Brown and White Vol. 34 no. 53

              patterson east orange and newark to be visited on tour new officers forming plans for next year's production ceremonies to take place between halves of la crosse game home team expected to win its second con secutive game open letter to lehigh students custom popular big improvement reasons for separation from national organization given yesterday at twelve-thirty the combined musical clubs left drown hall on an exten sive tour which includes pat terson east orange and new ark ( the trip is well backed by the alumni and a large re ception is expected in each city on thursday evening the club will entertain at public school no 13 a newly erected building in patterson the au ditorium of which is quite large a capacity audience is expected the concert is being given un der the auspices of the east side presbyterian church dav id fluharty's vanities orches tra will furnish the music for a dance after the concert on friday afternoon at three o'clock the club will broadcast from station waam at the chamber of commerce in east orange later in the after noon the university ramblers will play for a tea dance at the woman's club it is rumored that betty bronson will be pres ent as the guest of honor the dance is being sponsored by the art center of the oranges and should be very successful in the evening the entire musical club will render the usual pro gram the club will wind up its trip on saturday night in new ark when the concert will be given in the ball room of the continued on page three wednesday afternoon on the upper field swarthmore took the measure of lehigh's track team in a closely contested and interesting dual meet the fea tures of which were a record throw in the discus by art ba ker the best man in the east in this event last year and a shattering of a dual meet rec ord in the low hurdles by mer wyn hand a steady shower and a fair wind troubled both the compeitors and the specta tors but the performances were generally good despite the ad verse weather conditions baker twice middle atlantic states collegiate athletic as sociation champion and present record-holder in the discus the man who placed third in the 1926 national intercollegiate meet to two stars from the pa cific coast tossed the slippery platter 143 feet 8 1-2 inches this throw eclipsed his own mark which is the swarthmore record his own middle atlantic record of 141 feet and the le high-swarthmore dual meet mark of 137 feet 5 1-2 indie's which is also held by baker it is a coincidence that his day/s work paralleled that of last year against lehigh on which occasion he also broke the dis chs record and finished second to captain cal gisriel in the shot put scoring eight points as this athlete is only a jun continued on page two lacrosse team stevens opposses elections held at college meeting cheerleaders and y m c a officers selected for next year muhlenberg frosh defeat yearlings prof william cleveland thayer 8.a m.a l.h.d professor emeritus of english and literature at lehigh uni versity died last wednesday of heart disease he was affiliated with the university for thirty-one years and in 1925 was appointed pro fessor emeritus he resigned from active teaching in 1925 but still held some classes until june 1926 when he retired he was born in brooklyn new york may 21 1855 in later life he attended columbia university where he was grad uated in 1876 with the degree of b.a a few years following iie went to the university of goettingen where he studied the classical languages there for about one year then he returned to this country and studied at johns hopkins uni versity in baltimore for one year afterwards he accepted a position at hobart college geneva n v as a professor of mathematics about 1892 he went to the pennsylvania state college to teach the mod ern languages he remained there until 1895 at this time professor thayer received an invitation from the late dr drown to come to lehigh and accept the post of professor of english language and literature prof thayer received his b.a degree from columbia in 1876 m.a from williams in 1884 and l.h.d from hobart in 1900 he was a member of the american oriental section philadelphia the oriental club modern language association and other college societies stick-wielders are out to avenge last year's close defeat class meetings a meeting of the mustard and cheese club was held in drown hall last wednesday evening at which time election of officers for the coming year were held a general discus sion of the status of the club was held and the feasibility of giving next year's production during the christmas holidays was discussed at length a committee was appointed to go over the matter carefully and to make a recommendation to the club concerning the time of next year's production the competition for scenar ios and lyrics was opened any man who has any ability at writing or in music who cares to enter either of these com petitions will meet with the ex ecutive committee on tuesday afternoon at four o'clock in drown hall no qualifications are necessary except a small amount of ability and a willing ness to work president ridsdale called t<f the attention of the club that next year was a crucial year for the club and that if it was to continue in the policy of musical comedies a great deal of work and the cooperation of every member of the club would be demanded he spoke of the work done by the retiring exec utive committee and commend ed them on their work in put ting on one of the best if not the best productions that mus tard and cheese has ever pre sented in its forty-three years on the lehigh campus the officers which were elect ed to govern mustard and cheese for the coming year were as follows president w j scarlett vice : president j w mckinnon secretary t m brennan continued on page four t evenly matched rain causes game to be called in seventh . inning the traditional moving-up day ceremonies will be featured between the halves of the ste vens lacrosse game tomorrow afternoon although newly in stituted last year the custom proved popular and a commit tee of seniors has been hard at work trying to make the ceremonies one of the outstand ing lehigh traditions the seniors are supposed to carry canes and wear brown and white yachting caps this week the plans also call for the sophomores to wear brown artists ties and to go coatless and beginning monday and con tinuing all week the frosh have been cutting a section out of their dinks each day the committee in charge desires a greater participation from the seniors and sophs in wearing their respective caps and ties — cooperation in this respect has not been as great as had been hoped for the passing of the tradi tional senior canes to the jun iors beginning with the senior and junior class presidents is the limit of the upper class par ticipation in the exercises for the frosh and sophs further ac tivities are planned the frosh will run the gauntlet of the sophomore class after which the dinks will be piled to gether and burned and the freshmen will be given pipes to begin smoking on the campus the idea of this last class rush is not to rough-house the freshmen but is merely sym bolic of the passing from frosh regulations and a number of seniors will be present to in sure the limitation of rough ness nevertheless freshman attendance is compulsory and attendance will be taken by the sophomores who will enforce a penalty for absence faculty club presents play lehigh's baseball team will attempt to make it two straight this saturday afternoon when it engages the dickinson col lege nine the game will be played in the taylor stadium and will start at 2.30 the brown and white aggregation hit its stride last saturday against franklin and marshall and as dickinson is not strong this year a victory is looked for by the home team's adher ents the dickinson team did not begin its season any more aus piciously than lehigh for in it's first game they were de feated by perm state 7 to 1 they were held to five scratch hits by the state ace page and he fanned fourteen of them the games with bucknell and franklin and marshall were called off because of inclement weather last saturday they defeated bushwick five to one but the latter is very weak this year the team's playing has been characterized by good fielding and it can hold its own along this line the hitting strength of the maclets has been puny all sea son and little improvement has been shown since the opening game with state their two best pitchers garrison and ev erhard are fair and if ever hard is not used in the box he will probably occupy the out field because of his hitting abil ity red and white can be counted on for a good fast fielding team but one that is weak with the stick continued on page three the lehigh team that was beaten by muhlenberg 15 to 5 was a very different team from that which trimmed franklin and marshall last saturday 11 to 4 the game with princeton could not be played because of bad weather and the southern lacrosse matches begin weknesday three act play to be first production in two years confirmation of the rumor which has been afloat about the campus during the last three weeks concerning the separa tion of the lehigh chapter of the y m c a from the na tional and state bodies was officially confirmed wednesday evening two causes were cited by the v president c k zug jr whose letter in full fol lows may 6th 1927 to the editor of the lehigh brown and white : 4 in reply to the editorial in your publication under date of friday april 29th i wish to make the following statements first i wish to confirm the statement made that the lehigh university y m c a is about to sever its relations with the national and state associa tions combined meetings of the senior cabinet and the ad visory board were held decem ber 12th 1926 and april 24th relative to this matter action being taken on the latter date after a thorough discussion of the matter — everyone present being called upon to state his attitude and reasons it might be well to state that the advis ory board consists of two or three members of the faculty of the alumni of the board of trustees of the university and one member from the student body present at these meet ings and in entire harmony with the situation and the re sults were also the president and dean of the university the action taketf was unani mous it was at the suggestion of the secretary fred trafford that we withdrew from the na tional and state associations continued on page four juniors nominate class officers regular meeting of faculty held the inter-class lacrosse matches for the dravo cup will begin on wednesday the elev enth when the freshmen and the juniors will open the festi vities on the upper field the seniors and sophomores will play on friday two days later and the winners of these two matches will stage the final on monday the sixteenth the frosh team this year will be piloted by bullard rop er will captain the sophomores first the juniors and littell the seniors as varsity letter men in lacrosse will be inelig ible this leaves a wide field to anyone desirous of playing those who are interested will turn in their names to their re spective team captains tonight at 8:30 the faculty dramatic club of lehigh will present fanny's first play a three-act play by the eminent british author george bernard shaw the stage at drown hall provides ideal settings for this type of play which correct ly represents the pretentions of the middle class of england characters are supplied by the faculty and their wives fol lowing is the cast mr robin gilbey mr geoffrey gilbert mrs gilbey mrs frank m weida juggins the footman mr arthur w klein miss delaney darling dora mrs weston hyde mr joseph knox mr meredith f burrill mrs knox ■ . mrs fred a bradford the faculty held its regular meeting on monday afternoon at 4 p m among the more im portant transactions were the arcadia petition that no classes be held on wednesday may 4 and on thursday may 12 at 11 a m for the purpose of enabling the students to hold class and college meetings was granted the varsity cross-country schedule the varsity soccer schedule and the schedule for varsity basketball for next year were presented by the committee on athletics and approved there was a change made in the ruling on regular cuts al ternate regular cuts may be authorized only by petition the lehigh lacrosse team meets the stevens team this saturday afternoon on the up per field it promises to be a closely-contested game as both teams have about the same rec ord to date last year altho the brown and white outfit outplayed the jerseyites the latter succeeded in gaining a victory by a one-point margin it was a hard game the lehigh stick wielders have had several strenouous work-outs this week there will be no absentees from the line-up on account of injuries and the team should be in good physical condition hence no alibis will be offered in case of defeat but there will be no need for alibis as the brown and white team feels sure of victory it was noticeable last week that the defense was the weak factor in the team this weakness has been decidedly strengthened as the result of coaching and practice the line-up will be : g ottey ; p kirkpatrick c p concilio f d phyfe s d raleigh t d buck c burke t a stauffer ; s a zahnow ; f a kittinger o h baker i h bieth at a meeting of the junior class last tuesday the following men were nominated for class offices during their senior year : president billmeyer purdy wagner vice-president helmstaedter fearnside mc govern wilson ;, d smith g ; treasurer searing horton willis sickler aitken wer ley secretary homer buck wright straub roberts carl son stauffer historian gil more heilman hill longacre sergeant-at-arms bieth kuch inski the elections will take place immediately after the college meeting to be held next tues day may 10 and it is urged that every member be present in a game played for the greater portion in a drizzling rain and which was called at the beginning of the seventh in ning because of a heavy down pour the muhlenberg year lings defeated the lehigh frosh 5-1 on wednesday afternoon the freshmen's defeat may be charged to their inability to hit the opposing pitcher esch enbach who allowed them only two hits in the six innings the game lasted striking out nine men neither team scored in the opening frame but in the sec ond muhlenberg broke into the scoring column when seiple reached first on an error stole second and came home on a two-base hit by penhell le high did not score until the 4th inning when bennett hit safe ly stole second advanced to third on pfahler's out and came home on allen's sacrifice at the beginning of the third inning it started to rain slight ly but it soon increased mak continued on page three the election of cheerleaders and officers for the y m c a to take effect next year was held at the college meeting last wednesday at eleven o'clock gordon ridsdale and charley zug presented the candidates for election and also announced the dates for the class meetings to elect officers for the coming year the last college meeting of the year will occur next thurs day for the purpose of award ing letters the sword and crescent society will tap the continued on page three the seniors met in coppee hall immediately after the elec tion to discuss finances and the approaching commencement all seniors must have their cap and gown orders placed before may tenth and their cpmmence ment invitations and programs ordered by the end of this week the juniors will meet on thursday at four o'clock for the election of their officers no minations having already been made the sophomore meeting for nominations will be held on friday at noon in coppee hall freshman nominations will be made on friday at twelve o'clock in packer hall brown and white bethlehem pa friday may 6 1927 musical clubs leave on trip swarthmore wins in track meet five cents dickinson meets lehigh batsmen here tomorrow moving=p day to be featured by many traditions vol xxxiv no 53 mustard & cheese holds elections close contest featured by baker's record discus throw prof tbayer dies of heart disease was professor of english and literature for many years retiring 1 925 notice there will be an important meeting of the brown and white board next tuesday at 4:00 p m in drown hall attendance is compulsory stevens lacrosse upper field dickinson baseball taylor field