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              re-examination in sophomorea c quantitive conference wiil be held tuesday oct 11 at 2 o'clock course in economics for juniors will be given in saucon hall 11 30 on friday the course in history and poli tics will be given in packer hall signed john l stewart • freshmen are notified to report at the gymnasium for physical ex amination at the hour assigned them on list in packer hall if any are unable to report at the hour assigned they will please make another appointment signed c w smith technical students in the senior and junior classes who have no exercises at 11.30 on tuesday and thursday are invited to attend professor stewardson's lectures t m bbown pres the founder's day hop the committee appointed by mr jackson of the senior class is as follows : seniors messrs wood and gummere juniors messrs mcgavock and t m dodson ; sophomore underhill ; freshman lindley the first meeting was called to order by mr jackson at the sigma phi house on tuesday night and mr wood was elected chairman sub committees were then ap pointed and plans discussed after which the meeting adjourned e e society a meeting of the senior and junior electrical sections was held wednesday morning to consider several matters in connection with the electrical engineering society the meeting was called to order by president viche in the physical laboratory it was unanimously decided that the society should be continued during the present year the time of meeting was fixed for the first wednesday evening of each month the time of the octo ber meeting to be determined by the president morgan 95 was elected . vice president to fill the vacancy in that office football rules the inter collegiate football committee representing the most important eastern colleges and universities throughout the coun try at their final meeting held during the summer decided that the following changes should be made in the football rules for the season of 1898 : a touchdown will count five points a safety two points and a goal from the field five points a goal from the touchdown counts one point in kicking the goal from touch down if the ball after being kicked strikes an opponent and then goes over the cross bar it still counts as a goal the ball must be declared in play if after the centre rush has taken his position lie voluntarily moves the ball as if to snap it whether he witholds it altogether or momentaril 7 . if the ball strikes an official it is dead if a team has taken the ball within its opponents 25 yard line and on the first down tries for a field goal and misses the line-up and kick out must hereafter be on the 10-yard line instead of the 25-yard line for fouling the penalty is ten yards against the side not having the ball loss of the ball to the side holding same and if the foul takes place during a punt the ball goes to the offended side interference with the snapback or unnecessaav delay causes a loss of five yards or loss of the ball piling up on a player means a loss of fifteen yards to the offend ing side interference with a fair catch is punished by a 15-yard loss and the offended eleven receives the choice of putting the ball in play by a free kick or by a scrimmage if the player making a fair catch is thrown to the ground after making a heel mark unless he has advanced beyond the mark he is entitled to a gain of fifteen yards and a free kick as well charging before the ball is put in play is penalized by a loss of five yards a team refusing to play after two minutes forfeits the game a team while on the defensive that commits fouls so near the goal line that they are punishable only by halving the distance to the line the object being in the opinion of the referee to delay the game shall be regarded as refusing to allow the game to proceed after one warning for such tactics the referee on a repetition of the offense can declare the game for feited department of civil engineering exclusion limits for this term department of mathematics absence limits football coaches the coaches for a number of the leading college football teams are as follows : cornell warner ; uni versity of michigan fitzpatrick ; brown robinson ; bowden ed wards ; princeton christel ; dart mouth wurtenburg ; amherst weeks ; university of pennsylva nia woodruff williams lline and ilazen ; tufts upton ; carlisle indians hall ; franklin and mar shall ritchel yale will have no head coach this season butter worth's policy which proved so effective last season will be em ployed again a course in laboratory work in general chemistry is now required of the freshman class in addition to dr chandler's lectures students who wish to give pri vate instruction to deficient or backward fellow students are in vited to hand their names to the heads of those departments under which they propose to do such work upon being accepted they will be reported to the faculty for approval and registration as au thorized coachere the warm weather is telling on the harvard team it makes them slow and sluggish there are 60 in the squad metallurgical problems class for instruction in problems will meet on tuesdays and fridays at 5 p m in the blowpipe labora tory j w richards c e section of engineering society applications for membership will now be received dues 1 per annum entitling members to full privileges of the society and to a plate at the engineering society banquet juniors and seniors eligible for active membership ; sophomores for associate member ship applications will be re ceived by j f catriles 99 v h beid 99 there will be lacrosse practice every saturday morning at 10.30 as long as the weather permits it is especially desirable that all new men come out to these practices so that they will know something of the game before the season begins gummebe capt the following men have been appointed to serve on the founder's day hop committee gummere 99 g 11 wood 99 a 0 dod son 00 i g mogavock 00 underbill 01 ; lindley 02 class 1900 there will be a meeting of the clacs in the saucm hall lecture room on friday oct 7 at 12.30 the business of the meeting will be the nomination of officers for the junior year let everyone at tend chamberlain,e rlain pres the brown and white lehigh university vol vi no 3 south bethlehem pa thursday october 6 1898 lehigh men in the war a list of lehigh men who served in the late war is here pre sented it is very incomplete and additions to it will be published from time to time major j 11 wells 85 71st new york vols gunsolus 97 ist lieutenant — lowa knight 99 2nd lieutenant first liegular infantry g c leidy sergeant sth vol unteer engineers shepp 98 bth pennsylvania vols moffat 99 ( .) frazer ( .) paine 102 nd new york vols homer 98 squadron a new york forseman 98 ( .) beggs 96 ist volunteer engi neers elder 1901 ist regular artil lery n w leidy 99 9th pennsyl vania vols burchard 1900 ist illinois vols . football the practice this week has been slow and listless and the interest taken by the football men seems rather discouraging the appar ent listlessness is due to a great measure to the hot weather during the past few days on tuesday signal practice alone was given and on wednesday a heavy rain prevented much being accomplished on monday the men were given a complete rest to get into shape after the princeton game the work done on saturday was encouraging the defense show ing up very strongly and but lor three unfortunate passes for kicks the score would undoubtedly have been smaller on the two remaining days of this week much must be done to get the team in shape for sat urday's game the play will have to be made faster and the fumbling stopped before a good score can be made the new york university team while very weak last year is in much better shape this season and may per haps give us a harder game than is now expected calendar notices thursday oct 6 — meeting of man ■ dolin club 481 cherokee street at 4.30 p m saturday oct b football uni versity of new york at new york thursday oct 13 — founder's day partial total senior railroads 3 5 " geodesy 4 7 ' ' graphic statics ' ' bridge design " architectral design 3 . 6 , 4 5 11 7 " ventilation . 3 5 junior construction , 4 7 " geodesy " strength of materials . 4 . 5 7 9 " perspective sophomore construction . 6 . 3 11 5 " stone cutting . 3 5 freshman freehand . 3 5 ugebra 5 10 trigonometry mechanics 3 6 0 12 junior mathematics 4 8 senior astronomy 4 8