I,OCALS. —More snow —Leap year sleighing parties —Taffy on John Andy's string --Ho ! for another "stag" dance --J. F. L. Morris is also a Philadelphian, —Leap year parties are all the rage now, —Girls growing desperate—so ''the Dicky birds —We badly need an afternoon mail to Belle- —Milk toast of the Keystone club—" Here to the pump." —The "Keystone Club" now has sixteen boarders. —The new vaulting horse has been put in the gymnasium. —The juniors have begun individual work in physic practicism. —Nearly all of our students have become expert electricians. —Annie Kessler contemplates a trip to Cali fornia in the far future. —The radiator in the Cresson reading room has been nicely gilded. --Prof. McKee is recovering from a severe at tack of nervous prostration. —Ask Joe Patterson where he got that artificial rose bud he wears o❑ the lappel of his coat. —Owing to Prof. McKee's illness, Prof. Hes ton has had charge of thejunior in moralscience. —The rope descends ; the taffy ascends ; the lessons are neglected and the boys get o o o, etc. —The FREE LANCE has been admitted to mem bership in the Central Inter-collegiate Press As sociation. --Jones monopolizes the telegraph line with a switch board of his own invention. Oh, how "genius burns," —Whiskers seem to be leaking quite abun dantly. Several of the boys are endeavoring to raise mustaches, but it seems that few, if any, will succeed, THE FREE LANCE. —The military office has been moved to a room opposite the one formerly used. Dr. Arms by has taken the old office. —Mr. Thomson has opened his new bakery in the Foster block, where he will deal in all kinds of bread, cakes and confections. —The boys take great pleasure in the evenings in pelting the sedate students as they make their way to the college building after supper. —Our choir will sing at the dedication of the Presbyterian Chapel, and also at the dedication of the Methodist church. The choir feel highly honored by having these calls. —Owing to his extended illness, J. H. White, a member of the class of'gr, has taken leave for his home in Milroy, Mifflin Co., and was unable to state whether he would be back or not. —A festival was held by the Presbyterian church at this place on Friday, Feb. the loth. Quite a number from the college attended and seemed greatly pleased with the affair. —Mrs. Lieut. Pague's mother, Mrs. Crane, and her sister, Miss Gossler, came up from their home in Columbia, last week, to help the Lieut. and his Wife celebrate their housewarming. —Miss Lizzie Stuart entertained a number of her friends on Thursday evening last, at Dr. Fisher's residence in Boalsburg. The party went over in a large sled and passed the evening in dancing. —The sleighing party that went down to the Old Fort the other night had a-very enjoyable time, irrespective of the fact that their driver only drove his horses at the rate of four miles per hour, —A peculiar freak of Mature occurred here a few clays ago in the form of snow, which had every appearance of having been sprinkled with soot. As yet no positive cause has been assigned to the phenomenon. —About a week ago Mr. David Atherton, of Philipsburg, paid. State College a visit. Mr. Atherton is a fine violinist, and while here gave an exhibition of his playing. He is a brick• maker by trade, and has made a bid for supply ing the college with brick for the new buildings. We hope he may get the job, —We walk no more in the forest ; We talk no more in the hall ; But censure marks by the hundred Are hanging over us all,
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