vacancy caused by his resignation has been filled by S. D. Fowler,
’O3, who, since graduation, has been employed in the car shop at
Berwick, Pa.
John M. Dale, ’82,,0ne of Bellefonte’s most prominent law
yers, died Thursday evening, March 3d, his death being the result
of a stroke of apoplexy.
—J. R. Keenan, ’9B, is acting as supervisor of maintainance of
way on the Sunbury Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad dur
ing the illness of the supervisor.
—W. L. Carter, Jr., formerly fellow in agricultural chemistry
at the experiment station, has been assigned to the charge of the
soil survey of a Texas district during the winter and spring
months, by the United States Bureau of Soils.
—Mr. John Hammond, a noted mining engineer, who was closely
associated with Cecil Rhodes in mining enterprise in South
Africa, has given $lOO,OOO for the erection of a metallurgical
laboratory at Yale.
—Five students were expelled from Princeton through their
secret violation of the student's honor system in examinations.
These men secured copies of the examination questions from the
printer. The fraud was discovered, and they were forced to leave
with" the disgrace upon them.
—Columbia will be represented at the inter-scholastic athletic
contests at, the St.. Louis Fair by an eight-oar crew.
—Prof. Triggs, instructor in literature and political economy
at Chicago University, will leave his position in a few weeks.
His views on economic questions do not harmonize with those of
COLLEGE ORBIT.
O. C. HAYS.