exercise of the principal event of the week— The Freshman Banquet. After passing the early part of the evening, some in painting the town, as it were, arid and others in attending the Swedish concert, the Freshmen adjourned in a body to the banquet hall, to relieve the monotony of a. well-regulated appetite invented expressly for the occasion and weeks beforehand. The hall was decorated in a most artistic manner. On the wall opposite the main entrance was sus pended a shield composed of all the imple ments connected with base-ball, tennis, foot ball, cricket, etc., representing the different sports indulged in by the class and in most of which it excels. About this shield, in the form of a pennant, were draped the colors of the class, maroon and white. The other parts of the hall were festooned with the col lege colors, intermingled with direful inscrip tions pertaining chiefly to the Sophs. The early part of the banquet was enlivened by college and class songs, and “ Landlord, fill the flowing bowl,” was promptly responded to by an ebon-hued waiter with a pitcher of ice-water. After each one had enjoyed an “elegant sufficiency,” with Harvey Hile as toast-master, the following toasts were elo quently responded to: — Our College, The Faculty, “’92,”. Our Girls, The Pony, Our Progress in German, Athletics, Our characteristics, ’92 is the only class which has invited its female members to its banquet, this shows an attention in this direction which is lacking to upper classmen, who would do well to follow this example. THE FREE LANCE. Ray Kessler S. G. Crawford G. H. Linsz C. E. Aull J. W. Stephenson . N. M. Lloyd C. C. Hildebrand Wm. W. Taylor PERSONALS, ’BB. Miss May South is teaching in a Brooklyn school. ’9O. Miss Annie Glenn is recovering from her recent illness. '66. A. A. Breneman is editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, which is published in New York. ’65. Ulric Blickensderfer, of Chicago, is at present at Albany, N. Y., attending to the publishing of a book of which he is the author. ’Bl. Geo. VV. Magee, of Norristown, Pa., was recently among us a few days. Mr. Magee is a prominent business man of Nor ristown, having extensive interests in large lime kilns. ’B5. PI. B. McDonnell has accepted a po sition at the Pennsylvania Agricultural Ex periment Station. We welcome him among our resident alumni. ’9l. Miss Martha Noyes has taken honors in several examinations at the National School of Oratory in Philadelphia ; she also came in for third honor in an oratorical contest. '7l. F. S. Burrowes was elected a mem ber of the American Society of Civil Engi neers, at its last session. Burrowes is still with a corps of U. S. engineers in the Maine and New Hampshire districts. ’9O. J. G. Mitchell, our effective pitcher, left State College on February 29th for New York, from which place he sailed a few days later for Jacksonville, Fla. Among the former students present at the Washington reception were the Misses Clark and Miss Leyden, of Beech Creek; Miss Bottorf and J. L. Hammille, of Belle fonte, and H. C, Quigley, of Eagleville. The “ Western Engineering C 0.,” consist ing of J. G. White, ’B2, D. C. Jackson, ’B5,
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