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- EXCHANGES