Brown and White Vol. 15 no. 46

              the report of the treasurer showed a balance of 80 on hand reports were then given by the chairmen of the bible study social handbook music missionary membership and devotional committees and on the conferences and lecture course by secretary howard the total paid up membership is 107 in regard to his successor carring ton howard this year's general sec retary stated that a member of the present senior class at yale was under consideration but that noth ing definite could be stated until the meeting of the advisory committee president lynch brought up the question of establishing a fund for the aid of those who desire to attend the summer conferences and said that this at present amounts to about 30 a vote of thanks was extended to prof rondthaler of moravian col lege and rev f s hort of south bethlehem who have very kindly as sisted in the courses in bible study the following officers were chosen for next year president g r brothers l s 08 c e 09 vice president l b treat 10 secretary a g small 09 treasurer p b fraim 09 after the business meeting the mustard and cheese the regular rehearsal of the mus tard and cheese association was held in christmas hall wednesday evening the following men were selected to continue as cast candi dates : j 1 baer smith banks kenny shorkley fralm ham bechtel brumbaugh bakewell bason jacobs walbridge homer lawrence bayless all other men are requested to continue as chorus candidates the next rehearsal will be held monday evening at 7.30 p m in the gymna sium it is important that all men should be present promptly b p s alumni all alumni of bethlehem prep are notified that the school will give its second annual banquet on saturday march 28 at the eagle hotel a large number of guests will be pres ent and the annual election of offi cers of the alumni association will be held prior to the banquet all men who intend to go should com municate with headmaster foering members adjourned to the feast pre pared by jim myers in which the cakes furnished by the patronesses of the association were greatly en joyed the entertainment program consisted of selections by about half of the glee club a quartet composed of serfass j stobaeus mitman 09 and dickey 11 and a guitar solo by fleming 09 dr drinker gave a short talk in which he expressed his approval of the summer student con ferences and touched upon several other matters of interest he stated that drown hall will be ready for use after the easter vacation and described the different rooms on the first and second floors the bowling alleys in the basement will not be opened until september the meet ing was closed by the singing of the alma mater lecture postponed on account of illness dr n c schaffer state superintendent of public instruction was unable to give the college lecture arranged for this morning the purdue exponent for march 24th contained a discussion of col lege athletics by e h williams 75 taken from his address to a meeting of tau beta pi several years ago prof benjamin miller of the de partment of geology will address the sunday evening meeting of the y m c a a training table for the lacrosse team will be conducted at the com mons at a meeting of tau beta pi on monday night it was decided to hold the spring initiation and banquet on saturday april 11 a meeting of the wrestling club will be held at 1.45 on saturday in the gym changes or additions to the lists of honors for the senior class book may be handed in to the committee until april 1 a game has been arranged with bethlehem prep for the scrub base ball on may 20 the following committees have been appointed by president thomas of the senior class to take charge of the arrangements for the carnegie reception band ross bechtel bay less 08 scott 11 yells olcott lynch storey 08 nelson 10 songs troutman bechtel van vleck 08 keife 09 next rehear sal of mustard and cheese at 7.30 march 30 in the gym everybody be there prompt ly drown hall the 1909 epitome will be out the week of april 5 and will be placed on sale at once at the supply bu reau a detailed account of the con tents of this year's books will be published in the next issue of the brown and white it is expected that drown hall will be open to the students after the eas ter vacation the furniture should all be in by april 10 or 15 and about a week later the undergraduates will have an opportunity to enjoy one of the finest college club houses in the country the junior prom on may 8 will be held in the building the brown and white vol xv new officers night school south bethlehem pa friday march 27 1908 phk tm mmsv h nf i i v calendar no 46 saturday march 28 bethlehem prep school alumni banquet at eagle at 9.00 sunday march 29 y m c a at 6.30 in christmas hall monday march 30 brown and white board meeting at 1.30 christ mas hall wednesday march 1 baseball la crosse and track practice meeting of o e society at 8.00 in saucon hall friday april 3 college lecture at 11.30 freshman banquet at wyan dotte at 9.00 1 . saturday april 4 baseball uni versity of vermont on lehigh field at 3.00 wednesday april 8 lacrosse c c n v on lehigh field at 3.00 conducted by students the night school established by the department of education as a laboratory in which the students in education may practice teaching now meets in christmas hall pro fessor palmer having invited the school to use his rooms about forty young men of the bethlehems and allentown attend as pupils they are taught by kotz 08 devine flory hess and sauber 09 and robbins 10 dr drinker visited the school last thursday and was well pleased with the class of men who come as pupils and with the work of the student-teachers the latter especially are to be complimented upon the skill with winch they meet the varied needs of the men and boys who attend the subjects at present taught are arithmetic eng lish composition algebra geometry trigonometry and german on thursday professor franklin offered a lecture to the entire school on heat it is possible that other lectures will be offered of a kind that will be directly serviceable to the pupils of the school who are em ployed for the most part at the bethlehem steel works c e meeting the next meeting of the c e so ciety will be held wednesday night april ist the following papers will be read topographic and hydrographic methods of the u s coast and geodetic survey f t lawton soft coal mining methods in western pennsylvania j m fair land surveying methods prof w l wilson easter trip to hazleton arrangements have been practically completed for the junior miners to take their summer school in mine sur veying at hazleton during the eas ter vacation this will enable them to start on the michigan trip at a much earlier date next june baseball schedule of games the first baseball game is only a week distant and the probable make up of the team is becoming an inter esting questions four practices a week have been held in the cage since the early part of march and the candidates are developing into fairly good condition just who will be on the team is of course still undecided and will remain so until the coach and captain can see the men at work on the diamond the first game with the university of vermont on next saturday after noon is likely to be a hard one ver mont has turned out some famous players including reulbaeh of the chicago nationals in two games played in 1905 on our northern trip lehigh was defeated 10-0 and 9-4 the schedule follows april 4 university of vermont at home april 11 indians at home southern trip april 16 navy at annapolis april 17 virginia polytechnic in stitute at blacksburg va april 18 washington & lee at lexington va april 20 and 21 university of vir ginia at oharlottesville va april 29 bucknell at home may 2 lafayette at home may 6 ursinus at collegeville may 9 army at west point may 13 v p 1 at home may 16 xvlbright at myerstown may 23 lafayette at easton may 27 dickinson at home may 30 f & m at home june 6 lafayette at home june 9 western university of pa at home alumni day game y m c a speaker l contest the annual l contest for the members of the gymnasium team will be held as announced on sat urday night in the gym all mem bers of the squad wil have an oppor tunity to exhibit their accomplish ments and at least three men will enter each event to the contestant winning the highest number of points is given the privilege of wear ing the l of the v m c a for 08-'og an extremely successful annual business meeting of the y m c a was held in saucon hall on wednes day night the business before the association was the reading of the reports of the various committees for the past year and the election of offi cers for 08-'o9 two amendments to the constitution affecting the advi sory committee were also adopted