Brown and White Vol. 24 no. 7

              prof h eckfeldt addresses miners institute meeting in arizona subject of interesting talk lantern slides numerous views of the country shown large attendance at meeting the first meeting of the mining and geological society w 7 as held in coxe laboratory last friday even ing the meeting was called to order by president r l mccann he spoke briefly on the benefits which members derived from the society a short business meeting followed at which nominations were made for vice-president to fill the vacancy made by g s bor den who failed to return to college this fall h j sloman 17 p s jus tice 17 and l sargeant 18 were nominated for vice-president and dr f f hintze assistant professor of geology was nomi nated for the office of faculty ad viser prof h eckfeldt 95 the speaker of the evening gave an interesting account of his trip through arizona as a member of the american institute of mining engineers this talk in part fol lows the 113 th meeting of the ameri can institute of mining engineers came to a fitting end at the grand canon arizona september 25 the visit of the institute to ari zona was the most successful of a long list of successes of this kind and after visiting so many wonder ful mines milling and smelting plants and after having had such a strenuous good time the grand canon alone could be a climax a comparatively small party started from new york september 14 but had increased sufficiently on reaching chicago to be given an interesting drive through wash ington and jackson parks and a banquet at la salle hotel the private car anaconda of b b thayer was attached to the a i m e special here and proceeded to el paso where the party w 7 as augmented by the addition of vari ous texas colorado and arizona members including the arizona committee sunday the day of arrival w t as spent visiting the city its national guard camps fort bliss the busy streets full of soldiers and the el paso smeltery this plant origin ally a lead-smelting installation has been transformed owing to cessation of lead shipments from mexico and the increase of copper shipments from arizzona into a smelting plant in which copper is the leading product one of the most interesting features of the re modeled and enlarged plant was the new and largest peirce-smith converter 13 feet diameter which is taking three times as much air as its 11-feet predecessor and is ex pected to establish a new record for copper converted on sunday evening a most in j teresting banquet w r as served at the toltec club about 175 being present the menu consisted wholly of mexican dishes the nature of which could not be always anticipated by those visit ing guests who were not familiar with mexican cooking on each menu card was pinned a small mexican sombrero about 1a inches continued on fifth page tests performed at civil meet prof f p mckibben speaks on the opportunities of the engineering field last thursday evening the civil engineering society held its first meeting of the year in the john fritz laboratory the attendance w t as the largest in the history of the j society president l b ryon called the meeting to order a short business ! session was held at which it was de cided to hold meetings twice a month instead of monthly as is the custom at present professor f p mckibben was then called upon he spoke at length on the great field of engi neering with its untold opportuni ties one of the best ways the speaker said to measure your en gineering knowiedge is to get on the stand in a civil suit there one must be able to cope with a sharp lawyer who in most cases will have an eminent engineer as his ad visor ' ' the speaker then urged upon all the men and especially the younger ones to take an active part in all the meetings lastly he said in this society a man will have the op portunity to get on his feet to talk and will not be laughedl at by his fellow students in closing prof mckibben recommended that the department take for its watchword during the coming year courtesy and thor oughness then men then were shown the following experiments conducted by various seniors : tension bar test by professor becker and g howard wooden beam test by l j breen subway column test by h pardee ; path of a jet by b s derr ; a contracted weir test by f e portz sprinker test by c s moyer and the pelton im pulse wheel test by r g cook the men were then served with refreshments trophy received the championship trophy won last season by the lacrosse team has been received and is on exhibition in the trophy room maryland club the first meeting of the mary land club will be held wednesday evening at 8 o'clock in drown hall the program for the evening includes speeches and good smokes ! every maryland man is urged to be j present y.m.c.a smoker the animal y m c a smoker will be held on friday evening at 7 30 in taylor gym a very in teresting program has been ar ranged by the committee the chair man of which is a bach music will be furnished by the student or chestra and during the course of the evening selections will also be \ rendered by a soloist and a quartet the speakers of the evening in clude professor h r reiter a bach president of the y m c a and ira thomas a member of the world's championship team the boston red sox j e gheen for mer coach of the mustard and cheese will also entertain the stu dents in humor a wrestling bout will be arranged by coach sheridan plenty of pipes and tobacco as sure a good time and a large meet ing is expected hughes wins in straw ballot leads president wilson in a close race upper classmen and faculty favor change women win grant voters to women sopho mores only class opposing extension of franchise lehigh students availed them selves of the opportunity to cast a ballot for the presidential candi dates last friday and saturday giving to hughes a majority of twenty votes the also rans ac cumulated'only nine votes among themselves thus trimming the hughes majority from twenty-nine to twenty in the battle to extend the franchise to women the vote was extremely close by classes but here as in the race for president the senior class held the balance of power and the final majority for suffrage was only nine more than the senior majority in the presi dential preference the final majori ty was three less than the final ma jority it was the senior class that de termined the election the vote on each issue as to the winner w r as reduced by the lower classes thus the seniors gave hughes a majority of twenty-three and juniors nine teen the sophomores gave a ma jority of eighteen and freshmen of two to wilson for suffrage the seniors rolled up fourteen in favor the juniors two sophomores three against and the freshmen seven for the wilson vote of the sophomores neutralizes the faculty and junior vote while for suffrage its vote against merely reduced the final majority by three then with the seniors deciding the elections the sophomores in two cases and freshmen in one proved the only objections to the winning ballot in 1912 the combined votes of taft and roosevelt at lehigh ex ceeded that of wilson by forty-one according to the percentages of 1912 the hughes majority granted that progressives and republicans have healed the breach should have been fifty-nine instead of twenty nine in 1912 the combined re publican vote was 55.78 per cent of the toal that of the democrats 43.5 per cent upon that basis the vote should have stood 265 to 207 for hughes but it did stand 248 to 219 indicating a loss of seventeen from the republicans and a gain of twelve for the democrats this year the hughes vote was 50.63 per cent of the total indicating that the loss is 5.12 per cent summary on page 6 college enrollment the total enrollment for the col legiate year 1916-1917 numbers 777 students as compared with 732 a year ago the present enroll ment includes 13 graduate stu dents 117 seniors 150 juniors 175 sophomores 307 freshmen and the remainder as specials cheering practice cheering practice was held on taylor field thurdsay afternoon october 26 the attendance of the three upper classes was very poor as is shown by the following fig j ures : seniors two per cent juni j ors six per cent ; sophomores none freshmen ninety-three per cent the next cheering practice j will be held on thursday novem ber 2 at 4 o'clock on taylor field | arts and science club holds meeting prof r w blake and mr r walters give talks student papers the first meeting of the arts and science club was held in drown hall last friday evening with w m hartman 17 pre siding the musical end of the program was well taken care of by r a cohn 18 f m porter 17 and p e werner 17 professor r w blake the first speaker read extracts from with the american ambulance field service in france a book that has been published very recently and only for private distribution it is wholly made up of the per sonal letters of an american ambu lance driver at the front although he is with the french army the wounded of all countries are cared for he describes vividly one's feelings when first subjected to shell fire or when gazing for the first time on the stiff ghastly forms of the dead or what is per haps worse the bloody mangled or dismembered forms of the liv ing he explains how one becomes used to all the horrors and dangers of the struggle and finally almost devoted to the gigantic task of easing just a small part of the physical pain of europe the second speaker was ray mond walters registrar of the university who was one of the founders of the arts 1 and science club in 1905 mr walters re ferred to the advance in numbers in the b.a and b.s mem in recent years so that the enrollment of'4he arts and science courses the col lege department of lehigh equals or exceeds that of some of the smaller colleges in this state mr walters quoted the uni versity register of 1879-80 which shows that a school of general literature was a part of the or iginal plan of judge packer and that it was proposed to develop continued from second page freshmen notice the following freshmen have been reported to the committee on freshman rules and regulations and are directed to appear before the committee on wednesday no vember 1 at 1:30 p.m in the brown and white room drown hall : f e bailey k w boyd r w danzer f p diener g p fitz gerald c v fry e b ilyus c w kirschner h levy w a lott w nagy e j parsons c j ro mig j rosenberg r j ross h f sheetz f s sendek g f shaner j a siegfried c h skinner h g sommers m h wasser m d williams a h wilson tennis championship by defeating m e johnson 18 in three straight sets a l purple 18 won the tennis championship of the university last friday after noon the scores of the sets were 11-9 ; 6-3 and 9-7 the games were hard fought throughout and were featured by brilliant playing by both contestants tickets on sale tickets for the muhlenberg game will be on sale at noon today at the quality shop metzger & young's drug store and at peters drug store allentown the tickets sell at 50c 75c and 1.00 catholic univ meets defeat brown and white eleven show ing improved form wins interesting battle lehigh 27 cath univ 7 first half ends in 7=7 tie visi tors outclassed in second half with a complete reversal of form over that shown in the lebanon valley game a meek previous the lehigh eleven romped home with a 27-7 victory over catholic univer sity last saturday afternoon on taylor field more especially in the second half was its display of new form productive of results three of the four touchdowns were scored in this half catholic uni versity in the second half was un able to make a first down while the brown and white warriors netted a total of nine a noticeable change of tactics was resorted to by lehigh the forward passes which predominated in the previous games of the season were almost entirely lacking two of the four attempts were success ful catholic university attempted a like number and was similarly successful in this department of the game the visitors put up a dogged de fense materials gains through the line being few lehigh placed her greatest dependence on end runs with exceptional results brunner and herrington frequently electri fied the crow t d by their long gains the interference a weakness in previous contests was the best dis played on taylor field this season for the visitors shortley rog ers butler and o'hearn starred rogers one of the best backs of the south a demon for speed on sev eral occasions got away for sub stantial gains while shortley s punting and running back of kicks was superb brunner herrington maginnes w v mccarthy at end and wy socki who did substitute work dis tinguished themselves in the high est degree the performance of the team to a man was especially gratifying although lehigh was the greater ground gainer in the first half but one touchdown could be registered butler of catholic university took advantage of herrington s fumble and ran sixty yards before being tackled from the rear by maginnes this followed by a forward pass resulted in the visitors only score at the opening of the game it looked like an easy task for lehigh after pursell had received the kick off and ran the ball back twelve yards brunner immediately gained five yards followed by eight more by maginnes for the first first down of the game brunner on the next play circled left end for twelve yards a penalty of twenty yards was inflicted 1 on lehigh and brun ner was forced to kick a kicking bee between brunner and short ey now followed the ball see-sawing back and forth until near the end of the first quarter when after shortley had kicked to lehigh brunner got around right end for thirty-five yards which was followed by herrington s twenty eight yard run around left end at this point hurley was substituted for pursell maginnes made an other first down on the last play of the first quarter hurley hit the line for five yards and the quarter continued from fifth page the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday october 31 1916 vol xxiv no 7