Brown and White Vol. 17 no. 41

              lehigh 2 princeton 16 lehigh was defeated in the first game of the season by princeton last wednesday ; score 16 to 2 the playing was slow and un interesting due to the deadening effect of the sultry weather on the players during the first two innings the tigers scored ten points the result oi several well placed bunts coupled with costly errors on lehigh's part the lineup princeton lkhigh tibet food and lo ! and behold there was his donkey waiting for him with the load of quinces all safe evidently sign number two from allah in favor of the americans — to whom suleiman tendered the quinces as an offering — but now the colony was in better shape and while appreciating the good will manifested they paid for the quinces — and suleiman has ever since been their faithful and de voted friend and follower it is interesting to note that this was another donkey not the one of the egg episode and that this was this particular donkey's first visit to jerusalem no wonder that sulei man was impressed the american colony now num bers over one hundred and ten members they started as a band of fourteen from chicago some twentj^-nine years ago under the leadership of horatio g spafford they belong to no sect but follow the teachings of christ in the practice of charity and loving kindness they have won the re spect and friendship of the natives a marked evidence of this is shown in the fact that the turkish authorities for the past thirteen years have committed to the care of the colony administered by the ladies of the colony the entire management and control of the turkish mohammedan school for girls the only school of the kind here when the colony took hold of it thirteen years ago there were about 50 scholars and the entire school time five hours was devoted to the study of the koran today the school numbers 350 and the authorities permit four of the school hours to be de voted to the study in arabic of of reading writing arithmetic geography and grammar also sew ing and fitting embroidery iron ing arid knitting the remaining hour is given to the koran the sisters of the colony do no prose letizing at the school striving only to elevate the girls by instruction that will raise them above the helpless condition of the average mohammedan woman these american colony people appear to us to have built up an ideal social system of their own moral — law-abiding with an abso lute community of interest — no continued on second page tibet—on the roof of the world is the subject of an illus trated talk sunday evening in drown hall at 6.30 the speaker is eev f e nitzschke of kliza beth n j who has prepared a very interesting lecture upon christian work being done in this great and beautiful section of the world which as yet is little known by the white races billy burkhart who for the last thirteen years has been on lehigh field acting in the triple capacity of trainer ground keeper and policeman has given up his position tatj beta pi saturday april 2—base ball game lehigh vs stevens on le high field at 3 p m sunday april 3—meeting of sophomore cotillion club delta tan delta house at 11 a m y m c a meeting at 0.30 p m monday april 4—brown and white board meeting in drown hall at 5 p m lacrosse practice - • every afternoon coach crowell is here on monday wednesday friday and saturday the annual spring banquet of the society of tan beta pi was held on tuesday evening march 22 at the new merchants hotel south beth lehem about fifty members inclu ding two honorary and fourteen undergraduate initiates attended the banquet and made it one of the most successful held in the history of the society professor william s franklin was toastmaster and he called for the following toasts : the significance of the bent al fred c callen three years of lehigh frank p mekibbeu the last lap c lehman downs the initiates eaymond f crump tan beta pi and phi beta kappa professor john l stewart john l stewart professor of history and economics and frank p mckibben professor of civil engineering were taken in the society as honorary members the co lowing were initiated from the undergraduate body : wilbur clarke jackson 10 walter bruce wills 10 carl samuel albright ml edgar foster baumgartner 1 john louis becker 11 william howard corddry 11 a b ray mond floyd crump 11 thomas russell davies 11 joseph ralph dawson ml daniel merritt flick 11 john griffen ml albert k ilohl ml george reid wood 11 and robert farmer wood ml grosh's orchestra furnished ex cellent and up-to-date music a her singing several college songs the assemblage broke up by singing the alma mater c s kenney s b hess and j mce sanderson formed the committee of arrange ments jerusalem march 12 1910 to the editor of brown and white — suleiman solomon is a right good fellow he is an arab peasant who has a small farm some distance from the city — during the busy tourist season he is em ployed at the american colony where we are staying and yester day afternoon he and i took a good long walk together his connection with the colony came about in this wise years ago when as a struggling band of colonists from chicago they were lighting poverty and want they were sometimes reduced to severe straights and at one of these times suleiman stopped at their house one night with his donkey carrying a load of eggs for sale in the market next morning he was welcomed and given a lodging for the night next morning on trying to lift the box of eggs up on the donkey the bottom came out and the eggs rolled on the ground but.mira culous to relate not an egg was broken ! ! the arabs are a very de vout people — and suleiman at once took this to be a direct sign from allah that the eggs elected to stay where they were and that evident ly they were intended to be a gift to his hosts so their want was thus for the time relieved — and suleiman became convinced that his mission was to be a friend to these western people nor did allah slop with this not long afterwards suleiman came to town with a donkey-load of qninees he was in company with a number of other fellaheen all bound with produce for the market at the city gate they were halted by the guards until they paid the tax on provisions — th e " o c t roi — i n france now to our ready quick american transaction of business there is much interest in watching the progress of any money transac tion in the east — the discussions and haggling are interminable — and by the time that suleiman and his friends got their duties ad justed and paid the donkeys had all wandered off through the gate and into the town they soon found them however — all but suleiman's donkey he was gone and after vainly searching for hours sulei man hied himself to his american colony friends for sympathy and the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa friday apeil 1 1910 base ball a second letter from dr drinker calendar vol xvii no 41 jk . 11 u . a . . jq ballin if 4 3 1 o o bard cf 1 £ o o o gr'nger cf 1 2 o 1 o cunningham rf 1 o 1 o warwick 2b 2043 o o reed ss 1 1 4 3 2 prescott ss o o o o o white 3b 1 i 2 o o sterrett 1b 2 1 6 1 o yv arner , c o 1 3 1 o dawson c 2 o 3 o o lackey cf ib o o 3 o o g'baum p „ . 1 o o 1 o jones p o 1 o 1 o woodle p o 100 o totals 16 12 27 11 2 jl-v . xi . kj . ft . £!, c rebert cf o i 3 111 1 rose ss o o 3 2 o olson 2b o o 1 o borclen if cf o o 2 o 1 anderson ib o 182 1 king c o o 3 111 1 o richards rf o o 1 o 1 o croll 3b 0 010 3 martin 2b 1 012 wolfram p if 1 1 1 4 1 billheimer p o o o o 1 totals 2 3 24 2 7 lehigh...o 0002000 o — 1 princeton 9 1210030 xx — 1