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Penn _State Collegian
Publkbed petni•weekly during College year exeept during College
holidays by Pennaykanla State College students In Interest of College,
Modems alumni, faculty and Mond.
THE EXECUTIVE BOARD
LOUIS R. BELL Jr •29
PAUL C. McCONNAUGHEY
WILLIAM S TURNER .29---
THE EDITORIAL STAFF
LOUIS 12. BELL. X,
LLEWELLYN MITSTIFER . 29..---ABNIMAnt Editor
HARRY P. MILEHAM . 29----______--_Manm:MA Editor
HERMAN E. HOFFMAN
HIDSON LAIRD
THE BUSINESS STAFF
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NEWS 'EDITORS
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ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS
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FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1929
TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT!
The stage is set. Long recognized ins the crowning
event of the Penn State social calendar, the Junior Prom
is hese—at last. Four anxious weeks have we waited for
this occasion, this opportunity to entertain the loveliest
girl we know Of course we know a number of lovely
girls, but none so lovely as our Prom girl. } Whether she be
our guest for the first time—or the last' time—we must
confess that she is our choice on this festive night. For
tonight is the night! Tonight we will make merry!
We are mare fortunate than others; that is, we have
not teemed any wiles of regret nor any message that
would indicate that we were not fortunate But we know
many who have received such messages, and it's a sad,
sad story.
Anil so, it is with open beast that see greet the many
lovely gills who join us in out merry-making tonight We
ask only one favor. But we'll mobably have to go early
to get that one'
A NEW ERA IN ATHLETICS
Voicing his approval of the COLLEGIAN'S proposal for
a mom extensive system of mass athletics at Penn State
in a letter printed elsewhere in these columns, an interest
ed alumnus expresses the opinion that freshmarhdompe ,
titian with college and preparatory school ritlals should
bo discouraged In support of this belief he points"to the
enviable records of athletic teams in the Middle West,
where no freshman competition is permitted. The co::.-
LEMAN would be In abcbril "With such a - plan only after .1
more elaborate system of intramulal athletics had been
estabhshed at Penn State. Illeannhile, however, fresh
man competition with nearby colleges and preparatory
schools is indispensable to the furtherance of mass ath
letics and to the future success of varsity teams. The
desire to attract outstanding athletes to Penn State is
only a secondary consideration.
The favorable responses to the proposed extension of
Penn State's intramural program indicates clearly the
present-day trend in intercollegiate tanks throughout the
country. Wisconsin and Minnesota started the movement
for mass athletics a few months ago, followed closely by
inecton. Simultaneous with the announcement of an
extensive system of intramural sports Princeton initiated,
an elaborate building mogiam for interclass athletic con
tests ltutgem fell in line with an earnest attempt to
interest more students in minor sports. The Cornell
Daily San added to the din of voices by charging over , zeal
ous' ,with placing too much emphasliftmonlinter•
cellegiate football-, The Amherst Studenr frankly prii
posed intramural athletics as a substitute far intercolleg
iate sports
At a meeting m Springfield last Month the Associa
tion of College Presidents for Confeience on Athletics
voted unanimously to encourage the development of intia
ininal, rather than inteicollegiate, spoits. The Associa
tion also favored the employment of intiamural coaches
with the rank, status, and saint} , of regular faculty mem
bers. Piesident feted has intimated his approval of
mass athletics here in recent messages, thus cleating the
impression that Penn State does not intend to lag behind
her sisto colleges in the thither development of intiamural
competition.
A DESIRED MERGER
Penn State fraternities apparently are destined to op
erate under last year's rushing code again next fall The
only contested change in the revised code is the method of
dating; and after reviewing the arguments for and against
the change, the COLLEGIAN 19 convinced that last year's
method of dating is superior to the new pi oposal. Until
that matter is finally settled, however, the suggested mer
ger of the Interfratermty and Intramural councils is the
chief interest of the coLLEGrArr.
Adoption 01 separate codes undoubtedly is detriment
al to both groups. It is undesirable principally because
it accentuates the line of distinction between the national
and the local fraternities. Which distinction the Intia
mural Council should attempt to obliterate by such a mer- 1
ger as has been suggested. By accentuating this line of
distinction freshmen become suspicious of both groups,l
and inquire'about their comparative rating. Which prac
tice, if fostered by a continued separation of the two
groups, will encourage a freshman to choose a fraternity/
sittiply'beeritmoilt is , national, with no consideration what- 1
ever of tho relative merits of the men composing both
WHZ
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EZIMEI=I3
According to genera tepoit, tonight is dedicated to I
the so-called Junior Piomenade Just why it is called rho
Junior Piomennde, Ste have timer quite understood AI- I
most anybody but Junior s arc likely to be present, for one
thing.' For another thing, there will be little or no prom
enading, unless that pictinestlue old word has changed its
meaning in the past few decades. Promenade means to
walk leisurely, gracefully.
if anyone-dis'coVeis a parr piomenading tonight, we
will award a prize 'of a ,et of fancy bottle iestotativcs—
atm the discoveim has been revived.
—.--,.-Aavtielato Editor
.---Aottoehttos Editor
Spring sent 119 the past few days, She sent us pink
blossoms, green buds and red (towels She sent us canny
colored ciavats, hoistmous kinds°s and chocolate and
annum shoes. And it sins not until see spied this lions, t
ment of Mal in uestlicr Vocal that MC gvtsped the full sig
1 nificance of that line
I "In the Sliding, a young; man's fancy "
And how!
stlitnting ng a pan of It 0 T C pants
Editand Lyon,
.p
One of our local lonnousts tells us of a harrowing
expenenee he had teeently. Played golf with one of the
• mars
Still another local humorist tells of the college journal
ist echo for sonic time has been moulding campus opinion.
"In fact," he c,pl,,ined, "he's been moulding so long that
he's probably one of the biggest cheeses around the Col
lege"
Or, as the'Luchy Shiite people would sac, "the cream
of the crop "
Our On n Political Platform
1. Abolition of Wednesday night ice ci cam.
2 Continuance of toe honor system—with proctors.
3. Free blue books—but not mole , freely
4. Chalk in curly doss loom.
5. Unlimited cuts—for professors
0. More cash—clash—damn t, claw dances.
7. A May King for men students.
8 Flee Soap.
0. Reapportionment of libraly dates for freshman
,c2-eds.
10. "Away from Nature" movement for makers of
cow paths.
This grin of ,orldly wisdom is offered for co-ed poli
ticians mho may forget themselves in the heat of cam
" Mud thi own is just so much pound lost
Excel4or or Illnkehoscha or the Golden Bullet
(tlanslated horn Arabic)
Gilt / tote,
If the mu yott choose ,
To lore
Shout, fait you,
Should sputa you,
Shortlr: prove to he
A hypoc, to,
A phdandet et,
A pon-handler of Fiasco,
A cod, rt tt tflet,—
Add 2: Simile
'As busy as a Packard at a gunman's funeral ...
John Keil elleClementx
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' Plus and Minus
Many a Prom boy comes to the battle in full areas t 1
take up fen what his pattnei is wonting.
Or, not weal mg.
The followinz titles have been added to
eta stock in a new
DISRAELI 8: GLADSTONE
by D. C. Somervell
CREATIVE CHEMISTRY
by Edwin E. Slosson
HEAD HUNTERS OF THE AMAZON
by -Ffank Updegraff
GENTLEMAN JOHNNY BURGOYNE
by F. J. Huddleston
FRUITS OF THE FAMILY TREE
by Edwaid Wiggam
PSYCHO-ANALYSIS AND LOVE
by Andre Tridon
,THE RED KNIGHT OF GERMANY
by Floyd Gibbons
COUNT LUCKNER, THE SEA DEVIL
by Lowell Thomas
The above boas we, e AI me, ly published
and thousands of copies sold in' 0.50 to
$5.00 Balaton.
Don't lIIIS9 the opportunity , of adding these titles
to your Library• at this unusual Price.
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LEM PMNDI SWETT CIILLEMAW
The'Book Worm
Prom Number: 72 PP•
On Sale This Morning
Certain persons we know sulks
from an umestramed jokester's com
plex, a tendency to indulge in with
' msms and practical jokes at the ex
pense of every friend, acquaintance
!and chance passerby. Now it appears
that even a book reviewer is not im
mune from their comical disease. On
'ow desk early this morning was placed
a copy of the Prom Number of the
Penn State Fr ath, the College maga
zine of humor. What a sense of hu
mor our witty contemporaries must
have in submitting a copy of their':
yet.zirtc to a book worm for levies, '
But enough of this! We hope every
one nosy waltzes the cause of a maga
umn This issue of Fr oth does con
dine review appealing in a book col
t-um seventy-two pages but the editors
must add just a few mote befoie they
can call it a "book" Owl Seventy
two pages! But when one stops to
consider, however, seventy-two pages
is quite a little paper to contain naught
but wise cr nchs.
Ono very, very crude attempt at a
wise crack, just the same, nearly caus
ed this article to be consigned to the
waste basket even before it was writ-1
ten. The leader understands, of
course, that the mentioned well known
receptacle has set ved as the last rest
ing place for many other good manu
scripts.l In telling "how to clash the
gate at the Prom" the merry men offer
as one method the following: "Pose us
a COLLSa7AN reported." Some joke
from whateser angle it is , consideted!
This number, which can easily be
recommended as the best of the year,
flaunts a beautiful cover. There is a
woman, of course, a golden-haired girl,
with cherry lips and seductive eyes,i
just such a girl, in fact, with whom
one could pass the meek-end quite con
tentedly She is clad in a black vel
vet evening gown decorated in green,
Ithe cut of which reveals a set of allot
ing shoulders, a bouquet of red irises
resting on the right. The whole pic
ture, is set in a background of pea
green. Yes, one must agree with ye
wise ones that the cover is a commend
able piece of art work.
All the art -work, it seems, is above
pe ordinary high average. On one of
the first few pages Frothy states "We
call your attention to the Prom Num-
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AN OPEN LETTE'
To Every Fraternity Man
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'.fil:,? 1,1; !iii; ;Mate College
Dear Sir
Your senior brothers, who graduate in June, will soon be
choosing an appropriate house gift to leave behind them, in your
keeping.
They shall want itto be useful, lasting, efficient and of such
a nature that it shall be unique and "different from the rest."
They shall want-it to please YOU, and to be the one gift
which most nearly meets your needs.
The fraternity, trend is toward GAS kitchens. Gas equip
ment already placed, orders now on file, and gas specifications for
new houses to be erected, indicate plainly that in the course of the
next two years every modern fraternity in State College will sport
not only a handsome reception hall and dancing floor, but also a
modern gas range in a 'spotless kitchen.
Tell your senioi brothers what your }louse needs, to make
it even more modern, is a gas range. We can offer them an excep
tionally large allowance on your present coal range, and the bal
ance will be nicely within their limit.
her." Ifomevo, the foolish gentlemen
really mean to call your attention to a
icsealing picture of femininity
"The Shotgun Wedding," a one-act
play on words, serves as n Include for
the foibles that follow. As one of the
characters we hale "Dm..y An -Gun,
the heioine, a wide Miss, but a big hit
She is a perfect 18, and has bangs "
Another is "llannod, the hated idle;
an awful bore."
Quite possibly, ono could iambic on
and on and still say things about the
contents of the issue. As it is, I,ins
ever, the woini has bored through
enough of the funny meat to loam
that much good eating imams to
tickle his humor palate at a fame
feeding. Why, then, should lie not
loud up and allow the rendes to loot.
out lot himself',
Letter Box
913 W. illielnitan A‘enuc
Jackson, Michigan
Api 27, MD
OEM
Penn State COLLEGIAN
State College, Penra.
I have read your Hamad upon
"Athletics for All" which was pub
lished in a recent issue of the COLLEGI
' AN, and find much of inteiest in what
you have said. I agree with you in
!',aspect to your statements conceining
"mass athletics," but have a few ail
gorse comments to make concornner
year attitude timaid freshman spoils
There was a- tune when I, too, be
lieved that competition with othei in
stitutions was necessely to atfluet
freshmen to Penn State, or to any
school for that matter That opinion
has been changed since I have been
away fwm Penn State and the oistein
schools. For the last Once years I
have been inore or less directly con
nected with colleges of the Middle
West, a section of the country whew
no freshman competition is peimittsid
It seems to stork out well with them,
and I'M sine no one Lan say that then
athletics are on a lower plane than in
eastein colleges. In fact, lam almost
Public Stenographer
...I. MRS. A. C. MILLER .:.
Telenhone 44,3
i• Theses Manuscripts Reports
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CENTRAL PENNA. GAS CO.
B. GRAHAM HUNTER 16, Sales Manager
of the opinion thut such u method is
the beat in the end, especially if you
stop long enough to remember the
cleat majority of the freshman stars,
and potential Harry Wilsons or Ksflin
gers siho flunk out altos one on two
^emosters
Much can he stud upon both 0111011'
in a discussion of this kind, and Jot
Mlle it is not asking too much to look
,at the authorities' point of view helot e
condemning a practice which is giving
good icsults.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) Donald If. Mattern '26
Twenty Years Ago
Some available money which has
been given to the agricultural depart
ment I'm practical horticulture is be
ing used at the present time at the
Armory and at the main enhance of
the campus Flowers and ornament
al 'blubbery are to be planted and
heir care and ,growth studied. ]t is
to lie the nucleus for a course in land•
~.ape gardening.
I=2ll
According to an old custom which
as revived last year, the seams class
sill begin on Saturday to wear
r ips and gouns at Sunday chapel ser
sce for the remainder of the year.
ALBERT BEAU SON
Healing
Plumbing
117 Frazier Street
-. For Men
Only
Here's a tip, fellows. If you want
to please lIER this time, buy
your Men's Furnishings at
Harry Sauers i. 1.:•.
Yours very truly,
Friday, May 3, 1923
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Richard His, Helen Kane in
"NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH"
All-Talking Picture
SATURDAY—
Buster Kenton, Dorothy Sebastian in
"SPITE MARRIAGE"
Synchronized Picture—Music Only
MONDAY and TUESDAY—
reed Waring's
PENNSYLVANIANS in
"SYNCOPATION"
I All-Talking, Singing. Dancing Pin) inn
WEDNESDAY—
Corinne Griffith in
"S %TURDAY'S CHILDREN"
Talking, Sound and Music
TITURSDAY—
Wallace Decry, Florence Vidor in
"CIIINATOWN NIC:II,TS"
All-Talking Picture
NEXT FRIDAY—
Alice While in
•110 T STUD•F'
Dialogue and Music
Nittany Theatre
Showing Silent Pictures Only
SATURDAY—
Marceline Day, Doug Fairbanks, Jr., i
TUESDAY—
Norman Kerry, Sally Eder% in
"TRIAL MARRIAGE"
Laurel and Hardy Corned)
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THURSDAY—
' Ruth Taylor to Amin Lots'
"GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
The College Men's Shop
'fat9,ollege, Pa.'
May 3, 1929