Brown and White Vol. 5 no. 26

              below is given a corrected list of the contributions made toward the support of the spring teams to gether with additions made since the last issue : student contributions 522.00 spanish society 50.00 phi club 35.00 senior class 20.00 freshman class 20.00 eighteen club 18.00 junior class 15.00 sophomore class 15.00 ye y 9.00 forum 5.00 liars club 5.00 fiend alley 5.00 98 epitome 5.00 total 724.00 the above sum represents con tributions from ratfier a small portion of the college and this amount ought to be and it is rea sonable to expect will be consider ably increased during the coming week * sterner 97 is in town for a stay of two weeks * gearhart 93 expects to go to klondike in the early spring * y a johnston is in the uni ted states of columbia prospecting * durham 96 is on the prelimi nary survey of ship canal across new york ♦ a new dynamo has been put in the physical laboratory it is reported there will be no holiday between terms the names of the football men who are allowed to wear the " l as decided by the committee on sport are as follows : captain gunsolus denise holderness becerra gledhill dornin cham berlain mccarthy reese van duyne james gilbert and butler «. a college of commerce and poli tics is to be formed under the auspices of chicago university the college is to teach practical business and politics finance trade and insurance the last annual financial state ment of the yale athletic union shows the total cost of maintaining a training table in the four branches of athletics — football baseball row ing and track — to amount to 8 074 dr drown the latest reports from dr drown are very encouraging al though s',ill not very strong he is improving steadily and all indica tions point to a full recovery all the friends of dr drown and of lehigh university will be rejoiced at this welcome infor-mation «. examirations start on jan 26 and second term begins on tuesday feb 2 calendar thursday jan 18 — meeting of sophomore class 12.30 p m v in christmas hall meeting of mandolin club delta u house at 7 p m e e society meeting at 7.15 p m in the physical laboratory saturday jan 15 — gun club shoot sunday jan 16 — regular meet ing of the christian associa tion at 6.15 p m tuesday jan 18 — lecture chau cer's canterbury tales at 8 p m in saucon hall notices e e society there will be an interesting meeting of the e e society in the physical laboratory at 7.15 on thursday evening jan 13 pa pers will be read by bucher 98 r on : armature insulation and by morgan 99 on " crompton's po tentiometer all students are cordially invited to be present president a box has been placed in packer hall for brown and white and 99 epitome matter meeting of the mandolin club at delta u house thursday jan 18 7 at 7 p m there will be an important meeting of the sophomore class 7 thursday at 12.20 p m every man should be present chamberlain eegister lists of names course and place of residence have beefs posted on the bulletin boards corrections are to be reported at once to the faculty room physical laboratory will close saturday jan 22 at sp m ke ports of experiments performed on or before jan 13 must be in by 5 p m jan 20 those requiring correction will be returned satur day jan 22 and these together with reports of experiments per formed after jan 13 must be in by 5 r m jan 27 which is the latest date reports will be received s s clark the dates and special titles of the lectures to be given by the english department are as follows jan 18 — chaucer's canterbury tales jan 25 langland's vision of piers the plowman feb 1 — gower feb 8 — the unproductive period after the death of chaucer and early scottish poetry a wrestling class has been or ganized to meet every saturday at 10.30 it will be free to all who are interested and would like to take the full course c.w smith dr semple's lecture the second lecture of the series on english literature was given tuesday evening by dr semple the subject of the lecture was " john wycliffe and the english bible the following is the sub stance of the lecture : the second half of the four teenth century is characterized by three important movements the distinction between saxon and nor man had passed away and the minds of men were turned upon england itself the norman con quest had the effect of bringing into closer relation the state and the dominant church social affairs occupied a great deal of at tention and this added to diplo matic relations with europe brought england in constant con tact with the former's culture the impulse imparted by this con tact led to the composition of our great literary works the religious and the intellect ual movements were responsible for the activity in literature the estimate of john wycliffe and his work depends on the point of view taken he was high in the favor of his contemporaries and held thb mastership of balliol college his greatest work was his rendition of the bible owing to his radical translation he was threatened with excommunication and various other punishments his translation was eagerly received the work of multiplying copies was laborious,as printing had not yet been invented but many were made for there are still a number of manuscripts ex tant in his text wycliffe occasion ally found a word which he could not render and he brought it bodily into the translation wy cliffe's work was done as well as possible considering the circum stances but it could not have been final linguistic development alone would have made a new version necessary within a century and a half he was not afraid to stand by his work and said on one occasion to the pope " i am always glad to explain my faith to anyone and above all to the bishops of rome wycliff'ism fell into disrepute and was much ridiculed but it lived through the strife of the fifteenth century and in the sixteenth was known as puritanism the tyndale edition of the new testament was translated in ger many and printed at the expense of a guild of merchants abroad tyndale approached his work far better equipped than wycliffe and it shows him to have been a thorough english stylist he was regarded as a dangerous character and imprisoned on some trivial charge his countrymen took no trouble to interfere in his behalf and the privy council of brussels condemned him to death so in 1536 he was strangled from the time of thomas the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa thursday january 13 1898 vol y no 26 cromwell until 1611 scarcely a year passed that did not see a new translation published finally james i authorized another trans lation made by the deans of the universities this has come down to us as the authorized version the diction of the bible has affected strongly both the language of conversation and prose style no one can estimate the ex ample set forth in wycliffe in the fifteenth century his " inventive work must have seemed a failure but at this later date we can observe more of the " completed plan " than in the early years university mandolin club last tuesday a very satisfactory rehearsal of the mandolin club was held at the delta u house all the members were present and several new pieces were tried the club is in a flourishing con dition now and promises to be a successful venture charles new ton the director states that he has enough mandolin players but must have more guitar players he urges all the men who can play the latter instrument to attend the next rehearsal tonight at 7 o'clock at the delta u house mathematical club at the regular meeting of the mathematical club held in packer hall on tuesday evening j fer nando capriles of the class of ' 99 presented a paper on the solution of legendre's equation which was very highly appreciated by the members present mr capriles spent but a short time on a sketch of the life and works of the author of the equa tion he was discussing devoting the greater part of the evening to mathematical operations involved in his solution and to an explana tion and demonstration of the various steps taken legendre's equation is of no practical value to the ordinary me chanic or engineer but as an ex ample of the scope of higher mathematics it is incomparable a differential equation apparently impossible of solution through a series of hypotheses based entirely upon known principles is re duced to a simple and satisfactory expression the paper showed clearly the re sult of careful preparation and was unanimously accepted by the mem bers of the club mr capriles was then elected to membership there will be no meeting of the club during the remainder of this term alumni notes subscription list