Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Published eteril-reeeLly durtne the Collette vnr, except on Widens. tin students of The rennsrlvonla State Collette. In the lettered of the Collette. the students. faculty, alumni, and friends HUGH It Env: JR '32 MENDELL L REHM '32 Elder Matinc.o Manager HUGO K FREAR '32 SAMUEL SINCLAIR '32 Managing EAltor Circulation Manager EDWARD W WHITE '32 I.IN Y Elt6 '32 Asasatont Editor Athertining Mannger THEODORE A SERRILL '32 EDWARD S VEERING '32 Snorts Editor Foreign Adn4 Monoger WILLIAM IT IRVINE '32 COLLIN E VINE '32 Non, Editor Mat. Circulation Manager IV. STEWART TOM MEND '32 JESSE C. 31c5FON '32 Neon Editor Awct Adsertining Manager MARY M WRIGHT '32 MARGARET TSCIIAN '32 Yeomen's Filter Woman's Manoging Editor I.OIIISE MARQUARDT '32 Women'4 Ne,a Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Sidney!! Benknin . 33 Rulph 1) Iletzel Jr. 13 Robert E. Tub. 13 Unsaid P. nay 13 Rolhn C Steinmetz '33 Richard V Wall '33 t 1 ,,. 3 Williams Jr '33 Ernest It Zniumeknn '33 WOTILVS ASSOCIATE EDITORS Merlon P Unwell '3l Elbmbe'lt 11 halb , 93 Isobel Meratlrtn4 .53 ASSOCIATI. BUSINESS MANAGERS Paul W. Blerltein 'T3 Robert M '33 Alfred W. Rene Jr. '33 Neater '33 Arthur E. Phillips '33 Member Baltem Intercollegiate Newspaper Association tmt====ll=:=l:2l FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1932 ALL WORK AND NOJ'LAY It has always seemed to the outside observer that ninny students in technical courses at Penn State are swamped with work to the extent that they ano unable to indulge in ninny of the cultural and recreational advantages of the College without seriously jeopardis ing their chances of graduating in foul years. Whether thus cultural and recreational side of col- Icge life has been over-emphasised in some Schools and tinder-estunated in others, it is difficult to determine. But it does seem that the ',toper proportion of the two es aluations of what a student should get out of a college course should be the goal of administrators And, fur thei mole, it is difficult to see how a stbdent with from forty to forty-five bouts a week of almost purely tech nical work can indulge in any of the social activities of college life on can make any attempt to take advantage of some of the "less practical" courses which he might choose. Wouldn't it be possible in some fashion to eliminate .OMe of the technical courses after a well-directed inves tigation and evaluation of their necessity in professional work after graduation? Wouldn't a pointed inquiry sent to graduates who have been in the field for some years and designed to find out which courses they con sidered unnecessary from a professional viewpoint help to vibe the problem" Flom the standpoint of prac ticability itself it would seem that under the present system administrators are defeating their own ends by cramming a curriculum so full of technical courses and laboratory work that the student either gives up all hope of completing his course in four years or 'else n:erely memorizes enough of the necessary data to re ceive r passing grade. As a modified, but still existent Hell Week draws to its close, one fiatcinity at least has shots!, the way to mole dignified and impressive initiations. This house, irstead of conducting a rough and tumble celebration for several days, put its pledges through an intensive Lei mid of probation They were strictly separated from the brothers, and given a smies of rigid tests on con •tiuctive topics about fraternities and college. While this method may be less humorous, its application more generally might be a saving quality in preserving loyalty to brotherhood. Men respect worth-while things, and -the paddle never yet made pledges proud of the house they joined INHERITING YOUR BRAINS "Passed on horn yeai to seal—" is all tight far tiaditions, but hardly the thing for notes and problems. Thole are plenty of students who ale getting through school not moldy in the footsteps of fraternity brothers, Lut in then• shoes as well. When books and experiments remain the same for tight m ten semesters, it is natural to expect that those who bow damn before the great god Honor Point will copy, mold tot mold and figure for figure, the efforts of thnso who have gone befose One can scarcely blame students for becoming indilTment when they know these t• nothing more important to a course than the - kind of work they did when they were leaining to write in the pi mussy grades And perhaps we should not blame the faculty for trying to cut down on their work and seduce expenses on new books. But clues this suit of thing fit a man for a position where analytical thinking is necessary, os does it rather stint him toward a high stool and n green eye-shade and n none too mincely salary? Here is where those who enjoy the sound of their own voices find an excuse for saying that colleges are killing individuality and turn- int: out automatons A child can copy a list of words and symbols with seas rely a mistake And a child can compare the marks on one sheet of popes with those on another. Should students continue to sob themselves and faculty mem bers continue to draw salaries for work that is little tame than a set ies of ditto marks? A student has slept through a few first hours and has wrangled an excuse from dispensary officials. He is sternly infoimed that "All work must be brought up to dote." He yawns and goes home and digs into his desk far the reports of a long-departed brother. (There 19 home question as to who did do the work in the first place.) He copies the reports and takes them to class—and "sleeps an" the next morning because he can't seem to get interested in the course, OLD MANIA "College is a place where it iespontbillty is para mount. As a general thing, students, spend money they have not earned, use shat they did not buy, and bleak what they did not mend. The only other place this ever happens is in story books."—Professor Civler, Tufts College. We culled the above item from the December issue of the PCnn State Aliimm News. And after ponder ing over it for some time, the best comeback we can make is. "So what?" In the first place, it's a lot of, fun being hre sponsible. Look at Mayor Walker. Look at Mr. Probert. (We haven't seen him for two years, but we'll bet that he's still pretty irresponsible.) Lopk at Casanova Look at sup irresponsible person. Don't they have a lot of fun? They may not run around in Hispano-Stuzus or buy diamond tiaras at Tiffany's, but they generally enjoy life. And after all, Pro fessor, that's something • In the second place, there me a lot of nice people spending money that they never earned. Paul Mellon, for example, or Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. And ghy not' Do people cam money as an end, or as the means to an end? If somo kindly soul died and left a sizeable legacy to PI ofe,or Ceder, would he refuse to spend it because he hadn't coined it? We think not. Prot..). Givler, we maintain should take his nose out of his story hooks and look around We do 111,e these British actors, but we thought thorn cardboaid back-drops would Dreyfus crazy. And a bashful professor at Northwestern com plains that the women in his classes put crib-notes un der then fish net hosiery, and that he can't do much about it—says it's beyond his jurisdiction or some thing All of which might be used as a point against fish net hosiery, co-ed.,, or married men on a faculty. 11 7 c should wolry. Mine Thwo We Nere, Knew Td Now .. that Dean Warnock was bounced out of Illinois in his freshman year for making beer in the chapel basement. De finally got his diploma from another person of the same name, in eNchange for the beer forumla . . that Professor Cloetingh ghost-wroto all of Hendrik Ibsen's plays. He finally had to give up the work because of the harsh Norwegian climate As soon as he got to a warmer place he was seized with some sort of lethargy, which has been going on ever since ... that the Andy Lytle Cabin is used as a distillery except when the Y M. C. A crowd uses it for week ends (You didn't think those Y boys hiked clear out there tot then health, did you?) .. that the editor of the Student Handbook makes enough on graft to pay foi his four years at college. ... that Charlie Spcidel doesn't know a thing about urestling, being a former tap-dancer at the Golden Pheasant, but has memorized the entire 'Spalding Handbook of Wrestling, from which he can quote glibly .. that the "stones" In the walls of Old Mann were manufactured by the Portland Cement company. .. that the clock in Ohl Main loses twenty-four incurs cveiy time the hell strikes an emn hour, and is now hack somewheie in the late nineties. . that Di lbtenour treated himself for grippe in 1914 and died. For Soph Hop Week-End CONGRESS PLAYING CARDS Double Deck _ _51.35 Single Deck ..69c RIVIERA CARDS Double Deck _ 98c Complete Line of Party Supplies Athletic Store On Coop TEE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN ROCHESTER PASTOR TO SPEAK SUNDAY Dr. Nixon Will Discuss 'Making Life an Adventure' at Chapel Service With "Making Life an Adventure" as his subject Dr. Justin 'Moe Nixon, pastor of the Brick Presbyterian chui eh at Rochester, N Y, wdj ad dress a Penn State audience for the first time during the regular chapel services in the Auditorium at 11 o'clock Sunday morning. Dr Nixon was graduated from Doane Academy in 1901 receiving his bachelor's degree foul years later from Denison University lie was also graduated from Rochester Theological Seminary in 1908 After graduate study at the Unweisity of Chicago and Columbia University, the speaker obtained a doctor's degree [tom the College of Ozarks and Denison Um ver=it",. Ag eally as 1009, Reverend No.or sva' oidamed into the Baptist minis try He served for one yeas• as associ ate pastor of the Ca , ..ally Baptist church in Minneapolis, Minn, Intel becomint, minister of the Judson Me morial church there Teaching classes in Hebrew lan guage and literature for sonic time at the Rochester Theological Semi nary, Reverend Nixon later became pi °lessor of the English Bible and Christian sociology there. He has beer pastor of ;the Brick Presbyterian church in Rochester for a period of eight years. The chapel spent.em is author of a boot. entitled "An Emerging Christian Faith," published in 1930. Besides being a member of Plu Beta Kappa and the American Sociological society, he is a director of the Auburn Theo logical Seminary Rev Nixon is also active as one of the division sees °tulles of the Young Men's Christian associa tion A GOOD IDEA Bring Your Car Here for Final Inspection and Overhauling. We Are Fully Equipped to Take Care of Your Every'Need RISIIEL'S GARAGE and SERVICE STATION BOALSBURG Phone 14-R-4 IWILL SPEAK For First Time in Sao gib Auditorium MEDICAL COLLEGES ADMIT 18 OP 23 GRADU tTES HERE Of the tmenty-three students ulio meowed degi °es in the Pre-medical curl iculum here last yeah, eighteen recei,ed admission to medical schools throughout the country, according to Fief Osem F. Smith, bead of the cw iculum Consider log that of those rich worn graduated, all did not elect to apply for entrance into medical schools, the percentage of accepted ap plication, of Penn State students is betv,een eighty and ninety percent About 7000 of the 15,000 applicants, or le, thin fifty percent of all avail able students wore accepted by the medical colleges in the country Pi of. Joseph W Pose, of the ro mance languages department, will conduct a course for all those inter ested in beginning the study of Italian without college credit or requirement. The first meeting will he held in Room 206, North Liberal Arts building at 7:30 o'clock Wednesday night Burglars Don't seek the Limelight DARKNESS is their stock in trade. They work by stealth—unheard and unseen—their movements cloaked in secrecy. It's honest folks that seek the light. They are the only ones who can risk it. It's the same way in business. The manufacturer or the merchant who is not sure of his goods does not dare to advertise. Advertising would hasten the end of his business career—put him to a test he could not meet. The man who advertises, deliberately invites your in spect:on. He tells you about his product or his mer ch2ndise and then lets it stand on its own merits. You can d.,zpcnd on him. He knows his product is good. That's one reason why it pays you to read the advertise raents you find in the columns of this paper. It is through advertising that you are able to keep in touch with the good things that progressive business men are spending their money to introduce and to keep before you. Advertisements are interesting, instructive and profit able. They thiow a powerful light on the very things that ,concern you most. Read them. Pinchot Endorses Athletic Policy in Letter, to La Vie Governor Panelist expressed his ap proval of Penn State's new athletic policy .n a letter,irom the goys nor received recently by Charles W. Rice edam of the 1532 La Vie. "I believe that Dr. Ifetzel and his associates are right in this, as in other things they have under way," said the Governor. "The thing Ls do 19 limit college football tennis to actual col lege students—to men whose sched ules are regular and whose work is what it should be." "Pennsylvanians have every reason to be proud of Penn State. I know of no institution in the United States that is accomplishing better work ... I congratulate Penn Stale for its excellent woilc along scholastic Imes and along athletic lines." ANNOUNCEMENT KNEW BARBER SHOP THREE CHAIRS THREE BARBERS GIVE US A TRIAL Second Flom, Opposite Postoffice On Beaver Avenue COLLEGIA Rooms Available for Interfra - . MRS. FRED FULLMER 513 West College IIII;IMII GARMAN CLUB 20G West Braver R. S. MYERS Friday, February 26, 193 AEwaTH 1(114' (Matinee nt I :30 Es enings nt 6 MESS Constance Bennett, Ben Lyon i "LADY WITH A PAST" =EMS Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durunte i• 'THE I'ASSIONATE PLUM BE MONDAY and TUESDAY— Joe E. Brown in "FIREMAN, SAVE MY CITIT WEDNESDAY— The Year's Queerest Picture THURSDAY.— Marlene Dietrich, Elise Brook "SHANGHAI EXPRESS" NITTANY MEMO "LADY WITH A PAST' TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY— The Year's Best Foreign Film "TWO HEARTS IN WALTZ' TIN I German Dialogue But Easy to Fol EBEIELEZ DIRECTORY unity Conclave and Sopb Ho MRS. J. W. GROVE 242 South Burrowes Three Double Rooms Phone 169-11 MRS. 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