Ex-’94- P. P. Sturdevant has returned to State College to look after some work now being done on the new Mechanical Building, and expects to r emain here until next January. Ex-’93. M. E. Benson was married to Miss A. E, Metzger of Philadelphia on Wednesday even ing, November 2nd, in that city. A notable feature of the wedding was that the ushers were alumni of this college. Among them were J. F- Shields ’92, G. S. Demming ’9O, Lintz ’92, and Elliot Ex-’94 as best man. A large reception was tendered to their many friends, after which the couple left on a late train for Florida. ’92. M. S. McDowell paid a short visit to the college and his friends here during the first part of the month. ’92. J. N. Stephenson has accepted a very lu crative position as civil engineer in the employ of the Spokane Falls and Northern R. R. Company. The office of the company is at Spokane Falls, Wash. ’9l. Hugh Hamilton is situated at Pittsfield, Mass., where he is designing paper mill machinery, and is not with the Stanley Electric Company as was announced in our last issue. He has formed a partnership with Mr. Maloney as Consulting and Manufacturing Electric Engineer, 21 North Water St., Rochester, N. Y. M. W. Bohn formerly connected with this insti. tution is at present managing the branch of the Union Mining and Roofing Company at Norfolk, Ya. ’BB. J. C. Hickman has recently been appointed agriculturist at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, situated at Wooster, Ohio. ’BB. Geo. M. Downing, late assistant in physics at the college, is studying for the degree of Elec trical Engineer in the Brooklyn Institute of Tech nology, and hopes to accomplish his purpose by one year of hard study, the laboratory being very well equipped with apparatus, and an active man at the head of the department. Mr. Downing’s address is 444 Herkimer St,, Brooklyn, N. Y. THE FREE LANCE. ’B3.W. E. Gray, the prominent attorney at law in Bellefonte is rejoicing over the addition to his family of a fine,baby boy. AVe offer our congrat ulations to Mr. Gray. ’B3. Rev. W. C. Calder leit his home to go to California about the first of October, intending to spend a little while there talking on his work. He also made a short visit with his brother-in-law, Prof. Heston, formerly the head of the preparato ry department here, and who is now residing at Seattle, Wash., after which he left for his mission* ary work in Burma, Forty men have tried for the Mandolin Club at Princeton Eleven Presidents of the United States were col- ege graduates, Wellesley opened with 720 students and not 479 as was stated in our last issue. The senior class of Cornell is to build an athlet ic club-house as a memorial. The total enrollment of students in all the de partments at the U. of P. is now 1,950. Wesleyan is to have a $75,000 gymnasium; work upon which will commence shortly. Two Chinese ladies have entered the medical department of the University of Michigan. Of the three thousand students enrolled at the University of Berlin, eight hundred are Atneri- It is said that Senator Stanford has made his will leaving $ 120,000,000 to the Stanford Univer- At John Hopkins an examination in gymnastics is required of the under graduates before a degree is conferred. The best endowed college in this country is Co lumbia, with $9,000,000; Harvard is second with a fund of $8,000,000, COLLEGE ORBIT
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