time in reading law with Thos. Learning, Esq.,
at 420 Walnut street, Philadelphia.
’B9. Robt. P. Swank, although prepared last
January to enter the Schuylkill County Bar, has
been compelled to wait until next January on ac
count of the very stringent rules governing ad
mission to the same.
’B9. J. S. Weller, lately admitted to the Bed
ford County Bar, has been chosen chairman of
the Republican Executive Committee of Bedford
county.
'B9. H. D. Miles, formerly with the Western
Union Switch and Signal Company, Chicago, re
signed his position there last February to accept
a more promising one as signal engineer for the
Michigan Central Railway, a road sixteen hund
red miles in length.
’B5. Miss Blanche Patterson, who has been
pursuing her studies during the present college
year at Harvard Annex, Boston, expects to re
turn home about June Ist.
’B5. C. C. Chesney has just lately sent to the
Electrical Engineering Department, one of the
new Stanley converters. Mr. Chesney always re
members his alma mater and takes a great interest
in her welfare.
'B2. J. G. White has just lately returned to
New York after a three weeks visit to New Or
leans on busines, having secured while there, the
contract for one of the largest electric street rail
ways in the city.
’B2. On Saturday, April 16th, at 1 o’clock,
Mrs. McCreary, wife of Irwin P. McCreary, died
at her home at Osceola Mills, Pa. Mrs. Mc-
Creary, nee Miss Alma Hoffer, was a former stu
dent of this institution and her sudden death has
caused sincere mourning throughout the wide
circle of her many friends. Mr. McCreary has our
heartfelt sympathies.
’7B. Frank Knoche, formerly a music dealer
at 22 South Second street, Harrisburg, has lately
moved into a larger and better fitted establish-
THE FREE LANCE.
ment in the same line at North Market
Square.
Mr. T. R. Beyer, instructor in civil engineer
ing, has been very sick for several weeks with a
severe attack of rheumatism. Mr. Beyer has been
missed very much in his department and other
college relations.
Mr. F. E. Tuttle, instructor in Mineralogy and
Chemistry, leaves June Bth, on the steamer
Teutonic, for Gottigen, where he intends to take a
course of one year in chemistry and mineralogy.
After completing his studies abroad, he will return
and accept a chair of mineralogy at this insti
tution.
There are 190 college papers in the United
The youngest State University is that of Mon
tana, founded in 1884.
Princeton has $90,000 of endowed scholarships,
and about forty prizes.
Six hundred and seventy-five base ball season
tickets have been sold at Harvard.
The Faculty of Princeton has proposed to make
Wednesday a half holiday for Athletics.
Williams, Dartmouth, and Columbia, have dis
pensed with Commencement Exercises.
Heffelfinger has left Yale to enter the service of
the Union Pacific Railroad as a civil engineer.
Hamilton college has adopted a new plan, by
having Monday as a holiday instead of Saturday.
England, with ninety-four universities, has 2723
more professors and 51,814 more students than
have the three hundred and sixty universities in
the United States.
The faculty of Boston University has voted to
permit work on the college paper to count as curri
culum work, allowing seven hours per week to the
managing editor and two hours to each assistant.
COLLEGE ORBIT.