Page Two Penn State (Collegian Published sent-weekly during the College year by students of thti,Petnsii venni State College, 10 the interest at students, Fee°lty, Alumni: end Pried& of the College EDITORIAL STAFF MM:=M:?I a. B. Colvin. '24 .... C B Tllion, '24 -_ AssocIATE EDITORS J. H. Lum. '26 H. S. Morris. '26 W. L. Pratt, ' Allen 13 lt, Lanai. '25 —Mita M. Fartal: '25 P P. George. '26 Women% Editor. A.erletant Women's Editor— BUSINESS STAPP 8. R McCulloch, W. Vv. Stahl '24 I. M. Aronson. .24 ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS J. M. Eisler. •2S J. B. Mo°Womb, It REPORTERS _ _ _ _ W n.Anthony,l6 W. I' Durbin, 26 G. C. Richert . , '26 R. T. .i6l;ixo, J R Dunlap, '26 B Butler, '26 H. J. Tindall, '26 S. Rosenfeld, '26 R. A Shmler, '26 HL. /Conner, '26 HW. Cohen, '26 A. IL Smith. '26 6 The Penn Stele Collegian Invitee communicationon any SubjeOLef college Interest. Letters must bear the sign - attires Of the 'maim All Oepj . fiir Tues. gay's issue must be in me office by noon on Ifeediy, and foePridar• lobos, by noon Thursday. Subst.rlptlon price: $2 00, lf paid bo fore Jonier7 Mt, 1924 Atter deanarY Ist, 1024, $2 76. „Catered ut the Postofgee, State College, Fa, as second am matter. °Mem NittaaY Printing and_Publlehlng Co Elulltilag. Member of Baiter Interoolloiliat• AisiasUa News Editor this issue FRIDAY, NOVErAIIRIt 9 . , 92-9 NON-CURRICULUM ACTIVITIES A question of vital importance in modern American college life, and one which can not be overlooked by_ even t)le mdst• unobsLirb ant of college people, is presented by the constantly increasing amount of student participation in non-curriculum acpyitiei: It is a problem that is claiming the attention of many college men and women throughout the land who are actively interested in student welfare. Alarm is evidenced in many instances over the direction and ultimate end toward which undergraduate activities are tending. It is contended, and justly too, that students actively engaged in the major activities actually spend more time in hard thought and work fc . irthese activities than upon studies. Thii reel is Widely depkr - ed by observant college officials and instructors who think the curriculum emphasizing the ultimate academic :good is the last word in fitting the graduate to grapple with the problems of life. But this belief is hardly reasonable. Times are changing and with them are changing the systems of education. Another ten years will witness a complete reorganization, perhaps, of college manners and methods for preparing a youngster to meet the emergencies anti overcome the difficulties which he is sure to encounter upon leaving the shelter of his Alma After. And it must not be forgotten ilia the unconscious tendencies of the undergraduates themselves play an im portant part in these changes Student interest and partimpaticin in activities can be turned tO advantage and should be encouraged under the present system of education. They are of infinite value as cultural and character-build ing agencies. They add a breadth and multiplicity of view's and interests that should not be overlooked and which could nev er be attained by pursuance of regular curriculum work in the class yoom. A college education, according to Pre - sent day - standards, consists of more than mere absorption of bbok knowledge. Those students who attend an institution of higher education with the thought that all it holds for them is work, work, work in pursuit of academic learning, are missing something of which they wilt feel the need in later life just as surely as the sun rises and sets. This same mistaken idea that all education is gleaned from books, is entertained by many "small town stuff" teachers who tan see none other than their own To discourage undergraduate non•curnculum activities arid try to restrict students to school work is not only narrowing; it is depriv• ing them of real experience. ANNIVERSARIES Tmorrow is a holiday at Penn State. The college will deck itself in gala attire; thousands Of visitors will be on hand for the celebration. For tomorrow is the anniversary of 'Pennsylvania Day. • Years ago, before the pressure of public affairs became as urg ent as it is today, it was the custom of the entire legislature of the commonwealth to visit the college in a body once a year. The day of the visit was set apart for the pUrpose of showing the people of the state and their representatives something of the work which the college is trying to accomplish Despite the fact that it is no longer possible to have all of the legislators present for the celebration, the annual observance of this college me.versary serves as a mark of recognition to the citizens of Pennsylvania who have made the pres ent institution possible. Pennsylvania Day may be regarded as an old tradition of Penn State, concerning both the college and the commonwealth. It is an anniversary which the - undergraduates observe with a feelidg of warm sentiment. It is a time to note with pleasure the progress this. Penn State is malting from year' to year. But this week-end claims another anniversary, a commemora tion of an event of world-wide interest and iniportance,—Armistice Day. It is with a contrite and thankful spirit that students and friends of the college will participate in the obserViince of this day of days in the history of civilization. For Penn State is , proud of her sons who fought and died for their country. ADAPTABILITY There is much talk in this day and age about thq value to a man of a trait called adaptability. The question of adaptability is almost an art. Yet it is an art than can be cultivatecVand there are few better places to learn its fundamentals than in college. Learning to adapt himself to new or unusual circumstances is one of the many useful things, aside from knowledge obtained from study, that a• student gains from his college career. Adapting him self to the ideas of a group may not seem easy at first. Fitting in wherever he goes, managing to make the best of things, may not be pleasant, but it is excellent training for the man who must later in life, outside of college, adapt himself to far More seridus cireum stances. The student who does not learn this lesson of adaptability is often dissatisfied in college. The gable will hold'triie in 'after life and he may be assured that he will never come out on top unless he first learns to adjust himself to any and all conditions, no matter how trying. TO THE IT. P. Q. As welcome to the college as to the individuals 'who brought them here are the H. P. Q.s who are visiting Penn State this week end. The Penn State COLLEGIAN, as spokesman for the student body, bids them welcome to the cantpUs and joins in wishing them an enjoyable week-end and one whose memory they will cherish in the years to come. Minor-In-Chief Managing Editor .Managinc Milltor .Buitne6 AdveirtSsiril Manor aim:nation Marias•r H. S. MORRIS Thoughts ofOthers BETTING (PURDUE EXPONENT) The tendency on the part of over enthusiastic students to plunge all their earthly pease:wines on the out comes of contests of physical skill has led to innumerable unpleasant dr curnifiinces These circumstances In clude menthing from extreme indeb tedness, to breaking faith on MOM , sort notes and often muse those on the losing side unforseen discomforts Thls,,of course. is taking the bolting propsaltion in Its extreme light lo considering betting, hoarser, it is nee °agars.' to regard it in snob light, fot the matching of money against money has always been a game of glittet for mankind, and, the PosailfilltY of donb. - ling, or tripling an initial cannel has blined the plungers to the Possibilities and the results of a loss The tendency In collegiate circles le otard betting, especially on football games, has assumed alarming Prot., dons In a number of cases The fact that It brews financial troubles is only a part Of the eons resulting It is impossible to maintain a spirit of 'clean good-sportsmanship between in 'stitutions sohen the results of the!, ' athletic contests are so significant In guitars and cents to the Individual stu dents The money part of It enters to make the onlookers' viewpoint pro fessional—fie is not living MI to the rules which govern the Molars on the teams. It is the duty of the university to see that none of its players receive money for their efforts Bat the uni versity cannot intervene in the matter of student betting, although its noose- . linences are often disastrous Another bad feature of the betting Is that losers, (and these aren't al wajs cltslders) become bitter critics of the teams and Players the) lose on Their criticism's are often a menace to the coaches and their systems, and a serious handicaP to the Players Betting Is no measure of Wyatt) Misplaced enthust Ism which leads stu dents to bet beyond their means is en tirely of the Crone tarietY The lA.es are usually eMbarnrising, while the win nings in no nay compensate for the! risk of betting bibnol won by belting comes so easily that its value deuce, Icaes in the eles of the plnner, cre ating a false ImPression that Is liable to stick with hint for life Betting isn't loyal. It does net stlna-; slate teams to any further enthusiasts ['trough any legitimate means, and it Is no Measure of sportsmanship For 0;0 average student, betting is merely a thoughtless and dangerous pastime a false thrill and a menace to whole trlme Looking Backwards TWENTI' YEARS Aao A Williantspoct the P.n. State foot ball leant met defeat at the hands of I:Adamson Atinc n parade cm. the :vista streets of the town students were heitiq declaring that a 'Valk-over" was It hand and hoped that Dickinson nokid at least put op a game fight Mckinnon did end beat the Blue and White a to 0 A Junior Banquet was held In the': Pak Hotel at Williamsport - Friday, No vember the thirteenth, on the eve of the 'Mckinnon game The %malt-ere. of the evening were Benjamin Flzunilton. hlr Hollinger, R. II Aungat and I. C Min- Lek. The seniors also held a banquet across the hall from that of the Am hara The Agricultural School held Its first fair at the college It was held In tents obtained through the AgricaltUral Ea tonslen department and the School of Forestry. The exhibits more placed in die middle of the tents and many via- Sere and students attended the fair uhleh proved to be a success both 11.1 nanclally and edalCatiOntenY Peannyltranla Day this year surpass ed all others by far In number of die. tingulshed guests present. Among those Were Governor Tener. the Persian I Minister, Idtrza Alt Hull Khan, General' A. .1 Logan, Speaker Alter of the House of Representatives and W, H Gartner, Secretary to Governor The Persian Minister was the chief speaker of the imornhan aria spoke eh his belief In the American Government's :lair play" policy, which expression was regarded as a veiled reference to the Mexican situation On PenneyWaal. Day Notre Dame won the dietinction or being the first team to defeat the Blue and White on Now Beaver field Tito y7esternors won by al4to 7 score in w hat was Ono of the-hardest fought and one of the moil brilliant games ever played on tho local didlron The crowd des a fitting one for the day and the game, the weather Wits ideal and the PenneylVania. Day Mown wee the largest that over wit: noosed a game on tho Penn State grid iron. Lamb, right tackle, of tho Nit tnny team, scored the, ,tOI.ICbdOWII while Ciptaln Rochno and Eicherlaub made 114, points for the visitors VISIT THE State College Hotel lea Rccom, 8:00 A. M. Till Midnight Open After All Dances „..- THE r .t4l,i-stkiecridarautra MILITARY DEPT SUSPENDS USUAL PENNA DAY REVIEW C tut tin G. L Foblper of the Min t:lay Mien Mont announces that, as a result of the action taken by the Wald et college trustees last year, there Will ue as demo...Amt....Ts et any kiwi on the Part of the student rekPunent no No aentUct tenth, PennsyD anla Day This statement 111011119 thaCthero will to no parade or review, which has been ehasaetertstia. Paet of all tenant Penn ,q,hania Dal . observations It will be I the last 1111 , 0 In years that the under Cl.ssmen lance not been required to turn out In drill Al nit orm. for this holislea Cusnin Fehiger else stated that elassroorn Instruction In the elgd s of :Unitary : Science sill begin on bton day morning. November tnelttb All men tvllt =art on the Drill Field that w•eolt ut their regular Instruction per aids and ,t that time they will be as signed to their various classrooms 1 Griditoii - Gossip Lot's hope that the ..Golden Tornado . ' doesn't turn out to be a gentle ePeing zephyr Nmertheless, the goothern aggregg lion Is the undisputed champion of the colleges helms the hlason and Dixon lino and that means a lot The Big Three start their annual verap tonterron when the Harvard Crimson tangles with the Princeton Tiger at the Princeton stadium If poet scores have any thing to do with the result. Princeton should win Young Stribling. the boxer who won the light-heavyweight title In Georgln and then had It taken from hint by it hand-picked referee, is only eighteen teats old He plans to enter Penn next vin, noweser, he states that he will not pin) football because it iv too rough 31. i what a pleasant fine boVrtg moot he doun songs Illinois is leading. - Om BI Ten Con feree., With a perfect record, baring noted three Vietorite against confer ence oinionents as tigaSnat nu defeats It's a good thing that Penn doesn't yin story gams or they never lionld hate any school The student. ore still ocielnating the $t victory Somehod} could clean up a fortune by selling shamrocks In PittsbUrgh }ben Notre Dame playa Carnegie Tech or Ne‘ember temMY4ourth Gro‘o CRY beat :Atrial:l (Ohio) Col lege last Saturday by a 16-15 Score Sounds more liken basketball gnaw. When Glenn KJginger thinks of to. morrow's game, it brings back manor les.ot how he ups - et three 00150 sauthii rearm by his at, We Palo Grounds IAVI , ypos,3, ugo Which reminds us that "17.111 y" la toll- Ing flurry Wilson exactly how it was done If this Smythe fellow from Army Is as good a lieutenant es be Is a half back, Uncle Sam needn't worry about future ware Henry Ford will give a Ford auto mobile to the first fellow who acorn a touchdown In the Carnegie Tech-De troit game Satuiday—that is he will give it to him for three nineti -fin. tob Higgins' West Virginia Wesley .n eleven eIII engage In Its biggest gaMe of the season tomorrow when It meets the strong Bethany aggrega tion All of Ellsood City plans to como to Pittsburgh on Thanksgiving Das to sae their pride, -"Rorke" Johnson, play In the Vitt gamo And the blg halfback sass ho sill not disappoint them Taming those blooming whiskers Facts dtid Figures In cadet to acquaint the student bod 3, Olttt n department about which little IS Futon n except bo those enrolled In the course, the Department of Mining hqs submitted the following infertna tlon The department wns established In Mg under the former school of Me chanic Arts and had for Its first head M C fhiseng, now an expert Consult ing engineer G it Wieland . 93, at present a lecturer on the special ahem vtry of metals at Tale and an associ ate of the Carnegie Institution at Wash ington, was the first man graduated The number of graduates from the department has ranged from tour In 1894 to seventeen in 1910 Eleven men were graduated last June, Headed by Proles... IV A. ChedseY, grathinte of the Colorado School of Mines. the personnel is completed by two instructors and a visiting lecturer In mining law Begun twenty-two years ago, the Present mining building tone erected as a temporary housing for the School of Mining_ Into which the department was transferred on the founding of the school In 1/396 Included In the equipment of the 3epartment are laboratories for the stoop at coal preparation, pro dressingl sod reining machinery, a device for testing the failing point of safety lamps, the only one of its kind In the country; apparatus for the determination of the exploslbilltY of gases, and a complete equipment of the various drills. com pressors ,pumps, oro trucks and other min e mnchlnery to, addition to laboratory equipment •hare Pt also In 0180 n tunnel, construct ed almost twenty years ago, folly equip 'PM With fans and gunge, for experi ments with mine ventilation During the lost tees years it has also furnished , the means for training of the student , . In mine rescue work, the tunnel being flooded with mormaldehyde gas and the students wearing the regulation masks while performing work under condi- I goes closely resembling those found In actual practice For many yenta the members of the , teaching staff have added to what has now become one of the most completo collection of safety mine lambs in the world The groUP cove. every Corns of tight used for the protection of min ers cram the first Davey lamp to the most modern type Although put on a systerriatic boats only four years ago the mining exten sion of the del...tomtit hog over eta hundred students enrolled in seventy extension schools stationed In every important coal district The neuron, n inch has been taught by volunteer workers, lasts from October until April and has le ought ado ancement en many hundreds of miners by preparing them for greater efficiency is their 'actual nork and more specifically for taking the state examinations for fire boss po sitions and foremanghles The course Is ,not confined entirely to Practical initruetion as It Includesian olemont.7 study orsconomles and business prac tice In conjunction With the extension FYES' FOR Groceries Notions Dry Goods stork the department 'conducts a Ilve weeks summer median for those who ate .tile to take that length of time from their work Last >ear twenty seven students were admitted, all of whom peened the state requirement, for advaneed positions The success of the two neuters, le evidenced by the letd that onlY two percent of the men completing the etudiee have failed to ineamute up to the standard F. CATHERMAN APPOINTED TO EXTENSION FACULTY P N Cotherman, a 1121 Bucknell graduate In Civil Engineering, has been appointed to assbd Professor N. 'l` Eider of the department of Engineering Extension, as the marked Increase In correspondence enrollments has neces sitated an addition to the resident force of thin department 11fr Cutherman tomes to Penn State drectly from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ahem he has been tatting post-graduate work in engineering. Mr Elder will he relieved of some of his ' , routine work by the recent ad , dltions to 'the extension staff, In order to take over a certain amount of field work as welt es to devote more time to administrathe details which have Increased rapidly filth the new entx.ll - and Particularly to the college credit work PATRONIZE OUR :ADVERTISERS Theyrei Known For Their - flit SOCIETY BRAND SUITS and OVERCOATS are known abOve all for their cut. Their tailoring is faultless, their fabrics. the handsomest - of America and Europe; but by their cut you can distinguish' them from all others. Sheepskin coats I Crawford Shoes I Black Golf Hose Florsheim Shots THE QUALITY SHOP OPPOSITE FRONT CAMPUS M. FRdMM Penn State Glee 'Club' WILL APPEAR IN Tenth Annual : Pennsylvania Day '.Concert -SATURDAY, NOV.. 10 1 7:30 P. M. Admission 756 and $l.OO Friday, November 9, 1923 UNIVERSITY OF MORGAN RAE TWELVE TIIOUI{ANIrEIGIEEIiTS Estimates by the registrar of the Univeisity of Michigan place tho en rollment of that Institution title year ut twelve thousand PATRONIZE OUR ADVERT/SNOB :•ss.f;, - PASTIME ritniAy and SATURIDAY. DOIIGILAS MCLEAN In "Solon. UV , 11 , Inok Sennett Comedy ..SKyltirldhS" IMEMMI FRIDAY and SATURDAY:— Fltit Penna. Showing of ANNA I. NlLS§ol.and /ANTES HUMWO6II in."PonJobe liSN TII#PIN le "Asleep At The Switch" MONDAY and TUESDAY— , NORMA TALMADGE In Her Most Majestic Masterpiece "Ashes of Vengeance,"
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