Richmond college has reported that the
•field day for sports was a success. We are
glad to see the athletic fever extending into
the southern colleges.
The oldest member in the graduating class
of one of our Western colleges is a man who
has weathered the storms of sixty-five winters.
He has a son who is also a member of the
same class and is twenty-four years of age.
LETTER BOX
FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE PA., May
16, 1889.
To the Editors of The Free Lance :
Franklin and Marshall is hearing the end
•of another year’s work. Senior test is over
and the Class of ’B9 is looking forward to the
week of commencement, which will enroll it
among the list of Alumni,
Recently the Board of Trustees appropri
ated one hundred dollars to the support of
athletics. Our advantages being somewhat
limited for field sports and gymnastics, we
can therefore appreciate such an appropria
tion. This has stirred up the enthusiasm of
the “ boys.” . A short time ago the college
nine played a game of base ball against the
Millersville nine which scored in favor of F.
and M. Bto 5. The summer term is bring
ing on the entertainments of the college and
literary societies. On Friday evening, May
10th, the Diagnothian Literary Society cele
brated her 54th anniversary. The exercises
were attended by a very select and attentive
audience. The Gcethian Literary Society will
celebrate her 54th anniversary on Thursday
evening, May 16th, on which occasion an in
teresting programme is anticipated by all.
At the close of test there is a twenty dol
lar gold medal offered the student of the
Senior class who passes the best examinations
in a German contest. The Junior oratorical
contest in the college ; the oratorical contest
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by the members of the Freshman and Soph
omore classes in the Diagnothian Literary
Society; the poetical contest in the Gcethian
Literary Society, every one of which offers a
fine gold medal to the best contestant, are
good inducements for the students to make
their noblest efforts in those arts. It has had
an inspiring influence on them not only in
the line of oratory but it has also led them to
exercise care and attention in writing.
Respectfully,
To The Free Lance :
As we take a retrospective glance over the
present scholastic year, Muhlenberg College
shows signs of having entered upon a new
life of zeal and activity. Its good standard
was maintained, or rather, in some respects
advanced. Judging from the highly satisfac
tory final examinations of Senior Class, the
friends of Muhlenberg can feel well pleased,
The sports have not been neglected. Never
within our recollection did the students man
ifest such great interest in base ball as they
did this year. Nor does the tennis court lack
in interested players,
Among the items for commencement week
the Alumni Banquet is looked forward to with
probably the greatest pleasure. On that oc
casion the apparatus of the gymnasium must
again give place for the tables spread by the
generous ladies of Allentown. The great
pleasure of greeting the old boy of Muhlen
berg during commencement week can be
fully realized only by a college student.
Wishing you the same success “ The
Muhlenberg" enjoyed this year, we remain,
Yours Respectfully,
Editors of "The MuhlenbergT
Forty per cent, of the students at West
Point graduate.
“The College Student.”
May 29, 1889.