organization and instilling new features, the new secretary is here largely for another purpose. He .is present at State College to show those who have intentions of giving the institution a social hall that the time is now ripe, that if they do so an organization thoroughly competent aiid equipped is ready to take charge of the building and see that its facilities.are not allowed to go to waste. Let those who have nothing else to do then cease their idle carpings on the uselessness of the new secretary, and endeavor to work with their hands in assisting the noble work, rather than using their tongues in tearing it down. C. H. BOMBERGER. —The Seniors of the course in Electrical Engineering took an irispectiori trip to Philadelphia going the week preceding the Christmas holidays. Among the places visited were the North American building, the Edison Electric Light plant, the Baldwin Locomotive Works, League Island Navy Yard, the Mt. Vernon Street R. R. plant and several of the large telephone exchanges of Philadelphia; the Roebling Wire Works of Trenton; the Sprague Electric Manufacturing Co., at Watsessing, N. J.; the Crocker Wheeler Electric Co. at Ampere, N. J.; the Manhattan Power plant, the Wall Street Stock Exchange and other interesting places of New York City. —G. V. Sborigi, ’O3, is at present making a map of Pennsyl vania for the St. Louis Exposition. The map is to illustrate the number of bushels of cereals raised in each county of the State during the past year. —The athletic men in the New Track House have formed an athletic fraternity, which is the first of its kind in the country. College Miscellany. MISCELLANY. ALEX. HART. H. AUNGST.
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