Page Tv.) Penn State C,ollegian Publlahed sernlAreetly during the College year tr students et the Pennsylvania Mato College. In the Interests of ea College, the stud ent., faculty, alumni and friends. LOUIS H. DELL: Is TO —Editor-In Mier LLEWELLYN MITSTIFER . 29. Assistant Editor HARRY P AMMAN TD Monsalne Editor HERMAN E. HOFFMAN T9------_—,.........._Associate Fditar JUDSON LAIRD . 23—, Associate Mar NEWS EDITORS [rant. E. Bence 10 Itabert. P. Steven... 10 hoes 17. Coop., Sr. 10 MO. A Mensal •9O Henry 71.alenfehl 10 THE BUSINESS STAPP wrucrAm S. MINER 19.--___ ___ --.—....Eusluess Manager PAUL C. ItcCONNAIICAFT 10---- ---- Circulation :limner 3 EDWARD REIM 1.0---------...Advertininu Munacer ASSISTANT 13USINESS ll TANAGERS Calvin E. Ramis 10 Runicll L Rohm 10 'Henry 12 Dowd, Jr 'OO Milton 11 Ruitonl.loom 10 Entered at the Postelace State Canaan Pa , at •rcuad•clatt matter TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1929 A FADING INSTITUTION The nation-wide collegiate institution, popularly known everywhere as "Hell Week," is slowly fading into oblivion, accolding to a repast made to Intelfraternity Council by a Penn State representative who attended the national con ference of the National Studnet Federation of America in Columbia, Mo,, last month. The report was based on an impromptu speech delivered by the University of Mis sours dean of men at a meeting for discussion of irate, nity problems. Dean of Men Arthur It Warnock discuss es the same subject in an inter. iew punted today These is little doubt but that fiaternay ',tailbone at Penn State use also in a period of bansition, that little by little they ale being lessened in severity. "Now wizen I went through," begins the setusned alumnus as he pro ceeds to fill the ems of a ciedulous neophyte with tales of almost unbelietable barbarism, tales, however, which one' must grant absolute Lath. Perhaps the beginning of the decline in paddling and special stunts could be dated sense' time in 1925. Tio a fiaternay men, therefore, who lave' had direct contac i oweth the old Immo will hate passed out of undergraduate life after the June Commencement. News of fatal accidents ocemung during flatonity initiations at other colleges and universities still come to us. At a western college recently, an unthinking group of men conceived the Idea of gently surmising a frond by booking up his bed 'splings with a high-powered electua circuit. As a result, the victim of the "joke" was electro cuted. Also, in a small college in the western past of Pennsylvania, a blinds olded initiate stepped in front of an automobile, and was instantly killed Little reason, then, that the ',lissome dean of men declared in Ills talk that fraternity condition,' everywhere will become outs emely bad if "Hell Week" , not removed from the fiatesnity calendm. - is no legitimate excuse for the existence of such an Institut on eien in conic. Fraternity initiation should be a noble event. The series of damnable stunts filling "Hell Week" serve only to reduce initiation to the level of grade school antics. The state of mind extant among in itiates dining the period precludes concentration upon scholastic work. Professors obtain even less re.ponse than in normal times. ENen upperclassmen ate unable to study. They are too busy arranging a program of hell-like existence for the initiates Many fraternities of the College already have lightened then• initiation, others have eliminated the "rough house" part while still others expect to do so ♦sithin the next year An age of reason is rapidly enveloping Penn State fraternity men, and it so to be hoped so ill prove the means of consigning "Hell Week" to its proper place among other ancient customs. R. P. S. College students alp divided into t‘o classes, scoot& ing6 Knut:e Rockne, heact.foothafi coach at Notre Dante; whg decla;ei that there', are' reenlist.' studentS 'and "ilidly- Woo'd" students. The type included m the' first group is the real college man who ploys football to telieve himself. of pent-up spirits while the typical specimen of the second division is the chap who thinks college is conductd . the 111..0.es inteotet it. That may be, but :qr. Roane 'forgot to mention a thhd impoitant, or lathe]. utumpoitant classification. that. which includes students who ace unable to cliffeienciate between college and high school. An 'ink famine" threatens the students at the Uni versity of Minnesota followinx the decision of libialy authorities to provide no more ink for students. 'Buy your wan ink," is the most recent order of the likaarians. This should provide a bit of inspiration for the In othec who owns the only typewsiter in the house. The Bullosopher's Chair 1 "Ah, the February Dandy Fair, eh, Snuthers? Get ting modern in your reading, what? Any sti dung al ticks this month?" Smithers: Well, I have only lead the one by Akira!, Ilux. Icy, entitled "In Praise of Intolerance." "'ln Praise of Intolerance"" Smithersi You heat,' me. Aldous says that he objected at first to the suppression of "The Well of Loneliness," by a young English authoress, Miss Hull, brought about through scandal sheet publicity in one of the British Sun day papers. Seems that the edam wrote the ett,ck him self and was able to get the backing of the Home Sec: e tarp. Just like the lane pee of the Watch & Ward Society of Boston, they made a dull novel exciting and the rime per volume trebled. "humph' That reminds Ine—we were assigned one of Weiser's recent novels, in a contempolacy American lit course. When I went to the library to borrow it, I was told that rt was considered indecent and accordingly had been removed horn circulation Fancy that now! Whcn dilated it was culled 'The Nosel of the Decade.' by a dorm or mode maws. It was put on the stage, too, and what is more—although questioned as to theme—passed the New York diamatic censors. The fact is, Snuthers, that tiagedies lilse tne one with which it deals arc known in exely hamlet, Zenith and capital of the world. Further mole, it mooches a better sedmon for living a modal life and produces more concluside proof rf the 'Wages of Sin' then a dozen Gentlemen of the Cloth could expound in a 'scar of Sundays" f.mither.: Never nund, Bullosopher, it is a blow strucK, for liberty, according to Ahlous. "Well, Smilhms ',Ay so glum? You look as though }nu had been a participant in a dance marathon" Smaller.: In answer to your question, I attended the Ball Friday night and it might as \tell have been a marathon it scenic there sidle fraternity booths in which to rest Letween the dances. "There n ere Thee Vole lead on a special map i the-mu of the gymnasium and they scented much largo• than those in the Armory" I Si-tither; Just a minute Let me finish my story. There cede booths, all yell and good as far as they went, but that v another stmt'. Upon arriving at out tented policing spare imagme my embarrassment to find myself among sit anger, (Arcot a couple brick In the cornet. There one of the brothers had secreted himself and partner during the latter pat t of the dance. "T“h, lash, you are absurd, according to the chart thole were almost numbs, less booths Don't tell toe that 11:ou were mesa ttslied mrth the dunce. Such a popular orchestra and the nen floor• to dance on What more could anyone desire"" Smithers: There you go again assuming things without knonlng The orchestra N,13 quite good—for concert ork As for ‘olume they dui their best, but it was lather unfortunate playreg directly into the crowd. "You are certainly haul to pleas.e, but at least you had the pleasere of dancing on the new floor north all its space advantages " I Struthers: Will you let me finish what I was saying" The floor as fat as space is concerned nes all right but it nes nese, built for dancing any length of time. Do you remember last year I mentioned that I hoped the new floor nould not be solid Eill=1!1:1 'Yes, hut At hat do you eat e about how the floor is Struthers: R is no sconder that you left the Engineering School Try dancing on a concrete floor for several hours and then stmt your steps on a plain nooden floor. If your feet, and entue body for that matter, are not in better condrt•mr in hen you base finished dancing on the latter you should certainly enter into marathon dancing compe. • talon. What are you trying to tell me anyway?" Smaller,: That the Home:awn Hall with its concrete covered floor, and without the orchestra on a high plat form with nound boards oterhead, as not the best place in the world to hold a dance, if the participants intend doing any labor the following day Collegiate Definitions NUMBER 11-WEEK-END The period eiytcnding from early or late Friday after noon until early or late Sunday afternoon is what is known, in college social circles, as a week-end. Invariably plea sine-seeking youths mho are financially able to indulge in this collegiate pastime open the petted in good spirits Until the afternoon of the thud dry is completed, honeter, the stiength of the indulgent youth is sapped. This change decline in yivacity accounts for the appelation, "Week-end " If, as is the case at Penn State, it is difficult to escape fi our u /thin close proximity of one's alma meter, the care flee }oaths same "whoopee" on the campus. For such purposes, these foimei students import their "babes," or sometimes they rely on a town gni Merriment reigns and money floss (luting this so-called week-end. Reduced to intelligible (levies, a week-end is of forty-eight hours duration (and Wentl-fise dollars damnation). This unwsitten lass is broken only with the advice and consent of the =pelted maid. To be explicit, it all de pends on whether or not she m mks in an office, or,eve \sone, in a sshoolhousea,The happy; souple:Aiiht'poisiek to'aelang the peripd taventy:loUr',heas concerned show an unusual intes'ekt. oh eVen,lcingir if Riley, show signs of a lasting infatdation. ' tara PENN SESSION TWO tter Box With the Tyrants!" January 18, MI ,r-in-eleer To the EUt The COLLEGI !my of justzlicatton foL hough it may not then MEM standards of this gift ,ith its gifted admini,tia manner and execution of I mg, whethet of intereq mor not. They, memo liege n authorities, have a In affitr. and meteing nt and penalties for ac ot the students bete, at he College and the nu e no control or itnisilie se same students sure up to t I ed College, ham and Its dile al prof I to of and th trig the Coll gilt in deal, out punnhml tions of soon lime when thori les ha Won over th, no may I cite the ev o-ed that merstepped, o one of the rules set Along On ample of th yea verily, I ge, and had the nu down by U on a lawn while en le dining her Christ <udy to smol, route to her to EME/12=1E1 mas holiday i =!!1=!1!11 M = ESE e we to understano rules and regulations oughout this whole far as within a thou of State College ' -e, bow do they get n vacations ale de is supposedly our ''We must obey the the campus. that the College ure foie° tl state, of men us sand mile lade Ii this Is the c• that uay? dared, our tint. own. Bat no' ICollege toles and regulations wherever ime happen to he I suppose that the roles must be obeyed even in th good old summer time. Summer is prob iably classed as an overgrown Christ i Das vacation The College authori ties base kidded ther•Selyes that they lare lord over .A 1; they are the lay - !makers and goyelmus for the Penn State student holly during their u hob , four years her( at this Institution Something should be done about the, Ito set then fantastic and oar peg 'ldeas about their authority straight !Who gives them all this power and tight , And to think that most peo ple believed that the tyrants died m the Revolutions vsf Europe! As this lo not the case, and as ste still taste Ithe power of the tyrants, I say down oath the tyrants, and Penn State will ithlite mole qu'ekly , Such men are a menace, ratho than a help to such an mstdution a we have here at Penn I State. It nook! giv me great pleasure to explain and en loge to wider phases along this same der, but I think that I have clearly en resort! my opin.on here. I Loon };totwill do no good, but I know tha a roe ale quite a few that agree sort i i le along these same lines. Down Sc:h the tyrants! Editor COLI,ECI N Now abo at hit- that time-hon ored heady. , abt which one of }oar brigh pan*en wrote so en gagingly 'WI st i. m, Frida}'s issue You 3oungsteis e oung—to you ne nmis, freshne s nd stylishness are fundamental. Vihile I am, let us say, aging. You ate i t e forenoon of your lives, your son S in its ascendancy, the mountania Me green with the soling and the sap is rising in the tiers But as time takes its inevit able course you nill glow older. You *ill see your sun reach and pass its zenith and,, as the Yeats toll by and the moon mid stars move on in then silent prieesi you will watch that sun restoring to its setting Then—then much that you know now will fade into formless background As you gross sides, you will mole e sd more cling to those things to v.hith you have been accustomed— to those thuiFF,.syhmh. have made a Son4)9ace La your nalutei.r,wlttehag FT' RUSH PRINTING COMPANY Equipped to do your work when you want it We Specialize in Monogramed Stationery —Name Cards —Dance Programs :;: SERVICE QUALITY ECONOMY East Beaver AN onus 11: 4 - x - : ÷x-:-:+s-:-:-:-:-:÷:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:.:-:-:-:-:.:-:-:÷x-:-:-:-:-:.:-:-:-:-:: "YOU CAN GET IT AT METZGERS" 4: 4. Student Supplies of All Kinds STATIONERY 60 Sheets 1 , 2 , Penn State Seal 50 Envelopes ICE SKATES and HOCKEY CLUBS f t: . 1. f L. ]i.METZGER, 111 Allen Street Where; You get 15c Cigarettes 2 for 25c $ ii r -:-:-:•4•4-:-:4-:-: to them at the sacrifice of convention, style and newness. This old hat at iiime had come to ba a sernable part of my being—along with my light • aim, my left eye and my middle front teeth To change tt would be to change my whole lay-out, my whole approach to hie. And things were going along so happily for me that 1 wanted ne change—l feared to mon- Ley with a detail /e.st it in some subtle way should change the whole picture. So I held onto that hat in order that I ought squeeze out of it its last manse ,of essence. It my badge of office, too It mailed my whereabouts. It con stantly "mg an alnrm for the warn ing of those who thin!, it the better nit of wisdom to eewl y away at my .rproach It enabled my friends to spot me, coon on a dark night. Last Filay night coy wife and I expected I to go to the Senior Dance. But the nimble cal—another relic which I am hanging onto even in these sup°, sat daps—refused to function as MI 11:: S. Jordan intended it should So we stele hooting it met to the dance hall The night was ',env and I had ion this old hat New bfeAllistm Hall a cm diem up alongside us on the 'walk, and a voice called out, "Taxi, alcan , " It was the voice of service— ',a tr, coos Jost what we wanted As e got into the cm, I asked the driv• 1,1 rays he had identified me in the dell: "I tecognind that hat," he replied Thee you are—that's the way it goes! , Thole is nosy to be a new hat. It may he this imposing may chapeau— ,it nay he something else I's e got to experiment But in any case, the 'old tadm has changed—Pin to he dif !relent, and I'm to have a different I identification mark to which timorous evil-dams will have to accustom them -I,P:es Thous is the great loss A. R li'. Twenty Years Ago The regular Sernoi Dunce was held en MLAnisi. Hall on Friday evening and peeved to be a very enjoyable al ien The College orchestea of about toe enty-live pieces furnished excellent music of an even tempo and was al may s celled uporufot encores About eighty cOliples nolo piesent and 6he floor seas not oveteronded. ——o— L'lght acres at tine further end of the nem athletic field mull be devoted to the student body fon use as a plal gnound. IMC=I Plans ale being considered foe the creation of a dcpaitment of ceramic, in the School of Mines and Metalulrgy and one of architecture in the School of Engineering. CIZ:I=1 Scenes from College life was the title of an exhibition given in the math torium Saturday afternoon under the dnection of Mr Golden. The paint llel bar v.oik von much applause as did also the dp.ing and pyramid build irg. Then there %MC the different scenes in the Phi Tappa Ifeg frater nity loom. MIMI The fmaous Ben Greet company of pinyon, which has plyaed mith such phenomenal success in all the Colleges rnd log cities of the county dining the past few years has been accused for State College for the afternoon of February 13 At the matinee they ss ill present "The Merchant of Veil• ice" and in the esening "Macbeth." Equitable Life of lowa J. A. (Pop) Garrison '27 AGENT Phone 571-W 1 129 Frazior St, •:-.1-:-:-:-:-x-:-:-!••:-:- - :-: : :•,•:•.•:-:::.1 Thoughts of Others EM=l Use of the present-day system of rough-house initiation as practiced bye some college fraternities was classi lied as but an outburst of sadistic temperament at an interfraternit., conference held in New York recently. It was held that all too often the members of fraternities using the a.igher tactics permitted themselves to he so swayed by the actual delight thy received out of inflicting punish ? !Tient that the initiation procedure vies tin ned into a scene of Freudian per versity. The emotions of the youth, uho were handlmg the pledges was de lsribed as too often a series of plea surable reactions at the torment of the neophytes. Use of the paddle and other "wea -1 pone on the freshmen is a form of toi tore that is endured in no other Isis awed land, it was brought out, and thi. whole thing smacks of a chapter lout of Kraft-Ebbing's hook on p.- m mon. - - Putting. a neophyte through the In itiation is considered a test to move his manhood; a test to see it he is able to survive the combat The entire system is inane, one speaker held, and of no practical use. It proves that even the so-collect cultured college man has not yet learned to control I his outbursts. —Oregon Emerald —o— It Io Again The niillenium has almost arrived The manly nit of inhaling and exhal lug upon the good old 'fag' has been medically taken eves by the females No fooling; INC mean it. It is expect ed that out next Constitutional amend ment nsll contain the sight of the wo , nian to publicly punish the “coffin nails" without fear of social ostia cism It is rapidly becoming effem inate to smoke mgmettes, because it is so embarrassing to enter a gathming, tare out a cigarette, and find that all the women WC alreday puffing be nignly. That the mankind of this generation i is rapidly being overtaken by the wo men In what was formely called the I larious manly arts—such as athletic:, This Space Reserved for SCULOW'S Quality Shop Watch for the. REMOVAL SALE On Friday and Saturday, February 1 2 COLLEGE CUT RATE STORE In old location of A. & P. Tea Co. 4-:-:,x÷:-:-:÷:-:-:-:-:÷:-:-:÷x-x-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:•:-:-:-:-:- , :-:-:•:-:•:.:-:-7,:-. 61 . Here's the Story of Our SUPER-DISPOSAL SALE t.,: - ::. , , T;f l'" • ' l . 4. it V ,!%::i ',. ,I• 't: '' i' r ;:, ' ~, ' 5? , , ;,',.:-.'"Y) l '. ±';',.- i c .. ,,,, ! -, , q'!t,' l :,; '''. • '''.: •-` " ' ' N ' + ' Lines tire brolteh=4here are many odd sees —Spring merchandise is coming in—we must clean house. ,_ _ Society Brand, Hait, Schaffner & Marx, Btaeburn, Learbury, and Khshbaum made them, so they're in the best styles and fabrics. So right now you get your• greatest money saving but get it it's here for you. $35 Suits or Overcoats - - $28.50 $4O Suits or Overcoats - - $32.50 $45 Suits or Overcoats - - $36.50 $5O Suits or Overcoats - - $41.50 A Group of Florsheim Shoes Broken lots but most all sizes $8.45 mostly tans FROMM'S Opposite Front Campus 'iut.sliay, J :Lauda y 22, 1.,j29 politic's and =along, is lamentable. been trampled upon—all except that pleasant occupation oC chouing to- bacco. The great female imasion of men's rights at first caused those seine men to jem ; then to wonder, and now to I:A:iamb hastily toward some idea or objective for feat that a s.oman may get there fast Although some of the , inconstancy in women may . be illustra ted by then voting lot uw ,csl-looking, ;man, they do ahem .ome political sea !men. They compete spiritedly In all branches of spin t arid they smoke cig arettes, as a t ale, quite ID the sophist icated mime, 14 omen have al 0 add ed in some deg, ea manimh clothing and a slight acquaintance v Ilh pipes. The fain young co.cds have not yet taken to ma's, but stn anger things have happened. Oui fuond, fii• soad• "A woman is only a wo man, but n cigar is a good smoke." 'The trouble with that cl,Lement is that fact that a woman is not only a 500- mart, she is sometimes a man An earlier nponent of s.orn inly acquisi tion of leanly traits is Amy Lowell, ho smoked Rick mat, —Ohm State Green and While .4, / lAO Lri Nittany Theatre_ :. TUESDAY—Cathaurn— Matinee at 2 00 • Lon Chaney, William Ilaires in "TELL IT TO TUE MAR/NES' Laurel-Bard) Comedy TUESDAY—Nittany__ Emil Jannings, Loup, Stone, Florence \ idor in "TIM PATRIOT" WEDNESDAY—Cathaurn— Matinee at 2 0 Ronald Colman, neer) in "MAI; GESTE" TIITIRSDAY—CathaIan Matmee 2 00 =E2EMSITI "SORRELL AND SON" IVEDNESDAY and IHURSDAY Natany— L 3 a de PutiL Warner Oland in "TILE SC IIILLT LADY" FRIDAY—CathaLm— Matinee at 2 CO Dolores Del IDa Rol I, Roenue in "RESURRECTION" %i', `7, STARK. liß_(;s . Cll - lArz PER, 'Huh, tyill,het.3 NEXT TO TILE MOVIES .-:•~..:•r:.. .
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