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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
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TIIE SIANACIVC BOARD
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MARY M WRIGHT 12
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Wconcnx Mewl Editor
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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
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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
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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
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Latest Books
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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"