Brown and White Vol. 25 no. 25

              seniors don't forget to have your pictures taken for the epitome last chance january 24 ! lehigh starts off in fast fashion but is not able to hold fast pace of midshipmen new epitome to be out in april 1919 edition to be full of new features besides a complete summary of lehigh life the 1919 epitome will be issued early in april if the aim of the board is realized this is neces sary on account of the graduation of the seniors in this month the board has had a hard time of get ting the book together on time on this account and also on account of war conditions the senior class book will ap pear as heretofore together with the epitome and the editors have promised something novel while this issue will not be full of expensive designs and illustra tions the book will be fresh new and full of new material the feature section which made such a big hit last year will be carried on and as old wine should improve with age a new section will be devoted to the alumni and all the old sections will also appear those who want books should make their applica tions now to j l rosenmiller 20 phi delta theta house 971 chero kee street as the supply is limited arts and science men notice the brown and white quintette lost to the naval academy five on saturday^afternoon at annopolis by a score of 30-18 in the fastest game of the season although the score appears rather one sided the game was close and well played the navy team has the distinction of giving lehigh her first defeat this season lehigh got the jump on the mid dies and quickly scored two baskets but the naval five quickly caught up to them after that both teams fought along on even terms and at the end of the first half the score was 15-15 the lehigh team was not in the pink of condition that the mid dies were and as a result they could not keep even with them after the first half the second half was a whirlwind affair from the start to finish and the varsity could not hold the pace starting the second half the future admirals made the game safe by scoring four points from the floor their defence was un faultering and lehigh was unable to score excepting by three foul goals by straub the work of hess and wysocki stood out prominently for lehigh while olsen and welsh were the naval team's best assets line-up : navy position lehigh welsh l.f mccarthy w maurer olsen r.f donavan allen c hess martin l.g straub mccarthy r standt r.g wysocki goals from court — olsen 8 straub 2 welsh 2 allen hess 3 w mccarthy donavan wysocki goals from fouls — welsh 4 straub 6 lehigh vs muhlenberg in taylor gym tomorrow next thursday evening at eight o'clock the arts and science club will have its regular meeting an unusually good program is promis ed professor r w blake will give a talk on the work of the edu cational conference held at prince ton this conference was held for the purpose chiefly of mustering together the evidence in favor of classicality and for the defense of a classical education professor percy hughes will talk on the work pertaining to the experimental school at columbia h s bunn 20 will speak on formal disci pline in our modern schools be sides these talks a few of the older arts and science members will give short talks relative to the future work of the club and of the general work as carried on at present in addition to this feast of classical and scientific knowledge there will be a slight repast after the pro gram it is urged by the officers of the club and also by the older members that the freshmen enrolled as arts or science students turn out in order to find what the real value of these programs are notice there will be an important meet ing of the senior class book com mittee tomorrow afternoon at 1.30 in drown hall if there are any seniors who have not yet handed in class ballots they may be pre sented at this time tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in taylor gym the lehigh basket ball five will line up against the muhlenberg quintet in the last game to be played at home before mid-years a hard battle is looked for as there is always keen rivalry between the brown and white and the allentown collegians last year's lehigh-muhlenberg game resulted in a 50-19 victory for lehigh but muhlenberg is out to avenge this defeat or at least to make the game less one-sided last saturday muhlenberg lost to temple university at philadelphia 35-29 while lehigh dropped their first game to the navy so that both teams will be out for a victory to morrow evening insuring a fast and hard fought game the probable line-up for the game follows : lehigh positions m c w mccarthy . f nolde donovan f keechner or maurer or solomon hess c green straub g roth wysocki g freitag the roster for the mid-year ex aminations is as follows : saturday january 19 8 a.m freshmen french german spanish sophomores : english blowpipe analysis physiography juniors metallurgical prob lems electricity and magnetism forestry business law physi ography seniors geodesy business law t , metallurgical problems january 19 2 p.m freshmen american litera ture sophomores chemical philoso phy history juniors dynamo electric ma chinery psychology assaying organic chemistry metallurgy seniors prospecting educa tion metallurg monday january 21 8 a.m freshmen english sophomores : physics eco nomics juniors economics seniors petrography eco nomics bridges public law pale ontology dynamo testing january 21 2 p.m freshmen blueprint jivniors engineering labora tory seniors engineering labora tory embryology investments tuesday january 22 8 a.m freshmen : chemistry sophomores : drawing metal lurgical construction construc tion german jimiors mineralogy metal lurgical construction electrotech nology german seniors metallography ger man mill buildings machine de sign industrial chemistry lab oratory electroteehnology alter nating current machinery january 22 2 p.m freshmen chemistry labora tory sophomores french spanish quantitative analysis juniors french spanish quan titative analysis s c nio rs : electrochemistry french spanish electrochemistry laboratory wednesday january 23 8 a.m freshmen greek physics sophomores latin electric wiring quantitative analysis c e minerology quantitative conference constiutional law juniors strength of materials greek seniors ore dressing electri cal design thermodynamics physical chemistry banking rail roads january 23 2 p.m sophomores machine design e m mineralogy quantitative analysis juniors electric laboratory quantitative conference seniors philosophy dynamo laboratory thursday january 24 8 a.m freshmen latin algebra in dustrial history sophomores commercial ge ography quantitative analysis algebra spherical trigonometry juniors : accounting latin dynamos and motors c e graphic statics petrography alternating currents algebra continued on third page dr s j blum who was for a number of years head-master of nazareth military academy spoke at the regular y m c a meeting last sunday evening in drown holl on the topic of jerusalem the talk given by dr blum was of great interest on account of the re cent capture of jerusalem by the british special music was furnish ed by j h b krell 21 who de livered several excellent violin solos in his address dr blum told about the zionist movement the purpose of which is to establish the jewish people in palestine dr blum also described several points of interest in jerusalem and re lated many of the traditions with which that place abounds the talk given by dr blum follows in part : we see a great deal in the papers today about the capture of jerusalem by the british under general allenby and also about the return of the jews to the holy land the zionist movement the capture of jerusalem is one of the most important events in the history of the war the city has been in the possession of the mohammedans for 800 years with the exception of a few years in the eleventh century after it had been captured by the crusaders since the capture of the city it has been said that the jews especially the zionists will return to the holy land the purpose of zionism is to establish in palestine a nation of which jews will con stitute the majority of the popula tion and where they may look for ward to bonne rule already a fund is being collected for the zionists and for a hebrew university in the city of jerusalem where hebrew will be the language of the univer sity ' ' modern jerusalem is far differ ent from ancient jerusalem the latter being from twenty-five to thirty feet below the modern city jerusalem is in the form of an ir regular quadrangle surrounded by a massive wall twelve feet thick there are seven gates in this wall chief of which are the jaffa gate ond the damascus gate the mosque of omar is one of the most interesting places in the city on entering the mosque it is necessary to follow the mohammed an custom of removing your shoes and putting on slippers because a mosque is considered holy ground after mecca the mosque is the most sacred place to the mohammedans it is an octagon shaped building with a height of about ninety feet and is finely decorated many of it's pillars coming from the old egypt ian temples under the dome of the mosque is a large stone where tradition says abraham brought isaac to sacrifice liim the moham medans have not allowed excava tions to be made in the vicinity of the mosque but now that the british are in control many import ont discoveries are expected of chief interest to christians visiting jerusalem is the church of the holy sepulchre the church is built at the place where christ was buried and is constantly filled 1 by pilgrims from every land who come to worship at this sacred spot ' ' just outside of the city of jeru salem at hebron stands the mosque of hebron which tradition claims is the burial place of jacob and continued on third page wake up america was the theme of dr lyman p powell's lecture in the chapel on friday dr powell who is a graduate of johns hopkins university and who also took graduate work at wis consin university the university of pennsylvania and the philadel phia divinity school is now presi dent of hobart college but recently returned from the french front he has been given a leave of absence from his college and is literally waking up america depicting his experiences the gist of dr powell's address follows : lehigh university has a unique position in this great war because of its engineering and technical work at present the temptation is strong in college men to igo into the trenches technical students should realize this and take steps towards making sure of staying in college their great duty is to con tinue their education and prepare themselves for a more important work when war broke out the united states w t as not aware of the signifi cance of the strugle however this is now past the country is put ting its spirit as well as wealth into the war the soldiers that we have sent over have the right spirit they forget personal danger in their joy of being able to do their share it is for this reason that our forces are so much admired by the english and french they expect great things from america and we must not disappoint them at the end we will find that all our efforts were not in vain ' ' at the time of the first london air raid no fear was shown by the populace for a time these raids occurred every night but they were received with the calm that is in dicative of the spirit of the allies perhaps the happiest place in london is st dunstons wiiere the blind are being taught to read through their sense of touch mar velous advances have been made in the re-education of men injured on the firing line ' the day of the old soldier's home is gone instead of providing for injured men they are taught to provide for them selves which is certainly a great improvement the old oxford and cambridge have gone with the rest of the english colleges after the war they will be re-established practically different institutions will be form ed plans will be made whereby the attendance of americans will be facilitated england realizes that for technical training her col leges _ are outclassed by many american schools along with the many radical changes in the viewpoint of the allies comes the entry of the united states into the war the spirit of america was long on the side of the allies as shown by her many efforts to assist struggling belgium and france the work of the y m c a could not be dupli cated by any other organization continued on third page at the regular monthly meeting of the electrical engineering so ciety held last thursday evening in the physics lecture room the members of the society were favor ed by an informal talk on the con ditions of electric railroads at the present time with particular refer ence to the lehigh valley transit company by mr e c spring of the transportation department of the latter company the other speaker of the evening was prof h m frey of the department of physics who spoke on the cot trell process for removing solid matter from gases in smoke stacks by electrical methods in his talk on the conditions which must be met by the electric railroads at the present time mr spring brought out the fact that the railway companies must meet the demands of the public and satisfy them at all times even under abnormal conditions he said that good results have been obtain ed by cooperation between the fac tories in this vicinity and the rail way company by means of which phss factories let their men out at intervals in order to avoid the ne cessity of carrying all the men at the same time on the street cars the lehigh valley transit com pany has been particularly hard pressed due to the enormous amount of traffic which it must carry from the bethlehem steel works which daily requires the transportation of thousands of workmen to and from their homes mr spring also discussed the pro-posed increase in car fares and explained the various factors which make it necessary for the company to contemplate this all materials which are used by the traction com pany have increased greatly in price and the cost of labor has in creased proportionately so that an increased revenue must be forth coming if the company is to main tain their service the public has become so accustomed to the five cent fare that there is a strong feel ing against an increase in it but mr spring showed conclusively i that an increase in fares must come eventually the speaker also gave an idea of the many difficulties which must be overcome 1 in the operation of the street cars when he mentioned the fact that the snow storms of the past month disabled over eighty armatures and put about forty cars out of commission in concluding his talk mr spring made an appeal to the public to be considerate when the cars are late for some reason or other and to realize what difficulties must be overcome in the operation of the cars in his address on the cottrell process prof fry gave a com plete exposition of the process from the time of its invention illustrat ing it with several experiments in cluding the original experiment by means of w t hich the process was first discovered he also showed a series of pictures illustrating the applica tion of the process to various plants the purpose of the process as prof fry showed is to remove the solid matter from the smoke and gases passing out of the smoke stacks of industrial plants continued on third page the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday january 8 1918 exam schedule for mid=year's appears l.v transit man addresses e.e.s jerusalem's secrets about to be disclosed varsity meets the first reverse of this season vol xxv no 25 wake up america topic of timely college lecture price five cents faculty temporarily takes the thoughts of students from the war dr s j blum points out im portance of capture of holy city at v.m.c.a dr lyman p powell d.d ll.d relates his experiences in war=torn europe e c spring explains task of pleasing public predicts higher fares notice german cruelty true cotrell process shown score 30=18 naval academy easily defeats brown and white in fast game at annapolis suffering of france'and belgium depicted by an*eye witness juniors don't forget to sign up for that epitome sophomores : you too ! freshmen : you also ! !