i PERSONAL A. W. Deuel ’O6 was confined to his room a few days last week by an attack of tonsilitis. Culp, ’O6, and Fleming, ’O6, have returned from the Phi Delta Theta convention held during Thanksgiv ing week at Indianapolis, Ind. Dr. and Mrs. Armsby on Friday evening last, delightfully entertained the November section of the Friday Club. About sixty guests were present. Miss Ridgeway and Miss Brewster of the Katharine Ridgeway Concert Co. were entertained during their stay in the college at the home of Dr. and Mrs. G. G. Pond. Prof. F. L. Pattee represented this College at the Annual Meeting of the Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Middle States and Maryland held at Princeton, N. J., November 25-26. The snow that fell Monday after ternoon was a signal for the hunters to get their guns in readiness for Tuesday morning. Rabbits are plenty this year and as this was the first tracing snow, many of the fel lows were out, the result being about three dozen bunnies slaughtered. Some of the instructors, excited by the inter-class football contest last Saturday, were having a little game of their own with a lady’s muff in the State College Hotel par lor. The “ball” was on the 10 yard line and they were just making an end run when Mrs. Shuman came in, broke up the interference, and stopped the play. The instructors retired in disorder. Notice No more refusals will be accepted after this issue. If any more papers marked “refused” are returned to this office, the person whose name is at tached will be charged five cents for every paper previously sent to him. Alumni Notes W. J. Dorworth, ’O4, who is em ployed in the testing department of the General Electrical Company of Schenectady, N. Y., made us a short visit last week. The home of Mr. Hiram Thomp sou, near State College, was the scene of a quiet wedding, “Wednes day Nov. 30, when his daughter Margaret G. become the bride of Mr. Jas. J. Markle. The ceremony, which took place at 10 a., m. was performed by Rev. Mr. Denniston of the Presbyterian church of State College. Immediately after dinner the couple left for Mt Pleasant, Mich., where they will make their home. Mr. Markle is a graduate of fhe class of 1903, and is at present In structor in Agriculture in the Indian School at Mt. Pleasant, Mich. The Katharine Ridgeway Con= The entertainment given by the Katharine Ridgeway Concert Co., last Saturday evening in the Old Chapel, under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. was the best one of its kind ever given at this College. Miss Ridge way is no stranger as she was here last year and held her audience equally as well if not berter on this occasion, than before, as was evi denced by the liberal encores. All the members of the company had at least two. Miss Brewster and Mr. Kerr were two especially effective contributors to the program, both possessing fine voices and giving se lections which showed them off to the best advantage. Mr. Kerr was particularly pleasing in “Romanza” aud “Absent.” Mr. Lambeiscn, at the piano, performed admirably and came in for his share of ap plause. The management of the Y. M. C. A. deserves great credit for securing such talented and high class entertainers. Clipping From the Philadelphia Press, Nov. 23, 1904. ENGINEERING SCHOOLS . To the Editor of The Press. Sir: —The inquirer in the the Forum to-day regarding the electri cal and mechanical engineering schools of the country doubtless wished to know some of the leading ones —a thing that is largely a mat ter of personal opinion. Owing to this it has been the custom to rank these schools in the order of their attendance —a somewhat crude method —but which eliminates the personal element. Taking this basis and enumerating the schools begin ning with the highest the relative rank in electrical engineering for the twelve highest in 1901-1902 was as follows: Purdue University, lowa State College, Armour Institute of Technology, The Pennsylvania State College, University of Virginia. Cornell University, Columbia Uni versity, University of Illinois, Le high University, University of Minnesota, University of Nebraska and Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology. Proceeding in the same order the. leading schools of mechanical engi neering rank as follows: Cornell Uni versity, Stevens Institute of Tech nology, , Purdue University, Michi gan Agricultural College, University of California, Lehigh University, University of Illinois, lowa State College, Agricultural and Mechani cal College of Kentucky, Massachu setts Institute of Technology, Uni versity of Virginia, Case School of Applied Science, Columbia Uni versity, University of Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State College and Tulane University. He who runs may read in the above list the large preponderance of' the so-called “Land Grant” or people’s Colleges, oyer privately endowed institutions, in the great work of de veloping the industries of the country. Surely Congress and the various State Legislatures have built far more bioadly then they thought, and the resulting development of this land has paid the expenses many times over. M. E. Wadsworth, State College, Pa., Nov. 18, 1904.
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