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. DUMM,
ED. FAWKES, ’O6,
F. K. BREWSTER, ’O7
F. B. GARRAHAN, ’O7
BUSINESS MANAGER.
P. A. RAINEY, ’O7.
CIRCULATION MANAGER.
H. P. DAWSON,
ADVERTISING MANAGER
W. N. LE PAGE, ’OB.
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Thursday, MARCH 9, 1905
EDITORIAL
Owing to an oversight all the cop
ies of the Collegian for' Novem
ber 17 have been sent out, conse
quently this issue is absent from the
file in the Collegian room. If
any student has a copy of this num
ber and does not care to save it he
will confer a great favor on the
board by dropping it in the box of
Room 323, Main.
With a record of six victories in
eight games, State closes a brilliant
basketball season. The Wilkes
barre team, which was scheduled to
play on the tenth, cancelled its
game, and as another good team
could not be secured in so short a
time, it was decided to call it off.
The season was an unusually success
ful one. Altoona A. A., Wyoming
Seminary, Dickinson, (two games,)
Pennsylvania, and Franklin and
Marshall were beaten while Swarth
more and Altoona are responsible
for the two defeats. With the excep-
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tion of Cal Moorhead, who by the
way is no spring chicken at the
game, this year’s team was the same
as last year’s. Dunn graduates this
year and will be hard to replace.
That he was an excellent man is
shown by the fact that he was elect
ed captain for two successive years.
With this exception the prospects
for next year are very bright. All
the men have had good experience
and there - is quite a bunch of others
who will make them work hard for
their positions when candidates are
called out for the season of 1906.
By recent action of the Pennsyl
vania legislature the college hazer is
declared a criminal. The bill states
that ‘ ‘if any person or persons shall
maliciously inflict on any person
any grievious bodily harm by what
is commonly known as hazing, either
with or without any weapon or in
strument, while attending or going
to or coming from any of the com
mon schools, colleges, universities
or any other institution of learning
within this commonwealth', he, she
or they shall be guilty of misde
meanor.
“Being convicted, he, she or they
shall be sentenced to a fine not ex
ceeding $5OO, or undergo an impris
onment of not more than six months,
or both.”
It is probable that this law will go
down along with those that cause no
other effect than to occupy space on
legal parchment.
According to Rainey’s poster on
the bulletin board there are ‘ ‘ signs
of spring in the air.” The front cam
pus shows the same indications as the
snow has melted and the ground is
soft. This is the opportune time to
make some beautiful paths across it
and just a very little carelessness at
this time of the year will deface it for
the whole summer. At Commence
ment time this year we are go
ing to have one of the greatest cele
brations in the history of the college
and all true State men will do well
to prepare for those days by “keep
ing off the campus’ ’ while it is thaw
ing.
The Hewer.
The life of George Grey Barnard,
the sculptor, to whose generosity we
owe the beautiful plaster model of
“The Hewer” in the entrance of the
Auditorium, should serve as an in
spiration towards higher efforts for
every college man. He has now
complete charge of the sculpture
work for the new Capitol at Harris
burg, which fact alone shows his
success.
He was born at Bellefonte in 1863,
lived until his twelfth year on the
shores of the great lake near Chica
go, and until sixteen in lowa, on the
banks of the Mississippi. He was
the son of a clergyman of broad
sympathies, but it was from his
mother, chiefly, that he derived his
artistic temperament. He was a
close student of nature both in the
mineral and in the animal kingdoms.
When only fifteen he was an expert
taxidermist. His whole student life
was one of struggle for the necessi
ties of life. With $B9 he lived a
whole year in Chicago, drawing and
modeling for the Chicago Art
Institute. Here he received his
first work and made a portrait bust
of a boy for which he received $3OO.
That opened the way to Paris where
his toils and struggles against the
greatest of obstacles and his final
triumphs read like a fairy tale.
His next works, “Brotherly Love”,
a group for the tomb of a Norweg
ian philanthropist, and, “I Feel Two
Natures Struggling Within Me,”
which has a prominent position in
the Metropolitan Museum, are mas
terpieces.
In “The Hewer,” a colossal fig
ure in gray-toned marble, from the
same quarry as Michael Angelo’s
“David,” by simple synthesis, he
has brought together and concen
trated into a single figure of prehis
toric man, the whole gospel of labor,
in its birth and beginning, in its dis
cipline and in its dignity. Among