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              went south without having any practice that amounted to any thing and the consequence was that no games were won on the trip thus far bat two games have been arranged with lafayette one at easton and one here this is because president warfield has forbidden the team to play on neu tral ground and it would be a de cided advantage to either team to have the third game in the event of a tie played on its own grounds there is a prospect of a game with the indians the college was very much pleased with the football game they played here last fall and they may be as much of a surprise this spring as they were then the usual games will be play ed with princeton and pennsyl vania but there will be no game with cornell the following is the schedule completed up to date march 27 — univ of vermont at south bethlehem april 6 — columbia at south bethlehem april 10 — georgetown at wash ington april 11 — univ of virginia at charlottes ville april lo — univ of north caro lina at chapel hill april 15 — univ of north caro lina at raleigh april 20 — univ of penna at philadelphia april 2-1 — state college at south bethlehem april 27 — lafayette at easton may 1 — princeton at princeton may 4 — lafayette at south beth lehem may 15 — univ of penna at south bethlehem may 18 west point at west point the southern club according to the announcement in the last issue of this paper the southerners met in the english room at 12.30 p m on tuesday and further discussed the plans for making their club a decided suc cess at lehigh a number of short talks brought out the idea of more college feeling and a better acquaintance with fel low students the object of this club is by no means sectional but it designs to bring together men of a common feeling and thus create an interest in each other and a gen eral fellowship among all another meeting will be held in the newly fitted up room in christ mas hall next monday evening at 7 o'clock the committee will report on constitution and by-laws every southerner should consider it both a privilege and a duty to give his support to this club j s lieilig 91 formerly with the maryland steel company is employed at the bethlehem iron works senior class meeting a meeting of the senior class was held in the english room in packer hall tuesday at 12.30 o'clock immediately after dr caskey had finished his lecture to the class president poultney called the meeting to order the reading of the minutes was dispensed with the business of the meeting con sisted in the discussion of the cap and gown question and the nomi nation of the class day officers coleman moved that the class adopt the cap and gown to be worn after easter this was amended by gibson so as to read that the class request the members to wear cap and gown the motion was then passed some discussion arose as to the manner of making nominations for the class honors a motion to have the president appoint a com mittee to make arrangements for nominations and elections was lost an amendment to the preceding empowering the committee to make nominations also failed to pass the class then proceeded to make the necessary nominations these to be held open for two days the nominations follow : class toast cooke murray,kautz,warr farman ; class poet gibson best baker ; presentation oration cas tleman maurice irvine giberga faison dubarry ; class prophet baker chetwood shero massey g lewis vansant ; ivy orator ferriday clift warr ; tablet ora tor,warr keim delluff reinecke coleman galan the class decided to elect the class day and banquet committees the nominations for the former are : c f townsend coleman warr henry w t brown gib son f a mckenzie haines moulds whitmoyer cooke har vey and john of these five are to be elected it was moved and passed that the banquet committee shall con sist of six men the following were nominated : a 11 . lewis whitmoyer baker hopkins bar ber oooke,murray james,bricker lackey w t brown dick and bastress baseball any changes from the above list will be published in our next issue manager bannon has not yet completed his schedule but the prospects are that all dates will be filled in a lew weeks the team will play two games before starting on its southern trip which should be beneficial last year the team electrical engineer ing society a small audience composed al most exclusively of members of the society listened to three papers read at the regular meeting of the electrical engineering society last tuesday evening in the physical laboratory the meeting was called to order by president brown and after the minutes of the preceding meeting had been read and approved sev eral letters were read the elec trical engineer and the western electrician each wrote giving the society a free subscription to their journals the packard electric company also sent a set of economy coils a vote of thanks was ex tended for these favors the report was accepted and its provisions were adopted under the order of reports warr 95 offered the following report on the organization of systematic cor respondence between the society and electrical journals the fol lowing members of the society have been appointed correspond ents : lannan 95 to the electri cal world ; de huff 95 electrical engineer ; steinmetz 95 street railway journal ; flory 96 elec trical review ; hall 96 electrical age and eden 96 electricity they have also been informed of their duties as follows : they are expected to send to their several journals the transactions of the so ciety as published in the college pa pers with any notes or comments they may choose to add ; also any matters of electrical interest which may come before the society which they deem of sufficient importance ; and to hold themselves in readiness at all times to answer promptly and fully all questions which may be asked by the editors of their respective publications the first paper on '' measuring and indicating apparatus used by the edison company was read by eden 96 he described by means of sketches the indicator used in the test of lamps and also that one employed to show a balance of po tential in the edison three wire system townsend 95 followed with a paper on the three-wire system as applied to trolley roads the groupings of generators was des cribed and also several methods of arranging the trolley wire the advantage of this system lies in the fact that although the differ ence of potential between track and trolley is only 500 volts a 1000 volt current is employed this saves feeder wire and as most of the re turn is in the overhead wires and not through the track or ground but little electrolysis of under ground metal pipes is observed where this system is in use my electrical sweetheart a metrical electrical romance was offered by harvey 95 the ad jectives as well as being appropriate the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa february 21 1895 vol 11 no sa and poetical throughout were also of technical interest and excited much mirth by their technical and at the same time poetical applica tion after a vote of thanks to these gentlemen the meeting adjourned calendar thursday feb 21 — soph o n : ■ essays due friday feb 22 — washington birthday holiday junior oratorical contest chapel 11 a m second dancing class eagle hotel 8.30 p m sunday feb 24 — christian asso ciation christmas hall 6.8 p m monday feb 25 — agora meeting christmas hall 7 p m tuesday feb 23 — athletic " smoker gymnasium 8 inter-collegiate la crosse association . the annual meeting of this asso ciation was held in philadelphia saturday feb 16 at the lafayette hotel lehigh was represented by messrs j c dick and b m mc donald ; stevens by k e ho-11 and w h corbett and johns hopkins by t f p cameron and j el pleasant jr the following schedule of games was arranged for 1895 : may 11 johns hopkins vs stevens at bal timore ; may 18 lehigh vs jolins hopkins at south bethlehem may 25 stevens vs lehigb at iloboken the championship of 1894 was officially awarded to stevens a book on lacrosse edited by w el corbett and published by the american sports publishing com pany was sanctioned as the official guide of the association the ibl lowing officers were elected for the ensuing year : w 11 . corbett^presi dent j c dick vice-president i j h pleasant jr secretary and treasurer ; executive committee messrs b m mcdonald t by pnp n cameron and j f hunter 97 class meeting the sophomore class held \ meeting wednesday in the eng lish room for the purpose of dis cussing calculus cremation the meeting was called to order by vice-president serrell the con dition of finances showed that unless the men paid up their class dues there would be no cremation it was then moved that a coca mittee of three be appointed ta investigate the cost oi yario^s methods of cremation the elsss supper was then discussed it w>ss moved that no wine be served with the banquet but this motion w.a lost the banquet committee will be appointed in a few days hj president white «. , coogan catcher of tbe u'bwer sity of pennsylvania baseball team received offers from new york philadelphia and washington he has decided to remain at tke uni versity till june when he will b graduated