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,