Fag,. Tv:: pertn 54ate collegianbecause they are conducive to 'cramming for the final' in.ttcad of daily efficiency in class work. They Published semi-weekly during the College year by students are unfair because a student's knowledge at a sub of the Pennsylvania State College, in the interests of the Ject cannot be justly determined by the ability to College, the students, faculty, alumni and friends. answer a few questions on certain phases of the topic. Since final tests induce "cramming" and since the amount of knowledge acquired through "cram mine is relatively small and retained but a short time, a substitute should be found. Reviews of the course to be compiled in special reports is one sug gestion. Theses is another But whatever substt lute may take the place of final examinations, it is certain that a method embodying a more enlightened system will be the result. THE EXECUTIVE BOARD WHEELER LORD, JR. '2B IL M. ATKINSON '2B C. F. FLINN '2B . . THE EDITORIAL STAFF \\lngeLen LORD, Jo. '2S Ilt.N.rAmtN KAPLAN '2S IL M ATININSON '2B W S. Thomson; '2B P. it SMAITZ '2B 1.. II Bell. Jr. '29 II E. Ilolrm in '29 I=l =II It. IL Kit I' '2ll CI rculallon Manager IV J M LAt MUM, '2B Asst. CI reullbon Ahnal.r, r ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS P C MeConnauglwy '29 W. S. Turner '29 SOPHOMORE: REPORTERS Q E Nang° C A Mensch T J Schofield J. 11. Coogan L. If Nieman IL P. Stevenson W. 11. Cox M. T. Scepansky If ft. Thalenfcld S. S. Geesey W II Schinnerer 0 A Wisansky The_ Venn State COI.I.IIGIAN attlratm.4 communhatlnnn on any nna,rt of tamp. sntrrtat All Intl. rs mtall at nr tin n one of the tnntlnr Anonanunm thettnntnantiona be datreaardett In et re lhn runt r tlotat ant. unth Int nr. r tatmn gnennthany the lett,. Vila runt nhould I+ no inthenintl anal a num tat Wont,. tatt+t ttronthan, the tommunnutennitaatrse 4 lan rntht to roto.rt all rtialolllllltat. ttotat that ur, tkt tad . , for plash. atm, The V 01.1.1. CIAN :vitt-met no revntnnallity tar It 1101111 Ilta rtt rt...al In the Istletr tiol,rdn,,,n peer •2 In, pool& heron Ineernber 1. 1027 Telerdlnne 2024 V, Ilell Olnle Mors. 11 BO a in to 12 00 rn d 00 to .00 0 In (Mee. Idlltany Printlnd and Publoildno Co Building. Stale Col lea, Pa Entrred at the Pottoffce, Slate Collet,. Pn , as second-elms matter All Copy for Tv+4ny n ir+nr mn+t be In ,be office by twelve o'clock Spnilay nluht, ccl fur i'ellayr Irene, by ocelot o'clock Wcdnendey u ieht ' ~„,,?h , n..., , ::,.'"°,7U nul l Le 11.TgLa fpar:„":,l'Ar. In: Ze LT:. Veber. Managing Editor This Issue News Editor Th•s Issue---- FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1928 ANOTHER MILESTONE In a little more than thirty years Penn State Fra ternities have developed from one or two tottering societies with a handful of men to a group of fifty ovanizations involving more than, fifteen hundred students Sunday, the longest milestone to the his tory of Penn State fraternities will have been reached. Penn State's first interfraternity conference is indeed a praiseworthy event Co-operation should be the keynote Pledges should participate because they will be afforded an insight into the significance of fraternities on the Penn State campus. Active members should co-operate because it is upon them that the future prosperity or Penn State fraternities depend To the four visiting celebrities Penn State ex tends a welcome and sincerely hopes that they may aid in solving its fraternity problems A STEP TOWARD SAFETY Invariably, snow makes its appearance At this time of the year snow rarely fails to pay its respects to the Penn State campus. It was a trifle delinquent in spreading itself about the grounds this winter, but probably there was a very good meteorological reason, known only to the select few, for the tardy arrival With the , snow, unfOrtunately,'comes Penn State's most enthusiastically practiced outdoor sport, sliding The 'front campus sidewalks provide an excellent foundation for the sloping glassy layers that an nually cover them The slides are the basis for much comedy when the "unbalanced" begin a perilous de scent that sometimes ends in a tragedy ; Penn State's winter sports amusements may be all right for the sprightly freshman or even the laughter-loving upperclassman—not to mention the romanticist On the serious side it is hardly appre ciated by students and professors trying to reach class before the final toll of the bell or plying home- I ward to the satisfying tinkle of the dinner gong. Io 1 the ones just mentioned, who probably constitute • , the majority, the slippery slide is a bugbear. More than one student and faculty member has encountered Ins match when lie tried his skill against the more subtle purpose of the ice We recommend that while the ice and snow are here, gravel or sand—both inexpensive commodities —be applied to the slides. When the evidences of winter depart, it would not be a bad idea for some one to ridge the concrete ns has been done elsewhere to town Or there is even n possibility of construct mg a hand-rail on either side of each sidewalk. Any one oi these improvements would serve to remedy the present inconvenient and dangerous situation H. P M. FUTILE PROTESTS Protests against final examinations again reach their semi-annual peaks as the semester draws to a close. Probably no denunciation of these final tests (it they may be called such) is so condemning as "they're a nuisance." It has been said that "the final examination is a device for aiding the instructor in discovering what a certain student has accomplished in the course and whether a passing grade is deserved " Few will dis agree over this definition of "final examinations" but dissension will arise over the results achieved. It hay always been maintained, even from pedagogical sources, that final examinations fail to accomplish their avowed purpose. Final e‘aminations are the remnants of an old fashioned school of education. They are undesirable ... , President Vice-President 13=111 "Editor-in-Chief Argistant Editor Managing Editor Associate EcMot Associate Edam PENN STATE AND JOURNALISM That Penn State is rapidly forging to the front ranks occupied by the foremost schools of newspaper work is indicated by the figures recently issued by the Department of Journalism Insignificant as the present courses may seem, however, the number of students studying journalism here triples those in any other institution in the state. Already Penn State has advanced to thirteenth in enrollment in a list of more than two hundred colleges and univer sities in die United States But Penn State is designed to progress even further With a larger faculty and the necessary equipment, a School of Journalism will gradually evolve with the growth of the College. But not even such development will denote the limits of journalistic activity at Penn State. The entire state of Pennsylvania will in due time turn to the college as a center for newspaper publishers and editors It is indeed surprising that the state of Pennsyl vania which ranks second in the United States in the number of its newspapers and publications has not designated a center of journalistic activity Although the various newspapei officials of this state are rep e sented in the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association and again in sectional organizations, no one city or institution has become the mecca of the profession. This is the position to which Penn State aspires. In the middle and far west, associations com prising newspapers of several states have organized with some school of journalism as the guiding body. PoomvlN ania is already divided into sectional ui . r associations, Penn State could very easily as. the role of journalistic leadership. However, this requires facilities which are now lacking. Sit courses in journalism are offered at present. In September lour courses, which have never before been taught in Pennsylvania, Will be added to the list. The present staff of instructors is to be commended for its endeavors in advancing the status of puma , - ' ism at Penn State II P. Mnleham '29 L Mitstafer '29 Busmess Manager Advertising Mnertger __....L lLt<hfer _L IT. Bell, Jr. The Bullosopher's Chair Smithers• I obseis e, m.,, dear Bullosophet, that you are still about Yet yOu look worried. On closer examina tion I find that your eats are unwashed— "Yee Smithy.% Pm a member, but keep it quiet. I'm worried too, netural4. Pin looking for an intelligent Sulithers: You ought to find him easily "It's not as easy as you imagine And in the light of the tumor that mole students are getting A's in English and that mole ale studying Greek, it is strange that the task is so difficult But ynu will grant, I hope, that either rumor if a fact, has little significance as far as intelligence is conceined. The interest in Gieck, I take as a passing fad, co-incidental with "The Private Life of Helen of Troy " For you honest-to-goalness typical student cares no mote Los Greek than does his history instiuctin of his m—thematics professor this mind is too stalled pith edu cational doses to be interested in ansthing remotely re sembling leinning. Talk Greek to him and lie will asl, you what good it will do him And of course, the ques tion is unanswerable. Greek culture might make a gen tleman of him, but he is interested neither in gentleman linens, nor in culture. Ile has found that those above lira base neither quality and seem to get along surprisingly well without such stimulus he has seen, in brief that it pays to be a menthe! of the Bond of Tiastces lathe. than of the Faculty Smithers But you are talking of your typte tt stude.,t! Stali I . discuss the buffoon! ;. .„ SmitherS:—Tair main'tb; tAegptitni: l stOenl, , "Well, I mean the student whit is not quite Bite IA 'comrades , Yost can call lam exceptional if you mak., But the priint I win to'final.b as that the exceptional %tit ' dent hme—the one who gets an A in English, to Mental . / sery likely to get a D at some tithes college." Smithers: Stop. Stop right there, Bullosopher! My loyalty to Pcnn State—to the old Blue anti White—to Old Main! "Bah' I see, 5111,0101,, that you are one of those belligment inch, iduals who betimes that the way to =move a college is to abolish the clink, to get moic buildings, and to hope that the lest will mysteriously take cafe of itself. Indeed, the number who think that brilliant scholarship will follow the abolition of the mail schedule is by no means a small one But thus sort of brilliance can be matched daily and even exceeded in any English classroom There you will find any number of pool:, who see life steadily and see it whole, quoting the line with a perceptible brightening of the eyes and there too, are young voices who juxtapose unintelligible argument, with phrases that indicate something or other about pie : fuse steams of unplemeditated alt. But by and large, .mithcis 'hese people are no students at all. They .iaieh. When someone inches a blunder they :xi I tingly and paternally, and sometimes even bleak out in actual laughtel.. I find too, that their wits, odd as it may seem, are duplicated among certain of their in stiuctots I recall one professor in particular, Smithers, who niches quoer noises in his throat and glares daggers every time the Education School is mentioned, and yet he himself uses precisely the same methods lie pretends to detest. Ile who objects is promptly declared a young in telectual or a Mencken whose conceit is above routine work. and yet, Smithers, ten years of such treatment, much less one semester, would scarcely permit n student to look the Carnegie Library in the face. "Smothers, I have a brand new charge against finals ' Smel t ers: You ore not going to complain about the cat renters repairing chairs in Old Chapel v lute examinations were in progress? "No. lam complaining about the paint fumes in the Bull Pon and the fact that all the windows wet e closed dui ing examinations. Smothers: Justifiable complaint! Now I ltnew why that got fainted during the examination pm.] PENH STATE COLLEGIAN I=tl l=:1 The Music Lover The first local appearance of the Perm State Glee Club last Friday awning was another evidence of inajoi sort for the fine ensemble tinn ing being Alone by Director Grant. , tons the else of the baton for the nut number, Buck's "To the Field, o the Ilunt," till the tinging applause hat greeted the finished performance .f Hammond', "Lochinvat" the sing- g students cure an absolutely first I ass pi cgram. There is a stilling masculine quail * about a genuine college glee club that has an irresistible appeal lot ev erybody. When this is Joined to or tistly shown in accurate pitch, fine wane of modulation, and capability to lender a great Nauety of songs, there is a club of the highest quality, one that shows not only talent but ex cellent training. The Penn State group shooed both in large measure iday Stirring was the opening number by Bulk, lyric and lovely the Sullnan 'The Long Day Closes,' snappy and Jolly the folk song, "Grandma hunt=;' and romantically entranc mg the fine ballad by Hammond that catches so beautifully the epint of Sn Walter anJ the battler. Speaking of Sullivan and the Glee Club. one is winded to express the hope that we shall have before tong another campus revival of Gilbert no Sullivan opera. The "Filmdom" of the spiing of 1924 sons an minuted delight; solely at is not too soon to hopo for another—perhaps the Pit atee, or perhaps Pinafoie again What can surpass GiLbeit and Sonoran, any hoot. AN! the lots could do it, with so math fun lot them and for II us' The on.t.t.,t If t male quay et could only be natural,—funny and loony if natural, but not over-acted nd sttltel and therefore ojdleulous and not natural,—hoc fine it would be. We base had quartets on this ! campus that pulled naturally together and whose humor mas spontaneous and real. The efforts of the foursome Friday mght in the any of "cutting Up" new any thing but conrincing. We are not speaking nosy of their ainging—passibly that (was better than it seemed; in any case we were too much vexed by their :antics and too little diverted. by the sameness of their selections to be ampressed by any tone they may have hnd And is it not high time that college audiences be spared such vapidity as Ender's Daniel" The incidental features of the con cert nein an delightful as to milt another description than '.incidental'; wo apologize. ne shall call them parallel iattrlt „ cons. If a finer MCC than Ada Rot 's hasizeerf developed and enjoyed in his community during the last decada,'we know nothing of it Her clear, free singing, her enun ciation, her presence, and her tone and range, all cleft one breathless af ter her own solds (We snob she woo id BE SURE TO VISIT OUR FOURTH ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE Saturday, Feb. 4, until Feb. 11 EGOLF'S • '.Manicuring' • ', ' Va6ial 'dA' Scalp Treatment LO:UISE LAMBERT LEITZELL BUILDING t .:. iii THE WRITE GIFT .:. .:. .:. .:. .:. for ST. VALENTINE'S DAY• * .:. •:. Give Her WHITE and WYCKOFF'S •:. 1.• , VALENTINE STATIONERY •:. : : •; ... 4, Y • : • ... The C o llege Cut-Rate Store .:. 1 .:. x ALLEN STREET •:. •!..:-:.:-:.:-:-:÷x-x-x-;444-c-x-:-.:-:-:-:-:-:÷x-:-:-:-:-:-:-:÷:.:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-x-it. WINTER PICTURES ARE EASY With The Modehi. Kodak AND Eastman Kodak Film The Film in the Yellow Box THE PENN STATE PHOTO SHOP 212 E. COLLEGE AVE. not sing ,Freneh until she has prac treed it in its native land.) The ren dation of the song from Carmen—an extremely drillcult song It is, too— was, we hasten to add, n beautiful musical performance. But lilies Miss Romig gave us that ranting Behan Street Song of Her bert's, with the -whole fine crew of youths backirg her literally and voc ally, and elide her since lilted and sa ring through their <lmpel tones but alnays clearly heard, until finally it soared bell-like and pure up and up and over all the masculine might,— nell, -Ise had a thrill of musical joy running up our spine that just made our hair stand on end It was su perb The marimba solos and duets M ere r. pleasing divertissement Sims Go brecht is a musician and a lady; her grile4 grace and pleasing stage pre sence Inumonmed with or rather were part of the ramie art she displayed Why Mr Muse', who is not a bad marimbist (ii that be the mord) ia msts on basing attention -from his saris tc his collegiate niggle Is some thrill; that men the maddest and jar,- ' rest 01 us might ask himself in vain. It is time, lie think, to straighten up and be vertebrate in our stage music. After all, there is only one Paul Whiteman—and he's plenty! Ty return to the Club itself, lie should 111,c to speak one cord for the person usually mintier' from all music al criticisms. me mean the accompan is.. The high quallty of Mrs Grant's play mg and her per feet sense of the proper place of the plane In the who , e performance proses by its very un tobstrucrveness boo fine and capable 'her work is, and we would not stop 'without saying so. For the Club Itself and its Director, after such an even ing's treat, we wir'h all the success 'that Ise Loon. they richly descrse. "Dragons At Play" Is Mad Faculty Frolic (Continued from first page) they. English co-moikers, applauded in:ftsant4 until the pet rot mcrs con sented to an encore. (Theta was wail ing and gnashing of teeth ) Freshman Decenes Teachers Rcoert Tinashei, sleight-of-hand eshm.in, then stepped forth to <lo ne his aue-stlicken anthem° with age. nit - ileums Tempowiily tak- YE OLD TEA AND COFFEE SIIOPPE The Test of Taste, SHANNON'S COFFEE & TEA Gond 'raste Demands Quality and Requires Panty Oarroods can pass the la. easels.. of Innate mod lute bcaausa they are the feint of !nog Yeas of linualcdoe OUR "DEE BEE GEE" COFFEE ' 1.1:, " s 2. 25 Parcel Pont prepaid DANIEL 13. GRAEBER. 127 S. Third St Philadelphia. Pa mg the post of .his instructors at the head of the class, Thrasher exhmited disappearing wares, completely foil ing the unintelligent onlookers, where upon an imptomptu committee met to nullify three below grtides Dthing the multiplication of coins, Peppy West, he of the ted cravats and o•forl bags, was men to reveal the simple solution of the tuck to his pat tner, Van Sant. Following this, Thrashes requested two gentlemen, (gentlemen, mind you) to come to the fleet to Nerdy his next net of card magic. Necks craned and searched for the courageous ones who might hate the temerity to answer the call Finally, Charlie Steddart and John ny Law stumbled to the fore amid the Jeers and hisses of a simple audience Flue Flying Fools Nett on the lull was a cellos of solemn musical elfor is by a quintet in clad ug Poppy West, Van Sant, Pierce, Johnston and another un known Their choir-like music did not meet with the approval of the audience, as was demonstrated thy the undertones that persisted among the listeners until the quintet of would-lie deserted the platform. What was supposed to be the crown ing event of the esening followed Marcel, Water and Permanent WAVING The "S" Shop • Phone 3944 Pastime Bldg Fire Insurance EUGENE H. LEDERER TELEGRAPH FLOWERS VALENTINE DAY FEBRUARY 14 ;i: State @liege •• • • Floral Shoppe ALLEN ST. PHONE 5805 Exam Troubles Are Over End Others By EATING AT KNOX'S Have your meats cut by our new electrical method for more efficient and better service. • Just call . . J. I. , MEYERS 437'W:College Ave. , Phone 220 or 330 :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:0•:-:-H-:-: Compliments and Best Wishes CLUB DINERS, Inc. I AM A MAN WHO CARES As a well dressed man, I've found no better founda tion for good appearance than correct shoes. JOHNSON AND MURPHY FLORSHEIM HEYWOOD CRAWFORD WALK-OVER AND STETSON SHOES r(00"- L k i1 ; NOW ON DISPLAY FROMM Opposite Front Campus ' Since 1913 Friduy, February ;3, 1928 when "To Be Dealt With According ly," a play with a motel designed to help the aud•enee, was ptoducel ,by a sextet of maidens Miss Vought as the mogul= Judge ,as her onn poslessed self sitting behind a desk. talking longest and loudest Mn,.. Gravat was Leila, the devilish !lappet mho bloke Limn her mothet's apron stung; all too soon, and toad ,ter conmannon of inch and loving Spencer, ,platted 1”, Miss Locklin. Mrs Deng!et v,is the mean old lady %Om rounded up way wand youths while Miss Sono - tons ,plainted in task , en English, elemental y Russian, am : demie Gorman of Gteek-testautant &slut event' tune Ju.lge Vought t.toppe I to tole a nu:A-needed nest Since the nil ay le.l, enacted prin mpall3 Son the 'impose of creating tine AMC... in the undieme, el -1 ton ts ate ibeing made to find out if the Libels' An Ls Faculty fins applied to Big all Thompson fon his mem hen:hip ba lges, "Antenna Fin ,t!" 7.111.717.7Q_E - Niltany Theatre (Matinee Dall,l. at 2:00) FRID 4Y—Cathaum— Billie Dine, Gilbert RgiLtiul ill . "1'111: LOVE EMI"' FRlDAY—Natany Vera Reynold% in "PHI M 11N EVENT S 4TURDAY—Cathaum— Reg 1111 l Id Denny in "ON YOUR '101:S" SATURDAY—Natany— ."IIII: LOVE MART MONDAY. and TUESDAY - Lena. 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