Brown and White Vol. 5 no. 29

              gun club the gun club held the first of a series of trophy shoots at the traps on the athletic field saturday afternoon vanduyne made the highest score after the shoot a meeting was held in the physical laboratory for the purpose of elect ing a captain and manager for the team dornin 99 was elected captain and zalinski 00 manager secretary long haspetitioned con gress for a grant of about 6,000 000 to rebuild the naval academy at annapolis the secretary asks that , provision be made without delay for an armory to cost 300 000 a power house to cost 100 000 front rows of officers quarters to cost 60,000 and for grading and electric plants 90,000 gideon perrie the well known canadian weight thrower has been engaged to coach the harvard track athletes in shot-putting president drown continued on second page the last issue of the engineer ing news contains cuts and histories of the presidents of the four great american engineering societies the civil mechanical electrical and mining engineering the latter is one of the most important associations of scientific and learned men in this country if not in the whole world and le high may justly feel proud that her distinguished president is at the head of this influential organi zation the article from the engineering news is published below : " dr thomas messinger drown president of the american institute of mining engineers was born march 19 1812 he was educated at the philadelphia central high school where he graduated in 1859 he then took up the study of medicine and three years later received the degree of m d from the university of pennsylvania after a brief period of practice as a physican he turned to chemistry as his life work and studied under professors brush and johnson at yale and under professor gibbs at harvard three years were spent in germany in the study of chemistry and metallurgy partly at the school of mines at freiberg and partly under professor bunson at heidelberg he subsequently established himself as an analytical chemist at philadelphia and re moved in 1874 to easton pa to become professor of chemistry at lafayette college where he re mained for seven years in 1873 he was elected secretary of the american institute of mining en gineers and retained that position by unanimous re-election until he resigned it in 1883 to the universal regret of his associates in 1885 he accepted the professorship ol chemistry at the massachusetts in stitute of technology at the time of his resignation 18y5 the department had 21 instructors and 500 students from 1887 to 1895 he was in charge of the chemical de partment of the massachusetts state board of health in his investigation of the natural waters of massachu setts on which some 250,000 has been expended by the state the importance of its results has been universally recognized the map of natural chlorine in the waters of massachusetts prepared by him with the co operation.of the engin eers of the board as the graphic epi tome of thousands of analyses is a brilliant illustration of the value of induction from accurate and ade quate data the results of his very extended investigations of the sanitary condition of water were published for the most part in the annual reports of the massachusetts state board of health his papers on metallurgy and chemistry may be found in the transactions of notice the dates and special titles of the lectures to be given by the english department are as follows jan 25 — langland's vision of piers the plowman feb 1 — gower feb 8 — the unproductive period after the death of chaucer and early scottish poetry a wrestling class has been or ganized to meet every saturday at 10.30 it will be free to all who are interested and would like to take the full course c.w smith the supply bureau wishes to call the attention of all the students to those books needed for second term the books mentioned on the lists which are being passed among the different sections of the four classes contain only such books as ordered by the professors consequently no one needs to feel any hesitancy in ordering special attention is desired from the fresh men concerning drawing supplies the bureau will have a full line of altenader swiss and paragon in struments as well as all other sup plies needed by them all sup plies will be on hand in good time come and examine ♦ professor gates of the smith sonian institute has made the start ling statement that all crime will eventually be stopped by science he thinks that if a man has a de sire for stealing or murder his brain may be cut and the portion containing this desire taken out the championship games be tween yale and harvard for the coming baseball season have been scheduled as follows thursday june 24 yale at cambridge and tuesday june 28 harvard at new haven in case of a tie the third game will be played at new york on july 2 gilman of johns hop kins university has been ap pointed by the mayor of baltimore one of five citizens to act with the proper officers in drafting a new charter tor baltimore the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa monday januaky 24 1898 vol y no 29 calendar monday jan 24 — senior astrono my examination 8 a m ire physical laboratory meeting of the mandolins club at delta u house at 2.30 p m tuesday jan 25 — lecture in saucon hall at 8 p m oh langland's vision of piers plowman junior mathematical exam ination at 8 a m in physical laboratory wednesday jan 26 — term exam inations begin thursday feb 3 second terra begins philadelphia-lehigh club the annual dinner of the phila delphia-lehigh club was held last saturday in philadelphia at the hotel walton with about ninety alumni present the philadelphia club is one of the most flourishing of lehigh's alumni associations and the proceedings of the members are always characterized by a strong and enthusiasaic interest in the welfare of their alma mater the formal toasts were re sponded to by dr t m drown president of lehigh university who appeared in public for the first time after a four months siege of sickness ; professor e l stewart professor w a robin son professor mansfield merriman dr elwood worcestor rector of st stephen's protestant episcopal church and c m butler of mauch chunk among those present at the din ner were henry s drinker vice president of the lehigh valley railroad ; robert p linderman president of the bethlehem iron company ; edward mcllvaine dr george c stout charles schwartz walter shapley c m robinson and robert mitchell just before the dinner the club held a meeting and elected the following officers : president e m wig fall ; vice presidents robert mitchell and j 11 phillips ; treas urer f baker secretary m l cooke ; trustees t m eynon and h a bonzano s c.c meeting a meeting of the sophomore cotillion club was held thursday evening at the sigma phi house green and scott were elected to membership owing to the small attendance another meeting will be called later to decide on the time and place for the next dance c e society at a meeting of the c e so ciety held on thursday evening kneas 98 read a paper entitled the nicaragua canal the sub stance of the paper is as follows : " the panama route was first se lected in 1879 the isthmus at this point is forty six miles wide which is about one-half the length of the suez canal to carry out this project it was necessary at one spot to cut through solid rock to the depth of three hundred feet work was commenced in 1882 the estimated cost being thirty-two million pounds but the funds gave out five years later after one-fifth of the work had been accomplished other routes have been proposed but american engineers have always favored the nicaragua canal although this route is consider ably longer than several others it has the advantage of making it possible to utilize lake nicaragua and its outlet the san juan river thus affording free navigation for a large part of the entire length the plan is to start the canal at greytown near the mouth of the river the land rises grad ually from the coast and at the end of seven miles there is placed a lock with a lift of twenty-six feet three miles farther on is a second lock and at a distance of twelve miles and a half from the starting point is a third making the level of the canal 106 feet above mean tide the most important feature of the whole scheme is a dam placed near this point which will back the water to the lake this proposed structure will be 52 feet high and 1255 feet long the passage from the lake to the pacific ocean is made in a similar manner by flooding valleys and by means of three locks the entire distance of one hundred and seventy-five miles can thus be made with a cut of only about thirty miles the great necessity of such a canal may be seen from the fact that by its use ten thousand miles can be saved on a trip from san francisco to new york carman allen and schriver of 99 were elected members of the society the next paper will be read by frisby 98 , «. pennsylvania cornell and co lumbia athletic teams have given assurances that they will compete at the open indoor athletic meeting of the b a a on feb 5 prince ton is now the only large eastern college that will not be able to compete oberlin college ohio was the first college in the united states to admit female students the virginia senate defeated an anti-football bill by a vote of 21 to 12