Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Published netahneekly .tonne the COITE, yen, enteral nn holiday, by 'laden.. of The Pennsylvnnin State Colleen. In the interent of the College. the student,. forum. alumni. and friend,. corn ROMID A1.Ag t, Lc ., 11;%1 , 11 Al Grin 7 \III.F SKI •11 C:rcithaton 7.lnnner THE MA \ WILT TAM I rtmrtirn EZIMMEM HAIM \ C WOOD 11 Atlwrti um; Manner JA`V on ! , , ,, , I , l , l2 y ;sillACK r 1 MINI. 1101 ri DIT/ W.... 4 4 Ain tying Mum WILLIAM C McFLVAIM MI ,pu,s I dOur . . vol tmmr civaturq A SCHMIDT Jr •^l Ise,‘s illtibr Icninvo; ❑ nonrrn 71 •ra MARY T All +MS II I%umen . /4 N+%,4 rditor Hugo h l'rrar N 2 11 Nit> Jr 'l2 Sl4.trt Townnend 12 Wllllom II 'mine 'l2 111./Our, A S. rrlll 'l2 IV IVIIIIc 'l2 Ilfenzher En^te,” Into rollefitate Nezclpaper Algociatlon 111!Ii=1:1211=11 311 Old Mom Nittaoy Punting Co Bldg 312. Old Minn Editortal Office_ Busmess Office_ News Rom__ TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1930 STILL A "COW COLLEGE? The inGpen,ty of students to hecad Penn State's 'cunt:Won a , a "cov, college" seems scnev.hat ins.neele in light of the sluggoh i esponse to the effints of the Admini.stiation to bring the student hndy ,roth-uhile onto tamment Ihe mint Won of a college may be coined hat at least, uteri the chat act,. of its stu dent 1)0113 A pmemation of the cultural nits may he one basis upon ,hich the lepalation of a student body 1+ founded The attitude of Penn State's students m this regard was fottably die tinted by the season ticket sale to the Aiti-ts' °Anse, by the College at a financial loss Appioximatell, 400 -easel, t,ckcts had been col l ssher the coin .2. opened Thu.sday night. Attendance at the opening iceital seas gene-ously estimated at 500 Fully one-third of this numbei Nome, moreover, mem. hers of the faulty, and other residents of State Col lege Estimating the total student and town popula tion at 8000, only one-twentieth of that numbet pur chased tickets It students alone had pm chased tickets, obvioudy an unfaii lies. of calculation, but one-lentil ci uld be eonsidei ed culturally interested It Penn State is mole of a eeltoe al institution than the public at late° t cables, it cei tainly is not reflected by the attitude of the .tudent hotly Perhaps the ad vance ha•, not been •n fir Inynnd the "cow college" 'rage Ir addition to IV ing up the gap v.hich existed in the Intl a-mural 'points piogi am during the fall, inter atei nits, football is another step innards the goal Pcnr State is i.eeliing, namely, athletics frr all THE "50-50" MAN Once again the question of nhethet the athlete of the "grind" gets the most out of college life is being argued in the mess Tics time a number of prominent Philadelphir college men oppose the thorny of William Lyon Phelps, of Yn'e, scho believes that the "grind" really gets the 'Jett:, of the lia-gain All of this de halc may be worthnhile, but to most of us it seems futile Rather than tiying to find out shish of these tnc clas - es is the Letter Mr, ss by not conic Bonn to fine points and Icahn that in the end the '5O-30" man is the. happiest The athlete has his inning on the grain., dmmond, m tout t, while the "grand" has his in the classroom. Theo• fields are rudely do mgent, No uulely divergent that some , cold say they could not he mined Yet they can, and it rs fot the one who can combine these tan that hie holds the most Tho old axiom about "all nor!, and no play" can be applied either way in the, situation Tim athlete can leave college a physically pored specimen of humanity, while on the other hand the "gund" can step out with all the book knowledge of centuries stored away under his "mortar borad." Although prepared along totally different lines, they via both wall onto that same path way— "Life " It's a Laud load, as has so often been said before, aril the one viobablv most fit to tread it still not be a member of oldie, of the abase classes, but instead still be tho "50-50" man Ile will have the intellectual bad, ground r well as the ph} steal stamina In the end this comlnnntion will mote hi be the winning one ITS A lIARD LIFE The bat age of blue books hurled Stroll professorial rampatts as the eight wool,' math apptoaches is the signal Tot lamentations by College students on the hard lot of College student Some wail so lustily that they actually connate thew elves that they ale ovenvolked. If one store to take them set tously, almost any eststenee is to be dmied to that of the undetgraduate A del Moe our tealy to these wails Central ed v.ith the tontine anti iesponsilidity shouldered by the average nun a college student's life is a soft snap Simply Item the tandpoint of hauls alone, the online* wen km ,11l put in more time than the oven age student But the responsibility connected with the mere business or living and snivel ting a family far oven shadows the childish mimes stiffened by the average student whose duel baubles centen about bridge games and houseman ty dates A few yews horn today when some of the wailers have expel fenced that delightful feeling of not knowing where the lent is coming (loin or of walking the floes all night with the pride and hope of the next genera- PLIiN STATE COL-LEMAN Grades of Rural Students Surpass City Scholarship That Penn State students from tur al secondary schools suipuss than. from urban high schools in scholar ship is the conclusion draun from 6 , results of a survey made by Alexan uer w Stexait, graduate student, fo his toaster's thesis The survey showed that rural stud ents in the second semester of the past college term finished Mith an average of 1.28 us computed to an average of 125 made by the urban graduates. This slight superan ity was evidenced by the rut al students despite the 'fact that entrance tests shooed them to be not so 4,_11 pie pai eil as the city eel-lents. The rural group made an average of 64.8 in the English aptitude test as compar ed to an urban average of 088 and an average of 100 1 in the general DEAL & SON Plumbing and Heating Fraser Street Calf Skin Formal DRESS SHOES College Boot Shop Allen Street PENN DAIRY :,.. ','• , `', ' .•.,'-'., . 1 i W.l Milk—Cream Ice Cream 210 South Barnard Street Phone 250 . At Hovsenarty Tipne Stop at the Pleasant Gap Service Station intelligence tests as conipal ell to n city grade of 101 o ' School au ergges let@aled that the natal students 1.1 in the Agi mullet il, Enginecnng, nod Education schools !with merages of 1.21, 1 23, 1 38, coil 1 57 no tespectivelv competed to the urban average:, of 1.01. 1 21, and 1 18 On the other hand, the :NALei pie paned students led in the Ltbeill At Chemistry and Pliv,c, and Mines Ischools with 1.25, 1.38. and 1'32 av etages respectively as concocted to 1 08, 1.07, and .83 grades lot those enrolled from less populous centeis. In compiling his sin vey, iii. Steu- art recognized towns of mar 2500 population us urban centei s and those of less than this figuie as belonging to the total class All the News That's Wit to Print In the Houseparty MUG and JESTER Froth Foster Coal and Supply Co. 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