Brown and White Vol. 27 no. 24

              price five cents varsity trims muhlenberg expense account subject at meetings vol xxvil no 24 varsity tossers to tackle penn game starts slow but speeds up in second period in several y«ars first game with red and blue score 33=20 i es moines eight thousand students attend penn's team fast lehigh's showing in muhlenberg game indicates close contest 14 out of 17 trys rhodes muhlenberg tosses in lege meeting friday straw vote to be taken at col at baltimore second contest of year staged tomorrow morning the brown and white swimmers will leave for baltimore to meet johns hopkins this is the second meet of the year and coach mahoney has corrected the team's defects he noticed in the rutgers encounter swimming is one of the biggest sports at hopkins and the meet with lehigh is being looked for ward to with a great deal of in terest by the baltimore collegians the two squads seem to be pretty evenly matched and are both confi dent of victory the brown and white lineup will be the same as in the last meet with the exception of slight changes in the relay either bad ham or shaffer will be sent as sub stitute for dedan who will be un able to take part much is being expected from the men in the diving events stewart and lewine who have seldom been in better form before the tentative list of men to be entered in the various events is as follows : relay team — wood lewine van nort and ba^l-mm n sh?^ei back-stroke — van nort 50-yard — van nort and wood 100-yard — jacobs and grundy 220-yard — jacobs and grundy diving — lewine and stewart plungs — capt rosenmiller and damiani breast-stroke — lewine and stew art at the college meeting to be held friday january 16 the viewpoint j of the student-body on the question ! of the ratification of the league of nations and the peace treaty will i be determined by means of a straw j vote each student will vote for one of four propositions concerning j the league and treaty the propo 1 sitions are as follows proposition i i favor the rati j fication of the league and treaty ' without amendments or reserva j tions proposition 11 lam opposed to ; the ratification of the league and the treaty in any form proposition 111 i am in favor of the ratification of the treaty and i the league but only with the specific i reservations as voted by the ma jority of the senate proposition iv i favor any j compromise on the reservations which will make possible immedi 1 ate ratification of the treaty and j the league this action is the result of a tele . gram received december 9 from | new york signed by the editors of i tfea n,,i v ' tt r ,, rr i y a i n axka princeton newspapers the plan is to hold a similar straw vote in every college and university in the country on january 13 the ar ; cadia considered the advisability of j taking this vote at its december meeting and decided favorably j continued on third page rifle range installed many turn out for wrestling practice the lehigh basketball team plays its first important game of the year next saturday night when they meet the university of pennsylvania at philadelphia this game marks the resumption of basketball relations between the two institutions the last game be ing playied several years ago the team has been practicing hard since the men returned from vacation and is fast rounding into shape the form displayed by the team in the closing minutes of the muhlenberg game shows that a winning combination has been secured from the large amount of material available the playing of hess and donovan in the game wednesday night indicates that they will start saturday and the guard positions are well filled by straub and kennedy the other forward position is still somewhat in doubt but will probably be filled by maurer who started wednesday reports from pennsylvania seem to indicate a formidable team there again this year three veterans of last year's strong team are back while the two men lost by gradua tion will be filled from new ma terial pennsylvania has played and won two games so far this season the navy and muhlenberg being the defeated teams the game is expected to be hard fought and lehigh s chances of winning are conceded to be good the game will be played in the continued on third page burr board notice rhode's foul shooting was all that kept muhlenberg in the run ning against the brown and white quintet wednesday night in taylor gym the final score stood 33 to 20 in favor of lehigh and the game although rather slow at * first livened up during the second period and the visitors never had a chance tim donovan was the indi vidual star for lehigh with seven field goals to his credit two coming in the first and five in the second half he was closely pushed by hess who dropped in four pretty ones and whose passing game was execllent rote made his initial appearance at forward replacing maurer early in the game and al though he only caged two goals his passing was 1 directly responsible for several others kennedy and capt straub had the muhlenberg forvvai-ds completely smothered and allowed each to score only one field goal for muhlenberg rhode's foul shooting was the one redeeming feature tossing in 14 out of 17 trys the score at the end of the first half was 13 to 10 in favor of lehigh the summary follows : muhlenburg lehigh rhode f donovan butz f maurer rote kopf erb c hess taggart g kennedy smythe g straub goals : donovan 7 ; hess 4 ; rote 2 straub rhode butz smythe fouls rhode 14 out of 17 straub 5 out of 12 referee briody first trip of musical clubs to be soon financial difficulties of students discussed supplementing the discussion on readjustment which was held o*n wednesday december 17 the expense account was discussed at the third meeting of the discussion groups held on wednesday this week the trend of the points brought up was as follows : money is an ever present prob lem with the undergraduate every student faces the question of how to spend his money in many cases it does not seem possible to make the amount available cover the things worth while so many luxuries come in the guise of col lege necessities that it is hard to know which to receive and which to send on their way many an american student has gone through college without at tending an outside lecture or con cert or buying a single book not absolutely required in the college class room for a student money means an opportunity for an edu cation it gives him an oppor tunity for the use of his time and his talent and equally with other factors determines the success or failure of his course the amount a student should spend for board and room is often a hard question to answer a stu dent once said he could not afford to live in the cheapest room in the dormitory by some people college extras are considered luxuries by others necessities for a well ar ranged college course the ques tion often comes up as to what ex tent an extravagant social life de feats the college purpose and what is a due proportion a student is at college under heavy expenses possibly at a sacrifice on the part of parents and he may have to bor row money the danger is that like time money will be fritted away on trivial if not wrong things and the more important matters of necessity slighted a budget is a careful and businesslike plan of the needs of the year and of the funds available to meet those needs an expense acocunt is the careful record of actual expense from week to week and if it is com pared with the budget it enables the student to spend his money in telligently and to know whether he is over-spending or under-spending if over-spending he should give up the less important things in order that he may do the more important bowling results members of the burr board please notice that the time of the weekly meeting of the board has been changed from wednesdays at 3:15 to friday evenings at 7:30 the first meeting will be held this evening at the time scheduled the burr also announces another competition as follows competitors for the art staff from all classes competitors from the freshman class for one position on the busi ness staff competitors from the freshman class for two positions on the liter ary staff competitors from the sopho more class for one position on the literary staff men competing for these po sitions should report at the burr room in drown hall this evening at 7:45 to receive assignments new bulletins wealth of good material promises a strong team ' the lehigh r o t c unit has j been making rapid progress a ; large number of the uniforms have \ come and the entire unit will prob 1 ably be supplied w t ith full equip ! ment within a week a rifle range with six targets is being installed i in the basement of packer hall and all the rifles and 6000 rounds of gallery ammunition have al i ready arrived the r o t c j men will soon take up target prac tice and they have already joined the national rifle association the i rutgers unit has challenged the j brown and white men to a rifle ■ match as soon as a team can be ! piefcecl the results of the quizzes up to date in the r o t c have re cently been announced by lieu j tenant colonel lang and the stand j ing by classes is as follows standing class average j 1 senior 9425 2 sophomore 9110 3 junior 9100 4 freshman 8291 that wrestling has become a favorite sport at lehigh is ver obvious from the fact that over a hundred men are turning out daily for practice this year there is a larger squad than there has ever been in the history of the sport at this university among those on the squad in former years who are out are childs bertolett booth j bergdoll f bergdoll loeser and good no tryouts have been held as yet and according to billy sheridan the coach the finals will not be held until the wednesday before the first meet this meet will be against springfield y m c a and will be held at taylor gymnasium saturday afternoon january 31 by all appearances this should be a very successful year for the brown and white matmen al though several of last year's cham pions are not here the new men are beginning to take on good form and under the able coaching of billy sheridan a team should be produced which will uphold le high's reputation on the mat mustard and cheese notice seniors over 1000 colleges and univer sities of the united states and canada were represented by dele gations at the student volunteer conference held in dcs moines lowa last week representing lehigh were prof b l miller of the faculty ; j mark frey y m c a secretary ; alfred glaser 20 c r berner 21 c s yu 21 and f c walters 23 three other men davenport brady and summers were also delegated to go but were unable to attend the convention began december 31 at 2 30 p.m and lasted until the evening of january 4 the meetings were held in a large coli seum in dcs moines where every morning and evening between 7,500 and 8,000 students gathered to hear lectures on the conditions and problems facing the present gen eration the men who gave these address es were called from all parts of the world and no trouble or expense was spared in order to obtain the best possible speakers probably the lare'psf glfigaj*uw attending was that of toronto uni versity canada which totaled about one hundred and forty men and women the student volunteer move ment w t as founded in 1886 in massaehusettes since then con ferences have been held at inter vals of about four years the last one was held five years ago in kansas city the convention that has just closed was postponed until this year on account of the world war the purpose of the move ment as outlined by dr john r mott is to awaken a deeper inter est in missionary work among the students of american colleges and to recruit more students into the ranks of the student volunteers since its organization thirty three years ago eight thousand one hundred and forty students from american colleges have sailed to foreign fields among the speakers at the con vention were dr john r mott robert speer robert wilder and sherwood eddy who might be said to be the mainstays of the organ ization among the foreign speak ers were pierre maury french dr hayes colored paul kono mura japanese mr steady african dr carl recce swed ish mr hunrio swiss dr rutgers dutch this list gives ample evidence that the convention was not only of national but of in ternational importance at least 40 different countries were repre sented the lehigh men who were af forded the privilege of attending the convention wish to take this op portunity of thanking the men of the university and other friends whose aid made it possible for them to attend on wednesday afternoon the delta upsilon bowling team last to the sigma chi team the total score being 1856 to 1738 the d u team won the first game but their opponents came back strong in the last two games 1 , winning by a mar gin of 118 pins sehonhardt was the highest bowler of the match getting 208 in the second game the team scores were as follows : sigma chi continued on third page the combined musical clubs held the first rehearsal of the new year on wednesday night in drown hall the glee " club will hold regular rehearsals on wednesday nights in drown hall at 7 30 p.m and will be under the direction of mr shields other meetings will be arranged as are deemed neces sary regular rehearsals will be held for the mandolin club at the same time and place and will be in charge of h s ertner 23 leader of the club the rehearsal held wednesday night was well and prac tice was begun on new pieces by both clubs in a short time the clubs will hold a joint rehearsal and a program will be worked out for concerts the first trip to be made by the clubs is on january 23 when a quartet from the glee club and a trio from the mandolin club will go to philadelphia to attend the annual meeting of the philadelphia lehigh club the invitation was extended through the secretary of the philadelphia lehigh club and has been accepted the faculty recently granted the petition to continued on third page ah seniors who desire to have their picture taken at mccaa's for the year booh must see him im mediately and make arangements for the sitting all pictures ballots and money muse he in to the com mittee by january 15 judge macneille to speak judge raymond macneille of the common pleas court of phila delphia will be the speaker at the sunday evening y ml c a meet ing judge mac^eille w t ho is one of the prominent young judges of his district is a forceful and inter esting speaker he has had many varied experiences as a lawyer and judge and having spoken before at lehigh is not by any means a stranger at the " v " meeting practice for the mustard and cheese variety show was renewed on wednesday night in drown hall the cast for the coming show has not yet been chosen so there is still an opportunity for those interested to come out to the meetings up to the present time there has been a rather limited number of men at the rehearsals the department of the interior announces the following new publi cations : bulletin 150 eleetrodeposition of gold and silver from cyanide solutions by s b christy 1919 171 pp 8 pis 41 figs 25 cents an account of experiments that were carried on for a number of years by the writer for the purpose of ascertaining the most efficient method of precipitating gold and silver from cyanide solutions by the use of electricity continued on third page bethlehem pa friday january 9 1920 brown and white conference a success college to vote on league of nations swimmers to meet johns hopkins o power 122 123 greene schonhardt carlisle rathbone . 139 133 137 208 170 188 12 16 15 19 531 689 63 total 1856