Brown and White Vol. 3 no. 32

              the register within a few days the eegister for 95-96 will be ready for dis tribution it is issued later than usual this year on account of the great amount of additional work in volved in rearranging all the courses and dividing the year's work equally between the two terms which will hereafter be of nearly equal length the first term 96 will begin sept 23 christ mas holidays begin dec 23 and end jan 29 second term begins feb 4 university day june 16 on the board of trustees the names of john fritz the late bishop howe and the late hon eckley b coxe are missed and one new name is found that of robert p linderman 84 president of the bethlehem iron company two vacancies remain to be filled of the honorary alumni trustees dr henry r price 70 succeeds chas l taylor 76 whose term of office expired last year on the execu tive committee win 11 say re succeeds john fritz on the li brary committee robt p linder man 84 succeeds the late hon eckley b coxe for the first time since the foundation of the jtjniversity the name of the late dr henry coppee does nof appear among the members of the faculty and its absence will bring a pang of sadness to all who knew him professor doolittle's name is also missed with regret but there are also new names ; those of presi dent drown professor charles l thornburg professor wm c thayer and dr alexander mac farlane lecturer in charge of the department of electrical engineer ing among the instructors h s houskeeper john s siebert wm h powell e e fisher and f r gibbs are replaced by j h klinck h s webb,j 11 . qgburn and the following assistants : s s clark nathaniel thurlow and wm 11 hoffman the names of all students appear without the unpopular asterisk in 1897 and thereafter arithmetic will be omitted from the requirements for admission to all courses and the ex aminations for admission to the freshman class in the school of technology will include solid geom etry a new six years course is offered to students who ; wish to combine a literary with a technical course during the junior and senior years they will be permitted to substitute technical for literary studies receiving the literary de gree at the end of the four years and the technical degree upon completion of the work from one and a half to two years later among the important changes is the insertion of physical laboratory work in the sophomore year of all courses except the classical the register is of the usual size and not much changed in general ap pearance senior m.e shop visits the senior mechanicals took possession of philadelphia on fri day and saturday of last week for their first shop visit of the present term friday morning they started out by visiting the famous baldwin locomotive works in the erecting shops of which may be seen loco motives designed for nearly every nation on the face on the earth giant locomotives for eussia hob nobbing with miniature ones for japan thence they proceeded to the plant of sellers & co a stone's throw distant here the sellers automatic gear-cutting ma chines were inspected this ma chine has been brought to such a state of perfection that all that is required is that the casting be properly adjusted and the cutter will turn out the finished gear without further attention six of these machines are operated by one man much interest was taken in the cast-iron lathe tools used here the manufacture of which is a secret of the establishment in the afternoon the places visited were the shops of pedrick & ayer and the huge works of bement miles & co the former firm makes a specialty of milling machines of various forms and in its shop are also many ingenious contrivances worked by compressed air which replaces steam as a motive power wherever possible saturday forenoon was devoted to cramps shipyards their va rious machine shops were visited and the engine rooms of the u s s massachusetts now being fin lehigh university south bethlehem pa january 30 1896 vol 111 ished received a large share of attention the party in charge of instruc tor knox returned to bethlehem saturday evening no 32 the brown and white sociedad-hispano-ame ricano at the last meeting the follow ing officers were elected for the ensuing year : president henry newton 97 vice president b a mercenano 97 treasurer j a de obaldia 98 ; secretary j capriles 99 the condition of the society is flourishing and the mem bership is larger than ever prof thayer has resumed his course of reading and classics which he car ries on with the club every mon day and wednesday the next literary meeting of the club will be held on the 2d of february at 2.15 p m at the p*ost office building mora 96 and fuente 99 will debate on " col lege education abroad the former will discuss the advantages and the latter the disadvantages a new departure a pamphlet on " the school of mechanical engineering lehigh university has lately been issued by professor klein and is the first of a series of similar circulars to be sent out by the university to such quarters as it is supposed they may do most good it is gotten up in the brief concise style that is so characteristic of professor klein and gives a complete synopsis of the course as taught here with samples of examinations machine design and thesis subjects es pecially to be noted is the plate given in the recent examination in graphic statics of mechanics which brought such untold woe upon certain careless and unprepared heads in the e e department there is also a plate giving com plete inerratic analysis of the ball and wood high speed governor showing the method used for de termining instantaneous centres the reduction of masses and forces and the plotting of paths and cen troids the departure is a new and original one and should be very successful in advertising the uni i'vinthe most legitimate and al way sophomore class meet ing a class meeting was held yester day at 12.30 p m president homer was in the chair and read a de tailed account of the finances of the class upon motion treasurer soleliac's resignation was accepted and a motion was also passed ten dering him a vote of thanks for the manner in which he filled his office nominations were then made for treasurer which were as follows : shepp mcgunnigle levidsey edgar yorks b w riegel hershey thurston roper upon motion the meeting adjourned calendar thursday jan 80 — organ recital packer memorial church by j fred wolle 8 p m friday jan 31 — sophomore es says due lecture by dr r w ray mond of brooklyn subject : " the nature and force of the mineral land patents of the u 5 physical laboratory 11.30 a m " saturday feb 1 — agora meeting christmas hall 7 p m mr meaker's classes in cal culus 10 a m sunday feb 2 — bible class christmas hall 8.80 p m regular meeting of the christian association in christ mas hall 6.15 p m tuesday feb 4 — meeting of 97 epitome board phi delta theta house 7 p m wednesday feb 5 — regular monthly meeting of sopomore class 12.30 p m regular class meeting of junior class 12.30 p m regular class meeting of senior class 12.30 p m friday feb 7 — sophomore co tillion club dance saturday feb b l u a a smoker at gymnasium saturday feb 15 — minstrel show given by the glee and banjo clubs notices the beown and white has de cided for the future to add to its columns an alumni department once every two weeks a column or as much as is necessary will be printed oi entirely alumni news the alumni editor is mr s m dessauer and the bbown and white will esteem it a great favor if the alumni will send to him ad dressed care of beown and white any items which they think will be of interest all of the other subscribers of the paper are earnestly urged to contribute to this department photographs taken at the phila delphia alumni banquet can be obtained from business manager of beown and white price 1 each a regular meeting of the agora will be held on saturday evening at 7 o'clock in christmas hall there will be a general discussion of the action taken by the united states in the venezuelan affair the committee on debate with lafayette will also report the chess club will meet on friday evenings at 8 o'clock in the lounging room it is requested that all intending to play this sea son commence to attend the meet ings at once and partake of a sys tem of training which is to be under taken president 96 class book there was a meeting of the senior class book board at the phi gamma delta house last night at 7 o'clock the number of slips which have been signed clearly show that the class will support the effort the signatures of nearly all the men have been solicited and there have been very few ab solute refusals in reference to the pictures of the classmen which the book shall contain it was decided after care ful considerations to include in the list all those whose names have ap peared on the senior rolls with the class of 9.6 the subject of photography was considered of next importance and immediate efforts will be made to effect satisfactory arrangements «. : but seven men passed the pre liminary examination in miner alogy hesse 94 who has been an in structor in the parochial school bethlehem has resigned to accept a position in new york city