Brown and White Vol. 33 no. 36

              lehigh matmen triumph over eli grapplers 18-13 miller's bout spectacular falls scored by best reed and heilman and decision in favor of lewis give brown and white edge on new havenites $ many records broken in fast mcct — levis of rutgers turns in stellar performance haves captures the dive mr hays discloses inside information about trial in excellent lecture unexpected strength of main-line team threat ens long string of le high wins lehigh professor discusses rubber greatly enjoyed prof chamberlin tells of rubber growth in the united states score close vital question back-stroke by 3 seconds and brown a teammate broke the 220-yard breast stroke mark by two seconds in addition to these records lewis of rutgers broke the pool record in the 100-yard dash by two seconds and the visiting team broke the pool record in the relay by three seconds con on page 4 col 6 captain harmon of lehigh forced don warner of rutgers to exert himself to win the 440 in a hotly contested and one of the most exciting races seen in the brown and white tank due to the interest aroused in the contest between the undefeated rutgers team and lehigh's na tators a capacity crowd which filled the tank room to over two eastern collegiate swimming association records and four lehigh pool records were broken saturday when the strong rutgers team defeat ed the brown and white nata tors in the lehigh tank 42 to 17 coach gulick's charges were outclassed in every department except in the diving events in which jack hayes and hobbs finished first and second over the scarlet competition seldom is such perfect diving form seen as was shown by the lehigh div ers saturday hayes particul arly has developed from a no vice to almost perfect form in the present season levis of rutgers broke the eastern collegiate 150-yard jimmy reed chalked up the first five points for lehigh by throwing krevit the eli 1 15 pounder in four minutes and fifty-one seconds with a head scissors and body hold this makes the fourth straight fall scored by reed this year and it looks as though the diminutive lehigh performer has great pos sibilities of winning the in tercollegiates captain best threw conklin of yale in the quick time of one minute and twenty seconds with a half nelson this bout was very exciting and full of action and was the fastest bout of the meet this makes the thirteenth straight victory for best dick lewis met some very con on page 4 col 6 the lehigh varsity wrestling team travelled to new haven last saturday afternoon and subdued the eli matmen in a very close and exciting meet by the score of 18-13 had it not been for the superior work of the lehigh men in the lighter weight divisions the outcome of the meet probably would not have been so favorable to the brown and white supporters lehigh scored her eighteen points in the first four bouts and thereby made a victory a certainty but from that time on not a single point was scored al though tubby miller the brown and white heavyweight came very near scoring a fall in his bout with dan allen the yale fullback world cruise open to all students delts will hold convention here musical clubs give fine performance mr leach addres ses chem society famous educators to con duct eight months trip abroad librarian tells engineers the value of spare-time reading in varied lines c o m b i n ed organizations present good bill at bishopthorpe lehigh and lafayette chap ters hosts to divisional conference can rubber be grown econo mically in the united states this is a question of profound interest to everyone at this time and the following article by pro fessor d s chamberlin asso ciate professor of organic chemistry describes the possi bilities and practical side of the question professor chamber lin has always been interested in the growth and production of rubber so he is well qualified to write on the subject considerable interest has been stimulated in the last several months regarding sources of rubber that can be controlled by the united states those ter ritories in which rubber is now grown are either controlled by the british or the sale of rub ber is monopolized by their in terests the rubber of the world is con on page 3 col 3 many delegates many novelties lehigh university calendar when arthur garfield hays last week's college lecturer fin ished speaking there was a mo ment of silence followed by an outburst of the most enthusias tic applause ever produced by a lehigh audience for that speech was such a one as has seldom if ever been heard at lehigh before a dramatic personal description of the world-famous scopes trial by one of the principals the real inside story was the substance of the lecture the scopes trial according to mr hays was the logical re sult of the medieval background still existing in some districts of this country a background which produces men ignorant enough to pass statutes to the effect that henceforth in the state of illinois the ratio of the diameter of the circle to its cir cumference shall be three ex actly and not pi and other similar enactments the atmos phere of the trial smacked strongly of the middle ages it resembled very much the heresy trials of giordano bruno cop ernicus and galileo for the same unreasoning blind reli gious bigotry was fighting mod ern science con on page 3 col 1 ) the monkey bill was then a natural outgrowth of this the lehigh court men scored their ninth consecutive victory at taylor gymnasium last sat urday afternoon by downing swarthmore by the narrow mar gin of 34-28 after the little quaker athletes had forced the brown and white to call on all of its reserve strength to main tain its lead swarthmore had not been expected to provide strenuous opposition but their accurate basket shooting caused no little resistance for lehigh several times during the game the score was tied but in each case lehigh forced its way into the fore and by hard play ing in the last few moments a substantial lead was amassed con on page 3 col 2 lehigh opened the game in a convincing way as smith scored the first points with a long goal and e schaub followed a mom ent later with a short shot at this point ward opened for j swarthmore with a spectacular long goal and it became appar ent that the game was not to be an easy one from then on the scoring became alternate and rapid and at no time in the first half was lehigh safely ahead the brown and white's floor work was very good but short shots were too often missed to account for any heavy scoring swarthmore likewise followed sigma lota initiated into phi delta pi frosh wrestlers subdue liberty group to be known as theta chapter yearlings get 6 out of 7 decisions winning by score of 24-5 founded in 1923 third victory the chemical engineering society of lehigh held a meet ing in the chemical lecture room last thursday evening the speaker of the evening was mr howard sea voy leach the librarian of the university | mr leach gave a most interest ing talk on the use of the uni versity library the value of the current periodicals to the scien tifically inclined individual and the value of spare time reading to the average students in the university con on page 4 col 5 mr leach read some very in teresting poetry by robert frost to prove that poetry en ters into the make up of the en gineers catalogue of reading materials as well as the usual scientific papers and extracts he gave a list of books which in his estimation should be in ev ery students library and should be read by him this list in undoubtedly many lehigh students have heard of the col lege cruise around the world an arrangement whereby select ed students of american uni versities will study a year's work aboard ship and visit thir ty foreign countries with ex tended stop-overs the purpose of the cruise is educational to develop the ability to think in world terms and to strengthen international understanding and good will to this end stu dents will establish first hand contact with places peoples and problems and will meet the leaders of thought and action in many significant centers of cul ture con on page 2 col 5 the educational features of the cruise are in the hands of responsible men practically as suring students who register in the college courses recognition for the work accomplished dr charles f thwing president emeritus of western reserve university is president of the lehigh swordsmen win from maroon brown and white scores decisive defeat losing only one bout pre-med students revive old club con on page 2 col 4 in a meet marked by two ex tra period bouts the freshman wrestling team continued its victorious stride by defeating the strong liberty high school wrestling squad on saturday night by the one-sided score of 24 to 5 the score does not indicate the closeness of the meet however as the contend ers in the 115 125 and 135 lb classes were very evenly match ed the meet was held at the liberty high school and the defeat came as a surprise to the high school boys as they at a recent meeting efforts were made to re-estab lish former pre-med society meeting march 4 another national fraternity in the form of the theta chap ter of phi delta pi has been added to those already on le high's campus the theta chapter was installed last month after having existed for more than two years as the sig ma lota fraternity a committee of six represent ing chapters at columbia new york university and the city college of new york presided over the installation services which were conducted on janu ary 30 1926 following this ceremony a banquet was ten dered in the home of the newly elected chapter at which visiting brothers lauded the high char acter of work accomplished by the sigma lota fraternity while it was a local organization they said that its selection to repre sent phi delta pi at lehigh was due to its excellent reputation and satisfactory standing as an unaffilated fraternity con on page 4 col 5 lehigh university swordsmen proved better than lafayette in the first dual fencing meet held in taylor gymnasium wednes day afternoon the lehigh swordsmen won five of the six bouts the winners and the points were nichols lehigh 5 faulcner lafayette 3 shriner lehigh 6 gutterez lafayette 1 . bent lehigh 5 ; richards lafayette 4 cotrell lehigh 4 kind la fayette 5 goldblatt lehigh 5 bailey lafayette 2 elliott lehigh 5 rugh la fayette 0 director a v rivas judges rugh and kind lafayette benf and elliott lehigh the local chapter of the delta tau delta fraternity is to be host of a conference to be com posed of representatives of the twenty-two chapters in the eas tern division of the fraternity the convention is to be held in bethlehem on march 1 2 and 1 3 and about sixty delegates are expected the conference is not regularly held at the home of any one chapter but was brought to lehigh through the influence of a e buchanan as sistant alumni secretary who is president of the eastern divi sion of the fraternity the opening event of the pro gram is to be an informal smok er on thursday night march 1 2 and it is intended for the en tertainment of the early arriv als a business session will o.c cupy the next morning and the forepart of the afternoon and immediately following the after noon session the delegates are to be taken on a sight-seeing trip around the campus and even tually ending in a visit to the lafayette chapter on friday night an eastern division ball is to be held at the delt house in honor of the visiting dele gates saturday morning will be occupied by a final business meeting and at noon an alumni luncheon will be held lehigh's famous wrestling team is to be the entertaining feature of sat urday afternoon for the entire delegation will attend the le high-navy meet in a body the final event of the week-end will be a formal banquet at the ho tel bethlehem on saturday night and this event is always the high spot of the convention con on page 4 col 3 a number of the national of ficers of the delts are to be present and each chapter of the division sends at least two dele gates due to the proximity of the lafayette chapter they are to aid materially in caring for the annual appearance of the combined musical clubs fri day evening at bishopthorpe manor was a pronounced suc cess this concert marks the second appearance of this sea son and if the rendition of the program that was given to this enthusiastic audience is a crite rion of those to follow the pros pects for a most brilliant year are exceedingly good the program was divided in to two parts and consisted of selections from bullard an drews speaks and shubert by the glee club the mandolin club rendered la czarina by louis ganne the scarf dance by chaminade song of india by korsakow and the student prince by romberg the ha waiian string quartette more than lived up to their reputa tion of last year while the se lections sung by the male quar tette were very popular the jazz quintette with many nov elties and innovations was one of the real hits of the evening following is the program : con on page 4 col 3 much credit is due to the un tiring efforts of the director mr l luckenbach leader of the mandolin club and dr t edgar shields who leads the glee club the former organ ization may properly be called the mandolin symphony so augmented has it become with pieces of that nature with the above two men the organization is now in a position to establish itself as never before both men have had much to do with the bringing of music up to the standard it now holds in this section of the country and with the backing of the student body will undoubtedly place the le high organization on a par and even better than the collegiate clubs of today week of march 3-1 oth wednesday march 3rd 1 1 00 a m college meeting 1 1 00 a m illustrated lec ture by mr c e mcclintock of the warren brothers com pany ; lecture room of the phy sics building all interested are invited thursday march 4th 1 1 30 a m brown and white meeting b & w room important 4:00 p m pre-med club meeting coppee hall 7:30 p m meeting of the physics club physics building speaker : mr j p karbler all interested are invited to attend friday march sth 7:30 p m meeting of the radio society physics building mr j s webb of the physics dept will speak on vacuum tubes saturday march 6th 4:00 p m meeting of the mathematics club room 31 packer hall dr j h taylor will speak on reimanian ge ometry 3 00 p m varsity swim ming — lehigh vs swarthmore at swarthmore 2 00 p m freshman basket ball — lehigh vs lafayette tay lor gymnasium 7:30 p m varsity wrestling — cornell vs lehigh taylor gym 3:30 p m varsity basket ball — gettysburg vs lehigh at taylor gym frosh wrestling vs cornell frosh at ithaca frosh swimming meet at mer cersburg monday march bth 7:30 p m alpha kappa psi meeting drown hall the first business of the meet ing was to elect temporary of ficers of the society as follows president thum ; vice-presi con on page 4 col 1 ) a meeting of the pre-med students was held thursday af ternoon february 25 in cop pee hall for the purpose of re organizing the pre-med society this society existed at lehigh a few years ago but disbanded due to lack of interest on the part of the students the meet ing was in charge of kurt thum who is one of the leaders in this movement to reorganize bethlehem pa tuesday march 2 1926 price five cents rutgers amphibians sink lehigh easily 42-17 lehigh brown and white swarthmore forces lehigh to extreme for close victory review of scopes trial by lawyer for the defense vol xxxiii no 36 notice the basketball game with moravian college scheduled for wednesday march 3 has been cancelled notice all men out for chorus of the coining mustard and cheese show should report for practice wednesday eve at 7:30 it is also to the in terest of men out for cast to be present at 2 o'clock on march 7th tryouts for cast and chorus will be held in drown hall by mr wayburn and his staff of coaches it is important that all men in terested be there as it will be the only time mr wayburn will hold tryouts notice senior engineers who or dered good engineering lit erature an engineering english book by harwood frost 93 are requested to apply at the alumni office as soon as possible to get same remember college meeting thursday musical clubs broadcast from wsam thursday