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Penn State Collegian
Published semi-vreettly 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
WHEELER LORD, JR. '23
R. M. ATKINSON '23
C. F. FLisx '2B . . •
THE EDITORIAL STAFF
WHEELER Lon, art '2B
BENsimix KAPLV , I '2B
R. M ATKINI•oN '2B
W. S. Tuomson '2B
P. R. SMALTZ '2O
NEWS EDITORS
L H Bell, Jr. .29
11. E Ilottnnn '29
TILE BUSINESS STAFF
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Managing Editor Tins Issue
News Editor This Issde
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER IS. 1927
THE RETURN FIRE
The Froth and Collegian have been criticized in
some quarters roi their attitude mord returning
alumni who come back seemingly for the sole pur
pose of kneeling rather than bbosting their Alma
Mater.
It has been pointed out through the editorial col
umns of the respective publications that there were a
few, the five percent, who return to knock everythingl
in sight or to become \ cry, very drunk The result
ant total of the above-named actions certainly doea
not appear to be conducive to the advancement of
the College As has been mentioned, this group
does not possess a large membership Fortunately,
there is the reliable ninety-five percent, at least it is
hoped there is, who are continually proving them
selves to be walking advertisements for Penn State
The ninety-five cannot be given too much commenda
tion; their path is not an easy one, it is far easier to
knock or to become inebriated than it is to boos;.
The ninety-five are priceless to Penn State
Some ask, "Why mention the five percent at vll,l
then" It is with the hope of reducing this small!
percentage to a still lower figure that the question ii,
aired There are many loyal sons of Penn State who
refuse to return on Alumri Day because of the dis
gusting sights that are likely to be encountered
There arc still others who refuse to pay their Sue'
dollars to the Alumni Association for the same per
fectly legitimate reasons, and the ones who refuse
to pay, curiously enough, are not members of the
five percent
When it is carefully analyzed, there arc no frater
nity gi oups who really cherish returning alumni who
"knock" or who put on unsightly exhibitions It
stands to reason that the Greek Letter groups ~.an
easily become reconciled to the absence of these few:
trom the Alumni Day observances,
It remains for the fraternity groups and the stu
dent governing bodies to band together in an attempt
to put a serious check on the brawling and the knock
ing that are displayed mutually,. and,of tener„,by a
very small minority if any changes are to take place,
let them be instigated by the undergraduates, who are
really a ,sensible lot, despite assertions by certain
alumni to the contrary.
Penn State is undoubtedly proud of its loyal
ninety-five percent. It can readily afford to lose the
minority; the identical ones who make so much noise,
raise so much hullaballo that the average spectator
will instantly become imbued with the mistaken idea
that they represent the majority The flue percent
are so much dead wood. If they cannot be cured,
let them be used as fire wood—in some other place
SUNDAY MAIL SERVICE
As students well know, no mail leaves State Col
lege on Sunday. Since other towns have Sunday
mail service, it seems logical to believe that Post
Office authorities, if they were shown that such a
service is needed, might provide for it.
Agitation on the subject, although there has been
no appreciable amount as yet, has been anticipated
by Student Council. The legislators discussed the
question at their meeting Tuesday night and decided
that, with the growth of Penn State, there had arisen
a demand for the removal of Sunday afternoon mail.
They took no immediate action on the matter, but
tabled it until after Thanksgiving in order to get the
sentiment of the student body as a whole If, at
their ne\t meeting, the Council believes that the un
dergraduates are in favor of a Sunday mod service,
it will draw up a petition and present it to the Post
master who in turn will have to send it to the nation
al authorities at Washington If the students want
the Council to take this action, they should convey
their opinions either to its members orally or by let
ter to this newspaper
RELIGION vs. SLEEP
Americans are notorious in foreign countries
for gum-chewing and newspaper rending. The daily
and Sunday news and feature sheets serve as their
bible. Even college undergraduates, who are popu
larly supposed to be out of touch with the wicked
outer world, have considered the perusal of the week-
ly sports section more important and va-tly more in
urn-ring than listening to the singk hour-a-week of
religious advice. bran it the speakers delivered
heavy, pedantic discourses on topics of little interest,
such discourtesy would be unbecoming to Penn State
men. But the talks arc not uninteresting and the
speakers themselves arc the greatest religious lead
ers the College can procure
President
Viee•President
Immediately following the opening words of the
speaker of the day, the fortunatcs who occupy the
rear of the Auditorium slink down in their seats and
slyly pull forth the desired football page, much the
same as grammar grade childi en secrete yellow-back
ed novels behind the sheltering bulk of their geogra
phies Those, unfotunates, who by virtue of senior- ,
ity rights or alphabetical precedence have been con- , t
signed to the front rows, must either suffer the at
tacks of boredom or fly to the arms of Morpheus
The rustle of newspapers, in addition to the vio
lent mastication of chicle, which, by the way, seems to
to be becoming popular with collegians, and the blank R
stares of countenance in repose, must be extremely =
disconcerting to those who have travelled some dis-,
tance to address Penn State students.
Editor-In-Chief
Assistant Editor
Managing Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Ed for
H P. 2111eham '29
L Mitstlfer '29
When some thought is given to the matter it will
be seen that the oftenders are only lowering them
selves in the eyes of their fellow-students. Merely
doing that little thing puts a certain blot on the Col
lege The offenders arc sadly lacking in etiquette
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LOST: SIGNS OF HONESTY
For some years no student's room has been con
sidered collegiate unless he has cluttered it with a
miscellaneous collection of signs, pennants and debris
pilfereo from public places Such "collecting" has
never been considered stealing, rather it is merely
the removal of certain municipal serf ice signs, such
as "No Parking Here" and "Road Closed," ton place
where they will be inore useful Puffs of pride rather
than qualms of conscience are suffused through the
being of the undergraduate at the acquisition of a
particularly choice bit of highway adornment It
seems strange that an individual who is eternally'
complaining about the crowded condition of his room
will triumphantly drag in a silent policeman The
habit, while it reaches no great pronortions'and re
mains harmless, passes by without comment from
the owners of the plundered property
I Recently, it seems, the borough supply of col
legiate ornamentation gave out, for an expedition
!entered Old Main and iemoved certain of the office
signs, among which were the President's, the Dean
of Women's and the Dean of Men's The idea may
I have been a novel one, but is was certainly in pom
taste The signs were placed in Old Main for the
instruction of t isitors and new students, and the dis
appearance of ony one of them will tend to confasc
the stranger For example, a visitor might search
for the placard reading "President" and, not finding
it, he would conclude that Pena State has no presi
; dent Of course, this illustration is extreme, but the
pillaging of these signs was carrying a long-tolerated
esil a step too far A petty theft of this nature
should be beneath the dignity of those who aspire
to the title of "Penn 'State student."
L 311tqtlfel
E Hofrmqn
The Bullosopher's Chair
Smithers,—Tt bar been announced to some freshmen Hy
giene eli,ses Bullosopher, that the editor echo wrote the
elitorial, "Who Is To Blame" could never hose taken
that same freshman course in Hygiene
"Tort's trtereztmg, Snuthms, and I have head the
sans thin:, Upon ins e.,tigating I found that the writer
had taken lll.g.ene and that his final exammatmn book
had larded rattly high on the flight of steps, ulneh means,
that he did not line to endure, pardon, tepeat the course
again.
mithcre:—Perhaps that person nos sleeping during that
miticular lecture
"thash! That v ould be most discourteous"
Souther, —But trio fact that all classes have been told
Cm' some of the technical details weie wrong, such as
'ne vtrm,nes being poisonous' only serves to bury the
main point of the edam al If the Varsity Hall author
ities pass up the copal tunitv to patches° safe, healthy
pi °duets flout the College ,faims merely to stir e a less'
clallaLs , for the It}easilry, ~11- 1 by. so - loing 13 - .41.+Tv 1 / 4 the
,Vehlth"gif.thO'nf Metal ciVthe'd.ritinnik.table'rthen •souhl
thirg should be done to remedy the s,taatucon. The writer,
obviously, did not possess a medical dbgreo but he made
r sirceie attempt to right a'serious
CHRISTMAS
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Wall the eimlng ,Pitt-Penn gLate
Thaaksgivmg day clash, the odds, are
3 to 1 that four out of eery five
Smokey City sport writers have it.
Not pyorreah—but the good old•trite
hackneyed Lion and another personi
fication somem here in then stories.
Additional odds of 5 to 4 are being
offered that either or the monstrous
felines leers on its haunches to ,fell
the unfortunate animal (whoever it
nia), be) with a fatal stroke of time
right pow, v,hich, in the Lion's ease,
mediated, will be Roepke
Broadcasted as an honest-to-good
so football game the classic may
rn out to be a duel meet if either
oepko of Welch get loose.
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Dean Sackett Attends
Convention in Chicago
Dean It L Sackett, of the School
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ir Chicago which will be held at the
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Dean Sackett will present a paper
before the engineering division on
"The attraction and admission of stu
dents to engineering," in which he
will explain the requirement to suc
cess for those people who arc con
templating the engineering profession.
"Methods of admitting students to
colleges base not changed much with
in the last twenty-five years and there
I.—a need foe psychological aptitude
tests which will help in selecting those
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I Friday, November 18, 192
_ Nittany Theatre
FRlDAY—Catbaum
Alice Terry in
Re,. Ingram's
"THE GARDEN OF ALLAH
FRlDAY—Natnny
Wallace Beery, Raymond , Ho
Louise Brook, in
'NOW"NVE:RE IN T,IIE Al'
SATURDAY—Cathnum—
Matinee nt 2:00
George Bancroft, Chester Conkli
"TELL IT TO SWEENEY"
,rox Venus and,Fable
SATURDAY—N ttany—
nrst Penna. Shoeing of
Engler Linßina in
'_THE ,SPOTLIGHT"
MONDAY and TUESDAY
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John Gilbert and All Star Cast
"THE BIG PARADE"
Special Orchestra Accompanying
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