Brown and White Vol. 24 no. 9

              annual y.m.c.a smoker success first smoker of the year atten ded by an enthusiastic gathering interesting program ira thomas prof h r reiter and rev robinson speak music last friday night the y m c a gave its annual smoker in taylor gymnasium the enthusi asm ran high although some of the songs revealed the fact that to most of the freshmen they were un familiar the smoker was opened with three long lehighs after which the ragging octette rendered sev eral popular numbers ira thomas the former athletic star and now with the - red sox was then introduced this was not the speaker's first visit to lehigh he having been present at several of the baseball games last spring he spoke at length on the disintegra tion of the old athletic machine giving the loss of baker and col lins along with a poor pitching staff as the cause for the poor showing of the last two seasons he said that there was no truth in the report that connie mack was commercializing his team adding that the club has had a large deficit the last few years ' ' the character of a player makes him sucessful " he said ' ' and the same is true of a team two years ago all philadel phia was proud of its team because of the character of the players on the old machine and not one of the old 100,000 infield has tasted liquor and only one has tasted to bacco he closed with this state ment success depends on your character your life in any pro fession will be longer and more fruitful if you only have char acter ' ' prof h r reiter the next speaker then praised thomas and connie mack spirit fight and pep wins shouted bosie with his usual enthusiasm do your best that is what wins victory can ex ist in defeat the way a team fights is the way to judge it you must develop character here that will determine your destiny do anything that is worth the while he closed by quoting kipling's poem if j mckay 17 then announced that two prizes of five dollars each would be given for the two best football songs and also urged bet ter attendance at cheering prac tice r w mccullough 18 and r s lambert 18 then gave an ex cellent exhibition of wrestling b e keifer 18 and reynolds 18 gave a similar exhibition referee sheridan decided both bouts a draw j gi gheen former mustard and cheese coach favored with a humorous reading wild animals t have met this was well re ceived and was followed by a dutch yell a bach 17 then made an ap peal to candidates for the band rev robinson a member of the advisory committee of the loc:tl y m c a delivered the address of the evening religion is neces sary to make well-rounded men the y m c a should enter into the life of every student at lehigh the men should join the associa continued on fifth page freshman class elects officers number of members fail to cast ballots result of vote the freshman class held its election for class officers last thurs day afternoon after cheering prac tice about half of the class voted the following men were elected president r s bellman vice president s h shipley secre tary h l long treasurer p d good sergeant-at-arms a b maginnes historian h c bailey the complete ballot wts as fol lows president r s bellman 53 ; r g miller 49 ; m r wolfe 26 ; l apgar 23 ; r m andrews 15 j a rheinhardt 14 k w bashoar 10 total 190 vice-president : s h shipley 44 a b ware 37 c m matthews 36 s c townsend 29 c w jeffers 22 a izquierdo 17 total 185 secretary h l long 43 ; h f sheetz 39 r b honeyman 34 r e brown 33 b b davidson 30 total 182 treasurer p d good 86 l bevan 38 r c corey 33 e j person 19 ; w k larison 7 total 183 sergeant-at-arms a b ma ginnes 103 m f judd 31 m crane 18 a j wicks 15 a m kuhnmann 12 d a conlin 10 total 189 historian : it c bailey 43 ; r w wallace 33 r b honeyman 30 j e donegan 26 e w caswell 19 ; c w kutcher 16 ; h w middleton 14 total 181 notice freshmen ! the following freshmen have been reported to the committee on freshmen rules and regulations and arc notified to report to that committee promptly and without fail at 1 30 p.m wednesday no vember 8 a w bryan p c barthol k w bashoar j g bergdoll f j callaghan l j costello w g davis f r de garmo j p dresbach f p flan agan a e greene f a hall k r hemmerly a izqueerdo g d koplin k w kutcher h n mc donald j f martin j w seis sner e f muth r s moyer d d schulz e c sloan e stro man e g tice w k van ness w r wallace n h wasser r c weishaupt p m young j e lewis l w lazier j g obert penn state tickets seats in the cheering section for the perm state-lehigh game can be had wednesday november 8 at 1.30 p.m by making application at the gym entrance these seats will toe given in exchange for regis tration cards at the same time i and place students desiring extra tickets for the game should apply \ lafayette tickets seven hundred tickets have been allotted to lehigh students in the cheering section at lafayette field one ticket and one only will be sold to each lehigh student and may be obtained from physical di rector reiter extra tickets must j be obtained from director of ath letics crowell at easton pa send your name address and two dol lars for each ticket and as soon as the order is filled the tickets will be forwarded the athletic associa tion will handle only cheering sec tion seats distribution date will be announced later 1 discussion groups schedule fixed important subjects to be dis cussed at wednesday evening meetings good speakers men especially fitted for the work to lead these meetings during the past few weeks mr j m frey the local y m c a secretary and the y m c a cabinet members and committees have outlined a complete schedule of discussion group meetings for a period of time extending to march 7 the meetings are arranged to be held on wednesday evenings from 7.00 to 7.30 the course has been divided into three periods of four lessons each each fraternity and dormitory section will have a dif ferent speaker for each of the three periods the subjects discussed have been scheduled as follows : first period nov 8 enthusiasm for ser vice nov 15 responsibility for the way others live ' ' nov 22 a fearless messen ger ' ' dec 6 everyday friendli ness ' ' second period dec 13 the triumph of loyalty jan 10 stewardship in daily living ' ' jan 17 the gospel of second chance jan 24 : the aggressiveness of christian faith " third period feb 14 training for social efficiency feb 21 the pioneer's chance feb 28 obedience to a com manding purpose mar 7 joy and freedom in religion ' ' the leaders which have been drawn for the various groups for the three periods are as follows chi phi prof h e eckfeldt mr j s long mr m 0 fuller delta phi : prof m t luch ; prof j l stewart rev w cut ler psi upsilon : prof p m palmer ; prof m t luch rev a d thaeler theta delta chi prof j l stewart mr w c ruthardt ; prof t e butterfield sigma nu : rev j robinson ; prof b l miller mr r w wal ters continued on fifth page lecture on alaska the first college lecture of the year will be given this friday in the chapel when mr edgar c raine will give an illustrated lec ture on alaskai — the land of the midnight sun " mr raine has spent six years in alaska and is well qualified to handle the subject which he will present in his 1 tour which has taken him from coast to coast he has presented the subject in a pleasing fashion the illus trations themselves are of the best these lectures are held from time to time at the eleven o'clock hour in the chapel the attend ance of students is required this is of especial importance to the new men the chinese club holds meeting entertained at the residence of dr drinker interesting talks the chinese club was enter i tamed at the home of dr drinker j last saturday evening the first part of the meeting was devoted to \ business discussions the first speaker was s l chang 18 who ; talked on wealth of a ■ nation ' ' and said that the credit of china was low and its finance j all in confusion he attributed the j present state of affairs to the mis management and corrupt handling of the nation's affairs by a privi leged few who formerly constituted the manchu nobility and the ruling class in china he then added that the big factor in the development of wealth are men of whom the engineers constitute a unit by virtue of their education and train ing the engineers are best qualified to develop a nation's resources president t i linn 17 then introduced mr tsai of m i t and columbia university he spoke on the importance of practi cal experience to an engineering student since a chinese student stays only a few years in this country the speaker urged the members not to pursue any post graduate work but to devote their j time to practice after graduation dr drinker was then called up 1 on to speak he told the members that he always has taken a special interest in the chinese students because he had once resided in hongkong the faculty members present were vice-president emery profs richards and palmer who were accompanied by their wives president drinker caltedi on each of them to address the club vice president emery spoke of the loyalty of the chinese alumni to their almia mater and expressed the hope that in the future lehigh will be as well known in china as in this country prof richards talked on universality and urged the members to pursue a liberal education and to cultivate a broad vision of the work that they are go ing to do prof palmer told the men that true gentlemen were not afraid or ashamed to work and would always stand up and shoulder whatever responsibilities that are placed upon them re freshments were then served band notice men who can play band instru ments are urged to report to f e portz 17 in the study room of drown hall on wednesday after noon at two o'clock sharp a member of the bethlehem steel company band will be present to take charge of the rehearsal university dance the first university dance of the i college year will be given on the evening of november 11 following the perm state game the sea view country club orchestra of j atlantic city an orchestra very popular during the past summer and one which played for many big attractions at atlantic city has been engaged by the committee in charge to furnish music for the occasion the dance will start at eight o'clock and the expense will be 1.00 as this is the first danc ing party of the season a large at tendance of lehigh men is ex pected a number of perm state students will no doubt attend muhlenberg loses contest brunner scores all the points in last quarter for brown and white lehigh 9 muhlenberg 0 visitors unable to make a first down lehigh makes eight after strong defensive playing by muhlenberg and frequent fumbling by the lehigh backs had kept lehigh from scoring the first three periods of the game lehigh took a brace in the last quarter and scored 9 points thereby winning the game from muhlenberg satur day on taylor field the final score was 9-0 the last part of the game was played in a heavy drizzle and the breaks that won the game for le high all came at this stage of the game the two teams had battled the first three periods and part of the last without either side gaining an advantage the allentown col legians had played a fine defensive game all the time and lehigh had been fumbling at critical moments throughout the encounter in the last quarter schwenk the muhlen berg center picked up the ball and then set it down again when he was called back for conference maginnes was quick to see the opening and he pounced on the ball it was lehigh s ball on muh lenberg's 20-yard vine on the next play brunner dropped back and kicked a pretty field goal from the 25-yard line the other score of the game came a few minutes after the field goal muhlenberg kicked off to lehigh s 25-yard line after several exchanges of punts lehigh worked the ball back to muhlen berg's 40-yard line here hal sted and brunner made 20 yards in two attempts maginnes made s yards through tackle and hal sted made first down but lehigh was penalized 15 yards for hold ing brunner dropped back for another try for field goal but the pass was low and he fumbled the ball he picked it up again how r ever and dodged 30 yards down the sidelines for the only touch down of the game while the score does not show it lehigh was the aggressor at ail times and muhlenberg was only dangerous once this was in the early part of the game when the visitors fell on a funible of wy socki's on the 10-yard line here they gained only three yards in two attempts and were then given 15 yards for holding which put them out of the danger zone muh lenberg did not gain a single first down from straight scrimmage while lehigh earned eight brun ner also outpunted caskey al though the rangy fullback of the allentown team got off several dandy punts w v mccarthy at end played a wonderful game he got down the field fast under punts and played a bang-up all-around game brunner also played a good game his kicking being a feature muhlenberg had three men who did themselves justice wilson the right end was one of the best seen here this year stevens broken field running was of a brilliant variety and caskey s kicking kept the ball well out of danger most of the time lehigh started off the game witti continued on fifth pack the brown and white vol xxiv lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday november 7 1916 no 9