STATE COLLEGIAN
Published on Thursday of each week during the
college year in the interest of The Pennsylvania
State College.
EDITORS,
ALEX. HART, Jr., 'O5, Chief,
F. M. TORRENCE, *O5,
T. F. FOLTZ, ’O6,
W. J. DUMM, 'O6,
ED. FAWKES, ’O6,
F. K. BREWSTER, ’O7
BUSINESS MANAGER.
W. G. HECKATHORNE,
CIRCULATION MANAGER.
P. A. RAINEY, ’O7
ASSISTANT.
W. N. LE PASS, ’OB.
SUBSCRIPTION,
$1.50 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, Jan. 12, 1905
EDITORIAL
The announcement of the gifts of
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie to
the students of this institution, made
the opening college day of the New
Year a most auspicious one. In
the past, the Scholarship and Bene
ficiary Funds have been all too
small to meet the calls made on
them by worthy students. The
number of men who are working
their way through college has natur
ally increased with the growth of the
student body. Many a time the
loan of a few dollars will help a
worthy struggling fellow over a hard
place. It is to enable the College to
stretch out a helping hand to these
fellows that Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie
gave this money. In years to come
many a man will rise up and bless
the generosity and kindly interest of
the great Iron master and his noble
wife.
It is rapidly approaching the time
of the year when it used to be the
custom to issue schedules. It is to
be hoped that the Faculty
Committee having this matter in
charge will not maintain the stand
taken at the opening of the present
semester.
It was formerly the custom to is
sue schedules gratis to all who
applied for them. As the number
of students increased, the demand
for schedules increased also. The
Schedule Committee, being of an
economical turn of mind, thought
to reduce the printing bill by charg
ing five cents a copy for the neces
sary paste boards. A few of the
bright minds in the student body
conceived the brilliant scheme of
outwitting the Committee. They
managed to procure copies of the
documents in question, had them
printed at an out-of-town plant and
hurrying them back before the
Semester opened, scored a clean
knock-out on the promoters of the
“Trust.” This was last February.
At the beginning of this year, no
schedules of any description could
be secured for love or money. The
Committee declined to assume the
risk. We presume to question the
justice of that attitude.
It is supposed that the college
authorities wish everything to run as
smoothly as possible, to have
instructions condensed and arrang
ed so that every student and in
structor will know exactly where
he is to go and what he is to study
or work at when he arrives at that
place. A college issues schedules
for the benefit of its students on the
same principle that a railroad issues
time tables to oblige its patrons.
To be sure there is some little cost
connected with the printing of
schedules, but the college should
be prepared to bear that. It is
one of the expenses connected with
management of a well organized and
responsible institution. If a railroad
should refuse to issue time tables
gratis and make a charge for the
same, there would be a sharp
decrease in the profits of that com-
pany for the ensuing month. But
college students have no such redress.
They can only protest against the
justice and righteousness of such ac
tion on the part “of the powers that
be.”
If the railroad or the college in
question is too poorto issue schedules,
that is a horse of another color.
College students are noted for their
generosity and charitable propensities
and the average college man is gen
erally glad of an opportunity to help
the deserving poor. But if it is a
open question whether or not the
“poor” are "deserving,” the would
be beneficiaries can hardly expect to
escape without considerable “kick
ing” and adverse criticism before
the “charity” is disgorged.
The sacred concert in the Audi
torium on Sunday, Dec. 18th, was
largely attended by the students and
Faculty and seemed to be much ap
preciated. The interest taken
warrants the assumption that affairs
of this or a similar sort would be
just as well patronized. Our iso
lated situation renders the frequent
visits of professional entertainers very
difficult and even when procured,
often prove costly. Why not make
local talent concerts, and entertain
ments more frequent? It costs
little or nothing to get them up and
the practice afforded as well as the
pleasure given, will more than re
pay the effort.
St. Louis Awards
The Mining Department of the
College captured two of the awards
made by the St. Louis Commission
ers, which have just been published.
One was for a collective clay exhibit.
The other display which captured a
prize was a model of a coal tipple
and bee-hive coke ovens. It is
understood that the Chemistry ex
hibit of this institution was also
awarded a blue ribbon, but this has
not as yet been confirmed.