Brown and White Vol. 4 no. 47

              senior class meeting at the meeting of the senior class held in christmas hall on wednesday the following com mittees and orators were elected : banquet committee scott john son brady van duyne roundey chiles class day committee,|brady sheppard chiles treichler merri man ivy orator hood tablet orator curtis ; prophet ammen ; toast irwin presentation orator hiester ; class poet nachod the university day speakers are : vale dictorian brown ; salutatorian binkley ; yohn loomis and thomas .+. * f h baldwin 96 is in town professor thayer's lecture the sixth and last lecture in the university free lecture course was delivered by professor thayer in the central high school hall on tuesday evening his subject was john milton the lecturer began with a verse written by the late laureate of england in which he pays " tribute to the high character and trans cendent genius of one who towers above his contemporaries as a man and as a poet seldom has a scholar retired more completely from the busy world of trade and politics to cultivate all that is best and most spiritual in the realm of poetry ; seldom has he returned to public life with such a vigor of earnest purpose to subordinate the learned labors of the past to the stern duties of a citizen it is in this two-fold development of the powers of his mighty genius that milton has deserved well of his country ; and it is by viewing him in both of these relations to the thought of his time that we may gain the perfect conception of a character that was meant to be as symmetrical as it was commanding in the one he appeals to us by his poetry in the other by his prose ; and although the former may have gained him undying fame the lat ter is absolutely necessary to any comprehensive estimate of his life and work and cannot be ignored the lecturer then gave a short sketch of the milton family and added : v john milton was born in bread street london the 9th of december 1608 the middle mem ber of a group of three surviving children with whom he grew up the lecturer followed out closely the life of milton and his early works often quoting some of his more beautiful and noted poems in speaking of his prolonged trip on the continent the lecturer said : " from florence he went to rome obeying the natural gravitation of a scholar trained in the history and classics of italy there he visited and talked with galileo then a prisoner of the inquisition for proving that the earth moves here as every where milton showed his independence and courage by courting the freest expression of opinion tho warned repeatedly that policy counselled at least a temporary suppression of his views political and religious his very frankness led to the formation of friendships with some of the most eminent men of the time many of whom were in perfect accord with his views yet lacked the courage to avow them " after visiting naples milton was on the point of continuing his travels through sicily and greece when news of the disturbed state of public affairs at home tending rapidly towards civil war led him to abandon his plan of more ex tended travels and turn his course the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa thursday april 8 1897 vol iv no 47 agora and forum at the joint meeting of the agora and forum on wednesday evening the final debate for the purpose of choosing representa tives for lehigh in the coming lafayette-lehigh debate was held mr hood 97 who was one of the most promising candidates and who has represented us twice be fore in this capacity announced previous to the debate that owing to overpressure of college work he would be compelled to withdraw from all competition and therefore desired that his name be not con sidered the societies received his withdrawal with regret but thoroughly appreciated mr hood's reasons and were therefore forced to accept it immediately after the addresses of the various men competing the judges mr lambert dr semple and mr emery omitting therefore the name of mr hood returned a decision in favor of starkey 98 frisby 98 meaker 99 and childs 98 as alternate the question of choosing a rep resentative to the oratorical contest at chautauqua in july was then laid before the meeting mr kodjbanoff 98 was finally elected to the position by acclamation immediately following this the meeting adjourned homeward from private sources the world later learned the true motive for this change of plan ; in a letter he speaks of ' deeming it unworthy of him to be diverting himself in security abroad when his countrymen were contending with an insidious monarch for their liberty in this as in all his subsequent conduct he set us a lesson peculiarly appropriate to the young men of a young repub lic — that no considerations of scholastic ease no distaste for practical politics excuses a man from taking his part in maintain ing the political institutions of his native land and it is the scholar as the best fitted for enlightened influence that the strongest appeal of patriotism is made the beautiful characteristics of of milton were dealt with in much detail and his influence upon eng lish literature clearly shown many of his more noted works both prose and poetry were alluded to and a few of the shorter ones hastily discussed the lecture was very interestng and greatly appreciated by a very fair sized audience it is sincerely hoped that next year this course of lectures will be continued and will receive greater support and appre ciation by the undergraduates than the series just so successfully ended calendar thursday april 8 — junior me chanicals shop visit to new york city college lecture physical laboratory saturday april 10 — baseball rutgers at athletic field quiz in sophomore me chanics physical laboratory 9 a m colle6e mass meeting in dixon's hall at 8 p m tuesday april 13 — meeting of civil engineering society 7 p m wednesday april 14 — baseball university of georgetown at washington re-quiz in sophomore me chanics easter holidays begin at 12.30 p m thursday april 15 — baseball university " of virginia at charlottesville > va friday april 1.6 — charlotte a a at charlotte n c saturday april 17 — university of n c at chapel hill n c monday april 19 — university of n c at winstonsalem n c tuesday april 20 — american catholic university at wash ington wednesday april 21 — easter holidays end at 8.15 a.m thursday april 22 — regular meet of agora at 7.30 p m saturday april 24 — banjo club concert fountain hill opera house epitome notices every alumnus and undergradu ate who has not signified his inten tion of purchasing a copy cf the 98 epitome is earnestly requested to do so at once the price will be the same as usual 1.50 and ex pressage and the same may be had after may 1 by applying to h m daggett jr business manager baseball on saturday lehigh's first baseball game is saturday with eutgers on the home grounds the game will be called at 3.30 and the general admission will be 25 cents this is not rutgers first game so they should make a good show ing our team has had some good practice and is fast developing team work under mr bannon's efficient coaching lehigh will bat in the following order : pomeroy ss e gross if w grace ist b senior cf or p capt carman c gannon 3d b reed rf or cf peck or lukens 2d b white p substitute fugitt rf or c white will start in to pitch but later in the game senior will be given a chance chess mr otto hess of bethlehem,the most prominent chess player in this locality will play a simultaneous game this coming friday evening in christmas hall all the students are invited to enter the contest the members of the club are especially urged to come moeitz secy there will be a regular meeting of the agora on thursday evening april 22 at 7.30 o'clock the nominations for officers for the en suing year will be opened and every member is urged to attend hokn president college mass meeting in dixon's hall south bethlehem saturday evening at 8 o'clock ■*- _ _ . the proof of the first half of the 98 epitome has been received mathematical club the regular meeting of the above club was held in the physical lab oratory on tuesday night the pa per of the evening was on " linear equations by loomis 97 mr loomis defined a linear differential equation as an equation of the first degree with respect to y and its de rivatives the general form of the equation was stated and a value of y which satisfies the equation is called the integral of the equation the complete integral of the equa tion is known when the particular integrals are known provided they are distinct that is such that no one of them can be expressed as a sum oi multiples of the others applications of the theory were made in equations with equal and with unequal roots the symboli cal method of solving linear equa tions was also explained and ap plied the paper was very inter esting to all present officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows : president zim merman 98 ; vice president,dehm 98 ; secretary horn 98 there being no further business the meeting adjourned «~ the managing committee of the american school of classical studies in rome has offered to bachelors of arts of universities and colleges in the united states and to other american students of sim ilar standing one fellowship of 500 and two each of 600 for the schol astic year 1897-98