Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 46

              the collection consists of old guns swords and other implements of warfare dating from the stone age up to the present time there are over 70 pieces in the collection and as soon as they can be ar ranged in order and classified 1 , they will be put on exhibition in the cen tral room of the library the collection is a miscellaneous one ranging in age from a piece of antler used by a cave man for a dagger to the epaulets of a cavalry officer in the civil war among other objects worthy of special at tention are blunderbusses and dec orated toledo blades from ancient spain ; bolo knives and krises from the philippines flint-locks and horse pistols of the old colonial days a standard from battery a-2 preserved from the civil war and a curious old cell lock from a noted american prison many of the ar ticles show step by step the evolu tion of the modern type this ap plies especially to the line of re volvers one variety of which shows the first type of automatic ejector and another how the idea of revolv ing barrel was originated the collection covers practically the whole of the globe france spain india germany america borneo japan and china are rep resented junior class to hold third annual banquet the speaker for the regular sun day evening meeting of the y m c a will be mr timothy healy of new york city the speaker is at present the coroner of the city of new york and holds the office of international president of the brotherhood of stationary fire men mr healy or as he is known to the majority of people tim healy has gained a considerable reputation for being a remarkable speaker and the y m 0 a is for tunate in securing him to address the students one of mr healy s strongest speeches is on the sub ject of the labor man's point of view indeed this topic has be come as familiar as russell con well a ' ' acres of diamonds ' ' the speaker is a man of considerable importance in new york city and is well known not only by his abil ity as a speaker but also by virtue of his prominence and influence in the legal and business worlds the music for the evening will be fs 3hod b miss grace schu mann soprano soloist and a treat is promised the third of a series of five dis cussion meetings on students in asia will be held this evening at 7.15 o'clock in the y m c a study room student conditions in japan will be the subject of the discus sion it will be led by rev james robinson who has also been con ducting the previous meetings the topics discussed at these meetings are of unusual interest and of high intellectual value they are discussed under able leadership and numerous questions are cleared up which arise during the meeting freshman basketball team wins group will hold next discussion at meeting to be held this evening the members of the deutscher yerein were the guests of professor palmer at his home on the campus last wednesday night in the business meeting which preceded the social part of the pro gram several important matters were finally settled previous plans to admit sophomores to the club were discussed but general senti ment favored limiting membership to juniors and seniors only who have completed a two-year course in the german language m b messinger 17 and g mc kinley 17 were elected to fill present vacancies among the junior members f g stritzinger 16 who was president of theverein,has left college for the remainder of the year an election to his office was held and ellis brodstein 16 was chosen as his successor old german volkslieder by the whole club opened the social and literary session professor palmer then followed with mark twain's essay on the german language this humorous writing filled throughout with side-splitting descriptions and de livered in prof palmer's unique style was easily the feature of the evening the musical talent of the club was much in evidence aus der alien zeit " a composition of ivierc dith 16 was rendered with ease and charm by brodstein 16 on the violin accompanied by mere dith at the piano their second se lection was a graceful little bit of music entitled waltz song com posed 1 by brodstein both brod stein and meredith are skillful mu sicians on a variety of instruments and have a number of original com positions to their credit c h cope 16 sang two bass solos he chose as his numbers an old sea song and the english ver sion of the german drinking song 1m tiefen keller setz ich hier mr cope has a pleasing voice with a very wide range prof c s fox head of the french department closed the mu sical program by giving an imita tion of a frenchman demonstrat ing his method of playing on the piano a song entitled ' ' the sahara desert his take-off a combina tion of monologue and piano play ing was extremely well done an excellent luncheon completed the program story telling in the german lan guage and also in the famous pennsylvania dutch was an added feature j m rapoport 17 de serves credit for the most original humorous and well-told tales in the latter tongue mining meet note lehigh s soccer team will play tomorrow afternoon the biggest and most important game in its history when it meets the aggregation from the university of pennsylvania the game will be called promptly at three o'clock on the result of this game hinges the championship of the pennsyl vania intercollegiate league the excellent form shown two weeks ago against lafayette is a source of much hope and strongly increases the brown and white's chances for capturing the flag daily practice had been held on the soccer field until the rainy weather necessitated moving the field of operations to the athletic cage which means something of a handicap to the men at present the team is in fair shape it is hoped that the men on probation will be freed in time for this game as their absence is strongly felt pennsylvania comes here with an excellent reputation and a con tingent uf players that brougiit home the bacon from some of the best teams in the east the team that opposed lehigh in the previ ous game has been succeeded by the regular varsity on the line-up of which are found two of the best soccer men in eastern college ranks they are nassau and montenegro who play respectively at inside right and outside right the phil adelphians ought to be in fighting trim as they indulge in hard prac tice every day and have been play ing on regular schedule since the opening of the season coach lawson expresses himself on the game as follows i can see no reason why we should not win after the fine work shown in the la fayette game on goalkeeper rau who starred in this game will de pend greatly the result on satur day i would like to see a numer ous turnout of students as we shall need plenty of rooting we will have a large crowd of townspeople and these with a big group of stu dents can give us all kinds of mor al support the probable line-up follows : rau goalkeeper coffin right full back morrisson left fullback tiz ard left halfback barclay center halfback shockley right halfback clement outside left claxton in side left henderson center for word gorisse inside right lewis outside right the junior class will hold its third annual banquet in the cafe room of the hotel allen allen town this evening at eight o'clock the arrangements as completed by the committee will include speeches by members of the faculty and an alumnus as well as several talks by members of the class pro fessor john l stewart prof h r reiter and mr w f roberts 02 will speak the members of the class who will respond to toasts are : w s smith the city a quist impressions of lehigh s fishburn our friends the faculty l j breen the class a future a bach jr auf der deutsch the menu will be : small oysters on half shell celery cream of chicken olives radishes baked fresh shad butter sauce sherbet roast maryland turkey candied sweet potatoes peas stewed corn green salad egg sauce neapolitan ice cream french cakes assorted i roquefort cheese toasted wafers cafe noir cigars cigarettes class day committee last wednesday evening the freshmen basketball team defeated the bangor apollos 35 to 27 the game was a snappy one at the end of the first of the twenty-min ute periods the freshmen w t ere leading 22 to 18 while during the second half they scored four points more than the home team for le high burgess was easily the star the line-up : bangor a positions freshmen hellow forward . . kennedy houck forward barrett i hoffman guard melville jackson guard burgess pearlman .... center thomas field goals freshmen — kenne dy 3 barrett 7 melville 2 thomas 3 burgess 1 ; apollos — hoffman 6 houck 2 hellow 2 butler 1 foul goals : thomas 2 out of 6 ; melville 1 ; hoffman 2 out of 5 ; houck 1 out of 2 ; jackson 4 out of 8 the next meeting of the mining engineering society will be held april 13 professor moores of perm state will speak on the ' ' geology of new zealand and the east indies as a sort of return compliment dr miller of the le high department of geology will speak at perm state shortly after words the 1916 class day committee has been appointed by president wynne the committee is h p keiser chairman ; l h lancaster e l kirkhuff l g stem and a e fleming alumni visitor prom committee ball game cancelled new fraternity house on campus during the last ten days ground was broken in sayre park for the erection of a new fraternity house directly west of the alpha tau omega house on the park drive is the site of the chi psi building when completed the building will accommodate twenty four men and the members expect to move into it at the beginning of the fall term floyd c flory 8.a 09 super vising principal of the sharpsburg schools was a visitor at the univer sity during the week the baseball gapae which was scheduled to be played with the new york university nine tomor row afternoon has been cancelled due to the poor condition of the diamond tomorrow at 1.30 p m there will be a meeting of the junior prom committee at the theta delta chi house the monthly meeting of the electrical engineering society was held at the residence of dr drinker last evening the princi pal speaker of the evening was prof j w richards who spoke on the workings of the naval advisory board dr richards presented a few interesting facts and showed how the board would be able to do much for the ad vancement ot the navy j x . wentz 17 presented a student paper on the multi-unit control of railway motors mr wentz in his paper said by unit-control we mean the operation of two or more motor cars each propelled by its indi vidual motors from any master controller in the train ' ' the uniform acceleration of the train is accomplished by different arrangements of the connectionsi between the motors in changing from one set of connections to an other the motor circuits must be broken and since they carry very large currents the switching ap paratus is very bulky ■ ' it was in order to eliminate the danger and waste of carrying these heavy currents from car to car and having them close to the operator that the system in use on electrified railroads today was brought out the latest method of effecting this remote control is the hl unit switch type of the westinghouse company it consists of a low voltage small current system which operates the different pieces of ap paratus which carry the heavy motor currents the main parts in this system are : the master con troller the unit switch and the magnet valve to explain the operation of the whole system i will begin with the magnet valve this is an electro magnetic device for controlling the compressed air which operates the unfit switch the electro-magnet is enclosed in a cast iron box through the center of the core of this magnet runs an operating pin which carries an armature at its upper end the lower end is turned to form two valves when there is no current flowing through the coil the spring holds the armature up the lower valve thus closes the in let to the unit switch cylinder and the upper one opens the outlet from it when by turning the master controller the coil is connected to the direct current supply the armature is drawn down against the force of the spring the inlet to the unit switch cylinder is opened and the exhaust port is closed the operation of this valve is extremely simple and the moving parts are not complicated so the first re quirement of uniform service is fulfilled the second of the master con troller circuit is the unit switch this is the switch which carries the heavy motor currents it is opened and closed by a vertical rod this rod carries a piston at its lower end which fits air tight into a cast iron cylinder when the rod is down as far as it will go that is continued on second page the brown and white vol xxiii lehigh university bethlehem pa friday march 31 1916 antique collection for exhibition electricals hold monthly meet important soccer game tomorrow no 46 prof palmer enter tains deutsher verein y.m.c.a to hear coroner healy german songs and stories by various members feature interesting program new york city's coroner will be speaker at the sunday evening meeting seventy warfare implements placed in university library by mrs w l estes dr drinker entertains society at his home short talk by prof j w richards lehigh to play univ of pennsyl vania for state intercollegiate championship title evenly matched mrs w l estes wife of dr estes jr consulting physician of the university recently placed in the university library a unique collection of antiques for exhibi j tion student paper students in asia visitors represented by varsity brown and white team ready for contest j f wentz 17 reads paper on " multi=unit control of railway motors "