publishing - a monthly that will cast no discredit on the Col
lege, but with the encouragement of the receipt of news from
other persons gratuitously, it would add to the welcome of
the magazine and encourage a more determined effort to
work on the part of the editors. We might incidentally re
mark that the publication costs us about $6OO per year; and
since we are responsible for the payment of it, we earnestly
ask your financial support.
Among the most precious possessions of our College are
its collection of cups, class flags, pennants, and other trophies
that have been acquired through many years of hard work
on the part of our students. Many of these have been the
result of an untiring effort on the part of our athletic teams
to bring home a prize that would be highly cherished by
all friends of State. Is it not fitting - , then, that some means
be taken to find a permanent place for these valuable
articles? As they are now kept, scattered here and there
among different buildings, they are often unavailable when
wanted on some special occasion. Furthermore with no
regular place for their keeping, there is a liability that the
proper care will not be taken of them. If some means could
be taken to gather the trophies together aud place them in a
safe and conspicuous place, they would form an interesting
collection for our friends to look at when visiting the College.
The librarian has kindly offered to give room for a cabinet
to be placed in the library in which all could be collected and
thus be plainly seen by everybody. To put them in the
Armory or Engineering Building would, often necessitate
some trouble to obtain them on account of these places no,t
generally being open. It seems to me that the library would
be the proper as well as the safest place to keep them. We
hope that the persons who have charge of these possessions
will take the matter in hand and make an effort to provide a
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