Brown and White Vol. 8 no. 49

              thomas girdler oi has com pleted his arrangements and ex pects to leave for buffalo on wed nesday where he will be employed by the buffalo forge company the trials for places on the track team to represent us in the relay races at u of p which should have been held on saturday but for the rain will be held this mon day afternoon buck has been industriously scattering grass seed around the chemical laboratory and the li brary and the whole campus is showing the effects of his and nature's work the base ball game with u of p which was prevented saturday by the rain which was so disas trous to out door sports all over the country may be played off at bethlehem on tuesday a week as the pennsylvania management is negotiating for that end penn sylvania still has vacancies in her base ball schedule caused by the cancelation of the lafayette games and is desirous of securing extra games with us tau beta pi a meeting of the tau beta pi was held on thursday evening april 18 and the following mem bers of the junior class were initiated bird carpenter diefenderfer hewitt landis lines sachs a banquet was afterwards held at the hotel wyandotte president wilkenson acted as toastmaster among those who responded to toasts were instructors barrell and leutweiler donaldson oi and nolan or are also going to leave college on wednesday to take situations with f r dravo and company con structing engineers of pittsburgh mr dravo is an old lehigh man the lacrosse season was opened saturday afternoon in a game with the team from the college of the city of new york which resulted in an easy victory for the home team the game was played under the most adverse circumstances a constant downpour of rain on friday night and all day saturday had turned the field into a large mud puddle and made it almost impossible for the players to keep on their feet besides this the cold wind and the rain which fell throughout the game kept the men from putting as much vim as usual into the contest captain syming ton decided that as long as the visitors had taken the trouble to come it would be best to fulfill the engagement but in order to make it as short as possible only one twenty-five minute half was played in spite of the inclemency of the weather and the extreme slipperi ness of the field the game was by no means slow for the visitors ruge stuart and jacoby carried off the honors while for the home team olp and lattig did a great deal of ground covering and clever passing and symington deserves credit for his goal-throwing after five minutes of play young passed the ball to symington who threw the first goal the second goal followed in another minute when lattig got the ball and made a nice pass to young who put it in the net for the next seven and a half minutes the ball was thrown around the field then symington threw another goal making the score lehigh 3 c c n y o during the next six minutes symington aided by clever passing and dodging by olp lattig and young threw three more and then young finished the scoring by another goal final score lehigh 7 c.c.n.y o the game was played with but eleven men on each side as the visitors were one man shy the line-up follows : lehigh position c c n y fleming goal uray miller point hudson tunstall cover-point ruge degener first defense gutsgell farabaugh second defense trubenbach donaldson third defense walters center stuart third attack mccrady olp second attack jacoby lattig first attack d solow symington capt out home moran capt young in home i solow referee gummere umpires dornin and hartzog time of game 25 minutes goals symington 5 young 2 fourth lecture of the series given on george boole by prof macfarlane the fourth of the series of lec tures on the prominent british mathematicians of the nineteenth century was given by professor macfarlane at 11.30 a m on fri day in these lectures technical mathematical details are avoided as far as possible and they are of in terest to all the lectures have been well attended and have been thoroughly enjoyed on friday professor macfarlane's subject was the life and work of george boole he said in part : george boole was born on the second of november 181 5 his father was a man of limited means and was unable to give his son an expensive education he was how ever a good mathematician and the instruction which he gave george was of the best boole also re ceived a fair education in various braches at the public schools in early life he was a close student of the greek and the latin classics and paid much more attention to these branches than to mathematics he also was very proficient in sev eral modern languages later however he made all these studies subordinate to mathematics to which he devoted the remainder of his life from the age of 16 to 20 he taught school and then opened a school of his own and both stud ied and taught higher mathematics in 1847 ne published his mathematical analysis of logic and in 1849 he was appointed to the chair ot mathematics in queen's college in 1854 he pub lished the work on which his fame chiefly rests " an investigation of the laws ot thought soon alter he married miss everets ; his ability was now recognized as he received many degrees from the great universities but in 1864 he became ill and soon after died at the age of 49 in the very prime of his powers no adequate biography of boole has yet appeared demor gan said of boole that he was a true thinker not only in mathe matics but also in logic and thought professor macfarlane then fin ished the lecture with a thorough and scientific discussion of boole's ideas on the science of symbols as on his conception of the universe the brown and white vol viii lehigh university south bethlehem pa monday april 22 1901 base ball no game at philadel phia saturday lacrosse season opens with a victory lehigh 7 c.c.n.y 0 there was no game of base ball with pennsylvania on saturday the heavy downpour of rain necessitat ing its indefinite postponement in spite of the very unfavorable outlook the lehigh team reported in philadelphia on saturday morn ing but as the rain continued unabatingly manager crane an nounced to the men that no game would be played the greater part of the team returned to beth lehem on saturday night while a kw spent sunday in the city it will be remembered that the first game with pennsylvania last year was called off on account of rain and was never afterward played on wednesday afternoon lehigh crosses bats with the men from columbia it is understood that the new york team is the best ever turned out at columbia and a hard fought contest may be ex pected calendar tuesday april 23 — at 4.00 p.m in chemical laboratory lec ture by professor macfarlane subject william kingdon clif ford at 8.30 p.m dandy dick given by mustard and cheese at easton wednesday april 24 — at 3.00 p m base ball columbia vs le high at lehigh field at 7.15 p.m bil.le study class in christmas hall meeting of epitome board at phi gamma delta house at 7.15 p m saturday april 27 — at 3.00 p m base ball c c n y vs lehigh at new york relay carnival at philadelphia at 8.15 p.m mustard and cheese dandy dick at grand opera house notices lecture professor macfarlane will lecture april 23 at 4.00 p.m in the chemical laboratory subject william kingdon clifford epitome board meeting there will be a meeting of the epitome board at 7.15 p m wed nesday april 24 at phi gamma delta house campus notes no 49