Pnse Two
Penn State (Collegian
Published Bemt-weekly during the College year by students of the Penn
eylvanla State College, In the interest ot Studentß, Faculty, Alumni and
Friemlß of the College.
EDITORIAL STAFF
H. W. Cohen '2B
It. T. Kriebel *2B
A. K. Smith *26 .
W. J. Durbin ’26
11. L. Kellner '26
It. A. Shaner *2O
JUNIOR NEWS EDITORS
* G. E. Fisher ’27 U. W. Howard ’27
f W. I’ Reed ’27 ’ H. C. Wnmsley '27
JUNIOR WOMEN'S NEWS EDITORS
W. F. Adler ’27
K. IT. Colemnn ’27
France" L Forbes ’27
Ellen A. Bullock '27
BUSINESS STAFF
T. Cain Jr. ’2B
G. L. Guy ‘2B ...
G. E. Brumfield *2B
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS
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TUESDAY. MAY 25, 1926
COLLEGIATE JOURNALISM—THEN AND NOW
The cm rent issue of The Nation comments on College Journ
alism and its phenomenal growth in the past few* years “Undei
giciducite journalism,'’ the author writes, "is not the pale growth
of a few* yeais ago A new* and healthy spirit is manifest in man/
college papers No subicct is now* taboo that affects the intei esi
ol the learners and no college official is immune from ciiticism and
publicity.” , ,
In the past, college publications wcie mere chionitles ot
events on the campus, the editorials w*eie Idled with tearful, wail
ing pleas against walking on the newly-sown glass or bemoaning
the lack of "spiut.” We now find that a great number of univer
sities aie itinning dailies which suipass some city papers in Q 1 )*""
ity. The editorials are discussions of live questions, vital to the
undei graduate and faculty member alike. The “bull-session has
indeed gone to pi ess Topics finnkly broached around the stud>-
ialde in the evening now are cast into piinted slugs and placed in
the collegiate editoi ml columns. ,
Editors aie reaching the point where they write what they
think But, as The Nation puts it. absolute freedom of expiession
has been thwarted gieatlv by college piesidents and faculty mem
l)c»i s. "It is diflicult for college presidents to accept the new stu
dent paper How pleasant the good old days when the paper was
a publicity sheet foi the institution, pi omoting docility among the
students with its editorials on College Spirit* Editor after editoi
lias been dismissed with the exolanatoiy phrase ‘unfavoiablc pub
licity’ or ‘immatuie judgment
Case after case of ccnsoiship is cited; editors are. dismissed
or publication is suspended, but the spirit of the new* journalism
carnes on It is true that after a confab with the piesidcnt, the
lire of the voung college editoi usually is cooled. At times lie be
comes an unthinking radical simply for the sake of being progics
sive, but the maiority of cases show that the editor is sincere in
his purpose and expresses the thought of the student body.
We hate to classify student papers Most of them aie wags;
publicity sheets telling the woild how good old Pow-Wow Univer
sity is. Some of them are odious excursions into the literaiy;
collections ot signed ai tides to fill up the columns The smallei
percentage may be classified as newspapers expressing student
opinion and this class may be divided into those with and without
supervision; admimstiational supervision which lcscmblcs a
swoi d of Damocles dangling over the heads of the staff.
The matching song of college newspapeis is "How Dry Wo
Aie ” It should be "How Wet We Aie ” (This expression fiom
the collegiate slang vocabulary, not from the minutes of the Li
quoi Investigation Committee) The "wetness” comes not from
saying too much but lather from saying too little. It comes, then,
Uom suppression and not fiom expiession.
It takes time and couiage to rise fiom bulletin board to news
paper. Collegiate journalism is piogressmg. Umvei sally, it has
vet to arrive But the day is nearing when all college papers will
ieach the heights accredited to the progressives The time also
is appioaching when editors will have the freedom of expression
enjoyed hy some uncontrolled piofcssional publications
TOO MANY WIVES
Every now and then we read or hear of a man who has too
main* wives oi a woman who has 100 many husbands. We liken
these people to the college student who has too many activities
Instead of becoming wedded to one sport or to one diamatic as
sociation or one campus publication.' these "prominent” men dab
ble in everything until the Dean calls a conference and shows
them their scholastic "attainments” to date.
The man with too many wives is a gay old dog, to say the
least What with slipping away fiom his "lawfully wedded” fiau
to do a little gallivanting on the side and with his faculty tor ex
cuse-making becoming ever keener, he has the laugh on his frau—
toi the picscnt. But after a while, triend wife notices that hub
bv’s dress suit smells of a scent which she never uses and, glow
ing suspicious, she looks into his pockets or his private drawer in
the esci itoire Usually, she gets results—and the goods on friend
husband. Hubbj makes an exit.
Just so with the "big men mound the U.’ Sports in season,
dramatics m and out of season, Mexican athletics, plenty of publi
cations, lots of honoiary jewelry—all these, administered in large
doses, account for three oi more bclovv-grades and a letter home
to papa And a few moie of these laige doses invariably connote*
anothci letter home to papa, this one not as a warning but as a
lequest fiom sonny for lailroad fare.
Out wheie eveiy penny counts and where most of them count
out loud, a man can’t get away with too many wives and keep
eveiy thing undei control And in college a man can’t satisfy too
many ciavings foi activity and still be numbeied among those
pi exeat. A hard-earned sheepskin is much more valuable than a
bunch of doublc-X, pietty watch chaims
A FOUR-BIT WEEK-END
Daitmouth College, sui rounded by the mountains of New
Hampshire, has a chain of cabins to which groups of students hike
whenever they feel fiee to hold a week-end, stag affair. The cab
ins arc open to all students and are in use the year 'round.
Just such an idea is that of the Y. M. C. A. of Penn State in
establishing the Andy Lytle memoi ial cabin. A chain of log huts,
not essentially diminutive, would certainly enhance the woodland
tups which are held out as added inducements for the Nittany
college.
Several thousand dollars have been appropriated by the “Y
in older to build the Andy Lytle cabin as it now stands. The
cabin is not completed, however, and the "Y” needs more money
to insure the carrying out of the project. It is not outside any
one’s means to contribute fifty cents, and a half-dollar spent in
such a cause surely must be a good investment. A privilege for
the sLudcnt certainly merits his support.
“Y” ADOPTS PLAN
TO GAIN OBJECTIVE
Seven Issues Foi Coming Yeai
To Help Students Find
Best In Life
. Editor-In-Chief
Assistant Editor
Managing Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS
POINTS PLACED IN LIST
Striving to loich its objective, the
Iota! 7 MCA lias outlined a pi ui
ot actum to he followed m the advance
or its voik on the* Penn State campus
dining I'lJfi-IDJT
Mary E Shaner ’27
Business Manager
Advertising Manager
Circulation Manager
The objective adopted bv the nigan*-
/alion for the coming vein is “To icm
h/e ,u oin lives a doMie foi the nch
e t \v iv of life ami to unite ot'»eis
to join us in tin. attempt to lind 1 fc
at its bc->t" Evetj issue in the now
plan is included as a means to this
objective It is hoped that this pio
gram will do much to establish i cul
turil mtciest at Penn State and will
give mine stiess to the social piopuc
tu*s of life
The piincipal points of the nev plan
1 An effoit to e\eit an inninu’e
toward honestv m activities of uh
kinds
2 Stimulation tow aid p*o n ‘iv**sive
thinking
Meetings on acute social and ic
ligious issues
•1 The cultui.il aim, to be taken
care of by the Entei tJinment com sc.
5 Close lclntinnsh'p and ill pos
sible assistance to local chinches
(5. Addition of goo] Ipeiatmo to
the bin an of the “Y” hut
7 Mote futnituic mu! fixtures f.a
the “Y” Hut in an atlemp l to mi) o
the Ilut a bcttei place loi the -'udeiit
to spend h’s tune
La Vie Distribution
Set For Thursday
(Continued fiom fust page)
ago, the La \ io has been edited cveiv
vear. containing a portraval of Col
lege life duung the Near. It has been
pioduced in such a stvlc as to make
it a valuable keepsake and lemmdet
of life at Penn Stite This yen’*
annual is duiabh bound in black
lcathei, with a hion/c emblem on tin*
fiont The editnis of the pio«ent
Li Vie have done then best to i»»-
jeet a hteiaiv atmospheie in the vol
uminous peiiodien!
The literal v vvoik of the book has
been in chaige of B D Dundoic ’2~,
editoi-in-chtcf while the ail work Las
been pci foi mod by R M. Gibbs ’27
The business end of the annual has
been earned out bv S L Rcedet ’27
Students hive assisted in each dc
paitment
In piodncmg the si Aeon bundled
copies lequucd this voir, many agen
cies have been at woik, each eonii >h
uting to the completion of the book
The White’s Studios have taken the
campus views and pictuies of indi
vidual*, the Penn State Photo Slop
has handled the gioup pictuies, the
Philadclptu i Photo Engining com
pany, the engiaving, M J. Malloy
companv of Chicago the eovei, and
the Grit Publishing companv of Wil
hnnispoit, the punting.
To Dr 0 F Boucke, professor of
Economics, the picscnt volume is ded
icated ns follows
"Man’s judgment of man is often
h.ush, alu.us paitial and inevitable
faultv, because men see cith nth,***
only supethci.illy
“Sometimes it is given to a few la
see below the suifacc anil form :.
moie cmiect judgment of a man be
cause) they lmve seen into his heart,
and found the led nun theic
“The Class of 1927 unanimous*}
anil pioudly dedicates this volume
of La Vie to silch a man, m pu:-
tnl jccngnition of the wmth of
i faithful instiuetoi whose life ha
ter ve.ns been inconspicuously devot
ed to upholding Inch ideals of true
stholnisinp at 7he Pennsylvania
State College.
"A notable schnlii, our conscien
tious trd inspuing teachei, a leal
man;
Oswald Fied Boucke
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THE PENix STATE COLLikGIAH
Penn State Players Near
End Of Successful Season
With the perfnumincc of “The
Bnomeinng” at Commencement, the
Penn Stite Plavers will wind up theii
‘Lventh season, one of the most suc
cessful in the history of the organi
sation When this group was foimed
in U)l*)-20, its purpose was the pres
entation each year of three oi four
plavs at Penn State. Since then,
howeva, their mm hus biondcned with
the jesult that a season now finds
them plaving twelve oi fifteen pei
tornianccs in vaiious section* of the
state
Tins .vent the vvoik of the Penn
State Play ora began on Alumni Dav,
\ovembei seventh, with a luncheon
at the University Club and a bill of
one-let pi tvs in the Auditonum. Foi
the lust time this enteitiunmont was
given entirely by Players’ alumni,
\ ith 11 G. Adams, T C MtCollom,
Sira Knerper, Curley Hoffman, Leah
I.itlc and others taking part. It is
pi mned to make this all-alumni bill a
feztuic of the annual get-together.
'The First Year’
On Novenibei twelfth the Playeis
again bi ought to Penn State the de
lightful Marionettes of Tonv Sarg
Tiie presentation of Stevenson’s "Trea
stne Island" gave the audience some
thing to talk about.
"The Fust Year,” with u revised
c«ist headed by Mabel Reed ’2B, 0 Z
■\nderson '2B, and N D. Zimmerman
'27, had its opening foi the vear ut
Hat nsbuig in the Tech auditorium,
the evening of Novembei thirteenth
It played the following night to m
audience in Brun Chapel ut Gettys
buig This piogram was under the
auspices of the Owl and Nightingale
Diamatic society of Gettysburg col
lege and was the first of the exchange
performances which came about as
the lesult of the formation of the
Pennsylvania IntercoPegiate Dramatic
association at Penn State la«t year
"Charley's \unt"
“Charley's Aunt” made its ini
tial how in the Auditorium on Novem
bei the twentieth. Foui days later
it appeared in Roaring Spring as one
of the numbers on their annual en
tertainment course.
The month of December was note*
uoi tliv in the Plovers’ history because
of the fast annual contest staged un
cial the auspices of the Pennsylvania
r nteieollegmte Dramatic association.
This began with a lecture bv Roland
Holt, one of the judges, at the Urn*
ve-sitv Club the, evening of Decern
bei third, and continued on the fourth
and fifth withfthe piescntation of
two piogums of one-act plays m the
Auditorium. 'Tllp'Owl and Nighting-
Di ntr ity of Gettysbu'
nle Dwimntic sdcicty of Gettysburg
took fust prize, t\b l le Cap and Daggei
of Buckncll took* second This contest
which is to be on annual affair, will
be held next year at Drcxel institute
in Philadelphia
Playcis’ activities in January began
cm the fouiteenth with a performance
of ‘The Fust Year” Th the'Roosevelt
Junior high school in Altoona under
the auspices of the League of Women
Voteis. In commenting upon this
pi eduction the critic of the Altoonn
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In Builntii. Liberal •* *° Cenitact,
Stia and Secure In Evert War.
Mirror said in part* “The Players ac
quitted themselves as well as nvcinge
piofessionals and any of them could
make a success of the acting profes
sion should they deude to go on the
stage.”
‘The Goose Hangs High’
On Jniiuury twenlv-secoml “Th ft
Goose Hangs High” met with favor at
Penn State. On the tlmtieth the
class in pluy production furnished an
other evening's enteitainment with
the presentation of foui ono-act plavs
Fcbruaiy was marked by two mote
performances of “The Fust Yeni,”
one at Canton nud the other at To
wamiu, and in a hill of three one-act
plnvs at the University Club
On Match sixth “The First Yeai”
was pei formed finally ut Penn Slate
The production of a new mvstery pin,
“The Seventh Guest,” followed six
davs later.
Muv first brought the Owl and
Nightingale Dramatic souetv of Get
tysburg college m Buriy’s comedy,
“You und I”' Seveiul of those wlvi
weie in the prize winning playlet 111
December again revealed then tal
ents to the Penn State audience
"The Boomerang”
The last trip of the season took
place from May twelfth to fourteenth
when “The Boonieiang” was present
ed m Wilkes-Barre. Foiest Citv and
Northumberland This was followed
on the fifteenth bv a second and last
bill of one-act plays at the University
Club
This week the class in play pro
duction vvjll again appeal in four one
act plays in the Auditorium Admis
sion will be by invitation only
With the Penn State peifoimance
of “The Boonieiang" on June eleventh,
the tegular season will end. Work
will then start on the summer plans
: The Plnyeis will appear during the
i coming summei session in three per
foi manccs, a revival of “The Fir it
Yeai” and two new plujs as vet un
selected
Plan Varied Program
For Graduation Week
(Continued ftom first page)
eial Alumni Association at ten o’clock
Monday.
On Monduy there will be conferenc
es of the heads of the vimous depart
ments and the Alumni followed by the
business session of the Alumni Af
ter this, luncheon will be served under
Notice that we are not bidding
*< '- - you farewell ~. v.- - we-expect you
back often and in the meantime
why not keep in direct touch with
your Alma Mater thru the col=
umns of
The
iooooooocoi
Value Of Courage In
Adverse Conditions
Cited By Brumbaugh
Facing a crisis with courage finj
enough to make the right decision,
was the theme of the chapel addios«
made Sunday morning by Dr. M. G.
Brumbaugh, president of Junnta col
lege and foimei govornoi of Pennsyl
vania.
With many cxnmplqs cubed fiom Ins
own expedience and fiom hisiorv, the
speaker stressed the heroic co-rage
demanded from the man mooting a
new and dangeious situation, whether
that man be a Washingtoi uffeting
ins seiviccs in raising an armv foi
lus country,'ol a rural school teacher
taking hci pupils through a humenne
to safety
“The majority of people behave in
a seemly way in the ordinaiy everits
of life,” said Di Biumbaugh, “But
how will vou behave when you face a
irisis’”
The ability to face such a situation
with calm courage is, in his opinion,
one of the chief benefts to be derived
fiom a college couise. “Such ability
can come only from conscious cultiva
tion on the part of a student,” Dr
Biumbaugh declared
“Right action is not the tesult of
chance but of past discipline in doing
light things. Tium vourself every
dnv, in the best way you can, to meet
a crisis because some time you’ll nod
all that’s 111 you.”
the “Big Top” which will be on the
lawn of the Piesidcnt’s house
Immediately following the luncheon
the Alumni will parade to New Beaver
field foi class stunts and special
track events. Included in the list of
peifoimois will be the shuttle ami
four-mile icluy teams winch were
victonous in the Penn Relays and the
leading individuals of Conch Cmt
riell’s cinder-path uggiegation
After the Alumni dinner on Satur
day night the Commencement recep
tion will take place, followed by the
Commencement Ball Monday night
Tuesday the rcgului Commencement
exercises will be held
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FRESHMAN T TO HAVE
PERMANENT SECRETARY
Incoming Plcbcs Will Receive
Handbooks—Receptions
Planned For Fali
In 01 dei to keep pace with the vvnik
accomplished in past veais, the Y. M.
C A. has nunnged to augment its
department relating to freshman vvoik
for next term.
The first step was taken when
Judge 11. W -Mitchell, president of
the bouid of tiustces, lequcstcd tint
W. C. Calhoun '25, who is at piesent
devoting but part of his time to fresh
man “Y” vvoik, return and devote lus
entire time to the interest', of new
Penn State men
W .1 Kitchen, societmv of the Penn
State Y M C. A., announced that
Fieslunun handbooks will be seal to
the MO men as has been the custom 111
former vouis Infonnntion and em
ployment buicaus will continue fm
the new men
In addition to these regu l ir customs
the “Y” will hold a ficslunan recep
tion during the early part of next
vear. Freshman discussion gioups
will meet to sponk on subjects of Col
lege and religious interest
Go
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Tuesday—
HAROLD LLOYD IN
‘Tor Heaven's Sake
Wednesday
LEWIS STONE AND VIOLA DANA
111 "What Fools Men”
Thursday
W’M. COLLIER
in “The Kauininkcr'
Friday
CHARLES MURRAY. GEORGE
SIDNEY, VERA GORDON, J \CK
- MULIIALL. GASTON GLASS
and JOBYNA RALSTON
111 “Sweet Daddies"
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