THE FREE LANCE.
VOL. V.
THE FREE LANCE.
Published monthly during the college year by the Students
of the Pennsylvania State College.
STAFF:
EDITOR,
NELSON McA. LOYD, '92.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
C. H. IDLE, '92.
R. W. WimixsoN, '93, Ex. L. R. FAY, '93, Loe.
R. B. MATTERN, '93, Lit. P. P. STURDEVANT, '94, Loa.
BOYD A. MUSSER, '94, Per.
Business Manager, J. M. BREWER; '94.
Assistant Manager, ROGER BOWMAN, '94.
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IT is very gratifying to the friends of the college
' to note the, extremely creditable manner in
which the Corps of Cadets carried itself while
on the recent trip to Gettysburg. The conduct
of the men, both as a body and as individuals,
while away from college was such as to win the
praise not only of the citizens of the town where
they were quartered but of all who came in con
tact with them while on the trip.
To place a body of one huridred and seventy
students in a strange town, where they are totally
free from the restraints of daily studies, is an act
which any faculty would seriously question the ad-
STATE COLLEGE, PA., NOVEMBER, xB9l.
A. 0. READ, '92.
visability of but the conduct of our battalion
while at Gettysburg shows truly, however, that the
students can be trusted, to uphold the good name
of our college while away from the watchful eye
of the Faculty.
THE Editors feel called upon to offer some
apology and explanation for the lateness
with which this issue is published. The re
cent expedition to Gettysburg, coming at a time
when the LANCE is usually ready •for the press,
brought a break in the work and, on return to col
lege, such a sudden gathering up of duties, dropped
completely for a week, as to render impossible the
preparation of the matter in time .
AT the opening of the present college year, in
order that the college paper might keep
apace with the College itself in its rapid
strides toward the front, the management of the
FREE LANCE decided to increase the size of the
journal. Accordingly, as has no doubt been no
ticed by our readers, beginning with the October
issue, the paper was increased in size by four ad
ditional pages. This enlargement furnishes us
with better opportunities to publish . literary or in
deed any articles of interest that may be contribut
ed either by the Alumni, students or friends of the
college. In the past we have received few, if any,
contributions from the under-graduates. This
fact is to be regretted, for unless a college paper
furnishes a means for the publication of the writ•
ing of the students it loses one half its value as a
college journal. The fault here has been with the
college men and not the college paper that they
have been so slow to exercise their talents in a
literary line. We hope that the under-gradtiates
will realize this and aid in supporting the FREE
LANCE in all its departments.
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