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              continued on fourth page foot ball lafayette 53 lehigh 0 continued on second page the largest crowd of spectators ever assembled on lehigh field watched lehigh meet defeat at the hands of lafayette in their annual foot ball game on saturday after noon despite the fact that lehigh was defeated by the score of 53 to o the student body feel that unlike other lehigh teams this year's team did not lie down in the second half but fought it out to the bitter end the day was an ideal foot ball day for the spectators but slightly too warm for the players the seats began to fill about 1.30 and by the time the gaimie was called there was not a vacant seat in either section and standing room was at a pre mium shortly before 2.30 lehigh ap peared on the field to be followed a few miinuites later by the lafayette squad after running through a few signals to warm up lafayette kicked off to pyne on the 10-yard line and he advanced the ball seven teen yards before being downed lafayette however was penalized five yards for offside play and the ball wajs brought back and kicked again this time the ball was run back to the 35-yard line here le high gained four yards on the first play but was penalized five yards on the ruext play and lost the ball on downs on her own 37-yard line le fayette now began a series of two and three-yards gains which soon brought the ball to lehigh's 5-yard line here lehigh made a strong stand but finally doud was pushed over for the first touchdown after seven minutes of play newberry kicked the goal lehigh o la fayette 6 on the next kick-off by a double pas's from pyne to herman the ball was advanced ten yards here a fumble forced gott to kick the ball going out of bounds at the 25-yard lime shuster made four yards and first down and on the next play mc caa made the second touchdown of the game on a pretty twenty-yard run aroundi left end newberry kicked the goal lehigh o lafayette 12 gott kicked to shuster who ad vanced the ball to the 30-yard line on a sieries of gains by snook lo gan moavoy and cooper the ball was slowly advanced to lehigh's 35-yard line where shuster made a poor attempt at a field goal the ball fell short and herman caught it on the 5-yard line failing to make the required distance her mann puruted out of danger the ball going over the heads of the la fayette mien and rolling to lafay ette's 45-yard line lafayette gradually worked the ball up the field but finally lehigh holding and herman throwing mccaa for a loss gave lehigh the ball on downs on lehigh's 8-yard line failing to gain herman kicked to middle of field and lehigh again got the ball report of athletic committee to alumni association i lehigii now possesses practically , all the necessary material equip ment for the promotion of vigorous i athletic conditions what is now needed is a dear recognition of some of the other essentials of suc cess the members of the alumni association have always been ready to aid generously in a financial way and a liargte proportion of our good fortune is to be attributed to them but in another direction there has been a serious oversight — neglect may be too short a word this is reflected in our inability to get mien amd in the implication that the aliumni do not exert themselves neither the reflection nor the im plication do justice to the loyalty of the alumni body the trouble lies in another quarter every uni versity in the east has sent out graduates who have become teach ers and as such have been placed in strategic positions to direct boys to their respective colleges the weak point in our position is that the schools are in the hands of our competitors we have mien here and there who are doing yeoman's service but mot until there is a gen erous recognition of the possibili ties of this factor can we hope for much in the future men who are teachers lawyers physicians cler gymen and journalists are more in touch and better able to influence the people who send boys to college if lehigh mien would take the proper attitude toward our school of general literature they would have little to apologize for we all know the difficulties that surround the engineering student in his at tempt to use his afternoons for ath letic practice the courses are not inherenitly any stiffer than the non engineering ones but the long pe riods necessary for drawing room and laboratory would made it prac tically impossible to secure the time the faculty has done what it could to improve the situation but with little apparent gain had we half the number of technical students in our academic courses there would be a tremendous gain for the nature of the work is such as to give freer afternoons every lehigh graduate ought to work to see that this result is attained the proper spirit would work to snap up every boy who thought of going to college ; would convince him that no matter what he wanted to study lehigh could help him whoever heard of a princeton mam telling a young friend that the john c green school of engineering is no good and he ought to go to lehigh no yalie mian runs down the sheff no cornell man scoffs at the thought of a friend wanting to go to ithaca to study greek econo mics literature or psychology the alumni of these universities stand up for everything their insti continued on fourth page lehigh university south bethlehem pa tuesday november 28 1905 general remarks college smoker no 20 the brown and white college lecture vol xiii a grand success the lafayette smoker held fri day night november 24 in the gym was a decided success the whole student body was in attend ance and many alumni and prep boys in the course of the evening all the mew songs and yells were rehearsed the first speech of the evening was made by dr drinker he said that he believed in doing whatever one did with all one's might and be thought a good clean game of foot ball should be carried on with that spirit manager n g smith 06 then made a short speech and in conclu sion he read a telegram from the members of the class of 89 in new york wishing lehigh's team vic tory on the mlorrow after he had finished the orchestra rendered a short selection the principal speech of the even ing was made by okeson 96 one of lehigh's foot ball stars he spoke of the condemnation foot ball is receiving on all sides the fault he said lies with the players and not with the rules he discussed the questionable methods employed by most foot ball coaches in secur ing men he deplored these condi tions very sincerely and said that he believed that the tendency to ward professionalism woukl soon cease he said that lehiigh is clean in athletics and that we may well be proud of that fact after this speech there was a three-round boxing match between mcdevitt 07 and taylor 07 the banjo club then gave a selection amd an encode next dr newton gave a short and encouraging 1 talk about the team kiefe 09 and lotz 06 then entered a three-round sparring ex hibition the rag-time quintette gave several selections the third and last boxing match was between billy burkhart and young fritz this was the most spirited bout of the evening in the latter part of the third round billy had one of the bones of his arm broken but he pluckily finished the bout a peerade followed in which there was practically the whole stu dent body the line of march was down new street and across the new street bridge to broad street plere a band was picked up and the peerade went down broad to center out center to market up market to main amd to the fern sem pie re three short yellls were given far the fern sem then the procession passed over the old bridge and to the wyamdotte where it disbanded after some lusty cheering norman n merriman has com pletely recovered from a severe at tack of pneumonia and is again at tending to his college duties •• political ideals and their practical enforcement by w h corbin esq on friday morning november 24 the second college lecture of the year was given by william it cor bim esq mr corbin is an alum nus of cornell and columbia and a prominent advocate of political re form in new jersey his subject was political ideals and their practical enforcement to briefly quote mr corbin : — an ideal is a thing that exists only in idea a political ideal is the con ception and looking 1 forward to the perfection of political ideas solo mton said that a people should pos sess wisdom courage and temper ance plato's ideal was similar to this injustice he said destroys the tranquility of the state wash ington believed that a people should possess religion and morality and thait they should have freedom and individual obedience to the laws roosevelt has expressed it as a square deal to each man and no more to any man the chief requi site is that the citizens of a nation he good honest men some people believe that the state should be all powerful all virtuous that the state should own and control railroads tele graphs factories grain and meat supplies in short — to make a sort of wet nurse out of the states to whom the citizens may look for nourishment and into whose ears they may lisp their childish woes a government like that would only serve to make babes of men and a weakling of our country this be lief borders on false equality — the french brand of liberty fraternity and equality the theory of an equal distribution of property is about as absurd shall the state support us or shall we support the state ? at one time in our country men were glad to give their prop erty and lives in her defense now it seems to be the aim of men to get as much out of the state as possible there is too much honest graft as one of the tammany leaders calls it who seen his opportunity and took it what is wanted is men with brains now it is often a question of taking an honest blockhead or a capable resical faith persii stance and work are required in the attain ment of the ideal it is your duty as american citizens to create ideas and enforce them do not dispise political office bie school directors be justices of the peace be anything you are given tine opportunity of being and for which you are capa ble for it is only by having hon est intelligent men in office that politics may be cleansed do not become discouraged but stick to one idea until it has become a reali ty and then take up another there is much agitation at the present day about bosses the