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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
I’uMklied ncmi*Mi-cklv <1 urine the College year, except on holiday*,
hy students of The Pennsylvania State College, in the Interest of the
College, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends.
THE MANAGING HOARD
ROBERT E. TSCHAN M 3
RALPH NETZEL .TR. M 3
Manriding Editor
SIDNEY H. BENJAMIN M 3
Sports Editor
RICHARD V. WALL M 3
Assistant Editor
DONALD P. DAY M 3
Amistant Managing Editor
ERNEST 1!. ZUKAUSKAS M 3
Assistant Sports Editor
KOLLIN C. STEINMETZ M 3
News Editot-
W. .T. WILLIAMS JR. M 3
Nim-.i Editor
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Charles A. Myers Ml Wm. 1?.. Prolhero Ml W'm. M. Stcgmoier
George A. Scott Ml Bernard 11. llosenzwcig Ml James M. Sheen Ml
ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS
Harold J. Rntsrh Ml 11. Edgar Furman ’34 John C. Irwin *3-1
Frederick L. Taylor Ml Francis Wnckcr Ml
WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Eva M. Rlichfeldt Ml
Rutli M. Harmon MI Mne F. Knplnu Mt
Entered at the Fostofficc, State College, Pa., ns second-class matter.
ftfember Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1932
WHO KNOWS?
Tomorrow night the efforts of student leaders in
every line of activity ami those of interested administra-
tive officers will culminate in what is planned as the
first of an annual -series of all-College gatherings.
Whether or not those efforts will be crowned with mer
ited success or not no one today knows. The success of
the gathering rests now entirely on the individual stu
dent. If he chooses to play bridge in the fraternity, if
ho prefers to idle on Co?op, if lie elects the theatre—
all these if’s, in preference to attendance at the meet
ing, arc the determining factors that can put the gath
ering across or forever brand it as a dismal flop.
One hardly knows what to expect from a student
body such as the one that runs around the Penn State
campus. Sometimes from student actions and interests
it seems fairly convincing that cqllege students in gen
eral, arc only one step removed from idiots. The Stunt
Night of the past might be used as one example. But
then again such an intelligent spark will appear in the
actions of the student body that the spirits of the crit
ical, although ever hopeful, observer are revived. And
so it goes, now dumb and stupid, and then actually in
telligent. But who can tell?
Tomorrow night’s program will be short—planned
not to interfere with studies. What greater induce
ment could be offered the students than that the Presi
dent will speak? What more colorful a spectacle-could
be. presented than that of a large number of human
beings singing and cheering? Few Penn State students
of this generation have ever witnessed a real mass meet
ing. Tomorrow night the stage will be set—the pres
ence of the students can make a real, memorable mass
meeting.
Intelligence tests have no value when they are ap
plied to persons over fourteen years old. No more
weighty evidence than this statement of a member of
the psychology department and widespread, pooh-pooh
ing in learned circles should be necessary to effect the
removal of the tests which evei-y entering student en
dures during Freshman Week. The intelligence test
has been taking on increasingly less and less signifi
cance as an index of anything. Why not discard it.and
contribute something to lightening the over-crowded
orientation period?
THE OBLIGATION OF THE FRATERNITIES
The sad demise of the late rushing season brings
again that jolly old attitude by which fraternity men
toss aside their obligations to that freshman class
which they worked so strenuously to pledge. During
the rushing season, these fraternity men regale their
prospective brothers with accounts of the higher things
which the fraternity brings to its fortunate sons. They
tell of fine friendships, high ideals, intellectual com-
radeship, the joys of men among men, and they screw
on the pledge pin.
The pledge pin on, they, too often, offer only menial
chores thinly disguised as ‘duties,’ an arrogant recep
tion, cold shoulders, and the facilities of a first-rate
boarding house. Too often, that naive egotism, ‘Con
gratulations,’ begins a disillusionment which soon makes
the new man cynical of the whole fraternity system.
This cynicism, prevails throughout his college years and
is prejudicial to the fraternity which rests upon a frag
ile enough faith as it is.
Too often the freshman finds that the men who
really contribute to his college life arc men who arc not
in his fraternity or in any fraternity at all. Too often
he finds that the word and the institution ‘fraternity’
automatically excludes all those things which he re
gards as the finest. lie finds that the fraternity thinks
only of its immediate preferment when it ships him off
to go in some activity. His attention to his studies is
the fraternity's concern only as much as it affects the
scholarship standing. Ilis personal life is nothing to
the brothers just so long as he pays his bill and doesn’t
shatter the fraternity’s reputation for urbanity.
There is so much which the fraternity can muster to
help the freshmen if it only tries. There is so much,
indeed, that if the fraternity is to justify its existence
other than as a boarding house, it must bo prepared
to present to the freshman a definite contribution tow
ards his intellectual, social, and spiritual advancement.
Ed. Note: The contents of this column is printed
.regardless of the editorial policies of the paper and
contains purely the views of a maniac, which lets us
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Circulation Manacor
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Worm-nM Editor
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Women's Munauim; Editor
ELIZABETH M. KALR M 3
Women's News Editor
out to you, and you, and you!
As we sit down to the Corona as usual and un
tangle our long white beard from the keys or the coke,
comes to mind the yarn of Maryland my Maryland,
(latter of one of our faculty friends who in the course
of childish wanderings (the daughter, you mug)
t’other day, stopped to gossip with a nice lady who
was giving the college the once over. The nice lady
said that she was the mother of a student here, and
asked Maryland if she knew him. “Oh my yes,”
prattles the infant, “my daddy helped him out of a
bad jam once” ....!!!
There seemed to be a surplus of last year’s grad
uates back for Dads' Day, which fact may or may
not be significant, but what we want to know is did
the gentleman who handled the usunlly boring-be
tween-halves situation so efficiently rehearse those
kids beforehand or was the whole thing just a put up
Waynesburg job to jinx the show? And did you see
the lady with the groat big “S” sweater? Tch! Tch!
Out by the new Chi Phi lodge, where sidewalks
are few, and far between, one of the student engineers
was lot loose to survey some of the fields. In the'
course of his surveyings he came across an old sort
of a gent who seemed talkative as all get out. Nat
urally he engaged him in conversation." All about
how one used this geegaw and that one to tell what
ever engineers tell when they survey. In fact, there
wasn’t very much about the whole scientific field that
this young engineer didn’t tell the old gent. Very nice
and all that. Y’see the old gent helped engineer that
big Panama Canal, connecting two oceans and all that.
Yes, we think Lew Ayres put on a swell imper
sonation of us recently, but of- course that has noth
ing to do with the question, “What football player
tripped the light fantastic at the Phi Delt affair the
other night until he got so seasick from the rolling
floor that he had to sit on the bench for half the
game Saturday?” Sure, we know the answer and so
does a coach whose first name is Robert! Bet it’ll
be a cole winter.
guy who wears his underwear a second day, but speak
ing of unusual things have you caught George (don’t
call-me-Dukc’s-kid-brother) Morris’ act with the cards
yet? A word of warning. Don’t bet with him that he
.cim’t do anything .with them thai% cards on account of
we have heard of people losing bets. Wonder if he’s
magician enough to make that Thorpe woman lay off
trying to make people have their picture taken?
Pearls: The Delts are taking up croquet quite
strenuously, my deah .... The Mahatma’s latest song
is entitled—l’d Dive for Dear Old Rutgers .... Per-
sonal—lt is our sad duty to inform Charlie Laffcrty
that he doesn’t have a date with Peg Hassinger Sat
tidy night, on account of how she’s going dancing with
a friend of ours .... Wliat about the Lederer-Campus
Cop fracas at the game . . . ..Yes, what about it?
. somebody’d better take dog-fancier Trullinger’s
shingle out of a downtown window .... And the Phi
Sig pin on what waitress prominently, you’re asking?
. ... Tcjan and Dot (you look) Boehm like the Kappa
steps
and to Kappat all off Ruth Crowthers and
Ben Irvine were cavorting a la horseback not so long
How about the Chambers Education School
frolicking faculty folk in night
,Ah, well, Ahm a dreamer
picnic recently
ennui all?
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THJ3 PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Intelligence Quizzes
Often Not Accurate,
Dr. DeCamp Asserts
“There is no way of accurately de
termining the intelligence of any per
son over fourteen years of age,” Dr.
Joseph ,E. DeCamp, professor of psy
chology, stated recently in comment
ing on the intelligence test system in
use at the-College.
The intelligence test quotient of a
collego student is as indicative of the
mentality which the student may
posess, as the traits of parents are in
dicative, of traits which maybe in
herited by their children, Dr. DeCamp
pointed out. “Just as children may
be decidedly unlike their parents, so
a mentality may be above or below its
level as indicated by an intelligence
test,” he. added.
Dr. DeCamp said that the reason
many students with high averages had
low intelligence test quotients was
because of the inability of any kind of
test to measure the student’s willing
ness to work.
SEATING LIST ARRANGED
A seating arrangement to go into
effect tomorrow night for all women
eating in the McAllister Hall Dining
Room has been planned by members
of Archousai, senior women’s honor
ary society, under the direction of
Ruth Crowthers ’33 and Ruth IT. Nie
bel '33. Senior or junior women are
assigned to sit at the head and foot
of the tables, while underclass women
will draw for numbers some
time today.
HENRY GRIMM
•206 East College Avenue
CUSTOM TAILORING
Established 1S!)2
Cleaning Pressing
Repairing
EL MANIAC
FILMING OF SPORTLIGHT
POSTPONED BY COMPANY
Jack Baton Notifies Director Hugo
Bezdek of Change in Plans
. The filming of College athletic
teams by the Grantland Rice Sport,
lights company has been postponed to
a date later in the fall, Director Hugo
Bezdek, of the School of Physical Edu
cation and Athletics, has announced.
. Lagt minute instructions from com
pany headquarters ordered the camera
unit to Florida, according to Jack
Eaton, director of the film unit. Di
rector Bezdek was notified of the
change Friday afternoon.
Originally .scheduled to be here
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the
company was planning to take sound
pictures of Penn State's soccer and
lacrosse teams. Films of Nittany
winter sports were made last year by
the same camera unit.
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aye - no place in cigarettes
They are not present ini Luckies
... the. mildest cigarette
, you ever smoked
rUTE buy the finest, the very
VV finest tobaccos in all the
world—but that does not
explain why folks every
where regard Lucky Strike as
the mildest cigarette. The fact
is,_ we never overlook the
truth that "Nature in the
Raw is Seldom Mild”—so
"Ifb man write a better look, preach abetter termon, or make a better mouse-trap than bis neighbor, thebe
build bis bouse in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to bisdoor. '/—RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
Docs not this explain the world-wide acceptance and approval of Lucky Strike?
Speaking
Of
Books
“Obscure Destinies,” by Willa Cather
Neighbor Rosicky and Grandma
Harris present a sharp contrast to
Carol Kennieott of “Main Street.”
Miss Cather excels in a western can
vas of real folks painted in with a
human sympathy and understanding
which at the same time /does not
omit human fault and weakness.
Style and writing, contribute-.to the
worth-whileness of .these long' .short
stories. •
“Burning Bush,” by Sigrid Undset\
A new trilogy of which this is the
second volume turns’ away from the
medieval period and attempts to
solve modern present-day problem's
with the same remedy used for an
earlier generation. The chief charac
ter commands our interest and the
—and raw tobaccos
these fine tobaccos, after
proper aging and mellowing,
are then given the benefit of
that Lucky Strike purifying
processj described by the
words—"lt’s toasted’,’. That’s
why folks in every city, town
and hamlet say that Luckies
are such mild cigarettes. I
‘‘ltis toasted”
That package of mild
Tuesday, October 11, 1932
book is very well written, but the .so
lution is not entirely convincing.
“The" Sheltered Life,” by Ellen Glas-
The tragedy of love os it existed
under Victorian standards and in the
atmosphere and conditions of the Old’
South appears in episodes from the
life of an old man. A psychological
study of an -individual, and his rela
tions with other people and his times
—unusually well" written. •
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Evening Opening at 6:00
TUESDAY—
. The Greatest Cast in History ,
Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford,
John Barrymore, Wallace Beery,
Lionel Barrymore,. Lewis Stone
“GRAND HOTEL”
WEDNESDAY—.
.• Richard .Dix, Tom Brown in
• “HELLIS
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THURSDAY—
Lee.(Blessed Event) Tracy in
“DOCTOR X”
FRIDAY—
\ John Barrymore, Billie Burke in
“BILL OF 1 DIVORCEMENT”
SATURDAY— •
Jack Oakic, Sidney Fox in
“ONCE IN A LIFETIME”
THENITTANY
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY—
Star Cast in Zanc Grey’s
“HERITAGE OF THE DESERT”
THURSDAY—
“HELL’S HIGHWAY”
FRIDAY—
“DOCTOR X”
'.SATURDAY — '
\ “BILL OF DIVORCEMENT”
EARBORN
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the Raw” —as
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