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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.