Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 30

              okeson football czar price five cents many stars as brown and white wins 47 to 17 victory adams is selected to coach baseball will appoint grid referees smaller enrollment evident many flunkees but offi cial data lacking former captain and athlete will succeed jing johnson football men all football candidates are urgently requested to imme diately send to coach austy tate their present class roster and a report of their grade 3 for the past semester signs five year contract to select officials for sixty colleges men wanted enrollment in english 49 the brown and white is still open to students who are registering late membership in the class constitutes mem bership on the staff of this paper the course can be elected as an extra-curricular activity regardless of the number of other courses on a student's roster tate supervises grid candidates robert bob adams 25 former lehigh athlete and cap tain of the 1924 and 1925 base welding lab gets two choice gifts latin society hears archaeologist in interesting talk football coach attempts to raise scholastic averages british professor claims his research substantiates the book of joshua electric companies give lathe and welding machine to college fourteen flunks bulletin in a statement to the brown and white this morning walter r oke son asserted i think that it will he necessary for me to resign as secre tarii of the alumni association but as i made it clear when i assumed these new duties no other position however more lucrative could induce me to resign as treasurer of the uni versity i will retain this office since its duties bring me into constant con tact with the university and its alumni walter r okeson 95 uni versity treasurer and secretary of the lehigh alumni associa tion supersedes the ccn+ral board and assumes the m uacal the usual activity and bustle of registration was prevalent in packer hall last friday and saturday as 1275 lehigh men registered their various classes for the spring semester rough estimates from the bursar's office indicate that the receipts for the two days to talled at least 255,000 and late registrations will undoubtedly increase that total considerably as this issue goes to press there have been approximately 100 additional students enrolled and the number is expected to in crease for several more days there appear to be a surpris ing number of familiar faces missing from the campus most of whom have probably sought other pursuits as a result of the dean's request to counterbal ance this loss there are numer ous men returning for another try at the professors as a result of flunk-outs and transfers there are several va cant rooms available in price and taylor halls these rooms may be obtained by applying to the bursar's office immediately the dean's office is still ex ceedingly busy with registra tion and as yet have not com piled data concerning the total registration ; this information will not be available yet for several weeks football coaches all lehigh grads goldman and hess are tate's choice for assistants at the january meeting and luncheon of the collegium ro manum honarary latin society held january 25 in the hotel bethlehem sir john garstang one of the most eminent arch aeologists in the world deliv ered an address on the hit tites an empire that existed 3500 years ago and endured for 1500 years in his speech prof garstang briefly outlined the activities of the hittites and traced the ex tent of their empire he de scribed his excavations and the finding of sets of tablets in scribed with hieroglyphics which yielded copious informa tion regarding these people he said that he found these state ments to coincide with those of the bible that the homeric le gends have also been proved to contain positive facts and that the tragedy of homer is real his discoverit show not even the least error in topography or strategic setting of the various battles and movements in trac ing the book of joshua he found that this biblical narra tive contains no flaws or histor ical discrepancies in comparison with the actual in general his discoveries tend to substan tiate the supposed mythical le gends thus creating a profound respect for the ancient legend continued on page four professor garstang is active in his field as professor at the university of liverpool eng land director of the british school of archaeology at jer usalem organizer and director two gifts of valuable mach inery have been made recently to lehigh's newly organized welding laboratory one by the westinghouse electric and man ufacturing co and the other by the thomas electric weld ing co the gift of the westinghouse company was made through w d cassin l u class of 03 it consists of a large heavy pat tern schumaker and boyle lathe with 25 in swing and 10 ft bed the lathe will be used for mounting the general electric co automatic welding machine the thomson company has giv en the welding laboratory one of their new model spot welding machines prof gilbert e doan who is in charge of the welding lab oratory in speaking of the im portance of the gifts said will make possible the use of the automatic welder in re search work on the physics and metallurgy of the arc as well as for show purposes at the an nual symposium next spring when the university entertains engineers from the entire le high valley these two gifts constitute the fourth and fifth gifts of mach inery to the newly organized welding laboratories which is being developed by the depart ment of metallurgical engin eering sophomore cabinet will collect dues in an effort to foster a high er scholastic average among football candidates thereby in suring them against failure or probation next june coach austy tate will continue the system which he so successfully introduced last fall as a re sult of the careful supervision which tate maintained over the gridders but 30 failed in the re cent examinations of these 16 were placed on probation and have an excellent opportunity to be eligible for varsity com petition next season cards have been mailed to all prospective football candi dates on these their individ ual term grades for the past semester will be recorded in ad dition to their present class rosters with this mass of material in tabulated form tate will exer cise a systematic survey over the athletes the men will be checked every two weeks with reference to their scholastic work cooperation has been promised by the members of the various departments on the campus this will certainly prove beneficial as it did dur ing the past term the men who fall down in their studies will be notified and given spe cial attention until they have eliminated their deficiencies all men who entered lehigh for the first time during the re cent registration and intend to report for football are request ed to get in immediate touch with austy in the office of the graduate manager in drown hall this includes men who have transferred from other in stitutions . judge b b wells college speaker raining in baskets at will from all angles of the raub junior high school court at allentown led by bob many speedy forward who tal lied 27 points during his stay drubbed muhlenberg to the tune of 47-17 wednesday night the victors experienced little trouble in maintaining the kill ing pace which subdued the al lentown collegians in the early part of the fray twenty baskets and seven fouls epitomize lehigh's return to the floor after a lay-off of several weeks comparable to this splendid offensive attack was the impregnable defense which the brown and white players displayed in limiting muhlenberg to six field goals and five fouls in addition to holding the highly touted bor elli scoreless while lehigh annexed her game the brown and white freshman quintet was not so fortunate in a speedily exe cuted rally the cardinal and gray yearlings snatched victory from the apparently safe lead of bartlett's men 27-22 in the preliminary contest muhlen berg emerged victorious only after a fast and furious strug gle during which schaub bro ther of the schaubs who star red at lehigh in the past sea son scored 15 markers the individual efforts of schaub were nullified by the excellent shooting of wackerneigel who accounted for 12 of the muhlen berg points the inability of the bethlehem players to make good from the foul line spelled defeat for them the margin of victory being placed to the nine free shots which the allenton ians made as compared to the two by schaub and davis the score at the end of the first twenty minutes of play was deadlocked at 14 apiece after a slow start during which neither team totalled a point for the first five minutes lehigh opened up with two doubleheaders by many and billmeyer at this juncture the cardinal and gray tallied two points on the free shots made good by lawson this marked the closest that muh lenberg came to winning for the geary coached players never re linquished the lead shifting hess to forward continued on page four robert b adams ball teams succeeds jing johnson as varsity baseball coach to the many friends of adams and the followers of the diamond spoft this announce ment comes as a pleasant sur prise the choice signifies the intention of the board of con trol to continue graduate coach ing this plan was recently adopted by princeton and is meeting with success adams is probably one of the greatest baseball luminaries that ever trod on a brown and white mound coming from mercersburg academy with an enviable record he made the varsity team in his freshman year under the tutelage of jim baldwin adams devel oped rapidly and became a fin ished ball-player efficient at any continued on page three discusses plans and tenta tive dates for tea dance and smoker triple tie in dorm basketball league february lecture scheduled for coming thursday afternoon class takes charge of brown and white enlarged staff promises many improvements in paper section c is eased out of first place by one point margin judge harold b wells of bordentown n j will be the speaker at the february college lecture thursday february 16 the subject of his speech has not been announced judge wells comes to lehigh with the reputation of being an unusually effective speaker ac cording to those on the campus who have already heard him the committee on lectures contemplates using the packer memorial chapel for this occa sion it is thought that with the aid of the recently installed amplifier the accoustics will be much better than heretofore an all-lehigh coaching staff will guide the destiny of the brown and white on the grid iron next fall this announce ment was made at the last meeting of the board of athlet ic control january 30 after the approval of head coach tate's selection of assistant coaches the new staff will consist of austin tate head coach ; and hymie goldman and harry s hess assistant coaches hymie goldman is a member of the class of 1921 and hails from easton goldman was a protege of the veteran tom keady and was one of the great est centers ever developed at lehigh goldman voluntarily offered his services to austy tate this fall and aided mater ially in turning out a cham pionship freshman team an all-lehigh coaching staff is an innovation here and if it succeeds will probably be re peated in future years harry s chuck hess was a member of the class of 1926 and comes from ohio chuck was one of the best-liked fel lows in his class and was one of the big men on the campus he was sword and crescent omicron delta kappa and cap tain of the basketball team he played four years of varsity football and was last year awarded a position on the my thical all-time lehigh football team hess is a member of the delta tau delta fraternity metallurgical booklet will attend convention w r okeson throne of czar of eastern col legiate football as a result of the disbandment of that gov erning body monday meriting salient recognition is the nom ination which climaxes the wishes of the board to continue the plan placed in vogue among 12 of the leading eastern uni versities last year under the su pervision of okey who was appointed to that position by the central board acting in the capacity of sel ecting officials for harvard yale princeton army navy dartmouth brown syracuse perm state pennsylvania col umbia and pittsburgh during the past season okeson achiev ed success to the extent that after 22 years of service the central board officials deemed it best for the interests of foot ball to sever its officialdom rep resentatives of the participating universities with the addition of cornell met in session in new york monday afternoon and evening and formed a per manent organization which will hereafter be known as the eastern association for the ap pointment of football officials okeson who is to act as com missioner of officials under a contract which stipulates five years of service will continue for all the eastern colleges who apply for membership in the recently organized association the duties which he performed for the aforementioned tettis none of the colleges in the mid dle atlantic or new england states approximately 60 in the number will be excluded from the privilege of the services of the association provided they are willing to comply with the rules and additional expenses expect favor here it is without doubt that le high will react amicably to the new suggestions while the athletic policy of the south mountain university develops from the opinions voiced by the board of control it is readily taken for granted that the gov continued on page four a booklet describing the car eer s in metallurgical en gineering which are open to graduates of lehigh university in this course has been pre pared by the metallurgical de partment the booklet is in tended for distribution to high school and preparatory school students who are interested in engineering careers and for the engineering freshmen who are trying to decide upon the course they will adopt copies at pres ent may be had in mimeograph form upon request three teams b e and price hall remain in a triple tie today as a result of the games played in the inter-dor mitory league last night c a member of the group of four who were in first place last week dropped another heartbreaker by a one-point margin price hall who has won three straight overcame a 10-point lead to ease out in front 21-20 when speicher sank a two-pointer as the final whis tle blew the defeat marks the first time that c has fallen into second place seven baskets and a pair of fouls by schell were prominent in the 34-18 triumphs which b scored over d bill musser forward of the van quished received an eye injury which required four stitches after he was rushed to st luke's hospital the fighting a quintet kept clawing away at e throughout the evening but was unable to withstand a second half attack which combined to make the final score 32-31 the program as announced by the convention committee in cludes addresses by several leaders in the geological and engineering fields there will be a discussion of geographic prospecting problems members of the faculty of the geology department plan to at tend the 136 th annual conven tion of the american institute of mining and metallurgical engineers to be held february 20 to 23 in new york city plans and tentative dates for a tea-dance and a sophomore smoker were discussed a mo tion to elect a new secretary was passed and an earnest ap peal for the collection of class dues was made at a meeting of the sophomore cabinet last night george oiler president re ported at the same meeting that the committee representing the student chemical research fund has held two meetings at which plans were made to con tinue collecting for the fund started by the donations of the sophomore chemical students a class secretary will be elect ed at the next meeting from the members of the cabinet to succeed george former secre tary march 24 was suggested as a date for another tea-dance no date was set for the smoker although the committee is working on some new feature of entertainment for the next smoker president oiler and secretary lentz both urged that the mem bers of the cabinet collect more dues a committee consisting of norton wilde dcx bullard and ed blackmar was appoint ed to supervise a house-to-house campaign by all cabinet mem bers for the collection of soph omore class dues instructor of the course in the brown and white however a number of new men have been added as reporters and these men will soon qualify for the executive positions as well as for certain new positions soon to be created competitions for promotion will no longer be conducted but rather awards will be made to men who do the best work in the course as soon as the organization is perfected many new features will be introduced some have already been inaugurated and others are soon to follow ef fort is to be largely concentrat ed on the aim of securing more news of real value to the stu dent body this is to be accom plished by assigning each re porter to a certain beat to obtain all of the news that it is possible to find therein these beats include all of the depart ments and organizations on the campus and this idea will make it possible to secure informa tion concerning any event of in terest continued on page four a change has also been made in regard to the editorial pro gram previously the editor has been solely responsible for all coincident with the opening of the second semester a re vamped and reorganized brown and white makes its ap pearance this issue marks the advent of an innovation in the management of the paper which promises much in the way of providing the univer sity with a much better news paper than has been hitherto possible this change has come about by securing the co-oper ation of the faculty or more precisely the co-operation of the english department in of fering a special course in jour nalism for the benefit of those men who write for and manage the paper this course is in cluded in the regular univer sity curriculum as a one-hour course and is open to all men interested in taking up this type of work insofar as the executive offi cers of the brown and white are concerned the organization remains intact with the inclu sion of c d macdougall who will act as faculty adviser and brown and white vol xxxv no 30 lehigh university bethlehem pa friday february 10 1928 mudlenberg falls easy basket ball victim to lehigh spring semester opens on monday university edition member intercollegiate newspaper association