STATE COLLEGIAN . Published on Thursday of each week during the college year in the interest of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered at the Post Office, State College, Pa. as second class matter. EDITORS, ALEX. HART, Jr., ’O5, Chief, F. M. TORRENCE, T. F. FOLTZ, W. J. DUMM, F. K. BREWSTER, 'O7 F. B. GARRAHAN, ’O7 H. D. MASON, ’O7 BUSINESS MANAGER. H. P. DAWSON, ’O7 ADVERTISING MANAGER, W. N. LE PAGE, ’OB SUBSCRIPTION. $1.50 per year or $1.25 if paid within 30 days after date of subscription. Thursday, APRIL 6, 1905 EDITORIAL Another athletic season has been successfully launched and another string of victories has been added to the already magnificent list of re cords of the White and Blue. The major part of this year’s base ball team had consisted of an unknown quality. But the material has been tried and found 0. K. State ex pected every man to do his duty, and he did it. The early southern trip, conducted for the first time this year, was tried mainly as an experiment and from the results of the games played the trip was a complete success. The practice and experience gained there by gives State a good handicap over her rivals for the balance of the sea son. We wonder how long that pile of building stones is going to grace the front of the engineering building. Some say it has been there ever since the engineering building was erected. At any rate it has been there long to get over the eye sore THE STATE COLLEGIA^ stage and is now regarded as a necessary evil. Perhaps it is there for advertising purposes or possibly it is too expensive to remove it. Be that as it may it is not probable that the appearance of the engineering building is improved much by it. Off the Grass. To the Editor of the COLLEGIAN: — Not in the history of the present student body has the rule to keep off the campus been so well observed as at the present. The motion made at the mass meeting sometime ago was to the extent that “every stu dent keep off the campus and that the workmen and Profs be requested to do the same” and further that any one not observing this rule is a “mucker.” The campus shows the effect, the paths having almost dis appeared. Occasionally some one, perphaps ignorant of the rule, cross es the campus and is notified in a way that does not need repeating. There is one Prof, however, who claims the rule does not apply to him, and after being requested not to cross the campus he proceeded to do so. It is true that it is not “State” law, but if any one person thinks himself so far above the rest of the men here and imagines that he can cross the campus and be considered other than the character provided by the fellows, let him keep it up. TECHNICAL REVIEW Beck, Bausman, Patterson and Torrence, who are making a loco motive test for thesis, have been putting in full time on engine No. 4 of the Bellefonte Central Railroad. Tests were made each day during vacation by runs from Bellefonte to the College and to Scotia. The work, as well as the data secured, has been very satisfactory. The coal is loaded in bags at the coal yard and weighed. With four freight cars and the coach it required about a ton of coal to run from Bellefonte to the College while with one car and the coach two thirds as much was consumed. ’ Some exciting experiences were encountered, especially when com ing in contact with line steam pipes, etc. and on Saturday the climax was reached when a dog was run down and beheaded. Gentzel and Hess have been busy completing the patterns for their vertical direct-connected engine. On Tuesday they went to the Belle fonte Foundry to superintend the casting which was quite successful and speaks well for the fellows as pattern makers. Rimil and McLaughlin completed the caseing for their steam turbine and are now working at the wheel. The Juniors at W. U. P. will issue an annual for the first time. Princeton is to have a new recita tion hall costing about $300,000. The donors of it have not yet re vealed their names. Columbia holds the intercollegiate basketball championship as she did also last year. Yale is second. Yale’s recent defeat by Cornell was very unexpected. Student. The new athletic field of Leland Stanford will, when completed, with the grandstands, track and field house, cost between twenty and twenty-five thousand dollars. The Argentine Republic has sent sixteen rerpesentative young men to this country to study agriculture, mining, civil and mechanical engi neering. Eleven of them are taking courses in Cornell. On their return their government has a two year's claim on their seryices. COLLEGE ORBIT
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