The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-01-30
D0INGS At BROWN
Annual Midsummer Meet In
Lyman GymnasIum-Notas.

The annual midwinter meet will be held
in Lyman gymnasium on the evening OF
! Saturday. Feb. Z. The program will be
varied and|interesting. including sprints
and hurdle racing. heavy middle. and
light weight wrestling, together with
fencing and boxing matches. An inter-
esting feature OF the meet will be the re-
lay races. IL IL intended 10 have races
between the midgets and the giants. the
different dormitories. and the class
teams. The last races will be run In
trials. freshmen and sophomores. and tu-
niors and seniors running against each
other. the winners running for the college
championship. In these races each man
Will run five laps. while In the others the
distance will be shortened To two.
The class I'm electrical engineering are
accompanying Prof. Watson on ae trip 10
Lynn, Mass, today TO inspect the works
or the General Electric company. which
Is teh largest electrical manufacturing
concern in this country These works are
very interesting TO fhe technical student
became all arc lights. meters and all mo-
tors up TO hve-horse power are manufac-
tured at Lynn for the General Electric
company.
ON the way back from Lynn the party
Is 10 stop at Boston to look over the two
large power plants OF the Boston Electric
Lighting company. One OF their plants
Is located on Atlantic avenue and sup
plies all the power for motors and in
candescent lights all over the city. The
other one. situated in South Boston, does
all the street arc lighting OF the city
This Is one OF the first long trips ever un-
dertaken by the students OF any depart
ment In college and II is expected to be
highly instructive In the practical side or
electrical engineering
The play Cool Collegians" and the cur
tain raiser. "Prexys Proxy" which the
Sock and Buskin will present are now
being rehearsed and an early production
Is assured. The management now ex-
poets TO have the plays ready for pres
entation before Lent and II is their idea
to have very informal dance afterward.
The date OF the performance cannot be
definitely announced as yet, but IL will
probably be made public in about a
week.
The first meets in which Brown ath-
letes viii participate are the Boston Ath-
letic association games Feb. ID. and the
Columbia university meet to be held in
New York. Feb 2s Probably a few
men will be sent to both OF these meets.
Mea ntime the track men are training in
the gymnasium under the direction OF
DR.. Parker.
Prof. Crosby VIII give Shakespearean
readings in Pembroke hall on the even
fngs of Feb. and II. There will also
DC tnlTu TtdQlnR IN the series, the date
OF which will be announced later.
The senior class pipes have been dis
tributed and give general satisfaction 10
the seniors. The design differs from the
usual conventional patterns. and the en-
craving Is also departure. as the whole
word Brown" and numerals 1903" are
carved on the bowls.
The drawings for the eleventh and
twelfth rounds OF the chess tournament
are as follows:
Eleventh, Easton VS.. Sloan, Allen vs.
Waters, Hill vs. Crowell. Hicks VS. Read
Price vs. Burton, Grose VS.. Barbour.
Bolt vs. Prouty, Whitley vs. Cushing
Twelfth. Easton VS.. Prouty, Hill vs.
Bolt, Hicks VS. Whitley. Price VS.. Jones.
Grose VS.. Weikert, Burton vs. Sloan,
Crowell VS.. Gushing, Waters VS.. Read.