Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 16

              big demand for lafay ette game tickets miners meet lehigh team somewhat crippled and will present patched line=up visitors strong held indians 0 to 0 and lost to state by oniy 14 points regulars injured tomorrow afternoon lehigh meets lebanon valley on taylor j field the game will prove par ticularly interesting from two viewpoints namely that of the strength of the lebanon valley eleven and in that it will show the condition of the team just previous to the lafayette game the strength of the lebanon valley team may be surmised by comparative scores on october 25 they battled the carlisle in dians to a scoreless tie and one week later perm state defeated them by only 14 points perhaps a better and more recent comparison may be drawn from last saturday's game with muhlenberg who con quered the up-state college by a 10 9 score during the past w^eek lehigh s practices have been driving scrim mages a preliminary to a light week's work before the lafayette game the team is in good condi tion physically with the exception of a few minor iiij ires received in the recent state game the regu lar varsity line-up will in ail probability be seen in action on saturday with the exception of green and sawtelle who were in jured last friday the probable line-up for lehigh is bigelow 1 c ; tate 1 t ; grum bach 1 g ; scruggs c ; ostrum r g ; richards r t ; becker r c ; cahall q b ; heuer 1 h b ; keady r h b ; maginnes f b the demand for seats for the le high-lafayette game on november 20 has been unprecedented ap plications for seats from the alumni and students are now being filled from section j in the south west corner of the stadium practi cally all seats in the north and south stands having been sold on wednesday the remaining seats in section j were put on general sale at metzger & young's drug store in south bethlehem at the same time 312 seats in sec tion x were put on general sale at the quality shop in bethlehem 312 seats in section l at peters drug store in allentown and 534 seats at odenwalder's drug store in easton all tickets cost 1.50 the lehigh cheering section will be in sections g and ii in the south stands the lafayette cheer ing section will be in sections w and x in the north stands it is not certain whether stands will be erected back of the east goal as was done two years ago if necessary this space will probably be filled up with temporary wooden stands third of series held at fourteen fraternity houses and dormi tory sections on wednesday evening novem ber 10 the third of the series of discussion meetings inaugurated by the y m c a were held in four teen of the fraternity houses and dormitory sections owing to various inconveniences five of the fraternities were forced to postpone their meetings for a week following is a list of the fraternities and dormitories that held discussions and the leaders of each meeting and the subject dis â–  cussed : delta phi wm estes jr spoke on ' ' hygiene ' ' alpha tan omega prof eck ; f eldt on readjustments at col lege phi gamma delta prof hall on readjustments at college theta delta chi : prof stewart on ' ' student conditions ' ' delta upsilon : rev mr byron on the expense account phi delta theta : mr wyant on ' ' student standards of action ' ' delta tan delta : prof palmer on great religions of other peoples phi sigma kappa : rev mr kent on gambling and betting die alte brauerei : prof rej nolds on spending money in col lege prof blake visited the beta theta pi men prof fox sec tion a prof irwin section b ; " prof fuller section d rev mr thaeler section e shooting to qualify for inter collegiate gallery champion ship match the university rifle club lias not started in practicing for the coming season as yet but three men w s smith 17 l sargeant 18 and j a holmes 18 are shooting to qualify for the inter | collegiate gallery championship match conducted by the national rifle association of america the match will be shot on the local ranges of the various teams entering and at a time fixed by the executive committee the ar rangement is to have each team fire one match with every other team in its class of which there will be two or more and with not more than twelve clubs to a class the entries for this gallery championship match will close december first therefore there is ample time for other candidates to come out each team entering into the match can consist of any number of men up to ten the best five scores counting for the team score the entrance fee is five dollars per team and the prize to the winning team in any class making the high est aggregate score of all matches will be the championship trophy and silver medals to the individual members of the team the cham pionship trophy is a large plaque appropriately decorated in silver there is a special prize which has been donated by two fo^2i>ex members of the columbia univer sity rifle team this prize is a bronze figure and will be presented to the non-military college making the best record in the matches this trophy howver will remain in competition for ten years and will then become the property of the college winning it the greatest number of times in that period the method of determining the winning team in each class will be by the greatest aggregate score the following is a list of colleges and universities in the vicinity of lehigh having rifle clubs affiliated with the national rifle association of america : yale george washington u of maine johns hopkins u s naval academy harvard massachusetts institute of technology dart mouth princeton cornell lehigh pennsylvania state u of pennsyl vania and u of vermont at present the lehigh univer sity rifle club is trying to get per mission to use the national range at allentown which is much better than the one in packer hall now used by the club the november meeting of the mining and geological society will be held in williams hall on wed nesday evening november 17 be ginning at 8 p m sharp mr p g pyne 06 refinery superintendent of the u s metals refining company's plant at chrome n j has consented to come to south bethlehem especi ally for this meeting and will de liver a talk on ore sampling mr pyne is an enthusiastic le high alumnus and it is especially urged that all the students in the courses of mining metallurgy and geology attend this meeting as this subject is one of vital im portance an invitation is issued to all others who are interested violin recital in chapel special cheering practice philadelphia lehigh alumni continued on third page student papers by c e paules,'l6 and r g cook l7 on hydro electric plants hydraulic turbine e u gibbs 90 illustrates talk on development of hydraulic turbine the civil engineering society held its second meeting of the col legiate year last night in the physics lecture room three papers were presented at this meet ing one by a graduate and two by undergraduates mr e 11 gibbs 90 presented a talk on the subject of the general development of hydraulic turbine in america this talk was illustrated with lantern slides taken at the s morgan smith com pany of york pa manufacturers of hydraulic appliances mr gibbs traced the develop ment of the hydraulic turbine in america from its initial stage to the modern day type tie dis cussed the details of the working of a turbine and showed its mairy forms and manners of application c e paules 16 read his sum mer inspection report on the mccall's ferry hydro-electric plant ' ' the paper in part follows : the mccall's ferry or holt wood hydro-electric plant is lo cated on the susquehanna river 25 miles above the point where it discharges into chesapeake bay it is within an economical trans mission distance of 70 miles of several of the largest cities of penn sylvania delaware and maryland the primary purpose of the plant was to supply power for the city of baltimore the dam and buildings are all constructed of concrete the dam 2350 feet long is built entirely as a spillway section the average height is 53 ft ; base width 65 ft a lake 8 miles long with a maxi mum width of 4,000 ft is formed back of the dam the power house 500 ft long stands on the eastern or lancaster shore it makes an angle of 42 de grees with the face of the dam the generator room is 48 ft wide on its inner side is the gate house and on its outer side is the transformer house the forebay is divided from the river on its upper side by a rock embankment on its outer side is a series of submerged arches and a number of log booms between the power house and the shore is an ice-spillway and a fishway the tail race 3000 ft long runs along the lancaster shore the plant was originally de signed for ten 13,500 h p turbines the first five units installed were of that size but units six seven and eight have a capacity of 17.500 h p no change in the pits was necessary to install these larger units the last two have not yet been in stalled the total capacity of the plant is now 120.000 h p and when i completed will be 155.000 h p the turbines have two wheels on a single shaft the weight being sup ported in some by roller and in others by thrust-bearings each of the first three generators are of 7.500 kw capacity the re mainder 10,000 kw they are wound for 3-phase 11,000 volts 25 cycle current field current is supplied by two 1,000 h p water a violin recital was given last night in packer church by mr frank miller of bethlehem ac companied by mr t e shields the university organist mr miller was a pupil of hahn the master of very brilliant technique it was very informal it being open to all those who wished to attend among the selections rendered were rondina beethoven litany schubert sonata for violin vivaldi reverie coombs jersey club smoker a banquet of the brown and white board and all candidates for the board will be held next wednesday night at the hotel allen allentown at 9 oclock brown and white banquet the november number of the philadelphia leliigh club neivs sounds the alarm to all lehigh men to assemble for the annual lehigh lafayette shore dinner to be held this evening at 6.30 at bookbind er's walnut street the club in vites its members to b)eat as you have never b)eaten before with the slogan beat lafayette four straight the committee consists of r s perry 88 r h morris 89 e t murphy 01 j s wharton 09 p drayton 92 and m bernstein 96 the few remaining cheering practices will be held expressly for the coming lehigh-lafayette game the students will meet in packer hall next tuesday and thursday at the regular hour and will march to the field the band will be pres ent and several new songs will be tried the new jersey club will hold a smoker in drown hall tonight at 7.30 there will be eats and smokes and all new jersey nien are cordially invited and urged to attend rare volumes from libraries of monarchs princes and famous collectors ancient and modern work history of bookbinding demon strated to creations of modern craftsmen an exhibition of ancient and modern bookbinding began last wednesday in the university li brary and will continue daily from 11 a m to 6 p m until november 20th the exhibition is given under the supedvision of mr george m cassidy of new york city a dealer in every art and craft con nected with literature the history of bookbinding is demonstrated through the suc cessive periods to the creations of the modern european craftsmen rare volumes from the libraries of monarchs princes and world famous collectors are interesting features bindings inlaid in various colored leathers happy examples of symbolism the whole feeling and character both of the designs and the bindings being in complete harmony with the subjects of the books are included in the exhibit another feature are the unique c;pecimer>s done in tortoise-shell and fish-skin and relics in needle work richly embroidered in colored silks and silver and gold threads worked by the nuns the bindings on exhibition have been selected to illustrate the his tory of bookbinding from prior ages to the invention of printing there is an interesting and un common example of fourteenth century work a binding of oak boards covered with leather con taining a religious manuscript on vellum inside the covers of the bindings are revealed the leather bands for fixing the boards in pairs the fifteenth century is repre sented by no less than seven ex amples some of which are especi ally strong and three of which are monastic bindings of solid oak boards and stamped leather the next group shown is the six teenth century and this shows the evolution from the oak boards to the finest gold tooled examples there is however one specimen of monastic binding of the sixteenth century the work having been done in a dutch monastery and is in oak and stamped leather of the richly tooled specimens made for wealthy patrons there is quite a remarkable collection of genuine grolier bindings it was this great collection that brought the french school of binding to the front other examples of the six teenth century of great interest are also to be seen the seventeenth century group ! contains two examples from the ' library of king james i bound es pecially for him and has his arms in gold on the sides a large bible in english of blue morocco bind ing elaborately gold tooled has the arms of the earl of ashburnham on its sides a copy of virgil bound for the french king louis j xiv ; an english embroidery bind ing of the period of king charles i bound by the nuns of little gid ding and two presentation copies from king charles ii also are continued on second page the brown and whiter lehigh university bethlehem pa friday november 12 1915 october meeting of civil society vol xxiii y m c a groups for discussion lebanon valley game tomorrow rifle club to start practice bookbinding exhibition no 16