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FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1926.
WHO IS TO BLAME?
An impetus was given the proposal to make Penn State a
uniVGisitv when the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Assoem
lion at a recent meeting in Ham&burg passed a resolution endois
mg the pioposed amendment to the Constitution to provide SB
- tor new buildings here. It seems almost a certainty that
with the suppoit of the Pennsylvania press, Penn Stale will km
!ir<* a dream of long duiation.
However, the College does not wholly depend on bond issues
and other matters eontioiled by \ox populi to bland it a univer
sity. In mentioning “university” we mean a matured college,—
.t place where men and women come to fuither then lcse.uch
into matteis educational, where students on then own initiative
come to enhance thcii culture training. And it is to satisfy this
alleged purpose that the faculty may reach the ideal without
the tangible impiovements
Yet it is still common to find instructors and even piofessois
who insist on grammar school pedagogy and students who are
gullible enough to swallow it without e\en a whimper of disap
proval.
“Two cuts aic all you aie allowed if you want to pass MY
course, excuse oi no excuse,” or “Two bundled and fifty pages of
outside reading condensed into fifteen pages of notes on standard
notebook paper,” or “draw rt on No 60 Sawmill Bond, indent an
inch and a halt and print your name a half mch from the top ot
the page” and so forth ad infinitum me dictums yet echoing m the
halls of Penn State
On the other hand it is evident that the majority of the stu
dent body is not inclined to assume the attitude of uni\ersity men
Theie is little or no initiative shown in the class room—only a mad
uish to amass the necessary number of credits with the least
amount of work. With the exception of extra-cun lcuiai activities,
nothing is accomplished that was not an older bellowed fionr the
platform.
Who is to blame ? Is it the old question of the hen and the
egg? To wash our hands ot the matter and fervently exclaim
“Here is tood tor thought'” would be a tnte and inoffensive way
out. Howevei, it is our contention that both aie responsible
—the faculty tor stereotyping the courses and the students for
following mcqkly along without making an eftoit to furthei then
education.
REHIND THE FOOTLIGHTS.
Se\oral yeais ago the etfoits of joulhtul collegiate diamat-
Hts weie \ tewed with derision by members of the legitimate stage
Today that deiisiqn has given place to piaise and-collegiate pro
ductions arc actuary tlucatfehing’to rob the professional stage of
some of its laurels. In this de\elopmcnt the Penn State Piayeis
ha\c been well rn the lead.
Not only has the applause of its audiences been a cntenon
ol then success m the “First Year,” but generous praise lrorn the
press has not been wanting In the presentation of “Charley’s
Aunt" and “The Goose Hangs High” the embryo Barrymores and
Sothcrns earned then* diltrcult roles with an ease of style char
acteristic ot experienced actois
The upward tiend in college dramatics does not end with the
acting itselt, it is also manifested m the type of plays essayed
Although the dilfieulties attending the presentation of “The Goose
Hangs High” are sufficient to cause an experienced gioup of pro
fessionals to flinch, the Players attacked it with an earnestness
of pm pose that spelled success from the start.
Tonight the Players wall present “The Seventh Guest,” a play
differing widely m type from the othei 3926 productions. May
it be equally successful’ Penn State is proud ot her Players
CLOTHES FOR THE COLLEGE.
An applicant foi admission to Penn State gets his “come-on”
letter lrom the Registrar packs his pajamas and builds visions
of his luture Alma Mater. Theie will be old elms, smooth gieon
e.unpus and stately buildings with crumbling, tradition-soaked
wall* ivied walls. They aie visions indeed; visions of beauty,
piocious visions And like all visions, they must suffer Never
the less, our fieshman is not disappointed after his fust open
eyed stioll around the college. Here are the trees and the broad
i.tmpus; hcie are the old buildings. Only later will he begin to
wonder why Old Mam looks so barren, so harsh under the glaring
sunlight; why almost all of the buildings, some of them crumbling,
literally, with the weakness of age, still have an unfinished, to-bc
complcted-later look
E\eiy man and woman m college has noted this subtle fail
ing and, with our hypothetical freshman, has wondered at it and
sought the leason. Almost all ot them find it, soon or late, and
again they w'ondci, it is so simple, so easy to correct For Penn
State, to gam that mature, aged-rn-the-book atmosphere, the sof
tening ha/o that transforms a group of buildings into a college,
needs ivy.
Ever since Andy Lytle gave the Old Main mule his last good
hiding, giaduating classes lm\e talked ot planting ivy. They have
talked, but the dolomite of Old Main still goes unclothed, even as
the mule. The matter has had much discussion. It is time for
Penn State to hide her nakedness. Let us have ivy!
ILLINOIS CHEMIST
MAKES DISCOVERY
OF NEW ELEMENT
Editor-in-Chief
Assistant Editor
Managing Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Pi ofes&or Hopkins Completes
Research of Five Years
In Rare Earths
IS ONLY AMERICAN TO
CAIN SUCH DISTINCTION
U W. noward '27
11. G. Womsley '27
Evict Commercial Value Not
Yet Determined—Name
Announced Latoi
Business Manager
Advertising Manager
Cn dilation Manager
Champaign, 111, Mai 11—The fust
disutveiv in this, count! v of one ot the
five unknown, but supposed!} existent
chemical element'*, has been accom
plished l>\ Piof B Smith Hopkins,
head of the division of inotgume
chemist! v, it was announced Mond.i}
bj the Univeisitv of Illinois.
The element, a metal, is known to
| the chemistij woildas Element'Num
: bei G 1 Completion of the woilc of
pioving the discoveiv of the element
late Satuulav in the Umveisit} Itaie
Faiths Laboiitorv culminates moie
than live veais of intensive vvoik b>
Pi of. Hopkins and two assistants,
Di L 1’ Vnteina, of the division of
moiganic chemistrj, and .1 A Ilams,
icscuich assistant in chemisti} The
n une o! the element will be announc
ed Intel
It W Mnruh ‘2B
1* R Smiiln- '2B
W S *1 lu.mum *2B
W P. Reed
The element which Piof Hopkins
has just discoveied is.not only the
fusi element that has evei been found
b} an Amenean but it is expected
that it will he the onl} element ovei
discovered in this country.
Only fom of the ninetv-twn ele
ments that make lip the penodic tab
les icmnm undiscovcied and they aie
all “mortgaged" h} othei scientists
outside the United States who line
definite ti ice» of them and me woil -
mg foi isolation
Piofessoi Hopkins’ discovery fills
in the last blank in the pci iodic lubti
that involves i.ue earths; the lam
lemaimng elements aie not iare
eaiths
Although the exact commeicia!
value of the discovei} cannot be cal
culated at piesent it is believed that
some valuable piactical use will prob
ably be found nftei fuithei espen
mcntntion Caesium, one of the ele
ments placed in the table some years
ago, has since been found valuable
foi use m photo-electric cells used
to mensuto light of distant stars that
aie invisible to the naked eve
The last element to be discoveied is
hafnium which was discovered m
IUJ in Copenhagen, Denmark Al
though it cieatod consideiable mtei
est in scientitic metes, it is not well
know n
The voungest well-known element
is helii'in It was fust discoveied
existing in the sun in 18G2 and in
ISIM was discoveied on the eartli
Such elements as gold, silvei, mei
cuiy, non. eoppei and lead weio
known to the ancients, but nil of the
iare e.uths have been discovered m
modern times
Piofessoi Hopkins, who has been a
membei ol the dep.u tnient of chem
istiv since l'H2, has devoted his life
to iaie eaiths’ leseaich and in the
studv of the atomic weights of jttri
uni, gndnlinium, eibium, d}&piosium
uul samarium The present intei na
tional atomic weights of vttrium and
gndnlinium weie calculated by Piofes
aoi Hopkins and valuable mfoimation
m the calculation of the piesent in
ternational atomic vvcights'of eibium,
dyspinsium and Samaiuim has been
conti ibuted b\ him
Dramatists Set Stage
For Thriller Tonis;
(Continued fiom lust page)
that induced Dnectois A C Cloet
ingh and D D Mason to secuie “The
Seventh Guest” as a second nnsteiy
play AW the sensations, all the ihn
rnatic incidents of the breath-taking
t}pe of plav aie skillfully embodied
in tonight’s peiformance
C'nedv luimshed by Decgan, an
liish policeman, and Katie, an lush
cook, keep the plav fiom enteimg the
jcalm of the too-senous. It is the
undoicuirent of htunoi that iclaxes
the audience tunc* to time fiom the
tenseness .of the climax. The de
nouement is as skillful as it is
stai fling
The complete cast of chaiaeteis fob
Mm loildj Wilson
Carter Vim I.sk
Mtirlyii llirriik
ALBERT DEAL&SON
Heating
AND
Plumbing
117 Frazier Street
•Tilt, i-ENK STauE COLLiiCiAiJ
I LIONS Xi'XV
(B.v Dailv Illini)
ALPHA SIG BOXERS WIN
FRATERNITY RING TITLE
Annex Championship by Down
ing Alpha Gamma Rho
in Thrillers
Alpha Sigma Phi captuied the 102 G
Intel fiatermtv boxing championship
by vutue of a sensational G-2 victoty
ovei the Alpha Gamma Rho nngmen
Wednesday evening in the Aimory
An estimated crowd of five bundled
students thionged about the ling to
witness the battles
Donovan, for the winneis, and
Chapman clashed in the bantamweight
I bout with the foimcr showing supci
ioi boxing nbility to cop the fight
Ban ineieased his team’s lead to two
points when he dodged, side-stepped
and scored at w ill to outclass Bram
ble The Alpha Sig man has had his
own way in cveiy tournament bout
and has displayed tare pugilistic abil
ity considcung his lack of experience:
at the ung game.
Here's Your Cue!
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State College Billiard Parlor
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i
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FYE’S
ON TIIE AVENUE
V\’ W Kelley '2B
Mins I, C Turman 2<>
Jiakson Wheatley '2S
Miss 11 C hosier *27
It W Huston '27
Miss M D Itoei] '2B
It W Tyson
Ml*s Dorothy Musstr
T K Morris *2i.
II K Scltwurlz '2'>
II W Cohen 21.
A STUDY IN COMPACTS
A womnn is queer
There’s no doubt about that;
• She hates to be thin i
And she hates to be fat
One minute its laughtci
, The next it's a cry;
You enn’t undcistand her
' Hovvevei you ti}.
But there’s one thing about hei
Ever} one knows,
A woman's not dressed
Till she powders her nose
You novel enn tell
What a woman will sav
She’s a loss to herself;
Evciyhoui of the da>..
It keeps n man guessing
To know what to do;
And mostly lie’s wiong
When the guessing is thiough.
But this you can count on
Wherevei she goes;
She’ll find some occasion
To paw dei her nose
I have studied the sex
Foi u numbci of yeais-
I've scon her in smiles
And I’ve seen hei in terns
On hei ways and her whims
I have pondcicd u lot,
To find what will please hei
And just what will not.
But all that I’ve lenincd
From the start to the close,
Is that soonei or latct
She’ll powder hei nose
A church 01 a ball mom,
A dance or a show;
Tlieic is one thing about her
I know that I know \
At weddings or funeials,
At dinners of taste;
You can just bet hei bund
Will dive into hei waist.
And every few minutes
She’ll stukc up a po&o,
And the whole wot Id will wait
Till she powdeis her nose.
j Alpha Gamma Rho bioke into the
■ scoung column when Duibin and Dy*
lei staged a wlmhvmd slugfest with
ilthe foimei amassing a commanding
lead It was give and take all the
| way but Duibin semed the grentei
| numbci of telling blows Apgai
| somewhat upset the advance dope with'
|n victoiy ovei Cohen, the A G R
I stnlvvartt
Dossier Bests Ilcrfig
Fcssler, heio of the A. G. R. vicmiv
over Theta Upsilon Omega, gave his
mitmen anothci point b} downing
Heitig m ensv fashion.'-The sixl}-
poundei punimeled the Alpha Sig en
ti> continuously and had hup help
less as the final bell sounded. Mc-
Andiews, undefeated in the toumey,
bi ought the championship cup to the
Alpha Sigma Phi combination by
gaining n close decision over Fesslei,
who appealed foi the second time
In spite of the aggressiveness dis
played by the losei, Me Andrews was
content to wait for oppoitumtics to
clehvei his blows With tho meet al
ready clinched McAndiews bested
Bair to make the final count 5-2 foi
his team
For a Game Between Classes
NOTED OPERA STAR
w*****.**.*.**. wo Otprlx, Giuseppe ilc Luca, John
PRESENTS'CONCERT zr'^Zn Er """ Mv,w '”" 7 \
HERE NEXT FRIDAYK-=r k ‘ lp " m RECOE,) ° n
- I “She has n voice of exquisite beauty,
pniticulnih appeal me in colomtura
Suzanne Keener to Appear in passages She has several arms that
**v*»/■<«...«» display hot sopiano to the best ad-
Y Course Attraction vantage and she sings with ease and
loveliness. She has attained a con*,
ceit \ogue that is indicated by a piesx
of engagements Hei charming pei
[sonahty is an appeal to nnv audience."'
Tickets pi iced at one dolhu may be ‘
secured at the “Y” hut now oi at
the door incceding the entei tnmme.i*
The ptogiam fm the conceit will be
announced in the next issue nt Ibis
nowspapci
In Auditorium
PENNSYLVANIA SINGER j
SCORES NEW YORK HIT
Youngest Metropolitan Company
Star Heralded E> erywhere
As'Talented Artist
i Commonly known ns the youngest,
most beautiful colornturn soprano of
the Mctiopolitan Opera company and
heralded eveivwherc ns n singer not
only with a beautiful voice but with
a stage personality that adds to hei
populnuty, Surunnc Keener, pupil of
Mme Dclm Valeu, famous New York
citv \oculist, will appeal hcie ne\t
Fnday night at eight-fifteen o'clock'
in the Auditotium andci the auspices I
of the Y. MCA I
Miss Keener, who was boin at Ln-I
tiobo, Pennsylvania, and who wasfoi-'
ineily a student of Cainegie Tech, I
made her debut m conceit only last
season. She won success in hei fnsti
appearance and in a single season I
she has sung in seventy-eight operas,
m.in\ of which were re-engagements
During this time Miss Keenei has
.md mid-western audiences ns well as
those in scveial Canadian cities
Even befoie she attended eo'lege,
Miss Keenei always thought of study-
ing music in New York city wheie
she hud hopes of becoming a noted
singei She was depuved of this ■
oppoitunity at the beginning ot hu
cuicei, however, because of ‘inancial i
tioubles While she was singing c'ui-i
ing the Libeitv Loan drive, Jici vouej
attracted the attention of some influ
ential Pittsburgh people who, lecog*
ni?mg her lcmnrknblc promis", at
once sent hei to New Yoil> whole fi.i
several years she studied undei Mn.e
Valeri.
While studjing with Jlme. Valeu,
an opportunity came to Miss Keenei
to smg before the audition committee
of the Metropolitan Opeia eonpuny
After she had finished a five-mirute|
recital she was engaged under a hve-{
yeai cnntiact. .
Miss Keener's success this seisonl
has been lemaiknble, both m joint I
recitals and solos Hei joint recitals!
Whitman’s Best Candies
Fresh at All Times
RAY D. GILLILAND
DRUGGIST
‘ALWAYS RELIABLE”]
Whatever You Want For
Spring It’s Here
FROMM'S HAVE ft
There’s one thing you most certainly
do want and that’s a lot for your mon
ey; another thing is smart new style
and still another thing is real helpful
service; they’re all here. A Kirscli
baum (100 per ct. virgin wool) four
piece suit for
$37.50
Big buying power and concentration
have made these values possible. Only
Fromm’s could do a thing like this. An
amazing Topcoat value at
$29.50
FROMM’S
OPP. FRONT CAMPUS
J-’iiday. March 12. U)2G\
tlus-year lm\e included iippcninnces
with such famous singets ns Bcninm*
Druid Delegates Sent
Here For Convention
(Continued fiom hist page)
good spoitsmanship and to encoui ago
gentlemanly conduct-.thrnughout ” -
The fuitheiance of this code is the
object of the national society nml will
be discussed at a business mooting to- 1
moripw mottling at ton o’clock m the
Kappa Sigma house The delegates
will be housed at«vaiwus fiatemities
(lunng then stuy and will attend the
athletic events tomoriow G. A
: Sands ’2B, is piesident of the local
chapter while H A Kittle '27, is na
tional president
LOST —In Old Chapel “Jones Rail
way Tiansportation ” Return to
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ALL STAR C VST
in “The First ear’
Si turdny—
\VM S II ART
in “Tumbleweeds*
I'rida> and Saturdn> —
MARIE PREVOST
- in “The Case Man"
Mondaj and Tuesday—
The Biggest Laugh Picture of *'
the Year
WALLVCE BEERA
RAYMOND HATTON
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