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Penn State Collegian
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College, the students, faculty, alumna and friends.
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TUESDAY. MAY IS, 1928
MON &UP DAY
Ostensibly the yearl‘ advance through class cus
toms and traditions is a gradual increase of individu
al 1 reed= rhe down-trodden Ireshmen, hemmed in
on every side by restrictions on his personal and pLb
lic conduct, eventually cn3ovs the privileges of senior
dom with its unlimited freedom Looking beneath
the surface of class customs and forgetting for a mo
ment personal irritation against restraints upon in
dividual liberty, one sees a progress of a different
sot t going on. The period between matriculation
and graduation witnesses an increase in the assump
tion of responsibility From this point of view, then,
the freshmen should be the most carefree of the four
classes ,
Responsibility as well as customs carries with it
restrictions upon individual conduct and action. rhe
shade of difference lies in the fact that observance of
customs is enforced from without, which IS, no doubt,
irksome, and that responsibility's only taskmaster is
the individual's sense of duty and the effect his ac
tions will,have upon his associates' opinion of him
In popular opinion servility to customs smacks of in
feriority while slavery to responsibility is commonly
supposed to indicate a high degree of ability Hence
the apparent readiness on the part of undergraduates
to cast oft one set of shackles for another
Tomorrow members of the four will drop old
restrictions and take on new responsibilities at the
annual Move-Up Day ceremonies In high glee and
boy they will leave behind them the past year's class
customs, but will think little, if at all, about the de
mands their new taskmaster will make upon them.
It is well There is yet plenty of time to worry about
the responsibilities of the future
FRATERNITY SONGS
Fraternity singing has long lain in a dormant
state Not only has there been little development
along this line, but there is also an unusual scarcity
of good fraternity songs, songs that may be sung in
public without a blush on the part of the songsters
A recent movement to awaken interest in this phase
of the Greek-letter man's life has taken the form of
an interfraternitv radio singing contest.
As yet there has been a lack of interest shown
in this competition Fraternity songs form a colorful
and worth-while part of undergraduate life and Penn
State fraternities seem, from the amount of response
to the call for entries in the contest to hate no songs'
Buried beneath the dust in some obscure corner of
their houses, they must have both chapter and nation
al songs Let them unearth the music, harmonize
over it and enter the contest before tomorrow noon
when all entries must be in
The Bullosopher's Chair
"Pedagogues who stick to their posts and aim high
ate quite elated Olel the fact that education has gone
Botany The late Achievement 'lest motes it The ode,
lons move it The students theinselt es move it But
some of us ale sick It has been only a slant slide since
bookkeopeis tines up then penclls anal became efficiency
c spells on education, but in that short tone they in ospei
ed exceedingly and a system, aliouily wobbling nom me
cum-/0d methods was knocked spiamling by the applica
tion of mole nualatnimi methods It was tin easy matter
for the Cainegie Foundation to pass oil its Achievement
Test as a scientific expeliment Those who refused to
consul. the test sm musty were amused of magician and
wee mamma to lemembei those who had scoffed at Co
lumbus The aigument that the Educatois looked mane
like weasles than Colambuses had no effect. Appearances
cue deceitful and those gentlemen who do not know Chns
tophet Morley from Kit \tallow° ale lenity capable to tell
those sho do hos litmattne is to lie taught.
"It seems to me that the whole business of blue
punted education has leached a udsulous state. Unless a
stop is put to it the baby science, as the peterkin wet
noises facetiously tom it, will soon be on a level with
chn opractic, insinance, and alum elevated ails. Right
now Ifighei Lein ning is even up with pluenology and got
mg strong, In fact, the only advantages tai the latter
that I can think of at the moment are that It costs less
and that its mactitionms has e sonic sense.
"Why, it may be asked, do I not give these educia
_tors a chance? Why do I not cooperate' Why do I not
become inoculated with then ideas? Why do I not become
tolerant and keep my own opinions in suspended anima
tun? It Its as intelligent to ask me why Ido not do these
things as it is to ask me why, wish to improve the
conditions of the insane, I do not myself become a lunatic.
"I do not shine the popular belief that all schools!
and all professors are endowed vont a mystei inns wisdom
whirls, if not apparent on the surface, operates furiously,
'theyit. If depot Intents of pedagogy knee any viituesi
'they have escaped me. I hate encountered scores of li:du
e:Am s and Embryo Educators and among them all I small
only one who had anything inteiesting to say. 7'hey ate
neatly all dull, authot itative, and tat-headed They would
make excellent. movie detectives. Whether or not they ate
familial mall a subject, thej ale exasperatmgly cocksure
about it; in fact, not knotting a subject is considered a
great advantage it still allow hirer lunge fin the meth
ods Tall. to an Instauctos as educational measmements
and he tall leave you with the implesston that von have
been conterstag mall a mime anntsto ot at the least, an
olden...in. You may be an Einstein, but hooey°i meagle
his knowledge of science you will discoses that in ten
minutes he will be discussing n elativsty. In twenty lie
still Wes to teach it to you. In thnty he still undestake
to chit t vont vitality and cremate your bones.
"Glantlng all then plepostmous dams to science
one cannot see boo anything remotely smentafic can be ob- 1
tamed final the Achievement Test, men though the semis'
of the School of Education tabulate the papers. In the!
fast Mace, the thing was not nn achtetement test Vast'
portions ume palpably designed to give the Ags and
other Intellectual nonentities a chalice to catch up Vast
mations mote were so ambiguous and obscure that heads
of depaitinents protested that they were unfan and could''
be ansomed only atbdtanly. Fulthelmme, batches of
papers still hate to be thrown out as Incomplete Even
the most enthumastm (outside the School of Education)
had little to say .diet they hail taken the exammation
The feltot which had led them al to gluteus speeches on
the maul obligation of taking the test had faded out to a
wee sputtering on the stimulatmg effects the test would
have It shooed students hose little they knew, and thgt
would stanulate them The students stho had taken the
test would knock then Va 1.101.15 courses for loops, and
whenever they lagged other tests would be given The
motessors themselt es, however, felt no such jubilation
In the dear sllumination of then offices in Old Mann they
began to doubt whether the supettolity of the Seam °ter
the freshman tins not after all obvious They began to
doubt whether the Caineme Foundation was justified in
taking too clays an a. ham the College's tune to mote
that It was °Mums Waist of all, they began to doubt
whether it V. 111., a matter of college loyalty to take the
test or a matte, of selling themselves fat eight million
pieces of ',lves
. . President
Vice-President
. Treasurer
Editor-in-Chief
Assistant Editor
Managing Editor
Jksnciate Editor
Associate Editor
II P. Mlleham '29
L 1111tstlfer '29
"This bangs us to tne pi messois themselves The
business of college loyalty is all sety well, hut it :Alike,
one as being sommy hat limited Why dal not the faculty
membeis take the csamination with the lest dining the
too day sweating lies toil And why, before they bad
taken the esammation themselves, veto they Permitted to
discuss the questions with those who silently had taken it
And why did the led apple boys of the School of Educa
tion get the ptivilege (and how') of narking senior Pan
els only' What coos the lesson fec not subjecting the
faculty to the saute indignity!
"It is iiithei puzzling, too, sshv so many of the fac
ulty who opposed the examination should hesitate to say
so publicly -
'According to the Dean of the Liberal Alts School,
the choice of the school's policy lies yllth the faculty And I
solely an expo iment that cuts so deeply and so important
ly into the regular cuticula is a matter of policy for -thd
faculty to decide NOV, it would seem, is the time to speakl
up It may lie eons entent to have the Cat:lope Founda
lion recommending instead of dictating, but it staikes one
that to questions of inst.t action the faculty should have a
R4ll. At it sins, a Pittsburgh loportei commented that
stacks and stacks of books were piled up and tly roma,
and the student so as left to make Atha he could of tics
resulting &Min
"A consaleiable number of inofessois, question, g
the value of the test, took tt lamely to satisfy then cal
losity and to condemn those sum refused to take tt Tee
rebels, they said, roue flinching from scientific duty
"Yet the Achimement Test by the most gigantic
giant of glace cannot be iegaided in any stay as scienti
fic It can no mole be called it test of achieuement than
lolling n peanut up a hill can be called a test of knowledge.
And peihaps the most niitating thing about the affair is
the minim in Much the Libels' Acts School conducted
itself Not dining to ci Aim° foe feat of being mitiemed
itself, the Libels! Ai tu School put it clown as a good joke,
somewhat painstakingly it seems and the vets absence of
mitical comment heats ominous plod of how fat clown tine
education has ahead', gone It is high time that someone
authority stoic the inasquelade Mote of these e
ment Tests and it ,111 become as silly to attend an insti
tution of heat mg as it is now to consult a hoioe doctor
for an appendicitis operation What the Educators should
chits to abandon their frequency calves fin a few books in
the Libialy What they need is a shaight tight to the
tau What they need is a cold showei "
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KEELER'S
Cathaum Theatre Building
THE rttilsl &Alt tar.ntAiq
'Lion 'lmprints
W'lint impressed you rno,t during
your College career?
Molex C. lieu yll ell '2B
President of Student Council
"May I say it in just a few words'
"The gmatest thing that these four
years of college life have given me is
a 'point of %le,'
"What was once of little value Is I
TIM of great moment What once
seemed of NA.] importance to life and
'life's school' is now of little woith
compaiison to those values n luch
entny college senior should have learn
ed to hold as the chief purpose foi
mu existence These last four years
has e gin en me a bmadei , eleai er, mm e
wholesome attitude towaul life at
huge This 'point of view' has de
neloped [min the books I base mad,
Ithe contacts I liaise 11111d0 so ith msta uc
lois and the associations pith other
college men whom I have Conic to
know and Chose acquaintance to me
. worth much.
'As any othei college mum, I hold
that throe ale many values in college
life which ate too numinous to men
tion here The filendships which me
invaluable, the mole of less free and
independent life of college, the acquis
ition of knowledge and all the several
-thantages of college that null e tne
foul }ems wroth the time and ex
pense many times over, have all gone
togethm m Calming this 'point of
which I maintain weighs heav
iest in the balance of 'College life and
whit it has meant to me.'"
Thonr ✓. CoOrli° '2B
Co NIT 1188rtur,
"lhe oft-repeated incident that has
left the greatest impiession with me
dining ny fo a ',ea', at Penn State
is the singing of the Alma Mates at
the conclusion of athletic events, milks
meetings and convocations. Especial
ly, at New Beaxei Field, at the end
of an exciting football game is this
custom inspiiing. If the team has
come thiough successfully the notes
of the Alma Matei make a fitting
vnc
hny song, and then, if a defeat has
been administeied by the opposing
team, the singing of the Alma Matet
lightens the disappointment and one
looks fonvasnl to the next game.
"Class customs' may fall into V e
dikcaid, and Penn State may change
in many ways, but the one ememony
that should always imam is the sing
mg of the Alma Nam at the conclu
sion of all College events"
Lad, .1,. '2B
Eflitol-noChlof of Collegian
•"fhe wondeiful possibilities of a
fast-approac hing future that awaits
i
Penn State s the one tangible thing
that impiesses me most when I re
gard this inimitable institution.
"Of Louise, there ale chenshed
ft .endships, tnlunble contacts and
beautiful memories that consummate
lout 7., ears of college life, but towering
rho, all, is the possiblity of the fa
ints Penn State
. .
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"Penn State is young. The College
is just emerging from an experimental
stage. More and, more the people cf
the Commonwealth ale coming to to
ntine that Penn State can teturn en
ormous dividends for money expended
for the gientet efficiency of the Col
lege.
"The tireless workers who are sacri
ficing tone and energy, and even
health, in order to orate possible in
creased uppropriatton for the greater
glory of the College and Common
'wealth, crertarnly deserve all kinds of
pause.
"Thole are ninny more of us who
could well ulfoid to emulate the efim ts
of these loyal fnends polo State
onuld cotamly welcome such old"
LINKSMEN BATTLE LOCK
HAVEN TEAM TOMORROW
Nittany Golfers Will Engage
Strong Clinton Country '
Club Aggregation
Hoping for a repetition of last
week's victory mei the George Wasn
rngton golfers, the College links quar
tet will leave tomorrow for Lock Hav
en, Ashore they mill encounter the golf
team of Clinton County country club.
The Clinton county aggregation is
composed of all experrenced golfers,
who play consistently throughout the
y ear, and oho will no doubt offer much
opposition to the efforts of the NittanY
club wielders.
The same men who have remesent
ed the Lions in every match so fat
this season will probably uphold the
Blue and White in tommiow's snatch
es Captain Jim Bunting will lead
the attack foe Penn State, playing the
first man on the Lock Haven team.
Bail Hewitt, who has been peifm ming
tieditably so foe this season, will no
doubt follow Bunting in the matche,
of the afternoon
If Veinonhman displays the
foim tomorrow that he exhibited
against Alexander of the Ceoige
Washington team, copping the low
medal score far the matches, Satur
day, he will move a salient feature
in the pow ei of the Penn State team
Toots Panaccion, who is a newcomer
in varsity golf ranks, is immoving
steadily and vs ill prove an aid for the
Natan, , , golfers toincalow. Panacmon
won Ins match with Herron of the
Hatchet train last meek and palled
with Prgehman, sensed a win in the
best-ball foursome.
IJEWELRY
1 Vail kinds
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I'Letter :Box ' I
Editor, Penn State Collegian,
State College, Pa.
I wish to congratulate you for your
open discussion in revealing the ques
tionable flames insulting from the re
cent class elections. For mere per
sona! satisfaction, I investigated the
figures nom the elections and found
that Yost original editorial was en
, tuely Justified hum these facts
That after seven ballots had bten
thrown out of one school ballot box
by the elections committeeos being
illegally' cast, there yet remained in
that school a total in e•cess of the
actual number of students in that
!school nt the present.time, the num
bet of students in school having been
obtained from the secretary of the
Dean. Only after a recount
follots
mg y our editoual did the election coni
mittee find the count to be nine less
than they originally ',ported and vei,
fled by their first check.
That a number of persons at vat
ions school ballot boxes illegally el-
I ectionect ed for candidates, in abso
lute violation of ,Student Coucil rul
ings of last year
It is to be"regretted that the elec
tions committee has iitteinoted to re
fute the'facts as stated in year edit
in ails entitled "The Election Problem"
and "Figures Don't Lie" Their more
I progressive policy would have been
to openly reveal the case and advo
cate a refoim in out ballotting
tom The fault is not thews, it is
the system. Trusting that subsequent
yews may find a change in elective
system, I imam,
Very truly yours,
Non-il atee nit y Sento, ,
Nelson R. Adams '2B
Library To -Institute
New Shelf of Books
Purposing to offer woithwhile
teal
log over the week-ends, Miss Sabra
WI. Vought, College Librarian, an
nounces that in the near future a shelf
of "Fiiday Books" still be instituted
Compliments , and 'Best Wishes
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This selection will consist of a num
ber of wolthwhtle volumes chosen
from the current publications. They
will be both' fiction and non-fiction and
soul be placed on the shelf on Fridays
to be ietained ovei the week-ends.
This sei, ice is said to be an innovation
in the service of college libraries.
Pi ivilege has also been extended to
I take out books oven the summer en
' cation polled but the latter 'books
must not be those which ale in popu
lar demand.
TIIL4TI~G
- Nittany Theatre
(Note. Nlttany Clo,ed Tuecdny)
FRlDAY—Cathaurn
First Pennc}ivnma Shol,ine: or
Mite Doge in
"THE YELLOW LILY"
FRIDAY—NIttnny—
Victor McLaglen. June Coßyer in
"lIANGM AN'S HOUSE"
SATURDAY—Gathnum—
Shirley Mason. Ben Turpin in
"TIIE WIFE'S RELATIONS"
SATURDAY—Nanny—
"TIiE YELLOW LILA
REVIVAL PROGRAM
MONDAY—Cathnum—
John Burry more in
'THE SEA BEAST"
TUESDAY—Cathaum—
George Arli,s in
"DISRAELI"
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