Brown and White Vol. 12 no. 13

              alumni note friday nov 4 at 11 a m col lege lecture by john p clark ph d ll d of columbia univer sity at the physical laboratory at 4 p m seciet foot ball prac tice on lehigh field saturday nov 5 foot ball game at ithaca n y — cornell vs lehigh sunday nov 6 at 9.15 a m ., bible study classes at christmas hall at 6.30 p m student meeting at christmas hall address by mr tinker chemical society a meeting of the chemical so ciety was held in the chemical laboratory thursday night the meeting was called to order at 7.30 o'clock after the reading of the minutes of the last meeting 1'res ellwood announced that after the meeting a spiel would be hekl at charlie renig's some interesting papers were then read denlinger read an instructive j aper on cavendish's contribu tions to the science of chemistry gcing back to the time when cav endish first appeared in the scien tific world mr denlinger showed how this great scientist had aided chemical research the paper proved highly instructive mr ellwood read the next pa per on iron and steel analysis employed in thepittsburgdistrict his paper went to show how mod ern science had cut down the time required in the analysis of steel he discussed the numerous de vices and ingenious contrivances which the modern chemist now uses mr ell wood's paper was well received mr ellwood was followed by mr smith who read a well-pre pared paper on rosendale ce ment starting from the time that the rock was taken from the giound he showed the different methods employed in preparing 1 . for the market as the subject of cement manu facture has become such a factor in the chemical industries mr smith's paper droved very interest ing to those present the meeting then adjourned to charlie's where the inner man was refreshed to his heart's content burr macintosh intends to pre sent lafayette college math a 50 000 gymnasium interesting debate held a very interesting and instructive program was rendered at the forum meeting in saucon hall last \\< ednesday evening 1 he m ■< ting was called to order at 7.30 o'clock bv president merriman the only business transacted was the elec tion to membership of the follow ing class of 05 — mickley class of 07 myers walters freedman reynolds sokiana and archibald ; class of 08 stern sanderson i feck gottsrhall finney dicker son jenj^igs motz and donald sb'li the question for debate was : re solved that the philippines should be granted a free and independent government the negative was argued by shema 05 and reinkc 05 ; the affirmative by stem oh and gilmore 07 who 1 entered the debate in place of kuryla 05 who was unavoidably absent the de bate showed a thorough prepara tion and comprehension of the sub ject by both sides and was closely contested both in the argument and merit of the question the judges distler 05 woodring o and sanderson 08 decided in favor of trie negative seipt 05 pr-^snted a very enter taining review of national affairs tie summed up the present presi dential campaign giving extracts from the new york herald's fore cast he realted several funny in dents which it is thought will in liuence the voting in some of the states he also told of the findings of the board of inquiry into the sic cum disaster and of many other live topics the forum is the only literary and debating society at lehigh.and all of the men particularly the freshmen shoull join the meei ings are held every other wednes day evening and are highly instruc tive to the auditors and very good practice for the participants the next meeting i.3 wednesday even ing november 16 a good pro gram will be followed by a better feed all prospective members are invited andrew j farabangh 04 cap tain of last years foot ball team is ill in the hospital at providence r i andy was on a trip in the in terests of the bethlehem steel com pany when taken sick his condi t • ' n is not serious w l raeder ex 76 is the demo cratic nominee for congress in the twelfth pennsylvania district the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa friday november 4 1904 forum meeting foot ball statistics vol xii calendar continued on fourth page description of the men w m persons 05 is 26 years of age 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 165 lbs persons is playing a good game at full back this is his fourth year with lehigh e t gelt 06 is 21 years of age weighs 175 lbs and is 6 feet 1v2 inches tall he is playing tackle this year on the varsity he pre pared for college at the baltimore city college and roys latin school of baltimore he played tackle on his preparatory school team in he absence of captain waters go:t is acting as captain of the varsity pyne 06 is 21 years of ag"e weighs 1703-2 lbs and is 5 feet 10)^3 inches tall pyne is playing a star game at quarter-back this fall he prepared for college at st george's hall summit n j he played half-back on his school team w s hammaker 06 is 20 years of age and 5 feet 10^2 inches tall ham-masker is putting up a fine game at center which position he hold on the varsity he pre p.ned for lehigh at the harrisburg high school . . r k waters 05 is 23 years of c'ge weighs 210 lbs and is 6 feet 4 inches tall rabbit is putting up his usually excellent game at guard this year this is his fourth year at this position on the varsity he is one of the best ground gainers on the team and is captain of the team waters prepared for college at the episcopal high school al exandria va where he played on the school team he is out of the game for the present on account of an injured foot h l pentz 05 is 22 years of age weighs 150 lbs and is 5 feet 8 inches tall pentz prepared for college at dickinson seminar where he played on the team be fore entering lehigh he played one year at allegheny college in the position of quarter-back p r van duyne 06 is 20 years of age 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 143 lbs he prepared for college at the newark high school newark n j where he played on he school team w macoeary 07 is 21 years of age weighs 175 lbs and is 5 feet 2 t /. inches tall maccleary played cricl and tackle on the varsity at state college last year he was playing at end for lehigh this fall until his collar bone was broken mechanical meeting two papers read the first regular meeting of the mechanical engineering society was held on wednesday evening november 2 the attendance was quite large as there were about sixty members present a short business meeting was held during which n h snyder 05 was elected to the office of vice presi dent to fill the vacancy caused by lie illnes of shafer 05 tt was deckled that the regular meeting night should be thursday and that t eting's should be held every three u>eks at the close of the business meeting a paper was read by i/jtmrray 05 on ihe developement of the steam turbine he said in part that the tuibine was the first type of steam engine invented the first one known was invented by h ero 120 b.c which was of the reaction type from that time not much was done with the steam en gine until the seventeenth century when an apothecary branca in vented an engine to run his mor tar and pestle at the beginning of of the nineteenth century the re ciprocating engine began to be de veloped and not much was done with the turbine until a short time ago the speaker described the various modern types of turbine ; the de leval the ratean and the curtis types and pointed out many differences between those types and these first invented wolf 05 followed with an in teresting talk an the mechanical features of the st louis exposi tion he gave a description of the arrangement of the exhibits in the transportation building and the kinematic jungle of the palace of machinery of the exhibits displayed the speaker mentioned in particular that of the evolu tion of the locomotive in the tran sportation building the locomo tive testing exhibit of the pen nsylvania railroad the exhibit of the westinghouse company and that of the bethlehem steel com pany he went on to discribe some of the spectacular effects of the exposition and gave some statistics bearing upon the power required to keep things 1 , going refresh ment ere then served by caterer meyers no 13