Brown and White Vol. 27 no. 4

              lehigh's highest desree doctor of engineering conferred on charley taylor large attendance score 13-0 lehigh line shows wall-like defense simendinger plays good game dr natt m emery in speech of day tells of the life of the founder asa packer underclassmen clash wednesday dr kern addresses y.m.c.a meeting football teams of sophomores and frosh meet monday after noon games wednesday success and prominence the story has been recited for forty consecu tive years since the death of asa packer on may 17 1879 with the exception of last year wiien all our efforts were strained in patriotic war-service ; and each new genera tion of lehigh men has gained in spiration from the old but ever interesting story of one who made full unselfish and magnanimous use of the mental and physical qualities with which he was en dowed asa packer's biography can be briefly outlined he was born in groton connecticut december 29 1805 the wealth and honor that came in later life were acquired not inherited during early boy hood it w r as necessary for him to contribute his share towards the family expenses and for a time he secured work at a local tannery which appealed to him more than farm labor he possessed consider able of the pioneer spirit and at the on october 5 at 6 15 p.m the second y m c a meeting of the year was held in drown hall two excellent solos were rend ered by mrs w h lynn a well known soprano which were much appreciated by the audience at the next v meeting mr j ! lovell murray of new york will speak doctor kern of the british medical corps gave an account of his experiences while serving in france he emphasized particu larly the filthy conditions prevail ing in the german prison camps and the lack of religious morale shown by the german army tow r ard the end of the war in relating his experiences he told how he and s^lptfit 1 bi nlis coi*/paiiioyk7^l;re captured by the germans and in terned at carlsruhe where he was forced to treat german wounded some of his companions escaped and reached the allied lines but he was held until 15 days after the armistice when he returned via berne switzerland to france with the remainder of his companions dr kern received his commission in the u s army but was assigned to the british medical corps help recruit several hundred medical officers in this country for the british service the attendance was good but not as i large as it ought to be the v meetings are an important phase of college life and everyone who can possibly atend them will find it profitable to do so on account of the founder's day exercises in the chapel satur day morning and also the football game with ursinus in the after noon there was no time to hold the annual contests between the fresh men and the sophomores monday at 4 p.m is the time set for the f otball game and wednesday after noon the under classes clash in a baseball game and relay race buckie ' } mcdonald wnct is coaching the sophomore football team and nick pons the fresh man team are both old lehigh stars and their respective teams will be well matched neither of these men have as yet picked the men who will start the game but in all probability every man will have a chance during the game many of the freshmen have shown great ability and previous experience in the line of football the sophomores and freshmen have been practising daily for the baseball game and relay race but neither of these teams have as yet been picked judging from the quantity of frosh this year it is plainly seen the 22 men are bucking big odds so their full cooperation is neces sary big plans for rutgers smoker on friday addition to chem lab at a meeting of the board of trustees of the university held friday evening october 3 it was decided to erect an addition to the chemical laboratory at the west end further details will appear in a subsequent issue of the lehigh brown xlnd white a special college meeting was called friday morning and was at tended by all seniors juniors and sophomores m b tate senior president opened proceedings by stating that the meeting had been called to try and stir up among the men a sorely-needed stimulus he dealt mainly with the football season and deplored the poor way in which the students especially the freshmen supported the team he reported that cheering practice which was to have been held four times last week turned out a failure as not more than fifty frosh turned out at a time this is very serious as freshmen are actually breaking college rules by not attending | ' buckie ' mac donald this year s football captain then followed with a snappy talk in which he compared the lehigh spirit of 1915 when lafayette beat us to the tune of 35-6 with the 1919 lack of spirit in the game of 1915 the men cheered even louder when they realized that we were playing a losing fight than they probably tors buckie hoped that we would be able to work up that same lehigh spirit in time for the hard games on our schedule such as rutgers perm state pittsburgh and lafayette dave maginnes introduced as assistant football coach then spoke of the teams which we will have to meet within a few weeks he admitted that the lehigh outlook is excellent but re minded the men that other squads are also developing good elevens and it will take a spirited team and an enthusiastic grand stand to van quish them he intimated that a team is as strong as the student support and that the sucess of the season depends to a very great ex tent on the student-body the last speaker was okey who gave another of his famous face-to-face talks he told the men pointblank what is wrong with le high and that the only way to cure the apathy of the college is for every single lehigh man to put his shoulders to the wheel and start making things hum okey was received with great enthusiasm and after a number of announcements concerning the musical clubs the y m c a and founder's day activities the meeting was ad journed burr notice business men attention there will be a meeting of the burr board in drown hall on wednesday october 8 at 3.15 p.m notice to competitors before a large founder's day crowd which included charlie taylor and a large number of other prominent alumni the lehigh foot ball team took the measure of the ursinus team by a 13-0 score sat urday afternoon on taylor field the game as a whole was more or less of a disappointment to lehigh followers as the score was not as large as was expected which may have been due to the fact that ursinus showed unexpected strength or that the big brown and white team did not put up their best article of football the game was a far better ex hibition than that with villanova and gave coach keady an oppor tunity to pick out the weaknesses of his proteges the chief weak ness was failure to afford inter dashes around the ends and several rather costly fumbles by henzel man and carlson who took wysocki's place at fullback at the beginning of the second half de tracted from an altogether credit able offensive performance by the lehigh team another week's practice should prepare a good of fensive for the rutgers game next saturday the brown and white team put up an impregnable de fense on the forward line and the majority of the attempts which ursinus made around the wings were stopped by the ends and backs the outstanding feature of the game was the playing of simend inger the former st joseph's star who made several spectacular end runs with practically no interfer ence to aid him his twenty-five yard forward pass to larkin in the second quarter put lehigh in posi tion to score her first touchdown herrington played his usual heady game at quarterback and henzel man's line plunging was always good for three or four yards on the defensive captain mac donald put up a sterling game time and again blocking wood's attempts to break through and on many in stances throwing the ursinus backs for a loss for ursinus captain light at left half and wood at fullback played a very strong game the lehigh first team was used through the majority of the first three quarters but in the fourth quarter coach keady sent in sub stitutes for the ends and backfield the team resorted mainly to straight football only occassionally uncovering a forward pass the new shifts and trick plays which the team has been developing will undoubtedly be uncorked against the rutgers team continued on fifth page the game opened with wood ursinus kicking off to mccarthy on lehigh's 15-yard line her rington then reeled off a twelve yard dash around right end and henzelman cracked the center of the line for three yards on the next play simendinger was thrown the business club will have a reorganization meeting saturday october 11 1919 at 2 p.m in the economics lecture room of coppee hall all men in the course in business administration are re quested to be present due to war conditions the club did not have any meetings last year but in former years it had a large membership now that there is a college of business adminis tration the necessity for such a club becomes very apparent this meeting will not interfere with the football game it will be very brief the idea is merely to find out whether the number evinc ing interest warrants steps toward reorganization of the club in order that competitors trying out for literary positions on the lehigh brown and white board may not be late for the founder's day sports wednesday 4 p.m the competitors meeting scheduled for that time will be cancelled assignments will be posted im mediately outside the brown and white room on wednesday morn ing competitors will be held ac countable for the same at the usus time the program for the first smok er of the year which will be held next friday evening at 7 30 p.m in the game room of the gym nasium to stir up enthusiasm for the rutgers game has finally been completed the booster committee which is in charge of the affair has done its best to make this smok er a success and the program ar ranged is certainly of the best the speakers will consist of bosey reiter george beck 03 and w r okeson 96 better known as okey " all of these men are well known to the stud ent body and are excellent speak ers they are all capable of rais ing the enthusiasm of the student body up to the highest notch in preparation for the gridiron battle with rutgers nontinued on sixth page besides the speeches there will be a boxing match between repre sentatives of the sophomore and freshman classes this will be followed by two wrestling bouts both of which promise to be very exciting k music will be furnished by the shigh orchestra aided by the le attended by an enthusiastic gathering of students faculty members,ftrustees and townspeople the annual founder's day exer cises were held last saturday morn ing in packer memorial chapel the event which made the exercises this year tower in importance above similar exercises of previous years was the conferring of the honorary degree of doctor of engi neering upon one of lehigh's most beloved alumni and benefactor — charles l taylor of the class of 76 after the customary religious ex ercises dr drinker made a short ylrj-py-g f ff m 3 r p | l|^if>y rlf ' i'i : nifan'''pl<rfm i if'ii a m by introducing dr natt m emery vice-president of lehigh univer sity as speaker of the day dr emery spoke as follows : in no field of human activity outside the christian ministry are idealism and self-sacrificing service more noticeable than in educational institutions their foundation has meant denial and altruism their maintenance and effective work are possible only through the efforts of devoted men whose minds have grasped the vision and whose large hearts urge them at personal sacrifice to devote their possessions and time and energy to the welfare of others in one sense and in the broad use of the term education is the one out standing worthwhile thing in the world and it is impossible to pay too much tribute to those who have been actively concerned with its promotion we gather today in memory of such a man one to whose philan thropy this university owes its or igin and likewise in honor of other devoted friends and patrons w t ho have confirmed and strengthen ed what was established here a little over a half-century ago the names of asa packer and of others inspired by his example are en shrined in the hearts of all lehigh men we enjoy a goodly heritage and it is fitting that we meet early in the collegiate year to pay our re spect to those who have left the im print of sturdy character and the hall-mark of sterling worth upon the institution we all love no founder's day would be complete without a rehearsal of the typically american life-story of the founder of the university through whose beneficence thousands have secured the necessary start towards more attractive fields of endeavor this picture of a sturdy youth leaving home and starting on life's adventure will be the first of a series of many stf ong dramatic inci dents of asa packer s life which some future artist will paint for lehigh's walls and which will rival in interest the inspiring pic torial account of perm's life as por trayed at our capitol building at harrisburg reaching brooklyn susque hanna county pennsylvania young packer apprenticed himself to a carpenter and soon became a pro ficient artisan by his own labor he cleared away the native forest from a small tract of land erected a log-house and made his first home with the woman of his choice who for over fifty years unspoiled by either poverty or affluence was his efficient helpmeet in 1833 he moved to m'auch chunk and for a time pursued his trade of carpentry coal at that time was plentiful and cheap near mauch chunk but scarce and dear in the city markets anthracite coal for new york had to be taken by canal boats down along the le high river to the delaware and then part way down the delaware to a point where it could be placed on sea-going vessels seeing an op portunity for legitimate profit in excess of his possible earnings as a carpenter asa packer with a severe strain on his slender re sources chartered a canal boat and personally took his load of coal to the philadelphia market where he easily disposed of his cargo on favorable terms his first business enterprise was successful after this canal boat trip asa packer's business operations rapid ly expanded he soon added other gontinued on insert bethlehem pa tuesday october 7 1919 upper classes and sopho mores hold meeting price five cents conferring of degree marks founder's day exercises ursinus falls before lehigh vol xxvii no 4 student speakers and w r.oke son stir up waning spirit of football season brown and white coach keady able to get good line on players in hard played game have you 1 the lehigh spirit | do you want to beat rutgers on saturday then don't fail to get to the rutgers smoker j friday october 10 1919 the object at 7.30 in taylor gym more pep | i