Brown and White Vol. 8 no. 17

              special foot ball train lafayette game to easton saturday nov 24 1900 for i,ehign lafayette game train leaves union depot at 1.30 p.m returning immedi ately after the game fare 35 cents return trip south bethlehem pa thursday november 22 1900 no 17 lehigh university the brown and white vol viii foot ball bad weather inter feres with the week's practice new lehigh club a new lehigh club of eastern new york the hard rains and threatening weather of the past week have in terfered to a great extent with the varsity football practice in spite of the near proximity of next sat urday's lafayette game an adequate scrub failed to put in appearance on both tuesday and wednesday the varsity however was out in force and in spite of a slippery ball went through some very satisfactory signal practice the men feel well satisfied with their western trip and particularly with the dickinson game they say that lehigh's team work on wednesday was de cidedly the best of the year and that they were able to stop guards back both at carlisle and pittsburg fuller who broke a collar-bone in the dickinson game can not pos sibly play again this season while capt gearhart's bad knee will prob ably be sufficiently improved by saturday to permit him to play hinckle who has been laid up for some time with a bad leg ap peared on the field wednesday in the best of shape and will continue to play with the team for the re mainder of the season the men will line up saturday very much as at pittsburg with the chances favoring dow farabaugh hinckle and persons for the back field college enrollments sophomores win interclass base ball on wednesday nov 21 was played the final game of the inter class series resulting in a victory for the sophomores by a score of 15 to 2 the junior captain had told his men that the game would be post poned because of the weather but at noon the sun was shining so it was decided to play when the teams appeared however the sky was cloudy and the game began in a drizzling rain which soon turned to a heavy down pour and play was suspended for about a quarter of an hour at the end of this time the rain had slackened enough for the game to continue but the field was extremely muddy and as a natural result a large number of errors were made by both teams the sophomores though were for tunate in that their errors were not costly while the juniors chose most inopportune moments for fumbling only five innings were played but even in this short time the sopho mores managed to run up a large score on the whole from a spec tator's point of view it was a most unsatisfactory game affording no excitement the semi-finals this season re sulted as follows : 1901-5 1902-9 1903-9 1904-5 so this game was to decide the championship for this year this is the third time that the cup has been won and the class numerals of 1903 will now be en graved on it after those of 1889 and 1901 the score by innings follows and from it will be seen that it was not until the fourth that the juniors went to pieces : 1903 2000 o — 2 1902 2027 4—154 — 15 •♦-«-«. the damage done to the veteri nary college of cornell university in the recent fire was fully covered by insurance temporary repairs have been commenced and the classes will report for recitation on monday as usual the curator of the department of ornithology at princeton university has received from the british mu seum a gift of 2000 birds collected from the malay islands india and different parts of europe calendar thursday november 22 at 2.30 p.m mandolin club rehearsal in the gymnasium saturday november 24 lehigh lafayette foot ball game at easton sunday november 25 at 9.30 a.m bible study class in christmas hall at 2.30 p.m glee club rehearsal in the gym nasium ; at 3.30 p.m mandolin club rehearsal in the gymna sium at 6.15 p.m meeting of christian association in christ mas hall tuesday november 27 at 8 p.m l u orchestra concert in the gymnasium wednesday november 28 at 12.30 p.m thanksgiving recess be gins monday december 3 at 8.15 a.m thanksgiving recess ends notices minstrel show rehearsal a meeting of the chorus of the minstrel show was held at the beta theta pi house on tuesday evening twenty men responded to the call for rehearsal and six good songs were practised the management has a number of addi tional songs to try at the next meeting the next rehearsal for the chorus is called for thursday evening at 8.15 sharp at the beta theta pi house there will be a rehearsal for end men some time next week concert the newly organized orchestra of the university will give a con cert in the gymnasium on tuesday evening november 27 tickets are now on sale and can be ob tained for 25 cents each alumni smoker the pittsburg alumni club held a smoker at the university club on saturday evening besides the alumni there were present most of the foot ball team and several un dergraduates good cigars cigar ettes and light refreshments were plentiful the team being under training could not fully enjoy the evening but otherwise had a very pleasant time during the evening the alumni received instructions in singing the new college songs on sunday last a meeting of the lehigh employes of the general electric company was held in schenectady n y the main ob ject of the meeting was to make arrangements for the presentation of a direct current motor to the new physical laboratory of lehigh university the motor to be pre sented is one of the g e co.'s latest type c a motors 2 poles 2 h p 1000 r p m 115 volts the following committee was ap pointed to look after the purchasing of the motor : h b ayers a d badgley l t rainey and j a struss after the business pertaining to the motor was disposed of the question of forming a permanent lehigh organization was discussed the object in forming such an or ganization would be to promote good fellowship among the older and younger alumni with the g e co and also to help new men who happen to be employed by the g e co in order to help this move ment along it was decided by those present to hold a dinner at the " edison hotel " in the near future at this dinner the club will be dis cussed at length and an organiza tion perfected the following men with the ex ception of messrs ayers and gill are with the g e co the two latter are with the schenectady locomotive works : h g reist s6 l e troutman 93 a w henshaw 94 c p turner 94 j j frank 94 w e holcombe 94 h b ayers 96 a d badg ley 96 t s eden 96 w j adams 96 e s griswold 97 a r sterner 97 d kennedy 97 h c schwecke 98 h h hess 98 l t rainey 99 e m hug gins 00 r m freeman 00 a h gill 00 f a groff 00 and w p white 00 the following is a partial list of the college enrollments for 1900 e-s b ls as sa amherst 120 393 29 bates 85 292 4 bowdoin 64 251 8 brown university 200 870 2 colby 70 205 9 colgate university 40 125 dartmouth 210 660 33 harvard university 544 52 holy cross 66 322 25 illinois 20 135 lehigh university 167 421 middlebury 37 129 6 mt holyoke 157 551 10 n w university 236 630 36 smith 343 1 131 13 vassar 230 700 50 williams 125 404 18 wellesley 240 715 27