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              there will be the regular lecture to senior by prof stewart on wednesday march 28 at 3 p.m in saucon hall the subject is negotiable papers baseball practice at a meeting of the calculus cremation committee on thurs day march 22 at 12.30 sellers was elected chairman notice the secretary of the alumni association h h stock 809 quincy avenue scranton pa would like the names of the presi dent and secretaries of the follow ing classes 69 70 71 72 72 74/75 77/78 79 80 81 82 83 85 9h 93 94 95 96 97 and 9b lacrosse coach thirty men were out on saturday afternoon for practice after an hour's preliminary work two teams were chosen and a game was played the practice was a good one and showed that the men are fast get ting into shape the teams were made up as follows : lilly c bachman c mccleary p ' sellers p alder ist b lewis \ , , hollingsworth,2db hederman j parsons 3d b lukens 2 b taylor s s jones 3 b pomeroy 1 f reese s s james c f harleman 1 f mackey r f dumas c f rodney r f among the colleges yale will establish a school of forestry on the estate of the late professor o c marsh and open it at the beginning of the next col lege year haverford will send a cricket team to england this summer and games will be played with oxford and cambridge the new lacrosse coach barlow will arrive today when work will be gin in real earnest the team was out five times last week for practice and the outlook is very encourag ing the first game is with hobart on april 10 notice to undergrad uates aii subscriptions to this paper are now due the supply bureau will re ceive them at any time three hundred men have re ported to the trainer of the track team at harvard ' for preliminary work of inter-oceanic transit the political aspect prof keasby ol bryn mawr lectured upon the above subject last friday evening this was the second of the series of political lectures and prof keasby spoke in part as follows : this great question of which i intend to speak is presented from two points of view namely ameri can and european the former is the one upon which we must stand while the latter we should abandon forever the strip of land through which the nicaragua canal is to pass is ruled by a certain group which group should the present ad ministration pass out of existence would no longer be able to control themselves american capital is rapidly being invested in mexico and in central american republics in every branch of industry now suppose these countries are no longer able to guarantee security to the united states capitalists ? to whom must they turn sureiy not to europe " whether or not we fortify the canal is a matter to be determined in the future and there is no reason to deny ourselves the military right by granting to england her re quests do we need ask england's permission to do with this canal as is best anymore than we have to ask her permission to use the pacific simply because of the small strip in question it would be foolish to promise her anything in this par ticular case the thing most often cited is the neutralization of the suez canal suppose for an argu ment the canal is neutralized if we draw an analogy with european history the question is no longer similar to the suez canal but to the north sea canal the nicar aguan canal joins the two open oceans and is therefore directly in ter-ocean while the suez canal joins two closed seas and is there fore indirectly inter-ocean " when the east and west began to recede then began for the first time the inter-oceanic question and at that time there was a marked difference between eastern and western commerce there was but one way to remedy this and that was by the piercing of the suez canal this being done trade relations were well regulated the continued on second page nesday evening two papers read wed a meeting of the electrical en gineering society was held in the physical laboratory on wednesday evening at 7.30 the meeting was called to order by president groff and after the roll call by secretary strauss there being no business mr viehe read a paper on " the determina tion of the masses of lons the paper dealt with the form of dis charge known as " ultra-violet or " cathode rays and the most im portant conclusion reached was that atoms which have always been considered indivisible may be subdivided into smaller portions of matter which it is suggested might be termed " corpuscles after mr viehe's paper was con cluded savidge 01 read a paper on ■' telephone connection his remarks being confined to line con struction and being in part as fol lows : " the value of an investment is determined partly by initial cost cost of maintenance and deteriora tion for this reason construction should be carried out on the follow ing lines toll lines that is lines from one town to another should follow the public roads as it is cheaper thus the ground should be sur veyed to determine the direction for the line and then re-surveyed to locate the poles the soil is an important factor for poles are harder to set in rocky ground but last longer poles should never be more than 150 feet apart should be seven inches across at the top and painted under no circum stances ought they to be set less than five feet deep and the ground must be carefully tamped all poles carrying a sidewise pull should be guyed as should also the terminals and corner poles the exchange should be centrally located to save expense in con struction and it is advisable in cities to locate the poles in alleys as street repairing often necessi tates moving the poles continued on fourth page " the poles ought to stand high enough to clear all inductive dis turbances due to lighting and power lines and each cross-arm must be carefully braced terminal lehigh university south bethlehem pa monday march 26 1900 university lecture vol vii junior banquet e e society calendar no 42 the brown and white monday march 26 — at 4 p.m mustard and cheese rehearsal in christmas hall wednesday march 28 — at 3 p.m lecture to seniors by prof stewart in saucon hall friday march 30 — college lecture by prof roland b falkner of university of pennsylvania on the money question in 1896 and 1900 notices engineering society there will be a combined meet ing of all the engineering societies of the university on wednesday evening march 28th in the hall of the physical laboratory at eight o'clock mr harvey m watts of philadelphia will read a paper on the weather in the light of mod ern meteorology the paper will be illustrated by lantern diagrams all students of the university are invited to attend this meeting annual festivities held friday night the third annual banquet of the class of 1901 was held at the hotel allen allentown last night an excellent menu was prepared by landlord harris of the allen for the occasion and at half past nine the banquet began with a large proportion of the class in attend ance president underhill acted as toastmaster and introduced each of the speakers in a characteristic manner the following toasts were responded to by members of the class the spirit of igoi e b.wilkinson the honor sys tem n w buch and " das deutsche madchen j whilridge besides these there were a number of impromptu toasts and speeches abounding in mirth and humor the toasts were interspersed with college songs and yells and the feast continued till half-past eleven the committee having the affair in charge was composed of the fol lowing men : s t harleman chairman : c euzian j h flory j v rittenhouse and a r young