THE FREE LANCE.
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THE FREE LANCE.
Published 71200h1y during the college year by the Students
of the Pennsylvania State College.
STAFF:
NELSON MCA. Loll), '92.
ASSOCIATE EDIT( IltS
C. 11. limn, '92.
R. NV. WII,I,IANISON, '93, Ex. C. It. KAY, 'O3, Loe
IL B. .MATTHRN, '93, Lit.
Bovu A. Mussim, 'O4, Per.
Business Manager, j. NI. BREWER, ' 94.
Assistant Manager, Roc;El BOWMAN, '94 •
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THE College has sustained, in the past year, a
most severe loss by the death of our Vice-
President—Professor McKee. Associated as he
had been with the institution for twenty-five years
through its varied eras of prosperity and depres
sion, a faithful and tireless worker for its own and
its students interests, his death has made vacant
a place which cannot well be filled. As the member
of the faculty who had been longest in the service
of the college he was without doubt the best
known of our professors among the altinmi and
STATE COLLEGE,
EDITOR,
A. C. Itn:.►u,
FL P. Dowi.Eß, 'O4, Lac
PA., JANUARY, .1891
old students, by whom he will always be remember
ed as a kindly teacher and a true friend. For the
students in the college to-day we can only say that
greatly we appreciate his high qualities and that
we mourne his loss.
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'"OW that we have made a good record in the
foot-ball league some steps thould be taken
by the Athletic Association towards enter
ing the Inter-Collegiate Athletic League of this
state, as there could be no better way of awaken
ing an interest in field contests. The in
dications are that in a short time we shall have a
well equipped gymnasium in charge of a regular
director, which will no doubt give great stimulus
to our athletics, but in the meantime we
have men in college who, with training and prac
tice, could most creditably represent us at inter
collegiate meetings. Let the college association
take steps at once toward entering the Inter-Colle
giate Association and then let the men who excel
in a few of the contested events be put into regu;
lar practice so that in the spring we will have a
few representatives to enter. Several-of the colleges
in the Association at present have a no larger num
ber of students than we, yet by continued work on
the part of their athletes and the hearty interest
on the part of the body of their students they
arc able to compete ably with the largest colleges
in the country. Why should we not do the same?
IN the long winter season that we have now en
teted upon the average college man, being
confined largely indoors, has many spare hours
which might be profitably spent in reading. The
great numbers of light trashy novels which .arc
thrown on the public to-clay makes us accessable
to a large amount of pleasant but useless reading
matter. It is with this class of literature that the