Brown and White Vol. 20 no. 16

              ( continued from third page the fall meeting of the lehigh valley section of the american chemical society was held in the chemical laboratory on tuesday evening november 12 dr lulmann as chairman op ened the meeting with a few words of greeting officers were elect ed for the ensuing year as follows : chairman dr ullmann ; counsel or mr baker secretary-treasu rer mr beck the chairman introduced prof e.g franklin of the public health and marine hospital service of washington d c and formerly professor of chemistry at leland stanford university prof frank lin gave an experimental paper on the ammonia system of acids bases and salts he called at tention to the striking parallelism between pure water and dry liquid ammonia and described a system of acids bases and salts that he had developed after years of care ful experimentation prof frank lin stated that these substances are related to ammonia just as the or dinary oxygen acids bases and their salts are related to water many elements and compounds behave in ammonia solution just as their an alogue in ammonia of crystaliza in response to a call for candi dates for the wrestling team made by herr 13 captain of the wrest ling team about two dozen old and new men turned out for the first real practice on wednesday after noon at 4 o'clock the freshmen in particular re ported in considerable numbers there being some out for nearly every weight the new men will be obliged to compete with mem bers of last year's team in practi cally every class except the 115 pound class last year captain herr held this position but will this year be unable to make the weight being thereby put into the 125 pound class and thus leaving the 115-pound class open to competi tion among the new men very little can be said concern ing the team except that it is sure to be a very strong one there is good material still working on the foot-ball field and when these men are released after thanksgiving from their duties there the practice will begin in earnest in preparation for the first meet early in febru ary the inter-class meet will prob ably be held about the last of feb ruary senior class meeting concert and dance the second meeting of the wire less club was held in the physics laboratory wednesday afternoon the committee appointed at the last meeting submitted a constitution which they had drawn up this constitution was adopted with slight changes owing to the small num ber of students present it was de cided to postpone the election of officers until friday evening when a meeting will be held jointly with the electrical engineering society y m c a notice at a short meeting of the senior class held in packer hall on wed nesday it was decided it have the class act as a hustling committee in order to increase the attendance at cheering practices it was first planned to have groups of seniors stationed at the various entries in order to collect the men as they left the campus but this was aban doned civil society the first speaker under the new regime with mr whiteside for sun day evening will be dr silas s ness ph d president of the ness college of oratory at philadelphia dr ness is a yale graduate and a teacher of public speaking in four theological seminaries and is there fore well qualified to speak on the subject he has chosen mind de velopment rifle meet the november meeting of the civil engineering society will be held in the physics lecture room at 8 o'clock next monday evening w r hilbert sales manager of the gold schmidt thermit co will give an illustrated lecture on the ther mit process and will perform ex periments to show how the process works out in practice the most important college foot ball games to be played to-morrow are as follows : amherst vs williams at mead ville army vs tufts at west point bucknell vs swarthmore at swarthmore carlisle vs pennsylvania at phil adelphia cornell vs coe at mt vernon dickinson vs gettysburg at get tysburg f and m vs ursinus at lan caster georgetown vs univ of virgin ia at raleigh harvard vs dartmouth at cam bridge holy cross vs worcester poly at worcester johns hopkins vs st john's at baltimore lafayette vs brown at provi dence lebanon valley vs albright at myerstown lehigh vs muhlenberg at south bethlehem navy vs a and m of north carolina at annapolis new york univ vs r i state at new york norwich vs renssalaer poly at troy perm state vs ohio state at columbus rutgers vs haverford at hav erford syracuse vs colgate at syracuse w & j vs univ of pittsburgh at pittsburgh wesleyan vs trinity at mid dletown yale vs princeton at princeton report byprof mckibben a combined concert by the man dolin and glee clubs which will be followed by an orchestra dance will be given in drown hall to morrow night the concert will last from 8 until 9.30 o'clock and the remainder of the evening will be devoted to dancing the pro gram for the concert follows : part i 1 estudiantina laconic glee club 2 overture from william tell blumenthal mandolin club 3 reading selected mr townsend 4 quartette selections messrs ackerly lambert sproul and wragg part 11 1 charme d amour kendall mandolin club 2 dixie kid . . geibcl glee club 3 mandolin trio selections messrs shaw blackman and wragg 4 baritone solo selection mr sellers 5 alma mater combined clubs a rifle meet will be held in the basement of packer hall at 8.00 o'clock this evening the object of which is to give the men practice all those in the university who are interested in this sport are cordial ly invited to participate the november bulletin of the society for the promotion of en gineering education contains an art icle reporting the american road congress held at atlantic city in october the report was written by prof mckibben head of le high's department of civil engi neering the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday november 15 1912 noted chemists read papers vol xx varsity 12 scrubs 6 no 16 philadelphia lehigh club fifty alumni attend enthusiastic foot ball meeting meeting of section of american chemical society held here many wrestlers begin practice freshmen are particularly inter ested in the sport team shows good form in wed nesday practice practice began early on wed nesday afternoon in further prep aration for the game with muhlen berg on saturday coaches reiter and keady expect no easy proposi tion for the big brown team for muhlenberg is known to possess a fast aggregation of foot-ball men and is confident of holding lehigh fortunately no serious injuries were sustained in the swarthmore game last saturday and it will be possi ble for the same team to line up against muhlenberg to-morrow continued on fourth page to-morrow's games a spirited meeting of the phila delphia-lehigh club was held in philadelphia on wednesday even ing and was attended by about fifty enthusiastic supporters of the uni versity the slogan of the meeting was on to easton — beat lafayette enthusiasm ran rampant songs and cheers succeeded each other in rapid succession and were only in terrupted long enough to give suffi cient time to the spirited talks of the speakers the principal speakers were dr drinker charles l taylor w a wilbur and prof h r reiter all of the addresses were brief and to the point the points touched upon were lehigh's rapid progress the need of keeping alive alumni interests and foot-ball wireless club attend cheering practice