Brown and White Vol. 31 no. 17

              vol xxxi no 17 printed and maileu at doyloslown pa w b keim 95 talks on bridge erection lehigh athletes seriously injured on saturday house party a huge success price five cents soccer team wins 3d league game conrad hoffman speaks in chapel of problems of european students weil-known relief worker tells many fair visitors enjoy fine two-day program of festivities alfred proves easy for lehigh wholesale substitutions are made by baldwin as brown and white wins 21-0 fast playing by brown and white men downs opponents in important game capt fernandez is injured hoffman badly hurt was large attendance arcadia's rules obeyed dean expresses appreciation office of the dean j i nov 19 1925 s js gentlemen i ; i wish to congratulate the com ; ; mittees in charge the fraternities ; ; and all the men of lehigh on two ; ; of the best conducted college ; ; dances i have ever seen anywhere ". t i felt sure that soch dances were '. ! the kind of social affairs which ! s lehigh men really l want and enjoy i : and i believe that every man and jj '. every girl who attended those ! | dances will look oack upon them • • with unalloyed pleasure and enthu | ; siasm if things went equally well ; ; at the house parties proper i do ; ; not see how there can be any ; ; further criticism of these occasions ; ■ c m meco'nn ; arts and science club meets former lehigh registrar now swarthmore's dean talks on joseph conrad hoffman varsity guard and fernandez soccer captain in st luke's hospital lehigh had two serious casualties in the games play ed on saturday in the foohrth game with alfred university hoffman varsity guard suffered a double fracture of the right jaw in the soccer game with swarthmore captain fernan dez of the lehigh team was ac cidentally kicked in the back and his right leg is paralyzed both men are at st luke's hospital the injury to hoffman will mean that the giant guard has played his last game for le high as he is a senior always a tower of strength in the line his loss will be keenly felt in the game with lafayette on satur day it is not expected that hoff man will be permanently disfig ured but it will be some time be fore he is completely recovered the loss of fernandez who has been high scorer in the pennsylvania state league for three years will be a serious blow to the championship as pirations of the brown and white team as it is improbably that he will be able to play again this year fortunately fernan dez will recover although at first it was feared he might be permanently disabled epitome going strong the epitomo committee is progres sing very favorably the competitors for business manager have been ex ceptionally ac|ive jin soliciting ad vertisements for the year book and many of these men already have a great number of points to their credit new ads count extra credit as is the case with cash paid for at once for the advertisements tsohrited if is not as yet too late to enter the com petition although those who enter ed earlier have the advantage prominent lehigh alumnus ad dresses civil engineering society mr w b keim c e , a grad uate of the class of 95 gave the civils an interesting talk on bridge erection on friday night november 9 mr keim discus sed some of the problems met with in the erection of bridges and steel buildings and told how they were solved he covered the subject of derricks and dif ferent kinds of rigging which are used in bridge erection and explained the procedure by which a bridge is erected from the time that the steel arrives on the site until the final mem ber is in place he also gave the cause of some failures that have occurred in the process of erec tion and told how they might have been avoided he included in his talk several of his person al experiences which were most interesting the talk was ac companied by slides among which were some of the cam den-philadelphia bridge which is now in the process of erection a student paper was present ed by william r drake 24 on pre-cast concrete bridges which explained how these bridges were cast in forms in the yard in sections and then trans ported to the bridge site and swung into place by means of locomotive cranes after the meet refreshments were served in the electrical's seminary room the next civil meet will be held on friday de cember 14 when mr b a hal deman chief of division of city planning and municipal engi neering harrisburg pa will address the society mining society hears canadian lehigh harriers come in third physics lecture room filled to capacity to listen to prof houltain university runners show up well in middle states inter collegiates siegmund runs very well illustrated by films annual pep luncheon to an audience which prac tically filled the physics lecture room on thursday evening professor h e t haultain professor of mining engineer ing at the university of toron to showed in an unique way tho results of his research in ball milling and crushers the lec ture was under the auspices of the mining and metallurgical society but invitations had been sent out to men of the cement industry in this district and a large number of them attended the work of professor haultain t'nd his colleagues so interested ihe officers of the american in stitute of mining engineers that i.hey requested him to make an extended trip to various educa tional institutions in the states to show his results lehigh perm state and lafayette were visited in this region continued on page 4 column ii in the business meeting which preceded the address the soci ety after some discussion voted in favor of the proposal to make ir>embership in the various course societies compulsory for men enrolled in that course in the opinion of the speaker joseph conrad is assuredly a master craftsman in a unique style but as a novelist scarcely ranks with the final greatest in the discussion which followed the talk conrad's probable in fluence by the modern realist school of european writers was pointed out other members compared the work of conrad with that of kipling a champion of british imperialism after a short introduction bringing out particularly the fact that this master of the en glish language is a pole who knew no english until nineteen years of age professor walters read selections from conrad's lord jim the selections read gave an idea of the characters and plot as well as the style of this most typical of joseph con rad's works further snatches were read from some of the es says of this author giving a sug gestion as to some of his per sonal beliefs and feelings at the meeting of the arts and science club on friday evening professor raymond walters dean of swarthmore college and formerly registrar of lehigh university had for his topic the works of joseph conrad instead of dwelling on the life of conrad or making a i cut and dried criticism of his works professor walters chose to read informally some of the author's writings it was evi dent that the speaker is consid erable of a conrad enthusiast for his very excellent manner of reading seemed 1 give the true spirit of the author read author's writings swarthmore went down to a 1-0 defeat before the fierce at tack of the lehigh soccermen saturday afternoon on taylor field the game was fast and ferocious throughout and marked by much rough playing but the little quakers were no match for coach carpenter's well drilled squad and were con tinually on the defense it was the good work of r test the garnet's goal keeper that prevented a larger score the lehigh forwards continually shooting the ball into his arms during the entire game the ball was almost wholly in swarth more territory the visitors nev er seriously threatening the le high citadel several times on long kicks the ball rolled into lehigh's half of the field but only long enough for trumbore or clothier to connect and send it back on the offense batz mercur and nevins starred batz scor ing the only point just before the end of the first half swarth more kicked the ball over their own line giving lehigh a corner kick the sure toe of nevins sent the ball in front of the goal posts and batz cleverly bounced it off his head into the net le high had several chances during the game but the stiffening of the swarthmore defense pre vented any further scoring in a fierce moment of scrim maging lehigh's territdry in the first half neely swarthmore's c f was inadverently tripped in a tussle for the ball and fell with such severe force as to fracture his right arm above the elbow the fighting for the re mainder of the period was car ried on dangerously close to the cardinal's goal line but valiant work by their backs prevented another lehigh score the ball had hardly been put in play following the making of the goal when heath who had been engaged in a slight scrimmage with fernandez missed a vici ous kick at the ball and struck the lehigh captain in the back fernandez was carried from the field unconscious and rushed to the st luke hospital where it was found that his right leg was paralyzed an x-ray examina tion revealed a concussion of one of the muscles of the back which was exerting a pressure on the spine at the time of the writing of this article his con dition was improved but the physicians expressed doubt whether he will be able to play again this season the swarthmore game was the third league game played thus far only lafayette re mains the scores are as fol lows haverford 0 lehigh 3 continued on puye /,, column k verne booth of johns hop kins led the field of thirty-six runners with the time of 36.43 minutes burdette of swarth more and kaplan of union finished in third and fifth places t continued mi page 3 column 5 the lehigh harriers were bested at the tape by the rut gers team led by frank powell with a low point score of 36 fol lowed by lafayette with a score of 39 lehigh with a score of 72 was followed by new york university with 87 and dickin son with 91 the brown and white runners concluded their season satur day by taking third place in the middle atlantic states inter collegiate a a cross country championship run over the six and five-eights miles course at vancortlandt park new york mr conrad hoffman was the speaker at the college lecture at packer memorial chapel last friday mr hoffman is a grad uate of the university of wis consin had a prominent part in taking care of the doughboys during the world war and is now actively engaged in student relief work among the colleges of europe and asia minor mr hoffman has been in almost every university in the world and at present has his headquar ters at the university of gen eva he has done extensive trav eling through europe the bal tic states asia minor and the scandinavian countries mr hoffman's speech brought out a number of exceedingly in teresting points concerning stu dent life in the countries he has visited and his address proved a remarkably wide acquaintance with his work there have been twenty-two new universities ettablished in europe since the war some of which are the first that a coun try possessed as is a latavian university at reiga in russia alone six new university centers have been organized while in cszeko-slovakia and poland the new governments have removed rulings that prohibited native colleges and a number have con sequently been founded in the central european countries alone there are over 500,000 students or over double the number preceeding the war this phenomenal growth has been occasioned by the retarded entrance of students during the war and the piling up for two or three years following the close of the war in central european countries there are over 14,000 refugee students from poland urkran ian countries and asia minor a large part of these are home less and unwelcome shoved from city to city and country to country the majority have lost their passports and identifica tion papers that are very neces sary requisites for travel among the european countries the in ternational students relief body alone making it possible to travel by their arrangement with the border authorities in czseko-slovakia it is ex tremely difficult to find housing quarters so the students utiliz ed old cafes for dormitories by installing rude bunks and board tables for eating purposes cases of starvation where the students were so weak it was impossible to leave their lodg ings were very common and there were also several instances of deaths among the men and women due to starvation des pite these hardships they carri ed on with their education and continued on put/c //, column 8 best automobile routes to bethlehem for annual classic lafayette and brown both won saturday grid contests in its pre-lafayette game on taylor field saturday afternoon lehigh had little trouble in de feating alfred university by a score of 21 to 0 the visitors were outweighed by the lehigh men and furnished a good try out for the important contest next saturday with two ex ceptions the lehigh squad came thru he game in good shape but one of these is considerable of a blow to the lehigh team in the second period bill hoff man veteran right guard emerged from a scrimmage hurt about the head and examination in the field house disclosed that he suffered a double fracture of the right jaw hoffman playing his fourth year of varsity foot ball was one of the most de pendable members of the team and his loss is keenly felt with the exception of storer and merrill coach baldwin started his first team mcgold rick again playing left tackle while lingle who has been out for several weeks on account of injuries took storer's place at left halfback before the end of the first half a number of sub stitutions were made so that for most of the game a second string backfield bore the brunt of the lehigh attack the superiority of the lehigh team is shown in the fact that the brown and white made twenty-five first downs to two by alfred one of the latter com ing through scrimmage and the other by a forward pass in the closing minutes of play the le high attack was confined almost entirely to straight football but three forward passes being at tempted two of which were successful the work of the lehigh re serve backs showed up particu larly well lingle was knocked out in the second period and had to be carried from the field but before his injury made a num ber of sensational gains in slashes off tackle and end runs from a kick formation although playing in hard luck for the last two seasons in this game he showed his old speed and dash pryor was unusually successful on a double pass in which he carried the ball time and again for large gains around right end with his knack of sliding around the end and reversing his field at just the right moment he was a hard man tor the alfred sec ondary defense to stop substi tuting for greer at fullback le vitz gave a fine exhibition of line plunging captam springsteen won the toss and elected to receive gardner kicked off to jacobs who fumbled but recovered on his own twenty yard line le high was penalized fifteen yards on the next play lingle fumb led a bad pass but recovered on the one yard line lingle then kicked to midfield alfred was forced to punt but regained possession of the ball when le win fumbled on his twelve yard line on the fourth down with alfred in possession of the ball on lehigh's eighteen yard line gardner attempted a goal from placement from the twenty-six yard mark which went low rushes brought the ball to mid field where the brown and white team was held for downs alfred could not make the dis t&nces ho lehigh regained pos session of the ball from a high punt by gardner on their own forty yard line lingle and greer brought the ball to the thirty yard line lewin sent a pretty drop kick sailing through the goal posts from the forty yard mark alfred kicked off to the thirty-five yard line jacobs and continued on page i column i the brown and white has compiled the following automo-i bile road guide for the benefit of people attending the lehigh lafayette game on november 24th in general the roads con verging at bethlehem are in very good condition and the drive from any direction should prove very enjoyable new york to bethlehem — j new york to newark via plank i road ; newark to morristown : via irvington ; morristown con j tinue through mendham long valley and washington to phil lipsburg and easton easton to i bethlehem total distance — 84 miles condition of road good macadam with several stretches of concrete new jersey high way number 9 marking red white and blue keystone philadelphia to bethlehem — philadelphia ambler souder ton sellersville quakertown center valley bethlehem to tal distance — 60 miles condi tion of road good macadam concrete and some macadam in | poor condition extending about 10 miles alternate route through doylestown and easton mainly concrete with short stretches of good macadam to tal distance — 84 miles scranton to bethlehem — scranton stroudsburg dela ware water gap bangor eas ton bethlehem total distance — 88 miles condition of road good macadam and concrete pennsylvania state route num ber 1 lackawanna trail mark ing white black white bands the annual pep luncheon preced ing the lafayette football game which took place cor the first time last year will be held in the commons on thursday noon tickets will be on sale at 50 cents each in the bursar's office on tuesday afternoon from one to tour and no one will be admitted without a ticket there will be no chapel exercises on thursday and the student body is requested to get up to the commons as quickly as pos sible the fraternity houses are re quested to omit the noon meal on thursday cheering practice for the entire college will be hnld on friday aftornoon and a large turnout is de sired notice mr s g harris student v secre tary has returned from his honey moon and is holding his usual office hours in drown hall students are urged to use his services in any mat ter at all in which he can be of ser vice the v has been of aid in furnishing employment to a number of students and has also provided en tertainment in the sunday meetings which are held in drown hall at which prominent speakers talk on subjects of student interest the next sunday meeting will be shortly announcod in these columns house party over and the fair visitors returned to their homes the three happy days of excitement are but a pleasant memory of the past the long weeks of preparation of setting the houses in order cleaning up and making conditions pleasant tor the function ended in the ar rival of the young ladies friday afternoon the bethlehem sta tions were crowded with beauti ful girls at the arrival of every train and more than one young man in search of his friends walked up to a stranger with woi'ds of welcome only to find that he had made a mistake and to find some one else come up and walk away with the girl he had thought was his own the crowd finally straightened out however the girls carried to their destination and house party had begun back at the houses introduc tions were made with the young ladies despairing of ever remem bering the names of all who were presented to them ad journment was soon called how over to dress for dinner after which the dances of the evening were in order the inter-fraternity dance in drown hall was the first l%£ge dance of the week-end the committee favored decorating the second floor with palms rather than the usual elaborate decorations the well-known louis cohen orchestra had been engaged to render suitable mu bic and they proceeded to en liven the evening with strains of dance music the gathering was great and the few stags who were present had every op portunity of having a good time although the dances were rath er long all had a very enjoyable time dancing to the excellent music a halt was called at two o clock and all descended to the first floor where refreshment were served saturday morning classes were a hardship for those who had attended the dance the night before and the few or no hours of sleep that morning did not keep many of the men from doz ing off in classes the girls were envied in not being required to rise until time for lunch the alfred football game claimed all saturday afternoon end could the stadium have spoken it would surely have said that the young ladies were the prettiest ever seen within its folds the incident when cap tain springsteen earned the op ponent quarterback in one hand ly the back of his uniform was enjoyed by all a tea dance in drown hall followed the game given under the direction of the inter-fraternity council here dancing was in order from five until seven when all were more than ready for the evening meal the arcadia dance that even ing was the next affair with a gathering as large as the even ing before in spite of the fact that some of the houses ware running private dances the stag line was particularly large and cutting in was carried on in a large scale the length of the dances this evening were much shorter which was great ly appreciated during the rest periods punch and cake were served on the first floor the music was even better than the night before with the same or chestra in attendance the dance broke up on the dot of twelve many of the houses car ried on informal dancing on re turning until the chaperones cal led a halt or the participants were too tired to dance any long er dr jock sutherland closed his march field career as coach of the lafayette college foot ball eleven on saturday in a whirl of glory the maroon warriors handed to the univer sity of dayton eleven a 45 to 0 defeeat enabling the tall scotch man to finish his fifth season at lafayette without a march field defeat brown surprised harvard by a late rally which made them victor over the crim son team by a 20 to 7 score these victories by lehigh's op ponents indicate that the last two brown and white games are certain to be two hard matches the off-tackle darts and the line bucks of the lafayette backfield last week in philadelphia so did the dayton line crumble before the steamroller tactics of the ; maroon team dayton outweigh ed made a determined and plucky fight to hold the lafay ette team but their efforts were in vain seven times did the la fayette men march down the gridiron several times it was from midfield that . the attack was inaugurated but oftener it was from her own territory that lafayette got under way only once in the entire game was la fayette forced to punt that in the second period when the scrubs had replaced the varsity men continued on l'aqf t column 4 just as the university of pennsylvania was unable to stop brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday november 20 1923 pep luncheon on thursday big cheering practice on friday get ready for that lafayette invasion on saturday