Page Two Penn State ,ollegian Published send-neekly during the College year by students of the Penneyl yenta State College, In the interest of Students. Faculty. Alumni, and Flrlends of the College EC=l E. E Helm. '24 It B Cabin, '24 C B Tilton, '24 ASSOCIATE EDITORS F P George, '25 J H. Lum, '25 Womon's Editor Assistant Womon's Editor._ Suaineas Manager Advertising Manager --Circulation Manager ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS _ H R. McCulloch, ... W. w Stahl '2l .... L. H Aronson, .2.4 J. M. Disler, T 6 REPORTERS 1:11:2E1 W.R.Anthony,T6 W T Durbin. 20 G. C. Richert, '26 R. T. Kriebel, '26. T. R. Dunlap, .2.6 B Butler, '26 H..T Tindall, '26 S. Rosenfeld, '26 IL A. Shancr, '26 H L Kellner, '26 H W Cohen, '26 A. IL Smith, '2O The Penn State Collegian Invites communications on any subject of college Interest. Letters must bear the signatures of the writers. All copy for Tues day's issue must be In the office by noon on Monday, and for Friday's bong by noon Thursday Subscription price. $2 50, if paid be fore January Ist, 1921 After ./assuarY ' lot, 1924, $2 75 Entered at the Postoffice, State College, Pa. as second class matter 01Ic01 Nittany Printing and Publishing Co. Building, Member of Eastern interoolleglate Newspaper issoidaUon News Editor this issue TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1923 ACTION NEEDED While we watch a fighting football team representing Penn State battle its way through the stiffest of opposition, while we lend ear to those who praise the Penn State Spirit; while we watch our institution grow year by year—all of which we are Justly proud and of which we boast freely—we appear blind and insensible to the fact that a sinister and destructive change is being wrought about our campus and its traditions, which is striking at the very heart and foundations of that of which we are so proud—the Spirit that has made Penn State. Nor yet are we totally blind to this condition. It is not a case of insensibility; it is a condition of inactive, not-give-a-hang indif ference to its presence and its results. It is hard to define and point out this problem by the use of a few words; it is necessary to cite certain definite cases, some of -which have been called to the atten tion of the undergraduates before, in order to formulate a definition of the situation. The rank failure of the annual tie-up scrap last Saturday is the latest and most disgraceful event of the nature to which reference is made. The fact that no rope was on hand was merely a mechanical failure But the fact that only forty-five sophomores and a couple of hundred freshmen were on the field is the thought that must be viewed with concern Nor is this year an exception. It has been increasing every year, and not only in this but in all of the underclass scraps. Again, the class meetings must be considered where only a hand ful straggles in This condition is in , evidence not only among the underclassmen but among the Juniors and seniors as well. Then there is the question of enforcement of the customs and traditions of the college. Each year the tendency is becoming strong er to.look with unseeing eyes upon the flagrant violations of these customs. Where formerly the freshman trembled for fear of detec tion of some misdemeanor he now becomes unaffected and unchecked because the upperclassmen fail to exercise the trust left in their hands by previous classes. Is Penn State becoming a college of "cake-eaters" , Where are the rough-neck sophomores when it comes time for an annual con test between the two lower classes? Where are they and the up perclassmen when a class meeting is called? Those who do not make an effort to be on hand at the event can be found lounging around the house, playing cards, hurrying to see their favorite movie star, or manufacturing alibis for not turning out. And less and less ef fort is being made to see that the freshmen attend those gatherings which are an essential part of their education. When some of the older, more experienced and more watchful of our college officials deem it advisable to institute a change in the traditional customs and features of our college, there are those who growl and mutter at the curtailing of their rights and traditions Yet those who take such an attitude, it will be found in a majority of cases, are the very ones who shirk their rights to take part in class scraps and class meetings If they are so opposed to, and wrought up over, the assumption of their privileges, why do they not pursue actively those which are left them rather than leave them to die an ignominious death' Why do not the upperclassmen see to it that the lower class students maintain the traditions with all the force possible and do likewise themselves? For if such things as class scraps, class meeting and the enforce ment of customs are allowed to decay and disappear, it can be look ed forward to with a certainty that disintegration and lack of unity will be the result Individualism will, and is now, working its way into the student body, and when that is accomplished, the famed and honored Penn State Spirit will be no longer. In union there is an objective as well as strength. Action is needed to offset and check this individualistic growth, which has caused the downfall of na tions. SPECIAL TRAINS With the approach of the gridiron encounters with Penn and the Panther comes the annual discussion of special trains to carry loyal Penn State rooters to and from these games. Student Council has appointed the customary committee to investigate the mat ter. Let us hope that the discussion this year will culminate in the announcement that special trains will be available for both con tests One of the main objections to students following the team to out-of-town games is that they miss many classes. This espec ially holds true when it becomes necessary for them to hike to Philadelphia or to Pittsburgh, a process which consumes, as a rule, two or three days Even when the regular trains ore used an extra day is usually lost A special train can eliminate this trouble. It is possible to leave Penn State after classes on Friday eve ning, travel to Philadelphia via special train, and return after the game Saturday night. In this way only Saturday morning classes Will be missed Since there are no classes on Thanksgiving day, it is pos sible by using a special train to make the trip and return without the loss of a single class. There is no doubt that many students will go to the games this fall, and there is no doubt that many more will go if special trains are available. Shall we drop the matter of special trains and let these students miss an average of three days of classes, or shall we arrange for special trains and thus make it possible for the greatest number of students to go, with the minimum loss in class attendance? ... Editor-In-Chief Managing Editor Xanaging Editor It S Morris, '26 W. L. Pratt, .25 mi., E. IT. Lowry, '24 ...Miss M. Farley, '26 J. H. McCulloch, '25 W. L.' PRATT Letter Box Eakin Ponn State COLLEGIAN MEMO Et ert teat to an ever Increasing de gree ac Iliad that there Is a leaning in the spirit that brings men out to the under class scraps— This was more than oldent In the scrap which should luta, been staged last Saturday atter noon What Iswrong'; There were perhaps Use hundred freshmen on the field True, they were there more or less un der compulsion But that of the soph omores? It mould he giving them odds to se> that thole were a hundred there for the scrap Then to make things oorse, some .0 else slipped up, It is hard to place the blame but title much can be said, Jon the scrap %thick this scheduled lot not Satutday did not take Place Why . Litete otele newly enough sophomores there to make a shooing and a scrap might hate taken place if there had open any rope on the field, but there oat, no tope there No one knew any thing about rope, and how is a man to be tied op without rope' Perhapee this scrap .111 take place at a later date I hope so. In this et out let all the sophomores come out There are rules, I believe, .hick if enforced, old make then, turn out There is no reason ohy these Cult. should not be enforced for second tear men as tied as for the first year men Let Co have a tie up scrap, a rea tie-up scrap with all the under clans men out and not Jun a mere handful 'An ounce of prevention Is 'Werth pound of cure' . We must keep spirit between the classes. EKE= 1 Facts and Figures EE=I The department of Mechanical Engi neering gives instruction In Heat En gineering, Machine Design, Power Lab oratory, Railway Mechanical Engineer- Ing and near Mill Engineering About two hundred and fifty students are en rolled In Mechanical Engineering In struction Is, however, given to all stu dents enrolled In the School of Engi neering at. some time during their courses It is worthy of note that last Ymr forty-sewn per cent of the In structional work of the department was In connection with courses given to students enrolled with other depart ments A total of one thousand eight hundred and ten students are receiving Instruction in the forty-eight catalogue courses The department was one of those in cluded in the School of Engineering n hen in 1896 the old department of Mechanic Arts of the college was re organized L E Reber, Hugo firmer, 4 A Harding, d A. Moyer and E Feasenden In the order named, have served as heads of the department Pro fessor A .1 Wood, the present head, nas appointed in 1921 The first graduates In Mechanical Engineering store John Price Jackson, Henry D Miles and J D &ruble, mem bers of the class of 1889. All three of these mon are prominent engineers and have been active In the affairs of Penn State Altogether, the department hat graduated six hundred and eighty three men Following the fire which destroyed `he Main Engineering Building in 1918, plans were started for a new building to house the laboratory of the depart ment A careful Inspection was made of Mechanical Laboratories et most of , ho colleges east of the Mississippi, and as a result the New Mechanical Labor atory stands out as a model of its kind It Is the largest single building on the campus devoted to engineering Instruc tion , and contains over twenty-five thousand square feet of floor area The greater part of the equipment is new and represents the latest practice Alumni have shown much Interest In the work of the Department and many Diem. of equipment have been secured through their assistance On the third fear of the laboratory is located an In teresting display of machine parts and of power equipment The relation existing between the de• partment and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers has long been close A Student Branch of the Society has been maintained for nearly fifteen truce In 1921 a paper written by two Penn State students was awarded the prise otTered by the Society for the heel technical paper presented by tiny stu dent member of any mechanical .0.1 At present twelve of the seventeen members of the deportment TestlliY are members of the Society. Scarcely any of the colleges In the East otter courses in Railway Mechan ical Engineering. The course given by the department hue been materially strengthened by the active Interest shown by many of the corporations of the State, notably the Pennsylvania Preparing for. praialtauloMons u g:t. ALL gate the one year lomat. training myna acted ntßabson IngrUtuta. ,Glance am conducted on the =renew, MM. The Instructora ere experienced bud. nese menolucceesfut ht theft own Ilneu Yon =Own ectualcosee—nothypnthetiodprob• 141. You t pro tre w tomhzto=n o es u t ectuel bunkum practice., - •Write`forßooklet Seed for booklet , Traittleg for Madsen Describes Mei:ounce In detail c r 'l iriitr 'fi r b e t I aaclteer2oorhg re t z w !rr ic tfl o tri o So o r .. er.ecutwe roles. Write Babson Institute [ • 1 3.32 Waathsatoa Ave. Babson Pak, (WM Mau* THE PENMSTATE cCOLLSGIAN Railroad. The deurimornetcr car lit connection pith determining the pill required to move trains, was presented be this company. An outstanding fea ture of the rallwa3 course lies in the I let that practlwill3 oery graduate Is' actlielY engaged In radioed pork The department stiff has co-operated Mar' the Bureau of Chemistry, U S Depitment.of Agriculture, In making ntestigations Into the causes of dust explosions In mills and elevators An .nvestaration to noP in ieesrom to do [ermine the relative bee rdmaking qual ities of the 'ultras Pennsylsarda wheats Conoldetable rematch 50011 bas bran aftied on by the delfartnleat staff, and Aso in connection ugh the Engineer ing Experiment Station In the years ilrectly following the establishment of .Its station the interest in Ito wort. as largely m ant/tined by members yf it , MeLltanical En e incrring Faculty rite Influence of tiffs interest Is still -,dent In the fact that the main re farch project of the station (Heat ransmission) was flist begun by Pr 0.... .... Harding In 1109-11 la Thoughts of Others ALMA MATER (The Getl)Ourgh.h) The student body, as far as no have aeon able to ascertain. Is opposed to the singing at the Alma Mater at an) .kne during a' game, excepting at the end of the contest On Saturday, alth ea( authority from any responsible Source, the Alma Mater ass sung be mem halveS E.hablished pradiGong of Gettysburg can not thy disregarded n this manner. It seems that the proper Proeedurr io change an) established custom Could be to secure the majority sap port of the students Since it Is quite ,vident that such support is lacking n this Instance, I,e ash—why seas the Alma Mater sung at the end of the first bulf9 Someone, 'we hear, claims that they. Is too much confusion at the end o. rams to permit singing This verso Idently did not attend the Vora pith Lehigh or Penn State, nor doe' ao seem to appreciate the real mean log of the singing of the Alma Mater fn spite of all confusion. the Alma Ma to must be sung at the end of al games The Alma ' Motet Is not t fighting song, it Is not Intended to arouse the lighting qualities of the team It Is, rather, a reflected dedication for those who sing It to be loyal and honorable Gettysburg men It Is an et !demo of spiritual sletory eter the possible dis tracting Influence of a material viotorY over dgfeat. It breathes undying de votion and love to our Institution If we 'should think of Gettysburg us possessing qualities of biological life, mould she prefer us to offer our praises and. our pier es at the middle, or at the end of iask7 W. S. WETZELL QUALIFIES FOR MEMBERSHIP IN "400^ CLUB W 9 Wet..ll '22 is now a bona fide farmer and has qualified for member ship in the exclusive "400" Club, mem bership which is limited to those points growers of the state Nl. h o have groan four hundred or more bushels Zif potatoms to the acre Wetrell's tons 412, therelly.fulfiling the conditions for membership In an agricultural club'l that is recognized by the best farmers I of the state Wetzel' will be remember ed by those here at the time far his stork on the varsity urestling team of 1922 FOOTBALL' ENTHUSIAST FLIES TO WITNESS GRIDIRON CLASH The attraction of a football game this . year is on the rise W. R. Walsh, an alumnus of the University of Michigan flew from Denver to Ann Arbor to wit ness the game between Michigan and Ohio State Never —this lifetime friend 1' ,Gridiron . : Gossip In our advance , write-up on the Penn State-West Virginia game - we male the statement that the Nittany grid ma chine with two of Ito most vital cog. miming, would tako the field squeaking badly. But some very efficient lubricant must have been applied for the much-feared equenk tailed to develop and Beadek's Lions out-played the hardy Mountain eers from Wiest Virginia. From this it would seem that the Nit any; machine functions like a certain voll-knon n make of car which is sald to run without its motor It etas a forward pits. each time th.tt PUt the 4th across Penn Staten goal line and .tared off defeat for Coach Spear's .team But we can take Borne consolation [tom the tact that an aerial attack nought eeoc to more than one of Penn state s futur e grid opponents Robertson, quarterback and captain of the Carnegie Tech team, hurled a fifty-three yard pass to his left end that put the ball to 21 position for the only touchdown of the game As a result the Plaid romped off with Its fleet victory °Nor Pitt In four years Georgil Tech Is still puzzling over Notre, Dame's aerial attack which cent them back to the Southland with a 36 to 7 defeat • , A banner carried around the field by the band or a West Virginia coal com pany announced to the public that the Mountaineer team was us hard to beat as Its coat But It is a generally known fact that West Virginia's coal Is soft ;shorans Pennsylvania's Is hard Report.; state that Alike Palm is sul taring yath bursitis We have heard or tonollitle, aPPea dleitls, and St Vitus hot this is now "Ills" to us Whatever it IR we hope that there le a quick and Rare cure Light's punting has been remarkablY consistent and effective In the games against West Virginia and Navy Against the Middles ho got off ton boots for an atoms° of forty-eight yards Saturday bin records wan °oven Into for an averngo of forty-fly With three bands on the field at ono time, as bitter a contest Rae ranged between the halves as during the game But there was no doubt on to the out come The Penn State band scored a _.,...._,..............._..... , r , , ~,,'lllll:sage.. l 11 .fllValliK 4 A)ue n ee, / _ . - For real Founten Satesfaetion Use "The Ink-That Made The Fountain-Pen Possible" .SANFORYS FOUNTAIN PEN INK flunks nutnlile triumph in its new Unit°, For the second time In his gridiron areer Joe Bedeck woo forced to leave he game on account'of Injuries Last tear against Penn, the lighting captain currently escaped ooncussion of the brain as t `a result of Ws bull like rushes through thit Red and Blue line PENN STATE_MAN-GAENS RECOGNITION AT COLUMBIA A Palmer member of the Penneyl ‘anla State Department oft Education, Mr Frank Morey, who for three years was located at Harrisburg, Jumped in to prominence at Columbia University lately when he UMr elected to the presl deem of the Oroluate Club of Teach ers College Mr Morey, whose home Is in York, ecniup Ivan's., was graduated at Penn State In MS, and after serving during the war as un instructor in the Central Officers Training Caton at Camp Lee , Virginia, went to HarriSburg to take J. position In the, State Department of Public Instruction His Clerk in the atpltal city dealt with vocational agri cultural education us outlined by the Smith Hughes Act. 'The Harrisburg mnn secured his Mastery Degree in Administration last spring and Is now working towards his Ph D, in' the adminfetrativa depart ment of Teachers College When Inter viewed as to the policies he would In augurate as President of the Graduate Club, Mr Morey was no saying that there would not ba my changes for some time In the ordlnury program of the organization, which calls for many social functions during tho year. LIFE ENROLL AT DARTMOUTH The e mouth t and four t3-one men nth. ollment of freshmen at Dart- Ms year contains ono hundred sons of manufacturers, nigh .ons of merchants, forty-eight ose fathers are ollicers of man- g companies, ...thirty-sic eons of doelots, thirty-three sons of lawyers, twenty-five eons of engineers, twenty four sons of farmers and eighteen sons of laborers L PARKER PENS ARE MAD. 13' 1 - 10 •A - Written with a Parker by • H. P. 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The cap is reinforced - by a strong metal girdle the only pen we know of, of equal size, at less than $5 with a banded cap. Try r thi . Mit Q . nea ma r e -by the students' own speeificedonu THE PARKER PEN COMPANY. JANESVILLE. WIS. Sfoutfauturors oho of Pather"Lucky Lock" Pencils 5\ lige , Pa • erD.Q© Long orShort—Largeßingor Chp—rhofold Standards FOR SALE BY L. IL 'METZGER THE ATHLETIC STORE THE VARSITY STORE .„Differentlecause Of Its Cut When you -see SOCIETY BRAND SUITS and OVERCOATS'you look twice;..their smart air impress es you at once; there's nothing like it. That's be cause of its cut. Crawford Shoes Sheep Lined Coats Florsheim: Shoes Knickers—Golf Hose THE, QUALITY SHOP OPPOSITE FRONT CAMPUS M. 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