Brown and White Vol. 13 no. 34

              after the business meeting a smoker and talk-fest was held as usual railroad night a very interesting meeting of the c e society was heild on wednes day evening the subject being rlailroad night after the rou tine business had been transacted the regular program was carried out the first paper was by r w gay c e on the subject curve calculation by co-ordinates dur ing the past summer mr gay was engaged mi work on the lehigh valley railroad in straightening their line near towanda pa sev eral curves had to be calculated some with special restrictions the methods of doing this by co-ordi nates and the advantage over geo mletrical methods was clearly shown by the speaker f u kennedy gave an interest ing talk about stone balasting on the l v r r after leaving the c e summer school last year mr kennedy secured a responsible po sition on the above work stone and gravel ballast were used throughout the work the difficul ties encountered on account of the green hands were portrayed by the speaker in a most instructive and entertaining manner the calculation of quantities in pre'iminary estimates was the subject of a paper by p o mc queen mr mcqueen has had considerable experience in this work and he showed the numerous short cuts and easy methods used in obtaining these results tbe last paper of the evening was on the subject the south pennsylvania railroad by r m merriman this railroad was to extend from pittsburg to harris burg and thence over the p & r and c r r of n j to new york the road as planned would be con siderably shorter than any existing roads between these points but after about 4,000,000 had been spent was bought up by the penn sylvania r r and the project abandoned light refreshments were served after the meeting and posters were drawn by farley,'o6 and mcqueen and diavis 07 the next meeting will be on march 14th the subject being bridge night the 1905 1 906 register will soon be ready for distribution • lehigh 21 swarthmore 36 lehigh lost to swarthmore in a fast and rough game of basket ball played at swarthmore on wednes day afternoon the game was close and exciting but swarthmore wton out in the last five minutes of play the final score was 35-21 swarthmore started off with a rush and scored several goals be fore lehigh was able to tally to ward the end of the half lehigh traced and the first half ended with the score 13-8 in favor of swarth more the second half was the best ex hibition of scientific basket ball ever seem at swarthmore by clever work lehigh scored first in this half and within five minutes of the end of the game had tied her op ponents with the score 19-19 here krueger who had not shot a goal during the game broke loose and shot three baskets in close succes sion lehigh added one score and the game ended with the score 33 21 in favor of swarthmore travis and anderson played the best game for lehigh mcmullen played only a few minutes at the end of the second half line-up : lehigh swarthmore anderson forward heed troutman forward swain vernon kramer center kreusjer davies mcmullen guard dill travis capt ) guard palmer goals from field anderson 3 ; kramer 2 ; troutman travis,ver non 4 ; heed 3 ; dill 2 ; kreuger 3 palmer goals from fouls travis 7 ; heed 4 dill 5 referee ratchman swarthmore time of halves 20 minutes the junior prom the junior prom which the committee have arranged to hold at the eagle on the evening of the 23d of this month promises to be one of the best prams ever held the committee have arranged for ex cellent music and refreshments and desire it understood that every stu dent is invited to be there,this being one of the few dances open to the entire university the assessment is 3 the same as usual the sup port of the college is earnestly re quested for the decorations and music are to be much more elabor ate than usual and the expense of the prom will be correspondingly greater than formerly the list of patronesses is rapidly growing and the dance bids fair to be more than a strict college event the senior civils subjects of graduating theses the civil engineers of the class of 1906 have selected the subjects of their theses and are now actively engaged in collecting data for the same the list given below shows chat the topics embrace the design ing of structures water supply and sewerage plants troh'ey roads ex perimental researches in the testing laboratory and other interesting engineering discussions barwis c w — investigation of the brake beams used on passenger and freight cars benedict w c — design of a concrete-steel arch with three hinges for a span of 100 feet birley l s — design of stone and concrete arches for a span of 100 feet brillhart d h design of the main spans for a proposed bridge over the lehigh river at north ampton heights buch j a — experiments on the elasticity and strength of the hard timbers of cuba daugherty h b — design and estimate for a sewerage system for heliertown pa edmondson r s — experi mental investigation of the resist ance of beams to horizontal shear farley m m relations be tween the stage of the lehigh river the turbidity and number of bac teria in the water and the amount of organic and inorganic matter transported gott e t — the regimen of the monocacy creek and its discharge at different stages ' gregg j h c — concrete-steel columns ; their theory and its com parison with experiments guerber r s s — survey and estimate for a trolley road from bethlehem to catasauqua hagy c b — design of the steel work for a proposed theatre in reading ba humphreys j — methods of measuring the water used by power plants with experiments johnston e e — design for a lattice bridge to replace the span over the lehigh canal on main st bethlehem mcvey j t — location of a secondary triangulation station by the four-point problem mcmullen r s — experiments on concrete beams with steel rein forcement lacrosse by far the largest number of la crosse candidates that has reported ap to this time came out on we dnesday afternoon and as a result an encouraging practice was held in the cage many of the old men made their appearance and with the new material increased the squad considerably spring practice is being held every afternoon and as soon as the athletic field is in con dition the work will be carried on there the freshmen who are sub stituting lacrosse for gymnasium are reminded that attendance is being taken at every practice and those failing to report will be com pelled to go back to the regular gym periods continued on page three the meeting of the arts and science club scheduled to take place on wednesday evening feb 21 has been postponed until march 1 when president drinker will en tertain the school of general lit erature men at his home no 34 the brown and white lehigh university c e society south bethlehem pa thursday february 15 1906 civil engineers basket ball vol xiii calendar friday feb i6 at 7.30 p m arcadia meets saturday feb 17 at 7.30 p m gym mcct — lehigh vs n y u at gymnasiumi sunday feb 18 at 9.30 a m bible classes meet at 6.15 p m y m c a meeting monday feb 19 at 1.30 p m brown and white board meets tuesday feb 20 at 8 p m second number y m c a lec ture and entertainment course wednesday feb 21 basket ball and lacrosse practice saturday feb 24 at 8 p m basket bail game — lehigh vs stev ens at gymnasium — dance follow ing gym mcct — lehigh vs u of p at philadelphia pittsburg lehigh club a meeting of the pittsburg le high club was held at the univer sity club eittsburg on saturday february 3rd to consider arrange ments for the annual dinner which is to be held on saturday april 28 the following committee was appointed to take charge of the af fair : r m dravo chairman ; j w thurston and c p matheson and immediately got to work last year dinner at which the late dr ringer was guest of honor was a big success and this year's promises to be even a greater one as it will be the first one at which the lehigh men of pitt'sburg will have an opportunity of meeting piesident drinker and of showing him that they are with him