Brown and White Vol. 3 no. 29

              notices the glee and banjo clubs have decided to have a minstrel show on february 15th and will start rehearsals for the same at once the management is desirous of put ting on as good a show as possible and one which will fairly repre sent the whole college every man in college who can do any thing in the minstrel line as sing ing dancing and any specialty whatsoever is most earnestly urged to come out will all men who intend trying be at the sigma phi house tuesday evening at 7 p m all places are open and the best men are the ones who will get the best places j w thueston manager the electrical engineering so ciety will meet at the physical laboratory on thursday at 7 p.m fountain 96 will give a paper on conduits special attention has been given to the preparation of this paper all members are ex pected to be present hall president attention ! but one more issue of the brown ani white remains before all names on our mailing lists not credited with 2 sub scription price will be stricken oil pay up during this week to any one ol'the folio wing nien 96 j.w thurston j b given w h ayar's ' s 11 bessauer david hall ». w wilsdn ; 97 john boyt b ©.. curtis j li sheppard c w thorn w e underwood 98 h chasmar h m bag gett c i heisey before the week is over a list will be posted in packer hall showing all men paid up the above-mentioned rule will be strictly enforced j b given manager penn's students club house the howard houston hall which was recently opened at the university of pennsylvania is a gift from mr houston the hall has cost in construction 148,000 the cost of maintenance will prob ably reach 10,000 yearly this will be met by membership dues which are one dollar per year fees and contributions membership is free to all under graduates and alumni while the use of the hall is free to all only members are permitted to use the special privileges the equipment of the hall is very complete con sisting of rooms for playing bil liards chess and checkers for dancing reading and smoking it also contains rooms for photo graphing a bowling alley and a swimming pool which is 100 by 50 feet in dimensions lined through with marble dressing rooms and baths shower needle and plunge are in sufficient numbers the club now has a membership of more than 1400 engineering society the regular business meeting of the engineering society was held in the physical laboratory hall thursday night the meeting was called to order by president cun ningham and after roll call and reading of minutes the report of the committee appointed to make the necessary arrangements relative to mr davenport's death was read ; the committee having finished its work it was moved that it be dis charged with thanks next in order was a discussion as to the lecture course which the society proposes to have this term the following committee was appointed to look into this matter : dutcher 96 merriman 97 and sheppard 98 it was moved that a banquet committee be appointed by the president to arrange for the annual banquet of the society there being a desire upon the part of some miners to join the society it was decided to have a committee consisting of the president and the chairmen of each of the two sec tions this committee to look into the matter and report as to the advisability of forming a mining section of the society in the absence of mr given the president gave a short account of the progress of the lehigh engi neer the new publication contem plated by the society and the faculty this paper would have been published last year but the faculty objected to any new maga zine being started until the debt of the old quarterly had been paid off this debt has been reduced from three hundred dollars which amount it was last june to two hundred dollars one hundred and thirty dollars are now on hand in cluding fifteen dollars the proceeds of the sale of some of the journals held by the society this latter amount was voted to be given to the board of the engineer to help pay off the debt with the money now in possession of the board together with that promised by the faculty the debt will soon be paid off the engineer will be made a 96 class book the senior class book board held a lengthy meeting on friday night at which the exact expense of the publication was decided upon and the general make-up of the book was planned a circular letter to the class giving a some what detailed description of the volume will be handed to each member by one of the board in the early part of next week and upon the replies to these circulars the whole future of the class book depends the board is counting on ve^y loyal support from the class the book as decided upon will include besides a portrait of each member of the class a history and general description of him and a tabulated collection of the class facts votes opinions and such a group picture of the class and pho lehigh university south bethlehem pa january 20 1896 vol 111 no 29 the brown and white university publication ; the board of editors to consist of a member of the faculty an alumnus and several undergraduates tographs of the campus and faculty will also be included besides the doings and the history of the class as a whole and the part that it has taken in the athletic literary social scholastic dramatic and musical life of the college the book will not be marred by any inter-cover advertisements and will be bound similar to the special edition of the 96 epitome in all respects the volume will be as handsome and interesting a collec tion of data as has yet been pub lished at lehigh the minimum cost for this work in its best form was calculated at 9 this being on the basis that almost the entire class will purchase ; there being in such a case an universal exchange of photographs calendar tuesday jan 21 — junior class meeting english room 12.30 s a m meeting of the mathematical club physical laboratory 7.15 p m thursday jan 23 — meeting of m e section of the engi neering society physical laboratory 7 p m electrical engineering so ciety physical laboratory t p m friday jan 24 — supper given to dr drown by the philadel phia lehigh club at manu facturers club 6.30 p m sunday jan 19 — bible class r . christmas hall 330 p m regular meeting of the christian association in christ mas hall subject,"a weighty problem 6.15 p m thursday jan 23 — meeting of the l v athletic committee at the northampton club at 8 p m leap year dance a most enjoyable leap year dance was given last friday even ing in the gymnasium by the ladies of the bethlehems the gym was prettily decorated for the occasion with flags and bunting the music was furnished by ruhe's allen town orchestra and was of a high order there were a large number of college men in attendance the patrons of the dance were as fol lows : dr thomas m drown mr robert 11 . sayre mr charles m dodson mr albert n cleaver mr robert p linderman mr reginald radford mr elisha p wilbur mr benjamin w frazier mr william h chandler mr j davis brodhead and mr robert p rathbun mustard and cheese active work has already been begun by the mustard and cheese dramatic society to bring forth their usual play this year through a series of misfortunes the mem bership of the organization has fallen very low but this will soon be remedied as trials for position on the club will be begun imme diately mr charles e pettinos the well known leader of the banjo club has been elected to and has accepted the position of stage man ager owing to the lack of musi cal ability in the university farce comedies will probably be pre sented though nothing has as yet been defmitelv decided on philadelphia lehigh club dinner the brown and white this morning prints another announce ment from the philadelphia lehigh club in regard to their dinner on friday night of this week the occasion promises in every way to be a brilliant one and will amply repay all who attend among the speakers of the evening will be provost harrison of the university of pennsylvania ; mr williams of the philadelphia press and mr converse of the baldwin lo comotive works the notice is as follows : all lehigh men trustees pro fessors instructors undergrad uates non-graduate former stu dents friends of the univer sity and alumni proposing to attend the annual banqet at the manufacturers club 1409 walnut street philadelphia on friday evening january 24 at 6.30 p m will please bear in mind that arrangements have been made by the transportation committee with the philadelphia and reading railroad company for a special transportation rate of 80 cents a round trip from bethlehem to philadelphia tickets to be good on the 24th and 25th insts as a special car is offered leaving beth lehem at 4 p m and leaving philadelphia twelfth and market streets at 11 p m if sufficient tickets are taken it is impor tant that all persons . proposing to attend the banquet should at once notify col k h wilbur chair man transportation committee south bethlehem pa from whom tickets can be obtained 11 toulmin u s6 chairman h s drinker 71 w h baker 73 t m eynon 81 a s reeves 84 a eavenson 91 w d beatty 88 secretary committee