Brown and White Vol. 4 no. 9

              princeton's sesqui centennial tuesday and wednesday of last week were great days in the his tory of princeton for at that time the name was formally changed from the modest title the college of new jersey to the more preten tious and fitting one of princeton university the progress ot an institution so closely connected with the early colonial history of | the country and which has main tained a position of leadership in the educational world since that time is naturally watched with interest by every american a strong characteristic of his pride of country is his pride in its intel lectual development but interest in the 150 th anniversary of the founding of the college of new jersey is not confined to this conti nent for the fame of princeton has gone beyond the seas her men of genius and scholarship have at tained greatness in science religion and literature and this is recog nized in the old world as well as in the new princeton has con tributed to the service of the united states such men as joseph reed john witherspoon oliver ells worth edward livingston and james madison ; while the ser vices of benjamin rush to the pro fession of medicine those of david eamsey to history and those of joseph henry to american science are also a source ot pride the exercises in celebration of this event were attended by the leading educationalists of this coun try and by many from abroad the european universities and learned societies were represented by prof joseph john thomson ot cam bridge who replied in their behalf to the address of welcome delivered by the eev howard dufneld pre sident eliot of harvard said that as the head of the oldest american university it was his privilege to present to the president trustees and faculty the hearty congratula tions of the universities and learned societies of the united states on this auspicious occasion the sesqui-centennial exercises were inaugurated by religious ser vices held in alexander hall on on tuesday morning at the right of the platform was suspended a white silk banner which was pre sented by the ladies of princeton bearing the seal of the university and the numerals " 1746-1896 " in orange silk after the organ pre lude rendered by dwight elmen dorf of new york city the acad emic professors entered the hall first in the line which marched in twos were dr patton and dean fisher of the yale divinity school next came the first division of the princeton faculty followed by dean murray and the foreign delegates the college trustees and the first division of the princeton instruc | tors then came the visiting col continued on third page gifts of books besides those already ackowl edged books for saucon hall have been received from d c heath & co from dr drown and from a b fichter and we have notice of others coming next week wm c thayer e e society meeting the first regular meeting of the electrical engineering society was held on thursday evening in the physical laboratory the meeting was called to order by president binkley and the roll called the names of brown 97 lindsey dag gett and laurence 98 were pro posed for membership in the so ciety and they were unanimously elected on motion the president was then directed to appoint a sub ject committee consisting of three men whose duty it should be to help speakers in preparing papers by suggesting subjects and refer ences the committee appointed consisted of nachod livingston j and griswold the first paper of the evening was by nachod 97 on " the use of 220-volt lamps mr nachod stated that there are at present over two hundred plants in this country using 220-volt lamps and that this number is in creasing rapidly some of the advantages are that with the doubled pressure twice as many customers can be supplied with one half the loss in transmis sion or four times as many custo mers with the same loss on the line the switching on or off of motors will affect the lamps less than in the other system and thus do the lamps less injury ; the percentage of variation when a dynamo is thrown on or off at the station will be less in the starting of new plants the advantages will be still more marked because of the lessened amount of copper needed and there fore the lessened amount of bonds on which to pay interest the liger from fire is very slightly reased although the voltage is ibled because at the same time : current is halved the only il disadvantages being those of sened efficiency and shorter life both of which will probably be overcome in the near future following this was a paper by binkley 97 on " alternating cur rent transformers the construc tion and working of a transformer were fully explained with the aid of diagrams and its function made still clearer by the analogue of a small stream of water at a high pressure being transformed into a larger stream with a lower pres sure the ordinary 16-candle power lamps use about half an ampere at 110 volts if now this voltage were much increased and the current much diminished there would be a large saving of copper but there are no lamps to use this high voltage and it is here that the transformer is found useful the current is transmitted at a high potential to the lamp and then stepped dawn to the required pres sure thus reducing greatly the transmission losses the exact ac tion of the transformer was then described by the aid of curves and formulae reduced to the ratio of transformation and efficiency under lehigh university south bethlehem pa monday october 26 1896 vol iv no 9 the brown and white calendar sunday nov i christian asso ciation meeting in christmas hall at 6.15 p m tuesday oct 27 mathematical club in physical laboratory at 7.15 p m thursday oct 29 meeting of l u a c at 8 p m saturday oct 31 — football le high vs michigan at detroit notices a limited number of flannery lacrosse sticks are for sale at cost price at the chi phi house on brodhead avenue there will be a meeting of the mathematical club on tuesday evening at 7.15 in the physical laboratory ah members are re quested to be present also all who are interested in mathematics are invited freshman and sophomore essays must consist of not less than 600 words which in ordinary hand writing will cover four pages of foolscap written on one side different loads this finished the business of the evening at the next meeting on nov sth papers will be read by brown 97 and griswold 97 also a digest of the electrical world by good 97 football brown 16 ; lehigh o at 3 o'clock saturday afternoon the lehigh university team lined up against the brown university team in adelaide park providence e i it was an ideal day for foot ball but the attendance was small brown won the toss and played with the wind in their favor dur ing the first half it was an even contest up to the end of the half the ball traveling rapidly from one end of the field to the other but two minutes before time was called fultz was rushed through the le high line for the first touchdown and kicked a difficult goal the ball was near the middle of the field when the half closed score lehigh 0 ; brown 6 in the second half brown played a much better game scoring the first touchdown after ten minutes play fultz kicked goal and about this time holderness was injured retired brady taking his place at full back and treichler going to left end after stubborn resistance by the lehigh players the ball was slowly worked down to their goal line and fultz went through left tackle for the last touchdown but failed to kick the goal they made the last three plays in twenty three seconds the timekeeper tak ing out all time except when the ball was actually in motion final score lehigh 0 ; brown 16 for brown fultz and colby distin guished themselves while captain gunsolus and brady deserve great est credit on the lehigh side the line-up was as follows : time twenty-minute halves umpire little of amherst referee draper of williams linesman william wing of providence touchdowns pultz 3 goals fultz 2 starvation 4 ; delmonico 4 the above eating clubs played a most exciting game of football on saturday in the first half bucher of the starvation club fell on the ball back of the delmonico goal for a touchdown and in the second half paddock placed the ball be tween the starvation goal posts to even up the score twenty and fifteen-minute halves were played umpire starkey 98 referee yates 97 .*. professor williams has been con fined to his house for several days with a severe cold articles in competition have been accepted from junior 98 1 ; dix 90 2 ; canuck 98 1 ; meiss ner 98 1 ; orysanthemum 98 3 ; sawdust 99 1 ; albatross 1900,1 junior class meeting a special meeting of the junior class was held on friday oct 23 in the senior mechanical recitation room in packer hall the meeting was called to order by president farwell who stated that the class was deeply in debt from the cal culus cremation and that it was the desire of the class to have this paid off by jan 1 1897 after a statement of the finances of the class by w b wood a motion by homer to have the class dues fixed at 3 for the period extending from the opening of college to jan 1 1897 was carried homer then presented to the class the sub ject of athletic dues and stated the proposition of the alumni to dupli cate any sum which the under graduates might raise for the pur pose of improving the condition of the athletic field upon calling for subscriptions the sum of 69 was immediately pledged by the twenty men who were there the meeting was ad journed without further business lbhigh position brown brady treichler left end murphy fugitt left tackle casey johnson left guard wheeler mccarthy center . dyer becerra right guard coombs gunsolus right tackle locke mason right end chase gass quarter-back colby van duyne right-back fultz white left-back gammons holderness full-back hall