Brown and White Vol. 19 no. 7

              alumnus engaged in harbor work recommends improvements on port of coos bay oregon j s polhemus 72 who has for some time been connected with the united states engineer office at portland oregon has recently made a report on his study of the port of coos bay improvement and we quote the following in this connection from a iccent issue of a portland oregon paper captain j s polhemus has completed his work as consulting engineer for the port of coos bay and has made a recommendation for the permanent improvement of the harbor he suggests that im mediate provision be made for in crease in commerce he recom mends the enlargement of the p^o ent government dredging project so that there will be excava ed a channel not less than 300 feet wide and with a depth of 20 feet at low tide from the head of the bay to deep water in the lower bay he also recommends the widening of the channel in front of marshfield to a width of about 500 feet the purchase of a site for public wharfs and the purchase of the tide flats which will come within the lines of the proposed channel it is esti mated that about 300,000 will be the cost of making these improve ments the plan for the future improve ment of the harbor as laid out by captain polhemus calls for a chan nel varying in width from 1000 to 2700 feet at different points and takes in some of the territory which is now mud flats in addition to the work on the bay captain polhemus recommends improvements for all of the inlets and rivers which empty into the bay these improvements if made will make the streams more useful for the ranchers and others living along them and will make all of the waterways navigable at all stages of the tide politics club tau beta pi pledgees small class due to increased tuition and requirements the following list contain the names of all the men who ha en tered lehigh this year it is not a complete list of the freshman class as some men now enrolled ill the class of 1915 first entered lehigh before this year a large number of the incoming men have been giv en advanced standing advanced standing ,\ alrich g f baker f h ph.b barry g j bauman j e bowman j b bristor a f dayton r 8 a.b faherty j p a.b i ( rrazier d w green l s helfrich j w leonard a b londono a e,m loos c e mccaffrey m mccauley h s mckay j h miller a h ospina p n polster m a raese c w richardson w g shoolbred j tapking w f teeple p m walker l s ward a t williams f c wilson l e wragg l p freshmen albrecht j w ambrose a j baird d l baker j w ■ ballinger j p bast n j bausman j m bennett j s berg w p bergstresser h f bloede v g bodine a v bogert r h borgman c w boyd r n bradley h e brockman f c brown e h brown h a buck l j butler c l cahill d r castro a chandler l chewning g c clark j s clinton g w collier r b continued on fourth page it is probable that gen james a beaver who is to address the stu dent meeting on sunday morning at eleven o'clock will address the lehigh politics club on sunday af ternoon gen beaver is an ex governor of pennsylvania and at present judge of the superior court and his wide experience fits him to give a vitally interesting talk on the work of the politics club a more definite announcement con cerning this meeting will appear in friday's issue of the brown and white o h smith 10 was in town during the last few days yesterday morning in the chap el immediately after the regular exercises the following men were pledged to tau beta pi : v b ed wards i a st john e w cook c w bender c a bonnie w i nevius and chimin chu-fuh in this list there are three representa tives from the c e course one each from the e e and the m e courses and two from the e m course so far as can be learned chu-fuh is the first one of his nationality to become a member of tau beta pi do not fail to hear gen beaver on sunday the brown and w hite lehigh university betjfftehem pa tuesday october 17 1911 judge trexler makes address lehigh bible study institute new students at lehigh vol xix dr fry opened a series of lectures on this subject his theme how busy men make use of the bible _ in most of the colleges univer sity chapel services are held on sunday mornings and the men have opportunities to hear some of the strongest speakers of the country from time to time as this priv ilege is not open for the men here at lehigh the christian associa tion has planned to have one meet ing a month on sunday morning and to secure for these meetings men of the type of the best college speakers in order to do this the support of the whole student body is necessary as it is impossible to get these men to come for a mere handful of men the first of these meetings will be held next sunday october 22nd ex-governor and civil war veteran gen james a beaver now judge of the superior court of pennsylvania will be the speaker the success of the plan will depend largely on the first meeting help to make it a go that these speakers can be secured a very determined and concerted effort is being made to revive bible study among the students and if the enthusiasm of the backers of this movement and the interest so far shown by the student body be any criterion the college will soon witness an astonishing revival of this most beneficial study the y m c a has procured very able men to inaugurate the work and on friday morning dr charles f fry of catasauqua made an ex cellent impression with his lecture how did we get the bible he drew a simple and comprehen sive crayon sketch of the countries embraced by the bible and from it traced the rise and fall of the va rious nations of that pre-christian era after telling why genesis is the book of beginnings he described the beginning of the jewish race told of abraham's wanderings from ur in caldea toward the promised land and much of the later history of this wonderful race he otlt lined briefly the four world mon archies — syrian babylonian gre cian and roman concluding with the birth of the saviour in this way finishing a summary of old testament history dr fry concluded by urging men to read the bible not only because of the marvellous panorama of his tory it unfolds but for the spirit that animates it — its soul it is af ter all the soul of this great book that quickens our dormant spiritual natures and it is this element in bible study that dr fry emphasiz ed so forcefully gen beaver to be here a meeting of a number of stu dents was addressed on friday even ing at 6.30 by judge frank trex ler of allentown the meeting was the second of its kind held re cently under the auspices of the y m c a and was for the purpose of commencing a systematic study of the bible by the students judge trexler chose as his sub ject how busy men make use of the bible and said one of the most gratifying things to be noticed in almost every college and univer sity in our country is the ever in creasing study of the bible by stu dents the reason for the begin ning of this movement was that a certain inquisitive prominent man not so long ago addressed the stu dent body of one of our large col leges and asked questions concern ing the bible the few and poor answers which he received caused this person to immediately inaugu rate a course in bible study which has grown ever since the college man is indeed a busy man hence his use of the bible should be and is every man's use the religion of christ is an ener getic religion an earnest religion the busy man puts the practical use of the bible first as he should and realizes hat his first duty is to attend to his religious spirit and eternal things nothing in the busy man's life is worth while un less he realizes that he must start right and that there is a divine be ing this is equally true in the col lege man's life as in the life of the business man it is the man in col lege who knows that life is a fail ure without character that gets along immediately following judge trexler's talk there was a short meeting of the students who were willing to help start the bible study 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