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Penn _State Collegian
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R. M. ATKINSON '2B
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1927
CUSTOMS-OVER-EMPHASIZED!
Unless something in the nature of en idea'hits
the seven men who do all the thinking for Student'
Conned, the class of 1931 will see its successors re
ceiving diplomas on matriculating (as an alumnus
suggests) and replacing the faculty on graduating
This, some seriously point out, would not be a bad
move. Nevertheless, we object to it, at the risk of
being damned as conservatives we object to it To
us customs base seemed imp)rtant rot merely be-1
cause our predecessors have believed in them but be
cause they have appealed to us And it strikes us
that if the majority of the students now attending
Penn State are convinced that freshmen should have
to obey certain rules, that seniors should be entitled
to certain privileges then Student Council should
follow that opinion—or at least acknowledge it out
of sheer courtesy and sentiment Instead, a group of
self-styled wise men last year dictated a revolt and
called the resulting confusion, student government.
Evidently there is a struggle between tyranny pod'
democracy with a declaration of independence hang
ing in the offing What surprises us most is that it
has been hanging so long The failure of the stu
dent governors to realize that a feeling of resent
ment emsts at their high-tanded measures last year, [
indicates either that they are asleep or are merely
overlooking it out of convenience One of these ,
days an outraged mob will storm the Libel al Arts
Bastile to inform their representatives that if there
is any revolting to be done they, the students, will
do it Some of them will carry clubs. The debate
will be general So will the fight Student Council'
will attempt to lay the blame on the Trhunal, or bet
ter yet on the students themsekes, for failing to
report the guilty ones But the students will yell
bunk, and carry the fight to the finish.
To some, , perhaps, our attitude scents a bit se
vere To others it may appear prejudiced As a
matter of fact we don't give a hang We arc of the
opinion that students mati mutating at Penn State
have not in the space of a year reached the point ,
where they can do without customs—and a custom
less institution is the current ballyhoo Freshmen
appear to us no more intelligent than the-freshmen
of d year ago, and the [Vaulty ha . ; reported no inda•
catinns , of billhance—certainly none whatever et
halo_ Yet there is the insistence by a few that the
experiments of Move-up Day, 'alreadi wobbly 'With
abuse, be made permanent Even the alumni have
noticed the difference a year has made in college
spirit and are deploring it, satirically, with the sug
gestion that the facu'ty be made to wear clinks Very
obviously tradition is on its last legs, and even these
are bow-legged
HACK TO THE TOP
If Penn State teams continue rang up victor
ies as they have been doing in the past two weeks, it
will became platitudinous for as much as to hint that
the college is "up there," athletically speaking Cer
tainly the Nittany Lion has come into its own, pro
viding, incidentally, metaphors (of doubtful quality)
for avid newspaper reporters. A comeback ahimvs
wins the heart of the people. And the Nittany Lion,
as Pennsylvania and Syracuse—and mayhap Lafay
ette—will attest, has come back
What a change the past two weeks have
,seen l
Shrouded in gloom after a heart-breaking defeat,
both the student body and the team have emerged
not only hopeful and courageous, but victorious
None of your arrogant, puffed up braggadocio, but
a hearty fighting spirit has prevailed. There have
been better football teams than the present Penn
State eleven, there have been none gamer. And by
the same token the spirit of the undergraduates has
flamed as valiantly Three years the students waited
without more than one really major victory. and
though a losing spell is inevitable in all colleges—for
details consult Harvard—few college student bodies
have exhibited the faith that Penn State undergrad
uates have shown in their team and its coach, now
hailed as a miracle man. But it's old stuff for "Bez '
Last season gave indications that Penn State
was to resume its place at the top. Its cross-country,
soccer and boving teams won intercollegiate cham
pionships, its track team finished second in the great
intercollegiate title event, its basketball and baseball
teams ranked among the best in college ranks. Only
the football team remained below par And so long
its its eleven did not come up to its usual position,
many were prone to overlook the achievements of
it, (1111er etl l tic but the. yew the Blue trio
White ,et ant to make i clean sweep Already its
ele,en has bowled over two hitherto undefeated
teams Already its crrs.•country sgaud has been
hailed as "the greatest team in the country today."
Already the soccer team i. rolling up new records.
Surely it is a Penn State year
President
Vice-President
Treasurer
FOR FRESHMEN ONLY
It will be of interest to the freshmen (we Hatter
ourselves) to learn that tomorrow night the COL
LEGIAN will ask candidates for,its editorial staff to
report for their initial meeting. It will be of more
than usual interest, because more than the usual
number of freshmen have professed an interest in
the craw of journalism
Editor-in-Chief
~assistant Editor
Managing Editor
As . soctate Edger
Associate Editor
11 1 3 Itllleham
L :‘lltstlfer '29
The pate the freshman reporter must follow is,
an easy one As some have cruelly stated, anvonel
can learn to wide—for the COLLEGIAN. This
barb while more or less influenced by the mconren
mimes the president of the Humpty Dumpty Club
suffers weep a reporter rouses him three times a,
week by telephone, has in it a sting of truth Any
_freshman of ordinary intelligence am "make" the
staff—alas' mats will say But faculty members
tell us that during his apprenticeship the freshman
reporter will learn considerably more about the En
glish language than he can possibly absorb in the
classroom.
In these days when liberalism and conservatism
come to grips frequently enough to support a dozen
worthless publications, there arises inevitably the ac-"
cusation that the authorities of colleges—especially'
of state colleges—arc placing their 'hands over the
newspaper editor's mouth el,ery time he opens it to
speak We know, despite Mr Bertrand Russell's ob
servations, of at least one state college where the
editor's mouth and the authorities' hands are very
far apart. Nothing that the COLLEGIAN has ever
wished to print has ever been kept from its columns,
e'cept by the student journalists themselves
Howeser, if Mr Russell is wrong he is interest
ing He says "In the private universities it is the
wishes of the millionaires from -whom they seek en
dowments In the state universities it is the par
sons" This is the first time (if Mr Russell's gener
alization includes us) that we have been informed
that preachers run this college About the only evi
dence we base of this sart of thing is in the clergy
men's vehement denunciation of the Sundae blue
law—and even there the authiarities don't listen to
them, darn it
---.L lthtstder
-H. P. 11Itlehnin
The Bullosopher's Chair
"What uould happen, Smithms. if the football man
ngcn resigno I because he preferred an 'A' in Biblical Tat
natal° to an S' in football?"
Smithers:—Sincc you mention it, Bullosopher, I should sat
hat the manager would be regarded as mentally unsound
Ir the first place ,h} shated he be studying Biblical Lit
erature Jr the .ccond place why .hould'he'prefer an 'A'
to an 'S" And en the tlyid place what difference does
it make'
"It it Is true thnt more than si‘ty percent of the
.enrol class rt. bel. In tissue points, %%hat Is the faculty
going to do about It?" I
1;12Mliff=11!I
"Well what do Non think it will do"'
Smithers melds an undoignaduate, Bullosopher,
Ido pot knoss. Howes el, assuming myself in the posession
of a desk a”d a giev beard. I should ads oeate that the
faciet , , get the welt es a *stem less likely to prove n
hoomcinnp, Is half of the semen class doesn't graduate
the lnnf• will be in the thickens of a hv. The classrooms
v ho ohoked The loot, uctois won't hone the tune
cake, fo. a round ot golf of a cocktail ,Anyway you look
at_it it seems to be a bad baigain
"But •e l 'ela' =hip Soothe., is to he maintained at
nh em'l Etlaeatan , w ith toots coo know, in less objection
aLlo than e lu,atiso with greased gvides "
Smithers —lto' a the faculty Is ishes to I:alse thel9tan3l 2
artl - y or adopt t 3 stOglif,iev.l
en 11„ tioetd t ptramg gerule , intteAteof 'clickernig around
with 1 , system that confuses even cleans and makes reg.: ,
,trar- blubber?
' Why doese't the faculty resign"
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SPECIAL REDUCTION
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It will pay you to visit our store.
HARRY SAUERS
Allen St. State College
MR. RUSSELL AND WE
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Letter
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Edith, s dollemon,
Deat Sns•
Time was when the removal of the
bat, like the Tinging of the Old Main
Bell, was reserved for sanctioned oc
casions such as meeting the funny
other-in-law, going to the barber,
of becoming a seniot But nowadays,
is keeping, :with the modern smut of
I navenile marriages, boss' week, infant
kings. etc., Immunity'from the derby
been granted to that particular
'group of sophisticants known as ju
mors
"Wu have to get used to it," is the
junior's gl'b apology for the infringe
ment; while the senior solemnly
chin ge: his loss of distinct , on to act
demo, charity and dismisses the mat-
I ter with a forced smile. The local
representatives of Mrs Dobbs and
1M: Stetson have offered only unbe
lievable mdd expositions, probably on
the theory that the senior finding Ins
Inn liege too common to be pleas,n
onto evil revert to the Fedora, and
Cosiness will be Just as good as usual.
Thus see find that through lack of re
futation rather than strength of in
1, titutior those collegians, who for the
decade immediately preceeding 1925
produced an annual blight in the form
or class hats, now have gone to the
apposite extreme and Present a nudity
which might sustain the charge of in
,kitent ex•posure.
Let the fact be Loosen that, bare
lieadedness was bestowed on the se
nior purely as a means of class dis
tinction, and neither logra nor loquaci
ty can support the extekgidp of his
esogatisa to a lower clitcs: - If the
tine, yearlings, fe'r" purities of hair
health, pompadour paradt • or easy
economy, find doffing a necessity, they
.:hould seek the non-confines beyond
the three mile Emit. shed the stray.,
and take a long nark. Anil if they"de
s.r., not to get too far Dom the Col
lege. they can walk in a click. But
a bald Amer promenading on Allen
street is as welcome a sight as a
fie:Liman on the front campus petting
out prettiest co-ed.
Mace-up Week has provided sulTi-
nt attendant evils in the form of
"mance, usurpation, and general
ealineas The embalming of the
mom' tam mill tend still further to
.bbtetate the hoes of class demarca
lon Gentlemen of Penn State, be
ware , Let not dawn that day when
^ matriculating freshman will he
awarded his diploma just so he can
get used to having it around.
GOOD WORK TEAM
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FORESTERS PLAN
SAWMILL DISPLAY
Will Study Action of Crawler
Tractor When Used For ,
Lumbering Work
ASSOCIATION WILL HOLD
ANNUAL'MEETING TODAY
With the intention of .-uneasing
their knowledge of pi count dny mcLII
c Is and practices in the =ow milling
industry, about seven hundred and
fifty Pennsylvania smsmlll reuse
senatises and nssneis arrive in State
College this neck-end foe the fou..h
annual ,Pnitable Sassraill Week
The convention comlua ed ander toe
auspices of the Forestry department
ass.sted by the depot tment of fum
machinetv officially opened in the
forestry, ssoodlot yesterday ssith a
study of scientific ssold-sawing meth
ods and nill close tomorrem afternoon
with the Lafayette-Penn State f ;et
lball game.
The protract contains many un
portant lectures and demonstrat'nnsl
of current problems confronting the
industry, as snail as studies of new
methods of opmatton and manage
ment In clung° of foul competent
:men the - daily demonstta.bons of a
filly equipped portably say null will
be the outstanding exhibition. Among
other impoitant featuies there will be
instruction in grading and sawing
t !umbel and methods of filling and fit
ting, sans.
Use of winches in extracting logs
from chuck holes and other more or
less inaccessible places, the operatam
jof classier type tractors, and of the
;rations poses UP its used in connce
/tcs with hurbming s'. ill be brought
Fire Insurance
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51.25 Pierce's Medicines 87c 4: 1
25c Bell-nos lie 3 : .1
$1.20 Sal Hepatica 93c je'
%mute, small 21e X
Zonite, medium 40c 4.
Creol4 medium . Alc :1:
Creolin, small . . 21c *.i:
Johnson's Powdered Wax
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for Dancing Floors ,i:
(largo size) 19c ji:
Mennen's Talc for men . 75c 3:
Borax, liirg . e size . lie' +
Burgs, small size . 9c 3:
Carbons, large nice 43c J...
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out in the demonstration A motion
picture, "Lumbering in the Pacific
Noi thwest,'!. will be exhibited in Old
Chapel Fliday evening.
In conjuneton with the convention,
The Pennsylvania Forest Products
Ilapuncture's association will hold
a business meeting this messing This
eiganizmtcon which brings,into
relationship the numfactureis and
users of lumbering equipment is a di
rect outgrowth of the first Portable
Sawmill Week.
Hiiiinen Snecuinb To
Lion Harriei Combine
(Continued from first page)
ninth and Sawm in tenth, completed
the scorer's list of finishers. Oester
ling, Gehring., Pettit and Carpenter
"nought up the IT,.
Lions Prepare Lightl3
Treading the strange course gin
petty, the seven Nittany cross-coon
tot flashes accompanied by Coachi
Nate Caitmell walked the four and n
holt' mile distance Friday morning'
to familiarire themselves with the'
nferp grades and muddy paths
Tn the afternoon equipment was
donned and a light work-out occupied
the -latter part of the driy. Long,
swinging strides carried the Nittany
captain and his _cohorts over the
Mount Olympus course with speed
and strength that boded ill for the
Orange-elqd men and filled spectators
with no slight premonition of the
race's outcome.
Penn State
Shoe Repair
Acrois from. Postoffice
Prompt and
.Willing
Reasonable Prices
Stop Watches
pocket Watches
ALL KINDS OF
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1 4: CHIFFONIERS $12.50 t.
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ly TYPEWRITER TABLES - - $4.00 to $8.50 4-
* CHAIRS $3.50
't - DESKS $lO.OO to $40.00 ..t
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i X STUDENT TABLES - - - - - - $5.00
COSTUMERS $2.00 to $3.00
GATE-LEG TABLES - 7 - - - $4.50 to $9 I i
DRAWING BOARDS - - $ 1.25 to $3.00 ..t ..
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SWINGS ' $5.00 to $lO.OO
r PICTURE MOULDING - 3c to 20c per foot
'. MAGAZINE RACK $1.75 - X
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CEDAR CHESTS,. - - - $3.00 to $25.08 ' ; ' *
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Fine Work
You Beat
You deserve a gold medal and aim; a smart new suit and
'overcoat for the coming cold weather.
We've got what you want—Smart collegiate Society Brand
Suits and Overcoats,' topped with a Stetson, Schoble, or
Crofut Knapp hat.
Our Campus Leaders
tearburV—Kitiddiauni---Hart Schaffner $
& Marx suits and overcoats • . . 9
Jth
J. & M.—FloiShelin and Crawfoid Shoes
"Buy With 'Confidence"
at FIR:0 reil S
Opposite Front. Campus
Tuesday, October 25,;1927
"Y" Solicitors Start
Annual Drive Monday.
(Continued from first page)
1 I cnnvass the non-fraternity men
for subscriptions
J. 11. Smith, Eastern division man
ager of the Fuller Brush company,
New Yolk city, will address the man
agers, lieutenants, and solicitors at
a supper in the University club the
opening night of the campaign for the
purpose of urging the men on to their
goal. President Gavin, who was in
chaise of the arrangements for the
swivel., has also invited it L Sack
ett, dean of the School of Engineer
ing, and other faculty members to
speak to the gatheling.
A special "V" supplement, edited
by P R. Smaltz '2B, associate editor
of the COLLEGIAN, will be issued
,nth Friday's COLLEGIAN.
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Nittany Theatre
TUESDAY—
Charles Farrell, Mary, Astor„ Noah
Bern, George Bancroft in
"THE ROUGH RIDERS"
Added Attraction: Fox Nens Show
ing Pictures of Penn State-Penn Foot-
ball Game
Special Prices
Adults 50c
TUESDAY—Nittany—
Florence Vidnr in
"ONE WOMAN TO ANOTHER"
WEDNESDAY— . • .
Adolphe Metihni in
"A GENTLEMAN OF PARIS"
THURSDAY and FRIDAY—
Ramon Notarro. Marceline Day in
"THE ROAD TO ROMANCE"
FRIDAY and SATURDAY—
Marion Mt ies in
"THE FAIR CO-ED"
SATURDAY—
Constance Talmadge in
"BREAKFAST - AT SUNRISE"
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