Brown and White Vol. 7 no. 36

              a stated meeting of the athletic committee was held last evening in saucon hall lacking a quo rum business was transacted sub ject to the approval of the commit tee the report of treasurer linder man was read it showed that the finances are at a very low mark and strenuous efforts must be made to collect second term dues before the lacrosse and baseball seasons begin heretofore there has been no assistant manager of the track team this office was therefore created in order to follow the plan of running the other teams and upon recommendation s t harle man 01 was appointed the report of manager maeder showed a net gain as a result of the dual meet with lafayette on february 22 of 48.25 it was decided to send the relay team to philadelphia on april 28 to compete in the university of pennsylvania race meet the securing of a football coach was discussed and i t was decided to appropriate the same amount of money for a coach as has been done in previous years during the course of the meet ing the matter of training tables for the various teams was brought up the only obstacle to the re establishment of these necessary adjuncts of a team is the lack of funds the men are very slow in paying athletic dues this year and this certainly shows a great lack of interest in athletics a year ago when the number of students was low 1800 was contributed by the undergraduates this year with over a hundred more men in col 1 lege only 433 50 has been collec ted it is to be hoped that the men will rea ize the benefits accru ing from a training table and pay their second term dues promptly 1901 epitome an important meeting of the epitome board will be held on sunday march 4 at 2.30 p m at kappa alpha lodge register lists the list of students for the register is posted on the bulletin board in packer hall corrections should be made immediately the members of the mandolin club are urgently requested to be present at the meeting sunday march 4 at 2.15 p m christmas hall in continuance of a subject which had been dealt with to a greater or less extent in preceding lectures miss jane adams of hull house chicago yesterday addressed the college on " the subtle problems of charity miss adams confined herself strictly to an account of the workings and aims of her own par ticular settlement hull house and told what this settlement had done for its members its neighbors and therefore its city and state among the many reforms which may be credited to the labors of the settle ment might be mentioned chiefly the passage of laws regulating the sweat shop system child labor and the length of the working day it is however the influence which the settlement exerts directly upon the people among whom it is situ ated that is strongest and because of this the political side has not to any great extent been taken up though of course politics are really reformed through the people who are lifted up through this influence that the influence of the settle ment in this direction the uplifting of the surrounding people may be most advantageously given auxili ary organizations among the settle ment members are formed for the purpose of keeping the people of the vicinity in touch with one another and the organization of clubs by outsiders is encouraged and free use of the club rooms of the h use is given them clubs among the comparatively ignorant women are formod not so much that their minds may be broadened as that their lives and lives of their children may be made happier another work of the settlement is its endeavor to prevent crime by taking in hand the children who show criminal tendencies but who bave not yet severely transgressed to this end the magistrate of their district turns over to their repre sentative such children as come before him for the first time these children are taken in charge by the representative and an endeavor made to arouse the interest of the little ones rela tives in its behalf the practica bility of the teachings of the settlement and the pleasing manner in which they were stated by miss adams held the attention of the audience and went far toward making the lecture one of the most interesting of the vear a very interesting meeting of the forum was held on wednesday evening during the transaction of the routine business a challenge was read from franklin and marshall college for a debate to be held some time before the last of april the program which the committee had prepared was then taken up the extemporaneous speech by mr cassin on the trust question was very interesting he brought out the distinction between good and bad trusts and also showed that it would be poor policy to abolish all trusts in order to kill the bad ones the debate was upon the following subject : " resolved that united states senators should be elected by direct vote of the people messrs wilkinson and harleman spoke on the affirmative and messrs huggins and barager on the negative mr wilkinson gave the reasons for adopting the present method of election and then showed how these reasons no longer applied he also said that the present method deprived the people of their power and centralized it to a few men mr huggins stated that legisla tures are representative bodies and therefore the senators elected by them are the popular choice and also the men best fitted to lend dignity to their position mr harleman showed that the chances of corruption are greater in the present method than in election by the people and also that the present mode of election is not popular choice mr barager closed the debate by showing that the present method had been successful for 100 years and that it would be folly to throw away a good method because of a few isolated cases which were wrong the judges messrs beaghen lynn and carrier decided in favor of the negative by vote of the society barager and harleman were pronounced the two best speakers the meeting then ad journed gymnasium team the gymnasium team will go to new york on friday march 9 to compete with new york university as this team is the best one we compete with and as they defeated us two years ago any men who have any ability in the gymnastic line are urged to report at the gymnasium every afternoon for practice the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa feiday march 2 1900 athletic committee forum meeting university lecture vol vii calendar no 36 interesting program of wednes day evening important business transacted last evening the subtle problems of charity by miss jane adams sunday mar 4 at 9.30 a m bible class christmas hall at 4 p m y m c a christmas hall monday march 5 — at 4 p m rehearsal of the cast of " a modern ananias christmas hall tuesday mar 6 at 7.15 p m meeting m e section packer hall at 7 p m meeting of economic society in saucon hall address by professor stewart thursday march b at 3p m lecture to seniors by prof stewart in saucon hall friday march 9 at 11.30 a m lecture by prof b f fernow dean of college of forestry cornell university on " the evolution of the forest gymnastic meet university of new york vs lehigh university at university of new york saturday march 10 at 3p m re-examination in economics notices engineering society a meeting of the mechanical engineering section will be held in packer hall tuesday march 6 at 7.15 p m paper by maeder 1900 on direct process method and its accessories " re-examinations will be held as follows : senior subjects — saturday march 24 at 8.30 a m junior subjects — tuesday april 17 at 8.30 a m sophomore subjects — tuesday april 17 at 8.30 a m civil department