■Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Published *cmi-wcekly during the College year, except on holidays, by students of The Pennsylvania State College, In the Interest of the College, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends. ROBERT E. TSCHAN ’33 RALPH IIETZEL JR. *33 Managing Editor SIDNEY H. BENJAMIN ‘33 Sports Editor .RICHARD V. WALL ’33 Assistant Editor DONALD P. DAY ’33 Assistant Managing Editor ERNEST B. ZUKAUSKAS ’33 Assistant Sports Editor ROLLIN C. STEINMETZ ’33 Now* Editor W. J. WILLIAMS JR. ’33 News Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Charles A. Myers '34 Wm. B Prothcro '34 George A. Scott '34 Bernard H. Rc3onzwcig '34 WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Eva M. Blichfeldt ’34 Ruth M. Harmon *34 Mao P. Kaplan *34 ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS Harold J. Bntsch *34 H. Edgar Furman '34 John C. Irwin ’34 Frederick Tavlor '34 Francis Wackcr ’34 Entered at the Postoffice, State College. Pa., as Second-class Matter Member Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association Editorial Office : 313 Old Main Business Office Phone 292-W FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1933 IMAGINARY OGRES The principal cause that makes the existing system oi student advisors fall short of its purpose is the at titude that prevails among many students concerning the faculty and deans. The‘notion that a great gulf sep arates the student from the instructor has gained foot ing in strange manners. The instructor in some cases is thought of as an instrument for making the lot of tho student hard. lie says up late devising fanatical schemes to set into operation so that he may reveal his students in all their abysmal ignorance. If he is not a hydra, with respective heads doing their utmost to ensnare the student, then he is made unapproachable- for some other reason. By his lofty manner or his erudition he may scare from intimate contact those who labor under him in the class room. That this should be a barrier is the distorted product of the student imagination. Certainly the attitude of humility on the part of the student can bridge the in tellectual gap that may exist. The number of pedestals are few and far between. Instructors repeatedly have shown that they welcome students to their councils. One adviser, -who has definite ideas on what his func tions are, recently went out of the way to inveigle his charges to the office. He wrote letters to these seem ingly luckless individuals suggesting a meeting. Of late he has spent his office hours pining away in soli tude, hating to face the fact that he and his colleagues are untouchables. Another reason why there is so little contact be tween student and professor in the phobia of “chiseling," a phenomenon that so far has escaped- the attention ,of psychologists. -To talk to an instructor is to risk all honor and to reveal oneself as a mark maggot,- according to the accepted undergraduate school of thought. That some students do have a basely purposeful approach is as tTue as it is unfortunate. More harm has been done because of the difficulty in distinguishing sincerity from dissimulation. The tendency *has been to throw every thing in the one suspicious class. Meanwhile students continue to cling to their dis torted ideas of some things, and childish attitude on others. Indifference, too, may be playing its part in causing students actually to keep themselves from some thing of the best in a college education. That the mechanics of an adviser system can only make the re sults easily attainable seems not to be fully appreciated. At the same time the part of the student in cooperating is underestimated. FACT OR FANCY There has been a growing tendency on the part of those closely associated with colleges and 'universities to assume liberalism as an inherent part of the average student mind. Belief that such liberalism is part and parcel of the undergraduate has grown so strong that faculty men speak of it much as they would talk about tho weather. Students have become so thoroughly im bued with the idea that they have already consigned it to the regular routine of blue books, term papers, and eight o’clock classes. But are students basically liberal? That is, do the majority of those seeking a bachelor’s degree think fundamentally on economic and social problems? Do students base their liberal ideas on actual, knowledge and investigation or is this merely an affectation as sumed because of its popularity? Although radicalism’s red flag has waved inter mittently, yet with some vigor,- in several universities, students for the most part are more conservative than the surface reveals. The present college generation has been trained to support the status quo and to think In terms of success under the present social system. It is only natural then for undergraduates to aspire to the heights of success over the pathway of their fathers. After all, most students are at heart pure sentimen talists who hope to climb the proverbial ladder of suc cess and make millions of dollars under the only system with which they are acquainted, the present one. As sentimentalists they aro not concerned with change or reform of any kind. Instead, they prefer to sit back and dream of a distant future of ease, luxury,-and plenty. —'W. M. S. AGING BOARD ALFRED W. HESSE JR. ’33 Business Manager ROBERT M. HARRINGTON ’33 Circulation Manager PAUL BIERSTEIN ’33 Local Advertising Manager WILLARD D. NESTER ’33 Foreign Advertising Manager ARTHUR E. PHILLIPS '33 Credit Manager MARION P. HOWELL '33 Women's Editor Isabel McFarland ’33 Women’s Managing Editor ELIZABETH M. KALB *B3 Women's News Editor Wm. M. Stcgmcicr '34 i James M. Sheen '34 Nittany Printing Building CAMPUSEER BY HIMSELF The Fraternity Merger Mystery S. S. Van Dyne-Wilh-Us Wo’rc seldom a critic Of minds analytic, But sometimes their theories Raise queries ****** Serious, dubious, sceptical queries. Why? Per use the following. Peruse next to Bolivia. Peruse lea Cream. Anything .... But to get back to fun damental truth, which by the way is a long distance back, here is the story in one swell foop: It all centers about a little cylinder fashioned of paper,- something like the sort of thing an educa tionalist might play with. Only this one was created in an idle moment by an engineer, William R. Young by name, whose official designation is “Assistant Professor of Engineering Extension.” •Having rolled his little cylinder, ho, engineer-like, scratched about for some use to put the thing to. Finally he captured an early Spring fly (thereby saving the community housewives the trouble of squashing with swatters uncounted millions of its progeny) and placed the unfortunately premature bit of diptera inside. He then sealed the sides with little' circles of paper which ho had doubtless made ■with tho aid of a compass. The fly was neatly imprisoned. The next step was to stick a pin directly through the center of the whole affair, missing the fly by a seta’s breadth; and stick it on the wall. There the work was rewarded when the cylinder began to re volve slowly, as the slavish fly started to crawl, all unsuspecting of the bitter hoax, up the side of his watermarked gaol. After a while an unoccupied engineer wandered into the office and observed at length the phenomenon of tile mysteriously turning cylinder. Upon being asked whattaya think makes it go, he mused and meditated for a time, and finally produced a theory which put all the blame upon radio-active forces with a slight admixture of cloetro-magnelic forces, and left hurriedly to evolve a formula. Tho next visitor was a membenof the architec tural engineering faculty. He didn’t know much about it; he admitted, but the whole thing was pretty easy anyhow. Tho heat from the sunlight coming through the window expanded one side, and caused the cylinder to revolve. Simply close the shade, and there would be no more revolution. The shade was closed. The tread-mill continued its methodical, tantalizing turn ing. Things went on that way for hours, until finally" one of the prof’s friends, who is’undeniably a rustic and gets to town only on dry days far apart,- dropped in to see him. He was shown the exhibit that had puzzled some of Penn State’s Best Minds. “What do you think makes the thing go ’round?” ho w’as asked. “We-e-e-111, I reckon there’s a fly inside,” he responded .... *** * * * Wo have no money ****** Could tho captain of the crew at Harvard'be called a gentleman and a sculler? .... The quintet of non fraternity section 12 held up the traditions of old State by handing a hard-earned defeat to the Penn sylvania Industrial School at Huntingdon, who con gratulated them on their clean,- hard playing, after the game .... Peg Giffin and Helen Hinebauch kneel supplicating to Ed Carr not to leave them so soon .... the while he becomes not a little red of the features. TWO ' BOXING SPECIALS SATURDAY MORNING and SATURDAY NIGHT Accounts Of All Bouts Results Of The Wrestling Tourney THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN WOMEN’S GROUPS WILL GIVE CONCERT Co-ed Symphony Orchestra, Glee Club To Present Program Sunday Afternoon Combining their programs, the Women’s Glee club' and the- Wom en’s Symphony orchestra will present the fourth of the series of winter musical concerts in Schwab auditor ium at 3:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon. “Gracious Lord of AH Our Being," by Bach, will be the first song by the Glee club, followed by “Now Sounds the Harp,” by Brahms. -Mary E. Kerr ’3O, pianist, and Marion G. Blankenship ’3O, harpist, will accom pany the group. Quartet To Sing The Women’s Varsity Quartet, composed of’Margaret S. Giffin ’35, first soprano, Grace L. Moyer *34, sec ond soprano, Prances Christine ’34, first alto, and Anna C. Strong ’35, sec ond alto, will sing “Come, Lovely May,” by Jannequin, “Marie,” by Abt, and “Plantation Love Song,” by Tav lor. Rosamond W, Kaines ’34, will accompany the singers. “Serenade,” by Titl, played by an instrumental trio, consisting of Mar ion G. Blankenship, harpist, Martin J. Scheiman *36, horn, and William C. Burry ’33, flute, will be followed by "Roumanian Love Coll,” by Gaines, and “The Snow,” by Elgai*, sung by the Women’s Glee club. Philip E. Turner ’33, and John E. Ryan ’34 will play the violin parts of the melodies. The first selection of the" Women’s Symphony orchestra will he “Suite From the South,” by Nicode, which is in two parts, “A Legend From La Provence,” and “In the Tavern,” fol lowed by "Vaise Trieste, by Sibelius, and “Farandole From L’Arlesienno Suite,” by Bizet. The Women’s Var sity Quartet will then reappear to sing “Beautiful Ship From Toylnnd,” by Friml, and “Love is Like a Fire fly,” also by Friml. Concluding the program, the Glce v club will present three folk songs, Delicious Fountain Lunches Appetizing sandwiches that will a