Brown and White Vol. 3 no. 39

              honor roll president drown read the honor roll of the senior class prefacing it with a few words of praise to the memory of the man who heads the list and who was drowned while spending the christmas holidays in baltimore md the following is the list : 1 lewis benjamin davenport c.e a warren joshua bieber clas 3 robert edward laramy clas 4 fairfax bayard c.e 5 curtis bertram flory e.e 6 rafael de la mora m.e 7 timothy sharpe eden e.e 8 charles howard morgan e.e 9 hobart b^ntley ayers m.e 10 frank leslie cooke e.e 11 howard drysdale hess m.e 12 herbert huebener beck a.c 13 maximilian joseph bucher a.c 14 george amandus buvinger m.e 15 william steell jackson e.e 16 david hall e.e 17 samuel philip curtis m.e 18 david william wilson jr arch 19 edward williamson miller e.m 20 daniel william yost bliem c.e 21 samuel moses dessauer arch 22 frank shepard bromer m e 23 henry neff herr c.e [ thomas joseph gannon m.e ( john buckley mcßride c.e 26 john augustus thomson e m 27 victor witmer kline c.e 28 louis atwell olney a.c 29 clarence richard fountain e.e in conclusion dr drown said let him who has won the palm wear it banquet of the north eastern penn le high club the annual banquet of the northeastern perm lehigh club will be held at the hotel terrace in scranton on friday evening feb 28 it is intended to make the affair the largest gathering of lehigh men ever held in that sec tion of the state all undergrad uates and any one ever connected with the university are welcome any one intending to be present or wishing information in the matter should address arthur long sec retary wilkes-barre pa cathode rays experi ments under the direction of dr mac farlane of the electrical engineer ing department with the assistance of instructors klink webb and clark experiments have been made with the so-called x " or " cath ode rays and very good results have been obtained one picture taken of the hand showing the bones very clearly and sharply now that the method has been ob tained further results may be looked for lacrosse training begins with the 5 o'clock drill today all men who have handed in their names as candidates are expected to be on hand articles in competition have been accepted from the following : c m a 98—1 ; laras 97—1 ; tee 97—3 ; j h.,'98 2 ; wopsey 99—1 the epitome board will meet thursday evening this week in stead of tuesday committee on qualifi cations the committee on qualifications met friday morning in the library for the purpose of passing on the eligibility of the candidates for the baseball team the committee de cided that all men who had more than one condition would be de barred from playing as soon as they can work down their con ditions to one they will be allowed to play the following men under the above rule were debarred from playing : mussey 96 petrikin,'96 dinan 97 chasmar 98 gass 98 nevins,'9b snyder 99 and wood 99 washington birthday exercises the exercises held in the chapel last saturday morning were in every way worthy of the day and the occasion the exercises com menced promptly at half past ten o'clock and by that time the nave of the chapel was well filled with an audience composed of the people of the bethlehems and the under graduates the exercises were opened by a beautiful selection on the organ by mr j fred wolle an anthem of gounod's was then rendered in a fine manner by the vested choir after the usual divine service and the singing of two hymns the address of the day followed it was delivered by professor w c thayer and his subject was " modern movements in european literature the scope of the essay was to speak briefly of three phases of literary work within the limits of this country ; to trace their rise and progress and to show the tendencies of the latest movement such a summary is possible at short intervals ; it is especially in place at the end of a century lit erature is not one of those depart ments of human effort where time is the great essential — nor one in which a great body of facts must be collected through long periods covering more than one human lifetime before definite principles can be stated the most important changes in literary taste and liter ary work may take place within a very few years the most radical alterations of theory and method may mark each new generation thus it has been the lot of men whose lives have measured the greater part of this century to see the public taste change at several definite epochs the speaker then gave in out line a general account of the three schools of literature which have been most typical of the century the " komantic " bealistic " and " decadent " schools the origin of the first was then traced : the name to a passage in mme de staels l'allemagne the movement to b.ayle stendhal it was shown that this school had famished eu rope its finest literature for over sixty years special mention was made of scott and byron and of the dignity which they brought to the movement in england the speaker then passed to the rea listic " school ; showed how it split in france into two branches the one giving us zola and the animal theory of man ; the other bourget and his subtle psychological analy sis it was shown that this school had been very far reaching in its territory and in its consequences its activity in bringing remote re gions into touch with paris and london was noted and the strongly contrasting work of tolstoi ibsen and the writers of southern europe was brought to view passing to lehigh university south bethlehem pa monday february 24 1896 vol 111 the brown and white no 39 calendar monday feb 24 — lacrosse train ing begins thursday feb 27 — meeting of mechanical section of engin eering society physical labor atory 7.15 p m meeting of 97 epitome 1 board phi delta theta house 7 p m friday feb 28 — chess club meet ing lounging room 8 p m saturday feb 26 — agora meet ing lounging room 7 p m the " decadent " school that move ment was characterized and dis missed with a brief analysis oi maeterluick and verlaine in con clusion the tendencies for the fu ture were shown to be all hopeful and the ethical requirements of a sound literature were especially stated and insisted upon the address showed the intimate knowledge that the speaker had with his subject and was heard with a great deal of pleasure by all those present after the singing of another anthem bishop rulison read a portion of washington's farewell address then followed the read ing of the eoll of honor of the senior class the exercises closed with another fine performance on the organ notices there will be an important meeting of the sophomore class tuesday feb 25 at 12.30 o'clock to elect an athletic representative the calculus cremation commit tee will please meet at the sigma chi house tuesday feb 25 at 7.15 o'clock will those who have any debt with the supply bureau settle at once ? dr drown's lecture in philadelphia friday evening feb 21 dr drown spoke before the franklin institute of philadelphia on the question of the water supply of that city his subject was " what constitutes a good and safe drink ing water after describing briefly the various methods of col lecting storing and distributing surface and ground water dr drown turned to the sanitary side of the question and said : " there are some things regard ing the relation of drinking water to disease which have been proved and which are no longer a matter of speculation or theory one fact beyond question is that it is un healthy to drink sewage polluted water many may be the diseases caused by drinking such water but we know certainly of two cholera and typhoid fever the cities having the highest typhoid fever death rate in this country are those whose public water supplies con sist of water directly contaminated with sewage after comparing the death rates in different cities and showing the decrease in the number of deaths where filtration of the water was adopted dr drown stated that there were three courses open to a city with a bad water supply : 1 to abandon the supply and get a pure one 2 to remove the sources of pol lution 3 to purify the water by filtra tion whether or not philadelphia can advantageously go to a distance for a pure water supply i do not now care to discuss but its immediate need is to filter the supply it has the lecture was illustrated with lantern slides showing the pollution of streams and their purification by filtration chess tournament the tournament among members of the chess club ended on friday night the interest shown in the games was of the highest order and excellent chess was practiced in all there were 114 games played and the resulting standing of the best nine participants is as follows in the order of percentage of wins the above men will be considered candidates for the club team of six but any one of them is to lose his position of candidacy if he is beaten twice in succession by any chal lenger ; the latter upon winning as suming the place of the defeated due notice must be given of the intention to challenge won w.wilson,'96 19 l d badgley,'96 12 . a thorason,'96 9 \ bartles,'96 4)f !. f moritz 98 13 vm piez 99 9k ". s graff,'96 10 v b taylor 96 ... 4 5.g dunnells 97 5 lost 2 1 3 4 7 3 4 per cent 92.9 92.3 82.6 81.8 81.3 70.4 58.8 57.11 55.5