Brown and White Vol. 4 no. 23

              the last meeting of the christian association before christmas will very appropriately be a song ser vice the reference is luke i 46-55 it is earnestly desired that a large number may be present to make the singing hearty and joyful all come and bring your favorite hymns e e society meeting the last meeting of the society before the christmas holidays was held on tuesday night in the physical laboratory the paper of the evening was read by gris wold the subject being the best age of incandescent lamps mr.griswold stated that the general opinion was that it ; was an advan tage for incandescent lamps to have a long life but went on to say that be would show this to be erroneous under one condition ; this condition being that the consumer is con cerned only with the average cost of a candle power of light it is well known that lamps blacken and deteriorate with age becoming therefore less efficient conse quently it is important to know at what age it is cheapest to replace them to show this is the object of the paper the method used is that of mr o keenan which in brief is this : calculate for each hour in the life of a lamp the total quantity of light given off by it in candle-power hours from the time the new lamp was first started ; similarly calculating for each hour in the life of a lamp the total cost of this light that is the original cost of the lamp added to the cost of all the energy consumed by it from the time the new lamp was first started up to that particular hour it is evident that if for each hour in the life of a lamp this total cost is divided up to that hour by the lotal quantity of light up to tliat hour the average cost of a candle power of light from the jbeginning up to this hour will be it can then be easily seen at what age this total average cost is least ',' these operations were all repre sented graphically by curves and io make the fact of long life not being economical more evident several numerical examples were worked out 400 hours approxi mately was shown to be the best age and the saving effected by using three lamps 400 hours apiece over that of using one lamp 1200 hours amounted to 13 cents per candle-power for the 1200 hours the most important deduction made from this paper was that lamps might be forced much higher than is customary at the ex pense of their life this being a gain to both central station manager and consumer : as the supposition made in the beginning is not exactly true in practice it is not well to follow too closely the results obtained ; how ever the fallacy of running the lamps very long is clearly shown in addition to the old men al ready wearing the princeton mono gram and p captain cochraifc has announced that brokaw keiter crowdis wheeler and hillebran are entitled to this distinction „ supply bureau the supply bureau will close its accounts for this term by the end of the week having been fairly successful daring the past three months about 1000 worth of business has been done and the profits in round numbers if all outstanding debts can be collected will be about 40 or 4 per cent of the business done of the profits one-third goes to the supply bu reau and two thirds to the man agers now for all the time spent in managing the bureau 26 for three months is not over-pay since the advent of the bureau prices in books have been reduced from 10 to 20 per cent of their catalogue price and no matter where the books were purchased each student may thank the bu reau for saving him about 15 per cent on the price of books needed the average cost for books and supplies per man for the present term was about s estimating 400 students in the university it is seen at once that the bureau re ceived the patronage of about one third of the students the bureau was not organized as a money making scheme its fun damental-idea was to give the stu dents books and supplies at the least possible cost the managers have always adhered to the origi nal idea this year they have succeeded in buying direct from the publishers and as a result the students have received lower prices than ever before next term besides the text books used by all the students the freshmen will need drawing supplies of all kinds here again the advantage has been great alteneder's in struments set no 2066 which formerly cost 23.50 can now be purchased at the bureau for 19.50 triangular scales which formerly cost 1 may be had for 75 cents and other supplies have been re duced in prices in the same ratio the bureau buys direct from the makers of all drawing supplies and instruments used in the university and will offer to the students the best possible rates no other per sons whether they be individual agents or firms can sell cheaper and few as cheap as the supply bureau the bureau thus guar antees the best goods at the least prices in return the bureau de sires the patronage of all the stu dents when small profits are made greater business must be done a hearty co operation of the students with the bureau will benefit both and perhaps secure even greater benefits in succeed ing years a whist tournament will be held shortly after the beginning of next term to choose a team to represent yale in the tournament with har vard or princeton — yale news the university of illinois gives three prizes of fifty thirty and twenty dollars for excellence in de bate professor gurner of edinburgh receives 20,000 per year the highest salary received by any col lege professor the management of the cornell navy is raising funds to re-engage coach courtney for the coming year i ri _ „,,, „; „....,,..., ;>, fifteen scholarships have been given at the harvard medical school the editor-in-chief of the daily palo alto of leland stanford jr university california will be elected this year by the popular vote of ihe student body instead of by the editorial board of the paper as formerly a bi-weekly paper called the intercollegiate athlete has been started in boston it will contain articles on college athletics by men prominent on the field and track lehigh university south bethlehem pa thursday december 17 1896 vol iv no 23 the brown and white calendar thursday dec 17 — last of series of free public lectures on the " chemistry of every day life subject " chemistry of foods by dr t m drown friday dec 18 — meeting of chess club christmas hall 7.30 p l saturday dec 19 — lecture before the architectural club sub ject " history of architecture and egyptian styles ;" christ mas hall third floor 10 a m winter meet postponed meeting of forum in sau con hall 7.30 p m examination in locomotive for the senior e e sunday dec 20 — meeting of christian association christ mas hall 6.15 p m subject song service luke i 45-55 monday dec 21 meeting of agora saucon hall 7 30 p m wednesday dec 23 christmas holidays begin at 12.30 monday jan 4 christmas holi days end at 8.15 a m notices an important meeting of the honor court will be held in christ mas hall tonight thursday at 7 o'clock president there will be a meeting of the mustard and cheese dramatic asso ciation at the sigma phi house at 7 o'clock saturday evening president there will be a meeting of the agora on monday dec 21 at 7.16 p m this will be the last meet ing before the holidays and impor tant business is to be attended to all the members are urged to be present there will be a meeting of the christmas hall committee on sat urday dec 19 at 1.30 p m ah the members are requested to be present as the accounts for this term will be settled sophomore cotillion club dance the sophomore cottillon club held its first dance at the eagle hotel on tuesday evening and was proclaimed by all to be a great success the attendance although somewhat larger than was antici pated was not large enough to make the floor crowded the or chestra provided by kuhe includ ed the harpist sortorri of phila delphia and other celebrated mu sicians which aided by a program of well chosen selections enabled them to render excellent music the new floor which has recently been put in the dining room of the eagle hotel makes it without ex ception the best dancing hall in the bethleherns refreshments were served during the intermission and were fully up to the high standard set by the eagle hotel chey the patronesses were : mrs charles m dodson mrs thomas m drown mrs benjamin w frazier mrs robert p linderman mrs e coppee mitchell mrs william b myers mrs g reginald radford mrs rollin li wilbur the committee wright yout sey chairman frank i braden baugh george reifsnyder jackson james flanders middledith james burr reddig theodore cuyler visscher and george herbert wood deserve great credit for the successful way in which they con ducted the dance the following is the program . first part 1 valse s^a shore idylls 2 denx temps commencement 3 valse magnolia blossoms 4 d<ux temps friendship 5 valse d k e 6 deux temps — cosmos 7 valse pomme 8 deux temps boston post 9 valse madeline 10 deux temps y b 11 valse rob roy second part 12 valse nordica 13 deux temps handicap 14 valse rumor de brissas 15 deux temps tobasso 16 valse wizard of the nile 17 deux temps ton-adore 18 valse confidence 19 deux temps the girl of 99 20 valse espanita 21 deux temps el capitan 22 valse my dream extras 23 deux temps black america 24 valse pride of the ball 25 deux temps regimental