Brown and White Vol. 5 no. 38

              notices senior class meeting last thusday a special meeting of the class was called to discuss the coming senior banquet as announced some time ago the date was fixed for march 11 but as only twenty men would attend it was thought better to postpone the banquet or give it up alto gether the sentiment of the class seemed in favor of a cheap com monplace affair and as the com mittee elected by the class would not take the responsibility of getting up such a banquet they tendered their resignations the meeting adjourned leaving all banquet supporters very much disgusted «. dartmouth having no chess club the annual brown-dartmouth match will not take place this year lowa baptists have decided to concentrate educational efforts upon a single institution of college grade and have decided to unite in the support of des moines college e e society the regular meeting of the electrical engineering society was held in the physical laboratory last thursday evening it was the best attended meeting thus far during the season of 97 and 98 the paper for the evening was presented by gratz 98 on " static transformers after an exhaustive discussion of the elementary and general princi ples of the transformation from a high to a low voltage or vice versa in alternating circuits mr gratz deduced and demonstrated the mathematical formulas used in the calculation of sizes in the designing of the various types of transform ers and the designation ot the losses inherent thereto or such as are liable to exist owing to careless design or workmanship mr gratz's paper naturally in volved quite an extensive investi gation into the nature of an alter nating current and it was conse quently of so intricate a composition that it was most difficult to read in a manner to make it interesting to an audience however sympath etic he succeeded admirably,howe ver in retaining the attention of his audience throughout the entire discussion and on closing was ten dered a vote of thanks by the society the resignation of mr hess as secretary was received and accepted mr daggett was elected his successor the president was instructed to make an effort to secure professor macfarlane during his stay at the university to give a lecture before the society the names of j w and e g grace were proposed for active member ship and that of freedman 1900 for associate membership , the faculty of bryn mawr will henceforth wear academic gowns on ceremonial occasions college meeting president drown received a very enthusiastic reception when he addressed the student body last saturday morning this is the first occasion on which he has met the students together since he was taken ill it was unfortunate that there were several re examinations being held at the same time thus preventing the attendance of a number of men from the different classes 11l as he was president drown has kept himself informed as to the general condition of college work and expressed himself as being entirely satisfied with it in comparison with that done at other technical institutions he said it is in advance of them in consistency of effect students at lehigh are worked hard but not over-worked as is shown by the interest taken in the literary societies and athletics when the men are overworked in any department it is due rather to the zeal of the in structor than to anything else and all well grounded complaints will receive careful examination and just treatment the honor system as adopted while some of its rules are possibly not entirely satisfactory to either the students themselves or to the faculty is at present the best to be had and a step in the right direc tion the ideal honor system is the one which has no rules or regulations governing it but this can only be operated in a place where a man that cheats is looked upon as an unclean thing not fit ta be the associate of gentlemen as yet our colleges are not in con dition to adopt such a system and for some time at least the present one must hold compulsory chapel was abolished at lehigh because the faculty had been able to devise no suitable punishment for non-attendance the fact of its being compulsory implied some form of penalty and as the only punishment at the command of the faculty viz : sus pension did not seem the proper thing chapel attendance was made voluntary the position in which lehigh would be placed by return ing to compulsory chapel to com ply with the wishes of the students would be unique yet would reflect credit upon the college and under graduates if the majority of the students desired it and would formulate some working plan the faculty would meet them half way in returning to the old custom the aim of a student at college is primarily the fitting of himself for his life work in the best pos sible manner this includes fore most the development and refine ment of his character a man should try to leave his alma mater with a good character as well as a good professional education and while at college one of his most quiz in freshman trigonometry has been postponed to saturday march 12 at 9.30 a m the junior differential equations special examination will be held march 12 c l thornburg re-examination in hygiene sat urday march 26 8.30 a m lacrosse lacrosse men should avail them selves of the present good weather and practice tipping in the athletic field e-,;ery alternoon the new sticks will arrive this week all smoking must be discontinued im mediately e 11 symington capt annual contest the annual contest of the penn sylvania inter-collegiate oratorical union will be held in easton on friday march 11 glee club on tuesday at 7 o'clock there will be a meeting at the psi u chapter house bethlehem for the purpose of discussing the advisa bility of organizing a college glee club every one having an inter est in the matter is very cordially invited to attend ,-+. the senior class of the college of the city of new york has adopted the cap and gown a new sophomore debating society " the wigwam has just been formed at yale the medical department of adel bert college will next year raise its admission requirements so as to correspond to the work usually in cluded in the first three years of a good college course a water polo tournament for the championship of the united states will probably be held at the new en gland sportsmen's carnival in boston on march 19th or 26th the boston a a chicago a a knicker bocker a a new york a c and university of pennsylvania teams are expected to compete lehigh university south bethlehem pa monday march 7 1898 vol y no 38 the brown and white class standing the following is a list of the first ten men in the senior junior sophomore and freshman classes at the close of last term : seniors — horn borhek kneas eoper frisby waring eiegel webster lawrence paddock juniors — steckel j w grace allen e g grace viehe dornin littell capriles benedict con verse sophomores — bayard ortner eeese barager johnston schultz burke parsons benson martin freshman — wilkinson nolan shaeffer moore girdler harleman haas alder buch flory calendar monday march 7 — special meet ing of forum 7 p m wednesday march 9 — reexam • ination in first term sopho more calculus quiz in sophomore physics for second term friday march 11 — inter-colleg iate oratorical contest high school easton pa saturday march 12 — quiz in sophomore mechaniss in physical laboratory at 8.30 a m quiz in freshmen trigo nometry at 9.30 a m ec-examination in junior differential equations important duties is to elevate his ideals the literary societies of the col lege are becoming daily of more importance to the student in them is given a chance for practice in speaking before a greater or less number of people and this exper ience will prove of benefit to the man after he is installed in his profession whether he be endeav oring to convince two or three capitalists of the soundness of his plans or laboring with a mase meeting on some public scheme it is then to the best interest of the college men to join one or the other of these societies and be benefitted by talking part in them he closed stating his pleasure at being again at his post and al ways ready to do his best to assist the men that our president is again able to resume his duties is a sufficient guarantee for the con tinued prosperity of the university l u gun club the gun club held a very suc cessful shoot at its traps on the ath letic field saturday afternoon since the last shoot the club has had built a screen to protect the trappers and to conceal the traps this enabled the rapid lire system to be used instead of the one man up style as heretofore the lafiin-rand powder com pany of new york city donated a hundred of its best loaded smoke less shells to the club these shells were to be shot for consequently they were divided into a first prize of fifty shells and a second and third prize of twenty-five shells each the birds were shot at at un known angles and when the scores were reckoned up zalinski stood first with van duyne and dornin second and third respectively there is a very active interest shown in the gun club at present and the men expect to make a better record in their next contest with the pennsylvania gun club in april than they did in the last