STATE COLLEGIAN I
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State College in the intercut ot the Students. Fac
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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
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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
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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.