Brown and White Vol. 4 no. 52

              junior class meeting a meeting of the junior class was held in saucon hall on wed nesday noon president farwell presiding the minutes of the last meeting were approved as read it was decided to give the usual junior hop to the senior class during commencement week manager daggett of the brown and white and manager brovvo of the burr urged those members of _ the class who have sub scribed to their respective papers to pay their subscription imme diately records was elected a class rep resentative on the christmas hall committee the third annual debate between lehigh and lafayette was held at easton on monday night and was won by the latter a delegation of about twenty five students with several instruc tors and members of the faculty accompanied messrs starkey,fris by and meaker to represent lehigh the program for the evening opened with music by the lafayette glee club which was followed by an invocation by president warfield the debate followed the subject for debate was resolved that the constitution of the united stated should be so amended as to provide seats in congress for the members of the cabinet with the right to intro duce bills and to participate in de bate lehigh taking the negative and lafayette the affirmative side bach speaker was allowed two speeches one of ten minutes the other of five the judges were president sharpless of haverford college ; president scott of rut gers college and president de garmo of swarthmore college zeiser 97 opened the debate for the affirmative mr zeiser said that the scheme they advocated was neither radical nor intricate ; they did not want to have a re sponsible ministry as in england and france he called attention to four main points first the need of a change second : the feasibility of the proposed plan third : that this scheme was in keeping with the constitution fourth : that it was expedient starkey 98 in opening the nega tive side said that they did not claim that the present system is perfect but its evils are not great enough to warrant amending the constitution mr starkey also di vided his arguments in four main headings first : the disadvan tages of the present system are necessary ; they are inherent in our form of government second : ad vantages outweigh the disadvan tages third : the method pro posed would not remedy the exist ing evil fourth : granting that this method did remedy the exist ing evils it is too dangerous an experiment to try he showed that there were two ways in which the cabinet ministers could bring their wants before congress earnest 97 spent his time in showing that this is not a unique or european scheme they do not claim it to be a panacea for all ills but that it would give the execu tive more power to enforce party legislation meaker 99 second speaker for the negative considered the separ ation of our government into the three branches the legislative the executive and the judicial he emphasized the necessity of keep continued on second page appropriate exercises including addresses by the leading astrono mers of this country will be held at the opening of the flower obser vatory at the university of penn sylvania on may 12 the annual meet of the lehigh university track team was held on the athletic field wednesday afternoon and was in many ways very successful there was quite a large number of entries and every event was closely contested owing to the wind blowing in the faces of the runners some of the running records are not as good as they might otherwise have been the attendance was not at all what the contests merited but those who were there thoroughly appreciated the efforts of the men capt put nam of the track team and mr smith are both deserving of much credit for the success of the meet and there is every reason to believe that the track team will make a very creditable showing in the games with the university of new york to be held the 15th of this month the points were scored by classes and in this way the in terest was rather increased the success of the freshman class is undoubtedly due to the fact that they have trained more carefully for the meet and have worked hard to carry off the first place the order and summary of events are as follows : 100-yard dash trial first heat — putnam 97 scratch first ; j brice 00 8 yards second ; forbes 00 4 yards third time lof sec 100-yard dash trial second heat — yates 97 scratch first ; abbott 00 00 4 yards second ; paddock 97 2 yards third time 11 sees putting the shot — reese 00 first holderness 99 second drake 00 third distance 33 ft 4 in 440-yard run dinan 00 20 yards first ; maeder 00 20 yards second ; grubbe 00 scratch third time 57 sees running high jump — yates 97 scratch first ; farnham 99 1 in second ; reese 00 5 in third height 5 ft 2 in 220-yard dash — putnam 97 scratch first ; j brice 00 4 yards second ; forbes 00 8 yards third time 25 sees half mile run abbott oo first boyt 97 second ; ross 00 third time 2.18 120-yard hurdle - — holderness 99 first ; reese 00 second ; j brice 00 third time 20 sec 100-yard dash final heat — put nam 97 first yates 97 second abbott 00 third time 10 45 mile walk — turner 00 first time 8.36 running broad jump — putnam 97 2 ft first ; yates 97 scratch second reese 00 18 in third distance 21 ft 6 in 220-yard . hurdle reese 00 first j brice 00 second ; holder ness 99 third time 30 3 5 sec mile run — merriman 97 first kodjbanoff 98 second ; maeder 00 third time 5.31 3-5 pole vault grubbe 00 first continued on second page lehigh university south bethlehem pa thuesday may 6 1897 annual track meet yoi iy lafayette-lehigh de bate no 52 the brown and white calendar thursday may 6 — meeting of agora saucon hall 7.30 p m friday may 7 — annual dinner of the lehigh university club of northeastern pennsylvania wyoming valley hotel wilkes-barre penna 7 r m regular meeting of chess club christmas hall 7 p m saturday may 8 — baseball dick inson college athletic field at 10 a m lacrosse harvard athletic field at 8 p m sunday may 9 — meeting of chris tian association christmas hall 6.15 p m subject grow in grace h peter v 8 ; ii cor ix 8 tuesday m&y 11 — regular meeting of civil section of engineering society physical laboratory 7 50 p m wednesday may 12 baseball university of pennsylvania philadelphia lacrosse swarthmore at swarthmore notices there will be a re-examination in sophomore physics on saturday may 15 the attendance at lacrosse prac tice has recently been very poor so small in fact that on more than one occasion there have not been enough men out to form a second team this is a very discouraging state of affairs and must be quickly remedied if we are again to turn out a championship team george y 98 has been elected captain of the scrub and from now on we must have a practice game every after noon all men in college who can play and there are many should consider it their duty to come out t merriman baseball lehigh 4 princeton n lebigh played a return game at princeton and although beaten by the above score the game was a more evenly contested and better played one than the first this improvement was more especially shown on the part of the visiting team while they made several errors these were mostly on very difficult chances and were ■ not costly except.in the fourth inning when rive runs were scored on a bunching of hits and errors in this inning smith led with a single and stole second wilson struck out when kafer singled bring ging in smith barrett sent a fly to left field,which grace muffed after a hard try ; bradley reached first on balls filling the bases kafer and barrett scored on eas ton's single to right and bradley scored easton reaching third on w gannon's bad return to first base easton scored when altman flew out to reed while butly ended the inning by trying to steal second after hitting safely to centre with the exception of this in ning the game was very evenly played as the score by innings would show the double play by t gannon to w grace to carman was a fea ture,while the excellent team work of the home team was especially noticeable below is the score : earned runs lehigh 3 princeton 3 two base hits e grace three-base hits senior butler kafer home runs butler stolen bases pomeroy 1 carman 2 bradley 2 but ler 1 wilson 1 easton 1 smith 2 double plays w grace t gannon to w grace to carman bases on balls off white 6 off altman 6 hit by pitched ball smith struck out by altman 11 by white 6 passed balls carman 1 kafer 1 time of game 2 hours umpires suter and harkins the muhlenberg college is to receive 5000 from the estate of a philadelphia lady whose death oc curred a short time ago poughkeepsie n v has been definitely decided upon as the place ior the harvard-yale-cornell boat race the wisconsin university crew is considering challenges for a race from yale pennsylvania and col umbia r h o a e pomeroy ss 0 0 1 1 1 e grace if 112 0 1 senior 2b .- 0 13 12 carman c 1 1 7 2 1 j w grace lb 0 0 8 10 white p 0 0 12 0 j gannon rf 0 110 2 reed cf 2 1 2 0 0 i gannon 3b 0 12 2 2 totals 4 6 27 9 9 princeton e h o a b bradley cf 2 1 3 3 0 eastou if 3 3 0 0 0 altman p 0 1 0 2 0 butler ss 1 3 14 1 kelley lb 0 0 7 0 0 smith 2b 2 2 0 3 2 wilson rf 0 0 0 0 0 kafer c 2 116 0 0 barrett 3b 10 0 0 1 totals 11 11 27 12 4