T HE FREE LANCE enters the New Year under a slightly
changed staff, due to the resignation of G. J. Yundt, '99,
editor-in-chief. W. L. Affelder, '99, has been appointed
acting editor-in-chief ; W. H. Thomson, '99, has been elected an
associate editor; D. E. Wentzel, 'oo, has been appointed business
manager; and C. E. Denny, 'oo, assistant manager.
THE following rating of the Eastern college foot ball teams—
Harvard, Princeton, Univ. of Penn'a, Yale, Cornell, Wes-
leyan, Brown, State, Dartmouth, and Williams—Wch was
published in the Dec. 22 number of Leslie's Weekly, verifies our
claim to the State inter-collegiate championship, for of the ten there
is but one Pennsylvania team other than our own—that of the
Univ. of Penn'a, which being classed as one of the " Big Four,"
is not classed with the intercollegiate association. In the Dec.
17 number of Harper's Weekly, Caspar Whitney said: " Dart
mouth, Illinois, Univ. of Cincinnati, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania
State appear to be pretty much of a class notwithstanding some
discrepancies in scores. I should be inclined to place Illinois at
the head of this group. Pennsylvania State made an excellent
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record."
We did indeed make an excellent record, but this fact alone is
by no means an assurance that we will do so again next year.
Since •the foot ball season closed, our prospect of having equal
success next fall has rapidly grown more and more dim. Three
of the Varsity squad did not return to college this session, three
will be graduated next June, 'and there is a possibility of several
others not being here next year. Although the present outlook is
not very encouraging, there is an efficient remedy which, if its
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