—Here is a process of logical reasoning, which
for some time past has been occupyfng Hawk’s
attention: Man is an animal. lam a man. A
calf is an animal. Therefore lam a calf. How
is it Burdie ?
—Owing to the interference of the board of
trustess of Dickinson College, the foot-ball game
—State College vs. Dickinson—which was billed
for Nov, ioth, has been postponed until Wednes
day afternoon, Nov. 23d.
—The following are the newly elected officers
of the W. L. S.: President, Mock; Vice-Presi
dent, Breneman; Recording Secretary, W. H.
Walker; Critic, Waldron; Corresponding Sec
retary, Hickman; Treasurer, Jones.
—Was it not understood that the electric lights
would continue till midnight, in case the storage
batteries should prove deficient ? If the lights
are continued to be shut off at 11 o’clock, a de
mand for a rebate at the close of the term would
not be out of order.
—We would like to call the attention of the
college students to the paths that are being
worn over the campus; as'there has been no rain
for some time the sod is very easily tramped out,
and if it is not stopped our pride will soon re
semble a railroad map.
—The new style of uniform is regarded as a
great improvement. Although the change was
received with displeasure when first suggested, is
there one who would be willing to substitute the
old for the new? Would not the cap also be im
proved by dispensing wjth the wreath and using
only a neat, plain, silvered letter for the initials ?
'—The members of the Foot Ball team take a
six mile run every morning before breakfast, and
then come in and devour a leg of mutton, six
hard boiled eggs, fourteen rounds of bread and
five pounds of oat-meal a piece without mention
ing such'little things as butter, coffee, etc., etc.
Already the hotel keepers are considering the ad
visability of petitioning the faculty to have the
destructive game stopped at P. S. C.
THE FREE LANCE.
—Our readers need not be surprised if The
Free Lancls is turned into a matrimonial agency.
Since the ‘‘Clover Boarding Club” has dis
banded, most of our bachelor Professors are left
without a boarding place, and therefore we have
no doubt but that they will receive the inevitable
unflinchingly, and advertise in the next issue for
a wife that can cook.
—lt was a wise action of the faculty to have
the coming holiday vacation continue three
weeks, as has been the custom heretofore. The
deduction of one week', as announced by this
year’s catalogue, was net looked upon with appro
val by the students. But would it not be better
to take the extra vacation week off the fall session
rather than the winter session ?
—We clip the following from the Philadelphia
Press, of Tuesday morning, November jst:
“The students of the college have, celebrated
Hallow-E’en in a novel manner. The majority
of the students have rooms in the main building,
and each room is. heated with steam. The
cadets all secured tin horns and connected them
with the radiators by means of rubber tubes.
The horns were then fastened in the windows of
the different, rooms and at a given signal th°
steam was turned on. The horrible noise that
ensued beggars description. People for miles
around were aroused and alarmed. The racket
was finally stopped by the janitor turning off the
steam from the building.” The above is par
tially true, but not to the extent as the corres
pondent of the Press pictured it.
—ln accordance with the provisions of the
Hatch Act, an Experimental Station was estab
lished here, by vote of the trustees, on June 30,
1887, with the following board of managers : H,
P. Armsby, Ph. D., director, Wm. Frear, Ph.
D., vice-director and chemist, Wm. A. Buckhout,
M. S., botanist,' Geo. C. Butz, B. S., horticultu
rist, Win. C. Patterson, superintendent of farm,
and H. C. Patterson, assistant chemist. It will
be their duty to investigate such subjects as are