Brown and White Vol. 33 no. 48

              four good speakers given ovation by class of 1 927 at annual affair noted poet and storytel ler speaks about irish folklore brown and white aggregation displays power and speed in downing scarlet twelve musical numbers prove hits neat stick work features unusual topic preparation for houseparty starts coke presides junior prom and cotillion committees busy with arrangements plans progress although the weather was more fitting for a football game than a lacrosse match the le high willow-bearers turned back the scarlet lacrosse men of rutgers in the first meet of the red-coat invasion of saturday by the onesided score of 7-2 the game was played on the wind-swept lower field at one thirty and although the rut gers players made a sudden spurt in the beginning of the second half which brought the score up to 3-2 the brown and white team was never in much danger saturday could be well called red day for the brown and white lined up against the scarlet of rutgers in three en counters against the cardinal of muhlenberg in one encoun saturday night a more enthu siastic audience could not have been found con on page 2 col 4 the plot happily combines the events of a modern college house party with its dignified predecessor an egyptian party ned crawford played by gor don ridsdale 27 is confronted on the opening day of house party with the task of enter taining a girl whom he has nev er seen before and whom his uncle john m h cohen 27 wishes him to marry ned's rich uncle has promised the chi delt fraternity of which ned is a member a new home in the event that the party should re sult in ned's proposing to the girl quite naturally the fra ternity brothers of which jim lehigh took the offensive shortly after the opening of the game and held it for the entire first half except for a few ter and against the crimson of swarthmore in the last of the five meets which were sche duled for the day the begin ihg which lehigh made in the battle with rutgers promised well for the rest of the day in their first home game of the season captain robinson and his associates completely out played the rutgers team both on the offensive and on the de fensive the showing of the lacrosse men was very good and considering that in their first match they held princeton to a 3-3 tie the season should be a very successful one con on page 4 col i ) last friday evening marked the opening performance of coil-egypt the thirty-eighth annual production of the mus tard and cheese club and the biggest success that organiza tion has yet sponsored from the opening scene in the lounge of the chi delt fraternity house until the bow of the stage managers in the final act the show was a decided success and at no time did the action lag nor did the interest of the au dience subside this year's production has the distinction of being the first to play for two nights in bethlehem and the best testimonial to the popular ity of the current production is the fact that the reception on the second night was much warmer than on the first on lecturer explains asphalt to c e's netmen score win in opening season muhlenberg wins easily from b w miners preparing for summer trip initial encounter shows well-balanced com bination e m.'s are to take ex tended automobile trip for inspection purposes w p rqsengarten tells of derivations and uses of paving material testing discussed ziegenfuss pitches air-tight ball and paves way to victofy 3000 mile tour bitter weather sullivan stars of late there has been a cer tain static in the air about the campus such as always marks the approach of some important event the answer is house party everyone from upper classman to freshman is look ing forward to the big event with more admiration and zeal than ever before and according to all advance indications this spring house party should sur pass any of previous years the length of the house party per iod has been extended a day ov er that of last fall starting thurgday april 29 and ending sunday may 2 a most enjoyable sequence of events has been planned for the students and their fair guests the girls will probably arrive about thursday noon as yet no social event has been planned for thursday afternoon altho it is possible some fraternity may decide to run a tea-dance if not it will afford the visi tors an excellent opportunity of seeing bethlehem under ex pert maculine supervision on thursday evening the sopho more cotillion will be the ma jor attraction for our fair vis itors and this promises to be an event long to be remembered exceptional pains are being ta ken by the committee to make this cotillion even better than in previous years if this is pos sible con on page 4 col 4 on friday afternoon the dance lovers will find their way lehigh university calendar the banquet of the class of 1927 was held last evening at the hotel traylor in allentown and proved to be one of the most successful social events in the history of the class in answer to the class president's plea the affair was absolutely dry insuring the continuance of further social functions of the class this year and next president coxe presided and the class entered en masse to the main dining room to the strains of popular dance songs and lehigh melodies the us ual procedure of obtaining au tographs on the menus then began and amid it all the waitresses attempted to serve the chicken salad the meal was greatly enjoyed and satis fied the palates of all the jun iors present following the 4 course dinner several numbers were played by the hawaiian quartet of the lehigh musical clubs and to diversify the program twp pro fessional entertainers kept the already enthused group alive and respondent to their skits the first speaker to be called upon was professor bradley stoughton of the metallurgy de partment and in his usual back bay manner he delivered a very humorous talk packed with stories and jokes of every kind professor shorty long then gave a very vivid description of past days in the history of class banquets and of the way they used to be done up brown as contrasted with the usual ser enity of the class banquets of today professor skipper eckfeldt of the mining department then gave a very interesting talk on class functions and interspersed his speech with witty ancedotes some with a touch of local col or con on page 2 col 7 amid thunderous applause bosey reiter then took the the lehigh undergraduates were royally entertained last thursday at the college lecture by dr seamus macmanus na tionally known irish poet and story-teller who delighted his audience with his wit and hu mor he told about irish folk lore giving a number of amus ing illustrations in the course of his address one story which the students will remember for some time and which will be frequently re peated was dr mac manus's account about how ireland came to be he said that once some angels had rebelled and a war ensued one tgroup under mi chael prevailed over the other group under lucifer and the latter was cast out of heaven but there had been a third group a neutral party which had refused to take part in the fray after the success of mi chael it was a problem to deal with this third class mi chael dared not confine them in hell for they had not fought against the lord but neither were they worthy of heaven since they had refused to fight for him and so the arch-an gel gave these neutrals a choice they might select a spot up on earth at which to dwell and they selected ireland — thus came the irish . another story which enter tained the audience was his ac count of the gentleman who never called anybody a liar and became famous thereby this gentleman who was also a king became so proud of his reputa tion that he offered a reward his beautiful daughter together with half his kingdom to the man who could cause him to ut ter the words you are a liar after 364 attempts and failures one poor lad came who insulted the king's vanity called forth the rebuke and thereby became the son-in-law of the king these stories over and above con on page 4 col 5 soph tea dance adds to week-end frosh team to meet stroudsb'g urday program social function enlivens sat wednesday game will face strong opposition in an automobile inspection tour of mining districts of northeastern united state and ontario canada has been plan ned by the mining department for this summer the object of the tour is to afford an oppor tunity for the students in the mining engineering course at lehigh to broaden their con ception of the industry with which they will later be con nected actual contact will be had with the mining and pre paration of ores in the more important mining districts of northeastern united states and ontario attention will be paid to the geology of the regions traversed and also to the pro duction of non-metals such as oil and gas building stones and such the party will be charge of professor r l bartlett of the department of mining engin eering and a member of the ge ology department to be decided upon later each evening wheri practicable a short time will be spent in correcting the notes taken during the day and in discussing things observed this will take the form of an informal discussion con on page 4 col 6 the trip will be made in au tomobiles competent drivers and mechanics selected from the members of the party giv ing their services and thus kee ping the transportation expen ses down to a minimum the party will carry equipment for camping and for preparati on of meals making it independent of hotels and garage housing and it is planned to prepare in camp all meals except the eve ning meal wherever possible the party will camp at public camp grounds by the shores of the numerous lakes and rivers of the region traversed it was found on a former trip that de on wednesday afternoon coach petriken's proteges will meet the strong stroudsburg nine in what promises to be the first real game for the frosh stroudsburg has an enviable reputation for putting first class teams in the field and the frosh will have to be in the best of form to compete with them roe from mckenzie high captain of frosh basketball and wilson from nichol school at buffalo have been showing up exceptionally well on the mound and appear to be above the standards of most yearling pitchers tymeson from endicott is con on page 2 col 4 lehigh university's netmen epened the 1926 season with a well earned victory over the rutgers team the match was played on the bethlehem steel courts which were recently ac quired by the university the terrific wind made a true judg ment of strokes an impossibil ity and did a lot in spoiling some mighty fine rallies captain miller had little trou ble in making one point for le high by defeating boocock of the visitors 6-0 and 6-3 the lehigh man's cut shots and placements had the rutgers player on the defensive through out the entire match neil sullivan playing second singles for the brown & white scored the second lehigh victory by defeating waugh of the vis itors sullivan took the first set easily 6-0 but waugh came back strongly to win the second 6-4 the third set proved the lehigh ace's superiority when with wonderful services and beauti ful placements he won 6-3 both men showed exceptional strength on backhand shots after winning his first set 6-1 trumbull lost a heart ren ding match to bliss by drop ping the next two sets 8-6 and 6-3 doty playing opposite his teammate's style dropped the first set 7-5 and garnered the next two sets 6-2 and 6-4 con on page 4 col 6 in the doubles matches each team won one macfadden and sullivan scored a victory over waugh and boocock in straight sets 6-4 and 6-3 the second doubles event went to the scar let after a three set match by the scores 8-6 3-6 and 7-5 the victors bliss and mac watty were teamed against captain miller and liversidge muhlenberg poled out an 11-2 decision over the lehigh ball team saturday afternoon on taylor stadium timely hit ting by the allentown collegians in the few final frames earned the victory there being little difference in the field work of both clubs despite the biting weather good ball was played by both sides but in the sixth inning the tide started to turn in muhlen berg's direction the scarlet started the ball rolling when slemmer the third man up was helped home with leh's drive in lehigh's half the count was equalized when ambler scampered homeward on lewin's single to left slim weston was coach john son's choice for mound duty and after allowing three hits in the initial stanza settled down to plain and fancy pitching bill ziegenfuss muhlenberg hurler tossed artight ball throughout the contest and showed remark able ability in pulling himself out of the pinches in the sev enth and eighth lehigh loaded the bases but was unable to score jones and borrelli featured the hitting for muhlenberg each being accredited with four safe bingles the brunt of lehigh's pounding on the apple was borne by hayes morrison le win and nevins in the sixth muhlenberg scored two runs on three hits three runs on three hits in the seventh and added three more runs in the eighth whereas the muhlenberg defense tight ened as the playing progressed lehigh seemed to ease up in their defensive efforts con on page 2 col 5 a very interesting lecture on asphalt and its uses in high way engineering was given wednesday at 1 1 00 a m in the physics building for the benefit of the junior civils the lecturer mr w p rosen garten is traffic engineer for the asphalt association mr rosengarten's lecture was illus trated with lantern slides show ing the preparation and uses of asphalt the earliest users of asphalt date back to some 4000 years b c when bituminous mater ial was used in macedonia as a binder for sand in the making of ornaments the present day uses however are for pave ments and building materials asphalt is found existing in nature in small sinks and lakes the geological explanation of this is that the asphalt is the result of the weathering of pet roleum the largest of these asphalt lakes is on the island of trinidad and is about 1 2 7 acres in extent the asphalt is removed in the form of large more or less solid cakes it must be refined before using and this is done by heating in open vats to drive off the water and impurities the asphalt is too hard to be used in this con dition so it is softened by flux ing with bituminous oils an other form of asphalt occurring in nature is known as rock as phalt it consists of sandstone or limestone rocks impregnat ed with bituminous liquids this material is sometimes used di rectly for surfacing roads . con on page 4 col 3 the greatest supply of as phalt however comes from the refining of petroleum after the lighter oils such as gaso line kerosene etc have been driven off the material remain ing is the asphalt somewhere april 19-25 tuesday april 20 8:15 p m organ recital b,y mr t edgar shields assist ed by mr harry m schoen ley tenor packer memorial church university campus wednesday april 2 1 :— 4 00 p m varsity tennis new york university le high steel field thursday april 22 1 1 00 a m freshman orienta tion lecture south side high school auditorium prof wm esty will speak on el ectrical engineering friday april 23 4:00 p m meeting of the mathematics club room 33 packer hall professor j h ogburn will speak on stellar destiny in the milky way 8 00 p m meeting of the civ il engineering society lec ture on the design and in stallation of sewerage sys tems by mr g douglass an drews physics lecture room in bringing the activities of an afternoon full of athletic contests to a close the sopho more class ran a well attend ed and successful tea dance last saturday at drown hall this dance was most appropriate in rounding out one of the busy pre-house party week ends the fair visitors to this campus saw the university in athletics dramatics and socially the music for the occasion was most ably rendered by a group of students playing un der the name of the echo lake eight their syncopations keep ing those present on their toes during the entire time of the dance the neighboring colleges of con on page 4 col 4 lehigh brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday april 20 1926 price five cento coll egypt scores success in bethlehem performances dr macmanus gives humorous college lecture lehigh lacrosse team decisively defeats rutgers vol xxxiii no 48 mustard and cheese production wins enthusiastic ap plause on opening nights — clever handling juniors celebrate finest banquet in history of class notice sophomore competitors for cheer leader should report to bob winchester in the trophy room at 5 : 00 p m wednesday / let's go in intramural sports events back up the tennis team wednesday