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Penn State ,oll4an
Published weekly during tho Collego year by students of tho Pennsylvania
State College In tho Interests of tho Students, Faculty, Alumni and Friends 01
tho College.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1018
News Editor for This Issue
WANTED-A GOOD DEFINITION
The original purpose of the "Get Together Campaign" was to foster
and revive "college spirit," or more strictly speaking, "Penn State
spirit " The object of the "Stick-Together Campaign" which is now
being carried on is to keep up that spirit. These two statements are
indisputable. But so far, the terms "college spirit," or "Penn State
spirit," are more or less abstract, etherial, phrases that sound well but
go no further
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Of course, Penn State men believe that there is a vast diffffrence
between "college spirit" and "Penn State spirit" and it is only fitting
and proper that there should be. But where does that difference lie,
and just what is "Penn State spirit 0 " That is a big question and one
that should be solved if the "Stick-Together Campaign" is to have
any lasting benefit Without a true knowledge of the purpose of the
campaign, it becomes just a meaningless form of amusement and
hilarity
It is readily apparent that the definition of "Penn State spirit"
must come from the student body or from some member of it, and
with this end in view, the "Stick-Together" committee is opening a
contest for the best definition of "Penn State spirit" Full details of
this contest appear elsewhere in this paper and they should be carefully
noted by all Penn State students A tempting prize has been offered
for the best definition submitted, and it is also hoped that such a defi
nition will be composed that will serve as a slogan for Penn State in
years to come. So get busy, and even though all can not win the
prize, you cannot fail to derive a great amount of benefit from the
' :77 -- (s7, — iit as may get a .igger an. .ette7 comprehen on of
the intangible something t h at makes Penn State what it really is—
Penn State spirit!
A COMPLETED WORK
The COLLEGIAN has reached its annual "moving-up" time. This
issue marks the end of the road for those who have controlled its
interests for the benefit of their fellow students during the past year.
In passing over the reins to a new Collegian Publishing Board this
week, we do so in full confidence that the work of serving the students
for the coming year will be left in the hands of competent leaders.
In retiring, the present board feels that a great duty has at least
in one way' been accomplished—the serving of a paper every week,
when at the beginning of the year our hopes for such an achievement
were indeed at a very low ebb A semi-monthly publication for this
year was predicted at the close of the college last spring, but with a
greater percentage of students backing us than had been doing so for
several years, we have been able to continue regular publication, al
though not on such elaborate lines as we would have desired.
We have endeavored in every way to conduct the COLLEGIAN
along the best of journalistic lines, serving the college, the students
and the alumni to the best of our ability; and if we have succeeded in
the least in accomplishing this aim, we are satisfied in the belief that
our efforts have been well worth while. We More thoroughly enjoyed
our intimate connections with students, faculty members and business
men of the town, and take this opportunity to extend our due appre
ciation for the assistance that they have given us in the past. Our
relations have been most agreenblEt, and we trust that you will extend
the same courtesies to our successors who, by their friendly relations
and unselfish assistance, have played no small part in carrying your
paper through the year.
"MOVING-UP DAY"
There should be plenty of opportunity before the close of college
for working in the "Moving-Up Day" idea urged by the COLLEGIAN
a year ago. Conditions are vastly different at this time, and such that
the proposition could easily be worked out. Briefly, the plan called
for the "moving up" of each class by appropriate ceremonies. The
Freshmen bury their green "clinks," the Sophomores shed their coats
and occupy the front campus; the Juniors doff their hats and assume
the role of Seniors; the Seniors could have their class day events, and
so on.
It is nothing more or less than advancing some events of the last
day of college a week or so when plenty of time can be provided for
appropriate ceremonies, and when all classes are able to get into it
instead of the annual Freshman monopoly of the "burial of the green
dink." The "Stick-Together" committee could take charge this,year
and give "Moving Up Day" a start, and we feel sure that it could then
be made an annual event.
AS A SUGGESTION-
"Ntimerals" in writing to the editor about the matter of class
insignia for the women students comes pretty close to a solution but
does not offer it. The girls apparently want numerals for those of
their number who have won places on their athletic teams. They are
sure to meet opposition when they ask for the same kind of numerals
that aro awarded the men for inter-class honors. The girls have an
athletic association all'their own, we are told.. Now, what's the matter
with that association providing its own numerals, something entirely
different from those worn by the men, and moreover, laying down
rigid and approved conditions whereby every winner of such numerals
shall be forced to do some good, hard work in order to attain the
honor of wearing them?
It has taken years and years to perfect the inter-class numeral
regulations at Penn State. Let the girls establish their right to a
share by expanding their efforts, and their reward will doubtless come
in time.
Contrary to the opinion of many, investigation has shown that
the college will in no way become involved through arbitration in the
movie question as proposed by the Senior class.
The girls could make a tidy little sum for the Red Cross or their
Y. W. C. A. by advertising their basketball games, standing room for
a dime. It is done elsewhere, • not here?
Senior Associate Editor
A. R. Lelnbach 'l9
Woman's Editor
CI S. Wykott .2.0
II B. Coon
W. E. Segel
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Advertlelng Manager
A. R. LEINBACH
FARM TRAINING COURSE
PLANS ASSUMING SHAPE
Pi °tensor 11. C Parkinson returned
last Saturday from Philadelphia N, hero
Ito spent the gieatet part of the week in
the Intel eats of tho movement to train
high fichoul laudenta for farm mot* It
has been definitely decided that a large
numbet of young men ranging In ago
from sixteen to Monty -ono years will
be brought here rot a short course of
Maroc:lon In farm stork
immediately upon the• clone of thin
semestet thmo xlll be gisen a courso of
four or dye days of intensive training
for those college men who aro to be
lenders of the young men mho comp
here nom serious high schools through
out the state. Tho latter will upend
about ten flays here preparing for the
murk a bleb they mill Mlle up on the
farm
The drier for the enlistment of high
school students for this mork will be
taken up during the week of March
eighteenth The high school principals
mill enlist the students and n physician
mill examine them to determine whether
or not they two physicall} able to stand
the Mot k mhich mlli be required of them
on the farms to cc Molt they mill be sent
hen the} Imo completed their course
of training here
N USER ILS REVISED FOR
THE TWO YEAR STUDENTS
, The Student Council at Its meeting
last week gave pet mission to the Two-
Year Agriculture students to revise
theit athletic numerals, In that the
"2Nr" be dropped, and that In the future
they award the ordlnaly numerals that
Indlutte the clans In this way the nu
merals of the second tear clans at thin
time would be "10-18" whore before It
was "1G 2Yr 18" TllO change man
sought by the 2-Year representative
because or the toot that tFo "217 r" in
the nuimrals made them spread out too
much eve: the front of a sweater, and
made them too conspicuous /louever,
a request that the also of the numerals
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.MORE PAINTINGS FOR COLLECTION
Tuo more paintings hate been re
celled b) the Penn Slate Art Depart
ment, ono by John Willard Ilaught of
Dunmore. being valued at five hundred
dollars, and tho other 1,1 Jordan of
Philadelphia, appraised at seventy-five
dollars
Conti!tuitions from Mrs Fern Cop
pedge, .1 13 Crossman. and 0. B Jud
son of Philadelphia, and NV C Baum of
Sellersville, me also In transit. Each
of the abote-uamed artists mere exhib
itors in the ono hundred and fourth
Annual Art Exhibition in Philadelphia.
Professor Zorn Klein, an Instructor in
Gelman, left last nook for Washington,
where he v 111 be employed In the Con
cut Bureau Busing his absence, his
claw,. .111 be taken care of by S. 0
Knauss, who but recently returned
Born Cot nell University, where ho had
been on a. lease of absence, ,
FACULTI MAN HONORED
Professor Rasmussen of the Depart
Pak-y4lustiezie,Pi-km-been
ad by State Food Administrator Heinz
to assist him as tho head of a newly
organized doom tment of the state divis
ion of Federal Food Administrative Ser.
Nice Mr Rasmussen will spend a largo
part of his time each meek at this work
FOREST L. sTRUBLE
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Prices $4 to $7.50
t . You can save a dollir or two.
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As a matter of fact, you
have to have high grade ,
drugs to get high grade
remedial value,. We carry
the beat of drugs and we
sell the beat of drugs, and
nothing less than the best.
So if you want drugs that are
right, please insist on buying
them here, whether simple
drug needs, or the simple or
complex prescription.
Ray D. Gilliland
DRUGGIST
PENN STATE 'COLLEGIAN
Letter Box.
NUMERALS FOR GIRLS
Stato Colloro, Pa.,
March 8, 1918
Editor, the COLLEGIAN
Dear Sir —I have recently learned that
the women students of Penn State are
desirous of securing straight inter-class
numerals for the various members of
their athletic teams. I believe that this
idea should be discouraged, especially
at tide time, when it some to be a very
sudden demand placed upon a few solid
facts, it very limited geld of athletic
endeavor .
The wearing of class numerals at Penn
State should stand for something—and
in recent >ears the winning of numerals
hits been made harder for the men. It
is felt that when a man ulna his numer
als these days that ho certainly has
done some good hard nork to earn
them, Now here la the girl proposition,
as I see it:
Figuratively. they have just started
out on organized inter-class athletics
They hose held a uallting contest, and
the Freshman class unwisely awarded
their class numerals to the winner, dis
regarding the Inter-class athletic rul
ings %Odell make no such provision
This action sheuid most 'certainly he
cancelled by the - Numeral Committee.
Now the girls are playing an Inter-class
basketball league schedule Wino work!)
and doubtless will aunt numentle for a
acme or more of contestants when that
la completed
If the girls hod been playing regularly
scheduled games for several learn past,
and had the sport well established along
with a number of others that girls can
get into, then the numeral numition
from their sumdpoint mould doubtless
be z easonable But lust now it looks
like a spontaneous combustion coming
from great enthusiasm In getting start
ed in athletic spefu3 The girls IA ill my
that othet college and universities
award numerals to women No doubt,
but their sports have been established
for 3 ea. s In those big colleges (the small
ones don't count In a matter of this
kind) and ate on a much broader scale
than mere walking and basketball The
gills hoe ate to be encouraged In every
any in all lines of sports, and I for one
etch they had more of it
Track and field meets, tennis, field
hockey and outdoor winter sports
should be added to the women's Inter
class sports events, and then when they
are regularly organised and made Into
annual contests, the girls could be given
consideration In the matter of class
numeral awards, and not before. I
kninv that there are many others mho
have the name opinion In addition to
“Numerals"
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Uncle Sam's Boys' use the Gillette?
LET a man spend just one week in the Service—then give him free choice of all the
makes of razors there are. He'll reach for the Gillette first, and hold' on to it—every
time. There's nothing like seeing the Gillette idea work out in the experience of thou
sands of men—under extreme conditions. •
Here is the No Stropping, No Honing prin t could find in his shaving—heat; cold, sunburn,
ciple--tested and approved by millions of men wind-chap, water scarce or bad—but has been
in the world 4 peace. met by the Gillette thousands of times in its
The world goes to war. Millions of men spring , nearly four years of war service : -
to arms=_and the one razor that survives the The fighting man lives in his pack—every
test of war conditions on a world-wide scale is inch of space and ounce of weight taken up. The Gillette tucks away in the corner, or in
the No Stropping, No Honing Gillette. his pocket—compact, complete, no strops or
There isn't a regiment in the field today un- \ hones to clutter up the kit—Blades always
der any of the Allied Flags but numbers more sharp, always ready—simple, strong, stands the
users of Ciliates than of all other razors put wear and tear—weighs next to nothing—and
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Agricultural Notes
Professor G C. Given of the depart
ment. of Experimental Agricultural
Chemistry, who le on leave of absence
is doing research work for the Atlas
Powder Company Recently ho made
a hurried trip to England on huffiness
relating to the work which that com
pany Is doing for the government.
L Jesseman Is assisting A P.
Mason Milk the sera) ing and pruning
demonshatlons which aro being con
ducted throughout the state by the De
partment of Horticultural Extension
J R Bechtel has been granted a
leave of absence to old the 'county
agents In the work of organizing the
war garden movement In this state.
. •.
Immediately upon - the close of the
present semester several Instructors of
the Horticultural Department will leave
to take up the Instruction of the farm
ers of the state In th better awe of the
moducts of their surd.ns and orchards
The use of common storage houses will
be urged By the use oft these Mtge
amounts of fruit which are now going
to nest° may be saved
EXTES,SION SCIIOOI. CLOSES
The closing exec class and banquet of
the 011 City Enginering L'stension
School were held on the evening of
Month Bth Professor David A Ander
son, of the Deportment of Education,
gn e the !officinal address during which
he spoke on Vocational, Continuation
and Enginering Extension types of In
dustrial education Certificates were
awarded to over GO andante who had
completed their course Among these
was a class of poling ladles who took a
course In dm(ting nith rely satisfac
tory iesults
E. E. BAIN CE FIUDAY
The annual Eleettical Engineering
Suelob Ounce wlll be held on Friday
atoning In the Odd Fellows' Hall from
eight to twelve A new departure In
being made thin yea', In that tho Soph
omore,' and Ftenlimnn ate permitted
to attend
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Mining Notes
Instructo ' rx In the School of Mines
me giving a merles of lectures to the
R. 0 T. C men on mining and related
subjects, Dr 13 S Home, Professor
of Geology and Mineralogy, had as Ills
topic 'Tim Relition of Geology and
Topography to the Strategy In the Pres
ent European War." Doan W. R. Crane
Is speaking on the subject "The Use
of Trenches and Tunnels In Prmentday
Wairate" Mr W. R. Chedsey, of the
Mining Deportment. Still 01,0011 0 0
Explosives and the Use of Sub
teilanean Explosive Mines" and it Is
being arranged for H B Northrup,
of the .Metallurgy Department,qo speak
on 'The The Influence of Metallurgical
Science In Modern Artillery and the
Lessening of Wear in Largo Guns
Mt A. P. Hones., Instruct - Or In Min
errilogy, has an article In the current
Issue of the Amniican lout nal of Sci
ence entitled" Tho Etching Figures of
the Mem:mono) Alternating Typo of
Cmstald" and ahoy,s pecullar relations
and contrasts of the internal sh uctuie
of certain Isomorphous cdrbonato min- I
orals The article Is well Illustrated Is
photomicrographs.
LECTURES TO SENIOR GIRLS
Mins Emma Smedloy,,Mrector
School Luncheons In Phllitidelphln. epok ,
to the Senior girls In Home Economlc
last Thursday.
To Penn State Students
We Still Have Our -
Popular
• $ll.OO Cordovan's
to sell at
$9.90
We want you to feel free
to. look them over.
Come in and look over-'our store
since our Shoe and Clothing Depart
ments are united.
"FROMM'S
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Economy Store D
130 E. College Avenue
STATE CENTRE ELECTRIC COMPANY
Headquarters for
Everything Electric
Store Closes 6 p. m, Frazier Street
Safety
Razor
Have You Seen the New Gillettes
pecially Designed for the Fighting Man?
T HESE models were designed by members of the
Gillette Orgnnization who have seen service with
the Colors and know what the soldier Is up against.
Hundreds of oillemzumd men are buying them—the
U. S. Ser. fee Set in metal case, and the new Khaki
covered sets for Uncle.Sam'a soldiers and officers.
The Gillette is the one razor for the icon who is do
ing things—the one razor with - world-wide use and
' reputation.
When a man wants new Blades lie can get them at
any Post Exchange or Y. H. C. A. Hut—here in
America or Overseas.
Our Paris Office curries stocks—is constantly hop
plying the American Expeditionmy Forces. Gillette
Safety Razors and Blades on sale everywhere In
France, England, Italy and the Eastern battle fronts.
Why do so' many of
Wednesday, March 13, 1918
RECONSTRUCTION WORK ,
IN, FRANCE DESCRIBED
The Illustrated lecture on "Recon
struction Work in France," given by
Mn Morrie O Leeds Saturday night In
the Old Chapel PM most Interesting and
enlightening Mt. Leeds; a member of
the firm of Leeds and Northrup,. of
Flilladelphin, makers of electrical M
tn uments, scent over to France with
a Red emus party for the purpose of
finding out what the.Amerlcan Friends
could do for the horaleas people of
Fiance by reconstruction work.
On arriving In France, Mr. Lead.
ommuniCated with the English Friends,
who were °heady In the Said. Hie Wet- -
urn dealt upon the work that these
English Friends are doing and which
the American Friends can do
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Green Mints '
For Saint Patrick's Day
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Vanilla
Chocolate
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Home Made Candies
Every Day
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