Brown and White Vol. 1 no. 25

              consist of more than three men starting before the ball is put in play drop kick encouraged drop kick for goal failing on first down inside 25 yard line the ball shall be brought to the 10 yard line instead of the 25 yard line as heretofore insistence upon actual kicks where called for by rule the ball must be kicked at least 10 yards scoring points shall be scored as follows : goal obtained by touch-down 3 points ; goal from the field kick 3 ; touch-down fail ing goal 2 safety 1 in case of a tie the side which has kicked the greater number of goals from touch-down shall have one point added to their total score delays of games no delay of game for any cause shall exceed 3 minutes five minutes has been the limit only one official repre sentative from each side allowed on the field off-side penalties in holding shall be increased to 10 yards in stead of 5 off side play of op ponents will not be penalized one more rule will be thoroughly discussed namely : a goal from the field shall not be vitiated by off side play or by a foul by opponents but one more meeting of the committee will occur which will probably be held on the 14th of april the committe having per formed their work all that remains is for the colleges to ratify the new rules a new university magazine under the personal supervision of mr john seymour wood of yale will soon be published by a joint stock company called the university press the object of the paper is to furnish college graduates with a thoroughly capable and reliable periodical containing college news and gen eral literary matter it will start with a capital of 50,000 divided into 5000 shares at 10 eaoh and it is hoped that each college through its graduates will purchase from 300 to 400 snares a number of graduates of yale harvard cor nell columbia and amherst have already purchased stock in the company mr wood will be editor of the magazine mr walter c camp will have charge of the athletic department and prof p t austin will control the scientific department messrs w d howells charles dudley war ner edmund 0 stedman and many other college and literary men of well known ability will contribute to the magazine the first issue will probably appear in june of the present year football rules the committee on the revision of football rules have adopted those given below those present were walter camp of yale dr w a brooks of harvard alexander moffat of princeton john c bell of the university of pennsylvania and p j dashiel of lehigh the following changes in the present rules were recommended : piling upon a man when he is clown to be penalized 15 yards fair catches a man being thrown shall be given 15 yards and the ball flying and momentum plays " momentum-mass " plays shall not be allowed momentum-mass plays convention ofcollege republican clubs the third annual convention of the american bepublican college league met at grouse college syracuse university friday april 6th twenty-four colleges were represented including harvard and stanford universities at the morning session com mittees were appointed on creden tials resolutions and league work lehigh being represented on the former and speeches were made by prof w 11 mace of syracuse university ; lindley grant long of university of michigan aaron s squires of columbia g d goodman of university of penn sylvania and william henry cox of yale that of the latter was especially good at the afternoon session a number of valuable speeches were made on league work especially urging college students to do active campaign work and denouncing college professors who teach free trade based on theory without practice the contest for the presidency of the league was very warm between the factions support south bethlehem pa april 12 1894 vol.l no 25 ing johnson of harvard and cox of university of new york re spectively three ballots were necessary to elect cox of new york by a majority of one the convention was a complete and enthusiastic success a splendid banquet was served at the alhambra theatre in the evening presided over by g w hawkins the retiring president cf the league horace white made the introductory speech followed by boswell g horr charles emory smith general stewart l woodford j sloat fassett john m langston a s humphrey ex-senator frank hiscock at torney general t e hancock of new york and others the university maga zine calendar thursday april 12 — freshman cl e.s and architects go to al lentown 2 p m friday april 13 — second division of sophomore c e.s and ar chitects goes to easton 2.05 p m chess club 7.80 p m christmas hall saturday april 14 — lecture,"arc tic explorations by prof merriman 8 p m physical laboratory sunday april 15 — christian as sociation meeting christmas hall 6.30 p m monday april 16 — agora meet ing 7 p m tuesday april 17 — lecture borneo and juliet by dr coppee 11.30 a m physical laboratory thursday april 19 — electrical engineering society meeting 7.30 p m physical labora tory notice the state of the athletic grounds has obliged the management to cancel the game with state college scheduled for saturday oratorical contest the oratorical contest to choose a man to represent lehigh in the may meeting of the state intercol legiate oratorical league was held tuesday afternoon in the university chapel the contestants were w s merrill 94 w a lambert 95 and w warr 95 and the judges professor bobinson dr worcester and mr semple merrill 94 in his oration on " pickett's charge at gettysburg treated the civil war as the culmi nation of a strife between the north and the south over the question of slavery and the battle of gettys burg in which the vain though heroic charge occurred as the culmination of the civil war warr 95 repeated the oration on the " storming of quebec,"which he gave in the junior contest on washington's birthday when he won first prize the oration has already been reported in these columns alexander the great was the subject of the third oration lam bert 95 briefly took up the politi cal condition at the accession of this hero and followed him in his world-conquering career until he came to his untimely end the purpose of the oration was to bring out his two-fold character — first the natural hero and king and then the despot given over to flattery and dissipation the decision of the judges was rendered in favor of merrill first and warr alternate the may contest is to be held in allentown king lear a large and appreciative audi ence was gathered in the lecture room of the physical laboratory last tuesday on the occasion of the the brown and white first of dr coppee's shakeeperian lectures to the junior class the lecturer's subject was " king lear and a most pleasant hour was spent in listening to the eloquent and learned discourse of the doctor he began by thanking the audi ence for their large and flattering attendance and then went on to analyze the play he showed how king lear represents the human lot according to the sad elegy of jamef montgomery the doctor then said that strictly speaking the play was in no way historical though it is considered as part of the legendary history of great britain he then went on to de scribe the play more in detail which runs somewhat as follows : king lear who was then king of britain being a very old man and desirous of relinquishing the cares of gov ernment called together his three daughters and determined to give them each a third of his kingdom if they showed him that they loved him his two eldest daughters goneril and began were wicked and designing women and in the hopes of obtaining as much of his kingdom as possible cajoled the old man by telling him that they loved him more than all the world be sides his youngest daughter cor delia who could not bring herself to speak falsely did not speak flat teringly enough of the king so in his anger he disinherited her and gave the remaining third of his kingdom to the other two in addi tion to what they had already re ceived the old king when divested of all his possessions and authority was treated in such an unfilial and ungrateful way by his two wicked daughters that it drove the old man into madness at this point of the story the lecturer recited some of the most striking parts of the play and especially the soliloquy of lear when having been driven out of the palace of his daughter began he was exposed on the naked moor to the boundless fury of the elements cordelia then attempts to punish her sisters and with her husband the king of france meets the forces of the english in battle cordelia is beaten and taken prisoner and the play ends with the wholesale death of the innocent and guilty alike dr coppee then declared there was no pathos in all of shakespeare equal to the lamentation of lear over the dead body of cordelia he then drew the moral lesson that shakespeare in the following of holy writ endeavored to turn the heart of the father to the children and the children to the father when god should smite the earth with a curse