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              both of these fires were outside the borough limits of south beth lehem but nevertheless the depart ment responds to such alarms and if there was a steamer in the depart ment it also would respond it seems as if it might be advisable to have a students company with a piece of apparatus preferably a chemical engine located on the campus for as we know from ex perience the department of this town is not to be relied on for quick work in time of an emer gency and what has once occurred may occur again as all of our buildings are not by any means fire proof would it not be a good idea to agitate such a movement as there are doubtless plenty of men in col lege who would be only too glad to lend their aid to such a scheme if only the initial movement was made of course there would be the question of expense involved but the university would doubtless lend a helping hand in that direc tion if it felt that the movement was sincere fireman editor the brown and white among the many defunct lehigh organizations there is one which was known as the chemical so ciety the cause of its downfall is unknown to me but i suppose it died a natural death like many other of our institutions the other technical branches of the university all have their own particular socie ties in a more or less perfect state of preservation of the chemical society all that remains is its name it seems strange that the men here do not feel to a greater extent the advan tages which might be derived from such an institution in the first place i think that most people will agree that there is more to be got ten from a technical education than the simple mechanical preparation of each days work granted that at the meeting of the forum the use of the room in which the forum holds its meeting's was granted as a meeting place for a chess club after the february examinations an attempt will be made to again establish a chess club at lehigh lehigh has never taken as much interest in keeping up a good chess club as she should have done there are at present a few men in college upper classmen who are interested in the proposed undertaking but they can not accomplish anything if they do not meet with the hearty co-opera tion of the two lower classes it is not impossible that series of games can be arranged with teams from other colleges the outcome of such a contest should interest the men at lehigh as much as the re sult of any game of athletics the men who can play chess should join the chess club and in time if not immediately lehigh will have a chess club which will be an honor to her the men who cannot play chees should join the chess club and learn the game and by the time they leave college they will be proficient in the game and will recognize that they did not make a mistake when they joined the club college notes bucknell beat wyoming at basket ball 24-10 last saturday night out of about four thousand stu dents at harvard there are only sixty-three men privileged to wear the " h sixteen of these are for foot ball fifteen crew ; twelve base ball and twenty for track men rush at rutgers the sophomores of rutgers college attempted to have a class picture taken on monday last the freshmen tried to break it up but while the rush was at its height president scott appeared upon the scene after a little difficulty the two classes were parted and the president picked up his hat and re sumed his walk there was no more rushing notice weiss ex 03 is now studying decorating at the philadelphia art school c f gross c e 00 was in town recently he has now re turned to his work at clearfield the freshmen had a chemistry lecture at 2.00 p m wednesday they will have another on 4th hour friday every student who wishes his name and address to be cor rectly given in the epitome must fill out an epitome blank at once whether he desires to purchase an epitome or not garner ex o3 has been visit ing in bethlehem for several weeks a mass meeting was held last week to elect a manager and assist ant manager for the track gymna sium and basket ball teams the basket ball inter-class teams are to be started soon from which a var sity team will be selected among the promising candidates are cure and the haldemen brothers mr richard l weaver of phila delphia is here every wednesday and thursday coaching the banjo and mandolin clubs the clubs are working hard to get in shape for the bethlehem concert prof mckay of new york de livered a lecture on harnessing niagara before the scientific so ciety on saturday evening rev wm t jack graduate of the class of 92 who has just re turned from a course of study at the universities of edinburgh and leipsic delivered a scholarly ser mon in the college chapel on sun day morning the knights of the round table the representative social organiza tion of lafayette have secured new pins the design being that of a knight with the letters k r t on the helmet this organization is composed of upper classmen and membership in it is highly prized robt h rice editor-in-chief of the lafayette has been confined at his home in bethlehem for the past week vol viii the brown and white lehigh university no 30 south bethlehem pa thursday january 24 1901 communications chess club plans for re-organi zation being con sidered calendar friday january 25 — at 4.30 p.m basket ball practice in the gymnasium saturday january 26 — at 2.30 p m glee club rehearsal in the gymnasium at 4.30 p.m basket ball prac tice in the gymnasium sunday january 27 — at 9.30 a m.bible study class in christmas hall at 6.15 p.m meeting of the christian association in christ mas hall friday february 1 — mid - year examinations begin friday february 8 — examinations end monday february n — second term begins notices such is the case the question arises as to how this higher training may best be obtained some say that reading will attain this result and i believe that to a certain extent it will there is however one al most impassible barrier to this course that is the lack of time if now a society were formed which would meet once or twice a month this obstruction would be some what overcome let us suppose that the preparation of a paper took ten hours and also that four papers are read each meeting every member would have the results of 40 hours work and would not have to prepare more than one paper in two or three months this not only gives a greater benefit with less effort but also gives the matter presented in such a form as the ordinary student can easily un derstand these seem to me suffi cient reasons for such a society and i should like to see the chemical society started again chemist lafayette letter glee club the glee club will report to prof wolle at 148 church street in the following order first tenors-4.30 p.m tuesday second tenors-4 p.m wednesday first basses-4 p.m thursday second basses-4 p.m friday full rehearsal at 2.30 p.m on saturday in the gymnasium gymnasium team practice gymnasium team practice every day from now till the lafayette meet editor the brown and white another instance of the need of a fire engine on the south side of the river was given last friday night when the residence of mr davenport was destroyed by fire it is not a year since our physical laboratory was destroyed when an engine on the scene at the be ginning of the fire would have un doubtedly saved at least the south ern end and maybe almost the en tire structure from destruction have you paied your brown and white sub scription have you paied your brown and white subscription ?