rage Two Penn State (I,ollegian Published eeml-vreelly during Os Cannes yens by students of the Penneylvanla State College, in the Interests of tie Collect, the stud ents, faculty, alumni and friend.. THE EXECUTIVE BOARD LOUIS IS. DELL. Jr TO---- PAUL C. ILCONNAUCIICY TO------ WILLIAM S. TURNER 19-- _ --- TEE EDITORIAL STAFF LOUIS IT BULL. Jr '29_—.___________E4 for-10-Chief LtRWELLIN MITSTIITR lIARRY MILEIMIA '2ldor lIPRMAN R. ROTTMAN AAnoclnte ram. JUDSON LAIRD '2l /Worn.. IMltnr NEWS EDITORS Quinton E Benue 10 Robert P. Stevenson 10 James 11. Coon, Jr. 10 nark. A. blench 'SO Henry Tbotenfeld '3O THE BUSINESS STAFF - - - - WILLIAM S. TIIIINFR . 20-- ___________ Manager PAUL C aIeCONNAUCIIRY Circulation Manager J. HOWARD RCM' la Nalvertiaina Manager ASSISTANT BuslNTEss M NACERS Calvin C Dnrn•l, 'TO Rtat...ll I Rehm '2O Hem R Dowdy, Jr. •20 nidlnn tt Raamblaom afenther of Enatcru Inte,colleglate Newgpaper Asiociatton Entered at the PestaMee, State Colic, Pa , 11.4 errand-eines matter FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1929 EDUCATION AND IMAGINATION With the closing of the penultimate semester of his college career, the prospectne graduate pauses long enough in his scramble for a liberal, social or perhaps athletic education to renew his past three years of under graduate life, to survey his studies, in a general manner and to determine, possibly, how practically his studies have benefitted him He may even make a more micro scopic analysis of his educational training with the hope of discovering whether or not a college education is neces sary for future success or, whether the obs ious advantages dm wed have been worth the time, money and effort spent. If his training has been highly specialized, he sail probably feel that he has acquired his money's worth of formulas and technical equipment together with much knouledge mhieli is baldly attained in an incidental man ner or without the peeper scholastic and parental pres sure Yet, he is at a loss to understand why so - many students mho have been graduated as enginceis are now selling glass seed or peddling books to Liberal Ai ts stu dents. Perhaps the life of an engineer was not agreeable or ideal to these sheep who have strayed from the flock These must be some reason. But the technical sutdent is content to leave that question suspended or pending fur ther investigation, for he himself will not deviate from his prescribed and prepared course. At least, so his enthus iasm Los the future mould lead lam to believe. But the student of Liberal Arts obtains a difiesent point-of-view in regard to the practicability of his COUIS2 He must feel that he has not acquiled any tangible thing from his four yeass of costly apprenticeship. There is the gene.' knonledge, he has heard, and the possibility o' adapting himself to a half dozen or some vocations. He may even profit from an avocation. But there is no defin ite project in view for him. Why, he could he °nibs, sassed, he imagines, if some one nerve to ask him what definite thing he learned at college Hrs courses of study bare been compmatirely easy He has learned that after his first year. Little outsvlc preparation vas required and seldom made, he knows, except by the inoie conscientious group of students. In fact, more than once lie had sensed a per feet recitation in the classroom by depending solely upon his imagination for the answer to a question, and it may have pleased him to know that he had received credit for guessing--cmree ly. Or it may have amused him. Yet with all his imagin ative powers, he did not imgame that there was probably some reason to his response, some method to his madness Ad least, his course in Liberal Arts Iran developing his polder of initiginatiori. And that is something. ' Liberal At ts. The name itself implies a lack of technic al or specialized study and indicates emphasis upon the broad, expansive, liberal point-of-view A course in Lib eral Atts prepares a student to meet almost any situation intelligently and to face an emergency with an enlightened mind and a developed reason. His mind is the slide-rule for solving problems. Certainly the world needs engineers to resurrect fall en arches, doctoi s to tebuild fallen health and lawyms to bolster fallen morals, but it also needs libeial minds to broaden life's whole outlook and to make the world sate for specialists. CLASS MEETINGS Class meetings are held for the rummy purpose of transacting business and dealing with problems that con tinually face each class. The meetings are in the charge of class presidents whose duty It is to call the members together when important issues arise that cannot be, settled satisfactorily without the co-operation of the entrin group Class meetings, then are an Important and essential function of the student body. Regardless of their importance, however, class meet ings in recent yeas s have expetienced a tremendous decline in attendance. It is now quite rare to see more than one hundred students at any of these gatherings whale often the number does not exceed thirty or forty. The blades of class administration, tlierfeore, lies upon the shoulders of the few loyalists who are always Present at the meet ings. To them falls the responsibility of making import ant decisions and of carrying out all class policies. They are the very backbone of their class Every student was compelled to attend the meetings of Ins class during the first year of his existence at Penn State. lin joined the ranks of Ins classmates, rather re luctantly at flint perhaps, but was usually favorably im pressed with the outcome of each gathering. Re listenel to ',detesting and helpful tall s by deans, pofcssors and men momment about the cararas and urn Impreseed by the class and College split that grave out of these meet- lags. When th's same student wrs relieved ham freshman' customs, hummer, he assumed a far different attitude conceining the College. The sudden relief from bondage instilled with•n him a eniefice spirit. This feeling of pm semi Lbci ty caused him to loathe anything of a compul sory nature lle had been compelled to attend cuss meet ings, mlech m themscic es had moved interesting and en lightening, but now the thought that such a mactice had once been compulsmy to ought forth a revolt within hen In ❑as m nnei the underclassman becomes alienated from Ins class and usually confesses in this same path through out the semaindei of his college life. Those students who fail to attend class meetings should se iliac that they are inconvieneing their class in more mays than one by their absence. In the first place, thee Judgment and opinion is essential in the settlement of questions and in the effective execution of class policies. They asc often too cage, to otrei adverse miticism of cer tain conditions when, had they been present at the meet ings, they might hate suggested is change. And, finally, they owe it to themselves to attend all class functions Class sped, which is none other than the spirit of mite: the and co-operation, indeectly paves the way to success in the business wield Why, then, should not this Mem ledge be act - pined caily here at Penn State? _______—_V Ice-President ----- Trensucer Poi the past few yea's the American pubhc has been saturated with gal stories dep•cting modern college hie as one of drinking and necking. A dapper youth is pie tuied who, devoid whatsoever of conscience and metals, thinks nothing of including es lid petting parties and drunk cn escapades in his imolai scholastic tontine And be sides causing scandalous affaii;, the college man is pops lady athertised as the cicatm of such fantastic nuisances as gaitei-less socks, led neckties and 'collegiate' suits. People natmally become alarmed ashen they read of the dangers to society v.iought by 'flaming loath.' Deans and presidents receive heated letters, investigations ate started, mticles on the subject are written in magazines and per iodicols and fiery reformers flay student life com p:sung it even with Sodom and Gomorrah Amid all this confusion the majouty of the college men sit tight and uonder if there leally is a gient deal of truth to these stoics. Dining a recent imestigation, Henry Grattan Doyle, dean of Geoige Washington univeisity, sent questionnaires to officials of foul hunched colleges in an effort to 'get at the bottom of this talk about necking, drinking and frivol ity among college mien' The result of these inquiries show ed that the gicatei pat of these flaming youth stones um° entitel.t moofless and untrue. Presumably, the authors of such trashy falsehoods v.ere forced to exagger ate their theme, college life, in order to have their hooks listed as 'hest sellers! ' - In reply to one of Dean Doyle's questionnaires, Dean Howaid It. Ommal,e, of Franklin and Marshall college, said 'Thole is a very small percentage, not more thin one-half of one per cent, of the students in any college that is made up of the loud tab, salt type known as col legiate Ills manner, style of dress and usually his chat. octet. ate condemned by the may - nay of students.' The great inamtity of college students ate earnest, serious end bards inking young men and v. (ninon, according to Dean Omvalse, vho do not differ radically flora other people. Self-respecting college men grow weary of constantly being iefened to as dunken good-for-nothings. They grow immensely tiled of the fact that the public in gen eral Limns them only as young men who spend four yews at an eternal party and lease nothing more than how to stint the latest dance and mix the tastiest cocktails. They do not cute for the impression which stamps them as carelesslvdressod yr)ungstery derninic:i t lin 'ldeogint.ion Ahoy bail Jtam king, serious-minded 'Ame'sicpirs. • Valentines Now On Display Don't Fail Make your selection now for Mother—Father—Sweetheart "Make Your Own Valentine" material to little brother or sister—We wrap them for mailing KEELER'S Cathaum Theatre Building COLLEGIATE? To See Them! Send a package of Edisrisi 6.61V2 c3-Lizaiiva Letter Box Refutes Rebel To the Editor•m chief The COLLEGIAV Dear Sit: In anewer to the letter which ap peared In your issue of Tuesday. January 22, me lust must say that we are most sally to loam that anv one of our suppe , eilly Intelligent stu dents has kelt so misinfot me,t eon coining the digest.. of se‘mal of out girls end me also booty that any one should quest , . the duty of the Wo men's Student Government Associa tion in attempting to MEC the sten dm dg of out momen The incidert, in the first place, seas called to nor attention by a Senior member of the group which had char tered a bus, not i train, especially foi the purpose of conducting l'ern State sta dents to then homes The matter W. thoroughly inyestigated when re ported, and, rimless to say, most, careful consideration ssas given it before the cover ning body of the wo men students took then heal step of penalty. It is not our aim to limit the girls' pleasures during their holidays and we assure you that hr,d the Incident occurred in a girl's home or in com pany of their home friends, nothing ,ould have been done about it. In others words, her freedom m her own. lionever, when the reputation of nu. Penn State women is at stake In a circle of Penn State people, when our traditions and customs are being tried, then we feel under obligation to the girls and men of Penn State who have shown their uillingness to dis regard thew de=nies far the good of our Alma me feel un der obligation to the girls who choose use to help ix* they reputations "right," hence, rye intervene And al low me to say, as is surely unde.stoad, they are in the minority. It is most pathetic, in fact the col lege education rs 10 actreally a total loss, wtren one cannot realire that the art of being educated is the art of "getting along" It is too bad that ore cannot lire unto °cloches, make our own laws, do Just as we please, but in our day and age, it Isn't done. IV4 choose leaders, and they make rules which are for the best interests of the group, and we obey—except ebels What you say is hue, youl "ex tnesmon" will do no good The Wo men's Student Grnmnrnent will con tinue in then attempts to lathe the standards of the Penn State Women P,e.trient, Tl'. S C A. Smetroy, ll'. S. C A. Twenty Years Ago The cover of the 1910 La Vie will 1.0 of ooze-,beep leather, brown with edges over hanging one-half inch on thee sides with the name of the book hot-pressed', Every copy will be in this leatl.m and will cost the same as previously charged for cloth, that is two dollars There will be 150 pages el.clusive of advertising, covering ev ery phase of student life at State • Penn State Hotel Comfortable and Reasonable E College ANC, app. E Campus • 0 Storage Yard, for Your Car ALBERTDEAL&SON ~ i .,Tcre4t4ig Plumbing 117 Frazier Street FENWAY :j:. Tea Room 4. • •. 'I .. Under Ne , w Management .!: : QUALITY SERVICE 4 X atrit Experiment .1 we 70 Collegian®a The town is going to have talking! Just like the word "applause." movies early in March. But of course! .1.0.* they won't be a novelty here. o,, o ucs Which is merely a contraction of thy We had falling movies ever since 1 good old collegiate noun, "applesauce." cinema houses first opened. I .ceoss 4,,,i snore 5 h 0 ,,,,,,, p zov l e , m a! I This talkie business will be a discs .... I trolls blow, to those who derive great But now the old order changeth, we I enjoyment and pleasuie at the es say without attempting to lisp, and I Perm of other people's agony. subtitles will be supplied by the Vita- i ...c.o++ phone mechanism, I By reading the titles aloud. cocscicc Now the best they can do is to listen aloud. Substituting for the audience. -„.. Written subtitles are going the way , ****.e• of bicycles, Model-T Fords and com.l If th a t' s possible. panionate 111.111liages. ..... ..... I nut it is all for the best, for the Itut nobody wilt miss them. The ., r; dos aloud will now be able to chew word "subtitle" was merely a play nn then gum, uninterrupted though the the adjechle "subtle," (the word Ova • aline eight feels nobody knows) ••.•*** I 1 ith. a little bit of "it" added. 1 Instead of between titles, Skating is claiming the attention or nr, JUIUSZ READS PAPER a large number of Penn State student. and residenLs of the village. An em• AT ENGINEERING PARLEY bankment has been built around Bea ver Field which has heen flooded and allowed to freeze. Mi., K. J. De Juhasz, of the staff —o !of the Enginceling Expeumental sta- The regular meeting of the senior I lion, presented a paper concerning the class held last week brought about De Julian high speed engine indica that the seniors sees: caps and gowns tot at the annual meeting of the So at the Sunday chapel services after emty of Automotive Engineers in De- May 1. trait last week The indicator, which is capable of Application from the Foe company tegistming six thousand revolutions a at State College was node to the Es- „„aata ills high-speed gas engines, octane Committee for the heating of vms demonstrated to the, society in the file house by the College plant, the latoratories of the Chrysler Mot but it was voted to he inadvisable to ma coiporatmn, and accepted as a make such mrangement. meat step towards regiStering the —o teilifie speed which the new types Dr. W. R. Cranr, clean of the School of gas engines ate attaining. of Mines and Metallurgy, wac honoiell with a request to lead a 0 tiler berm: the Coal Mining Institut" of PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS which is convening at Pittsburgh . , A t ,14 4): 74 " ; • It has won more people to Kellogg's Corn Flakes than to any other ready-to-eat cereal. Just because they taste so good— that's why 12,000,000 people enjoy them every day. . On the campus and off—from coast to coast—Kel logg's get first call for breakfast. fe ,01fRIIr CORN FLAKES i Frank ana Ernest AND CLOSC I The ALLOT FRlDAY—Catbaura Matinee at 2.00 Dolores Del Rio, Roil La Roraue in "RESURRECTION" IMMESSEEMEI Matinee at 2.00 Norma Shearer, Johnny Mach Brown "A TANDY OP CHANCE" FRIDAY and SATURDAY—Nittany (Special matinee for children on Sat urday at 2.00. Admission: 1k) Wallace Beery, Esther Ralston, Charles Farrell, George Bancroft in "OLD IRONSIDES" "Our Gang" Comedy 4 i y MONDAY and TUESDAY— TUESDAY—Cathaum—` The most popular cereals served in .the dsning-roores of Amerman colleges, eating clubs mod fen termhes are made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. They Include Corn Flakes, ALL-BRAN, Pep Bran Flakes, Rice Krispies, Krumbles and Kellogg's Shredded Whole M" . FRe.K . 11, DOES AN r MEI= Frichty, Sailutity 25, 1529 ' AND Nittany Theatre Matinee Monday at 2:00 , Ramon Navarro: Anita Page in "THE FLYE4G FLEET" ". Lois Moron, George O'Brien in, =III IY.ttlg, ; STARK IcRDS 710belylachers NEXT TO THE MOVIES .• 1-- By BRIGGS lEEE=
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