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Penn State Collegian
Published Ecmi-vrcekly during the College year cy
students of the Pennsylvania State College, in the inter
est of the College, the students, faculty, alumni and
friends.
TIIE EXECUTIVE BOARD
W. P. Heed ’27 -
S. It. Robb ’27 -
THE EDITORIAL STAFF
\V. P. Reed ’27' - -
H. G. Womsley ’27
G. P. Fisher ’27
Frances L. Forbes'’2 l
NEWS EDITORS
R. M. Atkinson *2S
R. K. Fletcher '23
\V. S. Thomson ’2B
WOMEN'S NEWS EDITORS
Katherine Holbrook '2S
THE BUSINESS STAFF
S. R. Robb ’27
B. C. Wharton '27
F. X. Wkiunku ’27
ASSISTANT KI'SIXKSS MAXACKRS
IS. a Ktlborn ’2 V
W. J. McLaughlin '2S
J. Ferguson '2B
C. F. Flinn ’2B
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News Editor This Issue
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, I!>2G
SOPHOMORES OUT
Candidates for the cheeilcading staff were
called from the sophomore class on Monday night.
From the number of men who reported at the
Armory, a spectator may draw but one conclusion
Penn Slate students ' have lost all interest in
their cheering. Penn Stale sophomores have no
regard for their teams; they would have a com
fortable seat in the stands and “Ict George” lead
the cheers.
Sophomores who have at any time enter
tained thoughts of leading cheers should have'
been at that meeting Monday night. There arc at
least twenty-fire men in the second-year class who
were yell-leaders in their preparatory schools, and
not half that number answered the call. And at
least a hundred sophomores have said, at some
time or another: “Why is that bird leading
cheers? I could do it boiler than-he can.” How
can we know that this statement is true and not
personal, when the sophomores who say it never
attempt to.direct the student body in organized
yelling?
The Head Cheerleader is at the top of the list
of important positions at Penn State. It is to this
man, who should he a leader in every sense of the
word, possessing a strong personality; effervesc
ing with the spirit of Penn Stale—it is to this
man, we know, that the freshman class looks for
aid, for the personification of Penn State spirit
during the first few weeks of College. And if the
Head Cheerleader of the present finds no one who
would be willing to bear this Task, no one who is
full of love for the old College, he-surmises that
cheering at Penn Stale has fallen into ill-repute,
and that teams on the field are mechanical con
trivances—machines that cannot be spurred on by
spirit, but which are to be tested in driving power
and criticized with pencil and paper.
These things are not true. Sophomores have
not lost their love for Penn State. They could
not—and remain here. Somewhere a cog lias
slipped and the time of the meeting was forgotten.
The next meeting must exhibit the characteristics
of . a Hibernian free-for-all, and to get into the
fight, a man must be a sophomore.’ Sophomores
'Out!. ;-■ • f ' -'
A TRADITION BECOMES A REGULATION
Back in the days when there was nothing but
a rail fence to separate the front campus from the
galloping horses on the Horseshoe Trail, and the
students of Penn State lived in the top of Old Main
and dined (or, rather, ate) ill the wooden mess
shanty in the rear of the big building, it was
thought that: Pemi Stale had the prettiest campus
of any college in the East.
There were traditions in those days, as how.
But they were traditions and not rules. It was
not until the twentieth century had come that
strict customs were set down and freshmen given
to know that they would not he tolerated unless
they observed the rule about the green head-cov
ering, the black lie, the black socks. And even
then, there were many customs which remained
unwritten, and were handed down as traditions.
It seems that in that long line of years be
tween then and now, one class failed in its duly
and did not pass along to the next group a tradi
tion which had always been a part of the unwrit
ten code. The failure of that class to perform its
obligations has caused endless argument among
members of five successive Student Councils, and
it was only Tuesday when the question of the tra
dition was again entertained. The Council saw
fit to keep the tradition—it belongs to Penn State
and is a part of the College—but an unknown tra
dition is not worth-while. Because tlic knowledge
of the custom is not known by a majority of the
students, it was decided to place in the Freshman
Handbook a new section under “General Customs”
reading:
“There shall be ho beaten paths on the from
campus.”
This curtails in no way the privilege of sen
iors and juniors to use the front campus, but it
does provide that there shall be no bare-oarth
runways from the flagpoles to the southern corn
ers of the campus. It also regulates the proced
ure of girls who use the front campus oath as the
shortest wav to Co-op but who should usva a differ
ent path each journey. In other words,' it means
just what it says—there shall be no beafi-.n paths
on tlie front campus.
Our old tradition falls in our esteem immed
iately it becomes a rule. But only the students
are the culprits, and it will not be long until we
realize that beauty is not to be disgraced by short
cuts. It remains for the upperclassmen to v.’.ave
from a barc-earth path any- other upperclassntan
who happens at the time to forget the tradition.
And now that the tradition is common property,,
there shall be no paths on that campus.
President
Treasurer
Editor-In-Chief
Assistant Editor
Managing Editor
Women’s Editor
15. Kaplan '2B
F. 11. Hmaitz '2B
When the lime for the football game with
the University of Pennsylvania approaches, every
student who fives (for about three months of the
vear) in or around Philadelphia will be begging or
borrowing train fare. When the annual clash
with the Panthers rolls ’round, Pittsburghers will
collect the money let out-for the Penn game and
return to the native stamping ground for that last
seasonal gridiron struggle.
Mildred A. Webb '2B
business Manager
Advertising Manager
Circulation Manager
Tlie whole system works out well—Easterners
satisfied, Westerners gratified. It works out
well—with the exception that when the crowd
gets to either one of these games, there is no
crowd. And why? Because the Penn State fol
lowers are scattered to all corners of the stands
and there is no well-defined Penn State cheering
section.
‘ Alumni in Philadelphia look forward to the
Poiiii-Penn State game as a ten-year-old looks for
ward to Christmas. And then at Christmas time,
after the gifts have been given, the ten-year-old
cannot lie happy alone—he must have a host of
little friends with whom to share his good fortune.
And this is true not only of the child, but also of
tlie alumnus. Unless he has all his friends gath
ered about him at that Pennsylvania football game
lie is as the little ten-year-old. It may be said
that “lie’s all togged up with no place to go.” Tie’s
all for Penn State —but he can’t find another Penn
Stale, man to tell him so. The very same situa
tion holds true at Pittsburgh on Thanksgiving
Day—if there is no cheering section held abso
lutely by Penn State men, the turkey may be
pasteboard for all the alumnus cares.
And the only way in whicli wo here at College
can make the alumni sure of a host of kindred soul
is to organize a complete cheering section at Penn
and Pitt, exclude our acquaintances and reserve
the section for Penn State men. For from that
section must come the yells, the spirit that per
sonifies tlie Nitlany Lion. It is our debt to the
alumni of Penn State that there be at each of these
games the biggest cheering sections that this Col
lege ever has known. For without the alumni,
there can be no student body to carry on. And
without a student body, an alumnus is a nonentity.
And without a cheering section composed of both
students and alumni—a football game is a false
alarm.
—U. M. Atkinson
The password of tlie season is: “Get to Penn
and Pitt.”
And that phrase means not only getting thero
—but it means: “Get into the cheering sections at
I’cnn and Pitt—and, with the alumni, yell for tlie
Blue and White.”
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For ten yards and a girl with an ,
ippish-.nose'. Wiggled'.infronfcofj’us/c-W.e
'Didn’t want f anytKing.[anyway. ' •
GET TO PENN AND PITT
Yesterday, after class we. went right down
To tlie bookstore. We wanted three
Texts, some paper and ink, a new account
And a Horshey. Three 30’s stepped
On our feet, a clerk went through center
—Syracuse Daily Orange
BREAKFAST
AT THE
NEW Store
ON
OLD Co-op
TifjsJ Jt*EiNN STATS...C'OLLEGrXAW
Grid Gossip j
Special Wire to the Penn State
COLLEGIAN:—The /University of
Susquehanna has a line which is
practically impregnable.' Why?. An
swer —it has a Wall in tlie middle.
(Weak)
The heralded Selinsgrove line in
cludes other celebrities. Biblical stu
dents and thcologists will doubtless
bat a puzzled eye when Mtv.s ami
Nicodenuis jog out in grid costume,
hallooing in fanciful Old English
Captain Moans business.”
J.ct no elusive idea rest in the cere
brum of any tough from these points
we nt that the University of Pennsyl
vnnut is not going to have an intel
lectual eleven. The Red ami Blue
Ims si;, nil practice every evening, with
FolwelY and his juvenile brother Paul
in the fading roles. Folwell is at the
end of V-he, line, but brother Paul is
right upb among them as a drop-kick
er of no mean ability.
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Doc Ritihiour expects to have his
infirmary learn in shape for mortal
combat at aii early date. Don Green
shields failed!, to have his arm dress
ed on Monday and was in shape to
scrimmage Tuesday afternoon with
the Varsity, 1/jit Captain Weston,
Delp, SI amp and Bergman have re
ported to the operating suite too often
to be cured.
Hoover and Smith Co.
712 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
Fraternity Jewelry
“Permanent Satisfaction**
MR. READ lIYNSON
Home Cooked Food Served In An Appe
tizing Way
CAMPUS TEA ROOM
Under the management of the DeWalts
S' % ' £
| Recreation at the proper time is an t
l aid to study. |
5 VISIT THE -x ■ £
... r,
S State College Billiard Parlor |
I ALLEN STREET £
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We are showing a new line of
SILK UMBRELLAS
Well made. In all popular colors. !
•.. E.G OLF’S
120i-2 E: College Aye: State College :
Kodaks Framing
TIIE HOME OF
GOOD PHOTOGRAPHY
THE PENN STATE PHOTO SHOP
212 East College Avenue
Kodak Films Supplies
CATERERS!
See us for Fresh Vegetables
and Fruits. Full Line of ’
Groceries.
Prompt Delivery Courteous Service
R. V. HOY & SONS CO.
Phone 429 Open Evenings
Barney Slump looked almost ton
comfortable When he .appeared in
white clothes and slippers at practice
Wednesday afternoon. A wicked
smile lit Bez’s features as he bade
Barney summon his fellow cripples
and "ioosen up” by jogging around
the cinder track eight (8) times. A
mathematics professor with a slide
rule could easily prove that eight
laps equals two much.
The managers, substitutes, has-
NITTANY THEATRE OPENING 1
Advertised as Friday, Sept. 24th *
$
Postponed *
Opening Tuesday, Sept. 28th |
“See Your Orders Cooked”
Cleanliness Courtesy Excellent Food
S CIDER PRETZELS
COLLEGE ICE CREAM
No delay, ready packed in handy boxes
SERFAS
136 Allen Street
CANDY TOBACCO
EAST COLLEGE AVE.
FRAZIER STREET
ibeens, oughter-wases and other side
liners that limn New Beaver when
the shades of night are being pulled
(Sown crave to know the probable date
of the earliest killing frost. Giant
mosquitoes have raised
monuments to their biting powers on
many a shapley leg or, well-museled
lin, and the owners thereof desire a
cessation of hostilities.
Public Sale of Antiques Oct. 2nd.
Articles such as Bollinger Chairs, 2
AT
CLUB DINERS, INC.
State University Shoe Co.
PROGRESS ON THE BRIDGE
AND VISIONS THAT ARE
GROUNDED ON THAT STEEL
As the great trusses of the Delaware River '
Bridge are raised to position, the outline of the
giant structure takes clearer form in the eyes of
the beholders. " • •• : ,
But each step forward is more
• than T ;a v gain'iri' bfid'ge building—it, is an advance
toward a greater community, and greater prosper
ity and convenience.
~ Visions such as these are within the reach of
everyone, in his or her own life.
Building a bank account will provide a bridge
which many times opens the way from a humdrum'
career to great opportunities.
We Want a Touchdown
F F
R A FREE STETSON HAT IS R
O waiting here for the Penn O
M 0 ' M
M State man making the first jyj
’ touchdown of the season. ’
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FROMM’S
Opposite Front Campus Since 1913
s'
To the Freshmen
And to our Upperclass Friends:
The State University Shoe Co. welcomes
you, and extends an invitation to visit
us in our Store.
We carry Army Shoes in all sizes, for
Freshmen and Sophomores; and Dress
Shoes for all occasions. , , .
PUGH STREET
The First National Bank of State College, Pa.
YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE WELCOMED HERE,
WHERE THE BEST OP BANKING SERVICE
AWAITS YOU.
Friday, {September 24, 1923
sets of 6 each; Spinning Wheel’Yam
Reels, Rockers, Walnut Bullet, Fq§
Poster Beds, Brass Kettles, Wrong#
Iron Kettle and .Iron Dishes, WctjU
Wheat Scythes and numerous other
articles of early Central
type. Sale at 1 P.M., next door to
the Penn State Hotel, across
East Campus. Terms made knownU
time of sale. 9-21-tf
Opening Time—Six O’clock
Fridav—
CONSTANCE TALMADGE
in “The Duchess of Buffalo’*
Saturday—
LEWIS STONE
in “Dun Juan's Three Nights”
Monday and Tuesday—
Return Showing of
DOUKLAS FAIRBANKS
in “The Black Pirate”’
Special Prices:
Children 25c
Adults 50c.
OPENING NITTANY THEATRE
Tuesday—
MARY PREVOST
in “Almost a Lady”
Nittnny Theatre Opening as
Advertised Friday. Sept. 21th
Postponed
Opening Tuesday, Sept. 2Sth!
StAijlkl.Brss.
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Cathaum Building