Brown and White Vol. 10 no. 40

              a member of the class of 92 the following is clipped from the charleston s c news and courier for march 6th in mr robert blum olney a modest gifted young citizen has been taken from the community at a period when his services were most needed the subject of this brief and imperfect memoir was born in charleston about 30 years ago educated in this city he com pleted his course of studies and graduated as a civil engineer at le high university in 1892 he was then employed by the norfolk and western railroad in responsible work he was elected assistant en gineer of this city in 1894 and was soon employed in the construction \ of the sanitary sewerage system of which department he was placed in charge and showed his skill in its management during the time of his service he had several flattering offers to engage in engineering works of magnitude and import ance having been selected to do work by the united states engineer ing department in some of the works on the hudson river and elsewhefe but his fealty was to his native city and he remained in a su bordinate position the mission and pride of his life was to improve the sanitary condi tions of this city when the new projects of increased water supply agitated the community he saw that no commercial or other progress could be made without a better water supply and lie accepted a place with the american pipe com pany who contemplated introduc ing into the city the much needed water supply but adverse judicial opinion thwarted this most impor tant scheme to the long suffering city he was then employed in im portant civil engineering schemes elsewhere until legal authority had been given the city o>f charleston to have a complete system of water works constructed he was sent here and made the necessary sur veys and upon his report the pro posed plan now under construction was adopted mr olney drew the plans of the system his health had been impaired by the rigorous duties in the northern climate where he worked diligently and conscientiously discharged the trust imposed upon him he knew the nature of his disorder and real ized that his earthly mission was continued on third page last part goes to press on monday during the past two months the epitome board has been steadily at work and now the greater part of their labors is over on mon day next the last installment of copy comprising the literary and advertisement portions will go to press and then the entire book will be in the hands of the printers of course it is a little too early to make any definite announcement concern ing the chief features of the book or even to make any claims for its merits neither time nor expense has been spared in the effort to make the 1904 epitome one which will be a credit to lehigh and im press upon every reader the pro gress of the college during the past year as reflected in its annual whether this purpose has been ac complished or not remains to be seen but we trust and believe it has ; this however is not for the board to say but for the students when the book shall be placed in their hands in only one respect has the board any cause for complaint upon the support given them by the students and that is in the literary line very little acceptable matter indeed was given to the board by undergradu ates and this fact is not very credit able to the college spirit of the fel lows whejpossess literary talent — and the number is by no means small however the literary part of the book will in no way be below the usual standard as the support given us by the alumni has been unusually generous and will render this part of the book strong and in teresting a great many gags were handed in and only those were se lected which are of the highest or der and of interest to every one hence this feature will be a promi nent part of the book of the ar tistic work it is needless to speak as to its quantity and quality as that has been spoken oi before in these columns suffice to say that it is of the very best and easily equals if not surpasses that of any previous books no definite date has been set for the sale oi the book but it will most certainly be before may 15 unless some unforseen delay occurs which at the present time seems very im i 1 übable the editor of the first college paper in the united states was daniel webster holds a successful meeting the following account of the an nual meeting of the southern-le high club held at washington last saturday evening has been received from joseph s shultz 1900 for mer editor-in-chief of the brown and white and at present con nected with the u s navy de partment at washington as struc tural steel draftsman the annual meeting and smoker of the southern-lehigh club was held on saturday evening march 7th in the banquet hall of the shoreham hotel at washington d c and though the last of its kind this year it was nevertheless very successful and thoroughly enjoyed by every member present the club was particularly fortunate in again being favored with the presence of dr drown whose annual resume of lehigh's progress has now be come a dominant feature of the southern club's meetings his lat est remarks however were particu larly significant in that they con tained not a single word but enthu siasm for lehigh's present condi tion and radiant hope for the fu ture he said that the enrollment this year was the largest in the his tory of the university and that any further increase might tend to de stroy that opportunity for individ ual instruction and personal inspira tion which can be imparted only by actual ccontactt t by the head of each department with each student under him and to which is due above everything else the unexampled success of lehigh's alumni he told of the new steam engineering ad dition to the boiler house and of the new building to be occupied jointly by the mechanical and min ing engineering departments and how generously prof williams had contributed to the latter he also described the new courses in electro-metallurgy and chemical en gineering and the important addi tion of forestry to the curriculum of the course in civil engineering lehigh's athletic outlook he said is better than ever before in that a most efficient and well-trained physical director is now at the head of the gymnasium dr drown closed his remarks with a generous tribute to the loyalty with which the alumni have stood by their uni versity during the last few years and expressed his pleasure at being able to attend the southern club's meeting continued on second page the brown and white vol x lehigh university ko4 epitome south bethlehem pa friday march 13 1903 southern lehigh club death of r b olney calendar no 40 friday march 13 at 3p m base ball practice saturday march 14 — at 2 p m practice base ball game le high field at 7 p m y m c a busi ness meeting in christmas hall sunday march 15 at 9.15 a m bible classes in christmas hall at 6.15 p m y m c a meeting tuesday march 17 — at 7.30 p m forum meeting in saucon hall track team all candidates are expected to report at the gym for work at 4 p m on ♦ . mondays tuesdays thursdays fridays beginning with thursday march 1 2th campus notes we are glad to note that mr j fred wolle after a prolonged ill ness is now able to resume his du ties as university organist during his absence his duties have been ef ficiently assumed at the chapel ex ercises by mr t edgar shields and at sunday church services by mr robert m bird prof wm esty of the e e de partment who was authorized and instructed by the finance and lighting committes of the bor ough council of bethlehem to de termine whether or not the borough was getting the street arc lighting service called for under the con tract with the bethlehem electric light company has submitted his report which is dated feb 28 1903 the question at issue is whether or not the street arc lights fur nished to the borough are of 2000 candle-power each as called for in clause 4 of the contract dated july 5 1900 e t miller 03 e m has just started for cuba in company with a mining party he will probably spend two months there prospecting for iron mines dr drown returned yesterday from philadelphia where he attended the meeting and dinner of the philadel phia-lehigh club