Ex-'93. J. Hogan Furst is pursuing a course in business at The Pierce Business College, Phila delphia. '94. G. E. Edwards has entered the freshman class at Lafayette. '94. H. P. Dowler is employed on one of the Pa. Rail Road Company's engineer corps in Clear. field county. Ex-'94. Miss Carrie Miller visited the college recently. Miss Nesbit of College Park, Md., is the guest of Miss Blanche Patterson. S. H. Blair was recently called home by the death of his mother. J. H. Mitchell was visited by his father a fort night ago. Miss Hamilton is the guest of her brother Prof. Hamilton, at Centre Furnace. • Mr. W. S. Elliott and Miss Anna M. Leyden were married in the Beech Creek Presbyterian church, Wednesday evening at 7 p. in., by the Rev. S. M. Pomeroy. The bride and groom are both former P. S. C. studnts. Allison P. Mershon, General Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of Williamsport, was the guest of C. M. Green on Sunday Feb. 22. He addressed in an able manner the Y. M. C. A. and the Chris tian Endeavor Society. COLLEGE ORBIT Lectures in Volapuk are now delivered at Yale, which is the first American college to add the language to its curriculum. By the death of Mr. Bancroft the Rev. Dr. F. A. Farley, of the class of 1818, becomes the oldest living alumnus of Harvard. Princeton College has received a gift of over 30,000 pieces of pottery and porcelain illustrating the history and progress of art from the earliest Egyptian period down to the present time, THE FREE LANCE. The foot-ball league of Pennsylvania colleges gives promise of great success. Out of 29 candidates for the Yale nin';‘, to are trying for the pitcher's position. The weather has been such that the foot ball teams of the University of California have been able to keep up practice during the winter months. Columbia will join the Inter-collegiate Cricket Association, which has hitherto consisted of Har• yard, the University of Pennsylvania and Hav- erford. Trafford, '93, has been elected Captain of the Harvard foot-ball team for the ensuing year. The sum to be collected for base ball expenses this year is fixed at Igi.soo. The students of Michigan University are work ing hard to raise the Igeo,ooo necessary to dupli cate the like amount offered by Joshua. W. Water erman, of Detroit, toward a gymnasium building. At the University of Pennsylvania four crews are in training; there is a movement on foot to raise sio,ooo for an equipment of the representa- tive team. Prof. Harriet Cooke, professor of history in Cornell, is the first woman ever honored with the chair and equal pay with the men professors. She has taught in Cornell twenty-three years. Chas. Lennig, of Philadelphia, has left iloo,- 000 to the University of Pennsylvania, $500,000 to go to the Towne Scientific School, and the re maining $200,000 to be used in founding scholar• ships. • Prof. Chas. Young, of Princeton, has been notified by the French Academy of Sciences, that the Janssen prize for 1890 has been awarded to him in recognition of his discoveries in spectros copy.—Ex. The faculty of Boston University has voted to allow work on the college paper, The University Beacon, to count as hours in the course, allowing four hours per week to the managing editor and two hours per week to each of his assistants,
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