 by wil liam de mille this satirical comedy is based upon de mille's assumption that by the close of the century the intrinsic na tures of men and women will have been reversed the dram atist is clever in his imagina tion and in this exceedingly novel comedy he ridicules the tendancy of modern women to imitate men and predicts that in 1999 this condition will be far more evident the cast for continued on page two the brown and white year ling eleven defeated its tradi tional rivals by a score of 13-3 and kept their undefeated rec ord intact after trailing be hind lafayette in the first half by three points the lehigh frosh taking advantage of the breaks came back in the sec ond half with an offense that swept the maroon eleven off its feet the brown and white line showed up particularly well in the game and time after time broke up the lafayette plays enscoe and elliott play ed stellar games for lehigh while tellier starred for lafay ette enscoe was responsible for both of lehigh's touch downs and it was he who ran sixty yards for the first brown and white goal in the first half the ball see-sawed up and down the field with neither team showing any particular advantage but in the second half lehigh was by far the more aggressive and the mar oon team seemed unable to stop the brown and white of fense continued on page three towards the end of the sec ond quarter lafayette recov ered a fumble on lehigh's twen harriers place fourth in races booters lose to swarthmore team lehigh university calendar union alfred n y u before lehigh in inter collegiate run defeat lehigh occer team in strenuous and windy fray last saturday afternoon dr ralph van deman magoffin ad dressed the members and guests of the lehigh valley chapter of the american clas sical league at their semi-an nual meeting which was held at two-thirty in coppee hall dr magoffin is professor of classics at new york univer sity president of the archaeol ogical institute of america and president of the classical lea gue of america he has a great deal of influence on the vastly increased interest in archaeol ogy and in the study of the classical languages latin and greek continued on page six the subject of dr magoffin's lecture was the roman for um the smallest great spot on earth before beginning to speak on his topic however dr magoffin talked about fifteen minutes on the work of the american classical league in aiding the study of latin and greek he stated that the so ciety recommended that a great er freedom be given in the stu dy of classics and less insis tance be made on the reading of caesar cicero and virgil the aim of the classical league is that about a year and half of easy latin should be read before plunging into caesar it recommends and the college entrance board has adopted a program so that caesar will not be read before the second sem the rutgers sensational pass ing attack proved too much for the lehigh gridders last satur day at new brunswick with the exception of several bril liant plays on the part of the brown and white team the scarlet held the upper hand in the game some of the passing plays that coach rockafellor has developed made the game have the semblance of a court battle rather than one on the gridiron eddie roberts half back on the new brunswick eleven and basketball ace per formed admirably on the receiv ing end of the aerial attack in the first quarter tommy burke intercepted one of these passes and made a sensational race for eighty yards through the entire rutgers team for a touchdown to tie the score while the le high stands were returning to normalcy rutgers line broke through to block david owitz's try for the extra point again in the third period the lehigh cheering section was brought to its feet when moore got in the way of a rutgers punt on their own 36-yard line in the shuffle that followed the pigskin eluded its pursuers and was not brought to rest until it had rolled back to the 20-yard stripe continued on page two tex rosen the diminutive star of the rutgers combination shone brilliantly throughout the game he bore the brunt of the scarlet attack as well as fair crowd at pep meeting epitome plans larger volume music and cheers at flag pole meeting last thursday the lehigh student branch of the chemical society held its second meeting of the year last friday night at seven forty five presment barnitz called the meeting to order and the minutes were read by the secre tary following this the speak er of the evening mr e f marsiglio of the j t baker chemical company was intro duced mr marsiglio stated that this was his first contact with stu dents in the chemical course at lehigh and referred to both the department and the society as boosters he took for his topic professional chemistry and tried to show how the fun damentals of the science were the most important part he stated that he wanted his sub ject to be something very ele mental so that what he said to day would not be out of date tomorrow continued on page two mr marsiglio said that learn ing was not static that a final ity in knowledge was never reached if such a finality could be reached by any human be ing it would immediately put a stop to all research for all research would be in vain the chemical profession is an indus try which requires a certain amount of knowledge most stu dents want to go from college immediately into research work the speaker of the evening at the meeting of the student electrical society which was held last thursday night was colonel h s shepard the ex ecutive assistant of the amer ican telephone and telegraph company col shepard is a graduate of the university of michigan and was in charge of the radio course for officers during the world war his subject was the development of communication col shepard opened his talk by congratulating the electrical engineers upon their choice of professions me stated that electricity plays a most impor tant part in modern life it is used in homes amusements factories railways and for heat light and communication in spite of the fact that elec tricity is widely used it is very young it is only forty-five years since the first electric light station was started in new york city it is just fifty years since the first telephone was put into usage and eighty years since the beginning of tel egraphy the first industrial use of electricity in spite of this youth it now provides a means of communication to all parts of north america and even to england continued on page five the telephone industry is an outstanding example of an in dustry which is founded upon changes and additions in sections necessitate more space arcadia holds special meeting 0 d k holds dinner meeting consider policy of expan sion committee on ex penses of organization discussions on pep meetings and lafayette game held lehigh's cross country team brought to a close a fairly suc cessful season last saturday by placing fourth in the tenth an nual championship run of the middle atlantic states colle giate association over the six mile van cortlandt park course in new york city leading by a margin of twen ty seconds arthur totten un ion college hill and dale star won the individual honors and led his teammates to the m a s c a a team title all of the scoring union men finished in the first eight totten's time was 30:07 this is nineteen seconds faster than the course record established last year by gwinn of john hopkins and but a second slower than the meet record of 30:06 held by mcgrath lehigh 16 continued on page three alfred college competing to defend its team title scored 55 points to place second new york university was third with 108 points lehigh scored 79 points ; lafayette was fifth with 108 points and manhattan swarthmore defeated the le high soccerites in a poorly con tested game at lehigh field saturday the final score was 2-0 the lehigh booters made a very poor showing through out the game and the main liners were not hard pressed to win a strong wind made accurate kicking difficult swarthmore was too clever for the lehigh booters but in spite of frequent raids on ihe lehigh goal there was no scor ing during the first half the main liners tallied their first count in the third period when bringhurst after a pretty pass close to the net sent in a drive that completely beat damiani the brown and white flashed its only attack shortly after but it was short lived and the per iod ended with swarthmore again hovering in the shadow of the goal lehigh showed signs of a spurt at the start of the final canto but their opponents again opened fire and gave damiani plenty of work with a few remaining minutes of play there continued on page five the last meeting of the omi cron delta kappa fraternity was held at the alpha tau omega house in the form of a dinner the only faculty mem ber present was professor p m palmer the other faculty members being out of town af ter dinner the expansion policy of the fraternity was discussed and the names of rutgers and lafayette were mentioned as prospective places for the foun dation of new chapters it was decided to invite professor prentic the dean of lafay ette to attend a meeting in the near future for the purpose of obtaining his views on the mat ter continued on page six a committee was appointed to investigate the expenses in curred by the various college or ganizations and to make a re port as to the amount of the thursday afternoon at four thirty a short pep meeting was held around the flag-pole al though there were hardly two hundred men present the vol ume of cheering was signifi cant of a much larger crowd the meeting did not start quite on time as those presiding were waiting for as large a number of arrivals as possible just about the time the crowd began to grow restless the university band struck up a peppy num ber and all marched from the road up to the flag-pole here cheerleader ward wiegand led in yells for the team and for percy wendell the band then played and all joined in singing hail the college a few more yells followed and then all sang the touchdown song at this point wiegand an nounced that since there were so few present there would not be a parade over to the field to cheer the team but that instead all should come out at seven forty-five on saturday morning to give the team a good send off then after a final cheer for the team the crowd dis persed pre-meds a meeting of the pre-med ical society will be held in williams hall next thursday evening at eight o'clock dr royce will be the speaker all members are urged to be present mechanicals a meeting of the mechan ical society will be held next thursday evening at eight o'clock in the geology lecture room williams hall an authority from ingersoll rand co will discuss inter nal combustion engines all interested are invited exhibition of paintings by contemporary american artists loaned by the am erican federation of arts faculty room alumni mem orial building november 14 19 hours monday to fri day 4-6 p m and 7-9 p m saturday 9 a m to 2 p m saturday 3 to 6 p m wednesday nov 16 7 30 p m meeting of the min ing and geological society geology lecture room wil liams hall illustrated ijc ture by mr w l cummings of bethlehem steel co thursday nov 17 4 00 p m college lecture south side high school auditorium address by mr norman an gell entitled what's hap pening in europe mr an gell is one of the most dis tinguished publicists his writings have had a world wide influence on thinking people the public is cor dially invited to attend this lectftre juniors sophomores and freshmen are required to attend 7 30 p m meeting of the civ il engineering society dr b l miller will talk on his trip abroad friday nov 18 8 00 p m joint meeting of the lehigh valley section of the a s m e and the engin eer's club drown hall saturday nov 19 2:00 p m varsity football lafayette vs lehigh taylor field the work on the year book is progressing with marked success the opening sections of the book are practically com pleted and it is planned to haye 1 them entirely finished before the thanksgiving vacation ten or twelve of the fraterni ties have had their pictures taken and those who have not as yet done so are urged to have them done as soon as pos sible the faculty and frater nity sections which have in the past been largely repetition from year to year will be con siderably changed the number of subscriptions so far this year is very low and it may be well to remind those who are planning to sub scribe that the price will in crease from five to six dollars as soon as the book is pub lished a large number of ad vertisements have already been received many photographs have been taken of the impor tant events of the year some of which are excellent it has been estimated that the book will contain about 504 pages a regular meeting of the ar cadia was held last wednesday at drown hall kirkpatrick representing the cyanide club asked that»j;he members of this society be allowed to wear some sort of hat as a distinction since this club has been en trusted with the care of visi tors it is necessary that some means be devised that will pro vide easy recognition for its members kirkpatrick stated that at such colleges as cor nell and pennsylvania those societies whose function it is to care for visitors are recognized by keys however the mem bers of the cyanide club pre fer hats after much discus sion this petition was granted temporarily provided the hats adopted did not resemble the hats used by the sword and \ continued on page three bethlehem pa tuesday november 15 1927 frosh gridmen beat lafayette in hard fray m & c picks cast for plays brown white price five cents classical league listens to address by dr magoffin vol xxxv no 15 brown-maroon ball saturday big smoker friday night