Brown and White Vol. 19 no. 44

              on account of the bad condition of the track and the unfavorable weather no regular practice was held last saturday a few men came out and headed by captain schultz had a short work out these men were : schultz tull and rehfuss in the hurdles berg in the sprints and schuyler and rupp in the mile article by prof franklin college meeting as announced in the last issue of the brown and white there will be an important college meeting on friday morning prof w s franklin of the phys ics department is the author of an article entitled bill's school and mine and their contrast which deals with the public playground situation at present confronting the bethlehems the article compares the past frontier school facilities with the present ones in the east and condemns the modern idea of developing the child mental facul ties at the expense of dwarfing the body and robbing the youth of the natural beauty and comfort pro vided for it it also discusses stream and atmosphere pollution inter-collegiate gym meet senators club the inter-collegiate gymnasium meet held at haverford last friday evening was won by yale of the eleven teams entered the most suc cessful ones in order were yale pennsylvania princeton and rut gers lehigh's single representa tive bailey 12 was unable to gain a place sophomore class meeting the senators club held an infor mal banquet at hellertown the lat ter part of last week a very important meeting of the class of 1914 will be held in packer hall wednesday at 12.00 o'clock it is very urgent that all sopho be present freshmen baseball notice ! all candidates for assistant man ager of track team must report to manager e e wright before the end of this week in spite of the inclement weather a fair percentage of the members of the class of 1914 attended the class banquet at the hotel eagle last thursday evening it was a suc cess from beginning to end and everyone present was completely satisfied with the excellent arrange ments made by the committee the menus to which were attach ed a small lehigh seal were quite novel and extremely attractive and were in fit correspondence with the fare provided by the hotel manage ment ' menu oysters on half-shell cream of bisque pickles olives boiled halibut sauce supreme chicken croquettes aux petit pois cardinal punch roast young chicken stuffed giblet gravy cranberry sauce mashed potatoes creamed corn waldorf salad roquefort cheese bent'stoastedcrackers vanilla ice cream assorted cakes cafe noir it was a keen disappointment to the class not to have dr drinker present but prof h r reiter who was the first to be called upon to speak by toastmaster bailey gave an excellent speech he recounted the support which the class was giving to the new movement for compulsory exercise and stated that the benefits which would be derived from good habits developed during college days would increase the effi ciency of a man for twenty years he said that lehigh has taken a step which few colleges can boast of and through that move it is putting it self right in the front ranks v b edwards president of the senior class was next called upon his remarks were clearly outlined and showed that there was still room for more college spirit at lehigh that it was the duty of each class to see that the gap was filled and that only consistent obedience to college customs would imbue incoming classes with the same spirit pres w j dugan of the junior class centered his discourse about the bureau of self-help this scheme was started by the class of 1913 but it will devolve on the present sophomore class to carry it through next year and a deeper interest should be manifested in it than pre vails at present the first toast of the evening the class was responded to by r e mickel he gave a clever outline of the class history and ac a freshman baseball team will be organized on wednesday march 27th at 1.30 p m in drown hall all candidates will meet prof rei ter and mr odom at that time the by-products of gas coal and the utilization of waste were the titles of two interesting papers read before the chemical society last thursday evening be fore beginning the programme for the evening several important ques tions were brought up the fol lowing resolution was submitted and adopted after a short discussion : — the students in chemistry and chemical engineering assembled as the lehigh university chemical so ciety express their high apprecia tion of the gift of the portrait in the shapleigh library of mr waldron shapleigh presented by mr h c miner 88 alumnus trustee chief chemist of the welsbach light co ; and it is further moved that the president and secretary of the chemical society be requested to prepare a sketch of the life of mr shapleigh to be read into the min utes of the society at the next meeting the advisability of having a ban quet at the last meeting in may was brought up a g black treasu rer of the society reported favora bly on the subject and every one present seemed in favor of a ban quet although no final action was taken vonkonecny 12 read a very comprehensive paper on the by products of gas coal he said in part : the by-products of gas coal are divided into four groups : coke oils tars and ammonia compounds the coke which comprises about 44 per cent of the coal has never been able to compete with oven coke on account of the sulphur present many means have been devised to eliminate this but none have proven successful on a large scale there are various uses however for gas coke and this forms an important by-product from the oils we get a large number of very important and use ful compounds such as benzene gasoline naphthalene and anthra cene from the tars which consti tute about 5 per cent of the coal used we get many constituents of illuminating gas and finally pitch many useful and valuable com pounds are obtained from the am moniacal liquor of the gas works which in themselves would more than pay for operation bartholomew 13 read a paper on utilization of waste it was shown in the course of the discus sion that the high cost of living was due in part to the lack of utilization until very recently the value of waste from various industries was the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday march 26 1912 chemists hold march meeting vol xix sophomores annual banquet no 44 class of 1914 turns out in numbers despite bad weather society hears well prepared papers on interesting subjects not realized and many valuable products were in this way lost to day research chemists are employed in nearly all large plants and the value of a chemical laboratory has come to be an important part of every industry it was announced that the next meeting would be held at dr drinker's and the president urged that all members come and be on time after the meeting everybody heartily enjoyed the usual feed saturday's base ball practice complishments of the past year de serving the well-rounded applause which he received pete white speaking on class scraps show ed that he was not only a scrapper but also an orator harry faust responded to bethlehem police and portrayed the traits of the bor ough blue-coats in a manner both unique and witty temperance by h k kurtz showed that he was thoroughly acquainted with the subject and his discreet advice earn ed the applause given the committee in charge of ar rangements consisted of messrs bristor burns owens shaffer and gifford chairman arts and science meeting the arts and science club will hold its march meeting next thurs day evening at eight o'clock in sau con hall prof franklin of the department of physics and san derson 14 are on the program a small squad of baseball men consisting of 18 turned out for prac tice on saturday afternoon at 3.00 o'clock the practice was held on the lower part of the field and con sisted only in batting practice as the weather was too cold for out door battery work and few men re ported the batting lasted about an hour and a half at the end of which time the entire squad took three laps around the track thus ending the afternoon's work for tomorrow's game a temporary diamond will probably be arranged on the football field wrestling team dinner track practice members of last season's wrest ling team with the substitutes coach and managers held an informal din ner at hellertown last wednesday evening though only twelve men were present the small number did not bar a good time captain st john acting as toastmaster thanked the men for the support which they had given him during the past sea son captain-elect herr and coach sheridan responded to toasts on next year's team expressing hope for a successful season