Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 22

              well arranged program by glee and mandolin clubs in beth lehem high school hall the first concert by the com bined musical clubs of lehigh uni versity was given thursday even ing in the bethlehem high school auditorium it was very successful and all who were present w t ere well pleased the auditorium was filled to its seating capacity which was very encouraging to the club the program was w r ell arranged having classical and campus songs by the glee club and classical music by the mandolin club cope hagen buch wynne and mckay the four-flushers quartet sang sev eral humorous and well-known col lege songs and thorpe dorkin reitzel williams wilbur and webb the instrumental sextet played ragtime selections j h reitzel was the accompanist the prospects for the southern tour which begins on december 16 are very good on this tour the . clubs will give concerts in philadel phia wilmington and baltimore the program was as follows 1 keep agoing jacobsen glee club 2 kentucky a j weidt mandolin club 3 baritone solos a the call spross b the temple bells woodforde linden j d sourber 4 mandolin club sextet selections messrs thorp reitzel webb williams wilbur dorkin 5 the ' ' four-flusher '" quartet selections messrs hagen buch cope mckay wynne ; 6 an african smile paul eno mando lin club 7 medley of southern songs pike glee club inter mission 8 annie laurie a gei bel glee club 9 illusion yalse carlo reve mandolin club 10 a the heavy frost w e hae sche b a secret from bacchus bruno huhn glee club 11 mandolin club sextet selections messrs thorp reitzel webb wil liams wilbur dorkin 12 camp us songs selected combined clubs 13 alma mater combined clubs french engineer and author visits university first game of 1915=1916 schedule to be played tomorrow on moravian floor moravian college five brown and white victorious in past two years in annual contest lehigh opens the basketball season of 1915 l6 with the mora vian game tomorrow the man agement on the lehigh end of the line exerted every effort to have the game played on the floor of taylor gym but as during the previous years the game will be called on the moravian court at 2.30 p m saturday both teams are looking forward to a close con test lehigh is admitted to be superior but on a strange floor and in the first game of the season the advantages may be with the home team in 1913 the brown and white quintet won with a score of 35 16 and again in 1914 to the tune of 46-29 moreover lehigh has or has in the making a considerably faster team this season than in the two previous years the new coach harry haring has been drilling the squad which has now been cut to seventeen men in the importance of team work during the last week and nearly a veteran team will start the game tomorrow the strength of the team will be further increased with the return of captain green who was injured in practice the week before last and who is expected back before the 18th not for the last five seasons have the prospects been as good for a champion quintet as indications show for this year the line-up for both teams is still uncertain moravian positions lehigh kuehl center crichton evans forward .... brewster clewell forward dynan shultz guard ketehum shields ...... guard . . . kirkpatrick y m c a meeting voluntary collection tomorrow for european war camps at a meeting of the y m c a cabinet held in drown hall last wednesday it was decided to con duct a voluntary collection from the faculty and student body for a christmas gift for the men in the many training and prison camps in europe this action followed the suggestion of dr john e mott as printed in the preceding issue of the brown and white contributions may be handed to the treasurer of the y m c a tomorrow at the y m c a office in drown hall between the hours of 8 a m and 8 p m m victor cambon a french en gineer and author and m j l puplan of paris visited the uni versity last wednesday during a short stay in south bethlehem as guests of mr warren a wilbur chairman of the executive com mittee of the board of trustees escorted by president drinker and vice-president emery the visitors inspected laboratories and other buildings of the university and also sayre park m cambon who is a noted civil engineer and writer on technical and industrial topics in france took notes for some discussion of lehigh in a forthcoming book he expressed himself as impressed with the equipment and advantages of le high m duplan whose home is in paris has business interests in this country being president of the duplan silk company of hazleton and wilkes-barre seniors notice ! new jersey club to hold meetings on third friday all class ballots which have not been turned in should be handed to a member of the class book com mittee at once business administration seniors see the manufacture of cement at nazareth dexter cement company emphasis laid upon points at lo cation management methods and labor questions on monday december 6 the senior class of the business ad ministration course made a trip of inspection to the dexter portland cement company's plant at naz areth the section was in charge of mr bickley of the business ad ministration department during the trip more emphasis was laid upon the points of location man agement methods and labor ques tions than to a strict analysis of the cement process the natural facilities of this plant are particularly good it be ing situated in a region abundant in two kinds of limestone well fitted for the finished product the rock bed was first visited it consisted of a pit one hundred feet in depth with a proposed excavation of sixty feet more the rock is here drilled and dug out and transported to the mill by conveyor chains the rock drilled is of excellent quality for the purpose required containing all the necessary elements the only addition being clay for softening purposes from the quarry the limestone is carried to the crushers where it is broken in small pieces and from there it is carried on a belt con veyor an endless belt system of transportation to machines where it is ground into a fine powder after grinding the powder is passed through dryers the excess heat from the kilns here^being put to use the powdered limestone is now ready for the kilns the kilns consist of long revolv ing cylinders called roasters which are 100 feet in length the roasting is accomplished by the aid of coal dust ignition the coal dust and air are blown into the roasters along with the powdered rock and then ignited thus giving an intense heat directly in touch with ground stone following the completion of the roasting process the charge is dropped through to the floor below in the form of semi fused masses termed clinkers where it is cooled these clinkers are dumped in big heaps and al lowed to weather at the duration of the weathering process the clinkers are reground and the pro duct is ready for shipment the plant has a running capacity of 24,000 barrels of cement a day the barrels used for shipment be ing assembled at the plant an interesting part of the preparation for shipment was the filling of bags the open end of the bag was tied together the cement then be ing inserted by means of a pipe through the bottom of the inverted bag the pipe hole being covered by an inside flap held in position by the weight of the cement when the bag is in an upright position and the pipe has been withdrawn the bags are conveyed from here into awaiting cars by a belt con veyor throughout the entire pro cess there is only one stage at which laborers handle the material and that is the conveyance of the weathered clinker to the mills for continued on second page york county club there will be a meeting of the york county club at 7.15 this evening in the study room of drown hall the new jersey lehigh club will hold its meetings on the third friday of every month the first meeting of the college year held on november 12 was the largest meet ing ever held by the club fifty members being present the december meet will prob ably be on december 17 but the date is still subject to change .- twenty=four men signify inten tion of competing for prize offered by alumuns the wrestling camp is the scene of great activity these days in preparation for the annual sweater contest to be held sometime in the week beginning january 10 the object of this meet is to stimulate interest in the wrestling game it is purely a novice meet which implies that only those men who have not won a sweater in a previous contest or have been awarded their l " are eligible the winners w t ill be awarded white sweaters the yearly gift of an alumnus to be eligible for this contest every candidate must report for practice at least fifteen times pre vious to the date of the meet all winners must remain out for the team the remainder of the season at present there are thirty-four candidates and of these twenty four are eligible to date there are no entries at all for the heavy weight class and coach sheridan is particularly desirous of filling this vacancy since it was the weak point on the varsity last year he also urges that more men come out for the other classes as five of the letter men will be lost next june hy graduation which means that a practically new team must be con structed the following are the names of those out for the contest : 115-pound class : bergstresser 16 mchugh 16 kiefer 18 park 18 ; kirk 19 ; mulford 19 ; bevier 19 ; ludlow 19 ; meinert 19 125-pound class kramer 17 dawson 17 lambert 18 135-pound class hiss 16 jen ness 17 repa 17 kemmerer 18 jones 18 wilford 18 hayes 19 ; betts 19 145-pound class neubert 17 parrish 18 alden 18 shaffer 18 tachovsky 18 mcconnel 18 158-pound class : white 16 ; kammerer 17 ; sommers 18 ; stotz 19 175-pound class : dayton 17 ; derr 17 ; walther 18 ; ketcham 18 barring the heavyweight class the outlook for a good team is promising and lehigh will make a strong bid for intercollegiate cham pionship this year a difficult schedule is planned for this season at the present time it includes the following teams massachusetts institute of technology springfield training school new york a c cornell perm state and pittsburgh the following men have reported for wrestling 115-pound class kirkhuff 16 kirk 19 mulford 19 nicholas 19 bevier 19 ludlow 19 kiefer 18 park 18 bergstres ser 16 ; mchugh 16 125-pound class : martin 16 ; kramer 17 lambert 18 135-pound class mccullough 18 la pish 19 porter 17 hayes 19 ; betts 19 ; jenness 17 jones 18 repa 17 wil ford 18 ; kemmerer 18 ; hiss 16 mcconnell 18 145-pound class thomas 16 parrish 18 alden 18 neubert 17 tachovsky 18 shaffer 18 kay 18 158-pound class sawtelle 16 white 16 stotz 19 kjammerer 17 ; sommers 18 ; weiss 18 175-pound class : fleming 16 ; derr 18 ; walther 18 ; ketcham 18 ; dayton 17 heavyweight class pons 17 maegregor 19 ._,..- : informal talks between students and leaders at 15 fraternities and 5 dormitory sections men show keen interest new venture adopted this year proves successful through efforts of v.m.c.a the weekly discussion meetings at the various fraternity houses and dormitories are now regularly established occurrences and are proving a decided success the meetings are held every wednes day evening and take the form of an informal talk between the stu dents and the conductor of the meeting thus far fifteen fraterni ties and five dormitory sections have joined the movement and are holding meetings regularly the success of the venture has been due chiefly to the work of mr h i fair chairman of the bible study committee working in co-opera tion with mr frey secretary of the y m c a on wednesday last december 8 several of the meetings were of sufficient interest to deserve special mention prof j l stewart conducted the meeting at the chi psi house and in the course of his remarks touched upon the relation of the college student with the church he declared it was his belief that a knowledge of the bible not only of the strictly religious side but of its history as well is one of the es sentials of a liberal education harsh criticism he said has apparently helped our religion for there is undoubtedly more religious thought in the average man's make-up now than there was for merly at the delta phi house rev c b chapin spoke to the men about the choice of a life work it is a thing which must be given most careful consideration for a man should first size himself up and then keep his eyes open until he finds the place most fit for him he also spoke of the use of prayer as a personal inspiration in taking opportunities prof hall talked on the subject of efficiency at the kappa alpha house it seems that very few college men are at their maxi mum efficiency and the causes for this were discussed the lowering of efficiency due to smoking too much social life and various other common faults of college men was examined and possibilities of higher efficiency were discussed at the delta tau delta house prof palmer continued with an unusually interesting series of talks on various religions for the past several weeks he has treated one by one the various important religions of the world with respect to their history and fundamental principles at the last meeting he took up a historical survey of christianity and after asking the men to regard the topic with un prejudiced points of view told many interesting facts about the origin of christianity which were new to all rev j robinson spoke to the men at the sigma chi house on the readjustments a man makes upon entering the environment of col lege he must first get acquainted with his fellow students his mode of living is entirely changed and he is forced in a great measure to continued on second page the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday december 10 1915 basketball season opens combined musical clubs give opening concert inspection of cement plant weekly groups for discussion vol xxiii annual sweater contest soon to take place 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