Brown and White Vol. 20 no. 56

              the last meeting of the chemical society was held in saucon hall on evening in addition to the annual feed and election of offi cers good papers were read by gery 13 and bartholomew 13 the election of officers resulted as fol lows president long 13 vice president higgins 15 secretary boy d 15 and treasurer san chez 14 the first paper by gery was on potash in which the speaker dwelt principally on the strassfurt deposits in germany these enor mous deposits are from 50 to 150 feet deep and according to some authorities were formed by evapo ration of sea water the period cov ered being 13,000 years parts of the ocean were shut off forming small lakes and in this part of eu rope then being in the tropical belt evaporation took place rapidly these lakes were replenished how t ever by small channels from the ocean as fast as the water evapora ted overlying these deposits of salt a layer of impervious clay was formed which has through the thousands of years protected the very soluble magnesium and potas sium salts from the action of water an enormous amount of heat was required to evaporate this sea water and a large portion of it must have come from the violent chemical ac tion produced in the double decom position of such vast quantities of continued on supplement college meeting the last meeting of the electrical society will be held on friday ev ening may 23rd in the physics lec ture-room all electricals are urged to be present to elect the officers for the coming year an elaborate feed is promised professors w s franklin and barry macnutt and mr r l charles of the faculty have just published a new text-book an el ementary treatise on calculus a volume for colleges and technical schools the book is handsomely and dur ably bound in the same style as the series of books on physics written by professors franklin and mac nutt the exterior printing being in gold letters the interior of the book comprises over 250 pages the printing upon which is of ample size as to be easily legible a fea ture consists in the cuts which are nurner6us original and supplement ary to the text accompanying them the definitions are so worded as to give a clear idea of the term to be defined and are still concise many of the definitions are accom panied by simple illustrations which can be readily understood at a glance thus it is stated that any argument which leads to a proposi tion concerning total change when a rate of change is given may prop erly be called integration under the chapter on integration is to be seen a very instructive discussion of the planimeter an integrating machine for measuring areas many practical problems and ex planations which should be of es pecial benefit to engineering stu dents are outlined in the book the problem of the bent beam for ins tance is taken up at length and de scribed the explanations being ac companied by a number of cuts making it as simple as possible the subject of differential equa continued on supplement mr hornbostel of new york gave a lecture before the college body in the chapel on friday morn ing on the esthetic side of bridge design mr hornbostel was con sulting architect on thetaylor gym nasium and is employed by the city of new york as consulting archi tect under the municipal art com mission all public erections m the city must be passed upon by this commission to insure a pleasing ap pearance in beginning his talk mr horn bostel told of the suspicion with which engineers regarded an archi tect when the idea was first propos ed and of the difficulties introduced by political manipulations at pres ent however this attitude is chang ing to a more tolerant and helpful view the speaker explained that the introduction of mouldings and or namentation was not the aim of the architect but rather pleasing design and silhouette was sought for the usual minute care for economical erection must be to some extent dis regarded to obtain effects that please the eye — in the speaker's own words a bridge for a city not for a railroad out in the desert the manhattan williamsburg and blackwell's island bridges have all been built under the art com mission and the plans for the hell gate bridge at present under con struction have been drawn up un der the same supervision the hell gate bridge lies on the line of the new york connecting i railroad which joins the new york new haven and hartford railroad with the pennsylvania when this continued on fourth page lacrosse captain notice to class of 1911 senior notice arts and science club the lacrosse team met on sun day morning and unanimously elect ed carl hartdegen jr 14 captain for next year e p humphrey 15 and h a brown 15 were se lected by the team to be voted on by the college at large for the posi tion of assistant manager of next year's team alexander g black custodian of the 1911 class cup has receiv ed a communication from w s ier:rann e e 1911 claiming the class cup by virtue of the birth of his son raymond l hermann on may 5 1913 should any other member of this class have a pre vious claim to the trophy he must send a notification immediately to mr black at 32 south sixth street duquesne pa to that effect ac companied by the necessary proof all seniors desiring caps and gowns for class day should be measured for them at the sup ply bureau not later than satur day may 24th no orders for these articles will be taken after that date the results of the election held last saturday for class day officers are as follows class poet w k smith ivy orator h w lamb prophet t a bryant and table orator c r wylie jr notice 1916 class meeting the last meeting of the arts and science club for the college year will be held in saucon hall on thursday evening promptly at 8 o'clock prof stewart will speak on the founders of the american constitution election of officers will be held and plans discussed for next year in order to make it the best in the history of the club ev erybody is invited the following men have been nominated for assistant manager by the respective teams and will be voted upon at the college meeting to be held on friday at 11 o'clock in packer hall : basketball-a s blank n mcf royall lacrosse e p humphrey h a brown wrestling c l butler c f vance athletic representative at large r s dunn s w burns r e mickel vv f bailey carl hartde gen jr a r sanchez the following men have reported during the spring sports as candi dates for cheer-leaders from which five will be elected by the student body for next year : danner van sickle goyne faust sproul neff lawall bur dick burns galloway shaffer galainena downs mickel weber stewart green nachman woelfel diefenderfer liebig brady gatch charnock schreiber all freshmen who intend to come out for the position of assistant business manager of the burr will report to-day tuesday may 20th at the burr room in drown hall at 4 o'clock p m the freshman class will hold a meeting immediately after the col lege meeting friday morning offi cers for next year will be elected lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday may 20 1913 chemical society holds elections consulting gym architect speaks lafayette wins first of series vol xx no 56 new calculus is published mr hornbostel talks before stu dents on the esthetic side of bridge design gery 13 talks on potash and bartholomew 13 gives dis cussion on colloids profs frankiin and macnutt and mr charles publish elemen tary treatise on calculus brown and white team in game of hits loses to rivals by score of 8 to 3 the first of the three-game base ball series with lafayette went fo the maroon and white on the home field saturday by a score of 8 to 3 this victory is the first for lafay ette over lehigh in two years the day was anything but ideal for baseball and while the contest prov ed long drawn out it was filled with sensational plays which made it ex citing to the large crowd of stu dents and visitors pazzetti who last year downed lafayette three times was chosen to twirl for the brown and white but after giving ten hits was re placed by shellenberger in the sixth when lafayette was sending her heaviest hitters to the bat in this inning the eastonians scored four runs two of which were home runs only in the eighth inning did shel lenberger show a flash of his old time pitching lehigh had the best kind of chan ces to score in the fourth and fifth innings invariably getting men on second and third with none down but then captain fager would draw in and retire the side without al lowing a run fager did splendid head work fanning eleven men and always tightening up in pinches lehigh was the first to score in continued on third page e e meet