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Venn State Collegian
Published serni , weekly during the College year by stcdent3
et the Pennsylvania State College, in the interests of the
College, the students, faculty, alumni and friends.
THE EXECUTIVE BOARD
WIIFF.I I.R LORD, JR '2B
P. M. AThINSON '214
C. F FLINN' '2B
THE EDITORIAL STAFF
WIIFM.FR Lonn, In. '2S
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11' S. TitomsoN '2B
I' R. SNI tii.l7. '2B
NEWS EDITORS
L H Bell, Jr. '29
11 E. Hoffman '29
F.. 1. Lanni '29
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FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1027
A good name is earned by fair play, square
dealing, and good sportsmanship in the classroom,
on the athletic field and in all other College rela
tions. We earnestly desire that this spirit become
a tradition at Penn State
TO THE TRACKIVIEN
Penn State's track team meets Pittsburgh on
New Beaver Field tomorrow. The occasion means
more than battle with an old rival; it means the
home-coming of the greatest track team that the
Blue and White has mer had Since Nate Cartmell
has assumed the coach's position, Penn 'State track
athletics base gone forward at a rapid pace. Last
Saturday came the climax. Penn State finished sec
and only to Stanford in the Intercollegiate cham
pionships at Philadelphia
. It is no more than justice to congratulate the
men that have made Penn State's track team the
most formidable in the east, and to Coach Cartmell,
to the three champions, Al, Bates, Marian Ide, and
Bill 'Cos, to Bartholomew, Mathias and Filkins, to
Captain Stewart and his athletes, the entire student
body extends its congratulations We will cheer
and honor them tomorrow and forever
THE JUNIOR MARSHALS
When proud fathers and mothers, sisters and
brothers. relatives and friends gather at the Com
mencement exercises on the front campus on Tues
day, June fourteenth, they will be conducted to their
seats by any one of ten men chosen trom the Junior
class who have been honored with appointments as
Junior marshals,
The ten marshals, selected by the president of
Student Council as men who will be prominent in
campus affairs nest year, will be the inaugurators
of a new precedent At many colleges and univer
sities throughout the country where the system is
now in vogue, it is annually proving its merits The
custom is simply a tribute by the graduating class
to ten Juniors who have been recognized for some
form of campus activity At the coming Commence
ment ceremonies, the ten men` of the class of .1928
will blaze the way for'the 411Mb:hop/of:the brandrix
custom of Junior marshals 'With each phisirrg4 , ear,
the new custom will grow, becoming more, and more,
enriched in tradition
"SEE! HERE THEY COME!"
Sec , lime they come!
Mme proud than puismA ants, sly as confeszar3,
With steps scholastic and with time w3.n pow a^,
The andmplid, soect, spectacled profescot^.
—A nS,l,lntOit4
There have been indications of late that many
of the more daring professors at Penn State have
realized the follies of their craft and have endeavor
ed to rid themselves of them. Already the alert
students have discovered tendencies, significant and
disturbing, among professors whom they have grown
accustomed to regard as irreproachably staid, that
make one revise original opinions. Most disquiet.
ing among the new movements of the professors is
the undercurrent of hatred (toward final examina
tions) that daily becomes more perceptible. The
professors are no longer enthusiastic about final
examinations In fact some of them have even gone
so far as to give a quiz, sometimes two quizzes, the
week before the finals, and then benevolently dis
pense with the final examination. Obviously this
is unfair It places the other professors in a had
light. It spoils the show It kills that lively interest
which students have been led to expect from the
climax of the term's work. Even among the under
classmen it is spoken of as a dirty trick.
The worst of it is that if it keeps up final ex
aminations will disappear, quietly and without sus
picion of a ripple. But we are afraid it won't keep
up. Sooner or later finals will be restored to their
former position, and then Heaven help us! For we
believe that the present system of final examinations
has, with its originators, become tan assumed,'as far
as circumstances have permitted, an aggressive and
antagonistic attitude toward all that is as poisonous
and useless as are the systems of gradings now in
use. For years the COLLEGIAN has argued bitterly
for a new test•tment of edileation• if we must have
finals, ler us have ,tricter entiance requirements
And what has happened is history nothing has evci
happened.
rho SIM:1[1011 is indeed a sad one, calling as it
does for copious tears, gnashing of teeth, and at
times various and rather violent excoriation, %erg
mg. it is lamentable to admit, on murder. . And
who gets the, blame for it' , The professors. his
is an even sadder case. but often. unfortunately, Vie
facts bear it out What student among us has es
caped from the clutch of those tremendous individ
uals who under the pretext of instruction, stuff up
the channels of vouth with their pedantic sewage
and close forever the stream of youth's romantic
gallantry , Some young men rebel, but the majority
arc lost, irrevocably, and arc doomed to continue
into life with that listless philosophy which only a
petrified, professoric mind is capable of producing.
And at the end of four years we are released with
a good natured smile and diploma and all the bles
sings that infallible final examinations can give ; we
are released—from what. From a brewery of edu
cation, from an institute where learning is a keg of
beer, where the professor is the spigot, and where
the student is the stein. Bottoms up'
President
Vice-Piesident
Ts ensures
Editor-in-Chief
Ass•stnnt Editor
Managing Editor
Associate Iti,n
Associate Editot
II P Mileham
L. Thtstlter
it. G Westetheld
13usine=s Managcl
Athertiging Ingo ,
Circulation Manaaci
lEEE=
It is somewhat of a disappointment to be abed,
to strike anything seemingly caught whcie escape
is impossible and then to have that object slip from
one's grasp. But that's just spat happened last
week—the object was tama-filled roads and CY:,
weapon was no other than the typewriter that aids
in the placing of thoughts in this column
When our nose and eyes informed us that ir
regularly•surfaced roads were bathed in a covering
of flesh, pungent tar, we were about to proclaim
that the "tar-babies" were slightly tardy in the mat
ter of repairing the roads Because more visitors,
in the next ten days, will journey osei the highways
that run around and through the campus than has
been the case since Alumni Homecoming last fall, it
seemed slightly foolish to apply the taryia at this
late date Timely rains. however, served to mash
away all elements of the oil that had combined to be
come a nuisance and the greatness of the "blunder"
I diminished
Later on it was learned that last year the roads
were oiled exactly three days belore Commencement.
This fact changed what had been thought to be a
blunder into a sire move Even at that, however,
the ideal time would seem to be about the first part
of May for the repairing and oiling of campus roads
The Bullosopher's Chair 1
"I got a genuine thrill yesteid,iy, Smithers, when I
sass a two-cent stamped envelope addressed in this m^ii
nei• 'To The Editois of the Collegian and the Ulm
of the Bullosopher's Chair.' I almost shouted vath glee—
here, I thought, mould contain the lambing, of an nate
leader of someone Wing to pill me cut of tins et cal}
chair of Bullosophy "
Smilher,—Dal Nola open the letter?
"Certainly. And I rerut it Salewin thought.
Then I lead it aglin SARCASM The communicatmn
WAS all type-nritten, men the ending alrch was, 'Co-i
-giatulations flan, seven al readeis ' ".
Simthe, —Wasn't the letter signed '
"No, and fox that lesson it cannot be pi toted Do
yen boon that at the top of the editorial column there
is a par= aph specifically stat,g that 'all communica
tions must beat the name of the sender' And it is always
andel ..tood unit the ul der man also sign a nom do plume
in add ton to ins• regulat name if he does not Is t.,h his
ightful name ti oc connected with the comma ' , cation
In spite of lb 't fact, the few people who do take the
tletiale to sena in a tommunication are alv. ay s hesitant
to sign then n me even though they kno, that it will
not accempany the at tide if they do not so desire"
"Well, I neat up to the New Benner courts to play
tennis again today lot the love of the game, you bnon."
Smitherc —What's remarkable about that, Bullosopher
"I merch Ysent up there I found that all the courts
Isere in use but seseral of them nere not populated by
Pear State students Instead, many of the children from
the town were batting the ball back and faith m gloat glee
ethnic a mamba of College students tot sidled their thumbs
or the sidelines wading for playing space on then own
courts , , I
Smitbersil.LSoinething certainly should be done t 6 'permit
those for whom the courts are intended to get the full
benefits front them.
GIFTS
for the
GRADUATE
PEN and PENCIL SETS
of Standard Make
BOOKS
A Complete Stock of the
New General Books and Fiction
of All Publishers
STATIONERY
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LEATHER GOODS
GREETING CARDS
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WHAT DOES IT MATTER?
F-L,1,114 STATE COLLEiriAlq
PROFESSOR SAILS
ON EUROPEAN TRIP
W. L. Henning Will Make Study
Of Livestock Methods
Of Old World
GOVERNMENT MAY USE
INVESTIGATION RESULTS
Freq. R L Henning, sheep special
ist of the mums' hu,bandry deport
ment, sailed for Europe from New
Yolk Gas Sunda) to make a special
In estot h study in Ci eat Britain dur
ing the summer.
Prufcssm Henning 1,11 he accom
panied by Prof Charles S Plumb, for
met head of the animal husbandry de
partment of Ohio State unmeisity and
non president of the American-South-
down Breeders' association Prof.?,
so, Henning is secretary-treasurer of
• the organwation and a former pupil
oi Piofe,sor Plumb.
These two specialr,ts in sheep hut
bandry will spend most of then time
and attention on sheep and stool pre-.
duction and marketing in the mane
home of the mutton breeds in Eng
land Some time will be demoted to I
Scotland and Leland, and it is prob.,
able that they will include a short
hip to the Continent for a yisit to
leading Rambouillet hr ceder s rs
Flamm and Germany They me not
specialimng, ,1 any one breed, but
a ill slsit lending breeders of all the
mutton groups, and a special report
or the study will be made available
for the use of the United States De
psi tment of Agriculture
Pi ofes=ors Plumb and Henning will
also attend the leading livestock shorts
or Great Britain. Among them are
lho Throe Counties fair at Worcester,
the Royal Show at Nev.poit, the Kant
Show at Seyenoaks and the annual
Southdown Show and Sale at Clvehes
tei
At the Royal Stint, they will meet
Di 11. H Hayner and Prof II G
N resles, Penn State extension special
ist^ who are making a special study
at Its cstock methods and agiicultural
co-opeintise movements on the Con
tinent at the present time
Throw Off
That Lazy
Feelin,g), .
Spring Tonics
to
Brace Up
Your• System
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ROOM 106, UNIT B
, imArrcH THIS AD
Thespians Will Stage"
Commencement Show
(Continued from first page)
good seats The same Thespian Gs
chestre that has plat ed during the
tithes pci foi =aces adl rendes sex eral
numbers during each act Next week
these will be a final rehearsal of the
coined , . td insane a good interpreta
tion
This will he the last undergradu
at., appearance of S C. Runkle, J. L
Nelson, W C Aonent, C. B Cramp.
.1 E Keehan, C. W. Nile and Al FL
inn, it>, president of the club
Tho Thespian orgrnmation has been
lLghly successful this Near, finnnc•ally
and otherwise. One of the stage
managers of the Penn Athletic club
said that, of the several college ploys
that he saw this year, "Cut Want.ld"
ions the best.
Commencement Events
Cover Five-day Period
(Continued from first page)
Monday, June thirteenth, will be
the busiest day for the witnesses .f
the graduation eseicises, ten events
bring on schedule foi that day. The
Monday proceedings will begin early
r, rth seven Class Day exercise•, in
the open-air theatre nine &elf,.
in the morning The annual meeting
of the Alumni association is sched-
Wed for the Auditorium a half hour
v bile activities NI, ill meet a bile!'
halt at noon when the Alumni group
holds its luncheon on the front earn
' pus
Class stunts will initiate the event
piogram of the afternoon after the
class parade to New Braver Field
he 4l ; X : 611 mite
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Not a
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starting at one-thirty *o'clock. Ant
hem Inter, the V arsity , and Alumni
baseball nines will stage their annual
tilt on New Beaver Field.
The College will receive alumni ,
members and visiting patents at four-1
thirty the same afternoon ,)
sibile alumni members, seniors and.
guests will be dined at Mac Allister
Hall. Combined musical clubs will
hold then concert in the Auditorium
nt eight o'clock in the evening Front
nine-thirty to ten-thirty o'clock there
will be a commencement reception in
tho Armory for alumni, faculty, sen
iors, Aim., candidates for advanced
degrees and guests, while a formal
dance at the same place lasting until
two o'clock will cap the day's events
Tuesday still end the commencement
activities The commencement pro
cession, fmming in front or Mac Allis
ter Hall and marcling to the front
campus under the leadership of the
College band, will begin at nine forty
five in the morning At ten o'clock,
President Hetrel still be installed for
mall), With Judge H. Walton Mitchell,
inesident of the Board of Trustees,
offering the induction.
Many notables, including Governor
,John S Fishei, who will administer
! the oath of office, still be present at
the esercises Following the inaug
ma! eddies,. by President Iletze), de
grees will be conferred at Old Main or
in the Audito”um in case of inclem
ent weather.
Thu Senate luncheon, scheduled foi
the Centte Hills country club, nno
to huh will be celebrated at twelve
thirty o'clock, is the concluding num
ber of the si‘ty-seventh annual com
mencement eveleises at Penn State.
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loriduy, June 3, 1927
IProfessor Battenhouse
Writes Book on Bible
(Continued from first page)
This is Professor Battenhouse's
reventh yeas at Penn State teaching
classes in Biblical literature. his
comses are entirely elective, and dur
ing the past seven! years have shown
a marked increase in enrollment.
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Nittany Theatre
METZ
Ftrot Penna. Shoring of
Marion Davies in
"TILLIE TILE TOILER"
"mg Boy" Comedy
FRlDAY—Nittany 2
Mors Astor, William Collier, Jr., in
"THE SUNSET DERBY"
SATURDAY—(Matmee m case of m
clement weather)
Leatrme Joy in
"VANITS"
Fo% Rene and Fable
SATURDAY—Nittany—
"TILLIE THE TOILER
MONDAY and TUESDAY—
(Matinee Monday)
First Penna. Shoning of
Lon Clause), Joan Cranford in
"THE UNICNOWN"
Added Attraction
Special Fos Neon devoted entirely to
pictures of Lindbergh's arrhal in Paris
and
Sportlight
Special Prices:
Adults 10c.. Chi Mien Tic.
TUESDAY—Cathrium—
First Penna Shooing of
Marceline Da), Lars Tlonson in
"CAPTAIN SALVATION"
STARK BROS.
Haberdashers
'ln the Univers:ty Manncr"