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, T. F. FOLTZ, ’O6, Chief, W. J. DUMM, ’O6, F. K. BREWSTER, ’O7 F. B. GARRAHAN, ’O7 R. B. MECKLEY, ’OB H. D. MASON, 'O7 S S. RIDDLE, ’OB BUSINESS MANAGER. H. P. DAWSON, ’O7 ADVERTISING MANAGER, W. N. LE PAGE, ’OB. CIRCULATION MANAGER W. A. SLATER, ’O7 SUBSCRIPTION. $1.50 per year or $1.25 if paid within 30 days after date of subscription. Thursday, APRIL 27. 1905 EDITORIAL Did you ever stop to think of the marvelous increase in State’s prop erty ? The number of buildings on the campus to-day is just double the number we possessed three years ago. And still they come. This, in truth, is an age of prosperity for State. This may seem to some a rather early date to speak about a football coach for next fall but it appears to us that this matter cannot be settled any too soon. It is a fixed fact that we must have a coach and a good one at that. In this respect we have been fortunate during -the last two seasons but we must not expect that such good men can be picked up on the spur of the moment. If either of these two men cannot be secured again, now is the time to look for another. We cannot afford to wait until every body else has picked out the cream of the profession. Our athletic association is in good finan- THE STATE COLLEGIAN cial standing and we must have the best obtainable. The move in the meeting of the Athletic Association last Monday evening to have the field back of the Bright Angel fixed up as an auxil iary baseball field is certainly a creditable one. This would furnish place for the class teams to practice, would increase the number of men that would' receive the beneficial ex ercise of the game, and would bring out a great deal of valuable material for the Varsity. Great as these advantages may be there is one consideration that is perhaps more important. If the field were laid out with a little care it could be adapted equally well for Lacrosse. This game is growing into popularity and importance every year and it may be necessary for State to meet this issue before long if she wishes to keep her place in athletics. The game in itself has much credit. As an exercise it is excellent; played in the open air, in light well adapted uniforms, it leaves little to be desired. There is noth ing brutal about it and very little chance for over exertion. It calls out a large squad and thus furnishes the exercise to a great many men. Besides this it appeals to different men than baseball. From the na ture of the game only a small pre centage of people are ever able to play baseball. For such as these Lacrosse would fill a decided blank in the field of college sports. Foot ball and basketball men would likely find in it something to keep them in shape the year round. As the College grows from year to year greater opportunities must be offered for the physical develop ment of the students. Let us con sider Lacrosse now when the propo sition of a new field is before us, for it is the opportune time. COLLEGE ORBIT The girls of the University of Minnesota will hold early in April the first girls’ indoor track meet to take place in the Western colleges. Girls track meets are by no means unusual in the East. Two hundred students of Missouri University stole a barn and took it several blocks. It was a big, two story frame stable with a ton of hay in the loft. They began before midnight and continued until after five a. m., working in relays. Ev erything that obstructed the course of the barn, which was rolled on wheels, was removed. Trees were cut down and telephone and electric light wires removed. A bill has been introduced in the Minnesota Legislature to abolish fra ternities. Much discussion for and against fraternities has consequently resulted. Syracuse University has received a gift of $150,000 from Andrew Carnegie for a new library building. How He Won Her. Ice cream he bought his darling, And she ate, and ate, and ate; Till at last her heart she gave him, To make room for one more plate Recent Additions to the Library Acton, John Emerick, Ist baron — Letters to Mary Gladstone. Blackmar, F. W.—History of Federal & State Aid to Higher Education in the U. S. Caryl, C. V. —New Era. Haydn, J. T. —Dictionary of Dates & Universal Information. 23rd ed. Moliere, J. B. P. —Oeuvres Com pletes. Nouvell ed. 2v. Riis, J. A. —The Making of an American. U. S. —Agriculture, Dept, of — Catalogue of Publications Re lating to Botany in the Library
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