Brown and White Vol. 4 no. 26

              spanish-american so ciety the spanish.-american society held its annual election of officers for the present year as a result the following men were elected : j a de obaldia 98 president ; j m g galan 98 vice president ; c g newton 9 secretary m.de la mora 1900 treasurer a committee of three was ap pointed to convey a vote of thanks 10 professor thayer for the lecture he delivered on wednesday jan 6 under the auspices of the society postludes for 1897 professor wolle has arranged a series of postludes for the remainder of this term and all of the follow ing one which will be published a week in advance as usual for the coming week they are as follows wkdnerday jan is prelude in c bach thursday jan 14 communion in p g-rison friday jan 15 chorale merkel sunday jan 17 offertoire in f no 2 lefebuce-wely monday jan 18 traumerei schumann tuesday jan 19 benediction nuptiale saint-saens «. the junior class meeting has been postponed until friday jan 15 e a pittis ex-'96 spent a few days in town last week college exercises were sus pended on friday from 10.30 to 12.80 o'clock on account of the funeral of mrs w h say re wife of a member of the board of trustees the prof george m richardson of san francisco who died of ty phoid fever in athens on dec 16 last was not george m richard son lehigh university class of 1886 the deceased professor was from the university of california our alumnus is at the leland stan ford university and is at present at home hard at work as usual dinner to dr dashiell a dinner will be given to dr paul dashiell at the hotel savoy fifty-ninth street and filth avenue new york at 7 o'clock , on saturday jan 30 the members of the committee on rules upon which dr dashiell served and possibly other distin guished gentlemen will be invited the price of the dinner will be 5 per plate the committee on ar rangements numbering some thir teen graduates among whom are messrs g b linderman and kolliifc h wilbur hopes for a large at tendance of undergraduates and guests other than lehigh men will be invited and will be cordially welcomed the faculty committee on ath letics at the university of penn sylvania has given the baseball team permission to make a south ern trip in spring nelson b hatch 99 has been elected captain of the new york university baseball team and rob ert f keane 00 captain of the football team for 1897 the senior class of the univer sity of michigan has decided to wea cap and gown egyptian monuments continued on third page mr biggin in his saturday morning lecture said that with the advent of the middle empire architecture began to play an irn portant part in egyptian construc tion during this period one after another of the architectural forms made their appearance to which almost as much as to the powerful rulers who governed them the lost or new empire owes its glory and greatness like those of the preceding period the monuments of the middle empire are mainly sepul chral two types exist the one constructed in the pyramid form and the other consisting of rock hewn tombs pierced in the vertical cliffs of the west bank of the nile the walls of these tombs are generally covered with paintings but are entirely descriptive and not intended as a means of beauti fying only when as in the case of tombs as at bein-hassan an effort at distinctively decorative treatment appears in the design can such construction be dignified by the name of architecture here mr biggin showed ex amples of columns of the clustered and polygonal types as all styles of architecture are but evolved from some preceding one so the connection of these forms of egyp tian columns with subsequent kinds of the greek doric order is sug gested the section plan and ele vation of these rock-hewn temples were shown together with interior decorations of the private architecture of the middle empire nothing remains for far from being built in the solid and enduring manner in which the egyptians constructed their tombs and temples no attempt seems to have been made to erect houses that should last longer than their owners of the temples of this period only two remain of im portance and both belong to the twelfth dynasty abb 2200 b c some badly shattered fragments have been discovered among the ruins of bubastis which show the clustered type of lotus column the other constituted the earliest portion of the great temple at karnak itself a creation of the later or new empire structural stone columns as well as those cut in the rock were therefore known and used in this early time 220 b c in fact it is probable thai the whole architectural system ot the new empire was an evolution of the ideas developed during the age that has been considered an that the use of columns and the erection of temples of complex plan together with the adornment of these by sculpture carving and pamied reliefs were perfectly la miliar to the builders of this period but the works of the middle em pire have perished having most probably as occurred afterward lehigh university south bethlehem fa monday january 11 1897 yoi iv no 26 the brown and white calendar monday jan 11 — meeting of le high university gun club phi gamma delta house 7.80 p m dedication exercises of the agora and forum saucon hall 7.30 p m tuesday jan 12 — sophomore class meeting in christmas hall at 12.30 p m thursday jan 14 — meeting of electrical engineering society ? physical laboratory 7.30 p m lecture by mr webster physical laboratory 11.30 a m subject the inspection of eailroads friday jan 15 meeting of 98 epitome board 4.30 p m meeting of chess club christmas hall 7.30 p m junior class meeting,christ mas hall 12.30 p m . sunday jan 17 l u c a meeting christmas hall 6.15 p m notices elections will be held in christ mas hall on tuesday jan 12 7 from 11.80 to 1 o'clock for mana ger and assistant manager of the football team the candidates are : for manager farwell and roper ;; for assistant manager gannon jackson and middledith only those who have paid their athletic dues will be allowed to vote at a recent meeting of the ex - , ecutive committee of the athletic association it was decided to offer a prize of 5 for the best plans and estimate of cost for the renovation of the athletic field the committee leserving the right to reject any plan and estimate very important meeting of sophomore class in christmas hall on tuesday at 12.30 president meeting of the com mittee on sports at the above meeting on fri day jan 8 it was decided to hold the annual winter meet on satur day feb 27 this will give the men plenty of time in which to train for the different events and a successful meet should be the out come banners will be given to the winners and a large banner to the class scoring ihe highest number of points these trophies have been ready for some time and will probably be on exhibition for a few days previous to the meet a smoker will be held on satur day feb 13 if enough interest in shown by the undergraduates to make it a success a letter has been received by the committee from the director of the gymnasium at new york uni versity inviting a lehigh gymnas tic team to take part in a gym nastic meet to be held at new york the committee accepted the invitation and the date of this meet will be announced as soon as definitely arranged there is enough material in college to make up a very good team and all those wishing to try for places on the team should meet mr smith at once it was decided to give the fol lowing men the football l from a list of players submitted by cap tain gunsolus becerra brady fugitt gass holderness mason mccarthy senior treichler van duyne white senior e e shop visit on saturday afternoon the se nior eleetrieals visited the large plant of the edison illuminating and power company in easton the illuminating plant proper is in a room by itself and composed entirely of edison bipolar dyna mos : in an adjoining and much larger room is the power plant containing besides the dynamos for supplying the power two thompson - houston arc-lighting dynamos and one large alternator until recently four large westing house 4-pole direct current ma chines furnished the power for the trolley system but there is now installed a booster and 268 storage batteries so that one of the westinghouse machines may always be idle for repairs and cleaning the booster and batter ies are in series with each other and in multiple with the westing house machines the whole line current passing through the field of the booster the company has just installed the booster and batteries and made use of the op portunity afforded by so many electrical engineers to test the system including a test of one of the two compound vertical engines used for running the dynamos among the noticeable features of the boiler plant were two large climax vertical boilers of 800 horse power each when these were first installed they were the largest in the united states the trip was both pleasant and instructive due to the courteous treatment of the employes to whom many thanks are due the party was accompanied by dr macfarlane and messrs clark klinck webb and williamson