Page 'lvd ' PENN STATE COLLEGIAN P"U" "ml."'"k'"""' 9 ' l:te C° N:gx:. " (l; N7l . 4„ ^ : ‘ ,:r l lTM: by etude.. a The Pennsylvania • and daianda. the students, faculty. alumni. TUF MANS WILT.TAU K. ULTRICII GINO IMAM/ ALA ild n .Z;j2sr ll ALG OLILIor atl:P HARRY C WOOD 'II Atherll,lns: Alonager WILLIAM II HEILMAN '9l Mannlnc FAH. WILLIAM C MeFLVAIN =EMI 122:M7M1 EC= • horelun Athertl.inc Manager . 31 JANET L. BROWNBACK 'al NORMAN II SOULFR 'II Y Loursr lIOFFEDITZ MI Now, IMUor Moment ManoLlnu FMltor MARY .7 ADAMS 'll Women x New. Mtn,. Mao N. Fmk, .32 Itt.h It Racy Jr '32 Stewart Townsend .32 William 11 Irvine . 32 Theodore A &MN '32 Edward W White '32 E!!ZE=EI Lin Y Frb la 2 , C iI Cenn '32 ~ amucl Sinclair 'TS Collin F Fink 'l2 Wa.n.Wl I. Rehm '32 F.!aunt S Speclnc. '52 Member Easter Intercollegiate Newspaper Association 1:11::!=:11!M Editorial Office 313 Old Main Business Office Nittany Printing Co. Bldg. News Room 312 Old Main FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1930 THE COLD FACTS The fist days of this week have revealed a strange attitude among Penn State students It has been an apathetic one, more to he deplored than the most un favorable criticism. Football, once the most popular subject of undergraduate conversation, has Lecome a closed book. This attitude is not unjustified in the eyes of many. Friday night saw what was probably the most rousing football ially of late years To the last man, the stu dents were behind the team Then, twenty-four hoots later, the hopes for victory had been dashed miserably to the ground. Many ardent looters behesed that the team had let them down. Even the most loyal had difficulty keeping back words of censure. Finally, the realization, hard to accept at first, dawned that Penn State was clearly out-classed by a better team. No alibi could be offered, the cold facts were evident. But cold facts, like a cold shower, are hard to take without flinching. Students sought around for sonic basis of criticism found none of consequence, lost inter est. To many, the season Was ended. We could at this time launch into a verbal frenzy exhorting students to back the team to the death, lashing tho team to unequalled deeds We refrain The cold facts are still here; see attempt to answer them in these few lines Football season is not over. Until its conclusion any harmful criticism of the team and its coaching should he withheld. We do not think that the morale of the team is broken or that the students have lost confidence The Bucknell game is the problem 'of the moment Without superfluous adjectives to embellish our statement no believe that the uleven Penn State players on the field at Lewisburg tomorrow will come through. We admit frankly that ae were astonished by the reaction to the communication appealing in the "Letter Boy" of Tuesday's COLLEGIAN When sin published the letter we were positive that every leader would grasp its humor. We would have wagered a good bit that no one would take it seriously Imagine our consterna tion and the jolt to our faith in the faculty and student senso of humor %then .v.e learned that many had taken the letter seriously, actually believed that sentence thought that "things were not 100 , : right about Penn State" , BRING FORTH A CRITIC At inegular intervals during the past trio years the COLLEGIAN has published dramatic criticisms of Players' productions. Last yeas they were discon tinued as it ties felt that the criticism was not accepted in the right spirit by those mentioned and that insuf ficient inteiest was shown to meat a continuance of the practice This year, much to our suimise, has come a re action. Several requests foi resiews have been received. The subject has been 10/11.1 to such an extent that the COLLEGIAN is glad to submit it for discussion. If there is enough interest manifested the practice will be re established. Assuming that this will be forthcoming there is another question to he considered. Who can be judged a qualified critic , Lost year when a member of the COLLEGIAN staff t4ote the reviews he was criticized se verely and declared incompetent because he did not take ir,to account certain obscure technicalities of reviewing unearthed by someone Perhaps he did not recognize these technicalities but neither did ninety-nine per cent of the audience Naturally a student critic will not be absolutely perfect in his criticism. The reviews are more nearly news stories than bonafide criticisms. The other alternative is a faculty critic. There are several drawbacks to be considered in the adoption of this source It is often rather difficult to confine a faculty critic's efforts to the meagre apace available. If he is given free rein, his work may be too voluminous and lose Its effect when cut by the copy reader. Often the faculty critic is inconvenienced by the requirements of time. Both student and faculty critics have their individ ual faults. Yet, perhaps someone may be secured to write the reviews if the criticisms are desired. Are THE LION'S DEN El= .1n Open Letler. The Den, Yesterday After reading yours of the other day, I man forced to do a little thinking Although most of these Penn Staters would not believe that, it's tine notwith standing. I op coil with practically everything you said, but felt that you note tuong on one funda mental point. Really, I don't believe that it's the trees that ale responsib',e for oin football team's shoveing. Rathm, it is all these darned salimall, around here. As an example of v.hat a pernicoms influence they ale, let me tell you a few stoi One athlete was tellirg me the other clay that be could not temember signals, because he hail his mem ory cluttered up tiying to keep in mind NOVA path to take to his eight o'clock class the ne. , t morning. Then there's the case of the player who was so mixed up in sidewalks that when he finally got to New Beaver field pi setae ties nit,. It's things like these that cause all the linable So you see, Son, you can't blame it all on the tees Now you might put those immature Bolshe viks you spoke of to noik by having them bbno up some of these walks. Youi , cm tome] ,illew 111,, Daniel Did You? Ever hem about the COLLFGIAN editor who sub- , Department, Alumni Displays Form mated material to a smart maga/ine and sins awarded 1 Principal DIN sston of Yearly first place by the Better English In,titrite for mere llorticalture Contest puce "bail examples " , No, Evoteieltla, of 101(4 no! Amid The-Bnuk-uf -the-Weal. "Burning Desn e" By Inca Flame To a Summer Ito trance. The tasks of Hercules I'm sure Rate higher than a sinecure, The South Pole jaunt of Dicke Byrd Desenes, of course, a passing word, And Volstead gets a fair-sued hand For making liquor coot, Amid, But who can tell—what praise rs due To me—if I con forget you A Local Fashion Note. The Coy Co-ed opened the fall season last week by going to Shingletown to have her hair bobbed Speaking of hair cutting, Prof. pointed out to Daniel the other day a sign on the building across from the Post Office. This is how it read: BARBER SHOP AND VANITY SIIOPPE Judging by the pi esent 11111.1011, thep77 goon add the "ye" to "bar bet vitap " Voce front thud floor Mae hall Hey, Mabel, yoLdle canted on the tiay-phone , Mabel, from the fourth noel All rlght, I'll be down wi soon a, I get a nickel A Timely Suggestion. DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING EARLY ****.•... Only 55 11101 days until Ch,Nlmay Your Christmas Cards ? • Samples of Personal Cards now on display Place your order now for delivery anytime in December. Keeler's Cathaum Theatre Bldg. TEE REIN - Di STArzl COLLEGIAN Letter Box The Penn State Collegian I have no desire to enter in mat- I tees that do not concern me, yet I do rot think it , entirely inappropr, late to say a word or two about such 1 things as involve the institution which we wish to see improve [ It is my opinion, and I belies eit is shared by ninny of my fellow stu !dents that the mounting of the lions on the campus gate has not contub. Med to the betterment of om cam pus But what is more important, the two little lions portray to those who happen to notice them, the quai -1 ity of 001 artistic appreciation. Those bans are not worthy to em body the noble spirit of Penn State Nittany Lions, recumbent and lie.ny, placed close to the ground, would express strength and dignity —anti that's what see want, lions that .oulil reflect our common ideals. As I look at them when I enter the campus, I am depressed by the thought that they will stand there, Cm the years to conic, as a lasting 1 evidence of a wrong conception of what is propel. Sincerely yours, i Patrodo, D. Cdtopoulos '3l STUDENT EXHIBITS AID ANNUAL SHOW Displays by various divisions of the ileum tment and by students and alumni formed the main exhibits of the annual Horticultute Show which v.a4 held hum Thursday noon to Saturday night in Rooms 100 and 104 Hoiticulture building The landscape architecture division designed a combined pool and sock gal den as their past of the display, i while the divisions of pomology and vegetable gardens contributed a chart which showed the advances in trans ' poi lotion over a large spun of years A complete model floral shoes was exhibited by the oinamental horti culture division. W Mettles Schell '3l won a loving cup as the first pm° in the commer cial vegetable growers' contest, while lbeit Watts 'lB won the individual prrie In the sweepstakes conducted by the division of pomology, A. E Shirk '2O won fist prize THE COLLEGE DINER EAST BEAVER SIXTY-FIVE 211=:18 We serve the best Home Made Ice Cream. 1 pl. Grape Juice____ 2 for 50c C. 8: C. Gingerale__ 3 for 50c 11111111 M DENTAL NEEDS 50c Orphos Tooth Paste__29c 50c Peheco Tooth Paste___3lc 50e Ipana Tooth Pasle___3lc 49c Squibbs Tooth Paste 27c 23c Listerine Tooth Paste 18c $l.OO Listerine_ G9c $l.OO R. D. 29 Solution___69c $l.OO Lavoris 73c $l.OO ICojene 73c 50c Prophylactic Brush___39c HAND SCRUBS Regular 50c and 75c Value Assorted Colors 19c to 39c Your opportunity to provide yourself with a good Brush at low cost OIL, GAS CONCLAVE REVEALS PROGRESS lioness, Barb Discuss Formation Of Sand Areas—Conference To Issue Bulletins The Petroleum and Natural Gas conference, sponsored by the Mineral Industries School, demonstrated the developments in these Pennsyltania industries, Prof. Chesleigh A Bonnie, head of the geology department stat ed yesterday. "Executives, engineers, producers, and scientists, who attended this con tention, contributed to the advance ment of the nil and gas industries of the State," he asserted "Scientific research was closely tied up with the active pr odor tr on of natural re sources " Paul D. Torrey of Medford, con sulting engineer, in a discussion of ail mining claimed that the efficiency of recovery in the Bradford fields would he increased eighty percent if mining methods were used in place of the present pressure flooding The cost of production pm barrel would also be lowered To Issue Bulletins In the same session of the Petiol emn section, Dr. Arthur P lioness, of the mineralogy department explain ed the scientific phases of the oil sand formations. Pint Claude Barb, of the oil and gas production research depot tment, in a sinuku dis cussion moved dhe Bradford sands to be distinct from nther sand forma tions All paper, deliveled at the confer once, tolether with wiaten discus J. B. 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