girder, on the Moshannon creek. He is mak
mg progress in recovery
-Mr. Geo. Baldwin, formerly of London,
Eng., but whl now occupies a position as .florist
at the college, was married to Miss Minnie
Neidigh, of State College, Feb. 9th, at io a. m.
—Gen. James A. Beaver, Hon. John Wood
ward, Capt Roberts, and S. R. Downing, cal.,
visited the college about a fort night since, and
completed the arrangements for the extension of
the Bellefonte Central R. R., to the College,
which will be ready to accommodate our people
in a short time.
On Monday, Feb. 29th, Mrs. Barnard, wife of
Prof. LOuis Barnard, head of the engineering de•
partment of the College, died at her home on the
college campus. The funeral took place on
Wednesday afternoon, March 2nd, at the ceme
tery of the Branch church. The services were
held at Prof. Barnard's residence and were attend
ed only by the near friends of the family and by
the members of the faculty, all college exercises
having been suspended after x 2 o'clock on that
day. The death of Mrs. Barnard has caused a
widespread feeling of regret in the college
community with which she had for so many years
been associated.
COLLEGE alear-r.
The average expenses of the Yale class of '9l
was sx,ooo yearly.
The Harvard Annex has an attendance of 215
students this year
Princeton has 980 students, an increase ofnear•-
ly ioo per cent, since 1885
The income which supports Stanford Universi
ty is derived from the vineyard.
Of the $7,000,000 and over of the property of
Harvard University, $3,000,000 is invested in
Boston real estate
THE FREE LANCE.
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Intercollegiate chess matches by correspond
ence are being held between Yale and Harvard,
and Yale and Princeton.
Mr. Edison has applied for one•seventh of all
the available space in the Electrical building for
the Columbian Exposit ion.—.E.v.
The alumni of Dartmouth has agreed' to make
an athletic field, rebuild the gymnasium, and aid
in the support of all athletic teams, if the faculty
will allow them to have control in athletic matters,
A new Harvard song book has just been issued
by Oliver Ditson Co. It contains 35 songs,
among which will be found nearly all the most
popular of those sung by the Glee Club in the
last three years.
The American Protective Tariff League offers
for the best essays on the subject, "Has the New
Tariff Law proved beneficial ?" by college seniors,
three prizes of $l5O, poo, and sso, besides a
number of medals.
Funds to the amount of $t,200,000, yielding
an annual income of $70,000 are held in trust for
the benefit of deserving students at Harvard, This
money is all distributed in fellowships, scholar
ships, and beneficiary money.
The University of Michigan base ball team will
make an eastern trip during the coming season.
Among their dates are University of Pennsyl
vania, May 21; Princeton, May 25 ; Harvard,
May 3o; and Yale, June I. They will also play
Johns Hopkins, Lafayette, Fordham, Wesleyan,
Brown, Hamilton, and Cornell.
Columbia has the refusal of a twenty acre tract
of land in New York City between z 16th and
rzoth streets, It is richly wooded, lies one square
from Riverside Park near Grant's Tomb, and is in
the immediate neighborhood of the new Episco
pal Cathedral site. If the $2,000,000 necessary to
its purchase can be raised, Columbia will have one
of the largest and finest locations of Eastern
colleges.