Brown and White Vol. 3 no. 31

              lehigh university south bethlehem pa january 27 1896 vol 111 jsto 31 the brown and white calendar monday jan 27 — freshman class meeting 12.80 ■ „ m tuesday jan 28 — meeting of 97 epitome board 7.30 p m thursday jan 80 — organ recital packer memorial church by j fred wolle 8 p.m friday jan 31 — sophomore es says due friday feb 7 — sophomore co tillion club dance saturday feb b l it a a smoker at gymnasium saturday feb 15 — minstrel show given by the glee and banjo clubs notice the elections for football mana ger and for assistant football mana ger resulted as follows : football manager saltzman 97 ; assistant football manager ilillrnan 98 j w thukstojst chairman l it a c are not at present in the gymna sium be procured and suitably framed and hung in the gymna sium and also that the managers in the future should always present a picture of their teams suitably framed o the committee the resolution was adopted the com mittee on sports then presented another resolution which em bodied rules restricting the wearing of the l and also provided for a regularity of uniform in the different teams considerable dis cussion followed and as it was felt that the question was a very im portant one it was decided not to act upon the resolutions imme diately but that the spirit of the resolutions be approved that they be redrafted and be submitted to the executive committee at an early date which committee shall have power to act thereon dr chandler as chairman of the committee on qualifications re ported that the committee had as yet done nothing and suggested that the committee be given more 4 power by the general athletic com mittee as a change of the rules could not be made at the meeting it was decided that the change be made at the meeting after easter the following temporary resolution was however adopted by the com mittee on motion of mr wilbur : that the committee on qualifica tions be given authority to decide upon the eligibility of men to the lacrosse and baseball teams for the spring of 1896 and that the com mittee on sports be required to en force their decisions under miscellaneous business mr howe was elected to the 1 alumni vacancy in the committee 1 on grounds and mr johnston to the corresponding vacancy in the committee on sports there being no further business the meeting adjourned meeting of the gen eral athletic com mittee the regular meeting of the gen eral athletic committee was held in the rooms of the northampton club thursday evening januarjr 28 at 8 p m the meeting was called to order by j w thurston 96 with the following members present : dr w 11 chandler mr wilcox mr smith mr f b howe mr g b linderman mr e h wilbur wallace 96 and saltzman 97 the first business of the meet ing was the reading of the treas urer's report mr linderman stated that the balance on hand after deducting current bills not yet paid amounted to 1093.79 that all of the bills that had been incurred by the committee since its inception had been paid but that all of the debts left to the committee as a heritage had not yet been paid he stated that the football team during the last sea son had cleared over 600.00 dr chandler reported as chair man of the committee on grounds that very little money had been expended on the athletic field and that it was at present in a very bad state he suggested that the only way the athletic field could be fixed so as to be considered first class would be to close it up for a year plough it up regrade and lay it off carefully and then sow it with grass seed he said that it would take at least a year to do it properly he said further that the match games could be played at eittersville and that the com mittee on grounds would endeavor to hire a field near the college for practice purposes there was con siderable discussion as to the ad visability of this step but it was finally decided in view of the present condition of the athletic field that this suggestion be adopt ed it was therefore moved and carried that the athletic field be closed for a year for repairing pur poses beginning with this spring and that the regular match games be played at rittersville and the practice games on a field procured for that purpose air howe then moved that the athletic committee issue a letter to the alumni showing the state of the finances the necessity of im proving the grounds giving an estimate of the cost and requesting subscriptions for the same the motion was carried the matter of obtaining a coach for general athletics at a regular yearly salary was then brought up but in view of the great expense that will be incurred in putting the athletic grounds in order it was deemed for the present at least to be inadvisable the committee on sports then presented a resolution that the pictures of lehigh teams which continued on second page bridges is now coming out of the press dr shober will shortly publish a translation of dr gattermann's organic chemistry and the ever-busy professor klein has nearly ready his second volume of the dynamics and design of a high speed engine the publisher's an nouncement is also made of a monumental work on the higher mathematics to appear this year,of which professor merriman is editor in connection with professor woodward of new york in connection with this professional work of professor merriman we note with pleasure teat his pre-eminence as a teacher has been recognized in his election to the presidency of the society for the promotion of engineering education i think you will agree with me after this enumeration that we are in no danger of intellectual stagnation in lehigh the liberal courses i intend to do what i can to foster the lib eral courses at lehigh for i think the effect of increased numbers of students occupied with the humanities will have a healthy in fluence on the more strictly technical stu dents and i am quite sure that the classical students will benefit by association with those to whom a fact is a very serious thing and not to be trifled with in the new register which will be ready for distribution in about a week you will notice mention of a combined course of class ical and technical studies extending over six years and leading both to the b a and an engineering degree six years seems a long time to devote to college work but the en gineer will be the better equipped for his work and will live a more useful and con tented life as a consequence of the time de voted to the culture studies and the bache lor of arts will have added to his course a use ful profession it is easy to read the signs of the times that the engineer of the future must be liberally educated our best technical periodicals all agree in emphasizing the importance of a broad education for the engineer the time was when the country needed competent engi neers and these the technical schools have supplied and are still supplying by the thousand each year and now the demand comes for the liberally educated engineer simply because in the competitive race the liberally educated engineer has been found to be the best engineer at lehigh we fully appreciate this fact and shall increase the amount of culture studies in english history political and industrial science as rapidly as it is possible to do so we are engaged at lehigh university in a great work of education ; fitting young men to earn a livelihood by civil or mining or electrical engineer ing is only incidental to the great work we have in hand we are aiming at a normal and healthy de velopment of mind and body not merely storing the mind to make the best use of this knowledge pre paring young men not only for the environment of the machine shop the mine or power-house but also for association with educated and thoughtful men to this end are working students faculty and instructors and trustees and i would like to say here that it is to the absorbing interest which the trustees take in the affairs of the university and to their liberal and general management that its healthy progress is largely due aid needed an address of a college president to a body of alumni would not be complete without speaking of the needs of the college and asking for assistance i cannot speak to you — the alumni of a college whose first graduate is still living — as can provost harrison for instance who can count the sands of alumni ripe in years and many full of riches but it is well to begin early in acquiring the habit of giving and i wish to make an earnest appeal to the alumni of lehigh to raise money for free scholarships in the university scarcely a day passes that i do not receive applications for personal aid which i am not able to give the trustees have very liberally placed 25 free scholarships at the disposal of the president and faculty but this does not nearly meet the demand from worthy and needy young men i want to ask you to raise money in sums of 2000 the in come of which will provide the tuition for one stu dent a year all of you passed through lehigh during the days of free tuition ; you have received a valuable gift from your alma mater ; return it to her as you are able by providing for the education of worthy and needy young men who will not otherwise be able to enter her doors " freely ye have received freely give dr drowns remarks were re ceived with tremendous applause the next speaker was provost harrison who indorsed the senti ments expressed in the preceding address he said that numbers did not count for as much as the personal intercourse between in structor and student he also agreed with dr drown in the fact that the alumni are the greatest support of an institution — they are a continuing body eeference was made to the number of distinguished men which pennsylvania had given to lehigh among them being dr drown prof frazier the late dr coppee and the late bckley b coxe in closing he wished to express for the institution he repre philadelphia lehigh club's dinner to dr drown on friday evening jan 24 the manufacturers club was the scene of the fourth annual banquet of the philadelphia lehigh club dr drown was the guest of the even ing and in numbers and enthusiasm the banquet was the most success ful lehigh affair that has yet been held dr harry toulmin presided as toastmaster and on his left was dr drown and on the right sat provost chas 0 harrison of the university of pennsylvania after the dinner was well under way dr toulmin arose and read letters of regret from prof merriman e gr cooke president of the new york alumni and kalph w lee of the washington alumni in a few happy remarks he then introduced dr drown as a worthy successor to his predecessors a man of broad mind unusual scientific attain ments and a progressive spirit who would raise the fame of lehigh to a height never before attained dr drown spoke as follows : president drown said in part no greater satisfaction has come to me from my connection with lehigh university than that which i have derived from meeting its alumni aj few months ago i had the pleasure of dining with the lehigh club in new york a few weeks ago i dined with the lehigh club in chicago and abo-ut the same time i met infor mally many members of the lehigh club in pittsburg and tonignt i am greatly honored by this most cordial reception from the largest of all associations of the lehigh alumni the characteristics of the lehigh graduate which strike me most forcibly are loyalty and affection for his alma mater a strong feeling of college fellowship and an active interest in the present work of the university in spite of the absence of dormitories and in spite of the fact that during its thirty years of life it has been predominantly a technical school the college feeling with its sentimental associations and memories is unusually strong with this loyalty and affection for the university goes hand in hand an intense solicitude that it shall maintain its high rank among engineering schools and be abreast of the times in its in struction this is as it should be for the alumni of a college hay a more permanent interest in its welfare and progress than any other body of men if a quarter of a century's teaching and ob servation are to be trusted i feel sure that a teacher's success is largely a personal matter and to a greater extent often than the teacher himself knows or suspects lam often amused to hear a teacher giving the credit for his suc cess to some system or theory of education which he has carefully worked out when in fact he is succeeding in spite of his system by a process so subtle that he does not realize it — an overflow of enthusiasm and knowledge com bined with a deep-seated love of his students and a love of his work in the higher education particularly in the natural sciences the importance of the teacher being in close touch with each pupil cannot be overestimated i hope the day will never come at lehigh when the number f students will be so large that the personal influence of the heads of departments cannot reach each one of them and measures and methods be substituted for men and masters faculty changes the faitie of lehigh's faculty from the begin ning of the universiiy has made her the object of frequent spoliation from other colleges o.ur fraternal feelings towards the university of penn sylvania suffered a severe shock when provost harrison took away one of our brightest stars that he might read the stars for them but the great work he did in our observatory will always remain in our possession of the many great and good things which provost harrison ; hjis done for his noble alma mater i am sure he will place in the first rank his acquisition of our dis tinguished astronomer professor doolittle it is true we have indulged in like practices but one's own sins never seem so black as those of his neighbor we have enticed away from van derbilt university professor thornburg to take the chair of mathematics and astronomy and we are sure we have in him a talented and noble man of science professor thayer of t c chair of english a man of large and generous scholar ship and culture we found at the state college then we have acquired dr alexander macfar lane formerly of the university of texas a scotchman by birth to take charge of the im portant department of electrical engineering ah instances of recent professional activity on the part of our teaching staff i may mention a new book on lithology by professor williams and a third edition of dr richards well known and standard work on aluminum the fourth edi tion of professor merriman's roofs and