Brown and White Vol. 7 no. 1

              football practice regular practice began on mon day afternoon at four o'clock mr thompson the coach arrived on monday and immediately start ed the men to work not much w r as done the first day the time being taken up mostly by falling on the ball and punting after the work was over the coach ex pressed himself as being well satisfied with the material yesterday a scrub and varsity were picked out and drilled in signals but there was no line up the varsity was coached by mr thompson the scrub by white 1900 there are a number of promising candidates among the freshmen but it is too early as yet to name them or their possibilities of the old men captain chamber lain gledhill mccarthy gearhart scovil james canfield reese spiers and ross are back they will form a good nucleus about which to build a team and with becerra who gets back about oct 10th and the freshman a good form ought to be rapidly developed the revsed schedule is saturday sept 30 — university of pennslyvania at philadelphia saturday oct 7 — rutgers at south bethlehem saturday oct 14 — bucknell at south bethlehem saturday oct 21 — cornell at ithaca wednesday oct 25 — princeton at prince on saturday oct 28 new york university at soutli bethlehem saturday nov 4 — lafayette at easton tuesday nov 14 — maryland athleiic club at baltimore saturday nov 18 — annapolis at annapolis mci saturday nov 25 — lafayette at south bethlehem thursday nov 30 — virginia at richmond senior course in economics by professor stewart the course of lectures for the first term will be upon the fol lowing subjects : structure of modern industry formation of monopolies in capital machinery and industrial de pression machinery in its relation to labor this course is open to seniors of all departments first lecture will be delivered in saucon hall friday the 29th at 8.30 a m new professors and instructors the university has been fortun in securing two eminent scholars and teachers to fill the qcies caused by the resigna tions of dr hyde of the latin department to become dean of inus college and professor i n son of the greek department to become head of the latin de partment of lawrenceville school they are professor kobert w blake for the department of latin professor charles j goodwin for the department of greek professor blake was graduated from princeton university win ning the classical fellowship in 1887 he remained as a graduate student at princeton for three years and was for four years instructor in greek at the univer sity previous to taking the chair of the latin language and literature at washington and jef ferson college which he leaves to accept the position at lehigh he spent a year in study in leipsig and erlangen in germany pro fessor blake is widely known among the classical scholars of the country as an author and teacher his edition of xenophon's hel i stands in tire firs ndfk ing american publications in the classics he brings great strength to the classical course of university by reason of his ire and thorough scholarship and his ripe experience as a teacher professor goodwin was grad d with honors in the classics iwdoin college and was award ed a graduate scholarship in greek ■ johns hopkins university where ■ received the degree of ph d in 1890 he subsequently pursued slassical studies in berlin dr goodwin is not only a profound - ; < lent in ancient languages as shown by his scholarly monographs i classical themes but is also a man o r wide culture in modern languages and literature he has bad six years o experience as a college professor of greek and has proved himself to be a teacher of cptioiial ability in arousing he interest of students in ancient litera : are and thought five new instructors have b en secured for the departments of mechanical eli;ctri al and civil engineering they are — mr amasa trow idge of ihe class of 9l sheffield scientific school of yale univer sity has been appointed as lstructor in advanced m chine design he has had a valuable practical training having worked as designer for such well known firms as c b cottrell & son the general electric company the winchester repeating arms co pope tube works co william ramp and sons co lie has had a year's experience in teaching ig engineering lines was the continued on third page new option in marine engineering the growing and national inter est in our foreign trade is reflected in our technical literature by in creased attention in all subjects connected with shipping and trans portation by water,and in our tech nical institutions by the develop ment of courses in marine engineer ing and naval architecture at lehigh university there has been offered to the students of mechanical engineering an option al course in marine engineering involving some four hundred hours of work in its main features it is an extension of the principles of steam engineering to the marine field and of the principles of hy draulics to shipbuilding problems the study of marine boilers and engines and the ship calculations will be under the direction of pro fessor kline while the ship draw ing will be in charge of mr amasa tow bridge recently in the hull department of william cramp and sons the university's stock of valuable treatises and papers on marine engineering and naval architecture has recently been en riched by important additions to the reference library of the depart ment freshmen posters the posters which custom has decreed that the sophmores shall put up the night before college opens failed to appear this yer?r but instead the sophmores dis tributed about 7,000 hand bills lafayette's schedule the revised schedule of the lafayette college football team for this season is : sept 80 — ursinus at easton oct 4 — villa nova at easton oct 7 — swarthmore at svvarth more oct 11 — princeton at prince ton oct 14 — kutgers at easton oct 21 — university of pennsyl vania at philadelphia oct 28 naval cadets at an napolis ndv 4 lehigh at easton nov 11 — cornell at ithaca nov 18 — bucknell at easton nov 25 — lehigh at south bethlehem nov 30 state college at easton . the college opened on thurs day sept 14 and football practice has been going on since that date the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem fa wednesday september 27 1899 vol vii athletic committee's report calendar wednesday sept 27 college opens at 3.30 v m saturday sept 30 football lehigh vs pennsylvania at philadelphia the report of the athletic com mittee made to the alumni assoc iation in june shows that at the beginning of the year 1897-8 it was in debt to the amount of 680 88 during the year the debt was reduced 200 88 leaving 80.00 outstanding with a balance of 249 36 to its credit ; when this balance is deducted the net debt is seen to be 260.64 the committee congratulated the undergraduates on the way they had supported the association and predicted that with a continu ance of such support the committee would soon be free from debt the report of the treasurer of the athletic committee shows a balance of 234.97 the difference between it and the amount shown in the committee's report being due to the fact that some sums known to be in the hands of col lectors were not turned in the summarized report is receipts general athletic dues $ 798 65 committee on sports 78 00 committee on grounds 22 co special student contribution 29 13 smoker 32 87 junior class contribution 28 00 7 linstrel show 72 50 i>!iij>-h j.iifajettc ci yiiiisiuin meet 33 00 baseball gain 307 74 1402 59 expenditures committee on grounds $ 361 73 committee on sports 128 10 track team 25 00 general expenses 22 13 football 9b loss 271 23 lacrosse 99 loss 135 15 8 943 34 net gain from above $ 459 25 overdraft b eptember 1 1898 $ 97 33 old bills paid 120 95 224 28 balance in general fund july 7 1899 234 97 the proceedings of alumni association a neat pamphlet containing an account of the proceedings of the alumni association from jnne 1898 to june 1899 was issued during the summer in outside appearence it is like its predecessor but it contains much new matter of interest in addition to the usual alphabetical class and geographical lists of alumni the book contains a valuable geographical lists of ex lehigh men and a complete index the report contains as usual the report of the treasurer of the alumni association and the min utes of its meeting and in addition president drowns letter to alumni and friends of the university sent out in may 1899 drawing their attention to the three ways in which they were asked to contri bute to the support of the univer sity this letter had attached to it a statement of the treasurer or the university showing its assets and liabilities and also a cash statement from june 1 1898 to may 31 1899 the usual reports of the athletic committee is published mention of which is made in another portion of this issue no 1