Brown and White Vol. 2 no. 34

              glee and banjo club concert the concert given at the foun tain hill opera house last satur day evening was probably the best ever given by the musical organi zations the body of the house wascomfortably filled and a goodly number were present in the gallery the concert had been well adver tised and at least every college man was aware that the future life of the clubs depended in a great measure upon the financial success of the evening as they had lost heavily upon the trip taken during the holidays it no doubt will give great satisfaction to know that the treasury is once more upon a substantial base and that no more engagements for this sea son need be cancelled the curtain rose about 8.20 o'clock and the first number american cavalry by the banjo club was most enthusiastically re ceived and encored the glee club followed with " tom tom the piper's son and received also a hearty welcome owing to the illness of whildin,'9s leader of the glee club it was at first feared that the club would be considerably crippled but at the last moment his place was most efficiently filled by mr c e pettinos the well known leader of the banjo club and in fact the entire credit for the success of both clubs belongs to him alone after this the clubs alternated and a pleasing variety was given by pettinos's solo and hallock's ever popular specialty one of the features of the second half : w,as the mandolin solo by miller 9s accompanied by pettinos on the guitar it was very well received both musicians playing in their best form the concert was over about 10.30 o'clock everyone well pleased with the entertain ment brown also read a letter from mr stillwell of the westinghouse company congratulating the society upon the separation of the courses in electrical engineering and physics and regretting his inability to lecture here before april the papers read during the even ing proved interesting and pro voked much discussion murray 95 gave the concluding section of his paper on " lightning arrest ers the wurtz discriminating arrester was explained the prin ciple of the device is that a light ning discharge will jump an air gap in preference to taking a path through a coil as the impedance rather than the ohmic resistance offers the greater opposition to the discharge the discriminating lightning arrester must allow the static electricity to pass but it must be an effective barrier to the dynamo current the first of a series of papers on feeders for electric light and eailway circuits was presented by lannan 95 there are several different ways of connecting feed ers there may be a single feeder connected at intervals to the trolley wire ; a divided or sectional trolley wire may be used ; there may be several feeders and combinations of these methods may be made the sectional system is coming into favor for use in large cities mr lannan then showed how the size of the feeders and trolley lines can be calculated the use of the booster in electric railway circuits was discussed by lackey 95 the booster is a series wound generator placed in series with the feeder the object of it is to overcome the drop in potential due to the resistance of the circuit and to obtain a constant voltage at any point on the line it accom plishes what the feeder system aims at but does it much more eco nomically the action of the booster not being clearly under stood mr powell explained it satisfactorily the stillwell regulator was ex plained by harvey 95 this sub ject was of particular interest from the fact that mr stillwell the patentee of the regulator was for merly connected with lehigh hav ing received in 1885 a certificate for the advanced course in electri city the stillwell regulator can be used only on alternating current circuits the object of it is to keep the voltage constant this is nec essary in all incandescent lighting as imperfect regulation materially affects the life of a lamp diagrams of the connections were given and the manner in which regulation is obtained was explained this regu lator by means of a properly ar ranged switch can be made to act either as a booster or as a device for lowering the voltage communication to the editors of the brown and white at a recent meeting of the epitome board the question of raising the price of the epitome from 1 to 1.50 was discussed the purpose of this communication is to acquaint the college men with the reasons why the board has been forced to consider this change the 96 epitome board is con fronted by a very serious situation and it sees before it as matters now stand a prospect of debt which to say the least is most disconcerting and which hampers it greatly the unsettled condition of busi ness and financial affairs existing throughout the country has had the effect of making business men very conservative in their ventures and especially so in advertising pub lications like the epitome must depend largely upon advertise ments as a source of income this year it has been with the greatest difficulty that advertisements have been secured and it is certain that our board cannot depend upon ad vertising for the usual income the only alternatives that oc cured to the board were 1 in creasing the price of the epitome or 2 publishing an inferior book the second of these was dropped as discreditable to the class of ' 96 and to the university and discus sion centered on increasing the price to 1.50 it was not altogether the fact of being unable to secure the required amount of advertising that caused the discussion from rough esti mates on the publishing of the epitome,we find that the cost will be from 1.15 to 1.30 per volume as the book has appeared for the last year or two now it is a sui cidal business policy to charge 1 for a book which costs at least 1.25 and depend upon advertise ments to make up the loss on each volume the work of preparing and publishing the epitome is so arduous and demands so much time from college duties that it seems hardly fair to ask the board to do this work and then not pay as much for the book as it costs them to produce it besides these ten men are expected to assume per sonally any obligations incurred and they the obligations will no doubt be on hand at the close of our work without making sure of it and charging less than cost to begin with it is only right that the board should go on with its work without the certainty of a burden of debt at the end as a re ward when the epitome was first published years ago it was in pamphlet form and its price was 25 cents the book has gradually grown as years passed until the present handsome volume is the outcome but the price has not kept pace with the growth from an artistic and literary standpoint or rather from the standpoint of cost the lehigh epitome is one of the best annuals published but it is also one of the cheapest the usual price for college annuals is 1.50 and at some places 2 tile annuals of lafayette cornell and amherst cost 1.50 the board has now at hand a large quantity of artistic material which will make a very handsome book but which if more income is not assured cannot be used all we ask is justice and nothing more the 96 epitome board does not feel willing to go into the wort of publishing a book that is ex pected to be a credit to the class and to the university at large and at the same time have in view the possibility of having to pay out of their own private means several hundred dollars for debts which are sure to come it is something that should not be asked of any ten men in taking this position we do not feel that we are shirking any responsibility but all must ad mit that the situation is serious if the college is willing that we set the price at 1.50 we can prom ise a book that will be a credit to lehigh it will be a much bettei book mechanically than ever be fore and as for the other features — well they must speak for them selves no doubt this article will causes severe criticism and discussion bat we think that when the college men have thought the matter over seriously and weighed carefully all the facts here presented they will see the justice of our plea j b given business manager 96 epitome electrical engineer ing society a regular meeting of this society was held tuesday evening in the physical laboratory in the matter of the christmas hall room ir vine 95 of the committee ap pointed to investigate into the ad visability of using this room for a meeting place reported that the change would be of no advantage to the society as the members had nearly all contributed indi vidually the society decided to let the matter drop president e c brown called the attention of the members to the fact that lehigh is unrepresented in the electrical journals and re commended that several corres pondents lor them should be chosen any one wishing to serve in this capacity will hand his name to warr 95 several letters from mr.kennelly to the society were read in regard to his recent visit to lehigh mr dr caske threatens to give up his lectures in christian evidences unless better order is preserved the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa february 7 1895 vol 11 no l calendar thursday feb 7 classical feltifc dr hyde's room 2 p m friday feb b college election christmas hall junior germ an sun ian 8.80 p m saturday feb 9 -— ke-exaimoa tions all subjects trader professor klein sunday feb 10 christian asso ciation christmas hall bft p m notices all college men are invited to the meeting of the agora this evening at 7 p m christmas hall important meeting of the epit ome board this evening at the phi gamma delta house hour t o'clock w s ayabsj editor-in-chiefl a college election to elect mana gers and assistant managers of the football and track teams will foe held on friday feb 8 in saocon hall all are required to show their receipts in order to vote