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CALENDAR.
n order that the Calendar may be made as
plete as possible, all College organiza
s are urged to hand in notices of meet-
SATURDAY, OCT. 31.
State vs. Cornell, at
Ithaca
SUNDAY, NOV. 1
00 a. m. Chapel. Dr. Gill will
preach
30 p. m. Episcopal Service 114
15 p. m. Y. M. C. A. meeting.
529 Main. The delegates to
the Columbus Bible Study
Convention will speak.
TUESDAY. NOV 3
Player meeting, 529
30 p. m
Main
WEDNESDAY. NOV. 4
Mining Engineering
30 p. m
society
30 p. m. E. E. Society.
00 p. m. Mechanical Engineer
ing Society
00 p. m. Natural History club,
206 Main.
THURSDAY. NOV.S
00 p. m. Civil Engineering so-
Bp. m. Athletic election. Ar
mory.
SATURDAY, NOV. 7
otball. State vs. Bucknell, on
Beaver field.
FRIDAY. NOV. 7
.00 a. m. Chapel. Hon. Fled
Ikeler will speak.
. D. Howard, 'O7. and Arthur
Kerr, 'O7, are with the Titusville
n Works, of litusville, Pa,
THE STATE COLLEGIAN
FOR THE FREE EDUCATION OF BOTH SEXES
THE REGISTRAR, State Col
Recent Work in the Department of
• Forestry.
The junior class recently made a
silvical survey of the four acre plant
ings on the new college property,
situated north of the experiment
station. Last spring seventeen
acres of this tract was turned over
to the department of forestry.
Nearly four acres of the above
plot was planted to one and two year
s mdlings of hardy catalpa, black
locust and green ash. Several bush
els of butternuts, black walnuts and
hickorynuts were planted in hills, in
rows about four feet apart. The
following is the count of the differ
ent species upon the tract at the
present time : 2401 black locust
seedlings living out of 2430 planted
last spring ; 1028 hardy catalpa
seedlings out of 1050 planted ; 242
seedlings of green ash out of 250
planted. From the nuts that were
planted there are 690 hickory seed
lings, 245 black walnut, and 371
butternut. All of the nut tree seed
lings will be transplanted next spring
and the whole four acres will be
planted to black locust and catalpa.
The black locust seedlings which
were planted last spring were given
to the department by the Pennsyl
vania Railroad, and the catalpa
seedlings were given by Mr. John
P. Brown, of Connersville, Indiana,
Editor of Arboriculture. The green
ash, and a few of the catalpa and
locust were transplanted from the
small nursery, situated back of the
Chartered 1855
ege, Pennsylvania
Forestry building. The class also
made a careful examination of the
condition of the locust, as to the
injury done by the locust borer,
which is so destructive to this
species throughout the state. Out
of the 504 trees examined only 19
were found to be infected. This is
a very low per centage, although
trees two to four years old are not
as apt to be attacked as older trees.
It is planned to give these seedlings
the very best of care, thus producing
a rapid growth, which is the best
method or preventing damages from
the borer.
ALUMNI NOTES.
J. N. Forker, 'O7, and H. E.
Dunkle, 'O7. are with the National
Transit company at Oil City, Pa.
C. H. Coroie, 'O6, has accepted
a government position, in the ord
nance department, and is located in
Pittsburg, Pa.
J. J. Morgan, 'O5, writes from
Honolulu, Hawaii, where he has
taken up his new position as pro
fessor of chemistry in the College
of Hawaii.
Dr. J. W. Miller, '97, has just
been advanced to an assistant pro
fessonship of mathematics in Lehigh
University. After leaving State he
took a degree at Columbia and has
since been engaged with the Coast
Survey.
John P. Smith, 'O7, successfully
passed the examinations for the U.
S. army and the special examina-