Brown and White Vol. 50 no. 17

              it has long been a source of dis cussion among student and faculty to use the chapel more often and now under the canterbury club's instigation president williams has sanctioned the use of the mem orial chapel for seasonal services this is the first of the planned programs the next will be the annual christmas service on dec 12 the canterbury clubs are non sectarian religious clubs formed at several universities the lehigh chapter is composed of 20 episco pal students student clubs offer thanksgiving rites engineers are favored for first time since 1936 over marquis who has won only 3 this season by wayne riddle tomorrow lehigh's determined football team will face la fayette for the 76th time and will seek its 28th win in the na tion's oldest series both teams are primed for this their most important game for the first time since 1936 the engineers will be favored to win over their great rivals lehigh is enjoying its best season rally begins 7:15 tonight e kenneth smiley director of admissions will be the master of ceremonies at the lafayette rally tonight at 7:15 in grace hall an nounced j harry brindle m e 45 chairman of the arcadia rally committee coach george hoban and ber nard w deehan bus 43 captain of the football team will be in troduced by mr smiley as the main speakers of the evening the walter okeson trophy to be given to the class sponsoring the best football rally will be presented to the president of that class by dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy the university band and the cheerleaders will be on hand to lead the students in songs and cheers the seven best freshman skits will be given instead of the usual 40 or 50 these seven skits were chosen last night frosh to wear pajamas immediately following the rally the freshmen will light their an nual bonfire after the bonfire the traditional pa jama parade through the town will start the route of the parade will be across the new street bridge to broad street and down past the boyd theatre to main the group will then swing past the hotel bethlehem and halt at moravian seminary where the lehigh men will serenade the wo men a large turnout is expected for this big annual affair the frosh are particularly interested in the height of the bonfire since the possible cancellation of freshman regulations is involved the finalists after last night's competition are delta upsilon delta tau delta alpha tau ome ga sigma phi epsilon sigma phi richards i and richards iv-a easton authorities claim vandalisms at lafayette lafayette college is taking no chances on the extra-curricular activities and pre-game enthusi asm of the visiting lehigh stu dents this weekend says an article in an easton paper the authorities claim several vandalisms have already been committed on the campus such as chalking and daubing college buildings with to hell with la fayette slogans this week the presidents of the student councils of both colleges signed a non aggression pact to curtail further damage lafayette has taken steps to protect some of the statues by wrapping them in canvas in six years while the marquis are having one of their worst in recent times to date the maroon has won but three and lost five however all records and probabilities can be thrown to the winds when lehigh plays lafay ette five seniors will be playing their last game for the engineers to morrow these are captain bernie deehan harry clarke tom buck ed cavanaugh and bob bird dee han and clarke have been team mainstays all season while buck bird and cavanaugh have seen ac tion as placements lafayette — the underdog lafayette the underdog for a change is doing all in its power to prepare for the game last week they sacrificed a game to the lake hurst naval team by playing only their third and fourth stringers thus taking no chances on injuries hampering their chances against lehigh during this week the mar quis have forsaken scrimmage and are holding secret practices sup posedly planning new plays to be used tomorrow lafayette will have seven men playing their final game captain chuck nagle and bill mcknight both backs are the most impor tant of these while the others are sam alexander quarterback and john svenson joe braido bill kresge and ramsey maddock on the line these men have beaten lehigh twice and will be out to finish their college careers with out a loss to the brown and white after their narrow escape with dickinson lehigh should not suf fer from overconfidence coach hoban has been putting the squad through offensive drills this week and should have the engineers at tack functioning smoothly tomor row to have same line-up the starting lineup for lehigh will probably be the same one which has started most of the games with brownlee and hal shoener as ends clarke and jones at tackle kurtz and meserve as guards and shafer at center be hind the line will be deehan at quarterback herb shoener and moravec at the halves and szy makowski at fullback the probable leopard team to face the engineers will have ser gy and svenson at the ends with braido and dodd as tackles mad dock and kresge at the guard posts and saylor as center alex ander should be at quarter mc knight and ciemniecki the half backs and nagle at full besides a victory over lafayette the brown and white will have a chance to cop the middle three title for the first time since 1936 and bring the brass cannon to bethlehem both teams have downed rutgers and tomorrow's game will settle the issue so far this season the maroon continued on page 5 how to get to la fayette and if you haven't already so planned be sure to leave early the trip to easton is about twelve miles and much time is consumed in getting to and into the stadium noon is a safe time to start lehigh valley station limited trolley leaves hour ly at 20 minutes to the hour from broad and new streets bus leaves every hour on the hour from third and new streets and at ten minutes af ter from broad and new streets train leaves at 10:13 from students puzzled as to how to get to easton for the game satur day may be able to make use of the following schedule of public transportation for saturday morn ing leonard hall tops summer averages the all-university average drop ped from 2.057 to 1.968 in one sem ester living group averages for the summer semester were released wednesday by the office of the registrar leonard hall holding highest spot for several yeafs came through this time with a 4.00 aver age because two men frank w voelcker arts 44 and richard r williams arts 45 the only stu dents living there during the sum mer semester are both 4.00 men sigma alpha mv now second rose from twenty-second place continued on page 2 price — 5 cents bethlehem pa friday november 20 1942 lehigh will seek its 28th win in 76th clash against lafayette vol l — no 17 goalposts stolen from lafayette one of the lafayette goal posts is safely stored away somewhere on south moun tain an unidentified student told the brown and white by telephone that a small band of marauders had torn down one of the goalposts on monday night with no resistance from lafayette students and that it would be used in the bonfire tonight such an act was in direct opposition to the peace pact signed between the two schools recently robert p whipple ch e 43 president of arcadia lamented the ac tion and said that under the circumstances such a deed was in extremely bad form navy board to interview next week dr per k frolich research di rector of standard oil develop ment company and president-elect of the american chemical society who will speak on the rubber problem at 8:30 o'clock tonight in packard auditorium victory dance follows game may be last chance to join navy reserve a full recruiting board from the office of naval officer procure ment will be on the campus mon day tuesday and wednesday nov 23 24 and 25 to interview exam ine and swear in students desir ing to enter the v-l and v-7 pro grams of the navy the examinations will be held beginning 8 a m each morning these will take place in the audi torium on the second floor of drown hall and in the examination room at the west end of the floor students wishing appointments if they have not already done so should leave their name at dean congdon's office students will be given definite apointments on one of these three days they will present their ap pointment cards to the recruiting officer when they report other wise they will not be interviewed unless it happens by accident that the recruiting officer is free enlistment papers in anticipation of the interview and examination next week each student seriously intending to en list in the navy should present at the time of the interview the pa pers listed below if all these pa pers are completed and can be presented at the time of a stu dent's appointment next week and if he satisfactorily passes the phy sical examination he can be sworn into the navy v-l or v-7 program at the time without completion of parent's consent forms . following is a list of the neces sary papers birth certificate properly exe cuted with signature and seal of the registrar of vital statistics or continued on page 2 in a recent meeting of the in terdormitory council it was de cided that there is no reason why the students shouldn't have two things they've been waiting for — a victory over the easton rivals and a good post-football game dance therefore a victory dance is be ing sponsored by the interdormi tory council after the lafayette game on saturday night from 9 to 1 in grace hall with the expect ed victory over the leopards the dance ought to be a big success jim mulhern bus 43 and his lehigh collegians will provide the music the price of admission to the dance is 1.10 per couple and ser vice men in uniform will be ad mitted free of charge the affair is to be informal and all members of the student body are invited to attend this is the first campus dance engagement of the year for the collegians chaperones for the dance are prof and mrs fay c bartlett and capt and mrs samuel pierce the dance committee is composed of roy l duncan jr arts 43 and n leland wilson jr ch e 43 homecoming climaxed with lafayette game the schedule of alumni events for the annual homecoming be gins tonight with dinner meetings and smokers and will be climaxed tomorrow with the lehigh-lafay ette game expected to draw the largest crowd in several years the local alumni office does not venture an estimate of the number of alumni expected to return this week-end for many reservations are being cancelled because of sudden business engagements and transportation difficulties the week-end started unoffi cially last night when some fac ulty members including members of the coaching staff and local friends of the university met for dinner with the philadelphia al umni club at old bookbinder's res taurant in philadelphia presiding at the directors meet ing will be james h pierce 10 president of the association fu continued on page 6 this evening will see two din ner meetings at the bethlehem club those of the board of direc tors of the alumni association and the council of class agents alumni begin weekend of many events a thanksgiving service will be held in lehigh's packer memorial chapel this sunday at 4 p m un der the sponsorship of lehigh uni versity and the moravian college for women canterbury clubs dr e frank salmon of the holy trinity church in philadelphia will be guest speaker the very rev erend roscoe t foust and the reverend theodore t johnson both of the pro-cathedral church of the nativity of bethlehem will officiate at the ceremonies and the lehigh university glee club will sing in the choir for several years dr salmon has conducted sunday radio ser vices from his pulpit in philadel phia the service will be non-de nominational as are all university services brown & white lehigh university very reliable advices coining to my attention seem to indicate that this may be in fact the last opportunity for lehigh students to voluntarily enlist in the naval reserve program all students should be warned and advised to take immediate steps for enlist ing in reserve programs whether of the navy the marines the army air corps or the enlisted reserve corps of the army unless they prefer to await being called into service by their draft board under the most recent act of congress lowering the draft age to eighteen so reads part of dean congdon's latest and very important an nouncement regarding reserve enlistments the complete story is found on the first column of this page if you are not yet in the reserves do not fail to read the dean's latest information this concerns your future