STATE COLLEGIAN I Published on Thursday of each wcclc during the college year by the students ut The Pennsylvania State College in the intercut ot the Students. Fac ulty. Alumni and triends of the college. Entered at the Post Office, State College, Pa., as second class mattei. EDITORS T. F. FOLTZ, 'O6, Chief. F. K. BREWSTER, '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 SUBSCRIPTION, $l. 50 per year or $1.25 if paid within 20 days after date of subscription. THURSDAY, MARCH 22. 1906. EDITORIAL We publish in another column several rules that had to be adopted by the Young Men’s Christian Asso ciation in regard to the use and abuse of the Association room, 273 Main. It should not have been necessary to have made these rules, but the conduct of certain fre quenters of the room has made it so. That any one should take the liberty of smoking and spitting in a reading and game room where others may desire to drop in and spend a pleasant hour is incompati ble with our ideas of a gentleman, and when, as in the present case, the chief offenders are under-class men and preps it becomes evident that they should be shown their place. And this lead s us to speaK of another and even more serious matter. During the last summer it was necessary for the college to re varnish fifty seats in the Auditorium because of careless conduct of stu dents. One seat had to be entirely removed and replaced by a new one, because of being broken and hacked by a knife where some one had cut THIE STATE COLLEGIAN his initials. That any man, who ap preciates the opportunities which the college offers him, who has any sense whatever of gratitude toward the donor of that magnificent build ing, should do such a thing is incon ceivable. Such a person has no place at Pennsylvania State and should be expelled or else be cut dead by the student body. The spring vacation will be de clared on Wednesday, March 2Sth a fell a. m., and will extend to the same hour on Wednesday April 4th. On this account the next two issues of the Collegian will be omitted. Literary “IKE MARVEL” ON COLLEGE LIFE. “Ike Marvel,” the venerable Don ald G. Mitchell, is now past eighty, and it is interesting to look back and read his reflections on his col'ege days, written at the noon-time of his life. “I happened only a little while ago to drop into the college chapel of a Sunday. There were the same hard oak benches below, and the lucky fellows who enjoyed a corner seat were leaning back upon the rail, af ter the old fashion. The tutors were perched up in their side boxes, look ing as prim, and serious, and impor tant as ever. The same Doctor read the hymn in the same rythmical way; and he prayed the same prayer, for (I thought) the same old sort of sin ners. As I shut my eyes to listen, it seemed as if intermediate years had all gone out; and that I was on my own pew bench, and thinking out those little schemes for excuses, or for effort, which were to relieve me, or to advance me, in my college world. “I went up at night, and skulked around the buildings, when the lights were blazing from all the windows, and they were busy with their tasks —plain tasks, and easy tasks —be- cause they are certain tasks. Hap py fellows —thought I—who have only to do what is set before you to be done. But the time is coming, and very fast, when you must not only do, but know what to do. The time is coming, when in place of your one master, you will have a thousand masters —masters of duty, of business, of pleasure, and of grief —giving you harder lessons each one of them, than any here.” Current Events, FRIDAY, MAR. 23, 6.30 P. M. Mechanical Engineer- ing Society. SATURDAY, MAR. 24, 6.00 P. M. Senior Examination in' Constitutional Government. 8.00 P. M. Band Concert in Audi torium. SUNDAY, MAR. 25. 11.00 A. M. Chapel. 6.00 P. M. Y.M.C.A. 529 Main MONDAY MAR 26 0.00 P. M. Senior Examination in Constitutional Government. TUESDAY, MAR. 27 6.30 P. M. Y.M.C.A. 529 Main WEDNESDAY, MAR. 28. 11.00A.M. Spring vacation be gins. ALUMNI H. A. Robbins, ’Ol, is Assistan Electrical Engineer with the' Brook lyn Rapid Transit Co., with head quarters at 168 Montague Street Brooklyn, N. Y. He and H. E. Stoelzing, ’O3, have charge of all Electrical construction woik on cen tral and sub-stations for the com pany. C. W. Burkett, ’95, is chief En gineer of the Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co., at Milwaukee> Wis. H. R. Cook, ’O4, has a position in the electrical department of the Laclede Power Co., of St. Louis, Mo.
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