When the students collect in great numbers in Snyder’s store to wait for the U. S. (usually slow)-mail, their favorite song is, “We won’t go home until morning unless he puts us out.” They sometimes go home. All of the Professor’s recitation rooms have been furnished with new desks and soft bot tomed chairs. Probably they will not now walk about the room so much, and thus give one an opportunity to make better recitations. As the result of a “ prep ” racket, one ate Thanksgiving turkey at home, some were put on special probation, some on extra special probation, and others on different kinds of probation too numerous to mention. The models which Professor Reber ordered while at Paris, to represent the valve gearing of the Corliss and other high speed engines have arrived, and can now be seen in the rooms of the mechanical engineering depart ment. There is a rumor in circulation, that two hours drill a day will be expected of the stu dents in the near future. We suppose the next step will be to turn the place into a barracks, and do away with the educational idea altogether. We shall try to get even with Lehigh and Lafayette for beating us at foot-ball, when we play them base-ball next Spring. It does not require a gymnasium to train base-ball play ers, and thus we have the same opportunity as they to get up a good team. One day some one started the report that the new apparatus for the gymnasium had arrived ; the students immediately flocked to the armory to see it, and found to their dis gust only a pair of rickety parallel bars which had been used in the old gymnasium. (?) Mr. J. 17.I 7 . Aull is back with us again. He was forced to return home shortly after the opening of the term on account of a severe THE FREE LANCE. attack of typhoid fever. He is looking much thinner than before he went home. In fact his sobriquet—" Fatty ” seems to be entirely libelous now. We are sorry to say that he has been compelled to go home again because of a severe attack of Rheumatism. Count Macaroni—(punctuating the sen tence, “ Whatever is, is right.”) “ Put a period at the end, comma between the »a." (Prolonged laughter.) Count.—“ Well Professor w/iat is the plu ral of is ? ” Prof. —“Are,” Count.—Well then, put a comma between the are. A change has been made in the order of rhetoricals by Prof. Davis. The members of one division will speak to the members of the preceeding division whose, business it is to criticise, and at the end of the term there will be a general exercise in which only the best members of each division will speak, and the best speakers of this division will receive a prize (?). The following were the officers elected by the Junior class :—President, H. Hamilton ; Vice-president, D. M. Taylor ; Secretary, W. M. Camp; Sergeant-at-arms, N. H. Suloff, Historian, C. H. Zink; also a change was made in the “La Vie” staff. John Yocum was elected business manager, vice C. H. Zink, resigned, and T. A. Gilkey was elected editor to fill Mr. Yocum’s place. Demming to Greene in engineering so ciety. “ How much electromotive force does it take to kill a man ?” Greene. —“That depends upon the amount of resistance offered by the man.” Griffin.—(Who had previously learned that a wire having a small section offered more re sistance than a wire having a large section.) “Then a small man would offer more resist ance than a large man.”
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