Brown and White Vol. 22 no. 16

              team in condition contributions for relief of bel gian sufferers total 1,283.86 response is gratifying cripples have recovered — light practice was order of the week many speakers of note will be present — other events students and teachers of the uni versity donated liberally to the fund last \\ ednesday evening the civ il engineering society held its regu lar monthly meeting in saueon hall the meeting was well attended and was one of the most interesting meetings held by the society this season two papers pertaining to hydro-electric developments were read : the first on the coon rap i is hydro-electric plant by clark and construction of the bassano dam by kelchner 15 williams id described tlie recent trip made by the seniors to hauto the bassano dam is a part of the immense irrigation system of the canadian pacific railway south east of calgary and is a composite dam consisting of an earth embank ment sea^en thousand feet long and thirty-five feet to zero feet high an ambursen hollow reinforced-con crete dam seven hundred and fifty feet between abutments thirty-nine feet high to the crest which is di vided into twenty-four openings each twenty-seven feet long provi ded with stoney gates eleven feet high and arreinforced-eoncretehead work at right angles to the dam proper having five tw r enty-feet op enings closed by stoney gates four teen feet high the dam is design ed to pass one hundred thousand second-feet of water with fourteen feet on the crest the dam rests on a stratum of clay beneath which is sand containing water under slight pressure word concern ing layfield this evening the young men's christian association will hold its first smoker in taylor gymnasium men noted in the world at large will address the students and guests and an exceptionally large attendance is expected the committee has arranged an elaborate program of speeches sup plemented by music by the lehigh band college songs piano selec tions and duets by doubs 18 and covell 18 the speakers will be : bjshop talbot well known in england and the united states for his wonderful personality and versatility dr george orton former intercollegi ate cross-country champion and record holder who is now coach of the university of pennsylvania track team ; earle twining the well-known athlete of swarthmore college who is manager of foot ball captain of basketball and star pitcher of the baseball team having defeated michigan and perm with in three days ; coach keady who has clone so much in increasing the athletic prestige of lehigh within the last three years ; scrap john son former star athlete of lehigh and now associate head master of the bethlehem preparatory school ; nick pons the heavy-weight of the brown & white football team and others everyone is invited wrestling dr drinker received yesterday in answer to his inquiry a letter from dr ronald t abercronibie of johns hopkins university con cerning the present condition of mr layfield the johns hopkins quarter back who was injured in the game here october 31st the x-ray ex amination has shown that both the fifth and sixth cervical vertebrae were fractured and that there was a dislocation of the fifth vertebra and a probable transverse lesion of the spinal cord mr layfield's con dition is very serious lehigh's hearty sympathy is with him with earnest hopes for his betterment lehigh team recog nized in middle west at present thirty men have al ready reported to coach sheridan and more candidates are expected to turn out after the end of the football season great interest is being taken in wrestling this year as the intercol legiates are to be held in the new taylor gymnasium next spring the schedule arranged by mgr c f vance 1916 is as follows — feb 6 — columbia home feb 13 — navy away feb 19 — univ of perm a away feb 27 — perm state home mar s—cornell,5 — cornell home mar 13 — brown home mar 26-27 — intercollegiates at home basketball the second meeting of the me chanical engineering society was held in williams hall last tuesday evening mr w h lesser 05 mechanical engineer of the phila delphia & reading coal & iron co of pottsville spoke on the me chanical engineering of anthracite coal mines d davidson 15 gave an interesting account of his travels last summer with his bro ther through the british isles mr davidson showed that with a congenial companion a very enjoy able and inexpensive trip may be had abroad the speaker with his brother spent about two months in the british isles they started from glasgow and went down through england and wales and then through to ireland the main object of the talk was to bring before the society some of the peculiar habits of the people they met and of the different points of interest noticed en route dur ing their stop in london they met many american friend-s including mrs drinker and her daughters while in london war was de clared and even though some of the greatest battles of the war were being fought within one-hundred and fifty miles of london no signs of them were evident in any of the theatres or in the streets the fi nancial crisis in england which ac companied the v<;r was due i..u'gely to the lack of confidence which the english had in their own money they themselves would not accept in payment any of their own paper m one v mr lesser with the aid of nu merous slides showed very clearly to the society the process of prep aration of anthracite coal he trac ed the process from the very begin ning at the mine to its delivery to the dealer the reading coal co which mr lesser represented have extensive mining operations in the hard coal regions of pennsylvania in the first place coal may be mined in practically three ways in some localities deep shafts must be sunk in other places the coal is mined by going horizontally into the side of a hill or the drift meth od if the coal lies near enough to the surface the earth is first remov ed by the use of steam shovels in the mines the coal is hauled to the foot of the shaft or out the drift by use of mules electric compress ed air or gasoline locomotives af ter the coal is mined it is taken to the breaker where it is cleaned and sized it is necessary to clean the coal on account of the large amount of rock and other refuse which it contains gag box open the last game to be played on taylor field will be the villa nova contest to-morrow afternoon al though this game is not expected to be difficult yet it will be important from the standpoint of speculation in regards to 1 the contest of one week later both teams are in fine shape the contests of last saturday left no newly-crippled men on either team lehigh's lone cripple is mattern whose knee is still keeping him off the field coach keady has been spending the entire w 7 eek in light practice more particularly the perfecting of signals interference and new plays scrimmages have been infrequent for every precaution is being taken by the coaching staff against possi ble injury the veterans have been given a rest and new men tried out during the early part of the week becker and early have alternated at center good has been tried out in the back field and lambert on the line grumbach is back in the game and will probably get in the game on saturday if a coniiparison of scores is any indication of victory the brown and white may lay claim to it the games and scores of the opposing teams for this season are : — villa nova : op catholic univ 7 - 0 swarthmore 6 - 0 lafayette 3 - - 14 army 0 -- 41 ursinus 7 - 0 23 55 lehigh : op f and m 12 - 0 indians 21 6 yale 3 -- 20 carnegie tech . . 24 — 20 muhlenberg 27 — 0 johns hopkins ... 33 - 0 perm state 20 - 7 140 53 the probable line-ups are — villa nova lehigh reap i.e . . f w green reagan l.t tate kelly l.g ostrom lynch c scruggs henry .... r.g . . f j green pons or becker romano r.t richards hanlon r.e sawtelle mcguckin .... q.b . . . chenoweth forst 1-h.b cahall frazer r.h.b hoban prendergast . . f.'b halsted the loyal legion john h morse lehigh ex l4 now a student in the university of illinois has sent to a friend here a clipping from the chicago herald of november 14th in which com parative scores of last saturday are discussed in a leading article by c w axelson : on this basis harv ard in the east and michigan in the west outclass princeton and yale with rutgers and lehigh coming in for recognition both east and west lehigh swamped perm state which had held the crimson to a tie mr morse writes about the at j tention that is being called to le high in the middle west by the great work of the 1914 football team le high's name has appeared frequent ly 5n these write-ups and people in this section are beginning to realize j that it is on the football map when the good ship thelma steamed out of philadelphia yester day bound for desolate belgium her well-filled holds included food sent by the students and teaching force of lehigh university to the value of 1,283.86 in terms of flour at the price of 6.40 a barrel this means practically 200 barrels or 730 cases of canned corn or 25 577 pounds of rice or 21,314 pounds of beans or similarly large units of canned tomatoes rolled oats barley potatoes or other food lehigh givers have the satisfaction of knowing that their cash has been used to purchase at wholesale prices stores of food that will mean relief from hunger to hundreds of women and children in war-stricken bel gium it is interesting to know also that the check turned in on tuesday to the philadelphia national bank the treasurer of the food-ship commit tee in behalf of the students and teachers of lehigh university was the largest amount that had been reported as rer i ed from any one source moist kindly comment up on the activity here at lehigh was expressed in the philadelphia news papers of wednesday extracts from which are given in this issue the beginning and development of the relief movement here was reported in full in the brown and white of november 6th and no vember 9th cash contributions from the student body were col lected at the college meeting on monday and by committees at fra ternity houses and dormitories and these were aided in swelling the to tal by several friends who insisted on joining in the good work the aggregate on tuesday when a cer tified check was delivered to the philadelphia national bank was 1,254.86 to which 29.00 was ad ded by subsequent contributions as was brought out in the news items in the philadelphia papers additional gifts are being made from lebigh in the form of cloth ing and shoes in response to the appeal received from the univer sity of cambridge england print ed in the brown and white of november 6th any further cloth ing will be taken in charge by the brown and white staff in the staff office in drown memorial hall such consignments are be ing checked and forwarded by mrs r p linderman of south bethle hem opportunity thus presents itself for students who can do more to donate clothing for the belgians the brown and white has been only too glad to place its col umns and the services of its staff in support of this movement and con gratulates the student body on its success truly as mr taylor so well said on taylor day it is more blessed to give than to re ceive and to give in a great urgent continued on third page the 1916 epitome board is de sirous of obtaining a large number of gags for this year's publication and has decided to offer a prize of one 1916 epitome to the man hand ing in the largest amount of good material for this section of the book the place to hand in all jokes wit ticisms pens verse etc is the gag box on the first floor of packer hall s e muthart ex-star centre and successful coach for the last two seasons has been re-engaged to coach the basketball team mgr n m royall 1915 has an nounced the following schedule for the coming season : — dec 12 — moravian college away dec 19 — muhlenberg home jan 6 — lebanon valley home jan 9 — perm state away jan 13 w ya wesleyan home jan 16 — gettysburg home jan 20 — lafayette away jan 30 — army away feb 3 — univ of pitts home feb 6 — gettysburg away feb 10 — seton hall home feb 13 — swarthmore away feb 15 — perm state home feb 20 — swarthmore home feb 22 — lafayette home feb 24 — wash and lee home feb 27 — univ rochester away mar 3 — susquehanna home every loyal lehigh man who at tended the booster cheering prac tice on taylor field on tuesday saw tihe parade and exhibition drill of lehiglrs loyal legion this club was started by several members of the senior class its ob ject being the promotion of lehigh spirit and its motto : we will help the lehigh team to beat lafayette the membership list is now open and there is no initiation fee all that you have to do to become a member is to attend the cheering practices rvext week and root come out and join lehigh's loyal le gion beat lafayette the brown and white lehigh university mechanical engineer ing society meets good ship bears lehigh gifts bethlehem pa friday november 13 1914 civils hold a big meeting vol xxii last game on taylor field smoker in gymnasium excellent papers on hydro-elec tric developments read before society villa nova will oppose the brown and white in struggle to-morrow y m c a will be hosts at entertainment to-night w h lesser m e 05 speaks on the mechanical engineer ing of anthracite coal mines an attractive program xo 16 everybody oct tit 1 • ivis v^e 1 9 taylor gymnasium 7.30 tonight