’93* D. W. Gross, employed by the Clearfield,
Conemaugh and Western railroad visited the Col
lege during Debember.
’9l. N. H. Suloff is oh the Civil Engineer
Corps of the Altoona and Philipsburg connecting
railroad, and is at present stationed at Houtzdale.
’9l. C, M. Green visited the College recently
and was the guest of Professor Osmond. Mr.
Green is en route to Cleveland, Ohio, to accept a
position in the testing-laboratory of the Brush
Electric company.
’9l. J. W. Fields, until recently employed at
the experimental station, has accepted a position,
with Rob’t. L. Mervin & Co., New York. This
company is general agent for H. and E. Albert,
F. R. H. S., London, England, manufacturers of
fine fertilizers.
’9O. Professor R. L. Watts, of the University
of Tennessee and Horticulturist* of the Tennessee
Expertment Station, was lately married to Miss
Hattie Searle of that State. They left to make an
extended trip to Florida immediately after the
ceremony.
Ex-’9O. W. E. Stevenson of the Westinghouse
General Electric company, Pittsburg, Pa., is sta
stioned at the present time in Chicago, 111. He
will return to Pittsburg sometime during March.
'B6. H. J. Patterson, chief chemist of the
Experiment Station at the Maryland Agricultural
College, and his sister, Mrs. A. L. Miller, ’B5
spent two weeks with their parents in State Col
lege.
Miss H. A. McElwain, professor in history,
who was compelled to drop her work during the
latter part of last term on account of ill health,
has resumed her duties this session.
COLLEGE ORBIT.
Pennsylvania is preparing a university song
Vassar has challenged Bryn Mawr to ajoint de-
THE FREE LANCE.
Freshmen debating clubs have been formed at
Harvard and Yale.
On Thanksgiving 130 football matches were
held in the United States.
Seventy new members have been added to the
faculty of Brown University.
The fixed annual income of the University of
California is now $326,000.
Eleven of Harvard’s prominent athletes were
among those who received honors at commence-
There’s lots of religion in a beefsteak if you
give it to the right man at the right tim e.—Jerry
MeAu ley.
Yale has graduated 15,346 students since its
foundation in 1701, of which number 7,720 are
now living.
The University of Michigan graduated 730
students last year, the largest class ever graduated
from any college.— Ex.
The University of Pennsylvania has opened a
two-hour course in newspaper practice for Fresh
men and Sophomores.— Ex.
The University of California sends a team of
track and field men to compete in the inter-colle-
giate games next spring.— Ex.
A press club has been organized at Harvard.
It is composed of all the students connected in
any way with college or outside papers.
A prize of $5O, to be awarded annually for
three years, has been offered at the Johns Hop
kins University for excellence in oratory.
Prizes representing the income of $6,000 have
been offered to those who excel in the oratorical
exercises of the Senior class at Princeton.
Cornell will train two crews this year one light
eight to row in the Henly regatta in England,
and a heavy one to meet Pennsylvania.
Cornell has more fellowships than any other
university except Columbia. Two of these are
worth $6OO each, and the other twenty $5OO each.