scheduled for November ioth. Meetings are held Tuesdays, twice
a month.
—The Mechanical Engineering Society organized Thursday
evening, October 22d. The following officers were elected: Presi
dent, Arbuthnot; Secretary-Treasurer, Beck; Executive Commit
tee, Prof. Hunter, Lightcap, Dorworth, Ray, and Bausman. The
.Society expects to hold meetings semi-monthly.
—Prof. Reber, Dean of the School of Engineering, is to have
charge of the Mines and Mining Department of the Pennsylvania
exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition.
—Capt. Lawton’s lately organized class in Spanish is quite well
attended.
—On Wednesday, October 14th, the senior electricals took their
trip to Bellefonte, taking advantage of the reduced rates over the
Bellefonte Central, owing to the Center County Fair at Bellefonte
then in progress. They had quite a profitable trip, paying a visit
in turn to the Colville furnace, the match factor}'-, the electric light
plant and both of the telephone exchanges. They met and shook
hands with Mr. Arney, who was one of the popular assistants in
the electrical department here for the past few years, and who is
now superintendent of the Bellefonte electric light and power
plant. In the afternoon everybody went to the races. Some of
them seem to have gotten lost, for they did not turn up until the
next fnorning.
—On Friday night, October 16th, the junior electricals gave
their senior brothers a feed at the restaurant. Everybody had a
fine time. It has now become a well-established custom for the
junior electricals to give a banquet to the senior electricals im
mediately after the juniors have been initiated into the electrical
engineering society.
—The senior electricals expect to take their trip the week pre
ceding the Christmas vacation. The tour is to include Phila
delphia, New York and vicinities.