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,
T. F. FOLTZ,
W. J. DOMM, ’O6,
ED. FAWKES, ’O6,
F. K. BREWSTER, ’O7
F. B. GARRAHAN, 'O7
BUSINESS MANAGER.
W. G. HECKATHORNE, ’O6.
CIRCULATION MANAGER.
P. A. RAINEY, 'O7
ASSISTANTS,
H. P. DAWSON, ’O7
. W. N. LE PAGE, ’O3.
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Thursday, Feb 2, 1905
EDITORIAL
What is this much talked of and
mysterious psychological pheno
mena of the student called college
spirit ? It is not to fail to attend
every foot ball game (the marking
out of the field, etc., will furnish
employment enough to admit every
poor boy in school) ; it is not to be
ignorant of the date of the next
game after it has been billed two or
three, days; it is not to yell when
our team is gaming and to groan
when it is losing; it is not for fifteen
fellows to turn out for practice when
the poach has asked fortwenty-two;
it is not to shut yourself up in your
room and get pale faced and round
shouldered; it is not to go into the
class room unprepared and flunk.
College spirit is simply that quality
of the student’s character which
makes him a good all round college
man. It makes a fellow manly,
loyal, gallant, popular, scholarly,
honest and upright. It may play an
innocent prank, but it never prompts
a base deed. —Collegian.
“ It is generally said that at col
lege the most valuable part of the
education is the associations —what
the boys teach and learn from each
other. Certain it is that this is the
most lasting and important part of
the course. Also, it is certain that
it is the part to which the least at
tention is paid. ”
Or as Emerson has tersely ex
pressed it: “Send your boy to
college, and the other boys will edu
cate him. ”
It takes about four years to learn
this truth, but we finally realize that
our college-mates have more or less
consciously given us the * ‘ gif tie ’ ’
“ to see ourselves as other see us. ”
Our rough edges have been wearing
away, and we owe a debt to the men
who have ‘ ‘ from many a blunder
freed us. ”
We certainly should improve from
our college associations, for we have
had the view-points of seven genera
tions of college men. With what
reverence we remember the men
who were seniors when we were
freshmen! With what delight we
think of the criticisms on college
life of those who are freshmen
when we are seniors ! Every one of
these seven ages of which our own
class is the center has broadened
and enriched our experience, and we
finally realize that “the other boys
have educated us. ” How well we
remember three years ago the argu
ments of our senior roommates!
One was a Republican and the other
a Democrat, and they spent no little
time in looking up arguments that
would overwhelm the other. Can
we ever forget the arguments with
our own classmates on determinism,
on religion, on our aims for life after
graduation ? And we hold it truth
that the man who does not talk over
his lessons and his problems with
his fellows is neglecting a vital force
in his education. —The Brunonian.
COLLEGE ORBIT.
Leland Stanford’s new* athletic
field, when completed, with the
grandstands, track and field house,
will cost between twenty and twenty
five thousand dollars.
A southern college requires the
members of the various athletic or
ganizations to wear distinct sweaters,
to differentiate them from each
other. Different monograms also
aid in this distinction.
The faculty of the University cf
Texas has forbidden Greek letter
fraternities to begin their pledging
until November 1. Measures will
be taken at times to modify the vigor
of the rushing season. —Ex.
The Rev. Edward James Gray,
D. D., who had occupied the posi
tion of President of Dickinson Semi
nary at Williamsport for thirty-one
years died at the Johns HopkinS
Hospital in Baltimore, Friday, Jan.
20.
Forty-two men were taken on the
Western Christmas trip of the Yale
University Glee and Mandolin
Clubs. The clubs traveled in two
special sleeping cars with a baggage
car attached and covered over 4,000
miles on the trip.
College lice is resplendent with at
tractive features, and wise indeed is
the young man who can so select
his course, so divide his time among
the various activities, that when he
comes to graduation he will experi
ence no feelings of regret concern
ing his investments of time. —Ex.
The New York Tribune has offer
ed a prize of $25 for the best essay
not exceeding eight hundred words in
length, setting forth the benefits
which result to colleges and to the
student body from college fraterni
ties, and another prize of $25 for the
best similar essay against college fra
ternities.