Brown and White Vol. 22 no. 41

              student papers prof c s fox speaker eight letter men l allen 16 a c eberhard 16 and w a cannon 16 read papers on transit subjects coach keady starts season with only first and third bases to fill from new candidates head of department of romance languages recounts recent experiences in europe the junior banquet will be held to-night at 8.30 at the hotel allen allentown this is the first time the 1916 class has been able to hold their banquet elsewhere than in bethlehem or south bethlehem and the result is looked forward to with great expectations from the class kresge keady scruggs and wynne will respond to toasts the committee has secured presi dent drinker professors franklin of the physics department reiter of the department of physical ed ucation and stewart of the depart ment of business administration to represent the faculty and h a brown president of the senior class and g w hoban president of the arcadia to represent the se nior class by special arrangement an extra car will follow the last scheduled car to south bethlehem thus pro viding enough room for all those who wish to return a new type of artifi cial swimming pool in order to supplement their re cently-published book on elemen tary electricity and magnetism professors franklin and macxutt have just published a book on ad vanced electricity and ala°"netisni the el em en tar treatise deals with the purely mechanical side of the subject and is independent of any consideration of the nature of the physical action which leads to the production of electromotive force in a voltaic cell or dynamo ; it is independent of any considera tion of the nature of the physical action which constitutes an electric current in a wire it is independent of any consideration of the nature of the disturbance which consti tutes a magnetic field ; it is inde pemdenit of any consideration of the nature of the disturbance or stress which constitutes an electric field this kind of study of electricity and magtu.'ism may very properly be called electro-mechanics conttnued on third page the advanced work on the other hand takes up the other side of the subject and treats entirely with the physical side of the subject the following is quoted from the pref ace of the new book : — to make the study of theoreti lecture on sewage disposal baseball practice started in earn est last monday afternoon when coach keady called his men out for the first out-of-door practice in response to the call for candi dates about fifty men reported which included eight of last year's letter-men with a nucleus of eight letter men together with last year's subs titutes and the entering mem the brown and white should be repre sented by one of the fastest teams seen here for years the only pla ces that were vacated by last year's men are first and third bases the rest of the team remains intact san ford and albrecht varsity men will compete with henderson kan ner spear and tamborelli for first base captain chenoweth will cov er second base and fishburn will probably play short-stop for third base the candidates are achorn wynne uhl mehugh and boland the candidates for the out-field are numerous and include : twom bly keady sanford albrecht ed wards connell randolph hoag land baker morrison maguinnes miller bratton dodson straus berg and shannon the battery candidates are also numerous in eluding anderson muter wal ton buxton halsted shepherd chapman bremton lambert and jennings ; pitchers and catchers : lees mitmam swallow sneider and repko with this material and barring accidents lehigh should have a winning team ticket sale for inter collegiate wrestling last wednesday morning in the physics laboratory building rob ert l fox c e instructor in the civil engineering department gave the first of a series of three illus trated lectures on sewage disposal before the members of the civil engineering course in this lecture mr fox first re counted the general methods of sewage disposal which have been in use up to the present time fie then gave a detailed description of the broad irrigation method of sew age disposal as in vogue in both europe and america numerous slides including views of the ber lin and paris plants were shown mining and geologi cal society meeting on thursday evening march the 25th at 8 o'clock the mining and geological society will be enter tained by dr and mrs drinker at their home on the campus a large number of men are ex pected to turn out for this annual reception tendered to the society dr f f hintze of the depart ment of geology will be the speak er of the evening his subject will be the geology of oil and natu ral gas dr hintze has done con siderable work in this line for the state of wyoming and is consider ed an authority on the subject the intercollegiate wrestling meet will be held in taylor gym nasium in two meets the first on friday evening march 26th at 8 o'clock will decide the prelimina ries and semi-finals the second on saturday afternoon march 27th at 2 o'clock will decide the finals and second and third places students may obtain one reserv ed or general admission ticket per registration card at a 25-cent reduc tion at the gymnasium ticket office any time to-morrow and until tues day of next week on this date tickets will be placed on general sale in the bethlehems and allentown season tickets do not entitle holder to admission or to any reduction on tickets general sale prices : re served seats 75 cents general ad mission 50 cents ; students allow ed 25-cent reduction y m c a announcement professor w s franklin of the department of physics has recent ly invented a new kind of swim ming pool which can be scrubbed rinsed and filled with drinkable wa ter every two hours the pool being full of water and in constant use the cost of maintenance of the pool is actually less than the cost which is involved in the method of opera tion which is now usually employed the plan involves three distinct ive elements as follows : — the installation of a large sand filter alongside of the pool with a capacity sufficient to turn over the water in the pool from twelve to twenty-four times per day depend inig on the number of persons using the pool this will allow the water to be filtered at an enormously in creased rate the use of a lightly framed bulk head which is pushed slowly from one end of the pool to the other by the inflowing pure water prevents the mixing of the inflowing pure water with the used water in the pool the use of the moving bulkhead for automatically scrubbing the bot tom and side walls of the pool as it travels back and forth along the pool the only method now in use is to empty the pool and scrub it by hand professor franklin's plan provides for a slight lowering of the water level in front of the moving bulkhead so that the inflowing wa ter and the scraping and rubbing action of the closely-fitted bulkhead provides for a thorough scrubbing satisfactory operation of the moving bulkhead requires the bot tom and side walls of the pool to be made accurately plane professor franklin's moving bulk head arrangement can be used in a pool having a sloping bottom as well as in a pool of uniform depth therefore so far as the proposed plan of operation is concerned it makes very little difference whether the pool is made of uniform depth or with a sloping bottom college note the university of california has a correspondence course in scienti fic agriculture which is being taken by mail by over 6,000 ambitious farmers this university has more students enrolled in the correspond ence courses than in regular uni versity work the general theme of the march meeting of the civil engineering society which was held last mon day evening in drown hall was rapid transit three members of the junior class gave interesting and well-prepared talks on various phases of the above subject l allen 16 spoke first on the effect of the extension of urban and suburban lines on real estate values the early development of this country began with the invention of the steam-boat in 1807 and the locomotive some time later and took place along these high ways of communication namely the rail road and the stream but not all the people can live in cities that lie along the navigable streams and railroads and the development of the districts next to these high ways of communication was brought a bout by the extension and building of trolley systems the influence that the extension of the urban and suburban lines has on real estate values may be divided into : 1 the effect of their extension on real estate values in the business district 3 the effect of the construction of suburban lines on country land values 2 the effect of their extension on the value of unimproved land in the suburbs of the city the effect of their extension on real estate values in the business district is most strikingly shown by the construction of the market st subway in philadelphia which caus ed an increase in assessed valuation of 38,226,000 or 128 in the pe riod from 1900 to 1912 during the same period the increase in as sessed values in the neighboring streets chestnut and arch was 26 and 39 respectively the second effect stated is shown by the fact that in the 46th and 47th wards on the outskirts of philadel phia the increase in assessed valua tion of unimproved land due to the construction of rapid transit lines was 3,686,000 or over 500 in the period 1900 to 1912 the social conditions on the farm have been immensely improved as a result of the suburban trolley sys tems the extension of the electric railway into rural districts has con tributed in a greater degree to the advancement of farming in commu nities remote from the markets than any other development of modern times the electric railroad has brought the market to the farmer's door making it possible to load his produce on cars at the lowest possi ble expense for handling and haulage the diminution of the accident rate per year in the last decade was the subject of the paper by a c eberhard 16 much has been done by rapid transit companies in the last ten years to decrease the accident rate the work that they have done to ward this end has been mostly on their own initiative continued on fourth page one of the first and most im portant moves on the part of rapid transit companies was to educate their employees along the lines of safety first also the general public as well are being urged to the march meeting of the arts and science club was held at the home of president and mrs drink er on wednesday evening one of the largest crowds of the year with a large number of faculty mem bers were present prof c s fox head of the de partment of romance languages spoke on his travels in europe dur ing the last summer prof fox went to europe in company with prof palmer as far as boulogne on the over-sea voyage he dined with the doctor and a hungarian who was just returning to his coun try after studying the methods of farming in america where these two men now are is a question which prof fox says has often presented itself to him ever since the war in his minute description of his trip of which he had no definite plan on setting out the compact ness of the towns built so because of the old walls was everywhere noticeable these old walls built during the 12th and 13th centuries are at some places intact rising to the height of 100 feet with a path of four or more feet on the top passing through the relics of me diaevalism in a 20th century auto mobile is as strange as it is suggest ive of material progress • in travelling along the express routes in france one must leave the main course some 2 or 3 miles from the town and enter the town by a local this makes riding in express trains not advantageous for a per son who desires to get to a place in a hurry with paris as his headquarters prof fox made daily excursions to the points of interest outside the town fie vividly described an old fortress which is now no longer able to withstand siege because of its poor fortifications which would soon crumble under the fire of mod ern guns when austria declared war on servia he got all the gold together he could and began to make for the nearest port he boarded an english vessel ivhich lay in naples for three days taking on a cargo of macaronni and for coaling leaving naples the ship took a zig-zag course presumably along the coast of africa finally coming to gibraltar from whence it was es corted by submarines this ship which was making for boston had no lights aglow for fear of attack by german cruisers known to be looking for prey among the allied vessels prof fox described the tension existing among the peoples about to be plunged into war his diffi culties in getting back to america he asserted were not of the most pleasant sort but the best that could be desired dr cooley who was in tunis when the war broke out told how he made his way to algiers from thence he gained transportation on one of the seven french troop steamers ; escorted by twenty tor pedo boats and eight battleships to the continent the goeben and bresleau were then known to be searching for the french or eng lish merchant-men and war-ships continued on third page william o easton of philadel phia will speak at the y m c a meeting on sunday evening at 6.15 o'clock in drown flail mr easton is secretary of the central y m c a of philadel phia and is actively engaged in the association work in that vicinity fie is an excellent speaker and is sure to please all those who can arrange to be present at the meet ing mr easton will probably speak on the methods and progress of y m c a work in and around philadelphia an additional attraction is a read ing selection by miss benham of bishopthorpe manor mustard and cheese show the mustard and cheese dram atic association of lehigli univer sity will hold its thirty-first annual performance in the grand opera house on saturday evening april the 24th the association has for the first time undertaken a straight comedy and will produce father and the boys a four-act comedy by geo ade the play was written for and played by william h crane with great success rehearsals are being held four times a week and under the guidance of coach gheen the cast is making rapid strides the brown and white bethlehem pa friday march 19 1915 candidates for baseball report banquet of the class of 1916 to-night book edited by profs franklin and mac nutt lehigh university no 41 meeting of arts and science club new publication deals with ad vanced electricity and magnetism vol xxii civil society holds meeting junior class banquet will be held at the hotel allen allentown president and mrs drinker en tertain club at their home good prospects for the brown and white on the diamond daily practice civil engineering society holds large meeting in drown memorial hall