Brown and White Vol. 14 no. 22

              directly after the college meet ing the senior class held a short session senior class meeting the style of class cane was de finitely decided on orders should be given to kent daniels m l smith jacobosky or f e hayes the question of electing class book committee was brought up and nominations will be made next w:vk wednesday night dec 5 was railroad signal night for the c e society an exceptional large crowd was in attendance presi dent kent called the meeting to order the minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved treasurer gotschall's report showed a comfortable balance of 104.05 in the treasury kent read a letter from dr drinker stating that he would be unable to attend the meeting because he was detained in new york by a meeting of the alumni society there the first paper of the evening was read by frank u kennedy 07 on the subject lehigh valley signal system he stated that there is but one system in use con sisting of 1 29 1 disk 331 blade 157 slot and 28 electro gas signals he had illustrations in connection with his talk signal towers are placed at interlocking points ■ whose signals are all controlled electric ally this has proven the best system g r roberts 08 read the next paper on the subject manual tower blocking of the n y cen tral and it r r r roberts had a number of good illustrations in connection with his talk he stated that there are 104 blocking towers between new york and al bany this gives an idea of how close they must be together the third paper of the evening which was to have been given by n h schafer jr was excused mr flowe chief engineer of the general railway signal co then gave a very interesting and instruc tive talk he said that in earlier times signals were considered more of a luxury than a necessity simply because there was so much le*s traffic traffic is greatly facil itated by signals where there h no signal there is a great waste of coal besides wear and tear on the machinery in stopping for orders and starting besides this a great deal of time is lost mr howe showed that an interlocking plant will pay for itself in from one and one-half to two years in the saving of time and extra expense furthermore in a block signal system more trains may be run and more closely together with abso lute safety the main feature of an interlocking system is that ail switches and signals are controlled at a central pomt — the interlocking tower locking is a mechanical means by which operators are made to do things in a predetermined way a draw bridge forinstance ( continued on third page ) the brown and white no 22 lehigh university y m c a south bethlehem pa tuesday december 11 1906 officer of college organizations minstrel show prof green speaks c e society ol xiv final trials address by mr howe the minstrel association will give its eleventh annual perform ance on saturday night in the grand opera house this show is annually one of the features of our collge life and a review of the the previous productions would bring to light some performances which were equal in every way to professional minstrel shows the show this year promises to exceed the best of these efforts every one lias been working hard and if re hearsing and hustling count for anything it should be a record breaking performance chalky hanst has been select ed to act as interlocutor while all around him will be seated the chorus of about thirty men among this number the following names appear : gross van vleck swope car rier watson schnabel garrison sayre mathers swithers zolling er komara bayard s g smith serfass thornburg woodward schmertz schall daniels mills goucher jaggard luckie mur nane brumbaugh meserole thomas stephens bond williams m l li smith stair and bech tel are the three old men who will appear on the ends while love borell and baer are the new men who will crack the jokes and do the dancing the songs this year are catchy and include the latest hits on the metropolitan stage angle b m swope and brooks of the circle bechtl stair love and baer of the end men will furn ish the solo work for the first part the olio will this year be es pecially interesting inasmuch as special attention is being paid to this feature besides this the show should be a social event of some importance because the sophomore cotillion on the night previous will bring many new faces to town patroness tickets will be on sale at the opera house on wednesday december 12 while the remaining seats will be on sale thursday friday and saturday at the same place the following schedule for the rehearsals of the minstrel show men will be carried out during the week : monday 7.30 p m christmas hall tuesday 7.30 p m christmas hall wednesday 2.00 p m christ mas hall thursday 7.30 p in christmas hall saurday 9.30 a m grand opera house the following is a list of the officers of the various clubs and organizations in college arcadia president j b carlock secretary and treasurer r j gilmore taxi beta pi president j b carlock vice-president s g smith cor secretary r mac minn rec secretary j f hanst treasurer f j kennedy mining ax geological president a w hesse vice president j f hanst secretary r s archibald treasurer c morsack civil society president g e kent secretary r macminn treasurer w a gotschall mechanical society president b m swope . vice-president a e krause secretary m h schrnid treasurer e p hulse electrical society president a w lawson vice-presidtent g m baker secretary m t saldana treasurer g k flerzog chemical society president r l lafferanre vice-president m it ulmah secretary a guerber treasurer t coyle arts and science club president r w walters vice-pres w d sanderson secretary i j freedman treasurer e e reinke press club president g m baker secretary a m padgett treasurer j b carlock tennis club president m j greenough sec and treas s antonsanti mustard and cheese president j w stair bus manager l thomas secretary s g smith treasurer e r treverton stage manager f v bechtl minstrel show president f p angle music director f w stair y m c a president c m daniels vice-president r macminn rec secretary r j gilmore treasurer a a davis general secretary c howard boxing club president j f hanst athletic committee chairman ]". b carlock brown and white editor in chief r j gilmore business manager a w hesse lehigh burr continued on page three on sunday evening prof francis 11 green of west chester normal school spoke at the as sociation meeting and as usual gave a talk full of interesting and helpful points he said god asks three great requirements of us : to do justly love mercy and walk humbly before our god or in other word to have integrity benignity and humility the two last being included in the first — integrity coming from integer meaning wholeness of life he spoke of the spirit of mercy shown by truly great men mentioning especially charles dickens helping i a ; n ld blind man in a snow storm and prof child of harvard who when he was an old man went to great pains to bring a little child a glass of milk the next requirement humility is an essential one we must have that spirit in dealing with other men for he is not in a hopeful con dition who does not realize how little he really knows the mes sage we get from a truth depends on the point from which we see it so we must not be too sure that our conception of it is the only one we must have humility towards god who is not only our father but king of kings and our prayers to him must be humble if we ex pect answers to them unless we are showing spirit of mercy and humility we are not living up to the requirements and it is only through christ that we can obtain this spirit integrity — meaning wholeness of life cannot be attained unless our lives are full of activity which according to st james is the essence of religion jonathan edwards seventy resolu tions for the of his life were all summed up in this : re solved to live with all my life while i do live the meeting next sunday even ing will be addressed by welling ton h tinker who has been as sociated with frank gilbert and harry edmonds in the students club of new york mr tinker is always warmly welcomed at lehigh and his talks are always impressive and fruitful