Brown and White Vol. 13 no. 57

              the meeting of the y m c a sunday afternoon in the chapei was addressed by bishop talbor the subject being the common place things of life the discussion was based on the sth chapter of 2 kings in which the story is told of the cleansing of naaman one of the best lessons to be drawn from this instance is maaman's tendency to utterly dis regard common place things the despising of the ordinary in life is a wide spread and universal fault it crops out in every condi tion of hie and is evident in all men for example in reading a newspaper we are too often unsat isfied unless we read some news which is exciting we seem to desire something tragic and of extraordinary bril lancy and for that reason regard the common place as valueless unless life presents something ex citing and histrionic we are apt to regard it as useless like naaman we start out on our life's journey with visions of splendor and we feel that our service to the world cannot be overestimated years pass our dreams are unrealized and we see ourselves ordinary men enjoying ordinary pleasures and weeping over ordinary sor rows we often get tired of life because it is so commonplace and ordinary in a way we are like the savages who demand flashy colors and stirring deeds if life does not have a touch of the heroic we de clare it unfruitful in the christian's experience this same element is met we come to christ because w r e are as naaman spotted with disease but we come expecting to be dealt with in a tragic way we would have all bad habits removed all remains of sin blotted out and be made saints in the twinkling of an eye not so for the christian religion is not a mere display of the heroic religion is not foreign ; it is fundamental it does not perpetuate extraneous and outside notions ; it furnishes the most complete satisfaction of the soul's aspirations when christ asks a man to be religious he asks him to stand fast for manhood courage and nobility and to spurn all influences tending toward their opposites there are several reasons why the common place is to be re spected in the first place the greater part of one's daily life is passed in performing acts which are in themselves ordinary the ordinary day is a day of routine with ordinary tasks there is more 1 downright happiness and brightness in the common and or dinary things of life than the ex traordinary can even dream to at tain continued on second page wanted — bright energetic young man willing to learn trade or obtain mechanical experience without apprenticeship technical or training school men specially de sired employment either during summer or permanent if desired apply in person or state age and full particulars atlas engine works indianapolis ind annual " feed of philadelphia lehigh club the philadelphia lehigh club held its annual shad dinner satur day may 19th at essington jim myers was the guest of honor the following letter gives an account of the joyous proceedings in detail dear bill : — you missed the time of your life last saturday the shad dinner of the philadel phia lehigh club was a peach there was so much doing that i hardly know where to begin it was held at the orchard essing ton i think there must have been something rejuvenating in the air as every man seemed to have dropped ten to twenty years from his age old jim myers came down from lehigh and was given a hearty ovation by all the boys jim looks the same as he did in 1866 when he cut the stakes for laying out packer hall he still has that luxuriant head of hair that we used to admire so jmi tells me he is a faithful user of herbicide bernstein met him at the terminal and they both ski dooed to the university club at which place the necessary supplies wet and otherwise were collected in a deep sea-going cab jim and the above-mentioned articles were conveyed to the b & o depot at a break-neck speed and safely de posited on the 2.05 train for es sington at the orchard jim was conducted to the front porch and was immediately surrounded by a thirsty crowd of alumni who nearly ruined the push-buttons by the hard usage to which they were subjected some of the gang in dulged in various games but the high ball seemed to be the popular one and is probably what bern stein meant by his other sports jy th sports the committee had procured a large supply of a new patent-action rapid-fire magazine fire-cracker with which meily was delighted it was evident to see his evident pleasure in the excitement,beatty was discovered wearing another man's coat he blushed quite red when found out and endeavored to explain at seven o'clock intense excite ment prevailed dinner was an nounced and all filed in to fress their share of the alosa sapidissima the table was in the shape of an oblate spheroid mounted with a i^-inch cannon trained on eynon o neither side of this stood two noble looking tubs not members decorated in brown and white the other 58 tubs distributed them selves around the table in solid pha lanx with a 3-inch pipe line con necting from the toulmin brothers to each of the main tubs i think there was some mystery about that punch it suddenly seemed to change its character from a harm continued on fourth page vol xiil the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa tuesday may 22 3 1906 no 57 shad dinner tau beta pi y w c a syracuse university installation of new chapter at a charter of tau beta pi was recently granted to a petitioning body in the college of applied science of syracuse university the installation and initiatory ban quet of this new chapter known as the new york beta chapter was held at the yates hotel syra cuse on wednesday evening may 16th prof heck was the installing deputy assisted by van reenen 06 e l rich 05 and h g reist 86 of the general electric company of schenectady j k finck of columbia university and a assman of syracuse dean william kent of the college of applied science and prof george d babcock syracuse are members of the fraternity the former was toastmaster and called for the fol lowing toasts : the relation of the faculty to tau beta x prof george d babcock syracuse alumni relation to tau beta pi prof r c h heck the charter members rela tion to tau beta pi irving n beeler syracuse 06 president of the syracuse chapter junior relation to tau beta pi charles b berst syracuse/07 arts and science club at the regular meeting of the arts and science club on thurs day evening the following officers were elected for next year : president walters 07 vice president sanderson 08 treasurer reinke 08 secretary friedman 07 fifth member of executive committee schnabel 07 beck 06 was elected a member of the society walters 07 chairman of the pin committee stated that it would be impossible to secure the pins ordered before next year the papers of the evening were by walters 09 on tuskogee and its founder and tookhy 09 on the celtic revival both were well prepared and interesting after the reading of the papers the remainder of the meeting was devoted to stirring addresses by the old and new officers and anyone else who had nothing to say base ball villa nova wins a slow game villa nova's base ball team de feated lehigh saturday in a very loosely played game which was characterized mainly by lehigh s inability to hit or field the ball ac curately johnny quinn pitched a remarkably steady and consistent game in spite of the poor support he received but had hard luck in hitting men at critical moments the fielding of galbraith and kirk was exceptionally good uptegraff made an excellent throw in the sev enth when he headed off nicols at the plate pelouguin proved fairly effective allowing but four hits and striking out seven men his support was first-class savage nicols moore and daniels figuring quite prominently lehigh s only run came in the sixth when with two men out gott lifted the ball over the fence for a homer the line-up batted for musselman villa nova 01 1 o o 1 o 1 2—6 lehigh ... 00000100 oo — 1 summary two-base hits pel louguin kirk mackall home run gott first base on balls off pelouguin 2 ; off quinn 3 struck out by pelounguin 7 by quinn 2 double plays galbraith to gott ' quinn to gott left on bases villa nova 1 1 ; le high 8 first base on er rors villa nova 8 lehigh i wild pitch pelouguin quinn hit by pitcher by quinn 4 umpire mr grace and mr baer theodore schwarze 05 was in town ovsr sunday bishop talbot addresses stu dent meeting villa jn jova r h o a e cgeehan ib ... avage 3d vticols s s 108 1 1 01320 0022 1 sullivan r f jloore 1 t aniels c f , 11 000 , 11 300 i 2 2 o o murray 2b 2 i i i i nlgrew c >..... 00710 elotiguin p o i i i o 6 7 27 8 3 lehigh r.h o.a e mackall 1 f o i o o 3 kirk 3b o 11 4 o jptegraff c f . . o o 1 1 o 3ott ib 1 115 ° 2 vlusselman c . . o 1 5 1 1 aalbraith 2b o o 3 5 o porter r f 0 o o o 2 laurence r f o o o 1 o bason s s o o 1 1 2 p o o 1 4 o veorsack * o o o o o 1 427 17 10