Brown and White Vol. 6 no. 1

              especially honored will be the class of 92 which marks its 50th anniversary this year men who have reached this milestone will join the 50-year plus club in re union official of eastern football association has long record in athletic coaching george w hoban 15 one of lehigh's outstanding halfbacks of the 1912 13 and 14 seasons returns to take over the position of head foot ball coach recently vacated by glen harmeson after considering numerous candidates the alumni committee headed by w r okeson unanimously recommended the appointment of hoban hoban who graduated in 1915 with a b s degree played halfback on the varsity teams of 1912 1913 and 1914 and in his last year cap tained the team that swept through its schedule undefeated except for one loss to yale during world war i he coached the 304 th in fantry team and the camp de vons team following the armis tice he worked for the bethlehem steel company at sparrow's point in 1921 hoban taught history and coached the football team of the friends school at baltimore from 1922-26 he was the coach at st john's college and from 1926 34 he coached the baltimore poly technic teams out of 108 games his teams won 73 lost 21 and tied 6 since 1921 hoban has been an official for intercolegiate football games and at present is the vice-president of the eastern foot ball officials association while at lehigh hoban was a member of phi sigma kappa so cial fraternity member of the foot ball team for three years and cap cyanide plans smoker friday cyanide junior activities so ciety will hold a smoker for the 13 newly-entered freshmen at 7:30 p.m friday in the lounge in drown held monday evening in drown hall brief talks will be given by the members explaining various phas es of lehigh life no freshmen regulation will be enforced until fall when the next class enters but the smoker is being held in an effort to acquaint the new men with lehigh subjects explained will be sports administration publica tions honoraries living groups traditions songs and cheers social life and course societies the proposal for new playing fields near the campus was also discussed at the meeting mimeo graphed copies of the plans will be sent to each trustee and a com mittee was designated to take the proposal to the president ten members and dr beardslee attended the meeting q john schwarz m.e 44 secretary pre sided as the president and vice president are not taking the ac celerated program b and w snares acp first honor first class honor rating went to the brown and white in the first semester all american news paper critical service sponsored by the american collegiate press as sociation the recent ranking placed lehigh just below all american honors for semi and thrice-weeklies in colleges with an enrollment of less than 2500 stu dents of the 353 papers entered 10 were picked as college pacemak ers however not one of the 10 were in eastern colleges tain his last year member of the baseball and track squads member of the glee club cotillion club and sword and cresent society athletic representative at large and mem ber of the class day committee secretary and treasurer and presi dent of arcadia the three years that hoban played at lehigh the engineers boasted one of the best teams in the university's history during these three years lehigh played an aggregate total of 22 games winning 18 and losing 4 including three straight victories over laf ayette in hoban's first year le high played eleven games losing only to carlisle and princeton and including among the wins a 14-0 triumph over navy in 1913 5 games were won and 3 lost and in 1914 the records reveal 8 games won and 1 lost in addition to his experience as a football coach hoban will have the advantage of extensive obser vation on strategy and systems of play a thorough familiarity with eastern athletic conditions and a wide acquaintance with lehigh alumni at the start o — noyes condemns new literature condemning much of present day literature as dirty and im moral alfred noyes lehigh com mencement speaker at the may 18 event charged that much of the high idealism of the past century had disappeared from creative writing among the writers criticized by noyes was thomas hardy one of england's outstanding novelists noyes stressed the bad influence unethical and cynical writers have on the thinking of the world and blamed the present lack of faith in religion and morals on the writ ing of the past quarter century noyes most recent poems are in a volume shadows on the down and other poems issued in 1941 3 lehigh riflemen are ail-american three lehigh seniors have won places on the all-american rifle squad with two winning golden bullets as members of the first team members honored by the nation al rifle association of america are dave smith e.e 42 john kim berley m.e 42 and ted scott met.e 42 golden bullet win ners are smith and kimberley scott made the second team ac cording to captain c e phillips of the military department lehigh leads the universities of the nation by placing two jnen on the first team and one on the sec ond perm state followed lehigh by placing two men on the first team but failed to make the grade on the second group i think it's quite justifiable to say that smith is probably the best intercollegiate shooter since the association has been selecting teams according to a national rifle association officer sophomore saraband set for saturday june 27 grace hall will be scene of informal dance terraces to be open queen will reign the sophomores have completed plans for their sophcopation to be known as the sophomore saraband the dance will be held on saturday night june 27 from 10-2 on the upper floor of grace hall announced j harry brindle m.e 45 president of the class plans for an orchestra are being made by the dance committee and an announcement will be made next week as to just which band will provide the music an advance ticket sale will go into effect as soon as the band is announced ticket agents will cover all living groups in an effort to have all students present at the affair the cost of tickets will be 2.00 plus tax whether with a date or stag the dance will be informal and the terraces surrounding the upper floor of grace hall will be open for dancing at twelve o'clock dancing will stop and the queen of the sara band will be chosen candidates for the queen will be picked by spotters on the dance floor the chaperones will make the final choice the dance has been backed by the town dormitory and inter fraternity councils and a large at tendance is expected john j lotz c.e is chairman of the dance and the committees include publicity robert s honeyman eng phys chairman james schwab bus and eugene c gott 111 arts ticket sales charles b austin met.e chair man stephen r rochester m.e and austin t hunt jr i.e con cessions gott chairman and john s petty e.e chaperones for the affair will be dr and mrs claude g beardslee capt and mrs samuel pierce and lt and mrs james d campbell bewley assumes active army duty loyal v bewley professor of and head of the department of electrical engineering has been granted a leave of absence to go on active duty in the artillery at camp devon massachusetts professor bewley is a major in the reserve corps he will soon be sent to a camp in south carolina he left last thursday and reported saturday at fort devon during the last war he served in the artillery in france his place will be taken during his ab sense by prof j lynford beaver professor of electrical engineering firemen's equipment still lost arcadia pays somewhere arond the campus there are raincoats hats and boots which are the property of the bethlehem fire department ar cadia student governing body this week paid a check of 150 to the city to cover the cost of the articles which were borrowed by lehigh students during the chi psi fire in the fall the material was removed from the city's fire trucks during the fire and although several attempts were made by arcadia to trace the articles and have them returned the equipment never showed up university gets 46,000 gift an endowment fund of approx imately 46,000 part of the residu ary estate of charles l taylor 76 who gave and endowed tay lor gymnasium recently reverted to lehigh university according to walter r okeson vice-president the sum will be placed in the tay lor gym fund established by the will of mr taylor at his death in 1922 up to now the fund devot ed to the maintenance of the gym has contained about 25,000 in accordance with the terms of the will at mrs taylor's death last december the university fell heir to a share in the residue of the estate o wallick named bachelor editor earle w wallick e e 44 has been chosen as the new editor-in chief of the lehigh bachelor ac cording to the new editor there will be only one issue of the mag azine to appear this summer on june 15 other officers chosen were charles m norlin met.e 43 as business manager robert l smith e.e 44 financial manager john e doxsey i.e 44 feature editor john d smith bus 44 circulation manager and l r constantine bus 43 as advertising manager former bachelor subscribers with change of address are to notify john d smith of this ex change if they desire to have the june issue sent to them publica tion of the bachelor will be sus pended following the next issue until september the remaining issue will deal with the summer semester and its highlights parker on gardens must be planned the war will be won largely through foods according to dr basil parker biology department speaking before the bethlehem aauw at the saucon valley coun try club dr parker stressed the great value of victory gardens but indicated that such efforts were useless unless scientifically and systematically planted dr parker mentioned the irony of the fact that coffee originally grown in the east indies shifted later to the western hemisphere and that rubber originally prop agated in the western world later became a dominant product of the east it would be essentially more valuable dr parker remarked if the western hemisphere had a surplus of rubber instead of coffee bethlehem pa wednesday may 27 1942 price ... 5 cents new and different the brown and white this summer will look slightly dif ferent from the paper you are accustomed to seeing frankly experimenting the brown and white will attempt to run the paper on the functional lines characteristic of the most mod ern and progressive journals in america news will be gathered written edited and presented by departments — administration sports stu dent life and so on we hope you'll like the new style and format set alumni day for june 5 & 6 new football coach . . . george hoban 15 to assume position as new football coach despite the change in gradua tion and the accelerated program the 76th anniversary program of the alumni association will be held friday and saturday june 5 and 6 lehigh university brown and white after the alumni dinner at 7 p.m friday in the ballroom of the hotel bethlehem the alumni will adjourn to the home club party at the bethlehem club 524 new street the program for sat urday will open with the registra tion of alumni at 9 a.m followed by the annual meeting at 10:30 a.m in the faculty room alumni memorial building luncheon for alumni and families will be serv ed from 12:30 to 2 p.m in lam berton hall at 2:30 p.m all alumni will form in front of packer hall for the parade of classes to the flagpole where the award of the parade flag will be made to the out standing class on the basis of num bers and uniform after the par ade tours of the campus will be conducted after which alumni will join their own class reunion ban quets vtfltvi no 1 summer semester reg istration arts 104 busi j ness 128 engineering 396 general division 3 sum ' school 8 graduate ra total 656