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Penn State Collegian
Published sontl.weeLly during the College )ear by students of the
Ports, hanla State Colleee. it the intertats of the College, the stud.
ents, fatnit, alumni a•td friend.
THE EDITORIAL STAFF
OUIS IL BELL Jr '2O
LLEU ELIAK MITSTIIER '29
HARRY I' MILEHANI . 20
HERMAN I: HOU MAN '2O
JUDSON LAIRD .29.------
NEWS EDITORS
Quintun F Menace '3O Hubert I. Ste‘onson . 30
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TUESDAY. OCTOBER 23, 1928
Ifisto* failed to repeat itself Saturday when the
football team opposed Pennsylvania in the annual trial,
tonal flay. Last year, if memory sm‘es us in good'.
stead. Penn State ',as in a medicament almost identical
to that uhich pretaded this season. Bucknell had scaled
n nut pi ising VICtOI y and a bitter one This year the Bison
tuumphed again. Last year, the gum Lion trotted about
Pianklin Field defiantly but unfealed, until, 10, Woe the
sun set on that historical holiday, he had torn the Quake,
to shreds. This season, the Lion Sian just as gum, just as
detennined. just as sicious. But It ,as a ,arN Quat er
that met him, not lightl3, as mils the previous ease, but
iespectfullt , and oyerpoumed hon. thwarted him con,
plete4 in his attempt to repeat the sin prising cone-back
Nictoiv of lust year Penn had learned from experience
Thole is no questioning the superiouty of the waning
team The standard bowers of the Red and Blue pie
vented a 51t utter and more pouel.ful line offense, a more
consistent defense and a second offense which, although
not latently more diluent than Penn State's bad:held,
held an edge in SatuulaYs game. Inemierience of the
neuei unsay men might be cited as one of the major
seasons for the Lion's defeat
With all inspect, praise and honor due the worthy
Quakes victor, the grit, the light and despes ate effort of
Bezdel.'s men cannot be ol.ellooked. Fighting a losing
battle throughout, Penn State managed to hang on,
hoping, aluays hoping, determined, plugging, making a
despes ate occasional conic-back like a man drunk from
too much punching But it nab Penn's day, just as it
Sias Penn State's, last yeas
Those ssho remembered the incidents of last year's
Bucknell and Penn genies and fully expected a repetition
of the 1927 triumph 'sere no doubt among the more keenly
disappointed spectators Those ssho dared only to hope
fervently 'sure perhaps dmappointed but not surprrsed.
Those ssho felt the players' es ery emotion and adnured
their courage and desperate effort felt that defeat sons
gust and knew that the setback was valuable experience
for the Lions in their ensuing mayor struggles.
Tonight a student rally will be held in the new gym
nasium for purposes of appreciation, encouragement and
stimulus. Players may not feel worthy of the reception -
but they are Students may not sense the appropriateness
of the gathering, nor may they have the desire to attend
it after the second slap It behooves every appreciatise
student to attend as proof of his good faith and sports
minslop, for he is among those who must endure poverty
in search of prosperity.
MEN WANTED
,; Today's "Letter Box" column reveals an interesting
acid unustial story - which reads almost like lichon. It is
the tale of a sophomore' Milo stood feiirlessly alone in re
proaching disorderly upperclassmen because they showed
public distespect for the most loued, the most leveled, of
all Penn State songs, the Alma .hater.
When thousands of spectators had arisen and stood
bareheaded to pay musical tribute to Penn State, the 111,
ruly, nresponsible villains of the story uttered a bias
phemous accompaniment which the protesting youth
straightway firmly resented. The remainder of the story
the letter will tell.
The sentiment of Dean Warnock is strongly seconded
Penn State should be justly proud of own who honor het
name and seeped her value at all times. The unknown
sophomot c is to be admired because of his lone stand and
stein sense of duty to the College valich is moulding his
character and nui taring him through years of young
manhood. For youths of his quality, these is mole loom
hero—v.hes e men like the villainous tuo hold places
undeservnigly.
KNIGHTS OF THE OPEN ROAD
Every age has its romantic figures. The age el
quadruped tiansportation had its dashing athentmei on
hm sebuch The memory of this swashbuckling hero has
been enbalmed for Suture generations in countless ro-
mantic novels Talcs of his hat &hips, his deeds of daring,
still swing both the young and old leader into the
seventh heaven of delight.
Our own age is one of iron and steel machines The
open load is no longer a highway for horses. Long, ink
ash mentions of mechanical genius now flash over the
smooth surface of concrete highways while the timer
reclines comfoitably on plush cushions. The scientific at
titude seems to have taken the romance out of life. But
even now throe as one romantic figure on the open road.
lie is the hitch-hiker. The commercially-minded look
upon hue as a parasite, traveling upon other people's
pocketbooks They me topical of the dollar day attitude.
If we examine our hitch-lakei more closely and forget
for a moment the call 01 cominmetalmin, we shall find Inn?
otherwise. The greater majotity of hitch-hikers ate col
lege students, either returning to or from their alma
mater, or following then athletic team to some out-01..
tom n contest. College students, as a rule, are perennially
hnancial straits. Many are working their way througn
school. Eros those who receite an allowance from home
are seldom flush with money. All of them feel the urge
of youth to traoel about and see other sections of the
world Hrtch-hrklng is then only alternative.
----Editor•ln•Chief
—_Avdattint Editor
--MannOnt: Editor
__.A”oclate Editor
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The hitch-hiker starts out upon his muiney pith much
the same spina as did the knights of King Arthur ashen
embaiking upon a nen quest. Esm“hing depends upon
the turn of fate's is heel of loamy With luck he may
reach his destination by nightfall, but should the fickle
gods fi one, he dill lied himself stranded in some deserted
region when the blushing sun flops oven the holizon. It
is this dependence upon chance that lends romance to the
adventme
And set theme ale alnays those feu scourges of mum
kind who insist on spoiling the pleasuies of others, In
a fen race instances thugs and thieses hale assumed the
pose of hitch-tokens in older to ply then trade. All such
outiages ieceive the ninvinum space in newspapers, es
pecially in those of the tabloid and scandal satiety whose
chief appeal is to eye-nlinded moions This publicity is
responsible for the ginning resentment against knights
of the open road Moto, magazines have taken up the
m, but instead of piesenting the case in its time light,
they have pichned the hitch-inkei as a cheap scoundrel
to be rated lovei than the canned-heat-consuming bum
of the city gutters.
Thvdness littnr“ter
___Ctreulntion Mame,
—Athertleing ll:mazer
Theie is agnntion foi a State lam against hitch
hiking The only logical Justification for such a law lies
in the dangms titan the in inunally-minded mho man p the
ivdege foi then wan selfish ends It seems that motor
ists should be able to tell the diffeience betmeen college
students and thugs. Peshaps they cannot If, lioness's.,
anion can piece that robbery by seenung innocent hitch
hikers has become a positive thing., the State legislatms
mill hose sufficient season for enacting a law If not, the
knights of the open road should be left to the flee
enjoyment of then pindege
ARE WE AFRAID OF LITERATURE?
The great Ameiican public has a loner literary I. Q
than that of an) other nation To be mole explicit, the
inhabitant, of this land of prohibition and freedom buy
less books per capita than those of any other endued
country It inust be so Recently compiled statistics
prove it
To m hat, ire ash ourselves, is this popular distaste foi
the fruits of the pen due' The MA Iter of a recent maga
zine article lays the lion's share of the blame upon the
shoulders of college moles.. of English and then meth
ods.
If you trifle, fence food down a man's thioat.whether
he is hungry of not, he will choke and reject the food,
howevei excellent it may be. It is so with literature
Because of colonialism, the English gods of letters lecene
homage and burnt °timings while our own divinities in
the same holds don't even get 7, prayer. It is just possi
ble that the student ought find mole local intmest in the
works of his countrymen Clinging to tradition, the
English departments place the study of poetry on a pin
nacle high abate the study of prose, drag defy) classics
front their coffins to dissect for the enlightenment of their
classes, and absolutely refuse to countenance anything
with the lemotest bearing on sin or sex.
Among the red-letter sins of pedagogy are the at
tempt to reduce the ant of literature to a mechanical sci
ence with the aid of historical sequences, dates, schools,
sources, periods, statistical analyses and whatnot, the
childish habit of dissecting a fine piece of literature in
order to show the clans what it is made of, and the dies
mon that whatever is obscure and symbolic is a stroke of
genius and ,therefore deserves F 5 3, _91014 Study,
.;
The sad putt of it iS that,' genetally',speak'ine the
student is forced to attest that there is a whole granary
truth in,these ondmnl assertions Perhaps even sonic of
the English professors themselves me kneed to agree
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Edltol, COLLEGIAN
I hate r eCelt ed a letter from a les/-
dent of Pittsburgh which seems to
speak for itself—both as to the inci
dent related, and the elicit upon a
tutor to Oar campus.
"Saturday afternoon." the letter
rends, "I was one of a group of men
who on itnessed the football game Le
een Bucknell and State College An
incident happened during the game
which I would like to bring to lour
attention, particularly because r, with
other men mound, admit ed the spurt
and honor of the young man who stood
up for his college name
"Thi en men, at least too of whom
were student, and I think the thud
also, wet° di inking Dining the third
quarter they became cozy bmstetuus.
and once when the hand was playing
the "State" Alma Matm song and
everybody was standing, these thee
fellow became terry Imistmous and
used obscene language
"A young man, he name,
who told me he was a sophomore, ion,
onstiated with these Once men for
using obseene.language in connection
V. t h the Alma Muter song They
hurled on him and boated him a good
deal fot what they said was butting nt
PETER B. HASSEL
SIGNS
118 SOUTH GILL MEET
STATE COLLEGE BAKERY_
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And So His Face Was Utterly Ruined
OLD GOLD
. . 7he Smoother and Better Cigarette
.... not a cough in a carload
One of them threatened to take him
betel° the Tiibbnal, if he would give
his name This he offeled to do if he
could unit an upperclassman who had
been a witness of the scene and would
cco a ith him But he could find no one
who would Noluntect I olfeted to do
what I could, but he said it would
cause n good deal of trouble and he,
thought best to let it diop
"I am v, citing to you pal ticularly
because many of us minuted the stand
that this young sophomme took, and
an all think State will alums have an
homed place with him, as he thinks
State is draw so much for hum to his
01epsi anon"
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