Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 3

              many important matters discussed hello hab it falling into disuse succeeds andy buchanan who resigns to accept position elsewhere team expected to make strong comeback in game tomorrow membership drive for lehigh union mercur and seligson espe cially good — both win titles condition good extensive program of acti vities planned for com ing year definite plans will be complet ed very shortly for carrying on the membership drive for the new lehigh union the un ion which was formerly the le high branch of the national y m c a is anxious to carry on a very extensive line of activi ties this year and is therefore bending as much effort as pos sible to have every student in lehigh become a member of the organization practically all the freshmen learned of the lehigh union during their week of lectures and orientation and can realize its value fred trafford the secretary of the union in charge of housing was of constant aid to the new men he is also in charge of an employment bureau to help those students who de sire to work in their spare time the officers of the lehigh union are w b billmeyer president g w fearnside vice-president and e g bar too secretary at a meeting of the officers of the union to be held next week plans will be definitely formulated for secur ing a one hundred percent mem bership o d k arranges autumn plans it is true that classes have been held for only a few days but the junior class has decid ed that the work this year shall not become a drudgery at least not if they are able to prevent it and measures have already been taken to see that nothing of this undesirable nature shall take place the juniors have for sometime been negotiating to have a play at the college on the night of october 4 the proposed play the servant in the house which has a very well known cast will be given at drown hall on the night be fore founder's day the servant in the house which is one of charles rann kennedy's latest successes was produced by earnest hanes and charles allais the cast is headed by allais who has play ed in the theatre guild's new york productions of audrocles and the lion and juarez and maximillian his most recent appearance was with richard bennett in the baker at the blackstone theatre in chicago the supporting cast of the play includes jane carr frank howson edwin s fulcomer betty boice john c davis and arthur jacobson the produc tion is being rehearsed by mr kennedy at his theatre in mill brook n v and the scenery is being designed by miss kate lawson who is the technical director of the theatre guild in new york hanes-allais inc has attract ed the attention and secured the interest of some of the fore most associations in america among them the drama league of america and the national associations for american speech it is hoped that this play which is enroute to sioux city will prove to be a per manent highway for the great new york productions of the future discussion of eligible mem bers is purpose of first meeting the band began its activities last friday with a preliminary meeting which was very well attended about ninety men registered at this time the prospects for one of the best bands in the history of the uni versity are very bright and a great deal of promising mater ial has responded to the first call an unfortunate rumor that the band was filled to capacity has turned away many candi dates this rumor is not en tirely correct as there are still many vacancies left especially are there places open for men who are able to play any of the brass wind instruments and also for those who have had ex perience with the drums the officers of the organization state however that they have more than enough saxaphones at present the men in charge of the band are charles fox manag er edgar watkins leader and david fluharty librarian all of these men are very capable and they are doing everything in their power to promote an active season the program for the coming year has not been definitely de cided but the activities promise to be numerous as usual the band will play at the home games here at taylor field it has been officially announced that the band will accompany the football team to princeton and if financial aid is forthcom ing it will go to the villanova game at philadelphia and to the rutgers game at new brunswick at present the members of the band are working hard to make the best possible appear ance before the university dur ing the game this saturday and also for their part in the foun der's day exercises oh that day the band will lead the acad emic procession and will play continued on page six positions open on burr board editorial staff to be enlarged lehigh's gridiron machine feels that it is all set to run smoothly and that it will break into the scoring column with a bang in its game with ursinus tomorrow little is known of the opposing team but it shapes up as being quite heavy and fast it has played only one game to date giving upsala a beating last saturday by a 27 to 0 score coach percy wendell deter mined to make this a success ful season has put the men through long signal drills sup plemented by dummy and break ing through practice as the team now takes a definite form its rough snots are being smoothed out several new plays have been tried emphasis be ing put on savage close line play and on running plays with close line formations heavy scrimmage was held on wed nesday and thursday with both the varsity subs and the scrub teams against the first team the general impression that the team gave in its first ap pearance last saturday against st john's is that the forwards are heavy and fast the back field somewhat light and inex perienced but as a whole the team looks well balanced the punting problem is still unsolv ed but it looks as if johnston will be called upon to do most of the kicking the team seems to be in good condition excepting for one or two men it looks as if oiler is lost for the season with a strained ligament olmstead at end and art lehr center seem to be showing rapid improve ment if conditions are favorable tomorrow's game will provide plenty of excitement since the men seem to be taking more of an interest in their work and feel instilled with that old le high spirit competition for art and editorial staffs of monthly at the meeting of the arca dia on monday night quite a bit of important business was transacted the first action taken was the election of carlson to the board of control next fox asked the arcadia for financial support in sending the univer sity band to philadelphia on october 22 the day of the vil lanova game he stated that probably one hundred dollars would be needed a motion was made and passed that the ar cadia help to the extent of one hundred and fifty dollars if needed it was suggested that each member of the arcadia be re sponsible for the collection of the arcadia fee from the mem bers of the living group of which he is the head because of the action of jack petrikin a new arrangement of the seats in the stadium has been made this arrangement giving more and better seats to the student body was approved by the arcadia the election of freshmen class officers was mentioned it was decided that the temporary president be elected immediately after chapel on wednesday the election of permanent officers for the year will be held shortly after founder's day the arcadia decided that the annual founder's day hop would be held on tuesday night october the fourth the com mittee in charge of the dance is composed of messrs morrison wilson and fisher the hello habit was given quite a discussion it seems that the freshmen are not continu ing this old lehigh custom and that as a result it is rapidly falling into disuse the fresh men must remember that altho they are not held as strictly to this as to other rules neverthe less this is a part of their freshman regulations and they should obey it however they should not be forced to obey this ruling for every lehigh man should be glad to aid in the continuance of this old and familiar college custom this completed the business of the evening and the arcadia adjourned lehigh booters to play temple sophomores and frosh to be added — competition now under way packard lab to be built soon first actual game of season on lehigh field tomorrow almost complete plans for new building are john w maxwell who was graduated in 1926 and has since been with the bethlehem globe times will become assistant editor of the alumni bulletin to succeed andy buchanan who has resigned to take up work in new york maxwell enters upon his new duties im mediately johnny as maxw c 1 1 is known to the present upper classmen who are acquainted with him through his numerous will limit himself to the job of activities of undergraduate days assisting in the editing of the bulletin and of relieving oke son alumni secretary of cer tain portions of the work of tliat office mr buchanan since his graduation in 1918 has been assistant alumni secretary and publicity man for the uni versity in addition to his other work however maxwell will have nothing to do with the work of either of these posi tions his records as an under graduate adequately prepares him to step into buchanan's shoes as assistant bulletin edi tor his acquired experience in a wide variety of extra-cur ricular work is acquainted with much of lehigh history and has experience along editorial lines besides working for his de gree of b s in business johnny was editor-in-chief of the brown and white editor in-chief of the epitome chair man of the senior class book committee and a member of the burr business staff be cause of this journalistic rec ord he was chosen president of pi delta epsilon national jour nalistic honorary for his work in athletics he holds letters in track and cross country other activities including the student secretaryship of the y m c a before that organiza tion became the present le high union placed him among the most versatile and active members of the class of 1926 he was president and a char ter member of omicron delta kappa lehigh's only national senior honorary fraternity and he was likewise a member of sword and crescent the oldest senior honorary mr buchanan will continue at his present duties until some time in october when it is un derstood he will go to new york to become editor of chemical and metallurgical engineering a magazine pub lished by mcgraw-hill co notice subscribers if you have not received your brown and white please fill out the blank on page two plans for the erection of the electrical and mechanical buildings are almost complete last spring four professors dr richards and an architect vis ited some fifteen colleges to ob tain ideas and suggestions on this type of building the or iginal plans have been revised time and again until now they are ready to be submitted to the board of trustees for ap proval if these plans are ap proved by the board next week a definite site for the structure will be chosen at that time the actual digging of the founda tion will be started this fall provided that the plans are ap proved and the bids received within a month or so if there is an unexpected delay work will not be started until early next spring if the present plans can be used the building will cover ap proximately nine-tenths of an acre and will have a total floor space of two and seven-tenths acres these figures give an idea of the magnitude of the continued on page six during the several days of hard practice since last week's game with the wanderers le high's soccer team has been striving to strengthen the weak spots made apparent in that game with only four veter ans about which to build his team coach carpenter has much work ahead the four men back from last year are captain damiani robinson wagner and kramer these men are hard and willing players but without assistance from the rest of the team lehigh must ex pect great difficulty in establish ing a successful season however it is quite likely that the new men will furnish able assistance to their older team-mates the team's suc cess on the soccer field will be decided during the next few weeks of practice continued on page six although about fifty men have reported for practice coach carpenter would like to see more booters upon the field especially would he like to see the freshmen out at the first call for these men a dearth of material was noticed inexper ience is no handicap for it is all burr competitors are strongly urged to attend the meeting to be held friday eve ning at 7:30 p m this in cludes all those who wish by virtue of their contributions to get on the art and editorial staff of the lehigh burr at this time the competition will be discussed as well as the qual ity and type of work wanted all work which can possibly be completed by that time should be brought in as credit will be given for it the competition is open main ly to freshmen but sophomores and juniors will also be con sidered though in a separate class the competition will continue through the second third and fourth issues positions on the burr art and editorial staff are highly prized and it should be the aim of every freshman to get start ed for one of those positions nothing is gained without hard work and this is no exception but the rewards gained are quite ample for the labor expended during competition weekly meetings will be held each wed nesday in the burr office stu dents wishing to enter the com petition and unable to be pres ent friday evening should get in touch with the editor j a covert competition for positions on the editorial staff of the brown and white began tuesday aft ernoon when thirty-one mem bers of the sophomore and freshman classes reported at four o'clock in the brown and white office this competition will continue for a period of from six weeks to two months at the end of which time rec ommendations will be made to the entire staff of the newspap er it is expected that twelve men will be added to the pres ent force the men to be elected at the close of the present competition will become associate editors eight of these will probably be selected from among the frosh competitors and four from the sophomore candidates altho this number will increase the normal size of the staff the en largement is felt to be justifi able because of the plans that are being developed and which look to improvements in the publication students who desire to com pete in this editorial contest are still eligible provided they re port at the brown and white office at four o'clock either thursday afternoon or tues day afternoon of next week before many more weeks will pass there will be a fall tap day for omicron delta kappa lehigh's national senior honor ary fraternity three students who are prominent campus leaders will be chosen because of their records in athletics scholarship journalism social leadership or any other non athletic activity omicron delta kappa was founded at washington and lee and now has chapters in the east south and middle-west each chapter consists of a chos en number of men selected by a point system its membership is made up of a definite num ber from each field of activity who meet twice a month to dis cuss college questions and offer solutions and suggestions for them the lehigh chapter which has been in existence for three years is composed also of three faculty members and alumni even in its comparatively short life omicron delta kap pa has innovated great im provements and plans for the university through this ac tive group of leaders came the change of method in election of athletic managers the annual freshman theme contest the limitation of activities plan which has just been completed valuable suggestive improve ments for the college publica tions and numerous other stu dent activities by the aid of this same organization the prior memorial gates at the gymnasium were erected continued on page six lehigh past and present was active in tennis during the sum mer fritz mercur julius sel igson neil sullivan last year's captain and al trumbull cap tain-elect for this year all played in numerous tourna ments mercur outstanding varsity player of a few years back was far below his usual form at the beginning of the season he was beaten by harold lane of philadelphia and by ben gor chakoff of california in early tournaments but showed a flash of his real ability in carrying manuel alonzo to the odd set in a hard fought match at phil adelphia mercur found him self at seabright one of the major tournaments of the year after beating a number of good men in the early rounds he again met manuel alonzo sec ond ranking american player in the quarter-finals and defeat ed him in one of the finest matches of the season in the next round he met francis hun ter a member of this year's davis cup team he lost the first set smothered hunter's hard-hitting game in the second and lost the third and deciding set by misfortune rather than bad play the lehigh valley cham pionships in august and the central eastern pennsylvania championships just completed at allentown were very much lehigh in atmosphere mer cur seligson sullivan malloy prof carothers and epstein were entered in the lehigh val ley seligson put out malloy in the quarter finals and sullivan in the semi-finals and met mer cur in the finals the match was one of the best ever played in the lehigh valley both men playing tennis of the finest kind seligson had commanding leads in both the first and second sets but mercur was unbeatable and took the match in three straight sets winning on condition rath er than superiority of play as both were playing tip-top ten nis with little to choose between them in the doubles seligson and prof carothers beat sul livan and malloy last year's first-string varsity team in the semi-finals the final of the doubles between seligson-car others and mercur-mcgann had to be postponed and will be played next sunday at the northampton country club which is having at the same time exhibition matches between some of the country's leading players in the allentown tournament sullivan beat trumbull in the quarter-finals in a close hard fought match in which both men played well sullivan lost to gilpin of philadelphia in the semi-finals mercur came through in the finals against gilpin after five hard and well played sets in the doubles trumbull and lawrence an old lehigh player got as far as the semi-finals where they lost to gilpin and olhausen in the finals this same pair upset pre dictions by winning a hard match from mercur and sulli van seligson was in new york winning the eastern turf court championship and had to default in the allentown tournament like mercur's seligson's game was in-and-out during the summer at times he was bad ly off his game at others he played the remarkable tennis continued on page six bethlehem pa friday september 30 1927 play presented by junior class band prospects are promising vol xxxv no 3 maxwell to be new assistant alumni editor arcadia holds first meeting price five cents lehigh tennis stars make good showing during summer ninety men register at opening practice last friday lehigh brown and white the servant in the house to be given in drown hall mercur seligson sullivan and prof carothers meet in important tennis matches of east brown and white meets ursinus on gridiron burr competitors there will be a meeting of all burr editorial and art competitors friday evening september 30 at 7 : 30 o'clock in the burr room drown hall all possible material should be brought in at that time bathrobe parade saturday subscribe to the brown and white