Brown and White Vol. 24 no. 52

              herrington takes first in high jump and ties for first in pole vault f d wilford 18 elected presi dent for next year large attendance score 11 to 4 game never in doubt question of how many runs would be scored owing to the early graduation this year of practically the whole senior class of the university and the engagement of the men in in dustrial w r ork serving war prepar edness and in military and naval service there is doubt whether more than a small proportion of the class can be counted on for attend ance on the commenceemnt day exercises regularly scheduled for tuesday june 12 though there is a very generally expressed wish and intention on the part of the members of the class to return for the day if possible the trustees and faculty in consultation with the president of the alumni associ ation have therefore decided to hold the commencement exercises on alumni day saturday june 9 they will take place in packer me morial church at 10 30 a.m this will enable the alumni to be present at the granting of the honorary degree of doctor of laws to wallace carl riddick 90 now president of the north caro lina college of agriculture and me chanic arts and the degree of mas ter of science on taylor allderdice 83 vice-president of the national tube company and on homer d williams 87 president of the car negie steel company these short commencement exercises w t ill be im mediately followed by the business meeting of the alumni association continued on sixth page in a full-page illustrated article in the sunday issue of the pmla delpma north american entitled how they make citizens in south bethlehem the work of the evening school for foreigners con ducted by the university y m c a is described the aims of the corps of student teachers is taken up in detail together with the various subjects taught the importance of the work as a national service is stressed ex cerpts from the write-up follow : : in lehigh and northampton county courtrooms there was re cently enacted a series of little dramas such as has never before been seen in this country when scores of foreigners of different nationalities were soberly put through a pseudo-naturalization ceremony before the district attor neys and j mark frey the secre tary of the y m c a at lehigh university the men seeking citizenship were all members of the classes in americanism which have been held throughout the winter at the university and the ceremony was gone through that the men might be prepared for the real event be fore the judges on citizenship day there was not one man among them all who was not ready to answer every question and was not eager to staow how much english and also how much history he knew of the country of his adop continued on sixth page seniors notice ! last meeting of electrical society any seniors intending to be pres ent at commencement must be measured for gowns before may 30 at the supply bureau arcadia amendments the last meeting of the electri cal engineering society will be held on thursday may 24 at 8 p m in the physics building mr j l montgomery of the bell tele phone company has been secured as the speaker of the evening he will deliver a talk on telephony a feature of his remarks will be illustrations by means of moving pictures mr montgomery is an extremely interesting speaker and his address together with excellent moving pictures will prove a strong combination music and the usual eats will complete the regular pro gram an election of officers to serve during the college year 1917-1918 will precede the program of the evening all men are urged to come out to this the last meeting of the year freshmen elections at a meeting of the constitu tional committee of the arcadia the following amendments were drawn up these amendments will be submitted to the student-body on friday at the college meeting article 111 section 4 each delegate shall be elected for the term of one year this is to prevent the shifting of delegates by a group section 5 the senior presi dent shall be an honorary member of the arcadia he will be allowed the floor but will have no vote it is also proposed to put before the student-body subject to faculty consent an entrance arcadia fee of 2 this fee to be paid only in the freshman year material for price prize competition available the civil engineering society held the last meeting of the year on thursday evening in the j physics building the following were elected to hold office next year p d wilford 18 presi dent r f johnson 19 vice president r l creer 18 secre tary j h schwanger 18 treas urer the speakers of the evening were w t staats 18 who read a paper on the philadelphia water works and professor mckibben who gave a very interesting talk on ship construction the sub stance of w t staats paper fol lows : philadelphia like most other large cities has had considerable difficulty in finally agreeing upon a plan for the betterment of her water supply and much investiga tion and legislation have ensued the subject first received serious attention by the public in 1789 when benj franklin pointed out the necessity of going beyond the city's limits for a potable water supply councils 1797 gave serious consideration to dr frank lin's suggestion but attention seemed to have been so much di rected to a scheme of the union canal co that it was lost sight of the latter scheme was finally re jected and a capable engineer mr b h latrobe was engaged his comparison of the schuylkill and delaware rivers as a source of supply follows against the delaware : im purity of its waters which are sub ject to a strong running flood tide and which must be supposed to contain decayed vegetation from the marshes in favor op schuylkill un common purity of water its bed everywhere narrow and rocky source in limestone country the tide opposite the center of the town does little more than raise the water by accumulation upon mr latrobe s recommend ation the first steam pumping sta tion in the united states was com pleted in 1801 latrobe s plan provided that the water supply be taken from the schuylkill river at chestnut street wharf a steam pumping station was to raise the water to a basin at the same loca tion from this basin the water was to flow by gravity through an underground conduit in chestnut street to center square here an other pumping station was to ele vate the water to wooden tanks on top of the station the center square station was a handsome marble building it is of interest to note that the cold water pumps lever beams and fly wheel were all of wood the boilers continued on fifth page once upon a time in the days long since past there was a lafay ette team that defeated lehigh so badly that some unknown genius in his ecstasy originated a yell that sounded like laugh laugh laugh ay ette but unfortunately he could not look into the future far enough to discern the pathetic picture of a rosy-cheeked curly-headed son of lafayette standing in the center of the diamond being mercilessly swatted by lehigh batsmen but so it was to be and thereby hangs a tale for mr mummert the man re sponsible for defeating the great brown and white football team of 1915 who had to feel the sting of revenge and as a result the second game of the big series was easily won by lehigh by a 11-4 score the game was quite fast for three innings neither side scoring but in the fourth the big brown team got busy and a combination of two singles a sacrifice a double and error and a triple was product ive of four runs after this it was only a question of how large the score would be for mummert's offering was hit to all parts of the field lehigh scored two runs in the fifth seventh and eighth innings and one in the ninth lafayette was never dangerous although they scored two runs in the sixth inning as a result of three bases on balls and an error they added one in each of the eighth and ninth innings the game as a whole was much faster than the first of the series and it would be impossible to pick any one man as the star of the game unless it be forrest of lafay ette who hit safely three times and who made two beautiful catches in the field for lehigh the w thole team played well the infield worked smoother and faster than at any time this year as two fast dou ble plays will testify at the bat each man hit safely johnson in spite of a lame arm had little trouble in letting lafay ette down with five hits and two runs in seven innings e twombly pitched the last two innings and showed more stuff than at any other time this year the game play by play first inning lehigh mathag fouled to lake mccarthy and fishburn fanned no runs no hits lafayette forrest fouled to lees anderson walked scott popped to johnson welles was thrown out at first by lees no runs no hits second inning lehigh c twombly singled achorn sacrificed mummert to an derson c twombly taking third on the play lees popped to mummert on an attempted bunt and twom bly was doubled off third no runs one hit lafayette hunt got an infield single lake hit into a fast double play fishburn to achorn to c twombly smith whiffed no runs one hit continued on fifth page due to the fact that a majority vote is required to elect officers for the class of 1920 v de wysocki was the only man elected for the ensuing year at saturday's elec tions he being elected athletic representative the following men will be up for election on wednesday between the hours of 10 and 1 at the ballot ing office in drown hall president : j straub r g mil ler vice-president : r harvey r b honeyman secretary n g mccrindle h l long treasurer p c cameron w h hunton historian w d rudy m b tate sergeant-at-arms : f a hall h h dewhirst for the third time in the past five years the lafayette track artists captured the middle states intercollegiate meet heve before a fair sized crowd last saturday the weather was ideal and al though only one record was broken the results were good and the races closely contested with a few ex ceptions the brown and white team owing to weakness in the running events took fourth place with a total of 18-1 points 9 of which were captured by herrington who easily won first place in the high jump and was tied for first in the pole vault the points scored by the various teams entered were as follows lafayette 38 new york uni versity 29 ; swarthmore 25 ; le high 18-j dickinson 15 dela ware 12i ; rutgers 6 ; gettysburg 5 and washington 1 and jefferson 31 the preliminary events were run off iii the morning and sixteen brown and white men qualified for the finals which were held dtur ing the afternoon the only record to fall was in the mile run which was easily won by cook of dickin son whose timewas 4:30 4/5 beat ing the previous record by 1 4/5 seconds he also hadi little trouble in capturing the half mile event in 2 02f seconds all of the sprints were exceed ingly close and were run off in good time in the pole vault her rington of lehigh and olin of swarthmore each equalled the eleven-foot mark but neither could better the height and the event re sulted in a tie herringtonj had little trouble in taking the high jump and succeeded in going over the bar at 5 feet 8-j inches lind of lehigh and rosenheim of lafayette tied for third place in this event schnerr scored three points for lehigh in the discus throw by taking second with a toss of 107 feet 5 inches the other two brown and white runners to score were downer who by a pretty finish took third in the half mile run and morrissey who came in close be hindl bechtel of lafayette in the 220-yard dash the lehigh point winners and points scored are as follows : her rington 9 downer 2 morrissey 3 ; schnerr 3 and lind i the individual stars of the meet were cann of new york uni versity with 13 points herrington of lehigh with 9 points andl fin ley of new york university and bechtel of lafayette each with 8 points the summaries of the different events are as follows : 100-yard dash — won by broome new york university bechtel lafayette second gano lafa yette third finley new york university fourth time 10 3/ss 120 high hurdles won by paul son lafayette ; crockett dela ware second bellergeau rutgers third reynolds bafajette fourth time 16 2/ss continued on fifth page a collection of material relating to the late richard harding davis who was a student at lehigh in the class of 1886 is now available in the university library where it may be consulted by freshmen who plan to compete for the price prize of 25 for the best essay on the lit erary w t ork of mr davis the col lection includes a paper-bound vol ume of the author's adventures cf my freshman short stories contributed to the lehigh burr of which he was an associate editor the material in the library is owned by registrar walters who was a personal friend of mr davis the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday may 22 1917 civils hold last meeting of year the making of an american citizen second lafayette game easily won vol xxiv university day and alumni day combined lafayette wins intercollegiates work of lehigh v.m.c.a even ing school receives favor able comment joint exercises to be held june 9 honorary degrees to be conferred prof mckibben and w t staats 18 give interesting talks lehigh wins annual series with lafayette by taking this contest cook of dickinson lowers record in the mile by one and four=fifth seconds lehigh places fourth election of officers no 52 • • • college meeting j friday eleven o'ciock | • packer hall • a