Thursday, January 15, 1920 I On the Corner :|: DU \0l T THINK X IT’S t'ODD ENOFFtjjj Any foil] that uhlch u question lllte tho above Is lltco tin? guy tltul'n harp- InK on the heat In wlntus amt the cold In Hummer AT LAST! AT LAST! AT LAST! For many winry moons iu l liavo boon trying to find u legitimate excuse foi always being late, and at last wo have succeeded. Lust weak everything whs all ready for press on time, whin some poor printer's devil (pardon us. Indies, that Is not a swear word. It's a tochnlcnl teim) put both front and back fotms on tho continption called tho elevator ut once. ’ Honco, with nil that Lvnguo of Nu* tlons nintcrial, the stuff was too heavy, and coupled with the mochnnlcnl fnct there was something mtchanicnl wrong with tho mechanical contraption called tho mechanical elevator. SOMETHING HAPPENED. The first we knew about It was when there was a CRASH, und after dash* lag down two flight of stairs to the basement, vve found n MESS Its technical mmio Is Pilnter's PI, and It doesn't mean 31410, either It meann u heap all heaped up. Now, dear lendei, you may thing the nlr was bine fot a while, but It wasn't It was fully live seconds before the I'iotdi lsslslant said— Well, us won't believe us unywuy, we’ll let you Imagine wliul be said SION’S OF WINTER Cold Colder Icy sidewalks Pulling all ovii oneself. Have you iccovucd fiom the Holiday effects yet* Finals nro only two vvooks "\V« wonder b'.w many fullowu re* gnt the fact that they swore off amok- Ing on New Yens'h Day, and Imvu since been enmpelled t<> expend 'steen cop pers buying n mw pipe/ Some times wo think If it weren’t for going to collego, wo wouldn’t huvo tome to Penn State I'RESS CLUB PATER TO APPEAR IN* NEAR TUTURK The tli si Issue of the pupor being < lilted by the I’onn State Press Club will bo on sale la the near future. The laipor which Is entitled “El Dorado" is not moroly a mugailno restricted to members of the Tress Club, but it Is open to contrlbtuons worthy of com mendation, of any member of tho stu dent body. Tho mombors of tho club are very enthusiastic over their new venture Into print and aro anxious for the approval und support of tho stu dont body, slncu tho success or falluro of tho proposition doponda*~ with all shop work First teaching the class myself with a practical workman as asststunt. lilting him learn jnodorn methods und nftci two years take the class In this way It has beau possible to train other men to touch all tho shop work and the el ementary theory In time I hope to teach only the higher subjects This ban meant thut besides supervision of' tho whole system I huvo had thirty-six I huuis teaching a week for tho lust two ' years but hope In the future to teach ' few subjects and do each one more thoroughly. I Chinese Boys Cooporute It would liuvo boon Impossible for mu to have handled all of tho work, had It not boon foi tho thorough cooporatlon of the boys whom vve got into tho trade school (after tho first bunch which I did nol choose). -Wo took only boys wbo wero tho sons of workingmen and showod by psychological tests thut they wero especially fitted to do shop work These boys beenuso of their Intense tntcrost In tho trade and bccauso they have tho practical home ndvlco nnd experience of their parents learn very fast without much boing done to help them They aro able to themselves supervise und carry out shop work or the erection of a building In a way that would Hurprho American students Of courso they nro oxcopilonllly bright on will bo scon fiom tho fnct that out of three hundred plckod by tho public schools foi examination wo accept only twenty In a class - * You muy be interested In hearing what the students uio now doing to chunge the countiy of China I um writing to you ns though fiom the midst of u hornet's nest The students and teachers have all stopped school and oiganlzed to hrvo the country Immed iately fiom the hands of the officials who uro pio-Jnpanesu This morning as I went lo school I passed fivo hundred of our mlddlo school boys all returning fiom a morning march Ours Is a mili tary school nnd thoy were all doing the goose step, tho big boys In fiont ami the small boys behind with their chests stuck out as bravely as any ono's As I enteted the collogo gate I saw atu dont pickets poatod everywhere to keep out the police and Just Inside the gato were forty of the beat athletes, men trained In Jul Jtt sul, ready to rush to any part of the grounds and expoll intruders Inside I found a faculty mooting going on with repre sentatives of the studont council gravo ly seated with their Chinese teachers, debating how to stive tho country In still another room I found tho studonta were holding a meeting nnd teachers were presont at their meeting also In n committee room I saw representatives : of nil tho colleges In Peking, delegates given authority by each of liio studont bodies to docldo questions for tho olty. During the day a continual stream of delegates eont by tradesmen’s guilds, 1 by tho merchants' chamber of commerce mid all the rest kept coming and going, discussing bow to perfect the organlza i tlon for tiio countiy Stailrnts Intensely Patrlotlo In unothor pan of the school were boys priming on mlmoographs and lithograph stones, the newspapers which the police hid shut down I saw hundreds of such papers go out under tho coats of the studonts to be distrib uted everywhere In my -.own ahops all the students wero working like niggers learning to make products now mndo by Japan. They wero teaching representatives of tho guilds haw to make tho things and were In anothor small oillco perfecting plans for (ho organization of tho stu dents of technical schools, tho mer chants and the guilds all over tho coun try Into a huge organization to teach tho country how to mike their own products and to buy nothing from Ja su uioqi flujdioq quin coiitiul-aiid >ut was mure undei in) control than It hud ever been, fur my oigutilzatiim of student foremen were running things and of course umio to me iih usuul This sou of thing is going on cvcry whciu In tliu country Delegates gu from town to town und organize us niL'iitly und peace-full} as can ho hut so powerful!} that senreel} un>ono can renlizo what Is luklng place. The po lice hu\e iineuti.il studentn and heen i ompelled hy this silent force to release them l’ollce ore placed to guard tho Lchools und wlthlti-'fiftcon minutes they , have been won over to the sldo of the studentn und things go on as usual , It is the beginning of tho gicat light ,to deiciminc whotliei China shall be leall} u democrat*} ns Is America or .whether It will be uti autocracy ruled by the uneducated generals ns It now Is jitls u uilont peaceful revolution. A ‘constructive oigunlzatlon of construe* live foiei-H through a huge educational program lead by tho educated people l-'or ail tlmt It Is teiribk* in Its silent power It includes moru and more all classes but the grafting military party (nnd ov en their soldiers are a part of U ) In Pelting atone eight thousand stu dents are drilling dull}. Military schools Mich ns ours arc drilling them I asked one student loader, why do you drill, }ou have no guns or ammunition No, he said, but If we can lend soldiers wo will have the nrmy, and they will too. 1 am aftald that theie will be no moro school this }csr. Tho work before tho students Is ton gioat and they wnnl to go to their homes to organize the coun ti} They sa> that they will make their headquarters In Shnng-hul where tho military patty has no power It Is Interesting to know thnt nearly all of the great student leaders In tho movement aiu boys who at some time ui othei have been members of Bible classes Out -of fourteen such students in one of m> Bible classes, eight are student loaders and the} mo tho ones v.ho me most cm nest In their desire to be roil Christians, It Is surprising at such a time ns this to find out what n * multitude of students hnvo been touch- 1 td by Clu Istlnnlty In this school or thnt Y M C A or tho othei mission and ncvei tell uionne what they are think ing übout inside I hope thut }ou have ulieudy rccov ei cd fiom }our illness and urc able to once more glvo to Penn Stnlei tho work which has nmdo it so great a school. In cuno >ou think It worth vvhllo I would be glad to havo an} part of this letlci that the editors of the State. COLLEGIAN thought interesting pub lished for the fellows to read. Youis very tiul}, SAMUEL M J>EAN ’l2 Bupcivisoi of Industrial Education, Thu Peking Higher Normul Colloge, Peking. China In rcguid to The Poking Higher Nm rnnl Collego, Mr Dean writes* Tho Peking Hlghoi Noimal Colloga its tho highest Contra! Government Nor mal in the count!-} It Is directly un der tho National Board of Education from whom It receives $400,000 a >ear and Is considered by them to bo tho bund of the wholo s}stum of public school education for the nation. Our graduates go to other provinces to becomo tho* profossors of some special «fr«»*l*»<*»M-8"l-*H~>*>*I“I~l*»I"H*»»*g“K"I“I»t"l-»-l-»»*l"i-I 4 »'M-»t COLLEGE QUICK LUNCH Service, Comfort and Satisfaction is our motto. OPEN AT ALL TIMES The Best of Food at Reasonable Rates Manuel Juranis, Prop. Gilbert M. Boyer, Manager PENN STATE COLLEGtAN blanch of education, In ono of the pro* vlnciul Normal Schools, or to become Hindi ir tcuchera In tho larger high schools, HUiiervlsors of oducution In u distiicl, etc Out students are apportioned umong the various provinces, each province having a certain number of available HchulursliipH, and the*} me chosen from among the* best men graduating from the piovlnclal Normals und high schools by the means of provincial and lulu: on. N illonal oxamlmitlnnH Wo special ize them fur fout years In ono of the following Loursra English—Ph}s!cu and Chemistry—Physics and Mathemat ics-Natural Science—History und Ge ography—Chinese* literature—lndustrial education We have in nil t!4O men In our colleg late department Besldos this wa have In our practice schools the comploto system of public educutlon whom wo woik out plans for the country and upload them by tho means of practice teaching dono by our graduates, b} tho moults of n college magazine, Institute woik. Inspection trips mnde to us b} other schools, etc. We aro preparing to give ii two year post graduato course open only to gruduntos of our collego or of universities In the practice schools there are live departments Tho oi dinary primary with 300 bays, preparing for tho regular high school course. The vocational primary with 200 bo}s, preparing for tho trade school courses or for life as workmen The rural prlmar} with 100 boys, developing methods of touching pom* children In country districts by the means of short courses. Tho liber al Arts high school with 300 students, ptepmlng fur tho Normal Collego or i egulur liberal arts and professional collego courses And tho Trndo High School with 80 bo}s preparing to bo* cumi* shop foremen ot to enter the In dustrial Teachers' Training Course In the deiairtmcnt of Industrial Ed ucation we me specializing ulong four lines 1. Manual Training und Art In the mdinarv public schools 2. Educa tion of future workmen In the vocation al! ptliuur} schools 3 Education of loud era of woikmcn In the Trade High School 4 Training Teachers of Man uil Training und Art In ths Teachers' Ti lining Clubs Students In the vocational primary me put Into some trade In the sixth grade and specialized from then on Students In the Trade High School are placed in cithci- tho furniture and buildings trades course or the motal trades couiee These students must bo tho sons of workmon, Aro selected by examination and psychological tests and must llko Industrial work In these i ]] Henry Grimm | :: The Tailor | | 206 E. College Ave. | X-M-W-W-X-S MARK courses they spend twenty hours a week In the shops and twenty hours In, stud}, foi the* llrst two }cnrs, and for) the Inst two }ears they spend three I days n week In school und thico days a I Week In the college or outside shops In} the city. Tho school work consists of I Iccturis on the theory connected uithj the trade, mutlamatlcs. English, Chinese and drafting room practice Tho shop I work Is taught by pmctlnil machinists, j brlcklayeis, plumbeis, electricians, and tho like under the supervision of Amer ican trained engineers with prucllco In Amcricun shops Shop work is done an neatly as pos sible under factory conditions as Is the drafting room work Student foremen aro used o\<>:>whcn* rind at nil times. Evei}thlng mud.- W salable and sold Tlie carpentry class spends two }ears In making furniture for the various govornmont boards and schools, the third year in building a dormitory for tho school In which the} do ui) the work and during the fourth }ear the} them solves design and supervise tho erection of school or government buildings. 1280,000 woith’of such buildings will bo erected this coming summer Tho metal working cluss is nower and has only tho first two }curs of tho course as yet, but It is working along tho sumo lines, making patterns for simplo ma chines and turning out tools to equip tho shops of graduates In this way they havo made for their own shops and for other schools a great deal of equipment In calipers, vises, boarlngs, pulleys, dogs, chisels, blacksmith tools, lathe tools, etc. , Tho Faculty consists of* Americans '.7 (Foreigners) Englishman 1 (Foreigner) American College Graduates-.-. ------—.......30 (Chincso) English Collego Graduates — 5 (Chincso) ’lench Collego Graduates ... —.....l (Chinese) German College Graduates—.. l2 (Chinese) Japanese College Graduate5......—.....32 ......—.....32 (Chinese) Total Fucull} .......103 ummutjiiiiimiiitniiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiminmiiiiiiiiiaiiiinimiiDiimii § I If You Break Your Glasses or you suffering with § headaches or)eyestrain, SEE 1 Dr. EVA B. ROAN | i 522 F. College Ave. | lniiiniiiiiiiirmoitiiiinmiaitmimmnimiitrirtttiiiiiiiiNiiinii," y>- AfAJISIIJrAX ACTS Them? wmlww tun bo churned utnonk OJtATOJII CUNTKST JUDGE I tin* lar»,cHt umtiHtH tor oratory tn tt State had tlio lioilor of hntfnWcountij. Tilt- udU'K'H thruutchnut U Itn facult> membcra nerve on/country tire dltldiil Into taction* n ud of Judges tor tho National / divinloiiH mid by tho jiroceHt of din ;*nl Contemn which were con- / nation tJio aspirants win thcli \\ under tlio direction of tJio Inter- 1 tinourli encti elans until final!* II to Prohibition Association In j test. Tlio content thla yem twin w •ilnon, lowa, on January fifth. I by n jountr lady who reproached Ores hi Marshaion turn sofectcd tut I University, she bcJnR tlio flint of li tin 1 jurißiH for dellvcrj. the Iso\ to cvei uln the national champloi -nmilHthtK of three for compo-1 ship and the second to etet compo iml three for delivery {ln’ thin class. Polll! /one of I tiie bum Omtorlc* t'uotvc! u < ullcKlnti IK'N Mol I’ldflHHO I IK 1 (if l.uiml LI Mtlon ni No. 17G*CoIlogo "Page Three