Brown and White Vol. 1 no. 10

              w s maharg 94 stated that he had several amendments to pro pose to the constitution of the athletic association he said that a general belief prevailed among the men that there was too much looseness in the management of the affairs of the association and it was for this reason that sub scription had not come in more liberally he said that while no reflections on the management was intended yet some changes should be made in the constitution whereby some safeguard should be provided to guard against such oc currences it had been suggested to him by an alumnus that a copy of the constitution be placed in the library for reference he then sug gested that a definite statement of all receipts and contributions should be bulletined so that every one could the brown and white south bethlehem pa february 16 1894 communications vol i no 1o calendar saturday feb 17 — ec-examina tions in all m e subjects and crystallography 8.30 a m eehearsal of banjo club 6.30 p m psi upsilon house dr hyde's lecture on pompeii 8.00 p m phy sical laboratory sunday feb 18 christian asso ciation meeting christmas hall 6.30 p m wednesday feb 21 agora 2.c0 p m christmas hall meeting of electrical socie ty 7.30 p m physical lab oratory thursday feb 22 washington's birthday holiday ; oratorical contest chapel 10.30 a m - friday feb 23 chess club meet ing 7.30 p m christmas hall saturday feb 24 — ec-examina tion in physics and all e e subjects bxo a m . some scattered efforts have re cently been made by different de partments of the junior class to secure for themselves the use of the library alcoves during the second term it is only fair that their re quest with its underlying reasons should receive due consideration during this term the members of the class have on the whole more leisure for reading than at any other time during their college course they are at that period in their studies where they particularly need and would derive much bene fit from careful reading and the consultation of technical works upon different subjects and this they cannot accomplish satisfac torily when they may be obliged to call for a dozen books before they can find the one which they require another point in favor of the request is the present need for extra room at times during the day the main reading space is un comfortably crowded while the alcoves are comparatively empty it is not likely that the introduc tion of the members of the junior class then present would seriously inconvenience those already there it is certain that the privilege would be appreciated and not abused by those who have profited by two and one-half years of le high's advantages the chemists miners and lit erature men are already admitted have they more need of the privi lege than he other courses ? would it not be a good plan for 95 as a whole to use their utmost efforts to institute this custom for the benefit of themselves and the future junior classes at lehigh ? it surely is worthy of a trial 8 95 see them ; that there should be auditors to go over all accounts ; that the gate receipts should be checked by tickets and the main entrance be provided with a regis tering turnstile as is the general custom and that two men should be placed at the gate to prevent men from sneaking in fie con sidered it unjust that the men who do not pay their 5 assessment until the latter part of the season should be debarred from voting up to the time of payment and he suggested that to remedy this fault an assessment of 2 per man for the fist term and 3 for the second term be made he further suggested that there should be checks all on disbursements that all debts should be audited ; that there should be five auditors one selected from each class and one to be ap pointed by the president of the alumni association ; that no one of the auditors should be connected in any other way with the athletic association that the auditing committee should report results and thus avoid the posting of un important details on the bulletin boards ; and finally that all expen ditures should be checked by re ceipted bills he then proposed an amendment to the constitution embodying his suggestions mr floyd stated that while these remarks were very pertinent yet many of the suggestions were cov ered by the present constitution he suggested that the consideration of amendments be postponed for two weeks and that in the mean time the constitution be published in the burr mr maharg said that he had been unable to procure a copy of the constitution before preparing his suggestions and that he was in favor of having a type written copy placed in the library for reference payne 94 suggested that a copy be framed and placed in the gym nasium mr maharg then withdrew his proposed amendments and stated that he would have them posted in packer hall for inspection the meeting then adjourned up to eight o'clock this morning the amount subscribed is 858.75 of which 264.25 has been col lected probability of electing that one would be still less hence it would be better according to the idea of the writer to place another senior on the board in place of the fresh man the superior knowledge of the senior in regard to athletics and the ways of managing them and also his ability in that direc tion being better known perhaps the efficiency of the board would be increased by the change per haps another improvement would be the election of a controller to act apart from the auditing com mittee the latter committee simply have the right to look over receipts expenditures c ; if a bill seems extravagant they have no power to reject it now the elec tion of a controller would do away with this possibility he would have power to reject bills if he saw fit and thus he would be able to stop any indiscriminate use of money before action in the matter became too late the only objec tion to this is that the office might be too burdensome for one man without some remuneration al though such would hardly be the case at the present time another point is in the auditing of accounts it seems to the writer that once the first term and twice the second would not be too often and would not be too much of a task for the auditing board if accounts are kept in a business-like manner the labors of the auditing committee would be comparatively light and the oftener accounts are audited the better it would be for all con cerned . kodak the growing sentiment of dis satisfaction with the financial methods in vogue with the execu tive committee of the athletic association culminated at the last college meeting in a proposi tion to amend the constitution however good the amendment may be perhaps it might not be out of place to offer a few suggestions in regard to one or two points mr maharg recommended the election of an auditing committee to con sist of one senior one junior one sophomore one freshman and one resident alumnu.s it would seem that the election of a fresh man to the board would be inadvi sable inasmuch as his influence would be very small moreover no member of that class would at the time of election have sufficient knowledge of the methods of the association to competently fill the position of course there might be a financier amongst them but the chances are against it and the notice all matter for the february competition of the architects club must be in by monday february 19th j freshman class meet ing at the meeting of the freshman class on wednesday afternoon the ballot for vice president resulted in the election of white ; curtis and heisey withdrew the proposed constitution was adopted in a slightly altered form and cushing's manual was chosen as the authority on questions of parliamentary procedure college meeting a college meeting was held on tuesday february thirteenth in christmas hall to receive the re port of the athletic committee in regard to the amount of money collected toward the required one thousand dollars president bur ley of the senior class called the meeting to order at 1-2.38 p m k d floyd president of the ath letic association then stated that the committee had done all in its power to raise the required amount by canvassing the college and that the amount collected fell short by a considerable sum every man had had an opportunity to contri bute but many who were appar ently able to pay had avoided the committee or refused to subscribe he further announced that mr w a wilbur had generously prom ised to raise 500 provided 1000 be subscribed by the college men he then appealed to all men who had not subscribed to come to the committee to give what they were able and to give it at once t g hamilton treasurer of the athletic association reported that 668 had been subscribed by 808 men ; 22 by outside contributors and that the burr had promised 50 on the condition that both teams be maintained making a total of 740 ; leaving 260 to be collected mr floyd said that he considered this a very poor showing and that he was sure the rest of the men in college could give at least 1 each and that some were able to give much more he also reminded the men that unless 1000 be col lected on friday it must be de cided which team is to be dropped payne 94 moved that a state ment of the situation be posted on the bulletin boards on friday and that the college be given until tuesday to make up the balance of the 1000 then unsubscribed this motion was carried