Pennsylvania Notes

The interest in rowing at the University of Pennsylvania this year is unusual owing to the possibility that the crew will be sent abroad next summer to compete in the Paris and Henley regattas. The outlook is very good, since six men and the coxswain of last year's crew will be candidates again this year. At a recent meeting of representatives of Pennsylvania, Columbia and Cornell, it was decided to row again at Poughkeepsie in June. Invitations were extended to Wisconsin, Princeton, Syracuse, Bowdoin, Brown and Toronto to join in the regatta. Pennsylvania, Cornell and Columbia will enter crews in the freshman race, and Pennsylvania and Cornell will enter a race for fours. The Pennsylvania crew will race at Annapolis as usual, and the Pennsylvania freshmen will compete with the Annapolis second crew on the same day.

About fifty men are now training for the track team. This number will probably soon be increased because the team has lost some of its best men by graduation and every effort will be made to bring out more men and to develop a strong team to compete in the Olympian games at Paris.

The Mask and Wig Club will produce this year "Mr. Aguinaldo, Jr.," by Mr. William Ernst ex '96 L., the author of last year's play. The plot deals with the vagaries, disappearances and reappearances of Aguinaldo. As nine men of last year's cast will again try for parts, the prospects for a successful performance are very good. The first performance will be on April 14 at Atlantic City, and will be followed by two performances in Philadelphia.

The trustees have recently received the library of the late Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, the distinguished anthropologist. This collection of books is probably the most valuable of its kind in the country, and it contains about twenty-three hundred volumes on the aboriginal American languages and American archaeology Besides a large number of texts, there are unique manuscripts of the early Spanish missionaries, obtained by Dr. Brinton at various times, which furnished the basis of some of his most valuable contributions to the study of the native American languages. The library, when catalogued and arranged, will be invaluable to the students of anthropology and archaeology.

M. Henri de Regnier, who will lecture at Harvard in March, gave a lecture on "Victor Hugo" in the chapel on January 6.