The Free lance. (State College, Pa.) 1887-1904, June 01, 1903, Image 31

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    as a part of other publications in book form. On the roll of mem
bership appear the names of many writers who have gained dis
tinction through their contributions to the literature of the day,
and not the least among them is our own Prof. Fred. Lewis
Pattee, the author of the sweet story of Mary Garvin.
The twenty-nine members who have been elected to member
ship in the club hold degrees from thirty different colleges and
universities, as follows: Dartmouth, Wesleyan, Brown, Bowdoin,
Williams, Harvard, Amherst, Trinity, Colby, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Yale, Middlebury, Columbia, Cornell,
Colgate, the Pennsylvania State College, Lafayette, Allegheny,
Washington and Jefferson, Hanjpden and Sydney, Western,
Mount Union, De Pauw, Leland Stanford Junior, University of
Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Missouri, Uni
versity of Wisconsin, McGill, Goettingen and Munich.
The present and active membership of the club comprises
Messrs. G. 1. Brown, Butz, Espenshade, I. L. Foster, Frizzell, Gill,
Osmond, Pattee, Powell, Runkle, Shed, Wadsworth and Willard.
—Mr. Howard R. Clark, formerly of the class of 1903, is
transitman on the survey for an international railroad bridge
.across the Detroit river at Detroit, Michigan.
The river is 3,000 to 4,000 feet wide and 90 to 100 feet deep,
and at present all railroad traffic is taken across the river by
means of ferries. Mr. Clark intends to return to the college next
year for the purpose of completing his course.
—Dr. and Mrs. Wadsworth entertained the Senior Miners at
a dinner party at their home on Saturday evening.
—Professor Surface gave a very interesting lecture before the
Natural History Club Thursday' evening on “The Enemies and
Diseases of Grapes and the Proposed Methods for Practical
Work in Erie County.”
—The results of the balloting for officers of the Athletic Asso
ciation are as follows: President, Barnes; Treasurer, F, J. Pond;
Foot Ball Marshal, Waller; Foot Ball Directors, R. Wray, R.
College Miscellany.