Brown and White Vol. 18 no. 42

              some two hundred alumni as sembled at the hotel astor last fri day night for the annual formal dinner of the lehigh university club of greater new york with attorney general wickersham 77 as the guest of honor the speakers table was lined with justices of high courts the presidents of many college clubs trustees and the president of le high all of whom did honor to the occasion after the dinner toastmaster honey man 88 president of the club proposed a toast to lehigh and one to the guests lie then said : we have reason to be proud of ourselves tonight on account of our guests here assembled lehigh trains men not only for the many lines of industrial activity but for the learned professions as well ; and we have here tonight a son of lehigh the man who regulates the industries attorney general wick ersham 77 mr wickersham first asked the question : what have i done to de serve this when i went to lehigh then he went on to say in part : it is many years since i left the building on the south mountain after two years spent there in fol lowing lines of study far different from those i pursued in after life the men i knew in those days fol lowed more systematically than i the paths they selected they have built their monuments in iron and steel and stone many have toiled | faithfully earnestly and have wrought good works yet their deeds though manifold no skald in song has told all over the world to-day are visible symptons of intellectual and social unrest the individual man and woman is asserting his or her individuality as a unit of society '■ demanding recognition and insisting on a greater voice in government principles we thought as final as tyndah's theory of heat was con sidered in the seventies are ques tioned boldly disputed denied strange modifications in our form of government are lightly mooted men ignorant of or indifferent to the history of the past blithely urge the embarkation on new theories of government the crowding of our cities be gets the old problems of poverty and discontent these problems must be dealt with as men of scien tific training learn to deal with all problems by gathering data draw ing conclusions from them verify ing these conclusions by observation movement started by mr sait's lecture e e yake delegate j several weeks ago there ap peared in the brown and white an editorial advocating the estab lishment of a branch of the inter i collegiate civic league at lehigh and on friday morning there was held in packer hall a college meet ing the purpose of which was to take the first definite step toward the forming of such an organiza tion here it is almost entirely through the influence of prof dan iels of the mining department who is interested in the work of the league that ' mr sait lecturer in history at columbia university and at present secretary of the intercol legiate civic league was induced to come here and explain the pur pose of the league present ideas re garding the amount and nature of the work that it is accomplishing and the practical value of the lib eral training that one may acquire in connection with the league mr sait in a brief analysis of s the evolution of certain phases of j our national government said re garding some of its defects that the real trouble lies with the public ; the public is no better than the peo ple politicians are no worse than the men who buy them we have got to get a public spirit as long as the people think right the gov ; ernment will be right it is the purpose of the intercollegiate civic | league to teach the right spirit of citizenship the class of men who go out from colleges forms the best | leaders ; they are already organized the league aims to awaken their i interest in good citizenship and then build up their enthusiasm as a concrete example of what the league is doing the branch at williams college was referred to by the speaker soon after the found ing of this branch the membership began to dwindle and in 1907 it was almost dead in the effort to : revive the club the leaders learned i ; that to make the organization a suc i cess they had to make the members - j work a program of work that at tracted the attention of the college i was made up child labor at local ! shops student suffrage street con ditions ventilation etc were inves '. tigated the result is that the club now has 250 members and is the i most thriving branch of the league the league was organized five i j years ago and is now represented | | at forty of the most important in stitutions of learning in the united !'! ' i states mr sait urged the election ! of delegates to the national conven continued on fourth page ( n thursday evening the mar riage of miss prince and john taylor jr 93 took place in beth lehem mr taylor is superintend ent of the lowa portland cement co of des moines lowa j s crowther jr 06 an old track star and manager of the track team and w r morris 00 captain of the 1909 lacrosse team were in town the past week i o libble 08 lias accepted a position with the united fruit co at panama i and experiment and then judging i wisely how the solution of the prob 1 lem should be attempted — with a • wisdom based on broad human sympathy for the weaknesses as i well as the strength of mankind no one can ignore or under estimate the splendid achievements of men of scientific training in this country in which the sons of le high have had a distinguished part but have they taken their full share i of the work of government after all what will it avail to solve the most intricate problems of | chemistry mining metal working and engineering to devise the best ! methods of transportation and of transmission of intelligence to ap ply the latest discoveries of electri j cal science in devising conveniences in factories offices and dwellings if we do not secure honest stable government ? shall the best informed most highly cultivated minds be devoted jto the construction of railroads | canals bridges and tunnels and the government of state and nation the enactment and administration of laws which affect the welfare of all citizens rich and poor high and low be left to the uneducated the schemers the venal and the cor rupt we are constantly adding to our electorate an increasing number of men of divers races and nationali ties ; men with traditions different from ours unaccustomed to the principles of civil liberty on which this government is founded and has thus far prospered if we whose birthright is liberty under law whose traditions vital ized the foundation of our constitu tional government shall not do our part in keeping watch and ward over it the control of our destinies as a nation will pass into other hands and the destruction of con stitutional guarantees will open the door to the worst forms of misgov ernment indifference to ignorance and corruption in misgovernment suggest that 111 fares the land to hastening ills \ a prey where wealth accumulates and men decay judge ward of the u s cir cuit court of appeals the next | speaker talked of his alma mater j the university of pennsylvania and of the generosity of the em pire state towards those strangers who pour into its borders contin ! uing he said that we are all in one t he brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa tuesday march 28 1911 new york club dinner vol xviii civics club before college columbia beaten in gym meet no 42 attorney general wickersham 77 chief guest culture in education and civics the principal subjects of discussion lehigh victor in last contest score 33 1-2—20 1-2 lehigh gymnasts triumphed over columbia on saturday in the local gymnasium although the crowd that turned out to witness the meet did not tax the capacity of the building the number was fairly large the lehigh team showed great form and reached its best stage of the constant improvement that they have showed all season columbia's chances were some what lessened by an injury to ep stein in the first event on dis mounting from the horiontal bar on his second trial the columbia man fell and dislocated his arm lie was quickly fixed up but was pre vented from competing in the tum bling and parallel bars in which events he was also entered for lehigh bley was the star performer taking two firsts the work of the rest of the team was correspondingly good the colum bia team showed good form but le high proved the superior by the score of zv 2 to 20 summary horizontal bar bley lehigh first jannus lehigh second doyle columbia third side horse : whitaker columbia first flick lehigh and powell columbia tied for second club swinging bley lehigh first wheeler columbia second kester lehigh third parallel bars tremlett lehigh first loewy columbia second bowen lehigh and wheeler co lumbia tied for third flying rings jannus lehigh and elliott lehigh tied for first whitaker columbia third tumbling : scott columbia first ; bailey lehigh second petti-grew lehigh third judges : dr noble philadelphia and mr step allentown y m c a alumni notes continued on fourth page