Brown and White Vol. 20 no. 26

              thirty-five members of the foot ball squad who last fall played through the most successful season in lehigh's history sat down to a banquet recently in the eagle hotel bethlehem tendered them in ap preciation of their service and rec ord by the athletic committee of the university members of this committee as well as the coaches and the managers of the team were present making a total of sixty banqueters the family character of the affair with an entire absence of formality was emphasized in the opening speech by mr walters the registrar who was toastmaster mr walters reviewed briefly the events of the season giving the scores and the number of paid ad missions to the local games these exclusive of student and faculty at tendance totalled nearly 13,000 for the six contests played on lehigh field and emphatically attested to the interest and support of citizens of the bethlehems notes of regret at inability to at tend were read by the toastmaster from w a wilbur eugene g grace harvey p barnard and w frank roberts of the athletic com mittee resident coach tom kea dy walter r okeson of new york city assistant coach george matthews steward of the univer sity commons and andy flor ian a player on the squad who dictated a note of regret in a har risburg hospital in which he is ill with typhoid fever the first speaker of the evening was prof reiter who declared at continued on third page mustard and cheese dr hugh p baker dean of the new york state college of for estry at syracuse university de livered an illustrated lecture on for estry in the chapel on friday morn ing dr baker was graduated from the michigan agricultural college in 1901 in 1904 he received the degree of master of forestry from the yale forestry school and in 1910 the degree of doctor of econ omy from munich university ger many besides this he has many other degrees almost too numerous to mention and is a member of many forestry societies including several foreign ones all this coupled with his personal experi ence made him a very interesting talker in discussing the different phases of his subject dr baker compared the american forestry conditions with those of germany there with an area equal in size to pennsylva nia the market and labor conditions allow an intensive forestry practice besides germany has only 100 spe cies of trees as compared with the 500 here in america in this coun try the forest fires do the most damage while in germany they have practically no fires but an abund ance of the harmful blights and fungi also here the americans consume annually 500 board feet of lumber per capita while in germany only 60 board feet one of the rea sons for this enormous figure on america's part is that in cutting the timber only 40 per cent of it is uti lized 14 per cent is lost at the saw mill and in building 7 per cent is also wasted a forest fire which destroys only the standing timber does the least damage for such wood should al continued on fourth page lehigh took her third straight game of basket-ball last saturday evening when the albright college quintet was defeated on the home floor in a fast exciting contest by the score of 46 to 38 albright was out-classed by the brown and white men in passing shooting and guarding but put up a hard fight throughout the entire game especially in the latter half of play lehigh during the first half tallied seven more points than the visitors the score being 26 to 19 when twenty minutes had been played during the second half however albright took a brace and and played excellent ball keeping lehigh continually on the jump and scoring only one point less than the lehigh five who were credited with twenty points close guarding on the part of le high was a particular feature of the game as is shown by a comparison of the field goals shot by both teams lehigh getting 17 and albright 12 this may have been responsible for a part of the rough playing which was in evidence during the whole game and which is shown by the foul goals shot muthart caging 12 out of 17 and hartman 14 out of 21 lehigh not only out-played al bright in the defensive part of the game but also in passing and shoot ing where captain muthart and crichton were undoubtedly the par ticular stars the former securing 3 and the latter 11 goals a number of which were shot at difficult angles and from positions that were by no means easy for the visitors captain benfer was most in evidence and shot most of their goals getting 7 out of 12 the foul-goal shooting of hartman continued on fourth page meeting of church workers in state universities not a lehigh student newspaper accounts of the al leged abduction of a young woman in allentown last saturday named r walter starr one of the parti cipants as being a senior at lehigh starr is not now and never has been a student in this university and no lehigh student took any part in the affair college lecture the lehigh university club of greater new york will give its an nual dinner at the hotel astor broadway and 44th street new york city at seven p m monday january 27th this dinner is in honor of colonel george w goe thals chief engineer of the pana ma canal rear admiral r e peary and many other distinguish ed scientists engineers and men of affairs have accepted invitations the price of the dinner is 5.00 per person and tickets should be procured at once^§rsm george r enscoe secrewtty and treasurer 21 park row new york in order that space may be reserved notice a college lecture on pompeii will be given in the chapel on fri day at 11 a m by dr cooley acting professor of greek dr cooley will show some interesting stereopticon views attendance is required all candidates for the assistant managership of the wrestling team are requested to report to the gym at three o'clock wed nesday mr w c payne secretary of the conference of church workers in state universities has requested that notice be given lehigh men of a meeting of that organization at lawrence kansas on february 4 to 6 1913 among the prominent speakers will be chancellor strong of the university of kansas bishop f i mcconnell of the m e church ; bishop f s spalding of utah p e church ; dr a holmes vice president of pennsylvania state college c d hurrey of the in ternational y m c a ; henry f cope of the r e a ; dr r c hughes of the presbyterian church the first call for candidates for the mustard and cheese dramatic association saturday was answer ed by about fifty men among whom were a good many of the men in last year's show the management is desirous of making the coming season a ban ner one for the mustard and cheese and in order to stage its production more perfectly has made this early call for candidates c l downing who so successfully coached the mustard and cheese shows for the last two years has been secured to coach the choruses and special dan cers a coach for the cast has not yet been secured tryouts for the cast and chorus will be held on this wednesday and saturday after noons active work on the show will start immediately with the be ginning of the second term the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday january 14 1913 forestry lecture by dr baker lehigh wins from albright foot-ball team banquets vol xx dr drinker is elected enthusiastic speeches at dinner tendered the victorious eleven american and german forestry conditions thoroughly compared made president of american for estry ass'n by unanimous vote fast brown and white five takes fourth straight game 46-38 at the 32nd annual meeting of the american forestry association held yesterday in washington d c dr henry sturgis drinker president of lehigh university was elected to the presidency of the association this election which was by unanimous vote is a signal honor both for dr drinker and lehigh among the distinguish ed citizens attending this meeting were the following well known workers in the conservation move ment hon w l fisher secre tary of the department of the in terior a b fafquhar president of the pennsylvania conservation association gifford pinchot ex chief forester of the united states ; and representatives of all the states of the union the vice-presidents elected were joseph n neal chairman of the oregon conservation commission ; joshua l bailey of pennsylvania frederick l delano president of the wabash railroad company dr charles w eliot president emeritus of harvard university dr b e fernow dean of for estry in the university of toronto ; walter l fisher secretary of the interior ; representative asbury f lever of south carolina henry s graves chief of the forestry service john r clancy of new york curtis guild ambassador to russia ; everitt c griggs pres ident of the national lumber man ufacturers association gov hi continued on fourth page new york club's annual dinner no 26