Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 9

              future of american chemistry is subject discussed at first meet student speaker sawtelle l6 relates summer ex periences papers by mckay 16 and maccullum 18 lehigh's remodeled backfield had little trouble with visitors line one first down playing a defensive game throughout albright made but one first down the tennis tournament which has just closed has been one of the most successful in years and although two of last year's team survived to the finals it by no means indicates that there will be no competition for positions on next year's team as many of the entrants showed signs of tennis ability and with a little more experience should cer tainly develop into varsity form powers 16 won from palmer 17 in a hard-fought game of tennis on saturday afternoon which victory gives him the lehigh university tennis championship for the year 1915-t6 the game was one of skill from start to finish the hard est battles being in the third and fifth sets the first two sets powers easily took but in the third palmer be came more careful and after eight een games he won the accurate speed of palmer and the placement of powers were the features of the game however power's superior ity was shown throughout the con test the victor won 17 out of 27 of the games he served while palmer won 14 out of 26 the total num ber of games played was 53 out of these powers took 30 and palmer took 23 the results otf the matches are as follows : preliminary round r repko 18 won from l reid 19 6-3 7-3 r laedlein 16 won from h doyle 19 6-4 4-6 6-3 r roam 19 won from r p thomas 18 6 1 6-4 w h oswald 18 won from c w garges 16 6-3 6-4 g gildersleeve 19 won from j m stevens 19 6-1 6-2 p k smith 19 won from m lawrence 19 6-2 6-4 g d henderson 17 won from m e johnson 18 1 - 6 6 - 4 12 - 10 h tsai 19 won from j bosch 19 6-1 6-1 d whiteman 16 won from j ship herd 19 by default continued on fourth page the lehigh scrubs journeyed to mercersburg on saturday and held the strong mercersburg prep school team to a scoreless tie the local boys played a good game and should j have won only for their overanx iousness many times when the team was within scoring distance of their opponents goal-line they were penalized for offside play and holding which prevented them from scoring a touchdown on the other hand when mercersburg was on the offensive they found it impos sible to go through the brown and white's line the heavy line held time after time when mercersburg attempted to line plunge and broke up many nice trick plays which the prep school lads thought would net them much ground during the first half the lehigh boys found the going rather hard and many times were in danger of being scored on in the second half the scrubs began to get started and the ball was in mercersburg's territory much of the time however at one time the prep school team got near enough to the scrubs goal line to try for a field goal davis kicked but the ball went low and a few minutes later the game ended to~nlinson playing quarterback and ayrault playing right-halfback were the stellar players on the le high team both men made long gains through the line and around end good henry davis and cap tain walters played a good game j for mercersburg it is to be re j membered that mercersburg acad emy defeated the lafayette scrub team 7 to 0 and held the freshman team from princeton 3 to 0 and by this tie the scrubs have showed their ability to keep up lehigh's j reputation the line-up : lehigh scrubs mercersburg barrett 1 c mcgilberry j kraun 1 t mock mcgregor .... 1 g good early c walters levin r g whitcomb becker r t . . mccullough achorn r c isenberg tomlinson ... q b coward linn 1 h b ... vanderlin ayrault r h b davis crawford .... f . b henry substitutions — for lehigh : ken nedy for ayrault shaffer for tom linson grace for levin levin for mcgregor ; mercersburg : brown for davis referee — hitchner university of virginia umpire — stockier lafayette head lines man — west lafayette mechanical meet miners meet the first meeting of the mechan ical engineering society will be held in williams hall on october 28th at 8 p m the speakers will be m w kresge 16 on military engineer ing and l b mardaga on the design of a surface condenser every student in the mechanical engineering course is urged to at tend this meeting and especially the freshmen so as to make this first meet a huge success after the papers have been pre sented refreshments and cigars will be served in the society's meeting room in the basement of williams hall maryland club smoker the officers of the maryland club have announced that the annual smoker of that club will be held at 8 p m on october 27th in the study room drown hall mary land men are urged to keep this date open juniors notice lehigh had little trouble in de feating albright on saturday on taylor field by a score of 27 to 0 the visitors line was unable to withstand the continued attack of the lehigh backs and the latter penetrated time after time al bright's ends too were weak and cahall boland and hallo well were able to make many substantial lehigh made 21 first downs a gainst albright's one the best ground gainers for lehigh were maginnes and heuer cahall start ed the game at quarterback and showed good form in his new po tion heuer boland hazeltine and hallowell of the second string all entered the game and looked very promising lehigh worked the forward pass successfully only three times out of eleven tries and only one was for a substantial gain albright was unsuccessful with her forward passes not one being good he first score came just after a few minutes of play the ball was advanced from lehigh's 20-yd line by a 25-yid end run by cahall and successive line plunges by magin nes heuer and boland to albright's 1-yd line from which boland push ed it over the second touchdown was made by cahall after the ball had been rushed down the field from the kick-off by means of straight football the first quarter ended with the scare 13 to 0 in lehigh's favor the second quarter produced 7 more points for the brown and y hite team cahall had been re placed by hallowell who tore off a couple of end runs for 25 and 20 -. and maginnes had been re placed by hazeltine the smash ing attacks of the latter coupled with hallow r ell's end runs brought the ball within striking distance and hazeltine carried it over the score at the end of the first half was 20 to 0 with cahall and maginnes back in the line-up 7 more points were rolled up in the last period when tate intercepted a forward pass from hoffman on albright's 40-yd line the ball was quickly advan ced to albright's 1-yd line from where heuer pushed it over for the third touchdown brillhart made the only spectacu r play for albright when he in tercepted a forward pass in the last period and dashed down the field for 30 yards at no time were the visitors dangerously near lehigh's goal throughout the game they were kept on the defensive con stantly and even when the ball was in their possession could make no gains and were forced to punt the game in detail : first quarter beamenderfer kicked off to le high's 40-yd line the ball rolling out of bounds and recovered by al bright for albright neither hoff man nor hartzler could gain eis ter lost 3 yards erster punted to lehigh's 10-yd line to cahall who ran it back 10 yards heuer made 4 yards through right tackle ca hall turned left end for 25 yards first down on lehigh's 49-yd line maginmes gained 10 yards through continued on third page the regular v m c a meeting held in drown hall last sunday evening afforded an opportunity for the student body to hear a speaker of international reputation mr charles d hurrey of x t ew york city is one of the most prominent men among student y m c a work at one time being executive secretary of the student depart ment of the y m c a of ameri ca and at present being general secretary of the committee on friendly relations among foreign students mr hurrey is a man who has travelled extensively hav ing spent five years doing y m c a work in a.sia europe and south america the eaglesmere student conference was fortunate in obtaining him as one of its prin ciple speakers last june the topic of mr hurrey's speech was claims of our times upon technical men in which he em phasized the many requirements necessary for the life of a technical man to be a success opening his address he said the first point to l)e made prominent among the so ciety of technical men is the need of physical vigor there is a great call for undergraduates to build up a strong body for in life it is the technical man who must serve while others collapse the engineer goes all day thinks and dreams his ideas at night and to survive must be physically fit a second demand is complete intellectual mastery of one's sub ject of the men starting out in life many fail because of no train ing others fall by the wayside and few succeed men are often too content with themselves and their knowledge thus hindering advance ment the times claim a non-discour ageable world a great accomplish ment is to have a will-power to ov ercome obstacles particularly phys ical obstacles roosevelt was once given up as a chronic invalid and it was during milton's blindness that he put forth his greatest eff orts a will-power must be pres ent to overcome obstacles what the young man needs most is self confidence but not self-conceit the man 1 who says i can gets the jump on the man who does not have faith in himself a demand forth-standing is hu man sympathy for fellow workmen and the laying aside of prejudice we are truly americans possessing american pride but we should not i snub our foreign students for sta tistics show that they are the ones leading in application concentra tion and the practice of courtesy the language of human sympathy is known by every one a battle against materialism is another claim arising in life we are drawn towards things which we can see or handle but the greater realities of to-day are faith in god fellow men and ourselves it is the things not seen as hope and aspi ration that count before the introduction of mr hurrey miss michael entertained the meeting by several selections on the violin arrangements have been made to have the photograph o-f the junior class taken to-morrow noon in front of the chapel the first meeting of the mining and geological society will be held in the geology lecture room first floor williams hall on wednesday evening oct 20th at 7.30 o'clock it is especially urged that the fresh men in the courses of mining met allurgy and geology be present at this meeting and become affiliated with the society professor richards of the met allurgical department has consent ed to talk on the meetings of the engineering congress and the american institute of mining en gineers at the san francisco ex position mr irwin of the geology depart ment will talk on the mining and milling of zinc ores in the missis sippi valley after the meeting refreshments will be served chemists and chemical engineers with an apparent grasp of the in dustrial situation now facing the country discussed topics of timely interest at the meeting held in sau con hall last friday evening g sawtelle gave an interesting account of his experiences in the chemical plant of the dv ponts powder works at gibbstown new jersey papers were presented by j mc kay 17 and w h macoallum 18 g sawtelle president of the so ciety outlined the work being car ried on by chemical engineers at the dv pont plant where he was em ployed during the summer with walter s landis 02 of the amer ican cyanamid co this company installed a new process of manu facturing ammonium nitrate from calcium cyanamid in the dv ponts large ammonium nitrate plant this process has only recently become commercially important being the only plant of its kind operating iru america having been in direct contact with mr landi's in the installation of the new plant his personal con tact and knowledge of actual work ing conditions and difficulties gave a reality to his talk which proved most interesting after closely covering the purely chemical phase of the new process he showed diagramatically the en gineering features and material con struction of the plant giving special emphasis to the action of the con centrating towers in the separation of the nitric and sulfuric acids the attention drawn to this type of tow er was due to the fact that there are scarcely more than six such towers now operating in america after the talk a short discussion took place on the probable use of several of the by-products notably acetylene the possibility of at some time commercially utilizing one or more of these substances which are at present discarded was pointed out by sawtelle and his ex planation of not using the large quantities of acetylene for lighting and heating purposes was based up on the fact that air became mixed with the gas during the process forming a most dangerous explo sive mixture j mckay 17 said in part : the ef fect of the present war on our am erican industrial life is of a twofold nature in the first place there are the visible results which will end with the coming of peace second ly the other results less evident but increasing with each day of conflict and bound to be of far reaching import in the evolution of our industries the furnishing of arms and ev erything necessary to equip men for war the large shipments of iron and steel in every form together with the quantities of cv zn etc all will cease at the close of the war the recovery from the depres sion due to economic conditions fol lowing the balkan wars has been very evident but the coming of peace will leave us with millions of dollars worth of specialized ma chinery for munitions on our hands the capital here invested would continued on page five vol xxiii the brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday octo i 19 lehigh university chemists discuss timely topics albright eleven easily defeated university tennis cup won by f d powers 16 claims of time on technical men scrubs and mercersburg battle to a scorless tie in hard fought sets powers defeated palmer in the final round second team frequently penalized losing chance 6 to score ayrult and toinlinson star subject of c d hurrey's ad dress at sunday y m.c.a meeting be broad-minded advises against bigotry and race prejudice should be sympathic xo 9