Brown and White Vol. 27 no. 14

              arcadia holds regular meeting debate feature of m.e meet cross country team loses to state ch e meeting well attended vol xxvii no 14 soccer team loses first collegiate game lehigh bows to penn state price five cents lehigh clearly shows l ck of experience in state game big brown and white team^olf their game until fourth period team makes good showing over strange course several resolutions passed and will be published later fresh man apologies accepted dr w o snelling tells large audience of explosive manu facture during recent war judge gary's action voted cor rect in debate prof larkin addresses meeting chemical courses popular line unable to stop state for first three quarters offen sive weak also dr ullman shows growth of chemical courses and need of chemists smokes eats a meeting of the arcadia was held thursday evening in drown hall w siebecker and kenney spoke on the subject of the ameri can legion and emphasized the ad vantages to be gained by being a member of the american legion november 11 is the final day for enrollment of charter members of this organization the arcadia accepted the apology of the class of 1923 sev eral of the freshmen were reported for breaking freshmen regulations six amendments to the constitution were passed which will soon be brought before the student body in order to ratify an amendment to the constitution of the arcadia voting must be held for three days the time and place of such voting to be selected by the committee in charge r d billinger spoke on the plan for raising of money to send several delegates to the y m c a convention at dcs moines next month the method of financing this scheme will be to have every living group in college contribute the pian^wait approved tu t"not voted upon swimming team to begin practice opening their collegiate soccer season at state college saturday lehigh lost to perm state by a 5-1 score the state men showed a greater knowledge of the igame than their opponents most of them be ing veterans while only five of le high s team had played in an inter collegiate contest before the game was played before the lehigh-state football encounter and was attended by rather small crowd of soccer enthusiasts the field was muddy but in spite of this the play was fairly fast in the earlier part of the game the ball was kept in lehigh s territory most of the time state s goal being sel dom threatened the line-up : perm state lehigh positions arned g mauer james r f b batter thwaite gladimg l f 8 r claxton kennedy r h b desh milligan c h b menezes matterner . l h b whitney hazlewood .... 0 r wey trapponer i r merkle mearkle c f lewis grubb i l e claxton jbtafkeyt 77t . ; t0 l7t 777 t^uatilß substitutions : lehigh — eichel berger for wey goals trap pener 3 grubb 2 miearkle 1 referee ellis of perm state time of halves : forty minutes card from pres drinker running their second race of the season on foreign territory le high's cross-country team lost to perm state last saturday by a 21 34 score the event took place at state college and was part of the annual celebration of pennsylvania day there owing to injuries lehigh was unable to put her full strength on the field it being necessary to leave two members of the team at home several other members of the squad were not in first class condition due to illness the race was run over the perm state course five and one-half miles in length this course started with one-quarter mile over a cinder track then along country roads with very few hills and finished over the same stretch on which the start was made bray took the lead at the crack of the gun holding it for half a mile when he was supplanted by shields and romig the latter pair leading the rest of the way and finishing in the order named cap tain carr of lehigh by a dash at the finish came home third bray being fourth the time of the first ; four men h cbfr;ide?€&-§oed~ro tfee course the weather was clear and was almost ideal for cross-country run ning while the course was muddy in spots it was as a whole in good shape the lehigh harriers missed the hills on which they excel as was shown by their excellent per formance over the hilly rutgers course captain m l shields of perm starte finished first his time being 30:38 4-5 romig also of state was second in 31:02 2-5 captain w l carr of lehigh was third home in 31 51 2-5 followed by j l bray of lehigh in 31 56 2-5 ; w l orr of state was fifth in 31 56 2-5 k e rahley of state was sixth in 32 56 3-5 ; f d snyder of state wais seventh in 32:21 j boardman of lehigh was eighth in 32 32 ; r l foster state ninth in 32:33 and c m fancher and merkel of lehigh being tenth and eleventh their times being 32:40 and 33 05 2-5 epitome competition over seventy-five men were pres ent at the first meeting this year of the m e society held last thursday evening in williams hall talks by faculty members of the department and a debate given by six of the students were the features of the evening president bergdoll opened with a short talk on the objects of the society he said that he wanted the m.e.s to come to the meetings for the education that they will be sure to get out of them a good many big men in the engineering world are scheduled for talks in the near future and every m.e ought to get behind the society and push it thrnno 1 for a successful year prof deschweinitz then spoke of the relation of the student so ciety with the american society of mechanical engineers he pointed out that members of the student society at lehigh have the privi lege of retaining their membership for two years after graduation and can secure membership in the a s m e after they are thirty-two - - ■ j yctctfoi age ~ a debate was then given the subject being was judge gary right or wrong in refusing an in terview to organized labor the affirmative side was taken by ester son bishop and ganglies while the negative side was upheld by bellman reigart and schneider the judges unanimously decided in favor of the affirmative side prof larkin spoke on founda tions — structural industrial and personal he described the task of building a permanent foundation for the woolworth building as prof larkin was himself one of the men who was engaged in the work he was able to describe the feat very fully and made his points clear by drawing sketches on the blackboard he said that such an undertaking inspired the men and that every one of them was proud of his part in the work continued on fourth page prof larkin said that the in dustrial foundations of the country were unstable as shown by the ever increasing number of strikes he said that the only remedy for this state of affairs was to educate the a tentative schedule of meets has been arranged for the swimming team and to date includes rutgers swarthmore john hopkins allen town y m c a intercollegiates at swarthmore navy and possibly pittsburgh the rutgers meet is to be held at new brunswick on december 13 this schedule is by no means an easy one but lehigh should make a very good showing candidates for the team will be excused from gym and are urged to come out all who are interest ed will meet in the game room in the gym on monday the 17th a special appeal is made for sprints swimming for distance back stroke diving under water swimming and plunging the first meet is about a month off and there is ample time to round out a team far better than the one that represented lehigh last year " jimmy mahoney will help to coach the team prof t edgar shields gives organ recital i wish to again impress upon the student body the importance of everj man answering at once the post-card inquiry sent a short time ago to all students asking a report on the reasons impelling each stu dent to select lehigh for his college course it is very important in the interest of the university that we should secure and compile from our large attendance this year a full analysis in this matter stu dents need not apprehend that their names will in any way be pub lished or used it is simply desired to get a consensus of opinion in the matter and the results will be com piled and used as a whole without any publication of the names of the individuals furnishing the inform ation any students who have so far not answered my post-card will please do so promptly either by post-card or letter or by calling at my office henry s drinker lafayette game tickets m and c banquet a meeting for sophomore com petitors for next year's business manager of the epitome has been called for wednesday afternoon at 4:15 in the burr room drown hall all sophomores who intend entering the competition will find it advantageous to attend this meet ing and get an early start interfraternity dance seats in the cheering section for the lafayette game of november 22 may be obtained wednesday november 12 at the office in taylor gymnasium students who desire these seats may have them by the presentation of their registration cards and one dollar this will probably be the only time to get pickets for seats in the cheering section and it is urged that all stu dents report sometime on wednes day lutheran students notice failing to hit their usual stride until it was too late the lehigh gridiron warriors went down to de feat at the hands of coach bezdek s fast perm state eleven at state college last saturday the game was the feature attraction of the state institution s pennsylvania day celebration and beaver field was taxed to capacity all the stands being filled and over a thousand enthusiastic blue and white root ers were forced to stand along the side lines of the field which was very muddy as a result of friday's rain before the game the famous state band of one hundred pieces marched around the field and at the end of the first half rendered the lehigh alma mater standing in front of the brown and white cheering section which was fairly ers who accompanied the team or arrived on later trains or by machine the result of the game came as more or less of a surprise not only to our opponents but also to the brown and white backers al though state was recognized as a very formidable opponent it was not expected that they would be able to win by so decisive a score as 20 to 7 of course the home team always has considerable ad vantage over the visitors and the long and tiresome trip may have had a great deal to do with le high's sudden reversal of form as it was very apparent that the team that faced state saturday was not up to the standard shown in previous engagements this season in the last few minutes of play after booth had blocked higgin's punt and raced over for lehigh s lone talley the old time fight seem ed to return and from this time until the final whistle blew they completly outclassed the blue and white and gained at will by a series of forward passes and the line plunges by wysocki carrying the ball to the 8-yard line only to have the game end the stonewall defense which has been so prominent so far this year was rather weak and only once was state held for downs robb and snell time and time again picked out holes and tore through for long games only to be stopped by the backfield defensive the most noticeable defect on lehigh s part was in tackling which in most in stances was high and uncertain it taking several tacklers usually to finally down the opponent carry ing the ball continued on third page the brown and white's offen sive was also not up to standard and most of the ground gained was as was the case in the pitt game by forward passes two attempts by herrington to kick a field goal failed although the one in the first period from the 35-yard line was very close conover succeeded in booting two placement kicks for about thirty yards each the second at a meeting of the inter-fra ternity council last thursday evening it decided to give a dance on the night of december 6 in drown hall this is the even ing after the sophomore cotillion and it is expected that it will be well attended as it is the first func tion of this kind that the council has thus far attempted to give the committee in charge is j l rosenmiller j j shipherd and j m howard it is assured that good music will be furnished - the chemical society was par ticularly fortunate in having dr w 0 snelling for its speaker at its first meeting of the year held last thursday evening dr snelling is in charge of the research depart ment of the trojan powder com pany and gave an absorbing lecture on the explosives which were used during the recent war he stated that the only require ments for a substance to be an ex plosive is that it be some com bustible material and that it be in such a form so that its surface can easily acquire oxygen from the sur roundings hence we often hear of explosions in saw-mills where the wood has become cut so fine as to be highly combustible ex plosions of a similar nature are likely to occur in flour mills starch factories and coal mines which to a my iii&ll steals to iia"ve beeii ijiuu^iil about intentionally ' three types of explosives used during the war are benzol nitro glycerin and gun-cotton the lat ter is merely ordinary cotton soaked in a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids which renders the cotton highly destructive when ignited however the explosive used to the greatest extent by the french armies was picric acid the french had a sort of national aversion to anything but picric acid although it was shown them that other ma terials were more powerful trini trotoluene populuarly known as tnt was the most important ex plosive used throughout the war by germany it was also used by the allies for a while until the demand for it became too great for the sup ply and a substitute had to be found this problem was solved by the corporation to which dr snelling is attached he told of how the ex periments were carried on with dif ferent materials until it was found that a certain compound contain ing starch was twenty per cent more powerful than tn t in other words a certain amount of this new substance exploded in a hand grenade would break it into 120 fragments whereas the highest fragmentation that could be pro ducd by the same amount of t n t was only 95 hence a very worthy substitute was provided to cover the shortage of tnt dr snelling then explained the operation of several weapons in cluding the hand grenade the stokes mortar the aerial drop bomb and the rifle grenade he showed samples of each type and closed his talk with the hope that the experience in this branch of science gained by the emergencies of war would henceforth be utilized for peaceful pursuits continued on fourth page in the course of the meeting dr h ullman head of the chemistry department gave a short talk on the growth of the chemical courses at lehigh he produced statistics which show that in the past seven all the lutheran students at tending lehigh are invited to at tend a social in the parish house of st peter's church vine street and packer avenue thursday november 13 at 7:45 p.m the social is to be given by the choir and teachers there will be a dinner of the mustard and cheese club this thursday november 13 which will probably be held at kurtz's al though final arrangements have not yet been completed notices con cerning the exact time and place will be sent to all the members the future plans of the club will be dis cussed at the dinner including the advisability of giving a variety show at christmas and the regular show junior week in all prob ability the eligibility of the club will be changed previously any man who stood on the stage in a mob scene became a member of the mustard and cheese club this ruling will probably be changed thus reducing the size of the or ganization to a large extent an organ recital was given in the chapel friday morning by prof t edgar shields university organist admission 1 was free to all students and residents of bethle hem professor shields was as sisted by miss pauline michel vio linist the performance was highly classical throughout and was great ly appreciated by all who attended the program follows sonata in m minor mendelssohn violin : air for g string bach miss michel legende stoughton largo handel grigue corelli violin : a melodic gluck b serenade schubert miss michel madrigal maxson toccato „ matthews brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday november 11 1919 20-7