Brown and White Vol. 22 no. 12

              gift of class of 1878 desmond out of game and prob ably cahall coaches to give new men a chance mr hazlett 78 chairman of committee mr cranmer supervised erection at a meeting of the drown hall house committee on wednesday afternoon the house rules and regulations for the year 1914-15 were discussed and passed upon new rules were added and for the most part the old rules were revis ed and improved an important new rule was that forbidding the placing of books and magazines up on the radiators where the covers are likely to be ruined by the heat the committee is especially desi rous that this ruling be observed as it will mean the adding of new and better covers than the ones now in use for the use of the students other business transacted was the agreement to the request of the mustard and cheese and minstrel organizations for the use of the va cant room on the first floor former ly used by the athletic association and the request of mrs h r rei ter and mrs buckner for the use of the top floor of the hall on tuesday evenings for holding fac ulty dancing classes new text by professor meschter mr fry new secretary of the as sociation at lehigh will give a short address jimmie patterson of pennsyl vania will be the speaker at the y m c a meeting on sunday even ing at 6.15 in drown hall jim mie is the present holder of the intercollegiate record of 9 4/5 for the hundred in addition he is pres ident of his class jimmie was unable to speak at the big y m c a reception last year due to his training for the intercollegiates hence he gladly accepted the invi tation to address the students at the meeting along with many other notable athletes at perm jimmie is en gaged in y m c a work it is customary for groups of them to attend various y m c a gather ings and address them all who heard jimmies friend mr hard wick speak last year will admit that these workers have some interesting experiences the students of le high might expect a very interesting speech from mr patterson who can draw largely from his own experi ences for his talk kathryn woile of west bethle hem will render a vocal solo few lehigh students of to-day know the history of the flag-pole which stands almost in the center of the campus this pole was given by the class of 1878 and was erected in 1909 mr hazlett 78 was chairman of the committee and mr cranmer supervised the erection the pole is of oregon pine and was brought by ship from oregon to new york city the freight rates to south bethlehem were found to be so excessive due to the pole covering several cars that it was decided to bring it here by wagon it took twelve horses two weeks to accomplish the journey the foundation is o<f concrete four feet thick this was built up around a wooden form just the size of the pole in the bottom a steel shoe was set to receive the pole on top of the concrete the three tiers of granite were set much care was exercised to keep the hole at the center plumb the center form was then removed and by means of a gin pole and guy ropes the huge pole was raised over the hole the fit was so tight that in order to be sure o>f the pole reaching the bot tom it was greased the bronze cap-ring was then bolted on com pleting the operation from the steel shoe to the bronze ring is seventeen feet the entire pole is eighty-five feet high the granite was furnished by howard stout of bethlehem and the bronze fittings by the roman bronze works of new york city after the erection the civil en gineering department took exten sive measurements and found the pole to be exactly plumb book by lehigh man the bethlehem printing compa ny has just published a very valua ble text for linguistic study it is an exact reprint of a drama entit l ed love's victory by william cham berlaine appearing in 1658 its ed itor is charles k meschter ph d of the department of english of lehigh university dr meschter says in his introduction : in edit ing love's victory it has been my purpose to reproduce as nearly as possible the original quarto the text of this edition is barring stage directions a line-for-line reprint . spelling capitalization ital ics pointing indentation and mis takes as well are copied as in the original professor george saints bury says in a work of his publish ed in 1905 : if that supplementary dodsley which has long been want ed should ever appear the piece love's victory should certainly find a place there besides an in troduction the edition contains notes lafayette game tickets h c wiiiteside ex-secretary lehigh y m c a the y m c a advisory board of lehigh university has appointed mr j m frey of the central y m c a of philadelphia to the po sition of general secretary of the y m c a mr frey has had a wide experience in y m c a work he will begin his time of service here on november ist variety show professor w s franklin has this week received from thomas sproule chairman of a committee of the national electric light as sociation a complimentary copy of the new handbook on overhead line construction there appears in the preface of this book the fol lowing statement : the compila tion of the data for this handbook has been carried out by the secre tary of the sub-committee mr n e funk of the philadelphia elec tric company to whom belongs the greatest share of the credit for what has been accomplished in the preparation of this work mr funk is a member of the class of 1905 this handbook contains 818 pa ges and it is really a very creditable compilation including a great many very important practical matters re lating to overhead line construction for many years all laws and reg ulations relating to manufactured gas were based on candlepower re quirements i c the gas burned in a definite burner at the rate of 5 cubic feet per hour was required to give a specified illumination of so many candlepower this specifica tion furnished a perfectly satisfac tory control of the quality of gas delivered so long as the gas was chiefly used for illuminating pur poses with the old style of open flame gas burner at the present time however this inefficient type of burner has been very largely dis placed by burners of the welsbach mantle type furthermore a large amount of the gas sold to-day is used for cooking purposes and to some extent for operating small gas engines for power purposes in these applications of gas it is the heating value that is of first impor tance and not the candlepower it has been estimated that less than 20 per cent of the gas manufactured and sold to-day indeed in many of our cities and towns less than 10 per cent is used in the old type of open-flame gas burners notwith standing this fact we still find in most of our cities and towns ordi nances on the statute books requi ring that the gas meet a definite candlepower test while no atten tion,'has been given to the question of heating value which is the im portant factor for over 80 per cent of the gas sold many of the can dlepower requirements fixed by law are quite high often requiring the manufacture of an expensive oil enriched gas which may not be the most economical gas to the public the importance of the heating val ue of the gas is now being quite generally recognized and where new legislation has been adopted recently and where public-service commissions have considered the question of gas regulation and have gotten to the point of issuing reg ulations the heating value standard is being generally adopted supple mented in some cases by a moder ate candlepower standard the lat ter with a view to affording the necessary protection to those who still use the open-flame burner in view of the growing impor tance of the question of heating values of gases from the manufac turing the legislative the inspect ing and the economic sides the bu reau of standards of the depart ment of commerce started several years ago an exhaustive investiga tion of the instruments widely used in this country and abroad to meas ure the heating values of gases with a view to determining the sources of error to which the instruments are liable the important precau tions to be observed in their use and the accuracy attainable with them this investigation has now been completed and the results will be published in a forthcoming-tech nologic paper reprints of which may be obtained by those interested in the subject by addressing a writ ten request to that bureau rifle club as a preliminary notice in regard to the sale of seats for the lafay ette football game the following in formation has been received from the athletic committee the above notice is subject to change but in such a case proper publicity of such changes will be given cheering section seats for stu dents will be on sale on the wed nesday following the perm state game that is november 11th at the taylor field ticket office at 2 p m such tickets can be obtain ed only upon presentation of regis tration cards and but one ticket per registration card at 1.50 per ticket will be available students desiring to bring friends may procure seats in the adjoining section on thurs day november 12th at the time and place mentioned above tickets will be put on general sale on tues day november 10th probably at metzger & young's drug store freshman reception after game to-morrow glee club practice xext saturday taylor field will be the scene of the first football game between johns hopkins and lehigh and is therefore the sub ject of much speculation very lit tle has been heard of the real strength of the hopkins team but it is not expected that much diffi culty will be met in defeating them as their record so far this season has not been exceptional last sat urday ithe maryland aggies defeat ed the hopkins team 14 to 0 while the week before hopkins came out ahead in a 16 to 13 score against stevens surprises however often occur and this season has been no exception the game will be unique in that it will be the first football game which lehigh has played with a southern institution in a long time the game with hopkins was the result of an agitation on the part of lehigh alumni in the south to have their alma mater play a southern team the hopkins team has put in the hardest week's work this season in preparation of this game which is their only game away from home and they expect to put up a stiff fight the team has been shifted around during the week in order to strengthen the offense and to cor rect the faulty play shown in the earlier games so that a compara tively new line-up may be presented on saturday the lehigh sick-list is steadily increasing the two latest additions being desmond and cahall the former has been removed to the hospital with typhoid while the lat ter is suffering from an injury to his ankle received last saturday and will probably not be recovered enough to take part in this week's game the other varsity men who also received injuries have recover ed enough to be on hand saturday grumbach's arm has healed to such an extent as to allow him to be out in uniform during the past week but he will hardly play in this game although this game is not looked upon with great importance coach keady has not spared any pains in bringing the team up to an official condition and scrimmages have been the order of the week several new plays have been learned which promise to show off to advantage many substitutions have been made during this week's practices and several new men will doubtless be given a chance in the game nu merals will be used on the lehigh players for the first time this year it is confidently expected that johns hopkins will be on the le high football schedule regularly in the future the relations between the two schools are most cordial the probable line-up for the game is as follows : — johns hopkins lehigh ewing 1-e green burrough l.t • • good tackson l.g ostrom primrose c scruggs woodward .... r.g . . becker wilkinson copt r.t . . richards a randall •• . . r.e sawtelle layfield . . q.b cahall or hallowell uhler . . l.h.b maginnes or mattern b randall . . . r.h.b hoban braniham f b halsted the first regular meeting of the rifle team was held on the range in packer hall on tuesday at 7.00 p m there were about twenty men reported for practice and among these there was some very promis ing material and the officers of the club are confident of having a good team to represent lehigh this year the meetings will be held regu larly every week on tuesday even ings at 7.00 o'clock on the range in packer hall the regular yearly reception ten dered by the wives of the faculty to the members of the freshman class will be held in drown mem orial hall saturday october 31st directly after the johns hopkins game the entire freshman class is urged to attend this function and meet the faculty and their wives the first try-out for the various dances quartets monologues and sketches which have been in prepa ration for the last two weeks will be held in drown hall next wed nesday afternoon president wie gsand announces that the show will be held on december 19th and in all probability in drown hall at the present time it is too early to state definitely of what the program will consist but there will be inclu ded a monologue or two a sketch singing by various quartets and a pony ballet the last named is caus ing a lot of interest under the di rection of mr fraim the candi dates are daily being initiated into the art of ballet dancing in the gym nasium from the present pros pects mr fraim will be able to pick out a ballet which will consist of six or eight men who will be able to render a very creditable exhibi tion of dancing the following men have reported : price weaver desa spies knight clark dubbs lambert shartle levy mayers lewis rigg and fenstermacher glee club practice was held in ! drown hall on wednesday after i noon and evening the practice in j the afternoon was conducted by a | v bodine in the evening by mr i shields the usual number of stu dents reported for practice the brown and white bethlehem pa friday october 30 1914 lehigh university drown hall house committee meets committee draws up rules and regulations for ensuing year history of flag pole xo 12 vol xxii johns hopkins here tomorrow investigation of heating values of gases by govern ment patterson to speak industrial gas calorimetry results shipped from oregon erected here in 1909 eighty-five feet in height showing made by southern team to date not of exceptional character jimmie patterson track man pres of senior class and y m c a at u of p here sunday addresses y m c a first time on schedule