Brown and White Vol. 7 no. 30

              nasium an important meeting of the 1901 baseball team will be held i 11.30 a m saturday in the gym igoi epitome the members of the epitome board are requested to meet at 12 30 p m saturday at eggert's underhill gymnastic exhibition at a meeting of the athletic committee held last night in the brown and white office saucon hall manager parsons submitted a complete report of the past foot ball season the summary printed below shows that the team cleared 288.62 this being the first time a team has shown a balance to its credit since 1895 only 90 was lost on home games this year while 100 was lost last year uniforms $ 264 00 expense of games 1451 49 coach and incidentals . . 1015 85 guarantees paid 360 00 3086 84 guarantees gate receipts 3375 46 net gain $ 288 62 the committee appointed j h crane 01 assistant manager of the baseball team and tim burns 01 assistant manager of the la crosse team the baseball schedule as presented by manager hansom was approved and will be published in the next issue campus note herman a straub 01 has left college and is now preparing for massachusetts institute of tech nology where he is to take a spe cial course in biology and liquor analysis t m drown president there will be an exhibition of gymnastics on friday evening february 16th in the gymnasium beginning at 8 o'clock the stu dents of the university are all in vited to be present aad to bring their friends music by the man dolin-guitar club mustard and cheese at the opening of the term pro fessor stewart announced that an optional course of lectures on " business law " would be deliv ered by him this course being especially designed for the needs of the members of the senior class and the first lecture of this series was given on wednesday after noon the lecturer confined him self to outlining the proposed course and to defining and illustra ting the various uses of the word law his remarks were in sub stance as follows : one must remember that ignor ance of the law affords no excuse in the eyes of the court for breaking a law ; and while there are many portions which we shall never have anything to do with there are many other portions which shall interest us directly for us as engineers these latter will be the laws relating to business contracts etc and this course is designed to give some fundamental ideas on this subject we cannot know all the law for the lawyer is the specialistin this particular branch just as the physician is in his line ; but we can become well enough acquainted with some of it as to save ourselves trouble or prevent some litigation in the future dur ing these lectures i shall speak of first law in the abstract second justice according to law and third laws relating to partnership and trusts we use law in many ways ; vaguely the average man's by-law a set of rules which the superior authority in the community has set and which all must obey we also have rules and customs which are not set by any superior author ity but which none dare to break ; and we have laws of morality which are very different from laws in the legal sense moral or na tural laws are not the same in diff erent parts of the world or in different periods ; they are custom ary actions which one community adheres to we have also interna tional law and this too differs from law as lawyers and law courts understand it this is in many cases simply agreements between nations and the present nebulous continued on fourth page continued on second page at the monthly meeting of the sons of the american revolution of the district of columbia recent ly held at washington a very in structive as well as interesting pa per prepared by mr frederick d owen of the class of 77 describ ing the president's flag its origin and adoption for ceremonial occa sions was read mr owen is the designer of this flag and we quote portions of the paper beginning with a short history of our national emblem " the flag of the united states states has had a somewhat erratic career during the first military move ments to sever the colonies from the british crown it was much va ried in design to suit the occasion and the prevailing sentiment one of the earliest attempts was pulaski's banner another was the flag for washington's life guard then there was the bunker hill flag the pine tree flag flag of the pennsylvania westmoreland company brigade 1775 the rat tlesnake flag the flag of paul jones in the defeat of the serapis 1779 the stars and stripes 1778 ' bo the city troop of philadel phia 1775 the betsy ross flag made under the eye of washing ton in philadelphia which is sub stantially the flag of the united states of america as we now have it the idea of a national standard was proposed in the continental congress and was again agitated in 1818 it is somewhat remarkable that while the states particularly the original thirteen have standards bearing their heraldic emblems the united states has never gone be yond the national colors although in the consular shields the national escutcheon is used as the symbol of united states sovereignty the rulers of foreign states visit ing military stations or ships of war have had their presence sym bolized by the hoisting of their standards the president of the united states never received such distinc tive marks of ceremonial considera tion until 1882 when the following y m c a on sunday february 11th the y m c a will observe the uni versal day of prayer for colleges as this is the day appointed by the international committee important meeting of the m & c on sunday feb 11 at 2.30 at the sigma phi house all mem bers should be on hand as a play will be selected the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa friday febrtjaey 9 1900 the president's flag calendar interesting paper by f d owen the first lecture of the course delivered on wednesday business law vol vii week baseball outdoor practice taken this the pleasant weather during the early part of the week was taken advantage of by the baseball can didates and several days were spent in outdoor work over thirty men responded to captain james call and the num ber of new men was very encour aging practice was taken in bat ting as it was not thought advisable to do much throwing so early in the season football finances the men are required to take the five o'clock drills and strict training will be commenced at once friday feb 9 at 10.30 a m lecture by mr newell in physical laboratory sunday feb 11 at 9.30 a m meeting of bible class in christmas hall at 4 p m meeting of christian association christ mas hall tuesday feb 18 at 7 p m , mandolin club practice in christmas hall wednesday feb 14 at 3p m lecture to seniors by prof stewart in saucon hall at 7.15 p m glee club rehearsal in christmas hall thursday feb 15 at 7p m mandolin club practice in christmas hall friday feb 16 at 8 p m gymnastic exhibition in the gymnasium notices baseball all men trying for the team are required to take the five o'clock drills and to observe training at once james junior baseball no 30