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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1927
THE GREAT GOOD DINE
Just how lucky freshmen are not even the sopho
mores pretend to know. It is a fact, however, that
the freshman has it all over the sophomore, in com
parison with the upperclassmen, too, the fresnmcn
loses nothing (except his liberty), he is happier than
the junior and more intelligent than the senior____
That is why he gets paddled. If you do not believe
that the freshman is intelligent, look at the next one
you meet Examine him closely. Of all the men on
the campus he is the most assured. And if happiness
cannot pass as intelligence, very certainly assurance
may—if it is not too cocksure
We have said that the freshman loses his liberty
—at least that freedom which he has long been
accustomed to expect. But oh the compensation of
that loss! The first year is always the best, whether
because of the dink no one can say with safety; most
people believe it helps And at the close of the year
when the freshmen burn their dinks. there are always
several first-year men (happy word) who covertly
hide dinks in their pobleets and place them (when
no one is looking) in the bottom of their trunks
Carefree, sure of the constancy of his associates,
and haply ignorant of their inadequacies, the fresh
man runs rent, (seventy-five cent word) a quaint
being The subject of much abuse, he is also the
object of much admiration In the arts of chiseling
he is ignorant, in the craft of bluff he is a baby
He will be (if he is a "good" freshman) loyal
to his classmates, loyal to his college, loyal to his
ideals. And if he be wise as well as good he will re
spond to the traditions of Penn State with good will
As the days pass he will come to know Penn State
just as his predeccessors have come to know it; he
will feel that to be a Penn State man means first of
all to be honest and unafraid and steadfast.
"COLLEGE YELL, PREXY! ! !"
Ssssss' Booni' Ali' Coo!
Yell' Yell' Yell! Yell'
We're fiem the land of Wllham Penn!
State' Stole' State'
Whlskum!luun.
lield 'cm' Pcnnay State!,
PROXY! PROXY! PROXY!
The echos of this stirring yell were ;stall rever
berating, across the front campus when President
Hetzel, decidedly surprised but certainly pleased,
rose to hisi feet and sincerely thankeUthe assembled
gathering of graduating seniors and alumni of Penn
State for their tribute The occasion was the Class
Day exercises last June President Ralph Dorn Hetzel
had been "officially" accepted by the student body.
A busy summer has passed Another college
year is about to start At what will be the beginning
of its seventy-third year, Penn State is guided by a
new Captain. This means that although President
Hetzel is witnessing for the initial time the commenc
ing of a new college year here at Penn State, he is
certainly no newcomer to its ways and faults, nor is
he a stranger to returning members of the three
upper classes. Just as members of the three return
ing classes learned—and quickly—that to know Doc
tor Hetzel is to know a friend and advisor so will
members of the incoming Class of 1931 intuitively
recognize that in the Preky—Penn State has a rare
leader; one who would only too willingly step down
to be one of them—democratic. As the wheels of
another college year start turning, thirty-seven hun
dred students salute Doctor Hetzel as a "real" Pro.y.
GOING! GOING! GONE!
• Compulsory chapel has gone. It has gone the
Way of umbrellas, upperclass headgear, and bicycles
Like all nuisances compulsory chapel aroused a dis
turbance that far exaggerated its actual imtortance.
Finally, after years of vehement arguments, most
of which were nonsensical, the Board of Trustees
surrendered—as the phrase goes—to arguments
similarly vacuous Do not misunderstand. No hoax
has been played upon anyone It is simply that the
spectacle of learned and grave omnipotent.% ponder
ing over a matter which obviously was a small one,
should have gone on without pause year after year
until even sophomores wearied of the subject.
' In the ordinary course of events we should have
prostrated ourselves in gratitude; students ten years
ago would have burst into yells and started bon
fires. But the times have altered customs; and the
authorities hitherto years behind the times have sud
denly galloped years ahead of them. It is an unusual
sight, we are thankful for it. But until ue know
whether classes care moved to eight o'clock as a
mnttsr of conveniece or as a matter Of saving one's
face, we shall have to content ourselves by hanging
our heads in gratitude
In doing away with the present compulsory
chapel e•ercises, the administration has asked stud
ents to suggest a solution; it was not chapel attend
ance itself that was objectionable, but the compulsory
element in it. That has been removed: though arbi
trary Sunday chapl remains, the abolition of the
daily form must be counted as a huge concession to
student opinion. What then have the students to
offer as substitute' , A voluntary attendance
President
Vlce,Prestdent
Editor-in-Chief
Assistant Editor
Managing Editor
Assoc•ate Editor
Associate Edith!.
The opening of any college in any locality is
always accompanied by the usual ballyhoo that the
Institution is on the threshold of an era of prosperity,
that the following sears will mean years of progres
sive strides forward, that the particular college
generation is fortunate indeed to be undergraduates
at such a period. If the various college newspapers
in institutions of higher learning throughout the
United States do not herald this "era of prosperity,"
then the college officials do It seems to be tradition
al with the opening of the college year Probably ev
ery college and its undergraduate followers have an
nually listened to this same old story. Penn State
is no exception.
When the Class of 1928 were nothing less than
bewildered freshmen, they heard it When, years
ago, the Class of 1909 were tortunate (although they
would not have used that word at the time) to be at
the.threshold of their college career, they heard it
And now the Class of 1931 will listen to the same
tune. One word of advice, before the yarn about
the prosperity ballyhoo is accepted Do the seniors
believe it"
Business Manager
Ads ertis mg Manager
Circulation Manager
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Penn State, within the last six. months, placed
itself in a position where it will soon become one of
the great educational institutions in this country. For
many years it has been threatening to do that very
thing—but always there has arisen an unlooked-for
barrier that proved unsurmountable. Without any
ceremony the college began its upward trend some
time around last January For those who find inter
est in coincidences, we might mention that President
Hetzel came down from the White Mountains of New
Hampshire just about that time
Within the last few months several personages
throughout the commonwealth—previously h;bitually
at odds with the College—have suddenly found it
to their interests to hop on the band-wagon. They
heat their drums and became Penn State's friends
All of which is an indication, oren though slight,
I that prosperity and its accompanying happy days is
hovering around the Nittany Valley
A second indication that Penn State has started
to move-up was the granting by Governor Fisher,
whose devotion and loyalty to Penn State has always
been of the highest, of a four million dollar appro
priation for the bi-ennial, 1927-29 In this case the
cold figures speak for themselves.
A third indication and the greatest, one who has
played an unseen part in the first and second is Pres
ident Hetzel Since assuming his duties here in
January, Doctor Hetzel has labored, unceasingly in,
order that Penn State may ascend to its proper po
sition. That his efforts will be rewarded one only has
to wait tar one, two cr three years for the one answer,
in the affirmative.
Do the seniors believe that Penn State is at last
on its upward trend Without a doubt. If they do
not, they have not heard of the building program
and e\ pansicn policy and if they have not heard of
that, then they arc not in College. Yes, the seniors
believe that Penn State's immediate future is bright.
And when a senior believes, then almost anything
can happen
The Bullosopher's Chair
"1 call your attention to the faLt, Smithois, that
anothei benie4tei has begun, that athletic scholarships
have gone the wii* of Poste! Night, that compulsory
chapel has been 'suspended'"
Smithers•—whoopee'
Penn State!
Agaml
"And that Doctor Iletzel has been ,eleomed by the
udent body "
Smithers:—ls that. so?, Do that Prexy new"
01l luM,Prday tas',if.ithdy/me'nnt, it. More
thaw' ever the duty of every Penn State man to
honor his President ht saluting him. An old sustom, it
has bceome not un obligation abut an inclination Prexy
Haze , is the kind of man one instinetively'warms to."
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nit! be under construction within
i-,ixtv days. This hospital will be lo
cated on the east side of the road
hailing to Ag hill and near
Lodge and the residence Of Dr..l
Ititenour, a director of the health
screw°. Containing kitcienn, oper
lat.ng rooms, special treatmhkrounia
and nineteen beds. the new hospital
r~dl rani any' model' h college'mflrni
ary.
It is planned to care for"onlY ser
.e.is cases of illness"in the hospital
and to treat the more trividl•affec
tins in. the dispensary- which be
'located in Old Main after tlii-lituld
ing is iemodeled.
Dining the' surome, months. the
Auditoiium' has been redecofmtba:and
iepaired The entire inside was re
juvenated, the walls and ceilyig being
painttd and the woodwork varnished
Because of a loosening of the bricks
which permitted water to elder, the
tram° cornice was repaired The ex
tcrim of the structure'uill barpainted
soon
The remodeling. of Old Main will
be delayed for a year, because of , a
lack of space fot the administrative
'offices The present Arshory and „the
new engineering unit •may tifer? be
used foi office space, , -
Buildings which are to be built bu
d. include an addition to the Pond
Laboratory, a biological-science unit,
a sheep barn, a livestoclt hosintal, a
poultry brooder house and an addition
to the dany barn
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Hello Freshmen!
::: You sAIII want book-ends, *ate . .f c
. ..f. baskets, floor' lanips, pictures 1.
...f. and other items to make your '..
* room attractive. We hate them '..1:
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vercoats,J,,,
Stetson
Crawford Knapp
Schoble
Emerson and
COnirigham Hats
OppoSite Front Campus
I .'Grid Gossip 1
That littleprivate talk of confidence
that President Het.] delivered to the
squad immediately barna he played
hide-and-seek using to shake hands
with some of the senior Rudders cer
tainly must have been numiring, for
no sooner had the footballers return
ed to the field than Alll6lVolfe made
a long run for one of the three touch
'downs registered. ,
——o—
Bes has been emulating Cecil B. de
Mille, et. al. with his megaphone and
field chairs. And to hear him "telling
the boys" for the past few dam one
would think the assail was producing
slow mbtion pictures instendl'if the
super-action Ber. desires
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Diiring one of his corrective sPellh
Tuesday, the L on mentor prompted
Diumerlield and Roepke when they
had apparently made u glaring mis
take in a practise play. The dramatic
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Entertainmerit Course
Offers Wide Program
(Continued from first page)
Jn the evening of December ninth
the Zimmer Harp Trio, consisting of
Nellie Zimmer, ,Louise Harris and
Gladys Crockford, will offer musical
:selections. Miss Nellie Zimmer is too
soloist of the, trio. Accol ding Lo
leading
,newspapers of the country
the i Tim provide a program of
high class entertainment
Scientist Lectures,
Margaret Hamilton. acclaimed as
the leading pianist of the future, will
pliy• a number of mualcal selections an
January twelfth. A pleasant surprise
is the announcement that 'Dr E E.
Si son, director of Science Service,
Washington, D. C. will lecture Ht
is known as one of the most versatile
STUDENTS
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Florsheim
Crawford
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men in the country, being a teat
chemist, author, educator and o to
The Penn Slate Glee Club will of
a pi ogi am of well balanced vocal
lee:ions as ore of the numbers of
COUISC.
The Floncolv Quartet, acclai
the outstanding stung quartet of
entertsin March third
Apiil tuentv-first Geoffrey O'H
noted as the conmoset of "K
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Katy" mill speak as the last num
of the Cosine He has achieved
pute as an author, composer
speaker.
Nittany Theatre
munsDAl--
Lois Wilson, George K. Arthur
"THE GINGHAM GIRL"
FRIDAY—
Virg:nia Nalig George O'Brien
"PAID TO LOVE"
SATURDAY—
Milian Silk In
`HARD-DOMED lIAGERTY
Fe: Neils and Fable
EXESSE
011‘e Borden in
"TIM JOY GIRL"
FON Nees and Sporthght
ILILe Do, in
'THE STOLEN BRIDE
' TUESDAY—N.Hany
Return Shoo ing of
Jack Mulhall, Charlie Murray
'THE POOR NUT'
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