’77* The Rev, Geo. A. Landes who has
been for some time past a missionary among
the Catholics at Coritiba, Brazil, is soon to
return to the United States,
’79. S. V. Holliday has been appointed
Collector of Customs at the port of Erie.
’B4. E. L. Orvis has been canvassing Cen
tre Co. for the Prohibition cause.
’B5. Rev. Owen Reber has accepted a
charge in a Lutheran church, at Buttonville,
Canada.
’B5. R. F. Hunter of Buffalo Run, spent
a day among his numerous friends at P. S. C.
recently.
’B6. Harry E. Patterson has published an
article in the American Chemical Journal, on
improved apparatus for fat determination.
’B7. Wm. P. Fisher graduates at the Co
lumbia Law School this year.
’B7. A. O. Shaeffer was recently elected
County surveyor of Cameron, Co., Pa.
’BB. Geo. M. Downing expects to visit us
during Commencement week.
’BB. A. Scott Harris, in connection with
his position as resident manager of the Chest
■Creek Coal and Coke Co., is one of the edi
tors of a journal recently started at Hastings.
’B9. J. B. Struble and H. D. Miles have
left College and gone to Pittsburgh, where
they have obtained positions as mechanical
engineers in the Union Switch and Signal Co.
’9O. W. E, Stephenson and C. M. Kessler
will visit their many friends at P S. C. during
Commencement.
’9l. Miss Mary B. Struble has gone to
Philadelphia, where she is training to become
a nurse, in one of the hospitals of that city.
THE FREE LANCE.
Daniel Ulrich, a former student, has left
Erie and is now engaged in the construction
of a large shipping wharf at Buffalo, N. Y.
Miss Julia E. Gray has for some time past
been visiting friends in New York and Phila
delphia.
The Cornell crew row eight miles a day,
regularly.
George Bancroft, the historian, is the only
living member of Harvard ’l7.
The Trustees of Princeton have given Dr
McCosh a pension of #2,500 a year.
At Lafayette, a Japanese student has been
elected president of the Sophomore class.
Only 175 of the 390 universities and colle
ges in the United States publish papers.
The largest library in the world contains
2,000,000 volumes. It is the Imperial Library
of Paris.
Massachusetts has 23,000 pupils in her
evening schools, an increase of fifty per cent.
in one year
Ann Arbor has a regularly detailed United
States naval officer for the classes in marine
engineering and shipbuilding.
A feature of the gymnasium exhibition at
Bates College will be a fencing match
between a gentleman and a young lady of ’9l.
The latest craze with some of the students
at Troy Polytechnic is to adorn the ceilings
of their rooms with the envelopes of letters
from their best girls.
The plan for the wearing of caps and gowns
on class day, by the Senior class at Yale, has
been abandoned, as not enough men were
willing to purchase them.
COLLEGE ORBIT,