—Diego W. Abreu intends going to his home
at Cienfuegos, Cuba, to spend vacation. We all
wish him a safe and pleasant journey, Mr. Ab
reu is a wide-awake young man and deserves
praise for the interest which he takes in the work
of his Course. The walls of his room are filled
with free hand drawings of various plants. I-Ie
intends preparing a book on Botany in the Span
ish language. Success to you, Diego; we know
you can do it.
—The concert given by the State College Or
chestra on Thanksgiving evening was a decided
success in the artistic sense, if not in the financial
sense. The weather was very unfavorable,
which accounts for the small audience which at
tended the entertainment. The Orchestra is to
be congratulated upon the proficiency they have
attained in the short time they have been organ
ized. They play standard music, embracing the
best selections from the best authors. It is to be
hoped that we may soon have the pleasure of an
other concert.
—We had the extreme pleasure of hearing by
letter from E. M. Rice, 'B9, of Crawford county,
Pa. Judging from his account of how he passes
the time in his obscure vicinity, he is putting all
his theoretical and his practical knowledge, which
he acquired at P. S C., to the test. He is now
taxing his genius with such complicated analyti
cal problems as the following : Let O be any
point on a hemlock tree ; let P represent a pheas
ant, which, starting from the point O and moving
at the rate of 24,000 miles per second, describes
an elliptical hyperbolical perabola cutting the
axis of xat B. Required the locus of a charge
of shot starting from point A, the gunner, cut
ting the axis of x simultaneously with the pheas
ant. Mr. Rice invented this problem whilst
studying the habits of that mysterious insect, the
pheasant—as he chooses to call it.
—The “B. 8.,” of State College, partook of
their first feast on Thanksgiving night at ten
o’clock. The banquet was spread in the club
dining hall, and the tables were laden with all
the substantial and delicacies that caterers could
get up. Want of space and compassion for those
who were not present prevent our publishing the
menu card ; suffice it to say that we have never
seen a more tempting one. The members of the
club, eighteen in all, sat down to the tables at ten
o’clock, and by the time the various courses were
served and the toasts responded to, the college
clocks chimed two. There have been numerous
eating clubs organized at P. S. C., and among
them some very good ones, especially the “Hungry
THE FREE LANCE.
Dozen,’’but the “B. B.” surpasses all of them by
far. “B. B,” banquets will be held hereafter once
every month,
’B9-William B. N. Hawk was home during the
marriage of his sister,
’B2-I. P. McCreary and wife visited the col
lege recently while on their wedding tour.
’B2-The marriage of John M. Dale to Miss
Flora Fox, both of Bellefonte, is announced.
—James Foster, formerly of ’B7, will join the
clais of ’B9 at the beginning of the Spring term.
'B5-Miss Helen Jackson is home for her winter
vacation, and will not return until after New
Year’s.
—Rev. A, D. Wirts, member of class of ’B3,
is located in Decatur, Kan., and is a prominent
Evangelist.
—Prof. Buckhout delivered an address to the
General Farmers’ Institute, Dec. 7th, which met
at Lewisburg, Pa.
’79-Frank B. Galbraith was married to Miss
Lillian DeForest Roche, Sept. 20th, at 200 East
27th street, New York.
’9O-J. G. Mitchell, Sunbury’s successful pitch
er of last year, has received several offers for the
coming season.
—Mrs. Louis Arrnsby, mother of Dr. 11. P.
Armsby, director of experimental station here,
died Nov. 30th, at her home in Millbury, Mass.
’7S-W. W. Rupert is still be found at his rus
tic home near Zion. We think he would enjoy a
visit to P. S. C. to note the changes time has
wrought.
’B3-William C. Calder, a missionary to Ran
goon, British India, and teacher of English in a
college there, has recovered from a recent severe
attack of fever.
—George Potter, member of class of ’73,
brother of James Potter, of Bellefonte, has been
appointed master mechanic of the P. R. R, shops
at Fort Wayne, Ind.
—At Bellefonte, R. Hamill Boal to Miss Kate
Devling, of Bellefonte. Both were former stu
dents of P. S. C. Mr. Boal is civil engineer for
Buffalo Run Railroad.
PERSONALS.