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Penn State Collegian
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cyl\ama State College, m the interest o£ Students, Faculty, Alumni and
Friends of the College.
EDITORIAL STAFF
11. W. Cohen '2G
It. T. Krtebcl ‘2G
A. K. Smith ‘2G
"W. J T 'u M ’un ’2G
11. L Kcl'ucr ’2G
It. A. Shaner ‘2G
JUNIOR NEWS EDITORS
W. F. Adler ‘27
12 11. Coleman ‘27
G. F Fisher ‘27
U W Howard ‘?7
JUNIOR WOMAN’S NEWS EDITORS
Ellen A. Bulloch‘27 Franc.s I- Forbes‘27 JlniyE Shaner'27
BUSINESS STAFF
T Cain Jr. ’2G
G. L Guy ‘2O
G. E Brumfield '2O
ASSISTANT BUSINESS M WAGERS
S. R Robb *27 F. N. Wcidner, Jr ‘27
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News Editor this issue :
TUESDAY, OCTOBER G, 1925
THE GOVERNOR’S VISIT
Yesterday Governor Pinchot visited the College for the first
time since his election to the position of Chief Executive of the
Commonwealth. Penn State was gWd to receive the Governor,
to thiow open its plant for his inspection as he continues his ex
amination of institutions lcceivmg State aid. The mass meeting
of the afternoon indicated a stiong and a general inleiest m the
official visit
Because of certain existing contingencies and of resulting
economies, it has been necessary, during past years, for the State
to i educe and to defer funds sorely needed here. However. Penn
State trusts that Mr Pmchot was impressed favorably with the
progress which has been made on the Nittany campus in the face
of the recent financial reverses, in spite of crowded conditions and
a limited teaching staff.
No matter m what position he is active after stepping down
from the official chair, Penn State desiies and needs the suppoit
of the pi esent executive. It is to be hoped earnestly that the
Stale’s gieatest educational institution will not again be reduced
to “starvation diet” through an appropriation which makes pos
sible onlv a marking of time, or at best a slight advance in the
uo-lnll climb toward a long-sought goal—the Pennsylvania Stale
University.
TWO ROADS
For the general run of college men. their four years of higher
education aie most effective in stamping out any innate possibil
ities they may have hand foi onginal thought. There are. of
course, the few who start off with active, inquiring minds and. by
reason of mature personalities or other factors, keep them and
develop them throughout their college careeis Men of this sort,
and these are the men who aie really entitled to claim the true
education which a diploma'stands foi, are.raie. The generality
of students, not gifted with their determination or their independ
ence, can boast of a diploma which may be taken only at its face
value—they have completed their curricula This, for some very
goodieasons.
The way of the man with a tendency toward originality, un
less of course, he be among those gifted w ith both originality and
an overpowenng capacity for leadership, is umvei sally hard, per
haps nowhcie harder than at college Take the undergraduate
who has the best time, who is most gencially liked among his
clnsbnwies Is he not the man who “chocks along”‘ > Consider the
man who dangles a handful of keys‘from his watch chain Gen
eralising is dangerous, but with a few notable exceptions, you
will find him either lacking ongmality entirely, or clever enough
to hide it. And this man, from an undeigraduate viewpoint, is
enjoying a successful college careei. He “gets along,” is honored
by his classmates and enjoys himself. His is an atti active life
A second factor, even slionger than the desire for popularity,
which tends to stifle originality in thought is the fear of ridicule.
On every campus, the student suggesting new thoughts, now
ways of doing things, is laughed at. His only icward lies in being
spoken of as a “queer egg-”L - Men especially young men, do not
like to be known as “queer eggs”.
What is tiue of this condition on the campus is true also,"
again with a few notable exceptions, of the attitude tn the class
100m. A man advances an original idea in a discussion. It may
or may not be absurd, but in either case it is more than likclv to
he hailed with laughter from the rest of the class and too often
fiom the instructor. This, because a “queer egg” has daied to
use his own biain instead of mouthing a ready-made opinion
from the text. It is small vvondei that the average student with
intellectual possibilities soon learns to look upon them as
liabilities N
Befoie eveiy student open two roads One is i rioo n ' •if
the road of the “good fellow”, the road of the man who kills his
ongmality and “checks along”. During the rouiney, fellow
travellers will do him honor, empty perhaps, but pleasant. The
other road, though it goes tlnough the same territory, is rough:
Iheie are few fellow-travellers and no honors It is the road of
the student who thinks, who gives his own opinions. After a
space of four yeais the two roads end, meeting the mam road
of Life. In geneial, the tuivellers of the easy load find that they
have lost something along the way—personality. Those from
the other road find that they have not only kept it, but that
they have developed it. They are educated and they arc the men
whom the outside vvoild wants. The exceptions, the students
who are known as good fellows, and who yet retain personality,
are those particularly clever ones who apparently have travelled
the smooth load, while slipping away ficquently for intensive,
covert excursions on the rough.
Which road aie you travelling?
THIS AND THAT
The recent in ge to class spirit voices, and i ightly. the strength
ening of class nvahly. Although class spirit ouhnarily should
exist mentally, now and then it is expressed physically. On Stunt
Night, a half-doyen luniqrs attacked a sophomore who was help
ing to keep the ficshmen from Co-op corner. Stripping him of
trousers, high-top boots, sweater, shirt and cap, they permitted
him to keep only underwear, socks, a cigarette and no matches.
The sophomore was left to his own devices m the middle of
College avenue
Such a spectacle as that presented by the unfortunate sopho
more holds little value as an example of authouty to freshmen.
The act was beyond the bounds of common decency and could not
have been done by gentlemen Well-considered, gentlemanly con
duct is vital to the life and spirit of Penn State.
| Grid Gossip
Theie is a. new species of football
animal camping at Penn State It is
the “ball-hound,” and its name is
Slamp It’s some retriever.
Editor-m-ChieC
Assistant Editor
Managing Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Peihaps it appealed different to
von, but do you know that the nearest
F. and M. was to the Nittany goal
line when it had the ball was our 36*
vnrd line?
W P. Reed ‘27
11. G. Womslcy ‘27
And the Aimy trounced Detroit to
the tune of .‘ll*6 The Mule i« su
pci ior to the new Henry.
And in the first half, the visitors
didn’t get anv closer to the Penn State
goal lino than then own 12-yard
Jnuk* * •
Business Manager
Advertising Manager
emulation Manager
Be/ now Ims two backfields which
he can use intcrchangeablv. The joke
of it is—which one is going to get the
name “pony?”
B C Whai ton ‘27
We never imagined such a feat
could be accomplished, but one head
line tells us “Cornell Climbs Over
Niag.ua; 26-0” This fellow Dobie
must use an nlpmstock foi a cane.
Middlobuiy stopped Yale Saturday
—in the thud quarter onlv The
Yale semes m the other periods were
respectively 14, 20 and 19, totalling
33. 0
Foi a while, when Stehman was
getting off on those off-tackle runs,
it looked as if the Nittany linemen
hadn't gotten on to the I. F. C’s new
“cut in” system Blit they soon
started to “tag” him
TW. F. Adler
Getting hit once is pietty tough,
but getting walloped twice in the same
place is too much And three times
is almost plenty. “Lafayette,” the
Panthers will say next time, “here we
aie "
Accoiding to the best-drest man
about College, Pincuia will get a new
"betmv” from Pete Stewart for scor
ing the first touchdown of the season
against Lebanon Valley If it would
have been a field goal, Pm would have
been given a season shine ticket by
Jim—niavbe
Penn almost succumbed to Swartli
niore, too A substitute center named
Bolt - ’ snagged a Garnet aenal and
milled the game fiom the lire The
way it came in over the radio was
(squeak) “Bolt 7 intercepts a pass and
bolts for 60 yards.” Everyone thought
the announcer was bv trade a cloth
merchant.
All we hope is that Dangerfielil
lives up to Ins name And by the
way, his given name, like Red
Gunge’s, is Harold.
THESPIAN CLUB AWAITS
SELECTION OF COMEDY
Contest for Winning Playwright
Ends Next Week—First
Tryouts Are Announced
With the service of the Ned Way
burn studios and Maurice Darcy as
pei sonal representative definitely
assured for the 1925-26 Thespian
production, further developments arc
at a standstill until the winning com
position has been selected.
Thespian officials are eagerly
malting the time to scan the plays
which arc to be in the hands of
cither G E. Brumfield ’26 at the
Delta Upsilon house or W. R. Wied
nor ’26 at the Alpha Sigma Phi
house bv October fifteenth AH
students who may be working upon
n'Thcspiin pffeiing.are requested to
'submit their 1 work*6n»or before the
above* date,'in order-that a selection
may be made ns soon ns possible.
Initial try-outs for the current
Thcspinn presentation will be held
during the week immediately follow
ing the house-party penod. With
Thcsninn popularity increasing
vcailv by leaps and bounds a record
brcakmg turn-out is expected and
desuod.
A. D. S.
Al-Kol
Prevents Cold
after the Bath
and Exercise
REXALL DRUG STORE
Robert J. Miller, Prop.
THE'PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
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IWIIf “ ows JwAn
We are the Frosh,
We stood your gaff.
We gave you all
A chance to laugh. ’
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With rolled up pants
We marched around; •
And got the Frosh ’
That were in town, g) ->v
s n \
We gave your veils.
We sang our song * jf
We prayed for rain, V
And rowed the lawn -C*
4 - * 11 ‘ r
I ran the gauntlet Duck your head,
After dipping my hand; * And rush right through.
Some sat on the grass. ' ' Say all the prayers
No thanks, I’ll stand. ’ You ever knew. /
‘We hate the Co-eds,”
Many shouted and cried,
But that's bologny,
You know we bed.
‘We love the sophs,”
We shouted, too.
Do you believe us?
That’s up to you.
We danced like fairies
Before the fire,
Our shapely figures
For the girls to admire.
College Exchange
Opened Saturday
Unexpected changes in the plans
of the Bell Telephone company,
moved the date of installation of the
College exchange forward from Oc
tober fifteenth to last Saturday. For
the present time a twenty-four hour
service will be given
Although the lines and cables had
been laid and were in readiness for
connection to tlie central board m
Old Main, worklon the exchange had
to be hurried ilr order to meet the
alteration. Superintendent of Build
ings and Groumra R LJWtebber said
that during-thei-first few weeks, the
Us#
Slickery
Stude
Hi, feller*! ({at*, toft) '
Meet Watty jmM
The Evinharfi Kid fJTljri
. lie'* the oule • WfJLliTfc*
' pledge hutloo Tor the - .^^4
the Clever :
Web! Pea cbtrajtr " , 1 -
>■»*. Cyftl"''
Sure, Billy discovered
_Tvxo her. Brought her to the
hop, too. But Columbus
\ never did own Amer
•\ ’ ica, much. Foxy Philip
*■'" - found out it was her
birthday, and he slipped
down town and got her
a darling new Wahl Pen.
You know the kind—
slim, cylindrical, golden
beauty. You can’t blame
the gal, can you?
One Itke Foxy Philip
bought—s.oo
WAHL PEN
' ‘j&YERSBARP'S Write Hand Pal
We fought temptation /*
Oft times before; /
But never on /
A nice gi assy floor. ' f
\ 9 g
“The best is coming.
Do not despair, /
A few more lines, /
, H And you’ll be there.” '
10
* “You’re nenimg the end,” *
A sophomore cries,
“Shut vour mouth, ,
t And close your eyes ” j-
A daub in your mouth,
A quart on your nock, /
It’s only molasses, <*»
X r And you’re a week. {‘ r
Novv through the water
And down this path.
“Hurry home, Frosh,
And take a bath.
And stunt night’s over,
There’s nothing to it.
It all depends
On how you do it. t
We are the Frosh
We did our best
To furnish fun
For all the rest.
A. W. F. ’?9.
service would be somewhat confused
because of the use of names instead
of numbers Three operators will be
employed during the heavy hours of
the day.
Belief from peak loads is assured
because theie are but ten trunk lines
to the State College station. From
ten o’clock in the evening until
seven in the morning the exchange
will be in charge of the night watch
man
Already Mr. Webber is considering
the advisability of installing the
dial system While he has not' col
lected any comparative data on the
present expenses and the proposed
change, he. expects to, do so ns early
“as possible • Four operators with ex
perience have been engaged.
AMEBIC US’ STUDENTS EXCEL
IN SCHOLARSHIP AT OXFORD
Results of the final examinations
which have just been published bv tlie
university of Oxford, England, show
that American students at the uni
versity obtained higher grades than
their English colleagues. Foi a num
bei of jeais Amencan students have
been nt the head of the Law school
and last year was no exception.
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Tuesday—
MILTON SILLS
In “The Knockout*’
Mack Sonnett Comedy
M ednesday—
EDWARD EVERETT HORTON and
ESTHER RALSTON
In “A, lJeggai On Horseback”
Imperial Comedy, “Cloudy Romnnee”/
Thursday and Friday—
JACK HOLT
In Znne Grey’s “Wild Horse Mesa’
Hal Roach Comedy
Tuesday—
CONR \D NAGEL
In “Sun Up”
Sunshine Comedy
Friday and Saturday--
ZWU PITTS anti TOM MOORE
In “Pretty Ladies"
HARRY LANGDON
In “Horace Grcely Jr.”
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