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THE MANAGING BOARD • .
JAMES H. CrooGAN:, JR. '3O MILTON M. ROSENBLOOM '3O
kciitor-in-Ghiet . Business Manager
CHARLES^ A. MENSCH '3O RUSSELL t. REHM '3O
Mbnaging Editor Advertising Manager •
BOEEBT P, Sitrvy..vsox '3O CALVIN E. BARRIS '3O .
Furs Editor - Circulation Manager
HENRY R; DOWDY '3O
Foreign - Advertising Manager
QUINTON E. BEAVCE '3O
Sports Editor
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
CHARLES A. Sam= .11!... '3l
NORMAN B. NOBLER '3l
WILLIAM K. VLEFIICII '3l
JACOB L COHEN '3l
10Y E. MoRGAN '3l4t.
WILI.LASI C. 310ELVAIN '3l
Member Eastern Intercollesiate Newspaper Association
Eatnad al Ka Pastalßre, State Gates, Pa.. as seces4-alaas salter
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1929
THE MYSTERY TRAM OF MA
It is common knowledge that football games are•played on paper weeks
befdre the opening kick-off. This year's pre-season combats aro no excep 7 .
tion.to the rule. Already Nara Dama is giving Army a sound beating;
California is running' .roughshod over Pennsylvania; and pittsburgh
is crushing Carnegie Tech, Withal, no mention ia,made of Penn State's en
gagements with N. Y. U., Lafayette, Syracuse, and Iltmsylvania. No one
hazards a guess as to the probable outcome of any of these important grid
iron. frays,
Ungo Pestle 1929 edition of pigskin-totem is really and truly a mat
ter for conjecture.' The veteran mentor refuses to speak; the players are
reluctant to talk; and the student body wonders what it's all about. Qhi
Man Jinx, not to be shunned, paid, a visit to the Lion camp. French, Esch
"bath, Shawley„and Stahley have been undeethe weather foi more than a
week; Miller has been declared ineligible; and Captain Martin luta been shift
ed from guard to the backfield. To bide further Penn State's prospects for
a winning eleven from the public eye, the Nittary coach dispensed with the
annual practice tilt between thefirst and second teams and shooed his squad
Off io Esilesmere over the week -end.
The first game is only five days off and no one knows what to expect.
Except, perhaps, the College Hamer forecaster whc) predicts a 9 7 t0-6 victory
Over Niagara; or Jesa Carver, Pittsburgh sports writer, who boraces nothing
but enemy touchdowns. These to the contrary, the cotigcr.str believes that
Penn State's football team has earned already the distinction of being "The
Mystery T e am of 1929.^
THE BATTLE LOOMS!!!
Rushing season at Penn State will levy its usual toll of empty rooms
upon, the proprietors of town rooming houses this fall. Last year more than
half the freshmen class was pledged to fraternities and this year the same
and perhaps a greater number is , expected to accejt bids from, the Greek let
ter organizations. The annual , grand exodus of freshmen from rooming
houses always causes a wave of discontent to scribe each landlady and land
losd in the town. an 4 when the Shhi . .fredepatttrre.arrivi.S 4reritable battle
Often ensues. ". •
As the fraternity experiences difficulty in selecting and. Pledging men,
so does the freshman many times find trouble in vacating his room. If the
first-year man)has fufilledhis - oral or written contract there will be little
chance for an argument, but, when . the agreen2ent has not been adhered to,
cottplications alfiost - inavitably result. - There is a Penrtsylvania and gener
al legal law which states that oral ort7rittencontracts are not binding when
reads with persons under ale, age of twenty-one. With all, other persons the
'contract must be carried out. Considering the question; from this point, a
freshman who is under the age limit could not be prevented from moving out
of a room whether or not his laiSe has.expired as, long as he has paid for the
time the room was, occupied. •
But that is only one side-of the rooming question. There is a moral
law 'rigidly adhered to.by th;•Cellege which looks to the honor of the, student
as Well as to the loss suffered by the landlady. Under this I:m3*W:en Ad
ministrative legislation it is almost impossible for a Penn State student to
brgalt a nZining• contract without•an excellent reason. Whether or not he
is bound legally to carry out his`part of the agreement, -the College forbids
that any man retract his promise unless he finds a substitute for the room.
Were the College authorities to take no action at all in that, direction the
rooming situation. soon would become a much greater problem than it la,at
present.
step in ligl
student, especially the freshman, was - taken this year by persons in the town
who did not want regular roomers. These persons who for the, most part
are wives of Penn 'State professors set aside several rooms in their , houses
for yearlings who expected to jot frateriddes. The freshmen-were under
no contract When they entered the rooms and are at liberty to leave when
they desire as long as their bills are paid. This ph . :in has eliminated a great,
deal of trouble between The landladies and freshmen guld its' continuation
would be a great benefit to the College. •
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THE DAYS OF 1:IWIM MMW,,51.0N,
'Freshmen sense it on the very first day of their college career. Upper
classmen remember it with increasing understanding even_ though, they may
have attained co the last degree in ultra-sophistication. Graduates-never
regain it.' Writers find in it the theme for short stories, plays, novels,. It
is the deep sensitiveness of the college freshman to every experience.' .
This new sensitiveness misses no one. Sons of the farmer, the:miner,
the mill worker, the lawyer, the doctor, the minister, sons of Teen in any and
every occupation all sooner or later become aware of the mystlC ltirnosphere
shrpuding the freshman,in college. Even the boy from a' preparatory . schOol
does not escape.
A few years ago Percy Marks wrote a book on college life and entitled
it "The Plastic Age." The term-was, and still is, appropriate but could
more fittingly be applied to the freshman year &one rather than'to the, full
four years as did Mr. Marks. Daring his frefieman year a boy la just like
so much clay, plastic mni, yielding. to butside influences, audit is safe 4 say
.that t there never will bo another period in.hLs entire life when he will change
so much. . . -- •
The young man who emerges at the end of nine months can
scarcely be recognized as the boy'who matriculated in September. Possibly,
he may not be better dressed, bat the past years lead one to believe that be
will be. In physical appearance. he may have changed not at all, but in
wardly there will have been tlie - most violent revolutbin.
But despite theilianges which he undergoes the freshman will find that
his first year in college is one of the happiest iu life. later,,he may attempt
to regain this happiness, but nothing is more futile, foi . the changes;Wide'n
the freshman year, the period of deepest iMpreseion, have wrought, raise .
theinselies to bar the way. ;And perhaps - this very? fact was, the agency
Prompting a noted writer to elate, recently, if he were to order his min
life he would choose to be a perpetual freshman. Who would note The
the burden' of both the landlady and the
MR.
LION'S
DEN
cram
The fact that football news is
croicding baseball chatter off metro
politan spirts pages reinforces the
belief that the gridiron sport may
supplant baseball as the Great Ameri
can Pasttime.
Bat, as a former Collegian editor
argued, football won't be news until
Niagara Falls; •
Rushing, to us, is a grind that com
pares ivith the stiitest football train
ing. Although the season is only
foUr days old, we've tired of walk
ing from Lo'enst Lane . to the far end
of College avenue and back again.
As if this were not enough, we must
talk constantly of houseparties, Junior
Proms, co-eds, football, and R. 0. T.
Then it's a movie, which, to quote
the Cathaum bookers, is "The Awfal
Truth." --
By far he most original story
we've heard yet of outstanding plebes
is. one which victimizes our College
physician.
Dr. Ritenour: "Sit down!"
"Take off your shoes."
The Freshman: "Wot fer?"
Dr. !Thitenour: "Aintcha got flat
, feet?"
The Freshman (impatiently): "'flaw
Ulcers of the stom-
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One sugg stun that reached our
desk yesterday udvised Bez . to let his
gridmen patrol the camPus'noivadays.
It is believed that signing date
cards and not making note Of the
various engagements will lessen the
difficulty of remembering signals
hereafter.
The Y. M. C. A. secretary refuses
to divulge the smile of the freshman
who . telegraphed, for room and board
reservations, "preferably . . in frater
nity house."
Whit that freshman needs, Daniel
agrees, is guidance.
,
"why Cast A, Blackball,"-}n the
Opinion of :one fraternity ;p3 , 4l.4etit.'
would '6e an excellent title for -tie
next college Best Seller.
Egang
The Den Davis apples 'that burden
the "tree in Professor Fletcher's
garden, according 'to our informant,
are edible. ,
• A rod-apple propagandist, we'd call
him.
FRATERNITIES OPEN
RUSHING; 9.4%,TURVAY
--mumui . Headhne • •
Avoid. The Rush
Pledge Early!
"What 'course are you taking?",
one rushee believes, shoUld be barred
from conversation by order a the In
terfracemity council. ' t
Overheard at a Fraternity • Meeting
"This Brown is a smooth apple!: 'lt
you don't remember him,. perhaps
you .can place him 'through that salt
and pepper Suit he wore this noon
I took a peek at his card and he's be
in, salaamed by all 'the campus
frg
ternities. I ;don't think we'd •go
wrong on this • kid cause . he's got
besucoup jack and thst's, what we
need in this fraternity.. .
; him home tonight
he told me he liked "our bunch better
than any bunch he's met yet. tle
thinks the Nu boys are a bunch of
snobs and that we always act nattir'cl.
We'le got enuff dead wood in this
house. now and via we need is boys
like Brown who'll be noticed on the
campus. I understand that, he comes,
from 'a ritzy_ family in lattstmro,
and that they own a couple of cars,
I knotO • he'll make a good Chi, so I
move that we cast a,favorable
ballot
.
fer Brown. . .
weaters, - .
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INSIINTORS,
TAR Li* POSTS
Professor port . „ Returns From
• Year's 'Leave iof Abseleo
Tq Iferamik
Many ne' instrlittors have been
added to the staff of the School
Liberal. Arts, Dein_Charles W. Strait I
dart announced Saturday, in giving
out the list of changes and additionS
to the teaching staff- •
In the department of mathematics,
Dr. H. B. Curry and Dr. I. M. Sheffer,
both graduates of Harvard, assume
the posts of ,hssistant professors. Or.
Leo Zippin, of the University of Pena.'
Sylvania; Mr. C. H. 'Graves,. of Mill:
saps College, and Mr. W. Moon, of
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, become instructors.
Prof. S. McClellan has returned
from a leave of absence at the Brown
university to resume, his thities in the
department of philosophy. Mr. T. E
Probert, friim the calumhia universi
ty, becomes an instructor in the do: :
partment of economics anti sociology,
and Mr.: H. Williams become~.a
grilduate assistant iii - the sortie del . "
partment.
In the. absence of Prof. A.. flowry . .
Espenshade, whO is on a year's leave
of absence at the University of Ilonal.
lulu, Iliwaii, Prof' Theodore .1. Gatei
has resumed firs, pOkition as acting.:
head of the department of English
composition. Mr. .t. EirbY of Ham
ilton College and Columbia universi
ty wilLbe. an instructor in the same
department: Tie department of Epg-
Esti composition gain's an — initrudttir
in Mr. g. C. Wats, Cilirnell ancverkity
graduate.
Prof.' Jacob TanOr has b•eorou Mad
lof the' deparment of History, in; the
'place of Dr. Asa who has
resigned his position leo:complete his
literary work. Wallace B. Brewster
'has, been: advanced to the'posittorr of
insructor and Albert GaTe-:si
has' been granted the pphilion tit grad
uate assistant in the saMillepartinont.
Former_ peal! 6e.lti4Tne,
Dr. Robert E: Dengler has replaced..
Prof. *Miln" who has
withdrawn is - head , Orth depirtmen,t_
of classical languages. Piot Leslie
M. Iligfair cT e
ing head,tf e apt of romance
llangtu*si. I j ....
The department of music rtina,..a.
limper Member of the faculty Emill'lstb*n, who was o lthe as
sistant Dean of 'Men; Mr., e
*Ahura
becomes an assistant proteaver in
music. Miss Marion Itere,l Who re
ceived il)er
of
froM . the o,§erlin
CeoPerYaipek 9f Music, and.lo. c.
s m ith , {vend. out;the list of. nrw . ar
rivals department . Ratit are
assistant professors,
PITT WANXISPIPS NEW
1101 in FOR ACT VATIVS
-As weetlag place for undergrad
uatdorganliatitins, University of Pit*
burgh has opened an Activity. 111ouse
for men where leaders will gather to
discuss undergrodeate plamc
The new unit, which his been es
tablished i the renovated - Y hut,
will house the, offices of the-dean of
men_ and his assistant, the:graduate
minager of activities, the airectar of
employment and housing for men,
the, secretary of the PAU Y. M. C. A 4.„
the Pitt Uje Pitt
and -the headquarters of 'tha , irtridnit
Innglearoqn , 44A o P , - in: klin..ekOtek
th, bulidii4 . o ll o4 15 ; 1 1; 1 !Ipt.pl.p/ag - !
)n8 *fri:tor: 1, 4 6 4' Oa i 440 - tif*l
Pitt campus leaders believe: that
great benefit result , Arom unit
ing the activities ,in "one
With 'the offices of tbe . vailals'Frul
rations locatMl in adjoirdneroefne,
they believe ; that greater coireil
tion will be secured amens-Vie isfu
dents while better"2relations
inade - the chile 'Pioxl;
- Tilley of the dean of Men's Office:
NE3VF .001*#. 4F,MBERS -` assistant professor in chemical
I 'need carry on oil research
Ay) grA,' %F gl e- RESEARCH • " 4. •
work'.
Paul G. Shelley, of the University
. . ,
The $50, 0 00 legislative appropria- I of Oklahoma, an 4 E. F. Williams,
than to the College for gas and oil i graduate assistant in' minerology at
research next year brings to Penn Penn State last year, will be instrile-
State four new instructors who will; tors in the new oil and gas production
aid both in teaching and experimen- - course. .
tatiop. .. s i Coach Lew Andreas will probably
~.
Clark F. Barb of the Colorado rely upon Sam Set?, veteran . back,
School of Minos, appointed, associate to do most of the ground gaining dtir
profesaof of petroleum research, and ing the coming season. A number of
bf.'ll.. , Fenikei., of :the Massachusetts ,promising ball 'carriers have- come
rAtNctite, 0 Technology, who will be i from last year's freshman squad. ,
For These Crisp Autumn Days . . .
yOU REALLY MUST DROP IN AND SEE
OUR NEW TOPCOATS FROM BONNIE
SCOTLAND.
WE'D DE PLEASED TO SHOW THEM TO
YOU.
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