Brown and White Vol. 25 no. 21

              no sports to be dropped f r pyne gives talk by mr e h bayne solo by miss jenkins general superintendent of u s metal refining co speaks on commercial processes prominent naturalist describes experiences with the wild animals prominent soprano soloist of bethlehem furnishes special music the committee decided that la crosse was to be played as usual and instructed manager jacobs to go ahead with his schedule at a recent meeting of the ath letic committee the following mem bers of the football team were award an l wysocki spagna macdonald johnson young her rington lind w d maginnes rhoad booth a b maginnes and manager aid en those who were awarded l a a are : nolan owen tomlinson goldman pfeif fer stanier lare lucas mcna mara apgar straub the other members of the squad are entitled to their class numerals the fourth annual banquet of the brown and white board was held last friday evening at the eagle hotel bethlehem practi cally all the members of the board were present including the newly elected members and also the freshmen and sophomore competi tors after the repast the mem bers of the board and candidates gave short talks the older mem bers of the board explained the course of the paper for the last few years and stated that it would be necessary for the members to make an added effort to keep going be cause all other activities of the col lege seem to be dropping off owing chiefly to the present crisis in in ternational affairs this is prob ably the only thing which threatens the college paper as well as it is threatening the college course important freshman meeting wednesday chinese club meets the football letter men held a meeting last week and elected george r macdonald captain of the team for next year buckie came to lehigh in 1915 from the boston latin school and has played football since his freshman year last year his first year as a regular he held down the position of center and started at that post this year but was shifted to left guard which position he played for the balance of the year the team also elected j m cole man john g bell and j n mar shall from the sophomore candi dates for assistant manager the assistant manager is elected by the college from the three men nomi nated on december 9 the picture of the football team was taken the picture was taken soon after the announcement of l men was made as was possible because several members of the team expect to enter the service luminescent minerals explained by dr miller the lehigh chinese students club held its december meeting last saturday evening in saucon hall most of the members being present after business transac tion mr smie chou 21 gave a clever talk on the future work of chinese students in china he said that in order to make the work first jig vo to tackle an important meeting of the freshman class will be held next wednesday afternoon at one o clock in packer hall some very important business is to be brought up at this time including the elec tion of class cheer leader and every freshman in the class is urged to tse p^^elrir s t5e^"t5tro l wing tfieii were nominated at the last meeting for class cheer leader s g kay c a hipkins and r h wilson the intellectual defects of our people his speech was enjoyed by all before the meeting was ad journed individual pledges were signed for the relief fund for the sufferers from the devastating flood now existing in north china i refreshments were served civil meet thursday three student papers will be read by members of the society soccer game with penna postponed the mining society will hold a meet in the lecture room in will iams hall next thursday evening at seven thirty p.m the speakers wilt '" bct ? r^?^s"ot*jhj c'&feidt unit or b l miller professor eckfeldt will speak on his trip to mexico the various interesting things that came to his attention and especially the methods of mining the talk will be well illustrated with slides dr miller will speak on lumin escent minerals and will have many new specimens to exhibit since his experiments on polonium con cerning which he spoke upon at the last meet many of his friends have sent in speciments of other minerals of the same type and the action and explanation thereof will be given by doctor miller election of secretary will be held carbonell and johnson being the two candidates at the end of the meet there will be a short musical program and refreshments will be served there was a large turnout at the last meeting of the society and it is hoped that this will be repeated next thursday december 13 is the date for the next civil engi neering society's meet when the following talks will be given : ' ' ser vice test roads of philadelphia by j p ambler 18 ; raising the pittsburgh fort wayne and chi cago railroad bridge at pitts burgh by s b downey 18 and the elm wood park develop ment of the dodson healty cor poration of bethlehem by h n roest 18 spring sports to be retained lehigh course was not marked celled by lehigh cross country dual was can shortening of college term will not necessitate dropping intercollegiate sports no checkers for race the pennsylvania state inter collegiate league soccer contest be tween lehigh and the university of pennsylvania junior team scheduled for last saturday after noon on taylor field was can celled because of the heavy fall of snow which made the field unfit for play the condition of the field at noon did not warrant calling off the game so that the perm players came up from philadelphia to play the game arriving at taylor gym at about three oclock by that time the snow was so deep on certain parts of the field that both referee horace williams of the blue mountain league and referee j connell of the philadelphia referees association agreed that it would be impossible to play the game and accordingly it w r as called off the game will probably be played off in the near future al though no definite date has as yet been decided upon for the contest intercollegiates at columbia next march the many rumors which have been circulated about the campus during the past few days to the ef fect that lacrosse and baseball are to be dropped next spring because of the shortening of the college year are without foundation ac cording to a positive statement given out by h r reiter director of athletics bosey states posi tively that the policy of the ath letic committee is to continue intercollegiate sports at lehigh as long as college is open and that the regular spring sports will be carried out next year with a shortened schedule due to the early closing of college the baseball season will extend from april 3 to about may 8 ac cording to the tentative schedule which is now being worked out by the new management the po continued on third page wild life in the forests of the blue mountains of new hamp shire was the subject of the lee ture given in the chapel last fri day morning by mr ernest harold baynes of meriden n h a well known naturalist the location of which mr baynes spoke is the game preserve belonging to mr austin corbett a wealthy farmer of new hamp shire who having failed to interest his state in the founding of a state reservation established a private preserve this comprises about 26,000 acres and is located in part on old bald peak the highest mountain in the vicinity the reservation is inclosed with heavy wire netting but for the conveni ence of people visiting the place automobile roads run through sec tions of it there are a number of buildings scattered through the reservation which serve as hunting m^puses to which frequent hunting d arties come the latter are per iitfsctr i.of mo rea&un ami it uw animals were allowed to multiply undisturbed a grass shortage would result — a condition which resulted in the loss of many elk a number of years ago throughout the park there are a number of corrals scattered in which various of the animals are periodically gathered for observa tion the moose strangely enough have not done well in the park but the elk seem to thrive very well the elk of which there were numerous slides shown in the lec ture are interesting for their pro tective coloring and are a case of natural camouflage the call of the male is a beautiful bugle note but that of the female a peculiar bark elk are very wary and cause unlimited trouble to a hunter by informing the whole forest of his presence if he has accidentally been discovered during the lecture several ways of capturing deer alive were de scribed one method is that of en ticing them into a wooden struc ture open at both ends and ap parently harmless and then drop ping the side doors over the en trances the entrapped deer are then sorted out led through various openings and crated another method is to post men in different spots and then having them advance in a line drive the animals before them through the forest the line gradually con tracts and the deer are finally di rected into a corral bears also exist in small num bers in the preserve and tracking and killing them is often exciting and dangerous sport the crowning glory of the pre serve are the buffalo herds the movement for the preservation of the buffalo was started twelve years ago and has been entirely successful it is worthy of note that the corbett preserve contains some of the finest specimens in existence in the park one occasionally finds the ground ploughed up this was done by german boars which were imported by hagen beek the boars have very poor continued on third page the metallurgical society elect ed its officers and held its first meeting of the term last friday evening the officers chosen are : president e h flinn vice-presi dent w mitman secretary h heuchel and treasurer . c e blasius the speaker of the even ing was mr f r pyne 06 gen eral superintendent of the u s metal refining co at chrome n j mr pyne said that due to lack of time the college man does not get any training in the economic side of engineering and that is the most important part the man who graduates from college is not sup posed to revolutionize engineering by inventing new chemical process es or discovering new theories but he is supposed to be able to keep cost and losses down as much as possible the big thing in engineering to day is the handling of material the material must be sent through tmt*pr ; tyss i tv i i'i l vie rteus'c n mu i ui t of handling because the handling costs determine whether the plant is going to lose or make money in referring to copper in which he specializes mr pyne said that there are three big things the en gineer has to watch handling cost i slag loss and flue dust loss the american refining company has calculated that they lose eight hun dred pounds of copper per day as fumes which go out of the stack the retreatment of slag too rich to throw away and of the flue dust that is caught is also a big factor the idea is to keep costs and losses down as low as possible the engineer who counts is the man who can take out the last half percent of copper the man who can dispose of a slag at fifty cents whereas it formerly cost sixty he advised that the society study these phases of engineering as it would be an invaluable aid to them after they had left college and entered some plant he then spoke on an invention of his the stratification process j for purifying the foul electrolytic solution obtained in electrolytic re fining the electrolyte in copper refining consists of sulphuric acid and copper sulphate the electro lyte tends to stratify that is the copper sulphate being the heavier will settle to the bottom and the sulphuric acid will rise to the top another evil is that the impurities accumulate in the solution the stratification is caused by the form ation of a heavy solution at the surface of the anode owing to the solution of copper and the forma tion of a lighter solution at the cathode owing to the plating out of the copper unless the degree of stratification is impeded the deposit at the bottom of the cathode will be a large lump which more than like ly will cause a short circuit of the tank the deposit at the top of the cathode will be a mealy copper of very poor quality and a copper that will have to be retreated continued on third page to prevent this stratification the electrolyte is circulated the rate of which is different at various plants this article which appears below is an exact reproduc tion of article appearing in the november 28th issue of the lafayette continued on third page the annual lehigh-lafayette cross country run which was scheduled to take place before the football game last saturday was cancelled by leonard sargeant the lehigh track manager the lehigh team which was so decisively defeated by lafayette in the middle states championships plainly side-steped the race by making the condions unfair the issue at stake was simply a matter of having a sufficient number of checkers along the course as the thomas l lawton of philadel phia spoke at the regular y m c a meeting last sunday evening in drown hall on the topic jesus christ in life mr lawton has addressed the y m c a meetings in previous years and his talk last sunday evening was a character istic one special music for the evening was furnished by miss jenkins of bethlehem who de livered an excellent vocal solo in opening his talk mr lawton said that when one looks back over the years since the death of christ and tries to put his mind in the position day and time of christ's life two things press to the sur face these are the shortness of christ's life as he was crucified in his thirty-third year and the short time for which he preached only three years yet jesusi told the disciples that it was expedient for him to go and that he had finished the work he was given to jlo _^ ______ to t;ne layman if looks astf w work had just been begun and men with a reasoning mind wonder how to account for the confidence he had in leaving unfinished the work after telling the disciples that it had been completed and for the prophecy he made this is ac counted for in the bible in the words i come that you might have life and that you might have it more abundantly thus christ came to place life into the world and he continually taught about life in his teachings he put things in the oriental way and for this reason we do not understand them as well as orientals christ had a difficult task to teach w t hat he came into the world to teach namely that he brought life into the world sometimes we have difficulty in taking the state ments of christ and we think that we are compelled to believe the statement alone christ said that the greatest wit ness to the testimony that he came to bring life into the world was the works which he performed this is shown in that before he went we have the failure of peter and afterwards the boldness of peter and john jesus taught that there was an inner life to be taken into consideration as well as an outer life lack of life explains why there is so much churchianity and so little christianity worshipping with the lips and not with the heart constitutes churchianity the most intensely fascinating word in the world is the word of christ the bible the bible is the book of life and to read it is to renew your strength men from the trenches believe that only one thing will meet their conditions and that is the gospel of jesus christ the life they lead explains why people have joy in spite of persecu tion why they have peace in the midst of discord why they love their enemies a d wn v they are happy in we^-doing it is always necessary i 0 conform our thinking to the truth and not to conform the truth to our thi mn at the meeting of the representa tives of the colleges comprising the intercollegiate wrestling associa tion in new york last saturday it was decided that the annual inter collegiate matches will be held on march 22 and 23 at columbia up to the present time arrange ments have been closed for five matches in which the lehigh mat men will compete while other meets are pending among those pending are a meet with theusaacs manager downey announces that the complete schedule will be ready tor publication within two week's the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday december 11 1917 l a a committee awards letters metallurgists elect officers brown & white board holds annual banquet thos l lawton v.m.c.a speaker price five cents macdonald elected 1918 football captain camouflage first by nature vol xxv no 21 j m coleman j g bell and j n marshall candidates for assistant manager fourth annual banquet at eagle hotel is well attended by staff and candidates protective coloring provided for elk shown by slides in college lecture first meeting of society this term is held last friday evening well known at lehigh having spoken here in previous years seventeen members of this sea son's football squad receive their letter