THE FREE LANCE. VOL. I. THE FREE LANCE. Published monthly during the college your by tlio Students of Tlio Pennsylvania State Collogo. STAFF. BDITOH, WILLIAM P. FISHER, JR., ’B7. ASSOCIATE EDITORS ! WILL F. WHITE, ’B7. GiIIFFITH J. THOMAS, 'BB. GEOUUE M. DOWNING, ’BB, W. 11. N. HAWK, ’B,l. CURTIN G. HOOP,'B,I. GEORGE R. MEEK, ’!». JAMES Cl. MOCK, M)0. Business Manager : JOHN F. L. MORRIS, ’81). Ass’t. Business Mnnager: 11. WALTON MITCHELL, ’1)0. Terms— One College Year Slnglo Copies PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Contributions of matter and other information aro ro quested from ull members and ex-members of tile College. Literary matter should bo addressed to tlio Editor. Subscriptions, and other business communications, should be addressed to tlio Business Manager. Entered at State College Post Office as second class matter. THE hurried manner which we were obliged to pursue in publishing the last issue accounts for the preva lence of its typographical errors. Hop ing our friends will excuse its deficiency in this respect, we shall take more precaution in the future. WILL the Alumni and other friends send in their subscriptions ? They ought to. We cannot run a pa per with a free subscription list, if it is the “Free” Lance. A LATE act of the Legislature, pro viding for the organization, dis cipline and regulation of the National Guard, contains a section affecting the STATE COLLEGE, PA„ MAY, 1887. graduate of military institutions, who, having taken the four years course and been at least six months a captain in the military organization, may re ceive the commission of Brevet Sec ond Lieutenant; provided he applies within one year after graduation and stands the requisite physical examina- This offer confers quite an honor upon the more successful cadets and is an increased inducement for the stu dent to “brace up” in drill. ONE of the most interesting and in structive lecturers of our Faculty is Professor Heston. He enters so fully into the spirit of the young man’s condition, recognizing his many wants, and manifesting, at the same time, a keen appreciation of his almost infinite capabilities. His last lecture, entitled “The Life and Times of John Ouincy Adams,” was full of ennobling ideas, holding out in bold relief the many ex emplary qualities of that “grand old man” of American politics. We be lieve, as the professor does, in the character-moulding power of biogra phy. IN the way of true worth, our Sunday sermons are improving,—so a ma jority of the students say, however in capable of just criticism we may be. This change is due more to the entrance No. 2.
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