Page rii a PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Published semi.weehly during the College year. except on holiday, byetudents of The Pennsylvania State College. In the Interest of the Lollege, the ntudente. faculty, alumni. and friend.. TIIE SIANACIVC BOARD INCA II RILEY JR . 32 151'SIDELL L READ! '32 Fdllnr Dwane", Manager HUGO IC TRRAR . 32 SAMIIF:I. SINCLAIR 'l2 Slnnlninn Pallor Circulation Slannuer rDWARD N WHITE '32 lIN Y ERR '22 Alhertkina Nlnnacer EDWARD S SITSING '32 AnAktant },Ht, r TIIPODORE A SFRIIILL .32 Forchtn Atht Ilunecer COLLIN F I INK 12 Sport, FAtor WILLIAM II IRVINE .32 Anxt. Cirrulntion Manarer .IFSSII C 31,10.0 N '32. Nens Editor STEWART TOWN,F:ND 92 News nlitor MARY M WRIGHT 12 Women•x I OUISH MARQUARDT •12 Wconcnx Mewl Editor Mat AtherliAina Manna, 3IARGARF:r TSCIIAN .32 Wometis Monvil, Flditor Sidney II Den Antin Ralnis R ltetzei Jr '33 Robert F Tatum 'l3 Donald I' Day 'll 11.dho C Stamm.): '3l nit hard V Wall 'l3 V! .1 Wlllintm Jr '23 F rnent 11 Zukausi on '3l 11:1!1=!!!12:1!1;!111 ASSOCIATII ilusr‘rss MAN:At:CRS Paul w m. rdeln 'II Itub• rt IlArrllmton •SI Alfred N llemeJr •11 t=====! Edda, ial Office •.11 Old Main n 1,91111, Offirc Telephone 292-Il Member Susie", Into collegiate Nocapapm ARgoriation FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931 CLOSED DANCES Year nftel yem the question of open or closed frn tronity dances becomes mole and mole pen tment to students at Penn State. As the student hotly met eases this pi oblem leaves the class of - minor difficulties to lie stttled by each sepal ate ft ateinity and assumes an angle of paramount importance—one that requires the son ous consideration of Inteifiateinity Council and sonic united action on the putt of every organization involved. Some fraternities, no doubt, cling to old ideas of hospitality—laudable in the old days when the student body was small enough to pi event a stampede of the fraternities on dance nights, but a little out of place when a thousand or so Banymores male the iound of tomes every week-end Just a taste of what frater nities have in stme for them was indicated by the mowded condition of several supposedly closed dances m the past weel-end This problem can never be settled satisfactonly unless thole is a unified action on the pact of all f a tm nities to live up sti ictly to the meaning of the "closed dance." We me strongly in favor of the written invitation, and believe that it is a solution to the problem of clouded dances Hospitality has al -I,ays been an outstanding charaetts istic of Penn State atermties, but hospitality can easily be misplaced when Invited guests are imposed upon by an almost equal num ber of "crashers." Nest v.eek the Once upper classes wdl hold their initial class meetings of the yea] foi the purpose of making nominations for the venous class scholarships Ir formci yeals the attendance at similar meetings has boon pitiably small Students should realize the import ance of theae meetings and respond by n representathe turnout. Ceitainly, at no other class gathering dut mg the year, is there nny mole important business to bring before the chives than the question of awmiling sJwlm ships to desei ving members FILLING THE GAP To please some of those who have felt definitely the lack of an Artists' Course this year, comes the op pm tunity to attend Shakespearean perfoi mantes tomm- TON, afternoon and evening In spite of the fact that attempts to present musical entertainment of high quality have failed sexy thoroughly, we are optimistic enough to think there are still enough people at Penn State with cultural inclinations to support the Players iii bringing the Ben Giect [loupe bete. Their ore a gloat ninny arguments from the point of view of pure entettainment lot attendance at these pm tot mance, But one facto] especially should stir those who applaud the idea of the presentation without attending from their lethargy. The attendance nt these perfoimances might well be taken as an indication of the number who would prefer to see some regular star entertainment muse re-established here. The gap loft by the demise of the Al Lists' Course is already noticeable. It is certain that a great ninny would like to see the return of sonic kind of entertain ment. corn se The proof of then• dean es will be shown in the attendance tomorrow; and a few of those who Tmght attend but will pi nimbly let the opportunity slip by might convdu• this before they wail over the dis appearance of the Ai lists' Course and the decline of College appreciation in their ne‘t gathering of the cul turally elite. Nine out of ten vacant seats at that production can be pointed out as unfilled because some rile would have liked to attend but didn't. Of twenty-sly magasines placed in Old Main lounges, al% remain Equipment Sol use on the thud floe, has beer ransacked, with playing cm ds and chessmen nmong the missing articles Statistics cannot be denied, and evidently there r ornate a few who let use to cooperate with the admlnistiation in making the lounges woi th while to students. Condemnation of these petty thieves, m.hether or not they ate acting without thinking, should be universal. OLD MANIA f We got this one from Ire% Beck, and if you don't Febeve it you can go mound to the Beta house and a , l, hum. Anyv.aN, it's a swell story It seems that several years ago there were four rely Sinai t lads cram mg Princeton from a certain prep :thou! (ue missed out on some of the grimy details) v ho conceived the idea of putting Joe Zilch thru Princebon. This was way back in the days when Joe Zilch sons not a synonym for John Doe, and Fanny WAS still a girl's ounce Accordingly, one of the quintet registered as Zilch, Joseph, and Joe's schedule was divided among the four of them, each can tying extra ei edits in what ever line he escelled at, and legistoing foi the extra courses as Zilch. (The whole business strikes us as being mole bother than it's woith, but some people lime trick ideas.) At the end of foul y ems Joe Zilch was on the Honoi Roll or uhetecei they have at Princeton, and was all set to graduate. But lo R. behold, when the Commencement micises were held and Joe Zilch's name was called, no Zilch. This baffled the authorities completely. Lime was a guy who goes to school , for foot years, piles up a big scholastic merage, and then doesn't conic atound for his diploma. 'So 'the diploma was put assay in the dean's office until Joe should show up Finally the four jokesters went mound and et plamed the whole um], to the authorities, asking if they could please have the diploma for a souvenn of something The dean or mhom.et it was said no, he didn't belevm it w.is possible, and the diploma would leave the office when lee Zilch mine & got it. According to Jack Beck it's still theie. As see said heroic., it's a very good story. Notes fat Creel. 25 Altho in Thebes , Their 0010 no Fiches, 'The wily Clocks Wei 0 full of ti cobs, They took gloat joy In dance S. ohm us, And canto] ed Tiny With a wooden hni no The N‘riting, of the Grecian ceelg Hold no thrall for engmeel o; Even L an L A student, Sometuneg yawn at them. Who wudent9 Ous very efficient Grapevine Telegraph Depart ment tells us that at the Blue Key smoker the other evening the president of the society said that Blue Key "is an organisation for assistant managers and politicians like iSf—" lie forgot to add that the assistant manages & politicians like M . -- have to be members of a certain clique—just one of those details people adf slip up on. Fos instance, if you're a first assistant tennis manager Ss belong to the sight clique, you may get to lie a Blue Key. If you're prescient of the Junior Class & belong to the WI ony clique, yowl chance.. ale had T.k t.l. t,k And they have such time hats, too Personal to Dean Stoddart• Whaddaya mean, you lead the Campuseer every Tuesday Sr. I , ', ;day? Campuseer my eye It's things like that that make us want to go off in a corner somewhere and give up the ghost We haven't been getting along so well 1 ' with o u r ghost lately, anylion. ". • "fh Jotting the Th )111 and Onfolslll. of Fa; el tin Letneh. to Those Who Stay at Noise' TRAVEL BOOKS The Call of England—H. V Morton When You Go to London—H. V. Motion Het e's It eland—Untold Speakman Fiance. From Sea to Sea—Arthur Stanley Riggs Conic With Me Through France Frank Sehoonmaker The Palls That's Not in the Guide Books Basil Wnnh Riviera Towns—Herbert Adams Gibbons Along the Pyrenees—Paul Wilstath Islands of the Mediterranean—Paul Wilstach Sea and Sardinia—D 11, Lawrence Spanish Towns and People Robert Medd' Mcßride Come IVith Me Through Italy Frank Sehoonmaker Planning A Ti ip Aln oad—Edu at d Hungel col (I Through Europe on Two Dollars A Day Flank Sehoonmalter Finding the Wm th While in Europe . . Albert B. Osborne Towns of Destiny—Hilaire Belloc Bagdad and Points East—Robert J. Casey In Coldest Afnea—Carveth Wells The Out Trail—Maly Roberts Rinehart Under the Sky in Ca'dolma Charles Plums Saunders London, Pains and Rome in Seven Days Arthur Milton On Mediterranean Shores—Emil Ludwig Meet the Germans—Henry Albeit Phillips The Romantic East—Sydney Greenbie Rambles in Old London—George Byron Gordon Thu Spell of Treland—Arehre Bell Two Vagabonds in Spain—Jon and Cora Gordon As It Is in England—Albeit B Osborne Picture Towns of Europe—Albeit B 0,1301ne Togother —Noi man Douglas And hest of all—these titles formerly $3 00, $3 50, and $lOO me now all uniformly bound at $l.llO NOW ON DISPLAY KEELER'S Catlnium Theatic Building NN STATE COLLEGIAN Glancing Back (nom Past 'Collegian' Files) 25 Years Ago "On June 11th the department of Mmes and Muting was separated from the School of Engareeung, and Dr. 21 E Wadsworth made (lean . . The rapid growth made adorable the separation from the Engnmm mg School." "Again has a new college 'year rolled around, bringing into the life of the college ... the class of 1910 . In 'imam they slightly ex ceed last year's class, having 270 men entered as against 1009's 200 soon " font hundred men, com posing the cadet batallion, attended the dedication of the new State Cap itol building at Harrisburg headed by the State band, (they) matched to the Board of Trade build ing, uhere the aims mere stacked." 20 Years Ago "The School of Liberal Arts is planning to give a play during the winter, and a committee, under the direction of Mr. Dye, is already at work upon the project A classical play will probably be selected " "Penn State triumphed over Car nal! last Saturday afternoon by the score of 5-to-0 The single touch down of the game was the result of a blocked kick by (Dick) Harlow on Cornell's fifteen yard line" "The annual registration of stu dents has been very promptly carried out this semester, and the records show a big increase over last year. On September 21, there us....re GOB new students, including 477 freshmen." 11 Years Ago "When the Civic club, in conjunc College Jewelry Evdrythlng You Expect at the Best Jewelry Store in Centre County CRABTREE'S 132 Allen St. State's Leading Dry Cleaners EXCLUSIVE Dollar Dry Cleaners Free Delivery Service K. V. BENNETT Opposite Postoffice Phone 444 Horses ! Horses! Are Coming to State College Not a Show----But? HORSES 11^ THE MANIAC Prosperity Cl._as Are Good at The Corner tion with Professor Zook, decided to hold a mock campaign in order to arouse the interest of the students in the coming presidential election, they struck the right hey-note, foe wher e,. el one may go, the old question of Democratic or Republican is discuss ed Two tin al clubs base been feint ed, the Nilson club .... and the Hughes club . and now the two clubs propose to hold a public debate on campaign issues ... A mock election will be held on or about elec tion day, at which tone all students, whether nomen or nice, still he able to cast a ballot for then choice" "A rough estimate of the excess weight that was carried by the thirty one Penn State players Milt, pal tim pated rn Saturday's game on Beam: field can easily be placed at almost half a ton ... Hess, the big half back, tipped the scales at 170 pounds before the game. Attu lolling about in the mud . he stepped on the scales at the Track House and the beam registered 200 pounds. And he CATERERS Now Is the Time to Prepare fot ALUMNI DAY PLACE YOUR ORDERS EARLY AND INSURE PROMPT DELIVERY Pe-Ro Ice Cream Co. Makes of "THE ICE CREAM DELICIOUS" Phone 980 THE RENTAL LIBRARY Latest Books added Each Week . The Athletic Store - On Co-Op A►LL STUDENT SUPPLIES It pays to look over the wall The industry that succeeds today is the one that looks outside its own "back-yard" for ways to make itself more valuable. For many years, Bell System men have been working out ideas to increase the use and usefulness of the telephone. For example, they prepared plans for selling by telephone which helped an insurance man to increase Isis annual BELL SYSTEM A NATION-WIDE SYSTEM OF INTER-CONNECTING TELEPHONES lost the pounds of flesh in the game, too" 10 Your, Ago "With a mammoth display of fire ' noiks no New Beaver field, n day of student parades, inaufrural common ics and banquets, record-bresking mass meetings and celebrations will be completed on Friday, October the fourteenth, when Dr. John M. Thomas is inaugurated to the presidency of the Pennsylvania State College . Coverns Spinal (and) Charles M Schwab ... speaker," "A great inteisectional (post.sen son) battle beta can Penn State and the University of Washington at Seattle, Wash, pill close tire grithion season for the Blue and White eleven tins year .. Berdek's =snots are confronted with seven games ... Lehigh, Harvard, Georgla Tech, Carnegie Tech, Navy, Pitt, and Washington Pill now be met in the order named, forming a list that sur passes any other football schedule in the country." business from $1,000,000 to $5,500,000 —a wholesale grocer to enlarge his vol ume 25% at. a big saving in overhead— a soap salesman to sell $6OOO worth of goods in one afternoon at a selling cost of less than 1%! This spirit of cooperation is one rea son why the Bell System enjoys so im portant a place in American business. ; 'ridgy, October 23, 1931 (Matinee Datly at 1 30) FRIDAY— Constance Bennett,_Lew Cody, in Robert ly. Chambers' "THE COMMON LAW SATURDAY— Eddie Qudlan, AMMO Gleason, in "SW EEPSTAKES" Ness,' and Cartoon MONDAY and TUESDAY— Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe in "THE CISCO KID" N.., and Football for the Fan WEDNESDAY— Monad Holmes, Sylvm_Sidney in Theodore Dreiseeo "AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY" THURSDAY— William Pima, Marian Marsh in "THE ROAD TO SINGAPORE" NITTANY THEATRE FRIDAY,- "HUCKLEBERRY FINN" SATURDAY— "THE COMMON LAW" TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY-- Return Slnnong of Janet GI1)nor, Warner Baxter in "DADDY LONG LEGS" , THURSDAY— "AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY"
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers