The Free lance. (State College, Pa.) 1887-1904, November 01, 1891, Image 16

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    teen chips are placed in the middle of the table.
When the cards are dealt each player takes up his
hand and when the play commences instead of
playing out in the middle of the table, each places
his card in front of himself and on seeing who
wins the trick he turns it over, face down to his
right and thus continues to play and place his
cards until the thirteen are played. The tricks
are recorded by the winner drawing a chip from
the middle of the table. The first hand being
played, each one places the hand which he has
just played in the box to his left, face upwards.
This is done with each hand until the twelve
decks are dealt, the deal going around the table
the same as in ordinary whist. After the twelve
hands have been played each player then passes
his box which contains the hands which he has
just played to the player on his right, thus the op
ponents gets the hands which their adversaries had
before, and these hands are played until the whole
twelve are played. The number of points are
then summed up for the whole series of hands.
The game is a very fascinating one, as it brings in
more directly the real contest of skill in the man
agement of hands, and it does away entirely with
the idea of one being a Jonah for an evening.
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The Preparatory Department Reading Room
has recently received some fifty volumes of refer-
ence books.
Dr. Fernald recently received some fine m Aim
ed specimens and costly models for the Biologi-
cal Museum.
The first snow of the season in this vicinity fell
on Wednesday night, November 4th, and c.m.
tinued to fall almost all of the following day.
THE FREE LANCE.
At the convention of the Phi Gamma Delta fra
ternity held in Pittsburgh on Thursday, October
z9th, the local chapter was represented by J. M.
The time will sool be here for making out a
schedule for indoor si»rts for next term and every
one should take an interest and try to make them
a success
A schedule of class games in foot-ball will soon
be arranged and the out-look is promising for
some very, interesting games as each class has a
fairly good team.
About four hundred new books have been add
ed to the library this fall. Among these we note,
as being especially a valuable and useful work,
the Century Encyclopedia.
The Christina Endeavor Society of the Presby
terian church social and festival at the residence
of Mr. F. L. Olds. It was largely attended and
was in every respect a success.
The following officers have been elected in the
Cresson Literary Society : President, H. W.
Mattern ; Sec. Barndollar; Critic, Musser ; Treas.
F. K•. Mattern ; Banker, McDowell.
One of the latest improvements about the cam
pus is the gradual cleaning out of undesirable
trees from the college woods with a view to making
a grove in the very near future.
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The game of foot-ball which was to have been
played between Haverford and State College on
November i4th, has been postponed until some
date yet to be arranged after Thanksgiving.
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The Engineering Journal will not be published
this fall owing to the fact that the present small
membership of the society renders it impossible
to have sufficient matter for the issue prepared.
The executive committee of the Board of Trus
tees at a meeting held during the present month
voted an appropriation of fifty dollars to the Ath
letic Association, as a recognition of the excel
lent services rendered by the students during the
recent fire on the. College property.