Brown and White Vol. 4 no. 37

              open every morning 8-8.30 and noon 12.30 1.30-2 monday 8.30-9.30 10.30-12 30 tuesday,b.3o~lo.3o 11.30-12 so wednesday 10.30-12.30 thursday,b.3o-9.30 10.30-11 30 friday 8-8.30 12.30 1.30-2 prof thayer's lec ture professor w c thayer deliver ed the first lecture of a series of six on elizabethan literature in the ceniral high school hall on tuesday evening last his subject was " the elizabethan age he introduced his lecture by a quotation from irving's " brace-bridge hall and showed the high appreciation in which the literature of this golden age has always been held thomas wyatt and his pupil henry howard earl of surrey both men of talent and culture were the pioneers of the age the literature of this period has been assigned by some to a higher place than that of the best greek literature during the long period of literary inactivity between chaucer's death and the elizabethan age great forces had been at work england had under the revival of learning been taking in many new ideas which took time to assimilate her literature was at this time given such an im petus as to make this period the richest most attractive and most varied yet produced the english language was now at its best the two streams had become so mingled as to form one great river in which the color of neither could be distinguished unsuspected har monies of the language were now first found the elizabethan age properly begins with the publication of tot tel's miscellany in 1557 a book which though at one time nearly lost to the world has since been re printed this volume was not published till after the death of its most important contributors surrey wyatt and others from this time however literature began to be fashionable thomas wyatt was born of a noble family and was early sent to college in 1527 he went to italy where he was much attracted by petrarch's style and on returning introduced that difficult form of poetry the sonnet into english he also transmitted much of the softness of the italian to the harsher english thus forming a better instrument to convey the delicate thoughts he had imbibed professor thayer read several ex tracts from his works which showed clearly the influence italian had on his writings wyatt though not one of the great master minds held a high place and exercised a great influence on english literature in a time when it was much in need of it several extracts henry howard earl of surrey wyatt's pupil continued and per fected his style though his diction is much smoother than wyatt's he is more properly the founder of the metrical system much of surrey's earlier poetry was ad dressed to his lady love geraldine from which professor thayer read gifts of books by the kindness of dr roger s tracy registrar of vital statis tics for new york city this depart ment has received a consigment of books of varied character some medical others devoted to statistics or political economy periodicals dealing with current topics of in terest to the scientific world and a few books of value to students of general literature some of these have been put in the room devoted to the debating societies for immediate use there others will be found on the shelves in my office with the literary books already received the medi cal works will be kept by them selves for the convenience of any one who wishes to consult them as soon as the number of'books received shall justify it a room will be set apart for a departmental library where books may be bor rowed and taken out for a month at a time please contribute ! wm c thayek freshman class meet ing a special meeting of the class of 1900 was held on monday after noon at 12.30 o'clock in christmas hall after the meeting had been called to order president chapman stated that the class was still in need of money to pay for the class cuts for the epitome and urged all those who had not already done so to pay their back dues imme diately he also expressed regret that some of the men had so far for gotten themselves as to hiss one of the decisions at the winter meet on saturday he said the judges were competent and conscientious in rendering decisions and the rul ing was just and impartial a mo tion was carried that the president appoint a committee to wait upon the gentleman whose decision had been questioned and present to him in the form of resolutions the apologies of the class for their lack of courtesy schw'erin mc gavock and j brice were appointed the manager of the baseball team then addressed the meeting mr white said that unless enough money was collected from the col lege to send the team on its southern trip lehigh's athletics would become a thing of the past he said further that 1900 being the largest class in the university it ought to contribute the most money he urged every man to pay as much and as soon as pos sible there being no further business the meeting adjourned lehigh university south bethlehem pa thursday march 4 1897 vol iv no 37 the brown and white sidney the scholar courtier scholar and diplomatist is our first poetical critic and his " defense of poesy is still a masterpiece more will be heard of him in subsequent lectures his successors are sidney and ealeigh it is a surprise to us even in this busy age how raleigh accomplished so much one time writing dainty poems and then founding colonies then a courtier his best poems however were written after the death of the queen bacon that philosopher and stu dent of nature likewise comes in here but of him as of many others including shakespeare and milton who properly belong to this period we must speak in later lectures professor thayer received a hearty round of applause from the audience which though enthusi astic was rather small due to the disagreeable evening junior class meeting more than usual interest was shown in the junior class meeting of last friday which was in all probability owing to the fact that an amendment to the constitution was under consideration president farwell spoke at length on the winter meet and of the importance of the class being well represented the junior german was then discussed and it was decided owing to the poor financial con dition of the class not to give it the amendment was brought before the class it read : any member of the junior class by paying his regular dues from the beginning of the junior year will be considered an eligible voter but unless he has paid his class dues from the beginning of his freshman year he will not be eli gible for any class office after much spirited discussion the amendment was defeated it was then decided to fix the class dues for this term at three dollars a number of speeches were made on the financial condition of the class and the treasurer was asked to make a detailed report at the next meeting adjournment fol lowed college meeting immediately after the lecture in the physical laboratory on thurs day a college meeting was held the meeting was called to order by president senior of the senior class and white 97 placed the financial situation of the athletic association before the undergrad uates j w thurston 96 made a most enthusiastic speech asking the college men to do their duty towards athletics at lehigh and succeeded in stirring up the college spirit of those present addresses were made by some of the under graduates after which a vote of confidence in the athletic commit tee was passed subscriptions to the athletic association were open ed and about 200 was pledged at the meeting there being no fur ther business the meeting ad journed calendar thursday . march 4 — meeting of electrical engineering so ciety physical laboratory 7.30 p.m meeting of epitome board phi gamma delta house,2 p.m debate between electrical and civils in agora saueoß hall 7.30 p m friday march 5 a1l fraternities and clubs wishing to be repre sented in epitome must have insertion fee paid by above date meeting of chess club christmas hall 7.30 p m saturday march 6 — meeting of epitome board phi gamma delta house 9 a m eegular l u gun club shoot club traps 3 p m entrance examination i physics college mass meeting dix on's hall fourth and wyan dotte streets at 8 p m sunday _ march 7 — meeting of christian association christ mas hall 6.15 p m meeting banjo club 26 mar ket street bethlehem monday march 8 — sophomore class meeting christmas hall 12.30 p m quiz in steam engine in re citation room at 1.30 p m m e freshman shop visit tuesday march 9 meeting of mathematical club physical laboratory 7 p m dr semple's lecture on " ed mund spenser high school building vine street at s o'clock friday march 12 intercollegiate oratorical contest academy of music allentown saturday march 13 gun club shoot club traps athletic field notices track team all men who intend trying for the track team are expected to take the 5 o'clock drills regularly fot every man who has or thinks he might develop any ability in this line turn out so as to be in as good condition as possible before going on the track which we will do as soon as the weather permits in order that an idea of the outlook may be had men who intend try ing for places should hand their names to mr smith at the gymna sium or to putnam 97 captain supply bureau hours