Brown and White Vol. 25 no. 31

              death of head of mechanical engineering department due to overexertion professor at lehigh for thirty=seven years known throughout country as an engineer and author of technical treatises professor joseph frederic klein dean of the faculty and head of the department of mechanical en gineering died suddenly yesterday morning at 9 30 at his residence 357 east market street bethlehem death resulted from heart strain suffered early yesterday morning while he was shaking the furnace at his home at first it was not considered serious but his condi tion rapidly became worse and death occurred at 9 30 notice of it was given at the university and a meeting of the faculty was called by dr drinker for four o'clock to pass resolutions on his death professor j f klein outshines georgetown by good work of donovan hess and wysocki score 28=26 visiting quintette stages spec tacular come=back in second half in a game featured by a strong come-back on the part of the visit ing five lehigh defeated george town by a score of 28-26 saturday afternoon in taylor gym lehigh played brilliantly in the first half and succeeded in piling up a fifteen point lead the team went to pieces at the beginning of the second half and georgetown had scored twelve points before the brown and white tallied lehigh then scored five points and before georgetown could catch up to them the whistle blew ending the game for lehigh the work of donovan and hess stood out prominently they totalling twenty points be tween them on the defence wy socki played an exceptional game and was the chief factor in the breaking up of georgetown's offen sive for georgetown o'lone and louchak played the best game the former by his brilliant shooting put georgetown in the running ■ the line-up : lehigh positions georget'n mccarthy f o'lone donovan f . louchak hess c mcnulty wysocki g finmgan straub g dudack goals from floor hess 4 dono van 3 maurer straub mccarthy o'lone 5 mcnulty 4 louchak dudack goals from fouls donovan 8 out of 13 o'lone 4 out of 7 substitutes maurer for mc carthy fraim for straub dever eaux for mcnulty referee keogh of university of pennsylvania seton hall tomorrow several meetings held in dif ferent citys well attended by lehigh graduates dr drinker speaks election of officers takes place at central pennsylvania and new york clubs the lehigh club of central pennsylvania held a meeting sat urday february 9 at the univer sity club in harrisburg at this meeting all of last year's officers were reelected for the coming year mercer b tate 90 pres ; warren b keim 95 vice-pres ; percy l grubb 01 secy ; w d b ainey 87 chairman of penna public service commission was elected honorary president the same board of directors was also reelect ed for the coming year after the business meeting dinner was served at the club dr n m emery and w r okeson were among the speakers the meeting was well attended and an energetic discussion about taking measures of stirring up a better interest in the meetings was held a special committee being ap pointed for the purpose of getting a larger number of men from the surrounding cities to attend these meetings a meeting of the new york le high club was held in new york february 8 in machinery hall on 61st street the guests of the even ing were c p coleman 88 presi dent of worthingtonpump and ; m achinery company ; ellis parker butler author of pigs is pigs dr c o mailoux 8c d ron 14 who is past president of the american institution of electrical engineers and is chairman of the electrical commission for france j a buch 06 from the cuba-le high club ; dr drinker and w r okeson were also guests of the even ing the moving pictures of the le high-lafayette football game were shown at the meeting j t mor row 89 was elected president and e s colling 12 secretary for the coming year at a meeting of the university club of boston mass the mem bers who represent a large number of the leading colleges and uni versities of the country have joined and decided to hold a big dinner " on february 16 the purpose of this dinner is to promote the inter est of the american university un ion in france although this is not a benefit affair nevertheless the receipts obtained from it are to be turned over to the treasurer of the university union in france of which lehigh is a member chinese students meet tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock the lehigh five will meet the strong seton hall quintet in taylor gym the visitors have an exceptionally strong team this year and a hard struggle is anticipated they have made a good record so far having an almost unbroken series of victor ies to their credit the brown and white five on the other hand has won only five of the eleven games played so far last year the seton hall five were defeated by a score of 33-18 but not however until they had displayed some excellent team work and spectacular goal shooting this year with a team of almost entirely new ' material they have likewise been showing good form although their playing cannot be said to equal that of last years team the brown and white five in the close victory over georgetown last saturday showed a great im provement in form although there is still considerable room for better ment in both the teamwork and goal shooting donovan hess and wysocki who showed up so well in the victory saturday with maurer or r mccarthy and straub com pleting the line-up are sure to give the seton hall tossers a hard strug gle tomorrow evening george h streaker predicts dom ination of sea by the united states the meeting of the y m c a last sunday evening was addressed by george h streaker of phila delphia who chose sea power as his subject mr streaker who is an authority on ships is well known to the members of the y m c a having spoken at lehigh be fore mr streaker prophesied the eventual domination of the sea by the united states and emphasized the need of using this power in the right way before the talk w r heck 20 entertained those present with two cornet solos and was ac companied by c h berner 21 mr streaker spoke in part as follows ' ' the time has come in this great crisis when he who gets must give you cannot go back to the old rule of thumb method of doing things the old laws have been replaced by the new and in this new age he gets the most who gives the most in return a man is no longer his own master but belongs to the com munity is subject to its jurisdic tion and must have its welfare at heart ' ' the great engineers who are in demand today are those who build ships because ships are what is n reded tod»v the sea is an im portant factor in this world two thirds of the area of the globe is water and only those great nations dominate who rule the sea ' ' phoenicia was the first great country to rule the seas and there have since been but seven nations to whom this power has fallen each of the seven nations in turn dominated the rest of the world each lost the power on the sea and with it the power over the world as a rule a nation's downfall be . gins on the sea ; the real waterloo of napoleon was not the battle fought in belgium but the battle of cape trafalgar when our great republic re gains its sea power — and it is go ing to regain it — the men who will be the leaders are those skilled in nautical matters we can build ships up to 80,000 tons — ships which will scarcely pass through the panama canal locks as yet we have not done it but that is one of our ambitions which must and will be realized we have lost our heritage but we will regain it — and having regained it we must rule with a new idea we are here to learn how not to make mistakes i have here a piece of metal given me by a young british naval man which is a silent i witness of a horrible mistake | thousands of pieces like this shot all over halifax for five miles when that man on the french ship mixed the signals america will save herself as a 1 result of this horrible war the j thing we need is power — sublime i power — not only physical power ! but spiritual as well as much as 1 we want it we want even more the j power of the child of galilee may god help us to make good -! individually and as a nation may our flag be just as red as you and i ! are willing to fight for justice just ■ as white as you and i are willing to : be clean and pure and just as blue . as you and i are willing to be . true mr streaker is well known by • the student body at lehigh having i been here on several occasions and • a large attendance greeted him sunday at the monthly meeting held in coppee hall on saturday evening the chinese students club was ad dressed by dr c s fox of the de partment of romance languages and k t koan 20 dr fox favored the club with an illustrated talk on france he showed many beautiful slides of those magnificent cathedrals in dif ferent cities some of which have been destroyed during the present war mr koan's subject was the importance of commercial edu cation in china refreshments were served f g breyer of n j zinc com pany addresses metal lurgical society outlines methods ascendancy of united states in zinc production probable after war an interesting talk on the vari ous phases of the zinc products in dustry and its present-day prob lems was delivered by frank g breyer at the meeting of the metal lurgical society last thursday evening mr breyer who is re search chemist of the new jersey zinc co of pennsylvania described in detail the manufacture of cer tain zinc products and gave his opinion that after the war the united states would be able to compete successfully with the world in that line of production the substance of his talk follows : the thing that determines largely the process of manufacture of zinc products is the character of the ore the principal zinc ore zinc sulphide is found largely in missouri wisconsin colorado and montana and is associated with galena the first metalurgical pro cess after milling is roasting by this process the pyrite which goes wi i.',1 .', blendie in many eases is sepa rated when the ore is made meg netic the sulphur dioxide evolved is used in making sulphuric acid next the zinc sulphide is roasted to the oxide zinc sulphide differs from pyrites in that theoretically it evolves sufficient heat to carry on the reaction as a matter of fact however no furnace is sufficiently thermally insulated and the zinc sulphide must be roasted by means of oxide heat the ore is put on a series of firebrick hearths or muffles and is conveyed from one to the other by a rake mechanism a counter current of air passes through the last two or three hearths and goes to the con tact acid plant up to within a few years ago the mesh of the ore was all through 10 ; or 20 inches but with new milling practice ores that were regarded as too refractory are now worked by flotation consequently one of the big prob lems now is how to handle the fine zinc slimes the dusting loss is also considerable and aside from the loss of dust the dust goes over to the contact acid plant and causes inconvenience the result of the roasting process is zinc oxide and about 40 per cent of sulphur the production of sulphuric acid is an important item in a zinc plant and the chamber and contact pro cesses are still co-existent in the contact process the mixture of sul phur dioxide and oxygen is led through an elaborate cooling and mechanical cleaning^system — boxes of quartz and coke dust settling | chambers etc it then goes to pre | heaters where it is heated to about 400-500 c and in passing through screens of platinum black and coursely granular magnesium sul phate it is catalytically converted into sulphur trioxide it was rather long before the con tact process became a commercial success because there was no way of catching the sulphur trioxide although the greater part of it was soluble some of it was lost in the form of a fine mist which was not soluble in water it took a long time to discover that the mist was soluble in a solution of sulphuric continued on third page st paul's society holds first meeting addresses by rev mr kent dr mitman and dr emery last thursday evening in the parish house of the church of the nativity the st paul's society composed ofi episcopalian students at lehigh university held its first meeting of the year short ad dresses were given by rev mr s k kent chaplain of the univer sity dr s u mitman acting dean of the church of the nativity and dr n m emery vice-president of the university regrets were re ceived from bishop ethelbert tal bot of the bethlehem diocese and from prof ezra bow-en of the de partment of economics who were unable to be present to address the society in the opening address rev kent explained the purpose of the society and told how it was organ ized at lehigh four years ago being patterned after the original st paul's society founded at harvard about sixty years ago by phillip brooks in explaining the value of the society he stated that is was the only opportunity in the university for the combination of deep intel lectuality and of religion he also discussed his experiences as chap lain at the officers training camp at fort niagara and expressed the belief that the present war is serv ing to bring the men of the country closer to the church than enything before has been able to do dr mitman spoke as the repre sentative of the parish of the na tivity which as he expressed it is geographically also the parish of the university he brought out the importance of the church to the college man and deplored the fall ing off of the masculine element in the church he also explained the need of students to take charge of sunday school classes and invited members of the society to take part in this work as the communication of knowledge to the coming genera tion is one of the most important duties of college mien dr emery extended the greet ings of the university to the mem bers of the society and gave an in teresting resume of the effect of the war on the university he showed that the enrollment at the begin ning of last term was 650 a de crease of 125 from the proceeding year and that the enrollment hadj dropped another 100 by the open 1 ing of the present term he also expressed his satisfaction at the earnestness displayed by the stud ents during the past term as was shown by the fact that only three meen in the three upper classes were dropped from college at the end of the term because of poor scholastic work in continuing his address he made it clear that a college educa tion should be three-sided mental physical and spiritual and societies like the st paul's was the best agent to develop the spiritual side of college life in concluding he expressed the wish that the church would continue to form an integral part of college life refreshments were served fol lowing the meeting it was an nounced that the society picture will be taken for the epitome this wednesday afternoon at mccaa's studio at one o'clock professor klein was the oldest member of the faculty in point of service having been professor of mechanical engineering since 1881 he was one of the group of teachers whose work placed lehigh in the forefront of technical institutions in the united states and his repu tation was nation-wide he was always greatly beloved by his asso ciates in the teaching force and by the long line of students who came under his instruction and guidance professor klein was born in paris france on october 10 1849 and was 68 years old at the time of his death he received his col lege education at the sheffield scientific school of yale univer sity receiving the degree of ph.b in 1871 and the degree of d.e in 1873 he was an instructor in me chanical engineering at this insti tution from 1877 to 1881 in 1881 he became professor of mechanical engineering at lehigh and has served continuously at lehigh since that year in 1887-1888 he served as secretary of the faculty and since september 1 1917 he has been dean of the faculty in addi tion to his duties as head of the department of mechanical engi neering he was a life member of the american institute of mechanical engineers and was a charter mem ber of tau beta pi the honorary | engineering society at lehigh he was the author of mechanical technology of machine construc tion 1884 elements of machine design 1889 tables of coor dinates for laying out accurate profiles of gear teeth 1889 design of a high speed steam continued on fourth page the brown and whit lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday february 12 1918 alumni clubs show activity zinc industry to promote research prof j f klein dean of faculty dies suddenly price five cents sea power subject at y m c a meeting varsity wins in close contest vol xxv no 31