—The students held a very amusing mock Fac
ulty meeting on fifth floor last week.
—The Y. M. C. A. now conducts a half-hour
prayer meeting every Tuesday evening.
—The Free Lance has been invited to join the
Central Inter-Collegiate Press Association.
—The penitentiary headlight over the front
door looks very inviting—to escaped convicts.
—The movement to put more apparatus in the
gymnasium will be carried out within a few weeks,
—Will the degree of M. E. be conferred on
completing the course in mechanical engineer
ing?
—lf the proposed course is adopted by the
Board of Trustees, it would be well to call it by
its proper name.
—The select school conducted by Miss Grace
M. Moore has been called the Sunnyside Semin
ary, or “Sem” for short.
~-We wonder why the Dickinson College foot
ball team would not play our eleven ? Every in
ducement was offered them.
—The rustic bridges leading to the President’s
and Vice-President’s houses have been replaced
by new and more substantial ones.
—An enterprising cigar manufacturer has a new
brand called “P. S. C. Hep 1 Hep !! Hep! ! !
Boom Ml!” Can be had at Foster’s store only.
—Stock exchange report for the coming ten
days: Ponies fluctuating; partially broken horses
slightly above par'; thoroughbreds rare at any
price.
—During the Bucknell-State College game at
Lewisburg, one of the professors gave vent to the
exclamation, “Yell till the very heavens re
sound 1“
—Local Editor Hawk went so far astray in logic
class the other day as to say “that concept Horse
and concept dog were put together to form con
cept man.”
—The members of the foot-ball team express
themselves as well pleased with the warm recep
tion which they received from the Bucknellians
at Lewisburg.
—Rose attributes his pleasing countenance, in
the ’9O class picture, to the fact that his unpaid
wash bill was waved before the camera, instead
of a gum rattle or jumping jack.
THE FREE LANCE.
—Arrangements have been made by which the
stone cutters at work on the new laboratory can
work all winter, thus making it possible to com
plete the building by next June.
—The Y. M. C. A. elected the following offi
cers to serve for the coming winter term : Presi
dent, Beaver ; Vice-President, Gilkie ; Secretary,
Demming ; Treasurer, H. W. Mitchell.
—Le Rue Lemer, one of our Harrisburg ad
vertisers, has been elected class photographer by
an association of the college classes. His repre
sentative visited the college last week and did
considerable work.
—Mr. Zink, who has led a cadet life of about
a month, has acquired considerable knowledge
in qualitative aitalysis. He says, authoritatively,
that the result of the action of Zink on H>o af
ter sleeping eight hours is a severe cold.
—The editor of The Free Lance met with
a serious accident one evening last week while
walking through the dark halls. This matter
should be attended to before another such occur
rence, and the students should have at least suffi
cient honor not to remove the globes when re
placed.
—At the recent election of the Cresson Liter
ary Society the following officers were chosen :
President, Weller; Vice-President, Miss Roop ;
Secretary, Hildebrand; Critic, Beaver; Editors,
Keller and McLean ; Librarian, Walker, and
Corresponding Secretary, Miss Gray.
—F. P. Atherton’s recitation in physics:
Prof.—Mr. Atherton, what is the vena contracta?
Atherton—Don’t know. What is a vortex line?
Don’t know. What is a vortex filament ? Don’t
know. What is the strength of a vortex ?
Don’t know. Excused, Mr. Atherton.
—We cannot urge too strongly upon our read
ers the necessity of patronizing those who adver
tise in The Free Lance, In no other college
paper published will you find a higher class of
advertisements. No patent medicine ads. are
received. The Free Lance endorses any ad
vertisement admitted to its columns.
—P. M. Brown, ’9O, met with a seemingly
slight accident while boxing in the chemical lab
oratory on Nov. 30, but which has proved to be
of a more serious nature than was at first sup
posed, as he is still cpnfined to his room. The
blow he received caused an internal rupture. A
deep sympathy for the sufferer is felt by his fel
low-students.