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              cultivate a spirit of true sturdy uprightness and real christianity that of honest decent manliness continue to frown on low dissipa tion and evil company as not cog nate to the high aims that bring you here remember ever that the value of the diploma you receive here and for which you are expend ing your money and your blood is measured by many considerations not the least of which is the reputa tion our university may bear in the land for sobriety earnestness and steady work and so bear yourselves that your record here shall be one to which you can look back with satisfaction and on contemplating pittsburg lehigh club the first meeting of the pitts burgh lehigh club for this winter was held on saturday nov 24 at the union clvb — frick building a special wire report of the lafayette game at easton had been arranged for and was listened to by those of the members who could get away for the afternoon but the majority did not put in an appearance until six o'clock when supper was served the business meeting was held during the meal and afterwards the 45 men present listened with great interest to mr c l taylor 71 while he read president drinker's letter to the alumni and explained in detail all the things that are being done to increase the usefulness of the uni versity • particular attention was paid to mr taylor's explination of a plan for raising a permanent alumni endownment fund which is being developed by him and a number of other graduates and after a num ber of the members had discussed the many features of merit in the plan the following resolution was adopted resolved that the pittsburgh lehigh club heartly approves of the plan of raising a permanent endowment fund and will to make this plan a success co-oper ate with the other alumni clubs in any way thought desirable by those who are to manage the rais ing of the fund during the meeting a telegram was read announcing the death of professor chandler and the presi dent and secretary were ordered to prepare and forward appropriate resolutions northeastern pennsyl vania lehigh club the northeastern pennsylvania lehigh club held a very enthusias tic smoker at hotel belmont scranton novembei 24 after indulging in a very fine dutch luncheon the following members responded characteristi cally to informal toasts to the genial and able toastmaster c a straw h h stock j j clark a e lister w m morple henry kemmerling l e edgar w c anderson c w neufter r l herrick and arthur long president straw appointed the following 1907 lehigh banquet committees : v arthus lewis hiazjleton l ie edgar g e shepherd wilkes barre a e lister e l bevan j j clark arthur long w m morple and r l herrick scran ton song committee w piez t thomas hazleton ; ( continued on third page ) resolutions following is a copy of the resolu tions adopted by the faculty of lehigh university on the death of prof wm h chandler the faculty of lehigh univer sity learns with deep regret of the death on november 23rd of its professor emeritus of chemistry doctor william henry chandler who from 1871 to 1906 served the university as professor of chemis try and from 1878 to 1906 as direc tor of the library born in new bedford mass in 1841 graduating from union college in 1862 receiving the de gree of a m from columbia col lege in 1871 and of ph d from hamilton college in 1872 and serving as instructor in chemistry in the columbia school of mines from 1868 to 1871 professor chandler came to lehigh univer sity in its early infancy well equip ped to occupy the important chair of chemistry and destined to take a large part in shaping the teehincal side of our curriculm as a fellow of the london chemical society member and once vice-president of the american chemical society member of the society chemique de paris and of the american association for the advancement of science he was connected with those active in the larger chemical world as co-found er and co-editor of the ameri can chemist with his brother dr chas f chandler he was parti cularly welll-known between 1870 and 1880 to the chemists of ameri ca as editor of an encyclope dia of universal knowledge in 1898 he became known and render ed a service to many outside of strictly chemical circles as a uni ted states commissioner to the internationall paris exposition of 1889 his abilites were recognized by our government and his report on the chemical and metallurgical exhibits there displayed was of marked merit and usefulness lit was appointed by the government as a member of the united states assay commission for a number of years for lehigh university pro fessor chandler rendered the great services of supervising the erection of our chemical laboratory and of building up our library upon a broad and liberal basis at the time of the erection of our labora tory it was undoubtedly the best designed and equipped in america being patterned after several of the leading laboratories of europe this building will remain on our campus as a useful and enduring monument to the memory of our colleague in building up and com pleting the invaluable sets of jour nals and transactions of societies continued on page 3 the university has arranged to have the palestrina choir of allen town under the direction of mr clement a marks leader of the allentown oratorio society render the marcelli mass by g pierluigi da p'alestrina in the packer memo rial church on tuesday evening december nth at 8.15 o'clock admission will be by tickets only which will be issued to the students of the university and to their friends and to citizens of the beth lehems in the order in which re quests are received until the limited seating capacity of the church has been filled the university students are particularly urged to avail them selves of this opportunity of hear ing the rendition of a classical ec clesiastical composition of great historical interest tickets may be had at the registrar's office until the supply is exhausted the music of p'alestrina which is as little known to the general public as the life ol the man himself is still so interesting historically that a few facts concerning events that led to the composition of the mass may be in place the polyphonic style of music in which each voice is a distinct part in itself prevailed during the closing century of the middle age and though many ex amples of it show musical talent amounting almost to genius it had become diverted from its original channel of churchly use into the mere expression of musical enigmas so irreverent had the music of the period become that the council of trent found it necessary to protest against the many unseemly musical settings for the divine service and urged the pope pius iv to insist upon certain sweeping reforms which would prohibit polyphonic writing for church use a board of eight cardinals re commended that palestrina be asked to write a test mass which should preserve in itself all the good points of the old style but should be free from the irreverence characterizing the compositions of the day pales trina wrote three compositions of which the marcelli mass is one named after pope marcellus 11 who had died ten years before the mass was written in one of the most difficult of the ancient ec clesiastical modes ; but with such skill did paliestrina introduce all the intricacy of the ancient canon and fugue at the same time avoiding the extravagances of his contempora ries as to produce a composition of exquisite beauty and charm the marcelli mass was first ren continued on fourth page the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa wednesday december 5 1906 alumni meetings vol xiv address of president drinker palestina's marcelli mass no 21 december n to be given in the chapel at the chapel exercises on last wednesday morning president drinker spoke as follows : in parting for our thanksgiv ing recess it seems fitting that we should give a few minutes to the consideration of all that this thanksgiving day means to us lehigh men are justly noted for loyalty to their college and there is no question but that this feeling has been greatly intensified during the past year among our alumni by reason of their having taken manual seisen of their alma mater and that they have come for ward as her adult sons anxious to aid and support her and to further her great mission on all sides we see active evidence of this our alumni clubs at new work phila delphia pittsburg chicago wash ington wilkes-barre scranton schenectady and boston are all live working organizations their en thusiasm and interest in the college have their reflection here a good spirit pervades lehigh to-day and you men the undergraduate body have responded loyally to it you may well cry to our alumni we are one blood you and i and we have one aim the alumni are doing their duty in ma terial help and substantial backing you are doing yours in so support ing our internal government that lehigh is deservedly earning a name and reputation as a sober self respecting college peopled by a student-body who though hard workers are also good sportsmen when sport is in order men who can stand victory and bear up splendidly under defeat who can play the game for the game's sake and not simply to win we are proud of our team and of the ex ample of self-control energy and good work which they have shown us and we can say to our friends and neighbors down the river in the words of the courteous old spanish proverb to-day to thee — to mor row to me continued on page three