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              notices mustard and cheese kehearsal of act ii of " all the comforts of home on saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock in christ mas hall entrance algebra re-examina tion saturday march 26 in my room at 9.30 a m at same date and place examination in sopho more mechanics and spherical trigonometry for those who were unavoidably absent from the last quiz the faculty has set wednesday april 6 at 8.30 a m as the date for final examination in trigo nometry bring logarithm tables the faculty has set tuesday april 12 at 8.30 a m as the date for re examinations in algebra analytics and junior math c l thornburg c e society on thursday evening march 24 at 7 p m mr keim will con tinue the reading of his paper on park.kow office buildings e e society there will be a meeting of the e e society thursday evening march 31 at 7.30 p m horn 98 will read a paper on " lightening arresters mandolin and guitar club very important meeting of the mandolin and guitar club on thursday march 24 at 7 p m at the chi phi houee every mem ber please attend glee club there will be an important meeting of the glee club on fri day march 25 at 8 p m in christmas hall all come communications editors brown and white : it seems to the writer as though the class spirit at lehigh is at present absolutely dead this is plainly shown by the fact that all three of the classes — senior junior and sophomore — have decided at one time or another during the past month to hold a class banquet and how many banquets have been held well as you all know not one first the seniors decided to hold a banquet and after the com mittee had gone to work and made all arrangements they could not get enough men to attend so it ended by postponing it until june next the junior class decided to hold a banquet and i might state that they have not held a banquet since they were freshmen and a committee was duly appointed to make all arrangements for the same the committee it appears has done jjjllfork faithfully with the exception of selling the tickets and this it cannot do the ban quet was set for friday night of this week but the way it stands now no one seems to be going out side of the committee and the president of the class so it ap pears that 99 will not hold a ban quet this year then comes the sophomore class following in the footsteps of their ivorthy predecessors and also decid ing to hold a class banquet i can not say whether it was from the worthy example set them or not,but they might have thought it would not look right for sophomores to be more sporty than upperclass men hence they also have decided to dispense with the customary class banquet there only remains one more word to be said the poor inno cent freshmen are the only ones who are guilty of having held a banquet this year and they would not have held that one if they had been at lehigh a year or if the sophomores had permitted them to do so this communication needs no conclusion for it would simply go over the same ground that has been gone over many times the facts speak for themselves and you know what they relate to you so brace up cuba libre editors brown and white : whatever can be said of the small amount of interest taken by the present senior class in refer ence to work in the engineering societies the same will apply with double force to the members of the junior class under the present conditions it is a task for the offi cers of these societies to keep up interest enough in the work to keep them in existence yet this same work will fall to the present junior members next year and unless more interest is shown by them this year both in the way of continued on second page lehigh university south bethlehem pa thursday march 24 1898 vol y the brown and white who had acquitted themselves best the night of meeting was changed back to friday after which the meeting adjourned igoo class meeting a meeting of the sophomore class was held in christmas hall monday at 12.30 the only busi ness of the meeting was the dis cussion of the calculus cremation for next june and the nomination of men for the committee the following men were nominated : kline green mcgavock reese robb vanduyne ross cortright w t white parson digby sanchez rowe benson meixell chapman alfred vanchez heinz morrow burke zalinski john son dortch mora a sanchez it was decided to hold the election for the committee on the sth of april before the meeting ad journed the men were strongly urged to pay up their class dues otherwise the cremation will have to be abandoned calendar thursday march 24 — meeting of c e society at 7 p m meeting of mandolin and guitar club at chi phi house 7 p m friday march 25 choir rehear sal at 4.30 p m glee club rehearsal in christmas hall at 8.30 p m saturday march 26 — ee-examina tion in general chemistry chemical laboratory 9.30 a m re-examination in hygiene at 8.30 a m re-examination in entrance algebra sophomore me chanics and spherical trigo nometry at 9.80 a m college lecture physical laboratory at 9.30 a m rehearsal mustard and cheese saturday at 2 p m sunday march 27 — regular meet ing ofy m c a in christ mas hall at 6.15 p m thursday march 31 — meeting of e e society in physical laboratory at 7.30 p m glee and mandolin clubs the outlook for an excellent glee club this year is en cduraging there is the same trouble to be met this year as last namely the lack of first and second tenors more par ticularily the former the bases are being well taken care of there being an unusually large number of men with good voices who are trying for the club and it is safe to say that under mr wolle's able direction the organization turned out will be a credit to lehigh at present two rehearsals a week are being held and they aie well attended a number of men have not had their voices tried as yet so practically nothing definite is known with regard to the future arrangements it is not unlikely that the glee club in combination with the mandolin club will take a trip sometime after easter vacation giving con certs in a number of the neighbor ing cities it is almost certain that one stopping place will be heading the mandolin club is practicing regularly once a week under the direction of newton 98 and in view of previous performances it is safe to say that the proposed concert with the glee club after easter will be a brilliant success at cornell this year all the work for the bachelor's degree is elective the choice of studies has developed unexpected results latin and greek have not suffered under the elective system mathe matics has gained instead of losing as was expected and the scientific course which it was anticipated would be benefited has lost con siderably forum meeting the regular meeting of the forum was held wednesday night in saucon hall after roll call the minutes of the last regular meeting together with those of several special meetings were read and approved contant 00 was elected to membership and fuller 00 abbot 00 and h s mussel man 01 were proposed for mem bership the regular program began with an extemporaneous speech on intervention in behalf of cuba by bailey,'9b mr bailey reviewed the subject from two standpoints namely those of humanity and of the monroe doctrine the speaker was in favor of intervention on the part of the united states as the conditions fully justify such a course considered both humanely and politically some members of the agora having come to the meeting under the impression that it was to be a joint meeting of the two societies upon a motion it was decided to suspend the regular order of pro cedure and take up the subject of the lafayette debate the com mittee reported that their letter to the lafayette societies requesting that they meet a similar com mittee from lafayette in order to arrange the preliminaries of the debate had not been answered however it was decided to select the question so that it would be ready to be submitted to them as soon as they evince a desire to hold the annual contest this year as usual a number of questions were suggested aud discussed and finally one was selected by a unanimous vote the subject however will not be made public until lafayette is heard from considerable discussion then took place over the disposition of the money won by the society at the joint meeting of the agora and forum in december opinion was about evenly divided between ex pending it to fit up a committee room and expending it to decorate the joint assembly room of the two societies a committee consisting of starkey 98 buch 99 and fletcher 00 was appointed to ascertain in which way the money could be spent to the best advan tage there being no further business the regular order was resumed the debate was a preliminary one for the purpose of selecting men for the bucknell debate the sub ject was : " liesolved that railroad pooling should be legalized the affirmative was upheld by free man 00 and frisby 98 while the negative side was taken by birch 99 fletcher 00 and garman 01 as is customary no decision was rendered on the debate but frisby and garman were selected by a vote of the society as the two men no 43