vited were all the members of the Senior class, and all the ladies rooming in the college building. All present express themselves as having had an enjoyable time, and being sorry they had to leave when the ten P. M. bell rang. On Thanksgiving eve Misses Nellie and May Patterson, entertained quite a number of .their classmates at their sunnyside home. There were social gatherings on Thanksgiving day at Professor Buckhout's, Professor Jackson's, Lieutenant Pague's and Mr. Olds'. The second sociable, a taffy pull, was given by the " Young Ladies of the Village," at " Thrift." Here many of the youth were taught by their fairer companions how to make good taffy. Choice selections rendered on the piano, dancing, pro gressive euchre, and the singing of songs, kept the party merry until a late hour. In progressive euchre, B. Demming took the prize. The socia able was a decided success. On Tuesday evening, Nov. 27, Lieutenant and Mrs. Pague gave a reception at their new residence. Many of the faculty and residents of the college were in attendance, as were also Captain and Mrs. Roberts, of West Chester. Professor Butz and Miss Hoogs rendered a duet, and Dr. Frear added several instrumental selections. A number of the ladies of the village have or ganized a society called the "Young Ladies of the Village," semi-monthly sociables, phantom parties, taffy pulls, etc., are held at different residences. The first of these was a phantom party, given at Miss Mary Foster's, to which many elite ges.pen star were invited. After an hour and a half of merry making between the incogniti, the ghostly robes were laid aside and the masks removed, and all breathed more freely. Several hours more were pleasantly spent in dancing and various games. All were delighted with the excellent time, and think the organization a worthy one. COLLEGE ORBIT Lehigh has adopted the cap and gown. Fasner Schleyer, the inventor of Voloptik, is dead. THE FREE LANCE. Mark Twain has received the degree of Master of Arts from Yale University. Thirteen hundred and sixty members of the University of Cambridge are opposed to co-educa- At Cornell all the appointments to offices in the battallion are approved by the faculty. Dartmouth has sent out 290 college professors and presidents, and 20 judges of the Supreme Court. Cornell has tried the plan of having Monday as a holiday instead of Saturday, and pronounces it an improvement. The editors of the Lehigh Burr have been ex cused by the faculty from all literary exercises. Levi P. Morton was a Dartmouth man, as was also W. T. Sherman. Cleveland was not a col lege graduate. The Garfield University, at Wichita, Kansas, has received slo,ooo from Mrs. Garfield. One-fourth of the applicants for admission to Harvard, are from undergraduates of other colleges. Syracuse will soon have its new college build ing, which will, it is said, be the finest college building in the world. The largest university in Europe is Rudel All rechts, at Vienna. It has 285 professors and 5,000 students Dr. Huebner, the noted Latin scholar of Berlin University, has been elected to succeed Professor Warren at Johns Hopkins. It is said that a number of ladies of the River side Tennis Club, of Hoboken, N. J., have organ ized a foot-ball team, to be composed solely.of the gentler sex. At Amherst a student is allowed to cut one tenth of his recitations and practiciums, and not required to account for such absences. Professor Asa Gray has bequeathed to Harvard all copyrights of which he was the owner, all en gravings of plants, pictures of trees, herbs, etc., and all portraits of botanists.