Brown and White Vol. 2 no. 24

              the last meeting of che engi neering society of the term was held monday evening in the phy sical laboratory there not being forty-eight mem bers present nothing could be done to institute the associate member ship for sophomores the committee on the journal of the engineering society made its report it had decided favor ably on starting a technical paper as soon as forty members of the society sign a promissory note for 2.50 which amount is to be used at the end of the term in case the paper should not be self-supporting the committee submitted a con stitution for the paper which was accepted with a few additions the board of editors is to consist of six seniors and four juniors ; also four honorary editors chosen from the instructors of the courses in civil engineering and architecture me chanical engineering mining engi neering and electrical engineering it may also be noted that the busi ness manager must be a junior the board of undergraduate editors was then elected the men are baker ferris keim mau rice steinmetz and yansant from 95 beeler cunningham daven port and e e taylor from 96 freshman class meet ing at a meeting held in professor chandler's lecture room at 12.30 o'clock tuesday harrison resigned his position as member of the stu dents court the following men were nomi nated to succeed him roper bailey perley and g c leidy fitzgerald and downing declined nomina tions the election was held by ballot and roper was elected as there was no further business the meeting adjourned s c c meeting the ninth meeting of the soph omore cotilion club was held at the delta phi chapter house on last monday evening the meeting was called to order by president wallace and upon the withdrawal of bell the election of scott for treasurer was made unanimous the announcement of the elections of members will shortly be made public + w c carnell 94 is chemist for the south chicago iron works the football season now that the season has closed it might be well to glance over the work of the iootball team unlike the large colleges and universities lehigh has to omit summer prac tice and begin her football season at the opening of the collegiate year with an entire new back field to be secured the prospects did not appear favorable but the freshman class produced some excellent ma terial while the return of houston and saltzman brightened things considerably the team opened the season with a rush by defeating rutgers 24 to 0 and as the latter team shortly afterwards defeated lafayette by a score of 12 to 10 all interest in our old rival died we followed up the good work by holding princeton's champion team down to eight points and came within an ace of scoring ourselves swarthmore was easily defeated on the following wednesday but here the good work ended games with yale u of p in dians princeton orange a c university of north carolina an napolis and yale again followed each other in rapid succession victory came in the contests with university of n c and the in dians but both of these teams scored the latter twice to make matters woree lafayette defeated the team to the tune of 28 to 0 then was realized the fact that something had to be done or all the remaining matches would be lost the west point game was cancelled and after the ten days rest lafayette's two to one team was beaten 11 to 8 and this was followed up on thanksgiving day by the excellent game against cor nell that a better showing would have been made with less games is proven by the fine spurt at the close the game with princeton came too early in the season the men were not in proper condition and the bad effects were felt for several weeks one game with each of the three large institutions was enough yale did not attempt even this the moving of trafton to half back and . keys to guard were mistakes trafton is a fair half back but a star guard keys is an indifferent guard but a centre of the first-class with these men in their proper positions the an napolis game certainly and the first lafayette game probably would have resulted differently how they braced the line up in the last two games ! the playing of gass at quarter was a good move and should have been made earlier it is true lehigh does not oc cupy fifth place this year but on the whole the university can be proud of its team and entertain bright hopes for the future with the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa december 6 1894 vol 11 no 24 the same backfield seasoned by a year's experience nothing will be wanting in this line for next year while van duyne saltzman hold erness and downing will be ready for any emergency best will find a worthy successor in yates ; gunsolus and thurston will con test for budd's place while the re mainder of the line will be intact calendar thursday dec 6 classical clufy dr hyde's boom 2 p m saturday dec 8 — re-examinations in mathematics physical lab oratory 8.30 a m senior e m and a c.shop visit to newark - sunday dec 9.—-l u c a christmas hal 6.30 p m brotherhood of st andrew in vestry room after chapel thursday dec 13 — term exam inations begin .». notices attention is called to the fact that subscriptions must be paid this term they may be paid to any editor at the supply bureau or addressed to the business manager there will be a meeting of the sophomore cotillon club on thursday evening at 7 o'clock at the sigma phi house j f wallace pres independent class in gymnasium monday tuesday thursday and friday at 5 o'clock commencing dec 3 directoe the gymnasium will not be be open friday nor on saturday until afternoon on account of the dance to be given friday evening the election of a vice president of the junior class will be held after the mathematical quiz in the phys ical laboratory friday at 10.30 a m dues including those for one month of this term must be paid to entitle members of the class to vote h w baldwin pres students wishing to sell at 75 cents their copies of notes on drawing used by the freshmen mechanicals and miners for the past two years will let me know by postal on or before tuesday dec 11 joseph barrell .*. supply bureau the directors of the supply bu reau recently elected crawford 95 t manager and daggett 98 assis tant manager this election will add still more to the efficiency of the bureau as the manager now rooms in christmas hall and has made special arrangements for the convenience of the college men the hours at which the bureau is open are : monday 10.30 to 12.45 1.15 to 2.30 4.30 to 5.30 tuesday 8.30 to 10.30 ; 11.30 to 12.45 ; 1.15 to 2.30 wednesday 1.15 to 5.30 thursday 9.30 to 10.30 11.30 to 12.45 friday 8.30 to 9.30 1.15 to 2.30 saturday 9.30 to 10.30 ; 1.30 to 2.30 students court the members of the students court who were recently elected met for the purpose of organization at the sigma nu house on tuesday evening of the ten members bowie bannon ferris kautz dessauer herr laramy and war ing were present the absentees be ing brady and harrison the meeting was called to order by bannon 95 who appointed laramy 96 as secretary after the constitution had been read the court proceeded to elect its officers the result being as follows : pres ident ferris 95 ; vice president laramy 96 ; secretary waring 97 a committee consisting of the officers of the court was ap pointed to frame a set of by-laws to govern the body several minor points were then informally dis cussed before adjournment the next meeting will be held at the same place on saturday evening dec 8 at 7 o'clock junior oratorical contest the committee appointed by the faculty to choose the subjects for the junior oratorical contest on washington's birthday have post ed the following list : 1 the civilizing influences of the crusades 2 the right of the people to judge and execute charles i and louis xvi with a comparison of the two cases 3 religious toleration the poli cy for the nineteenth century 4 is socialism an expression of genuine need of reform or the result of artificial and morbid as piration 5 college spirit 6 the genesis of american lit erature 7 oliver wendell holmes 8 the ideals of today 9 where there's a will there's a way 10 peter the hermit 11 waterloo 12 the mission of pain 13 christianity the true sense of modern civilization the conditions and regulations of the contest can be found in the register pages 127-8 all ora tions must be given to dr hyde on or before saturday jan 19,1895 ♦ • the harvard library contains pictures of all the classes since 1752 the vassar faculty has given an unfavorable answer to the petition of the undergraduates for cap and gown student oratory will be excluded from yale's commencement exer cises in the future there are four universities in the city of chicago engineering society