Brown and White Vol. 19 no. 49

              the trees were secured from the hoopes bros and thomas co of west chester pa miners to meet april 24 during the recent vacation dr wherry and mr estabrook inspect ed the old chromite mines in the southern part of lancaster county these are the only chromite mines in the state on their four-day trip they walked up the susquehan na about twenty miles visiting the old gap nickel mines these mines were operated in the latter part of the eighteenth century and are the oldest and most famous in the country y m c a miss c f pennknan secretary of the associated charities of the bethlehems will give under the di rection of the y m c a on sun day evening at 6.30 a talk on the social evils encountered in the slum districts of the larger cities the title of her talk will be the chal lenge of the american city by far the largest and most suc cessful meeting of the chemical so ciety occurred last tuesday even ing when the members were enter tained as the guests of dr and mrs drinker at their home the society was particularly fortunate in hav ing as a speaker e l knoedler superintendent of manufacturing at the welsbach light company mr knoedler is one of the leading industrial chemists of the day is a member of tau beta pi and a graduate of the case school of ap plied science the meeting opened with the nomination of officers for the en suing year which resulted as fol lows for pres bartholomew and white for vice-pres rowan turnbull and gonder for secy long and sanchez ; and for treas mayer following this president herr 12 read a sketch of the life of dr waldron shapleigh dr shapleigh graduated from lehigh in 1871 receiving the degree of an alytical chemist in 1873 he was appointed instructor in chemistry at lehigh and later became professor of the department mr shapleigh is probably best known in lehigh circles today as the donor of the shapleigh collection of books which forms an important adjunct to our library „ after the readkig of the sketch of mr shapleigh's life which was recorded in the minutes of the so ciety mr knoedfer gave his talk on scientific management the efficiency of present-day industrial organizations said mr knoedler is largely due to the management in large corporations the supervi sion of the plant cannot be left to one man but is divided among sev eral capable men each an expert in his particular line thus the plant becomes made tip of a number of departments a complete record is kept of the material received by each department as well as its out put and in this manner the effici ency of each department can be de termined by means of a large chart mr knoedler showed how this method has been applied to the welsbach light company which is being run on the most advanced methods of scientific management a number of samples of order blanks time cards piece-work tickets etc were passed around showing the elab orate system employed by the man agement of keeping a record of work done time required per job etc photographs iwere also displayed which showed many safety devices dr wherry and professor rich ards will be the leading speakers at the meeting of the mining engineer ing society in williams hall wed nesday april the twenty-fourth the former will speak on the tri assic of pennsylvania while prof richards has chosen for his subject the nomenclature of iron and steel the freshmen and sophomore miners are especially invited to at tend the meeting which will be call ed at eight o'clock there will be other interesting addresses and the usual feed in the fastest and most exciting game played here this season the carlisle indians barely snatched vic tory from the brown and white la crosse team wednesday afternoon the score of 5 to 4 fully represents the closeness with which the game was fought continually during the contest the crowd sheltered from the rain on the grandstand was brought to its feet by sensational plays on both sides when the teams appeared the field was a mass of mud covered here and there with large pools of water and a cold driving wind and rain gave the most unfavorable prospects for fast team work nev ertheless the indians upholding their reputation for speed and en durance commenced the game with a rush the ball remained in brown and white territory for the first part of the half and in dangerous proximity to the home^oal but due to hart's splendid work as goal keeper only one goal resulted from the numerous drives at the cage at this point lehigh awoke and be gan its attack on the indians goal in an effective manner several attempts were made before what proved to be the successful one williams received the ball on a long pass down the field and by some re markable dodging managed to get the ball close to the indians goal here a pass to wheaton and a short drive by the latter resulted in a score nothing daunted the indians re newed the attack and only a few seconds later garlow registered an other goal for the red men le high for the remainder of the half was on the defensive with the ex ception of a rally near the end of the period which following several passes williams to wheaton to speed netted the second goal in the second half the indians displayed the greatest endurance time and again they broke away from scrimmage and by superior running carried the ball into le high's territory two goals in rap id succession placed the visitors in the lead again lehigh was again able to increase her score when schultz a short time later caged the ball from a wild scrimmage near the goal a goal by reed for the indians and one for lehigh by martin completed the scoring for both the brown and white team worked in vain for the point which would have tied the score but john goal-keeper for the red men proved a stone-wall in the defense sev eral opportunities for scoring were lost due to his steady blocking the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday april 19 1912 chemists meet at dr drinker's vol xix e l knoedler gives interesting talk on scientific management indians 5 lehigh 4 lacrosse team loses after hard fast contest on wet field that have been applied in various parts of the plant the manage ment also maintains a hospital on the grounds where injured work men may be taken care of ; as well as tennis courts and reading rooms for the benefit of the employees during off hours after the conclusion of mr knoedler's talk dr drinker was called upon for a few words from some old records in his possession dr drinker read of some of the work done by the chemical society in the past and called attention to the fact that it was the first en gineering society at lehigh having been established in the fall of 1871 delightful refreshments were then served and after spending the re mainder of the evening in singing and social intercourse the meeting was adjourned mustard and cheese for lehigh williams wheaton and kennedy displayed exceptional headwork williams especially dis tinguishing himself by his clever dodging the line-up is as follows lehigh position carlisle hart goal john carson point large kennedy . . . coverpoint berge raynor ..... ist def guyon hartdegen .. 2nd def . . . williams f r speed . . 3rd def arcasa wheaton centre wounded-eye martin 3rd at ..... garlow williams 2nd at reed dunbar ist at . . young deer schultz outhome jackson f b speed . . inhome crane goals scored — carlisle : garlow reed 2 wounded-eye crane ; le high wheaton speed schultz martin referee — w estes time of halves 3o minutes substitu tions — powles for wounded-eye buck for dunbar hadaway for buck packard for hadaway st john for packard as the time draws near for the first performance of the khan of kathan tl c prospects look better and better for a most successful show under the direction of the two coaches messrs downing and gheen the men have been working hard and the end of next week will see the men in their best form in order that there may be no misunderstanding the management wishes to call attention again to the method used in the selling of seats .. seats have been on sale to patron esses for the last week cards were mailed to the dormitory chiefs and to the fraternities last night and they may obtain seats from prof palmer by presenting the card with their money it is absolutely a case of — first come first served and no tickets can be obtained without a 1 card as the sale of tickets has been particularly large it is urged that patronesses and members of the faculty desiring good seats send in their requests at once vacation trip campus improvement all of the chestnuts and many of the hickories on the campus will doubtless soon be lost to the uni versity the former have been at tacked by the bark-blight which ru ined all the chestnuts on long is land while the hickories have been attacked by a species of boring beetle to replace their probable loss the university has at the suggestion of prof hall caused more than a hundred specimens including at least thirty different varieties of trees to be planted on the campus to loosen the soil to the depth of about five feet and thereby provide for water-storage the holes were blown with dynamite a half car tridge of twenty-five per cent dyna mite was used in each case among the specimens secured there was a goodly portion of ever greens and rapid growing species as well as a large number of oaks a few flowering shrubs and some japanese flowering cherries were al so included no 49