Brown and White Vol. 18 no. 14

              preparations for lafayette behind closed gates . with the lafayette game less than two weeks off coach reiter is putting the men through the hardest kind of practice the team came out of the hard navy game in good condition and the men are now going at their work with new spirit starting this week practice is being held behind closed gates new formations and plays are be ing tried and perfected coach reiter is also paying especial atten tion to the development of speed on wednesday afternoon after some preliminary practice the varsity lined up against the scrub for a long hard scrimmage in this the varsity showed good form scoring six touchdowns to the scrub's two bailey who has been playing at guard was tried out at end on the varsity and it seems likely that he will remain at this position two sets of backs are being worked on the varsity alter nately the teams lined up as follows : varsity scrub bailey right end giff black right tackle . . goldberg bayless harwig .... right guard . . . schmidt wylie centre .... van nort downs reese left guard . . . . ackerly vela left tackle mayer r wood . . left end wagner price quarter-back . . rehfuss goyne knox . . right half-back ... hart dunn kennedy left half-back . krause flick cox full-back cann donaldson touchdowns : varsity — cox 4 knox dunn scrub — krause bi anco recent weddings of alumni the marriage of dean corsa 05 to miss hazel wilmot raper took place november 2 1910 at the lat ter's home roanoke va the wedding of miss ramsey of allentown to a o fulton 08 took place last evening interesting meeting held tuesday evening the most instructive and enter taining meeting of the mechanical engineering society held in wil liams hall tuesday evening war ranted a better attendance than that which greeted the speakers the principal paper of the evening was on cranes and was given by d m petty 09 of the bethlehem steel co this subject was of par ticular interest and value as the seniors are now engaged in the de signing of a crane in their course in machine design mr petty di vided his subject into three main parts 1st — a general description and uses of cranes ; 2nd — specifica tions adopted by the association of iron and steel electrical engin eers ; 3rd — the driving end of crane construction under the first heading were taken up the varieties of work generally handled by cranes the special classes designed to take care of particular work un der peculiar circumstances together with the standard classifications the specifications named in the second division of the subject were read and commented upon in detail and by them every phase of crane construction and practice was fully illustrated as his work has large ly to do with electrical equipment mr petty gave a very intelligent presentation of the third division namely the driving end the most modern methods of applying the electrical equipment were de scribed the second paper by n h guth 12 on surplus power avail able in steel works took up the methods of utilizing what has hith erto been waste heat of blast fur naces by the aid of drawings the course of this heat was traced through regenerative coke ovens recoverists for by products and the final use of the gases in gas engines the conclusion drawn from the per centage of heat used by each pro cess was that while the efficiency of the whole plant is not increased by the application of these methods the running expenses are greatly reduced the oxhydric flame for steel cutting w r as the subject of a very interesting paper by d c keefe 11 mr keefe talked from actual experience with the use of this flame and by drawings and tables gave a very complete discussion of the work capable of this recently developed method pie described how a piece of steel was cut in 6 minutes 38 seconds by the oxhy continued on fourth page orchestra dance the second orchestra dance will be held in drown hall on saturday evening at 8:15 v i moncrieff to made a fly ing visit to south bethlehem on monday monthly meeting was well at tended the second meeting of the civil engineering society for the current year was held in the physics lec ture room last wednesday night president jannus presiding the attendance was much larger than usual owing to the presence of a large number of electrical engin eering students who accepted the invitation extended to them the evening opened with a brief busi ness meeting at which a revised constitution and by-laws were adopted the most important change made was the privilege given to any freshman taking the c e course of becoming an active member upon the societies ac ceptance of a paper delivered at a regular meeting he first spccliccr oi trie evening was w it waddington 12 who delivered a very interesting paper on the bergen hill tunnel mr wagner resident engineer of the philadelphia and reading railroad in charge of the grade crossing work at philadelphia was then in troduced as the principal speaker he spoke upon the subject elimi nation of grade crossings dis cussing especially the work clone in the city of philadelphia by the p & r r company he explained in detail with the help of stereopti con views the construction of the principal crossings recently built by the p & r co both when the rail road was depressed with the high way above and when the highway was depressed with the railroad above the main difficulty en countered in this construction was the city sewerage system which first had to be changed at great expense in many places the average traffic of 500 trains daily was continued uninterrupted by the work of con struction in all cases the city of philadelphia and the railroad company divided the total cost evenly the city having charge of all changes made on its own prop erty and the company having charge of its own necessary changes the speaker also devoted some time to the drainage and waterproofing of bridges at the close of the talk the meet ing adjourned to saucon hall where those present partook of a sumptuous spread prepared by jim myers lafayette edition will be issued next friday prof franklin reads a paper be fore the society one of the most successful af fairs ever conducted by the electri cal engineering society was held on tuesday evening in the physi cal lab the meeting was char acterized by the quality of papers presented as well as by the subjects they dealt with president fithian opened the meeting at 7 30 sharp and after some routine business was gone over the first speaker of the even ing h e ramsey 11 was intro duced pie gave a very interesting paper on induction furnaces and their relation to the electrical pro fession this adaptation of the electric fluid to metallurgical uses is comparatively recent and is being specialized in more and more by the present generation of graduates in electricity the main adva.ntage of electric furnaces in general is that very little heat is lost in the process of reducing the ore in this respect unlike the cupola furnace in which a great amount of heat is wasted the advantages and disadvantages of the three types of furnaces — resistance arc and in duction — were discussed and the different types of induction fur naces were taken up in more or less detail but after all is said and done it seems that the induction type of furnace is mainly commer cially useful in refining steel and other metals rather than in actually reducing the metal from the ore the next speaker of the evening was c d kafer of the bethlehem steel co who chose as his subject general crane specifications a class of work on which he is well qualified to speak it was shown by recitals of actual occurrences that the electrical engineer in the employ of large corporations now adays must possess a good all around mechanical ability in order to be prepared for whatever prob lem he is given to work out the last paper presented was that of prof franklin who eluci dated the principle and practical ap plications of bernulli's theory of hydraulics by the aid of lantern slides the theoretical side of the subject was clearly explained and the practical phase was well taken care of by some very interesting ex periments prepared and performed in the speaker's inimitable style adjournment was taken only af ter full justice had been done to a sumptuous spread the brown and white vol xviii lehigh university bethlehem pa friday november 11 1910 secret practice foot-ball team november meeting of elec society civil society holds meeting second meeting of mechanicals no 14 now then leff kiii