Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 30

              visitors come with team four veterans lost to perm state prof reiter has organized a dancing class which meets every tuesday and friday from 4 to 5 p m the class started last tues day and is composed of 16 men the men are taught all of the latest dances a class in first aid is being or continued on fifth page the lehigh team work was far superior to that seen in recent games crichton put up the best game at center he has shown this season kirkpatrick and brewster at forward both showed up well with the latter having the advant rochester's particular weakness was in shooting foul goals harper could get only 6 out of 13 attempts and hale missed one brewster for lehigh caged 7 out of his 11 at tempts and thereby won the game lehigh and rochester each had 9 field goals the second period showed rochester in even superior form the new yorkers scored first with three points which tied the score throughout this entire period also the score seesawed back and forth first with rochester in the lead and then lehigh with rochester lead ing at 24 to 22 and only a few minutes to play brewster for le high scored a point on a foul goal and then followed with a field goal which put the brown and white ahead lehigh scored first after a few minutes of play when crichton tipped a goal from under the bas ket woodams for rochester soon shot a basket and from then on the scoring alternated from one side to the other toward the end of the first period the score stood 10 to 8 in favor of rochester the brown and white scored five points before the whistle blew when brewster caged a goal from the field and a foul goal and crichton tipped an other goal at the end of the period the score stood 13 to 10 in favor of lehigh in the fastest and best played game of basketball seen in taylor gymnasium this year lehigh de feated the university of rochester on wednesday night by a single point the final score being 25 to 24 the game was closely con tested throughout both lehigh and rochester assuming the lead at dif ferent times only to lose it again never was there more than three or four points difference in the scores of each team evening in the study room of drown hall at 7.15 p m the alumni club of the county has ar ranged to hold a dance for prepara tory school students on easter monday at york dr drinker and prof h r reiter will address the club and its guests the february meeting of the mining and geological society will be held thursday evening febru ary 10 at eight o'clock in the ge ology lecture room williams hall it is especially urged that every one who can possibly attend will do so as dr miller who has recently returned from an exten sive trip through south america will give an account of some of his experiences the nomination of officers for the coming year will take place at this meeting after the meeting re freshments will be served and a good time is assured to all who at tend the jersey club will hold a meeting in drown hall on friday february 11 prof j l stewart and yice-pres n m emery are to be the speakers of the evening the regular monthly meeting of the chinese club which was to have been held on tuesday febru ary 1 has been postponed until march 7 on wednesday evening febru ary 2 the first of the second term series of discussion meetings were held in the several fraternities and dormitory sections several changes were made in the distribution of leaders but the arrangement as it now stands will remain the same for the remaining three meetings of the year owing to the bad weather several of the meetings were called off but nevertheless there were quite a number of very interesting discussions at the delta phi house rev beekman led the talk on the shaping of a man's character in college to meet the conditions of his intended vocation one's life must necessarily be proportioned according to his physical mental and spiritual character he stated mr r w walters talked with the men at the theta delta chi on the subject of ' ' efficiency " " most men he claimed do not exert themselves to their utmost capacity but are content to get along with the least possible expenditure of energy mr walters read several extracts from one of wm james essays on this subject prof wilson led the meeting at the phi gamma delta house and striking out from the most popular lines of discussion spoke on varied topics of general interest to all the men at the sigma phi house dr j w richards conducted an especi ally interesting talk on ef ficiency efficiency may be of two kinds ' ' he said ' ' absolute and relative a man with high ideals and a worthy aim in life who strives his best to carry them out is a hundred per cent efficient this is an example of absolute efficiency however a man may have low ideals and little aim in life and be just as successful in carrying them out but here though he is still a hundred per cent efficient it is only relative efficiency continued on fifth page rev thaeler visited the kappa alpha lodge and the men talked over the subject of friendship chapel music chemistry returns university dance the next university dance will be given in drown hall on febru ary 12 rushton's orchestra of philadelphia will furnish the music university dances will be held the evenings of march 4 and may 6 returns in chemistry may be had at the office of the bursar on saturday february 5 from 1 to 2 p m ; wednesday february 9 from 1 to 4 p m and saturday february 12 from 1 to 2 p m freshmen must present receipts in order to get their returns philadelphia alumni elect officers tomorrow the brown and white basketball team plays the team of union college at schenectady n y the union five have built up a considerable reputation so far this season having for one thing de feated clarkson tech 37-25 or by the same score that gave lehigh the victory over them however union has just re turned from a three game trip losing each game the line-up has been shifted from game to game so the brown and white ought to have little difficulty in winning from the visitors tomorrow night lehigh has been prosperous since the exams are over and are fresh for another victory coach har ring has pronounced the team to be in excellent shape and good re sults are to be expected the probable line-up is lehigh positions union brewster f houber dynan f scoby crichton c franck ketcham g mudge green g zimmer capt a section of the largest hoisting cable in , the world manufactured under a new design was tested recently at the fritz engineering laboratory of lehigh university the civil engineering department directed the operation and found that the new cable withstood a pull of 746,000 pounds in the tension test the cable was designed for use in the mayari mines in cuba of the spanish american iron com pany and will be attached to fifty ton ore cars operating on an in clined level extending for more than a mile with a grade of 25 per cent in addition to the high strength demonstrated in the lehigh test the new cable is expected to have superior wearing qualities due to its novel design this special con struction includes six strands of 37 wires each and an independent wire rope center the cable was made by the john a roebling sons company of trenton n j organist t edgar shields an nounces the chapel music for the week february 7-11 will be : monday — prelude faulkes tuesday — march from lohengrin wagner | wednesday — song of springtime hollins \ thursday — madrigal maxson friday — fanfare lemmens on friday night january 28 the philadelphia alumni club held its 24th annual banquet at kug ler's restaurant of that city president drinker and dr price of the board of trustees along with director george e datesman lafayette of the department of public works were present and made short addresses an important issue of the even ing was the election of officers the ballots deciding as follows : notices from the gymnasium president e t murphy vice presidents f l casselman and w e thomas secretary and treas urer moriz bernstein who has held the office for 16 years and assist ant secretary and treasurer j h clancy a feature of the evening was a wrestling bout between sawtelle and scruggs both of lehigh the bout ended in a draw to honor dr price the new york alumni club gives a dinner and smoker at the machinery club 50 church street tonight to dr henry reese price c.e 70 m d dr price is presi dent of the board of trustees of the university and one of the oldest alumni of lehigh the club will be addressed by president drinker who will probably tell something of his long acquaintance with dr price howard w dußois 92 often referred to as lehigh s ernest thompson-seaton has consented to give a talk on hunting big game without a gun in alaska to be illustrated with lantern slides of photographs taken last summer of grizzly bears and other wild ani mals of alaska mr dußois has spoken several times at the uni versity other speakers such as okeson van vleck and pettinos are also scheduled for the evening following are notices from the department of physical education those who desire to attend the class in social dancing held on tuesdays and fridays from four to five o'clock will please hand their names to professor reiter all freshmen must pass the swimming test to get credit for first year gymnasium work those who are unable to swim should avail themselves by attending the class in swimming on mondays at 4 p m the brown and white vol xxiii lehigh university bethlehem pa friday february 4 1916 boston tech here tomorrow lehigh defeats rochester five second term opens with renewed vigor students discuss various topics department of physical education begins classes account of recent trip clubs to hold meets miners will hear dr benj l miller's leaders did not confine them selves to same subjects at discussion meetings bad weather ro\vn and white wins close and exciting game by a lone point score 25 to 24 classes in first aid dancing swimming football and apparatus work lehigh opens wrestling season with three of its veterans ganized prof reiter will instruct the class and it is open to all seniors the professor requests that all seniors wishing to join hand their names in immediately to him a swimming class is held on mondays from 4 to 5 p m mr cassidy has charge of the class the attention of all non-swimmers is called to the fact that unless they are able to swim the length of the pool they will be unable to receive credit for passing gymnasium at the end of the year all men who are interested in football are requested to meet prof reiter in the gymnasium on sat urday february 5 at 2 p m every football man is urged to at tend a class in advanced apparatus work in gymnasium is being organ ized by mr cassidy the class will meet every tuesday from 4 to 5 p m the men will be taught work on the horse parallel bars horizon tal bars rings tumbling and club swinging the class is open to all men who care to attend and the work will count toward their gym nasium hours the athletic committee had its picture taken yesterday at mccaa's studio the picture will be put in the epitome for the first time hoisting cable test in fritz laboratory union college next basket=ball opponents tomorrow afternoon taylor gym will be the scene of the first wrestling meet of the season when lehigh will have boston tech as their opponents the m i t wrestling team lost its first meet of the season to perm state last saturday evening by a 29 to 0 score the score does not show the rela tive strength of the two teams as can be seen by the fact that there was but one fall while three other bouts required extra six minute period's before a decision could be given the bouts throughout were very close and strongly contested last season the tech team lost but two meets out of a total of seven the makeup of the team which will meet lehigh tomorrow follows : 115-pound class — p v.loo capt 125-pound class — e w rounds 135-pound class — l a hoffman 145-pound class — h g morse 158-pound class — h l wirt 175-pound class j m todd — e w sache ulnlimited weight captain loo is a chinese and lost his first bout at his weight to cap tain long of perm state he and morse have both wrestled three years hoffman and rounds have wrestled for two years while wirt todd and sache are all new men lehigh will enter the meet some what handicapped since c h thomas 16 last year's intercol legiate champion in the 145-pound class and ex-captain g sawtelle 16 will not be able to compete lehigh will line up as follows : 115-pound class i—e.1 — e l kirkhuff 125-pound class — s martin 135-pound class — c a hiss 145-pound class — c shaffer 158-pound class — c r parrish 175-pound class — l m levin unlimited class — n b pons the only men who have repre sented lehigh in previous meets will be kirkhuff martin and pons the new men hiss shaffer par rish and levin have all been show ing good form and can be counted upon to make a good showing in their respective classes visitors weak in shooting foul goals brewster showed good form an important meeting of the york county club will be held this with the opening of the second i term the various clubs have lost no time in arranging for meets to ' l night the york county club begins to plan for the easter holiday dance february 10 the mining and geological society will listen to dr miller's account of his south american trip the next day the jerseyites will meet in drown hall on march 7 the chinese club will hold its meeting some leaders unable to meet groups due to weather conditions chinese captains tech 5 no 30