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Penn State (Collegian
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Nows Editor This Issue
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1926
MOLESKINS FOR MUD-SLINGERS?
Alumni Day dawns again, with all its fond re
membrances and re-established contacts with the
College and the undergraduates. The alumni re
turn, and tell us what they did in their day; their
stories sound pretty good, but we try to go them
one better, and along about three in the morning
before the big Alumni Day football game, the club
room of any fraternity house becomes the loost
ihg place of Ananias and the hotbed of sedition,
divorce and assault with intent to borrow.
We enjoy these contacts with the alumni. We
appreciate them fully, and wish they could be en
joyed more often. But what we dislike, and im
mensely, too, is their attitude (toward football
Now that they are graduated, they imagine that a
diploma gives them occasion to say anything they
please about sports—=-and therein lies our objec
tion. We think they are victims of misinforma
tion.
, There is not one doubt but that our alumni
mean well; that they have the interest of the old
College at the very depths of their hearts. But
when they raise a hullaballoo about something
with which they pretend to be intimate, and of
which they see only the outer manifestations, we
rise to a point of order or something—and then
get kicked back into our chairs because we’re
“only Undergraduates ”
“Football is an institution, but who wants to
live in an institution.” “Football is a sport, en
joyed by the undergraduates and picked on*by the
alumni.” “Football is the scapegoat of every fi
nancial problem of the alumni, administration and
student body.” “Football is the national college
sport, of the students, for the students, by the
alumni.”
To get down to brass tacks, there are too
many factions in the alumni of every college to en
able that body of graduates, loyal at heart, to pull
together. Personalities are indulged in all too
frequently for the well-being of the alumni, the
students and the entire college. Personalities, m
alumni discussions of football,'are the germs
which breed the dread disease that kills every bit
of college spirit ah alumnus ever had.' That dis
ease is jealously. -a a ~<• : \
Jealously, then, emits from factions which
should be working toward a common goal. It
comes from the alumni—but not only from the
alumni. Not by a darned sight. It comes also
from the student factions; it is not emitted there
frpri w any ordinary manner—it is secretly vom
itted, often f»nd in smr’l quantities, from pig-head
ed idiots ”’h'< are so jealous, biased, mean-brained
and lazy that ’h«y cannot see another man, com
peting > sport against them—they cannot
see'h>m wit.i field-glasses.
, Of course, some day these students become
alumni. Then the endless ruckus receives another
shove, and it’s started all over again. When al
umni start it, it is no less than the lemaking of
canned “soup” (TNT m tenderloin parlance); and
the detonation that sets off that alumni TNT is
something which has, in the past, been overlooked
but which now must come to light. It is jealousy
among the students. Not the student body—not
too often—but the biased, addle-pated, lazy nin
compoops who play football— (since we’re arguing
about football) —with no other end in view than
working “just enough to look as if they want to
play—and to be able to get away with it because
they’ve got the support of the student body who
think these men are playing square with the alum
ni, the students, the coach and the college.”
500—DOLLARS—500
The title reminds one of a burlesque show,
doesn’t it? Something like "40—Girls—40”?
Well, that’s just what “500—Dollars—500” means,
except that the “dollars” are the result, not the
cause.
There is to be a “Spirit Parade” sometime be
tween now and ithe game tomorrow afternoon.
The Alumni will probably enjoy a big wagon pile
at Co-op corner, and they would like to take pho
tographs of the campus cannon while off its bases.
They would appreciate these things as evidences
of youthful effervescence, as open manifestations
of college spirit, as e\ idences ot a “deep and abid
ing loyalty to all things for which the College
stands.” You think so?
If you do, you’re very damp.
The last parade that the merchants of this
town “enjoyed” cost the College exactly three
hundred dollars (5300.00), as a sort of premium
for student self-entertainment The parade was
no more (than that; and'such parades can be
worse, and the coming orgy will no doubt be much
worse unless the men at its head can cajole the
mental infants who gather furniture to carry to
the corner, into conducting themselves extra-de
cently.
The Alumni might laugh; so will we But
someone has to laugh openly and curse the stu
dents inwardly. All of which means that who
ever has the fun pays for it, but not at Penn
State. Here the students tear the town to scraps,
cheer for evei*ything except the Thespians, and let
the College bear the expense.
That’s “spirit”. Applesauce and banana oil.
• President
Vice-President
- Treasurer
Editor in-Cluef
Assistant Editor
Managing Editor
Women’s Editor
B Kaplan ’2B
P. R. Smoltz ’2B
W. Lord, Jr , ’2B
The Bullosopher’s Chair
Business Manager
Advertising Manager
Circulation Manager
Well, Smithers, tonight the orgy begins’
And the all-College diunk will carry over the
whole week-end. Win or lose tomoirow, quite a
few of the alumni in town will perform their jack
ass antics for the benefit of the undergraduates.
And the few who won’t indulge confirm the repul
sive biawl by pietending to enjoy it, or keeping
silent on a subject they should howl about.
“The Pestiferous Alumni”! (see Harper’s
Magazine for July). Enthusiastic supporters of
the college I Just listen to their enthusiasm when
our football team is defeated! I tell you, Mr.
Smithers, our alumni are a nuisance! They don't
know anything which is fundamental, about the
college, and they don’t seem to care. But about
athletics, they know everything; and if they don’t
know, they pretend they do. The problems of
.administration, the political situation, educational
improvement—things which should engage their
whole-heaited enthusiasm, they endure . . . .
But let some gossip about Bez gat started, and
they cat it alive’
R. B. Kilborn
W. J. McLaughlin '2B
—.Benjamin Kaplan
How ridiculous our celebration of Alumm Day
is 1 A day set aside to lenew precious memories,
to revive pleasant associations, to hallow glorious
tiaditions—and how do they celebrate this occas
ion ? By acting like a bunch of hoodlums without
any respect for any principle for which this col
lege stands.
And what is v orse—the w ould-bc powers be
hind the Alumni Association grin and silently
sanction the whole fracas. When they plan items
for the program, they allow for the liquor bibbers
and make things as easy foi them as they can.
The other day Mr Secretary opened his mouth
and brayed: “For the glory of old Penn State, for
the sanctity of the occasion, keep it stag! Keep
it stag’”
Why keep it stag? It’s quite evident. Even
the lowest of the group hesitates to make an ass
of himself when women are present. What a
glorious representation of Penn State! Maybe if
a few more of the wives were present it would
help lemove the disgust from Alumni Day. Why,
our honorable Mr. Secretary has been known to
approve, secretly, any move to discouiage alumni
co-eds from ldurning! Yes, for the glory of
Penn State, keep it stag!
What to do about it? One of two things!
Either clean up Alumni Day and make it an oc
casion fitting and decent, or abolish it altogether.
At present, it accomplishes but one thing—an op
portunity for the mdst disgusting orgy of the
year, a situation whose degrading influence on the
morale of the undergraduates and the college at
large, to say nothing of the outside opinion of
Penn State, is inestimable. Undergraduates,
why do you sanction it? College Administration,
why aie you silent? One reason only!—the al
umni have money and power. Therefore, we
must muzzle our convictions, forget the glory of
Penn State, and endure a situation which becomes
more intolerable each year!, ~,% s, , jP - x
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THE pjrisN STATE COLLEGIAN
SESSION ONE
| Grid Gossip
Army’s two Presidents, Harding
and Wilson; proved'that it is still
war-time to them when they spanked
the Syracuse eleven last Saturday,
27-21 Prex Hafding, topped his
Democratic rival.by scoring twice to
blond Harry’s once. ’
’Twas a big day for the W. C. T.
U. in Pittsburgh last Saturday when
Welch of Pitt and Brewer of C6lgatc,
halfbacks, clashed on the gridiron.
Welch and Pitt won—tlnec beers for
grape-juice l i
Anvhow, we still think our Cy Lun
grcn has the nicest legs we have yet
seen on the GRID part of New Bea
ver Field „ .Aijyhow!
c
Captain Hanson -of Syiacusc is
morally certain that there is some*
thing in a name—his assumptions arc
based on his own handle. He was
christened Victor, hut he spoils rec
ords instead of playing, l them.
At this moment ye scribe does not
know whether the Orange squad will
include Jonah Goldman, halfback
fiom Erasmus Hall, when it appears
this afternoon Few whales exist m
the inundated areas of New Beaver
—so Jonah will be relatively safe
No Sadie, his number is not'thiitecn.
The name Flanagan worries us.
Pitt used their Flanagan against the
Lions with no little success last year,
and Notre Dame did not even need
Christy to,subdue the Blue and White
Warriors last Saturday. And now Don
Flanagan of Syracuse looms up m
the offing.
Be our agent at Penn State and be inde
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Syracuse Harriers
Oppose Penn State
(Contihued from first .page)
to finish first with Rupert and Proud
lock trailing him
•Syracuse cannot oveilook Bill Co\
and Captain Roger Fomaeie who have
been going over the si' mile course
here at a rapid rate the past week and
Georgo Offenhausei and Reis who
loom as steady lunneis These four,
with three to be selected today from
Haskins, Guyer, Stewait, Johnson,
Oesterling, Helffrich, Bass and Pettit,
will represent Penn State
The remainder of the Orange team
will be chosen fiom Houugan, Faigle,
Jenkins, Clmstopher, Cohn, Heim and
Goldberg.
In last year’s Intercollegiatcs Four- 1
acre finished nineteenth, Stewait
twenty-sixth, Reis thirty-seventh,
Johnson, fifty-fourth and Guyei fifty
sixth. , Consideiing that Loucks fin
ished second, Rupert eighth and
Proudlock twelfth, Penn State’s
chances tomorrow appear slim
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