rooms must be unfit to live in during a great por
tion of the day. It must also be noticed that
there are many things besides exhalation which
tend to make air unfit to breathe, particularly
imperfect removal of coal gases. Analysis would
quickly show how bad is the air in many living
rooms. But, as a quantitative analysis can not al
ways be made, and would be costly, the occupants
can make for themselves a qualitative analysis
which will be in most cases all that is necessary.—
Leave the room ; go out into the fresh air for a few
minutes, and return. The effect upon the sub
mucous tissue of the olfactory region will be quite
evident, often, to those who were not aware that
they knew any chemistry. (Patent applied for).
Why will people from the neglect of plainest
precaution, or sheer lazinesss, rob themselves of
health of body, and vigor of mind, by allowing the
air of their apartments to become fetid,—putres
cent!
Fresh air, like any valuable thing, cannot be se
cured without effort. Buildings are not so perfect
that apartments air themselves automatically. But
fresh air the student must have. Fresh air gave
the Greek zest for the Olympian games,—made the
Indian as swift as any who ever ran on Grecian sands.
And fresh air will at least help to give the zest
genius and of the Greek coupled with the muscles
of the Indian. We want the combination'of both.
THE 22nd day of February, 1893, must be re
verted to for all future time as one of the
greatest, if not the greatest day, in the his
tory of the Pennsylvania State College.
At first thought one remembers its brilliant ora
tory,—the utterances of that grand galaxy, Bea
ver, Pattison, Walker, Noble, which are still ring
ing in the mind, almoSt to the exclusion of the fact
which called them forth.—Those splendid pres
ences, and . those matchless orations are
a memory to be treasured for life, but the
new building for civil, mechanical, and mining
engineering, built to stand the wear of centuries,
THE FREE LANCE.
and with "2 acres" of working room, is a fact
in our midst which we pass by every day. Two
years ago its site was occupied by an orchard.
Pennsylvania State College is forging ahead.
THE Pennsylvania Mines and Mining exhibit
at the World's Fair, now b e ing arranged i n
the Mineralogy room by Prof. Romyn
Hitchcock, of the Smithsonian Institute, promises to
be the most scientific, and valuable of its kind to
be seen at Chicago.
The primary object is to pre: ent such an exhibi
tion of the raw materials of the State as can be con
veniently and intelligently studied. It will show
a complete collection of our building and orna
mental stones. The production of coal and oil,
and the hundreds of bye products derived from
them, will be illustrated. Our various ores will be
shown, and their metallurgy explained. . Every
thing will be accompanied by the necessary analy
ses. Pennsylvania will give visitors to the Fair a
splendid opportmity to study rapidly for a gener
al idea, or at leisure systematically and thor
oughly, her natural resources, and their devel
opment. For instance, the manufacture of glass
will be shown by placing side by side various speci
mens of finished glass, glasses in different stages of
manufacture, and the raw materials, the lime, pot
ash, and silica which compose them, proportions and
analyses being given to show how various metallic
oxides occurring in the main constituents as impur
ities (or added) produce different kinds of glass.
The LANCE can promise its, readers a detailed
account of what will certainly be an invaluable
exhibit, in the April number.
THE editor asks leave to print the following
communication :
A member of the Fn LANCE staff is supposed to be a
man of ready ability, and one who can and will, if necessary
sacrifice his own time for the good of the LANCE: yet how
often is he so lazy and indifferent that all the work is left
to one or two men; and,as they cannot do it as it should be
done, the standing of our paper suffers in consequence. Ile
may excuse himself by saying that be gets nothing for his