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.