Brown and White Vol. 19 no. 21

              the baseball basketball and wrestling schedules were approved and follow baseball schedule wednesday march 27 open saturday march 30 open wednesday april 10 princeton away saturday april 13 cornell away wednesday april 17 ur sinus away continued on fourth page baron kikuchi president — and gentlemen of the faculty and teaching force and of the stu dent body of the imperial uni versity of kyoto — it is a great pleasure to be able after the inspec tion you have invited us to make of your buildings and equipment and after meeting your large teaching force — to congratulate you not as a mere matter of compliment but intelligently and from our hearts on the great work you are doing here for japan in the promotion of higher education among your people we can see from this inspection that you are wisely concentrating the expenditure of your available resources on your faculty and equipment rather than in the erec tion of pretentious buildings which though impressive outwardly to the eye lack within the full complement of brainy men by whose united work alone can your mission be properly accomplished your plant appears however to be adequate and well adapted to the work to be done and it is a surprise to us to see the equipment of your engineer ing departments so well represented and worked out on you gentlemen of the fac ulty — leaders in your chosen work rests a great responsibility we envy you the privilege of its exer cise in the educational training of your intelligent earnest forceful people and we who have come from our distant land across the seas in meeting and studying your people have learned from them les sons of love of gentleness of amiability of courtesy and of hos pitality to the stranger and at home that we have taken to heart and that will abide with us as a gift and a keep-sake from the people of nip pon more valued and more precious than much fine gold we have now been in your land for some days we have seen your great sea-port of yokohama and have been shown your capitol city of tokyo and have travelled through your country to this ancient capitol of the realm ; i personally have been greatly impressed by the fact that in our journey ings i have yet to see an instance of uiscourtesy or of rudeness or to hear an un kind word from one of your people to another ; and their cordial recep tion of our party has been univer sal my good wife who is with me has noted as i have done also the loving care everywhere appa rent shown to children in this won derful land where the precept love one another is a practice and not a theory only of life for while you tolerate and protect in your people the practice of all reli gions you appear to follow and to have adopted the teachings and the practice of self-sacrifice and of al truism with an exalted patriotism as the leading principles of your life to your young men i heartily endorse the views expressed by professor richards an experienced educator that before they seek in struction in foreign lands they avail of the excellent facilities now afforded by your own universities in your own land and that they go abroad only for special supplemen tary post-graduate studies for which special facilities may be open to them in other countries ; for to day your progress in education has been so great that you are no long er dependent on europe and america to me personally there is an in timate individual pleasure in this visit to the land of nippon ; for of all our delegation of visiting engi neers i am i think the only one who was in any way in touch with the events characterizing the pass ing of the old japan into the new now more than half a century ago my father and mother were ameri cans living in hongkong and in ma cao from about 1840 to 1858 my father being a merchant in hong kong and i was born there in 1850 commodore perry was an intimate friend of our family and a visitor at our home when engaged in the expedition in 1853 which resulted in the opening of your ports and townsend harris who as the american ambassador negotiated with you in 1857 the original com mercial treaty between our coun tries was also our intimate friend while i was too young to receive impressions enabling me now to re member commodore perry my memory of mr harris is personal and loving and the story of his and of commodore perry's friend ship and association with us and of continued on fourth page the december meeting of the politics club will be held in drown hall on tuesday evening decem ber 19th the subject to be dis cussed is the recall all the mem bers of the club are urged to read literature and articles concerning the recall for their convenience the following references are given : readers guide to periodical liter ature for 1909 and for september october and november 1911 ; case and comment november 1911 the referendum initiative and recall in america by oberholtzer the general discussion should prove one of the most interesting features of the evening the men who will lead the discussion are r c fuller 12 h h otto 12 h s row land 13 and r w janeway 13 as announced at the december meeting all the men now on the roll of the club whose dues are not paid on or before december 15th will be dropped from the member ship list after that date any men who desire admission to the club will have their name placed on the waiting list v b edwards is the treasurer of the organization and those who wish to pay their dues are requested to look him up the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday december 12 1911 dr drinker makes an address in japan athletic com mittee meeting vol xix schedules approved baseball basketball and wrestling yesterday afternoon subject of address of c l fay social needs of miners speaks at the reception tendered n smber 7*r by the imperial university of kyoto to the visiting members of the american institute of mining engineers continued from third page c l fay addressed the regular weekly meeting of the y m c a sunday afternoon on the social needs in mining communities of the state of pennsylvania mr fay has been connected for ten years with the work of the y m c a mining institute and is very well fitted to speak on the subject his forceful talk was very well re ceived by the students present this is the day of universal prog ress of advance movements in all countries and in all lines of human activities knowledge has come to all peoples and social conditions are improving all over the entire earth every one who fails to grasp the vast significance of this world wide movement toward improve ment loses consciousness of the great brotherhood of man the graduate engineer going as a technical man into industrial fields where complex social problems ex ist has great opportunities open to him he should become a social worker according to dr divine's definition of a social worker as any one who works with or without pay for the promotion of the common welfare the college man is nec essarily a debtor to society for the training he has received and the ad vantages he has enjoyed ; and noth politics club the december meeting of the athletic committee of the lehigh university athletic association was held in drown hall at 4.30 p m thursday with the following mem bers present vice-president em ery prof j l stewart prof w l wilson prof h r reiter s t h-arleman of the bethlehem steel co v b edwards 12 g m donaldson 12 l b knox 12 a b gorman 13 ; and g b flick 14 after the reading of the min utes the committee awarded foot ball l"s for the past season to the following men : manager smyth 12 captain wylie 13 vela 11 dayton 14 knox 12 bianco 14 bailey 14 flick 14 west ern 15 crichton 15 mccaffrey 14 pazzetti 14 hauser 14 ackerley 13 kennedy 12 and goyne 14 numerals were awar ded to purvis gleisman humph rey laird coller kennedy hu kill boyd wilcox hagen linke tull davidson vitzthum and ward of the freshman football team to brown gatch lopez mayers galloway howard bell mccaffrey and driscoll of the sophomore baseball team ; to ev ans higgins greenhalgh crichton albrecht miller dickey steele sieger chandler geyer and maier of the freshman baseball team to bickley ash todd schreiber and mickel of the sophomore relay team ; and to berg connette keith norton and borgman of the fresh man relay team class numerals were also awarded to the following men for faithful work at lacrosse : carpenter cole dunbar d k ev ans griff en mercur f b speed and mitchell all of the class of 1913 former baseball coach keady of dartmouth university has been en gaged to coach the basketball and baseball teams and to assist in coaching the track team he has had a great deal of experience both at coaching and at professional baseball and his ability is well known it was decided to purchase a cov er for the wrestling mat no 21