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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.
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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
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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."
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