Brown and White Vol. 28 no. 43

              academy pool tournament is moving slowly psi u wins only game played players praise stirling billiard nine shaping up very well price five cents inspection trip for mechanicals dr edgar f smith speaks to college vol xxviii no 43 senior m e left this morning for trip to plants and build ings in new york city e stimson illustrates interesting lecture on railroad op portunities coach keady is developing good team lees expected to do bulk of twirling alpha chi rho and sigma phi win their games by good margins students hear excellent lecture by former provost of u of p dr drinker present games less rough one contest remains unplayed in first round better conflicts expected a tribute to the sciences was title of dr smith's lecture this morning at 7.12 the senior mechanical engineers left bethle hem for new york city on their annual inspection trip the visil extends until saturday noon during which time these men will have an opportunity of viewing most of the important buildings and plants of that part of the country they will follow the program given below and will return for duty on monday the program of visits is as fol lows headquarters hotel pennsylva nia tuesday march 29 : leave beth lehem l v r r 7.12 arrive pennsylvania station 9.45 meet in lobby of hotel pennsylvania at 10.15 visit high pressure pumping sta tion singer building and wool worth building wednesday march 30 babcock and wilcox plant bayonne and singer sewing machine co plant elizabethport evening trip to low er east side dinner at chinese del monico pell street at 6 o'clock thursday march 31 : manhattan rubber co passaic n j and worthington pump co harrison n..j friday april 1 : new york brooklyn navy yard and e w bliss & co plant brooklyn n y 4 p m : headquarters of a s m e 29 w 39th st joint meet ing of student branches speakers mr george kingdon parsons on psychology in engineering and m|r w s murray on super power system followed by a buffet supper served in the building 8 p m : evening session pro gram furnished by the professional section on management saturday april 2 : waterside station edison co 1921 register is now obtainable all but one game of the first round of the interfraternity basket ball tourney has been completed and by the appearance of the teams a good tournament is expected the games up until the final two were very hard fought and although the last two were not so close they were battles from the srart alpha chi rho took the scalp of the phi sigma kappa quintet last thursday afternoon in taylor gym and be tween the halves the sigma phi quintet took the opportunity of tak ing a good beating out of chi phi the last two gamies were not quite as much of the break-your neck type and were better games j for the spectators to view fewer fouls were called and fewer occa sions arose for the calling of fouls as the teams are beginning to be eliminated one by one there are a number of teams looming up which are going to put up inr.i rights to stay in the tourney the games of the better class are not far off now and such games should prove very interesting to any students who may want to see a game the reports of the two game play ed last thursday are given in the following paragraphs alpha chi rho conquers the alpha chi rho quintet won its first game in the basket ball tournament against phi sigma kap pa winning by the score of 13-6 the alpha chis got off to a good start with a one-handed shot by gardy and with two more pretty goals by huggins held the lead at the end of the first half by the score of 8-3 schrauff was the only phi sig to score from the field in this half although settle scored a foul from the fifteen foot mark the second half was a little closer the phi sigs keeping in the running on a clever two-pointer by pfeiffer and another foul by settle this was cancelled with goals by gardy and i luggims and fouls by gardy the last few minutes were scoreless and the game ended 13-6 continued on page four band banquet to be held soon dr edgar fans smith former provost of the university of penn sylvania and one of the most emi nent chemists in the united states gave an address a tribute to the sciences before the faculty stu dent body and local citizens in packer memorial church on friday morning this being the fourth of the university's public lecture ser ies for the present term in in troducing dr smith vice-president emery referred to his distinguished work as an administrator and as a scientist dr smith was accom panied from philadelphia by presi dent emeritus drinker to whom the speaker referred in glowing terms for his services to lehigh and to american education dr smith began by saying that not many years ago the sciences were looked at askance do you know that i can recall a period when college boards and even college fa culties entertained misgivings as to the science of geology there was a latent fear as to the orthodoxy of that science ; and in my junior year at college we were informed that our revered president was in great doubt as to whether it was not his duty to exclude our text-book on chemistry because the first chapter smacked of rank heresy — bald ma terialism continued on page two sometime somewhere it has been said that the little dislikes or petty hatreds which we poor humans oc casionally vow we bear toward other ordinary mortals are really due to our ignorance of them so soon as we make their acquaintance fra ternize with them and truly know them our dislikes — our hatreds va nish quite sure am i that the sciences flourish today where they were dreaded and plotted against because men have come close tc them and learned to know them in their marvelous manisfestations in truth they are not what is or dinarily termed new — not at all they are old wasn't it the im mortal franklin diplomat and phi losopher who snatched the lightning from the clouds was it not his young colleagues ebenezer kiruner sley who journeyed to boston i newport arid new york some j where in the middle of the 18th cen jtury to show the astonishing pro perties of the subtle agent electri city and to demonstrate in a really remarkable manner the purpose of the lightning rod it was redman coxe of philadelphia who early in the 1921 edition of the register of lehigh university was published last week students may obtain co pies by calling at the registrar's office packer hall the register presents the calen dar the personnel of trustees fa culty and administrative officers entrance requirements description of the courses detailed list of stu dies and various other material fol lowed by the list of students the summary shows a total enrollment for both terms of 1104 students in the three colleges of the university and a total of 558 in the extension courses as has been true of lehigh since its earliest days there is a wide geographical distribution pennsyl vania leads in the number of stu ents with new jersey second new york third district of columbia fourth and maryland fifth there are students from thirty-three states and eighteen foreign countries seniors notice only one more pool match has been played to date and as a result the first round was far from being completed at the close of the first time period this period closed last wednesday and there were still j four matches to be played several of the teams are still in the bowling finals and as they have men who play on both teams it is quite hard for them to find time to get all of the matches off however there is no excuse for some of the teams and the matches should be played off as soon as possible the interest that was taken in the matches at first seems to have died down for the time being but it is hoped that it is not permanent and that before the end of the week that the first round matches will be com pleted and the second round well under way the men who have played on the stirling billiard academy tables re port them to be the best type of tables in bethlehem the rooms are well conducted and besides being clean and tidy they are free from j the noisy and rough talk that is sc prevalent in many pool rooms it is indeed a splendid opportunity for meti who & j y pool lo go there and have a quiet and sociable game the teams are very thankful for the kindness of messrs griffiths and keith for the use of their tables and hope that those students who do not play in the matches will patronise the stirling as much as possible be cause of their generosity and their excellent service psi u's beat theta delts the psi u pool team took all three games from the theta delta chi shooters at the stirling billiard academy last thursday afternoon and won the match handily tie best game of the match was prob ably that one staged between capi sanborn of psi u and sehring theta delta chi this match wa ; close all the way through and it wasn't until the last two frames that sanborn finally secured the firm margin giving him the game by a 50-40 score the other single match was easily won by donovan psi u over captain burgess theta delt ' chi timmy seemed to hit his i stride and ran off the necessary 50 before burgess fairily got started the final count was so 15 the double match was well taken care of by the splendid shooting of dono van and the psi u took it by a 50 25 score by an agreement made between the two contesting teams each fra ternity was represented by oiuy two men this was caused by the other shooters having classes at the time of the match the summary captain sanborn psi upsilon de feated sehring theta delta chi in a single match 50-40 donovan psi upsilon defeated captain burgess theta delta chi in a single match 50-15 captain sanborn and donovan psi upsilon defeated captain bur gess and sehring theta delta chi in a double match 50-25 the date set for the senior ban david j pearsall trustee of lehigh dies quet is monday evening april 4 it will be held at kurtz's restaur ant and will start at 7.30 p m the price of a ticket will be 4.00 and word has been received at the university office of the death ai mauch chunk on sunday of david j pearsall for many years a trus i tee of the university the funeral ! will be held at mauch chunk on wednesday afternoon mr pears afi was 60 years of age tickets may be obtained from any of the following men j r far rington phi delta theta house p m frank 328 packer aye r billinger section e taylor hall ; w h sayre sigma phi house and j k m huebner chi psi house seniors notice mr e stimsom of the baltmore & ohio railroad was the speaker at the regular meeting of the rail road society held last evening in the physics lecture room the theme of mr stimson's talk was opportunities the railroad offers to engineers his talk was illu strated throughout by a number of very interesting slides and further by several reels of movies at the beginning of his talk mr stimson told of the many and varied opportunities and the great possi bilities offered to engineers in the field of railroading he also told of the many difficulties and hard shps that the railroad engneer must encounter it often being necessary for him to sacrifice his own personal comfort for the sake of his vocation mr stimson explained that his ob ject in showing the slides and mov ies was twofold in the first place to show just what has been done to the past in railroad construction and development and in the second place to put before prospective en gineers the great opportunities and possibilities for service that the rail road field offers the first series of slides that mr stimson showed were what he called the historic series ' the slides showed in chronological order the earliest and latest types of locomo tive construction the first power used on the railroad was the old horse power the first locomotive in the united states was built by peter cooper and finished on aug ust 8 1830 this locomtive was built for the baltimore and ohio r r and incidentally the b & o is i the oldest railroad in the united states and today has an approxi mate mileage of 5100 miles the charter of the b & o was granted february 28 1827 and the b & o is the only railroad company of pioneer days that still retains un changed its original name and or ganization following the first locomotive of cooper the next type to appear was the grasshopper in 1834 for the purpose of comparison a modern type mallet 1912 locomotive was shown which is 43 tmes as large as the grasshopper and its fire box large enough to hold the entire grasshopper other types of locomotives shown were lhe mississippi 1837 the first lo comotive in chicago the dragon river the chicago and northwes tern pioneer 1848 the first lo comoitve in chicago the dragon 1848 the camel 1850 and the modern 310 ton mallet 1912 after the slides had been shown movies of the same types of loco motives were shown which by pic i hiring them in motion gave a bet ; ter idea of what they were like the next series of slides and pic ! tures were of the magnolia cut-off continued on page four inkwellers notice an unusual meeting is promised for the inkwell next wednesday j march 30 the meeting will begin i at st peter's church at 7.45 p m ' and the members are advised tc bring a flashlight a stout heart and several friends the young : ladies of the church will be present and assure a pleasant evening the wanni weather of the past week has been taken advantage ot by coach keady and the baseball , squad is rapidly getting into play ing condition in fact the early spring has allowed the team to get a better start this year than for sev eral seasons the squad was cut for the second time last week but still numbers almost thirty men it is probable that no further cut will be made un til well into the playing season practice games have been held in the last tew days and the first team line-up disclosed several changes of position rogers a freshman is playing first while yap is holding down third base rote and donovan are playing to gether around the keystone sack i rote on second and donovan at short stop captain savaria is in left field and thompson another veteran is in right the other out field position is being filled by sev eral men herrington sehring and read have been doing most of the j catching the whole team is hit i tintg very well and a group of sound i'hiimpers are expected to develop it is still too early to get a real line on the new pitching talent but lees and pfeiffer have been work ing out regularly and both appear to be in good form lees in parti cular is going well and on the basis of some improvement over last year should pitch some good ball this year co-nroy who is new on the staff this year is also showing up well larkirt shoemaker and norki witz have been showing up best in the outfield and are contenders for the vacant posts in the outer gar den larkin shows improvement over last year when he played a few games maginnes cusick and bessemer i have also been playing in the infield and simpson another young in | fielder is hitting well prospects for a fairly strong team look better now than at the begin ning of practice the infield prob lem apppears to be solved with sev eral fairly good new men available the greatest problem at present is in the battery the loss of wilson and johnson having greatly weak ened this department however it is expected that with a little help from new twirlers lees will be able to carry the pitching burden and that a very good choice can be made from the three candidates for i catcher change in gym class beginning on friday afternoon mr bartlett will start an outdoor base ball class to take the place of his usual gymnasium class on that j afternoon the purpose of this class will be to give those men who do not know how to play base ball an opportunity to learn and prac tice the upper athletic field wil be used and all men joining this i class will receive gym credit \\ freshmen notice m )\ attention of the class of 1924 is . j called to the freshman rule found in t the handbook prohibiting the wear f ing of freshmen winter caps after | april 1 all orders for class day invita tions muct be in the hands of the committee before wednesday mar 30 the committee is composed of the following men t w morgan s l flom and j g dougherty as the end of the year is ap proaching and the period of festiv ities start the band is to have its share also it will not be long before it will be one of the big organizations around college as is evidenced by the very rapid progress made dur ing this year from almost noth ing the band has in the last two years grown to its present position and every indication points to ? more successful season next year joe ricapito wishes to thank the students for their support and interest this making possible the success of lehigh's band in view of this fact and also as a token of appreciation to the men a custom is being established where in the bamd is to have a yearly banquet the first one to take place in the near future probably at one of the local hotels brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 29 1921 movies shown to railroaders two more games played by fives