STATE COLLEGIAN
Published on Thursday of each week during the
college year by the students of The Pennsylvania
State College in the interest of the Students. l‘‘ac
ulty. Alumni and friends of the college.
Entered at the Post Office, State College, Pa.,
as second class matter.
EDITORS
T. F. FOLTZ, ’O6, Chief.
F. K. BREWSTER, ’O7.
F. B. GARRAHAN, 'O7.
H. D. MASON, ’O7.
A. K. LITTLE, ’O7
R. B. MECKLEY, 08.
J. K. BARNES, ’O9.
BUSINESS MANAGERS.
W. J. DUMM, ’O6,
S. H. YORKS, 'O7.
B. W. SCRIBNER, ’OB
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THURSDAY, JAN. 11, 1906,
EDITORIAL
College opened Wednesday morn
ing at 11 o’clock with chapel ser
vices in the Auditorium. Once more
the college halls resound with heavy
tread ; pipes, corduroys, and jerseys
are seen on the campus, and the
simple student swaggers about with
his hands in his pockets, trying to
appear indifferent to the fact that
“a weeka go at this time” he was en
joying himself at home. Once more
the “Co-op” does a rushing busi
ness on stationary and Uncle Sam
smiles to think of the postage
revenue that he will derive from the
sale of two cent stamps, while the
Post Office force wishes the
students would never come back.
The Seniors are beginning to think
with sadness (?) of the fact that
they are doing some things for the
last time ; the Juniors are grinding
Applied for examination; the
Sophomores are on the lookout for
that 1909 picture scrap; and .the
Freshmen are strutting around in
their brand new class jerseys. One
hundred per cent of the students are
wishing the vacation had been two
weeks longer, and seventy-five per
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cent declare ‘ ‘if they had been home
a week longer they would have been
married.” Some are looking forward
with concern, others with complacen
cy, and all with interest, to examina
tion week. Soon the first semester
will end and the second begin,and one
of these fine mornings will be Com
mencement Day. My, how time
flies.
Our good friend, Gen. Beaver,
has taken the initiative in what we
hope will be followed by State’s
students, alumni and friends. We
speak of his recent gift of a set of
handsome books to the library. At
present our acquisitions of reading
matter are not as frequent as is in
keeping with the present growing
condition of the college. We must
have more interest shown in our
library which is housed in one of the
handsomest buildings obtainable.
There are lots of empty shelves
which need filling and there are
scores of books which should at
present be accompying them. We
will give an extract from Gen. Bea
ver’s letter to the Collegian,
“Suppose that every alumnus and
every student of the college were to
send to the library even one book
each Christmas, what a loving trib
ute it would be and how it would
soon build up the library in current
literature! There are many fellows,
however, who, if they thought of it
at all, wouldn’t be content with one
book and might send a set or a ser
ies, or a box that would simply
overwhelm the librarian for the|time.
It is worth thinking about, worth
discussing and worth working for.
-i- -f- If the librarians would
contribute to the success of the
scheme by telling you what they
specially need, it would help, and, if
books were duplicated, some arrange
ment could doubtless be made for ex
changing them. If the recould be con
certed action where State men con
gregate—say in New York, Philadel
phia, Pitttsburg and the great
industrial centres, to which they
gravitate, it would be very easy to
make up a contribution that would
be of great value and be some s’ight
expression of the gratitude which
every man who has been there owes
to his Alma Mater.” The State
Collegian will make arrangements
with the Librarian to • publish oc
casionally lists of books that are
needed.
COLLEGE ORBIT.
William J. Bryan has given $4OO
to the University of South Dakota
to be used isa prize for a series of
essays on government.
Purdue University has a $40,000
appropriation for a civil engineering
building, which is available on and
after November, 1905.
Every class at Harvard has a
Mandolin club and the University
Mandolin club is composed of the
best men from the class clubs.
A course in journalism has been
established at the University of
North Uako'a. Credit will be given
to the editors of the college daily in
proportion to the amount of work
they do.
Three Columbia College Sopho
mores have been denied all college
privileges, banished from the camp
us, and suspended for one year for
hazing, in violation of the honor
agreement.
A printing press has been estab
lished at Swarthmore, known as
“the Swarthmore College Press.”
The regular college publications as
well as college pamplets and books
are being issued from this press.
Miss Minnetta Taylor, for years
professor of romance languages in
De Pauw University, speaks fluently
twenty-two different tongues, is able
to conveise fairly well in nine
others, and can read four more.