The Free lance. (State College, Pa.) 1887-1904, May 01, 1889, Image 18

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    The seventeen universities of Italy have
opened their doors to the co-eds ; likewise
have the higher institutions of learning in
Switzerland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
The record for the 100 yard dash was
recently broken by Kettleman, of Yale, time,
nine and three-fourth seconds.
Columbia College will not put a base-ball
nine in the field this year.
Ex-President Hayes will deliver a series of
lectures at Oberlin on Political Economy.
Seventy-four thousand dollars have been
appropriated for the use of the Ohio State
University for the coming year, 540,000 of
which are to be devoted to the erection of a
laboratory.
A department of “ Marine Engineering,”
has been established at the University of
Michigan
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Yale has sent out 13,444 students.
A fine library is to be built at Madison
University, to cost $lOO,OOO.
The valedictorian of last year’s senior class
at Rutgers was a colored man.
The faculty of Harvard has requested the
pitcher of the Harvard base-ball nine, not to
pitch until he has learned his lessons.
Yale is agitating the question of a “ kick-
ing cup.”
The chairs of the Edinburgh Medical Fac
ulty are each worth $17,000 a year.
THE P REE LANCE.
The students at Lehigh have decided to
wear the cap and gown regularly on Sundays.
De Pauw University, of Indiana, has been
presented with a gift of $2,000,000.
A WELL PLAYED AND INTERESTING GAME,
The Dickinson Club made its first appear
ance here to-day and, although it played good
ball in evey inning except the third, it lost
the game.
At exactly 10.13 the game was called and
Dickinson having won the toss, chose the
field while our club sent McLean to the bat,
who took his base on balls and was advanced
to third by scratch hits by Musser and Mock,
but was left there as Brew retired the side.
For Dickinson Davis led off with a strike
out, was followed by Patton’s out at first;
Smith took his base on a scratch and scored
on a steal and a scratch by Palmer. Hauck
went out on strikes. In the second Ellen
berger led off with a smashing hit to right,
on which he scored, but the side went out on
two strike outs and a fly before F. Musser,
who had made a nice hit past second, could
Our opponents were retired in the one, two,
three order in their half.
DICKINSON
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE,
Saturday, May 18, 1889,