Equipment of departments of Electricity and
Chemistry, $4,000.
Repairs and Insurance for 2 years, $lO,OOO,
Completing two cottages and the barn on col
lege farm, $5,000.
Inprovements on Athletic Grounds, $2,000.
Constructing two residences, $B,OOO.
Completing Ladies Cottage, $1,500.
For Pump house, well, two boilers, pump and
extension of lighting system, $15,000.
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THE prospects of our having an athletic train
er seem brighter than ever. This fact will
no doubt gladden the hearts of all the col
lege men. Our need of a trainer is so urgent,
and the offer made by the students for his support
so reasonable, that we do not doubt that the
board of Trustees will see the affair in the same
light as we do, and take a definite step toward
obtaining a man for the coming year. The fee
which the students would have to pay, in order to
support a good instructor, would not have to be
over two dollars per term per student, which is
small in comparison to the good that would ac
crue from it. The readiness with which all the
men in college at present, no matter what their
financial position, have given their assent to the
project of the students paying the salary of ad
athletic trainer, affords remarkably good reason to
think that the future students of the college would
likewise be perfectly satisfied with paying a fee for
such a purpose.
THE great good fortune which has attended
the efforts of Dr. Atherton in securing the
much needed appropriation fur carrying out
the excellent work already begun, brings with it a
responsibility which to a great extent should be
felt by the student body. Large sums like the re
cent appropriation coming from our State govern
ment must inevitably turn the attention of the
people toward the institution that can deserve or
Justify such liberal patronage.
`THE FREE LANCE.
It is for the students to help bear the scrutiny
as well as the Faculty and Trustees ; nor should
the Alumni be exempt from a certain amount of
responsibility. It •is the Alumni that build up
our great institutions. The loyalty of a Yale,
Harvard or Princeton graduate is worthy of the
highest emulation in our smaller colleges. The
opportunities of the Alumnus for showing his loy
alty to his Alma Mater are varied and many a good
word spoken or a little influence used at the
proper time may be of inestimable value to an
institution. Now, to be more explicit ; to become
personal: To you who for many years have been an
Alumnus; to you s ho have very recently graduated;
to you who graduate this year; to you, students,
who expect to graduate we would say get to work.
Use every effort to make our college one of the
foremost in the country. If you have a friend or
acquaintance who is looking around for a good
college to send his son to, impress him with the
advantage offered by your own college. Don't
be afraid to tell him of the sound, practical and
modern principles of education upon which our
institution is founded, of the large and well equip
ped laboratories, of the excellent facilities for pur
suing technical studies, and of the many other ad
vantages which this place holds out. The public
will measure the value of our institution by the
work and interest which you do and show in it.
THE following note, which we clip from the
Philadelphia Inquirer, speaks for itself: The
Pennsylvania State College, near Bellefonte,
has won an international reputation. This is
proven by the fact that the House of Commons is
considering the propriety of following the plans of
the college in certain institutions controlled by
the British Government.
A short time ago President Atherton, of the
State College, received the foll,,wing cunimuni•
cation :
OAS VILLAS, ST. MARTIN'S lioAD Fro.—lleac
Sir : N o are happy to state the filet of our classes being
ready for annual Insp_eotlon, and 1 hove boon advised by
tho aeorotary or the National Asuoniat ion for the Promo.
Ma of Teolinleal and Secondary Education that the
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