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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Published semi*w«k]y during the College year, except on holiday*,'
by students or The Pennsylvania Stale College, in the Interest of the
College, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends.
THE MANAGING BOARD
ROBERT E. TSCHAN M 3 ALFRED W. HESSE JR. M 3
Editor Business Manager
RALPH HETZEL JR. M 3 ROBERT M. HARRINGTON M 3
MannginK Editor Circulation Manager
SIDNEY H. BENJAMIN M 3 PAUL BIERSTEIN M 3
Sports Editor # . Local Advertising Munagcr
RICHARD V. WALL M 3 WILLARD D. NESTER M3'
Assistant Editor Foreign Advertising Manager
DONALD P. DAY M 3 ARTHUR E. PHILLIPS M 3
Assistant Managing Editor Credit Manager
ERNEST 11. ZUKAUSKAK M 3 . MARION P. HOWELL M 3
Assistant S' Editor Women’s Editor
ROLLIN C. S'. lETZ M 3 ISABEL McFARLAND M 3
Newa i'.n.iof Women’s Managing Editor
W. .T. WILLIAMS JR. M 3 ELIZABETH M. ICALB M 3
News Eiltlor Woman’s News Editor
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Charles A. Myors M l Wm. 11. Prothoro Ml Wm. M. Stegmeler M 4
George A. Seott Ml Bernard H. Rosenzwoig Ml James M. Sheen M 4
ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS (
Harold J. Balsch M 4 11. Edgar Furman M 4 John C. Irwin M 4
Frederick 1,. Tnvlor M 4 Francis Wacker M 4
Member Eastern Intercollegiate Ncivspapcr Association
Entered at the PostofNcc, State College, Pa., as Second-claxi Matter
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1932
NOT IN BOOKS
Sometimes it happens, though not often, that two
such well-known persons as Edwin Markham and Mts.
Sanger lecture in this locality during a single week.
Also it happens, and this is more often, that from two
tc five bluebooks occur during the same week. This s
leaves the student who is interested in learning on the
horns of a little dilemma.
If the student goes to hear both these lecturers,
he doesn’t give his bluebooks the proper amount of at
tention. If ho gives his bluebooks all his attention, he
has the vague feeling that he is missing something he
ought not to miss. In this last he is right.
It is rare in this secluded mountain village that the
student has opportunity to do more than to read about
his subjects. He has plenty of time to read about his
sociology and his American literature, but his chances of
seeing and hearing the persons who are forming the
•modern sociology and who are making American litera
ture are unusually rare.’
Now if the student -is genuinely interested in learn
ing, as ho sometimes admits himself to be, he will .prob
ably find that the two lectures offered this week will be
immeasurably more vivid bits of knowledge and stimu
lation than bis text books. This, of course, is hot because
the lecture material will necessarily be arranged in a
more scholarly fashion, but because there are vital per
sonalities tied to this material to make it live.
•; Expediency may try to:~dictate that-the student
keep himself handcuffed to the/texts during the week,
but intelligent judgment dictates that he'shall avail
himself of something more rare and living. '
>By the very nature of her crusade, Mrs. Sanger is
hindered at every turn by the prejudices and ingrained
superstition of reactionaries. ‘ She will probably not be
greatly disturbed by the fact that there are persons
hereabouts who object to her tenets. However, the stu
dents arc disturbed to learn that there are persons on
the campus who have protested against allowing stu
dents to heu. and weigh her presentation. Students
want the right to judge for themselves the worth of her
cause and they resent the efforts pf some who try to gag
any ideas and social doctrines which originated' later
than the Civil War. Some students even believe that it
is moro harmful to be suppressed by reactionaries than
to believe in something a little new or different.
READING PAST INTO PRESENT
It is true that recent years have witnessed a change
in undergraduate attitude. Whether this change has
been an improvement few persons are able to judge.
The graduate of twenty or thirty years ago can justi
fiably shed tears over the difference that time has
wrought. But the student of today can defend his posi
tion. The fact that the College has grown to' large-
scale proportions in recent years is an influence that
mado change inevitable.
What is the change that has come over the student
body of this generation? 'No longer does the old grad
see th'e mass cheering and enthusiasm, of his college
days. "College spirit is gone,” he says. The student
has become conservative in his outward actions. He
has trained his nervous system so' that his enthusiasm
does not come out in cheering and in yelling. The lack
of intimacy and personal friendship with the.players
makes present day rooting, at best, mechanical. And'
so it is that only under unusual strain will the majority
cf college men today express their emotions in cloud
uispelling cheers. They look upon this expression of
spirit with much the same attitude that makes them,
scorn tho picture of college youth on the screen and in
lite magazines.
But is .this apparent lack of physical spirit a true
indication that the student body of today does not have
the interests of the team at heart? The teams of today
are as much'the topic for student interest and discus
sion as those of the past. They are followed in all stages
cf hope, despair, disappointment, and success. To the
person in the thick of things collegiate today the pres
ent attitude of undergraduates seems an improvement
over the past. To the graduate of the "old school” this
change can never be presented in exactly the right light.’
Most of us, after all, can think only in terms* of- our
own experience. /
OLD MANIA
Between election bets and 13-to-12 football games
we've just about reached the,state of being convinced
that this Maniac business is far too realistic to be
funny. Ah well, even Sadie (Joan Crawford) Thomp
son got a break in the end so we’ve decided to bear up
and give you what's coming to you-aw 1....
We’ve become firmly convinced that theres only
one' medium of expression for us and thats verse
and as were a past master at it here goes and dont
look for commas or punctuation or capitals on account
.of thats passe in this type of art anyhow .... how
do you like this .... something there is that doesnt
like us all it sits silently on little cat feet like spike
jcollins and watches the kappa that only god . . . .
yes we think betty bryce is ok isnt she. and it was
plenty cold riding the rumble back from the game
.... it really takes a master to write this on the road
that comes up like thunder .... whod turn down an
empty glass .... hot diggity dawg for east is east
and thats why we cremated dan oshca can you sea ....
again for the call of the gypsie life is like the ymea
only moreso and wed like to see some beaded bubbles
winking at the brim but keats will be keats you know
.... and the eve of- x st agnes was not spoken of*the
solo coed who stayed in town over the week end .....
yes it sure is great to be an intellectual genius who
can write really modernistic stuff even if its stuff on
the rest of you lugs finis and may there be no moan
ing of the czars to he or not to be ... . at least this
isnt vice versa.
Well we certainly feel better, now that we’ve
worked a bit of that Philadelphia frenzy out. of our
soul. By the way of course you’ve heard that the boys
•who stayed behind had a football game at the junc
tion of College and Allen, Friday night, and that two
familiar gentlemen, Maynard (vice-editor) Wood and
kis pal Crew (Croohc, Crue, & a la N. Y. Times )
were right in the pink of it, bah jove!
******
Three jolly Kappa Sigma knaves, Meredith, Rite
nour, and an unmentionable, journeyed to Tyrone the
Jother evening. Alighting .from their 1 chariot, what
should they see but a Pop-Corn Shop containing a
lovely gal, and a flower shoppe next door. Temptation
was too much for Rit, so the lad bought a knickle posy
and presented it with a long-winded harangue and
his compliments. Heigh hoi The life of a rover ....!
$ * # it * *
Laatu’s company three’s a crowd, and that brings
to mind a Penn State romance that surely is worthy,
of mention. Couples meet and part again, but this
pair, like bridge, go on forever. All’s Caum with
Eddio folks, let's give this combination a great Big
hand C’mon .... who knows who may be next?
No we don’t mean Leo Houck ... . "but we could make
our old pal Mahatma tear his- hair . ...
*** * * *
Chuck - Landis and Bill Lenker. went riding re
cently in an automobile. They were, cleverly dis
guised in Blue Key hats, and while speeding merrily
along, what should they spy but a Collection of pottery
and such for sale along the road. ,Being, naturally
ihonest, the boys didn’t swipe anything hut a.couple of
beer mugs for their sentimental value alone, you un
derstand. But what we’re interested in is • what
was the duet, doing all by their little selves in an auto
mobile? *
Pearls: No Johnny Keech didn’t connect with a train
. .... it was touch football.... the lads who stay
ed behihd;to study, had a hard time getting dates
as most of the' ladies went the way of all fans
.... we’ve just got to mention this Isabel person
that bothers Bottorf’s sax player . , \
THE MANIAC
: For Results
ADVERTISE
With '
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. The COLLEGIAN
' OUR CLASSIFIED ADS
: ' Are also Go-Getters
THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
The Letter Box
To the Editor:
Dear Sir,
I was amazed and disheartened as I
watched the Sewanee game a week
ago at the. apparent'lack of interest
and appreciation of the Penn State
team'on the part of the student body.
Tho exhibition of interest that the
students displayed at that game makes
me feel that Penn State students have
absolutely no college spirit. ..
I am a graduate of Penn State, of
thp class of 1910, and can truthfully
say that the attitude of the students
toward their'teams has undergone a
great change since my.last visit here
in 1912, a change, to my mind, for the
worse. During my college days, we
had a student hody of only five or six
hundred, yet five or six hundred
students had more pep and made more
noise in one minute at. a football game
than the present undergraduates did
in the entire Sewanee game.
You have a team to be proud of this
year. While they haven’t won a great
many games, yet the boys on the team
are out there doing their best, work
ing their hardest simply for the glory
of Penn State., No matter what its
record, the team is at least deserving
of the whole-hearted support of the
student body, and it. is inexcusable
that it isn’t getting it.,
I consider the 1932 team all the
moro remarkable when I realize that
the squad from which it is selected
doesn’t have a real training table nor
do the players live.-together, two
thingsv which I believe necessary to
maintain a. real spirit of team play
and cooperation. I played fullback on
tho Penn State, teams of 1906, 1907,
1908 and 1909 and our squad lived to
gether and ate together in the Old
Track House. „
• Although we lived together, the ath
letes were not, as. many contend, an
isolated group., entirely apart from
the general student .body. Every ath
lete . knew nearly every student by
name and evei’y student knew each
athlete..
At that time we were subsidized by thc institution at. .which I have
the college to the extent that we re- found absolutely no college spirit Penn
ceived our room and board, which* State , has innumerable traditions
amounted in those days from 150 to orth Preserving, why let .them die
200 dollars. No. scholarship man con- out together with your college spirit?
sidered'asking for more than this, and Respectfully,"
every one accepted the aid in order to j C. H. HirfSHMAN ’lO
I i
Speaking
Of
Books
“Voltaire,” by Andre Maurois
No new facts about the celebrated
French cynic and philosopher, but
rather the more important parts of his
life story in a new and unusually’in
teresting presentation. Mr. Maurois
is probably the most popular current
.French author among American read
ers. . .
“Sons,” by Pearl S. Buck '
The character and scenes which
made “The Good Earth” so widely
read reappear ’in this continuation
which traces the descendants of Wang
as they gradually return to the soil.
“The Gods Arrive,” by Edith Wharton
Miss "Wharton is writing a trilogy
devoted to the life of an artist and his
inspiration, of which this is the sec
ond volume. During the course of the
story she makes full use of her op
portunity to satirize modern society
with her usual skill and while this
’does not measure up to “The House
of Mirth,” it is weir done.
“Geography,” by William Van Loon
As Mr. Van Loon made history live
by . his simple illustrations and allu
sions in “The Story of Mankind,” so
the'new volume pictures rivers and
mountains, empires and republics—
the whole epic story of bur world in
a form whichvis both novel and un
forgettable. ' ,
secure an education. ‘Athletics were
secondary, t’o education in our minds,
a statement which is proved by a sur
vey of that group today which reveals
that every athlete has made good in
tho line of work he.studied in college!
I have visited nearly every large col
lego and university in the west dur
ing the past twenty years and this is
IPPWP 8 *
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iiMMmMi
No raw tofeaccos in Luckies
why they're so mild
TV7E buy the finest, the
~ very finest tobaccos
in all the world—but that
does not explain why folks
everywhere regard lucky
•Strike as the mildest ciga
rette. The fact is, we never
overlook the truth that
"Nature in the Raw is
| Seldom Mild” —so these
. fine tobaccos, after proper'
ROHRBECK RECEIVES HONOR
a Prof. Edwin H. Rohrbeck, director
of publicity for’ the School of Agricul
ture, was elected vice-president of the'
American Association of Agricultural:
College Editors'at a recent meeting.
Professor Rohrbeck, formerly held a
position on .the executive committee
of the association.
DEAN ATTENDS CONVENTION
; Dean of Women Charlotte E. Ray,
and Miss Mary E. Burkholder, assist
ant to the dean, attended a conven
tion of the Association of Deans in
-Harrisburg Friday and Saturday.
Between
Glasses .
J
The ' -
Corner
. > unusual
Ladies’ Scarfs a™!k 50c and $1
EGOLF'S
Q n pp.(r,l | Two Boies Kotex and j r-Q
V-* Ir w* C* f One Box 25c Kleenex. ) *-*
ij/, which made him the :>xv
scourge o/theSpanish-Mum. "• w
“Nature in the Raw is Seldom
Mild” and - raw tobaccos have
no place in cigarettes.
aging and mellowing,.are
tlien given the benefit of
that lucky Strike; purify
ing process, described by
the words—"lt’s toasted”.
That’s why.folks in,every
city, town and hamlet say
that Luckiesare suchmild
cigarettes. ■ /
'm toasted”
. That package of mild tocfcies
November 15, 1!
CATh. ium
• . Bfdtheif.Tliftjlrc.
(Matinee Daily at 1:30 O'cli
Evening Opening at 6:30 Compk
Late Program After 9:00 p. m.
TUESDAY—. „
Clark Gable, Jean Harrow
“RED'DUST”..■ ;
WEDNESDAY—
Clive Brook, Ernest Torrence ii
“SHERLOCK HOLMES” •
THURSDAY— .. -
• Will Rogers, Dick Powell in
“TOO BUSY TO WOIJK”
FRIDAY—
Robt, Montgomery, Tallulah Ba’hkht
“FAITHLESS”
SATURDAY—
' Victor McLaglen in ■
“RACKETY RAX” '
Special Added Attraction
Penh State Foothall Victories
Of the Past i
Action Pictures of Games with[Na
Notre Dame and^Othc’)'' Teurn
NITTANY J.
TUESDAY-antl VfEDNESDAY—
, Bela Lugosi in
“WHITE ZOMBIE” ’
THURSDAY—
“SHERLOCK HOLMES”
FRIDAY—
“TOO BUSY TO WORK”
SATURDAY—
“FAITHLESS”
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