Brown and White Vol. 4 no. 19

              ten strongest freshmen the following is a list of the ten strongest men in the freshman class taken from the result of the recent physical examination : athletic subscrip tions the attention of the student body is called to the fact that the athletic subscription pledges are not being redeemed as they should when the slip was signed the student promised to pay so much money towards repairing the athletic field now this slip was nothing more or less than a promis sory note in which the student promises to pay a certain amount on or before a certain time the time for redeeming these pledges has long since passed and yet only about one-third of the amount sub scribed has been collected the men who pledged themselves to give certain amounts should not wait for the collector to come around to them but go to him and give him the money immediately it is certainly a bad state of affairs when a man gives his note for a certain amount and then fails to pay up at the prescribed time that is something that is not and cannot be permitted in the business world why then should it be done here at the university ? a man is certainly forming bad habits if he permits this to be the case in his university career the amounts subscribed up to nov 30 by classes is as follows : class of 97 89 ; 98 31 ; 99 46 ; 1900 107 ; total 273 lecture by dr rich ards on friday evening nov 27 dr kichards delivered a lecture before the franklin institute on the extraction of gold from low grade ores which would otherwise be unprofitable he described and illustrated the cyanide process of dissolving the gold from the pow dered ore and then the two methods of precipitating it after it has been so dissolved budd 95 gibson 95 and mas son 96 spent thanksgiving in town the senior electricals will have a quiz in dynamo electric ma chinery on monday or tuesday of next week the scores of the games between harvard and pennsylvania hay been : 1883 harvard 4 pennsylva nia 0 ; 1884 pennsylvania 4 har vard 0 ; 1886 harvard 28 pennsyl vania 0 ; 1890 harvard 35,pennsyl vanio 0 ; 1893 harvard 26 perm sylvania 4 ; 1894 pennsylvania 18 harvard 4 ; 1895 pennsylvania harvard 14 1896 pennsylvania 8 harvard 6 lehigh university vol iy south bethlehem pa thursday december 3 1896 no 19 the brown and white mathematical club at a meeting of the mathemati cal club held tuesday nov 24 white 97 discussed in a very able manner the subject of the conic sections on the cone mr white began by showing that if a right cone be cut by a plane and spheres be inscribed in the cone tangent to the plane the points of tangency of the spheres and the plane are the foci of the section cut by the plane from the cone also that the lines of intersection of the planes of the circles of contact of the spheres and cone with the plane cutting the conic section are the directrices of the conic the fundamental relations were then shown by simple geometrical demonstrations an interesting fact is that a plane cutting a right cone will give only two varieties of second degree curves the parabola being consid ered as separating the ellipse and hyperbola two hundred and nine teen varieties of third degree curves can be obtained by cutting a cubic cone with a plane it was announced that horn 98 would read the paper at the next meeting calendar thursday dec 3 third of series of free public lectures on the " chemistry of every day life subject " chemistry of the metals by dr eichards friday dec 4 meeting of chess club christmas hall 7.80 p.m kegular monthly meeting of junior class 12.30 p m saturday dec 5 — meeting of 98 epitome board 2 p m lecture in christmas hall 10 a m subject growth of egyptian architecture and life sunday j nov 29 — meeting of christian association christ mas hall at 6.15 p.*m subject missionary meeting tuesday dec 8 — meeting of mathematical club physical laboratory 7.15 p m wednesday dec 9 meeting of agora christmas hall 7 p m thursday dec 10 — fourth of series of free public lectures on " chemistry of every day life _ subject chemistry of dyeing tuesday dec 15 sophomore cq tillon club dance at eagle hotel winter meet at the meeting of the commit tee on sports on monday night it was decided to hold the annual winter meet on saturday after noon dec 19 in the gymnasium trophies will be awarded to the successful competitors in the sev eral events and a banner to the class scoring the greatest number of points it has not been defin itely decided as to the form of prizes to be given but they will be on exhibition for a few days previous to the day of the meet if possible the list of events is as follows eunning high jump standing high jump running broad jump running high kick pole vault fence vault boxing wrest ling and horizontal bar the weights for wrestling and boxing will be under 125 pounds between 125 and 140 pounds between 140 and 155 pounds and over 155 pounds if there is a large num ber of entries for boxing and wrest ling it may be neccessary to hold preliminaries a few days before the meet entries can be made to mr smith or the athletic representa tives and it is hoped that a large number of men will compete and make the meet a success and all are urged to commence training at once notices the last meeting of the junior class during this term will be held in christmas hall on friday dec 4 at 12.30 p m all members of the class are urgently requested to be present pkesident civil engineering so ciety at the last stated meeting of the society chiles 97 gave a pape on the repair of a railway tunnel floor by the use of inverted melan arches the tunnel is on the line of the south orange n j and maple wood street traction road and was constructed to prevent a trouble some grade crossing over montrose avenue the soil at its location is soft and marshy and to a great ex tent quicksand in the original work much trouble was encoun tered owing to the large amount of water that forced its way into the cuttings the floor consisted of two inch planks laid across the tunnel and on this was deposited a layer of concrete eight inches thick upon this concrete rested the track the tunnel had been in use for one day when the middle of the floor cracked parallel to the rails due to the heavy side walls not be ing properly supported and also in part to the weight of the rolling load the result was that the water rushed in increased volume and suspended traffic in the repairs to the work a pump run by a motor was first used but during a storm it was de stroyed ajid was afterwards re placed by steam pumps it may also be mentioned that prior to this time no precautions had been taken to prevent the overflow of a nearby creek into the cutting the repairs consisted of placing ninety arched iron beams at an average distance of three feet apart in the floor their ends abutting into an excavation cut in the side walks and there riveted to angle irons the spaces between the beams were filled with layers of concrete well rammed into place after the usual period for setting the work was found to give entire satisfaction photographs of the work in various stages of completion were shown and estimates of the work given the paper was highly appreci ated by the audience as it gave information regarding work to be met with t any time next monday epitome slips will be given out to all students possi ble these slips should be filled out at once and returned to j b lindsey jr h m daggett jr or d w koper of the board any one not obtaining a slip will please get one from any of the above orf this slip will be found a blank for inserting how many copies you in tend to purchase and upon this re sult an estimate of the number of books needed will be based it is therefore very essential that no one say he intends to purchase one or more copies unless he fully ex pects to h m daggett je j manager dr richards lecture on thursday evening dec 3 will be given the third lecture of the series on the chemistry of every day life dr eichards will take as his subject the ex traction of metals from their ores the subject is one of great interest and one which everybody should know something about dr eich ards will treat the subject so as to bring it entirely within the com prehension of a person of ordinary intelligence without any previous knowledge of the subject as the subject is very large dr eichards will explain clearly the principal facts connected with the subject rather than go into detail which would be less interesting and on the whole less profitable the general treatment of a metal will be a resume of its properties its occurrence in nature and the prin ciples used in tlie extraction of it from its ores dr eichards thor ough acquaintance with this subject is well known and any one inter ested at all in the subject should make it a point to hear the lecture the third lecture in the series on architecture will be given satur day at 10 a m in christmas hall third floor the subject is growth of egyptian architecture and life m schwerin w t mccarthy j r vanduyne c m simmers h b chapman d h canfield j w burke p j payne w t white j j brice strength . 739.2 . 711.9 , 651.3 . 639.5 635.5 . 600 5 . 616.5 , 610.1 . 609 . 602 ment 537.3 556.2 507.3 499 485.6 525.2 504 538 4 539.8 487.4 dition 201.9 155.7 144 140.5 149.9 105.3 112.5 71.7 69.2 114.9