Brown and White Vol. 16 no. 36

              the team went down to swarth more on saturday and played a rather one-sided game with the home team our men were com pletely out-played but this was largely due to the fact that they were pla ing on a much larger floor than they have been accustomed to the shooting of fouls by davies was one of the features of the game the line-up swarthmore positions lehigh griffin capt ..¥., merkel smith f osbourne gilchrist c street eberle g kiefe baughton g(capt . ) davies goals from fteld griffin 6 smith 6 gilchrist 3 eberle 4 merkel 2 street 2 goals from fouls davies 8 gilchrist 7 referee cortwright time of halves 20 minutes arts and science club mustard and cheese — rehear sal of cast and chorus in drown hall at 7.30 and 9 p m re spectively friday march 5 b asket b a ll — lehigh vs bucknell at lewisburg saturday march 6 gym mcct — lehigh vs colum bia in the gymnasium at 8 p m saturday march 6 a very interesting meeting of the arts and science club was held in saucon hall thursday feb 25th papers were read by hess 09 on ferrero rhodes 11 on sociai isin knauss 10 on the histori cal point of view of ancient and modern historians sehultz mo on gibbon as a historian an interesting discussion followed the reading of the papers and hess's ferrero was voted as being the best the meeting was then ad journed and a very agreeable hour was spent under jim's care christian association — meet ing in drown hall 6.30 p m sun day march 7 special miner's meeting western railroad by k e hen dricks of the c e department formerly division engineer of that railroad at this meeting the pos ters displayed this year will be distributed by lot junior class meeting brown atn t d white board — meeting in drown hall at 1.30 p m monday march 8 thesis subjects of senior miners immediately after the college lec ture friday the junior class held a short meeting the banquet committee submitted a report and the treasurer urged that class dues be paid as promptly as possible senior banquet there will be a special meeting of the mining geological society in the physics laboratory on thurs day evening march 4 the ad dress of the evening will be de livered by howard w dußois mining engineer of philadelphia his subject will be mining as a legitimate business mr dv bois is an old lehigh man and has lectured here several times in for mer years all who have heard him will want to do so again and those who have not heard him will miss a treat if they neglect this opportunity drown hall meeting the meeting will be open to all the students of the university and a large attendance is desired paint ore deposits of eastern penna agthe callen dynan stoddard pyritic smelting aman extraction of nickel from gar nierite heilman hydrometallurgy of silver and gold miiller separation of a complex silver ore luckie wigton recent developments in the cyanide processes torrey hydro-metallurgy of paha quar ry copper ores hasler reichen bach decomposition point of sulphates in an open furnace morris,hain design & construction of small concentrating table corbin fraini . the senior banquet will be held at the eagle tuesday evening march 9th . an elaborate souvenir menu card has been secured and an excellent menu prepared the price is 2.75 per plate all who expect to attend are requested to inform the committee in charge as soon as possible mustard and cheese a rehearsal was held in drown hall last evening for both cast and chorus the next rehearsal will be held friday evening horns at 7.30 and cast at 9 although not definitely decided the home pro duction will probably be given the second saturday after the easter vacation the regular sunday evening meet - ing of the y m c a was address ed by key james robinson pastor ofthefhst presbyterian church bethlehem eev eobinson gave a very forceful talk on unseen environment lie spoke of the of the effect of a hidden spirit which controls our thoughts and actions provided we allow this spirit to work prof blake and prof hughes attended the meeting of the state legislature in harrisburgiast week where an important educational law was acted upon announcement the civil engineering society has been fortunate in securing mr george c whipple assoc m a s c e to deliver a lecture on the principles of water purifi cation mr whipple has a broad reputation as a member of the firm of hazen and whipple consulting engineers of new york city the lecture will be given in the physics laboratory and will be illustrated by lantern slides students of all departments are given an invitation to attend the program will be completed by an address on con structive problems of the south & by far one of the most interesting and instructive lectures given be fore the college this year was that delivered by mr robert s perry 88 as related in the last issue of this paper mr perry is president of harrison bros & co one of the largest paint companies in the country and is also chemical direc tor of the scientific section of the paint manufacturers association so that mr perry is well qualified to talk on the subject which was coatings for the conservation of structural material in developing his subject mr perry dwelt upon the extreme im portance of the matter of protecting structural materials from the weath er and other destroying agents the proper protection of our struc i tures or the lack of proper protec tion means the saving or the loss of many millions of dollars annually in this country in the idea of quickest possible returns on our money we have hitherto given cheapness the preference in build : ing rather than to durability but it is a very easily deduced fact that the cost of protective coatings is negible in consideration with the conservation of the wealth they produce business men areawaken jng to this fact and as a result the paint making industry has evolved into a science in order to bring this industry under scientific lines it was necess ary that experiments be made with paint coatings in the laboratory until very recent times this was impossible as the only part of paint coatings available was the surface which the paint presented on wood or metal however this difficulty has been overcome and there has been devised a paint coating which consists of paint alone and looks very much like a piece of heavy white kid mr perry had several of these coatings with him and demon strated their use in experimentation by means of these paint coatings much has been learned one thing in particular being easily shown that all paints are porous and admit of the passage of gases through them continued on fourth page the most important knowledge however that has been learned by this systematic study of paints is that which has been learned re garding pigments heretofore pig ments have beeu used solely with an eye to their color and without any regard to their effect on the material they covered today how ever it is known that certain pig ments and certain mineral const i tuents of paint conduce to rust while others inhibit rust there is a third class which is called inert consequently when an engineer to day examines a paint formula he should see to it that the pigments the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa tuesday march 2 1909 college lecture lecture by robert s perry 88 calendar athletics appointed director of outdoor vol xvi by dickson v..m c a lecture course — minnie crudup vesey in folk lore songs in drown hall at 8.00 p.m tuesday march 2 arcadia — meeting in drown hall at 2.30 p m wednesday march 3 civil society — meeting in the physical laboratory wednesday march 3 at 7.45 p m band practice — in the physical laboratory at 7.30 thursday march 4 mining society — meeting in williams hall at 8 p m thurs day march 4 college lecture — by h w dv bois 92 in the physical lab oratory at 11.30 a m friday march 5 the athletic committee has appointed mr b w dickson to the position of director of outdoor athletics at lehigh university and has placed him in responsible charge of outdoor sports he will coach the base ball and foot ball teams and will have general over sight of the coaching of the other outdoor teams in order that the athletic material in the university may be developed ami properly placed on the different teams mr dickson will reside in south bethlehem while the univer sity is in session and will give his entire time to the duties of his office basket ball swarthmore 45 lehigh 16 no 36