Brown and White Vol. 22 no. 58

              important elections friday and saturday many positions filled by the elections of last friday w e lewis gives an illustrated talk papers by o r rice and j b schwoyer st john's passion and b-minor mass to be sung in packer memorial church after four innings of excitement the second lehigh-lafayette game was called due to rain the weather had been threaten ing all during the afternoon but it was not until the second half of the fourth inning that the downt-pour came with but one more inning to play to make a game it looked very much as if the brown and white team were booked to come out on top keady was the first to solve ge rard's delivery and hit a three-bag ger albrecht the next man up brought keady in scoring the only run this was in the fourth in ning shortly after the game was called the game will be played off at easton on saturday may twenty ninth at 3 p m this has neces sitated changing the date of the bethlehem steel game to wednes day may twenty-sixth at 3 p m the game by innings first inning twombley the first man up hit to troxell and was put out on first fishburn hit to left field and reached second when troxell muffed the ball keady was put out on first albrecht hit out to brown and was caught on first edwards opened the game for la fayette by hitting to left field hunt struck out edwards was put out on attempting to steal to second helfrich hit a two-bagger into the bleachers wright flied out to fish burn second inning lees flied out to blackburn maginnes fouled out to wright council out at first meyers was out on first black burn struck out troxell made a single and brown was put out on first third inning wynne was out on first anderson struck out twombley hit a two-bagger to right field fishburn got a base on balls and twombley was out on an at ! continued on fourth page soccer league has been organized near to the top of the list of the world's trade in heavy chemicals stand the nitrogen products the last meeting of the chemical society for the collegiate year 1914 1915 was held last thursday even ing in saucon hall two student papers were presented j b schwoyer 17 read a journal re port on potash o r rice 17 read a paper on the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen and cyana mid works at niagara falls the principal speaker of the evening was w e lewis 15 who gave an illustrated talk on the immunity of iilood serum to disease dur ing the talk the speaker pointed out the relation of bacteriology to chem istry and explained wasserman's reaction he showed with the aid of charts the development of cer tain disease-causing germs mr rice's paper was in part : the nitrate deposits of chili still hold first place as the chief supply of available nitrogen but the ex haustion of this source is so clearly ni sight that we are forced to cast about elsewhere for means for availing ourselves of this valuable element in usable form naturally enough the inexhaus tible store of atmospheric nitrogen presented itself most prominently in this search for anew source three successful attempts in this field have been commercially developed : 1 — direct synthesis of nitrogen continued on third page ammonia as a by-product of the coke oven and the gas producer is a source of fixed nitrogen which will be available for many centuries to come but a by-product as a source of primary supply is very unsatisfactory being subjected di rectly to the fluctuation in the amount of the major product turn ed out freshman candidates the tenth bach festival will be held in packer memorial church on the university campus this fri day and saturday when the bach choir of 206 voices accompanied by the philadelphia orchestra will render the st john passion and the mass in b-minor from all indications the attend ance will be larger than ever before including music lovers from all parts of america to whom the pil grimage to lehigh to hear bach sung by the greatest choir in the country has become an annual event among the notable persons who will be here for the festival are dr lyman abbott and hamil ton wright mabie of the outlook ; hemry t finck of the new york evening post w j hendersom of the new york sun and richard aldrich of the new york times the three most eminent music cril ics in new york city ; frank dam rosch the well-known choral con ductor fullerton l waldo music critic of the philadelphia public ledger m a dewolfe howe of boston l u 86 editor of the harvard alumni bulletin and au thor of the history of the boston symphony orchestra clarence lucas critic of the musical cour ier h peyser critic of musical america george nevin corres pondent of the music news of chi cago julius hartt music editor of the hartford times and richard j beamish directing manager of the philadelphia press the university's connection with the bach festival is one of the pha ses of participation in outside cul tural activities that have marked the present administration presi dent drinker is president of the badh choir mr schwab mr cleaver and mr wilbur of the university board of trustees are members of the bach executive committee mr walters the regis trar has charge of the festival pub licity dr j fred wolle founder of the festivals was for eighteen years organist of the university mr shields the present organist of the university is organist of the bach choir the membership of the choir includes a number of stu dents and teachers of the univer sity a special rate of fifty cents for admission at each session has been made by the executive committee for lehigh students the program will be friday 4 p m and 8 p m st john pas sion ; saturday 2 p m and 5 p m mass in b-minor to-morrow between 10.00 a m and 1.00 p m the final ballot for sophomore officers will be taken in drown hall the following are eligible for office : president w p halstead v p staats vice-president j mcconnell f w bickley secretary r c alden and l f knight treasurer c f hyatt and r f lambert historian j platt l sargeant sergeant-at-arms l t ayrault j r inge notice the first demonstration in swim ming held last thursday evening in the taylor gymnasium was very successful a large number of stu j dents participated and for a first ; trial there is much promise for a varsity team next year professor reiter and frank cas sidy gave practical demonstrations of various strokes and methods of life-saving both in calm waters and in a heavy surf the latter meth ods prof reiter explained were used on the beaches among the life guards some of the strokes exhib ited were the side overarm side arm breast stroke double overarm indian overarm trudgeon crawl amble crawl and back strokes -\~ sistance to drowning persons and | ik ild used in rescuing same were i demonstrated by students the freshmen carried oft the honors in swimming winning the 50-yard 100-yard and interclass relay and the sophomores in div ing in the diving contest there j were three required dives - standing back running jack-knife and swan with three optional the optional dives most chosen were the forward one and a half standing [ sitting and the back jack-knife j messrs reiter and cassidy acted as j judges in these events in view of the fact that lafayette has challenged lehigh to a dual contest to be held in taylor gymna sium pool it is probable that a meet will occur before exams the men who placed in this trial meet will represent lehigh the 50-yard was raced in 5 heats : ( wald won ist heat time 30 3-5 seconds robinson won 2nd heat time 30 3-5 seconds sanderson won 3rd heat time 29 4-5 seconds walthers won 4th heat time 31 3-5 econds final heat won by oswald time 29 4-5 seconds with sanderson sec ond and walthers third plunge for distance — won by robinson distance 54 feet with jennings 2nd and sanderson 3rd 100 yards raced in three heats : hiss avon ist heat time 1 min ute 22 1-5 seconds oswald won 2nd heat time 1 minute 13 1-5 seconds jennings avon 3rd heat time 1 minute 14 4-5 seconds there avas no final heat ; person making fastest time im trials aa'in undenvater swim for distance won by edson distance 176 feet ancona 2nd and mitman 3rd fancy diving — won by neubert with 25 points robinson 2nd with 23 and for 3rd place there was a tie between riggs and sanderson each having 21 points in the interclass relay each man swam 25 yards the freshman team composed of osavald perry sanderson walther avon time 55 2 seconds the juniors were alumni note the y m c a secretary has recently received numerous requests from business houses asking for the names of men who might be inter ested in salesmanship work during the summer all such men should see the secretary at once at the last college meeting of the year held in packer hall last friday the elections of the assist ant managers of track baseball and lacrosse the cheer-leaders for next year and the nomination and elec tion of athletic representative-at large and college secretary took place g w hoban made suggestions offered by the arcadia ; all were ac cepted by the student body the first one was : that instead of the man who reeen'ed the highest num ber of votes being head cheer-leader the five cheer-leaders should choose their own leader who was to be eli gible for election to the arcadia the next suggestion was that the senior class president be automat ically elected a member of the ar cadia the last suggestion offered was to eliminate the necessity of levying am arcadia assessment on the various classes it was decided to tax each incoming student fifty cents upon registration and if this was not paid it should be added to his class dues the next suggestion was the re port from the committee on the re vision of the system for the election of assistant managers it was de cided to allow the team to pick three candidates ; these three men to go before the athletic committee who should examine them as to their scholastic merits and managerial abilities from these three men a minimum of two should go before the student body from which num ber one should be chosen in the event that more than one man should be disqualified by the ath letic committee they should send back to the team for one or more men to fill the places of those who were disqualified president brown of the senior class then spoke of the possibility of arranging an interscholastic track meet here next year provided the fraternities and the dormitories would aid in housing the visitors bodine leader of the glee club spoke of the work the musical clubs had clone during the year and asked for a contribution to help defray some of the expenses of the clubs a total of over seventeen dollars was collected it was announced that next wed nesday at one o'clock a meeting of the dormitories would be held to elect a dormitory chief after the college meeting the se nior and junior classes and the track team held meetings at the latter meeting j m burke 16 was re-elected captain of track for next year the following candidates were elected r l colby 17 assistant manager of baseball ; f e portz 17 assistant manager of lacrosse g a butterworth 17 assistant manager of track s b scruggs 16 athletic representative-at large e s johnston 16 col lege secretary and o l carlson 16 m b gunn 16 r h hicks 16 w h koch 16 and w b miller 16 cheer-leaders ay i robbins b a 1910 assist ant in biology 1910-1911 was re cently granted a ph d degree in plant physiology at cornell uni versity since leaving lehigh dr robbins has been an instructor in the marine biological laboratory at woods hole mass handbook notice track men notice last saturday afternoon at the philadelphia athletic club the rep resentatives of six colleges and uni versities of pennsylvania met for the purpose of organizing a new in tercollegiate association football league douglass stewart coach of the u of p team presided over the meeting in which a constitution and by-laws were drawn up with haverford lafayette lehigh and u of p as charter members invi tations were extended to swarth more and muhlenberg as well as several other colleges to join the league the schedule is to be drawn up by the manager and will begin in the latter part of november ending before the christmas holidays a championship cup has been offered the interest shown in soccer at lehigh during this past year has been commendable and will gain a new impetus as the game becomes of an intercollegiate nature at perm and haverford two varsity teams will be maintained one to contest in the intercollegiate league and the other in the pennsylvania intercollegiate league of which le high is a member the officers elected were : president h h wende haver ford yice-presiclent w s smith le high secretary and treasurer h d maxwell haverford ll suggestions new material statistics sc for the 1915-1916 y m c a handbook should be hand ed in at the y m c a office not later than tune ist n y u tennis match calculus cremation there has been a decided change in the arrangements for assigning the seats for the calculus crema tion ceremonies to be held june 4th on taylor field the committee has decided to reserve three sec tions these tickets will be distribu ted to-morrow two hundred of the seats will be reserved for the alumni for whom special tickets will be issued these seats will be reserved until 8.15 p m the night of the performance after which time those left will be given to any ticket holders the tickets will not be numbered as was first planned but instead the policy of first come first served will be employed the n y u tennis match was called off on account of rain the photograph of the track team will be taken to-morrow afternoon at mccaa's studio at 1 o'clock the brown and white swimming contest won by freshmen chemists hold last meeting lehigh university . bethlehem pa tuesday may 2'r 1915 second lehigh lafayette game called off after three and one-half innings rain stops second lafayette game bach festival at university vol xxii final meeting of collegiate year held last thursday evening greatest choral renditions in the country to be held at lehigh freshmen win first aquatic meet held in the taylor gym nasium pool student papers big college meeting held changes made in the method of choosing assistant managers no 58