* * At the examination for the Baccalaureate degree, the Professor of Physics asks the candidate : “What is the best insulator known ?" “Pov erty,” was the reply. # » Wlmt If tliy yestordays bo Badly fraught With disappointments, hcart-ncheß, failures, gins ? Touch not tliy gloomy past with word nor thought, To-day another chatico for theo begins. —Emma C. Dowd, EXCHANGE. Exchange editors wishing to receive The Free Lance regularly should see that it is entered on tlieir exchange list. The Historical Journal for November is at hand, containing interesting accounts of the lives of those whose names are well known in this part of the State. The University Mirror aims this year as be fore to cover all the ground of a “good and hon est” representative journal. Mirror, did you not make a mistake in changing your publishing house ? ——The Pennsylvania Western comes to hand with its columns well filled. Would not, how ever, a column of college news add to the range of the Western ? In the article “Advice to Freshmen,” is a sentiment which we cull and de sire to repeat to the higher college classes: “The object of an education is. to widen the field of knowledge, to make one consider more deeply the things that are taking place around him and to so expand his views that he may be able to pass a common sense judgment upon all matters of importance.” The Swarthmore Phcenix makes its way forward among sister journals this year with its ac-' customed grace. The Phoenix doubtless means to inspire enthusiasm at home on the subject of field sports. Its manner of doubling every flank of the home question, as it were, is suggestive of the attitude of a college journal attempting to exercise a sensible influence at home in a given direction. We compliment the variety and excel lence of the literary department, and also the local department We are happy to acknowledge the late Cor nell Era. It meets the requirements of excel lence which a journal published with its advan tages and backed by its support of ability might expect to attain. We wish most heartily to sec ond the Era in the condemnation of the.Sophs at Williams. We never could understand how any young man having any respect for himself could THE FREE LANCE. so utterly lose respect for the rights of others as to engage in such despicable outlawry. . It is a move in the right direction for such journals as the Era to fearlessly protest. * ——The College Student is before'us. The -SV//- dent, in speaking of the Y. M. C. A. reception held at the beginning of the college year, says “A reception of this kind welcoming the students among us at least presents quite a contrast to the former custom of initiating them by‘stretching’ ” The Student shows further by the space and at tention devoted to the Y. M. C. A. that the As sociation is an acknowledged feature of Franklin and Marshall, as well as of all colleges, and we welcome this element into college life as the prob able remedy to the odious practice of “stretch ing ” After an absence of some issues the Pennsyl vania College Monthly again makes its appearance among us. We do not? know the cause of the Monthly's absence, but we heartily welcome its return. We. wish to quote the following from its article on “Ideal Education” as expressing sound principle which deserves more attention : “To enlarge and sharpen the intellectual faculties, without at the same time throwing over them the restraints of a quickened conscience, and of wisely directed religious intuitions, is a curse to man rather than a blessing, and consequently no State can afford to estab. ish schools of a purely secular character. ’ ’ Tho whole seating capacity of tbo house was occu pied, and tho aisles and lobbies were choked with people. Thoy even sat on the bellows of the organs, and swarmed on the gallery stairs.— Philadelphia Dress. Every inch of standing room was occupied to hear the original, talented, eloquent and aggressive young preacher.— rniladelphia Times. Seldom can there ho seen a larger audience beneath a roof than that which greeted llev. .viadlson 0. Peters. Eve ry inch of room was taken, and even the pulpit was en oroaehed upon.— Philadelphia News. Spicy, original, remarkable, and progressive.—Philadel phia Inquirer. Original, striking, abounding with genulno humor that convulsod his crowded audience with laughter,— Allentown Dally Item. Rev. Madison C. Peters,the eloquent young divine, rais ed storm after storm ofappluusoby his genuine eloquence. —Lafayette Daily Journal, The latest and most popular SHEET MUSIC ON HAND, BOTJriL VOCAL AND INSTUMENTAL. Address or oall upon, F. P. ATHERTON, State College, Centre Co., Fa. PRESS NOTICES OF MADISON C. PETERS.
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