Page Six GREETINGS FRESHMEN Hiking Routes Abound We Invite You to Inspect Our Full Line of ' In Nearby Mountains SUITS TOPCOATS OVERCOATS Town Reservoir at Shingletown Gap Offers Tailoring, Cleaning, 'Pressing Favorite Retreat for Hikers GERNERD'S • From State College . On Allen Street GREETINGS to the CLASS OF '37 You Will Enjoy Our HOME COOKED MEALS Meal Tickets $2.50, $5.00 SANDWICHES • CONFECTIONERY FOUNTAIN SERVICE PENN STATE SWEET SHOP 123 West Beaver Avenue We Will Be A Mother To You We Cater to Student Work Full Dress Linen A Specialty Penn State Laundry 320 West Beaver Avenue PHONE 124 J. W. KELLMER Photographer Seeond Floor Montgomery Building . st ent Cafeteria Help Youself To The Best In Food AT PRICES THAT ARE RIGHT Irealifast 7:00 to 8:30 Lunch 11 : 45 'to 1:00 Dinner 5:00 to 6:15 ' 227 West Beaver Avenue • M. Barnhart '3l, Manager Hello 1937--Black Socks'`-4 for $l.OO Students interested in outdoor ree- through Wright's Cap, east of Shing reation and hiking have splendid op- letown. portunities to take advantage of no Four miles beyond the Meadows is merous mountains and trails which lie found the Nature Study camp, which, within a few miles of State College. ;txrept for last ymr, has been 'opec- Probal,ly the most popular hike is atmd by that department of the Cm • the one to Shingletown Gan, only four lege in the summer months. A short miles south of town. It is here that distance farther is the Alan Seeger the reservoir on which State College Memorial, practically a virgin plot relies for a portion of its water sup- a; forest trees. ply is located. Excellent views ofd' About six and a half miles by the State College lying in the Nittany va- State road from State College is in ky can be obtained by ciinbing the ' cated Pine Grove Mills, which is so siden of the gap. !called because formerly two mills in a Three miles beyond Shingletown :s ' white pine grove were situated there. Bald Top, a treeless, steep moun- ißy passing through a gap in the tain 2,300 feet in height. From its mountains above the village, and peak, a view of many miles of mann.' climbing the second ridge, the hiker tains and country is afforded. It can ' can obtain an excellent view on a clear also be reached from Boalsburg, which; day. A new road to the top of the in five miles south of State College. i mountain makes climbing easy. Musser's Gap Trail . 1- . About two miles farther, the road To the west of Shingletown Gap is! crosses Laurel Run which leads to the Musser's Can. Prom this gap, a' rail ,'" n ' and joins with the Bear Meadows , Abut a front leads between the first and second road. o vp !Whipplo Dam is Imile deated, wer he Laurel ex ßun, cel mountains to Shingletown. The ;lent swimming and camping facilities can also 1),.? reached by following the ;lent are found. top of the first mountain. One of the more interesting and I Tho ' most famous mountain is longer hikes is the one to Bear Mead-'Mount Nittany, in whose shadow ows, a swampy region in the valley! nestles the little town of Lemont, of the fourth ridge of mountains south t about three miles east of State Col of State College. Ilene are found liege. From the summit of Nittany, many rare plants and animals. Thai Penn's Valley can be seen running Meadows can be reached by pass.ing ,between the Nittany and Seven Mono lain ranges and extending into the Nittany Valley between the Bald Eagle range and the Seven Mountains. The Barrens, a sandy region com posed of soil too poor for farming,'is found north of State College. The region is almost completely covered by scrub oak and underbrush, although at ono time, large quantities of iron ore were mined in that vicinity. Scotia, six miles from State Col lege, is one of the small towns in this area whose remains may still be seen. It. was here that Andrew Carnegie .was reputed to have made his start in life; and at one time, he installed large steam shovels there to work the ore pockets. • In addition to the many hiking routes eminating from the town, auto mObilists may find interesting trips to the many limestone caves ; both wet and dry, in which this region abounds. Many other interesting natural for mations are also found nearby. Statistics S how Common Student Age as 20 Years Twenty is the average age of Penn State students, statistics compiled by William S. Hoffman, College regia-1 tsar, show. The ages of undergrad uates here last year ranged from six teen to forty-nine years. Of the 1,181 undergraduates enroll,' ed'at that time, 258 were eighteen years of age, 758 were nineteen, 0031 were twenty, 857 were twenty-one, 675 were twenty-two, 351 were twen- I ty-three, and 104 were twenty-four, while the other 205 students extended their age limits over the other thirty years. The two youngest men here last year wem sophomoreS, both be ing, sixteen years of age. ...14ineteen..was . the average age , of, the freshmen, with the oldest forty seven; while the sophomores, with an age average one year older, had as' their oldest member a man of forty three years. Juniors ranged in age frOm eighteen to forty-two years', with , the majority being twenty-one; while the senior class, with the only 'forty niner' in College; had an average of . twenty-two, the youngest member be ing nineteen. Presbyterian Faith • • Claims One-Fifth of • Student Body Here Totalling 842, Presbyterian students enrolled at the College last year num bered one-fifth of the 'student body, according to a religious classification announced by William S. Hoffman, College registrar. Methodists ranked second with 721, while Lutheran were third. Roman Catholics were next, followed by Re formists, Protestant Episcopals, and Hebrews. Twenty-nine different religions were :nailed on the list, including nearly all of the known Christian faiths. Seven ty-Seven students failed to cite a pref erenco on their reistration cards, while 221 failed to specify •their re ligion, merely innicating that they were Protestants. I Although most of the religions named showen a decrease in followers I from last year's list, there was no change in the ranking of the major groups: The Roman Catholics were the only group to record a gain. SCHOLARSHIPS, 8 LOANS AID WORTHY STUDENTS Applications for 1933-34 Awards Exceed Available Funds Thirty-nine scholarships, in addition to the State senatorial awards, and leight loan funds of various kinds are available for deserving students in the College this year,_ according to the general catalogue., Efforts are being made to distrib ute these funds to those students who ! arc most deserving. Each scholarship ; is listed in the College catalogue with the ,requisites for obtaining it. In addition, eleven prizes will be award led during the College year. Information concerning any of these awards is usually obtained from the office of the Dean of Men or the Dean of Women. Applications, hoWever, have again exceeded the available funds this year, according to the re ports. . ll'. S. C. A. CATALOGUES ROOMS Temporary and permanent rooms available to students are being pre pared and will be ready for Freshman Week clistribution by the Penn State Christie?: association. THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN INTERUNIT SPORTS EXTENSIVE HERE Provide Athletic Training For Thoso Lacking Varsity Team Calibre For the benefit of the majority of students at Penn State, who are un-! able to meet the requirements for var sity competition, an extensive system of intramural athletics has been de veloped by Hugo Bezd.:l:, director of athletics. The program inchldes all sports ,i represented in intercollegiate com petition. in addition to some not in-' eluded on varsity schedules. nate:- nities,' clubs, and non-fraternity units compete for honors in tournaments which are conducted .in each sport.' The tourneys are directed by exper ienced coaches and instructors, and al though it is not the primary purpo.,e of the plan e quite frequently valuable material for varsity teams is discov ered. Fraternities Cooperate During the past year the frater-! nitics have cooperated in delaying the dinner hour from 5:30 o'clock until o'clock, and the majority of classes have been eliminated from between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon. These two improvements have made possible full two-hour period for recreation and all-student athletics. The increased participation of stu dents shows evidenc2 that intramural athletics at the College is growing steadily in importance. A total of 853 students, representing 57 groups, took part in the annual intramural touch-: football tournament last fall, while that total was swelled to 1,078 stu- dents during the season by cross-gown-I try and horseshoe competition. Sikty teams took part in the has-. ketball tournament, while individual; champions were crowned in the box-' ing and wrestling competition. • In addition to the major sports, intra mural handball and volleyball were conduct-sit during the winter season.' More than sixty students participated in the former tourney, while three times as many entered the latter cons. petition.' Sports conducted during the spring season ineliided horseshoes, tennis, golf ; soccer; track, and lacrosse. Football, fote'those desirous of lean ing the fundamentals of the game, was featured during the spring com petition. At studentsports council is selected each year ta , 'control the intramural athletic affairs of. the College.. A general manager is named by this group, as Well as 'separate managers for each of the three seasonal divi sions. The manager for each season assumes responsibility for the sports conducted during that 'season, WELCOME CLASS OF '37 DRY GOODS - AND NOTIONS SILK LINGERIE . PHOENIX HOSIERY _ LINENSGLOVES EGOLES • • East College Avenue • • SPECIAL STUDENT LAMPS AND ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO. Across from Post Office Bottorf Bros. Bootery THE HOME OF GOOD SHOES U. S. Army R. 0. T. C: Shoes Walk-Over Shoes Foot Fashion Shoes All Shoes 100% Leather and Moderately Priced May We Have the Pleasure of Seeing You and the Privilege of Serving You? On Beaver Avenue Just off Allen Street STARK BROS. & HARPER 10 Penn State Alumni Occupy Places In Pennsylvania Legislative Bodies When the General Assembly or Pennsylvania convened at Harrisburg last winter, ten Penn State alumni took their seats, .five in the Senate and five in the House of Representa tives, according to an article in the Penn State Alumni News. Graduates or former members of tho classes of 3892, 1898,•1901, 1904, 1900, 1014, 1915, 1920, 1921, and 1925 were in the legislature last session. Four were elected to the governing body for the first time last fall. Richard S. Quigley. a former mem ber of the class of 1906 and a resident of Lock Haven, was the senior of the group. He was elected to the lower . house in 1919 and the Senate in 1922, where he has served, ever since. Richard W. Williamson '93, a law ye:. in Huntingdon and a former president of the alumni association, war. elected to the Senate in 1926 and reelected in 1930. Dr. Leroy E. Chap man, a former member of the class of 1904 and a practicing physician in Warren,. was elected to the Senate in 1933. The youngest in years of the entire Penn State representation was Joseph G. Armstrong jr: '25, of Pittsburgh, who went to the,Senate in 1930. • Jo seph R. Ziesenheim 'l5, odho is en gaged in farming in Erie county, was elected to the upper house' at the re cent fall elections. John L. llolmes, a former member the class of 1892 and now a resi lent of State College, was the clean of ho Penn State group in the House of • epresentatives. In the fall an ions he was reelected to serve his if th term, a record which no Centre STORAGE STORAGE • STORCH . MOTOR COMPANY •Hupmobile De Sota Plymouth PHONE 760 '23° East College Avenue Reds for Gymnasimh Shoe Trees Bed Room Slippers county representative, in the House has equalled. J. Gordon Mason '20,. a lawier in Wilkes-Barre, was reelected for a sec ond term in the House in November. Earl E. Hewitt, a former member of the class of 1903 who • was an all round athlete and . captain of the foot-. ball team while in College, was elected to his first term in the House last fall from,lndiana county. Lebanon county's newly-elected representative is Miles Horst 'l4, who Welcome Freshman Your :stay at Penn State will ' be " many happy clays, we. can assure you! • . *And Remember—This Store Can Serve Your Needs in Shoes, / Clothing and Furnishings at Low Prices. MAKE THIS STORE YOUR HEADQUARTERS! THE Huß 'DEPARTMENT STORE East College Avenue • Follow The Crowd to FRED'S For Cigars Soda Lunch Beer 138 S. Allen Street PHONE 8660 Bliek Ties 2 for Friday,_September.B, 1933 TRACK COACH APPOINTED Following a long term of service hero as coach of track and cross; country, Nate J. Cartmell resigned his position last spring. Charles D. "Chick" *erner, formerly of the Uni versity of Illinois coaching staff, was appointed during the summer to suc ceed Cartmell. won the John W. White schobirship its. a senior and is now one of the editors of the Pennsylvania Farmer and a member of other important ag ricultural groups. • James Iffr Ruby '2l, a member of a Pittsburgh law firm, was elected to the legislature ,fur the first.time last fall.' 1.25
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