Brown and White Vol. 12 no. 41

              w e underwood 97 formerly constructing and mechanical engi neer for the macbeth-evans glass company of pittsburg has recently been appointed to a similar position with the bethlehem steel company c l keller 93 who is assist ant engineer of the scherzer roll ing lift bridge company of chi cago 111 delivered a lecture re cently before the students of the university of illinois on the sub ject of modern movable bridges he explained the evolution and principles of moving bridges and the necessity of young engineers learning to think independently paul mackall 07 is ill at the chi phi house with the mumps through an error the names of wall and long were omitted from the list of base ball candidates pub lished in this paper last week an official notice posted in pack er hall announces a series of six lectures on british mathematicians . of the nineteenth century to be given during april by alexander macfarlane m a sc d ll d the dates and list of subj ects are as follows : 1 april 7 11.30 a.m sir george biddell airy 1801-1892 2 april 8 11.30 a m john couch adams 1819-1892 3 april 11 5 p m sir john frederick william herschel t792 1871 4 april 13 q p m isaac tod hunter 1820 1 884 5 april 14 11.30 a m duncan j farquharson gregory 1813-1 george green 1793-1841 6 april 17 5 p m george sal mon 1819 — ')• conclusion all students interested are invited to attend these lectures tickets of admission can be had by applying at the office when friday's college meeting was over a freshman class meet ing 1 was held at which president reel told of the plate which is cus tomary for each class to put in the epitome before its history and said it would cost about 27.00 he then asked for the opinion of the class on getting the plate a mo tion was then made by cunningham and passed that that sum of money be appropriated and that the presi dent appoint a committee of three to attend to it stites cunning ham and bayless were appointed a committee to see about having a banquet was appointed by the pres ident as follows : rommel morton anderson geyler rowland pierce and tunstall the president then spoke of the dues not having been paid and asked that all pay up he also urged that more freshmen try for the mustard and cheese chorus treasurer bressler retracted cer tain statements he made at a previ ous meeting about most of the as sistant treasurers not making re ports and mentioned the three who had not so far done so the meet ing then broke up lehigh university south bethlehem pa 5 tuesday march 14 1905 theses of e e's lehigh victorious vol xii r e speer's address no 41 the brown and white chess club victorous defeats bethlehem club in match last friday night the chess club defeated the lincoln repub lican club in a very close match at the rooms of the republican club while the chess club won but six out of the ten games still this is doing exceedingly well when the number of good players the repub lican club has to pick from is con sidered the men were paired as follows : iv u c c iv r c won by barnes schuler barnes buch luckenbach buch chapman beckel chapman motz keys keys moore kratzer moore goerlich chandler goerlich jefferson hesse hesse blume albrecht albrecht sliowalter shields showalter rich wilson wilson after the match otto hesse champion of the bethlehems play ed five games with buch 06 of lehigh's team who is probably the best player in lehigh the result was as follows : won by hesse 2 ; by buch 2 drawn 1 freshman class meet ing subjects chosen by senior electricals l f blume and s h fleming — an investigation of the polariza tion factor of electrolytic cells c e butz and g it schaeffer — an investigation of the power required to 1 drive machine tools g s mervine and j h wiley — an investigation of the commu tating conditions in single phase commutator motors e l rich and r h smith an investigation of the over volt ages in electrolysis t b mickley and h w prot zeller — tests on the comparative behaviour of two types of induc tion motors when operated on inele pha^e and two-phase cir cuits d m clawson and c e clewell — a report on the present condi tions and proposed improvements of the bethlehem and nazareth and of the slate belt electric railway systems p cloke and n e funk a theoretical and experimental study of a 7/2 horse-power in duction machine as a motor and a generator c d hayes and e v phelps tests of the performance of a 6 light general electr'c constant current transformer mathematical lecture course powerful plea to the students under the auspices of the y m c a mr robert e speer of new york city made a strong plea to the college fellows in the physical laboratory on friday morning in defence of ignorance of that which is commonly called seeing life in his opening remarks mr speer said that knowledge was not always power but instead often led to death — death due to slovenli ness of moral thinking continu ing the speaker pleaded for ignor ance of all evil because first man need not cast himself into wicked ness in order to speak with power from experience knowledge of evil is not power second such ignorance is the secret of freedom man is bound by-the strongest of shackles when under the influences of impurity its effect upon the mind and memory is like a cancer — a terribly dangerous and persist ent condition third ignorance of evil alone holds the freshness of life there is no man today clever enough to invent any new sin again it is the only secret of real beauty no life even if redeemed from sin can be as beautiful as one that has remained without a knowl edge of sin dabbling in sin does not make the life more beautiful finally such ignorance holds the secret of all true fellowship and human love one need not exper ience the sinful himself in order to sympathize fully with the fellow who is down such a course is too dangerous haverford defeated in gym meet on saturday evening at haver ford the lehigh gym team won from haverford college in the an nual contest by the close score of 2^/2 points to 23 in the first event lehig-h started off with a rush by winning both first and second places on the hori zontal bar their lead was greatly increased by getting first places in both club swinging and parallel bars but in the flying rings and side horse haverford showed the best form and as a result took the lead in the scoring by one point the last event of tumbling was to decide the result and captain evans saved the day for his team by taking first place the good form showed by lehigh won the contest as usual the visitors were shown a very good time and royally en tertained by the haverford fellows both before and after the contest the judges were dr h l chad wick dr h s wingert and mr c e suiter the events were won by the men as follows horizontal bar — haverford — brown 06 bushnell 08 lehigh — brown 07 ; fernandez 08 won by brown lehigh ; fer nandez second club swinging — haverford — downing 05 ; shortlidge 06 le high — stauff er/06 ; donaldson 08 won by stauff er downing sec ond parallel bars — haverford — bushnell 05 ; brown 08 lehigh - — brown 07 ; fernandez 08 won by fernandez ; brown ( haverford ) , second flying rings — haverford — lee 05 ; stratton 06 lehigh — scott 07 moore 07 won by lee stratton second tumibhng — haverford — brown 06 bushnell ob lehigh — moore 07 evans 06 won by evans ; bushnell second side horse — haverford — cary 06 carson 06 lehigh — fernan dez 08 stauff er 06 won by carson cary and stauff er second tie judges^dr h l chadwick columbia dr h s wingert mr c e suiter