LANCELETS
TANTALIZING
Ilor rosy clinoks aro pressed to mina,
llor gloaAntng 1131 r 1 103 on my shouttlo..,
nor nl'lll3 aro clAspod about my nook,
And yob my armi (to not enfold her,
itur throbbing heart beats loud an I fast,
Her wistful eyes are gently pleading,
Her blushing lips are pursed to kiss,
And yet my lips are all unheeding.
I coldly loose her (slinging arms,
And roughly front my side I shove her,
IL's amateur theatricals,
And 1 must play the tyrant lover.
THE DIRGE of YEARS
"Awful is the dirge of years,"—Bocchts
lear sadder than solemn anthems,
Par deeper than sighs or tears,
Far grander than ocean's thunder,
is the awful dirge of years.
The dirg,e of the lays deputed,
The song by tho ages sung,
Tho saga that lust was chanted,
When the earl!! and stars wore young
The struggles of men for duty,
The triumphs that follow strife,
The sullerlug, sorrow and sadness,
With which the years are rife,
Far sadder than solemn anthems,
Far deeper than sighs 01 tears,
Far grander than ooean's thunder,
Is the awful dirge of years,
—C. Newton in MiSULU Lit
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM
One star from all eternity has hung,
The porch light of God's house, to be a guide
To weary angels, speeding to his side
From ministry on earth ; and shines among
The lesser lights with glory that has sprung
From nearest to his presence, and the wide
White gates of Heaven, whore the hosts abide
Who chant his praise with undefli'd tongue,
But once, when wise men journied from afar
With gifts of gold and incense in their hands,
God left tile portals dark and sent his star
To guide their footsteps over desert sands,
To where, in stable, as the oxen are,
A little child lay wrapped iu swaddling bands.
Vassar Miseellany.
LANCE.
THE FRE
As we take up the many exchanges, that cover
our table, representing almost every sect and sec
tion in our land, we see reflected in them the
lifes of 83 many collegeln en almost as if they were
th representativ es of a single institution instead
of so many. Far example, at least a dozen of our
January exchanges have editorials commentin g
upon the benefits of inter-collegiate oratorical
contests, and so it goes, that which is of interest to
U 3 here at State College is the all absorbing topic
of interest to the students of our sister colleges.
—Brommian.
"Since Lehigh is no longer a free institution,
Leland Stanford is the only American coil ege in
which tuition is free in all its branc has." —Lehigh
Barr. Wrong. Pe.nnsylvania State College, has
and has always had free tuition.
The Franklin and Marshall Sfiedenl has . a
novel way of punishing those who advertise with
it and refuse to renew the same, by calling
the attention of the students to said firms and in•
forming them that those firm's no longer wish their
patronage.
The Student now has a column which it devotes
to its advertisers
IVe clip from the Swarthmore Phoenix what
seems too often to be especially applicable to the
students of our own College.
"We fear that carelessness and forgetfulness, too
often urged in extenuation of petty offences corn•
mitted by students, is again gaining an u pper hand
among a few of the yolnger undergraduates.
What we mainly allude to is the unnecessary and
annoying confusion in the halls and rooms almost
nightly. Music in its proper place and time is to
be encouraged, but the scratching on violins and
guitars at all hours of the evening within hearing
of a large number who desire •to work, although
probably possessing temporary enjoyment for a
few, is a source of constant annoyance to nine
tenths of our number."
12.XCIIANGE.F.