Brown and White Vol. 34 no. 54

              dickinson drops baseball game to b $ w nine five cent 3 inspection trip includes dinner and talks at princeton traditional event revived by interested alumni association phi club at the college meeting on thursday the phi club hon orary sophomore society will presents silver cup for permanent possession to the freshman who has done the most for athletics this year eminent economist ad dresses l v engineers club on materialism four home runs excellent support given brady in one-sided contest varsity lacrosse team shows decided improve ment in winning 9-4 zahnow stars baseball team loses to penn lehig h trackmen bow to n y.d equal opponents in num ber of first places but lose 82-44 outhit opponents in fray but drop contest by 8-6 score a traditional campus event abandoned for the past few years will be revived wednes day morning when the alumni oratorical contest sponsored under the auspices of the le high university alumni asso ciation takes place in the main lecture room of saucon hall at eleven o'clock all the members of the uni versity and their friends are cordially invited to attend these exercises unfortunately class es will be held as usual at that hour as it was impossible to ob tain suspension of classes for this time it is hoped that the students who are free at eleven o'clock will take advantage of this opportunity and express their interest by attending in former years it was cus tomary to hold this contest on washington's birthday such were the plans for this year but due to unexpected differenc es the contest was postponed until now the affair will al most be an innovation to the students now at lehigh for very few of them were here at the time of the last contest six contestants f d ber mah a r levy p middleton l m vonschilling a a dras er and j w flory are each limited to speak terr~irrirrmtes upon a subject of his own pre paration it must express gen eral interest to be considered as a possible prize-winner at torney robert s taylor r park hutchinson and j a frick all lehigh ' graduates will act as judges one hundred dollars have been donated by the alumni association for the awards which are divided into two main groups one for engineers and business men the other for b a.'s twenty-five fifteen and ten dollars are the cash prizes which will go to the first second and third places re spectively this is applicable to the two divisions princeton university gave the members of robert blake so ciety a wonderful reception on their inspection trip last fri day the men who are re cruited from the department of psychology philosophy and education are naturally inter ested in whatever will serve to broaden their concepts of things at princeton they saw exponents of physics biology psychology and philosophy ac tively engaged in probing into new realms the most impor tant thing they carried away with them was the realization that neither physics nor biolo byj nor psychology nor any of the other sciences can exist in dependently the tour was as worthwhile to the engineer as to the philos opher primarily because of the interdependence of these two in the physics research labs the men saw physicists working with the atoms professor compton head of the lab dem onstrated and explained in viv id terms the actions of their great spectroscope telling of the trials that present them selves when the ultra violet rays are pierced he also ex plained the apparatus which discloses the behavior of mole cules when they are struck by electrons in princeton's marvelous bi ological museum the visitors directed by e j conklin were given an immense view rep resentatives of thousands ot species of life both plant and animal with their baffling sim ilarities and differences lay open to study the research lab for psychology also . held many interests for the society its apparatus sound-proof room dark roms in fact every thing connected with it revealed the fact that psychology has a field of tremendous expanse in which to explore dr langfeld head of the department briefly expressed princeton's attitude n psychology stating that they lean toward behaviorism link ing the biological closely with the psychological continued on page three last thursday evening the lehigh valley engineers club held its annual dinner at the hotel bethlehem floyd w parsons the well known econo mist and publicist discussed in his usual clean-cut way general scientific and economic ques tions this club is an organi zation that binds together the local chapters of various nation al organizations of engineers the report of the nominating committee was heard and the new officers inducted into of fice thomas e butterfield professor of heat engineering at lehigh was elected vice-pres ident before the main talk of the evening short talks were heard from various members of the club and among those who spoke were professors butter field beaver fuller and lar kin of lehigh mr parsons talk was entitled is it twi light or dawn he presented a hasty panorama of history from the beginning and gave his ideas on some of the possi bilities of what the future holds in store probably the high light of his address was his discussion on materialism in the first place he argued that material ism is here to stay in spite of the most vigorous protests of some people and he stated fur ther that it is far better than the superstitions and half-bak ed theories of yesterday he added because it emanates from the head is no reason why it is lacking in heart in fact we would be quite lost today if it were not for this great force which demands that we give first consideration to life's real ities he went so far as to say that materialism will find remedies for many of the existing ills of today he predicts that this great force will eventually make the church more crowded than the theatre and will change ed ucational methods so that pro fessors will receive more pay than bricklayers and carpen ters in his discussion he continued on page four lehigh university calendar new annualßelay carnival staged coming from behind in the seventh the perm batsmen humbled the b & w on frank lin field last wednesday after noon although lehigh gar nered twice as many hits as perm loose fielding and failure to bunch the hits was respon sible for the last minute defeat knoblauch started his first game of the year for perm and for three innings his good pitch ing held lehigh scoreless how ever in the fourth fifth and sixth he weakened and allowed two runs to cross the plate each inning when stanford relieved him in the seventh le high was leading 6-5 but stan ford's splendid twirling put an end to further brown and white tallies this victory is the sixth consecutive one of the season for stanford who has yet to be defeated hesse pitched a good game for lehigh but loose fielding detracted from his chances for a victory and the failure of the brown and white to bunch their hits of which they had thirteen to perm's seven was the principal reason for defeat the team although not playing up to the standard of the franklin and marshall game continued to show a vast im provement upon early season performances • continued on page four annual moving-up day successful last saturday dickinson's baseball nine went down to de feat at the hands of the le high batsmen the rather one-sided battle was staged on taylor field and the final score was 12-2 the hard and timely hitting of the home team paved the , way for an overwhelming vic tory dickinson started at bat but after one strikeout and two put-outs the south mountain eers came to the plate and started off with a bang flynn was put out by an infield hit rosenson followed and was walked due to the wild pitching of garrison the visiting pitch er and in a moment he stole second jack hayes the brown and white captain with a per fect swing knocked a long hit over the right field fence scor ing a home run nevins got to first and o'callaghan sacrificed bringing nevins to second base talbert stepped up to the plate and seeing his opportunity hit a pretty two-base hit which al lowed nevins to come in bram ble the lehigh shortstop was next at the plate he knocked the ball for an easy three-base hit forcing talbert home which made the four runs of the first inning the game ran on about the same way throughout nevins knocking out a homer in the next frame there is no doubt that dickinson was conquered by a better team the main trouble with the visitors seemed to be the lack of good pitchers three substitutes were sent in • for relief on the other hand praise may be handed to brady the lehigh southpaw altho he was touched for ten hits he was effective in the pinches the improved fielding of the brown and white infield was demonstrated when they allow ed only two runs to be scored during the whole game in spite of the many times they were threatened the team as a whole deserves credit for the improvement they have shown since the beginning of the sea son the track team received its third and most decisive setback of the season when it met the strong and well-balanced new york university squad on the latter's home grounds at ohio field new york city on sat urday the 82-44 trimming came as quite a surprise to the brown and white cohorts who expected a much closer result after the impressive showing which kanaly's men made against the championship swarthmore team earlier in the week the defeat can again be attri buted to a weakness in substi tute material lehigh held its own in victories brown and white men winning seven of the fourteen events but the violet squad accounted for ten and a half seconds and twelve thirds while the kanaly en tries were almost supreme in the track events they were no ticeably weak in the field le high runners won all but two races but don straub was the only wearer of the brown to finish first in a non-track com petition coach yon elling's proteges made clean sweeps in the mile run and the javelin and discus throws and scored eight out of a possible nine points in the pole vault in defeat lehigh supporters can point with pride to the stellar performances of a num ber of their athletes the out standing competitor and the only double-winner of the dual meet was a visitor frank clay ton speed merchant of the bethlehem aggregation clay ton was a victor by more than five yards in the 100-yard dash in fast time and also won a close decision in the furlong which was run around avturn three other lehigh runners bill billmeyer ken chickering and merwyn hand scored im continued on page four civils to stage final meeting tennis team wins and loses meets the lehigh lacrosse team de feated stevens last saturday af ternoon in one of the nicest ex hibitions of stick-wielding yet witnessed in bethlehem the score was 9 to 4 the second largest score rolled up by a brown and white team in sev eral years although lehigh met defeat at the hands of rut gers and n y u it eradicated both those ' losses by winning from stevens who has already beaten n y u and tied rut gers it was an interesting game to watch both teams played a hard and clean brand of ball and the penalties for roughness were few and far be tween the day was ideal and there was a huge crowd in at tendance stevens threw a scare into the home team within the first minute of play by annexing a goal but lehigh's equalizer was not long in forthcominng once the brown and white were in the lead they were never ser iously threatened stevens scored their second goal and assumed the lead for a few minutes but before the half was over lehigh had scored three more goals leaving the count 4 to 2 in the second half the le high attack proved an effective scoring machine their passing game was practically flawless and they repeatedly brought the ball within shooting distance five of their attempts were successful although they did miss numerous wonderful chances to score by inaccurate shooting stevens rallied for a moment and tallied two goals within the space of two min utes but this marked the end of their scoring continued on page four both the attack and the de fense are to be commended for their excellent playing ; the loose method of guarding that was so prevalent in the rutgers game was completely gone charlie lattig deserves the greater part of the credit however because it is by his careful and patient guidance that the team has fi nally come into its own the type of game that was exhibit ed last saturday is the type of game that charlie has been striving to perfect all season he wants a fast passing game rather than a hit-and-miss type frosh lose close fray to maroon atone for dartmouth de feat by overwhelming w & l lafayette yearlings defeat b & w nine in pitcher's battle 3-2 racqueteers have meets this week the yearling batsmen lost a hard-fought game to the la fayette yearlings saturday when the brown and white weakened in the seventh inning and enabled the visitors to send three runners across the home plate the final score was 3 to 2 the game was a pitchers bat tle between strauss and mul berg a giant right hander the latter had the edge of the con test fanning sixteen brown and white batsmen he was touch ed for eight hits while strauss held the visitors for six safe drives the yearlings had a one-run lead up to the seventh inning the game was lost in the sev enth inning by a misjudged fly in center field which fell safe and brought in two of lafay ette's runs continued on page four between the halves of the la crosse game last saturday the events of moving-up day were carried out the first event was the advancement of the freshmen to sophomores the freshmen ran through a gaunt let of sophomores and when they arrived at the end threw their caps into a bonfire they were then given pipes which they can henceforth smoke on the campus after this the two upper classes formed two lines facing each other and while the band played the alma ma ter the president of the senior class handed his cane to the president of the junior class whereupon all the seniors handed their canes to the jun throughout the whole week the seniors wore brown and white yachting caps and the sophomores wore flowing brown artists ties each day the freshmen cut ofle square out of their caps beginning on monday so that on saturday only the outlines remained the committee of the senior class which was in charge of these events was composed of j h farrell r s gould and s l nevins the junior committee consisted of c l wright g w fearnside and r j purdy the varsity tennis team will engage in three meets this week tomorrow they will open their campaign by play sity netmen this will be the feature of the week as both teams are known to be very evenly matched ing swarthmore on the courts at the steel field this match is expected to be rather easy for the brown and white net men as the swarthmore squad is not reputed as being very strong the b and w players have regained a great deal of confidence after beating wash ington and lee by such a de cisive score perm state will visit lehigh on friday as a dark horse in asmuch as little is known of the strength of their team it is difficult to predict the outcome of the match but a good one is assured on saturday the team will journey to new york city to face the new york univer thursday afternoon the de partment of physical education promoted another succesful in novation in the line of inter living group sports when the first annual mile relay cham pionship was staged on the up per field delta upsilon fra ternity represented by a quar tet of fast runners won the in augural race in 3 wrinutes 44 2-5 seconds averaging about 56 seconds per man which is good time considering the fact that none of their contestants had trained particularly for the ev ent the race which is open to all fraternities dormitories social clubs living groups and eatinp clubs and which will be held annually during the first week of may hereafter aroused con siderable interest among the student body this was evi denced by the fact that nine teams participated and a largo group was present to witness the event coach morris kan aly was official starter and tim er pete morrissey served as field judge and assistant pro fessor fay bartlett generally supervised the proceedings on ly students who had qualified for the varsity track team this continued on page two the civil engineering so ciety will hold its last regular meeting of the year tomorrow evening in the physics build ing at eight o'clock the fea tures of the meeting will be the nomination of officers for the ensuing year and an illustrated lecture by mr w rudolfs vp t on sewage treatment and changes occurring during the process mr rudolfs who is chief of the new jersey sewage exper imental station is known to be a lecturer of unusual interest and his thorough knowledge of his subject promises to make this lecture a fittiner climax to a most successful year this lecture will follow the routine business probably the most important item of which will be the nominations for of ficers the regime of the pres ent officers has been most suc cessful and they would like to see a good turnout at this their last meeting of the year the usual eats and smokes will add to the attractivenes of the pro gram although scheduled to win the lehigh net men sustained a crushing defeat at the hands of dartmouth who showed un expected strength in the match played on the steel field courts last thursday with the defeat hanoverians smashed their way brown and white captain the of neil sullivan the versatile to an overwhelming victory winning eight out of the nine matches partridge the green and white first singles man played an exceptionally fine game when he defeated neil sullivan in straight sets 6-4 7-5 although neil was slightly off his usual game turnbull proved to be lehigh's only win ner by gaining an easy deci sion over malloy of dartmouth turnbull and doty got off tp a splendid start in the doubles but were unable to maintain continued on page three wednesday may 11 4:00 p m varsity baseball vs william and mary taylor field 4 00 p m varsity tennis vs swarthmore lehigh field 8 00 p m meeting of the civil engineering society physics lecture room mr w ru dolfs chief of the new jer sey sewage experiment sta tion will give an illustrated lecture on sewage treatment nomination of officers re freshments • thursday may 12 11 00 a m college meeting at flagpole friday may 13 4:00 p m varsity tennis vs perm state lehigh field 7 30 p m meeting of the elec trical engineering society physics lecture room pro fessor esty will talk on trip through europe . saturday may 14 3:30 p m varsity baseball vs lafayette taylor field inttr-scholastic track meet taylor field twenty-five schools competing prelim inaries at 10:30 a m ; finals at 2:00 p m 7 30 p m meteing of mechan ical engineering society wil liams hall inter-scholastic track meet bethlehem pa tuesday may 10 1927 speaking contest held tomorrow mr parsons talks before emgomeers brown and white vol xxxiv no 54 stevens receives first setback from lehigh blake society visits nassau high r h o a e lynn rf 1 2 0 0 0 osenson if . . 1 2 4 0 0 ayes cf .... 1 2 3 0 0 levins c .... 0 1 3 1 0 t'callaghan 3b 1 1 1 1 0 albert 2b ... 1 2 1 2 1 iramble ss . . 0 1 1 4 1 tccombes lb 0 1 11 0 0 lesse p 1 1 0 4 1 totals 6 13 24 12 3 enn r h.o a e homas if ... 2 1 1 1 0 armstrong 2b 1 1 0 2 0 lonnel c .... 1 1 9 0 0 remper cf . . 1 1 3 0 0 juniors any juniors who did not secure canes for the moving up day exercises may get them from c l wright at the kappa alpha lodge last college meeting thursday oratorical contest tomorrow