Brown and White Vol. 14 no. 46

              the members of the mining and geological society were de lightfully entertained on monday night by dr and mrs drinker at their home on the campus prof j w richards gave a very interesting talk on the use of enriched air in modern blast ifurnace work some simple chemical or physical process will probably be discovered for increas ing the per cent of oxygen in a blast and consequently increasing the output of a blast furnace the other papers read were the warrior run explosion by caje tan morsack 08 and coal mining in the united kingdom by w r meyers 07 college lecture senior group pictures sunday 2 p m class book committee mccaa's studio monday 12 m miners william's hall monday 12.15 p.m mechanicals williams hall tuesday 12 m classicals pack er hall wednesday 12 m electricals physical lab the next college lecture will be given by our old friend dr h w wiley chief of the united states bureau of chemistry the date of the lecture will be friday april 19 subject to be announced later class day elections at a meeting of the senior class held wednesday noon the follow ing men were elected to the various class day offices poet reynolds tablet orator woodring prophet treverton presentation orator m l h smith ivy orator hanst penn relay races lehigh has been placed in class 111 for the relay races at philadel phia on april 27 which also in cludes c c n v rutgers haver ford carlisle western maryland and dickinson princeton game mercersberg alumni all graduates of mercersberg academy will please meet at the kapp sigma house on delaware avenue at three o'clock on sun day afternoon some important matters are to be considered in cluding the possible formation of a mercersberg club the baseball game with prince ton was cancelled late on tuesday afternoon by the princeton man agement on account of the muddy condition of the field harlan s miner 88 delivered a lecture on the incandescent man tel industry on wednesday night before the philadelphia lehigh club ' lehigh opened her lacrosse season on wednesday afternoon on lehigh field and succeeded in administering a defeat to her oppo nents owing to the steady fall of sleet and snow and the high wind the attendance was comparatively small yet that enthusiastic ele ment so necessary to cheer a team to victory was present neither team could use their best tactics as the ground was too slippery and the wind too strong nevertheless those who braved the cold to wit ness this game were not disap pointed ■ lehigh started the game with a rush and hardly had a minute elapsed before prechtl scored for lehigh so quickly was this done that it showed that the c c n y team was outwitted and outplayed r porter added another goal in a short time after the ball was car ried down the field c c n y then took a brace and brought the ball up the field for a goal but were baffled in this by the clever defensive work of carlock and barth before the ending of the ha'f lehigh scored two more goals and c c n y scored only one goal score — lehigh 4 goals c c n v 1 goal both teams started the second half with renewed determination and the pace they stt was more strenuous than before the ball was juggled back and forth neither side being able to score for some time the c c n y team work ed lehigh hard and it was only by excellent team work that r porter scored for lehigh a snow squall enveloped the entire field during the latter part of this half and made it difficult lor the players to see the ball the line-up : c c l u kasternak goal carlock thompson point j porter demartins c p barth priestly baum ist def mercur gorman hubert 2d def herzoff o la key tunstall continued on page three continued on third page the regular meeting of the civil engineering society was held in saucon hail on tuesday evening april 9 a large crowd was pres ent the following are nominations for officers president peterson and thomas advisor prof wil son secretary warnke treasurer jaggard drake moore and wolfe the first paper of the evening was by h c becker on pile dri - ing for the power plant of the nor folk and portsmouth traction co mr becker gave some very in teresting data in his address the second paper was to have been given by e d johnstone 08 on some building foundation work in new york city but he was absent j m fair 08 was the third speaker of the evening he made an interesting address accompanied by numerous maps photographs and sketches on bridge founda tions of west pennsylvania r r mr turrill who had the last pa per of the evening on some facts about foundations was absent prof thornburg gave a very in teresting talk about improvements on the campus his address con sisted mainly of the details of the various buildings now going up on the campus he first spoke of the dormitories which are really five houses under one roof the rooms are of a com fortable size and complete in them selves there will be a large win dow seat in each room containing a chest of drawers they are steam heated and lighted by electric lights there will be a bath-room con taining two shower baths for every eight men in the basement is the healing plant and a storage room in speaking of drown memorial hall he named the following rooms of the building first floor study room chess room card room main vestibule coat room office college publication room a room for the alumni athletic committee room and students general recrea tion room in the basement will be a billiard dr drinker is at pittsburgh on thursday friday and saturday of this week in attendance at the in augural exercises of the carnegie technical schools the numbers of students taking the various courses are as follows civil engineering 209 mechani cal engineering 1.65 ; electrical engineering 113 mining engin eering 1 10 chemical engineering 32 classical 29 chemistry 22 latin-scientific 14 electrometal lurgy 9 and metallurgical engin eering 5 total 708 the brown and white south bethlehem pa friday april 12 1907 lehigh university mining society entertained by dr drinker c e society addressed by prof thornburg lehigh 5 c c n y 1 lacrosse vol xiv no 46 calender saturday april 13 baseball st john's on lehigh field at 3 p m lacrosse mt washington at baltimore musical clubs concert at pottsville bp m " sunday april 14 v m c a meeting at 6 p m in christmas hall monday april 15 brown and whiteboard meeting at 5 p m wednesday april 17 baseball army at west point