Brown and White Vol. 5 no. 11

              agora meeting at delta phi house wednesday nov 10 at 7.30 o'clock the next meeting of the society will be held thursday nov 11 a program for that evening will be prepared by the committee for regular debates consisting of childs watts and homer it be ing desirable to have a joint meet ing of the literary societies in the near future the committee for joint debates home 98 stauffer 1900 and heller 01 will confer with the committee of the forum president there will be a very important meeting of the brown and white board at 4.30 p m friday nov 5 very necessary that all members of the board be present editor in chief re-examinations entrance subjects physics — nov 6 history nov 13 algebra — dec 4 the senior civils will be taken by mr keim on a visit of inspec tion to allentown today the object of the visit is to inspect some bridge work there dr drown has been indisposed for the last week and has been confined to his residence but is fortunately now much better e e society the electrical engineering so ciety held a special meeting on thursday oct 2 the meeting was called to order by the presi dent at 7.30 o'clock with quite a number of seniors and juniors present after reading the min utes the following men were elected to membership : from 98 schwecke moritz,watts hershey yorks hazel and george from 99 birch viehe bailey rainey and steckel the paper of the evening was read by homer 98 on " storage batteries an ex tract of the paper is given below : storage batteries are based on the principle that the passage of an electric current through water results in its decomposition into its component gases hydrogen and oxygen if two lead plates are used as the conductors and a little sulphuric acid is put in the water a thick brown coating is seen on the positive plate where oxygen is given off and when the external circuit is afterwards com pleted we find that the lead plates themselves will generate a current the theory might therefore be put in this way : the passage of a current through a combination of lead plates immersed in dilute sul phuric acid effects a current chemical change in the condition of the plates as this change takes place a certain amount of energy is stored up by the current and this energy becomes available again in the form of an electric current when the plates are connected through an external circuit the total amount of this energy varies directly as the amount of peroxide of lead formed and as the amount of surface of lead exposed to the current this oxidizing action does not extend to any depth in the plates the part of the plates undergoing this chemical change is said to be active in all lead storage batteries one of the objects desired is to obtain a large lead surface for a small mass as the capacity and discharge rates are proportional to the extent of surface exposed the usual way now of getting this surface is to cast a frame of lead with raised n angle ribs on each side giving small depressed squares these squares are then filled with a pasty mixture of red oxide of lead for the positive plate and with letharge the reddish protoxide of lead for the negative plate plates made in this way are always giving trouble during heavy discharge disintegration of the positive plate takes place and causes short-cir cuiting and buckling these troubles are not so apt to occur in a form of cells known as the chloride cell so called on account of the plates constituting the elements the elements are made up of tablets cast from fused chlorides of lead and zinc held continued on third page the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa thursday november 4 1897 vol y no 11 calendar saturday nov 6 — re-examina tion entrance physics football u s military academy at west point gun club shoot athletic field sunday nov 7 regular meet ing of the christian associa tion at 6.15 p m in christ mas hall subject :" prayer precept and example matt vi 6 mark i 85 matt xiv 23 thursday nov 11 joint meeti ing of the agora and forum saucon hall 7.30 p m saturday nov 18.—re-examina tion entrance history football new york univer sity at south bethlehem new chaplain by the following dispatch pub lished in one of the morning pa pers it became public that the chaplaincy of the university has been filled by the election of rev langdon c stewardson to the position mr stewardson is a finished scholar in psychology and philosophy and his sermons were very popular with the students and faculty of clark university of worcester although he had no connection with that institution owing to dr drowns illness the brown and white is unable to publish a more extended account of mr stewardson but will do so in the next issue : " the wardens and vestry of the fashionable st mark's episcopal church here have been surprised to receive the resignation of the rector rev langdon c stewardson who asks the release in order that he may accept the chair of philosophy and the chaplaincy of lehigh univer sity a few weeks ago president drown of lehigh came to wor cester to discuss the matter with mr stewardson and this is the result it is understood that mr stewardson will be absolutely un trammeled in the expression of his views in class room and pulpit he has been at st mark's for ten years is held in high esteem and his departure will be sincerely re gretted mathematical club at the regular meeting of the mathematical club in professor thornburg's room packer hall on tuesday evening steckle 99 read a paper on symbolic integration which proved especially interesting to the juniors present the pro cesses explained therein directly affecting the work upon which they are about to enter in their regular course in mathematics after defining and illustrating the symbolic form of the coeffi cients as adopted and demonstrat ing the direct application of the algebraic processes as expressed m the distributive commutative and index laws of algebra to such forms mr steckle proceeded with the more advanced and more direct division of his subject as expressed in the convenient handling and solving of differential equations stated as functions of differential coefficients symbolically expressed as required mr steckle presented and de monstrated integrations of the most complicated forms imaginable per formed by the processes of the symbolic integration which he had derived the methods were all exceedingly simple the results quite intelligible the members present followed the paper closely to its very end and watched each new transformation and difficulty overcome with extreme interest at the close of the paper the club unanimously elected mr steckle to membership mr kneas 98 will probably read the next paper on tuesday evening nov 16 his subject will be announced later ♦ . the name of princeton univer sity was given from the fact that henry prince of piscataway owned in 1711 two hundred acres of ground where princeton now stands as it became populated the name " prince's town " was given sub sequently this became princeton mount holyoke college now has an elective course in journalism,in cluding lectures by an experienced journalist at cornell a women's eelief guild " has been organized the interest from a fund of 6000 is to support a ward in the ithaca city hospital for cornell students harvard and the university of california have arranged for an inter-collegiate chess match by tel egraph to be played a month hence dr newton batement president of knox college for seventeen years and an educator of national reputation died thursday columbia university opened its 145 th academic year at the mag nificent new buildings at morning side heights new york reception to presi dent drown lacrosse souvenirs a reception to dr and mrs drown was given at the residence of mr e p wilbur in south bethlehem last tuesday night a large representation of towns people and quite a number of stu dents were invited the enter tainment was one of the hand somest social affairs of the season the allentown band furnished the music and after the reception the younger portion of the company indulged in dancing until a late hour the souvenirs for the lacrosse team consisting of a very handsome little pin tor each member of last year's championship team have arrived the pins are very ap propriately designed and will be a fitting token of the regard of the college for the lacrosse men enough money was collected last year to buy pins for seven men most of the money being contribu ted by members of the senior class all the 97 men have been given pins and the college should raise a sufficient amount to do like wise by the other members of the team 4 the senior civils had an exam ination in astronomy last wednes day notices s c c an election for junior vice president will be held at christ mas hall 11.30 o'clock monday meeting at delta phi house thursday nov 10 at 7.30 o'clock important there will be a meeting of the class officers on saturday at 9.45 a m in christmas hall e 1 edmonston