penn Stale Collegian i sii«ii -Mint-weekly during the College year by students of the Pennajl CnH 'V<~ Interest of the Students. Faculty. Alumni and t!• nd« of the College. EDITORIAL STAFF A G Pratt *22 G H L> ale, Jr, ’22 „ „ J W Selover '22 ... . ASSOCIATE EDITORS ,W. R Aumun '23 D. R. Mebl '23 Women's Editor _ _ „ Assistant Women's Editor-. G W Byjei ’24 R B Colvin ’24 J F Mullins '24 H. B. Prinsky ’24 N. O. Watterson '24 BUSINESS STAFF W E Perry, Jr. '22- „ H. R. Jgerkhelser '22 . E. S Yocum ’22 _ ASSISTANT.BUSINESS MANAGERS H T. Axford ’23 W. G Davis ’23 The Collegian invites all communications on any subject of college Interest Letters must bear signatures of writers. Subscription price: $2 50, if paid before October 16, 1921. After October 15, 1921, $2 75 ~ Entered at the Pouto/Hoe, State College. Pa., os second class matter Ofllce: NiUanyPrintlng and Publishing Co Building Offlce Hours. G.OO to 5.45 every afternoon except Saturday Member of lntexcollcglute Newspaper Association News Editor This Issue E D. Schive TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1921 AN HONORED GUEST Penn State was honored during the past week-end by the pres ence at the Inauguration ceremonies of many noted men, but perhaps the most welcome was Governor Sproul. As the chief executive of the state and as a friend he was doubly welcome. Few men have more power in deciding the progress of this institution than the governor of the Commonwealth, and the statement made by him that he is con T verted to the project of changing Penn State from a college to a university shows that he is a believer in Pennsylvania’s State College. Some of the most enthusiastic supporters of Penn State expressed con siderable disappointment when he cut our appropriation in the spring, but they must remember that even with ttfe cut, he signed a bill giving the college one million dollars more than previous governors. Gov ernor Sproul’s words at the meeting Friday .show that he is back of Penn State and that he is a friend upon whom we can depend. A WONDERFUL CELEBRATION The past week-end has shown what Penn Statejs capable of if she sets hei mind on it. The inauguration ceremonies were wonderfully impressive, and we wish to congratulate the student body for the part it played The student ’ parade setting forth the academic work and the undergraduate activities will long be remember ed as a worthy example of Penn State workmanship. The student celebration was without a peer and in every way the men and women entered into the celebration with heart and mind set on making this Inauguration week-end the finest that Penn State has ever seen. We know that the alumni also, enj'oyed themselves, and we hope that '“eve'fy' alumnus'and visitor found as much pleasure m visiting St'ate College, as we did in having them here. THE PURPOSE OP A “GET-WISE” DAY As held in other colleges and universities, the “Get-Wise” Day plays a major part in acquainting the freshmen with the customs and traditions of their Alma Mater. The new men are called together in a great meeting one evening near the beginning of the school year and there their privileges and responsibilities are pointed out to them. The president of the institution usually opens the meeting with a cordial welcome to the new men and tells them that they are now a part ofr the college and are expected to follow in the footsteps of their worthy predecessors. The other big men of the college then explain the college traditions, its legends and time-honored customs. After the new men have had explained to them the customs and, we might say, the atmosphere of the college, other men set forth the advantages to be gained by entering into the various student activi ties The sports managers recite the'benefits* to be gained in engag ing in football, baseball, track, basketball, and the many other forms of athletic activity, giving the rules under which the men work, the way managers are selected, the way the captain is picked, and the hundred and one other things that the freshmen should know. In a like manner, the leaders among the student body in the other activities, such as the publications, debating and music, tell of their activities, explaining the manner of picking the successful candidates, the positions which are open, and the advantages to be gained by arriving at these positions * „ In the institutions which now hold an annual "Get-Wise” Day, a great deal of enthusiasm is generated at the meeting. The new men are made to feel at home. They feel that they know their Alma Mater a little better and are tempted to broaden out and participate in the interesting activities which have been explained * By having the truth set forth at the beginning of their college career, they are also less liable to get false ideas of the ideals and traditions of the school. This idea is not altogether new at Penn State, although it has not been carried out here as in many other colleges During the past year, at the freshmen class meetings, prominent men about the college appeared before the class of 1924, and endeavored to point out the Penn State traditions, and her multi-form activities. The meetings were a great success, the freshmen learned in a short time what would otherwise have taken them a good while to acquire, and they had the advantage of learning early. The matter was taken up at a recent meeting of Student Council, and although no definite decision was arrived at, the consensus of op inion was that the custom should be investigated and if feasible in stituted in the near Future The custom has many fine features in that, it gets the freshmen together, inculcates at the beginning of their college career the ideals of the college, and teaches them things in a short time that they would otherwise be long in finding out CUSTOM STARTED THIS wIU bo elvon a coat of white paint to YEAR AT KANSAS STATE Protect it from tho weather of tho com- A new custom and a now tradition in£r seasonß A border of luminous is to bo Inaugurated at tho Kansas P alnt wl)1 insure Us attracUon at State Agricultural College this year nsebt * tho rro.lm.on ont-moor. will wt '* 60 1 B “ tom joui-noy to Prowoot HUI, which js> a ?°S° “ . havo monitor. ol tho prominent, landmark .Ituntod noar tho Sf °f, h tnllora and make on tho .Ido ot tho hill L™* 0 . "“t""?” ‘‘“l, for 11,0 a la, to -K.” At thh, time tho lottor P“ " E * h ° ““T a " a tor making any necessary repairs. .. _ Assistant Editor „ Senior Associate A. E. Post '23 E D Schive'23 _ Miss Doris Browning ’23 Miss* Saruh E Crotl E E. Helm '24 E. M Jameson '24 C B. Tilton '24 R C. Welch '24 . - - .. - —Business Manager -.——Advertising Manager . Circulation Manager C. D Herbert ’23 BULLETIN Tuesday C 30 p m—Schuylkill Count\ Club, 314 Main 7 00 p jii—OKU Engineering Soeloty, 200 Eng D 7 00 p in—Glee Club, Auditorium 7 00 p m—Penn State Grange, 100 Hoit 7 30 p m—Student Council Meeting, 14 L A Wodncsdti) 7 00 p in—Senior Girls, Old Chapel 7 00 p. n» —Debaters Meeting, £5 L A. 7 30 p m—Fayette County Club, Jl5 Main 7 00 p, in—Both Choirs (A and B), Auditorium 7 00 p m.—Lycoming County Club, 11 L A. 7 30 p. m—Wayne County Club, 315 Main. 7.30 p. m—Electrical Engineering Soc iety. 200 Eng D 8 30 p m—Senior Memorial Commit tee. 14 L A MINERS ASK FOR STATE , AID TO ENLARGE WORK Resolution Passed at Recent Con ference to Eliminate Deplor able Condition in State The Mining Conference of Mining and Geological Experts hold during the Inaugural Ceremonies was largely attended and many important facts re lating to the Mining School were dls- | cussed The conference was presided over •by Dean Moore of the Mining School The first speaker of the conference was E A. Holbrooke, Acting Director of the Bureau of Alines at Washington He spoke on the Functions of tho Technical College In Industries In hfs address, he pointed out that the duty of tho Alining School was to train men in research work Speaking on the value of the Alining Colleges, he sold that they are Justified in their present methods by the quality of their out put and that men graduating from AUnlng Schools who foil in their pro fession cannot blame their school but their lack of Instinct in research work Ruse X Hosier, Superintendent of Compensation and Rates of Harrisburg next spoke on Safety First from a ■ financial standpoint, pointing out that machinery could be bought but that men could not and their life and limbs must be.consorved Professor Colosgrove has just re turned from a tour in England and Wales whore he has visited many, of the. Important mines. His talk,con sisted in describing the workings -of tho i best of tho mines which he saw-" He also explained the very efficient' method of wage scale under which the miners in Europe work. Concerning the problems of the Ex tension service, - Professor Warnei pointed out that tho one most difficult to solve was that of, providing a suit able school for the training of men in Alining, Aletallurgy and Ceramics 'He went on to show that the Technical Engineering School was the only place where a man could obtain such know ledge. Other prominent men, experts on tho subject of Alining and Geologj, who spoke were Dr D F AfcFarland, Prof essor H J Lohman, Edward V d’ln villiers, a mining engineer, and Dr G A. Ashley, State Geologist, Harrisburg burg A very Important resolution was passed at this conference As drawn up by George H. Dike, president of the Safety Appliance Co, reading as fol lows Rosolved That it is the recommen dation of this conference that suffi cient funds should be provided by tho State Legislature of the State of Penn sylvania for greatly enlarging tho hcoic of this work directly in the in terests of tho Industries involved and indirectly to the benefit of the entire state AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION STAFF HOLDS CONFERENCE The entire Agricultural Extension force of Tho Pennsylvania State Col lege, Including County Agents, Spec ialists, and Home Economics represen- one hundred people— gathered in room 100 Horticultural last Saturday morning for their sec ond conference Penn State has plac ed Countj Agents in sixty-two out of tho sixty-seven counties of Pennsyl vania, and all these County Agents and ‘ many of tho assistant County Agents were at tho conference last Saturday Judge H Walton Mitchell, President of the Board of Trustees, Dean R L Watts, and President Thomas all de livered very earnest and enthusiastic addresses, and in turn of tho earnest and entire cooperation of eveiy man and woman on tho Agricul tural Extension staff Air E S. By ard, an "old-timer" and a member of tho Board of Trustees, was also there to glvo a very interesting and worth while talk Tho remainder of tho conference was given over to attending to miscellan eous matters of direct interest to tho department. < HONORARY SCIENTISTS ' TO FORM COLLEGE UNIT Dr Burton E. Livingston, the per manent secrotary of Tho American As sociation for tho Advancement of Science, who was a delegate to tho In auguration, remained ovor last Satur day to meet with tho members of tho Association a Penn State. Among othor things, tho organizing of the members at this college* Into a local unit was dlscusse^L THE PEN! STATE COLLEGIAN The Live Letters of A, Shorthorn, In My Room At Midnight Dear Pansy. 1 I’m Klmply'overu ellemed with con- H|)lkuous‘thin a -to tulle about.only bc- In a little' lurse fioin the leeentcst football KTiirj constrains me to ic mark to paper. The momen tum of the; Jtlshiatln coioinon>s Jest past bus bring us up to the point in the worlds hstorv where it may be said with' mil Iso atoiethot, we can cast any help fiom the sun . u ( I couklont ’toll you when the fun begun, for Wr'havo bln hurray In and hurryln ever tfnee wo had unekspekted lee ci cam at 'be bordin house on Wed nesday evenllg s The nekst day was devoted to gating hair cuts and sleep in in pci paition fer the strenuous i' ■ .Parades sene,to >bc the habit of all small towns tat our perade was dife ricnt cause jfo r dldent havo tlio hole town in the perade—only haf of us was aloud tt pcrtlsipate, the lesser hif Mas desbnated to be unlooltors Coarse, the bet part of the perade mos the ferst partMhich I was in Wo all dressed up-wth uniforms which was biown and fuy'Tlke burlap sake. I'll send ioi'H'pltcher of me in mine soon us the tudlo fellow gets it en larged enuff i An don t be alarmed. Pansy, at mi beln morelly injured, cause them’ Etndages round by lowei Unis is not toll top the blud from blecd in *Bcin tekjiikolly known us splrel lagging, they i* to us fellows wat thum txu. is to a Wooden -legged man—they uphold the hcriery Mo, I ain't an offiscr yet, but < I'm heded that vv y. Assistant korperel is my titei froii now on Offisors look Jest bout as -mod os us fellows only they ain’t 'alc|td / to carry as big guns or wear such] long wiskers as us I woodent wanfto be an affiser tho— there only al<ud~to chew gum. Bout the only ,plesire they got out of life is to wear, dlffrjnt kinds of ornamental safety pins 01 *tlieir shoulders wheru there epithets Is supposed to be and wear long larged shoes so they can I get there morbs worth out of a shoo shine tj But oil this time the perade Is per adln an -Is al over I'd tell you all bout only Useless dont want me to use to much of bk paper An anyhow, af ter tho peradl comes the inishlatln of tho Prcsident|an jour religious traln in has bin aknowlodge that a 'ale of sokreef prevades such okasions Somethin like the atmosphere wat hap pens at the b»rddn house when fellows Is holdln th<“o breth between meels and desert to guess wether its goin to be pie or nppte pie An after- tFo last prune had bin swallered—caiKo ,lt ,wasent pic* after all, wo all n}tkes a b-line tords the mass meeting A,, mcetln Isent a mass, Pansy,? it is simply pandymonc yum broke lo,se in bout forteon dlf frent derectsliuis Wat with lissenin to the brass-.terid and-slngln an tryln to follbr. ,the iinthooslasUk , Mrogllflks of a C biinch oft'amachure cheer leeders —go3h, f a kroq£oyed fellow wood have to eome.twice/Ojgeo 'everything i'lt- atn’i'tß’that is'said nor tho vellin or iio singln, or .the bond, but its thef ho'e combustible bunch of em which swalered in the kerrect per uorshens ,the brisles stiffen up on a fellows njk; M lt gjves.you an em oshen like hayh a wash rag skweezed down your your chewln gum, an astin jpur, best glrrul to go to church all In pne brfeth. No wonder ft Is you go oit of a mass meetln all invigorated upjto.ichaw; of.a fellows ear if he oven dares to wink, at the stara an strips, of..our Alma Mater An then ,thg| band played the old Alpha Zeta Frat Pin on Satur day, October 15, Reward. Call Bell 156 BREAb Ijije Cream a Specialty STATE COLLEGE BAKERY & ICECREAM PARLOR ■i" - >. 11 , “Four New York Stores” .-|i' , general Offices ; Broadway, Cor. sgih Street '.'•Wallaclu Bros. - * HART SCHAPFNER A,MARX Our Mr. Jack Arthur arid Mr. Henry Salten ,are planning to visit you with, an interesting assortment of correct • clothes, hats, and haberdashery for College Mem •• - EXHIBIT AT iJjTHE NITTANY INN , Thursday, October 20 ■Friday, October 21J 1 - . Saturday, October 22 . Your inspection is most cordially invited • i “Satisfaction or Money .Back” hundred an ferst him, it boin “Hale, hule, the gangs all here,” an the ferst thing wo knowed we was scttln In tho footbawl grandstands with nothin but moonshine tound and about us An, with joy in out lmrts an our .hands in out poklts, we llsscned to the fire works an saw* the Glee Klub preform They sting a coupla songs an 1 selok- I sheti Everybody thot die selekshcn wus gone to lte a soijg, but it waisent —lt was Sivy Which won vou here me* oputate on It fer the ferst will koiivinse you that It ain’t even a sel cktslien —Its a bad linblt. But jest then I kin hem my hart stoppin fer Pansy'lias just hold over the piuty lino that the Piesldent don’t Intend to sclclnate Thanksglvln this veil—even tho we did lnltlshlatc him so peaceibly But I kin make out somehow*, little dumptln, If you kin nmnngo to get a coupla.punkin pies an a haf tuikey an a pok of slioep'nosc itpples to me in time Yours wothci -Thanksglvln comes or goes, ALUMNI SUPPORT - TO PREXY IN RESOLUTION Following a mooting of the represen tatives of the Alumni of the School of Mines of the Pennsylvania State Col lege held In tho now Mining Building 1 ist Saturday morning for the purpose ofi dedicating a bronze tablet to the memoiy of former Dean, Dr M E Wadsworth, tho following' resolution was unanimously passed. “Since tho plan for the furtuie of The Pennsylvania State College outlined by Prcsldcn tJohn M Thomas in his in auguration address meets with, the henity approval of those here assem bled Be It resolved therefore, that wo go on i ccord as heartily favoring this plan and as pledging to President TJiomas our wholehearted support in carrying It out.” Dean E S Moore was requested to see that a copy of this resolution was forwarded to President Thomas and otherwise used in any way which Is thought best to further thtl Interest of tho plan Yes- She’s Coming! lllliß The 1 Impetuous T 1 ‘ One. i ... bnIOIIIfS? The ‘"" vSwSSißfi Beautiful. " gO&Gf 9 ne ‘ ' It’s a wonder tale of the East —her rise from ragged waif of the desert sands to the silken darling of the Mighty One Pastime Theatie CAKES STATE AG: SECRETARY PLEADS FOR EXPANSION I'oreaful Tallc by Secretary Ras mussen Results in Passage ' of Two Resolutions The conference of the School of Ag riculture was the largest of any of the confer entes of tho various schools of the college, being attended by approxi mately* two hundred and twenty people Among the many speakers present dl the conference was the State Secretary of Agrlcultuie, Fred Rasmussen, who picsenttyd a forceful,plea for the dev elopment of Agricultural Research and experimental woik ut tho research station at this* college I J enn State’s Agricultural Experiment Station has done wonderful work for Pennsylvania’s farmers. Among other discoveries that have been made at'thls station Is tho now “Pennsylvania 44” w lioa£ which gave an average increase In wheat production of five and six tenths bushels an acre Soils have, been rebuilt, tree and animal pests, have liken conquered, so that the-farmers of the state have been saved many thous ands of dollars , - Secretary Rasmussen pointed ,out that Pennsylvania has never specifical ly appropriated a cent for agricultural research, the small amount ot research that has been done along this line having been accomplished with funds intended for other purposes, and from small Federal appropriations Thus', although Penn State’s, research in Ag riculture has been of very high quality in that It has produced valuable dis coveries, Its quantity, Is not nearly suf ficient, and tho amount of agricultural research done hero must be expanded As an outcome of secretary Rasmus* sen’s speech, the conference immediate ly* passed two xcsolutions as follows: "After-Evere-Meal” . ggj for gZjd FIVE CENTS The Flavor-Lasts! FRESHMAN Candidates for Editorial, Staff of THE COLLEGIAN v !• 1 . :| - Report Every Wednesday Night ? , 7:30 P.M. Room 12 Liberal-Arts Shoes for Men 1 They are leaders in the. shoe world just as we* | are leaders in this community. 1 ~ A pair of Nettletons this season will convince It j you of their real worth. , > t 20th Century Shoe Co. D. J. LEHMAN, Mgr. Made., by Soldby TJs Tuesday, October 18,1921 “Resolved* That this Conference re cognises tho,, need, t so ably i presented by Secretary Rasmussen, for a greater, immediate 1 of agricultural research as an essential to the contin uance of agricultural progress, aiid \ 1 "Resolved that the chairman of tho conference Is hereby authorized In Us behalf to appoint a suitable committee to consider the desirability ot organ ising a-special, broadly representative body for tho purpose of studying the present condition of Tho Pennsylvania State College and Agricultural Experi ment- Station in relation to tho pres ent demands upon them and, portlcul-. arlv. In detail, the present principal re search needs of Pennsylvania Agricul ture and tho means* for, development of such research, with authorization to arrangq for such organizations “DADDY* GROFF WAS CHINA’S DELEGATE. TO INAUGURATION "Daddy" Groff has been attending the inaugural exercises as a delegate from Canton Christian College. Penn State’s China Mission Last Wednes day he addressed tho Freshmen in Ag riculture on a subject pertaining-to thb agricultural* survey HARVARD GAME Car will leave here for round trip t< Cambridge. Four passengers needed Jail York at. Alpha Chi Sigma House PAGE -and ;SHAWS .Candy of Excellence RexallDrugStore ( ROBERT J. MILLER
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