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Penn State Collegian
Published semi•weebly durina Caeca year except durine Cullen
h•lldsys by Pon. , ' , Waldo State Collets students In Interest of Coils..
students alumni, faculty and friend...
LOUIS R. BELL. Sr. '29- ..----President
PAUL C. McCONNAUGREY . 29-....---..-----Vice.Preeldent
WILLIAM S TURNER '29- —Tr...lror
THE EDITORIAL STAFF
LOINS H. BELL. Jr. .29-_--Editor•ln•Chlat
LLEWELLYN MITSTIFER '29 --Arriatanr Editor
HARRY P MILEHAM 19------Mans9lne Editor
HERMAN E. HOFFMAN . 19-
JUDSON LAIRD 19---.--------Araociate Editor
WILLIAM B. TURNER '29 —...linaltuna Mainzer
PAUL C. McCONNAUGHEY '29 —Circulation Manes.
J. HOWARD REIFF . 19- _Athartlalas Mama.
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Slember of Eastern Intercollegtate Newspaper Association
TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1920
CUSTOMS AND THE TRIBUNAL
Apparently satisfied that customs at Penn State are
tried and title, the three minor changes advocated in the
repent of the Customs Revisions committee woe accepted
by the 1.922-29 Student Council at its closing session Thurs
day night. The first change forbids the use of Penn State
seals and stickers entirely, thus giving official sanction to
Stoniest Council's move in that direction usher in the
yeah. The others permit freshmen to enter pool towns,
and to weal ttoolen caps at the Wintei Sports park To
nun-readers of College customs as they ale set forth In
the Student Handbook, the report of the comnuttee seems
puny and insignficant A close scrutiny of stoniest cus
toms shows, lions even, that there is no reason for more
drastic revisions Instead, the eiying need of the College
is a body to enfoice the customs rte have.
This power heretofore has been vested in Student Tii
banal. A laxity of mu pose, howeso, has made that body
inactive, for the most past. It remains, nevertheless, that
customs are enforceable by such a group, but only when
the personnel of the group is conscious of its obligation
to the student body. An unwillingness on the past of the
student body to report misdemeanors has retoided the
progress of Student Tribunal considerably. Of this there
is no doubt llowes.or, their are justifiable objections to a
Student Tribunal which is composed entirely of athletes.
To overcome this objection, and to assure the revival of
Penn State customs next year, Student Council should
consoler it a duty to elect a fair proportion of non-athletes
to Student Tlibunal.
FOUR YEARNS IN COLLEGE
Ent aged by the bleeding which invariably accompanies
a successful Nenture—graduation, in this case—an indig
nant senior writes to complain of the price exacted for
his cap and gown Believing that it is the better plan
financially—he has decided to keep the cap and goun
rather than return them and claim the iefund. This is not
his only objection He complains, likevase, of the price
exacted for invitations, Lion suits, junior blazers, firim
less dances and the like. As a matter of fact, he told us
that he has attended social events for foul yews, and has'
yet to receive a favor Which, after all, may not be an
unprecedented feat. He even goes back a little further—
his Freshman Week, to be stne--to point out how seventy
five cents uns exacted from him for n green dink \Ouch '
costs :bout Unity cents
"k Senior" gives his "final good-will °liming" without
ulumpet mg, how eve', asking only that something be done
about it for the future. An unequalled generosity, we
would say rot our putt, we believe that the time to stop
such • despicable praeticeo,m NOW.. There is no need to
Pay - members of any committee a living wage timing their
term of office and, unless the profits of these committees
be turned over to a building fund of some equally ambi
tious project, no firntly believe that these so-called entet
prisers should be held to a strict accounting Lot thetr fin
rncial dealings.
AN ENDURANCE TEST
The coutecisn's proposal for the suspension of classes,
one week prior to final examinations was greeted both with
acclaim and with In ickbats. The acclaim, it is rendilg
admitted, came from the student body that is every ready
to support any plan which will give them complete schol-
astic freedom, if only fora day. The brickbats, on the
other hand, came from a different direction. From the
head of the classroom, to be suie. But there were a few
who saw worth in the plan, and openly approved it. There
were others, however, who saw no merit in it, whatever.
In defense of the plan, it may be pointed out that light
now numbeiless students have all they can do to keep
their heads above the scholastic waters that have threaten
ed to overwhelm them ever since the semester started.
Fully cognizant of this fact, an equally large number of
instructors insist that all assigned tom papers, notebooks,
and reading reports should be completed before the advent
of final examinations. In this category are found those
professors who fail to realize that then• courses are not
the only courses being offered this semester
Considered from an impartial viewpoint, would it not
he more just to the student to suspend classes for a few
days in order that he might regain his scholastic feet
before the end of the semester? Instead, faculty mem
bers knowingly ',omit students to cheat Morpheus night
after night as valiant efforts are made to see academic
light. As a result, the student goes into a final mama
tion unprepared and mentally unfit for a difficult tee
Would it not be the better plan to supply a week of free-
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A certain local athlete iceently took his golf clubs to
bed with him the night belore an important match which
he feared he might love. The nest day he won.
Having an impoitant exam in Litetatine tomorrow
and inclining somewhat to believe in the charm of magic
and supeistition, Ale% e expecting to pile in with Dr. Ehot's
se-font shelf sometime late tonight.
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Pathetic Cates
The sanitary engineering student who was expelled
from college for telling dirty jokes
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.gam, the Scotch
Then there's the one about the Scotchman soils was
limning to play budge hut quit suddenly and promptly
because they told hint he had to bul or bye.
And Ile figured that either one ',mild cost bun money.
It is the duty of evety good columnist to visit New
York. We did Not only should he visit the city of man/
cops, many tam cabs and few nettspapers, but he should
come home with some startling bits of nen, fot his lead
ers We have.
Saturday mooning we strolled down the Canyon to
search of a shine There were no shops at our service
Bat, oh, theta teas a pool, tagged urchin with a small Ito,
strapped oyer his shoulder. Pitiful sight. The poor lan
would be only too glad to get our few pennies, we thought.
We would let him shine our shoes and perhaps would sur
prise him with a fete extta pennies for his labor.
He looked at us wistfully. "Shine, =stet ," he asked,
and we keen that thole was an honest heart behind that
ditty face, or more accurately, behind that ripped pocket
half filled with change. "Shine mistel l Only a penny,
nickel, dime, quarter—anything."
Alt, it was so piteous We put our right foot on his
stand and had a fairly decent shine within two minutes.
Now fon the supoor that would gladden that weary heart,
that honest soul, we Mould Site him not a penny or a nickel
but a bright, shiny ten-cent piece. We did. Os rather,
we toed to For no sooner hail the utchin seen the dime
than he began to bawl long and loudly. "Wahl" he cued
so that neatly eNorybody about him could heat, "I told you
it was a quartet." And with that he proceeded to my
more lustily
We didn't crave a sheet scene partieulatly so we
clamped our hand over his duty mouth untd we could holt
the additional change out of our pocket with the othit.
r We left hurt redly but tut ned mound just in time to see the
kid hook another suites. Impudent little btat, we thought.
After his first s,sit to New York, n prominent Engliqh
critic says, "New Yolk is all right, hut uhere are all your
men"
And after out visit, vte say, "Nen 'York is all right
but where ace all your mama?"
Metropolitan Picture
A wide, duty street, sunning absuptly downhill.
Children playing ball between vehicles. An ample bosom
ed woman of perhaps forty leaning over an upstans wan
d.. sill and smiling between darn few teeth On the curb
opposite, two mole of less attractive young ladies, dressed
like butcher's wives, wasting beside a gloat, wobbly-topped
tsucl, which contains two no tillec pieces of ice. The Ice
man lingers across this street, fluting with somebody's
wife. The two wading women have folded arms They
are tapping impatiently on the pavement.
We left the lest of the desessption fos a war cones
pondent.
Angier To Query
One of our leaders writes in to say that he has made a
marvelous discovery. Trained fleas may be unusual, he
says, talking patrols may be unique; educated apes, swim
ming buds, boung Icangaloos and know-all horses may be
strange and queer freaks of nature, but none of them COM
pale, in the matter of uniqueness, to the wonderful spell
ing bees he has heard about.
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Another of our popular contributors pens this query
this crock, this tainsm, withal. As withoud tracks, h
states, those of the Bellefonte Central have no parallel.
Dollar Day
TODAY ONLY!
...
612 Shirts at $l.OO
Guaranteed full cut and
pre-shrunk.
309 Pair Golf Hose at $l.OO
Lots of WO Values in
this assortment
Also Neckwear, Pajamas, Sus
penders, Half Hose All for
$l.OO
at
Stark Bros. & Harper
NEXT TO THE MOVIES
= FGBIST FRAM CaLLEZNA.II
Letter Box
(The Collegian nelcnmaa communication.,
not /outer than ISO 'Annie, on any xalyect
lot eatopos Inter.. The editont do not a.
ammo na thee/ronsibllty for sentiment. t.
Messed lu tt.. Iton.er)
Edltm, Penn State courclAN
We're almost through. The shades
are fast being drawn on the happiest
four years of our lives.
In the Fall of 1925 we entered the
gates of Penn State. Our first real
encounter with college was the pur
chase of a dark from an Influent]Al
athlete. We paid seventy-five cents
for the headpiece, not knowing. it cost
about thirty. But tic know now.
Nose we're through. We will soon
'pass out of the gates Wearing caps
!and gowns, we march to Commence
'ment The use of the garment and
1 headgear cost us three and a half.
'The faculty get theirs for two dollars
less. There are smen hundred of us
That's $1400.00 that goes somewhere
Why should we make this final good
mill offering to a few mote or les;
'worthy politicians' We hate done
handsomely by them already
And then we think of the imita
tions, the Lion suits, the junior blaz
ers; the Hops, Proms, and Bails for
which we didn't get farms; and a few
dozen other occasions on siluch see
'have been held up by our entermisers.
We're almost through pots, and all
this doesn't mate pleasant thinking,
but can't something done about it for
'the future?
Vol: tiu4 yours,
(Signed) A SENIOR
Co-ed Chats
Hate you ever stopped to vosndet
why some people lutue no faith in
theft fellow men" Did you ever ttn
alyze the reason Tor lack of tru.l
l and Sadae to depend on anyone else?
There is a season and it may be ob
served tenthly on out campus. It is
the independability of most people
A gill who can be depended upon
is a puceless jewel (isn't she, boys?).
The gal who will surely do what she
says she'll do is sate indeed In a
sash moment 'me frequently maims°
a thing and then find later that it is
not convenient, thnt we don't have the
time or, as is frequently the case, that
we don't feel like it, And what hap
' pens , Someone is disappointed; the
work of someone else is increased,
somebody is embarrassed and some
lbody's plans fall through.
I Besides the people who fad entirely,
there ate two other classes which ate
I svinthy of censure. Fast, these are
ATTENTION
SENIORS!
YOU will want to keep in touch with what is happening on
YOU will still be interested in your Alma Mater and the friendsyou
THEN why not arrange to have the COLLEGIAN sent to you
Collegian-a
Spring has come.
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This time to stay.
State College has three springs a
yeas.
One after Ni inter is clone.
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One after wintel has come back for
the second time.
And one afto mute) )ma began
But spring or summer, fall or win
tel, we seem to have spring fever.
All yea, a, amid,
Personally, r, e prefer the wallet
season, that husk, mvutoratintr time
of year, because it stimulates out
net Sr.
And one wan plenty
To hr a college oludent
Et en at that, the summer, tuo, must
give men naive.
Because it takes_ plenty_ to wear
some of the Cane) warm weather cos
tumes that are blooming on. rho
campus
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Such as London flannels.
Straight from Pittaburgh
And Pot so atiaight, at that
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Ard plaid, stuped and checkered
vests.
those who do what they promise but
ho do it so much later that the re
sults are Just as disastrous. Secondly,
there is the person who does not: do
all that she promises.
Have you ever stopped to consider
what it situl mean to you to lie depend
able? Fast of all it will increase the
number of your fiiends. Then it will
give you a freer conscience. And
last but not least it will make you
sought This will be hue not only
socially but economically. No em
ployei will want to piomote a woman
who cannot be depended upon to do
hei walk sight, at the proper time
Let's thing about it, girls, and remem
ber that college is a preparation for
the campus long after you have graduated,
beginning next fall?
The subscription price for both semesters is only $2.50.
Mail us your check TODAY and let us have your address.
Which come from Philadelphia
...tot.
But savor of Tirt Juana.
Even the coeds are parading in
summer vestments, scant thin garb,
for which the humidity, of course, is
on excuse.
But only a flimsy MIMIC, at that.,
One co-ed told us that because of
the extreme heat she was forced, for
comfort's sake, to wear a thin dress.
Which throws a little Watt on the
subject.
And, of course, sue ore broad-mind
ed enough to are through that.
Speaking of broad-mindedness re
minds us that the new Froth will soon
be on the local market.
...IQ
With a brand new graduating num
ber.
It'a about time Froth graduated
From high school
Where it has been detained.
Because at delinquency in English
And mathematics.
It was unable to calculate what sac
best fitted to make the patrons laugh.
But, hke our distinguished educa
tors, after spending 15 or 20 years in
college, Frothy should lasts.
rig deg> me,
LEHIGH SENIORS CREATE
INSURANCE.POLICY FUND
The senior class at Lehigh univcr
sity recently voted to create a fund by
mean, of individual insurance policies
which will be turned over to the uni
versity on the twentieth reunion of ill
class
Equitable Life of lowa
J. A. (Pop) Garrison '27
AGENT
Phone 571• W 129 Frasier St.
left behind.
Tuesday, play 25, 1525
Twenty Years Agd*
For the first meet of the year ii
&
"New Beaver Field" last turd ' ,
State had the finest land of a day wit
the struggle close and interesting, as
the final score of G 3-11 in our Tacos,
[ indicates. Watts brOke the State two
mile record by 1 and 3-5 seconds when
he made the eight laps in 10 mmutep
and 1G seconds.
I=l=l
Next neck State N.lll have a new
custom established which will help
very much tomtit' giving our seniors
the respect which is due them. There
will be elected on the campus a "Sen
ior Seat" for the exclusive use of sen
iors at all times. The seats ate being
placed by the junior class in the cen
ter of the campus beneath the cluster
of four maple trees.
=MI
The Y. W. C. A of the College will
,
present then third annual play this
Saturday night. For too months pant
the Co-eds have been working very
hard. under both the dhrectron of Mr.
Couneh and Mos Lovejoy and an ex
cellent peeler mance is expected
I 4 MI
METZ
Maurice Che Nailer in
"INNOCENTS OF PARIS"
All-Talking-Singing-Dancinir-Romance
WEDNESDAY—
Return Slum mg of •
Lily Duman. Ernest Torrence in
'THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY
Mime and Dialogue
TIIURSDAY—
Dorothy illnckmll, Jack MuMall in
"TWO WEEKS OFF" •
Music and Dialogue
FRIDAY—
Leda ITYams, Charles Morton in
"TILE VAR CALL"
Synchronized Picture—Music Only
SATURDAY—
Richard Arlen, Mary Rrsan. Jack,,
°alone, Backnout, in
"THE MAN I LOVE"
All-Talking Picture ~
Nittany Theatre -
TUESDAY—
Jacqueline Logan, Skeet, Gallagher in
"STOCKS AND BLONDES" ~.
SATURDAY—
Tom Tyler, Freak Dam in
"IDAHO RED"