Dr. Atherton.
During the past year no announce
dient regarding State College has
beep discussed more than that of the
resignation of Dr. Atherton. Early in
the . college year he requested
. the
Trustees to choose a successor to take
place.his . The announcement was
received with a great deal of surprise,
azid regret upon the part of those
interested in the College and its suc
cess. No one familiar with the events
which have, led up to placing State
among the first colleges of the land
can fail to appreciate what Dr.
Atherton has done. When he was ap
tiointeanahe college had run down to a
very low ebb and had an unenviable
"reputation. Under his supervision,
however, it has rapidly acquired an
enviable name and standing and in
creased the number of students.
He was born at Bedford, Mass. in
1837. He prepared for college at
Phillips-Exeter Academy, and later
went to Yale. He held several pro
fessorships at St. John's college, Uni
versity of Illinois and Rutgers. He
was also the first president of the
Ainerican Association of Agricultural
Colleges and Experiment Stations and
since that time has helped , to place
th‘se institutions on a par with the
laiger colleges and universities.
As :was published in an article some
time ago: 'President Atherton ar
rived in the fall of 1882, grasped the
situation at a glance, and , began with
unremitting energy, and force to de
velop the Institution along the lines
called for. by Congress. In A few
years he had overcome the prejudice
of the people of the State toward the
College sufficiently to enable him to
convince the Legislature of Pennsyl
vania_of the responsibility of the State
for the development of the College,
and to persuade it to make more or
less suitable appropriations with scarcely
a break up to the present time. From
That time until this, new buildings
have been springing up all over the
THE STATE COLLEGIAN
campus. At a slightly later date the
President did much toward persuading
,Congress to pass ,he laws inaugurating
the experiment stations and supplying
the'grant colleges substantial annual
appropriations from the United States
Treasury.
The enmity to the College has been
gradually reversed so that, though now
and always there will be knowing
persons who would gladly tear down
that which has been so laboriously
built up, as a whole the people of this
state are proud of their State College
and believe in the work it is doing."
Inter-Class Track Meet,
1907 Wins.
The annual inter-class track meet
was held on Beaver Field on Monday
afternoon. It was an ideal day for the
meet, but owing to the hard week of
examinations just passed, little training
had beep kept up and the time of the
races showed it. One State record
was broken by Strayer, 'lO, in the pole
vault. He cleared 11 feet 1 1-2 inch
es, breaking Saudders record of 11
feet 1-2 inch made exactly a year ago
on the same field.
The Juniors.carried off the honors,
outdistancing their nearest opponents
by nearly twenty points. They secured
seven firsts, six seconds and three third
places, winning a total of 56 points.
The Sophomores were second with 37
points, then the Freshmen, 17, Sub-
Freshmen, 5, and Seniors 3.
The summaries follow :-
100 yard dash, Montz, 'O7, first, Ar
nold, 'O6, second, Henry, 'O7, third;
time, 10 2-5 seconds.
120 yard hurdles, Zink, 'OB, Long,
'O7, Henry, '08; time 16 seconds.
One mile run, Gregg, 'O7, Lawsing,
'OB, Tawney, 'O7; time 5 minutes 3-5
seconds.
440 yard dash, Henry, 'O7, Stapler,
'O7, Digby, 'O9; time 55 3-5 seconds.
220 yard hurdles, Child, 'OB, Long,
'O7, Sadler, 'O9; time 26 3-5 seconds.
Two mile run, Smith, 'OB, Mumma,
'O7, Tawney, 'O7; time 11 minutes 52
seconds
Half mile run, Stapler, 'O7, Yeckley,
'O9, Waha, 'O9; time 2 minutes 11
seconds
220 yard dash, Henry, 'O7, Long,
'O7, Mobly, 'O9; time 22 3-5 seconds.
Polevault, Strayer, 'lO, Zink, 'OB
and Llewellyn, 'O9 tied for second ;
height 11 feet' 1 1-2 inches. New
State record.
High jump, Brewster, 'O7, Llewellyn,
'O9, Behee, 'O9; height 5 feet 5 inches.
Shotput, Wray, 'O7, Dunn, 'OB, Mor
hoff, 'O9; dista::ce 35 feet 5 1-2 inches.
Hammer-threw, Dunn, 'OB, Ritchey,
'OB, Arnold, 'O9; distance 118 feet 9
1-2 inches.
Broad jump, Child, 'OB, Mon tz, 'O7,
Llewellyn, 'O9; distance 2Q feet 4 inch-
Is a College Education Worth
While?
Is a college education worth while?
This is a question that has been very
generally discussed, and many business
men have spoken lightly of the advan
tages of a college education. Presi
dent Nicholas Murray Butler, of Co
lumbia University, has the following to
say on the subject :
"No doubt there are many who
believe a college education is a hin
drance to the necessary business wis
dom of the age. There are merchants
down town who will tell you how they
started at ten or fourteen to sweep out
the office and rose by virtues and in
dustry to become members of the firm.
This is true. But you follow the car
eer of the office boy who began his utili
tarian studies with a broom, and the
collge boy who began with books, and
you will find out that when the office
boy reaches thirty he is still an em
ployee, whereas the college graduate
is probably at that age his employer
Statistics show that out of 10,000
successful men in the world,
taken in all classes of life,
8,000 are college graduates. Look at
the tremendous increase of educational
effort all over the United States in the