The Free lance. (State College, Pa.) 1887-1904, May 01, 1889, Image 13

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    The Senior Glass is bound to succeed.
After laboring almost an entire evening at a
party, to get the “ Pigs in clover,” they gave
it up, and went and got a number of pigs and
put them in the fourth and fifth-floor halls of
the College.
Prof. —Mr. A,, define a limit and a variable.
Prei*.—A limit is an incomprehensible
something that has a vague relation with an
indefinite thing called a variable.
That ever popular resort, “ Deer Park ”
has been thrown open to the students for the
season of ’B9. Long live the “ Deers! ”
Never ask a Freshman at P. S. C., how
many fish he has caught. It is a painful
question. Always ask him if he caught any
at all. It saves an amount of explanation,
and is so much easier answered.
Did you ask if we ever had any Arbutus
Parties at P. S, C. ? Why certainly, every
four years,
Spring is here, and so is the Spring Fever.
Hawk says, “these warm days make him feel
as if he would like to tie himself in a knot and
go into hibernation until Winter.
(One maid to another, while watching a
game of base-ball, between the Little Potatoes,
Hard to Beat, and the Pride of Prepdom.)
Ghost as pitcher for the L. P. H. P. : ‘‘l just
wonder if it is true the Freshmen use Mr.
Loyd for a sponge staff ?”
The game of base-ball which took place on
the 20th of April between the Freshmen and
Preps ended with the score of 26 to 7 in favor
of the Freshmen. This score was no surprise
to the Freshmen ; but to the Preps, who were
vain enough to expect a victory, it was quite
a damper upon their enthusiasm for base-ball.
We would say, don’t be discouraged boys,
you can play the Sophs or Seniors the next
time, and thereby regain confidence in yourself.
THE FREE LANCE.
The Tennis Association has had three new
courts laid out for the use of its members.
This will be gratifying to the lovers of tennis
who so long have felt the lack of space for
indulging in this delightful sport.
The Photographer, Le Rue Lemer, of Har
risburg, was at the College on the 17th of
April. The Sophomores, Freshman, and
“A” and “B,” preparatory classes had
pictures taken ; the different clubs and
organizations about the College also took
advantages of this opportunity.
The W. L. S., on Friday evening, April
12th, varied their regular programme by giv
ing a mock meeting of the Board of Trustees
of P. S. C. After various reports from dif
ferent committees, a petition from students of
the College, asking the privilege of dancing
in the new Armory was laid before the
Board. The discussion upon the petition was
quite interesting; and had any of the real
Trustees been present, they could have heard
much by which they could profit. When the
vote was called for the petition, each member
voting by aye or nay, it was found that the peti
tion was lost by just one vote. Strange isn’t it ?
This was after the party. The Seniors,
instead of going home and going to bed as
their position and dignity required, ran
around like a lot of giddy Preps, making the
night hideous by the sound of their voices,
or, in other words, serenading. At the last
place they stopped, they perched them
selves high on top of a board pile, almost
opposite the home of the fair being whom
they were going to serenade. They had been
singing but a short time. The most soul
entrancing notes were flowing forth. Toot’s
voice had almost ran up to Q, and Baldy’s
voice was sliding along in that semi-quaver
or half tremulous sort of a way—like an ex
press wagon over cobble stones, and Duke,
with a deep bare-a-tone sort of a voice was