Brown and White Vol. 27 no. 60

              1920 last class under dr drinker lacrosse closes splendid season vol xxvii no 60 alumni to celebrate with graduating class price five cents undergraduate honors to be announced class day on president's lawn commencement exercises to be held next tuesday big dinner to be staged in honor of dr price 70 program of festivities now hold intercollegiate title of southern division have won six out of eight contests efficient retiring president has led a life marked with untiring service speeches class poem and pro phecies among ceremonies on class day commencement week to start today banquets games and receptions to be held alumni address to be given by raymond walters 07 large graduating class reunion classes to join in parade calculus cremation and other stunts by undergraduates the close of the college year sees the formal termination of the ser vice of dr drinker as president of lehigh university just when he will discontinue his work and take up residence with mrs drinker in the home they are building at merion near philadelphia will de pend upon conditions not as yet rllpttiyminprl with the winning of the inter collegiate lacrosse championship of the southern division by defeat ing the strong johns hopkins twelve two weeks ago the brown and white lacrosse team closed one of its most successful seasons out of the eight games 1 played the le high men won all but two those with the navy and the crescent the largest graduating class in the history of lehigh university — about 130 men — will receive de grees at the commencement exer cises to be held in packer memorial church next tuesday morning at 10:30 o'clock the size of the class is due to the return to the university of a number of students who were absent for a year or more on war service geographically the class represents twelve states and five foreign countries the 1920 graduates will have the honor of being the last class to receive their diplomas from the hands of dr drinker as president each year the address to the class is delivered by a representative of the alumni body of the university the speaker at tuesday's exercises will be raymond walters 8.a 07 m.a 13 professor walters is registrar of lehigh and a mem ber of the english department staff during the war he was registrar of the field artillery school at camp taylor ky serv ing as a captain the subject of the address will be action and reflection ' ' dr thornburg secretary of the faculty will announce the win ners of prizes and honors in the several classes prayer will be of fered by the chaplain the rev arthur murray t edgar shields organist of the university will play an organ number the class day exercises of the graduating class will be held on dr drinker's lawn june 14 at 3 p.m these ceremonies have al ways been a part of commence ment week and they mark the last get-together of the class before they enter the ever increasing ranks of lehigh alumni music for the program will be furnished by the bethlehem steel company band the members of the graduating class will assemble in drown hall at 2:30 p.m and from there will proceed in a body to dr drinker's lawn m b tate president of the class will deliver the salutory ad dress the class poem written by j h rosenmiller and presented by him will feature the members of the class in a humorous way setting forth their abilities and aspirations president tate will give an out line of the clip contest and this will be followed by the class prophecies e booth and b b davidson who act as sages prophecy some promising and suc cessful careers for the members of the class which if they come true as prophecies always do will be a credit to lehigh e w estes will give the last roll call the program will be concluded with the tablet oration by m p paret jr and the ivy oration by continued on fourth page sword and crescent to reinaugurate tap day president to hold two receptions friday june 11 7:00 p.m alumni dinner in honor of dr h r price 70 at the kurtz restaurant saturday june 12 10:30 a.m — alumni meeting in drown memorial hall 12:00 m — alumni luncheon in the commons at which all lehigh men and their accompanying wives and 1 daughters will be the guests of the university including the graduating class and their visiting friends from home 2 30 p.m alumni parade 3 30 p.m baseball game le high vs johns hopkins on taylor field 7:00 p.m — reunion banquets 8:30 p.m president's recep tion in drown memorial hall to all students and their visiting friends from home and all friends of the university dancing sunday june 13 11 00 a.m — baccalaureate ser mon in the packer memorial church by the rt rev wilson r stearly d.d bishop coadjutor of newark tap day ceremonies at close of baccalaureate sermon monday june 14 2:00 p.m class day exercises on the president s lawn 4:30 p.m president's recep tion to members of the senior class and their relatives at dr drin ker's home tuesday june 15 10:30 a.m — commencement exercises in the packer memorial church alumni address by ray mond walters 07 juniors elected to club will be tapped by senior members last receptions given by dr drinker as president to be held commencement week stickmen celebrate victory at banquet former lacrosse stars among the speakers maurer 21 next year's captain sword and crescent has about completed its plans for the tap day ceremony which is to take place on sunday morning immedi ately after the baccalaureate ser vices in the chapel the society is planning to re inaugurate a custom which has been in effect in several other of the colleges when the seniors leave the chapel after the services it is planned to have each member of the society tap one of those men of the junior class who have been elected to the society and this ceremony will be considered as notification to the man tapped of his having been elected it is obvious that to re-inaugur ate this custom successfully the presence of every man in the junior class is necessary to fur nish the impressiveness which the occasion demands sword and crescent hopes that every man in 1921 will be present in order to aid them in this move the presence of a junior will not at all reflect upon him as considering himself to be conceited in the anticipation of such a bid but will on the con trary not only help a worthy move on the part of sword and crescent but will also add an impressive ceremony to the many traditions which are observed at commence ment time continued on sixth page a c both of these games were played away from home dairing the early part of the season and the brown and wlhite team hadi not yet reached its winning stride the first game of the season was with the navy at annapolis in which the brown and white men were dtefeatedi 9 to 1 in spite of the large score piled up by the midshipmen the lehigh team played a good running and passing game andi fought hard throughout the entire contest while the navy team had to work hard 1 for every goal they obtained the baltimore city college la crosse team was the second op ponent of the season this was the first home game for the lehigh twelve and they had little diffi culty in defeating the baltimore men 15 to 0 the visitors were completely outclassed from start to finish and were seldom even in a position to score in the next game of the season the crescent athletic club of new york defeated 1 the brown and white stick wielders by a large score of 9 to 5 this was the second game played away from home and the lehigh aggregation had not yet reached 1 its stride al continued on fourth page this year the president of the university plans to hold two re ceptions for many years prior to the war it was customary for the president to hold a reception during commencement week and this custom which was omitted during the war was revived last year the first reception will be held in drown memorial hall satur day june 12 at 8:30 p.m all students and their visiting friends from home and all friends of the university are invited to attend no formal invitations will be issued and anyone who desires to attend may do so it is planned to have dancing during the course of the evening and a good time will undoubtedly be had by all who attend on monday june 14 at 4:30 p.m dr drinker will hold a re ception to the members of the senior class and their relatives this will be held at dr drinker's home on the campus these receptions mark the fare well of dr drinker who after many years of faithful service to lehigh is resigning from the posi tion of active head the president of the university for this reason there will without doubt be a large attendance at the receptions to give him a farewell on saturday evening headed by billy estes and former lacrosse players and friends of the sport the lacrosse team was tendered one of the most lively and enthusiastic banquets any lehigh sport has had in the past few years it was a wonderful close to a most success ful season the team having won the southern division champion ship and also having defeated the northern division champions in a game at the end of junior week in april syracuse the northern champions held pennsylvania 1-1 one week after lehigh defeated them 12-3 so there is very little room for doubt who would be the intercollegiate champions had it been possible to play off the title continued on fifth page just previous to a short con gratulatory address by w e oke son secretary of the alumni asso ciation the team retired to one of the other rooms and elected charles p butch maurer from wilkes-barre pa as captain for 1921 butch has played a wonderful game at second defense ever since president drinker announced this spring that as he this year reaches the age of seventy he wouldi retire from the leader ship of lehigh there has been a great outpouring of expressions of regret because of his resignation and praise for his work from alumni both as individuals and by organizations from faculty and students similarly from news papers of the state and nation from educators and men of promi nence everywhere there have come eulogies of the achievements and the character of lehigh s great president . those outside the le high family have emphasized his work in national movements such as forestry activities the mili tary preparedness movement the league to enforce peace and others lehigh men have praised in the wordte of one of the alumni club's resolutions the manner in which he gave to the university the very best that was in him and through the days of trouble and diarkness steered her course with as true and firm a hand 1 as in times when no cloud obscured the horizon henry stungis drinker fifth president of lehigh university continued on third page the opening gun of the alumni day or rather two day program is the lunch and meeting immediately following the meeting of the alumni educational committee at the bethlehem club the reports on various departments will be pre sented and the work for the ensu ing year outlined the class of 95 one of the reunion classes will lunch at the bethlehem club and then proceed to the northampton country club for an afternoon of golf returning at 7 o clock for the dinner at kurtz restaurant saturday morning the class will assemble at the bethlehem club garbed as incoming freshmen fastened on this costume will be a reunion badge with a white ribbon on which will be inscribed a freshman that's me the dix reunion plan has been abandoned and the classes gradu ating on the even decades and semi-decades will hold reunions there are only two exceptions the classes of 99 and 19 are also hav ing reunions this year the price dinner will be held on friday evening at the kurtz and is in honor of henry r price the oldest living graduate at the dinner there will be no formal speeches but a general discussion will be held of a better organiza tion of classes for the purpose of securing bigger reunions and a stronger support of the university a number of the undergraduate organizations will assist in the en tertainment of the alumni the college orchestra will furnish the music the mustard and cheese will put on some specialties and dances and the hawaiian quartet will play at 10 p.m the college body will assemble at 4th and new streets and march to kurtz's led by the band some doubt has been expressed by the students as to whether the old grads will leave their at tempt to beat the h c of l to march with them but at the first student cheer the dinner will be forgotten and the old graduates from 70 to 19 will be mixed with the undergraduates from 20 to 23 the alumni will fall in line behind the students in a column eight men to a rank so as to con centrate the men for singing the old lehigh songs plenty of red fire and fireworks have been pro vided and the march should be enlivened by jubilation and noise the route will be along main street by fern sem up wyan dotte to 4th down 4th to brod head and up brodhead through the campus to the upper field where the sophomores will take complete charge of the ceremonies of cremating calculus in a huge bonfire under the glare of flood lights continued on third page on saturday morning at 10 30 the annual alumni meeting will be held in drown hall adjourn ing for a buffet lunch at the com mons to which the ladies are in vited at one o'clock there will be a concert given by the college brown and white dr henry s drinker retiring president of the university bethlehem pa friday june 11 1920