Brown and White Vol. 4 no. 4

              mathematical club this year the mathematical club enters on the third year of its ex istence the work done by the members has always been of the highest order under the director ship of mr lambert it has grown to be one of the most flourishing of the college societies the amount of work required of each member is not sufficient to.inter fere in any way with his college work nor is it of such a nature as to be beyond the comprehension of any person who has studied calculus the members are chosen annually from the junior class the six having the highest averages in mathematics for the sophomore year being admitted in case of vacancies in the club from any class members are elected by com petition which consists of a paper on some mathematical subject junior class elections a special meeting of the junior class was held friday at 12.30 p m.,in the mechanical drawing room packer hall president horner called the meet ing to order and stated that it was held for the purpose of electing class officers for the ensuing year nominations for which offices had been made at the previous meeting all the candidates for secretary except bucher being ineligible he was elected unanimously a bal lot was then taken to fill the re maining offices but there was no election a majority of the votes cast being necessary to elect on the second ballot only the historian stockett was elected the votes for president being a tie be tween horn and farwell on mo tion the election was postponed until monday from 11.30 a m to 1 p m in christmas hall at the election held on mon dav oct 4 the following men were elected president farwell ; vice president eoper ; treasurer w b wood athletic representa tive horner senior class elec tions the elections held on wednes day oct 7 resulted as follows : vice president merriman ; secre tary thomas historian treichler athletic representative,boyt there were no elections for president and treasurer the following circular just is sued by the department of english is printed for the information of alumni readers : " college text-books editions in english and american literature and literary history works in philology criticism and fiction books of travel and adventure or descriptive of foreign lands and customs as well as books relating to political economy and civil government for the use of literary societies are earnestly requested from publishers alumni and other friends of the college for the pur pose of forming the nucleus of a departmental library which shall also be a lending library within certain definite limits " the main purpose of such a col lection will be to induce and stimu late the reading habit among stu dents " all packages should be sent by united states express marked collect and addressed to the de partment of english they will be gratefully received and promptly acknowledged founder's day exer cises the annual founder's day exer cises were held yesterday in the packer memorial church presi dent drown was fortunate in secur ing such an able speaker as john h converse of the baldwin lo comotive works philadelphia to deliver an address on " citizenship and technical education the chapel was filled with the under graduates and their friends and many alumni after the exercises the freshmen for the first time brought forth their colors and yell the musical program was excel lent consisting of the following well known selections processional " o god of god ! 0 light of light !" anthems ; " but thanks be to god from handel's " messiah and " achieved is the glorious work from haydn's " creation ;" eecessional " rejoice ye pure in heart !" extracts from the address are given below : the observance of founder's day in such an institution as this is a most commend able and fitting custom said mr converse the speaker paid a tribute to the founder asa packer he said the university may properly be designated as materialized benevolence in the absence of any pro vision by government in our country for special education such institutions must chiefly be crtated and maintained by pri vate beneficence if provision for higher education is a debt which the citizen owes to the community how better can he pay it than by contributing during his lifetime more certainty of his plans being properly carried out is thus assured but the debt which the citizen owes to the community for higher education involves an obligation on the part of the recipient which cannot in most cases be discharged by a pecuniary consideration you who are alumni or are to be alumni of an institution like this are not privileged to use your intellectual equip ment here acquired solely for your own aggrandizement society has claims upon you in the practice of your profession you must contribute something to the welfare of the community as opportunity offers it is agreed that the happiest definition of civil engineering is that it is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use aud convenience of man if the engineer and in that term we may include all the graduates of an in stitution like this possesses a power so im portant built up as it has been by the ex perience of thousands of predecessors and made possible of acquisition by the founding of technical schools like this he certainly has h duty to use it in some measure or the benefit of his fellows christianity teaches us that the saviour of mankind promises the highest recognition of service done in his name to even the least of those in need the relations of men in society show that there is an obligation . of service ■ even in the realm of materialistic progress the true citizen must be more than a'nar row specialist his education must be 1 thorough comprehensive humanizing practical the function of the university properly so called is to afford precisely such a training it should include not only the humanities but also necessarily and in separably the preparation for a profession or calling there are few professions where the widest knowledge can more fully be utilized than in that of the engineer no man whatever his calling can know too much h will find use iu the most unexpected manner for attainments apparently foreign to his pursuits the engineer of all men must be a practical man a man of business he must be able to write concisely and vig orously if he possesses the faculty of a public speaker it will come in play his knowledge of business forms and methods continued on fourth page the donations by gift or will to colleges and universities in this country since jan 1 1896 am ounts to 4,075,750 cane spree continued on third page the cane spree for the class supremacy between the freshmen and sophomores was a close and exciting contest the baseball game was a remarkably good exhi bition and the football game showed excellent material in both classes in the tug of war the freshmen laid on the rope in vet eran style showing first-class drill in this exercise the contests hav ing resulted in a tie it is undecided yet what will be done to award the victory but very likely another baseball game will be played at a future date the baseball game which began at 2.30 o'clock yesterday was a close and very interesting exhi bition of the game both pitchers were very effective although gannon was at times rather un steady pomeroy who comes from university of pennsylvania played a very good game while white pitched a strong game and fugitt supported him well carman be hind the bat showed up in his usual good form the game showed that ther is some promising material : c freshman class the following is the score : freshman sophomore base on balls off gannon 2 off white 1 hit by pitched ball by gannon 4 struck out by gannon 5 by white 8 left on bases sophomores 3 freshmen 7 um pire reed 98 time 1 05 immediately after the baseball game the football teams lined up the freshmen wan the toss and took the ball captain knight of the sophomores choosing the west goal chamberlain kicked off for the freshmen and 99 secured the on their 45-yard line failing to make a gain of five yards they were compelled to kick the kick was blocked and the freshmen secured the ball on a fumble james got the ball and made fifty yards but was called back at this point riegel took wy ntiing's place at right guard and lewis took maeder's at left the ball was given to 1900 but james se cured it again on a fumble hor ■ nor and james both made good gains through the line and carman was sent through for seven and ten yards in succession the sopho more half-backs skirted the ends for good gains and carman was the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa friday october 9 1896 vol iv calendar saturday oct 10 — football le high vs princeton at prince ton sunday oct 11 l it c a meeting in christmas hall 6.15 p m tuesday oct 13 — mathematical club meeting in physical la boratory 7.15 p m notice the mathematical club will meet on tuesday evening oct 13 at 7.15 o'clock in the physical labora tory all members are requested to be present and all students in terested in mathematics are invited hood 97 will read a paper en titled hyperbolic functions r which should prove interesting es pecially to juniors founder's day hop the committee for the founder's day hop which took place in the gymnasium deserves credit for the admirable way in which everything passed off the dance was a great success and was attended by a large number of undergraduates and sev eral alumni brown and white drapery together with lehigh banners pictures plants etc formed the decorations it was sev eral times remarked that these decorations surpassed those of for mer years both in beauty and ar rangement the program consisted of two parts of eleven dances each and four extras the patronesses were as follows : mrs charles m dodson mrs thomas m drown mrs benjamin frazier mrs e coppee mitchell mrs william b myers mrs gr reginald r eadford mrs robert e rathbun mrs elisha p wil bur the committee to whom the success of the dance was due con sisted of charles f scott 97 chairman henry r seabrook 97 horatio f brown 9b james f middledith 99 truman m dod son 1900 no 4 pomeroy ss fugitt c reese rf barager lb white p van duyne if hollingswoi'th cf . . . . cartwright 3b chamberlain 2b e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 h 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 p 1 8 1 2 0 0 1 0 2 a 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 e 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 total 0 2 15 2 g carman c , e grace ss w grace lb gannon p wood 2b reddig rf farnham 3b . , bailey c'f - giedhill if 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 jl . 6 1 7 0 0 0 i 0 0 1 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 total .-:.. 0 1 15 7 1