The Free lance., February 01, 1889, Image 18

has obtained a position in the office of the
chief signal officer.
’7B. Miss Anna M. Stackhpusc is an instruc
tor in the Friends’ Central school at Philadel
phia, Pa.
'B5. Miss Kittic J. Price is in attendance at
Smith's College, Mass,
’B5. Calvin Jackson has made several me
chanical inventions lately, among them is the
bi-bicycle.
’BB. N. K. Wilson is taking a post-graduate
course at Cornell University.
’B9. We notice the name of J. F. L. Morris
on the staff of the Cornell Daily Sun, Morris
is capable of filling such a position. Me was
one of those who started the P'ree Lance,
We are sorry to hear of the death of
Hon. B. F. Hunter, of Fillmore, the father of
J. D. Hunter, ’B9.
’92. A. Carnegie, F, M. Carnegie and F. N.
Reed are passing the winter in the sunny South,
near St. Augustine, Fla.
Dr, Frear has been elected Chemist of the
State Agricultural Society.
Prof. Barnard, professor of civil engineering,
has a new system for perspective drawing.
This system will appear in the coming college
report,
J. Caldcr, a former student, and a son of Dr.
Calder, our former president, was visiting Prof.
Heston recently.
Miss Mary Foster, a former student and a
resident of this place, has just returned from a
very pleasant trip to Washington, D. C.
C. E. Ktnier, an ex-student, is draughting in
Pittsburgh,
Rev. Dr. Hammil, of Lcmont, who is so
well known by the students, has an attack of
typhoid fever. We trust he will soon be re
stored to his wonted health.
THE FREE LANCE.
R, W. Green of Merchantvillc, N. J., a
former student, is one of the U. of P. crew
who arc to row against th.c Yale Freshman
Our exchanges for January are few, no
doubt due to a delay at the publishing house
as we ourselves were; but do not allow the
exchanges to deteriorate, It constitutes part
of the life of a college journal; friendly criti
cism, both complimentary and scrutinizing,
flatter and instruct a magazine; builds it up,
points out weak places, and brings out promi
nently “ the pride" of the paper. Among
others, we missed The Southern Collegian , The
Pharetra, The Mirror, The Taller, and The Cynic,
Received, for the first time, The Institute
Record, of Towanda, Pa. The paper is good
for its size, and well worth the time ex
pended in reading it. The only drawback in
its make-up is the apparent lack of a well
written literary department.
The University Courant, of the Western Uni
versity of Pa., at Pittsburg, justly condemns
its faculty for taking optional attendance at
chapel within its own boundary, and giving the
students the compulsory system. We agree in
saying that the professors should set the stu
dents better examples in chapel attcndance i
and not merely come when it is their turivto
conduct the exercises. While they, in exem
plary positions, aver optional attendance at
cl\apcl, we students have our petitions ignored
and refused when seeking the same privilege.
Why is it ?
The Lantern, for January 11, contains an in
teresting sketch of Marblehead, immortalized
in poetry, situated near Boston, Mass. It is a
beautifully written article, resplendent in rhe
torical passages.
With the January number of The Geneva
Cabinet is completed the series of highly in-
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