The Free lance. (State College, Pa.) 1887-1904, October 01, 1891, Image 23

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    '9r. Hugh Hamilton, Jr., is filling a position
in an electric light and power station in Rich-
mond, Va.
Ex-'9i. S. G. Allen was recently admitted to
practice in the Warren county bar. His address
is Allan Block, Warren, Pa.
'9z. W. A. Bartley has been appointed as in
structor of Industrial Training at the Fisk Uni
versity, Nashville, Tenn.
'9l. F. N. Weidner has returned to take a post
graduate course.
'9O. J. A. Hunter has lately gone to Savanah,
Ga., where he will fill a position in a school.
'9o. Potter M. Brown is engaged in develop
ing mica deposits, in North Carotina, in which
he is interested.
'9O. W. M. Camp is serving on an Engineer
Corps iu California. This corps is surveying a
route for a'railroad from the central part of Cul.
to Mexico.
'B9. A. A. Patterson, who 'is reading law in
Pittsburg, accompanied his brother to P. S. C.
at the opening of the term.
'B9. J. D. Hunter, formerly teacher of the
Milesburg grammar school, has been elected to
the principalship of the Gettysburg public schools.
'B9. J. P. Jackson has been appointed to a po
sition in the Mechanical Engineering department.
'BB. Miss Carrie Hunter is employed in the
Normal at Macon, Oa.
'BB. Geo. C. McKee, who, is the head of the
Industrial Training department in the public
schools of Seattle, Wash., spent his vacation at
his home in State College, this summer.
'B7. Miss Grace Moore has accepted a position
as teacher, at Bedford.
'B5. D. C. Jackson has been made Professor
of Electrical Engineering, in the University of
Wisconsin, at Madison. He was formerly em
ployed by the Edison Gen. Electric Company.
THE FREE LANCE.
'B4. M. W. Lowry has recently been made the
Republican candidate for District Attorney in
Lackawana county, Pa.
—Mr. J. A. Fries, one of the assistant chemists
at the Experiment Station, visited his home in
Sweden during the summer.
—Dr. Pond while in Germany collected a valu
able lot of material which will doubtless lend great
interest to the chemical lectures.
—Mr. Frank Kennedy, the instructor in the
Mechanic Art shop, has resigned his position, and
is now ready to take contracts for buildings.
—Miss McElwain, who has spent the past year
travelling through Europe, has returned and is
again taking charge of her department.
—Miss Willard, the instructor in music, is in
Boston, Mass. She will not return until the win
ter term opens. During her absence Miss Wyman
of '92 will officiate.
—We regret to learn that Prof. T. S. Hunt,
who has so faithfully . and successfully discharged
his duties at the college, has accepted a call to the
chair of Agriculture at the Ohio State University.
—The Institution was honored by a visit from
Dr. Robert Warrington, who was associated with
Sir J. B. Lames and Dr. Gilbert. at the famous
Rothemsted Experiment Station, St. Albans, Eng
land. The visit is of special interest from the
fact that Dr. Warrington was working in the
Chemical Laboratory at the time when the late
Dr. Pugh, first president of the college, was en
gaged in his famous research upon nitrogen as
similation.
—Among those of the old students who visit
ed the college recently, were ex-'92 Thomas
Strouse, who is serving on an engineering
corps in Baltimore, Md. ; '9O James Foster,
chemist in Virginia ; '9l William A. Bartley,
Bellefonte ; '9O H. B. Leyden who is employed
in the Edison General Electric Co., Chicago,
; 'B3 Rev. W. C. Calder missionary in Bhamo,
Upper Burma, India 'B7 W, F. Strouse who has