Brown and White Vol. 22 no. 23

              large enrollment classes in algebra geometry arithmetic english and drawing musical acts sketches dancing specialties and pictures on pro gram curtain rises at 7:30 work of capt green and brews ter feature of game small floor handicaps team a variety show which will be held under the supervision of the mustard and cheese dramatic as sociation will make its initial per formance in the orpheum theatre on the evening of december 18th at 7.30 o'clock the management promises a varied and highly inter esting program for the evening the curtain will rise on a sketch entitled the man next door following this will come a dialogue entitled the irishman and coon continuing a dancing specialty followed by a musical act in which mr hussa will introduce his famous one-string instrument the feature of the evening will be a poney ballet sketch entitled a bachelor's dream coached and staged by parke b fraim mr fraim has been untiring in his efforts to make it a success and the association is very deeply indebted to him in the ballet will be inclu ded a specialty dance entitled the pavlowa gavotte which will be danced by knight 18 and desa 18 this will be followed by a comic yiddish dialogue entitled no wedding bells for me a special ty toe dance by webb 16 will fol low a sketch the real mr g and a cinematograph especially se lected for the occasion will bring the performance to a close tickets for the performance may be procured at the orpheum thea tre or from the members of the as sociation who take part in the show in order that the sophomore co tillion dance may start as sched uled the management wishes to state that the curtain will rise promptly at 7.30 p m and all people arriving late will not be ad mitted until the conclusion of the first number electives a well-known school superinten dent who had chanced to look in on one of the lehigh evening school classes subsequently re marked that many an evening school supported by city or state is farther from the ideal than is our own for our teachers are the type of man who is pleased to serve without pay and our pupils are very glad to pay the small fee we charge this seems in many ways to secure the best sort of teacher and the best sort of pupil over one hundred pupils have enrolled in our lehigh evening school this year and there is ev ery prospect that after the christ mas vacation we shall start in with fresh vigor and with increased numbers it is true that many pu pils drop out ; but that is the case with all evening schools we have had fewer quitters enroll this year than ever before a class in machine design has been organized this year for the first time mr robert l spencer is instructor a class in principles of electricity is being organized un der mr samuel r schealer the foremen and mechanics for whom these courses are intended keenly appreciate the instruction they get when once they begin work but the task of getting them to begin is promethean the class in mechanical draw ing maintained last year by w f quast m e 14 and this year by p g dehuff m e 15 owes ev erything to the skill and reliability of these lehigh men and is a fac tor upon which depends the power of the evening school to develop its work along more advanced lines this class meets this year in will iams hall in christmas hall four nights of the week classes meet in the fol lowing subjects algebra geo metry arithmetic and english for foreigners the following lehigh men are the corps of instructors continued on third page the basketball season at lehigh was opened saturday by defeating the moravian college five 46 to 29 the game was played on the op ponents floor the lehigh team was greatly handicapped by the smallness of the court which at times made the game very rough a total of sixty-two fouls was com mitted by both teams making good floor-work almost impossible in the offensive work both teams missed a great number of shots that looked like easy goals brewster of lehigh showed the greatest skill in tossing the ball through the bas ket and in working the ball up the floor his long shots were the sen sation of the game brewster's to tal of goals from play amounted to eight captain fred green at guard easily proved the star on the defen sive repeatedly breaking up plays that would surely have netted goals for moravian he also shot the foul goals and while there is lots of room for improvement in this line he easily outdistanced shields of moravian the work of the opponents was good and fast but lehigh although light proved too swift for them previous to this game the mora vian college reserves defeated the young men's league second team 34 to 13 lehigh pos moravian brewster f turner dynan f shields crichton c kuehl green g wedman geyer g clewell goals from floor — brewster 8 crichton 3 dynan 2 green 2 gey er 1 turner 3 shields 1 kuehl 2 wedman 2 goals from fouls ■ — green 14 out of 23 shields 14 out of 34 ; turner 1 out of 4 ; kuehl 0 out of 1 substitutions : lehigh — mayers for brewster mueller for dynan ivey for mueller sanford for green richards for geyer mayer for richards y y moravian college — flath for wedman evans for flath referee — mitchell allentown y m c a time — two 20-minute halves the business ad ministration club miners meet b a and b s including bus ad men whose course for next term is elective or irregular are re quired to report to me their pro posed studies for next term on or before december 15th see regis ter page 32 the roster for the second term is built during the christmas recess and i must have the data called for by this notice promptly in order that i may systematize it for incor poration so far as possible without conflicts in the general roster robert w blake y m c a cahall second choice the december meeting of the chemical society was addressed in the chemistry lecture room on thursday evening by h s miner 88 chief chemist of the welsbach light c0 of gloucester city x j the lecture room was completely filled with students and a few of the faculty to hear mr miner's ad dress on gas mantles the speaker mentioned the fact that the elements used in the manu facture of gas mantles are the so called rare earths the name having been given to them when first dis covered but to the chemist this is merely a classification he stated that the ores from which cerium and thorium the elements now used in the industry are found in north and south carolina and brazil those deposits in the carolinas were worked until richer deposits were found in brazil and it is from this source that the world's supply now comes the method of min ing was described in detail and this was made very interesting by a large number of stereoptican views of the process the ore used is monazite con taining about 6 to 8 of thorium and cerium and this must necessa rily be concentrated before ship ping for this purpose the high specific gravity of the ore is taken advantage of for the first concen tration with water then a mag netic concentration follows after drying and the ore is ready to be shipped the development of the incan descent gas light was then taken up and traced down to the perfection of the one now manufactured the first incandescent gas light was in vented in 1801 by prof rowert hare of the university of penna it consisted of a piece of lime which was heated to incandescence by im pinging the flame of an oxy-hydro gen blow-pipe upon it next in 1826 followed the idea of soaking paper in lime and then burning the paper out leaving the film of lime which was introduced into the gas flame the idea proved to be of no great commercial value so in 1835 or 1836 the first commercial incan descent gas mantle was made by suspending a perforated platinum cone over a gas flame this how ever was not very practical as the platinum cost too much and would not last very long this use of platinum cones etc underwent a great many developments but all had the same weakness ; platinum w r as not the ideal material continued on third page the development in 1852 of the bunsen burner by professor bun sen gave a great impetus to the in candescent gas lighting industry closely following this an austrian chemist was doing some research work at the university of vienna on the rare earths the idea oc curred to him that if he soaked a piece of cloth with the salt of the element and then burned the cloth out he could study the spectrum when this was heated to incandes cence he made this into a cylin drical shape and it was entirely sat isfactory he found out however that if allowed to stand for a few days this material would crumble up and on investigation it was found that the material had slaked he then tried introducing certain substances to prevent the slaking and finally found that a mixture of lanthanum zerconium and cerium gave the required result this then was the composition of the first in candescent gas mantle made from in spite of the very bad weather dr w t s culp successfully en tertained a good attendance at the last meeting of the y m c a the subject he spoke on four-fourths of a man was necessarily con densed from his real lecture of the same name but he brought out clearly the main points according to dr culp all man kind is physically equal at birth and the superiority of some is due to outside influence such as environ ment education nutrition etc the public is doing a good bit to help the conditions of those who unfor tunately have not the best meansof improving themselves by providing continued on third page there will be a meeting of the mining and geological society on thursday evening december sev enteenth instead of wednesday as previously announced the speak er of the evening will be h p smith of the mining department his subject will be pyrite depos its of virginia the meeting will be held in the geology lecture room williams hall at 8 o'clock after the meeting refreshments will be served last thursday evening the de cember meeting of the mechanical society was held in williams hall and was largely attended by the students dr drinker and several members of the faculty were also present the speakers of the even ing were w f roberts m e 02 general superintendent of the bethlehem steel company and mr w j bailey a special student at the university mr roberts's talk the manu facture of ordnances was very instructive and of timely interest a large drawing giving in general the details of their regular 12-inch gun as supplied to the argentine government just recently accom panied the discussion the process of manufacture starts with the steel for the gun in the billet form the inside tube is first madhinied to size and the outside shells shrunk on in many cases there are four such shells the whole gun is machined and as a final operation the rifling is done on a specially constructed lathe with a long boring-bore this is a very important operation and on the carefulness in which this is clone depends the gun's accuracy in making one of these guns the final weight of 148,500 pounds is only 68 of the original weight of the material the projectiles for the larger guns must pass very rigid inspec tion as to their armor piercing qual ities from an allottment of 500 three are chosen two of these three must pierce a piece of armor of thickness equal its diameter this same armor in order to be ac cepted must resist puncture from this projectile the only difference being in that of 300 feet per second for the velocity of the projectile when it is being proven as com pared to that when the selfsame ar mor is being tested the projectiles are of crucible steel of special alloy the points are extremely hard and brittle while the body decreases in hardness from the point to a very tough and fi brous nature so as to give body to the projectile the armor plate is made of open hearth steel poured into sand moulds it is pressed hydraulically to 88 of its original volume ma chined and then the face case-hard ened the speaker also showed by il lustrations the make up of the timed fuse shrapnel as now being used also the modern disappear ing guns in the coast defense forti fications a complete equipment for an artillery company was also outlined following this talk everybody went below to the grille room where mr bailey with the aid of chalk sketches on the blackboard described as definitely as it was per mitted him the construction and working of a modern battleship he showed how the battleship differed in construction from an ocean liner a battleship is con structed with a double hull to meet the tremendous strain due to the waves on many of the ocean lin ers this feature is often omitted so a's to permit large cargo space the hull is built so that with the aid of doors electrically controlled from the bridge it can be made into a water-tight compartment in case of accident walter camp has picked cahall the stellar player of the 1914 le high football team for the position of right halfback in his choice for second ail-american team last thursday the business ad ministration club held a snappy lit tle meeting in coppee hall pro fessor stewart in an interesting talk entitled the development of the business school distinguished between a business college and a business administration course prof stewart gave an interest ing discussion on the rise of the business school saying in part that the wharton school of the university of pennsylvania was the first school of its kind in the united states joseph wharton donated 150 000 to the university to lay the foundations of the business school but the trustees were not kindly disposed toward this and used some of the money for other purposes the idea however began taking shape and to edwin j james the first professor of finance in the university pennsylvania owes much for the success of the ven ture the idea of schools for business is taken from the business schools of germany edwin j james was a product of one of these schools the brown and whit lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday december 15 1914 lehigh wins first game the lehigh evening school no 23 mechanicals hear w f roberts m e 02 vol xxii first annual varmy show h s miner b s 88 ad dresses chem society chief chemist of the welsbach light company speaks on gas mantles general superintendent of beth lehem steel company speak on manufacture of ordnances the brown and white basketball team cpens season with vic tory over moravian college mustard and cheese dramatic club presents variety show in lehigh grpheum school meets four nights of the week corps of instructors principally students score 46 to 29 novel program senior class meeting packer hall wednesday 1.30