Brown and White Vol. 7 no. 35

              the christian association of the university held its annual election of officers in christmas hall on saturday evening at 7 o'clock there was a good attendance and the election was a spirited one resulted as follows president — moore 01 vice president — garrnan 01 corres sec'y — van sickle 03 eec sec'y rogers 03 treasurer — gilbert 01 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 " lafayette's athletic financial report forum the regular meeting of the forum will be held wednesday february 28 at 7.15 p m the question to be debated is resolved that u s senators should be elected by a direct vote of the people " affirmative wilkinson and harleman ; negative huggins and barager re-examinations the faculty has appointed the following re-examinations : eng lish all classes feb 28 2 p m political economy juniors marca 10 2p m french and german all classes march 21 2 p m senior c e subjects march 24 2 p m junior and sophomore g e subjects april 17 8.30 a m junior and sophomore e e and physics april 17 2 p m mathe matics all classes and astronomy april 18 2 p m glee club continued on third page forests discussed by professor rothrock the second lecture of fhe course was delivered in the large lecture foom of the physical laboratory on friday morning by professor j t rothrock commissioner of forestry of the state of pennsylva nia professor eothrock's subject was : " the relations of the for ests of pennsylvania to the inter ests of the state the lecture was profusely illustrated by a large number of streopticon views in introducing the speaker dr brown spoke of the fact that there was no subject of greater import ance than the one about to be pre sented as the day is quickly ap proaching when this phase of nat ural development will have to be considered from a more serious standpoint on account of the rapid decline of the forests all over our land the substance of mr roihrock's remarks was as follows : one of the greatest factors in in the prosperity of any common wealth is nature's own develop ments in the form of the forests this fact is one of the principal reasons why england has been and is now mistress of the seas it is the fundamental law underlying the present prosperity of our rich state and in fact one of the most important subjects to be considered in any state of the union about forty-three years ago i took a trip through the state of pennsylvania on foot and at that time found the entire country well strewn with vast unbroken forests a few days ago i traveled the same route and observed that it was greatly changed where the foiests flourished a little over a quarter of a century ago there is nothing but barren soil ; land that cannot be cultivated nor used for anything why should this state df affairs exist because the proper authorities have not taken the matter in hand and checked the rapid progress of the destroy ing flames of the great forest fires and because the great timbers have been hewn to meet the needs of the people and have not been re placed with the proper care , : " the sooner people begin to re spect trees and learn of their im the annual dance given by the junior class was held in the gym nasium on friday evening the affair proved to be one of the most successful ever given by a junior class and was well attended there being forty five couples present the decorations were artistically arranged the floor was in excellent condition the music was of a high standard in fact all which tends to produce a successful dance was carried out in good form the order of dances was as follows : first half 1 valse rumor de brisas 2 deux temps runaway girl 3 valse ameer 4 deux temps hands across the sea 5 valse zenda 6 deux temps first regiment 7 valse babbie waltzes 8 deux temps up the street 9 valse telephone girl 10 deux temps belle of new york 11 valse fortune teller 12 deux temps . under the double eagle second half 1 deux temps ameer 2 valse magnolia blossoms 8 deux temps trocador 4 valse dancing in the dark 5 deux temps boston tea party 6 valse dinah 7 dux temps chris in the wonderful lamp 8 val-e singing girl 9 deux tern ps charlatan 10 valse adlake 11 denx temps ... mississippi rag 12 valse serenade four extras the patronesses were : mrs joseph adams mrs wm h chandler mrs geo converse miss cortright mrs w e cox mrs chas m dodson mrs minor dodson mrs thos m drown mrs r m doyle mrs b w frazier mrs r w gummere mrs ii c jewett mrs rob't p linderman mrs j w lovatt mrs geo ii myers mrs wtn b myers mrs ira d macnutt mrs donald macdonald mrs joseph j mckee mrs e coppee mitchell mrs chas e petti nos mrs h f j porter mrs g reginald radford mrs f w taylor mrs elisha wilbur mrs e p wilbur mrs.rollin h wilbur tne committee having the dance in charge was composed of the following juniors r f taylor chairman f a armstrong j b freund e j peck j f svmington john whitridge ii d wilson the mu*ic was furnished by ruhe of allentow-ru a report of f a marsh jr advisory manager of athletics at lafayette shows that daring the past year the whole floating debt of their athletic association has been paid and that all running ex penses have been met the report shows that the baseball team of ' 99 cleared 72 the football team 2,025 32 while the track team lost 33 64 old bills to the am ount of 1054.78 were paid and subscriptions to the amount of l 326.88 were received from alumni the total receipts of the association were 3849.11 and ex penses including coach 2651.31 leaving a balance in the treasury of l 19 7.80 the reports submitted by the baseball and football man ag rs show that their training tables cost respectively 537.68 and 447.21 the equipment of the biseball team cost 427.38 and its miscellaneous expenses amounted t 422.12 the football team's equipment cost 575.13 and their season of preliminary training 160 b all members of the team and substitutes were presented with gold footballs at a cost of 149.00 important rehearsal of glee club wednesday feb 28 2 p m.j christmas hall heitshu the brown and white lehigh university the junior german mustard and cheese south bethlehem pa tuesday february 27 1900 the final cast selected for the performance enjoyable dance given by the class of 1901 calendar no 35 university lecture vol vii the following is the final cast for " a modern ananias : " lysander lyon — graham 03 col lvon eoebling 00 dashwood — goodwin 03 ™ . ) tunstall 03 francisco | ru bb whitridge,'ol a&b *> f scott 03 nellie johns 02 prudence frick 03 kitty firpo 03 l u c a election wednesday feb 28 at 3p m lecture to seniors by prof stewart saucon hall at 7.15 p m meeting of forum saucon hall thursday mar i at 11.80 a m lecture by miss jane adams of hull house chicago on the subtle problems of charity physical labora tory thursday at 5 p m re hearsal glee club christmas hall sunday mar 4 at 9.30 a m bible class christmas hall at 4 p m y m c a christmas hall tuesday mar 6 at 7.15 p m meeting m e section packer hall notices engineering society