STATE COLLEGIAN Published on Thursday of each week during the college year in the interest of The Pennsyl vania State College. EDITORS. W. B. Hoke, ’O5, Chief, Alex. Hart, Jr., ’O5, T. F. Foltz, ’O6, F. K. Brewster, ’O7 BUSINESS MANAGER W. G. Heckathorne, ’O6, SUBSCRIPTION. 81.60 per year or $1.25 if paid within 30 days after date of subscription. Entered at the Post Office, State College, Pa. as second class matter. Thursday, Oct. 6, 1904. We take this occasion to express our appreciation of the kindness of the reception tendered the State Collegian on all sides. Many errors and crudities, of necessity, accompanied the first edition, due to the inexperience and unfamil iarity of the editors and business managers with their duties. These, however, will be remedied as we proceed, and we bespeak the con tinued kindness and indulgence of our subscribers and advertisers to ward our publication. It is our firm intention to print only items that will be of interest to the col lege community and to make our advertising columns as attractive to the reader and thus as profitable to the advertiser as we possibly can. In this we ask your assistance. You can help us if you will. If there are any items about your friends or something interesting about the Alumni that you learn of, drop them in the box at 323 Main, or hand them to one of the editors. If you have any strong ideas or opinions on college ques tions of moment, write them out and if they are at all reasonable we’ll print them. If you have any strong kicks coming, against us or any one else, send them in. If they won’t break us up in business we’ll print them. We’re not running this paper for our health ! We’re putting it out to benefit the college, to put State where it belongs in the rank of in stitutions of its own calibre. If you’re a lojml “State man” you’ll subscribe and help us out. If you don’t subscribe ! Well, we have no words to express our opinion of a man who hasn’t “college spirit” enough to help our enterprise. Of course there are a few fellows who really can’t afford to pay one dol lar and a quarter. We are not speaking to that class. It is our firm opinion that there are a very small number who belong in that category. To the Alumni! At last we are giving you a medium which will enable you to keep in touch with the college and its doings. It was the constant complaint of a number among you that the Free Dance did not do this. We have an alum ni column. It contains items con cerning the movements of a few of your members. You can greatly increase the interest and importance of this column by keeping us in formed of your whereabouts and what your classmates are doing. Send in your subscriptions and your news ! We need you in our business and we think you need us ! Before this appears in print the cider scrap may have occurred and the usual dispute as to the winners may be in full swing. It would be well if some definite understanding in regard to the class contests were reached at once so as to save much wrangling. As it now stands there are as many rules as there are per sons interested. Among others the principal questions involved are those relating to time, place, and that which constitutes a victory for either side. The Collegian offers these sug gestions : Fiist. That the area on which the cider must be placed to be leg ally “on the campus’’ be that ex tending from College Ave., to the road 'beyond the athletic field and included between Allen street and the white fence along the Experi ment Station road, Second. That the time for placing the cider in the above district be from 6 P. M, till midnight of any day (except Sunday) from the date of the wrestling match till the last day before the Thanksgiving vaca tion. Third. That the Freshmen shall be declared winners if they succeed in placing a barrel of cider in the required area within the required time and in delivering some of this cider to any Juniors. Fourth. That the victory belong ■to the Sophomores if they foil all attempts to place the cider on the campus until the time limit or if they spill or capture the first cider that may be placed on the campus before any is delivered to a Junior. Fifth. That if the cider is taken before it is within the prescribed limits the Freshmen have merely a financial loss and may make another trial. The wrestling match and the football game are as decisive as any contest can be, but the picture scrap, the Freshman banquet, and the flag scrap need considerable definition. Upper-classmen should take these things in hand at once and formulate distinct rules for the things which are necessary to gen erate and keep up class spirit. ATTENTION ! All the societies, clubs, organi zations and fraternities of the col lege can help the editors of this paper by instructing their secre taries to drop notices and reports in the slot in the door of 323 Main.
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