The Free Lance.
VOL. 2.
THE FREE LANCE.
Published monthly during the college year by the Students
of The Pennsylvania Slate College.
STAFF:
EDITOR,
CURTIN G. HOOP, ’B9.
‘ ASSOCIATE EDITORS
John S. Weu.hr, 'B9,
I-I. R. Leyden, ’9O. t. C. M. Ei.i.enherc.ek, ’9O,
1!. W. Hemming,’9o, T. A. Gilkev, ’9l.
J. Frank Shields, ’9l.
Business Manager, Geo. R. Johnson,’9l.
Assist. Business Manager, 11. V. Holmes, ’9l
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AGAIN we have been left by the resignation
of Mr, Walker and Mr. Bryan, Mr.
Walker’s assistant, to appoint another business
manager. In behalf of the staff we desire to
express our appreciation for the energetic and
efficient services rendered by Mr. Walker and
for the hearty cooperation and liberal manage
ment which have encouraged the editors in
their efforts to improve the Free Lance. Our
relations have always been pleasant and we
very much regret that Mr. Walker can not
continue to hold his position. Mr. George
Johnson succeeds Mr. Walker as business
manager. Mr. Johnson will undertake his
work with enthusiasm and energy, and in this
position he deserves and needs the willing
support of all.
STATE COLLEGE, PA., JANUARY, 1889
J. D. Hunter, ’B9.
ANEW feature of work and association is
about to be presented to the students
who have just come among us this year.
The literary societies will no doubt soon be
active, offering their advantages for culture
both social and literary. Those students who
have not been acquainted with this feature of
our college life and work are invited and
advised to turn their attention to it at once.
The work of debate and declamation in our
societies are among the most beneficial as well as
the most pleasant which the college affords, No
student should think of spending his time
here in the performance of his class duties
without also enrolling with one of the societies
and taking active part in its work. This he
should do at once whether he be more or less
in need of the training to be had ; for if he be
apt in this direction he will find a favorite and
beneficial field here, while if he be slow he can
not afford to lose a year of development.
That society training here is the comple
ment of class training needs no further proof
than the superiority of that class of students
who are active in the societies.
CLASS day exercises have not occupied a
place on the programme of commence
ment week for three or four years. Why the
observance of class day has apparently fallen
into oblivion we do not know. By the late
classes it has been claimed that the small
number was not sufficient to provide for both
a class day programme and a programme for
commencement to be supplied by the graduat
ing students, This has no doubt been true.
But why not give us a class day with a pro
gramme supplied by the graduating class, and
a commencement programme varied from what
has been the custom here? The universal
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