Brown and White Vol. 3 no. 5

              sophomore class meet ing the recent elections in the soph omore class for the past few days have been the most hotly contested of any in its brief history a meet ing was held last friday for the purpose of electing a president and treasurer the nominations for president were : holderness ro per arrison barnard and her shey and for treasurer yorks soleliac and riegel b d arri son barnard and hershey with drew apparently leaving the race between holderness and roper the vote for treasurer resulted in no election and it was decided to vote for president and treasurer on the tuesday following on tues day holderness withdrew and the nominations were again opened for president gannon homer per ley and kiehl were nominated and the vote resulted in no election yorks withdrew and soleliac was elected treasurer a meeting was called at 11.30 o'clock wednesday and kiehl and gannon withdrew the first vote elected no one and perley withdrew the second vote resulted in the election of homer for president the vote being hom er 33 roper 32 the finances of the class were discussed and a committee ap pointed to prepare resolutions on the death of charles h becerra an esteemed member of the class of 9b there will be a meeting of the agora literary society on monday evening next at 7.15 in christmas hall laramy president there will be a short but im portant meeting of the architec tural club on friday at 12.30 in saucon hall all members will kindly be on hand as the new com mittees will be appointed president the 6.15 p m meeting of the l u c a on sunday september 29 will be an important one the northfield delegation will then give their report this report has been prepared with care and will be full r interesting and instructive every man in the university is invited president the regular fall business meet ing of the l u c a will be held saturday evening september 28 r at 7 o'clock in christmas hall the meeting will adjourn in time to attend dr worcester's lecture president there will be an important busi ness meeting of the sociedad his pano-americana de lehigh on sat urday september 28 at 2 p m at 123 west fourth street every member must be present at the ap pointed time mora president everybody come out to the scrub lacrosse game on saturday morn ing at 10.30 captain a series of lectures on the student life at the end of the nineteenth century " will be given under the auspices of the christian association by dr worcester be ginning on saturday evening next r september 28 at 8 o'clock in the lecture'room of the physical labora tory the first lecture to be on " the freedom of student life all are cordially invited to attend and bring their friends communication the board will not hold itself responsible for the sentiments expressed in communications to the editors of the bkown and white gentlemen — there is a move ment now on foot to bring about a revival in athletics at lehigh a movement which in itself may not be productive of a change but one which the designers at least hope to bring to a successful pass their plans for the issue at stake being now well under way although as yet practically in the dark as far as the student body is concerned the matter i speak about is that of dropping one of our spring sports and the game to be par ticularly attacked is to be our specialty lacrosse many will laugh at such an idea as the drop ping of lacrosse by lehigh but however absurd the question may seem at a first glance none can deny that by shrewd political scheming such a plan could be effected provided the lovers of the game remain inactive this notice is sent to you then as a warning — not that it shall in any way influ ence the unbiased opinion of any undergraduate but that such a movement cannot be won except by the sanction of the real lehigh sentiment in my opinion after an impartial review of the matter and after hearing many of the arguments pro and con i have come to the con clusion that first of all there is no real reason why the question should come up at all except pos sibly to benefit a few of the leaders of this movement who are by the way interested rather in baseball than the game in question true the financial receipts last spring as reported by the treasurer of the athletic committee showed a de ficiency in every branch of our athletics but it was rather a case of poor luck and circumstances which the athletic committee can remedy in the future without drop ping a team than a proof that such must always be and if compari sons must be made did not lacrosse make the better showing did not lacrosse bring more honor to lehigh than either of the other two sports ? did not lacrosse bring forth more lehigh spirit ? were not more men directly connected with lacrosse ? was not lacrosse in all respects the cheaper ? if a team must go why not the one of least good namely the track team ? it does not seem well to drop too much at the first trial and surely not that game on which lehigh can claim to be an authority among the old as well as the new lacrosse associations were a canvass now to be taken there surely would be a large ma jority of the alumni and under graduates who would stand by la crosse it may be out of season to bring the matter up now but no possible harm can result from putting the college on its guard a senior electrical engineer ing society the first regular meeting of the electrical engineering society for the current year was held in the physical laboratory on tuesday night president hall opened the meeting by welcoming all present and by expressing a desire that the coming year be as successful a year for the society as the two previous years have been the president appointed flory jackson and weideman a com mittee to look up subjects refer ences etc for papers to be read before the society on motion men were appointed to take note of whatever of interest appeared in the electrical papers the men to make a report before the society the following are the appointments made : the electri cal world cooke ; the electrical engineer given ; the electrical age badgley ; the electrician morgan the matter of getting the junior e e.s interested in the meetings was not brought up mr webb their instructor kindly consented to speak to the section concerning membership the following men were elected members of the so ciety : kennedy 97 active ; hom er and grratz 98 associate a very interesting and instructive paper on " storage batteries " was read by cooke 96 in this paper mr cooke gave a thorough and exhaustive description of the stor age battery its action manufac ture cost etc finally giving a list of its chief uses dr macfarlane and instructor j li klinck then favored the society with remarks on the subject jackson 96 gave a talk on the edison three-wire system following which there was a lively discussion as to the saving of copper by the use of this system a vote of thanks was then ex tended to the men who had favored the society with discussions and the meeting adjourned the harvard library contains pictures of all its classes since 1752 cornell goes back to the exami nation system this year lehigh university south bethlehem pa september 26 1895 vol 111 no 5 the brown and white calendar friday 27 12.30 architectural club meeting in saucon hall 7 p m business meeting l u c in physical laboratory saturday 28 — 7.10 p m business meeting l u c a christ mas hall 10.30 scrub lacrosse game 11 a m to 1 p m junior elections christmas hall 3 p m athletic grounds football game lehigh vs rutgers 2 p m meeting sociedads hispano americana 123 w fourth street 8 p m dr worcester's lec ture in physical laboratory sunday 29 6.15 p m christian association christmas hall monday 30 7.15 p m agora meeting in christmas hall mathematical club the first regular meeting of the mathematical club was held in packer hall monday evening the attendance was very encouraging several 97 men being present loomis and yohn 97 have availed themselves of the privilege of mem bership due to their rank in mathe matics and several others are pre paring papers to compete for the seven vacancies yet to be filled professor thornburg was unani mously elected an honorary mem ber of the club plans for the year were discussed and the meetings promise to be very enjoyable papers on the slide rule will be read at the next meeting this subject was discussed late last term but many interested were detained from the meeting by ex aminations and in answer to num erous requests it will be repeated senior class meeting a special meeting of the senior class was held in the english room packer hall on wednesday at 12.30 the object of the meeting was to consider the proposed change in the constitution allowing every man in the class a vote whether or not his class dues have been paid the question was immediately raised as to what men were eligible to vote on the amendment ac cording to a strict interpretation of the constitution no one is allowed to vote on any question unless his dues are paid up to within two months of the vote on said ques tion further objection was made in regard to allowing any man to vote unless he had paid all his dues from his freshman year up to the present time this would exclude a man who had paid his sopho more and junior dues in full al though manifestly unjust a strict interpretation of the constitution would uphold the above and since the question was raised the objec tion held good this blocked all further business and the meeting adjourned after an election for those eligible to vote had been ordered for thursday sept 26 notices