Brown and White Vol. 12 no. 50

              the annual dinner o>f the lehigh university club of northeastern pennsylvania will be held at hotel lermyn scranton pennsylvania en friday april 28 1905 at 7 p m any person who has attended lehigh as a student or served on her teaching staff is eligible as a member of the club and is invited to attend and bring as many of their friends as thqv may desire plates at 2.50 each will be re served for those sending check and notifying arthur long box 554 scranton pa of their intention of being 1 present some representative of the le high university will be with us and help us to get in touch once more with our alma mater the dinner will be strictly in formal and anyone being caught otherwise will be a subject for such punishment as the majority may decide come and be a boy again just for to-night ar-ihur long president william griffith vice-president charles straw vice-president c f neuter vice-president j . j clark secretary and treas owing to an oversight in the last issue of the brown and white the names of d n showalter 06 an 1 £. h salisbury 06 were omitted from the list of tan beta pi initiates continued on fourth page lehigh defeats cornell score 6 2 lehigh won the second lecrosse game of the present season on wednesday afternoon from the cornell team which is on a south ern trip the game at times was slow which was to a large extent due to the slippery condition of the field and the consequent uncertainty in the bouncing of the ball about three hundred and fifty spectators witnessed the game cornell started off in the first half with a rush and scored the first goal of the game by some good team work lehigh soon followed by a point scored by harrower here the slippery condition of the field began to tell and the playing became slower cornell scored the next point of the game on a shot by turner lehigh ended by a goal form estes who made the point practically unaided lehigh's passing in the first half was decidedly off color and cornell showed a strong defense score 2-2 lehigh came on the field in the second half determined to win estes got the ball at the center and advanced it almost to cornell's goal harrower rcored the point by kick ing the ball into the net lehigh's defense showed a mark ed improvement in the second half barth and johnson doing excellent work harrower scored his third point in the game on a pass from estes on some clever passing from estes to duncan to fox to harrower another point was scored ny harrower the last tally of the game was miade by a succession oi passes from estes to barwis to fox to harrow er cornell's team showed up strong ir judgment in passing and in stick work they also played a strong game on defense scher denhelm doing their best work for lehigh estes and harrower played strong offensive games and the whole defense did good work referee lattig lehigh time keepers herman lehigh ; cornell goals lehigh estes 1 ; harrower 5 ; cornell — turner 1 ; ricketson 1 time of halves twenty minutes continued on fourth page lehigh university e m society south bethlehem pa saturday april 15 1905 calendar no 50 the brown and white mustard and cheese lacrosse vol xii wednesday april 19 at 12 m faster vacation begins friday april 21 at 3.30 p m bjase biaill gamle — delaware col lege vs lehigh — lehigh field saturday april 22 at 3.30 p m lacrosse jjanie columbia vs le high — lehigh field tuesday april 25 at 3.30 p m b|ase ball game trinity vs lehigh — lehigh field thursday april 27 at 7.45 a m faster vacation ends saturday april 29 at 3.30 p m base ball game dickinson vs le highi — lehigh field lacrosse game lehigh vs johns hopkins ai baltimore notice copies of the special alumni edition of the brown and white are on sale at the supply bureau 10 cents a copy lehigh university club show on may 6 now that the time is growing short and both chorus and cast are being rapidly brought into shape for the performance on may 6th it is perhaps well to say a few words about the show the phenonenal success of last year's staging of the travesty on romeo and juliet seems to indi cate two things viz : that the stu dents here at lehigh are better adapted to plays in which music is a;i important factor and also that the patrons of our shows when com ing to see and hear college institu tion of this kind prefer rather to hive a good laugh than to see the more serious side of human nature which really requires the consum mate abilities of a finished actor to harmonize these two condi tions this year's play was designed the management at first met with bitter disappointments when it came to the selection of a ready made play the plays that would have suited were rejected because of the prohibitive royalties with affairs in this state a good friend cf the university came to our res cue and suggested an idea for a comic opera from this the play that is produced on the local stage on may 6th next was invented its title as has formerly been an nounced is jack homer fresh man the play was gradually de veloped with the aid of some uni jversity talent but it required the i master hand of our coach mr t 18.i b donaldson whose tireless ef | forts and superior ability will be \ appreciated not only by the men en gaged in the play but by the student i body as well to put it in shape for i staging , j the play as its name implies is a misrepresentation of college conditions and as such is more or less ludicrous in just how far it deserves its name as a comic opera will be gauged by the appre ciation of the audience among the chief attractions will be a botched festival which guarantees ( through its exquisite (?) musical i finish and the high standard of . quality of ; ts musicians to cure all i cases of the blues other fea '■ tures will be a fern sem the ex hibition of real colege spirit and a trained domestic animal victor a johnson 96 is with the acme grain co chamber of commerce minneapolis minn address by prof stewart the regular monthly meeting of geological society was held tues day evening in the society's new room in williams ha 1 . the room has been recently decorated and presents a very handsome appear ance the ceiling walls are white with the exception of a wainscoat ingf about nine feet high which is dark green weathered oak set tees and a large black board add to the general apeparance a short business meeting pre ceeded the regular program a committee consisting of johnson latter and carlock was appoint eel to consult with a committee from the mechanical engineering socie ty regarding 1 the nrnmnqpri plan of the two societies jointly installing a pipe line from the spring to wil liamis hall john m fou.se read a very inter esting paper upon refactory ma terials in which he discussed the subject from the folowing stand points what are the best and at what cost can they be procured refactory materials may all be classed under three heads 2 acid refactory materials b basic refactory materials c neutral ref actor v materials it is a well-known fact however that both acid and basic materials are apt to combine with the acids and bases in slag to form fusible compounds very fine qualities of silica brick or acid refractory material can be obtained at a miuch less cost than the basic materials such as magnes ire brick a combination of the two is highly effective the prin cipal acid refractory materials used in furnace construction are ordinary fire clay bricks fire bricks made from clay having a composition of one part alumina to twio parts sil ica and silica brick made from sil ica sand containing just a small amount of bases the chief basic niagnesite brick recent experiments in the use of the elastic furnace have been made envolving f he use of carborundum which is a compound of silicon car bide this carborundum is very expensive and is used by grinding it finely mixing three parts by weight with one part of silicate of soda and applying it as a white wash a coating of the thickness of a half millimeter is unacted upon at a temperature of 3000 degrees f