The Free lance., June 01, 1902, Image 18

Carnegie, Schwab, White and a new era at State College. One
disadvantage of an institution supported by the State is that pri
vate individuals do not feel called upon to endow it ; then the State
often fails to provide adequate means of support, and the institu
tion is able to do but little of the work which lies before it. Such
has been the case with State College in the past. On every hand
the lack of money and facilities for carrying on the work has been
apparent, and many projects for the good of the college have been
abandoned because of this lack. Now, however, better things are
in store for our college. We are to have a new library building
from Mr. Carnegie, a new chapel from Mr. and Mrs. Schwab, and
aid for graduates and undergraduates from Mr. Gilbert White,
State, 'B2. The two gifts first mentioned will provide for two very
pressing needs, while the last will prove a perpetual incentive to
earnest, honest, manly scholarship. These are the direct benefits ;
but the benefits of these gifts to the college are still greater, in that
they will call the attention of other men of means and other
graduates to the needs of the college ; and we hope to see the day
when State College shall be richly endowed, as she truly deserves
to be.
Great credit is due Dr. Atherton for his share in this beginning
of a new era for State College.
Why are events at State not published by the daily papers ?
This is a question that has been asked more than once this year,
and is yet unanswered. Surely there is something of public in
terest here.
Athletics furnish the chief part of college news, and that at
least should be reported. Our athletics are of no mean order, but
an instance of the credit we get is the report of the Annapolis
game. State beats the "middies" and gets a very small part of
a column of print, but many lesser games are fully reported. The