Brown and White Vol. 33 no. 13

              beauty and dignity mark services in packer chapel and at complete set of instruments will be purchased for this pur pose at great expense — will help course in meteorology series of articles on plan by authorities to be pub lished winning combination dis covered by coach carpen ter to meet stiff test opponents have excellent • record to date — goal line crossed but once many students attend funeral publicity will be increased purpose of plan team confident team left yesterday following the very impres sive and well-attended services held in packer chapel last mon day morning for charlie prior the funeral cortege proceeded to ridgewood n j the home of the former gridiron warrior where final rites were held prior to the interment in arling ton cemetery about twenty miles from the home the body was taken to the prior home in a motor hearse followed by hun dreds of friends and relatives including students members of the faculty of lehigh and other universities the services were conducted at 2:30 on tuesday at the prior home as many more floral pieces and wreaths appeared at these services as at the most impressive one held here monday many members of the lehigh football squad attended and the same members of the team who acted as pallbearers at the ser vices held here conducted the body of the loyal son of lehigh to its final resting place there were also present members of the football teams of muhlen berg rutgers and lafayette colleges including the captains and managers of these teams in view of the fact that the rev f t trafford has been in \ con on page 4 col 5 representatives of the stu dent bodies of these three col leges and of lehigh were pres ent to convey the heartfelt sym pathy and condolences of their respective alma maters pro fessor and mrs h r reiter and head coach wendell attended the bereaved family and assist ed in this time of grief lehigh university is to fur nish reports for this section of the state on daily weather con ditions this is to be accom plished through the purchase and use of a complete set of met eorological instruments such as are used by the government weather bureau weather reports are to be broadcast daily from the sta tion to be established at lehigh all of the newspapers in the le high valley and vicinity will be able to publish these reports for their readers up to the pres ent time there have been no wea ther reports available for this section of the state so it can be seen that lehigh will be perfor ming no small service to the surrounding country by the in stallation use and broadcast ob servations of these instruments believing that the installa tion of such equipment will ma terially improve the character of the course in meteorology that it will excite the interests of students generally and that it will give the university consid erable publicity in this vicinity through the publication of the daily weather reports dr rich ards has recommended and it has been definitely been decided to purchase the complete set such as those used by the weath er bureau to the value of seve ral thousand dollars and also to employ an observer to take daily observations con on page 4 col 3 these instruments will also be of local benefit as the depart ment of geology offers courses in physiography which includes the terms work in meteorology harriers to meet strong union team phys.ed.dept.plans for active winter froshgridmen jour ney to mercersburg many messages of sympatby received journey to schenectady to avenge defeat of last year medals ordered for intra-mu ral sports — basketball gets under way primed to put up good fight against strong blue and white eureka i have found it exclaimed coach carpenter what is it that causes the soc cer coach to give vent to such potent language it is the win ning soccer combination that was evolved during the lehigh swarthmore game it will be re membered that the team started its season with plenty of fight and an abundance of good mate rial for all positions but didn't have the ability to get the ball through the opponents goal posts a radical change was sorely needed to put the team in the winning column and nev ins was shifted from his custo mary position at full back to the line since that time the team has accomplished miracles army was decisively defeated the easton club furnished but an easy workout for the strong lehigh aggregation con on page 4 col 2 next saturday the team trav els to washington to swap boots with the navy kickers one branch of the government serv ice has already been shown that the lehigh soccer team has at last come into its own going practically every college in the east sends condo lences team prepared gym epigrams team in good shape a recent movement has been started in this country under the auspices of the new stu dent and the y m c a to further interest in the world court plan a bill on this plan will be introduced into congress on december 17 and it is the aim of this movement to give the subject wide publicity by arous ing student sentiment in favor of it the brown and white will run a series of articles on the subject written by authori ties throughout the country part of the movement will con sist of a poll of student senti ment on the subject after the students have had ample oppor tunity to become familiar with its scope and purpose a na tional conference for discussion of the subject will be held at princeton university during the second week in december and it is not unlikely that * lehigh will be represented there will also be sectional conferences among the colleges before de cember 1 the one in this region to be held at the university of pennsylvania it is almost cer con on page 3 col 2 first mining meet a great success new asst editor for b & w elected speakers and movies provide entertaining evening — guerrero elected curator j g ridsdale chosen to suc ceed j e shurtleff after excellent competition business elections freshmen welcomed georgetown the next oppon ent of the brown and white team looms up on the horizon as the most dangerous and most formidable opposition encoun tered thus far this season lou little a former perm star is coaching the hilltoppers and has his eleven groomed to such a point of perfection that two of his men are prophesised to ap pear on the annual ail-ameri can line-up only one defeat has been meted out to them dur ing the entire season bucknell managed to down them a week ago last saturday even with their muclf-heralded weight however the bucknell eleven won only by a narrow margin of one point they scored a fiield goal and held the georgetown team to a safety making the fi nal score 3to 2 the mighty bucknell team was unable to cross the hilltopper's goal line altho they succeeded in scoring a touchdown on the holy cross eleven will lehigh be able to romp over this well-guarded line the brilliant georgetown team has scored 157 points dur ing the season and has held its opponents to a scant 16 this tremendous score is positive proof that this team is powerful on the defensive as well as on the offensive only once has their goal-line been crossed dur ing the six games they have played furthermore only two teams have been able to score a field goal against this powerful grid machine four of their op con on page 4 col 3 faculty expresses sympathies for loss of prior the department of physical education has just placed an or der for 200.00 worth of med als these medals are to be used in intra-mural sports this is something which has never been done before the sports includ ed in this competition are bas ket ball swimming boxing wrestling hand ball and track these awards are of three kinds of metal gold for first place silver for second and bronze for third the medals are all of the same design they are round with the lehigh seal in the center around this near the edge are the words lehigh intra-mural athletics on the back is engraved the name of the event this is to be a stan dard award new orders being placed from year to year the basketball competition has already commenced and the candidates for all the remaining sports have begun to train if the present plans work out the swimming meet will be held the latter part of next month wrest con on page 4 col 2 no greater tribute could be paid charlie prior than has been given him by the messages of condolence and sympathy which have been received from practi cally every college of importance in the east these messages have been pouring in to lehigh since prior was first injured and have been received by the be reaved parents bosey reiter head of physical education coach wendell and j e pet riken graduate manager of ath letics football practice at lafay ette was called off monday by coach mccraeken the entire lafayette college campus was cast in gloom over prior's un timely death he was well known personally by most of the players and was a team-mate at mercersburg of bob duffy the maroon star tackle they had been friends for many years an impressive tribute to the dead lehigh quarterback by muhlenberg recent conquerors of the lehigh fpotball team was the attendance of the muhlen soph cabinet holds initial meeting washington route outlined by b m c large crowd to journey to capital for georgetown game committees appointed and work of class to be started soon the lehigh cross country team left this morning for schenectady n v with the hope of avenging the defeat that union college gave them last year the race will be run over their regular six mile course saturday morning union college has a very strong team they have five veterans back led by captain johnson and have built up quite a reputation for themselves as hill and dale experts they are coached by howard anson bruce former lafayette track mentor and have defeated ford ham by a perfect score which is quite a defeat the lehigh harriers are in good shape and have been train ing faithfully this week omit ting practice on monday they were defeated last saturday at cornell but the race was very close and lehigh did very well considering the strength of the cornell team also if experience is the best teacher the lehigh runners ougt to show a g?eat improvement for they have been getting lots of that recently and usually with the worst condi tions possible for running the team left at eight o'clock this morning and went to new york from there they proceded to schenectady they intend to go over the course friday evening in trucks the men who will run are captain laudig aitken askin chickering maxwell hang and ridsdale they were accompanied by coach kanaly and manager freeman mercersburg's strength can not be denied they always when the varsity travels to georgetown this saturday the freshman team will also travel they go to meet the mercers burg academy football team at mercersburg mercersburg is noted for its high quality of athletics and the frosh expect a real battle the team was keenly disap pointed when the game satur day was called off as they had held some stiff practice in pre paration for the game and were primed for the match however they have gone at their work again this week just as in dustriously there were no prac tices monday or tuesday but work was resumed wednesday with scrimmage as the big fea ture of the afternoon the rest of the week was spent in pick ing out flaws in the different de partments of the game the team is light but has speed and this more than makes up for the lack of weight there are over three full teams out every after noon and each man has to work to keep his place on the team they have had a good rest now and all are in good shape phy sically the team has developed fast since the rutgers game and though far from perfect will be on its toes and is determined to avenge the defeats thus far chalked up against it con on page 2 col 5 the faculty of lehigh uni versity in meeting today record their feeling of deep regret and loss in the death of charles m prior of the class of 1926 respected by his instructors for his independence and clear ness of mind trusted by his fel low athletes for his qualities of fearless and inspiring leader ship admired by his class-mates for his fine ideals of sportsman ship and fair play beloved of the student body for his ser vices to alma mater honored with the first presidency of his class with the captaincy of this year's varsity baseball team and with the presidency of the university senior honor society charlie prior leaves behind him a record of achievement which will be an inspiration to future generations of lehigh men to the bereaved mother fath er and sisters the faculty of the university extend their heartfelt sympathy in this hour of grief signed jos b reynolds secretary of the faculty november 2 1925 a short but important meet ing of the staff of the brown and white was held on monday of this week in the brown and white room at seven-thirty practically the whole staff was present only two men being ab sent the main purpose of the meeting was the election of the successor to former assistant editor j e shurtleff who had recently resigned his position on the staff four men have been competing for the place for the past month since the start of the regular competition for freshmen those competing were j g ridsdale j b lau dig w f feuerbach and i broads j g ridsdale was elected to the position by a narrow mar gin the work throughout the editorial contest was of excep tionally high calibre great in terest being shown by every the business manager c k zug jr also announced the re sults of the business staff com petition which has been going on through the summer and fall the three highest men who were unanimously elected to the staff were : w w wiegand do nald farr and c a roberts the three next highest competi tors will continue working at least until december when one or two will be elected despite the fact that george town university is at a greater distance from bethlehem than other games which have played away lehigh will be represent ed by a large crowd when the whistle blows for the beginning of hostilities con on page 3 col 3 the bethlehem motor club has kindly supplied the follow ing for those who are going in their cars or for the convenience sophomore notice there will be a meeting of both the soph cabinet and the soph council in drown hall at 7 30 monday evening be there attention seniors a recent publication en gineering literature by har wood frost 93 may be ob tained by seniors upon appli cation to alumni office con on page 2 col 5 the sophomore cabinet held its first meeting of the year monday evening in drown hall the main purpose of the meet ing was to get the organization of the class under way to carry out the extensive program which has been planned for this year this program can only be carried out through the ac tive co-operation of every mem ber of the class president the mining and metallurgical society of lehigh held its first meeting of the year in williams hall on wednesday evening no vember 4 president white called the meeting to order promptly at 8 o'clock and the secretary william laramy read the minutes of the final meeting of last year one of the curators who was elected at the clase of the term last year fail ed to return to lehigh this fall and another curator was elected to fill his place louis f guer rero of the class of 1927 was unanimously elected to fill this place after the election the presi dent gave a short address of welcome to the freshmen and the upper-classmen who were not at lehigh last year he told them that the society was theirs and that they should support it at all times in order to get the most out of it he also mention ed the fact that dues would be acceptable at any time and then introduced the first speaker of the evening professor plank ' professor plank who is a pro fessor of geology at lafayette college spoke about the newly organized branch of the ameri can institution of mining en gineers the lehigh branch of this organization has only been recently constituted and prof plank pointed out the fact that con on page 3 col 4 bethlehem pa friday november 6 1925 lehigh to institute bureau for local weather reports vol xxxiii no 13 price five cents world court plan to be discussed by students lehigh soccerites face hard battle with navy booters brown and white hard game ahead for lehigh eleven at georgetown impressive last rites held for charlie prior ridgewood n j — other colleges represented back the team sophomores support your cabinet