Brown and White Vol. 6 no. 52

              forum meeting the regular meeting of the forum was held wednesday even ing in saucon hall after roll call the president announced bene dict 99 as the extemporaneous speaker on " the seating of m s quay in the u s senate harleman,'ol was appointed critic of the meeting under new busi ness was presented a list of judges for the intercollegiate oratorical contest to be held at ursinus next year the committee on lafayette de bate reported arrangements pro gressing satisfactorily in order to meet expenses of the debate it was decided to levy an assessment on each member the criticism of the previous meeting was given by gilbert '()]„ a parliamentary drill took the place of the debate thovnton,'ol gave a resume of national events the following nominations for officers for next year were made president freeman fletcher star key vice president bayard c u tant shultz starkey ; secretary ehlers garman moore harle man treasurer gilbert luten wilkinson lacrosse lehigh 2 swarthmore 2 the third regular lacrosse game of the season was pla}^ed on leh'gh field wednesday afternoon and resulted in the above score dur ing the first part of the game lehigh's playing was the worst seen this year ; but towards the close of the second half our team braced up considerably and then gave an exhibition of real cham pionship lacrosse playing a con siderable improvement will have to be shown if the championship games are to be won swarth more did not play a brilliant game but their work throughout was steady and showed that they were doing their best to keep down the score the game was called at 3:40 p iff and after some very pretty passes on the part of symington digby and abbot the first goal was shot by abbott after 30 sec onds of play swarthmore hastily reciprocated however and after 1 minutes of play their first goal was shot by seaman score 1-1 the game for the rest of this half was rather loosely played on both sides with the exception of occasional spurts on the part of lehigh's attack swarthmore made several tries at goal but these were cleverly blocked by starkey and worthington time was called with the ball in lehigh's possession in the second half swarthmore shot her second goal after 1 mi utes of play after this lehigh braced up and played good lacrosse keeping the playing in swarth m re's territory unti 1 the end of the game digby abbott and martin successively tried for goals and failed a foul was claimed here against downing who used his hands outside of the crease but on a very peculiar decision of the referee the ball was given to swarthmore for a free throw with only five minutes to play gum mere shot the second goal for lehigh and tied the score the home team after this did some very pretty playing but failed to score broomell jackson and williams did thebest playing for swarthmore for lehigh captain gummere and symington deserve especial mention for the excellent game they played abbott starkey and digby also did very well the line up is as follows swarthmore . position lehigh downing goal starkey hall point woithington thomas cover point symington william ist defense maeder mcvnugh 2d " dor eh harris 8d " . . rittenhouse pancost centre gutnmerefeapt ) broomell capt 3d home rovelo bean 2.1 " abbott tyson ist " young jackson outside " digby seaman inside " martin refere c s powell schuylkill navy umpires williams swarthmore and newton lehigh time-keepers hoski'sand chamberlain time two 45-minute halves goals abbott unmmere seaman and jackson mathematical club the mathematical club held its regular bi weekly meeting last night in professor thornburg's lecture room the paper of the evening was presented by mr fuller of 1900 and was entitled " taylor's series based on kolle's theorem mr fuller was not a member of the club but prepared his paper as a candidate for ad mission according to the rules and also a contestant for the prize so kindly offered by professor merri man to the man presenting a paper in the best snape before the club the offer was intended as a stimu lus to those interested in mathe matical subjects and it is hoped that others will signify their in tention in the near future of be coming candidates for admission as it is desired to have as large and flourishing a membership as possible the paper as presented last evening by mr fuller consisted essentially in a derivation of taylor's series by kolle'stbeorum without the aid of the calculus although using the calculus nota tion and in demonstrating that for infinitely convergent series the error made in using taylor's series in calculations may be rendered negligibly small an exponential function of the sum of two variables was first assumed and was then expanded by the binomial theorem and re written with the calculus nota tion of prime functions the function first taken was as sumed to be continuous between two limits and finite for all values of the variable between those lim its a general series of the same form as the first was thus derived for the approximate calculations of the function for arbitrarily assigned values of the independent variable an application was then made of rolle's theorem which is that if a function of x and its first derivative are finite and continuous from x equals a to x equals b and if the same function of a and b are each equal to zero then the prime func tion of x must vanish for some value of x between a and b from this the desired series was derived and an expression obtained fu the error which as was shown could be made sufficiently small to any degree of accuracy is the num ber of terms of the series he made sufficiently large from taylor's series maclaurin's series was pro duced upon the conclusion of the paper there was a short discussion par ticipated in by messrs benedict viehe and coutant upon motions the club tendered mr fuller a vote of thanks for his paper and then elected him to membership adjournment was then had as no further business remained before the club lehigh university south bethlehem pa feiday may 5 1899 vol vj no 5 the brown and white calendar friday may 5 — at 7:15 p m meeting of the civil engineer ing society in the physical laboratory at 4:30 p m choir practice in the chapel saturday may 6 — baseball le high vs lafayette at eastoti sunday may 7 — meeting of the christian association in christmas hall wednesday may ] 0 — baseball lehigh vs fordham at new york friday may 12 at 8 p m debate lehigh vs lafayette at south bethlehem saturday may 13 — at 8:30 p m lacrosse championship game lehigh vs johns hopkins on lehigh field notices sophomores physics the laboratory will close for the term on friday may 19 all reports must be in corrected by friday may 26 at 5 p m s s clark civil engineering society the civil engineering society will meet this evening at 7:15 o'clock in the physical laboratory besides the reading of the paper there will be election of officers for the general engineering society and for the civil section of this society baseball the special train tor the lafay ette game will leave tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock fare for round trip thirty-five cents baseball lehigh 7 ; pennsylvania 8 the best game which lehigh's ball team has played this year was lost to pennsylvania on wednes day by the above score three home runs two of them knocked when there were men on the bases scored six of perm's runs and won the game for her notwithstanding the fact that the team was crippled by the loss of carmen and pomeroy lehigh played a steady fielding game as the zeros in the error column show bachman took carmen's place and played a good game but was not successful at the bat par son's fielding was remarkably fine the batting honors of the game go to james pennsylvania won out in the last half of the ninth after lehigh had tied the score with two men out and two on base gillinder knocked what looked to be an easy one toward third parsons was ready for it but it bounced about rive feet in front of him hit a rock and bounded high over his head allowing brown to score hayden's work on second was of a kind no college team should allow he lost no opportunities to do dirty work and it was only through the vigiiance of the um pire that his conduct was kept irom affecting the score thegame by innings first lehigh started the game parsons taking first on an error e grace fouled out parsons was caught at second and j grace completed the trio on a ball to second for pennsylvania huston sin gled took second and third on a wild pitch frazier struck out and gillinder scored huston and himself on a home run to left field the next two men went out on two balls to parsons it of pa 2 ; lehigh 0 b'cond for lehigh reed flied out james knocked a two bagger and alder tied the score by a beautiful home run bach man was hit by a pitched ball but was caught going to second and kelly retired the side on a ground ball to share pennsylvania's first two men went out on balls to parsons the next two were given bases on balls but were left by a foul to j grace it of pa 2 ; lehigh 2 third hollingsworth went out on an infield hit parsons hit safely and scored on e grace's two bagger j grace hit safe y scoring x grace reed flied out james hit safely but was let t by alder's grounder to short pennsylvania went out one,two three on balls to h llingsw rth parsons and e grace u of pa 2 ; lehigh 4 fourth layton replaced shape continued on fourth pane