Brown and White Vol. 21 no. 28

              students signify their hearty support of the honor system prof w s franklin gives an illustrated talk on the electron theory nitric acid discussed special meeting held played extra period tie score at end of second half necessitated five minutes extra special meeting yesterday an other today for final adjustment trumbull,'l4 discusses the man ufacture of nitric acid from nitrogen in air as formerly announced j c gorman to repeated his offer of last year namely that of presenting a sweater to the best non-varsity wrestler of each weight this sweater contest was held friday and saturday afternoons in the field house and proved to be even more enthusiastic than last year's competition the object of this contest is to induce new men to enter into wrestling in order to bring forth material for the var sity wrestling team several of the candidates of saturday's contest will probably represent their weights on this year's varsity team while all of these men are capable of presenting a good exhi bition and have a good chance to make the team before they leave college the winners are : the preliminaries were held fri day afternoon and resulted as fol lows : — 115-pound class kirkhuff 16 threw king 16 with bar nelson and chancery hold time 1 minute 19 seconds hicks 16 threw spuhler 17 continued on third page the university dance lehigh lost a hard-fought battle at swarthmore friday night in the fastest game it has played this sea son the score at the end of the second half was a tie this neces sitated playing an extra five-minute period which ended with the score of 20 to 19 from start to finish both teams played desperately close guarding featured the game and as a result only eight field goals were made five of which were made by lehigh fouls were quite numerous the garnet team scoring fourteen points in this way swarthmore scored first when twining shot a foul goal after the first minute of play the brown and white team scored a point and then swarthmore got a lead of three points on so many foul goals la ter mckissick scored a field goal and lucas duplicated lehigh was not so fortunate but increased the score by caging some more foul goals the first half ended with the score twelve to six in favor of swarthmore with only two field goals being shot the second half started with a jump lehigh outplaying their op ponents white scored the first field goal and a little later johnson caged another both teams then got a foul goal and white obtained another field goal tieing the score at thirteen swarthmore by getting a field goal and three fouls increas ed their score to eighteen but a foul and two field goals by crichton tied the score at eighteen when the whis tle blew an extra five minutes was played during which time swarthmore shot two fouls while lehigh could only get one the work of all the men was splendid the line-up : — lehigh swarthmore crichton capt f . mckissick capt geyer white f twining johnson c . lucas sproul price g . . p mcgovern green g . . j mcgovern field goals — mckissick 1 twin ing 1 lucas 1 crichton 2 white 2 johnson 1 foul goals — twining 14 out of 22 price 8 out of 17 white 1 out of 3 time of halves — 20 minutes extra 5-minute peri od referee — crowell swarth more substitutions — lehigh gcyer for crichton ; swarthmore sproul for lucas muhlenberg to-morrow even ing in the colosseum 8 o'clock the arts and science club meet ing which was held on thursday last in leonard hall was opened by president sanderson 14 at 8.30 p m after a short business ses sion the speaker of the evening dr rau dean of the moravian college was introduced dr rau's subject was moravian settlements in the bethlehems dr rau told how a band of bohemians took the name of moravians when they left bohemia and went to ger many at the time of the reforma tion here they were organized under count zinzendorf and came over to what is now the state of georgia in america from here the mora vians divided their land and a part of them came up to pennsylvania and settled in the vicinity of naza reth here they built nazareth hall intended for an orphanage for this building and many of the buildings in the settlement money was advanced by a methodist by the name of whitefield some discus sion arose and the two factions sep arated and many of the moravians came to bethlehem taking the name bethlehem from an old german hymn some of the old buildings which now constitute the moravian semi nary were built by the moravians as community houses one for the men and another for the unmarried women the moravians then set about preaching to the indians and to gather together the sects for the purpose of uniting they divided the people of the settlement up in to two branches the field branch and the home branch the one was to do the work in the field while the other was to do the work in the homes and the manufacturing of such goods and so forth that was needed by the colony the moravians wished to make and provide everything that was needed at home themselves and sell to outsiders without buying from them this system did not work very long however the settlement was very prosperous for after the zinzendorf estate had gone into bankruptcy in 1749 they paid back all the money with interest that had been advanced by zinzendorf in 1763 the community system of living together was abandoned and the settlers set about building them selves homes and establishing shops and places of manufacture many of which can now be seen after this most interesting talk by dr rau refreshments were served notice friday evening at 8.15 o'clock president j s long 14 called the fourth meeting of the chemical so ciety to order in the physics lec ture room prof w s franklin who was then introduced discussed the electron theory of gases and crystallography in a most interest ing manner prof franklin first discussed the origin of the electron theory and explained how by many methods it has been conclusively established that air will conduct electricity as well as practically all other gases at first it was argued that air must be heated before it would conduct electricity but after the appearance of the x-ray in 1894 and later still the action of radium on air disprov ed the original theory j lowever if charged air is put in mass bottles it quickly loses its charge as it does when passed through glass wool ra dium or two oppositely charged plates this latter statement has been proven over and over again by the use of a highly magnified electroscope connected with an in sulated plate the conductivity of air was demonstrated by a series of ex periments static electricity radi um gas flame and the x-ray were all used to show how air conducts electricity from these experiments we may assume the hypothesis that air is filled with an innumerable number of charged bodies they all do not attain the same velocity as they move about some as those from radium move at a velocity equal to from 20,000 to 170,000 miles per second when these at oms move about at such a high rate of speed they collide with other at oms with such force that they break them into positive and negative ions these in turn are driven on until by the continuing of this process the air becomes filled with an unlimited number of charged bodies produc ing what is known as the spark by a series of photographs the structure of crystals was fully ex plained the luminescence of diff erent materials as flourspar tribon and sugar was demonstrated and explained as being phenomena due to the shifting of the molecules caused by a change of conditions l f turnbull 14 then said of the manufacture of nitric acid from nitrogen in the air — the fixation of atmospheric ni trogen has now become an cstab continued on second page at the college meeting held last friday at 11.00 o'clock the follow ing recommendations were submit ted to the student-body : 1 the arcadia shall be chosen in accordance with the following method the following men are eligible for nomination to the ar cadia by virtue of their offices : captain and manager of football ; captain and manager of baseball captain and manager of lacrosse captain and manager of track ; cap tain and manager of wrestling ; cap tain and manager of basketball presidents of senior junior and sophomore classes ; editor-in-chief and business manager of the brown and white editor-in chief and business manager of epit ome editor-in-chief and business manager of the burr ; presidents of the mustard and cheese mins trel association and y m c a ; athletic representatives at large and dormitory chief from the above list of twenty-six men eleven are to be elected by the student-body annually these elev en men together with four others elected as described below shall constitute the arcadia and honor court two of the four men just mentioned are to be elected annual ly at the second college meeting in the autumn not later than novem ber ist and at the time of their election they shall be juniors in full and regular standing they shall serve on the arcadia and honor court for two years or in case any member thus elected shall leave col lege before graduation his succes sor shall be elected at the next col lege meeting after his withdrawal and shall be chosen from the class of which the withdrawing man is a member the chairman and secre tary of the arcadia are to be elect ed by members of that body during the first year that this system is in operation two juniors shall be elected as above 2 a during an examination any man may leave the room at his own discretion b that every man write the following pledge and sign his name at the end of every quiz and exam ination paper t have neither re ceived nor given aid in this exer cise neither has any other student so far as i know if a man forgets to sign this pledge he has the priv continued on second page notice special meeting i here will be a special meeting of the student-body this afternoon at 4.00 o'clock in packer hall honor system ! all students desiring to report corrections in chapel and lecture at tendance must do so on or before january 22nd at the office of the registrar on saturday evening the first of a scries of university dances was held in drown memorial mall the many charming young ladies and their escorts were afforded a very pleasant evening smith's or chestra furnishing the music the dance was proclaimed a success by everyone this was due to a great extent to the efforts of the commit tee composed of he ladies of the faculty assisted by a committee of the student-body a feature was introduced in the form of a snow hall dance which afforded consid erable amusement among the guests were the young ladies of the bishopthorpe school there were also representatives from the faculty with their wives the undoubted success of this dance insures many more of such functions in the near future the dance was ably chaperoned by mrs albert ladd colby mrs natt m emery mrs eugene g grace mrs guy r johnson mrs preston a lambert mrs barry macnutt mrs benjamin leroy miller mrs howard r reiter mrs john l stewart mrs charles l thornburg mrs claude n wyant college will begin monday feb ruary 2nd at 7.45 a m instead of the 3rd as stated in the college cal endar the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday january 20 1914 chemists have good meeting sweater meet in wrestling swarthmore downs lehigh arts & science club holds meet honor system still in force vo . xxi garnet team defeats lehigh quintette in fast game 20 to 19 dr rau talks to classicals on the early moravian settlements annual wrestling meet held be tween non-varsity men for sweaters no 28 name jso of land ecirkhuff 16 .... 7 iidatcs iv g 115 repa 16 4 125 thomas 16 3 135 woelful 14 3 145 levin h6 3 158 bailey 14 3 maccarthy 16 2 175 heavy w