'93. J. G. Walsh is now practicing his profes sion at Wayne, Delaware Co., Pa. '93. E. P. Butts, during the past year an assist ant in the Civil Engineering Dept., has gone on a visit to Massachusetts. Ex•'96. L. S. Johnson is filling a lucrative po sition with one of Philadelphia's leading tea coin- games '92. M. S. McDowell lifter spending a pleasant visit during vacation week with his fraternity men returned to Baltimore to resume his work. '9l. D. M. Taylor is stationed at Toledo, Ohio, as draftsman for the Pennsylvania Railroad. 'u'. C. M. Green is now located with the Ells worth Electric Co., Me. He holds the position of Assistant Treasurer, and is not the secretary and manager as misstated in a former edition. '9o. H. R. Leyden attended the Senior's Spring Assemby. '9o. J. C. Mock is located in Boston with the Union Switch and Signal Co. '9o. Gilbert A. Beaver assisted John R. Mott in conducting the State Convention of College Young Men's Christian Associations held at this place from April i9th to 23rd. 'B7. W. F. White is employed by the General Electric Co., at Chicago, 111. '6B. T. B. Comstock is at present Chancellor at the University of Arizona. COLLEGE ORBIT. Of the three thousand students enrolled at the Univerity of Berlin, eight hundred are Americans. The University of Michigan sent out a class of 731 last year, the largest ever graduated from an American University. Examinations, if a student makes a certain term grade, say 8o to 90 per cent, are worse than use less. May the time soon come when Old State in her rapid growth will reach this point of ad vancement. THE FREE LANCE. I wrote a letter to my "best." Alas I it was a shame, I sent a copy to the rest And only changed the n tine. The first college paper was published at Dart mouth in the year 'Soo, with amiel Webster • ai editor. It was called the Gazette. There were sold in one year in the college town of New Haven 25,000,000 cigarettes. IT , wonder how many fools they put to sleep forever "Cornell has abolished examinations." This is the sentence at the head of the department called "College World' in the Holead of West - minister. It deserves to be published in every college periodical. The Inter-collegiate Young Men's. Christian Association, started at Princeton sixteen years ago, has now a membership of 30,000 from 450 American and Canadian colleges, and also has its agents 'promoting the work among the col leges of Europe and Asia. A Georgia editor, in a fit of desperation, dashed off the following: "The wind bloweth, the water floweth, the farmer soweth and the subscriber oweth, and the Lord knoweth we are in need of our dues, so come a runnin' ere we go a gunnin' ; this thing of dunnin' gives us the blues."—Ex. The Editors and Business Manager of the FREE LANCE say so too. (Ex. Ed.) The Hampden-Sidney Magazine says in its ex change: "We regret to see an editorial lament ing the decline of the literary societies. The plague seems to be spreading north and south, east and west, from the accounts of our exchan ges." We are very sorry to say that the plague has reached State College and if the literary so cieties do not take a brace in two more years we will be lamenting their death, COLLEGE CORRESPONDENCE. Four cribs in his pocket and three on his miff, Some formulas, rules and other small stuff Tucked up his sleeves with the stolen test, A text book buttoned beneath his vest And bookish chum near to assist him, Behold the effects of the ranking system.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers