Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 17

              price five cents success of frosh gridmen celebrated ; coach tate talks noted politician presents many interesting views at college lecture soccer team defeats navy 2-0 for first victory in years lehigh outclassed by maroon for ninth consecutive defeat in sixty-first annual classic five undergraduates dis cuss factors influencing study at meeting mighty eleven from lafayette overwhelms brown and white team by 43-0 score but does not crush fight — hard playing by brown team holds maroon machine scoreless in third quarter wagner scores large crowd nes as brightly as maroon backs student body of 1500 was com mendable during the entire aft ernoon cheer after cheer song upon song thundered forth and re-echoed from the south side stands — this in spite of the un fortunate season the abun dance of true fervor and enthu siasm melded well with the oc casion undoubtedly as an aftermath of the discouraging exhibitions of both teams through the sea son were the many empty stands although smaller es timated at approximately 10,000 people than the average lehigh-lafayette attendance the assemblage lacked none of the typical big-game atmos phere the respective college bands in snappy attire pretty girls with chrysanthemums re continued on page four result was inevitable lehigh was hopelessly outclassed by a heavier line and the splendid running attack of the mccrack ian backs wilson who was in jured in the first quarter guest hanlon chimenti and o'reilly the latter substituting for wil son proved to be the sensation of the afternoon being instru mental in the scoring barrage and tearing off 20 to 55 yard runs with reckless abandon line bucks end runs for ward passes and off-tackle plays all expertly executed by the vis itors bewildered the local col legians who were outscored but not outfought this diversified form of attack kept lehigh on the defensive for the majority of the time the spirit of the valiant brown and white team and davidowitz sh pre-game predictions by foot ball experts and non-partisan laymen were fulfilled to com plete expectations saturday aft ernoon when a powerful smoothly functioning lafayette team annihilated a fighting but unquestionably outclassed le high eleven 43-0 when o'reil ly crashed over for the seventh maroon touchdown he added the concluding points to the high est score which an easton team has tallied against their beth lehem rivals since 1905 when lafayette emerged victorious 53-0 from the moment that bur nett huge left tackle broke thru and blocked raleigh's attempted punt on the 5-yard line recov ered the ball and rolled over the stripe for the initial touch down to the final whistle the frosh gridmen had best year mechanicals hear talk on engines much color at lafayette game mr w a morrison of in gersoll-rand discusses many types alumni and bands attrac tions at annual gridiron classic remained undefeated for first time in many seasons last monday night found the freshmen assembled in force in the auditorium of drown hall enjoying their first class smoker and celebrating their defeat over lafayette frosh seated on the floor in friendly groups the class first listened to the opening words of fred trafford rufus sav ajffe president then took the chair and introduced austy tate frosh football coach who was greeted with hearty shouts and cheers austy in a brief but impressive speech center ed his theme about the proper union of athletics with schol arship the salient point which he drove home so forcefully is found in his own words a good lehigh athlete is also a good lehigh student he made frequent references to the fact that innumerable promising athletes are each semester drop ped from college due to their inability or indisposition to give proper time to their studies he then called upon the team as a whole to stand up so that the class might see them the more closely and recognize those who had made such a successful rec ord in the name of 31 austy also said that he had been so favorably impressed with the spirit of the class as a whole that he would like to be a mem ber even to the paying of dues following his speech austy was unanimously accepted as an honorary member the assemblage then wit nessed two excellent amateur wrestling matches and boxing bout sergeant-at-arms casey then exhibited his skill in tumbling and ability as a har monica player with the conclusion of the sports the meeting broke up and refreshments in the nature of fresh doughnuts and sweet cider were served in breaking a seven year pre cedent the lehigh soccermen crashed through with two goals against the navy in an exciting game on saturday the brown and white played a mag nificent game for the first three quarters placing the ball with in the navy's net in the first quarter and again in the third lehigh was completely raster was in danger except for a let of the situation and at no time with the wind at their backs up in the final period when the blue and gold made repeat ed sallies on the brown and white goal barely missing on two occasions an excellent op portunity to score the biting wind which swept down the field was a large factor in the play of both teams and aided considerably in giving lehigh their chance to gain the lead but it was not the wind that was responsible for wagner kicking two well directed shots in the very corner of the goal completely outplaying captain garton the middie goalie who was one of their best men wag ner palm and maginnis of le high's forward offense with ex cellent fielding from center half bullard were the princi pals in the brown and white victory captain damiani at goal did some splendid defense work holding the middies score less when they had everything in their favor dickinson as outside-left for the navy was perhaps the fastest man on the field and more than once brought the ball down to with in striking distance it was a hard fighting team putting forth every effort to play at top form that overwhelmed the navy a team that shows unlimited pos sibilities for the future distinctly novel was the meet ing of the faculty educational club held last monday in the chemistry building five stu dent speakers drawn from two classes and representing differ ent types of undergraduates discussed the question the present student attitude and the problems that arise there from the speakers were w b billmeyer jr 28 president of the senior class paul gil more 28 editor-in-chief of the brown and white john ly ter 29 editor-in-chief of the epitome w l gibson 28 of leonard hall and r max goepp jr 28 chairman edi torial board of the lehigh re view billmeyer as the first speak er mentioned a plan now being discussed by o d k for com bining various extra-curricular fees and subscriptions into one student activities fee he then described the state of college spirit at lehigh as deplorable ascribed this condition to the present status of the football team and made an urgent plea for a whole-hearted effort on the part of the faculty as well as the student body in the de velopment and strengthening not only of the team but also of college spirit itself gilmore as the next student to address the meeting dis cussed several factors influenc ing the scholastic work of stu dents as well as their social life of these sex liquor and inher ent intellectual ability were the points mostly stressed in re gard to the first point gilmore mentioned the unhealthy condi tions in bethlehem and laid em phasis on the fact that students were as a class not socially ac cepted in the majority of beth lehem homes for various rea sons actual immorality itself he dismissed as an unimportant factor since it affected only a continued on page three many frosh out for basketball miners addressed by mr cummings prof b l miller tells of travels chief geologist for bethle hem steel tells of travels speaks on trip abroad at meeting of civil engineers although the 1927 lehigh lafayette game tacked some of the enthusiasm of by-gone years there were enough sidelights to distinguish it from an ordinary college game and to make it an impressive sight to all those present especially those fe males who do not understand the game but come to enjoy the gridiron drama continued on page two the crowd which was not as large as usual and which to talled only about 10,000 pre sented nevertheless a pleasing picture while men predomin ated there was no dearth of femininity and the pretty col ors of the women stood out in bold relief against the somber wrappings of their escorts blue and red were most no ticeable derbies and coon western civilization unless it can free itself from uncontrolled nationalism and american and english aloofness will continue its rapid whirl toward disinte gration and destruction nor man angell noted english pol itician and author said thurs day in an address before 1200 lehigh students while the east is spurring itself on tow ard unification and develop mentf he said the west is dis easing itself and if present nationalistic tendencies persist as they are persisting and growing it is inevitable that a reversal of power from west to east will result a united states of europe with melted boundaries and with its now scattered individ ual state powers moulded into one solid power could save eu rope and western civilization but hope that was bright last year is grey now the failure of the naval conference the re vival of the protocol the aloof ness of the united states the growing aloofness of great bri tain all cast sombre shadows on the prospect of a society of nations the way toward unification according to mr angell is thru arbitration the settling of all controversies by a third party but each nation forced to do so by the discouraging attitude of america and great britain and by their own age-old in stincts believe that the right to judge rests with themselves and of course under such a di lemma arbitration is impos sible england still labors under the delusion that she is mistress of an empire the english em pire said mr angell does not exist canada the transvaal india egypt are virtually in dependent nations canada has its own representatives at washington canada tells great britain that in case of war be tween great britain and anoth er nation canada may or may not enter — depending on cir cumstances india levies tar iffs on goods coming from eng land and the full concentration of british business interests can not remove them england must depart from continued on page four with his first season as a le high coach behind him austie tate has a real reason to be proud of his efforts his freshman team crashed thru all opposition to wind up the schedule with a clean slate a thing that few lehigh teams have done in recent years playing their first game of the season against muhlenberg the frosh with the weight and odds against them scored three touchdowns to the two that the muhlenberg frosh could pro duce on the following satur day they met the rutgers year lings here and although they were heavily outweighed won by a 6-0 score the drexel freshmen her alded as one of the best fresh continued on page three prospects very good for cagers snapshots for epitome wanted champions to fence at lehigh grassone coach of yale to meet preichard in match here basketball squad many veteran candidates in mr w l cummings of the bethlehem steel company was the speaker at the meeting of the mining and geological so ciety held in the geology lec ture room williams hall last wednesday night at present mr cummings is chief geolo gist for the bethlehem steel company / in his talk he told about his trip to northern africa in the riff country which is in the southern part of morrocco he was sent over there by the bethlehem steel company to look at various deposits of iron ore which the company was thinking of buying he said that most of the iron is secur ed on the surface of the ground by open digging that is there are no mines but the ore is mined in a process similar to that in which soft coal is min ed in the western part of penn sylvania he stated that he was impressed very much by the barrenness of the country es pecially in the vicinity of the ore deposits along with his talk mr cummings showed pic tures of the country at the conclusion of his talk refresh ments were served and the meeting was then adjourned the fifty aspirants for posi tions on the freshman basket ball team are fast rounding into shape according to coach bart lett who basing his predictions upon early season indications holds forth hopes for a good team of light but fast court men under bart's tutelage the boys who as yet still need many of the rough edges work ed off seem to be fast develop ing into a combination which promises to equal the standard of the frosh football team last wednesday in a workout against the varsity candidates the plebes showed to advan tage and although their work was still very crude and uch coaching will be necessary sev eral men have already showed marked ability hirschorn a forward and monesse a cen ter are particularly attracting attention by the quality of their work although the men seem to be progressing favorably bart would like to have more candi dates report especially those who have previously played the jump-off position now that the football season is over he ex pects that several experienced courtmen will change from foot ball togs to gym suits in order to give the team the benetit of their experience at the present time practice in the fundamentals and gen eral organization is being em phasized on wednesday thurs day and friday of each week but after the holidays the can didates face the prospect of daily practice the second meeting of the year for the mechanical engin eering society was held in the geology lecture room on thurs day evening november 17th there was a short business session preceding the lecture of the evening in which president thorn called for a discussion of the proposed order for a s m e badges which the society is privileged to wear being a stu dent branch of the american society of mechanical engin eers the consensus seemed to be that the society preferred watch charms to badges and the secretary was requested to place an order accordingly profes dealt with the proceedings which will take place at the sor stuart read a paper which annual convention of the a s m e in new york during the week of december sth professor stuart requested that the society send two dele gates to the convention to take part in the student conference which will be held as a regular part of the convention on de cember eighth the senior mechanicals are planning to at tend the convention on decem ber ninth so that they may view the exhibits of the na tional power show which is held in conjunction with the an nual meeting the business session also in cluded a motion that the me chanical engineering society purchase a page in the 1929 epitome as has been the cus tom in past years following the business ses sion the main event of the eve ning was presented a talk on internal combustion engines by mr w a morrison of the ingersoll rand co of phillips burg n j mr morrison is a graduate of ohio state univer sity and has been for some time in charge of internal combus tion work at the phillipsburg plant of the ingersoll-rand co in his talk mr morrison pointed out the vast strides that have been taken in internal combustion engine practice par ticularly with the diesel en continued on page three on wednesday december 7th yale and m preichard cham m grassone fencing coach of pion fencer of belgium will stage an exhibition in drown hall at bp m m grassone is the president of the fencing club of america he has coach ed the yale fencing team for many years and is considered a final authority in the sport preichard is one of the out standing champions of europe and both men are excellent swordsmen their fencing is very flashing and brilliant the exhibition will include a match with the foils another with the scabre and a third with the duelling sword this match is sponsored by the fencing club of lehigh university at present there are about eighty students at lehigh out for fencing as the scheduled match is between two of the best fencers in america it should prove most interest ing students and the general public are invited to attend last thursday evening no vember 17 a regular meeting of the civil engineering society was held in the lecture room of the physics building the speaker of the evening was professor benjamin l miller who spoke on his trip around the world he told of the trip generally and discussed condi tions in detail in india and japan professor miller first visited morocco and he told of the quaint homes of the natives and of their furnishings he also described a moorish meal while there he collected many fossils and he described the physio graphy of this country making particular reference to the lime stone mountains and the iron mines from here he proceed ed to egypt and he described in detail the drainage of the nile and the irrigation carried on with the water from the nile he next went to palestine then to jerico and then to jerusal em he described the care tak en of the very limited amount of soil found in this region in all his travels the questions most often asked him were how to get to america and when was america going to do away with the prohibition continued on page three anyone who has any snap shots of the campus or any of the college games or class acti vities that are of general in terest is requested to turn them in to t chandler at the chi phi house as soon as possible for the 1929 epitome all pic tures that are submitted for publication and are accepted for publication will be paid for there will be an entire new section in the epitome this year containing pictures of col lege life and activities it is desired that every one who has any pictures of anything that has to do with lehigh life will turn them in in order to make the best epitome possible all pictures turned in that are not accepted for publication will be returned the fraternities are also requested to turn in snapshots of various features or groups of fellows of the re spective houses it is the plan of the board to run pictures of this type along with the other views in the fraternity section of the year book in order to make that part of the epitome more interesting the basketball squad has been practicing daily for the past two weeks in preparation for its opening game which comes on saturday december 3 at 7 p m with the hahne mann medical school as the op ponents the schedule this year is considerably different from that of last season last year the most difficult games came in the very early part of the sea son all away from home while this year the early season games are with teams which while good are not of the same calibre as princeton the army the navy and such other teams as are met later in the season the second game comes on the following saturday with c c n v at new york last week c c n y defeated the new york celtics a championship team ; so they must have consid erable strength the remain ing game before christmas is with the crescent a c of brooklyn who it will be re continued on page three vol xxxv no 17 yearlings hold initial smoker norman angell reviews europe bethlehem pa tuesday november 22 1927 students talk before faculty lehigh booters defeat middies vacation starts tomorrow valentine day is here