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sanitary conditions better than average city sickness as low as two per cent the second meeting of the deutcher verein will be held to night in honor of the newly-elected members the meeting is set for 7.30 o'clock and will be held in caterer payne's restaurant on wyandotte street ten junior members were elect ed to the verein on thursday oc tober 12 when it was decided to have them as the guests of the old members at the next regular meet ing it will be their first oppor tunity to meet with the senior mitgleider " which is a primary object of the affair a program of recitations papers and stories has been arranged to which each of the old members will make his con tribution the club has established a reputation for its singing and the more familiar volkslieder will form an important part of the pro gram the club is this year entering upon the third year of its exist ence each year is marked by an increased activity of the society members are elected purely on a scholarship basis the first ten sophomores according to rank who have passed two years of ger man at lehigh are eligible for membership the opportunity for contact with the german language in a phase not met with in the class-room stimulates a greater in terest in the subject and makes of membership in the verein some thing to be prized e e meet the first meeting of the elec trical engineers will be held thursday evening october 26 in the wireless room of the physics building the speaker of the even ing will be superintendent of motor power cartwright of the l v r r two student papers will be read at this meeting every new man in college taking electri cal engineering is urged 1 to be present there will be refresh ments lehigh will line up against leb anon valley tomorrow in the fourth game of the season the annville team has shown quite a bit of class this year and do not expect to have a high score rolled up against them in the three games they have played they have won one and lost two in the opening game of the season lebanon held the army to a 3-0 score dartmouth the fol lowing week game them a 70-0 drubbing but last week the team came back strong and beat villa nova 13-3 several men on the lebanon team are considered very good es pecially their captain — mackert — who is the only exponent in this vicinity of a new mode of tackling mackert has a wrestling hold which he uses as the man with the ball comes through his guard he grabs his man and spins him in some way as he tackles him this method soon wearies the backs and necessi tates the substitution of several men during the game lehigh came through the yale game in fair shape and will start tomorrow with practically the same line-up that faced the elis a week ago ty halstead will be out most of the game as he has water on the knee his place will be filled by either hurley or purcell ayrault will take nick pons place at guard as he also has a bad knee kenneth maclsaacs a fresh man will be given a chance at half back maclsaacs has shown a great improvement in his playing of late and should make a very good second string man his only dis advantage being his weight the probable line-up follows : lebanon positions lehiigh morson l e mccarthy loomis l t tate dehuff l g johnson wenrich c mcdonald winche buckwater . . r g ayrault mackert r t g.ood adams r e richards rupp q 8 . . . chenoweth jaeger goff l h b brunner walters r h b hurly swartz f b maginnes freshmen competitors civil's meeting all freshmen competitors will meet in the brown and white room drown hall between 3 30 and 4 30 every tuesday afternoon to receive assignments for the fol lowing week competitors who failed to report last wednesday will be given an opportunity to re cover lost ground by reporting at the board office saturday 1:15 1:45 p.m and receiving double assignments change of address subscribers are requested to no tify business manager j a carl son delta tau delta house of any change of address at once mechanical meet feeling that the benefits of mili tary training reach far beyond the purely physical the men w t ho have been interested in the plattsburg idea are now pushing a campaign for a course in military science the meeting is called for 1.30 to morrow afternoon in drown hall and promises to be filled with en thusiasm the definite plans of the course have not been an nounced and that is the thing to be placed before those interested at to-morrow s meeting this movement is largely the re sult of the brilliant success of the plattsburg idea both on land and afloat for among the many dif ferent things which occupied le high men during the summer this stands out as the most noteworthy life under the canvas tent had its pleasures and forty-one lehigh undergraduates vote them the ones to be always remembered the one thing which seemed to stand out priiuine'ntly at the camps was the democracy of the affair there were no distinctions of col leges universities fraternities or intercollegiate clubs of any sort the spirit of true democracy per vaded the whole back from the camps came these men and every one a strong advo cate of some sort of military train ing in the schools and it is this which seems to prompt the action of the students interested in to morrow's booster meeting the mien who attended sthe camps were : class of 1917 a bach jr r g cook h c dayton l f hag glund g r kinter l b kramer d maclsaac h j pardee w a richards e m robinson j b schwoyer e m tierney j f wentz w h s youry class of 1918 r d bean r s campbell g f jones e l klotz w h maccallum j w perry john platt l h schnerr class of 1919 w p amick h p betts w c clark g a clewell h e dimmick a e forstall j w gardiner c b gorisse r a reid r t rohrer j l rosenmnller h r walters clarence warner w a yates for the summer naval cruise of the navy department three under graduates enrolled f d powers 17 r hartzell 18 and r h lindsay 18 following is given a letter writ ten by a 1916 attendant and ap pearing in the new york tribune of septembeb 20 concerning the tone purpose educational value and military utility of training camps and the results in producing continued on ftfth page the first meeting of the civil so ciety next thursday evening will be made more attractive by the fact that several members of the senior class will conduct tests in the fritz laboratorjr the following tests will be per formed steel bar tension test prof becker and g howard 17 ; wooden beam test l j breen 17 ; subway column test h par dee 17 ; standard wire test f e portz 17 sprinkler filter noz zles c moyer 17 ; pelton impulse wheel r g cook 17 and the path of a jet b s derr 17 in addition an exhibit of trini dad lake asphalt will be given by the barber asphalt paving co band rehearsal the above news article is mainly an abstract of a pamphlet which has been issued lately the pamphlet bears the signatures of ex-president eliot cardinal gib bons john r mott bishops rhine lander and greer talbott wil liams rabbi wise cleveland dodge and over forty other names of prominence in view of a recent proclamation by president wilson setting aside october 21 and 22 as days for ar menian and syrian relief the article may prove of interest in all the terrible accompani ments of the european war there is perhaps none more heartrending than the crushing blow that has fallen upon the armenians in tur key according to the most re liable reports about 750,000 have perished by massacre disease and hardship a million survivors each with a story tragic enough to break the hardest heart are in dire distress they are remote from their homes without shelter cloth ing or food their hearts filled with despair for twenty-five centuries be tween the black and caspian seas in western asia the armenians have had a home suffering has been their lot perhaps beyond any other race that has ever lived one after another — assyrian persian barthanian roman turk — has come to oppress or exploit or perse cute today their land is divided between turkey persia and rus sia only yesterday they were the best educated most skillful most industrious and most useful people in the turkish empire modern history began on august 1 1914 when able-bodied armenians be tween the ages of seventeen and fifty were called to the colors leaving only a few men to carry on the daily business as best they could in april 1915 continuing through november the indescrib ably terrible blow fell — the most tragic hour in all their tragic his tory came then began the system atic and relentlessly cruel process of crushing the armenian race by massacre and deportation men were led away in groups outside their towns and villages and killed with clubs and axes the consul of one of the euro pean nations in turkey reported that on one occasion 10.000 ar menians were taken out in boats batteries of artillery trained on the boats as targets and the entire company killed the american president of eu phrates college writes :: ' two thirds of the girl pupils and six sevenths of the boys have been taken away to death exile or mos lem homes of the head professors prof t was arrested starved hung by the arms for a day and a night severely beaten and finally murdered prof n who had studied at the university of michi gan shared prof t.s fate prof v a princeton man was taken to see a man beaten almost to death rn.vtintted on fifth paor the band will hold its first re hearsal of the season in saucon hall on friday october 20 at 4 o'clock the band has always been an interesting factor at lehigh s football games and all men who play brass instruments are urged to attend the rehearsal the brown and white has been given permission to print an inter esting letter recently received by raymond walters registrar of the university from walter f per kins c.e 13 assistant superin tendent machine shop the bart lett hayward company baltimore who is first lieutenant in the fifth maryland infantry in ser vice in texas the letter follows : september 11 1916 camp ord eagle pass tex dear mr walters : am dropping you a few lines just to let ou and the rest of my friends know that i'm down here on the rio grande trying to do my bit was called out with the rest cf the maryland troops on june 19 last we went into camp at laurel md and were there mustered into federal esrvice on july 1 on july 5 we entrained for eagle pass and arrived here on july 10 i want to say that this texas bor der is about the hottest place in summer i've ever struck it is a usual occurrence for the tempera ture to run up as high as 120 de grees in the afternoon we have gotten quite used to it now the nights however cool off wonder fully and sleeping is delightful in the beginning we had about 9000 troops here composed of all branches of the service about 2000 kansas infantry have left since then for san antonio due to the fact that we are right on the border and that piedras negras a large mexican town is directly across the river we have had lots of outpost and border patrolling to do it was rather exciting at first to be sent down the river on an all-night pa trol with the possibility of running into some mexican bandits but the novelty has somewhat worn off being an engineer i was given extra work have built any num ber of mess halls kitchens stables etc to say nothing of several miles of ditches lehigh men as engineers will probably be interested in knowing that these army camps are very sanitary and that the percentage of sick is much lower than that of any town or city last month we aver aged less than 2 per cent of men sick not one case of typhoid fever has developed in eagle pass all of the men were inoculated against typhoid before reaching here and after arriving w t ere vaccinated against smallpox many sore arms was the result but far better to have sore arms than sick soldiers in the hospitals the camps are properly drained so that no waste water may accum ulate and become a breeding-place for mosquitoes all garbage is burned at once in incinerators built for this purpose dish water and slop is evaporated over a fire and the remaining solid matter burned cans are burned out twice each day with crude oil and straw they are kept tightly covered at all times our greatest enemy is of course the fly this we have learned since continued on sixth page there will be a meeting of the mechanical engineering society in williams hall on thursday even ing october 26 at 8 o'clock the speakers for the evening will be s t harleman m.e 01 superin tendent of the crucible department of the bethlehem steel company and a h langenheim 17 who will talk on the layout of an al kali plant at niagara falls the freshmen are especially invited to attend this first meeting of the m e society the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday october 20 1916 deutscher verein meets tonight conditions on mexican border no 4 plattsburg men meet tomorrow lebanon valley plays saturday vol xxiv assistance asked for armenians brown and white expects victory although somewhat disabled to discuss plans for campaign for course in military training society banquets in honor of the newly elected members president wilson sets october 21 and 22 as day for armenian and syrian relief mr walters receives letter from w f perkins 13 fifth maryland infantry lehigh to help letter from rookie camp life depicted expresses educational value and military utility of training camps campaign to be conducted among various fraternities and dormitories rulfs suspended freshmen regulations are in effect until saturday october 21 on that evening the seven o'clock rule becomes inoperative and freshmen may appear on the streets after that hour the hazing committee
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FullText | sanitary conditions better than average city sickness as low as two per cent the second meeting of the deutcher verein will be held to night in honor of the newly-elected members the meeting is set for 7.30 o'clock and will be held in caterer payne's restaurant on wyandotte street ten junior members were elect ed to the verein on thursday oc tober 12 when it was decided to have them as the guests of the old members at the next regular meet ing it will be their first oppor tunity to meet with the senior mitgleider " which is a primary object of the affair a program of recitations papers and stories has been arranged to which each of the old members will make his con tribution the club has established a reputation for its singing and the more familiar volkslieder will form an important part of the pro gram the club is this year entering upon the third year of its exist ence each year is marked by an increased activity of the society members are elected purely on a scholarship basis the first ten sophomores according to rank who have passed two years of ger man at lehigh are eligible for membership the opportunity for contact with the german language in a phase not met with in the class-room stimulates a greater in terest in the subject and makes of membership in the verein some thing to be prized e e meet the first meeting of the elec trical engineers will be held thursday evening october 26 in the wireless room of the physics building the speaker of the even ing will be superintendent of motor power cartwright of the l v r r two student papers will be read at this meeting every new man in college taking electri cal engineering is urged 1 to be present there will be refresh ments lehigh will line up against leb anon valley tomorrow in the fourth game of the season the annville team has shown quite a bit of class this year and do not expect to have a high score rolled up against them in the three games they have played they have won one and lost two in the opening game of the season lebanon held the army to a 3-0 score dartmouth the fol lowing week game them a 70-0 drubbing but last week the team came back strong and beat villa nova 13-3 several men on the lebanon team are considered very good es pecially their captain — mackert — who is the only exponent in this vicinity of a new mode of tackling mackert has a wrestling hold which he uses as the man with the ball comes through his guard he grabs his man and spins him in some way as he tackles him this method soon wearies the backs and necessi tates the substitution of several men during the game lehigh came through the yale game in fair shape and will start tomorrow with practically the same line-up that faced the elis a week ago ty halstead will be out most of the game as he has water on the knee his place will be filled by either hurley or purcell ayrault will take nick pons place at guard as he also has a bad knee kenneth maclsaacs a fresh man will be given a chance at half back maclsaacs has shown a great improvement in his playing of late and should make a very good second string man his only dis advantage being his weight the probable line-up follows : lebanon positions lehiigh morson l e mccarthy loomis l t tate dehuff l g johnson wenrich c mcdonald winche buckwater . . r g ayrault mackert r t g.ood adams r e richards rupp q 8 . . . chenoweth jaeger goff l h b brunner walters r h b hurly swartz f b maginnes freshmen competitors civil's meeting all freshmen competitors will meet in the brown and white room drown hall between 3 30 and 4 30 every tuesday afternoon to receive assignments for the fol lowing week competitors who failed to report last wednesday will be given an opportunity to re cover lost ground by reporting at the board office saturday 1:15 1:45 p.m and receiving double assignments change of address subscribers are requested to no tify business manager j a carl son delta tau delta house of any change of address at once mechanical meet feeling that the benefits of mili tary training reach far beyond the purely physical the men w t ho have been interested in the plattsburg idea are now pushing a campaign for a course in military science the meeting is called for 1.30 to morrow afternoon in drown hall and promises to be filled with en thusiasm the definite plans of the course have not been an nounced and that is the thing to be placed before those interested at to-morrow s meeting this movement is largely the re sult of the brilliant success of the plattsburg idea both on land and afloat for among the many dif ferent things which occupied le high men during the summer this stands out as the most noteworthy life under the canvas tent had its pleasures and forty-one lehigh undergraduates vote them the ones to be always remembered the one thing which seemed to stand out priiuine'ntly at the camps was the democracy of the affair there were no distinctions of col leges universities fraternities or intercollegiate clubs of any sort the spirit of true democracy per vaded the whole back from the camps came these men and every one a strong advo cate of some sort of military train ing in the schools and it is this which seems to prompt the action of the students interested in to morrow's booster meeting the mien who attended sthe camps were : class of 1917 a bach jr r g cook h c dayton l f hag glund g r kinter l b kramer d maclsaac h j pardee w a richards e m robinson j b schwoyer e m tierney j f wentz w h s youry class of 1918 r d bean r s campbell g f jones e l klotz w h maccallum j w perry john platt l h schnerr class of 1919 w p amick h p betts w c clark g a clewell h e dimmick a e forstall j w gardiner c b gorisse r a reid r t rohrer j l rosenmnller h r walters clarence warner w a yates for the summer naval cruise of the navy department three under graduates enrolled f d powers 17 r hartzell 18 and r h lindsay 18 following is given a letter writ ten by a 1916 attendant and ap pearing in the new york tribune of septembeb 20 concerning the tone purpose educational value and military utility of training camps and the results in producing continued on ftfth page the first meeting of the civil so ciety next thursday evening will be made more attractive by the fact that several members of the senior class will conduct tests in the fritz laboratorjr the following tests will be per formed steel bar tension test prof becker and g howard 17 ; wooden beam test l j breen 17 ; subway column test h par dee 17 ; standard wire test f e portz 17 sprinkler filter noz zles c moyer 17 ; pelton impulse wheel r g cook 17 and the path of a jet b s derr 17 in addition an exhibit of trini dad lake asphalt will be given by the barber asphalt paving co band rehearsal the above news article is mainly an abstract of a pamphlet which has been issued lately the pamphlet bears the signatures of ex-president eliot cardinal gib bons john r mott bishops rhine lander and greer talbott wil liams rabbi wise cleveland dodge and over forty other names of prominence in view of a recent proclamation by president wilson setting aside october 21 and 22 as days for ar menian and syrian relief the article may prove of interest in all the terrible accompani ments of the european war there is perhaps none more heartrending than the crushing blow that has fallen upon the armenians in tur key according to the most re liable reports about 750,000 have perished by massacre disease and hardship a million survivors each with a story tragic enough to break the hardest heart are in dire distress they are remote from their homes without shelter cloth ing or food their hearts filled with despair for twenty-five centuries be tween the black and caspian seas in western asia the armenians have had a home suffering has been their lot perhaps beyond any other race that has ever lived one after another — assyrian persian barthanian roman turk — has come to oppress or exploit or perse cute today their land is divided between turkey persia and rus sia only yesterday they were the best educated most skillful most industrious and most useful people in the turkish empire modern history began on august 1 1914 when able-bodied armenians be tween the ages of seventeen and fifty were called to the colors leaving only a few men to carry on the daily business as best they could in april 1915 continuing through november the indescrib ably terrible blow fell — the most tragic hour in all their tragic his tory came then began the system atic and relentlessly cruel process of crushing the armenian race by massacre and deportation men were led away in groups outside their towns and villages and killed with clubs and axes the consul of one of the euro pean nations in turkey reported that on one occasion 10.000 ar menians were taken out in boats batteries of artillery trained on the boats as targets and the entire company killed the american president of eu phrates college writes :: ' two thirds of the girl pupils and six sevenths of the boys have been taken away to death exile or mos lem homes of the head professors prof t was arrested starved hung by the arms for a day and a night severely beaten and finally murdered prof n who had studied at the university of michi gan shared prof t.s fate prof v a princeton man was taken to see a man beaten almost to death rn.vtintted on fifth paor the band will hold its first re hearsal of the season in saucon hall on friday october 20 at 4 o'clock the band has always been an interesting factor at lehigh s football games and all men who play brass instruments are urged to attend the rehearsal the brown and white has been given permission to print an inter esting letter recently received by raymond walters registrar of the university from walter f per kins c.e 13 assistant superin tendent machine shop the bart lett hayward company baltimore who is first lieutenant in the fifth maryland infantry in ser vice in texas the letter follows : september 11 1916 camp ord eagle pass tex dear mr walters : am dropping you a few lines just to let ou and the rest of my friends know that i'm down here on the rio grande trying to do my bit was called out with the rest cf the maryland troops on june 19 last we went into camp at laurel md and were there mustered into federal esrvice on july 1 on july 5 we entrained for eagle pass and arrived here on july 10 i want to say that this texas bor der is about the hottest place in summer i've ever struck it is a usual occurrence for the tempera ture to run up as high as 120 de grees in the afternoon we have gotten quite used to it now the nights however cool off wonder fully and sleeping is delightful in the beginning we had about 9000 troops here composed of all branches of the service about 2000 kansas infantry have left since then for san antonio due to the fact that we are right on the border and that piedras negras a large mexican town is directly across the river we have had lots of outpost and border patrolling to do it was rather exciting at first to be sent down the river on an all-night pa trol with the possibility of running into some mexican bandits but the novelty has somewhat worn off being an engineer i was given extra work have built any num ber of mess halls kitchens stables etc to say nothing of several miles of ditches lehigh men as engineers will probably be interested in knowing that these army camps are very sanitary and that the percentage of sick is much lower than that of any town or city last month we aver aged less than 2 per cent of men sick not one case of typhoid fever has developed in eagle pass all of the men were inoculated against typhoid before reaching here and after arriving w t ere vaccinated against smallpox many sore arms was the result but far better to have sore arms than sick soldiers in the hospitals the camps are properly drained so that no waste water may accum ulate and become a breeding-place for mosquitoes all garbage is burned at once in incinerators built for this purpose dish water and slop is evaporated over a fire and the remaining solid matter burned cans are burned out twice each day with crude oil and straw they are kept tightly covered at all times our greatest enemy is of course the fly this we have learned since continued on sixth page there will be a meeting of the mechanical engineering society in williams hall on thursday even ing october 26 at 8 o'clock the speakers for the evening will be s t harleman m.e 01 superin tendent of the crucible department of the bethlehem steel company and a h langenheim 17 who will talk on the layout of an al kali plant at niagara falls the freshmen are especially invited to attend this first meeting of the m e society the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday october 20 1916 deutscher verein meets tonight conditions on mexican border no 4 plattsburg men meet tomorrow lebanon valley plays saturday vol xxiv assistance asked for armenians brown and white expects victory although somewhat disabled to discuss plans for campaign for course in military training society banquets in honor of the newly elected members president wilson sets october 21 and 22 as day for armenian and syrian relief mr walters receives letter from w f perkins 13 fifth maryland infantry lehigh to help letter from rookie camp life depicted expresses educational value and military utility of training camps campaign to be conducted among various fraternities and dormitories rulfs suspended freshmen regulations are in effect until saturday october 21 on that evening the seven o'clock rule becomes inoperative and freshmen may appear on the streets after that hour the hazing committee |
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