Brown and White Vol. 2 no. 29

              those of us who are constantly complaining that the university is not adequately represented by the works of its professors or instruc tors should read the journal of the franklin institute for january which contains an excellent article on " the resistance to corrosion of some light aluminium alloys by dr richards of the metallurgi cal department dr richards is already a recognized authority on the new metal and the publication of this article in a journal of such widespread reputation is a well earned recognition of his numerous and untiring investigations he gives in a condensed form the results of a series of experi ments with pure aluminium and with alloys of it containing be tween two and three per cent of copper german silver nickel and titanium under the action of such ordinary corrosive agents as caustic potash hydrochloric acid nitric acid common salt acetic acid vine gar and water charged with car bonic acid gas from the results of three experiments dr richards shows for what particular uses the pure metal and each one of its al loys is best adapted the conclu sions reached are highly practical and of great value to anyone who desires to put the metal to practical use as the mixture of even very small proportions of other metals with aluminium produces import ant changes in its properties both mechanically and chemically communication to the editors of the brown and whits an attempt will be made this term to fit the large lower room in christmas ball as a clubroom and general gathering place — a place which shall always be open com fortable and attractive where stu dents may meet each other spend an extra half hour on the campus talk over plans smoke play cards and loaf it is believed that such a place will do more to develop college spirit and destroy cliques than anything else nearly every year a plan oi tin's sort has been considered and the want of such a room has always been felt in order that the work and action may be fully and correctly under stood from the first we as a tem porary committe have decided to submit a communication to you to be printed for the information of the students a number of seniors talking to gether one evening found all de sirous of such a place and willing to help they talked to other seniors and asked their co-opera tion more than satisfied by the interest shown by all these seniors about forty-five had been seen al together decided to choose a com mittee seven seniors were chosen from their number who were or dered to select five juniors three sophomores and one freshman to serve with them they were given full power to act the committee obtained from the trustees the room desired and have made esti mates and obtained prices on all work neceesary to be done it will take approximately 300 and 1 will be asked from each this will be raised by private subscrip tion and of course the success or failure of the venture depends wholly on the number who support it during the next week every man in college will be approached by some member of the committee who will obtain his promise or subscription and be glad to give or receive any ideas the temporary committee chosen to represent as many courses societies eating clubs as possible with different fra ternity and non-fraternity men is : 95 — arbenz bowie de huff fer ris,kautz massey shero ; ' ( j6 — h w baldwin hall pool e c thurston d w wilson ; 97 liannum treichler yates ; 98 — gass after the room has been fixed and is running smoothly we will submit a report to the college and ask that a permanent commit tee or board of directors be chosen vei'v fcspec fully the committee erie r liannum m 7 secretary a number of alumni interested in the glee club and the proposed publication of a pennsylvania song book offers prizes aggregating 50 for words and music competi tion open to alumni and students of that university auditing committee report the auditing committee is at last able to present a report of the accounts of the football team for 1894 the training table account has not been closed because some of the men have not paid their por tions in full the item given in the report for training table is therefore subject to correction in addition to the amounts reported below the manager received three hundred and fifty dollars 350 from the treasurer of the athletic association and one hundred and twenty-five dollars 125 in sub scriptions were paid direct to him this leaves a cash balance in the hands of the manager which has not as yet been turned over to the treasurer of the athletic association the report of the treasurer of the athletic association including the list of subscriptions will be ready in a few days account of football team sea son 1894 the auditing committee jas e brooks chairman jan 19 1895 the glee and banjo clubs owing to the heavy loss incurred by the musical organizations on the christmas trip the clubs find themselves at present in a position from which they can extricate themselves only by the hardest kind of work this they are will ing to do but their only hope of success is that the college will stand by them and give them their hearty aid and co-operation the clubs iiave long been recog nized as one of the most flourishing and hardest working organizations that the college possesses in all the concerts they have given this year they have won golden opin ions for themselves and they expect to do even better for their friends at home it is only fitting that the students should respond in some way to the efforts of the clubs and they can do that by attending the concert which will be given on saturday night feb 2 at the fountain hill opera house the programme will be an almost entirely new one and the prices have been made so as to offer no excuse for any student not to go and help out the musical organizations ♦ pennsylvania has decided not to send a crew to england the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa januaey 21 1895 vol 11 no 29 calendar monday jan 21 — engineering society physical laboratory 7.30 p m ' j tuesday jan 22 electrical en gineering society physical lab oratory 7 30 p m wednesday jan 23 banjo club rehearsal eagle hotel 6.30 p m thursday jan 24 banjo club re hearsal eagle hotel 6.30 p m friday jan 25 agora meeting christmas hall 7 p m saturday jan 26 banjo club re hearsal eagle hotel 0.30 p m saturday jan 26 mr kenelly's lecture before the e e society physical laboratory 8 p m sunday jan 27 — christian asso ciation meeting christmas hall 6.30 p m notices the lehigh university grlee and banjo clubs will give a concert saturday evening feb 2 at the fountain hill opera house tickets can be bought on and after wed nesday jan 23 from any member of the glee and banjo clubs the business manager and the assistant business manager these tickets will be redeemable for the regular seats at nick urn's drugstore beth lehem and jacoby's drugstore south bethlehem on and after wednesday jan 30 prices 75 50 and 35 cents j w thueston manager the men who desire to form a washington club will meet tues day jan 22 at 12.30 p m in the english room second floor packer hall the alumni members of the new athletic committee are messrs geo jenkins 70 geo booth 86 eol lin 11 wilbur 85 and garrett b linderman 87 mr archibald johnston 89 was named as the alumni member of the auditing committee a small fire which emitted a great deal of smoke was discovered sunday evening at prof merri man's house on the campus it was easily conquered before the arrival of the engines " all re-examinations in mathe matics will take place on saturday february 2d harvard won first place in the recent intercollegiate chess tourna ment the abolition ot football at northwestern university is being considered by a committee of the university trustees the massachusetts institute of technology is trying to secure a charter for a chapter of phi beta kappa the aluminium inves tigation earnings 3347 02 loss by team 207 76 ttqkk/l t i credit expenses paid 3276 52 expenses unpaid 278 26 3554 7i earnings gate receipts — rutgers $ 162 75 princeton 397 35 swarthmore 50 65 indian school 112 65 north carolina ho 50 lafayette 747 00 1580 91 guarantees received — yale 145 50 pennsylvania 400 00 princeton 222 20 orange 120 00 annapolis 200 00 yale new york 175 50 cornell 502 92 1766 1 expenses 3347 0 guarantees paid — rutgers 125 00 princeton 197 15 swarthmore 75 00 indian school 100 00 north carolina 200 00 697 1 travelling expenses — new haven 216 46 philadelphia 90 68 princeton 103 80 orange 78 86 annapolis 264 68 new york 115 60 easton 8 75 ithaca 123 40 supplies — miscellaneous $ 12 85 foot 8 lls etc 18 86 spaulding's bill unpaid . 278 26 * 309 9 miscellaneous expenses — graves trainer $ 83 35 heffelfinger trainer 708 35 mcolung trainer 65 00 umpire 12 00 umpire 12 25 referee 12 25 referee 20 75 walter attendant 83 25 repairs uniforms 28 45 training table 367 15 telegrams 15 04 freight and express 2 80 repairing shoes 18 51 stamps 4 00 posters 27 00 athletic grounds 15 10 omnibuses 14 00 dr edwards services ... 21 20 houston expenses 10 50 barnard expenses 4 50 ale 6 50 car fare,police,drugs,etc 13 48 1545 4 3554 7