Brown and White Vol. 7 no. 15

              mandolin club football the varsity will leave this afternoon on their trip to play the cadets reaching baltimore some time th s evening where they will remain over night on saturday morning they will proceed to annapolis p aying the game in the afternoon and returni g in the evening arriving in south bethle hem at about 12 o'clock the following men will accompany the team : chamberlain oapt reese ross gledhill dumas dornin scovil payne bray lindley spiers james buch there will be regular rehearsals of the mandolin club on ev9ry tuesday and thursday evenings senior class meeting thanksgiving recess the regular thanksgiving recess has been announced ; it will begin on wednesday november 29 at 12.30 p m and will extend to monday december 4th at 8.15 a m minstrel show the economic society held its second regular meeting last tues day evening in saucon hall the only business transacted was the presentation a(d reading of a set of resolutions regarding the death of mr gustavo rovelo of 99 professor stewart's address for the evening was announced as " prob lems of tropical colonization his address in part follows : our relations in the east brings us face to face with a most serious problem that is a tropical coloni zation scheme we must consider first however what the word colony means there are two kinds of colonies in the greek se se of the word a colony me nt simply " a going out from home " ; it did not necessarily mean poli 1 dependence on the mother & *.»■< , and in this sense the united states may still be regarded as a colony of great britian the other use of the word the latin use means simply a plantation the roman settlements in gaul ger many and br.tian were actually garrisons and of men who had served their time in the legions and hid settled down practically a roman colony was a group planted in the midst of a hostile popula tion the location also of colonies is to be c nsidered there are colonies in the temperate zone and in the tropical zone and the latter are the ones which offer to the white man the most difficult problems we have had instances of the success of england's colonizing scheme as in canada the united states austra lia and cape colony those parts of the earth in which success has thus obtained have reproduced nearly all the physical conditions of the old home one of the most inter esting things in the study of migra tions is that men move along parallels of latitude and that they have never prospered when living outside of their accustomed environment continued on fourth page what is the position that we are in today ? it is admitted fr m the point of view of colonization that we have one of the toughest nuts to crack in this direction that has ever been given to any power the united stales has added great stretches of territory with practic ally no po ulation but the addition has been of contiguous territory a 1 with the exce tion of the indian wars has given no trouble the success of anglo-saxon col onization for the past two hundred and fifty years has be^n that the colonies have practically remained within the confines of the old race england's great colonies have been within the temperate zone : in fact the next regular rehearsal of the minstrel association will be held at the sigma phi house delaware avenue on tuesday november 28th at 7.15 p m a meeting of the senior class was held in saucon hall on wed nesday at 12.30 after the report of the auditing committee had been accepted president fuller ap pointed the following collectors : groff for the electrical ross for the civil heinz for the chemists and metallurgists and starkey for the mechanicals owing to the small number of the class present the discussion of the class book and several other important matters was postponed until the next meeting the address delivered by profes sor merriman president of the american section of the internat ional association for the testing of materials at the meeting of the section in pifsburg has recently been issued in pamphlet form it was published in several engineer ing papers in august and may also be found in " science " of september 22 and in " the jour nal of the franklin institute for october professor merriman began his address with a history of the knowledge of the properties of materials of construction he showed how this knowledge was perfected gradually until it reached a stage where some uniformity in testing was deemed a necessity this lead to the formation of the international association which grew out of meetings held in 1882 84-'tf6-'bb by a number of german experimenters an account of the work of the association followed and then professor merriman takes up the subject of membership upon which he says : there are two peculiarite re garding membership in this associa tion that deserve notice first there is no nomination or election of members but any person desir ing to be a member may do so on signing a statement that he assumes membership and will be governed by the laws of the association in so doing he further assumes the obligation that he will advance iis interests to tne best of his ability withdrawal from membership may be made at any trne by mere an nouncement to the proper officer of the association the second noteworthy feature regarding membership is that it may be assumed by a corporation or society as well as by a person in europe this feature is carried much further the membership of thegcrnan section including tlie bureau of public works of several cities provinces and states the police bureau of berlin ihe prus sian war department and the boards of direction of numerous rail roads as also a large number of manufao turing corporations and engineering societies under this arrangement it is possible for a corporation to exert a greaer influence than through the indirec individual membership of its president or superintendent both manufacturers and consumers can make their wishes more directly known and thus differences in regard to methods of inspection and testing can be more quickly harmonized than under the usual plan of strict individual membership however fully three-fourths of the total continued on second page the brown and white lehigh university economic society south bethlehem pa friday november 17 1899 minstrel show calendar no 15 in pittsburg delivered by professor merriman an address vol vii by professor stewart the second meeting addressed rehearsals are being held regularly by the association friday nov 17 - at 11.30 a m third lecture in the course on social problems by dr josiah strong president league for social science on " religious movements for social betterment " at 4.30 p m choir rehear sal in the chapel saturday nov 18 — football varsity vs naval academy at annapolis sunday nov 19 at 10 a m bible class in christmas hall at 6.15 p m christian address by professor stew ardson tuesday nov 21 at 7p m meeting of the mechanical engineering society in sau con hall wednesday nov 22 at 2.30 p m kxamination in mechanics of hoisting machinery at 7.15 p m meeting of the forum in saucon hall thursday nov 23 at 7p m mandolin club practice in christmas hall the first chorus rehearsal for the coming minstrel show was held at the sigma phi house on wed nesday and the number of men present was very encouraging con sidering the fact that it was the first the number of voices for the various parts are well divided al-o and although there has been no actual division as yet it is thought that the music will have arrived by the next rehearsal when this division will be made the freshmen showing was very good but there are some men from the upper classes who participated in the performance last year who have not rep-rted it is hoped that they will come out at the next rehearsal which will be held at tho sigma phi house on tuesday evening at 7.15 o'clock all men thinking of trying for end positions should be present at that time notices christian association the christian association will be addressed at its meeting on sunday evening at 6a5 by rev steward son all are cordially invited to be present university address the third lecture in the series on social problems will be delivered by dr josiah strong president of the league for so ial science on friday morning in the physical laboratory his subject being keligious movements for social betterment