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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
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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.
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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
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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
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_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
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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
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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
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Freshman Decenes Teachers
Rcoert Tinashei, sleight-of-hand
eshm.in, then stepped forth to <lo
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mg the post of .his instructors at the
head of the class, Thrasher exhmited
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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
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audience, as was demonstrated thy the
undertones that persisted among the
listeners until the quintet of would-lie
deserted the platform.
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Mn,.. Gravat was Leila, the devilish
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