LOCALS.
—Foot-ball!
—Gobble got his analytic and then
—The new cadets are drilling admirably.
“Birdie” don’t ride the “Bi” any more,
—The Sophomore class feeds on “resolutions.”
—Hallow-E’en came and is gone without much
notice
—H. C. Blair paid his parents a short visit last
—“Baldy’s” definition of inertia: Motion at
—A few of the college students went home to
—Brew has been quite lip(py) for the last two
■ —There is a tender-foot in the box, but handle
him gently.
—The new green-houses are rapidly nearing
completion
—The Juniors are excused from attending rhet
orical exercises,
—The Soph’s, watchword —Don’t forget those
“resolutions.”
—“Cray-fish” is synonomous with chestnuts in
Junior “vocab.”
—r*l wonder, have the Juniors lost their dignity!
Well, I guess not.
—The first snow of the season fell here, on
Friday, October the 21st.
—Prof. Cleaver is the popular and very fair
referee of our foot-ball team.
—Miss Mary Struble has returned to her duties
after two weeks serious illness.
—The new bell in the cupolo is certainly a
daisy. Oh ! no !it is not ach 1 bell.
—The gunning club of the college, brought in
thirteen rabbits and a pheasant from a recent
hunting trip.
THE FREE LANCE.
—“Deacon’s” new appellation has a very mu
sical sound : Jimlong Decong Hickmong.
. —The poor Preps don’t use the college stair
ways any more. All succumb to ’9O plus Prex.
—The entertainment to be held by the College
Orchestra, on Thanksgiving evening, promises to
be a fine display of musical art.
—Lost, some time yesterday, Shorty Fields,
Since going into print he his been found in an
ant hole into which he had fallen.
—Subscribe for The Free Lance, and those
who are in arrears please pay Up. No potatoes,
hams or beans taken for subscription.
—J. F. L. Morris, our worthy business mana
ger, was very much exercised because he did not
get home to cast his first ballot for Leeds.
—Prof, and Mrs. McKee entertained a number
of students on Hallow-E’en. All enjoyed them
selves very much pulling taffy and playing school.
—Mr. John Stewart, our popular village grocer,
has sold his store to Will Foster, and will here
after devote his attention to the sale of lumber
and coal.
—lf you want to make the Soph, class happy,
give it a weak, helpless, puny, little Freshman
secure in his room. Perhaps this explains their
superior bravery.
—Would it not be well to discard from our
college prizes such prizes as have no backing ?
It appears that there are such on our prize list, as
published in the catalogue.
—Brew and Allen have started a dramatic com
pany, and they make life miserable in the west
end of the building by rehearsing Richard
111. whenever they get together.
—“Why—a, Professor, I don't believe—that is
right—that is I don’t think—Well, it may be it
is right, but I don’t think—that is, let me see, I
wish to state—well, that is what I mean.” The
above is “Sarah’s” novel way of denying phys
ical principles,