PERSONAL
Below-grade notices are out!
Were you remembered?
The faculty have removed their
conditions and been re-seated.
“Pop” Golden is busy making
the Freshmen and Preps do ‘ ‘stunts.”
Dr. Gill entertained the Literary
Club at his home on Monday even
ing last.
Captain Lawton will be absent
from home during the holidays and
part of Janurary.
There is a “bear” possibility of
“Woodcock” and “Kuhn” becom-
ing extinct in this vicinity.
Miss Alma Hinkle of Philadelphia
has entered College to take a special
course in Philosophy and advanced
German.
C. R. Smith ’O6, Varsity tackle,
has returned to college after a fort
night’s stay at his home on ac
count of sickness.
The Kappa Sigma fraternity will
give a dance at their chapter house
on Friday evening, the 16th. Ket
tering’s orchestra of Greensburg will
furnish the music.
Dr. Atherton was one of the
guests at the banquet of the Penn
sylvania Society in honor of Senator
Knox on Thursday evening Dec.
12th. The banquet was held at the
Waldorf-Astoria in New York and
seven hundred guests were present.
Prof, and Mrs. A. J. Wood en
tertained the upper class Mechani
cals electing Railroads, last Friday
at the Ladies’ Cottage. The even
ing was devotod to table games,
concluding with light refreshments.
The section voted the evening a
most delightful one.
The members of the Phi Gamma
Delta fraternity who have been
quarantined in their house because of
scarlet fever, have been released by
the local Board of Health on condition
that they leave for their homes at
once. The patients, McDowell and
Skinner, are improving.
Alumni Notes,
H. H. Allen, ’97, has just been
appointed to the position of Western
Agent for the Susquehanna Coal
Company.
J. H. M. Andrews ’9B was mar
ried in Carlisle, Pa., recently. Mr.
and Mrs. Andrews are now resid
ing in Philadelphia.
Mr. Samuel Holland ex-’9B, who
holds an excellent position with the
Pennsylvania Railroad Co. at Phila
delphia, was visiting at the College
recently.
F. E. Winters of the Sophomore
class has been compelled to leave
college on account of sickness. He
hopes to be able to return after
Christmas and continue with his
work.
• P. J. Morrissey and J. D. Elder,
both of last year’s graduating class,
are employed by the Edison Illumi
nating Company of Detroit, Mich.
The former is in the operating de
partment while:Elder is in the en
gineering department.
J. Ralph Guteliuswho was a mem
ber of last year’s preparatory class
for a short time, has been com
pelled to undergo an operation for
appendicitis. The operation was
performed in the Bellefonte Hos
pital and the patient is doing very
well.
New Constitution Adopted
At the last business meeting of the
Y. M. C. A., held Tuesday evening
Dec. 6, a new constitution was adopt
ed. The old one was in many ways
unsatisfactory and incomplete, and
a committe had been appointed to
recast it entirely, making various
changes and adding new articles.
The changes and additions were
accepted unanimously.
“Pin —the best dresser in a wo
man’s acquaintance; of remarkable
penetration, and true as steel; seldom
loses its head; follows its own point
in’whatever it undertakes.” —Ex,
Clubs
The York Club, held a meeting
Friday evening, Dec. 9th, 1904, in
the Engineering Building and elected
officers for the year. The election
resulted as follows: President, F.
A. R. Hoffiditz, 'O5, vice president,
C. Reigart, ’O6, secretary and treas
urer, A. H. Kautz, ’O5.
It was decided to hold a banquet
at York on 30th of December. The
prime object of this banquet is to
get the prospective college students
of that vicinity interested in State
College.
The Hon. Hiram Young and the
Mayor of York will be guests.
The Berks County students met
last week to perfect an organization.
The Plarrisburg Club met on Fri
day evening to transact current busi
ness and arrange for a supper.
The Philadelphia Club seems to
be the most prosperous of all the
sectional Clubs. Its meetings are
held regularly and they seem to be
well attended. The members are
certainly discrediting the reputation
of their city for “slowness.”
The Literary Club met on Mon
day evening last at the home of Dr.
Benjamin Gill. Officers for the en
suing year were elected as follows:
President, Rev. George I. Brown, of
Bellefonte; First Vice-President,
Mr. J. PI. Frizzell; Second Vice-
President, Prof. George C. Butz;
Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. P. O.
Ray.
The Literary Program consisted
of a paper entitled, “The Old Man
Eloquent,” read by Mr. J. H.
Frizzell, and a discussion, led by
Rev. George I. Brown, on the topic,
“The Spirit of Caste.” Mr Friz
zell’s paper was an appreciation of
the life and service of the late Sena
tor George Frisbie Hoar, of Massa
chusetts. Rev. Brown based his
remarks on an ancient book on caste,
and applied some of the satires of
the book to our modern conditions.