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              letters patent for inventions the speaker's subject the series of lectures on forestry was interrupted on friday morning j by a very interesting lecture on j letters patent for inventions the speaker was james a watson lehigh 84 a prominent lawyer in washington d c the main object of the law re garding patents is to serve as a | stimulus to inventors who may in ! vent some machine whereby the productive power of the various in dustries may be increased since a patent on his invention enables the inventor to have the entire control of the production sale and use of the invention for a limited period of time it is an incentive to further work in that line the field for inventions and dis coveries is very broad the section of the law r which defines what is patentable reads as follows : section 4886 — any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art machine manufac ture or composition of matter or any new and useful improvements thereof not known or used by oth ers in this country before his in vention or discovery thereof and not patented or described in any printed publication in this or any foreign country before his inven tion or discovery thereof or more than two years prior to his applica tion and not in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years prior to his application unless the same is proved to have been abandoned may upon pay ment of the fees required by law and other due proceeding had ob tain a patent therefor the fee mentioned above is about | thirty-five dollars and the limit for j the time of use of a patent is seven teen years this limit cannot be exceeded neither can there by an extension on it a patent is not taxable and the holder of a patent in the united states can make use and vend the invention in the unit ed states and its possessions after a lengthy discussion on the infringements of patents and the many sides of the question the speaker in closing made the state ment that the commissioner of continued on third page r w jannus 11 wins the highly valued letter an innovation was this year in troduced in the annual l contest held on saturday night in the form of exhibitions by the leaders of the freshmen gymnasium sections which interspersed the events of the l contest the moderately large crowd which attended the contest was well pleased with this variety in the exhibitions which on the part of both the members of the gymnasium team and the fresh men showed careful training the first event of the evening was the series on the horizontal bar the contestants in this event were bley jannus and flick all three men handled themselves well as is shown by the number of points given them the results of this event were as follows : first bley with 15.5 points second flick with 10.5 points and third jannus with 9.25 points this was followed by a barbell drill by the leaders of the freshmen gymnasium sections the drill was done in time given by piano accom paniment and was loudly applaud ed at its conclusion the leaders are as follows : baldwin faust gatch coyne hartdegen hearne kurtz lacombe leslie murphy sanchez schrempel schreiber sie becker swenson todd turnbull and wiss the second event in the l con test was a series on the side horse the results of which are as follows : first flick with 12.5 points ; sec ond tremlett with 10.75 points ; and third i iailey with 10.5 points this was followed by a dumb-bell drill by the freshman class a series on the parallel bars and one on the flying rings were then enacted the results of which are given below parallel bars : first tremlett 15 points second bailey 14.25 points third pettigrew 13.75 points fourth flick 12.75 points fifth jannus 11 points sixth el liott 10.5 points seventh bley 9.75 points flying rings : first elliott 16.75 points second jan nus 15.75 points third weber 11 points ; fourth tremlett 10.75 points fifth pettigrew 8.75 points the freshmen again gave an ex hibition in the shape of apparatus work this consisted of various performances on the buck the par allel bars the side horse and in tumbling by special request sec tion 3 gave an exhibition in mount ing and jumping over the elephant by means of a spring board the elephant consists of a pair of par allel bars covered with mats mur continued on fourth page lecture by e a ziegler on friday morning at 1 1 00 o'clock there will be given in the chapel a lecture by e a ziegler director state forest academy mont alto pa the subject of which is the financial aspects of forestry the senior civil engineers are just finishing tests in the fritz lab oiatory on full size reenforced con crete beams as a part of their regu lar work in the course of cement and concrete these beams are 12 feet long and 11x8 inches in cross section the tests are being made in the 300,000 lb beam machine and careful measurements are taken to study the action and strength on the beams they are the largest ever tested at the university and mark a decided improvement in the test ing of reenforced concrete over for mer methods used here t he brown and white no 44 lehigh university south bethlehem pa tuesday april 4 1911 ' vol xviii letter from president drinker lecture by j a watson 84 arts and science meets l contest held saturday carefully prepared papers read by moore 10 and kocher 13 i tie arts and science club met on thursday evening at the club rooms in saucon hall the topic of the evening was education and after several matters of busi ness had been brought up and dis cussed papers were read by r n kocher 13 and r p more 10 both papers were exceedingly well written showing that much thought and care had been taken in their preparation kocher's paper on education in germany dealt with the description of the different kinds of schools the type of teach ers and students the relation of the teacher to the student the studies pursued the system of examina tions and class promotion the ger man gymnasium as compared with ■ the university the aims of the uni versity course the societies and the oral examinations held at the com pletion of the course the paper on herbart by more was equally good due to the | careful portrayal of the life of this i great man and his works on educa tion starting with his early child hood continuing throughout his life bringing to light all the points lof interest and ending with his death the remainder of the paper was devoted to a discussion of his works and the benefits derived from them dr drinker was in attendance and brought with him j a wat [ son 84 who lectured here on fri day mr robbins superintendent of schools in bethlehem and mr sampson the principal of bethle hem high school were likewise guests of the club after a short discussion of the papers the meeting adjourned and refreshments were served by chef myers tests in fritz labora tory continued on third page comments on discussion of cul tural subjects at arts and science club to the editor of brown and white :—: — it was my privilege to attend thursday evening last the month ly meeting of the arts and science club i always enjoy the meetings of the club and i particularly wish to express my appreciation of the excellence of the papers read at this meeting and to urge upon the stu dent body the great importance not only to the students attending the courses in the department of arts and science but to the students in the engineering courses of coming together at least monthly for meet ings devoted to the discussion of culture subjects at this meeting tw r o admirable carefully prepared papers were read one by mr r n kocher 13 on german educa tional methods an excellent and comprehensive summary of a very interesting subject little known to the average american student ; the other by air r p more 10 on 1 lerbart this paper rather reached the grade of a thesis than of a paper prepared for a limited purpose mr more's presentation of herbart's biography and devel opment — and his study of her bart's theories of education and philosophy were absorbingly inter esting supplemented as the paper was by the extended remarks it called out from mr f v robbins superintendent of j'ublic schools of bethlehem who was present as a guest kindly comments on these papers were also made by mr w c sampson principal of the beth lehem high school who was also present the amount of work and the evident care given to the work were most encouraging and were in accord with the sentiment of our alumni who strongly favor the pro motion of culture studies in all the university courses attorney general wickersham 77 in his address at the recent meeting and banquet of our new york alumni said : professor huxley in one of his lectures as lord rector of aber deen university described the greatest work of charlemagne who while not much of a scholar himself * * had the wisdom of which knowledge is the only servi tor this work he said consisted in the foundation of many monas terial and cathedral schools for in a couple of centuries the schools he sowed broadcast produced their crop of men thirsting for knowl edge and craving for culture such