PACE TWO
The Free Lance.
How many students and recent
alumni know that there was a
monthly magazine called the Free
Lance published here from the year
1837 untill 1904, when its name was
changed to The State Collegian and
it was issued weekly? One of our
readers recently sent us two copies
of this early paper and in looking
them over we became so interested
ourselves that we decided to write an
article on this early publication, be
lieving that it would interest the
Collegian readers.
The editorial and business staffs
of these early issues were made up
of men who are today eminently
successful in many different lines of
work: One is an editor on a large
city paper; one is assistant to the
vice-president of the elevated rail
way in one of the largest cities of
the country; one is general manager
of a coal company; another is a
college professor; another a lawyer;
another a successful mining engineer,
etc.
Two pages of these papers are
given up to editorials. We find
that in 1691 the students would
make paths across the campus un
less they were restrained by the Free
Lance. The lack of entertainments
during one term was very conspic•
uous. "We have not had a lecture
or even a concert." How much
better off we are now in this respect!
The need of a press club was felt in
those days because of ' the recent
false newspaper stories depicting in
severe language the breaking up of
a religious meeting by forty of
State's students."
One of the issues contains three
stories which are well worth read
ing. One signed by "L" is ex
ceptionally good. One almost re
grets that this monthly, which was
more or less literary, had to give
way to a weekly that is strictly a
newspaper, and that no other literary
magazine has come to fill its place.
TI 1E sT ATE COLLEC TAN
Among the college notes we find
that the La Vie has gone to press
and promises to be superior to any
previous annual. A baseball sched
ule of six games is announced. The
Senate appropriation committee
visits the college. And Dickinson
forfeits a football game to State that
was to be played in Altoona.
Even the advertisements are in
teresting. C. P. Kuhn was the
tonsorial artist in those days. The
State College Hotel was "the largest
house with the best accommoctaticns
i 9 town." Most of the advertise
ments are from out-of-town firms,
probably because there were few
stores in town at the time.
These early editors must have had
troubles the same as editors of col
lege papers of today. They had to
make excuses for the paper not
coming out on time, and promise
that it would not happen again
But a great deal of honor and re
spect is due to the men who founded
a college paper when there were
only about two hundred students at
State, and to the men who kept this
paper going continuously in its infant
days. A student can find very little
reading more interesting than the
early volumes of the Free Lance
which can all be found in the Li
brary.
1904 Reunion.
A committee of the class of 1904
consisting of C. L. Armsby, M. J.
Rentschler, H. A Leitzel and W.
B. Thompson, are at work making
arrangements for the fif tn reunion
of the class to be held during
commencement week. It is hoped
that every member will make a spe
cial effort to be present and will aid
in making the gathering a grand suc
cess. The committee promises to
have something original in the way
of a class reunion and no one who
can possibly get here, can afford to
miss it.
Free mail delivery will begin
April 1.
If college bred means four years' loaf.
(Some people say 'tis so)
Oh. tell me where the flour is found
By one who needs the dough.
Garfield and Beveridge
and many others had to work their
way through college.
MUST YOU?
Then write us and we will send you
the
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of Seventy-five men who made in
commissions an average profit of
$12.85 Per day during June, July
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Twelve Hundred men made an aver
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