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The Adelphi Club will give - a' dance at the' University Inn on
oil the evening of• February 24.
The masquerade ball given annually for the benefit of the base
ball 'department will be held on' the evening . of the 25th.
Word has been received from Dr. Atherton saying that he is
in excellent health and will probably return to his work in two or
three weeks.
The annual Report of the Pennsylvania State College for the
year 1896 is completed and being rapidly distributed. These
reports are quite extensive, including reports of the Departments
of Instruction as well as of the Agricultural Experiment Station.
Owing to lack of attendance the young ladies' basket ball work
is to be discontinued. Two hours of the time previously given to
this will be devoted to base ball, and the remaining hour to
'Varsity basket ball.
Leader Dodge is getting the Mandolin Club in shape for a trip
during the spring vacation.
Mr. J. G. White, 'B2, of J. G. White & Co., has sent a very
handsomely bound volume of views taken along the transmission
line between Niagara Palls and Buffalo.
An effort is being made by the technical societies to have a
magazine published each term. This is certainly a good move
and will require a considerable amount of work from the upper
classm en .
The Thespians have about completed their arrangements for
the play, " The Rivals," which they expect to give here on Feb
ruary iyth and in Bellefonte on. the 21st. Much credit is due
Prof. Pattee and Mr. Leete for the aid and instruction they have
so kindly given.
The engineering reading room will be enlarged and remodeled.
It will be made to include the open space in front of Prof. Ihlseng's
Office. When this is done it would be a good thing for the students
if some of the departments would get new books and have them
placed' in the cases.
The Bellefonte Central Railroad Company again changed its
schedule, and trains now leave here at 8 o'clock in the morning
and 2' in the afternoon: and arrive at 11:30 in the forenoon and
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