Page r Penn State Collegian rPuldished sentl-tkeeklr durlnu the Collo, selr by students of tte huhsshunla Suit. (Akre. 111 the 'nitres. of the Lunette, the etud tr and friends THE EXECUTIVE BOARD , LOUIS II HELL Jr JO , l' s A , 1.1 , H , A C m 2 s u 1 e C r ON i 2g. L U R G 1 . 1 2 k . 2 , 1 ' THE EDITORIAL STAFF LOUIS II 11E1'1. Jr '29 1 LIAM ELIA Is MITSTIFFR . 19 HARRY P MILE MA.4 'l9 HI. MEAN F HOI I. MAN '29 ,31. , D50N LAIRD ',ID— NEWS EDITORS Quinton E Ikauge '3O 03 all= SLhinnerer 'lO /antra II Coogan Sr '3O Rol,rt 3' Ste,ensan '3O Charle4 A Mensch 11, nr, Thaknfeld '3O THE BUSINESS STAFF WILLIAM S IIJRVRR 29 PAUL C McCONVALICIIFY 29 J HOWARD REM F ASSISTANT ROSINESS lANAGERS Nis., I. Hamm 'JO T'loo I I. Rehm 'JO Howl It DouLb. Jr '3O Milton M Itmtmbßom 'ID 31stalni of Eastern Intsrsottsgade Nenspopel Association All coy, for lumilt, I.ur mart d In the oilier In txrivr o 600, Sn w ptloy night, nntl fur 1 rid.” s 4eur, hl txcl, o clock Wedmsa. Chedis and mum., ookrs naminc. n other than 'e enn Stut, nut be In otaol fur accounts due dm no.o MaspaPpor Sub•criplion 'lrk.. V. 00, ~tarle befure I,nember I. 1019 Cacao. 29241 Loll a Olt: 11 21 3 1 ' l t lIn) I Y:111:a t n c :1 r ilutl%171., Co t . " II:IlLs1, 9 .' l./t o : ' 42 9 Cc ' l7- lag., fa hntere.l at the Postofth.e, State Collet, 7'a, at; second-e1...1 matter 31.mong leave Ntno I,lltor TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1928 THE DANGERS OF SERIOUS-MINDEDNESS The triiditionak flask-in-the-hip collegian has been oft 'accused of taking life too light.hemtedly Ace°.ling to sonic extieme impiessions, college is foul years of class cutting, hell-raising joy. Of course, even the piceeding generation Bill agree that exit emists have dyed the knom - ledge fount lust is bit too inky-black, but they'll route Chen fui in teitific negation if any one suggests that the a‘mage undergraduate takes life far too seriously. Let them nine. He dots take many things with too little facetiousness Oidimu ily, the college student thinks too =ch— i:Mout relatively unimpoitant matters Into the ash can of the past go scads of golden minutes while he doctors a fancied injury to his self-assumed pride He will not for two hours over an All-Ametican assignment that could take thirty minutes to complete. Instead of amt.- constructively with the professorial cliticisim In sophistties himself into believing that an evil smut has entered the =flitted puneyot of knowledge and that lie deserves binning at the stake Instead of enjoying the . session" hem in idle pleasantues, he hhouers pellets of acrid cynicism upon the hoed\ of his companions \ and superiors In moments of self-I)sknoss realisation \ toe extioveits himself 'upon unoileniSmg freshmen -1 In their thinking most undergraduates emulate the splinter who runs fast enough, but too much in one place. 'they are lost in a strange forest of ideas and all their tinseling is done in a circle The farce and incongruity of human existence sic too saluable to be missed Sol mu, mindedness and worry are compatriots But for the soul's sake, disminunatc between supmeibousness and the mundane corned} SATURDAY'S CHILDREN Among the alumni and the members of visiting col leges Amherst scents to have the reputation for being remarkably blase and unemotional dating Its athlete contests. In football, especially, it appears that a sixty yard run fot the Al inning touchdown in the last sonata of play is the least that till bring the stands to then feet. Many 7111 even temark, "tie Alas lucky," as they suppress. a yawn and trudge, bile's' to, their toonm, dis gruntled. Entering fteshine'n display mild enthusiasm at the op'ening game before they I.now better' If they mete 'to take their ;yes off the held of play for on instant they mould meet blank and almost hostile glances It is futbidden to let oneself go emotionally If an alumnus, an indent football fanatic, stands up in his seat to cheer a play, if he makes himself at all conspicuous, everyone within healing radios suit Win and ask, "What's he doing here?" and II 55 itty sophomore will mulmm soinethirs about a hog-calling contest. It ceitainly ought to be possible for upperclassmen to lose the somber dignity that they strive so intently to cultitate and [Facia off the old Anplo-Snot tradition of suppressing emotion Just lot five afternoons dining the Ldl team No doubt the lack of a sufficient number of competent cheerleaders has a great deal to do uith it Rooters on the ends of the blenches hose hitherto been foiced to take the initiative for their own noise, usually one scold latei than then mote fortunate Inethien in Sec tion G, Amherst cheering has been N{ orsted mole than once by rival institutions. Student opinion at Penn State is steadily and definitely moulding itself during these °ally days of underclass uctitity. By their general mutnunings and public state-. Scents (..I Letter Box, COLLFGIAN, Pu. Oct 5) students are declaring themsehes against acts ttluch they feel me detrimental either as Indications of sank college commet. cialtsm of as unsuccessful and unnecessary forms of class initiation. Among the acts most vigotously condemned mete the sale of paddles, eggs and chocolate bars to Fieshmen for Stunt Night with the false inference that purchase of these was compulsory, the sale of football tickets to pat ents who have been inn led as guests of the College, and the generally nuschievous planks of members of the three lower claws whose combined efforts =ally wrecked com pletely what was to have been a novel Stunt blight As a result of the last named difficulty, many ell, hoping fot the complete abolition of Stunt Night The facts contouring the ticket sale lime badly pun- bled. coloted and one-salad, letent dmlosui es :Alm,. Thol °ugh explanations u ill plobabls be made in the near future. N I ,Prat krt -- Than cr Just align the gAnie ended Slaw day and the le tins but g band jaayed the most tctci cu and .I.lVli %A Ito bt/14., tile Alma. Alutu, the imams liana snot k. up a loud ma ho:sto sus tune that conflicted a Ith that of the Battlefield band, Just as if out opponents, ambled on the gininon, had not the right to sing its customary closing song Long liNe the Band, champions of good oasis and pool mannms. __Amtittant Editor __sl.,lmr Editor \ncuunte A+nnehla Eth or -_ 11u5Ines. Sommer - Cir,ulotion Mnnm_tr -AoherttAinte Mannl,•r A sophomme, t.>picallv speaking, is a elude, uncouth fellow, one of last seat's freshman ale, feels that in peal of custom•brenkmg entitles him to the e•clusise pin ilege of Incalang a ycalling's neck Generally he grabs self in the slouch cup, noun aft. the Apache fuslecm, patched sheepskin coat and toads pants se Inch are meant to sloe hint the appcalance of a touch gas, poison to the fieshinan, a real college killer An item essential to his hiutishness is a quid of to• bee") (the bigger, the better) uhicli sssella one check to mumpish proportions, M bleb gists w kite teeth a healthful lumen discolointion and uhicli, when properly molested, lifetimes a stagnant fluid that, when eNpeeteiated, does not help the grass grow A sophomore is the lout who mates Stunt Night seem necessaly end mates the lieshinen seem unuetessiny lit is the little sluing, with the gigantic paddle or the huge sap with the wagon-tongue, the too curio) who sill tell the plebe where to go and what to do—Ashen the lest of his rowdy bunch is present. Ile is the fast to offer his ser. sites fat the disTinilitute of the frosh, is this Wave, hula, taming sophomore who hid undei his bed cluinig tun fresh man Stunt Night The Bullosopher's Chair Sunthers: HaN e you e, et studied the lit ouchan psycho! ogY ? "Yes. then Ficuil was in rogue Why do you ask*:" Souther". I'm beginning to think he is all Wong "That's a betty bold statement. On on hat points do ou diner firm the ardent Sigmund , " Snutherh: Well, Freud hues e‘mything in Pre to sea, doesn't he "Yes, do eel!) , to Indneetly Don't you agi cc to Ith bun'," Smithers. I don't To begin with, it soit of knocks all the idealism and r omance out of life to attubute esery- I th•ng to a biological pi inciple It seduces lose to sensual passion AT? then, I can't force myself to believe that the sex:impulse, Freud's "libido," is the dominating motive in human emstence. "Well, Smithein, I agree ssith you heat tdy on that Ilea I think that the se., mge plays second fiddle to the in.stanet for self-ineseisation In other words, man must be fed, clothed and protected front his enemies before he thinks of t rerouting his hind Nanny, then, is the town img motive in the human cycle Von hose lathe] minus. Iderstood Fieud's inteimetation of so. To hint sex mean:, Isomething mole than sensualtsm. It is the posy et that urges Lutists to paint pictin es, engine°rs to build budges, poets to write gloat epics. In short, the sex impulse is the crest's° and consttuctise Inge" Sniitherg If, as Solomon has said, "all the ssoild in van ity..." %shere does the multiple of lose and self-samthee come in" "Anothm misunderstanding. Let nie explain Man lin his original state had to light ins own Lind as well as !animals and nature in order to suivi‘e So long has man I been forced to light for Ins own mill.) , and comfort that the urge to place Ins own benefit before all else has become deeply imbedded in has own mind Man no longer needs to fight for life and food, but the impulse still lemmas paramount among Ins instincts Vanity as 'too deeply rooted to be cots ely overedme, but it is the'tiusinesli , of education to teach the youth how; to control She energy arisio .flom . this urge and 'to direct. it Info` Auntan`F anal useful channels." get the habit , watch our windows - They'll keep you informed on what's happening in the World of Style for Men. They tell you what's new and what's right. Whenever you pass take a look 4 • Aikji moME tY'S at Penn State —Amherst Student. Collegiate Definitions NUMBER 2-SOPHOMORE 'ZEE PENN STArisil 'COLLEGIAN Pena Ticket Sale Today; Revise Allotment System According to a rullng by the student tommittee on seating ar rangements, no mole than six bd.. eti slay be purchased for the pre ferred section during the first too days of the 'robin sale but any number nun be bought for the other sections Students must pre sent then. matriculation cards at the bon office during the sale of trtkets. Seniors nod juniors may secure titket4 for the Penn game today at the A. A. office. ithile sophomore and frebtuban seats rill be dr,tillo. uted tomotion Tao-year Ass and special students rum, obtain ticket, Thursday. All scats are priced at .$3OO. Side Lines recover} of a fumble la the fast Imitate of pl 4 and his tun lot a touthdoun treated the spectators to a premature 61111 \When the referee tale,' the ball dead, homer.et, and no score resulted, the G-Burg rooters In the East Stands breathed a sigh of t chef EZIMI Gettysburg's burly eentm, Tus3ev, uas the outstanding lineman on the visiting tenni lie solely Otto It moun tain on the defense ——o— Tuckey, Bullet substitute halfback, received his fiat baptism of the wlitni he replaced Gaidnei in the second half. On tlin \elv fin dt phi} be fum bled the ball and Vold lecoNcied. I=l=l Stew line s caa Haile be called "Flee Yard.' In Saturd.Ws game he aseraged that figure in all his ball-ear 13 mg expedthons The husky halfback seas almost knocked out in the play in chick Stahlcy converted the Gettysburg tumble into a touchdown And that's something Stme has 'reset encount ered in the ring numbei 20, uas Gettvs buig's chief ball cal lael We ssomiel if his first nano is Bo ——o— Gettsbuig's fumbling proved its chief undoing in the contest Satuida3 On 5 thireient occasions Bullet hall tote. Mopped the pigskin, watchful Lions icemming, them each time. =ISM Coop French's :),3-yard sprint in the last quattei was both exerting and destruetise Two bully Cettysbutit rang were knocked out completely while the diminutive quarterback. con tinued his merry way, Tw'plity Years Ago I=l Although the White and Blue lost its fast big game of the season last Saturday at Wilkes,Batte to the In dians, oui ,eloven suits nestles hum bled in dCsgtaced Only through Thorpe's accurate place-kicking did the Redskins sun the game by a same of 9-5 I=7=l The picture strap was won on Thursday morning by the freshmen They gathered at the side of McAllist er and twenty-tN‘o e•pasnres were taken from the timed floor of the Chenusti y budding. Only one of the fractures sins good It had 108 fresh men on it which is eight more than the number necessary to Os In I=l=l In a little Over a, nee]: we 1,11 deli cnte, the new 13enviir field wall n great interscholastic field and tad.' tneee In whlch the best secnntlary schools ,n Pennsyltenta Shave entered letnesen. tat, es I=l=l The concert Sattaday night by San !Riot's Hungailan thchestaa was , 0 1 : , * good The moment sons aell selected, and if it seemed a little long to some, that was probably due to the fact that nearly eleiy body in the audience was lather toed. STATE COLLEGE BAKERY ' Furniture Made to Specifications Single Units or Quantity DEPARTMENT OF y •1.• t y INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING First Floor, Engineering B Room 106 The tepoit that the College mill be closed mithm ten days unless me hove lain is mahout foundation. It has not been necessary to shut-the pumps Minch