Brown and White Vol. 16 no. 32

              mechanical society — meeting in williams hall at 7.45 i m tuesday february 16 , electrical society — meeting in the physical laboratory at 7.30 p.m tuesday february 16 lacrosse t ka m prac t i c c s every wednesday and saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the cage wednesday afternoon practice the usual practice of the basket ball team was held on wednesday afternoon about twenty men re ported and very lively practice was indulged in ihe squad was divi ded up into four teams two play ing while the other two rested the varsity showed up very well and judgingj udging from their playing they promise to end up the season on our floor with two more victories on fiiday and saturday nights when we play carnegie tech and swarthmore respectively the gym team and the wrestling club took the floor after basket ball practice each team had a large number of men out and the work performed by each indicates a creditable outcome with other teams whom we expect to meet a number of men were in the cage also the majority tipping lacrosse and perfecting their stick work several freshmen were out and it is to be hoped that more will turn out soon as much can be gained at this time in mastering tne rudiments although there was no regular base ball practice several men were in the cage doing light work electrical society the february meeting of the electrical engineering society will be held in the physical laboratory tuesday evening february 16 at 7.30 the speakers for the even ing are mr linden of new york city who will speak on storage batteries mr clewell e e 05 who will speak on train resis tance and garrison 09 who will speak on electrolysis mustard and cheese g ymnasium team — practices every monday wednesday and friday afternoon at 4 o'clock william 11 grimbal m e 06 has recently passed a most credit able examination before the supreme court at columbia s c and has been authorized to practice law in south carolina he has opened his office at his home town charles ton s c in the relay race from summerville to charleston a dis tance of 24 miles grim ball ran the eighth mile and was the sensation of the race having started far be hind and he finished in the head russelwait m e 06 is supt of the charleston ore co general w e doster gives an admirable address upon abraham lincoln in the chapel lincoln was defeated for the senate bxi't he was hailed as the inspired prophet of liberty who while he was weak in his technical legal position avoided the ranting of garrison and philips and on principles far above all common and statute law was invulnerable in fact slavery never was extended after that debate lincoln had given it a mortal wound * * * * >;< in november 1860 during the election i was at sea in the steamer vanderbilt coming home with the late robert h sayre your lamented trustee then chief en gineer of the lehigh valley rail road and robert packer eldest son of the president of the road judge asa packer on landing we heard that lincoln was elected — that all business was at a stand still — that seven southern states were about to secede from the union and what disturbed my friends most that lehigh valley railroad stock had dropped to 30 per share they little dreaming that the impending war would make that railroad a source of great pro fit and that that profit would by 1866 6 years later through the munificence of its president be used to found a seat of learning called lehigh university my companion , another heidel berg student was bearer of letters from mr huntington then the paris correspondent of the new york tribune and i went with him to the tribune office where we de livered them to mr charles a dana then mr greely's assistant editor he took a gloomy view of the future was sure there would be an insurrection but doubted mr lincoln's ability to put it down he thought him a fine orator and continued on second page that when in the distant future some man some faction some interest should setup the doctrine that none but rich men or none but white men or none but anglo saxon wiiite men were entitled to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness their posterity might look up again to the declaration of independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began so that truth and justice and all the humane and christian virtues might not be ex tinguished from the land so that no man should hereafter dare to limit and circumscibe the great principles on which the temple of liberty was being built this morning general doster gave a most valuable discourse at the chapel upon lincoln to a large audience of students and friends of the university he said in part : — ladies and gentlemen we have met to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of our sixteenth president abra ham lincoln of illinois we have celebrated his birthday anniversary heretofore not at the invitation of the national government or of all the states but of fourteen states out of forty-six which have made the day a legal holiday seven of the southern states have made a legal holiday of hme 3 the birth day of jefferson davis so that in the legislatures at least there is no unanimity in the distrib^ilop of glory and the majority is silent we all know however that in the north during the forty-four years which have elapsed since the war ended and he died at the age of fifty-six the name of lincoln has grown in popular esteem — that he is conceded to have been the apostle of freedom the conqueror over great odds in a civil war the eman cipator of slaves and the blessed martyr standing according to the vote taken in 1900 in the hall of fame of new york university next to washington as second father of his country — two vener able names surpassing in bright ness all the twenty-six who have held the office of president it is also known that his birth was humble his race shiftless his education limited and self-acquired his reputation as a lawyer local his career in congress creditable but without distinction and that he rose from a comparatively obscure western attorney to sup reme eminence at home and aboard in about seven years between 1858 and 1865 in speaking of the lincoln - douglas debate he said douglas planted himself squarely on the constitution and on the dred scott decision of the supreme court of the united states which upheld the fugitive slave law recently delivered lincoln planted him self on the constitution the biil of rights and the declaration of independence i quote one para graph from lincoln's speech of august 17 1858 speaking of the framers of the declaration he said wise statesmen as they were they knew the tendency of posterity to breed tyrants and so they establish ed these great self-evident truths n j hiss 90 has recently been appointed division contract agent of long island for the new york and new jersey telephone co _ <» ,, — _ y m c a sunday service rev f s hod pastor of the first presbyterian church south bethlehem has kindly consented to address the regular drown hall sunday meeting at 6.30 mr hort is one of the men to whom the christian association owes much for his consistent interest and sup port and his close touch with many of the men in college will give his talk added interest his add resses in former years have always proven to carry with them a message ifcr all and the opportunity of hearing him sunday night should not be neglected a very satisfactory rehearsal for the 1909 production was held in drown hall wednesday evening under the direction of the coach mr donaldson of philadelphia the number of new men trying for cast and chorus this year far ex ceeds anything in the past and a creditable performance is assured gifford c bakewell who retired from college before christmas has accepted a position with the dravo construction co and is now work ing at lock and dam no 15 on the black warrior eiver his address is dravo tuscaloosa county ala bama goit 06 is assistant supt on the same job while kent 07 and warnke 08 are working for the same company about ten miles down the river a cast and chorus rehearsal of the mustard and cheese in drown hall saturday feb 13 at 2.30 the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa friday february 12 1909 calendar lincoln day address vol xvi y m o a lecture course — by e b baldwin at 8 p m friday february 12 basket ball c t s vs lehigh in the gymnasium at 7.00 p m friday february 12 swarthmore vs lehigh in the gymnasi son at 8.30 p m saturday february 13 arcadia — meeting in drown hall at 3 p m sunday february 14 christian association — in drown hall 6.30 p m sunday february 14 brown and white board — meeting in drown hall at 1.30 p m monday february 15 no 32