—Mr. E. B. Harden, of Philadelphia, of the Department of In ternal Affairs, Harrisburg, is at present busy in the Mechanical Museum making geological relief maps of Pennsylvania and re modelling old ones for the St. Louis Exposition. He is the maker of the large relief map of the State to be seen inside of the front entrance of the main building. —On Saturday evening, January 30, Rev. Dr. F. D. Gamewell, the “Hero of Pekin,” delivered his lecture on the siege of Pekin in the Auditorium under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. and the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Methodist church. Dr. Gamewell' is a Methodist missionary and has served twenty two years in that capacity in China. He has travelled over all the eighteen provinces of China during these years and has a number of times crossed the Great Wall. He has been acting president of the Pekin University, a Methodist institution, having about two hundred students; also, presiding elder of the Methodist church in China. The lecture, describing the sufferings of the missionaries and native Christians penned up in the British legation during those fifty-six awful days of siege, was delivered in most thrilling lan guage. Dr. Gamewell, who had charge of the fortifications, stated that for the fifty-six. days the bullets flew about them at the rate of 120 per minute. It was by the thorough and efficient work done by Dr. Gamewell that the party were able to withstand the siege. On Sunday evening Dr. Gamewell addressed the Young Men’s Christian Association on the subject of education in China. Later he addressed a large audience in the Auditorium, speaking of his experiences in China during his stay there. —The election of officers for the Y. M. C. A. on Tuesday even ing, February 2, resulted as follows: President, P. M. Rainey; Vice President, C. P. Stewart; Secretary, IT. D. Easton; Treas urer, J. J. Morgan. —The fifty-year Jubilee Convention of the Y. M. C. A. will be College Miscellany.
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