Penn State C,ollegian
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of the Pennsylvania State College, m the interests of the
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TUE EXECUTIVE BOARD
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R. M ATKINI.ON '23
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L. 11. 8011, Jr. '29
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News Edam. This I,sue
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER I, 1927
THE AGE OF TREASON
Some one has said it is about time that the stu
dents of Posit State, especially tiose in the Engin
eering, Agriculture and Mining Schools, start think
ing of contributing manuscripts to the OLD MAIN
BELL. There is no use in nopealing to the Liberal
Arts students, these moribund indis 'duals rank not
abase their engineering comrades as is generally
supposed, but far, far below them, even lower, cul
turally speaking, than the education students The
engineering students at least know their calculus, the
agricultural men know their onions, and the educa
tion mongers after several semesters here know just
exactly what to maid teaching when than turn
comes. But the Liberal Artist' Is there a lower
mortal here than he, is there a student more base,
mme neglectiul et his opportunities in college ,
He seeks, nine times out of ten( though we can give
no accurate figures, neither can the registrar) the
easiest courses in the catalogue and the nmst con
venient, he avoids the few scholars in the faculty as
if they were plague-stricken pedants, and he casts
away the chances of expressing his ideas with the
same displeasure that he discards an old sock with
a hole in it
What, as an historian would say, is the reason
for this Why has the contribution of opinions be
come the custom not of the student of arts and let
ters but of the soccer player' Certainly the explan
ation that one's teachers know, nothing about Eugene
O'Neill is no excuse for the pupil braving similar
lackaclaisicalness, surely the fact that doe's instruct
or may be little more than a bore is no reason tor
the student becoming his competitor in this field
And to cap all this tee same unwilling student will
persist semester atter semester in scheduling courses
under the some worthless pe^spiring instructors,
thus, one room may be crowded by sixty or seventy,
students while the much inure desirable room across!
the corridor may hold but ten. And, what is u arse ! !
the faculty seems to enjoy this It was only a year,
ago that courses in Greek and Latin literature in:
ti anslatien =ried a meagre two credits tossaid grad- 1
station, since then there has been an increase to three,
and the progress of scholarship has been pros ed, and!
scholarship itself has been vindicated
Why the School of Liberal Arts does not place
Greek and Latin literature—to mention just one!
course—on the same plane with Freshman English
Composition—unquestionably the poorest and at
once the most shameless course in college—nobody
including the professors— seems to know The in
structors in the one course are, at the very least,
twelve hundred times as learned as the ignoramuses]
teaching freshmen the ways and means of the comma
in the other. Front what we have 'experienced:and
obscrved the svas to teach grammar and composition
is to teach the student grammar and composition; the
prevailing method is to see that the freshman attends,
each class on penalty of flunking him if he doesn't;
and to raise the roof if he comes a minute late. The
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good work of instruction is carried on still further by
taking diligent care that the freshman does not whis-,
per to the girl with the pink dress, next to him !
Is it any wondei that by the time the Liberal!
Artist graduates he knows as little about contemp
orary letters as does his freshman scrub-prof'
situation has reached such a point tha't any semi'
with a knowledge of rudimentary principles can;
queen an A out of Ins course in English by mei ely,
exercising the judicious use of a semi-colon. When,
such a state of affairs has come about, When co-eds,
can skillfully titter themselves into the honor roll,l
in fine, when ans one can enter this institution and!
anyone can leave it, the time has arrived !when the
words Liberal Arts should be removed from our cata
logues, and Business Stenography substituted.
MENCKEN. THE PATRIOT
Mencken far President , The suggestion is not
Mencken's (nor Doctor Pattec's), but judging from
tthe amount of space the Baltimoie hermit has been
devoting to Americanism to the most recent Dichlor
ide of Mercury, one suspects that the editor is eager
ly waiting for the Democrats to heave Al South from
the donkey's rump and to offer Mencken the mount,
so that he can have the pleasure of spurning the
!nomination. For Mencken has so thoroughly smash
ed the arguments of the drys that for one to whisper
Prohibition is, to spite at the existence of the Amend
ment, to confess himself an illiterate and tyrannical
booby shouting that the constitution—especially the
13111 of Rights of which the citizenry of '76 were so
fond—is another scrap of paper.
Now Mencken has been accused of all sorts at
things, including paederasty, lunacy and gout, but
no one has yet intimated that Mencken, even in his
most dubious moments, is not learned: and the sus
picion grows that he knows what he is talking about.
Indeed, after reading his citations of the absolute an
tagonism of the Eighteenth Amendement and the
Fourth not to mention theSecond,Seventh and Tenth,
professors hate been heard no lament' over their cups
that it n. trio bad alencken was born in Baltimore
and not in Bo.ston, and toot his editorial had to ap
pear in the American Mercury instead of the Con
gressional Record
And so with all clue Icapect to the fact that fresh
men are supposed to read Harper's and that tne
Mercury is obtainable at the Library only by sworn
affidavits pro) ing one is no longer in his swaddling
clothes—with all due tespect to these pleasant cus
toms—may we respectfully call to the attention of
our readers the editorial in the current issue° It is
introduced by a paragraph from the Constitution
(which we do not reprint for fear of prosecution)
that legalizes the calling of a convention for propos
ing amendments to the Constitution. The wicked
Mencken suggests that the state legislators actually
call such a convention' This in the face of the fact
that such a thing has never been done, and hence
would be against tradition and hence. .. Since
Menelcen's seditious utteinnces are by some miracla
not punishable by law, we humbly' suggest that he
Ibe duly e•ectited by the public hangman. Judge
Thayer himself, for murder in the first degree It
should he childish!) simple to prove that many good
Christian folk, seduced by his sophistries, have be
lieved—and acted upon that beliet—that they really
had certain liberties granted in the Constitution—ol
which tie citi7enry of '76 were so fond, and, so act
ing. hate naturally been shot down by the constab
ultr) in performance of its lawful duty
John L•iskine's attempt to make Prombition and
Christianity incompatible has influenced the people
it no war other than to bulge John's pocket, and to
make some wonder woat happened while Wilson was
preening himself in Europe Because Saul of Tar
sus diank wine has proled too thin an argument to
convince people that it is becomingly Christian-like
for their to indulge Religion, they have said, is all
right in its place but aside from that its place is not
in steins Moreover, Mr Erskine's nose is too red
President
Vice-President
IMEMEI
Editor-in-Chief
Assistant Editor
Mrnsgintt Editor
Associate Edam
Associate Edam
P ithleham '29
L Mitstder '29
I. II Iteff '29
S Tu-ner '29
Ii E Hoffman
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But Mr Menchen's nose is quite decorously
colored and los reasoning, in addition, is sound
Quite logically he shows us toot no officer at the law
has the right to search our property without a .war
rant. and equrlly logically that a bootlegger cannot
he p.istly tried for the same offense by the county,
the state, and the federal courts and to prove tins
Mencken wows the Constitution in our faces
The protestation that Prohibition is at odds with
tile law is by na means new, strange as it may seem.
Thus Andrew Jackson is frequently represented as
carrying a revolser up his sleeve and a pint of m.nt
julep in his hack pocket, and Calhoun and Webster
are often shown retiring to the Capitol bar until Clay
was finished speaking, when Clay would join them
But for Menchen as editor to intimate such flippan
cies is treason he should appear in toga instead of
in shirt slcm es his ancestors should have yelled in
Faneuil Hall instead of in Heidelberg Even as it is
the alumni of various colleges are staggering to the
libraries in an eFort to justify that quaint custom by
which one pim es his devotion to his Alma Matei
by getting drunk and Supreme Cotfrt Justices have
been seen searching for the musty volumes which
contain the Constitution, with the intention of read
ing it some day
In two months theme will be published the first
Issue of the OLD MAIN BELL, known in certain
circles, as that literary magazine of Penn State The
OLD MAIN BELL has bad a rather hard time of it
Its subscription list IS not over-large, its policy, per
haps is not the best, its material is frequently not of
time higliest—some have gone so far as to say that the
faculty has had too much to do with the magazine to
make it a good one, but this statement has been pro
perly rebuked, even by swaddlers And when all is
said, the OLD MAIN BELL represents the best lit
erary work not only of its contributors, but of the
entire Penn. State student body To several this may
be a blow
The truth of the matter is that the OLD MAIN
BELL has had too many fingers to it and that too few
of these have belonged to the students themselves.
but to censure the faculty for this is ridiculous, to
bait et them is to complain against those who are
sustaining it The faculty however, can do still more
for the publication by selecting the most interesting
essays its students write and offering them as manu
scripts On one dim occasion we suggested that
freshmen be reginred to purchase a certain orange
colOred qi,agazinet and to our surptise, the sliggestion
was taken over, even' to the colon of 'the magazine.
So oe hope that by judicious selection the faculty
can help the editors and that some day freshmen will
be rending Penn State's magazine, as well as Harpers
Soon
A large menu
from which to
select
Ta CORNER
ON MAGAZINES
T. PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
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i How Penn State
Opponents Fared
Lebanon Valley 3
Mt. St Mary 13 1
Gettysbutg 0 W Mal viand 11 1 . 1
1 . . Iluelamll 0 Army 34 i
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New Ag Booklet Lists
Revision in Courses
Announcmg changes in several
courses the =ll=lo.l2e cm respondence
depattment is mailing tuenty thou
sand catalogues to format student, of
the School of Agneultme.
Tho paefnce of the booklet lists the
irereaso in numbers of the men taking
coire,pondence courses in agriculture
and also enummates the courses that
hose been resised and reams itten.
Article in Penn State
Engineer Gets Mention
"Tho Art of lAthomaphing," an at
tido NN ritten by Joseph Etter '2B, nes
accotded honorable mention at she
coil:cation of the Engineering CoPege
Magazines Assoc aeon, of which the
Peru State Engine, is a member
Ettet's theme appeared in the May
issue
The convention sins held at Colum
bus. Ohio, from October twentieth to
the tuenty -second, the Ohio State
Engl., being the host
"Y" Launches Drive For
Student Contributions
(Continued from first page)
Inonunent student and faculty organ
1/at , ons . tho College
Freshman Secretor)
Fos thin years Penn State has hail
only a part time freshman secretary,
\\. C Calhoun '25, non doing grad
uate nork at Yale An attempt will
bo made with sufficient funds to err
ata a full time' freshman secretory
this yeas at an estimated cost of
twelve hundroi*ollars At present
Rci.erend Faus ;now at Post Matilda,
meets with the,freshmen three days
r week and with the passage of this
apploiniation will be installed as full
tone official..
CEZEM
About five hundred dollar, will be
lequired for the freshman reception
allt . other work during the year, while
two hundred and fifty dollars must be
spent in keeping up the enculating
binary of the best toligious books
anti cut rent magazines.
Annually the "Y" at a cost of a
thousand dollars of mare obtains some
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of the most noted nice m the fields of
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before the student body. This ex
penso will also be met by the chive
Since this is the year of the Quad
rennial convention and also of the
Eaglesmere conference anothin foie
hands ed &Mu s has been added to
the campaign quota. Secietat‘ Kib
. cher desires to mike it clear that the
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monri used bi the delegates to the
convention is gnen in the form of
loans cc hick malt be paid back on
certain date
"Dinah" the official "Y" Ford attic
mar: ti , ed for Sunday school moil< and
tin ninny conference. and conventions
for six years is now in had 'hope and
soil require at least Ilse hundred dol
lars to repair or replace it Tin; ev
has saved a great deal of money for
tho organiration notion sending dele
gates to eonsentions sines it is a
cheaper merle of trot el taun by rill
Each year the "Y" woes fine hun
dred dollars for the education of nu
negro children of the Santa \VGA
atnon the negices was begun by J
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and is no, ears.' on by the Y. tI
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L. A. Deans Convene
For Three-Day Parley
(Continued from first nage)
v.oik including %cicala:nal and cur-
I guidance, norm eoursel,
reben.l% d Pr , c•
ment of on s ice ccuises, plop. ,eiee-
Lon of teachers and , ruleasiTT bcl,ol
- standards .1,1 be
Smeral enterta :anent leatuies oil
add tc the intcleht, of the COIINCrItIOII
President It, 1) Iluttel ill be tl e
guest of honor at one of the lunch
eons
The mmting deans aid the haiti
of the Liberal Alto departments and
the deans of the .eh,ml, of tie ColLge
will be entertained at a dinner nadah
cvmunt, at the Cm.nr hLll, Count's.
ctub Most of the to•le:eons will
ale , . be held at the coontiN slab
If the present Lonvent , un ne t mie
cegi, it nill be aide an anent]
and the membcmhip will be enlavmd
neerading to Dean Stoddatt
poop a ernside'eda nuele..a rot fa ;
tare growth.
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George Offenhauser. Louis Lee, 011ie
lielffmch and Alt Bass took the race
perfect score Last year they
repeated their perfect victory
Dick Dotiseilei and Reikers from
the freshman squad are expected to
pa'h the veterans to the limit in the
taco tonliniow and may break up the
lathes to unbeaten quintet Both Belk
s and Detv.eiler lime shown plenty
in speed and posses in the golf course
gland of late and supplemented by
Niches, Arntz, Flennegen and Moose
ma \ force the champions to falter in
then winning stride.
Versa) Trials on Saturda>
Thu ms-mile run Saturday after
noon for varsity candidates wdl from
tentatne idea of the team which
'nil' cannot to retain last Seat's
intracollegiate V. in in New York when
the Limn, 1926 vat city awn competed
m the MIA meet to gain victory over
linivaid, Penn, N. V U, Columbia
are othe: leading institutions of the
E.,. Seven freshman runners will
also tun on the tv.enty-first of No
%ember. in Van Cortlandt Park
Numeral Requirements Gum
In order to win numerals a contes
tant must fulfifill the follov.ing eon
d.tionc• either be one of the first
Lie men to cross-the finish line 01 one
of the fist five men on the winning
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WEDNESDAY—
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