Brown and White Vol. 3 no. 21

              freshman class supper in spite of the efforts of the sophomores the class of 99 held a very successful banquet last mon day evening in the hotel allen in allentown covers were laid for thirty and the banquet began about 9 o'clock the invited guests of the evening were : g 0 white ' 97 11 s johnson ' 97 and e k harnmun 97 there were no regular menu cards but the set toasts for the evening were re sponded to as follows with went ling 99 in the chair as toast master jackson our friends the class of 97 degener paste posters and proclama tions ; " middledith " the univer sity " the juniors present also spoke and there were in addition a few impromptu toasts the com mittee to whose efforts the success of the banquet was due was as fol lows : knight youtsey wentling and howe a new edition of part i of pro fessor merriman's proofs and bridges will be published early in january it will have fifty pages of additional matters and will be used by the present junior class egyptian architec ture professor williams gave a very interesting lecture concerning egyptian architecture before a large audience in the vine street school house on tuesday even ing this was the second in the series of lectures which are being conducted under the auspices of the university authorities for the ben efit of the students and the beth lehem public in introducing his subject pro fessor williams said : an architect is limited by three conditions ; by the climate in which his building is to be erected by the nature of his foundation and by the material at hand in egypt there is no frost and very little rain the foundations are unyielding and con sist of dried nile mud which be comes very hard or solid rock the materials used were brick stone and wood the latter includ ing palm and sycamore the subject of the lecture in cluded " the description of dwelling houses temples and tombs the latter probably being of the most importance in the mind of the architects because they were built for all time in dwelling houses the walls were seldom more that four feet thick at the foundations and were of dried mud when brick or stone was not used mud shut out the excessive heat of the region and kept a cool interior no windows were used light coming in through the doors the roofs were palm branches covered with mud the floors were of mud or tile " temples and tombs were eter nal houses with massive walls and heavy columns the stone masonry work has seldom been equalled to this day the stone were held to gether in different ways by metal clamps by dovetails of sycamore and by three kinds of mortars the pillars holding the roofs were of two kinds ; monoliths and piles built of many stones either being round or square the bases of the columns were simple and the shaft straight with symbols carved around them there were three kinds ot capitals ; the bell the lo tus bud and the hat hor or head the decorations were in colors of beautiful and blending tints stcreopticon views were shown and explained the views included photographic reproductions of dwellings temples tombs and pyra mids as they remain today ; and reproductions of plans elevations sections and details as they have been drawn from measurements of the ruins the temples shown in cluded those of edfon thebes and luxor besides the temple now in the best state of preservation the grand temple this latter best illustrated the egyptian architec ture and was spoken of at length while many drawings and photo lafayette game the lafayette football manage ment have advertised saturday's game to begin at 2 o'clock this will prove inconvenient to the le high team and the college at large but since the time has been so ad vertised the management here is unable to make it a little later and on this account the crowd from south bethlehem will go to the game on a special train leaving the lehigh valley railroad station at 1 o'clock the round trip fare will be thirty-five cents ludlow of eutgers and millard of orange will be the officials electrical engineer ing society on tuesday evening the electri cal engineering society held its regular meeting in the physical laboratory dr macfarlane addressed the society upon the application of vector analysis to alternating currents this subject is one pt especial importance at the present stage of electrical science and promises to be the most advantage ous method of investigating prob lems of alternating currents dr macfarlane has given a great deal of study to this line of work and by means of a series of papers on space analysis has given to the public the results of his investi gations the paper given on tuesday evening was to a great extent the reproduction of a paper which he read before the interna tional electrical congress chicago 111 in august 1893 it is beyond the scope of this article to give the mathematical theory which was set forth in the paper and at the best this will contain only a brief sketch introductory remarks showed that thejsubject of vector analysis has been investigated and devel oped to a certain extent by ham ilton grossmann gibbs and other men of prominence hamilton calling his subject " quaternions vector analysis might be divided into two heads space analysis and " plane analysis the latter being more properly a special case of the former " space analysis involves lines and angles in space while " plane analysis " confines the lines and angles to a single plane the latter applies to the investigation of alternating cur rents the method of application was given at length this in volved some very complex equa tions the solutions of which were followed out step by step and the results carefully observed and dis cussed the application was made to alternating currents containing self induction and resistance only if capacity had been introduced the course of reasoning would have been the same but leading to equations of a more complex form the presence of a large number of instructors was very gratifying to the society the regular business meeting followed at which cunningham,'96 presented the condition of the le high quarterly and spoke very fully concerning the publication of an engineering journal at lehigh lehigh university the brown and white no 21 south bethlehem fa noyembeit 21 1895 vol 111 by a vote of the society it was de cided that a committee of three should be appointed to investigate the above matter and report at a special business meeting when definite action regarding the sup port of the journal will be taken blickensderfer 97 was elected to membership graphs by french engineers passed over the sheet intermingled with the above were short stories of egyptian ideas and explanations of the sym bols covering the walls and col umns these symbols have proved to be the history of egypt as it has been left to us calendar thursday nov 21 — glee club re hearsal christmas hall 7 p m saturday nov 23 — glee and ban jo clubs concert fountain hill opera house 8 p m lehigh vs lafayette at easton sunday nov 24 — christian asso ciation christmas hall 6.15 p m subject " praise and purpose ps 116 : 1-19 monday nov 25 — glee club re hearsal christmas hall 7 p m tuesday nov 26 — c e section engineering society physical laboratory at 7.30 p m meeting of mathematical club at 7 p m architectural lecture cen tral high school hall 8 p m banjo club rehearsal eagle hotel 7 p m wednesday nov 27 — college closes for thanksgiving va cation notices the ushers for the glee and banjo clubs concert saturday night will report at the opera house sharp at 7.15 p m j w thurston secretary there will be a special rehearsal of the banjo club in the opera house on saturday morning at 9.30 o'clock 0 e pettinos sophomore cotillion club glee and banjo clubs the coming concert is now but two days off and the clubs are practicing faithfully to make as good an impression as possible no one who is not a member of the clubs can realize what a large amount of conscientious work it takes to prepare properly for a concert for the last six weeks rehearsals have been going faith fully along and for the past week they have been held almost every day among the best selections of the glee club is a medley composed of all the latest popular airs and adopted especially for the glee club by mr wolle their glees also are very pretty and well chosen the repertoire of the banjo club is made up for the most part of very pretty marches but there are also two waltzes and a medley made up by mr pettinos there will be two especial numbers on the program one will be mr pet tinos's solo ; and the second will be a quartette by the banjo club the sale of seats opened yester day and all the students who de sire to get good seats or a number of seats together should go to nickum's drugstore bethlehem or jacoby's drugstore south bethle hem at once the above club held a very im portant meeting on monday even ing at 7.30 o'clock in the sigma phi house president holderness presided and about twenty mem bers were present the principal business of the evening was to de cide whether a dance should be given this term after the thanks giving vacation after much dis cussion it was decided to have a dance and all arrrngements were left in charge of the executive com mittee votes were then taken od several applicants tor membership but none were elected them being no further business the meet ing adjourned