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Vol. IV, No 28
THE:NENVi, PRESTDFST HERE
Dr: Sparks., Arrives. and Begins
Active Duties.
Dr-. Sparks arrived with his
daughter,on Monday afternoon, and
has taken up__ his_ permanent_ resi
dence in , the President's house.
Mrs. Sparks was ;
unable to accom
pany her husband from Chicago be
cause of social. engagements, but
she will-be here before the end of the
week to assist in the work of home
making. Dr. and Mrs. Sparks will
entertain at their new home during
Commencement week President
Alexander C. Humphreys of the
Stevens Institute of Technology,
and wife, Dr. Paul Shorey of the
University of - Chicago, and wife,
and General and Mrs. Miller of
Franklin, Pa. Mr. and Mrs Charles
M. Schwab and Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew. Carnegie have alSo been
invited to be guests at the Presi
dent's house at Commencement
time.
Tuesday evening Dr. Sparks met
the faculty in a General Faculty
Meeting. The policy for the new
administration of the College ‘as
outlined and committees will be ap
pointed to aid in systematizing the
work. No changes. IA ill be made,in
the management of the College, but
all efforts will be bent to perfect
the best system possible for con
ducting affairs according to the
present rules. In Dr. Sparks ad
dress to the faculty he presented no
radical-ideas, but simply expressed
his intention• to gather up the reins
and•continue the work now under
way.
At the mass meeting in the Audi
torium yesterday morning the
STATE COLLEGE, PA., MAY 14, 1908.
President-elect addressed the stu
dent body. A fuller report of this
address and of the welcome that
the students extended to Dr. Sparks
will be given in next week's Col
legian.
Band Concert Soon.
The vote taken in chapel on Mon
day morning to find what sentiment
there was among the student body
in favor of a band concert proved an
encouragement and incentive to the
members. They have commenced
to work faithfully and will continue
so for a couple of weeks to produce
a creditable concert.
This concert was planned for
earlier in the year, but various diffi
culties arose to prevent its being
given. The object of the concert
will be to provide funds for the
purchase of some new instruments,
and for the payment of some recent
ly, bought. This is the only means
the band has of procuring any
money for instruments and music.
To show an appreciation of its work
during the past year, and to show
interest in its success for next year,
everyone should endeavor to attend,
assurance being given to all that the
program will be of standard music
and well rendered
On Wednesday evening, May 6,
Dr. Wadsworth gave a very enjoy
able banquet to the Senior Miners at
the Beta Theta Pi House. The oc
casion was also the celebration of Dr.
Wadsworth's sixty-first birthday.
The forty guests present enjoyed a
game of cards before they sat down
to the banquet. The party did not
break up till about three o'clock in
the morning.
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LETTER FROM DR. WADSWORTH
Concerning the School of Mines and
Metallurgy.
In response to your request, it
seems best to make such statements
concerning this School and its policy
as will tend to leave its prospective
Dean free and unhampered to con-
tinue its marvelous growth.
At the time I took charge of it,
in 1901, it had an attendance of 21 ,
students, with an average for
,the
eight preceding years of 20. Since
the school then stood nineteenth in
size amongst mining schools in this,
country, had but little and poor,
DR. M. E. WADSWORTH
equipment, a small income, few_ and :
scattered rooms, in which it existed
as an interloper, and a course of in
struction similar to some fifty others
in the country, its future was dark
aria forbidding. An especial diffi
culty was its inconvenient distance
from good and available mining dis
tricts, in which particular it had the
poorest location of any mining
school in this State.
The question was then what could
be done to increase its standing in
the country and place it in the fore-
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