Brown and White Vol. 6 no. 38

              oratorical contest the intercollegiate oratorical contest will be held in the central high school hall on friday even ing march 10th at 8 o'clock every lehigh man is expected to be present the standing of the first ten men in the various classes will not be published this term sioce so many subjects are continued ' from the first to the second term the forum meeting the regular meeting of the fo rum literary society was held in saucon hall on wednesday after the usual roll call and reading of the minutes the secretary pre sented two bills and on motion the treasurer was directed to pay them messrs heinz 00 and gilbert,'ol were elected to membership and buch 01 was proposed mr meaker stated that the question for the lafayette debate as finally submitted by lehigh was : " ee solved that discriminating duties should be imposed to increase our merchant marine the first number on the literary program was the criticism of the last meeting by bailey 99 his principal criticism was the lack of conformation to parliamentary rules on the part of many of the members freeman 00 delivered the extemporaneous speech his subject being the elevation of dewev to the rank of admiral then followed the regular debate upon eesolved that trades unions are a benefit to working men shultz 00 opened the de bate for the affirmative and show ed that trades unions were organ ized primarily for the purpose of securing to the workingman a just amount of the profits in this capacity they act as trade guilds pure and simple endeavoring to prevent an employer from paying too small wages from requiring too much labor from his men and they also serve to bring about an amicable settlement of many dis putes he also showed that they were beneficial in that they served as friendly or aid societies haleman 01 made the first speech for the negative he stated that strikes are determinal upon often when the state of the market avill not justify them and that much unnecessary suffering is thus caused these unions also incite a spirit of suspicion and antagonism on the part of the employes to wards the employer and they re strict the number of apprentices fuller 00 followed for the affir mative and proved that only the smaller organizations have fre quent strikes that are without foundation he showed that by limiting the hours more men are given work and time is afforded for self-improvement the great bene fit of labor organizations he said was the fact that they secure audi ences for the workmen with their employes and thus avoid dis putes continued on second page meaker h j9 the second speaker on the negative said that trades unions are not the only means of improving the relations between the workman and the employer moreover they may benefit some but they shut out a large majority of others and taken as a whole they foster strikes and there electrical engineer ing society the regular meeting of the elec trical engineering society was held in the physical laboratory lecture room on tuesday evening after the minutes of the previous meet ing had been read and approved the regular order of business was suspended and mr williamson was introduced as the first speaker his subject being " the nernst lamp mr williamson said as nothing had been published concerning this lamp considerable difficulty 4 had been experienced in getting satis factory results nernst discovered that some substances are very poor conductors when cold but good conductors when heated this is the principle made use of in the nernst lamp the substance used by mr williamson was a mixture of magnesium oxide and a small quantity of ground glass to increase the conductivity this mixture was pressed and moulded in a glass tube baked and placed between carbon terminals and an electric current sent through it which drove off the volatile matter the stick was then taken out of the glass and ground into a suitable shape for use the current was sent through the stick by means of two platinum wires fastened at its ends this lamp was shown in active operation giving a very in tense brilliant and yellow light another lamp made of commercial magnesium combined with a little silicon was also shown the objection to these lamps is that an external source of heat must be used to heat the stick up to a temperature at which the cur rent will flow but it is claimed this can be remedied by sending a current through a platinum coil which will become heated to such an extent as to furnish the necessary heat for the stick after the lamp is in operation this coil may be removed by a magnetic device the electric motive force between the terminals before heating the stick was 1000 volts and after the the current began to flow it dropped to 200 volts from one to one and a half amperes are re quired for the burning of these lamps the nernst lamp can only be used with an alternating cur rent the direct current having been found to be impractical continued on third page professor franklin who was to have spoken on the ' ; electrolytic break was unable to be present and mr klinck took his place after describing the use of a break ing device used with induction coils to obtain high voltages mr klinck descdbed the electrolytic break it is composed of a breaker containing sulphuric acid into which two metal plates are placed the current enters the cell through a platinum wire run down between the two metal plates which constitute the kathods by the organ recital on thursday evening a select and thoroughly appreciative aud ience listened to one of mr wolle's delightful organ recitals in the packer memorial church if possible this recital surpassed the one mr wolle gave last year and thus further demonstrated his ex ceptional ability as an organist the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa friday march 10 1899 vol vi calendar ln t o 38 friday march 10 at 4.30 p m choir rehearsal in the chapel at 8 p mv intercollegiate oratorical contest in the cen tral high school hall saturday march 11 at 9.30 a m college lecture by f h newell chief hydrographer of of the u s geological survey on " the hydrography ot the united states " at 11 a m picture of the gymnasium team at the gym nasium at 3 p m cross country run from the gymnasium at 9 p m junior banquet at the eagle hotel sunday march 12 — at 6.15 ?. m meeting of the christian asso ciation in christmas hall at 7.30 p m special re ligious services in the chapel wednesday march 15 — at 7 p.m meeting of the forum m saucon hall thursday march 16 — at 7 p m meeting of the mathematical club in professor thornburg's lecture room friday march 17 at 7p m joint meeting of the civil and mechanical engineering so cieties in the physical labora tory professor williams lecture on thursday evening professor williams gave a most interesting lecture on egyptian archeology in the moravian parochial school bethlehem the lecture consisted of a vivid description of each of the many lantern slides shown during the evening he began by showing various views of the pyramids the sphinx obelisks and statues of ancient egyptian kings including that of memnon which gave forth a musical note upon being warmed by the first rays of the sun then followed scenes of the temple at karnac the temple of rameses ii and 111 and the temple of luxor various tombs were shown and the paintings on the walls were shown to give a representation of the various race types and customs of those people whom the kings made captive one of the slides showed the oldest piece of iron in existence and another showed the peculiar blast furnace in which it was manufactured — similar in principle however to our modern ones then a large number of pictures of paintings were shown which are remarkable for the tenacity with which the colors cling to the stucco and rock and preserve their orig inal hues the various modifica tions through which the mummies passed were then shown and ex plained and the lecture was closed with the description of the various fragments of papyrus which are being found in the excavations made by the archeological survey and which contain copies of the writings of various ancient authors among them being the oldest known fragment of the new testa ment mandolin club a meeting of the mandolin and guitar club was held at the delta upsilon house on last wednesday evening in order to perfect the organization which will undoubt edly be successful about twenty five men were present at the meet ing miller 96 has consented to act as leader this year while sanchez 99 will act as manager it was clecided to hold practices twice a week on wednesday and saturday and to make an assess ment of fifty cents upon each mem ber to cover the price of the first instalment of music notices all who wish new lacrosse sticks should hand their names to 0 c hannum at once a very good stick can be secured for two dollars junior banquet the junior banquet will be licld at the eagle hotel on saturday evening march lhh at 9 o'olock tickets may be obtained from any of the following : benson white ross gill or martin college lecture a college lecture will be deliv ered on saturday morning by mr f 11 newell chief hydrographer of the united states geological survey on " hydrography of the united states mr newell will discuss the methods of western irrigation sophomores your attention is called to the price prize on the bulletin board of the english department