The Pennsylvania Sta
Schools of Language and Literature, History, Mathemati,
culture, Natural Science, Engineering, Mines and Metal :
study in
.all branches of the Arts and Sciences. For fur
Trustee Actions.
At the regular meeting of the
board of trustees of the college, the
following actions were taken: ,
An Engineering Experiment sta
tion was created in the school of
engineering, the object of which
shall be the investigation of prac
tical problems pertaining to the peo
ple of this commonwealth in the
large and. the publication of the re
sults of these investigations.
It was further ordered that that
the college should co-operate with a
committee of the State Millers' As
sociation in making tests of wheat
now grown on the college farm.
The mining museum material scat
tered through the different buildings
was ordered to be assembled in the
mining extension building.
The Trustees Vote Thanks to Penna.
R. R. and Mr. Carnegie.
At a special meeting of the Board
of Trustees held on the evening of
Pennsylvania Day, November 20th,
a vote of thanks was authorized to
be sent to the Pennsylvania Railroad
company for supplying the instruc
tion train used recently by the
School of Agriculture in giving free
lectures to the farmers of eastern
Pennsylvania; also a vote of thanks
was ordered to be conveyed to Mr.
Andrew Carnegie for his additional
gift to the Foundation for the Ad
vancement of Teaching, which will
make possible the extension of its
benefits to the state institutions.
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FOR THE FREE EDUCATION OF B
THE REGISTRAR, State Col
President Sparks will attend the
annual meeting of the American
Historical Association, to be held in
Washington and Richmond, Dec.
28-31. The opening address will be
given by Ambassador James Bryce,
who is president of the American
Political Science Association. On
Dec. 30, at Richmond, President
Sparks will preside at the conference
on the relation of geography to his
tory, the topic being "The Influence
of the Geography of the South At
lantic States on their History."
Mayor Reyburn of Philadelphia
who addressed the students on
Pennsylvania Day has a son, Mr.
William Stuart Reyburn, who was
among the distinguished guests pres
ent. He has been elected to the
House of Representatives in the
next legislature and will probably be
the youngest member of that body.
He has promised to address the stu
dent body at some time during the
present academic year.
President Sparks spent Sunday
and Monday of last week at the
California Normal and the remain
der of the week in Washington at
the meeting of the Association of
State Colleges. On Tuesday of next
week he will address a Wilkinsburg
club, and on Thursday he speaks in
Altoona before a meeting of the
state grange.
The Harrisburg club enjoyed a
lunch at Harrison's restaurant Sat-
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COLLEGE NOTES.
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urday evening. Those responding
to toasts were president Orndorff,
Workman, Loose; Reed, Hickman,
Rote, Greenawalt, Shutter, and
Shimmel. It was decided to hold
the annual dinner at the Engineers'
club in Harrisburg on- or about Dec.
30, and all friends of the college in
the vicinity of Harrisburg are invited.
The college recently made appli
cation to
. the War Department for
one hundred (100) additional rifles
and accoutrements for use in, con
nection with our military drill, and
word has been received that the ri
fles and ordnance stores have been
shipped from the Watervliet Ar
senal, of Watervliet, New York.
Prot. Crockett spoke last week
before the teachers' institute at Nan
ticoke on " The Teacher and Read
ing" and "The Teacher and Travel."
Dr. Hunt, Prof. Agee, Dr. Arms
by, Mr. Patterson, and Mr. Good
ling attended the college meeting in
Washington last week.
Free Lecture Course Begins.
The first lecture in the Free Lect
ure course, maintained by joint sub
scriptions from citizens of Belle
fonte, the village of State College,
the faculty and the board of trus
tees, will be given in the auaitorium
December 10th^by William L. Hall
of the Forestry Service of Washing
ton. Mr. Ball was graduated from
the Kansas Agricultural college in
1898 and has been connected since
that time with various aspects of