league, and while we are in let us get all out of it that we possi
bly can. Let us make up our minds to be at the top of the heap
next year, and we will be there, too, if the men who cm debate
will only turn out and take an interest. Let this year mark a
new era in debating affairs at State, just as it has marked a new
beginning in almost every other department.
C. H. BOMBERGER.
—Within the last few years the Pennsylvania State College has
grown so rapidly as to become the sixth or seventh in the United
States in the number of its engineering students. The Freshman
class just entered numbers upwards of 280, of whom 227 are in
engineering courses: 6in mining engineering, 52 in mechanical
engineering, 71 in civil engineering, and 98 in electrical engineer
ing. The total number in attendance is about 650, and the increase
has been so large and so rapid as to tax the accommodations of
the college to the utmost. The erection of a e temporary dormitory,
capable of accommodating 40 students, relieved the congestion at
the opening of the session, and the completion of a track and club
house, now under way, with rooms for 35 students, will insure
comfortable provision for the remainder of the present year. The
probability is, however, that additional temporary dormitories will
have to be erected before the opening of the next college year, and,
fortunately, the ample grounds, with a large plant fov furnishing
steam heat and electric light, will make such quarters entirely com
tortable and attractive.
—The Library, for which Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given
$150,000, is well under way, and is to be dedicated next, spring.
—The dairy wing of the agricultural building, for which the
last. Legislature apropriated $lOO,OOO, is still further advanced,
and is to be dedicated early in January, 1904, when Secretary Wil-
MISCELLANY.
ALEX. HART.
R. H. H. AUNGST.