Brown and White Vol. 26 no. 21

              bethlehem pa friday february 7 1919 navy grapplers to meet lehigh freshman class holds meeting prof palmer lectures on germany new york five here tomorrow price five cents mr kenneth hamilton speaker at y m c a muhlenberg snowed under vol xxvi no 21 ratification of proposed consti tution with amendments interesting meet to be staged at annapolis tomorrow lehigh takes second game of year from allentown rivals fast game expected with men who have defeated amherst and wesleyan score 37=11 muhlenberg leads at half time but unable to score in second half donovan to play gardy tollin and savaria com peting for other forward positionsj mr kenneth hamilton son of bishop hamilton and graduate of moravian college will be tfhe speaker at the y m 0 a meeting next sunday evening mr hamil ton is connected with the student volunteer movement and hasi had many unusual opportunities dur ing the great war to sice and study the conditions of the prison camps during the first three years of the war he visited over sixty-five camps which include camps on both the allies and entente sides the last year and a quarter he was in switzerland helping the govern ment with the refugee conditions he will tell of his experiences 1 while a'biroadi mrs john leibert one of the baich choir soloists who is well known in the bethleihems will favor the meeting with several vo call selections prof mckibben gives concrete column data article appears in recent issue of engineering news records the new york university five are scheduled to be lehigh s next opponents the game will be staged in taylor gym saturday after noon at 2 30 o clock the visitors are no mean aggregation and will present a strong line-up fresh from victories over teams such as am herst and wesleyan coach geary recognizing a diffi cult proposition in saturday's con test has carefully drilled his team in methods of attack and defense laying special emphasis on the working out of signals during this week's hard practices donovan who played his first game of the season last saturday is even im proving over the fine showing he made then and is fast stepping into his mid-season stride the other forward position is un certain gardy tollin and savaria being the most likely candidates the pivot position will probably be taken care of by stewart al though bump and marshall are close on his heels as to playing but lack the pep-instilling qualities of the former jumper straub and frain are still first choice guards although ketcham is also likely to be used tom thorpe of columbia will referee the game saturday is expected to be both closely-contested and hard-fought but with a crowd on hand for support and the team at its best the brown and white should emerge victorious civil department entertains faculty prof mckibben reads paper on the colleges and the war tests made in fritz lab this week the wrestling team journeys to annapolis to meet the navy grapplers on february 8 navy has always had a strong team of matmen but the lehigh squad has been doing some fine work and the meet should prove one of un usual interest billy sheridan has been working the squad pretty hard lately and all the men are in good shape the final results in the tryouts are as follows 115-pound class g childs threw grubbs in four minutes grubbs however did well and promises to be a close competitor for the 115-pound representative in future meets childs will be on the mat at the navy meet in the 125-pound class bevier won from naame getting a fall in seven minutes bertolet 135-pound weight threw locke in a closely contested bout locke wrestled well but lacks the experience of bertolet wuerz did not compete the prelims in the 145-pound class were won by loeser coxe and wright hollinshead who wrestled in the ailentown meet was unable to tryout due to a bad shoulder loeser who threw coxe and wright will wrestle in the navy meet the final in the 158-pound class was won by badham after a close bout with f bergdoll booth 175-pound weight lost to manley who will represent lehigh in this weight booth then tried out for heavyweight but lost to j bergdoll in four minutes wasser lost on decision to j bergdoll who will wrestle heavy weight for lehigh manager devout has not yet re ceived the navy line-up the le high line-up will be as follows : 115-pound class — g childs 125-pound class — k m bevier 135-pound class — j bertolet 145-pound class — e m loeser 158-pound class — j badham 175-pound class i—m.1 — m a manley heavyweight — j bergdoll philadelphia club holds meeting in a recent issue of the engi neering news uecords professor mckibben iieaa of the civil engi neering department gives some interesting data on the increase of strength in concrete columns pro duced by compressing the concrete the columns were approximately 5 feet long and 14 inches in di ameter composed of 1 2 4 concrete some of them were molded without pressure while others were com pressed during the molding they were subected to compressive loads varying from 160 to 260 pounds per square inch each of these columns was molded in five layers of 12-inch depth and each layer was compressed by means of a plunger the ordinary concrete columns weighed 147 pounds per cubic foot as against an average of 153 pounds per cubic foot for the compressed concrete columns while the ordi nary columns failed by crushing the compressed columns failed more suddenly splitting longitudinally for a considerable portion of their length the compressed concrete showed a much higher ultimate strength those tested at the age of 28 days gave an average com pressive strength of 1774 pounds for the uncompressed concrete as against 2680 pounds per square inch for the compressed concrete prominent alumni in the service relate experiences of the other side soccer prof palmier s lecture on ger many given on tuesday to the class in war issues was one of special interest and instructive ness in that a vivid description of characters of the different types of germans formed the main topic of the lecture prof palmer gave the title to his lecture ' ' german people as i have seien them in it he traced most vividly the natural and histoiricail conditions which have madle the people of various parts of germany possess the char acteristics by which they are best known of speicial interest was the dis cussion of the dialects spoken by these individual groups of ger mans some of which are quite for eign to people of provinces in other parts of the country than that in which they are spoken emphasis was liaid upon the dialect of the people of south germany this dialect peculiar especially to the country touching the swiss border is almost a foreign language to 1 the german of middle or north ger many illustrations of three types of germans were taken from three of prof palmier s persotoail acquaint ances each of these friends com ing from a different part of ger many possessed individual char acteristics of his homeland the germans of the northern part of the country are those of very robust build having the physicail characteristics of a nor wegian and rural englishman the german of this section of the country is not one with whom friendship is easily made the germains of the middle part of the country are better educated and more frdielndly toward strangers while those of south germany are the germanis most generally known to an american as having a big heartedness and friendliness to ward his neighbors and being of a peaceful and jolly nature the muse for despise of ger many by the allies was attributed by prof palmier to be due to the character of the officers of the ger man army these officers are of the more highly educated class and are determined to have every whim fulfilled these officers are the only ones responsible 1 for the cruelty desire to ruin and com mit the atrocities that have been known since the beginning of the wair a pelaisant soldier when commiainded by bis officer is com pelled to carry out hisi wishes fail ure to dlo so being death before a firing squad en the following morning the german peasant is a most peaceful anid contented be ing desiring only to live happily and peacefully chapel music allentown pa feb 5 — muhlen berg's hopes of beating a lehigh team were given another severe jolt wednesday night when our basket ball team beat the allentown aggre gation by a 37-11 score the small muhlenberg court ham pered lehigh considerably in get ting started so muhlenberg cracked the ice by scoring a foul goal as the first point of the game it was not long after this that lehigh got go ing and after a snappy bit of pass work donovan dropped in the first field goal of the game which straub followed with one from the foul line from then on lehigh played a better brand of basketball than the allentown five and they would have completely jeinehed the game in the first half had one quarter of their shots been effective the le high defensive especially frain hud thf mn hi en berg passes inter cepted clean and they repeatedly broke up plays that looked good for point-winners while lehigh was missing practically all of their shots from the floor muhlenberg with the aid of a good foul shoooter was able to gain a five-point lead which frain cut down to one point when he shot a beautiful goal from the center of the floor and then re peated it within a minute the score at the end of the first half was 11-10 for muhlenberg the second half proved to be a farce for donovan started a deluge of scoring that never stopped with a clean goal from the floor not only did the lehigh five carry the ball down the floor and drop it in the basket for score after score but they also played such a clean de fensive game that muhlenberg was unable to score a point from either floor or foul line during the second half gus savaria was substi tuted as forward and he worked the same hard way that has given him his name while due credit must be . given donovan for his scoring from the floor stewart for his floor work frain for his defensive work and scoring and straub for his foul shooting the line-up : lbhigh ■ muhlenberg positions maurer forward nolde donovan . . . forward green stewart center erb frain guard .... schleicher straub guard ...... mover substitutions : savaria for straub goals : donovan 6 ; frain 4 ; stewart 2 ; straub 2 ; green 2 ; schleicher savaria foul goals straub 7 out of 9 ; mloyer 5 out of 5 referee frogner time of halves 20 minutes notice the civil engineering depart ment had ais its guestsi at an in teresting meeting monday evening the entire faculty and instructing corps of the university the meeting which was held in two different buildings on the campus consisted of two parts the first part of the programme was a paper by prof mckibben his subject being the colleges 1 and the war ' ' in this talk prof mckibben discussed at length col lege training and the 1 war meth ods off improving colleges 1 , deple tion of colleges due to the con flict courses presented by emerg ency schools during the period and the s a t c continued on third page following the talk the meeting adjourned to fritz engineering laboratory where an exhibition was given of the use of testing machines the tests being run in part by the oivil engineering in struictnig corps and in part by studentsi in the department prof fuller gave an interesting talk on reinforced concrete girders malnufalctured for the u.s ship ping board and a series of tests on wednesday afternoon at 3 30 p.m t'hie freshman class held a meeting in packer hall the pur pose of which was to ratify a con stitution elect a class historian vote on class colors and decide on a class yell anid motto the proposed constitution was presented by the chairman of that committeie and after certain amendments were made the consti tution was adopted as follows : art 1 name this organization shall be known as the class of nineteen hun dred and twenty-two of lehigh university art 2 members the organization shall be eom posied of men first entering the university with that class and who ar-e in good standing also it shall include those men entering 1 later who are scholastically considered with this class art 3 objects the objects of this organization are to carry on business such a;s v =•■'■' id fall on a class of this uni versity ; to take a prominent part in all college affairs and activities both schoimistic and social and to advance unity and friendship be tween the miembiersi of this organi zation individually and collec tively art 4 this organization shall have full power and authority to levy col lect and disburse funds for the general purpotses of the organiza tion provided however it does not tax any singli member of the organization without justified cause art 5 officers section i the officers of the glass of nineteen hundred and twenty-two of lehigh university shall be a president vice preisident siecretary treasurer sergeant-at-arms historian and such other officers as may be deemed necessary at any future time sec 11 election of officers for election of any office providied for in art 5 sec i a member must receive the majority vote of the members of the class who voted in the event that a vacancy oc curs among the officers new elec tions shall be held at a time desig nated 1 by the president art 6 duties of the officers s'eo 11 the vice-president shall in the absence of the presi dent perform the duties of the president section i the president shall be the executive head of the class ; shall preside 1 ait all meetings 1 when present shall have tihe 1 power to call a meeting at any time that he deems necessary shall have the power of appointing committees sec 111 the secretary shall keep the minutes of all the meet ing's conduct all of the organiza tion'ss correspondence ; and con duct the meeting itn the absence of the 1 president and viee-p resident continued on third page sec iv the treasurer shall collect bandies and pay out all money on bills 0 k,d by the pres ident and passed on by the class university organist t edgar shields has announced the follow ing qbapeil music for the week of february 10 monday — allieigro handel tuesday — berceuse macfarlane wednesday — prelude and fugue e minor bach thursday — march clark friday — pastorale bach the philadelphia lehigh club held a meeting at kugler's last fri day january 31 1919 about 125 lehigh alumni were present the speakers were major biddle philadelphia s only ace ; lieutenant peddy it s n r ¥„ surgeon in the sth marines ; lieutenant h m search 15 aerial observer ; dr h s drinker mr f a daboll presi dent of the alumni asosciation and walter r okeson secretary dr h r price president of the board of trustees also gave a short speech continued on third page major biddle expressed his con tempt for the propagandists who were trying to belittle our allies and their services in the recent con flict major biddle has seen much active service and serving in the french aero forces did consider able flying in flanders over the english and belgian lines as a an amendimjent to the constitu tion of tihe cites of 1922 is to be voted on wednesday february 12 at 12 o'clock in drown hall the amendment readisuais follows a vote of two-thirds of the class is necessary ah officers of the class of 1922 must be elected by written ballot the soccer team is slowly round ing into shape practice is being held every day on the upper field no garnets have beien played so far the manager hate scheduled onei game and others will be secured in the near futune gonzolez has beien elected as temporary captain and he with the help of ted esteis is getting the team in good shape the number at practice has been large jacobs amid wilson are doing well asi for wards with g-iilman and mercur brewer has been playing goal among the mien who are back from previous years and are help ing the team are satherwaite and coffin who has returned from the naval aviation ned claxton who left ooll'eige two years ago promises to be a sbiig asset to the team lehigh brown and white