State Colle lan. Vol. IV, No 8 Pennsylvania Day Preparations for the celebration of Pennsylvania Day are progressing rapidly. Governor Stuart has con- sented to be present, and a long and interesting program will be carried out. As, according to present in formation, the Governor will not ar rive until 10.30, the exercises will commence as scheduled and the Governor will enter without cere mony and without interrupting the exercises The following exercises for the dedication of the new Agricultural building will be held in the Audi torium. commencing at 10.00. Address,Edwin S.Stuart, Govern or of Pennsylvania. Address, James A. Beaver, presi dent of the Board of grustees. Address, Thomas F. Hunt, Dean and Director of the School of Agri culture and Experiment Station. Address, Nathan C. Schaeffer, Superintendent of Public Instruction and Chairman of Allied Agricultural organizations. Address, The Education of the Farmer, Whitman H. Jordan, Di rector of the New York State Agri cultural Experiment Station. At -2.00 p. m. Governor Stuart will review the cadet regiment. After the review he will inspect the new Agricultural buildings and will be the guest of honor at a reception tendered him and the other invited guests by the Trustees, Faculty and Students, in the Assembly room of the new building. The Governor will leave for Harrisburg at 3.30 p. m. West Virginia has canceled the football game scheduled for Penn sylvania Day, but it is probable that STATE COLLEGE, PA., NOVEMBER 14, 1907 a game will be arranged between the Varsity and the Scrubs. The Agricultural Society of the Pennsylvania State College will hold a meeting in the Assembly room of the Agricultural building at 8.00, p. m., to which the public is invited. A special train will leave Belle fonte over the Bellefonte Central at 8.30 a. m., arriving at State College at 9.30 a. m., and will leave State College at 3.30 p. m., arriving at Bellefonte at 4..0 p. m., in time to connect with trains for Tyrone and Lock Haven. The Scotch Singers. Tne second entertainment of the Y. M. C• A. course will be given next Saturday evening in the Audi torium. The attraction is •the "Scotch Singers"—a quartette of Highland lassies who sing the typical old and new songs of bonnie Scotland. Miss Crawford, the leader of the quartett, is a contralto of note, and her solos will be a feature of the program. But what will undoubtedly be the hits of the evening will be the rendition by the plaid-gowned quartett of the famous melodies of the heather-clad hills; melodies ranging in character from "The Old Hoose" and "Scottish Blue Bells" to the time-honored but never old "Old Lang Syne" and "Annie Laurie." Reserved seat tickets are now on sale at Meek's. The University of Indiana has in stalled a course in newspaper train ing, with two prominent journalists as instructors. Amherst has discontinued inter collegiate basketball while Ursinus will have a team for the first time this year. Price Five Cents The Honor System Spreads For several weeks the junior Me- chanicals have been doing some quiet work on an honor system and it was finally adopted last Friday. It is intended to cover examinations, quizzes, and classroom work. This system is somewhat similar to that adopted by the Electricals last spring, but differs from it in several important respects. Each student, in order to make his quiz or examination paper valid, must attach to it a signed statement that in its preparation he has neither given nor received aid of any kind. An instructor may be present during e.lmminations or quizzes but must not exercise surveillance over the class Any violations reported will be investigated by a standing corn mitee of three. The penalty for the first offense will be a recommenda tion for a zero grade in the exercise during which it occurred. For a final examination this will be equiva lent to repeating the subject. For the second offense the committee will recommend expulsion from col lege. 'the articles constituting the sys tem will be signed at the beginning of each semester by each 1909 Mechanical student and will not ap ply to the others taking work in the same classes. - In his repott to the Board of Trustees of Cornell University Presi dent Schurman advocates a five year course leading to a professional de gree. He believes that the human istic studies should be pursued the first year, general scientific the sec ond, and tech iical branches the re maining three.
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