Brown and White Vol. 7 no. 17

              press correspondents no press correspondents will be admitted to the lafayette game un less they have a ticket signed by the manager of the football team or unless they have side-line priv ileges arrangements for lafayette game the regular meeting of the forum literary society was held on wednesday evening in the society's rooms in saucon hall in the absence of the presdent mr fletcher the vice-president mr bayard 00 assumed charge of the meeting the regular reading of the minutes and roll call began the business program after which a reply to the thanks rendered prof stewart by the society for his help given to the representatives of lehigh in the lehigh lafayette debate last year was read and entered upon the minutes golian 02 wolcott 02 and van sickle deschweinitz gard ner and eodgers of the class of 1903 were then elected to the society and mr huggins 00 was selected unanimously to be lehigh's second representative at the busi ness meeting of the intercollegiate oratorical union to be held in philadelphia on thanksgiving the auditing committee made a report which was accepted when the business part of the meeting was closed by the proposing of the following names for membership jump 01 bird 02 j twitmeyer 03 g twitmeyer 03 the literary program of the evening followed mr ortner 00 having the first number an essay upon the freedom of the press kline 99 gave the criticism of the last meeting in which he called particular attention to several mis takes made by the debaters % the regular debate was then begun which was upon the ques tion resolved that england is justified in her course in the transvaal eodgers 03 was the first speaker on the affirmative side of the debate he began by showing that england was justified in her course because : first the boers are now doing a very great injustice to the utlanders second the ultimate success of england would prove of great benefit to the development of the country by allowing capital and skilled engineers and good ma chinery to come into the couutry he then went ihto detail regard ing the grievances of the english people in the transvaal showing how heavy the taxes on mining property are how opposed to any inovations the boers have shown themselves to be and how little civilized is their mode of living the first speaker on the nega tive was anderson 01 he demonstrated that the boers are oppressed by the inordinate duties imposed by the english through whose country they must continued on fourth page seats in the football grand stand have been numbered and reserved seat tickets are now on sale at jacoby,s drug store south beth lehem crawford's drug store and huff's music store bethlehem these tickets are sold at 75 cents which includes admission to the ground provisions have been made to accommodate a limited number of spectators on the side lines on the north side of the field tickets for that side will be sold for 50 cents above the price of admission and can be obtained on the field only the game will start at 2.30 all undergraduates should be on the field at 2 o'clock and should seat themselves on the bleachers imme diately in front of the grand stand the second regular meeting of the mechanical engineering society was held wednesday evening in packer hall barager 00 pre sided and after the discussion of several matters mr heck was introduced and presented a paper on water tube-boilers be sides being highly instructive it was made doubly interesting by numerous blackboard illustrations the paper in substance follows : all the boilers having a place in current practice — with the ex ception of the old english type which still survives have the greater part of their heating sur face in the form of tubes of small diameter in all kinds of boilers the diameter ranges from one inch to five inches " the essential description of the older type of boiler is a large vessel containing water through which passes a number of small tubes carrying the products of combustion the three representa tive forms are cylindrical return tubular externally fired when this arrangement of fire and water is inverted the water being inside the tubes and the products of com bustion outside we have the general class of water tube boilers the one feature of their operation which differentiates them from the older type and which furnishes a basis for classifying the bewilder ing variety of such boilers is that the ciiculation of v ater and seam is positive and definite to a great or less degree when the water is in a large vessel the application ■ f heat causes circulatory currents to be set in motion the water rising with the steam where the heat supply and consequent ebulition is greatest and descending in the c oler portions but these currents are entirely the result of a reaction of natural forces and where the disturbance of equilibrinm i slight so also is the circulation sluggish but in all water-tube boilers there is a constrained and definite path provided in which the water must travel and along which the forces producing the circulation must act this insures a more complete but especially a more uniformly dis tributed circulation than in the other class or at least gives the possibility of so arranging the elements of the boiler as to secure this end continued on third page " with a comparatively slow ebulition and in a simple vessel as an open kettle or a plain cylindri cal boiler we can imagine the steam to be formed in bubbles at or near the heating surface which simply float up through the water of their own buoyancy the whole body of water gradually set the minstrel association is having daily rehearsals for their performance to be given on sat urday evening december — the music which will be the best that the association has ever selected will be a prominent feat ure the general plan of the per formance will be similar to that of previous years although improve ments have been made in every branch of the work the " circle " will be about the same size as last year's containing about twenty of the chorus and the usual number of end men the number of specialties have been increased and the quality of these is far in advance of any ever before used by lehigh minstrels these specialties will consist of solos by some of the best voices in college quartettes of exceptional merit musical duetts string instrument solos an exhibition of fencing together with some work on the order of the usual vaudeville enter tainments the services of the lehigh university mandolin club have been secured to render their assistance towards making the performance an exhibition of varied talent this will be their first appearence this year and everyone who has attended the rehearsals of the club will agree that this is the best musical organ ization lehigh has had in several years the third part of the min strel show will consist of a short farce into which one or two special ties will be introduced the entire performance will have even much more of a finished character than heretofore and the participants will be taken from lehigh a undergraduates for this latter reason the management desires that a number of good tickets should be at the disposal of the student b dy and in view of this arrangements will be made by which students mny procure good tickets before the show any clubs or societies who desire to attend in a body should notify mr 11 d wilson 01 as soon as pos sible th • matter of specialties is in charge of mr t m girdler the stage manager of the mustard and cheese dramatic association while the entire music is in the hands of mr s m lleitchu the leader of the lehigh university glee club the annual minstrel show has been given for several years and so far the perform nee has been not only a creditable one but also one such as to make each show have its characteristics the student body has always turned out en masse to witness the show and it is hoped that this will be continued the prices of seats are reasonable the brown and white lehigh university the forum south bethlehem pa friday november 24 1899 m e society minstrel association vol vii read by mr heck a paper on water-tube boilers a very good attendance at the meeting on wednesday formance in december the arrangements for the per calendar saturday nov 25 at 2.30 p m football final game lehigh vs lafayette on lehigh field sunday nov 26 at 9.30 to 10.20 a m bible class in christmas hall at 6.15 p m meeting of the christian association in christmas hall monday nov 22 at 7.15 to bp m minstrel chorus rehearsal at sigma phi house dela ware avenue tuesday nov 27 at 7.15 p m mandolin club practice in christmas hall wednesday nov 29 at 12.30 p m thanksgiving holidays begin thursday nov 30 — last football game of the season lehigh vs university of virginia at eichmond va m nday dec 4 at 8.15 a m thanksgiving holidays end notices ette game side-line privileges for lafay two kinds of side-line tickets have been issued for tomorrow's game bed tickets will admit to grounds and to side-lines while blue ones do not admit to grounds but admit to side-lines no 17