Brown and White Vol. 6 no. 6

              forum a regular meeting of the forum will be held tuesday oct 18 at 7 p m in the society room saucon hall the topic to be debated is : resolved that the recall of the dowager empress to power is a menace to the civilization of china in addition to this debate the program will consist in part of an essay an extemporaneous speech and a review of national and international affairs the meetings of the society are open to all and it is hoped that there will be a large attendance on tuesday evening junior class elections immediately following professor stewart's lecture last friday president chamberlain called the junior class to order and stated that ballots for junior class officers would be received maeder burke and leopold were appointed as tellers a count of the ballots showed the following elected : president c e eowe ; vice president li w bours ; treasurer a t brice secretary j s shultz athletic representative a d ilollings woith historian a w bayard there were no elections to the honor court or supply bureau football lehigh o u of p , 40 lehigh was defeated by penn sylvania at philadelphia saturday by a score of 40 to 0 the contest was very unequal caused to a great extent by the disparity in the weights of the opposing teams lehigh's light line was unable to stop the plunges of the pennsylva nia backs nor was it able to hold sufficiently on the offensive to enable the formations to be of much use in protecting the runner pennsylvania played a fast snappy game both offensive and defensive and seldom failed to make a gain while lehigh's backs were almost unable to make any impression upon their opponents line every one of pennsylvania's scores were earned there being no long runs most of the gains being made by straight line bucking and tackle plays pennsylvania won the toss and chose the goal with a strong wind at her back hare returned le high's kick-oft to perm's 40 yard line on the first play lehigh lost the ball on a fumble and perm began steadily to force it down the field by short gains through the tackles and around the ends until two minutes after play was begun walker was pushed over for a touchdown hare kicked the goal hedges ran the kick off back to the 50-yard line where perm re sumed her battering tactics and after steady gains principally by coombs hare and goodman walker scored the second touch down hare kicked the goal score 12-0 overfield blocked the kick off but lehigh secured the ball james punted and keys fell on the ball on perm's oo yard line the ball changed hands on downs and coombs punted to lehigh's 40 yard line james punted and goodman got the ball in midfield harrison made 20 yards around left end and hedges circled the other end for the third touchdown hare kicked the goal after the next kick-off punts were exchanged and lehigh se cured the ball on an off-side play but immediately lost it on a fumble a series of short gains followed and walker went through the line for the last score of the half score pennsylvania 24 ; lehigh 0 the second half was a repetition of the first perm by steady gains shoving the ball the length of the field three touchdowns were made in this half by walker goodman and coombs but one of them resulting in a goal hare coombs and walker did the best work for perm while becerra keys and chamberlain excelled for lehigh perm was frequently penalized for off-side play and holding professor stewart's lecture the second of the series of col lege lectures was delivered by professor john l stewart on territorial expansion of the united states the lecture was most interesting and instructive to all present in 1798 after all peace particu lars had been settled the united states consisted of thirteen states extending from maine to florida and westward to the missisippi practically however it only com prised the country east of the allegheny mountains those vast regions the eastern bank of the mississippi the valley of the ohio and the great lake basin being separated from civilization by two hundred miles of the wildest country known indeed so little was known of that district that even after treaties had been signed and peace declared great britain never removed her garri sons from the lake stations until after the war of 1812 however hardy pioneers began to seek for new fields of activity and pressed westward by the lake route in the north and through cumberland gap in the south recognizing the possibilities of the region settlers flocked to it to find that they were practically cut off from trade by reason of their having no seaports the only way of getting rid of their products was to ship them by barges to new orleans as a storage ground thence to be sent to the british french or spanish west indies this scheme lasted for a time when suddenly all ports were closed to them and it became a necessity to con trol the great mississippi if the region it drained was to be of any benefit to the nation negotia tions were at once opened with spain for the purchase of the island of new orleans but only to learn that it with all the territory of louisiana then comprising one half of the present united states west of the mississippi had been ceded to france napoleon about to begin his war with england foresaw that the first act of the british would be to attack the french possessions in north america so upon receiving the offer of two millions of dollars for new orleans made a counter offer to sell the whole territory for fifteen million dollars the offer was accepted and 1803 saw the mississippi opened to trade finally in 1819 spain ceded what is now the southern portion of mississippi alabama and georgia and the whole of florida to the united states the purchase of louisiana from france was strenu ously opposed by the new eng land states which were at that time the maritime centre of the new republic the fact that the prestige so much sought would continued on fourth page notice an examination in physiology and hygiene will be held on wednesday oct 26 at 2 p m for those students who ate qualified to take it this mclndes — 2 those who furnish to dr estes or to dr kiefer satisfactory evidence that they have taken an equivalent course in the subject elsewhere 1 those who have taken the course in that subject given by dr estes at this university and who have not yet passed an examina tion in the subject no others will be admitted to the examination re-examinations entrance and freshman algebra nov 5 at 9.80 a m entrance and analytical geomet ry dec 3 at 9.30 a m freshman algebra and analytical geometry is for those who have been granted re-examinations by the faculty those taking the ex aminations must pay the 5 fee at the president's office and bring re ceipt to the examination in order to be admitted a;1 of the above examinations are to be held in ex amination hall physical laboratory c l 1 hornburg re-examinations english oct 22 algebra — nov 5 physics — nov 12 geometry — dec 3 french j ~ , ft . o \ oct 2 » p m german \ examinations in english the re examination set for oct 22 is for entrance english only lie examination for other classes have already been held and cannot be repeated except on payment ol the usual fee of 5 for special ex amination there will be n very important meeting of the glee club at the sigma chi house on wednesday oct 19 at 7.30 p m there was a very poor show ng at the last meeting and if the club is to be kept up it is absolutely necessary that we have a large attendance at this next meeting . president professor franklin delivered a lecture on general science on monday in the electrical labora tory before students from the mo ravian seminary bishopthorpe school and the two upper classes of the south bethlehem high school the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa tuesday october 18 1898 vol vi calendar saturday oct 22 — football le high vs west point at west point thursday nov 20 — re-ex an tion in french and errnan at 2 p m the line-up : lehigh positions u of p chamberlain ) , ... , *„ „ scovil * c folwell gledhill left tackle goodman becerra left guard hare ***** butler right guard desilver h *» keys . ) . , , , tt , scovil ) n s ht end hedges mussleman quarter back gardiner chamberlain ) , „ . „ . , < mcmahon boss j - left h " lf back - 1 . harrison gearhart right half back coombs james full back walker touchdowns — walker 4 hedges 1 coombs 1 ; goodman 1 goals hare 5 referee dr h l williams yale umpire mr taussig cornell time of halves twenty and twenty-two minutes football team the lehigh team as it lined up against pennsylvania had an average weight of 160 pounds the individual weights were : line men scovil end . . 158 pounds hall tackle 178 butler guard 169 " mccarthy . . center lb7 " becerra guard l9s " gledhill tack1e....160 " keys end 137 " average 169 pounds backs chamberlain . . half . . 148 pounds james fu11 158 gearhart half 152 " musselman . quarter l 22 " average 145 pounds no 6-r