THE FREE LANCE.
Vol.. VII.
THE FREE LANCE.
Published monthly during the college year by the Students
of the Pennsylvania State College.
STAFF:
EDITOR,
IV. A. SILLTMAN,
ASSOCIATB EDITOIIS
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IN last month's LANCE there appeared a com
munication from an alumnus which should
recommend itself to the serious thought of
every student in the institution. It was a strong
and earnest plea for better representation, in the
newspapers of the State. With all apologies to
the present correspondents, it is nevertheless true
that we are not represented as we should be among
the greit dailies and accordingly among their cop
ies, the rural papers.
Up to within a few years years State College
STATE COLLEGE, PA., MAY, c 893
W. B. WAirm, '94
'was very little known outside of a radius of fifty
miles, and that unfavorably ; but through her foot
ball teams and "La Vies" of the lust few years,
and the recent handsome appropriations by which
the State Government has tardidly attempted to
make up for the long neglect of its duty to the in•
stitution, the college has been rapidly coming
more and more under the notice of the people of
the State, and a large part" of the old prejudice
against us has worn off.
We as students, should endeavor by every means,
to keep up this good work and to broaden and ex
tend its scope as much as possible. Even
waiving patriotism, it is to our own interests to
have the college figure more largely in the State
than it has heretofore.
The efforts many of the boys are now making
to turn out a winning track athletic team, and the
magnificent annual that '94 is getting out, which
by the way promises to be one of the finest col
lege annuals of the year, are strong factors in this
advance. A third, yet stronger, but one that has
been a great deal neglected is a wide representa
tion in the newspapers. Nothing increases the
popular esteem of a college so much as to see it in
frequent and favorable mention in the columns of
the dailies. It impresses the people with an idea
of its importance and magnitude to an extent that
no amount of reports and catalogues could. It is
therefore a great pity that we have among us rep
resentatives of only two papers, and one of these
not published in the State. We should have cor
respondents for all the great dailies, while an oc
casional letter to the smaller pipers of the interior
would not go amiss. We sholild let the world
know all about us, our athletic prospects, our class
rivalries, what our boys are accomplishing. We
should let them know how the fresh blood courses
through the veins of this vigorous young institu-
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