Penn StateCjgllegian
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October 8, 1914
The call of the Presi-
Prayer dent of our country to all
Christians to unite in pray
er to God for peace in Europe met
with general response among all
followers of the Prince of Peace.
This call will not have completely
served its mission,however, unless it
shall have impressed upon all
thoughtful people the importance
of prayer in general and the neces
sity of continued intercession to
Him who rules the counsels of
nations that peace may come.
Prayer is an instinct. Wherever
men have believed in a Higher Pow
er—and such belief has always
been universal —they have
not waited for an argument to
prove the possibility of entering
into converse with such a Being,
but have taken for granted and act
ed upon the privilege of so doing.
An ancient historian has said that
you could travel the world over and
find cities without wells, without
letters, without kings, without
wealth, without schools, without
theaters, but a city without a tem
ple or where people did not pray
you would never see.
Prayer for the Christian is a most
rational exercise. It is for the
religious life what original research
is for science, by it we come into
direct contact with reality. Prayer
for the Christian is never an effort
to bend the will of God. It is
never an effort to persuade God to
do something He would rather not
do. It is rather an expression of
the belief that all humanity is one
family and that that family has
reached its highest ethical develop
ment when the members of the
the family become unselfishly in
terested in one another.
"It is not strange therefore that
sometimes the Father for the sake
of securing the highest ethical de
velopment should wait before do
ing a good thing for some of his
children in one country until some
of their brothers in another country
should have time to see what
brotherhood means.
A call to prayer to American
students has come from the
Council of North America Student
Movements. While thankful to
God that our own country is spared
the horrors of war we should be
reminded of the hardship and
privation that the students of
Europe are suffering. John R.
Mott, the great student leader, has
sailed recently on a mission of
mercy to the students marooned in
the countries of Europe, In a fore
word to the call of prayer to
American students, he says: "The
living God is the source of tri
umphant spiritual love and energy.
History and experience show that
He manifests Himself with
loving power in answer to the pray
ers of His children, who call upon
Him with pure hearts and in a
spirit of faith and true humility.
The situation occasioned by the
Great War presents the largest and
most insistent call to intercession
which has ever come to the students
of America. The highest office of
friendship is to help our friends in
the deepest things of life, and the
deepest things of life are those
which have to do with preserving
a right relation between man and
God and between man and man.
Among the different ways that
American students can help their
fellow students in lands now at war,
there is none which will compare in
vital importance with that of wield
ing the force of prayer.”
"For what are men better than
sheep or goats
That nourish a blind life within the
brain,
If, knowing God, they lift not hands
of prayer
Both for themselves and those who
call them friend ?
For so the whole round world is
every way
Bound by gold chains about the
feet of God.”
Any freshman
“Regulating who wants to
Freshmen” know what is ex
pected of him has
only to read his “Freshman Bible”
to find out. The rules are old;
they have never been too carefully
observed.
The Hazing Tribunal is going to
do something more than beg and
and preach. It is going to carry
out the regulations. One way for
the 1918 men to make a good start
is to live up to the things required
of them before they are brought
face to face with the alternative.
But that side is largely negative.
The more pleasing phase of the
matter is this: do something posi
tive. The idea of the college is not
merely to make the Freshman wear
a green cap and be deferential to his
elders. What State wants is that
he shall be loyal to her, that he
shall work for her welfare, that he
shall go out into the world a few
years from now a better man, be
cause of what his college has done
for him.
The 1918 student is here not to
be repressed, but to be developed.
When the Student Council laid
down certain rules years ago, it was
not because of an arbitrary desire
to curtail the pleasures of the first
year man, and when the upperclass
men advise the newcomer, they do
so from a sincere wish to make his
collegiate life more valuable.
If there is anything in
Music which the spirit at State is
wanting, it is in the matter
of music. For some season or
other this branch of our college
activity has been neglected; and
when a comparison is made with
other schools, we cannot help feel
ing a little shame at having neglect
ed so important a feature. In the
"Songs of Penn State”, recently
compiled by T. N. Robbins, the
quoto of our songs is small enough,
thebpenn state collegian
and yet quite a few of these are
wholly unfamiliar to most of us.
Why? Probably because we never
got together on them; undoubtedly
because we as a student body do
not take enough interest in the mat
ter to help the cause along when
some one does bring us face to face
with it.
There is nothing distasteful about
getting together and singing. In
fact those of us, who were here be
fore the practice of campus singing
died an untimely death, will agree
that there are few memory pictures
more pleasant than those of a group
of men sitting on the Auditorium
steps at twilight and singing the
good old songs that everybody
knows. Song, real song, comes
from the heart, and there is no bet
ter way of developing spirit, of
making men bigger, broader, truer,
than to get them singing.
If we get singers, songs will come
as a matter of course. We have
quite a number of songs that will
bear practice, and others that could
be served up as brand new as far as
most of us are concerned. In ad
dition to these there is a large class
of general college songs which are
bright and melodious and which we
should all know.
The things we lack is the most
essential detail, —spirit. We must
wake up to our possibilities and
learn to sing, and to make singing a
success, every man must chip in
and help. Let us start something,
fellows, for we want music !
Thirty-five promotions were
made in the faculty of the Pennsyl
vania State College, at the meeting
of the Board of Trustees held June
8, 1914. Eleven of these were in
the DepaAfiseat of Agriculture: A.
W. Colwell was raised from Assist
ant Professor to Associate Professor
in landscape Gardening, and E. S.
Worthen received a similar pro
motion in agronomy. In the Engi
neering department G. F. Eckhard,
C. E. Govier, and J. W. Hale be
came Associate Professors; Chester
Allen and R. A. Caughey were
made Assistant Professors, and five
assistants this year became in
structors. Four promotions were
made in the mining department,
C. E. McQuigg becoming an Asso
ciate Professor of Metallurgy. In
chemistry the most notable change
was that of J. B. Churchill from
Assistant Professor to Professor of
Industrial Chemistry. There were
two promotions each in the De
partment of English and Mathe
matics, and one in physics and
botany. L. M. Burrage was made
Assistant Professor of French.
Forum is held once a week at
the Cottage. “Penn State Ideals”
was the subject of an address given
by Dean Holmes at the second
meeting, Tuesday, September 29.
At the first meeting of the year
Miss Lovejoy gave a talk on the
European war situation.
We have a real live nurse at the
Cottage. Miss Ella V. Foresman,
ot the Presbyterian hospital, Pitts
burgh, has been appointed teacher
of home nursing and nurse for the
girls. What fun it will be to be
come ill now. No more worries
about trays.
Telling why they were glad to
get back to school, several girls,
representing each class made the
first Y. W. C. A. meeting both in
teresting and instructive. The pro
gram of the meeting Sunday, Sep
tember 27, was given to discussions
of the different phases of the
Y. W. C. A. Each senior then told
why, if she were a freshman again,
she would join the Y. W. C. A.
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