; age TWO Penn State (Eollegian Published weakly during the your by utudents of tho Pennsylvania State College ill the Interest of the Students. Faculty. Alumni and Friends of the col lege. EDITORIAL STAFF EDMUND J. KENNEY. 'l7 FRED F LININGER, 'l7 WILLIAM E. KROLL, 'l7 ASSOCIATE EDITORS Dedrymplo, 'l5 Gatoonlat, R. B. Elonechon, 'IS REPORTERS R. F. Whiting. 'l9 A. R. Loinbach, 'l9 0 /D. Judd, 'l9 H C Markle, 'l9 S. S. Furst, 'l9 A. J. Porter, 'l9 G. W. Sullivan, 'l9 M2MEMMI RICHARD T BRIGHT, 'l7-AdvertLaing Mangers-JOHN A. GARBER, 'l7 ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS T N Neelnn, 'lB S M Lowry, 18 J NC I,Vaabburn, 'lB SECOND ASSISTANT BUSINESS .AGIERS ti V Olutfeker. 'l9 8.. B. Plamon, 'l9 N. L. Eisler. 'l9 A C (nor'°, 'l9 The Collegian Invites all communications on any subject of college interest Letters must bear signatures of writer Subscription price $lOO after Nov. 1. Entered at the Postollice, State College, Pa., as second class matter. Office, Nittany Printing and Publishing Co. Building Oillee hours, 420 to 020 ovary afternoon except Saturday. News Editor For This Issue ........ .... .. ... G. L Wright The Collegian has always taken a very active interest in the charac ter and progress of Penn State's student government system believing that therein lies the one important phase of present day college life and ideals. But we regret to say that of late we have observed marked tendencies toward disorganization, lack of interest, and lack of the spirit and energy which should go hand in hand with the sys tem as it is here established. Something is wrong. Certainly we have an adequate system, a workable system, and a system which should give the students the power to decide in the matters which concern them and furthermore a system which should carry along the college spirit which Penn State has developed. And since we have the fundamental requirements then it must be some -1 thing in the working out of these essentials which is wrong. We believe this to be true because even the college spirit of which we boast seems either to be dormant or on a backward trend. We hope that it is not the latter but unless more interest is manifested in college affairs and college activities, more respect shown the upper classmen by the underclassmen, and a closer adherence to college customs, we can come to no other conclusion than that Penn State spirit is on the decline and must be reestablished. This lack of inter est in college affairs seems to be as noticeable in the upper as well as the lower classes. And right here is something to think about. What are you doing to keep up college spirit' , Right down the line there seems to be something wrong, thru each . - branch of student government, and in every case something which can be easily remedied. We will not lay the blame; we are not sure that we could; but it is for everyone concerned to determine if he 'meow,. is to blame and to act accordingly. The Student Board and Student -;.--, -ti^, - ,,Council have had few meetings this year whereas weekly or bi -IC2,weekly meetings should have been the rule. Only recently have these t'i. : 1 bodies reealized that they were existing under constitutions entirely , out of date and have attemptednedyLthe wrong. ' ,z . , -i.„,, The inter-class sports council, apparently a lital part oro ur scheme 0,,,,-;,,, of class athletics, has had but one student member up until two weeks ago, the three lower classes having elected no delegate. Further more the Council, or what there was of it, has had no constitution to govern its actions although one was adopted when the Council was created two years ago. Without a constitution and with only one del egate the Council has transacted the regular important business con nected with it. ' While on the matter of athletics we would refer to the varsity foot ' ball schedule, which is hardly under student supervision although sup posedly so. The schedule as recently announced seems hardly of the caliber which should be sought for a team with prospects as bright as the eleven which will represent Penn State this fall. The oppo nents for at least one and possibly two of the five home games are far below the class in which State could gain recognition. And in the criticism we take into consideration the assumption that the chances for a strong football team are better now than for three years past. As regards the budget system and the class financial committees it would seem that here too something is wrong. In some cases those in charge of the finances of the classes have overstepped their authori ty and furthermore it would seem that the actions of the finance com mittees have not been regulated by the fixed set of rules which was provided for these committees last year. Again we say, something is wrong, and it remains with every stil -1 dent and especially with those directly entrusted with the affairs of class and college to remedy the defects, to restore the old Penn State spirit, and to place our student government system in the position which it should rightfully hold. A WORD OR TWO ABOUT THE MOVIES At a recent student mass meeting, the president of the student body called attention to the unnecessary amount of noise and disturbance which has marked the moving picture performances of late. Probably all of us realize that this condition of affairs is nothing more than a hold-over from former years when boisterousness and cheap wit at public places of amusement were taken to indicate an unusual amount of "pep" on the part of those employing them. That such a condition should exist to-day is unfortunate in more ways than one. With the rapid growth of the college, and also of the town, during the last few years the number of women attending the performances has increased steadily. In view of this circumstance it sterns hardly fair play that these women should be denied the pleasure of visiting the only suitable places of amusement the town affords simply because a few thoughtless individuals persist in indulging in ungentlemanly re marks. With this thought in mind, it seems only just that we as students should do our part in living up to the standards which have been set by_ the management of the theatres. A fair, open-minded attitude on all occasions never goes very far amiss and in this instance we might well apply the maxim to ourselves for the benefit of all con cerned. Every week the "Collegian" receives a number of other college papers from the eastern colleges and universities. Appreciating the interest that the student body might have in reading such publications we have made arrangements with the librarian to have these copies placed on file in the Carnegie library newspaper room. They will be placed there each week just as soon as possible after they have been reviewed by our Exchange Editor. Altogether fair and square is the attitude of the Student Council in recommending that the faculty make an attempt to restrict the time which a person shall spend on a quiz. If a student happens to have the next hour off following the hour, or half hour, or ten or twen ty minute quiz, he is strongly tempted to stick with his paper until he is good and ready to hand it in. This is too often the case, and un doubtedly is unfair to the other fellow who is obliged to quit with the bell, whether or not he has finished. Let us be fair to the other fel low, and spend only the allotted time on any quiz. , ' ..Editor•ln-Chief Aseletant Editor Senior Aesociate I=l Circulation Manager Wednesday, January 31, 1917 SOMETHING IS WRONG THE GREATEST NEED OF PENN ;STATE noelslou of College Costume To the Editor of the Collegian: In your Issue of January 19th there was an article stating that better "Spirit" was an Important need of Penn State. It likewise appears to me that there Is an ur gent need In that direction I have heard many tales of the Penn State spirit of old and I am inclined to believe that It had Its faults then the same a now, but the Wilt of the College at present Is Influencing the lives of a greater number of students than In the Yeats past and the need for better college sunl it is therefore more important to day than ever before I have alssuys felt that much of this college spirit has its founda tion in our college customs and I hellos° the time to put true Penn State spirit in it young man Is in his freshman year To attomplish this end salaam es and upperelass men must meet the first year man In a fahlon tt lila .111 demonstrate that they possess a college spirit uhich is a creditable asset In the life of a college ma. Why not revise an n d Improve our college customs by making may of the written customs more definite and complete and by doing assay MTh the unwritten customs, or else adding the best of the later to the written customs? Unwritten college customs, like the unwritten Inx of society, can be Interpreted in stays that were never Intended An Incident I 'shamed near the PostoMa lost fall Illustrates the need I wish to see corrected' A sophomore nes issuing orders to a It carer of the green taboo an upperclassman came along and told the freshman to "clear out", since tile sophomore ma imposing an unwritten custom on him which ho did not base to obey Then followed a short argument be tu eon the second year and third year men An example of this na ture leaves anything but a good impression of our college spirit on the freshmen Business Manager Man.) incidents of thin kind occur each year and to my mind they all tend toward undermining ut leant a part of the foundation upon which resin a college spirit that un dergraduates, alumni. and per sona who have seen and felt it, de clare to be an wonderful no it is Indescribable UNUSUAL ORIGIN OF TERM "ELECTRICITY" Million, of people of today who are thing in an electrical one undoubtedly do not know where the term electricity originated, and how people came to use the word universally to signify that power which performs all the myriad wonders that NNO ace daily all !Lout us room Elektron, the Creek name for amber, In derived tho word electricity, which le now extended to xignlty not only Its Power of attracting light bodice Ruth silk, fur, etc, but other Dowers connected with it, in whatever bodice they max be communicated The attractive nature of electrified amber in occaslonalt, mentioned by Pit- M will other later naturalists, particu larly by Gassendun, Krislm, Digby and Sir Thorns. Drown Very exhaustive experiments hate been carried out by William Gilbert, a native of Golchester, and a physician at London, who, In his excellent train treatise, "De Dingnete." published In the year 1600, relates a great variety of electrical experiments, which were allied In nature to toe properties of am ber. Ole has disclosed /ICS oral of the substances which had these peculiar properties of attracting light bodies when agitated by a material "Amber aas used by the ancient world as a jewel for decoration," re- The University of Chicago HOMELe additaa work, anon alacinatruc• I ' dors lor :arrespoodence STUDY Z 1.1«, U JC.III. H 6icaro.ll HARVEY BROS FOIL RAKED GOODS end ICE CREAM Special Enloe to Gentzel & McEackren Fresh & Smoked Meats Fish and Oysters College Ave. and Pugh St. lIIIIMPI PENN STATE COLLEGIAN WHO'S WHO IN THE FACULTY Thomas Charles Blaisdell, M. A., Ph.D., LL. .D Thomas Charles Slated,'ll, dean of the School of Liberal Arts at the Penney'. %anis Slate College, was born In 011 City, Pennrylvunlu, un the twenty-ninth of August, 1887 His father was a Methodlet preachut and us a result De. BlaWe're boyhood days were spent mainly In rural districts. When eleven years old he entered the Green s Ille (Pennsylvania) High School, whore ho prepared for college The first throe y care of Ms college life were spent at Allegheny College, but at the end of hie Junior year Dean Blaisdell entered the Unh ersity of Syracuse, from which In mitution he was graduated In 1888 with the degree of Bachelor of Arta It Ls interesting to note, In passing, that box ing held a major place in his outside activities while at college After leaving college Dean Blaisdell epent a y ear us an Instructor in a boy,' preparatory school at Charlotte, North Carolina During the second year fel la. log his graduation he served as principal of the school. of Litchfield, Connecticut In 1800 ho was made pro fessor of Englleh at the Allegheny High School in Pennsylvania and this post he hold until 189 C. The year after his DX rl.l in Allegheny ho secured his Mas ter of Arts degree from the Univereity of Nebrnska On May 18, IBD3 ho married Miss Kate Christy of Pittsburg,Pennsyl t anla, and tour years after his marriage {VW made professor of English and Pedogogy at the City Normal School, of Pittsburgh While occupying this po sition Dean Blaisdell, as co-author with John Morrow, superintendent of Schools in Allegheny, and A. C. McLean, prin cipal of the Luckey Schools, of Pitts burgh, published his first work, "Steps in English;" Book 1 and 11 In 1916 he left Pittsburgh to occupy the chair. of English Literature at the Michigan later the Electrical Experimenter. Its color and luster reminded the fanciful Creeks of the virgin gold which glis tened in the hands of PactoMa; even as the brilliant metal itt.lf had recalled to them the fellow sunshine. After ward they applied the some name to the compounds of the metals which, alien burnished, have a golden glow There were all children of the sun Etch tor—reflecting in mlnature its radiance Thus in common with native gold and the silver—gold nlloye, the amber, in 'Hellenic speech, came to be called nElektron". Phila. North American L J Lasalle, associate professor of physics, bus been granted leave of ab sence by the board of trustees from April 11 to the end of the semester to take up graduate work In physics TAXES UP FARMING C. W Clemmer, neeleLont In the ag ricultural extentlon department hne remlgned hie position, and will Mart farming In Berke county. T. K. C. A. ENTERTAINMENT. The nest entertainment in the Y. M C. A mum° will be given by the Zo deler eextetto on Saturday evening. Feb 10. .-"'"-*"."'"'"'":................................... The Nittany Inn STATE COLLEGE, PA LANCES A.M . ) BANQUETS 01JE SPECIALTY J. P. AIIENB Proprietor, M. M. SCHROEDER, Manager. 4 ,vgi?§§?z?p,?§?pmp§?p?§?p?..,wi*g.i....„ aDespite the growing scarcity and high cost of t% q% everything entering into the making of shoes, we ;:R E 2 have secured an unusal fine line of shoes at prices 2 f 1 ranging from $4.00 to $9.00. 6 . 1 Z 1 6 Bostonian, Nettleton, Crawford, etc. kIZI • M COLLEGE BOOT SHOP P ; T .w,bv.gigimgigigigigitgittgitgitgigigigigi***"."' Agricultural College, where he re mained until 1919. During the years 1901 to 1904 he did graduate work In University of Pittsburgh, receiving his doctor's degree In 1904. Atter serving for els years on the faculty of the Michigan Agricultural College Dean Blaisdell was called to the presidency of Alma College, Michigan In 1912 Alma College is a co-educa tional institution with an almost equal number of mon and women students. During the first two years of his Stay there the attendance doubled, jumping from 171 to 360, while the number of students registered In the freshman class west practically trebled In 1019 ho resigned his position at Alma College to become Dean of the School of Liber al Arts at the Pennsylvania State Col lege, a pout which he has held up to the present time At the Inauguration of his successor at Alma College on No somber 1, 1010, Dean Blaisdell had con ferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Dean Blaisdell hnn secured a aide reputation as a popular lecturer on ed ucational subject. Ho has always tak en great interest in every phase of ed ucational work and holds membership In the following organizations. Tho National Eduational Association, the National Council of Teachers of Eng lish, the New England Association of Teachers of English; and the Religious Education Association. He is also a member of the national fraternity of Phi Delta Theta. As an author he has written the fol lowing text books "English In the Grades" (1905), "Composition-Rhetoric (1906), "A Teacher's Handbook" (1912), and "The Renaissance of the Denomi national College (1912). His latest ar ticle, -entitled .. .Education For Parent hood". was printed In September 1916 In the Annals of the American Acad emy of Political and Social Science Mowry's Cafe He will board you for $4.00 per week. Try him for one week and find out. Open Day and Night F. J. Mowry HARDWARE The Right Place For j i i;. , ,ht Goods At the Right Price DOCKASH Stoves & Ranges O'J.. WINE'S STORE Bellefonte, - Pennsylan i a Production Extraordinary "THI - i',DA BARK And incomparable cast of more than 2500 person participate in FZcz•r - r - i C 3 •. ra. cl. ,Juliet This is a special Fox Production in seven reels at THE PASTIME THEATER Saturday, Feb. Matinee and GRANGE PLANS FUTURE ' ACTIVITIES AT STATE At the lout noting of the Penn State Grange held In room 100, Horticulture Building, plans warn made for activi ties during the coming gement°. In the near future, Mr. BloSintrtan. the State Master, will be Invited here to de liver a lectufe on the Grange. At the mune time steps will ho taken to have members of the agricultural faculty In attendance. An effort will also be made to hold this.meeting open to everyone and in all probability other features will be added to the program Dean Watts wan the speaker at tho last meeting. Ho brought forth, in his short talk, the fact that the Grange at Pen State should be the best In this section of the country, us a wonderful opportunity for Grunge work Is presen ted here. THE CULTIVATION OF THE ACCURACY HABIT Accuracy is not a faculty. It is a habit A man schools himself to look at things with a sharp, clear eye, and to remember what he sees without any thing being omitted or added Ho be comes habitually accurate, and without any special effort On the other hand, moo of loose per ceptions and carless habits hod it al most impossible to be accurate, no mat te, !lOW hard they try An idea of the sailuu and method of accuracy may bo gained from the following advices given by Ruskin on the simple matter of reading a book: "You moot got In the habit of looking Intensely at words, and assure your self of their meaning, syllable by syl lable—nay, letter by letter. You might read all the books in the British Mu seum, If you could live long enough, and remain on utterly Illiterate, unedu cated nelson, but if you read ten pages .. i p . A • ' N „pe",;; ,,, . '.O -. 4. IIN ...., p'..-., - d• • pg . . 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