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
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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."