Brown and White Vol. 20 no. 17

              the cross-country team candidates for the cross-coun try team have held practices for the last week and some good material is thought to be among them rob ert e mickel 14 has been elected captain a cross-country race has been arranged for saturday morning november 23 in which there will probably be seven entries the first five to finish will count continued on fourth page brown beats lafayette by the score of 7 to 3 lehigh won the first game of foot-ball ever played between muhlenberg and le high the game was played on lehigh field on saturday after noon in the presence of one of the largest crowds of the season a place-kick by vreeland from the 25-yard line and a terrific line plunge for ten yards and a touch down by hoban was the sum total of the scoring done the crowd was one of the largest of the season lehigh supporters turned out in large numbers and allentown sent several hundreds to support their favorites ideal foot ball weather favored the play lehigh kicked off to muhlenberg and the allentown collegians start ed to rush the ball up the field by line-plunges and skin-tackle plays muhlenberg made rapid progress until the middle of the field was passed then the brown and white defense tightened up and put a damper on the muhlenberg attack during the greater part of the first quarter the ball see-sawed back and forth sometimes in lehigh's terri tory sometimes in muhlenberg's at length muhlenberg punted paz zetti stood on lehigh's 25-yard line ready to receive the punt but through the over anxiety of bixler muhlenberg's right end he was bowled over without touching the ball ritter fell on the pig skin and it was muhlenberg's first down captain pazzetti protested but his protest was not allowed vree land took advantage of a magnifi cent opportunity to score a place kick the ball was on the 25-yard line and almost directly in front of the goal posts vreeland booted it fairly between the goal posts thus saving his team from being blanked lehigh's opportunity came in the second quarter pazzetti punted and bixler muhlenberg's captain dropped the ball tate fell on the ball on muhlenberg's 10-yard line on the next play captain pazzetti sent hoban crashing through the muhlenberg line hoban plowed his way through the muhlenberg the official report of enrolment at princeton has been made public by professor r k root of the university faculty four hundred freshmen entered college this fall a record-breaking class though more were declared eligible eleven students entered from other colleges and twenty three qualified for admission to higher classes this brings the to tal enrolment to 1650 compared with 1543 last year of four hundred freshmen in college 134 are taking the a b course a smaller number in pro portion to the whole class than was the case last year ; 225 have enter ed the course leading to b s or litt b degrees while 41 are en rolled as c e.'s that the litt b and b s courses are growing in popularity is shown by the fact that there are 61 more enrolled in them than last year the c e course showing a corresponding decrease in numbers this year only 47 men entered on college board examinations compared with 68 last year and 80 the year before notice sophomores all sophomores who intend to compete for the position of assist ant business manager of the 1915 epitome will meetv.t lawshe'l4 in drown hall to-morrow prompt ly at 1 o'clock p m lafayette suffered defeat at the hands of brown at providence on saturday by the score of 21 to 7 lafayette was the first to score pushing a touchdown over in the first quarter but soon the brown scoring machine got into working order and put the game on ice the line-ups of both teams were largely made up of substitutes on account of important games this coming saturday the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday november 19 1912 electricals hold november meet lehigh defeats muhlenberg by the close score of 7-3 vol xx prof franklin and mr sultzer the speakers rail testing in fritz lab m h wickhurst of chicago conducting the tests muhlenberg scores first on vreeland's place kick but hoban's touchdown wins for lehigh the electrical engineering so ciety held its second monthly meet ing of the current year in the phys ics laboratory last friday evening in a business meeting presided over by olson 13 the constitution of the newly-formed wireless club was read and ratified by the electrical society officers were also elected for the wireless club as follows president e r mclaughlin 13 secretary j j weaver 13 ; treas urer j s gemmel 14 prof franklin gave the first talk of the evening on the use of ca pacity and inductance in telephone systems after performing a num ber of interesting experiments show ing the nature of inductances prof franklin took up the application of the observed phenomena by using a combination of induc tances and condensers a single line may be operated either as a tele phone or as a telegraph system by changing the character of the cur rent used alternating current carry ing telephone messages and direct current operating the telegraph sounders this method contains a special arrangement whereby the telephone sets may be operated in parallel in which telephone opera tion is most satisfactory prof franklin showed an experi ment in resonance a phenomenon in which an alternating current of a certain definite frequency may be divided into two currents of great er value he also showed the whistling arc and the choke-coil lightning-arrester and their mechan ical analogues mr sultzer 12 of the electrical department read a paper on the elementary principles of wireless telegraphy in a short historical sketch the speaker told of the in vestigations of maxwell and hertz in showing the similarity between light waves and electric waves it remained for marconi to make prac tical application of the results of these investigations in 1906 mr marconi made his 4irst public dem secondary defense and crossed the line with three men on his back thus scoring the only touchdown of the game he kicked an easy goal making the score 7to 3 this end ed the scoring muhlenbergmustbe given the cred it of handing lehigh a big surprise the rush with which the cardi nal and gray team started swept the local team off their feet and lehigh never recovered during the entire game although the veterans crichton bailey and wylie were sent in in the second half neither team was able to gain consistently on mass plays and the game re sulted in a punting duel in which captain bixler slightly outdistanc ed captain pazzetti muhlenberg punted thirteen times to lehigh's continued on second page enrolment at princeton the rail committee of the a merican railway engineering as sociation is utilizing the giant rieh lejnachine in the fritz engineering laboratory of lehigh university for important tests for rails conducted as a part of the re search work undertaken jointly by railroads and steel manufacturers these tests are expected to aid ma terially in the effort to reduce the number of rails that are found de fective each year m h wick hurst of chicago engineer of tests of the association's rail commit tee is in charge of the work in the tests he is being assisted by members of the civil engineering department of the university a few years ago the number of rails in the united states that fail ed to give normal service or that broke under moving trains became alarmingly great the circumstan ces so agitated the executive officers of the railroads that the matter was investigated by the american rail way association a cooperative arrangement was entered into with manufacturers of steel rails by which the manufacturers furnish the materials and facilities for re search work and the railroads fur nish the engineer to conduct the tests some of the results of the work so far accomplished have been published in the proceedings of the american railway engineering as sociation the present phase of the research is investigating the rate of reduction of the cross-section in rolling from the ingot to the finished rail one hundred pieces of 100-pound amer ican railway association section two feet long are being used as steel mills do not afford the continued on fourth page no 17 help the teamßeat lafayette attend cheering practice