Brown and White Vol. 22 no. 27

              speaker describes the fraudulent methods of the min ing game examinations will be held every day from january 22nd to the 29th describes methods used in the construction of con crete roads saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock in taylor gymnasium the lehigh basketball team will oppose the quintet representing gettysburg college since the lebanon valley game of january 6th the varsity has been put through a series of daily practices in which especial atten tion has been given to the elimina ting of the flaavs which cropped out in that game the coach has been giving close attention to the scrubs the varsity has been aveakened by the absence of mueller fonvard avho has been advised by his physi cian not to play on account of heart trouble hoavever he may be able to get into saturday's game this condition leaa'es one vacancy to be filled at forward by either dynan kirkpatrick or mayers avho are the most prominent candidates for this position the rest of the team will be breavster at fonvard crich ton at center both captain green and geyer at the guard positions concerning the strength of the gettysburg team very little can be learned this prevents the sub mission of any speculation on the probable outcome of the contest y m c a preliminary last wednesday afternoon the first day of the novice wrestling contest held in taylor gymnasium the final bouts in three weights were decided the deciding matches were avon by n r reynolds 17 in the 1154 b class r c good 17 in the 175-lb class and n bans 17 in the heavy-weight class the best bout of the day avas in the light-weight class be taveen brobst and reynolds which reynolds avon after eight minutes and forty five seconds of fast avrestling mccullough and mer avarth in the 135-lb class required an extra period of six minutes be fore a decision was aavarded to mc cullough in the heavy weight class inge and poms avent thirteen minutes and thirty seconds before pons finally won with a bar and chancery hold the summary of wednesday's bouts is appended 115-lb class reynolds won from brobst in 8 minutes 45 seconds with a chancery and arm lock hold deciding bout 125-lb class — hicks won from munoz on a decision after 9 min utes 135-lb class — mccullough won from merwarth on a decision after 6-minute extra period wills won from frey on a decision after 9 minutes jenness won from metz ner in 4 minutes with a body scis sors hold 145-lb class — straussburg won from kearney on a decision after 9 minutes hiss won from shoema ker in 5 minutes 25 seconds with a bar and chancery hold borden won from minnich in 2 minutes 30 seconds with a body hold borden won from straussburg in 5 minutes with a bar and chancery hold 175-lb class — good won from henderson with a chancery and el bow roll deciding bout heavy weight class — pons won from inge after 13 minutes 30 sec onds with a bar and chancery hold deciding bout referee — cassidy timekeeper — dayton thursday's results the university y m c a has arranged a most interesting pro gram for this sunday in the af ternoon at 1.30 j r mott of phil adelphia will speak to the officers of the association and to the chi nese students at lehigh in the evening at 6.15 prof john l stewart head of the business administration department will speak the musical attraction will be a solo by g leßoy faust of the beethoven octette and o i f the arion glee club of all en town mr faust is considered one of the best baritones in this vicinity and will undoubtedly be much enjoyed by those in attendance on the following sunday janu ary 24 mr edavin moore prince ton 97 a prominent philadelphian is booked to speak rev russell conwell in his lecture acres of diamonds which has been deliver ed over one thousand times speaks highly of mr moore the music for this program will be given by prof hans roener of moravian seminary prof roener will ren der several selections of his own composition on the french horn and the piano on january 31st dr h a mus ser will deliver jungle tales dr musser has spent eight years in the jungles of india chapel music 125-pound class — lambert won on decision from hicks 135-pound class — mccullough won from jenness on a body scis sors in 2 minutes wills drew a bye mccullough won on decision from wills 145-pound class — hiss drew a bye borden won from strauss burg hiss won from borden in 4 minutes 40 seconds with bar nel son and chancery the 158-pound match was post poned fleming and walters are the contestants announcement by burr for the week beginning january 18th there will be some real old fashioned music in the chapel the composers ante-dating bach prof shields's program is as follows : frescobalde 1591-1654 pass acaglia pachebbel 1653-1706 ciaconna buxtehude 1653-1706 prelude arcadelt 16th century aye maria mr w a me in tyre gave an illustrated lecture on concrete roads last wednesday evening in the physics laboratory building at the january meeting of the civil engineering society mr mclntyre is the chief road engineer for the association of american portland cement manufacturers and is lo cated in philadelphia this asso ciation aims to promote the adop tion and correct use of cement and concrete and its miembers reach all parts of this country the talk was well illustrated with slides and was also well received the speaker showed the great ec onomic value of good roads and al so the greater difficulty in their present construction due to the large traffic of automobiles and naturally advocated the use of well founded and durably-built roads which will withstand the effect of motor cars the first concrete street laid in this country is at bel lefontaine this being built in 1893 after the manner of sidewalk con struction the pavement was built in 5-feet blocks with a 4-inch base and a 1 3/2 inch top the first thing to consider in road making is drainage and it applies to every type of road and this is usually accomplished by either a tile or french drain next comes the subgrade which must be thoroughly compacted by a roller and is usually made flat materials for the con crete such as stone are transported by team traction outfit or indus trial trains of the material for a concrete road the aggregate must be coarse and hard a dense mix ture being best the gravel should be well graded this is essential in order to secure good concrete that the water originally added be re tained and therefore the side forms made either of wood or steel should be tight the important feature of con crete is its proper consistency which should be one which will not run and which will hold its shape af ter being struck off by a templet and which requires little tamping templets are varied in nature and are run some by hand and some mechanically green concrete should be protected from the heat of the sun and often tarpaulins are used joints in concrete roads are usu ally spaced every 30 feet and a tar paper or a prepared felt are the best types of fillers these joints and fillers must be protected and often the filler is allowed to pro trude above the surface of the road and is ironed over the edges by traffic thus protecting them a con crete road is built with as low a crown as any type of pavement and therefore the entire surface of the road can be used for travel at the close of the lecture the members adjourned to saucon hall where eats and impromptu speeches were indulged in gorman in china is your name right wednesday marked the appear ance of the roster of the final ex aminations for this term which have been posted in various build ings the first examination begins at 8.00 a m on friday january 22nd and the last exams take place on friday january 29th follow ing is the roster — examination roster first term 1914-15 friday jan 22 8.00 a m freshmen — french and german sophomores — english and blow piping juniors — electricity metallurgy forestry and business law seniors — latin metallurgy ge odesy business law and italian friday jan 22 2.00 p m freshmen — american literature sophomores oratory and chem ical philosophy juniors — psychology metallur gy assaying and quantitative an alysis seniors — ■ metallurgy and pros pecting saturday jan 23 8.00 a m freshmen — english sophomores — physics and eco nomics juniors — economics and physi ography seniors — petrography econom ics bridges public law paleontol ogy and dynamo testing saturday jan 23 2.00 p m sophomores — german juniors — english engine lab dynamo eleotric machinery seniors — engine lab and em bryology monday jan 25 8.00 a m freshmen — physics sophomores — construction and drawing juniors — german mineralogy metallurgical construction and electro-technology seniors — metalography german mill buildings machine design al ternating current industrial lab and electrotechnology monday jan 25 2.00 p m sophomores — french juniors — french field geology seniors — french field geology tuesday jan 26 8.00 a m freshmen — greek chemistry sophomores ■ — latin industrial history wiring quantitative an continued on fourth page alysis c e mineralogy and quan titative conference juniors — strength of materials and greek seniors — economic geology electric design physics chemis try thermodynamics greek and banking tuesday jan 26 2.00 p m freshmen — chemistry lab sophomores — spanish machine design e m mineralogy and quantitative analysis juniors — spanish electric lab seniors — philosophy and dyna mo lab proof sheets of the university register now being compiled have been placed in several buildings on the campus it is requested if there are any corrections to the list of names that these be reported at once to the university office the officers for the coming year were nominated at the meeting of the mining and geological society held last wednesday evening in williams hall the following men were nominated : president — g r johnson 16 a s konselman,'ls ; s martin 16 vice-president — h e white 16 secretary — k lam bert 16 s martin 16 b bo tero 16 treasurer — w a rich ards 17 r l colby 17 g e lees 17 b h jacobson 17 cu rator — j constine 18 h e san ford 16 it was decided to award a pin of the society to the man who does the most work in advertising the meetings of the society in the way of posters quality and quantity will be the determining factors in the contest the pin will be awarded at the may meeting dr b l miller was the speaker of the evening and gave a very in teresting and amusing talk on the mining game at the present time it costs more to take metal out of the earth than the metal is worth there are two kinds of mining in the one there seems to be some assurance that money put in will yield returns in the other the mon ey goes into the pockets of the pro moters the latter type is called the mining game in the united states to-day there are about 2,300,000 men occupied in mining and quarrying about 4,000,600,000 dollars in value are taken out of the mines in the uni ted states annually some of the mines are exceptionally profitable while im others the profits are very small one great advantage the mi ner has is that he adds to the wealth of the world without robbing any man the promoter is with us always when the estates of j p morgan and e h harriman and other no ted men were settled it was found that they contained thousands of shares of worthless mining stock some of the tricks of the promo ter are advertisements in the news papers and periodicals these are followed up by extensive literature describing the property of the com pany in flowery terms the idea of a promoter is either to buy a piece of property near some valuable mine or else in the wilds of a.sia or africa where no one will ever go to investigate the mine it does not matter whether the land is valuable or not next he will publish literature describing all the bonanzas ever heard of and also of the men who have made fortunes in stocks the stock is then offered at about fifty cents a share with the warning that it will soon be advanced in the olden days it was customary for the com panies to pay dividend at once out of the sale of the stock the pos tal authorities have however put a stop to most of this work frequently the promoter will take a prospective buyer out to the mine which is dressed for the occasion he will show him ore in place and make the mine appear to be a rich one most of these mines would not bear a very thorough examina tion continued on third page the burr wishes to announce the opening of a new competition for positions on its literary staff there are two vacancies on the board which are to be filled by a sopho more and a freshman the compe tition will last until march next sophomores and freshmen who have any ability for writing materi al suitable for the burr are urged to try for these positions all those wishing to enter the competition will report at the burr room drown hall on wednesday next at 1.00 p m a b gorman 13 former editor of the brown and white has been sent by the standard oil com pany to act as representative in hong kong china the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday january 15 3 1915 sweater contest in the gymnasium basketball team meets gettysburg three bouts in novice wrestling meet decided last wednesday game in taylor gymnasium on saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock no 2 meeting of c e society vol xxii miners hold large meet examination roster posted chief road engineer of cement manufacturers addresses the society dr benjamin l miller of the faculty addresses the society roster of final examinations for first term posted in build ings on wednesday to cover seven days w a mcintyre speaks officers nominated