Directory.
Senior Class —President, P. M.
Rainey.
Junior Class —President, T. F.
Foltz.
Sophomore Class —President, C
R. Stahl.
Freshman Class —President, W.
T. Dunn.
Alumni Association —President,
G. M. Downing ’BB.
Athletic Association —President,
H. D. Easton.
Football —Captain, Edgar G.
Yeckley; Manager, R. W. Bair.
Baseball —Captain, E. H. Ray;
Manager, B. B. Stamm.
Track —Captain, J. E. Hornbaker;
Manager, C. H. Williams.
Basketball —Captain, W. R. Dunn;
Manager, C. H.Williams.
Mandolin Club —Leader, R. P.
Farrington.
Orchestra -Leader, C. P. Stewart.
Band —Leader, E. E. Godard.
La Vie Board —Editor-in-chief,
O. C. Hays; Manager, W. Y.
Heaton.
Thespians —President, G. L. Hoff
man.
Manager —W. H McDowell.
Pharsonians —President F. J,
Saunders-
Manager —F. L. Neely.
LOCALS
H. E. Stitt, ’O3, of Allegheny, is
happy. ’Tis a boy. Mrs. Stitt and
baby are doing well.
Harry Hollinger, ex-’O5, who was
forced to retire from college last
year on account of eye trouble, has
returned to college.
On account of. unavoidable cir
cumstances, the lecture scheduled
for last Friday morning on electrical
subjects, was postponed indefinitely.
Arthur G. McKee, '9l, District
Engineer with the American Steel
and Wire Company, of Cleveland,
gave the seniors and juniors an in
teresting talk on blast furnaces last
Thursday evening.
THE STATE COLLEGIAN
J. P. Considine, 'C4, has resigned
from the employment of the Penn
sylvania Steel Company, of Steelton
He has secured a position as diafts
man with Post and McCard Com
pany, of New York.
The Pennsylvania State College
Association of Eastern Pennsylvania
will hold its Annual Smoker and
Reunion at the University Club,
1510 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.,
on the evening of Friday, April 14,
at eight o’clock.
At a meeting of the Catholic Club,
of The Penna State College, held
Friday evening, April 7th, the
resignation of Mr. Saunders as Presi
dent and Secretary was read and
accepted. Mr. Stoll was elected to
succeed him. Mr. Saunders was
tendered a vote of thanks for his
services during the past year.
R. G. Carpenter, who took the
short mining course here in 1896
and ’97, has recently been appointed
division engineer of the Plymouth
division of the Lehigh and Wilkes-
Barre Coal Co. In his new position
Mr. Carpenter has charge of the en
gineering work for some of the
largest and most valuable mines in
the anthracite field.
TECHNICAL REVIEW.
The electrical engineering depart
ment has just received two newly
invented electric lamps. One is an
arc lamp, the ‘"carbons” of which
are composed, one of a salt of cop
per and the other of magnetite.
The lamp works on a series circuit
of seventy-five volts and takes about
four and a half amperes. The cop
per terminal lasts undifinitely while
the magnetite needs occasional re
plenishing. The lamp is said to
give better distribution than the or
dinary arc.
The other lamp is an automatic
starting mercury vapor lamp. It is
an improvement over the regular
Cooper-Hewitt lamp in that it does
not need to be inverted to make an
arc. Both lamps were made by the
General Electric Company.
A Test of the Respiration Calo-
rimeter.
The size and complexity of this
apparatus make it necessary to con
duct check experiments to test its
accuracy. In one such test recently
made heat was generated inside by
an electric current passing through
incandescent lamps in parallel.
The current was measured by a watt
meter just outside the chamber,
which was read every two minutes.
From these readings the energy in
troduced was reckoned. In this test
there was no air current through the
chamber, the temperature inside was
maintained constant and the walls
held adiabatic. All the heat evolv
ed was, therefore, absorbed and
carried out by the water circulating
through copper pipes inside and
near the top. The amount of water
passing through was measured, and
the temperature of the ingoing and
that of the outcoming water read to
one-hundredth of a degree every
four minutes. From these data the
calories of heat removed were calcu
lated.
In ten hours the energy introduced
as measured by the wattmeter and
the amount removed in the form of
heat by the water current was as
follows:
Energy introduced by elfectric current..6737.l Cals,
Heat measured by calorimeter 6752.5 “
Difference
Percentage difference
These figures show a most satis
factory degree of accuracy in the
apparatus so far as heat measure
ment is concerned.
I went to a party with Janet,
And met with an awful mishap,
For I awkwardly emptied a cupful
Of chocolate into her lap.
But Janet was cool—though it wasn’t —
But none is so tactful as she,
And, smiling with perfect composure,
Said sweetly, "The drinks are on me ! "
—Harvard Lampoon