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,