Brown and White Vol. 31 no. 45

              notice • there will be a meeting of the • ; burr board tonight at 7.l'o in tho ; ; brown and white room at drown ; ; hall at this meeting there will ; ; be elections of new men to the art : i and editorial staffs as well as a " ". discussion of the annual burr ban ', i quest and elections col snyder will address civils new prize for marines issue last call for tennis candidates sterling harris leaves for n.y price five cents scholarships open to oxford vol xxxi no 45 y m c a secretary takes journalistic position in jackson heights topic of his lecture is the hudson river vehicular tunnel election of new officers track tryouts this week-end elections for rhodes scholarship to be held december 13th lehigh has four candidates leaves after two years finals reached in interfra ternity basketball sigma nu's meet beta's for pos session of basketball trophy the intcrfratcrnity sports are moving very slowly now the bowling and pool tournaments being somewhat behind while ihe basket ball series are afmost up to the finals the winner of the chi psi vs beta theta pi game is to meet the sigma nu's for the interfraternity basket ball trophy the sigma nu's defeated the a t o.s in the semi-finals and the delta tau delta's were eliminated by the beta theta pi's last week the interfrnternity council requests that the various houses who are still in the bowling and pool tournaments to call up their respective opponents and play off their matches as soon as possible the iinal game between the sigma nu's and the beta's is to be played wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the lower gym professor carruthers will act a coach for the net men this season the last call for candidates for tennis has been issued and all those who are desirous of making the team should report this week there will be a chance for good men to show their talents as not many men have signed up so far mercur one of the team's mainstays will not be able to start the sea son as he is forced to be in the local hospital with a contagious disease professor carruthers has consented to act as coach unofiicially and with his train ing the squad is expected to be whipped into shape in time for their first match on april 12th with the philadelphia college of osteopathy it has been impos sible to obtain laborers to fix the courts and get them ready for practice so the students particularly the assistant man agers are bending their efforts each afternoon to clearing and leveling the courts many handicaps hinder lacrosse the 1924 elections for the rhodes scholarships will be held on december 13 colleges and universities should select their representatives before october 18 and have applications in by october 25 the scholars who are elected will enter oxford in october 1925 elections will be held in 32 out of the 48 states of the union lehigh will be al lowed to have no more than four candidates a rhodes scholarship is ton able for three years and is worth 350 pounds a year the men re ceiving these scholarships are appointed without examination but on the basis of their school and college records no restric tion is placed upon the scholar's choice of studies a candidate to be eligible must — 1 be a male citizen of the x t nited states and unmarried 2 be between the ages of 19 and 25 3 have completed at least his sophomore year in college a candidate may apply either in the state in which he resides or in one in which he has re ceived at least two years of his college education the qauuties which will be considered in making the selec tion are — many new men showing rapid progress under guidance of veteran freshmen hear mr h.w craver use of libraries was topic of a very interesting z lecture 4is talk well attended captain to be elected interclass meet . affords good opportunity to select team track in fine condition although busily dodging the unavoidable barrage put over by the lacrosse and baseball aspir ants the track candidates have been progressing rapidly during the past week the steam roller has made the complete circuit of the track several times and has greatly accelerated the con ditioning of the track for the sprinters with the improved condition of the cinder path some very encouraging times are being recorded for several of the candidates and if early season performances are any indication some new records may be hung up this year the annual interclass meet will be run off this friday and saturday at present the plan is to hold the field events on fri day afternoon together with the 100 yard dash and the mile run in the track events the remainder of the track events will then be run off on saturday afternoon in addition to being an interclass affair the meet this friday and saturday will constitute the first tryout of the season anyone is allowed to compete in the interclass meet and the first two men placing in an event in the interclass meet will then be entered in that event in the dual meet with dickinson saturday april 12 at carlisle pa dean issues averages for first term col f a snyder assistant engineer of the hudson river j vehicular tunnel will address ! the civil engineering society | this wednesday evening april i 2 in the physics lecture room i at 7.45 p in in addition to being an engi neer of wide experience col snyder is a capable speaker and he comes to lehigh well pre pared to deliver an interesting and instructive address on this subject which is one of the most notable engineering pro jects in progress at the present time the hudson river tunnel is under construction by the joint commissions of the states of new york and new jersey at a cost of nearly 30,000,000 the tunnel has a mean length of 7 345 feet while the distance be tween entrances at grade is 9 300 feet there are two tubes each 29 feet in diameter with a roadway 20 feet wide allow ing two lines of traffic in each tube or four lines in all one of the most interesting and difficult problems was that of ventila tion due to the rapidly increas ing number of automobiles which will use the tunnel when it is completed the cast steel segments which make up the outside ring for this tunnel were cast by the bethlehem ste^l company and were tested in the fritz engineering labora tory the features of construction the problems which arose and how the difficulties met with were overcome will be ably described by col snyder with illustrations in the form of slides there will be a short business meeting of the local chapter of a s c e preceding the regular meeting at which time the nomination of officers for the coming year will take place everyone is cordially invited to attend this meeting and es pecially those seniors who in tend to visit this project during their inspection trip to new york latin players will present a play american bureau of shipping draw up rules for award prize is 100 in gold the board of managers of the bureau at their annual meeting held in january 1924 voted to establish a system of cash prizes for scholarship at the various american institu tions where the subjects of naval architecture and marine engineering are taught the fol lowing rules have been adopted to govern the award of these prizes 1 the prize shall consist of 100.00 in gold 2 a prize shall be given an nually to the student quali fying at each of the fol lowing institutions a cornell university b lehigh university c massachusetts institute of technology d university of california c university of michigan f webb institute of . naval architecture other institutions may be designated when qualified under the terms of the award 3 no award will be made to any student who is not an american citizen 4 no award will be made to any student whose conduct and general standing is un satisfactory 5 as the early part of col lege courses is largely de voted to general education the basis of the award shall be the highest aver age for the last two years of the course in the regu lar prescribed subjects eleetives are not to be in cluded in these averages 6 students who may come from other institutions and take the last two years of the courses in naval archi tecture or marine engi neering may be considered as eligible for the award 7 for the best interests of all concerned holders of similar prizes or scholar ships should not be con sidered as eligible 8 the faculty of the institu tion or a committee of the main faculty having juris diction over the courses in volved shall be the deter mining agency in selecting the student to whom the award is to be made gov erned by the general rules herein set forth any minor questions in connection with the award shall be continued on page j column 3 the lehigh lacrosse team is fast rounding into shape in spite of the unfortunate weather that has prevailed this condition has delayed practice for several days and may prove a serious handicap in view of the fact that a game is scheduled for this week the number of men that have been reporting for prac tice has been very encouraging in fact the total usually ap proaches the neighborhood of sixty while the limited space available makes it difficult for the entire squad to receive ade quate practice the best possible plan is being followed many of the men are novices at the sport but these under the guidance of th eveterans are rapidly be coming accomplished players this is especially true of many freshmen who are enthusiastic over the sport men who have distinguished themselves in other sports are conspicious among those learning the sport the addition of men who are al ready trained athletes should prove a valuable addition to the squad many of last season's regulars are available and are showing their capability in the goal practice manager boyle announced that the captain of the lacrosse team for the coming season would be elected this week this position is vacant at present in view of the fact that the first game of the year is to be played this saturday it is imperative that the captaincy be filled continues on page 4 column s twelve meets on tennis schedule at lafayette 1 literary and scholastic ability and attainments 2 qualities of manhood force of character and leader ship 3 physical vigor as shown by interest in outdoor sports or in other ways each candidate for a scholar ship is required to make appli cation to the secretary of the committee of selection of the state in which he wishes to compete not later than october 25 using a speical form men who live n pennsylvania should apply to professor l a post haverford college haverford in new york dr a s downing state house albany in mary land e h niles esq 928 equitable building baltimore in any state where the ntnnber of applicants is large a prelimi nary elimination will be made on the basis of credentials com mittees of selection will then summon to a personal interview such of the candidates as they find it desirable to see and save under exceptional circumstanc es no scholar will be elected without such interview candi dates who find it impossible to appear before the committee at the time of the election on de cember 13 may have their inter views especially arranged for either in absence or in advance provided they make early appli cation to the secretary of the committee before which they are competing secretaries should if possible have requests for such special arrangements in hand by the first of septem ber today marks the end of a two year term of service of sterling g harris as our y m c a sec retary he is to go to jackson heights new york state where he will take up newspaper work as yet no permanent successor has been appointed d p hoag land who was president of last year's student organization will act as the general secretary in mr harris place until it is possi ble to make such a seleciton several candidates for the posi tion are being considered at the present tinie and it is expected that one will be chosen within a few days but it is not prob able that he will take office un til july or august to give just a brief resume of the service entertainment and religious work carried on this year by the y m c a under the guidance of mr harris through the room information bureau two hundred and seven students secured comfortable rooms in the city six members of the teaching staff were as sisted in locating rooms one hundred and forty-three stu dents needing financial assist ance were given jobs in the city or on the campus by applying at the employment bureau one thousand handbooks were dis tributed free of charge to the students and teaching staff the general secretary has also as sisted many students who have constulted him about their per sonal difficulties at the begin ning of the year the y m c a tendered a reception to the stu dent-body and almost every stu dent of the university was pres ent with the co-operation of the churches they planned a very successful church enter tainment night and go-to-church sunday at the beginning of the year one sunday night eacli month a speaker has been brought to the university to pre sent some phase of christian thought this year the speakers have included dr a k fos ter dr c d hurrey john ne vin sayre harry haines and bishop ethelbert talbot dr sherwood eddy delivered a ser ies of two lectures in october on the subject of christian aspects of world problems in the spring dr j stitt wilson who made such a profound im pression on the students last year will return for a series of six lectures on christian de mocracy sunday afternoon discussion groups have been conducted during march by pro fessors of the university on the subjects of world peace and later on comparative re ligions in a word the y m c a has rendered great and invaluable service to lehigh and has done much to create an interest in the things in college life which are really worth while toward the goal athletic policy discussed it's a far cry from an ancient latin comedy to a modern mu sical show but in somewhat the same way as a jazz song writer takes his theme from an old symphonic movement so has dr john r crawford profes sor of classics at lafayette col lege prepared one of ter rence's comedies for popular presentation by the lafayette latin players here march 26 27 and 28 pittiful parents which will be presented by the players on those dates was first presented on the campus two years ago by the same organization the lines of the three-act play are a very free translation by dr craw ford of one of terrence's com edies the translation em phasizes the similarity between the old roman life and that of today ent athletic policy for moi'e than behind closed doors the nine members of the joint commit tee on athletics discussed the pros and cons of lehigh's pres four hours in the arcadia room ' of drown hall last wednesday evening though no statement could be gotten it is known that the work is coming along with a size of the original committee head way is being made and committee less than a third the with two or three more meetings it is probable that definate con clusions will be reached last friday morning mr har rison w craver gave the fresh man a very interesting lecture on the use of libraries mr craver is librarian of the unit ad engineering societies lib rary and was well fitted to de liver his message on libraries after a very interesting intro duction by professor bradley stoughton mr craver began by explaining that books to an en gineer are an indispensable means of saving time in as much as one may be able to ob tain matter from a written lec ture just as well as if attending he lecture at which the author is there in person he then went on to explain that the engineer relies on books for the vast amount of his technical infor mation also that books teach expression and it is from them that much inspirational value to hie engineer as well as ideas hat may fill the gaps necessary for the completion of an inven tion are obtained as is often the case inventions are made before the world is ready for them and when the time comes that they may be completed the clues to the invention in ques tion are lost the clues how ever may be found in libraries of which the engineer unfortun ately does not avail himself furthermore it is to be re membered that the library is not a burial ground for history but that it is an up to date institu tion by taking advantage of this fact and systematizing his reading an engineer will be able to obtain great value from the library and at the same time keep his outlook from becoming too narrow mr craver then put stress on how to use the library to the best advantage giving the fol lowing three points as follows 1 find system of classfica tion 2 make use of index 3 make use of bibliographies thus one may start with the general subject and narrow his field as he progresses tn concluding mr craver stat ed that the societies library in new york city is available to all members the greater part of the work at the present being done by correspondence with men who are remote from good libraries this work is done largely by taking prints of the subject in question or making biblographies all engineers in terested would find it to their advantage to find out more about the above by prof fay bartlett teaching men to become thorough-bred sportsmen in all forms of indoor and outdoor re creation should be the aim of athletics self-expression is a big fac tor in a college physical educa tione pupils should be given the op portunity to create exercises and games to carry on a successful pro gram of physical education in college there should be mental good will between the instruc tors and pupils strength speed indurance skill and courage are the quali ties that should be striven for 1 healthy — free the world be ; fore me walt whitman the scholastic rank of the liv ing groups for the first term 1923-24 at lehigh university was given out yesterday from the dean's office these figures were obtained by averaging the weighted averages of the men in each group the letter grades were evaluated as follows a-5 b-3 c-2 and d-l because oi the rarity wtih which a's are given out they are awarded a bonus of a point which is statis tically justiable the general average of all students in college on this basis is 1.8 which corresponds to about 68 within each rank the arrangement is merely alphab etical the results with rank average and group or groups is as follows 1 2.7 leonard hall 3 2.2 tayor hall a town group 2 2.3 taylor hall b theta delta chi delta theta 4 2.1 kappa alpha taylor hall e 5 2.0 delta tau delta tay lor hall d 6 1.9 delta upsilon 7 1.8 alpha chi rho price hall taylor hall c 8 1.7 chi phi pi lambda phi sigma chi 9 1.6 alpha tau omega delta phi kappa sigma phi sigma kappa ; sigma alpha mv ; sigma nu 10 1.5 beta theta pi chi psi sigma phi sigma phi ep silon theta xi ' 11 1.4 phi delta theta 12 1.3 phi gamma delta psi upsilon from these figures attention is called to the fact that only five-sixth out of the twen ty-four fraternities are up to or continued on page if column i 13 1.2 theta kappa phi twelve meets five at home and seven away compose the tentative tennis schedule sub mitted to the faculty athletic committee by fred morgan student manager of the lafay ette college tennis team only one man captain mitchell of last year's teams is not in school this year the schedule follows april 21 colgate at home april 26 rutgers away may 2 frank lin and marshall at home may 3 muhlenburg at home may 0 swarthmore away may 7j navy away may 8 haverford away may 9 pennsylvania military college away may 14 stevens institute at home ; may 17 army away may 21 le high at home may 24 lehigh away brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday april 1 1924 j calendar j wednesday ■ 4.00 p m mathematics club meeting room 37 pack ; • er hall discussion of s geometric functions and talk by professor ". i stoughton ; 7.45 p m civil society meeting j ! ' physics building a.d • '. dress by col snyder ; on vehicular tunnel ; commission ; ; thursday senior banquet ii friday ; i 11.00 a m — college lecture ad '. dress by dr e e slos | ; son director of science • ! service in washington • ! on creative chemistry ; ! 7.45 p m — meeting of the lehigh ; valley section of the ; american chemical so ; ciety talk by dr : ; slosson on the eco z nomic independence of '. i the united states | s 6.30 p m — dinner and meeting ■ of the lehigh and lafa ; yette chapters of phi ; beta kappa at easton ; ; saturday lacrosse game with n ; ; y lacrosse club baseball game with j * ursinus nterclftm track meet ; ".. ........................: • tablet in memory of cook : yale oarsman is completed : • ________ ' ■ 1 ■ * ' the tablet to be placed on the ; • yale boathouse on the bank of the ; • housatonic river at derby which ; ; structure will be dedicated this ; ; spring has been completed it is ! ; of bronze and bears these words i ; this building is dedicated in ! ! memory of bob cook robert john • : son cook class of 1876 twenty j '. soven years of loyal service to the j ' i university crews originator of the j • bob cook stroke coach of twelve ; ■ winning university crews in yale ; • harvard races . ; ". .•..■■■■■■•■•■• ■•••••■■•••••■•• ■# freshman observe your regulations show your literary ability win that 10