The Ladies' Schubert Quartette will give • a
concert on March loth, and J. J. Pinkerton will de
liver a lecture on ''Alexander Ham i Iton" some time
in April. The last entertainment of the course has
not been decided upon. Tickets for the remain
ing four numbers of the course are $1.50, and may
be procured from J. E. Quigley, FREE LANCE man
ager.
—At a meeting of the Athletic association on
Wed., evening, Jan. nth. The following men
were elected member of the respective committees.
Committee on foot ball for year '93, C. W. Bur
kett, H. P. DJwler, F. K. Mattern, McCaskey,
and Kinser Committee on base ball, C. H. Ath
erton, W. A. Stewart, C. R. Fay, IV. W. Green
land Jr., and F. K. Mattern- Kinser was elected
a member of the general athletic committee in
place of Suter who did not return to college.
---An athletic benefit exhibition will be given
in the opera house, at Bellefonte, on Saturday even
ing, March 18th, by the P. S. C., athletic associa
tion. The program will consist of parallel and
bar exercises, tumbling, and pyramid work. To
add to the interest of the evening, wrestling bouts
will be given between two or three amateurs and
ex-champions, Trainer Hoskins and students. The
college orchestra, and the Glee and Banjo club will
furnish music for the occasion.
—Five hundred fifty square feet have been as
signed to the Pennsylvania State College for its ex
hibit at the World's Fair. While not as much as
could have been used, this space will give the col.
lege an opportunity to show some of the feat
ures which mark its organization and scope. The
preparation of material in the several departments
is being pushed, and the entire exhibit will be ready
for shipment early in April. The official photog
rapher for the college will return soon to complete
the interior views, reserving the Engineering
building until the latest possible time.
Among other interesting and significant facts
in the President's report to the Board of Trustees
of the college for the year 1892 is the following,—
Ti-1E FREE LANCE.
"Within the past ten years the teaching force has
been incresaed from i 7 to 3o ; the number of stu
dents from 92 to 249 j and the number of counties
represented from 22 to 42. The most striking in
crease has been in the college classes, where it
amounts to over 330 per cent. Besides the repre
sent„tion from Pennsylvania, a few students have
been present each year from other states of the
union, and from foreign countries, ranging in num
ber from 3 to 19."
—The annnal mid-winter Athletic Contest will
take place in the armory on the evening of Feb.
23d. The prizes for the principal events are small
silver cups engraved with the letters P. S. C. A. A.,
and the date. These prizes are offered to the win
ners ofthe following events : running high jump,
standing broad jump, standinsg high jump, 3o yards
dash, 440 yards dash, Y, mile run, i mile run,
mile walk, putting i 2 lb. shot, putting i 6 lb. shot,
pole vault. Prizes will also be given in the
three legged, obstacle, and potato races. An•ex
hibition of wrestling and of exercises on the ring
will also be given•
—The following books have lately been added
to the library : Hempel's Gasanalytische Metho
den, Johnston's Representative American Ora
tions, Adams' Representative British Orations,
Walter's Shakespeare's True Life, Lounsbury's
History of the English Language, Say & Chailley's
Nouveau Dictionnaire d'e'conomie politique.
Prof. W. C. Thayer has donated the following
works; Landois, Imaginary Conversations, Cam
oen's I. I,usiadi, Arnold,—Passages from the Prose
Writing of Plato's Gorgiacs, Xenophen's Hellen
ica, books V. and VIII. At present there are
8000 volumes in the library.
—'l'he second entertainment of the FREE LANCE
course will be given Feb. 15th, by Edward P. El
liot, an impersonator of wide repute, who is ac
knowledged to be one of the foremost artists in
his line. His entertainment, which embraces hu
morous and pathetic impersonations, and short
one act comedies, will be one of the novelties, of