College Miscellany. About two hundred of the county commissioners who were in convention at Bellefonte visited the College on Sept. 25. A special schedule consisting entirely of practicum had been arranged. The visitors were conducted around the College by members of the Faculty and seemed very much interested in the work of the institution. Special chapel exercises were held at 4:30 in the afternoon at which the following gentlemen spoke: Hon. A. E. Sisson, Senator from Erie; Mr. Wm. Davis, of Cameron Co.; Mr. J. P. Hale Jenkins, of Montgomery Co.; Mr. Samuel S. Patterson, of Fayette Co. At the close of the exercises supper was served in the Armory, after which the visitors left by special train for Bellefonte. The theory that human affairs have alternating periods of prosperity and depression, that, like the tide, they have an “ebb” and “flow,” is markedly shown by the varying fortune of the literary societies of State. Years ago there were here two flourishing societies, the “ Washington ” and the “Crescent.” These societies met every Friday night, their chief efforts being to develop and perfect the members in debating, declamation and kindred subjects. These socie ties were in a very flourishing condition, both financially and in attendance. Each society had its hall well furnished and each owned its own piano and library. A variety of reasons, one being that the prominence given to technical lines of work seemed to call the students VISITORS AT COEEEGE. THE DEBATING CEUB,
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