Fafee T«o Penn State (£ollegtan Published semi-7;cekly during the College year by students of the Penn sylvania State College, in the interest of Students, Faculty, Alumni and Fi lends of the College. EDITORIAL STAFF 11. W. Cohen ‘26 It T. Knobel ‘2G A. K. Smith *2G W J. Durbin ’26 11. L. Kellner '2G It. A. Shaner ‘26 JUNIOR NEWS EDITORS G F. Fibber ‘27 W P Reed ‘27 ’ U W. Howard ‘27 II G Woms’.ey *27 JUNIOR WOMEN’S NEWS EDITORS W. F. Adler *27 E. IT. Coleman ‘27 Ellen A Bullock ‘27 Francis L Forbes ‘27 BUSINESS STAFF T. Cam Jr. ’2G G L Guy ‘2G G. E. Brumfield ‘2G ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS S R Robb *27 F. N. Weidner, Jr ‘27 The Penn State COLLEGIAN in\itcs communications on any subject oi college interest Letters must bear the signatures of the writers Names of communicants will be published unless requested to be kept confidential. It assumes no responsibility however, for sentiments expressed m the Lettei Box and rcser\o3 the right to exclude auy whose publication would be palpably inappropriate All copy for Tuesday’s issue must bo m the olhcc by ten a. m on Holiday, and for Friday’s issue, by ten a m on Thursday. Subscription puce $2.50 if paid bcfoic December 1, 1923 Entered at the Postoflice, Stato College, Pa., ns second-class matter Office* Nittany Printing and Publishing Co. Building, State College, Pa Telephone. 292-W, Bell. Member of Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association News Editor this issue TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29. 1925 GOING, GOING— Standing before a group of prospective buyers* the auction eer calls out in his basso voice “going, going, gone.” Whereupon he presents the purchaser with a ceitam ai tide and in leturn receives a sum of money. Since 1921, an auctioneer has toweied above the Nittany campus, the Penn State spirit in hand, and has asked for bids Year after year, he has bellowed “going, going,” but the last word has stuck in his tluoat. Yet lie js ever hopeful that someone, someday, will make an offer and reclaim the Penn State spirit oi old for the sons of Mount Nittany It is not something that can be reclaimed m a day, howevci, and immediately installed m the position it once occupied. Re storing the Penn State spirit to its place of yore is an assignment that will require years to complete, and the auctioneer will not sell until he finds an unselfish student body, a student body that is willing to plant the seed without the desiie of reaping the harvest Enthusiasm runs high foL a moment, student leadei s wax eloquent, but the Penn State spirit continues on its down ward path. Meic talk and enthusiasm cannot bring back over night a spirit that took four yeais to lose Then come those Penn State students of years gone by to tell us how they convinced the auctioneer m their time w hen the spn if of the Lion was similarly threatened. And, again, student lead ers wax eloquent and cry out “"excellent. We will do the samb thing and get back our old spirit ” In their enthusiasm, they fail to lemember that this is 1925, that it will take moie to convince the auctioneer today than it did peihaps ten years ago Condi tions and customs have not kept pace with the changing student bodies, and the spirit continues to decline. Peihaps, when a bid is made, the auctioneer, were he per mitted, would remark: “You ask for the old Penn State spirit You, cake-eater and lounge-lizard, who caic for nothing but vour own selfish desires and peisonal enjoyment. Theie is nothing of which you are less worthy, and until you learn the true meaning of Penn State, your four years will have been spent m vain. Real men are worthy of the true spn it of Penn Stato. You must prove to me that you aie not everything I think you are.” And then he would be as silent as the sphinx, and the student would have gone away troubled. “That spirit, that indomitable spin! of 1920 and 1921,” re marks someone. Following which, borne statistician who is a glutton for remembering all kinds of data brings to our mmds the fact that Penn had great football teams during those veais. Without attempting to fool himself, some student com pares the graphic chaits of so-called spirit and winning football teams. To his surprise, he finds the lines are almost alike But that spirit, that senseless hullaballoo and artificial loyalty, is not the soit the auctioneer holds in his hand—a winning football team will lestore that to the campus. Some time ago, a senior was on his way to Penn State for the last time as an undei graduate. Eageily he awaited the mo ment when ho would feast Ins eyes upon the Old Mam tower which he had not seen for some time. Then as the tower hove into view, piescnting an imposing sight against the setting sun, the senior strained foiward but theie was not the response with in him that he expected. He was troubled, but not for long Soon after, College opened, and as the convocation exercisesjieared a close, the fiist stiains of the Alma Malei sounded fiom the organ and three thousand voices took up the stiain. A minute later, the lace of the senior was engulfed in a hearty smile lie was happy, for the invvaid feeling that he had expected upon the first sight of the Old Main lower had come to him with the opening strains of the Alma Mater. That spirit, that expected reaction, was there when he sighted the tower, but it required something greater, something move powerful, to bring it to the front And so it is with Penn State spirit. The auctioneer recog nizes the fact that there is still hope for it. that it lies doimant, and requnes something great, something big to bung it back Student leaders are analyzing the situation from every angle in the hope that they may discover the spailc necessary to set the jumbled mass into flames. That theie are those who have the issue at heart should be sufficient evidence that the word “gone” in the auctioneer’s cry will never come If there was one man who lecognized the true meaning of Penn State spirit, it was the late President Sparks, a man who died for Penn State. Of college spirit, Dr. Sparks said. “It is a difficult thing to define One man thinks it is measuied in terms of noise; another by class battles; still another by attendance at meetings and games. Personally, I would classify it as a sentiment pervading the affections of every student, yet larcly manifest m matciial form . .to see the thousands of students standing and singing “May no act of ours bring shame To one heart that loves thy name.” is the very embodiment of College Spirit, if the song proceeds fiom the heart, and not from the Ups. College'spirit ranks with love of home and country and the most beautiful things of life.” The words of Penn State’s departed “Proxy” form a dnecl challenge to ouch and every Penn State man and woman. Under graduates of today must assume the burden; they must plant the seed which is to bear fruit m yeais to come. Today, Penn State has a goal to struggle for. She looks forward to the day when every one of her sons will sing “may our lives help swell thy fame,” and then go out into the world and live up to this ideal. Until that day, the auctioneer will continue his cry of “going, going, Grid Gossip Well, between von and the lamp post, thev didn’t look so good But keep it undei \om hut—thev’ll be a lot bettor next week, oi we miss our guess. Editor-in-Chicf Assistant Editor Managing Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Jim Folcv, captain of the Syiacute eleven, inn ninety jaids for .i touch down on the hist kick-of! in the Orange’s opening game against llo bait. The onl> v.a> we can stop him, judging by Reiirle’* ease in doing almost the iame thing Satuiday, is to stiotch a clothes-line across the gndiron on the tiftv-vaid maik. Mary E Shanor ‘27 Tlte luic-book doesn’t sav anjlluug about a game lasting for loui horns. Bes scrimmaged °ome of his men for about tv o horns after Saturday's sinpii'-c. Business Manager Advov Using Manager Circulation Manager Pitt scoied four touchdowns against V\ ishn.gton and Leo Oui one con solation n that the Panthers made use of forwnid passes B C Wharton ‘27 Gil Dobie was pessimistic about Cornell's opening fracas against Sus quchaiini lie said he had eleven Phi Beta Kappa’s, not eleven lootball plajeis The final scoic was S 9-0 Well, Phi Beta Kappa's usually aver age aiound 90—they have to get the niaiks to make the grade. Once in Saturdays game, lielbig’s presence of mind while everyone else stood aioand looking wise netted the Lions quite a few yards. It nppcaicd thut the preceding “huddle” wns nothing more than a “Y ’ discussion gioap .. W. F. Adlei Lungien had one of lus front teeth kicled out during a scrimmage Ho tells us that now he can squirt water tlnoi.gh the opening. Coach Lconaid was sitting in the press-box Every now* and then, aftci he had failed to notice the change dining quarters, he would ventuie a remark about a Valley back, using a Penn Stater’s name Maybe it wns the distance to the held Leastways, v.e looked bigger. DEAN HOLBROOK URGES FURTHER RESEARCH ON SAFETY DEVICE A “n cchamcrl car” to test lock and coal fonvatioii', in mines’was recom mended as a possible method of gronth reducing boards under- rround from falls of rock and coal, at he opening meeting here this morn ng of the "lining divsion of the •fritionrl Safely Council. The idea as proposed by E A. Holbrook, dean f the School of Mines and Mctal- utgy at Penn State Dean Xlolbiook called the device an ‘audio-meter” and urged the council o conduct research work for its pei cclion as an instrument possible of aving the lives of scores of miners ach veat He claimed that such an nstrument having gieat nmplifica lon power, would tell instantly .hc'lhci a '-cction of mine roof was oPovv or solid and if it need be tuced to pievent a .dido oi cave-in. On n special commission from the . S Buicau of Mines duntig the ist summer, Dean Holbrook made r exhaustive study on the reduction mine hazards caused by cave-ins ad suggested the mechanical ear to vy as one method for preventing rch accidents Another rccommen ition had to do with charges In mine gamz.ition A New F®s?k@sfF@i —At a New Price with Larger Point and Rolled Gold Band, $3.50 "DOTH styles with 14K gold point, made by Parker Duofold craftsmen who mako thofamou3 over-sire pen at $7. 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Thoughts of Others SCREENING “THE PLASTIC AGE” Cornell Daily SUN Just when the Runy of cnticism of the college and the college student caused by the publication of “The Plastic Age” and the host of muta tions of this book*" which followed had generally subsided, and tho strains of a more or less obnoxious summer tune calculated to describe the college man have died away, I Buss Lamps Study Lamps 1 In buying your electrical supplies | ! this year let us render you our service. j | KEYSTONE POWER CORPORATION ! | “Tke Logical Place to Buy Electrical Appliances” l ; 206 West College Ave. I I Electrical Supplies Westinghouse Lamps | "It’s a great aid to scholastic efficiency” QNE pro r ecsor makes this remark, nnd countless others are saying " the sumo thing. They know tho vnluo cf a typewriter ns a timc saver, as a means of comp.ling data, and as n help m tho oxpros won of thought. 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VONNIE The other mtc At the Corner A bunch of sophs were Razzing the frosh And I thot How few* frosh vveio treated likewise last year And then today While coming from Com. 5 Just at tne Armory I saw a lot of sophs Razzing the Frosh And then I thot f of that old adage Save the roil And spoil the child And if that is tiuo “Twenty nine” will be 1 a credit to Penn State. Lov inglj, YVONNE, along comes the announcement that foi three weeks the moving picture gen.uscs have been working on a film version of Pcrcv Marks’ novel. To Wesley Ruggles, who has been chosen director of the new picture, goes the responsibility for anything which may be conceived, and he has quite a responsibility, for ho :s not only between the hie and the frvmg pan of tho proverb, but between sev eral other fires, > any one ol which may cause him more or loss trouble, ‘-hould he move far m nnv one direc tion. Piofessional and amateur critics holier-than-thou individuals, parents, faculties, and the students themselves, who arc really most like- ly to be aficctcd ducetlv by the pic ture, all stand ready to bark, snap and bite The topic is a favorite one m all circles of discussion, and only a little spark Will be necessary to rekindle ill the fires of criticism that have burned more or less legulnrly since the lust publication of Peicy Marks’ hook. All that anyone can ask is a fau interpretation of ical conditions The college student may have to fight for his position, but he will not mind Uit is for his ical position. LOST—One ladies’ gold watch, Walt ham with gold fob, near Shmgle town rcscivo’i. 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