Brown and White Vol. 24 no. 19

              several fraternities held house parties over the past week end the guests were : delta phi — miss alice ivins langhorne pa ; miss martha schofield miss janet middleton philadelphia pa ; miss sydney carrere new york • miss gwendo lyn gildersleeve east orange n j ; miss louise gerstell easton pa and mrs charles hayes trenton n j sigma nu — misses lois g freas jermyn pa ; marion thornburg south bethlehem ; helen berger bethlehem mar jorie seaman new york lillian wyant south bethlehem may hoffer reading dorothy adam son new york marie melville harrisburg eleanor earle beth lehem helen horn catasauqua margaret miller bethlehem chape rones . — mrs chester langdon hopewell pa mrs h lou miller allentown pa cm psi — misses brewster clatt campbell j edwards r ed wards griswald greenleaf keck jones fransisco laird long macker matcham mitman h mil son j milson salter shenk tou sey g wolle k wolle mrs gris wald mrs senner relief sent to the armenians money collected through this paper for armenian and syrian relief fund ■■■■■ %■ favorable showing ••••••••• student body through various organizations collected large sum unique musical program will be rendered opera to be discussed a musical treat is promised the arts and science men at their meeting tomorrow night in drown hall the presentation of a pro gram such as a study of wagner s lohengrin is something unique at lehigh and an evening of real enjoyment is guaranteed all who attend professors blake thayer and palmer will lead a discussion on the opera all of whom have witnessed performances both abroad and in this country mr t edgar shields organist in the chapel will also be present to offer the club the benefit of his wide experience as a student of music miss e mauser of the moravian college for young women will render euch liiften die mein klagen she possesses a soprano voice of unusual quality miss mauser is not a stranger to lehigh audiences many recalling the occa sions when she sang at the y m c a meetings and received several encores in appreciation of her ef forts j d sourber 19 accompanied by w g barthold 18 and c j brockmanj 19 violinists will sing the famous swan song these songs are but a few of the number composing the entire program and will be supplemented by vio la selections by the world's greatest artists in the musical world wolfram von eschbach mentions lohengrin the knight of the holy grail in his poem parsifal a poem of the middle ages a ba varian writer made use of this story as well as the grimm broth ers well known writers of fairy tales it is from such sources as these that wagner drew his material he first wrote the music to lohengrin's narrative act 111 scene 2 after deciding definitely about his ar rangement of the plot in his se lection is centered all the motives of the work just as in senta's ballad from the flying dutchman he aimed particularly at unity of poem and music refreshments will be served at the close of the regular meeting arts and science meet tomorrow evening photos of seniors are wanted the senior class book committee desires a snapshot of every man who intends to go into the book for the man turning in the largest number of such photos some sort of prize to be determined later will be given all such snaps should be handed to g m levy or any other member of the committee biographies and ballots still out standing must be turned in to the committee before midnight decem ber 21 this is the absolute dead line professor w l wilson has been named as the delegate of lehigh university to the eleventh annual convention of the national col legiate athletic association to be held at the hotel astor new york city on december 28 president drinker and vice-president emery will attend the sessions as visiting delegates will be represented letters from the front weatherly ex='l6 tells experi ences after being wounded at ypres ■»">■•». a soldier's viewpoint •»■■»■■>• considered cowardly to leave army except for physical reasons in the latest issue of the brown and white was printed a letter by carroll d weatherly ex l6 from the french front to his mother the letter was written as soon as he • was able after having been wounded during the third bat tle of ypres two more interesting letters ap pear in the present issue the first relates how after he had been in jured he was taken from the trenches to england on a stretcher the second letter of later date gives one a conception of the soldier's point of view although a man may be wounded and dear friends long for him to leave the army under no condition does the real soldier care to leave except when honorably discharged to leave for any other reason would in his estimation be the act of a coward or quitter from the trenches to england on a stretcher july 11 1916 dearest mother today the second of your letters forwarded from france was re ceived and naturally i was most tickled as they have been the only ones i have received since i was wounded i do appreciate more than i can say your sending the parcel but mother dear i am afraid my chances of receiving it are very small as soon as i re ceived your letter i wrote to the postmaster in london to ask if he could locate it and forward to me this is the only chance i have of ever getting it as if it goes to france it will be divided amongst the boys it is the unwritten law out there that any packages that come for comrades are opened i benefited quite often by this so guess we will have to look upon it as the fortune of war and know some one will be benefited i do appreciate it however mother dear and there is just a chance i will get it wrote you a long letter last week telling you of a few of my experiences since then life has been one new thing after another i was first carried on a stretcher to the field dressing station just be hind the lines all the way we were under shell fire and was rather glad when we arrived here i was first fixed up and was then sent in a motor ambulance to a town about ten miles from tthe front stayed the night there and was sent on an ambulance train to boulogne — these ambulance trains are really wonderful another trip in a motor ambulance and i reached one of the hundreds of hos pitals this special one was a won derful chateau and my bed was in the ball-room it was simply beautiful arrived late at night and was immediately given a bath and put in a real bed you can't imagine how wonderful this was as it was the first time i had been in a bed since february and i only had five baths in six months the next day i thought i was in heaven as for dinner i had the continued on fifth page the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday december 19 1916 basketball season opens next friday vol xxiv history of old covered bridge prof frank p mckibben relates events which led up to hill=to=hill bridge » » i combined meet •♦"♦"♦• civils and mechanicals unite in holding big monthly meet student paper on thursday evening of last week a combined meeting of the civil and mechanical engineering societies was held in the lecture room of williams hall president g m levy of the mechanical so ciety had charge of the meeting and after a few remarks by prof de schweinitz relating to the busi ness transacted by the american mechanical engineering society meeting held in new york last week he called on f l benscoter 17 who spoke on mechanical re frigeration in part he said in its broader sense refrigeration may be defined as the process of cooling or since cold is but the absence of heat re frigeration is in reality the extrac tion of heat the speaker spoke more from the practical sidle of the question than of the theoretical stating that very little experi mental data is available at present ' ' there are two types of mechanical refrigeration — the absorption and compression the absorption system uses ammonia as its most common chem ical there is no difficulty in set ting up an equation for an absorp tion machine according to the ther modynamic laws but these equa tions do not hold in actual practice the compression system is by far the more common system being used in small plants the advan tages of this system are : lower cost more compact more simple and easier to set up ; with the disadvan tages of higher cost of operating engines harder to keep tempera ture and has a limited capacity the speaker then referred to nu merous blackboard sketches first the ammonia cycle was traced from the generator to the analyzer to the rectifier then to the condensers to the cooler and finally to the ab sorber the functions of the weak liquor cooler and exchanger were also explained lastly the speaker explained the two systems of artificial ice making — one the can system and the other the plate system in the can sys tem the cakes of ice are made in separate molds and in the plate system a large piece is made which is later cut into the required sizes the talk was both instructive and interesting president levy then called upon the speaker of the evening profes sor f p mckibben head of the department of civil engineering professor mckibben spoke briefly of the benefits derived from hold ing joint society meetings and ex pressed a desire that more would be held in the future the speaker then took up the subject of the hill-to-hill bridge in 1732 a post road was estab lished between philadelphia and bethlehem terminating at the crown inn which stood on the present site of union station the passengers were then taken across the river in a small ferry which means of travel continued until 1794 just previous to 1790 some talk arose over the question of building a bridge after the com mittee which consisted of a church continued on fifth page of october as armenian relief day president wilson only fol lowed the precedent set in earlier cases for other people in distress the lehigh contribution is in itself not large but it is distinctly a student contribution in this re spect it differs radically from the belgium relief fund which was swollen considerably by friends of the university six hundred and twenty-five dollars was the amount raised through various methods seventy-five of this was contributed at the perm state game and repre sents the largest single contribu tion given the remainder was j made up by smaller amounts dormitories took the lead in the most hearty co-operation scarcely i had the announcement been made than the various section chiefs can vassed their houses and started to try to make the best showing competition was keen headquar ters did not wait long for soon from fraternities came words of encouragement before the second day had closed over two hundred dollars had been reported and turned in but this was only the start and in another day that sum was doubled then contributions slacked and until last wednesday night money was being turned over to the relief fund delay was due to a desire on the part of those in charge to give to every man and organization a chance to take a hand a check made payable to charles r crane treasurer of the ar menian and syrian relief fund was forwarded last friday it was late in october that days were set aside by the president for the col lecting of funds for this purpose armenians and syrians have felt the distress of the war as have no other peoples christian nations have stood aghast at the treatment of these people at the hand of the terrible turk starving and destitute they have been but now from america comes help for them in declaring the 21st and 22d days new york university is first opponent close game expected after practically three weeks of strenuous practice the brown and white basketball team has gradu ally rounded into form and is at present in excellent condition to meet new york university next friday evening at university gym nasium in new york city coach geary has had a wealth of material to pick from as there were probably more men out for the team this year than any previous year in the history of the college and a large proportion of the candi dates w r ere men with considerable basketball experience and ability for this reason it has been rather difficult to select the men best suited for the positions and it is almost certain that various changes will be made during the early part of the season before the final make up of the varsity can be selected although the team has shown an abundance of speed clever passing and goal-shooting in practice the game with new york university will give coach geary an oppor tunity to discover the weaknesses which he would be unable to deter mine in the daily practice the new york university five this year appears to be an exceed ingly strong one having defeated rensselaer polytechnic institute last week by the overwhelming ma jority of 70 to 21 harry haring who developed such a successful team at lehigh last year is now in charge of the new york university squad the apparent stars of the team are the two forwards storey and cann who between them scored twenty-one field goals in the rensselaer game the probable line-up that will appear against le high is as follows storey and cann forwards mooney ecnter and vanderbeek and egan guards the exact line-up of the brown and white has not been definitely decided but from present indica tions will be dynan and w v mccarthy forwards capt crich ton center ; kennedy and wysocki guards three fraternities hold week=end parties no 19