Brown and White Vol. 18 no. 8

              track candidates all track men are requested to meet at the gymnasium on wednes day oct 26 at 3:00 p m pros pects for a championship team are bright but these prospects can only materialize by having a large num ber of men out for the team fresh men in particular are urged to re port the meeting of the mining and geological society which had been postponed from last week was held on wednesday evening in williams hall president fairhurst read a communication from the secretary of the american society of mining engineers setting forth the condi tions under which the mining and geological society can become an affiliated student society of the a s m e and enjoy the advantages of such a collective recognition among other things the students under this arrangement will be able to procure the society publications at half-price and have the oppor tunity of submitting articles for publication in the society's bulletin dr drinker one of the oldest members of the m & g society spoke briefly on a number of mat ters the chief one being his trip to panama with the american so ciety of mining engineers the organization chartered the s s prinz august wilhelm of the hamburg line and sailed from new york at 10:00 o'clock this morning the party will stop at havana oct 25th and 26th and at kingston jamaica on oct 29th and 30th nov ist to bth will be spent on the isthmus ; they expect to return to the states on nov 15 it is likely that at the december meeting which will be held at dr drinker's residence he will give an account of his trip he also brought out the advisability of thinking about admitting the freshmen to membership in the society in order that they might form an early ac quaintance with the nature of their work after graduation prof daniels acting head of the mining department during prof eckfeldt's absence read a number of interesting letters from prof eckfeldt who is now superintend ing the building of a railroad about 700 miles long in the north central part of mexico maps showing the location of the road were displayed in a short talk prof daniels dealt with the labor problem in con lacrosse game continued on third page continued on fourth page the first meeting of the civil en gineering society for the current college year was held wednesday night in saucon hall the meeting was opened with a brief business session when it was voted to raise the annual dues from 1.75 to 2.00 and a committee was chosen to re vise the present constitution and by-laws president jannus of the society partially outlined the work for the coming year and plans were made to increase the membership mr elmore of the bethlehem steel works who was to have been the principal speaker of the even ing was unable to be present and prof mckibben kindly consented to take his place he gave a very interesting talk on the american society of civil engineers this society was founded in 1852 and is to-day the foremost engineering society in america the require ments for membership are severe the ability character and standing of candidates being looked into carefully prof mckibben dwelt some time upon the advantages to be gained by joining such a society especially to those who take part in the meeting by reading papers and entering into the discussions ques tions upon all kinds of engineering are taken up and circulated among the members by means of pamphlets and books civil engineering to day is not merely a question of con struction but also a question of fin ance and business and the discus sion of general questions always tends to be of benefit to the busi ness abilities of both those taking part in the discussions and of those who read about them later prof mckibben stated that any graduate of lehigh university with an en gineering degree was eligible to membership in the american so ciety of civil engineers as a junior member having all privileges ex cept that of voting dr drinker who was present at the meeting was called upon to say a few words lie spoke brief ly encouraging the writing and de livering of papers by the students at meetings of the association he also suggested that freshmen be al there will be a lacrosse game on the field on saturday at 3 : 00 p m all candidates for the team should report then when two sides will be picked and lined against one an other choir rehearsal friday after noon october 21st in the chapel at 5 : 15 it is hoped that there will be a very general attendance mr shields will personally take charge of the rehearsal and it will be a good opportunity for practice as we all know dr drinker be gan life as an engineer a graduate of our school of mines in the early days of our civil and mining schools in place of regular profes sors two engineers held the posi tion of demonstrators of the sub ject — mr h stanley goodwin the assistant general superintend ent of the lehigh valley railroad that of demonstrator of civil en gineering and mr richard p rothwell a prominent mining en gineer of wilkes-barre a graduate of the ecole des mines demonstra tor of mining engineering in dr drinker's senior year 1870-71 mr eckley b coxe mr rothwell and mr martin coryell issued a call for a meeting of min ing engineers to convene at wilkes barre to organize an american so ciety of mining engineers dr drinker then a senior in mining was asked by mr rothwell to at tend and he thus became one of the eighteen founders of the insti tute and is so recorded in the an nals of the institute which is now one of the greatest engineering so cieties in the world the first meet ing was held at wilkes-barre may 16th 1871 and the second session at bethlehem beginning august 15th of that year the meetings were held in packer hall it happened that dr drinker had taken as his thesis subject under mr rothwell the works and mines of the lehigh zinc com pany the mines were then in full operation at friedensville and dr drinker had spent many satur days in the mines as an assistant in surveying to the company's en gineer miles rock of 69 — who later made such a reputation in central america mr rothwell read dr drinker's thesis at the meeting and it was duly published in the early transactions of the in stitute and credited to dr drinker as a paper our president has ever since been an active member of the institute in which he has held of fice as manager the institute held its annual meeting here in dr drinker's first year as president in 1905 at which the members of tau beta pi acted as guides in this lo cality to the visiting members this year the institute holds its autumn meeting on shipboard hav ing chartered the trinz august wilhelm of the hamburg-ameri can line for a trip to panama and some eight i ehigh men go as mem bers : continued on third page notice subscriptions for the brown and white if paid before novem ber 1 will be 1.50 otherwise 2.00 per year these may be mailed to 430 seneca st south bethlehem pa or paid in the brown and white room drown hall wednesday and saturday af ternoons from 2 to 3 o'clock the brown and white vol xviii lehigh university bethlehem pa friday october 21 1910 initial meeting of mining society no 8 dr and mrs drinker sail accompanied by prof richards and other lehigh men an interesting program provided good attendance team prepares for west point civil society has first meeting talks by dr drinker and prof mckibben a long signal drill and stiff scrimmage an unusually long signal practice was held on wednesday and this was followed by a long hard scrim mage in preparation for the west point game several new forma tions were tried and worked suc cessfully the playing of all was fast and hard and the team should make a creditable showing against the strong west point team the start of the scrimmage was as follows : varsity scrubs rouse left end . . . wagner cox left tackle . o'gorman harwig left guard . . ackerly wylie centre downs bailey .... right guard .... schmidt black right tackle .... bayless r wood . . . right end goyne price quarter-back . . rehfuss paul left half-back . . throm knox . . right half-back . . . hart dobbins .... full-back ..... dillon touchdowns rouse moore substitutes goldberg heard g wood merkle vela reese rine hart williams moore cole sheen krause lesesne the above sub stitutes were used during the scrim mage and the line-up at the finish was considerably changed give the team a rousing send-off everybody at the union station 6:40 to-night