son, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has promised to de
liver the address. Two additional laboratories have been fitted up
for the department of electrical engineering, and a temporary frame
building has been erected for the foundry. Additional room for
the mining department has been found by rehabilitating the old
mechanic arts building, and eight instructors have been added to
the teaching force in the several departments.
—With the completion of the two new Babcock and Wilcox
boilers the college will be equipped for heat and power purposes
with a total boiler capacity of 950 H. P. of the following units:
One Heine Safety, 150 H. P. equipped with Rooney stoker; three
E. Keeler & Co. boilers, 80 H. P. each, one of which is equipped
with a Jones stoker; and the two Babcock and Wilcox boilers, 280
H. P., just being completed, both of which are to be equipped
with Jones stokers. A car of coal is consumed every twenty-four
hours.
—On Friday evening, December 4th, Beta Theta Pi fraternity
gave the largest and most successful dance in its history. About
twenty young ladies were in attendance from surrounding points,
such as Phillipsburg, Bellefonte and Lemont, and this, in con
junction with Fischler’s orchestra and beautiful decorations, made
the dance one long to be remembered. The patronesses were:
Mrs. George W. Atherton, Mrs. G. G. Pond, Miss J. H. Leete,
Mrs. M. W. Wadsworth, Mrs. F. L. Pattee, Miss Helen §nyder,
Mrs. A. H. Espenshade, and Miss Redifer.
—J. J. Markle, one of last year’s graduates in agriculture, now
Fellow in Agriculture, is conducting exhaustive experiments in
the sanitary conditions of milking.
—Mr. J. R. Woodcock comes among us as secretary of the local
~Y. M. C. A. This is the first time in the history of the Pennsyl
vania State College that anyone has been employed in this ca
pacity. Mr. Woodcock is a graduate of Princeton, 1899, and a
graduate of Drew Theological Seminary, 1902. He is very hope
ful of putting local Y. M.C. A. matters on the footing they' de-
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