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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1931
CUSTOMS AGAIN ON TRIAL
Following a trend generally characteristic in col
li ges thioughout the country, last year Student Council
abandoned all customs which were not considered con
structive and did not contribute in any measure to the
highest objectives of the College
Picsident Hotzcl, in his convocation address, struck
s.n important note when he said that the existing cus
toms at Penn State should be measured against the much
quoted definition of College Spirit—“absolute and com
plete loyalty to the highest objectives and ideals of the
College "
In revising the customs regulations last year all
those customs which were so objectionable to students
as to prove detrimental to good spirit in the student
body were abolished It natuially follows, then, that
those customs which were retained weie considered
beneficial by the student governing body. 'Whether they
are, or whethei they have no real value as a promoter
of good spirit at Penn State, is a question which has long
been disputed. Most of the larger colleges in the
country evidently believe that the value of customs, par
ticulaily dioss regulations, is obsolete.
How students at Penn State will feel about cus
toms in future years is questionable. At piesent, how
ever, student regulations have decreed that the code of
first year customs now m operation here is worthwhile
and should he upheld. In the last few years few cus
toms violators weie punished and consequently the num
ber of fieshmen who continually ignored the regulations
increased each semester
Cel tain factois this year might work towards a still
further trend against the strict enforcement' of first
year regulations. The general intercollegiate sentiment
against the practice, coupled with the fact that this
trend possibly influenced Student Council to abandon a
few customs heio, might easily lend towards swaying the
balance a little fuither and causing the fieshmen to
ignore the customs which were retained.
The attitude among uppeiclassmen concerning this
question also presents a serious pioblem with which
Student Tubunal must cope New students rarely find
customs unbearable until such a suggestion has been
made by an uppciclassman. Fiateimty men during
rushing season, eagci to incur the favor of a rushee, are
piobably the worst offenders.
Whether ceitain customs heie do or do not fulfil
their intended puipose is not the most vital phase of the
question at piesent. Customs are a pait of Student
Council legislation. It is up to the Tubtinal to see that
these customs in their curtailed form should at least he
g.vcn a fan trial
For two years Penn State has existed as the, “no
bullctin-boaid” campus Meetings have continued, notices
should have been posted, but there was no suitable van
tage point upon which to post them. It is obvious that
a great many unsightly bulletin boards would be detri
mental to campus beauty, but there should be at least
One solution to Penn State’s pioblem of posting
polices might be a laige, attractively-designed board
with a glass ease in which notices could be placed. The
Student Union could supervise the placing of notices,
and all publicity for the boaid would he submitted
there. Certainly no objection on the grounds of un
sightliness could he made, and the need for such a
convenience remains great.
INTERFRATERNITY BALL
At the last Interfintcmity Council meeting the
question of holding Intoifiaternity Ball Friday night of
houseparty was lefenod to the houses Sentiment
among fraternity men seems to he in favor of retain
ing the annual affau as a spung social function
Tiuc, if a decision was made to hold the all-Greek
afl'au* this fall, a gap would occur on the spring social
uhcdule Howevci, this is the only veal reason suggested
m opposition to the proposal of making this all-Collcgc
function nn added attraction for houseparty.
Why not give it a trial? Wouldn’t it add to rather
than dctiact fiom the excitement of fall houseparty? A
large dance in Recreation Hall dunng a colorful season
cl the yenr would at least he unique. And haven’t house
pmty week-ends at Penn State rather lost some of their
flavoi in lecent years?
The financial saving to all fraternities joining the
Ball would amount to ncaily one hundred dollars for
oichcstras alone. Fiaternitics, however, after having
budgeted their incomes to cover this amount, arc usually
reluctant to make a change, even if the change will
result in a substantial saving.
CAMPUSEER
Watching that little, tan dog and that dizzy nir
plnnc, we might have had a time at thb game
Saturday if Moon McMillcn had only parked himself
on the ground during time-out. But Moon insisted
on walking around the field and we immediately bo
camo annoyed because we couldn’t find any rcason*for
the one man parade. For a while we thought he was
looking for something, like a brick, maybe, or a lasso
But then Moon began to make remarks to the other
players, and we wanted to know what he was talking
about. At first we guessed he was just saying, po
litely, “Hello! How do ya feel?” But the answer
to that was pietty obvious all afternoon, and we knew
Moon wasn’t saving anything of the sort.
Then it all came to us out of n clear sky, like a
check to a football player not enrolled at State Moon
must have been doing some rushing, and the exertions
of tho game had made it come back to him like a night
mare. He must have been saying, "Uh, My name’s
McMillen . . . Glad to know ya, Mr. Plunk . . . Uh,
how have ya been 9 . . . Yeah, ainit though 9 . . .
What course are ya taking 9 .. Would you like to look
over tho house?”
That was just our guess, of course. And we
figured that every player answered the same' “Nerts,
Moon ”
For the benefit of all those Seniors taking Com.
90, Who certainly could not be expected to have under
stood all this the first time, vve are repeating what Mr
Butt explained at the early meetings of the sections
Fellows, you are to come to class equipped with
a ruler. This must be a ruler with which jou can
measure—not one simply to draw straight lines. Cen
timeters or inches; but it must measure. Got the
idea? Not just to diaw lines.
And a six inch ruler WON’T DO. It has to be
longer. Like, for instance, twelve inches Only tho
portfolio m which you carry your statistical supplies
is eleven inches long, and a one-foot (or twelve inch)
ruler would haidly fit into it unless, by chance, jou
inserted it diagonally. It has been the experience of
Mr. Butt that most of the fellows buy twelve inch
rulers (with the inches marked on them for meas
uring purposes) and then cut off one inch. It simpli
fies matters if you cut off the last inch rather than
the first inch, because then you can measure from one
to eleven whereas in the other case you would have to
measure from two to twelve, which gets complicated
Now, as to co-ordinate paper. Mr. Butt doesn’t
care whether you use paper with light blue or with
black lines for preliminary work. Either will do; suit
your own taste. Paper with light U)uc lines can be
purchased at any of the stores in town (like Keeler’s,
or Metzger’s or the Athletic Store for example) for
about thirty cents, and paper with black lines costs
twenty-five cents But when it comes to turning m
work, why, you’ve got to use paper with light blue
lines. If you’re color blind you can drop the course
right now.
That’s about all, except that m making graphs
you should remember to so place the numbers that they
are bisected by the lines to which they refer. That’s
only natural, because if you put the numbers ’way
down in the corners or on another piece of paper oi
something they wouldn’t mean much to anybody.
Even in the right place they can’t mean very much
to anybody, but you might ks well put them there.
Understand now*, fellows?
Okay, anybody want to study-statistics? Every
body welcome. For today’s assignment look up the
number of osteopaths m Virginia—male, female and
THE PENN STATE COILEUIaN
Gauger Appoii
Of Mining R
To Head Program for
Aiding Industries
Within State
As the initial step in developing a
research program in the School of
Minernl industries, Dean Edward
Stcidlc has announced the appoint
ment of Dr. Alfied W. Gauger as di
rector of mineral industries research
The program will deal with subjects
directly ielated to the needs of the
minernl industries in the State.
Dr Gauger, nationally known as
nn expert in this field, comes from
the University of North Dakota,
wheie he has served as director of the
division of mines and mining experi
ments for five years. Ho has estab
lished himself as a pioneer investiga
tor of seveial mineral resource prob
lems in the northwest.
The Mineral Industries experiment
station, which corresponds to the Col
lege Agricultural experiment station,
will be situated on the third floor of
tho Mineral Industries building.
Workmen are now engaged in equip
ping the several rooms, which will be
used on more than a score of prob
lems
Secure Analytical Head
Some of the projects now under
way, which are highly technical, in
clude approved investigations in oil
and gas production, a survey of cer
amic materials, coirosion investiga
tions, and studies in the preparation
and processing of Pennsylvania coals
They w ill cover the industries of min
ing, quanying. petroleum and nat
ural gas engineering, fuyl technology,
metallurgy, and ceramics
The problems are exceedingly var
ied. In some cases matters of con
servation, more efficient recovery,
and better utilization will be import
ant In other piojects the object
may be a study of undeveloped re- j
souices, while in still other cases the
studies may lead to development of
new pioducts and new uses for old
pioducts which will mciease the
market
As supervisor of the analytical
woik in the experiment station the
School has secured George A Brady,
recently a %ciyfl>or®'of the Koppers
research organization. An angements
are completed with the Anthracite
Institute to have two men here to
work on problems pertaining to that
field. > v
To Establish Department
In addition to this research pro
gram, Dr Gauger will act as profes
sor of fuel technology in an effort
to develop the first department of
this type in East. Pennsylvania is
known as the leading fuel producing
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Golf Hose, Shirts,
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Know
We are authorized to re
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mand’s Symphonic Pov Jet*
if you think you car. get
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ROBERT J. MILLER
Lted Director
search Work
TO DIRECT Mineral Industries
Research Here \
DR. ALFRED W. GAUGER
State in the world.
Dr Gauger, who is the first fuel
specialist on the Penn State campus,
was graduated in chemistry fiom the
University of Minnesota in 1911 and
received an M. A degree in 1920 and
a Ph D. degree in 1922 from Prince
ton University. At present he is
Vice-chairman of the division of gas
and fuel chcmistiy of the Ajneucan
Chemical Society and a mcmbei of
the coal classification committee.
TO DIRECT FRESHMAN WORK
Karl Mayer ’3l, a member of the
Mont Alto faculty, will duect the ac
tivities of the Hugh Beaver club at
Mont Alto, this year, William L
Hammaker '3O, associate secretary of
the Penn S<.ate Christian association,
announced yesterday
Plumbing and
Heating
Albert S. Deal & Son
117 South Fraser St.
Phone 163
We know why
men smoke
PIPES
WOMEN don't smoke pipes.
They’re not the style for wom
en. But pipes are the style for men,
and more than
that, a pipe and
goodtobaccogives
a man greater
smoking pleasure
, than tobacco in -
'any other form. /*mT^
In 42 out of 54 \
American colleges
, . A pipe 11 noc for peb
and universities
Edgeworth is the favorite pipe to
bacco. Cool slow-buming burlcys give
this fine tobacco exactly the character
that college men
flike best of all.
Edgeworth your
self! You can buy
Edgeworth wher
ever good tobacco
is sold. Or if you
prefer, you can get
A pro >• > man’* a special sample
smoke , »
packet free: write
to Lotus 6i Bro. Co., 105 S. 22d St.,
Richmond, Va., and ask for it.
EDGEWORTH
SMOKING TOBACCO '
Edgeworth is a blend of fine old burlcys,
with its natural savor enhanced by Edge
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Penn State Alumni
Found Everywhere,
Hibshman Declares
'No matter where’you go there’s a
Penn State man.'.
This observation was borne out by
Edward K. Hibshman, executive sec
retary of the Alumni association,
while he and a friend were on a fish
ing trip this summer in an unfre
quented section of Canada.
“Wc were pitching camp at the
vciy end of the'trail one night,” said
Mr. Hibshman. “Hudson Bay was
over 150 miles away, and our camp
site was the last on earth where vie
expected to encounter anyone we
knew. We were along the border of
*■& small body of water, known as
Beauty lake, and many miles west of
Elk lake ‘
' “Jusv as it was growing dusk we
sighted three canoes approaching on
the lake. Evidently the men in the
canoes saw our camp fire for they
immediately handed their craft for
shore.. As they drew near, we hailed
them and exchanged greetings.”
“‘Aren’t you Ed Hibshman?’ came
a voice from one of the canoes. And
ns the men joined us at the camp
fire, sure enough, two of them were
Penn State alumni whom 1 had
known as undergraduates. They, too,
ware fishing m this region," Mr
Hibshman concluded.
ANNOUNCES SALES TOTAL,
Over 100 student tables, desks,
chiffoniers, chairs, and bookcases,
valued at approximately $6lB, have
been sold since the beginning of thb
semester by the department of indus
trial engineering, according to E. M.
Armstrong, who is in charge of the
sales.
CANDY ICE CREAM
SANDWICHES
SUNDAES
SPECIALTY
GREGORY’S
HORSEBACK RIDING
SPECIAL TICKETS ON EASY TERMS
Beginners—6 P. M., Daily Other Groups—4 P. M.
FREE INSTRUCTIONS—MAKE RESERVATIONS
Students, Ask About Phys. Ed. .Credits ~ ,
CAMPUS SADDLE SCHOOL
Rear of Hotel and Theatre Phone 9799
SEE US BEFORE YOU BUY THIS WINTER’S
COAL AND FIREPLACE WOOD
YOU WILL SAVE MONEY
State College Fuel and Supply Co.
Phone 35-M
The Hoover and Smith Co.
72G Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pa.
OFFICIAL PENN STATE CLASS RING ;
May Be Obtained by AH Penn State Alumni Now
Send for Information
PHONE 12-R GOOD SERVICE
MRS. CATHERINE HOPKINS
STUDENTS WASHING
WE CALL FOR
and DELIVER State College, Pa.
Freshmen
For 10 days only we are offering
6R.0.T. C. Panel Portraits 2y 2 x7 lor $1.50
Penn State Photo Shop
Tuesday,, September 29, 1931
DESCRIBES LABORATORY HERE?
De'scription of the Diesel spray
laboratory at the College is contained
in a lengthy article in the current
Automobile Enyincu, a technical
magazine published in England.
Much of the apparatus described was
designed and built by the Penn State
scientists who were .pioneers m this
field.
FRY GAINS COMMITTEE POST
J. Martin Fry, member of the Col
lege agricultural extension staff, for
the second time m four years, has
been appointed to the agricultural
The purpose of the committee is to
supply a general program on agricul
ture to the various Kivvams clubs
throughout tho country.
CAThaum
(Matinee Daily at. 1:30. Evening
opening time 6 00 p. m.
TUESDAY—
The Four Marx Brothers in
‘‘MONKEY BUSINESS”
WEDNESDAY—
Warner Oland, in Sax Rohmer’s
“DAUGHTER OF THE DRAGON”
THURSDAY—
Janet Gaynnr, Charles Farrell, In
“MERELY MARY ANN”
FRIDAY—
Constance Bennett, in
“BOUGHT”
SATURDAY—
Bert Wheeler, Dorothy Lee, in
“TOO MANY COOKS"
NITTANY THEATRE
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY—
Lowell Sherman, Mae Murray, in
“HIGH STAKES”
THURSDAY—
'DAUGHTER OF THE DRAGON”
FRIDAY—
“MERELY MARY ANN”
SATURDAY—
‘BOUGHT’’