- the Experiment Station, on the eastern portion of the College
Farm for the purpose of taking pictures of the different plots.
D. E. Carpenter, '99, was in Harrisburg the fore part of April,
taking a special civil service examination, and has secured the
position of Superintendant of the Electric Light and Power Plant
.at the Huntingdon Reformatory.
W. B. Dawson is in the employ of the Wagner Electric Com
pany, of St. Louis, Mo. This is one of the largest transformer
manufacturing companies in the United States.
• Messrs. Gorr and Griffin, who are writing a thesis upon the
application of electricity to mining, have included with that work
the improvement of the College Experimental . Electric Railway
Plant. They are at present engaged in putting in a large variety
of the standard forms of railway bonds, and in resetting the over
head line work.
The following officers of the Electrical Engineering Society
have been elected for the present session:—Pres., W. T. Griffin;
Vice Pres., D. S. Morgan, J. McKinley; Secretary, D. H. Plank;
.Executive Committee, Prof. Thompson, Hoover and Guy.
Prof. Griffin left May 8 to attend the meeting of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineering in Washington from May 9th
•to 12th inclusive.
Stone '99, was at Altoona the forepart of this month making a
test of the plant of the Penn'a Ice Company (Limited), in con
nection with his thesis work. '
In connection with thesis work of Snyder, '99, the Mechan
ical Department is building an air accumulator, the castings for
which have to stand a pressure up to 2000 pounds per square
The Mechanical Department has received several large photo
graphs of the large guns made by The Morgan Engineering Com
pany.
The prizes in Dairy School last session, were awarded to B. R.
Van Hoesen of Penn Line, and Chas. Walter of Russel Hill.
'The dairy prize offered by Dr. Thomas Turnbull for Short Course
in Agriculture was won by Walter Cuthbert of Phila.
Of a small herd recently bought by the College, two were dis
,covered to have tuberculosis and had to be killed.