STATE COLLEGIAN Published on Thursday of each week during the college year by the students of The Pennsylvania State College in the intere,t of the Students. Fac 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. 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 2..'0 days after date of subscription. THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1906 EDITORIAL. With this issue the present board ceases its labors. It has been our pleasure throughout the year to furnish you this little paper and we must say that we are somewhat re luctant to give it up. We hope the paper, which is scarcely two years old, has improved some, but we are forced to admit that it is still in a very crude state. We wish that the day will soon arrive when this paper will gain enough prestage to become a credit to the institution and bring honor to the members of the board. We have much faith in the abilities of the new editor, Mr. Little who we are sure will greatly improve the paper. Our motto is "a square deal for everybody," and so we have endeavored to embody this policy in our articles and editorials. How much we have succeeded we will leave to the student body to judge. We also believe in purity in athletics. If such a state of affairs had existed throughout the country during the last few years there would be no foot ball troubles and reforms necessary. But we are THE STATE COLLEGIAN getting off the subject. We wish to thank those students who gave us their support and also those to whom we are indebted for advertisments. Literary Extracts. HAZING AT ETON IN GLADSONE'S "Fighting was a favorite diversion, hardly a day passing without one, two, three, or even four more or less mortal combats. On one occa sion, an oppidan (a student board ing in a private family in the town) vanquished a colleger, though the colleger fought so furiously that he put his fingers out of joint, and went back to his clasFic studies that soften the manners, with a face broken and quite black. "But at this same timy there was another form of hazing, very one sided, between the master and the boys, for, with plenty of fighting went on plenty of flogging; for the headmaster was the redoubtable Dr. Keate, with whom the appointed instrument of moral regeneration in the childish soul was the birch rod; who on heroic occasions was known to have flogged over eighty boys on a single day; and whose one mellow regret in the evening of his life was that he had not flogged far more." Notice Men from the Sophomore and Freshman classes desiring to try for the Collegian Board will kindly mail or drop in Room 323, Main, an article of about three hundred words on any of the following subjects: Senior Prom, Thespians, Lebanon Valley game, or any other subject appropriate for the Collegian. The same should be in the hands of the board by this Friday evening, April 27, and should be accompanied by name. and class of the author. By these articles the abilities of the candidates may be judged and elec tions will be made accordingly. Two men are needed, one from each of the two lower classes. COLLEGE ORBIT In the early history of the Univer sity of Michigan, President Tappan went, every winter, before the legisla ture in the cause of the university, and askedf or appropriations. He was always heard with pleasure since he was an excellent speaker; but certain things militated him. The worst difficulty by far which he had to meet was the steady opposition of the small sectarian colleges scattered throughout the State. Each, in its own petty interest, dread ed the growth of any institution better than itself, and the result was that the doctor, in spite of his eloquent speeches, became the butt of varicus wretched demagogues in the legisla ture, and he very rarely secured any thing in the way of effective appropria tions. Disgusted at the poor, cheap blackguardism, he shook the dust of the legisldture off his feet, and said ; "The day will come when my students will take your places, and then some thing will be done." That prophecy was fulfilled. In a decade the leading men in the legislature began to be graduates of the State University; and now these graduates are largely in control, and they have dealt nobly with their alma mater. The State has justy become proud of it, and has wisely developed it. COLLEGE NOTES. Chapel• exercises were omitted last Sunday. Pray, 'O4, was a visitor at the College Sunday. ' Ray, 'O4, was here last week to attend the Senior Prom. The permanent path between the Engineering Building and the Co-op is a great* improvement. Frank P. Clappier, ex-'O6, of Minersville, Pa.. was recently mar ried to Miss Martha Beach of the same place Prof.—" Have I made myself plain?" Freshman—"No sir, God did it."
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