Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 10

              miners and geologists start year with a big meeting in williams hall faculty speakers dr j w richards and mr j s irwin address the society the basketball schedule for the season of 1915-1916 arranged by manager f c hummel 16 con sists of eighteen games half of which will be played in taylor gym the schedule follows tues dec 7 — moravian college bethlehem sat dec 11 — yillanova home sat dec 18 — univ of rochester rochester sat jan 8 — army west point wed jan 12 — lafayette easton sat jan 15 — muhlenberg home wed jan 19 — temple universi ty home sat jan 29 — catholic university washington wed feb 2 — univ of rochester home sat feb 5 — union college sche nectady wed feb 9 univ of pitts burgh home wed feb 16 — catholic univer sity home sat feb 19 state college state college mon feb 21 univ of pitts burgh pittsburgh tues feb 22 — carnegie tech pittsburgh sat feb 26 — swarthmore home wed mar 1 — lafayette home sat mar 4 — perm state home annual fall show to be given december 18th m j ben ner to act as coach the mustard and cheese dram atic association held a meeting in drown hall on wednesday octo ber 20th for the purpose of mak ing definite arrangements for the variety show which is to be given on december 18th the club has been very fortunate in securing the cooperation of mr joseph benner a special student in the arts department mr benner has been closely connected with the professional stage in both managing and acting and his experience will be of great a r alue in producing a creditable performance mr benner gave a short talk to the men on the possibilities of the dub the secret of the success of any amateur performance is the professional touch which is so of ten lacking he said if by dint of sufficient rehearsals and proper coaching this professional atmos phere can be given to the produc tions the club will soon find its standard raised greatly and its fi nancial conditions materially bet tered there is no earthly reason why the mustard and cheese should not rank as high as any college dra matic association several of the men had already arranged acts for the program it was decided that the best way to approve these sketches was to sub mit them to ; public criticism ac cordingly the try-outs will be held before the entire society whose choice will decisively select the best acts there were a number of other men with ambitions for a place on the program who had not yet ar ranged acts it was therefore de cided to select the talent from this material by a try-out on wednesday afternoon october 27th the try outs for those having acts prepared will be held a week later thus giv ing the men time to whip their per formances into shape thereafter rehearsals will be held three times a week until the show about thirty candidates reported at the meeting northeastern pennsyl vania lehigh club lehigh and muhlenberg meet on saturday in their annual contest on taylor field and from all indica tions the game will be a hard-fought one with the chances about even for either team members of neither team feel sanguine as to the result of the game and for that reason it can be expected that both teams will put up a good fight to win muhlenberg has scored on both lafayette and villanova in earlier games and after the showing they made against rutgers last satur day deserve to be treated with proper respect against rutgers the allentown college played an ex ceptionally good game two of rut gers touchdowns being made in the first and second quarters with only about a minute more to play the muhlenberg scores to date are as follows : lafayette .... 14 muhlenberg 7 villanova .... 9 muhlenberg 6 susquehanna . 0 muhlenberg 42 rutgers 21 muhlenberg 0 the lehigh coaches do not pre dict an easy game and are not at all confident of the ability of the team to defeat muhlenberg in the first place the team has not been particularly primed for the muhlen berg game it has been brought a lonig gradually with the ultimate ob ject of being in first-class condition to meet perm state in two weeks and this naturally prevents any par ticular consideration being given to intervening games however the team should begin to get together now and become settled coach keady expects to start the first team against muhlenberg on saturday if the team can get a lead he will use whatever second string backfield and end men possi ble with the idea of developing the new men for next year halstead who has been out of the game all season will be seen in action for the first time this year keady has recovered from the in juries received in the yale game and will also be in the line-up muhlenberg's line consists of all old men from last year although owing to injuries the backfield will be entirely new the probable line-ups are : lehigh muhlenberg green 1 c hubbard tate c 1 t day grumbach .... 1 g reed scruggs c ... hollenbaugh pons r g brenne.li richards r t ritter c sawtelle r c gastpn cahall .... q b weber or stephens maginnes 1 h b fleming or taylor halstead f . b caskey keady r h b . . devereaux rifle club the lehigh rifle club held a meeting in drown hall on monday october 18th to 1 discuss plans for the coming season there is con siderable good material this year with the members of last year's team and many new men a good schedule is being arranged and many inducements offered to can didates the rifle range in the basement of packer hall is being remodeled and a club room being prepared for the holding of meetings and the convenience of members the club has ordered some new rifles so that everyone who so desires can try-out for the team many attractive prizes are to be awarded this year there will be twelve medals given to the men who make the team the greatest number of times during the season there will also be a hand some gun given to the man scoring the highest average during the year the method of picking the team will be by holding try-outs during the week and choosing the men at the end of the week according to the ability shown the judge for this year will be wm j orr 14 among those who reported were smith cramer holmes lees hogan canter mc goward drinker judge kingsley howard kirby and aldrich the range will be open to in em bers every day after classes mem bers can obtain guns from captain smith taylor hall e-17 meeting of new jer sey club officers address by dr drinker notice the lehigh club of northeastern pennsylvania has issued a call for all lehigh men in that section of the state to be present at the smo ker and beefsteak dinner to be held to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock in the redington hotel wilkes-barre the dinner as announced is for the purpose of welcoming the fresh man members and the come backs the circular reads — meerschaum pipes and tobacco on draft for everybody a useful and appropriate souvenir come early you will be sure to find somebody belonging to either the gas or hydraulic section good music lehigh yells lehigh and popular songs on tap at all times under the special direction of troutman 10 preparations have been made for a booster crowd new men are es pecially urged to attend and get ac quainted everybody wants to talk football after that yale game a meeting of the jersey club offi cers will be held on sunday after noon october 24th at 1 o'clock in drown flail plans for the year will be discussed york county club an effort will be made to re organize the york county-lehigh club next monday evening octo ber 25th at 7.15 o'clock in drown hall all the men from york coun ty are requested to be present the first electrical engineering society meeting of the year was held last evening at 7.30 o'clock in the physics lecture room the interesting program was enjoyed by the large attendance talks were given by d m petty 09 supt of the electrical depart ment of the bethlehem steel co and h f bergstresser 16 mr petty chose for his subject electricity as applied to the bethlehem steel works his talk was the source of much valuable in formation concerning the uses of electricity in connection with the bethlehem steel company's plant h f bergstresser 16 read an excellently-prepared paper on the status of the engineer this subject should be of vital interest to every engineer it is well to make a brief survey of the en gineer's work to consider its im portant influence upon the life of this busy world and especially to enquire what new service awaits the engineer now and in the immediate future this discussion is not limited to the engineer defined as one edu cated in or following the strictly technical profession of civil me chanical and electrical engineering but shall include in addition all edu cated men laboring in the broad fields of chemistry physics medi cine and other organized scientific activities _ we cannot be accused of serious exaggeration in saying that the world is indebted to such men for the application of steam to ships cars and workshops ; for the in vention of the sewing machine typewriter and the phonograph ; for the introduction of the bicycle au tomobile and aeroplane they have brought the marvels of photography into existence giving us the mov ing picture x-rays and colored photographs high explosives have been created to build and to destroy we must thank such men for the untold blessing of anesthetics ; for showing us how to successfully lim it and combat epidemics of dread diseases coming to our own special field engineers have given the world the telegraph the ocean cable the tel ephone and the wireless created lights for our homes cities and workshops ; the electric motor to run our trolley cars railroads and factories have designed dynamos and great transmission lines with which to save and make useful the otherwise wasted power of our wa terfall is it not a fact that civilization in its present form would never have arisen and would speedily come to an end if deprived of the engineer and his services has not the equilibrium of the world been upset by these very gifts of the en gineer ? is it not evident that such tre mendous additions to our power knowledge and wealth must have a powerful influence upon every phase of our existence our relations with nature and with each other have been profoundly affected and many new adjustments will be re quired continued on page five the mining and geological so ciety held its first meeting of the year on wednesday evening a large number were present and lis tened to two very interesting talks : one by dr richards and one by air irwin before beginning his talk dr richards exhibited two large photo graphs taken at the san francisco exhibition one was of one of the meetings of the american institute of mining engineers this picture was taken in the court of abund ance the other picture was taken in the court of the universe and showed a crowd of several thous and people assembled to hear colo nel goethals speak on goethals day dr richards firsi spoke of the meetings of the american institute of mining engineers the first meeting was opened by the present ing of the institute with a bronze medal from the exposition authori ties mr saunders president of the institute received the medal on behalf of the institute on the first day over two hun dred mining engineers were regis tered at the exposition and the ses sions of the institute were well at tended one session held on friday morn ing was a joint session in conjunc tion with the american electro chemical society to discuss topics of common interest mr addicks president of the electro-chemical society and engineer for thephelps dodson company presented two pa pers one to the mining institute on the roasting and leaching of copper ores and the other to the electro-chemical society on the use of carbon annodes in sulphate solutions this was discussed at length by dr ricketts of arizona the next president of the institute mr dorr also entered into the dis cussion another paper presented by mr beck was on the subject of kieselgow or the infusiorial earth of southern california mr beck showed some experiments in which he heated red-hot one side of a pat of this substance and held his fin ger on the other side without burn ing it a very timely paper was present ed by mr lyon of salt lake city and of the bureau of mines the topic was on the utilization of wa ter power on the pacific coast there is much undeveloped power there but it cannot be developed un less some industry comes in which will take large blocks of power and make the development profitable this is an opening for the electro chemical and electro-metallurgical industries mr c c jones lehigh 87 pre sented a paper on the iron ores of the pacific coast and showed how iron could be made cheaper in the west than it could be shipped there part of the time at the exposi tion was given over to social activi ties a banquet avas held for the institute at the palace hotel on thursday night between 250 and 300 attended mr saunders pres ident was toastmaster on sunday the institute took an excursion to berkeley california where they continued on second page last wednesday at san fran cisco dr drinker made an address on forestry relations between the east and the west as the east hopes to see them before the american forestry association of which he is president and various western conservation and lumber associations on his return trip dr drinker will be the guest of honor at din ners of lehigh alumni clubs in cal ifornia and utah students desiring to receive the typhoid inoculation should report to dr w l estes jr in drown memorial hall on wednesday af ternoon october 27th at 2 o'clock the expenses of the three necessary serum injections will be 1.50 the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday october 22 1915 mustard & cheese to give variety show muhlenberg on taylor field no 10 first meet of mining society basketball season to open on december 7th october meeting of electricals vol xxiii nine home and nine out-of-town games scheduled for 1915-1916 the status of an engineer sub ject of paper by h f bergstresser 16 d m petty 09 speaks on the uses of electricity in connection with steel plant annual football game with al lentown college team to-morrow opponents strong rutgers held to low score la fayette and villanova scored on