Brown and White Vol. 14 no. 18

              the regular sunday evening meeting of the y m c a was ad dressed by mr wilson secretary of the association at lafayette considering the inclement weather a very good number of men were out to hear mr wilson character was the subject of the speaker's talk he said that character is one of the prime factors of a man's life and on that account we cannot start too early to lay its i foundation the speaker brought out several causes which keep men from reach ing the heights of character first of these is the inordinate desire for popularity this desire which is so great that it will cause men to throw aside every scruple which is good in order to reach their end popularity is a good thing but if one had to do certain things which are detrimental to the building of his character in order to become popular then it is for the better for him to be unpopular than that his character should suffer a second thing which does not help charac ter building is not acting immedi ately if one has a stimulation to do something and doesn't do it then he will be a weaker man for his failure to follow his stimulation a third thing is not being ready for the time of testing it is not what we are at a particular moment but what we are today tomorrow or at all time that really counts the fourth and most important thing that forms an impediment to our character building is our failure to keep ourselves clean and pure as christian men we cannot afford to foul our minds with unclean pictures and foul stories but besides these things which act as a detriment to character there are certain things that we must do if we hope to build a strong character first we must devote a time to thinking that is we should look into our lives and find out what we really are we should also make frequent use of the bible ; which is god's most potent factor in helping men to build their char acter the greatest of all though in helping us in our fight is prayer we should pray not only at the continued on second page lehigh university south bethlehem pa tuesday november 20 1906 arts and science no 18 the brown and white dr brooks college lecture evening and morning stars by y m c a lafayette's secretary speaks economics night lehigh defeats ursinus 15-5 foot ball vol xiv the snow storm of thursday even did not prevent a goodly per centage of school of general lit erature men from attending the meeting of the arts and science club in saucon hall and all who braved the weather agreed that the reading of papers and the general discussion on economics and his tory rewarded them sufficiently the business meeting with presi dent walters in the chair opened shortly after 8 o'clock various matters of more or less importance were transacted such as the ap pointment of a refreshment com mittee prechtl 07 brothers 08 and serfass 09 of a pin committee sanderson 08 mitman 09 and robbins 10 arrangemeuts for put ting up a & s c posters iv sau con and williams hall etc sayre 08 was elected to associate mem bership programs for the year were distributed giving in full the date and place of each meeting the subjects of papers to be read the list of officers etc the first paper of the evening was on the growth of public debt by william a drisler mr drisler gave his carefully prepared treatise with a good deliv ery lewis hecks 08 took for his subject american agriculture and presented on it a thoughtful paper the immigration prob lem as outlined capably by roy b woodring 07 was the occasion of much comment and debate in the general discussion following the reading of the papers a large number of men took the floor for impomptu expressions of opin ion on the different subjects it was generally agreed that the in terest of thursday night's program was unusually great lehigh won from ursinus satur day 15-5 the field was free from snow due to the work done by the whole college on friday afternoon but was very wet and sloppy the game throughout had plenty of life lehigh played a nice game being especially strong on the defensive ursinus made most of their gains on quarterback kicks and forward passes the latter of which they had down to a science mandell and archer made a very good impres sion as backs although both ball and field were very slippery few fumbles were made on either side first half lehigh won the first toss and kicked off to ursinus's 20-yard line ursinus made two successive gains of 1 5 yards a forward pass netted 12 more yards but lehigh took a brace and held them ur sinus tried a forward pass but le high got the ball out of bounds aman and mercur made first down mandell made 8 yards around the end and the next play gave another first down mandell made 5 yards and mercur made up the rest treat gained 8 yards but it took two more plays to make first down the next play resulted in a fumble but aman gathered it in and made a small gain aman gained 5 yards law yer kicked and ursinus got the ball on their 30-yard line ursinus made 15 yards on a for ward pass and another 15 on an end run lehigh's line held and mandell got the ball on an attempt ed pass on our 35-yard line aman made first down in two plays the next ten yards were made by aman and mercur mandell made the next first down aman gained 9 yards and the next play gave an other first down the next two plays gave a first down lehigh was penalized 15 yards for hurd ling aman made up the 15 yards and mandell broke through for a touchdown aman punted out '. from the goal line to mercur who heeled it aman missed the goal [ aman kicked to ursinus's 20 : yard line and the ball was returned 12 yards ursinus could not gain , and punted to fulton on our 40 yard line ursinus secured the ball on downs but were forced to ' continued on fourth page dr william r brooks pro fessor of astronomy at hobart gave a very interesting lecture to the student body on friday morn ing entitled " evening and morn ing stars after his introduction by dr dr drinker in a few well chosen words the shades were drawn and the lecture illustrated by the stere optican as a fitting opening to his sub ject dr brooks gave a short syn opsis of the life of the world's greatest astronomer sir wilharn hershall touching on his home life and the great 40 foot reflecting telescope with which most of his observations were made it was to gallelio however in 1610 to whom we owe our first practical telescope this consisted of a crude cylinder and two lenses and its magnifying power was extremely low yet with his inferior instrument gallelio dis covered that the earth moved that there were spots on the sun and that there were craters of volcanoes on the moon venus is perhaps one of the most interesting stars of our own solar system during part of its revolution around the sun it ap pears to us as evening star while during the other half it is morning star like the moon both venus and mercury have one face always toward the sun ; and therefore like the moon both of these stars ap pear to us in full half and crescent forms mars is the morning star of " leo " at present and offers more field for interested speculation than do the others this is due to the presence on its surface of faint lines believed to be canals ; and also to the undoubted division of mars into large masses of land and water it is also an interesting feet that the poles of mars are plainly discernable while we have never seen our north and south poles recently professor hall made the interesting discovery that mars possessed two moons " phobos " and ' ' deimos one of which only six miles in diameter it is a curious fact that owing to continued on page three mr f a johnson vice princi pal of the bethlehem preparatory school and coach of its football team will devote some time — now that the " preps " season is closed — to assisting by dickson mr johnson played guard for several years on lehigh's team and helped to defeat lafayette twice he will devote his time to center and guards