Brown and White Vol. 27 no. 7

              cross country team has large turnout drive for balance of memorial fund 7ol xxvil no 7 prof esty to speak l smoyer to give student paper others pending several meets arranged for and athletic and social committees appointed rules for frat dances game to replace cancelled al bright game student committee to act on violators of discipline slogan to be 1800 men in uni form at lease that many subscribers first time here pons not serious injuries to simendinger rote and nov 1 to nov 22 campaign literature being sent out to the entire list of alumni at a meeting of the inter-fra ternity council held in drown hall last monday night october 13 the following committees were appointed : athletic committee v de wy socki chairman j l bergdoll m p paret social committee j l rosen miller chairman j m howard j j shipherd the constitution of the inter fraternity council was officially ratified by representatives of all the fraternities one of the most important decisions reached at the meeting was in regard to saturday night dances it was agreed upon that any dance given by a fratern ity on a saturday night should stop promptly at 12 o'clock in the future the council will not sanction an affair of this nature continuing past that hour several other an nouncements were made which however were of minor import ance ing a scheme was suggested by vaux wilson whereby it was pro posed that the different fratern ities should club together and pur chase their groceries and other sup plies at wholesale according to the community plan a meeting of all those interested in this proposition will be held at the delta tau delta house on thursday night october 16 quested to do so as soon as possible the cross-country men have been practicing regularly for the fine program of meets that is being ar ranged by manager tate coach kanaly is rapidly rounding his men into shape and he is confident that out of the thirty-six men who have been out to practice regularly he can pick a team which will be the best lehigh has ever had the first meet of the season will be held with rutgers at new brunswick on november 1 a trial race will be run during the latter part of this month at which time a team will be picked for this meet the rutgers team is a fairly good one and is practicing hard to revenge last saturday's football game it is expected that the re sults of the meet will be very close a meeting of all the students who are members or who are in terested in the r o t c was held wednesday afternoon in packer hall lieut-col lang addressed the men and gave them an idea as to what will be accomplished there will be two hours of class work and one hour of drill each week the time being arranged to suit the students to the best advantage col lang said that he would not be unreasonable with the men w t ho are absent from drill if they can furnish a legitimate excuse and he would not doubt any man's word as he realized that the honor sys tem is in practice at lehigh the question of discipline was brought up and ti was decided that the students pick a committee who would act upon the manner of puishment for unexcused absences and tardiness at drill col lang desires to have lehigh among the honor colleges and if each man will do his part lehigh will un doubtedly be on this list all the men who have not yet been the first electrical engineering meeting of the year will be held friday evening october 17 at 7.30 o'clock in the physics building those in charge of the meeting ex pect and hope to have a large turn out and particularly want all the freshmen and sophomore electri cal engineers to be present the plan for the coming year will be discussed lloyd smoyer 20 will present a paper on elec tric traction in the middle west smoyer is especially fitted to dis cuss this subject as he has spent the months of june july august and september travelling through all the large cities of the middle west working upon the traction systems in many of the cities and inspect ing them the paper will be es pecially interesting from a stu dent's standpoint as giving a stu dent's impression of the middle west and its field for electrical en gineering professor esty head of the de partment of electrical engineer ing will give a talk upon the this promises to be of great in terest especially to the underclass men who are now choosing this oc cupation as their life work tennis tournament the business section of the meet ing will be followed in a regular manner by a feast of e.e eats swimming cotillion club elects members manager tate has also secured a dual meet with perm state for the same date on which the football and soccer games are to be played november 8 at state college this meet w t ill be a very hard one but with the material on hand the brown and white team will have a fair chance of winning — bs'siaqyfotx ■&£& nezti ■ arc pending with lafayette and muh lenberg and it is also probable that lehigh cross country team will en ter the middle atlantic states track meet candidates for , the team are : boardman bray brugmann carr demick erb fancher felby fielding fisher gerlaeh helfr frich hewson job laughton mjc nulty miarkley merkel mumford oliver rhoades schwarzloach wabrous whims burleigh comey fitch raiser hall miller newell reynolds robinson stint son streeter and doan the men out for spring track events are : sprints : douglas karton naum talmage trumbore zetina rodriguez 440-yard dash bailey bur gess cornell forstall grace leis ter mcpherson moyer wight wright high jump : bieg sharp pole vault capt paret bruner weights davenport heilman heiker mieldazis waltz wingate epitome photos manager honeyman of the foot ball team has arranged for a game with new york agricultural col lege of long island to play the lehigh eleven tomorrow in place of the albright game which was cancelled early in the season this is the first appearance of the aggies here and little is known of their strength this year the battleship arizona eleven defeated them last saturday but it is ex pected that they will put up a good fight to at least cross the brown and white s goal line which to date has never been crossed coach keady has spent most of the week in light work consisting mostly of signal drill several new plays are being perfected for use in the carnegie tech game the following saturday with the ex ception of simendinger rote and pons the team is in good shape and although the varsity will in ail probability start the game it is likely that the second and third string men will be given a chance to show their worth during the con test the injuries to rote and simen dinger received in the rutgers vic tory are not as serious as at first thought and it is highly probably that both of these valuable back field men will be back m the game before the lafayette game rote whose cheek bone was fractured is 1 coming along nicely while it is be lieved that simendinger received only severe lacerations of the shoulder muscles nic pons is also suffering from a sore shoulder but will be back in shape by the tech game tomorrow's game is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m and the custom ary section will be reserved for the lehigh cheering section the prob able line-up will be larkin l.e ; spagna l.t ; mac donald l.g ; goldman c ; mc carthy r.g ; booth k.t wilson r.e ; herrington q 8 .; henzel man l.h.8 ; simendinger r.h b ; douglas f.b chinese club y.m.c.a meeting the lehigh university alumni association has practically com pleted its plans for the intensive campaign to raise the balance of the funds for the erection of the memorial building this campaign will be begun officially on novem ber 1 and close with the lehigh lafayette game on november 22 the alumni have been carefully and closely organized for this pur pose under the able leadership of w r okeson secretary of the association under him there is a general committee whose duty it is to send out campaign literature to all alumni then in turn there are class committees which are now sending out circular letters to their classmates to break ground ifc4jb e air^aign the local com j ' itifitees vv ill " concl uc i a pei o'ohiu canvass of the men in their dis trict who have not sent in their personal applications these local committees are planning meetings to organize thoroughly their can vass the dates of the meetings are as follows new york engineering club oct 22 philadelphia university club oct 23 pittsburgh duquesne club oct 24 bethlehem bethlehem club oct 30 buffalo oct 19 chicago ot 27 detroit oct 28 cleveland oct 28 n e pennsylvania oct 29 new england oct 31 s anthracite nov 3 central pennsylvania nov 3 wheeling nov 4 washington nov 5 baltimore nov 6 the campaign slogan is 1800 men in uniform at least that many subscribers although this campaign does not officially start until november first some literature has already been distributed and it is the desire and earnest request of the officials in charge that all the alumni pledge themselves early so as to avoid an eleventh hour rush of tardy sub scribers a meeting of the 1921 sopho more cotillion club was held wed nesday evening for the purpose of electing new members from the class of 1922 it was decided that several men who have been in the service and who were out of college during their sophomore year should be elected honorary members of the club these men are k davies shipley maclsaac huffman mell inger lare boggs greenhall t smith mulford walters s rich ards goldcamp powers ricketts griswold stainer robenette harte and shaw the following men from the class of 1922 were elected bad ham bates beatty bergdoll craig connell eastman foote glenn gooding greene hastings henzelman jacobs p larkin lerch mercur s monroe morgan niekamp strauch vilotte e wil son v wilson and zantzinger these men will meet soon and elect twenty-five more men from the class of 1922 letters for students notice the epitome will need a large number of photographs of games and other student activities about the campus a competition for photographs will be started in the near future students who can take good pictures should take ad vantage of this opportunity to earn a little spending money as all pictures which are used will be paid for a prize will probably be awarded to the man who has the largest number of pic tures printed in the epitome preparations are being made for the approaching swimming season a call for candidates for the team is to be made on november 1 and it is expected that a large number of competitors will turn out there are many good swimmers in the freshman class who will undoubt edly compete the team this year will be under the supervision of h b smith 22 and j sourber 19 who both hope to make this second year a successful one a number of men of last season s team may already be seen in the pool every day rounding into shape a schedule of meets will be published in a later issue breast stroke length of pool ; crawl stroke length of pool ; back stroke length of pool front dive back dive ; floating ; plunge ; water manship the classes in swimming are now well under way there are al together 125 men in the class which includes about 25 beginners the beginners meet in a special class on wednesdays at 4:30 p.m under the direction of h b smith 20 each man is dealt with individual ly until he becomes proficient all men must pass the following tests in order to be credited with the term s work : maryland men notice dr a d thaeler will be the speaker at the next y m c.a meeting to be held sunday even ing october 19 at 6:15 p.m dr thaeler until recent years lived in bethlehem and is well known to the older lehigh men he is now principal of the nazareth hall military school nazareth pa where he has had and is still having a remarkably successful career the chinese students club of lehigh university held its first meeting of the year on last satur day evening this year the club has a record membership of twenty two most of which are old men the old members are back either to take up post graduate w t ork or to continue the undergraduate course during the meeting five new members were admitted the plan for the ensuing year was touched upon and the celebration of october tenth the fourth of july of china discussed the serving of refresh ments marked the conclusion of the meeting beth prep continued on third page the old members who have re turned this year are : c c lv , z d lav and alfred yap the five new ones are c f wong e.m ; c w pan e.m ; e l chao met e ; t h yu m.e and z j lav the end of the first week's play in the lehigh tennis tournament finds all ofi the first round matches played and all of the second round with the exception of five matches some of the second round matches were marked with a much greater degree of opposition than those of the first round most of the matches having to be decided by a third set the eleven men who have thus far reached the third round are schoepps f warri ner mattson blake foote hall simpson davenport estes gilder sleeve and wentz wfhen the five second round matches have been played off this will make a total of sixteen men in the third round from this point on the matches will be hotly contested throughout the results of the first round not yet published are beck defeated lewis 6-3 6-0 schoeppes defeated beale 8-6 9-7 and schoffield de feated lerch 6-4 4-6 6-4 the results of the second round are schoepps defeated stoll 0-6 6-3 6-4 ; foote won by default from beard simpson defeated ehlie some 1-6 6-3 9-7 estes defeated woolley 6-0 6-0 in the third round schoepps will play the winner between gardy and beck f warriner will play the winner between wells and finke blake will play mattson foote will play the winner between church and bevan ; hall will play simpson davenport will play the winner between tice and st john ; estes will play gildersleeve and wentz will play the winner be tween schoffield and straub thus far no dark horses have turned up in the tournament and all indications now point to either estes or hall to win the cup but both of these men are in the lower leg so one of them will be elimi nated before the final are reached blake or mjattson will probably reach the finals in the upper leg of th tournament students of the university who have not already done so are urged to report their present local ad dresses at the president's office a number of letters are held at the office because the addresses of stu dents are not given on the registra tion cards and the letters cannot be forwarded letters are held for the following students who are re quested to call for them at once g a huggins otis hang k w green thomas monroe w m nowell jr john s riley w pres ton stewart thomas r taylor g alan walker weidenmyer all maryland men in college are requested to attend a meeting to be held in drown hall sunday oct 19 at 1:30 p.m for the purpose of reorganizing the lehigh-mary land club the committee in charge of the y m c a membership campaign wishes that every v man in col lege whether he belongs to the local branch or to his home associa tion to hand in his name and that of his association in order that a report may be drawn up new men who do not behing to the y m c a are urged to join the associa tion here as the membership in cludes the same privileges as else where tau beta pi tail beta pi the honorary engi neering fraternity will hold its first meeting of the year t * t ~ evening october 17 at 7 30 v emc in williams hall it will be an im portant meeting and all members are requested to attend frats dicuss live questions bethlehem pa fkiday october 17 1919 r.o.t.c well under way brown and white electrical society to hold meet varsity to meet new york aggies price flve cents