called the meeting to order, spoke words of greeting to the old
men and welcome to the new. After the tables had been cleared
the following toasts were responded : "The College," Jno. S.
Weller, '9B, lawyer of the Pittsburg Courts ; "The Athletic Asso
ciation," J. P. Jackson, 'B9, Professor of Electrical Engineering
the Pennsylvania State College ; "The Engineer," Geo. C. Clarke ;
"State in Business," James E. Quigley, '94, with the Armstrong
Cork Co. ; "The Alumni Association," William L. Affelder, '99,
Superintendent of the Mosgrove Coal Works, and n'he Medi
cine Man," by Dr. Henry T. Price, '96.
This organization of Pennsylvania State College Alumni is
composed of the following officers, together with some seventy
State men in the vicinity of Pittsburg : Lawyer, Walton H.
Mitchell, '9o, President; Thomas A. 'Gilkey, '9l, civil engineer
with the American Bridge Co., Vicp-President ; Rob't. M. Mc-
Kinley, '97, mechanical engineer with the American Bridge Co.,
Secretary nd Treasurer ; John S. Weller, 'B9 ; Chas. E. Aull,
'92, Treasurer of the Iron City Lumber Co. ; David S. Patterson,
Jr., '95, city editor Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph, and Samuel
T. Herr, '95, with Heyl and Patterson, compose the executive
committee.
—Mr. E. H. Lehman, of Colorado, Class of 'O2 of Yale, has
been granted the first Cecil Rhodes scholarship. This scholar
ship entitles the holder to any course at Oxford.
—Cornell has been undergoing a scourge of typhoid fever.
Twenty students have died and many of the students have gone
home. The germs of the disease have been traced to the water
supply. The State Board of Health is aiding the school authori
ties in their efforts to stamp out the disease.
COLLEGE ORBIT.
0. C. HAYS.