Brown and White Vol. 21 no. 10

              game bids fair to be one of the hardest on the lehigh schedule the extension courses planned for this year are much bet ter than before prof hughes in charge all classes were well repre sented at gathering of oldest course society three good papers have a strong team these courses under the direc tion of prof hughes began october thirteenth lawshe 14 g lewis 14 and fehnal 16 read well re ceived papers a fighting parson will be the speaker at the y m c a meeting this sunday evening rev fred erick w beekman fought for his college — amherst on the grid iron playing on the varsity foot ball team for two years he was also a star on the track some of the records he made still remaining unbroken at that institution following his college course he studied at the boston law school and while in that city ran on the same mile-relay team with coach burke the present coach of le high's track team this team held the american championship tied lafayette in opening game and rolled up large score against n y u the muhlenberg team has shown an unusually advanced stage of de velopment ever since the opening game with lafayette on september 27th in this game the allentown eleven sprung a great surprise up on lafayette when they held them to a 7 to 7 tie since this time muhlenberg has improved steadily the score of 56 to 0 made against n y u and the gettysburg score of last saturday 20 to 6 giving some idea of her present strength the game to-morrow then bids fair to be one of the hardest games on lehigh's schedule this season and by no means will the brown and white team tackle an easy proposition lehigh is somewhat crippled from the yale game and also from inju ries received in practice these weak points are being continually strengthened by the old men com ing back into the game after recov ering from slight injuries with the squad hard at work ev ery day this week coach keady ex pects to have a team on the field to-morrow which will surely bring victory the probable line-up for to-mor row's game will be lehigh pos muhlenberg f w green . . 1 c hubbard mccarthy .... 1 1 flexer frank green . . 1 g ritter faherty c featheroff bianco r q day bailey r t copley sawtelle r c . laudenslager chenoweth .... q b rcisner i lokan 1 h 1 berry keady r h b i lener ( yichton f . b brenner poli tics club ( n tuesday evening ( ctober 28 at 8 o'clock the first meeting of the l u politics club will be held in drown memorial hall the speaker of the evening will be professor john l stewart head of the department of political economy all students in the university are cordially invited to attend this first meeting of the dub addresses wanted the following freshmen are re quested to report at once to the registrar of the university their local addresses j m carboncll k f vane v 1 1 doushkess a e i kuan e a ixeenan v f eciesel 11 mcdowell 11 mer warth j r murray t ( i ralph j i i randolph j m snavely and 11 i vrecland ' rev fred w beekman after practicing law in dayton ohio for eight years he enlisted in the army when the call for volun teers was made for the spanish american war and won a commis sion in the service this is the type of real men need ed to make the ministry a virile fon.c and south bethlehem is for tunate in having such a man as dean of the pro-cathedral of the nativ ity dr beekman having assumed charge there during the past sum mer dr beekman has already won the a miration of a large number of lehigh men and this opportunity is afforded for others to meet him the meeting will be held at the reg ular time 6.30 o'clock and there will be special music n y teachers visit lehigh twelve members of the chemis try teachers club of new york city on saturday visited the uni versity on an inspection trip thai included the bethlehem steel com pany's riant and the coplay ce ment works the club is composed largely oi teachers ill the public schools of new york reston ste venson is president and augustus eclock is secretary oj the club the teachers were shown through the chemical laboratory here l r mr m aguire of the i epa r t ment oj ( hemist rv the varsity and scrubs lined up against each other wednesday af ternoon for a hard scrimmage the second-string men had been given muhlenberg plays and attempted to work them upon the varsity but with little success from the side lines muhlenberg's plays as worked out by the scrubs seem to be old friends revived — the double pass from a kick formation worked so successfully however by the in dians ends around and tackle through tackle it was apparent wednesday that the varsity line is by no means a settled proposition several of the first-squad men have minor injuries that keep them from being in their best playing condition kuhn's shoulder was hurt in the scrimmage scruggs has a bad ankle frank green and saw telle have not quite recovered from yale injuries capt flick will in all likelihood not play in the muhlenberg game a nerve in his neck was paralyzed in the yale game and it is thought best to save him the line-up for scrimmage follows : varsity pos scrubs browne .... 1 c ... ( ayrault green i allinger mccarthy .... 1 1 johnson becker 1 g ... williamson scruggs | c faherty faherty | ekstrand bianco r g delaney bailey r t donaldson goyne r c achorn sawtelle chenoweth .. q b good good tierney kuhn keady . 1 h b ... thornton hoban r h b ... vitzthum crichton f . b crawford after saturday's game with muh lenberg there will be but two more chances to see the varsity play at home — against swarthmore nov ember eighth and lafayette the twenty-second the squad journey ing to annapolis to play the navy on the first and taking on haver ford on their field the fifteenth mandolin club practice a practice of the mandolin club was held in drown hal on tues day ( ctober 21st at 5 o'clock af ter a practice of a half hour the an nouncement was made that the new music would be ready by the next practice the first trip will be tak en on november 15th when the dub will go to haverford ( mher trips have been arranged and the dub looks forward to a successful year married at morton i a may 27th 1913 miss marion dorothea buch'man daughter of mr and mrs e l buchman of south bethlehem pa in ohn ferree i err l i . i^l2 of strasburg lancaster county pa the chemists and chemical en gineers held their first meeting of the year on tuesday evening in saucon hall all classes were well represented and three excellent pa pers by lawshe 14 g lewis 14 and fehnel 16 were read the first paper was on the uti lization of wood waste by v t lawshe the speaker went into the distillation of wood waste stat ing that the method used to recov er these products is the separation of one substance from the others present there are three distilla tion methods 1 steam 2 steam and destructive distillation ; 3 destructive distillation the various methods of distillation were described and then the speaker gave a short account of the developments in the manufacture of the various products obtained from wood waste some of the most important prod ucts from the distillation of wood waste are : charcoal methyl alcohol acetic acid acetone methyl acetate ethyl alcohol and phenols the va pors were allowed to escape at first but the discovery of some of the above compounds in these gases caused an investigation to be made and resulted in finding most of the compounds mentioned experiments show that destruc tive distillation for purposes of ob taining charcoal and gas chiefly should be carried on in small ap paratus and as rapidly as possible but on the other hand for oils and acid the heating should be slow and the retorts large in the former case the retorts arc heated for three hours at a glowing red heat in the latter however the retorts are cold to start with and are heated for six hours at a much lower temperature the earliest plants established in this country for the distillation of wood were begun in 1830 in massa chusetts since this time there have been various improvements and pat ents all to some extent copying af ter the german and french meth ods the vital question of destructive distillation of wood waste is can it be made to pay there is an enor mous amount of wood in the shape of stump limbs railroad ties fallen trees etc which are good only for wood bui unsalable as such at a fair profit the processes arc apparent ly simple hut it is only at the pres ent time that this industry is being made a commercial manufacture the speaker took up in detail the quantities and value f the most abundant products and also men tinned the various phases connect ed with the operation of a large plant lor the distillation of wood continued ox second page a decidedly important advance in the scope of the extension cour ses of lehigh university was an nounced on saturday october 11 by professor hughes director of this phase of the university's ac tivity for some years saturday courses have been popular and good work has been done in some ele mentary subjects in the evening school the projected evening courses for the coming year call for work con siderably in advance of anything that has been attempted thus far in the night classes the opportunity will be offered business men and machinists of the bethlehems and vicinity for study in the following subjects spanish for beginners a practical course in mechanics business law and a short course in accounting the class in spanish will be con ducted by professor fox head of the department of romance lan guages who will employ the con versational method the classes will be limited to ten persons in view of the opportunities offered in latin america for citizens of the united states this course that will furnish an acquaintance with the language in use there may appeal to local persons the course in mechanics will be continued on fourth page reception to freshmen all members of the freshman lass are invited to a reception to be given by the women's club of lehigh university following the muhlenberg game the reception will take place in the auditorium of drown memorial hall beginning at 4.30 refreshments will be served the members of the women's club wish every freshman to real ize that this invitation is personal and cordial as possible it may be stated for the benefit of the new men in college that the women's club is an organization of the wives and sisters of the members of the teaching staff minstrel show l ( i iri y three men reported for the minstrel show try-outs which were held in drown hall on wednesday neither the cast nor the chorus has been picked and all men with any taleni in this line are urged to come out io the nexi rehearsal which will be held on monday at 4.30 p m in drown mall many of last year's men arc back and with lots of good new material the chances for a good show this year are very bright the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday october 24 1913 good speaker on sunday vol xxi hard scrimmage held wednesday new extension courses here chemists hold first meet scrubs attempt to work muhlen berg plays on varsity but with little success muhlenberg tomorrow rev frederick beekman ex-foot ball star will address meet ing of y m c a no 10