The board of trustees met in Harrisburg on January 26th, 1892, and shortened the college year from 38 to 36 weeks. —Miss Jennie Willard, instructor in music, whose position during her absence last fall was filled by Miss Wyman, '95, has returned to her college duties. —J. P. Aikens '94, has left college and in co operation with Mr. John Krumrine of the village has bought out the mercantile establishment of M. D. Snyder. —The first drill under the new tactics, took place on Monday, January Itth. There are quite a number of changes, and many improvements over the old movements. —The latest report of the college is just out. On account of the great amount of work at the state printers the publication of these reports has been delayed somewhat. A "conundrum banquet" was held at the resi dence of Mr. W. C. Patterson, on Friday evening, January 22nd, for the benefit of the Epworth league. It was something new and quite a success. —The outside work on the new residences in the college grove has been completed. The houses, which are to be occupied by Professors keber and Pemberton, are of modern style and present a very pretty appearance. —So far the gymnasium has not been opened, and simply because of the fact that the different classes have not all elected their marshals. This should be attended to at once, for it is not fair that all should be kept from the gymnasium just because of the negligence of a few. —A Westinghouse alternating current incan descent dynamo, with some transformers, has been obtained' for the electrical engineering depart ment. The Department and the College are greatly indebted to the generosity of the West inghouse company for their very valuable addi tion to the electrical labratory. E LAN CE. THE FR Lieutenant Wolf gave a whist party, for his friends, on Saturday evening, January 23rd. —Mr. H. J. Waters, of the University of Mis siuri, has been appointed professor of agriculture and agricultural chemist of the Experiment Sta tion in place of Professor Hunt, resigned. Mr. Waters is a graduate of the University of Missouri and has been engaged for several years in these lines of work. On Saturday evening, January i6th, Gen. Dan iel H. Hastings, of Bellefonte, delivered a lecture on the Johnstown flood, in the college chapel, for the benefit of the Ladies' Aid society. The lecture, which was interesting and enjoyable throughout, was fairly well attended on the part of the students. —At a recent meeting of the athletic associa tion a committee of five was appointed to arrange for a series of entertainments for the ensuing term, with a view to defraying the expenses incurred during the foot ball season. A committee of three was appointed for the purpose of revising the constitution of the association. —During the recent vacation large electric bells, have been put up in the halls, which ring at each hour ; also smaller bells have been put up in the several recitation rooms which ring five min utes before and five minutes after the larger bells in the hall. The latter are a great convenience to the professors as they denote the time to begin and time to close the recitation. —At a meeting of the Athletic asscciation on Monday January i ith, J. Frank Shields was unan imously chosen president of the Pennsylvania In. ter-Collegate Football association and at the same meeting the following officers were elected for the College Athletic association President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Marshal, Williamson, '93. Matter!), '94. Cartwright, '95. . Shields, '92. Belt, '94,
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