STATE COLLEGIAN Published on Thursday of each week during the college year by the students of The Pennsylvania State College in the interest of the Students. Fac ulty, Alumni and friends of the college. Entered at the Post Office, State College, Pa., as second class matter. EDITORS A. K. LITTLE, 97, Chief F. K. BREWSTER, 'O7. H. D. MASON, 'O7. H. J.DICK, 'O7. R. B. MECKLEY, 08 R. W. KRISE, 'OB. J. K. BARNES, 'O9. C. N. FLEMING, 'O9 BUSINESS MANAGER W. J. DUMM, 'O6. BUSINESS MANAGER-ELECT S. H. YORKS, 'O7. Of' ASSISTANTS B. W. SCRIBNER, 'OB J. D. WOODWARD, 'OB SUBSCRIPTION $l. 50 per year or $1.25 if paid within 20 days after date of subscription. THURSDAY, MAY 24, ISC6 EDITORIAL The lack of knowledge of parliamentary law noticed among State's students is to be regretted. The tendency here is to become so practical that whatever is not di rectly connected with mathematics or engines, dynamos, or mining machinery is absolutely of no ac count. Class presidents and exec utives of other bodies are not en tirely exempt from this charge. Time and again breaches of the simplest points have been com mitted. The knowledge of parliamentary law may seem not worth the time consumed, but in reality it is a necessary adjunct to the education of a college man, and he will later find that he cannot well do without it. There,is at present no class in this work, but it would be for the interest of those who are willing to do a little extra work if a class might be organized in some such way as the section in after-dinner speaking was begun. THE STATE COLLEGIAN Theses of the Graduating Class. Design and Construction of a Small Three-Phase Revolving Field Alternator—Lee Francis Adams (with Chrisman), Milesburg. Design of an Automatic Telephone System for State College—Russell Baer Arnold, Harrisburg. Three Cylinder Gas Engine-- Ray Welsh Bair (with Harper and Raf ter), Hanover. Electric Railway Tests—Adam Abraham Bair ( with Van Dine and Zarfos), Shamokin. Effect of Remelting Cast Iron with Different Oxidizing Agents— John Wilson Bartlett, Lewiston, Maine. The Electrolytic Deposition of Nickel—Homer Frick Braddock, Mount Pleasant. A Comparison of the Various Methods of Preparation of Hydro bromic Acid—John Ilgen Burrell, Rote. Development of a Bituminous Coal Mine--Roy Merle Caswell ( with Dalburg and McGee), Lime Hill. Design and Construction of a Small Three-Phase Revolving Field Alternator—Joseph Corbin Chris man ( with Adams), Warwick. Methods and Appliances in An thracite Mining—Arthur Monroe Clay (with Fawkes), Norfolk Va. Analysis of Crude Gas Liquor— Willard Cyrus Cope, Greensburg. Examination of Texas Petroleum— Cornell H. Cordie, Oil City. Experiments on Wireless Tele graphy-- Charles Jerome Corse ( w,th Price), Scranton. Design for a Railroad Turn- Table--Frederick William Crocker, Brookline, Mass. The Gas Producer and Producer Gas—John Giffen Culbertson,Knox. Graphical Analysis of a 10,000 Horse Power Quadruple Expansion Marine Engine—Clyde Emanuel Culp, York. Development of a Bituminous Coal Mine--Frank Albert Dalburg (with Caswell and McGee), Red burn. Test of a 20 Horse Power Two- Cylinder, Vertical, High Speed Steam Engine—David Richard Da vis ( with Stevenson ) , Everson. Location of a Railroad Between State College and Scotia—Arthur Deuel (with Hayes, Kilmer and Lorah ), Little Meadows. A Study of the Action of Certain Oxidizing Agents on Alkaline Solu tions of Lead Oxide—Emory Luther Diehl, Glen Rock. The Preparation of Tartaric Acid and its Salts from Argols and Wine Lees—Walter Jacob Peter Dumm, Mackeyville. The Synthesis of Manganese Steel by the Use of the Thermit Reac tion--Ray Philip Farrington, Pitts burg. Methods and Appliances used in Anthracite Mining—Edward Fawkes (with Clay), Lansford. Design for a Steel 'Mill Building— Arthur Lee Ferver, New Wilming ton. The Relation of the Composition of Iron to its Resistance to the Ac tion of Sulphuric Acid—William Reynolds Fleming, Reynoldsville. Test of the Calorific Power of a Fairbanks-Morse Suction Gas Pro ducer—Fred Fletcher (with Rei gart), Columbia. Design of a Power Plant for the Bellefonte Traction Company's Line Between Milesburg and State Col lege—Charles David Flickinger (with Kaiser), Newport. Design and Construction of an Oscillograph—Thomas Frank 1i n Foltz (with Hollinger and Landes), Atlantic City, N. J. Design and Comparison of Cost of a Plate Girder and Through Truss Bridge for a 125- Foot Span —William Christian Frank, Johnstown. - Application of Electrical Power in Bituminous Coal Mining—Andrew Machesney Gardner, Greensburg.