Brown and White Vol. 4 no. 20

              president angell of the univer sity of michigan in an interview said recently that he had never seen but one game of football that at princeton this fall when they played virginia and that he thought football both brutal and stupid the world's story in architecture mr biggin in his saturda morning lecture continued his sub ject upon " the lord of the pyra mids in these lectures archi tecture is treated of in connection with the history of the country thereby fixing the architecture of the period with contemporaneous history having covered the dynas ties previous to the twelfth cen tury this one is taken up and reveals that in this the first sys tematic explorations and opening up of the vast resources of the country were begun the archi tectural and engineering works of this dynasty were numerous usertesen ii constructed a strong fortress on each side of the nile to keep nubia llebun kush in subjection in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries egypt returned to her former bad condition no king lived long enough to leave any monument the middle empire came to a sudden end about 2000 b c with the conquest of egypt by a foreign people they were termed the " hyksos or a shepherd kings their power covered probably the fifteenth to seventeenth dynasties they left little or no architectural works amoris prince of thebes became the first king of the tenth dynasty and almost immediately commenced a series of foreign con quests that introduced egypt prominently into the history of the world by succeeding pharaohs conquests were carried into pales tine phonecia and syria and egyptian temples were embellished with the spoils all the kings of this period were energetic builders the vast temple at karnak owes its splendor to one of these pharaohs eamses ii was the king who oppressed the hebrews sesortris as he was called was active as a builder and especially given to usurping earlier monuments and replacing the names of their builders with his own two-thirds of the monu ments extant bear his name notably the temple at suxor and the rock-cut temple of abasimbel in nubia he built the cities of pitorn and eamses mentioned in the scriptures as the treasure cities which were constructed by the slave labor of the israelites un der his son meruptah the exo dus occurred this dynasty ends with anarchy and the reign of a syrian usurper dynasty twenty-two is remem bered in connection with shosheuk or shishak of the bible who des poiled cities of india and israel during the reigns of jeroboam and eehoboom in 525 b c cambysis defeated the pharaoh of that day and egypt passed into persian control many attempts were made to lehigh university south bethlehem pa monday december 7 1896 get rid of the persian yoke until finally in 342 b c egypt became a province of alexander the great vol iv no 20 the brown and white sophomore cotillion club the dance to be given by the sophomore cotillon club on tues day dec 15 promises to be a very popular one everything is being done to make it an ideal college dance sortorri the famous harp ist of philadelphia with a full orchestra has been secured thus assuring good music the dance program contains twenty four num bers twelve waltzes and twelve two-steps with a well arranged list of selections the floor of the hall in the eagle hotel has been greatly improved and with the elaborate decorations which are being pre pared should add greatly to the pleasure of the participants the patronesses are : mrs t m drown mrs w a eobinson mrs g b linderman mrs e h wilbur mrs w b myers mrs e coppee mitchell mrs charles m dodson mrs e g eadford calendar tuesday dec 8 — meeting of mathematical club physical laboratory 7.15 p m meeting of lehigh univer sity gun club phi gamma delta house 7 p m wednesday dec 9 — meeting of agora christmas hall 7 p m meeting of electrical engi neering society physical labo ratory 7 p m thursday dec 10 — fourth of series of free public lectures on " chemistry of every day life subject " chemistry of dyeing friday dec 11 — meeting of chess club christmas hall 7 p m meeting of 98 epitome board 4.30 p m sunday dec 13 — meeting of christian association christ mas hall 6.15 p m subject a clean tongue jos iii 1-6 . i peter i 15 ; eph iv,29 tuesday dec 15 — sophomore co tillon club dance at eagle hotel meeting of civil section of engineering society physical laboratory 7 p m thursday dec 17 — last of series of free public lectures on the chemistry of every day life subject " chemistry o.f foods by dr t m drown friday dec 18 — meeting of 98 epitome board 7.30 p m meeting of chess club chris tmas hall 7.30 p m wednesday dec 23 christmas holidays begin at 12.30 monday jan 4 — christmas holi days end at 8.15 a m senior class meeting owing to the absence of a quo rum the regular meeting of the senior class scheduled for wednes day dec 2 was postponed until the thursday following at this meeting it was decided to fix the class dues for ihe year at 10 as recommended by the execu tive committee the question of a class book arose and the president was di rected to appoint a committee to inquire into the cost and the ad visability of publishing a class book it was decided to wear caps and gowns after the easter va cation and that a committee be appointed to ascertain prices for them freshman class meeting a meeting of the freshman class was held friday afternoon in the electrical laboratory the chief business of the meeting was to take action on the class constitu tion which had been drawn up by a specially appointed committee and was read by d g mc govern the election of a histor ian then took place h i magee receiving the largest num ber of votes was elected after discussing at length the class cut in the 98 epitome the meeting adjourned dr richards lecture on thursday evening dec 3 dr eichards delivered the third lecture in the series on " the chemistry of every day life dr richards took as his subject " the extraction of some of the commoner metals from their ores and divided it into the fol lowing main divisions history of metals physical properties chemi cal properties compounds treat ment of native metals treatment of oxidized compounds and the treat ment of non-oxidized compounds he described a metal as any ele ment or simple substance having a metallic lustre and gave the fol lowing list as the common metals which he would treat in his lecture they are arranged in order of their cost the cheapest being first : iron lead zinc antimony copper ti nickel aluminium mercury silver platinum and gold a short de scription was given of each with its form and price in commerce the prices ranged from 15 per ton for iron to 3000 for 15 pounds for gold a brief resume of the physical properties was next given with the exception of copper which has a decided reddish hue and gold a yellow hue all the metals are a shade of white all the metals though opaque in masses are trans lucent in thin sheets the metals vary in hardness from lead which may be scratched by the finger nail to iron which when hardened will cut glass the specific gravi ties vary from 2.6 to over 21 ; the melting points from 40 to plus 1775 centigrade these various properties were strikingly illus trated in all cases where it was possible following this a brief glance was taken at the principal chemical properties of the metals almost all resist the action of water alone but very few resist the combined action of air and water since silver gold and platinum are not acted on in this way they are called noble metals of the compounds of these metals most commonly known in nature may be mentioned the oxides carbonates sulphates silic tates and phosphates the occurrence of these metals in nature may therefore be divided into three classes namely na tive oxidized and non oxidized their native occurrence means without being in chemical combi nation with any other ' element five of the twelve occur in this manner there are several methods of separating metals from their ores in the native state depending on the particular form of occur rence these methods are : crush ing and removal of particles of rock by air blast crushing and separat ing on shaking table concentrator washing or panning where metal continued on third page junior class meeting the regular monthly meeting of the junior class was held in christ mas hall last friday at 12.30 p m the meeting was called to order by president farwell and the minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved athletic represen tative liorner then urged all to get in training for the winter meet which will be held on saturday nov 19 he aleo scored the class for not paying their promised sub scriptions for the improvement of the athletic field after subscrib ing the smallest amount of any class to then be the poorest to pay up is adding insult to injury and we should all be ashamed of our record the matter of an epitome cut was next brought up and after dis cussing whether or not the cut should be changed upon vote it was decided to keep the old one a motion left over from the last meeting in regard to changing the day of the regular class meet ing from wednesday to friday,was brought up and then laid on the table until next term there being no further business the meeting adjourned