FT.ga riNwa Pe nn sfate (Zollegian Published semi-weekly during the College year by students of the Pennsylvania State College, in the interests of the College, the students, faculty, alumni and friends. THE EXECUTIVE BOARD W. P. Run '27 - H. G. Woman '27 S. R. Roua"27 THE EDITORIAL STAFF N. P. Ram '27 H. G. WOMSLEY '27 - G. F. FISHER' '27 - FRANCES L. FORBES '27 R. hi' Atkinson '2B B. Kaplan '2B WOMEN'S NEWS EDITORS Katherine Hu%rue:, '2R Mildred A. Webb '2S TEE BUSINESS STAFF S R. Rom '27 - B. C. Wmurrom '27 F. N. WEIDNER '27 ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS J. Ferqusan '2B C. F. Minn '2B The Penn Stale COLT LCIAId Invitee cemmunicellona on any sub- Sent of College intcr,t All communieationa must Incte the eignature of the writ,. and the writers twine will he potbliclani hir nom momentum. prrnoltng that communicution deemed north> of pub lication The COI.I.I•GIAN .•4111. no retponsthlll4, hune,r. for eentimen. exprensed In the Letter Bon ..,41! ' 172 . 111 f . 0r ..T., “ T ' p ' . ' r1y.7.%: t 0r b . ', !; Itgin .'roclrri.f:l7gf ::: I 'Sbga.,T.l.m2Tly nut Le ^:gg.° ,tr:cco.T.; . f. ' l .‘,°. ',7,7': ,fx‘:: DAN, Subscription price P2OO, pasahle before November 1, 1920 b.ntered at the Manatee, State Calk.; I'a. vs oetond.cluss matter Office: Nlttany Printing and Publish:no 1.0 Building. :tato Cut lege. Pa. Telephone: 292.1 V, Bell. (Me flours: 11 00 a m to 12 00 m. 4 00 to 6 00 p m TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1927 THE WAY TO CULTURE The naive literary product of thirty-five hundred students is, naively speaking, in the dumps It won't sell The only undergraduates to be seen with copies are the members of Pi Delta Upsilon and the contrib utors—and these buy their own copies It should be apparent by now that if the OLD MAIN BELL is to continue its existence as Penn State's magazine, it must be recognized as the equal of that great under class journal, the Sophomore Proclamatidn and plac ed with it in the incidental fees next year. Tonight at the first meeting of the new mem bers of Student Council, two important groups will be elected Student Board and Student Tribunal. Both organizations hold an important place in the proper administration of student government. With the exception of the sophomore class presi dent all the members of the Tribunal in the past have been athletes For the sake of customs, for the sake of spirit, for the sake of the Tribunal itself, a better organization would result if half of the number would be non-athletes. The Student Board consisting of three seniors, two Juniors, and one sophomore has weighty prob lems to solve It is the supreme court of the Council A great amount of sagacity should be brought into play by the new members of Student Council in choosing men to fill responsible, ‘ position on the iStttnt Bpard,al34 Stuhni ; Tritiiinp. di! • ':;:•• , .1' •• : „ . • ft` , 4 ,r• . ,TEEMAGIC CARESS , ' ,Frorii the: i!ariciui free speech 'organizations on the' campus some sinister giggles—patronizing, pla cating, and threatening . . The COLLEGIAN, it appears, has stepped upon a few corns, and the worst of the matter is that there are no apparent signs that the stepping will stop—or that the corns will heal. For the editors, with the assumption, the pardonable assumption, that before the cure can be effected the remedy must be known, have pledged themselves to assist Penn State by not only telling' the truth but by asking for it That demand is not a strange one At Columbia, for instance, the undergraduate journal very frankly and impartially conducted an investigation of cer tain dubious courses. At Dartmouth John Roach Straton once addressed the students there, and the next day, in the Hanover newspaper, there was the devil to pay At West Virginia it was discovered that unbelievably large numbers of "pie" courses, of no apparent use, were being echoed semester after semester for the benefit of West Virginia students. It seems strange that at Penn State the truth—and the truth is not as disasterous as it seems —should be made not only an issue, but an ulti matum. THE HOPKINS REFORM (Yale Alumni Weekly) The football reforms that the president of Dart mouth has recently proposed to an interested- and attentive public have in them the outstanding merit than they put the college before the stadium, and the real purpose of American higher education be fore the demand for public college sports. As such they deserve more than passing notice and need to be given [nought.' Whether in their en. tireiy they meet the whole siliation we are not. so ready to say. But public acceptance of President Hopkins' proposals as they stand is of less mo ment than willingness to believe that whet he wants to do in proposing them is to have the college sport rescued from the angle of what is best for the college itself as an educational institution, and this we be lieve, is well worth doing. From this point of view, the proposals .for the removal of the professional coach system, which has come to make a very considerable business of the , preparation of the college teams for contests with each other, for double-header football, one at home and abroad with the same opponent, and for the limitation of playing to the two middle classes of a college, are the proposals which, if carried out, would in the long run knock out all the "professionalism" that is in our college games and of the older eastern colleges. There are few that for some time have not been occupied with various plans looking toward some such end - President Vice-President - Treasurer Editor tn•Uhief Assistant Editor Managing Editor IVonion's Editor W. Lord. Jr. '2B I'. R. Smottz '2B In company with the president of Dartmouth, what we think n number of such institutions would' like to see come about is the shifting of, the interest and hence the emphasis in our college sports, from the public to the campus. This 11 the spirit of the English college sports, and its great merit is that it makes of athletic competition a legitimate part of the college educational system, as important to the participant and as valuable as the classroom. This was the spirit of the older days of American college sports, before the newspaper sporting editors took charge of them Business Manager Advertising Manager Circulation Manager It B. Kllborn '2. W. J McLaughlm '23 We look to see the day return, and for that reas on are hospitable to any proposals that will hasten it Such a day would see, say at Yale, a general par ticipation in interclass and intercollege sports within the university going on through the year and of no interest to anybody except the participants. It would see the games generaled by the players themselves and their elected captains. It would see at the end of such an "intramural" season a quickly assembled "university" team play two or three other colleges, where similar conditions existed to what we have Just pictured at Yale. We do not think that is impractical, we confidently expect some such con dition to come one of these days.. Proposals such as President Hopkins makes, regardless of their details, are in line with such a situation and when enough more suggestions of the sort are made by equally responsible public leaders, something will be done about it The Bullosopher's Chair "Smlthers hou would you'ldie to be kicked out o school?" . Soothers:-Without the slightest hesitation I can truth full} admit that the idea does not fill me with any surplus enthusiasm Were an expulsion imminent for one reason another, I would not let any grass grow toward remedy ing the Situation, but I doubt if any sane collegian would tel.! , the idea that is embodied in lour query. "1 didn't expect you to enthuse at the opportunity of leaving peaceful surroundings , for.a minute place in the "cold cold world " but an article in THE NEW STUDENT entitled, "Bane of the Deans" was the source of the thought It means that such notables ns Sheller, John Locke William Penn, Edward Gibbon and Walter Savage Landoi were once hopeful of receiving a sheepskin from Oxfoid until the authinities of the reputable institution saw fit to were each of the quintet with individual "walk ing papers." This did not happen simultaneously but with. it r space of three centuries. In our American institutions there are foal men who later achieved notoriety after being ejected from a university, they are. Stephen Crane, Eugene 0' Neil, Sinclair Lewis, and Theodore Drieser." Smitherst—Then vom conclusion is get tossed out of College it you hope to be a success in the world out- "Far from it You jump at conclusions without giving the problem sufficient thought, Smithers Did it eves occur to you that each of these men was radical not 'only ir college but dining the lemainder of his life? That it they left college it sins because they realized that they were not adapted to collegiate discipline; they solved the problm by scpaiating themselves from what was to them nothing more or less than a scholastic jail." ' S+ndlters:-Hoq many men,p,yor estimation, were Oen : tad SVoni"eolle'se aes'er ; athicied,'noYfkesiatk:tlegiao of fame?"; .11on • nigh can you mint : , Q. Hot Weather? A. The Corner PENN. wrlm. COLLEGIAIsi i 1 1 'Lgt,i:,gr - Box May 18, 1927. The ENeeuttye Board, The Penn State Collegum, State College, Pen.. Gentlemen: Yam edam cats in the issues of the Penn State Collegian under the dates of no tenth 1027 (Tuesday) and May thnteenth 1027 (Friday); entitled "The Demon Rum," and "Drink a Highball-" were read with some slim Ise If the Collegian is under a policy in consonance with mina the "yellow nress" call then "Wet" campaign, please remove my name from its car clOation list Piobably you will be interested in following the survey of the industrial and economic effects of Prohibition made by Professor Derntan Feldman of the Amos Tuck School of Admin. vitiation and Finance, Dartmouth col lege I do not know the conclusioro this extensive survey will show, us it is just being released. Sincerely yours, B C Duncan '25 Editors Note—We are indebted to Mi Duncan for his information con cerning the research pamphlet of the industrial and economic offects of Prohibition. We have Written to Dart mouth college for the full.report. IQuestion Box To the editor: I, a student, am laboring with a very serious problem. My brain is in a whirl. Sometimes I think I am lea and at other times I suppose lam wrong I would certainly appre. sate an answer to calm my distressed mind. Buell), the question is this. Is the pushball scrap, as it was conduct ed this yeas a true display of the spirit of college youth or is it a man ifestation of barbarism and cruelty' It is repelling to the niind to think that we students, the picked four percent of the nation, the' nucleus of out future democracy should act in .1 :flannel befitting only to a group of uneducated, uncouth, igioramuNes who confilse st,hool.,spint with roud, ism What a disgrace that the college student can not ongage'm a game of sport or competition without apply mg, the crude, unsportsmanlike meth od of the unlettered Could not the contestants be satisfied with pushing the ball? Why' should they .villfully strilte•one another, kick one another, and roll etioh.othetAn"the mild? , Why 'should a scene occur such as one man sittlng, atop another actually punching his student brothel? Even after two would become rote twlned'in struggle they would continue so until patted by outsiders Why the scrap was not conducted correctly or at least as befits civilised beings Is more than I can say Prob ably it was the fault of the manag ers, maybe it was the fault of the contestants, or pphaps the spirit of the whole function was wrong Suf fice it to say that something was faulty; or perchance it is only my diatoited idea. A. R L New Armory Roof, May Remain Minus Numeral Paintings Whether class nnynprals„ , n'oll con binue y. 0.1191 t. intAtit 7idt,151.4te,r0c4:: 4 the , ,?Verepoi,:Tiff °POW stokraP,Cotmsll,,Adcorqipatto .1 W e b b er,. supOneerre'rit ' lege givunds Aid bullaingf - The custom of Wincing class!numer oils on the roof of the Armory began pn 1900 and was usually attended by some form of ceremony However, in recent years, thi painting of class insignia has been Put, in the hands of: an unofficial committee appointed by the president of the 'yearling stoup. Prior to the inauguration of this custom, the numerals appeared on the turret of Old Main tower. Although the present custom typifies the spirit of our smaller colleges, President Ha zel, among others in authority, be hoses it is now antiquated. Superintendent Webber also stated that the use of the Armory roof as a place for class numerals was, in no small way, responsible for the leak age of the roof during inclement wea ther. BLOCK. Avp BRI,DLE li President It K. Ham'ltbn '2B Vice-President, S W. Earle '2B Treaidirer E P. Fowler '29 SWetiPl B. IL Larson '2B SIMPLY HONE 264 THilk WAND SHOP Cleigr Pressing, Repairing Cipabie.te Laynavy Service GIRL. DEBATERS. DEFEAT IREVIEW CHEMISTRY MANSE OBATORSI ORE INS LITHE PROGRAM Nitlany Trio Upholds Negative Side of Topic on State Reorganization Penn State's girl debaters defeated the co-ed forensics from Syracuse Friday night in the Auditorium on the question of rem ganizing state govern ments • The Nittrny team, upholding the negative side of the argument, was composed of Mabel Dunlap '29, Flom bel Stair '27, and Retta Bostwick '29, while the Orange trio of Beatrice Feingold '2B, , Bernice Meredith '29, and Rhth Freeman '29, upheld the af firmative Burden of pion( rested on the affir matise in explaining the purpose of the nen system and in contending that tho cabinet forin of government would 'be mole satisfactory than the present method. In opposition, the Nitta* , co-eds showed the new system im practible and gase instances of its failure in other countries. They dem onstrated the fact that the people, as a whole, would be left out of leg islation by the proposed plan. In conclusion, they showed how in stability and impulsiveness would be come greater and boa the laws would tend toward despotic and over-ruling measures Prof. L V T Simmons, head of the Gelman department, presided at the debate The question for discussion was in full, "Resolved, That the goy onments of the several states should be reorganized in accordance with the followirg provisions: 1. A single chamber legislature elected by popu lar vote, 2 A governor and council chosen from and by the legislature; 3. Governor and council has the right to be heard by legislature; 4 Gov ernor may be removed by the legis lature; 5. Governor has poster to divolve, the legislature and call a new election at any time; and 6 Not more than four years may intervene between elections " Announce Program for Commencement Week (Continued from first page) after which dances will be conducted at many fraternity houses Saturday's program begins at two o'clock in the afternoon with the an nual meeting of the Board of Trus tees in the pi esident's office The alumni will elect there trustees, and delegates from the county societies will choose four Lacrosse Game_• The only athletic feauteOf the day will be a lacrosse game between the Penn State varsity and the Onondaga Indians at two-thirty o'clock. Class banquets and reunions are scheduled for six-thirty o'clock while two hours later. Penn State Thespians V. 11l stage "Girl Wanted" in the Audi torium Informal fraternity dances wdl conclude,the evening. Baccalaureate Sermon Reverend Donald B Aldrich, D. D, of New York City, has been secured to deliver the baccalaureate address to the seniors in the Auditorium Sunday morning at ten o'clock. The speaker en the pastor of the Church of Ascen sion in New York city. Following a concert by the Penn State military band on the front cam 'pus, a vesper seivice address will be given Sunday evening by Reverend Rimer ➢edger, D. D, chaplain at Rutgers college, New Brunswick. Mr Metyger was formerly chaplain at Penn State.. At eight o'clock, the ITenif Statpachortal tlubs 'yilVgayeithe l i 2onelTypdding , numbi4a. '„ L. Mulnagornevmthrig)* tivhdo-Toeidayl;mblrholcla.vatSiCto;aom mencement exerclies'and the intalgti ratlon of the president At ,nine=' forty-five o'clock the commencement' procession wall form an front of Mc- Allaster Hall and wall advance to the front campus led by the band. Following Doctor Hetsel's inaugur ation, the president will deliver his insugmal address after which degrees will be conferred The Auditorium will be used in case of inclement wea ther The Senate luncheon to the trustees and the speaker of the day will be held at twelve-thirty o'clock at the Centt e Hills Country club. THIS SPACE RESERVED FOR SCHLOW'S QUALITY SHOP All Interested in Sciences May Enroll—Plan to Hold Daily Conferences AMERICAN AND FOREIGN AUTHORITIES TO LECTURE Courses in physical chemistry, col loids and catalysts, daily conferences and evening lectures by outstanding chemists will be included in the pro giam of the Institute of Chemistty here this summer. Teacheis of science may enroll for these courses and at the same time benefit by the special lectures given in connection with them. Graduate students may sign up for the courses and obtain credit for advanced de grees. Professional chemists will be offered the opportunity of conferring with leadeis in widely different lines or u Daily Schedule Classes will be held in the morning until elm en o'clock at which time daily conferences will be held The courses will be very intensive, pro gleaning from , Matter and Energy" up through atomic structure. In the afternoons the laboratories will be I used lon tests There will be lectures in the evening by some of the more prominent members of the faculty during which there will be popular piesentation of chemical subjects It is the. plan of the committee in charge to have a number of moving pictures showing different methods used in the up-to-date factories. Among the prominent lecturers are E. Ii Hideo], Cambridge university, England; J. C Drummond, Vice-dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University College, London; Hans Tropsch Coal Research Institute, Muhlheim-Ruhr, Germany; Jean Pic card, University of Lausanne, Swit zerland, James Kendall of the Fellows Royal Society, Dean of the Graduate School, N Y. U , H. S Taylor, Prince tor university; H. N. Holmes, Oberlin college; Emma P Carr, Mt. Holyoke, and L. II Germer, Bell Telephone Laboratories. Ono of the advantages cf the Inst . - tote is that students by ern the six-weeks' course can receive ac ademic credit for their work and in the meantime will be able to come in contact with some of the great chem. ids of the world. The men students will live in fra ternity houses during the session and .to accommodate them eight houses On Locust Lane have-been secured Tho Institute will be made of two groups, those who will take the full course and those who will be present only while the subjects in which they are inteiested one being discussed. Players Present "The Doter Road' at Commencement Peanut Butter ICE CREAM GREGORY'S CANDYLAND COLLEGE MEN LIKE SNAPPY SPORT WEAR - Blazers . . $7.50 to $15.00 Knickers (plus fours and straight eights) . . $3,00 to $7.50 Sweaters . . . . $5.00 Golf Hose . $1.50 to $lO.OO White . Oxford Shirts . $2.00 Sport Shoe. 4 . $6.50 to $12.00 Do not tail to. see our window display. M. R OM M Opposite Front Campus Tuesday, May 24, 1927 DEAN SACKETTTO Wag - i AT A. S: M. E. CONVENTION i Profs. Hechler and Hornaday Will Also Give Talks at Annual Conclave Dean R. L. Sackett and Professors F. G. Heckler and J. R. Hornaday of the School of Engineering will par take in 'the program of tire spring meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers at White Sul phut Springs, West Virginia, May twenty-fburth to twenty-seventh Dean Sackett will discuss a paper dealing with Oho General, Metrics, Institute of Technology, and expects to describe the experiments carried on at State College concerning fuel oil spray noz zles lot Diesel engines. Professor Heckler still read a paper prepared by Professor A. J. Nicholas of the mechanical engineering depart ment on various kinds of standard Con meters and will present a discus sion by Professor P H Schweitzer 01 the Engineering Experiment Sta tion.. Professor Hornaday is schedul ed to deliver a paper in which he makes a compel mon of the design of various small refrigerating units Inc using, most of the known refrigerants. "Old Mail' Bell" Now On Sale at Town Shops (Continued from first imge) led, "Lipstick and Osculatory Tech nique " The sea cover design consists of a target cut of Old Main with a portion of the campus m the foreground. An ornamental herder surrounds this drawing. 1711477 Z- -, Nittany Theatre TUESDAY—Matinee at 2 00) Syd Chaplin in "THE BETTER 'OLE" Special Prices: Adults 50c. Children 25c TUESDAY—NAtany— Pauline Starke. On en Moore, Lionel Barrymore in "WOMEN LOVE DIAMONDS" , WEDNESDAY— All Star Cast in t "COLLEGE DAYS" - ETEMETZ Florence Vidor in 'THE WORLD AT lIER FEET Also Mack Sennett Comedy IMEMZI Harry Langdon in "Ills FIRST FLAME" Alva Hal Roach Comedy / and Cartoon FRlDAY—Natany STARK, BRSI .tbercla'shers-
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