STATE COLLEGIAN Published on Thursday of each week during the college year in the interest of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered at the Post Office, State College, Pa. as second class matter. EDITORS, 'O5, Chief, ALEX. HART, Jr., F. M. TORRENCE, ’O5, T. F. FOLTZ, W. J. DUMM, ’O6, F. K. BREWSTER, 'O7 F. B. GARRAHAN, 'O7 H. D. MASON, 'O7 BUSINESS MANAGER. P. A. RAINEY, 'O7. CIRCULATION MANAGER. H. P. DAWSON, 'O7 ADVERTISING MANAGER W. N. LE PAGE, 'OB. SUBSCRIPTION. $1.50 per year or $1.25 if paid within 30 days after date of subscription. Thursday, MARCH 16. 1905 EDITORIAL No more doth the heathen rage ! Once again may the weary denizen of the town seek his downy couch in peace and the grim grind pursue his meditations undistubed. The hoodlum and the tough have been relegated to the extreme rear for the present and once more doth the “State Standard” rear its noble banner to the sky. Verily, let us rejoice, for surely such demonstra tions which have made the night hide ous and the streets unseemly by day are as a din in the ear and anabomina tion to the eye. Truly the heathen have risen in their might and smote the enemy right royally, but let them beware lest they exult over much in their strength and it prove their undoing. Saith the proverb of old. “ A pru dent man foreseeth the evil and hineth himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.” Here endeth the first lesson. "THE STATE COLLEGIAN The incident of Saturday evening in which a number of Sophomores pursued a Junior across the campus and threatened to lay violent hands on him because he was changed with being a “ spotter, ” if it serves no other purpose, brings out clearly a condition of affairs which has been growing rapidly worse during the past few years. We care not what a man has done, short of a deed which places him outside the pale of college customs and precedents, if he be an upper classman, no Sopho more or Freshman or number of the same, can ever be justified in order ing or dictating a cause of procedure for the upper-classman in question to pursue. The two lower classes must distinctly bear in mind that there are other and older men in the col lege community who are also interest ed in the proper conduct of the mem bers of their own classes and who are perfectly able and willing to mete out punishment to offenders and assume responsibility for the same. Apropos of this particular subject, it is noticable that often a Senior or Junior cannot walk along the street without being elbowed to the gutter by crowds of bumptious Freshmen; that at basketball games and other public occasions, under-classmen crowd’to the front row and make no bones of thrusting aside a Senior or a Junior in order to obtain a bet ter view. In plain English, the two lower classes of this institution, par ticularly the lowest, are making themselves altogether too important. A student who rises to the rank of upper-classman, attains by reason of his efforts and experience gained, a certain dignity and authority which the men who have not been here so long are in duty bound to respect. If the good sense and judgment of the classes in question is noc such as to permit them to know and main tain their proper station in the col lege community, the upper-classmen should take aims to impress a few plain in truths in a manner that will not fail to be understood. College customs and traditions must be pre served. When these same Sopho mores and Freshmen become Seniors and Juniors they will want to be re spected and looked up to as such. There is no better time than the pre sent to set the ball a rolling COLLEGE ORBIT Andrew Carnegie is reported to have offered $500,000 to the Uni versity of Virginia on condition that they raise a like amount. The offer will probably be accepted. The classes of 1892 to 1901 in clusive of the Princeton Alumni As sociation are going to present a $130,000 dormitory to the univer sity. Cornell is to have $250,000 worth of new buildings, for the agricul tural department. The money was recently appropriated by the State. Young, a Rhodes scholarship man from South Dakota, won the high jump, long jump, and 120 yard hurdles in a recent meet at Oxford, England. One hundred and eight candidates have reported for the Freshman crew at Cornell. One of the Swarthmore Alumni has made an offer of $lOO to the Swarthmore student or alumnus who will write a college song as good as Old Nassau. The Sigma Delta Sigma, a local frat at Wisconsin, has both male and female members. Speaker : ‘‘And the shades of evening wore on—” Smart boy : ‘‘l think it was the close (clothes) of a summer’s day.”
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