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              the inter-mountain lehigh club copies of the 1913 university register published april 1 are be ing given out to persons who apply at the office of the registrar pack er hall students or others desi ring to have the new catalog sent to prospective freshmen may have this done by turning in the address es of proposed recipients because of a re-arrangement of the university's publications the new register is smaller in bulk than those of preceding years the list of graduates of the university and their positions is now contained in the list of alumni and students an entirely new publication that in cludes all former students as well as graduates the proceedings of the alumni association which for merly included alumni lists is now restricted to subjects indicated by its title the 1913 register shows a total of 672 students one of the largest enrollments in the history of le high twenty-eight states are rep resented as well as ten foreign countries in the summary by states pennsylvania leads with 349 students new jersey is second with 72 maryland sends 62 new york 51 and massachusetts 24 there are 146 students in civil engineer ing 132 taking mechanical engi neering 91 in the electrical engi neering course with enrollments in other technical courses as follows : mining engineering 82 students chemistry 29 ; chemical engineer ing 28 ; electrometallurgy 15 ; met allurgical engineering 14 the arts and science depart ment now has 135 students the large increase being due to the size of the freshman class the lists give 29 business administration stu dents in the class of 1916 and 20 entering bachelor of arts students dr wherry appointed the inter-mountain lehigh club held a meeting recently at the uni versity club of salt lake city in the absence of dr talmage m s hanauer 86 presided e b lehr 12 was present for the first time he is permanently located in salt lake city with the san pedro los angeles & salt lake r r dr edgar t wherry of the de partment of geology has recently been appointed assistant editor in charge of the division of mineral ogical and geological chemistry of the journal chemical abstracts published by the american chemi cal society mr odom of the chemistry department and mr j h bower b s in met 00 are abstractors in this division the committee appointed on the reorganization of the arcadia pub lishes the following recommenda tions to be considered by the stu dent-body and to be formally acted upon at a college meeting to be held in the near future 1 that all departments recognize and abide by the honor system which is to be uniformly applied in all cases and that all temptation to violate this system be removed as far as possible 2 that all sentences be decided by an honor court which shall re port same to the faculty for its rat ification if the faculty disap proves the sentence joint commit tees from the faculty and the hon or court of three members each shall determine the final sentence 3 that the personnel of the ar cadia be increased from 16 active members as formerly to 20 active members by the addition of the ju nior class president sophomore class president dormitory chief and editor-in-chief of the burr and in the event that a vacancy oc curs caused by a member repre senting more than one college office such a vacancy be filled by the ar cadia electing a member from the class in which the vacancy occurs the honor court shall consist of twelve members selected by the ac cused from the nineteen members of the arcadia with the chairman of the arcadia to act as judge of the honor court 4 that all new men entering col lege be personally interviewed by a representative from the faculty and the arcadia who shall explain thor oughly the honor system and its working before the student signs his name to abide by the rules and regulations of this system signed h l rooney g p flick n m royall b scruggs c r wylie jr geo c hill robert campbell the above recommendations are the result of numerous and careful ly-considered suggestions which the committee will make known in de tail at the college meeting at which a large attendance is desired student self-help the speaker for the y m c a meeting which will be held in drown memorial hall saturday at 6.30 p m will be w irving lew is employment secretary of the central branch philadelphia v m c a notice everybody out for the glee club concert to be held in drown hall saturday night at 8 o'clock there is assured some very good music by both the haver ford and lehigh clubs admission for students is 35 cents others 50 cents all students holding notes of the bureau of self-help and who in tend to cash them in are to notify dugan 13 or flick 14 of their intention before april 20th fail ure of notification on the part of the holders will render their notes void the chemical society was royal ly entertained on tuesday evening at the home of dr and mrs drink er the papers read before this meeting were — berzelius by turnbull 14 and formic acid by prof salisbury a short busi ness session was held at which nom inations for offices for next year were made these resulted as fol lows :—: — president j s long 14 and l f turnbuli 14 vice-pres ident w b krause 14 and e c higgins 15 ; treasurer a r san chez 14 and n m royall 15 secretary e a wampole 15 and r n boyd 15 the first paper was by turnbull on berzelius mr tumbull gave a brief outline of this great chem ist's life and then proceeded to give his many important additions to the science of chemistry ber zelius was born in the town of vaf versunda switzerland in 1779 he craduated at upsola universiw in 1802 and was then appointed as sistant professor of medicine bot any and pharmacy at the universi ty of stockholm five years later he was made professor of the same from 1815 to 1832 he was profes sor of chemistry at the chirurgico medical institute it was here that many experiments were carried out which established the lav of chemi cal proportions from this time he devoted himself to his experiments and literary work which he contin ued until his death in august 1848 the scientific achievements of berzelius did not merely touch up on the main points of chemistry but penetrated deeply into them and gave rise to reforms of great weight he was the first to realize the great importance of the exact determination of atomic weights and the results which he obtained are of a remarkable degree of ac curacy these calculations were based upon oxygen as a standard because at that time it was thought oxygen combined with all other el ements berzelius first mentioned what is now known as the ionic theory he claimed that the atoms of a com pound were divided into positive and negative groups according to their electric charge the part of the compound containing these diff erent charges was determined by electrolysis when these parts went to the electrodes having opposite charges the present system of chemical notation was devised by berzelius he selected the first or first two letters of the latin or greek names continued on supplement the brown and white baseball practice lehigh university bethlehem pa friday april 4 1913 chemists hold april meeting northeastern lehigh club recommendations are submitted vol xx 1913 register is published no 43 entertained at dr drinker's pa pers by turnbull 14 and prof salisbury large attendance committee appointed on reor ganization of arcadia submits report to student body annual dinner to be held to morrow night at scranton big success is expected copies may be obtained at the office of the registrar sev eral changes made the annual dinner of the north eastern lehigh club of pennsylva nia will be held at 7.15 o'clock to morrow night at the hotel jermyn scranton pa the committee in charge has done everything in its power to make to morrow night a big lehigh night in north-eastern pennsylvania all possible arrangements have been made and indications point to a banner night dr drinker will at tend the dinner and congressman ainey has promised to tell how they did things back in 87 captain pazzetti ail-american quarter-back will be on hand to give a little spiel on football and the glee club quar tette is going to demonstrate that lehigh can produce the goods along musical lines as well as along any other lines prof lambert will represent the faculty a long and very satisfactory base ball'practice was held wednesday on the athletic field all the men show ed lots of pep caused by the warm weather everyone seemed to loos en up and get into the game show ing rare form here and there in some remarkably fast playing the infield is getting into fine shape due to the especial attention which the coach has been giving to that part of the team great care is also be ing taken of the pitching staff which is being gradually moulded into such a shape as to secure its fitness against any of the teams on the schedule