.just as much work to do as the first, for if we expect
to do good work on the foot-ball field we must
have a second eleven. Though they may not
achieve as great glory as the members of the first,
yet without them the regular eleven could never
reach a very high state of efficiency..
Though some men on the second team never
get to be regular team men yet they will have the
satisfaction of having made the first • eleven
what it is.
Beside this, the second team is where the men
will be drawn from next year and those men who do
conscientious work and steadily improve are sure
to be our future foot-ball players.
THE scores which our foot-ball eleven recently
made against the teams of two of the largest
colleges in the State are encouraging in the
extreme. The result of the games shows conclu
sively that we have a team this year, which it is
worth our while to support. No eleven can hold
together for a whole season unleis it has the en
couragment and finandal backing of the body of
the students. The expenses of the foot-ball team
for a season here do not amount to more than a
few dollars per man and it is well worth our while
for every student to give heartily toward the sup
port of the strongest team we have ever put in the
field.
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THE FREE LANCE notices with pleasure the
hearty co-operation of the President and
Faculty of the college with the work of the
foot ball team. Never before have they so will
ingly and heartily given their aid to our athletics.
Their willingness to allow the eleven to leave
college in order to play on distant grounds, the aid
which they have given in pushing the work of the
track and numerous other wayi, in which they have
shown their interest, in the success of the team,
are all sure indications of the good will which they
bear toward athletics.
We are, indeed, glad to note this, as it not only
THE FREE LANCE.
adds inestimable support to the team, but also
throws both the faculty and students into more
amicable relations with each other.
MUSICAL organizations at P. S. C. have been
at a low ebb for several years past, as, with
the exception of the orchestra, we have
had no musical clubs whatever. When ever we
have a college entertainment of any sort we are
compelled to rely solly on the orchestra for music
instead of having a variety in the way of college
songs and banjo and guitar selections.
IVe are pleased to see that at last there is a
movement on foot, in the shape of the College Con
cert Company, to organize the musical talent of the
student's. College music is one of the pleasantest
features of college life, and it is one of the features
which has been neglected most in our own insti
tution for several years. We have few, if any, good
college songs that are generally known among our
college men and none which are distinctly songs
of P. S. C. •
. We hope that the formation of a glee and banjo
club will tend to familiarize the students more
with the best college music and also lead at last to
the composition of songs peculiar to State College.
Glancing at the military history of the ages
we are able to distinguish four well defined and
distinct periods. These are in order of their en
actment, the barbarous stage, the feudal period,
the stand ing army period, and lastly armies at once
mote national and embracing the entire male
population of a country.
Under the first head are included the armies
of all the earliest nations down to the time of the
Roman Empire. The defenders of these nations
or tribes, as they are more properly called, were
not actuated by any pure or devoted love of cm-
A NATION'S DEFENDERS.
PRIZE ORATION OF JUNE 'OI CONTEST.