Brown and White Vol. 15 no. 23

              y m c a course minstrel show wednesday december 11 basket ball and lacrosse practice at 2.00 in the gym and 2.30 in the cage min strel show rehearsal at 7.30 christ mas hall mining society meets in williams hall at 7.45 friday december 13 college meet ing at 11.30 in phys lab minstrel show rehearsal at 7.30 christmas hall sophomorei cotillion club dance at 9.00 eagle hotel saturday december 14 minstrel show dress rehearsal at 9.80 grand opera house basketball at 2.00 lacrosse at 2,30 minstrel show at the grand opera house at 8.15 state track association reading of monsieur beau caire the second number of the y m c a lecture course was given in the physical laboratory last thursday evening a fair audience was pres ent the unusually large number of townspeople almost outnumbering the students everyone who attended has noth ing but praise for mrs jbeecher and 1 her rendering of booth tarkington's monsieur beaucaire in a manner which was simple and very unaf fected she depicted the young frenchman in exile the last scene that of the hero's triumph over his enemy the english duke was prob ably the best for in this mrs beecher's interpretation of the mo i tives and desires of the human heart ! was wonderful i the third number of the course will be given on january 7th when hon champ clark will be the speaker awarded by the athletic com mittee the regular monthly meeting of the athletic committee was held last thursday afternoon in addition to transacting a considerable amount of business the football insignia were granted the following men were given the privilege of wear ing thief l olcott captain troutman burlingame westerbeke h d smith anderson shorkley 1908 aman speirs brumbaugh mandell wigton bake well 1909 street treat 1910 and black 1911 the monogram was awarded to schafetf duncan torrey sheridan grimball cannibn 1908 luckie 1909 martin kitcbell lawson shannon downs e c smith bil heimer mccormick 1910 wood rinehart tremlett 1911 the election of g d speirs 09 as captain of the 1908 football team was approved as were also the nomi nations of j h smith h p smith and w w merwin 1910 for the po sition of assistant manager assistant manager l c zollinger 09 was approved as manager of the 1908 football team and instructed to proceed with the arrangements for a schedule of games the twelfth annual production of the minstrel association will be given next saturday night at the grand opera house this year's show promises to be fully up to the usual standard the first part will be devoted to jokes and songs nd a number of vaudeville stunts will compose the second half of the pro gram tickets will be placed on sale at the box office on thursday morn ing cotillion club dance the sophomore cotillion club will give its first dance at the eagle on friday night a short business meet ing was held at the psi upsilon house on sunday morning to com plete the arrangements for the dance this event and the minstrel show are always attended by a large number of out-of-town guests dr drinker announces that the uni versity has planned to give a christ mas dinner to all students whose homes are so far distant as to cause their remaining in town during the christmas holidays the dinner will be served at the commons at noon of christmas ' day circular postals will be sent to each student in order to ascertain the number of men in tending to remain in town the gun club will hold its big shoot next saturday afternoon the one held last saturday was only pre liminary in character as several of the members were unable to be pres ent the date of holding the december meeting of the arts and science club has been changed from the 19th to the 16th r k waters ex-'o5 captain of the 1904 football team is with the riverside watch case co riverside n j t t todd 00 who recently re turned from california is now en gaged in municipal work in balti more h h stoeck 87 and moriz bern stein 98 were in south bethlehem during the latter part of last week ■ * filbert ex-'o7 is now at the uni versity of pennsylvania by prof l p breckenridge prof l p breckenridge delivered an illustrated lecture last friday in the physical laboratory on the sub ject how to burn bituminous coal in boiler furnaces without smoke prof breckenridge nowi professor of mechanical engineering at the uni versity of illinois was an instructor in the department of mechanical en gineering at lehigh from 1882 to 1891 prof bireckenridge opened his ad dress with some very interesting facts about coal showing several slides of statistics regarding its composition and distinction then followed slides depicting the different types of boil ers in use from tnese it was noticed that the boiler used in the east is different from that of the west this is due to the difference in the coals burned the eastern coal contains more carbon and less volatile matter than coal mined west of the alle ghenies the scarcity of anthracite makes the burning of bituminous necessary then the question arises how can this be done without causing smoke it is known that if combustion be stopped before it is complete smoke will result accordingly that com bustion may not be stopped the bot tom of the boiler is protected by til ing along the entire flame length the other portion of the boiler is left unprotected thus the flame can not reach the boiler at any point and combustion is allowed to continue unimpeded with the result that the heat generated strikes the boiler at the proper point and does not cause smoke in computing the flame length and the distance to be tiled the chem ical composition of the coal and the amount burnt per square foot of grate must be considered in solving this question ' how to burn bituminous coal without smoke it is well to bear in mind that any fuel may be burnt with economy and without smoke provided the proper i nt of air be supplied at the proper temperature according to the state collegian a backet ball game to be played here on february 29 is under considera tion our own schedule is not vet complete nine pennsylvania colleges w r ere i represented at a meeting held in i harrisburg on last friday and sat j urday for the purpose of organizing | a state intercollegiate track associa i tion they were bucknell carlisle ! dickinson lafayette perm state temple w & j muhlenberg and lehigh temporary officers were chosen on ; friday afternoon 1 with f w sulli i van of lafayette as chairman and i t h sheridan 08 as secretary var ious places for holding the annual i meet were discussed and a commit tee appointed to draft a constitution j the city park commission of har i risburg offered to make the arrange ! ments for the meet provide gold sil i ver and bronze medals for each j event and to entertain all the teams j while in the city this proposition was accepted and an agreement was to limit the number of con i testants from each college to ten no admission will be charged at ; the meet and each team will pay its | own travelling expenses may 30 j decoration day was the date finally j selected for next spring it is be lieved that fully a dozen institutions ; will be represented and that the i number of spectators will reach i 15,000 ■ the following permanent officers were chosen on saturday presi dent f w sullivan lafayette vice-president j m harding state secretary and treasurer j a pipal dickinson the executive committee is com j posed as follows dr l f kirchner jw & j t h sheridan lehigh i glenn s warner carlisle and h a ver muhlenberg this is not the first intercollegiate track association that has existed in pennsylvania back in the early flos there was an intercollegiate athletic association of pennsylva nia which held an annual meet in philadelphia it consisted of the university of pennsylvania swarth more lafayette lehigh dickinson haverford and perm state the smaller institutions had little chance to win from pennsylvania and it was only . occasionally that they would manage to take first place in an event one of the records of this association was held by 0 h det weiler 90 in the shot put the last regular meeting for the year of the philadelphia alumni club will be held on wednesday night at the university club 1510 walnut street the fifteenth anniver sary smoker committee will meet on the same evening to make arrange ments for the celebration of this event robert s perry 88 is chair man of this committee the brown and white 7ol xv lacrosse teams in response to the call issued foi candiates for the lacrosse team the following men reported for practice in the cage at 2.30 on saturday af ternoon : captain duncan barth morris lowengrund zouck clark callen lakev caffell gorman gilmore ; fleming swope hoffmann bulley ißay carson and mccoy • the work done was light consist ing simply of tipping while nine teen is a fair showing for the first practice this number should be in d to at least seventy-five men who will practice faithfully through out the season in order to produce a winning team it will be noted that but five freshmen were among the number and it is hoped that twenty-five oi more men will represent this class at the next regular practice practice will be held every wed nesday and saturday at 2.30 in the cage until the field can be used next spring the first regular practice of the basketball team candidates was held in the gymnasium on saturday af ternoon after warming up by shoot ing goals two teams were formed an(i hard scrimmage ensued there are several good candidates in the ' ' class and with list year's substitutes for the only two open positions a very successful team should be developed this sea son the following men were < captain anderson street davies keife mcmurtrie uptep-raff a s osborn r b osborn bertschy la thews fetter merkel tremlett ' kes selman lehigh university south bethlehem pa tuesday december 10 1907 college lecture no 23 calendar football insignia christmas dinner trip of inspection the senior miners and metallur gists under the direction of prof j w richards made a trip of inspec tion on saturday the party num bering tw ; elve visited the plant of the united states metal refining co at cftrome n j and also the balbach l&ad works at newark y m c a o was a small crowd ■ t meeting sunday nigh in the subject for the evening was not lessened on that ac .. most of those present joined very good discussion on the acteristics of christ as a man very good ideas being brought out philadelphia club basketball practice