Brown and White Vol. 25 no. 10

              national service claims many while others take part in war work line=up of varsity team uncer tain several men are in bad condition plans for this year's series of half hour discussion group meet ings were practically completed at a meeting held in drown hall last wednesday evening at which a representative from each living group was present the meeting was also attended by many of the men who will act a,s group leaders the outline which was arranged by professor palmer and rev a d thaeler of bethlehem after a great deal of careful consideration and work was unanimously adopt ed it calls for a series of twelve meetings the first half of the meetings are concerned with a com parative discussion of the world's great religions these will be taken up with a view to determining what they teach what they stand for and how they compare with the greatest of all christianity the second half of the meetings will deal with the life of christ taking up in turn the various phases of his character the subjects for discussion for the twelve meetings are : 1 what is religion 2 what is buddhism 3 what is conf usianism ? 4 what is mohammedanism ? 5 what is judaism 6 what is christianity ? 7 life of christ 8 christ's magnanimity 9 christ's indignation 10 christ's affection 11 christ's self restraint 12 christ's scale of values continued on fifth page japanese organize at an international conference of the y m c a recently held in canada at which practically all the universities and colleges from all over the country were repre sented it was decided to raise a fund of 1,000,000 which is to be known as the students friendship war fund it is to be raised through sacrificial giving all the money will be used for prisoners of war in europe and for our soldiers and sailors both home and abroad the national war fund is 35,000,000 and is preceded by this students friendship fund a meeting of the advisory com mittee of the y m c a was held last tuesday evening at the home of bishop talbot every man was present and it was unanimously decided to exert every possible ef fort in the promotion of this great undertaking plans are already under way for the raising of a suit able amount here at lehigh so that we may take our place with other colleges which have raised money toward the fund there are today 38,000,000 soldiers under arms in the world added to this number are 6,000,000 war prisoners the use of the stu dents friendship war fund to gether with the national war fund is indeed obvious it will not only furnish comforts for the wounded soldiers but it will pro vide the necessary medical care for those dangerously ill it will fur nish writing material for the soldiers so that they can keep in touch with their homes and with those anxious about them li braries can be equipped and books and magazines bought not only for reading but also for educational purposes the lives of the men which is above all the most im portant thing can be saved with the money plans are being formed which will be presented to the faculty and the student body in the near future junior class meeting at a meeting of the junior class held wednesday at noon in drown hall it was decided that the class dues for the present year should be 3.50 j n kennedy president of the class presided at the meeting while j b walker treasurer of the class explained the method by which the class dues are to be col lected one man is to be appointed for each course and is to have charge of collecting the dues from the men in that course it was also decided to have the class picture taken during the next two weeks the exact date to be announced later tomorrow the strong lebanon valley eleven will make its appear ance on taylor field to do battle with the brown and white a close game is anticipated as lebanon valley has an unusually strong eleven this year last season the game resulted in a 3-3 tie brunner scoring a field goal for lehigh while mackert did the same for lebanon to date the visitors have played four games ; having defeated villa nova and millersburg a c by large scores they have been de feated by georgetown and w va wesleyan the varsity will enter the game with several men in poor shape herrington and w d maginnes suffered bad body bruises in the georgetown game and johnson has a bad leg which may give him con siderable trouble during the past week coach keady has been experimenting and shifting his mien with the idea of getting more speed in the forward line captain halsted has been tried out in the line at guard as has macdonald as a result of this constant shifting team work es pecially in the line has suffered but all efforts are being pointed to having the best possible combina tion for the state and lafayette games all ther games being held subordinate to these the team that will start tomor row is undecided upon captain halsted may start at either right guard or fullback while mcdonald will play either left guard or cen ter in case the latter plays guard early will be found at center should captain halsted play full back a maginnes will be found at right guard and if he fills a line position savaria will play full back lineup : left end wysocki left tackle spagna left guard macdonald or booth center early or macdonald right guard capt halsted or a maginnes right tackle johnson right end young or saxman quarterback herrington . left halfback w d maginnes right halfback lind or apgar fullback halsted or savaria soccer team starts work first crosscountry race on saturday though the number of the jap anese men at lehigh is small there exists a spirit of fraternity and fel lowship which keeps these few men together a club as it may be called although of a very informal type has been started and informal meetings are being held from time to time there are altogether six japanese residing in south bethle hem three of these men being en gaged in studies at the university later it is expected that all of these men will be able to get to gether in the form of meetings the japanese taking work at le high are t tanaabe i suzgimure and y takikawa mr tanaabe and mr suzgimure are taking post graduate work in electrometal lurgy while mr takikawa is in the regular course of electrometal lurgy the two former men have attained the degrees gakushi — master's degree in electrometal lurgy through attendance at jap anese universities mr takikawa has attained the degree of koga kutokugyoshi — equivalent to a bachelor's degree in this country dr suzgimure is professor in the technical college of tokio while dr tanaabe is professor or a college in the interior of japan both these man are known as doc tors in their own land the chief work that dr tanaabe is pursuing is the chemical and physical properties of metals ' ' senior class meeting prof percy hughes head of the department of philosophy and education delivered the second ad dress in his series of two this morn ing in packer hall at the lecture hour on the subject some prin ciples of mental hygiene the lecture was attended chiefly by the freshmen who were required to attend but some of the upperclass men were also present to hear prof hughes the address served to complete the subject introduced by prof hughes in his lecture of last fri day on mental adjustments on entering college and the two lectures taken together served to give the members of the incoming class a clear idea of the manner in which they must solve the mental problems which will confront them throughout their college course in his address this morning prof hughes said in part : it is only in recent times that even bodily diseases have been clearly defined and systematically named who can minister to a mind diseased says the poet we now have hospitals for the insane in which physicians deal with the sick in mind with the same patience and eagerness to learn as do the physicians of the body and the time has long gone by when educat ed men ridicule the insane or the feeble minded this study of the insane helps us to understand the mental ail ments of the normal man for we all have them the insane in one respect differ from the normal man only in the degree for the alienist frequently notes that the mental affliction of his patient is but the exaggeration of what he sees in himself and in his friends but in another respect it is a difference of kind and not of degree for the insane can not recognize or take steps to correct the disease except through the aid of another the man who says i must have been crazy when i did that of course proves by his remark that he is not and was not crazy it is not the disease which marks one as insane but the loss or absence of the intel ligence which can recognize and control the disease the willful man keeps to a cer tain form or type of action because he has initiated it and any resis tance thereto provokes at once an attempt on his part to repeat and enhance his performance the stere otypy of the willful the extreme sense of sin felt by john bunyan augustine or count tolstoi was for the same reason not insanity but in the depressed type of insan ity we see the same intense dread and doubt what to do or where to look the manic type of insanity serves to picture the essential char acter of that impatience and excit ability which marks so may people that are said to have tempera ment while the hebephrenic type of the insane with its character istic silliness and aimilessness points out the goal toward which travels the bark of the slack and flabby in dividual in so far as he indulges continued on fifth page this year more than ever be fore the country has need of trained men this was the con dition last june when the class of 1917 lehigh university was graduated a situation existed which had never existed before the engineering field was exceed ingly short of men this condition brought about by the entrance of the u s into the war and the tre mendous amount of work being done due to the european war left open many fine positions the fol lowing list shows how lehigh graduates profited by this chance the list includes the latest known position of all the engineering stu dents of the class of 1917 about which definite information could be obtained in many cases the men have by this time left their listed positions and gone into gov ernment service those who were known to be in this service are listed also civil engineering adolph bach jr bethlehem steel co south bethlehem pa w o barkley first pennsyl vania engineers camp hancock augusta g-a h r boston bethlehem steel co south bethlehem pa l j breen dravo contracting co sparrows point md r g cook bethlehem steel co south bethlehem pa ■ b s derr corporal natnonal army camp lee petersburg va j l etter dravo contracting co baltimore md j a fisher national army camp yaphank l e grumbach dv pont pow der co pemnsgrove n j g c howord mcclintic-mar shall construction co pittsburgh pa c e moyer u s ambulance corps allentown pa b m neubert hopkins engi neering co new brunswick n j h j pardee engineers corps on active service in france f e portz j g white co new york r l ridgway dravo contract ing co sparrows point md l r ryon jr dravo contract ing co pittsburgh pa h p vreeland copperas co jersey city n j mechanical engineering p j ancona insurance under writers association baltimore md f 0 anderson maryland steel co sparrows point md f l bemscoter w g grace co new york w p berg standard scale and supply co beaver falls pa g k bishop dept of safety and welfare bethlehem steel co south bethlehem pa j f clark efficiency engineer american iron & steel co leb anon pa j e frobisher jr u s avia tion corps g m homewood pennsylvania railroad co altoona pa continued on fifth page soccer practice was called this week and about twenty five men re ported for practice which is held every day under the supervision of captain beard it is desired that more men try for the team this sport has continually gained in popularity since it was introduced three years ago lest year lehigh had one of the best college teams in the state and played against penn sylvania for the championship the first game will be on wednes day against the strong lafayette team games have been scheduled with pennsylvania haverford lafayette and swarthmore and many others are pending an important business meeting of the senior class will be held in drown hall at 12.00 o'clock on monday october 28 every senior should be in attendance the lehigh cross-country team will make its initial appearance of the season on saturday at allen town they are to meet teams from muhlenberg lafayette and the u s a a c the race is to be run over a four-mile course ending on the muhlenberg track the team is to run against the team from state college at state college on november 10 the day of the state college football game the following men have reported for practice : bickley wilson fisher boyd carr doan ferry hollins head rieman berneker chisholm and clarke the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday october 26 1917 discussion group plans formulated fund of 1,000,000 to be raised by students lebanon valley here tomorrow second lecture to freshmen vol xxv graduates get good positions twelve meeting to be held dur ing the course starting november 14 to be used in helping prisoners of war and our own soldiers and sailors visitors have won two games and lost two defeated by georgetown some principles of mental hy giene subject of address given today many of last year's men hold responsible positions in wide range of industries by prof hughes war opens field last year 3=3 completes series of two lectures given to the first year men no 10