Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 49

              life in the rockies the electrical and mining engi neering societies will hold their april meetings this week thurs day evening the miners will as semble in williams hall while fri in illustrated lecture gives many camp life phases of the geologists tific management as applied to munition plants a v bodine ls talks on scien p h drinker president o r rice vice=pres dr h m ljllmann faculty adviser day the electricals will come to gether in the physics lecture room at both meets refresh ments will be served the april meeting of the elec trical engineering society will be held in the physics lecture room friday evening at 8 o'clock mr scott lynn district manager of the rochester new york office of the sangarno electric company will speak on mercury motor watt-hour meter a student paper on gas turbines will be presented by d r brobst 17 the mining and geological so ciety will hold its monthly meeting thursday evening at 8 o'clock in williams hall it will be an im portant meeting for besides the excellent program arranged for a business meeting will preceed the regular meeting and the elections for next year's officers will be made professor moore of perm state will speak on the mining situa tion in india and australia and g s borden 17 will give an ac count of his adventures in grass valley from which he recently returned civils to hold important meeting the civil engineering society will hold its regular monthly meet ing for april tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the physics lecture room the chief speaker of the evening will be mr r j wysor of the bethlehem steel company who has charge of the blast furnaces of the works he will speak on the sub ject of blast furnaces l b ryon 17 has prepared a paper on sea level canal across new jersey ' ' important business will be trans acted at this meeting nominations of officers for 1916-17 will take place attendance at chapel the records of attendance at chapel exercises and at college lec tures for the months of february and march are now posted on the main bulletin board in packer hall unless corrections are re ported at the office of the registrar within ten days these grades will stand it is pointed out that chapel and college lecture grades are reckoned in the final averages of students a grade of a may be obtained by attendance at chapel sixty per cent of the total number of times possible to attend college lecture a meeting of the athletic asso ciation was held last thursday for winning their respective weights in the intercollegiate wrestling meet in 1915 s martin 125 pounds and c h thomas 145 pounds were awarded large l's the following men were awarded large l's for winning their event in the middle atlantic inter scholastic track meet at haverford last spring j burke 16 for cap turing the 880-yard run p mc grath for winning the mile and p s hanway for winning the quarter mile wrestling letters were awarded to g w kehrer manager cap tain e l kirkhuff s martin c a hiss c r parrish c j..shaf fer l m levin and s b scruggs l a a.'s in wrestling were awarded to r w mccullough h dayton e l jenness and d h ketcham cheerleaders report w t lee of the u s geologi cal survey last friday morning de livered a lecture in the chapel on ' ' camp life of a geologist in the rocky mountains he supple mented his talk with many slides taken while on trips through that region and pointed out the dangers of the geologist's life in his efforts to chain the forces of nature for man's benefit the geologist is privileged to view many scenic wonders which the traveler cannot enjoy often he finds himself entirely out of touch with civilization and it is then that he sees much of real beau ty now in the snow-capped cor dilleras now in the jungles of the south again in the east but more often in the west it is here that he gets a new vigor in his body and a new stimulus to his mind there is something about high heights which fills one with awe when one stands upon a high peak and looks over the broad expanse of rugged territory lie is filled with reverence it is not infrequent that hardy mountaineers stand with bared heads in reverence viewing god's handiwork the huge mountains and can yons are the west s best offerings in landscape scenery the traveler thinks they are wonderful but to the geologist they have lost much of their beauty it is not a pleas ant experience to spend hours climbing 2000 feet to find an im passable cliff the dangers to which the geolo gist is subjected are numerous when climbing up a cliff which is covered with fragmented rock if he makes a misstep the entire slope may shift carrying with it thou sands of tons of rock the man who is unable to step carefully and slips may meet with serious disaster climbing a high smooth canyon is extremely dangerous for though fragments of rock are not met with yet it is almost impossible to ascend these steep smooth sheets of origi nal rock the rocks of the grand canyon are of the original strata laid down by the creator but interest centers in the plains and valleys of northern new mexi co it is here that the geologist camps out under the star-spangled clouds as his only cover the sun sets of this region are unrivalled the flowers are beautiful but it is better to look upon them for they are of the cactus type the cactus plant serves as a safe harbor for the birds in which to build their homes safe from all attack the daily life of the geologist calls him from repose long before his eastern friends have begun to rub their eyes early the pack train is on its way across the plain to meet now with a narrow gorge which must be passed around and now with a swollen stream which must be forded when a spring is reached the party usually will stop for lunch the purity of the water is no test of its value for after sev eral strainings it is passed around so strong with coffee that it cannot be tasted continued on third page all members of the junior class who desire to try out for cheer leaders are asked to report to o l carlson at the cornell lacrosse game on taylor feld tomorrow afternoon lehigh also has six veterans left from last year coach grimes has been able to build up a good de fense with the material although the attack is not so strong there has been no definite arrangement of the men this year and the line up is still a matter of much un certainty however o'brien will probably be at goal walther point ; capt green cover point ; kennedy first defense ; zollinger second defense sexton third de fense ; jenness center ; greer third attack snyder second attack barclay first attack mayers out home and wait in home last thursday cornell met the navy lacrosse team in the first game of the southern trip and was defeated by the score of 5-1 they come here with the advantage of having played one game but the weather at ithaca has only per mitted three out-door practices of the team picked six were on the varsity last year spiegelberg hart collins shock garginolo and graham with these as a nucleus coach hunter has built a strong team but one that through lack of practice has been hindered from developing the men who will represent cornell are goal quin point spiegelberg cover point hart first defense black man ; second 1 defense ingalls ; third defense drescher center collins third attack palmer second at tack taylor first attack schock outside home garginly inside home graham this game is also the first for the intercollegiate title the brown and white lacrosse team will play the opening game of this season tomorrow with cornell on taylor field the weather per mitting the lateness of the season has offered a setback to both teams in the matter of out-door practice but both coach grimes of lehigh and coach hunter of cornell have expressed their confi dence in the outcome of the game and every indication points to a hotly contested match letters awarded at association meeting the regular monthly meeting of the mechanical engineering so ciety was held last thursday even ing april 6 at the residence 1 of dr h s drinker two interesting talks were delivered the first speaker was lieutenant e p finney of the united states navy and at present stationed at the bethlehem steel works to oversee the guns and armor plate being made for the government the organization of the battle ship was the subject of his talk mr a v bodine m.e 15 who is now connected with the winchester repeating arms co new haven conn was the second speaker his talk dealt with scientific manage ment a subject upon which he was well prepared to speak since it is the line of work in which he is now engaged the svbstance of lieut finney s talk was as follows : the battleship is the most im portant unit in the fleet its or ganizationi represents one of the highest types of scientific manage ment the ruling officer is of course the captain who has supreme authority to carry out his orders there is next the execu tive officer who really acts as gen eral manager of the ship the rest of the men on board are grouped under various divisions the navi gation department ordnance and gunnery department medical and supply department and the engi neering department all the enlisted men are di vided into two divisions the deck force whose duty is to take charge of the fighting and the engineering force who have charge of the run ning of the ship as organization is based on efficiency in battle there must be plenty of men to handle the guns as well as to run the en gines boilers etc hence the deck force is separated into divisions each of which has charge of a cer tain turret or number of guns every one of these divisions has its own commanding officer and he is responsible for everything done by the turret which he is commanding ' ' the most valuable and instruc tive duty of the ship is target prac tice problems of actual battle are always used and manouvering is done the same as in actual fighting the targets are usually at a dis tance of 20,000 yards from the ship they are set upright on rafts and are 50 feet wide and 30 feet high the difficulty is of course in getting the range no accurate range finder has as yet been in vented although several have been used with little success the most practical method is to get the ap proximate range and correct it by noting the fall of the shot continued on second page ' ' in target practice 1 , organization shows up in the highest degree the crew of each gun must be ex perts and the men who control the turning of the turrets must be ab solutely sure in their work now in battle all the turrets must be fired together this requires 1 abso lute team work to even a greater extent than in football a lecture on hunting big game in alaska without a gun will be given in the university chapel on friday morning april 14 at 11 o'clock by h w dußois 92 consulting mining engineer mr dußois was the center attrac tion at the pittsburgh lehigh club's meeting held recently the attendance of all students is re quired on thursday evening april 6 the chemical society convened for its regular monthly meeting in saucon hall the meeting began with a short business session of ficers for next year were unani mously elected as follows presi dent p h drinker vice-presi dent 0 r rice secretary l g mudige treasurer j b schwoyer ; faculty advisor dr h m ull mann following the elections the members were addrressed by two student speakers on subjects of in terest the first paper was delivered by w h koch 16 on the subject of therapeutics the object of this paper mr koch began is to present a few of the uses and ef fects of some of the ordinary chemicals and elements let us first consider hydrogen peroxide ' ' hydrogen peroxide is used both internally and externally exter nally it whitens the skin or mucous membrane and excites a pricking sensation and induces a slight de gree of inflammation in delicate structures such as the membrane which covers the external surface of the ball of the eye and inner surface of the lids added to pus much gas is given off the mixture becomes turbid with white flocculi and many of the corpuscles shrink or are destroyed when applied to abrasions covered with pus or blood it forms a thin layer of co agulated albumen used internally it is reputed to be a disinfectant and a slight stimulant the next substance considered was sulphur ' ' when dusted on the skin sulphur produces no effect but mixed with lard or other unctu ous substances and rubbed it ex cites a slight degree of inflamma tion it is used for the cure of skin diseases to destroy the bacteria it has no taste being entirely insolu ble in the fluids of the mouth and undergoes no change in the stom ach it does not attack the mucous membrane of the latter organ some sulphur is necessary for the health of the digestive tract but a too prolonged use excites a ca tarrhal state of the mucous mem brane and impairs digestion some sulphur is changed into sulphides by the action of alkalis in the bile and by virtue of this change is en abled to re-enter the blood its ac tion on the physical or chemical constitution of the blood however is not known chlorine — this gas is used as a disinfectant antiseptic and deoror izer this action depends upon its power to destroy the organisms pro ducing putrefaction it destroys ammonia and hydrogen sulphide which create disagreeable odors in the sick room continued on fifth pagi ' ' lodineipossessespowerf ill chemi cal affinities it is volatile and readily penetrates the animal text ures it is applied to the skin for a variety of purposes a strong so lution is frequently used as a rabe facient and counter irritant pro ducing at first a sensation r heat and burning which may increase to an unendurable extent the in no 4s the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday april 11 1916 electricals and miners meets this week chemists hear student papers geologist takes many chances lacrosse season to open with cornell vol xxiii mechanicals hold monthly meet monthly meetings of societies to hear good addresses student papers lehigh's team will have six veteran members prob able line=ups therapeutics by w li koch 16 " history of by=product coke by l g mudge,'l6 w t lee of u s geological survey points out dangers which are met by men lieutenant e p finney u.s.n speaks on the organization of the battleship officers elected alumnus speaks