Brown and White Vol. 3 no. 36

              a meeting of the junior class was called to order by president johnson on tuesday at 12.30 after the approval of the min utes of the previous meeting the report of the treasurer was re ceived a report not very com plimentary to the class spirit of 97 after some discussion it was de cided on motion to retain the old class cut in the epitome the class supper committee presenting no report the meeting adjourned . — i *. ,, — _ articles for competition have been accepted from j h 98-1 ; fleur de lis 98-1 ; c m a.,98 2 ; excelsior 99-1 ; keno 97-1 «. there will be a meeting of the agora on next saturday afternoon feb 15 at 3 o'clock in christmas hall to select a question for the lehigh lafayette debate pee side nt minstrel show the sale of seats for the minstrel show is now open and all the students in college should avail themselves of the opportunity and procure one from present indi cations it looks as if the entertain iment next saturday evening will be first class in every particular the end men in the first part are all good and their jokes are almost entirely local and full of good hits the songs are numerous and have been chosen with great care among the best are " the leader of de company b and the new bully in the first part in addition there will be bones playing by johnson 97 and pennington 97 in the second part come the specialties there will be skirt dancing by marshall 97 adams 97 and farnum 99 ; tumbling by mr smith and put nam 97 whistling by brown 97 and hillman 98 ; a duet by c b pettinos and j g lehman ; a selection by the banjo club ; a musical recital by worstall 96 and last but not least p j mcmahon of south bethlehem in his famous songs pittsburg lehigh club dinner the dinner of the pittsburg le high club which was held in pitts burg last friday evening in honor of dr drown was in every way a complete success the banquet was held at the duquesne hotel in its large banquet hall which was tastefully decorated with lehigh colors all of the arrangements for the dinner were perfect and during its course it was frequently enlivened with lehigh songs and cheers one of the songs which was very good is a new le high song that was written especi ally for the occasion by w a cornelius 89 after the cigars were lighted chas l taylor 76 assumed the role of toast master the honors of which he did most gracefully throughout the en tire evening the first speaker he introduced was pi li mcclintic 88 who is the president of the pittsburg lehigh club and who made a glowing speech of welcome to dr drown and to all others present the next toast was that of " the lehigh university which was re sponded to by president drown in his remarks he spoke of the in fluence of college life in the forma tion of character and said a college course failed of its purpose if it simply stored the mind with useful information he was a firm be liever in mental training in educa tion as opposed to the acquiring of mere facts and rules the world wants in its educated men he said those trained in accurate thinking who distinguished sharply the limi tations of their knowledge who were able to conduct an investiga tion into the unknown who avere honest in thought and modestly self-reliant we are surrounded by great living,throbbing problems in our politics and our industries which we must train our college men to help solve the tendency in modern education should be to fit young men for the environment in which we are to live president drown spoke also of recent changes in the faculty of lehigh univer sity and of the great activity of the members of the faculty in the re cent publications of many new books and professional papers the next toast was that of the " alumni which was very happily responded to by 11 a porterfield 83 in the place of bishop avhite head who at the last moment was called away the next toast re sponded to was by engineer j p s lawrance of the united states navy lehigh 73 in the course of his remarks he urged the im portance of the bill now before congress relating to the increase of the engineer corps in the navy under the proposed plan the grad uates of technical colleges whose course of instruction maybe con sidered satisfactory by the navy are made eligible for appointment the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa thursday februaky 13 1896 vol 111 jsto 36 the wind-up will be a clever little farce entitled " the under taker's daughter the characters will be taken by c e pettinos given 96 ho well 96 marshall 97 and hillrnan 98 the beth lehem orchestra which has just been organized and which is com posed of the best musical talent in town will play no one should forget the date and all who want good seats should go early and procure them calendar thursday feb 18 — meeting of m e section of engineering society physical laboratory 7 p m meeting of electrical en gineering society physical laboratory 7 p m meeting of civil section of engineering society 7 p m friday feb 14 — meeting of chess club in lounging room 8 p m saturday feb 15 — minstrel show given by the glee and banjo clubs examinations in all mathe matics • ■■■'" sunday feb 16 — bible class christmas hall 3.30 p m ,!/ regular meeting of chris-1 1 tian association in christmas 1 hall 6.15 p m subject — the only safe leader ex 33 15 ; ps 32 8 notices as engineer cadets mr lawrance showed what a great benefit it would be to the navy if this bill was passed and expressed the sen timent that in such a case it would not be long before lehigh gradu ates would obtain many of the coveted positions in response to the next toast " the future a few appropriate remarks were made by 0 m tol man 85 in the absence of chan cellor holland the next toast was responded to by mr james gayley who is both a graduate and a trus tee of lafayette in the course of his remarks he spoke most warmly of lehigh university and alluded to the fact that president drown was one of his instructors when he was a student at lafayette the last toast was responded to in a pleasing vein by w s murray 95 it being now after 2 o'clock the banquet broke up the following lehigh men were present : j p s lawrance 73 chas l taylor 76 e w mahon 76 h a porter field 83 0 m tolman 85 h l auchmuty 85 p e davis 87 11 s smith 87 p 0 williams 87 wm bradford 88 0 d mar shall 88 h h mcclintic 88 g h juiks 88 w a cornelius 89 11 m carson 89 c walker 89 e h beazell 90 g h neilson 86 f dv p thompson 90 alex ander potter 90 11 n wilson 91 a l mcclung 91 jas w colwell 91 taylor anderdine 91 p 11 w smith 92 w j brady 92 e s masson 92 c l mc kenzie 93 e m sawtelle 93 matthew mcclung 94 c e ship ley 94 w s murray 95 w l bosbyshell 95 s m eiter 95 t g hamilton 95 w m green wood 96 and j w burrows 98 executive committe the executive committee of the lehigh university athletic commit tee held an important meeting last monday afternoon in the office of mr r h wilbur all the mem bers were present except mr g b linderman in addition the man ager and captain of the lacrosse team were present and the captain of the football team mr thurs ton reported that definite arrange ments had been made with the allentown traction company and that the grounds at ritters ville had been engaged for the sea son it was also thought best that the practice games be held in rit tersville and arrangements will be made to have a special car for that purpose run to and from the gtounds every day the schedule of the lacrosse manager up to date was approved the lacrosse man ager was instructed to procure a coach at once and also to perfect arrangements for a training table the work of preparing the bowling alley in the gymnasium was ap proved and the baseball manager was also directed to go ahead in his arrangements for a coach the question of a coach for the football team was then brought up and the manager was instructed to begin negotiations for one immediately there being no further business the meeting adjourned the regular meeting of the c e society will be held on thurs day evening 7 p m in the physi cal laboratory 0 c rutter will read a paper on " mining engineer ing all men interested in the meeting are invited to come out chairman : the preliminary contest in order to choose lehigh's representative for the state inter collegiate contest will be held in the chapel on wed nesday afternoon march 4 any man desiring to enter this trial should hand in his name to the committee as soon as possible all names must be in on or before feb 26 s m dessauek 96 . chairman h f boyer 96 d ed childs 98 committee the electrical engineering so ciety will meet at the physical lab oratory tonight at 7 o'clock tay lor 96 will read a paper on " electricity in mines " and weid eman 96 will read a paper on " galvanometer suspensions hall president ushers for the minstrel show will please report at the opera house on saturday evening at 7 o'clock sword and crescent pin lost finder please return to the brown and white office seniors who have not yet had their photos taken will please do so either friday afternoon or saturday morning of this week committee minstrel show rehearsal with orchestra at the sigma phi house this evening at 7.30 all make it a point to be present junior class meeting