Brown and White Vol. 4 no. 56

              calendar friday may 21 — junior electri cals shop visit to new york saturday may 22 — baseball brown at providence r i lacrosse stevens at hobo ken sunday may 23 — meeting of chris tian association christmas hall 6.15 p m wednesday may 26 — baseball yale at new haven conn saturday may 29 — baseball ori tani field club hackensack n j notices agora the meeting that was to have been held thursday evening may 30 has been postponed until thurs day of next week when final action must betaken on several important matters positively all members should attend hokn pres senior class meeting a special meeting of the senior class was held yesterday in christ mas hall for the purpose of trans acting business relative to com mencement week a report from treasurer lee showed that very few of the men had paid up their class dues which are ten dollars for the year and it was stated that unless more money was forthcoming some of the usual exercises in connection with gradu ation would have to be done away with it was moved and carried that those men who had not by the first part of june paid at least five dollars on their year's dues would be denied the privileges of class day advantages and that their names would not be included upon the class tablet a report from chairman treich ler of the class book committee gave notice that the book would be out about the sth of june and all subscribers are requested to pay the price of this book before that date van duyne of the banquet com mittee reported that as yet no place had been selected for the banquet but negotiations were in progress it was the sentiment of the meeting that the ticket would only include the supper and that wines would be purchased by those attending as was desired the class day arrangements are well nigh completed but sufficient money was not in sight to warrant the committee in making final de cisions chairman thorn of the cap and gown committee,reported the prices at which the caps and gowns could be purchase and requested that the members see him as soon as possible and decide as to the price they wish to pay for the outfit upon motion the meeting ad journed *» the american university in washington under the direction of the methodist church will have cost when finished from 10,000 000 to 15,000,000 twenty-six handsome buildings will decorate an expanse of ninety acres the hall of history now being built will cost 200,000 the land cost 100,000 president low of columbia col lege is mentioned as a candidate for the first mayoralty of greater new york forum meeting a postponed meeting of the for um was held last evening in sau con hall no program was pre pared and the principal business of the evening was the nomination of officers for next year the nom inations were : president frisbyy and bailey 98 ; vice president padget birch and wilcox r 99 ;: treasurer meaker 99 ; secretary fletcher and higgins 00 and liir ten 99 benedict resigned his place on the burr board but was asked to serve until a new man had been 1 chosen by competition at the end of this month the finances of the society came in for a short discus sion and the manner of shoulder ing the debt incurred by the la fayette debate between the two societies was decided upon on motion of kodjbanoff 98 98 a com mittee consisting of the president and two members was appointed to arrange a program for a public meeting of the society or societies if the agora will participate as re quested to be held sometime dur ing the opening of next term star key frisby and kodjbanoft were named as the committe and were requested to notify the agora of the action taken by the society the meeting adjourned until the final meeting of the year may 29 lehigh 9 mercury 2 lehigh defeated the mercury nine at rittersville on wednesday afternoon by the comfortable score of 9-2 it was an exceedingly well played game throughout the fielding was sharp and the hitting hard and clean lehigh won chiefly from her ability to hit the ball in the right place and at the right time for the first five innings the playing of both teams was about on a par both scoring two runs in that time in the last half of the fifth however lehigh forged ahead and placed three more runs to her credit in this inning t gannon reached first on an error by bennan pomeroy then knocked a slow hit to the infield which placed him safely on first and ad vanced gannon to second ; e grace filled the bases with a pretty single ; senior smashed out a beautiful double upon which both gannon and pomeroy scored e grace going to third ; w grace was also put out while trying to score ; carman singled to left scoring senior w gannon fouled out three more runs were added in the sixth reed reached first on erroi and stole second ; he went to third on t gannon's single ; pome roy sacrificed and e grace singled reed scoring ; senior then received a base on balls ; both e grace and gannon scored on w grace's single ; carman was put out at first lehigh's last run came in the seventh the features of the game were the batting of senior e grace and maury and the fielding of e.grace below is the tabulated score : lehigh earned runs mercury 2 lehigh 5 two base hits meuninger and senior bases stolen lehigh 2 hit by pitched balls by white 1 by culver 1 base oa balls off culver 1 struck out by gannon l,by white 1 by seagraves 3 by culver 2 ; passed ball j seagraves time 1 hour 45 minutes engineering society the mechanical section of the engineering society held its regu lar meeting on wednesday even ing mr underwood 97 read a very interesting paper on " steam engine governors he began by saving that the invention of the steam engine was not accomplished until some method had been con ceived for making it self-regulat ing watt was the first man who applied a self regulating mechanism his governor was of the pendulum type which has become obsolete the introduction of the cut oft and use of steam expansively offered new opportunities for steam engine controlling the action of governors now became more in direat they being made to vary the cut-off according to the load by acting on the valve mechanism the pendulum governor is a cen trifugal governor gravity is the restraining force the position of the balls in the elementary cen trifugal governor was independent of their weight or distance to point of suspension the shaft or fly wheel governor acts directly on valve motion through the eccentrics the first attempted improvement on this governor was offered by siemens instead of driving the governor directly he introduced a train of three equal epicycloidal gears the middle one being permitted a lateral motion sufficient to close the throttle valve the modern inertia governor is not unlike the fly wheel governor the weights are very heavy and are as far as possible from the cen ters of suspension hence their moments of inertia referred to their center of suspension are great com pared with the moments of the centrifugal force referred to the same centre if such a governor revolves unilormly on its axis it will remain undisturbed in what ever position the weights have as sumed under the balance between the centrifugal force of the weights and the tension of the springs mr underwood concluded his paper by describing in detail the advantages gained by having the weights heavy rather than light in this form of governor the election of officers for the ensuing year followed which re sulted as follows chairman waring 98 ; secretary lucken bach 98 ; treasurer brown 98 vol iv the brown and white no 56 lehigh university south bethlehem pa thursday may 20 1897 senior examinations may-june 1897 pomeroy ss 3 1 2 4 0 b grace if 1 14 0 0 senior 2 b 14 2 10 j grace lb 0 1 14 0 0 oarman c 0 1 2 1 0 j.w gannon rf 0 0 0 3 0 fugitt rf 1 0 0 0 0 white p 0 0 0 3 0 reed cf 1 0 2 0 0 i gannon 3b 2 1110 totals 9 9 27 13 0 mercury e h o a e maury ss 2 2 0 3 2 oulver cf and p 0 1 0 3 0 dally lb 0 1 12 0 4 h seagraves cf and p 0 0 0 0 1 menninger 2b 0 1 2 2 0 j seagravee c 0 0 6 2 0 cromsey rf '. 0 0 0 0 0 bennan if 0 2 2 0 0 grey 3b 0 0 2 1 0 totals 2 7 24 11 7 wednesday may 26 thursday may 27 friday may 28 saturday may 29 monday may 31 tuesday june 1 wednesday june 2 thursday june 3 friday june 4 saturday june 5 fifth year j geol surv astron geology r r surv senior c e m e | el r r astron hydr bridge geology ( mech j of ( mach hydr meas p i met | min hydr econ geol mining drawing geol surv hydr mining drawing **• *" el mach a c ind chem hydr el met ' blowpipe i i geology