College has recently had from the Legislature a
magnificent appropriation foran engineering build
ing, which is now under process of construction,
and it is expected that it will be equipped equal to
the best in the State. Everything thus seems to de
mand that the Engineering society shall be
kept up.
There is no occasion for reciting here the ad
vantages to be gained by the members of technical
societies, for they are well known to all who should
be interested in them. All technical institutions
of note have these societies, supported and carried
on by their students ; and we cannot see how the
P. S. C. with her rapidly increasing facilities for
instruction and research, and the splendid showing
she has recently made in athletics, can afford at
this time to drop a system of training so essential to
enable her to keep pace with other colleges and
with her former self. Very truly,
MR. EDITOR
It is high time that the students get to work
and put a little of their dormant energy into mak
ing the winter athletic meeting a success. From
present indications it will be anything but a fair
exhibition of our proficiency in athletic sports,
for as yet hardly a man is training regularly for the
contests, and but a very few entries have been
handed to the committee. The fact that the ladies
have the use of the gymnasium during the only
hours of the week when a man can practice to
any advantage is, of course, a great inconvenience
yet that trouble could easily be done away with, if
the students would only make known their desire
to have the use of the armory at those times. I
am afraid that there is a tendency on the part of
many of the men not to enter the events because
the previous records show that there are men in
college who might beat them in the contests.
This is a sad mistake. No man can expect to
become a sprinter or ajumper without hard work
or practice, and without being often compelled to
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be satisfied with second or third place before he
finally wins a first. If our college men look at
matters in this light, it will be sure death to our
hopes of athletic excellence in the future. We at
last, have a trainer and that, no doubt, n ill be
a great aid and now let us get to work
and on the occasion of our winter sports show that
we have the vim and the material to mike a good
record for ourselves..
MR, EDITOR
Though yet a little early in the season, it might
be well if the Athletic Association would take
some steps toward having a proper number of good
tennis courts gotten into condition for use in the
spring. Last year we had positively not one court
fit to play upan. This year, if same decided ac
tion is not taken by the
. students, we will have the
same state of affairs. I hear that the College con
templates laying out a row of courts back of the
Physical Laboratory. No doubt this will be done
in time, but we question whether, with the large
amount of building to be done this year, they
will be ready for use next term. The ten
nis players have always received but little aid
from the association. This should not be. We
need some good courts for the general use of the
students and if the Athletic Association does not
push the matter we will be compelled to content
ourselves with the two rough affairs that we had
last year. J. L.
W. M. C. '9l.
Ex-'94. P. P. Sturdevant was in State College
on Jan. 27th and 28th. He was looking after the
interests of the Wilkesbarre contractor, who is to
put up the new Machine Hall.
FA-'92. Thomas Strouse, who is employed in
Baltimore, Md., visited the College recently,
Ex '95. J. B. Keifer, has returned to his home
in Hagerstown, Md., to accept a position in a bank.
PERSONALS.