The Telegraph Co. has given quite a boom
to telegraphy in the College.
We received an invitation to send amateur
athletes to the Second Annual Winter Meeting
of the Athletic Association of the University of
Pennsylvania. We would be glad to send
Athletes to this meeting, but our men are not
prepared to enter a contest, having had no
place to exercise and keep in practice during
the fall and present term. Our old gymnasium
has been torn up to give place to the new
chapel, and the Armory is not yet completed.
If a sufficient appropriation were made with
which to equip the Armory with suitable and
needed apparatus, we would not unnecessarily
be debarred from entering into all kinds of
athletic contests. We hope the State will soon
see the great need of a well-equipped gymna
sium at its own rapidly growing Institution.
The College Students, fifty strong, formed
on fifth hall and marched to Misery School
house, about one mile distant, where they pro
ceeded to take charge of the natives, and org
anize a Literary Society. They elected all the
officers from the students, the natives confirm
ing the election by silence. The inaugural
address was then delivered by W. Ik N. Hawk.
The Society then proceeded to adopt a Con
stitution. “Article I. Name: The Society
shall be known as ‘The United Yokels of Pole-
Cat-misery,’ * * * *
* * Article VI, Section I, Dignified
discussion of no question, political, religious,
or social, in accordance with the life of the
Yokels, ‘To make life more hilarious,
brighter and better,’ shall be prohibited.” *
* * * * * The week after-
ward the following notice was issued and
posted by decree of the natives: “The once
united, but now disunited and disintegrating,
the once aspiring but now expiring and wal
lering Yokels, will, owing to a combination of
circumstances, and the disinclination of the
THE FREE LANCE.
Yokel-esses to attend, no more congregate in
the dreary wastes of Pole-Cat-Misery.”
So much has been said and written on
dancing, that almost all persons, ere they have
reached the social season, have come to look
upon it either as a harmless amusement (a
mild, moral sin), or as a low, degrading
iniquity. We do not intend to enter into a
discussion of the subject, but simply to give
our views. We arc inclined to look upon
dancing as a harmless and beneficial amuse
ment, at private Sociables and select parties,
where moral and honorable people congregate
with thoughts of innocent enjoyment and
moral recreation. On the other hand we are
inclined to look upon it as harmful, and (as
some people call it) a mild, and moral sin,
when all classes of people are found together
revelling and dancing to excess, which is cer
tainly injurious to health. Dancing to excess
and with promiscuous classes of people, cer
tainly has its influence for wrong, and we
must condemn it as harmful and wrong.
Again, others look upon dancing as a low and
degrading sin, and perhaps it is; but in con
versation, in games, and many other amuse
ments, the low, the vulgar, and degrading is
found, due to rough and coarse persons. Let
every one look upon it as he sees it from his
social plane.
’65. W. W. McLanahan has been advised by
his physician to go to California. He intends
to go this coming spring.
'6B. Prof. A. K. Tuttle is filling the chair of
Biology and Agriculture in the University of
Virginia. Prof. Tuttle was Professor of Zoology
and Comparative Anatomy, in the Ohio State
University for twelve years or more previous
to accepting this chair, which he did this col
lege year.
’79. S. M. Leitzell, who lost his position in
the Signal Service by the new administration,
PERSONALS.