Penn State Collegian
rTJblished semi-weekly during the College year by students of the Pennsyl
vania State College, in the interest of Students. Faculty. Alumni, and Friends of
the College.
EDITORIAL STAFF
E. D. Schive, ‘23...
A. E. Post, *23..
D. R. Mehl.
*23
W. R. Aumun. '22 —-
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
E. E. Helm. *24
It. li, Colvin, '2-1
Women's Editor..
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Circulation Manager
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REPORTERS
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A. F. Mayo. ’?5 li - S- Morris, *25 A . petre. '25
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J. H. Hum *25
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News Editor this Issue..
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1922
THE CLOSE OF THE SEASON
The game on New- Beaver Field between Haveriord and Penn
State marked the close of another successful season for the Blue and
White hooters. Two-tie games and two victories is the story of the
1922 schedule which clinches the record for a Penn State team. Four
seasons without a defeat and still going strong.
Never before in the history of this institution has a team gained
for itself such an enviable performance, and this is strengthened by
the list of opponents who have faced the Nittany team.
In this sport, Penn State has placed on the field for the last.four
years, a team that has made up for a lack of skill with an abundance
of determination and fighting spirit. In many cases, this alone has
carried them on to victory. They certainly deserve a reward.
It was Tumored at the beginning of the season, that the Athletic
Association would sanction a challenge being issued to the leaders of
the Intercollegiate Soccer League. This league includes teams from
Penn, Cornell, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth. The victor
of such a contest could rightly claim the soccer championship of the
East, if not of the entire country. It is believed that Penn State
would receive no little prestige if a challenge of this nature should be
issued and a game arranged. There is no doubt but that the soccer team
deserves it and the student body would learn of such an arrangement
with joy and gladness. Then let the best team win!
A NEW SCRAP
At the beginning of the year, it was realized that Penn State
customs had fallen into a rut and were being disregarded to an
astonishing degree. The Student Tribunal took the situation admirably
in hand and have checked violations to such an extent that college
customs and traditions are quickly returning to the position they
held jn the years before the war. However, it was seen that class
spirit among the freshmen and sophomores still lagged. To meet this
condition, it was decided by Student Council to hold more class scraps
in the fall of the year. Consequently, the time of holding the tie-up
scrap was changed. At the last meeting of Student Council, it was
voted to institute another fall scrap, which should take the place oi
the pushball scrap of previous years.
The last pushball scrap at the college was held on November 20, 1920
when the treshmen defeated the sophomores 1-0. The ball had been
in use for several years, and finally gave way before the onslaught
of the underclassmen in this year. The cost of a new ball has prohib
ited the purchase of a new one and so it was thought advisable to
institute a new scrap as a substitute until a new ball is purchased.
If the new scrap measures up to expectations, it will probably be made
an annual event.
The plans of the scrap committee have not been completed as yet
and will probably not be announced until the meeting of the classes
on the night previous to the scrap. At that time, the rules and the
details will be explained to the contending classes.
Whatever lorm.tnat scrap may assume, it should receive the
approbation of all classes. Only in this way can it prove its worth.
new ticket Distribution
The dissatisfaction that was expressed on the campus a week ago
emphasized the need for a better system of distribution of tickets for
the football contests, both at home and on foreign fields, and so Grad
uate Manager Neil Fleming has conceived a new plan which is receiv
ing its initial try-out this week.
The Athletic Association, has been aware of the disadvantages of
the old system but was unable to act in the midst of a busy season.
Student Council came to the rescue and appointed three of its-members
to act in cooperation with the A. A. and to inaugurate a new method.
The Graduate Manager of Athletics is to be given credit for the
work which he applied to this task for the new plan. All that is
now needed is the cooperation of the student body.
The new order of things eliminates standing in line foThours at
a time and provides for the proper selection of tickets. It makes no
difference when the application for tickets is banded in provided it is
received during the period of the two days specified. A student may
get his application during some off-hour of the day, take it home and
write out a check to cover the cost of the tickets he desire*, and return
the application to the Treasurer’s office at any time during Thursday
or Friday and will be given the tickets which have been drawn for him.
The method of selecting tickets for the different applications is
also noteworthy. All the applications are collected Tuesday, night
and are assorted according to classes. Senior applications will then
be filled out first, the junior applications will next be considered, then
the sophomores, and last those of the freshmen,, in case there are not
enough ,to satisfy all, then the freshman demand will be cut accord
ingly. It has always been maintained that this is the proper way to
distribute tickets. It is true that the freshmen do not get the best
seats, but some day they will be seniors and then they .will receive the
consideration they deserve.
Every student can rest assured that no partiality will be shown in
assigning the tickets among their classmates. In filling out the
applications of a certain class, the tickets alloted to that class will be
drawn out by a lottery system. This is the fairest method which the
committee could conceive.
If this system is successful this year, it will doubtless be used for
the contests next year. It apparently commends itself for the enthus
iastic support of both faculty and students. Whether it will be the
success that it should be, remains to be seen.
..Editor-In-Chief
... .Managing Editor
....—.Managing Editor
..Assistant Editor
E. M. Jameson, *24 C. B. Tilton. *24
Miss S. E. Croll. *23
W. W. Stahl ’24
E. M. Jameson
ANOTHER DEFEAT
The defeat in football by the Penn team last Saturday afternoon
in Philadelphia was a sad blow to Penn State and her friends, but it
has been accepted as it should be. Evidently, Fate refuses to smile
on the efforts of Captain Bentz and his ten brothers-in-arms.
Penn has a good eleven and merits all the recognition which the
Quaker team has won. That eleven displayed an excellent brand of
football and generalship that is hard to beat. The backs are husky
and capable men who failed but seldom and who won that extra yard
age when it was needed.
The Nittany team played hard and well. They gained more yard
age in scrimmage but were unable to penetrate the Red and Blue de
fense when but a small distance separated them from a first down.
Palm’s forward passing and punting is beyond critcism; Wilson’s bat
tering ability was unexcelled; Bedenk’s alertness was remarkable. It
has happened and no one is to be censored. Rather, all should be
spurred on to finish the season in a blaze of glory.
There remains but one scheduled contest and that is with Pitt on
Thanksgiving Day. Over a week remains before the team must leave
for the Smoky City. In that time, miracles can be performed and the
impossible accomplished. With Coach Bezdek in charge of the team,
the student body is sure that a winning team can yet be produced.
“They fight hardest with their backs to the wall,” is a saying that
characterizes the work of a Blue and White eleven as well as that of
the head coach. “Bez” has the-faith of the entire student body. He
has had overpowering odds with which to contend and he is slowly
coming to the top. Coach Bezdek and his team is never down until
they are out and have been carried off the field. Watch them go when
they land on Forbes Field, a week from Thursday. We are back of
them to the finish. Let's go!
DR. W. S. DYE DISCUSSES
TRUE “COLLEGE SPIRIT”
Head of English Department Gives
Deeper Insight Into Meaning
of Much-Used Term
One of the terms one most often hears
on a college campus is "college spirit”.
So often is the term heard, that I have
ventured more than once to ask Its
meaning. I have not wanted the ordin
ary definition, hut rather the deeper
significance that attaches to the term.
I am not sure that what might be called
an adequate setting forth of what the
words express and what they imply has
reached my ears.
To the undergraduate, college spirit is
a loud-mouthed, deep-throated, flamboy-
ant, bizznre sort of thing. It has no
place except at football games or other
athletic contests; at class fights or col
lege celebrations. At all of these events,
the louder the noise and the more un
usual the student manifestations, the
more indicative are they of college spir
it. During undergraduate days, college
spirit seems to consist in visible inani
festutionsy-pennants. ribbons, Iml bunds,
arm bands, pins, and other insignia. Fur
the most part it means what is called
"supiwrting the team", even though
that spirit entails the loss of time, the
cutting of classes, and the neglect of
those things for which a college is sup
posed to stand. Someone has facetious
ly put it, "Don’t let your college work
Interfere with your education." But the
FYES’
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tain Pen to the person writing
the following sentence legibly
the greatest number of times on
one side of a U. S. government
postal card:
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by L. K. Metzger—“The
Fastest Growing Store in
State College.”
Cards must be delivered in person.
Must be written in ink.
“-Always trying to make our store better for you.”
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111-115 Allen St.
TKE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
roiiHT of that epittrant, like* the |)i*r|)L‘-
irntors of most half-truths, forgot to
define education.
None of the ideas enumerated above,
however, really suggest what college
spirit really carries with it to the think
ing undergraduate. It is not my inten
tion to do other than merely brush the
fringes of the subject. I merely wish to
suggest a line of thought that may en
able readers of this article to form an
adequate conception of the term "college
spirit". In a word, college spirit is the
spirit—the actuating motive, the prin
ciple for which a college stands —living
In us and determining our actions. If
the college stands for'noble ideals, hon
est investigation of facts, worthy mo
tifs, and an unfaltering desire to sup
port whatever is true'and right no mat
ter who or what opposes; if it stands
for scholastic, ethical, and political integ
rity no student . can leave that
college without taking such principles
of action with him. The reverse is
just as obvious: and on that, there
is no need to dwell. As we carry from
our home-training certain permanent
ideals of life and conduct, so do we car
ry actuating principles of life and con
duct, and loyalty from our college. Our
actions are the visible expressions of our
"college spirit".
Somewhere, sometime, someone called
a college a man’s Alma Mater, his fos
tering mother. Think what the term
suggests. From the loins of the college
are w«; from her come our lives; her
spirit is our spirit; the blood that throbs
Tfaß%u(TMreGo.
1 ‘Phofcjiiu/S^’QuAlib/"
Note:—The Nittany Theatro open
Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY
Two lilg Laugh Bays
HAHOLD LLOYD
In “Grnndma's Boy"
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NITTANY
TUESDAY'
MABEL BALLIN
in “Married People"
MERMAID COMEDY
"Blazer”
WEDNESDAY—
ALICE BRADY
In “Anna Ascends"
CHRISTIE COMEDY
"Choose Your Weapons'
PASTIME
THURSDAY and FRIDAY—
“STB ON G H E ART"
The Dog Wonder
In “Brawn of the North"
ADDED—A comedy scream
“That Son of a Sheik"
Adults 30c, Children 16c, and Tax
in her veins, throbs in ours. Our minds on rough ways; when they are calling’week by H. H. Conrad '22. who U n
are developed or made over’ln'her" our for help. It is a hard sort of child who connected with the Sturterant Dry W,
bodies, our souls, our ideals were made refuses to lend aid to the folks at home. Companv. He went t» work with
of her. Her care nourished us and made Your Alma Mater needs Welfare Build- concern Jlfter graduation and ha* Jr
us over into something so new and ings for those little brothers and sisters KOOjJ for }je a j re .,jy has ch n>aa «.
strange that our natural parents no of yours, many of them yet un- „ ' , ‘ C arge °I the
. , , .. . . , * , , . Boston and Philadelphia offices «->.> .
longer unite know us. It was she that horn. who. someday, are coming to take . . w Mch
instilled us with her spirit: the spirit of your places at the Pennsylvania State mvulves the installation of plants and
helpfulness, the spirit of humanity, thej University. selling of products. When in college
spirit of service. Those of us who have- Has your contribution to the cam- c^ nrswl specialized in Dry Kilns in
the real college spirit arc bio-d of lierj paign been as large as you can afford? oull l- tlkzatlon oursc in the Depart
blood, spirit of her spirit. In us lives the- Keclistribute the funds in your budget m< -* m l*orestry.
life of our Alma Mater: and to her we. and send In a revised pledge. l-'»si year eleven men were graduated
owe our all. Her hopes should be our! Make good the trite Penn State spirit, from the Department of Forestry and all
hopes; her aspirations should be our 1 -■ ■-o but one are following this course. •Ey
aspirations: her ideals should be mirj pQRESTRY DEPT FINDS erv one of these men hrts made good in
Weals; her needs should he our needs - U pnciTirvj mo raA nc l,is rw '' wliv,! line - of them are
Til —e d; )f ill to FOoIIIUN M)K GRADS in the United States
. hese are days ol .(gns; or, »
put It more truly, these are the days]
when our foster mothers are beset hyj The seniors in the forestry course | schools. and four in lumber or. wood
dilllculty: when their paths have fallen'were treated to a special lecture last| utilization projects.
PASTIME THEAT RE
Friday and Saturday
Nov. 24-25
Matinee Saturday at-two
Come and See Wallie Beat
Up an Army of Ghosts!
CEE him clean out a haunted cas
tie and win the beautiful
Spanish Princess! It’s a gay tale
'of adventure and love. Thousands
laughed at the stage play—millions
will scream with delight at the pic
ture.
With the best comedy cast in history.
fished in
est of Elec
elopment by
foil that will
by what •
Y Putt
' the intert
trical Devi
an Instilutii
be helped ..
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\ Industry.
Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 27-28
IZLS£ L.LASKV PRESENTS
I 'T'HE belovpd epic of the Araeri- e
, t A can home living on the screen I
j in a perfect production. With all *
ii its thrills, its tears, its smiles, its
heart-throbs. Theodore Roberts in
his greatest role—" Uncle Josh.”
Adapted from Denman Thompson’s play.
A Special Orchestra from Pittsburgh;
to provide the proper musical setting!
Shoes. Which kind gets you
there the quickest?
TWO college men were walking down the road,
when a classmate whizzed by in his car.
“Pretty soft !” sighed one.
Said the other, “I'll show him. Some day
I’ll own acar that’s got his stopped thirty ways. ”
The more some men want a thing, the harder
they work to get it. And the time to start work
ing—such men at college know—is right now.
All question of classroom honors aside, men
would make college count for more if they realized
this fact: You can buy a text book for two or
three dollars, but you can sell it for as many
thousand—once you have digested the contents.
This is worth remembering, should you be
inclined to the self-pity which social comparisons
sometimes cause. And anyway, these distinc
tions are bound to be felt, even though your
college authorities bar certain luxuries as un
democratic—as perhaps they'arc.
The philosophy that will curry you through is
this: “My day will come—and the more work
I crowd into these four years', the quicker I'll
make good.”
Western Electric Cmmpmy
Since 1869 makers and distributors of electrical equipment
Tuesday, November 21,1922
forestry Service
in the West, two teaching i n forestry
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Number 23 of a series