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the strong desire of the chinese to oust the manchus out of the po litical life is based on the latter's incapability of directing the ship of state rather than on racial ha tred the revolution is also caus ed by the awakening of the people to their inalienable rights and the present economic conditions among the leaders who are di recting the present struggle is the provisional president dr sun vat sen a man of fine character and marked ability next is general li the vice-president and the gen eral of the revolutionary armies to whose tactical ingenuity was due the successful start of the revolution in the north is the newly-elected provisional president of the chinese republic yuan shi-kai upon continued on third page those who braved the very bad weather on wednesday evening and turned out to attend the miners meet in williams hall were treated to three very interesting talks by frank hirshberg 13 mr bartlett and prof landis on the subjects of ore mining by steam shovel mining in the south-west and oil floatation in general respect ively rather than talk directly upon his subject hirshberg chose to describe mining conditions as encountered by the oliver mining co in the mesabi range at hibbing minne sota and the uses to which this company puts steam shovels he first gave a general description of the plant this company was giv en the order to manufacture 77 out of the 100 steam shovels now in use in the construction of the panama canal shovels are classified ac cording to weight and to manner of mounting usually the boom on large machines swings through an arc of about 260 degrees the en gines run from about the dimensions of 13 x 16 inches to 8 x 8 inches the shovels are used mainly for loading and stripping the ore is blasted in such a manner as to loos en it but not cause it to fall and the steam shovel then takes it up an example of a day's work at the mines was also given showing how almost every second of time is ac counted for and how the maximum amount of ore is mined at a mini mum cost mr bartlett also chose to diverge from his subject and speak more upon the geography of the south west than upon the mining there arizona is about two and one-half times as large as pennsylvania the former containing 113,000 square miles and the latter about 45,000 square miles the country in ari zona is mountainous and the climate is generally of a very agreeable na ture it being pleasant during the day except on the deserts and cool at night the process of irrigation is here carried on extensively to give an idea of the size of dams used there for irrigating purposes it may be well to say a word or two about the roosevelt dam this dam is of solid masonry and rock and backs the water up to a distance of 22 miles it is said that if no water were to flow into the dam after it is full for a period of three years the surrounding country could be irrigated from it exactly the same as if the flow had not been stopped animals found in arizona include the gila monster scorpion rattle in the university of pennsylva nia's eighteenth annual relay races which will be held this year on april 27th the last saturday in that month lehigh hae been placed in a class with dickinson bucknell ursinus college of the city of new york maryland agricultural col lege washington and jefferson pittsburgh and carnegie technical schools continued on third page continued on fourth page the game with perm state to morrow evening in the gymnasium will beyond a doubt be the hardest game on this year's schedule with the possible exception of theswarth more game which comes a week hence state's team at the begin ning of the season was not particu larly strong but at the opening of second term some new material joined the squad and since then they have played an especially strong game their guards are both foot ball men and have proved the tow ers of strength on the team the game will be called at 7.30 p m so as to allow ample time for the dance which is to follow in drown hall the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday february 23 1912 electrical society meets vol xix good talks at miners meet conference at lehigh oratorical contest the conservation of school children to be discussed chu-fuh awarded first prize and williams second members are addressed by e a wolfe of the westinghouse co society hears prof landis mr bartlett and hirshberg 13 the electricals held their first meeting of the second term on tuesday evening and it was poor ly attended for such a flourishing society the committee on the epitome insert reported that first prize for the design was awarded to irving samuels 12 a f wotring 12 read the first paper on telephony taking the immense american telephone co capitalized at 263,500,000 as an ex ample of modern enterprise and ad vanced ideas the western elec tric co which produces the bell phones is a subsidiary of this com pany and the net earnings of the combination are 32,000,000 wot ring next discussed up-to-date prac tice with especial reference to the loading of the lines to balance the increased capacity effect of very long circuits thus making conver sation more distinct wenner 12 followed with a pa per on selenium a very peculiar substance which has the property of changing its resistance under the in fluence of light he described the selenium cell and some interesting experiments that can be performed with it the last paper of the evening was read by e a wolfe of the west inghouse co on industrial motors and their applications he gave a complete description of the va rious direct and alternating current motors telling the particular sphere of each type and supplementing the oral description by a number of ex cellent slides in conclusion mr wolfe expressed the hope that at least six of this year's graduates would see their way clear to take up the westinghouse apprentice ship course which has been greatly improved in the last year penn state here tomorrow early next april lehigh uni versity will tender hospitality to physicians educators and other citi zens of the state who will assemble here for a conference on the con servation of school children con ducted under the auspices of the american academy of medicine the conference aims to interest and instruct not only members of the medical profession but public pa rochial and private school teachers school directors members of women's clubs — in a word all citi zens who have the welfare of chil dren at heart the first session is scheduled for wednesday afternoon april 3rd when medical inspection and su pervision will be discussed on wednesday evening the program will be more popular in character with two addresses by well-known speakers the thursday morning session will be devoted to subjects that should be taught in schools as a means of conservation and the way they should be taught the closing session is to be given to a discussion of the problems of de ficient and backward children the committee that is arranging this conference includes drs w l estes of south bethlehem j e fretz e m green and charles mclntyre of easton r h beck of hecktown h c pohl of nazareth and the following advising commit tee dr h s drinker president of lehigh ; dr n c schaeffer state superintendent of public instruc tion ; vice-president n m emery of lehigh dr t g simonton of pittsburg dr g hudson-maknen of philadelphia dr j b mcallis ter of harrisburg dr w c cor nell of philadelphia supt e r johnstone of the vineland n j training school ; dr a a ham erschlag director of the carnegie technical schools ; and the hon joseph buffington of pittsburg judge of the united states circuit court of appeals for the third circuit penn relays careful preparation and good de livery characterised the speeches made at the annual junior oratori cal contest which was held at 11.00 o'clock yesterday morning in pack er memorial church of the six men competing the judges awarded the first prize of 25.00 to chimin chu-fuh the second prize of 15.00 to s d williams and the third prize of 10.00 to h r griffen which decision was evidently in ac cordance with the popular verdict judging from the applause which followed the announcement of the awards after a few preliminary remarks apropos of the occasion dr drink er introduced the first speaker don ald bowman whose subject was thomas a edison mr bow man was succeeded by the follow ing speakers in the order given : — chimin chu-fuh on the present revolution in china william c fry jr on arbitration as a rem edy for war h r griffen on the short ballot william c rehfuss on economic signifi cance of the panama canal and s d williams on the regula tion of trusts the speeches were well prepared and on the whole well delivered the diction being unusually good chu-fuh in particular although his pronunciation was a slight point against him had a wonderful com mand of the english language chu-fuh said in part : — the chinese revolution marks the dawn of the history of new china and will more than probably turn the current of the world-annals of the future it is meet there fore to give a brief survey of the causes of the struggle the person alities that are directing it and its possible and probable issues no 35
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Title | Brown and White Vol. 19 no. 35 |
Date | 1912-02-23 |
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FullText | the strong desire of the chinese to oust the manchus out of the po litical life is based on the latter's incapability of directing the ship of state rather than on racial ha tred the revolution is also caus ed by the awakening of the people to their inalienable rights and the present economic conditions among the leaders who are di recting the present struggle is the provisional president dr sun vat sen a man of fine character and marked ability next is general li the vice-president and the gen eral of the revolutionary armies to whose tactical ingenuity was due the successful start of the revolution in the north is the newly-elected provisional president of the chinese republic yuan shi-kai upon continued on third page those who braved the very bad weather on wednesday evening and turned out to attend the miners meet in williams hall were treated to three very interesting talks by frank hirshberg 13 mr bartlett and prof landis on the subjects of ore mining by steam shovel mining in the south-west and oil floatation in general respect ively rather than talk directly upon his subject hirshberg chose to describe mining conditions as encountered by the oliver mining co in the mesabi range at hibbing minne sota and the uses to which this company puts steam shovels he first gave a general description of the plant this company was giv en the order to manufacture 77 out of the 100 steam shovels now in use in the construction of the panama canal shovels are classified ac cording to weight and to manner of mounting usually the boom on large machines swings through an arc of about 260 degrees the en gines run from about the dimensions of 13 x 16 inches to 8 x 8 inches the shovels are used mainly for loading and stripping the ore is blasted in such a manner as to loos en it but not cause it to fall and the steam shovel then takes it up an example of a day's work at the mines was also given showing how almost every second of time is ac counted for and how the maximum amount of ore is mined at a mini mum cost mr bartlett also chose to diverge from his subject and speak more upon the geography of the south west than upon the mining there arizona is about two and one-half times as large as pennsylvania the former containing 113,000 square miles and the latter about 45,000 square miles the country in ari zona is mountainous and the climate is generally of a very agreeable na ture it being pleasant during the day except on the deserts and cool at night the process of irrigation is here carried on extensively to give an idea of the size of dams used there for irrigating purposes it may be well to say a word or two about the roosevelt dam this dam is of solid masonry and rock and backs the water up to a distance of 22 miles it is said that if no water were to flow into the dam after it is full for a period of three years the surrounding country could be irrigated from it exactly the same as if the flow had not been stopped animals found in arizona include the gila monster scorpion rattle in the university of pennsylva nia's eighteenth annual relay races which will be held this year on april 27th the last saturday in that month lehigh hae been placed in a class with dickinson bucknell ursinus college of the city of new york maryland agricultural col lege washington and jefferson pittsburgh and carnegie technical schools continued on third page continued on fourth page the game with perm state to morrow evening in the gymnasium will beyond a doubt be the hardest game on this year's schedule with the possible exception of theswarth more game which comes a week hence state's team at the begin ning of the season was not particu larly strong but at the opening of second term some new material joined the squad and since then they have played an especially strong game their guards are both foot ball men and have proved the tow ers of strength on the team the game will be called at 7.30 p m so as to allow ample time for the dance which is to follow in drown hall the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday february 23 1912 electrical society meets vol xix good talks at miners meet conference at lehigh oratorical contest the conservation of school children to be discussed chu-fuh awarded first prize and williams second members are addressed by e a wolfe of the westinghouse co society hears prof landis mr bartlett and hirshberg 13 the electricals held their first meeting of the second term on tuesday evening and it was poor ly attended for such a flourishing society the committee on the epitome insert reported that first prize for the design was awarded to irving samuels 12 a f wotring 12 read the first paper on telephony taking the immense american telephone co capitalized at 263,500,000 as an ex ample of modern enterprise and ad vanced ideas the western elec tric co which produces the bell phones is a subsidiary of this com pany and the net earnings of the combination are 32,000,000 wot ring next discussed up-to-date prac tice with especial reference to the loading of the lines to balance the increased capacity effect of very long circuits thus making conver sation more distinct wenner 12 followed with a pa per on selenium a very peculiar substance which has the property of changing its resistance under the in fluence of light he described the selenium cell and some interesting experiments that can be performed with it the last paper of the evening was read by e a wolfe of the west inghouse co on industrial motors and their applications he gave a complete description of the va rious direct and alternating current motors telling the particular sphere of each type and supplementing the oral description by a number of ex cellent slides in conclusion mr wolfe expressed the hope that at least six of this year's graduates would see their way clear to take up the westinghouse apprentice ship course which has been greatly improved in the last year penn state here tomorrow early next april lehigh uni versity will tender hospitality to physicians educators and other citi zens of the state who will assemble here for a conference on the con servation of school children con ducted under the auspices of the american academy of medicine the conference aims to interest and instruct not only members of the medical profession but public pa rochial and private school teachers school directors members of women's clubs — in a word all citi zens who have the welfare of chil dren at heart the first session is scheduled for wednesday afternoon april 3rd when medical inspection and su pervision will be discussed on wednesday evening the program will be more popular in character with two addresses by well-known speakers the thursday morning session will be devoted to subjects that should be taught in schools as a means of conservation and the way they should be taught the closing session is to be given to a discussion of the problems of de ficient and backward children the committee that is arranging this conference includes drs w l estes of south bethlehem j e fretz e m green and charles mclntyre of easton r h beck of hecktown h c pohl of nazareth and the following advising commit tee dr h s drinker president of lehigh ; dr n c schaeffer state superintendent of public instruc tion ; vice-president n m emery of lehigh dr t g simonton of pittsburg dr g hudson-maknen of philadelphia dr j b mcallis ter of harrisburg dr w c cor nell of philadelphia supt e r johnstone of the vineland n j training school ; dr a a ham erschlag director of the carnegie technical schools ; and the hon joseph buffington of pittsburg judge of the united states circuit court of appeals for the third circuit penn relays careful preparation and good de livery characterised the speeches made at the annual junior oratori cal contest which was held at 11.00 o'clock yesterday morning in pack er memorial church of the six men competing the judges awarded the first prize of 25.00 to chimin chu-fuh the second prize of 15.00 to s d williams and the third prize of 10.00 to h r griffen which decision was evidently in ac cordance with the popular verdict judging from the applause which followed the announcement of the awards after a few preliminary remarks apropos of the occasion dr drink er introduced the first speaker don ald bowman whose subject was thomas a edison mr bow man was succeeded by the follow ing speakers in the order given : — chimin chu-fuh on the present revolution in china william c fry jr on arbitration as a rem edy for war h r griffen on the short ballot william c rehfuss on economic signifi cance of the panama canal and s d williams on the regula tion of trusts the speeches were well prepared and on the whole well delivered the diction being unusually good chu-fuh in particular although his pronunciation was a slight point against him had a wonderful com mand of the english language chu-fuh said in part : — the chinese revolution marks the dawn of the history of new china and will more than probably turn the current of the world-annals of the future it is meet there fore to give a brief survey of the causes of the struggle the person alities that are directing it and its possible and probable issues no 35 |
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